Despite not making the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ top 10 list of colleges that provide acceptable means for vegetarians and vegans, University Housing and MSU’s cafeterias are doing a good job working to provide meatless options for students. PETA surveyed nearly 4,000 self-described typical vegetarian students nationwide and followed up with analysis from 45 college food service departments.
I consider myself to be something of an expert on death. In my short time on Earth, I have been to about 13 funerals. So most of my life, I have been faced with all the questions that come with death. Well, at least I thought I had. I scratched my cornea during spring break.
Members of the Residence Halls Association are packing their bags for this weekend’s Michigan Organization of Residence Halls Association’s conference at Grand Valley State University.
We are writing to express our concern about the placement of an advertisement for Playboy magazine in Thursday’s issue of The State News.
An event that began with free admission at the Auditorium years ago has evolved into an annual attraction for more than 2,000 people. The Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students will be hosting its annual Satrang show, which features pyrotechnics, skits, dances, music and a fashion show this weekend. Satrang represents the seven colors of the rainbow uniting the states of India.
Ernestine McMullen remembers when her daughter, Joyce Simpson, called her in 2000 to tell her some great news - that Simpson’s daughter, India.Arie, found an agent to help her distribute her music after a performance at the Lillith Fair in Nashville, Tenn. That agent was Reen Malli, a talent scout for Universal Music Group.
Commitment frightens so many, and a production performed by the Lansing Civic Players, called “Company” by Stephen Sondheim, raises the issue of settling down. Director Tom Klunzinger said it’s a musical comedy that was first presented in 1970. “It’s musical comedy about married couples and relationships in New York,” Klunzinger said.
East Lansing city officials want to save the city school district’s floundering budget by resurrecting a rental buyback program. The program would allow the city to buy rental homes, rehabilitate them and then market the property to young families. Many of those properties come from areas predominately occupied by students.
The MSU baseball team’s game against Indiana Purdue-Fort Wayne was canceled Wednesday.Weather was the cause of cancellation, but no rain fell on Wednesday to affect the 3 p.m.
After three hours of play and numerous squandered opportunities, the MSU softball game was decided by one errant pitch.Scheduled for seven innings, the Spartans found themselves in a 10th-inning pitchers’ duel.
State Sen. Alma Wheeler Smith officially joined U.S. Rep. David Bonior in his gubernatorial campaign. Wheeler Smith, D-Salem Township, announced her decision to drop out of the running for the Aug.
Thank you Amy Bartner. Your column about the cafeteria’s meals being subpar is right on the money (“Cafe Passover meals not on par with mom’s kosher home cooking,” SN 4/3). While I am not Jewish, I suffered through 40 days of Lent as a Catholic attempting to choke down the meals the cafeteria served.
Your editorial “Unwarranted” (SN 3/29) says, “To have the option to strike is understandable.
The Illinois men’s basketball program and its fans knew it would happen sooner or later. Illini guard Frank Williams would leave early for the NBA - it was just a matter of when.
The music industry is full of artists that make the grade. But only a choice few stand out with their songwriting quality.
ASMSU Student Assembly representatives will make a decision whether to pay $50,000 for a ropes challenge course for universitywide use at today’s last 2001-02 meeting.The undergraduate student government is looking at reapproving the project, which the 2000-01 Student Assembly approved last February.Because the course will not be built by June 1, a fresh decision must be made to collaboratively pay for the course with MSU’s intramural department.Jack Teasdale, a representative from last year’s Student Assembly, proposed the project because he was a member of Team Building Systems, a now-disbanded student group.“I wanted to find a way to help students accomplish their goals, and a ropes course would do that,” said the interdisciplinary studies and social science senior.A lack of money kept it from being built.
The race for two seats on the MSU Board of Trustees got underway today.State Sen. Joanne Emmons, a Big Rapids Republican and 1956 MSU graduate, announced her intentions of earning one of the seats in the November election.She said her experiences at the university shaped her into the senator she is today, and she wants to give back to the MSU community.Conventions will be held later this year, with Democrats and Republicans each picking two candidates to face off in the general election.“I’ve always been a fan of the Spartans,” Emmons said.
In a three-state study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, officials found some sexually transmitted diseases were not being reported as required by state law.Up to 36 percent of gonorrhea cases and up to 22 percent of chlamydia cases were not reported.The study was conducted in Colorado, Minnesota and Massachusetts, examining gonorrhea and chlamydia cases from 1995 to 1999.