MSU students will pay an additional dollar for The State News beginning in the fall. When the votes from last week’s election were tallied, 501 students voted in favor of the increase, 418 opposed it and six students abstained from voting during the 2002 student tax referendum. The increase upped the tax from $4 to $5 per semester and is the first increase in 13 years.
I am compelled to respond to Margaret Durfy’s letter concerning the actions of the Funding Board (“ASMSU spends ‘U’ dollars unwisely,” SN 3/15). The letter contains unsubstantiated and completely false allegations.
With a click, Tatyana Fisher switched from her long-distance phone call to the caller on the other line. When she realized the caller was the same credit card company that had been pestering her all week, she became furious. “They would give me the same information each time,” the political science junior said.
The East Lansing Transportation Commission approved a short-term plan to improve the safety East Grand River Avenue. The improvements, which include pocket parks, wider sidewalks, pedestrian lighting, will go before the East Lansing City Council for approval at an undetermined date. The commission also approved a revised long-term plan to go before the city’s planning commission.
The same issues the cities of Lansing and East Lansing are addressing while improving their sewer systems will be the focus of state legislators this week. The House Commerce Committee meets today to discuss sewer upgrading options. “We’ve been hearing all sorts of testimony,” said Jamie Callahan, legislative director for Rep.
The Spartans jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, defeating Alabama 79-61 to advance to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament semifinals.The quarterfinal win was the first in the history of MSU women’s basketball.In the rout, eight of the nine Spartans who saw action scored.
Voter turnout across this campus is getting more pathetic each time students are asked to go to the polls.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lansing - Nov. 3, 2001, will go down as the day MSU remarkably pulled out a last second 26-24 victory over Michigan. But it was also a special day for one man in attendance. Robert Kennedy, a Lansing lobbyist, learned that the artificial turf, which has been a part of Spartan Stadium for 32 years, was going to be ripped out at the end of the season and replaced with natural grass. “I started wondering what they were going to do with it.” Kennedy said.