As MSU’s Graduate Employees Union hits the bargaining table, its members are hitting the keyboard. In past weeks, members of the union have been revamping the organization’s Web site features while they work to obtain a contract with the university.
This is in response to the article “Diagnosing the Doctor” (SN 2/7) and the Web poll regarding the reduction in the hours during medical residencies.
Capital Area Transportation Authority will be moving two of its bus stops Monday. The stops located on Vine Street, east of Clippert Street and north of Sears in the Frandor Shopping Center, will be moved one street north on Sellers Avenue to two new shelters across from Panera Bread, 310 N.
As the turnaround of the MSU women’s basketball team continues, the biggest difference has come in close games.Not only are the Spartans (15-9 overall, 5-8 Big Ten) winning more games overall, they have played in the same number of games decided by five points or less as last season.
By HEIDI JURY For The State News I was sitting in the back of my history class the other day, letting my eyes wander, for lack of anything better to do.
For Ritu Sharma, a global education is a way of life. Sharma, a cellular and molecular biology graduate student from Delhi, India, was one of roughly 400 in the audience Tuesday to see MSU President M.
Runner off to NCAAs The women’s track and field team sent sophomore distance runner Jamie Krzyminski to the Cannon IV Classic Saturday to compete in the 5000-meter run. Krzyminski finished fifth with a time of 16:35.99, a provisional qualifying mark for the NCAA Indoor Championships scheduled for March 8-9 in Fayetteville, Ark. The NCAA qualifying time gave Krzyminski a fourth-place spot on MSU’s top five all-time indoor performance list at 5000-meters. The team’s next meet will be the Jack Skoog Open on Friday in Mount Pleasant, Mich. Golfers sit at 9th place The women’s golf team sits in 9th place following Tuesday’s second round action at the TRW Regional Challenge. The tournament is being held at the par 71 Palos Verdes Golf Club in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. Fifthteenth-ranked MSU shot a 310 in the first round before shooting 303 in the second for a two-day total of 613. The women’s golf team finished day one at the challenge with a 12th-place finish. Final round action begins at 11 a.m.
If you’ve been keeping tabs on my weekly rhetoric, you’ve probably noticed a theme of faith has been a central thread through each of my columns. This Ash Wednesday proves to be no exception.
By BENITA MEHTA For The State News The demand for flowers around Valentine’s Day overwhelms flower shops everywhere.
Want to do something other than get drunk on Saturday night? Try being a vampire.While many MSU students flock to bars every weekend, one campus group strives for an alcohol-free, socially active alternative to escape from reality.Darker Images meets every Saturday night to play the Lansing area’s longest running live-action role-playing game.Upon entrance to the Union Purdue Room, one can see a myriad of conversations and confrontations going on between members posing as vampires.
By SHANNON HOUGHTON For The State News Think of it as hazing for nerds. Picture the worst test you’ve ever taken.
ASMSU is researching ways to revive its involvement in a newspaper recycling program that faded away shortly after it began in 1996.The undergraduate student government is re-evaluating recycling programs on campus, and assessing whether those programs could be enhanced by offering people more options.A decision to launch a new pilot program will be made by March 12.“What I’m looking for is the ways, means and costs,” said Steve Lovelace, Academic Assembly internal vice chairperson.
I have been a hockey fan all my life and I must say I am highly disappointed with the crowd at home hockey games at Munn Ice Arena.
The Multicultural Center located in the basement of the MSU Union is inadequate, the Council of Racial and Ethnic Students told the Board of Trustees today.During the monthly board meeting, the council proposed a free-standing center be built on campus - a notion trustees took seriously.“A Multicultural Center serves so many facets,” Trustee Dorothy Gonzales said.
By SEAN GALVIN For The State News If there’s one thing more difficult than winning a national championship, it’s winning two.
The Ingham County Board of Commissioners voted 11-2 to pass a proposal to ban smoking in most county businesses. The proposed regulation requires all smoking facilities to have a separate room, ventilated to the outside.The measure excludes bars, bingo halls and restaurants. “I don’t think in the workplace someone who has to work, go home and feed their families should have to put up with (secondhand) smoke,” said County Commissioner Curtis Hertel, who favored the measure. County Commissioner Mike Severino, who voted against the proposal, agreed with Hertel, but said there were other smoking issues with higher priority, such as the prohibiting smoking on all county-owned property. “We should get our house in order before we ask the private sector to do the same,” he said. Many county businesses already maintain a nonsmoking policy on their premises, but the few that would need a conversion, the proposal may prove pricey, said Philip Thorez, an auto-parts factory owner in Stockbridge who worried his employees would look for work outside the county. “I have enough trouble attracting new people, let alone telling them you can’t smoke in this store,” he said. Vice Chairman Pro Tem Tom Minter said that the proposal’s requirements would not overwhelmingly harm businesses. “At the Breslin Center, probably 3,000 of the attendants are smokers… and you don’t see the attendance drop by 3,000,” he said.
State News staff writer Elissa Englund recently toured MSU Safe Place, and Thursday she will offer an exclusive in-depth look at the nation’s only on-campus domestic violence shelter.Safe Place, located at an undisclosed campus location, was started in 1994 with the leadership of MSU First Lady Joanne McPherson and a group of medical professionals and police officers.The 12-bed shelter now houses between 100 and 120 domestic violence victims a year.The story of a survivor, how the shelter operates and how it will continue to be a safe haven all will be available in Thursday’s edition of The State News.
If the rumor mill is on track, MSU has apparently lost its top candidate to replace Spartan hockey head coach Ron Mason. Denver head coach George Gwozdecky held a press conference Tuesday afternoon to announce a long-term contract extension to stay with the Pioneers.
by BEN LANDES For The State News After taking an oath, you sit waiting for the questions to come firing in.