On Fat Joe's fifth album, "Loyalty," Joe makes sure everything he does is big. He's livin' large, pimpin' out while in charge and representing New York City to its fullest by not crushing it.
Smokers beware - your days of smoking in your own room might be numbered. MSU is on track to be the last remaining Big Ten university to designate rooms in its residence halls by smoking preference.
Mark Twain once said, "Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it." Though spoken more than 100 years ago, this statement bears great relevance today in the age of corporate scandals, including at Enron Corp.
In an attempt to get students and faculty to discuss the conflict in Iraq, members of MSU's Executive Committee of Academic Council proposed to use members of Academic Council to host the discussion. In Tuesday's Executive Committee of Academic Council, members discussed for more than an hour and concluded at the Nov.
Amid much protest and controversy, one of MSU's fraternities has reopened with much optimism for the future.Pi Kappa Phi recently completed a five-week program to re-colonize its house on 131 Bogue St."I think things went really well as far as the type of guys we selected," Pi Kappa Phi Leadership Consultant Brandon Tudor said.
After introducing the 2003-04 majority Republican caucus, newly elected Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema proclaimed the 22-member caucus as the most diversified assembly to ever lead the Michigan Senate. The Senate group consists of six females, one Hispanic and one black, Sikkema, R-Wyoming, announced Tuesday. Senator-elect Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, will serve as assistant majority leader; Sen.
Three police officers were sworn into the East Lansing Police Department on Tuesday after completing a 15-week police academy at Lansing Community College last week. The three positions became available after one sergeant and two officers retired.
As a freshman, State News rookie reporter Kevin Hardy would run back and forth from the newsroom in order to make his deadline - literally."It was a pair of Nikes that got me to and from the city council meetings," he said.
The Lansing/East Lansing chapter of Links Inc., a black women's social organization, is sponsoring the 45th Annual Ebony Fashion Fair at 8 p.m.
MSU's student environmental group, Eco, hopes to get a $5 student tax each semester for the purchase of renewable energy.
With plenty of dark clouds looming above the Spartans, a win was just what they needed to help brighten things up around East Lansing. And winning by the score of 56-21 made it that much better. "I think our team feels much better," junior wide receiver Charles Rogers said.
In response to the letter to the editor "Moss shouldn't have been OK'd for return" (SN 11/11), I ask when do we as human beings decide to show someone mercy? If junior quarterback Jeff Smoker was kicked off the team permanently, this whole campus would have his back.
It was more than one week ago when LaRay Jones walked out to where she parked her car earlier that day and noticed something was wrong - her car was not in the spot she had parked it in.Immediately Jones thought her car was stolen because she has a faculty parking pass and gate card to park in the Wharton Center parking ramp.Instead, Jones found out her car had been towed.
Junior outside hitter Sara Villwock, who has been sidelined with a foot injury since the end of September, will be given a medical redshirt for this season. MSU head coach Chuck Erbe said he thought long and hard about the decision, making it within the last week. "She's making good progress, but for her to be back in time to really play a substantiative role for our team - she's not going to be in any position to do that," Erbe said. "She's still not cleared to go full-bore and jump and be in practice.
Casey McNenly's review of Michael Moore's latest film, "Bowling For Columbine," was much appreciated, and his glowing rating of the film does justice to this great movie and should be seen as encouragement for everyone to go see it while it is in the theater.
I want to applaud Shawn Wozniak for his honest and unexpected column about the pervasiveness of hunger in the world ("Hunger not just time between meals," SN 11/12). While socialization of food and arguments of natural selection are complex and tangled issues, there is one simple fact everyone needs to know: There is enough food to feed everyone in the world, yet an astonishing number of people go days or weeks without proper nutrition. Why? There are several reasons - consumer culture, our agricultural and political systems - but knowing all of the reasons is impossible, and you don't need to in order to do something about it.
Events • The Department of Romance and Classical Languages will show the film "Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train," also known as "Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train," as part of International Education Week at 5:30 p.m.
MSU basketball head coach Tom Izzo has only three scholarships available for his 2003-04 roster.
Quiet zones and landlord accountability might provide the clearest path to a lower city volume, East Lansing officials say.City officials presented the council with several plans Tuesday in an effort to reduce noise violations.
A student organization hopes to register 100 students to donate bone marrow for cancer patients in two bone marrow drives. Asian Pacific American Student Organization (APASO), group affiliates Hapa Asian Pacific Alliance, alpha Kappa Delta Phi and Shaw Hall racial ethnic aides held the first of two drives to register students on a bone-marrow donation list. The first drive was held Tuesday, and a second drive will be held from 11 a.m.