COMMENTARY
Color code inoffensive, complaints unfounded
Whoever said the color code ("Orange Alert," SN 5/22) was meant for you?
SPORTS
Lugnuts down Peoria, 7-6
Lansing - In a game that closely resembled the final game of the 2002 Midwest League Championship Series, Lansing downed the Peoria Chiefs 7-6 on Monday.Last year's matchup saw the Chiefs (26-23) surprise the Lugnuts (28-18) with an eight-run ninth inning to steal the championship, 11-10.
COMMENTARY
Wrongful words
It's sad to think racism is an evil difficult to eliminate completely. There will always be those among us who are ignorant enough to believe if someone belongs to a different race or ethnicity he or she is a lesser human being.
NEWS
Movement's music brings beats to Motown
Movement, formerly known as the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, celebrated its fourth year during Memorial Day weekend. Featuring four stages, more than 75 acts and a massive merchandising area, the festival drew hundreds of thousands of people into Detroit's Hart Plaza. The festival's crowd was a grab-bag of people from all age groups and lifestyles, all of whom converged for the purpose of listening to music. "There are a lot of different people, but when you are all on the dance floor you're grooving to the same beat," said Minnesota native Sarah Gross, attending the festival for her first time. Music meshed in the plaza, from the stages as well as from independent DJs performing in merchandising booths, causing the area to come alive with a constant pulsing beat. Most of the festival's acts hail from the Detroit area, which is credited with spawning electronic music. "There's been some good classic techno here.
NEWS
Twist of fate allows Lugnuts to bring down Chiefs, 7-6
Lansing - A three-run rally in the bottom of the ninth brought the Lansing Lugnuts to a thrilling 7-6 comeback win over Peoria on Monday afternoon.Down 6-4 with two outs in their last at-bats, Lugnut second baseman Robinson Chirinos drilled a double to the wall to send pinch runner Ryan Theriot and center fielder Felix Pie across the plate and knot the game.Chirinos advanced to third when shortstop Buck Coats reached first on an error, and scored the winning run a moment later on a wild pitch from Peoria lefty Anthony Rawson.Rawson (0-2) took the loss for the Chiefs (26-23).But Peoria did not go quietly.
NEWS
Challenge tests skills in emergency response
Two plastic bodies lie face down on the ground as a medic rushes over and flips one of the victims onto its back and begins emergency CPR. There are no flashing lights or sirens as rescuing the mannequins were all part of Wednesday's Ford-MSU Emergency Response Challenge, an annual competition in which about 1,000 participants from the United States and Canada test their skills in six areas of emergency response, such as removing hazardous material from a building and rescuing people from heights. "Expert teachers are watching them, judges are evaluating them and there is an audience watching them to boot," said Hank Budesky, a corporate manager of fire protection engineering at Ford Motor Company.
NEWS
Detroit's electronic music festival back for another year
This weekend, Detroit's underground music will take its yearly place in the limelight. Movement, formerly Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, will celebrate its fourth year at Detroit's Hart Plaza, featuring four stages of DJs and 70 artists, merchandising booths and enough after-parties to send you running for your glow sticks. The free festival is a landmark event in the world of electronic music. "This is the first festival of its kind in North America, focusing on techno and electronic music," said festival veteran Tim Price, who works consulting on visual and production aspects of the event. Price, who has worked at the festival the previous three years, said Movement is an event which could help people understand electronic music and its culture, both of which have remained shrouded in the mystery of the underground scene. "It's a great chance for people to see something new - it's like a big melting pot," Price said.
FEATURES
Carrey a divine intervention in 'Bruce'
He can walk on water, part his soup like the Red Sea and potty-train his dog. Yep, it's God in the form of Jim Carrey, and his performance makes this movie come alive. Carrey portrays Bruce Nolan, a local TV reporter in Buffalo, N.Y., best recognized for the humorous spin he puts in his human interest stories.
NEWS
Memorial weekend to bring rise in gas prices, number of drivers
The Memorial Day weekend is expected to increase the gas prices that many motorists say already are too high.
MSU
'U' receives award for pioneering food laws
The MSU International Food Laws Certificate Program received the 2003 National Award for Excellence in College and University Distance Education. The award comes from the American Distance Education Consortium, a collaboration of state and land-grant institutions offering educational programs through the Internet. The MSU Institute for Food Laws and Regulations was the first worldwide program to provide international food laws through a Web site.
MSU
Gardening grows new program, certification
The Horticulture Gardening Institute has joined forces with the American Horticultural Society to provide an online learning environment for gardening devotees. Since 2002, the institute has matched experts in the field with gardeners through the online experience. The institute is a collaborative effort among MSU Extension's Master Gardener Program, the MSU Gardens, MSU Global Institute and the Department of Horticulture. The new program allows the society to undertake online education opportunities as well as certification. The society is one of the oldest member-based gardening organization in the nation, which offers gardening resources through its self-published magazine The American Gardener, a book program and Web site, www.ahs.org. The first project formed by the collaboration is "The Art and Science of Container Gardening." The project will play host to the society's experts, a checklist of activities, potential resources, a review of the project and a co-branded certification of the project. For more information on the container project visit www.gardeninginstitute.com Stephanie Korneffel
MSU
COGS president steps down, treasurer up
James Ciszewski has stepped down as president for the Council of Graduate Students. Ciszewski, who resigned for personal reasons, had been reelected as COGS president in April. The position has been filled by mathematics graduate student Kimberly Yake. Yake will serve as COGS president for a year, ending her duties as the council's former treasurer. President commitments include chairing COGS meetings, acting as a student liaison with the MSU Board of Trustees and participating in various academic council committees. The council represents all graduate students in the academic governance system and provides services to students such as copying and loans. Stephanie Korneffel
NEWS
Detroit's electronic music festival back for another year
This weekend, Detroit's underground music will take its yearly place in the limelight. Movement, formerly Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, will celebrate its fourth year at Detroit's Hart Plaza, featuring four stages of DJs and 70 artists, merchandising booths and enough after-parties to send you running for your glow sticks.The free festival is a landmark event in the world of electronic music."This is the first festival of its kind in North America, focusing on techno and electronic music," said festival veteran Tim Price, who works consulting on visual and production aspects of the event.Price, who has worked at the festival the previous three years, said Movement is an event which could help people understand electronic music and its culture, both of which have remained shrouded in the mystery of the underground scene."It's a great chance for people to see something new - it's like a big melting pot," Price said.
COMMENTARY
ASMSU useless as student government
I was a student at MSU for four years, and I can't think of anything ASMSU did to help me. They charged me $16 a semester and all I got was a low-quality bluebook. Their Web site doesn't have any information or services on it.
MSU
RHA will fill recently vacated VP post in fall
The internal vice president for the Residence Halls Association has chosen to leave the position. Chris Harper, former Wilson Hall General Assembly representative, decided to leave MSU.
SPORTS
Sports briefs
Crew team headed to NCAA tourney May 30 MSU has been awarded a team bid to the 2003 NCAA Women's Rowing Championship.
MSU
Forum held after student finds racially offensive message
An open forum was recently held at the Owen Graduate Hall lobby to discuss racial hostility after a graduate law student found offensively written remarks in the hallway. The student, who did not want to be identified, said he walked by a bulletin board on the hall's fourth floor when he noticed the comments, which were anti-Semitic and anti-Arab in nature.
NEWS
'U' researchers fight bovine diseases
Despite being tapped to help with foreign livestock diseases in the past, MSU faculty members and researchers said it's too early to know if they will be called to help out their Canadian neighbors after mad cow disease was discovered Tuesday. The U.S.
COMMENTARY
Plagiarizing, pathetic Blair should be forgotten like old news
One day I hope to work at the New York Times, wait, let me rephrase that. One day I hope to write for the New York Times, hold on, allow me to add something else. One day I hope to present the news through my writing in a newsworthy and factual matter. I wonder where Jayson Blair falls in the above statements. Blair used to work for the New York Times.
COMMENTARY
Got grades?
When you attend class at an institution of higher education, you go to learn. But society puts too much pressure on students, telling them a high grade-point average is everything.