I agree the band should be included in bowl participation without exception. They too should be rewarded for the hard work and dedication it takes to provide added spirit and halftime entertainment each week throughout the football season.
ASMSU and Women’s Council are researching the potential of implementing a sexual assault education class or seminar for first-year students. Jeanette Lantzy, vice chairperson for external affairs for the undergraduate student government’s Academic Assembly, said she thought sexual assault awareness would be a worthwhile program at MSU after learning about a program at the University of Illinois.
I think it would be a terrible injustice to send this team without its band. With so few people having the ability to make a cross country trip to cheer on their team, the football team should be thanking the band for its presence and dedication to MSU and the team. The football team will bring its talent and energy onto the field, the band will bring its talent, enthusiasm and spirit.
Obviously you might have thought this opinion piece was going to be a guided tour of all the things you should or should not do when it comes to preparing for those evil days of the semester - finals.
The 1999 launch of the Public Sex Offender Registry Inquiry allowed Michigan residents to search a computer database for convicted sex offenders in their city. But state police officials and national lobbyists hope the Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act will enable college students to know about offenders on campus, too. “I think the benefit of this is that it’s going to allow students, faculty and everyone on campus information as to who’s sitting next to them or living across the hall from them,” said Tim Bolles, criminal identification team manager for the Michigan State Police.
Cool heads must prevail while a contract for the Graduate Employees Union is ironed out. While tensions mount and tempers flare at the Graduate Employees Organization of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, officials turn a wary eye to our union, hoping to prevent the worst. The 8-year-old Illinois organization voted to hold a two-day strike to protest the university denying members the right to unionize. The situation is different at MSU, where union members are focused on several issues for the union’s first contract, including quality heath care, a living wage, a fair workload, full tuition waivers, improved training and job security. While negotiations have continued steadily, the occasional spark of irritability shows up in the form of rallies or arguments, and the possibility of a strike, however remote, only further demonstrates the need for calm thinking. Not all graduate employees even support the actions being taken by the union.
The Community Action Team at Olin Health Center will be tying on yellow ribbons this week to increase awareness about suicide prevention. “We’re doing this because it’s important to bring awareness to the students,” said Olin Health Advocate Heather Bradfield, who coordinated the project. “There’s been instances, even on my own floor, in my own dorm, where people have attempted suicide.” Bradfield, a nursing sophomore, said she has always been interested in mental health issues and wanted to steer her project toward a topic that is often overlooked, such as depression. Advocates on the action team distributed 1,000 ribbon cards containing a yellow ribbon attached to a poem.
The letter by Jeremy Williams in Monday’s edition of The State News on the history of racism is ludicrous (“History of racism rests on whites”). First, his definition of a racist is flawed.
MSU fans can pick from full and land-only four-night packages for the Dec. 31 matchup with No. 19 Fresno State in the Silicon Valley Football Classic. Both packages, through the Alumni Association’s Official MSU Bowl Tour, provide lodging from Dec.
Chemistry junior Enjoli Hamilton said she had problems with her Internet service even before the latest interruption of her AT&T Broadband service.“It’s been giving us problems all year,” she said. And like Hamilton, many students living off campus who have cable modems are a portion of the 850,000 AT&T Broadband customers without Internet access since Saturday.But company officials say the service may be back on as early as this evening.“Our Michigan customers are scheduled to be brought back online beginning at 6 p.m.
Let me start off by saying, for the record, I love Belle & Sebastian. Everything, up to this point, that it has done has been incredible and holds up to any and every band England has produced in the last five years or so.
She was a long way from the sunny confines of the Los Angeles city limits, but you didn’t hear Nikka Costa complaining as her caravan maneuvered its way from Seattle through the frigid confines of North Dakota. “There’s a little snow and a lot of openness,” she said as she admitted to struggling to stay warm.
I find it absolutely preposterous this university is pondering the idea of not sending the entire Spartan Marching Band to the Silicon Valley Football Classic.
Wrapping paper is something that’s usually found shredded and buried at the feet of anxious children on Christmas day, but the MSU Museum is preserving it instead. The museum is presenting the Packaging Christmas: American and International Holiday Containers exhibit until February 2002.
Howie Day was tired.He left Rhode Island Sunday night at 11:30, drove until 8 a.m. where he stopped in DuBois, Pa., for a four-hour nap before finishing the drive to East Lansing.Despite the sleep deprivation and a late night behind the wheel, Day rocked a sold-out crowd of more than 450 at the Union Ballroom on Monday night.
In the 19-team Miami (Ohio) Invitational, the MSU women’s swimming and diving team took first place and the men’s team took second. It was a team effort for the woman’s squad.
It is preposterous that the possibility exists to send the MSU football team to a bowl game without the 300-member Spartan Marching Band.
Lansing - A year ago, House Republican leader Rick Johnson and Democratic leader Kwame Kilpatrick joked about being able to share a box of homemade cookies. Now, Kilpatrick, 31, is getting his own box of cookies. House Minority Leader Kilpatrick will become mayor of Detroit in January, and he says he will take lessons learned working with House Speaker Johnson to the state’s largest city. “We can still share cookies and we can still have open and honest debate about the issues that affect the citizens of Michigan,” said Kilpatrick, a third-term representative.
Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak and Cal Ripken’s 2,632 consecutive games played are recognized as two of the most famous streaks in all of sports.