The city of East Lansing is attempting to take a small slice of holiday stress away this season, offering free downtown parking from Dec.
Olin Health Center has sent a letter to 2,300 people informing them the meningitis vaccine they received has been recalled. Aventis Pasteur is the only company in the country to produce a meningitis vaccine which protects against strains A, C, Y and W-135.
Just more than two weeks ago, I traveled to Indiana University to visit my brother and to watch the MSU vs.
The Coalition for Social Responsibility will present a bill to ASMSU's Academic Assembly on Tuesday and to the Student Assembly on Thursday. If both assemblies of MSU's undergraduate student government vote to support the bill, the university might have to rethink its current investment policy. It is university investments in companies like Playboy Enterprises Inc. and Exxon Mobil Corp.
After a two-week recess, state lawmakers prepare for a return to work in search of a lame-duck cure for the state's budget crisis. And much needs to be done before the term's end on Dec.
In keeping with the family-oriented spirit of the holidays, the Riverwalk Theatre, 228 Museum Drive in Lansing, chose a popular children's fairy tale to start the holiday season. Stan Gill's adaptation of the classic "Little Red Riding Hood" is the eighth Gill production that Riverwalk has presented in the past 13 years. "He always includes things that adults find funny," director Bill Helder said.
MSU's health advocates will spend next semester focused on women's health issues.The advocates - students working with Olin Health Center's Community Action Team - are working on four new programs to launch in January.The programs will be on date rape, body image, pelvic examinations and emergency contraception.Health advocates for the team have been working this semester to present their programs as part of MSU's Women's Healthy Sexuality Month, said Beth Weaver, mentor for the Community Action Team."Our mission is to speak as a student representative on health and safety issues," Weaver said.The health advocacy program has been a part of the university since 1986, but the Community Action Team wasn't established until 1996, she said.In past years the group has focused on variety of issues, including athletics and the responsibilities of bar employees, Weaver said.The students work to develop their own projects and help each other carry out the programs.
The new members of the recently recolonized Pi Kappa Phi have a long road ahead if they hope to regain full Interfraternity Council benefits and privileges.When the fraternity was suspended last spring, they lost their charter and all of the rights that go along with being a member of the council.
Lansing resident Jennifer Parks wiped away a tear as she talked about living with AIDS. She said her daughter was surrounded at school by classmates who taunted and berated her for having a mother with the illness.
Adam and Lindsey Malson won't be joining the civilian world once they graduate this spring.Instead the married couple, members of MSU's Army ROTC program, will continue their training and serve for the United States Army.ROTC, which stands for Reserve Officers' Training Corps, is offered at MSU as an elective.
Seriously, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go. I couldn't help but notice as I walked up and down the aisles of Meijer late Saturday night that the holiday decorations had been up for a few weeks already - countless images of Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus.
Maybe Alaska was the wrong place to heat up the MSU men's basketball season. The No. 9 Spartans (2-2) sparked the Great Alaska Shootout tournament with a 80-60 Thanksgiving Day defeat of Montana, but fell in subsequent games to unranked opponents Villanova, 81-73, and Oklahoma State, 64-61. Following Saturday's early exit from Anchorage, Ala., at the hands of the Cowboys, basketball head coach Tom Izzo labeled the weekend as an exercise in poor play from MSU guards and lagging defense. "We don't have very good guard play right now," Izzo said, "and we're not very good defensively.
By producing the energetic, unabashedly honest and often hilarious "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change," BoarsHead Theater, 425 S.
The MSU's women's basketball team's offense stalled toward the end of Saturday's match, resulting in a 59-56 loss to tournament-host Memphis in the championship game of the Lady Tiger Thanksgiving Classic. The Spartans broke the game open four minutes into the contest by going on a 19-3 run to take a 25-11 lead.
Wednesday's article about the University of Virginia Halloween party incident left me very confused ("'U' reacts to costume party incident involving Virginia fraternities," SN 11/27). The story had half a dozen quotes from MSU leaders that said essentially the same thing - this was a horrible event and these types of things should not be tolerated. What exactly are "these types of things"? Nowhere does anyone explain why they are upset about it, and I think the reporter should have made a point to ask that question. I still don't know why two white guys dressing up as the Williams sisters for a Halloween party offended so many people.
While MSU continues searching for its next football coach this week, former head coach Bobby Williams will be waiting for a big check to arrive.
The Department of Political Science will offer a new class beginning in the spring semester. Political Science 950, Research Seminar in Comparative Politics, will now focus on the interaction of religion and politics in Muslim states, including Egypt and Nigeria. Mohammed Ayoob, a university distinguished professor of international relations in James Madison College, will teach the course.
I'm writing in response to the article "Academic Council axes talk on warfare" (SN 11/27). My inclination is to be surprised at the apoliticalism and moral complacency of those students who voted against discussing the possibility of war in Iraq.
I was floored by John Bice's column "Religious majority doesn't understand atheist views" (SN 11/26). I found his arguments to be intolerant and ignorant of opposing views. Bice complained of a "surprising level of hostility toward secularism," but only offers an even more hostile attitude toward theists. He chose to highlight only negative acts committed in the name of religion, leaving the benevolent actions of religious figures like Mother Theresa, Ghandi and organizations, such as the Salvation Army, out of his equation.