Imagine the intelligence of the yellow pages combined with the recognition of Thefacebook. Combine this with a focus on sexual predators and what you have is the Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry Web site. The registry will update its profiles in May with the driver's license photos of about 36,000 offenders, in our minds making the system more efficient.
As part of Women's Healthy Sexuality Month, Olin Health Center and the Residence Halls Association are sponsoring a Sex & Sensibility health fair today at 7 p.m.
In order to truly appreciate a horror flick, an audience has to feel a little vulnerable. And honestly, it's easy to feel smug while watching a thriller.
I am writing to respond to those who criticized Mark Myers' column ("Abortion has negative effects on mother and father, not just unborn" SN 2/3). First of all, the connection between abortion and breast cancer is a proven fact.
Marie VanAmburg is out of work because she is a smoker. Okemos-based Weyco Inc. fired the repricing analyst in January after she refused to take a tobacco test.
For some, just saying no is easier said than done. It's something about the sensation of nicotine that keeps social relations junior Mary Brady coming back for more.
As East Lansing officials work to reform the East Village, some students living in the area are wary of the city's motives and the consequences of such a large project. According to city documents, plans for the area include creating buildings to house businesses, permanent residents and renters in addition to demolishing structures in place, including the Cedar Village apartment complex. "I don't know if it goes with MSU's campus," said Heather Kerver, a zoology senior and East Village resident.
Ryan Devlin has a boring life. And he knows it. He wishes he had a good story to tell about turning down an internship to become a big-time Hollywood actor, but he doesn't. "This town is tough.
Love is in the air, and various local businesses are catering to the upcoming Valentine's Day holiday. For candy stores, florists and restaurants, major holidays bring in a lot of business, said Steve Blair, an owner of Fabiano's Homemade Candies, 1427 E.
The American Diabetes Association will be holding the Fast Break for Diabetes event on Feb. 17 at the Shaheen Chevrolet, 632 American Road, in Lansing. The event will feature a silent auction with items such as MSU basketball tickets, Lansing Lugnuts tickets and fitness gift certificates.
Sophomore goaltender Dominic Vicari was named CCHA Defensive Player of the Week for the third time this season after stopping 41 shots Friday and Saturday - 82 out of 85 shots the entire weekend were against No.
Come May, the photos of registered sex offenders will be put up alongside their names and addresses on the Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry Web site.
I spent $70 on campus parking tickets a couple of weeks back. Entering my credit card number into the online payment form, the fact I was paying roughly half of my weekly paycheck for tickets hurt me.
A group of 12 MSU students traveled to Washington on Friday to learn how to turn their concern about the current conditions in Darfur, Sudan, into activism. The students attended the conference "A Call to Action for Darfur, Sudan," sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Two MSU alumni will participate in the 2005 NFL Pro Bowl this weekend in Honolulu. Muhsin Muhammad, of the Carolina Panthers, will join Ike Reese, of the Philadelphia Eagles, as an all-star for the NFC. Muhammad, a wide receiver who also appeared in the 2000 Pro Bowl, led the NFL in receiving yards with 1,405 and touchdown receptions with 16 during the 2004 season. Reese, who plays linebacker and special teams, will be playing in his first Pro Bowl.
At 7:30 p.m. on a Friday, while most students are concocting plans for a weekend of debauchery, Helena Gleissner has wedged herself between a sound board and a light board in the back of the Fairchild Theatre, and in front of a huge notebook filled with rainbow-colored tabs. Part psychologist, part mother and part MacGyver, Gleissner's job as production stage manager is to make sure everything in the theater department's most recent production, "Blues for Mr. Charlie," goes as perfectly as possible. On a typical day, she wakes up at 8 a.m.
After her first week as MSU's 20th president, Lou Anna Simon said a better assessment would come after her first month.
After reviewing the 2004 Fall Celebration Survey, it seems incredibly likely the MSU Board of Trustees will use the results to support making tailgating restrictions permanent.
The average MSU graduate with student loans leaves campus $21,000 in debt. And with over 20,000 students taking out loans, recent news surrounding Pell Grant funding might have an effect on 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 over the next five years, he doesn't have plans to add more money into the total financial aid pot.