http://statenews.com Spartans celebrated somberly following the MSU men’s basketball team’s loss to North Carolina in the NCAA national championship game on Monday night. A police-estimated crowd of about 1,700 people gathered in Cedar Village around midnight, shouting and celebrating in cold, damp weather. By the end of the night, 21 people were arrested citywide on various charges, East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:25:52 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36173 Some idiot set a couch on fire on Virginia Street…way to show class Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:32:37 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36173 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36181 Glad most of the students didn’t get hooked into the people who only went out to try and riot- and there were some. Idiots will always be idiots, but we’re not. It was a great season and thank you to the team and of course, Tom Izzo, for leading us and showing the world what we can do- often in spite of and in the face of everyone’s expectations. Go State! Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:23:02 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36181 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36183 Good time! Would have enjoyed a victory more to go with my fine wine and cheese party. By the case mind you… Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:27:10 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36183 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36194 Agreed w/ Young Alum. I’d rather he end up serving me my french fries through a drive-through window as that is what he deserves. Or cleaning toilet bowls. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:00:30 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36194 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36198 Embarrassing quote from Mike Blair. Usually kids start growing up a little bit by their junior year in college… Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:18:36 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36198 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36199 When I conduct job interviews with prospective employees like Mike Blair (if he/they ever get that far) they react like a deer in headlights when I ask questions about what they did on such and such a night when MSU (or whatever university they are from) won or lost a big game. They are too stupid to believe that employers care about such things, but we do. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:23:33 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36199 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36208 It’s idiots like Mike Blair that give MSU a bad rep and get the police involved in all student gatherings near Cedar Village. I’m not totally defending ELPD & MSU PD, but what do students expect them to do when people are hanging on signs, street lights, breaking branches off trees, and throwing stuff into the crowd? Do they really expect the police to stand by and watch, or not show up at all? If there was a night when 1500-2000 students gathered in the area, and there was honestly no riot activity like mentioned above, and this became a new trend of students not acting like total dipsh**s when they get together, the police would eventually back off. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:22:20 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36208 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36210 Geez, let up on the poor kid already. Maybe he needs to learn a little common sense, but it doesn’t sound like he was one of people who got arrested last night. Those are the morons whose future just got a lot cloudier. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:24:25 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36210 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36220 What a dumb thing for Mike Blair to say. Does he know that his quote will forever roam the internet? If a future prospective employer happens to google Blair’s name, he will stumble upon this asinine quote. Smart, Mr. Blair, very smart. Good luck with your job search. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:16:41 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36220 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36221 Bah, Mike Blair (fake name) gives our school its white-trash reputation. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:18:51 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36221 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36222 How come 2000 students assemble in East Lansing and 21 get arrested. Yet in Chapel Hill, 30,000 assemble, 10 people are hospitalized, 28 are treated by paramedics, dozens of fires are set, multiple displays of nudity, and only 2 people get arrested. In East Lansing that would be a riot not a celebration. Yet in Chapel Hill, not one canister of tear gas. The Chapel Hill students were doing the dame thing that East Lansing does, yet the way the police responded to it kept things under control. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:25:37 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36222 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36226 I think it was irresponsible for the SN to quote Mike Blair. I’m all for open journalism (and anti censorship) and balanced reporting but, frankly, all the idiocy spouted from a student like Blair will embolden other fools like him to cause trouble… The SN didn’t have to give him a platform. Kudos to the student-posters for the generally levelheaded posts and recognizing how damaging Blair-like activities are to the reputation of OUR fine University. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:52:24 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36226 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36236 I agree with DW I just read the article in the “Daily Tar Heel” UNC school newspaper and they had 45,000 people that celebrated in the streets, tore down street signs, public nudity, setting fires, public drunkeness and according to the article no one was arrested – what??? Did I read that right? The problems with MSU student are the police. The police at UNC were not in Riot gear like they are at MSU. EL police provoke the disturbances….unbelievable…read the article Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:54:27 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36236 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36249 http://www.dailytarheel.com/multimedia/video/video-franklin-street-the-celebration-1.1646328 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:14:55 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36249 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36250 no where in Mike Blairs quote did he say he wanted us to go crazy, tear down stop signs, set objects on fire and have girls flash the crowd. He simply said, go crazy, people are allowed to go crazy while still maintaining a decent celebration, thus having “more fun that way” I was at cedar village saturday and monday i thought the police did a very good job maintaining the crowd, those who deserved to be arrested were, and those who didnt deserve it were not. however I did see a girl get pulled down from somebodys shoulders by the police for no reason at all, her shirt did not come up, she was not acting beligerant and was not throwing any objects, so maybe thats what he means by “back off” and let us have some fun Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:47:38 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36250 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36256 at the “celebration” in chapel hill i saw it reported that only 2 people were arrested…in el over 80 students were arrested this past weekend with (gasp) no riot…something is wrong here…not only were the crowds in el drastically smaller but they were wayyy more peaceful…the local media, elpd and city of el continue to mishandle celebrations…the one that took place at unc looked worse than any “riot” at msu (not including 1999) and nobody was tear gassed, flash banged or arrested for flashing(like cedar fest last year)…while i dont condone any of the above behavior there are obviously more effective ways of dealing with student celebrations that dont tarnish the schools reputation…local media runs live coverage from cedar village before students even gather, lsj.com has numerous videos of kids being arrested and all this gives the state and national media wrong impressions…our university has taken an unnecessarily reputation hit due to claimed riots over the years…cnn ran reports of the 1000 kids who gathered in cedar village last night while mentioning nothing of the mass celebration on franklin street…the city and local media need to stop hanging msu’s reputation out to dry by letting every final four turn into some spectacle Headlines read: MSU Riots…UNC Celebrates MSU burns couches…UNC lights bon fires Something is wrong with this… RANT OVER Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:40:52 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36256 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36264 I seriously don’t care how many students get arrested. The police that worked this weekend handled everything with class and respect. If a students or an outsider that came to EL for the weekend and thought this would be another destructive party and got arrested, I am glad. If he didn’t get arrested, I hope he does in the future. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:56:37 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36264 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36278 Face it.. because of MSU’s “reputation”, whenever an event like this occurs there will be cops with riot gear and tear gas. It will take years for this to change. UNC won’t have a police force with that kind of action because basically their students are ALOT smarter than MSU students and are more responsible for their actions. So don’t compare the two schools. It’s like trying to justify why it makes sense to give a 5 year old child a knife to hold because his older brothers know how to handle one. You can’t. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:55:07 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36278 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36301 so the point in the post above is that UNC kids are smarter than msu kids and thats why they are allowed to tear up their city??? they looked like a normal group of 18-22 year olds celebrating a victory but i sure didnt see any smart behavior in that unc video Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:28:01 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36301 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36406 Look closer. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:25:52 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/36406