Qasim Basir went to college on a football scholarship, and when he graduated from Wayne State University in May 2004, it seemed he would play in the professional leagues.
With all precincts reporting, only one vote separates Republican candidates Vince Green and John Findlay in Tuesday's primary election for the 23rd Senate District seat. The final tally was Green with 1317 votes and Findlay with 1316, according to the Ingham County Clerk's office. The Democratic race was not nearly as close. Rep.
A new round of images of Abu Ghraib prisoners in Iraq was broadcast last week in Australia. The images show some of the prisoners naked, with hoods on their heads or in sexual positions. The whole situation is extremely disheartening and makes me wonder how we are ever going to win the war in Iraq with this hanging over our heads.
Results from Tuesday's special election, in which Vince Green defeated John Findlay by only one vote, became official when the Board of Canvassers certified the election Wednesday. Turnout throughout Ingham County was about 7 percent, while only 35 voters cast ballots on MSU's campus, according to the county clerk's office. Findlay has 48 hours, or, until about 3:30 p.m.
In response to "Fetus is human, not merely 'wad of cells' (SN 2/10) by Kyle Coveart: Of all the anti-abortion arguments in The State News in the last few weeks, yours alone represents the epitome of ignorance to fact above all the others. A direct quote from your letter states, "The left in this country is usually against the killing of other humans and are usually the ones standing up for basic human rights and liberties, but because pregnancy is such an inconvenience to their promiscuous sexual lifestyles, they need to somehow justify having an abortion without compromising their beliefs of 'not killing.'" Your assumption of a "promiscuous sexual lifestyle" is an outrageous statement. Please, tell me, are you a virgin? And if you are not, like the vast majority of people in college, did you practice safe sex? Because condoms break, birth control isn't 100 percent effective and never can be, and rape happens every day. People who have had sex even once have become pregnant.
Lauren Walsh is carrying the newest Elliott Lucca purse months before the rest of the fashion world — and she designed it. Walsh, an advertising and apparel and textile design senior, designed the "Lauren bag," a crescent-shaped, mahogany suede purse embellished with gold studs bearing the Elliott Lucca logo.
Officials have decided to take action against Izzone member Bobby Brock and University of Michigan reserve center Amadou Ba after the two were involved in an altercation Saturday, the Big Ten wrote in a statement Tuesday evening. Brock, a communication sophomore, will be withheld from one-and-a-half men's basketball games and Ba will not see playing time for one-and-a-half games.
Jacob Plotkin was never invited on quail hunting trips with the vice president. But he isn't bitter. "We're not in the same social circles," said Plotkin, 64, a retired MSU mathematics professor and Vice President Dick Cheney's former college roommate. From his small office in Wells Hall, Plotkin talked about the brief time he spent with Cheney at Yale University before the vice president dropped out. "Like the movie 'Citizen Kane,' everybody wants this 'Rosebud' moment," Plotkin said.
The U.S. Supreme Court will reopen a challenge to the constitutionality of partial-birth abortion, the court announced Tuesday. The Bush administration has pressed the high court to reinstate a 2003 federal law banning partial-birth abortion. President Bush signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2003, prohibiting a physician from delivering an unborn child's body and then puncturing the back of the child's head with an instrument to collapse the skull.
MSU officials will have a hard time awarding the $4,000 some students could receive from a new federal grant without more information on who qualifies, and now a new lawsuit could further complicate the process. President Bush signed the Deficit Reduction Act on Feb.
Marilyn Williams ordered an appetizer quesadilla for lunch and a to-go box for the leftovers. There would definitely be leftovers, she said. "About one section and I'm full," said Williams, of Lansing. The 52-year-old is adjusting to her new life since receiving gastric bypass surgery on Nov.
"If your vagina could talk, what would it say?" asked "The Vagina Monologues" co-director and human biology junior Lori Carlin of the group of 16 women who met at Espresso Royale Caffe for Vagina Open Mic Night. One of the women began to answer, "My vagina would say ?" as a man walked by with a bewildered look on his face.
There aren't enough days in February for Rina Risper to influence as many people as she would like during Black History Month. "People should do things (to celebrate black history) regardless of February," said Risper, the creator of a predominantly black poetry group and publisher of a local biweekly multicultural magazine.
Luis Cardona said Tuesday he witnessed the murder of a Coca-Cola Co. worker in Colombia, and connects the murder to the company's business practices in the country. Cardona, who is from Colombia, spoke to a crowd of about 50 people at a rally Tuesday on the steps of the Administration Building, put on by Students for Economic Justice, or SEJ. He also said he witnessed bottling managers drinking and mingling with paramilitary members, who forced employees of the Sinaltrainal Union to resign.
"One month is not enough, because you can't sum up everything African Americans have done in just one month.
When MSU and Ohio State met earlier this season, most people expected the two to combine for 100 points by halftime.
The Department of Family and Child Ecology will be transferred from the College of Human Ecology to the College of Social Science, effective this summer. Academic Council approved a report Tuesday from the University Committee on Curriculum, which included this and a number of other program and course changes. June Youatt, acting dean of the College of Human Ecology, assistant provost for undergraduate education and dean of undergraduate studies, said this is just another step in transferring the department, because it was already approved by the University Committee on Academic Policy. The seven programs affected in the transfer will remain unchanged, Youatt said. Also, Jon Sticklen, chairman of the Executive Committee of Academic Council, told Academic Council to prepare for a lot of movement in the Academic Governance system by the end of the semester, as several working groups and committees move ahead in their tasks.
In light of Tuesday's special primary for the state Senate seat, we hit the streets to find why you think students are so apathetic about voting. "I don't think students choose not to vote.