Gov. Jennifer Granholm's executive order to slash $158 million from state spending - including a 1.5 percent cut to higher education - was approved today by Senate and House Appropriations Committees.MSU will lose about $4.9 million dollars in state funding.
As the MSU hockey team traipses toward the postseason, sophomore goaltender Matt Migliaccio is showing signs of resiliency that were missing at times earlier this year. Twice during this weekend's series with archrival Michigan, Migliaccio found himself in trying situations.
I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to every student and faculty member at MSU who did not show up at the peace rally Saturday to show support for either side of the crisis.
In about a month, the red carpet will be unrolled for the Academy Awards. Celebrating great achievement in the year of cinema (yeah right), the awards ceremony is among the most highly rated and regarded television events of the year. This year's Best Actress in a Supporting Role nominees are indeed a grab bag of immensely talented women.
It was more than 60 years ago, but Eva Schloss can still remember the day she realized her normal life as a Jewish girl would never be the same."I was 9 years old at the time and I went to a friend's house - she was a Christian," Schloss said to a small group of MSU students and faculty today."Her mother opens the door and she said, 'You're not welcome here anymore' and slammed the door in my face."The young Schloss went home confused that day as she began to understand what the spreading Nazi influence in Austria, her home country, would come to mean.
Following a season in which five single-season offensive records were destroyed, the MSU baseball team will have to find new ways to win if it hopes to build on the success it had in 2002. The Spartans established new highs in hits (685), doubles (126), runs (500), RBI (456) and home runs (95) in 2002.
The 75th annual Academy Awards, airing Sunday, March 23 on ABC, is met with excitement by some and indifference by others.
Case Hall returned to closing at midnight, rather than 9 p.m., housing officials said Tuesday. The change, made on Friday, resulted from a negative reaction to the 9 p.m.
Members of Sigma Delta Tau are preparing to move out of their current location, 120 Spartan Ave., and into another house this summer. "The lease expires this summer," said Ann Brawly, executive director of the sorority's national headquarters.
Most of us have heard the phrase "stop and smell the roses," but very few of us have given it a second thought or made a point to do so. I'm one of those people. Hi.
Champaign, Ill. - The stage was set for a Hollywood comeback story.But judging from the sour scowl on sophomore forward Alan Anderson's face following Tuesday's 70-40 loss to No.
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss will speak on campus today. Schloss was friends with Anne Frank, a Holocaust victim whose diaries were turned into an award-winning novel and play. Schloss will speak from noon to 1:30 p.m.
With $7 in her bank account as she entered her freshman year of college, Ashleigh said she knew she was "screwed" for the rest of the year unless she got a job. The general business administration and pre-law freshman had to make money fast, and she decided when she came to school that she'd rather find a job requiring her to wear 6-inch stiletto heels than a hair net.
I've been labeled with many derogatory titles for using this forum to speak out against war with Iraq. I've been branded a traitor to my country and touted as a supporter of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, all for using my American freedoms to champion against an unjust and immoral tide of U.S.
Can't you guys at least try to be more moderate? When you are attacked for being liberally biased (which is quite often), there are always a million letters to the editor and editorials defending you and claiming your objectivity.
Terence Blackburn always knew he was going to be a lawyer.But he didn't always know he was going to be an educator.While studying law at Columbia University, the MSU-Detroit College of Law dean met a breed of teachers that he never wanted to emulate."The model of teaching there was one that I absolutely detested," Blackburn said.
The MSU men's tennis team will host Notre Dame today in a rare, midweek contest. The No. 66 Spartans will take on the No.
I'm writing this letter to Chris Seljeskog and The State News because I agree with his letter about walking on the right ("Right side of hall is the way to travel," SN 2/18), and to kindly ask the readers to not just apply that rule to walking through the halls, but on the sidewalks outside as well.
This is in response to the letter about the peace rally ("Saturday's rally is worth supporting," SN 2/14). You say thousands of Iraqis have died because of trade sanctions since the Gulf War.