LANSING - Most parents would be in a state of panic if their child was suspended more than 30 feet above the ground. But not East Lansing resident Eileen Benson. That’s because her son, Darren Bardell, 8, was just about to ring the bell atop the Vertical Edge rock climbing wall at Lansing’s Common Ground Festival on Sunday at Louis H.
Three days after Indianapolis forward Delco Rowley verbally committed to MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo, Detroit Crockett High School shooting guard Maurice Ager decided to become the third member of Spartans’ 2002 recruiting class.“It came down to a family choice,” the senior-to-be and Mr. Basketball candidate said.
SOUTH FOX ISLAND, Mich. - Darrell Wright hasn’t followed in the footsteps of his grandfathers. He hasn’t been allowed to. Buried in the South Fox Island’s cemetery in 1906, Wright’s great-grandfather spent years fishing, logging and living with his family on the Lake Michigan island. Although Wright, an East Jordan, Mich., resident, and his family stayed in northern Michigan, his family left the island just eight months before he was born, 70 years ago, giving him only pictures and stories of his family’s island history. The cemetery lies on the land of developer and MSU alumnus David Johnson, who owns two-thirds of the land in scattered plots around the island.
How many music establishments around East Lansing can you visit to see 10 bands for 50 cents per band?
A “Freebird” flew over the capital city Wednesday night as 1970s southern rock and blues masters Lynyrd Skynyrd took the stage at the Common Ground Festival.“It is just like old times,” Lansing resident and longtime Lynyrd Skynyrd fan Steve Tryon said.The classic rockers were one of 20 musical acts at this year’s festival and bands like Molly, Blitz 66 and Fuel all shared the venue with Skynyrd on Wednesday.
Lansing’s Riverwalk Theatre will be the venue for the tragi-comedy “Waiting for Godot” during the next two weekends. The Samuel Beckett play is designed to “rouse audiences to demonstration of enthusiasm and anger” and will be directed by Bob Gras. Brad Rutledge and Terry Jones star as two broken-down men waiting for the mysterious, all-powerful entity named Godot, who continually says he will appear but never does.
It seems the death of Napster as we know it is finally at hand.Citing problems with its new filtering technology, the free music provider halted all file transfers earlier this month.
In just about one month I will have completed my first year of living off campus, after spending two years in the dorm.Living with four other roommates has been both fun and stressful, but I am lucky enough to be living with the same friends next year.
Kary Howard hasn’t been able to lay in the sun, relax or read a good book this summer.Instead, the agriculture and natural resources and communications senior has to work two jobs.She’s prepping for her tuition bill, complete with its 8.9 percent tuition increase.“I had grant money to cover it before,” she said.
The MSU men’s basketball team hasn’t been to California since 1974, when it took part in the Cable Car Classic in San Francisco.
Kris Elliott, owner of Troppo, hopes to start construction on the restaurant’s second-story addition as soon as possible.On Tuesday, Troppo, 213 Ann St., was approved for a special-use permit by the East Lansing City Council to build a second-story addition with indoor and outdoor dining.Elliott told the council he would begin construction as soon as he received a building permit and would hopefully be ready to open right after Thanksgiving.The council voted 4-1 to approve the permit.
At a school with 43,000 other students, each of us enters as just another number. If a student doesn’t make connections and feel comfortable, he or she will get left behind while the university moves on about its business. Many minority students are finding this to be the case. The Detroit News recently published a study of seven Michigan universities.
There is a silent war being fought on the trunks of the cars of our nation, and the fish annoy me. It began with an innocent proclamation of Christian faith: small, plastic silver fish.
Sequels are frequently the home of the damned as far as movies go. Not only do they wallow in a far worse plot than the original, but the novel ideas that drove an original movie usually can’t push along another two hours worth of film. This is the stereotype that “Jurassic Park III” is up against.
Deborah Buehrer hopes to save some gas money and spend it on movie tickets. “I’m kind of a movie buff,” the international relations senior said. And Buehrer won’t have to drive to Meridian Township or Lansing to see a movie if East Lansing approves proposed plans for a movie theater and other retail, dubbed City Center II. The city hopes to build the new project at 303 Abbott Road, where the Old Kent Bank currently stands. East Lansing received a $700,000 loan from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation that would help assist in the development of City Center II, which the city council approved the terms and conditions of at its Tuesday meeting. The corporation received 14 applications for loans and only awarded funding to eight cities. “Today we start the next step,” Mayor Mark Meadows said.
Regardless of the trek, bicyclists are preparing to help people affected by the HIV and AIDS viruses.The seventh annual Life Ride 2001 bike-a-thon to benefit people with HIV and AIDS is being held Friday and Saturday.
Andrew Bielaczyc could be sitting at the railroad crossing on Farm Lane and Service Road for a lot less time if two congressional bills are passed.“It kind of bugs me,” the human biology senior said while waiting for a train to pass through the crossroads.
On July 30, Lansing Community College Trustees Todd Heywood, Kathy “K.P.” Pelleran and Mark Canady will convene with their fellow trustees.The three ran unopposed when the three spots became open in April.
Richard Condit wrote a letter to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in 1996 to oppose the trading of state land on Lake Michigan’s South Fox Island.When the trade didn’t go through, he wrote a thank-you letter.But as an avid boater near the island, Condit pulled out his envelopes and stamps again this month to request a denial of the proposed South Fox Island land trade between MSU alumnus and developer David Johnson and the State of Michigan.“It was dedicated for public use years ago,” Condit said.