COMMENTARY
Experience with illness reveals exhaustion not only due to laziness
Blink. The road rippled in my vision. Blink. Somehow I had appeared in the left lane.
MICHIGAN
Lansing Center to host vet conference
MSU's College of Veterinary Medicine and the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association will sponsor this year's Michigan Veterinary Conference on Friday through Sunday at the Lansing Center, 333 E.
COMMENTARY
Poor protest
The Graduate Employees Union has been known for protesting in creative ways. From marching around campus beating buckets like drums and carrying picket signs, to marching to past former President M.
FEATURES
Clear transmissions
Whether he's doing homework in his Shaw Hall dorm room or driving across the state to visit friends at other schools, Mike Mannino can always listen to his favorite radio channel - without losing reception, without commercials and without ever having to fiddle with his radio's tuner. The James Madison College freshman is one of more than four million Americans nationwide who have tuned into the idea of satellite radio.
COMMENTARY
Rock more than Greek 'billboard'
In reply to the letter "Reader takes issue with rock message," (SN 1/20) I am appalled that an individual could be so closed minded.
MICHIGAN
Simon gives talk to local women's club
In one of her first speeches as the president of MSU, Lou Anna Simon told local businesswomen about her goals to make the university an integral part of the community. "We're going to try and chart a different course," she said.
NEWS
MIDDAY UPDATE: Former high school coach says MSU offered bribe for football recruit
The former high school football coach of a player MSU briefly recruited in 1999-2000 told a federal jury Tuesday that MSU was among five schools that offered him money to convince the recruit to come to its school. Lynn Lang, the former head coach at Trezevant High School in Memphis, Tenn., listed MSU along with Tennessee, Mississippi, Memphis and Arkansas as universities that offered money for Albert Means, but never paid.
COMMENTARY
Reader responds to arguments on rock
I am writing in response to both Benjamin Greathouse ("Message on rock made good point" SN 1/24) and Serena Bearman ("Reader takes issue with rock message" SN 1/20). Firstly, Mr. Greathouse made an excellent point on the issue of abortion.
MSU
Physicist teaches origami
Laser physicist turned origami master Robert J. Lang taught the basics of the ancient paper-folding art to a crowd on Tuesday night in the Main Library. The group learned to make a duck out of a single piece of paper. "For a beginner workshop, you have to start with something simple," Lang said.
MSU
Changes to writing, integrated studies programs suggested
The task forces on Integrated Studies, writing and quantitative literacy presented Academic Council with their final reports at Tuesday's meeting. The task forces were created to make recommendations to improve programs in the three areas. "MSU is already strong in all these areas, but we have to keep moving forward," acting Provost John Hudzik said. Jim Porter, chairman of the Writing Task Force committee, outlined the committee's findings and recommendations about the Tier I and Tier II writing programs. In the Tier I program, the task force committee recommended extending the writing requirement from one semester to a year-long course.
COMMENTARY
Clean campus
It's just not the same. Walking around campus on the morning of a game day, there is now an air of relative calm.
FEATURES
Smell like a celebrity
There are three rules most college students abide by when leaving their homes to deal with social interaction: 1.
COMMENTARY
Izzone members should accept rules
I am so tired of half-hearted MSU fans whining about the Izzone. The issue of the moment is the official T-shirts the Izzone has always required its members to wear.
FEATURES
Car buff explains love for vehicles
The automobile symbolizes many different things. For some of us, our cars are transportation to class, part-time jobs and the only way to get home and see family during the weekends.
MSU
Profs discuss tsunami issues, implications
MSU faculty from multiple areas of study discussed the Dec. 26 tsunami and its impact at an educational forum on Tuesday. At the event, students and the general public asked questions, and faculty addressed misconceptions concerning the disaster.
MICHIGAN
Supplement safety debated
The Institute of Medicine called for tougher regulations of dietary supplements this month, and local residents and business owners have mixed feelings on tightening the guidelines. Under The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act signed in 1994, The Food and Drug Administration currently does not regulate supplements on shelves unless they are proven to have adverse consumer complications.
NEWS
Jan. deemed Stalking Awareness Month in Mich.
A day after surviving a violent rape by a stranger, Meymo Lyons was disturbed to find out the crime wasn't random. She had been stalked - for how long she doesn't know - by a man she'd never met. "It just blows your mind - that not only were you just a victim of horrendously bad luck, to be in the bad place at the wrong time, but indeed you were the target of someone who had, in some sick and twisted plan, mapped out a diabolical future for you," the 53-year-old East Grand Rapids resident said.
NEWS
Accafellas rev up for concert
Music could be felt in every corner of the tiny practice room Thursday night as the eight members of the MSU Accafellas harmonized during their warm up. After joking around, the Fellas got down to business to rehearse the three pieces they've chosen to perform at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.
MSU
Graduates stage protest via motorcade
With horns blaring and streamers waving in the frigid air, a caravan of cars wove their way - slowly - through campus Monday morning. But some say the noise was unheard by those they were trying to reach. The cars carried Graduate Employees Union members protesting the administration's proposal to take parking rights out of the new GEU contract during a negotiating session. "Right now, we can park south of the river, but what they're proposing is to strike any mention of parking rights from the contract," GEU President Deborah Wilson said.
MSU
ASMSU prepares for elections, strives to attract new members
With ASMSU elections nearly two months away, student government officials are preparing election blueprints, geared at getting more students prepared to vote. A three-phase election plan outlines three possible ways of informing students of the March election - sending out fliers, advertising on the student government's Web site and printing advertisements. The marketing and publicity plan, created by Joanna Lankerd, ASMSU's constituent activism director, was introduced to the Student Assembly last week. Last year, only 4.7 percent of undergraduate students voted in the student government election.