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Museum showcases tall-tale postcards

Amy Bartner
February 12, 2002

Tall tales keep growing at the MSU Museum.Stories that only were known through oral tradition are transformed into a visual medium in the new exhibit, “Storytelling Through the Mail: Tall Tale Postcards.”The cards and exhibit items show fictional situations, such as a dead man tied to the hood of a car as a deer drives through town, a rabbit bearing antlers and a fish that grew ivory white fur to shield itself from frigid lake waters.

NEWS

U president to encourage worldview

Ed Ronco
February 12, 2002

MSU President M. Peter McPherson will encourage MSU and other universities to increase their work in foreign countries today when he gives his ninth State of the University address. The speech begins at 2:30 p.m.

MICHIGAN

Blood drive seeks donors

Kendra Snyder
February 12, 2002

East Lansing employees are asking MSU students to donate blood Wednesday. The City of East Lansing Employees’ Second Annual Blood Drive is being held from 10 a.m.

NEWS

Cheap rent, furnished homes give subleasers bargain

Michelle Matthews
February 12, 2002

Say goodbye to bunk beds and community bathrooms and find a room to sublet for the summer. With internships and job offers rolling in from across the country, many MSU students will leave East Lansing in May and need to find subleasers for their apartments and houses. Fliers listing phone numbers and renting options are plastered on walls all over campus.

MSU

Expo to help minorities

The Lyman Briggs Students of Color is sponsoring its first Multicultural Expo from 7-10 p.m. Wednesday in the Union Parlor Room C. The event was designed to provide minority students an opportunity to network with professionals in such fields as psychology, nursing, applying to dental school and graduate programs and to provide workshops to prepare students for the job market.

COMMENTARY

Fighting prejudice isnt about whining

I am writing in response to a prejudicial comment made by Ellen Conser (“Stereotype contains factual information,” SN 2/11). Conser not only suggested that no negative stereotyping was presented on a racially biased flier, she went further to state that Asian American students are “just aching to seek personal advantage or the spotlight,” referring to an incident which took place at Meridian Mall.

NEWS

Female athletes recognized with varsity letters

Ryan Wallace
February 11, 2002

Amid joyous reunions and endless photo albums, a feeling of nostalgia filled the Kellogg Center on Sunday. Twenty to 60 years after their glory days at MSU, 199 female athletes gathered with old teammates and coaches to receive their varsity letters at the Women’s Athletics Varsity Letter Celebration. “It’s great to see everybody again,” said Deborah Laraway of Jackson, who competed in cross country and track and field.

MICHIGAN

Lansing youths die in car, bus collision

Shannon Murphy
February 11, 2002

Two Lansing youths died in a car accident Saturday night when the Oldsmobile Cutlass they were riding in collided with a Capitol Area Transportation Authority bus. Jared Heintzelman,17, and Anthony Bermudez,12, were killed on the corner of Shiawasee and Larch streets at 10:04 p.m., Lansing police officer Lt.

MSU

Cross-cultural exchange enhances understanding

Chad Previch
February 11, 2002

When students in Mid-Michigan learned that students in Africa needed shoes, they brought in 110 pennies and pairs of shoes to help. Holt Public Schools third-graders noticed a picture of a boy from Africa without shoes on while they were reading an article about other cultures through an MSU supported program. “They were saying, ‘We just have to send shoes to these kids,’” said Sally McClintock, a founder and facilitator of the Linking All Types of Teachers for International Cross-cultural Education program. A group of international MSU graduate students are working with local educators to prepare students for a global future through the program, LATTICE.

MSU

Task force looks at nutrition in schools

Erica Berg
February 11, 2002

State representatives and health officials are creating a task force to research Michigan’s elementary and middle school’s nutritional practices and guidelines.The task force is one step in state Rep.

SPORTS

Patriotism fills opening ceremonies

The events of Sept. 11 will forever be remembered by every American. And as the opening ceremonies of the 19th Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City showed, we aren’t the only ones who remember. From the introduction to the lighting of the cauldron by the 1980 men’s Olympic hockey gold medalists, these games have taken on a new persona. There’s still going to be that competitive fire that’s been the foundation of the games for as long as one can trace it back, but now more than ever, the nations are more unified. America and perhaps the entire world will never forget the images of the twin towers crashing down upon the Manhattan landscape. The olympians are here to represent, and win medals for their countries, but they’re also here to show these games can exist during a chaotic time. That was my feeble attempt to create a NBC-like dramatic introduction to this column.

FEATURES

Polish pastry ready for Tuesday

Leslie Escobar
February 11, 2002

Lansing - In a huge, brightly lit warehouse, dozens of bakers are scattered about on the floor, all concerned with upholding a tradition that started many years ago. And some say that tradition of baking paczki each year for Fat Tuesday is perfected there, at the Quality Dairy bakery, 1335 Diamond Reo Way. “We’ve got the very best fruit filling,” gushed Quality Dairy bakery operations merchandiser Dan Lovill. Fat Tuesday is the annual Tuesday prior to Ash Wednesday, when Quality Dairy stores see long lines of customers in the stores, all with the hope of returning home with paczki. Paczki (pronounced poonch-key), round jelly-filled pastries, are made only about a week prior to Fat Tuesday to commemorate the beginning of Lent’s 40-day fast. That Tuesday has become a popular day for customers, and 250,000 paczki will be made in total, Lovill said. “A batch takes about an hour and 10 minutes to make,” he said.

MSU

Students display epidemiology studies

Chris Boyer
February 11, 2002

Jill Erickson graduated from MSU with a dietetics degree in 1998, but her education is far from complete.She spent her Friday afternoon among a group of students from the Department of Epidemiology for its second Research Day, an expo held to showcase the different research projects students are completing.For Erickson, it’s a glimpse at what will be expected of her once she comes back to school as an epidemiology graduate student.“For me, it’s a good introduction to the department,” she said.

MSU

RHA to branch out from statewide organization

Casey Mcnenly
February 11, 2002

With more than 14,000 people living in MSU’s residence halls, representatives from the university’s Residence Halls Association say it has outgrown its need for statewide representation.The nation’s largest association of residence halls announced last week it will no longer be affiliated with the Michigan Organization of Residence Halls Associations.

COMMENTARY

Winning spirit

If the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were testimony to the violence and hate that can grow inside the darkest corners of the human heart, Friday’s opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City illustrated the human ability to illuminate the globe with ideals of peace and love that ripen within our passions. During that ceremony, a 12-year-old boy, referred to as the Child of Light, was introduced to the world to represent the ability of the human spirit to overcome life’s adversities.

MICHIGAN

Street closes for City Center project

Shaun Byron
February 11, 2002

While construction on the City Center project is wrapping up on M.A.C. Avenue, Albert Avenue will be closed near the Marriott Hotel at University Place, 300 M.A.C Ave for the week.Two cranes are being placed in the area between M.A.C.