LANSING - Jacqueline Coleman is taking the first step at giving back to a volunteer program that gave her so much. “I’ve had mentors in the past,” said Coleman, an MSU graduate.
While it is understandable for Olin Health Center not to offer the abortion pill RU-486, the center should at least consider providing the pill.Last week, Yale University announced RU-486 would be offered in its campus health center as part of the standard health plan for students.
Friday: One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, “Comedy of Errors,” will be presented at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
LANSING - Gov. John Engler recommended to remove a tuition tax incentive for Michigan’s 15 public universities Thursday in his $38.2 billion Fiscal Year 2002 Executive Budget, after the schools could not keep rising costs of tuition below the rate of inflation. In the budget recommendation, which was given to a joint session of the state House and Senate Appropriations committees Thursday, Engler also proposed a flat increase funding of 1.5 percent for each school, which does not help close the gap that currently exists between MSU and peer schools University of Michigan and Wayne State University. And if the tax credit, which goes to students that attend public universities where the tuition increases are less than the inflation rate, is repealed, schools would receive an additional 1.5 percent funding boost under Engler’s proposal. According to the university’s Financial Aid Office, MSU students were not eligible for the tax credit in 2000, but they were in previous years. And Val Meyers, assistant director of Financial Aid, said the tax credit did not seem to be a big issue when universities consider tuition. “Universities have to look at the bottom line and see how much they need to operate,” Meyers said. Meyers said MSU has made efforts to allow students to maintain the tax credit, but lower-than-projected inflation rates made the credits more difficult for university students to receive. Under a plan initiated by MSU President M.
“Feed me,” cried the rapidly growing Venus flytrap, Audrey Jr., to nerdy plant shop assistant Seymour - played by Rick Moranis - when in need of nourishment in the cult classic film “Little Shop of Horrors.”The large self-proclaimed “mean green mother from outer space” was hungry for human flesh, and it didn’t hesitate to be vocal about it either.That’s the mindset Andre Hutson should take in the remaining six games of the Big Ten regular season and both the conference and NCAA tournaments.Shooting 68.5 percent (39-of-54) during the past seven games and leading both the conference and team in field-goal percentage, the 6-foot-8 senior forward needs to be “fed” the ball more by teammates.Hutson looked impressive early in MSU’s 77-66 loss to Illinois on Tuesday, scoring six of MSU’s first seven points.
In an upstairs bedroom on Sunrise Street, Emily Mickelson and her friend R.J. Mahaney sat in nervous anticipation, awaiting the decision of the “Sylvia” cast list to be posted the next day.“The night before, after callbacks, I was really bored and antsy,” Mickelson, a theater junior who auditioned for the uptight but likable role of Kate, said.
In an effort to defeat the University of Michigan in a one-on-one competition, the MSU Senior Class Council has called on Charlie Bell to sink the game-winning shot.Bell, a senior guard on the men’s basketball team, agreed to become the official spokesman for the council’s annual Senior Class Giving Campaign this week.
HICKORY CORNERS, Mich. - The sounds of horns waking you up in the morning may not be echoing from the brass section of the Spartan Marching Band - rather the bellowing from the unique windpipe of trumpeter swans. With the help of MSU, trumpeter swans have made a huge comeback in recent years. In 1986, MSU’s W.K.
After reading Jessica Meyers’ column on George W. Bush I felt absolutely compelled to respond to her supportive statements of the president (“Bush is president - he deserves a chance,” SN 2/8). First and foremost, to say Bush is the type of citizen who personifies the United States is absurd.
I’m sure when you light up that pipe full of fresh new buds from the guy next door, who knew some kid in Colorado, who got stuff vacuum-sealed from Afghanistan, you didn’t think you were participating in a war. No, of course not. Your actions of drug use are only to bring “peace” into the world and produce a bond amongst friends, right?
Don’t cry for the elite pop star-turned thespian club. The ranks, which include the likes of Madonna, Courtney Love and Jon Bon Jovi, consist of scenery-chewers who’ll treat any dramatic act like a shot to the heart.
The sound of music will be alive in East Lansing with fiddlers, whistlers and bongo and guitar players.MSU Museum and city officials have selected the first seven performing groups to be part of the grand finale for the National Folk Festival’s three-year run in the city.
This letter is a response to the article on Red Bull nutrient drink, published in The State News on Feb.
Ron Mason knows Alaska-Fairbanks is going to come hard at his top-ranked Spartans in MSU’s last home series of the season this weekend. The Nanooks (8-12-6 overall, 6-10-6 CCHA) are right in the thick of a tight race for the last few CCHA playoff spots and would desperately like to steal a point or two from the league-leading Spartans (22-3-4, 15-3-3) at Munn Ice Arena. Fairbanks is sitting in eighth place with 18 CCHA points, one ahead of Ferris State and four ahead of Bowling Green.
After last year’s attempt to alter the MSU tuition guarantee, ASMSU plans on taking a different approach for changing the policy in 2001.ASMSU’s Academic Assembly unanimously passed a measure Tuesday suggesting a change to the guarantee.
With a 34-0 vote, the state Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment Thursday that would change the way Michigan lawmakers receive pay raises.With the amendment, lawmakers would have to approve pay raises or increases in expense allowances.
Charles Ten Brink calls it his “dream job.”Ten Brink, currently the associate law librarian of the University of Chicago’s D’Angelo Law Library, has been named professor of law and director of library and technology services at MSU-Detroit College of Law.“I’m thrilled,” Ten Brink told The State News from his Chicago office.
Students with disabilities who wish to live on campus have the opportunity to sign up for accessible dorm rooms that are reserved for them.“The residence halls offer different features to different students with disabilities,” said Mike Hudson, director of the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities.
Carol Noud has been a busy woman lately. Noud, manager of Shaw Hall, is among the faculty, staff and students preparing for the closing of the 459-room residence hall in May. The 50-year-old facility will undergo an $11 million renovation beginning early summer. Noud said she can’t wait. “It’s extremely exciting that we’re able to get the funding and get the time that we’re able to (renovate),” she said.
It takes Jim Ferden a half hour to drive to campus, but that’s okay with him.Like many MSU students, Ferden, an instrumental music education senior, lives somewhere other than the Greater Lansing.“It’s not that great to have to leave my house so early in the morning and get home from classes so late,” said Ferden, who pulls out of his driveway in Ovid at 7 a.m.