Editor's note: This is the second of nine stories previewing the candidates for the MSU Board of Trustees. It took Mike Miller 25 years to graduate from MSU.
A visit from two Mexican coffee farmers Tuesday helped some MSU students explain why it's important to make fair trade coffee available in campus cafeterias. The speakers, Jose Vasquez, president of the Las Abejas Civil Society, and Macario Arias Gomez, president of the Maya Vinic Coffee Cooperative, which is part of the society, spoke of hardships they faced growing coffee beans in Chiapas, Mexico before organizing into cooperatives and selling to fair trade companies in the United States, Canada, Japan and Switzerland. "We are organizing as a cooperative so that we can organize and work toward a better life," Vasquez said. In the mid-'90s, the Mexican government wanted to take the coffee farmers' communal land and sell it to private oil and timber companies, but the farmers peacefully protested.
Five community petitions to limit rental housing in East Lansing neighborhoods were introduced and referred to the East Lansing Planning Commission at Tuesday's City Council meeting. Through an ordinance approved by the council in April, residents have the power to create "overlay districts" through the petitions.
Imagine artwork called "Radioactive Cats," "Revenge of the Goldfish" and "Picnic on Wine" - now think what those titles bring to mind.
The gloves were off Friday on CNN's "Crossfire." In one corner was political analyst and uptight conservative Tucker Carlson.
The safety of women on campus, college reorganization, and the higher education budget were a few of the topics discussed at "Conversation with the Provost," held Monday.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority is offering free rides to the polls for voters who show valid voter registration cards on Election Day. Debbie Alexander, assistant executive director for CATA, said the program has been underway since the late 1980s.
In addition to working on theses, graduate students will also spend today writing to Congress. The Council of Graduate Students, along with groups from other universities across the country, are taking part in National Student Day of Action today.
On a gray afternoon, seven patrons shuffle into Oz - a local shop that specializes in glass pipes. They know what they want, and one guy asks a man behind the counter about a glass bong he'd heard was retailing for about $30.
New York City is a blender of life. It has a crude case of insomnia, a heavy history of street violence and a population that stems from all walks of life.
I am writing in response to John O'Connor's column "Dems made family members fair game in presidential election" (SN 10/19). He states that Elizabeth Edwards "completely misses the point." Unfortunately, John, you are the one who misses the point. Did you not read the very quote you included from John Kerry at the debate?
For journalism junior Kevin Curtin, learning is more important than money. "The most important thing in life is being educated and knowing what's going on in the world," said Curtin, 20.
Back in high school, MSU volleyball freshman setter Maggie Griffin was the girl who got pegged with the nickname "Jolly." As in, the Jolly Green Giant. At 6 foot, Griffin was easily the tallest girl in school, but she didn't mind the nickname - it was being tall that helped her play the game she loved so much. In her first season at MSU, Griffin already has proven her worth as a powerhouse on the court, despite being a rookie to college sports, head coach Chuck Erbe said. "She's a special player," Erbe said.
A blue denim slip-covered couch accompanied by three chairs - two red- and orange-dotted dish chairs and one black and purple shoe chair - fill the living room of a West Akers Hall suite. Creative light fixtures composed of red, blue and green push lights attached to a black panel, adorn the walls. The room is a result of the Room 4U Project, a campus housing makeover program that is part of the Division of Housing and Food Services' attempt to encourage students to live on campus. For more on this story please see Thursday's edition of The State News.
In about two weeks, we will be electing a president and a vice president who will lead our nation during the next four years. We have a choice between the existing policies of an administration that cares nothing for the lower and middle classes of our society or a candidate who has better solutions that will include all classes and all levels of income.
Arrest warrants were sent out Tuesday for suspects in two of the sexual assault cases on campus. The warrants, which were authorized by the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office, are the first steps toward arrests in the cases stemming from recent MSU sexual assaults.
State voters can cast their provisional ballots in precincts they're not registered in under a state ruling issued Tuesday. But state officials plan to appeal the decision, which allows the votes to count when they're cast at the wrong precinct, as long as they're cast in the right city. Provisional ballots are used in instances where voters say they're registered but their names don't appear on the registration rolls.
For teen queen Hilary Duff, it's quantity over quality. In the past year and a half she's appeared in five films, all of them entirely forgettable.
Editor's note: Today's edition concludes our issue-based editorials regarding key platforms of the presidential campaign.
A small quantity of hockey season tickets are still available to the general public. The tickets, which are renewable, are good for the remaining 19 games, including three CCHA playoff games. The bench-seat tickets cost $342 each ($294 for MSU employees) and are located in the east and west ends of Munn Ice Arena. Also available are Spartan Hockey Mini-Plan tickets.