Breslin Student Events Center to welcome former cagers, Pistons

Five days after MSU’s Homecoming, Mateen Cleaves and Antonio Smith will return to their old stomping ground Thursday night.The two former Spartan basketball players will return to Breslin Student Events Center with their new team, the Detroit Pistons, for an NBA exhibition game against the Utah Jazz.After leading MSU to its first national championship in 21 years last season, the Pistons drafted Cleaves with the 14th pick in the first round of June’s NBA draft.

Women icers take aim at varsity status

The imaginary walls that once separated the sexes have crumbled into dust. Women have the right to vote, the right to run for political office and the right to fire a slap shot so hard and fast that it can hardly be seen with the naked eye. For the past five years, women Spartans have had the chance to feel that certain rush of the beloved winter sport, ice hockey.

Father boosts reward in sons death investigation

It has been 17 days since Brandon D’Annunzio, a 24-year-old Livonia resident, was assaulted outside an East Lansing bar, and seven since he died at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital. During a press conference at the East Lansing police station Tuesday, Brandon’s father, Dennis D’Annunzio, said the reward in the case has soared from the original $500 to $10,000, including a $500 donation from BW-3, 220 M.A.C.

SN story left out necessary facts

In a State News article, (“Equestrian rides toward world fame, championship,” SN 10/12) we are never told what Hanchett is a champion in.

Feminist artist to speak to U

Feminist art, one of the premiere movements of the 1970s, is still making its presence known at MSU in the new millennium.Miriam Schapiro, a leading figure in the feminist art movement, is visiting MSU this week.

Children return violent toys to promote safe schools

LANSING - As part of the statewide celebration of Safe Communities-Safe Schools Day, the Lansing Police Department and the Michigan Education Association collected more than 300 toys during Tuesday’s Violent Toy Buyback. Children were encouraged to bring in their violent toys in exchange for $10 gift certificates to be used toward the purchase of a new nonviolent toy. Items brought in ranged from action figures and violent movies to toy swords, squirt guns and archery sets. “We know we won’t be able to get every violent toy off the shelf, but we want to make people talk about what these toys mean,” said Lansing police Lt.

Long hours, little glory for mens club

They practice late at night while many are asleep, only to pay hundreds of dollars to play the game they love in a nearly empty arena. Athletes don’t always get the glamour. So why do the 25 members of the men’s ice hockey club, not to be confused with the more well-known men’s hockey team coached by Ron Mason, stick it out? “It’s always been fun for me,” said political theory sophomore Brian Sommariva.

Club lures students

From a relaxing weekend to Big Ten competitions, an MSU club is proving that fishing is not just for the retired. The MSU Sport Fishing Club is an organization that appeals to serious fishermen and those who have never fished before and would like to learn.

Train victim identified as Lansing resident

Lansing police have released the name of a man killed in a train accident Sunday.Israel Castro Jr., an 18-year-old Lansing resident, was killed when he was hit by an Amtrak train near Aurelius Road in Lansing.He and a friend, Michael Romero, 15, were fishing off the trestles of a railroad near Aurelius Road when the train came through.“The engineer was not at fault,” said Lt.

Skaters to compete, raise money

It’s time for Lansing-area skaters to showcase some of their skills. Skatefest 2000 is gearing up to roll through Lansing Oct.

Bowl encompasses multiple genres

Royal Fingerbowl Greyhound Afternoons (BMI) Royal Fingerbowl tries to cover every music genre.

An MSU student and his life-long pal have strutted - hiked actually - their way into history. They’re believed to be the first Americans and the youngest hikers ever to successfully complete the venture, which began in Jiayuguan and ended in Shanhaiguan, near Beijing - spanning more than 1,800 miles. An overwhelming sense of relief and personal triumph swept over the two American hikers when they laid eyes on the Pacific Ocean. They had finally reached the end, nearly 80 days sooner than they had originally anticipated. “The last footstep is still stuck in my head,” said Bacevicius, 20, of Redford, Mich.

Fix the system

To keep up the ideals of fair and equal justice, states with the death penalty need to pull the plug on their forms of capital punishment.Protesters rallied outside of the Texas governor’s mansion Monday and the Texas state Capitol on Sunday, asking for a moratorium on capital punishment.

Even mediocre athletes can get thrills from running 26.2 miles

He’s an elite athlete from Kenya; I’m a beer-drinking college kid from the Midwest. But for some reason, I knew how he felt cruising past me on the Ambassador Bridge in the opposite direction - six miles ahead of me. Joseph Maina, who won Sunday’s 23rd annual Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Bank International Marathon with a career-best time of 2:24:47 trotted past me like a gazelle, and I could only look on. Many sports journalists think they have athletics all figured out. They believe they provide “insight” even though they might have never played a competitive sport in their lives.

Anti-Jewish graffiti paints picture of intolerance

One of the things that I have always noticed about college life is the tremendous isolation one feels from the outside world.

Do not criticize sections tradition

This letter is in response to a sports column by Krista Latham (“Student section is becoming unoriginal” SN 10/9). I’m not sure Latham gets the idea behind what it is she is writing about, so I’d like to clarify a few things for her. Latham, the very things you are complaining about and deem unoriginal are quite the opposite - they are what true football fans at MSU consider tradition.

Lansing receives grant for face-lift

LANSING - Another stride has been made in the race for downtown revitalization in Michigan’s capital.The Michigan State Housing Development Authority gave the city a $250,000 grant Monday morning to help with the goals outlined by the Blue Ribbon Committee on Downtown Revitalization.

Police expand search for E.L. beating suspects

Investigators have bridged their search to Evanston, Ill. and Big Rapids, Mich. in an effort to track down the person who assaulted Brandon D’Annunzio. D’Annunzio, a 24-year-old Livonia resident, died Wednesday from severe head injuries he received during an Oct.

Internship offers U credits, experience in nations capital

MSU is rolling out the red carpet, all the way to the nation’s capital.The Semester Study Program in Washington, D.C.

Students work to start Asian American studies program

A group of students is hoping to implement an Asian American studies program at MSU. Soh Suzuki, a studio art senior and Asian Pacific American minority aide in Snyder and Phillips halls, has been acting as a liaison between APA students and faculty and staff members.