In a country engulfed in violence, terrorist attacks are an everyday concern for the people of Israel.
Not since 1978 has a Spartan baseball player earned first-team All-American honors. Thanks to Bob Malek, that streak has been obliterated.
MSU has a large number of classes where the total enrollment of students is well into the hundreds. These are classes where seats are scarce and the only interaction a student has during class might be yelling out an answer when the professor offers a rhetorical question.
MTV is on a roll with its reality based shows and its newest edition serves up sorority life - Hollywood-style.
The East Lansing City Council will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court, 101 Linden Street, to discuss a possible land-share agreement with Bath Township. Known as a 425 agreement, residents are encouraged to attend.
The Lansing Lugnuts’ pitching staff ranks near the top of the Midwest League, even with the loss of four quality pitchers.Angel Guzman, Mark Carter, Adam Wynegar, and Eric Brown have taken their collective 14-5 record to the Single A Daytona Cubs, but the Lugnuts (3-2 second half, 40-34 overall) still hold a 3.20 ERA this season - third best in the Midwest League.The task of making up for those lost pitchers goes to pitching coach Mike Anderson, in his second year with the Lugnuts.It might seem losing pitchers of that caliber would be an enormous burden on the team, but Anderson said it’s just a part of the minor league system.“That’s what it’s all about,” Anderson said.
On July 1, exactly three weeks after the initial election, East Lansing school board candidates Randy Bell and William Donohue will finally know who wins the one available seat. After the two tied with 1,259 votes in the June 10 election, a hat drawing Friday named Donohue the official winner.
Disputes between landlords and tenants are commonplace in college towns. Fortunately, most spats are on a relatively small scale, dealing with problems such as getting leaky faucets fixed or covering minor damage to a property.
After the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Steven Claiborne said he wouldn’t step foot on a plane - he rides Amtrak instead. But the Illinois resident, who uses the railway at least three times a week to conduct business in mid-Michigan, might have to alter his travel plans again.
Judgment day has arrived for NBA Draft hopefuls.Only 57 aspirants will hear their names called tonight in the 2002 NBA Draft at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
“The Practice” is in recess for four months, “Law & Order” is on suspension, and the shadow of reruns has befallen “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” It’s summertime and while that means no school for most, the grind of summer jobs and day trips to the beach, it can be a pitiful time for hardcore couch potatoes.
A pair of Nightingales will soon migrate south to East Lansing, and the Spartan hockey team will be the beneficiary of the move. Adam Nightingale, a forward for Lake Superior State, is transferring to MSU, and his little brother, Jared Nightingale, has signed a National Letter of Intent with the Spartans and will be a freshman in the fall. Per NCAA transfer rules, Adam Nightingale will not be allowed to play for a season, but can practice with the team.
It is with some trepidation that I voice an opinion that might raise the anger of a few people on campus.
Lansing - A downtown office and housing development is one step closer to breaking ground after the city council approved the $2.18 million sale of city land for the new home of the Michigan State Police. The council voted 7-0 Monday to sell the land to developers Gary Granger and MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson, rejecting other recent offers of up to $4.2 million.
It only takes a shot to save a life. That’s the message MSU officials are hoping to get out with a new marketing strategy to promote immunizations for incoming freshmen and other students at risk for preventable diseases. Immunization-themed posters and bookmarks were put strategically in various campus buildings, and depict either a basketball player mid-air or a tennis player mid-swing.
After debating environmental issues for two-and-a-half hours, the Central Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club was unable to endorse one of three candidates for the 29th District state Senate race.State Rep.
The MSU riots in the late 1990s have almost reached folklore status - those who were there revel about the good ol’ days or horrible times, and their eager listeners only wish they could’ve been there. Thanks to local game designer Raphael Adley, anyone can start a riot at any time and anywhere.
“Big Pimpin” is back with some of the hottest gangster rappers in the industry. The compilation is set for release July 2. The album includes 16 tracks by artists such as Snoop Dogg, Ice-T, Too Short, DJ Quik, Silkk the Shocker, Master P. This underground hip-hop compilation is strictly for fans who can relate to popular rapper ideology, such as Too Short’s theory about pimping women as a pastime. But what is “Big Pimpin” anyway?
After debating the necessity of requiring long hours to train new doctors, the organization responsible for accrediting the nation’s teaching hospitals approved new rules last week that prohibit medical residents from working more than 80 hours a week. The new policy by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is a step forward for doctors-in-training and the quality of care for patients. Medical residents have not been restricted in their work hours, although a recommendation for no more than 80 hours has been in place for some time.
“Everybody deserves a second chance.” That’s not something you hear in the business world very often, and it’s certainly not something anybody hears in relation to the flaming wreckage of the dot-com business model.