LANSING - Kweon Yoon-Min’s facial muscles were tensed and his eyes were fixed on teammate Blair Barbier’s mouth - which was full of a submarine sandwich, complicating things further. Barbier used hand motions and talked slowly between bites while trying to relay questions to Kweon during an interview last month in the Lansing Lugnuts’ locker room at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
MSU hockey head coach Ron Mason announced Friday the signing of 6-foot-2, 190-pound goaltender Matt Migliaccio for the 2001-02 season. Migliaccio, 20, was a member of the America West Hockey League’s Bozeman Ice Dogs last season, posting a 20-12-2 record with a 2.88 goals against average, a .913 saves percentage and three shutouts. Putting his pen to the paper of his National Letter of Intent was not a problem for Migliaccio. “It’s awesome,” the Wyandotte native said.
Although most ASMSU representatives can see clearly, they’ve set their sights on the College of Education’s visual impairment program.A yearlong hold has been placed on the program’s enrollment while university officials review the program.
Matt Trumble likes the idea of getting more money back from the government.The fisheries and wildlife junior expects to be among the millions of taxpayers who will receive rebate checks in the coming months from the Internal Revenue Service.The refund plan comes as part of President Bush’s proposed 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut, passed by Congress earlier this month.Ideally, Trumble said he would like to spend his tax rebate on entertainment - like a plethora of new CDs and movies - but will likely be more practical.“I’ll probably just put it toward paying off my student loans,” he said.
LANSING - Things came around full circle this weekend at Louis Adado Riverfront Park. That’s because the Woodlands Indian Community Center held its annual powwow Saturday and Sunday, which featured Native American dancing, dress and food. The setup of the event, which was held to celebrate Native American heritage, was literally circular.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Well, “Dr. Dolittle 2,” the new animal-heavy comedy, only stars one of those frightening creatures, and the movie hardly deserves an, “oh my!” Starring Eddie Murphy, reprising his role as the title-character doctor who has the ability to converse with animals, the movie is steeped in run-of-the-mill fart jokes and a mild comedic punch that fills most modern “family” movies. The movie follows Dolittle as he deals with his role as the doctor who splits his time between human and animal patients and attempts to spend time with his family, which is beginning to resent the amount of time he devotes to helping the animal kingdom. While planning a trip to Europe to spend time with the family, a sudden tragedy engrosses the good doctor - an evil logging company is cutting down an entire forest, conveniently proximate enough for the woodland creatures to contact Dolittle to help. So, Dolittle has to find a way to save the forest.
After years of struggle by Yugoslavian authorities, NATO officials and the international community, Slobodan Milosevic is one step closer to being extradited to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Yugoslav police last month announced the discovery of evidence linking former President Milosevic to possible war crimes during the 1999 Kosovo conflict, and on Saturday the Yugoslav Cabinet voted 8-1 to approve a decree paving the way for his expected journey to the United Nations tribunal. Police say they have found at least two mass graves in Serbia, presumably filled with the bodies of ethnic Albanians. The decision to extradite comes two years after the United Nations indicted Milosevic for crimes against humanity during his crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, which ended after the NATO bombing campaign in 1999.
DELTA TOWNSHIP - The Michigan State Police on Friday opened the doors to its new state-of-the-art forensic science laboratory on Canal Road. The new 82,710 square-foot facility came with a $23.5 million price tag and replaces the lab’s old offices, which were housed among six different buildings at the state police headquarters compound on Harrison Avenue in East Lansing since 1932. Together, the old offices constituted about 15,000 square feet.
After a year of sit-ins, takeovers and death threats, members of Penn State University’s undergraduate student government decided to take action against racism on campus. And they brought the rest of the Big Ten with them. During the Association of Big Ten Students annual summer conference last week, eight representatives from ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, and eight other schools’ representatives signed a bill sending condolences to Penn State and standing up against racism in their own schools. The student governments also supported a Sept.
In two years I will be a teacher in one of our nation’s public schools. I was therefore appalled to read it is even being suggested by some that we place metal detectors randomly throughout schools and arm our school officers with guns (“ Officers discuss school violence,” SN 6/20). I firmly believe people, including students of all ages, will behave according to how they are treated.
When Rachel Carson published the novel “Silent Spring” in 1962, she warned that the pesticide dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane, or DDT, might have more long-term effects on the environment than killing insects.The pesticide, which had been produced in lots of 600 million pounds per year in the United States, was later banned in the country in the late 1970s.MSU researchers have found dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethene, or DDE - a metabolite of DDT - might have a long-term effect on human beings.Wilfried Karmaus, an associate professor of epidemiology, researched children in areas of Germany where the pesticide is still used, with the help of epidemiology graduate student Scott Asakevich.Many of the girls exposed to the pesticide were nearly an inch shorter than average.
I’ve never really thought of myself as “macho.” I don’t wear boots or chop down trees, I don’t chug a six-pack of beer in the span of a couple minutes and I don’t attempt to fine-tune the reverberation in my belches.
COMSTOCK PARK - The second half of the Lansing Lugnuts’ season began this weekend, but the Lugnuts failed to climb out of the basement of the Midwest League’s Eastern Division by dropping three of four games to West Michigan. After posting a 28-45 record in the first half of the season, the standings were reset this weekend as Lansing (1-3) capped the series with a 4-1 loss to the Whitecaps on Sunday in front of 8,963 fans at Old Kent Park.
The Sparrow Regional Cancer Center is sponsoring its seventh annual National Cancer Survivors Day on Saturday.
Lansing’s Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan does more than just love seeing people smile.The house provides comfort to those who need it badly.This year alone, the Lansing house has provided a place to stay for 220 out-of-town families whose children were in the hospital.On Saturday, the facility, at 121 S.
I’m fat. Obese, actually. Yes, it was a startling, and a little unnerving, discovery for me.
The men’s basketball team will face Virginia in the third annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Nov.
LANSING - The city’s landscape has been littered with more than traffic cones and construction in the past few weeks.
Your cell phone might be crying wolf without your knowledge.Lansing police Lt. Ray Hall said the department is now receiving many false emergency calls from cell phones.“This year, for the first time, we experienced receiving more cellular 911 calls than from normal phones,” he said.