The East Lansing City Council will meet Tuesday to discuss support for the Great Lakes Folk Festival. Councilmember Beverly Baten said the council will consider sponsoring the MSU Museum’s Great Lakes Folk Festival. The museum is asking the council for a $75,000 donation in support of the festival. This year is the National Folk Festival’s last year in East Lansing after a three-year run.
The men’s and women’s track teams both finished in the bottom half of the Big Ten Outdoor Championships in Bloomington, Ind., this weekend, but each had some bright spots. Senior Paul Terek was named the 2001 Big Ten Athlete of the Meet for his record-breaking performance. Terek set a school record and a Big Ten Outdoor Championship record with 7,695 points in the decathlon, automatically qualifying him for the NCAA Outdoor Championship in Eugene, Ore. Terek already held the school record since 1999 and broke it earlier this season with 7,441 points.
The death of Bagel Fragel Deli is totally unreal to me. I’ve been used to these sort of drastic changes in my life happening all at once ever since I moved out of my parents’ house, like the end of finals week when people move out of their dorms and apartments and classes end.
Athletes from all over Michigan, as well as Ohio and Canada, crowded into Case Hall for three days.Some of them were veterans; for others it was their first year.
The U.S. Senate declared the week of May 14 National Biotechnology Week. For those working to improve the public’s understanding and support of agricultural and food biotechnology, this was an excellent opportunity to share information and encourage discussion about the benefits to date, and to come from this advance in our ability to grow more and better food with less impact on the environment. Through this resolution, the Senate recognized the importance of this technology and the benefits it offers to farmers, consumers and the environment.
LANSING - The Lugnuts dropped their fourth-straight game Sunday - a 1-0, 10-inning pitchers’ duel to the Quad City River Bandits at Oldsmobile Park. After losing the series opener 6-4 to Quad City on Saturday, Bandit second baseman Reggie Gonzalez ended Lansing’s hopes of taking game two with his game-winning home run off of reliever Ferenc Jongejan (0-2) in the top of the 10th.
The question of whether locals and tourists enjoyed this year’s East Lansing Art Festival perhaps was summed up best by Judy Coolidge.“Two days is not enough time to see it all,” the Eaton Rapids resident said Sunday afternoon.Coolidge, joined by her husband at the 38th annual festival, was a first-timer at the festival, which dominated the streets of East Lansing this weekend.The festival featured various works of art, from hand-crafted wooden belts to photography, paintings and live performances.
More than 318 children spent Friday digging through hay, riding ponies and playing with farm animals.The children came to the Western Roundup event at Spartan Village, sponsored by the Department of Residence Life and Student Parents on a Mission, an organization that provides support for student parents.Trina Burnett, family stages specialist for Residence Life, said the event brings student families together and shows them the agricultural side of MSU.“It is pretty much for community awareness of agricultural life,” she said.
Dream, believe and achieve. MSU women’s golf coach Stacy Slobodnik said those three words will appear on the team’s Big Ten Championship ring because they have been staples in the Spartans’ success this season. Now the 16th-ranked Spartans will try to build on their momentum in the NCAA Championship, which starts today at Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.
The Lansing-area chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has received a response from the university in regards to data being sought in reference to an MSU police undercover operation. But the information unveiled was hardly detailed. “Twenty-six pages of not much of anything,” said Henry Silverman, president of the ACLU Lansing-area branch and an MSU professor. The ACLU had been waiting for several weeks for MSU to fulfill a Freedom Of Information Act request for information regarding the 2000 infiltration of student group United Students Against Sweatshops, now Students for Economic Justice. The request was fulfilled Thursday, complete with little more than press releases and official statements already released to The State News.
I’ve always enjoyed summer classes at MSU. But although they are held in buildings that are traditionally cool, sometimes you need that extra refreshment only a soda can bring.
I was disgusted by your recent editorial (“Our Voice,” SN 5/16). The tuition guarantee set up by MSU President M.
In civil procedure, generally, the “rule of thumb” is as follows: If you have a good case, you cite the facts; if you have a bad case, you cite the law; and if you have no case, you jump up and down, point your finger, scream and yell behind closed doors and demand Sen.
When Tropos was published for the first time 30 years ago, it was hand-stapled and delivered to MSU’s Main Library.When the newest edition of the graduate romance language journal comes back from the publisher Tuesday, it will be mailed to the Library of Congress.“We’ve had 30 years to polish what we do,” said editor Daniel Nappo, a Spanish language and literature graduate student.
The Associated Press FLINT - Two Flint men were convicted Wednesday of fatally shooting the older brother of Detroit Pistons guard Mateen Cleaves. Dontrell Smith, of Flint, was found guilty of second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and felony use of a firearm in the Feb.
LANSING - Jothan Callins and Lorenzo Pace grew up together in segregated Birmingham, Ala., and now they are spending the week educating Lansing community members about the life and legacy of Malcolm X. Callins, a jazz composer, and Pace, an artist, sculptor and author, are in Lansing as part of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Public School Academy’s weeklong celebration of Malcolm X’s birthday. Malcolm X, whose Muslim name is El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was a civil rights activist who was assassinated Feb.
In the wake of Pearl Jam’s failed 1994 lawsuit against Ticketmaster, many bands and their fans are still upset with the ticket company.
A leader of one of the country’s largest corporations offered advice to MSU advertising students on how to maintain a positive reputation in the field at a speech Wednesday night.Mike Mahan, vice president of Marlboro at Philip Morris USA, spoke before an audience of about 50 at the Michigan Athletic Club, 2900 Hannah Blvd.
Perhaps you should have seen it coming.The recent success of the MSU men’s basketball program has brought national attention to East Lansing and the university.
The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling against medical marijuana makes sense, although the logic behind the existing laws do not. The high court issued the decision Monday, supporting the federal law that classifies marijuana as illegal, leaving no exception for medicinal purposes. After a unanimous vote, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote “it is clear from the text of the act that Congress has made a determination that marijuana has no medicinal benefits worthy of an exception.” The Court’s ruling is understandable.