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COMMENTARY

Stopping donations will make MSU change

If you are unhappy with university policy or the way you are treated by the East Lansing Police Department or other entities when going to school at MSU, you do have recourse. When you graduate, the school will begin asking you to donate money to help support its programs.

MSU

New engineering lab to debut on campus

Laura Collins
November 17, 2005

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday to introduce the new site of the Energy and Automotive Research Laboratories on MSU's campus. The site is located south of the Engineering Research Complex, on the corner of Service Road and Bogue Street.

NEWS

Wizardly wardrobe

Ryan Mccormick
November 17, 2005

So it's your first day at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and you don't want the Sorting Hat to know you're nervous.

MSU

RHA reps sample, critique potential dorm fare

Kristen Daum
November 17, 2005

It smelled like home-cooked food as about 40 Residence Halls Association representatives sat down to dinner in a Williams Hall meeting room. Before them were new food dishes — fried jalapeño bottle caps, Indian curry with basmati rice and blueberry quesadillas.

MSU

Panel grades youth sports

Laura Collins
November 17, 2005

A community league soccer game for 6-year-olds has turned into something too serious, said Dan Gould, the director of MSU's Institute for the Study of Youth Sports. "Some of the dads are worried about who is winning, when 6-year-olds should just run around," said Gould, also a kinesiology professor.

NEWS

Don't milk poor 'Harry' 'til he's dry

I can only tightly clinch my Harry Potter novels and hope the little wizard's name won't become as diluted as the Star Wars manufacturing machine. The novels are enchanting and the movies come close to doing J.K.

NEWS

Area health officials react to expansion

Kris Turner  and  Margaret Harding
November 17, 2005

East Lansing, Lansing and MSU officials said on Wednesday they are pleased with the expansion of the College of Human Medicine to the Grand Rapids area. But one health group said they were unaware of the finalized plans for the move and want to continue medical studies in the surrounding community.

NEWS

President, students talk at RHA meeting

Kristen Daum
November 17, 2005

MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said Wednesday she had hoped for a different outcome from the report released by the independent commission reviewing the April 2-3 disturbances. The report released a list of recommendations for future disturbances, but did not place blame on a particular group. "I felt there was going to be some clear understanding of what went right and what went wrong," Simon told members of the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, at its General Assembly meeting Wednesday. She said the university might look at doing surveys of students to see what their opinions are on the recommendations made by the commission. About 300 tear-gas canisters were released when a police-estimated crowd of about 3,000 people spilled out into East Lansing streets after the men's basketball team lost to the University of North Carolina in the Final Four.

NEWS

The happenings

Movies Films coming out this Friday: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.

MICHIGAN

City will invest $4M for Lansing Center upgrades

Millions of dollars in renovations to the Lansing Center will bring more people into the city. At least, that's what the Lansing City Council hopes. "We need to keep the Lansing Center viable," City Council President Sandy Allen said.

NEWS

Can't hush Harry

Jacqueline Wayneguite
November 17, 2005

Muggles throughout East Lansing are anxious to get their hands on golden eggs and take their turn dancing in the Yule Ball. Unfortunately for the non-wizard folks, they'll have to wait till tomorrow to live vicariously through the 14-year-old wizard Harry Potter as he takes the big screen, an "eckeltricity" wonder that the likes of Arthur Weasley could only dream about. This magical world will be brought to life in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," the fourth installment of the ever-popular series of novels by author J.

NEWS

Vito brings profanity, debauchery to Union

Lauren Phillips
November 17, 2005

"Heyyacmon-why-don't-you-go-to-Cancun!" shouted the man who needs 12 beers to get buzzed. Don Vito's yelps echoed throughout the Union on Wednesday afternoon at least 30 times — and that's being conservative. And all emanating from the mangled-sounding throat of the 48-year-old, Bam Margera's resident punching bag, uncle, and one of the stars of MTV's "Viva la Bam." Vito sporadically screamed it during his guerilla-style visit to MSU.

NEWS

'Boheme' comes to campus

Lauren Phillips
November 17, 2005

A full-scale production of "everyone's favorite opera," "La Boheme," is coming to the Wharton Center tonight. The Michigan Opera Theatre's production of the opera, written by Giacomo Puccini and premiered in Italy in 1896, will play in Wharton Center's Great Hall today. The show ended Sunday in Detroit after a week run at the Michigan Opera Theatre. "We're delighted to come to East Lansing," said David DiChiera, founder and general director of the Michigan Opera Theatre.

COMMENTARY

Enough torture

The issue of torture is back in the news. As the insurgency in Iraq continues, it appears coalition forces are growing desperate to find information to stop it. On Tuesday, the new Iraqi government announced it would begin an investigation into a torture camp that was discovered by the U.S.

COMMENTARY

Calling shots

If East Lansing is going to have a mayor, at least give him some power. Sure, former Mayor Mark Meadows was the chairman of the independent commission that investigated the April 2-3 disturbances, but beyond his duty as a spokesperson of the East Lansing City Council, the mayor is essentially just another member of the council. Students who were questioned in "Word on the street: What do you think the East Lansing mayor does?" (SN 11/16) weren't even sure what the mayor's duties are.