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SPORTS

Sports briefs

Wrestler finishes 7th Junior Gray Maynard earned All-America honors with a seventh-place finish at the 2002 NCAA Championships on Saturday. “It feels all right,” the two-time All-American said.

NEWS

5 face charges in drowning

Five MSU students will be charged in connection with the death of an 18-year-old Bay City resident who drowned in the Red Cedar River near campus in October. Charges will be filed today in the death of Eric Blair, a Delta College student, against four female students to whom he paid money for admission and alcohol at an East Lansing party.

FEATURES

Film Festival awards handed out, several movies to be shown again

On Sunday, the fifth annual East Lansing Film Festival wrapped up, complete with plenty of awards and excitement. The festival this year included a new audience award, which is currently being tallied. But for the “Michigan’s Own” portion of the festival, which took place Sunday, awards were already prepared for the winners. For the feature category, the winner of the grand prize of $400 was “Living with the Fosters.” Second was “Wicked Spring,” winning $250 and third was “Coping.” All three received three rolls of film for future projects. In the shorts category, first place went to “Race Condition,” winning $400 and a $500 certificate for film development from Film Craft Lab.

COMMENTARY

Cultural cues

Sometimes the best way to learn about a culture is not sitting at a desk in a classroom and listening to a professor lecture about it.

FEATURES

Blade II restores faith in sequels

Oooh, another vampire movie. Perhaps I should make fun of goth kids again. Or, instead of doing that and facing the inevitable backlog of e-mails telling me I’m just another whitebread joiner making fun of things I don’t understand, I’ll just go for the gusto: “Blade II” rocks.

COMMENTARY

Good parenting prevents police run-ins

If you don’t want your teenage children to get roughed up by police, then teach them not to steal cars. That’s what I would have told a group of about a dozen people who turned out at a meeting earlier this month to discuss an investigation into Lansing police officers’ use of force in arresting two teens. For those of you not familiar with this story, let me offer you a quick recap.

MICHIGAN

Experts offer tips to help find lost children

While a card with 10 black smudges on it can be an important safety precaution for children, it isn’t the only choice parents have to protect them.“Fingerprints are fine, but if there is an abduction you want as many ways possible to identify the child,” Michigan State Police Sgt.

MSU

Womens studies prof to lecture at Union

The second of a three-part series on women’s issues will take place tonight in the Union Green Room. The series, called “Borders, Barriers and Bridges,” deals with various issues affecting women.

ICE HOCKEY

Spartans welcome Comley

Rick Comley was so firmly entrenched at Northern Michigan University that only a “very good reason” could sway him to leave Marquette. Apparently, the head coaching position at MSU was enough persuasion. Comley, 55, was formally introduced as the fifth head coach in the history of MSU hockey at a press conference Monday in Munn Ice Arena.

ICE HOCKEY

Longtime assistants in search of other options

A big chunk of the uncertainty surrounding the MSU hockey program’s future ended Monday with the hiring of Northern Michigan head coach Rick Comley.But the uncertainty for Tom Newton and Dave McAuliffe is just beginning.The two Spartan assistant coaches are in a precarious position.

NEWS

BREAKING NEWS: Taylor filing for NBA Draft

Sophomore point guard Marcus Taylor is filing for the NBA Draft, intensifying the talk that the Lansing native is leaving MSU and the basketball team early.Head coach Tom Izzo held 5 p.m.

MICHIGAN

Grant aids abuse prosecution

Lansing - A $180,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will help Ingham County better prosecute perpetrators of domestic abuse. Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III joined U.S.