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.
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.
The other morning I woke up hungover after I drank nearly an entire box of wine. How that happened is a long story; it’s not worth the time.
In the editorial “Engler Games,” (SN 2/1) the bias of The State News comes out once again. I wonder if the newspaper’s editorial board is comprised equally of Democrats and Republicans, as it wants the MSU Board of Trustees to remain.
A recent study found that drinking alcohol could have longer-term effects than a hangover. A survey published in The Lancet, a British medical journal, said moderate consumption of alcohol - between one and three drinks a day - can help prevent heart disease, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. Dementia refers to a group of disorders - the most common one being Alzheimer’s disease - that cause a significant change in thinking and memory. The six-year study was conducted at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Carole Callard has been investigating her family history since 1974.She traced her father’s family back to Jamestown, Va., in 1623 and her mother’s family came to the United States from Ireland in the 1850s, she said. Callard, a genealogy specialist from the Library of Michigan, will help others fill holes in their family histories at 7 p.m.
MSU-Detroit College of Law’s Diversity Week 2002 will include community service events, lectures and celebrations. The events are sponsored by several organizations, including the Wolverine Student Bar Association and The Young Democrats.
Bloomington, Ind. - A lackluster second half performance by the Spartans proved to be the difference.The women’s basketball team (14-9 overall, 4-8 Big Ten) fell to Indiana 67-55 at Assembly Hall today.Super Bowl Sunday hasn’t been very kind to the Spartans.
Champaign, Ill. - Without team leader and sophomore guard Marcus Taylor for most of the second half, the Spartans still managed to snap No.
The MSU women divers made sure John Narcy, the women’s diving coach, had a successful final home meet. As MSU women’s swimming and diving team closed the regular season with a win over Northern Michigan, 132.5-89.5 on Saturday in East Lansing, his divers achieved their highest scores of the season.
Best-selling author and historian Stephen Ambrose admitted to doing something college students could face disciplinary action for - plagiarism.Ambrose, 65, apologized in early January for taking phrases and sentences from the work of other authors and inserting them in at least three of his own published pieces, “The Wild Blue,” “Citizen Soldiers” and “Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990.”Ambrose is the founder and president of the National D-Day Museum of New Orleans and is an emeritus faculty member at the University of New Orleans.Maj.
Columbus - No. 4 MSU uncharacteristically blew a two-goal, third-period lead and settled for a 3-3 tie with Ohio State in front of 11,386 fans at Value City Arena.The teams complete their rare four-game series at 8:05 p.m.
Although Gov. John Engler is a proud MSU alumnus, he should stop meddling with the MSU Board of Trustees as if he were playing his personal game of political chess. It was announced Thursday the lame-duck governor will likely appoint Trustee Robert Weiss, a long-time Democrat, to fill a judgeship in Genesee County.