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.
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.
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.
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.
Members of the Residence Halls Association's General Assembly will elect the group's new president at 7 p.m.
On Friday night, the only thing Pete Dayrell had for dinner was a small container of plain white rice.
Since Tori Amos first rocked onto mainstream music's radar more than a decade ago, we've seen the many facets of her personality.
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.
As soon as she hit the big 21 at midnight on Thursday, Kelly Pierse celebrated as many MSU students do when they become legal - with a drink at the bar. "It was the longest day because it was hours until I could have a drink legally in a bar," said Pierse, an interdisciplinary studies in social science with a specialization in health studies junior. Pierse went out with some friends to Dagwoods Tavern and Grill, 2803 E.
It was on the third bite of my vegetarian lasagna that I realized I loved Lansing - it was really good lasagna. I was sitting in Emil's, 2012 E.
As leaders, it is the responsibility of the Izzone directors to make decisions that best serve the interest of all of the members of the Izzone and to stick to these decisions.
There's an NCAA commercial that pops up every now and again during college sports broadcasts. The ad shows a wide variety of student athletes who play a wide variety of sports.
When I read Joe Wu's letter about MSU instructors not having polished communication skills ("Educators should have English Skills" SN 2/24), I am reminded of the adage about people who live in glass houses.
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.