Author and compelling orator Tim Wise explains that ending affirmative action will allow white privilege to persist unchallenged. Wise spoke on the issue at Michigan State University, in a debate with one of the authors of the MCRI. With passion and with statistics, Wise lays out the case that affirmative action is still a much-needed remedy to achieve racial justice.
The MSU drumline performs at the Sparty statute on campus the morning of home games (this game was MSU-Eastern Michigan, 9-9-06). SpartanEdge reporters followed tympanist Mark Racalla, a junior from Grand Rapids who is studying Human Biology in Lyman Briggs College.
"Iron Chef" Bonnie Bucqueroux makes a turducken for Christmas - a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey. There's also a recipe for Jezebel Sauce (apricots, red pepper jelly, pineapple preserves, horseradish and mustard) -- all recipes at www.spartanedge.com/ turducken Music by Heartland Klezmorim and piano stylings by Nancy Pollack
A film by Alisha Green, Nicole Brooks, Skye McDonald and Kerri Jo Molitor. The movie was their "digital sandbox" contribution to the Intro to Mass Media Honors class offered through Michigan State University's School of Journalism.
SpartanEdge reporter James Andersen offers snippets of the press conference Michigan State University officials held to announce the firing of football coach John L. Smith. Visit www.spartanedge.com to read Andersen's analysis.
East Lansing (Mich.) held a holiday concert in a not-quite-heated tent, featuring the Two-Hearted String Band doing "Little Rabbit" and a klezmer waltz by the Heartland Klezmorim.
A four-minute music video of highlights of the Michigan Great Lakes International Draft Horse Competition at the MSU Pavilian October 19-21, 2006. Includes the dynamometer draft horse pulling contest, featuring the world record holders, as well as field plowing and the eight-horse hitch finalists on Saturday night.
The Spartan Spectacular at Breslin Center during the Michigan State University Homecoming Weekend featured everything from classical music to jazz to the MSU drumline. SpartanEdge.com reporter James Anderson captured snippets of the sights and sounds.
Give former detective Howard Wooldridge (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) seven minutes and he will persuade you (as he did these folks at the Rotary Club in East Lansing) that the Drug War is a disaster. Film by Bonnie Bucqueroux with additional camera work by Raymond Garcia
It's the end of the manufacturing era in the United States and nothing says it more than the teardown of the General Motors Olds plant in Lansing, Michigan.
Michigan State University Agricultural Extension Agent Dale Mutch demonstrates how to use a crimper to flatten rye, to form a weed-suppressing bed for growing pumpkins. The demo was held at the Kellogg Biological Station outside Battle Creek, Michigan, as part of the 2008 Vegetable Cover Crop Workshop.
Meg Hart shares her poems Breaking Up, Envy, The Only Lover, Morning Meditation and Monmartre. Her peformance was part of Def Poetry at Michigan State on September 22, 2006 at the International Center.
The 2006 annual Pow Wow of Love at Michigan State University in East Lansing, sponsored by NAISO - the Native American Indigenous Student Organization.
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