FEATURES
World of wild
Pets can make even the loneliest college years a little brighter. Here is everything you need to keep your pet happy and healthy.
FEATURES
Hello, we are Steve McCormack and Kelly Morrison
For more than 10 years, Steve McCornack, 44, and Kelly Morrison, 42, have joined forces to teach COM 225, An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication, together.
MSU
MSU students bring new men's lacrosse league to Lansing area
Whipping down a lacrosse field and attacking the goal is nothing new to business management sophomore Ben Burland and international relations and Spanish senior Brian Baines. But starting a business for the sport is something they aren’t familiar with.
FEATURES
Freshmen fifteen Q's
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face at MSU and a perspective on his new frontier.
FEATURES
Pet boutique goes wild for originality
When looking for a gift for a special pooch that doesn’t bite, try a pink camouflage bone or a six pack of beef-flavored nonalcoholic beer to mix it up.
FEATURES
Pet project
Alejandro is a social creature. At one and a half years old, he can already say his name and age. He makes sure to greet passers-by with a polite nod of his head. Not too shabby for a Hyacinth macaw.
SPORTS
DeMartin poised for stellar year
Doug DeMartin has had an up-and-down career at MSU. As a freshman in 2005, DeMartin scored seven goals, including two game-winners, with three assists. But those numbers tailed off to two goals and three assists last season. Now, it appears DeMartin has put that behind him and things are looking up again – he scored two goals in the season’s opening two games this past weekend. Both of them were game-winners.
COMMENTARY
MSU Football T-shirt design spawns new student fan era
When I first saw the design that would be on the student football T-shirts, I hated it. It didn’t seem clever, look good or stand out. The first week of school came, and I saw a lot of people wearing those ugly shirts.
COMMENTARY
More bike paths to eliminate dangers of walking on campus
I’m happy to see that there are more bike paths on campus this year. Though there are still areas around campus that have them missing, it is an improvement. Now I’m hoping that the cyclists will stay on the paths and everyone else will stay off of them. Hopefully now the quarreling between bikers and walkers on campus will end.
COMMENTARY
Proper education about healthy sex practices needed
I agree with Nate Sherman in Abortion trumps animal cruelty (SN 8/29) when he mentions that women (and men!) should be prepared and willing to accept the consequences before becoming sexually active. Yet, he only makes this point after implying that women make the decision to have an abortion on some sort of whim – by simply moseying on down to the local Planned Parenthood. The choice to terminate a pregnancy is neither a flippant one nor is it a result of hasty thinking. Insinuating that this is the case is derogatory and dismissive to a woman’s ability to reason and make intelligent decisions about her body and her fetus.
COMMENTARY
Abortion columnist on soapbox, unrealistic
I would sincerely like to thank columnist Nate Sherman for equating women with dogs in Abortion trumps animal cruelty (SN 8/29). I was dangerously close to giving into my delusions of being an unoppressed, equal citizen, but he sure snapped me out of it. It’s now very clear to me that dogs are bred for fighting and women are bred for, well, breeding.
COMMENTARY
Jesus is not returning
According to The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, “An overwhelming percentage of Christians (79 percent) say they believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ.”
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MSU alums' hobby becomes more than a game
A couple of times a semester, roughly 25 MSU students get together to play computer games in a local area network, or LAN, gaming group on campus – allowing them to play with and against each other.
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Distinguished alumnus, art enthusiast dies
John T. Scott, an MSU alumnus and accomplished sculptor, died Saturday in New Orleans from a complication in two bilateral lung transplants. He was 67.
COMMENTARY
East Village project dragging on for too long
After three years of planning, pondering, proposing and puttering around, the East Village project may finally begin – in a few more years.
MSU
LBGT hosts resource fair
Under an arch of balloons in every color of the rainbow, Mandi Rabe and Bridget Kelley, both sophomores, sat ready to answer questions and recruit potential members to the People Respecting Individuality of Students, or PRISM, on Tuesday at the MSU Union.
NEWS
Big Ten Network up, running, and entertaining to boot
It’s been on the air less than a week, but I am already in love with the Big Ten Network. Th…
MICHIGAN
Mich. to move up in presidential primary line
Michigan will be one of the first states in the country to hold its presidential primary in 2008 — for now. Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a bill on Tuesday approving a move to change Michigan’s primary date from Feb. 26 to Jan. 15, placing the vote behind Iowa and New Hampshire’s scheduled primaries.
NEWS
Police brief 09/04/07
An Xbox 360 and a black Motorola i860 cell phone were stolen from an Emmons Hall dorm room Friday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. An unknown suspect entered a 19-year-old student’s dorm room between 4:15-4:25 p.m., while the student used the bathroom, McGlothian-Taylor said.
MICHIGAN
Cholesterol awareness remains low
Pop quiz: Are women aged 18-44 more likely to know how much they weighed in high school or their cholesterol level? If you said cholesterol level, your expectations of society’s health awareness may be too high.