Monday night was the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards. The award show spans both television and motion picture achievement, and is often used as a predictor of Academy Award winners.
The MSU Board of Trustees makes some of the most important decisions for this university. It decides how much students pay for tuition, where fans can tailgate and whether they can drink on campus. At their public monthly meetings, trustees spend only a few minutes discussing crucial issues affecting thousands of students before voting unanimously on almost all of them. How eerily efficient. But the public meeting isn't where the real discussions are taking place.
An MSU student who crashed his car last January was convicted Friday in the death of 20-year-old MSU student Lindsey Cianciolo, who died in the accident. A jury convicted Sandeep Sabapathy, a 20-year-old premedical student, with drunken driving causing death, a felony with a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
If you support a king-like presidency, if you don't believe that due process is important for everybody, if you don't recognize a right to privacy, if you think freedom of religion means freedom to use public money to support the most popular religion, if you don't think it matters that our leaders lied to us about reasons for going to war, if it doesn't bother you that we torture prisoners, what exactly is it that you think makes this country great? We have been a beacon of hope for more than two centuries because there was always the idea that these things are not acceptable in our government. There have been stumbling blocks of course, but there were guiding ideals and the potential for what we could be generally outweighed the sins that were committed. I get the sense now that those guiding principles are being thrown away.
By Liz Kersjes Special for The State News Two extra pennies for a postage stamp might seem trivial, unless like MSU, you send out 4 million pieces of mail every year. The United States Postal Service raised the price of first-class stamps to 39 cents each last week, up from 37 cents for the first time in nearly four years.
Rapper Jay-Z and rock band U2 lend their waning musical credibility to Mary J. Blige's new album "The Breakthrough." Yes, the album is catchy and at times lyrically inspirational, but it took a small army of musicians and producers backing Blige to create the new songs.
January is traditionally the month for self-improvement. We stay up late to bring in the New Year, and then we vow to change for the better.
All right sports fans, here's yet another feel-good movie brought to you by Disney in its recent series of inspirational sports films.
Every week, The State News presents five things going on in the world of pop culture. 1. Enthralled by tattoos?
Larry and Curly showed up, but no Mo. The Spartans' three leading scorers — junior guard Shannon Brown, senior center Paul Davis and senior guard Maurice Ager — are affectionately referred to as "The Three Stooges" by head coach Tom Izzo. But for the third consecutive game, one of the three was shut down as the other two flourished. In No.
Recently, a great deal of criticism has been leveled against both ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, and the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, for their support of a resolution opposing a ballot proposal titled the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, or MCRI.
I also attended the joint ASMSU and Residence Halls Association meeting in December. However, I disagree with the previous letters about both ASMSU and RHA's stance on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a very critical piece of legislation that will affect many here at MSU by getting rid of affirmative action and the programs it supports. Also, in response to the opinion of those who think this bill was brought about in some kind of underhanded fashion, they should realize we did nothing illegal and did not twist anyone's arm to get the bill on the agenda. The bill was properly debated for quite a substantial amount of time when anyone could have gotten up and spoken to the group.
By Tara Thoel Special for The State News Area eighth graders turned the tables on broadcast journalists from Lansing stations on Saturday, trying to push information out of interviewees. Dan Ponce, the morning and weekend anchor and reporter for Channel 10 News, and Tanee Elston, the news director and accounting executive for WQHH-Q (96.5-FM), answered questions about why they chose a career in journalism and the steps they took to get their jobs.
Sometimes, good ol' President George W. Bush really cracks me up. When he makes up a new word on live television or tries to walk out through a closed door while at a press conference in a foreign nation, it's a hoot.
Silence filled the Vessel of Praise church in Lansing Sunday morning as 14-year-old Joshua Clayton clutched a microphone, pausing before greeting the congregation before him. The signs of anxiety were apparent.
The MSU football team added Derrick Jackson to its coaching staff as the defensive line coach. Jackson, known for his recruiting efforts, joins MSU from Northern Illinois, where he served as the defensive interior line coach, helping the Huskies rank second in the MAC in scoring defense in 2005. Prior to Northern Illinois, he spent two years as defensive line coach at Eastern Illinois and two years coaching defensive ends at the U.S.
When Jim Graham walks into an MSU student's rental house, he's going to make sure the bathroom is clean. He's going to look for garbage piled up by the back door. He's going to notice if the beds have been made, and if there are dirty clothes strewn across floors. Not that he'll be noting every wayward sock. "I know college kids — the clothes hit the floor and they don't leave until you run out of laundry," Graham said, cracking a smile from a doorway in a River Street rental. He'll be less forgiving when it comes to smoke detectors. He'll reach for the ceiling and hold down the test button with one finger until he hears a loud, shrill "BEEP!" Graham, a retired Livonia firefighter who has held local government positions around the state, is one of East Lansing's three housing inspectors. Graham said that each year he does about 1,000 inspections, which are required to be done annually in the city's roughly 1,600 rental properties. East Lansing's Code Enforcement and Neighborhood Conservation officials admit to running one of the most stringent operations in the state — many cities don't even have annual inspections — but say their concern is for the safety of residents. "The number one thing is to get these guys and ladies out of the building alive," Graham said. For more on this story, please see Wednesday's edition of The State News.
Why the U.S. military decided to let this happen is mind-boggling. In an attempt to kill one al-Qaida member, 18 Pakistani civilians are dead.
MSU officials named philosophy department Chairman Stephen Esquith acting dean for a new residential college at Friday's MSU Board of Trustees meeting. For six months, Esquith will be planning the new residential college in the arts and humanities from western Africa, where he teaches in Mali as part of a Fullbright Fellowship and will lead a study abroad program this summer. "He's very well matched to lead a new initiative," said June Youatt, MSU assistant provost for undergraduate education and dean of undergraduate studies.