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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

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

Tara May
August 24, 2002

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.

SPORTS

Hard work could ensure Lansing playoff berth

As another baseball season winds down, the Lansing Lugnuts find themselves toward the top of their division, hoping to snag one of two coveted second-half playoff spots. Lansing has qualified for the playoffs in four of the past six seasons, including 1996 - the Lugnuts’ inaugural season - and 1997, the year Lansing claimed its first league championship. The 1998 ’Nuts squad missed the playoffs by half a game, but rebounded in 1999, capturing the division title in what has been the most-successful season yet, where Lansing advanced to the league semifinals before getting eliminated by the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.

NEWS

Students want U to host debate

Katie Byrne
August 24, 2002

With the Nov. 5 general election fast approaching, East Lansing and campus student leaders are working to bring the gubernatorial candidates to separate public debates. Although neither debate has been confirmed, the AARP and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, have spoken the campaigns of Democratic Attorney General Jennifer Granholm and GOPLt.

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.

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.

NEWS

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.

FEATURES

High-tech magnet could help protein research

Amy Bartner
August 24, 2002

MSU could attract more than proteins and molecules if all goes as planned.Spartan leaders hope to make campus home to one of the largest magnetic spectrometers in the United States.“We also hope it will attract faculty,” said Shelagh Ferguson-Miller, co-director of the Center for Structural Biology.The machine, a 900-megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance instrument, is set to be paid for by the Life Sciences Corridor.Corridor officials approved the program’s budget for the this year, including $4.5 million for the instrument, in June.The Life Sciences Corridor is a grant program initiated in 1999 to spend more that $1 billion on biochemistry projects during a span of 20 years.The program links the research efforts of Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University and is funded by part of the state’s tobacco settlement money.The new magnetic instrument will join a team of eight others.

MSU

Pavilion adds energy savers

Jacquelyne Froeber
August 24, 2002

Solar panels and saving money are on MSU’s horizon.On July 1, 2003, the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education will have about 70 solar panels placed on its roof to save $1,300 in MSU’s energy cost while helping the environment.The $100,000 grant for the solar panels was issued by the Department of Consumer and Industry Services to provide campus with an alternative energy source.

COMMENTARY

Study abroad offers chance to see different perspectives

Summer is nearing its end, fall classes are beginning and thousands of new students will soon learn the joy of navigating campus with their AOP maps while languishing in the 90-degree heat. After almost four months of releasing my ever-accumulating rage, frustration, emotion and occasional coherence to a group of relaxed, subdued summer-school students, the time is approaching when The State News will resume circulation to the full student body, allowing me to advance my personal agenda through the media once again. For all of the new students arriving at MSU this fall, I would like to use this opportunity to offer advice. First, although this has been incessantly repeated at every step of your college preparation, I would like to emphasize the importance of learning to study and of not getting drunk every night. While I do not explicitly condone underage drinking (despite the glaring inconsistency of our drinking laws when compared with our voting age or the age for military service), many of you may choose to scoff at the drinking laws and consume alcohol this year. Please do not be stupid about it.

MSU

U not part of recruiting trend

Tara May
August 24, 2002

MSU officials say lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender students are attracted to MSU because of its welcoming atmosphere, but the university is not part of a growing trend of schools actively recruiting LBGT students.Some universities are increasingly approaching admittance of LBGT students in a way similar to recruitment programs aimed at racial and ethnic minorities.“In the Northeast it’s becoming more common,” said Jibril Salaam, associate director of admissions for diversity and inclusion at the University of New Hampshire.