RHA elects new vice president
The Residence Halls Association elected political theory and constitutional democracy sophomore Mark Dobson as the organization's vice president Wednesday. "I am ecstatic," said Dobson, the Wilson Hall representative for the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, soon after finding out he earned the spot.
Do you know about it?
Spreading awareness about events and circumstances around the world is the first step in eliciting change. And that's exactly what members of Spartans Taking Action Now: Darfur, or STAND, did on Monday.
President's plan focus of meeting
The goals of the College of Social Science are in step with the university's goals, officials said Wednesday at the college's annual informational forum. The forum focused on the status of the college, its place in the university and ways to collaborate on universitywide initiatives, such as MSU President Lou Anna K.
Bill could lift Mich. Single Business Tax
Michigan's Single Business Tax would be repealed in December 2007 if a bill passed by the Senate on Wednesday becomes law. The Senate voted almost entirely along party lines in passing the bill, which was approved in the House last week. The Single Business Tax, or SBT, was scheduled to expire in 2009. The bill also stipulates the revenue lost by repealing the SBT will not be replaced by raising taxes or rates on the state income tax, the sales tax, use tax or property tax. Gov.
Policy bad idea when considering reality
As a night receptionist in Case and Wonders halls, I was outraged to read about a major policy change on the front page of The State News, "Dorms to require guests to leave IDs" (SN 3/16). This is not a good idea, for the following reasons: • It will cost significantly more money for the university to staff enough people to deal with the extra work this will cause. • Guests are going to be unwilling to leave their IDs with night receptionists and will therefore use the side doors more often, causing us to not have any record of them being in the building. • Night receptionists should not be held responsible for IDs.
2 Lansing residents charged with child abuse, murder
A Lansing man and woman were arrested Wednesday morning for the abuse and murder of the woman's 2-year-old child, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said. Cynthia Daniel, 30, and Samuel Courtland, 31, are in jail with no bond on counts of child abuse and open murder. Daniel's 2-year-old son, Jalyn Daniel, died last May from pneumonia. "This kid was tortured," Dunnings said.
Student actors give play new light
Murphy Elementary School 5th graders and MSU students are teaming up to help others peer through "William's Window," a play about employing imagination to understand Shakespeare.
Businesses feel the loss
It's not just the MSU men's basketball team or the student body that felt like Friday's first-round loss to tournament Cinderella George Mason was a letdown. Local East Lansing stores planning for big MSU merchandise sales and restaurants expecting huge turnouts for Spartan tournament games in the later rounds are feeling the effects of the Spartans' second first-round exit in the last three years. "We're not even doing 5 to 10 percent of what we did last year," said Stacey Renfrow, assistant buyer of Spartan Bookstore, located in the International Center.
Miller's tradition becomes pregame staple for success
They say the playoffs are no place for a nervous person. Maybe that's the reason for the latest pregame ritual in the Spartans locker room, which involves a garbage can and plenty of hockey sticks. Aside from growing out the facial hair — as many players do in the postseason — the Spartans have begun to place their sticks in the locker room garbage can prior to games to signify the importance of the hard-working and far from glamorous "garbage goals." "I didn't know anything about it until I walked in the locker room one day, and I saw a stick in the garbage," MSU head coach Rick Comley said.
Dispute puts plan to improve Brookfield Plaza in limbo
A $2 million face-lift is in the works for a Grand River Avenue shopping center. Everyone involved seems to agree that it's a great project — providing a much-needed cleanup and addressing traffic problems. But what they can't agree on is how it should be done, and now the owner of the property says that conditions imposed on the project might prevent it from happening at all. On Tuesday, the East Lansing City Council was slated to consider a redevelopment project at Brookfield Plaza, located at the northwest corner of Grand River Avenue and Hagadorn Road and home to the Country Markett grocery store.
Solid 4th line steps up and gives Spartans an edge
With the score 2-1 and less than six minutes left to play in Saturday's CCHA playoff-clinching victory, MSU head coach Rick Comley sent out the fourth line to kill some time off the clock and recharge his other lines. Not only did the trio of sophomore Zak McClellan, junior Chris Lawrence and freshman Nick Sucharski eat the clock and protect the lead, but they outplayed the opposing Miami line while generating a scoring chance. "Every time he can put us out there, it doesn't really matter what time of the game it is, it gives us a lot of confidence — just being able to go out there and know that he has faith in us," McClellan said. "We go out there, and we know in our heads that we can make things happen." Mixed in with redshirt freshman Dan Sturges for much of the season, the fourth line has been trusted to go out and play in critical situations when most other college coaches could have them riding the bench. "I trust them to go out there and be responsible and play how we want to play and that's not unusual.
MSU to study online safety
By Caitlin Scuderi For The State News Internet buyers beware: Someone might be phishing for your information. Phishing, or sending an e-mail falsely claiming to be an establishment in order to obtain personal information to be used for identity theft, is happening more frequently, MSU police Sgt.
Policy will not make residence halls safer
I would like to thank the university for their new policy regarding overnight guests. Not only does it sound like a delightful hassle for students to surrender their ID and retrieve it the next morning, but it is an unfair and meaningless policy. For no logical reason, the university assumes all students will be tempted to "behave inappropriately" unless they surrender their IDs to the night receptionist.
Getting to know Duke.
• The women's basketball team takes on Duke in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday.
Drag show mixes fun, political messages
Last year, the debut of "Kiss My Gender" attracted more than 400 people from around Michigan With such success, participants couldn't miss the opportunity for an encore performance, said Jordan Furrow, member of Drag King Rebellion, or DKR, and MSU alumnus, in a press release. Tonight at 9:30 p.m.
E.L. amends law for Breathalyzers
A revision to an East Lansing law will officially allow people to turn down a breath analysis test without being ticketed or fined — although the method had been practiced by East Lansing police for more than two years. The East Lansing City Council approved the amendment Tuesday evening after a brief public hearing. Although the revisions were just brought up at a February 28 City Council meeting, East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said voluntary consent for a breath analysis test — commonly known as a Breathalyzer — in this type of situation isn't new.
53 Detroit schools close due to protest
When Muhammad Khalifa arrived at school Wednesday, he quickly learned classes had been canceled. Khalifa, an MSU education administration graduate student, teaches at Winterhalter Elementary School in Detroit, which was one of 53 schools in the Detroit public school district that closed after more than 1,500 teachers across the system "called in sick" as a means of protesting an unpopular contract requirement. Khalifa said the teachers were upset because many thought the district took advantage of them during their most recent contract negotiations. "Initially they signed a contract with the district to work five days for free this year," Khalifa said.
Plans could clean up local shopping center
Robert Phipps knows his shopping center is in need of some cleanup. Since buying Brookfield Plaza, located on the east end of East Lansing off Grand River Avenue, Phipps has spent the last seven years sprucing it up. "It still looks ugly in my mind — the center — and it looks 100 percent better than when I bought it," he said. Phipps has renovated much of the interior space in the complex and plans to invest in exterior redevelopments next. But the biggest mess that hasn't been dealt with isn't in the storefronts or the parking lot.