Re: General MSU thread

[Robert J Sakimano]

I remember hearing about this. It was a few years before I was on campus. I always thought it was the same group that was responsible for the fire at Two Elk Lodge at Vail but I guess that was the Earth Liberation Front.

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/02/23/25-years-later-admitted-ecoterrorist-discusses-firebombing-msu/98059752/

Yeah, the Animal Liberation Front took responsibility for the Anthony Hall firebomb & mink farm damage, but it was the Earth Liberation Front who claimed responsibility for torching Ag Hall (now Morrill) on New Year’s Eve 1999. Sidenote: For all the fear globally about the possibility of terrorism that night (because of Y2K-inspired acts and panic), the MSU Ag Hall fire was the only place in the world where there actually was a terrorist act conducted.

usually the longer the name, the more f'd up it is.

for instance:

Fiji: beautiful rugged country, known for it's palm-lined beaches.

The People's Democratic Republican of the Congo: Get the fuck out. Now.

[tGreenWay]

Yeah, the Animal Liberation Front took responsibility for the Anthony Hall firebomb & mink farm damage, but it was the Earth Liberation Front who claimed responsibility for torching Ag Hall (now Morrill) on New Year’s Eve 1999. Sidenote: For all the fear globally about the possibility of terrorism that night (because of Y2K-inspired acts and panic), the MSU Ag Hall fire was the only place in the world where there actually was a terrorist act conducted.

usually the longer the name, the more f'd up it is.

for instance:

Fiji: beautiful rugged country, known for it's palm-lined beaches.

The People's Democratic Republican of the Congo: Get the fuck out. Now.

Not always. I like visiting the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Conversely, it was a pretty crappy existence for the flying monkeys in Oz.

[Robert J Sakimano]

usually the longer the name, the more f'd up it is.

for instance:

Fiji: beautiful rugged country, known for it's palm-lined beaches.

The People's Democratic Republican of the Congo: Get the fuck out. Now.

Not always. I like visiting the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Conversely, it was a pretty crappy existence for the flying monkeys in Oz.

East Lansing: land of hedonism and couch burning.

Mio: grandfatherly bakers of pie.

[tGreenWay]

[MiamiSpartan]

I remember hearing about this. It was a few years before I was on campus. I always thought it was the same group that was responsible for the fire at Two Elk Lodge at Vail but I guess that was the Earth Liberation Front.

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/02/23/25-years-later-admitted-ecoterrorist-discusses-firebombing-msu/98059752/

Yeah, the Animal Liberation Front took responsibility for the Anthony Hall firebomb & mink farm damage, but it was the Earth Liberation Front who claimed responsibility for torching Ag Hall (now Morrill) on New Year’s Eve 1999. Sidenote: For all the fear globally about the possibility of terrorism that night (because of Y2K-inspired acts and panic), the MSU Ag Hall fire was the only place in the world where there actually was a terrorist act conducted.

Too many Liberation Fronts to keep straight.  At least the Palestinians made theirs an organization (or whatever the O stands for) instead of a front.

[Robert J Sakimano]

Yeah, the Animal Liberation Front took responsibility for the Anthony Hall firebomb & mink farm damage, but it was the Earth Liberation Front who claimed responsibility for torching Ag Hall (now Morrill) on New Year’s Eve 1999. Sidenote: For all the fear globally about the possibility of terrorism that night (because of Y2K-inspired acts and panic), the MSU Ag Hall fire was the only place in the world where there actually was a terrorist act conducted.

Too many Liberation Fronts to keep straight.  At least the Palestinians made theirs an organization (or whatever the O stands for) instead of a front.

I, for one, am determined to make certain that my backside stays very much unliberated.

[Nordic]

I remember hearing about this. It was a few years before I was on campus. I always thought it was the same group that was responsible for the fire at Two Elk Lodge at Vail but I guess that was the Earth Liberation Front.

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/02/23/25-years-later-admitted-ecoterrorist-discusses-firebombing-msu/98059752/

Yeah, the Animal Liberation Front took responsibility for the Anthony Hall firebomb & mink farm damage, but it was the Earth Liberation Front who claimed responsibility for torching Ag Hall (now Morrill) on New Year’s Eve 1999. Sidenote: For all the fear globally about the possibility of terrorism that night (because of Y2K-inspired acts and panic), the MSU Ag Hall fire was the only place in the world where there actually was a terrorist act conducted.

Filled this in TIL today section of my brain. Thanks greenway

[Wally Fairway]

It seems like there are many who think that MSU should conduct an open search for the new President, as detailed in the State News.

https://statenews.com/article/2019/02/perspectives-on-closed-vs-open-msu-presidential-search

Seriously, how many qualified candidates do you think would want to go through an open search process; presuming they all currently employed at another institution in a top level position. While I understand calling for transparency, in this case I think it would severely limit the number and quality of the candidates who would be willing to interview.

[Wally Fairway]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/politics/air-force-secretary-resigning/index.html

Last line in the story makes me think

If she does become President of MSU - just remember you heard it from me first, and on tSwill before anywhere else.
One of tswill twitter posters feel free to tweet this pure speculation out to the masses.

[Floyd Robertson]

RIP, Cecil Mackey

[DWags]

3 million dollar gift saves one of our oldest buildings. Pretty cool.

[Floyd Robertson]

3 million dollar gift saves one of our oldest buildings. Pretty cool.

That is awesome. Good job, Seevers.

[The Pantry]

Nice looking restoration. Had an anthropology class in that area of campus fall term freshman year...forget which building...think it was either Old Botany or Chittenden. Remember the classroom being pretty cool...sort of classic, as opposed to other class locations.

Never had another class in that area of campus.

[The Pantry]

EAST LANSING – A group of four women running along a trail on Michigan State University's campus Saturday morning heard a plea for help coming from a dense thicket.

“We just heard this cry for help. ‘I need help! I need help!’ It just stopped us dead in our tracks,” said Cindy Eiseler, one of the four runners and the program director of Playmakers Fitness Foundation.

Eiseler and the three others paused along the trail, wondering whether they heard it correctly.

“Then we heard it again, somebody calling,” she said.

They couldn’t see the person pleading for help, she said. They were on a paved trail on the western edge of Michigan State University's campus.

Eiseler yelled from the trail, offering to call 911. The women hesitated to go into the woods, she said, not sure whether the call was legitimate or a trap to lure them in.

It turns out, it was real.

A 37-year-old man was found impaled on a stump around 8 a.m. Saturday after he fell from a tree about 6 p.m. Friday, said Michigan State University Police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor.

She declined to release the man's name or his reason for being in the tree. The man was taken to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.

"It’s a good thing they were running," McGlothian-Taylor said.

Eiseler's group flagged down runner Chris Smith and three others running the trail as they waited for emergency responders. Eiseler told them the man’s voice was getting weaker, so Smith and another runner went into the woods to find him.

Smith said his friend started calling out to locate the wounded man. He responded but his voice sounded more like a cat, Smith said.

A Michigan man fell from a tree and was impaled by a stump. A group of runners rescued him

[tGreenWay]

And he’s sticking to this story?

[The Pantry]

I'd like to know WTF he was doing up in the tree.

[Robert J Sakimano]

And he’s sticking to this story?

I bet he branches out from here.

[Floyd Robertson]

I know authorities didn't release the name, but has anyone heard from Roderick Maples or Eric Knott lately?

[Robert J Sakimano]

I know authorities didn't release the name, but has anyone heard from Roderick Maples or Eric Knott lately?

[tGreenWay]

Gimme an FRIB with extra sauce, please.

Facility for Rare Isotope Beams '92 percent complete'

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2019/07/29/msu-michigan-state-university-facility-rare-isotope-beams-accelerator/1839357001/

[DWags]

Gimme an FRIB with extra sauce, please.

Facility for Rare Isotope Beams '92 percent complete'

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2019/07/29/msu-michigan-state-university-facility-rare-isotope-beams-accelerator/1839357001/

Those fuckers are going to melt us all. You know one of those fuckers in there is gonna play fortnight too long one evening, go to work, all sugared and coffee'd up and just press the wrong buttons and melt the fuck out of everyone within 85 miles of that thing.

[DWags]

MSU jumps in National Rankins

[Floyd Robertson]

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Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[DWags]

Just another little cut, from the 10, 000 cuts currently getting Sparty to bleed to death.

[Floyd Robertson]

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Isn't she the one that was just appointed earlier this year?

[DWags]

Sorry Floyd, I just started a thread on this.

[Floyd Robertson]

Sorry Floyd, I just started a thread on this.

Nothing to be sorry about.

[Robert J Sakimano]

the women's cross country team - Big Ten and Great Lakes Regional Champs - run at the NCAA Championships tomorrow.

the ladies are ranked #5 nationally behind Arkansas, Stanford, BYU and Washington.

This is a big deal.

Spartan Cross Country To NCAA Championship Meet

[steveschneider]

the women's cross country team - Big Ten and Great Lakes Regional Champs - run at the NCAA Championships tomorrow.

the ladies are ranked #5 nationally behind Arkansas, Stanford, BYU and Washington.

This is a big deal.

Spartan Cross Country To NCAA Championship Meet

Go Green! Bring home another title.

[Nordic]

I hope they run fast

I hate running

[DWags]

the women's cross country team - Big Ten and Great Lakes Regional Champs - run at the NCAA Championships tomorrow.

the ladies are ranked #5 nationally behind Arkansas, Stanford, BYU and Washington.

This is a big deal.

Spartan Cross Country To NCAA Championship Meet

Watched this girl in high school. From my home town.

So, I was also at the state final meet when Annie was a senior. She had the best mile time in America at that point. Pretty much the state final track meet stops for the mile and the 100 meter dash. People love those two events. Well, when Annie was gonna run, everyone was away from their tents and the popcorn stands and if you didn't know who was in the field with her, you were about to get the biggest surprise ever. Some Jr. from Traverse City St. Francis just pushed the hell out of her for 3 laps. Fourth lap was just an all out sprint for both of them. Fuller ended up beating Holly Bullough that year in a sprint, but the next year, when Holly was a senior she won going away and did it in 5 seconds less than Annie had the previous year.

I'm surprised Holly isn't on the team. I know Chloe is, but I don't see Holly on the team. Annie is a redshirt senior, so I'm thinking Holly is a senior. Maybe she's just running track? I have no idea.

[Robert J Sakimano]

the women's cross country team - Big Ten and Great Lakes Regional Champs - run at the NCAA Championships tomorrow.

the ladies are ranked #5 nationally behind Arkansas, Stanford, BYU and Washington.

This is a big deal.

Spartan Cross Country To NCAA Championship Meet

Watched this girl in high school.  From my home town.  

So, I was also at the state final meet when Annie was a senior.  She had the best mile time in America at that point.  Pretty much the state final track meet stops for the mile and the 100 meter dash.  People love those two events.  Well, when Annie was gonna run, everyone was away from their tents and the popcorn stands and if you didn't know who was in the field with her, you were about to get the biggest surprise ever.   Some Jr. from Traverse City St. Francis just pushed the hell out of her for 3 laps.  Fourth lap was just an all out sprint for both of them.  Fuller ended up beating Holly Bullough that year in a sprint, but the next year, when Holly was a senior she won going away and did it in 5 seconds less than Annie had the previous year.  

I'm surprised Holly isn't on the team.  I know Chloe is, but I don't see Holly on the team.  Annie is a redshirt senior, so I'm thinking Holly is a senior.  Maybe she's just running track?  I have no idea.  

very cool.

back in my cross country/track coaching days (mid 90's - early 2000's), there was a young lady at Portage Northern named Sharon Van Tuyl. She was an absolute machine. Ran a 10:25 two mile and was something like a 9 time state champ between the mile, 2 mile and cross country. I believe she eventually ran at Boston College.

Then there was Dathan Ritzenhein from Rockford who is probably the most accomplished distance runner ever out of the state of Michigan. I think he was a freshman maybe around '99-'00. Ran an 8:41 two mile in high school.

he went on to run at Colorado where he won the NCAA Cross Country Championship in, I believe, 2003, 2004 maybe? Went on to compete in 3 Olympic games, etc. Always so amazing when you see kids of that caliber running in high school and are able to follow their career afterwards.

as far as Holly, Chloe, etc. go - as you probably know, distance running is so demanding and those kids have to hit peak performance levels while training to the very edge of not breaking down physically (stress fractures, etc). It's a fine line between maximum performance and being forced to sit out with an injury, especially at that level. So, it could be that they've been battling some nagging injuries, etc.

it'll be cool to see how the ladies do tomorrow. A top 5 finish would be amazing.

also, not to be overshadowed by the ladies qualifying as a team, Morgan Beadlescomb is an individual qualifier on the men's side.

[Robert J Sakimano]

MSU women finish 6th at the national meet. Pretty damn respectable.

[Robert J Sakimano]

Beadlescomb finishes 23rd in the men's race.

(out of a field of 252).

[DWags]

MSU women finish 6th at the national meet. Pretty damn respectable.

Well done.

[tGreenWay]

MSU student on break at home in Chicago is shot and killed in a domestic incident. RIP.

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2019/12/28/michigan-state-university-msu-student-murdered/2765987001/

[Floyd Robertson]

Fall break? WTF. Nancies.

President Stanley addresses provost search, fall break at ASMSU

"I'm committed to doing fall break," Stanley said. He said he is looking into a pilot this year. There is still uncertainty of the date of the break. One possibility is a break on election day. Stanley also mentioned that they are looking into dates in October.

[Robert J Sakimano]

Fall break? WTF. Nancies.

President Stanley addresses provost search, fall break at ASMSU

"I'm committed to doing fall break," Stanley said. He said he is looking into a pilot this year. There is still uncertainty of the date of the break. One possibility is a break on election day. Stanley also mentioned that they are looking into dates in October.

if I'm not mistaken, it will occur around election day. Part of the reason is to encourage students to participate in the democratic process.

Which, of course, upsets people who are looking for something to be upset about.

[Floyd Robertson]

Fall break? WTF. Nancies.

President Stanley addresses provost search, fall break at ASMSU

if I'm not mistaken, it will occur around election day. Part of the reason is to encourage students to participate in the democratic process.

Which, of course, upsets people who are looking for something to be upset about.

That's great. If only the rest of the county could take the week off from work to focus on voting.

[DWags]

Bobby Sak??

MSU Jazz is third in nation at Lincoln Center

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