A clinic on telescopes will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 5 in Abrams Planetarium. The goal of the clinic is to provide information on telescopes to potential buyers in time for the holiday shopping season. Attendees can learn the basic features to look for in telescopes.
East Lansing officials are preparing for an expected executive order from Gov. John Engler that will dramatically cut funding to the city's vital services to help balance an ailing state budget. Engler is expected to sign several orders in early December that would reduce most of the state's budgets.
Let's put the jokes aside. Yes, in "Mario Party 4," you are playing with some of Nintendo's most famed characters, as well as some new ones, which may seem more appropriate for your younger siblings than you.
I was appalled to read The State News editorial "Bank buster" (SN 11/22), which basically belittled Gov.
MSU's Foodborne Disease Forum has set up a Web site for the public to report contaminated foods in Greater Lansing.
U.N. Development Programme Administrator Mark Malloch Brown will speak to advanced degree candidates during commencement activities Dec.
An atheist is kicked out of Boy Scouts for professing his beliefs. An Alabama Supreme Court justice erects a 5,200-pound granite shrine to the Ten Commandments in the state courthouse.
Lansing - Plans to beautify the 100 block of South Washington Square in downtown Lansing are running the gamut of local favor, as nearby businesses forecast the changes from "refreshing" to "a waste of money." The "streetscape" beautification project is part of Lansing Mayor David Hollister's Blue Ribbon Committee on Downtown Revitalization.
As an ASMSU representative, I will not give an excuse for our "lack of responsibility" with the misplacing of software licenses.
The MSU football team's season was low-lighted by lackluster efforts, humiliating losses, several suspensions and the dismissal of the head coach before the end of the year. There were five losses by 21 points or more, five players who voluntarily left the team and six players suspended for one game or more. "It was a disaster," ESPN college football analyst Beano Cook said.
State Senate Majority Leader-elect Ken Sikkema, R-Wyoming, is urging state compensation officials not to make a recommendation for a salary increase for state lawmakers this year. The bi-partisan State Officers Compensation Commission met recently to discuss the recommendation and possibly propose a pay increase for 2005.
In freezing rain and with a foot of snow on the ground, accounting freshman Todd Westenbroek and his friend loaded into a 1987 Ford Bronco II for a little off-roading a week before last Christmas. On country roads near Holland, the pair passed a Jeep Cherokee before Westenbroek's car hit a patch of ice, causing it to fishtail.
Some university families are guaranteed a fruitful Thanksgiving after three residence hall complexes filled a room full of food and MSU's Department of Police and Public Safety distributed it last week.For the department's third annual West Side Community Policing Team's food drive, more than enough food was collected in one month to feed six families who live in university apartments.With food donations from residents in Brody, West Circle and South complexes, large holiday baskets were assembled and given to each family.
Three weeks after the final vote was cast in the Nov. 5 election, Mike Cox is officially the attorney general-elect after his opponent said he won't request a recount.Sen.
Question the motivation of writers and the ideas they convey. Maybe it's me, but didn't the Cold War end in the 1990s?
Visions of gridiron greatness and riveting rivalries might come to mind when imagining heated matchups of college football teams.
An MSU paleontologist is offering a new take on why trilobites became extinct 250 million years ago.Trilobites were relatives of lobsters and crabs, all in the arthropod family.Danita Brandt, a faculty member in the Department of Geological Sciences, said that reason for the extinction of trilobites can be attributed to inconsistent molting or shedding of their outer skeleton and inefficient behavior.Michael Velbel, chairperson of the Department of Geological Sciences, said it's the second biggest discovery in the past two weeks for the 18 faculty members in the department are all publishing work in major journals."It's terrific stuff," Velbel said.
After a two-game stint in the NHL, former MSU goaltender Ryan Miller was sent back to the minor-league Rochester Americans on Sunday. Miller went 1-0-0-1 in his NHL debut with the Buffalo Sabres, but he allowed eight total goals to the New Jersey Devils and Columbus Blue Jackets.
Thanksgiving gives people a chance to gather with loved ones and be thankful for what is important in their lives - it signals the start of the holiday season, and it's a prime time to overeat without guilt and scarf down loads and loads of turkey.Unless for some reason - whether it be ethical or having a distaste for the animal - you're a vegetarian or vegan.Vegetarians are those who do not eat any meat, only vegetables, fruits and sometimes eggs or dairy products.
MSU Extension in Ingham County, a program focused on bringing knowledge-based educational programs to the people of Michigan, will host the New County Commissioner Training Workshop on Dec.