MSU junior goaltender Ryan Miller is a preliminary finalist for the 2001 James E. Sullivan Award, presented annually to the nation’s top amateur athlete by the Amateur Athletic Union.
MSU has a history of taking initiative when it comes to civil rights, says one civil rights adviser. Michigan Agricultural College began admitting black students in 1900.
It is unreasonable that MSU officials have suspended the Tuition Guarantee and raised tuition a whopping 8.9 percent (“Tuition Guarantee troubled,” SN 1/17). While this is not quite as bad as the large increases at Central Michigan University, it is still hardly warranted.
The Lansing Civic Players present the controversial play “Breaking the Code,” directed by Todd Heywood.
Lansing - Gov. John Engler’s New Year’s resolution is to provide Michigan residents with fast, stress-free Internet service through thousands of miles of government-subsidized broadband cables. “The governor believes very strongly that Michigan needs to be positioned as a high-tech state that has the infrastructure it needs to draw businesses and investments,” Engler spokesman Matt Resch said.
Youth have always been the voice of change. I am not saying that we don’t have a lot to learn from our elders.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday should be a day of reflection and celebration. Students should keep this in mind during Monday’s holiday. The university canceled classes during MLK Day for a three-year trial period, which ended last year.
The state’s two biggest college hockey powers have some unfinished business to take care of - and the game that has been circled with both blue and green ink for the past three and a half months is now just a day away. Sixth-ranked MSU (17-5-2 overall, 12-4-1 CCHA) and No.
I was very distraught when I read about tuition being raised again (“Tuition Guarantee troubled,” SN 1/17). I come from a small town and I really don’t know much about big-city living, but where I come from a guarantee is only as good as the man who gives it. That really doesn’t say too much about the trustees.
Lansing Mayor David Hollister announced Thursday that $1.5 million will be cut from this year’s budget.The budget cuts were largely a result of a decrease in state revenue sharing payments and also due to losses of current-year city revenue, Hollister said.The cut includes a hiring freeze on filling vacant city positions, deferments on vehicle purchases, a reduction in general administration expenditures and a reduction in supply and expense accounts by 10 percent, Hollister said.The deferments on vehicle purchases will mean 16 police cars are purchased instead of the intended 24 and the elimination of one fire truck purchase, said Robert Swanson, city finance director.Hollister also said the cut includes a recapture of city grant match funds for a major police department grant worth $125,000.No actual programs were cut and the only administrative actions made were ones to lower the total city budget, Swanson said.The 2001-02 budget ends June 30, and the new policy will take effect July 1.“It’s basically a straight-line budget,” Councilmember Sandy Allen said.
Crouching on their hands and knees with paintbrushes in hand, members of the Hubbard Hall MRULE prepared banners to hang at Wharton Center during Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr.
Claudia Schmidt is sick of categories she’s been placed under, which is why she coined the term “creative noisemaker.” Schmidt will perform at 8 tonight at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 855 Grove St., as part of the Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse Concert Series. Schmidt includes many tastes in her sound, using her 12-string guitar and including hymns, poetry, bawdy verse, torch song, satire and the gamut of emotions. “I try to stay open and receptive and keep my radar out and my ears open,” she said.
The number of drunken driving arrests is down in East Lansing, and it’s not because the city is sobering up.
Almost 40 years have passed since Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, in the still heat of late August and announced to the world that he had a dream.
I’m sure David Levine and I are not the only unsuspecting students to have been snagged by the no parking from 2-6 a.m.
The former site of Pro Bowl East has been vacant since August. But the spot at 2757 E. Grand River Ave.
When Harry K. Hairy plays a set with his band, the Monokulators , he’s not himself - literally. “I’ve got costume changes that I like to fool around with,” he said.
Dairy cows experience stress like the average person - and MSU agriculture researchers were able to milk $2.8 million from the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems to study the effects of stress on farmers’ bovines at the genetic level.“We’ve identified over 18,000 unique genes in cattle and we have those on hand right now,” said Paul Coussens, director of the MSU Center for Animal Functional Genomics. Coussens is the primary investigator in the set of studies.
Students interested in serving the community have more than a dozen ways to do so this Martin Luther King Jr.
A group of MSU students are attempting to give a national organization new life on campus. A committee of five students are in the process of making MSU a part of the Youth and College Division of the NAACP and a registered student organization. “We are trying to rebuild ourselves and become a force on campus,” acting president and biochemistry sophomore Quiana Ruffinsaid. According to the Student Life Center, the last time the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was registered on campus was the spring semester of 1999. But after students discussed the Meridian Mall incident at a Hubbard Hall government meeting, the effort to bring the NAACP back to campus began. On Oct.