A former U.S. surgeon general is making sure students don’t destroy the most important tool they have - their brains. “Students are an extremely valuable resource and we’re going to protect them any way we can,” Dr. Joycelyn Elders said Tuesday while visiting East Lansing.
If what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, the men’s basketball team can take solace in its loss to Indiana in last weekend’s Big Ten Tournament.The Spartans (19-11) came out lethargic and couldn’t match the Hoosiers’ high intensity.
A Web site making use of the data collected by the Student Opinion on Resources and Teaching forms filled out at the end of the semester is expected to go online next week.
Ira Flatow, a veteran science correspondent for National Public Radio, will broadcast his weekly “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” show from the new Biomedical and Physical Science Building this week. This week’s show will deal with the food industry and alternative fuel technologies in the automotive industry. “Whenever we go on the road, we try to pick up local issues,” Flatow said. Flatow is visiting MSU this week as part of the McPherson Professorship. “I’ve never had a warmer welcome anywhere else,” he said.
Budget cuts and a lack of donations might force Michigan Pride to cancel its annual lesbian and gay Pride March in Lansing. The event, slated for June 15, is designed to promote awareness and visibility of lesbian and gay culture.
Ann Arbor - Members of the University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees Organization led a one-day walkout on Monday that left some classes empty. About 500 graduate student instructors at the Ann Arbor campus picketed several locations to show the organization is working without a contract. U-M spokeswoman Julie Peterson said some classes had low turnout but weren’t canceled. “My suspicion is that some classes did not meet,” she said. Peterson said further negotiations were booked for today, but a tough budget year is limiting the school’s financial abilities. The graduate students have been negotiating with U-M administration since October.
Blame prohibition of drugs for the reason there will be no funding increase for MSU next year. Since three-fourths of felony crime touches the war on drugs, imagine what a peace dividend there would be if we ended prohibition.
On Monday, I decided to support the Graduate Employees Union by not going to class. But unlike many students who took this opportunity to skip class, I am writing this letter to The State News to show my support for the teaching assistants of MSU.
The MSU School of Music’s Jazz Spectacular continues tonight when veteran pianist Marian McPartland performs with Rodney Whitaker on bass and Milwaukee-based Carl Allen on drums. The event begins 7:30 p.m.
East Lansing city officials are unhappy with local bars’ lack of participation in a program proven to curb serving alcohol to minors. That sentiment follows a recent underage alcohol sting done by the East Lansing Police Department in which three businesses broke local liquor violations. Those businesses were not a part of The Responsible Hospitality Council, a panel of bar and restaurant owners established in 1999 that meets once a month to discuss plans that try to curtail binge drinking and other alcohol-related issues with police and city officials. The hospitality council totes 15 of the city’s bars and restaurants - all of which passed the police sting.
Ice Cube has turned out to be one smart cookie. For the most part, his forays into film have been pretty strong, with highlights like “Three Kings,” “Friday” and “The Players Club” being examples of the guy’s ability to write, act and even direct.
Robert Cichewicz said he instantly noticed a difference when he entered the new Biomedical and Physical Sciences Library on Monday.“This one smells better,” the horticulture graduate student said.
MSU men’s head basketball coach Tom Izzo’s weekly roundtable with the media turned into an open forum Monday - a day after the Spartans earned a No.
Rarely do I feel it necessary to respond publicly to the opinions of others, but Rebecca Daneff’s letter (“Honors College Ball not worth coverage,” SN 2/28) is so outrageous that I feel I must. As a former honors college student at my previous institution, I take personal exception to Daneff’s labeling of all Honors College students as “repressed” or “given a newfound freedom.” For anyone who knows me, those are the last words that will come to mind.
Green and gold shamrocks are covering the walls of local businesses, schools and restaurants for the 19th annual Shamrocks Against Dystrophy program. For a $1 donation, students and customers can sign green paper shamrocks, and for a donation of $5 or more they sign gold shamrocks.
Although the University of Michigan’s graduate student union held a one-day walkout Monday, MSU’s Graduate Employees Union should not follow suit.
Donna Hawkins loves being a mom. In her Okemos home, Hawkins and her husband, John, care for foster children ranging from infants to teenagers.
“God Bless America” is fine. But when will we say, “God bless the world,” immediately after?
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources could receive a few changes this year. The Natural Resources Commission, which establishes general policies for the department, met last week to discuss its goals for the year. The commission agreed on five goals to update the department’s policies but DNR spokesman Brad Wurfel said the biggest change in the commission’s outlook is its involvement in the department’s operations. “Clearly they’re making a move to become more involved in the agency and in the legislature,” he said. Wurfel said while a strong relationship is the highlight of the commission’s goals, the group has progressed in that respect over the past five years. Director K.L.