As East Lansing enters a period of vibrancy beginning with the construction of the $30 million City Center Project, the signs of the city’s last revitalization are disappearing, brick by brick.Demolition of the University Mall, 220 M.A.C.
The loss of two key players to the NBA could lead to a big gain for MSU - if the University of Tennessee releases forward Elgrace Wilborn from his early November commitment.
After years of watching from afar, Alia Fox will soon have the opportunity to buy her own vowel.Selected from a group of 2,000, the medical technology senior will leave today for California to be a participant on Wheel of Fortune - a feat she has tried to accomplish for years.“Last summer the ‘Wheel Mobile’ was touring the nation, and stopped in Kalamazoo,” Fox said.
A Florida junior college standout will be bringing some heat to the court when she joins the MSU women’s basketball team in the fall.Tallahassee Community College star Syreeta Bromfield signed a National Letter of Intent with MSU Sunday.Bromfield had considered St.
With just two words and three syllables, Spanish senior Michelle Ruffini can express her opinion about one of the most-used cooking appliances in her household: “It’s awesome.” But she’s not talking about the oven, the stove, the toaster or the blender; even the microwave, the electric knife and the skillet can’t match the awesomeness of this machine. It’s in at least 12 million homes, and more than 20 percent of those homes own more than one. It debuted several years ago and has been a favorite among college students, middle-aged bachelors and elderly widows ever since. Yes, it’s true - the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine is a kitchen wonder, amazing chefs by cooking chicken, hamburgers, fish and vegetables with ease in a few quick minutes. “It’s much better than the stove,” Ruffini said.
New developments make it evident that MSU officials were acting in the university’s best interest when they approved an undercover investigation of a student group.
Graduate employees head to the polls today and Friday to decide the fate of the Graduate Employees Union. Chris Oliver, president of the union, said he is optimistic. “We feel confident,” he said.
From the audience’s response, Maya Angelou’s voice painted a rainbow in the clouds over MSU during her address Wednesday night.In “An Evening with Maya Angelou,” the acclaimed poet, playwright and actress spoke to 3,100 people at Breslin Student Events Center to officially kick off Take Back the Night - a movement to end rape and violence to young girls and women.In front of a hushed crowd, Angelou, who was raped in her childhood, began her 40-minute speech with a song.“When it looked like the sun wasn’t going to shine anymore,” she sang, “a rainbow appeared in the sky.”Angelou encouraged the audience to find the rainbow in the sky - that someone, whether he or she was a “teacher, a preacher, a rabbi
The MSU men’s gymnastics team will perform one last routine to attempt to save its debunked program.
When Dave Spruit was a high school senior in Grand Rapids, he and his friends were ticketed while skateboarding.As a human resources management senior at MSU, Spruit fears it will happen again.“I’ve worried about that in East Lansing,” the MSU Skateboard Organization member said.
As a former graduate assistant and a graduating doctoral student, the upcoming unionization election will have little impact on my life.
One of East Lansing’s breakfast and lunch traditions will soon bake for the last time. Bagel-Fragel Deli, 527 E.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority is moving along the tracks toward its proposed $85 million Lansing to Detroit Passenger Rail System.CATA secured the next step in a needed rail study for the project, which will review all transportation alternatives to the system that would have stops in Lansing, East Lansing, Howell, Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Detroit.
The Department of American Thought and Language will end this semester’s film series tonight with Sam O’Steen’s “Sparkle.” The 1976 film, about three sisters who become Motown-like pop stars, features music by Curtis Mayfield with vocals by Aretha Franklin. “It’s a story of growing up and how, for many young people, the entertainment industry is a way to fame and fortune,” said Diana Malouf, MSU visiting assistant professor of American Thought and Language.
As a civil rights activist in the south, the Rev. Edwin King said there were many times he thought he was going to die fighting for the rights of Americans.King presented “A Rumor of Freedom, A Rumor of War: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam” on Wednesday night to about 200 people in the Auditorium.
When a three-member panel convenes to review a campus police undercover investigation of a campus activist group, it will have more than the facts of the operation to examine.MSU President M.
I am writing this letter in response to the recent articles about the investigation by the MSU police into Students for Economic Justice.
Don Middlebrook compares Gregg “Fingers” Taylor’s approach to performing music in the same way baseball greats play their game. “After 26 years plus of nothing but 20,000-people concert settings, he’s very selective about his time to play and what he’s going to say,” Middlebrook said.
What’s quickly becoming an overseas crisis is gradually becoming a concern for MSU officials.MSU agricultural experts are taking notice of the overseas outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, all the while preparing for the possibility of the epidemic finding its way onto American soil.The first case of the disease was confirmed in Great Britain on Feb.