Every time I turn the corner, more and more Conservatives are standing on their soapboxes saying the government shouldn't endorse or encourage homosexual behavior.
In response to the complaints about the MSU e-mail system: While yes, I do agree the system needs a lot of attention, there is something you can do to avoid the problem.
Nursing sophomore Jon Nowak thinks MSU needs a fall break because students become stressed out during the long stretch between the beginning of the semester and Thanksgiving. However, economics senior Alison Smolinski said a break isn't necessary. "After midterms, you don't usually do anything anyways," she said.
Jeff Lerg got up at 6 a.m. for a month straight after Maine eliminated MSU in last year's East Regional final.
The East Lansing City Council is recognizing National Community Development Week from April 9-15. The city annually receives more than $600,000 in funding from federal Community Development Block Grants, which supports down payment assistance for new homebuyers, infrastructure improvements in low-income neighborhoods and housing projects, such as the Virginia Avenue development.
"Every three minutes, a woman is beaten; every five minutes, a women is raped." As temperatures dropped and snow swirled outside, about 40 people packed into the warmth of Green River Café, 211 M.A.C.
After reading Colleen Maxwell's article "Finding Home" (SN 4/2), I had to take a moment and absorb what I had just read because, quite frankly, I was shocked.
Hockey reporter Zack Colman and sports editor Eric Fish predict how the Spartans will fare in the Frozen Four. North Dakota vs.
Michigan landfills are charged with the duty of storing more than 42 million cubic yards of garbage every year.
John McPhail did not become a professional counselor to help people with sex addictions. But today, he treats up to four sex addicts a week, and the numbers seem to be growing. "People don't take pornography addictions very seriously, but it is devastating on relationships and careers," said the Lansing counselor, who also is an MSU adjunct psychology professor. While there is debate about whether porn can be addictive, many say it impacts society, relationships, jobs and body images.
I went to California a few years ago to visit a college. While I was there, I was fortunate enough to attend a meeting where a panel of women discussed the reasons they had abortions and the difficulty of making such a decision.
Officials at a national First Amendment organization say they could list MSU as a place where constitutional speech isn't protected — unless the university responds satisfactorily to their demands. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, wants MSU to dismantle a disciplinary seminar it says stifles students' constitutional rights. The possible placement on the list "sounds to me like a threat," said Lee June, MSU's vice president for Student Affairs and Services.
Last week, students were playing catch and laying under the sun studying. Now they are running from class to class, trying to keep warm. "It's been quite back and forth — too much for my liking.
Across campus, in dorm rooms and computer labs, students are hunching down at computer screens to complete that all-too important spring ritual — signing up for next year's classes.
I am a student at MSU and have recently become frustrated with people who simply cannot see a person with an assistance dog and leave them be.
Lansing — Jeff Frounfelker had a tough decision to make in Tuesday night's Crosstown Showdown.
On March 29, Spartans Supporting the Troops sponsored a bar crawl to raise money to send care packages overseas.
Despite a few cracks in the windows and some dust on the floor, the Paolucci Building remains a vision of another time and lifestyle. The 10-pane windows remain open to those walking past the two-level brick building, although students accustomed to historical buildings adorning their campus pass by unimpressed. Ivy grows on the concrete steps leading up to the building's many entrances, lined by trimmed hedges.
You've got mail. But is the system good enough? At its Thursday meeting, ASMSU's Student Assembly voted to "urge the appropriate administrators" to enhance MSU's Webmail service to become bigger, faster and more in line with today's basic e-mail systems. "Our technology on campus has come a long way, but our e-mail system needs some upgrades," said Scott Lachman, vice chairperson for student funding. Lachman said problems under the current mail system include a lack of font options, automatic spell check, colors, HTML support and limited storage space — 128 megabytes. The bill calls for Student Assembly Chairperson Roger Ludy to speak with administrators about the system.
A dozen University of Michigan students were arrested Tuesday evening after taking over President Mary Sue Coleman's office, according to a U-M graduate student who visited them in jail. The students hadn't been formally charged with trespassing as of 7:45 p.m., more than an hour after their arrest. At 9 a.m., members of U-M's Sweatfree Coalition stormed the office, demanding that Coleman sign onto a program to ensure factories producing items with U-M's logo aren't sweatshops, said Neil Sardana, a graduate student in public policy and public health. Around 5:52 p.m., Blase Kearney, a political science sophomore who was arrested, told The State News in a phone interview that he could see three police vans from a window in the locked office, and that he wouldn't leave until administrators met the group's demands or he was arrested. The coalition wants U-M to adopt the Designated Suppliers Program, a list of about 300 "certified" factories around the world that provide fair wages and respect workers' rights. MSU, a member of the consortium, has not adopted the Designated Suppliers Program and Students for Economic Justice hasn't made that a major campaign issue this year.