ASMSU officials plan to provide laptop computers at locations throughout campus to give students more opportunities to vote during MSU's student government's online elections next week. Students can vote on the proposed $3 tax increase, which ASMSU officials say will help expand their organization and increase wages for workers.
Daredevil motorcyclists, cotton candy, elephant rides, wide-eyed children and a human cannonball — Breslin Center came alive this weekend with the sights, sounds and smells of the Royal Hanneford Circus. Lansing's Caravan Youth Center brought the circus to campus for the 15th-straight year for five weekend performances.
If The State News so loves free speech, why then has it remained silent on the conviction of David Irving? Irving must now spend three years in an Austrian prison because in 1989 he said that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. It doesn't matter if you consider Irving a "Holocaust denier" or if you feel that making statements about the architecture of Nazi WWII facilities is anti-Semitic, Irving has a right (yes, even non-Americans have rights even if their governments indicate otherwise) to say so. The State News has been more than happy to condemn Islamic reaction to free speech; let it now condemn Austria.
It's hard to get a tan in environmental suits and dust masks, but the MSU students who headed to the Gulf Coast for spring break last week didn't seem to mind. The students did community service work in storm-ravaged New Orleans as part of an alternative spring break program.
Photographer Mike Itchue details his trip to Indianapolis for the men's Big Ten Tournament. Conseco Fieldhouse is hands down the nicest arena I have ever been to.
Indianapolis — The MSU women's basketball team easily advanced to the semifinals of last week's Big Ten Tournament, only to run into a scarlet-and-gray wall for the third time this season. The Spartans cruised past Iowa in the quarterfinals on March 3, with a 79-58 score, setting up a showdown with Ohio State on March 5. MSU stayed within striking distance of the Buckeyes for the entire game, but could never grab a lead in the second half.
Neko Case's latest album "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" trickles like a light rain over a campfire. The sweet tones of Case's fairy-tale lyrics fall between delicate acoustic tones to create an alt-country tour de force.
Gary A. Mason and Kumbi Salim, also known as Stanley A. Price, were ordered March 3 to go to trial for the 1973 murder of Martin V.
Indianapolis — After a stretch of three physically and emotionally draining games in 47 hours, Tom Izzo refused to cite fatigue as an excuse after his team shot 28.3 percent while falling 53-48 to Iowa in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament on Saturday at Conseco Fieldhouse. The MSU head coach felt so strongly about it that he opened up his postgame press conference with an emphatic "no." "Fatigue had zero to do with the loss, zero," Izzo said.
Although MSU students spent last week tanning or lounging over spring break, a Denver high school teacher had a different kind of hiatus from school.
It blows my mind how impolite and unfriendly some students can be. Call me overly sensitive, but when it comes to simple acts of kindness, a blatant lack of courtesy can be excruciatingly frustrating. I can tolerate the small stuff. When people fail to respond when I say hello, fine.
Equating a witty educational tool such as "The Vagina Monologues" to pornography, such as in "Silence 'Monologues;' keep indecency out" (SN 2/24), is both simplistic and an affront to the women's rights movement.
By Tevye Sussman For The State News It's nearly noon on Saturday and two volunteers are feverishly putting the final touches on a potluck table.
I actually laughed out loud when I read Katie Wilcox's letter, "Silence 'Monologues;' keep indecency out" (SN 2/24), informing us how indecent "The Vagina Monologues" were.
Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, who's credited with inventing the slap shot, died last week at the age of 75. Meanwhile, Russ Tyler, who's credited with inventing the knuckle puck, is reportedly still playing roller hockey on the streets of Los Angeles. Villanova guard Allan Ray's status for the NCAA Tournament is in question after he suffered an inadvertent finger to the eye in a loss to Pittsburgh last week. If Ray can't play, it would be proof once and for all that there's no eye in team. The Gateway Grizzlies, a minor league baseball team located near St.
I suppose I understand why some people would be upset that The State News is refraining from printing the cartoon depictions of Prophet Muhammad, but I don't see how anybody could be surprised. After repeatedly dismissing Christianity, and religion in general, as a crock of fairy tales throughout my collegiate career, of course this newspaper would suddenly have enough conscience to refrain from offending religious people. This is The State News in its purist form, giving preferential respect to the students of this university. When I attend my last few classes at MSU, I will be pleased to see copies of this publication exactly where they belong — strewn across the floor. Next year, I would appreciate it if you could change the title of the paper from The State News to the name it has finally earned: The Sudoku Daily. Bryan Dahl communication senior
MSU wrestler Nick Simmons repeated his reign as Big Ten champion and his brother Andy Simmons captured his first conference title at the 2006 Big Ten Championships March 4-5 in Bloomington, Ind. Competing in the 125-pound weight class, Nick Simmons, the tournament's No.
Workaholics beware; an economist at the University of Michigan thinks taxing you might make you work less. Joel Slemrod, a professor of business economics and public policy at U-M, along with another researcher at the University of Texas in Austin, found that people who are highly educated and earn a high salary can become addicted to their work. This can lead to a myriad of health-related problems, like stress and high blood pressure.
Indianapolis — The party line in the MSU locker room after Saturday's 53-48 loss to Iowa was more rigid than Matt Trannon's smile behind that goalie mask. Despite playing their third game in 47 hours and second in less than 14, the Spartans said — insisted — that it wasn't fatigue that rendered them helpless as the Hawkeyes rode their early second-half lead all the way into the tournament finals. Head coach Tom Izzo: "I'd be the first to tell you if I thought it had even a little to do with it.
"Failure to Launch" has a familiar plot — guy and girl start dating and one of them has an ulterior motive.