VOLLEYBALL
Losses end Spartans' season
After losing their final match on Saturday, MSU's volleyball players wiped the tears from their eyes and began to form a circle.
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Debate team places second at tournament
The MSU Debate Team came in second place at the 49th annual Wake Forest University Shirley Classic. More than 70 colleges and 140 teams participated in the tournament. International relations senior Ryan Burke received 10th place in the Individual Speaker Award.
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ASMSU seeks to fill 2 spots in coming weeks
Two ASMSU executives are resigning at the end of the semester, and the student government hopes to fill the positions by early December. Association Director Jason Bucholz is leaving for an internship in the spring, and Tahera Sakarwala, vice chairperson for student programming for ASMSU's Student Assembly, plans to move to Iowa for a supply chain management internship this spring. Applications for the association director position are due by 5 p.m.
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Speakers, performers part of student rally
At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Black Student Alliance will present the 33rd annual Black Power Rally at Fairchild Theatre. The theme for this year is "These Three Words: L.ove, U.nification, V.oice." The event will feature performances and speakers such as DJ Reality, 3rd Eye Open, Urban Dreams, poet Amiri Baraka and Denise Troutman, an MSU associate professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures.
COMMENTARY
Message cannot be made with limitations
I would like to commend Mike Ramsey for exercising his First Amendment rights in his comic on Veterans Day (SN 11/11). I strongly disagree with the readers who want to contest his position at The State News.
COMMENTARY
Many at MSU struggle with gender identity
I'd like to applaud The State News for printing the editorial "Identity right" (SN 11/16) on gender identity. Gender identity is as intrinsic and personal as anything else that we use to define ourselves to ourselves, and as such should be protected with the same safeguards as any other identifying characteristic. Yet presently at MSU, discrimination against transgender students in housing, employment and other areas of student life is permitted.
COMMENTARY
Greet the heat
Brace yourself — winter is here. Sure, the snow might be a nice change of scenery, but with the cold comes the increased heating bill.
COMMENTARY
Cartoon commendable, not a waste of space
Jared Parko's letter "Cartoon too harsh, inappropriate for day" (SN 11/16) criticizing Mike Ramsey is wrong in so many ways that one hardly knows where to begin rebutting it. Far from impugning older veterans as "weak liberators" (whatever that means), Ramsey's cartoon juxtaposed the greatest generation's reverence for human rights with the well-documented violation of those rights by today's military. The obvious gist was that soldiers in the war on terror are not living up to the high ideals set by their predecessors. Ramsey making this point so emphatically is commendable, not deplorable.
NEWS
Home, sweet home
With his teammates struggling to get their legs back after a four-game trip to Hawaii, Paul Davis carried the No.
SPORTS
Monday musings
• Pro golfer Fred Funk got tons of publicity this weekend for wearing a pink flowered skirt for the third hole of the Skins Game, his penalty for being outdriven by Annika Sorenstam. Meanwhile, John Daly is upset about the lack of coverage he got for appearing at his local putt-putt golf course wearing nothing but a thong. • The Pistons are continuing their strong start, knocking off Milwaukee on Saturday to improve to an NBA-best 10-2. How good are things going for the 'Stones?
MICHIGAN
Bernero to keep Lansing police, fire chief on staff
Lansing's mayor-elect Virg Bernero has decided to keep Lansing police Chief Mark Alley and Lansing fire Chief Greg Martin on staff during his term, he announced in a press conference on Tuesday. "They are ready to embrace change," Bernero said.
COMMENTARY
'Miraculous journey' inspiration to others
I am writing to commend the work of SN reporters Melissa Domsic and Travis Haughton in their "Miraculous journey" (SN 11/15). My brother's Sept.
FEATURES
Riverwalk's 'Beauty' takes 'Shrek'-esque turn
The Brothers Grimm don't want you to know every embarrassing detail about Prince Charming. In the brothers' new careers in their public relations firm, they edit fairy tales to show the prince in the best light in the original children's production "Sleeping Beauty" at Riverwalk Theatre, which opened this weekend. The combination play and musical is a comical adaptation of the traditional fairy tale.
COMMENTARY
Columnist's cheap shots unwarranted, not true
I would like to know why Jon Gunnells, "Acronyms now replace English words, people everywhere use them" (SN 11/17), found it necessary to deride the greek community with his cheap shot relating fraternities with drugs and STDs. There is a great majority of people in the greek community who do not fit this stereotype. If Gunnells' idea of journalism is simply offending people and taking cheap shots, then I suggest he find another course of study and you find a new columnist. Erik Hakala physics senior
COMMENTARY
Why are people still writing about Ramsey?
As an avid reader of The State News online, I am continually fascinated by the banter in response to Mike Ramsey's Veterans Day cartoon (SN 11/11). It has been over two weeks since this cartoon was published and still, people are writing their hate-mail.
FEATURES
'Rent' a disappointment
The Chinese philosopher Confucius once said "Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it." The film version of the Broadway musical "Rent" is corny, predictable and rather boring to sit through.
COMMENTARY
Greek bashing uncalled for in unrelated column
Fraternities have always received a lot of negative publicity in the media. I am always glad to see The State News reports all of the great things that the greek system does for the community and university. If you look in The State News archives, you will see more good news than bad news on MSU's greek system. That being said, I thought Jon Gunnells' column, "Acronyms now replace English words, people everywhere use them" (SN 11/17) attacked fraternities for no valid reason: "It's universally known that acronyms are only suitable in three situations.
NEWS
Road rules
As the winter winds blow into campus and the first snows cover the ground, MSU students racing and weaving across campus face new challenges to make it to class on time. Bikers brave the icy streets and pedestrians test their luck in front of approaching traffic.
COMMENTARY
Diversity issues prominent in French riots; U.S. has its share too
The images are disturbing. Cars afire, buildings reduced to rubble, police and rioters on the streets — it's madness. I, for one, am shocked.
NEWS
MSU research income ranks seventh in U.S.
MSU was one of the top universities in the nation at commercializing research in 2004. But as major patents expire, MSU is likely to drop down the list in the coming years, said Ian Gray, vice president for research and graduate studies. MSU's licensing income was seventh in the country last year, bringing in more than $36 million.