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.
The view from the trains running along south campus will be a little bare this fall. University Apartments will remove 12 buildings from the Spartan Village complex this summer, leaving behind a grassy field. John Ayers, assistant manager of University Apartments, said the buildings aren’t desirable places to live because of their aging condition and their noisy location next to the train tracks. “Spartan Village is populated, but those buildings are not,” he said.
The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program (D.A.R.E.) charged 11 more officers to change the way middle school students think about drugs, with some help from MSU’s School of Criminal Justice.D.A.R.E.
The MSU-Detroit College of Law and Vytautas Magnus University of Lithuania agreed to offer a certificate in transnational law Wednesday.During the 2000-01 academic year, MSU-DCL sent three faculty members to teach at the Lithuanian school, which is located in the city of Kaunas.
East Lansing will travel back in time Friday to celebrate a Michigan tradition. The East Lansing Historical Society will kick off the first of four East Lansing Cream Ale Parties from 7 p.m.
Last March, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman ruled that race-based admissions to the University of Michigan Law School were unconstitutional.Last week, the Washington D.C.-based Center for Equal Opportunity released a study alleging that MSU’s College of Human Medicine, along with four other public medical schools in New York, Georgia, Oklahoma and Washington, are using similar race-based criteria in their admissions.But will any of these universities see lawsuits like the suit that plagued U-M’s law school for more than three years?“There’s always potential,” said Robert McCormick, an MSU-Detroit College of Law professor.
I bought a new CD last week. “Pneumonia,” by Whiskeytown. A fine title in the tradition of country music: romantic, tragic and evocative.
The Michigan Senate is making a grave mistake by allowing oil drilling in the Great Lakes. The Senate passed two bills supporting drilling in May, with backers split evenly along party lines.
The Lansing area will be inundated with festivals this weekend, which promises to keep residents in mid-Michigan busy. Here’s a brief look at five area festivals this weekend: Festival of the Sun Saturday, North Lansing Festival of the Sun is mid-Michigan’s premier wine, brew and gourmet food-tasting festival.
The high school set of “Boston Public” doesn’t look much like the classrooms and buildings on MSU’s campus, where Anthony Heald - who plays Scott Guber - got his start. But if he’s lucky his career with the Fox series, on which he plays a hard-nosed yet slightly dorky assistant principal, will last as long as his MSU career. Heald, who graduated in 1971 after his nine-year, off-again-on-again enrollment, said his determination ultimately helped him graduate from MSU, and land the prestigious television role on the show that just completed its first season. “I took three years out to work in theater and I also went part-time for five terms,” Heald said.
By BILL WARD For The State News “The Fast and the Furious” lives up to the promise of its name in this hard-charging action thriller.
The United Auto Workers on Wednesday threw its support behind Democratic Congressman David Bonior’s bid to become Michigan’s next governor. The UAW has nearly 460,000 active members and retirees in Michigan, and its seal of approval is often considered to be a pivotal power source in the state Democratic Party. “In Dave Bonior’s case, this is critical,” said Democratic consultant Ken Brock, who worked on Howard Wolpe’s 1994 gubernatorial campaign.
With the coming of every summer, moviegoers can expect a new Disney movie, packed full of everything that Disney fans love.