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Without him

Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 75 years old on Jan. 15. On Monday, Jan. 19, most of the world will recognize his achievements in becoming the face associated with the fight for civil rights, with peace, harmony and equality for all who consider themselves human beings.

NEWS

Speech focuses on education

Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, Constance Iona Slaughter-Harvey will reflect on how the nation is fulfilling his hopes.

MSU

Officials: Focus on moon travels could harm NASA

President Bush announced Wednesday his goals for another manned moon landing and other space exploration, but university officials say that although this is important for science, they worry other NASA programs will suffer. Bush's proposal laid out a timetable for a robotic mission to the moon by 2008, the first manned flight of a new spacecraft by 2014 and a manned lunar mission between 2015 and 2020. Mark Voit, an associate professor of physics and astronomy and former employee at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said the moon's surface would be an ideal environment for research. "There are certain types of radio telescopes we would like to build here on Earth, but wireless communication creates a lot of what we call 'noise,' and we can't observe the universe the ways we'd like to," he said.

FEATURES

WKAR-TV welcomes its re-birth

In 1954, no one knew how to get to Sesame Street, Mister Rogers didn't have a neighborhood and people couldn't fly anywhere without the Reading Rainbow. But all that changed when WKAR-TV broadcast its first test pattern for East Lansing. WKAR-TV, known for its educational children's, sports, public affairs and arts programs, welcomed the start of WKAR-DT's digital channel on Thursday at 11:07 a.m., at the precise time the station first hit the airwaves 50 years ago.

NEWS

Groups still seek center

Pulling out last year's Multicultural Center's calendar, it seems evident to Maggie Chen Hernandez that the students have more than proven their desire and need for a multicultural center.

NEWS

Concert marks holiday

To honor Martin Luther King Jr., the MSU Jazz Band and professors will host a Spirituals, Prayer and Protest Concert on Sunday. The 24th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

NEWS

Fire ruins E.L. house

An East Lansing home caught fire early Thursday morning, shooting smoke and flames into the air and leaving four MSU seniors without a home. The blaze began at around 3 a.m.

NEWS

Scholarship to reward civil rights work

Students who carry on the message of Martin Luther King Jr. through community activism soon will be rewarded with a scholarship provided by MSU's Office of Affirmative Action, Compliance and Monitoring. Saturday, Jan.

NEWS

Big Ten teams face roller-coaster season

Take two dice in hand and assign a Big Ten team to each possible outcome (2-12). Now, shake 'em up and roll the dice. That, it seems, is the best way to determine which team will survive the roller coaster Big Ten and claim the conference championship this season. Yearly, the Big Ten is praised because teams like MSU, Wisconsin, Purdue and Illinois seemingly always have top 25 programs.

SPORTS

Sports briefs

Softball ranked in preseason polls MSU softball team was ranked No. 24 in the ESPN.com/USA Today Softball Top 25 preseason poll released Wednesday. The Spartans are one of just three Big Ten teams in the top 25, including No.