Lansing - Pro-lifers and pro-choicers didn’t let rain get in the way of debate Tuesday at the state Capitol. Michigan Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League planned to rally on the Capitol steps, but rain forced gatherers - and rivals - indoors. The pro-choice organization addressed such issues as female health funding, contraceptive equity and abortion clinic violence.
By Shannon Houghton For The State News Liisa Bergmann chose not to spend Saturday mornning tailgating with her fellow Spartans. Bergmann, an environmental policy junior and Eco coordinator, and four other members of Eco, one of MSU’s environmental organizations, spent the morning asking tailgaters to call Staples Inc., an office supply store. Eco explained the differences between pre-and-post-consumer waste paper recycling to the tailgaters and then asked if they would be willing to contact Staples ‘corporate headquarters.
The chief investigator in the Ted Bundy murder cases of the 1970s will speak in Okemos on Thursday. Robert D.
Events Career Development Center: Business careers for nonbusiness students workshop, 4 p.m.
More than a dozen East Lansing residents gathered Monday for “Meet the Candidates Night” to question the four East Lansing City Council candidates. The hour and a half debate between candidates Kevin Beard, Liz Harrow, Vic Loomis and incumbent Bill Sharp was hosted by the Bailey Community Association and held in the Bailey Community Center, 300 Bailey St. The Bailey Community Association has been an organized group for more than 30 years and has has hosted a “Meet the Candidates Night” for almost as long, association chairman Jim Liesman said. “We’ve set up a meeting every year for the past 20 or 30 years,” he said.
I just wanted to thank The State News for its decision to carry the comic strip “Get Fuzzy” by Darby Conley.
By Elissa Englund For The State News John Wallace came to MSU and was instantly met by dozens of students that shared his goals and interests. The history freshman is a member of Residential Option in Arts and Letters, a housing option available to freshmen and sophomores in the College of Arts and Letters. “We get to live in Abbot Hall and are around a lot of like-minded people,” he said.
The Spartan hockey team will receive even more national exposure this week, stemming from its record-setting outdoor hockey game on Oct.
Lansing - The reality of potentially lethal mail-bound anthrax is causing Americans to watch closely for suspicious packages and envelopes - maybe too closely. Since a false-alarm anthrax scare in Linton Hall on Friday, area police and fire departments have been swamped with calls requesting help with suspicious mail. Most of the packages don’t contain a white powder but have suspicious markings, said Lansing fire Capt.
Lansing - BioPort Corp. announced Monday it took the next step in readying distribution of the only FDA-licensed anthrax vaccine in the country. The Lansing-based vaccine-maker shipped required documentation Friday to the Food and Drug Administration for approval of its manufacturing facility.
The first 22 rows of Wharton Center’s Great Hall were filled with people and applause from all generations Monday night. National Public Radio news personalities Susan Stamberg, Alan Cheuse and Robert Siegel celebrated the 30th anniversary of the daily radio news show “All Things Considered” by participating in an open panel. The panel was the second event in the “Fora: Lectures in the Arts and Humanities” series to be presented by the College of Arts and Letters this semester. Wendy Wilkins, dean of the College of Arts and Letters, introduced Stamberg, an NPR special correspondent; Cheuse, a book commentator for “All Things Considered;” Siegel, the show’s co-host; and Scott Pohl, news producer for local station WKAR (870-AM) and moderator for Monday night’s forum. “When I go to a new community, the first thing I do is to turn on NPR,” she said.
In a recent letter Professor Kelly David Ludema claimed the lack of organized religion has caused the worst tragedies in human history (“Organized religion helps, not hurts,” SN 10/12), which is untrue.
In high school, whenever the topic of animal rights came up I would explode into a passionate sermon about the injustices of our treatment and the arrogance of our attitude toward the other living things that are a part of Earth. I’ve been standing on my self-righteous soapbox since I was a kid.
Reporters weren’t asking Joe Goodenow the questions he expected to hear in his first three seasons at MSU.Instead of queries about hat tricks, tape-to-tape passes or bone-rattling body checks, Goodenow has had to explain separated shoulders and groin pulls.Those are certainly not the topics the 5-foot-10, 196-pound Toronto native wants to be synonymous with his collegiate career.“The last four years have really been a struggle to be healthy,” said Goodenow, a senior left wing and center.
I have seen many things that have had the ability to make me feel ashamed for my race and my country.
MSU will participate in the 18th Annual World Food Day today by showing a worldwide live teleconference and holding a panel discussion to address hunger and nutrition issues. “Any graduate or undergraduate student who has an interest in learning about what they could do to help fight hunger and end hunger would benefit from this event,” said Robert Glew, assistant director of the Center for Advanced Study of International Development.
I was walking to class recently when this girl on a bike quickly rode by at a crosswalk. She had been in such a rush she almost hit the girl walking in front of me.
We all know the standard perception of a film critic: a jaded, hateful and spiteful person who hates everything but obscure subtitled foreign films. But despite this perception, I find it hard to believe that anyone actually needs to hear that the new affront to humanity, “Corky Romano,” is bad.
MSU’s wrestling squad landed its third recruit from the area, when Mason’s Tony Greathouse verbally committed to the Spartans on Monday.Greathouse - No.