By Matt Bishop, Tom Keller, and Ethan Conely The State News Opening remarks: The Boss: OK, so last week the flipping-the-coin method didn't exactly work for me so I'm back to my regular hatchet-job picking.
I am writing in the same spirit as Ashley Kennon, "New trucks don't help parking woes" (SN 3/14) and many others have written. As students with limited income, we deserve to be better served by MSU parking enforcement.
I'm confused. Why exactly does The State News care enough to publish an editorial, "Talking it out" (SN 3/03), about what SpartanEdge.com is printing?
Four of the last five meetings between the No. 11 Wolverines and No. 5 Spartans have gone into overtime and resulted in ties. If today's CCHA semifinal matchup at Joe Louis Arena is anything reminiscent of the recent past, the two rivals could play into the early hours of Saturday morning to decide who advances to the conference championship game to play for the Mason Cup. "They're a really quality team," MSU head coach Rick Comley said.
Gathered around tables in groups of five, armed with markers and paper, East Lansing residents discussed, brainstormed and even fantasized. More than 50 community members attended the interactive community forum Wednesday night at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road, to discuss the future of parks and recreation programs in East Lansing.
When the referee tosses the ball into the air for the opening tip on Saturday, starting the first-round NCAA Tournament game between MSU and Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Liz Shimek and Lindsay Bowen will begin the fourth NCAA Tournament of their MSU careers. But not every player on the MSU women's basketball roster has the same tournament-tested mettle of Shimek and Bowen.
What are you planning on doing for St. Patrick's Day? "I'm most likely going to start the day at Crunchy's and bar hop through East Lansing.
Student government officials discussed a proposed 2006-07 budget among other issues as they returned to work Thursday after a week off for spring break.
A new academic center on campus is a place for students in four different medical disciplines to practice the same basic clinical abilities — from communicating with a patient to gathering data and documenting their experiences. The Learning and Assessment Center, a collaborative project of the colleges of Veterinary Medicine, Human Medicine, Nursing and Osteopathic Medicine, opened for business Thursday in Fee Hall. The new center offers a number of practice rooms loaded with equipment to allow students to practice the skills they will use in their future medical careers. Some labs, such as the simulation laboratory, have an array of "partial task trainers," or plastic models of body parts where students can practice inserting IVs, performing spinal taps and administering injections to joints. The "Sim Man" room is completely outfitted like a modern emergency room, which features a lifelike, computer-controlled mannequin that can be programmed to simulate a variety of symptoms and conditions, including a full heart attack. The center's director, Ruth Hoppe, said another important aspect of the center is its evaluation function. "It allows us to assess whether our students are ready to go into a real patient setting," Hoppe said. "This makes us more accountable to the community as well, because we know our students are not only knowledgeable, but able to perform the necessary tasks." College of Human Medicine Dean Marsha Rappley said the partnership between the four schools is a unique one in the nation. "It allows for an interdisciplinary team-learning model that is so critical in health care," Rappley said. "This is a critical resource for our students who will apply this knowledge soon in practice." Nursing junior Markia Jones was on hand for the grand opening to help demonstrate some of the training simulations that will take place in the center. She said the opportunity to practice in the lab environment was good because of how nervous most students feel when they go into the real world of hospital work. "It's great because you're more familiar with the skill that you get checked off in the lab," Jones said.
Cleaning up after a party can be bad enough. Imagine being responsible for the waste of another country, plus 12 other states. That's a lot of trash.
Today Softball FAU Parents' Weekend Tournament in Boca Raton, Fla. 9 a.m., 11 a.m. Baseball vs.
Catholics can celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Irish stew and corned beef hash today without breaking the Lenten tradition of not eating meat on Fridays. Bishop Carl Mengeling, of the Diocese of Lansing, announced that Catholics could eat meat on St.
When MSU made its run to the Final Four last season, three seniors — Tim Bograkos, Chris Hill and Kelvin Torbert — came off the bench for the Spartans. Now, with those players gone, MSU's freshman class will have to step in and make a significant contribution if the Spartans are to go far in the NCAA Tournament. "I tell them to just hang on," MSU head coach Tom Izzo said.
The Spartans play George Mason tonight in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Before they tip off, bust out a pencil and eraser, light the candles in your shrine for Izzo and test your March Madness knowledge in the following quiz.
Joshua Romero's recent letter, "Manuscripts support many Bible passages" (SN 3/02), contained some fictions. First, Romero mischaracterized my column "Truth of Bible can't be believed" (SN 2/21), making it appear that I was arguing something I wasn't. With regard to New Testament manuscripts, Romero claimed I had indefensibly asserted, "We can't know what the originals said." In reality, I wrote, "It's impossible to know with certainty what the original manuscripts said." Rephrasing a person's assertion to make it easier to attack is a popular and effective strategy, albeit intellectually dishonest. More annoying, however, was that Romero skirted my central point.
The Big Easy needs your help. I didn't know to what extent that was true until I went down to New Orleans and saw it for myself. MSU's Alternative Spring Break sent 23 people there, including myself, to gut three houses severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. When the storm hit last August, homes were flooded, destroyed and washed away.
When she first found out who the MSU women's basketball team would be playing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, senior guard Lindsay Bowen said she didn't know anything about the opponent. A few days have passed since the selection committee gave fourth-seeded MSU a first-round matchup against No.
Traditionally, film festivals have provided filmmakers with a venue for showing their more artistic or nontraditional works.
This letter is just to correlate with Rudy Bernard's excellent column "Scientists don't need to dismiss religion to be credible, accurate" (SN 3/14), which he wrote in response to John Bice's column, "Evolutionary theory, science needed to vaccinate irrational beliefs" (SN 2/16). Bice quotes from Elaine Ecklund's survey of 1,646 professors and drew the conclusion that "Natural science faculty were less likely to believe in God than social scientists." However, a careful reading of Ecklund's paper shows that isn't what she said.
I am writing in response to Abdulahi Sufi's statement made in his column, "Wells Hall preachers don't consider what they say or who they judge" (SN 3/13), stating that Jesus never claimed to be God. Although Jesus never blatantly said "I am God" in the New Testament, his claims to be God are quite obvious. Sufi says John 10:30 is not a claim to Christ's deity but further study of the context makes it much clearer; "I and the Father are one." "Again, the Jews picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, 'I have shown you many great miracles from the Father.