Although it is illegal for political candidates to buy votes from the people, the advertising that candidates buy seems to be helping them win people over all the same.Federal campaign finance records show U.S.
Missouri residents woke up Tuesday morning to news that their governor, Mel Carnahan, had been killed in a small-plane crash. The twin-engine plane went down Monday night in rainy, foggy weather south of St.
All through high school, I had an ideal image of what my college life was supposed to be like, which I don’t think is much different from any incoming freshman’s idea. I wanted to make friends, have fun, be happy.
I don’t have cable, and I’ve watched every taped episode of “Sports Night” at least four times, so lately I’ve started playing chess with my roommate in order to waste time.
If you have a tarp, $132 and a whole lot of determination, by Sunday you could also have a ticket to sit in the largest student basketball fan section in the nation. On Saturday morning, MSU students who dream of watching sophomore guard Jason Richardson dunk and senior guard Charlie Bell speed down the court from the Izzone can begin roughing it out to claim tickets, Izzone co-director Brad Johanson said. The 250-odd remaining tickets - a $132 package that includes courtside seating at all 12 home games, a T-shirt, traveling options and other perks - go on sale at 1 p.m.
Bar employees checking IDs at the door will be held responsible for letting minors into restricted liquor establishments - joining servers and the bars themselves - under an ordinance passed unanimously by the East Lansing City Council at its Tuesday meeting.Under the new ordinance, door attendants will be subject to the same misdemeanor offense as those under the previous law.But the ordinance didn’t pass without some criticism.
Voters should choose Democrat Gretchen Whitmer for State Representative in Michigan’s 70th district.
An unidentified man attempted to abduct a 13-year-old East Lansing middle school student Monday.The student had just exited through the north doors of MacDonald Middle School, 1601 Burcham Drive, when she was approached by a white male in his late 20s, police said.
Few know there’s a place on campus for students with empty fridges and growling stomachs to go. The MSU Food Bank, a student-run volunteer organization, has been providing nourishment for needy students and their families since 1992. “Before the Food Bank, we had students who bought books over buying food,” said Leah Kropf, a kinesiology senior and organization president.
By WALTER R. MEARS Associated Press ST. LOUIS - Vice President Al Gore attacked George W.
Orgy Vapor Transmission (Reprise Records) If you want to revive those old feelings of teen angst, then Orgy’s new album, “Vapor Transmission,” is your guide to bitterness.
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.
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.
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.