For John and Joe Rizqallah, wrestling has never brought them closer. Both picked up the sport in middle school before coming to MSU and wrestling on the same team a year ago.
After hanging on the fringe for most of this season, the MSU women’s basketball team has cracked the Associated Press Top 25 poll this week. The No. 25 Spartans (16-2 overall, 4-1 Big Ten)are ranked for the first time since the final poll of the 2010-11 season.
With its new season of “BackStage Pass,” WKAR is all about local music.
The MSU Jazz Studies program received a $1 million donation from the MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, on Sunday. Students and faculty see the endowment as an opportunity to push the program to new heights.
Staying in shape throughout the school year might be a much simpler task for students if a new ASMSU policy is passed — but our waistlines won’t be the only thing feeling the burn.
The tough Big Ten gauntlet continues for the No. 13 MSU men’s basketball team (16-3 overall, 5-1 Big Ten), as the Spartans travel to Madison, Wisc., to take on the Badgers (13-5, 4-1). Join tonight’s live chat to get up-to-the-minute updates on the game and share comments and questions with The State News’ men’s basketball reporter, Josh Mansour.
MSU students and administrators alike have voiced concern about the sparse student attendance at Spartan football games this past season. Men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo said, “You can tell me about the ticket prices. You can tell me all that. Baloney, because the tickets are sold. It’s not about the ticket prices. It’s about the passion and the enthusiasm.”
Hundreds of millions of dollars in renovations. Revamped dorm rooms, more comfortable study spaces and shiny new cafeterias. Free laundry. Tutors and clinics minutes away. In the last several years, MSU has redone much of campus, from Brody Square to the Union to Shaw Hall. But for some students, being convinced to live on campus goes beyond the renovations. Living on means convenience, living off means independence.
Rawley Van Fossen pulled up his wool socks and shrugged on his thick winter coat at 4 a.m. Monday morning. Numb fingers and toes couldn’t keep him from watching President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Even though classes were cancelled Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, human resource management freshman Princess Harmon and 214 other students sat at desks in N130 Business College Complex and awaited their assignments.
To many students, the term “fiscal cliff” means a whole lot of nothing. But buried in the jargon and minute details of the bill Congress passed early this month to “avoid an economic disaster are some positive signs for Michigan industries — and for students looking for jobs in those industries.
It’s one of the most common and difficult barriers in all of collegiate athletics: the freshman wall. A talented freshman excels for the first several months of the season before experiencing a sudden and noticeable decline. Though difficult to predict when it might happen or the reason behind its occurrence, it’s a physical barrier facing many of college basketball’s diaper dandies.
Tempers flared and fists flew as the MSU wrestling team fell 27-12 to No. 3 Iowa on an emotion-filled Sunday afternoon. Twice during the meet, both teams received an unsportsmanlike point for fighting, forcing the referee to separate the wrestlers.
The buzzer sounded as the ball miraculously floated through the net.
The MSU women’s basketball team kicked off a challenging four-game stretch that features three road games with a 56-46 win on Sunday at Indiana behind sophomore guard Kiana Johnson’s15-point performance.
It was the same old song and dance for the MSU hockey team this weekend when they were swept two games in a row by Ferris State.
The fraternity held the AGR Beef Preview Show on Friday through Sunday at the Ingham County Fairgrounds, 700 E. Ash St., in Mason, for the first time. The event benefitted Michigan AgrAbility, which provides injured or disabled farmers with equipment and resources to continue working. The event raised about $4,000 for the charity, said David Stutzman, chair of the AGR Beef Preview Show, member of AGR and beef cattle management junior.
Among all of the tables set out for the Office for International Students and Scholars, or OISS, weekly Coffee Hour, one table stuck out vividly among the rest. While other tables offered different coffee varieties on simple black tablecloths, the Yalda table was festively decorated to reflect Persian traditions with purple and gold candles, and traditional food and drink such as pomegranate seeds, a specially-carved watermelon and Persian tea — all set on decorative red, blue and gold fabrics. “The difficult part was designing the watermelon, you see,” Persian Student Association president Fariborz Daneshvar said, who skyped with his family on the actual holiday — the Persian equivalent of Thanksgiving — which took place Dec. 21. Daneshvar, along with roughly 70 other Iranian students at MSU, celebrated the holiday away from his family. While it was disheartening for Daneshvar to be so far from home, he said he was happy the OISS helped him celebrate his Iranian culture on campus.
President Barack Obama officially was sworn into his second term of office Monday. Students weighed in on the inauguration and what they hope Obama focuses on during the next four years.
The MSU College of Music received a $1 million gift from MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, on Sunday to help create a new jazz studies artist in residence program as soon as next year.