The Vatican’s stance toward U.S. bishops’ zero-tolerance policy on sexually abusive priests is inadequate and raises questions to the papacy’s commitment to combat child molestation by clergymen. The Vatican announced Friday that the policy adopted by the U.S.
In December 1999, about 50 football players gathered at Cowles House to plead the case for their running backs coach to lead the team.
The mass e-mail sent out Wednesday telling students there had been syringes left on Brody Hall cafeteria trays was a serious breech of protocol that caused unnecessary alarm to the complex’s residents. The message was sent to Brody Complex residents by its assistant manager, Denise Gerst, using her supervisor’s Pilot account.
East Lansing community leaders are responsibly beginning to look to the past to lead the city to its future.
The sniper who has put fear in the hearts of many Washington area residents also has rekindled talk of gun control on Capitol Hill - and one set of proposals seems worthy of America’s attention. The proposals would create a national ballistic fingerprinting system, which could better help law enforcement officials trace shell casings or guns found at crime scenes. Authorities have used ballistics imaging technology to conclude that bullet fragments and shell casings found from the shootings attributed to the Washington-area sniper’s gun. The fingerprint proposals would require gun buyers to register the unique casings and bullet fragments from the weapons they purchase.
Students living in Bryan Hall were making a lot of noise over a new rule that required them to keep doors closed.
The Michigan State Police is making use of the Internet to provide easy access to information about Michigan’s most-wanted criminals, a move that could prove beneficial to the capture of these individuals.
A notable team of Michigan leaders has been assembled to lobby the federal government for MSU’s bid to bring a significant scientific tool to campus.
With lawmakers facing what many expect to be a major money crunch, it seems the MSU Board of Trustees is dreaming to request an extra $1,000 per student in the state’s next budget cycle. But it is good to see Spartan leaders lobbying with gusto as Michigan is set to see many leadership changes because of term limits. Spartans have been at the short end of an appropriations gap among Michigan’s three research universities - Wayne State University, the University of Michigan and MSU - for too long.
Community leaders need to quit sidestepping the issue and apologize to the women involved in last year’s Linton Hall anthrax scare. The bottom line is that emergency officials were not well prepared to handle such an incident, and their inabilities have caused the women involved emotional distress. The women and the Lansing branch of the American Civil Liberties Union met Friday to address concerns over the handling of the situation. On Oct.
Another major U.S. newspaper joined the list of publications that are announcing same-sex partner commitments and therefore bringing important issues out for social discussion.
Investigators searching for the serial sniper in the Washington, D.C., area are defending their limited release of information about the case, and they are completely justified.
Colleges and universities across the country are taking more precautions to protect students from rape.
After Tuesday night’s arrest of a Lansing police officer for drunken driving, how can area police expect people to heed their teaching and demands concerning sober driving? When defenders of the law breaks the law they, maybe more than anybody, need to answer for that mistake. Any police officer is a public official and therefore should set the example for all members of a community. As of Tuesday, Lansing police Capt.
Pedestrians and drivers alike need to pay better attention when they are traveling through the streets of campus and East Lansing.
ASMSU officials admit they fell well short of their goal to register more students to vote in the Nov.
The university community is right to begin discussing whether it is ethical for MSU to have some of its money invested in Israeli companies. On campuses throughout the nation - including the University of Michigan, where students recently lashed out because administrators refused to divest in Israel - students are beginning to question why universities have investments in an area riddled with conflict. The movement is similar to one that helped lead to the end of Apartheid in South Africa.
A significant drop in noise complaints might be music to the ears of many East Lansing residents and leaders, but they should not be singing their own praises just yet.
As a country governed by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, we value the freedom for people to choose their own religion.
T the Residence Halls Association’s movie-rental offices reopened their doors Monday, and it is about time.