This is in response to Esther Gim's article "Union and its players at fault for not accepting cap earlier" (SN 2/22). At the end of her article, Gim states that the National Football League thrives without a salary cap and someday the National Hockey League might also.
It has been a long season for Michigan. The Wolverines (12-15 overall, 3-10 Big Ten) have lost 10 straight games, including a 70-63 setback to Indiana at home.
A university community task force working toward reducing sexual assaults and relationship violence at MSU is closer to submitting its recommendations. The group, formed in November after 12 sexual assaults were reported on MSU's campus during the fall semester, is made up of more than 30 university community members, including faculty, staff and students. The task force met Monday to brainstorm and review findings since it first met in December. "We started to get the ball rolling," committee co-Chairperson Jayne Schuiteman said.
Possibly deterred by the snow, not enough professors and student representatives attended the Academic Council meeting on Tuesday to be able to vote on issues. There must be 61 voting members in attendance to convene a meeting, but by 4 p.m., 45 minutes after the meeting was scheduled to begin, only 59 of those members had appeared. Acting Provost John Hudzik ended the meeting, urging those in attendance to encourage missing members to come to the next meeting, scheduled for March 22. "You're all great folks for being here - stay great and get your colleagues to show up," Hudzik said. The weather is sometimes a factor in keeping people from venturing out to the meetings, said Jon Sticklen, chairman of the Executive Committee of Academic Council and an associate professor of computer science. "This doesn't happen too frequently, but when it does, it's usually in winter when there is a blizzard," Sticklen said.
I am very disheartened by the way the article on Bill Ayers, former member of the Weatherman, was presented in Tuesday's edition of The State News ("Visit by former member of 1970s radical group causes stir" SN 2/22). The bold quote and front page header, "Students shouldn't look up to people who bombed the Pentagon," was an uneducated and misleading statement.
About 10 MSU students joined a group of 13 Michigan colleges to meet with state government officials on Tuesday to express their concerns and learn about the legislative process. The Michigan Campus Compact hosted the second annual "Day at the State Capitol," along with Sen.
Two years is a pretty long time for any music act to take a break from playing gigs. Especially when that act is local, unsigned and self-supportive.
If sitcoms on television have taught viewers one thing, it's that everyone knows how to play poker. The stereotypes of who's sitting at the table are all there.
Drivers who speed along portions of Grand River Avenue and Saginaw Highway will face a $40 increase in speeding ticket fines as of midnight on Thursday. Originally $135, tickets were raised to keep vehicles from traveling faster than a 10 mph speed hike made by the Michigan Department of Transportation, or MDOT, last week.
The East Lansing City Council passed a motion to oppose the 10 mph speed limit increase on parts of Grand River Avenue and Saginaw Highway at its meeting Tuesday evening. The Michigan Department of Transportation increased speed limits last week along Saginaw Highway from Coolidge Road to Hagadorn Road and along Grand River Avenue from Coolidge Road to Michigan Avenue and Bogue Street to Maplewood Drive. "To us, it is a safety concern," Councilmember Vic Loomis said.
An Ohio State basketball player served a one-game suspension Saturday following an altercation with an MSU student Feb.
The No. 6 MSU women's basketball team will wrap up its regular season Wednesday night at home against last place Michigan. If the Spartans win, the team could clinch a share of the Big Ten title. Breslin Center is calling for a White Out for the game - where the crowd wears white shirts.
Parking gods, Alright, I understand cutting down on driving on campus, but MSU does allow students to have a car.
Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," has committed suicide. Thompson, 67, was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff's officials said. Thompson is credited alongside Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese with helping pioneer New Journalism - or, as he dubbed it, "gonzo journalism" - in which the writer made himself a component of the story. Bill McWhirter, MSU School of Journalism's editor in residence, spent time with Thompson when they both covered the end of the Vietnam War.
After Adam and Lindsey Malson received their diplomas in May 2003, the MSU graduates walked to Demonstration Hall and were sworn into the U.S.
An MSU consultant who worked on the initial stages of the proposed new residential college has accepted a job with the University of Massachusetts. Marcellette Williams, a consultant to Acting Provost John Hudzik, has accepted a job as senior vice president for academic and student affairs and international relations for the entire University of Massachusetts system, which includes five campuses. Williams will assume her position full time in July, following completion of an MSU study abroad program in South Africa this summer. "I had a wonderful experience here as a student, which was only topped by my experience as a faculty member and administrator," she said.
A chant heard in many college hockey arenas adequately describes the NHL lockout. "It's all your fault!
Like other MSU students, chemical engineering senior Heather Schultz dresses casually in denim blue jeans and a short-sleeve MSU T-shirt.
East Lansing is a changing city. Through the use of an ordinance restricting rentals and several redevelopment projects, community leaders hope to find a balance between permanent residents and renters. In a place where rental housing outnumbers its owner-occupied counterpart by more than 5,000 units, some have begun to worry that the city is turning from a mixed community into a haven for renters. "The owner-occupied housing is critical in the sense of community," said Tim Dempsey, an East Lansing community and economic development administrator.