MSU head coach Izzo celebrated his 50th birthday on Jan. 30, the same day I turned 25. Do the math; I popped out nine months after Magic Johnson brought home our first title.
I sang the national anthem for the Lions in 1998, where I made eye contact with Barry Sanders. We gave each other the "cool" nod just before I sang.
The "Point Counterpoint" (SN 2/22) doesn't work in this situation. Matt Bishop (SN2/22) and Esther Gim (SN 2/22) both have good points as to the problems leading up to the lockout.
In regards to Kris Turner's excellent article ("The changing face of a college town" SN 2/22), here's an interesting thought experiment: Pick up MSU - the whole thing - and take it far away from East Lansing.
Something must be done about faculty, teaching assistants or whoever wants to teach who are not fluent or proficient in English.
Can you hear the sound of taps playing lightly in the background? Wave good-bye to the campus movie channel. At the end of the school year, Channel 12, which broadcasts free movies and student-produced programming to MSU's campus and surrounding cities, will go off the air.
The 23 undergraduate halls, one graduate hall and three apartment villages at MSU have racked up a hefty yearly maintenance bill. The university has spent about $11.5 million a year during the last 10 years to maintain the nation's largest residence hall system.
The prospect of making less money than my parents after I graduate is frightening - especially considering they never went to college. After subtracting all the rational thoughts about money not mattering and doing what makes me happy, I am worried.
This is in response to Kristi Jourdan's article about California and Michigan ("Mitten state does not deserve its redneck-riddled reputation" SN 2/18). I found the column to be lacking in any decent information.
Not counting course-assigned materials, have you picked up any great books written by an MSU faculty member lately?
Remember when games such as "Mortal Kombat" and "Doom" first emerged? They were some of the most violent, blood-ridden titles gamers ever had in their hands, and they were immensely popular.
I am writing to express my utter disgust with the MSU Multicultural Heroes Hall of Fame Case competition held Thursday.
I am very disheartened by the way the article on Bill Ayers, former member of the Weatherman, was presented in Tuesday's edition of The State News ("Visit by former member of 1970s radical group causes stir" SN 2/22). The bold quote and front page header, "Students shouldn't look up to people who bombed the Pentagon," was an uneducated and misleading statement.
This is in response to Esther Gim's article "Union and its players at fault for not accepting cap earlier" (SN 2/22). At the end of her article, Gim states that the National Football League thrives without a salary cap and someday the National Hockey League might also.
With extensive East and West Village projects in the making, the city of East Lansing really needs to focus its attention on the 8-year-old City Center II project. Slated for the corner of Abbott Road and Grand River Avenue, officials are now saying the proposed $180 million City Center II will either house two museums, including the MSU Museum, or a hotel.
Parking gods, Alright, I understand cutting down on driving on campus, but MSU does allow students to have a car.
As a California resident and MSU graduate, I felt compelled to respond to Kristi Jourdan's column ("Mitten state does not deserve its redneck-riddled reputation" SN 2/18). I am not writing to further bash Michigan, but to clear up misconceptions Ms. Jourdan has about California.
Can you hear it? Slowly but surely the war drums are beating louder and louder. The Bush administration is once again steering America toward war.
Some things are good to change regularly: passwords, cat litter, underwear. Others, such as the system of checks and balances within our state and national governments, tend to stay the same for a reason - they work. Rep.
In response to "Peering into the future" (SN 2/16), fortune-telling and such are not science.