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MSU professor dies from heart failure

Professional musician and Okemos resident Les Jorgensen doesn’t remember talking about pop music or fashion while growing up. His father, Owen Jorgensen, MSU professor emeritus of music, incited philosophical discussion and historical debates, he said.

FOOTBALL

Arms race

Even as the MSU football team begins its 2009 campaign Saturday, its quarterback situation still is as much up in the air as it was Jan. 2, the day following the team’s Capital One Bowl loss to Georgia — the final game in the career of Brian Hoyer.

FOOTBALL

Other MSU trying for upset bid in E.L.

All Spartans remember where they were when they found out Michigan lost to Appalachian State in 2007. Only a handful of Football Championship Subdivision teams have ever beaten a Football Bowl Subdivision team, let alone on their home turf.

FEATURES

The red carpet

What is the academy thinking? The phrase “Best Motion Picture” nominee will diminish in value now that there are 10 Best Motion Picture nominees; it isn’t as much of an accomplishment to be nominated.

FEATURES

And the winner is...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to change the rules on us, so instead of nominating five of the hundreds (or more) movies that come out each year, they are putting 10 films up for the chance of winning the coveted award for Best Motion Picture. It also is changing the way in which it elects the winner from that group, making the academy members rank the films in order of best to worst and then figuring out which one, overall, has received the greatest amount of support from members instead of just voting for one and determining the victor by majority.

COMMENTARY

Conservative faculty seek to protect America's freedom

Freedom is the foundation of America and freedom is what makes America the greatest nation on earth. Freedom in America is defined and governed by the civil rights of individuals who are independent of and superior to generic identities such as race, gender, ethnicity, religion or national origin.

NEWS

Police Brief 09/03/09

A 25-year-old East Lansing man was in serious condition Wednesday night after he was struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross Saginaw Street on his bicycle, East Lansing police Sgt. Mark VandeWouwer said.