FEATURES
Flu shots available at Olin Health Center
With flu season just picking up, students who want to avoid several bedridden days may find relief in the flu shot.
MSU
MSU study reveals Facebook beneficial
According to a team of researchers in MSU’s telecommunication, information studies and media department, those students without pages of Facebook friends might be at a disadvantage compared to those who have them.
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Blood challenge saves lives
After receiving a blood transfusion that helped save her life in 2006, Katie Welch knew she wanted to give back. Welch suffered a congenital defect for which the cure involved a series of surgeries where she received blood from donors.
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ASMSU makes voter registration No. 1 concern
ASMSU’s Director of Government Affairs Matt Patton said one of the undergraduate student government’s top priorities this year is registering students to vote. ASMSU will be working to register students on a rolling basis.
FOOTBALL
Close calls: Spartans aren't far from being 8-1
Although the Spartans are 5-4 overall and sit near the bottom of the Big Ten standings with a 1-4 conference record, all that could be different with minor adjustments.
COMMENTARY
Freedom of speech for everyone, not just for some
I read a Lansing State Journal article titled Protesters shout down anti-Islam speaker at MSU (originally published online Saturday) about how protesters once again disrupted a speaker on campus because they don’t like what the speaker has to say.
COMMENTARY
Youthful apathy runs rampant
Much has been made of the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam, both by anti-war proponents and, more recently, by the Bush administration. At the surface, they are certainly compelling. Both were a thinly veiled attempt at imperialism that ended with the superpower at the mercy of the guerilla; both resulted in bloody chaos once the superpower left.
COMMENTARY
Mixing Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches into politics is wrong
Many liberals and conservatives use Martin Luther King Jr., or MLK, as the epitome of color-blind ideology. In fact, those same conservatives and liberals reference MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech so much that it is a wonder why he is so revered. In addition, MLK is used by those against affirmative action as a tool to discredit the entire black liberation struggle from the conception of this so-called democratic country.
COMMENTARY
Quick government response to fires expected
Since the moment the federal government and the national media realized the spreading San Diego wildfires were reaching natural-disaster scale, the comparisons to Hurricane Katrina began rolling in. The disaster relief and government response was markedly better in California for a number of reasons, but the two disasters are different in so many ways it is irresponsible to compare the two.
NEWS
Student reports being assaulted twice on single night in dorm room
MSU police are looking into two reported assaults of the same victim over an almost eight-hour span Sunday, one of which involved a handgun.
NEWS
Police Brief 10/29/07
A BlackBerry was stolen from a student’s backpack Thursday when the student left the bag unattended in a Case Hall kitchen, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
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Trustees propose partial refund for fall tuition hike
While many MSU students will likely be compensated in their spring tuition bill from a fall increase, graduating students may not see a portion of that refund.
BASKETBALL
Panelists anticipate successful season for men's basketball
MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo and Indiana head coach Kelvin Sampson deflected the preseason hype toward each other, but when the votes were in, the Spartans were the media’s preseason pick to win the Big Ten.
FOOTBALL
Crushed expectations
It’s become a recurring Saturday nightmare for the Spartans: Keep the game close until the end, prove the team is capable of winning, but in the end, lose.
BASKETBALL
Big Ten Media Day reveals top rankings for MSU hoops
New coach, same expectations. The MSU women’s basketball team was picked to finish second behind defending league champion Ohio State in the Big Ten preseason media poll, which was announced at Sunday’s Big Ten Media Day.
VOLLEYBALL
MSU ousts U-M, vies for Big Ten standing
The MSU volleyball team beat No. 20 Michigan 3-1 on Saturday at Jenison Field House.
FOOTBALL
Falling apart
Junior wide receiver Devin Thomas saved his team in regulation, streaking down the sideline to catch a 40-yard bomb, but he couldn’t bail out junior quarterback Brian Hoyer in the final play of double overtime. Trailing by seven points on 4th-and-13 on the Iowa 16-yard line, the Spartans needed to move the chains or shoot for the end zone.
ICE HOCKEY
Spartans sweep Wildcats
The No. 8 MSU hockey team did what it needed to do this weekend, sweeping an out-gunned Northern Michigan team at Munn Ice Arena.
MICHIGAN
Magic Month comes to Lansing
It may not be escaping from a straightjacket while underwater, but the Magicians Guild of Lansing, Ring 54, had some tricks up its sleeve for Michigan Magic Day on Saturday.
MICHIGAN
Legislation could relax Mich. stem cell laws
In an effort to cure diseases and grow Michigan’s economy, some state lawmakers are pushing legislation that would ease stem cell research laws.