Although Nick Bofferding and his six roommates split the roughly $50 bill for digital cable each month, the price is still a little high for the mechanical engineering junior. But he doesn’t care. “I’m sure if it were just me paying, I might care more,” he said.
Nick Kovacic’s term as the new president of the Residence Halls Association doesn’t begin until Wednesday, but his goals for the 2001-02 year are ready for action.Among them, Kovacic said he wants students to view RHA as an organization committed to serving and representing them.“If students have issues or concerns about anything, they should be able to come to us,” Kovacic said.
The student group targeted by an MSU police undercover investigation probably will pursue filing a complaint with the university Department of Public Safety Oversight Committee, a Students for Economic Justice member said Thursday. MSU president M.
Anyone with acting chops can try out their stuff Saturday, when local filmmakers will hold an open casting call. “China,” a made-for-television movie to be shot in May/June in the Lansing area, seeks men and women ages 15 to 60 for three principal roles and a host of extras. The cast will feature all ethnicities, but especially black, white, Asian and Latino.
ALBANY, N.Y. - Most fans at FanFest, the three-day celebration outside the Pepsi Arena here in New York’s capital, traveled in packs
Relationships fail. They fall apart about as swiftly as your most recent attempt to attend all your classes, eat your veggies and lay off the Coors Light.
The graduate teaching assistants will soon be voting on unionization and naturally there are the pros and cons for unionization.
The university’s motivation to cut men’s varsity sports to comply with Title IX is understandable, but it should look into other ways of encouraging gender diversity in athletics without having to cut programs.MSU Athletics Director Clarence Underwood announced in April 2000 that the men’s gymnastics team would be cut as a varsity sport because of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Students in all of the university’s residence halls may someday share the same security Char Barwin feels in her Mason Hall room. Above the communication sophomore’s bed hovers a red sprinkler head that would shower the room with 15 gallons of water a minute if a fire ever broke out. Mason and Abbot halls are currently the only dorms on campus with such technology in every room. However, a bill proposed last week by state Rep.
FRIDAY: The Lansing Civic Players bring “Crazy for You” to the stage at 8 p.m.
Don’t be fooled by trailers that promise sex and drugs. Don’t think just because Penelope Cruz is on the poster that she’s in the film for a long time, and that you’ll even like her. And just because you expect “Blow” to be a certain kind of film, doesn’t mean it has to be. In this film, director Ted Demme brings the story of drug trafficker George Jung (Johnny Depp) to the big screen.
ALBANY, N.Y. - Ryan Miller became the second Spartan and the second goaltender ever to win the Hobey Baker Award on Friday afternoon at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center.Miller, a sophomore, triumphed in a close race with North Dakota forward Jeff Panzer and Boston College forward Brian Gionta for college hockey’s most prestigious individual trophy.“It’s a great honor, a great surprise,” Miller told the 1,000 fans in attendance.
Educators and professionals from across the country joined MSU students on campus this week to delve into issues of race and ethnic diversity in the new millennium. The event, “Race In 21st Century America: A 2nd National Conference,” is put on by James Madison College and the Midwest Consortium for Black Studies, a group that includes MSU. Curtis Stokes, an assistant professor in James Madison College and chairman of the conference planning committee, said in its second year, the event has blossomed. “We crafted this idea and it has become a national phenomenon,” he said.
Everyone enjoys laughter.It boosts self-esteem, and gives you the feeling people are listening to what you say.
LANSING - It was a night of firsts for Lansing Lugnuts fan Jim Manley, who attended the team’s home opener against the West Michigan Whitecaps on Thursday at Oldsmobile Park. It was the first time the former Oldsmobile employee and the 6,500 fans in attendance saw the minor league baseball team play this season and the first time they could view a colorful “Hall of History” mural on the south wall of the stadium, which is dedicated to Lansing’s automobile and baseball heritage. Two things Manley knows well. “It shows how much cars are a part of American culture - just like baseball,” he said.
MOUNT PLEASANT - Central Michigan University is extending same-sex partner benefits to its administrators and other nonunion employees.
Poll a majority of Americans about a new movie, tell them it’s called “Blow” and indicate it’s about a drug smuggler responsible for about 80 percent of America’s cocaine in the 1970s.
Self-expression: Look in U.S. history books and it’s everywhere.As seen in the scandalous dances of the Roaring Twenties, peace symbols around hippie necks, sit-ins by civil rights activists and strikes by Vietnam War protesters, Americans of all generations have made their voices heard at all costs.Underground publications have long played an important role in mobilizing support for social issues, beginning as early as 1776 with Thomas Payne’s “Common Sense” and continuing today with the publication of ’zines (pronounced “zeens”).Go to a number of local music stores and you’ll find these cut-and-paste, self-published, self-distributed magazines - often printed in black-and-white ink and bound by staples - available to browse and take home.Young people have long been the leading advocates and agents of social change, so it’s no surprise that most ’zines - derived from “magazines” - are produced by high-schoolers, college students and 20-somethings.“There’s a lot of local ones,” history senior Michael Krueger said.
It’s not about the face that breaks the most mirrors on campus, or students who have really low self-esteem.The “Ugly Man” on campus at MSU is cancer - and the purpose of the Ugly Man on Campus contest, sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega and Modern Skate and Surf, is to beat him.The annual contest, which began Monday and ends tonight, hopes to raise as much as $1,000 for the American Cancer Society.Nine contestants paid a $25 entry fee to have their faces posted on brightly colored buckets, each to collect as much pocket change and donations from passersby as possible.Members of Alpha Phi Omega set up tables with the buckets daily from 10 a.m.
While the ASMSU landlord-tenant ordinance has East Lansing City Council’s attention, the council’s view on the issue is still unclear.Last week, the undergraduate student government sent a letter to the city council laying out the ordinance’s plan, but East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows said initial discussion with council members last week hasn’t provided any insight.“I don’t think they have any impression on the ordinance at all,” Meadows said.The ASMSU proposal would prohibit landlords from showing an apartment or home to prospective tenants or forcing renewal of a lease until one-third of the lease has passed.However, at its meeting last week, the council raised concerns about ASMSU’s lack of landlord input and referred to East Lansing city staff as one of the reasons behind the proposal’s delay.When ASMSU officials began working on the ordinance in December, they requested the help of city staff, but said they obtained little results or feedback.“ASMSU could have sent that letter at any point and time,” Councilmember Sam Singh said.