MSU’s Women’s Resource Center is encouraging women to get a mammogram with October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The center plans to kick off events with a presentation from 12:10-12:50 p.m.
The men’s soccer team will play its only home game for the month of October today, and the team plans to make it count.Loyola travels to Old College Field 4 p.m.
Alcohol use among MSU students has decreased, but East Lansing City Council still acted with the issue in mind Tuesday, turning down one request and narrowly passing another from businesses that cater to students. The council narrowly voted to approve a new East Lansing apartment complex amid concerns from area residents about noise, but turned down a request to increase capacity at a downtown bar. The votes came after a presentation by Jasmine Greenamyer, health education coordinator at Olin Health Center, who told the council 25 percent of MSU students did not drink alcohol in the past month, as compared to 20 percent in 2000.
The MSU field hockey team extended its winning streak to a record 10 games last weekend, defeating two nationally-ranked teams in the process.The Spartans are now 10-1 for the season and 1-0 in Big Ten play.Freshman goalkeeper Christina Kirkaldy was dubbed the Big Ten Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week, after allowing only one goal in two games during the weekend.
It is disappointing to read State News editorials, such as “Talk it out” (SN 10/1), that insist the Graduate Employees Union “might discover a job promotion should be at the employer’s discretion.” The editorial weakly backs up its assertion by presenting professors getting tenure as being equivalent to graduate employees being promoted to a level-three pay tier. Professors are unorganized workers and do not have a contract that stipulates when they should receive tenure.
MSU Assistant history Professor Roger Rosentreter learned Monday about a grant that will help to place resources on Michigan’s history online, and he’s already supportive of the idea.“A lot of information is in small library districts and the people outside that area don’t know about it,” said Rosentreter, who teaches a class about Michigan history and would consider informing his students about such a Web site.
Events • Into the Streets presents its annual community service event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
I am writing in response to the letter to the editor, “Students should set date to boycott city” (SN 10/01). In regard to the past few letters that have called for a boycott of East Lansing’s businesses, students are making the wrong choice.
Lansing - Virg Bernero, D-Lansing, and Paul DeWeese, R-Williamston, have some things in common. But on Nov.
The final day to register to vote in the Nov. 5 elections is Monday.Voter registration requires voters to be a U.S.
An Ingham County judge sentenced Dennis Salerno to life in prison without parole for the murder of his wife, MSU graduate student Michelle Salerno, in 2000.Dennis Salerno spoke for about 10 minutes, and Michelle’s family members spoke for about 20 minutes before Circuit Court Judge Peter Houk issued the sentence.
When you were young, you had your mouth washed out with soap for saying it. As you approached those pubescent years, you felt so cool when it blurted from your mouth - even if you really didn’t understand what it meant or why it was so bad. It can be used to describe something un-frickin’-believably good, but can also be used as a demeaning, vile insult. You were taught never to use it because it was a naughty or dirty word.
After the appropriate and exotic overtones of Beck’s last record, “Midnite Vultures,” he returns with “Sea Change,” what many critics believe to be his best effort. Gone are the strobe lights and whacked-out disco beats that plastered his last disc, and thankfully he’s returned to the inspirational songwriting that surrounded 1998’s “Mutations.” Instead of ranting about “Sexx Laws” and “lobotomy beats,” we see the calm, collected side of Beck, as most of the songs have minimal percussion and emphasize his diverse musical talents. But most noticeably, the lyrics and overall mood display a sad and helpless man. There are many answers flying around the media trying to explain why this record is so much more melancholy compared to “Midnite Vultures” or even “Odelay,” but the real answer is simple: Beck is a striving musician who won’t settle for anything less than making a completely different record each time he walks into the studio. I find it difficult to immediately label this as Beck’s greatest collection, as some publications have boldly proclaimed. But I will go as far as to agree that this record is at the forefront for this year’s “Album of the Year.” The seas have changed yet again for Beck, and for that, we thank him.
Austin, Texas’ Western Keys makes the kind of music that fluctuates from sweet and simple melodies to twisted and torn tunes that are ridiculously catchy and entertaining indie rock. Ben Dickey’s voice is addictive in its imperfection as it breaks and jumps around the songs, never sticking to routine.
Motorists who wish to travel on South Harrison Avenue must find alternate routes for the next two weeks.South Harrison Avenue, between Trowbridge Road and Mount Hope Road, are closed to repair the railroad crossings of Canadian National Railroad and CSX Railroad.Traffic will be detoured around the construction area through Mount Hope Road, Farm Lane, Wilson and Trowbridge roads.
Joking in half-Spanish, half-English, Juan Rodriguez-Martinez and his friends walked from the Fowlerville High School bus toward their temporary home at Buurma Farms where their parents work the fields. Juan’s family migrates more than 1,600 miles from Weslaco, Texas, to work the fields in Stockbridge, about 35 miles southeast of East Lansing, for the summer months, leaving behind friends and family every year. “It’s better there,” Juan said.
The men’s golf team took home third place honors at the Northern Intercollegiate last weekend at the Indiana University Golf Course in Bloomington, Ind.
MSU’s fire station will be open for another year, but employees and government officials fear keeping a station on campus could become an annual battle. While many firefighters are relieved the state restored funding for the Shaw Lane station, East Lansing fire Chief Randy Talifarro said the issue will resurface again next year. “We’re grateful the funding was restored, but I hope in the future it won’t be used in political debates about other issues because it’s an essential service that is funded by this money and it’s important to keep that separate,” he said.
The second annual Human-Animal Bond Initiative Conference will bring experts from around the world to MSU.