Northern Michigan head coach Rick Comley will be named MSU’s next hockey coach at a press conference today, the university announced Sunday night.“Rick Comley is a fierce competitor,” retiring MSU head coach Ron Mason said in a written statement.
American culture has an unhealthy way of looking to its athletic heroes as demigods who live outside the rules of normal society.
Don Stevens spent his life fighting unpopular fights. An MSU trustee from 1958-78, Stevens was instrumental in the hiring of Clifton Wharton, MSU’s first black president. Stevens died Friday at age 87. “Don Stevens was the kind of guy who always kept his word,” Wharton said.
I’m 22 years old and I have a 4-year-old daughter. I found out I was pregnant at the start of my senior year in high school.
Lansing - Ingham County residents’ burden of paying for the Capital City Airport may diminish some if the county board of commissioners has its way. The board has begun talks with officials in Clinton and Eaton counties to discuss extending the tax paid by Ingham County residents to fund the airport to the two counties. Board Chairman John Czarnecki said meetings are scheduled for the end of April with a goal of putting the issue up as a referendum sometime in 2003. “We’re looking to have some discussions, get agreement,” he said.
Using a heater as his chair and a window as his back-support Friday night, Todd Bell admitted that he and his band, Hey Mercedes, have been freaking out lately.“We’ve been on tour so much, it’s hard to write,” the bass player said.
Lansing - Velita Jacobs flinched as a medical student in a white coat held her index finger and took out a small needle from a black box.“You’re not going to prick my finger, are you?” the Lansing resident said.
Jim Ciszewski decided three weeks ago that he was up to a challenge - he wanted to become president of the Council of Graduate Students.Last week, members of the graduate student government officially gave him the task.
Undergraduate students declaring Spanish as their major beginning fall semester 2002 will be required to participate in either a Spanish-speaking study abroad program, internship, service-learning program or an on-campus residential program. MSU Provost Lou Anna Simon said the requirement of study abroad or another language-intensive program is a step forward in promoting an understanding of language through culture. “To my knowledge, it’s the only program that has the explicit requirement of study abroad,” she said.
For some reason people seem to think I’m a gruff guy. After reading some of these reviews, I must come off as an evil and hateful ogre, sitting under a bridge eating goats and spewing bile about movies. But to be honest, I’m really a big softy.
I hate when I’m embarrassed to be an MSU student. It almost never happens, but I felt it as I was leaving Thursday’s lecture with filmmaker Spike Lee.
Northern Michigan head coach Rick Comley will be MSU’s next hockey coach, the university announced today.An introductory press conference is scheduled for noon Monday.Comley, 55, will take over for Ron Mason, who is retiring after 23 years as the Spartan coach to become MSU’s next athletics director.
Eugene, Ore. - The Spartans’ Cinderella run in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament ended Saturday night with a semifinal loss. Playing in front of 5,304 mostly yellow-and-green fans, the MSU women’s basketball team (19-13) fell 65-54 to the Ducks (21-13) in a WNIT final four contest. Oregon will now play host to Houston at 7 p.m.
Students declaring Spanish as a major during or after fall semester 2002 will have to meet the requirement of extensive contact with the language - including study abroad.The requirement of at least eight weeks of study abroad or other intensive language contact is one of many revisions to MSU’s Spanish curriculum which will take place fall semester.
I am writing in response to Marcus Taylor’s decision to go pro or stay in school (“Taylor ticker,” SN 3/20). It really makes me sick, as a Spartan, to see he could be considering turning pro.
The thrill of a needle driving into your raw skin repeatedly is about as enticing as licking razor blades.
Whatever happened to the show “Cops?” It’s on occasionally, but nothing like it used to be - you could find it everywhere, all day long.
Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning actor Edward James Olmos will speak to local students at 11:30 a.m.
A conference titled “The Mixed Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Multicultural Center in the Union basement.