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COMMENTARY

Out of ammo

People Who Care About Kids is on an empty clip. The group, which has led opposition to the months-old concealed weapons law, announced it is stopping a petition drive to place the issue on the 2002 ballot in an effort to overturn it. The law requires county gun boards give CCW licenses to any adult who completes a gun-safety course and doesn’t have a criminal record or history of mental illness. Previously, those who wanted to carry a concealed weapon had to show legitimate need to possess a firearm. The group says it could collect the more than 250,000 signatures needed, but doesn’t have the money to run the large-scale campaign necessary to compete with gun-rights activists. This is truly unfortunate to see.

MSU

U to sell exotic plants

Okey Umelo
September 27, 2001

Students and community members who love plants will have an opportunity to purchase them at a cheap price Friday and Saturday.In an effort to cut back its live plant collection, the Department of Plant Biology is selling a portion of its greenhouse collection.Jason Kilgore, president of the department’s Graduate Student Organization that is planning the sale, said the need to downsize stems from the loss of greenhouses behind the Old Horticulture Building, which were torn down in August 1999 with the promise of new ones.“While we were waiting for these new greenhouses, the plants were stored in temporary ‘polyhouses’ (plastic houses) on south campus,” the botany and plant pathology graduate student said.

SPORTS

Spartans must squelch history of winning, then losing even bigger

Justin A. Rice
September 27, 2001

The MSU head football coaches are so worried about starting flat against Northwestern on Saturday - like the team did last year - they addressed the issue minutes after beating the Fighting Irish.“They just want to make sure that unlike last year we don’t come off a couple of wins in the beginning and then get too high and forget about next week’s game,” senior linebacker Josh Thornhill said.

COMMENTARY

Positive step

MSU officials have succeeded in increasing the minority student population, with 20 percent of this year’s freshman class projected to be minority students. But retention of minority students is still sluggish, threatening to undermine the work recruiters do to bring black, Chicano and Latino, Asian and Pacific Islanders, Native American and other minority students to campus.

FEATURES

Practice what you preach

Dan Julian
September 27, 2001

Politics and music. During the uprising of anarchy and the evolution of counter-culture in America during the 1930s and 1960s, music played an important role in expressing feelings - both positive and negative - of where America was going. Woody Guthrie was the main musician in a great American tradition in the 1930s - the man who figured out how to merge culture with politics. Then, in the 1960s, Bob Dylan took over.

MSU

Stabenow to discuss recent attacks with campus

Kristy Austin
September 27, 2001

U.S. Sen. and MSU alumna Debbie Stabenow will speak to students on campus today about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and what can be done for the future. Stabenow, D-Lansing, will discuss the fact that despite national struggles in the past, the government has still managed to pass significant legislation. She will also address the diverse American culture and her experiences as a senator.

COMMENTARY

Time to leaf | Autumn cold is here

It’s happened.The warning signs were all there. This is a campus of thousands of trees after all.And thousands of students.It was the latter sign that told us the time had arrived.

NEWS

Graduate union wants contract, benefits from U

Megan Frye
September 27, 2001

After the semester’s first meeting of the Graduate Employees Union on Tuesday, about 40 of its members marched to Cowles House to demand a contract.At the beginning of the meeting, held in the Erikson Hall Kiva, union members signed a poster-sized letter to MSU President M.

NEWS

Campuses consider crime-reporting change

Jamie Gumbrecht
September 27, 2001

When Jeanne Clery was a freshman at Lehigh University in 1986, she wasn’t aware that 38 violent crimes had been committed on her quiet Pennsylvania campus in the three years before her arrival.Her family learned the statistic a few years later, after 19-year-old Clery was raped and murdered in her dorm room during a botched robbery.

FOOTBALL

Duckett vs. Anderson

Eric Lacy
September 27, 2001

If MSU’s T.J. Duckett is considered the Midwest’s “freak of nature,” then Northwestern’s Damien Anderson comes in a close second. Both Heisman Trophy candidate running backs are known for their uncanny speed and strength, despite the fact they differ in size. Duckett, at 6-foot-1 and 249 pounds, bruised his way to 1,353 yards in 2000, while Anderson, at 5-foot-11 and 207 pounds, scampered for 2,063 - the most in the Big Ten.

SPORTS

Fans, Spartan players dig Jordans return

Aaron Johnson
September 27, 2001

There was a time no one questioned his moves, his word was gospel, and he could do no wrong.But with one fax, he has brought a hellfire of controversy upon himself.Michael Jordan’s announcement Tuesday that he will return to the NBA to play for the Washington Wizards has the entire sports world wondering what to expect.To many around East Lansing, his return brings a lift to basketball and to sports in general.“It’s great,” human resources senior Ashli Fabiano said.

COMMENTARY

Notre Dame game showed patriotism

As one of thousands who took a lot from this weekend’s game, I just want to say thanks to Michigan State for the patriotic spirit you displayed. In holding up signs of the American flag and chanting “U.S.A.” before the game and during halftime we confirmed America and all she stands for, hopefully offering some support for those who need it most at this time. The halftime show was something that won’t soon be forgotten.

MSU

Students, faculty unite to celebrate Yom Kippur

Kristina Hughes
September 27, 2001

Shira Weinstein said she will share in a Hebrew prayer for peace and those suffering during Yom Kippur today. Yom Kippur is the Jewish holiday for reflection and forgiveness. Weinstein, the program director of the Hillel Jewish Student Center, 402 Linden St., said the disasters in New York and Washington are in her heart during the holiest day of the year. “It’s been a part of our prayer.

MSU

Engineers seek to make odorous oinkers smell sweet

The odors on swine farms can be a problem not only for farmers, but for the public as well. Agricultural engineers at MSU are hoping to do something about it. A group of researchers are searching for ways to eliminate these pungent odors.