Even though the former Northern Michigan backcourt teammates have helped bring four conference titles and a national championship to East Lansing, both longtime friends will never forget the famous bus ride.
You wouldn’t think it.After all the honors and milestones Charlie Bell has helped MSU accomplish in his past four seasons, what’s excited the senior guard most lately has had nothing to do with banners or trophies.
MSU’s Jewish Studies Program will remember the deaths of more than 6 million Jews by holding its annual Commemoration of the Holocaust.The international memorial has been supported by MSU for the past eight years, Director of Jewish Studies, Steve Weiland said.The commemoration includes lectures, a workshop for teachers and a newly adapted version of “The Diary of Anne Frank” by the MSU Theatre Department.“It will help students learn about this particular time in history and the many dimensions of these events,” Weiland said.Today David Roskies will give the 2001 David and Sarah Rabin Memorial Lecture at the Union.
Speaking as an orange- and blue-blooded Fighting Illini fan, I want to wish the Spartans good luck against Arizona this weekend in the Final Four.
John Johnson, president of Shaw Hall Black caucus, said the Tomi-Terre Hollingshed Memorial Scholarship gives remembrance to a woman who touched many lives.“It really keeps Tomi’s spirit alive and it gives us time to reflect on her life and everything for Shaw Black Caucus,” the advertising junior said.The $1,000 scholarship, named for an MSU student who was murdered in Detroit in 1997, will be presented for the third year at 4 p.m.
However much I disagree with Ashley Bell’sopinion of Michigan’s new concealed weapons law (“Concealed weapons will increase guns,” SN 3/23), I commend her for explaining the bill objectively, as many people like the “Million” Moms (numbering closer to five) and the press fail to do.
No longer can junior right wing Adam Hall hide out at the side of the net without opposing defensemen noticing.Hall amassed 42 goals in his first two seasons with the Spartans because he wasn’t the focus of attention.
Tom Izzo swears there’s no secret to MSU’s success the past two seasons as the nation’s top rebounding team.
Michigan’s population is growing slower than the national average, according to census numbers released Wednesday by the U.S.
The crackle of a record needle emanated purposefully from Wharton Center’s main stage speakers, and several audience members turned to each other and murmured versions of the phrase “It’s just like a record” - a record no one had heard in years, judging from the head bopping, clapping and stomping that was soon to follow.The spotlight hit Jewel Tomkins, draped in a floor-length, flashy pink sequin number, who belted out, “I Can Hear Music.”This song, by Ellie Greenwich, was one of roughly 30 numbers performed by the 13-member cast of “Leader of the Pack” at Wharton Center on Tuesday.
YPSILANTI - The Spartan baseball team glided to two easy wins over the Eastern Michigan Eagles Wednesday at Oestrike Stadium. MSU, now 12-8, forced Eastern’s season record to 4-17. The Spartans shot out to a comfortable lead during the first game of the doubleheader, working their way to a score of 7-2 going into the seventh inning. Then at the top of the seventh MSU drove home the victory when they doubled their score to 14-2, while the Eagles went through five pitchers with no success. An early lead in game two put the Spartans up 3-1 in the first inning.
MSU police are gearing up for a battle on Munn field.But this conflict isn’t expected to result in any arrests.
I agree with what Michonne L. Omo said about the Frozen Four deserving just as much attention from The State News and other newspapers as the Final Four does (“Frozen Four is as important as Final Four” SN 3/27). When I walked into Wells Hall on Monday morning, ready to grab my copy of the paper, I expected - or at least hoped - to see a paper with equal billing for MSU’s men’s basketball and hockey teams.
It pains me to say this, but I’m secretly a Tom Izzo fan. I think “The Izzone” is better than the Cameron Crazies, I think the new Spartan gear is fresh and I secretly wish I was from Flint just so I, too, could have that tattoo on my bulging white biceps. But that’s where it ends. It pains me to say all those things because, growing up in Troy, I was a die-hard Michigan fan. I cried when Desmond Howard was interfered with in the end zone in 1990, then cried again as Tony Banks lit up the U-M secondary on a freezing East Lansing night in 1995. I nearly came to blows with a drunk MSU student/Phish fan because he used expletives about the block “M” on the back of my sweatshirt after MSU was victorious in 1993. I was 14 at the time. It’s been a few years since I’ve been near the heart of the backyard brawl, having packed my bags for the Pac-10 sunshine and the University of Arizona in 1997. Four years later, I can say it was the best decision I’ve ever made. My family now lives in Tucson, after my parents grew tired of the cold and the 40 shades of gray. And while I will forever claim U-M football, Red Wings hockey and all things Detroit - Eminem aside - Michigan is pretty much a distant memory. I now wear shorts 10 months out of the year, I don’t experience the seasons and my blood has thinned so much I now consider any temperature below 50 degrees to be freezing.
The public has a chance to visit MSU’s very own animal house.The College of Veterinary Medicine is holding its 38th annual Vet-A-Visit, an open house in the College of Veterinary Medicine on Saturday.Jodi Hewett, Vet-A-Visit co-chairwoman and third-year veterinary medicine student, said it’s the nation’s largest college open house.
Being able to transform a thought into a work of art is a challenge - a challenge Freshteh Parvizi thrives upon. On Sunday, Parvizi will unveil her art exhibit, “bones & flutes at 5 in the afternoon,” from 1 p.m.
Tim Hearon hasn’t had a weekend free from hockey games since Christmas. The freshman center and the rest of the top-ranked MSU hockey team has raced around the Midwest every weekend for the past three months, fulfilling its CCHA schedule and maintaining its No.
What a joke. Do you Wildcat fans really think your team has a chance to compete on the same level as MSU? The problem is the Wildcats don’t have anybody who can match up against the Spartans. Loren “Urkel” Woods - a farce to be reckoned with in the post - isn’t gonna be able to knock Al Anagonye out of the way with his bony arms. Luke “My Dad is stoned” Walton isn’t gonna pay the refs off with his daddy’s money and kind buds to ensure the game’s intangibles fall in favor of the Wildcats. And Eugene “Crazy Hair” Edgerson would be better off going to the Mall of America to buy a comb than trying to take on Andre Hutson. Don’t count on outcoaching MSU head coach Tom Izzo with Arizona head coach Lute Olson either. Olson, who’s named after a musical instrument not used seriously since medieval times, has given hope to 15th-seeded teams after proving he can consistently lose to them in past tournaments.
Come Saturday, MSU might meet its match in Minneapolis, going against an athletic Arizona squad that has all five starters averaging in double figures.