As the new year is brewing a frigid winter season, experts are suggesting motorists winterize their cars. AAA Michigan spokesperson Jim Rink said motorists should have car items checked out - ideally before the winter driving season. "During the week when you have close to single digits and various wind chills, it drastically reduces the starting power of the battery," he said.
Let's play pretend. Let's pretend this Monday isn't a holiday and you still have to go to your 8 a.m.
2003 Theme: Chaos or Community? It's Our Choice.· Lock-in from 10:00 p.m.
What is so appealing about "The Phantom of the Opera?" Is it the thrill of getting goose bumps at the thought of a mysterious figure haunting the cavernous underbelly of an opera house?
Some recruiters are looking past credentials on the résumés of job candidates and, instead, focusing on their first names. Applicants with "white sounding names" are more often called back for interviews than job seekers with "African-American sounding names," a recent study shows. "It's not surprising," said Rodney Patterson, director of the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs at MSU.
MSU's Career Services and Placement is now offering a way for students to go online and retrieve portfolios of their work."It was kind of an archaic system," said Linda Gross, assistant director of Career Services and Placement.
Most Detroit Lions fans probably wish their M&M boys would just walk away from the mess they oversee at Ford Field.But at the same time, a lot of MSU hockey supporters probably wish the Spartans' version of the M&M boys would come back to Munn Ice Arena.Ron Mason and Ryan Miller are two major ingredients missing from this season's hockey stew.And things have been a little bland without them.Mason, college hockey's all-time winningest coach, manned his post behind the Spartans bench for 23 years before announcing last January that he would become MSU's athletics director.Less than seven months into his job as the head honcho of the Athletics Department, he has already fired and hired head football coaches.Miller played three seasons for MSU, where he arguably became the best college hockey goaltender of all time.In August, he announced that he would forgo his senior season to play professional hockey.After spending most of the season in the minor leagues, the East Lansing native is now enjoying his second stint with the NHL's Buffalo Sabres.Miller has started six of Buffalo's last seven games, and he earned his first-career shutout against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night.He said he doesn't regret pursuing his childhood dream of playing in the NHL, even though it has prevented him from seeing his former teammates in East Lansing."I've been keeping track, keeping in touch with the guys, but I haven't been able to watch a single game," Miller said last week.
President Bush's opposition to the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy has some MSU officials and students fuming."The Michigan policies amount to a quota system that unfairly rewards or penalizes prospective students, based solely on their race," said Bush, while announcing Wednesday he will petition the Supreme Court to overturn the school's policy.While the president says the policy is divisive and unfair, Rodney Patterson, director of the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs at MSU, said it's necessary to balance opportunities for minorities."The people who created this lawsuit were strategic, intentional and calculated in their attempt to dismantle the works of affirmative action," he said.
With more than six music merchants within four blocks from each other, one might think of East Lansing as a warm and welcoming home for music store owners.
When psychology junior Antoinette McClellan was approached by a classmate gushing about an interesting African-American history class, she was excited to learn and eager to enroll.
The noise blaring from Brian Bonenfant's cell phone pierced the ears of those busy studying in the Main Library before he quickly silenced the distraction. As some students looked his way, the mechanical engineering sophomore briskly walked to the entryway of the building to take his call.
I'm disappointed The State News has the audacity to publish disparaging letters to the editor regarding men's basketball head coach Tom Izzo. Izzo is one of the finest coaches in the country and the MSU community should be honored to have such a dedicated individual working for them.
Thick black smoke from burning oil wells obscured the sun over a sea of endless sand as Capt. Doug White fixed his gaze on an Iraqi military base through a hole the size of a small envelope. It was 12 years ago when White, armed with an M-16 rifle and a grenade launcher, peered through a periscope and waited for a signal that would send him and his partner jumping from the back of his vehicle, ready for battle. But white flags were raised in the distance and the signal never came. A dozen years later, on the anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, White is preparing others for the second part of a war he says never ends. "Nobody wants to go to war," he said.
MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson said his attorney will file a police report on two of his missing MSU bowl rings, which have wound up on an online auction house."We've got some criminals to chase," Ferguson said, adding he didn't remember how they left his possession.Ferguson received the 1990 John Hancock Bowl and 1993 Liberty Bowl rings for being an MSU trustee when the Spartans played in the two games.Angelo DiMeo, owner of two jewelry stores in Lansing, is selling the rings for $1,400 each on eBay.
I guess you could say that 25 decent-looking guys (who would have no problem finding women on their own, without the help of the almighty TV) chasing after a beautiful blonde woman is real.
In an unbalanced world, tools often are needed to help create a more level playing field and phase out unmerited bias and subjectivity.
As Martin Luther King Jr. gracefully strolled over to the Auditorium on a cold February day, a group of MSU students congregated behind trying to get a glimpse of the star saying, "Hello" and requesting autographs. "It was like the Piped Piper," said urban planning Professor Robert Green, who said King stopped and signed some autographs before he entered the Auditorium as the jam-packed audience erupted into applause.
Millions of Americans tuned into local TV stations and watched in horror as the reality of terrorism loomed over the United States on Sept.
West Lafayette, Ind. - Plain and simple, the Spartans eagerly anticipate a return to Breslin Center for a basketball game. But MSU (9-6 overall, 1-2 Big Ten) still has a road contest with Minnesota on Saturday before that happens Wednesday against Penn State (5-8, 0-2). And if this year is any clue, the Spartans could be near the cellar of the conference if they lose to the Golden Gophers. With its loss to Purdue on Tuesday night, the MSU men's basketball team not only lost its fourth game in five contests, but it fell to 2-5 this year when playing on the road or at a neutral site. "The times we've played on the road, things haven't gone our way," senior forward Aloysius Anagonye said.