NEWS
Trustees to approve of master plan for campus
The 2020 Vision master plan for the MSU campus is expected to be approved today by the MSU Board of Trustees.
FEATURES
Plenty of opportunities exist for a Michigan road trip
Nothing to do this break? Grab some friends and hit the Michigan roads. Assuming snow happens this winter on our warmed planet, Michigan offers a slew of opportunities for winter fun.
SPORTS
Wrestlers meet U-M
The No. 20 MSU wrestling team is gearing up for its second top 20 matchup of the year, this time against No.
NEWS
Veterans remember Pearl Harbor, make comparisons to Sept. 11
When members of the 14th Armored Division of World War II departed from their reunion on Sept.
MSU
Pogel retires after 30 years of service to U
An author of MSU’s Guiding Principles is organizing her final Board of Trustees meeting today. Nancy Pogel, executive assistant to the President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees, is relinquishing her duties after six and a half years in the position and nearly 30 years at MSU. In meetings Thursday, MSU President M.
MSU
GEU honored by labor organization for successful formation of union
One of the nation’s largest supporters of labor unions honored MSU’s Graduate Employees Union at its convention this week.The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations invited the GEU to be involved with its convention in Las Vegas because of the group’s campaign to form a union, which ended successfully in May.Peter Cunningham, an anthropology graduate student and member of the GEU’s steering committee, was chosen to attend the conference.“The AFLCIO wanted to highlight recent organizing campaigns,” he said.
FEATURES
This break, do something worthwhile
Finally, the semester is almost over. You’ve toiled for months, and now all that hard work has led to a nice long vacation. Of course, for many students, that vacation means heading back to mom and dad’s.
COMMENTARY
GEU disagrees with SN editorial
We we’re disappointed with your editorial (“Cool negotiations,” SN 12/5), regarding negotiations between the Graduate Employees Union and MSU administration. As adults with families and children who devoted significant time and energy to deliberately crafting a reasonable and just contract proposal, we reject your assumptions.
FEATURES
This break, do nothing worthwhile
Wednesday morning I woke up late for class. Instead of making a mad dash, as usual, I sat in the eerily warm December and remembered a happier time.
MICHIGAN
Centers kickoff includes millennium time capsule
In 2021, East Lansing residents will be able to look back at the progress the city has made in nearly 20 years and hopefully they’ll see improvement. As part of its Big Picture kickoff event Jan.
MSU
McPherson Professorship hosts prominent speakers
University officials finalized plans Thursday to bring two distinguished speakers to campus next semester as part of the McPherson Professorship for the Understanding of Science. Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, and Ira Flatow, a science correspondent for National Public Radio, will each spend a week at MSU, presenting publicly and interacting with various classes. The McPherson Professorship was set up by MSU President M.
FOOTBALL
Recruits hyped about bowl, watch postseason practice
A trip to the Dec. 31 Silicon Valley Football Classic in San Jose, Calif., may cost MSU hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the return on that investment could be the signing of some highly sought after recruits. Recruits are allowed to watch the team’s practice for a bowl game and see the team play on national TV, said Bill Kurelic, a recruiting expert from Midwest Recruiting.
MICHIGAN
Old Newsboys continue charitable work in Lansing
Lansing - Mayor David Hollister came down from his 10th floor office Wednesday to buy a paper from an Old Newsboy. Since 1924, the Old Newsboys Newspaper has been raising money to buy footwear for needy schoolchildren by selling newspapers with spoof news stories about people in the public eye. The paper is printed and written by the Lansing State Journal. On Friday, more than 400 Old Newsboys sales people will be stationed throughout the city selling the papers. Tom Shiels has been with the organization since 1968 and was a past president. He said the tradition began in 1910, when truancy officer George Palmer, noticed many children were not attending school in winter because they had no shoes to wear.
MICHIGAN
Unanimous vote by LCC trustees makes bylaws a reality for board
Brian Jeffries said the forum that was created to work on the bylaws for the Lansing Community College Board of Trustees worked diligently on them. “This subcommittee worked for six months and with the board and administration to protect the First Amendment Rights,” the board chairman said.
ICE HOCKEY
Slater to play on U.S. Junior team
MSU freshman center Jim Slater, a Lapeer native, will play for the United States at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship in the Czech Republic later this month. Consequently, MSU’s scoring leader will miss the Great Lakes Invitational on Dec.
BASKETBALL
Ishbia upgraded from walk-on to active
The holidays came a little early for senior guard Mat Ishbia this year.The 5-foot-10, 175-pound walk-on’s status shifted just before the season when men’s head basketball coach Tom Izzo gave him a scholarship.Ishbia said he didn’t see it coming.“It was a great honor,” Ishbia said.
MSU
GEU grade-in fills lobby with people, paperwork
Workers and visitors to the Administration Building on Wednesday had a hard time keeping their balance while stepping around the busy people and stacks of papers covering the floor in the lobby. They’ll have to struggle not to trip today as well. The Graduate Employees Union held a “grade-in” Wednesday and will have another today.
COMMENTARY
Send band to Calif. with donations
In response to your editorial (“Marched Out?,” SN 12/5) I would be the first to donate money toward the cause of sending the band.
COMMENTARY
Band should enjoy bowl game berth
I think it is a shame the band may not travel to California with the team. The school needs to get off the money, the band is a big part of that team and supports the players no matter what. The team needs to stand up for the band.
ICE HOCKEY
Swistak earns Olympic torch nod
Joining the likes of athletic heroes Muhammad Ali, Willie Mays and Steve Young, MSU hockey player Steve Swistak will be one of 11,500 Olympic torchbearers carrying the flame across the country en route to February’s Winter Games in Salt Lake City.Swistak, a 19-year-old redshirt freshman, will run with the torch for one-fifth of a mile near his hometown of West Bloomfield on Jan.