People who have a sweet tooth can get their own piece of the pie - and choose their flavor.The Grand Traverse Pie Co., 3536 Meridian Crossing Drive in Okemos, opened its third location Saturday, bringing a taste of Traverse City to the Lansing area.“Lansing has a really good market, there really aren’t (any pie-type stores),” said Mike Busley, the stores’ founder and owner.
MSU kicks off a competition against Pennsylvania State University today in which the goal is to gain not points, but pints - of blood. The sixth annual MSU/Penn State Blood Donor Challenge begins at Gilchrist and Akers Halls at 1 p.m.
Mechanical engineering senior Taryn Price said she didn’t know enough about the MSU Board of Trustee candidates to make a decision.Price, who already cast her absentee ballot for today’s election, said she saw the candidates on the ballot, but she didn’t know anything about the race.“I didn’t even vote on them,” she said.
Earlier this semester, studio art Professor Peter Glendinning aided studio art seniors in STA 492, Senior Seminar and Professional Practice. After helping most of his students put on their first art exhibit as part of the class, Glendinning, along with other faculty members, will exhibit artwork in the Faculty Exhibition 2000 at Kresge Art Museum starting Friday.“It’s going to be spectacular,” museum curator April Kingsley said.
When Robert Redford’s film adaptation of the Steven Pressfield novel “The Legend of Bagger Vance” opened Friday, the MSU Museum was a part of the long-awaited film.The museum contributed some of the props used in the film.The movie, which takes place in the 1930s in Georgia, uses nearly 30 pieces of vintage golf course equipment borrowed from the MSU Museum’s Kenyon T.
In response to Greg Brown’s letter (“Football is killing country’s youth,” SN 11/6), was that letter a joke?
In such dire times where MSU has had to deal with losing more often than winning, it’s good to know coach Bobby Williams still has a sense of humor.He showed it at his Monday press conference when asked how he’ll simulate the Purdue offense this week in practice.“We’ll put in 10 receivers, run them all out there and just have the quarterback stand back there and throw it because that’s basically what it’s like,” he said.
Even though recent voting laws require people to vote at the location on their driver’s license, students should not be negatively affected.City officials say some students who registered Oct.
Napster should not have bedded down with the recording industry. Last week Napster joined up with Bertelsmann AG, a multimedia conglomerate and the parent company of BMG Music, to turn its Internet music-sharing site into a paid subscription service.
Many were taken aback watching Daryl Davis, a black man, display the robes of Ku Klux Klan members who had willingly handed them over.Davis, a musician and author of the book “Klan-Destine Relationships,” spoke to a crowd of nearly 100 in the Akers Hall Terrace Room on Monday night.
Men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo and his squad will open up preseason play against Izzo’s alma mater, Northern Michigan, at 7:30 tonight at the Breslin Student Events Center.
The members of the Muslim Student Association are aware of the stereotypes surrounding Islam. And they hope education will help dispense some of those myths.
Martha Pinaire waited 18 years for the opportunity to vote and 700 miles are certainly not going to get in her way.Pinaire and four of her friends left at noon Monday from Montreat College in Montreat, N.C., where they are freshmen.
On Wednesday evening the cool surface of Munn Ice Arena will feature brooms and tennis shoes instead of hockey sticks and ice skates.The Pi Beta Phi sorority will host its annual broomball philanthropy event from midnight to 2 a.m., in which eight fraternities and eight sororities will compete in a single-elimination tournament until a winner is crowned.
Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore spent Monday making a last ditch effort to scrape together a few more votes before today’s election.But even though those supporters may help one of the candidates win the popular vote, the other candidate could still become the next president.It’s happened three times before - 1824, 1876 and 1888 - and could happen again this year, especially with polls showing the two candidates in a dead heat.“Many people don’t understand the way the system works,” said MSU political science Professor David Rohde.
Student governments have recently allocated more than $4,000 to student groups. Among them: The ASMSU Student Assembly transferred $200 from its special projects account Thursday to its business office account.
This is in response to Jim McEvoy’s letter (“Rogers has made voting difficult,” SN 11/1). He states that Sen.
Those using a lack of transportation as an excuse to not vote are going to have to come up with a different reason.Capital Area Transportation Authority will offer free rides to and from the polls today.“Anyone that has a valid voter registration card (can) show that to the driver of any route and will then get a ride free to the polls,” said Sandy Draggoo, CATA executive director.
Jacob Cable thinks it’s about time Napster considers charging people to use its music downloading system. “For Napster it’s an excellent marketing opportunity,” the general business administration and pre-law senior said.