After getting off to its best start in school history with a 2-1 win at Iowa on Friday, the MSU women’s soccer team found itself on the other side of that score in Illinois on Sunday.
At a stop in Flint on Thursday, President Bill Clinton spoke about the digital divide in America.Meanwhile, tucked in a corner of Bessey Hall, there is a center dedicated to technology and learning for students and faculty with disabilities aimed at eliminating the deficit Clinton spoke of.The Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities Assistive Technology Center uses a variety of tools, computer equipment and software to help MSU students have the best learning experience possible.The technology center, located in Suite 120 of Bessey Hall, includes software that can read aloud to students, create electronic books or enlarge print for low-vision students.A raised, talking map of campus helps blind students find their way around, and three real-time captioning specialists type out lectures and class discussions for deaf students.
MSU-Detroit College of Law ranks below Lansing’s Thomas M. Cooley Law School in a recent study ranking law schools.Using statistics from the American Bar Association, Cooley Dean Don LeDuc released the school’s third annual Program Achievement Rating study ranking U.S.
I am writing in response to the two political letters that were printed in The State News (“Michigan proposal goes against ban,” SN 9/21 and “Vouchers combine church and state,” SN 9/21). I would like to know why people write these letters, and why The State News feels they absolutely must print them? I write several letters to the editor a year.
There was more than the excitement of a legendary rivalry in the air Friday as players and fans prepared for a contest between the Spartans and the Fighting Irish.In a Kellogg Center banquet room, officials gathered to celebrate the connection between MSU and the University of Notre Dame.
AUGUSTA, Mich. - MSU President M. Peter McPherson received his traditional 3 percent raise and a $25,000 bonus at Friday’s MSU Board of Trustees meeting.The board, which met at the university’s newly acquired Brook Lodge in Augusta, Mich., voted unanimously to boost the president’s salary.Since his arrival, McPherson has been insistent on limiting his raise to 3 or 4 percent, an amount somewhat comparable to what other university employees have received.And he said he will donate the bonus, a one-year stipend, back to the university to plant 2,000 trees on south campus as part of a beautification project.“I really didn’t come here to make money on this job,” McPherson said.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson’s $25,000 bonus is an insult to MSU’s underpaid faculty.
Students living on three floors of Bailey Hall emerged from their rooms one Saturday morning to find offensive writings and crude drawings covering their hallways. An unknown person or people vandalized the interior of the Brody Complex hall after midnight Sept.
Maria Garcia-Mugg dropped to her knees and began to cry when she observed the rock on Farm Lane early Friday morning.The entomology sophomore spent most of Thursday night helping to paint the rock as part of Culturas de las Razas Unidas’ celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.But as she passed the rock on her way to class Friday, she saw a sight she called “disturbing.”“The rock had been painted over by the same fraternity that had given me their word that they would not do it since this was a cultural event,” Garcia-Mugg said Sunday.The heritage month began Sept.
Lawmakers will be addressing key issues this week in the state House and Senate - most notably, the bill to fund higher education for the next fiscal year. The state House is expected to vote on a budget bill that will appropriate $1,838,900,562 to Michigan’s 15 public universities.
Jeff Smoker is a wide-eyed 19-year-old freshman.Saturday he grew up.With MSU’s fate resting in his right arm, Smoker, playing for injured starter junior quarterback Ryan Van Dyke, delivered a perfect strike to Herb Haygood on fourth-and-10 with 1:48 remaining in the fourth quarter.And the rest was Haygood history.When the junior wide receiver crossed the goal line 68 yards later to give the Spartans the conclusive 27-21 score over visiting Notre Dame, Smoker confirmed he possesses maturity and poise well beyond his teenage years.“They blitzed and left (Haygood) one-on-one and I hit him right out of his break,” Smoker said.
In a game vs. two-time defending NCAA champions Indiana (6-3) that could have swung either way, the MSU men’s soccer team (4-3), found itself on the losing end of a controversial game.
Enrollment may only be up slightly this year, but some students still think campus seems more congested than past years.“It has seemed a little more crowded during peak hours - when big classes let out it’s more crowded on the sidewalk,” Lyman Briggs sophomore Jennifer Eschbaugh said.
HICKERY CORNERS, Mich. - MSU trustees, President M. Peter McPherson and other administrators inaugurated the university-owned, newly renovated W.K.
AUGUSTA, Mich. - Colleen McNamara, a five-year veteran of MSU’s governing body, was elected chairperson of the university’s Board of Trustees on Friday. McNamara, who joined the board in 1995, replaces former Trustee Bob Traxler, who resigned in August to accept a position on the Mackinac Island State Parks Commission. “It’s really an honor,” McNamara said Friday.
The stories on Harvard Professor Stephen Jay Gould and discussions with MSU President M. Peter McPherson, Ronald Fisher, director of the Honors College, and others is among the most exciting articles I’ve read in my nearly 40 years at MSU.
We have all done it. Scanned through popular “girlie” mags to search for the perfect ’do, the top 10 ways to catch his eye or the fab five diets of the year to lose 10 pounds in a week.
I am writing in response to Tom DeKorne's letter (“‘U’ women are not always nice,” SN 9/22). In it he basically said that only shallow, one-night-stand-seeking guys go to bars or parties.
Rebecca Titus: Titus Farms in Leslie.517.910.3002Growing alongside her parents’ crops, Rebecca Titus became accustomed to the world of farming at a young age. Titus attended MSU and graduated with her masters in Horticulture in 2008, which according to is the art of planting and managing gardens, such as vegetables, fruit, and ornamental.“This farmer’s market is the reincarnation actually of an old farmer’s market that I went to when I six-years-old. . .it stopped for a while because it ran out of farmers and the traffic wasn’t that great. So when I was in college, one of the people who ran that market actually approached me and said, ‘Do you want to help us consult and figure out where we would put a new farmer’s market?’ I was a sophomore and hung out with them a for a while. We figured out where to put one. We’ve been going to this farmer’s market since its conception six years ago. It’s celebrating its sixth year.” Farm's been open since '82. Mom had food allergies so tried natural foodsAbby Rudnicki: First year of managing the market.Graduated from MSU in 2014? with a degree in communications and a cognate in behavioral sciencearudnic@cityofeastlansing.com“So the EBT and the double up food bucks program. So EBT is the government assistance food program. So the way it works is the people who bring their snap bridge cards in can take money from their account and EBT coins. So for every ten dollars you get ten dollars extra in these little silver coins . . . double up food bucks can only be used on fresh produce. So only fresh fruits and vegetables. . . It’s a really really great program and it encourages healthy eating along with offering more assistance for people who need food. So that’s been a huge thing for us at our market and something we’re incredibly supportive of. . . We’ve always accepted snap bridge cards . . .” “This is going to sound super cheesey, but (my favorite part of the market is) the sunrise and setup. Watching the bustle between vendors, seeing everything laid out perfectly before customers show up, all the colors and smells. It’s soothing,” Rudnicki said. Julia Kramer Residential College in the Arts in Humanities with a minor in Spanish and a specialization in sustainable agriculture and food systems ustomer’s Bridge Cards, gives out tokens for the Double Up Food Bucks, and helps to explain the program to customers** Find out exact year for double up coins**Grant from MEDCOnly market in the state of Michigan with all Michigan made products. Christine Miller: Spartan Country Meats in Webberville.Graduated from MSU in 2000 with a degree in Animal Science with a focus on food processing.517. 375. 6337Manages at the Meridian Farmer’s Market**How long she’s been managingMother of three sons that help out.Also sells to: Red Haven Restaurant (address?)Farm Fresh SeafoodMid Michigan Meat“Doing Spartan Country Meats is our fifth year, but we’ve also owned a custom poultry processing business for five years prior to that. We’ve been doing poultry, either raising it or raising and processing it ourselves for almost nine years. . .”How do you like it at this farmer’s market?“It works out really good. A lot of people in the Lansing area appreciate knowing where the food comes from, and how it’s raised, and the processes it goes through from going to a live animal to meat. That works out really good for people.”So this is all natural?“Yep, this is all natural. We don’t use any hormones or antibiotics. They get grass, grain, and water. The grain they do get is all natural, no animal byproducts in it. And then the poultry we process on our own licensed facility on our farm. We don’t do anyone else’s so there’s no cross contamination, there’s nothing injected into them. Some of the bigger industries dip them in bleach, I’ve heard, just to kill any germs. They get a cold water bath from well water that’s tested for anything that’s bad in it. . . We do that fresh every Friday. So every weekend at markets we have fresh chicken from May to October. So we do enough of where we freeze it and sell it during the winter also at Meridian winter farmer’s market.”Why’d you pick all natural?“That’s the way we did it as a kid. We didn’t use any of that stuff.”Your parents were farmers?“No, we did it for 4H. We were more of a sheep farm growing up, but we did chickens and stuff like that for 4H animals, and we never did that with the sheep either. That was the way I was raised doing it, and there’s no need to give them anything anyways.”“Being able to provide good, wholesome meats to the folks in the Lansing area along with our own family.”Sara Beer: Spoonful of GranolaGraduated from Central in 1993 with her bachelor’s in Communication Disorders. Husband works at MSU in the Journalism/ Advertising department. Ear Nose and Throat. Started from her dad and not always snacking right.“It’s beautiful here “Several hours per batch.”