Interim head coach Morris Watts has 42 years of coaching experience - not one of them as a head coach, though. He’ll get three games as the Spartans’ football season winds down.
In response to Terence Pitre’s letter to the editor “Williams’ dismissal had racial overtone” (SN 11/7), I would first like to say that I don’t see a separate set of rules existing for Bobby Williams’ firing. This doesn’t make me ignorant or racist.
Freshman guard Maurice Ager suffered a stress fracture in his right foot Wednesday night and will be out for four to six weeks. Ager won’t be needing surgery, but will wear a boot for the next couple of weeks. “I’m getting tired of stress fractures,” MSU head coach Tom Izzo said.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson’s visit to Emmons Hall was supposed to address student concerns Thursday night, but the event focused on the status of minorities on campus.
Despite receiving negative feedback for comments made about minorities, Case Hall government stood behind its Residence Halls Association representative at Wednesday’s meeting.Adam Raezler recently came under fire from some of his colleagues for comments published in a the group’s newsletter, RHA Today.The comment, paraphrased by LaToya Logan, director of racial ethnic and progressive affairs, read, “Adam Raezler brought it to my attention that he represents the majority of the people in his hall, whom are white, male, heterosexuals, which excludes so-called minorities.”Raezler denies making the comments, and stated in an e-mailed letter sent to a variety of student government bodies that the comment should have read, “The role of the representatives is to represent what the majority of people from your organization deem necessary and proper for and from RHA.”The remarks in question occurred Oct.
Speaking from a black woman’s perspective, I feel the column Carrie Hoover wrote was bogus and unjust (“Separation doesn’t promote unity”SN 10/25). Black people have been fighting for years to gain the same respect as whites, and we still haven’t gotten it.
More than 200 people gathered to voice conflicting viewpoints on two issues to the Black Student Alliance on Thursday night - the firing of former MSU head football coach Bobby Williams and coverage of racial issues in The State News. In the end, the alliance concluded it would gather and disseminate the ideas discussed and create a plan of action.
Former Spartan star Marcus Taylor was cut from the Columbus Riverdragons of the National Basketball Developmental League on Wednesday.
Friends and family of Clare McCormick will gather Saturday for a candlelight vigil to remember her life. McCormick, a 19-year-old elementary education and child development sophomore from Alpena, was hit by a car on Chandler Road on the morning of Oct.
The premiere of “8 Mile,” the story of Jimmy Smith Jr.’s (Eminem) escape from a dead-end life in Detroit, attempts to deliver a performance Michigan natives Jeff Daniels (Chelsea), Michael Moore (Flint) and - to a lesser extent - Steven Seagal (Lansing) have attempted in the past. Mo Nasor, manager of Celebration Cinema, 200 E.
Although Republican Mike Cox declared himself the winner in the attorney general race, Democrats say it’s too early for Gary Peters to throw in the towel.Cox, a Wayne County prosecutor, announced Wednesday afternoon that his nearly 5,000-vote lead was reason enough for state Sen.
Let’s exclude for a moment the arguments about Bobby Williams’ performance and examine Athletics Director Ron Mason’s statements from around a month ago.
Even though I really can’t stand Nate Allen’s cartoons - which obviously are pro-Democratic and pick on a president who is, in my opinion, doing the best damn job he can - I must say that when I opened Tuesday’s paper, I had a smile on my face accompanied by a childish giggle.
In her first act as governor-elect, Jennifer Granholm appointed former state legislator and Okemos resident Lynn Jondahl as director of her gubernatorial transition team Thursday at a Capitol news conference.Jondahl, the former co-director of MSU’s Michigan Political Leadership Program, will head a department that assists Granholm and Lieutenant Governor-elect John Cherry in tabbing 20 individuals to head Granholm’s administrational cabinet.“Lynn is committed to the five values we have articulated in this campaign,” Granholm said.
Friday • The Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St. in Lansing, presents guitarist Laurence Gruber at 8 p.m.
As a Hispanic MSU alumna, I have never felt I was treated unfair because I am a minority. It really upsets me that MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson would lash out at Athletics Director Ron Mason and basically call him a racist. Ferguson discusses the importance of diversity, but when he speaks of this, he only discusses one minority group. I have never heard him stand up for Hispanics, who are a larger minority than African Americans. It’s sad that this has to turn into a race issue.
The No. 5 MSU field hockey team boarded the bus to Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday with visions of nothing less than a Big Ten Championship. “One more time, that’s what we tell (the players) every game,” head coach Michele Madison said.
When it comes to weight rooms, size is an issue for first-year MSU head coach Rick Comley. That’s why his hockey team has been commuting to the Duffy Daugherty Football Building for lifting sessions every Monday and Wednesday this year.
The Mount Hope United Methodist Church women present their annual Cookie Walk with crafts and collectibles from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
First, I would like to say what a shame it is that Spartans jump off the band wagon as soon as it starts falling apart. A few years ago when Bobby Williams was named football head coach, his players stood behind him and worked hard to prove all of the naysayers wrong. Williams was put under a lot of pressure to change something in a blink of an eye when it normally takes weeks or months to turn teams around. Williams is not responsible for the personal lives of the athletes.