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FOOTBALL

Hundley to remain at UTEP over Spartans

Kristi Jourdan
March 14, 2005

MSU football head coach John L. Smith hired Texas-El Paso defensive coordinator Tim Hundley to fill the assistant coaching position, but Hundley reversed his decision to come to MSU due to family reasons. Hundley was scheduled to arrive in East Lansing on today but now Smith must find another replacement in time for spring football. Hundley's original decision was based on a larger salary, but UTEP head coach Mike Price convinced him to reconsider.

SPORTS

Winter's big 3 sports to fuel excitement in tourney plays

To steal a marketing line from the Detroit Pistons: It's time. It's time for MSU's three biggest winter sports - men's basketball, women's basketball and hockey - to put behind all that has not gone right for the teams in the past and make an impact in its respective postseason tournaments. This will prove to be as big of a week as they come for MSU athletics, as two of the three teams have a long and detailed history of not being able to win when it matters most. When you look at the list of accomplishments for two of the senior classes, it's not pretty. The men's team has an Elite Eight appearance under its belt in the 2002-03 season, but other than that, team accomplishments have been few and far between, with losses in the first round of the NCAA Tournament sandwiched in between. For the hockey team, since Rick Comley took over the reins, the team has won nothing but this year's Great Lakes Invitational with two riveting victories over New Hampshire and Michigan. The biggest successes of the three teams goes to the women's basketball team, which has been steadily climbing to the top since this year's senior class was freshmen. MSU made it to the WNIT semifinals in its first year, lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and lost to then-No.

NEWS

Plans set to move FCE dept.

Margaret Harding
March 14, 2005

Part of MSS President Lo Anna K. Simon's college reorganization plan will be set in motion next month when recommendations on how best to move the Department of Family and Child Ecology to the College of Social Science are completed by Academic governance. The deadline to complete the transfer is July 1 said acting Provost John Hudzik at the Executive Committee of Academic Council meeting on March 1. The College of Human Ecology, which houses the department, will hold one more full graduation this spring and will be extinct by the end of the year if the other two departments find new homes.

COMMENTARY

Crunch time

It's all about heart, and the MSU men's basketball team doesn't seem to have it. Its counterpart, the MSU women's basketball team, does.

ICE HOCKEY

Icers head to Super Six on 5-game streak

Eric Fish
March 14, 2005

The inconsistency with the MSU hockey team has been the inability to pick up series sweeps, with the exception of the sweep over Ferris State, which came in early November. Currently, the Spartans (19-15-4 overall) are riding a five-game winning streak after sweeping Notre Dame on March 4 and 5 to clinch home ice in the first-round CCHA playoffs.

SPORTS

Nick Simmons named Big Ten champ

Chris Meagher
March 14, 2005

Nick Simmons won his first Big Ten Championship, and four Spartans qualified for the NCAA Championships on March 5-6 at the Big Ten Championships in Iowa City, Iowa. MSU finished eighth out of the 11 Big Ten schools, and Illinois won its first Big Ten Championship since 1952. At the NCAA Championships starting Thursday, Simmons will be joined by his brother, sophomore Andy Simmons, and juniors Darren McKnight and R.J.

COMMENTARY

Open with care

Wouldn't it be nice to get a chunk of $14 million that belonged to a former German property magnate who went down in a plane crash in the year 2000?

MSU

Horse exhibition ropes 'em in

Amy Davis
March 14, 2005

Horse owners and enthusiasts packed MSU's campus this weekend to see the largest equine show in the state. The 22nd annual International Stallion Exhibition and Trade Show, sponsored by the Michigan Horse Council, was held Friday through Sunday at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education. "People who are coming through a long winter before riding season starts know they can come here to get the things they need," said Marilyn Graff, spokeswoman for the exhibition and trade show and member of the Michigan Horse Council.

NEWS

E-mail scam targets MSU credit union members

Margaret Harding
March 14, 2005

Some MSU Federal Credit Union users could return from spring break to find their bank accounts suspiciously lighter, if they responded to a fraudulent e-mail before they left. On March 3, credit union officials reported a "phishing" attack had hit the bank.

ICE HOCKEY

Thelen ousted from team for not meeting expectations

Eric Fish
March 14, 2005

A.J. Thelen was dismissed from the MSU hockey team for failing to meet student-athlete expectations, head coach Rick Comley announced March 6. Comley said scratching Thelen in the Spartans' victory over Notre Dame on March 4 wasn't his first choice, but that he couldn't address the situation more thoroughly at that point in time. Two days later, Comley announced Thelen had been dismissed.

SPORTS

Tournament Champions

Chris Barsotti
March 14, 2005

Indianapolis - For the first time in school history, the No. 7 MSU women's basketball team found its way to the championship game of the Big Ten Tournament and won it, defeating Minnesota, 55-49. The win marked a school-record 12th victory in a row and 10th overall against ranked opponents. The Spartans found themselves in three different types of games: overtime in the quarterfinal game, a shootout in the semifinal game and a defensive battle in the championship. And the Spartans met every challenge presented to them. MSU (28-3 overall, 14-2 Big Ten) played catch-up down the stretch of the second half of the championship game and were finally able to take the lead with less than two minutes remaining in the game.

COMMENTARY

Innocent people killed by abortion

Mr. John Bice argues that abortion is not murder ("Unjustifiable use of reification to shape viewpoints too prevalent" SN 3/3) because of the intangibility of personhood according to the concept of "reification." However, his argument is erroneous. It would be a travesty if pro-life advocates argued that abortions were murder strictly because of the extinguishing of "personhood." The issue of personhood is almost a non sequitur to the abortion debate; as Mr. Bice points out, the concept of personhood is artificial and malleable.

NEWS

Unhealthy dosage

Lauren Phillips
March 14, 2005

Ann C., 37, knows how addictive prescription drugs can be. In 2002, the Lansing-area woman was prescribed the oral painkiller Percocet as a result of lingering pains from a car accident.

MSU

Campus construction to resume

The last time Service Road closed for construction, civil engineering senior Sean Fitzgerel said it was a hassle for those who parked in Lot 83 behind Holden Hall, commonly known as F Lot. People who didn't know the road had closed to through traffic in summer 2003 got to where it was blocked and had to turn around, Fitzgerel said.