A variety of activities will be held on campus this week in celebration of International Education Week, today through Friday. The event, now in its second year, was started by President Clinton as an opportunity to promote international education and the understanding of different cultures around the world. MSU officials believe the Sept.
On Tuesday, ASMSU will host its second forum to discuss having a voting student seat on the MSU Board of Trustees - and this time members hope it will be more productive. MSU’s undergraduate government held its last forum on the first day of classes this semester.
The Spartan volleyball team entered the weekend riding a four-game winning streak, and a 3-1 win Friday at Jenison Field House against Northwestern only added fuel to the flames. But the Spartans (16-7, 9-7 Big Ten) ran into a road-block Saturday as they fell 3-0 to the No.
Hazelwood East High (St. Louis) fullback David Richard planned on continuing his football career at Tennessee.But the 6-foot-2, 225-pounder axed those plans Friday when he decided to commit to MSU football head coach Bobby Williams and make East Lansing his new football home next season.“The reason for the change was because I didn’t know a lot about (Tennessee),” Richard said.
Nov. 12-16 is International Education Week. Given the changes in the world since Sept. 11, it is more important then ever to affirm the values we hold dear.
The name “Brian” means strong one - strong meaning physical and mental endurance.Decked out in Asics, GORE-TEX and Oakleys with P.O.D.
In her dorm room, Jessica Facundo has a spiral notebook of index cards, the kind that students use when studying for history exams or conjugating verbs for a language class.
The MSU football team might have lost the Old Brass Spittoon, but it managed to keep another tradition alive - losing after a big win. Every year the Spartans seem to give us glimpses of how good they can be, only to falter in a game that, at least on paper, they should dominate.
MSU trustees were faced with two broad proposals Friday for the future of campus’s 70-year-old West Circle dorms - renovate them or tear them down.Although a plan for the residence halls’ future is, at the earliest, months off, the buildings are becoming more costly to operate - and could cost even more to bring up to code.
Ann Arbor - As newcomers to the NCAA Tournament, the MSU field hockey team flirted with the Final Four, but host school Michigan spoiled the team’s hopes. The No.
In response to the massive pay Tom Izzo receives, I must say it has a very poor and ironic timing (“In Izzo we trust” SN 11/9). I have no doubt Izzo is a great coach, but the multiple pay raises and “undisclosed gifts” he receives are crazy, not to mention his base salary.
The Lansing branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is doing its own investigation into the Oct.
More than 300 runners, walkers and wheelers supported quitting smoking at Sunday’s 14th annual Cold Turkey Trot.The 5K race started at 1 p.m.
“Hamlet” is among the best plays ever written and deserves careful preparation and execution.
With a crowd of more than 500 people, the Black Power Rally aimed to elevate awareness, promote cultural pride and educate students with the theme “Elevate the Mind, to Change the Times.” The event, held Friday at the Auditorium and sponsored by the Black Student Alliance, kicked off with a slide show featuring historical black figures and a performance by dance and music troupe Amka Africa and the Sound Tribe. Darren Lamb, programming director for the alliance, said the rally is held annually to give students an opportunity to voice opinions about issues concerning them. “It gives a chance for students to express their views and voices which have gone unheard throughout the year,” the journalism senior said. But Lamb said the goal of the event was to motivate students. “Our purpose is to galvanize the students into political activism,” he said.
Police are investigating two sexual assaults that occurred in East Lansing student neighborhoods recently. The first assault occurred in late October and the second Nov.
This Thanksgiving many students will be enjoying a day without classes by sitting down to a meal with their family and friends - a meal with a main course that involves cruelty. Some factory farmers cram tens of thousands of turkeys into warehouses where disease, smothering and other health problems are an everyday part of life.
With the recent attacks on our home front, more than ever a uniform represents honor and unity. But to me, it reminds me of my father. My dad was pulled out of rural Frankford, W.Va., to serve in Vietnam.
Indiana head football coach Cam Cameron was exhausted just watching his team rush for 489 yards - a season worst for MSU’s defense.“You know what, I’d rather sit down,” Cameron said at his postgame press conference, “I’m worn out, I’m worn out.”Cameron’s weariness came watching quarterback Antwaan Randle El as he tirelessly scrambled up and down the field for 149 yards and one touchdown rushing and set up two other major ground performances.Running back Levron Williams flew 251 yards for three touchdowns and fullback Jeremi Johnson tallied 96 yards and a score of his own.
The MSU men’s soccer (12-5-1) team didn’t have enough over the weekend to knock off two top 25 opponents in the 2001 Big Ten Men’s Soccer Championship in Madison, Wis.