Program helps seniors with late job search

Seniors still searching for jobs will have another option next month.Spartan Sendoff, a new program sponsored by the Career Services and Placement Career Development Center, is designed to help students who have not started a job search but are graduating in May or August.“Students are so busy with finals and graduation that career searches can sometimes be on the back burners,” said Linda Gross, assistant director of the Career Services and Placement Career Development Center.

Columns view of marriage wrong

Well, I read John La Fleur’s column (“Institution of marriage is for heterosexuals,” SN 4/20), and now I have seen the light.

Fraternity teaches job skills

At Phi Chi Theta, some students are helping each other get an edge in the business world. The co-educational professional business fraternity, tries to teach its members communication, leadership and professional skills. This September will mark the 10th year that the group, which consists of 45 members, has been at MSU.

Club shows off blooming beds

A toilet painted in pastels and flooded with colorful flowers was part of the MSU Horticulture Club’s “A Gallery of Gardens: A Fusion of Art and Horticulture” show last weekend.A living room transformed into a garden, complete with a television plant potter, was a hit with the crowd.Max Ferguson, a 5-year-old Williamston resident, looked at the mosaic of plant life in wonder.“I’d never do that to my TV,” Ferguson said.

Headphones are perfect escape from daily trials, just dont overdo it

You’ve seen us around campus. Sometimes you may have even heard us coming. Heads bobbing, feet scurrying and incessant whistling along to some song, or beat.

Cramming? Get thee to a help room with coffee

We shouldn’t have to take final exams, plain and simple. It’s like running a marathon and coming down the final stretch only to see hurdles.It’s just one of those inevitable things though; there is no avoiding finals.

Diversity up, retention down

In keeping with one of MSU’s six Guiding Principles - advancing diversity within the university community - record numbers of minorities and women are coming to MSU.Enrollment of minority freshmen, according to a report released recently by the Office of Affirmative Action Compliance and Monitoring, reached an all-time high in 2000.

Marriage vows dont mention kids

The last time I went to a wedding, the vows exchanged between the bride and groom said nothing about having children.

Band to play for theater funds

Theater sophomore Mike Ransbottom had a little trouble April 14 when his band recorded in a studio at Central Michigan University. “At first it was rough because it’s a completely different vibe in a studio,” the bass player of Mason’s Case said.

Convocation speaker reflects on time at U

Adam Wright spent parts of his five years at MSU cheering the Spartans, jogging the campus trails and assisting a fellow Spartan, state Sen.

Panel to begin examination

It’s a day of firsts for the three-member panel appointed to examine an MSU police undercover investigation of a campus activist group. When the committee, appointed last week by MSU President M.

Web cast highlights trek to North Pole

Sue Carter’s nightmare and her dream are over. The MSU journalism professor and 11 others from the United States and Canada became the first all-women group to reach the North Pole from a Russian-based location at about 4 p.m.

Council continues search for ways to slash budget

Although the East Lansing City Council hasn’t begun to slash away at the city’s 2001-02 budget, it is leaving the whole thing on the chopping block.The city council continued discussion about ways to remove a $325,000 dip into the city’s general fund at its work session Tuesday.The money shortage comes after a year of increased costs for health care, recreation facilities and low Census 2000 numbers.City officials plan to contest the supposed 4,200 drop in East Lansing’s population that could have cost the city up to $1 million in funding.City Manager Ted Staton reported that state funding would not be as low as expected, although budget problems remain from continued use of the city’s general fund.“We’re a far cry from the worst case,” he said.

Run DMC returns with help from music world

Run DMC Crown Royal (Arista) Carlos Santana’s 1999 album, “Supernatural,” was so full of cameos by more than a dozen artists you had to keep reminding yourself it was actually Santana playing guitar in there somewhere. Collaborations with artists such as Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Rob Thomas gave the album a new, unique sound that won Santana eight Grammy Awards. In this way, Run DMC has a lot to look forward to. The group’s new release, “Crown Royal,” is filled with big names such as Everlast, Kid Rock and Method Man. The first - and one of the best - songs from the album, “It’s Over,” featuring Jermaine Dupri, also highlights Run DMC and Jam Master Jay reminiscing together about the journey the group has made from its first album in 1984 to this, its seventh, more than 15 years later. And the group let everyone know how much progress it’s made: “Let me let you all know something/The first rap group to get on MTV/and then they gonna turn around and resurrect Aerosmith/If it weren’t for these cats, you all wouldn’t know nothing about no LL Cool J or Beastie Boys.” In fact, Run DMC is so secure in the fact that it has influenced dozens of rock/rap groups of today, that they continue bragging about it in the following songs, such as the title track “Crown Royal.” But the album starts to go in a different direction with Fred Durst’s appearance on “Them Girls” and “The School of Old,” featuring Kid Rock.

Jeans drive helps boost self-respect

People were tearing off their blue jeans and saying goodbye to their clothes Tuesday afternoon at the rock on Farm Lane. As part of National Size Acceptance Day, members of the campus groups Respecting and Understanding Body Image and Greek Life joined together for the Great Jeans Giveaway.

Marginalized groups deserve affirmative action

In a beautiful media stunt this February, governor Jeb Bush of Florida cried conveniently in front of a Baptist church supposedly because his black aides were being criticized for his abolishing affirmative action.

Lugnuts look for more home wins

LANSING - There doesn’t seem to be any home-field advantage for the Lansing Lugnuts so far this season. The Midwest League’s last-place Lugnuts (4-11) are now 1-7 at Oldsmobile Park after a four-game sweep at the hands of the Dayton Dragons last week. “It’s always good to see wins; obviously that’s what everyone strives for,” Lugnuts manager Julio Garcia said.

Panel meeting to discuss thoughts on infiltration

The three-member independent panel created to examine an MSU undercover police investigation of a campus activist group will hold its first public hearing Wednesday. The public is invited to address the panel at the meeting or in writing.

Police briefs 04/24/01

Homosexuality not related to incest

So I take it now that Pride Week is over, The State News is going to publish uninformed, uneducated, homophobic blathering? John La Fleur’s column was not only insulting, but embarrassing.