LANSING - Top NCAA Tournament seeded MSU hopes that it will receive more hardware within the next week, after fairing well with coveted team awards at its annual Basketball Bust Monday night.
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Criminal justice sophomore Brad Collins said he enjoys betting on the NCAA Tournament because “it’s fun to be in a pool with a group of your buddies.” But Collins, who said the pools he enters normally have small entrance fees, admitted there should be red flags waved when betting on college athletes goes too far. “I see it being a problem because people are winning and losing money based on amateurs’ performances,” he said.
This is the second in a five-part series profiling one of MSU’s Alternative Spring Break trips. MISSION, S.D.
This letter is in response to the article “Spotlight program targets underage drinking” (SN 3/1). It seems the “Spotlight” program is yet another attempt of the East Lansing Police Department to harass students in an attempt to cut down on victimless crimes.
In Tupelo County, football reigns supreme and the annual Easter Egg Hunt takes on Super Bowl proportions.
They’re going, but they’re not going that fast. There were 10,000 tickets available for the South Regional of the NCAA Tournament available Monday morning.
This is the second in a five-part series profiling the contestants of the Mr. Black MSU pageant. DeJuan Lever originally had no plans of running for the title of Mr. Black MSU on Saturday.
Steve Crosby, the executive editor of the Lansing State Journal, announced to the paper’s staff Monday that he had been asked to resign from his position.According to a source close to the publication, Crosby, who has been at newspaper for more than five years, said he would be taking another job within the next two weeks in Ann Arbor.When contacted by The State News late Monday evening, Crosby only said that he wasn’t released from his position.Michael Kane, the newspaper’s publisher, was unavailable for comment Monday.
The East Lansing City Council will continue discussion of an ordinance that could change the maximum height allowed for city buildings at tonight’s work session.
Syndicated TV: My best friend.Mokey. Boober. Wembley. Red. Do any of these names sound familiar?My roommates and I woke up at our usual Saturday time, around 11 a.m.
Matthew Mitroka plans on spending the rest of the semester preparing for graduation and graduate school, working on his new East Lansing home - and knocking on dozens of his neighbors’ doors. The geography senior will be campaigning for a seat on the East Lansing City Council.
Northwest Airlines mechanics gathered in front of the White House on Monday protesting President Bush’s intervention in contract talks between their union and the Minnesota-based airline. Now, one day later, attorneys and high-ranking labor officials will take part in a labor law symposium on the MSU campus. The symposium, sponsored by the Law Review of MSU-Detroit College of Law, will be held at 7 p.m.
The president’s plan is fair to all income taxpayers, sending money back to the people who sent it in.
Sam Howerton is hoping to offer more privacy to graduate students.Howerton, president of the Council of Graduate Students, is seeking to limit access to the MSU Web site’s Pilot e-mail directory, permitting access only to registered Pilot users.The move comes after Howerton received several complaints from constituents about excessive advertisements and solicitations in their Pilot e-mail boxes.“We get spam for all sorts of businesses that seem to have nothing to do with graduate student life,” he said.
The House Appropriations Committee will be deciding an appropriate funding level for MSU and other state colleges and universities soon.
The formation of the Graduate Employees Union will benefit graduate employees and is unlikely to hurt the university. The recently formed union is awaiting approval by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission.
By LARRY LAGE The Associated Press ANN ARBOR - Brian Ellerbe will not be back next season to coach Michigan’s basketball team, a source close to the basketball program said Monday. The details of Ellerbe’s departure and when the university was going to announce the decision were not clear by Monday evening.
The 1,500 teaching assistants and graduate assistants on MSU’s campus have been organizing the Graduate Employees Union for a while now, and with two-thirds membership they recently filed an election petition.
To Rodney Whitaker, jazz crooner John Pizzarelli is one of the premier keepers of the American song. “It’s amazing for a guy his age to be in love with the American songbook and keeping with that tradition is an incredible thing,” the assistant professor and director of jazz studies said. Backed by the John Pizzarelli Trio and The Big Band Swing Orchestra, Pizzarelli will perform with another noted jazz performer, Maureen McGovern, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.
WATERVILLE, Maine - Grabbing a cab in New York City may be a whole lot easier, thanks to Danny Glover. The actor, who played Mel Gibson’s sidekick in the “Lethal Weapon” movies, complained in 1999 to the city’s taxi commission that cabbies passed him by because he’s black. “Most black men I meet in New York City thank me because now they can get a cab,” Glover told about 300 Colby College students. Speaking at the private college on Saturday to help celebrate diversity, Glover told students to reject divisive social, ethnic and religious stereotypes and look at the world in a new way. “Diversity is about honoring and celebrating our interdependence, our basic humanness,” he said.