G-rated movies, characteristically known for lovable animated characters and family-fun-type content, may have more “adult” content than previously thought.
With the cold, rainy weather that’s started June, it’s been a little harder for the East Lansing community to really enjoy the world outdoors.
The state House is preparing to examine the issue of racial profiling as a new package of bills makes its way to the Legislature.Racial profiling is a practice in which police take action based on race, ethnicity or national origin rather than illegal or suspicious activities.“For more than 15 years, the use of racial profiling has grown,” said state Rep.
State Sen. Dianne Byrum on Tuesday provided written testimony to the national commission on election reform, urging it to seek federal funding to modernize and improve poll machinery. “I find the election issue interesting and challenging,” said the Onondaga Democrat whose district includes MSU.
Despite his college plans, Dan Reese took it easy his senior year of high school.“I had a lot of blow-off classes,” he said.
The Michigan Peace Team has been anticipating this trip since May 16 - the original date for the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.On Saturday and Sunday, 12 members of the team loaded up two vans with food, water and their signature yellow vests for Terra Haute, Ind.“We have got the good Lord on our side,” team member Ray Fielder said.
By SHARON COHEN The Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Timothy McVeigh counted down his final hours Sunday in a stark isolation cell, described as confronting death in good spirits and confident he is the “victor” in his twisted one-man war against the government. McVeigh spent the day in the 9-by-14-foot cell, a short walk from the execution chamber, phoning family and writing letters as he awaited death by chemical injection at 8 a.m.
The East Lansing City Council will meet Tuesday to discuss ways to spread out rental properties in the city. Jean Golden, deputy city manager and chief of operations for East Lansing, said the city wants to begin working more with MSU, neighborhoods in the city and the school district. “We want to have a real diversity of housing for families and individuals at all income levels,” she said.
Michael Henry admits he has watched a few high-speed police chases as they’ve been documented on late-night television programs. But he won’t say he enjoys what he sees. “It looks like it’s pretty dangerous stuff,” said Henry - an aviation sophomore at Lansing Community College - about the videotaped pursuits, which often result in a crash. But “pretty dangerous” may be an understatement.
“Swordfish” begins by complaining about the low quality of modern cinema, and then spends the next hour and a half proving its ironic point. The whole thing starts off well enough, as a par-for-the-course action movie with some exciting effects that showcase just how much a film can get away with if its budget is big enough.
In regards to last week’s State News editorial (“Blind decision,” SN 6/4) I would be interested in hearing the voices of the 30 students currently enrolled in this program, as well as the voices of visually impaired students at MSU concerning this issue.
Students and residents riding the bus may have to find alternate forms of transportation after Capital Area Transportation Authority eliminates some of its stops and routes in August. CATA will be holding public hearings today and Tuesday to let the community help decide which routes can be cut, said Brad Funkhouser, director of service development for CATA. Funkhouser said CATA is cutting routes because the cost to maintain and operate the buses has risen, while revenue has decreased.
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.
Nearly 100 people gathered for a rally on the lawn of the Administration Building on Friday afternoon.Many of them couldn’t see the signs they were holding, the building they marched in front of, the administrators they spoke to or even their fellow protesters.Supporters of the National Federation of the Blind came together following a freeze on the enrollment to the visual impairment special education program through the College of Education.“There’s clearly a solidarity with the blind community,” said Fred Wurtzel, president of the National Federation of the Blind of Michigan.
When Edward Koryzno graduated from Michigan State College, campus barely extended south of the Red Cedar River.There were no McDonald’s restaurants.
By BILL WARD For The State news A slow start, combined with juvenile potty humor, an unoriginal plot and poor special effects, make director Ivan Reitman’s science fiction comedy “Evolution” a movie that only a grade-school-age child might enjoy.
I’ve been told things will be hard for me when I leave college and enter the “real world.” Not only have people I know told me this, but it seems to be a piece of common wisdom.
North Lansing’s 26th annual Heritage Festival will offer free live music, food and drinks all weekend long as organizers try to lure visitors to Old Town.The festival is a summer celebration of Old Town, which is on the north side of Lansing located on a strip of East Grand River Avenue.This weekend’s festival, sponsored by the North Lansing Community Association, is free to the public and refreshments will be available at tents near the stage.
Dan Harding is so short on money that he considers plasma donation a second source of income.So when the English senior saw that prices for soda from on-campus vending machines had gone up, he was upset - but still drinking soda.“It makes me angry because they know they can raise the price and I’ll still pay it,” he said, still sporting his plasma-selling bandage.