Choosing a profession isn’t easy, but for feminist artist Miriam Schapiro it seemed as if her craft was her destiny.Schapiro, born in 1923, began her artistic career at an early age.
It has been 17 days since Brandon D’Annunzio, a 24-year-old Livonia resident, was assaulted outside an East Lansing bar, and seven since he died at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital. During a press conference at the East Lansing police station Tuesday, Brandon’s father, Dennis D’Annunzio, said the reward in the case has soared from the original $500 to $10,000, including a $500 donation from BW-3, 220 M.A.C.
In a State News article, (“Equestrian rides toward world fame, championship,” SN 10/12) we are never told what Hanchett is a champion in.
Feminist art, one of the premiere movements of the 1970s, is still making its presence known at MSU in the new millennium.Miriam Schapiro, a leading figure in the feminist art movement, is visiting MSU this week.
LANSING - As part of the statewide celebration of Safe Communities-Safe Schools Day, the Lansing Police Department and the Michigan Education Association collected more than 300 toys during Tuesday’s Violent Toy Buyback. Children were encouraged to bring in their violent toys in exchange for $10 gift certificates to be used toward the purchase of a new nonviolent toy. Items brought in ranged from action figures and violent movies to toy swords, squirt guns and archery sets. “We know we won’t be able to get every violent toy off the shelf, but we want to make people talk about what these toys mean,” said Lansing police Lt.
They practice late at night while many are asleep, only to pay hundreds of dollars to play the game they love in a nearly empty arena. Athletes don’t always get the glamour. So why do the 25 members of the men’s ice hockey club, not to be confused with the more well-known men’s hockey team coached by Ron Mason, stick it out? “It’s always been fun for me,” said political theory sophomore Brian Sommariva.
From a relaxing weekend to Big Ten competitions, an MSU club is proving that fishing is not just for the retired. The MSU Sport Fishing Club is an organization that appeals to serious fishermen and those who have never fished before and would like to learn.
Lansing police have released the name of a man killed in a train accident Sunday.Israel Castro Jr., an 18-year-old Lansing resident, was killed when he was hit by an Amtrak train near Aurelius Road in Lansing.He and a friend, Michael Romero, 15, were fishing off the trestles of a railroad near Aurelius Road when the train came through.“The engineer was not at fault,” said Lt.
It’s time for Lansing-area skaters to showcase some of their skills. Skatefest 2000 is gearing up to roll through Lansing Oct.
Royal Fingerbowl Greyhound Afternoons (BMI) Royal Fingerbowl tries to cover every music genre.
The imaginary walls that once separated the sexes have crumbled into dust. Women have the right to vote, the right to run for political office and the right to fire a slap shot so hard and fast that it can hardly be seen with the naked eye. For the past five years, women Spartans have had the chance to feel that certain rush of the beloved winter sport, ice hockey.
Five days after MSU’s Homecoming, Mateen Cleaves and Antonio Smith will return to their old stomping ground Thursday night.The two former Spartan basketball players will return to Breslin Student Events Center with their new team, the Detroit Pistons, for an NBA exhibition game against the Utah Jazz.After leading MSU to its first national championship in 21 years last season, the Pistons drafted Cleaves with the 14th pick in the first round of June’s NBA draft.
Some people are just groomed to be college coaches, and MSU senior goalkeeper and co-captain Sara Kloosterman has taken all the necessary steps to become the Tom Izzo of women’s soccer.
The Shaw Hall Senate’s spring decision to withhold allocations from the dorm’s black caucus has ignited a strife that looks never-ending.And even though the Senate tried to remedy the situation earlier this month by offering the caucus 12.5 percent of the hall’s allotted budget and a voting seat on the body, the dilemma remains unresolved.According to the Residence Halls Association’s constitution, all hall governments are required to provide in-hall black caucus groups with a portion of the hall’s semester allocation.
Keg parties for college students could be a little different if legislation introduced last week becomes law.A bill requiring kegs to be tagged and more information to be demanded from their purchaser was introduced Thursday by state Rep.
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, which began Monday, has made Jasmine Greenamyer a busy person. The alcohol, tobacco and other drug coordinator for Olin Health Center has been getting Greek Life, Residence Life, the Judicial Affairs Office and the Department of Police and Public Safety involved in raising awareness about alcohol use on campus.
ASMSU, the university’s undergraduate student government, is dealing with its third chief of staff resignation in less than two years. Jack Teasdale, an interdisciplinary social sciences junior, announced his intentions to leave the high-profile position during an Academic Assembly meeting last week. “I thought I knew what I was doing,” he said.
Have you ever been on a hovercraft, lain on a bed of nails or investigated a murder? Unless you are an astronaut, magician, or police detective, you probably have not.
I’m writing to let you know that I found a column about marriage very sexist and extremely offensive (“Women should think twice about marriage,” SN 10/16). I respect one’s decision on whether to get married, but I cannot agree with the way in which writer Jessi Phillips presented hers.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush insists that he can spend less of the federal surplus on education, health care, military defense, debt reduction and environmental protection, and greatly improve them all, but still get rid of the money.