This is in response to Alec Gibbs' letter, "'Grading The Profs' is of no use to 'U,'" (SN 2/18). Please come down from your soapbox and view the real world.
By rowing a combined million meters, the MSU Crew Club raised more than $3,500 with pledge money at Ergathon 2003 on Saturday at IM Sports-Circle.
Relief for the congested traffic on Harrison Avenue might be on the way. A new south campus road, built solely for bus use, would ease travel from Spartan Village to the commuter lot, while eliminating train delays, says Jim Froehlich, service planning manager for Capital Area Transportation Authority. The project, which would be funded through federal grants, calls for constructing a road connecting Crescent Road to the Lot 89.
Champaign, Ill. - The Fighting Illini didn't need the Orange Krush, their student section, to beat the Spartans on Tuesday night. Illinois dominated MSU for almost the entire game, en route to a 70-40 shellacking. Illinois guard Dee Brown paced his team.
A fire Monday afternoon on Martin Street in Lansing killed 2-year-old twin boys, Lansing fire Capt. Marvin Helmker said.Firefighters responded to a fire call on the 1600 block of Martin Street and when they arrived they saw "heavy fire coming out of a second-story window," Helmker said.Firefighters first searched the house for residents inside the home and found the twin boys dead in an upstairs bedroom.
Many of Michigan's county health departments would not be able to effectively handle a bio-terrorist attack, Genesee County Health Department Director Robert Pestronk told the House Health Policy Committee today.Despite the state's budget crisis, Pestronk said about $25 million would be needed statewide to adequately prepare for a bio-terrorist strike."Local health departments and the public health system in Michigan are just not uniformly prepared and don't have the resources needed to either plan for or handle these threats locally," he said.But Dr. Dennis Jurczak, deputy medical director for the Ingham County Health Department said by definition, local health departments would not be relied upon to handle a biological disaster."When you have a disaster, you have to work with other agencies," he said.
School supplies are getting cheaper these days.ASMSU is hoping to expand its services to students by offering one-subject notebooks with MSU's undergraduate student government's logo on the front."It's an interesting program to investigate," Academic Assembly Chairperson Matt Clayson said, adding the program has yet to be finalized, but the assembly will be reviewing the proposal."It all depends on finances," he said.The notebook program surfaced after the organization had success with distributing about 10,000 bluebooks to students around campus."This would not replace the bluebook program," said Steve Lovelace, Academic Assembly representative for the College of Arts and Letters.ASMSU would save money by using the same design in the notebook's front page, which includes a list of services provided by the organization as well as its phone number and the Web site address, Lovelace said."They have to look at them everyday," he said.
At a time when much of the nation is focused only on a potential war with Iraq, it's good to see other Americans keeping atop important domestic issues. Four MSU professors lent their names to a full-page New York Times advertisement last week questioning the long-term outlook of President Bush's proposed $1.3-trillion tax cuts. The ad was sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan Washington economic think tank.
Two former Spartans could soon be standing side-by-side once again.Former MSU head football coach Bobby Williams shifted from Detroit Lions running backs coach to wide receivers coach Monday.One expert says Detroit could benefit from the change if the Lions choose former MSU wide receiver Charles Rogers in April's NFL Draft.B.
A recent string of crimes on and near MSU's campus can be attributed to the elements of a college town, a criminal justice professor says. With about 50,000 residents in East Lansing, including about 15,000 students living on campus, criminal justice Professor Mahesh Nalla says students face an elevated risk for becoming victims of assaults or robberies.
About 600 pounds of shredded paper sit inside gray plastic bins on the floor and shelves inside a dusty, dark warehouse in the southwest corner of campus.A garage door opens as a pair of workers begin unloading the day's haul.In the middle of it all is Bill Clark.A truck driver for MSU's Office of Recycling and Waste Management, Clark spends his days collecting materials faculty and students recycle - office papers, pizza boxes, phone books, magazines, brochures, newspapers and books.He said about 60 to 70 percent of the paper that can be recycled is actually collected - the rest gets thrown out with the trash."A lot of people aren't aware most buildings on campus have recycling facilities," he said.
Dotted between the flakes of snow, the images of the downtown mural stand out among the red brick buildings and the stillness of the afternoon: the flag of Puerto Rico, a stylized representation of the Fifth Sun of the Mexica (Aztec), and rows of emerald-colored stalks of corn rise from the cold concrete.
Two water main breaks in the last week have kept MSU work crews busy, said Gus Gosselin, manager of the Physical Plant maintenance department. Pipes broke on Farm Lane near the Auditorium, closing the northbound lanes of the road. Another break was discovered Monday near Giltner Hall.
Lansing - Children can try combine playing with bubbles and learning at a science exhibit at the Impression 5 Science Center inLansing on Saturdays. The exhibit will explain the phenomenon of bubbles - including why they pop in the air and how they form. Visitors at the center, 200 Museum Drive, will be surrounded by bubbles and adults and children can explore the opportunity to discover the mysteries of the soapy concoctions. "We have different programs every Saturday to promote hands-on activity and this Saturday will be the Phil Ginotti Super Bubble Mania Saturday," said the center's interpretive program manager Erik Larson. The Phil Ginotti Super Saturdays are made possible through contributions made to the center in memory of Ginotti who was a past vice president of the center.
A stampede that left 21 dead at the E2 nightclub in Chicago early Monday is raising concerns about safety at evening hot spots in Lansing and surrounding communities. About 50 others were hospitalized after 500 patrons rushed the club's doors in panic when security guards released pepper spray, witnesses said.
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.