It is amazing how the way a phrase is turned can influence perception. In your editorial regarding police videotaping of student activities (“Candid cameras,” SN 11/9), you call what happened in the Cedar Village area after the National Championship win a “celebration.” What an interesting term for a riot.
In celebration of Puerto Rican Culture Week, various events will be held through Saturday to promote awareness and provide entertainment. The annual event, sponsored by the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs, features guest speakers, an open mic night, a pig roast and a dance. Marcelina Trevino-Savala, coordinator for Chicano/Latino Student Affairs in the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs, said the week allows students to experience cultural events. “It’s to make people aware of the Puerto Rican culture, history and issues in the community that are happening,” she said.
The season for giving may have come sooner than some expected.Many charities were flooded with donations after the Sept.
The East Lansing Film Festival will present a sneak preview of “Tape” tonight at 7:30 in 108B Wells Hall.
The popular musical revival “Kiss Me Kate” arrives at Wharton Center today for eight performances that run through Sunday. While on Broadway, “Kiss Me Kate” won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
About 25 MSU hospitality business students in New York City have not been able to get on a plane to come home.
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.