College hockey games have been as short as two hours this season, thanks to the NCAA’s new 15-second faceoff rule. The rule mandates that the visiting team puts its personnel on the ice no more than five seconds after a whistle.
This must be the day all those liberals and anti-gunners were waiting for: a chance to use a tragedy to revive a debate that had died down since Columbine (“Gun prints” SN 10/17). They will call for stricter gun laws, more registration, more restrictions, ballistic fingerprinting, waiting periods and all sorts of things that will make it harder for Americans to protect themselves.
War should be a bigger concern than football. The only thing that seems to concern students these days is how horrible the MSU football team is playing, but there are definitely more important concerns in the world - one being the possibility of a full fledged attack by the United States on Iraq.
Events • Accapalooza will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Auditorium’s Fairchild Theatre.
The MSU volleyball team return to Jenison, after facing some tough Big Ten competition on the road. The No.
Al Gore is expected to visit MSU on Monday to campaign - but not for himself this time. If the former vice president completes the trip, he’ll stand at gubernatorial candidate Jennifer Granholm’s side as she joins leading state Democrats in asking for the student vote.
When I was younger, my friends and I loved to play house. You all know the routine - we divided roles of “mom,” “daughter” and “husband” (if we were cool enough to have a real boy there) and acted out the glamorous lives of “grown-ups.” But we especially loved to play “college.” We would, as best friends and roommates, pretend to have fabulous makeup collections, dozens of boyfriends and social lives that included Tuesday nights wearing all black, drinking coffee and reading poetry while Fridays were reserved for driving our great cars to the coolest parties.
The color green is what many students saw as they walked through campus earlier this semester, but now shades of yellow, red and orange are making their appearance. English senior Amber Allen said she likes to look at the leaves as she heads to class. “It’s super beautiful,” she said.
Online registration for courses at Lansing Community College begins today. Students who want to sign up for spring classes can log on at www.lcc.edu/banner. The site will be active 24 hours a day, seven days a week. About 75 percent of LCC students use the Web registration site because it often expedites the sign-up process. The site allows students to quickly add and drop courses and view open and closed courses. Also beginning today, students may register for classes with the touch-tone telephone registration at (517)483-9310, available seven days a week from 6 a.m.
A 19-year-old MSU student died Sunday after being struck by a car while walking in the middle of Chandler Road before sunrise Saturday. The female student and another 19-year-old woman were walking on the road in Bath Township when a southbound car hit the pair at 5:05 a.m. East Lansing and Bath Township police responded to the call and the women were taken to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, where the MSU student died the next day.
In his pursuit to become the state’s next governor, Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus on Monday unveiled a loan plan aimed at reducing the financial burden of paying for college. The program rewards students who obtain loans through the Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority by offering zero interest after 48 months of on-time payments.
Lansing - Same-sex partners of Lansing Community College employees are now eligible for health-care benefits after a heated trustee meeting Monday. The health-care benefits were only available to married couples before five of the seven members of the LCC Board of Trustees voted in favor of changing the policy to include same-sex partners. Eligibility requirements now fall into the hands of the college’s three health-care providers, who have all submitted tentative definitions of “domestic partnerships” that include duration of the relationship and combination of assets. The meeting began with a public comment period where individuals voiced their opposing views on the policy. “I’m opposed to the institution extending benefits to partners of homosexuals,” Alaiedon Township resident Trevor Wagenmaker told the group, adding that his reasons were both moral and financial.
With puppets and henna tattoos, ethnic foods and maps of the East, a group of volunteers made efforts to educate Holmes Hall students Sunday. The Asian-African cultural night was part of an effort by the group Raising Awareness by Internationalizing Students’ Education, or RAISE, to visit the residence halls and promote awareness. RAISE is a program within the Office of Internationalizing Students, which is a part of the Department of Student Life.
I was horrified when I read the quote from football head coach Bobby Williams saying MSU’s football woes are the entire team’s fault (“Gridders losing ways continue,” Statenews.com 10/19). This only solidifies the many reasons why MSU should not wait until the end of the season to lose Williams.
A new nursing scholarship could provide the state of Michigan with $4 million that could potentially offset the shortage of nurses statewide.
So much promise with so little results. That is the story of the MSU football program. How does a team that went 10-2 three seasons ago compile records of mediocrity the past two and, now, the possibility of not even making a bowl game.
You know you’ve got something amazing when a video game captures the essence of college tradition exactly like its real life counterpart.
Students living in residence halls will no longer have an excuse to walk by empty blue bins marked plastic, paper and glass. The Residence Halls Association begins its recycling program today, available in all the residence halls on campus.
As East Lansing falls back to standard time Saturday night, city fire officials remind residents to change smoke detector batteries while setting back clocks. Fire Marshal Bob Pratt said that since most fatal fires occur at night, keeping a fully functional smoke detector is of tremendous importance. “Upwards of 80 percent of fatal fires occur between midnight and 8 (a.m.),” he said.
Fraternities, such as Delta Chi, are inexcusably trying the patience of their community by repeatedly violating noise ordinances as well as a long-standing general code. The East Lansing Housing Commission on Thursday suspended the fraternity’s rental license for 180 days beginning Jan.