For a team to be elite, every player needs to be as great as the one in front of them. For the last three games, junior midfielder Fatai Alashe moved into the spot senior defender Kevin Cope left because of an injury.
A new independent union called MSU Students United is advocating on the behalf of student demands to organize petitions and contest policies. Is it possible that this student group will be the new face of our student government in the future?
There are so many clichés about college being a “big adventure” or a “new chapter in your life.” I will admit that to some extent, those clichés are very true. I mean, who doesn’t love a new adventure? But no adventure would be any fun without someone to go through it with you. That’s why having friends is important.
This will be a crucial weekend for the women’s soccer team as they prepare to face Big Ten opponents Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Spartans (6-1-1 overall, 0-1-0 Big Ten) dropped their first match of the season last week against Nebraska, 1-0. With only one game last weekend, MSU got a couple of extra days to rebound and freshen up for this weekend’s slate.
If you have an empty schedule this weekend, MSU and the Lansing area are packed with activities to do. Friday Izzone Campout 3 p.m.
Be The Match Foundation is partnering with MSU students this fall to work toward fighting life-threatening diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma and sickle cell disease. MSU is one of 30 Be The Match college and university chapters across the country. “Transplant centers that are treating these patients have told us that what they are looking for are the youngest, healthiest donors,” Eric Trosko, Be The Match Michigan representative, said. Since 1986, Be The Match has been partnering unrelated marrow donors with patients in need of bone marrow transplants. Trosko said finding a donor can be challenging, so the primary function of the foundation is to increase the potential of healthy bone marrow donors added to the registry so every patient can get a transplant. Patients who need a bone marrow transplant look for one within the family, which is successful about 30 percent of the time, Trosko said.
Pinball Pete’s began in Ted Arnold’s parents’ basement in 1974 with three machines — pinball, candy and soda. Since then, it has become an East Lansing icon, serving the entertainment needs of students and community members for 34 years. “We’re not making a lot of money but we’re not losing money,” owner Arnold said.
The Spartans have their next young point guard. Making his announcement Thursday morning at Christian Sunrise Academy in Wichita, Kan., 2014 recruit LouRawls “Tum Tum” Nairn Jr. said he will be attending MSU next fall.
The early descent into a busy day is something that many college students have come to know by heart, but the burden of balancing school and work has continued to grow.
The East Lansing Planning Commission deferred voting on a proposal to cap the number of bars downtown past for the second time Wednesday night, pending a report from the Downtown Development Authority.
For neuroscience sophomore Grace Kamau, the terrorist attacks in Kenya last Saturday, were too close for comfort.
The process of transforming the current East Lansing Amtrak Station into the CATA Multimodal Station can move forward now that the Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, obtained a grant originally announced in July 2012.
MSU experienced a brief period of network downtime Wednesday afternoon because of what Information Technology Services staff are calling a main switch failure in the university’s network infrastructure.
Students packed the halls of the MSU Union on Wednesday and waited hours to gain their plot of land on Munn Field for the annual Izzone Campout this Friday. Abnormally high turnout for the registration event led officials to believe the Izzone Campout could be its most crowded in years. Each year, the Association of Future Alumni, or AFA, hosts a campout for all students who bought season tickets to the men’s basketball games, offering games, giveaways and food at the event. Registration for the campout started at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and Matt Martin, director of Izzone at AFA, said the crowd remained strong throughout the day.
MSU’s annual Study Abroad Fair will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday at Breslin Center. Each year, the fair, sponsored by the MSU Office of Study Abroad, provides students with the opportunity to explore the programs the university has to offer for that year.
In a galaxy not too far away, a record recently was broken — the densest galaxy known to man was discovered by an MSU assistant professor of physics and astronomy with the help of a team of astronomers.
Michigan jobless rates are up for the third month in a row, creeping to nine percent unemployment. The state was dubbed the nation’s fourth-most unemployed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But getting a college degree still seems to be the best pathway to a high-paying career.
MSU research shows that bullying and harassment over the Internet or by text message can have as much impact on a student’s well-being as physical abuse. One study published earlier this year by MSU criminologist Thomas Holt showed students bullied online or by cell phone are just as likely to skip school or contemplate suicide as those who are physically bullied.
Tom Anastos is a man who likes experience, and fortunately for him, this year’s MSU hockey team is gaining in that area. “This year, for the most part, we have guys that know what the expectations are,” Anastos said. “We have guys that have college experience now, where last year we didn’t have that.”