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U donates time, honors Gandhi Day

The Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students took the opportunity to honor Mahatma Gandhi on Saturday by facilitating its second day-long volunteer effort.The event was designed to coincide with Gandhi Day, celebrated on Oct.

NEWS

Family, friends mourn while life goes on

The blocks of Shawn Newstead’s Livonia neighborhood are filled with nearly identical red-brick ranch-style homes with neatly trimmed lawns and middle-class families. But her home is different. A cedar tree adorns her square patch of land.

NEWS

Engler OKs Higher Education budget

Gov. John Engler signed a $1.95 billion Higher Education budget for fiscal year 2002 on Friday.The budget increases funding for Michigan’s public universities by $26.8 million or 1.5 percent during the current year.

COMMENTARY

Spare Jon, Lisa cell phone conversation about impending hook-up

I knew about five different parties that happened this weekend. One was a techno music party, another was a fraternity party with some kind of theme or other, there was a Ski Club party and two other general house parties on Gunson and Beale streets.I also knew that Jon was planning to hook up with Lisa on Friday, and that the frat party was going to be “totally lame.”I learned about all of this in my math class.

SPORTS

Baseball team tops Blue Jays select team, 14-5; McCuiston knocks a grand slam

The MSU baseball team defeated the Toronto Blue Jays Amateur Select Baseball Club 14-5 in an exhibition game Sunday at Kobs Field. A six-run sixth inning and a five-run seventh inning propelled the Spartans to their victory. Senior outfielder Chris McCuiston led MSU, going 3-for-5 with six RBIs including a seventh-inning grand slam. Nine pitchers contributed to the Spartans’ win combining for 11 strikeouts, scattering eight hits throughout the game.

FOOTBALL

Field goal ends roller-coaster game in Spartan loss

Evanston, Ill. - It was a game that will be remembered as an instant classic. In MSU’s 27-26 loss to Northwestern on Saturday, the lead changed three times in the final 28 seconds, taking the Spartans on the most frantic ride many players said they’d ever ridden. “Emotions went both ways,” sophomore wide receiver Charles Rogers said.

NEWS

Cherry grower seeks second trustee term

Michigan cherry farmer, international businessman and MSU trustee, Donald Nugent, hopes to keep his résumé looking much the same for years to come. Nugent said he will seek a second eight-year term as a MSU Board of Trustees member in November 2002. “If the Republican Party chooses to nominate me, I would be extremely honored to serve another term,” Nugent told The State News.

FEATURES

3 Doors Down fly into U

Kryptonite might be crippling for Superman, but 3 Doors Down simply turned it into platinum. Then the band took it on the road and turned it into a high-energy show for people with different tastes. An estimated 2,100 fans filled the floor and the lower bowl of Breslin Student Events Center on Saturday to see the band play its unique style of pop and mellow rock, among other things.

MSU

Faculty tour may open Lithuania to study abroad

MSU students may soon be able to set their sights on a country that once laid beyond the iron curtain - Lithuania.Robert Huggett, MSU vice president of research and graduate studies, joined a group of three faculty members in a tour of the country’s universities last month.He said he hopes to establish opportunities for students to study abroad in the nation, which was formerly under Communist influence.“We discovered what appears to be a great interest in collaborating with MSU,” he said.

SPORTS

Caldemeyer grabs 2 titles for Spartans

If there was one star on the Spartan women’s tennis team that shined above the rest this weekend, it was freshman Mandy Caldemeyer. Caldemeyer won two tennis titles at the Spartan Cup this weekend at the MSU tennis courts. She defeated freshman Jehan Patel for the singles B Flight Championship, 6-2, 6-1.