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COMMENTARY

Spilled milk

Instead of complaining about his team’s spot in the NCAA Tournament, MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo should be a positive force for the Spartans as they head back to Bracketville this year. Izzo was right to predict he would “get ripped for crying over spilled milk” by complaining about the team’s No.

NEWS

U tenants seek greater community involvement

From a seminar about time management, to a discussion about racial profiling, there are events happening on campus each week designed to inform students and encourage increased interaction and community awareness. University Apartments are no different. The goal of University Apartments Residence Life, a division of Residence Life, is to serve the specific needs of the graduate and undergraduate students, faculty members and their families living in the apartments.

MSU

For-profit Internet proposal taken off trustees agenda

MSU officials will be reevaluating a proposal for MSU to create a new for-profit Internet service providing company.MSU Provost Lou Anna Simon, who presented the proposal at last month’s Board of Trustees meeting, refused to comment about the reevaluation, saying it only was taken off the trustee’s agenda, not suspended.The proposal would have created an Internet service providing company operating with a lower overhead cost than local competitors.

MSU

Elections open, seek student participation

Students will have a chance to vote on representation and tax increases when student election polls open today. Position elections for ASMSU, the undergraduate student government, and other changes will stay open until noon Saturday at www.student-elections.msu.edu.

MICHIGAN

Natural Resources Commission establishes goals

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources could receive a few changes this year. The Natural Resources Commission, which establishes general policies for the department, met last week to discuss its goals for the year. The commission agreed on five goals to update the department’s policies but DNR spokesman Brad Wurfel said the biggest change in the commission’s outlook is its involvement in the department’s operations. “Clearly they’re making a move to become more involved in the agency and in the legislature,” he said. Wurfel said while a strong relationship is the highlight of the commission’s goals, the group has progressed in that respect over the past five years. Director K.L.

MSU

Web-broadcast may be forced to pay listener fees

Radio stations broadcasting on the Internet may have to dig deep into their pockets to keep the United States Copyright Office and the Recording Industry Association of America away.By May 21, a copyright office committee will decide whether to levy fees for Internet broadcasting.

MSU

Math chair adjusts to position at U

Pink Floyd and the Pythagorean Theorem aren’t related - but Peter Bates, the new chairman of the Department of Mathematics, has experience with both.Between studying math books and taking tests at the University of London in the 1960s, Bates booked the rock band for a campus activity.“The student union wasn’t putting on any events so my friends and I took it upon ourselves and booked Pink Floyd,” he said.

COMMENTARY

Candidate portrayed incorrectly in article

I was happy to see The State News is covering Ray Ziarno, the Green Party candidate for secretary of state (“Secretary of State race up for grabs,” SN 2/27). It’s good to see The State News covering more than the two major parties.

COMMENTARY

Hate doesnt belong on newspaper page

I’m pleased to see that the current State News editorial board feels the opinion page shouldn’t be used to foment hatred and intolerance (“Moral choice,” SN 3/1). I wish previous editorial boards had realized that publishing opinion columns and letters expressing negative beliefs about homosexual people is exactly the same kind of incitement to hatred and intolerance.

COMMENTARY

SN endorses

If university apartment residents want to better their living conditions, the University Apartments’ Council of Residents is their best avenue.

MSU

Buddy program links students

MSU is responsible for 21 blind dates that have turned into relationships this semester.The Buddy Program combines an international graduate student with an American undergraduate student for eight weeks to introduce the buddies to each other’s cultures.

FEATURES

Follow-up in Pattersons series doesnt warrant a 2nd Chance

James Patterson has certainly established himself as one of the best modern suspense novelists, with works including the highly successful “Kiss the Girls” and “Along Came a Spider.” He has a knack for binding moratorium with frightening reality. But sometimes a so-called “long-awaited” new book is nothing more than a pile of marketing hype.

BASKETBALL

Intensity in question for tournament

Despite an early exit in the Big Ten Tournament, the MSU men’s basketball team heads into the NCAA Tournament with its finger on its biggest problem - intensity.The question will be, “Can the Spartans pick up the intensity after losing to Indiana in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament?”That same question was MSU head coach Tom Izzo’s biggest concern heading into the Big Ten Tournament.

MICHIGAN

Officials assess tests effectiveness

A month into the state-run assessment program for special education students, called MI-Access, program officials and Lansing area teachers are divided about its effectiveness.The Lansing and East Lansing school districts began testing special education students last month as Michigan became the first state to meet federal requirements for the assessment of students with disabilities.