Thousands of peaceful marchers aren’t nearly enough. If protesters want more than the pitiful 15-second spot they earned on CNN Headline News Saturday, they’ve got to do some damage. It’s not like anybody takes these protesters seriously now.
Both a bus stop and a pit stop. The once-familiar wait in snow and sleet for a bus will soon become outdated with the fall opening of a Capital Area Transportation Authority Transportation Center on campus, where students will be able to kill time using telephones, ATMs, bathrooms and a convenience store. The transportation center, which will open in August as part of the new Shaw Lane parking ramp, will serve as the central stop for CATA buses. The center will offer seating areas, a Sparty’s Convenience Store, an ATM and vending machines, restrooms, a community policing office and phones. Combined with improvements in the commuter lot, the project is estimated at around $3 million.
Despite a deadline of midnight Monday to complete negotiations for MSU’s Graduate Employees Union’s first contract, contract talks stopped at 10:45 p.m.
I lit up my first cigarette when I was 13 as my friends and I stood behind our middle school in torn-up jeans, Nirvana T-shirts and rebel-without-a-cause looks on our faces.
A 28-year-old DeWitt Township woman was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for the death of her husband, an MSU professor. Jonaki Ray was sentenced by Clinton County Circuit Court Judge Randy Tahvonen Monday, court officials said. A Clinton County jury found Ray guilty of voluntary manslaughter on March 1.
When Matt Kenney tore his anterior cruciate ligament playing intramural basketball during his sophomore year, he didn’t know what he could have done to prevent it. Kenney, an Olin Health Advocate, is trying to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else. He will be helping distribute pamphlets for students describing how to stay healthy while exercising.
The first floor of the Life Sciences Building will be dedicated as the Janice Thompson Granger Learning Center for nursing at 5:30 p.m.
The time is overdue for global financial leaders to heed the demands of protesters who want to see the world’s poorer countries given more grants instead of loans, which must be repaid with interest. Even the Bush administration chimed into the cause last month when it proposed $10 billion in U.S.
The political cartoonist who thought it would be hilarious to connect the Supreme Court ruling regarding child pornography with the Catholic Church (SN 4/18) needs to be given a lesson about what is funny and ironic and what is just plain offensive.
Overpowering and intimidating are frequently used when describing a strikeout pitcher.But even as senior pitcher Becky Gray continues to climb MSU’s all-time career strikeouts list, none of the usual terms apply.“I wouldn’t say I’m an overpowering pitcher,” Gray said.
There still are boxes waiting to be unpacked in a new office on the third floor of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building. Filing cabinets still labeled from moving day sit on brand-new carpet, and clean metal shelves beg to hold books. And in the middle of it all, physiology Professor Bruce Uhal studies diagrams, researching lung disease. His profession is a patient one. “There are a lot of days when a lot of stuff doesn’t work,” Uhal said.
Lansing - The newest Democratic candidate in the secretary of state race announced his intentions to run Friday. State Board of Education member John Austin announced his intention to run for secretary of state - for the second time.
East Lansing city officials will debate a possible raise in parking fees tonight.The extra 10 cents per half-hour would pay for the entire parking system budget for the 2002-03 year.City officials say daytime parking numbers have fallen in the city while parking has remained stagnant in the evenings.Another factor are the debts new parking facilities have left the city.The Charles Street Garage totaled $12.5million in construction costs.
The city of Lansing is looking to MSU landscape architecture students for input for its 2025 Master Plan. MSU’s Landscape Architecture Program will feature student visions of Lansing at noon today in International Center Spartan Rooms B and C. The exhibit was planned by Sissi Foster, assistant professor of geography and volunteer on the Lansing Planning Board.
This is in response to Steve Thomas’ letter to the editor, “Woods nothing close to being best athlete” (SN 4/18). Tiger Woods may not be the strongest, fastest or biggest out there, but he still is one of the greatest athletes.
In Mitchell Wagner’s letter “Blatant anti-Semitic message displayed” (SN 4/18), the comment is made, “no matter what the situation, a swastika is highly offensive, distasteful and in no way represents anything peaceful.” This is incorrect.
As the clock struck midnight Monday, MSU’s Graduate Employees Union still was without a contract. Union and university officials did not report a settlement before the deadline. On April 10, both sides signed an agreement that midnight would be the target date for the competition of negotiations - to no avail. Union and university negotiators have been negotiating since 3 p.m.
I was disappointed to read the article “MTV campus tour makes stop to rock ‘U’” (SN 4/17). The show was great in terms of entertainment.
As some students walked heads-down to class Monday, Betty Wernette-Babian was dropping a small glass bottle down the side of the Farm Lane bridge.The MSU sanitarian pulled the yellow line up, complete with a new sample of yellowish Red Cedar River water.“It’s got a muddy appearance but that’s natural for this river,” she said.Wernette-Babian takes samples weekly in three places on the MSU campus - Farm Lane, Hagadorn Road and Kalamazoo Street - which are then sent to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for E.