In response to Mark Myers', "Abortion has negative effects on mother and father, not just unborn" (SN 2/3), I'd like to say I'm sorry that some women regret their choices, but that does not mean that others don't deserve the right to choose.
Eleven-year-old Rachel Wing said she wants to learn to do the hula and see the black sand beaches of Hawaii that her nurse told her about. With her Lansing room painted in beach scenes, her mother Chris Dennings said she tells Rachel every night to "dream of Hawaii." As Rachel enters the final phase of chemotherapy for acute lymphatic leukemia, her wish to go to her favorite island might come true as early as June this year.
ASMSU officials decided at a joint meeting to pass its amended constitution Thursday to keep the two assemblies separate, despite one representative's plea not to. ASMSU's constitution is a blueprint of how colleges, minorities and progressive students are represented within its system.
Sen. Virg Bernero, D-Lansing, will appear today on the NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America and CBS's The Early Show with employees from Okemos-based Weyco Inc. The workers were fired for refusing to take a test that would have determined if they smoked outside of work. Bernero said he plans to introduce legislation that would prevent companies from firing employees who choose to smoke or engage in other legal activities on their own time.
Detroit - Time was running out for the MSU hockey team when the Spartans found themselves behind late in both games against No.
In the six years since it was established, the MSU Polo Club has grown from a few players using a wooden horse for practice to almost 30 members with a stable of 15 horses at its disposal. Coach Tom Wisehart said the team began when the Detroit Polo Club approached the MSU Horsemen's Association and offered to help them form a team. "We focused on starting from the fundamentals and going from there," said Wisehart, who played polo as an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut.
What looked to be another easy win for the No. 10 MSU women's basketball team at halftime turned into a hard-fought victory over Illinois, 68-59. The Spartans (20-3 overall, 9-2 Big Ten) took a 12-point lead into halftime after leading by as many as 17 in the half, but Illinois (13-8, 5-6) came out strong in the second half, and cut the lead to as close as two points before the Spartans put this one away. "The team showed a lot of heart and fight down the stretch," MSU head coach Joanne P.
More than 60 percent of MSU students believe it's the university's responsibility to ensure on-campus safety during tailgating, including using alcohol restrictions to do so, according to the 2004 Fall Celebration Survey. Among the 1,277 MSU undergraduate responses to the online survey, the number of students who drank or got drunk during tailgating was reduced by more than half after restrictions were put in place halfway through last football season.
The average graduate with student loans leaves MSU $21,000 in debt. And with more than 20,000 students taking out loans, recent news surrounding Pell Grant funding might affect as many as half of all MSU students. President Bush touched on the escalating cost of higher education in his State of the Union address last week, saying he will increase the size of the Pell Grant, a need-based federal grant. But as Bush vows to increase the Pell Grant maximum by $100 during the next five years, he doesn't have plans to add more money into the total financial aid pot.
Iowa City, Iowa - "And starting at guard, a 6-foot freshman from Grand Rapids, Michigan, No.
It's evident on campus that we're definitely a trendy bunch of college students. It's impossible to go to class without seeing The North Face, Ugg and Moosejaw advertised on the student body.
Now here's a movie that didn't need to be made. For one thing, it's been done before.
Hundreds of local female business owners came together to exhibit their services for thousands of women at the Mid-Michigan Women's Expo, Friday through Sunday at the Lansing Center. While women shopped from booth to booth, listened to demonstrations and learned about health issues, business owner Diane Boulet said times have changed for women in business. "It's a lot easier now for women to own businesses," Boulet said.
Improving the economic climate and increasing job growth for Michigan will be the main topics for Gov.
A group of MSU professors stayed up late grading last night. But instead of term papers, the group of 11 offered up judgment on this year's crop of Super Bowl commercials. The Super Bowl is the biggest day of the year for advertisers - about 150 million people tuned in to watch last year's game. And the ads aren't just directed to beer-guzzling, guacamole-devouring males: Of those 150 million, it's estimated that 40 million were women - more women than watched the Academy Awards. A half-minute ad during this year's Super Bowl cost an average of $2.4 million, about six times the rate for a typical half-minute slot in prime time. The panel agreed that this year's ads were much more tame than last year's, perhaps an overreaction to the massive public outcry that followed Janet Jackson's halftime "wardrobe malfunction." Still, there was some controversy, including a debate over Anheuser-Busch's spot featuring a group of soldiers walking through an airport and receiving an ovation from other passengers. "There's an ethical question to use pain and suffering to sell beer," advertising Professor Bill Ward said.
When I found out that some members of ASMSU want to increase the student tax in order to possibly create a scholarship, I was upset.
The firm that led the affirmative action battle at the University of Michigan is demanding non-minority students rejected under the race-based admission policy receive application fee refunds. In June 2003, the U.S.
A kitchen fire at Capitol Villa Apartments on Sunday evening completely gutted one apartment and damaged another, but no one was injured, officials said. East Lansing Fire Marshal Bob Pratt said it was an accidental fire caused by grease on a stove that flashed as the resident of the second-floor apartment was preparing to fry cheese. He estimated damage totaled about $60,000.
I am writing in response to Mark Myers' column "Abortion has negative effects on mother and father, not just unborn" (SN 2/3). Myers' basic premise is a sound one - abortion does affect the mother and father of the fetus, as well as other family members and friends.