You could feel it coming before Ralph Nader even uttered the words announcing he is running for president. Regardless of the fact that he was basically a nonfactor in the 2004 election results, Democrats were ready to attack Nader for having the audacity to run again for public office.
Looking back on it now, there’s a rosy nostalgia attached to a student’s first few days at MSU. Often forgotten — or repressed — are the actual overwhelming and difficult experiences newcomers face.
The real question concerning Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe’s honorary degree is why was it awarded in the first place? During the 1980s, prior to the award, Mugabe was linked to the ethnic massacre of more than 20,000 civilians.
The sound of friends cracking cans open and the thump of ping-pong balls hitting party cups echoed off the dorm room walls when journalism sophomore Dan Schmidt heard a knock on the door.
March will mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Since it began, thousands of lives have been affected by the war, including the lives of Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi political analyst, and Patricia McCann, a U.S. veteran of the Iraq war.
A multicolored American Eagle wallet containing several credit cards and forms of ID as well as a black T-Mobile Motorola cell phone were reported stolen from a Bryan Hall dorm room sometime between 2 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is, in his own words, a “Hitler of the time.” “This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their right to their resources,” Mugabe said in a 2003 speech at the state funeral of one of his cabinet ministers.
In the aftermath of two mass university shootings in the past year, the responsibility of identifying and treating troubled campus residents falls to MSU residence halls and Counseling Center staff.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing announced Bishop Earl Boyea as Rev. Carl Mengeling’s successor Wednesday at St. Mary Cathedral, 219 Seymour Ave., in Lansing.
Angelique Day said she never imagined that the 18 months she spent in foster care would make her an asset to the child welfare system. But they have. Day, a social work researcher, said she was embarrassed of her foster care history when she began her journey as an MSU student.
Tapping her index finger on the table, 13-year-old Lexie Edwards followed along as two MSU students read from Dr. Seuss’ “Horton Hears a Who!” Across the room, two students flipped through a car magazine, asking a boy with autism to pick out his favorite.
Alexandra Gade, an assistant professor at MSU, was drawn to the university because of its rare premier isotope laboratory, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.
Emotions will be running high for the MSU women’s basketball team when it meets Illinois tonight for its regular-season finale. Not only is position on the line for the Big Ten Tournament, but also it will mark the last home game for seniors Courtney Davidson and Alisa Wulff.
Every time Tom Izzo travels to Madison, Wis., he takes a number with him. That number — zero — is the amount of victories the MSU men’s basketball head coach has brought home with him on those road trips in the last seven seasons.
We all know East Lansing is looking to throw students into housing farther away from campus — it is no secret. With the continuation of plans for the East Village project and the proposed City Center II project, we have begun to hear more and more grumbling from students and a handful of East Lansing residents. However, the university has been silent.
It would seem as if our electorate has already let the Republicans win the health care debate: They have successfully framed the issue as one of “free market” versus “socialism.” The comments posted on my column from two weeks ago are perfectly good evidence of this. The entire debate was about how a government bureaucracy was going to make health care completely inefficient in this country.
I wish to dispel the belief that graduate teaching assistantships are not “real jobs” and thus that TAs have no right to a fair contract. Walking down the B wing of Wells Hall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday, you will find packed lecture halls and benches full of students. The same time on Tuesday or Thursday you will find a near-empty hallway. Many students in mathematics can attend three 50-minute lectures each week and be successful. I teach those who need something more.
No one would consider giving honors to a ruthless violator of human rights. But that’s the position in which MSU has been placed. One of the university’s honorary degrees is held by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe — a man who is thought to have killed a number of innocent citizens in his own country.
After a little more than three weeks since National Signing Day, MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio is back on the recruiting trail for the 2009 class, and the results are already showing.
About half of the 2,000 people in the area home to Cedar Village apartments could be displaced during the first phase of a redevelopment project slated to begin in 2009.