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Protesters Proclaim Their Own State of the State

Protesters Proclaim Their Own State of the State

05 February 2010

Here’s a mash-up video of the protesters during Gov. Granholm’s State of the State address.

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Stabenow at State

Stabenow at State

02 February 2010

U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow spoke to the MSU Dems last week. Excerpts here:

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Hot & Healthy in February

Hot & Healthy in February

01 February 2010

For this month, sauce things up with Marker’s “BOOM Roasted BBQ Sauce.” Check out this Bar-B-Cutie! To keep things saucy once you’re done indulging with some BBQ pulled pork, check out this sex move from Cosmopolitan, the saucy spoons!  Both partners lie on their side facing the same direction, and the giver enters the receiver [...]

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The Haunting on Durand Street

The Haunting on Durand Street

29 January 2010

I’m sitting at my best friend’s house at midnight, fighting to stay awake. I think about going home, and my stomach turns into a knot; I double over and a wave of fear reminds me why I’m here. My house is haunted. Before October, I’d never had an interest in ghosts. I joked around about [...]

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Pepper Spray With a Side of Confidence

Pepper Spray With a Side of Confidence

28 January 2010

While traditionally sendoff gifts for students include cash, leftovers and clean laundry, pepper spray is becoming a rising trend. When no-preference freshman Emily Snoek went home for Thanksgiving and told her parents that during her first three months of college she walked home alone almost every night, they were certain she needed pepper spray. “I [...]

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V-Day Losing its Spark?

V-Day Losing its Spark?

28 January 2010

Plenty of single women are taking the opportunity to have a girls’ night with good friends instead of chasing the traditional Valentine’s Day dream of dinner, chocolates and budding romance. Whether it’s an expression of independence or a stand against those dates that have gone wrong in the past, it’s happening, and it might just [...]

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“Safe Styles” Separating on Cultural Lines

“Safe Styles” Separating on Cultural Lines

28 January 2010

Whether or not we mean to, we are constantly judging, stereotyping and labeling and then making assumptions based on fashion. These standards then play a part in defining who we are as individuals. “Stereotypes exist because there are people that would rather create labels and groups then get to know someone,” said apparel and textiles [...]

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Kewl Enough 2 Kindle?

Kewl Enough 2 Kindle?

27 January 2010

When I first looked up the tutorial for an e-reader, the Amazon Kindle, I thought that it was absurd. A tutorial to read a book?  E-readers kill the simplicity of the novel. A book doesn’t need a tutorial. You pick it up and you read. A book is a physical thing with pretty covers and [...]

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Esperanza Spalding: Pop Goes Beauty and the Beast

Esperanza Spalding: Pop Goes Beauty and the Beast

26 January 2010

I don’t know if Esperanza Spalding is real. Surely the bassist-singer is real in the sense that I saw her and her badass band play the Wharton Center on Jan. 20th.  And surely she’s the “real deal,” attesting to any avocation of her sizable skills.  And yet, someone seemingly capable of anything cannot be, forgive [...]

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Students Against Drunk Driving

Students Against Drunk Driving

23 January 2010

When Joshua Clark’s parents arrived at Sparrow Hospital, the first person they talked to was a pastor. It wasn’t a reassuring sign – their son had been hit by a drunken driver so hard that although he was driving, police found him on the passenger-side floor. “I was in a coma for the next month,” [...]

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