Got running shoes? Residents and staff at Williams and Yakeley Halls better. They plan to walk the equivalent of 31 marathons during the 31 days of October in an effort to raise money for charity. The event, in its second year, was set up to raise funds for MSU Safe Place and the Susan G.
One-hundred-thirty-two dollars may seem like a small fortune to some, but to history junior Kevin Selenich, it’s a tiny price to pay for Spartan basketball.With $132 in hand, Selenich went to the Student Alumni Foundation Monday night and for the second year, bought Izzone tickets; a package that includes courtside seating at all 14 home games, an Izzone T-shirt, membership to the foundation and several member benefits.“I’d pay twice as much for these tickets,” he said.
I was pleased to hear that the Food and Drug Administration finally approved the distribution of RU-486.
About 50 students and community members came to the Kellogg Center to hear the first debate between two candidates for the state House seat encompassing MSU.
LANSING - A standing room only crowd gathered Monday night to voice their opinions to the Ingham County Human Services Committee on a proposal that would ban smoking in all public indoor establishments. Public officials, business owners and community members filled the room in the Human Services Building, 5303 S.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. How many times has the truth of this cliché prevented you from following the latest lose-50-pounds-in-a-day diet or joining one of the 300-CDs-for-a-penny music clubs?
East Lansing City Council members may approve a $175,470 contract for new development of a park near Harrison Avenue. The Harrison Meadows Park is primarily a wooded area with trails for walking, jogging and cross country skiing. A small portion of the park will be developed if the contract agreement is approved by the council. Tim McCaffrey, East Lansing parks and recreation facilities director, said the park will have many improvements made after the development. “This development is primarily to serve the people of the small, surrounding neighborhood,” he said.
Getting out of a graduate school has never been more popular at MSU.Graduate School graduation rates are higher than in the past and some officials say it can only add to MSU’s climbing academic reputation.“I think it’s great that we’re graduating more students than we ever have in the past,” said Karen Klomparens, dean of the MSU Graduate School.
Rather than speculate what went wrong Saturday against Northwestern, head coach Bobby Williams said he’s moving on to more pressing matters, like preparing for the game at Iowa this weekend.“In my mind, that game is done.
Campus is buzzing with excitement about the second speaker in the McPherson Professorship coming to campus. MIT Professor Daniel Kleppner, who participated in the invention of the hydrogen laser, will be speaking at the Wharton Center on Wednesday about the impact of quantum physics. “It’s just whoa, big-time crazy stuff,” said Professor Douglas Luckie, who is one of two professors instructing the new Science Changing Society course, the class the professorship is part of.
Women at a Nicaraguan sweatshop sometimes work 14 hours a day, endure periodic searches, violence and find dead fetuses in bathrooms. They make jeans that sell for $30 a pair.
After reading the article about the MEXA-fraternity incident (“Fraternity paints over heritage message on rock,” SN 9/25), I was completely disgusted with what has been said by those on each side of the quarrel.
Students shouldn’t be peppered with survey questions while eating at a MSU cafeteria. The method in which a survey was given to MSU freshmen by the Department of Residence Life on the first day of class while they ate in the cafeterias could have been better. Eighteen percent of freshmen returned the survey, which was distributed throughout each residence hall cafeteria and covered a wide range of issues, including drinking, campus groups and money.
With the intrasquad Green and White Game behind them, the MSU ice hockey team faces its first test against real opposition Tuesday.The USA Development Team, a fertile breeding ground for MSU recruiting, will visit Munn Ice Arena at 7:05 p.m.
ASMSU, the university’s undergraduate student government, will sponsor the first open debate between state House hopefuls Bill Hollister and Gretchen Whitmer at the Kellogg Center tonight. Democrat Whitmer and Republican Hollister are vying for the 70th District state House seat currently occupied by Laura Baird, D-Okemos.
LANSING - Mateen Cleaves just can’t get away from the Lansing area.The former MSU star point guard signed autographs and posed for pictures with Spartan fans for an hour Friday at Meijer, 5125 W.
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s just Brady Brown whizzing by on his brand-new bike. After the 13-year-old East Lansing boy wrote a letter to the editor in The State News describing how his $250 stunt bike was stolen while he was on campus, Theta Delta Chi and donors throughout the community united to buy Brady a new bike. “After I read his letter, I felt so bad,” Jason Brisboe, philanthropy chair of Theta Delta Chi, said.
The honeymoon is over. After starting the season 3-0, MSU head football coach Bobby Williams suffered the first loss of his career, preventing him from becoming the first coach in school history to win the first four games of the season. Going 3-0 in his first season is still quite an accomplishment. The sports radio shows, magazines, Internet sites and newspapers - including this one - have finally begun to cease the constant comparisons and differences between him and former MSU coach and current Louisiana State leader Nick Saban. Some MSU fans haven’t. After a 37-17 clawing by the Northwestern Wildcats on Saturday, it was evident that there are some green and white faithful out there that are spoiled - spoiled from experiencing one of the greatest eras in Spartan athletics history last season.
Every underground act seems to hate pop music and everything it stands for. They hate “Total Request Live” and teeny bopper Britney Spears going diamond when most underground acts can’t even ship enough copies to go gold.Being a star doesn’t mean you don’t love music.
MSU has prided itself on how strong it finished games this season.But there was nothing to be proud about Saturday as the Spartans failed to tame Northwestern’s offense and finished with a 37-17 loss.Turnovers and miscues on offense and a defense that surrendered 506 yards keyed in MSU’s defeat - the team’s first loss under head coach Bobby Williams.