FOOTBALL
Ex-Spartans return to Meridian Mall
Former MSU football players will be signing autographs from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at Meridian Mall, 1982 W.
FEATURES
Season draws top acts
This summer’s 2002 concert lineup is busting at the seams with an all-star lineup featuring some of nation’s most rocking artists. Diverse musical acts ranging from hard to classic rock, R & B, country to pop jam in the Great Lakes area.
SPORTS
Terek ready for nationals
For the second consecutive season, senior Paul Terek captured the title of Big Ten Men’s Track and Field Athlete of the Year.
MICHIGAN
Dems request advice
Two Democratic legislators proposed Wednesday that an outside credit counselor be brought in to remedy Michigan’s budget shortfall.House Democratic Leader Rep.
COMMENTARY
Drunken disorder
Michigan legislators recently passed a bill to eliminate the excuse “I was drunk” as a possible legal excuse for a crime.
BASEBALL
Wildcats claw past Spartans
Despite pitching a shutout through seven innings, the MSU baseball team fell 4-2 against Northwestern in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.Playing at Siebert Field in Minneapolis, the No.
COMMENTARY
Classroom results responsibility of all involved
“I am faculty. I am one step beneath God. You will do what I say whether I’m wrong or right.
NEWS
Legislation would eliminate drunkenness as legal defense
Legislators fell under the influence of a recently passed bill to eliminate drunkenness as a legal defense. The measure, sponsored by Rep.
COMMENTARY
Terrorism a reality everywhere, nations must defend before negotiations
How quickly we forget the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Remember the fear, the astonishment, the utter hopelessness that we all felt watching passenger-laden aircraft decimate the World Trade Center, murdering thousands of men and women whose only crime was to rise with their alarm clocks and journey to another day of work? Now imagine if we had to experience this feeling again, not in another isolated, dramatic episode of terror, but every single day, not knowing which of our friends or family would next find themselves under the murderous ax of militant extremists.
FEATURES
Deadsys debut album deserves a chance
“Commencement” is a combination of smoothly blended music and carefully written lyrics that metaphorically look into the depth of this group’s creativity. After five years of waiting on the music industry’s talent roster, Deadsy’s debut album kicks off with a lot of energy.
NEWS
Scientist, former U speaker dies
Nationally renowned evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould died Monday of cancer in his home in New York City. Gould was the first speaker brought to campus as part of the McPherson Professorship in September 2000.
FEATURES
Chumbawamba should just quit
England’s one-hit wonder Chumbawamba has returned with another album. Those of you who don’t remember the annoyingly overplayed and infectious 1997 anthem “Tubthumping,” off the groups 9th album “Tubthumper,” obviously didn’t own a radio or television. With the lyrics “I get knocked down/But I get up again/You’re never going to keep me down” - it’s a shame the band didn’t stay down.
MSU
Web site to aid food poisoning reporting
MSU’s National Food Safety and Toxicology Center is leading state agencies in implementing the nation’s first Web site for reporting food poisoning.The site will allow people to go online, answer a 15-minute questionnaire about foods they’ve consumed in the last 48 hours and view postings from other citizens.Veterinary epidemiology Professor Paul Bartlett is heading the project.
COMMENTARY
Fair Warning
U.S. officials are right to warn citizens of the danger of continued terrorism on American soil. Since Sept.
MICHIGAN
Election 2002 hits campus
Sparty had a visitor from the capital Tuesday.Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus kicked off his gubernatorial campaign in front of the statue on MSU’s campus as part of a four day, 15 city tour.“I went to college here at Michigan State, and two of my kids went to here as well,” Posthumus said.
COMMENTARY
Belted Bibles
The superintendent of Wayland Union Schools near Grand Rapids recently had a tough decision to make: Turn way the Gideons International’s efforts to give out free Bibles in school or face a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union. Fortunately for the U.S.
COMMENTARY
Religion, faith is what you make of it
I was born and raised a Catholic. Baptized, first Holy Communion, confirmed - you name it, my mother supported it.
FEATURES
Blockbuster weekend overshadows Cannes
I am beginning to worry that America is suffering needlessly from a bad case of tunnel vision. It seems that Anakin Skywalker’s weekend income compared to Peter Parker’s is headline news every night.
FEATURES
Soluna ready to become next pop sensation
Soluna “For All Time” (DreamWorks Records) 2 1/2 records With the members of Destiny’s Child working on solo projects, DreamWorks Records’ new Latina pop group Soluna has all the makings to fill the void as the next girl group on the rise. One glance and you’ll realize it definitely has the look to make it.
MICHIGAN
Inquest begins in body mix-up
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III requested an independent investigation through the Ingham County Sheriff’s office to look into the events that led to the misidentification of two Lansing-area boys killed by a drunken driver.On April 6, 2001, Kyle Karp and Thomas Schneider, both 13-years-old, were killed walking home from a skate park on Lake Lansing Road.A mix-up between the two bodies resulted in Schneider wrongly being buried in a Clinton County cemetery and the other was wrongly crematedDean Sienko, Ingham County medical examiner, exhumed the body Thursday.