LANSING - The city council spent 1 1/2 hours listening to public comment Monday night before voting 6-2 to sell Genesee Park, sending the battle over the site into court. The vote authorized the sale of the park, located at the corner of Genesee Street and Butler Boulevard, to the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition for about $15,000.
I was very disappointed to read the column published in Thursday’s State News titled “Retailers sold out Christmas to be politically correct,” by John LaFleur (SN 11/30). While I completely understand Mr. LaFleur’s frustration with the holy day of Christmas becoming commercialized, I don’t understand his need to blame other religious holidays at the same time of year for the increase in commercialism. There is no need to bash Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Winter Solstice.
Ira Flatow, a veteran National Public Radio science correspondent and Emmy Award-winning television journalist, has covered stories in historic venues like the Kennedy Space Center, Three Mile Island, Antarctica and the South Pole. And it all began during his boyhood when he burned down his mother’s bathroom while trying to recreate a biology class experiment He’ll be bringing his experiences to campus Wednesday as a guest speaker in the McPherson Professorship lecture series. He’s the host of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday,” and Flatow’s lecture will be titled “If it Breeds, It Leads: How the Media Bring Science to the Public.” “He just hops around from physical to natural science and also public issues, like pesticides on tomatoes,” said Douglas Luckie, assistant professor of physiology at Lyman Briggs School. The speech will be the fifth and final of the McPherson Professorship lectures - a series that MSU President M.
By AMY FRANKLIN The Associated Press MASON - References to the drawn-out presidential recount in Florida were as plentiful as punchcard ballots Monday as elections officials began a recount in Michigan’s 8th District congressional race. Surrounded by lawyers and representatives for Democrat Dianne Byrum and Republican Mike Rogers, two recounters each sat at eight tables arranged in an Ingham County building in Mason. The Board of State Canvassers last week certified that Rogers won the race by 160 votes, opening the door for a recount request by both candidates. Byrum, of Onondaga, needs a net gain of 161 votes to overtake Rogers, of Brighton, for the congressional seat left by Democrat Debbie Stabenow, who won a U.S.
School of Music undergraduate students Eric Knechtges and Sean Spicer will premiere their compositions at 7:30 tonight in Wharton Center’s Great Hall. The MSU Symphony Band will perform both works.
Florida head coach Billy Donovan said Monday he still doesn’t know if point guard Teddy Dupay will play versus MSU at the Breslin Student Events Center on Wednesday.Dupay, a 5-foot-11 junior, was suspended late last week for violating unspecified team rules.Donovan said he’ll decide after practice today if Dupay will accompany the team to East Lansing.“Teddy is back in practice, but it’s still up in the air whether he will play versus Michigan State,” Donovan said.Dupay sat out Florida’s 83-76 victory over DePaul on Saturday.In two games, he’s averaging 22 points and 4.5 assists per game.Dupay was in the middle of controversy last April when MSU point guard Mateen Cleaves injured his ankle in the championship game after he got tangled up with Dupay.Donovan said Dupay’s lack of popularity in East Lansing won’t play into his decision on whether to play him.“Teddy didn’t try in any way to hurt Mateen,” Donovan said.
Gearing up for an important tussle with archrival Michigan on Friday, the ninth-ranked wrestling team won half of the individual titles at the Northern Iowa Open on Sunday. Junior Chris Williams, senior Mike Castillo, and sophomores Nik Fekete, Karl Nadolsky and Gray Maynard all triumphed in their weight divisions, while fourth-ranked senior Pat McNamara lost for the first time this season. The event was the Spartans’ last action before the top-10 showdown against the No.
MSU’s TV sitcom, “The Show,” taped its 35th episode Saturday in front of a live studio audience. In its 12th season, the comedy dissects life on MSU’s campus.
The women’s basketball team will have to learn how to win without the sure shot of co-captain and leading scorer Becky Cummings, as they host the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay tonight. Senior forward Cummings tore her left foot’s plantar fascia in the team’s upsetting 66-59 loss Sunday to Eastern Michigan at the Women’s Basketball Showcase in Grand Rapids. The plantar fascia is a tissue beneath the arc of the foot.
I am writing in response to John LaFleur’s column (“Retailers sold out Christmas to be politically correct,” SN 11/30). LaFleur seems to think Christmas was the original reason people have a celebration at the end of December.
Judy Gentile was a fighter. As the first wheelchair user to attend MSU, she had to fight for the right to attend accessible classes.
Stacy Rosenthal didn’t imagine her art homework would end up going out to 1,500 people.Rosenthal, a studio art senior, created the winning design for the Kellogg Center’s 8th annual MSU Holiday Card Contest.
MSU may soon hold the copyright to scholarly work commissioned or paid for by the university. The University Committee on Faculty Affairs will today begin looking at proposed revisions to three university policies dealing with copyrighting professor scholarship. The committee, part of the university’s Academic Governance system, will join institutions nationwide, including some in the Big Ten, in looking at patent, copyright and outside-work-for-pay policies.
Republican and Democratic leaders from all over the nation are making their way to Michigan this week.The Council of State Governments is holding its annual conference this week in Dearborn.
ANN ARBOR - Don’t tell the U.S. Air Force, but aliens docked their spaceship on human soil Sunday night. The vaporized human molecules that make up science-rock outfit Man or Astro-man?
Rusty red landscapes adorned with sienna plateaus, bronze mesas and golden sun rays grace the walls of the Multicultural Center these days.Studio art sophomore Domingo Carreon is the creative genius behind 25 paintings and sketches displayed in the Multicultural Center, located in the Union Basement.
LANSING - Residents claim the city has not sought their input on the proposed sale of Genesee Park, and more than 15 citizens gathered Saturday night at the park to protest its sale.“It’s not the selling of the park,” said Eugene Buchley, one of many who braved the cold to protest.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The top-ranked Spartan hockey team had to struggle for everything it accomplished this weekend in Bowling Green.The Spartans (11-1-3 overall, 8-1-2 CCHA) were able to extend their unbeaten streak to 12 (10-0-2) and earn three points in their first CCHA road series since Oct.
With Florida’s election locked in a recount battle and a recount for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District beginning today, some third-party candidates are questioning the integrity of the major parties.In turn, some major party supporters are pointing the blame for November’s close elections at the third-party movement.“Some people within the Green Party were getting death threats,” said Bonnie Bucqueroux, the Green Party’s 8th Congressional District candidate.