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MICHIGAN

Spartan Bigs provide companionship

Kendra Snyder
April 16, 2002

Annie Schave met her little sister about three months ago and the pair has spent about four hours a week together ever since - but they’re not related.Schave, a science education junior, is president of Spartan Bigs, an MSU extension of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Lansing Inc. in its first year as a registered student organization.Her match, Jazmine, likes to spend their time together talking, eating ice cream and playing outside.“I like just hanging out, laughing and being a kid again,” Schave said.

MICHIGAN

State quarter awaits U.S. Mint approval for design

Thousands of Michigan residents chose their favorite pick for the new Michigan quarter in an online poll Monday. The winning design, gaining one-third of the total votes, depicts an outline of the state, the Great Lakes and six other icons.

MICHIGAN

Scheduling conflicts delay preliminary examination

Shannon Murphy
April 16, 2002

The preliminary examination has been postponed for four female MSU students charged in connection with the drowning of an 18-year-old Bay City man. Nicole Bukowski, 21, Cassandra Duggan, 20, Laurel Trezise, 20, and Sara Kaufman, 21, were charged with running an unlicensed bar at a party that Delta College student Eric Blair attended before he drowned in the Red Cedar River. Police say the four females had a party on Oct.

NEWS

ASMSU seeks solutions to low meeting attendance

Alison Barker
April 16, 2002

During ASMSU’s last session, the length of meetings caused the roll call to become shorter. But one of the newly elected assemblies is trying to make representatives more accountable for missed meetings. Academic Assembly undergraduate student government officials decided attendance should be monitored for the upcoming year, but no similar measures have been taken by Student Assembly. Jeanette Lantzy, Academic Assembly external vice chairperson, said it’s important for members to be held accountable for their actions. “We have to start out on a good foot with this assembly,” Lantzy said.

NEWS

Groups discuss minority issues, curriculum at U

Camille Spencer
April 16, 2002

Infusing multicultural curriculum into classrooms was discussed by about 45 MSU students, faculty and staff in an interactive session Monday night in Lafayette Square in Brody Hall. People discussed ways MSU can diversify its classes to include material about all racial and ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientations.

SPORTS

U sends 2 runners to NCAA Championships

Ryan Wallace
April 15, 2002

Two distance runners will represent MSU at the 2002 NCAA Championships in Baton Rouge, La. Sophomores Jamie Krzyminski and Michelle Carson will compete in the 10,000-meter race at the championships May 29-June 1. The two qualified for the championships at the Stanford Invitational on March 29.

SPORTS

Tiger: the best athlete today

Leading up to the playing of the Masters, the attempt at “Tiger-proofing” Augusta National generated a lot of buzz. Clearly, if Tiger-proofing really meant giving Woods a better chance at winning, then the proofing was a success. Honestly, can you imagine the meeting of Augusta directors deciding to make the course tougher by lengthening it?

MICHIGAN

Festival highlights art form of anime

Elissa Englund
April 15, 2002

On Saturday, nearly 80 anime enthusiasts showed up at the East Lansing Public Library for the second four-hour festival.The air rang with a mixture of Japanese voices and children’s laughter.“The films here are in Japanese with subtitles,” MSU anime club president Melanie Schoen said.

BASKETBALL

U splits weekend series with Hoosiers

Chris Mackinder
April 15, 2002

With a win Sunday, the MSU baseball team salvaged a split in its four-game series with Big Ten leader Indiana at Kobs Field.The Spartans (22-8 overall, 6-5 Big Ten) started slow Sunday, but outlasted the Hoosiers (26-8, 8-4) 10-6.

COMMENTARY

Role model

For the day-to-day newspaper readers who don’t give much thought to the people who work behind the pages, the life of Robert G.

MSU

Trustees discuss fate of education programs

Ed Ronco
April 15, 2002

The possible closing of MSU’s visual impairment education programs was a subject of discussion at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. MSU officials are considering closing the program due to low enrollment.

FEATURES

Hair is 60s musical treat of flowers, freedom, nudity

Tanee Elston
April 15, 2002

Once in a while we all just want to get naked and be free. The cast of the Department of Theatre’s production of “Hair” gets this enviable task on the stage of Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. The colorful production, which opened Thursday, has the spirit and all the right moves to relax anybody.

NEWS

MIDDAY UPDATE: ASMSU looking to remedy attendance problems in upcoming session

Alison Barker
April 15, 2002

Although ASMSU’s meeting attendance is on the rise after several new 2002-03 representatives joined the organization, the length of past meetings caused the roll call to become shorter.Academic Assembly undergraduate student government officials decided attendance should be monitored for the upcoming year, but no similar measures have been taken by Student Assembly.For Academic Assembly’s first 2002-03 meeting Tuesday, about 14 out of 24 seated members were present.