COMMENTARY
Unprofessional
After a postponement last week, the internal vice chairperson position on ASMSU’s Academic Assembly was filled Tuesday.
SPORTS
Track team splits for competition
Members of the women’s track and field team will compete in Philadelphia this weekend, while others will compete in Hillsdale. Five Spartans are headed to Philadelphia for the Penn Relay Carnival, which started Thursday and finishes Saturday. Sophomores Jamie Krzyminski and Michelle Carson lead the group in Philadelphia.
FEATURES
Films are easy study escapes
OK, you’ve got one week left, and it’s full of tests. Or you’re a senior, with nothing to do but kill time.
SPORTS
U to host only tournament
The MSU men’s golf team’s home schedule is wholly contained in this weekend. Yep.
MICHIGAN
City briefs
Summer flea market looking for vendors The East Lansing Spring Flea Market is open from noon to 4 p.m., Sunday on the corner of Albert Avenue and Charles Street, east of the Marriott East Lansing University Place, 300 M.A.C.
COMMENTARY
Please support union in fight for benefits
I hope students will not be mislead by Provost Lou Anna Simon’s e-mail regarding the Graduate Employees Union walkout and possible strike (“U braces for GEU strike,” SN 4/25). We are concerned about the effect a strike during finals will have on undergraduates, but we have been forced into this position by the delaying tactics of the administration.
FEATURES
These tunes will make study hours bearable
I consider myself an appreciator of “real” music. None of that crap with synchronized dancing and lyrics that makes me want to eat sewage and swallow shards of glass at the same time. Instead, what makes me happy are bands that make a true effort, complete with playing their own instruments and creating songs that hold some true meaning. And now that it’s officially time to sit and stare at months and months of notes taken while you were half-asleep and try to make sense of them, it’s more important than ever to choose your study music wisely. First of all, many people have issues listening to music with lyrics, because they start getting into it and read the same page over and over again.
COMMENTARY
Unanswered
The passing of a new policy bill within the Residence Halls Association allowing the removal of executive board members in cases of gross negligence will not prove effective in dealing with the shortcomings of the organization.RHA has already had a history of irresponsibility, and although attempting to fix those problems is commendable, more effort is needed.
MSU
U awaits commencement speaker announcement
Konrad Kulacki doesn’t mind that the speaker for MSU’s May 3 Student Convocation has not yet been announced - he’s not going. “If, in fact, it is Dick Cheney, campus is going to be crazy,” the environmental management senior said.
FEATURES
Harmonica Buzz is worth the trip
Catch a rising folk artist tonight at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 855 Grove St., as part of the Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse concert series. Okemos-based Harmonica Buzz will perform, with special guests John Price and Jill Messing as part of a benefit for Ten Pound Fiddle. Harmonica Buzz will be promoting its new disc, “Long Way to Memphis,” which pays tribute to DeFord Bailey, an early black country star who played the Grand Ole Opry from 1925 to 1941. Jeff Sunden developed the idea for the album, which features contributions from a plethora of local artists.
SPORTS
After record start to season, Lugs beginning to slide
In the midst of a 12-game road trip, the Lansing Lugnuts have had a wild ride thus far. Lansing (9-10) is 0-2 to start the trip, with two games remaining with the Michigan Battle Cats, four games with the Dayton Dragons and four with the West Michigan Whitecaps. The optimism that was created with a franchise-best 5-2 start is now gone. In the first game of the road trip, the Lugnuts pitched well enough to win, but the bats never showed up.
BASEBALL
Diminutive Braun excels on diamond
Opposing catchers may joke about his size when he steps up to the plate, but the jokes stop once he swings the bat.Despite his 5-foot-9, 155-pound frame, Spartan second baseman Charlie Braun has become a dynamic player, helping MSU (27-9 overall, 9-6 Big Ten) stay among the Big Ten’s elite.“He’s being the player that is a thorn in the other team’s side,” Spartan hitting coach Cory Mee said.
NEWS
Fraternity director conducts hearing
A Pi Kappa Phi national headquarters official held his first closed-door hearing Thursday to discuss its members’ violation of anti-discrimination and anti-hazing policies. The fraternity, scrutinized for what many believe to be anti-gay actions, won’t know its sanctions until next Thursday at the earliest. “Pi Kappa Phi has taken no final action at this point at a greater fraternity level,” said Stephen Whitby, assistant executive director of the national chapter based in North Carolina. Whitby has been working with the fraternity on the case since Pi Kappa Phi pledges wore pink, sleeveless T-shirts to the Mason and Abbot halls cafeterias on April 1 and April 2 that had phrases such as “I like little boys,” “Capt.
COMMENTARY
Morals shouldnt be forced upon people
In response to the letter “Column promotes immorality, denial” ( SN 4/25), what is Josh Siegel denying?
MSU
Early packing, recycling, donating help stop stress
Although Leslie Madden only is finishing up her first year away from home, she knows how to move. The physiology freshman moved her belongings home last weekend so she wouldn’t have to think about it during finals week. “I kind of wish we had a week after finals to relax and move out our stuff,” Madden said.
COMMENTARY
Cartoon didnt make political statement
I found Matt Treadwell’s justification of Nate Allen’s cartoon (“SN need not apologize for unfunny, controversial illustration; cartoon fit to print,” SN 4/24) amazingly more amusing than the cartoon itself.
MICHIGAN
Bill could keep prescriptions private, pharmacists quiet
When Matthew Bridges received his prescription from a pharmacist, he felt self-conscious. He said he wishes the pharmacist would have handed him the prescription confidentially instead of calling it aloud.“I think this is a problem that needs to be looked at,” the computer science junior said.
FEATURES
Book details U heritage
Robert Bao, author of “The Michigan State University Experience,” will have a book signing noon Saturday at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 333 E.
COMMENTARY
Graduate strike is unfair to students
I’m writing to encourage the undergraduate population not to support the Graduate Employees Union strike.
MSU
After 52 years, alumnus, mentor to retire
When 77-year-old Tom Dutch dropped in at the Evans Scholars house Wednesday, not one resident walked by without saying hello.There was a level of respect for the man who helped bring housing to the former golf caddies that isn’t easily matched anywhere else on campus.It was Dutch’s birthday and one of last times he will visit the house in an official capacity, but he will be missed. He has been a fixture in the house, not only as a mentor and adviser, and every now and then, at the parties the residents hold.More than five decades ago, Dutch, the Housing and Food Services personnel administrator, finished his master’s degree in student personnel at MSU and started his career in the universities placement office.