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COMMENTARY

Just vote, doesn't matter where you're registered

In response to the letter, "Student voting locations should be more flexible" (SN 11/13), I'd like to let Mike Dunker know that it shouldn't matter where you're registered to vote, as long as you vote. An absentee ballot is just as good as a regular ballot — in a lot of political races, the outcome usually comes down to the results of the absentee ballots. I'm proud to say I voted via an absentee ballot because I wasn't able to make it back to my home state on Election Day. It's also hard to use the Florida elections in 2000 as justification anymore.

NEWS

WEB UPDATE: Spartans' comeback bid falls short, lose to Maryland, 62-60

Tom Keller
November 18, 2006

New York — A night after making a winning shot in the game's final three seconds, the MSU men's basketball team couldn't manage the same heroics. Despite junior guard Drew Neitzel's 17 second-half points, MSU's late comeback bid fell short and the Spartans fell, 62-60, to Maryland in the finals of the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic on Friday night at Madison Square Garden.

COMMENTARY

House wants college more affordable, finally

Student loans are the perpetual thorn in the sides of most college students in the nation. Facing the exponential increase in tuition that most colleges have instituted throughout the years — costs have risen by double digits in the past decade and show no signs of slowing — students have increasingly turned to student loans. However, federal aid for students has not kept up with the ever-climbing tuition rates, causing massive student debt.

COMMENTARY

Dems should try not to split week after win

Not a week after sweeping both the U.S. House and Senate, the Democratic Party starts to crack — and not based on Iraq policy or President Bush's tax cuts, but on the election of the majority leader of the House. This wouldn't be so bad for the Democrats if it were the first time they've splintered, but the party has a history of in-fighting.

NEWS

Prognosticators

MSU at Penn State Noon Saturday, Beaver Stadium, ESPN2 SH — This one has train wreck written all over it.

MICHIGAN

Craze draws crowds

Brendan Bouffard
November 17, 2006

Okemos — Shane Ward has spent the past two days wearing a huge pair of mittens while sitting on concrete, huddled around three sleeping bags, two coats and several pizza boxes. With all the preparation, Ward was primed to get his hands on a PlayStation 3 after waiting in line outside Best Buy, 2020 W.

NEWS

63 - 61

Tom Keller
November 17, 2006

New York — Start spreading the news — these Spartans can play. Junior guard Drew Neitzel had 15 points, including the game-winning layup with 2.4 seconds left, as the MSU men's basketball team (4-0) had its national coming-out party with a 63-61 upset of No.

MSU

Officials, students discuss possible long-term development on campus

Alex Altman
November 17, 2006

Some students learned what campus could look like in the future after officials discussed the construction master plan Thursday at the International Center. At the meeting, Campus Planner Stephen Troost and Planning and Budgets Assistant Director Bill Latta laid out their plans for the university's physical outlook in the future. Troost said the master plan will guide long-term development. "Every construction project is coordinated with the master plan," Troost said.

FEATURES

Grandparents' health might affect future generations

By Betsy Mason Contra Costa Times Walnut Creek, Calif. (MCT) — You are not just what you eat, but what your mother and your grandmother ate as well. A study at Children's Hospital Oakland (Calif.) Research Institute found that a pregnant mouse's diet can affect the health of her grandchildren. "Things like this probably go on in humans, too," said molecular geneticist Kenneth Beckman of the institute, an author of the study. Previously, scientists thought parents passed their genes on to their offspring — and no further. But recent studies have suggested that environmental influences on those genes can also be inherited. The new study, led by Beckman and molecular geneticist David Martin of the institute, is the first to show that those environmental influences can be passed on to grandchildren. "The implications for public health are enormous," said nutritional epigeneticist Robert Waterland of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who is doing similar research.

SPORTS

Taste of the city

Laura Collins
November 17, 2006

Tom Izzo has experienced some of the biggest basketball games in college history. But one of his most memorable moments in the last 11 years happened when he took his team to the World Trade Center site in New York City for the 2001 Preseason NIT tournament. "It ranks right up there with some of the most unbelievable things I've ever witnessed," the MSU head coach said Tuesday.

NEWS

3 up 3 down

WHO'S UP? Michigan and Ohio State Not only are the Wolverines and Buckeyes playing in the biggest game of the year, but also they're paying — albeit indirectly — for a small child from Guatemala.