Denison Witmer is the kind of musician who has a relaxed following. “When kids show up for his shows they’ll get a nice quiet evening,” said Dan Falconer, owner of Lower Level Records, 611 E.
Detroit - Sadness shrouded CCHA Media Day at Joe Louis Arena on Tuesday, as the league’s 12 coaches remembered Maine head coach and former MSU assistant Shawn Walsh, who died Monday after a 15-month battle with renal cell carcinoma, a rare form of cancer. But the loss hit at a much more personal level for MSU head coach Ron Mason. Walsh, 46, was the ex-husband of Mason’s daughter, Tracey Hein.
MSU’s six-year streak of record fund raising is being questioned by trustees and experts who doubt the university can again rake in more than $200 million. The past year’s economic slowdown, including last week’s stock market fallout, tempered congratulations extended to University Development at the Board of Trustees meeting Friday for this year’s record-breaking effort. Even with Monday’s recovery, the Dow Jones industrial average, the most widely used New York Stock Exchange index, is down more than 3,100 points since its high in January 2000 - about a 26 percent reduction. “There is no question that with an economic downturn, fund raising is very difficult,” MSU Trustee David Porteous said.
Most of the talk at MSU’s hockey media day Monday in Munn Ice Arena centered around two things - “The Cold War” outdoor hockey game on Oct.
The market has risen from the ashes, but experts are still warning about the possibility of getting burned.The Nasdaq composite index rose about 5.3 percent, or 76.21 points, and the Dow Jones industrial average grossed 368.05 points or about 4.5 percent.Lyle Schonberger, director of research for H&R Block Financial Advisors’ Detroit office, said the rise is from when a couple major brokerages announced positive comments about the market Monday morning.“I think stocks last week fell farther than they should, so that led to some buying,” he said.Schonberger said there is potential for a couple of days when the market might rebound, but there may be some problems.“I think there is still too many uncertainties to upset the market at this point,” he said.Vic Loomis, senior vice president and senior leader for National City Bank of Michigan/Illinois, said the rise could be attributed to a number of reasons.Loomis, an East Lansing City Council candidate who is also chairman of the city’s Downtown Development Authority, said the market is still subject to volatility and hopes the market will establish a base.“I hope what we are seeing today is an expression that the economy is still in pretty good shape,” Loomis said.But some experts feel airline stocks are still unstable.Donna Majauskas, an investment representative for Edward Jones, 1200 Michigan Ave., said she directs her clients toward more stable stocks such as medical and Wal-Mart.“All of the analysts are saying no, that it is just too volatile of an industry,” she said.But Charles Ballard, an MSU economics professor, said airlines are still a worthy investment.“The airlines were up today, and the only reason they can be up is that some people were eager to buy those stocks.
Lansing - Two years ago Monday, 313 W. Kalamazoo St. was a pile of dirt with a silver shovel in it. After 22 months with an average of 42 workers on the site per day, the Ingham County/City of Lansing Veterans Memorial Courthouse, which grew from the pile of dirt, was dedicated Tuesday. “I know that there were many that questioned whether this could be done,” said Mayor David Hollister, who had discussed the idea as early as 1969.
Planes flying over Spartan Stadium is normal, common and a tradition. I graduated from the College of Engineering in spring 2000 and was a member of a social fraternity.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 has gained its most notoriety on campus from what has been publicized most about it - the decimation of men’s gymnastics, fencing and lacrosse.
Today is rumored to be the day Michael Jordan makes his much-anticipated official announcement.Since early this year, stories have grown about the possibility, the probability and the practicality of Jordan coming back to the NBA.
A panel of faculty from James Madison College will lead a discussion today about the probable effects of the U.S.
Clifton Haley, a 1961 graduate of the MSU-Detroit College of Law and board member since 1997, was unanimously elected president of the MSU-DCL Board of Trustees on Friday.Haley has served as vice president of the board under the leadership of Judge Richard Suhrheinrich since 1998 and since then has helped to increase the academic standards and enrollment at the law school.Haley said he has wanted to give something back to the university for some time.“It’s a tremendous honor to be elected by the same school that I graduated from,” he said.
Lansing - Secretary of State Candice Miller said she hopes the Legislature will approve plans for a new license plate to benefit the American Red Cross’s relief efforts in response to the Sept.
For the last 15 years, Melinda Benson has spent many birthdays celebrating within the walls of MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety.With her September birthday falling right when students return to campus, it’s the only way she has the chance to see her husband, MSU police Chief Bruce Benson, on her special day.“He’ll always say ‘I know how to show my wife a good time,’” she joked.
ASMSU has been looking for the right person to fill its chief of staff position for three months.They finally found her.Ashley Grieve, a packaging junior, was officially hired as the new chief of staff of MSU’s undergraduate student government Thursday, beating out five other candidates.
Exactly two weeks after Sept. 11, U.S. officials are still attempting to smoke the terrorists out - by any means necessary. In the nation’s latest measure to pinpoint the culprits, President Bush called for a “strike on the financial foundation” of terrorists, and froze assets of 27 individuals and organizations. The freeze applies to “terrorist organizations, individuals, terrorist leaders, a corporation that serves as a front for terrorism and several nonprofit organizations,” Bush said.
I guess America has decided a certain number of innocent lives, not our own of course, is a reasonable price for revenge.
The MSU field hockey team hosts Central Michigan at 7:30 p.m. today in the Duffy Daugherty Football Building. The Spartans (5-3, 1-0 Big Ten) are coming off a dominating 5-0 win over Northwestern in their Big Ten opener Saturday at Spartan Stadium. Despite its 3-3 overall record, Central could present a challenge for the Spartans.
Gov. John Engler wants Michigan at the forefront of a project to streamline Internet sales tax collection nationwide.Engler wants Michigan to join a national coalition of states developing methods for collecting taxes on Internet purchases, said Matt Resch, an Engler spokesman.
MSU students seeking a spot in the Izzone will have a chance to earn tickets this week, but the process is slightly different than in years past.