After the MSU women’s basketball team saw its 14-0 first-half lead dwindle to a 33-point tie against the University of Detroit Mercy at halftime, the Spartans managed to muster up shooting and defense to win in the final minutes Thursday night, 76-63.Senior forward Becky Cummings led MSU in a history-making performance with a career-high 25 points and 12 rebounds, en route to her 19th double-double.
E-mail savvy computer nerds, Webmasters and people who have read “E-mail for Dummies” can relate to one another when faced with one problem-filled component of e-mail - the subject line. Usually, a short phrase or word to describe the overall mood of a message gave Web surfers an opportunity to say, well, the subject of the e-mail.
A Lansing man was arraigned in Clinton County on Thursday following charges related to a fatal traffic accident Wednesday night.James Alan Shearer, 33, could face up to 20 years in prison on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing death, and failure to stop at the scene of a serious personal injury accident, police said.The liquor charge carries a 15-year penalty and the failure to stop charge could send Shearer to jail for an additional five years.He is being held in the Clinton County Jail.
Online shopping continues to grow at a steady pace and Internet services and local businesses are increasingly taking their services to the World Wide Web. Camron Gnass, owner of Vision Creative, 619 E.
Richard Marx is making a comeback.The Meridian Mall, 1982 W. Grand River Ave. in Okemos, will host a free concert featuring Marx at 7 tonight as part of the grand opening of its new food court.The event was put together by Tim Kiesling, program director for Lansing’s WFMK (99.1-FM).“Richard has a new album out, a new song release and he’s got two other songs on the radio he wrote that Natalie Cole and ’N Sync sing,” Kiesling said.
The sounds of the holidays have arrived at MSU - Dischord style. The Spartan Dischords, MSU’s oldest a cappella group, will perform the “Dischord Holiday Spectacular” at 8 p.m.
For Brian Murphy, attending a university has meant making a big adjustment.The general business management freshman said his first year has been full of hard decisions.“It’s a lot different from high school,” he said.
I am writing in response to the letter concerning CD reviewing choices by The State News (“Paper reviews unpopular music,” SN 1128). I would like to thank The State News for not wasting an album review on a boy band whose CD could very easily be predicted as being the same crap it has previously released.
For Susan Melnick, the Internet is an ideal tool for education and enjoyment that she uses several times a day.
I am writing in response to Vincent Estes’ article (“Tenured faculty members dwindle,” SN 11/29). Estes’ report rightly identifies a very serious problem besetting higher education: the increased use of part-time, temporary and graduate student instructors. It should be made clear that this university cost-cutting measure not only serves students and part-time and temporary faculty poorly, it also has a long-term function of degrading the increasingly limited and besieged position of tenure-stream faculty.
It is sometimes perceived that college students are financially fortunate. But in reality, many college students are struggling to manage the costs of loans, books, car payments and often families.
It came to my attention recently that hate seems to be a popular issue at the moment. Let me explain: In one week, I saw literature around my dorm for two unrelated anti-hate programs.Last week, an anti-hate campaign, “Not In Our Hall,” began in Holmes Hall.
Earlier this week, Tom Izzo said he was going to use Wednesday’s game against North Carolina to see how much progress his team has made so far this season.After MSU disposed of the sixth-ranked Tar Heels by 13 points, the MSU men’s basketball coach said he was encouraged by what he saw.“I was pleased with a lot of things, even though I’m not sure we were great,” he said.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - MSU kept its lengthy unbeaten streak in tact, but this probably wasn’t what it expected.The top-ranked Spartans (10-1-3 overall, 7-1-2 CCHA) fell behind by two goals early and had to battle back to tie Bowling Green (2-7-4, 2-5-4) 3-3 Friday night at BGSU Ice Arena.The Spartans are 9-0-2 in their last 11 games, but are in danger of falling from their No.
I very rarely disagree with “Our Voice.” However, I must disagree with the opinion that Vice President Al Gore should concede ( “Recountdown,” SN 11/27). Under no circumstances should he even think about conceding.
While Florida is the election hot spot, voters in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District will be getting a little slice of recount action Monday.Recounts will begin Monday for the contested U.S.
A controversial report recently released by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce found that nontenured track instructors make up almost half of the teaching staff in many humanities and social science instruction fields.But MSU officials say this university doesn’t fall into that category.
MSU volleyball kicks off its seventh-consecutive NCAA tournament this weekend at UCLA.The Spartans (17-12) will play Wisconsin-Milwaukee (23-4) on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA 2000 Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship.The match starts at 8 p.m., immediately following the first-round match between host No.
When Molly Buckman’s friends were planning for their high school prom, she was making other arrangements.“I was planning cancer treatment,” the pre-nursing sophomore said.Buckman is a three-time cancer survivor.“I wouldn’t trade having cancer for not having cancer, because I now look at things in a different light,” she said.First diagnosed at age two with astrocytoma, a neurological cancer, she battled it two more times before she went into remission two and a half years ago.Buckman had surgery to remove the tumor that was wrapped around her spinal cord and had to undergo extensive physical therapy to be able to walk and regain mobility.Buckman is now student coordinator of the MSU Cancer Support Network.