When hearing Professor Fayyaz Hussain describe his experiences of being sneered at to "Go back home," a reasonable person might think he was reminiscing about being teased in elementary school. Sadly, that is not the case.
A train of police cars followed the stream of about 60 area residents on bicycles, skateboards and foot. "Stop the war!
With more than 750,000 Web hits a week, a cyber debate is raging about war in Iraq on the largest academic listserv in the world. More than 133,000 people subscribe to Humanities and Social Sciences Online, or H-NET, an independent scholarly society hosted by MSU's MATRIX humanities and technology center.
And I thought reality TV couldn't go any further. People are being married by the audience, kicked off islands, rushing fraternities and sororities and now this. Live war. Late Saturday night, CNN and many other news networks around the world aired a battle near Umm Qasr in Iraq, live for our viewing pleasure. Sure, I'll admit I was frozen to the TV watching the events unfold, which is the goal of any TV network. And sure, it was a great show of journalism, especially after the tragic events that some journalists have already encountered in the war. But come on, you can't just go broadcasting live battle scenes.
While most people were likely observing high school basketball phenom LeBron James at the McDonald's All American High School Basketball Game on Wednesday in Cleveland, some others were staring fixedly at two MSU recruits. Guards Brandon Cotton and Shannon Brown showed off their skills at the contest. Troy Jackson, Brown's coach at Proviso East High in Illinois, said Brown was impressive. "Shannon played real well, like I expected him to," Jackson said.
Posters and cardboard stand-up advertisements across campus aimed at drawing students back to the residence halls have been effective in the last year, University Housing Director Angela Brown said. The "Live on" campaign has been running for three years and Brown says MSU uses the program to both inform students and increase interest in living on campus. MSU's residence hall system can house about 14,900 students.
The folks from Sony are at it again with a new release for PlayStation 2 called "Amplitude." This game, a quasi-sequel to the game "Frequency," also for PS2, allows players to "mix and remix hit songs" by a bunch of well-known artists, including David Bowie, blink-182, Pink, Weezer, Garbage and more. I say "quasi-sequel" because, although having not played the original, it's hard to imagine what simpler concept there could be to make this game from. The gameplay is almost mind-numbingly simple.
Full of youth and exuberance, freshman gymnast Sarah Alexander came to MSU wanting to compete as hard as she could.
For a young team looking to make a name for itself, a senior-led, experience-laden opponent is the last team it'd want to face.
The House Transportation Committee passed a bill Thursday to lift the $5.7-million funding cap on the annual funding Amtrak receives from the state. The House bill passed with a 12-2 vote, with 14 of the committee's 17 members in attendance for the vote, said Rep.
MSU's recent success is no secret. It's chemistry. The Spartans seem visibly more comfortable now than they did all season.
It's time to break out the water bottles, sweatsuits and gym shoes. Greek Week, which kicks off Sunday, is a week of fund-raising events performed by the Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils benefiting several charities. Larry Wisne, director of Greek Week, wanted to make it clear everyone in the community - not just greeks - is invited to participate. "We support a lot of charities with our donations," Wisne said.
As the spring weather thaws East Lansing, city officials are fixing a record amount of water mains. Due to the cold temperatures and troubling frost conditions, the city has fixed approximately 40 to 50 water main breaks this winter, costing the city about $40,000, said Todd Sneathen, the city's director of Public Works and Environmental Services.
Ask the Advocates is a column appearing on Fridays on Statenews.com that discusses different health issues affecting MSU students.
John Bice's column pointing out the reality of Bush's presidency was great ("First impression of Bush apparently off target" SN 3/25). William Perod's letter, on the other hand, made me sick ("Columnist's choice of discussion awful" SN 3/26). Calling the article "whiny" and "unpatriotic" was way off base.
In the second half of No. 7 seed MSU's 68-46 win over No. 2 seed Florida, sophomore forward/guard Alan Anderson dropped a pretty dime to freshman forward Erazem Lorbek for an easy deuce. As associate head coach Brian Gregory strolled by head coach Tom Izzo to call plays he asked, "Where did that come from?" Gregory was referring to Anderson's true point guard-type pass, however, he could have been talking about the entire team's performance.
Who actually likes war? No one. Isn't war hard enough (whether you support it or not) without plastering pictures of dead people on the front page of Tuesday's State News?
Living in Michigan definitely has its cons, from high car insurance premiums to sporadic weather. Thankfully, there are more pros than cons. Take, for example, the Michigan beer scene.
Darylisha Jones sits on a wooden bench, taking notes in a thick spiral-bound notebook as she watches Marilyn Monroe.