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Fans plan for costly road trip

Jamie Gumbrecht
March 30, 2001

When Dane Miller won the lottery for a ticket to the NCAA men’s Final Four basketball game, he wasn’t sure if he would make the 627-mile drive alone.But the mechanical engineering junior’s friends (who, by the way, were ticketless) couldn’t stand to let a weekend road trip go to waste.Instead, they scoured the Internet on Monday for tickets that would take them down the road to the Final Four in Minneapolis, Minn.

NEWS

Politicians make playful wagers on Final Four

Steve Eder
March 30, 2001

An MSU victory over Arizona on Saturday will have East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows feasting on 20 pounds of Tucson chimichangas.In turn, a Wildcat triumph over the Spartans will have Tucson Mayor Robert Walkup eating frozen treats from Melting Moments Homemade Ice Creams, 313 E.

FEATURES

Crowe gets flack for obscene gesture

PRINCETON, N.J. - First Russell Crowe won a best-actor Oscar for “Gladiator.” Now, he’s won the support of Ron Howard after making an obscene gesture. The director defended Crowe, who stuck out his middle finger at a 21-year-old Princeton student who snapped his picture on campus as he prepared to shoot a movie scene on Tuesday. “He’s not a bad guy,” Howard told The Trentonian on Wednesday on the set of the film, “A Beautiful Mind,” which co-stars Jennifer Connelly and is due in theaters in December. “It was out of character for him.

COMMENTARY

Many programs arent covered

I thank The State News editors for their emphasis on men’s basketball coverage. The hockey program has been given its share of coverage because of Ryan Miller’s achievement (“Frozen Four is as important as Final Four,” SN 3/27). There are plenty of programs that barely get any coverage at all.

NEWS

Students, city catchin tourney fever

Eric Lacy
March 30, 2001

Spartan head coach Tom Izzo isn’t too concerned about being a one-point underdog as he prepares for his third-straight Final Four appearance. “It doesn’t bother me that we’re not the favorite,” Izzo said.

MICHIGAN

Students debate ruling

ANN ARBOR - Two days after a federal judge ordered the University of Michigan law school to stop using race in its admissions policies, the Rev.

COMMENTARY

Riot coverage should be stopped

The State News should start covering news, not rehashing old, painful memories. The article on the 1999 riot following the men’s loss to Duke was entirely unnecessary (“E.L.

MSU

Blanchard shares value of publicity

Eric Morath
March 30, 2001

Former Michigan Gov. James Blanchard told public relations students at the Union about the value of a good pair of walking shoes.Blanchard talked to about 150 students, faculty and community members Thursday about how public relations benefited him in government, starting with his first run at the U.S.

NEWS

Game fills up bars with Spartan spirit

Shannon Murphy
March 30, 2001

Local bars and restaurants are making sure you don’t have to drive more than 600 miles this weekend to enjoy the NCAA Tournament showdown. While the men’s basketball team squares off against Arizona in the Final Four on Saturday, students staying in East Lansing will have a plethora of hot-spots to choose from when deciding where to watch the game. And local establishments are putting the finishing touches on plans and decorations, assuring a festive atmosphere for the green-and-white faithful. Alicia Engler, a server at Harper’s Restaurant and Brewpub, 131 Albert Ave., was doing her part Thursday afternoon. “I don’t know squat about basketball,” the 1998 MSU alumna admitted as she painted “NCAA Final Four” with little orange basketballs on one of the restaurant’s front windows.

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

Steve Bossi
March 30, 2001

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.

FEATURES

Various superstitions may provide comfort, good luck for U

Cutler Fetherston
March 30, 2001

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.