Erin McLaughlin Special for The State News While most of MSU's campus lay still and freezing from the bitter snow, a warm and tropical atmosphere lingered in the Union on Saturday night.
Friday night, it was curtains for Don "Big Jim" Ravioli. Less than an hour into a gala celebrating the grand opening of a friend's speakeasy, the mob boss was brutally gunned down in front of gangsters, gamblers and scantily clad harlots. The lights flickered out seconds before the shooting and, despite a broken champagne bottle near Big Jim's bullet-ridden body, no other evidence remained.
As windows and doors are cracked open for the first time to let the spring air in, members of MSU's undergraduate student government are looking at making April "Lock Your Door!
Members of the MSU Rube Goldberg Machine Team spent more than four months tinkering with wires and mousetraps to get their contraption ready for the national competition held Saturday at Purdue University.
The Kresge Art Museum will add a new painting to its Figurative Expressionism Collection Initiative with the help of a grant from The Judith Rothschild Foundation. The work, "Two Figures, Two Heads" by Louis Finkelstein, was purchased with the $10,000 grant, and although it is not housed in the museum, the work will be made available for the next Figurative Expressionism exhibit. The Figurative Expressionist works are those with the figure kept in the work while moving toward abstract expression. Finkelstein, who created the work in 1998, studied painting at The Cooper Union, The Art Students League of New York and the Brooklyn Museum School.
"One small step for Greek Life...One giant leap in the right direction." Banners emblazoned with the 2004 Greek Week slogan hung below the cover of a tent while members of fraternity and sorority teams walked laps during the second annual Relay for Life. The relay, along with other kick-off events, was held Friday at Munn Field.
A global advertising expert will give a guest lecture this week for a one-credit course in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
After nearly two decades on the block, John Novak said he has witnessed many a small business' rise and fall on Grand River Avenue. Novak reopened Wazoo Records, 619 E.
Audra Hunsberger jabbed a plastic knife at her assailant Sunday night at IM Sports-West, but self-defense instructor Sally Belloli batted the weapon away, avoiding a potential poke to the rib cage. The pair took part in "Combating an Armed Attack," a self-defense program that taught participants how to protect themselves from assailants wielding knives, clubs or guns.
In a given weekly meeting, the members of the Residence Halls Association vote on three or four bills.
Six of the 15 empty Executive Board positions were filled for the next session of the Residence Halls Association at its General Assembly meeting Wednesday. Among the 14 bills that were considered by the assembly, seven were dedicated to hiring for the next session's Executive Board.
Some lawmakers are working to make the confidential factors that influence the cost of car insurance public. A nonprofit agency - created to reimburse some insurance companies for providing coverage to injured people needing lifetime coverage after car accidents - is stirring up debate because some legislators say the group is keeping secrets from Michigan's residents. Michigan is the only state that provides lifetime coverage for personal injuries in car accidents.
The Freshman Class Council is hosting an informal dance for all students from 9 p.m. until midnight on Saturday in the Union Gold Rooms. The council is a division of ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government.
Lansing - Twelve hours after José Robert Gutiérrez first entered the world on Thursday, he got a free chance to prove he was no fool. In a hospital lounge, surrounded by news camera crews, the baby boy and his parents, Reneé and José Gutiérrez, were presented with a free year of schooling at Lansing Community College. The scholarship, awarded every April Fools' Day for the last 10 years, is part of the college's celebration of National Community College Month.
Next to the rock on Farm Lane on Wednesday, two heads popped out of a hole cut from a large box.
Lansing - A host of state legislators addressed Michigan nurses Thursday, saying they'll work toward improving working conditions for the profession.
Students concerned about personal safety will have the opportunity to attend a free self-defense seminar this weekend.
Two popular computer services - e-mail and search engines - are scheduled to combine with a new "Gmail" service provided by Google Inc. Announced Wednesday, the Web-based e-mail system would be free for users and offers 1 gigabyte of storage, more than 100 times the amount of rival free e-mail service providers. Gmail also would incorporate the Google search feature to sort through the about 500,000 pages of e-mail the system is expected to hold. Richard Wiggins, MSU's Academic Computing and Network Services Senior Information Technologist, said the new system could cause a "massive shift" in information technology, with millions of people switching to the new service. "Right now, anybody who is in the Web mail business is looking at the cost of online storage and trying to calculate 'What does this do to our bottom line?,'" he said.
The East Lansing Public Art Gallery will host its first exhibit, the work of Nubia Y. Arcand, opening Sunday and running through May 11 at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road.