ASMSU should not take editorial control of MSU’s yearbook - no matter how good its intentions are. On Tuesday, ASMSU’s policy committee rejected a bill that would give the yearbook advisory committee and the ASMSU Student Assembly editorial control over the Red Cedar Log.
PARK CITY, Utah - Some entries in the Sundance Film Festival may sound familiar.There’s a movie about a middle-aged man’s relationship with a teen-age girl, but it’s not “American Beauty.” There’s a war story about cracking the German U-boat code, only it’s not “U-571.” There’s a tale of a rock journalist profiling a difficult subject, and it’s not “Almost Famous.” And there’s Samuel L.
NEW YORK - The film “Wonder Boys” and the TV show “Queer as Folk” are among the nominees for the 12th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation each year honors people and projects in the media and entertainment for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community. GLAAD plans to give special recognition to the CBS reality show “Survivor,” which featured openly gay corporate trainer Richard Hatch, and NBC’s “The West Wing,” which regularly addresses discrimination issues against gays and lesbians. The awards will take place in four ceremonies to be held in New York on April 16; in Los Angeles on April 28; in Washington, D.C., on May 12; and in San Francisco on June 9. Blair Witch prequel for 2002 LOS ANGELES - There will be a third “Blair Witch” movie, despite lackluster interest in last fall’s second installment of the horror franchise. Artisan Entertainment plans to go ahead with a “Blair Witch” prequel, said Amir Malin, who heads the independent distributor that acquired “The Blair Witch Project” at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. After the movie became a sensation that summer, Artisan announced it would release a sequel in late 2000 and the prequel by fall of 2001.
A group of students plans to resurrect a campus activist group to fight for lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered rights. Interdisciplinary studies in humanities senior Carrie Copeland and journalism junior David Warden are the founders of Denouncing Ignorance Through Vigilant Activism, also known as DIVA. Warden, the group’s public relations coordinator, said the name reflects the duo’s vision of the group. “We wanted something that was in your face and gay-related,” he said.
The struggle for editorial control of the Red Cedar Log continued as four new bills concerning the issue were introduced during the ASMSU Student Assembly’s meeting Thursday. But because the measures are proposed changes to the ASMSU Code of Operations, they must gain policy committee approval before they are voted on by the assembly. Melanie Olmsted, Women’s Council representative for the assembly, presented two bills with Black Student Alliance Representative Chrystal Price; Mike Ehlers, the assembly’s college of Social Science representative; and Shane Waller. “I felt the bill I wrote was a compromise, but I felt the one thing that I didn’t want to compromise was editorial control,” said Waller, the assembly’s vice chairperson for external affairs.
It was a sad day in 1996 when the Iota chapter of Delta Tau Delta, struggling with finances and low membership, was shut down by its national chapter and members were kicked out of the house they had occupied for about 30 years. For three years there was nothing - no recruitments, no philanthropies, no parties.
Those interested in the Revolutionary War can stop by the Main Library to observe letters from former President George Washington and other historical documents. The library is holding an exhibit titled “History Through the Eyes of Congress: Soldiers of the Revolutionary War,” which will be displayed until Feb.
Injuries to seniors Andre Hutson and Mike Chappell will force MSU to go deeper into its bench Sunday against Ohio State.The No.
Five chuavinists and a supremely confused dumpee will grace Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre stage this weekend.These six characters, all played and written by Robert Dubac, will perform in “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?” Friday through Sunday.“The show is a way to show women that we’re more compassionate than they think we are,” Dubac said.
Game films, bench seats and bruises in practice are what they are most accustomed to, but that could all change for MSU’s inexperienced frontline reserves.With senior forward Andre Hutson out indefinitely with pneumonia and senior guard Mike Chappell suffering a chipped bone in a finger on his shooting hand after the Jan.
Dick Ammons has never seen such a positive approach to music and spirituality as he sees in Lucille Olson. Ammons has been the minister at the Unity of Greater Lansing church, 240 Marshall St.
There’s a line in Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” that refers to Americans as thinking nothing is important unless they’ve made a movie about it.Two things about the Cuban Missile Crisis: It is important, and they did make a movie about it.
I have been lied to many times before, but few of those lies really trouble me as much as the ones told to me by this school’s top officials.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would bellow words eloquent and provocative if he knew now, in this American political climate, that his birthday is celebrated as a token gesture of “diversity,” or whatever Band-Aid platitude politicians like to slap on our diseased society. Yes, lauding King is preferable to saluting somebody like murderous imperialist Christopher Columbus and yes, Monday’s celebrations did enliven many citizens but there is a catch to King’s day and the American interpretation of his legacy. Americans can celebrate King but our totalitarian society forcibly limits our involvement with King’s philosophy to idolatry.
Students who want greek letters of their own can begin exploring MSU’s greek system when the annual Spring Recruitment kicks off Monday.Fraternities and sororities will be wielding information about their chapters at open houses next week.Representatives from MSU’s 16 sororities will host an open house from 7 p.m.
MSU officials hope a celebrity charity basketball game will help bring attention to the university’s Martin Luther King Jr.
As this year draws nearer to a close, I find myself reflecting more and more. This is my fourth year here at MSU, and my second year serving the community as a senior mentor.
Amanda Wenn has been making a habit of buckling up every time she rides in a car since she was a child.The anthropology senior is like many Michigan motorists who are strapping in.