SPORTS
Cleaves gives back with free camp
Flint - When former MSU star Mateen Cleaves was a young, aspiring athlete, he didn’t have many chances to meet professional athletes.
MICHIGAN
Annual event ends up as political feast
Ionia - Gov. John Engler used the 75th annual Governor’s Day Luncheon at the Greater Ionia Fair to stump for Lt.
NEWS
U officials see no end in GPA trend
MSU officials expect the grade-point averages of the incoming freshman class to be even higher than last year. The higher GPA is part of a five-year trend at MSU that some officials don’t expect to end anytime soon.
MSU
Service enables students to ask librarians online
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.
COMMENTARY
Afternoon at the bar leads to conversations about life, love, universe
“A lot of weddings this July,” my friend Sheldon said. The two of us were relaxing last week on the patio of a local bar, soaking up the sun while he was soaking himself in beer.
FEATURES
Goldmember continues tradition of Powers antics
What can I say, it’s Austin Powers. You know you’ll laugh, your stomach will churn and then you’ll laugh again. “Austin Powers in Goldmember” doesn’t capture the same hysterical humor of 1997’s “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,”but what sequel ever does? “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” wasn’t as funny as the first either, but it was good.
NEWS
Plan shapes northern E.L
East Lansing planners announced Wednesday their outline to shape growth on the city’s north side. The area of the Northern Tier, which stretches from Saginaw Street to the city’s northern boundary, includes 1,700 acres of undeveloped land north of Lake Lansing Road.
COMMENTARY
Timing Trouble
While it’s commendable that East Lansing is asking questions about whether there’s a problem with discrimination when buying or renting property in the city, the way city officials are going about it serves only to keep up the appearance of action, instead of getting to the root of any problem. East Lansing hired an outside firm to look into fair-housing issues within the city.
MICHIGAN
Study shows truck drivers not at fault
Lansing - Max Menchaca stopped at a Lansing truck stop off Interstate 96 for a cup of coffee before heading back to Texas. During the more than 20-hour drive ahead of him, Menchaca and his Freightliner truck are sure to encounter some rude drivers on the long stretches of highway they travel together. And according to a AAA study, professional truck drivers such as Menchaca aren’t usually the ones at risk, or at fault, in car-truck collisions.
NEWS
Case closes in body mix-up
Mason - A scene of hysteria at the site of a drunken driving accident started a series of events that led to the switching of two 13-year-old Lansing boys’ bodies, an investigation by the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department concluded. Kyle Karp and Thomas Schneider were hit April 6, 2001, while walking with friends along Lake Lansing Road in Lansing Township.
COMMENTARY
New renovations at Shaw embarrassing
Entering my last year at MSU, I have seen enough university financial blunders to fill Breslin Center.
COMMENTARY
Facts about co-op misconstrued in SN
In the fair housing article, “City probes housing with survey” (SN 7/24), The State News terribly and unabashedly misrepresented the Student Housing Cooperative.
BASKETBALL
Spartans schedule filled with tradition
Once again MSU head coach Tom Izzo has ensured a nonconference schedule that will force the men’s basketball team to prove themselves. “I think we’ve done a good job of putting together a very difficult schedule,” Izzo said in a statement.
COMMENTARY
Help requested to prevent conflict
The purpose of this letter is to encourage Michigan residents and others to communicate to the leaders of India and Pakistan to settle their 50 year dispute without the use of nuclear weapons. The decision for the United States to drop the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was made to end the war, thus saving millions of lives.
COMMENTARY
Restricted license
On its face, plans for further restrictions to obtain IDs might seem a logical way to battle terrorism.
COMMENTARY
More research to do before writing story
The State News article “City probes housing with survey,” (SN 7/24), contains some serious inaccuracies about the way our co-operative is structured.
FEATURES
Super spy vs. super spoof
One is an international man of mystery, the other has a license to kill. One carries a gun, the other uses a Swedish-made penis-enlarging pump. Hollywood’s two most famous spies, Austin Powers and James Bond, are at it again.
NEWS
Remodeled dorm offers many changes, updates
It might be hard to believe the young M. Peter McPherson, who once washed tables in the Shaw Hall cafeteria for $1.15 an hour, would one day make $216,000 as MSU’s president. On Tuesday, the former cafeteria worker returned to the room he had cleaned up so many times.
COMMENTARY
Inevitable justice
Sexual harassment is no laughing matter in an educational environment - regardless of where that education is taking place. Two male Eastern Michigan University students and a professor’s assistant are accused of sexually harassing six female students while on a 1999 study- abroad trip to South Africa. Although the male students were suspended nearly two years ago, the women, who have since graduated, are suing the school for violating Title IX, the 30-year-old civil rights law prohibiting gender discrimination at schools that receive any federal funding.
NEWS
Pipeline route approved
Lansing - A controversial gasoline-pipeline project moved closer to breaking ground after a state agency approved Tuesday its planned route along Interstate 96. The three-member Michigan Public Service Commission unanimously approved Wolverine Pipe Line Co.’s plan to replace its 65-year-old pipeline through Meridian Township and East Lansing.