England’s one-hit wonder Chumbawamba has returned with another album. Those of you who don’t remember the annoyingly overplayed and infectious 1997 anthem “Tubthumping,” off the groups 9th album “Tubthumper,” obviously didn’t own a radio or television. With the lyrics “I get knocked down/But I get up again/You’re never going to keep me down” - it’s a shame the band didn’t stay down.
Nationally renowned evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould died Monday of cancer in his home in New York City. Gould was the first speaker brought to campus as part of the McPherson Professorship in September 2000.
“Commencement” is a combination of smoothly blended music and carefully written lyrics that metaphorically look into the depth of this group’s creativity. After five years of waiting on the music industry’s talent roster, Deadsy’s debut album kicks off with a lot of energy.
How quickly we forget the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Remember the fear, the astonishment, the utter hopelessness that we all felt watching passenger-laden aircraft decimate the World Trade Center, murdering thousands of men and women whose only crime was to rise with their alarm clocks and journey to another day of work? Now imagine if we had to experience this feeling again, not in another isolated, dramatic episode of terror, but every single day, not knowing which of our friends or family would next find themselves under the murderous ax of militant extremists.
The MSU women’s golf team will make its third consecutive appearance in the NCAA Championship on Tuesday at Washington. MSU will be one of 24 teams to battle at the Washington National Golf Club for 72 holes over a four-day span in Auburn. The Spartans made the national tournament with an eighth-place finish in the NCAA Central Regional at Forest Acres West Golf Course in East Lansing. Last year, the Spartans finished in 12th-place at nationals, which was the highest finish in MSU history. MSU will look to improve upon that performance behind the clubs of seniors Emily Bastel and Stacy Snider.
Harper’s Restaurant & Brewpub was the hot spot Saturday night with the reggae tunes of RSBImages filling the air.The night was hyped from the beginning.
The MSU men’s golf team saved the best for last at the NCAA East Regional, but it still was not enough to advance to the NCAA Championship.The Spartans shot a 301 in the final round of the three-day tournament in Roswell, Ga., on Saturday to finish with a score of 914 overall.
It’s a good thing it didn’t rain Friday. “I go nice and slow when it rains,” Jeannie Striedl said.
Individuals from around the college and professional sports world will meet at MSU on Tuesday to discuss minority issues. The seminar is specifically focusing on minorities lack of representation in higher positions, such as head coaching positions. The topics for discussion will include enforcement of affirmative action laws and methods to get more minorities into the athletic program through the graduate assistant ranks. MSU’s football head coach Bobby Williams is one of only four minorities to hold the head coaching position for a NCAA Division I-A football team.
With a four-game sweep of Penn State, the MSU baseball team solidified the No. 3 seed in the Big Ten Tournament. “We played well.
While I support the concept of affirmative action, I disagree with the recent editorial supporting a federal court of appeal’s decision to uphold current affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan (“Positive Action,” SN 5/15). The goal of affirmative action is to assist disadvantaged groups in selection procedures in order to further equality.
Not even the freezing weather could stop the swarm of people from flowing into downtown East Lansing for the 39th annual East Lansing Art Festival.
Former Lansing Councilmember Lou Adado is being sued for $3.5 million for sexual harassment. Heather Eman, a Lansing City Council receptionist, filed suit against Adado on Wednesday. The lawsuit, which also names the city and the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association, where Adado is chief executive officer, seeks damages for lost earnings, loss of career opportunities and emotional distress. Council Vice President Carol Wood said Eman first stopped working in February, using her sick days and vacation time.
The Red Cedar River ran green Friday as an MSU environmental group continued its study to understand pollution flow in the campus watershed.MSU-WATER, MSU-Watershed Action Through Education and Research, a watershed management initiative comprised of faculty, staff and students from 15 departments across campus, dyed a segment of the Red Cedar green.The research group was conducting a test to monitor how contamination moves through the river.Tom Voice, a civil and environmental engineering professor, said the project hopes to build a mathematical model of the river to find behavior patterns.“As long as you understand the physics of the river, you can predict how a given pollutant will behave when it enters the river,” Voice said.
I’d like to correct columnist Jacquelyne Froeber’s column, “New reality shows another sign of TV wasteland” (SN 5/16). In her column, Froeber said that, like most reality shows, the ratings of “Survivor” were down, when in actuality the ratings for “Survivor: Marquesas” are up quite a bit from the last season.
Warning: The following review may seem negative. It may appear mixed. It may even seem to bash George Lucas and/or the giant money-making machine he nicknamed “Star Wars.” However, you must understand, it was not my intention to do so.
Karen Pawloski said she never dreamed enrolling at MSU would bring her to Cuba.“I wanted to go on a study abroad,” the packaging senior said.
A local group out for their monthly run used a mixture of flour and chalk to mark their route resulting in a quarantine for what police thought was an anthrax scare. Historically, anthrax in powder form has been sent through the U.S.
East Lansing city officials are right to take a closer look at transportation concerns along East Grand River Avenue.
After more than a decade of absence, former MSU President John A. Hannah will soon be seen on campus again. Plans are underway for a bronze statue of the university’s 12th president, a welcome addition to the place so heavily marked by Hannah.