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.
Fox is launching a series of auditions for the next “American Idol” - and the first stop is right here in Michigan. The audition will take place at 8 a.m.
In response to the letter the editor “Campaigners right to join pro-life rally” (SN 10/8), I would like to thank all of the local candidates who believe that women have the intelligence to make their own reproductive decisions.
With a smiling face, ease and grace, Lloyd Ward greeted business and engineering students in the Erickson Kiva on Thursday and said his decision to lead this year’s Homecoming parade was an easy one. Ward, a 1970 MSU graduate and chief executive officer of the U.S.
No. 4 Ohio State at Wisconsin The Buckeyes tote an unscathed record to Camp Randall Stadium this weekend, flying high after punishing San Jose State, 50-7, Saturday. In three and a half quarters of action, signal caller Craig Krenzel set career highs in both passing yards (241) and touchdowns (3). Tailback Maurice Clarett added another eye-popping performance against the Spartans with 132 yards and 18 carries to head the Buckeyes’ offense, along with two rushing and one receiving touchdowns.
It’s like music to my ears. Well not exactly music. It’s more like creepy attempts to replicate music with sharp piercing notes and flat, drawn-out “bleeps.” Ah yes, the refreshing bleeps from cell phones around the land - the sounds only a truly tone-deaf person could enjoy. In my classes, my dorm and, most of all, in the newsroom, parodies of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” the Backstreet Boys’ “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” and Nirvana’s “Come as You Are” play continuously as cell phones across the land “ring.” The sounds remind me of the time I had an ear infection and heard everything in distorted and twisted ways. While I find the ringers to be lacking in musical quality, I also find them, in certain situations, to be quite rude.
Although I whole heartedly agree with the need for better sex education in this country a few of Matt Treadwell’s comments in his column “Abortion debaters looking at wrong problem, need to dig deeper” (SN 10/11) were completely off the mark. Sex is not solely for the purpose of reproduction.
Homecoming weekend is a time for celebration and remembrance. But Spartan fans don’t have much to celebrate.MSU (3-3 overall, 1-1 Big Ten) was embarrassed last Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa, to the tune of a 44-16 loss.
Besides the fact that Mike Cox went to the University of Michigan, he does have some things going for him, his wife says. “Obviously, he’s really smart,” MSU alumnus Laura Cox said about her husband, who is running as the Republican candidate for attorney general.
Women tee off in tourneyMSU women’s golf team ends its fall season at the 2002 Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championships this weekend at the Gettysvue Country Club in Knoxville, Tenn. Five of the 15 teams competing in the tournament are ranked in the Top 25 by Golfweek magazine. The Spartans, who have been off since their sixth-place finish at the New Mexico State Give’Em Five Intercollegiate, held Oct.