McPherson leery of WRC

While an MSU anti-sweatshop group continues pressuring administration to change its affiliation with its current labor-condition watching organization, other universities have compromised on the issue.The University of Illinois recently became the third school in the Big Ten to become a member of both major organizations, the Fair Labor Association and the Worker Rights Consortium.The consortium, started by students and human rights activists, appoints independent monitors to oversee labor conditions at overseas factories.

Disney and US team up

NEW YORK - Jann Wenner, the publishing maverick who launched Rolling Stone in 1967, has finally found a partner in his effort to make US Weekly a mainstay in the celebrity journalism business: The Walt Disney Co. Under a deal announced Tuesday, US Weekly is being spun off from Wenner’s media group, which also includes Men’s Journal and Rolling Stone, into a new company of which Disney will own half.

ASMSU seeks E.L. general funding to ease transition off campus

While MSU’s undergraduate student government did not qualify to receive Community Development Block Grant funds from the city of East Lansing, ASMSU officials said they are not discouraged.Instead, ASMSU has been recommended to receive money from the city’s general budget by the Community Development Advisory Committee.“We would have had to track the audience that the (block grant) money is spent on,” said Joe Mignano, ASMSU director of Community Affairs and a member of the advisory committee.

Support group combats problems, gives students with eating disorders HOPE

Erin Ruth is still in school with the help of some friends.Ruth battled an eating disorder up to her departure for college.

U officer changes post

MSU police Officer Lorrie Bates traded in her department-issued blue cap for a cardboard party hat Wednesday.Police and Brody Complex officials surprised the community police officer with a farewell party.

Clinic offers residents advice for tax season

It has been said there are two things in this world that are absolutely certain: death and taxes. While it’s impossible to do anything about the first, the MSU-Detroit College of Law Tax Clinic, 541 E.

Band brings acoustic rock to U

Matthew Alfano doesn’t like performing in coffee shops too much with his band “Mason’s Case.” “We can’t bring the drums in there and the songs just don’t have the same ‘oomph’ as they would in a bar,” the theater junior said.

Students should decide Pie sequel

Once again, I have been let down by MSU. This most recent disappointment stems from university administrators rejecting Universal Studios’ request to use MSU in the sequel to “American Pie” (“Administrators: Thumbs down to ‘Pie’ sequel,” SN 2/27). This may seem trivial to most people, but this is just another incident stemming from a larger problem: the problem being the administration, once again proven here, is out of touch with its students.

Students share stories of struggles with body image

Erin Ruth has always been fascinated with the hopes of being a princess in the pages of a childhood fairy tale.And in driving herself to be the perfect princess, she in fact made a fairy tale out of her life.But she says her personal story is not one suitable for the pages of a children’s book.“The dragon of anorexia was the driving force in my life,” said Ruth, an interdisciplinary studies in health and humanities freshman.

Icers battle U-M in season finale

This is not going to be a typical season-ending battle with Michigan. Only a few weeks ago, MSU head coach Ron Mason predicted tonight’s game at Munn Ice Arena could decide the CCHA regular-season championship. But the Spartans (27-4-4 overall, 20-4-3 CCHA) wrapped up that honor last week, leaving state pride and momentum as the only things on the line tonight against the No.

Police briefs 03/01/01

Forum dissects hip-hop culture

Just like the title of an album released by the rap group Boogie Down Productions in 1990, a panel of hip-hop experts hoped to bring “edutainment” - a combination of education and entertainment - to a crowd of more than 200 Wednesday night.MSU English Professor Geneva Smitherman and several university departments hosted a hip-hop forum in the Fairchild Theatre on the final day of Black History Month.

Sudans lost boys find home in Lansing area

Peter Pan’s lost boys fought pirates and alligators and flew past the second star to the right to find their homes away from Never-Never Land.The “lost boys” of Sudan fought war and famine and traveled across the earth to find theirs.And the Lansing area has become home to more than 70 of the Sudanese refugees who have escaped from the civil war between Christians from southern Sudan and northern Muslims and Arabs, which has raged in their country for 17 years.“The Changing Faces of Lansing,” an annual forum sponsored by the American Red Cross, allowed five of the young refugees and former United Nations consultant Terry Walsh to tell stories to a crowd of more than 400 people Tuesday at The People’s Church of East Lansing, 200 W.

Michigan storage tanks may pollute

Michigan’s leaking underground storage tanks could pose potential problems to surface water and ground water.According to the U.S.

Bush pitches tax plan to joint Congress

By RON FOURNIER The Associate Press WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush beckoned a divided Congress on Tuesday night to support a large and retroactive tax cut, declaring in his nationally televised address, “The people of America have been overcharged and on their behalf, I am here asking for a refund.” On the 39th day of his presidency, Bush pledged to set the nation on “a different path” by slashing federal debt while increasing spending for popular programs such as education, environmental protection and health research. Bush, the first Republican president since Dwight D.

Vagina Week is a celebration for all

Steven Soldwedel seems disturbed that women are speaking up for themselves in a positive light, and that the media is supporting them (“Men don’t honor penises with week,” SN 2/27). I wonder why this is.

Garcia captures GOP primary

LANSING - In Tuesday’s special primary, state Rep. Valde Garcia, a St. Johns Republican, captured the GOP nomination for the 26th District Senate seat. With all 137 precincts reporting, Garcia defeated fellow GOP Senate candidates, capturing 12,815 votes.

Major-leaguers share gripes, debate salaries

The Associated Press Frank Thomas seems to have done the impossible. He’s united baseball players and owners - against him. Mark McGwire is incredulous that players making $9 million or $10 million a season are grumbling they’re underpaid. “Nobody puts a gun to your head to sign a long-term deal,” the St.

Meditation growing in popularity

It’s been called a psuedo-medicine waste of money by some, while others proclaim it a healing art.Whether it is good medicine or a waste of time, enthusiasts and skeptics alike have to agree on one thing: meditation is growing in popularity.Lyman Briggs freshman Beck McNabb said she is the kind of person who will try anything twice.But in the two times she tried meditating, she said she is not convinced that it does anything.“I wouldn’t put any money on it or invest stock in it,” McNabb said.But just because it didn’t work for her, McNabb doesn’t discount it for others.“If people say it helps them relax or feel more in touch with themselves, there is nothing that I can do but believe what they have to say,” she said.“I can see how it might have emotional benefits for the right kind of person.

Police briefs 02/28/01