Amid all the speculation about who will eventually be declared the next president of the United States, I am wondering about a related topic.
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.
Erica Werpetinski hates watching a band perform if all the members do is stand on stage and play their music.
While the future of the Electoral College remains in question nationwide, ASMSU wants to make sure that students’ voices are heard by state and national legislators - at least electronically.The university’s undergraduate student government has established a Web-based discussion on its Internet site, www.asmsu.org, where students can post and respond to messages about the use of the historic Electoral College.If a significant amount of opinions are displayed on the site, they will be compiled and forwarded to the Michigan Congressional Delegation, said Jeff Ziarko, ASMSU Academic Assembly director of university, governmental and budgetary affairs.“We will send the comments to elected officials provided that we get a substantial number of postings,” Ziarko said.Criticism of the Electoral College has become much more heated since the Nov.
This is a response to everyone who has responded to Greg Brown’s letter (“Football is killing country’s youth,” SN 11/6). Although I agree with almost all of your points I think you had better reread Brown’s letter.
Family and friends of Brandon D’Annunzio were in East Lansing on Wednesday to distribute reward posters and modified sketches of two people wanted for questioning in the Livonia resident’s death.D’Annunzio’s mother, Shawn Newstead, and grandmother, Betty Smith, worked city sidewalks with his friend, Jennifer Bradley, to distribute the new materials.Newstead, of Livonia, became publicly involved in the investigation of her son’s death when she began to worry the case was growing stagnant.“Things just weren’t being taken care of properly,” Newstead said.
Two skate parks near East Lansing will be designed by one of the top designers in the field, despite the facilities not receiving funding from the city.Ranney Park and Benjamin Davis Park in Lansing were picked for the projects - the parks border several East Lansing neighborhoods, and Ranney Park borders the Frandor Shopping Center.The clear visibility, bathroom facilities and space were some of the deciding factors in determining the location of the skate parks, said Tim McCaffrey, director of East Lansing Parks and Recreation Facilities.“There is a great interest among the youth in East Lansing and Lansing,” McCaffrey said.
Batman and Robin had the Bat Cave to plan and plot their attacks against Gotham City’s most despicable criminals.
From India to Pakistan, Taiwan to Egypt, visitors can explore Global Festival 2000 on Sunday at the Union. Students from dozens of countries will share their cultures.
A grant awarded to the city of Lansing will aid in lowering air pollution and increasing the amount of alternative-fuel vehicles on the road.The $20,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services was given to offer incentives to fleet owners for buying vehicles that use the alternative fuels.The city of Lansing’s Management Services Department applied for the grant.“We applied in the spring and they notified us in October we had received the grant,” said Liza Estlund Olson, chair of the Greater Lansing Clean Cities Coalition.
Nov. 11 was more than just day five in the current election crisis - it also was Veterans Day. It is a day that was originally chosen to commemorate the end of the war that was supposed to end all wars, but actually kicked off a century of wars, cold wars, police actions and military-led humanitarian missions.
For the past 16 years, many students, faculty and administrators have known Murray Edwards as MSU’s coordinator of African American student affairs - until recently.Starting this fall, Edwards assumed the title of senior coordinator for the Office of Minority Student Affairs.
Mike Peplowski, a former MSU and NBA basketball star, remembered being skeptical of agents and lawyers when he went professional.And while his experience was positive, he admits he’s heard his share of horror stories.Peplowski came to campus Tuesday along with Howard Soifer - an attorney who represents former Spartans and current NBA stars Mateen Cleaves and Steve Smith - in an attempt for students to learn more about the relationships between athletes, agents and attorneys.Their presence was part of the first annual Fall Symposium, which was sponsored by the Entertainment and Sports Law Society at the MSU-Detroit College of Law.
Sorry to all those people who weren’t able to vote on Election Day, but you have to follow the law.
MSU Professor Sue Carter is approaching the culmination of both her dream and her nightmare. Beginning in April, the journalism associate professor will begin her venture - accompanied by an female team - to the most northern of regions. Carter, coordinator of the Polar Trek 2001 team, is heading to the North Pole with women from areas across the world, including Michigan, Montana, Canada, California and possibly Russia. The idea for the adventure isn’t something Carter thought up overnight. “It’s been a very long gestation,” she said.
The votes are in - and there will be no recounts.The MSU greek community elected its leaders for the 2000-2001 school year Wednesday at a meeting in the Union.Greek members who packed the Union’s Parlor and Gold rooms took roughly two hours to elect psychology junior Kristy Tippen as Panhellenic Council president and Josh Tudor, a political theory and constitutional democracy senior, as Interfraternity Council president.Their one-year terms begin in January.“I was very nervous when I got up to make my speech, but I had great support from my sisters,” Tippen said.
Tracing the history of DNA from Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiments to James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of the double helix, Harvard University Professor Emerita Ruth Hubbard spoke to a crowd of about 200 Wednesday.Hubbard, who lectured on “How the Genome Became the Book of Life” and focused on issues addressed in her book “Exploding the Gene Myth,” said scientists have over-conceptualized DNA.“In this process (of cracking the DNA code), what got conceptually pushed aside is that DNA is a part of a cell that divides and replicates and lives in a complicated situation with its environment,” she told the crowd at the Auditorium on Wednesday night.“Somehow the complexity of this molecule got erased as we focused on computing this linear sequence instead of focusing on the squishy cells and molecules on which life gets played out.
Republican Congressman-elect Mike Rogers is busy picking out an office in Washington, D.C., and electing new leadership for Congress.But his opponent for the 8th Congressional District seat, state Sen.
Oh what a time for the gurus to finish the season. It’s rivalry week and this weekend is chockfull of intriguing matchups. Records to date: Arthole 32-14, Special K 26-20 MSU (5-5) at Penn State (4-7) With its surprising victory over Purdue last week, MSU is back in the bowl hunt.
This weekend, classic opera gets a modern-day twist in a back-to-back performance by members of the School of Music.Offering two distinctly different British plays, the School of Music is presenting excerpts from “Dido and Aeneas,” with music by Henry Purcell and libretto by Nahum Tate, and “Trial By Jury,” with music by Arthur Sullivan and book by W.S.