I recently purchased a copy of Mark Grebner's popular "Grading the Profs." This booklet is an analysis of data the university collected from 1999 to 2002, and rates professors against each other accordingly.
Don't be surprised if football jerseys contain marriage proposals and invite you to strip clubs next season. OK, so maybe they won't, but a proposal banning advertising flights above stadiums nationwide that passed Friday will limit advertisers' gameday promotion. President Bush will now decide whether or not to make the bill official, which would ban all advertising flights for one year over stadiums beginning an hour preceding and an hour after an event. Unfortunately, the bill will pass, so we'll see MSU head football coach John L.
MSU's Residence Halls Association will go door-to-door in residence halls on Sunday collecting cans to raise money for research into Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
This season, the MSU men's basketball team is in the middle of a personality crisis: Goliath at home and David on the road. The Spartans (14-9 overall, 6-5 Big Ten) are relatively dominant at Breslin Center, boasting a 10-1 record this season - 5-0 in the Big Ten.
Matt Treadwell's column about President Bush needing to be removed from power is outrageous ("For world peace, Bush needs to be removed, not Saddam," SN 2/12). Saddam Hussein is an evil man, and his time has run out.
Freshman tailback David Richard told The State News he finalized his financial aid papers for Missouri on Monday. Richard, the Spartans' leading rusher last season with 654 total yards, met with the Tigers coaching staff on Saturday and will enroll for the summer semester. He also will have to sit out one year, according to NCAA eligibility rules. "It's going to hurt me, but I had to do this," Richard said.
I am writing this letter to discuss a pet peeve of mine in hopes of fixing it. I am talking about how people on campus do not know how to walk.
Lansing - A man walked into National City bank on Michigan Avenue this afternoon wearing a ski mask, opened fire and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.No one was injured in the robbery and an Ingham County K-9 unit tracked the robber who fled northeast toward Friendship Manor, 200 Friendship Circle.It was the first time this year the bank at 3335 E.
"Daredevil" is a fairly inconsistent film. It has moments of genuine entertainment value, but it also has an equal amount of flaws.
Plain and simple, the Big Ten picture is cloudy. It wasn't particularly sunny in the preseason, but three teams were supposed to vie for the conference crown: MSU, Indiana and Illinois. With three weeks left in the season, not one of those teams are leading the Big Ten.
Beth Wellman and her mother, Anne Tracy, stood in the center of the North Presbyterian Church last year singing a duet to "Dona Nobis Pacem."It was a song Tracy's four children often sang on the trip to their grandmother's house.
A man broke into the Capitol and threatened a security officer with a knife Monday morning before fleeing the scene as police responded. He was arrested a few blocks away by a Lansing K-9 unit. About four Lansing police officers set up a parameter around the Capitol and the Michigan State Police cleared the building.
For Harold Strong, the key to getting ahead in business is diversity.Strong, a senior consultant with Siemens Health Services in Malvern, Pa., stressed the importance of all organizations diversifying the workplace Monday in the Eppley Center.He said there are many facets of diversity organizations should seek to employ, and race is only one of them."Diversity covers more than just race," he said.
After reading the article, "Student calls flier 'satire,'" (SN 2/10) I was outraged.
International students who have crossed the planet to seek an education at MSU will now have their personal information traced wherever they venture - and available on the Internet.On Saturday, the Immigration and Naturalization Services, or INS, released an updated tracking system allowing faster access to information on foreign college students.SEVIS, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, will now have a quicker version of long-standing procedures requiring colleges to monitor the academic status and address of foreign students online.SEVIS requires colleges to forward personal information - such as an international student's failure to enroll or arrest record - to a national computer database.
Lansing - The statewide peace march on Saturday cost the city about $16,600 in extra officers and firefighters but the cost was necessary, Lansing police Lt.
The State News claimed honors in the 2002 Michigan Press Photographers Association's annual Picture of the Year contest. Former State News photographer Megan Spelman, an international relations senior, was named College Photographer of the Year. Spelman's portfolio showcased 10 pieces, which included nine single images and a photo story titled "Finding Home." "I'm flattered," she said.
I can't admit that I'm overly excited about today's new releases, but as always here they are.
Lansing - The owner of The Dollar Nightclub is not responsible for the $80,000-$90,000 owed to the city in back taxes, council members say. Lansing City Councilmember Brian Jeffries said the person who owns the property The Dollar stands on, not the club owner, is in debt to the city.
Near the end of any sport's season, fans and analysts usually look at where teams would be in the playoffs "if the season ended today."Well, if that were the case, the MSU hockey team would be fine in the CCHA Tournament.