Aspiring singer-songwriter Jason Mraz is performing at 7 p.m. in the Union Ballroom on Wednesday. The 25-year-old Virginian spent the past two years of his life in the sunny streets of San Diego playing regular gigs at coffeehouses until the day he was signed to Elektra Records.
Paul Troutman hunched over his U.S. history book Tuesday afternoon, quietly reading to himself.
Another weekend of Spartan volleyball brought another split, but this time it earned the team a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Spartans will face George Mason in the first round of the tournament in South Bend, Ind. MSU (19-11 overall, 11-9 Big Ten) picked up a thrilling five-game win over Northwestern (17-15, 10-10) on Friday night in a match that seesawed back and forth from the first serve to the final kill.
Employees who perform unsatisfactorily are rarely given a bonus after being booted out the door. But the MSU athletics department is developing a troubling habit of rewarding those it no longer wants to have around. On Wednesday, officials announced MSU will pay former football head coach Bobby Williams $550,000 to end his contract.
Aaron Scheidies is probably the only world champion preparing for finals this week at MSU. A month ago, the kinesiology junior flew to Cancun, Mexico, to compete in the athletes with disabilities category of the International Triathlon Union World Championship.
As the holiday season draws near, many shoppers fill local shops, carelessly racking up charges on their credit cards.
After back-to-back weeks of riding home on a deathly silent bus, the MSU hockey players were finally cheery enough to chatter as they returned from a road series this weekend, freshman left wing David Booth said. For a struggling team, getting three points in the College Hockey Showcase spawns such liveliness. On the ice, the Spartans let their play do the talking - tying 5-5 at Minnesota on Friday and winning 2-1 in overtime at Wisconsin on Saturday.
You've finally arrived, clad in togas, laurel wreaths, Simpson- and Disney-character costumes. Welcome, Izzoners.
The MSU cheerleading team is in dire need of funds to be able to make a trip to the College Cheerleading National Championships in Orlando, Fla. Each of the past three years, MSU has improved its ranking five places, and last year, the Spartans earned 12th-place recognition - the highest of any nonscholarship team. But this season, the $6,100 needed for the entry fee, room and board, might be a little much to expect from the squad. "With 20 hours of practice a week and games to attend, it makes it extremely difficult to fund raise," four-year member Bryan Robinson said.
When political theory sophomore John Sturk slams his gavel, he commands the attention of 40 representatives of the Residence Halls Association. As internal vice president of RHA, one of Sturk's responsibilities is to make sure the General Assembly abides by parliamentary procedure - called Robert's Rules of Order."I happen to find parliamentary procedures personally fascinating," Sturk said.
Ciara Barclay scrawled messages of hope, remembrance and celebration on three white tags at Meridian Mall in November to honor her family and friends touched by cancer. Barclay, a human biology senior and volunteer for the American Cancer Society's Love Lights a Tree Program, was three years old when her mother won a battle against cancer.
Mike Nowak wanted a brighter smile.After viewing several commercials for Crest Whitestrips, a two-week method to whiten teeth, the accounting sophomore decided to give the strips a try."I tried them because teeth can never be white enough for me," he said.
The African Studies Center will be presenting a brown-bag luncheon titled "Elephantiasis: An Ancient Medical Scourge, Under Attack" at noon Thursday in 201 International Center. The luncheon will be conducted by Charles Mackenzie, a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation. Tara May
What starts as a thematic adaptation of Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," ends as an updated version of "Dead Poets Society" and "Stand and Deliver" wrapped into one. Whatever its intent, Michael Hoffman's "The Emperor's Club" turns out to be one of those feel-good stories meant to make the viewer reflect upon his or her life. As a teacher of Roman history, William Hundert (Kevin Kline) is responsible for molding the lives of his students as well as teaching them random facts and dates.
The student segment of Academic Council was astoundingly united Tuesday in its effort to sway the assembly to not discuss the possibility of warfare in Iraq.
An array of multihued faces adorned a fifth-grade classroom at Pinecrest Elementary School like paint on an artist's pallet, as students flipped pages in their history book, "The First Americans." Against the vivid backdrop, student teacher David Adams read aloud portions of the book, while his skin blended with the various student ethnicities in a way that is rare among teachers in classrooms. Nationally, minority teachers represent 14 percent of the teaching population in America, while minority students compose 36 percent of classrooms according to the , according to the National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse's Web site, www.recruitingteachers.org. Adams, an African-American student in his fifth year in MSU's education program, feels comfortable teaching at Pinecrest, 1811 Pinecrest Drive, in East Lansing despite the few minorities among the teaching staff.
I believe it is appropriate to comment on the story regarding the action in Academic Council relating to a discussion on a possible war in Iraq ("Academic Council axes talk on warfare," SN 11/27). I would like to point out that I never received an e-mail from Professor Richard Peterson, making me wonder if he truly considers the student representatives on the council real members of the assembly. As for his assertion that "the close of today's meeting of Academic Council was a shameful moment in the history of MSU," I cannot disagree more. The action taken by the council, while being morally repugnant to some people, was in keeping with the two of the greatest gifts that we have as Americans - democracy and free speech. A majority of the council representatives believed that the body should not discuss the matter, therefore we did not.
As the ethnic makeup of America broadens, the diversity of teachers narrows. Minority teachers represent only 10 percent of the teaching population in America, while minority students compose 40 percent.
Despite being heavy favorites, No. 10 MSU failed to capture the Great Alaska Shootout championship.The Spartans (2-2) were the only ranked team in Anchorage, Alaska, during the holiday weekend, but the Green and White finished 1-2.MSU opened the tournament strong, defeating Montana, 80-60.
MSU will pay Bobby Williams $550,000 to end his contract with the university, officials announced Wednesday.The buyout deal is more than twice what the university had to pay under the terms of its 5-year rolling contract with Williams, which was in its third year.