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FEATURES

Hello, my name is Amy Zerwas

Amy Zerwas has been hooked on anime since age 12. “I’d drop everything no matter where I was in our neighborhood. (At) 3:00 — go home and watch ‘Sailor Moon,’” said Zerwas, the president of Animosity, MSU’s anime club.

FEATURES

Free verse

A case of writer’s block last year left poet Tara Chastine feeling disconnected with herself. Like many other writers, Chastine uses poetry as a form of expression.

FEATURES

Freshmen fifteen Q's

College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective on his new frontier.

COMMENTARY

No room for superdelegates in democracy

If superdelegates could shoot laser beams out of their eyes, run really fast or fly, things might be different. But apparently few people have heard of them until now. They’ve come under close scrutiny at a time when they could have a definitive say in who will officially be the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nominee.

COMMENTARY

Drew Neitzel an overrated player, not a team leader

I love the Spartans and I always will. I am stating this because I am about to say something that will likely be met with open hostility: If the 2007-08 MSU men’s basketball team is going to have any success this season, someone other than preseason “all-universe” guard Drew Neitzel will have to step up.

COMMENTARY

Posting online has consequences

Can’t say that I’ve ever stopped to think about proverbs. Knowledge is power. Curiosity killed the cat. Don’t talk to strangers. Things like that. But after “Think Before You Post,” I do now.

MICHIGAN

Waiting to be counted

Michigan’s superdelegates could swing the Democratic presidential nomination, some experts said. However, the possibility exists they might not have an impact at all. Superdelegates, which account for one-fifth of all delegates, are free to support any candidate they choose.

NEWS

Police Brief 02/19/08

A Magnavox DVD/VHS player valued at about $70 was reported stolen between 3 p.m. Feb. 3 and 3 p.m. Wednesday from a Butterfield Hall caucus room, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

MSU

MSU fundraising efforts won't decline with Webb's departure

MSU’s chief fundraiser, Charles Webb, will be leaving the university in April, but fundraising efforts shouldn’t lose momentum, university officials said. MSU spokesman Terry Denbow said the structure of MSU’s University Development team is strong, largely because of the example set by Webb.

FEATURES

Color red, Hollywood define space

The students Kylie Diem and Kelly Alflen, interior design seniors The crib Spartan Village The State News: Who had a bigger influence in the design of your apartment? Kelly Alflen: Well, she liked red a lot and I had things that were red so it just worked.