The theme for the 2001 Battle Against Cancer is something that organization founder Nick Kovacic hopes students will stop to think about.The theme, “It’s your life.
The MSU women’s basketball team isn’t in a desirable position.After a two-game home losing streak, the Spartans (8-8 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) will travel to West Lafayette, Ind., to face conference leader and No.
Minorities searching for career opportunities will soon have a chance to market their skills.The Minority Career Fair, sponsored annually by Career Services & Placement, will take place Jan.
It’s been two years since Brian Wilson decided to move away from the safe haven of MSU residence halls.Although the advertising senior said he’s enjoyed living off-campus so far, the first year away from campus has been very difficult for him.“I’m just starting to learn how to utilize the benefits of living off-campus,” Wilson said.
While ASMSU will have an official logo embedded on future volumes of the Red Cedar Log, several of its representatives want ASMSU to leave a more significant mark on the publication. ASMSU’s policy committee rejected a bill Tuesday that would grant the Red Cedar Log Advisory Committee and the ASMSU Student Assembly editorial control over the yearbook. “The purpose of the bill is to create accountability with ASMSU because of a historical consistency of misrepresentation for our minority population,” said Bryan Newland, the North American Indian Student Organization representative for the ASMSU Student Assembly. Although the failed measure was not endorsed by the policy committee, supporters have called on minority students to gather at the assembly’s weekly meeting tonight in support of the bill.
The East Lansing Police Department is out in full force to improve communication with the students it protects. Citing some difficult times during the past few years, the city’s blue is searching for ways to improve relations with students.
NEW YORK - The hand-lettered sign bobbing in the balcony said it all: “Rosie, You R My Barbra.” Rosie O’Donnell may not be Barbra Streisand - O’Donnell’s own idol - but the talk-show queen conquered the crowd Tuesday night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre where she joined the cast of “Seussical,” Broadway’s musical celebration of Dr. Seuss, for a four-week run. O’Donnell, playing the Cat in the Hat, faced an adoring, celebrity-sprinkled audience that included Jennifer Love Hewitt and Reba McEntire, as well as staff from the star’s daily television show.
Former Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard wants his old job back.The state’s chief executive from 1983 to 1990 officially formed the Jim Blanchard for Governor Committee on Tuesday by filing with the Secretary of State.Blanchard, a Democrat who narrowly lost re-election to current Gov.
Julie Galambos has come a long way since middle school.And nearly nine years later, Galambos, an MSU junior pursuing a career in civil engineering, plans to share her skills at the same conference she attended in sixth grade.Galambos is just one of several volunteers from the MSU and Lansing communities who will serve as role models at An Invitation to Sample Success: A Math/Science Conference for Sixth-grade Girls.The 12th annual conference, which will be held Feb.
The university should continue to give students the day off to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.In 1999, the university canceled classes for the first time on the holiday, beginning a three year trial period.
Four Central Michigan University students are walking coast-to-coast to send males a message about sexual assault prevention: “Do something!”Pat Hanlin, Steve McAllister, Michael Charbonneau and Joseph McCarthy plan to walk from California to Delaware to raise awareness about sexual assault and educate college-aged males about their crucial role in preventing assault.Their seven-month trip will begin in mid-May, and they plan to burn through about five pairs of shoes as they walk as many as 30 miles a day on their trek from west to east.They will spend most nights in a small tent, sleeping in beds only when others provide housing.“All of us are going to love to see the country and meet the people in it,” McAllister, a graduate student, said.
While he is on a new team, in a new league, and in a different country, Morris Peterson’s game is still very much the same.
Nicole Winton’s column on Thursday expressed the most selfish argument I have ever heard for pro-smokers (“Cigarettes are a choice, not morality issue,” SN 1/11). Everyone knows the harmful effects smoking has on the body.
Two years ago, MTV Films released “Election” and missed its target audience by being too smart for its own good.
Cancer research will reap the benefits of a new partnership between MSU and Flint-based McLaren Health Care Corporation. The Great Lakes Cancer Institute, approved by the MSU Board of Trustees on Jan.
I agree with Michonne L. Omo’s view on the community standards and resident mentor system (“Dorm standards should be higher for all,” SN 1/16). This is my fourth year in the dorms, and as far as my living situation is concerned, the worst.
Kaliamme Ponnan knows how busy the life of a single parent with classes and a job can be. So do her three daughters.
Ingham County law enforcement agencies will continue teaming up this year to target drunken drivers.Officers from the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office and the East Lansing, Lansing and Meridian Township police departments will work overtime on selected nights for “Operation Nightcap.” The program aims to saturate specific areas with patrols to find drunken drivers.The agencies tend to target holidays and weekends.
Adam Busuttil knows he is lucky to be alive.After the music education sophomore fainted in his Wilson Hall shower in October 1999, he was taken to the hospital for treatment of a broken arm and a concussion.But after examination, doctors found he wasn’t suffering from either of those conditions.“I felt sick all weekend,” the MSU marching band member recalled.
While MSU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration boasted high participation, event coordinators and students must wait to see if classes will continue to be canceled in observance of the holiday.More than 1,000 joined in Monday night’s march from Beaumont Tower to the Wharton Center, said Dorothy Harper Jones, senior consultant to the provost for diversity issues.Additionally, she said nearly 3,000 gathered at Wharton Center to hear Kweisi Mfume speak, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights organization.“I am very happy to see that the amount of work that we put into this has come into fruition,” said Harper Jones, who co-chaired the 2001 Martin Luther King Jr.