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NEWS

Professors rate best, worst Super Bowl ads

Animals stole the show in Sunday’s Super Bowl.Public relations professor Robert Kolt held a party for professors in the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing where the professors rate the 10 best advertisements of the Super Bowl as well as the five worst.

BASKETBALL

Free throw-down

Penn State didn’t even need a field goal in the last 7:11 to defeat the MSU men’s basketball team Saturday night. Their free-throw shooting sealed the deal for them.

MSU

MSU professors recognized by France

Two MSU scientists were presented with achievement awards from representatives of the French government following their contributions to U.S.-French institutional relationships and agriculture.

MICHIGAN

Feature tracks pizza orders

From the time the dough is rolled until the pizza arrives at your door, Domino’s Pizza is trying to take the mystery out of delivery. Domino’s launched Pizza Tracker last week, a feature on its Web site that allows customers to follow where their pie is in the delivery process.

MSU

Chess tournament takes over Union

Philip Litchfield doesn’t let pregame jitters get in the way of his game. Litchfield, a chess team member of the Memphis Elementary Yellow Jackets in Memphis, already competed in two chess competitions before the Michigan Chess Association 2008 Elementary/Primary Team Championships on Saturday at the Union.

COMMENTARY

Democracy more than partisan

I would like to tell you a true story. It’s about a failed democracy where the winner takes all and politics are reduced to fights between two opposite parties. Its people come to think the two parties represent something universal — transcending time and space, somehow existing in every democracy at every time.