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FEATURES

College students assist in mask study

By Jodi S. Cohen McClatchy Newspapers Ann Arbor (MCT) — In her dorm at the University of Michigan, Denise Rowe looks as much like a sick patient as a student. Before she eats a meal, goes to sleep at night, or even kisses her boyfriend, she first has to slip off the blue surgical mask that covers her nose and mouth and hooks around her ears. Didn't freshmen already have enough pressure to fit in? "People do kind of look at you weird," said Rowe, 18, the outline of her mouth moving behind the cotton mask. Around the Ann Arbor campus this winter, 1,400 students have been participating in a study to learn whether wearing masks makes a difference in who gets the flu.

NEWS

Decades of change

Gabrielle Russon
March 21, 2007

It was a time when athletic scholarships were nonexistent for female athletes, and women basketball players had to buy their own shoes. A time when coaches drove the team to games, and the players didn't compete in a Big Ten schedule. "Back in the '70s, the differences between the men's and women's programs were so obvious," said Kathy DeBoer, who played from 1976 to 1978. The disparities became more glaring on road games. DeBoer rode with her teammates in a station wagon to Pennsylvania, almost 11 hours away, knowing that the men's team traveled by bus or airplane. On overnight trips, four women would share a hotel room, some using cots, while the men's team slept two to a room. It seemed little had changed in the six years since Title IX passed in 1972 — which outlawed gender discrimination at federally funded institutions. "Things just remained the way they were," said Karen Langeland, who coached the team at the time. So the women's basketball team countered back, filing a class-action lawsuit against MSU in December 1978 for gender discrimination under the 14th Amendment. Out of the lawsuit would come equal treatment for traveling, lodging and food for all women athletes, not just basketball players. "It was the beginning of college athletics the way it was today," said Carol Hutchins, an MSU women's basketball player from 1976 to 1979. A time for change Road games were by no means extravagant.

NEWS

Bristow: Members agree with his views

Joey Nowak
March 21, 2007

As chairman of the MSU chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom, Kyle Bristow often speaks on behalf of 30 active members and 40 more who subscribe to YAF's e-mail listserv. And it was one of his statements — a 13-point agenda posted on ASMSU's Web site last fall — that caused YAF to become the first university organization listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual Hate Group list, to be released in April. "This is a representation of my beliefs as a conservative," Bristow said of the agenda.

NEWS

Marathon participant turns to soccer

Colleen Maxwell
March 21, 2007

Jay Hanna likes to keep busy. For the past four months — in the middle of preparing for a May graduation, looking for a job and deciding whether to go to law school — he has played on two indoor soccer teams, as well as on a team with his fraternity, Delta Chi. Hanna said that's just who he is.

COMMENTARY

Media strategy by YAF leader is hypocritical

In "YAF not hate group, law center should be accused" (SN 3/16), Anthony Mantova expresses his disdain at the Southern Poverty Law Center for putting the MSU chapter of Young Americans for Freedom on a list of hate groups.

MSU

Athletic training may become major

Sarah Harbison
March 21, 2007

When Lindsey Coleman graduates in May, she may be one of the last MSU students to graduate with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology with a specialization in athletic training. That's because the 27-credit specialization may be disbanded and become a major. "So many people are into physical therapy, and physician assistants and various medical professions," Coleman said.

NEWS

It's election time!

Joey Nowak
March 21, 2007

What: Vote for your college's representative to be seated on ASMSU's Student and Academic assemblies When: Until 5 p.m.

NEWS

MIDDAY UPDATE: MSU alumna debuts 1st movie in E.L. festival

Laura Leebove
March 21, 2007

MSU alumna Kara Bauer always had filmmaking in the back of her mind, but planned on using her degree in English literature to become a professor. But nearly 10 years after her 1997 graduation, Bauer is living in Santa Monica, Calif., and premiering her first short film Sunday at the East Lansing Film Festival, or ELFF. Growing up with a passion for literature and reading, "movies came kind of as a natural second," Bauer said. While at MSU, Bauer took a few film classes, which she said was "like heaven" because she loved the idea of combining reading and movies. "I'm like, 'This is class?' I get to talk about reading this kickass book, and then I get to watch a movie?" she said. After graduation, Bauer put her love for film aside and spent her first year out of college working in Lansing.

FEATURES

Union postcard display to showcase revealed secrets

Cash Kruth
March 21, 2007

Do you have a secret you've wanted to get off your chest, but haven't figured out how? Thanks to MSU Postcard Confessions, sponsored by the University Activities Board, you can do just that — and the best part is it's anonymous. "People can write their confessions on postcards and send them to the UAB office.

COMMENTARY

MSU administration must investigate campus group

It is time for MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon and the administration to take immediate action. When a student organization has been constantly labeled as highly controversial and intolerant, it raises eyebrows and can bring question to the university.

MSU

Council looks for student speakers

Tara Thoel
March 21, 2007

The deadline for seniors to apply to speak at the May 4 undergraduate commencement is 5 p.m. Friday. To apply, submit five copies of your proposed speech and application to the Senior Class Council in 101 Student Services. For more information, visit www.commencement.msu.edu.

MICHIGAN

Word on the street

"As it's continued on, I've probably gotten more anti-war. It seemed like a good idea at the time." Ainsley Elder linguistics freshman "I probably have stronger feelings against it than I did when it started." Ella Rakowski microbiology senior "I'm more against it as things have become more clear about the intent, and the actual carrying on of the war." Scott Dombrowski international studies junior "My opposition to the war hasn't changed a whole lot.

COMMENTARY

Managing concerns

SN podcasting hits Web After my column "SN needs your help, constructive criticism to strengthen, improve" (SN 1/23), a reader in California e-mailed me, astonished that the State News' Web site didn't have podcasting or Internet radio. The reader made a point that almost every newspaper's Web site currently hosts blogs and other forms of multimedia and The State News was "falling behind" with the times, instead of being innovative as a group of young, fresh journalists. That one hurt a little. Better late than never, The State News is in its fourth week of producing podcasts.