If what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, the Spartan men’s basketball team can find strength in its loss to Indiana in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament last Friday. The Spartans (19-11) came out lethargic and couldn’t match the Hoosiers’ high intensity.
Although the All University Election Commission recommended for this week’s universitywide elections to be postponed, the five-member student group didn’t have the final decision.Lee June, vice president for student affairs, approved the recommendation Wednesday.ASMSU elections have been delayed until Tuesday after members of the election commission called into question language on the ballot and technical malfunctions with computer voting.The University Apartments’ Council of Residents election has also been postponed, but it is not related to the election commission’s recommendations.A $1 tax referendum for The State News tax will continue as scheduled.
“1964”...The Tribute, will perform tonight at Harper’s Downtown, 131 Albert Ave. The Beatles tribute band has performed all over the world at various fairs, festivals, colleges and conventions, and have been featured in programs such as Entertainment Tonight, CNN and The USA Network. Christian Dorsch, general manager of Harper’s, said the response for the concert has been quite well. “We’ve been doing presold tickets and had lots of people calling,” he said.
The more Big Ten teams in the NCAA Tournament, the more money each school receives. This year’s tournament has five Big Ten teams.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Today, love obliges me to defend hate. A grandiloquent sentence to write, but humor me. On Feb.
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.
When you think of paradise, you may envision a beautiful, lush place with few worries tainting the world.
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.
In high school, Erin Reichenbach felt isolated. She waited until she entered MSU in 1999 to come out.
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.
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.
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.
For many people, this is the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas is second. And a distant second at that. March Madness is the time of year when basketball fans, gambleaholics and the like get together and fill out their NCAA Tournament brackets. These people predict the winners of 64 games (play-in game, 32 first-round games, 16 second-round games, Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four and championship game) in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and submit them to their respective pools.