When Mark Dantonio looks down the road to the coach who leads the fabled program a little more than 60 miles south, he sees a man he respects, a program back on the rise and a challenge as great as any during his tenure as the Spartans’ head coach. The MSU football team (4-3 overall, 1-2 Big Ten) will take that trip down south to face archrival No.
Silver Moore wishes that at some point in the future, she will be able to come back to MSU for Homecoming and see the Multicultural Center standing freely on campus.
On-campus parking could get a little more complicated in coming years with the removals of the Bessey Hall ramp and Lot 37 next to Shaw Hall.
As of last year, the Red Cedar Elementary School — nestled in the Red Cedar neighborhood just across the street from Brody Complex Neighborhood and Breslin Center — has been on thin ice.
If human biology senior Nicole Desautels had her wish, every MSU senior would donate $20.13.
Many MSU groups cater to specific interests or demographics, but one program offers something everyone wants — simple guidelines to success.
Sean Johnson always wanted to own a restaurant. After about 15 years working as a mechanical contractor, he decided to act on his dream and open Meat.
When MSU graduate student Ghazala Imran transitions into her favored half-moon yoga position, she is at one with her body.
The MSU hockey team (0-2-0) is looking for little positives after last weekend. And after a pair of tough losses to top-ranked Minnesota on Gopher ice, little positives are all it really has.
After a rough weekend marred by two losses, the MSU volleyball team is looking to get its feet back under itself with a win on Wednesday. The team, however, that the Spartans are going up against isn’t just a regular team — it’s their in-state rival, Michigan.
As fans pack DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field for the MSU women’s soccer team, it’s the key players, big goals and critical coaching decisions that merit admiration. But in order to get the Spartans in optimal game condition, it’s the team’s resident managers who do the dirty work that often is unnoticed.
For Kevin Cope, there’s something special about in-state rivalry soccer. The junior defender said he’s looking forward to the MSU men’s soccer (5-7-1, 1-2-0 Big Ten) battle against Oakland Wednesday night, hopefully giving the Golden Grizzlies their first home loss of the season.
For the second time in as many weeks, junior tight end Dion Sims has been left off MSU’s weekly depth chart.
It almost is assumed now in American culture that after a student graduates from high school, the next step immediately is to attend a university for a two-year or four-year program and obtain a degree. But instead of heading directly to school, these days, many students are choosing to take a year off.
I’m walking on the sidewalk along the Red Cedar River, trying to decide whether or not to pull on my winter hat. It’s Saturday, two days after “the last day of good weather,” which people had been observing morosely to me all week.
It started as a typical chilly January evening of studying, working on homework with friends and surfing the Internet in the Business Library for psychology senior Jeff Karson.
MSU police are investigating a bicycle theft that occurred near the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in the early morning hours of Oct.
After battling all day through the cold, wind and rain, the Spartans’ defense took the field with 5:47 remaining, a 13-6 lead and the chance to end the game. For the first time all season, the MSU football team (4-3 overall, 1-2 Big Ten) had captured a halftime lead at home, and managed to build on it throughout the game. There wasn’t a need for a Herculean play to change momentum, just one more stop. But in the final minutes, with the game on the line,” the Spartan defense couldn’t get the ball back”:http://statenews.com/article/2012/10/thunderstruck, allowing Iowa (4-2, 2-0) to use nine plays to drive 68 yards for a game-tying touchdown with 55 seconds remaining. The inability for MSU’s defense to make a stop in the game’s final minutes has become a recurring trend dating back to losses to both Ohio State and Notre Dame earlier in the season. “There’s no doubt about it,” MSU defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi said about the defense’s late-game struggles.
Biking home to his house on Fairview Avenue from campus is not the most pleasant experience for history senior Ian Sanwald. Several times a week, he uses the River Trail along Kalamazoo Street for his commute and, while it is efficient, the trail’s creepy atmosphere isn’t comforting.
Public policy and economics senior Paul Mooney grew concerned last week when he received an email from a friend, a receptionist in North Neighborhood, which said no groups would be allowed to participate in door-to-door canvassing in the residence halls, even if the group has a document giving them permission.