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COMMENTARY

Golfing goddess

While most women across the nation will enjoy being showered by gifts and pampered this weekend, Annika Sorenstam will be sweating. This is not a nervous sweat, yet pouring forth from intense training as Sorenstam prepares for her PGA debut three months away. No, that's not a typo, she's competing in the PGA, not the LPGA. Sorenstam, who accepted an invitation Wednesday to play in the Colonial in May, will be the first woman to compete on the PGA Tour in nearly 60 years.

SPORTS

Sports briefs

Golf tournament ends after second round The MSU women's golf team tied with Georgia for 10th place in the 18-team Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge. The Spartans didn't have the opportunity to improve on their two-round score of 635 (312-323), as the final day of competition was canceled due to heavy rainfall. Junior Allison Fouch was MSU's top performer, tied for 22nd place after tallying a two-round score of 154 (74-80). Pepperdine finished atop the leader board, followed by No.

NEWS

Heart of campus

Megan Frye
February 14, 2003

Bill and Emily Burns fondly remember making walks across campus into romantic retreats and eating Valentine's Day dinner on a tight budget at area restaurants when they were MSU students. "We have so many fond memories of campus," said Emily Burns, a 1995 graduate.

FEATURES

Whether a Hallmark creation or not, holiday is a chance to spread a little love to the world

Well, it's upon us once again. The one holiday bringing with it joy and bitterness, romance and contempt, the hope you and your sweetie will be together forever and the feeling of dread in the pit of your stomach because you've got no one with which to share a special day. That's right, it's Valentine's Day. As far as I can tell, there are basically two factions of people when it comes to V-Day. The first group are those who, for one reason or another, simply loathe today.

MICHIGAN

E.L. fire suspect violates parole

Chad Previch
February 14, 2003

A man charged with setting fire to an East Lansing Ramada Inn, 1100 Trowbridge Road is being sent back to Virginia after he violated his parole with a trip to Michigan, police say.Sean McCoy, 35, was living in Virginia under probation for a 1993 grand larceny and forgery conviction and was not supposed to leave the state.McCoy, was charged for setting the fire to the hotel in November, causing enough damage to shut the hotel down.At the time of the fire, McCoy was working as a utility worker at the hotel."For all intensive purposes if Virginia wants him, they'll get him," said David Merchant, McCoy's former attorney.

MSU

Club's dress code irks students

Aaron Foley
February 14, 2003

Autumn Boggues didn't expect to be surrounded by security guards during her first visit to Sparty's Night Club last month."When we started to dance, we noticed about 12 security guards watching us, and they would not leave," the political science and pre-law freshman said.

NEWS

Topless event could cost Dollar its license

Benita Mehta
February 14, 2003

Lansing - The Dollar Nightclub's "wild" night could prove costly, a city council member said. The Dollar could lose its liquor license or face fines because it lacked a permit for topless dancing during the appearance of "Girls Gone Wild" on Wednesday night.

FEATURES

Show's music strikes chord with actress

Jeremy W. Steele
February 14, 2003

Nicole Snelson was 19 and just getting started in theater when "Rent" hit Broadway. She said she was instantly a fan. "I was right in that age pocket of the people who were speaking," said Snelson, talking on a cell phone from Palm Beach, Fla., as she made her way to a matinee. "It really just speaks to everyone.

MICHIGAN

Spring breakers get their tan on

Casey Mcnenly
February 14, 2003

For the next two weeks, it may not be so easy to schedule a reservation at a tanning salon.The two weeks preceding the annual pilgrimage to warmer destinations will clog East Lansing's tanning salons.

NEWS

Former slave tells tale of modern servitude

Francis Bok was 7 years old when he was stripped of his family and freedom. "I used to beg my mom when I was younger to let me go to the market, and that day she finally trusted me to go," said Bok, now 23, while speaking at the Union on Thursday night.

NEWS

College officials: School prepared for emergency

Amy Bartner
February 14, 2003

MSU officials say they stepped up preparation for emergencies since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, long before this week's FBI warning that universities could be targeted. The statement cautioned al-Qaida could pose a threat to less-symbolic targets such as colleges, banks, recreation areas, supermarkets and apartment buildings. "Be assured that this university has worked with the right people, the right experts, both locally, and regionally to assure as much as possible the physical safety of the people here," MSU spokesman Terry Denbow said.

ICE HOCKEY

Weekend games key to conference positioning

James Jahnke
February 14, 2003

There's plenty of hatred surrounding this weekend's MSU-Michigan hockey games, but it seems most of the loathing will be confined to the fans in the stands. The teams are still archrivals - just ask any student or alumnus from the schools.

NEWS

War draws opinions from 'U'

Lawrence Busch made it clear he had no relation to President Bush. "There is only one rogue nation in the world and that's led by one man - and he can be found in the White House," the sociology professor said after criticizing the Bush administration's relationship with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Busch joined a five-member panel of MSU faculty members who expressed its opinions on the conflict between the United States and Iraq at a forum Thursday night in the Union Ballroom.

MSU

Ghost stories celebrate Chicano culture

White and red candles, laid out in a star shape on the floor, flickered in the dark Culturas de las Razas Unidas room, as no-preference freshman Maggie Pena told her story. "While my brother and I were admiring his car, in the corner of my eye I spotted a lady in white in the middle of the street, and he saw a lady in black run behind our house," she said.

MSU

New program to hold lecture

MSU's new Peace and Justice Studies program will sponsor a lecture at 3 p.m. Friday in B-104 Wells Hall. The keynote speaker is Hans Joas, director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, at the University of Erfurt in Germany. Joas also is a sociology professor at the University of Chicago and will speak on his book, "War and Modernity." "We hope to have an important scholar come every year," philosophy Professor Richard Peterson said.