After reading Scott Henkel's column "Graduate union out to improve quality of life, learning for 'U'" (SN 12/4), one would think I was lucky to survive five years of graduate school without the Graduate Employees Union.
I am one of the friendly crossing guards stationed on the corner of Wilson Road and Harrison Avenue.
The MSU women's basketball team looks to conclude a hectic span of basketball with a victory.The Spartans (3-3) will play their seventh game in 14 days when they travel to Oakland to take on the Grizzlies (2-1) at 7 p.m.
I must admit that I was a bit confused by the closing portion of Dan Roosien's letter to the editor "Columnist's words were hypocritical" (SN 12/02). I was equally bothered by the intolerance displayed in the column about which he referred ("Religious majority doesn't understand atheist views," SN 11/26), and must whole-heartedly agree that sort of expression does not tend to serve its cause as the author might have intended. That being said, I was disappointed that Roosien would chose to close a commentary that scolds intolerance with a statement of intolerance.
The last time the MSU men's basketball team met Virginia, it was a washout. The game was canceled early in the second half when water on the court in Charlottesville, Va., halted play.The game was played at a minor league hockey facility and the floor was on top of a layer of ice, which caused the condensation.Tonight, the No.
There's more to MSU's greek community than wild parties and tailgating before football games.Each semester, the Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils and individual chapters of each group sponsor events around the East Lansing community to raise money for local charities."I certainly think social life is an important aspect of college and the greek community," IFC President Paul Hage said.
Lansing Twp. - Neither cold nor snow nor chill in the air can keep holiday shoppers away from Eastwood Towne Center this season - at least that's what tenants hope. When Eastwood Towne Center opened for business earlier this fall, the concept of an open-air mall was embraced by shoppers and businesses alike.
On Monday, the Supreme Court decided it will hear a case that will consider the constitutionality of sodomy laws in 13 states across the country.
I used to like Matchbox Twenty. In fact, America used to love Matchbox Twenty, with its amazingly successful debut album "Yourself Or Someone Like You." Then, singer Rob Thomas went off to conquer the world, sang "Smooth" for Santana and ruined it for everyone.
Storytellers from the Beehive Design Collective will present five-foot tall murals and a slide show on colonialism in the Americas at 7 p.m.
A faculty members in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is proposing a study aboard program in Antarctica. The proposal is to take MSU students to its seventh continent, while MSU already has 182 programs in 53 countries. John Hesse, an adjunct instructor of fisheries and wildlife, said he has been working on the proposal since March and has submitted the proposal to his college. Hesse said the proposal is to fly to the southern tip of South Africa and take a ship through the Drake Passage and dock in Antarctica. He said students will live on the ship for 12 days, while visiting research labs and studying unique wildlife. "There are an awful lot of seals and whales and unique birds that you just can't see anywhere else." For more information, see Thursday's edition of The State News.
Leaders in Michigan's gay community are hopeful a U.S. Supreme Court decision will overturn a state statute outlawing consensual sexual relations between people of the same sex. In the spring, the court plans to review the Texas case of John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner, who were arrested, jailed overnight and fined $200 after police found them having sex in Lawrence's apartment. In 1986, the court ruled 5-4 that consenting adults have no constitutional right to private homosexual sex.
Despite earning three points in the College Hockey Showcase this weekend, the Spartan hockey team (6-6-1 overall, 3-4-0 CCHA) still doesn't have a single vote in either of this week's national polls. But there's no shortage of MSU's CCHA rivals in the rankings.
Raman Agrawal describes himself as an American growing up with an Indian background."My mom made a traditional dinner every night.
Dewitt "Dewey" Henry's motivation for leaving MSU 52 years ago also was his motivation to return, finish his degree, and graduate Saturday - his wife. "I met this young woman who was madly in love with me and wouldn't leave me alone until I married her," the 73-year-old said, laughing about the reason he left MSU in 1950, just short of completing his degree. His wife, Margaret Henry, clarified the reason for him. "There wasn't money for the last semester," she said.
A surprise letter from Olin Health Center came in the mail for chemistry sophomore Adam Bone on Monday.The letter, which was sent to 2,300 people, informed Bone the meningitis vaccination he received six months ago was recalled.
The time has come for the government to get out of people's business when it comes to private and intimate relationships.
We at the Graduate Employees Union ask ourselves one question more than any other: Can MSU be a better place?
The fate of the Residence Halls Association 2003 fall budget is in the hands of the group's constituents.The $21 semester fee charged to students living in the residence halls is up for renewal in the spring semester.The organization began this semester with a budget of about $372,000.