The East Lansing City Council will discuss the installation of a traffic light on Abbott Road, the approval of a contract to improve streets downtown and the commemorating of the city’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
While John LaFleur has said some things in the past with an intelligent ring to them, his column (“
Calling all overly sun-kissed sweet potato faces. Quit your tanning already. It’s December and ’tis the season to be pale, pasty and proud of it.
We realize MSU’s fantastic basketball team has stolen everyone’s attention, but we’ve got a few final thoughts for you on the football season.
The red ribbons adorning campus trees have been taken down and prepared for burial, the memorial quilt panel no longer hangs in the Kresge Art Museum and the lights of Lansing’s holiday tree have been lit once again. But Emily Flowers hopes people won’t forget about the disease behind those events, which caused the death of 10,198 Americans in 1999 alone - AIDS. The nutrition science senior helped coordinate the on-campus projects through Olin Health Center for Friday’s World AIDS Day. Flowers said she’s not sure how many students and community members volunteers reached, but she believes they made a difference. “You can talk about AIDS all you want and try to say the impact of it, but people don’t realize it until they see it in front of them,” Flowers said.
For being a game sandwiched between dates with two top-10 teams, MSU didn’t drop its intensity level against visiting Illinois-Chicago.The No.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Great teams take advantage of opportunities.The top-ranked Spartans did just that Saturday night, netting two goals with 5-on-3 power play advantages as MSU (11-1-2 overall, 8-1-2 CCHA) disposed of Bowling Green 3-1 at BGSU Ice Arena.The Falcons failed on both of their 5-on-3 chances.Freshman center Jeremy Jackson, who sat out of Friday's 3-3 tie with a groin injury, scored the game-winner 7:29 into the second period as MSU extended its unbeaten streak to 12 (10-0-2).The Spartans earned three points from their first CCHA road series in over a month.For the second straight night, Bowling Green (2-8-4, 2-6-4) jumped out to an early lead, scoring a short-handed goal 1:54 into the game.With Falcon defenseman Grady Moore in the penalty box, MSU senior right wing Rustyn Dolyny couldn't keep the puck in the Bowling Green zone, leading to a 2-on-1 rush for the Falcons.
Los Angeles, Calif. - The Spartans defeated the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the first round of the 2000 Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship on Saturday.MSU needed four games to defeat the Panthers (15-5, 15-4, 7-15, 19-17) despite taking a 2-0 lead.“We let them back into the match and got ourselves into a dogfight,” said MSU head coach Chuck Erbe.
Any concerns of a Spartan letdown following their big win over North Carolina earlier in the week were eliminated within the first three minutes of Saturday’s game.The third-ranked Spartans jumped to a 12-3 lead in the opening half and never looked back to rout Illinois-Chicago 97-53 at the Breslin Student Events Center.
Calling the upcoming second season of Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” unapologetic is an understatement.But does that have to be a bad thing?Not for returning co-hosts Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel.The buddies show no mercy when it comes to expressing their comedic views on everything from beer and marriage to women and even their own “manhoods.” For viewers who have already experienced the comedic talents of both of the hosts last season, some very new, and very funny, episodes are ready and willing to please.
Max Gosling wishes the East Lansing music scene were more developed. That’s why the business junior invited New York-based record scratch-master DJ Logic to the Erickson Hall Kiva tonight. “This type of show usually doesn’t come to East Lansing,” said the program director of POP entertainment.
Hank Haberman would have appreciated the way 75 volunteers showed their devotion to AIDS awareness Thursday night despite pitch darkness and frigid temperatures.The volunteers tied 500 red ribbons around campus trees for the annual World AIDS Day ribbon tie-up.
ASMSU’s textbook tax elimination proposition could be a small benefit to college students, but the organization should not make it its top priority.
College students graduating in 2001 can expect to enter a strong labor market, making this the fourth consecutive year for increased recruitment activity, an MSU survey released today found.The market will expand six to 10 percent as employers from all sectors increase graduate demands, according to the 30th annual Recruiting Trends survey conducted by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at MSU.Vernicka Tyson, the university’s director of Career Services & Placement, said the study is the most well-known and comprehensive report of its kind and has confirmed many observations made by career service offices.Phil Gardner, the survey’s author, said technical graduates like engineers are most desired, but all graduates will fare well next year.“There’s just more need than there are (graduates with) bachelor’s degrees,” said Gardner, director of research at Career Services & Placement.
LANSING - Making candy canes by hand is a dying art.Only a handful of people in the United States still do it.Machines have picked up the process, churning out tons of perfectly striped, equally sized, identical canes.But the personal touch is important to a Lansing family that has been making candy canes since 1924.“There’s so much tradition if we do it by hand, it would be silly if we didn’t,” says Dan Blair, a candymaker at Fabiano’s Candy Kitchen, 214 S.
In a spiking frenzy, the MSU men’s volleyball club kicked off its preseason with an impressive showing last weekend. The team hosted the Asics-Spartan Back to the Hardwood Classic, one of the largest tournaments in the nation with 42 competitors, including the varsity team from the University of Findlay. This competition helps determine the regular season rankings, and with a 4-1 record in the tournament, MSU is off to a good start. Sante Perrelli, 12-year volunteer head coach, said the team is young, but has handled that and other obstacles well. “We had to overcome a lot of adversities by running a tournament this size and playing well for two days, but the team handled it well.” MSU began its run by defeating Michigan, Louisville, Purdue and, in a close game, Findlay.
As the weather starts to get colder, an East Lansing event looks to help warm students and residents up.The city of East Lansing will host its 10th Annual Winter Festival and Chili Cook-Off from 2 p.m.
East Lansing’s comedy improvisational group, Sketchy People, makes its MSU debut tonight in the Common Grounds Coffeehouse in the Akers Hall basement. The performance is part of open mic night.
A community organization called Food Not Bombs is dishing up food with a message. By providing free home-cooked meals to those in need, members hope to show that the level of hunger in the United States is as large as the surplus of food that is being wasted.Michael Krueger, a history senior, said Food Not Bombs is an international grassroots political group that protests militarism and poverty by serving free vegetarian food to people in need and in support of ongoing political organizing efforts.
Lansing Police are looking for a suspect who robbed a Lansing bank Thursday morning. A teller at National City Bank, 2101 E.