A student representative has been added to the independent panel appointed last month to examine the MSU police undercover investigation of a campus student activist group.Quinn Wright, ASMSU’s Student Assembly chairperson, was invited to join the panel April 30 by original panel members psychology Professor Norman Abeles, former MSU Trustee Russell Mawby and former state Rep.
Spring semester is over. The weather has finally changed for the better, and it is time to reflect on the past year and ponder things that have happened.
Kevin Beard says he’s ready to move on to the East Lansing City Council after seven years on the city’s planning commission.Beard, 45, has been an East Lansing resident for 17 years and has been chairman of the planning commission for the past five years.He said with the experience he has gained on the commission as well as six years on his neighborhood association board, he is more than ready to be a city council member.“I really think I am prepared and qualified to tackle the big challenges the city has before it,” he said.
LANSING - It was a game that a mother would love.Although his team lost to the Burlington Bees 9-7 on Mother’s Day, Lansing Lugnut manager Julio Garcia said the players, as well as their mothers, should not be disappointed with the performance.The 16-run, 23-hit barrage started right away when Lugnut first baseman Blair Barbier (2-for-4) drove in infielder Adam Morrisey (1-for-3) with a first-inning single.
So President Bush is pushing for a new high-tech missile defense system. I don’t think very highly of Bush or any of his plans, but he did surprise me with a quote in the May 14 edition of Newsweek.
After spending the entire year chasing MSU’s 7-year-old single-season record for hits, sophomore outfielder Bob Malek finally got over the hump Saturday during the second-to-last game of the season.After tying the record Friday, Malek’s 85th and record-breaking hit came during the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader against Penn State, when he hit a single up the middle in MSU’s 8-7 loss.“He’s a team player all the way,” MSU head baseball coach Ted Mahan said.
Teen-age time-period jousting movies aren’t exactly a big draw at the box office. If “A Knight’s Tale” is any reflection on this subgenre of movies, it isn’t a very good one. It’s not that “A Knight’s Tale” isn’t entertaining, it’s just that the film doesn’t have the spark to completely captivate an audience for two hours. Heath Ledger (“The Patriot,” “10 Things I Hate About You”) plays the main character, William Thatcher.
Drivers can try to speed away, but they won’t be able to escape from area road closings that may complicate travel.Closings on campus, in East Lansing and in Lansing are planned to continue throughout the summer.The Ingham County Road Commission closed the Farm Lane and Wilson Road intersection last week to begin reconstruction and the installation of a new traffic signal.The intersection has been labeled as the most dangerous and accident-prone area of campus by the road commission, and will be closed through July 13.Robert D’Alcorn, managing director for the road commission, said he isn’t expecting many driving problems because traffic patterns on campus during the summer are slower than during the school year.“We are trying to improve safety by putting in a standard, normal intersection,” D’Alcorn said.
By MALCOLM JOHNSONThe Associated Press LANSING, Mich. - A lawyer for David Jaye said the charges listed against the state senator in a resolution are without merit. “A lot of these charges are stale.
John Munley, a four-year star for the MSU men’s swimming team, died Monday shortly after collapsing during a morning jog near campus.
The man identified as a suspect in an April 26 East Lansing sexual assault shot and killed himself when police approached him early Tuesday morning.A Muskegon County Sheriff’s Department deputy located Jacob Gingrich’s van at about 3:15 a.m.
I already got tired of reading the relativistic columns by Vince Estes. I know that traditional values, the notions of good, bad, nice and ugly are almost a sin in this liberal newspaper. However, if everyone is so relativistic and everybody has his or her own truth, then let me express what I think. Last week, Estes wrote that he regretted the British had not yet discovered “poo humor.” If that was not enough, this week, Estes asserted we are all richer because of Tom Green’s “art” (“New Green film offers fans good laughs,” SN 4/24). I wonder why Estes, after recognizing how repugnant Green’s ideas are, insists on calling them “art?” Many masterpieces in literature and universal philosophy have treated scatological issues in depth and discussed what they say about our human nature.
A 19-year-old female student told police she was raped on campus by two male friends. The student said she had been drinking and playing cards with the men at about 1:30 a.m.
The average American has had nine sexual partners in his or her lifetime according to a recent national survey.A telephone poll of 1,000 adults age 18 to 65 was conducted by Adam & Eve, a mail-order erotica distributor, and showed men on average claimed to have had 14 sexual partners while women said they have had five.Elementary education sophomore Keyan MacCune said societal pressures most likely account for the difference between the sexes.“It’s probably because guys embellish and girls aren’t telling the truth,” she said.
Tonight, MSU students will have their chance to experience an a cappella group that prides itself on musical diversity. “We’re always trying not to be like the typical college a cappella group,” said psychology junior Caleb Sandoval, financial officer of the Accafellas, an MSU men’s a cappella group.
March 22, 2001. A day that will live in infamy. On this date I wrote a column that ran in The State News’ NCAA Final Four special section and the Arizona Wildcat, the University of Arizona’s student newspaper. In the column, I trashed the entire Arizona basketball team and program while fully displaying my Spartan pride, which single-handedly angered the entire Arizona campus - in fact, before tipoff I received roughly 165 hate e-mails from Arizona basketball fans from across the country. Those fans called me things like a white, pasty Midwesterner, Mr. Fatfield and even names that are far too inappropriate to be published in a newspaper.
MSU police released preliminary traffic-stop data Thursday night as part of its spring public forum to address minority issues.The data, which police began collecting Jan.
Shawn Newstead used to root for the Spartans.MSU was her team.That was before her son, Brandon D’Annunzio, was severely beaten while at a bachelor’s party in an East Lansing bar more than six months ago.The assault left the 24-year-old with a severe head injury that would take his life.“If I see someone in a Michigan State shirt or see Michigan State play on TV, I just cringe,” Newstead said.
If sunny skies and high temperatures are calling you from your stuffy seat in the library during finals week, maybe you should listen. Health Educator Jonathan Kermiet said students should allow themselves short periods of time during study sessions to relax and regroup mentally. “Give yourself liberty and license to take short breaks,” said Kermiet, who recommends that students take walks, practice breathing exercises or listen to music to relieve stress. “Cramming is not useful - especially if you’re just sitting there for hours.” Students should try to get a full night of sleep before taking tests.
The last time the Lugnuts traveled to South Bend, Ind., both of their games against the Silver Hawks were canceled because of a bitter mix of cold and rain.But forecasts for their four-game series with the Silver Hawks this weekend predict sunny skies and warmer temperatures.And Lugnuts manager Julio Garcia is hoping the spring sunshine thaws his team’s frigid start.The Lugnuts (4-13) and Silver Hawks square off tonight and Saturday in South Bend and then return to Lansing for games Sunday and Monday.