When Gap welcomed students back to campus Thursday night with a show of its fall clothing line, some students thought it was a little out of style. Outside the perfumed air of Gap, 435 E.
In April 2000, the MSU women’s basketball team filed into the team room in Breslin Student Events Center.
Amparo Alvarado, a social work graduate student, is reminded of her past while recruiting students from migrant worker backgrounds to MSU. Alvarado said her father’s jobs as a migrant landscaper and farmer help her relate with the students. “They see me as an example.
Here is my one save-the-world speech for the year.Not to say I do one every year, but that sounded like a pretty interesting lead - it got you to read further into my column, didn’t it?Sports.
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.