FEATURES
Leap of faith?
I was pretty surprised after the Daniel Pearl tragedy when I realized that being a journalist could be a dangerous profession.
COMMENTARY
Headline wording was poor decision
In the Feb. 26 issue of The State News, a headline blares “Online classes linked to poor performance.” Reading on, we find that MSU Professor Carl Liedholm and a colleague compared the exam grades of students in Principles of Microeconomics, some of whom took the course online while others took it in the traditional classroom-style mode. The word “poor” in the headline is inappropriate.
NEWS
Trial opens in death of associate professor
Opening arguments began Wednesday in the case against a DeWitt Township woman accused of killing her husband, an MSU associate professor, last summer. Jonaki Ray’s husband, Dinesh Balagangadhar, who taught mechanical engineering, died July 1 in his DeWitt home from a stab wound, which penetrated his heart and lungs, police said. The prosecution Wednesday played Ray’s 911 call and questioned four of its witnesses, including the pathologist, the first officer to arrive at the home, an emergency medical technician and a Delta Medical Center employee. “At this point we are presenting the evidence,” Clinton County Prosecutor Charles Sherman said.
MSU
Sheep facility teaches, births about 100 lambs
As part of his nightly routine, Dan Kiesling delivers babies into beds of straw and hay. In the middle of the night Tuesday, Kiesling, an animal science sophomore, prepared a sheep to nurse her newborn twins.
MSU
Speaker to offer perspective on culture in educational presentation
Rodney Patterson said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. will have a positive and educational message to offer students who attend his presentation today.
BASKETBALL
Big Ten breakdown get fans ready for tournament
Illinois (10-5 Big Ten, 22-7 overall) Key Players: Frank Williams, junior guard - 16.3 ppg, 4.7 rpg and 4.0 apg; Brian Cook, junior forward - 12.9 ppg, 6.6 rpg and 1.3 bpg; Williams can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, from wherever he wants on offense.
SPORTS
Parity fever strikes Big Ten basketball
I have a confession to make - I’ve had the tendency to jump on the occasional bandwagon. Yes, I “Blame(d) it on the rain” with Milli Vanilli, “Jump(ed)” with Kris Kross, and sang along to “YMCA” at sporting events.
BASKETBALL
Freshman returns home for Big Ten Tournament
Playing in front of the hometown fans is always difficult. The desire to rise to the challenge and represent is unavoidable, but so are the distractions.As an Indianapolis native, freshman guard Chris Hill has more to think about than just the Big Ten Tournament.
MICHIGAN
Report suggests pool fixes
The East Lansing Family Aquatic Center may have been one of summer’s biggest successes, or one of the season’s more mediocre events.
BASKETBALL
Tournament time
As the court inside Breslin Center was taken apart piece by piece, one couldn’t help but think of MSU’s 2000 National Championship won on that very floor. It stands as a foundation for the entire program - the NCAA title, the Big Ten championships, the 53-game home-court winning streak.
COMMENTARY
Slippery slope
As good and decent people, we would all love to put those guilty of domestic abuse behind bars for as long as possible.
SPORTS
Women ready for Big Ten Tournament
The women’s basketball team enters tonight’s game against Ohio State with one thing on its mind - the NCAA Tournament.Knowing a run in the Big Ten Tournament is a must for a postseason berth, the Spartans (16-11 overall, 6-10 Big Ten) are looking to upset the Buckeyes (13-14, 8-8) and keep their season alive.Both teams are coming off huge wins to close the regular season.
NEWS
U threatens via letter to end business with cap company
MSU officials will write a letter to New Era Cap Co. letting the hat producer know university administrators are aware of claims of workers’ rights violations at the company’s Derby, N.Y., plant. The university will not renew its contract in December unless the company is accepted into the Fair Labor Association, university officials said. MSU is paid about $5,000 in royalties per year by New Era for licensing the Spartan logo. The decision to write the letter was made Wednesday morning as a compromise between MSU administrators and Students for Economic Justice.
COMMENTARY
Short-sighted
While it’s somewhat understandable that MSU’s Academic Council cut the university’s visual impairment education program on Tuesday, its reasoning was not well explained.
COMMENTARY
U shouldnt diss student journalists
I wanted to respond to Michael Wayo’s letter about the quality of The State News (“SN stories lacking quality, substance,” SN 2/25). I am getting tired of hearing about the downfalls of our campus paper. The people behind these stories are students who take on the added responsibility and hours of producing a newspaper five days a week.
FEATURES
Album thrives with instrumental covers
Released on a Lansing-based record label, each song on “The Entertainers” is masterfully done and shows off the precision talent of Russian natives cello player Viktor Uzur and violinist Andrej Kurti.
COMMENTARY
Honors College Ball not worth coverage
I think it was silly to have the article on the Honors College Ball (“Formal dance offers social event for honors students,” SN 2/20) make the front page of The Loop.
NEWS
SPORTS UPDATE: Womens basketball falls to Ohio State in Big Ten Tournament
Indianapolis - The Spartans played their hearts out, but fell 89-82 in double overtime Thursday to Ohio State in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse.The MSU women’s basketball team (16-12 overall, 6-10 Big Ten) fell in the trap of playing a fast-paced, offensive game, and Ohio State (14-14, 8-8) took advantage.
MICHIGAN
Bill to cut care funds
Sarah Schmidt began using Planned Parenthood at age 15. Now 22 and a social work senior at MSU, she testified Wednesday in front of the Senate Families, Mental Health and Human Services Committee that she doesn’t know where she would be today without the primary care program. A bill presented to the Senate committee would prioritize state family planning funding to go toward organizations that do not publicly advocate, perform or refer women to have abortions. Schmidt said she was uneasy about telling her mother she was sexually active and uncomfortable traveling to receive care.
NEWS
Changing seasons
Lansing - Dull lights hanging above a basketball court hum a monotonous tune that overwhelms eerie creaks from bleachers that line an empty high school gymnasium. On any given day, this capital city gym is filled with the thundering sounds of basketballs or volleyballs bouncing off the floors and the squeaks of new sneakers. Lauren Aitch knows these familiar sounds that fill the Lansing Waverly High School gym all to well. Amid the claps and screams from the crowd, Aitch’s vocal leadership can be heard. “I’m loud,” Aitch said. The 6-foot-2 freshman center was an all-state honorable mention basketball player in her first season at the varsity level - she averaged 18.9 points and 11.2 rebounds per game. She also played for the volleyball team in the fall, when she was bumped up to the varsity squad from the junior varsity team. Aitch, whose father Matthew Aitch played basketball at MSU in the late 1960s, remembers the fifth grade and playing basketball with inner-city classmates.