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.
A late rally by the MSU softball team fell short as the Spartans lost at home to Central Michigan on Wednesday. The 6-5 loss to the Chippewas (22-17) dropped MSU’s record to 17-30, 4-6 Big Ten. “Our motto is keep getting better,” MSU head coach Jacquie Joseph said.
As a first-year player on an offensive line plagued with injuries last year, Brain Ottney felt the growing pains of the Big Ten in more ways than one.Thrown into the starting center position after two games, while recovering from a torn ligament in his left leg, Ottney said contributing on the field was a challenge due to his limited athleticism.
Hundreds of women are expected to unite against sexual violence Friday night as the highlight of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.The Take Back the Night March aims to empower women who have survived acts of sexual violence and allow them to voice the need to stop this type of violence.“We need to raise awareness that there is a problem,” said Alyssa Baumann, events coordinator and The Listening Ear center coordinator.
One more member of head coach Tom Izzo’s basketball family will be saying goodbye today.Kent State Athletics Director Laing Kennedy will announce that Stan Heath, an assistant coach under Izzo for the past five seasons, has been hired as the school’s new head basketball coach, Kent State sports information Director Will Roleson said Wednesday.Izzo said Heath will be able to take the Kent State program to the next level.“There is no question that without Stan’s vigilant work, both on the recruiting trail and on the court, the success we’ve experienced over the past five years here at Michigan State would not have been possible,” Izzo said in a statement.
As the weather gets warmer and summer nears, the MSU Triathlon Club is getting anxious to start racing. “This time of year really pumps us up,” said Jason Torrente, the team’s captain and an education junior. The season doesn’t start until the end of May, but some members are training up to 15 hours a week - swimming, biking and running - to get ready for the races. The club participates in Olympic and sprint-distance triathlons.
Men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo and men’s hockey coach Ron Mason will be this year’s undergraduate commencement speakers May 4. Izzo and Mason will speak at 1 p.m.
So you thought just because you will soon have your degree in hand that employers will be knocking down your door?
Alien Ant Farm ANThology (DreamWorks Records) With a name like Alien Ant Farm, one would think this band would fall into the general category of hard-core crap rock. No way. Instead, the album dishes up an eclectic combination of the percussion of the Deftones, the vocals of Incubus and the energy and precision of Tool. “Flesh and Bone” rehashes a guitar sound reminiscent of the Police, surfs atop a wave of desperate yearning and smoothly descends to shore with a slap-happy bassline. Sticks and Stones” finds drummist (according to the liner notes) Mike Cosgrove kickin’ an old school and cracking his tom tom drums like a fist punching a CD player that skips continuously - fast and with amazing fury. To further their horizons, the band explores funky time signatures during “Attitude,” all while giving the song a King Crimson-meets-311 in the darkness of an alley touch. “Wish” delves into the library of Anthrax with a speedy guitar-metal feel, while “Death Day” intervenes with the complete opposite - molding an undistorted power chord with basic rhythm patterns.
During the past few weeks, a lot has been said about the Graduate Employee Union and whether we should let them come to the bargaining table.
The MSU Scuba Club hosted its first underwater hockey tournament April 7 at Jenison Field House, where 45 players competed, with some traveling from across Michigan, Canada and Illinois. Underwater hockey takes place along a pool floor, where two teams of six players compete to get a 5-pound puck through sheet metal troughs that serve as goals.