Ian McNabb is not alone in near accidents with MSU police vehicles blatantly violating the laws they so tyrannically impose, "Police should practice laws, give right of way" (SN 12/2). Early this semester, I was nearly broadsided at the Shaw-Bogue traffic circle.
For college students, winter break is a great time to finally do some laundry, hang out with the family and read something that isn't a textbook.
I read in The State News, "Student: Trustees 'dodge' questions at meeting" (SN 12/01) and "Deaf ears" (SN 12/02), that members of the MSU Board of Trustees had not taken the time to read the report of the independent commission regarding last spring's disturbances.
Patrick Patterson occasionally cleans up sewage, takes care of bed lice problems and handles outbreaks of tuberculosis.
Lansing's mayor-elect Virg Bernero headed off to mayor school last week and learned the ABC's of city management. He joined 18 other newly-elected mayors from the nation to attend the Seminar on Transition and Leadership for Newly Elected Mayors at Harvard University.
The East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road, will host a remembrance of Pearl Harbor on Dec.
And to think, the East Lansing City Council will take this seriously. Seven months worth of meetings to come to the conclusion that no one is to blame for the April 2-3 disturbances and produce recommendations that look fine on paper, but aren't earth shattering. But at least it was a diverse commission. According to independent commission and City Councilmember Mark Meadows, the split decision of the commission on whether or not to assess blame demonstrated "that the commission was truly independent and diverse." So? What is the point of being independent and diverse if it's impossible to bring those diverse opinions together to reach some sort of conclusion?
Zeke the Wonder Dog was taken to the MSU Small Animal Clinic last Friday after he chewed some carpet in the home of his owners, Jim and Terri Foley. He was taken in for surgery after the carpet became stuck in his intestines, and he went home Monday evening. Zeke, whose real name is Dexter, is best known for catching flying discs during pregame and halftime events at Spartan football games and other locations. Terri Foley, Zeke's owner, said he might not have meant to eat the carpet. "We think he may have gotten sick from something else and tried to clean it up, but ended up eating the carpet, too," Terri Foley said.
Twenty one. It separates the old from the young, the bar crowd from the house partyers, the legal imbibing from the MIP. Twenty one. It's as much a college lifestyle as an age — opening up barroom doors to an exclusive adult world of music, dancing and drinking that dominates East Lansing's downtown during the weekends. Twenty one. For many health experts and sociologists, it's a misunderstood number, fraught with exaggerated stigmas, misinformation and peer pressure. Twenty one. It's the number of shots student Brad McCue downed as part of a drinking ritual at Rick's American Café in 1998, killing the man on his birthday and catapulting the issue of celebratory binge drinking in East Lansing to the forefront. Advocates battle stigmas to inform students Part of the problem with drinking is that many students are uninformed about their peers' behavior or the social norms of drinking, said Becky Allen, a health educator for alcohol, tobacco and other drugs at Olin Health Center. According to the 2004 National College Health Assessment, the percentage of peers students thought to consume alcohol on a daily basis increased steadily from 2000 to 2004, while the survey found that there was no clear increase or decrease in consumption.
One of the toughest transitions I've had to make is from the life of a high school student to that of a college student.
As soon as it snows outside, animal science and pre-veterinary medicine junior Michelle Gormley said she shovels the sidewalk in front of her house in order to keep walkers safe. "It only takes a couple of minutes to shovel your sidewalk," she said.
With the end of the year looming, everyone has or soon will come up with their own list of best and worst everything in 2005.
A suicidal East Lansing man barricaded himself in his ex-girlfriend's house with a knife early Sunday morning. Police trained in tactical entry and hostage negotiations tasered and arrested the 23-year-old. The ex-girlfriend and another resident at the house in the 600 block of Hagadorn Road had locked themselves in an upstairs bedroom and called police when the man smashed through the front window at about 3:30 a.m., East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said. The suspect said he was trying to cut himself with a knife and refused to speak with a hostage negotiations officer, Wibert said. "He was unwilling to talk, irrational," he said.
I applaud your analysis, "Way too easy" (SN 12/2), that white-collar crime typically results in significantly less jail or prison time for offenders.
Two MSU wrestlers earned tournament titles Sunday at the Nittany Lion Open at Penn State University.
I disagree with Ryan Townsend's statement in his letter "Only two genders, demands are bogus" (SN 12/02), that there are only two genders. Townsend mistakenly conflates sex and gender as the same thing, which they are not.
A proposed intersection with traffic lights that would replace the traffic circle at Bogue Street and Wilson Road would better control the flow of pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles, administrators say. As part of the 2020 Vision plan, Wilson Road between Farm Lane and Conrad Hall and Bogue Street between Shaw Lane and the Veterinary Medical Center parking lot will be reconstructed, adding bicycle lanes and changing the intersection. The MSU Board of Trustees will vote on an architect and engineer for the project at its meeting Friday. The proposed reconstruction of the traffic circle to include a traffic light fits with the priorities for pedestrians first, bicycles second and vehicles third, said Jeff Kacos, director of Campus Planning and Administration and chairman of the Campus Infrastructure Planning Work Group. "While traffic circles are very efficient for moving vehicles, they're not pedestrian-friendly," Kacos said.
A program teaching the art of origami will be held from noon to 1 p.m. today in the Ohio State room of the Union. At "Origami — Holiday Ornaments from Paper," event participants can learn the Japanese craft of paper-folding to create holiday ornaments and decorations. The MSU Women's Resource Center is providing all supplies, and the program is free to the public.
Grand Rapids — It was a grand homecoming for Drew Neitzel. The sophomore guard, who once starred at Wyoming Park High School, returned to his old stomping grounds and was cheered loudly at every mention of his name. And to boot, he played well for the second straight game and helped the Spartans to a 72-67 win over Arkansas-Little Rock. "I will admit, I was looking forward to this game for a long time," Neitzel said.