FEATURES
Y Tu Mamá También gives realistic look at teenage life
It isn’t often that I get to review films that have been released in this country more than a year ago.
MICHIGAN
Plan looks to preserve Michigans historic sites
Michigan has released a plan to preserve its distinct features and characteristics from shore to shore. The State Historic Preservation Plan, “Preservation Shore to Shore: Planning to Preserve 2001-2006” was released last week.
COMMENTARY
Precious pond
If some lake lovers have their way, Lake St. Clair might soon gain status as the sixth Great Lake. While it is nice and biologically diverse, it isn’t great. However, a worthwhile issue as been raised by the Great Lakes Commission - great status would bring Lake St.
ICE HOCKEY
Beginning of a new era
Nothing that happens this weekend will show up on the MSU hockey team’s record, but the pair of exhibition games on the docket still are quite important as the Spartans prepare for the start of the regular season next week. MSU officially opens its schedule today with the Green and White intrasquad scrimmage.
COMMENTARY
Pedestrians best watch out for drivers
Every year the topic of crazy campus drivers makes its way into The State News (“Drivers should read, yield to pedestrians” SN 10/1). Well, I am going to stand up for all of my four-wheeled friends. How is it possible we get blamed when day after day we have to deal with some freshman walking or biking across the street while smoking, listening to a Walkman, talking on a cell phone and looking at a campus map? Listen up my two-legged foes, if my turn arrow is green, and you have a bright orange “Don’t Walk” sign over on Farm Lane, you better listen to Ludacris and “get out the way.” Remember when you were younger, those words of advice from mom: Look both ways before crossing the street?
NEWS
County might get West Nile aid
Concern about the West Nile virus stretches from Ingham County to the floors of Congress. In Michigan, 370 confirmed and probable cases of the virus have been reported, including five in Ingham County and 24 deaths statewide.
VOLLEYBALL
Team faces tough test against two Big Ten foes
After their first weekend of Big Ten play, which included battles against No. 6 Minnesota and a feisty, unranked Iowa squad, the MSU women’s volleyball team has another weekend of stiff competition. The No.
SPORTS
Midnight Madness to entertain fans
To kick off the start of the 2002-03 basketball season, the MSU men’s and women’s teams will host Midnight Madness on Oct.
MSU
LBGT alliance kicks off Coming Out Days
National Coming Out Days are being celebrated on campus. In past years, the Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgendered and Straight Ally Students has passed out educational material during the week, but group president Natalie Furrow said it often ends up tossed on the ground. “Students aren’t very receptive,” Furrow said.
MSU
Slam poet to perform at Akers Hall
Alix Olson, slam poet, feminist activist and folk artist, will treat audiences to her singular style of energetic, politically charged poetry at the Common Grounds Coffeehouse in Akers Hall today. “I think she’s incredible,” Angela Jones, a member of a music collective called “Longhairz,” said.
NEWS
$9.8 million building addition to house cancer-fighting cyclotron
A $9.8 million addition to the Radiology Building will house a cancer-fighting cyclotron that is expected to be complete by April.MSU officials announced this week that the 17,000-square-foot center will feature a positron emission tomography cyclotron, or PET cyclotron, created by Syncor International Corp.“It’s really a tool used to fight cancer,” said Bill Powell, Syncor’s director of investor relations and corporate communications.
COMMENTARY
F-word coverage disappointing in SN
It was extremely disappointing to see more than half of two separate pages of The State News were dedicated to reporting on the F-word ( “The F-bomb: Just another part of everyday language” SN 10/2). I didn’t know there was so much of an interest in this slang word that such a large amount of the paper should be dedicated to it. This article was not something The State News should be proud of or have even printed in its daily newspaper. Although this word is used often, it is a term that is offensive to prevailing notions of propriety.
NEWS
Honors College heightens recruiting
Vigorous recruiting tactics have caused enrollment in the Honors College to reach a record of 2,390 students this year, surpassing the 1971 mark of 2,374, officials say. “Competition for high achieving students is just as intense as recruiting athletes,” said Ron Fisher, director of the Honors College. He said this year’s freshman class held a high school grade-point average of 4.01 and average ACT score of 31. The college has also become stronger by offering programs in various majors, giving students the freedom to design schedules they choose, he said. “Having more students, it allows us to have students in all colleges across MSU,” he said. Provost Lou Anna Simon said rejuvenating the Honors College was one of the goals under the guiding principles of MSU. The Honors College program began in 1956, grew steadily and reached its highest enrollment in 1971.
COMMENTARY
Students, residents should share blame for E.L. troubles
Students. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. It seems tensions are mounting between students and East Lansing residents since the commencement of classes, but a recent city council meeting showed the real, lingering problem. Everyone seems to be pointing fingers instead of sharing the blame. This city was founded and fostered by the growth of MSU since the 1850s, which has created a “where would you be without me attitude” among students. The fact is, there probably is about the same number of permanent residents living in East Lansing as there is students.
SPORTS
WEB ONLY: Spartans face off with Wolverines
MSU field hockey had a perfect 10-0 record in the month of September, and is looking to extend its school-best ten game winning streak this weekend in Ann Arbor. Which is never an easy feat. No.
NEWS
House of Angels
As dusk fell, the Wheeler children crowded one by one onto the back porch of the family’s home for dinner.
MICHIGAN
Volunteers go Into the Streets
About 300 MSU students are expected to volunteer in the Lansing area on Saturday. Into the Streets, a student community-service group, will kick off fall activities by sending participants to 16 volunteer sites in the Lansing area to work with issues such as homelessness, hunger, domestic violence and community development. Registration for the event begins at 9 a.m.
COMMENTARY
Loftier fines will keep noise down
If East Lansing officials were serious about noise probable, they should stiffen fines and stop pussyfooting around.
NEWS
WEB ONLY: ASMSU Student Assembly expresses concern about expense for Jackson event
Members of ASMSU’s Student Assembly learned on Thursday that, for the first time, they would be responsible for a mistake members of the executive board made - one that will cost them more than $4,800. The undergraduate student government group said it had little time to plan for the Rev.
SPORTS
HARDY: Tigers in need of a tuneup, overhaul
Close shop as the bolts have been loose since Opening Day, nuts scattered everywhere and the fans screwed.