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NEWS

Former football coach Perles to pursue Board of Trustees seat

Former MSU head football coach George Perles wants a seat on the MSU Board of Trustees. The next election will be in November 2006, and Perles said he's apprehensive about revealing his platform until he's a definite candidate. "Right now I'm just trying to see if the Democratic Party will put me on the ticket," Perles said. Perles has been an MSU student, football player, assistant football coach, head football coach and athletic director.

NEWS

MIDDAY UPDATE:Three vie for 69th District seat

Kris Turner
November 2, 2005

Although the election to appoint a new representative for East Lansing in the state House is a year away, three candidates have announced they want to run for the position. East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows and East Lansing residents John Currie and Mary Lindemann have announced their plans to fill the seat currently held by Rep.

FEATURES

NCAA March Madness 06

Brian Feeny
November 2, 2005

Full-court press, 2-3 zone, chanting crowd, cutting down the nets — it must be March Madness. EA Sports' latest installment to the college basketball series provides the excitement and thrills of the annual tourney.

NEWS

WEB ONLY: City Council votes to eliminate restrictions on political lawn signs

Kristi Jourdan
November 2, 2005

After no one came to speak at a public hearing on eliminating the number of political yard signs residents can display, the East Lansing City Council voted 4-0 in favor of disregarding the limit. Mayor Mark Meadows was absent from the meeting because he was heading a meeting of the independent commission reviewing the events of April 2-3. The amended ordinance allows residents to place an unlimited amount of political signs in their yards as long as the total surface area of all the signs together does not exceed 72 square feet. "I would hope no one in the community would put an extraordinary amount of signs in a yard," Councilmember Bill Sharp said.

MSU

Campus landmark loses in egg toss

She's viewed the same scene four times in the last four years. But this was by the far the worst. Patricia Johannes had only one word to describe a slimy attack on Beaumont Tower on Sunday morning — horrifying. "It was just a horrible, shocking scene to walk up and see the eggs all over the tower and the doors — yolks everywhere," said Johannes, an on-call Agricultural Economics employee.

NEWS

MIDDAY UPDATE: Student's car stolen at gunpoint

Margaret Harding
November 1, 2005

An MSU student's car was stolen after a man showed her a gun and demanded her keys in Ramp 2, near Bessey Hall, on Monday night. The student told police she parked her car and planned to head to the Main Library when she noticed a man talking to her friend, who had exited the passenger-side door, MSU police Sgt.

COMMENTARY

Support for writer's theory not credible

In his letter to the editor, "Creationism more scientific than others" (SN 10/21), Max Lossen refutes Drew Robert Winter's assertion that creationism is "not endorsed by any large credible members of the scientific community." He does this by listing off several scientists who died long before Darwin even published his research on evolution (Francis Bacon, Galileo and Isaac Newton), one who is claimed to have been against evolution by creationists, but claimed to be in favor of it by evolution supporters (Louis Pasteur), and four contemporary scholars.

NEWS

Ruling on Proposal 2 benefits suspended

The Michigan Court of Appeals suspended an Ingham County Circuit Court ruling on Monday that said Proposal 2 allows public employees' same-sex partners the right to receive health benefits. In early October, Attorney General Mike Cox requested the judgment be delayed until the appeals court made a ruling, and the court ordered the appeals case to move quickly. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed the suit in March on behalf of 21 couples and the nonprofit group Pride at Work. Interpretations of Proposal 2, which bans gay marriage in Michigan, spurred the suit. The 21 couples said voters did not intend to keep gay couples from receiving health insurance and benefits. Some of the plaintiffs named in the suit work for MSU and the ruling would affect employees at public universities. "Health-care benefits for a spouse are benefits of employment, not benefits of marriage," said Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Joyce Draganchuk in her decision in September. It would let voters down to do anything but throw out Draganchuk's decision, said Sen.

NEWS

Smoking is causing harm to others

Jennifer Toland
November 1, 2005

Bar and restaurant employees are 50 percent more likely to develop lung cancer from second-hand smoke. That's an argument Amanda Bechtel uses to convince people that bars and restaurants in all of Michigan should go smoke-free.

NEWS

The master plan

Laura Leebove
November 1, 2005

Over time the East Village area has gained a reputation for rowdy celebrations and its controversial blighted designation.

COMMENTARY

Going forward

MSU is known for a lot of things: football, the Izzone, partying. But rarely do people take the time to recognize the faculty members and students researching for new knowledge and innovation. MSU has a research center for bioterror threats.

NEWS

Meet John Fournier

Education: Political theory and constitutional democracy senior at James Madison College at MSU Family: I'm not married but I do have a fantastic family in my mother, father and two brothers. Favorite ice cream flavor at the Dairy Store: I have been trying to get them to make an Impact (89-FM) flavor, and when they do that will be my favorite Favorite place to get a beer: The Peanut Barrel, hands down Favorite place to have a burger: Again, The Peanut Barrel (512 E.

NEWS

Mending relations

Don Jordan
November 1, 2005

In their discussions with East Lansing's permanent residents, Melanie Glover (right) and Megan Bensette (left) always hear the same two complaints — noise and litter. The MSU students are two of the seven neighborhood resource coordinators, or NRCs, that work in the Community Relations Coalition, which pushes for cooperation and communication between residents.

NEWS

Finding their place

Don Jordan
November 1, 2005

No house. No yard. No brotherhood. Dormitory Road would stretch across Bogue Street, through the area where one fraternity's parking lot is now situated. That is the future of FarmHouse Fraternity at 151 Bogue St.