The women’s soccer team has been a broken record for the past few weeks, and after a defeat to Michigan, the team is in a very deep hole.MSU (6-4-1 overall, 0-4-1 Big Ten) started out the season with six impressive wins, but since entering conference play three weekends ago, the Spartans have lost four of five games.
Unlike many Big Ten schools, MSU’s current smoking policy allows students to smoke on campus, as long as they remain 25 feet away from a building. While the number of students who smoke in general has dropped since 2000, smoking is still a pastime that many students turn to.
After two bye weeks following the Spartan Invitational, MSU cross country ran in Minneapolis, Minn. at the Roy Griak Invitational on Saturday. The No. 3 women’s team finished with a total of 66 points, putting them in first place, while the men had a total of 153 points, placing them at fourth.
With a top-10 recruiting class comes big expectations and the craving for immediate production. MSU volleyball compiled the No. 6-rated recruiting class last spring according to PrepVolleyball.com.The talented class has paid dividends for head coach Cathy George, whose team has caught a case of the injury bug early on this season.
Head coach Mark Dantonio was back at the podium Tuesday to address Nebraska, redshirts and concussion protocol in light of the recent situation at Michigan.
Anyone who wants to pay respects to late accounting senior Morgan McGregor can do so this week.
While the ruling called for the petition to decriminalize marijuana to be submitted for this year's election, some absentee ballots have already been issued.
Aspiring journalists, authors and other students will have a chance to encounter two well-known media figures through the upcoming installment of the College of Arts and Letters' Signature Lecture Series. Soledad O'Brien and Isabel Wilkerson will speak at the Wharton Center Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Enlightening and passionate poetry readers will be making an appearance on campus this weekend.
More than 500 feet: that is the distance that customers of Indian Trails and the Michigan Flyer are walking from the ground transportation center to closest door of the Detroit Metro Airport.
When impending consequences of illegal or academically immoral actions threaten to damage a student’s reputation and bank account, ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, has free resources available to help.
When it comes to sports, MSU has a history of being one of the best.But when it comes to recreational and intramural sports facilities, material science and engineering junior Adam Marsh argues, “I would have to say MSU is at the bottom compared to all the other schools in the Big Ten.”
After splitting two games over the weekend to open up Big Ten season, MSU (8-5 overall, 1-1 Big Ten) will make the short trip to Ann Arbor to face Michigan (5-7 overall, 0-2 Big Ten) on Tuesday. Both the Spartans and Wolverines played Indiana and No. 15 Purdue this past weekend. MSU defeated Indiana in four sets and lost to Purdue in four sets. U-M lost to both Indiana and Purdue in five sets.
By Robert Bondyrbondy@statenews.com For a second straight week No.
The men’s soccer team went 2-0-1 over a span of three games in 10 days. The Spartans defeated Maryland 1-0 Sept. 19, and the team also defeated Bowling Green State 1-0 on Sept. 24 and tied Rutgers 0-0 on Sept. 28
Before stepping onto the MSU tennis court this season, freshman Allie Baer had never played on a tennis team. Her competition was always an individual sport, playing against other athletes from around the world. Baer’s family moved from Virginia Beach, Va. to Bradenton, Fla. to attend IMG Academy Pendleton School for high school. Prior to high school, Baer was home-schooled, so moving across the country and attending public school for the first time was an adjustment in itself.
For the last two home games, the Spartan football team has come out of the tunnel to an empty top deck and a Rose Bowl banner. A Rose Bowl banner that, if it adorned the stadiums of other schools, would be enough to get every seat in the stadium filled.
Spreading yourself thin isn’t a wise choice if you haven’t established yourself and a daily schedule. If your routine is constantly changing and evolving, it’s hard to be organized and stay up to speed with the things that really matter, like doing well in your classes.
Warm weather and a large group of people showed up at the Sigma Pi fraternity house on Sunday for the annual philanthropy volleyball game.While the tournament was meant to be a fun way to get a team together to play volleyball, the charity chosen to receive the money is close to the brothers’ hearts.This year the brothers decided to donate all proceeds from the event to Operation Homefront which provides assistance to U.S.
If you wake up and see your sidewalk clean after the hard-partying weekend, you should thank a Community Relations Coalition intern.On Sunday, members of the Community Relations Coalition, an alliance between East Lansing residents, MSU students and volunteers, started their day cleaning the city’s sidewalks.Communication junior Christina Briones woke up early on Sunday to start collecting the trash that others left throughout the weekend.“I think it’s kind of refreshing to see students cleaning instead of workers,” said Briones, who volunteered with other members of Alpha Phi.Community Relations Coalition Intern Griffin Goble said the residents appreciate the effort of students volunteering their time to beautify the city.“Usually there is tons and tons of trash down the streets after tailgating,” Goble said.Goble, a supply chain management junior, is one of the 10 interns who organize events like the cleanup and serve as liaisons between students and permanent residents within the Bailey, Red Cedar and Oakwood neighborhoods.Goble said participating in the cleanups is a way to help the community and neighbors of MSU.“It’s really important because these people live here full-time, a lot of them have kids,” Goble said.