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NEWS

Spartans honored at ceremony

LANSING - Top NCAA Tournament seeded MSU hopes that it will receive more hardware within the next week, after fairing well with coveted team awards at its annual Basketball Bust Monday night.

SPORTS

Prosecution unlikely for those who gamble on NCAA Tournament via Internet

FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Criminal justice sophomore Brad Collins said he enjoys betting on the NCAA Tournament because “it’s fun to be in a pool with a group of your buddies.” But Collins, who said the pools he enters normally have small entrance fees, admitted there should be red flags waved when betting on college athletes goes too far. “I see it being a problem because people are winning and losing money based on amateurs’ performances,” he said.

COMMENTARY

Underage drinking shouldnt be focus

This letter is in response to the article “Spotlight program targets underage drinking” (SN 3/1). It seems the “Spotlight” program is yet another attempt of the East Lansing Police Department to harass students in an attempt to cut down on victimless crimes.

NEWS

Journal Editor resigns

Steve Crosby, the executive editor of the Lansing State Journal, announced to the paper’s staff Monday that he had been asked to resign from his position.According to a source close to the publication, Crosby, who has been at newspaper for more than five years, said he would be taking another job within the next two weeks in Ann Arbor.When contacted by The State News late Monday evening, Crosby only said that he wasn’t released from his position.Michael Kane, the newspaper’s publisher, was unavailable for comment Monday.

NEWS

Student gears up for city council campaign

Matthew Mitroka plans on spending the rest of the semester preparing for graduation and graduate school, working on his new East Lansing home - and knocking on dozens of his neighbors’ doors. The geography senior will be campaigning for a seat on the East Lansing City Council.

MSU

DCL symposium to review labor laws

Northwest Airlines mechanics gathered in front of the White House on Monday protesting President Bush’s intervention in contract talks between their union and the Minnesota-based airline. Now, one day later, attorneys and high-ranking labor officials will take part in a labor law symposium on the MSU campus. The symposium, sponsored by the Law Review of MSU-Detroit College of Law, will be held at 7 p.m.

MSU

Graduate students seek Pilot e-mail privacy by limiting outside access

Sam Howerton is hoping to offer more privacy to graduate students.Howerton, president of the Council of Graduate Students, is seeking to limit access to the MSU Web site’s Pilot e-mail directory, permitting access only to registered Pilot users.The move comes after Howerton received several complaints from constituents about excessive advertisements and solicitations in their Pilot e-mail boxes.“We get spam for all sorts of businesses that seem to have nothing to do with graduate student life,” he said.

COMMENTARY

Union for U

The formation of the Graduate Employees Union will benefit graduate employees and is unlikely to hurt the university. The recently formed union is awaiting approval by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission.

NEWS

Ellerbe on his way out, sources say

By LARRY LAGE The Associated Press ANN ARBOR - Brian Ellerbe will not be back next season to coach Michigan’s basketball team, a source close to the basketball program said Monday. The details of Ellerbe’s departure and when the university was going to announce the decision were not clear by Monday evening.

COMMENTARY

Support graduate employee union

The 1,500 teaching assistants and graduate assistants on MSU’s campus have been organizing the Graduate Employees Union for a while now, and with two-thirds membership they recently filed an election petition.

FEATURES

Two jazz musicians come to Wharton

To Rodney Whitaker, jazz crooner John Pizzarelli is one of the premier keepers of the American song. “It’s amazing for a guy his age to be in love with the American songbook and keeping with that tradition is an incredible thing,” the assistant professor and director of jazz studies said. Backed by the John Pizzarelli Trio and The Big Band Swing Orchestra, Pizzarelli will perform with another noted jazz performer, Maureen McGovern, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.

FEATURES

Actor fights stereotypes

WATERVILLE, Maine - Grabbing a cab in New York City may be a whole lot easier, thanks to Danny Glover. The actor, who played Mel Gibson’s sidekick in the “Lethal Weapon” movies, complained in 1999 to the city’s taxi commission that cabbies passed him by because he’s black. “Most black men I meet in New York City thank me because now they can get a cab,” Glover told about 300 Colby College students. Speaking at the private college on Saturday to help celebrate diversity, Glover told students to reject divisive social, ethnic and religious stereotypes and look at the world in a new way. “Diversity is about honoring and celebrating our interdependence, our basic humanness,” he said.