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FEATURES

Battle of the boxes

Ben Landes
August 24, 2002

If you’ve always sucked at sports but dreamed of playing for the Tigers, hitting the game-winning home run in extra innings or dunking over Shaquille O’Neal as the point guard for the Pistons, then you might be a video game player. Or maybe you just don’t have any friends, and the combobulation of pixels beaming with light make for a good replacement when the hours drag by. If you don’t play video games, get a friggin’ console already.

FEATURES

Clubs boost business with minors

Antonio Planas
August 24, 2002

The line stretches out the door, guys and girls draped in the latest fashions rhythmically bob their heads to the sound system resonating from within.Anticipation is high as 18-year-olds are about to get a taste of area nightlife.Once again, The Dollar Nightclub, 3411 E.

MICHIGAN

Cigarette tax burns holes in area pockets

Katie Byrne
August 24, 2002

Since the cigarette tax increased by 50 cents Aug. 1, some people might see their money go up in smoke.Wesley Thomas contends the change, along with measures across the country to eliminate smoking in public, is discrimination against smokers.“It’s stupid that they’re raising taxes and saying that we can’t smoke where we want to,” the 19-year-old Lansing resident said.

NEWS

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.

NEWS

ONLINE UPDATE: Jailmate testifies Salerno admitted to wifes killing

Alison Barker
August 23, 2002

Lansing - The man on trial for the July 2000 killing of an MSU graduate student confessed while in an Ohio jail to the crime, a jailmate testified Friday. Thomas Huff said Dennis Michael Salerno, 32, admitted on three occasions while in jail that he killed his wife, Michelle Rizzi Salerno. Michelle Salerno was reported missing June 20, 2000.

NEWS

ONLINE UPDATE: Farmer Jack opens E.L. area store with food bank charity event

Audrey Barney
August 20, 2002

By Audrey L. Barney The State News Meridian Twp. - With no money in hand, the MSU Food Bank went on a shopping spree Tuesday. MSU food science Associate Professor John Partridge teamed up with food bank director Leah Kropf to gather nearly $500 worth of snacks and other products as part of the grand opening of a Farmer Jack Supermarket near East Lansing. The supermarket, 2775 E.

NEWS

ONLINE UPDATE: Trial begins for man accused of slaying student

Jeremy W. Steele
August 19, 2002

Lansing - The mother of an MSU graduate student slain two years ago took the stand Monday in the first day of trial against the man prosecutors say killed her daughter. Dennis Michael Salerno, 32, sat quietly as Patricia Rizzi testified her daughter feared for her life in the days leading up to her disappearance.

NEWS

Legislature overrides Engler

Kristofer Karol
August 14, 2002

City officials are celebrating the news of the Legislature’s override of Gov. John Engler’s revenue-sharing veto Tuesday - but only temporarily. About $3.7 million of the city’s general-fund budget was restored Tuesday when lawmakers passed the override.

NEWS

McPherson attends summit

Amy Bartner
August 14, 2002

MSU President M. Peter McPherson traveled to Waco, Texas, Tuesday to lend his voice as economic leaders met with President Bush to discuss the nation’s money woes. Bush told the forum that “times are kind of tough.” “We have heard from Americans who are concerned but not discouraged,” Bush said at the end of the four-hour session at Baylor University.

NEWS

U teams, students excited for opening of renovated field

Kristofer Karol
August 14, 2002

Every game day for the last several years, MSU field hockey head coach Michele Madison feared her athletes would become victims of the cold, friction-filled ground of Spartan Stadium.But those fears are subsiding because of the installation of new irrigated artificial turf at Ralph Young Field, where the team is set to play its home games starting this season.And Madison’s team is not the only excited group on campus.

NEWS

Campus patrol program tweaked

Tara May
August 14, 2002

MSU police are taking a team approach to community policing. The Department of Police and Public Safety has redesigned its campus patrol program to assign more officers to specific areas of campus.

MICHIGAN

West Nile virus cases increase in Michigan

Amy Bartner
August 14, 2002

The number of dead birds found with West Nile virus in Michigan has risen exponentially since the first few were discovered in mid-June.Birds with the virus have been confirmed in 24 counties in Michigan this year, including Ingham County.“We’re adding more counties every day,” said Jon Patterson, associate professor of pathology.

COMMENTARY

Offensive art

Local coffeehouse patrons have truly struck a mighty blow against the evil of Satan. His influence spreads everywhere - even to local percolation stations. Paintings deemed “disturbing” and “satanic” were removed from the walls of The Cappuccino Café, 1500 W.

COMMENTARY

Convenience makes people apathetic

I came across Drew Harmon’s recent column, “Time to let go of hopes for better things, let apathetic do as they please,” (SN 8/7) and Rishi Kundi’s, “Loss of faith in public encouragement doesn’t bode well,” (SN 8/8) during my most recent bout with insomnia.

MSU

Students attend fair for live-birth exhibits

MSU veterinary students and veterinarians will be participating in the “Miracle of Life,” an exhibit at the Michigan State Fair that displays live births of farm animals. The event will be from 10 a.m.