Q&A with Aaron Alexander

Junior receiver Aaron Alexander stretched out his 6-foot-5 frame to grab a ball in the corner of the end zone last year against Illinois.

'U' hits the ice for intrasquad game

After a week of intense practices, the MSU hockey team will finally hit the ice to open the 2004-05 season with a pair of exhibition games this weekend at Munn Ice Arena. "We want to get the team going," junior forward David Booth said.

Pizza shop robbed with rifle

Two masked men held up a Poppa Leo's Pizza employee at gunpoint Wednesday evening, East Lansing police officers said. It was the area's third armed or strong-armed robbery in one week. The two men, one armed with a rifle, entered Poppa Leo's Pizza, 515 W.

Film explores aging

"The Mother" is a film dependent on its characters. There's no driving plot and no concrete goals - the film is merely the slow look into the lives of a dysfunctional family living in London. Director Roger Michell takes his time in this 2003 British film that explores the hidden personalities lurking inside our mothers. When we first meet May (Anne Reid), she's a dowdy woman whose gray hair is thinly masked with a sandy brown tint and whose outfits generally are in hues of seafoam green.

McPherson to advocate study abroad

MSU President M. Peter McPherson was appointed Monday to head a national study abroad commission that will grant scholarships and aim to increase participation in study abroad programs at universities across the country. McPherson said the appointment, which was bipartisanly supported by members of the U.S.

Given current climate, The State News should be more dangerous

The beauty of managing the opinion page in a daily newspaper lies in its simplicity. The opinion writer and I, we are a different breed of newspapermen.

ASMSU to discuss tailgating in forum

ASMSU leaders are urging students to show up and make recommendations for safe tailgating at town hall meetings next week. MSU's undergraduate student government will answer questions concerning recent tailgating restrictions at 7 p.m.

Bill plans for high-tech jobs

Old legislation creating a technology-job hot spot in Lansing and East Lansing received new life when Gov.

WEB ONLY: Spartans travel to Indiana to face Hoosiers

The MSU women's soccer team is hitting the road for a four-game road stretch. The first stop for the Spartans is Indiana, where they will face off against Indiana (7-3-1 overall, 2-2-1 Big Ten) today and Purdue (6-5, 2-3 Big Ten) on Sunday.

Spartans to face No. 24 Illinois

While the MSU football team battles the Fighting Illini at home this weekend, the MSU volleyball team (6-7 overall, 1-4 Big Ten) will have a showdown of its own 8 p.m.

Defensive lineman on long journey

Football can be a primitive, barbaric game and players often call on a warrior mentality to play with punishing ferocity.

A boost of pride

LaJoya Johnson said lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender students who are racial and ethnic minorities needed a voice - so she spoke up. Johnson, an interdisciplinary studies in social science junior, recently created the MSU LBGT Students of Color Scholarship in June 2004.

Tillman's 5 saves secure 2-0 win

Sophomore goalkeeper Jason Tillman made five saves and senior forward Jordan Gruber scored his sixth goal of the season to lead the MSU men's soccer team to a 2-0 win over Loyola on Wednesday at Old College Field. "We were sluggish," MSU head coach Joe Baum said.

Courts ordering updated tethers

After three incidents of drunken driving and seven months in jail, Jaime was required to wear a tether monitoring his location and submit to random blood-alcohol tests. "It helped me to break those patterns of being out more and wanting to go the bars," said Jaime, a 2003 MSU graduate who was referred to The State News by Alcoholics Anonymous of Lansing.

Police briefs 10/07/04

College's reputation hasn't preceded itself just yet for this freshman

As the warm days of summer morph into the cool commencement of fall, I realize my life, like the season, is changing.

Board to discuss state funding

Funding for the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, MSU Extension and building renovations will be discussed on Friday when the MSU Board of Trustees meets to consider parameters for next year's state appropriations. The 2005-06 fiscal year recommendations are particularly important to plan for in light of shrinking state funds and last year's budget discussions, university officials said. President-designate Lou Anna Simon said receiving adequate funding is important to keep MSU's programs on track. "State appropriations support teaching research and outreach functions at the university," Simon said.

Ryder Cup fiddler to play church on Friday

Jeremy Kittel is beyond gifted. The Celtic and jazz fiddler recently graduated from the University of Michigan's school of music program, performed at this year's 35th Ryder Cup, put out two CDs chock-full of his own original music and won the 2004 Detroit Music Award for Outstanding Acoustic/Folk Instrumentalist. Oh, and he's only 20 years old.

'U' officials display marginal respect

After reading the story ("Taming the tailgate" SN 10/5) about tailgate restrictions, it is obvious to me that university officials lack common sense and don't care about the opinions of students and trustees. The restrictions will not only fail to solve the problems with excessive alcohol consumption, but they also ignore easy fixes to problems like public urination and broken glass.

Humorous English play to open at BoarsHead

Lansing theater will be sprinkled with a second dash of English humor next weekend when BoarsHead Professional Theatre presents "Humble Boy." Although "Humble Boy" concerns another love-triangle plot, much like the MSU Department of Theatre's "Twelfth Night," this comedy is a contemporary one - something Lansing audiences aren't used to seeing, said the play's Director Geoffrey Sherman. "The play is built as a comedy, but like all real comedies, there is much more to it," he said.