The last vacant seat in the Residence Halls Association’s executive board was filled Wednesday night.The general assembly approved the hiring of advertising sophomore Brian Winters, and elected him the next director of public relations and advertising for the organization.
It’s not your father’s library anymore.This week, the East Lansing Public Library played host to “Teen Read Week”, aimed at middle- and high-school teens in the Lansing area.
Plays don’t usually revolve around a character the audience doesn’t like, let alone someone they despise. The protagonist in Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” is headstrong, angry, frustrated and stifled in a life society has chosen for her.
Snap, crackle and pop were the sounds resonating from the MSU bakery as students attempted to beat Iowa State University’s Guinness record of the world’s largest Rice Krispie Treat.“We used to work with Pillsbury on the world’s largest brownie,” bakery manager Gerald Stoecker said.
I think it is ridiculous - with the status of the world - nearly every letter to the editor in The State News this week revolved around MSU football head coach Bobby Williams.
Take a glance at The Associated Press Top 25 poll. Notice anything interesting? Year after year, the Top 25 is sprinkled with the perennial powerhouses such as Florida State, Texas and Tennessee.
Lansing activist group Direct Action plans to hold a protest in support of locally owned Blue Note Coffee Cafe and against “multinational corporate chains” at 10 a.m.
In the glow of a yellow spotlight on a temporary stage in the front of the Union lobby, Emily Lauher belted her mother’s advice to the back of the room. “You can’t hurry love, no you just have to wait,” the audiology and speech sciences senior sang Thursday, backed by the other 10 members of coed a cappella group Capital Green. Capital Green was the opening act for “Sounds of Homecoming,” one of many activities associated with the return of alumni to campus during this weekend’s Homecoming celebrations. However, this activity was tailored for students, and featured the Spartan Dischords, Ladies First and the MSU Jazz and Pep bands. “We’ve been doing this for five or six years now,” international relations senior Jennifer Van Dalen said.
East Lansing community leaders are responsibly beginning to look to the past to lead the city to its future.
The State News editorial regarding the Lansing police officer who was arrested for drunken driving was presumptive and appeared to smear the good work of the majority of law enforcement officers by the alleged wrongdoing of one (“Crooked Cop” SN 10/11). The editorial asked the question, “After Tuesday night’s arrest of a Lansing police officer for drunken driving, how can area police expect people to heed their teaching and demands concerning sober driving?” The answer is the same way readers are expected to believe the veracity of the stories we read in newspapers, despite the fact many journalists have been found to have plagiarized work, falsified information and made up the stories. One person’s misdeeds do not warrant smearing a whole profession. The police officer was arrested, not convicted and until then he is presumed innocent just like any other citizen. Once this incident has been adjudicated in court, then - and only then - should the police department take final disciplinary action. To do otherwise would not be in keeping with the values this country was founded on - due process, freedom of the press, etc. Mentha Manning criminal justice and psychology senior
The mass e-mail sent out Wednesday telling students there had been syringes left on Brody Hall cafeteria trays was a serious breech of protocol that caused unnecessary alarm to the complex’s residents. The message was sent to Brody Complex residents by its assistant manager, Denise Gerst, using her supervisor’s Pilot account.
Rick Comley has been through this before. “When we went down to Lake Superior - I can still remember to this day - they did the introductions, the teams were lined up, they introduced me as Northern’s head coach and everybody in the building booed,” Comley said.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick delivered a speech calling for more students to get involved with their communities at Kellogg Center Friday afternoon.“The biggest places you can make differences are in urban centers like Detroit,” Kilpatrick told several hundred spectators.
It’ll be a homecoming for more than just MSU alumni this weekend. Minnesota’s running back Terry Jackson will have about 50 friends and family coming to watch him play at Spartan Stadium on Saturday. The Saginaw native returns to the Great Lakes State to play about 80 miles from the high school where he won a state championship.
What happens if you take Munn Ice Arena, the IM Sports-East fitness center and Residence Halls Association campus movies and place them in the middle of fully furnished apartments in a gated community with more amenities than you can count on your hands?
Slowly, the No. 23 Spartans have been trying to figure out what has gone wrong this season. They started out the season as the 15th-ranked volleyball team in the nation and were ranked as high as 12th.
Samuel L. Jackson returns to the big screen this weekend with the much anticipated “Formula 51.” Jackson plays college graduate and chemistry prodigy Elmo McElroy, who loses a chance at becoming a pharmacist after a drug possession charge in 1971.
Sometimes more isn’t always better. At least that’s the stance of state Senate hopeful Virg Bernero.Bernero, who represents the 68th District in the state House, trails his competitor, Rep.
Young East Lansing singer Scott Barnes will be performing at 9 p.m. today at Coffee Jam, 6427 Centurion Drive in Lansing. The aspiring musician started playing guitar when he was 13.
John Hannah was president, Ralph Young was athletics director and Michigan State was still a college. The year was 1953 and the Spartans were beginning their first season of Big Ten football. “I remember when we got into it,” said Frank “Muddy” Waters, a 1950 graduate and football head coach from 1980-82. “I was a student at the time. “It was a very exciting time.