It seems trivial to pick the scores of this week’s games due to the horrific terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, and Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm sent strong warnings to those price gouging at the pumps. The leaders are calling on gas retailers and wholesalers to maintain fair pricing after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon caused sharp increases Tuesday.
Two MSU faculty members boarded a United States Air Force plane Wednesday, departing for New York to identify bodies of Tuesday’s horrendous terrorist attacks.Norman Sauer and Joyce deJong are part of Disaster Mortuary Teams, a group which provides victim identification and mortuary services.Todd W.
Master Sgt. Elmer Duncan said MSU’s ROTC unit is conducting “business as usual” during stressful times throughout the country.“It is the best way to go about this, keeping things close to what we normally do,” the military instructor said, a day after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Although flags are flying at half-mast outside Demonstration Hall and members of ROTC say they are shocked, no further actions or demonstrations have been planned in conjunction with relief efforts, Duncan said.Lt.
Fellow citizens, it is a day like Tuesday that puts our daily lives in perspective. While we spend a great deal of time and thought beating our chests about jobs, our petty problems or one sports team or another, we must not forget what is truly important in this world - the value of human life.
The East Lansing Fire Department is prepared to send firefighters and rescue teams to New York if called upon, following Tuesday’s terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Following the horrific tragedy, the East Lansing Fire Department notified the State of Michigan Emergency Operations Center of their search-and-rescue trained officers. If teams are needed, they will likely be contacted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the New York City Emergency Management Division within the next 48 hours. Fire departments in East Lansing, Lansing, Ann Arbor and Pontiac are all part of a 70-person and search-dog task force trained in structural collapse, urban search and rescue skills. “They know of the offer, and if they need these services it is available at this time,” said East Lansing paramedic firefighter Pete Counseller.
Lansing - About 300 Lansing Community College students and staff sang “We Are The World” today and reflected on those struggling for their lives after Tuesday’s terrorist attacks.The Time for Unity rally was held at Washington Square in Lansing on LCC’s campus.President Paula Cunningham addressed the crowd and college counselors were on hand to talk with community members and offer advice.“I came to unite with my fellow students,” LCC no-preference freshman Alicia Cosgray said.
After Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, Big Ten officials told each school to make its own decision to cancel or hold athletic events this weekend - MSU officials said Wednesday that for the most part, the games are on. “Each school was allowed to take into consideration many factors,” university spokesman Terry Denbow said.
One of the patients I am caring for is almost totally paralyzed. A neurological disease having left her with only those muscles above her neck; she is only two fierce eyes and a voice that barely approaches a whisper.
From wire reports Washington - Federal authorities have identified more than a dozen hijackers of Middle Eastern descent in Tuesday’s bombings and gathered evidence linking them to various terrorist networks, law enforcement officials said. The massive investigation stretched from the Canadian border, where officials suspect some of the hijackers entered the country, to Florida, where some of the participants are believed to have learned how to fly commercial jetliners before the attacks.
Even though head football coach Bobby Williams keeps his practices under wraps, everyone knows MSU must be focusing on special teams this week after Central Michigan blocked four punts in Saturday’s season opener.Special teams and linebackers coach Sal Sunseri took the blame for Saturday’s punt problems and said he should’ve lined up more athletic players in front of the punt team in practice.
Kwame Kilpatrick and Gil Hill are still in the running to become Detroit’s next mayor, but David Jaye won’t regain his old state Senate seat - at least for now. Results from Tuesday’s primary elections showed state House Minority Leader Kilpatrick, D-Detroit, and Detroit City Council President Gil Hill will compete in Detroit’s general mayoral race.
Leaurin Boyington has never given blood before, but she’s never had much of a reason to do so, either.In the wake of Tuesday’s apparent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, she knew it was time to give it a try.“Giving blood (Wednesday) is really helping people,” the supply chain management freshman said.
MSU head women’s basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie will serve as honorary chair of the Greater Lansing Memory Walk for Alzheimer’s disease Sunday.The fourth annual 3K/5K walk, sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association, begins at the Breslin Center and travels through campus.
An open discussion regarding Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington will be held at 6 p.m.
These terrorists attacked the United States at our government’s nerve centers. They attempted to shut down and halt our business, trade, our government
I just read the news, and I have been watching TV all day. Two of the four airplanes were from Boston, where I am now. I am a former president of Chinese Students and Scholars Association at MSU. I trust world peace, which has always been my goal.
Surprises have surrounded sophomore outside hitter-turned-defensive specialist Stephanie Knopp all year.A pre-season chat with MSU head coach Chuck Erbe left Knopp thinking she had to improve if she wanted to play, she said.
MSU Provost Lou Anna Simon remains among the nation’s travelers stranded after all commercial flights were grounded following Tuesday’s terrorist attacks.The Federal Aviation Administration indefinitely extended the ground stop order Wednesday so additional security measures could be put into place.
If there’s one thing senior goalkeeper Tyler Robinson has experience in, it’s hard work.But much of that hard work and experience was in a different sport.Robinson had offers to play lacrosse at Ohio State, Ohio-Wesleyan and Denison universities.