In front of a small, attentive crowd Monday, the winner of the 2002 Miss Michigan pageant discussed leadership in Conrad Hall.Erin Michelle Moss made her first appearance at MSU, and it all came about with the help of one of her good friends."I'm a friend of Erin's who also competed with her in pageants when we were younger," said Angela Corsi, Panhellenic Council vice president of external relations.
Early Thursday evening, the meditative sand mandala that took four Tibetan Buddhist monks almost a week to create was destroyed at Kresge Art Museum.A crowd of onlookers watched as the mandala was dismantled, a process that is meant to symbolize the impermanence of life."This light, this house, this tree is changing," said monk group leader Alais Thupten Tsondu, known as Venerable Tashi.
Detroit - There's something strangely intriguing about the Utah-based band The Used. On a night that should have deterred most fans, a seemingly endless line abided for more than an hour outside the State Theatre on Sunday in the vigorous downpour of a cold November night. Hundreds eagerly waited to see a band that's striking the music scene with a scorching blend of crashing rhythms, majestic melodies, undisguised lyrics and kinetic vocals. The far too pretty venue, with its historically bewitching charisma of crimson reds and subdued yellows, a cathedral ceiling and numerous pillars, was quickly engulfed in inky blackness as the bluster of happy fans erupted.
Are you hungry? Are you really hungry? No, perhaps you don't understand. Are you really hungry, in the true sense of the word? I'm not talking about the pangs you might have right now because you haven't eaten in the last few hours.
After falling in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday, the MSU women's soccer team got a bit of good news Monday. The Spartans (12-6-2 overall, 5-4-2 Big Ten) were selected to their first NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament in the 17-year history of the program. "It feels awesome," head coach Tom Saxton said in a written statement.
East Lansing residents and students are revving their engines and hoping for less traffic congestion as a two-mile road expansion on Coolidge Road opens Thursday.Motorists can take part in the 11 a.m.
A lecture on the institutional and constitutional issues involved with legislation created by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen.
Greg Mercer admits he loves to write, but after attempting to get the things he wrote published, he came to the conclusion that he had a style that wasn't "mainstream enough." "I wanted to have something where I could reach as many people as I could and that's why I chose to do it online, in a press form," the lifelong education student said. His online zine, Punkt, was launched Oct.
MSU will be the last remaining Big Ten university to designate rooms in its residence halls by smoking preference, if University of Michigan housing officials ban smoking from their residence halls. If the new policy is approved it will begin in the fall of 2003. Psychology junior Shakthi Kumar, a member of Olin Health Center's Community Action Team, said MSU needs to make changes to the current residence hall smoking policy. He said the group has been working to establish smoke-free dormitories similar to those at U-M. Smoking is banned in all MSU residence hall public areas, and an additional 2,800 smoke-free zones have been designated across campus, Kumar said. But he said smoke-free areas do not solve the problem of secondhand smoke. "Smoke does come out of the (smoker's) room," he said.
Despite increased efforts to persuade prospective students to apply for college online, some applicants are still wary about sending such an important document into cyberspace.Universities are attempting to sway students to fill out their applications on the Web, offering cheaper fees, easy access and faster responses.Pamela Horne, assistant to the provost for enrollment management and director of admissions, said she expects about 40 percent of MSU applications to be sent online this year.
Elected officials, whether they are Republican, Democrat or from a third party, should work with the future in mind rather than the past; they should try to unite rather than divide.
With senior tailback Dawan Moss serving an indefinite suspension, the MSU football team was forced to call on the future of its running attack - and the call was answered. In the Spartans' 56-21 thrashing of Indiana, freshmen tailbacks David Richard and Jaren Hayes showcased their version of "thunder and lightning" as they combined for 224 yards and three touchdowns.
Former MSU hockey player Jason Woolley donated $115,000 to the College of Osteopathic Medicine to help pay for the college's new Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Laboratory. Woolley and his wife Danica donated the money in the name of Lynn Brumm, a retired professor who treated Woolley for injuries throughout his hockey career. Woolley is a member of the NHL's Buffalo Sabres. "It just blows your mind for someone to do this in your name," said Brumm, who retired in 1997 but still works with MSU athletes on a weekly basis at the request of team trainers.
Sophomore center Jim Slater was the meat in a hockey player sandwich Friday night - and his left elbow paid the price. As Slater released a wrist shot in the third period of MSU's 2-1 loss to Niagara, a pair of Purple Eagles smashed him from both sides.
Olin Health Center has been asked by the Michigan Department of Community Health to be a pilot sight for a new HIV test.The test would allow a patient to receive their results in about 20 minutes, instead of waiting for about a week.The Food and Drug Administration approved the rapid test last week, but Olin officials are still discussing the possibility of using their facilities as part of the pilot program.
Satan made me do it. I swear, he did. Oh, you don't believe Satan exists? Well, it still isn't my fault.
Lansing resident Madalyn Lee teetered a sign that read "Coach Williams We Love You!!" back and forth in her hands as she walked through campus with seven other pro-Bobby fans. The group made its way Monday night from the Union to Spartan Stadium on a Shine-A-Light Walk for former MSU head football coach Bobby Williams, who was fired Nov.
Theater graduate student Jay Burns picked a winning combination by staging relationship-oriented "Crimes of the Heart" in the Auditorium's intimate Arena Theatre. Playwright Beth Henley's grown-up sibling rivalry of the three McGrath sisters, Lenny, Meg and Babe, is perfectly placed in the middle of an audience, whose members sit on all four sides of the action.
Honesty and integrity are becoming staples in the search for new job candidates compared with years past, according to a recent survey of America's chief financial officers.About 58 percent of 1,400 chief financial officers polled around the nation find "honesty and integrity" to be the most important quality in an applicant aside from ability and willingness to do the job, according to a study developed by Robert Half International Inc. - a Grand Rapids-based staffing service.Only 32 percent of CFOs responded similarly when the same survey was conducted in 1997.