While many people flocked to downtown bars or held parties of their own to celebrate St. Patrick's Day on Wednesday, police said arrests and incidents were normal for the holiday. "There was nothing out of the ordinary," said East Lansing police Capt.
It's safe to say that we are in the midst of a wussification of mainstream rock stars and popular rock in general.
At the front of teacher Dennis McCarthy's fifth-grade classroom, a group of students gathered excitedly around a table, eyes wide, whispering to each other. They weren't staring at the latest toy - they were touching real human and animal brains. As a part of Brain Awareness Week, sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience, MSU faculty and graduate students traveled this week to more than 10 local elementary, middle and high schools with hands-on presentations about the organ. McCarthy's class attends the Grand River Elementary Magnet School, 1107 E.
A well-known alumnus from MSU-DCL College of Law said he supports Provost Lou Anna Simon's proposed integration of the school with the university. Geoffrey Fieger, MSU-DCL alumnus and former defense lawyer for Dr. Jack Kevorkian, said the integration is a great idea and a long time coming. "I think it's inevitable that Michigan State lay claim on the law school," said Fieger, who graduated from the law school in 1979.
I am writing this letter in response to John Bice's column "Marriage a religious institution, civil unions should be for all" (SN 3/15). Bice, I have no quarrel with you expressing your opinion of any topic.
TV screens big and small filled the courtroom Wednesday as MSU-DCL College of Law students caught a glimpse of new technological gadgets that soon will be coming to campus. MSU-DCL student Deb Davis-Korpi said she was more that just a little nervous when she stepped up to use the equipment for the first time as her class visited the federal courtroom in Lansing on Thursday evening. For more than a month, the technology has been housed in Judge David McKeague's courtroom.
MSU students who missed out on their opportunity to purchase Final Four tickets have a new hope. The Ticket Reserve is a Chicago-based, sanctioned marketplace that manages and distributes access rights to seats for live sporting events.
The Carl Rosa Opera Company will perform the classic Gilbert and Sullivan production "The Mikado" at 7 p.m.
The No. 23 MSU women's basketball team hopes to see its first NCAA Tournament win since 1997 when it faces Arizona on Sunday. The Spartans (21-8 overall), the No.
Seattle - For their NCAA Tournament first round game against Nevada, the Spartans goal was to stop all but one Wolf Pack player.
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III has announced his plans to run for re-election as the county's head lawyer. The position is a four-year term and pays about $100,000 a year.
To live and die in Iraq. For exactly a year now, it has either been the shining example of America's relentless pursuit of terrorists or the most popular reason to hate President Bush and his administration. Congratulations? One year ago today, Bush stood before Americans and said a war against Saddam Hussein and his Republican Guard was warranted.
One year after MSU students gathered in dormitory lounges to watch the early-morning Baghdad cityscape explode on the television, student political groups still are debating the effectiveness of a preemptive war in Iraq.With fewer than eight months until the presidential election, President Bush is facing tough criticism from political opponents and the media about his reasoning for going to a war that has claimed the lives of 567 U.S.
In an effort to increase communication between officials from MSU's three integrative studies units, Provost Lou Anna Simon hopes to create one center for the programs. The center would merge the three existing programs - Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities, Integrative Studies in Social Science and Integrative Studies in Biological and Physical Sciences - and place it under the leadership of one administrator. "It's really a freshness and a renewal to a basic curriculum and to build on something that's been very positive to begin with," Simon said. The Executive Committee of Academic Council voted this week to send the proposal to a separate committee so it can help set up a group to review the proposal.
For Sam Hindi, an Iraq native, the war in his homeland is a test of patience and prayer. Since the United States began its invasion a year ago, Williamston resident Hindi, 73, has lived in constant fear for the safety of his more than 60 relatives still living in Iraq.
A resolution that would have allowed Michigan voters to weigh in on the death penalty issue this fall failed to make it past the state House on Thursday. House Joint Resolution W would have placed a measure on the Nov.
Detroit - The Spartans knew they couldn't keep digging themselves into a hole early in games because sooner or later they wouldn't be able to crawl out of it. Thursday was the night they fell behind and stayed behind. Just 6:05 into the CCHA Super Six quarterfinal game, the MSU hockey team was down, 2-0, to Northern Michigan.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson took a leave of absence from the university in April to serve as the financial coordinator for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq. While there, he worked to set up a currency system in the country as well as stabilize the economy.
This is in response the Dave Thompson's column "Religious faith explains nature of human beings, relationships" (SN 3/18). Religious faith does not explain the nature of human beings.