Tom Izzo is no stranger to being ranked in the Top 20. But on Wednesday, the ranking MSU men’s basketball coach was talking about didn’t involve a ball and he wasn’t standing on a court.
Slapshots, MSU hockey’s student cheering organization, will begin selling tickets for its expanded and relocated section tonight. The section, which is run by the Student Alumni Foundation, has upped its membership by 30 this year, bringing the total number of available Slapshots season tickets to 144.
With a dumbfounded look on my face, I tried to repeat in my head what this foolish salesman was suggesting I do. “OK, so you want me to learn to play guitar right-handed?” “Yes,” he said. “Even though I’m left-handed?” “It might work better for you,” he said. This whole time I’m trying to take this music store salesman seriously, but I am having trouble understanding his suggestion. He gives me some lame excuse that because I’m left handed, my fingers will be able to better occupy the frets on the neck of the guitar, and I can hit the notes more effectively.
Horse lovers and riders alike may be able to change the way their animals move because of research done by MSU veterinary and engineering students. Researchers have found the muscle activity and movements of the rider have a direct effect on the horse because sudden movements cause the horse to have jerky reactions.
After only two weeks in East Lansing, no-preference freshman Bethany Sieloff says she would be lost between Emmons Hall and campus if it weren’t for the Capital Area Transportation Authority bus system. “I am so thankful we have it because I have two classes in Akers,” Sieloff said. Five buses were added this fall to the fleet of about 50 that roam MSU’s campus.
Now that Russia has announced plans to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the United States stands as the only major U.N.
Fall semester is gearing up and we are all ready for a fantastic adventure in education. I thought it might be an apropos time to make a statement to all you new and seasoned students.
Kresge Art Museum: “Art in the ’Toon Age” curator’s walk, noon today, Kresge Art Museum.
Sure, they’re all former presidents, but dig deeper. How about Billy Corgan (formerly of the Smashing Pumpkins), surf guitarist Dick Dale and the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain? Besides being important political or music icons, these six characters share a rare but honorable trait. They’re all lefties. Roughly one in 10 people are left-handed, but having this rare characteristic isn’t always as wonderful as it seems.
Dear reader, last week, while the undergraduate population recovered from hangovers and began classes, I went on vacation with my family to the Bahamas.
We learn a lot from movies that we didn’t know before. For instance, with a flux capacitor installed in a DeLorean going 88 mph, one can travel through time.
Lansing - The Lugnuts (37-33 second half, 75-65 overall) moved one step closer to a semifinal berth in the Midwest League playoffs with a 5-4 win over the Michigan Battle Cats (37-33, 79-62) Tuesday at Oldsmobile Park. Left fielder Aron Weston started the scoring effort for Lansing in the bottom of the third by blasting a lead-off home run over the wall in right center that carried more than 400 feet. “I got a good pitch to hit, a 2-1 fastball,” Weston said.
By Brian Charlton The State NewsThe 10-by-2 mangled steel monument weighs 980 pounds and stands in front of the Grand River and the reflective windows of the Lansing Center.
Entering Jason Miller’s East Lansing apartment, college student nostalgia is everywhere. But instead of a poster of John Belushi hammering a bottle of whiskey, his walls are adorned with maps. Yes, maps.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jennifer Granholm unveiled a scholarship program she’ll try to implement if elected governor. Granholm, the state’s attorney general running against Lt.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly will do something the group has never done before - appoint a committee to revise its Code of Operations.The assembly passed a bill last week creating the Academic Assembly Code Revision Committee, a five-person group that will meet as often as twice a week.Adam Raezler, who introduced the bill, said recurring problems with the code’s language spawned the idea.“Over the summer, (Academic Assembly Chairperson) Matt Clayson and (Vice Chairperson of Internal Affairs) Caleb Marker and I had been communicating, and we started to notice that it’s not real clear here and it contradicts itself over here,” said Raezler, the North American Indian Student Organization and James Madison representative for ASMSU.
A year after Sept. 11, low-flying planes over Spartan Stadium, regardless of size, is still a cause for concern MSU officials say. As the one-year anniversary of Sept.
An 8-foot, 2-ton steel beam from one of New York’s fallen World Trade Center towers will serve as a permanent memorial in Jackson starting Sunday. State Sen.
Graduate school hopefuls planning to take the Graduate Record Examinations after Oct. 1 can expect a new test format. Instead of the 35-question multiple-choice analytical section - one of three multiple-choice sections - test-takers will have to write two essays.