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SPORTS

Spikers' serving will dictate weekend play

It begins every match, every game, every point, yet, for the MSU volleyball team, serving seemed to be hurting them rather than helping them - until recently.The Spartans have become more consistent with where and how they are serving, and that is because they have been more aggressive. "Consistent serving helps make the blockers' and the defensive players' jobs easier," sophomore setter Mickey Davis said.

FEATURES

WEB ONLY: Weekend concerts abound on campus

Although the weather is cooling down, the campus concert scene will be heating up this weekend. Enki, The Mad Note and Know Lyfe will perform a free show Saturday night at Common Grounds in Akers Hall. The show is an 18 years and older event and features three local rock bands.

NEWS

Spartans struggle, win, 85-81

If MSU men's basketball coach Tom Izzo needed a reason to work his players harder going into the regular season, he found it Thursday when the No.

NEWS

Badgers' balanced offense could give Spartans trouble

Name one thing Ohio State and Michigan have that Wisconsin doesn't. A shot at the Big Ten title. All three squads were picked to finish high in the Big Ten with the help of their balanced offenses -something that has proved to be a nemesis for No.

SPORTS

Spartans' fate rests on selection committee

It was dreary, overcast and chilly at the men's soccer team's final practice at Old College Field on Tuesday before the Spartans headed to Indiana to play some of the most important games of the year.As the light grew dim over the team's evening drills, they played all out- just as if it were the real thing.

NEWS

Professor autopsy details crime

MSU Professor Ruth Simms Hamilton was beaten with a wooden object and strangled before she was fatally stabbed four times in the back in her Meridian Township home, a final autopsy showed Thursday. Hamilton, 66, was found dead in her Seneca Drive residence in Meridian Township on Tuesday. While the sequencing of the attack isn't entirely clear, Ingham County Medical Examiner Dennis Jurczak said it appears the assailant struck her in the head with a wooden object - possibly a cane or a walking stick.

MICHIGAN

Charities fight tight economy

Local charities are gearing up for the holiday season, despite concerns about the nation's fluctuating economy.During the holiday season, Cristo Rey Community Center, 1717 N.

NEWS

Season not quite a success

When things go wrong, people tend to expect less. Whether it's the class you failed or the girl you struck out with, the next time around, your standards drop a little bit.

NEWS

Colorado, Illinois governors debate capital punishment

Colorado Gov. Bill Owens and former Illinois Gov. George Ryan clashed Thursday evening, debating opposing opinions about the death penalty during a debate at the Wharton Center. The two Republicans argued legalities of the controversial issue for an hour and a half in front of more than 100 law students and professors.

NEWS

Heisman watch

As Oklahoma continues to roll, Jason White comes closer and closer to locking up the Heisman Trophy. The Sooners went on and won 77-0 over Texas A&M last week and things don't look to be any better when the Sooners face Baylor this week.

NEWS

Pigskin prognosticators

It's prognosticating time again, and this is the week that things will be closed out. With his 36-12 record, the magic number for No.

MSU

Candidate's daughter campaigns for father

Chrissy Gephardt calls herself a live-in lobbyist.With Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt as her father, the 30-year-old social worker said she had inside insurance that her dad's campaign focused on human issues.Chrissy Gephardt spoke with a group of about 50 students Thursday night about her father's policies on civil rights, civil liberties, Iraq and lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender issues.The latter is something of both personal interest to Chrissy Gephardt and of increased interest among some MSU Democrats.Chrissy Gephardt, who is openly lesbian, works with women in the District of Columbia with mental illnesses, substance-abuse disorders and trauma."My father has told me, 'Chrissy, the best thing you can do in your life is listen to people,'" she said, adding that it's something both of them are committed to.The oldest daughter of Dick Gephardt's three children, she's been touring the country sharing her father's message.Chrissy Gephardt also touched on her father's LBGT policies.