The senior class of the MSU field hockey team will take their final steps on Ralph Young Field this Saturday as they play their last home game of the season.
For acclaimed Grand Rapids craft beer bar owner and MSU alumnus Mark Sellers, the choice to open an additional HopCat establishment in downtown East Lansing was a natural progression.
With an NCAA Tournament bid lingering ahead of them, members of the MSU men’s soccer team (7-7-1, 2-2-0 Big Ten) are gearing up for the tail end of the season and determined to turn the season into a winning one.
The American Cancer Society is urging people to “Go Pink” at its Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk Saturday at the Capitol in downtown Lansing.
The MSU volleyball got to enjoy its last four games in the state of Michigan, but this weekend it hit the road as it travels to Indiana for a pair of games.
After a strong fall campaign, the No. 12 MSU women’s golf team finishes off the fall season as they travel to the Landfall Tradition in Wilmington, N.C., this weekend.
To Lansing resident Diane Wey, making art is just an excuse to bond with friends and family.
For the couple hundred students living in transitional housing this fall, living situations proved frustrating.
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, will be a historic day in American history. Sure, it happens to be the day the presidential election falls on, which could unseat an incumbent president or give America four more years of the first African American president. But there’s one more very important thing happening on Nov. 6 that should be brought to everyone’s attention: it is my 20th birthday.
Young voter turnout in 2008 rose to 51.1 million, making it the highest rate ever. Two million more young people voted than in 2004.
Echoes of screaming girls stalking a tour bus across the country can mean only one thing: there’s a touring boy band.
On Oct. 22, kinesiology senior and State News employee Kate Vann traveled to Auckland, New Zealand for the 2012 International Triathlon Union, or ITU, World Championship.
In the next year, the Grand Rapids-based HopCat brewery might be calling East Lansing home as well, according to The Grand Rapids Press.
At the edge of campus, MSU students have looked down Michigan Avenue for years and seen the same houses, closed businesses and, at the very end of the street, the white dome of the Capitol.
With freshman enrollment for fall 2012 at an all-time high, the university now plans to decrease the number of incoming freshman admitted, at least for the next few years, according to an enrollment report presented at the University Council meeting Tuesday. The incoming freshman class grew from about 7,700 last year to about 8,100 this year, according to the report. MSU Provost Kim Wilcox at the University Council meeting MSU had more success in attracting incoming freshmen than expected. “We have to make an educated guess on who is likely to come based on prior years,” Wilcox said. According to the report, the university projects to admit fewer freshmen in the coming years — about 7,700 in 2013, 7,500 in 2014 and 7,300 in 2015 and 2016.
Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, D-Detroit, was in town Wednesday touring MSU facilities and visiting businesses in the Lansing area. Levin, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and is a member of the Great Lakes Task Force, is the longest-serving U.S. senator from Michigan, after being elected in 1978.
While many Spartans mourned their loss against the University of Michigan, psychology senior Caitlin Kelly felt little remorse about making the drive to Ann Arbor this past weekend for the game.
As the November election approaches, here is a look at the candidates competing for two spots on the MSU Board of Trustees. The board decides on numerous issues, such as budget, tuition, faculty appointments and construction project approvals.
According to the study, Asian Americans identify as Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs, among others, while about a quarter say they are unaffiliated.
After witnessing his aunt successfully battle breast cancer, social relations and policy senior Austin Muir has been conscious of the struggles of cancer.