With a smiling face, ease and grace, Lloyd Ward greeted business and engineering students in the Erickson Kiva on Thursday and said his decision to lead this year’s Homecoming parade was an easy one. Ward, a 1970 MSU graduate and chief executive officer of the U.S.
No. 4 Ohio State at Wisconsin The Buckeyes tote an unscathed record to Camp Randall Stadium this weekend, flying high after punishing San Jose State, 50-7, Saturday. In three and a half quarters of action, signal caller Craig Krenzel set career highs in both passing yards (241) and touchdowns (3). Tailback Maurice Clarett added another eye-popping performance against the Spartans with 132 yards and 18 carries to head the Buckeyes’ offense, along with two rushing and one receiving touchdowns.
It’s like music to my ears. Well not exactly music. It’s more like creepy attempts to replicate music with sharp piercing notes and flat, drawn-out “bleeps.” Ah yes, the refreshing bleeps from cell phones around the land - the sounds only a truly tone-deaf person could enjoy. In my classes, my dorm and, most of all, in the newsroom, parodies of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” the Backstreet Boys’ “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” and Nirvana’s “Come as You Are” play continuously as cell phones across the land “ring.” The sounds remind me of the time I had an ear infection and heard everything in distorted and twisted ways. While I find the ringers to be lacking in musical quality, I also find them, in certain situations, to be quite rude.
Although I whole heartedly agree with the need for better sex education in this country a few of Matt Treadwell’s comments in his column “Abortion debaters looking at wrong problem, need to dig deeper” (SN 10/11) were completely off the mark. Sex is not solely for the purpose of reproduction.
Homecoming weekend is a time for celebration and remembrance. But Spartan fans don’t have much to celebrate.MSU (3-3 overall, 1-1 Big Ten) was embarrassed last Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa, to the tune of a 44-16 loss.
Besides the fact that Mike Cox went to the University of Michigan, he does have some things going for him, his wife says. “Obviously, he’s really smart,” MSU alumnus Laura Cox said about her husband, who is running as the Republican candidate for attorney general.
Women tee off in tourneyMSU women’s golf team ends its fall season at the 2002 Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championships this weekend at the Gettysvue Country Club in Knoxville, Tenn. Five of the 15 teams competing in the tournament are ranked in the Top 25 by Golfweek magazine. The Spartans, who have been off since their sixth-place finish at the New Mexico State Give’Em Five Intercollegiate, held Oct.
The Heisman race is starting to take form as the conference schedules separate the pretenders from the contenders. The season started with everyone thinking a quarterback would take home the hardware, but Marshall’s Byron Leftwich hasn’t been enough to keep the Thundering Herd in the national spotlight and Florida’s Rex Grossman has played himself and the once-mighty Gators out of just about everything. Only one signal caller remains, Iowa State’s Seneca Wallace, who nobody considered a candidate in the preseason. Joining Wallace in pulling away from the rest of the field is a pair of tailbacks, Ohio State’s Maurice Clarett and Miami’s Willis McGahee. Front-runners:Seneca Wallacesenior quarterback, Iowa StateFollowing a bye week that allowed his hype to cool, Wallace led the Cyclones to a 31-17 victory over Texas Tech. Iowa State entered the third quarter tied 3-3, but a 12-yard TD run by the senior signal caller ignited a 21 point third quarter for the Cyclones.
It all comes down to dollars and cents. I am truly considering relinquishing my season tickets for football next season.
It is hard to put into words what a letdown the last six weeks have been for a Spartan football fan and an MSU graduate. It also is hard to comprehend how a team draped with so much talent has stumbled its way to a 3-3 start with five of its first six games at home. What else can we as a university provide for football head coach Bobby Williams to produce a campaign worthy of a national ranking?
The rules for transporting packages, according to courier Frank Martin, are don’t open the package and no names. It sounds easy, and for the payment of $40,000 I would quit my job.
Northern Tier development has some students and area residents in a jam - literally and figuratively. Four new apartment complexes off Abbott and Chandler roads coupled with new retail centers and road construction have brought a flood of traffic to the area that was undeveloped a few years ago.
This is in response to Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday’s letters to the editor about football head coach Bobby Williams.
An official university e-mail sent out Wednesday cautioning Brody Complex residents about used syringes left in the cafeteria has students confused and worried.Although the message was sent from the complex manager’s Pilot account, university officials don’t know who wrote the e-mail.
Some city officials say they aren’t alarmed by the unusual amount of for-rent signs posted in yards of East Lansing rental properties around town. The fact that thousands of students are opting to migrate to the Northern Tier might be one reason that rental signs aren’t going away, said Howard Asch, East Lansing’s director of code enforcement and neighborhood conservation. But, he said, most landlords maintain that they are doing OK as competition stiffens. “There has been speculation that the competition from the new apartment complexes may actually cause an improvement in the quality of living downtown,” he said, adding that some property owners have been doing more than what is required to improve their rental properties.
Friday • The University Activities Board will feature Green & White Fridays Homecoming Kick-off as part of Homecoming celebrations from noon to 2 p.m.
I am writing in response to Joshua Feinberg’s letter to the editor “Israel’s shown great restraint in conflict” (SN 10/10). Anyone is free to hold their own opinions, but The State News has a responsibility not to publish hateful and insightful speech demonizing an entire population.
The San Francisco Giants and the Anaheim Angels aren’t the only teams playing baseball this deep into October.The MSU baseball team took the field Wednesday afternoon for the last time this year in the final game of the three game Green/Gray World Series.In the contest, the Gray team came out victorious with some last inning heroics.