The State News editorial board appears surprised that there is a massive discrepancy between graduation rates for black students and white students.
Riverwalk Theatre's "Noises Off" is a side-splitting look into the life and drama of the thespian world. The success is due to a brilliantly written script, a well-rehearsed cast and excellent direction. "Noises Off" is set in various English towns and follows an acting troop in its attempt to perform the British sex farce "Nothing On." In each act, the offstage drama takes a larger toll on the performance of "Nothing On," as couples fight and jealousy takes hold. Each actor is fully immersed in their character or characters.
Several campus organizations - including the MSU Red Cross Club that I am a part of - wasted their time on Friday for the Party at the Aud.
Culturas De Las Razas Unidas, or CRU, and the Chicano/Latino Association held a reception Tuesday night at the Union for discussion between faculty members and students to find ways to improve graduation and retention rates for minority students. Increasing communication between Chicano/Latino faculty and students helps ensure that students will make it to graduation day, said CRU co-Chair Isaias Solis.
Starting Tuesday, people can get a free credit report online, allowing them to see who has previously seen the reports and make sure all the information is accurate. Three major credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, charge about $9 for the reports but will now provide them once a year for free under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003. People can get a report from each company by going to www.annualcreditreport.com.
It's back to the drawing board for DTN Management Co. after the East Lansing City Council rejected an application from the rental mogul to construct five apartment buildings at its meeting Tuesday evening. Plans for the site, located along the 700 block of Burcham Drive, included developing a complex to house 90 occupants and 75 vehicles.
The Student Government Senate at the University of Michigan-Dearborn is urging the university's Board of Regents to look into the investments in companies that might profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The resolution passed last week by the senate also calls for the university to remove funds from these companies. "That's what we're asking for at this point," said Tarek Baydoun, speaker of the senate at UM-Dearborn.
If one recent report has it right, HIV-infected teens are taking some scary risks these days. A study conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles Center For Community Health found that the advent of powerful AIDS-delaying medicines has caused HIV-infected teenagers to increase the chances they are taking when engaging in risky sex and drug use. Since the 1996 introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies, or HAART, which fight the transition from HIV to AIDS, young people have come to see HIV as a disease they can live with.
Since Tori Amos first rocked onto mainstream music's radar more than a decade ago, we've seen the many facets of her personality.
On Friday night, the only thing Pete Dayrell had for dinner was a small container of plain white rice.
Members of the Residence Halls Association's General Assembly will elect the group's new president at 7 p.m.
At its Tuesday meeting, the Executive Committee of Academic Council passed a motion to hold all Academic Senate meetings in future years on the last Thursday of regular courses during the fall and spring semester. "We need to set these meetings way in advance," said Muralee Nair, horticulture professor and member of the Executive Committee. The decision was prompted by the difficulty Executive Committee members had in setting this spring's second senate meeting around both faculty and administrators' schedules. Academic Senate is a faculty-wide forum that met for the first time in eight years last spring.
Let me give it to you straight: Horoscopes are a rock-hard nugget of feces. What keeps us reading them is the lure of the forbidden.
There's more to eating disorders than eating. MSU graduate student Tiffany Titus knows this firsthand after suffering from both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa for more than five years, she said. "It's a way to deal with emotions I don't want to deal with," Titus said. This week, she is helping the group Respecting and Understanding Body Image get attention for the problem as part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
Athletes at the college level are required to put in a ridiculous amount of time for their sports. They must balance conditioning and practice everyday, along with matches and tournaments on the weekends - all on top of a full class schedule.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon encouraged those in MSU and Grand Rapids to work together on the expansion of the College of Human Medicine in Grand Rapids during a speech at The Economic Club of Grand Rapids on Monday. Simon was invited to speak to the club, which often features appearances by college and university presidents, said Lorna Schultz, executive director of the club. Simon could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Club members asked Simon questions, and she spoke not only about the medical school, but also about her vision for MSU's future.
According to the latest data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Americans are living longer than ever. Average life expectancy rose 0.3 years in 2003 to a record high of 77.6 years, according to the center. Women still live longer than men - an average of 80.1 years compared to 74.8 years - but the gap between the genders decreased for the 23rd consecutive year. The top 15 causes of death remained the same, except assault left the list and was replaced by Parkinson's disease.
A winter storm Tuesday created several problems for Lansing and East Lansing residents traveling in the area. As of 1 p.m.
The MSU men's track and field team placed ninth in the Big Ten Indoor Championships this weekend. Wisconsin won the indoor title with 144.5 points, and Indiana came in second with 105.5.