Every year there are tons of things added to ballots for the "public's voice." Affirmative action is not an issue that is appropriate to put onto a ballot like that ("Calif.
While the article on the Theta Delta Chi house goes to great lengths to portray it as negatively as possible, the writers conveniently fail to mention several things ("Chapter found destroyed," SN 7/10). First, State News members who entered the property to take pictures and rummage through the attic did so in violation of the law.
Professor awarded for research in Germany An MSU faculty member was recently recognized for his research and contributions in veterinary medicine.
Timber, tourism and travel have become the lifestyle Donald Holecek has become accustomed to living. Sitting among stacks of papers, books and maps detailing Michigan, the founding director of MSU Travel, Tourism and Recreation Resource Center didn't find the room to hang the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award he received from the Travel and Tourism Research Association.
The majority of Michigan schools that failed to meet annual state standards on the MEAP test are located in urban areas around the state, according an MSU study released Thursday.MSU's Education Policy Center conducted the study by analyzing a list of 216 priority schools issued by the state in April.
MSU sophomore center Paul Davis and sophomore guard Maurice Ager are having a hand in leading the USA World Junior Championship Team to a 3-0 record in first round play at the 2003 FIBA Men's Junior World Championships in Thessaloniki, Greece.
A Lansing resident was arraigned last week for the shooting of an East Lansing resident over a PlayStation game console.Nathen Brown was arraigned on July 7 in East Lansing's 54-B District Court on one count of armed robbery and is being charged as a habitual offender for the shooting of a 20-year-old East Lansing resident that occurred on the 500 block of Park Lane on June 26.
Recently, a U.S. Congressman, decrying the President's military intervention, lectured Congress with an admonition of the administration's foreign policy.
I would like to commend Jonathan Malavolti for an exceptional column ("Foé: Lionhearted in life, death," SN 7/10). As a true soccer fan and a native of Nigeria, I never thought I'd pick up The State News and see a column on soccer, let alone African soccer.
Thanks for the article "Students reflect on health care costs after graduation" in The State News July 9.
A recent survey of East Lansing shows student-resident relations are improving, and an overwhelming amount of residents rate the city as a nice place to live.
Doing more than one thing at a time is called multitasking. Chewing gum and walking down a sidewalk, or driving a car while talking on your cell phone are some examples.
MSU is facing more than a $34-million shortfall in research grant funding - a problem university officials say is due to federal and state financing cutbacks. But even with program deletions by the U.S.
With the United States in conflicts against terrorism and Iraq, it's good to see our president spend time on a humanitarian mission - if only he had spent more time there. President Bush recently ended his five-day, five-country African tour in which he denounced slavery and pledged to fight AIDS and poverty in parts of the underdeveloped continent.
Bath - It's Friday morning and Jane Briggs-Bunting is sitting in the middle of her new condominium surrounded by open space, a few boxes filled with pictures and a rocking chair - one of the two places to sit in her canary yellow living room.
Grand Rapids - Josh Vance plummets to the earth from 20 feet in the air, tucking his legs and executing a flawless double-flip with a half-twist just inches before meeting the platform that sends him rocketing toward the ceiling.A second-year MSU medical student, Vance commutes to Grand Rapids after classes each night to train for the world's newest Olympic sport - trampoline gymnastics.In his eighth consecutive year of training, Vance is considered by many to be one of the sport's top performers in the country, and is vying for the right to represent the United States in the 2004 Olympics to be held in Athens, Greece."It's awesome," he said of the competition.
A.P. Kryza chose to stand on a pretty big soapbox July 9 when he took on "cocky musicians" ("Cover artists should not waste breath on criticism" SN 7/9). I will agree the comments about Joe Cocker from Jerry Sprague were in bad taste but equally inappropriate were Kryza's own comments.
Fans of MSU or Kentucky basketball without tickets to the schools' Dec. 13 matchup are officially hard-pressed to find a ticket because "The BasketBowl" is sold out.After season-ticket holders and university donors from both schools claimed the first 50,672 seats, the remaining 19,028 tickets allotted to the general public on Tuesday sold out in a span of four days, according to the Ford Field Ticket Office.