The MSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics let down our men’s basketball team. What should have been a raucous gathering to celebrate one of the most historic and highest-achieving seasons in Spartan history was instead a pitiful gathering of those lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time Tuesday morning at Breslin Center.
I am writing to thank our men’s basketball team and men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo for a fine season. Even though the last game didn’t go as we wanted it to, team members have nothing to hang their head about. They were tough and fought hard all season.
As a vice president for policy and government affairs at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, I have debated animal protection issues around the world, frequently engaging with representatives from the meat, fur, animal-experimentation and circus industries.
Imagine how many arrests would be made if 45,000 students clumped together to burn piles of clothing, tear down street signs, spray beer at people and climb street posts. Two.
Saturday was one of the biggest nights in MSU basketball: the NCAA semifinal against the Huskies of Connecticut. For me, being a delivery driver in East Lansing on a night like this can be a beautiful experience.
Although the norovirus outbreak in Shaw Hall’s cafeteria last week was unfortunate, the degree of overreaction with which the university has responded is one I would expect more from a 5-year-old than an academic institution.
On Jan. 22, President Barack Obama made an influential decision early in his reign as the nation’s leader. Separating his administration from that of the President George W. Bush era, Obama made the executive order to close down the Guantanamo Bay military prison by the end of the year.
Win or lose, the MSU men’s basketball team has done the virtually unthinkable. For the first time in months, it isn’t our automobile industry hogging the headlines. The national media is here for a different reason than to bash the state for not evolving, or being unresponsive to consumer demands.
The Spartans are riding high on emotion. But it’s not all about them. It’s about a legendary city on the ropes, and a state that’s gone bust in a world that lost its bearings.
I have been attending MSU athletic events for roughly 60 years. I was born and raised five minutes from campus and I graduated from MSU in 1963. I am a volunteer at the NCAA Basketball Final Four in Detroit at Ford Field, and I was there as the team took the floor. I listened to the crowd as they supported the Spartans and then celebrated as the team left the floor to prepare for the championship.
Leading up to this past weekend’s Final Four, I had the opportunity to speak with a few individuals tasked with making sure the NCAA Tournament is a huge success for Detroit and Michigan.
The tear gas canisters remained untouched and night sticks rested safely on police officers’ belts Saturday night following the MSU men’s basketball team’s 82-73 victory against Connecticut to advance to the NCAA Championship.
Cedar Fest was a massive gathering turned riot last April. What started as a party in Cedar Village took a turn for the worse later that night as the crowd grew and turned destructive.
Dear fellow Spartans, Now that I am well into my second year as mayor of the City of East Lansing, I am proud to say that I have attended every single student event to which I have been invited, and it has been a pleasure.
Bonnie Erbe, a blogger for U.S. News & World Report, made a typical case against universal health care in a February 2008 entry. She argued, “the only reason Canada’s health care system works, for example, is that 90 percent of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border and they come here for urgent needs.”
Although it is important to never forget the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, it has been long enough since that day that we should be able to put our prejudice aside and realize actions of a few do not define a whole group.
Dear Student Alumni Foundation and Izzone directors: I understand that it was the ticket-selling company that screwed up the distribution of the MSU Final Four tickets initially, but I and a great many other perturbed Izzone faithful demand an apology for the bungling of the entire situation.
With regard to the article, Members still concerned about graduate student group election 3/26), The State News reported on the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, election of officers meeting, at which a controversial document pertaining to then-President Manish Madan was distributed immediately prior to voting.
I am an MSU employee. With road construction taking place on US-127, I-496, Mount Hope Road, Farm Lane and I am sure a myriad of other sites, the only way I can access my work location on Service Road is via those intersections. More drivers are taking the same route, due to those road construction projects. Add to these “obstacles” the trains that go through the same intersections during 8 a.m., noon and 5 p.m.
Of all the seismic events of 2008 — bailout into collapse, foreclosure into bankruptcy, rich into poor — the most far-reaching, brings discredit to the very foundations of our economic thought. Much like in 1929 or 1945, it appears that 2008 will be a reference point for future historians, signifying the end of a discrete era.