Grad enters 'Ultimate Fighter' competition
Shirley Evans is watching the second season of the sports reality series "The Ultimate Fighter," which began on Monday, with great interest. Evans' son, Rashad, a Lansing resident and MSU graduate will be featured on the Spike TV series this year.
Fire, police forces combat trauma
The image of Greg Tracy's first emergency response as an East Lansing firefighter has been etched in his mind for more than 21 years. It was summer, and a call reported a sighting of a body in the woods. After searching throughout the wooded area, Tracy said he found the body of a teenage boy who had been reported missing for a day hanging from a tree limb. "Calls - even from the first few years - they're vivid memories," the East Lansing Fire Department captain said. Traumatic memories, whether 2 or 20 years old, often remain in the back of emergency responders' minds.
Design for E.L. center surpasses older plan
East Lansing officials said revisions on the plans for the East Lansing City Center II project - slated for the corner of Abbott Road and Grand River Avenue - will be released later this week. Planning and Community Development Director Jim van Ravensway said that is when the changes will be presented to him from developers. "It's still in its very preliminary phase.
Grad enters 'Ultimate Fighter' competition
By J. Ryan Mulcrone The State News Shirley Evans is watching the second season of the sports reality series "The Ultimate Fighter," which began on Monday, with great interest. Evans' son, Rashad, a Lansing resident and MSU graduate will be featured on the Spike TV series this year.
Initiative could hurt women, minorities
The debates on the merits and truths behind the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, or MCRI, have already started, and it's not even set to be on the ballot.
Tragic ritual
Sometimes there's a fine line between fun and foolishness - other times, there's no question that an incident should have never happened.
Affirmative action promotes racism
I'm writing in response to Ross Hammersley's letter on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative while also responding to all other articles printed about race/gender affirmative action ("Initiative is a step back for equality" SN 8/15). I am in total agreement that the treatment of African Americans in this country throughout history has been unfair and disheartening.
Student money is misused by MSU
Here we are nearing the start of a new semester at MSU. Recently there has been grumbling by the administration at MSU that tuition needs to be raised again because the state does not provide enough funds to run the university.
Officials explore possible partners
The MSU Board of Trustees spent Thursday getting acquainted with the medical facilities in a city which could, if approved, become home to part of the university's College of Human Medicine. MSU began plans in early 2004 to move a portion of the medical school to Grand Rapids.
Admit fault
The evidence is stacking up against the police involved in the April 2-3 disturbances. On Friday, MSU Vice President for Student Affairs and Services Lee June and eight of his colleagues gave firsthand accounts of the events they witnessed that night.
Young linebacking core without much game experience
With senior Eric Smith moved back to safety after a brief stint at bandit, the linebackers have now become the youngest group on the team. The starting group consists of junior linebacker David Herron Jr., sophomore linebacker Kaleb Thornhill and sophomore bandit Sir Darean Adams.
WEB ONLY: MSU grad creates forensic reality show for A&E
Glenn Marrichi, 1972 MSU graduate and president and chief executive officer of The Marketing Identity, has a new 60-minute reality show on A&E, with a family twist on the "CSI" concept, called "Family Forensics." "You can find out happy, interesting things and (issues) that need to be addressed," Marrichi said.
Clubs offer sports for students
For many students on campus, sports is life - whether they choose to watch or play - and MSU offers several intramural and club activities to keep sports fans interested. Although only a select few are able to participate in varsity sports, several options are available to everyone else.
Same-sex partner rights debated today in court
A hearing to determine whether public employers can offer benefits to domestic partners is scheduled for today at the Ingham County 30th Circuit Court and proponents will hold a rally before the hearing. Triangle Foundation Director of Policy Sean Kosofsky said the benefits should remain legal. "I don't want to comment on possible decisions from the hearing, but we are expecting a positive outcome because the intent behind Proposal 2 was not to restrict domestic benefits," he said. In 2004, Proposal 2 was put on the ballot and was ratified as a Michigan Constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman. The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, is representing 22 same-sex couples who filed a lawsuit in March after Attorney General Mike Cox interpreted the amendment as barring the city of Kalamazoo from providing domestic-partner benefits in future contracts. Messages left at the attorney general's office were not returned. The court hearing, which would have been last month, was postponed in order for Gov.
Union eateries open on time
Two new restaurants in the International Center's Crossroads Food Court did not open as planned Monday, but new additions to the Union's One Union Square Food Court opened on schedule. All four eateries installed in on-campus food courts this summer should be operational by the end of the week, said Associate Union Manager Mark Simmons. Grill 155 and La Vincita, offering American and Italian menus, respectively, replace the Little Caesars and Wendy's formerly located in the Union. Subway has been absorbing much of the lunchtime traffic at the International Center after Taco Bell and Wendy's closed this spring, but the food court will now offer East Lansing's fourth Woody's Oasis location and the New Jersey-based chain Villa Pizza. Woody's is expected to open today at 10 a.m., and Simmons said he hopes to have Villa Pizza up and running by the end of the day as well.
Officials question existence of racial profiling on campus
Walking home as usual after interning at the MSU Plant Biology Laboratories, 16-year-old Detroit high school student Brenten Williams said he was stopped by an MSU police officer. "I was walking toward the bridge near Abbot and Mason (halls) and a cop pulled up in a motorcycle," he said.
Live movie
Like white, there are different shades of black. In many movies, blacks are portrayed in prisons and ghettos, with boisterous attitudes, slick motives and other most commonly associated situations. "Barbershop," "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" and "Bad Boys," to name a few, all have a limited view of blacks. MSU Assistant Professor Jeff Wray, who is directing a film called "The Soul Searchers" this summer, is trying to move away from such hackneyed roles in the movie. "We rarely see black folks depicted in a way that's expansive about humanity," Wray said in Thursday's story in The State News.
Liberal SN way too quick to bash Bush
In your recent editorial, "Future fuel," (SN 8/11) despite marginal praise, you immediately rush to condemn President Bush.