With goals not coming in bunches for MSU hockey, there only is one way the Spartans continue to remain in tight games each night out — defense.
Six meets away from the Big Ten championships the MSU gymnastics team is looking for ways to get themselves into a competitive mindset.
0On Feb. 12, 1855, Gov. Kingsley Bingham signed a bill, creating the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, which eventually became MSU. On July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which supported land-grant colleges and universities.
Kiran Samra isn’t like most of ASMSU’s previous presidents. She is not a James Madison student, and she’s a woman. But most unlikely, she’s never voted on an ASMSU bill.
A student was allegedly sexually assaulted at about 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 9, according to police. The victim, a female student, told police she was first assaulted at a party off campus, MSU police Sgt.
MSU football verbal commitment Jayru Campbell received some bad news today as he was charged with two adult felonies by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.
More than 100 employers will arrive on campus to recruit students during the Summer Job and Internship Fair on Wednesday.
MADISON, Wis. — There’s a difference between potential and performance. In the case of the No. 9 MSU men’s basketball team, the potential is there, but the performance has been lacking. The Spartans are overrated.
For sociology senior Jessica Hall, Flappy Bird began as a mere distraction. Tapping a bird to send it through a series of pipes goes quickly, she thought.
For Spartan fans worldwide, December 2013 will be remembered as the time a 26-year drought was lifted as the Spartans marched into the Rose Bowl as outright Big Ten Champions. Unfortunately for 27 people, many of whom were students, it was the early morning of Dec.
MSU is taking a stand against rising tuition costs and other challenges facing the university by launching a website designed to allow Spartan proponents to convey the message that policymakers should support higher education. The website, called Spartan Advocate, aims to decrease tuition costs and make degrees more accessible and affordable. The need for Spartan Advocate spawned from a desire to educate new legislators and alumni on the importance of higher education in research and economic growth, said Monique Field, assistant vice president of strategic initiative in the office of governmental affairs at MSU. As Field visited with alumni clubs, she saw that not everyone understands how MSU is spending state dollars and how the cuts to those funds have impacted tuition. “As state appropriations went down, the difference was made up (in tuition) by parents who send their kids to school,” Field said.
Once a month, children and MSU students gather around the Department of Entomology’s collection manager Gary Parsons and listen to him describe the ins and outs of insects.
As Valentine’s Day approaches some are off penning lovers soft serenades and some others, murder ballads.
As Valentine’s Day approaches some are off penning lovers soft serenades and some others, murder ballads. On Monday, students and residents created and performed gruesome tunes at the Valentine’s Murder Ballad Workshop, held by the Center for Poetry of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH. The center hosts poetry workshops for the romantic holiday most every year, RCAH professor and center director Anita Skeen said.
With project deadlines and midterm exams on the horizon, students might find themselves slipping into the trap of procrastination. ? Psychology professor Erik Altmann said there are a few things students can do to ensure they will not be up all night studying for an exam the next day or scrambling to finish a project on time.
Next week, two buses filled with MSU students and a truck loaded with instruments will travel to the Big Apple to play the famed Carnegie Hall. Last Thursday, the MSU Wind Symphony performed three classical pieces at the Wharton Center. The Symphony will perform the same concert once again next week, but this time in New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
MSU is a campus swarming with people from a variety of backgrounds and heritages, and one student is attempting to bridge the gap with a new Blogspot. Lexis Zeidan, a communications senior, created Building Bridges Blogspot last month to create a forum where different student groups can interact.
With couples finalizing their Valentine’s Day plans this week, local restaurants are preparing for the Valentine’s dinner rush on Friday evening.
Luyi Han can read Mandarin Chinese, English and music — but he has found the latter more easily understood across continental lines.
One of the most exciting events in hockey — shootouts — have continued to appear in front of MSU in Big Ten play, and late results have shown it might be better to be lucky than good.