MERIDIAN TWP. - Mary Martin didn’t realize she was moments away from being buried beneath a flat-roofed carport, which collapsed outside of her Meridian Township apartment Friday.
You don’t have to go to an Ivy League school to figure out you can’t win a hockey game without scoring a goal.And that was one feat Yale couldn’t accomplish in its series against MSU at Munn Ice Arena this weekend.MSU senior goaltender Joe Blackburn blanked the Bulldogs 5-0 on Friday night and sophomore goaltender Ryan Miller earned a 4-0 shutout Saturday as MSU extended its unbeaten streak to 18 (15-0-3).Yale (6-8-0) outshot the top-ranked Spartans (16-1-4 overall, 9-1-3 CCHA) both games, but Blackburn made 31 saves and Miller turned away 36 shots to earn the wins.
The official declaration of George W. Bush as the next president of the United States put an end to the debate over the winner of the election, but not to questions raised about the American electoral process.Bush was certified as the winner of the election by his opponent, Vice President Al Gore, after a formal count of the electoral votes Saturday.
Tracie Goldman thinks the Student Disorderly Conduct Policy demonstrates fairness between students and administration. The policy, passed at the Dec.
When Jacobson’s closed its local doors and moved to Meridian Mall in October, East Lansing’s anchor store was pulled from downtown.Now, three months later, another national chain plans to fill the vacancy.Barnes & Noble Booksellers, which is expected to open by November 2001, secured a 10-year lease with The Christman Company of Lansing to occupy 333 E.
An amendment to the MSU’s towing policy will assure that all towing practices conform with state law.The amendment, approved by the MSU Board of Trustees at its Dec.
When “Traffic” begins, we’re introduced to two Mexican policemen busting a small, but important cocaine shipment.
State lab workers are working under stricter regulations when studying meningococcal bacteria - the organism that causes meningitis.The move comes after Department of Community Health employee Linda Reese died Christmas Day after she was infected by a meningitis bacteria sample that she had been working on.
MINNEAPOLIS - The MSU women’s basketball team has proven it can handle pressure by winning another Big Ten buzzer-beater. In its past two conference games, MSU (2-1 Big Ten, 8-6 overall) has stayed alive and won at the buzzer, this time squeezing by Minnesota (0-3 Big Ten, 7-7 overall), 66-65.
I’ve been thinking a lot about pride lately. While it’s certainly not hard to find school pride here, state pride is a whole other story.
It’s not easy being at the top. For the first time since Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson roamed the campus in the late 1970s the Spartans held the No.
By ERIC MORATH The State News President Clinton will spend one of his final days as the nation’s chief executive at MSU on Tuesday, where he will honor a championship basketball team and reflect on his presidency. Clinton is scheduled to address a Breslin Student Events Center crowd for about 20 minutes, and admission is free.
Uh-oh. Dubya’s Wranglers must be in bunches. George W. Bush must be quakin’ in his cowboy boots.Just weeks into his transition into the U.S.
By ED RONCO The State News Mechanical engineering senior Jeff Bullock used to write home for 33 cents, but as of Sunday that became more expensive. The U.S.
Can’t stop those teeth from grinding when thinking about that half-eaten box of chocolate grandma sent for Christmas?
Tom Izzo was starting to wonder if he was cut out for his job. The long-time Spartan basketball assistant was in his first season as MSU’s head coach in 1995 and the Breslin Student Events Center was only half-full for home games. Fans were trying to figure out if he was the team’s problem or the answer after a losing streak dropped MSU’s record down to .500. In the middle of Sunday morning practice, Izzo was looking at the faces of his players, searching for a way out of MSU’s slump when he heard somebody pounding on the Breslin Center door. The coach scaled the steps of the arena racking his mind for someone who would have the audacity to disrupt his practice. And there was the culprit. The winningest coach in college hockey history, Ron Mason, peering through the glass door and into the concourse. Mason had been at MSU for 17 years, almost longer than Izzo had been out of college.
I have always been a devout fan of hip-hop music. Throughout the years, I have seen and heard much negative publicity surrounding it.
Unlike the costume drama it appears to be, “Quills” is decidedly free of the lavish sets and pretentious history lessons that grind other period pieces like it to a screeching halt.
By ED RONCO The State News A new law requiring Michigan residents to submit their Social Security numbers when they renew their driver’s licenses is being challenged in a lawsuit filed Thursday by Secretary of State Candice Miller. States are required under the federal Welfare Reform Act approved by Congress in 1997 to collect Social Security numbers from licensed drivers to help track parents who fail to pay child support. Miller said the requirement, which took effect in October, violates the privacy of Michigan’s 6.9 million licensed drivers. “I will not sit idly by while residents’ privacy is invaded by an intrusive, ineffective and unfunded mandate,” Miller said. Michigan is the only state not complying with the requirement that took effect in October, said Pam Carte,r of the U.S.
Christmas came early for MSU.The university, prior to winter break, received $40.4 million as one of the first grants from the Michigan tobacco settlement.Of these funds, $26 million will be used to establish a collaborative Center for Structural Biology, and the remaining $14.4 million will be designated for individual research projects.