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FOOTBALL

Former MSU running back gears up for Seattle

The State News caught up with Seattle Seahawks running back T.J. Duckett this week. The MSU alumnus and seventh year pro has played for three other NFL teams — the Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins, and last year, the Detroit Lions. At MSU, Duckett was a second team All-American and a two-time All-Big Ten selection.

COMMENTARY

Rice unconvincing in article on Iraq

Noam Chomsky and Condoleezza Rice don’t agree on much. I purchased Chomsky’s “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World” Monday, along with a copy of Foreign Affairs magazine, in which President Bush’s Secretary of State wrote an essay.

NEWS

Police Brief 06/25/08

A 48-year-old male with no university affiliation was asked to leave Forest Akers West Golf Course at 9:30 a.m. Thursday after approaching golfers participating in a tournament for male teenagers and offering golf lessons, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

NEWS

Pride persists in Mich.

It’s a time to have fun and be happy about being lesbian, bisexual, gay or transgender — at least that’s how psychology senior Michelle Nickerson describes the Michigan Pride festival, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend at Riverfront Park, 300 N. Grand Ave. in Lansing.

MSU

Subject, experiment numbers drop

The lower summer enrollment on campus has emptied out more than just residence halls, as graduate students trying to complete dissertations in the Department of Psychology are left without subjects for their research studies.

MICHIGAN

MSU, zoo help rattlesnakes

MSU is partnering with Central Michigan University and Potter Park Zoo to do tracking research on the state-protected eastern massasauga rattlesnake and eastern fox snakes to help prevent them from becoming threatened or endangered species.