The roads will be packed with minivans and eager students as the annual fall ritual runs its course this Welcome Weekend and East Lansing is ready. East Lansing Police Capt.
Questions about hardware status, Ethernet capability or insufficient gigabytes? You may want to head to the Computer Store, 305 Computer Center, where all these questions and more are brought up and answered.
The first chords ring out from the basement, carried upstairs by air tinged with smoke and the unmistakable smell of cheap beer.
If you can’t go to the Main Library, it can now come to you. Students have searched MSU’s databases from their homes since the library’s catalog went online.
In 2001, the men’s soccer team earned its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1969, and this year’s team looks just as promising. With the addition of four new recruits and return of its top four scorers, the Spartan kickers look to improve last season’s 13-6-1 record, the best numbers the men have collected since the 1986 season when the squad went 13-7-1. Greg and Steve Doster of New Lenox, Ill., are members of the Chicago Magic Soccer Club and head coach Joe Baum says both are able to play multiple positions - Greg Doster plays in the backfield and his brother Steve plays in the midfield and on defense. “Greg is a very athletic, hard-nosed defender,” Baum said in a statement.
Ceramics experts have given Sparty an ominous diagnosis - he only has eight years to live if his lifestyle doesn’t change soon. But help is on the way for MSU’s terra-cotta icon, believed to be the world’s tallest free-standing ceramic statue.
Students who once huddled next to each other for warmth as they waited for a bus to come barreling down the street now have a new boarding center on Shaw Lane to keep them toasty and dry. The Capital Area Transportation Center was scheduled to open Aug.
Aaron Scheidies has a severe vision-impairment, but he can do a lot of things that people with perfect eyesight can do - and maybe a little more.
If you’re one of the google of students who plan to be in a confined space with many sweaty, loud students - pay attention.
The MSU fight song will undoubtedly be heard a few thousand times this fall when Spartan sports teams start their seasons. But the fight song could be in even greater use by November. The football, field hockey, volleyball and men’s soccer teams are looking to improve on strong finishes last year and live up to lofty expectations this year. If those teams live up to the hype, it could create a buzz similar to March Madness, just four months earlier. The postseasons for field hockey, volleyball and men’s soccer begin in November and Spartan fanatics could be going wild.
The roaring ring from the once-familiar, university-issued manila phones won’t be echoing down dorm halls this fall.Instead, students will have to provide their own telecommunication device.Increased cell-phone use among students has led to a decrease in the use of university-provided long-distance services.
As another baseball season winds down, the Lansing Lugnuts find themselves toward the top of their division, hoping to snag one of two coveted second-half playoff spots. Lansing has qualified for the playoffs in four of the past six seasons, including 1996 - the Lugnuts’ inaugural season - and 1997, the year Lansing claimed its first league championship. The 1998 ’Nuts squad missed the playoffs by half a game, but rebounded in 1999, capturing the division title in what has been the most-successful season yet, where Lansing advanced to the league semifinals before getting eliminated by the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.
Another season is upon us, and that means it’s time for another season of pigskin prognosticators.
With the Nov. 5 general election fast approaching, East Lansing and campus student leaders are working to bring the gubernatorial candidates to separate public debates. Although neither debate has been confirmed, the AARP and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, have spoken the campaigns of Democratic Attorney General Jennifer Granholm and GOPLt.
In 2001, the men’s soccer team earned its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1969, and this year’s team looks just as promising. With the addition of four new recruits and return of its top four scorers, the Spartan kickers look to improve last season’s 13-6-1 record, the best numbers the men have collected since the 1986 season when the squad went 13-7-1. Greg and Steve Doster of New Lenox, Ill., are members of the Chicago Magic Soccer Club and head coach Joe Baum says both are able to play multiple positions - Greg Doster plays in the backfield and his brother Steve plays in the midfield and on defense. “Greg is a very athletic, hard-nosed defender,” Baum said in a statement.
In 2001, the men’s soccer team earned its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1969, and this year’s team looks just as promising. With the addition of four new recruits and return of its top four scorers, the Spartan kickers look to improve last season’s 13-6-1 record, the best numbers the men have collected since the 1986 season when the squad went 13-7-1. Greg and Steve Doster of New Lenox, Ill., are members of the Chicago Magic Soccer Club and head coach Joe Baum says both are able to play multiple positions - Greg Doster plays in the backfield and his brother Steve plays in the midfield and on defense. “Greg is a very athletic, hard-nosed defender,” Baum said in a statement.
Many students hoping to stay fit might opt to take up jogging this semester.But local police want to remind students to be safe.“First, I would suggest that they don’t jog at night,” MSU police Sgt.
Ceramics experts have given Sparty an ominous diagnosis - he only has eight years to live if his lifestyle doesn’t change soon. But help is on the way for MSU’s terra-cotta icon, believed to be the world’s tallest free-standing ceramic statue.
MSU could attract more than proteins and molecules if all goes as planned.Spartan leaders hope to make campus home to one of the largest magnetic spectrometers in the United States.“We also hope it will attract faculty,” said Shelagh Ferguson-Miller, co-director of the Center for Structural Biology.The machine, a 900-megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance instrument, is set to be paid for by the Life Sciences Corridor.Corridor officials approved the program’s budget for the this year, including $4.5 million for the instrument, in June.The Life Sciences Corridor is a grant program initiated in 1999 to spend more that $1 billion on biochemistry projects during a span of 20 years.The program links the research efforts of Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University and is funded by part of the state’s tobacco settlement money.The new magnetic instrument will join a team of eight others.
Big Boy will soon find out if it passes its Business 101 course when it opens up shop at 101 E.