When the MSU football team hosts No. 1 Ohio State this weekend, it'll be doing so with several key players either out or injured. Senior wide receiver Matt Trannon was carted off the field with an ankle injury in the fourth quarter of Saturday's 31-13 loss to Michigan.
The State News' inept reporting of the first gubernatorial debate of the year provides a clear demonstration of exactly what is wrong with today's news media.
Michigan didn't need any extra help in its near-perfect 31-13 win against MSU on Saturday, but the Spartans gave them plenty. Penalties were a problem for the Green and White throughout the day, from early in the first quarter to the end of the game.
University officials are continuing plans to move the College of Human Medicine to Grand Rapids to expand MSU's medical program. Aron Sousa, the associate dean of academic affairs at the College of Human Medicine, said the project is on schedule, and next year's recruits could be using the facility by 2008. "The way things are going, 50 of next year's recruits would be attending those facilities and would continue to go there through their third and fourth years," he said.
By Cecilia Oleck Detroit Free Press Detroit (MCT) — Dayna Schultz looks as if there is an earthquake going on under her feet. She stands ramrod-straight, teeth clenched, gripping a gray walker for support as her body shakes like a jackhammer, the walker every so often slipping off the side of the large metal plate she is on. Yet for all the motion, Schultz, 19, of Morris, Minn., is calm.
Ann Arbor — The MSU football team knew going in to Saturday's game against No. 6 U-M that it would have to play near-perfect football for 60 minutes to stay competitive.
Perhaps it's a curse. Maybe, just maybe, when shady timekeeping granted MSU a controversial extra second against Michigan in 2001 and Jeff Smoker used that extra second to loft a game-winning touchdown pass to T.J.
It seems that every Monday following a home football game, The State News has at least one letter to the editor condemning students' behavior before, during or after the game. But what some people seemingly fail to realize is that there are always two, perhaps even more, sides to every story. Yes, the Illinois fans who chose to sit in the Spartan student section were treated poorly.
You can call him the professor of soccer. It is a well-earned title for the man who has dedicated the last 33 years of his life to the MSU men's soccer program, coming from a time when just one player from Michigan suited up, to a time when the majority of the players are from this state.
Last week, health officials from across Michigan met at the Kellogg Center to discuss issues related to health care for minorities. Hosted by the Michigan Minority Health Coalition, or MMHC, and GlaxoSmithKline Inc., the mission of the meeting was to promote a better understanding within our community of diseases people might be prone to and resources to help them. In a state with a diverse population and a disturbingly high obesity rate, meetings like this are vital for promoting a healthy community.
Michigan will now pay for college graduates to stay in the state. Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced a plan Thursday to entice graduates to stay in Michigan by offering low-interest housing loans in communities that need economic development. The low-interest loans, which go into effect Monday, are only applicable in eight Michigan cities, that "need some additional assistance," Granholm said Thursday. "They are communities that have been struggling in the past, and we want to urge dynamic people to move into each of them and provide a carrot for you to do that," Granholm said.
And so sparks the demise of the Grand Ol' Party. After a revelation that disturbing conversations had allegedly taken place between a 16-year-old former page and former Rep.
Bath Township — Vice President Dick Cheney said the United States must reject any strategy that hinders the war on terror Thursday afternoon during a Republican fundraiser in Bath Township, located seven miles north of East Lansing. "Terrorists are still trying desperately to commit acts of violence," Cheney said.
In response to Jeff Stempel's letter "Cartoon wrong; pope's remarks not insensitive," (SN 9/26), his assertion that Muslims "broke out in protest … without even finding out what Pope Benedict XVI had actually said" is one of fantastic irony. It lies in ignorantly digesting an influential religious figure's words without questioning their context, purpose and validity and then accusing the targeted party of doing the same.
MSU at No. 6 Michigan 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Michigan Stadium, ESPN SH-So Drew Stanton has sore ribs, MSU has a banged-up offensive line and Michigan has one of the country's best defensive lines.
To stay or not to stay? That's the question many MSU students must ask themselves after the annual two-day Career Gallery ended at Breslin Center Thursday. Sixty-four percent of last year's graduates who were in-state students remained in Michigan, said Phil Gardner, director of research at the Collegiate Employment Research Institute. "It's slowly gone down," Gardner said, adding that the figure was about 75 percent in the late '90s. This year's graduating class must make a similar decision. During the Career Gallery, students eyed 355 different companies that offered different location possibilities across the country. Chris Terrell, who attended the job fair, lives in a townhouse with three roommates who are all business majors.
I would like to commend all the student organizations and individuals involved in protesting the Young Americans for Freedom's racist and xenophobic "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" activities.
Lansing — Opposing sides of a Michigan ballot proposal to ban some state affirmative action programs squared off Thursday in Lansing. The Inforum Center for Leadership sponsored a Michigan Civil Rights Initiative debate at the Lansing Sheraton hotel between MCRI Executive Director Jennifer Gratz, who supports the initiative, and Bruce Courtade, a Grand Rapids lawyer who opposes it.
The Student Organic Farm Harvest Fest will be held from 1-5 p.m. Saturday. The farm was created in 1999 to provide information to students regarding organically grown food. Events featured at the festival include fresh food, hayrides, farm tours, cider-pressing, face-painting and a pie-eating contest, among other things. The festival will feature live music from local bands Head and Toe, A Story Told and Dali Rocket. The farm is located at 3291 College Road in Holt.
Oh no, the world must be approaching the apocalypse — attorney Howard K. Stern may not be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby; instead, it could be photographer Larry Birkhead.