ASMSU Academic Assembly representatives from various colleges were surprised Tuesday to find Association Director Joe Mignano had resigned about three weeks earlier.At the assembly’s Tuesday meeting, James Madison representative Adam Raezle, asked assembly Chairperson Matt Clayson what had happened to Mignano, after Clayson had skipped over the director’s report for the third meeting in a row.
The Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend and will be hosting an extensive mix of talented performers. “This year they have a nice flavor of acts from around Michigan as well as international artists,” said Rodney Whitaker, an associate professor and director of jazz studies, who has played at the festival several times. “It’s a great festival and people will have a good time,” he said.
Fire trucks and ambulances sped out of the East Lansing fire station, breaking the silence of a remembrance ceremony Wednesday to honor rescue workers and victims of the Sept.
Everybody has a “thing.” Some can’t open umbrellas indoors because it’s bad luck. Others think a broken mirror causes seven years of tormenting misfortune and some still believe beer before liquor equals never been sicker.
Whirling dancers clad in sparkling, vivid colors swept over the Wharton Center stage in an enthusiastic opening to their 20th anniversary “Curtain Call” season. An energetic, lushly designed performance, “Riverdance - The Show,” attempts to introduce East Lansing audiences to Irish dancing while tossing in flamenco, American tap and Russian ballet for good measure. Michael Patrick Gallagher and Tara Barry lead the North American touring cast of “Riverdance,” a show that opened in Dublin in 1995 and last played Wharton three years ago.
MSU police identified the man found dead Tuesday in his campus apartment as research associate Guofu Wang, who was working on a groundbreaking crystal growth project. Wang was in bed at his Cherry Lane apartment when police found him, said chemistry Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis, who invited the 30-year-old researcher from China to participate in postdoctoral work at MSU.
Guess who’s back, back again.Phish is back, tell a friend.It’s been one year, 11 months and five days since the band left the stage at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif., and officially went on “hiatus.” But on Dec.
MSU’s yearbook, the Red Cedar Log, has changed its distribution process this year to better ensure students receive the book.In previous years, the yearbook was available to students to pick up at local bookstores.
MSU students will have a chance to “Go Green” tonight. The Capital Area Green Party of Michigan will have its organizational meeting at 6:30 p.m.
On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, there is no better time to educate ourselves about what is really going on in the world.
A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, America is on the highest security alert it has experienced under the new homeland security department’s codes Although the country is on a heightened state of security awareness, Americans should not fear for their safety and go on with their daily lives normaly. On Monday, the Bush administration raised the country’s terror alert to code orange - the second-highest state of alert on the five-level, color-coded system.
For the past year or so I have been arguing with myself, and others, about whether I have the right to express my opinions on all things American.
Charles Baxter, author of the novel “The Feast of Love” will be speaking in the Fall 2002 Michigan Writers Series at 7:30 p.m.
With her head bowed, Jessica Bechtel squeezed a thin white candle between her thumb and forefinger, slightly tipping it away from her so the wax wouldn’t drip on her skin.
After one year on the West Coast, former Spartan star Mateen Cleaves is headed back to the Midwest in search of some playing time.Cleaves, a point guard, was traded from the Sacramento Kings to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday in exchange for second-year forward Jumaine Jones.
The Lansing Lugnuts have made it to the Midwest League finals for just the second time in franchise history, but have a great task ahead of them if they want to snag the championship like they did in 1997. In 1997 the Lugnuts trailed the Kane County Cougars 2-0.
Lansing - Ray’n Baker smoothed her handmade white “God Bless the U.S.A.” T-shirt, grabbed her camera and snapped a photo of the piece of twisted metal from the World Trade Center in Wentworth Park on Wednesday.Baker, a senior at Lansing Catholic Central High School, said the Lansing area planned the perfect balance of Sept.
It was with great interest that I read about the Sept. 15 visit to MSU by the Rev. Jesse Jackson (“Jackson to visit campus” SN 9/6). Even more exciting is the topic of his talk that day - peace.
Students here in the United States would be outraged if a campus group were to call itself the Campus Jihad for Muhammad.