The storefront located at 101 E. Grand River Ave. at the corner of Abbott Road is once again vacant.Movers carried out furniture and equipment from the East Lansing Big Boy on Saturday because the restaurant didn't make enough money.
I feel an intense need to respond to Magan Butler-Coleman's letter "Nonminorities are not racism victims" (SN 2/27). I am a white student, coming from an almost all-white town in northern Michigan.
"State News apologize. We don't want your racist lies" echoed through the halls of Student Services on Monday as about 30 students protested recent advertisements in the independent student newspaper.Five student groups joined forces to speak out against the ads that, they say, incite racism and negative sentiments toward Palestinian students.
Last semester, around the time of National Transgender Awareness Day, which is on Nov. 20 each year, I decided to write a column about all the transgender lives lost over the years.
I have noticed a few campustruth.org (or as I'll say, skewed campus truth) ads placed in the paper, one of which paints Palestinians as lunatics who glorify destruction while Israelis are illustrated as peace-loving victims of Palestinian brutality.
Folk singers Richard Shindell and Tracy Grammer will be performing at 7:30 tonight at the Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St.
This is a response to Magan Butler-Coleman's letter ("Nonminorities are not racism victims," SN 2/27). It is interesting to hear that the vice president of the Akers Hall Black Caucus would have such a narrow-minded opinion.
I was offended by the last column by Farhan Bhatti ("Jihad needs to be clarified to U.S.
Although I am sure you received plenty of e-mails regarding the incident involving the speech on Feb.
Why is it that so much time is devoted to a mannequin? Ideally, one would imagine the consensus would be, "Thank goodness this wasn't an incident of racial intimidation, now we can get on with life." Instead, there was an incredibly poorly worded article with the "It was a white mannequin, we don't need to care anymore" tone which seems only too calculated, as if with intent to draw on a reverse-discrimination debate by so blatantly implying that color was a factor.
Members of Congress met with Turkish leaders Friday and Saturday to discuss a plan to allow U.S. troops to occupy land in Turkey bordering northern Iraq in exchange for $30 billion in aid.Congressmen Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., and Robert Wexler, D-Fla., met with governing party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other members of the Turkish Parliament in hopes of working out a deal for the United States to use Turkish airspace and land for troops in order to activate troops in less time, Rogers said.Rogers said he and his colleagues tried to put the pressure on the Turkish government to stress that time is of the essence, and there is little time to contemplate a final decision.If Turkey does not cooperate with this deal, Rogers said it will be unlikely for the United States to help Turkey again in the future.For more on this story please see Tuesday's edition of The State News.
If Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposed plan to balance the state budget reflects the priorities of Michigan residents as she says, then a rocky future lies ahead for the state's universities. Granholm announced Thursday a 6.5-percent cut to higher education funding as part of a plan to overcome a predicted $1.7-billion shortfall.
Indianapolis - Through 27 games this season, the MSU women's basketball team was only familiar with the winning end of blowouts. But Ohio State introduced the Spartans (17-11) to the losing end with a 71-55 thumping Friday in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. After MSU head coach Joanne P.
The MSU 2003 IDEA Coordinators presents speaker Milton J. Little Jr. on Thursday as a part of its Social Justice Series. Little is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the National Urban League. The event will take place at 7 p.m.
Lansing - Three tributes for hard-working members of the Lansing community will take place at the 7 p.m. city council meeting today. The council will honor John and Judith Peakes for their work on stage productions at BoarsHead Theater, 425 S.
Forget Enron, WorldCom and Washington, D.C. The real crooks are in college basketball. From NCAA suspensions, violations and infractions to Sunday's Duke-North Carolina late-game fracas, the Division I-A ranks of men's hoops are sporting an ugly black eye of corruption this year.
To offset about $30 million in state funding reductions, MSU officials are warning students that program cuts and tuition increases are imminent.
Students Protecting and Representing Education, or SPARE, has gone interactive. SPARE, a student organization focused on combating possible university cuts and tuition increases, has put its message out on the World Wide Web - hoping students will log on and sign up. "We should be taken seriously, and this is a great way to disseminate information," international relations junior Ahmed Baset said. Baset, a SPARE member, said the group's purpose is directed at all Michigan students, and the Web site is a great tool for them to learn about the group. "SPARE is representative of everyone," he said. Baset also is the director of legislative affairs for ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government.
As federal investigators try to convict an MSU researcher for the alleged disappearance of a pig bacteria, the reputation of the university is getting dragged through the mud. "It's a tragedy," said Bob Huggett, vice president for research and graduate studies at MSU.