As if losing seven players to graduation and the NBA Draft wasn’t enough. Now MSU could possibly face its toughest feat in recent history, battling the likes of Florida and Stanford on the road this season.
In its report released Friday, an independent panel said it would have been better if the undercover surveillance of student groups never had occurred and that other alternatives should always be sought out.The report came after four months of research by the panel, which reviewed MSU police’s investigation of a group of student activists.The report also said the Department of Police and Public Safety handled the “extraordinary investigation” without as much care and attention as it may have required.Recommendations for undercover surveillance of student organizations and relationships between MSU students and MSU police also are made in the report.The report follows the placement of an undercover officer into United Students Against Sweatshops, now called Students for Economic Justice, beginning Feb.
When Party at the Aud ended Saturday night, the Auditorium’s lawn was littered with fliers, the rock on Farm Lane had a fresh coat of paint welcoming the map-toting freshmen and more than 230 student groups and activities had recruited a year’s worth of members.“This is the biggest and best time to recruit people,” said special education sophomore Shelley Carlin, a member of MSU Best Buddies.
The Ingham County prosecutor’s office issued a warrant Friday morning for Dennis Michael Salerno in the death of his wife, MSU graduate student Michelle Rizzi Salerno. Dennis Salerno recently began serving a 22-year-to-life sentence in an Ohio prison for the murder of his longtime friend Larry McClanahan of Moscow, Ohio. The East Lansing Police Department participated in the yearlong investigation into Michelle Salerno’s murder along with the Michigan State Police, Ohio’s Wood County Sheriff’s Department and the Bowling Green University Police Department.
In its report released Friday, an independent panel said it would be preferable if undercover surveillance of student groups never occurred and that other alternatives should always be sought out.The panel was appointed by MSU President M.
CHICAGO - Minnesota Viking tackle Korey Stringer, a former star in the Big Ten while playing for Ohio State, died Aug.
Even as a college student, Brad Wever knows he’ll always be a “Neighbor for Tabor.”The social relations senior has been interning with state Rep.
After nearly a year of researching more than 250 applications and interviewing 14 candidates, MSU administrators have selected a new dean for the Eli Broad College of Business and Eli Broad Graduate School.Pending approval from the Board of Trustees, Northwestern University’s Robert Duncan will take over leadership of the schools Jan.
When it comes down to coaching Division I athletics, are women being overlooked in terms of pay and coaching positions?The Chronicle of Higher Education seems to think so.
Ivory McCoy is familiar with doing more than his share. Last season, the 6-foot-3, 235-pound senior split his time on MSU’s football team playing his primary position at tight end and spotlighted as a pass rush specialist for the defense.
A major project in downtown East Lansing is beginning to take shape after a year of construction and more than five years of planning. The City Center Project is a $30 million revitalization of the downtown, which includes a CVS Pharmacy, condominiums that will bring the first owner-occupied housing to the downtown in at least 60 years and office space.
I’m mad for Jennifer Love Hewitt.I’m completely infatuated with her cute, over-bitten grin, exhaustive perkiness and various other assets.
The work on M.A.C. Avenue could be constructing the financial futures of some local businesses. Many privately owned businesses have seen a drop in clientele on the opposite side of the condominiums that are going up. The condos are part of the City Center Project - a $30 million revitalization to the downtown - which is slated to finish in spring 2002.
I have to say, I am very disappointed with the rest of you humans.Here we are, halfway through the first year of a new millennium, and if television has taught me nothing else in the last 20 years, we are terribly behind in our technology.In the early 1950s, TV promised us luxury resorts on the moon by the ’70s.
Preparing for an exam or quiz can be stressful, and finding the right answers can seem impossible. At MSU, professors and resource coordinators have expanded avenues to help students, thanks to the World Wide Web. The Internet has allowed students a chance to improve their higher education.
They’ve become as common around campus as in-line skates and bicycles. And unlike the latter two, they’re allowed in classrooms, dorms, most restaurants and even nightclubs. Cellular phones - or cell phones - have sprouted up all over East Lansing.
Active volcanoes grow larger because they constantly emit a molten lava that covers and replaces previous layers.The businesses on Grand River Avenue seem to work in a similar fashion.“Downtowns are classically very volatile,” Deputy City Manager Jean Golden said.
Unlike most high school students, offensive tackle Kyle Cook is sure he knows where he’d like to attend college.The Dakota High student, from Macomb, Mich., verbally committed April 18 to play football for MSU in 2002.Although Virginia, Duke and Michigan also recruited him, Cook said MSU’s campus, coaching staff, facilities and town made his early decision simple.“At Michigan, I didn’t like the campus and I think the Clara Bell Smith (Student-Athlete Academic Center) is excellent,” Cook said.
The fight to cure diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s has long been an arduous one, but a new field of controversial research may soon change that.Embryonic stem cell research - the extraction of stem cells from aborted embryos - is what many scientists say could be the new direction for the cure of debilitating diseases.“Stem cell research has promise, but scientists must deliver this promise through a lot more hard work in order to ease the minds of its critics,” said Leonard Fleck, a professor of philosophy and medical ethics.Stem cells are “blank” cells that have the potential to develop into any type of cell in the body, such as those of the nerve, heart or kidney.
Your cell phone might be crying wolf without your knowledge.Lansing police Lt. Ray Hall said the department is now receiving many false emergency calls from cell phones.“This year, for the first time, we experienced receiving more cellular 911 calls than from normal phones,” he said.