By DARA AKIKO WILLIAMS The Associated Press SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Symphony is in financial harmony again. The symphony, which declared bankruptcy in 1996, ended its 1999-2000 season on a positive note, with $386,997 in the bank.
Lansing schools have only received a “handful of calls” from concerned parents after learning a middle school band instructor was charged with having sex with a 14-year-old former student.But school officials are still trying to keep an open dialogue with parents and students, Lansing School District spokesman Mark Mayes said.Jeff Howenstine, a band instructor at Lansing’s Otto Middle School, 500 E.
I am writing in response to Angela Pok and the case of extreme over-sensitivity she seems to display (“Self-defense ad offensive, wrong,” SN 2/14). She declared The State News made a highly racist move in allowing Alpha Xi Delta to run an ad for a self-defense class which depicts a black man as a potential perpetrator of assault.
Gov. John Engler was ranked 13th among the nation’s governors for his fiscal policy in a study released Monday by the Cato Institute.
Two MSU professors are were selected to receive grants from the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Farhad Jaberi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Aaron Odom, an assistant professor of chemistry, are among 26 scientists nationwide who will share $8 million in grants. Each will receive $300,000 from the government agency as part of the Young Investor Program.
LOS ANGELES - Valentine’s Day was a heartbreaker for Sean “Puffy” Combs, who confirmed his breakup with singer-actress Jennifer Lopez. “Mr. Combs confirmed that he and his love, Jennifer Lopez, have in fact broken up,” his publicist Nathalie Moar said Wednesday. But a breakup has been rumored for weeks. The performers have spent considerable time apart because she’s promoting an album and he’s been on trial in New York on weapons and bribery charges stemming from a 1999 nightclub shooting. “Mr. Combs is confirming this today as he wanted to put all the rumors surrounding their relationship to rest.
The women of Alpha Xi Delta would like to apologize to Angela Pok and other members of the Michigan State community who may have taken offense at the drawing used in our ad for a self-defense workshop (“Self-defense ad offensive, wrong,” SN 2/14). The drawing was chosen to represent a “general” male image, not a member of a particular racial or ethnic group.
There’s an old saying that there’s no “I” in “team,” but that still didn’t diminish the accomplishments of two MSU wrestlers last weekend during two tough losses.The first big performance came in a 32-3 loss to top-ranked Minnesota on Friday, as senior Pat McNamara defeated third-ranked Brett Lawrence 6-0 in the 133 pound weight class.The victory pushed McNamara from sixth to fourth in the www.intermatwrestle.com rankings at 133 pounds.Sophomore Karl Nadolsky followed that up with a 5-3 upset over fifth-ranked Mike Zadick of Iowa at 149 pounds during the third-ranked Hawkeyes’ 31-9 win over the Spartans on Sunday.Friday’s match against Lawrence was a homecoming for McNamara, who is a native of Jordan, Minn.“It’s nice to go home and win in front of your family and friends - I enjoyed that part of the weekend,” he said.
If the Men’s Glee Club had a championship event equivalent to MSU’s basketball glory, it would be performing at the American Choral Directors Association national conference.
A mid-season turnaround could start tonight as the women’s basketball team travels to Evanston, Ill., to face Big Ten doormat Northwestern at 8:00 p.m.Although the Spartans (8-15 overall, 2-10 Big Ten) have lost their last nine games, their play in the two most recent games was dramatically improved, and head coach Joanne P.
The MSU Board of Trustees unanimously appointed Dr. Glenn Davis as the new dean of the MSU College of Human Medicine at its board meeting Wednesday.Davis, a corporate vice president of academic affairs at Detroit’s Henry Ford Health Systems, will begin his term as dean at MSU in May.MSU President M.
I am writing in response to Nathan Kourofsky’s letter (“Take care of U.S.
The MSU Board of Trustees voted unanimously Wednesday to indefinitely continue allowing the cancellation of classes to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Trustee Dorothy Gonzales, a longtime supporter of canceling classes to honor the slain civil rights leader, said she is glad the issue is finalized. “I’m very pleased that the majority of us were in agreement,” she said Wednesday afternoon. In 1999, upon the urging of administrators, faculty and students, a three-year trial period of university-wide observance was allotted with the caution that MLK Day would remain on MSU’s academic calendar only if students were using the day to attend commemorative events. Attendance at university-sponsored events would determine the holiday’s fate, administrators said. Event organizers say more than 1,000 people joined in the Jan.
Blacks in our county are more likely to lose years of their lives to homicide, cancer, heart disease, infant death and AIDS than other people in Ingham County.
Apparently I never got the memo. I was operating under the impression that the last time we had to take those awful standardized tests was in high school as we prepared for college.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson’s address introduced and emphasized many good programs the university will be carrying out in the next few years. McPherson gave his eighth State of the University address Tuesday.
In less than a hour, MSU students snatched up nearly 300 Valentine’s Day kits provided by Olin Health Center on Wednesday, which was National Condom Day.Members of Olin’s Health Advocate Program distributed festive Valentine’s Day bags in the International Center, which included candy, two condoms, lubricant and a card filled with safer sex tips.
LANSING - Cuban Bullets are joining the Cuban and American cultures in Old Town Lansing.The sandwich of pull pork and a special sauce is the signature item of Lansing’s new Cuban Restaurant.The 3 Dames Big Little Havana, 311 E.
The MSU-Detroit College of Law will be sponsoring Career Conference 2001 from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. today.The conference will allow students at DCL to meet with prospective employers and learn about various career options.Caryn Mateer, director of Career Services at DCL, said the event will be helpful to students entering the work force.“It’s very important that our students have access to government and public interest employers from across the state,” she said.
LANSING - MSU President M. Peter McPherson encouraged a state subcommittee to continue to close the funding gap between Michigan’s three research universities during testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee Wednesday.McPherson asked the Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittee to follow the funding guidelines approved last year.