A series of rapes on the campus of Ohio State University has left students concerned, but MSU police say there has not been a significant increase in sexual assaults at MSU. With five rapes on the Columbus, Ohio, campus since May, some female students at Ohio State are carrying pepper spray, walking in groups and sleeping with baseball bats.
I hate my job. It seems like the ideal position, but it’s not. In a sense, I must sift through Hollywood’s garbage to find something interesting to review.
Trustee Colleen McNamara said MSU’s Board of Trustees will vote at Friday’s meeting on requesting more money from the state in appropriations for the 2003-2004 school year. The funding gap between Wayne State University, the University of Michigan and MSU is a concern that McNamara hopes can be corrected. “We are getting more and more students,” McNamara said.
Women’s basketball players and coaches were on hand Wednesday to show that last year’s late season success wasn’t a fluke.The 2002-03 team gave the media a sneak peek to show off its new squad and talk about goals for the upcoming season at Breslin Center.Head coach Joanne P.
The No. 23 MSU men’s golf team won its second tournament of the season Wednesday after the final round of the Adams Cup of Newport at the Newport National Golf Club in Newport, R.I.This was the first outright tournament victory for the men, who tied with Xavier in the Wolverine Invitational, in Ann Arbor last weekend.The Spartans came out of the Orchard Course with a final team score of 873 after the last round Wednesday, three strokes ahead of Texas A&M.
Friday Club Paradise, 224 S. Washington Square in Lansing, will host round two of Battle of the Bands.
Lansing - Downtown businesses made some noise with style in the Capitol Complex Courtyard on Wednesday. The Principle Shopping District reached out to its state employee customer-base by sponsoring a free event which included a fashion show, lunch, massages and raffles.
MSU is a place with a substantial amount of students from different cultural, ethnic, racial and national backgrounds.
Crunch time is approaching and students will soon face the yearly decision of where to live.To ease the process, ASMSU, East Lansing and the Community Relations Coalition in East Lansing cooperated in bringing the first annual Housing Fair to the Union Ballroom on Wednesday.
A backpack lies alone on the cafeteria table. Twenty seconds later, the bomb inside explodes and 10 students are killed. Kim Gordon ate twice daily at that university cafeteria in Jerusalem, where this attack occurred.
The No. 23 MSU men’s golf team won its second tournament of the season Wednesday after the final round of the Adams Cup of Newport at the Newport National Golf Club in Newport, R.I.This was the first outright tournament victory for the men, who tied with Xavier in the Wolverine Invitational, in Ann Arbor last weekend.The Spartans came out of the Orchard Course with a final team score of 873 after the last round Wednesday, three strokes ahead of Texas A&M.
Lansing - Religious leaders joined lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender rights advocates at the state Capitol on Wednesday to show support for anti-discrimination and anti-bullying legislation. As part of National Coming Out Week, church leaders addressed a group of people holding signs reading, “No one is free when others are oppressed” and “People of faith say no to discrimination.” “We cannot stand in isolation anymore,” said Michael Gibson-Faith, director of the LGBT issues program for the American Friends Service Committee.
Pedestrians and drivers alike need to pay better attention when they are traveling through the streets of campus and East Lansing.
Ann Arbor - For the fourth consecutive year, MSU didn’t bring their A-game into Cliff Keen Arena.
Counting Crows will perform at the Auditorium on Nov. 23 and presale tickets go on sale at noon today. The show time has not yet been released. The band has released four highly-acclaimed studio albums - three of which went platinum - and is renowned for its live performances. The only way to get tickets today is to go to the band’s Web site and register.
Steve Duane’s letter to the editor “TAs trying to abuse power of unions“ (SN 10/03) and the State News editorial “Talk it out” (SN 10/01) are marred by two fundamental misunderstandings to which I must speak.
ASMSU is once again left without an association director after the Academic Assembly voted against the approval of James Perra for the position Tuesday.The decision came as a surprise to Perra, who moved from Student Assembly representative to association director in late September and has been acting in the position since.The association director acts as the “internal housekeeper” within ASMSU to make sure things are running smoothly between both of the undergraduate student government assemblies.To hire a person in a new position, both assemblies must approve the hire before he or she officially takes the position.The Student Assembly approved the decision with little debate, but the Academic Assembly didn’t follow suit - the bill failed 9-5.
Local pop-punk band Hyperbole is ripping it up at The Landshark, 101 E. Grand River Ave., at midnight Friday. The five-piece band just released “Boy Meets Wonder” in September and is touring across Michigan for the next two months. Guitarist Jacob Jon Bender said fans of bands like Blink-182, New Found Glory and Saves The Day should give the band a listen.
State Sen. John “Joe” Schwarz, R-Battle Creek, and members of Citizens for a Healthy Michigan will hold a town meeting at 6:30 p.m.
The media got its first look at the 2002-03 MSU men’s basketball team Tuesday afternoon and the Spartans have high expectations for the upcoming season.The Spartans, which are coming off a 19-11 season and a first-round loss in the NCAA Tournament, are looking to bring their game back to a higher level.“We took a look at last year and the last three years to see where we need to go and how we’re going to get back to elite status,” Spartan basketball head coach Tom Izzo.“Looking back at last year, we didn’t have any expectations, we just wanted to survive.