It's been little more than two weeks since the "disturbances" after the MSU loss to North Carolina and already it seems that the students of MSU are allowing the East Lansing Police Department and city officials to get away with their own riotous behavior.
On Tuesday, various committees updated Academic Council members on the progress of their initiatives. The New Residential College/School Curriculum Team presented a 39-page report that included the mission of the program and curriculum requirements, including possible courses. The residential college, or school, would be housed in renovated Snyder and Phillips halls and have a focus on the humanities.
In the continuing fight to ban preference based on race and gender in university admissions and government hiring, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative faces another challenge from opposing groups.
Academic officials can live in a small world. Brian Foster, a candidate for provost at MSU, also is a candidate for the same post at the University of Missouri-Columbia. And Janie Fouke, dean of the MSU College of Engineering, is another of the three candidates for the Missouri job. Foster, the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico, visits MSU today and will spend April 24-26 at Missouri. He said the campus visits will play a key role in his decision if both jobs are offered to him. "I guess I would go where I would find the best fit and make the best impact," Foster said, adding he also is being considered at other schools.
I am a graduate student in the Department of English and I teach - boy, do I teach - for MSU. I am outraged at the university's unwillingness to bargain with the Graduate Employees Union to reach a contract guaranteeing decent pay, health care and working conditions for teaching assistants, who teach one-third of all classes at MSU and grade two-thirds of all assignments. In the five years I have been at MSU, I have taught 486 students.
I saw "A Very Long Engagement" at Wells Hall this past weekend, and although I greatly enjoyed the movie, I was quite angry when I saw that we were watching the movie in an altered aspect ratio (it was composed in widescreen), and it was of poor picture quality. If we are paying taxes to the Residence Halls Association that pay for these movies, I want to see my money on the screen.
It was a weekend of triumph for the MSU baseball team. First, the Spartans became only the second team to win a series at Ohio State in the nine-year-old Bill Davis Stadium. Second, because of their performances against the Buckeyes, sophomore catcher Sean Walker was named the Big Ten's co-Player of the Week along with Minnesota's Andy Hunter, and junior pitcher Tim Day was named the league's Pitcher of the Week after a complete game shutout Friday. "It was great, well deserved," MSU head coach Ted Mahan said Tuesday.
Possible convictions stemming from the April 2-3 disturbances could be removed from an offender's record after five years, according to Michigan law. The law states that after five years, a person can request that his or her record be cleared of most types of criminal convictions, if the record includes only one offense.
From men in drag to drama queen succubus, "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" is not your ordinary community theater show - which is why the play is part of the Riverwalk Theatre's Black Box program, complete with midnight showings.
Imagine a society where a specific group of people were denied a basic provision necessary for improved quality of life.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the Roman Catholic Church's leading hard-liner, was elected pope in Vatican City on Tuesday, in the first conclave of the new millennium.
When Sue Carter leaves her post this summer, there's a decent chance students won't take much notice.
It sucks having to go through a metal detector. It's almost guaranteed that anyone who does will have to go through the device at least twice, get dirty looks from those in line behind them or suffer the embarrassment of the nasty alarm going off. But hey, SN Style knows that one must endure great trials for the sake of fashion.
The only candidate for provost that currently holds that position visits campus today. Brian Foster, the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico, will host the second candidate-led public forum at 2:30 p.m.
Lansing- Alongside the Grand River, in the shadow of factories and colonial-style homes, there is a place where samples of the world's wildlife are on display.
As a former graduate student who was fortunate enough to have two appointments during my graduate studies, I feel compelled to share a secret with the university community.
Tony Trischka has spent a lifetime breaking rules. His weapon of choice? A banjo. Since the day he first picked up a banjo at the age of 14, the now 56-year-old Trischka has consistently pushed boundaries to redefine his instrument.
"It's terrifying. It's the worst experience. I am renting from a slum lord right now.
Two MSU students who are selling T-shirts with a statement about the East Lansing Police Department's actions in the April 2-3 disturbances had a police encounter of their own on Tuesday. Evan Dashe, an accounting junior, and Anthony Saladino, a general management freshman, were wearing the shirts and holding up a sign advertising them on Tuesday afternoon by Beaumont Tower but were not selling them, they said. The T-shirts have the slogan, "Tear gas is not designed to extinguish fires" printed on the front and a derogatory message for the East Lansing Police Department on back.