Several MSU officials and students will gather tonight to celebrate the affiliation of MSU with the national Worker Rights Consortium, or WRC - an organization that monitors and helps eliminate the production of university apparel in sweatshops. The reception, which will take place at 7 p.m.
It's summer and I'm enjoying the heat as any person would. After looking in my closet, I decide to wear some jeans and one of my tank tops.
The Clinton Area Fire & Rescue is hosting a Family Fun Fest on Saturday, October 15 from 10 a.m.
Trust is a key component in a functioning society. It's the glue that holds a civilization together.
One month after Hurricane Katrina approached the Gulf Coast, MSU academic leaders are holding a public forum to discuss the social implications of the disaster. Today's seminar, titled "The Cost of Marginalization: Place, Race, Class and Media in the Katrina Catastrophe," is the first in a series of three talks scheduled for the next three weeks. Each of the forums, which are open to the public, will feature a faculty panel to initiate discussion. Panelists will be given time to explain their expertise, and then will be asked several questions by the forum's moderator, said Janet Lillie, an assistant dean in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and a coordinator of the event. "What we really wanted to do was serve the audience's needs," she said.
The sound of the fight song reverberates through East Lansing and floats between cars, over grills, through pompons and into crowds of people gathered early Saturday mornings for the same thing - MSU football. It's game day and for football fans and friends - there's no better way to get ready than a tailgate. David Thurow, an international relations senior, plans to wake up at 4:30 a.m.
Amid thousands of other 16-28 year olds, I waited in the pouring rain for hours just to sing for two producers who could care less about whether I made it on to the next level.
People who worked with the former MSU employee charged with embezzlement reacted Tuesday to the allegations brought against a familiar face in the school. One alumnus of the MSU School of Journalism described Raye Grill, a former administrative assistant, as a "pillar" of the school. "She was actually an undervalued pillar," said Bryan Eder, a 1998 graduate who has known Grill for 11 years.
Like The State News Sports Editor Chris Barsotti, I came to MSU as a life-long Notre Dame fan. My first year here was in 1966, and like Chris, I grew into a Spartan fan, watching the Spartans win their home football games as I followed Notre Dame's victories through the media. By the end of the season I had become a Spartan fan, but I still loved Notre Dame.
There have been numerous studies done on the magnetic fuel conditioners that you describe in your article "MSU student sets up gas-saving business" (SN 9/15) the results are all the same - hogwash. The most recent article I read was in Popular Mechanics about two months ago.
The independent commission charged with investigating the April 2-3 disturbances moved closer to recommending a designated celebratory area for students on Tuesday, commission members said. The commission may suggest East Lansing officials allow property owners to apply to close streets to support large crowds, said commissioner Joe Tuchinsky, treasurer of American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and its Lansing branch.
A 2-2 record this early in the season and an absence from the national polls isn't a familiar place for the Michigan football program. The Wolverines' most recent 23-20 loss to Wisconsin puts them at an overall record of .500, and marks the first time since 1981 that U-M has dropped their Big Ten opener, leaving many U-M fans calling for head coach Lloyd Carr's firing. Things don't get any easier for U-M as they head into the hostile environment of Spartan Stadium this Saturday for an annual matchup with MSU. Michigan has been troubled by injuries to starters on the offensive line, and most notably to running back Michael Hart, who still remains in question for Saturday's contest. Hart has sat out since suffering an injury in the 17-10 loss against Notre Dame two weeks ago, an absence that Carr sees as a major factor regarding U-M's season thus far. "He's a complete football player," Carr said.
The East Lansing City Council shouldn't burn local business when it comes to changing the smoking ordinances that govern the city. A proposed amendment to the council seeks to make local business owners have to keep a nonsmoking section open at all times within their establishment.
This is in response to Diane Cavicchioli's "Football fans should stay classy for kids" (SN 9/16). She seems to forget that at sporting events there are always curses and partly drunk, rowdy fan sections. I remember going to a State game when I was 12 and seeing an inflatable penis being batted around the student section and laughing hysterically.
This is in regards to the article "Local bars scrutinize out-of-state IDs" (SN 9/16). As an undergraduate, I came to MSU from Iowa and I kept my residency and driver's license in Iowa.
An Ingham County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday that Michigan's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage does not prevent public employees' partners from receiving health benefits. Judge Joyce Draganchuk's ruling followed a lawsuit filed in March by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan on behalf of the non-profit national group Pride at Work and 21 couples, said Wendy Wagenheim, spokeswoman for the civil liberties union. According to the judge's opinion, lawyers from Attorney General Mike Cox's office argued that the meaning of the amendment, which defined marriage or a similar union as between one man and one woman, was clear. The amendment, or Proposal 2, was adopted after voter approval in November of 2004.
The MSU field hockey team got back on the winning track yesterday against Central Michigan by winning the in-state battle, 3-1. The play went back and forth for most of the first half and despite having three less shots than the Spartans (8-3 overall, 0-1 Big Ten), the Chippewas were able to take the lead.
The committees have spoken and a new residential college for the arts and humanities that has been in draft stages for the past year will now move on to becoming a reality. Committee members in the Academic Governance system have expressed support for the college, slated to make its debut in fall 2007, after the proposal was approved by Academic Council on Tuesday. MSU President Lou Anna K.
MSU alumnus Dale Joachim is not among the thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims without a place to live or opportunity to work. Instead, the New Orleans resident and assistant professor at Tulane University is becoming reacquainted with East Lansing after evacuating prior to the hurricane's arrival. For the next semester, Joachim - who graduated from MSU in 1998 with a doctorate degree in electrical engineering - will work alongside his former professor and adviser on research work.
What has kept the popularity of Bob Dylan rolling in the minds and pockets of a world audience for almost five decades?