Making an M-PACT
Last week, student athletes involved in Michigan Peer Advisers Creating Trust announced their new plans for an alcohol awareness initiative encompassing all Michigan sports teams. M-PACT is a peer advising program compromised of and for student athletes. Since its founding in 1995, M-PACT has included 105 student-athlete representatives from 21 of Michigan's 23 varsity sports. M-PACT has opened the opportunity to discuss serious campus issues, such as the newest initiative taken by the group that focuses on alcohol.
Diplomatic game
It has been called everything from baseball diplomacy to a tacit support of Fidel Castro's regime, but after 11 innings of intense on-the-field competition, Sunday's game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban national team ended as the same thing it was when it began: a baseball game. For the first time since the Cincinnati Reds played the Los Angeles Dodgers in March 1959, a professional American baseball team played a game in Cuba.
A Spartan Saturday night, right out of Greek tragedy
Like many of you, I watched reports of flames pouring from overturned cars in the streets of East Lansing last Saturday night. Today, police are searching videotapes frame by frame to find the culprits. They're looking for students, but I've got my own theory: I think it was Sparty.
Letters to the Editor
To the Daily:
Too often in the Daily, articles and letters are written that attempt to make an argument by attacking and insulting those who hold opposing views. Branden Sanz's column in the Mar. 29 edition ("Ignorance, naivete and plain old stupidity - the 'U'") is a perfect example.
Thomas Kuljurgis Tentatively Speaking
04-01-99
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