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.
The Spartans were in a must-win situation Wednesday night and they didn't let the opportunity slide by.MSU (15-11 overall, 7-6 Big Ten) kept its NCAA Tournament hopes alive by defeating Minnesota 71-61 in front of a boisterous Breslin Center crowd.Sophomore forward/guard Alan Anderson led the Spartans with 18 points, while sophomore guard Kelvin Torbert added 17.
Underage drinkers account for one-fifth of all alcohol consumption in the U.S., according to a recent national study.The study, conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, reported youths between the ages of 12 and 20 years old amount to 19.7 percent of alcohol consumption in the nation.The study, which was released in Tuesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, said the total of underage drinking amounts to about $22.5 billion in sales.The results came from a 10-month analysis of three sets of data, including figures from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, which involved more than 50,000 people aged 12 and older polled in 1999.The article, "Alcohol Consumption and Expenditures for Underage Drinking and Adult Excessive Drinking," also used figures from several national and federal institutions."The value of this survey points to a huge problem that has been around for some time," National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism spokeswoman Ann Bradley said.
Adam Raezler's ASMSU application almost didn't make it into the pile because of a little confusion his freshman year. "It was the first time I'd been to that end of campus and I got lost," the political theory and constitutional democracy sophomore said. Raezler said just as he was considering giving up, he found the building and now sits on the MSU undergraduate student government's Academic Assembly as a representative for James Madison College. Applications are due by 4:30 p.m.
Applications are available to join the Senior Class Council for the 2003-2004 academic year. Any junior or returning senior is eligible to sign up. The deadline to apply is Thursday.
Suggestions ranging from card swipers at living area entrances to using security guards as night receptionists were talked about at three forums on safety in MSU's residence halls Tuesday evening. Information from small groups of MSU parents and students will be used as part of a Residence Halls Security Committee report to MSU President M.
Cincinnati - 17,000 Phish fans can't be wrong. Especially when they've traveled from all corners of the nation, spending their last pennies to get from one show to the next because they know each one will be different.