Sitting at a bank of monitors, an operator stares at his control panels. The monitors display dot graphs and a sterile white row of panels bristle with dials, switches and keys that the technician toggles and presses to get a stream of charged nuclear particles running again.
Students who are away from home for the first time often miss their families, friends and pets.The traditional cures for homesickness, of course, are a phone call or a trip home.But Fido can’t talk on the phone.So students who miss their beloved pets can turn to the MSU Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital.The hospital has a program that lets people check out a dog to walk for half an hour during the hospital’s normal business hours, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m, Monday-Friday.Gretchen McDaniel, who has worked as a vet technician for about 18 years, said the free program began gradually, with a few students coming in and asking if there were any dogs they could walk.McDaniel said the clinic can’t allow people’s ill pets to be sent out, but there are about six to 10 dogs used as blood donors that live there.“That’s kind of how it started,” she said.
Allison Coleman may be a senior, but she remembers decorating her dorm room like it was yesterday.“We had everything from Christmas lights to a ‘Little Mermaid’ poster,” the 20-year-old psychology major said.It’s that time again when the dorms open up their lonely, dusty rooms and the local stores get ready to help freshmen make the small space livable, and even attractive.“I lived in Landon my freshman year and I won’t lie, the space was tight, but you have to make the best of it,” Coleman said.
Many times students see them left on campus, long forgotten, tires flat, rust collecting on the bars and seats missing. MSU Parking Services has impounded more than 1,300 bicycles since this summer. And while students are notified by letter if their bike has been impounded, many times bicycles are not retrieved. Many of them are taken to the MSU Surplus Store after no one bothers to retrieve their transportation.
Now that hockey head coach Rick Comley has moved from Marquette to East Lansing, he’s looking at ways to loosen up the rickety offense that plagued the Spartans’ 2-0 loss to Colorado College in the first round of last year’s NCAA Tournament.
After 57 years of being pelted by sleet, rain and Wolverine vandalism, somehow Sparty still manages to stand tall and hold his chin up proudly. At 10-feet-6-inches, the ceramic statue is perhaps MSU’s most-recognized icon, towering over his perch near the Red Cedar River since then-President John A.
“You are here.”The little red “X” on the map details your exact position on campus, yet everything surrounding that “X” looks foreign to you.
Starting college can be scary. It can be tough for any 18-year-old to suddenly leave home and be on their own.
People looking for an early-morning caffeine boost or a sweet treat don’t have to head off campus.Barista Cafe, which opened in February 2001, is in a quaint little spot in the lobby of South Case Hall.
Residents looking for a nearby outdoor adventure have a couple more weeks to consider canoeing on the Red Cedar River. During the summer months, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, MSU Concessions offers a canoeing service for the MSU community. “We offer this service because we feel that some things are just good for the community,” said Bill Kost, operations manager at MSU Concessions.
College students throughout the decades have long searched for ways to express themselves through music and spoken words.
If you’ve always sucked at sports but dreamed of playing for the Tigers, hitting the game-winning home run in extra innings or dunking over Shaquille O’Neal as the point guard for the Pistons, then you might be a video game player. Or maybe you just don’t have any friends, and the combobulation of pixels beaming with light make for a good replacement when the hours drag by. If you don’t play video games, get a friggin’ console already.
The line stretches out the door, guys and girls draped in the latest fashions rhythmically bob their heads to the sound system resonating from within.Anticipation is high as 18-year-olds are about to get a taste of area nightlife.Once again, The Dollar Nightclub, 3411 E.
Since the cigarette tax increased by 50 cents Aug. 1, some people might see their money go up in smoke.Wesley Thomas contends the change, along with measures across the country to eliminate smoking in public, is discrimination against smokers.“It’s stupid that they’re raising taxes and saying that we can’t smoke where we want to,” the 19-year-old Lansing resident said.
Welcome to college. No doubt you’ve gotten hundreds of bits of advice in the last few months. “Always go to class,” the people say.
Lansing - The man on trial for the July 2000 killing of an MSU graduate student confessed while in an Ohio jail to the crime, a jailmate testified Friday. Thomas Huff said Dennis Michael Salerno, 32, admitted on three occasions while in jail that he killed his wife, Michelle Rizzi Salerno. Michelle Salerno was reported missing June 20, 2000.
Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus has gone south to choose state Sen. Loren Bennett, R-Canton, as his running mate for his gubernatorial bid.Bennett, 51, represents Western Wayne County in the 8th District in the state house and had been running to win the Republican nomination for secretary of state.
By Audrey L. Barney The State News Meridian Twp. - With no money in hand, the MSU Food Bank went on a shopping spree Tuesday. MSU food science Associate Professor John Partridge teamed up with food bank director Leah Kropf to gather nearly $500 worth of snacks and other products as part of the grand opening of a Farmer Jack Supermarket near East Lansing. The supermarket, 2775 E.
Lansing - The mother of an MSU graduate student slain two years ago took the stand Monday in the first day of trial against the man prosecutors say killed her daughter. Dennis Michael Salerno, 32, sat quietly as Patricia Rizzi testified her daughter feared for her life in the days leading up to her disappearance.
City officials are celebrating the news of the Legislature’s override of Gov. John Engler’s revenue-sharing veto Tuesday - but only temporarily. About $3.7 million of the city’s general-fund budget was restored Tuesday when lawmakers passed the override.