Is the battle over file sharing and copyright laws going to end soon? Absolutely not. The never-ending argument was reopened yet again with the Australian court deciding that Kazaa - a popular downloading program used for file sharing - has violated copyright laws.
Members of ASMSU's Student Assembly will vote on bills about everything from accepting student groups into the association to lowering parking-meter rates on campus during their meeting today. Academic Assembly members voted to give the MSU International Student Association and Arab Culture Society seats on their assembly, but the groups won't become members unless Student Assembly members vote them in as well. Student Assembly also will vote on a bill to support the lowering of parking-meter rates on campus, said Derek Wallbank, Communication Arts and Sciences representative for the assembly. The meeting is at 6:30 p.m.
American Red Cross volunteer Pam McHenry said she was not prepared for the experience of seeing the destruction caused by the wrath of Hurricane Katrina.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon will unveil a series of plans for university growth during a public address today, with the goal of making the university the leading land-grant research institution in the United States by 2012. The announcement of a new strategic initiative Simon has titled "Boldness by Design" will come as part of a two-day academic convocation celebrating the university's sesquicentennial - or 150th anniversary - that kicks off this afternoon in the Kellogg Center. Simon's speech, scheduled for 12:30 p.m.
In a victory for the minority, the California Legislature is the first state-governed body in the nation to approve a bill that could legalize gay marriage. Massachusetts is the only state that currently permits gay marriage, and Vermont allows civil unions. The bill, passed 41-35, stipulates that marriage is the union between two people and does not specify sex. All of the Republicans in the Assembly voted against the bill, defending Proposition 22, a ballot initiative against same-sex marriage that was passed by a statewide vote in 2000. Democrats passed the bill through and await Gov.
Members of the MSU lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community said a California bill approved Tuesday allowing same-sex marriage is a step in the right direction.
Bice portrays the Bible as a discriminatory book that promotes gender and ethnic inequality. He does this by selecting solitary quotes, taken out of context, that support his writing motifs.
Officials from Lansing Community College will open the Health and Human Services and Administration Building at 7 a.m.
Along with the rescue efforts to help the human victims of Hurricane Katrina, a local pet store is helping the pets of hurricane survivors. Preuss Animal House, 2119 Haslett Road in Haslett, started a fundraiser on Tuesday to raise money for the Humane Society of the United States and its relief efforts in both Louisiana and Mississippi. Those who want to donate can purchase a picture of either a boy or girl with a dog for $1 each, said Rick Preuss, owner of Preuss Animal House.
Zambonie, a band out of Kalamazoo, is having a CD-release party at The Temple Club, 500 E. Grand River Ave.
Arts Today: "Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer," 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public.
If anyone's looking for me this weekend - OK, so you won't be - I'll be bargain hunting. Chances are I will be going out this weekend.
The view from Spartan Stadium's upper deck was spectacular. Sun shone on Beaumont Tower. It was warm, but not so warm that you couldn't feel chills when the band exploded through the tunnel. The Spartan offense was potent; the opponent overmatched.
More than 30,000 volunteers will be out this weekend collecting litter on Michigan highways. The volunteers, are a part of the Michigan Department of Transportation's Adopt-A-Highway program. Officials from the department expect 30,000 bags of trash to be collected this fall.
Ah, Malibu. One of California's most beautiful cities. Or one of Chevrolet's most beautiful cars - old school, of course.
Isaiah Dahlman, a 6-foot-6 swingman from Braham, Minn. has verbally agreed to play basketball with MSU starting next season. Dahlman, a senior in high school, averaged 28 points, six rebounds and five assists last season and led his team to a 33-0 record and the Minnesota Class 2A title. He is the first commitment MSU men's basketball head coach Tom Izzo has secured from the class of 2006. "He's definitely a top 100 player," said Chris Monter, midwest recruiting analyst for the recruiting service Collegebasketballnews.com.
About 12 undergraduate students from hurricane-struck universities have come to MSU, and faculty members say they are working to make this move as smooth as possible for the transfer students. "The university, on many levels, has been on call to be of assistance to these students in really a time of need and transition," said Jim Cotter, MSU's senior associate director of admissions and scholarships. Since Hurricane Katrina hit last week, MSU faculty members have received inquiries from about 50 undergraduate students who attended schools in the affected area. There also are about a dozen graduate students who have shown interest in transferring, MSU Graduate School Dean Karen Klomparens said. Cotter and members of the admissions staff are trying to collect high school transcripts from freshmen who want to transfer out of the hardest-hit areas. Eight undergraduate students - seven from Tulane University and one from Loyola University New Orleans - with previous college credit from their respective universities are enrolled at MSU as lifelong education students, Cotter said. "Lifelong to some degree is a guest status, to provide an opportunity while their school is not available, but then eventually help them transition back to their home university," he said. An issue of concern to some students is getting financial aid for their new school and discontinuing loans for their previous ones, said Allesandra Lanza, marketing communications manager for American Student Assistance. The Boston-based organization is a federally funded nonprofit group, which helps students with loans.
Zambonie is a foursome from Kalamazoo with 15 cleverly written pop-rock songs on their second full-length album, "The Beautiful Disaster," which is being released Tuesday. The first track, "Meadows & Straightjackets," could easily be compared to classic Weezer, clearly one of the band's influences.
Kids do the darnedest things. Apparently, if they see their parents buying liquor and alcohol, when given a chance to go imaginary grocery shopping, they'll come back with a pack of Marlboros and some Colt 45. At least this is what a recently released study conducted by Dartmouth Medical College in New Hampshire says. The study found adolescent children whose parents drink and smoke were more likely to have children who emulate these behaviors. According to the study, children were 3.9 times as likely to buy cigarettes if their parents smoked and three times as likely to choose wine or beer if their parents drank alcohol at least once a month. Using dolls in a role-playing game with children 2 to 6 years old, the kids were asked to take the dolls shopping because there was no food in the dollhouse.
The editorial on Plan B emergency contraception, "Backup plan" (SN 8/30), was so remarkably ill-informed that I am led to believe that there was political motivation behind it.