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SPORTS

Spartans seek first national championship

Dawn Klemish
November 21, 2002

Today when the No. 3 MSU field hockey team boards the plane to Louisville, Ky., it will be landing in uncharted territory. Not in the history of the program has any Spartan team ventured so deep into the postseason waters, but this year's squad is determined to return to East Lansing with nothing less than a national championship. "Our goal for the season was to make the Final Four, and we did it," sophomore back Annebet Beerman said.

MSU

Group recognized for contest participation

Members of the Residence Halls Association participated in a conference at the University of Wisconsin Osh Kosh to develop program ideas and build leadership skills last weekend. MSU's RHA came back from the Great Lakes Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls conference, Nov.

FEATURES

Weekend guide

Friday • Shakira will perform at the Palace of Auburn Hills at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $65 plus service fees.

FEATURES

And everything after...

Ben Landes
November 21, 2002

"August and Everything After" (1993) This album put Counting Crows on the map by providing the memorable hits "Mr. Jones" and the beautifully simple "Round Here." A wonderful collection of sweet rock tunes with overflowing harmonies, rich sincere ballads and the immediate introduction to Adam Duritz's mesmerizing voice. "Recovering the Satellites" (1996) A triumphant sophomore album, with the band's most poignant song, "A Long December." The album also features the slightly rougher edge of a band coming into its own, with the charging "Angels of the Silences." But the band keeps true to its earnest roots with the songs "Goodnight Elisabeth" and "Miller's Angels." "This Desert Life" (1999) For its third effort, Counting Crows produced an album with its first sincerely up-tempo song, the infectious "Hangin' Around." The band also toys around with emotions from every direction, with the resonant "Four Days," lively "All My Friends" and melancholic "Colorblind," adding wonderful variation to its illustrious career. "Hard Candy" (2002) This latest release shows Counting Crows fully developing its prowess with the swaying summer tone of "American Girls," the slow-building eruption of "Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood) " and the fluttering "Black and Blue." Every song is flooded with instrumental wonderment - continuing with its consistent trend of creating amazing music.

COMMENTARY

Student leaders

The spirit of the late 1960s and early 1970s is in full swing at MSU these days. Student groups across campus are evoking the essence of that era by organizing anti-war protests and teach-ins to promote peace and voice opposition to a possible war in Iraq. Leaders of the MSU group Students for Peace and Justice held a teach-in Wednesday in Giltner Hall to allow students to discuss why they oppose a war in Iraq. Speakers from several other MSU student groups, including Direct Action, Students for Economic Justice and Students for Palestinian Rights also discussed issues surrounding a pre-emptive strike on Iraq, economic sanctions on the country, U.N.

MSU

ASMSU works on student-TA relationships

Amy Bartner
November 21, 2002

Two ASMSU representatives are hoping to identify problems that exist between teaching assistants and undergraduate students.Tom Morse, the College of Communication Arts and Sciences representative, and Dan Weber, the College of Natural Science representative, both members of ASMSU's Academic Assembly, have been meeting with faculty and graduate students since the beginning of November to discuss the initiative."We're just trying to find out what undergraduates think about their TAs," Weber said.

COMMENTARY

'That guy' has some words for columnist

In response to Kevin Hardy's column "Pay attention to sporting events, don't be that guy" (SN 11/18), I have three words for him: Get a life. I was part of the group of fans the headline and commentary was directed toward, and I have to say Hardy's opinion was perhaps the most pathetic thing I've heard out of an MSU fan in ages. We were being ironic, get it?

MICHIGAN

Lansing welcomes 4 businesses to revamped Old Town

Lansing - Jan Allen lived in Old Town when it wasn't so old. The Lansing resident would wait in a car on Turner Street while her grandmother grabbed a quick drink from one of the city's bars.More than 60 years later Allen has opened a coffee shop in the neighborhood across from the location of the bar her grandmother was so fond of."Old Town has always been a part of me," she said.

MSU

Friend to recall MLK's life in address to 'U'

Tara May
November 21, 2002

Martin Luther King Jr. called the Rev. James Lawson "one who's been in this struggle for many years.""He's been to jail for struggling; but he's still going on, fighting for the rights of his people," King said of Lawson in his last speech, "I See the Promised Land."And now Lawson is scheduled to visit MSU on Jan.

FEATURES

Duritz discusses influences, touring

Ben Landes
November 21, 2002

Counting Crows has been on the road for more than a year, relentlessly touring the world and feeding its newest album, "Hard Candy," to the masses.And its lead singer Adam Duritz can't see it any other way."I would be a loser if I wasn't a musician," he told The State News.

COMMENTARY

Taxpayer willing to be ASMSU's 'gnome'

Gnome for hire. As a student who helps fund MSU's undergraduate student government, I'm shocked (although not surprised) at the lack of responsibility inside ASMSU. Rather than spend the time to search for the licenses that the organization already presumably owns, the representatives and leaders voted to purchase them again. I would like to volunteer my services to ASMSU to search through its records of past purchases for these lost licenses. I do not require payment for the searching, but should I find the lost licenses, I'd appreciate a finder's fee of $200 to donate to one of the campus groups that are otherwise losing out on this money. The students of MSU need to realize their elected student leaders are not doing their jobs and demand an explanation as to why the students need to pay for an administrative error that could be solved with a determined effort. Fred Sharp mechanical engineering senior

NEWS

Additional theater fights for students' dollars

Patrick Walters
November 21, 2002

Lansing Twp. - Two theater openings in a five-year span is bringing Hollywood to Lansing like never before. In what theater managers are describing as an untapped market, Lansing-area theaters are seeing a boom in audiences - leaving students and residents clamoring for tickets. The most recent addition to Lansing cinema is the Neighborhood Cinema Group, 2500 Showtime Drive in Lansing Township, which opened its aisles at the new Eastwood Towne Center last Friday. Now students have the choice of NCG, AMC Meridian Outer 6 Theatres, 1999 Central Park Drive in Okemos, or Celebration Cinema, 200 E.

COMMENTARY

Day offers time for remembrance, reflection on life's struggles

On Nov. 20, some people now take time to reflect on National Transgender Remembrance Day. I expect the majority of people reading this have no idea that such a day existed, or what exactly there is to remember. Let me give you a peek into my head and show you what I remember. I go back a month or so to Oct.

NEWS

RHA votes to support domestic partner benefits for students

Antonio Planas
November 21, 2002

The Residence Halls Association's General Assembly agreed to support same-sex domestic partner benefits for students at its Wednesday meeting.With a 29-0 vote and eight abstentions, the group is the first MSU student government organization to support the issue, which has significance within the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community.

COMMENTARY

Weapon bans run dangerous risks

I do not mind much that guns were banned in East Lansing-owned buildings Tuesday. Those are places frequented by police officers and not usually criminal targets. But for people who wanted to ban guns all over East Lansing, let me tell you a little story. The East Lansing City Council banned its residents and visitors from having legal firearms all over the city.

FEATURES

'U' professor to head pop journal

Casey Mcnenly
November 21, 2002

East Lansing is now the pop-culture capital of the world - in the sense that The Journal of Popular Culture will now be housed at MSU.Gary Hoppenstand, professor and associate chairperson of the Department of American Thought and Language, has been named the new editor of the journal.