Behind an unassuming green door on the east side of Spartan Stadium and up a couple of flights of stairs, troves of historical treasures are hidden underneath tarps, cardboard and a coating of dust — a world away from more than 75,000 roaring fans above.
With cuts in state funding for higher education during the last decade, some universities across the country are feeling the strain as they try to keep their programs competitive with less financial support. But even after restructuring budgets and increasing tuition, some people question if their degrees are worth the higher price. In a survey released Monday by Northeastern University, about 83 percent of participants said higher education institutions need to evolve to stay competitive in the global market.
Brothers Trevor and Calvin Badgley can trace their roots to a repairing shop at 304 S. Cippert St., in Lansing.
A state House committee struck down a bill to create a state-based online marketplace to compare health care options Thursday, abandoning efforts to meet the requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Impact 89FM might be at the beginning of the end when it comes to its frozen student-tax revenue.
When the MSU football team walked off the field victoriously one week ago in Minneapolis, the Spartans (6-6 overall, 3-5 Big Ten) clinched bowl eligibility and a return to postseason play for the sixth time in Mark Dantonio’s tenure as head coach.
For accounting sophomore Tyler Lynch, karma has been the key to his success at MSU.
Even in the clouds of defeat, the MSU basketball team has found its silver lining.
It has been more than three months since MSU volleyball’s season started, and they now are hours away from starting the most crucial portion of the year: the NCAA Tournament.
Before a national audience in the first game of the season, Bell established himself as the Spartans’ main offensive threat, carrying the ball a 2012 NCAA single game-high 44 times for 210 yards and MSU’s only two touchdowns.
Joshua Gronlund has never felt pressured to “convert.”
As classes wrap up and finals are quickly approaching, some students also are facing stress from another source — their search for summer jobs and internships.
It’s no secret junior running back Le’Veon Bell has had a phenomenal 2012. Bell has done a lot of heavy lifting for the Spartans (6-6 overall, 3-5 Big Ten) this season and, in doing so, has pieced together one of the most impressive rushing campaigns in MSU history.
Attorney General Bill Schuette filed a request with the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday to re-examine an appeals court’s override of a statewide ban on using affirmative action in university admissions.
When Ohio State hockey took Spartan ice for its first ever match up at MSU in 1970, the Buckeyes were handed a 4-2 loss. The pattern continued for almost 25 years, as MSU went 29-0-1 against Ohio State at home until Feb. 4, 1994 when the Spartans were defeated, 5-4, by the Buckeyes on home turf.
When the MSU wrestling team (1-0) takes on No. 17 Edinboro at 7 p.m. Friday at Jenison Field House, both mind and body must be in peak condition if the Spartans want to take down the Fighting Scots.
After months of deliberation, Brandon D’Annunzio’s law passed the House of Representatives unanimously Thursday and is one step closer to becoming a law.
On Thursday afternoon, an MSU professor and students sent a weather balloon into space at the Detroit/Pontiac, Mich. Weather Forecast Office in White Lake, Mich., that contained five high-definition cameras and a GPS unit in hopes to make a documentary of a behind-the-scenes look at the process of sending a weather balloon into space.
Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra only see their daughter a couple times a year — but with every phone call, every letter full of pictures and every visit, they are reminded of their decision.
Two years ago, interdisciplinary studies in social science senior Meghan Raycraft visited a local hot yoga business in her hometown of Kalamazoo, Mich.