MSU
Campus briefs
Panel discussion to address conserving campus energy The panel discussion “Michigan’s Energy Future: Shaping the New Century,” will be held at 7 p.m.
SOCCER
Spartan soccer signs 7
The MSU men’s and women’s soccer teams signed seven new recruits. The women’s team signed four Tuesday.
NEWS
Spartan defenseman arraigned on 6 charges in party incident
An MSU football player slated to start this season was arraigned Wednesday on charges he assaulted someone at an October fraternity party. Sophomore defensive end Clifford Dukes was arraigned in 54-B District Court on four charges of assault and battery and two charges of aggravated assault, East Lansing police Sgt.
MICHIGAN
Group promotes, protects forest products industry
The timber industry gained a helping hand this week.The Michigan Forest Products Council, a public affairs group for timber industries, officially began work Tuesday.“It’s basically to promote and protect the industry,” said Steve Hicks, acting chairman of the council’s board of directors.Hicks said the council will essentially serve as a representative in the state capital for the industry that provides more than 200,000 jobs and $12 billion.But people shouldn’t interpret the council’s creation as a sign that the industry is in jeopardy, Hicks said.“We’re not in trouble,” he said.
NEWS
Success brings support for team
In just two seasons at the helm of the MSU women’s basketball program, head coach Joanne P.
SPORTS
Grapplers ready for NCAAs
The 2002 NCAA Wrestling Championships start today in Albany, N.Y., and five Spartans are looking to claim titles. Senior Chris Williams and juniors Karl Nadolsky, Gray Maynard, Rashad Evans and John Wechter will take the mat representing the green and white on the national stage. It will take five-straight decisions for each Spartan to claim the NCAA Championship, but a top-eight finish is enough to garner All-America honors. Spartan head coach Tom Minkel is confident each wrestler has a chance at becoming an All-American. “I think all five of them have the potential to have an outstanding NCAA Tournament,” Minkel said. Last season, the Spartans sent five wrestlers to nationals and four returned with All-America honors - graduate Pat McNamara, junior Nik Fekete, Williams and Maynard. Nadolsky (24-12) was the only Spartan participating in last year’s nationals not to earn All-America honors.
COMMENTARY
New uniforms look like horrible joke
If football head coach Bobby Williams is trying to pull an April fool’s joke, it is too early.
COMMENTARY
Hosting state fair could be problematic
In response to “Officials discuss moving fair to ‘U’” (SN 3/20), I did my undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Fair bordered the agricultural campus in St.
FEATURES
Tony Award-winning Art hits Wharton this weekend
Maintaining a friendship sometimes can require a little creativity when lives start growing in different directions, and the Tony Award-winning play, “Art,” explores the longtime friendships of three prosperous men. Marc is an aeronautical engineer, Serge a dermatologist and Yvan a man with a new job, fiancée and $200-a-week psychiatry bill. Serge purchases a white-on-white painting for $30,000 because he values the artistic approach of the painting.
FOOTBALL
Gridders take the field for spring practice
The MSU football team’s spring season sprung into action Wednesday with the first of 15 practices.
COMMENTARY
Bar scene gives strange cross-section of population
During the past three years I occasionally have ventured outside of my tea-steeped apartment and tried to experience the near-mythic bar scene at MSU.
FEATURES
The Golden Man Cometh
The movies have been viewed and reviewed, the best chosen and, occasionally, forgotten, and finally the time has come - time for the “best” of the year to take their spots, complete with a small statue of a golden guy.
FEATURES
Weekend guide
Friday • The University Activities Board presents the third annual “Sex In The Real World,” with special guest Coral Smith and Malik Cooper of MTV’s 10th season “Real World” in New York.
MICHIGAN
Residents concerned about increased apartments, traffic
New apartment complexes on Chandler and Abbott roads have East Lansing city officials and residents worried about increased traffic.Abbott Road becomes Chandler Road at the Clinton County Line north of Lake Lansing Road.Resident Terry Linger said he avoids the road as much as possible because of its poor condition.The two-lane road is under the control of the county and can’t support the amount of traffic renters going back and forth from work and MSU create, he said.“Most of them will be going during rush hour,” he said.
SPORTS
Women rewriting records as McCallie works with just 9 players
After the Spartans defeated DePaul 87-76 in the first round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament it was clear MSU had finally meshed. It was sophomore forward Julie Pagel’s 20th birthday, and the entire MSU team gathered at midcourt to sing “Happy Birthday.” “I wish the team would do more of that,” Spartan head coach Joanne P.
MSU
Jewish, Great Lakes exhibits come to U
The MSU Museum received two grants Wednesday to showcase Jewish and Great Lakes-area cultures later this year.The Michigan Humanities Council awarded the museum $12,432 to display a U.S.
COMMENTARY
Fair move
If one state lawmaker has his way, MSU could be asked to step right up to become the future host of the Michigan State Fair.
COMMENTARY
Separation
A law signed by Gov. John Engler in December, though meant to make people more patriotic, is not inclusive of all Americans and stands only to defeat Constitutional rights. Most Americans probably don’t blink an eye at the national motto, “In God We Trust,” and a bill passed stating that the motto could be displayed in schools and other governmental buildings.
FEATURES
Real World cast members sex U up
Trying to find answers to those embarrassing questions about relationships, love and sex?Look no further than two people who have lived with these issues in front of millions of people once a week on television.Malik Cooper and Coral Smith, cast members of “The Real World” in New York, will be at the International Center on Friday as part of MSU’s third annual “Sex in the Real World” program.Cooper and Smith will be part of a panel alongside health experts Dianne Singleton and Dennis Martell to address questions about sex from students in the audience.“It’s been very successful and very popular,” Martell said.
MICHIGAN
Business owners expect festival tourism to pump up commerce
Despite concerns about summer tourism earlier this year, East Lansing business owners aren’t worried about sales dropping during the city’s summer festival season.But Lori Martin, a research specialist at MSU’s Travel, Tourism and Recreation Resource Center, said the tourism outlook for 2002 is uncertain while the nation recovers from recession.“There are a few wild cards out there,” she said.Those wild cards include the possibility of terrorism, weather and gas prices.Despite the unknowns, the center’s researchers expect increases in tourism throughout the state, including a 3 percent increase in traffic volume due to tourism in the region including Ingham County.And East Lansing officials aren’t expecting much of a drop-off as the Great Lakes Folk Festival and East Lansing Art Festival near.“It seems like people are looking for more things that they can spend time with their family or friends,” community events specialist E.