While perfection is something most strive for, it was something Williamston High wrestler Nick Simmons expected throughout his high school wrestling career.
It was disgust at first bite.With every forced piece, my distaste grew stronger.Growing up, everyone from friends to teachers to distant relatives had similar reactions: “You don’t like pizza?
The East Lansing City Council will discuss the operations for the city’s new Family Aquatic Center at today’s work session. Although representatives from the East Lansing Parks and Recreation Department will be making recommendations about entrance fees, council members will make the final decision. “I think that what they’ve presented us with is reasonable,” Mayor Pro Tem Beth Schwarze said.
In response to Janell Seymour’s letter (“Christ is there - even on vacation,” SN 3/22), I would argue that challenging Christians’ or non-Christians’ beliefs is not always a good thing. I, like many others, feel very uncomfortable when evangelists attempt to “convert” people as part of their Christian duty.
Though they claim the name Animosity, members of the MSU Anime/Manga Club seem to be full of anything but, at least for the anime world. “That name dates from before I was really in the club,” Paul Corrigan said.
I am a hockey fan. My veins run with ice and I get no better thrill than watching a good check or an amazing goal.
One more city, two more games and the basketball team’s third NCAA National Championship? Could be.
Wall Street investors saw a bear awake from a long hibernation, as slowing growth, especially in technologies, has impacted the economy.The Dow Jones industrial average, the most widely used index to the New York Stock Exchange, slipped into bear market territory - a 20 percent decrease from a previous high - before a late Thursday rally and a strong day on Friday, which contributed to the market’s 9,505 points close.Thursday’s low of 9,107 was down roughly 22 percent from the market’s all-time high of 11,723 on Jan.
By BOB THOMASThe Associated PressLOS ANGELES - Russell Crowe took home the golden statue for Best Actor for his role in “Gladiator,” Benicio Del Toro claimed Best Supporting Actor as the honest Tijuana detective in “Traffic” and Julia Roberts triumphed as Best Actress for her role in “Erin Brockovich” at the 73rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday.Del Toro, born in Puerto Rico and reared in Pennsylvania, thanked his director, Steven Soderbergh, and others connected with the “Traffic” production.
Although the entire student population of Washington & Jefferson College could live in Hubbard Hall, school officials have found that MSU and the Washington, Pa., college have a lot in common.Both schools, as well as the State University of New York at Geneseo and Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., have been working to teach each other how to improve relationships with the communities surrounding the schools through a collaborative program sponsored by the Knight Foundation and the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania.The participants in the collaborative effort are meeting for the last time today in Philadelphia, where they hope to discuss how to implement the ideas and programs they saw while visiting each of the college campuses.“I think we’re in a better position to see what the common ground is,” said MSU zoology Professor Don Straney, an assistant to the provost and MSU’s coordinator for the collaborative.
State Rep. Doug Hart, R-Rockford, introduced a bill Thursday that would create “rebuttable presumption” in custody cases involving perpetrators of domestic violence. “It makes sense that perpetrators of domestic violence should not have custody of their children,” Hart said in a written statement. Hart hopes the bill will increase the protection available to victims of domestic violence.
The Big Ten opening game was a disappointment forthe MSU baseball team, who fell 10-1 to Illinois on Friday.On Saturday, the team showed their stuff by beating the Fighting Illini twice in a row with scores of 13-7 and 13-8.Early in Saturday’s first game, it looked as if the Illini might take another win, but MSU eventually prevailed.
The winner of the show beat out all 142 other contestants in appearance and quality, but she was left near speechless when asked what the victory meant to her.“Moo” was her only response.The MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education was filled with hundreds of people and just as many bails of hay for the Michigan Spring Dairy Show and Sale held Friday and Saturday.
In the article on the Horowitz advertisement controversy in Friday’s paper (“Advertisement incites free speech discussion,” SN 3/23;), it’s possible to get the impression The Daily Cardinal ran an ad from several student groups for the purpose of attacking The Badger Herald. The Cardinal staff had nothing to do with developing the content of the ad.
The 4th annual East Lansing Film Festival ended Sunday in the same home-grown way it began - by celebrating Michigan. “It was just kind of great to see real people working in film - non-celebrity status teasing dreams to be the next Spielberg” said Morgan Howard, a senior at Okemos High School. Howard, whose “2 1/2 Shorts” won first place in the high school division of last week’s East Lansing Children’s Film Festival, attended a morning panel discussion on making and financing films in Michigan. “It’s kind of a wake-up call,” he said.
Chink. Jap. Gook. Flip. Slant Eyes. Go back to where you came from. I’m an Asian American.
The Graduate Employees Union is one step closer to gaining collective bargaining power.Graduate assistants are set to vote in an election April 19 and 20 to determine whether they wish to be represented by a collective bargaining unit.“We’re very excited,” said Amy Jones, a sociology graduate student and vice president of the union.
ATLANTA - They rode 12 hours together in one overcrowded RV that smelled mysteriously like sweat socks.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly approved a bill to allocate $33,000 from the ASMSU investment account Thursday to cover speaking fees for g a nationally acclaimed poet to campus Maya Angelou, who is scheduled to speak on campus April 18.“This is phenomenal,” said Melanie Olmsted, Student Assembly Women’s Council representative.