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Freshman fifteen Q’s: 03/15/11

College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling to campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and his perspective of his new frontier.

COMMENTARY

Fighting against union-busting

Last Saturday, 100,000 people marched on the Capitol of Wisconsin. The protest, given lip-service by every cable news station, was in defiance of Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s recently passed bill to strip government workers of collective bargaining rights.

COMMENTARY

Consistency best approach for medical marijuana

It seems the East Lansing medical marijuana ordinance finally is budding as the East Lansing City Council nails down of more details. East Lansing City Council has shown steady, measured progress with its decisions on the issue and appears be continuing on the right path

Production by Cory Pitzer, Compiled by Michelle Martinelli ·
BASKETBALL

Sweating it out

After a tumultuous season, MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo said Saturday he hoped Selection Sunday would be as miserable as possible for him and his players. More than 30 minutes into Sunday’s selection show, with the Spartans having yet to hear their name called, it was apparent Izzo had received exactly what he wanted.

NEWS

Spartans glad for bid after rough season

During the past few weeks, members of the MSU men’s basketball team responded to the media comments along the lines of, “If we get in the NCAA Tournament, look out.” It took more than a half-hour and an almost full bracket, but the Spartans got into the NCAA Tournament as a No.

FOOTBALL

2 MSU athletes face charges in Colorado

The MSU Athletics Department has yet to release a statement about the recent arrest of two MSU football players during spring break. MSU Associate Athletics Director John Lewandowski said the Athletic Department will not issue a statement until MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio has a chance to address the arrest of junior tight end Brian Linthicum and freshman linebacker Max Bullough. The two were arrested in Aspen, Colo., early Thursday morning. Linthicum was arrested for misdemeanor third-degree assault, and Bullough was arrested for minor in possession of alcohol, Aspen police Sgt.

NEWS

Students affected by earthquake in Japan

The Japan that Yoichi Hirose is coming home to isn’t the one he left a year ago. Nine days from now, Hirose, an intern at the Office of International Students and Scholars from the University of Fukui in Fukui, Japan, will return to his hometown of Ishikawa, Japan.