For a team that didn’t know if they would be on the list, the expectations were high.The MSU men’s soccer team congregated at Trippers, 354 Frandor Ave.
With hopes of calming the fears of travelers this holiday season, President Bush signed legislation Monday that will increase security at the nation’s airports. The bill puts airport baggage screeners on the federal payroll and requires airports to expand inspections of checked baggage and explosive detection systems by the end of the year. “For our airways there is one supreme priority - security,” Bush said in a ceremony at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that coincided with the beginning of the busy holiday travel season.
MSU’s student population makes East Lansing the place for a pizzeria, said the owner of the new spot in town. Cottage Inn Pizza owner George Hoover said the new location in East Lansing was in part because of MSU.
The MSU men’s and women’s cross country teams placed 18th and 11th, respectively, at the 2001 National Championships in Greenville, S.C., on Monday. MSU freshman Chris Toloff paced the Spartan harriers, placing 54th with a time of 30:33 in the 10K race.
Who wants to bet a million bucks that any movie labeled as comedy and starring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg would involve jokes about a)weed, and b)ho’s?
The statistics didn’t look like those of a winning team.But with some unseemly numbers, the MSU women’s basketball teams beat Buffalo 50-42 and UCLA 67-63 to take first in the season-opening Spartan Chevrolet Classic on Friday and Saturday at Breslin Center.The team began the tournament at 8 p.m.
What kind of insensitive idiots dress up as black men for Halloween? Photographs from a fraternity party at Auburn University surfaced recently on the Internet showing white students wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes and in blackface. More pictures, this time from a University of Mississippi fraternity, surfaced showing a student dressed as a police officer holding a gun to the head of a student in blackface. Maybe they were exposed to toxic chemicals as children.
It’s the trip no volleyball team wants to make - traveling to No. 9 Ohio State and No. 13 Penn State on consecutive nights. Only three teams have ever survived the weekend with two wins.
Eyes stuck to the sky in East Lansing on Sunday morning might have been looking for the meteors predicted to pierce through the night - but all they saw was fog. The Leonid shower occurs every November when the Earth passes through the debris of the Comet Tempel-Tuttle.
Robert Huggett, MSU’s vice president for research and graduate studies, will discuss an ongoing debate among scientists, the U.S.
More than 6,000 MSU students who participate in the Pell Grant program may receive less money than they’re expecting next year.Educators across the country are encouraging Washington lawmakers to correct an oversight that could cause no increase in next year’s federal student aid, despite rising tuition costs.The Pell Grant program is slated to receive $1.7 billion and $1.5 billion increases from the U.S.
The MSU wrestling team opened its season Saturday with the MSU Wrestling Open, where nine Spartans advanced to Sunday’s semifinals.
In response to “Save turkeys from death this holiday,” SN 11/12: Yeah, I too am looking forward to sitting around in our new home with our family watching the Detroit Lions and treating ourselves to a delicious, moist, 20-pound turkey and mashed potatoes covered in gravy. Man, I know what you’re saying, I agree I can’t wait either.
My fellow students, there you have it. The reason we all do so horrible in math is because we are not trying hard enough (“Math problems left unsolved,” SN 11/16). What a load. First off, approaching the instructors is of little good when you can’t understand them in the first place.
Detroit - Less than half of my chocolate milkshake was left after Chris Murphy took a few huge swigs and reached for another one of my french fries. The part-time frontman of the band Sloan, one of the most popular exports from Canada, is also an expert of getting ketchup out of the bottle, hardly spattering me at all with the tomato extract. The gangly, secondhand clothes-donning, scraggly haired group of guys were obviously not your average run-of-the-mill hockey fans sitting down for a burger at Johnny Rockets restaurant on a Friday night in Detroit. This lead to recognition from passers by. But the rock band doesn’t mind the attention, as long as people don’t pry too much into the members’ personal lives. “I’m into attention,” Murphy said.
Apparently new players and a fresh season don’t make much difference - at least not for MSU and Miami (Ohio).The fourth-ranked Spartans blanked Miami 3-0 on Friday and 2-0 on Saturday, extending their defensive dominance over the RedHawks (6-5-1 overall, 4-3-1 CCHA) to four straight games.MSU also shut out Miami twice last January - 1-0 and 5-0 - and the RedHawks haven’t scored against the Spartans in 292:07 minutes of hockey, dating to the first period of a 5-1 MSU win on March 11, 2000.All five games in the streak have been played at Munn Ice Arena.“I’m always surprised we get a shutout,” MSU head coach Ron Mason said.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly meeting with the East Lansing City Council on Thursday was the first time in a year the undergraduate student government had met with city officials.
“Golf With Alan Shepard” is not a bad show for a play about four old guys playing golf. It opened Thursday at the Boarshead Theater, 425 S.
Communication senior Tim Beard doesn’t pay much attention to the economy outside of class. He said finding a job after he graduates is something he really doesn’t worry about. “Who knows how the economy will have an effect on me when I start sending out my résumés?” he said.