FEATURES
Play focuses on emotional struggles
“Golf With Alan Shepard” is not a bad show for a play about four old guys playing golf. It opened Thursday at the Boarshead Theater, 425 S.
COMMENTARY
Positive exchange
ASMSU’s Student Assembly meeting with the East Lansing City Council on Thursday was the first time in a year the undergraduate student government had met with city officials.
ICE HOCKEY
Miller reigns over RedHawks
Apparently new players and a fresh season don’t make much difference - at least not for MSU and Miami (Ohio).The fourth-ranked Spartans blanked Miami 3-0 on Friday and 2-0 on Saturday, extending their defensive dominance over the RedHawks (6-5-1 overall, 4-3-1 CCHA) to four straight games.MSU also shut out Miami twice last January - 1-0 and 5-0 - and the RedHawks haven’t scored against the Spartans in 292:07 minutes of hockey, dating to the first period of a 5-1 MSU win on March 11, 2000.All five games in the streak have been played at Munn Ice Arena.“I’m always surprised we get a shutout,” MSU head coach Ron Mason said.
FEATURES
Sloan impresses many at State Theatre
Detroit - Less than half of my chocolate milkshake was left after Chris Murphy took a few huge swigs and reached for another one of my french fries. The part-time frontman of the band Sloan, one of the most popular exports from Canada, is also an expert of getting ketchup out of the bottle, hardly spattering me at all with the tomato extract. The gangly, secondhand clothes-donning, scraggly haired group of guys were obviously not your average run-of-the-mill hockey fans sitting down for a burger at Johnny Rockets restaurant on a Friday night in Detroit. This lead to recognition from passers by. But the rock band doesn’t mind the attention, as long as people don’t pry too much into the members’ personal lives. “I’m into attention,” Murphy said.
COMMENTARY
Take math courses at other colleges
My fellow students, there you have it. The reason we all do so horrible in math is because we are not trying hard enough (“Math problems left unsolved,” SN 11/16). What a load. First off, approaching the instructors is of little good when you can’t understand them in the first place.
COMMENTARY
Savor turkey meal, SN reader says
In response to “Save turkeys from death this holiday,” SN 11/12: Yeah, I too am looking forward to sitting around in our new home with our family watching the Detroit Lions and treating ourselves to a delicious, moist, 20-pound turkey and mashed potatoes covered in gravy. Man, I know what you’re saying, I agree I can’t wait either.
SPORTS
Two Spartans grapple to second-place
The MSU wrestling team opened its season Saturday with the MSU Wrestling Open, where nine Spartans advanced to Sunday’s semifinals.
MSU
Pell Grant debt may drain funds
More than 6,000 MSU students who participate in the Pell Grant program may receive less money than they’re expecting next year.Educators across the country are encouraging Washington lawmakers to correct an oversight that could cause no increase in next year’s federal student aid, despite rising tuition costs.The Pell Grant program is slated to receive $1.7 billion and $1.5 billion increases from the U.S.
MSU
Group to debate on paint, sea life
Robert Huggett, MSU’s vice president for research and graduate studies, will discuss an ongoing debate among scientists, the U.S.
MICHIGAN
Fog conceals Leonid meteor shower for many Sunday
Eyes stuck to the sky in East Lansing on Sunday morning might have been looking for the meteors predicted to pierce through the night - but all they saw was fog. The Leonid shower occurs every November when the Earth passes through the debris of the Comet Tempel-Tuttle.
VOLLEYBALL
Stunning upsets elate Spartans
It’s the trip no volleyball team wants to make - traveling to No. 9 Ohio State and No. 13 Penn State on consecutive nights. Only three teams have ever survived the weekend with two wins.
COMMENTARY
Real Americans dont just wave flags, they care for each other
What kind of insensitive idiots dress up as black men for Halloween? Photographs from a fraternity party at Auburn University surfaced recently on the Internet showing white students wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes and in blackface. More pictures, this time from a University of Mississippi fraternity, surfaced showing a student dressed as a police officer holding a gun to the head of a student in blackface. Maybe they were exposed to toxic chemicals as children.
SPORTS
Spartans bury Bruins in home tournament
The statistics didn’t look like those of a winning team.But with some unseemly numbers, the MSU women’s basketball teams beat Buffalo 50-42 and UCLA 67-63 to take first in the season-opening Spartan Chevrolet Classic on Friday and Saturday at Breslin Center.The team began the tournament at 8 p.m.
ICE HOCKEY
Spartans blank RedHawks at Munn for second straight night
Ryan Miller seems to have turned the usually potent Miami (Ohio) RedHawks into his personal statistic-padding team.The junior goaltender recorded another shutout over the RedHawks - his fourth straight whitewash of Miami - in Saturday night’s 2-0 MSU win at Munn Ice Arena.The Spartans (8-2-1 overall, 7-2-1 CCHA) have now held Miami (6-5-1, 4-3-1) scoreless for 292:07 minutes of hockey, dating to March 11, 2000.Miami came into the series averaging 3.90 goals per game, but Miller made 28 saves Saturday for his 23rd career shutout.
ICE HOCKEY
Spartans blank RedHawks at Munn for second straight night
Ryan Miller seems to have turned the usually potent Miami (Ohio) RedHawks into his personal statistic-padding team. The junior goaltender recorded another shutout over the RedHawks - his fourth straight whitewash of Miami - in Saturday night’s 2-0 MSU win at Munn Ice Arena. The Spartans (8-2-1 overall, 7-2-1 CCHA) have now held Miami (6-5-1, 4-3-1) scoreless for 292:07 minutes of hockey, dating to March 11, 2000. Miami came into the series averaging 3.90 goals per game, but Miller made 28 saves Saturday for his 23rd career shutout.
FOOTBALL
Spartans fumble five times in 24-14 loss to Boilers
West Lafayette, Ind. - The MSU football team failed to become bowl eligible for the second straight week Saturday as it fumbled the ball five times in a 24-14 loss to Purdue at Ross Ade Stadium.Redshirt freshman quarterback Damon Dowdell started the game because sophomore quarterback Jeff Smoker sprained his left shoulder last week against Indiana.
COMMENTARY
Sick of hearing about recent news
On the subject of terrorism, anthrax and racial profiling - I’m sick of hearing about it in every paper, on the radio and TV.
MICHIGAN
Michigan to receive crisis response team
Michigan is getting its own terror squad.Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced Thursday that Michigan will be one of five states awarded a Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team.
FEATURES
Harry Potter is as faithful as possible to book
All right, I know I’m dealing with a holy tome here, so I’m going to watch my Ps and Qs, or I can see my e-mail filling up from hateful little “Harry Potter” fans.