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COMMENTARY

Tis the season for family

I’ve recently been reminded of why I get so excited for the holidays. One of my cousins is pregnant so the whole Schewe clan - 40 people strong - gathered for a co-ed baby shower.We spent some time together as we celebrated the future arrival of a new cousin and it gave me a taste of the holidays ahead.Thanksgiving always was such fun because it meant my siblings would be coming home from college and we would be making a pilgrimage to Detroit for the annual feast with the extended family.

COMMENTARY

Mistake in story angers reader

The State News strikes again. I read in Wednesday’s State News that Ruth Hubbard would be visiting MSU’s campus to give the McPherson Professorship lecture on “How the Genome Became the Book of Life” Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.

MICHIGAN

Lansing to hold hearings on housing code revisions

Kristyne E. Demske
November 20, 2000

LANSING - The city council will host public hearings tonight on changes being made to the capital city’s Housing Code.The council radically changed the code two years ago and had promised to review the code a couple years after the revisions were made.The changes made this year come from putting the code in compliance with the International Property Maintenance Code 2000 so the code would be uniform with other U.S.

SPORTS

Bell produces a triple-double, makes history

Krista Latham
November 20, 2000

Two things haven’t happened at MSU since the Earvin “Magic” Johnson era. The men’s basketball team hadn’t hung an NCAA national championship banner from the rafters, and no Spartan player had recorded a triple-double.Those both changed Sunday.The game against the Golden Grizzlies of Oakland began as the coaches, players and fans got to watch the green and white NCAA national championship banner drop from the ceiling.And MSU’s 97-61 victory ended when senior guard Charlie Bell became the second Spartan to ever tally a triple-double, recording 13 points, 10 assists and 11 rebounds.

MSU

New Extension director looks to maintain growth

Vince Estes
November 20, 2000

The MSU Extension will undergo a changing of the guard of sorts next semester when Margaret Bethel takes over as the acting director.Extension is the university’s statewide initiative that offers educational and informational resources to residents in dozens of Michigan communities.

FEATURES

Superdrag entertains Grand Rapids crowd with powerful performance, songs

Dan Julian
November 20, 2000

GRAND RAPIDS - As Superdrag frontman John Davis finished tuning his guitar Friday at The Intersection in Grand Rapids, he peered at the eager rock and rollers with smoke seeping around his face from the cigarette in his hand and asked “Grand Rapids, what do you got?”Davis then began playing the opening track, “keep it close to me,” off their third full-length record “In the Valley of Dying Stars.”The crowd, consisting mostly of kids in their early 20s packed in like sardines, responded with a loud roar of approval.The band, best known for its brush with fame with its 1996 MTV “Buzz Bin” hit “Sucked Out,” didn’t play that song the entire evening, which seemed justified.

NEWS

McPherson speaks at GOP governors conference

Pamela E. Spence
November 20, 2000

MSU President M. Peter McPherson knew where he was Friday.And because he was speaking to the nation’s GOP governors in Tampa, Fla., he felt obliged to shy away from talking about voting operations.Especially since recount after recount in Florida continues to unveil no winner in the nation’s heated presidential race.“I started off my speech by saying I didn’t expect to comment on voting technology,” he joked.

SPORTS

Andreas, Wolfe gain experience

Tim Mosley
November 20, 2000

Jason Andreas?Adam Wolfe?That was the response given to the two freshmen ballers when they spoke to the more than 25,000 fans packed inside Spartan Stadium after winning the national championship.Perhaps it was being overshadowed by players like Mateen Cleaves, Morris Peterson and senior guard Charlie Bell.

SPORTS

Cagers defeat Oakland 97-61

Justin A. Rice
November 20, 2000

MSU head coach Tom Izzo was worried going into Sunday’s season opener against Oakland University, a game which marked the unveiling of the team’s 2000 NCAA championship banner.

NEWS

Spartans fall to Boston College at Breslin

Justin A. Rice
November 19, 2000

After playing from behind the entire game, the MSU women's basketball team lost in the final moments Saturday in the championship game of the MSU Chevrolet Classic.The Spartans fell to the Boston College Eagles on Saturday 63-61.With seven seconds remaining, MSU senior point guard Christie Pung passed the ball to senior forward and co-captain Becky Cummings in the low post.

MSU

Panel discusses election

Jamie Gumbrecht
November 17, 2000

Sherman Garnett always wondered what a group of James Madison alumni and students would think and discuss if they were brought together.The dean of James Madison College got his wish Thursday.A panel of current students and politically active alumni came together to discuss the recent election and campaigns.“I thought it would be useful for us to talk about this experience, especially since most of this is local at this point,” Garnett said.James Madison alumni panelists included Adam Wright, who is state Sen.

FEATURES

Churches looks at family relationships

Justin D. Brown
November 17, 2000

The Department of Theatre shows that you can go home again in a show this weekend. Theater senior Kelli Hardman directs Tina Howe’s “Painting Churches.” Set in 1980, “Painting Churches” tells the story of Margaret “Megs” Church, played by theater senior Caroline Sullivan.

MICHIGAN

Parade marks start of holiday season

Kristyne E. Demske
November 17, 2000

To mark the beginning of the holiday season, Lansing will be hosting Silver Bells in the City tonight, a holiday event that includes an electric light parade, free entertainment and the lighting of the capital’s Christmas tree.The event began in 1985 with just a few luminaries and a community sing led by the Lansing mayor but has now grown to provide entertainment for an expected 40,000 to 50,000 people.“At the beginning of the event it was started as a way to promote downtown,” said Sue Mills, executive director of the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, which coordinates the event.

SPORTS

Final road trip vital for erratic Spikers

Eric Mckinney
November 17, 2000

It’s the last road trip of the regular season for MSU volleyball, and how the Spartans fare will weigh heavily on their NCAA tournament hopes.MSU has failed to put together back-to-back wins since September and has consequently fallen out of the top 25 for the first time all season.Tied for fifth in the Big Ten with only four matches remaining, the Spartans (15-10 overall, 8-8 Big Ten) find themselves on the tournament bubble.MSU plays at Iowa (12-12, 8-8) tonight and at No.