Too often we read reports from various studies that attempt to spoon-feed us findings consisting of data and facts we all ready know - a recent report by the State Public Interest Research Group’s Higher Education Project is no exception. The report found many college students are working 25 hours or more per week.
Take advantage of a rare chance to see one of the most underrated bands out there Sunday at the Union Ballroom, when Jade Tree recording artists Girls Against Boys will perform. The New York-based band released several albums and EP’s on independent record labels such as Adult Swim and Touch and Go, before releasing “Freak*on*ica” on Geffen Records in 1998. Girls Against Boys will release its seventh full-length, “You Can’t Fight What You Can’t See” on May 14. The band also contributed a track on “A Means To An End: The Music of Joy Division,” and is featured on many movie soundtracks including “Clerks,” “Mallrats” and “subUrbia.” The band made a cameo appearance in the motion picture “200 Cigarettes” and scored most of the recent film, “Series 7.” Girls Against Boys has a sound unlike any other, mixing swaggering vocals with a thick, bass-driven rock.
After questions concerning more than $18,000 allocated to student organizations throughout the year were raised Wednesday, Residence Halls Association officials said the association will not request any money back.Low attendance at Wednesday’s meeting led to the debate of whether the association has been meeting at quorum - the legal number of members needed present to vote on issues - this year and whether the organization’s business during spring semester had been valid.John Sturk, RHA internal vice president, said that since the money is already gone it is not an issue, but constitutional interpretations of quorum are still up for debate.
Kenneth Walter Gest, a member of the only MSU swimming team to win a Big Ten Championship, died April 4 of pancreatic cancer at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. He was 65 and had been living in Traverse City since 1976. Gest was an All-America swimmer and a member of the Spartan’s 1957 squad.
Black Greek Week commences this weekend. The Black Greek Unity Party will be held at 9 p.m. Friday at IM Sports-West.
Patience has been a huge virtue for center fielder Chris McCuiston this season.In this, his senior season, McCuiston has finally settled down in the batters box and become a serious hitting machine.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly elected some of its leaders Tuesday night, but will hold a special meeting next week to decide the last one.Matt Clayson was elected as Academic Assembly chairperson for the second year in a row.
This past Sunday, I regained my faith in the taste of music enthusiasts. It was in the Union Ballroom, during the phenomenal sold-out performance of The White Stripes, when I realized people really do appreciate honest art. Meg and Jack White, of The White Stripes, played a type of rock ‘n’ roll that isn’t anything like too many of the current mainstream rock acts, if you can call Creed a modern rock act.
An effort to educate people about Native American culture lacked support Wednesday as volunteers at 10 sites on campus and other Lansing-area locations failed to attend events.The first North American Indian Women’s Spirit of National Gathering, which was organized to help end stereotypes and to teach people more about Native American culture, was plagued with low turnout at all 13 volunteer sites.But Carlos Fuentes, assistant director at MSU’s Service-Learning Center, said he understood why there was a low volunteer turnout.“I know this is a hard time to do things this time of year,” he said.
With May around the corner, many families will gather in honor of their mothers. But not all gatherings are going to be happy and peaceful, evident in a BoarsHead Theater production of “Mothers Day.” This is the North American premiere of “Mother’s Day,” and playwright Jeff Baron said he’s also produced this play in Australia, Paris and Athens.
Cultural awareness and diversity are key to improving relations between students and police officers.
This is in response to Dan Woike’s column in The State News, “Tiger: the best athlete today” (SN 4/15). First, golfers are hardly athletes.
As occasionally happens at this university, the campus is up in arms over the actions of members of a fraternity. For those of you under a rock, members of the Pi Kappa Phi chapter at MSU decided to enter Mason and Abbot Halls’ cafeterias two weeks ago wearing pink, sleeveless T-shirts with the slogans “Capt.
Gerald Boyd, managing editor of The New York Times, and Robin Stone, a former editor of Essence magazine, will give the Neal Shine Lecture on Ethics in Journalism today in the Union Gold Room. The presentation, “Do the Right Thing: Social Change and Relevant, Responsible Journalism,” is free and open to the public.
From his antics on the ABC weekly prime-time show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” it seems Wayne Brady was born for the cameras. And whether singing, dancing or just prancing around on the stage, many fans of the improv comedy show think he outshines co-stars Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles. Brady will bring his traveling comedy show, “Wayne Brady and Friends,” to Breslin Center at 8 p.m.
The water beneath your feet is receiving some attention from a bill introduced recently in the state House.The bill, introduced by Rep.
Damon Knight, a science fiction author who helped push the genre into the mainstream, died Monday. Knight, 79, had taught for 27 years at the annual Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop at MSU.
Are you one of those people who thinks stories and plots just get in the way of movies, but are tired of watching porn?
When Molly McGrath isn’t at class, she splits her time between her two jobs.The nursing junior works in the pediatric outpatient clinic at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital and behind the counter of Melting Moments Homemade Ice Creams, 313 E.