Amanda Wenn has been making a habit of buckling up every time she rides in a car since she was a child.The anthropology senior is like many Michigan motorists who are strapping in.
As this year draws nearer to a close, I find myself reflecting more and more. This is my fourth year here at MSU, and my second year serving the community as a senior mentor.
MSU officials hope a celebrity charity basketball game will help bring attention to the university’s Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would bellow words eloquent and provocative if he knew now, in this American political climate, that his birthday is celebrated as a token gesture of “diversity,” or whatever Band-Aid platitude politicians like to slap on our diseased society. Yes, lauding King is preferable to saluting somebody like murderous imperialist Christopher Columbus and yes, Monday’s celebrations did enliven many citizens but there is a catch to King’s day and the American interpretation of his legacy. Americans can celebrate King but our totalitarian society forcibly limits our involvement with King’s philosophy to idolatry.
Engineering arts junior Lawrence Thomas hardly ever uses the computer in his Spartan Village apartment.Although his computer is fully equipped with DVD-rom, a CD burner and performs the most practical word-processing functions, Thomas often finds himself using one of the more than 60 computer microlabs on campus.“They’re easy to get to,” Thomas said.
I have to disagree with Mark Pulver’s view of the new community standards and resident mentor system (”Dorm standards need discipline,” SN 1/17). I also am living in the dorms for a fourth year now, but I feel the mentor system is a vast step in the right direction.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association should not allow high school athletes to play professional sports and then return to college.On Jan.
Shannon Sharp wanted to give The Eli Broad College of Business a boost. Her $20 donation contributed to the “Senior Class Campaign,” a year-long fund-raising contest between seniors at the University of Michigan and seniors at MSU.
The theme for the 2001 Battle Against Cancer is something that organization founder Nick Kovacic hopes students will stop to think about.The theme, “It’s your life.
The MSU women’s basketball team isn’t in a desirable position.After a two-game home losing streak, the Spartans (8-8 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) will travel to West Lafayette, Ind., to face conference leader and No.
Minorities searching for career opportunities will soon have a chance to market their skills.The Minority Career Fair, sponsored annually by Career Services & Placement, will take place Jan.
It’s been two years since Brian Wilson decided to move away from the safe haven of MSU residence halls.Although the advertising senior said he’s enjoyed living off-campus so far, the first year away from campus has been very difficult for him.“I’m just starting to learn how to utilize the benefits of living off-campus,” Wilson said.
While ASMSU will have an official logo embedded on future volumes of the Red Cedar Log, several of its representatives want ASMSU to leave a more significant mark on the publication. ASMSU’s policy committee rejected a bill Tuesday that would grant the Red Cedar Log Advisory Committee and the ASMSU Student Assembly editorial control over the yearbook. “The purpose of the bill is to create accountability with ASMSU because of a historical consistency of misrepresentation for our minority population,” said Bryan Newland, the North American Indian Student Organization representative for the ASMSU Student Assembly. Although the failed measure was not endorsed by the policy committee, supporters have called on minority students to gather at the assembly’s weekly meeting tonight in support of the bill.
The East Lansing Police Department is out in full force to improve communication with the students it protects. Citing some difficult times during the past few years, the city’s blue is searching for ways to improve relations with students.
NEW YORK - The hand-lettered sign bobbing in the balcony said it all: “Rosie, You R My Barbra.” Rosie O’Donnell may not be Barbra Streisand - O’Donnell’s own idol - but the talk-show queen conquered the crowd Tuesday night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre where she joined the cast of “Seussical,” Broadway’s musical celebration of Dr. Seuss, for a four-week run. O’Donnell, playing the Cat in the Hat, faced an adoring, celebrity-sprinkled audience that included Jennifer Love Hewitt and Reba McEntire, as well as staff from the star’s daily television show.
Former Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard wants his old job back.The state’s chief executive from 1983 to 1990 officially formed the Jim Blanchard for Governor Committee on Tuesday by filing with the Secretary of State.Blanchard, a Democrat who narrowly lost re-election to current Gov.
I have been lied to many times before, but few of those lies really trouble me as much as the ones told to me by this school’s top officials.
There’s a line in Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” that refers to Americans as thinking nothing is important unless they’ve made a movie about it.Two things about the Cuban Missile Crisis: It is important, and they did make a movie about it.
Dick Ammons has never seen such a positive approach to music and spirituality as he sees in Lucille Olson. Ammons has been the minister at the Unity of Greater Lansing church, 240 Marshall St.
Game films, bench seats and bruises in practice are what they are most accustomed to, but that could all change for MSU’s inexperienced frontline reserves.With senior forward Andre Hutson out indefinitely with pneumonia and senior guard Mike Chappell suffering a chipped bone in a finger on his shooting hand after the Jan.