COMMENTARY
SN welcomes Your Voice, send letters
I hope you won’t have to see my face in this spot for the rest of the semester. You see, this spot is usually reserved for letters to the editor.
SPORTS
Spirits soar as seasons approach start
Incoming freshman and returnees alike were introduced to hockey, basketball and football players Friday - without even buying a ticket.Despite a steady drizzle all day Thursday, thousands of students flooded Spartan Stadium for the annual Spartan Spirit rally to support their school.The event provided a familiar atmosphere for new students who were feeling a little overwhelmed by campus, classes and being away from home.Hiroaki Toda is in his first year of study at MSU.
ICE HOCKEY
Alumni return to Munn
The MSU hockey program held its version of a family reunion last week, but instead of burgers, beer and dorky party games, there were pucks, slap shots and shards of glass.For the third-straight summer, Spartan assistant coach Tom Newton welcomed back former MSU skaters for a weeklong “pro camp” at Munn Ice Arena.
SPORTS
Amateur Night
Eric Jorgensen isn’t used to this kind of attention. The MSU senior golfer can’t drive a cart 10 yards at Forest Akers West Golf Course, home of the MSU golf team, without someone stopping to congratulate him on his successful summer.
MSU
U enjoys fun, free events on Super Saturday
Emerging from a huge silver submarine, Candace Elliott said the mission inside wasn’t easy.“I was supposed to kill my friend,” the marketing sophomore said of the blow-up laser tag game.
SPORTS
Spartan soccer starts strong
The men’s and women’s soccer teams finished a combined 2-0-1 over the weekend. The No.
MSU
Minority groups welcome students back to campus with receptions
With food and friendly faces, minority groups across campus are welcoming new students with receptions this week. The events will begin Monday with the Asian American and Pacific Islander Welcome Reception. Free food will begin the reception, along with a welcome from university administration, said Marc Johnston, co-president of the Asian Pacific American Student Organization. “It’s a building of community and making sure people have contacts,” Johnston said.
NEWS
ONLINE UPDATE: U returns to Princeton Reviews top 20 party school list
For the 2003 edition, MSU is back on Princeton Review’s “party school” list.For the past two years, MSU has not made the Princeton Review’s top 20 party schools in the nation, this year campus has earned the No.
NEWS
ONLINE UPDATE: Candidates announced for fall Board of Trustees race
Two incumbents and two longtime political playmakers will duke it out Nov. 5 for two open seats on the MSU Board of Trustees.Democrat incumbent Colleen McNamara and Republican incumbent Donald Nugent will face off against state Sen.
SPORTS
Spartans have high hopes
Chicago - As the Big Ten Football Kickoff Luncheon wrapped up, one thing was clear: The Spartans are a fixture on everyone’s radar screen. The media picked MSU to finish third in the conference and named junior wide receiver Charles Rogers the preseason Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year.
FEATURES
A different sort of fore
The hole, a benign par 3 according to the much-graffitied sign, taunts mercilessly.The fairway - an 8-foot clearing before the trees start in earnest - curves slightly to the right before dropping off sharply, the red flag atop the basket barely visible from the tee.A distinctive “ching!” rings out from what constitutes the green as a disc lands hard in the metal basket.
MSU
Alcohol-free rooms, dorms try to keep booze away from U
Although MSU is known by some to be a party school, many students each year request to live in an alcohol-free environment. Those numbers have risen in recent years, prompting University Housing to make more residence-hall floors free of alcohol. Although final numbers aren’t in yet, housing officials expect this year’s tallies to be at least on par with last year. “Cancellations are still coming in, but it looks comparable to last year,” said Pam Willis, an office supervisor for University Housing.
FEATURES
Being an American at heart, foreigner on paper aint easy
Being yourself can be pretty tough these days. It’s hard when all you want is to just be - but certain things stop you from doing that.There’s nothing I want more than to lie my head down at night and know that in a year or so I won’t have to leave a place I love, am comfortable with and that’s a part of me.
FEATURES
Farming frontier
The scenery changes south of campus.High-rise dormitories and herds of people give way to rolling green rows of crops and massive mooing cows.The senses are relieved from car exhaust fumes and pervaded with scents of fresh grass and cow manure.The tiny one-way turns of campus and traffic circles straighten out and turn into long stretches of rural roads that wind through MSU’s 5,000 acres of farmland.But the roads find their way back to central campus.The research conducted at the expansive farms south of central campus ekes its way back into classrooms, into computers, into the minds and departments of the people at MSU.Mark Collins manages one of the many farms at MSU - the Hancock Turfgrass Research Center, which grows, cultivates and researches thousands of types of grass.“We work to find the ones that fit Michigan best,” Collins said.“We work with grass to give athletes safer playing conditions - and make healthy grass for homeowners that’s more aesthetically pleasing.”The new grass in Spartan Stadium that now graces the footsteps of quarterback Jeff Smoker cost more than $2.5 million and took 18 months of work, Collins said.Workers plant the grass during the fall, since it thrives in cooler temperatures, but researchers work year-round.The turf management farm, with small greens and neatly mowed fields that require daily upkeep, doesn’t look like most of MSU’s farms.The dairy and sheep farms south of campus seem more like the farms students might be used to seeing.
MICHIGAN
Education key to gaining legislation
It took Maryland legislators a decade to include sexual orientation in that state’s civil rights law.
FEATURES
Big, small cinemas provide U options
For students worn out by studying, partying or working, movie theaters are a great place to unwind and catch the latest blockbuster. The Lansing area has several options for moviegoers. Celebration Cinema, 200 Edgewood Blvd.
SPORTS
Spartans expected to be near leagues top
Chicago - Although record-breaking wide receivers instead of smash-mouth running backs are receiving most of the preseason hype, the media seem to think the conference will return to the “Big Two, Little Eight” days of the Big Ten.The league’s preseason poll, released at the 31st annual Big Ten Conference Kickoff Luncheon in July, tabbed Michigan and Ohio State to finish first and second, respectively, in the Big Ten football standings.
FEATURES
Expect good food, credit card debt at E.L.s Cos
A new restaurant in East Lansing offers deli fare at not-so-deli prices. Cos
COMMENTARY
Hideous acts hint at deeper problems in world
A short time ago (and now almost forgotten) in a suburb of Chicago two children were murdered by a handy man who had worked in their home for 10 years.
NEWS
Chapter doesnt appeal eviction
The evicted leaders of a troubled MSU fraternity have opted not to appeal their national council’s decision to shut the chapter’s doors.