MSU needs to follow the University of Michigan’s lead with its graduate contract settlement. Without holding an all-out strike, U-M administrators and the Graduate Employees Organization were able to come to an agreement.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tina Rosenberg stirred MSU faculty, students and community members at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre on Monday night by addressing AIDS in the Third World. Rosenberg, a foreign policy editorial writer at The New York Times, lectured on “Reporting on an AIDS Revolution: A Story of Hope for the Third World’s AIDS Crisis” to an audience of roughly 100. “If you are a 15-year-old boy or girl in South Africa, your chance of dying from AIDS is better than even,” she said.
Sunlight peeks through the curved glass roof of the four-story atrium at the new Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building as workers move in boxes and files, preparing for the facility’s April 12 grand opening.“It has been a huge team cooperation from a wide array of people at MSU,” said Bill Spielman, chairman of the Department of Physiology.
The teaching assistant in my Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities course was not ashamed. “We expected we would have three TAs for this course,” she told a cross-section of about 100 students.
A few new faces have shown up at last to help out the Residence Halls Association’s movies program, which has been unable to pay its 33 employees. Members of the association’s executive board and general assembly volunteered to sell tickets and concessions to movie mavens at Wells Hall over the weekend.
ASMSU adopted a 22-page set of financial bylaws last week, updating the three-page document created in 1992.The new bylaws alleviate some procedural problems, but do not specify money distribution guidelines.With $12,500 remaining for the undergraduate student government for spring semester, finance committee Chairperson Andy Schepers said the old financial bylaws needed to be revamped because they were too vague and didn’t give the organization enough direction about how money should be spent.
I congratulate the men’s basketball team for a memorable season. Even a disappointing loss to North Carolina State should not overshadow all this team has accomplished.
The MSU women’s basketball team has never made it to the semifinals of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. But a win tonight against Alabama (19-11) would send the Spartans (18-12) to the final four of the WNIT. Freshman guard Kristin Haynie said the chance to play for the tournament title would be exciting, adding playing the Crimson Tide at Breslin Center should help the Spartans achieve that goal. “It’s very exciting to play for any championship; it doesn’t matter if it’s the NIT, the Big Ten or the NCAA,” Haynie said.
Opening night ticket prices are $15 general admission and $8 for students with ID. Festival Films are $5 general admission and $3 for students with ID.
An early morning fire Monday caused nearly $500,000 damage to an East Lansing home. East Lansing firefighters responded to a call at 3:51 a.m.
With the threat of anthrax gripping the nation, Lyman Briggs School will be presenting a speaker from BioPort Corp. BioPort is the only Food and Drug Administration-licensed manufacturer of the anthrax vaccine, company spokeswoman Kim Brennen Root said. Root will be speaking at 7:30 p.m.
East Lansing City Council will meet tonight to vote on updating the city’s traffic code. The city adopted the Michigan Vehicle Code, and any changes made in the state Legislature have to be made locally, Deputy City Manger Jean Golden said.
A few new faces showed up last weekend to help out the Residence Halls Association’s movies program.No longer able to pay movie program employees, members of RHA’s executive board and general assembly volunteered to sell tickets and concessions to movie mavens at Wells Hall on Saturday.
Hickory Corners - On a March morning, a small, green all-terrain vehicle moved over a field that usually is home to crops. Remnants of last year’s wheat are still visible, but the only green perceivable lay between dead shoots. The vehicle’s driver stopped at a square cooler dug into the ground and with a soft pop, Yuliya Golod pulled the top off a flask hidden in the box. For the previous 24 hours the flask had been hooked up to a lysimeter - a device that pulls up water from about a meter under the plot and moves it for storage in the flask. She placed the flask in a cardboard box along with flasks from other plots on the site. “Very little’s coming out,” she said. Later in the day, Golod and her fellow field technicians would filter the water inside the flask and determine the concentration of nitrate, ammonia and other compounds - the first such analysis of the year. She’ll collect flasks again in April.
I recently discovered that the Cartoon Network shows Looney Tunes almost nonstop Saturday mornings.
Tina Rosenberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and foreign policy editorial writer for The New York Times, will speak at 7:30 p.m.
The wording of ASMSU’s $3 tax increase referendum question was changed on the universitywide ballot.
Detroit - After Sunday’s 3-2 CCHA Tournament championship game loss to Michigan, an irritated MSU head coach Ron Mason said he didn’t want to talk about the NCAA Tournament. “We don’t know who we’re playing, and we don’t know where we’re going to be,” Mason said. Well, now the Spartans know both.
Senior Carly Weiden qualified for the NCAA Championships in the three-meter dive during the NCAA Diving Regionals, Zone C, in West Lafayette, Ind. Weiden qualified on the second day of competition with a fifth-place finish. She will make the trip to the 2002 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas, Thursday through Saturday, to compete in the 1- and 3-meter boards. Junior Stephanie Anisko and freshman Kelly Baldwin also competed during the weekend, but did not qualify.
As John Lennon chewed his gum and sipped on purified water Thursday night at Harper’s Downtown, 131 Albert Ave., he had trouble figuring out why more people weren’t there to see his band perform.“We’ve got some people outside trying to get people in here, but apparently it isn’t working,” he said to George Harrison, who was surprised he was performing at a place that looked like a disco club.“We’ve played at disco clubs before, with the big disco ball and everything,” he said.