Todd Heywood
Arts advocates to protest state budget cuts
LANSING– ArtServe Michigan, an arts advocacy group, is planning a rally on April 18 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the State Capitol to protest cuts in the budget they say are impacting arts agencies all over the state. The event is titled "Invest in [...]
CMU Student Senate labels CMU YAF hate group
Between the Lines Newspaper MT. PLEASANT– The 13 member student senate here voted Tuesday to label the Central Michigan University chapter of Young Americans for Freedoma a hate group. The elected body voted 8 in favor of the resolution, one [...]
Media kicked out of Lobby Day event
LANSING – Sean Kosofsky dashed around the rotunda of the state capitol shortly after 1:30 informing participants and media to get to the Speaker's Library, the base of operations for the Safe Schools Lobby Day, because there were "big developments" [...]
Safe schools coalition fractured
LANSING – There is one thing every one of the coalition for Safe Schools' members can agree on; making laws is an ugly business. In fact, there is an old adage that there are two things you don't want to witness being made, sausage and laws. This [...]
Safe Schools lobbying day a success
Definitions of bullying and harassment Legislation sent to the state Senate would require Michigan schools to adopt anti-bullying and harassment policies. The measure is controversial because it would base the definition of bullying on a 2006 model [...]
CMU Pride Week event marred with antigay chalkings
MT. PLEASANT– The Pride Week celebrations this week at Central Michigan University have been overshadowed by dozens of antigay chalkings. Ana Guerriero, director of the Gay Lesbian Issues office at CMU, says she was informed of the antigay [...]
CMU YAF retracts attack video against GSA member
MT. PLEASANT– The Central Michigan Univeristy Young Americans for Freedom chapter here has removed its "exclusive" video which they claimed showed a Gay Straight Alliance member chalking in the location where the antigay chalkings appeared on [...]
Student hate group at MSU brings in extremist speaker
EAST LANSING – Young Americans for Freedom at Michigan State University is bringing in extremist anti-immigration leader Chris Simcox. Simcox will speak at Wells Hall 106B, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., on April 19, the anniversary of the Oklahoma City [...]
Statewide LBGTA friendly prom in the works
LANSING – The small group of teens looked like any other group that would have gathered in the local coffee house for a lazy cold Saturday afternoon. But they were there on a mission. They are trying to put together a statewide LBGTA friendly prom [...]
Lady Lions' homophobic coach calls it quits
STATE COLLEGE, Pa – Penn State's Renee Portland is calling it quits. The coach, who has been leading the Lady Lions basketball team for 27-years, handed in her resignation last Wednesday, and the school confirmed it Thursday. Portland has been [...]
Bursting the homophobic bubble of Spring Arbor University
SPRING ARBOR – The students at Spring Arbor University discuss their time there as if they lived in a bubble. In fact, students and staff alike refer to "The Bubble," half jokingly. This bubble is an illusion, says Drew Hinkle, president of SAFE, [...]
Contract between LCC and Spring Arbor up in air
LANSING –The settlement between Julie Marie Nemecek and Spring Arbor University, the conservative Christian university south of Lansing which fired Nemecek last month for being transgender, may not resolve the ongoing concerns Lansing Community [...]