The multi-purpose room of the Hope Borbas Okemos Library is home to a charitable cause during the summer Wednesday afternoons. Once a week, area preteens and teens come out to the library from 1-3 p.m.
As part of a combined team of several Michigan chapters of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, MSU students landed first place at the 2004 Grand Conclave March Down biannual step-show competition Saturday in St.
The Ralph Nader campaign filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the State of Michigan in a Detroit federal court. The suit claims the state violated Nader's First Amendment right to be placed on Michigan's ballot as the presidential candidate from the Reform Party, according to Nader spokesperson Kevin Zeese. Zeese said the decision by Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land to prevent Nader from being added to Michigan's ballot as a Reform candidate didn't make any sense. "(The Nader Campaign) was endorsed by the National Reform Party and the only recognized affiliate in the state," Zeese said.
I am concerned that Amber Morris has found yet another forum for her self-righteous views ("Same-sex parenting, lack of scientific support dangerous to children" SN 7/27). What is her beef with gays and lesbians?
Students at private colleges and universities throughout the state will see an average tuition increase of 6.1 percent for the fall. But some say the increase remains consistent with nationwide averages and simply represents a continuation of a trend in increases from the past 10 years. The state's 47 private colleges and universities in Michigan announced tuition will be raising an average of 6.1 percent to $15,859 this fall.
I've got pretty high expectations for a band whose name is a tip of the hat to Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel's confusion. The fast-paced, heavily distorted guitars, along with a hard-hitting rhythm section and deep growls serving as singing, help Cleveland's Amps II Eleven fulfill those expectations. With catchy guitar riffs, a la Clutch and deep bellows a la Lemmy from Mot?rhead, Amps II Eleven indulges in metal ecstasy, while staying far away from the dreaded genre of butt rock, also known as nu metal.
MSU sophomore forward Delco Rowley will get a chance to showcase his skills this summer after being selected to play on the Big Ten Men's Basketball Foreign Tour Team. The Big Ten men's tour takes place Aug.
After the U.S. Congress declared genocide in Sudan, the world police that is the United States is once again stuck in a tough situation, especially in lieu of the disastrous foreign-relation spectacle in Iraq. In the last 15 months, nearly 30,000 people have been slaughtered, and more than 1 million black Africans have found themselves homeless because of the conflict.
MSU officials are looking at ways to check criminal history before hiring faculty, an MSU official said Monday. If MSU adapts its policy from asking candidates for their criminal history to professionally screening backgrounds, it would join Pennsylvania State University, the only school in the Big Ten using this process.
MSU sophomore forward Delco Rowley will get a chance to showcase his skills this summer after being selected to play on the Big Ten Men's Basketball Foreign Tour Team. The Big Ten men's tour takes place Aug.
Before drug courts became a method of satellite justice to Michigan's criminal court system, the addict was known as a criminal and a disease was considered a breach of the law.
Editor's note: The following column contains graphic details of a sexual assault. "Why didn't she go to the police?" It's one of the most commonly asked questions about sexual assault, and on the surface, it makes sense.
Same-sex marriage is certainly a critical issue at debate in our nation today. Issues have been raised on both sides of the debate, and it has become clear that empirical, scientific arguments are most important when discussing this dilemma.
MSU sophomore forward Delco Rowley will get a chance to showcase his skills this summer after being selected to play on the Big Ten Men's Basketball Foreign Tour Team. The Big Ten men's tour takes place Aug.
Retired Lansing firefighter Robert D. McAlvey received the Muscular Dystrophy Association's 2004 Personal Achievement Award for Michigan on July 16. McAlvey, who was once the captain of the Meridian Township Fire Department, had been a firefighter for 22 years before retiring in January 2004 after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. As the state finalist, McAlvey will be eligible to receive the MDA's 2005 National Personal Achievement Award.
Professors from six different colleges will continue to combine their knowledge of Internet security to offer students the chance to learn how to safe guard information and privacy while in cyberspace.
Lansing - For the Lansing Lugnuts, the story of the second half of the season has been games with either good hitting or good pitching. The problem Monday night was the Lugnuts couldn't find either as they fell 7-1 to the Dayton Dragons. "We couldn't get anything going tonight," Lansing manager Julio Garcia said.
The East Lansing City Council has granted a third extension on a temporary halt on new rental licenses in the city, in an effort to give residents time to rally support behind a permanent ban on housing in their neighborhoods. The halt, called a moratorium, was supposed to be lifted in May.
Nestled in-between the speeches introducing freshmen to their respective majors and a massive pep rally reinforcing the importance of being a Spartan is a major headlining musical act hitting campus during Welcome Week. ASMSU recently added a concert to the onslaught of Welcome Week 2004 activities, featuring Jason Mraz at 9 p.m.