While most 18-year-olds are preparing to leave their high schools to start new lives as undergraduates, Taraz Buck will be leaving MSU to begin working on his doctorate. Buck was one of the youngest full-time students to enroll at MSU at age 14.
When flipping through celebrity weeklies, you are guaranteed to see paparazzi photographs of impeccably chic celebs frolicking at the beach — even while they're wearing little makeup and minimal clothing.
"The Glass Castle" tells of a 3-year-old girl who ends up in the hospital after spilling boiling water on herself as she tried to make hot dogs. It tells of children so hungry, they devour sticks of margarine for dinner. It tells of an alcoholic father, and a mother who lives in her own world. And yet, despite the heartbreaking sadness of the novel, it still manages to make you laugh.
Breathe. It's almost over. A smooth transition into sweet summer days is just around the corner — that is, if you're prepared for finals week. Flowers are popping up all over campus.
German-born and internationally renowned artist Caspar Henselmann donated an abstract sculpture to MSU that was installed on the southwest corner of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building on Tuesday. The sculpture, titled "BP 87," is made of steel and cement.
Whenever I profess that I'm not religious to a new friend, I have a twinge of stress. The reaction I usually get is "how can you live like that?" but there are far more pretentious responses I have received, such as "have you ever heard of don't ask, don't tell?" Since when did not being religious become a huge stigmatization?
By Alexandra Artymovich For The State News Jessica Schiebold, a student at the Douglas J Aveda Institute carefully tints a customer's hair between pieces of foil on Tuesday afternoon. Instead of using a plastic cap, foil gives a more professional finish, said Schiebold, 20. The technique is one of many services students are taught at the institute, 331 E.
Students are one step closer to adding academic minors to their transcripts now that the concept has been approved by the Academic Governance system. Individual colleges and departments have been given the OK to consider whether they will offer academic minors to students, following the approval of a proposal about the topic at Tuesday's Academic Council meeting. Academic minors are defined as a secondary field of study for undergraduates and are made up of courses that provide a student with understanding of the field's major concepts. "It's a long, overdue change that the students have been asking for quite awhile," said Eric Hinojosa, ASMSU's Academic Assembly chairperson. Sarah Kunst, a retailing and interdisciplinary studies in social science sophomore, said she would add a minor to her transcript. "As a retailing major, I have a business cognate, but I think that having a minor shows your work more," Kunst said.
For members of the Muslim Students' Association, it was hard to understand why MSU administrators told them an e-mail message criticizing Muslims was not an act of harassment covered by the university's antidiscrimination policy. An e-mail sent to the association by mechanical engineering Professor Indrek Wichman on Feb.
By So-Jin Seibold For The State News For their July 2005 wedding, East Lansing residents Kim and Scott Fritz wanted a cake that would not only taste sublime, but would wow their guests with its artistic appeal. To create their confectionery wish, the couple turned to Stan and Linda Fedewa, owners of A Piece O' Cake, 4966 Northwind Drive in East Lansing.
East Lansing announced Monday the winners of the 2006 Crystal Awards for enhancing the quality of life. This year's recipients are: Howard Ballein, owner of the Student Book Store, 417 E.
Made flash cards of vocabulary words? Check. Read study terms in textbook? Check. Played online video game with friends?
The final ASMSU Academic Assembly meeting of the semester was delayed for more than 40 minutes Tuesday until enough members showed up to begin. But when MSU's undergraduate student government finally reached a quorum, members voted College of Social Science representative Matthew Caramagno as the new internal vice chairperson.
A little bit of home cooking didn't do the MSU softball team any good Tuesday when it dropped a 2-1 nonconference contest to Western Michigan at Old College Field. The loss extends the Spartans' winless streak to five games — their longest of the season.
Dr. D., What advice would you give graduating seniors about health? Soon to be alumnus Dear STBA, I would first congratulate and wish you well.
The Food and Drug Administration has an enormous responsibility to protect consumers. It reviews new drugs and has the authority to pull drugs that could harm people from the market . But the FDA might not be living up to the standards necessary to protect consumers. According to a study by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative branch of Congress, the FDA is sometimes not quick enough in responding to safety issues in drugs on the market. The study also claims the FDA lacks an effective process for making decisions about and providing management oversight of safety issues for drugs on the market. The report was requested by Congress after the FDA was criticized for not acting more quickly on the drug Vioxx, which has been shown to increase the rate of strokes and heart attacks after long-term use. The report also states Congress needs to give the FDA the authority to make drug companies conduct studies of drugs on the market when additional data is needed. The relationship between people and the medications they take is such an important and intricate one that the FDA needs to be involved with. The FDA is under pressure from drug companies that want to release their drugs, which could benefit people and make a lot of money. The FDA is also under the public's pressure to get drugs that could help people out on the market. In that rush, drugs can make it into stores and people's medicine cabinets quickly. That's why it's important for the FDA to act as quickly as it can to investigate serious drug complications. It needs to carefully monitor the effects of drugs it's approving for the market. It should also have the authority to make drug companies conduct studies on drugs on the market if there have been reports of dangerous side effects. Drug companies have the responsibility to make sure the drugs they are making and selling are as safe as possible. It's the FDA's job to monitor these companies and make sure the drugs we're bringing home aren't lethal. As consumers, we should all be making careful decisions about what drugs we put in our bodies. But the FDA needs to make sure it's making sure these drugs are safe in the first place.
Police and university officials hope to start a university chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, to get students involved in prevention and education activities. "It's one thing for the police to talk about the dangers; it's another thing to hear it from your peers," MSU police Inspector Kelly Beck said. East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said he hopes to establish a student organization with police officers as resources. Wibert and Beck met with Mary Ann Bair, the MADD Michigan program director, earlier this month to discuss starting a UMADD chapter at MSU. Bair could not be reached for comment. When Wibert became police chief last May, he said he made drunken driving prevention a priority.
Bikes, play structures and bus stops used to dot the areas between sycamore trees and brick apartments.
Mike Ramsey's cartoon (SN 4/18) is just a crass attack by a pro-choice advocate to make people think someone with a pro-life stance doesn't care about women's health. But what about the physical risks of abortion to a woman, let alone the emotional trauma? A Johns Hopkins University study showed that infections occurred in 5.2 percent of first trimester abortions and in 18.5 percent of mid-trimester abortions (and these numbers were taken at a prestigious medical center, not your run-of-the-mill abortion clinic which provides far inferior care). These infections, as well as hemorrhaging and uterine perforation (which the abortion procedure can cause), can be fatal to the woman. The emotional trauma of abortion occurs quite frequently as well. Post Abortion Syndrome, or PAS, considered a form of post-traumatic stress disorder, is widely prevalent but with varying symptoms in women who have had abortions.
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