Where does Steve Thomas get off writing such a negative letter on the women’s basketball team (“Women’s basketball is good, not great,” SN 3/25)? And why does the paper print it? This team has done one heck of a job this past season and should be proud of what they have accomplished.
After dropping its Big Ten opener, the MSU baseball team used the long ball to split a four-game series with Minnesota at Kobs Field this weekend.The Spartans (17-5 overall, 2-2 Big Ten) hit nine home runs in Saturday’s tripleheader to win two games.
I have discovered a clever new marketing tactic to rejuvenate polyester fabric in today’s clothing market. The polyester industry could release a television commercial with various people proclaiming, “My purchase of a cotton shirt sustained the vitality of the cotton industry,” followed by the final statements, “Osama bin Laden wears cotton clothing,” and “Cotton supports terror.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly members still have business to finish at their last meeting of this session Thursday - but lack of attendance might make it impossible to finish.Thirteen out of 24 members must be at the undergraduate student government assembly meeting to vote on items.
Inside his office in the new Berkowitz Basketball Complex, MSU men’s basketball associate head coach Brian Gregory sat and listened to my questions about the state of college basketball. “Can you think of any recent superstar-type players who turned down the NBA and came back for their senior year?” I asked. “Here at Michigan State you have to look at Mateen (Cleaves) and Morris Peterson, because those two guys had the opportunity to leave early,” Gregory said.
In an attempt to please everyone all the time, The State News will no longer be written by hired staff.
A proposed change in the state’s cleanup of dioxins drew fire last week from Attorney General Jennifer Granholm.The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, as part of its work to update its criteria for cleanup, proposed an increase to its standard for acceptable contamination from 90 parts per trillion to 150 parts per trillion.According to Granholm, there is no evidence to support such an increase.“Generally, scientific information suggests that we should be going for a tightening, not a loosening in standards,” said Genna Gent, spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s office.Granholm cited an analysis from the Michigan Department of Community Health that suggested a 12 parts per trillion standard.But DEQ spokeswoman Geralyn Lasher said that number wasn’t supported by any real data and was only a reaction to a U.S.
This is in response to Michael Cykowski’s letter, (“All races work hard to earn diploma,” SN 3/28). Cykowski makes two arguments against the Black Celebratory.
A set of laws designed to fight domestic violence will take effect today. These laws will allow victims’ statements made at the time of the crime to be counted as evidence in the court, will honor personal protection orders issued in other states and will create a uniform standard for reporting domestic violence.
Michigan membership in international service clubs decreased through the ’80s and ’90s but Lansing-area chapters memberships have begun to boom.The Rotary International Club has 4,167 Michigan members, compared to 4,510 in 1994.
I have to admit, I am an Indiana Hoosier Basketball fan. For my money, it doesn’t get any better when Tom Coverdale hits a triple from the top of the arc and limps, on his bum ankle, to the other end of the court to play defense.
Legal uncertainty is looming over a possible strike by MSU’s Graduate Employees Union on April 15.On Tuesday, members voted 136-1 in favor of sending ballots to more than 600 members to vote on the strike.
MSU was unfamiliar territory for Donna Hrinak.After all, she came to one of the nation’s largest college campuses from a rural Pennsylvania town.“I always thought I was pretty open-minded,” she said.
In Robert Cohen’s novel “Inspired Sleep,” he delves into the world of modern pharmaceuticals and examines both its occasional lack of ethics and the thought of placebos in medical practice.
With only three castaways remaining in this week’s Case Hall Castaways competition, the remaining students must find a way to survive one last day locked in a small hall-government office. After enduring cold nights, no showers and cross-dressing, international relations junior Melissa Mattingly, English junior Erika Wagner and political theory and constitutional democracy senior Lori Stone were voted out of the 12-by-12 room by Thursday afternoon.
As the year winds down, the air becomes warmer and the patio of The Peanut Barrel Restaurant opens again, chances are, studying may be farther from your mind than before. After all, visiting the bar, barbecuing or sleeping on a lawn chair on your porch are more fun, especially when you can daydream about the summer. “I’m studying abroad this summer and I want to just go and do that and get away from East Lansing for a while,” finance junior Alex Knott said.
A town hall meeting organized by black student leaders to discuss issues affecting their community will be held Monday. There will be a panel discussion with an open mic that includes students, faculty and staff from National Panhellenic Council, Black Student Alliance, residence hall black caucuses, the MSU police, the Office of the Provost and the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs. The purpose of the town hall meeting is for minorities to discuss issues such as minority retention, student and police relations, racism, unity, a free-standing Multicultural Center on campus and Black Celebratory, a graduation ceremony to celebrate minority students. Osie Gaines, a human biology senior and one of the event’s coordinators, said he hopes the town hall meeting educates students and allows them to express their opinions. “The purpose is for students who may not know the parameter of campus politics to become better informed,” he said.
Off to its best start in years, the MSU baseball team prepares for its opening series in Big Ten play this weekend. The Spartans (15-3) host Minnesota (8-12) in a four-game series this weekend starting with a 2 p.m.
There’s a couple of theaters in each large cineplex that most people never get to. These theaters are small, smaller even than your average old-school small-town movie cinema.
Kids shows today suck. You can’t even watch them stoned. Back in my day, once you were too old to watch “Sesame Street” or “Mister Rogers,” you just started hitting the pipe, and next thing you knew it was all good again. But “Teletubbies”? - that show isn’t even fit for a crackhead.