The music’s blaring, and college students are practicing their mating call - grinding. From across the bar, boy meets girl who’s hoping for Mr. Right, but instead she will settle for Mr. Right Now.
The MSU women’s hoops team released its schedule for the upcoming season Thursday, and will open up with the 14th annual Spartan Chevrolet Classic on Nov.
A collection of MSU administrators, television programmers and members of the College of Veterinary Medicine assembled in the Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre on Thursday for a special event.That event was the premiere of “Vet School Confidential,” a TV series on cable network Animal Planet that will document the lives of five students as they make their way through MSU.
Lansing resident Heather Boyer said her insurance covered her hospital costs when she was raped in 1999.“The hospital experience was very positive,” Boyer said.But not all survivors can cover the expenses to cover a rape kit.“The out-of-pocket costs can be scary and intimidating,” Boyer said.State Sen.
Race cars carry corporate names like Pennzoil and Tide. The Detroit Tigers play in the corporate named Comerica Park.
DETROIT - VH1’s “Survivor”-style reality show “Bands on the Run,” based on four unsigned bands competing for musical glory, struck a chord with audiences. Flickerstick, Harlow, Soulcracker and the Josh Dodes Band competed in live shows and merchandise sales in cities across the country for a prize package of an A&E show, $100,000 worth of equipment and a video on VH1.
The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety is trying to encourage survivors of rape to report the crime.MSU police Chief Bruce Benson said survivors of sexual assault cases are overwhelmingly reluctant to come forward.“The numbers don’t vary a lot,” he said.
At 9 a.m. Tuesday, a woman charged with murdering her husband, an MSU professor, might have a preliminary hearing.The hearing is scheduled to determine if there is enough evidence for 28-year-old Jonaki Ray to go to trial in the death of Dinesh Balagangadhar, 29, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, but Ray’s attorney is hoping to postpone it.DeWitt police Chief Douglas Rogers said Ray has not given a reason for the stabbing, which took place at the couple’s DeWitt home July 1.Balagangadhar died of a single stab wound to the upper chest area, which penetrated the heart and lungs.Rogers said Ray claims she was preparing a meal and accidentally stabbed her husband when either she turned into him or he turned into her.She has been held at the Clinton County Jail since her arrest.Ray’s attorney, Frank Reynolds, said he is meeting with Clinton County Prosecuting Attorney Charles Sherman today and hopes to postpone the preliminary trial.“There (are) some very important pieces of lab work that are not back yet,” he said Sunday.The lab reports, Reynolds said, are important pieces of evidence needed before the hearing.DeWitt police Detective Scott Ciupak is handling the investigation and would not comment on the specifics of his investigation.He did say there were some concerns about Ray’s status in the United States.
An exciting idea, a classic movie and one of today’s greatest directors combined to make a movie that’s not as good as the original, but will still provide a feast for the eyes and an exciting story. The new “Planet of the Apes” is difficult to define - while it is a good movie, it misses the depth and drama of the first.
The atmosphere for the greatly hyped “Cold War” promises to be similar to a typical fall Saturday. Fans will be riled as rivals MSU and Michigan square off in the 6 p.m.
MSU’s Board of Trustees passed Friday a tight budget for the 2001-02 fiscal year - and members agree the end result could make some students tighten their own budgets.The budget included an 8.9 percent tuition increase, a hike working in tandem with a 1.5 percent increase from the state Legislature.
After viewing “The Best Years Of Your Life,” a film targeting binge drinking, an MSU student took the proper precautions to save his roommate’s life.MSU police Capt.
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 Friday - 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.
I’m writing in regards to the article “ Karate masters kick their way into Wharton,” (SN 7/26). I studied Okinawan Shido-kan Karate here at MSU for three years.
Put on your party hat and mail your presents because MTV’s 20th birthday is only two days away.
Jonathan Hughes began his cooking career when he was only 4 years old.“I got left home one day with my sister, I got up for breakfast and decided I wanted to eat some eggs,” he said.
There are three things nearly everyone remembers from his or her childhood: The name of the barbershop you went to as a kid, the name of the person who cut your hair and the name of your neighborhood bully.
LANSING - Michigan ranks low in its spending on smoking control programs, despite having a high number of smokers, according to a national group. Most of the 44 other states in the national tobacco settlement created new smoking-cessation programs, but neither Michigan nor North Dakota is using any of the money that way, according to the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids in Washington, D.C. And Michigan has a high smoking rate, with about 2 million smokers.
If you want to see beautiful Michigan quilts, the MSU Museum is the right place to look for the next five months. Michigan quilts are the focus of two new exhibitions at the museum, which opened Sunday and will run through December. The exhibitions, “The Michigan Quilt Project: New Discoveries” and “The Mary Schafer Collection: A Legacy of Quilt History,” will display more than 500 quilts that have helped create a resurgence of interest and knowledge about Michigan quilting traditions. “This exhibition is a tremendous collection of intricate examples of quilts from all over the country,” said Lora Helou, information officer for the MSU Museum.