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FEATURES

Poetry Club starts new season

The Lansing Poetry Club will begin its fall season by kicking off the Old Town Poetry Series Wednesday at The Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St., in Lansing. The season starts with a reading and publication party for Lansing Community College’s annual student literary magazine, The Washington Square Review.

NEWS

Campus administrators react to surreal horror

The only noises in Howard Gobstein’s Washington, D.C., office Tuesday were the ring of a phone and the murmur of television news.Three blocks away from the Capitol, it’s rare for such a hush to fall over the busy MSU office in the District of Columbia.“They’re asking people not to come into town,” said Gobstein, MSU’s associate vice president for governmental affairs.

MSU

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.

NEWS

Student, alumna see tragedy firsthand

While most MSU students watched the horror of Tuesday’s attacks on the United States unfold on TV sets, an MSU student in Washington, D.C., and a graduate in New York witnessed the chaos firsthand.Adam Crysler started his day like any other.Crysler, a communication senior, is an intern at the Department of Commerce and had just started work at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in downtown Washington.But it wasn’t long before he knew something was terribly wrong.“Someone announced that the World Trade Center towers had been hit,” he said.

COMMENTARY

Freedom itself was attacked

Tuesday morning looked more like a nuclear winter than the hustle and bustle we’re supposed to see in lower Manhattan. Hundreds of miles removed, safe within the ivy covered walls of campus, we watched in horror as the scene was replayed throughout the day.

COMMENTARY

National tragedy strikes home for journalist

When I woke up Tuesday morning my biggest problem was that I wasn’t sure if I was prepared for my journalism ethics class.An hour later I wasn’t sure if I was prepared for anything.I consider myself a smart person.

NEWS

Local government schedules altered by attack

Although plane crashes and bombs are hundreds of miles away, businesses, schools and offices in Michigan locked their doors and emptied their buildings Tuesday.East Lansing City Hall, 410 Abbott Road, added security guards to unlocked doors to ease the minds of employees.City Manager Ted Staton said the East Lansing City Council work session was canceled out of respect for the victims.“People are paralyzed by these events,” Staton said.

MSU

Campus expects additions, changes with new vision

The first of four 2020 Vision forums didn’t have a big turnout, but the faculty and students who attended took the opportunity to offer their input about the future of campus. “This is the first opportunity to give a response and see how the plan works,” said Bill Latta, director for Facilities, Planning and Space Management. Latta and other members of the 2020 Vision committee presented those in attendance with details from the plan to show proposed campus changes over the next 20 years. “We’re hoping to inform the public and give them a chance to hear their comments,” he said. The forum concentrated on the second of three components of the plan, which consists of looking at facilities, environment, land use and zoning studies. After the forums, the plans will be taken to the MSU Board of Trustees for approval. Director of Campus Park and Planning Jeff Kacos said he hopes the plan will be brought to the board by the end of the semester. Transportation and parking issues were among concerns and questions brought up at the forum. Faculty expressed concerns about how transportation will be affected by the proposed changes, including how to enter and exit campus easily. Ryan Stelzer, a manufacturing engineering senior, said he’s pleased with the plans so far but feels the group isn’t looking into students needs concerning parking and transportation on campus. Stelzer said transportation could be improved if bus services were made free for students or included in their tuition. “I think they’re concentrating too much on faculty and staff parking and aren’t concerned with students,” he said.

MSU

Coed frisbee tourney brings spirit to U

AMANDA FIRST For The State News On a day of rain and tornado warnings, about 400 students from all over campus left shelter and congregated on Munn field to play Ultimate Frisbee. The students participated Sunday in the first MSU coed pickup Ultimate tournament hosted by the MSU men’s Ultimate team. Ultimate is played on what resembles a football field, with two teams of players moving the disc down the field to their respective goal lines by stopping and passing the disc to each other.

NEWS

E.L. donates blood to help NY victims

When Kristen Seifferlein heard about Tuesday’s terrorist attack on the United States, donating blood was the first thing she wanted to do. “I heard about it, and I heard that they needed blood, so I decided to sign up,” the animal science senior said.

FEATURES

Sophomore release anything but chaotic

Ozomatli Embrace the Chaos (Interscope) Don’t let the title scare you, Ozomatli’s sophomore release, “Embrace The Chaos,” is anything but chaotic. It has been three years since the Los Angeles band released its self-titled debut, but the new album is worth the wait. Unfortunately, I don’t speak Spanish, so I don’t understand half of the lyrics on the album, but that doesn’t make a difference.

NEWS

Blood drive draws large crowd

Victims of Tuesday’s wicked events were dealt a tremendous outpouring of support from the campus community today - with massive lines of students and community members waiting to donate blood. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the American Red Cross co-sponsored today’s blood drive in the Union while events continued unfolding in New York City and Washington, D.C. By noon, there was a three-hour wait to donate. But that didn’t discourage the line from growing.

COMMENTARY

Donate blood to help

Though the extent of fatalities and injuries is yet to be known, there is an obvious need for blood donations in Washington, D.C., and New York.