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MIDDAY UPDATE: Local store owner's death publicized by Lansing newspaper article

Darrell Hughes
June 15, 2005

An MSU alumnus and owner of In Flight Sports store died June 1. Family members originally said they wanted to keep the store owner's death private, but a story published in a Lansing-based newspaper - City Pulse - broke the family's silence. Kenneth "Scott" Pridgeon committed suicide after he felt he could no longer face jail time for a drug conviction, Scott's father Marvin Pridgeon said. "I didn't know anything.

MICHIGAN

Word on the street

"There are less parties; in order to do things you have to travel because there are less things going on on campus.

COMMENTARY

Area overhaul

We've said it a hundred times, but we'll say it again - there would be no East Lansing without MSU.

NEWS

Officials: Expired tear gas used in melee

Kris Turner
June 14, 2005

Some of the 299 tear-gas containers used by police during the April 2-3 disturbances were expired at the time they were dispersed. Although the chemicals were used after their expiration dates, no law enforcement officials could explain why they were deployed or if the aged gas has lasting side effects. Because the seven participating police agencies brought munitions from their own armories, there is no way of telling how many canisters used were past their shelf life, East Lansing police Lt.

MICHIGAN

Testing the waters

As tourists and residents venture out to swim in one of the many Lansing-area lakes this summer, they won't have to worry about contaminants that might be swimming with them. In an effort to keep beachgoers informed of the water quality in area lakes and watersheds, samples of water from various locations are collected each week by the Ingham County Health Department to be tested for harmful contaminants. "It makes sense for it to be clean; it is a matter of health," said Meghan Burns, sanitarian for the department and an MSU alumna.

FEATURES

Brew, View offers movies, drinks

Katie Rausch
June 14, 2005

Good fun, drinks and a viewing of the bizarre cult film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." It's not exactly a normal bar routine, but it can be with The Temple Club's "Brew and View" night. Last Tuesday, The Temple Club, 500 E.

MICHIGAN

CMU students propose new merit award

Daniel Thai
June 14, 2005

College might be more affordable for future high school graduates if a proposal to change the Michigan Merit Award program, penned by a class of college students, gets the governor's approval. Six Central Michigan University students went before the state Senate on Wednesday to present a new plan for the award that would increase the scholarship from $2,500 to $5,000. As part of the Michigan Merit Award program, the state provides two annual payments of $1,250 to students who meet or exceed Michigan standards on all four Michigan Educational Assessment Program tests and perform 40 hours of community service.

NEWS

Pitcher drafted to MLB

Megan Homanick
June 14, 2005

Tim Day wasn't going to wait around and stare at a computer screen all day, to see if he would be drafted. "Me and my family were sitting around the computer, and I had stepped out of the room and gone upstairs to my room," the redshirt junior MSU pitcher said.

MICHIGAN

Campus Crusade loses hangout

Patrick Wellever
June 14, 2005

Every time Christy Allen drives past the empty space above Gary's Campus Hair Salon, she said she feels heartbroken. For about six years, it was a place where she and fellow members of MSU's Campus Crusade for Christ used as a downtown hangout. "That place brings back so many memories," said Allen, a psychology and studio art senior. But the group had to end their lease on June 1 due to a limited budget. Allen said she'll miss the former 547 Place, named after its Grand River Avenue address, where Campus Crusade for Christ members gathered after weekly meetings. "It (was) a casual place where kids can just come and be themselves, instead of worried about sticking to the norm," she said.

COMMENTARY

Earth-mobiles

Buying a new car involves weighing priorities, weighing your wallet and sometimes a little bit of impulse.

NEWS

Police ask media for future riot cooperation

Kris Turner
June 14, 2005

Area law-enforcement agencies want local media outlets to work with them should a large-scale disturbance, like the one on April 2-3, happen again in East Lansing. In a police report submitted to the East Lansing City Council, East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert suggested that the assistance of media could help quell questions about department procedures. By allowing reporters to see what the police are dealing with, a large number of questions could be answered, East Lansing police Lt.

NEWS

'Invincible'

Jon Styf
June 14, 2005

Santa Maria, Calif. - The drumbeat of verdicts jolted the deathly still courtroom - not guilty, not guilty, not guilty. Fourteen times the court clerk read the words. Revealing no emotion, Michael Jackson sat motionless at the defense table for five of the most important minutes of his dizzying life, as the threat of nearly 20 years behind bars was finally lifted. Instead of reacting jubilantly, with the kind of electricity he showed near the start of the case when he danced on top of an SUV, Jackson left the courthouse slowly and solemnly, waving weakly and blowing kisses to his shrieking fans. He went back to Neverland - a free man. Jackson, 46, was cleared on all counts Monday, exonerated on charges that he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor at Neverland in 2003. "Justice is done.

COMMENTARY

ESPN 2, Fox News bad for campus TV

I am absolutely flummoxed as to how the university drew the conclusion that a substantial minority of responses requesting Fox News be added to the "U-Tube" lineup translates into a mandate to replace a time-honored and trusted news source, The New York Times, with a cable news channel owned by Rupert Murdoch ("Fox News, ESPN 2 added to campus TV" SN 6/13). When I took the Residence Halls Association survey, I was under the impression that it would merely be a reshuffling of the channels.