As Michigan teachers and students go back to school for another year, it's time for a quick quiz. Here's the first question.
1. "Stay Fly," from Memphis, Tenn.'s favorite hip-hop troupe Three 6 Mafia. The mid-tempo single features Eightball & MJG and Young Buck and is on their new album "Most Known Unknown." But what happened to Gangsta Boo? 2.
Watching another heartbreaking loss to Michigan was too tough to handle. The players played too hard to lose because of horrific leadership.
Looking to rebound after a tough conference loss to Northwestern, the MSU men's soccer team (3-2-4 overall, 0-1-1 Big Ten) will host Oakland University today at 4 p.m.
For my undergrad, I attended the University of Connecticut. The semester before I started my freshman year (spring 1998), there was a riot on campus. This caused the university to crack down on a lot of activities.
For the last 15 years, Robert Pennock has spent his time researching and exploring the controversial scientific theory of evolution, looking at its truth in comparison with the theories of creationism and intelligent design. As the debate has carried on about what topics are appropriate to teach in public schools, Pennock was recently called to testify as an expert witness in a Dover Area School District trial in Dover, Penn. The case concerns a decision the Dover school board made in October 2004, requiring the reading of a brief statement about intelligent design before any class teaches evolution. "Intelligent design is not science, but is a disguised religion," said Pennock, a professor in the Lyman Briggs School. Parents in the Dover school district were upset because they felt the policy didn't maintain the legal requirement of separation between church and state. The Pennsylvania court case is just a sampling of the controversy this area of science has caused in education. But MSU professors from both natural science and religious fields said the teaching of such theories as creationism and intelligent design in the classroom doesn't make sense. "Intelligent design is based on biblical faith rather than scientific," said Roger Bresnahan, acting chairman of the Department of Religious Studies.
I would like to take a moment to discuss Lindsey Poisson's column ("A closer look helped me understand permanent residents" SN 9/26) regarding permanent residents. I don't refute any of the facts that occur in the middle of the student ghetto.
As Faisal Alrsheed faced his first Ramadan away from his home in Saudi Arabia, he was comforted by hearing familiar voices on the phone Sunday. "My family called and said 'Ramadan Kareem,'" the chemistry freshman said.
Recruiters from companies across the state and country will be available for students to meet with at a Career Gallery in Breslin Center today and Thursday. The career fair is put on by the Eli Broad College of Business. The CommSciTech Exchange is today from 3-8 p.m.
An amendment to add outdoor drinking games, such as beer pong and flip-cup, as an "aggravating factor" to the existing party noise ordinance was introduced to East Lansing City Council on Tuesday evening. The existing ordinance penalizes noise violators if two or more aggravating factors such as kegs, live entertainment, entrance fees, amplified outdoor music or overcrowding are present. Assistant City Attorney Tom Yeadon said nothing currently prohibits outdoor drinking games for of-age participants.
Every fall, the tension between residents and students rises as students move back to campus to resume the activity they do best: Party. This year the tension is even greater, as the rise in noise complaints filed with the East Lansing Police Department shows. The problem started in 2004 when MSU administrators made a decision to ban drinking games at the tennis courts on game days. The ban came after an MSU game against Notre Dame - the last warm-weather rivalry game of the year.
In the next few weeks the state Senate will consider asking the Michigan Supreme Court to stop giving benefits to same-sex partners of public employees. Sen.
He cloned Clark Kent. He allied the Joker and Batman to solve a crime. He even ventured to the depths of the ocean with Aqualad. And now comic book writer and East Lansing resident Dan Mishkin is trying his hand with John Dodge, a Las Vegas stage magician and con artist, who learns he has real magical powers.
As Faisal Alrsheed faces his first Ramadan away from home in Saudi Arabia, he was comforted by hearing familiar voices on the phone. "My family called and said 'Ramadan Kareem,'" the chemistry freshman said.
I am writing to thank ASMSU for standing up for me and my peers. It enrages me terribly when people who pay more money get special privileges.
As Kathy Faber walked into the towering Astrodome in Houston, the baseball stadium seemed overwhelmingly large as the endless rows of seats stood empty. Within hours the American Red Cross Mid-Michigan Chapter employee knew that the venue would overflow with desperate survivors of Hurricane Katrina. That's why the Lansing resident had to put her life on hold as a Lansing resident to aid the thousands of evacuees left homeless. To chronicle the experience, Faber decided to keep a journal and she said she seemed to use up the pages as fast as the stadium filled with people. The small, colorful plastic bound notebook now has short phrases scribbled across the white pages that might seem unreadable to others, but to Faber they help tell the story of her two week experience in Texas. Still Faber, 45, seems to remember vivid details from her trip even without her journal, which still overflows with loose pieces of paper.
Three years ago Kai Zheng decided it might be time to look outside the blue and maize mindset. He had worked at his father's Panda House restaurant in Ann Arbor as a dishwasher, cook - almost every job at the restaurant - for four years and wanted his own piece of the restaurant business. So Zheng and his father started to look at locations in East Lansing to open another Panda House. They gravitated toward the Northern Tier area because of its high-traffic volume from student apartments.
Three-year-old Elise Wilcox bopped around the Lansing Art Gallery on Sunday not knowing anything about the work of the two Michigan upper peninsula artists as she strolled through.
A recent poll found that over two-thirds of those surveyed favored teaching creationism alongside evolution in school.