While students participate in the traditional homecoming week activities such as hayrides and ice cream at "The Rock," they can expect to find a new event that has been scheduled by the University Activities Board for later this week. A free concert will be held from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday at Morrill Plaza, featuring a band of three MSU alumni called The Hacky Turtles.
Without financial support from the university, MSU students have built the Michigan State University Polo Club from the ground up since the program started in 1999. For the last eight years, MSU has hosted the annual Polo at the Pavilion event with University of Michigan to raise money for each schools’ clubs. On Thursday evening, MSU lost to Michigan 15-7 during the collegiate match, but for the members, it was the money raised that counted — $1,840 was raised from ticket sales, the 50/50 raffle, merchandise sales, donations and business advertisements, according to sophomore Rachel LeBel from the junior varsity MSU polo team. The money will be split in half to benefit both teams.
The 300 block of Albert Avenue will test 10 new, modern parking meters for six months.
No. 9 MSU made quick work of Eastern Michigan on Saturday at Spartan Stadium, embarrassing the Eagles, 73-14. MSU (2-1 overall) outgained EMU (1-3 overall) 320 to one in total yards in the first half, releasing some built up frustration from its loss out in Eugene, Ore. Here are four takeaways from the Spartans’ impressive victory this past week.
Head coach Cathy George knew the first month of the season would be challenging for MSU volleyball (7-4 overall), EMCwho played five teams that made the NCAA tournament last season in a 15-day span. Unlike football, there’s no bye week for the volleyball team, which begins play in the toughest conference in the collegiate ranks on Friday against Indiana.
In the midst of a close match against LIU-Brooklyn last Friday, the ball ricocheted off a Spartan and nearly landed out of bounds, which would have resulted in a point for the other team. But as she’s done many times during her career at MSU, senior libero Kori Moster dived into the audience to keep the point alive for the Spartans.
College students determine success in different ways. For some, it’s evolving from apprehensiveness to feeling comfortable in new social settings. For others, it’s eclipsing athletic aspirations. For most at MSU, success ultimately means balancing personal goals with the constant demand of academics.
Last year, No. 16 MSU field hockey played 24 games as they advanced through the Big Ten Tournament and into the Elite Eight. Of those 24 games, five of them went to overtime. This year, MSU has played the same amount of overtime in just seven games.
The effect technology has on MSU students and how they interact with one another concerns me. I first noticed the impact during my freshman year, when nearly everyone in my hallway shut their doors and turned on their TVs.
The audience was able to virtually visit each of the planets and learn a little bit about all of them.
Fall recruitment is the busiest time of the year for the Panhellenic sororities at MSU, but this year three sororities will continue holding recruitment events.Continuous open bidding, or COBs in sorority speak, is the time when the sororities who may not have reached a certain member count can hold informal recruitment events to gain new members.Although COBs are not as popular as they once were, with there being over a thousand girls who go through fall recruitment and only 14 chapters, sororities do take the opportunity to invite interested girls into their house if they are looking to add more sisters.The COB events usually follow fall recruitment and are up to the chapter to organize and plan.Vice President of Recruitment Logistics on the Panhellenic Council Camaryn Self said only sororities below the required campus total are capable of holding events.“The only requirement is there is no alcohol involvement because that’s not part of regular recruitment,” Self said.Events could follow a certain theme and be anywhere from a movie night to an ice cream social.Sigma
Community members came out to various events to recognize the International Day of Peace, which is celebrated on September 21. The day was designated by the United Nations in 1981 as an attempt to send the message across the world that we need peace, said Lynn Bartley, president of the Greater Lansing United Nations Association.
A former MSU doctor was recognized last week for his part in a unique research study that showed that salt-cured pork may be an effective way to stop severe nosebleeds.
Today marks the 31st American Business Women’s Day, and MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business continues to play its part in supporting women in business. “Talent, energy, new ideas, (and) innovation,” are what American Business Women’s Association Executive Director Rene Street said women bring to the business workforce and why they deserve to be recognized. American Business Women’s Day was created when President Ronald Reagan signed a joint Congressional resolution in 1983, Street said.
The group of concerned students went back and forth for almost half an hour to call the meeting to order and approve the day’s agenda.
The University Activities Board has a plethora of activities planned for this week leading up to homecoming.Tonight, from 6-8 p.m., 'Hayrides & History' will begin in the International Center parking lot.
MSU is joining a new White House campaign in the hopes of educating students about sexual assault, this time specifically focusing on what bystanders can do to intervene if they see an act of sexual violence in progress.
“For the freshmen, this is the first time some of them have ever shot a weapon in their life,” Cadet Sean Woods said.
The event brought together a community of similar interests that doesn’t often have opportunities to congregate.