For the first time since Oct. 17, the East Lansing City Council will hold a meeting to discuss issues like pedestrian-activated traffic lights and free parking downtown during the shopping season.The council has the opportunity to approve pedestrian-activated crosswalk lights.
I’ve recently been reminded of why I get so excited for the holidays. One of my cousins is pregnant so the whole Schewe clan - 40 people strong - gathered for a co-ed baby shower.We spent some time together as we celebrated the future arrival of a new cousin and it gave me a taste of the holidays ahead.Thanksgiving always was such fun because it meant my siblings would be coming home from college and we would be making a pilgrimage to Detroit for the annual feast with the extended family.
The State News strikes again. I read in Wednesday’s State News that Ruth Hubbard would be visiting MSU’s campus to give the McPherson Professorship lecture on “How the Genome Became the Book of Life” Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.
I did not choose to get off the Capital Area Transportation Authority bus Wednesday three stops before my usual one.
LANSING - The city council will host public hearings tonight on changes being made to the capital city’s Housing Code.The council radically changed the code two years ago and had promised to review the code a couple years after the revisions were made.The changes made this year come from putting the code in compliance with the International Property Maintenance Code 2000 so the code would be uniform with other U.S.
Two things haven’t happened at MSU since the Earvin “Magic” Johnson era. The men’s basketball team hadn’t hung an NCAA national championship banner from the rafters, and no Spartan player had recorded a triple-double.Those both changed Sunday.The game against the Golden Grizzlies of Oakland began as the coaches, players and fans got to watch the green and white NCAA national championship banner drop from the ceiling.And MSU’s 97-61 victory ended when senior guard Charlie Bell became the second Spartan to ever tally a triple-double, recording 13 points, 10 assists and 11 rebounds.
The MSU Extension will undergo a changing of the guard of sorts next semester when Margaret Bethel takes over as the acting director.Extension is the university’s statewide initiative that offers educational and informational resources to residents in dozens of Michigan communities.
GRAND RAPIDS - As Superdrag frontman John Davis finished tuning his guitar Friday at The Intersection in Grand Rapids, he peered at the eager rock and rollers with smoke seeping around his face from the cigarette in his hand and asked “Grand Rapids, what do you got?”Davis then began playing the opening track, “keep it close to me,” off their third full-length record “In the Valley of Dying Stars.”The crowd, consisting mostly of kids in their early 20s packed in like sardines, responded with a loud roar of approval.The band, best known for its brush with fame with its 1996 MTV “Buzz Bin” hit “Sucked Out,” didn’t play that song the entire evening, which seemed justified.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson knew where he was Friday.And because he was speaking to the nation’s GOP governors in Tampa, Fla., he felt obliged to shy away from talking about voting operations.Especially since recount after recount in Florida continues to unveil no winner in the nation’s heated presidential race.“I started off my speech by saying I didn’t expect to comment on voting technology,” he joked.
Jason Andreas?Adam Wolfe?That was the response given to the two freshmen ballers when they spoke to the more than 25,000 fans packed inside Spartan Stadium after winning the national championship.Perhaps it was being overshadowed by players like Mateen Cleaves, Morris Peterson and senior guard Charlie Bell.
MSU head coach Tom Izzo was worried going into Sunday’s season opener against Oakland University, a game which marked the unveiling of the team’s 2000 NCAA championship banner.
Members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity spent the evening last Friday as if they were homeless. The fraternity held its third annual Sleep-Out for the Homeless in the Union courtyard from 8 p.m.
Chris Swope hopes the seat he won in the general election will serve as an example for other gays considering public service.Swope, a Democrat who was elected Nov.
After playing from behind the entire game, the MSU women's basketball team lost in the final moments Saturday in the championship game of the MSU Chevrolet Classic.The Spartans fell to the Boston College Eagles on Saturday 63-61.With seven seconds remaining, MSU senior point guard Christie Pung passed the ball to senior forward and co-captain Becky Cummings in the low post.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The Penn State Nittany Lions spoiled MSU’s hopes of a winning season and a chance to play in a postseason bowl game Saturday with a 42-23 drubbing at Beaver Stadium.
Sherman Garnett always wondered what a group of James Madison alumni and students would think and discuss if they were brought together.The dean of James Madison College got his wish Thursday.A panel of current students and politically active alumni came together to discuss the recent election and campaigns.“I thought it would be useful for us to talk about this experience, especially since most of this is local at this point,” Garnett said.James Madison alumni panelists included Adam Wright, who is state Sen.
The Department of Theatre shows that you can go home again in a show this weekend. Theater senior Kelli Hardman directs Tina Howe’s “Painting Churches.” Set in 1980, “Painting Churches” tells the story of Margaret “Megs” Church, played by theater senior Caroline Sullivan.
“Men of Honor,” the new Navy drama starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr., is based on events that occurred nearly a half-century ago.
To mark the beginning of the holiday season, Lansing will be hosting Silver Bells in the City tonight, a holiday event that includes an electric light parade, free entertainment and the lighting of the capital’s Christmas tree.The event began in 1985 with just a few luminaries and a community sing led by the Lansing mayor but has now grown to provide entertainment for an expected 40,000 to 50,000 people.“At the beginning of the event it was started as a way to promote downtown,” said Sue Mills, executive director of the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, which coordinates the event.
By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press Al Gore won his fight Thursday to expand manual recounts in Florida as he struggled to trim George W.