In this time of reduced appropriations and fear from wild rumors of tuition increasing 30 percent, some feel it's necessary to recommend tuition caps as a necessary tool to restrain tuition.
The MSU women's basketball team is going dancing. The team received the No. 8 seed in the East Region of the 2003 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship on Sunday night.
The road to the Final Four in New Orleans is under way for the MSU men's basketball team. The NCAA selection committee on Sunday night picked the Spartans (19-12) as the No.
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III has yet to decide if he will reinstate an assistant prosecutor after she was suspended after allegations she and others schemed to retrieve a cat that had been sold to an animal dealer.Dunnings said he need more information before deciding the fate of Allie Phillips, who works in the prosecutor's family division.
Peggy Murphy watched as her daughter jumped, tapped, spun and kicked across a wooden dance floor to the sound of Irish music Friday afternoon, a 12-year-old ritual for her family. To Murphy, coordinator of the Irish Dance Company of Lansing, St.
Although Allison Saxby's husband is in the Army in Texas waiting for deployment to the Middle East, she stood on the median on Grand River Avenue protesting the war. "He wants to go fight and I think it's a bunch of crap," she said holding a sign that said "Peace is Patriotism." "We have different feelings." Saxby was among about 100 protesters standing on one of the city's busiest areas holding candles as they delayed traffic. During the protest, passing motorists honked horns while some passers-by protested the protesters. "We're going to war.
Chicago - After the first half, the Spartans were saying "ouch" and following the second half, they stood in disbelief. After being dismantled in the first half and trailing by as many as 19 points, the Spartans charged back and took their first lead of the game 3:43 left.
It wasn't as easy as Friday night, but the MSU hockey team locked up a trip to Detroit with a 3-1 win over Alaska-Fairbanks on Saturday night at Munn Ice Arena.The win gave No.
Nonminorities might face racism now and then, but it is nowhere near the severity of the treatment minorities face every day from teachers, bosses, co-workers and classmates.
Some students were sizzling mad over french fries Wednesday after a Shaw Hall cafeteria worker gave them a new name - "freedom fries." The name mimics a move by cafeteria workers at the U.S.
It doesn't seem that long ago nearly the entire MSU community packed into Cedar Village like sardines that magical April night the Spartans ran the gauntlet to the school's second national championship. Even with the loss of Mateen, Morris and A.J., Spartan fans had visions of - not sugarplums - back-to-back championships dancing in their heads. The following season, the team returned a solid nucleus - seniors Charlie Bell and Andre Hutson and the high-flying sophomore Jason Richardson - plus a pair of talented freshmen, making the team's attack that much more potent. In pursuit of another title, that team went 24-3 in the regular season and won the school's fourth consecutive Big Ten regular-season title. However, the Spartans encountered a slight bump in the road in their Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal tilt with Penn State, falling to the Nittany Lions, 65-63. Although surprising, the setback didn't deter the team on its way to its third consecutive Final Four.
As Rhode Island and Pennsylvania lawmakers have proposed a tax-incentive plan to encourage businesses to install fire sprinklers in more buildings, local officials say the move for Michigan may be too costly in the midst of a budget crisis. Bob Cushman, a survivor from the Feb.
About 40 students and Lansing-area residents crowded into Baker Hall on Thursday night to talk to State News Editor in Chief Kevin Hardy on his decision to run pro-Israeli ads late last month. Hardy, joined by State News Advertising Manager Dan Kimmel, attended the Students for Peace and Justice meeting to listen to concerns of the students and answer questions about two different ads from campustruth.org and One Truth that ran in four issues of the paper. On Wednesday, Hardy announced that the paper has postponed running the ads indefinitely.
After another grueling practice at the MSU Indoor Tennis Facility, seniors Jimmy McGuire, Adam Hourani and Goran Topalo took a breather to recollect on their time at MSU last Tuesday. During the 2001 season, the team suffered numerous setbacks on its way to a 7-18 record, which included a 1-10 mark in Big Ten play. "Our (sophomore) year was probably our hardest," McGuire said.
A former MSU student and researcher was charged Tuesday with lying to federal authorities about misusing more than $400,000 in federal research grant money.
Some local bands are joining anti-war protesters for an on-campus concert. On Sunday, Ettison Clio, Bump, The Fuzz, Ellsworth, Nova Scotia and Lost Without Leaving will be playing a benefit concert entitled "Peace for the Ear" beginning at 6 p.m.
After reading the article, "In reality, making a band far from easy" (SN 3/13), I must first say that I agree, it is hard to find and maintain a band with like goals.
A video game featuring a virtual bar and blood alcohol content meter will inform MSU students about the consequences of abusing alcohol this fall. The program is an update of Alcohol 101, a CD-ROM used in Olin Health Center, residence halls, sororities and fraternities. The new interactive program, called Alcohol 101 Plus, allows users to make decisions for virtual characters in video scenarios involving alcohol consumption. Participants can pick from a variety of characters including a basketball player in a bar the night before a game or a freshman in a dorm room. If students choose to drink, a message appears on the screen detailing the consequences of their decision. Jasmine Greenamyer, a health educator at Olin, said the program always has been well received by students. "We're excited for the update," she said.
Minutes before Friday night's playoff game against Alaska-Fairbanks, Ricky Comley Jr. jokingly predicted an 11-1 victory for the MSU hockey team. Little did he know how right he would be. The son of MSU's head coach, a history senior, looked like quite a psychic after the Spartans racked up an 11-1 victory over the Nanooks in game one of the teams' best-of-three CCHA Tournament series at Munn Ice Arena. No.