Rep. Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, introduced a resolution Friday to remove a federal mandate requiring states to collect social security numbers for applicants of drivers and a variety of professional and recreational licenses. The numbers are collected to track down parents who owe child support.
I would like to address Joe Pennell’s opinion letter “Columnist was highly offensive” (SN 1/26). I understand you took offense to Brian Emerson Jones’ column, but what exactly did you take offense to?
There is a natural order to what can be considered life’s biggest thrills when you are growing up.Much like a video game, we seem to advance to higher levels and while gaining experience, we also earn privileges.It all starts in the fifth grade.
LANSING-Hillary Beckwith and her boyfriend, Reggie Anderson, sat at a table eating potato skins and like many Sunday night, were watching the Super Bowl. “The Giants suck,” said Beckwith, an education senior. Then she looked at her boyfriend, remembered their earlier bet and corrected herself. “No, the Giants do not suck, the Ravens suck,” she said, certain this time. TV sets in bars, lobbies, houses and dorm rooms were stuck on CBS and eyes were glued to the tube as the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants duked it out in Super Bowl XXXV. Trippers, 354 Frandor in Lansing, was filled close to capacity as 500 people came to eat, drink, play pool and watch the game on big screen TVs. Beckwith and Anderson even bet on the game: Beckwith for the Giants, Anderson for the Ravens. What was the wager? “Sexual favors,” Beckwith said with a smile, displaying her tongue ring. “The Giants are going to win and you’re going to be crying in the parking lot,” she told Anderson. While the game was the main draw for Beckwith and Anderson, they also came for commercials - well, at least the ones without squirrels. “You know what - I’m afraid of squirrels,” Beckwith said.
This opinion is in reply to all the people who have said John Ashcroft is racist and prejudiced. Here are some facts about Sen.
Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm’s life was threatened via a letter last week before she made a scheduled speech in Chesterfield Township.A threat assessment was done by the Michigan State Police in conjunction with the Warren Police Department, and it was determined that there was no danger.
By EDDIE PELLS The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. - The Baltimore Ravens brought brutal efficiency, unbending defense and a dose of explosive excitement to Super Bowl, putting their own distinctive stamp on America’s great football celebration. The Ravens defeated the New York Giants 34-7 Sunday to bring pro football’s championship back to Baltimore for the first time since 1971. With the Giants’ only score coming on a kickoff return, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and his defense became part of Super Bowl lore by not allowing a touchdown.
Lansing Mayor David Hollister will address a $388.5 million school bond proposal and preview future plans for Lansing today in his eighth State of the City address.Hollister will speak at 7 p.m.
While sitting in a quiet, empty Red Cedar Log office late Thursday night, Editor-in-Chief Rianne Jones said she was able to breathe her first sigh of relief in weeks.Jones’ tension was due to a power struggle with ASMSU over the yearbook’s operation, which, after about a month of controversy, reached a compromise Thursday.The ASMSU Student Assembly approved three intricate parts of the bill that established the settlement while two other sections of the measure failed.
DETROIT - In the end, 65 minutes was just too much to ask of four defensemen.When Michigan right wing Andy Hilbert blew past MSU sophomore defenseman Brad Fast and scored the game-winning goal in overtime Saturday night, it was the culmination of the most taxing game the NCAA-leading Spartan defensive corps has faced all year.
State College, Penn. - There’s no other way to describe the MSU women’s basketball team’s 97-49 loss to Penn State than total Nittany Lion domination. MSU’s (2-5 Big Ten, 8-10 overall) poor shooting, holey defense, and overall lackluster play paved the court for PSU freshman guard Kelly Mazzante to sink 28 points and grab a career-high seven steals, while all five starters hit double digits. “Penn State just has excellent players,” head coach Joanne P.
Japanese film director Masato Harada has been making and translating movies since the late 1970s, but that doesn’t stop comparisons to newer filmmakers. “He’s one of the new-wave cinema directors in Japan - compared to (Quentin) Tarantino,” said Michael Lewis, director of the Asian Studies Center and an MSU professor of history.
Columbus, Ohio - The Spartans may be the best team in the nation at home but they’re no better than average on the road in the Big Ten. MSU’s 64-55 loss to Ohio State (13-7 overall, 4-4 Big Ten) dropped its conference record to 5-2, 1-2 on the road. “We have some young guys right now that just don’t understand what it’s like to win on the road in the Big Ten,” MSU head coach Tom Izzo said.
By DAVID BAUDERThe Associated PressNEW YORK - Comedy Central has ordered producers of an upcoming comedy series about the first family to remove all references to President Bush’s twin daughters.The series, by “South Park” producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, had attracted notoriety when a proposed script leaked out with the 19-year-old girls, Jenna and Barbara, portrayed as incestuous lesbian lovers.Parker and Stone had already distanced themselves from that idea, but Comedy Central executives - who had received many complaints - told them this week the girls could not be included in their series at all.“We aren’t comfortable with them being in the show,” Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said on Friday.
DETROIT - Turnabout may be fair play, but don’t tell that to the Spartan hockey team.Top-ranked MSU (21-2-4 overall, 14-2-3 CCHA) has an unfamiliar taste in its mouth - the taste of defeat.
Students attempting to satisfy the university’s IAH requirement may have two new courses to choose from in the fall semester. Integrative Studies in Arts & Humanities 202, Europe and the World; and IAH 206, Self, Society and Technology, have recently been approved by the College of Arts and Letters Curriculum Committee for introduction this fall. The courses must now receive approval from the University Curriculum Committee. All undergraduate students not enrolled in the Honors College are required to take two IAH courses.
The Office of Minority Student Affairs was out in full force to keep students from dropping out of school at Saturday’s Racial Ethnic Student Retention Conference: Overcoming F.E.A.R.Students gained tips and learned real expectations for college at the 11th annual conference, titled “False Expectations Appearing Real,” at the Union.“I don’t see sisters beating down the doors of brothers who are dropping out of school left and right,” said Lenzy Bell, while speaking to more than 100 students.
The Michigan State University Residence Halls Association is seeking volunteers for the Michigan Organization of Residence Hall Associations leadership conference at MSU on March 23-25.
Tropical vacations of the future may take on a new meaning for tourists.MSU Professor of Anthropology Laurie Medina plans to study a new trend in travel - but she’s not headed to the popular Cancun or Jamaica mainstays.She recently received a $74,940 grant, which she’ll use on an 8-month excursion to Belize where she’ll study “eco-tourism.”The concept defines a type of adventure travel emphasizing tourists’ social responsibility when visiting parts of the developing world.“It’s a fairly new idea over the last decade,” Medina said.
It’s a nice day for a “Blood Wedding.”At least the student cast of the play by Frederico Garcia Lorca think so.