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Record start

Chris Barsotti
January 14, 2005

The No. 9 MSU women's basketball team used an early second-half burst to take over the game against Wisconsin and held off a late charge by the Badgers to get their seventh straight home win, 74-66. The Spartans (14-2 overall, 3-1 Big Ten) have had the best start to a season in MSU history. The Spartans led by as many as 26 in the second half behind a strong game from junior forward Liz Shimek, who led all players with 22 points. "Liz did what Liz does," MSU head coach Joanne P.

COMMENTARY

College correct to use high standards

I would like to respond to Chris Rinard's ridiculous take on the admissions process to the Business College ("Admissions process overly selective," SN 1/11). The arguments in this article are laughable, and I am appalled that a student at MSU could be so naive as to make statements of this nature.

NEWS

Spartans to face another top 25 team

Chris Barsotti
January 14, 2005

The No. 9 MSU women's basketball team will face another top 25 team Sunday at 1 p.m. when No. 11 Minnesota comes to town for a Big Ten matchup. The Spartans will be playing their third straight home game and sixth against a top 25 opponent (4-1 vs.

NEWS

E.L. man stands up for equality

Tom Keller
January 14, 2005

Paul Downie's fight for equality began with one small sip. It was in 1952 that the young Army serviceman was sitting at an Augusta, Ga., bus terminal waiting for his bus home to metro Detroit. There he noticed two adjacent drinking fountains, accompanied with overhead signs marked "white" and "colored." "It made me angry," Downie said. Feeling the need to make a statement, he got up and took a drink from the fountain marked "colored," then pulled up a chair in the waiting room designated for blacks. The other white passengers in the station stared at him in disbelief. "If looks could kill, oh my," Downie said.

NEWS

Izzo & Ryan

Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan knows how to beat Tom Izzo. At least that's how the storyline has played out so far.

NEWS

Lucas-Perry beginning to emerge as soph.

Chris Barsotti
January 14, 2005

After starting the season strong, sophomore guard Victoria Lucas-Perry has begun to show more consistency. After turning 19 just last week, Lucas-Perry has started to play more of a role in the success of the women's basketball team.

MSU

MSU prof. weighs in on year's best word

Tom Keller
January 14, 2005

The winner of the 15th annual Word of the Year contest was definitely not too close to call, an MSU linguistics professor said. The American Dialect Society voted "red state, blue state, purple state" as the most prominent phrase in the country's vocabulary in 2004. "You think back on the year, and what was the most engaging, nauseating, delightful for some, sickening for others experience?

NEWS

Ky. university rules player honor letter

Chris Meagher
January 14, 2005

Joe Crawford, who is transferring from the University of Kentucky, will not be given a release from his National Letter of Intent by the school. This means that Crawford, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound guard, who is considering MSU as his next school, would only be eligible to play basketball for one-and-a-half years. "We've communicated to the Crawford family that we expect him to honor his commitment," Scott Stricklin, Kentucky's assistant athletic director for media relations, said of the former Detroit Renaissance standout.

COMMENTARY

Dead end

Did you hear? Iraq didn't actually possess any weapons of mass destruction. Given the amount of attention the media has given the subject, we sincerely hope that you have. In the same month that the first bombs fell on Iraq, a report surveying the country found there were no WMDs. After the discovery in March 2003, the first preliminary report from Charles A.

NEWS

Prof. reflects on friendship with MLK Jr.

There are many people who have had an influence on my life and what I have become. Parents, teachers, neighbors, my pastor and a host of relatives and friends. They all played a part in making me what I am. None had more of an impact on my life than my wife, Norma, who opened doors of opportunity to me that I could not have begun to imagine or dream.

NEWS

200 cars crash in massive pileup

Lauren Phillips
January 13, 2005

Wheatfield Twp. - A series of accidents on I-96 just east of Lansing Wednesday afternoon involved more than 200 vehicles, including about 70 semitrucks, and left two dead and at least 37 injured. Police blamed a dense blanket of fog that covered the highway for miles.

MICHIGAN

Prop. 2 protest continues

Amy Davis
January 13, 2005

As state lawmakers convened at the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon for the first session of the year, they were met by more than 100 protesters holding signs that read "Equal rights for all Americans" and "Equality now." The event was a demonstration by protesters voicing their disapproval of the Nov.

MSU

Simon heads revamped MSU Board of Trustees

At Friday's MSU Board of Trustees meeting, a new leader will be at the head of the board table for the first time in 11 years. MSU President Lou Anna Simon will conduct the meeting. "I eagerly await the meeting, because having worked with Dr. Simon for the last about seven years that I've been on the board, I am very confident that she knows and understands the many issues that we face at Michigan State," Trustee David Porteous said.

MSU

Building begins on $3.5-million vet center

Ground broke today on a $3.5-million addition to the College of Veterinary Medicine meant to help prevent infectious diseases from spreading in animals. The new facility, called the Matilda R.