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NEWS

Championship hopes ruined in loss to Ariz.

Eric Fish
March 31, 2005

It was the 2000-01 season when the Spartans made their third Final Four in a row with hopes of repeating their national championship from a year ago. With the appearance, MSU became the third school in a row since 1985 to advance to three straight Final Fours and only the ninth school in tournament history. Sophomore Jason Richardson and seniors Andre Hutson and Charlie Bell were the MSU leaders the year after the departures of Morris Peterson and Mateen Cleaves, and were able to lead MSU back to elite status with another Final Four appearance. The Spartans started the new season where they left off the previous year.

COMMENTARY

Smother Earth

Remember how at the end of every "Captain Planet" cartoon that weird, green-haired super hero would stick his face in the screen and give you a purpose-laden epilogue to the plot of the episode? Somehow, through a strange cartoon about teenagers, magic rings and environmental disasters, the cartoon's creators expressed the real-world effects of environmental destruction.

FOOTBALL

Spartans show support for fellow athletes in tourneys

Chris Meagher
March 31, 2005

The MSU football team will take the field for its fourth spring practice of the year today, but the Spartans said they realize they are probably sitting second fiddle to the basketball program. Both the men's and women's basketball teams have advanced to the Final Four, and the MSU football team is among the ballers' biggest supporters. "Everybody's watching," senior defensive back Eric Smith said.

MICHIGAN

Water main breaks within Capitol Loop

Lauren Phillips
March 31, 2005

The Capitol was closed for about six hours Wednesday after a water main broke on Allegan Street. A contractor working on the Capitol Loop reconstruction project hit a water main with a piece of excavating equipment shortly after 7:30 a.m., said John Strickler, spokesman for the Lansing Board of Water & Light. It took about three hours to fix, Strickler said.

MICHIGAN

Bookseller assesses vintage reads

Automobile connoisseur and collector Wade Leonard of Clinton Township flipped open his wallet Wednesday inside Archives Book Shop to show off his baby - a 1922 Ford Model T. The 65-year-old social studies teacher spent the afternoon scouring the shelves for old Ford Motor Co. advertisements. But Leonard is not a dealer.

COMMENTARY

History made

The women's basketball team has made history - again. The Spartans achieved the program's best performance in the NCAA Tournament when they made it to the Sweet 16.

COMMENTARY

Detroit not the only city that has flaws

I am so tired of outsiders coming in trying to bash the city of Detroit. Adam Wright is just an outsider looking in, and all of the information he presented were statistics that he has heard from the media ("Detroit has many faults it must fix" SN 3/30). Every city has its flaws and downfalls.

MSU

Departments to go to paperless system

In May, the University Stores and Mail Processing departments will switch to a paperless format when issuing statements and reports. Billing statements from departmental charges made by mostly faculty and staff will be affected. April statements will be the last received on paper, and May's statements will be available electronically in June. AIS Document Viewer, already used on campus, will allow members of the MSU community to view their statements and reports.

NEWS

Provost: MSU faculty will make future changes to liberal arts

Margaret Harding
March 31, 2005

Any future changes in the organization of liberal arts and sciences will not come from the administration, but will "bubble up" from the faculty, MSU officials say. Last week, acting Provost John Hudzik released a report updating members of Academic Council on the status of multiple university initiatives, including the reorganization of the liberal arts and sciences. "I thought people needed to know in a thorough way where we were on various initiatives," Hudzik said.

MICHIGAN

WEB ONLY: E.L. planning team postpones voting on master plan

Kris Turner
March 30, 2005

The East Village Planning Team isn't quite done defining their master plan. Although the group assembled Tuesday, it did not vote on the plan, stating it was still incomplete. "We are getting to the point when we would have a polished plan," said Jim van Ravensway, East Lansing planning and community development director.

NEWS

2005 ASMSU election results

These are the elected candidates for the ASMSU election, including write-ins, with vote totals: Academic Assembly College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Lauren Polinsky 61 College of Arts & Letters None Eli Broad College of Business Jordan Catrine 114 Karen Guzdzial 104 College of Communication Arts and Sciences Kristen Ditta 121 College of Education None College of Engineering None College of Human Ecology None James Madison College Alexander Plum 116 Ian Mattoon 113 College of Natural Science Matthew Hovey 205 College of Nursing None College of Social Science Raman Agrawal 115 Robert Murphy 129 University Undergraduate Division None College of Veterinary Medicine None Student Assembly College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Lauren Kramer Olson 54 Lauren Polinsky 52 College of Arts & Letters Erik Green 134 Craig Burgers 34 (write-in winner) Eli Broad College of Business Scott Lachman 162 Tahera Sakarwala 149 Harry Wang 151 Yusaf Sumbal 169 College of Communication Arts and Sciences Jessica Kunnath 92 Derek Wallbank 97 Kristen Ditta 94 College of Education None College of Engineering Ryan Blair 94 College of Human Ecology None James Madison College Jacob Tornga 84 Steven Irlbacher 106 College of Natural Science Timothy Jordan 199 Matthew Hovey 194 Kevin Ogden 30 (write-in winner) College of Nursing None College of Social Science Hallee Winnie 116 Mike Leahy 104 Nicholas Romley 109 Katie Derthick 114 University Undergraduate Division None College of Veterinary Medicine None Source: ASMSU

NEWS

Winning streak resembles MSU's last successful trek to nationals

Chris Meagher
March 30, 2005

In 2000, for the second year in a row, Mateen Cleaves and Morris Peterson led the Spartans to the Final Four, but this time the team took it a couple steps further. After the Spartans claimed their third consecutive regular-season championship and won three straight games to win the Big Ten Tournament, MSU headed to Cleveland, Ohio, to begin its quest for a national championship. The No.

COMMENTARY

Widespread camera use distracts people from actually living life

At one time, it seemed like the purpose of photography was to document social interaction, not create it. But as cameras find ways to stick themselves on almost any device, computers make sharing easier and people become obsessed with self-expression, creating interaction seems to be the norm. This notion came to me the other night when I was running around covering the hundreds of fans who were celebrating the MSU men's basketball team's defeat over the University of Kentucky.