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Creating a web

Jennifer Meese
December 7, 2000

Jeremy Meadows wanted to connect with a growing web of friends with sites on the Internet. “I knew a lot of people that had them and I wanted to jump on the bandwagon, too,” said the English graduate student, who created www.msu.edu/~meadows7 in 1996. In the past four years, Meadows has seen the number of student Web sites rapidly branch out. “There are definitely a lot more Web sites since I started college,” he said. The Internet “really took off” during the 1995-1996 school year, said Dave Krauss, a senior specialist in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences who began teaching over the Internet with MSU’s first Virtual University course in fall 1996. Since then, constructing Web sites has become part of the curriculum for classes such as Computer Science 101 and sections of American Thought and Language.

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Everclear fails to meet singers promise of experimental album

Everclear Songs From An American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time For A Bad Attitude (Capitol Records) When Art Alexakis of Everclear promised his band’s latest album, “Songs From An American Movie Volume Two: Good Time For a Bad Attitude,” would present a harder and louder side of the band, some fans might have learned how to smile. Alexakis gave the impression that the album would be something different, something experimental.

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Concert showcases student composers

Dan Julian
December 5, 2000

School of Music undergraduate students Eric Knechtges and Sean Spicer will premiere their compositions at 7:30 tonight in Wharton Center’s Great Hall. The MSU Symphony Band will perform both works.

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Band lands for spacey show

Dan Julian
December 5, 2000

ANN ARBOR - Don’t tell the U.S. Air Force, but aliens docked their spaceship on human soil Sunday night. The vaporized human molecules that make up science-rock outfit Man or Astro-man?

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Apartment art on sale for U

Robin Dangelo
December 4, 2000

From belly sculptures to figure drawings and rain installations, the Apartment Art Sale has it all.The Art Apartment, 210 Abbott Road, Suite 18, is holding its end-of-the-season sale, titled “Apartment Art: Mementos of the First Year.”The sale, which started Sunday and will continue on Dec.

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Right here waiting for U: Marx sings today at Meridian Mall

Dan Julian
December 1, 2000

Richard Marx is making a comeback.The Meridian Mall, 1982 W. Grand River Ave. in Okemos, will host a free concert featuring Marx at 7 tonight as part of the grand opening of its new food court.The event was put together by Tim Kiesling, program director for Lansing’s WFMK (99.1-FM).“Richard has a new album out, a new song release and he’s got two other songs on the radio he wrote that Natalie Cole and ’N Sync sing,” Kiesling said.

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Weekend Guide

Friday Blues musician Dave Moore performs at the Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse in the Unitarian Universalist Church, 855 Grove St.

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Sweet tradition: Lansing family keeps up legacy by making candy canes by hand

Jennifer Meese
December 1, 2000

LANSING - Making candy canes by hand is a dying art.Only a handful of people in the United States still do it.Machines have picked up the process, churning out tons of perfectly striped, equally sized, identical canes.But the personal touch is important to a Lansing family that has been making candy canes since 1924.“There’s so much tradition if we do it by hand, it would be silly if we didn’t,” says Dan Blair, a candymaker at Fabiano’s Candy Kitchen, 214 S.

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Man Show returns for an unapologetic season Co-hosts guarantee a humor-filled program

Cory Vowell
December 1, 2000

Calling the upcoming second season of Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” unapologetic is an understatement.But does that have to be a bad thing?Not for returning co-hosts Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel.The buddies show no mercy when it comes to expressing their comedic views on everything from beer and marriage to women and even their own “manhoods.” For viewers who have already experienced the comedic talents of both of the hosts last season, some very new, and very funny, episodes are ready and willing to please.

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DJ, Soulive to bring E.L. new taste of entertainment

Dan Julian
December 1, 2000

Max Gosling wishes the East Lansing music scene were more developed. That’s why the business junior invited New York-based record scratch-master DJ Logic to the Erickson Hall Kiva tonight. “This type of show usually doesn’t come to East Lansing,” said the program director of POP entertainment.

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Unbreakable breaks with hype

Cory Vowell
November 30, 2000

It seemed like a sure thing. But M. Night Shyamalan’s “Unbreakable,” which stars Bruce Willis in a quiet, placid fatherly role much like his character in Shyamalan’s smash hit, “The Sixth Sense,” does not reach the same height as his past box office record-breaker. In “The Sixth Sense,” Shyamalan established a name for himself with his eerily tranquil story and style of direction, Although “Unbreakable” contains the signature qualities Academy Award-nominated writer/director/producer Shyamalan is known for, the film proves to be a great disappointment.

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Capital Green aims for fun concert

Justin D. Brown
November 30, 2000

Capital Green, MSU’s first and only co-ed a cappella group, is performing today at its largest venue ever: Fairchild Theatre in the Auditorium.The group is performing along with Ladies First, a female a cappella group.The 11-member Capital Green is the fourth a cappella group on campus.