Sleater-Kinney. Touring. New album. Those three thoughts kept repeating through my head the entire summer. When I heard Sleater-Kinney would be touring after its latest release, “One Beat,” I was ecstatic.
Lansing - Brad Fast and two children bundled in coats, hats and gloves slowly pulled a long wooden spoon through a charred kettle of boiling brown butter on Sunday afternoon. The trio revolved around the copper pot, avoiding the white apple-scented smoke emerging from the fire. “That’s it, now stir around the edges,” Fast, a general management senior and defenseman on the MSU hockey team, said to his boiling buddies.
The Lansing Community College Board of Trustees is expecting to approve domestic-partner benefits for its faculty and staff members today. The benefit package for couples in same-sex relationships is included in contracts set to be voted on for all LCC bargaining units. Current LCC provisions entitle the spouse of a full-time employee to apply for benefits from three different carriers that offer health, dental and vision care.
After passing out hundreds of fliers and organizing a protest, the Wang family says they have finally gotten the attention of their landlord. On Saturday, the owners of Blue Note Coffee Café, 623 E.
When Nicole Ramp was little, she liked to climb trees, play football and race with the boys.By the time she was in high school, she had started wearing men’s pants, shirts and ties.But it wasn’t until her sophomore year at MSU that she came out publicly identifying herself as a transgender person.“There’s so many different sides of me,” the interdisciplinary studies in humanities senior said.
The No. 5 MSU field hockey team is continuing to pile on the wins, and head coach Michele Madison is reaching milestones as a result.Sunday’s 3-0 win over Ball State marked the squad’s 15th victory and also signaled Madison’s 100th victory on the Spartan sidelines.Just three games ago, Madison celebrated her 150th career coaching victory with a 5-1 win over Indiana.Sophomore back Judith van Haeringen said the game’s significance, coupled with the crowd of families and alumni in the stands, fired the team up.“It’s always fun to play in a game like this.” van Haeringen said.
Cell phone usage while driving is just one item on a long list of self-centered things people do that are not just annoying to others, but rude, hurtful, insensitive and downright rotten.
The Vatican’s stance toward U.S. bishops’ zero-tolerance policy on sexually abusive priests is inadequate and raises questions to the papacy’s commitment to combat child molestation by clergymen. The Vatican announced Friday that the policy adopted by the U.S.
“Guys, we’re gonna get candy!” Lyman Briggs freshman Shelby Newman shouted to her friends as they patiently waited at their spot on Grand River Avenue for the Homecoming parade to start Friday night.Newman and her friends are freshmen, and they know all the words to the MSU’s fight song - and they made sure other spectators knew that by proudly belting it out and clapping as they waited to hear the Spartan Marching Band’s version.With more than just a hint of fall in the air, families, alumni, students and MSU fans lined the streets as the more than 120 units supporting everything from political candidates to role playing groups marched along the parade route.There also was an appearance from the green-skirted mascot, Sparty.
I never imagined myself saying this, but life is better without television. I have not watched an entire episode of a sitcom, drama, reality series, award shows, or anything else, for that matter, in about two months.
It was exactly the way the Spartan Marching Band wanted to end a busy Homecoming weekend as they joined the School of Music and a surprise guest conductor Saturday for the 2002 Spartan Spectacular.
The Spartans’ season continued to plummet on the heels of a 28-7 defeat to the Golden Gophers on Saturday. “Nothing good came out of that football game,” MSU head coach Bobby Williams said.
In the battle to become Michigan’s attorney general, voters will choose between two young but experienced contenders. Mike Cox, who is running on the Republican ticket, has 13 years of experience as a prosecuting attorney. State Sen.
On a fall weekend in 1970, Dick Posthumus was driving north on U.S.-27 from MSU to Mount Pleasant, when the 20-year-old public affairs management junior noticed another student on the side of the road. Posthumus, on his way to a campaign event for John Engler, then a recent MSU graduate who was running for state representative, pulled over without hesitation.
Football head coach Bobby Williams must go. Being an effective recruiter - which he is - does not translate into being an effective head coach - which he is not. Williams has had plenty of time to reveal his effectiveness and has failed miserably. This was the year to take the program to the next level.
The MSU volleyball team may have gotten the confidence boost they needed this weekend.Despite losing to No.
Marquette - It’s only two weeks into the season, but patterns are already emerging for the MSU hockey team - lose badly Friday night, watch the videotape of the loss early Saturday, make adjustments and then win the second game.Such was the case against Northern Michigan at the Berry Events Center during the weekend.
“Snatch” meets “Shaft” in Screen Gems Inc.’s latest project, “Formula 51.” It’s odd that chemistry is the central theme of the film, since it’s used so much in the casting of the movies roles.
Social relations senior Luisa Schumacher left Friday’s speech by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at Kellogg Center a changed woman.“When I graduated, I always said I was going to go to Washington, D.C.,” Schumacher said after the event, sponsored by the James Madison Founders Circle.
A Department of Education commission is evaluating Title IX and will make a recommendation by Jan.