The trophy case of the MSU Residence Halls Association just got a bit more crowded. At last weekend's annual conference of the Michigan Organization of Residence Hall Associations, or MORHA, MSU's RHA came away with multiple individual and group awards. MSU RHA President Ernest Drake was named president of the year.
Michigan officials are banking on $200 million for university and college improvements to spur job growth and help lower the unemployment rate. On Wednesday, the same day Gov.
The men As they make their sixth Sweet 16 appearance in eight years, MSU is set for a rematch against Duke, a team the Spartans lost to in a close game earlier this season.
After watching the MSU women's team squeak past Southern California in the second round of the tournament, you heard all the haters come out in full force. Analysts and fans from other schools saying: "the Spartans won't make it to the Final Four or never deserved a No.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was still president. n Alaska was just admitted into the Union. n The last time MSU beat Duke was Dec.
There is so much dissension and varying ways of thinking in the world, that I am not sure if we will ever smooth out all the wrinkles and come to any kind of peaceable middle ground.
ASMSU takes a lot of criticism for wasting money and not representing the interest of the students. This criticism is very much deserved.
Some of Michigan's top women leaders in higher education met Wednesday in the Kellogg Center to address the challenges facing today's colleges and universities. The roundtable discussion was sponsored by the Council of Graduate Students to give students a chance to hear how the leaders were facing today's problems, such as state funding and the challenges for women in leadership roles. Martha Smydra, president of Oakland Community College's Royal Oak and Southfield campuses, said things have changed significantly since she began her career 30 years ago. "Back then, some women would get positions based on their minority status," Smydra said.
"All in the Timing," a series of seven one-act comedies, hits the stage this weekend. Topics covered in the play range from the demise of Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary, in "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," to an English murder mystery in "The Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage." In between are the comedies: "Singular Kinda Guy," "A Sure Thing," "Mere Mortals," "Time Flies" and "The Philadelphia," all written by David Ives. "This is smart comedy," said director Addiann Hinds.
What do a courthouse, a church and a school have in common - aside from being the foundations by which the law, spirituality and education are, respectively, delivered? All three are places you can get shot. Here, in this country, March Madness has taken a literal connotation. If you are clueless as to what I'm talking about, let me fill you in. On March 11, a man who had been charged with breaking into his ex-girlfriend's house and raping and sodomizing her repeatedly over a three-day period went on a rampage.
When Tami Thomas' 36 year-old brother was killed more than three years ago, Thomas said she knew he wanted to donate his organs. "We knew what he wanted verbally," said Thomas, a social worker at Tendercare West assisted-living center in Lansing.
Normally in movies, the possibility of time travel is packaged in strange metal boxes, telephone wires, electrified helmets or specialized vehicles.
MSU head coach Rick Comley and the Spartans scored another recruit when defenseman Matt Shouneyia of the NAHL's Cleveland Barons verbally committed to MSU for the upcoming 2005-06 season. Shouneyia, a 6-footer from West Bloomfield, is the captain of the Barons and ranks fifth among NAHL defenseman with 30 points.
In the song "Trenchtown Rock," a certain legendary reggae musician opens with an infamous line: "One good thing about music/When it hits, you feel no pain." Although this artist could have been making a statement about all music in general, the phrase seems to be tailor-made to fit reggae in particular.
I would encourage the author of the editorial "Too Far" (SN 3/22), in which it was argued that Congress' interaction in the Terri Schiavo case was a violation of state sovereignty, to read the 14th Amendment to the U.S.
People interested in donating their organs could have the front of their driver's licenses or ID cards stamped with a heart logo beginning in 2007 if a bill passed in the Senate is made law. Introduced by Sen.
I know what Darrell Hughes meant when he wrote that it's frustrating that we have classes with foreign-speaking teaching assistants ("Faculty must take steps to better accommodate inquiring students" SN 3/21). For example, right now I have a class where my TA hardly ever speaks English.
I am writing in regards to the column "Jump on the MSU wagon" (SN 3/22) by Chris Meagher in Tuesday's paper.
Don't worry avid Courtside readers, you're not in some parallel universe because the progs prediction is one day early.
MSU officials say the "high-priority" status assigned to a planned campus roadwork project by the U.S.