Beef returns, gives students more options
Burgers were back on students’ plates this weekend as a campus-wide ban on ground beef came to a close, MSU officials said.
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Burgers were back on students’ plates this weekend as a campus-wide ban on ground beef came to a close, MSU officials said.
As one of the richest and most technologically advanced societies in the history of societies, the U.S. should offer the most advanced education system in the world. We in the U.S. certainly have the resources to make that happen, and we need to raise smart, high-achieving children to replace us. So far, this hasn’t happened.
Faculty deserve to have a voice in academic governance at MSU, but not if that voice comes at the cost of student representation. Students are the reason this university exists, and their needs and concerns should be central to every issue MSU faces.
The general purpose of a student section, of a home field in general, is to create a loud, unfriendly environment for visiting teams to fear playing in. This is what the student section is trying to accomplish: to be loud, to be into the game and to make opponents fear us. Opposing teams wouldn’t exactly be running away in fear of us if we were chanting “Welcome to State!” or “1, 2, 3, pink bunnies!” Many of our naysayers are longing for the days of “Kill, Bubba, Kill!” back in the 1960s, but I wouldn’t dare say that telling a large man to “Kill!” would be nearly as offensive as celebrating a first down by referring to a female dog.
In Kyle Bristow’s letter, U.S. should stay out of Darfur and pay attention to itself (SN 10/9), he argues that America has no place in Darfur and that the next president should be more concerned about the U.S.-Mexico border. Are you kidding me? America has been policing the world for years. Now when there is something that actually needs doing we should ignore it? It isn’t about billions of dollars, it isn’t about national interest, it isn’t even about risking American lives.
Everyone on MSU’s campus and across the country should be talking about the Jena 6. We should be discussing why these six teenage boys were originally charged with attempted second-degree murder for a school fight that resulted in minor injuries for the wounded. Why, although Mychal Bell’s charges were lessened, did they make the case that his tennis shoes constituted the “deadly weapon” needed for an aggravated battery charge? These are some of the questions we should be asking ourselves because the Jena 6 story is also our own story. It involves what we believe as Americans and if our vision for the future of this country is being halted, this is something we should not take lightly.
MSU gave its alumni and fans a show in its 52-27 homecoming victory over Indiana, snapping a two-game losing streak.
A cell phone valued at $300, and $5 in cash were stolen from IM Sports-Circle on Tuesday while the victim played dodgeball, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. The 18-year-old male student was in the first floor gymnasium of the building when his black LG cell phone was stolen and $5 was taken from his wallet, McGlothian-Taylor said. The victim had placed his wallet and cell phone on the gym bleachers while playing, McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU hockey head coach Rick Comley doesn’t want his team to put last year’s national championship behind them. Comley, who will begin his sixth year behind the MSU bench Saturday night, said he believes you don’t put it in the past, you just deal with it. “Why in the world would something so difficult to win be dismissed so quickly?” he said.
The Heisman Trophy is the highest honor in the college football land, but the question must be asked: Does anyone want to win it? While the No. 1 Louisiana State Tigers have no offensive standouts, other top quarterbacks are putting up solid numbers in losing efforts. That leaves Darren McFadden as this week’s choice yet again, and it doesn’t look like any change is coming in the near future.
Using this year’s theme of “Where Heroes are Made,” student organizations created floats for the Homecoming Parade on Friday. Throughout the week, student groups met in the concourse of Spartan Stadium to assemble their floats on top of flatbeds or to create banners. Here are a few examples of what some student groups are doing in honor of Homecoming.
The East Lansing City Council elections are approaching, but the scarce number of lawn signs throughout the city wouldn’t indicate it.
MSU junior quarterback Brian Hoyer vs. Indiana pass defense
CORRECTED: The headline should have said the color-coded wristbands will no longer be used.
Quotes pepper the walls inside the Duffy Daugherty Football Building. As players practice, they absorb these phrases for inspiration. Words from past and present, these quotes have a timeless appeal. They instill honor in the athletes who wear green and white every Saturday. Four enlarged jerseys of retired Spartans players hang on the wall, pushing current players to earn a spot next to those legends. A banner with the dates of MSU’s six national championships in football hangs, yearning to have a seventh date added.
7 p.m. Saturday
The Spartans trailed Northwestern by seven in the fourth quarter last Saturday, and the countdown to the return of their losing ways was ticking.
For October, it doesn’t get much bigger than this.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm, along with a host of others, is fighting to influence U.S. House of Representative members to override President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.
Recipients of 2007 MSU Alumni Association awards range from former NASA employees to former MSU Trustees members and multi-million dollar philanthropists.