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NEWS

Common Ground schedule

Tickets are available on a first come, first serve basis. Tickets ordered in advance cost $22 per day.

SPORTS

Sports briefs

'BasketBowl' tickets available on Tuesday Tickets for the "BasketBowl", the MSU-Kentucky basketball matchup at Ford Field in Detroit, will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday. MSU ticket manager Chris Besanceney said 50,172 tickets have been ordered through private sales to Spartan donors and season ticket holders.

FEATURES

Witherspoon keeps this dumb 'Blonde' alive

While Reese Witherspoon shines as the smart yet ditzy Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde: Red White & Blonde," her pursuit of Washington, D.C., does not quite measure up to Elle's fun-filled journey at Harvard Law in the first flick. The sequel tells the story of Elle Woods traveling to Washington to oppose future testing on animals after she finds the mother of her precious Chihuahua Bruiser is being used as a cosmetic test subject.

NEWS

Music, games on common ground

Lansing - What do you get when you mix a blues prodigy, some boys from down south, a Woodstock veteran, a side of Meatloaf and a dash of Hootie and plop it all in the middle of Lansing? The fourth annual Common Ground festival is set to take over Adado Riverfront Park tonight, with classic-rockers Boston and Larry McCray and Celtic musicians The Lash slated to kick off the weeklong festival. "We try every year to have a little bit of everything," Common Ground spokeswoman Melissa Steelman said. Steelman said the festival will include performances by recognizable acts such as The Allman Brothers Band and Joe Cocker, as well as lesser known acts.

COMMENTARY

Wal-welcome

Company officials of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced Wednesday their antidiscrimination policy has been amended to include homosexuals.

FEATURES

AM Radio blares on

Derivative and uninspired though at times oddly appealing, AM Radio's "Radioactive" wears its influences on its sleeve.

NEWS

Lugnuts defeat Battle Creek

Lansing - In his longest outing of the season, Lansing starting pitcher Carlos Vasquez (7-8) went eight strong innings, scattering two runs and four hits over 71 pitches en route to a 4-2 victory over the Battle Creek Yankees on Sunday at Oldsmobile Park. "It was a good game for me," Vasquez said.

COMMENTARY

Departing faculty member valuable

In response to "Faculty member leaves 'U' to teach in Germany" (SN 7/2), I would like to state MSU is extremely fortunate to have Mei Zhuang as a faculty member. She is an excellent teacher of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics or advanced engineering mathematics.

NEWS

McPherson: Cool under pressure

Over the crackling of static, M. Peter McPherson's voice fades in and out on a telephone line that keeps a connection for barely 10 minutes.

NEWS

Tower more than local timepiece

When Beaumont Tower was completed in 1928, Michigan State College President Robert S. Shaw named four functions the tower would provide for students: a timepiece, a meeting place, a sign of campus unity and inspiration.

SPORTS

Where Lugnuts call home

Lansing - The smell of hot dogs and popcorn, the sound of bats cracking and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" can mean only one thing - summer has arrived at Oldsmobile Park. Baseball and summer go hand-in-hand.

NEWS

Officials advocate firework safety

Fireworks are as synonymous with the Fourth of July as cake is with birthdays. And business has been booming at fireworks outlets this week, said James Stajos, owner of American Eagle Fireworks, 901 N.