If college athletes have a good chance at success in the professional arena, they should take the opportunity to advance their careers, even if that means leaving college without a degree. Jason Richardson announced Tuesday he would enter the NBA Draft.
Stephanie Lauer hates ladybugs - the tiny, red, flying beetles that are considered good luck by many.The nursing sophomore said the bugs, correctly dubbed lady beetles, infested her Wonders Hall dorm room last semester.“We had hundreds of them in our room and we could not get rid of them,” she said.
Darren Middleton, guitarist and vocalist of Australian rockers Powderfinger, can’t complain about how his band’s latest album and United States debut is doing.“You never really see it coming,” he said.
Fans of the popular show “Survivor,” along with vocal music enthusiasts, will be entertained when the campus a cappella group Capital Green performs today.The show, titled “Survivor: The A Cappella Outbreak,” begins at 7:30 p.m.
These days, when the 9-month-old red panda, Achoo, gets sick, she has to be treated in her exhibit.But once construction of Lansing Potter Park Zoo’s $155,000 animal hospital is completed in August, zoo officials will take Achoo there instead.“This will really help us to take care of our animal collection much better,” zoo Director Gerry Brady said.The animal hospital will be the first on the zoo’s grounds, 1301 S.
Rising energy concerns in America may have some oil companies hoping to say “yes” to Michigan.But reactions by Michigan residents and environmentalists to a possible increase in drilling in the Great Lakes have been negative, according to a local poll.
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.
An office space in the Cedar Park Shopping Center may seem an unlikely place to be swelling with young enthusiasm for the theatrical world. But most nights of the week, All-of-us Express Children’s Theatre’s strip mall spot at 2495 N.
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.
By BARRY SCHWEID The Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday he looked forward to welcoming home the crew of the U.S.
MSU students have grown accustomed to campus celebrations, and on April 20 they’ll have another chance to show their support.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
For the first year, MSU students will partner with Lansing and East Lansing to create awareness about river pollution. The eighth annual Adopt a River Program will take place on April 21 - the day before Earth Day. The program has community members following a river trail along Grand and Red Cedar rivers picking up trash, while flat-bottomed boats pull debris out of the two rivers. “We pull out couches, shopping carts, bikes, a swing set,” said Jennifer Rostar, program director for the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council.
The smell of baked kibbee will be wafting through the air this summer in East Lansing’s downtown.Kibbee, a ground meat spiced with salt, pepper, onions, pine nuts, cinnamon and allspice is one of the items that will be on the menu of Chuck Raad’s newest restaurant, Woody’s Oasis, located at 211 E.
LANSING - With the slogan “Michigan. Great Lakes. Great Times. Not a great distance,” state tourism officials hope to expand Michigan’s $10 billion annual tourism business. The new campaign, launched this week by Travel Michigan - a division of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation - is intended to draw more travelers from surrounding states. “It’s a great ad campaign,” said Nancy Cain, a spokesperson for AAA. “And the timing of it is good, because with higher gas prices, people in the Midwest are going to stay in the Midwest.” The campaign features television, newspaper, radio and Internet advertisements that will be shown in Green Bay, Wis., Indianapolis, Chicago and Cleveland.