Marian McPartland’s sparkling blouse wasn’t the only thing lighting up Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre on Tuesday night. Her spunky aura and friendly, witty conversation between pieces contributed to the warm and relaxing atmosphere.
The United States took a huge leap toward working for a peaceful solution between Palestinians and Israelis by endorsing the idea of a Palestinian sovereign nation.
ASMSU might as well move its offices to Florida as the undergraduate student government is at the center of the biggest election debacle since the 2000 presidential contest. Student Life officials Wednesday decided to cancel all universitywide elections concerning ASMSU after the organization made the request due to online voting glitches and a lack of communication.
The universitywide student elections for ASMSU and University Apartments’ Council of Residents are postponed until Tuesday. Computer glitches and conflicts about ballot wording led the All University Election Commission to recommend the postponement of this week’s elections and voiding the undergraduate student government representative elections and referenda.
Friday’s first round NCAA Tournament matchup with North Carolina State will be a first for several Spartans. The inexperienced freshmen trio of Alan Anderson, Chris Hill and Kelvin Torbert have raised questions about whether the youthful MSU men’s basketball team can handle the added pressures of March Madness.
Jonathan Rosenthal knows students have housing concerns.Rosenthal, the director for community affairs for ASMSU, is using his time to pass out surveys he hopes will open up communication between residents and the city of East Lansing.The program is designed to define the top three issues students face living off campus.“The new breed of student at MSU we are seeing wants to get involved,” the business administration junior said.Rosenthal distributed the surveys in two lecture classes Monday, totaling more than 450 students.The target number of students to be reached is 2,000.The survey comes as a portion of Rosenthal’s attempt, with the cooperation of the city, to open up communication with students.Earlier this month an e-mail address was introduced, but a lack of response has compelled Rosenthal to use another method.The survey is also asking for students to list their address in the city.Each student given the survey is asked to describe the quality of life issues, they would like to see the city improve.Some of the top responses on the survey have been city ordinances, the quality of housing available to students and the cost of rent, Rosenthal said.On Monday, Rosenthal will distribute the survey to another lecture class of 230 students.“The end result is going to be to have an elite university and an elite community,” he said.Deputy City Manager Jean Golden said this is an excellent way to recognize it is up to both students and landlords to solve the problems together, she said.“The landlords were very clear they see students as customers,” she said.
Junior goaltender Ryan Miller found out Tuesday he missed the cut for the 72nd annual Sullivan Award - the highest honor for an amateur athlete in the nation.Miller, who is widely regarded as the best collegiate goalie in the nation, was one of 14 semifinalists for the Amateur Athletic Union’s Sullivan Award, but he wasn’t included in the list of five finalists released this week.The five finalists are: Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan, former Southern Cal pitcher Mark Prior, world champion gymnast Sean Townsend, high school track star Alan Webb, and California swimmer Natalie Coughlin.
In high school, Erin Reichenbach felt isolated. She waited until she entered MSU in 1999 to come out.
With fewer than two months remaining in the semester, graduate employee unions throughout the state are changing their battle plans. “I think members are getting frustrated that we don’t have a contract,” said Jessica Goodkind, MSU’s Graduate Employees Union president.
When you think of paradise, you may envision a beautiful, lush place with few worries tainting the world.
MSU students appear to be smarter on paper, as university officials report an increase in the average grade-point average of the student body.The Office of the Registrar reports student GPAs have risen from 2.81 in 1994 to 2.99 in 2001.But the cause of that increase isn’t necessarily due to smarter folks on campus, as many faculty members have mixed opinions on the inflation, citing better students and more pressure on educators.Accounting Professor Jack Gray said although he hasn’t noticed much of a change in GPA in his field during the past decade, the inflation could be linked to the competition among incoming freshmen.The average GPA of MSU’s 2001-02 freshman class is 3.52, an increase from the 2000-01 freshman class average of 3.48.
Today, love obliges me to defend hate. A grandiloquent sentence to write, but humor me. On Feb.
The Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether police departments must release documents about internal investigations to the public.In 1998, the Lansing State Journal requested files concerning any complaints investigated by the Lansing Police Department Internal Affairs Bureau from 1997 under the Freedom of Information Act.
Lansing - About 2,000 union members stood at the steps of the state Capitol on Wednesday in support of unemployment benefits. A large truck painted with the word “Teamsters” circled the block honking its horn in support of the rally, organized by the Michigan State AFL-CIO.
I believe I have found a way that The State News does not need to raise its tax to $5 a semester. I work in Holden Hall, and every evening I throw away about 100 papers because students have not picked them up to read.
Lansing - Jay Leno’s jokes were falling on silent ears the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “If you don’t laugh, the terrorists have won,” Leno jokingly said to the silent audience. This story was told by David Carter, professor of criminal justice and director of the National Center for Community Policing at MSU, on Tuesday during the Homeland Security Seminar. Carter, who put the seminar together, discussed the future of community policing and the importance of maintaining a working relationship with private individuals to fight crime and terrorism. “It’s important to get this message across to the community,” he said.
Ira Flatow, a veteran science correspondent for National Public Radio, will broadcast his weekly “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” show from the new Biomedical and Physical Science Building this week. This week’s show will deal with the food industry and alternative fuel technologies in the automotive industry. “Whenever we go on the road, we try to pick up local issues,” Flatow said. Flatow is visiting MSU this week as part of the McPherson Professorship. “I’ve never had a warmer welcome anywhere else,” he said.
A Web site making use of the data collected by the Student Opinion on Resources and Teaching forms filled out at the end of the semester is expected to go online next week.
If what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, the men’s basketball team can take solace in its loss to Indiana in last weekend’s Big Ten Tournament.The Spartans (19-11) came out lethargic and couldn’t match the Hoosiers’ high intensity.
A former U.S. surgeon general is making sure students don’t destroy the most important tool they have - their brains. “Students are an extremely valuable resource and we’re going to protect them any way we can,” Dr. Joycelyn Elders said Tuesday while visiting East Lansing.