As someone who is soon graduating from college, I look back fondly on my time here. On losing my virginity (no, it wasn’t last week), on getting drunk a lot in the dorms, or that time my friends and I horribly beat a hobo and hid his body in a Dumpster. Well, maybe not the last one.
The MSU basketball team received its first verbal commitment in a top 25 recruit for its 2003 recruiting class.Detroit DePorres junior point guard Brandon Cotton, widely considered a top prospect, told Spartan head coach Tom Izzo Monday that the two-year starter plans to don the green and white.Cotton said Izzo was the deciding factor in choosing MSU.“Coach Izzo wins a lot and produces good players,” Cotton said Monday night.
In response to Craig Sopo’s letter, “City government not college-oriented” (SN 4/5), I agree with him on Mayor Pro Tem Sam Singh’s comments regarding the city’s priorities with students.
“Equus,” performed last weekend at Riverwalk Theatre, brings intensity to the stage.
This inquisition must be stopped. Police and Ingham County prosecutors hope dragging five MSU students through criminal court will help teach other students about the dangers of excessive drinking.
Heavy rain and strong winds didn’t stop Jewish students Monday night from promoting peace and honoring those who have perished in the violence in the Middle East.Gathering at the rock on Farm Lane Monday, students from MSU’s Hillel Jewish Student Organization celebrated Jewish Heritage Month at the “Standing Together for Israel” event.
Ann Arbor - Amidst the watchful eyes of police officers, visitors to the 31st annual Hash Bash still managed to hit the hookah. The line to smoke the flavored tobacco from the pipe was just one of the attractions of the pro-marijuana event, which was kicked off with a rally on the Diag of the University of Michigan’s campus. Cheers of “Marijuana, marijuana, hey, hey, hey, get high,” were sung over and over again as signs proclaiming “Hemp: It’s food, not drugs” and “Legalize freedom” were held up by protesters on the Diag. “I think it went real well and I think it was a good crowd,” said Hash Bash organizer Adam Brook.
Heather Hill wants to be a veterinarian when she grows up. The 11-year-old owns two cats, Blacky and Jimmy, and wants to own a horse someday, too. “I love animals and I’m having a lot of fun today,” the Alma resident said while visiting MSU College of Veterinary Medicine’s Vet-a-visit open house Saturday.
MSU has plans to add rail underpasses to make traffic on Farm Lane safer and faster. Two underpasses would be built between Mount Hope and Trowbridge roads on Farm Lane. University officials predict construction on the project, which could cost as much as $25 million, will not begin until at least 2005. The project is expected to help curb accidents in the area and ease traffic flow.
The men’s track and field team came away with 15 top-five finishes at Notre Dame’s Spring Opener on Saturday. In the field events, sophomore Steve Manz led MSU with first-place finishes in shot put (56 feet, 3 1/4 inches) and discuss throw (157 feet, 6 inches). He also placed third in hammer throw (162 feet, 8 inches). Senior Paul Terek finished with a second-place finish in javelin throw (187 feet, 9 inches). Terek also placed fifth in shot put and long jump. Sophomore Kevin Yokom won the 5,000-meter run with a time of 14 minutes, 38.04 seconds. The women’s track and field team also produced top-five finishes at Notre Dame.
This is a response to Chad Stimson’s letter to the editor “Day off needed to honor Jesus’ life” (SN 4/3). You say you fully understand the separation of church and state, then you say Jesus was a good man who dedicated his life spreading the Word of God. What definition of separation of church and state do you fully understand?
A perfect game at any level is historic. A perfect game at MSU was unheard of - until Saturday. Senior pitcher Becky Gray and sophomore pitcher Jessica Beech combined to throw the first perfect game in MSU history, a 2-0 no-hitter - with no walks - over Indiana Purdue-Fort Wayne in the first of two games at IPFW Softball Field.
Members of local church clergies may not like what I am about to tell you. But I don’t care. So, here it goes. You don’t have to go to church to have God in your life. Don’t act shocked.
Lansing - The Lansing Lugnuts got off to the right kind of start in their home opener Sunday, using a lot of offense early on to bury the West Michigan Whitecaps 12-3 in front of 7,013 at Oldsmobile Park.It’s just the second win for the Lugnuts in home openers in their seven-year history.
It’s 3:30 p.m. on a Wednesday when music therapy junior Jill Hemmila sits anxiously for her scheduled appointment with her patient, Justin Lyman, in the School of Music’s music therapy clinic. Hemmila reminisces about when she began working with him in early February. “I was a complete wreck,” she says with a sigh.
As the ASMSU 2002-03 session begins today, the undergraduate student government is working with a thin budget and a promise to spend $50,000 on a ropes challenge course.Last week, ASMSU’s 2001-02 Student Assembly passed the 2002-03 budget with a vote of 13-3 with four abstentions.
Just before Satrang 2002 began, Amit Agarwal was backstage at Wharton Center’s Great Hall, tying loose ends. Indian women dressed in traditional attire stared attentively at the stage, seconds before they went on.
India.Arie’s performance Saturday proved to be a family reunion and a reflection of her emergence from timid girl to self-assured “queen.” As the audience took to their seats, her family swarmed backstage and greeted each other with hugs, kisses and screams of “I haven’t seen you in years.” About 100 of the seven-time Grammy-nominated artist’s relatives attended the event, to be serenaded at the beginning with “Intro” as well as “Brown Skin” and her hit single “Video” from her platinum album, “Acoustic Soul.” India also added an impromptu duet with her mother Joyce Simpson, honoring her grandmother Ernestine McMullen, a Lansing resident. “My mom told (my grandmother) to come up there and I was like, ‘Come on,’” India told The State News. But that moment was something special for her family. “The fact that I sung to my mom, (India) sung to her mom - it’s like the stars aligned,” Joyce Simpson said.
Some student protests this week will be more affectionate than others. MSU’s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community will end Pride Week with a march and kiss-in. Tamar Jourian, a general management senior and member of the Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgender and Straight Ally Students, said she thinks the week’s events promote unity for all students. The week’s candlelight vigil was cancelled Sunday. “I see it as bringing together all people of all sexual orientations and gender identities to celebrate and have pride,” she said. Jourian said different colleges celebrate the week with various events during the spring or summer. “With these events, we have tried to have serious educational material with ally training and the vigil, but at the same time have fun events with the drag show.” Brody Residents in Great Harmony Together, or BRIGHT, is sponsoring the march and kiss-in. “The kiss-in is meant to be a peaceful demonstration,” said Jacob Hoffman, a general management senior and BRIGHT president.
With many officials making plans to run for different government posts when their terms are up, it seems the real motive behind using term limits has been put to the wayside.