Jeff Daniels is a Hollywood rarity. With nearly 50 films on his résumé, including two director's credits, the veteran actor has managed to maintain his career despite the industry's short attention span. "It's great to have been around for a long time, because in Hollywood, careers are very short.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson was right Tuesday to criticize a hateful flier posted in Shaw Hall as "reprehensible, cruel and degrading." There is no room for racism on this campus and blatantly racist acts should not be tolerated. The flier, which was found on Jan.
With a variety of fitness options available, students and city residents can take their pick among apartment centers, professional gyms and campus intramural centers.
For a team that has struggled on the road, it may be a relief the MSU women's basketball team returns home.Though No.
Fossil fuel energy on University Farms might be history if students decide to front the money to make the transition to environmentally-friendly energy.Students will vote in March on whether to add a $5 student tax to fund environmental initiatives.ASMSU passed a bill allowing students to vote on the tax after the environmental organization ECO proposed the bill to MSU's undergraduate student government in November.The farms purchase fossil fuel energy from Consumers Energy, but would start shifting to solar and wind turbine energy if the tax passes, said Terry Link, a representative for the University Committee for a Sustainable Campus."There's only so much fossil fuel we can burn," he said.
The ripple effect of the $1.88-million Capital Area United Way embezzlement scandal fuels the trend of less trust in charities, local charity officials say.Since the Sept.
Matt Treadwell's article criticizing America was misguided, full of lies and shamefully inaccurate ("America's unalienable rights include selfishness, greed, power," SN 1/15). Perhaps equally shameful was the fact it was published.
Brad Fast and John-Michael Liles get more ice than Jay-Z's girlfriend. The multitalented senior defensemen have been MSU's main workhorses this year, logging far more minutes than any other Spartan not wearing goalie pads. Fast and Liles are MSU's top defensive pairing in that they play most of the important 5-on-5 shifts every game.
Despite the fact abortion is, and always will be, a heavily debated issue, both sides can agree on one thing - each can curb unwanted pregnancies. The case of Roe v.
Microbiology junior Jonathan Lenz knows the taxes he owes Michigan from Web purchases could start piling up. Six percent sales and use taxes are levied on Internet and mail-order purchases made in Michigan, but little of it is collected, according to the nonpartisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
Going against the grain has been key to the growth of Chicago-based jam band Umphrey's McGee. Relying heavily on bootlegging - highly debated and frowned upon by the corporate music industry - for its musical distribution, Umphrey's often finds itself defying critics and the odds, playing to sold-out crowds in towns where the band has never before stepped foot. After a packed performance in Lansing last year, Umphrey's McGee is making its second appearance in a more familiar place. "Our show in Lansing was fantastic last time," keyboardist and vocalist Joel Cummins said.
A multiple vehicle accident temporarily slowed Grand River Avenue traffic at Division Street around 3 p.m.
The creation of a free-standing multicultural center and student activism dominated discussion Wednesday when members of the MSU community met in the Union Ballroom.Students from the Coalition of Racial Ethnic Students have been lobbying for a new building because traffic in its temporary facility in the Union basement has more than doubled since it opened in 1999.
Leave it to the Wolverines to make a mess of everything. After three years at MSU, my long-standing antipathy toward the University of Michigan has hardly diminished.
If a person killed a 10-year-old boy or a 10-month-old girl, that person would be considered a criminal and sentenced to jail.
An MSU pesticide research program could lose $210,000 if Gov. Jennifer Granholm follows budget cut recommendations from a Midland-based think tank.According to a report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group, Michigan can save $34 million by eliminating programs in the state's Department of Agriculture.But Chris DiFonzo, MSU's pesticide education program coordinator, said a cut wouldn't have a big affect on the university.The Department of Agriculture gets federal funding to run the pesticide certification program, and MSU is contracted to make educational material for people who use the chemicals.
Angelo DiMeo is wondering what to do next with Trustee Joel Ferguson's old MSU bowl rings.The Lansing-based jeweler put Ferguson's 1990 John Hancock and 1993 Liberty bowl rings up for auction on eBay, but did not draw any bids.DiMeo was asking $1,400 for each ring in the Internet auctions, which ended Wednesday night."Most people are afraid of the media attention," DiMeo said, adding 200 potential buyers courted him about side deals - with $1,200 as the highest offer per ring.Ferguson declined to comment the night of the auctions' close, but said last week he didn't know how DiMeo got ahold of the rings.He said he may have given them away and didn't think they were stolen.About eight people visit DiMeo's two jewelry stores each day to look at the rings, DiMeo said.
A new course management program will soon replace Blackboard.The new program, ANGEL, or A New Global Environment for Learning, is similar in appearance and will provide many of the same services as the 4.0 version of Blackboard, which MSU uses.ANGEL will replace Blackboard during the next 18 months, and the program should be installed and tested this summer and in use next fall.
It's doubtful those responsible for posting a flier containing racially and sexually offensive messages will be caught, Shaw Hall Black Caucus Vice President Corey McBride acknowledged Wednesday. Written in German and English, the flier found in Shaw Hall advertises a "night of orgasmic sex with a heathen," sponsored by the "MSU White Caucus." A mentor found the message while conducting rounds Jan.
MSU's Department of Political Science will host their 14th annual lecture series, "Biotechnology and Modern Democracy" beginning at 8 tonight in the Kellogg Center Auditorium.