19 Wheels to play at Ricks
Thursday’s concert at Rick’s American Cafe, 224 Abbott Road,will showcase area band 19 Wheels returning to its roots, while The Foolish Heads look to make a new home for itself. Tim Morzoroti,who plays bass for 19 Wheels, said the band is looking forward to tonight’s show for a few reasons. “It’s the big place to play in East Lansing,” Morzoroti said.
Westerns aviation college being investigated
The Associated PressBattle Creek - Federal agents are investigating an international pilot-training program at Western Michigan University’s College of Aviation in their search for clues to the terrorist attacks in New York and the Pentagon, the Detroit Free Press reported today on its Web site.The FBI investigation was confirmed by Elson Floyd, president of the Kalamazoo-based university.
Events canceled, postponed
Before you head out to a special event this weekend, you might want to check that it hasn’t been canceled or postponed in light of recent events in New York City and Washington. Some activities have been canceled as a sign of respect for those dead and missing on the east coast, while others are facing technical problems because of lack of air transportation. Bridgette Redman, spokeswoman for Bath Community Theatre Guild, said this weekend’s production of “Goodnight Desdemona” will be postponed one week.
MSU womens basketball coach chairs walk for Alzheimers cure
MSU head women’s basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie will serve as honorary chair of the Greater Lansing Memory Walk for Alzheimer’s disease Sunday. The fourth annual 3K/5K walk, sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association, begins at the Breslin Center and travels through campus.
The Aftermath
By LARRY MCSHANE The Associated Press New York - As the smoldering ashes of the World Trade Center slowly yielded unimaginable carnage, investigators fanned out across the country Wednesday to track the conspirators who orchestrated an unprecedented day of terror from the air. In one indication of the potential death toll, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was asked about a report that the city has requested 6,000 body bags from federal officials.
Area officers offer sympathies to New York, D.C. colleagues
Local firefighters and police officers are mourning the loss of civilians and comrades on the front lines of Tuesday’s catastrophe.
Reader was worried classes not secure
I am writing in response to the bad decision President M. Peter McPherson made during the attack on our country. It was ridiculous and disrespectful to be expected to carry on this day as if it were any other.
DVD blows away theater version of film, features in-depth interview
If you’ve already seen the cocaine-fest “Blow,” which came out in theaters earlier this year, then you know what it is - a high-energy movie featuring a sympathetic, but occasionally foolish, lead character who was responsible for almost 75 percent of the cocaine in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But now the movie is available for everyone to rent (or own - cue commercial) on DVD, having been released this week on the format.
Reader remembers day with silence
Tuesday’s horrible events will probably affect all of us for a long time to come. While I have sympathy for the people who were hurt, and their families, I think that I am even more worried about what lies ahead.
Experts: Will to die is ultimate weapon
Along with the thousands of civilians believed to be dead after Tuesday’s multi-city terrorist attack are some of the perpetrators themselves.An undetermined number of knife-wielding hijackers wrested control of four commercial airliners and used three of them as projectile weapons against major U.S.
Day was needed for mourning, not class
I would like to take this opportunity to publicly condemn MSU President M. Peter McPherson. In what is arguably the worst terrorist attack ever on the United States’ soil, McPherson stood alone in his decision to keep MSU open. Numerous universities were closed during this abomination, if not for security purposes then out of respect for the dead and dying. Rather than taking the rest of the day to mourn the dead or be angry at the terrorists who committed this act or to visit with friends during this frightening time, students were told to go to class as if nothing had happened. During this atrocity I find it humiliating that MSU was one of the only institutions to remain open.
Students, businesses work together in helping victims
As students on campus deal with Tuesday’s attacks on the United States, some students have taken the initiative to do something about it.Jason Brisboe, a Lansing Community College fire science senior, is trying to raise money to help the firefighters and police officers who are missing or have lost their lives.“I’m going into a career as a firefighter and this is something that affects me,” Brisboe said.
Safe on campus, but not respectful
Tuesday’s tragedy was a great loss in many respects: lives, security, the belief of invincibility.
Muslim community attempts to cope
When Sairah Ahmed learned of the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., she was shocked and sickened. Then she was nervous. Ahmed, a spokesperson for MSU’s Muslim Students’ Association, said the assumptions that Arab or Muslim people committed the attacks, that left an estimated 10,000-20,000 people dead, had already been made. “I know that Muslims have always had a negative stigma attached to them,” the history and secondary education senior said.
Hill, Kilpatrick will square off to succeed Archer
The Associated Press State House Minority Leader Kwame Kilpatrick and City Council President Gil Hill were the top two finishers in Tuesday’s Detroit mayoral primary and will square off in the November general election to succeed Mayor Dennis Archer. With 24 percent of precincts reporting, Kilpatrick had 15,298 votes, or 47 percent, followed by Hill with 12,638 votes, or 38 percent. The two top finishers in the nonpartisan primary compete in the Nov.
Gas costs increase across state
Drivers lined their vehicles up to rush the pumps. Service station employees said they could only look on as one customer would leave while at least three more would take their place.Gas prices will rise 15 to 20 cents per gallon, said the Michigan Petroleum Association/Michigan Association of Convenience Stores.“I have had some calls from my members since this morning, they are worried about this,” said Mark Griffin, the association’s presidentThe market is reacting to the recent terrorist attacks to the United States, said John Griffin, the American Petroleum Institute’s executive director of associate petroleum industries in Michigan.Officials are linking the incidents in New York and Washington, D.C., to Middle Eastern extremist groups.
Bike lanes aim to ease congestion
As students walk, ride or skate to class, they may be noticing something different about the sidewalks. On Bogue Street near the traffic circle and around the major intersections on campus, bike lanes have made an appearance on campus to separate pedestrians from bikers.
Surprise blitz shakes community
Betsy Prudian stood in the lobby of the Union on Tuesday morning, staring in stunned silence at a television set on the wall.“It’s so sad,” she said.
Classes continue as usual despite tragedy
After attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York made history Tuesday, MSU students had to choose whether to attend classes.And some chose not to, upset the university still held classes after the disaster.Psychology sophomore Sarah Brockert questioned MSU’s decision to have classes, saying four of her friends across the country all had theirs canceled.“One of my best friends is in Manhattan, and I still have no idea what’s going on,” she said.Brockert crowded around her couch to watch the news with 12 other women in Sigma Kappa.One of the women, Vanessa Moses, compared the events to a the movie, “Independence Day.” “I just think out of respect to the victims, their families and relatives, classes should have been canceled,” said Moses, a political theory and constitutional democracy senior.