Details on a country act and comedian coming to campus are planned to emerge later this week, if the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, finalizes contracts to make the events possible.
Animal science senior Brent Moore stood next to horses and bulls at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Saturday afternoon gearing up for that night’s Spartan Stampede performance. “Bull riding is very sink or swim,” said Moore, a bull rider and bareback rider. “You either like it or you don’t.”
After being diagnosed with stage III kidney cancer last November, Mariah Mackie’s world was turned upside down. But as the 10-year-old sat behind the MSU women’s basketball team as they faced Purdue University Sunday evening, she couldn’t help but smile.
Red lights and bumping music welcomed hundreds of MSU community members of all ages and ethnicities to the Asian Pacific American Student Organization’s, or APASO, biennial Lunar New Year Show on Sunday evening at the Auditorium. The variety show, celebrating the Asian culture on campus and ringing in the Year of the Dragon, showcased eleven different groups with talents ranging from modern dancing and singing to traditional Asian cultural dances and instruments.
On Friday evening in the Union, a small but excited crowd gathered around an owl — a special visitor from the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing — as it flapped its wings on the arm of its attendant. Among the spectators clamoring around the bird was 13-year-old Zuri Snyder of Detroit, who observed the owl and other zoo animals with special interest.
With a single white feather in her dark hair, Rose Petoskey tapped her pink moccasins to the beat of a drum on the floor of Jenison Field House on Saturday during one of the largest powwows in Michigan.
MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, member Alyssa Landis has found the credit union’s current online banking system outdated when she looks at her account online. But changes coming to the credit union aim to make it easier for customers to check their finances.
On Friday, kinesiology senior Teilia Rutherford confidently walked down the sidewalk in South Neighborhood wearing a sports bra, shorts and UGG boots and shouting inspirational messages about positive self-image. But five years ago, Rutherford would not have been able to show off her body with such confidence, especially in such a public place.
While the MSU men’s basketball team is gaining momentum on the court — having won seven of its last eight games — head coach Tom Izzo could use some of that momentum off the court. Izzo is one of 48 coaches across the country competing in the Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge, a competition in which fans vote online for their favorite coaches with the winning coach earning $100,000 for their chosen charity.
Kinesiology freshman Lindsay Parker smiled as she kicked her leg up in the air on Wednesday night. She seemed to sparkle as the stage lights reflected off of her gold sequined shorts, and the bass from the music she danced to was so loud, it shook the walls of the Auditorium.
Being chased by an enraged rhinoceros while riding on the back of an elephant as it tries to escape to safety in a jungle in northeast India might sound like a nightmare for some. For Steve Winter, that nightmare is his career. “That’s the most scared I’ve ever been,” Winter said.
Members of several ASMSU committees continued discussions on bills introduced earlier this semester, revisiting the debates about creating a smoke-free campus and improving residence hall security systems.
Rather than living the cliché life of a college student, media arts and technology senior Josh Michels has decided to take a different path.
Nearly all of MSU’s departments and colleges have a presence on social networks — from Facebook to Twitter to Flickr. Although each is different, officials said they have one overall mission: connectivity.
A new student caucus implemented by ASMSU —MSU’s undergraduate student government — will allow students to discuss campuswide issues with their peers before taking their concerns into Academic Governance.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, has nominated more people for executive board positions.
Justin Grosjean is proof it takes less than 24 hours to change a life. In January, the media arts and technology senior and his twin brother John, who attends Oakland University, posted a video on YouTube at 3 a.m. When they woke up the next morning, the video had more than 300,000 views, and today it has almost 2 million views.
After a study abroad trip to the Dominican Republic last summer, public health graduate student Nathan Praschan knew what he had to do.
The MSU French Club opened the door Wednesday to a part of culture most don’t picture when thinking of France — parts of Asia that are associated with the country.
MSU officials are looking into changing the university’s policy on students who dual enroll in graduate programs as an undergraduate student. The proposal, which currently is making its way through various Academic Governance committees for approval and review, would update the nearly 50-year-old dual enrollment policy to allow undergraduate students to have nine credits applied toward a master’s degree, said Linda Stanford, associate provost for academic services.