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Dinosaur Dash to be held Sunday morning

Kristyn Peterson
September 27, 2006

The MSU Federal Credit Union Dinosaur Dash will take place at 10 a.m. Sunday at the MSU Museum. Proceeds from the 5K race will benefit education programs at the MSU Museum, which houses the area's only full-mounted stegosaurus and allosaurus casts. The event will also include the Museum Mile, for children ages 12 and younger, and the Mini-Dash, a 200-yard race for children 6 and younger. The MSU Federal Credit Union has helped raise more than $200,000 since the company began sponsoring the event more than 20 years ago.

COMMENTARY

University's image at stake; Smith's time is up

On a night when the 1966 team was present, the mood was right for a smashmouth football victory. But the only thing shown at Spartan Stadium was that our young kids played too hard for a coach who exemplifies the word coward. Forget the rain excuse.

NEWS

Game-day arrests not alarming, police say

East Lansing police arrested 23 people Saturday night and also had three times more assault calls than each of this year's previous two football Saturdays. On the same day, MSU police arrested 131 people — a 54 percent increase compared to the number of arrests on the 2004 Notre Dame game day. MSU spokesman Terry Denbow and Lee June, vice president of student affairs and services, declined to comment about the arrest statistics from Saturday. June, who was part of the discussions that led to tailgating rule changes in 2004, declined to comment Tuesday. "I prefer to yield my comments to Fred Poston, since he's been the one looking at numbers," June said. Poston, MSU's vice president for finance and operations, said Sunday he would review MSU police reports Monday and provide comment, but he did not return calls Tuesday. Denbow declined to comment on the arrest statistics because he said MSU officials are still analyzing the figures. "The numbers might not seem extremely truthful when looking at them the first time," Denbow said.

NEWS

Motor City losing momentum

Gabrielle Russon
September 27, 2006

What happened to MSU student Andrea Posigian's father could be the same fate thousands of other Ford Motor Co. employees face in the near future. Sooren Posigian started working for Ford almost four decades ago, just before his 19th birthday.

NEWS

Committee formed for liberal arts initiatives

Fredricka Paul
September 27, 2006

University officials created a committee Tuesday dedicated to taking undergraduate studies to a higher, more in-depth level. The University Committee on Liberal Learning, which passed by a majority vote at the first Academic Council meeting of the school year, will collaborate with other faculty members to improve undergraduate education. The goals of the committee include improving integrated judgment, advanced communication skills, cultural competence, analytical thinking, literacy in science and mathematics, and effective citizenship.

ICE HOCKEY

MSU Hockey looks to replace Miller, Potter, Vicari

Eric Fish
September 27, 2006

Chris Lawrence only scored two goals last year on the MSU hockey team's fourth line. But because of his blue-collar work ethic and leadership, Lawrence's teammates unanimously voted him team captain this May. "I just kind of took it upon myself to step up and be a leader (last season)," Lawrence said Monday at Media Day.

COMMENTARY

Simon correct to condemn game of 'catch' planned for MSU's campus

Young Americans for Freedom — it's scary how eerily similar this club's name sounds to some of President Bush's catchy make-it-sound-good-and-no-one-will-ask-questions schemes, such as the "Clear Skies Act" of 2005 and the "No Child Left Behind" debacle. In a time when nothing is as it sounds, the state of American politics is becoming increasingly Orwellian. Who wouldn't want to support clear skies?

MICHIGAN

Toronto to buy own landfill for use after contract ends

Lindsey Poisson
September 27, 2006

Canadians might have an alternative to dumping trash in Michigan landfills in just four years. After about three months of shopping around for a non-Michigan landfill, the City of Toronto announced last week its intent to purchase the Green Lane Landfill in southwestern Ontario, Canada. But the city will continue to dispose of its solid municipal waste in Michigan until its contract ends in 2010 with Wayne County-based Carleton Farms Landfill — the only state landfill where Toronto exports its trash. Stuart Green, spokesman for Toronto Mayor David Miller, said the Toronto City Council approved a "letter of intent," which means city officials will have about 90 days to approve the agreement. "It's sort of one step shy from an actual purchase," Green said.

COMMENTARY

War in Iraq not making U.S. any safer

Apparently, the war in Iraq can't do it. Neither can President Bush's war on terror. Five years have passed since New York City's twin towers crumbled and still, the plan to secure our country from terrorists is falling short.

NEWS

Searching for a cure

Nine years and 12 days ago, Les Algren received the phone call. It was her doctor. Could she meet him in his office? "I hung up the phone and started crying because I knew exactly what that meant," said Algren, 53, who lives in Grand Ledge. It meant the lump she'd found in her breast wasn't benign.

NEWS

2 charged in assault, robbery on campus

An MSU student is one of two men charged Sunday in connection with armed robbery and assault on a police officer that occurred minutes before Saturday's kickoff. Physics junior James Pritchett, 23, and nonstudent Andre Brown, 21, were arrested Saturday on Wilson Road near Spartan Stadium following the incident, MSU police Sgt.

MICHIGAN

Deputy city manager retires, takes new job

Kris Turner
September 26, 2006

Jean Golden says she's off to find bliss. After serving as East Lansing's deputy city manager for seven years, Golden is ready to retake control of her life. "I'm going to be 60 years old — I've been working hard since I was 16," she said.

BASKETBALL

MSU lands 1st recruit for 2008

Matt Bishop
September 26, 2006

The MSU men's basketball team received its first verbal commitment for the 2008 class, landing Korie Lucious, a 5-foot-10 guard from Milwaukee Pius XI High School. Lucious is ranked as the No.