The motto of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life is, “It’s about a community that takes up the fight.” And the MSU community is working to show that’s a true statement. Stephanie Rigler, community development director for the American Cancer Society, said 450 people have already signed up for the event that will take place April 20-21 at Jenison Field House.
Last Wednesday, the Michigan House of Representatives passed a higher education budget that would take a large step in the direction of closing the funding gap between MSU and the state’s other research institutions.
Phyllis Grummon’s excitement has been rising along with the recent local temperatures, but she has been preparing to visit a much colder climate. Grummon, director of university planning at MSU, is one of 12 women from the United States and Canada who left Monday for a month-long journey to the North Pole and back. The all-women Polar Trek 2001 team may be leaving just as Michigan experiences warmer weather, but Grummon said the group needed the recent lingering cold weather to help them train for their trip. “Mother Nature has been good to us,” she said. “I promised everyone that as soon as I leave, they can have spring.” During their journey, the group will be cross-country skiing about 10 miles a day in temperatures as low as -30 degrees Fahrenheit. The women, who range in age from late 20s to 50, arrive in Moscow today and will travel to Siberia later this week, where they’ll spend several days training with sleds and backpacks. They will begin skiing April 13 and arrive at the North Pole on April 24.
The basketball team wasn’t the only MSU sports team that had a rough time this past weekend. The MSU baseball team, which was on a four-game winning streak entering its three-game series against Purdue last weekend, now finds itself on a losing streak after dropping all three games played with the Boilermakers.
East Lansing’s population has fallen by more than 4,000 citizens, putting the city in danger of losing funding for city services.According to the U.S.
University police used an undercover officer to investigate a student activist group that was not charged with any crime, a top department official admitted in response to inquiries by The State News.Members of Students for Economic Justice, an officially registered campus group, said MSU police Officer Jamie Gonzales posed as elementary education junior Samantha Volare to take part in group meetings and activities for months beginning on Feb.
Things have changed for Christian and contemporary musician Sandi Patty since she first began performing. “When I first started out, there were not these big churches that had auditoriums and sound and light things,” she said. “A lot of times concerts had to be moved to theaters or arenas, but now there are so many wonderful churches and great options.” Patty will bring her unique set-up to the Wharton Center this Friday and said her music appeals to more of a family crowd. “There’s something for everybody, from little kids to youths to the younger parent to the older parent,” she said. Fifteen years ago, Patty’s debut album was released and earned $11 million in sales.
Greek Week 2001 was dealt an April Fool’s joke Sunday, when snow and rain caused the co-chairpersons of Greek Week, Jackie Kim and Mark McConnell, to cancel the opening field-game events.“We were going to have food and a DJ,” said Kim, a nutrition science senior.
One of Brent Scarpo’s most memorable gifts in life perhaps wasn’t even the gift itself - but rather the message that so lovingly came with it.He recalls receiving a silver thimble as a college graduation gift from his mother who told him “as long as you fill this with love, care and respect for yourself every night, I won’t have to worry about you.”Sadly, people are motivated to hate when they don’t possess enough of those qualities, said Scarpo, who directed the documentary, “Journey to a Hate Free Millennium.”“Hate does exist,” he said.
I don’t think anyone will argue with me when I say alcohol is a key part of college culture. It seems sometimes the entirety of college students’ social world is built on a foundation of alcohol.I’m not going to condemn that; for the most part, I don’t have a problem with it.
I would like to speak to an issue of vital significance coming before the graduate students at MSU.
Alicia Paulistin tried to vote in November’s election in East Lansing, but was turned away from the polls twice before she received any help.Although she eventually filled out an affidavit that allowed her vote to be counted, the English senior was confused by the problems she encountered.“They said I wasn’t registered to vote here - I know that I registered to vote here,” she said.
A proposed state House bill to require students to be vaccinated for meningitis is an important safety measure and it should be passed. State Rep.
LANSING - Dan Hardley knows what it’s like to maneuver through Lansing without the convenience of Interstate-496. “We did it before and we can do it again,” said the Stockbridge resident, who for more than 30 years has commuted 40 miles daily to operate machinery in Lansing’s Oldsmobile Plant. Today many Lansing drivers will discover how to travel without the eastern portion of I-496, which temporarily closed at 6:01 p.m.
This past weekend, after what many believe was the worst loss of the season for the MSU men’s basketball team, the reaction and behavior of the students truly did exhibit the motto, “Spartans act with class.” This year, being the two-year anniversary of the March 27-28, 1999, riot, many speculated a loss might cause problems in the streets of East Lansing following the game.
Kathy Panoff said watching Brazilian brothers Sergio and Odair Assad perform together is like watching Serena and Venus Williams play tennis together. “Since they’re brothers they have the ability to play very complicated music, intuitively working with each other like the Williams sisters work together,” said the director of events at the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond in Virginia. The world-renowned guitar duo will perform their revived contemporary music at the Great Hall in the Wharton Center Thursday. Sergio Assad said any formation of music requires the performers to know how it’s going to be set up. “Using the example of a string quartet, everyone writes for it,” he said.
MINNEAPOLIS - As Shane Battier cut down the net, the final piece of his storied career was put into place and engraved in history. The Duke Blue Devils’ 82-72 win over Arizona on Monday night captured the school’s third NCAA Championship. “As far as his career, he’s had the best career, as good a career as any kid I’ve coached,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said of Battier.
MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota legends Warren Moon and Kirby Puckett were familiar faces among Metrodome sports fans in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.
Language and lifestyle may have been barriers but Adam Szlachetka, along with other students nationwide, learned they had one thing in common with Mexican workers - they were all fighting for a difference.Along with 14 other people, Szlachetka, an MSU political economy senior, traveled to Metepec, Mexico, two weeks ago for five days to speak with striking workers who work for the Kukdong Factory - one location Nike Inc. uses to produce clothing for many universities, including MSU.“The biggest thing about this trip was knowing that all the work we are doing is being noticed by the workers,” said Szlachetka, who is a member of Students for Economic Justice, a student-led movement against unfair labor conditions and universities involved with companies tied to sweatshop involvement.
LYNN ELBER The Associated Press LOS ANGELES - In the new sitcom “That’s My Bush!” from the creators of “South Park,” President Bush plays host to beer-swilling fraternity brothers, is mocked by a White House maid and henpecked by the first lady. Bush, as portrayed by actor Timothy Bottoms, also accidentally executes a death-row prisoner and is terrorized by an anti-abortion talking fetus. The Comedy Central series is juvenile, coarse and impishly determined to offend.