Cold words?
Critics are urging MSU sports officials to change the name of The Cold War before Saturdays record-breaking outdoor matchup.
Critics are urging MSU sports officials to change the name of The Cold War before Saturdays record-breaking outdoor matchup.
Michigan electricity customers will soon get an unsettling charge added to their monthly bills. For the next three years, well all be charged for a customer education program to prepare us for added competition in the electricity market.Its not unsettling that the state will spend $33 million on the campaign - electricity deregulation is a tricky issue - but it is questionable that state officials will pay three public relations companies tied to Michigans two major utility companies, Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison, to run the campaign.
Listen to the word on the street, read the bathroom graffiti or log on to the Internet. Police are not popular. Its an inevitability that campus police will be viewed as the enemy by some students.
The MSU community missed an opportunity to deal with the important issues of racism when university officials censored the play SubUrbia. The Department of Theatre production was scheduled to run for more than a week, but was cut to one performance Thursday after some university officials expressed concern about its content. The play, which centers around a rock star and his three friends who hang out at a neighborhood convenience store, includes two Pakistani characters who face discrimination. Its understandable why some might feel uncomfortable about the play, but that doesnt mean censorship is the right solution. Ethnic discrimination is a sensitive subject for our community, especially since the Sept.
For the past year, Brandon DAnnunzios friends and family have been trying to rebuild their lives the best they can. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the assault of a 24-year-old Michigan Technological University student outside a downtown East Lansing bar.
Lawmakers could be putting students safety at risk as they prepare to reform how colleges and universities report campus crime. U.S.
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. At least that appears to be the opinion of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The activist group issued a statement last week accusing the Ingham County Health Department of censoring important information from its December 2000 water quality report. The group said hazards to Ingham Countys surface and groundwater were not identified, putting residents in danger. But the countys 20-page pamphlet, a pared-down version of the 130-page report, is a thorough and easy-to-digest packet containing the highlights of the original publications content.
MSU officials have succeeded in increasing the minority student population, with 20 percent of this years freshman class projected to be minority students. But retention of minority students is still sluggish, threatening to undermine the work recruiters do to bring black, Chicano and Latino, Asian and Pacific Islanders, Native American and other minority students to campus.
One of the largest consumer retail channels in the world is about to join the rest of the more traditional outlets in fiscal responsibility.
For 15 years, Bruce Benson has overseen the campus department perhaps best known for issuing MIPs, ticketing speeders and towing vehicles. The title of police chief and director of MSUs Department of Police and Public Safety doesnt exactly come with the undying love of students everywhere. But it should come with a lot of respect. In the time hes been chief, Benson has helped mold our police department into one of the most diverse and progressive forces in the nation.
The obvious fear was these unknown men could be a danger to campus, fostering apprehension toward the multitude of MSU students with Muslim or Middle Eastern heritage.But these feelings are misplaced.MSUs Department of Police and Public Safety sent out a universitywide e-mail asking students to help identify three Pakistani men after an incident Wednesday at the Business College.Police said the three men did not do anything illegal but made several comments of an unusual nature that caused some concern after the Sept.
Today is rumored to be the day Michael Jordan makes his much-anticipated official announcement.Since early this year, stories have grown about the possibility, the probability and the practicality of Jordan coming back to the NBA.
With any luck, Michigan universities will soon see state aid increase with the repeal of the failed tuition tax credit.
On Friday, the Board of Trustees could speak for the first time about last years undercover police investigation of a student activist group.
If money can be an indicator of love for this campus, MSU President M. Peter McPhersons heart must be as big as his wallet. How big is that?
Students may have noticed new equipment in the library and computer labs. The new equipment is the result of $202 million raised by the university from donors during the 2000-2001 budget year.
In the hustle and bustle of last week, politics as usual went on in our state. The Department of Natural Resources announced Friday that Michigan will again issue leases for slant drilling for gas and oil under the Great Lakes. The DNRs intent and timing are ill conceived.
There will be no celebrating on campus Saturday. No tailgating. No cheering crowd packing Spartan Stadium. There may be tears, though.
Tuesday, when many students watched and wondered how we could go on, MSU President M. Peter McPherson decided we can and we must. While the University of Michigan, Central Michigan University and other state universities closed their doors, this campus stayed open and held classes. Some may have seen this decision as a threat to the safety of students and faculty or disgraceful to the memory of the countless victims of Tuesdays blasts.
Chances are if you visited some of Michigans numerous public beaches this summer, you may not have been able to enter the water because of unsafe bacteria levels. On campus, we have our own nasty environmental pollution history with E.