Columbus, Ohio - The Spartan women’s basketball team did something Thursday they haven’t done all year - leave the floor with a win over a Big Ten foe.The Spartans broke into the win column in conference play with a 64-49 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes.Leading the way for the Spartans was freshman center Kelli Roehrig, with 18 points and eight rebounds.
I read Alison Barker’s article, “Students find hope in aid” (SN 1/14). Like Mike Skamiera, I was a low-income and first-generation college student.
Restricting the hours off-campus students have access to computer labs will create a variety of inconveniences. Beginning this semester, computer labs are no longer being monitored by lab assistants.
It’s agitating that a major university can’t do a better job managing class scheduling and show more respect to its students who enroll in them. More than 350 spring semester classes were canceled by university officials, and many sections within departments have been combined.
MSU head coach Ron Mason has been shooing it away all season, but the injury bug finally bit Tuesday night in Big Rapids. And although it bit hard, the sting doesn’t look quite as bad as it did at first.
A prime example of why modern cinema is not dead has finally arrived in our sleepy little town.
If a dismal budget forecast released Tuesday holds true, MSU’s Tuition Guarantee will be suspended for a second year, raising tuition more than the rate of inflation, university officials say. “It’s over.
It may come as little surprise that Officer Dan DeKorte said Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays are the East Lansing Police Department’s busiest days.But what is worrisome to many is more and more noise-violation calls continue to flood the department’s phone lines - leaving officers with continuously less time to track drunken drivers.In 1990, 581 drunken driving arrests were made.
No. 6 MSU and No. 8 Michigan will meet for the first time since “The Cold War” this weekend.And while Saturday night’s showdown at Yost Ice Arena promises to be warmer and smaller than the outdoor record-breaking spectacle in October, it could be even more important.The Spartans (17-5-2 overall, 12-4-1 CCHA) lead U-M (13-7-4, 10-4-3) by two points in the CCHA standings, which makes Saturday’s matchup a key swing point for the league title chase.
While the church is not at all obligated to host the play and they do not “support homosexuality,” I do agree with The State News in that shutting down the play makes the church appear intolerant (“Bad Break,” SN 1/9). In reality, if a play with homosexuality cannot be performed in this church, then neither should one with divorce, theft, murder, sexual immorality, eating rabbits or pigs, or wearing clothing woven of two different kinds of materials. Truthfully, we are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God.
As a way to reduce confusion along the U.S. 27/U.S. 127 corridor, the entire corridor will now be known as U.S.
An old East Lansing restaurant is being sold for the second time in three years. Jerry Norris, Jacquie Norris and Robert Smith, owners of Hobie’s Restaurants, 930 Trowbridge Road, have reached an agreement with Dave Baker, a Holt resident, to sell the 34-year-old restaurant. Baker has worked in restaurants for years but this is his first time owning one. “I wanted to be in the restaurant business,” he said.
It’s difficult to imagine a four-hour bus trip could cure all of the Spartan women’s basketball team’s ailments.
Wildlife now has a safe haven between Windsor, Canada and Detroit.The United States reached an agreement with Canada to develop the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.The 5,000-acre refuge, located on the lower Detroit River, represents the first international refuge in North America, though several exist in Europe.Even though the United States and Canada maintain friendly relations, the refuge took a long time to develop and came about as the result of a common goal, said Scott Flaherty, spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Service.“Everyone was looking for ways to conserve and protect and keep the conservation values in the lower Detroit River in order,” he said.
I was recently made aware that parking in one of the parking decks on campus between 2 and 6 a.m. is an offense.
Although the weekend is approaching, Sarah Lockwitz can hardly wait to attend Brian Greene’s lecture about the elegance of the universe. “I’ll have to break a hot date to go to it, but I think it’s worth it,” the physics freshman said. Lockwitz met the Columbia University professor of physics and mathematics on Tuesday when he visited her Physics 193H class. Greene will discuss his best-selling book, “The Elegant Universe,” tonight during the first McPherson Professorship lecture.
Emma Tai and Brian Root-Bernstein never expected it -perfection caught them off-guard.The 17-year-old East Lansing High School seniors both scored 1600s on 2001 administrations of the SATs.“I was really surprised,” Tai said.
No matter what evidence is cited, creationists will never believe in evolution. They believe that all humans on earth have come from just two people who managed to avoid the genetic defects of inbreeding.
EventsAbrams Planetarium: Public show, “Orion Rendezvous, a Star Trek Voyage of Discovery,” 8 p.m.
The public’s right in a democracy is the ability to speak its opinions to its elected officials.