East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows, Councilmember Beverly Baten and 20 other East Lansing residents will be recognized today for spending 50 hours performing traffic stops, shooting firearms and driving police cars.
After being nominated to its first NCAA Tournament in the 17-year history of its program, the MSU women's soccer team was eliminated, dropping a 2-1 decision to Miami (Ohio) on Friday. Both teams came out strong in the first half, battling for control.
MSU's leaders are expected to be upstanding citizens with honor, honesty and integrity that students and faculty members can trust.
The MSU volleyball team did everything in its power to pull out two victories this weekend. Unfortunately for the Spartans, they fell just short. MSU easily defeated Iowa Friday night in three games, 30-20, 30-26 and 30-17, but before the weekend, the Spartans knew Saturday night was going to be the real test. On Saturday, No.
An American Civil Liberties Union official is upset after the MSU Board of Trustees held a closed-door session Friday morning, but university officials say there is no reason to be upset. Trustees said they were given a general lesson on the university's budget during the session - but Henry Silverman, president of the Lansing ACLU, said "it outrages me that the court made that decision." "It raises a lot of questions," he said.
Columbus, Ohio - The cities and opponents keep changing, but the theme throughout the MSU hockey team has stayed the same: The Spartans aren't scoring enough to win. And win they didn't in a two-game series at Ohio State this weekend.
The three-mile pathway along the Red Cedar River on campus might be altered to accommodate more foot traffic, additional bridges and information stands.MSU trustees got their first glimpse of the study conducted by the Greenway Collaborative Inc. on Friday."I thought it was great," Trustee Colleen McNamara said.
After reading the East Lansing city manager's "Noise Reduction Recommendations" to the City Council, I have to admit I am fairly disappointed. The document is philosophically flawed by blaming all noise problems on a "deeply-seated set of issues involving the culture of some young people in our community." The city manager's recommendations ignore the reality that East Lansing is a university town and attempt to separate permanent residents' decisions and actions from both problem and solution identification. Until we, as a community, can admit that all residents - both permanent and student - are a part of any conflict, effective solutions will never be identified or successfully implemented.
Although Mike Cox woke up Nov. 6 as Michigan's next attorney general, his opponent says it just might have been a dream. Cox, a Republican who's the deputy chief of the homicide unit of the Office of Prosecuting Attorney in Wayne County, unofficially has 1,497,434 votes compared to Sen.
Despite being more than twice the age of the average college student, James Taylor still rocks out with a young soul that overflows with timeless music. Not a seat remained vacant Friday night at Breslin Center as the crowd's diversity further demonstrated music's alluring magnetism to unify multiple generations for the same yearning love of melody.
In the editorial "Breakthroughs" (SN 11/15), The State News praised the Democratic party for its election of Dianne Byrum and Nancy Pelosi and then went on to criticize the Republican party for failing to show women respect by promoting them to leadership positions. The Editorial Board ignored the fact that last week, Deborah Pryce was elected chairwoman of the Republican Conference.
MSU has been on the wrong end of many big plays this season, but Saturday the defense retaliated with game-breaking plays of its own. Although Purdue scored 45 points and gained 555 yards of total offense, the Spartans forced a season-high five turnovers - four interceptions and a fumble - which led to 23 of the team's 42 points. On a day that recognized the last game at Spartan Stadium for the senior class, it was a day of firsts for many of the Spartan defenders in MSU's 45-42 loss to the Boilermakers.
The editorial "Let them smoke" (SN 11/13) completely disregards the rights of students to have clean air and a healthy environment. As a freshman, I had requested a nonsmoking room.
Jack Levenson wanted to break out of his North American shell, get a taste of a different culture and help people in the process, so he joined the Peace Corps and went to Equador."I turned in my application, said I wanted to go somewhere hotter than colder, that I wanted to go somewhere there wasn't a lot of white people, and I didn't want to learn French," said Levenson, whose volunteer work ended a month ago.
For just the second time all season, Spartan fans witnessed a game decided in the fourth quarter.
At the beginning of the season, the MSU field hockey squad set a goal - to advance to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. The wish came true on Sunday in Boston, as the No.
Boosts in the staff levels of Lansing-area employers is not on the docket for the first fiscal quarter, a study has revealed.Manpower, a worldwide staffing service, has predicted that only 13 percent of Lansing employers are expecting an increase in their workforce between January and March, compared to 20 percent of employers expecting a decline in the same time period.Elaine Sandbrook, area manager of Manpower in Lansing, said that the trend is the result of economic stagnation."What we're finding is the market is not changing much," she said.
Before we discuss sports today, we'll discuss sports etiquette, as it seems a few of you out there need a nonalcoholic refresher on how not to be that guy. As I sought refuge inside my sports haven, a local sports pub named Reno's, for a weekend of marquee matchups, I couldn't stomach one of those tasty Reno's Hat Trick sandwiches because I couldn't digest the discussion among some drunken Spartans. I'll give credit to beermakers, though.
Several members of MSU's Board of Trustees and President M. Peter McPherson were unaware of Trustee Randall Pittman's past fraud liabilities when he was appointed to the board in February - but they are defending him. The support comes in the wake of a State News story published Friday that cites Illinois appellate court documents that show Pittman, a Republican appointed to the board in February, was found liable in 2000 on multiple counts of fraud in a civil case. "I am absolutely convinced he's a man of high ethical character," McPherson said.