Prevention for the West Nile virus will be assessed sooner next spring than this year, according to county health officials. Michigan reported the second-highest number of human cases of West Nile virus this year, with 463 infections and 36 deaths.
The mothers of Bradley McCue and Eric Blair will be speaking at the Auditorium’s Fairchild Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Students hoping for superstardom auditioned for Spartan Idol on Monday at the Union.The event was sponsored by the University Activities Board and the Residence Halls Association.
As six men’s soccer seniors stepped off of Old College Field after a tough 2-1 loss to Wisconsin on Sunday there were no regrets. “To me it was kind of an honor to go out with everybody playing as hard as they could for the seniors,” senior goalkeeper Tyler Robinson said.
Rainy conditions and chilly temperatures could not deter about 20 devoted golfers from attending the first Happy Gilmore Golf Scramble at Forest Akers East Golf Course on Friday afternoon.The University Activities Board event was slated for two weeks ago, but because of inclement weather, it was called off and rescheduled.“I was really excited to play because I’m a big golfer,” Scott Wolfe said about the event that was canceled two weeks ago.
How can two films with plots so similar be so different? More than a month ago I had to sit through “FearDotCom” and wonder why it failed.
Lansing - Mustard Plug’s bassist Matt Van threw his bass to the ground in rage Friday night, then picked it up again to hurl it into the crowd.Well, he was going to, but Van restrained himself.
The MSU football team practiced differently, had a new quarterback under center, and preached about showing toughness, but nothing changed. In an attempt to separate itself from the Big Ten’s cellar, the Spartans (3-5 overall, 1-3 Big Ten) turned in another dismal performance in a 42-24 loss to Wisconsin at Spartan Stadium on Saturday night.
More than 300 people gathered at Wells Hall on Friday at a teach-in about the United States’ potential war in Iraq, organized by a coalition of faculty members and students protesting the war.From the start, English professor and speaker Ken Harrow said the teach-in was “not purely an educational function, but a political function as well.”Speakers later urged the audience to join Friday’s rally against war on Iraq in downtown East Lansing.Harrow, along with four other staff members and a representative from the Students for Peace and Justice, spoke during the two-hour seminar, sponsored by the Faculty, Staff, and Student Coalition Against the War in Iraq.Assistant English professor Salah Hassan said after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, most of the Middle East was split up and colonized by Great Britain and France.
State Sen. Joanne Emmons, R-Big Rapids, wants to give students refunds if they cannot understand what their professors or teaching assistants say.“I think when you’re charging $180 an hour per semester credit all semester long, that’s a long time,” the MSU Board of Trustees candidate said.
It was a different quarterback taking the snaps, but the result was the same for MSU. The Spartans (3-5 overall, 1-3 Big Ten) dropped their third consecutive game 42-24 against the Wisconsin Badgers (6-3, 1-3) in front of a national television audience Saturday night. And Saturday’s spotlight was firmly fixed upon sophomore signal caller Damon Dowdell following Thursday’s announcement that junior quarterback Jeff Smoker was indefinitely suspended for violating unspecified team rules. “I thought he came in and stepped up to the challenge,” senior strong safety Thomas Wright said of Dowdell.
Wendy Andersen held an umbrella over the head of a three-foot Harry Potter on Friday, shielding the boy and his freshly painted purple pumpkin from falling raindrops.While the downpour soaked the streets, it didn’t put a damper on the turnout of the greek community’s Safe Halloween carnival.East Lansing children dressed as monsters, princesses and superheroes searched through a pile of wet hay for candy, decorated cookies, painted pumpkins, played games and ate doughnuts at the event on M.A.C.
With this football season basically over after Saturday, it is time for alumni to step up. With the intolerable performances produced on the field getting worse, it is time MSU alumni, who give the money with which the athletics department runs, to make their voices heard to make a change of the entire coaching staff.
It is great to see The State News join a coalition of student, education, business, political and health leaders in publicly denouncing Proposal 4, a ballot proposal scheming to use the state Constitution as a device to mandate the division of public funds to unaccountable, “health-care”-related special interest groups and not to ensure the well-being and protection of the citizens of Michigan (“Smoke screen” SN 10/24). Although its editorial was informative and accurate in stressing the proposal’s lack of accountability, it did not discuss the impact the proposal would have on the MSU community.
In the race for the U.S. Senate, no one is better equipped than incumbent Carl Levin. The 68-year-old senator is the best candidate to serve Michigan and the country, hands down.
Colleen McNamara said she’s not afraid to stand up for students’ rights, especially since she has been doing it for about 30 years - dating back to her days at MSU. “I got arrested on campus when I was there,” McNamara said, speaking about a rally condemning police action toward a civil rights demonstration in Mississippi.
I was pleasantly surprised to read Carrie Hoover’s very open-minded, well-reasoned column “Separation doesn’t promote unity” (SN 10/25). She presented some valid arguments for which she will no doubt be criticized.
Congressman Mike Rogers is one the Republican Party’s “chosen,” rising quickly in the ranks of the U.S.
Grand River Avenue traffic was halted Saturday afternoon as MSU student groups and area residents took to East Lansing streets in protest of a U.S.-led preemptive strike on Iraq. Hoisting anti-war placards and chanting pro-peace slogans, the participants marched west on Grand River Avenue before turning at Michigan Avenue to march east.