During the riots after the April 2 men's basketball game, I was out on the streets. I passed many cops, and I got teargassed twice, but never did I see any actions that deserved the current whining that many students have brought down upon the police forces involved.
As the semester winds down, MSU College Republicans are busy wrapping up a year in which they helped re-elect President Bush and got students to vote.
Sophomore Nick Simmons was awarded the MSU wrestling team's 2005 Outstanding Wrestler Award at the team's banquet held Sunday at Kellogg Center. Simmons went 32-4 this season, including a fourth-place finish at the 2005 NCAA Championships.
After seeing no movement by the university toward a compromise in contract negotiations, members of the Graduate Employees Union took to the streets on Monday wearing sandwich boards with slogans such as "MSU Bargaining Skills: F-" The union, or GEU, protects the labor rights of teaching assistants.
Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman said it's difficult to be a newspaper columnist, constantly churning out opinions on every issue of the day. She's even heard some say holding the job is like being married to a nymphomaniac.
Local health stores might be able to sell a product containing ephedrine alkaloids after a federal judge ruled last week that a Utah company could sell the supplement. Ephedra is an herbal substance often used in weight loss supplements. The decision landed almost exactly a year after the U.S.
The MSU faculty asked the university for a 4.25 percent salary increase next year, leaving administrators with a big decision on their hands.
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and columnist for The Boston Globe, Ellen Goodman will be speaking at the fourth annual Neal Shine Lecture today at 4 p.m.
Editor's Note: The folllowing is the full text of MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon's statement on the April 2-3 disturbances: April 18, 2005 Statement Regarding MSU/East Lansing Assessment of Events of April 2 As both the Spartan men's and women's teams headed down a road paved in green to the Final Four, the MSU community came together to urge that members of "Team MSU" celebrate responsibly, win or lose.
ASMSU officials met Thursday to elect candidates for positions for the upcoming school year. Physics senior Andrew Schepers was re-elected to fulfill the chairperson position, defeating political theory and constitutional democracy senior Andrew Bell by a vote of 15-13.
Members of the Graduate Employees Union will line Grand River Avenue today to raise awareness about their bargaining sessions.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon's publicly released statement to students about the April 2-3 disturbances is a little like showing up late to a birthday party without a gift.
Editor's note: This is the first in a five-part series to reintroduce the people who run East Lansing.
I was sitting uncomfortably on my seat Saturday at Munn Ice Arena watching a charity hockey game thinking, "Man, the NHL has been succumbed to this because of the current lockout." Former MSU standouts such as Shawn Horcoff, the various Millers, Jason Woolley and Bryan Smolinski were back at the spot of their college glory days.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it." That was columnist Ellen Goodman's observation on the disconnect between working and living in modern America.
As Greek Week 2005 ended Saturday, one MSU fraternity completed a three-year campaign just for the right to be called "greek" again. The MSU chapter of Pi Kappa Phi had its charter revoked in 2002 after being found to have committed hazing violations.
A Marshall man accused of murder, stealing a motor vehicle and drunken driving will go to trial in Ingham County Circuit Court, a judge ruled Friday. Alexander Hamil, 19, came to MSU to celebrate St.
"Schoolhouse Rock Live!" combines the elementary tunes of the 1970s cartoons with adult nuances to make for a delightful evening of song and dance. Each performer is stellar in their various shining roles as well as in the numerous smaller parts they act.
The MSU football team was back in the confines of Spartan Stadium on Saturday, running exactly 100 plays as part of its open spring practice in front of an estimated 4,500 fans. MSU head coach John L.