The MSU men’s and women’s cross country teams will be traveling Saturday to Minnesota for the Roy Griak Invitational. Both teams are coming off impressive showings at last week’s Spartan Invitational at Forest Akers East Golf Course.
Things weren’t going smoothly for the offensive line midway through Saturday’s game at Notre Dame.Redshirt freshman guard William Whitticker left the game with an ankle injury, and junior guard Paul Harker collapsed with a seizure on the sidelines.
Do you still have a few of those Skidz outfits or an I.O.U. sweater and want to be in a movie? This weekend Michiganians will have their chance at roles in a new movie to be shot entirely in Michigan.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, approved a bill to support the improvement of sexual assault education and increase awareness of sexual offenders on campus.Women’s Council presented a statement to ASMSU that will challenge the MSU administration to create a safer environment and produce better standards for accepting students who have been charged with sexual assault into the university.The official statement has not been released to administration yet.Hillary Noyes, a zoology junior and co-director of Women’s Council, said the idea for the statement came from discussions about sexual assault issues that have been raised recently.“A lot of people are confused about the media coverage of Eric Knott,” she said.
What’s better than a five-piece band? A two-piece band who sounds like a five-piece - meet Quasi. The Portland-based outfit, comprised of Sam Coomes (who has contributed bass duties with Elliott Smith) and Janet Weiss (drummer of Sleater-Kinney), will perform their branded method of independent rock Thursday night at the Magic Stick in Detroit. Coomes said the band’s ability to marry somewhat upbeat rhythms with somewhat depressing lyrics comes naturally. “I like music that is rhythmically propulsive,” he said.
There was a time no one questioned his moves, his word was gospel, and he could do no wrong.But with one fax, he has brought a hellfire of controversy upon himself.Michael Jordan’s announcement Tuesday that he will return to the NBA to play for the Washington Wizards has the entire sports world wondering what to expect.To many around East Lansing, his return brings a lift to basketball and to sports in general.“It’s great,” human resources senior Ashli Fabiano said.
People Who Care About Kids is on an empty clip. The group, which has led opposition to the months-old concealed weapons law, announced it is stopping a petition drive to place the issue on the 2002 ballot in an effort to overturn it. The law requires county gun boards give CCW licenses to any adult who completes a gun-safety course and doesn’t have a criminal record or history of mental illness. Previously, those who wanted to carry a concealed weapon had to show legitimate need to possess a firearm. The group says it could collect the more than 250,000 signatures needed, but doesn’t have the money to run the large-scale campaign necessary to compete with gun-rights activists. This is truly unfortunate to see.
“By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.”When I was younger and angrier at everything, my favorite selection from the Bible was Psalm 137.
If MSU’s T.J. Duckett is considered the Midwest’s “freak of nature,” then Northwestern’s Damien Anderson comes in a close second. Both Heisman Trophy candidate running backs are known for their uncanny speed and strength, despite the fact they differ in size. Duckett, at 6-foot-1 and 249 pounds, bruised his way to 1,353 yards in 2000, while Anderson, at 5-foot-11 and 207 pounds, scampered for 2,063 - the most in the Big Ten.
When Jeanne Clery was a freshman at Lehigh University in 1986, she wasn’t aware that 38 violent crimes had been committed on her quiet Pennsylvania campus in the three years before her arrival.Her family learned the statistic a few years later, after 19-year-old Clery was raped and murdered in her dorm room during a botched robbery.
After the semester’s first meeting of the Graduate Employees Union on Tuesday, about 40 of its members marched to Cowles House to demand a contract.At the beginning of the meeting, held in the Erikson Hall Kiva, union members signed a poster-sized letter to MSU President M.
The MSU Spartan volleyball team saw two extreme ends of the spectrum last weekend. At No.
It’s happened.The warning signs were all there. This is a campus of thousands of trees after all.And thousands of students.It was the latter sign that told us the time had arrived.
U.S. Sen. and MSU alumna Debbie Stabenow will speak to students on campus today about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and what can be done for the future. Stabenow, D-Lansing, will discuss the fact that despite national struggles in the past, the government has still managed to pass significant legislation. She will also address the diverse American culture and her experiences as a senator.
Politics and music. During the uprising of anarchy and the evolution of counter-culture in America during the 1930s and 1960s, music played an important role in expressing feelings - both positive and negative - of where America was going. Woody Guthrie was the main musician in a great American tradition in the 1930s - the man who figured out how to merge culture with politics. Then, in the 1960s, Bob Dylan took over.
MSU officials have succeeded in increasing the minority student population, with 20 percent of this year’s freshman class projected to be minority students. But retention of minority students is still sluggish, threatening to undermine the work recruiters do to bring black, Chicano and Latino, Asian and Pacific Islanders, Native American and other minority students to campus.
I was concerned about the improper display of the U.S. flag on the right shoulder of football players’ uniforms Saturday.
The MSU head football coaches are so worried about starting flat against Northwestern on Saturday - like the team did last year - they addressed the issue minutes after beating the Fighting Irish.“They just want to make sure that unlike last year we don’t come off a couple of wins in the beginning and then get too high and forget about next week’s game,” senior linebacker Josh Thornhill said.
Students and community members who love plants will have an opportunity to purchase them at a cheap price Friday and Saturday.In an effort to cut back its live plant collection, the Department of Plant Biology is selling a portion of its greenhouse collection.Jason Kilgore, president of the department’s Graduate Student Organization that is planning the sale, said the need to downsize stems from the loss of greenhouses behind the Old Horticulture Building, which were torn down in August 1999 with the promise of new ones.“While we were waiting for these new greenhouses, the plants were stored in temporary ‘polyhouses’ (plastic houses) on south campus,” the botany and plant pathology graduate student said.
Without question, politics and music go hand-in-hand. But that’s not why I listen to bands like the Dead Kennedys or the MC5. I never even knew what the Dead Kennedys sang about until a couple years after I was introduced to it many years ago, and it didn’t matter. Even now when “Moon Over Marin” or “Let’s Lynch the Landlord” booms out of my box, I don’t hear political messages, but great music by a group that really loved what it was doing.