COMMENTARY
Leasing nightmare
The dorms are a lot like your parents. They provide food and shelter, wash your clothes and monitor your guests.
NEWS
ASMSU's election conduct debatable
With this afternoon's chairperson elections, ASMSU's Student Assembly may have violated its code of operations, which specifies election guidelines. The assembly must be notified of the vacancy and time and place of the elections and applications must be available "no less than seventeen class days" prior to the date of the election, under Section 27 of the Student Assembly Code of Operations. Representatives could not specify the date they were informed of the elections nor could they verify when the date packets were made available. The code also states applications must be turned in no later than seven days before the election, but applications could be turned in up until Tuesday, two days before the election. Also, under Section 27, Part B, the ASMSU Director of Human Resources is required to inform the student body with details of the impending election in a newspaper advertisement days before the election.
NEWS
Rise in property value raises project's budget
East Lansing will spend $2 million more on the Virginia Avenue project than originally was projected in 2004. City officials attribute the larger budget to rising property values. The project's updated budget calls for an investment of $5.3 million by the city.
COMMENTARY
Fundamentalism is not associated in 2 religions
In her column "Getting Thick Skin" (SN 4/10), Jessica Byrom implies that calling a Baptist a fundamentalist is tantamount to calling him a terrorist. Christian fundamentalism refers to a specific movement within Christianity that stresses the infallibility and literal truth of the Bible, and is not a disparaging term.
COMMENTARY
Capitalist society allows for economic freedoms
As is typical with Mike Ramsey's cartoons, his Laissez-faire Pizzeria cartoon grossly oversimplifies a complicated issue to the detriment of the truth.
COMMENTARY
Gay hate perpetuated by use of derogatory word
I think Jessica Byrom, in her column "Getting thick skin" (SN 4/10), underestimates the effects language can have and the ways in which it shapes our perceptions of people.
COMMENTARY
Mich. shouldn't have official language
To help alleviate the state's budget deficit, Rep. Jack Hoogendyk, R-Kalamazoo, has introduced a bill to declare English as Michigan's official language. The designation, according to Hoogendyk, would save the state millions of dollars currently allocated to translating governmental documents from departments such as the Secretary of State. The state currently is facing a combined $3 billion deficit. While Gov.
MSU
MSU Law graduate's article cited in Supreme Court case
Justin Peterson, a 2006 MSU College of Law graduate, wrote an article for the Michigan State Law Review in his second year that was recently cited in a brief argued before the U.S.
COMMENTARY
Parking tickets unfairly pre-written at meters
Has anybody else noticed the dishonest way that parking tickets are being given out on campus? On April 4, my wife parked on West Circle Drive at a meter.
ICE HOCKEY
NHL playoffs fun for all
State News sports reporter and hockey fanatic Matt Bishop talks about the NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs, which kicked off Wednesday with four games. Question: So, opening thoughts on this year's playoffs? Answer: I am like a kid in a candy store right now.
MSU
TV becomes interactive
Txt me @ the CW 2nite. Translation, please? Text me at The CW tonight. Two MSU students are making a splash in the broadcast world as hosts of The CW channel's "Text Me TV" program, which allows viewers to text message the show's hosts live. Viewers in the Lansing area can see the program nightly from 1:30-6 a.m.
MICHIGAN
Video shows E.L. life
"Rental World: MSU" is available for viewing online at www.offcampusliving.msu.edu. The scripted spin-off of MTV's "The Real World" follows five MSU students as they experience off-campus life.
MICHIGAN
Awards set for April 19
The 20th annual East Lansing Crystal Awards will be held at 6 p.m. April 19 in the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road.
COMMENTARY
Host's remark degrades women, not just blacks
Talk-show host Don Imus claimed the members of the Rutgers women's basketball team were a bunch of "nappy-headed hos." This put the black community up in arms: "How dare this white man call our people nappy-headed?
MSU
5K race to benefit MSU Safe Place
MSU Safe Place will hold its 5K "Race for the Place" later this month to benefit its shelter for victims of relationship violence. The race begins at 1 p.m.
NEWS
College magician brings act to Penn State campus
By Anne Danahy McClatchy Newspapers University Park, Pa. (MCT) — The rubber bands on Nathan Kepner's wrist look innocuous — he's a Penn State student, so maybe they're there to organize his papers or fiddle with during a long lecture. But after a while, Kepner has them stretched between his fingers.
NEWS
Grad student named MSU Employee of the Year
Many of his supervisors at the MSU Physical Plant call him an asset to the university. A great person to work with.
MSU
Mich. colleges cover blogging
The process of using Web logs, or blogs, started out as a way for people to express themselves to as wide an audience as would read them. Now it's hard to go to a major news or sports Web site without being able to easily access one of the writer's personal blogs. They're everywhere. A few colleges across Michigan incorporated blogging into their journalism programs, but professors at these schools realize the potential exists for a number of flaws to creep into any blogger's post. "Blogging offers an immediacy that print newspapers can't keep up with," MSU Editor in Residence Garry Gilbert said.
MSU
Free film series addresses rape culture
The Rape Culture Film Series will continue at 8 p.m. tonight at Wells Hall with "Rape Is …" The 30-minute movie discusses the consequences of rape and its status as the most underreported crime in the U.S. A second feature will be shown at 9 p.m.
NEWS
Happy homecoming
Just before the hockey national championship parade started, Phil Collins' hit song "In the Air Tonight" blared from a radio station van near Spartan statue. Collins couldn't have been more right. With thousands of fans lining East Grand River Avenue, Abbott Road and East and West Circle drives, and hundreds more congregated around Spartan statue, the MSU hockey team received boisterous support from fans covered in green and white. These fans ranged in age — they could tell you about the 1966 national championship, the 1986 national championship and some were barely old enough to remember the start of the 2006-07 season. And when senior captain Chris Lawrence, holding the national championship trophy above his head, bolted down the green carpet laid down on the ice in Munn Ice Arena and placed it on a white-clothed table, an estimated 4,500 fans awaiting the team's arrival erupted in cheers. "I don't have to question it, but if it's that loud every game (next season), I don't think any team in the nation would want to play here," junior defenseman Daniel Vukovic said. When Lawrence was introduced to the fans, he skated around the rink at full speed with a white MSU flag, stopping at the center ice line to wave it with joy, pride and an uncontrollable smile. "I just completely blacked out in the moment," Lawrence said.