The MSU baseball team is about to embark on its “biggest weekend of the season” head coach Ted Mahan said. “We’ve got four weekends left - 16 games - and we want to make the playoffs.
Thousands of Michigan homes were without power Thursday while local residents braved strong winds that knocked down power lines, uprooted trees and wreaked havoc across the state.In Okemos, a female construction worker was pinned after a concrete wall collapsed in a construction zone at the Meridian Mall.
I am writing in response to two letters that appeared in The State News last week concerning the Graduate Employees Union (“Unionizing would hurt grad students,” SN 4/2 and “Questions raised by grad union,” SN 4/6). I am one of the 1,200 graduate students who already have joined GEU, and I am confident a union will improve the lives of graduate students at MSU.
Women, who made up less than 10 percent of all enrolled law students in 1970, are steadily becoming the majority of the future lawyer population.Statistics released recently by the American Bar Association show that of the 125,175 students enrolled at 183 accredited law schools, women comprise 48.4 percent of the student population.“You’re seeing a generation of women whose moms went to college,” said first-year MSU-Detroit College of Law student Lisa Hansknecht.“It’s becoming more normal and more natural for a woman not only to get a college degree but to continue on to an advanced degree.”MSU-DCL enrolls 282 women in its day and evening programs, making up 40 percent of the student body.And DCL Professor Cynthia Starnes said there’s power in such numbers.“As women become more numerous they become better able to make demands that they’ve not been able to make before,” she said.“A ‘J.D.’ after a name really opens doors that wouldn’t otherwise open to you.”A J.D.
You remember question No. 28 on the 2000-01 FAFSA form, don’t you? The question about whether you had any previous drug possessions or convictions.
It is refreshing to have the crew of a U.S. spy plane back on American soil in a peaceful manner, but the situation with China could have been resolved more quickly. The 24 crew members of the plane that made an emergency landing in China nearly two weeks ago landed in Hawaii on Thursday.
School: eight months. Work: four months.Then do it again.It’s the cycle many students begin in high school and continue through college: Study hard and then work hard.
A look of disbelief came over Noah Pippin’s face as he walked out of Tower Records-Videos-Books, and found out his classical music source was closing. Pippin, a pre-law junior who recently started shopping at Tower Records, 115 E.
If the term “finals week” makes your blood pressure rise and your palms sweat, officials at the Learning Resources Center think you might want to start preparing now.General business management freshman Nicole Leffler said she’s starting to think about finals already - and for good reason.“I have a lot of finals that are the week before finals week,” she said.Although Leffler said she’s not too worried yet, she knows she has to stay ahead of the game, especially for the cumulative exams.For interested students, the Learning Resources Center will host “Preparing for Finals” workshops for three days next week, to aid students in areas such as time management, stress reduction and test-taking skills. Fred Barton, coordinator of the center, said students from various class levels attend the workshops to refresh their skills prior to exam week.“It doesn’t really matter what kind of test you’re taking - the skills are generic,” Barton said.“The workshops teach you how to make sense of what you read as well as the most effective way to transfer the information in your head onto the test.”The workshops are from noon to 1:30 p.m.
he Easter Bunny is a sneaky but predictable creature. Every year, on the first Sunday after the spring Equinox, it sneaks into homes on silent paws and hides baskets of eggs, candy and gifts for children to find in the morning. The bunny, relieved to get rid of the heavy baskets, then disappears for another year, leaving behind neither hide nor hare. Though there is no shortage of guesses, no one can even say for sure what color, size, age or sex the Easter Bunny is. And just how it carries those baskets stuffed with goodies is as intriguing as how a rabbit became associated with a Christian holiday that gives no value to the four-legged creatures. Because the rabbit holds no religious significance for Christians, Andrea Bendert, a medical technology freshman, said she has ambivalent feelings toward the animal. “As a Christian, I feel that it does detract from the overall view of what Easter is supposed to be,” she said.
A program being offered at 7:30 p.m. today in the Main Library hopes to show the hidden meaning in objects most people take for granted.
If college athletes have a good chance at success in the professional arena, they should take the opportunity to advance their careers, even if that means leaving college without a degree. Jason Richardson announced Tuesday he would enter the NBA Draft.
Stephanie Lauer hates ladybugs - the tiny, red, flying beetles that are considered good luck by many.The nursing sophomore said the bugs, correctly dubbed lady beetles, infested her Wonders Hall dorm room last semester.“We had hundreds of them in our room and we could not get rid of them,” she said.
Darren Middleton, guitarist and vocalist of Australian rockers Powderfinger, can’t complain about how his band’s latest album and United States debut is doing.“You never really see it coming,” he said.
Fans of the popular show “Survivor,” along with vocal music enthusiasts, will be entertained when the campus a cappella group Capital Green performs today.The show, titled “Survivor: The A Cappella Outbreak,” begins at 7:30 p.m.
These days, when the 9-month-old red panda, Achoo, gets sick, she has to be treated in her exhibit.But once construction of Lansing Potter Park Zoo’s $155,000 animal hospital is completed in August, zoo officials will take Achoo there instead.“This will really help us to take care of our animal collection much better,” zoo Director Gerry Brady said.The animal hospital will be the first on the zoo’s grounds, 1301 S.
Rising energy concerns in America may have some oil companies hoping to say “yes” to Michigan.But reactions by Michigan residents and environmentalists to a possible increase in drilling in the Great Lakes have been negative, according to a local poll.
With all the additions on offense for the MSU football team, it would seem like a no-brainer that the scorekeeper at Spartan Stadium will be very busy in the fall.
An office space in the Cedar Park Shopping Center may seem an unlikely place to be swelling with young enthusiasm for the theatrical world. But most nights of the week, All-of-us Express Children’s Theatre’s strip mall spot at 2495 N.
MSU police Chief Bruce Benson will address MSU’s undergraduate student government today about an undercover investigation that placed an officer in a student group. Benson will take part in a question and answer session at the regular meeting of ASMSU’s Student Assembly at 6:30 p.m.