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FEATURES

Diary provides laughs for men, women alike

Vince Estes
April 16, 2001

The sight of a dejected Renee Zellweger drunk in her pajamas and singing along to “All By Myself” can only mean one thing - “Bridget Jones’s Diary” is, without question, a chick flick. That early warning in the movie is the first of many “girl moments.” And they keep coming, so women in the theater can look at each other, giggle and comment, “That’s so true!” The men, meanwhile, can fold their arms, smirk and hope for a car chase.

COMMENTARY

Union gives grads way to be heard

Amidst all the discussion about the issues raised by the upcoming Graduate Employees Union election, believe it or not, there is perhaps a point that may have been overlooked.

COMMENTARY

No trust in U

Relations between MSU police and students will be further strained with President M. Peter McPherson’s approval of an undercover investigation of Students for Economic Justice, then called United Students Against Sweatshops. Beginning in February 2000, MSU police Officer Jamie Gonzales posed as elementary education junior Samantha Volare and attended SEJ meetings so she could observe meetings and activities. McPherson told The State News last Thursday of his approval of the investigation.

NEWS

Football ticket prices increase

Krista Latham
April 16, 2001

Psychology sophomore Amina Ahmad, who had season tickets for football last year, said she would buy them again next season despite a $15 increase in price.MSU football tickets will cost students $2.50 more a game, or $15 more for a full-season package, for the 2001 season to help finance improvements to some university athletic facilities, Associate Athletics Director John Lewandowski said.

MSU

Telecommunication class creates Virtual Commerce Mall on Internet

Nicole Jacques
April 16, 2001

While new technology is making a world of virtual businesses available on the Internet, some MSU students have been learning more about it through a simulation of their own.Charles Steinfield’s Telecommunication 891, Advanced Electronic Commerce, has constructed the Virtual Commerce Mall - a Web site with nine virtual stores created by students.Steinfield, a professor of telecommunication, said it’s important students understand how business and technology combine.“Part of the problem that we’ve had with all the dot com failures is a whole lot of people started creating Web businesses without really knowing enough about what makes a good business,” he said.

SPORTS

Lugnuts split series with South Bend

James Jahnke
April 16, 2001

A mediocre start to the Lansing Lugnuts’ season carried over to their weekend series with cellarmate South Bend at Oldsmobile Park on Friday and Saturday.The Midwest League’s two bottom-dwellers split a pair of games in Lansing before heading to South Bend to finish the four-game series Sunday and today, according to the Lugnuts’ front office.

MSU

Partnership helps educate South African students

Ed Ronco
April 16, 2001

It all started with a visit from two Zulu artists.And now, Sally McClintock and other mid-Michigan teachers are launching a project that could send many children in an impoverished region of South Africa to school.McClintock, a retired East Lansing Public Schools teacher and administrator, is the founder and director of Linking All Types of Teachers to International Cross-cultural Education, or LATTICE, a partnership that allows mid-Michigan teachers to collaborate with international students in the MSU College of Education.The organization is selling baskets made by women in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, and using the proceeds to send the artists’ children to school.“Public schools are not free in South Africa,” McClintock explained.

MICHIGAN

Parks serve tastier foods

Brandi Lewandowski
April 16, 2001

LANSING - Amy Thompson is a huge Lansing Lugnuts fan, but one of her favorite reasons for visiting Oldsmobile Park is the wide array of foods she can fill up on. “It’s usually food you can’t have at your house,” said Thompson, an eighth-grader at Holt Junior High School, while munching on her giant New York Pretzel. And at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.

MSU

Civil rights advocate to speak to U about activists of the 1960s

Pamela E. Spence
April 16, 2001

The Rev. Edwin King, a peace and civil rights activist will address an audience at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Auditorium. In his second trip to MSU since 1999, King’s address will be on “A Rumor of Freedom, A Rumor of War: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam.” King, who teaches at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, also served as a chaplain and dean of students at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss.

FEATURES

Jazz greats perform at concert; U hopes to better program

With a host of jazz greats from the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and otherwise, Friday night’s MSU Jazz Spectacular certainly lived up to its name.The concert combined the talents of students in Jazz Band I and II with accomplished jazz musicians from across the country.

NEWS

Inspectors offer ride-alongs

Jamie Gumbrecht
April 16, 2001

Jack Mosher spends his days flipping switches and flushing toilets. As an East Lansing housing inspector, it’s Mosher’s job to make sure each of the properties holding the city’s 16,000 rental licenses are following regulations and meeting standards. City housing officials hope a new Housing Guest Inspector Program, which was introduced last week, will give city officials and community representatives a chance to flip and flush along with him. Guests will ride along with a housing inspector for two hours, checking for incorrect wiring, leaky roofs and bad smoke detectors in houses, apartments and duplexes. “We felt that it would be a good opportunity for people who are involved in decision-making,” said Howard Asch, the city’s code enforcement and neighborhood conservation director.

MSU

DCL program trades cans for participation

Nicole Jacques
April 16, 2001

MSU-Detroit College of Law students spent last week telling their professors to “can it.” The Journal of International Law at DCL sponsored its fourth annual Can-a-Professor Program, which allows students to bring in a canned good or other nonperishable food item in exchange for not having to participate in class. Professors who agree to participate in the program may not call on students who bring cans of food to class. For some law students, the program, which began last Monday was convenient. Daniel Olson, a second-year law student who participated in Can-a-Professor, said the because he was out of town two weeks ago, the program saved him both some reading and from answering questions. “I was at a law review symposium in Washington, D.C., got back late in the week and didn’t feel like reading a lot,” he said. Olson said being able to avoid questions “especially took the stress off for exams in a week and a half.” That’s exactly why the program is so popular, said Connell Alsup, DCL assistant dean of student affairs.

COMMENTARY

Local bands not covered enough

Last week, I was strolling past Tower Records, and what I saw inside got me really excited. Domestic Problems was right there, like a display in a window, playing away. I know, Domestic who? Domestic Problems is just one of the great local bands you’ve never heard of, thanks to lack of exposure.

COMMENTARY

Skate park needed by E.L.

After the murder of two of Lansing’s local skateboarders by a drunken driver April 6, I have taken the liberty to inform everyone that East Lansing has decided not to donate money to the $400,000 project of building the Ranney Skate Park at Ranney Park.

NEWS

UMass RAs demand more pay, hope to form union

Rachel Wright
April 16, 2001

While resident assistants at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are trying to create a union, mentors at MSU aren’t sure if one is necessary for them.David Synnott, a sophomore RA at Massachusetts, has helped organize the union drive.“The vast majority of students have been very receptive,” Synnott said.