Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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NEWS

Education program in jeopardy

MSU’s visual impairment education program could be eliminated today at a university meeting. A moratorium was placed on the program’s enrollment last summer, when it was being reviewed.

SPORTS

Womens track takes 10th at indoor championship

The women’s track and field team took 10th place in the 21st annual Big Ten Indoor Championship last weekend. The Spartans (0-2) traveled to University Park, Pa., where sophomore Jamie Krzyminski won first place in the 5,000-meter run.

NEWS

Colossal comics!

Superman, Captain America and Tomb Raider Lara Croft sit patiently on a shelf deep inside the Main Library, waiting for the next opportunity to save humanity.

BASKETBALL

U plays spoiler in Columbus

The past four seasons head coach Tom Izzo and his Spartans have spent the last weeks of February fighting off opponents trying to spoil their Big Ten Championship dreams. But with conference title hopes gone, the MSU men’s basketball team (17-10 overall, 8-6 Big Ten) gets to play the spoiler tonight in Columbus, Ohio.

MSU

Online classes linked to poor performance

Although taking a course online could help students save time, a study conducted by two MSU economics professors said it could cost students their grades.Exam grades of students in the virtual course Principles of Microeconomics were compared to peers in the same traditional classroom-style course.

COMMENTARY

No refuge

Would somebody please tell President Bush that the oil fields in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are not the solution to the United States’ long-term energy problems? Calling fuel cells and hybrid cars “the wave of the future,” Bush, at the White House on Monday, pressed the Senate to pass his controversial comprehensive energy plan, which is highlighted by plans to drill in the refuge to increase domestic oil production. Bush said more oil production within the United States will decrease the country’s dependence on foreign oil. The president’s conclusion is oxymoronic. If the government invests more resources into the production of affordable hybrid vehicles and fuel cells, the United States’ dependency on oil will be reduced, and dependency on foreign oil will also decrease. Depleting the globe of more finite natural resources is not the solution for America’s energy future.

COMMENTARY

SN hypocritical in stance on speaker

Your editorial objecting to the student funding of my appearance at MSU has just come to my attention (“Why him?” SN 2/19). You describe my views as being “extreme anti-affirmative action and anti-reparations” and sum up your own perspective in opposing my appearance this way: “Horowitz’s views do not appeal to a larger mass of individuals.