SOFTBALL
Softball starts strong in Big Ten
The MSU softball team kicked off the Big Ten season by taking three of four contests from Illinois and No.
MSU
Horticulture Club takes honors in competition
The MSU Horticulture Club "kicked butt" at a national competition in Mississippi, said club president Dru Bernthal. MSU was one of the 51 colleges represented in the competition, which included interior landscape design and maintenance equipment operation.
COMMENTARY
Let them play
University officials should quickly curb any impulses they might have to punish the 15 MSU students arrested during the celebration festivities that erupted after the Spartans earned their way to the NCAA's Elite Eight on Friday night. Although university spokesman Terry Denbow originally went on record saying he doubted the university would pursue its off-campus code of conduct policy in regard to Friday night's events, he later said that assessment could change after speaking with MSU President M.
FEATURES
'Pearl' a lyrical legacy of Joplin's passionate life
One of the most powerful voices in the history of blues-rock happens to belong to one of the most intriguing female musicians of all time. Janis Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose just months prior to the 1971 release of "Pearl," took the world by storm with her emotional, passionate, sexy delivery of raspy-voiced rock 'n' roll.
NEWS
Police offer reward, student leaders condemn rioters
In the aftermath of Sunday's riots, which caused $40,000 of damage to the MSU campus, university and city officials have offered a $2,500 reward for tips leading up to arrests and convictions of people involved in Sunday's activities.MSU police Chief Jim Dunlap and East Lansing police Chief Louis Muhn announced the reward this afternoon.Six MSU students were arrested for disorderly conduct, but that number could grow as the police have asked individuals and media to come forward to provide photos and videos to the police.East Lansing police Capt.
NEWS
From the archives, 2000: Spartans down by 10 at half, win 75-58
Editor's Note: The following story was originally printed in The State News on March 20, 2000.
MICHIGAN
E.L. Public School Board to continue discussing budget adoption, cuts
The East Lansing Public School Board will continue adopting parts of its 2003-04 budget, which will make up for a nearly $4.2-million shortfall, at 7:30 p.m.
NEWS
Celebration a positive release from war stress
The thousands of people who stood outside cheering the MSU basketball team's Sweet 16 victory might have been using the game as a release from weeks of war with Iraq and months of terrorism alerts, students and city and university officials say.About 3,000 students and nonstudents rushed outside residences and businesses moments after MSU beat the University of Maryland on Friday, mostly to Cedar Village and downtown East Lansing.Eighteen people - including 15 MSU students - were arrested for disorderly conduct Saturday morning, while thousands of others stood cheering without causing damage to city property."The war helps put things in perspective, but this is great," building construction management freshman James Kramek said Saturday outside Buffalo Wild Wings, 360 Albert Ave.
NEWS
'U' might punish those arrested in post-game celebration
The 18 people arrested during the Saturday morning celebration of MSU's berth into the Elite 8 have been released from jail, East Lansing police officials said. More than 3,000 crowded city streets after MSU's victory over the University of Maryland immediately after the game. Of those arrested for disorderly conduct, 15 were MSU students.
NEWS
Chemicals used on crowd, at least 5 arrested
Police released tear gas Sunday night in an effort to control more than 2,000 people who flooded East Lansing streets in the hours after MSU's 85-76 loss to Texas in the NCAA Tournament. At least five arrests had been made by 9:30 p.m., including four MSU students. East Lansing police Chief Louis Muhn gave officers working the crowd authorization to use chemicals if fires or other destruction occurs, Lt.
NEWS
Spartans fall in regional final, 85-76
San Antonio - Hooked. The MSU men's basketball team ended its season Sunday, falling to No.
NEWS
Students rally for affirmative action
The audience in the Fairchid Theatre blended their cumulative voices as they sang "Lift every voice and sing" at the "Rally to Defend Affirmative Action" Saturday.The rally, sponsored by the MSU COALITION, sought to prepare the audience for the march in Washington to support the University of Michigan's stance in two affirmative action cases to be heard by the U.S.
NEWS
City erupts in celebration, mayhem after game
Thousands mobbed East Lansing streets early Saturday to revel in the MSU men's basketball team's Sweet 16 victory. Patrol cars blocked several sidestreets, stopping vehicles from entering the already crowded confines of Cedar Village.
BASKETBALL
MSU beats Maryland, bound for Elite 8
San Antonio - MSU's team effort to make a mark on the 2003 NCAA Tournament is going on to live another day.
BASKETBALL
Spartans rely on defense to win in Sweet 16
San Antonio - Defense. It's what the recent MSU legacy has been based on and it's what propelled the Spartans into the Elite 8 with a 60-58 slugfest victory over Maryland Friday night.The Spartans' stone cold defense suffocated the sixth-seeded Terrapins all night.
NEWS
Cedar Village hosts after party, police
It's an instinct. Like salmon swimming up stream, Spartans ran upstreet early Saturday morning to the place they normally do after the team wins the big game. Cedar Village. For some it's a magical place between brick buildings, which reflect red and blue flashers of stationed police cruisers - four of which closed off the Waters Edge Drive entrance - where partying like it's 1979 or 2000 still can be enjoyed by the thousands. Thunderous cheering of those thousands chanting "Go green, Go white" could be heard in the early morning hours echoing down Bogue and Cedar streets as fires burned bright on other city streets. "This is the time of their lives," screamed Toni Smith, a general business administration senior, who threw the orange hood of her sweatshirt over her head as she entered the beer spilling debauchery.
COMMENTARY
Election idiocy
ASMSU has taken themselves too seriously once again with its disqualification of 45 students from its recent election.
NEWS
Students travel to tournament despite war worries
When the MSU men's basketball team meets Maryland tonight in the Sweet 16, many MSU fans will take a timeout from the realities of war to tune in for the game. A small group of fans is taking a longer break from world events by heading south to watch the Spartans live in San Antonio. Cathy Bartz, a kinesiology graduate student, will be in the crowd sporting green and white when the game tips off at 9:57 p.m. "I tune into basketball because it's a way for me to not think about war all the time," said Bartz, who received the tickets from a friend - one of the team managers.
FEATURES
BoarsHead Theater names new artistic director for year's end
Geoffrey Sherman is a U.S. citizen by law, but hearing his thick English accent you know he hasn't always been a card-carrying Michiganian. "I have lived here for 25 years and just got my citizenship, so theoretically I'm an American," he said.