Faculty, staff and students will have a chance to discuss their ideas and concerns with MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety at a public forum tonight. The forum is sponsored by MSU’s Task Force on Student-Police Relations.
MSU graduate students are satisfied overall with their departments but feel the atmosphere is lacking, according to results from the 2000 Graduate Student Survey.
It’s easy to blame MSU’s kicking game for Saturday’s 27-26 loss at Northwestern since it failed to convert on three field goals and two extra points.It’s also convenient to point a finger at the team’s discipline - the Spartans lead the Big Ten in snafus with 25.
A panel of James Madison College faculty members will discuss threats to civil liberties that have surfaced following the Sept.
Americans have questions that need answers, and many are turning toward religion.Retailers are reporting sales on inspirational, religious and prophecy books have all risen since the Sept.
Crews have been working through the night transforming Spartan Stadium from a gridiron showroom to a hockey shrine for “The Cold War,” and Associate Athletics Director Mark Hollis said the conversion is ahead of schedule. “Everything is going very smooth, just as planned,” Hollis said.
Overall crime rates around the state fell 4 percent in 2000, according to the Michigan State Police, and MSU is seeing some of the drop. A report released Monday said the university has seen a significant reduction in the number of burglaries on campus in the last two years as well as a continued drop in the number of reports of illegal possession of weapons. Numbers for most other crimes remained stable. “We always like to see reduction,” MSU police Capt.
More than 150 people assembled at the Plant and Soil Sciences Building on Friday to witness Michael Thomashow become the first MSU professor to receive the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award.The award honors those who have made significant strides in agricultural research in the United States over the past five years.
I wish I knew how fantastic it would be to have a student greenhouse to hang out in right in the center of north campus, behind the Old Horticulture Building.
I would like to congratulate Ryan Wallace for his serious, yet entertaining article regarding pig “toots” and their manure (“Engineers Seek to Make Oinkers’ Odors Smell Sweet,” SN 9/27). You deserve an award for your eloquent choice of words!
I am one of the many graduate students suffering the great misfortune of being represented by the new Graduate Employees Union.
Upon reading that the Board of Trustees is offering free tuition to the children of the victims of the unfortunate event Sept.
The MSU Evening College may be getting older, but officials say they are ready and determined to continue providing people with interesting and enjoyable courses that have made it popular throughout the years. Following its Sept.
MSU Young Americans For Freedom will take to the Capitol steps with fellow students at noon to protest legislation that would enter the state into the Streamlined Sales Tax Project.The multistate Internet tax project is charged with organizing collections from purchases made online.
While teacher shortages continue to be a problem for public school districts across the nation, the East Lansing Public School District remains unaffected by the trend.According to the National Center for Education Statistics, more than 2.4 million teachers will be needed in the next 11 years to fill K-12 classrooms across the country in public school districts.While teacher shortages have been a problem for several years, it has become an important issue only recently in Michigan, said Michigan Education Association spokeswoman Karen Schulz.“Really this is a problem now, but for many years to come, schools will be facing the dilemma of not having enough people out there who want to teach,” she said.Schulz said reasons for the shortage are a high number of retirees and the difficulty of keeping teachers in urban school districts.But Kevin Green, spokesman for the East Lansing Public School District, said the district has not experienced a teacher shortage and doesn’t expect one anytime soon.He said the school district is popular because of the starting salary for teachers and highly rated special education programs.
After finishing fifth at its first tournament, the Spartan women’s golf team jumped to No. 7 up in the Sagarin Golfweek.com rankings.Fellow Big Ten team Ohio State is No.1 in the poll, and Vanderbilt, Auburn, Texas and Tulsa round out the top five.MSU is 19-4-0 on the season.Two Spartans, senior Emily Bastel (11th) and sophomore Allison Fouch (13th) cracked the Golfweek.com’s top 15 individual rankings.
The MSU men’s tennis team spent the weekend at the Tom Fallen Invitational in South Bend, Ind., taking on Wisconsin, Ball State, Purdue and host team Notre Dame. The Spartans defeated Big Ten opponent Wisconsin 4-2 in singles competition.
For the past year, Brandon D’Annunzio’s friends and family have been trying to rebuild their lives the best they can. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the assault of a 24-year-old Michigan Technological University student outside a downtown East Lansing bar.
Evanston, Ill. - The row of MSU players knelt on the sidelines in single file, clasping hands, hoping for just one more miracle. Apparently, it was the Wildcats turn for miracles- again. That 47-yard Northwestern field goal was the improbable ending to a game that defied all logic. “I just hoped we had a few more seconds left,” head coach Bobby Williams said. But the Spartans didn’t.