With the first MSU Board of Trustees meeting of the year only 10 days away, the board's two newest members agree rising tuition costs are among the most important issues to tackle this semester. "I want to learn as much as I can about how we can keep tuition from getting so high," Trustee George Perles said.
When a map wasn't enough to get Gugulethu Mabuza around campus, he took matters into his own hands. The electrical engineering senior from Zimbabwe sat down at his computer and went to work. For the past year, Mabuza and George Iseid, an MSU alumnus, have been working on Spartylive.com, an interactive map of campus and the surrounding area. The site uses Google Maps and its application program interface to give students a more detailed map of campus.
Delma Smith welcomes clutter. The more clutter, the more she has to organize. "I just get really excited and enthused," said Smith, owner of the Charlotte, Mich.-based company Organizing for You.
Teach classes, hold office hours, perform emergency surgery on a rare African lion. For MSU veterinary professor Bryden Stanley, not every day can be considered typical. Amboseli, a 17-year-old lion living in Lansing's Potter Park Zoo, was anesthetized on Dec.
Junior defenseman Daniel Vukovic was named CCHA Defensive Player of the Week for his first career time.
East Lansing officials want $35,000 set aside for a fund that would promote MSU technology and keep businesses in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties. The untitled fund is in its early stages of creation, but City Manager Ted Staton said East Lansing wants to use the money with surrounding communities to strengthen the economy in Greater Lansing.
News is always interesting when it leaves out major facts. "Campus media question SN employment policy" (SN 11/30) did just that.
Have you noticed the racy photographs outside our East Lansing American Apparel store? How did they make you feel? Some images currently on display include a young, blond woman wearing a gray, tri-blend, cropped T-shirt and panties, and a young Hispanic man in a white, V-neck T-shirt and slim slacks.
Faces were stuffed with turkey and mashed potatoes. Families sat around all day watching football. Exercise was the last thing on most people's minds during the holiday season.
A team of astronomers, including two MSU professors, discovered a black hole in an unlikely location. Stephen Zepf, a physics and astronomy professor at MSU, said the team's discovery of a black hole within a globular cluster, which is a dense collection of stars found in nearly all galaxies, is the first one of its kind. "The idea of black holes grows directly from Einstein's theory of general relativity," Zepf said in an e-mail.
On Dec. 6, the students in the residence halls were treated to the annual holiday dinner. It has been customary to invite all staff members, as well as faculty and guests.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon traveled to Hong Kong this week to talk with philanthropists from the Sun Wah Education Foundation.
A 20-year-old MSU student was charged Wednesday with embezzling more than $20,000 from the Best Buy in Okemos, where she worked. Katy Gozalka, an interdisciplinary studies in social science junior, is accused of misappropriating about $35,000 during a three-month period before she was arrested while working Tuesday at the 2020 Grand River Ave.
College Park, Md. — News flash: Maryland is pretty good. After stomping MSU, 97-57, on Saturday to remain undefeated, the Terrapins looked well on their way to another Final Four appearance and a chance to defend their national championship. After being outrebounded in their previous game against North Carolina State, Maryland came out with an aggressiveness that MSU had yet to see this season and took it to the Spartans on the glass, winning the rebounding battle by 24. "That was, I think, the second time in two years that we were outrebounded," Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said.
Playing its first game since head coach Mark Dantonio left for MSU, the Cincinnati football team defeated Western Michigan in the International Bowl on Saturday. MSU immediately fired Dantonio in hopes that it will also play better without him. Former MSU football head coach Nick Saban left the Miami Dolphins last week to assume the vacant coaching position at Alabama. MSU officials had reportedly made overtures to Saban to return to the Spartans, but their interest waned when Saban wouldn't stop laughing on the other end of the phone. An Air Force B-1B bomber will do a fly-over of University of Phoenix stadium just before the start of today's championship game. Bowl officials expect it to be the loudest noise in the stadium until Florida fans start calling for backup quarterback Tim Tebow in the second quarter. The Dallas Cowboys' postseason ended Saturday when quarterback Tony Romo botched the hold of a potential game-winning field goal in the game's final minutes. Reporters waited anxiously to ask Romo what went wrong on the failed play, but his answer was inaudible after he dropped the microphone on the ground. Miami Heat head coach Pat Riley, whose team has dropped five straight games since losing Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal to injury, underwent surgery on his right knee last week. Riley said doctors told him the surgery would sideline him until a few days after Wade and O'Neal return.
After Saddam Hussein's execution, President Bush issued a statement saying Saddam's death "will not end violence in Iraq." For once, I agree with him. Saddam's death has been ballyhooed as an important step forward for the Iraqi people, bringing them one step closer to sustaining a democracy and becoming an ally in the war on terror.
Of all the possible effects of Proposal 2, student government officials attest their funding and programs will not be harmed. Shannon Scott, RHA director of racial, ethnic and progressive affairs, said administrators have said the Residence Halls Association will not have to make changes to its policies, programs or how its money is spent. "I don't foresee any major changes," Scott said.
With his face strained and muscles taut, senior wrestler Tony Greathouse scored a takedown in the final seconds of the fifth match to overcome Central Michigan's Andy Keller against the Chippewas on Friday night at Jenison Field House. But the Spartans' glory didn't last through the duration of the match. While Greathouse's takedown served as an exclamation point at the end of a dominant start for the Spartans, the No.
Bloomington, Ind. — With a little more than a minute left in Sunday's 73-51 blowout loss to Indiana, MSU was subjected to an "overrated" chant that rang down from the bleachers in Assembly Hall.
By Jacob Carpenter The State News Richard Liscombe isn't selling the typical winter footwear.