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Political pupil

Pancake House waitresses wearing maroon T-shirts – the color of choice for the restaurant’s carpeting, tables and booths – float around the dining room, taking orders and delivering food.

NEWS

Police Brief 02/26/08

A wallet containing two gift cards of an unknown value and $23 in cash was stolen from a 19-year-old student’s Armstrong Hall dorm room at about 3 p.m. Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

FEATURES

Foretelling fate

With her body draped in saris, ears dazzled by luminous gold earrings and head donning a cluster of headbands, Dawne Botke-Coe first started looking into the future of her own clients …

FEATURES

Working out too often can be unhealthy

Dr. D., My roommates call me a gym rat. I work out every day and spend an hour and a half to two hours at the gym. I really don’t care what they think. What does bother me is when something comes up and I have to take a day off from working out, I don’t feel right. I get tense and antsy. I don’t like feeling like this. Exercise is supposed to be healthy, right? Any thoughts?

FEATURES

See psychics when fretting about future

Thanks to Whoopi Goldberg in “Ghost,” Miss Cleo and Sylvia Browne, I’ve never thrown much weight at the world of psychics. I’m an in-touch-with-reality kind of girl who thrives on schedules and common sense planning and balanced check books and all that other stuff that confirms my nerdery on a daily basis.

FEATURES

Palms give insight into self

The art of reading palms tells the story of your past and reveals unique traits. Your dominant hand (the hand you write with) symbolizes your actions, conscious decisions and public self. It tells you what might happen if no change is made and how others see you.

FEATURES

Crystal healing

There are a lot of ways people deal with illness. From prescribed medications to homemade remedies to acupuncture — nothing is off-limits when it comes to getting healthy.

MSU

MSU Coffee Club gets insider tour

It was like a trip to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, but with coffee. That’s how members of the MSU Coffee Club described the group’s Monday tour of the roasting plant at Paramount Coffee Company, 130 N.

BASKETBALL

Morgan a bright spot heading into tough final stretch

Five wins, 17 losses. It’s no secret – conference road games haven’t been one of the MSU men’s basketball team’s strong points the last three seasons. And the road games won’t get any easier while the team finishes up its Big Ten season, as the Spartans still travel to Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio State – in three arenas known to rattle the opposition.

BASKETBALL

Rebounds are Spartans' Achilles' heel

When a basketball player misses a shot, every person in the paint is supposed to attack the boards in a fight for the ball, correct? That theory, which MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant has described as being far from “rocket science,” has been ignored by her team more often than not.

MSU

Police: woman reports being drugged, sexually assualted

MSU police are seeking a suspect in a sexual assault reported on campus Sunday morning. A 21-year-old woman with no university affiliation told police she believes an acquaintance drugged her at a Lansing bar, took her to an unknown MSU residence hall and sexually assaulted her sometime between 4:15 and 8 a.m. Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

COMMENTARY

Many ways to go 'green' in E.L.

My two sisters and I each received two empty shopping bags for Christmas this year. They are bright, they come in a small pouch that fits in either my purse or my coat pocket, and they expand to the size of a large plastic grocery bag. But the real gift wasn’t the empty nylon bags, it was the challenge to become more environmentally conscious.

COMMENTARY

Federal funds needed to fight war on drugs

Before the “war on terrorism,” there was the “war on drugs.” While the former continues to receive more and more funding, the latter is sinking further down the priority list. Funding for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant — a federal program that supplements state and local governments’ law enforcement efforts and prevention and treatment programs — was reduced from $520 million to $170 million this January.