SHANNON HOUGHTON Tickets sold out in 20 minutes at Mason Hall and students from north and east campus trekked to Case Hall to snag the last few tickets before the weekend. What was the occasion?
Lansing - There’s something special about Old Town Lansing. Maybe it’s the small businesses or its distinct architecture, but it was the perfect location for the debut of “Elsinore Follies” at the Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St. The historic scene of the gallery is perfect for the play.
Recruit stays with TideThe Spartan football team lost out on a prized community college linebacker. Derrick Pope, a 6-foot-1, 218-pound linebacker from Garden City Community College in Kansas chose to stay with Alabama on Monday. Pope verbally committed to Alabama in July, before reconsidering following NCAA sanctions against the university. Alabama was placed under a five-year probation, which includes a two-year bowl ban for repeated violations.
While the Task Force on Student-Police Relations made a number of worthy recommendations in its final report, the group missed the chance to comment on a critical point. They failed to address the incident which led to the task force’s formation in the first place - the infiltration of an undercover officer into the student group United Students Against Sweatshops, now Students for Economic Justice.
In Thursday’s state House meeting, Rep. Virg Bernero, D-Lansing, joined 99 other House members in a vote to remove the intoxication defense.
MSU’s undergraduate student government should better define its criteria for footing the bills that help bring public speakers to campus. On Thursday, representatives from ASMSU’s Student Assembly engaged in more than an hour of heated debate concerning whether to allocate money to bring ultra-conservative extremist David Horowitz to campus in March to speak about his experiences with student activism. In the end, it was agreed the organization would allot $2,948 for Horowitz’s appearance at MSU. The University of California at Berkeley graduate’s extreme anti-affirmative actions and anti-reparation view have often been the centerpiece of many heated debates. Last year, controversy arose after an ad that ran in numerous university newspapers outlining “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea - and Racist Too,” to promote Horowitz’s book “The Death of the Civil Rights Movement.” The State News refused to run that advertisement. Much of the ASMSU debate centered around whether Horowitz’s appearance would be something that could benefit the university as a whole. An earlier decision by the group not to support a Black Student Celebratory, an event to honor select black graduates, was used as precedent for the argument against Horowitz. ASMSU did not fund that event because it was not open to all students. Horowitz’s appearance will be brought through the Young Americans for Freedom, a student activist group, whose event will be open to all students. Despite the openness of the speech, Horowitz’s views do not appeal to a larger mass of individuals.
After the New York Police Department faced its greatest tragedy, the officers were viewed as heroes.
Off-campus students, like Diane Mater, routinely complain about drafts and heat loss during the winter. Such concerns often translate into higher utility bills, especially electricity and gas. The chemistry senior lives in an old house with windows that don’t provide the best heat insulation. “Of course there are steps (to lower heat losses),” she said.
When Mike De Capita looks to sit down at The Asian House restaurant to enjoy food, he chooses the east side. To avoid smoke?
Visitors to Spartan Stadium will see something different after this May - grass will grow again.Researchers in the college of Crop and Soil Sciences have developed a portable field similar to the one they designed for the World Cup in 1993.The stadium field is made from 4,800 separate modules containing individual amounts of soil and Kentucky bluegrass, which researchers determined to be the best kind of grass for athletic fields considering Michigan’s climate.The field will cost $2 million to build plus an annual $200,000 for operations and upkeep, which is considerably more than the approximate $1 million original price and $5,000 yearly upkeep the current artificial turf costs, officials say.But MSU administrators are looking forward to seeing the natural green in the stadium, praising the project as a good partnership between the athletics department and academia.Spartan Stadium has not hosted natural turf in 33 years, despite MSU having developed a world-class turf management program.“Better late than never,” graduate student James Sorochan said.For more information on this article, see Wednesday’s edition of The State News.
Lansing - Local health care professionals received a boost and a promise for helpful changes in the health care system when U.S.
After 15 years as director of the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety, Bruce Benson will be stepping down as chief of police. Assistant Chief Jim Dunlap will take over the position. University officials announced Monday that Benson would be leaving the department and taking a job as a full-time faculty member with the School of Criminal Justice effective Aug.
The MSU women’s hockey club is seeking to join Wayne State as the only universities in Michigan to have a women’s varsity ice hockey teams. MSU has 11 women’s varsity sports, and each is budgeted a certain amount of money each year. From July 1, 2000 to June 30, the women’s basketball team had revenues amounting to $109,296 and expenses totaling $1,374,930. During the same year all other women’s teams brought in $416,968 compared to expenses totaling $4,769,835. The hockey club team first applied for varsity status in 1996.
Monday marked ASMSU’s election application deadline, and the collected number of applications for the undergraduate student government are up slightly from last year.ASMSUofficials tallied about 23 Student Assembly applicants and 15 Academic Assembly applicants at the 5 p.m.
I have a feeling that the new Denzel Washington vehicle “John Q” will be one of the big movies this year to separate critics and moviegoers completely.
Historical facts mixed with the personal tales and photographs of families in East Lansing will be featured in a new book.Whitney Miller, an MSU records archivist, is writing a book about the history of East Lansing.
The cast of “The Vagina Monologues” transformed from actors to artists with paintbrushes, chalk and markers to draw vaginas. ASMSU Women’s Council sponsored the event to kick off V-Week, the week of the play’s opening at the Auditorium’s Fairchild Theatre.
Distance education allows instructors to teach anywhere around the world - and one study says they are teaching more than their counterparts who don’t use it. A report released last week by the U.S.
I must point out that no matter how much one may disagree with such negative stereotypes, they are protected, and must be protected under the Constitution.
At one point, Shane Hynes was pretty sure he was going to play hockey for MSU next season.But that was before longtime Spartan head coach Ron Mason announced he would step down after this season to become MSU’s athletics director. When Hynes got word of Mason’s surprising decision, he scratched the Spartans off his short list of schools he considered attending and is now trying to choose between Cornell and Denver.“I didn’t want to go into a school where they weren’t going to have a coach until the summer and the new coach had never even seen me play,” Hynes said.