LANSING, Mich. — On Sunday night, MSU students and voters across the state crowded around televisions to experience the sensory barrage of advertisements and football that is the Super Bowl. Midway through the game, they witnessed a wetsuit and snorkel-adorned Gov.
Well, this has been fun so far. Taking a nine-day break between conference games, the Spartans now are halfway through the behemoth Big Ten season.
Jasmine Hines’ dominant game on Sunday started with a conversation.
With the closing of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association last spring, many of the annual rivalries have all but vanished.
The MSU Board of Trustees has given administration the go-ahead to buy back an $8.5 million property it once sold to the Michigan Biotechnology Institute in Lansing.
One of East Lansing’s newest bars was chosen as a top attraction in the country, and will soon break ground in a new location.
When it comes to recycling, MSU is trying to keep its spot on the throne.
Ray Walsh, owner of the used and rare bookstore Curious Book Shop on Grand River Avenue, has read and reviewed around two books every week for the past 25 years. As he’s read through thousands of pages, he has stumbled across many books written by MSU alumni . His shop has a section devoted to local authors. Here are some of the books Walsh has reviewed that came from the minds of MSU graduates.
As we prepare for President Barack Obama’s scheduled arrival, crucial details remain a mystery — where will he be speaking, and will we even be able to see him speak?
Here are a few events for students who have extra time to kill and want to stay warm. *Men’s Basketball vs.
It was the shot that no one heard. At 8:48 p.m. Friday evening, police responded to the report of a shooting on the 200 block of Cedar Street.
One word continues to come up in conjunction with hospitality business sophomore Dominique, or “D.J.,” Nolff as his friends remember the type of person he was. Selfless. “He’d give you the clothes off his back if you were in need,” friend and neuroscience sophomore Herve Nonga said. Nolff died early Saturday morning in Sparrow Hospital in Lansing from several gunshot wounds he sustained Friday night. He was shot in his apartment in the 200 block of Cedar Street around 8:45 p.m. The incident is still under investigation by the East Lansing Police Department, and the killer still is at large. Another student, a 20-year-old male from Grand Haven, was shot and sustained injuries in the incident as well. He was treated for his injuries at the hospital and was later released.
When President Barack Obama last visited East Lansing in 2008, it was a month before he was first elected president. On Friday, he’ll return as a president with one term under his belt who is looking to secure his legacy as he enters his final three years in the Oval Office. Obama is coming to East Lansing for an event about the economy on Friday, according to multiple media outlets citing an unnamed White House official. Little else is known about the event. Both MSU and East Lansing officials said they had not received any information about the president’s visit during the weekend. White House officials told several media outlets more details on the scheduled visit would be announced early this week. East Lansing Mayor Nathan Triplett said he was excited to find out about the scheduled visit from the nation’s leader. “Obviously we’re honored and ecstatic to be hosting the president in East Lansing,” Triplett said.
In an attempt to beat the cold weather and get in the spring break mind set, MSU students came out to IM Sports-Circle on Friday evening to participate in the University Activities Board’s swimming and inner tube water polo tournament.
Within hours of posting about his new taxi company on an MSU Facebook page, mathematics sophomore Daniel Dunwoody was driving his 2002 Ford Explorer with his first customer in the back seat.
More than 300 people celebrated the 2nd Annual Art and Craft Beerfest by experiencing a variety of arts and a variety of peculiar beers.
As I was watching the MSU men’s basketball team take on Georgetown Saturday afternoon, it finally occurred to me.
Vaginas. A topic so rarely talked about in our society was the height of discussion this weekend at the Wharton Center performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues.”
No. 1 Penn State gave the wrestling team trouble on Friday, winning 42-3, but the Spartans came out victorious in the heavyweight category with a win by senior Mike McClure.
The rooms of the Hannah Community Center were filled with people singing, stomping and clapping as they reveled in the sounds of the Mid-Winter Singing Festival this past weekend. The Mid-Winter Singing Festival spanned Friday and Saturday and was held in the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.