Backstreet Boys started world tour this week SUNRISE, Fla. - Eager to reclaim their place atop the pile of boy bands, the Backstreet Boys opened their world tour with a show mixing harmony driven pop and dance with playful asides that worked fans into a frenzy. The Boys - Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J.
Officials from Lansing’s Skate Park and members of the MSU Skate Organization will meet Thursday to finalize design plans for the park.The group hopes the meeting, which takes place at 7 p.m.
After weeks of tension within the hallways of ASMSU, the struggle for editorial control of the Red Cedar Log has reached a possible truce. The proposed compromise, in the form of a new bill, was organized through a combined effort by the university’s student government, representatives and Red Cedar Log staff during a meeting Monday. “It showed what students can do when they work together,” said Chrystal Price, the Black Student Alliance representative for ASMSU Student Assembly. Debate for editorial control of the yearbook first occurred when Bryan Newland, the Native American Indian Student Organization representative for the assembly, questioned the Red Cedar Log’s efforts to diversify its pages.
John Ashcroft shouldn’t have to defend himself against attacks of racial profiling. His track record speaks loudly that despite race or political lines, his purpose is to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. Why then did he vote against Judge Ronnie White in his promotion to lifetime federal judgeship?
In an effort to increase student events and bring larger acts to campus, the Union Activities Board and the Campus Center will merge this fall.The new organization, called University Activities Board, will combine the efforts of the Union Activities Board and the Campus Center to provide more weekend entertainment for students as well as increase the number of social events at the Union.“We started looking at Union Activities Board and Campus Center, and realized we were both planning many fun events,” Union Activities Board director Jodi Roberto Hancock said.
East Lansing motorists might be driving in circles in 2002.The East Lansing City Council affirmed Tuesday that it will continue considering a roundabout in place of a four-way stop at the corner of Albert Avenue and Charles Street.
Katie Talik grew up in a college town - she saw the unmowed lawns and petty vandalism wherever students lived.And she knew that’s not what she wanted.“I could see where (permanent residents) frustrations lie,” said Talik, who grew up in Ann Arbor.
On Tuesday, the ballroom in Demonstration Hall became a place where people volunteered to help save lives.MSU’s Army ROTC sponsored its annual blood drive in conjunction with the American Red Cross, from 1 p.m.
The university’s decision to install peepholes in residence halls is a good move toward improving safety conditions for on-campus residents. The Residence Halls Association proposed a bill to install peepholes in all residence halls.
A team of MSU professors is getting up close and personal with diabetes.L. Karl Olson, assistant professor of physiology, is part of the study on campus attempting to research possible treatments for diabetes - a disease which has either claimed or complicated the lives of millions of people across the world.“What we are interested in doing is coming up with alternative sources for producing insulin,” Olson said.
Holding only 8,117 fans, Northwestern’s Welsh-Ryan Arena looks more like a high school gym than a collegiate athletics center. But Charlie Bell knows it can provide just as deadly results against opponents. “It’s one of the tougher places to play,” the senior guard said.
This is in response to the letters about Martin Luther King Jr. Day and “Christ deserves a day off like MLK” (SN 1/22). We already have two honoring Christ - Christmas and Easter.
Pro-life students and local residents gathered at Beaumont Tower on Tuesday night for a vigil to remember lives that have been lost since abortion was legalized 28 years ago. Meanwhile, about 12 pro-choice students from MSU’s Voices for Choices also attended the vigil, chanting “keep it safe, keep it legal.” Julie Crenshaw, president of MSU Students for Life, spoke to a group of about 25 pro-life participants about the anniversary of the Roe v.
After reading Eric Bjornstad’s somewhat perplexing letter (“Christ deserves day off like MLK,” SN 1/22) concerning the presence of a university holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., but the lack of a holiday celebrating the “original civil rights” leader Jesus Christ, I could only think of this to say: Dude, what are you thinking? Call me daft, but I do not understand the rationale that Dec.
In college football, the Heisman Trophy traditionally goes to the player who single-handedly makes his team great.College hockey’s equivalent, the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, might wind up in East Lansing at season’s end if sophomore goaltender Ryan Miller keeps up his amazing play.The East Lansing native is listed on USA Today’s 14-player Hobey Baker Watch and he is one of 40 players that advanced past the award’s first official cut-down earlier this month.The award presentation will take place April 6 at the Frozen Four in Albany, N.Y.“When they first mentioned the Hobey, I got really nervous,” Miller said.
Boy Hits Car (self-titled) Wind Up Records Just when we thought it was safe to assume that annoying grind rock was heading out the door, a band like Boy Hits Car has to come along and take our parking spot.
College courses don’t always go as planned.Elizabeth Carter and many of her classmates would agree - and they decided to do something about it.A committee of about 20 students that took Religion 205, Myth, Self and Religion, last fall, have submitted a formal grievance regarding the course and its professor, John Greene.“When I first started, I was really excited to learn the subject matter,” said Carter, a family community services senior.
Millions of people will tune into Super Bowl XXXV on Sunday and many of MSU’s advertising faculty will join them - but perhaps for a different reason. “We don’t really care much about the game,” advertising instructor Robert Kolt said.
A former Spartan and one of the youngest state representatives elected to the Michigan House in November is set to begin her first week in the Legislature.It only seemed natural for Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, who’s been involved in politics ever since her days at MSU.“With term limits, I took a look at the seat,” Whitmer, 29, said of her decision to run for the position in the state House.“It’s my hometown and I care who represents us.