Hey, you. Yeah, you. Everyone knows it's you - you anonymous hacker sitting in a darkened room by yourself, rubbing your hands together evilly while plotting mass destruction through your Internet viruses. Stop it.
Journalism junior Nick Mrozowski received two awards for his design work in The State News from the Society for News Design. The society, an international professional organization, gives out awards each year for excellence in newspaper design.
An MSU alumnus and terrorism specialist has convinced some legislators it's worthwhile to begin devising plans to thwart terrorist efforts in the state. Jonathan White, a 1982 doctoral graduate who studied criminal justice at MSU, also is the director of the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program.
Whose idea was it to hang a Big Ten Championship banner before we actually won a championship? Didn't the athletics department learn its lesson from 1998, when we unveiled the championship banner and then went on to lose to Purdue?
For almost 10 years, MSU-DCL College of Law has affiliated itself with the university, but Provost Lou Anna Simon's liberal arts reorganization proposal calls for the two entities to bridge the gap between academic programs. In the report, Simon said MSU-DCL should be more integrated with the university by "building connectivity with undergraduate programs, the professional schools and health programs." Among future cross-college partnerships will be the development of environmental policy, health law and intellectual property law programs. The move to integrate is nothing new for the law school, MSU-DCL Dean Terence Blackburn said, but it has been a gradual process. "This dialogue has been going on with many different colleges and programs across the university," he said.
Speaking with Viggo Mortensen, it's easy to forget he is one of Hollywood's top leading men, an accomplished musician and artist, a box-office champ and the man who put the King in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Mortensen's demeanor is that of a modest everyman.
Trials will begin today for accused murderer Bramlett Hamilton. Hamilton will appear in court for a competency hearing, when a judge will determine if he is fit to stand trial.
For the first time in at least four years, an ASMSU chairperson had to break a deadlocked vote Tuesday night. Chairperson Jared English broke the tie to pass an Academic Assembly bill that stated MSU's undergraduate student government condemned the actions taken by the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action & Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, at a MSU College Republicans meeting last week. Barbara Grutter, plaintiff in the University of Michigan Law School admissions case, spoke at the meeting while BAMN members countered her views.
Convictions on charges of murder and attempted murder would add to existing criminal backgrounds of the two men suspected of involvement in Sunday's shooting at an East Lansing 7-Eleven. "It would be astounding for someone to be involved in a crime of this nature and not have a criminal past," said Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III.
A downtown East Lansing business is preparing to exit the area and switch with another bar and restaurant. Troppo, 213 Ann St., closed its doors late last month.
It was a scene unlike any other Tuesday night at Wharton Center when "The Full Monty" opened and left the audience screaming for more. With red lights flashing and glimmering thongs flying through the air, the musical comedy was full of laughs and naked butts from beginning to end.
This letter is in response to all the people out there who think gay-rights issues can be compared to the civil-rights issues of the '50s and '60s.
The MSU hockey and men's basketball teams shared one common goal when the week began - capture the regular-season title for their respective conferences. While the basketball team's loss Tuesday will make it tougher to claim a share of the title, the No.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson continued lobbying efforts Wednesday to bring a $1 billion nuclear science project to MSU's campus.McPherson met with the state Senate Economic Development, Small Business and Regulatory Reform Committee to reinstate the value of housing the Rare Isotope Accelerator at MSU.The RIA would help scientists look into the origins of physical compounds on a highly microscopic level, which could lead to advancements in all aspects of life - from medical breakthroughs to environmental research."There's basically very strong support of it and the hearing was an opportunity to get more information out and gain support," McPherson said.The committee voted 5-0 to on the resolution that urges the U.S.
Over the past few weeks, there has been increased scrutiny on the whole issue of same-sex marriage. The country is fairly polarized for or against, and the issue will be a political football on both sides in the fall elections. But with all the hype about the sanctity of marriage and concern that the entire downfall of the known civilized world rests on preventing gays and lesbians from being granted something ordained from heaven, I wondered if something subtle is hidden in all this furor. I admit that I first wondered why the conservative community, which says marriage should not be tainted by these "other" kinds of unions, doesn't do something about the number of divorces that take place in the United States. With 50 percent of all marriages ending in divorce, something has a funny smell in this here country.
Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry will receive 93 of Michigan's pledged delegates at July's Democratic National Convention, according to official caucus results released Monday by the Michigan Democratic Party. That number, the result of Kerry getting almost 52 percent of votes, is more than half of the 128 pledged delegates the state will send to the convention.
A new variant of the Beagle/Bagle e-mail worm hit the campus e-mail system Tuesday, tricking many users to download infected zip files.The MSU Computer Laboratory was busy Wednesday answering questions from faculty, staff and students."Our phone queue has been full all day and we have a line at the walk-in area, and also received about 400 e-mails just for this virus," said Sandy Brasington, manager of MSU Consulting Services.The e-mails are from false management@msu.edu, noreply@msu.edu and support@msu.edu addresses, and they request recipients to download zip files and enter username, password and server information.The virus enters computers through a backdoor approach, allowing the sender remote access to the machine for future damage.For more on this story, please see Thursday's edition of The State News.
MSU now is one of 30 finalists in the running to host the first and second rounds for the 2006 NCAA women's basketball tournament. Breslin Center, which seats 14,759 people, already hosts the Michigan High School Athletic Association Boys' Basketball finals each year and is home to MSU men's and women's basketball.
You liberals remind me of what Jack Nicholson said in "A Few Good Men" - "You can't handle the truth." John Kerry says whatever he can to get elected, even though he doesn't mean any of it.
Why have religions been seen as dangerous? Put another way, why have people's personal beliefs been seen as threatening to those who hold different views?