With the Nov. 5 general election fast approaching, East Lansing and campus student leaders are working to bring the gubernatorial candidates to separate public debates. Although neither debate has been confirmed, the AARP and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, have spoken the campaigns of Democratic Attorney General Jennifer Granholm and GOPLt.
In 2001, the men’s soccer team earned its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1969, and this year’s team looks just as promising. With the addition of four new recruits and return of its top four scorers, the Spartan kickers look to improve last season’s 13-6-1 record, the best numbers the men have collected since the 1986 season when the squad went 13-7-1. Greg and Steve Doster of New Lenox, Ill., are members of the Chicago Magic Soccer Club and head coach Joe Baum says both are able to play multiple positions - Greg Doster plays in the backfield and his brother Steve plays in the midfield and on defense. “Greg is a very athletic, hard-nosed defender,” Baum said in a statement.
In 2001, the men’s soccer team earned its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1969, and this year’s team looks just as promising. With the addition of four new recruits and return of its top four scorers, the Spartan kickers look to improve last season’s 13-6-1 record, the best numbers the men have collected since the 1986 season when the squad went 13-7-1. Greg and Steve Doster of New Lenox, Ill., are members of the Chicago Magic Soccer Club and head coach Joe Baum says both are able to play multiple positions - Greg Doster plays in the backfield and his brother Steve plays in the midfield and on defense. “Greg is a very athletic, hard-nosed defender,” Baum said in a statement.
Many students hoping to stay fit might opt to take up jogging this semester.But local police want to remind students to be safe.“First, I would suggest that they don’t jog at night,” MSU police Sgt.
Ceramics experts have given Sparty an ominous diagnosis - he only has eight years to live if his lifestyle doesn’t change soon. But help is on the way for MSU’s terra-cotta icon, believed to be the world’s tallest free-standing ceramic statue.
MSU could attract more than proteins and molecules if all goes as planned.Spartan leaders hope to make campus home to one of the largest magnetic spectrometers in the United States.“We also hope it will attract faculty,” said Shelagh Ferguson-Miller, co-director of the Center for Structural Biology.The machine, a 900-megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance instrument, is set to be paid for by the Life Sciences Corridor.Corridor officials approved the program’s budget for the this year, including $4.5 million for the instrument, in June.The Life Sciences Corridor is a grant program initiated in 1999 to spend more that $1 billion on biochemistry projects during a span of 20 years.The program links the research efforts of Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University and is funded by part of the state’s tobacco settlement money.The new magnetic instrument will join a team of eight others.
Big Boy will soon find out if it passes its Business 101 course when it opens up shop at 101 E.
Solar panels and saving money are on MSU’s horizon.On July 1, 2003, the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education will have about 70 solar panels placed on its roof to save $1,300 in MSU’s energy cost while helping the environment.The $100,000 grant for the solar panels was issued by the Department of Consumer and Industry Services to provide campus with an alternative energy source.
Summer is nearing its end, fall classes are beginning and thousands of new students will soon learn the joy of navigating campus with their AOP maps while languishing in the 90-degree heat. After almost four months of releasing my ever-accumulating rage, frustration, emotion and occasional coherence to a group of relaxed, subdued summer-school students, the time is approaching when The State News will resume circulation to the full student body, allowing me to advance my personal agenda through the media once again. For all of the new students arriving at MSU this fall, I would like to use this opportunity to offer advice. First, although this has been incessantly repeated at every step of your college preparation, I would like to emphasize the importance of learning to study and of not getting drunk every night. While I do not explicitly condone underage drinking (despite the glaring inconsistency of our drinking laws when compared with our voting age or the age for military service), many of you may choose to scoff at the drinking laws and consume alcohol this year. Please do not be stupid about it.
MSU officials say lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender students are attracted to MSU because of its welcoming atmosphere, but the university is not part of a growing trend of schools actively recruiting LBGT students.Some universities are increasingly approaching admittance of LBGT students in a way similar to recruitment programs aimed at racial and ethnic minorities.“In the Northeast it’s becoming more common,” said Jibril Salaam, associate director of admissions for diversity and inclusion at the University of New Hampshire.
A short time ago (and now almost forgotten) in a suburb of Chicago two children were murdered by a handy man who had worked in their home for 10 years.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream, especially in the summer.While July was National Ice Cream Month and July 21 was National Ice Cream Day, local residents are still coming in droves to ice cream parlors to indulge in the tempting treats.“I love ice cream,” Okemos resident Nelu Azadnia said earlier this summer.
Thursday • The Lansing Lugnuts play Kane County at 6:05 p.m. at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
The home computer market has long been a two-sided coin, with consumers being divided into two groups - the proud PC camp, and the fiercely loyal Apple camp.
If you’re one of the google of students who plan to be in a confined space with many sweaty, loud students - pay attention.
Okemos - The 3.5-foot-thick slab of reinforced concrete will ensure that materials being tested by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering won’t budge - even when they’re hit with simulated earthquakes, fires, explosions and pressures in the new Civil Infrastructure Laboratory.
From the outside, MSU’s greek community might look to be in trouble. Since fall 2001, two sororities closed their doors, a fraternity was shut down by its national organization after a hazing incident, and the percentage of greeks with a grade-point average below 2.0 increased. But greek officials say looks can be deceiving. “I won’t say it’s thriving,” Interfraternity Council President Paul Hage said.
When Larry Goulette lived in Shaw Hall in 1973, the world was a different place. The Vietnam War was close to ending, the Watergate scandal was on the rise and the art of streaking was much more popular than it is today.“I remember we went through that cafeteria without the benefit of clothing,” said Goulette, an MSU alumnus who now lives in Allen Park.
Hip-hop lover Jamil Buie stood on Toronto’s club-lined Younge Street one Sunday afternoon in early August, soaking in the music and the culture that he loves. “There’s people here from all over the planet,” the 1999 MSU graduate described over the telephone.
So, you’re in college. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to learn, expand your mind and go out into the world afterward a better person.