As University of Michigan President Lee Bollinger’s departure to become Columbia University’s president looms, the Board of Regents is beginning the process to find his successor.We hope the regents learned their lesson from the presidential search that produced Bollinger, as well as the more controversial episode here that brought President M.
Members of the greek community will meet with representatives of the Task Force on Student-Police Relations today to discuss improving relationships between the two groups.The meeting will be at 8 p.m at Lafayette Square in Brody Hall.Assistant Director of Student Life Billy Molasso said the meeting will be a good opportunity for students to voice their concerns about relations between police officials and students.But the meeting will take place in a smaller setting with the hope that students will feel more comfortable talking with the task force, Molasso said.“As opposed to 400 people, we’ll have a small number of task force members and a small number of greeks to really talk about what’s out there and talk about what’s on students’ minds,” he said.The meeting is aimed toward relations between police officials and greeks, but any interested students can attend, Molasso said.“I suspect that the issues that we talk about are going to be greek-related, whether about tailgating or security issues for greek events,” he said.Ginny Haas, executive director of the Task Force on Student-Police Relations, said the intentional small size of the meeting will help students open up about issues of which they are concerned.“We have the public forum that the entire task force attends,” she said.
Last week when I questioned the wisdom of our military strategy, a lot of readers found it downright amusing.
This is the first in a series of articles profiling the four candidates for East Lansing City Council. Kevin Beard is not happy with the lack of public involvement when the East Lansing City Council votes on controversial issues. That concern, along with issues of neighborhood conservation and downtown business diversification, are the reasons behind the 17-year resident’s candidacy for city council. Beard is running in the Nov.
So there were all these people with disgusting pictures standing in front of Wells Hall on Monday. Give me the Wells Hall preachers any day.
The deadline for student basketball season tickets will be extended, MSU Assistant Athletics Director John Lewandowski said Monday. Student season ticket packages cost $152 for 16 games. The change of deadline, which was originally set for Monday, is a result of a low number of ticket requests this season.
A student environmentalist group is urging MSU to go the full 100 percent. ECO met with President M.
A leader of the earliest church in history will give a presentation about Orthodox unity tomorrow. Archbishop Nathaniel of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America will speak about the need for an Autocephalous American Orthodox Church - a separate, self-governing church. MSU’s Orthodox Christian Fellowship and the Orthodox Christian Women of Mid Michigan are bringing the archbishop to campus to speak about the Canon Law required by the Orthodoxy in America, which would create the self-governing church. The law is supposed to create one jurisdiction in America, but it is not enforced, said Janet Peters, president of the Orthodox Christian Women of Mid Michigan.
A body was recovered from the Red Cedar River about 2 p.m. today.Police expect to identify whether it is the body of missing 18-year-old Eric James Blair later today.
Recent scares of anthrax across the country have raised the awareness level among the public, while many researchers are now searching for ways to break down the disease.
East Lansing will be getting a little cozier.Cosi, a new restaurant entering the East Lansing City Center Project, is scheduled to open in the beginning of next year at 301 E.
Justin Ritz lives in a large, three-story home just outside of Cedar Village with eight other people. Ritz, a mechanical engineering junior, transferred to MSU from Western Michigan University this fall and chose to move into the nine-bedroom home with his sister and seven other strangers.
The quiet study atmosphere along the Red Cedar River was interrupted Monday by police lines, vehicles, search boats and a cadaver-sniffing K-9. Students near the banks of the river watched while police continued the search for missing 18-year-old Eric James Blair and the body reportedly seen floating in the water early Saturday morning. Police believe the body may be Blair’s. “When I have time, I like to come here and study because it’s so peaceful,” said biochemistry freshman Meagan Spyker, who watched while the search continued.
It was only a month ago that the Rev. Jerry Falwell uttered some of the most irresponsible words about the cause of the Sept.
I was disappointed to read some of the comments from Rep. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, in your article of Oct.
I am a graduate student in psychology and a member of the Graduate Employees Union. I joined because I have taught many courses at MSU and realize teaching assistants are fundamental to the university and its mission to educate undergraduates.
A dose of déjà vu nearly befell Munn Ice Arena on Saturday night, as a Zamboni mishap delayed the start of the second period by about 15 minutes. During the first intermission, a Munn employee sitting on the Zamboni attempted to throw a giveaway T-shirt into the crowd, but his toss failed to clear the glass in the northeast corner of the rink.
More congratulations to college hockey’s winningest coach. MSU hockey head coach Ron Mason reached the landmark 900-win mark Saturday after the Spartans downed Ferris State at Munn Ice Arena. The milestone comes only weeks after Mason and his crew successfully pulled off the largest attended hockey game in the world. More than 74,000 people attended “The Cold War” in Spartan Stadium on Oct.
More than 150 students, some armed with rakes and hoes and all with hands and a heart, took to the streets Saturday to volunteer in the Greater Lansing area.MSU and LCC students took part in the annual Into the Street Kick-Off by giving four hours out of their day to provide different services at more than 20 locations.This year’s theme, “United We Stand with Helping Hands,” was dedicated to the Sept.
Every day when I walk through campus I find myself looking at symbols of patriotism because of the tragedy that occurred Sept.