MSU theater senior Nathaniel Nose has been making movies since he was 16 years old. His first feature-length film, "Unruly Nights," premiered in Lansing in October 2004.
Department of Residence Life officials are looking for more male applicants to serve in resident mentor positions.
In respect to whether Nazis should have the right to hold a rally at the Capitol this Saturday, I completely agree that they do. Nazis have the constitutional right to assemble and spew their hate speech. However, simply ignoring them, as some have proposed, and hoping they will go away is absolutely the wrong approach. That kind of apathetic response is what occurred in 1930s Germany. These racist thugs were ignored then and look what happened. The Lansing community needs to stop this ideology of racial annihilation from spreading by speaking out against it. Not by choosing to put it out of sight and out of mind.
Pop. Did you hear that? Pop. Pop. What the heck is that sound? Never mind that perpetual "pop" you might be hearing all across America.
Dear Dr. D., I am tired of all the hype about how bad marijuana is. Can you tell me the truth about if there are any harmful effects for the body?
April 8 was an important day for MSU graduate student T.J. Jourian. The advocate for transgender awareness was in Los Angeles accepting an award from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, for his involvement with the documentary "TransGeneration." During the acceptance speech in the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, he knelt down to one knee and proposed to Staci Gunner, his girlfriend and MSU student. Charlize Theron and the cast of "Will & Grace" gave the couple a standing ovation as Gunner accepted the proposal. "We were looking at each other and there was yelling and clapping and screaming," Gunner said.
You've probably walked its path every day, but Grand River Avenue is much more than the dividing line between MSU and East Lansing.
Student government officials discussed the difference between open- and closed-session meetings at their Tuesday meeting in an attempt to educate members about proper governing procedure. Each member of ASMSU's Academic Assembly received a photocopied page explaining the difference between the types of sessions. Academic Assembly Chairperson Eric Hinojosa told assembly members they would suffer consequences if they broke procedure by volunteering information, such as hiring evaluations of potential employees, outside of the closed-session meeting. "It's disrespectful to your fellow representatives," Hinojosa said.
MSU baseball head coach David Grewe might want to think about putting in for overtime pay. After three extra-inning games against Penn State last weekend, Grewe's Spartans have now played six extra-inning contests this season — more than they played the past two seasons combined. "I think it says something about our kids competing," Grewe said.
Beneath the large garage doors backstage in the Breslin Center, Nicole Mancuso restarted Aerosmith's song "Dream On" on her iPod and began practicing a dance routine again. With intense concentration, the communication freshman punched her arms outward before throwing her body into a graceful spin on tiptoe to the music as she and 26 other women warmed up for the MSU Dance Team tryouts last week. Moments later, each would perform before a panel of judges at center court. Each would have a chance to dance alongside others, and, finally, by themselves. "I've done everything I can, so hopefully I have a good one," Mancuso said before the tryouts began. It was the second round of tryouts hosted by the student-managed MSU Dance Team, an about 15-member team that has performed routines to music at all football and men's basketball games and some special events for four seasons, team captains Jennifer Chiroyan and Justine Richards said. The team has no coach, no official choreographer, no home-practice area and no official sponsor to send them away to competition, although it does receive money for uniforms and training camps from the athletic department, Richards said. Captains and current team members managed the tryouts and gave team-hopefuls a day to learn two routines and a day to practice before putting each dancer to the test. This year was the first time incoming freshmen were able to audition for the team. "It's very stressful," Chiroyan said.
1 The fifth annual National High Five Day is this Thursday. The holiday originated at the University of Virginia in 2002 when students high fived everyone they saw.
Firefighters were able to extinguish a fire that spread over part of an Okemos house, yard and surrounding forest Tuesday afternoon. There were no injuries and the fire was under control within 50 minutes, said Meridian Township Fire Department Battalion Chief Rocky Larner. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and property owners would not comment. Larner said he did not know an estimated amount of damage. While firefighters secured the house and surrounding area, tankers carrying thousands of gallons of water waited at the end of the long driveway in case more water was needed. Since the rural area doesn't have fire hydrants, volunteers from the Ingham County Tanker Task Force will haul as much as 30,000 gallons of water to the scene of a fire, said Don Gailey. Gailey organized the task force more than 10 years ago. He waited in a large red tanker truck, which holds 3,000 gallons, in case more water was needed Tuesday afternoon. Gailey, a retired Mason resident who's been a volunteer fireman for nearly 50 years, organized the task force after realizing the need for organization at a large fire about 15 years ago. There were tankers before, he said, but they weren't organized.
What does equality really mean? Everyone believes they have a firm grasp on the meaning of the word, but the term is amorphous.
College students are usually more closely associated with binge drinking and cramming for exams than religion and spirituality. But a recent Harvard University Institute of Politics poll released last week, shows a majority of U.S.
I shouldn't be shocked by anything the United States government does anymore. Or the things it does, but doesn't tell me about. After all, I attend a university where the Board of Trustees routinely holds business dinners, and then tries to pass them off as social gatherings. A board that holds private committee meetings a day before the public meeting, and doesn't see anything wrong with keeping the public out. So why should I be surprised when my government starts removing public records from the U.S.
After reading Jim Schwartz's letter "Don't draw attention to offensive language" (SN 4/17), I couldn't help but feel that he is a very misguided individual. Not only does he miss the point that a word does matter when it is part of your identity that is under attack, but also he fails to recognize that ignoring a problem rarely makes it go away. Individuals will not change their behavior unless given a reason to.
When Gov. Jennifer Granholm gave her State of the State address in January, she emphasized the role of research universities in improving Michigan's economy.
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, students can help MSU's Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention by eating at Cold Stone Creamery, 200 M.A.C.
Students living in Hubbard and Case halls will not have to worry about hiring a loft service to build and break down their beds this fall. University Housing officials decided to replace the furniture in the halls with new modern-style lofts, similar to those already in place in Holmes and Shaw halls. Officials will begin to install the furniture this summer. Currently, students must hire and pay an outside company to build lofts in their rooms.