FEATURES
Weekend guide
Friday • The University Activities Board will feature Green & White Fridays Homecoming Kick-off as part of Homecoming celebrations from noon to 2 p.m.
COMMENTARY
SN should watch what letters have to say
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.
BASEBALL
Team scrimmages for last time, prepares for upcoming season
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.
COMMENTARY
Open-door policy
Students living in Bryan Hall were making a lot of noise over a new rule that required them to keep doors closed.
MICHIGAN
E.L. thinks ahead to year 2025
A car-free Grand River Avenue, neighborhood unity and more housing by the year 2025 are in the mix for the future of East Lansing, residents and MSU students say.
MICHIGAN
Habitat founder salutes Carters Nobel Prize win
Lansing - Newly christened Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter was the topic of conversation last week when Millard Fuller, the founder and president of Habitat for Humanity International visited town.Fuller spoke to a crowd of nearly 600 Habitat for Humanity volunteers, staff members, friends and supporters last weekend, focusing on former President Carter and the honor that was announced Friday morning in Oslo, Norway.The event took place at Trinity Church-United Methodist, 7533 W.
COMMENTARY
Williams record wont get him fired, cash will
I couldn’t prevent myself from contributing to the debate over what to do with football head coach Bobby Williams.
MSU
Group holds date auction
Bright red spray paint across the rock on Farm Lane on Wednesday delivered two important words to MSU students - date auction.
FOOTBALL
Spartans look forward to second half of season
The season for the MSU football team has not developed the way anyone could have imagined. The Spartans (3-3 overall, 1-1 Big Ten) have dropped three of their last four games - two of which have been blowout losses. “We’re not anywhere near where we should be or where I expected this team to be,” head coach Bobby Williams said at a Tuesday press conference.
NEWS
Roe v. Wade lawyer speaks at Cooley, inspires students
Lansing - Sarah Weddington, who 30 years ago argued the winning side in the landmark abortion case Roe v.
NEWS
Applications up 43 percent
About 10,000 students already have applied to MSU for fall 2003 - up about 43 percent from last October.
NEWS
MIDDAY UPDATE: U looks to bake its way into record books
It is usually a small treat that parents bake for their children. But the MSU Bakery is looking to make something more than an afternoon snack.The bakery, in cooperation with MSU Safe Place and the Institute of Packaging Professionals are busy building the world’s largest Rice Krispie Treat.
NEWS
Residents provided with security features at gated communities
The beeping sounds of metal electronic gates can be heard as residents line up to enter Melrose Apartments’ gated community in the Northern Tier, nearly three miles from campus. Gates surround three of the four new apartments north of Lake Lansing Road and some students say it is a beneficial safety feature.
SPORTS
A grueling goal pays off with lifetime of memories
It was my dream. A dream that I told people about just so they would tell me I was crazy. So, for the last two years, I’d prepared for one of the most grueling, but fulfilling events ever created.
MSU
Event held in honor of National Bosses Day
Green and white balloons crowded into rooms filled with homemade food and cheerful voices of MSU staff Wednesday.It was more than just National Bosses Day for four lucky MSU employees as they received the Supervisor Recognition Award from MSU’s department of Child and Family Care Resources.
FEATURES
P. Diddy, O-Town create shallow reality TV
Flipping the channels one Saturday afternoon, my roommate and I saw an advertisement on MTV for its second installment of “Making the Band” - “Making the Band 2.” As I watched the commercial and waited for the announcement of another boy band/girl band-type group, I learned, much to my surprise, that a hip-hop group will be formed with the aid of P.
MICHIGAN
Vigil held for domestic violence
Lansing - Tuesday night’s cold fall breeze caused candle lights to flicker as women huddled together pressing their warm sweaters closer to their bodies.Wooden silhouette cut-outs of victims of domestic violence stood hauntingly in front of the gently rippled Grand River as more than 50 people, mostly women, attended the Candlelight Vigil at Potter Park on Tuesday in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
COMMENTARY
Proposal 4 detrimental to health of higher education
This year, I’m asking my mommy and daddy to buy me an amendment to the Michigan Constitution for Christmas.With the November election approaching fast and holiday shopping advertisements again descending upon us, Michigan residents hopefully will not be taught the lesson that money really can buy anything in politics.On Election Day - Nov.
MICHIGAN
Candidate shares love of bikes, justice
Gary Peters isn’t the stereotypical motorcycle rider - he’s clean-shaven, wears glasses and holds a law degree.
COMMENTARY
Williams letters evidence that Spartans have passion when it comes to memories
Information indicating that Spartan football head coach Bobby Williams will be announcing his resignation at the end of next week has come into my possession through a source high in the university athletics administration.