A study released last week said more blacks were in prison than in the higher education system from 1985 to 2000 in Michigan.Conducted by the Justice Policy Institute and titled “Cellblocks or Classrooms?
When tailgating at MSU, Spartans should feel like they are among family. Most of the time, that’s the way I feel.
Tom Izzo is no stranger to being ranked in the Top 20. But Wednesday, the MSU men’s basketball head coach wasn’t talking about hoops.
I’m writing in regard to the Capitol Area Transportation Authority’s new transportation center on Shaw Lane.
East Lansing families will once again adopt 40 to 60 MSU students this school year. The kick-off for the Adopt-A-Floor program, sponsored by the Community Relations Coalition and MSU’s Department of Residence Life, is from 4:30-6 p.m.
Softball ready to go Just months after closing out its 2002 campaign, the MSU softball team has begun fall practice for its 2003 season. Last season, the Spartans ended their run with a 1-0 loss to Michigan in the conference finale. The Spartans finished 24-35 overall. This season, the team returns a number of players, including junior first baseman Natalie Furrow, junior third baseman Brittney Green, senior outfielder Tiffany Wallace and senior outfielder Sandy Lewis.
There is a difference between big budget movies that deliver visually and movies that make you think how they relate to your life.
For the first time in several years, a student will take the position of co-chairperson of a standing Academic Council committee - a position usually held by MSU faculty members.The University Committee on Academic Governance, made up of MSU faculty, students and administrators, elected Kristen Daddow to fill the co-chairperson seat Tuesday.
Lansing At a warehouse converted into a rehearsal space, two actors and various directors hammer out scene after scene as opening night approaches, working quickly to perfect lines, blocking and most importantly, emotion. They are preparing to perform a play written by a New York journalist about people trying to make sense of the Sept.
Gubernatorial hopefuls accepted invitations Wednesday to debate issues leading up to the Nov. 5 election - but MSU didn’t appear to be among the initial sites selected. Democratic candidate Attorney General Jennifer Granholm accepted three invitations to face Republican candidate Lt.
A proposal that would cut millions of dollars from the Life Sciences Corridor and scholarship funds remains in the grip of state courts for another day, as voters wait to find out if they’ll decide the initiative’s fate.The Life Sciences Corridor, which is funded through money obtained in a roughly $8 billion settlement with tobacco companies, stands to lose $3 million in 2003 and $12 million in 2004 if a proposal to redirect the settlement’s funds is passed, said Matt Resch, a spokesman for Gov.
I have been reading the latest stories about undercover East Lansing police planning to be at parties - notice I said undercover, not plain-clothed.
Jam-band extraordinaire Rusted Root and the alternative metal of Tool will stop by Breslin Center next month. Tickets for Rusted Root go on sale today at 10 a.m.
Lansing - The Lugnuts (37-33 second half, 75-65 overall) moved one step closer to a semifinal berth in the Midwest League playoffs with a 5-4 win over the Michigan Battle Cats (37-33, 79-62) Tuesday at Oldsmobile Park. Left fielder Aron Weston started the scoring effort for Lansing in the bottom of the third by blasting a lead-off home run over the wall in right center that carried more than 400 feet. “I got a good pitch to hit, a 2-1 fastball,” Weston said.
By Brian Charlton The State NewsThe 10-by-2 mangled steel monument weighs 980 pounds and stands in front of the Grand River and the reflective windows of the Lansing Center.
Entering Jason Miller’s East Lansing apartment, college student nostalgia is everywhere. But instead of a poster of John Belushi hammering a bottle of whiskey, his walls are adorned with maps. Yes, maps.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jennifer Granholm unveiled a scholarship program she’ll try to implement if elected governor. Granholm, the state’s attorney general running against Lt.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly will do something the group has never done before - appoint a committee to revise its Code of Operations.The assembly passed a bill last week creating the Academic Assembly Code Revision Committee, a five-person group that will meet as often as twice a week.Adam Raezler, who introduced the bill, said recurring problems with the code’s language spawned the idea.“Over the summer, (Academic Assembly Chairperson) Matt Clayson and (Vice Chairperson of Internal Affairs) Caleb Marker and I had been communicating, and we started to notice that it’s not real clear here and it contradicts itself over here,” said Raezler, the North American Indian Student Organization and James Madison representative for ASMSU.
A year after Sept. 11, low-flying planes over Spartan Stadium, regardless of size, is still a cause for concern MSU officials say. As the one-year anniversary of Sept.
An 8-foot, 2-ton steel beam from one of New York’s fallen World Trade Center towers will serve as a permanent memorial in Jackson starting Sunday. State Sen.