FEATURES
Weekend Guide
FRIDAY: “The Marriage of Figaro” will be presented at 8 p.m. at the Auditorium’s Fairchild Theatre.
MSU
ASMSU session ends with relaxed tone
The ASMSU Academic Assembly’s ninth session ended with a 20-minute meeting full of laughter Tuesday, but Academic Assembly Chairperson Charles McHugh said the assembly’s laid-back demeanor did not always exist.“We had always been looked at as the dry, pin-drop assembly,” McHugh said.
MICHIGAN
State universities ask lawmakers for funding as energy costs rise
With natural gas prices soaring, universities across the state are scrambling to pay high heating bills. “We have a budget shortfall of about $1.4 million,” said Rick Duffett, vice president for administration and finance at Ferris State University.
FEATURES
Lopez needs to take a break from spotlight
Jennifer Lopez is just a simple girl. She tries to deal with the demands and stresses of a full-time career in the best manner she knows how, all the while trying to maintain close ties with her fans - however, I’m not one of them.
FEATURES
Various superstitions may provide comfort, good luck for U
It’s a typical rainy March afternoon in East Lansing - but that doesn’t bother Jim Tyler at all.An East Lansing resident, Tyler smiles broadly as he bends down to pick up a penny from a muddy puddle of rainwater.“Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you’ll have good luck,” he said as he went off on his way to work.Almost everybody has a superstition of one kind or another, said Robert McKinley, an MSU professor of religious studies.“Superstitions may be irrational sometimes, but they are very attractive and comforting to people,” he said.
FEATURES
New film offers little more than toilet humor
Actor/dental hygiene model Jerry O’Connell crosses my mind a lot. I think of him twice as much as any other young actor, usually because I mistake his name for Chris O’Donnell’s in conversations. Take “Tomcats,” starring Joe of “Joe’s Apartment.” It’s about a few plucky fellas who are scared of commitment and their comedic falls into it.
FEATURES
Love, deceit take center stage in Mozarts opera
Love, jealousy and deceit - not to mention a woman dressed as an adolescent boy who then dresses as a woman - will come to the stage of the Auditorium’s Fairchild Theatre tonight in Mozart’s operatic comedy, “The Marriage of Figaro.” The opera will be performed in English by MSU students who have been rehearsing since January. Set in Seville, Spain, in the late 18th century, the opera revolves around the relationships between servants Susanna and Figaro, and the Count and Countess Almaviva, who they serve. “Susanna is quick and smart, and her goal in this opera is to get married to Figaro,” said music performance graduate student Lara Troyer, who plays Susanna.
SPORTS
Baseball team ready for home-game stretch
After spending its first month of the season traveling on buses and planes to other teams’ diamonds, the MSU baseball team will finally get a chance to play on their home field today.
COMMENTARY
Safe revelry
As the MSU basketball team prepares to play Arizona on Saturday in its third consecutive NCAA Final Four appearance, students should congratulate the team and themselves for a great season. With the memories of the March 27-28, 1999, riot after MSU’s loss to Duke still haunting the university, students should think about how circumstances have improved in the two years since. In the March 27-28, 1999, riot, 132 people were arrested, although only 71 were MSU students.
FEATURES
TV network looks to find new cast for reality show sequel
LOS ANGELES - Think you can survive “Big Brother 2?” CBS is looking for contestants to take part this summer in the second season of its reality television show, in which a group of strangers are confined to a house, surrounded by cameras and microphones. But this season of “Big Brother” will be different for a couple of reasons, the network said Tuesday. Instead of viewers deciding who leaves each week, the housemates will vote each other out, similar to the elimination process on CBS’ reality TV juggernaut, “Survivor.” When three players are left, the audience will choose which one walks out with the grand prize. The show also has a new producer.
MSU
U Peace Corps ranks high in volunteers
The MSU men’s basketball and hockey teams are not the only groups on campus earning high honors these days. The MSU Peace Corps ranks in the top 25 among colleges and universities nationwide who have the highest number of volunteers currently serving overseas.
COMMENTARY
Pride Week helps abolish ignorance
I would like to thank Brian Emerson Jones for recognizing the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered community in his column “Pride Week celebrations are important to all” (SN 3/28). Pride Week is an important time not only to celebrate diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, but to push the acceptance wall back a little bit, and if at all possible, abolish some ignorance here and there. I, too, have endured harassing comments written on my residence hall door and various verbal harassment during the years simply because of the fact that I happen to be gay.
COMMENTARY
Admit more
The debate over race-based admission standards is a difficult one that has valid arguments on both sides. The University of Michigan Law School was ordered by a U.S.
NEWS
Re-bound for glory
To be labeled a dynasty is the greatest honor a team can ever achieve.It speaks of complete dominance in a single sport during an extended period of time.However, it is a feat rarely accomplished in college basketball.“To me, the only true dynasty in college basketball has been UCLA, because they won 10 titles in 12 years (1964-75),” ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas said.
NEWS
Players respect Hutson for unsung leadership
He is quiet, he is humble and he is anything but flamboyant.However, senior forward Andre Hutson was voted Most Valuable Player by teammates and is considered the backbone of the Spartans by head coach Tom Izzo.“There’s no secret that Andre has probably been playing as well as anybody,” Izzo said.
MICHIGAN
Technology fair takes look at improving voting process
LANSING - With the November election debacle still a not-so-distant memory, Michigan election officials are thinking of ways to improve the state’s voting process.Voting equipment vendors from across the nation gathered to show their systems to lawmakers and clerks at the Michigan Department of State Voting Technology Fair on Wednesday at the Lansing Center, 333 E.
SPORTS
This is why Miller should win the Hobey Baker ...
What’s it going to take for Ryan Miller to win the Hobey Baker Award? If the award truly recognizes college hockey’s most dominant player, Miller would run away with it on April 6 in Albany, N.Y.
NEWS
Izzo, Garland reflect on old times
Even though the former Northern Michigan backcourt teammates have helped bring four conference titles and a national championship to East Lansing, both longtime friends will never forget the famous bus ride.
MICHIGAN
Michigans growth lags behind national pace
Michigan’s population is growing slower than the national average, according to census numbers released Wednesday by the U.S.
NEWS
Spartans lead nation in rebounding, key to seasons success
Tom Izzo swears there’s no secret to MSU’s success the past two seasons as the nation’s top rebounding team.