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FEATURES

Ben Folds awes Clutch Cargos

Pontiac - It had been almost two years since Ben Folds Five played at a Michigan venue. On Sunday night at Clutch Cargo’s in Pontiac, Ben Folds returned, minus the five. It was the same sold-out place, the same Baldwin SF-10 piano, mostly the same fans. The Folds faithful started showing up about 2 p.m.

COMMENTARY

Good cop?...

Listen to the word on the street, read the bathroom graffiti or log on to the Internet. Police are not popular. It’s an inevitability that campus police will be viewed as the enemy by some students.

COMMENTARY

Power play

Michigan electricity customers will soon get an unsettling charge added to their monthly bills. For the next three years, we’ll all be charged for a “customer education program” to prepare us for added competition in the electricity market.It’s not unsettling that the state will spend $33 million on the campaign - electricity deregulation is a tricky issue - but it is questionable that state officials will pay three public relations companies tied to Michigan’s two major utility companies, Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison, to run the campaign.

FEATURES

Thrills lacking in Dont Say a Word

Michael Douglas has got it pretty well figured out, I’d say. Why? It’s quite simple - he’s married to Catherine Zeta-Jones, and he does a movie where he gets to fool around with Famke Janssen and hang out with Brittany Murphy.

MSU

October devoted to educating women

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month gives women the opportunity to learn more about the disease - the sooner the better. Activities throughout the month will help women recognize the importance of early detection. Today is “Tell a Friend Tuesday,” which encourages women to call eight friends they care about who are older than 40 and remind them to get their yearly mammogram. Lansing Mayor David Hollister will be placing calls in support of the program at City Hall from 10-10:30 a.m. Sharon Greenhoe, a spokeswoman for the Lansing-area American Cancer Society, said early detection is the most important treatment of the disease. “Early detection is 97 percent curable,” she said.

ICE HOCKEY

Cold War work crew begins transforming Spartan Stadium

Crews have been working through the night transforming Spartan Stadium from a gridiron showroom to a hockey shrine for “The Cold War,” and Associate Athletics Director Mark Hollis said the conversion is ahead of schedule. “Everything is going very smooth, just as planned,” Hollis said.

NEWS

Crime rates drop statewide

Overall crime rates around the state fell 4 percent in 2000, according to the Michigan State Police, and MSU is seeing some of the drop. A report released Monday said the university has seen a significant reduction in the number of burglaries on campus in the last two years as well as a continued drop in the number of reports of illegal possession of weapons. Numbers for most other crimes remained stable. “We always like to see reduction,” MSU police Capt.

MSU

Science professor receives prestigious award

More than 150 people assembled at the Plant and Soil Sciences Building on Friday to witness Michael Thomashow become the first MSU professor to receive the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award.The award honors those who have made significant strides in agricultural research in the United States over the past five years.

COMMENTARY

Reader: Nice job with smelly issue

I would like to congratulate Ryan Wallace for his serious, yet entertaining article regarding pig “toots” and their manure (“Engineers Seek to Make Oinkers’ Odors Smell Sweet,” SN 9/27). You deserve an award for your eloquent choice of words!