MICHIGAN
Poetry ignites pride, honors black history
LANSING - Congas, bongos and poetry echoed through a downtown coffee shop Friday during a poetry slam to honor Black History Month.
MSU
Healthy U helps asthma sufferers manage disease
Although asthma can be a serious disease, doctors know it’s manageable.MSU’s health promotion program, Healthy U, sponsored Breathing For Life on Friday at the Union.
COMMENTARY
Urban sprawl: Coming soon to a city near U
I hate going home. No, I didn’t have some sort of falling out with my parents or some other little personal sob story that I’m going to subject you all to.
SPORTS
Izzo: Perimeter defense needs work
MINNEAPOLIS - For most of Saturday night’s game against MSU, Williams Arena scorekeepers could only count in threes.Five of Minnesota’s seven scholarship players combined for 16 three-pointers in a display of marksmanship that caused serious breakdowns in the Spartans’ defensive scheme.
SPORTS
Player kicked off team
Jeremy Jackson, who has played in only one game since Jan. 19, was dismissed from the top-ranked Spartan hockey team Thursday.The freshman center from Chilliwack, British Columbia was fourth on the team with 19 points - seven goals and 12 assists - this season, but hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye with MSU head coach Ron Mason.Mason said Jackson was dismissed for “accountability issues in the classroom and with the team.“It’s really too bad,” Mason said.
SPORTS
Spartans lose close game
It was almost magical, the way senior guard Christie Pung’s layup floated into the basket to tie up the MSU women’s basketball team’s game against Indiana on Sunday.The clock read 18.3 seconds, the scoreboard was lit with matching 50s and the referee blew his whistle.
FEATURES
Society offers music year-round
Bob Blackman describes the Lansing Area/MSU Folksong Society as a folk music organization, but he uses that term broadly. The volunteer organization presents a weekly series of folk-influenced artists entitled “The Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse” every Friday during the MSU scholastic year. “The main purpose has been to present weekly concerts and monthly dances; the dances are both folk styles of dance,” Blackman, co-founder of the group, said.
MICHIGAN
LCC panel questioned over programs
LANSING - A four-person panel at Lansing Community College was bombarded Friday by questions and objections about the possible elimination of six programs from the college curriculum.
NEWS
Miller gets shutout, breaks record
Move over Wally Easton.Ryan Miller is college hockey’s new shutout king.The MSU sophomore goaltender’s 17th career shutout, a 3-0 blanking of Alaska-Fairbanks, broke Easton’s 70-year-old record Saturday night in front of 6,701 fans at Munn Ice Arena.Easton recorded 16 shutouts at Clarkson University from 1927 to 1931.“I’m glad it’s over,” Miller said.
NEWS
Mens hoops sneak by Gophers in 94-83 win
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - MSU remained in the hunt for a Big Ten championship with its 94-83 win Saturday over Minnesota.The victory gives the Spartans, (19-3 overall, 8-3 Big Ten) sole possession of second place in the Beg Ten after No.
FEATURES
Theater community embraces hard-working student
In an upstairs bedroom on Sunrise Street, Emily Mickelson and her friend R.J. Mahaney sat in nervous anticipation, awaiting the decision of the “Sylvia” cast list to be posted the next day.“The night before, after callbacks, I was really bored and antsy,” Mickelson, a theater junior who auditioned for the uptight but likable role of Kate, said.
MSU
Bell pledges to be spokesman
In an effort to defeat the University of Michigan in a one-on-one competition, the MSU Senior Class Council has called on Charlie Bell to sink the game-winning shot.Bell, a senior guard on the men’s basketball team, agreed to become the official spokesman for the council’s annual Senior Class Giving Campaign this week.
NEWS
Swans flocking back, thanks to U
HICKORY CORNERS, Mich. - The sounds of horns waking you up in the morning may not be echoing from the brass section of the Spartan Marching Band - rather the bellowing from the unique windpipe of trumpeter swans. With the help of MSU, trumpeter swans have made a huge comeback in recent years. In 1986, MSU’s W.K.
COMMENTARY
Bush should not be our president
After reading Jessica Meyers’ column on George W. Bush I felt absolutely compelled to respond to her supportive statements of the president (“Bush is president - he deserves a chance,” SN 2/8). First and foremost, to say Bush is the type of citizen who personifies the United States is absurd.
COMMENTARY
Drug war has turned into race, class conflict
I’m sure when you light up that pipe full of fresh new buds from the guy next door, who knew some kid in Colorado, who got stuff vacuum-sealed from Afghanistan, you didn’t think you were participating in a war. No, of course not. Your actions of drug use are only to bring “peace” into the world and produce a bond amongst friends, right?
FEATURES
Björk musical film dances into E.L.
Don’t cry for the elite pop star-turned thespian club. The ranks, which include the likes of Madonna, Courtney Love and Jon Bon Jovi, consist of scenery-chewers who’ll treat any dramatic act like a shot to the heart.
MICHIGAN
Diverse music acts will make up National Folk Festival
The sound of music will be alive in East Lansing with fiddlers, whistlers and bongo and guitar players.MSU Museum and city officials have selected the first seven performing groups to be part of the grand finale for the National Folk Festival’s three-year run in the city.
COMMENTARY
Red Bull drink is filled with bull
This letter is a response to the article on Red Bull nutrient drink, published in The State News on Feb.
NEWS
Icers gear up for final home series
Ron Mason knows Alaska-Fairbanks is going to come hard at his top-ranked Spartans in MSU’s last home series of the season this weekend. The Nanooks (8-12-6 overall, 6-10-6 CCHA) are right in the thick of a tight race for the last few CCHA playoff spots and would desperately like to steal a point or two from the league-leading Spartans (22-3-4, 15-3-3) at Munn Ice Arena. Fairbanks is sitting in eighth place with 18 CCHA points, one ahead of Ferris State and four ahead of Bowling Green.
MSU
ASMSU strives to alter tuition guarantee
After last year’s attempt to alter the MSU tuition guarantee, ASMSU plans on taking a different approach for changing the policy in 2001.ASMSU’s Academic Assembly unanimously passed a measure Tuesday suggesting a change to the guarantee.