I would like to respond to the statement from Kate Murphy, assistant director of Residence Life, in relation to the sexual assault of a student on campus recently.
I thought my opinion of the authorities could not get any worse. I had sour feelings about the police at age 15, when I would crouch in an alley at 10:30 on Saturday nights, hiding from police who enforced a strict curfew.
Does anyone else think MTV really, really sucks?I have increasingly noticed the awards-show reruns, ’N Sync tributes and old “Road Rules” episodes are the only programs ever on anymore.I remember way back in the day, when I was in elementary and middle school, when actual music videos were still played.
A student-run Web site that its founders say targets the MSU student body has encountered a significant bump on the Information Superhighway.Co-founders and MSU students Mike Sevy and Jeff Epstein say the logo they have designed for their site, www.eSparty.com, doesn’t comply with university usage policies.
A little more than 4,000 miles from East Lansing, a student is earning an advanced degree from MSU. Although he has been stationed in various locations since he began taking classes, Harris Brumer, a U.S.
If you build it, they will come. A crowd of nearly 400 people gathered in Anthony Hall on Tuesday night to see a demonstration of the Microsoft Xbox, a gaming console developed by the Seattle-based computer company.
The sight was sweet, sitting inside Crisler Arena on Tuesday night watching my Spartans lay a walloping on our rival, the Michigan Wolverines. Not only did our team turn in an almost picture-perfect performance, the crowd support from fellow Sparty fans was amazing.
MSU’s fourth line has an identity crisis.Injuries, lack of production and other circumstances have led to a seemingly unending revolving door at the end of the top-ranked Spartans’ bench this season.MSU head coach Ron Mason acknowledged the lack of a true fourth line, but said it’s not necessarily a detriment to the team.“I don’t know if we have what I would consider to be a fourth line,” Mason said.
Chrissie Gass doesn’t mind a little polygamy, as long as it pays off. In fact, it’s a normal practice in her world.
One of the top chemists in the nation, MSU Professor Emeritus James Dye has been awarded the prestigious Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Senior Scientist Mentor Initiative for 2001. The Dreyfus Foundation Initiative was awarded on the basis of “commitment to close advising and mentoring of undergraduate research participants,” according to the foundation’s award letter. The foundation will grant Dye $20,000 to work with and mentor undergraduate students throughout the next two years. “What I aim to do is continue some research that has not yet been published,” Dye said.
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By JULIE KNAPPFor The State News Nineteen pairs of arms, legs and skates all gliding across the ice in one unified motion isn’t what Spartan fans are used to seeing at Munn Ice Arena.
By KEITAYA LOCKETTFor The State News Three inches of snow blanketed East Lansing streets last Friday, but that didn’t stop Spartans from packing the Union Ballroom and partying until midnight.
MSU’s Fairchild Theater will host “25 Alive!,” a show by the Lansing-based professional modern dance company, Happendance, this Friday through Sunday.And its dancers say the show is more than just steps, turns and modern movement.“My favorite piece is ‘Shards,’” said Kelly Harris, a no-preference sophomore and member of Happendance since last year.
When Michigan and MSU play it’s about more than just wins and losses. It’s about pride - personal, state and school pride. It’s something you can’t understand until you experience it, and asking freshmen to step up to that challenge is asking a lot. But that’s exactly what MSU head coach Tom Izzo asked of his freshmen. In their first career game against arch-rival U-M on Tuesday, guard Marcus Taylor and center Zach Randolph remained in the starting lineup. Izzo said he wasn’t sure how the freshmen would react in the hostile environment of Crisler Arena. “When you have freshmen there’s a lot of ups and downs,” he said.
After spending the last couple of weekends wrestling in the friendly confines of Jenison Field House, the seventh-ranked MSU wrestling squad will become a road warrior for the next four meets.
A proposed state Legislature bill that would require a more elaborate process in the purchasing of a beer keg is leaving some ASMSU representatives feeling bitter. The ASMSU Student Assembly will be voting on a measure tonight stating the undergraduate student government’s formal objection against the Michigan House’s measure. “If anything does come up, we’ll go to Lansing and lobby against it,” said Mark Pritzlaff, ASMSU director of legislative affairs. Under the bill, liquor retailers would have to attach an identification tag on the keg of beer with information from the buyer’s driver’s license.
Every few years Abrams Planetarium breaks from its usual astrological shows and does something a bit more cosmological. “The Last Question” is just that show.
Two Spartans from the women’s track team set school records in the Notre Dame dual meet Friday.