Walls covered with pictures of those murdered due to transgender prejudice surrounded about 15 students last week in Bessey Hall as they discussed violence against the transgender community. The discussion was in honor of the 6th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on Saturday.
I am writing in response to many editorials - not just in The State News - that have been accusing liberals of being especially hypocritical lately. There is an old saying that says "if you are not confused, then you are not thinking clearly." While I will not hesitate to admit that liberals have been especially belligerent in recent weeks, I urge everyone to consider the true source of their concern. I will admit that it took me a lot of soul searching and critical thought to come to the conclusion that I am an independent.
Senior Justin Laskowski and junior Ian Clutten led the MSU men's swimming team to win over the Western Kentucky by 123-120 Saturday. Laskowski and Clutten each won two events and MSU improved to 2-4 with the win. Clutten won first-place honors in the 200 breaststroke with 1:54.74 and in the 200 individual medley with 2:06.31. In the diving events, Laskowski won one-meter event with 270.82 and three-meter event with 302.77. After a week of break, MSU will travel to Athens, Ga., to compete at the Georgia Invitational.
It was Friday, and I thought all the fighting I would see that day would occur when I went to a World Wrestling Entertainment show at Cobo Arena in Detroit. Boy, was I wrong. Appalled can not even describe how I felt as I walked into my local Buffalo Wild Wings and witnessed what can only be described as the most heinous actions I have ever seen taken by an alleged "professional" athlete. Indiana Pacers All-Star forward Ron Artest did the unthinkable and actually raced into the crowd at The Palace of Auburn Hills and started beating on random people. All of this because some jerk in the crowd threw a cup that happened to hit him in the face (Not to condone that type of action or anything, but, seriously, nice throw.
A lot of men need to rethink how they perceive themselves and take into account the biology behind their behavior. In recent years, the number of scientific articles and books relating to genetic influence on human behavior has exploded.
State College, Pa. - One week removed from its best win of the season, MSU played one of its worst games.
Lansing - Even a cement mixer can be part of the holiday season. Decorated with hundreds of strands of colored lights, the large vehicle rotated strands of colored lights in Lansing's Electric Light Parade on Friday night. Also in the parade route, local high school bands played holiday music, a Capital Area Transportation Authority bus was costumed as a bug and area groups rode on decorated Christmas-themed floats.
MSU kicked off the basketball season Friday with an offensive assault against Florida A&M, winning 104-72.
State College, Pa. - The MSU football team's chance of a bowl game is history, after a crushing 37-13 loss to Penn State at Beaver Stadium on Saturday. "You have congratulate Penn State," head coach John L.
Winston-Salem, N.C. - The No. 4 Duke field hockey team avenged an early-season loss Friday night by defeating the No.
As the Lansing City Council prepares to vote on a six-month restriction on new rental housing, realtors and other residents say it will have a negative impact on the community. The proposed rental moratorium would suspend applications to turn owner-occupied or single-family houses in Lansing into rental units during a six-month period. The council met to discuss the issue at a Committee of the Whole meeting on Thursday afternoon.
The Youth Development Corporation is aiming to help youth in the Greater Lansing area by raising money for two programs during the next month. Dubbed Operation Youth, the program spans from now through Dec.
My first encounter with Chucky, the psychopathic doll, came 15 years ago in 1989. My cousins were watching "Child's Play" on the television and I was terrified: 5 years old, shaking and crying, standing in the corner with my eyes shut tight.
Sometime Thursday morning - when a television reporter was convicted of criminal contempt in Providence, R.I., for refusing to identify his source - the prospect of First Amendment rights to a free press took a step back. The reporter, Jim Taricani of WJAR-TV, faces up to six months in prison for protecting his source who leaked an FBI tape of a city official taking a bribe. Technically, what happened to Taricani is allowed for under judicial interpretations of the First Amendment.
The bowl game picture is a mess in the Big Ten, except at the top. But no bowl is set, and eight teams still have a chance to become bowl eligible.
Cans of corn and packages of ramen noodles piled up in large cardboard boxes behind the ticket table during the MSU volleyball games last weekend.
A student thief who squashed a $20,000 research study earlier this semester now faces 10 years in prison or thousands of dollars in fines for stealing tomatoes from MSU's Department of Plant Pathology. The ruined yearly research on plant disease management means serious setbacks for both university officials and Michigan farmers, MSU officials said. The 32-year-old male student arrested this week is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Ingham County's 55th District Court, MSU police Sgt.
Michigan's official holiday tree will be lit in downtown Lansing as part of the Silver Bells in the City event on Friday from 5-9 p.m.