To doctors at the MSU Clinical Center, multiple sclerosis research isn’t all about tests and trials - it’s about the patients. Dr. Eric Eggenberger, an MSU associate professor of neurology and opthalmology, has worked throughout his career to find and use new treatments for the disease, but also to make it easier for those afflicted by MS. “Multiple sclerosis is a very common disease,” Eggenberger said.
While attempts have been made to encourage Olin Health Center to offer RU-486, officials say the clinic isn’t qualified to make the abortion drug available.Members of ASMSU, the university’s undergraduate student government, met with Olin Director Dr. Glynda Moorer in February, encouraging her to consider offering RU-486 at the health center.But despite requests, Moorer said there is nothing to consider when it comes to offering the drug.“It wasn’t something we really even talked about once we saw what the requirements were,” she said.In order to provide the drug, clinics must be able to provide surgical intervention in the case of an incomplete abortion, offer 24-hour service to patients who take the drug and diagnose an ectopic pregnancy - a pregnancy that develops outside of the uterus.Moorer said Olin is not able to offer any of these services, but the main reason for not offering the drug is the clinic’s inability to provide 24-hour care.“When you perform surgery on someone, for an abortion or otherwise, you need to have someone available at all times in case of emergencies,” she said.
In John La Fleur’s column Friday, he states marriage should be reserved for heterosexuals because “marriage is a formal mechanism to establish order in the lives of children.” Therefore, because homosexuals are incapable of having children among themselves, he argues they shouldn’t be allowed to marry.
The MSU women’s club water polo team knows firsthand how sweet victory can be. The team won its first Big Ten Championship on Sunday at Ohio State, defeating Illinois 4-2.
I don’t know what it is to be hated for what I am. I’ve been disliked for who I am, my beliefs and ideals, but not what I am. No one hates me because I have blue eyes.
David Jaye may learn his fate today as his colleagues discuss his future in the state Senate. Jaye’s future as a senator has come into question after he was jailed April 12 in Florida on charges of assaulting his fiancée. Senate Majority Leader Dan DeGrow, R-Port Huron, who relieved Jaye of his committee assignments, will announce today his recommendation regarding Jaye’s most recent actions to the Republican senators at a caucus meeting.
The men living at 125 Fern St. had been planning a graduation party, but Mother Nature seems to have other plans.A gust of wind from a line of severe thunderstorms sent a huge limb crashing down on their two-story house at about 4:30 p.m.
You have to feel sorry for the people of Peru if they are relying on President M. Peter McPherson to make sure they have a functioning democracy. McPherson’s paranoiac behaviors regarding Students For Economic Justice is far more damaging to this university than binge drinking and sports-related riots ever could be.
Erin Tobey hopes a group of concerned students and citizens can preserve East Lansing’s individuality.The English sophomore and roughly 30 other MSU students and community members met Monday at Bagel Fragel Deli, 527 E.
There is so much faulty logic and misused rhetoric in John La Fleur’s column, that one hardly knows what to respond to.
The three-member independent panel created to examine an MSU undercover police investigation of a campus activist group will hold its first public hearing Wednesday. The public is invited to address the panel at the meeting or in writing.
Although there may still be future problems to solve, educational leaders considered variables that have made Michigan measure up in math education on Monday.More than 150 professors, teachers and researchers from across the state attended The Complete Equation: The Michigan Mathematics Success Story, a convocation held at the Kellogg Center to celebrate a decade of K-12 math education improvement.Participants reflected on recent math reports including the Third International Mathematics and Science Study-Repeat, or TIMSS-R - a study allowing states and school districts to see how their math and science programs rank globally.Michigan eighth-graders performed best among the 13 states th make the nation more competitive internationally.
It’s been nearly a year since MSU graduate student Michelle Salerno disappeared from East Lansing. Monday, her family learned of her whereabouts. Salerno, who would have received her master’s degree in speech therapy in May, was identified as the body found Friday in an Ohio landfill, an autopsy confirmed Monday. She was last seen June 29. “The last year’s been pretty much a nightmare,” said Patricia Rizzi, Salerno’s mother.
The members of the Graduate Employees Union should be congratulated for their hard work in solidifying their collective bargaining victory. Graduate employees appointed as teaching assistants went to the polls Thursday and Friday to vote on whether they wanted to be represented by a union.
If we subscribe to the ideas that John La Fleur suggests are correct in his column, we may find ourselves in a scarier, more unfortunate situation than what already exists by not allowing homosexual marriages. The way that marriage was described to me for as long as I can remember is that it is an institution for which people who love each other can live together with certain benefits and recognition - such as a joint tax situation or health benefits. Never was it described to me as “a legal union from which children are born.” The idea of marriage for the purpose of procreation is ridiculous.
I am writing this letter in response to John La Fleur’s column. I found La Fleur’s opinions to be ignorant and offensive.
I would hate to be John La Fleur’s wife. I can picture La Fleur coming home after a busy day.
MSU’s reign over a “Snap Crackle and Pop” concoction has been usurped.And Iowa State University has snatched the title.MSU’s record for the world’s largest Rice Krispie Treat fell Saturday when Iowa State’s marshmallow treat weighed in at 2,500 pounds - 500 pounds more than the Spartans’ 1997 record-breaker.Steve Sullivan, a spokesman from Iowa State, said the school’s mission was not to beat MSU - but instead to honor alumna Mildred Day.“So it really didn’t matter who held the previous record because we would have done this anyway,” Sullivan said.Day, who died in 1996, was a Kellogg’s employee, and is said to have been one of the creators of the first prototype of the cereal-marshmallow treat that has gained worldwide popularity.In fact, most obituaries published when Day died credited her with inventing the snack, Sullivan said.Iowa State’s masterpiece - which secured a place in the next edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s largest Rice Krispie Treat - used 818 pounds of cereal, 1,466 pounds of marshmallows and 217 pounds of butter.There was one stipulation with all the cereal used.“What was funny is that we had to open all the boxes, and they all had a prize,” Sullivan said.
The haunting bell sounds filling the heart of campus from noon to 12:30 p.m. today will stem from the musical talents of guest carillonneur Jeffrey Bossin. A carillonneur plays the carillon, which resembles an organ.
In John La Fleur’s column published Friday, he made public his ignorance of the topic of gay and lesbian relationships, as well as the role marriage plays in society. Sociologists recognize marriage not as a “legal union from which children are born,” but as “a multifaceted bond based on commitment, love and intimacy.” In addition, the reality of marriage is that many marriages remain childless by choice. La Fleur should have done some research before presuming to know what marriage means to American society.