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MIDDAY UPDATE: File-sharing services could be provided on some college campuses

Evan Rondeau
September 4, 2003

In an attempt to crack down on illegal Internet file sharing, colleges nationwide have considered offering a fee-based music service as part of room and board charges, but MSU isn't likely to follow suit, officials say.UCLA has considered implementing a fee-based music service to be included with students' room and board bills, and The Ohio State University has outright forbidden all server-based applications for on-campus students.David Gift, vice provost for libraries, computing and technology, said he's talked with representatives from the recording industry about the idea of instituting a fee-based file-sharing service, but the market for it and the level of student demand hasn't been tested.

NEWS

MIDDAY UPDATE: Spartans become Aggies for 1,000th game

Patrick Walters
September 4, 2003

On Sept. 26, 1896,11 young men with names such as Vanderhoef, Redfern and Vanderstolpe from Michigan Agricultural College gave birth to MSU football at the corner of Kalamazoo and Walnut streets in Lansing.The first game took place in a park which no longer exists, where parking lots and the Lewis Cass building now watch over the former home field for the Spartans - known back then as the Aggies.And, this Saturday, countless teams and players later, MSU and its 573-382-44 all-time record will face Rutgers to celebrate its 1,000th football game in school history.Saturday's festivities - a plan more than a year in the making, according to associate athletics director John Lewandowski - will include returning members of the 1953 Rose Bowl and 1978 Big Ten championship teams, commemorative gold and black "M.A.C." patches sewn on the chest of the MSU jersey, helmets without the Spartan decal and Aggies in place of Spartans on the scoreboards."We chose the black and gold (patches) because there was a time during Charlie Bachman's (head coach from 1933-46) time that the Spartans actually wore black and gold," Lewandowski said.

MICHIGAN

Wireless Web now available in E.L.

Allison Lucy
September 4, 2003

Visitors to downtown East Lansing can surf the Internet while shopping and eating at the city's newest wireless fidelity "hot spot" located at Fountain Square and Ann Street plazas.The city kicked off the free Internet service, provided by Arialink Broadband, on Wednesday with the Hot Spot Plaza Launch Party.

NEWS

Top Ten Movies

Top 10 Box Office Movies1. "Jeepers Creepers 2"Total gross: $18.4 million2. "Freaky Friday"Total gross: $90.8 million3.

NEWS

At the movies

"Freddy vs. Jason" Bloody, but about as scary as your great aunt. Freddy Krueger and Jason still thrill, if you can put up with the same set of teenagers in every scary movie.

COMMENTARY

Football team not what 'U' expected

Hopes soared high with the hiring of the charismatic John L. Smith and the return of quarterback Jeff Smoker, but narrowly edging out a victory over little Western Michigan University, does not demonstrate that MSU football is back on its feet again.

NEWS

Study abroad art fills gallery

Lindsey Anderson
September 4, 2003

Creating art has advantages that span far and wide. Seven MSU students discovered just that while studying abroad in Bregenz, Austria, this summer.Until Friday, the art they created in Europe will be on display in Gallery 114 at Kresge Art Center - bringing the far-and-wide home to East Lansing.

COMMENTARY

Far From Heaven

While the university's heart was in the right place, it was trying to do too much, too fast when it implemented ANGEL. ANGEL, also known as A New Global Environment for Learning, and MSU's new course management system, has been less than heavenly for off-campus students who have experienced nothing but trouble since the system was implemented in August.

MSU

ASMSU discusses academic freedom

Amy Davis
September 4, 2003

ASMSU's Academic Assembly members debated academic freedom at their meeting Tuesday night. MSU's undergraduate student government shared its concerns for state Rep.

NEWS

'U' leaders join riot dialogue

Steve Eder
September 4, 2003

When the University of New Hampshire lost to the University of Minnesota in the college hockey championship on April 12, a crowd of 4,000 revelers gathered in Durham, New Hampshire, resulting in 87 arrests and $12,200 in damage.That same night at the University of Minnesota, about 2,000 took to the streets and caused more than $40,000 in damage.About 48 people were arrested when The Ohio State University students rioted last November after the school defeated the University of Michigan in football."It didn't get this way overnight," said Daniel Wann, a psychology professor at Murray State University, who will speak later this month to a University of New Hampshire conference aimed at finding solutions to the epidemic of postgame rioting.The Sept.

MICHIGAN

Leaders ask for energy bill

Brian Charlton
September 4, 2003

Energy and Commerce Committee leaders promised a focused investigation Wednesday to find the cause of the August blackout that is estimated to have caused $6 billion in losses. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham told lawmakers and witnesses testifying in Washington D.C.

NEWS

GEU to protest undergraduate TA job usage

MSU's Graduate Employees Union will protest the university's use of undergraduate students to teach undergraduate classes in late October.Union members will protest during Campus Equity Week, a nationwide campus labor rally from Oct.