There is not expected to be good news for the financially minded today. State economists are meeting to examine Michigan’s fiscal future.Three state agencies will be participating in a revenue-estimating conference to discuss the state’s economic shortcomings and what may be done to combat them.The situation is better than the early 1980s.
MSU’s Duffy Daugherty Football Building is operating more like an infirmary these days. With at least 10 players injured - six of them out for at least three weeks or more - the prognosis is shaky for a strong second half of the season. The Spartans’ latest spell of doom came Saturday in a 28-19 loss at Minnesota. And nobody was hit harder than MSU’s quarterbacks.
Students do have rights, believe it or not. ASMSU/COGS Student Legal Services, Academic Assembly and Student Assembly are working on letting students know what rights they have anytime they want to know. These groups within MSU’s undergraduate student government are working to make business cards that list some of their basic rights. Aaron Kelly, director of legal services, said he got the idea at an Associated Big Ten Schools conference meeting last summer.
A bid in a NCAA tournament may not seem like a major milestone, but compared to virtual nonexistence two years ago, the MSU women’s tennis team will take it. Four players from the team have received invitations to compete in the NCAA regional tournament Thursday through Sunday in Madison, Wisc. Surprisingly, the oldest player among the four is a sophomore, Caroline Lay. But looking at the makeup of the team, it’s no surprise.
A contribution from MSU President M. Peter McPherson may allow more students to travel the world and, virtually, to the stars.McPherson said Monday that he will donate $15,000 of his salary toward study abroad scholarships for students in the College Academic Achievement Program (CAAP), an initiative of the Office of Supportive Services.He will also donate $10,000 toward the construction of the SOAR telescope in Chile, which is owned and operated by MSU and its four partners in the Southern Astrophysical Research Consortium.McPherson said he hopes both donations show how MSU is internationally connected.
When MSU freshman walk-on guard Jayson Vincent enters practice at Breslin Center each day and looks to the rafters, he’s reminded of his father. Vincent, who came to MSU from Mason High School, is the son of Lansing legend Jay Vincent, a member of the 1979 MSU basketball national champion team and the fifth-leading scorer in MSU history with 1,914 career points. The family ties don’t end there - he’s also the nephew of MSU’s sixth leading all-time scorer, Sam Vincent, who played in the early 1980s and scored 1,861 points. Coming from a strong MSU lineage is a lot of pressure, Vincent said.
State Rep. Mike Murphy is hopeful state lawmakers won’t take a dicing approach to budget cuts after today’s revenue estimating conference.The Lansing Democrat said the state will need to tighten its spending but should use caution in setting priorities for appropriations.
Comic book nerds, you know who you are. Just like the classic “Star Wars” geeks and those people who come to college only to spend their weekends playing Dungeons & Dragons, leaving the girl-chasing to those without 20-sided dice, you have these obsessive little habits, like wearing your “Akira” T-shirt twice a week without washing it or posting your own page on the Net about which character made a better Green Lantern. But comic book nerds will probably be the only ones who really understand how the new movie “From Hell” misses the mark.
Sarah Stollak started Millenary as a way to express her creativity. The MSU Museum Folk Arts Department employee was attending MSU when she formed the band in 1996.
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.