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SPORTS

First road game wont be easy

After five home games to start the season and a bye week, the MSU football team heads into its first road game of the season.In the last game of the homestand, the Spartans (3-2 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) defeated Northwestern 39-24 in the Big Ten opener on Sept.

SPORTS

Iowa running back leads all league rushers

Fred Russell always dreamed of leading the Big Ten in rushing. The one-time Wolverine hopeful just never thought he would do it as an Iowa Hawkeye. But halfway through the Michigan native’s junior season, the 5-foot-8, 185-pounder is doing just that.

NEWS

Former Israeli official visits U

Americans should not be afraid to take action against terrorism. That was the message former Israeli press secretary Yossi Olmert told his audience Thursday in the Wilson Hall auditorium. Sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Olmert, a Middle East historian and terrorism expert, is part of a part of semesterlong fellowship speaker program at MSU.

FEATURES

Knockaround Guys pleases with experienced cast

Where did “Knockaround Guys” come from? All of a sudden, there is a cast of promising actors teaming up with seasoned veterans in a Mafia flick. After a long wait, a wait only matched by the Tyson-Lewis fight, “Knockaround Guys” opens today.

MSU

Event on workers rights

The MSU School of Labor and Industrial Relations and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations are teaming up today for a two-day conference on worker rights. The first session begins at 8 a.m.

SPORTS

HARDY: Bye week bought time before key matchup

Is it a good bye or goodbye for the Spartan gridders? That question and many more will be answered come Saturday when MSU takes the field in Iowa City, Iowa, to match up with the ever-talented Old Gold and Black inside Kinnick Stadium. And the battered-and-bruised players enjoyed time to reflect on their questionable first half of the season with time outside Spartan Stadium, healing from grueling games against Notre Dame and California. The Spartans are 26-16-2 lifetime with at least 14 days of rest, dating way back when to 1896. I brushed off the dust on a few volumes of Spartan statistics to find that one. Yes, the gridders tied twice - a Nov.

NEWS

Trustees seek more state funding per student

MSU’s Board of Trustees will vote today on whether to send a report to the governor’s office asking for an increase of about $1,000 per student in state funds for the 2003-04 school year. The university received about $3,000 less per student in state appropriations than Wayne State University and about $1,700 less per student than the University of Michigan this school year. “This is the beginning of a long ritual dance,” Trustee Colleen McNamara said, adding the request will have to go through several state committees before MSU receives any money.

COMMENTARY

Abortion debaters looking at wrong problem, need to dig deeper

Pay attention all of you who champion pro-life and pro-choice efforts because I think you are all blind to the real problems that plague our society. You can march and drive around with catchy signs and bumper stickers all you want, but none of you are helping remedy the ills we face together. Ever since coming to The State News, I have told myself I would never write a column with the word “abortion” in it.

SPORTS

Penn State eyes Michigan in marquee matchup

No. 15 Penn State at No. 13 Michigan What’s better preparation, a relaxing bye week or a hard-fought victory on the road? That’s the question as Michigan and Penn State collide Saturday in Ann Arbor.