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MICHIGAN

Teams to go 100 miles

Shannon Murphy
June 6, 2001

Ann Stine will walk 50 miles and Carolyn Bennett will walk 50 more, to be the team that walks 100 miles to meet at Meridian Township’s door. Dressed in a pink dress, black tights and her walking shoes, Stine, an East Lansing court recorder, came to work Tuesday at City Hall, 410 Abbott Road, ready to walk her daily two miles. Stine, along with East Lansing city employees and Meridian Township employees, is taking part in the Meridian Township/East Lansing Employee Fitness Challenge. “I am doing it for the challenge,” Stine said.

MSU

Program receives governors award

Audrey Barney
June 6, 2001

MSU employees got caught lending a helping hand and received the appropriate attention for the matter.On May 21 in Grand Rapids, MSU Extension received the 2001 Governor’s Service Award in the corporation/business category of the annual Governor’s Service Awards program.

FEATURES

Movie is not the worst that could happen

By BILL WARD For The State News Despite a few missteps, including its cumbersome title, “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?” is a comedy that provides enough laughs and quirky characters to hold your interest until the end. Billionaire media mogul Max Fairbanks (Danny Devito) manages to turn the tables on a smooth-talking thief, Kevin Caffery (Martin Lawrence), catching him in a bungled robbery attempt at Max’s supposedly vacant summer mansion and stealing the thief’s own ring. The ring was a gift from Kevin’s almost-too-understanding British love interest Amber (Carmen Ejogo), who digs Kevin despite his fishy occupation.

MICHIGAN

Doctors, athletes unite to help kids

Drew Harmon
June 6, 2001

LANSING - Medical experts and some MSU coaches and athletes met up to kick off the new “Athletes for Kids” program Friday at the Lansing Center. “We got together and decided we wanted to do something for the whole community,” said Dr. Tony Briningstool, a physician at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital and a former MSU football player.

NEWS

Veterinarians travel overseas to fight disease

Shaun Byron
June 6, 2001

Two MSU professors are volunteering to help with the federal Department of Agriculture’s attempt to eradicate hoof and mouth disease in the United Kingdom. The program asks federal, state and university affiliated veterinarians to aid the United Kingdom in the eradication of the disease. Daniel Grooms, assistant professor in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, and Michelle Kopcha, associate professor of food animal medicine and surgery, will leave this month to spend time working as farm veterinarians. “The goal is to bring back information on the disease,” Grooms said. Hoof and mouth disease is characterized by high fever and bleeding blisters on animals’ hooves and mouths, which prevent them from eating and producing quality byproducts, such as milk and meat.

FEATURES

Gorillaz album enjoyable

Helen Kwong
June 6, 2001

Gorillaz Gorillaz (Virgin Records) With the vocal support of Damon Albarn, the lead singer of Blur, Gorillaz is the hip-hop, electronic, Cuban, reggae and punk version of the British-pop band.

NEWS

Game shows go green, go white

Paul Day
June 6, 2001

Call it a coincidence, because for sociology junior Steve Serling, it is.Serling is a friend of English junior Alicia Jackson and medical technology senior Alia Fox, both recent game show winners.

SPORTS

Decathlete Terek places fourth at NCAA Track Championships

Kevin Tuczek
June 4, 2001

MSU junior decathlete Paul Terek earned the All-American tag for his efforts at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships last week in Eugene, Ore.Terek’s first-place performance in the decathlon pole vault and his third-place finish in the 1,500-meter run helped him earn fourth overall at the competition, with 7,645 points.The MSU co-captain, who also competed in the pole vault, stood in eighth place following day one of the decathlon.

SPORTS

Lugnuts trail behind in series with Whitecaps

Justin A. Rice
June 4, 2001

LANSING - After splitting the first half of a four-game series with the West Michigan Whitecaps in Grand Rapids this weekend, the Lansing Lugnuts dropped the third game of the series 4-2 Sunday at Oldsmobile Park. The Whitecaps (26-28) shut out the Lugnuts (22-35) 10-0 Friday, while Lansing won 6-3 Saturday after it overcame a two-run deficit in the eighth inning. West Michigan didn’t waste any time getting those two runs back Sunday - taking a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Lansing hitting coach Mike Micucci said the Lugnuts were not prepared to play and were unable to recover from the runs scored in the first inning. “Sometimes all it takes is one inning and today that’s what happened in the first couple innings,” Micucci said. “It took us a couple of innings to get into the game, and we couldn’t make up the difference.” In the top of the fourth inning, the Lugnuts cut into the Whitecaps’ four-run lead with two runs of their own, when first baseman Blair Barbier (1-for-4) loaded the bases on an infield single, extending his hitting streak to 13 games.

NEWS

AIDS rate rises despite education

Shaun Byron
June 4, 2001

The Lansing Area Aids Network serves 225 clients with HIV or the AIDS virus - and that number has grown from the 160 clients it had two years ago. However, funding for AIDS and HIV prevention and care has not risen at the same rate. “We are serving more clients than we have money,” said Tim Monahan, co-chair for the Greater Lansing Consortium. Monahan said the network receives two funding streams - The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NEWS

May sky rains out research

Jamie Gumbrecht
June 4, 2001

In contrast to the gray skies over East Lansing, the corn fields at University Farms have turned bright yellow.If the crops were healthy, they would be dark green by now.East Lansing received nearly 3 1/2 more inches of rain than average last month, damaging hundreds of acres of crops used for research and animal feed.“It’s more water than we normally get, that’s for sure,” said Bary Darling, manager of University Farms.

NEWS

Activist fights to increase awareness

By MARGIE MASON The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Getty flips through his sailboat’s log book, a registry of 300 people he took out on San Francisco’s bay to help them forget, for a moment, they were infected with AIDS.

COMMENTARY

Journalists only give liberal views

Ryan Weltzer’s gentle perplexion at the possibility of conservative thinking amongst his peers may amply demonstrate the answer to the very question he presents (“Writer puzzled by political views of peers,” SN 5/30). It is not surprising in the least that he should be a journalism major, given the admission of his political orientation.

COMMENTARY

Republicans care about our country

I’m writing in response to the column about young Republicans on campus. I would just like to make a few points about the Republican Party and its members, which Ryan Weltzer brought up (“Writer puzzled by political views of peers,” SN 5/30). I have been a Republican for my whole life, which is undoubtedly influenced by my parents.

COMMENTARY

Americas greed means drain on energy supply

Leslie Escobar
June 4, 2001

A couple of weeks ago, in the midst of President Bush’s attempt to push a solution to the energy crisis on the rest of the country, his adviser, Ari Fleisher, made one of the most completely stupid statements I’ve ever been privileged to hear from a supposedly intelligent person.“The president believes that (high-energy consumption) is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life.