At her office in Kalamazoo, Erma Jones Gordon meets with minorities who wish to become entrepreneurs. With the economy continuing to crumble, her position becomes even more important for those wanting to start a business.
Being a leader for all people, communicating and mobilizing a community are just a few of Martin Luther King Jr.’s lessons being put to good use by student organizations across campus, despite race or culture.
The hopes and dreams of many were expressed in Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. King’s speech gave voice to others’ thoughts. The changes implemented in the past have affected the future.
The American people are not color blind. But even if we were, we would be able to tell the difference between black and white. And after Tuesday’s inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
“I want the opportunity to have the opportunity.” A professor once said that during one of my journalism classes a few years ago and it has stuck with me since then.
The spirit of service will bring hundreds of students together this Martin Luther King Jr. Day to work in the community. “When I was younger, my parents were always involved,” said Brigid Sweeney, a psychology junior and co-chairwoman of the community service organization Into the Streets. “Always helping out people who needed help — it’s kind of just in my blood.”
It’s easy to be pessimistic during these hard economic times. However, a new attitude is long overdue.
I was deeply disturbed by the editorial cartoon and letters published this week. While I agree Israel’s action is a legitimate act of self-defense, Israel should not be portrayed as a victim.
The term “music pirating” makes me think of some guy with an eye patch, a parrot and a wooden leg surfing the seven electronic seas and pillaging poor music artists of their hard-earned and well-deserved money.
Sophomore forward Corey Tropp thinks the next two weekends are the toughest on the MSU hockey team’s schedule.
More than 10 years ago, Ken Hoffman and George Perles joined together to bring a bowl game to Detroit under the sponsorship of some of the state’s most powerful and significant corporations — the Detroit Three automakers.
Rivalry week has arrived for the MSU women’s basketball team. The Spartans head to Ann Arbor for the first of two matchups with Michigan tonight and hope to fair better than their last trip to Crisler Arena, a 64-55 U-M win.
Temperatures have dipped into the single digits as the big freeze predicted earlier this week has hit mid-Michigan. A mix of Arctic air, light winds and fresh snow have kicked off a three-day stretch of the coldest temperatures since the previous winter.
If the top floors of some residence halls were to go ablaze, the East Lansing Fire Department doesn’t have a ladder truck able to reach them. That will soon change, as the department learned earlier this month it had been awarded a $531,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. The department will use the money to buy a 100-foot aerial ladder truck.
As part a new partnership between IBM and MSU, students and graduates won’t have to look farther than south campus to find a job. A new computer programming center scheduled to begin operations on campus this spring is expected to create 1,500 new jobs during the next five years. The center is the first of its kind in the U.S. and will work in conjunction with MSU’s recruiting, education and research, IBM and MSU officials said.
Theirs was a love story that could rival Romeo and Juliet. He was a boy trapped in a Holocaust concentration camp. She was a young Jewish girl in hiding who threw him apples over a fence. Years after the boy was liberated and the war ended, a chance blind date in New York City brought them together. They would marry months later.
East Lansing City Council members took a first step in bringing industrial growth to the city by setting a Jan. 20 hearing date for the creation of an Industrial Development District at Tuesday’s council meeting. The district would designate facilities at unspecified locations for future tax incentives in an effort to lure industries to the city.
Two familiar faces will continue to hold leadership positions on the MSU Board of Trustees, after members of the board elected Joel Ferguson and Melanie Foster to serve their second consecutive terms as chairperson and vice chairperson, respectively.
A new college tuition funding plan enacted Tuesday could make secondary education significantly more affordable for Michigan students from low-income areas. Legislation signed into law by Gov. Jennifer Granholm will allow up to 10 communities to create “Promise Zones,” where funds can be collected from private donors and state education tax breaks to pay for graduating students’ college tuition.