MSU hockey (9-11-2, 3-3-2-2 Big Ten) will return to Joe Louis Arena on Friday for the first time since December 29th, 2014, when the Spartans lost to UM in the Great Lakes Invitational title game.
On Thursday, MSU Athletics announced a $3 million dollar donation given by Mark and Cindy Pentecost to upgrade men's basketball facilities, including the main offices and practice facilities. Mark Pentecost, a former high school teacher, is the CEO of skin care and nutrition direct sale company It Works!. The couple are members of the Athletic Director’s Campaign Leadership Council, a group of more than 30 people involved in the Empower Extraordinary campaign. “Growing up in the Lansing area, surrounded by generations of Spartans who bleed green, giving back to this storied basketball program came natural,” Mark Pentecost in a statement released by the university.
State Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr., D-East Lansing, introduced a bill on Wednesday which would provide tax credits for college graduates to help with the burden of higher education costs.
The U.S. World and News Report has named the Supply Chain Management department at MSU among the top ranked programs in the country. The multi-platform, publisher of news and information ranks MSU’s Supply Chain Management department as number one among all national universities.
One MSU student is attempting to broaden MSU’s horizon when it comes to club sports.
“This particular exhibition is a very special one, it’s the fourth annual version of a series that we’ve had called 'Perspectives on African American Experience: Emerging visions,'” Carolyn Loeb, who organizes the gallery exhibits, said. “The inspiration and basis of the exhibition is the 1954 supreme court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, that aimed to desegregate public schools throughout the United States."
With over 150 signatures in just 24 hours, a petition created by Michigan State freshman Hayley Roukin has generated an interesting discussion about MSU’s Combo-X-Change policy.
During the start of fall semester, MSU police initiated a new unit in the investigative division called the Special Victims Unit, or SVU, to investigate and handle six specific crimes on campus. The crimes consist of sexual assault, domestic and relationship violence, stalking, missing persons, child abuse and vulnerable adult abuse.
More Michiganians want to legalize it. In the latest marijuana polls, an increased number of residents agree that marijuana should be taxed and regulated like alcohol in the state.
The MSU Counseling Center is looking to fill vacant counselor positions and add a new MSU-funded sexual assault counselor as a result of ASMSU and student group’s advocacy on campus.
Members of the East Lansing based political action committee, Neighborhoods First, staged a protest Tuesday night outside of East Lansing City Hall an hour before City Council was scheduled to meet.
Broadway hit and Tony award-winning musical Pippin had the Wharton Center roaring with laughter Tuesday night - but also thinking seriously about how to live life.
Zumba and Bokwa instructor Becky Newcombe said that a typical class at the Spartan Fit Center begins with a five minute warmup set to exciting music to get everybody pumped and ready for cardio fitness.
The dark cloud hanging over the head of the MSU women's basketball team this season is clearly the amount of injuries that have taken a tole of the program. Dressing only eight players for Wednesday night's matchup against Indiana at the Breslin Center, a couple players were asked to go further than what they're bodies are used too. Having almost played the entire 40-minutes, Tori Jankoska and Aerial Powers found ways to carry the load in the points column as only five players scored at least one point for the Spartans. Jankoska, the sophomore guard from Freeland, Michigan, scored a career-high 28-points while also adding 11 rebounds, six assists and three steals to lead MSU to a 72-57 victory, their third Big Ten conference win of the season. "Sometime she's taken on a tougher defensive assignment which has caused to not be as effective on offense," Merchant said.
The Spartans made several splashes on the recruiting trail in the last day or so. With National Signing Day fast approaching next Wednesday Feb.
This past fall brought a different experience for Chris Wesolowski. As a freshman, from strapping on the helmet and shoulder pads at Cardinal Mooney Catholic every Friday night under the lights, to standing on the medal bleachers at Spartan Stadium on the weekends brought a sense of frustration and curiosity. Faced with the reality that he was too small or not nice enough to play Division 1 football at MSU, Wesolowski wanted a way to continue playing the sport he loved without going through the roadblocks of what it takes to play in the Big Ten. So when the idea of joining a club team with other students who had the same passion for the sport as him came along, Wesolowski was excited. Excited in the fact that his career wasn't over last year. However, the university at the time didn't carry a club football program, giving Wesolowksi the vision of starting up a team next fall, paving the way of other students who are hoping to make one more tackle or one more touchdown. How did this dream come to a reality?
Now in his 40th year at Duke, men's basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski has a list of accomplishments to his name.
Hockey players are often thought to be some of the toughest athletes on the planet.
Consistency. Combine it with talent and great things can happen. But consistency has been one thing he women's basketball team (11-10) as lacked this season. “You see flashes (of how good they can be), and now they have to be consistent,” head coach Suzy Merchant said.
MSU is optimistic about meeting its goals for reducing waste, energy consumption and more by the end of this year.