The proposal to move three quarters, and subsequently all, of the students of the College of Human Medicine to Grand Rapids is ill-conceived.
Members of the East Lansing City Council will get their first opportunity to discuss next year's city budget Tuesday night at their work session. The first draft of the budget, which was delivered to city staff and elected officials at the end of March, estimates a more than 2-percent decrease from last fiscal year's amount. "I think it's going to be just as difficult as it was last year," East Lansing Mayor Pro Tem Sam Singh said.
Jay Alexander was so excited that his team was playing the Spartans at Oldsmobile Park this season, he thought it was a mistake. The Wayne State manager, whose team is a traditional nonconference opponent for the Spartans (16-12 overall, 6-2 Big Ten), did a double-take when he looked at the Warriors' 2004 schedule when it came out. "I wanted to make sure it was correct before I called (MSU's) coach - I didn't want him to change his mind," Alexander said.
The article titled "Caught in the middle" (SN 3/31) portrayed the experiences of Michigan Peace Team member Michael Vincente Perez during his humanitarian efforts in Israel. I am repulsed by how easily The State News can take a story about the courage and dedication of the Palestinian people against the Israeli super-army (U.S.-funded), and turn it into a commentary by James Madison Professor Michael Rubner on how dangerous life in that area of the world is. Rubner also felt that the Michigan Peace Team tends to pick a side in the issue, and I agree with him on that point; they do.
I truly enjoyed Mike Hayes' argument, "What would you classify a fetus if not a human? Is it a dog?
Local hospitals still need questions answered before they can judge the effects of a possible expansion of MSU's College of Human Medicine to Grand Rapids, officials say. "We are in the process of reviewing and digesting what is in the report," Joe Wald, spokesman of Lansing's Sparrow Health System, said of the Bowersox report, released Wednesday by MSU.
Some days, Dr. Kristofer Dosh is grateful to see dawn come. After working all night at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital, the second-year medical resident knows he'll soon be able to crawl into bed. Other days, Dosh hears his alarm and knows the light of day means another long, grueling schedule.
Some federal lawmakers are working to toughen the penalties for people who use Internet file sharing to build their music collections. U.S.
BLUES"When You Rock and Roll," Marvin Jackson, Collector/White Blues guitarist Marvin Jackson has appeared on albums by well-known blues artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble and Albert Collins.
A bassist in a penguin suit was a member of the first team to perform, greeting a sea of glow necklaces, air horns, flashlights, whistles and noisemakers. Twelve teams of fraternities and sororities formed bands and competed in a Battle of the Bands, the latest event in the Greek Week lineup. A maximum of 10 team members but at least one from each team, was required to be on stage.
Normally, I wouldn't like a semi-pop/punk band such as The Hot Flashez, solely for the reason that the genre makes me want to spew.
The MSU Alumni Association will host a day-long program celebrating women and diversity Thursday. "Kaleidoscope: A Day for Women" will feature keynote speakers Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, entertainers and social activists who met on Broadway in the 1946 production of "Jeb." Both have appeared in productions such as "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Roots." The program will begin at 8 a.m.
Oh, man! A modern, revisionist history account of the Alamo. All where a small group of Texans stood their ground against a Mexican army of thousands. Sounds good.
Students and advisers might have an easier time organizing class schedules and evaluating degree standing with a recent computer tool upgrade. The Degree Navigator program has been revamped from a setup of colored blocks of separate requirements to a complete text list including degree and university requirements. Degree Navigator 4 was made available at the end of February and is slowly making its way into university advising appointments. The large difference between the new and old systems, associate registrar Roberta Kelley said, is the visual layout.
Myths abound on campus, such as ghosts in Mary Mayo Hall or how the love of your life awaits below Beaumont Tower, but one rumor is verifiably true: dead bodies linger in a dorm closed years ago. Fee Hall, originally a residence hall opened in 1964, now is the nucleus of MSU's four colleges of medical education - Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and Human Medicine.
About 30 faculty members from departments throughout the university discussed Monday night the large-scale issues affecting the MSU community and how faculty should have been and can be involved. The MSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Ad-Hoc Committee for Faculty Voice and other MSU faculty members discussed the upcoming Academic Senate meeting for almost two hours in an open-dialogue setting. An Academic Senate meeting, which will be the first in eight years, will take place at 5 p.m.
In August 2002, Indy Racing League driver Richie Hearn crashed during a race at Kentucky Speedway. After his car made contact with another racer, Hearn was sent into the wall.
A guy I know just killed his first Iraqi insurgent. Actually, he killed two, maybe three. He has been stationed in Baghdad since February and since all hell broke loose in Iraq two weeks ago, he's been in the middle of a fire fight.
Lansing - A year ago, Brig. Gen. Dean Sienko departed for Iraq on a mission to ensure thousands of soldiers engaged in Iraq would have medical care near the battlefields. Battling heat and dense sandstorms, Sienko, Ingham County's top doctor, commanded more than 4,000 soldiers in the Army's 804th Medical Brigade in the Middle East for nearly a year. Their task: Provide hospital, surgical, dental and supply services for soldiers, while managing blood labs and coordinating the logistics of a massive medical undertaking in Iraq. "We took care of people," said Sienko, 47, medical director of the Ingham County Health Department since 1988.