Gary Hoppenstand doesn’t look at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards as just another awards show. “They are sort of the equivalent of the Academy Awards for the motion picture industry,” the professor of American Thought and Language said.
As a senior at Woodham high school in Pensacola, Florida no one gave Reggie Evans a second glance, but as the nation’s leading rebounder the junior is regarded as one of Division I’s best forwards.“Coming out of high school I didn’t get any scholarship offers at all,” Evans said of Division I programs.
There was a time when drug movies were happy, cheerful little romps that made you want to rush right out and shoot up.
Cody Masalkoski will attempt to tell Lansing Community College’s Board of Trustees that he’s against a proposal to cut six of the college’s programs. “They’re all excellent programs,” the LCC criminal justice sophomore said about the jeopardized programs.
It’s that time of year again, kids. The Grammy Awards are coming, and to be perfectly honest, who cares? I contacted a lot of students Wednesday for the story you see running just to the right of this column, and the general consensus I got was that students here just don’t care about it - and I can’t really blame them. One student made me chuckle when he replied to me on the phone, “Dude, now’s not a good time (to ask me questions about the Grammys) because I’m with my girlfriend and it’s Valentines Day.” What can people really say about the Grammys?
Daune Koester calls her new position as assistant coach of the MSU women’s volleyball team an “awesome opportunity.” The 26-year-old Detroit native said though she has had many years of volleyball experience, this will be a new one. “I’ve never been this excited about working - it’s a great job and a great conference,” she said. Koester, hired this month, replaced former assistant coach Laura Abbinante and joins head coach Chuck Erbe and first assistant Todd Dagenais.
The MSU women’s golf team opened its spring season by finishing 16th out of 18 teams after Wednesday’s final round of the TRW Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., according to MSU Sports Information. The competition was stiff for the Spartans, as the three-day tournament featured 15 teams ranked in the top 25. MSU, which was ranked 25th by www.golfstat.com entering the tournament, finished with a final team score of 941 - 57 strokes behind tournament winner and No.
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY The Associated Press NEW YORK - Before Erykah Badu made her grand entrance at Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday night, rapper Common - one of her two opening acts - told the audience to get ready for the “queen.” When she appeared, she certainly played the part. Dressed in regal white with her trademark high head wrap, the slender neosoul diva held court before a capacity crowd of her adoring subjects while incense and a candle burned on a table at center stage. But even queens are human - and it was when Badu revealed her vulnerability and emotions that she made the biggest connection with the crowd. In her third concert on a nationwide tour that ends in Dallas next month, Badu took awhile to let the audience into her esoteric world.
A new pilot project, announced this week by Gov. John Engler, seeks to raise the number of fathers identified when children are born to 100 percent in Michigan.Engler said in a written statement that “immediate establishment of paternity at birth provides a child with many benefits, including access to a complete medical history, inheritance rights, insurance, social security, veteran’s and other benefits.”The one-year, $300,000 pilot program will include Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey, Lakeland Medical Center in Niles and Genesys Health Park in Grand Blanc.The three hospitals, which were chosen for the pilot because of geographical variances in the number of unwed births, designed their own plans to implement the program.
The Spartans know they can clinch the CCHA title with a pair of wins this weekend. But it’ll be easier said than done. No.
EVANSTON, Ill. - The MSU women’s basketball team can finally breathe a sigh of relief after holding on to a 77-68 win, despite Northwestern’s late-game surge Thursday night. That win ends MSU’s (9-14 overall, 3-10 Big Ten) nine-game losing streak that began Jan.
Believing that people, though sometimes stupid, are basically good on the inside has made going through life a little easier for me. Believing when someone hurts or offends me, they truly might not realize how what they said affected me, has made me a more forgiving person. And believing there is a difference between being racist and being unaware has made me realize The State News has a problem. On Monday, we ran an ad for a sorority’s self-defense class.
The MSU Board of Trustees’ unanimous decision to indefinitely uphold Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday is commendable.For the past three years, MLK Day has been observed at the university strictly on a trial basis.
It was a reassuring sight.Whenever MSU police Sgt. Maureen Ramsey would make a traffic stop, she could always look back at her vehicle and see someone watching to make sure she was safe.“He would be standing on the platform between the seats and I barely saw the silhouette of his two ears,” the 13-year campus police force veteran recalled, still wearing her K-9 officer pin.“The police officer doesn’t become dependent on them in regards to safety, but it’s like having a four-pawed guardian angel.”But for the last month, those pointed, furry ears have been noticeably absent from Ramsey’s patrol car.
A positive spin on the term racial profiling was the core of the Rev. Joseph Lowery’s speech Thursday, part of Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey, a visiting minority faculty lecture series sponsored by the College of Osteopathic Medicine. “We didn’t have to have a violent revolution to overcome our oppression,” Lowery said before his speech.
Last year, I escorted two young women through their first experiences of Mardi Gras. I considered myself capable of doing so because I lived in the New Orleans area for more than 20 years.
MSU officials want to prepare future Spartans for success, and a new program may give them the boost they need.MSU President M.
The missed functions that ultimately led to the dismissal of Jeremy Jackson from the top-ranked hockey squad might have been attributed to narcolepsy and hypersomnia, two sleep disorders the freshman center says he was recently diagnosed with.Jackson, a Chilliwack, British Columbia native, was removed from the team last week following a two-week saga of team suspensions and missed functions, classes and team study sessions.While Jackson has been unavailable for comment since the dismissal, he spoke with The State News on two different occasions earlier this month, saying his doctor said the condition requires him to get “17 hours a night to average a normal sleep schedule.”Narcolepsy causes brief attacks of deep sleep with an unknown cause, while hypersomnia involves sleeping for excessive periods of time mixed with intervals of normal sleeping and waking.“Right now, there are a lot of problems with my physical condition,” said Jackson, who said he’s visited a sleep specialist.
As a shooter, when your shot doesn’t fall, life can be tough. And senior forward Mike Chappell knows that feeling well.When Chappell transferred to MSU after his sophomore year at Duke in 1998, Spartan fans and coaches thought he’d become the three-point specialist the team lacked, but that never materialized.“It’s been a struggle for him.
By KEITAYA LOCKETT For The State News Since 1965, the MSU Judo Club has offered a more recreational approach to the sport, though the club participates in many competitions throughout the year. The club has been preparing for months for its national tournament in March. Judo, which means “the gentle way” in Japanese, is a martial art form consisting of throwing, grappling and standing rather than ground fighting.