SPORTS
Wide variety of organized teams offer opportunity for fun activity
Afraid the athletic skills you used to dominate the court in high school aren’t enough to take you to the next level?
MICHIGAN
Department prepares for more students, more alcohol
An influx of students during welcome week means an increase in traffic, crowding and drunken driving.The East Lansing Police Department and MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety create safeguards each year to help deal with the substantial growth in the area’s residency.East Lansing adds patrols during welcome week, football weekends and any other time period where people traffic may be high, Capt.
COMMENTARY
Big changes to come in coverage
A reporter asked me the other day if I had found a note on my desk she had left about being reimbursed for mileage to cover a story. I looked at my desk, looked at the reporter and laughed.
MSU
Go on now, get shot up already
It only takes a shot to save a life. That’s the message MSU officials are hoping to get out with a new marketing strategy to promote immunizations for incoming freshmen and other students at risk for preventable diseases. Immunization-themed posters and bookmarks were put strategically in various campus buildings, and depict either a basketball player mid-air or a tennis player mid-swing.
FEATURES
Technology opens doors for disabled
Technology allowing learners to glide through computer programs with the wink of an eye is just one of many devices available to students with disabilities at MSU.Both the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities and the Artificial Language Laboratory have been working for more than 20 years to provide software and devices to students with mental and physical disabilities to help them communicate with others.“With the help of technology, you can get a job and have a normal life,” said Stephen Blosser, Assistive Technology Center coordinator.
SPORTS
Athletes look forward to changes
Every gameday for the last several years, MSU field hockey head coach Michele Madison feared for her athletes becoming victims of the cold, friction-filled ground of Spartan Stadium.But because of the installation of a new irrigated field that the team will play on this upcoming season, that fear is slowly running by Madison and her team.
FEATURES
Wanna roll? Belly-dancing surges in area
What’s the sexiest part of the human body? Well, according to the latest trend in the entertainment industry, it’s the tummy. As pop starlets such as Britney Spears continue to flaunt their sexy midriffs, many are looking for a way to accentuate it. A popular solution appears to be belly-dancing, the ancient Middle Eastern form of dance.
SPORTS
Grass installation a grueling process
Sean McCarvel watched curiously as a tractor pulling two trailers loaded with grass modules growled by in early June.Onlookers had to gaze through the dark, long and narrow tunnel at the field entrance of Spartan Stadium in hope of catching a small glimpse of the new grass installation, which created MSU’s first grass football field since 1968.Tractors dropped off their loads every 10 minutes and got back on the road just as another rig pulled in.“I think it’s great - great for the players and great for the university,” 1993 graduate McCarvel said.
COMMENTARY
Welcoming U
Welcome to college. No doubt you’ve gotten hundreds of bits of advice in the last few months. “Always go to class,” the people say.
FEATURES
Online programs boost security
Security officials around the world could be better prepared for protecting the globe after participating in an online institute offered by MSU. The Global Community Security Institute is an online program that educates and certifies security officials and public servants to improve security and safety. The programs, stemming from some already existing and others newly formed, can be custom designed for individual organizations or communities. Community officials from across the nation have shown interest in participating in programs like the global institute, said Ed McGarrell, director of the School of Criminal Justice. “Obviously we want to first meet the needs of Michigan, but we’re thinking nationally as well,” he said. The program is funded entirely by federal dollars from the homeland security initiative, he said. “Every community within the state and country since Sept.
FEATURES
U offers help for students
Questions about hardware status, Ethernet capability or insufficient gigabytes? You may want to head to the Computer Store, 305 Computer Center, where all these questions and more are brought up and answered.
FEATURES
Local bands prefer parties
The first chords ring out from the basement, carried upstairs by air tinged with smoke and the unmistakable smell of cheap beer.
FEATURES
Ask a Librarian service saves time, energy
If you can’t go to the Main Library, it can now come to you. Students have searched MSU’s databases from their homes since the library’s catalog went online.
SOCCER
Recruits, returning players give team hope
In 2001, the men’s soccer team earned its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1969, and this year’s team looks just as promising. With the addition of four new recruits and return of its top four scorers, the Spartan kickers look to improve last season’s 13-6-1 record, the best numbers the men have collected since the 1986 season when the squad went 13-7-1. Greg and Steve Doster of New Lenox, Ill., are members of the Chicago Magic Soccer Club and head coach Joe Baum says both are able to play multiple positions - Greg Doster plays in the backfield and his brother Steve plays in the midfield and on defense. “Greg is a very athletic, hard-nosed defender,” Baum said in a statement.
COMMENTARY
Saving our Sparty
Ceramics experts have given Sparty an ominous diagnosis - he only has eight years to live if his lifestyle doesn’t change soon. But help is on the way for MSU’s terra-cotta icon, believed to be the world’s tallest free-standing ceramic statue.
MSU
CATA unveils campus service center
Students who once huddled next to each other for warmth as they waited for a bus to come barreling down the street now have a new boarding center on Shaw Lane to keep them toasty and dry. The Capital Area Transportation Center was scheduled to open Aug.
SPORTS
Seeing success
Aaron Scheidies has a severe vision-impairment, but he can do a lot of things that people with perfect eyesight can do - and maybe a little more.
SPORTS
Thrill of packed sports arenas worth experience
If you’re one of the google of students who plan to be in a confined space with many sweaty, loud students - pay attention.
SPORTS
Spartan teams in good shape
The MSU fight song will undoubtedly be heard a few thousand times this fall when Spartan sports teams start their seasons. But the fight song could be in even greater use by November. The football, field hockey, volleyball and men’s soccer teams are looking to improve on strong finishes last year and live up to lofty expectations this year. If those teams live up to the hype, it could create a buzz similar to March Madness, just four months earlier. The postseasons for field hockey, volleyball and men’s soccer begin in November and Spartan fanatics could be going wild.
FEATURES
U no longer provides phones
The roaring ring from the once-familiar, university-issued manila phones won’t be echoing down dorm halls this fall.Instead, students will have to provide their own telecommunication device.Increased cell-phone use among students has led to a decrease in the use of university-provided long-distance services.