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SPORTS

Catching up with

Get the lowdown on the recruiting class that's coming to MSU. Isaiah Dahlman Shooting guard/small forward 6 foot 6, 175 pounds Braham Area High School (Braham, Minn.) Isaiah Dahlman helped Braham extend its conference record to 3-0 by scoring 39 points in a 92-62 victory against East Central on Thursday, according the St.

MSU

Contest held for horseshoers

Gentlemen, start your forge ovens. Horseshoes, known as good luck charms and often pitched at company picnics, went back to their roots Saturday as Michigan's best horseshoers competed in a timed 30-minute shoeing contest at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education.

BASKETBALL

Bruised & badgered

Madison, Wis. — Tom Izzo thinks MSU should be considered 2-0 in the Big Ten right now. Oh sure, the standings will show Illinois and Wisconsin each recently recorded a victory over the Spartans.

NEWS

Hollister to lead Simon's nonprofit organization

After working for the last three years to bring "Cool Cities" to the state, former Lansing Mayor David Hollister will now bring some cool ideas home to the region. Hollister will give up his post as the state's director of Labor and Economic Growth to head up a nonprofit organization first envisioned by MSU President Lou Anna K.

FEATURES

Local band produces dreamy alt-country

If the puffy clouds of springtime made music together, it would sound something like The Pantones' latest CD — "Sleepless Nights, Silent Mornings." There's a dream-like feeling to the six-piece's tunes, grounded in reality with bittersweet lyrics.

NEWS

Pummeled

Madison, Wis. — After a closely guarded 3-pointer from Wisconsin's Kammron Taylor went down early in the second half, all MSU head coach Tom Izzo could do was scratch his head. It was quickly becoming another one of those days. Just like Thursday's game against Illinois, the No.

COMMENTARY

Owen Hall leaves students in lurch

When I made the decision last April to attend MSU College of Law, I was immediately bombarded with flyers, brochures and pamphlets advertising both on- and off-campus living arrangements. The official MSU brochures mainly featured Owen Graduate Hall, and highlighted the fact that Owen Graduate Hall is catered to the needs of law students and other graduate students.

COMMENTARY

Student government votes to oppose MCRI

I was disappointed to learn that ASMSU, the campus student government, voted to oppose the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. It is beyond question that affirmative action is in serious need of repair.

SPORTS

3-game trip offers chance to improve .500 record away from East Lansing

The road has not been kind to the No. 11 MSU women's basketball team this season. The Green and White have been perfect at Breslin Center, winning all nine of their home games, but are only batting .500 in the six games they've played outside of East Lansing. The Spartans (12-3 overall, 2-0 Big Ten) will have to improve in that respect if they are to stay at the top of the Big Ten Conference standings.

FEATURES

Nature, bodies focus of gallery exhibits

Hawks, deer, owls, bears and moose graced the walls of the East Lansing Public Art Gallery in the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road, as patrons make their way from forest to mythological Greece at the First Sunday Gallery Walk.

SPORTS

So what if it's January? Hoops 'Madness' is happening now

Fasten your seat belts, basketball fans, because this is going to be a wild ride. After watching a slew of upsets tear apart the top 25 teams in the last few days, I have decided that the theme of the 2005-2006 men's college basketball season is "Who wants to get a national championship?" Illinois superstar guard Dee Brown was less than impressive at Saturday's game against Iowa, which contributed to the Fighting Illini's 48-63 upset.

SPORTS

Editor's note

The life of a sports fan is tough. Our emotions are constantly fluctuating depending on the success, or lack thereof, of "our teams" — the four or five teams we've grown up following and we'd live and die by.

COMMENTARY

College must focus on MSU campus first

In both of Bob Darrow's articles, "Detroit officials embrace expansion" (SN 12/07) and "Osteopathic school looks to expand" (SN 12/06), some major issues concerning the expansion of the College of Osteopathic Medicine weren't addressed. First off, Darrow quotes the college's Dean William Strampel, who said the reason for such an expansion is to satisfy the future shortage of physicians.

MICHIGAN

Grill receives no jail, pays back embezzled funds in full

Former MSU School of Journalism faculty member Raye Grill was sentenced Wednesday and repaid about $69,000 she stole from the school and the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association. Grill will not see jail time but will be on probation for 18 months and is to serve 300 hours of community service as part of the sentence.