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Spartans channel '79 team for win over Hoosiers

Chris Mackinder
January 31, 2004

A sign in the throwback Breslin Center crowd read "Sparty like it's 1979." Seeing as the game was celebrating ESPN's 25 years on television, the Spartans didn't want to disappoint anyone. Wearing its retro, 1979 uniform, MSU played like the championship team that graced East Lansing in 1979 en route to a 84-72 victory over Indiana. "This was a big win for us because of the way we won it," said MSU head coach Tom Izzo, who borrowed former MSU basketball coach Jud Heathcote's green blazer for the game. "The first 10 minutes, I was real disappointed.

COMMENTARY

Recycle in honor of 'Ernie The Can Man'

When I first came to MSU, I was appalled at the amount of litter on campus. Just about every other football Saturday brought plastic bags, pieces of cardboard and literally thousands of cans all over campus.

MSU

Holocaust speaker shares family history

Rebecca Mcnulty
January 30, 2004

When author Lev Raphael was a child, he said "I imagined that I was a superhero with X-ray vision, and I could use it to cut Germany out of the map of the world." Raphael knows the atrocities of the Holocaust firsthand, or rather through the eyes of his parents, who both survived the Holocaust.

NEWS

Basketball's annoying three hurt the game

There are three things wrong with college basketball. There are three, and only three. Other than these three transgressions, college basketball remains the greatest display of sport on the face of Earth. These three things are not the same three things that are wrong with college basketball in Ann Arbor, Bloomington, Ind., or Madison, Wis.

NEWS

U-M policy not likely to come to 'U' greeks

Joseph Clark
January 30, 2004

A proposed policy change that could drastically affect the way fraternities at the University of Michigan operate isn't likely to make its way to MSU, officials say. Administrators at U-M are considering requiring fraternities to have live-in advisers.

NEWS

Miami downs Spartans in hockey, 2-1

Esther Gim
January 30, 2004

The No. 15 MSU hockey team spent the last five minutes of tonight's game against No. 11 Miami (Ohio) desperately trying to fight back after giving up a slim 1-0 lead.After going scoreless following 40 minutes of play, Miami notched two goals in the third period to win, 2-1.The Spartans comfortably played with the lead, courtesy of junior forward Adam Nightingale just seven minutes into the contest, his eighth of the season.Nightingale tallied the goal as he crashed into Brandon Crawford-West, leaving the Miami goalie scrambling for his helmet and glove.But the first-line combination of Matt Christie, Derek Edwardson and Marty Guerin pulled through for the RedHawks - the trio's line combined for five points tonight.In fact, no other Miami player recorded a point other than those three.Guerin, a Lansing native, got the pass from Christie for the first goal just 54 seconds into the third.

FOOTBALL

Newest junior college recruit to add speed, size to 'U' roster

Evan Rondeau
January 30, 2004

Spartans football landed yet another top junior college recruit for the 2004 season. Kenny Jackson, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound wide receiver from Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, Calif., said he couldn't have pictured himself anywhere but East Lansing. "Going to MSU was something I had always been interested in," Jackson said.

NEWS

Democratic candidate talks to 600 students

Don Jordan
January 30, 2004

Presidential hopeful Howard Dean visited the Kellogg Center's auditorium on MSU's campus Thursday afternoon, entering the stage amidst a chorus of U2's "Beautiful Day" and a fierce "We want Dean" chant. Homemade political posters lined the walls of the auditorium, which couldn't hold the hundreds of people who showed up at the rally.

FEATURES

Globetrotters travel to Breslin

Amy Davis
January 30, 2004

For a basketball team to stay popular after more than 75 years, it takes something special. It takes a touch of tradition, a pinch of humor, great showmanship and a whole lot of mad skills.