Former Spartans football head coach Bobby Williams spoke out Wednesday for the first time since his firing.Williams told ESPN his expectations as coach included the same opportunities extended to his predecessors - former head coaches George Perles and Nick Saban - when they took over the football squad.Williams was fired after a team practice Monday.
This is in reference to comments about the MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson and claims of racism. As an African-American student at MSU, I can understand the discrimination that minorities face.
In August 1998, a Manistee woman spent four days in jail for making an anti-Hispanic slur outside of a Pepper Mill restaurant.
ASMSU can rest easy now.Tireless efforts from several members of MSU’s undergraduate student government culminated Tuesday when Proposal 4 - a proposal they had been opposing since May - failed in the general election.The proposal would redirect about $8.5 billion obtained by the state in a 1998 settlement with tobacco companies.
I have a suggestion for all of the politicians who thought it was reasonable to slap bumper stickers all over campus.
Athletics Director Ron Mason didn’t only dismiss MSU’s football coach when he fired Bobby Williams on Monday; he fired a quarter of the black head coaches in Division I-A college football. That’s because Williams was only one of four blacks among the 117 head coaches in the top tier of the game. So no one should be surprised to see questions about race arising out of the ashes of MSU’s nearly dismantled football program. MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson, who is black, was quick to come to Williams’ defense Monday, claiming the university is doing a disservice to its diversity efforts by not giving the coach the same opportunities his predecessors had to improve the football program. “Since I have been an adult, MSU has had a reputation for fairness to minorities,” Ferguson said.
What has happened to MSU’s football team is embarrassing for the athletics department, the administration and the thousands of students of the university.
Detroit - Democratic Sen. Carl Levin held onto his position Monday, defeating Republican candidate Andrew "Rocky" Raczkowski with more than 1.2 million votes, or 62 percent, with 65 percent of precincts reporting. Thirty-three-year-old Raczkowski, a Farmington Hills resident, garnered 746,007 votes, or 37 percent of the vote, with the same number of precincts reporting. Detroit resident Levin, 68, said although the win was projected by many political analysts, it was still bigger than he anticipated. "We promised my granddaughter a big party, but this is bigger than we expected," he said.
Governor: Jennifer Granholm, DMSU Board of Trustees: Still undecidedColleen McNamara, D - 26 percentJoanne Emmons, R - 24 percentDonald Nugent, R - 24 percentCal Rapson, D - 21 percentAttorney general: Still undecided with 99 percent of precincts reportingGary Peters, D -- 49 percentMike Cox, R - 49 percentSecretary of state: Terri Lynn Land, RU.S.
Voters decided Tuesday to continue the 47-year tradition of a Democratic attorney general.Gary Peters was named Michigan's new attorney general over Republican Mike Cox with 52 percent of the projected vote, Cox had 46 percent.The Oakland County 43-year-old financial adviser and state senator's campaign focused on consumer protection, working to end pollution and tracking down child abusers.At the Renaissance Center in Detroit, crowds gathered around televisions as points went up and down during the race, which was too close to call during the night.
I can’t think of anything worse than listening to Dave Matthews Band. I know I’m going to get plenty of hate mail for saying this (and might lose some friends who are die-hard fans), but DMB is one of the most - if not the most - overrated bands of the recent past. Each of its albums constantly cycle one another with the same theme.
Events • The MSU Spanish Club will show the film “Solas” as part of its semester long Romance Language Film series at 5:30 p.m.
Governor: Jennifer Granholm, DMSU Board of Trustees: Still undecidedColleen McNamara, D - 26 percentJoanne Emmons, R - 24 percentDonald Nugent, R - 24 percentCal Rapson, D - 21 percentAttorney general: Still undecided with 99 percent of precincts reportingGary Peters, D -- 49 percentMike Cox, R - 49 percentSecretary of state: Terri Lynn Land, RU.S.
Governor: Jennifer Granholm, DMSU Board of Trustees: Still undecidedColleen McNamara, D - 26 percentJoanne Emmons, R - 24 percentDonald Nugent, R - 24 percentCal Rapson, D - 21 percentAttorney general: Still undecided with 99 percent of precincts reportingGary Peters, D -- 49 percentMike Cox, R - 49 percentSecretary of state: Terri Lynn Land, RU.S.
The home stretch of the MSU Board of Trustees race went well into the night with four candidates needing every last vote. Incumbents Democrat Colleen McNamara and Republican Don Nugent seemed unable to pull away from challengers Democrat Cal Rapson and state Sen.
Ken Wachsberger's first political arrest was in 1970 as part of an MSU protest - after 32 years, a published book series and many more protests, he continues to fight for the freedom to read. Wachsberger, the editor of a book set on banned books, was surrounded by challenged paperbacks at the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road, as part of East Lansing's One Book, One Community program Monday night. "The First Amendment is America's most precious gift in the world," he said.
The fates of the two uncontested East Lansing district candidates in the Ingham County Commissioners' race were sealed before the polls closed Tuesday night - but the race for the 8th District remained up for grabs.Democrat Marc Thomas beat Republican John Klumpp in a landslide victory to claim the 8th District seat.
Former Spartans football head coach Bobby Williams spoke out Wednesday for the first time since his firing. Williams told ESPN his expectations as coach included the same opportunities extended to his predecessors - former head coaches George Perles and Nick Saban - when they took over the football squad. Williams was fired after a team practice Monday.
While lately it seems people only talk about MSU’s losses on the football field, students have the chance to collectively garner a win against the Nittany Lions. The ninth annual MSU-Penn State Blood Challenge began Monday and will run until Nov.
University officials say applying to college can now be completed from students’ bedrooms, but students say they do not want to send such a important document into cyberspace.Pamela Horne, MSU assistant to the provost for enrollment management and director of admissions, said in the fourth year of using online applications she expects about 40 percent of MSU applications to be sent online this year.“I’m gonna go out on a limb and say in five years 100 percent of applications will be online,” Horne said.But reach the 100 percent mark they must build a reputation with students like Emily Stoddard.