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.
Some student groups and a study program are linking together happiness and sadness to send a message this month. In light of Jewish Heritage Month, Hillel Jewish Student Center and MSU’s Jewish Studies Program are sponsoring several events to spread awareness and education while honoring Holocaust survivors. “We’re crossing genres with our events,” said Shira Weinstein, programs director for Hillel.
Lansing - It only took fans two innings to soak in the sights, sounds and smells of baseball at Oldsmobile Park for the Lansing Lugnuts’ home opener. After a 42-minute, 13-run first inning, rain and sleet set in as fans bolted toward the exits and out of the 46-degree weather.
While posters, slide shows and speeches tickled the minds of scholars at Friday’s University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum, piano music and singing filled the room.Jocelyn Scofield, a vocal education senior, used a piano and her vocal cords as a medium for entertainment and research.Her presentation, “Creating Meaningful Stories Through Music,” held the attention of judges and other presenters.“It’s not quite a research project,” she said.
“India!”A single male voice rang out through the silent audience.“Will you marry me?”India.Arie stopped tuning her guitar and smiled.
A 400-foot banner wrapped around the University of Michigan’s Fleming Administration Building on Friday as students protested the labor practices of New Era Cap Co.At MSU, members of Students for Economic Justice held a “screaming at the wall” demonstration to protest what they say is an administration that doesn’t listen to their concerns.But officials at U-M say a student voice is important.“We do encourage students to voice their opinion,” U-M spokeswoman Julie Peterson said.The administrations at each school have dealt with protests in much the same way, meeting with students and addressing their concerns.Both universities also have sent letters asking the cap company, which supplies baseball caps to college and professional sports teams, to review its labor practices.In February, MSU officials wrote a letter to New Era letting the hat producer know university administrators are aware of claims of workers’ rights violations at the company’s Derby, N.Y., plant.The letter from U-M interim President B.
In a Friday report, the Michigan League for Human Services claimed Michigan’s unemployment system has not kept pace with economic change. The report, “Out of Date and Out of Reach: Michigan’s Unemployment System Needs Repair,” arrives when unemployment benefit changes are a high priority for the returning Legislature. According to the report, the state’s maximum unemployment benefit is well below other states and does not correspond with inflation.