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Heathcote honored with court

Eric Morath
December 5, 2001

Coach Jud Heathcote won MSU a Big Ten title on Breslin Center’s floor in its first year.Now he will have a court named after him.The former men’s basketball coach, who led MSU to the 1979 national title, will be honored with “The Jud Heathcote Gymnasium” in Breslin’s newly renovated and expanded Alfred Berkowitz Basketball Complex.The MSU Board of Trustees is expected to approve the naming of the gym and “The Forest Akers Trust Gymnasium” during Friday’s meeting.

MICHIGAN

Complex to open first apartments for residents in January

Shaun Byron
December 5, 2001

Heather Locklear probably won’t be interfering in the love lives of residents in these Melrose apartments.The first apartment of Melrose Communities will be available in January.The apartments, located at 16789 Chandler Road, will be allowing students to move into the partially finished complex on Jan.

NEWS

Task force presents ideas to improve relations

Shannon Murphy
December 5, 2001

Despite plans to begin implementing actions at the beginning of spring semester, members of the Task Force on Student-Police Relations still have work to do. Task force members presented rough drafts of recommendations Tuesday to deal with problems between students and police.

NEWS

Trustees, parents back band

Ryan Wallace
December 5, 2001

Parents of band members and MSU trustees hope the hard work of the Spartan Marching Band will be rewarded in the form of a trip to California. The 300-member band is still in the dark about whether it will travel with the MSU football team to the second annual Silicon Valley Football Classic in San Jose, Calif.

COMMENTARY

Cool negotiations

Cool heads must prevail while a contract for the Graduate Employees Union is ironed out. While tensions mount and tempers flare at the Graduate Employees Organization of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, officials turn a wary eye to our union, hoping to prevent the worst. The 8-year-old Illinois organization voted to hold a two-day strike to protest the university denying members the right to unionize. The situation is different at MSU, where union members are focused on several issues for the union’s first contract, including quality heath care, a living wage, a fair workload, full tuition waivers, improved training and job security. While negotiations have continued steadily, the occasional spark of irritability shows up in the form of rallies or arguments, and the possibility of a strike, however remote, only further demonstrates the need for calm thinking. Not all graduate employees even support the actions being taken by the union.

MSU

Olin creates ribbons for suicide awareness

Erica Berg
December 5, 2001

The Community Action Team at Olin Health Center will be tying on yellow ribbons this week to increase awareness about suicide prevention. “We’re doing this because it’s important to bring awareness to the students,” said Olin Health Advocate Heather Bradfield, who coordinated the project. “There’s been instances, even on my own floor, in my own dorm, where people have attempted suicide.” Bradfield, a nursing sophomore, said she has always been interested in mental health issues and wanted to steer her project toward a topic that is often overlooked, such as depression. Advocates on the action team distributed 1,000 ribbon cards containing a yellow ribbon attached to a poem.

FOOTBALL

Bowl packages available now

Eric Lacy
December 5, 2001

MSU fans can pick from full and land-only four-night packages for the Dec. 31 matchup with No. 19 Fresno State in the Silicon Valley Football Classic. Both packages, through the Alumni Association’s Official MSU Bowl Tour, provide lodging from Dec.

NEWS

Bankruptcy leaves students offline

Alison Barker
December 5, 2001

Chemistry junior Enjoli Hamilton said she had problems with her Internet service even before the latest interruption of her AT&T Broadband service.“It’s been giving us problems all year,” she said. And like Hamilton, many students living off campus who have cable modems are a portion of the 850,000 AT&T Broadband customers without Internet access since Saturday.But company officials say the service may be back on as early as this evening.“Our Michigan customers are scheduled to be brought back online beginning at 6 p.m.

FEATURES

Great band releases sub-par album

Dan Austin
December 5, 2001

Let me start off by saying, for the record, I love Belle & Sebastian. Everything, up to this point, that it has done has been incredible and holds up to any and every band England has produced in the last five years or so.

FEATURES

Nikka Costa to play at St. Andrews Hall tonight

Dan Austin
December 5, 2001

She was a long way from the sunny confines of the Los Angeles city limits, but you didn’t hear Nikka Costa complaining as her caravan maneuvered its way from Seattle through the frigid confines of North Dakota. “There’s a little snow and a lot of openness,” she said as she admitted to struggling to stay warm.

MSU

Holiday wrappings on display in exhibit

Wrapping paper is something that’s usually found shredded and buried at the feet of anxious children on Christmas day, but the MSU Museum is preserving it instead. The museum is presenting the Packaging Christmas: American and International Holiday Containers exhibit until February 2002.

FEATURES

Howie Day performs to packed crowd Monday

Dan Austin
December 5, 2001

Howie Day was tired.He left Rhode Island Sunday night at 11:30, drove until 8 a.m. where he stopped in DuBois, Pa., for a four-hour nap before finishing the drive to East Lansing.Despite the sleep deprivation and a late night behind the wheel, Day rocked a sold-out crowd of more than 450 at the Union Ballroom on Monday night.

COMMENTARY

Marched out?

It is preposterous that the possibility exists to send the MSU football team to a bowl game without the 300-member Spartan Marching Band.

NEWS

Kilpatrick reflects on House leadership

Steve Eder
December 5, 2001

Lansing - A year ago, House Republican leader Rick Johnson and Democratic leader Kwame Kilpatrick joked about being able to share a box of homemade cookies. Now, Kilpatrick, 31, is getting his own box of cookies. House Minority Leader Kilpatrick will become mayor of Detroit in January, and he says he will take lessons learned working with House Speaker Johnson to the state’s largest city. “We can still share cookies and we can still have open and honest debate about the issues that affect the citizens of Michigan,” said Kilpatrick, a third-term representative.

BASKETBALL

Saving the Streak

Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak and Cal Ripken’s 2,632 consecutive games played are recognized as two of the most famous streaks in all of sports.