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.
Action movies are rarely known for outstanding plot development, but any movie requires character growth and a natural story line to be believable. Unfortunately, the movie "Constantine," directed by Francis Lawrence, lacked these necessary elements. The big special effects of the action-packed thriller are realistically fantastical but not quite enough to distract the viewer from the contrived plot full of holes. John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) is a cigarette-smoking exorcist who is dying of lung cancer.
I live in a home on the 700 block of Burcham Drive. It's a quaint house, nestled in among pine trees with enormous apartment complexes rising on either side.
The MSU athletics department is in good academic position according to a progress report released Monday by the NCAA. The report awards points each semester to "scholarship student-athletes who meet academic-eligibility standards and who remain with the institution." A failing grade would be considered 925 points. Seven MSU sports teams recorded perfect Academic Progress Rate, or APR, scores of 1,000. Nationally, it is estimated that of the 5,720 teams at 328 Division 1 schools, about 410 teams risk penalties.
I believe there is much more to the shutdown of Channel 12 than meets the eye. I personally believe that management has systematically devalued the channel and marginalized its staff.
Education senior Joseph Becker likes the idea of building new rentals - as a renter on the 700 block of Burcham Drive, he supports the development of new housing targeted at students in the area. If a plan to construct five new apartment buildings on his block is approved by the East Lansing City Council tonight, Becker's wish might become a reality. But before plans to redevelop the area can move forward, the home where Becker resides, along with another rental home and a parking lot, would have to be demolished to make room for the new structures. "Everyone has the choice to live in the dorms, but most students after their freshman or sophomore years don't want to do that," Becker said.
The MSU women's track and field team came in sixth place at the Big Ten Indoor Championships in Ann Arbor. Michigan finished first, and Illinois and Minnesota were second and third place, respectively. Sophomore Cynetheia Rooks had an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 54.25 in the 400-meter dash, an event she also won.
By Scott Cendrowski The State News In the spring of 1970, former President Richard Nixon had escalated the war in Vietnam with a bombing campaign in Cambodia, four students were slain by National Guardsmen at Kent State University - and at MSU, striking students were pleading their case against the war and against authorities for weeks. The anti-war sentiment energized thousands of MSU students against involvement in Vietnam during the late 1960s.
Illinois officials say they could have a leg up on MSU in the competition to secure the nearly $1 billion Rare Isotope Accelerator project. MSU and Argonne National Laboratory, located near Chicago, are the main competitors for the project.
Adam Finkel Special for The State News Last month, on the cover of Time magazine, a new demographic in society was reported.
MSU police are investigating a rape that an 18-year-old student said occurred in Holden Hall early Sunday morning. The female student told police a man entered her unlocked dorm room as she slept and sexually assaulted her at 2:45 a.m.
Editors of The State News on Monday took note of the failure of the university's Academic Senate to have a quorum, and remark that "faculty should take advantage of the opportunity to make this university a better place." MSU students will be pleased to know, if they don't already, that their faculty have important work to do: teach, research (so our teaching is the best possible), and do service to the public, their profession and the university. If faculty are to accept attendance at an Academic Senate meeting as a responsible use of their commitment to university service, they must expect such a meeting to have a useful function. Functions of the senate are described in university bylaw 3.1.2: to act on amendments to the bylaws referred to it by Academic Council, to act on other matters referred to it by Academic Council and Faculty Council, and "to serve as a forum for the dissemination and exchange of ideas and information between the faculty and the administration." Actions of the senate, indeed, are "restricted to approval of the recommendation or referral back to the originating council for further deliberation." The only action on the agenda for Friday's Academic Senate meeting was a routine and uncontroversial matter, indeed of doubtful propriety as it had not been referred by either Academic or Faculty Council.
Bison soon will be showing up in wallets and cash registers across the country as the U.S. Mint's new American bison nickel, released Monday, makes its way into circulation. The coin is the first buffalo nickel released since 1938 and features a new obverse, otherwise known as "heads," design of former President Thomas Jefferson. "It's a bold new design of Jefferson," said Joyce Harris, deputy director of the U.S.
State News photographers swept the category for the Michigan Press Photographers Association's College Photographer of the Year award at the organization's annual conference last weekend. The category contains first, second and third ranking and two honorable mentions. The MPPA honors professional and student photographers from across the state for submissions in categories ranging from feature photos to sports photos.
Your editorial on the Academic Senate meeting ("In session" SN 2/28), which appears to criticize faculty for their lack of participation in governance, reflects a lack of understanding of the circumstances and importance of the meeting.
There often is a very thin line between genius and crazy. One particular New Jersey hip-hop trio is definitely walking this line with its newest album, a disc that teeters dangerously between cutting-edge brilliance and absolute insanity. "Absence" is the third studio album for hip-hop group Dälek, pronounced "dialect." The album already is being hailed by some critics as a daring step into new musical territory, a mind-blowing masterpiece following in the footsteps of pioneers such as Public Enemy and KRS-One.
Four MSU students lost their home, at least temporarily, on Monday after a fire broke out in the third-floor crawl space of their Grove Street rental house. All the tenants left the house safely, although three were sleeping as the fire filled the top floor and broke through the roof.
Animal science Professor Sam Varghese's return to the university after assisting tsunami victims in India should boost efforts here.
When East Lansing residents Patricia and David Brogan were MSU undergraduates in the 1950s, they experienced events firsthand that are now history. They remember the annual "Water Carnival" on the Red Cedar River and David Brogan's attendance at the 1954 Rose Bowl as a sophomore, during which MSU defeated the University of California, Los Angeles. Photographs of these events are part of "Memories of MSU," an exhibit that opened Sunday at the MSU Museum and will continue through December. The exhibit is a look back at the last 150 years of MSU through photographs, artifacts and timelines from students' perspectives. "It's fun to see it," Patricia Brogan said.