"Maybe a couple nicer restaurants. You could go out and have a nice dinner." Bryon Botorowicz, psychology and sociology senior "Different types of cultural restaurants.
Perhaps you read Archie comics when you were a child. If you did, then you obviously know the difference between Betty and Veronica.
Not counting course-assigned materials, have you picked up any great books written by an MSU faculty member lately?
Now that the National Hockey League has officially driven itself six feet under, it is time to look at what exactly drove it to this point and what was driving fans away long before the lockout. First, the league got a little too large for the talent pool that is around.
Giant foam dice bounced across a board symbolizing the United States as part of the "Play Hard, Play Safe and Play Again" game Tuesday in Shaw Hall's cafeteria. The game was part of the annual Spring Break Safety Fair coordinated by the Women's Resource Center, or WRC, with the help of Olin Health Center, which runs the game. "I think the most important thing is just a reminder you need to protect yourself on spring break," said Olin health educator Jon Kermiet.
After years of declining viewership, Channel 12, which broadcasts free movies and student-produced programming to MSU's campus and surrounding cities, will go off the air at the end of the school year. Sharri Margraves, marketing communications director for Housing and Food Services, said the decision stemmed solely from the channel's shrinking profitability. In a November 2004 study conducted by the university, 38 percent of MSU students said they never watch the channel. "Philosophically, you don't want to see something come to an end, but you want to make the best decisions," Margraves said.
For an evening of quirky and amusing entertainment that will bare all and tell it like it is, catch "A Cure for the Valentine's Hangover." The short-play series, presented by local theater group Icarus Falling, is running through this weekend and offers a different angle for looking at love.
Student Parents On a Mission co-Chairperson Melissa Alsobrooks told student government leaders at the group's Feb.
During the past decade, MSU has spent an average of $11.5 million each year on residence hall maintenance and plans to dole out about $4 million more per year during the next five to 10 years to make over campus dorms. MSU and the state's other public universities submitted their campus projects to state legislators in January, based on a request by Sen.
This is in response to Kristi Jourdan's article about California and Michigan ("Mitten state does not deserve its redneck-riddled reputation" SN 2/18). I found the column to be lacking in any decent information.
Using frosting, licorice, chocolate chips and sprinkles, international relations sophomore Lindsay Miller constructed an edible map of Israel. Miller and two other students constructed their sweet geographical creations Tuesday night at the Hillel Jewish Student Center, 360 Charles St.
The MSU hockey team will get a better feel for where it will wind up in the final CCHA standings after this weekend. Miami (Ohio) and Alaska-Fairbanks, which are currently ahead of the Spartans in the conference and the race for home ice in the playoffs, will be finished with CCHA play after Saturday night.
The prospect of making less money than my parents after I graduate is frightening - especially considering they never went to college. After subtracting all the rational thoughts about money not mattering and doing what makes me happy, I am worried.
Two firefighters were injured in a Lansing house fire at 710 Clark St. on Monday, when the floor beneath them collapsed.
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.
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.