Jennifer Gumas stepped up to the microphone and introduced herself to the 12 independent commission members sitting across from her. This was after she handed each member a document with the topics she was about to discuss. "A lot of students feel alienated by East Lansing," she said.
Art education senior Samantha Letvin's senior art exhibit, "Under the Autumn Skin," will hold its closing reception tonight.
Give me a break! I enjoy reading about potential government conspiracies or paranoia about "Big Brother" in "Digital spying" (SN 10/24) taking away our freedom.
Before Clifton Wharton's tenure as MSU president in the 1970s, fundraising at the university was a foreign idea. After a swank gala for major university donors on Oct.
Students at several Michigan colleges participated in National Take Affirmative Action Day on Thursday to raise awareness about affirmative action issues. At MSU, several students dressed in black, showing solidarity with affirmative action supporters, and handed out information at six locations on campus.
Matt Cook ("Clothes contribute to reasons to rape" SN 10/26) writes there is no excuse for rape.
This letter is in response to "Fashion show raises fair labor issues" (SN 10/26). I do not understand why an unofficial event where six people congregate in front of the administration building is considered a "fashion show." The Students for Economic Justice, or SEJ, is a joke.
Conservative journalist — an oxymoron? I probably stick out like a sore thumb in this profession. Setting political preferences aside, I'm an average, tuition-paying college student interested in pursuing a degree in hopes of achieving my American dream to become a professional journalist.
Some students are saying the $1,733 in restitution attached to most guilty pleas for April 2-3 disturbance-related charges is ridiculous, while East Lansing officials say it's what the city is owed. The East Lansing City Attorney's Office calculated the cost to the city for the disturbances to be $69,293.10.
No. 25 Michigan (5-3, 3-2) at No. 21 Northwestern (5-2, 3-1) The Wildcats have made great strides in 2005.
"Howl at the Moon," a 3-mile hike for canines and their owners through the woods, will take place at 7 p.m.
MSU College of Law President Clifton Haley and his wife Carolyn are committed to donating $4 million to the law college to fund full scholarships for students and to establish two endowed chairs. Haley, a 1961 graduate of the college, formerly known as the Detroit College of Law, has served as president of the law college since 2001. "I felt it was necessary to give back and show leadership," Haley said.
A new political battleground has been set now that the bid to fill a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court is open again, said Frank Ravitch, a constitutional law expert at MSU. Harriet Miers — President Bush's nominee to fill the seat vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor on the nation's highest court — declined the president's recommendation Thursday.
A "Michigan Name Quilt" by the Michigan Historical Center will be up for bidding at a silent auction. The Odyssey 2005 All-Star Celebrity Gala will sponsor the auction from 7 to 11 p.m.
While I do appreciate that Mallard Fillmore fills that certain "conservative" viewpoint that I guess The State News has been lacking on its comics page (and, as we all know, the conservative viewpoint is stringently censored on college campuses — even leading conservative groups to feel the need to "come out" recently), not a day goes by that I do not find something completely uneducated or offensive in Bruce Tinsley's strip. The comic concerning Halloween finally pushed the limit far enough.
By Scott Cendrowski The State News The downtown Subway, 330 Albert Ave., has closed and relocated to an Okemos Wal-Mart store, its franchise owner said. A saturation of East Lansing Subway locations and the opportunity to move into the Wal-Mart, which attracts high-traffic volumes and has "favorable rent factors," enticed Ken Adams to make the decision to move in late August.
Three members of the MSU community are the targets of subpoenas for illegal file sharing, but MSU officials hope to curb future suits by bringing a legal downloading service to campus. The Recording Industry Association of America announced another round of copyright infringement lawsuits against 745 people on Wednesday.
By Corinne DeVries, Aaron Foley, Ryan McCormick, Benita Mehta, Lauren Phillips and Jacqueline WayneGuite The State News Number 1: Visit one of the many haunted houses in the Lansing area Phantasmagoria haunted house Features: Two houses, "Purgatory" and "Quarantine." "Purgatory" is set up as a traditional house.
This Halloween season simple, low-cost costumes will be seen on East Lansing's streets, costume shoppers and Halloween store workers predict. Costume sales have sagged behind last year's numbers, leaving Spider-Man suits on the shelves of Halloween Warehouse, 213 E.
More than 2,000. It's a sizable number, but purely symbolic. As the number of U.S.