Eric Winebrenner admits it’s difficult to captivate audiences nowadays, especially when the crowd isn’t familiar with his band’s music.“You’ve really got to have something to offer,” said the guitarist of the Detroit-based Chrome Flies.
University officials announced today MSU’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory will receive 50 percent more funding than originally anticipated from the National Science Foundation. The cyclotron’s five-year operations and research funding, provided by the foundation, will increase from about $50 million to about $75 million. The announcement of increased funding for the facility comes one day after Gov.
Lansing - Gov. John Engler ended his hour-long final State of the State address with tears, culminating what will be a 12-year run. “Our state is strong,” Engler said.
There are two types of British entertainment on PBS. There are the long, boring movies that last an entire Sunday and consist of people drinking tea and riding horses. And then there’s “Are You Being Served?”. My sister introduced me to the show years ago, having gotten addicted to it herself, thanks to my family not having cable while growing up.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly passed a resolution Tuesday encouraging the state Legislature to give more money to the state’s 15 public universities to keep tuition increases reasonable. Some assembly members will lobby for increased state appropriations at the Capitol beginning Feb.
Zachary McFadden giggled and clutched his mother’s leg with one chubby hand as he grasped a dimly lit flashlight with the other Wednesday night at the rock on Farm Lane.“He’s too young to have a candle,” said his mother, audiology and speech sciences senior Tonia McFadden.
Lansing - Dart Auditorium at Lansing Community College was packed Tuesday, but Yolanda Botello was one of the lucky few to have a seat. She could hardly sit still. Botello was one of more than 500 proud parents who filled the auditorium to watch their children receive an opportunity of a lifetime. Five hundred Lansing-area sixth-graders received the Helping Other People Excel Scholarship, granting them two years of paid tuition at LCC, providing they graduate from high school. “I was so excited when I found out,” said Botello, whose son Thomas is a student at Dwight Rich Middle School in Lansing. “I have five children.
My father is bald. My father is as bald as the day is long. There is so little hair left on his pate that, from a distance, his remaining mane appears to be a strap keeping his glasses from falling off of his head. What’s terrifying about Pop is that in photos from the early ’70s, he has a thick, shiny mop.
As an enthusiastic participant in the fight for equality and unity, I marched in Monday’s Martin Luther King, Jr.
Money is tight. University officials tell The State News that we’re going to have to be very careful with the money that we have.
After the final buzzer tonight inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena, one thing is certain - one team will continue its winning ways; the other will have to start over.The Spartan women’s basketball squad hits the road in hopes of extending its two-game winning streak against the red-hot Iowa Hawkeyes, fresh off four straight wins.Junior guard Vnemina Reese said the Spartans (12-6 overall, 2-5 Big Ten) have had their first taste of conference success, and they’re hungry for more.“Winning is contagious,” Reese said.
The choice came down to being a Spartan or a Buckeye for Christy Linder. In the end, she decided to go green.MSU would be an obvious and possibly easy choice for a Michigan resident, but Linder is from Ohio.Her parents are both die-hard Buckeye fans and wanted their daughter to stay close to home, but they left the decision up to her.“Since we are both Buckeye fans, we both wanted her to go to Ohio State,” said Dan Linder, Christy’s father.
The Spartan women’s basketball team left Carver-Hawkeye Arena Thursday night taking some good out of their 75-55 loss to Iowa.The good news - the Spartans (12-7 overall, 2-6 Big Ten) outscored the Hawkeyes 36-33 for 20 minutes.The bad news - the Hawkeyes (13-5, 6-2) already held a 42-19 lead in the 20 minutes prior.The hot Hawkeye start crippled the Spartans’ chances of continuing their two-game winning streak.With the win, Iowa extends its winning streak to five.The Spartans were unable to contain a potent perimeter attack from the Hawkeyes.
Test results revealed today the 25-year-old graduate student who died Sunday had the type C strain of bacterial meningococcus.School of Hospitality Business student Matthew Knueppel’s test results came back about 9 a.m., according to Dr. Dean Sienko, director of the Ingham County Health Department.Sienko said Knueppel had not received the vaccine, but group C is one of the meningococcal subtypes the vaccine prevents against.“The reason we find out which type someone has is because it gives us a rough sense of whether you might have an outbreak or a linkage between cases,” Sienko said.
“Been Taken” hits the stage tonight, with the cast of 12 prepped by the show’s contemporary American playwright Roger Hedden.
It’s comforting that people are remaining calm about the death of a 25-year-old graduate student from bacterial meningitis.
Friday • The Campus Center presents the Shake It Fast Dance Contest with DJ Kutz from 10 p.m.
The Spartans will be without sophomore forward Adam Wolfe for the remainder of the season. Wolfe suffered a severe hamstring tear to his right leg in the first half of Saturday’s Penn State game. “It’s very disappointing news,” said MSU head coach Tom Izzo in a written statement.
There is no such thing as being too safe. MSU students who walk around campus late at night need programs like StateWalk to ensure they arrive at their destinations safely.
Iowa City, Iowa - Late in the MSU men’s basketball team’s 75-71 Tuesday night loss to Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Jason Andreas had his shot blocked.