FEATURES
'Be Cool' lacks heat despite impressive cast
"Be Cool" is an example of what happens when you pair a powerful cast with an exceedingly awful film.
MSU
ASMSU: E-mail, file storage space should increase
ASMSU members are hoping to give students additional e-mail and file storage space on the university's hard drive and to allow graduates access to their e-mail accounts indefinitely. MSU students are given a university e-mail account of 64 megabytes for academic purposes and personal use.
MSU
Naturalist to speak on sustainability today
Author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams will speak at 7:30 p.m. today in B-108 Wells Hall. Author of "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place," Williams will discuss the role of education in moving the global economy toward sustainable development.
MICHIGAN
Senate passes bills to reduce spyware
The Michigan Senate took steps last week to prevent people from illegally installing spyware on people's computers without their knowledge. The legislation, which passed unanimously on Wednesday, would make it a crime to install spyware software on a person's computer and punishable with up to four years in prison and a fine of $10,000 for violations. The bills now move to the House of Representatives for consideration. Richard Wiggins, senior information technologist for MSU's Academic Computing & Network Services, said spyware software is common and can have several effects on a person's computer, depending on what the creator of the spyware wants to find out about a computer user. "There's tracing to see what Web sites you like to visit, and in other cases, it may take over parts of the browser and throws things up on your screen," Wiggins said.
SPORTS
Fans come to Indy in support for Spartans
Indianapolis - The roars rang through Conseco Fieldhouse from the hundreds of MSU fans, as Big Ten Conference Commissioner Jim Delany announced the first-ever Big Ten Tournament Championship to the MSU women's basketball team. Among those fans yelling and screaming was the Fast Break Club, a sponsored group that came to Indianapolis hoping to see a Big Ten Tournament title run by the No.
FOOTBALL
Hundley to remain at UTEP over Spartans
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
Alexander, Hill lead gymnasts to 2 wins
The MSU gymnastics team swept its weekend meets against Illinois-Chicago and Illinois State on Saturday at Jenison Field House.
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.
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.
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.
ICE HOCKEY
Icers head to Super Six on 5-game streak
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.
SOFTBALL
Team loses in final game of tournament
The MSU softball team fell to Virginia Tech, 2-1, in the championship game of the Stetson Tournament in Florida on Sunday.
NEWS
Unhealthy dosage
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.
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.
SPORTS
Tournament Champions
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.
ICE HOCKEY
Thelen ousted from team for not meeting expectations
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.
MSU
Shamrocks on sale for muscular dystrophy
Sparty's Convenience Stores' 11th annual campaign to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association, or MDA, will end March 18.
SPORTS
Spartans finish in 4th place at tournament
The MSU men's golf team placed fourth at the Conrad Rehling Alabama Spring Invitational on Sunday.
NEWS
E-mail scam targets MSU credit union members
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.