In the shade of the Capitol building, Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb blew bubbles of green chewing gum and smiled. Without armies of security guards or an entourage of campaign spokespeople, Cobb was comfortably approachable.
When he was MSU's president from 1941 through 1969, John Hannah used to walk every morning from his home at Cowles House to his office in Linton Hall. "You might be in the classroom and you'd see John Hannah walking throughout the halls," said Roger Wilkinson, who was a student during Hannah's presidency and the vice president for finance and operations during Hannah's last year.
Well, here I am. It has been a year since I graduated from MSU. After embarking boldly and blindly into my collegiate years I found myself following paths blazed by information from people around me, my classes, or from the media.
Perceptions of terrorism threats run counter to the popular belief that presidential approval rises as threat levels rise, according to a recent study conducted by two MSU professors. Political science professors Darren Davis and Brian Silver studied whether fear makes a difference in how people vote by analyzing a series of national and state surveys conducted between November 2001 and June 2004. The surveys analyzed came from a variety of polling firms and news agencies, such as CBS News, the Pew Research Center and Michigan's State of the State Survey. People who think President Bush is winning the war on terrorism strongly support him, while those who are most fearful of a terrorist attack are more supportive of Democratic presidential candidate Sen.
Lansing - The Green Party is getting larger, stronger, better and more organized, presidential candidate David Cobb said atop the Capitol steps on Wednesday. "We are not going away," the Texas politician repeated several times to the nearly 20 supporters that gathered. In the second stop of his six-city Michigan tour, Cobb addressed the small crowd of Green candidates, elected officials and local supporters.
East Lansing officials are seeking students who could represent the college population to city government. The University Student Commission is accepting applications for three students who are not affiliated with a university organization to serve as at-large members for one-year terms. The 11-member group, which meets every other Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., has eight students representing various MSU organizations.
A U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service proposal to take the eastern population of the gray wolf off the endangered and threatened species list was met with mixed reactions at a public hearing held on campus this week. The hearing, held Wednesday night in the auditorium of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building, allowed people to speak about the proposal, which was introduced after wolves in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota recovered to a level where they would be able to sustain survival and growth. Thirteen people in the crowd of about 35 requested permission to speak, but only nine of them actually provided public comments. Added to the list as an endangered species in 1974, the wolf fell under the jurisdiction of the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
If you tailgate, bring along trash bags from home, or stop to buy some. It's your job to clean up the spot you used as it was before you arrived.
With a landmark and highly competitive presidential election coming up Nov. 2, the university's drive to get students registered to vote couldn't be called anything other than appropriate. We're a nation with a voting problem.
I'll admit it now, it's hard not to be biased. It's hard not to love fancy theaters, red carpets and quality beverages during intermission.
If you missed our first installment, "Drinking Buddies: 'Tour de bar,' part 1" (SN, 9/9), we began a bar crawl of downtown East Lansing.
I am writing this letter in disgust of the actions taken by the university in response to the recent sexual assaults on campus.
The family business. It's a phrase that suggests a particular family's specialty, cultivated through years of hard labor and dedication. MSU redshirt freshman quarterback Stephen Reaves is now beginning to make a name for himself in his family's business - football.
What is it?: Magnets made from flat glass floral marbles. Usefulness factor: Recycle all those magnets from advertising pizza places that get shoved in your mailbox and, with inexpensive marbles, create your own refrigerator art. Items needed: • Flat clear glass floral marbles, usually found in small net bags in the floral department of any store. • An assortment of old magazines. • Glue that dries clear.
MSU professors of physics and astronomy will hold "Astronomical Horizons" lectures once a month throughout the school year. "This is a little bit more of an interactive, scientific level for the general public," said Horace Smith, a physics and astronomy professor who started the series.
Workers in toxicology suits visited the Food Safety and Toxicology Building Wednesday to investigate an unknown irritant that sent a 38-year-old university employee to Lansing's Sparrow Hospital.
All right Jim Hines, if you're going to write a column on a criminal case ("Bryant's court proceedings provide valuable advice: 'Be sure'" SN 9/14), wouldn't it behoove you to consult someone with a relevant legal background about the basic elements and differences between the criminal and civil court system? Much like the rest of this country, you make a lot of conclusions based on uneducated and biased assumptions.
Emmons Hall residents are pulling their IDs out of their wallets more frequently this semester. When the students moved into their dorm rooms, they found themselves on the site of the first security improvements to a residence hall in more than 10 years. The hall is now equipped with several swipe card machines on two exterior doors and all floor wing doors.
Art isn't something that just hangs on the walls. The East Lansing Public Art Gallery, located in the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road, is demonstrating this by displaying the free-hanging and free-standing art of mobiles and stabiles now through Oct.