The Graduate Employees Union and MSU reached an agreement Friday afternoon on the group’s first contract. Under terms of the three-year deal, teaching assistants will receive a 3.5 percent stipend increase for this year’s work, a 2 percent increase for the 2002-03 and 2003-04 school years, and a 3 percent increase for 2004-05.
Coming off a strong showing in Ohio last weekend, the women’s golf team starts its run at back-to-back Big Ten titles today in Urbana, Ill.For the first time in 19 years, the Spartans are the defending conference champions heading into the league championships.
Lansing - By simulating House and Senate sessions, high school students voiced their opinions about issues facing Michigan legislators in the 53rd annual Michigan Youth in Government Conference. Twice each spring, more than 700 students from 130 high schools around the state converge on the state Capitol in this YMCA-sponsored program.
After a postponement last week, the internal vice chairperson position on ASMSU’s Academic Assembly was filled Tuesday.
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.
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.
The MSU men’s golf team’s home schedule is wholly contained in this weekend. Yep.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In response to the letter “Column promotes immorality, denial” ( SN 4/25), what is Josh Siegel denying?
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.
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.
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.