Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of four stories profiling the new state and area leaders. Mike Rogers has a sure-fire plan for living in Washington - don’t breathe too much. “There’s something funny about the air,” said Rogers, a Brighton Republican who is serving his first month as the 8th Congressional District representative.
LANSING - The Lansing Junior City Council Initiative held a kickoff meeting for its Lansing Teen Voter Registration Challenge, 2001, on Monday at a local high school.Members of the initiative explained the challenge to about 10 interested high school students and community members in the Eleanor Dorsem Social Room at Eastern High School, 220 N.
D’Ann de Simone’s painting class took an opportunity to weave its way into the community - literally. Members of the class, Studio Art 420, Painting, are just a few of many East Lansing residents who have participated in producing a room-sized tapestry project under the direction of local artist Nancy McRay. The students met Monday in The Art Apartment, 210 Abbott Road, where their contributions were added to numerous materials and objects from community members already woven into the tapestry. McRay said the community’s involvement with the project so far has been overwhelming. “I have this huge sense of responsibility for what’s been given to me,” McRay said.
This letter is in response to Beau Taylor’s “Christ was not a civil rights leader” (SN 1/25). Although I have not read the letter Taylor responded to, I feel some of his remarks demand my reply.
I would like to quickly address the issue that was raised with regards to RHA’s lack of effort on the issue of peepholes (“Safe living,” SN 1/24). First, I would like to begin by stating a few facts. One, the resolution that RHA passed supporting peepholes was passed unanimously in fall of 1999.
MASON - Nestled just south of the Interstate 96 and Okemos Road intersection, a mile or so from the electric signs and cash registers of capitalism, Westwind Farms is a curious picture of rural American life.There, Cammie Cavanaugh reigns supreme, walking with ease and familiarity through red stables, surrounded by barn cats, fences and multicolored horses.You won’t find many saddles around Westwind Farms, though - the farm, 3146 Okemos Road, specializes in miniature horses.
Will somebody please explain to me why people are so dumb?A 13-year-old Connecticut boy was hospitalized Saturday with second- and third-degree burns after allowing himself to be lit on fire.Police reported the boy - with help from a friend - poured gasoline on his feet and legs and had his friend ignite the flames.
While sitting in a quiet, empty Red Cedar Log office late Thursday night, Editor-in-Chief Rianne Jones said she was able to breathe her first sigh of relief in weeks.Jones’ tension was due to a power struggle with ASMSU over the yearbook’s operation, which, after about a month of controversy, reached a compromise Thursday.The ASMSU Student Assembly approved three intricate parts of the bill that established the settlement while two other sections of the measure failed.
DETROIT - In the end, 65 minutes was just too much to ask of four defensemen.When Michigan right wing Andy Hilbert blew past MSU sophomore defenseman Brad Fast and scored the game-winning goal in overtime Saturday night, it was the culmination of the most taxing game the NCAA-leading Spartan defensive corps has faced all year.
State College, Penn. - There’s no other way to describe the MSU women’s basketball team’s 97-49 loss to Penn State than total Nittany Lion domination. MSU’s (2-5 Big Ten, 8-10 overall) poor shooting, holey defense, and overall lackluster play paved the court for PSU freshman guard Kelly Mazzante to sink 28 points and grab a career-high seven steals, while all five starters hit double digits. “Penn State just has excellent players,” head coach Joanne P.
Japanese film director Masato Harada has been making and translating movies since the late 1970s, but that doesn’t stop comparisons to newer filmmakers. “He’s one of the new-wave cinema directors in Japan - compared to (Quentin) Tarantino,” said Michael Lewis, director of the Asian Studies Center and an MSU professor of history.
Columbus, Ohio - The Spartans may be the best team in the nation at home but they’re no better than average on the road in the Big Ten. MSU’s 64-55 loss to Ohio State (13-7 overall, 4-4 Big Ten) dropped its conference record to 5-2, 1-2 on the road. “We have some young guys right now that just don’t understand what it’s like to win on the road in the Big Ten,” MSU head coach Tom Izzo said.
By DAVID BAUDERThe Associated PressNEW YORK - Comedy Central has ordered producers of an upcoming comedy series about the first family to remove all references to President Bush’s twin daughters.The series, by “South Park” producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, had attracted notoriety when a proposed script leaked out with the 19-year-old girls, Jenna and Barbara, portrayed as incestuous lesbian lovers.Parker and Stone had already distanced themselves from that idea, but Comedy Central executives - who had received many complaints - told them this week the girls could not be included in their series at all.“We aren’t comfortable with them being in the show,” Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said on Friday.
DETROIT - Turnabout may be fair play, but don’t tell that to the Spartan hockey team.Top-ranked MSU (21-2-4 overall, 14-2-3 CCHA) has an unfamiliar taste in its mouth - the taste of defeat.
Students attempting to satisfy the university’s IAH requirement may have two new courses to choose from in the fall semester. Integrative Studies in Arts & Humanities 202, Europe and the World; and IAH 206, Self, Society and Technology, have recently been approved by the College of Arts and Letters Curriculum Committee for introduction this fall. The courses must now receive approval from the University Curriculum Committee. All undergraduate students not enrolled in the Honors College are required to take two IAH courses.
The Office of Minority Student Affairs was out in full force to keep students from dropping out of school at Saturday’s Racial Ethnic Student Retention Conference: Overcoming F.E.A.R.Students gained tips and learned real expectations for college at the 11th annual conference, titled “False Expectations Appearing Real,” at the Union.“I don’t see sisters beating down the doors of brothers who are dropping out of school left and right,” said Lenzy Bell, while speaking to more than 100 students.
The Michigan State University Residence Halls Association is seeking volunteers for the Michigan Organization of Residence Hall Associations leadership conference at MSU on March 23-25.
Lansing Mayor David Hollister will address a $388.5 million school bond proposal and preview future plans for Lansing today in his eighth State of the City address.Hollister will speak at 7 p.m.
By EDDIE PELLS The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. - The Baltimore Ravens brought brutal efficiency, unbending defense and a dose of explosive excitement to Super Bowl, putting their own distinctive stamp on America’s great football celebration. The Ravens defeated the New York Giants 34-7 Sunday to bring pro football’s championship back to Baltimore for the first time since 1971. With the Giants’ only score coming on a kickoff return, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and his defense became part of Super Bowl lore by not allowing a touchdown.
Wincing in disgust even thinking of the possibility, I still realize it could happen. Driving back from Columbus late Saturday night, foreshadowing images were running through my mind - visions of turnovers, careless passes and weak rebounding. It was those failed aspects of the game that made all the difference in MSU’s 64-55 loss to the Buckeyes.