In sub-Saharan Africa, it's common for a person to contract malaria as many as five times a year. The disease is so common, medical students in Malawi find it boring, said Dr. Terrie Taylor, an MSU professor who is considered one of the world's leading researchers on malaria in children.
After nearly three months of meetings, the independent commission reviewing the April 2-3 disturbances has not reached a conclusion as to what happened that night. The direction the group is heading is unclear, some members said.
The MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine is lending a hand to cover impoverished children's feet. Heart and Sole is a project that collects moderately worn and new shoes for needy people around the world, project organizer and College of Osteopathic Medicine Graphic Designer Ann Cook said. She said the project started in 1999 after a secretary who returned from a trip to Malawi in Africa recalled the children's desperation. "When she went to the streets to buy trinkets, the kids would do anything for shoes," Cook said. Currently Heart and Sole is collecting tennis shoes and school shoes.
Thousands cheered as they watched community members, from high school marching bands to government officials, march in downtown Lansing on Saturday in the sixth annual African American Parade and Family Heritage Picnic. Hosted by the Capital City African American Cultural Association Inc., this years' parade theme focused on diversity and the celebration of family heritage, said Micheal McFadden, event marketer and broadcast radio personality for WWSJ (1580-AM). "Family heritage is important, and whatever your ethnicity is, you should get excited about discovering your family history," he said. The Lansing Area African American Genealogical Society, or LAAAGS, had an informational tent that offered genealogy information. Mary Agnes Lipscomb, president and co-founder of the society, said the primary focus is to assist black people in researching family history. "This is very important because we need to know where we've been in order to plan where we are going," she said. Lipscomb said sometimes it can be hard to trace family history. "Our history wasn't always written down, and many relatives don't want to discuss the past either," she said.
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, nearly everybody, regardless of political bent, acknowledged that terrorism is a problem the United States must deal with.
Sparty has arrived on campus but doesn't have a place to go. Four days away from the original completion deadline and the Kalamazoo Street, Red Cedar Road and Chestnut Road intersection is still dug up, unpaved and without the bronze Sparty statue, which arrived Tuesday. The road, expected to accommodate traffic by Aug.
As summer winds down for John Fournier, his campaign for a seat on East Lansing's City Council is just beginning to start. The political theory and constitutional democracy senior said he's been busy finishing up his paperwork to enter his name into the race and expects to have it submitted by Wednesday. Fournier has until 5 p.m.
Last year the annual African American Parade and Family Heritage Picnic attracted more than 15,000 people, state Rep.
As John Bice wrote in "Homosexuality as a sin one more example of Bible's primitiveness" (SN 8/1), religious conflicts do often arise based upon one's exegesis of Biblical texts (the task of drawing, but not reading in, and applying the author's intended meaning). Unfortunately, Bice fails miserably by demonstrating his own lack of Biblical knowledge and exegetical methodology.
On Tuesday, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement bill, or CAFTA. The bill had passed Congress by a narrow margin. This agreement between Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic will create a free trade zone similar to the one created by the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.
The ongoing war between the city of East Lansing and student housing has reached yet another childish obstruction.
It looks like the MSU's athletics department is screwing things up again. Mark Hollis, thanks for giving returning students a "welcome back gift." Also, "brilliant" job not telling students. A lot of students do sell their tickets for profit and for those people who buy them and are denied entry because they do not have an MSU student ID, it will be a black eye for the department and the university. Mr. Hollis, thanks for dropping the ball. Martin Schaupner 2001 graduate
MSU head coach John L. Smith said the MSU team is going to be in the same situation it was last year. "At least for another year until our depth gets better, we're going to have to stay healthy," Smith said Monday in Chicago at the Big Ten Media Day. The problem for the Spartans last season was staying healthy, especially at the quarterback position, as both former Spartan Damon Dowdell and junior starter this season, Drew Stanton, missed time with injuries. This season, Stanton is the only quarterback left with game experience, as redshirt freshman Brian Hoyer and freshman Domenic Natale have yet to take a snap in a college football game.
Strange ramblings in East Lansing … I find myself wanting to impart a few random observations and comments as the semester draws to a close: • Damn, it's muggy out.
A new student voucher system for football tickets has left some MSU students questioning the decision-making behind the change. The new system, which officials insist is not a policy change, was announced last week and will attach tickets to student IDs, replacing printed vouchers.
Contrary to the statement yesterday by Chris Larmore, I think it is important during the past couple of weeks that there has been discussion about what it means to be gay ("Letters leave out big campus issues" SN 8/1). The diversity of ideas reflected in the opinion section indicates that a lot of people care very passionately about religious issues and public policy related to homosexuality.
City officials have tried blocking an attempt by a local rental-housing mogul to construct new apartments on Burcham Drive. The East Lansing City Council authorized City Manager Ted Staton to purchase a piece of property for $160,000, on which DTN Management Co. wanted to construct a new apartment complex, during its July 19 meeting, city documents stated. Although Deputy City Manager Jean Golden has said the city didn't want to get involved in a bidding war with DTN, the offer was still brought to the council by city administrators. "That was the offer from the seller," she said.
MSU women's track and field head coach Angela Goodman announced last week that Chris Campbell has been hired as an assistant coach. Campbell will work with both men and women's throwers, along with putting together training programs for the women's multi-event team members. For the past six seasons, Campbell worked at Fresno State as a coach and recruiting coordinator, the last two of which he served as assistant head coach.
The sounds and smells of Germany can be found on the third floor of Wells Hall this week. Two German studies graduate students, Jeannine Mickeleit and Angelika Kraemer, are running a camp to teach children aged 6-11 years old German language and culture.
After more than a month without an administrative leader, the College of Human Medicine is expected to take on Dr. Marsha Rappley as acting dean. Rappley has assumed the responsibilities on an interim basis since the departure of former Dean Glenn Davis on June 30. MSU President Lou Anna K.