Unlike most 17-year-old high school juniors, offensive tackle Kyle Cook is sure he knows where he’d like to attend college.The Dakota High student, from Macomb, Mich., verbally committed April 18 to play football for MSU in 2002.
It’s a day that 900 women will come together to learn about and celebrate the melody in their lives.The Kaleidoscope 2001, sponsored by the MSU Alumni Association, takes place today at the Kellogg Center, and includes a luncheon and informational sessions in the morning and early afternoon.The theme, An Aria for Everyone’s Life, will focus on music, health and creativity in women’s lives.Alumni Association member Beverly Carnahan said Kaleidoscope, in its 27th year, was created to provide women an opportunity to break away from normal routines and receive information on health concerns and other issues.“The sessions impact events surrounding women’s day to day lives,” she said.“It’s an excellent day for women to come abreast of current things that may have a bearing on their lives.”And the public has been receptive to the event in the past, Carnahan said.“Kaleidoscope has always been one of our most popular events,” she said.“It’s an outstanding program - every year we’ve been at capacity.”Soprano Roberta Peters is the keynote speaker for this year’s Kaleidoscope, and will perform following the luncheon.Peters is a recipient of the National Medal of Art and the Bolshoi Medal, and has performed all over the world.Alumni Association member Sharon Radtke said the association was looking forward to having a vocalist at Kaleidoscope this year.“We thought is would be fun, and opera is something different,” Radtke said.
To all graduate students: As you are all aware now, the certification for the Graduate Employees Union has resulted in a positive vote. I realize there are many graduate students who have worked passionately on both sides of this issue.
LANSING - A game under the lights at Oldsmobile Park couldn’t brighten the play of the MSU baseball team as if lost its second consecutive game to Central Michigan 15-6 on Wednesday night.
Thanks to the MSU men’s golf team, it will be a little harder to get tee times at Forest Akers West Golf Course this weekend.
Getting out of school soon isn’t the only thing putting people in a better mood lately.There is an expected continual warming period with lots of sunshine between today and the weekend, according to the National Weather Service, and most people would say that news puts them in a better mood - at least to some degree.But there are others who get more serious relief from the sun’s rays beating down for longer periods of time during the day.Seasonal Affective Disorder has serious effects on about 5 percent of the population, according to Dr. Robert Bielski, director of the MSU Winter Depression Clinic.“We think the condition is triggered by the shortening of daylight hours during the winter months,” he said.
Two thousand or so years ago, Mallanaga Vatsyayana, an Indian scholar, penned one of the world’s first self-help sex manuals, advising couples on how, with whom and under what circumstances sex should be performed.Today, “The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana” rests on bookshelves and tabletops all over America, serving as an instruction manual for modern-day couples that learn from and experiment with its frank descriptions of dozens of sexual positions, breathing techniques and erotic sounds.“‘The Kama Sutra’ kind of celebrates and helps people reflect on the joy and the beauty - and I guess the limberness and the flexibility - of sex,” said Howard Ruppel, chancellor and academic dean of The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco.
Robby Krieger remembered wanting to write something for the Doors in 1967 that, as Jim Morrison put it, was “universal in nature.” “I figured it should be something heavy duty and something that would have the same meaning 30 years from then,” Krieger said. “So I figured I’d write about one of the four elements - I picked fire.” Thirty years later, “Light My Fire” is one of the best-known songs the Doors ever did, thanks to the mind of Krieger. The former Doors guitarist will be performing with his current band, the Robby Krieger Organization, on Saturday at The Magic Bag in Ferndale, Mich.
A rooster crowed in the background as a group of 14 thirdgraders peered at some llamas.“The llama’s fur is really soft,” said third-grader Michael Smalley, while washing the fur off his hands.Michael, a student at Whitehills Elementary School, 621 Pebblebrook St., was one of 2,000 area third-graders participating in Project R.E.D., which stands for Rural Education Day, at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Wednesday.“It’s fun,” he said.
LANSING - Less than a dozen people gathered on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday to urge community members to “Vote No May 1” and protest Lansing’s school bond.Although hundreds of community members showed up at previous rallies supporting the $388.5 million school bond, only a handful of residents took a stand against the bond, saying they’ll “Vote No” when the city of 127,000 people sends voters to the polls on May 1.
I followed the discussion about shifting editing supervision of MSU’s yearbook to the undergraduate student government, ASMSU (“ASMSU rejects proposal for editorial control of yearbook,” SN 4/24). The motivation behind the respective proposal seems noble indeed: To foster a better understanding of those who are different from you. But is control over a publication really the way to gain more solidarity between races, nationalities, genders or any other diversity category?
President Bush made a poor decision by cutting funds for Reading Is Fundamental, a national reading program. RIF is designed to provide children across the country with paperback books.
Kevin Smith has always been a fanboy.In the writer/director’s 1994 “Clerks,” he wore it like a badge while Dante and Randal argued over which “Star Wars” sequel is better.Now, the man known as Silent Bob on the other side of the camera, will end the debate.
As representatives of Olin Health Center and the MSU Health Team, of which Olin is a partner, we feel it is important to provide important clinical information on the federally mandated use of RU-486.
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.