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NEWS

Cagers bow out of tournament

Krista Latham
March 2, 2001

GRAND RAPIDS - It was a symbolic 52-48 loss for the women’s basketball team Thursday in the Big Ten Tournament’s first round matchup against Ohio State.It capped a season that began with fumbling play and stinging losses and ended with the emergence of a brighter side - a team which could battle defensively with anyone in the pack.But despite that positive end to their regular season, the Spartans (10-18 overall, 4-13 Big Ten) learned one more time that defense alone can’t win championships, head coach Joanne P.

NEWS

Student joins city commission

Shannon Murphy
March 2, 2001

The East Lansing Commission on the Environment has gone green.In hopes to bring in a fresh perspective, the environment commission - the cities task force on the local environment - has added Kyle Tisdel, an international relations senior at MSU.“I basically joined the commission in hopes of gaining experience for myself in terms of how local governments work,” Tisdel said, adding that he wanted to bring a student, and thus younger, perspective to the commission.The commission, which focuses on environmental issues in East Lansing, has had students volunteer on the commission since it began in October 1989, Councilmember Sam Singh said.“Students are an active part of the city,” he said.

SPORTS

Senior night win could grab title

Eric Lacy
March 2, 2001

Even though Michigan (10-16 overall, 4-11 Big Ten) is having a down year - losing 10 of its last 13 games - MSU head coach Tom Izzo is convinced the struggling Wolverines will step up their play Saturday in an attempt to spoil No.

MSU

Vet students take part in reality TV

Nicole Jacques
March 2, 2001

The next dose of reality television will be prescribed by MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine.MSU’s campus will be the setting for “Vet School Confidential,” a brand new program for the Animal Planet cable network.The lives of several MSU veterinary students will be documented in the 13-episode series, to air next fall.“You aren’t going to watch it and learn how to be a vet,” said Chris Oldroyd, a producer with Rocket Pictures, which is creating the show for Animal Planet.

MSU

Study tests drug to treat cold sores

Cutler Fetherston
March 2, 2001

Don’t ask Deborah Sudduth about cold sores - she’s suffered from them, off and on, for the last 10 years. Two months ago, Sudduth, an executive assistant to the dean in the College of Nursing, participated in a MSU study that cured her cold sores in less than two days. “I’ve never had an experience like that before,” Sudduth said.

NEWS

Record crowd sees Spartans trounce U of M

James Jahnke
March 2, 2001

Watching Thursday night’s season-ending game against archrival No. 6 Michigan, you wouldn’t have guessed that the top-ranked Spartan hockey squad had quite little on the line. Already assured of a CCHA regular season championship, the Spartans were relaxed but focused in a 3-1 dismantling of the Wolverines (22-11-5 overall, 15-9-3 CCHA). The Spartans (28-4-4, 21-4-3) are 3-1-0 against their rivals this season. After the final horn sounded, commissioner Tom Anastos presented the team with the CCHA regular season trophy, with which the Spartans made a lap around the ice. “I think the fans here tonight can appreciate tonight’s game,” MSU head coach Ron Mason said.

COMMENTARY

Iraq encouraged Allied airstrikes

Last Friday’s attack on the five Iraqi Air Defense sites was provoked, contrary to Brian Emerson Jones’ column (“Latest bombings will only enforce stereotypes,” SN 2/21). In the month of January alone, Iraq launched over a dozen surface-to-air missiles at British and American planes patrolling the no-fly zone, more than were launched in all of last year.

MICHIGAN

Increased sales make merchants optimistic

Shannon Murphy
March 2, 2001

Cory Curtisis hoping once again his sumo wrestler clocks will pull their weight in sales.The owner of Cool Creations, 209 M.A.C Ave., said the novelty items, which are sumo wrestler figurines with working clocks attached on the front, are among some of the items that are selling.And according to The Michigan Retailers Association’s Michigan Retail Index released this week, getting that kind of weight off the shelves can be expected.The report predicted sales during the next three months will increase, which will be a pleasant change from the sales slump experienced in January.“I’m being optimistic,” Curtis said.

FEATURES

Monster Madness

Juliana Keeping
March 2, 2001

Back in the mid-1980s, monster trucks were clunky, heavy contraptions. Now, they’re lighter, high-tech racing machines that can be kicked into reverse with the toggle of a switch, and their fiberglass beds withstand thousands of pounds of rollover pressure. Mike Nitzke, the laid-back, somewhat shy driver of Rambo - and a 2000 Thunder Nationals Champion - spent last weekend at MSU’s Breslin Student Events Center.

MICHIGAN

Legislature redraws districts

Drew Harmon  and  Eric Morath
March 2, 2001

Michigan legislators are beginning to look at redrafting the state’s political boundaries when Michigan’s new census figures are released next month.According to Michigan law, after every census is completed, the political districts must be examined by state lawmakers and adjusted to meet the needs of the population.

COMMENTARY

Enlighten U

If the university has the financial means, it should make efforts to provide more lighting along campus walkways.The Student Assembly of ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, is considering a measure encouraging university officials to provide more consistent lighting on campus.Lights have recently been added and faulty ones replaced along the trail that runs past the Kellogg Center.

FEATURES

Musician alumnus comes back to U

Dan Julian
March 2, 2001

Joel Mabus admits he was born to be a musician. The MSU alumnus folk musician has released 13 albums during the course of 25 years and will debut his 14th, “Six Of One” tonight at the Erickson Hall Kiva as part of the Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse music series. “The current (album) has been on the burner for quite a while,” he said.

FEATURES

Theater students prepare for upcoming shows

Juliana Keeping
March 2, 2001

At 10 p.m., most MSU students would be kicking back, maybe studying or vegging out to endless banter on “SportsCenter.” But in the basement of the MSU Auditorium this week, the casts and technical crews of “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Sylvia” were hard at work. “I think 99 percent of people have no idea that plays were ever rehearsed,” said theater Professor Frank Rutledge, director of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Tuesday night, the cast and crew rehearsed using a mix of mattresses, desks and chairs as a set. Rutledge estimated that actors and technical crew members each spend between five to five and a half hours a day working on the show, which is in its second week of rehearsal. Marcus Olson, theater professor and director of “Sylvia,” agreed. “Of course when we get close to opening the show, that number goes way, way up,” Olson said. The actors spend their hours rehearsing, memorizing lines or researching.