Under a brilliantly blue sky, about 50 longtime friends and Spartans fans made their way back to East Lansing to celebrate the memory of a deceased friend. The first “Big Jon Tailgate” was held Saturday to honor the memory of Jonathan “Big Jon” Fedewa, a 2000 MSU graduate died in May at age 30.
After not making the MSU softball team in spring 2006, advertising senior Rhonda Adams still wanted to play the sport. Adams, along with psychology senior Angela Newland, finance junior Courtney Overfield and interdisciplinary studies in social science and human resources junior Stephanie Young decided to create MSU Women’s Fast Pitch Club Softball.
MSU alumnus J. Matson Heininger has lived quite an eventful life and describes himself as a “third-tier Renaissance man.”
Music is not just for musicians. It can be a great tool to express your mind, body and soul. There are many ways music can be beneficial to a listener. Specifically, music can help with studying, working out and personal therapy. Communication junior Cliff Walker, who formerly studied jazz at MSU, knows from experience that music can have immense power on a person.
Relieving migraines, back pain or chronic fatigue is not always as easy as a trip to the doctor or a couple of Extra Strength Tylenol. That’s why many Americans are closing their medicine cabinets to Western practices and opening themselves up to alternative forms of health care.
Music has been around in one form or another since the dawn of man. But as we have progressed into more modern times, different forms have popped up and helped define decades, generations and personal styles.
Advertising senior Gretchen Klosterman lives with seven roommates, so you’d imagine she’d be cramped for space. Think again.
Every Thursday morning, Anastasia Grohoski signs on to the communication network Skype and chats with José, a 3-and-a-half-year-old with a cleft palate and cleft lip, who’s in a clinic in Mexico.
Have you ever wanted to play an instrument, but haven’t had the means to obtain one? There are several ways to create instruments with only a few household items.
Music education freshman Jeffery Branch knows how to dress. His laid-back style blends chic designers with more practical clothing at reasonable prices. The State News caught up with Branch to talk about Texas, Prada and prison fashion.
The romantic dream of growing up, being an actor and moving away to Hollywood when the first chance arrives is still alive and well among the cast of “The Show.” “The Show” is a sitcom put on by the MSU Telecasters, MSU’s telecommunications club. Created 20 years ago, it is credited as the longest running college sitcom in the nation. David Cooper, the current executive producer of “The Show,” said being involved with the program involves a certain amount of pride.
It’s amazing a program like “The Show” from MSU Telecasters can be watchable and funny enough to last 20 years and 66 episodes, and still many students have never even heard of it.
Sarah Kiel has wanted to fence since she saw “The Princess Bride” in fourth grade, but she didn’t have the time and opportunity until she came to MSU. Here, she hit the ground running. She’s been in the MSU Fencing Club since “day one of practice” her freshman year.
Since graduating from the MSU College of Law in 1999, Christopher Brown said he’s at a place in his life where he can give back to the school he’s proud of. “I did not attend MSU for (my undergraduate degree) but consider MSU to be the point in my life where I really grew as a person and became the person that I am today,” said Brown, a Grand Rapids-based attorney.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and her perspective on her new frontier.
Kate Kilpatrick is accustomed to playing someone else — that’s what an actor does — but in “Cabaret” she’ll be asked to double her workload.
Lansing-area potters have made more than 800 ceramic bowls for today’s Empty Bowls fundraiser, held by the Mid-Michigan Food Bank.
Who decided it’s not ok to wear white after Labor Day? Does it matter if your shoes don’t match your belt? These questions, along with many others, are challenged by the fashionably savvy every season — and this fall is no exception. Stores such as Forever 21 and H&M are making runway styles more accessible to the everyday fashion enthusiast and helping students stay stylish while on a college budget, said Amanda Briglio, president of MSU’s Student Apparel Design Association.
The State News caught up with English junior Liza Polaskey and anthropology senior Jennifer Savage, roommates in Landon Hall who like to break all the rules. The roomies painted the walls in their dorm room and wrote on them with Sharpie markers. They also incorporated African decorations and thrift-store style for a look unlike anyone else’s abode.