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MICHIGAN

Clinic to close after 34 years

Bob Darrow
June 30, 2005

A local low-cost medical clinic that offered health care to 1,600 uninsured area residents last year will see patients for the last time today. On Monday, the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Gateway Community Services, 2875 Northwind Drive, decided to close the operation's doors immediately. Today's closing corresponds with the end of the organization's contract with East Lansing, said Stefanie Zin, executive director at Gateway. The clinic, which has been open for 34 years, has been in danger of closing since Gateway announced a $70,000 budget deficit in May. A June 17 fundraiser at the Hannah Community Center netted $13,000 for the clinic, but it wasn't enough to patch the growing deficit, said Andrew Lathrop, marketing and community relations director at Gateway. Zin said the clinic staff, which is composed mostly of volunteers, will work through July 8 to make sure charts, bills and remaining medications are all in order. "I'm really depressed about it," said Kacie Kleinhardt, a physiology senior who volunteers at the clinic.

SPORTS

Lugnuts fall to Devil Rays, 5-4

Megan Homanick
June 30, 2005

Lansing - The Lansing Lugnuts had plenty of chances to tie the Southwest Michigan Devil Rays, down one in the eighth and ninth innings, but couldn't get a run across in a 5-4 loss at Oldsmobile Park Wednesday afternoon. "When you outhit a team, you should probably win a game," manager Ken Joyce said.

NEWS

Cloudy night in the city

Kris Turner
June 30, 2005

What started as an early morning venture to buy a Slurpee from a local 7-Eleven turned into what Cortney Woycik said was one of the worst events of her life. After being arrested for obstructing an officer, hindering and acting with disorderly conduct during the April 2-3 disturbances, the psychology junior said she will never be the same. And although Woycik said her arrest was unprovoked - her Breathalyzer test recorded a blood-alcohol level of 0.0 - East Lansing police say it was most likely justified. Woycik said she and her boyfriend, Drew Hunter, were walking into East Lansing's downtown during the early hours of April 3.

COMMENTARY

Shared penalty

Say a man bought a gun and later used it in a crime - should the gunmaker be held responsible? File sharing is no exception.

COMMENTARY

Cool capital

When a poor college student gets a birthday card from grandma with a $20 bill in it, the instructions accompanying the money usually consist of, "Now don't spend that on your electric bill.

NEWS

Mich. considers wage increase

Mara Deutch
June 30, 2005

Lansing - For workers like Jean Boudrie, who earn minimum wage, trying to live off $5.15 per hour is difficult. "I love my job, but it's impossible to exist on minimum wage," Boudrie said as she spoke to a rallying crowd at the Capitol on Wednesday. 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate and Sen.

FOOTBALL

MSU football player ineligible for season

Alex Abate
June 30, 2005

Wide receiver Agim Shabaj will not be returning to the MSU football team as he has been ruled academically ineligible for the 2005 season, said John Lewandowski, assistant athletics director and director of Sports Information. Shabaj, a high school teammate of junior quarterback Drew Stanton, played in 11 games and had 29 catches, with one touchdown last season.

MICHIGAN

Business booms

Amy Davis
June 30, 2005

Some local residents will travel hundreds of miles to firework outlets just to make sure their Fourth of July goes off with a bang.

COMMENTARY

Flag burning isn't accepted speech

This is in response to American Civil Liberties Union intern Phil Santer's editorial opposing the constitutional amendment that would "prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States ("Flag burning offensive, but making it illegal could easily backfire," SN 6/27). In the 1984 U.S.

NEWS

Board of Trustees adds new member in August

Amy Davis
June 30, 2005

Alison Barber, senior associate dean of the Eli Broad College of Business, has been named the new secretary to the MSU Board of Trustees, pending the board's approval at a special meeting in July. Barber succeeds Sue Carter, who had served in the position since January 2002 and left to pursue other career goals. "It's really exciting," Barber said.

COMMENTARY

Columnist has little faith in anything

Once again, Mr. Bice has chosen to stir up trouble with a cynical column about religion ("Scientology's wild claims no stranger than those of major religions," SN 6/28). Tell me this, Mr. Bice, if you have no faith in God or any other spiritual entity outside of your empty self, what do you have faith in?