The Department of Communication is working to defeat cancer - at the bowling alley. The department is hosting its eighth annual Bowling For Scholars - A Strike Against Cancer bowl-a-thon from noon until 5 p.m.
Michigan’s construction workers may feel a bit safer on the shoulders of the state’s roads.A bill proposed by state Sen.
If it was indeed their last college gymnastics meet, then two MSU gymnasts may have saved their best for last at the NCAA men’s gymnastics championships.
The demise of Tower Records-Videos-Books was less the fault of Napster and other free online music services and more the result of excessive prices.Tower Records announced last week it will close its doors for good May 6.
Responding to the increase of college basketball players leaving early for the NBA, the NCAA recently approved several proposals intended to keep the student in “student-athletes.”On April 10, the NCAA Division I Management Council passed proposals that would allow student-athletes to apply for a one-time bank loan up to $20,000, engage in fee-for-lesson employment and receive money to compensate for training costs if the player places in an Olympic event.The NCAA also proposed making available premiums on student-athlete disability insurance.“In a lot of situations with the NCAA, I think (the loan) is a good idea,” assistant hockey coach Tom Newton said Monday.
Despite a low turnout at the polls, graduate students approved a tax increase beginning in the 2001-02 school year.
Norm Zebrowski is proud for being part of the reason Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave. in Lansing, was transformed from a “dumpy” neighborhood bar to a club that hosts bands from all over the world in the span of about four years. Zebrowski is the editor in chief of the online, Livonia-based ’zine called “Vox Pop.” The site, located at www.voxpopzine.com, specializes in independent and lower Michigan-based band reviews. “It started out as a side project for (the now discontinued Lansing-based publication) ‘Etch Magazine,’” Zebrowski said.
Despite competing against four candidates, Quinn Wright said his confidence in winning ASMSU’s Student Assembly chairperson election never faltered.
Plaster, paint, steel and string are just samplings of materials used in the works recently hung in Kresge Art Museum. From the traditional to electronic, the works represent the creative thinking and hours of work put in by MSU students, displayed for the Art 2001 Undergraduate Exhibition, which opened Monday. Studio art senior Soh Suzuki entered a painting and two sculptures in the show.
State Sen. David Jaye is supposed to return to session today after spending part of his weekend in a Florida jail for allegedly assaulting his fiancée during the two-week break for Michigan legislators.Jaye, R-Washington Township, denied the charges, but spent Thursday night in jail and was released Friday on a $2,500 bond.
You can’t help but notice them. Every day the sidewalks of campus bring to you another message courtesy of your friendly neighborhood campus group.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson returned to Lima, Peru two weeks ago to find a changed nation. McPherson, who lived in Lima during the 1960s as part of the Peace Corps, organizing credit unions and getting involved in the U.S.
As some parents and students have difficulty saving for college, many look to the Michigan Education Savings Program.
CHICAGO - The Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., a scruffy playhouse here, sports dark theatrical guts and a stairwell that reeks of urine and Lysol.
Although Amanda Machovsky has owned a cellular phone since she began college four years ago, she never noticed any of East Lansing’s nine cellular phone towers. Toting her brand-new, pale green cellular phone, Machovsky, an elementary education senior, says the communication tool can be a necessity - or an accessory. “The other one I had was attached to my car,” she said.
By REX W. HUPPKE The Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - In the next few weeks, Timothy McVeigh will sit in his 8-by-10-foot cell at the U.S.
Well, the fallout has just about ended in the wake of now former MSU basketball players Jason Richardson and Zach Randolph bolting to the NBA, and numerous aspects of their decisions have popped out to most observers.
In commemoration of the Holocaust and the death of millions of Jewish people, members of the MSU community will gather at 8 p.m.
Some MSU wildlife experts are looking to have an impact on the protection of giant pandas and endangered species around the world. Jianguo Liu, an associate professor of fisheries and wildlife, is the lead author of the paper “Ecological Degradation in Protected Areas: The Case of Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas,” which was published April 6 in Science magazine. “I, like many people, love pandas and I wanted to do something to help save them,” Liu said.