The No. 18 MSU women's basketball team wins with team defense and team rebounding. The numbers sometimes can be deceiving, but not so with the Spartans this season.
Inclement weather is hindering the first days of fraternity recruitment for spring semester while new policies go into effect. "It wasn't that good (Monday) night, and it's not looking good for (Tuesday) either," said Mahfouz Ackall, Interfraternity Council vice president for recruitment. This is the first year that fraternities will keep statistics for recruitment.
MSU head football coach John L. Smith invites Spartans fans to join him and his coaching staff on Feb.
A lot of people think there are two kinds of luck - good and bad. I have got bad luck in getting myself into stupid or miserable situations.
For the first time since Nov. 17, the MSU hockey team is getting recognition from the national media.
In response to the "Clear-path cause", students need to get a grip.
It's about time someone in the MSU community stood up and said something about Michael Moore and his misleading tactics ("Moore's movie packed with lies about American gun culture"). Lee Ehlers has done us all a great service by highlighting the inconsistencies of the anti-gun activists.
The number of deaths from genetic diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, might be reduced because of the completion of the Human Genome Project. The project, an attempt to identify the sequence of all the approximate 30,000 genes in human DNA, was completed in April 2003, and might allow doctors and scientists to predict causes and risks of certain diseases. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, discussed the project and its implications when he addressed the MSU community Tuesday night at the Wharton Center.
Kashmir's "Paradise on Earth" has become the bone of contention between India and Pakistan, perhaps because it symbolizes the founding ideologies of both nations: A Muslim homeland for Pakistan and a secular democracy for India. Over the course of 50 years and three full-fledged wars, both countries have played tug-o- war over it, and all they have managed to do is take away life from the most beautiful valley on earth. Perhaps the time has come to make a fresh start and give a lease on life to the people of the valley.
One of the United States' most well-known senators will visit campus this week in support of one of his congressional colleagues. U.S.
MSU officials pledged Tuesday to keep tuition no higher than the rate of inflation in exchange for fewer state cuts to higher education this year and no further cuts in 2004-05. Because the current rate of inflation is 2.4 percent, the tuition increase for fall 2004 will be at least that figure.
Week after week, I am astounded by the bigotry in John Bice's columns. Rarely does a week go by without a hateful word printed about Christians, or religion in general, by Bice. In his latest column ("Science relies on confidence, strength of evidence, not faith"), he writes about "comically wacky religious beliefs." Why does Bice always resort to childish name-calling?
Lyndsay Davis doesn't take off her shoes anymore. In almost every nook and cranny of the journalism junior's Cedar Village apartment, stacks of blankets are stuffed behind chairs.
MSU's Institute for Public Policy & Social Research will hold a community planning forum today to address physical fitness in neighborhoods. The open discussion will take place from 11:30 a.m.
Spartan quarterback Jeff Smoker will be one of eight college football standouts to compete in the Capital One College Football All-Star Challenge. Other contenders include U-M stars quarterback John Navarre and running back Chris Perry and Notre Dame running back Julius Jones. The challenge features a series of events where the players will compete in groups of two at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. FOX will air the special at 12:30 p.m.
Every incoming politician must deal with the bad decisions of the previous administration. And Gov. Jennifer Granholm has had plenty to deal with in the past year.
MSU-DCL College of Law is trying to expand its programs by adding six staff members to the law college faculty this year. Among the new faculty hired was Paul Arshagouni, Mary Bedikian, Craig Callen, Donald Laverdure, Adam Mossoff and Peter Yu. "We are continuing to build out specializations for our students, and the faculty members we've added all are bringing expertise in specialized fields," said MSU-DCL Dean Terence Blackburn. Mossoff, who is working with Yu to develop the intellectual property program, came to MSU-DCL because its potential for growth and development.
In his first State of the City address as Lansing's mayor, Tony Benavides described the city's economic situation as secure Monday night and highlighted a number of plans to improve Lansing's business activity.
A few days ago, I sat and watched a couple of my colleagues watching the MSU vs. Purdue men's basketball game.