The decision to extend Athletics Director Clarence Underwood’s contract was not the best for MSU athletics and breaks promises made by the administration and Underwood.Because the contract extension prevents a promised national search for another athletics director, MSU has limited its options for the position.
When people think of Northwestern athletics, Bill Carmody knows basketball will not come to anyone’s mind as the Wildcats’ have had a long-standing tradition as Big Ten doormats. As the program’s new head coach, Carmody said the primary reason Northwestern hasn’t produced victories in past years points to the lack of talent. “I don’t see any reason why we can’t win here - it’s a terrific school, a great basketball conference and a great area,” he said.
Law school can be a long road to travel, and an expensive one. But for some students, that’s exactly what they want to tackle after graduation.
Don’t forget to turn off the lights, blow out the candles and check your smoke detector.A recent study by the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents says winter is the deadliest season when it comes to fires.“Fire prevention should be practiced every day of the year, but the winter months increase the chances for a house fire,” said Gary Mitchell, spokesman for the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents.
I like to plan. In general, I have a habit of living for the future, a habit which is usually admired and rewarded, usually called ambition and the pursuit of success.
MSU students will be able to see basketball straight out of Hollywood this weekend - and it doesn’t involve former Spartan and Los Angeles Laker Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press Al Gore’s prospects for winning the presidency dimmed Monday when a state judge refused to overturn George W.
MERIDIAN TWP. - A little bit of the East Coast has been brought to the Lansing area. ProtoCulture opened in July, bringing new fashions to Meridian Mall, 1982 W.
LANSING - The city council spent 1 1/2 hours listening to public comment Monday night before voting 6-2 to sell Genesee Park, sending the battle over the site into court. The vote authorized the sale of the park, located at the corner of Genesee Street and Butler Boulevard, to the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition for about $15,000.
I was very disappointed to read the column published in Thursday’s State News titled “Retailers sold out Christmas to be politically correct,” by John LaFleur (SN 11/30). While I completely understand Mr. LaFleur’s frustration with the holy day of Christmas becoming commercialized, I don’t understand his need to blame other religious holidays at the same time of year for the increase in commercialism. There is no need to bash Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Winter Solstice.
Ira Flatow, a veteran National Public Radio science correspondent and Emmy Award-winning television journalist, has covered stories in historic venues like the Kennedy Space Center, Three Mile Island, Antarctica and the South Pole. And it all began during his boyhood when he burned down his mother’s bathroom while trying to recreate a biology class experiment He’ll be bringing his experiences to campus Wednesday as a guest speaker in the McPherson Professorship lecture series. He’s the host of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday,” and Flatow’s lecture will be titled “If it Breeds, It Leads: How the Media Bring Science to the Public.” “He just hops around from physical to natural science and also public issues, like pesticides on tomatoes,” said Douglas Luckie, assistant professor of physiology at Lyman Briggs School. The speech will be the fifth and final of the McPherson Professorship lectures - a series that MSU President M.
By AMY FRANKLIN The Associated Press MASON - References to the drawn-out presidential recount in Florida were as plentiful as punchcard ballots Monday as elections officials began a recount in Michigan’s 8th District congressional race. Surrounded by lawyers and representatives for Democrat Dianne Byrum and Republican Mike Rogers, two recounters each sat at eight tables arranged in an Ingham County building in Mason. The Board of State Canvassers last week certified that Rogers won the race by 160 votes, opening the door for a recount request by both candidates. Byrum, of Onondaga, needs a net gain of 161 votes to overtake Rogers, of Brighton, for the congressional seat left by Democrat Debbie Stabenow, who won a U.S.
School of Music undergraduate students Eric Knechtges and Sean Spicer will premiere their compositions at 7:30 tonight in Wharton Center’s Great Hall. The MSU Symphony Band will perform both works.
Florida head coach Billy Donovan said Monday he still doesn’t know if point guard Teddy Dupay will play versus MSU at the Breslin Student Events Center on Wednesday.Dupay, a 5-foot-11 junior, was suspended late last week for violating unspecified team rules.Donovan said he’ll decide after practice today if Dupay will accompany the team to East Lansing.“Teddy is back in practice, but it’s still up in the air whether he will play versus Michigan State,” Donovan said.Dupay sat out Florida’s 83-76 victory over DePaul on Saturday.In two games, he’s averaging 22 points and 4.5 assists per game.Dupay was in the middle of controversy last April when MSU point guard Mateen Cleaves injured his ankle in the championship game after he got tangled up with Dupay.Donovan said Dupay’s lack of popularity in East Lansing won’t play into his decision on whether to play him.“Teddy didn’t try in any way to hurt Mateen,” Donovan said.
Gearing up for an important tussle with archrival Michigan on Friday, the ninth-ranked wrestling team won half of the individual titles at the Northern Iowa Open on Sunday. Junior Chris Williams, senior Mike Castillo, and sophomores Nik Fekete, Karl Nadolsky and Gray Maynard all triumphed in their weight divisions, while fourth-ranked senior Pat McNamara lost for the first time this season. The event was the Spartans’ last action before the top-10 showdown against the No.
MSU’s TV sitcom, “The Show,” taped its 35th episode Saturday in front of a live studio audience. In its 12th season, the comedy dissects life on MSU’s campus.
The women’s basketball team will have to learn how to win without the sure shot of co-captain and leading scorer Becky Cummings, as they host the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay tonight. Senior forward Cummings tore her left foot’s plantar fascia in the team’s upsetting 66-59 loss Sunday to Eastern Michigan at the Women’s Basketball Showcase in Grand Rapids. The plantar fascia is a tissue beneath the arc of the foot.
I am writing in response to John LaFleur’s column (“Retailers sold out Christmas to be politically correct,” SN 11/30). LaFleur seems to think Christmas was the original reason people have a celebration at the end of December.
Judy Gentile was a fighter. As the first wheelchair user to attend MSU, she had to fight for the right to attend accessible classes.
Stacy Rosenthal didn’t imagine her art homework would end up going out to 1,500 people.Rosenthal, a studio art senior, created the winning design for the Kellogg Center’s 8th annual MSU Holiday Card Contest.