By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press General management sophomore Chesare Hill is wondering what Saturday will be like without the scheduled football game. After announcing Wednesday the home game against Missouri was on, MSU and Missouri officials decided to cancel the game Thursday, because of unusual travel logistics following the terrorist attack Tuesday.
Despite recent closings of airports across the nation, local theaters (who have movies flown to them) plan on new releases being aired as scheduled this weekend.“Hardball” and “The Glass House” will both open Friday as planned.“None of the movies are going to be delayed,” said Chris Couling, assistant manager of Celebration Cinema, 200 E.
For anyone who has stayed up late watching the likes of “Halloween,” “Evil Dead” or “Friday the 13th,” this weekend you may just get your chance to be in a horror movie yourself.A film crew is holding open auditions this weekend to fill the cast of their new flick “Terror at Baxter U.,” and it will be made entirely by local filmmakers and shot in the area.“I just had an idea,” said English Professor Bill Vincent, who wrote the script.
Since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on Tuesday, economic stress has been felt worldwide.U.S.
Lansing - Adam Bartlett was among 300 Lansing Community College students and staff that paused just after noon on Thursday to sing “We Are the World,” and reflect on survivors and victims of Tuesday’s attacks.
Katie Drury had to smile and pretend a national disaster didn’t happen while mentoring in a third-grade classroom Tuesday. “It was difficult to put on the happy face and represent the teacher model,” said Drury, a teaching intern at Whitehills Elementary School, 621 Pebblebrook Lane. Drury is one of about 550 graduates of MSU’s College of Education who have been coping with Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on the United States while interning in classrooms across the state. “For many of the interns, this is challenging because it was the first time they were looked to as adults by the children and teens who were seeking answers and support,” said Trudy Sykes, coordinator for the secondary education program. Cary Grimm, an MSU graduate who interns at Novi Meadows school in Novi, said the teachers decided against sharing the news with students. “It didn’t really hit me until the kids left,” Grimm said.
In response to Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, MSU will join the rest of the nation today in observing a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance.Classes scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
State Rep. Mike Kowall wants the state to impose stricter penalties on those who price gouge in a time of tragedy.Kowall, a White Lake Republican and assistant majority whip, unveiled legislation Thursday that would modify Michigan’s Consumer Protection Act to make profiteering a felony crime punishable by five years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
If you are one of the many Domestic Problems fans who missed its most recent show in East Lansing, you may have to take a road trip to catch the band this fall.The Grand Rapids sextet played at Rick’s American Cafe, 224 Abbott Road, in late August, before many students returned for the fall semester and doesn’t have any other shows in East Lansing planned for the coming months.But that doesn’t mean it won’t be nearby.
It is with great pride that I heard of MSU President M. Peter McPherson’s decision to remain open for business during and after the terrorist acts of war in New York and Washington, D.C.
Plugging into the media in an attempt to find out something new, conclusive and substantial about the attack on the United States, I found commentary from the media that was disturbing.
Friday The Campus Center will present the Black Comedy Tour. There will be two shows in Anthony Hall, at 10 p.m.
Lansing - About 300 Lansing Community College students and staff sang “We Are The World” today and reflected on those struggling for their lives after Tuesday’s terrorist attacks.The Time for Unity rally was held at Washington Square in Lansing on LCC’s campus.President Paula Cunningham addressed the crowd and college counselors were on hand to talk with community members and offer advice.“I came to unite with my fellow students,” LCC no-preference freshman Alicia Cosgray said.
After Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, Big Ten officials told each school to make its own decision to cancel or hold athletic events this weekend - MSU officials said Wednesday that for the most part, the games are on. “Each school was allowed to take into consideration many factors,” university spokesman Terry Denbow said.
One of the patients I am caring for is almost totally paralyzed. A neurological disease having left her with only those muscles above her neck; she is only two fierce eyes and a voice that barely approaches a whisper.
From wire reports Washington - Federal authorities have identified more than a dozen hijackers of Middle Eastern descent in Tuesday’s bombings and gathered evidence linking them to various terrorist networks, law enforcement officials said. The massive investigation stretched from the Canadian border, where officials suspect some of the hijackers entered the country, to Florida, where some of the participants are believed to have learned how to fly commercial jetliners before the attacks.
Even though head football coach Bobby Williams keeps his practices under wraps, everyone knows MSU must be focusing on special teams this week after Central Michigan blocked four punts in Saturday’s season opener.Special teams and linebackers coach Sal Sunseri took the blame for Saturday’s punt problems and said he should’ve lined up more athletic players in front of the punt team in practice.
Kwame Kilpatrick and Gil Hill are still in the running to become Detroit’s next mayor, but David Jaye won’t regain his old state Senate seat - at least for now. Results from Tuesday’s primary elections showed state House Minority Leader Kilpatrick, D-Detroit, and Detroit City Council President Gil Hill will compete in Detroit’s general mayoral race.
Leaurin Boyington has never given blood before, but she’s never had much of a reason to do so, either.In the wake of Tuesday’s apparent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, she knew it was time to give it a try.“Giving blood (Wednesday) is really helping people,” the supply chain management freshman said.
MSU head women’s basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie will serve as honorary chair of the Greater Lansing Memory Walk for Alzheimer’s disease Sunday.The fourth annual 3K/5K walk, sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association, begins at the Breslin Center and travels through campus.