Led by several record-setting events, the MSU gymnastics team outscored Rutgers University 195.735-to-191.350 Saturday. The Spartans’ score was the fourth highest in school history. MSU took first place in all four events.
Universal Music Group and Penguin Putnam Inc. have teamed up to produce a distance-learning program for aspiring artists interested in breaking into the music or book publishing industries. The music portion features artists such as Sting, Elton John, Sheryl Crow and Fred Durst giving advice about the music industry.
Michigan is one step closer to regulating the deployment of broadband Internet services across the state.Last week, the Senate Technology and Energy Committee headed by Sen.
The Task Force on Student-Police Relations approved a final draft of recommendations Friday, which it hopes will improve student-police relations on campus. A round of applause and congratulations ended the final meeting of the task force, which has met since September, even though not all task force members were satisfied with the final recommendations. The task force was appointed by MSU officials after an independent investigation into the placement of an undercover officer into the student group United Students Against Sweatshops, now called Students for Economic Justice, beginning about Feb.
West Lafayette, Ind. - For the first time all season, the Spartan men’s basketball team came from behind at halftime to steal a win.
Meredith Willson’s musical “The Music Man,” comes Tuesday to Wharton Center, bringing with it recognizable tunes such as “Seventy-Six Trombones,” “Gary, Indiana” and “Till There Was You.” The musical tells the tale of a scam artist Professor Harold Hill, who convinces a small town, River City, Iowa, that he is a marching band music conductor.
Folk music played softly Friday in Conrad Hall as the lecture hall filled with more people than it usually holds.The hall housed the beginnings of “Turn Down the Heat,” a weekend-long conference on global warming organized by ECO, a student organization concerned with environmental issues.Booths lined the lobby with representatives from groups such as Washington, D.C.-based Power Shift, who enthusiastically told its audiences about issues such as alternative energy and the effect of global warming on beer - humidity and parasites from the higher temperatures can ruin the quality.“We had scientists look into it,” said Power Shift member Mark von Topel.
Step right up, young girls, dirty men and 20-something women who just can’t seem to ditch the leopard print stuff.
The No. 1-ranked junior college linebacker has decided to pass up MSU, and attend the University of Alabama - the school he originally committed to. Derrick Pope told The State News today he always thought he’d go to Alabama, but wanted to take the time to look over his options. The 6-foot-1, 218-pound sophomore linebacker from Garden City Community College in Kansas passed up MSU, which many thought to be the leader. “I kinda knew where I was going to go.
A debate concerning racism arose during ASMSU’s Student Assembly meeting on Thursday during a vote to fund a presentation by a political speaker who is anti-affirmative action.The undergraduate student government assembly unanimously voted to allot $2,948 for the appearance of David Horowitz, who will speak on campus in March about his experiences with student activism.Crystal Price, Student Assembly’s Black Student Alliance representative, left the meeting after more than an hour of debate about the speaker.Price said she is against funding Horowitz because of his anti-affirmative action beliefs.
The Olympics provide athletes with a chance to shine on the global stage with a myriad of nations covering the Winter Games.
The No. 1 community college linebacker in America may come to MSU, and his decision could come as early as today. Rivals.com has Derrick Pope, a 6-foot-1, 218-pound linebacker from Garden City Community College in Kansas, the top Juco linebacker in the nation. Sunday, Pope listed MSU, Arkansas and Florida as his finalists.
The unionization of MSU’s faculty would not be the best method to protect professors’ health care interests. Last week, more than 20 faculty members met with organizers from the Michigan Education Association to discuss the possibility of unionizing MSU’s more than 2,700 ranked faculty members. A possible decline in the university’s health care coverage is a main reason some faculty members are considering forming a union to protect their interests. The university’s health care costs could be raised up to 20 percent this year, which could mean faculty members will have to pay a larger share of their premium. University faculty members have considered forming a union on two other occasions during the last 30 years - both attempts were unsuccessful. No Big Ten university hosts a unionized faculty.
Figure skating champions Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were awarded gold medals Sunday night following a six-day Olympic-sized scandal. The controversy surrounding the skating pair, known as “Skategate,” involved the suspension of a French judge and criticism from a 5-4 decision that awarded gold to Russian skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, giving the Canadians silver. Following a decision by the International Olympic Committee, the Canadian skating pair received gold medals Sunday at the Salt Lake Ice Center standing next to the Russian skaters - who kept their medals - at the same venue that almost a week earlier provided the Canadians silver honors. Both nationals anthems played - all four skaters received applause as they stood holding hands and gold medals. President of the MSU Figure Skating Club Kerry Monaco said awarding the Canadians gold medals doesn’t solve the controversy. She said suspending the French judge, though, helps against a practice that happens at all levels of skating.
MSU police Chief Bruce Benson, who in recent months has been criticized for placing an undercover officer in a student organization, is retiring.University officials said Monday that Jim Dunlap, assistant police chief, will be Benson’s replacement.
Brian Riester wrote in his letter “Don’t dwell on old topics in SN letters” (SN 2/15) that “it is time people realize that no matter how much you believe in something, or don’t, nothing is going to change certain issues.
Isaac Jason’s cheeks flushed bright pink as he jumped up and down on his green floor mat, giggled and looked for the next book he wanted read.
Plenty of uncertainty surrounds the MSU hockey program as legendary Ron Mason enters his final months as head coach.But recruiting is the lifeblood of most athletic programs, and the Spartans don’t expect to take much of a hit in that department when Mason leaves.MSU has already signed three players to National Letters of Intent and has verbal commitments from two others.
A prominent city official says there should be some restrictions on subleasing which would limit and prohibit the popular practice.“We have seen a number of situations where there have been subleasers not taking care of the property,” said Howard Asch, director of housing code enforcement and neighborhood conservation.Every summer - the season where most subleasing occurs as students move home or to their internships - there are complaints of subleasers holding parties, not cutting the grass and damaging the property.The problems don’t end there either.Many times the subleasing process is so informal, the landlord doesn’t even know new tenants have replaced the old ones, said Darryl Svochak, chairman of the East Lansing Housing Commission.“It is one of the biggest problems from the landlord’s perspective,” he said.Subleasing issues have been important to landlords for some time, but they struggle to find solutions.Landlord Linda Meyer allows students to sublease because she said she understands that students have to leave for the summer or they graduate.“What we tell the students is that we have an application,” said Meyer, who owns and rents property on Stoddard Street.
West Lafayette, Ind. - The Spartan men’s basketball team stole a close one on the road Saturday night, as it downed Purdue 62-59.