MSU junior goaltender Ryan Miller continued his reign as college hockey’s poster boy by earning Big Ten Male Athlete of the Year distinction June 25.Miller is the first male Spartan to win the award in its 20-year existence.
It’s a warm summer afternoon. Cars are whizzing by and the sickening feeling of being lost grows throughout your body.
The 2001 NCAA football preseason hype pretty much began as soon as Oklahoma left the Orange Bowl field with the 2000 National Championship trophy.And with preseason hype comes preseason Heisman Trophy contenders lists.MSU junior tailback T.J.
As students continue to prepare for the upcoming semester and all the fun to be had at Spartan Stadium, one thing comes to mind.
While new technology is making a world of virtual businesses available on the Internet, some MSU students have been learning more about it through a simulation of their own.Charles Steinfield’s Telecommunication 891, Advanced Electronic Commerce, has constructed the Virtual Commerce Mall - a Web site with nine virtual stores created by students.Steinfield, a professor of telecommunication, said it’s important students understand how business and technology combine.“Part of the problem that we’ve had with all the dot com failures is a whole lot of people started creating Web businesses without really knowing enough about what makes a good business,” he said.
MSU football and basketball games should be easier to tune into this year, now that MSU has signed a four-year contract with CBS Radio/Infinity Broadcasting in Detroit.Starting this season, all MSU football games will be broadcast on WXYT radio, (Team 1270-AM) and all MSU basketball games will be broadcast on WWJ radio (950-AM).WXYT will also host weekly call-in shows with football head coach Bobby Williams and men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo.
Nearly 6,000 freshmen will move onto campus this fall, ready to wave goodbye to mom and dad, say hello to their new roommate and plug in their Ethernet-ready computers.They don’t have a choice.MSU’s computer requirement begins this fall, insisting all students entering with freshman status bring along a computer prepped for Internet access.A 1998 proposal by Provost Lou Anna Simon would have required freshmen to enter with an Internet-capable laptop computer.
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 in July.
Matthew Mitroka says he wants to move the primary election to September. The geography graduate student unsuccessfully ran for East Lansing City Council in the Aug.
There doesn’t seem to be much of a difference between the city of East Lansing and the campus of MSU.But there are a few differences every student should keep in mind.
As their teammates screamed in joy for them, Jay Kuhlman and his twin brother, education senior Chris Kuhlman, celebrated the Spartan men’s water polo team’s national championship with a hug. Jay said he’ll never forget earning the championship over Washington alongside his brother. “It’s amazing that we were both there to experience it and that we were able to share the same feelings of accomplishment,” Jay said. But now, with Jay finished with school and working two hours away from Lansing, Greg is living the single life. “It’s a change.
MSU men’s and women’s cross country coach Jim Stintzi has similar goals for his squads’ 2001 seasons.
Elizabeth Seagull, a professor emeritus in pediatrics and medicine, was swept away when her husband invited her to take ballroom dance classes.
College life involves plenty of firsts for students.One of those firsts might be the availability of alcohol.In 1996, Hobart and William Smith College Professor H.
So, it’s been about four months since you’ve last set foot on this campus?Haven’t read the paper?Forgot to check out www.statenews.com?
There will be a day this fall when you walk outside your residence hall or East Lansing apartment and smell something funny.City kids on campus will wrinkle their noses and wonder, “What is that smell?”Maybe they’ll have a flashback to their suburban elementary school’s field trip to a farm.But the country kids, like myself, will know exactly what we’re smelling.
With all the additions on offense for the MSU football team, it would seem like a no-brainer that the scorekeeper at Spartan Stadium will be very busy in the fall.
Help is on the way for some of MSU’s most important athletic facilities.The MSU Board of Trustees, during its meeting June 22, requested a design for a new outdoor running track and accepted a multimillion dollar proposal to renovate Jenison Field House - a decades-old building that houses several MSU teams.Both projects fall in line with 2020 Vision - the university’s long-range strategy for MSU to improve the quality and appearance of campus while utilizing existing land and facilities.The track, which carries no price tag yet, will be engineered by Kalamazoo firm O’Boyle, Cowell, Blalock, and Associates, and is expected to be operational by August 2002.The decision to build a new track comes on the heels of the university’s decision to transform Spartan Stadium’s surface from artificial turf to natural grass.Many teams and organizations still need turf, Provost Lou Anna Simon said.So the track, which will be built where the current one sits, southwest of the stadium, will feature the artificial surface inside the track for field competitions, women’s field hockey and the marching band.“The other sports that used the artificial turf need to have another place to practice and compete,” Trustee Dee Cook said.“And the track now is in terrible condition.”The new track will still be located at Ralph Young Field but will be moved slightly southward - to provide maximum space.
A major project in downtown East Lansing is beginning to take shape after a year of construction and more than five years of planning. The City Center Project is a $30 million revitalization of the downtown, which includes a CVS Pharmacy, condominiums that will bring the first owner-occupied housing to the downtown in at least 60 years and office space.
It was almost two years ago when thousands of students lined up in IM Sports-West, waiting to receive a free meningococcus vaccine. Music education sophomore Adam Busuttil had come down with the Y strain of bacterial meningitis that left him without portions of his fingers. Busuttil was given a clean bill of health in January. In 1997, MSU saw similar lines after two students died from the disease, a potentially fatal inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. But after two years without a case of meningitis reported on campus, some people fear the need for a vaccination may not be taken as seriously. “It’s just human nature,” University Physician Beth Alexander said.