LOS ANGELES - The MSU volleyball team fell to No. 3 seed UCLA in a five-game marathon, ending its season Sunday.The second round 2000 Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship match lasted nearly three hours before the host Bruins won (7-15, 15-13, 16-14, 6-15, 9-15).“They were stronger at the end,” MSU head coach Chuck Erbe said.
It is with much chagrin I admit to anybody now that not two months ago I vehemently supported and endorsed John LaFleur (“Scholarships bring discrimination,” SN 10/25) after his column concerning reverse discrimination in education and academia (“Racial discrimination is part of scholarship process,” SN 10/23). After reading what could only be called bigoted zealot tripe, I now wish I had known LaFleur’s true nature as a brainwashed fundamentalist months ago. In his recent opinion column, LaFleur launches into a rabid fury of Jew, black and pagan bashing (“Retailers sold out Christmas to be politically correct,” SN 11/30). His disgusting belittlement of Hanukkah’s worthiness to stand in the same month as Christmas is mind-boggling.
From belly sculptures to figure drawings and rain installations, the Apartment Art Sale has it all.The Art Apartment, 210 Abbott Road, Suite 18, is holding its end-of-the-season sale, titled “Apartment Art: Mementos of the First Year.”The sale, which started Sunday and will continue on Dec.
MSU Athletics Director Clarence Underwood is expected to receive a one-year contract extension Friday, despite past promises that he would retire in August.Under the new deal, announced by the university Friday, Underwood, 67, will delay that retirement until July 1, 2002.
Campus was temporarily transformed into a hot spot for holiday shopping Saturday and Sunday. Thousand of patrons made a trip to the Union to browse through four floors, each packed with a variety of arts and crafts - or even potential presents. The Union Activities Board’s Arts and Crafts Show completed another successful year, bringing in vendors and customers from near and far. In its 37th year, many participants say the event is known for its size and variety. “Many people know it’s coming every year and they know there’s lots of choices,” said Carol Whearty, a jewelry designer who’s sold her wares at the show for 12 years.
The East Lansing City Council will discuss the installation of a traffic light on Abbott Road, the approval of a contract to improve streets downtown and the commemorating of the city’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
While John LaFleur has said some things in the past with an intelligent ring to them, his column (“
Calling all overly sun-kissed sweet potato faces. Quit your tanning already. It’s December and ’tis the season to be pale, pasty and proud of it.
We realize MSU’s fantastic basketball team has stolen everyone’s attention, but we’ve got a few final thoughts for you on the football season.
The red ribbons adorning campus trees have been taken down and prepared for burial, the memorial quilt panel no longer hangs in the Kresge Art Museum and the lights of Lansing’s holiday tree have been lit once again. But Emily Flowers hopes people won’t forget about the disease behind those events, which caused the death of 10,198 Americans in 1999 alone - AIDS. The nutrition science senior helped coordinate the on-campus projects through Olin Health Center for Friday’s World AIDS Day. Flowers said she’s not sure how many students and community members volunteers reached, but she believes they made a difference. “You can talk about AIDS all you want and try to say the impact of it, but people don’t realize it until they see it in front of them,” Flowers said.
For being a game sandwiched between dates with two top-10 teams, MSU didn’t drop its intensity level against visiting Illinois-Chicago.The No.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Great teams take advantage of opportunities.The top-ranked Spartans did just that Saturday night, netting two goals with 5-on-3 power play advantages as MSU (11-1-2 overall, 8-1-2 CCHA) disposed of Bowling Green 3-1 at BGSU Ice Arena.The Falcons failed on both of their 5-on-3 chances.Freshman center Jeremy Jackson, who sat out of Friday's 3-3 tie with a groin injury, scored the game-winner 7:29 into the second period as MSU extended its unbeaten streak to 12 (10-0-2).The Spartans earned three points from their first CCHA road series in over a month.For the second straight night, Bowling Green (2-8-4, 2-6-4) jumped out to an early lead, scoring a short-handed goal 1:54 into the game.With Falcon defenseman Grady Moore in the penalty box, MSU senior right wing Rustyn Dolyny couldn't keep the puck in the Bowling Green zone, leading to a 2-on-1 rush for the Falcons.
Los Angeles, Calif. - The Spartans defeated the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the first round of the 2000 Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship on Saturday.MSU needed four games to defeat the Panthers (15-5, 15-4, 7-15, 19-17) despite taking a 2-0 lead.“We let them back into the match and got ourselves into a dogfight,” said MSU head coach Chuck Erbe.
Any concerns of a Spartan letdown following their big win over North Carolina earlier in the week were eliminated within the first three minutes of Saturday’s game.The third-ranked Spartans jumped to a 12-3 lead in the opening half and never looked back to rout Illinois-Chicago 97-53 at the Breslin Student Events Center.
Calling the upcoming second season of Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” unapologetic is an understatement.But does that have to be a bad thing?Not for returning co-hosts Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel.The buddies show no mercy when it comes to expressing their comedic views on everything from beer and marriage to women and even their own “manhoods.” For viewers who have already experienced the comedic talents of both of the hosts last season, some very new, and very funny, episodes are ready and willing to please.
Max Gosling wishes the East Lansing music scene were more developed. That’s why the business junior invited New York-based record scratch-master DJ Logic to the Erickson Hall Kiva tonight. “This type of show usually doesn’t come to East Lansing,” said the program director of POP entertainment.
Hank Haberman would have appreciated the way 75 volunteers showed their devotion to AIDS awareness Thursday night despite pitch darkness and frigid temperatures.The volunteers tied 500 red ribbons around campus trees for the annual World AIDS Day ribbon tie-up.
ASMSU’s textbook tax elimination proposition could be a small benefit to college students, but the organization should not make it its top priority.
College students graduating in 2001 can expect to enter a strong labor market, making this the fourth consecutive year for increased recruitment activity, an MSU survey released today found.The market will expand six to 10 percent as employers from all sectors increase graduate demands, according to the 30th annual Recruiting Trends survey conducted by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at MSU.Vernicka Tyson, the university’s director of Career Services & Placement, said the study is the most well-known and comprehensive report of its kind and has confirmed many observations made by career service offices.Phil Gardner, the survey’s author, said technical graduates like engineers are most desired, but all graduates will fare well next year.“There’s just more need than there are (graduates with) bachelor’s degrees,” said Gardner, director of research at Career Services & Placement.
LANSING - Making candy canes by hand is a dying art.Only a handful of people in the United States still do it.Machines have picked up the process, churning out tons of perfectly striped, equally sized, identical canes.But the personal touch is important to a Lansing family that has been making candy canes since 1924.“There’s so much tradition if we do it by hand, it would be silly if we didn’t,” says Dan Blair, a candymaker at Fabiano’s Candy Kitchen, 214 S.