Today was supposed to be the home opener for the MSU baseball team, but instead the Spartans will have to wait a couple more days to get a taste of some home cooking.
When I first came to MSU, I was full of expectations, but what I really learned came as a surprise. In the end, it’s not the economics formulas you remember, it’s the little things that stand for your college experience.
The sound of sneakers echoed across the concrete; a pop and a grunt broke the silence as the fluorescent ball streamed violently across the court.
I am a hockey fan. My veins run with ice and I get no better thrill than watching a good check or an amazing goal.
One more city, two more games and the basketball team’s third NCAA National Championship? Could be.
Though they claim the name Animosity, members of the MSU Anime/Manga Club seem to be full of anything but, at least for the anime world. “That name dates from before I was really in the club,” Paul Corrigan said.
The Union Ballroom will offer a taste of sex and New Orleans on Friday night. Danny Roberts and Melissa Howard, from the MTV show “The Real World” New Orleans, will join MSU sex and relationship experts. Sex In the Real World, a Loveline-style event, will be held from 9 p.m.
An $8 million anonymous donation will help propel MSU’s business school to new heights nationwide. The gift, announced Monday by university officials, will benefit MSU’s soon-to-be-completed Executive Development Center and calls for the complex to be named in honor of Jim Henry, who in November stepped down as dean of the Eli Broad College of Business and the Eli Broad Graduate School. He was one of the original minds behind the complex - a 98,000-square-foot facility that Henry says will provide many benefits to not only for those in the business college, but other students as well. “The EDC
Scientists aren’t the only ones winning science awards these days.In recognition for his accomplishments in enhancing federal-university relations, Howard Gobstein has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Gobstein, the assistant vice president and director of federal relations for MSU in Washington ,D.C., is pleased with his accomplishment.“It’s an incredible joy to receive this honor,” he said.
LANSING - Because of a slowing national economy, cities around Michigan may have to cut back on their spending budgets - but not Lansing. Lansing Mayor David Hollister proposed a $102.5 million budget plan Monday for fiscal year 2001-02 - a 3.1 percent increase from last year’s budget - to the Lansing City Council. “We were able to avoid cutbacks,” Hollister said.
“Da Doo Ron Ron,” “And Then He Kissed Me” and “Chapel of Love” mark the feel-good, doo-wop era of times gone by, and are just a few examples of hits to bee-bop their way into Wharton Center this week in “Leader of the Pack.” The musical will highlight these and other songs by Ellie Greenwich, the composing powerhouse behind much of successful 1960s pop, and arranger of this musical. “Her success has not only to do with the way she wrote the songs, but the way they’re performed, and the way other artists selected her songs to be performed,” said Bill Schurk, a sound recordings archivist at Bowling Green State University, whose license plate reads “Doowop.” “It’s a litany of top performers, many of whom recorded some bombs, but when they picked up one of her songs, there was always a wonderful performance, a successful hit.” Joe Machota is one of the vocalists in “Leader of the Pack” and said the musical offers a 1960s sound with a 1990s look. “It’s more of a celebration of the time period, set currently.
President Bush will visit Michigan today for the first time while in office to give a speech on his economic plan at the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.Bush is the first sitting president to visit Kalamazoo since 1911, when William Howard Taft served as president.“This is part of the president’s effort to build support for his economic agenda that includes tax relief, funding our priorities and paying down the national debt,” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.The stop will be Bush’s 16th appearance on his national tax-cut tour since addressing a joint session of Congress on Feb.
Michigan lawmakers will be belting out ideas to encourage Michigan motorists to buckle up. The state Senate is scheduled this week to discuss bills that would increase penalties for those guilty of not using their safety belts.The bills would limit the number of passengers in a vehicle to the number of safety belts available, and would make a safety belt violation a two-point penalty on a person’s driver’s license.
Logging a pair of successful political campaigns in less than six months would be enough to earn any politician titles such as hard-working and determined. And even though friends and family say state Sen.-elect Valde Garcia possesses both such qualities, he certainly wouldn’t be the first one to tell you. “He won’t toot his own horn,” said Karla Garcia, the wife of the St.
Jerome Winston knows how to barbecue. Winston, a Lansing resident, has fed the likes of Muhammad Ali, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo.
Dana Stewart will be taking some time off from MSU next year, but she will be busy with a new role.Stewart, chairperson of the Department of Human Environment and Design, has been named an American Council on Education Fellow for 2001-02.As one of 33 fellows selected from a national competition, Stewart will spend a year studying her topic of choice - technology and online-based education.Stewart, who is also a professor in the College of Human Ecology, said she’s thrilled to be selected, but credits MSU for the honor.“This is not a personal victory for me,” she said.
Ingham County’s new No. 2 prosecutor sees her job as something more than locking criminals up and throwing away the key.Instead, Joyce Draganchuk says she has a duty to do what is fair and just - whether that means pursuing life in prison or a plea to a lesser charge.“People think all the prosecutor wants to do is put everyone in jail,” said the 13-year veteran of the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office.
Got tickets to the Final Four? How ’bout the Frozen Four? A message to MSU students who were able to secure tickets to college basketball’s and hockey’s prized NCAA tournaments: Consider yourselves lucky. The MSU Athletics Department, as it has become accustomed to doing in recent years, held a lottery for basketball tickets.
ASMSU should be congratulated for allocating funds to bring poet Maya Angelou to campus. ASMSU’s Student Assembly approved a bill Thursday that would provide $33,000 from the organization’s investment account to cover Angelou’s speaking fees.