The MSU community expressed a full spectrum of reactions to President Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night."Some of the stuff he's saying about Iraq is frightening," MSU College Republicans Chairman Jason Miller said.
Lindsie Boykin left the Brody cafeteria with more than a full stomach Tuesday evening. The elementary education freshman learned about birth control and alcohol dangers and won bracelets, balloons and a puzzle cube in the "Play it Safe on Spring Break" game.The life-size Monopoly-like game, sponsored by Olin Health Education and the Sexual Assault and Crisis Intervention team of the MSU Counseling Center, sent students around six tables and challenged their knowledge on alcohol, relationships and sun and travel safety.
One of California's top junior college football players has committed to MSU. Deandra Cobb committed to MSU the week before the semester started, said Antelope Valley College football assistant head coach Frank Bula.
It's heartbreaking to hear East Lansing school officials announce budget problems will bring the likely close of Spartan Village Elementary School less than one year after community members fought tooth and nail to keep the building open. East Lansing Public Schools Superintendent Tom Giblin said Monday the district's preliminary plan to compensate for a projected $4.2 million budget shortfall in the next fiscal year includes the closing of Spartan Village Elementary, 1460 Middlevale Road, the laying off of about 30 teachers and restructuring the district. In May, the East Lansing school board voted to downsize the Spartan Village school from a kindergarten-to-sixth-grade elementary to a kindergarten-to-second-grade school.
City council members searched for answers Tuesday to why less people are parking in East Lansing.
A group of MSU students didn't think a trip to South Africa would make them angels. "When we left, the women kept asking the translators if we were from heaven," said Sarah Elliston, a political science and pre-law junior.
East Lansing Public Schools Superintendent Tom Giblin announced Monday night his preliminary plan to compensate for a projected $4.2 million shortfall in the next fiscal year - including the closing of Spartan Village Elementary School, laying off about 30 teachers and massively restructuring the district.The proposal also suggested privatizing custodial and transportation programs and eliminating the alternative program.The plan proposed a 7.8-percent cut to instructional costs, including laying off 18.5 elementary teachers, six middle school teachers, five high school teachers, four alternative program teachers and two paraprofessionals."When you get in these situations, you have to look at your values," Giblin said.The preliminary ideas also include a plan to charge $250 per student to participate in high school sports and eliminating three nursing positions.The proposed cuts eliminate 30 percent of district administration costs, including eliminating one director, three secretaries and three principals in addition to staff from the closed school.Other cuts in pupil support include eliminating a part-time science coordinator position and four teacher consultant positions.The plan is only preliminary and was presented to the school board for the first time Monday.
Days after an MSU student was hospitalized with a meningitis-like disease, health officials say all friends and family can do is wait. A female journalism sophomore, who lives on the ninth floor of South Hubbard Hall, was diagnosed with meningococcemia last week and is being treated at Sparrow Hospital, MSU officials said on Monday. The student's name and condition have not been released on her family's request. "We remain very hopeful that she will completely recover," University Physician Beth Alexander said. Meningococcemia is a potentially fatal bacterial blood infection that inflames blood vessels.
Competition between MSU and the University of Michigan will take the form of 13 blood drives held at various locations on and near MSU campus throughout February to promote saving lives and collecting more blood than our rivals.The American Red Cross is sponsoring the first Blood Drive Face-off Competition between the two schools, which will take place prior to the teams meeting for a hockey game at Joe Louis Arena on March 1.The student planning committee involved with the blood drive is hoping to collect more than 800 pints of blood from MSU students.
Bundle up. Antarctica - the coldest, driest and most remote continent in the world - will soon see green, after the university approved a fisheries and wildlife study abroad program Monday. When students step foot in Antarctica in December, it'll mean MSU has study abroad programs on all seven continents for the first time in university history. "At the beginning of presentations, we say we're on all continents but Antarctica," said Inge Steglitz, assistant director of the Office of Study Abroad.
Lansing - Lansing Mayor David Hollister said the city is more diverse, safer and stronger than when he became the city's top official. Hollister delivered his 10th and final state of the city address, "Lansing - A Path to Success," at 7 p.m.
In a world where every movement made by individuals and countries alike may cause unspeakable horror, it is sometimes difficult to zero in on a specific topic and voice one's opinion.
Capital Area United Way President Bob Berning intends to resign after a $1.88-million embezzlement scandal.In a statement released Monday, Tom Chirgwin, chairman of the Capital Area United Way's board of directors, said Berning will submit his resignation from the chapter at a special meeting Feb.
Aren't there better things to be writing a column on than "Sex and the City" ("'Sex and the City' promotes negative images," SN 1/27)? The fifth season has been over since last summer, however there will be a sixth season debuting this June.
After another road loss - its fifth in as many games - the MSU men's basketball team is returning to the refuge of Breslin Center.The Spartans (10-8 overall, 2-4 Big Ten) host No.
After losing five businesses in a month, Grand River Avenue will see two new shops open soon.A retail clothing store specializing in resort and vacation clothes is taking over the 9,300-square foot vacancy left by Tower Records, 115 E.
In response to Chrystal Liebold's column "'Sex and the City' characters promote negative images" (SN 1/27), I would like to strongly disagree.
Five-year-old Damonta runs giggling to his mother and throws his arms around her neck, spilling her drink on her lap and the floor of a homeless shelter. "Damonta!" screams his mother, Davonna Davis, laughing.