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SPORTS

Leads hard to hold onto in NFL's week 11

In any sport, the game’s not over until you hear the final whistle. No lead serves as an excuse for a team to get lazy and complacent. Apparently, some NFL teams forgot that this weekend as several teams blew, or nearly blew, huge leads.

COMMENTARY

Sometimes, movies reflect the truth

Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls” adapted from Ntozake Shange’s 1975 stage show “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,” premiered in theaters earlier this month and was received with a flood of mixed praises and condemning criticisms.

FOOTBALL

A fitting Spartan send-off

A year ago, it would’ve been a dropped pass, missed tackle and great passing play by the opponent that would have summed up the end of a disappointing game. But on Senior Day against Purdue, this year’s class of seniors helped change the storyline and, in doing so, added stability to the football program.

NEWS

Police Brief 11/22/10

An MSU student’s keys allegedly were stolen Wednesday afternoon while he was showering in Butterfield Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

MSU

Group rallies at Simon's office

Representatives from the Coalition Against Sexual Violence will meet with university administrators in the next few weeks after about 40 members rallied in President Lou Anna K. Simon’s office Friday.

MSU

MSU groups share tailgate

About 40 MSU students munched on hummus and pita bread before Saturday’s football game at Sparty’s Middle Eastern Tailgate, an event sponsored by the Jewish Student Union and Arab Cultural Society in an effort to highlight Middle Eastern culture at MSU. “We wanted to collaborate and incorporate all of the Middle Eastern culture that we know and love,” Jewish Student Union President Sam Appel said.

MSU

New website offers new college 'rules'

According to Brett Nantau, there are some things in college you learn only through experience. His website, rulesofcollege.com, founded by Nantau and his friends, chronicles these unofficial rules and guidelines to surviving the undergraduate experience. Nantau, a packaging junior, said the website is a place where users can submit guidelines for college not learned in class or at orientation.