MADD red-ribbon campaign urges safe Thanksgiving holiday drive

As Michigan motorists take off for the holidays, Mothers Against Drunk Driving is reminding drivers not to mix booze with navigating roads.MADD initiated its 15th annual statewide Red Ribbon “Tie One on For Safety” safe and sober driving holiday public awareness campaign Monday at the state Capitol.Red ribbons will be tied to automobiles to serve as reminders to drive alcohol-free in response to the campaign.“This is a memorial to families who have lost loved ones to drunk drivers, and it continues to get the public support to enforce the laws tightly,” said Chuck Hurley, a former national board member of MADD and vice president of the National Safety Council.“Many have likened drunk drivers to terrorists, randomly killing innocent people.”Hurley said the National Safety Council is predicting 532 people will be killed in traffic accidents during the Thanksgiving Day holiday, and about 40 percent of those deaths will be alcohol related.“Some events are hard to predict and hard to prevent,” he said.

Police briefs 11/20/01

Columnist wrong on impact of obesity

I am usually a great fan of Rishi Kundi’s columns, so I was a bit dismayed to see him citing incorrect information in his recent opinion piece (“24 lessons in 24 years, Rishi looks back,” SN11/15). About 300,000 people a year do not die of obesity-related conditions, as The New England Journal of Medicine stated in a 1998 report. This number was evidently created based on a study that tracked fewer than 200 actual deaths out of the 115,000 women it surveyed.

Companies apologize, give money to students

Compensation and changes are coming from the debate about 10 students who say they were asked to leave a store in Meridian Mall because of their race. The students were shopping for Fake the Funk outfits at the Deb Shop in the Okemos mall Oct.

Morley racks in awards

The wins keep on coming for the MSU volleyball team. But this time, it’s personal. Junior middle blocker Angela Morley was named the National Volleyball Player of the Week on Monday for her 31 kills and .558 hitting percentage in MSU’s weekend upsets of No 9.

New unit directors receive warm welcome from U

A ceremony at Kellogg Center welcomed three new unit directors within Student Affairs and Services on Monday.Kelley Bishop of Career Services and Placement, Marti Ruel of the Department of Student Life and Renee Sanders-Lawson of the Office of Supportive Services ventured into their new careers at the beginning of this semester, each coming from different backgrounds.Lee June, vice president for student affairs and services, said he is very pleased with the performance of the directors so far.“Each one, in their own ways, has looked at the issues in their units and are moving forward with great progress,” he said.June said the directors have also taken initiative to welcome themselves to the community, but he thought Monday’s event would help since all three were together.Ruel, who has lived in Kansas for years but grew up in Ohio, said coming to MSU is like being home.“I feel like I’ve really been welcomed well,” she said.

Douglas J. moving to E. Grand River

A vacant building with dirty windows and some old newspapers will be getting a new summer look.Douglas J.

Izzo deserves pay more than others

Tom Izzo is very deserving of his recent pay raise. Izzo’s salary is more than offset by the money that is brought in by the basketball program, from ticket sales, merchandise and TV revenue.

Miller ignores Hobey talk, focuses on team play

Granted, it’s still early in the season, but Ryan Miller said the H-word hasn’t come up too much so far. Last season, the goaltender stormed through the regular season and set numerous team, conference and national records en route to winning the Hobey Baker Award as college hockey’s outstanding player. Now a junior, Miller is subject to the question that nags every underclassman who wins a major award... Can he do it again? “Some people were asking me before the season, before they saw what kind of team I have to play with,” Miller said last week.

Racial slur mars black caucus poster

Despite university efforts to promote multiculturalism on campus, an incident last week displayed intolerance for minorities in residence halls. Social relations sophomore Kalaethia Hawkins is a member of Case Hall Black Caucus.

Art Apartment features Holocaust exhibit

On Nov. 9, 1938, anti-Semites ran through the streets of German-held territory setting fire and laying waste to anything Jewish in a massive planned pogrom known as Kristallnacht, or The Night of Broken Glass. Until last year, Susan Hensel, director of The Art Apartment, hadn’t been able to express this tragic event with her art.

Bloody Afghan war just the beginning

“We injured them. So we pulled them out of the trenches and lined them up on the ground, and we drove the tank over them,” Farid, a northern alliance tank commander, told a CBS camera crew about killing 27 Taliban soldiers. Very effective, Farid.

Financial aid woes

Students nationwide are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to financial aid. Recipients of the Pell Grant, including more than 6,000 MSU students, are facing the possibility of an oversight that would provide no increase in next year’s aid package.There were bills passed by the U.S.

Ecstatic team wins first NCAA bid since 1969, faces Butler

For a team that didn’t know if they would be on the list, the expectations were high.The MSU men’s soccer team congregated at Trippers, 354 Frandor Ave.

New bill tightens airport security

With hopes of calming the fears of travelers this holiday season, President Bush signed legislation Monday that will increase security at the nation’s airports. The bill puts airport baggage screeners on the federal payroll and requires airports to expand inspections of checked baggage and explosive detection systems by the end of the year. “For our airways there is one supreme priority - security,” Bush said in a ceremony at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that coincided with the beginning of the busy holiday travel season.

Cottage Inn Pizza opens near U

MSU’s student population makes East Lansing the place for a pizzeria, said the owner of the new spot in town. Cottage Inn Pizza owner George Hoover said the new location in East Lansing was in part because of MSU.

Cross country teams take 11th, 18th at NCAAs

The MSU men’s and women’s cross country teams placed 18th and 11th, respectively, at the 2001 National Championships in Greenville, S.C., on Monday. MSU freshman Chris Toloff paced the Spartan harriers, placing 54th with a time of 30:33 in the 10K race.

The Wash needs cleaner plot

Who wants to bet a million bucks that any movie labeled as comedy and starring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg would involve jokes about a)weed, and b)ho’s?

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.

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.