The Michigan High School Athletics Association presented three working plans Thursday to make boys’ and girls’ sports seasons equal.But none of the plans included changing the seasons for girls’ basketball or volleyball.Tom Wilson, the initiator of the Michigan Gender Equity Team, said the plans are not fair.“I don’t think it will work,” Wilson said, referring to all of the plans.
The MSU School of Music’s Opera Theatre will perform Jacques Offenbach’s comedic 1858 operetta “Orpheus In the Underworld” this weekend. Filled with raunchy humor and love scandals, the opera will show Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
Hey Mercedes will perform tonight at the Erickson Hall Kiva, sponsored by Pop! Entertainment. The band, comprised of former members of the now defunct Braid, is supporting its latest effort, “Every Night Fire Works,” on Vagrant Records. For those who dig off-beat guitar chirps and tricky bass lines backed with solid brass, check out Grand Rapids-based Mustard Plug Saturday at the Common Grounds Coffeehouse, in the basement of Akers Hall. Singing on subjects ranging from thigh-high nylons to working at a gas station convenience store after hours, Mustard Plug will provide good ska/punk tunes to dance and sing along to. The band, on popular punk rock label Hopeless Records, has released a number of albums, singles and 7-inch vinyl records. Ruth’s Hat will open the show, performing its blend of goofy and lighthearted punk rock.
The Residence Halls Association’s executive board wrapped up elections Wednesday, adding Holden Hall Rep.
A parent faces his worst nightmare in the play “Talk About the Passion,” by Graham Farrow.
Don Stevens, an MSU trustee from 1958-78, died Friday morning.Stevens, a resident of Grand Ledge, was chairperson of the Board of Trustees from 1968 to 1970.
Mason - Matthew Flint staggered backward, grabbed his chest and began violently coughing. Flint, an Ingham County Sheriff’s Office sergeant, had just been shot with a round of pepperballs from the office’s new Jayco SA200 Pepperball Launcher System. A pepperball is a small cylinder that breaks on impact, filled with oleorecin calsicum, a powder version of what is found in pepper spray.
In Tom Smucker’s letter (“Need for contract affects ‘U’ majority,” SN 3/20), he claims the Graduate Employees Union is supported by a majority of graduate students, and the participation of “hundreds of graduate employees” in union activities is evidence of a majority initiative.
Junior goaltender Ryan Miller is trying to inject his fellow Spartans with his personal postseason motto - national championship or bust. “You want to win and you have the will to win and you express that and hold it as an ideal,” Miller said.
Phyllis Englebert will be seeking support for the freedom of a Middle Eastern prisoner from 4-6 p.m.
Although David Horowitz was on campus Thursday night to discuss U.S. security, he spent the first 35 minutes of his speech discussing criticism he commonly hears about his conservative views. At the event, “How the Left Undermined American Security,” Horowitz said administrators at universities around the country employ liberal faculty and bring liberal speakers to campuses instead of conservative activists.
I couldn’t agree more with the sentiments expressed by the McDonel Hall residents who are footing a large bill due to vandalism (“U’ irked by hall damage rule,” SN 3/14). Since when does cleaning up other people’s messes constitute a moral obligation?
Although Kangol hats and shell-toe Adidas weren’t a requirement, they definitely were a thought as urban hip-hop beats oozed out of the speakers in Wonders Hall.MSU students got a taste of hip-hop culture and a chance to celebrate its origins Wednesday night.Sigma Gamma Rho Inc. sponsored Hip-hop Ecstasy Night which included break dancing, freestyle rapping and an old school dance contest.
We attended ASMSU’s town hall discussion Tuesday night. ASMSU has the gall to come to the student body and ask for a $3 tax increase, which will put its projected revenue over $1 million.
Two East Lansing police investigations involving MSU football players were foiled last semester after witnesses refused to cooperate with authorities. Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said he was unable to process the reports filed during the 2001 football season because witnesses wouldn’t discuss incidents involving players. Dunnings’ comments came a day after sophomore defensive end Clifford Dukes was arraigned in the 54-B District Court on four charges of assault and battery and two charges of aggravated assault.
After more than five years of planning, MSU officials uploaded a Web site that shows results of students’ opinions about teachers.The site, Students’ Opinion of Courses and Teaching, www.soct.msu.edu, allows students, faculty and staff members to see students’ ratings for undergraduate courses and course instructors.
The MSU women’s basketball team members left East Lansing Thursday on their way to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament semifinals, carrying luggage and dreams of making the final game with them. The Spartans (19-12) are two victories away from a WNIT title.
Lame-duck Gov. John Engler should quit trying to play the godfather by making Michigan judges offers they can’t refuse during his final months in office. The chief executive hoped to move an early retirement plan for judges through the Legislature before lawmakers broke for a two-week vacation this week.
The 2002 NCAA Wrestling Championships started Thursday and two Spartans’ title hopes are finished. Juniors John Wechter and Rashad Evans lost their first-round matches, sending them both into the consolation brackets.
Easiest “Best Bet” to write ever. Want to see some good movies this weekend? Go to the East Lansing Film Festival.