When Dan Falconer decided to get involved in the music business, he knew in the back of his mind that he wanted to start a record label.“I started with the store so I could start carrying the music I like and good music in the local scene,” said the owner of Lower Level Records, 611 E.
The city’s budget woes might have the men and women in blue feeling just that - blue.City officials are searching for ways to trim $325,000 from the East Lansing’s $50 million budget, and that may mean reducing the size of the East Lansing Police Department.“It’s affecting every agency within the city’s government,” East Lansing police Capt.
This past weekend I attended a dinner hosted by the MSU Air Force ROTC. U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, spoke to us about the 24 Americans who were being detained by the Chinese government.
For 90 minutes, Matt Clayson was in a pressure cooker.The pressure cooker was the ASMSU representative office, where Clayson remained with fellow ASMSU Academic Assembly chairperson candidate Steve Lovelace on Tuesday, awaiting the assembly’s final decision on its new leader.
This is in response to TJ Dickinson (“Alcohol ban won’t change ‘U’,” SN 4/4) and Brian Selewski (“Prohibition won’t help improve ‘U’,” SN 4/5), who each vehemently refuted Craig Gunn’s column “Alcohol can cause many nasty side effects” (SN 4/2). Without a doubt, both these students missed the actual point of Gunn’s column, which was that MSU does not need prohibition or drastic measures in order to control alcohol.
MARION, Ind. - At the tender age of 18, Zach Randolph feels he’s ready to take on the physical and emotional burdens of the NBA. “I think I’ll go first round, late lottery to eighteen,” Randolph said at a press conference in his hometown Wednesday of his intentions to leave MSU after just one season.
MSU students have grown accustomed to campus celebrations, and on April 20 they’ll have another chance to show their support.
By BARRY SCHWEID The Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday he looked forward to welcoming home the crew of the U.S.
MSU police Chief Bruce Benson will address MSU’s undergraduate student government today about an undercover investigation that placed an officer in a student group. Benson will take part in a question and answer session at the regular meeting of ASMSU’s Student Assembly at 6:30 p.m.
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.
Well, things didn’t work out. The Spartans looked like they might do it. They looked like they might be able to win MSU’s first national championship since 1986. But then it came to a crashing halt in Albany, N.Y., with a 2-0 loss to North Dakota. And Spartan fans have another long summer in front of them waiting for next fall’s Green and White game, which officially gets the hockey season under way. Before you close the book on this year’s team, here’s a look back at the highlights and lowlights of 2000-01, the year that almost was. Best moment Clearly have to give it to standout sophomore goaltender Ryan Miller for breaking the 70-year-old NCAA career shutouts record Feb.
It looks like there will be another name on the ballot for the governor’s race in 2002. State Sen.
Ivory McCoy is familiar with doing more than his share. Last season, the 6-foot-3, 235-pound senior split his time on MSU’s football team playing his primary position at tight end and spotlighted as a pass rush specialist for the defense.
MSU’s Department of Entomology has been taking time to share its knowledge about little creatures with little people.Elementary students from Lansing and East Lansing school districts made a trip to campus Wednesday for the second annual insect expo at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education.The event united students who participated in this year’s “Get Bugged” Mentor Program - which pairs entomology graduate students with local classrooms on a weekly basis to share insect-related projects.“It’s a way to showcase MSU primarily, and secondly, a way to interest people in insects and science,” said Barb Stinnett, outreach coordinator for the Department of Entomology.
Are they all watching you?If you are one of those paranoid types - who thinks that if people are laughing when you enter a room, it is you who is the brunt of their joke - then stop reading.Put down the paper and crawl back under the rock you use for shelter from the spooky world.We, as independent college students, are particularly cautious when giving out personal information, but the simple fact is if someone was determined enough to gather information on us, they probably could do it relatively easily.Credit card receipts can track anything purchased with the plastic.
The MSU hockey program didn’t receive any National Letters of Intent on Wednesday, but assistant coach Tom Newton said there was “no problem” with MSU’s recruiting class expected to sign this week.Left wings Kevin Estrada and Mike Lalonde and center Ash Goldie are still expected to sign with MSU this week, bringing the Spartans’ recruiting class for the 2001-02 season to seven players.NCAA rules prohibit MSU officials from speaking about players until the school has received National Letters of Intent.MSU head coach Ron Mason is out of town and Newton said he hadn’t heard of any letters that have arrived at the Office of Compliance Services yet.
While Olin Health Center educators say people should be conscious every day about sexually transmitted diseases and the dangers surrounding them, the health center will be sponsoring events throughout April for Sexually Transmitted Disease Awareness Month.“Every day is awareness day for us,” Olin Health Educator Dennis Martell said.
A group of 59 faculty members has sent a letter to MSU President M. Peter McPherson urging him to denounce the use of an undercover campus police officer to infiltrate a student group.The letter, sent via e-mail to McPherson on Tuesday, is signed by faculty from 21 university departments or programs, including several department chairpersons and a University Distinguished Professor.“As faculty, we were appalled to learn that the MSU police sent an undercover officer to infiltrate a student organization,” the letter says.
MSU computer scientists are looking to create technology that works for you - and only you.Anil Jain, a professor of computer science and engineering, has been studying various methods of personal identification for the past 10 years.“One of the areas I have been involved in is how to identify individuals based on physiological characteristics,” Jain said.