Time management is key to success

On one of her busier days, Tonia McFadden wakes up about 6 a.m. and hops in the shower.Shortly thereafter, the audiology and speech sciences junior wakes her 15-month-old son, Zachary Shantry, and gets him dressed and ready.By ten after seven, they’re out the door.Zachary’s then dropped off at day care so McFadden can make it to her job at University Stores, where she works 12 hours a week.She stays there until noon, and then she’s off to classes, which get underway around 12:40 p.m.After class, she catches a bus home, then drives to Zachary’s day care to pick him up around 5 p.m.

Spartans hopes for a NCAA Championship are against historical odds

Above the light switch in Ryan Miller’s room is a photograph that pretty much epitomizes MSU’s NCAA Tournament endeavors during the past few years. It shows the standout now-sophomore MSU goaltender staring up to the heavens in disbelief after yet another untimely postseason loss - this time it was a 6-5 overtime setback last season to Boston College.

Team starts road to recovery

Four months after stepping off the field following a 42-23 loss to Penn State that sent it home without a bowl game in 2000, the MSU football team stepped back onto the practice field Wednesday for their first of 15 spring practice sessions.

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Seminars help explain moviemaking magic

Along with watching a myriad of films at the East Lansing Film Festival, students and community members who attend the four-day festival can also take part in two filmmaking-related seminars.“The entire festival is basically film screenings, but then we do have these couple seminars,” festival Director Jennifer White said.

Olympic Torch burns for E.L.

You don’t have to be an Olympic hopeful to participate in the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah - you don’t even have to leave town.East Lansing and Lansing officials announced Wednesday that the Olympic Torch Relay for the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City will stroll through the two cities on Jan.

East Lansing gets ready for weekend of sports

March Madness isn’t just about hoops in East Lansing.Along with MSU’s highly ranked basketball team, the Spartan hockey team has some fans and businesses around the city going into a postseason craze.

U.P. highlighted in Daniels film

If there is only one movie you go see at the East Lansing Film Festival, let it be the movie that defines diehard hunters in Michigan.“Escanaba in Da Moonlight” is the hilarious tale of four deer hunters and one DNR park ranger who explore the superstitions and importance of bagging a buck in the Upper Peninsula.The film, written and directed by Michigan native Jeff Daniels, exposes some of the obsessions that haunt many deer hunters - such as eating the same sort of food on every journey to ensure success in the woods of Escanaba, the immediate belief of UFO sightings and abductions and the fear of DNR rangers (who are more powerful than God during deer camp).The flick has many hilarious attributes to it, including the voices of the men glazed with a “Yooper” accent.

City assigns fraternity living conditions for breaking codes

Beta Theta Pi members will be knocking on neighbors’ doors every time they have a party, but not to extend an invitation.The chapter, 1148 E.

Miller is finalist for Hobey Baker award

Even if top-ranked MSU advances to next month’s Frozen Four, the Spartans’ quest for a national title won’t be the only drama unfolding in Albany, N.Y.The Hobey Baker Award - college hockey’s most prestigious individual trophy - will be given out April 6, and MSU sophomore goaltender Ryan Miller could become the second Spartan ever to bring the hardware back to East Lansing.The first was Miller’s cousin - Kip Miller - who won the 1990 award before going on to an NHL career.

Dolyny keeps team focused for games

Sometimes Rustyn Dolyny has to be reminded he’s the captain of the No. 1 college hockey team in the country.

Michigans own to show their work at festival

When Jon Schulz studied abroad in Mexico years ago, he never expected to connect with a family living in a small village. “I just kind of fell in love with the family,” the English senior said.

Mason searching for NCAA Championship

He is college hockey’s answer to Bear Bryant or Dean Smith, amassing the most wins of any coach in college hockey history, with 896.

East Lansing Film Festival

As soon as one festival is over, work on the next one begins. So when three-year East Lansing Film Festival founder and director Susan Woods announced she would be spending a year in the Netherlands, she needed a replacement. “She had asked me to take over while she was gone and I didn’t say ‘yes’ for a long time - for months and months and months,” said Jennifer White, director of this year’s festival, which begins today. “I finally did, so once I started knowing I was going to be the director, I just paid attention and took over a lot of work last year.

CATA still not sure about rate increase

Quarter-pinching bus-riders will have to wait a few days more before they’ll know how much pocket change they’ll have next fall.The Capital Area Transportation Authority board was unable to make a decision Wednesday about whether to change the single ride rate from 25 cents to 50 cents because only five voting members were present - one member short of a quorum.The vote will be rescheduled for early next week, when more of the 11 voting members are available.“I think this is the first time this has happened,” said Sandy Draggoo, CATA’s executive director.“It’s very, very unusual.”If approved, the rate change will affect students, senior citizens and persons with disabilities.

Breakthrough agreement results in bargaining unit for graduate employees

MSU and the Graduate Employees Union have reached an agreement on establishing a collective bargaining unit.The unit will not gain collective bargaining power until an election is held sometime next month, but the agreement is seen as a breakthrough.Bob Banks, Assistant Provost for Academic Human Resources, said he feels unionization is not necessary.“The university really does look at graduate assistants as academic colleagues,” he said.

Whitten leads on and off the ice

The unmistakable feeling of a 220-pound defenseman repeatedly cross-checking you from behind while you fight for position in front of the net might not sound very enjoyable.

Animals Day includes tours, fun

Small children will be visiting MSU’s small animals on April 28. The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Student Senate is hosting its annual Small Animals Day on MSU farms. “It’s a day where the university farms open to the public to allow people to come in and see the animals,” animal science sophomore Lynn Voglsaid.

Hockey team deserves more support from U

At 7 a.m. one Sunday morning early last semester, my alarm rang out “he shoots, HE SCORES!” My fingers fumbled along the hockey goal-shaped clock and goalie figure, eventually hitting the off button.I crawled out of my bed, groggy with lack of sleep.

Time mix-up gives team smaller send-off

No speeches, no autographs, no fans. As No. 1-seed MSU’s team bus pulled out of the Breslin Student Events Center parking lot at 6:45 p.m., less than 30 fans gathered to see the Spartans off. Fans got excited as the bus came up the tunnel, only to see it pass by with redshirt sophomore forward Adam Ballinger poking his head out a window. “No action tonight,” said Jarrod Folsom, co-director of the Izzone, the basketball team’s student cheering section.