Pontiac - It had been almost two years since Ben Folds Five played at a Michigan venue. On Sunday night at Clutch Cargo’s in Pontiac, Ben Folds returned, minus the five. It was the same sold-out place, the same Baldwin SF-10 piano, mostly the same fans. The Folds faithful started showing up about 2 p.m.
Listen to the word on the street, read the bathroom graffiti or log on to the Internet. Police are not popular. It’s an inevitability that campus police will be viewed as the enemy by some students.
Michigan electricity customers will soon get an unsettling charge added to their monthly bills. For the next three years, we’ll all be charged for a “customer education program” to prepare us for added competition in the electricity market.It’s not unsettling that the state will spend $33 million on the campaign - electricity deregulation is a tricky issue - but it is questionable that state officials will pay three public relations companies tied to Michigan’s two major utility companies, Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison, to run the campaign.
Michael Douglas has got it pretty well figured out, I’d say. Why? It’s quite simple - he’s married to Catherine Zeta-Jones, and he does a movie where he gets to fool around with Famke Janssen and hang out with Brittany Murphy.
The city of East Lansing will hold its general election Nov. 6, but time is almost out to register to vote.
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month gives women the opportunity to learn more about the disease - the sooner the better. Activities throughout the month will help women recognize the importance of early detection. Today is “Tell a Friend Tuesday,” which encourages women to call eight friends they care about who are older than 40 and remind them to get their yearly mammogram. Lansing Mayor David Hollister will be placing calls in support of the program at City Hall from 10-10:30 a.m. Sharon Greenhoe, a spokeswoman for the Lansing-area American Cancer Society, said early detection is the most important treatment of the disease. “Early detection is 97 percent curable,” she said.
Faculty, staff and students will have a chance to discuss their ideas and concerns with MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety at a public forum tonight. The forum is sponsored by MSU’s Task Force on Student-Police Relations.
MSU graduate students are satisfied overall with their departments but feel the atmosphere is lacking, according to results from the 2000 Graduate Student Survey.
It’s easy to blame MSU’s kicking game for Saturday’s 27-26 loss at Northwestern since it failed to convert on three field goals and two extra points.It’s also convenient to point a finger at the team’s discipline - the Spartans lead the Big Ten in snafus with 25.
A panel of James Madison College faculty members will discuss threats to civil liberties that have surfaced following the Sept.
Americans have questions that need answers, and many are turning toward religion.Retailers are reporting sales on inspirational, religious and prophecy books have all risen since the Sept.
Crews have been working through the night transforming Spartan Stadium from a gridiron showroom to a hockey shrine for “The Cold War,” and Associate Athletics Director Mark Hollis said the conversion is ahead of schedule. “Everything is going very smooth, just as planned,” Hollis said.
Overall crime rates around the state fell 4 percent in 2000, according to the Michigan State Police, and MSU is seeing some of the drop. A report released Monday said the university has seen a significant reduction in the number of burglaries on campus in the last two years as well as a continued drop in the number of reports of illegal possession of weapons. Numbers for most other crimes remained stable. “We always like to see reduction,” MSU police Capt.
More than 150 people assembled at the Plant and Soil Sciences Building on Friday to witness Michael Thomashow become the first MSU professor to receive the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award.The award honors those who have made significant strides in agricultural research in the United States over the past five years.
I wish I knew how fantastic it would be to have a student greenhouse to hang out in right in the center of north campus, behind the Old Horticulture Building.
I would like to congratulate Ryan Wallace for his serious, yet entertaining article regarding pig “toots” and their manure (“Engineers Seek to Make Oinkers’ Odors Smell Sweet,” SN 9/27). You deserve an award for your eloquent choice of words!
I am one of the many graduate students suffering the great misfortune of being represented by the new Graduate Employees Union.
Upon reading that the Board of Trustees is offering free tuition to the children of the victims of the unfortunate event Sept.
The MSU Evening College may be getting older, but officials say they are ready and determined to continue providing people with interesting and enjoyable courses that have made it popular throughout the years. Following its Sept.
MSU Young Americans For Freedom will take to the Capitol steps with fellow students at noon to protest legislation that would enter the state into the Streamlined Sales Tax Project.The multistate Internet tax project is charged with organizing collections from purchases made online.