Critic offers six tips for movie-watching success

I’m sure, depending on how observant you are, there have been many noticeable changes since students migrated to parts unknown in May.

Come to U

While the locations for Michigan’s gubernatorial debates are not yet set, the candidates should jump at the chance to hold at least one of their forums in East Lansing - more specifically, at MSU. The AARP, the official name of the American Association of Retired Persons, has contacted the campaigns of Democratic Attorney General Jennifer Granholm and GOP Lt.

U back on party list after 2 years away

The Spartans have partied their way back onto the charts. After not making the list for the past two years, MSU landed the No.

Residence hall cafeterias beef-up meal options

Seated at a small table in the corner of the crowded Landon Hall cafeteria, English junior Danielle Redfield and education junior Jenny Kish gazed around the room, quick to mention differences in residence hall dining.“The lines to wait for food are really long,” Kish said, pointing to a row of students slumped behind one another to pick up an entree.

Baseball strikes out with paper, football fans win

Huntsville, Texas - In protest of a possible baseball strike, a small Texas newspaper won’t be running major league coverage at least until Friday’s strike deadline.Managers of The Huntsville Item polled readers before deciding to drop America’s pastime from its pages.

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Lugnuts clinch spot in playoffs

Lansing - The wait is over. With their 11-6 win over Kane County Friday, the Lugnuts (34-30 second half, 71-62 overall) snapped a seven-game slide and officially clinched a berth in the 2002 playoffs.

Parties nominate trustees

The race to fill two spots on the MSU Board of Trustees took form this weekend as state Democrats and Republicans submitted their candidates for the Nov.

Simone pleases with digital hottie, pokes fun at Hollywood stereotypes

Remember the feeling you had the first time you saw Penélope Cruz in “Blow” or Brad Pitt in any of his films?

Rainy weather becomes Welcome Weekend tradition

With cloudy skies and rain greeting students back to school the past three years, damp weather has become a late-August tradition for many returning to MSU.

Campus life full of new things, but some things dont change

It’s the start of a the school year, and returning students are sure to notice some new things. But as the adage says, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The freshly renovated Shaw Hall is full of surprises.

Group sponsors photography contest for students Sept. 11 pins sold at University Stores to remember victims

MSU’s Horticultural Demonstration Gardens is sponsoring a photography contest to celebrate its beauty. Photos are required to have been taken anytime since the gardens’ dedication in 1993 at any of the following locations: Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden and Judith A.

Greeking forward

Although MSU’s greek community has improved its reputation dramatically during the past few years, it still has some hurdles to overcome. Since 2001, the number of greeks with grade-point averages below 2.0 increased, one fraternity was shut down by its national organization for hazing and discrimination violations and two sororities closed their doors because of a lack of interest. But while it might seem as though MSU greeks have fallen on hard times, the situation isn’t as bad as it seems. Despite last year’s lower GPAs, greek grades have been on a steady rise during the past five years. Although alcohol is a staple at many greek functions, as with many college social groups, the community isn’t perceived as the binge-drinking society it once was. On another positive note, MSU greeks have put more of an emphasis on community-service projects.

Get informed about area buses

Ah, the site of a wild and untamed freshman with a map glued to his or her face and the smell of sweet, sweet dung around south campus. Both are sure signs another school year is commencing at MSU. But manure and maps aside, the other big annual change students notice is the influx of freshmen on the Capital Area Transportation Authority buses.

Coalition welcomes renters back to E.L.

East Lansing resident Cindy Kyle placed a green-and-white sign boasting the words “Welcome Back Students” on her front lawn Friday in the place where an old couch was left years ago by nightly pranksters.Kyle, who has lived on Orchard Street for about eight years, accepted one of 100 signs passed out by Neighborhood Resource Coordinators, despite her past problems with student neighbors.“I want to know the students who live near me,” said Kyle, who lives with her husband.

Professor testifies in trial for slaying of U student

An MSU geology professor testified Friday that soil samples found on the shoes of a man accused of slaying his wife, an MSU graduate student, match the soil found on her body. Professor Thomas Vogel analyzed soil on shoes owned by Dennis Michael Salerno, 32, after he was accused of slaying his wife in July 2000. And even though the soil samples matched, Vogel said the soil on Dennis Salerno’s shoes and that found on Michelle Rizzi Salerno’s body are not made up of the same elements as dirt at the Bowling Green State University landfill in Ohio where her body was found. “You can make your own conclusions,” Vogel said. The body of Michelle Salerno, who was 26 when she was reported missing June 20, 2000, was recovered in April 2001.

Gridders use practice to move up the ranks

With two-a-day workouts behind them and the season opener less than a week away, the MSU football team is ready to get on the field against another team. “I’m really excited,” junior wide receiver Ziehl Kavanaght said after a Wednesday scrimmage.

HARDY: Mulder, MLB look at strikes

Detroit - Mark Mulder knows strikes. From the mound, the lanky former Spartan and flame-throwing lefty has seen 352 batters return to the pine during his three-year career with Oakland - he also mulled over a school-record 113 in his final season at MSU in 1998. Baseball fans know strikes, too. They’ve seen eight work stoppages since 1972. And as negotiators go into the ninth inning of bargaining before Friday’s deadline, we can all wonder who will strike next? Mulder or the players? “None of us want a strike,” Mulder says with his casual, cool tone as he stretches on the Oakland Athletics’ green-padded bench with his legs up inside the visitor’s dugout before Sunday’s opening pitch at Comerica Park, where the A’s swept the series against the Detroit Tigers under a deep-blue sky with temperatures in the low 80s. The 25-year-old pitching stud feels little heat, though, even as the sun breaks from behind clouds one day after talks between baseball management and players soured. “This is about keeping the game going,” he says.

Engler makes way for Posthumus to lead state Republicans

Detroit - It’s a time of change for Michigan Republicans.Over the past 12 years, Gov.

Dems look to Granholm to usher in new era for state, party

Lansing - Jennifer Granholm stood smiling as she attempted to hush thousands of union workers, teachers, students, parents and politicians Sunday at the Lansing Center.