This is in response to "Since mannequin is white, no one cares," (SN 2/26). I wanted to inform Sarah Nalett who stated, "Hasn't anyone ever heard that black people or other minorities can be racist?" This is an incorrect statement.
There is no excuse for rudeness. A few weeks ago, I was watching the MSU Department of Theatre production of "A Raisin in the Sun" when the electronic sound of the "William Tell Overture" - or as it is better known, the theme song to "The Lone Ranger" - started ringing through the theater. Being the savvy theater critic I am, my instincts told me the chances of the cowboy and his buddy Tonto riding in to save the day was about as possible as seeing late playwright Lorraine Hansberry spin plates to Nelly's "Air Force Ones." That was the definition of rude. Before every performance and movie there is usually some sort of announcement asking people to turn off their beepers and cellular phones.
After reading Matt Treadwell's column "Bush should accept Saddam's debate offer - unless he's yella" (SN 2/26), I couldn't believe this newspaper would print such a disrespectful and anti-American piece of propaganda.
Let's try some word association: Potato state. What comes to mind? If you're like most people, you think Idaho.But that funny-shaped state wasn't always king of the spuds.In the 1800s, Michigan's potato farmers were among the leading producers in the country, and a small exhibit at the MSU Museum aims to bring some of that history to life."We touch on how MSU has contributed to better farming techniques," said Val Berryman, the museum's curator of history.Berryman said the exhibit features 10 major pieces of potato farming equipment, including a bug slapper - a hand-operated device designed to knock bugs off the plants.Museum spokeswoman Lora Helou called the contraption a "good example of old quirky machinery."Berryman said it was cheaper and better for the environment than the pesticides used today.The bug slapper would be pushed over the rows of potatoes, hitting the plants and knocking the bugs into a pan on the machine.
To Oscar Caballero, Wednesday night's animal biotechnology forum was a dream come true.Three years ago, the cell and molecular biology graduate student heard a presentation from the environmentalist group Greenpeace condemning genetic engineering and saying it messes with "Mother Nature's grand design.""People who do not have the knowledge about biotechnology come out of there thinking, 'I'm never going to allow another piece of transgenic food in my mouth again,'" Caballero said.
It would probably be in the best interest of Spartan athletes to continue facing the U.S. flag during the National Anthem, MSU Athletics Director Ron Mason said.His caveat comes after spectators and media have paid increased attention to the actions of a woman's basketball player at New York's Manhattanville College.
The MSU student accused of posting a racially offensive flier in Shaw Hall pleaded guilty today to charges of misdemeanor harassment in front of East Lansing 54-B District Court Judge Richard Ball.During a pretrial meeting, prosecutor Marie Wolfe made David Powder aware of his possible options and gave him time to decide what he wanted to do.
In her letter, Sarah Nalett makes a good point: there is a double standard regarding racism in this country ("Since mannequin is white, no one cares," SN 2/26). Our society certainly has differing reactions to racism when practiced by a member of the racial majority or a minority.
This is in response to the "mannequin shenanigan." As the entire MSU community breathed a sigh of relief when the mannequin head was found to be white, I worried, as did Kenya Harvey ("Police: Prank not race related," SN 2/25). It turns out we, as a white race, have been intimidated by another race.
MSU student groups plan to march on the nation's capital April 1. Women's Council, Multi Racial Unity Living Experience and other organizations will demonstrate their support for affirmative action on the day the U.S.
After reading the article "Survey: greeks succeed" (SN 2/25), I was reminded of how image really is everything.
In a society bombarded with images of emaciated bodies aimed at representing the ideal figure, those with eating disorders have grown to both worship and fear the scale.Erin Ruth became obsessed with the scale - weighting herself every day.
He's the floor general, the basketball version of a quarterback, and the leader - the point guard.
After reading the article "Police: Prank not race related" (SN 2/25), a surge of anger swept over me.
MSU head coach Rick Comley's second go-around with Northern Michigan still felt weird. However, it wasn't quite as strange as his first encounter with the team he coached for 26 seasons before coming to East Lansing this year. This weekend, Comley and his family reacquainted themselves with several old friends from Northern who traveled to MSU for the teams' two-game series. Of course, he saw many of the same people when the Spartans traveled to Marquette for a series in October.
In a cold concrete basement filled with wooden work benches, old paint cans, cigarette butts and a single stale light bulb, the charging bass line of "Lights out in the City" breaks like a piano falling from a 10-story building.
With 30 teachers laid off and the closing of Spartan Village Elementary School in East Lansing alone, it is obvious that Michigan is not headed in the right direction by cutting budgets for K-12 education.
The pre-trial of the MSU student accused of posting a racially offensive flier in Shaw Hall will take place at 9 a.m.
In an effort to make multi-disciplinary environmental science missions across campus more visible, MSU's Board of Trustees approved the Environmental Sciences and Policy program at its February meeting. The program will be headed by Thomas Dietz, an environmental science and public policy professor from George Mason University in Virginia. "Michigan State does world-class research, education and outreach in environmental science and policy," Dietz said in a written statement. "Our new program will make the work more visible, make it more easily available to those who have to make decisions about the environment and, by making links across the field, lead to better science and better decisions," he said. Currently, MSU's classes, research and outreach programs in environmental science are spread throughout several departments and colleges in the university, including the colleges of social science, natural science and agriculture and natural resources. The new program will allow undergraduate and graduate students to specialize in environmental science and policy. Provost Lou Anna Simon said the new program will allow the university to focus and align its environmental science strengths for the advantage of students and faculty. "MSU has an enormous amount of strengths around the university in environmental science," Simon said.