After nearly 25 years, the Pigs and Freaks are ready to butt heads again. But this time the hostilities between police officers and college students looming over a football game will no longer attract 40,000 fans.
After a tumultuous year of pro- and anti-war demonstrations, affirmative action debates, gender identity discussions and rallies for domestic partner benefits, David Mitchell said it's time for students to recharge. "After a while, you get so many issues thrown at you that you want to get back to the ideas behind them," the human biology junior said. Mitchell, a member of Students For Economic Justice, said his group and other student groups will spend more time organizing small discussions, learning more about current events and preparing for the fall semester. But it won't deter the students from planning bigger summer events, he said.
What is it about summer movies that allows us to suspend disbelief and snootiness? All year round we are slammed with crappy movies such as the insipid likes of "Darkness Falls," "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and "Basic." We bitch and moan about how bad Hollywood has gotten and yet, as soon as summer hits us, we flock to theaters, ready to consume any mindless drivel we can. And for some reason it's a great time.
Collegiate baseball is failing to suit up black athletes as players and coaches at many levels argue the cost of the sport and lack of recruiting are keeping diversity off the diamond.
In the lobby outside the Union Ballroom on Wednesday night, fans of the band,
Lansing - Shouts of "Everyone in, no one out!" rang through the calm warmth of the afternoon air, stirring the crowd gathered at the steps of the Capitol on Thursday. "Should life depend on how much money we have?" Lansing Mayor Tony Benavides asked the crowd of more than 100 people.
With summer around the corner, MSU enrollment will drop to about 16,000, leaving students with 12-month leases scrambling to find subleasers or risk paying full rent for an unused space.Now, with only finals week remaining, Katie Kegler is desperate to find someone to sublease her Charles Street house bedroom, and she's lowered her price and offered free rent in May as incentives."It's kind of frustrating," said the merchandise management senior, who posted fliers, and placed newspaper and Internet ads.
This letter is in response to "'U' police ride easy on Harleys" (SN 4/24). I don't dispute the need for motorcycles, but do they really need to be name brand, top-of-the-line Harleys? Why should the Department of Police and Public Safety spend more money on bikes than repairing the atrocious road conditions plagued by constant traffic on campus?
We were chatting in our apartment Tuesday afternoon when a raccoon ambled by. We enjoyed watching it and were commenting on how lucky we are to live in an apartment complex with many opportunities to view wildlife.
Community members in East Lansing are bringing residents of all ages together for beatboxing, jugglers, folk music, punk rock, yo-yos and soup. East Lansing teen and senior citizen groups will be sponsoring the first ever "Vegetable Soup Variety Show," featuring talent from area elementary and high school students, senior citizens and MSU faculty. The event will be held 6 p.m.
This is in response to the column "Nothing comes from war except death, destruction" (SN 4/21) by TJ Jourian. I guess the colonies going to war with the British didn't result in anything besides death and destruction.
Under new athletics department drug testing policies, MSU physicians will be able to take samples of a student-athlete's hair, saliva, blood and other bodily fluids next year. Previously, only an athlete's urine could be screened for drugs.
The lineup for this summer's weeklong Common Ground Festival is almost complete. Festival officials announced Thursday blues guitarist Jonny Lang as the seventh act.
Okemos - A demonstration by four Eco members might be able to sway a corporate office supply chain to change one of its policies.
A recent study shows speed limits on Grand River Avenue and Saginaw Highway could be increased by 10 miles per hour because motorists on those roads are not driving the legal limit. A study by the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Department of Transportation collected speed surveys on both state-regulated roads to calculate the 85th percentile of speed limits driven on the state-funded roads.
I would like to thank the current members of the All-University Elections Commission for their hard work on elections.
Citizen's Police Academy to give public chance to learn The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety is now signing up those interested for its Citizen's Police Academy. The next class is scheduled to begin 7 p.m.
Detroit continues to make a name for itself in the realm of hip-hop as it hosts the Detroit Hip-Hop Summit this Saturday.
While the newly obtained set of four Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycles will provide MSU police with many great services, we hope this isn't just an frivolous purchase. The department says the two-wheeled vehicles are more cost effective than patrol cars and will help them better police hard-to-maneuver areas during heavy traffic periods. These perks are palatable in their own right, but it leaves one slightly skeptical, especially when the announcement comes one day after the All-University Traffic Committee upped some campus parking prices almost 25 percent without an adequate explanation. Granted, the money isn't all part of the same pot, but perceptions often speak louder than facts. It's no secret financial times are tough for the university and the state.