As much as I would like to write one of my typical columns in which I quote political leaders and shove facts and statistics down your throat to prove my point, I think I’m going to lay off this week.
Two weeks ago the Catholic Diocese pulled the plug on plans to run the Lansing Civic Players’ “Breaking the Code” at Lansing Catholic Central High School auditorium. “Breaking the Code” tells the story of 1940s mathematician Alan Turing, who was convicted of homosexuality and committed suicide at 42.
The MSU football team’s blue chip recruit says he’d certainly enjoy the opportunity to learn from junior tailback T.J.
State lawmakers have removed Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides health care to men and women of low-income families, from being a priority in receiving state and federal family planning money.The bill, which was passed Dec.
An agreement made between MSU and Michigan Government Television in December will make it easier for students and faculty to follow the state government. The complete archives of MGTV, a cable network started in 1996, are available for viewing on videotapes at University Archives & Historical Collections between 8 a.m.
I am appalled at what was said about gun control (“Gun control needed to hinder violence,” SN 1/7). These days, too many people are giving too much power to our government in order for them to control our lives even more.
The new year found three new faces in the Spartan lineup searching for, well, new beginnings.MSU head coach Ron Mason used a nonconference series against overmatched Quinnipiac to insert freshman goaltender Matt Migliaccio, junior left wing Steve Clark and redshirt sophomore forward Pat Brush into the Spartan lineup.Each played one game of the series - Clark in Friday’s 4-1 win and Migliaccio and Brush in Saturday’s 3-1 victory - but all hope the appearances won’t be their only cameos of the 2002 campaign.“I try to approach every weekend as if I was going to play,” said Brush, who had played in one previous game on Jan.
The new year brings new honors for two MSU freshmen. After being selected as second-team Freshman All-Americans by The Sporting News last month, offensive guard William Whitticker and linebacker Ronald Stanley made the Football News Freshman All-America teams. Whitticker received first-team honors after starting 11 of 12 games this season.
It’s a familiar tale.A band releases an album which spawns a radio hit, and the remainder of the record is filled with lame songs that were conceived solely to fill the record.This happens with authors of books, too, and is the unfortunate downfall of Nick Hornby’s latest work of fiction, “How To Be Good.”Hornby’s other novels, “High Fidelity” and “About A Boy” are definitely among the “No.
The new year brings new honors for two Michigan State freshmen. After being selected as second-team Freshman All-Americans by The Sporting News last month, offensive guard William Whitticker and linebacker Ronald Stanley made the Football News Freshman All-America teams. Whitticker received first-team honors after starting 11 of 12 games this season.
Under Construction was hard at work during winter break, closing down its operation to bang a new bolt into its machine. After switching guitar players, bass player Ryan Ruiz said the band spent much of the past couple of weeks breaking in its new guitarist. The band will perform an acoustic set tonight at Rick’s American Cafe, 224 Abbott Road. “We’ve been trying to make the transition as smooth as possible,” Ruiz said.
Johnnie Cochran could be among the professors who teach classes for MSU-Detroit College of Law, depending on what the American Bar Association decides. Distance education laboratories, which bring two locations together through television cameras, have become a hot topic in the world of law education as the association looks into modifying its guidelines this summer. The association, which accredits law schools, has guidelines placed on classes that use the technology, such as limiting the number of credit hours that can be taken. The association has proposals for changes to its guidelines on its Web site. John Sebert, the consultant on legal education to the association, said he will not predict what the summer meetings will bring.
I love college football. I cheered our Spartans in their victory over Fresno State on New Year’s Eve.
When No. 25 MSU and Indiana meet at 7 p.m in Bloomington, Ind., you can probably expect an exciting game.
No more weighing the options. Junior running back T.J. Duckett has made his decision on whether he’ll enter April’s NFL Draft, his brother told The State News on Tuesday evening. “He’s pretty much made the decision, and he wants to go public himself,” Tico Duckett said. T.J.
As natural science majors across the university prepare to gain valuable field experience over the summer, many will find one of the more visible sources closed as the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Quality are under a hiring freeze. The hiring freeze affects all paid positions, including many summer assistant positions or internships, which can be vitally important to the agency, said Kelli Sobel, administrative services deputy for the DNR. “In a lot of our divisions (student assistants) are very, very important,” she said.
Something had to give Monday at Breslin Center where the Big Ten’s top-scoring offense in Minnesota took on the conference’s top defense in the Spartan women’s basketball team. And in the final 11 seconds, it was MSU’s defense that faltered. Minnesota guard Lindsay Whalen’s drive with seconds remaining sliced through the Spartan defense and gave the Gophers (12-2, 2-1) a 70-69 victory. “We had a very disappointing defensive effort tonight,” said MSU head coach Joanne P.
On Jan 21 more than 1,200 people will step out of the Lansing Center ready to live according to Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream.
New York - Paul Graham was within minutes of missing his flight home last week. After four frigid hours in a viewing platform line, the Minneapolis resident said he would rather reschedule a flight than miss his chance to stare at the stretches of tearful remembrance and glimpse at the sand pit in downtown Manhattan. Years ago, he saw World Trade Center towers that scraped the sky at 1,350 feet. This time, he wanted to see the rocky remains - the posters of missing people, the burning candles, the children’s handprints and misspelled wishes for happiness and the rubble of seven buildings. “You know what to expect from pictures, but pictures don’t show the whole impact,” he said, looking for warmth under his winter clothing near a collection of red, white and blue memorial signs.