Sept. 11 was the best thing ever to happen to U.S. Rep. Gary Condit. Media attention wandered for much of the summer, focusing mostly on shark attacks and an energy shortage in California.
Surviving the college experience often requires adaptation to adverse living conditions. For Steve Marsh, alternative housing is the solution. In his third year of co-operative living, Marsh serves as president of Phoenix co-operative house, one of East Lansing’s 15 co-ops. “There’s a lot of advantages,” he said.
Despite not having the support of the undergraduate student governments of the Big Ten, ASMSU Women’s Council’s sexual assault education program is in the process of forming a registered student organization. Acquaintance Education Rape Advocates is being proposed to the undergraduate student government’s funding board, and will be implemented in about a month if it is approved. The purpose of the organization is to build a foundation for a two-hour workshop that would educate first-year students on rape awareness and sexual assault. The structure of the workshop would be helped by getting organization benefits, which include funding. “We are trying to build something substantial,” said Jeanette Lantzy, Academic Assembly external vice chairperson.
In response to U.S. Rep. Nick Smith’s mandatory military service bill, Shaun Reed wrote, “To force young Americans to serve their country in the form of military service is not a democratic policy” (“Duty to country is served every day,” SN 2/6). Why not?
When Colleen Farrow dines in the cafeteria, her favorite thing to munch on is Cinnamon Toast Crunch with peanut butter.“It’s actually really good and adds protein,” the English freshman said.Farrow, a vegetarian for five years, said it’s easy to meet her food needs in the cafeteria.“I haven’t found it too difficult,” she said.
Leslie Little doesn’t smoke and is too young to go to the bar.Most of the places the pre-vet freshman visits don’t allow smoking, so where she and her friends spend their weekend usually doesn’t involve a question of where there will be less smoke.“I prefer if (a place) is non-smoking, being a nonsmoker,” she said.
So you want to study art in Italy for the summer, spend the cold Michigan winter in Africa and enjoy the cherry blossom spring in Japan.
The Spartan men’s basketball team fell 63-61 in a thriller against No. 18 Illinois Tuesday evening, failing to complete the season sweep of the Illini.The Spartans (14-10 overall, 5-6 Big Ten) trailed by three with less than 20 seconds left, but sophomore guard Marcus Taylor’s jumper in the lane didn’t fall.
In the next step toward welfare reform, recipients could be required to work 40-hour weeks or receive no benefits, starting today.“Michigan is one of the first states to take welfare head-on as an issue,” said Matt Resch, spokesman for Gov.
A group of students from Students for Economic Justice rallied today at the Wharton Center during President M.
It’s about time former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial Tuesday before a U.N.
College students have parties. But how many know how to host a party and not get thrown in jail in the same night? Many party-throwers and partygoers seem to have their own ideas of what is legal, said Assistant Chief Jim Dunlap of MSU Department of Police and Public Safety. So how do you throw a successful, but smashing party? First consult your lease and find out what will happen if you get caught.
After all that’s happened in past months, movies that would otherwise be dismissed as lightweight action movies suddenly have more importance.
Students are packing houses in East Lansing beyond capacity and it’s not just for parties.According to statistics compiled by the city of East Lansing, the number of overoccupancies - houses with residents who have not signed a lease - soared from nine in 2000 to 75 in 2001.But Howard Asch, East Lansing’s director of housing code enforcement and neighborhood conservation, said those numbers aren’t necessarily an indication of an increasing overoccupancy problem in the area, but reflect the added time city officials dedicated to conducting investigations.“We’re not issuing more tickets than usual,” Asch said.
I have made the decision to move out of the dorms. My friends and I are venturing into the world of off-campus living, and honestly, I have mixed feelings about the whole idea.Dorms provide a lot of perks, and to be truthful, a lot of comfort.
The late fall rush to find an off-campus apartment or house provides quite a bit of stress for those of us whose requirements include having our own rooms, being close to campus (and the bar) and finding rent that fits into the budget a campus job allows. And along with the stress of actually finding a place comes the issue of who to live with. Do you live with your best friend from high school who you’ve roomed with for the past two years, even though he or she may spend more hours playing solitaire on the computer than he does going to class? Or what about the friend who lived down the hall freshman year, who you walked with for miles to get to parties, just to have him or her leave you to make out with some random person on the dance floor? Even the most considerate person can get on your nerves - probably from being too considerate. I’d prefer a more promising option.
When Eric Pietsch had an ingrown toenail last year, he was happy with the treatment he received at Olin Health Center.And if he receives one of the 5,000 surveys distributed this week by the health center and the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, he would say so.“They gave me medications and they were really helpful,” the urban and regional planning junior said.
Jennifer Webb and Kierra Tandy knew they wanted to move out of their Butterfield Hall room.The MSU students had lived on campus for two years and wanted to be out on their own.To end their stay on campus, the two quickly signed a lease after Christmas break for an apartment at Capstone Commons, 2501 Abbott Road.They join the thousands of students moving farther from campus, filling a growing number of student-dominated complexes being built around the city.
It’s important for MSU’s undergraduate student governing groups like the Residence Halls Association and ASMSU to foster relationships with similar organizations from other institutions to address student issues and concerns in the best ways possible. Unfortunately, maintaining those relationship is not easy. On one side, there is ASMSU, which has been involved with the Associated Students of the Big Ten since the conglomerate was formed in 1993.