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.
Walking around campus early in the semester, the offers emanating from tents and tables lined in front of area buildings may seem too good to be true.All a student has to do to get free phone cards and T-shirts is fill out a little information for credit card companies.But in a few months, the phone card is gone, the shirt is faded and all that’s left is a large credit card bill eating away at your savings.“I have about six cards and I’m probably about $10,000 in debt,” said international relations junior Jim Taglauer, who even had to give his last card with purchasing power to a friend for safe keeping after purchasing a home-cleaning tool he didn’t need from a television ad.“The logic that I use is that I’m paying $100 to $150 a year to use someone else’s money.”Many students sign up for their first credit card when they move away to college.Joyce Banish, vice president of marketing at the MSU Federal Credit Union, says most students who receive cards from her organization are responsible, but anyone with a card should follow some basic guidelines to ensure that they don’t get overcome by debt.“A plan and a budget are the most important things,” Banish 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.
One of the nation’s top high school quarterbacks will be throwing the pigskin for the Spartans in 2002.Farmington Hills Harrison’s Drew Stanton, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound senior, told The State News in July he intends to commit with the team in February.“I’ve kind of known for a while and I was going to announce before I went to the Nike Elite Camp, but I decided to wait until now,” Stanton said.The Nike Elite camp, held in San Diego in July, invites the nations’ top 12 quarterbacks.
A Citrus Bowl victory, three consecutive men’s basketball Final Four appearances - including an NCAA Championship - and two Frozen Four appearances in three years by the Spartan hockey team has given MSU quite a reputation around the country.
For MSU wide receivers Charles Rogers and B.J. Lovett, playing in Spartan Stadium will be a whole different ball game.
After three years of residence hall living, Nick Gordon packed up his single room in Shaw Hall and moved off campus.But he wasn’t happy about it.“The dorms really appeal to me,” the general business and pre-law senior said.
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 combination of experienced returning players and incoming freshmen will be the foundation of the 2001 women’s soccer team. “We’ve got a young team, but it’s as talented as any team in the 16 seasons of (varsity) soccer,” head coach Tom Saxton said. Last season, the Spartans finished fifth in the Big Ten with an overall record of 12-6-2, but they’ll be without graduated captains Ann Czieszkowski, Gina Dawson and Sara Kloosterman this year.
Students might notice them sitting locked up next to buildings and fences on campus.Rust might have started to cover the bars, a wheel might be bent or a flat tire might be hugging the ground.These are the bikes that get left behind by students.
Chewing gum while walking is probably not a problem for most - but dialing while changing lanes might be a little different. A recent study by marketing firm J.D.
In college basketball, most freshmen have the luxury of playing in a backup role their first season - allowing them more time to study a coach’s system.But for MSU’s freshman class - 6-foot-4 shooting guard Kelvin Torbert, 6-foot-6 swingman Alan Anderson and 6-foot-3 combo-guard Chris Hill - there are big shoes to fill with swingman Jason Richardson’s and forward Zach Randolph’s early departures to the NBA.“(We) don’t have a lot of time,” said Hill, of Indianapolis’ Lawrence North High.
When Gap welcomed students back to campus Thursday night with a show of its fall clothing line, some students thought it was a little out of style. Outside the perfumed air of Gap, 435 E.
In April 2000, the MSU women’s basketball team filed into the team room in Breslin Student Events Center.
Amparo Alvarado, a social work graduate student, is reminded of her past while recruiting students from migrant worker backgrounds to MSU. Alvarado said her father’s jobs as a migrant landscaper and farmer help her relate with the students. “They see me as an example.
Here is my one save-the-world speech for the year.Not to say I do one every year, but that sounded like a pretty interesting lead - it got you to read further into my column, didn’t it?Sports.