Sometimes the clock drives me crazy. It just doesn’t stop. We are so controlled by time that I find myself wasting too much precious time or trying to kill time while I’m waiting to do something more exciting. But what bothers me more than the endless ticking of my watch is wondering if I’m making the wrong choices.
With just one year left in his residency, David Lyon felt a rush of concern when he was told of state funding cuts to MSU’s Psychiatry Residency Training Program. The concern grew to worry as Lyon questioned his future in psychiatry and his other options for residency.
Call it Super Bowl FunDay, not Sunday. It’s the one day out of the year that the Sabbath (in the Christian sense) can be forgotten and the gods of the gridiron are worshiped from kickoff ’til the clock expires. Sure, during the National Football League’s regular season there are 17 weeks of play to be witnessed.
Greeting cards adorned with the typical sentimental sayings are being written by a more eloquent author - but it’s not a move everyone agrees with.
After suffering a minor concussion against Illinois on Sunday, the status of Marcus Taylor is uncertain.The sophomore point guard sat out the final 18 minutes of Sunday’s game after coming down on his head, the result of a hard foul from Illini forward Lucus Johnson.MSU head coach Tom Izzo said he’s not sure if the team’s leading scorer will be ready to go again Northwestern (12-8 overall, 3-5 Big Ten) on Wednesday.“I talked to the doctors and the one thing they told me was that it was so different for every guy,” Izzo said.If Taylor doesn’t get the green light to play, the Spartans (13-8, 4-4) will go with freshman guard Chris Hill at point guard, Izzo said.Fellow freshman Alan Anderson will fill in as backup.“One thing (the doctors) were thankful of was that there were no real headaches, and that was big,” Izzo said of Taylor.
MSU officials are confident they can meet the terms of a tuition agreement made between Gov. John Engler and state university presidents Friday. Under the plan, Engler and the Legislature have promised not to cut funding to Michigan’s 15 public universities as long as university administrators pledge to keep tuition increases next year at or below 8.5 percent or $425, whichever is greater. “This is a very good step on the part of the governor and the legislative leadership,” MSU President M.
U.S. Rep. Nick Smith, R-Addison, introduced a bill Tuesday that would require young men to be available to serve in the military or national community service for at least six months. “Military training and experience prepares communities for potential challenges while encouraging community and national service,” Smith said in a statement.
A roll of thunder and a jolt of lightning may be just what the Spartan running attack needs to fill the void left by junior running back T.J.
All it took was a lackluster second half for the MSU women’s basketball team to fall to Indiana 67-55 at Assembly Hall on Sunday. “I really don’t think our team rose to the occasion,” Spartan head coach Joanne P.
I found the editorial “Engler games,” (SN 2/1) laughable. The State News clearly fears a GOP majority on the MSU Board of Trustees yet admitted in its own editorial that “votes typically are not made along party lines.” If that’s true, why does it matter what party the next trustee is from? The State News cries for the governor to maintain “partisan equilibrium.” Did this newspaper seek “partisan equilibrium” when Democrats held the majority?
Black Student Alliance is sponsoring a quiz bowl competition at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cyber Cafe in the Main Library. The free event, which was created to celebrate Black History Month, will feature teams answering questions in categories such as black leaders and scientific inventions by black people.
If the leaders of MSU’s undergraduate student government want students to shell out an extra $3 in taxes each semester, they need to explain themselves. A joint session of ASMSU’s Student and Academic assemblies on Thursday approved measures to increase the organization’s student tax by $3 per semester.
Sarah Masternick spent her Saturday afternoon tying ice skates and spinning kids on the ice. The elementary education junior volunteers along with about 40 MSU students through Meridian Township Police Department’s Spartan Buddies program. The program, which pairs elementary-aged students with college-aged mentors, was started nine years ago by Meridian Township police officer Gayelord Mankowski. “We found we didn’t have much success with the adults, so we decided to do things with the kids,” he said. Spartan Buddies began at Wardcliff Elementary School for children in need.
In response to the recurring concern by media and political cartoonists of the mistreatment of the detainees at Camp X-Ray in Cuba, I feel it is necessary to express my disappointment in these forums for completely misconstruing the type of people they are defending.
For about 20 years, a pool in IM Sports-Circle has been collecting dust and debris.James Perra, ASMSU chairperson of the intramural facility improvement committee, said the 80-year-old pool represents the potential of all the intramural facilities on campus.
Haslett - For one Sunday every year, we all at least pretend to care about football. Of course, the truth is we really care more about hanging out with our friends and eating junk food on a Sunday.
MSU is being considered by the U.S. Department of Energy as a potential host for a Rare Isotope Accelerator, the only one of its kind in the world.Still in the design stages, the half-mile long piece of machinery is slated to be about 10,000 times more powerful than the linked cyclotrons MSU has now.MSU’s nuclear physics program was ranked second by the U.S.
Just as studio art senior Erika Martinez loaded her car with ceramics, graphic designs and screen printings she’ll exhibit this week with two other studio art seniors, all of her frames broke.She knows getting ready for an exhibit can be timely and costly if things don’t go as planned.
A “guy guy,” as described in Mike Magnuson’s third book, “Lummox: The Evolution of a Man,” is someone who is easily identifiable, especially in today’s society. This memoir follows Magnuson, a red-blooded Wisconsin-born cheese-head, who partakes in some interesting situations during Ronald Reagan’s reign, including living in a hollowed-out elementary school music room in his teens.