An undetermined number of MSU students are part of litigation brought by the Recording Industry Association of America for illegal Internet file sharing.RIAA announced Wednesday that 69 students from universities across the country will be targeted with lawsuits for using peer-to-peer networks to illegally distribute copyrighted songs.
Two MSU alumni are trying to change the way many job-seekers find work by replacing resources such as online search engines with more personal interaction. Jeff Ellman and Michael Redisch, along with University of Michigan graduate Michael Krasman, are the co-founders of Humatel, a Chicago-based career center.
The future ASMSU Web site might be "flashed up a little bit" as members work to make a more exciting online resource for students. Student Assembly Chairperson Andrew Schepers laid out plans for a frequently updated Web site that will include calendars, polls, bills and a message board for student comments.
It will be a lesson of hard knocks that every city will learn when the state Legislature hammers out what cuts will come from, well, everywhere.
The MSU baseball team faces Eastern Michigan tonight at Oldsmobile Park, home of the Lansing Lugnuts. Each year, MSU plays a couple of contests at the stadium, so does playing at Oldsmobile Park ever lose its luster? "No, not at all," MSU manager Ted Mahan said.
Scientists at MSU are putting the final touches on a part that might help rush a $1 billion project onto the university's campus. And it is speed, Terry Grimm, MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory's senior physicist said, that could bring MSU closer to landing the Rare Isotope Accelerator, or RIA, over another research institute vying for the same project. The part Grimm and about a dozen other scientists are helping to create is the Linear Accelerator, or LINAC, which is about half the cost of RIA.
A statewide study compiled by MSU researches found that racial and social minorities in Michigan more likely are to be concerned about another terrorist attack than non-minorities. A report of nine compiled State of the State Surveys, quarterly studies by MSU's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, found that blacks, Latinos and women were more likely to be "somewhat" or "very" concerned about the possibility of another terrorist attack than their white male counterparts. Darren Davis, co-principal investigator of the study and a political science professor, said the researchers had not expected race to be a determining factor in any of the study's findings. "We didn't set out to find race, and so we were very surprised to see it had such high affects," he said. The nine surveys took place over a two-year period in the wake of the Sept.
The unicycling pastor is back in town. Lars Clausen, a former pastor at East Lansing's University Lutheran Church, was at Hannah Community Center on Saturday to talk about his experiences unicycling across the country and back. One of the major lessons Clausen said he learned on his trip was the importance of hospitality among strangers. "When you're on a unicycle or bike, you can't get away from anywhere quickly," he said.
When Cypress Hill exploded onto the scene with its hit "Insane In The Brain," the group was a pioneer of a style that fused Latin and hip-hop slang.
Six months after the death of MSU professor Ruth Simms Hamilton, almost 300 people gathered Monday to celebrate and honor her life. Among those in attendance were family, friends, colleagues and sorority sisters from Delta Sigma Theta, which Hamilton had been a member of for several years. "We're here to acknowledge her life, and quite a life it was," said Keith Williams, executive director of the MSU Alumni Association and friend of the Hamilton family. Williams went on to list Hamilton's many accomplishments, including a decade of research on African migration, a 1995 Ralph Smuckler Award for Advancing International Students and Programs at MSU, and a 1971 Teacher-Scholar Award from MSU. Several people took turns sharing their memories and favorite stories of Ruth Simms Hamilton.
In his election speech last week, new ASMSU Student Assembly Chair Andrew Schepers announced that he planned to work toward a new student center on campus, working with a current plan for a free-standing multicultural center. "With plans for restructuring the Union and the 2020 Vision plan, it's time for a new student center on campus," he said. The 2020 Vision plan discusses possible new buildings on campus.
What I have seen and heard about the supposed protests that will take place regarding the choice of Condoleezza Rice as the commencement speaker ("Groups plan protest of Rice appearance" SN 4/22) has given me reason to believe that these protests are politically motivated.
I am writing in response to the article "Michigan mother copes with the death of her Army Ranger son in Iraq" (SN 4/20). I have seen a lot of stories in The State News, but this one had the greatest effect on me.
It's Christianity for another generation. At least that's the goal of Teen Mania Ministries, a national Christian organization seeking to promote Jesus Christ to young people around the country. The organization's Acquire the Fire festival spent the weekend in Breslin Center, drawing middle school and high school students from all over the state. "It's a radical punch in the face of Jesus," said Richee Parks, a conversation series manager for the ministries, which puts on about 30 similar festivals around the nation. The organization realizes that young people are wary of organized religion but in search of spirituality, Parks said. Facial piercings, oversized or loose jeans and casual T-shirts were no problem for teens at this religious event. The festival featured speakers who hope to inspire teens to live out Christian ideals in their lives and live bands with Christian messages played to rock tunes.
Why break precedent if you don't have to? While the trustees did miss the first all-faculty forum in eight years, it never has been typical for the trustees to show up to an internal faculty meeting.
I read Jim Lala's column ("Liberal students' silent protest doesn't need words to be whiny" SN 4/26) about the silent protest, and while I found his writing to be very creative, I'm afraid I don't have the space to do the whole thing justice. As a former rape counselor and educator, I'll focus on his segment about rape.
One of Time magazine's 100 most powerful and influential people in the world will speak at 7 p.m.
The University Committee on Faculty Affairs is working to establish a policy to hold faculty members accountable for interests that could interfere with university business. A faculty conflict of interest policy was drafted and presented to the Faculty Council last week, but was deferred until fall semester to allow more faculty input. At the meeting, faculty members expressed concern about the language of the policy and a requirement to sign a letter of compliance each year. The university currently does not have a conflict of interest policy.
The most outstanding aspect of Jim Crawford Band's debut release is, by far, the highly skilled rock and funk vocals provided by guitarist Jordan Good and bassist Eugene Gibralter.