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SPORTS

4 WCHA teams to fight in Frozen Four

Eric Fish
March 29, 2005

For the first time in tournament history, the hockey NCAA Tournament will feature four teams from the WCHA conference in the Frozen Four. Minnesota, North Dakota, Denver and Colorado College will all vie for college hockey's top prize in Columbus, Ohio April 7-9. Colorado College will face defending national champion Denver in the first semifinal game, while Minnesota and North Dakota will battle in the other for the rights to play in the national championship game at 7 p.m.

MICHIGAN

Kids hunt eggs before bedtime

As children glared at the dark, squishy fields of Nancy Moore Park on Saturday, they primed to search for plastic eggs. Parents, on the other hand, prepared for a hunt of their own - to find their children in the mass of about 500 participants. Guardians clenched their children's hands as pressure mounted under the setting sun at the Okemos park's Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt. The scavengers jumped up and down to keep their feet warm and planned with their peers, who would later become their enemies. When the siren blared, the small hunters darted out into the crowd, leaving many parents behind.

SPORTS

Anderson will leave big shoes to be filled

A player of this type does not come through the door often. In this day of shoe contracts, enticing multi-million dollar pro deals and selfishness, it is rare to see a player with the type of team dedication that will forgo personal statistics in order help his team to the highest level possible. But that is exactly what Alan Anderson has done his whole career for his head coach Tom Izzo. Anderson is a rare breed, someone who can effortlessly play any position asked of him and do it with the type of precision that makes him look like he was born to play it. After manning the point last season, Anderson was asked to move to - of all spots - power forward this season.

COMMENTARY

Government had no right to intervene

This is in response to Bradley Wilson's "Congress correct to protect helpless" (SN 3/23). While I might agree with Mr. Wilson if Terri Schiavo had not been in a vegetative state for the last 15 years, the fact is that this poor woman has been in a persistent vegetative state for the last 15 years and has no hope of recovery.

NEWS

Students vote against $3 ASMSU tax increase

Amy Davis
March 28, 2005

Slightly more than half of MSU undergraduate students who participated in last week's ASMSU elections voted against a $3 proposed tax hike, but supported a tax renewal for the 2005-06 school year. Of the 1,988 students who voted in the election, about 51 percent voted against the tax increase and about 4 percent abstained from voting.

SPORTS

3 Big Ten squads advance to Eight

Matt Bishop
March 28, 2005

Austin, Texas - MSU head coach Tom Izzo has been singing the Big Ten's praises all year long. For the first time, people don't look at him like he's a loon when he does so. That's because three teams from the Big Ten conference have advanced to the Elite Eight, more than any other conference. "Over the last couple years, it seems like we were put down to nothing," Izzo said.

COMMENTARY

Republicans have displayed hypocrisy

I find it ironic that the same Republicans who fight so strongly against universal health care are the ones who now are trying to keep a woman alive over what the state courts have for the last 15 years consistently agreed were her wishes.

COMMENTARY

Delayed Results

For all their hard work, T-shirts and pizza parties, ASMSU representatives shot themselves in the foot on Friday when they did not wait around to broadcast the voter turnout of their elections. After all the promises of commitment to making the undergraduate government a legitimate and important part of the university - combined with the food and snazzy ASMSU-logo cotton tees - interested students might have been left with a rather unsatisfied feeling.

MSU

Peace, justice focus of lecture

Margaret Harding
March 28, 2005

Author and professor Michael Klare will discuss resource management and overconsumption in the United States and abroad tonight in South Kedzie Hall. Peace and Justice Studies, an undergraduate specialization program, is sponsoring Klare's speech, which begins at 7:15 p.m.

COMMENTARY

Schiavo case must not be generalized

I am writing in regards to Bradley Wilson's letter titled "Congress correct to protect helpless" (SN 3/23). In this letter, Mr. Wilson lets his true colors show, referring to Terri Schiavo's husband as an "adulterous slimebag." It is very disappointing to me that someone studying political theory and constitutional democracy would allow his legal analysis of a case to be guided by raw emotion. I would first like to know on what grounds Mr. Wilson bases his judgment of Mr. Schiavo.

NEWS

Celebration marked by cheer, not destruction

Jon Styf
March 28, 2005

Sheer surprise, happiness and relief from a nerve-wracking, double-overtime win exploded into an energized crowd as hundreds of people teemed the streets of East Lansing and campus. The celebration - which began at Grand River Avenue and Charles Street, moved to Albert Street and then headed toward Cedar Village and campus - came after the MSU men's basketball team's upset win against Kentucky, 94-88. At about 9:20 p.m., MSU police Chief Jim Dunlap was at the corner of Albert and M.A.C.

FEATURES

'Little Shop of Horrors' comes to Wharton

Maddie Trier
March 28, 2005

In accordance with springtime, a new plant is flourishing at Wharton Center, but watch out - this one comes with a Faustian pact and a taste for human flesh. "Little Shop of Horrors" comes to Wharton Center this week and revolves around Seymour Krelbourn, a florist, who wishes to win the heart of his co-worker Audrey.

MSU

1 million log in to LON-CAPA

Margaret Harding
March 28, 2005

A program formed in 1999 with courses mainly in the areas of math and science now has a course selection that spans campus and just reached another milestone - the millionth student login. The online course management program, LearningOnline Network Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach, or LON-CAPA, celebrated the 100,000th student to login last fall.

MSU

Students could redevelop Traverse City

Students in MSU's Landscape Architecture program might soon get the chance to redesign the downtown area of a northern Michigan city. Traverse City, a community of about 15,000 people, is in the process of requesting help from the students as part of the Small Town Design Initiative, a program run by Warren Rauhe, an associate professor of landscape architecture and director of the initiative. In the project, the students would work with Traverse City residents to redesign a 2-mile stretch of land that runs alongside the Grand Traverse Bay, as well as attempt to better connect it with the downtown area, Rauhe said. "There's a lot of open space, a lot of green space there, a lot of opportunity to do something really special," he said.

NEWS

EU-FOUR-IA!

Matt Bishop
March 28, 2005

Austin, Texas - It took MSU extra sessions of basketball, but when the dust settled and the smoke cleared, the Spartans survived in double overtime against Kentucky, 94-88, on Sunday night to advance to the Final Four. In the Spartans' fourth trip in seven years to the Final Four, MSU will take on No.

MSU

Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students to hold annual 'Satrang'

Josh Jarman
March 28, 2005

With sweat on their brows, members of the Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students concentrated while dancing to traditional Indian rhythms this weekend. The group was practicing for its upcoming "Satrang" event on April 8. "Satrang" is the coalition's annual cultural show dedicated to bringing a taste of Indian tradition to campus.