MIDDAY UPDATE: SN, graduate council to host Board of Trustees debate

Four MSU Board of Trustees candidates will hash it out at 6 p.m. Oct. 30 in 145 Communication Arts and Sciences Building, one week before the election.The 90-minute debate will sponsored by the Council of Graduate Students and The State News .Students who want to attend the debate can contact the graduate council or The State News for tickets, or watch it live on campus cable channel 4.

MIDDAY UPDATE: U professors lowest paid in Big Ten

MSU’s professors received the smallest average paycheck in the Big Ten for the 2001-2002 fiscal year, but officials say with this year’s increases MSU should move into the middle of the pack. A 5 percent increase each of the last three years, and a 33 percent increase since 1994, leaves MSU’s average professor salary at $89,700, which is $8,000 behind the median Big Ten salary, according to the American Association of University Professors. On average at MSU, assistant professors earn $53,900 and instructors earn $35,600, both the lowest in the Big Ten.

Education goes beyond books, class; teach your kids

A short while ago, I sat shocked and horrified as I watched news coverage of the aftermath of a youth football game somewhere in the wilds of California.

U halls might charge for Ethernet access

The Internet has long been thought of as a superhighway where information runs free, but university officials might start charging dorm dwellers for access to its Ethernet. David Gist, MSU’s vice provost for libraries, computing and technology, said MSU might follow the lead of other Big Ten schools and charge students in the residence halls a fee for Ethernet access under the room and board rates for the 2003-04 school year. “The cost of Internet connectivity more than doubled this past school year,” he said.

Feminist outlook full of real choices

I agree with Matt Treadwell that abortion debaters are looking at the wrong problem and need to dig deeper to uncover the root causes of abortion and deal with the issue at that deeper level (“Abortion debaters looking at wrong problem, need to dig deeper” SN 10/11). I believe one of the more basic issues involved is that women have been taught that abortion is the way to freedom and equality for women. There is another way to look at it - a true feminist perspective. I long for a world in which the amazing ability of women to bear children is celebrated and not despised; a world where men take equal responsibility for the children they help to create; a world where children are loved and treated as individuals of immeasurable value and a world where women have real choices, including things like affordable childcare as they study and work.

Find a respectable coach, fire Williams

Football head coach Bobby Williams is a disgrace to Spartan football. We, as Spartan fans, should consider a boycott of football games until he is replaced.

Field hockey team brings U victories

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U deserves better leader than Williams

A note to the MSU community: You deserve better, period. After yet another debacle on the field Saturday, the last straw has been drawn.

First-ever Homecoming Jam succeeds with local bands

The back of the University Activities Board T-shirts worn by employees said it best: “What does Pushing 33 + Bliss 66 + 19 Wheels equal?

Laws influence could hinge on panels recommendation

The Battle of the Sexes has fought in the Title IX ring before - this time it’s determined to end in a truce. For 30 years, Title IX has been the police officer ensuring, among other issues, that men and women compete in athletics as equals at schools and universities that receive public funds. Now the interpretation of the law is up for debate, and MSU students and administrators are waiting to find out what it means for the future of Spartan athletics.

Lansing City Council to address local finance authority

Tonight’s Lansing City Council meeting will address a resolution from the Ingham County Board of Commissioners to adopt the Lansing Regional SmartZone Plan, zoning issues and park development strategies. The board sent a resolution to the council to consider the creation of a local finance authority called the Lansing Regional SmartZone.

Plagued by the flag

For the second straight week, the MSU football team had a successful start, but sputtered the rest of the game.

Team goes unscathed

The women’s soccer team came out of the gate slowly, but the Spartans scored three goals in the second half to post a 4-0 victory over Detroit (4-7-4) on Sunday. “The biggest concern we had was that with this game being played in the middle of the Big Ten season, we didn’t come out flat,” MSU head coach Tom Saxton said.

MIDDAY UPDATE: Ethernet fee proposed for dorms

An MSU official is saying the university is considering charging for Ethernet services in the residence halls for the 2003-04 school year.“The cost of Internet connectivity more than doubled this past year,” said David Gist, vice provost for Libraries Computing and Technology.

Boredom with society, psychological problems highlighted in Hedda Gabler

Lansing - A beautiful, strong-willed woman is stifled by society and suffocates in domestic boredom.

Police briefs 10/21/02

ASMSU forms program to combat citys noise problem

MSU’s undergraduate student government hopes to solve the noise problem in East Lansing.ASMSU passed a bill at its weekly meeting Thursday, creating a program to address the pressing issues and possible solutions to the high-decibel noise attributed to MSU students in East Lansing.The program will outline and develop a set of guidelines for students living off campus.

Troubled waters

In December 1999, about 50 football players gathered at Cowles House to plead the case for their running backs coach to lead the team.

Fraternity faces possible eviction

Another MSU fraternity has been hit with the possibility of ceasing operation due to noise violations. Members of The Delta Chi Fraternity, 101 Woodmere Ave., will be evicted from their house if the East Lansing Housing Commission upholds a suspension of the fraternity’s rental license. The commission suspended the license for 180 days beginning Jan.

Students rally for Posthumus

It was a cool 23 degrees outside when Northern Michigan University students Ben Weimert and Mark Slykhouse began the 390-mile trek to East Lansing on Sunday morning.“We left at 5 a.m.,” Weimert said.