East Lansing businesses want to give residents a place to put their feet up, and kick their feet up.Two downtown restaurants have requested the entertainment license required to have a dance floor: Troppo, 213 Ann Street, and Spartan Sports Den, 1227 E.
Those who visit “Unrelated Segments,” an exhibit at the Kresge Art Center, are “bound to be captured by something,” said MSU art graduate student Harry Williams, whose work is among those being exhibited. The artwork on display ranges from stone carvings and abstract paintings to activated machines. April Liu, a sculptor for the past three years, said since most exhibits at Kresge show work done by undergraduate art students, “Unrelated Segments” may be the only show this year on campus to feature graduate artwork.
Don’t ask Geneva Smith if racial profiling takes place in the Lansing area - she hears stories all the time.The Lansing NAACP president also knows how to handle the situation: “Collect yourself, don’t get nasty, be cordial and file a complaint.”Nearly one year ago, Smith did just that when she was stopped by a Lansing police officer for what she was told was a license plate that looked expired.It wasn’t - “and Geneva went straight to the police chief,” she recalled.In the year since that incident, Smith has watched area police departments take steps to prevent anyone from being pulled over for “driving while black,” and assisted in the most recent efforts.Last weekend, nearly 280 Lansing police officers received training on what racial profiling is and what their department is doing to prevent it.And members of the public will be able to receive the same training from 2 p.m.
I usually manage to stomach the uniformly liberal editorials on The State News’ Opinion Page, but I found Brian Emerson Jones’s column (“Bush’s appointees enforce his ‘magical myth,’” SN 1/24) on Bush’s cabinet appointments to be especially offensive. Jones rails against the ostensible diversity of the Cabinet while attacking the politically incorrect views of Bush and his nominees.
With their first Big Ten road win behind them, the Spartans head into Columbus, Ohio on Saturday for a rematch with Ohio State.No.
Coaches always say defense will win games, but in a heart-wrenching loss to Michigan on Thursday, the women’s basketball team learned a hard lesson in just how important offense can be. With their leading scorer, senior forward Becky Cummings, on the bench, the Spartans couldn’t muster up enough offense and Michigan (12-7 overall, 5-4 Big Ten) won 58-49 after trailing by six at halftime. “We have a bad habit of getting tired and digging ourselves into a hole,” head coach Joanne P.
Margaret Knapp said she is excited about the possibilities her new position with the MSU HealthTeam will offer.Knapp was appointed as the chief operating officer of the MSU HealthTeam in October, and she said she is hoping to move it forward.“This is a dynamic environment with extreme potential,” Knapp said.The team provides medical care to students and the public and includes the MSU College of Human Medicine, the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, the MSU College of Nursing, Olin Health Center and clinical offices throughout the Lansing area.Before coming to MSU, Knapp spent 20 years in the U.S.
The Baltimore Ravens’ record-setting defense will get most of the national attention this Super Bowl weekend, but there’s also a dominant defensive crew based in East Lansing. The top-ranked Spartan hockey team (21-1-4 overall, 14-1-3 CCHA) has suffocated opposing offenses in 2001, allowing only one goal in seven games in the new year.
The flu has been slowly making its rounds and the worst may still be on the way. Last year influenza reached its height in December, but this year the bug has been delayed throughout the nation, including Michigan, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The flu causes 20,000 deaths and 110,000 hospitalizations each year in the United States. English freshman Allyson Stanley had the flu during winter break, but didn’t go to the doctor. “I figured if it ended within a day, then I wouldn’t go, but if it persisted, I would go to the doctor,” she said.
Last spring break, Andrea Simonelli indulged with the best of them at Mardi Gras, drinking Cuervo Boats - Jose Cuervo, Malibu rum and ice - out of fishbowls and partying with her best friend. And although the New Orleans celebration, chock full of elaborate gaudiness, body parts and bright plastic beads, doesn’t fall on MSU’s spring break this year, she plans to do it all again. “We fell in love with the place,” said Simonelli, a political theory junior.
A bill expected to establish a compromise for editorial control of the Red Cedar Log faced heavy discussion late Thursday night.The measure, introduced by Chrystal Price, the Black Student Alliance representative for the ASMSU Student Assembly, and Women’s Council representative Melanie Olmsted, was organized through a combined effort by student government members and Red Cedar Log staff during an ASMSU policy meeting Monday.“We made a lot of concessions,” Price said about the proposed settlement bill.But, Red Cedar Log Editor-in-Chief Rianne Jones says the proposal is still not satisfactory in its current form.
Four theologians who experienced the American Civil Rights Movement firsthand will bring their stories and perspectives to MSU for Black History Month, which starts Thursday. The speakers will come to campus as part of the Visiting Minority Lecture Series titled “Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey.” The series is presented by MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and is a joint effort by the university and the state of Michigan to increase MSU’s minority faculty pool without hiring lecturers full-time. “This allows us to tap our resources nationwide to bring speakers to campus and make them more accessible to students and faculty,” said Sandy Kilbourn, the college’s executive director for external programs. Kicking off the series will be the Rev.
I really see why Martin Luther King Jr. dared to dream what he did. I can’t even describe how I feel every time I read a book, a paper or see someone on television who insists on promoting stereotypes about my people and/or maintaining them. In Wednesday’s State News, the Rev.
The campaign for the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Facility received its latest donation of $250,000 this month.The Charles J.
Marf Khan stood at the bottom of a 250-foot tall ski hill, staring it down like a timid David mustering up the courage to battle the giant Goliath. Mount Brighton Ski Area’s highest peak was to be Khan’s crowning achievement on his first day with skis attached to his boots. It was an achievement that could come one of two ways - either he would overcome his anxiousness or be dragged up the hill kicking and screaming by his two more experienced friends who talked him into joining them for a day on the slopes. Khan and his friends are among thousands of Michiganians taking advantage of nearby slopes during what is being called the state’s best ski season in three years. “I’ve done the bunny hill and the other small stuff,” said Khan, a graduate student at Wayne State University.
LANSING - State representatives shined their shoes, wore their first-day outfits and prepared to run a new Legislature on Thursday during opening day of session at the state Capitol.Members packed their briefcases, kissed their families good-bye and hit the road to Lansing.“We had co-sponsorship memos, it sort of gets things started and gets the juices flowing,” said state Rep.
MSU crop and soil science professors are researching what may be the wave of the future for growing corn.Kurt Thelen, professor of crop and soil sciences, has been researching the effects of growing corn in narrow 15-inch rows in comparison to the traditional 30-inch rows that many farmers around the country employ.The study began in 1997.“Historically it’s always been the planting implements that spaced rows of corn,” Thelen said.
Marqus Coleman knows what he’ll be doing after he graduates from East Lansing High School in June.He’ll attend Defiance College in Ohio.“The counselors at my school helped me with deciding but my mom and my dad always told me that I had to do something after high school,” Coleman said.Although the senior high school student’s decision was influenced by his counselors and parents, MSU officials say the trend is for prospective college students to get too wrapped up with career plans.William Metcalfe, a psychologist at MSU’s Counseling Center, said he talks with MSU students who are concerned about their niche at college and about future careers.“Sometimes I’ll see students early on adjusting to just what this place is like, where their niche is and what their opportunities are here,” he said.
They work their hardest in practice and push the starters to the limit every day. Then as match time approaches, they promptly sit and watch, hoping the next time it will be them on the mat trying to contribute to the eighth-ranked MSU wrestling squad in the same way their counterparts in practice do.