In only two days, we will all be subjected to America Recycles Day, a 1-year-old holiday that’s even more pitiful than Sweetest Day. People recycle.
After the election of 2000, Chad and his dimples were the most talked about subject for months - they did everything from tie up the Florida legal system to hold off the results of the presidential election. But because of Chad, the nation saw firsthand what kind of problems were inherent in our voting system. It was a hassle for everybody, since everyone wanted to know the identity of our president, whether it be then-Vice President Al Gore or then-Texas Gov.
With the economy in a slump, colleges and universities nationwide are seeing an increase in the number of graduate school applications they have received in the past year. Bonnie Eissner, spokeswoman for Kaplan, Inc., said the company has noticed more people applying to graduate schools across the country, especially to law and business schools. “In an economy where jobs are more scarce, graduate school becomes even more appealing because the opportunity costs of going to school are lower,” she said.
By Marina Ionescu On Saturday an audience in Wharton Center’s Great Hall listened to the MSU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dai Uk Lee and Raphael Jimenez, featuring Natalia Khoma, cellist and MSU faculty member. The program consisted of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s “Upbeat!
In the four years we have attended MSU, it has become obvious the law enforcement at MSU and in East Lansing is racially biased.
Only three teams in the country were undefeated against Tom Izzo and the MSU men’s basketball team before Monday night - Duke, Arizona and Detroit-Mercy. Now, only two are. The Spartans (1-0) beat the Titans - a team made up of 13 Michigan natives, including eight Detroiters - 80-70 in the first round of the Preseason NIT at Breslin Center. The game opened both teams’ regular season and kept MSU’s home-winning streak intact at 45 games. But the Spartans, who haven’t beat the home-grown Titans in its last three tries, had a tough time reversing that streak Monday. “I was pleased with the win; I wasn’t always pleased with how we got it,” Izzo said.
Crime films are a staple of modern movies. Whether trying to be funny (last year’s “Snatch,” the upcoming “Ocean’s 11”) or serious (this year’s “The Score”), these movies provide a little guilty pleasure for watching bad people do bad things in the hopes of striking it rich. And almost no one can do crime-caper movies like David Mamet, the famed writer-director-playwright who is responsible for the new movie “Heist.” With other crime flicks such as 1987’s “House of Games” and 1998’s “The Spanish Prisoner” under his belt, his newest foray into the world of crime is a blast to watch.
East Lansing residents may still have little kid tastes because a restaurant with grown-up tastes has decided to go elsewhere.Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwich, 1010 E.
After letting in the game-winning goal from Michigan in overtime of the second round of the NCAA Tournament, MSU field hockey team’s defense may have expected criticism.But the team would have only needed to point to the tournament statistics and scores to respond to the skeptics.Up to that season-ending goal, the defense had held some elite scorers to disappointing numbers in the tournament.In the first round, the Spartan defense held Kent State to two shots in the game, shutting down their forward Arlette van Cleeff, who scored 21 goals in the regular season.Sophomore midfielder Alexandra Kyser defended van Cleeff for most of the game, and MSU head coach Michele Madison said shutting down the nation’s No.
Both the MSU men’s and women’s cross country teams completed a successful outing at the Great Lakes Regional meet in Terre Haute, Ind., this weekend.
When is our school going to start appreciating its past? That the university would even mention demolition of any part of the West Circle dorms with a straight face, is deeply disturbing (“Trustees aim to form clearer vision of ‘U’ dorms’ future,” SN 11/9). The fact that the halls haven’t already been designated national or state historic landmarks and therefore, beyond the wrecking ball, is also troubling. These gracefully landscaped, ivy-covered gothic buildings are, as a group, the most aesthetic on the nation’s most scenic campus.
When American Airlines Flight 587 crashed shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport into a neighboring Queens suburb Tuesday, Americans’ fear of flying undoubtedly grew.Many now expect the worst.
A justice from the Michigan Supreme Court will speak to students in an Integrative Studies in Social Science class today. Marilyn Kelly will appear by request of Fayyaz Hussain, an assistant professor of ISS, in the last of a series of three lectures regarding the Sept.
An MSU alumnus has created another option for purchasing used textbooks.Eric Hamilton, a 1996 graduate, launched a new Web site Monday that brings students together to buy or sell textbooks through the Internet.Hamilton said the site, www.Universitybookswap.com, is designed to be a message board for students looking to make textbook bargains.“We are aggressively going after and tailoring our business to college students,” he said.Students at 64 other colleges across the country are being introduced to this service as well.
Vic Loomis and Bill Sharp jumped a major hurdle last Tuesday when they were each elected to a four-year term on the East Lansing City Council.But today marks the home stretch with the official swearing-in ceremonies at the new council’s first meeting at 5:30 p.m.
The MSU women’s basketball team overmatched RTU Klondaika from Latvia in Sunday’s 88-51 victory. Four Spartans scored in double digits and junior guard Vnemina Reese notched a double-double to seal MSU’s second exhibition game. MSU head coach Joanne P.
There are players who lead on the ice - scoring goals, directing players, giving pep talks on the bench - and there are players who lead away from the rink - going to class, getting good grades and being an upstanding member of the community.For his teammates and coaches, MSU senior right wing and team captain Adam Hall fills both roles.Hall was an on-ice leader in MSU’s 6-1 win over UMass-Amherst on Friday at Munn Ice Arena - notching his first career hat trick and recording his 100th career point.But Hall, an assistant captain last season, is also a CCHA All-Academic honoree and is no stranger to team volunteer activities - such as speaking at local schools through the D.A.R.E.
Ours is one of the few societies that idolizes large men and slinky women in tights for heroes. Folks with outlandish monikers like “Man of Steel Man” and “The Amazing Spatula” (Scraping evil from the streets!) wage battles with even more outlandish folks who might introduce themselves as “The Sinister Dr. Steve” or the nefarious “Crabula.” Comic books have often been a source of heroic displays for children - and even adults - as their favorite characters clash on newsprint, in titanic struggles that sometimes hold the fate of mankind in the balance.
That three-letter word is everywhere - sex. But in the overabundance of sexual propaganda, many have felt there is a lack of information available to college students. September marked the official launching of www.collegesextalk.com, a Web site that is exactly what its name implies - a place where people can get together on the Internet and talk, ask or learn about sex and relationships from Dr. Sandra L.