Animals at Potter Park Zoo held enrichment activities on Sunday to get the animals' predictions for the Michigan versus Michigan State game.
A screening of First Voice Generation was held at MSU on Sept. 28, 2023. Its story resonated with viewers and inspired them to find their voice.
With summer coming to an end and the crisp fall weather rolling in, the changing leaves are bringing autumn vibes back to campus. For many Michigan State University students, the best way to celebrate this transition is by reaching for their favorite autumn film classics. From Halloween horror movies to Stars Hollow drama, here are some comfort TV shows and movies students think are perfect for the pumpkin spice season.
The MSU Department of Art, Art History and Design collaborated with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum to host the annual Drawing Marathon event on Sept. 28.
After a long anticipated wait by her fans, singer-songwriter Oliva Rodrigo returned to stardom with the release of her sophomore album “Guts," which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and showcased hits like "Vampire" and "bad idea right?". Admist the album's growing popularity, however, heated controversy has arisen on social media as users accuse Rodrigo of copying song patterns and sounds from artists like Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter and Miley Cyrus. With the debate trending across the internet, Michigan State University students expressed their opinions on the subject.
As the sun went down on Saturday night, the streets of downtown Lansing lit up with music, dancing, entertainment and individuals from all different backgrounds gathered to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
MSU's homecoming parade will be on Friday, Sept. 22 at 6 p.m. The parade, which travels through the streets of East Lansing and campus, will feature the Spartan Marching Band, Michigan high school marching bands, MSU campus groups, community organizations, university officials, Sparty and more.
The East Lansing Farmers Market, or ELFM, welcomed ‘Spartan Appreciation Day’ on Sunday Sept. 17. ‘Spartan Appreciation Day’ was meant to recognize the city’s special relationship with Michigan State University and welcome students to the community.
The summer of 2023 has been a whirlwind for popular culture and feminism, with Taylor Swift's Era's Tour causing a small earthquake, "Barbie" making pink waves in the film industry and Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour projected to become the highest-grossing tour of a female artist ever. For many Michigan State University students, all three have been integral in redefining feminism, beauty and sexuality.
In May of 2022, Michigan State University and the State News alumnus Aaron Foley debuted his book "Boys Come First," a novel exploring the lives of three gay friends from Detroit. Now, the book has reaching new heights, after Amazon bought its rights with the intention of adapting it into a TV series.
If you've scrolled through TikTok or Instagram in the past few months, you may have come videos that involve enthusiastic influencers running up to a random passerby, shoving a mic in their face and then asking a slew of questions, like "how much rent do you pay," or "can you rate how attractive this girl is?" MSU legal experts and students weighed in on whether the trend is an invasion of privacy or not.
Today, the City of Lansing hosted a memorial service to honor the lives lost and the bravery of not only first responders, but the citizens of the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. Key members at the memorial included Lansing mayor Andy Schor and first responders from across the city.
Yesterday, MSU's fourth annual FEMfest filled the MSU Student Union with positive energy through an empowering display of the arts.This year, FEMfest aimed to reclaim the Union as a safe and community space for students following the Feb. 13 shooting on campus.
“It gives people ways to express themselves, whatever they're going through whatever their experiences are,” he said. “That's a way to express themselves in many different ways, not just verbally with your voice by say, rapping or singing, but by dance, with your body, or visually with stylized letter writing, or just sonically by making beats or turntablism, or reinterpreting music through hip-hop practices."
State Tonight, the new campus live comedy talk show, is taping this fall with comedy and special guests coming to campus.
2023 Miss Michigan discusses winning the title and her hopes for the future.
Since its release on June 2, "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" has sparked a whirlwind of discussion and praise around its animation styles, plot, characters and soundtrack. Students voice their opinions on diversity, themes of belonging and accurate representation of POC in superhero films.
In May, Netflix announced that subscribers who want to have an extra member on their account must pay $7.99 a month or transfer an existing profile to the account. For MSU students like neuroscience sophomore LaMonica Reeves, who uses her parents' account, the policy crackdown may mean losing access to her favorite films and TV.
Even with The Eras Tour featuring a marathon 44 songs, spanning nine eras, over the course of two nights of approximately 180-minute shows, fans were ‘Ready for It’ and left wanting more of Taylor Swift’s performance in Detroit. Swift brought the highly anticipated tour to Ford Field on June 9 and June 10, attracting a combined 130,000 concertgoers.
