It’s funny how rap music is always under the microscopic eye of the public and politics. No one criticized Quentin Tarantino about his overtly violent and controversial films.
By TYLER SIPE The State news On Monday the Capital Area Transportation Authority will begin a weeklong promotion thanking MSU student riders for their loyalty.
I am writing in regard to Keith Dunlap’s column “‘U’ sports give fans big relief” (SN 1/10). While I agree with his points that the major Detroit franchises are either on the decline or have been in shambles for years, I have a problem with his usage of John Madden’s name in his column.
AUBURN HILLS - They spotted each other from across the court and immediately headed toward the center during the pregame shoot-a-round at Wednesday’s Detroit Pistons-Toronto Raptors game.
The people who work there affectionately refer to room 40 in the basement of Giltner Hall as the “cherry pit.”There Patrick Oriel, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has been working on a way to create a new product - tart cherry-based alcoholic cider.The project is sponsored by the state of Michigan under Project GREEEN, or Generating Research and Extension to meet Economic and Environmental Needs.
While I agree with The State News (”Our Voice” SN, 1/9) that President Clinton’s visit to campus Tuesday brought honor and positive attention to MSU, more attention must be paid to the denial of citizens’ constitutional right to free speech that coincided with this visit.First, the order that no signs be allowed into Breslin Student Events Center, enforced by security at the entrances, is a denial of an American citizen’s right to free speech.
By ED RONCO The State News LANSING - U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers announced Thursday that he will introduce a bill in the U.S.
MSU tight end Chris Baker has decided to return to the Spartan sidelines next season.Baker, who told reporters soon after the end of last season that he would go to the NFL, said graduation was the deciding factor that changed his mind.“I will graduate next December and that’s most important to me, my mom and my Dad,” Baker said Thursday in a prepared statement.A source close to the football team said Baker was being projected as a mid-round pick, but Baker said he could improve his game by coming back to school.“I have a chance to prove my all-around game and help this team win,” Baker said.
Despite playing for the Detroit Pistons, Mateen Cleaves has a chance to add to his college résumé. Cleaves and the 2000 NCAA championship Spartans were nominated thursday for the 2001 ESPY Awards.The 1999-2000 MSU men’s basketball team was nominated for College Team of the Year.
The Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s holidays were the safest on Michigan roads since 1983, the Michigan State Police reported Thursday.Police reported 27 people died in traffic accidents during those three holiday weekends last year, compared to 56 fatalities during those periods in 1999.State police Sgt.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow will serve on four committees, including the powerful Budget Committee, as she begins her first term as a senator, the Lansing Democrat said Thursday. Senate Democrats voted to appoint Stabenow to the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and the Special Committee on Aging, besides the Budget Committee. Stabenow served two terms in the U.S.
The Jewish Reform movement should be commended for calling its members to break ties with the Boy Scouts.In a letter to Reform movement congregations earlier this month, the Joint Commission on Social Action said the Boy Scouts of America’s stance on gays is “incompatible with our consistent belief that every individual - regardless of his or her sexual orientation - is created in the image of God and is deserving of equal treatment.” In June 2000, the U.S.
Alumni of a fraternity forced nearly half of their brothers out of the MSU chapter, saying members have failed to adhere to university and chapter guidelines.Members of MSU’s Sigma Phi Epsilon were summoned on Dec.
While Monday’s holiday will be in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr., many students also plan to use the day as a day of service.Into the Streets, a community service project, will kick off at 9 a.m.
One team will be looking to move up in the rankings while the other will have revenge on its mind.Last year, MSU upset No.
Remember your high school English teachers’ warnings that, without a solid understanding of such classics as “Romeo and Juliet,” “Great Expectations” and “The Odyssey,” you wouldn’t catch most of the vital literary references in today’s pop culture? Turns out they were right. The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, help prove the point with their latest trip through weirdness, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Set in Depression-era Mississippi, the film stars the ever-grizzled George Clooney as fast-talking, well-spoken convict Ulysses Everett McGill.
There are a few things I have learned in my three-and-a-half years at MSU that are concrete: Unless I have an 8 a.m.
What could be more remarkable to watch than Tom Hanks scratching himself for two and a half hours in the box office king “Cast Away?” The winter movie season, for one thing.
By ERIC MORATH The State News Gas money is not going as far as it used to for Mindy Malkowski.
MSU and other institutions who sign contracts with apparel companies such as Nike have the right to know where the clothing that bears their names and logos is made and under what conditions.