Power is a funny thing. Few of us ever have as much as we would like and we frequently have problems with those we think have too much of it. Power is so desirable because it renders us out of control of our situation if we don’t have it.
The women’s golf team is red-hot heading into Gopher-country for this weekend’s Big Ten Championship.The Spartans, ranked 17th by MasterCard and 23rd by Golfweek, won the Indiana Invitational on April 8 and placed second out of 16 teams at the Lady Buckeye Invitational last weekend, falling one stroke short of host Ohio State.Now, they set their sites on a conference title.“I think our odds are very good,” junior Emily Bastel said.
I am writing in regards to Stephen MacGuidwin’s reaction to the increase in ticket prices (“ Increase in ticket prices isn’t right,” SN 4/18). First of all, MacGuidwin’s comment that he would “rather pay $1 a game more, and watch co-Big Ten champion Wolverines play than save and stand another season like last year’s” was ridiculously fair-weatherish.
Despite a recent United Kingdom outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, one of MSU’s little piggies will still be going to the market - on video tape.Normally, the university sends hog like the 130-pound, squealing and kicking carnation pink, black-spotted pig to swine shows to be judged and to be possibly bought by pork producers and breeders.
FLINT - Until recent years, this eastern Michigan city was known for cranking out Buicks. But the municipality’s trademark has changed. In the same fashion it once mass-produced automobiles, Flint’s now mass-developing Spartan basketball players - seemingly with a mold. And they keep rolling off the assembly lines. Less than an hour away from MSU’s campus, the area is known per capita as the Hoops Mecca of the Midwest, evolving playground legends into elite Division I champions and, ultimately, professionals. As college coaches and recruiting analysts look to find Flint’s origin of success, many more prospects are developing right before their eyes. Much of that success is thanks to the numerous athletic advantages this city possesses. The youth movement On a frigid December day - a time when the outside courts go into hibernation - two aspiring grade-schoolers playing in Flint Northern High’s gym strive to be the next sleek models to roll through this athletic factory. With school out of session for holiday, the duo - waiting for their sisters to finish cheerleading practice - look to spark some healthy competition. “I bet I can make more three-pointers than you,” yells one fifth-grader to the other, his opponent.
I am writing in response to Friday’s front-page student bashing (“Inconsistencies found in student’s résumé,” SN 4/20). I am absolutely appalled by the complete lack of tact shown by this newspaper in handling its mistakes.
I have spent hours of researching the past two months, looking up figures, studying histories and reading articles.
I thought free speech was encouraged in our country, but after reading page 5A of Wednesday’s State News, I guess I was mistaken. John La Fleur expresses his opinion (“Institution of marriage is for heterosexuals,” SN 4/20), and the ultra-liberal MSU student body is ready to crucify him.
During the past couple of weeks many incidents have occurred that have brought to light the hypocrisy of this university’s administration.
LANSING - Daniel Anderson had good reason to attend the annual Crime Victims’ Rights Awareness Night at the Capitol on Wednesday evening - he survived a blast from a 22-gauge shotgun more than 15 years ago.The Lansing resident, who spent two and a half months in intensive care as a result of his injury, was joined by wife Pat and son Brian to share his story and offer support to other survivors.“We want to give back to the community and try to help victims of violent crime,” he said.As Anderson shared hugs and smiles with other event-goers, he turned the group of seats around him into a community of support.The care of the Lansing Police and the Ingham Regional Medical Center opened Anderson’s eyes to the needs and concerns of violent crime survivors.
The list of East Lansing’s theatrical mix for the 2001-02 season is out. “We goosed the list up, and now everyone is saying ‘Wow,’” said Marcus Olson, head of acting at MSU. This fall, “Suburbia,” an edgy comedy/drama about suburban kids on the brink, and Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” will grace Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre stage, while the spring will offer the MSU Repertory Dance Company Concert and the musical “Hair.” The variety is pleasing to theater junior Mike McKeogh, who looks forward to trying out for any of the text-rich parts in “Hamlet.” “There’s a total difference and variety in the shows this year,” he said.
All year long,marketing freshman Matt Horton has been spending about six to eight hours a week on a Student Service Learning Project for his American Thought and Language class, “Writing: Public Life in America.”Horton and his peers from ATL will be honored for work they completed in a handbook to be published this fall, titled “Generation Y Speaks Out, A Public Policy Guide.” The event will take place from 3 p.m to 5 p.m.
The MSU hockey team will be looking a little more traditional next season, sports information Director Mike Eidelbes said.The team’s jerseys will be newly designed by Nike with a darker green, to match MSU’s other athletic teams, and a more predominant use of black, Eidelbes said.Eidelbes didn’t have specific details of the new design, but said fans should expect a classic look, following the likes of the Team Canada jerseys.
The last time I went to a wedding, the vows exchanged between the bride and groom said nothing about having children.
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.
Adam Wright spent parts of his five years at MSU cheering the Spartans, jogging the campus trails and assisting a fellow Spartan, state Sen.
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.
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.
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 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.