In response to two letters disagreeing with the intelligence level of Texas Gov. George W. Bush and his supporters (“Bush supporters are not dumb,” and “Texas Governor is not half-witted,” SN 11/14), I’d have to say I question what media coverage you’ve been watching.
Erica Werpetinski hates watching a band perform if all the members do is stand on stage and play their music.
The MSU women’s basketball team will open the regular season today at 7 p.m. in the MSU Chevrolet Classic at Breslin Student Events Center.The Spartans face Arkansas State in the first game, while Tennessee Tech will play Boston College at 9 p.m.
Amid all the speculation about who will eventually be declared the next president of the United States, I am wondering about a related topic.
Break out that Spiderman outfit. Comic book writer Peter David will be in Lansing this weekend. David will be at Capital City Comics and Books, 2004 E.
On an average day, Danny Black goes through two to four personality changes. The DeWitt resident might be a clown, a doctor, a short (stripping) sheik or a singing telegram. If it’s near a holiday, he may become a turkey, an elf, a baby or a leprechaun. The entertainer performs at parties, gatherings and business openings as characters such as Dandy T.
If MSU defeats Penn State at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, something the Spartans haven’t done since 1965, they’ll be going somewhere warm for the holidays.The question is, where?The Aloha Bowl and the Oahu Bowl are both sponsored by Jeep and have a minimum $750,000 payout to each team.
The MSU men’s basketball team is like a bunch of kids on Halloween who are given apples at the beginning of trick-or-treating.The kids are glad it’s Halloween, but can’t wait to get the “real” candy in their bag.For the Spartans, the real candy is the regular season, and their two non conference games against Northern Michigan and the Harlem Globetrotters were the apples.
I’m a hard-core Democrat, and happen to be very proud of it. What I am not proud of is the many people who make false claims that they want fairness.
There’s a lot in common between MSU and Penn State. Both teams have beaten No. 17 Purdue, yet lost to Iowa.
Black Student Alliance proposed eight community standards at a Thursday town hall meeting that members say would help prevent future conflicts at social events sponsored by black student organizations.One of the standards suggests only MSU students be welcome at on-campus events sponsored by those organizations.The group hopes to make the town hall meeting an annual event for black students to share ideas.“The whole purpose of this meeting is to first, identify the issues, and second, to develop the community standards that we think are important for us to have productive and safe events,” said Murray Edwards, the senior coordinator for the Office of Minority Student Affairs.“If we begin to have high expectations of each other, this will work.”The need for standards became evident after several recent violent events broke out at black student organization-sponsored events, some say.And if the fights continued, many thought the student organizations would no longer be allowed to host events on campus.BSA president Tonya Upthegrove said most black student organizations do not have houses or other places off campus to cater to their needs and are often at the mercy of the university.“If something goes down, it’s going to hit us, and it’s going to hit us hard,” she said.
MSU tamed Western Michigan's high-flying offense for more than two periods Friday night, but they couldn't put enough goals on the board to earn a victory.The No.
Something has to give.When No. 1 MSU and No. 7 Western Michigan square off in a CCHA showdown tonight at Munn Ice Arena, it will be a battle of two streaking hockey teams with contrasting styles of play.The defensive-minded Spartans, winners of six straight, will try to tame Western’s offensive juggernaut that has won seven consecutive games.Combined, the teams are 15-2-2 overall and are two of the hottest teams in college hockey.“I have a few buddies on their team and they were telling me all summer how good they were going to be,” MSU sophomore goaltender Ryan Miller said.
MSU women’s head basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie recorded her first ever regular season win as a Spartan on Friday night at Breslin Student Events Center. The game, a 76-50 win over Arkansas State, was also the first game in the MSU Chevrolet Classic.
“It’s interesting: From the last 40 years or so, it’s really expanded and grown and that’s great,” said the owner of Foods For Living, 2650 E.
Amidst controversy and accusations of problems at the polls, voter turnout this year met standards many expected.In a written statement, Michigan Secretary of State Candice Miller said Michigan’s overall voter turnout was close to 62 percent.
For English senior Naveen Singh, the film he and interdisciplinary humanities senior John Versical are working on is not a completely profound work of art fit to engage the intelligence of the audience.
Extensive reforms at national and local levels must be made to the election process.Tight elections across the country have caused close inspection of the election process, which has revealed discrepancies that have been ignored in landslide elections, but could have affected the outcome of several close races.
Now that we have serious third-party challenges, we need an instant runoff ballot to avoid dilemmas like “spoiler,” “wasted vote” and winners by plurality.
By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press Al Gore made a surprise proposal for a statewide hand recount of Florida’s 6 million ballots Wednesday night and George W.