This week on The 1909, we have the opportunity to shed light on a striking campus art project that is being showcased to draw attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women called "The REDress Project."
The Michigan State baseball team returned to East Lansing after a long road journey in four different tournaments and playing in South Carolina and Florida. Here is a recap of the team’s games so far this season.
A former MSU employee filed a lawsuit against the university Monday, alleging that his termination in 2021 constituted discrimination on the basis of race, national origin and age.
The 96th Academy Awards took place this past Sunday, March 10, to honor films that graced the big screens in 2023 and the artists who worked hard to create them. Millions of people tuned in for this night of awards and entertainment, including many film and popular culture fans at Michigan State University.
Though strides towards achieving equity have been made, Black women still experience much higher mortality rates, risk of diseases and shorter life expectancies than women of other races do. Three Michigan State University leaders from varied backgrounds are working to tackle systemic and systematic inequalities at the heart of the most basic human right: healthcare.
After much discourse over the past few years, the popular social media app TikTok is under threat of being banned after the United States House of Representatives passed a bill today. With a majority vote of 352-65, the bill, in practice, forces ByteDance, the app's parent company, to sell TikTok or be banned for over 150 million users across the country.
“I can’t speculate about what may have gone wrong in the past and why,” Guskiewicz said. “There may have been challenges between certain board members and the administration, but I’m looking forward and excited about what’s in front of us.”
Michigan State men's basketball's Tyson Walker was voted to the All-Big Ten Second Team by the coaches and media for the second straight season. Walker averaged 18.4 points per game in 30 games this season while shooting 45% from the field and 37% from three-point range. Through 14 games, he averaged over 20 points per game on 45% shooting from deep. A.J. Hoggard and Malik Hall earned All-Big Ten Honorable Mention honors. Hall averaged 12.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per game this season and Hoggard averaged 11 points and five assists per game.
A new program has taken Michigan State University's campus by storm this past year. The Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has partnered with Student-Made: An organization that provides a space for student creators to run their own small businesses right from the comfort of their college campus.
In this episode, Sports Round Table host Brad LaPlante is joined by general assignment reporter Jayden Hewitt, women's basketball reporter DeShawn Johnson and men's hockey reporter Madilynn Warden. The team discusses the upcoming women's basketball tournament for the Big Ten, Michigan State's men's basketball chances in March Madness and the hockey team's clinching of the Big Ten regular season.
Michigan State wrestling traveled to College Park, Maryland, on March 9 and 10 for the wrestling Big Ten Championships. After two days of meets, the Spartans finished 13th out of 14th in the standings with a team score of 23.5 as they closed out their Big Ten season.
Head coach Tom Izzo and the Spartans will play at noon on Thursday, March 14 as the 8-seed in Minneapolis, MN, against 9-seed Minnesota in a game with major implications for how MSU feels heading into Selection Sunday.
Michigan State men’s basketball dropped its final game of the regular season on the road against Indiana despite a solid second-half performance from the MSU backcourt to drop to 10-10 in conference play and 18-13 overall.
With over 400 participants, The “Race for Humanity" 5K to help Palestinian refugees was held yesterday, March 10, and organized by Michigan State University’s Students United for Palestinian Rights and Arab Cultural Society. Before the race began, SUPR Outreach Coordinator Nasim Saed announced the event had raised over $16,000.
After a clinching victory to earn the title of Big Ten Champions for the first time in program history, the Michigan State men's hockey team traveled back to East Lansing in preparation for their semifinal game and an opportunity to host an opponent for the Saturday, March 16 game in the Big Ten Tournament. While Michigan State silently waits for its turn in the tournament, the success of the Spartans' season has been anything but unnoticed, from record-breaking achievements for the team, for the coaches and the youngest goaltender in college hockey.
On Saturday, March 9, Michigan State's women's gymnastics defeated Greenville University, Central Michigan University and Fisk University in the MSU Quad Meet at Jenison Fieldhouse on Senior Celebrations Night. These three victories moved the Spartans, ranked No. 8 in the country according to Road to Nationals, up to a 16-3 overall record and extended their win streak to 13 matches.
After having a couple of extra days off to prepare, the Spartans played their first game in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament against No. 5 seed Nebraska, where they fell 73-61 to the Cornhuskers.
Approximately 60 red dresses have been hung up around MSU's campus as a part of the REDress Project by Red River Métis artist Jaime Black-Morsette to draw attention to the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
MSU students have been receiving parking tickets far and wide and with increased prices, many are trying to figure out the best way to park on campus without breaking the bank. This common problem served as the inspiration for computer science senior Keshav Babu to create the app TicketTime, an app where students can report the presence of parking enforcement in specific lots across campus, giving students the opportunity to avoid the dreaded paper slip under their windshield.
