MSU officials suspended two students from the university for their involvement in last weekend's disturbances in the city and on campus."These actions have been taken because it is believed that the students are in violation of either the general student regulations or student disorderly conduct policy," said Lee June, vice president for student affairs and services.
Editor's Note: The following story was originally printed in The State News on March 28, 1979. By Joe Centers The State News Salt Lake City - "Sensational!" That's how MSU's senior Gregory Kelser felt as he watched his teammates cut away the net following the Spartans' 75-64 win Monday night over previously undefeated Indiana State University to claim the NCAA basketball title.
Under a thick veil of smoke and multicolored lights, 16 dancers dressed in green and white entered stage left at Satrang in Breslin Center on Saturday.Seven women in skirts twirled, snapping green and white striped sticks to the fast beat of Indian music.
Our government fights a lot of wars. We have the war on drugs, the war on poverty and, of course, the war on terrorism, just to name a few. The problem with these wars is that they're wars against ideas.
With closure on the Spartan basketball season, much optimism is already surrounding the 2003-04 campaign. The Spartans stumbled out of the gate, and by early January, the Spartans were the "biggest disappointment" of the season.
With seven spring practices in the can, the MSU football team is finding itself knee-deep in sorting through head coach John L.
To remedy the rampant security concerns on MSU's campus, perhaps armored guards should be brought in to man residence halls.
Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker gave more than 400 members of the MSU community an inside view of the war with Iraq on Thursday night. Military rule will be necessary to stabilize the recovering nation in the first months after the war ceases, said Baker, who served as secretary during the Persian Gulf war in 1991 under President George H.
East Lansing City Manger Ted Staton testified to legislators Thursday in hopes using homeland security funding to restore funding once received from state fire protection grants. Staton told members of the House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committee in Lansing the effects of the $470,000 loss in fire grants this year is too much money to cut if places such as East Lansing and MSU are to be adequately protected. "Please resist plans to distribute funds across the board," Staton said.
Lansing - The Lansing Lugnuts' season opener was postponed Thursday night after a steady rainstorm pelted the stadium. Lansing left-hander Ryan Sisco (0-0) had a strong start in his Lugnut debut, striking out the first two batters from South Bend.
"Race in 21st Century America," a three-day conference that brought out scholars, activists and students from all over the country, wraps up today in the Kellogg Center. This is the third year for the conference, sponsored by James Madison College and the Midwest Consortium for Black Studies. Curtis Stokes, associate professor in the college, said this conference is at the perfect time because it falls in the backdrop of war with Iraq, affirmative action debates and Census statistics revealing that Latinos are the nation's largest minority. "We feel this conference is a vehicle to find fresh approaches to aggress this very conscientious and difficult problem of race," he said. The conference's keynote speaker was Maivan Clech Lam, a professor at the City University of New York.
In an effort to combat incidents of bias and intimidation on campus, MSU students, officials and community leaders have formed the All-University Diversity Task Force.
Jackie Allar never considered engineering as a career until she heard about biomedical engineering. Now, she obsesses over things such as hospital visits and developments in medical technology. "I am like the biomedical engineering nerd," said Allar, president of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Lansing Twp. - A robber evaded police after emptying a cash register at the Frandor Shell gas station, 3024 E.
Ron Mason felt sick to his stomach last Friday night, as one of his assistants delivered the news that revelers were being arrested on the streets of MSU. The MSU athletics director didn't feel any better Sunday night. "I think it's tragic that sports events are marred by these events," he said.
Tombstone-shaped posters marking symbolic graves on the metal fence behind Wells Hall on Thursday rendered images of dead Iraqi children and soldiers. Faces of victims were often so blood-smeared they were unrecognizable.
The infamous and legendary Indiana and Texas Tech coach Bob Knight once said: "If the NBA were on channel 5, and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy." Putting it lightly, the NBA is in disrepair these days.
MSU actors are searching for more students to be "in your face" about health and sex. Olin Health Center's In Your Face Reality Troupe will hold interviews for a director starting this month. The troupe is in its 10th season and was first directed by Olin health educator Dennis Martell. "They do it because they like to act," he said.
Our most humble apologies to state House Speaker Rick Johnson. It seems that when we scolded the LeRoy Republican for making offhanded comments labeling college students as hoodlums.