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.
LANSING - The smell of hot dogs was in the air as Jack Singletary and friends gnawed on foot-long bratwursts and heckled the Lansing Lugnuts’ opposition of the night at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
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.
Despite their friendship and respect for each other’s abilities, senior Ryan Van Dyke and sophomore Jeff Smoker are two men competing for the same prize - being the Spartans’ No.
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.
After a surprising season last year, the 2001 men’s soccer team looks to achieve similar success this season.
I weep for the carrot, for its rights are without a champion.Some people don’t like the taste of meat.
Every season, students and alumni flock to MSU to watch the Spartan athletic teams compete. And it seems like every season the price of admission to these games goes up. Prices for season-ticket packages and single-game tickets for the upcoming football and men’s basketball seasons will be increased.
For political science and pre-law freshman Isaias Delgadillo, buying a new computer is the least of his worries.
Lying on a beach towel with friends by the Red Cedar River, Spanish senior Jennifer Reager laughed about the memories she made with less than $5.Reager said even when she’s broke, she still manages to have a good time around East Lansing.“In the summer we’ll catch rays, canoe and feed the ducks, and in the winter we’ll go ice skating on the river,” she said.“In the spring, a few of us went skinny-dipping.
Many students may feel intimidated when entering their first year at a school as large as MSU. But several student groups aim to make the university a smaller, more welcoming environment for students of marginalized groups. The Council of Progressive Students and the Council of Racial and Ethnic Students play a vital role, said Brent Bilodeau, MSU’s assistant for lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered concerns.
Sally Belloli remembers her years at MSU well.From 1965-67, aside from lugging books back and forth from home to class, Belloli donned green and white as she took the field for MSU’s field hockey team.Unfortunately, like so many other female athletes of her time, the right halfback was never officially recognized for her commitment.But that all changed in March.MSU’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced it will award varsity “S” letters to female student-athletes who competed prior to 1980.“I think it’s great,” Belloli said.
After centuries of debate over what an atom is, how it moves and where it comes from, MSU scientists have created a machine to explain what it’s missing.MSU’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory introduced its newest creation in July - the most advanced cyclotron in the world, capable of finishing in a day what used to take a year.“We will make new isotopes that don’t exist on Earth,” lab Director Konrad Gelbke said.
Web sites have become an increasingly important way for people to get information to others. And companies and average citizens aren’t the only ones accessing the World Wide Web.
Students living in East Lansing for most of the year can vote here as well and have their voices heard.Julie Pierce, spokeswoman for the secretary of state, said students can easily become registered to vote in the Lansing area.“It is a very simple process,” she said.
After a year of construction, the $4 million project to extend Trowbridge Road to Red Cedar Road is nearly complete. Project planners have opened a visitor center and added a traffic signal, but they forgot one thing - a chariot crossing sign. Decked out in a full Spartan costume, animal science Assistant Professor Brian Nielsen drove a chariot complete with two horses across the untouched pavement, becoming the first vehicle to officially drive down the extension. Nielsen’s ride was part of the road extension’s official opening Tuesday. “They wanted a fun vehicle to be the first, and there’s nothing more special in Spartyland than a chariot,” Nielsen said. The Trowbridge Road extension slices through the southern portion of campus between Stadium and Service roads. The extension links the road to Red Cedar Road, making travel to Farm Lane easier on drivers.
The panel appointed to investigate MSU police’s infiltration of a registered student organization has compiled its findings. And they will be released Friday. Norman Abeles, a panel member and psychology professor, said he is satisfied with the results. “We tried to cover all of the important bases to the best of my knowledge, and I think we have come up with some reasonable answers,” he said. The results of the panel’s four-month investigation will go before MSU President M.