State lawmakers announced a plan to assist Michigan residents without health insurance this week.In 1999, 13.5 percent of Michigan’s nonelderly population had no health insurance despite nearly 57 percent holding a full-time job.
With several a cappella groups on campus to choose from, it might be difficult to tell them apart.Luckily, competition between the five groups is minimal - even friendly.“This year it’s been really great, there’s not a lot of hostility,” said journalism sophomore Lindsay Frederickson, a member of Capital Green.Capital Green member and interdisciplinary studies in social science junior Josh Robertson said campus a cappella groups need to work together.“In terms of competition, there’s a lot of respect,” he said.
MASON - After nearly 15 years, a mother’s persistence may have paid off.Muriel Kirby sat with a box of tissues on her lap Thursday while investigators announced they had arrested the man they believe killed her daughter in 1986.David Phillip Draheim was arraigned in 55th District Court on Thursday for the murder of Jeanette Kirby.Kirby, a 36-year-old state employee from Lansing, was found dead in Riverbend Park in Holt on June 12, 1986.
A failing grade can make many students wish they had never taken a course. For students at the University of Alabama, this dream has been a reality through its academic forgiveness policy - a chance for students to drop up to three completed classes from their grade-point averages. Thinking of transferring?
MSU President M. Peter McPherson approved an undercover investigation of a campus activist group soon after police infiltrated it, he told The State News on Thursday evening.“To me it’s almost a classic issue in a democracy,” said McPherson, who had not publicly admitted his involvement in the investigation.
Several East Lansing teachers gathered Thursday afternoon for something that resembled Christmas coming early - just a little more high-tech than the Christian holiday.As part of a new state program, Michigan teachers are able to sign up to receive new laptops from the state for use in their classrooms and homes.Several East Lansing elementary teachers received their new computers Thursday, along with a training session on how to use them.The teachers all opened their bags at the same time, littering the desk with plastic bags and cardboard.
Goodbye. Farewell. See ya.Zach Randolph and Jason Richardson - we barely got to know ya.But as they say, life goes on.The news of the two Spartans jetting for the NBA has sent shockwaves through MSU’s campus.I have to ask: Why is this so shocking or even surprising?Maybe we were spoiled before.
While most MSU students are cramming last-minute information into their brains for final exams, Ryan Miller will be across the Atlantic Ocean, making saves in a German ice rink.And his jersey color will be a much-hated blue instead of usual Spartan green.
With stock markets falling, layoffs increasing and sales on the downturn, many Michigan businesses’ sales are behind where they were this time last year.But East Lansing officials and retailers say such a sales slump isn’t hitting the area as hard.“Our store has been doing fine,” said Jill Repasky, a manager for Urban Outfitters, 119 E.
“Josie and the Pussycats” is a fine example of what happens when teen movies collide. It stars a carousel of alumni from “She’s All That,” “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Road Trip,” who decided to make amends for the damage they’ve done. And it ushers in an era of post-teen movies. It all starts with Seth Green and Donald Adeosun Faison from “Can’t Hardly Wait,” who play members of the trendy boy band Du Jour.
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.