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SOCCER

Robinson 'cool' in Spartans' net

MSU fifth-year senior goalkeeper Mike "Mikey" Robinson is cool.Well, that's what junior sweeper Kellen Kalso - Robinson's longtime friend and playing partner going back to Vardar Soccer Club in Metro Detroit - will tell you.

NEWS

MIDDAY UPDATE: Hospital parking structure to open Monday

Lansing - Lansing resident Steve Costello eagerly anticipates the day when the cars and shuttle buses that daily fill the lot behind his Lansing house will not reside there.The lot was created by Sparrow Hospital late last year as a temporary parking facility while the hospital built a new parking structure.But the new structure, located at 1215 E.

COMMENTARY

Sober up

Mixing alcohol and driving is always a bad cocktail. The state of Michigan is recognizing this by lowering the legal blood-alcohol content, or BAC, from .10 to .08, starting Wednesday.

NEWS

Attorneys debate affirmative action

The future of affirmative action will revolve around academic freedom, said speakers at an MSU-DCL College of Law forum Monday night.MSU-DCL professor Kevin Saunders and attorney Richard McLellan, a member of the Dykema Gosset PLLC law firm, said the Supreme Court's decisions on affirmative action will have many effects.

MICHIGAN

Silence hits E.L.

East Lansing police for the second consecutive weekend didn't issue any citations under the city's stiffened policy on noise.The two-week pause on violations that call for a minimum of three days in jail and fines of up to $1,000 comes after 11 people were cited during the first two weeks of the policy.East Lansing police Lt.

MSU

'U' hosts hayride for community

A brisk fall breeze brushed over the faces of Lansing-Area residents 12-year-old Kierin Kerbawy and 11-year-old James Lindsay, who both sat on bundles of hay Monday evening and gazed through the green bars of a tractor as it drove through campus. Kerbawy and Lindsay were part of the group of East Lansing residents, Lansing residents and students who joined the hayride for a trip around campus to learn about MSU's history while enjoying free doughnuts, cider and the fall night air. The "Homecoming Hayride and History: A MSU Historical Tour" was the first event in a week filled with University Activity Board-sponsored Homecoming events.

COMMENTARY

Spartans' fans not alone in behavior

As a past Virginia Tech Hokie, I can assure The State News that they also leave the stadium early, get up during halftime and get too drunk to go or to pay attention to the game ("Spartan fans won't even finish this" SN 9/22). That is not just an MSU flaw.

MSU

MSU-DCL addresses affirmative action

A legal analysis of the Supreme Court's decision regarding the University of Michigan's admissions lawsuits will be held today at the MSU-DCL College of Law. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v.

NEWS

MIDDAY UPDATE: E.L. death still unsolved 3 years later

Police and family members are still searching for leads in a beating-related death outside an East Lansing bar three years ago this week. Tuesday will be the third anniversary of the assault on Brandon D'Annunzio in downtown East Lansing, which resulted in his death. D'Annunizio, a Livonia resident, was 24 years old at the time and was not an MSU student.

COMMENTARY

Safety first when driving by schools

I am enlisting the help of The State News readers again this fall. School has started at Red Cedar Elementary (at the west end of Sever Drive, which is the continuation of Wilson Road after you make that little jog to the left at Harrison Avenue) as well as at MSU.

FEATURES

'Simply Irresistible' rocker dies at age 54

The death of Robert Palmer on Friday created a riptide throughout the realm of music. A heart attack killed the 54-year-old rocker, who gained popularity during the '80s with his music videos featuring legions of near-identical, seductive women. The music died, but the memories live on.

COMMENTARY

Game on

The University of Michigan men's basketball team is finally done "doing time" for other people's crimes.