MICHIGAN
Halloween hooligans stay on alert
For Megan Turcotte, police trouble isn’t something she, or other students, want to trick or treat for.
MSU
New Multicultural Center approved
Last year, when the Black Student Alliance, or BSA, made a list of demands after a string of racial events on the MSU campus, a new, freestanding Multicultural Center was on the list.
MSU
Spartan Sprint 5K fosters friendship, community
Students slowly making their way back to their dorms in East Neighborhood after a long night of celebrating Halloween shared the sidewalk with around 30 runners Saturday morning.
SOCCER
Column: Women's soccer disappointed by finish, hopeful for future
Even after losing what head coach Tom Saxton regarded as his best recruiting class last year, he still had an ambitious attitude for what he wanted his team to accomplish.
VOLLEYBALL
Volleyball splits weekend Indiana road trip
It was a hard-fought weekend for the MSU volleyball team, but the Spartans left Indiana with one win and one heartbreaking loss on the weekend.
SPORTS
Kroll wins Big Ten Cross Country Championships, women's team finishes second
For junior Sara Kroll, brutally cold temperatures and off-and-on spurts of rain weren’t going to be enough to stop her from crossing the finish line first in the women’s 6000 meter of the 2012 Big Ten Cross Country Championships.
SPORTS
Field hockey ends regular season with loss to No. 5 Penn State
Heading into halftime trailing by just a goal, it appeared that the No. 21 MSU field hockey team was on the verge of a Senior Day upset over No.
FEATURES
Roommates put relationships to test in The Roommates Game
It’s been said that individuals don’t know one another until they live together. Friday night, MSU’s University Activities Board, or UAB, put the theory to the test with The Roommates Game.
FEATURES
Competitors participate in 4th season of dating show
When kinesiology senior Mo Saaidi got the call asking him to be one of 14 eligible bachelors on the fourth season of Oxygen’s dating competition series, “Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too,” he decided to dive into the experience.
FEATURES
Haunted Aud brings fright, entertainment to students
Theatre senior Michael Cleland spent his Halloween weekend caged in the Auditorium, hidden by a corpse — or so it appeared to attendees of the Department of Theatre’s annual Haunted Aud.
COMMENTARY
Effects of social media still unknown
The world is more interconnected now than ever before. With the invention of the Internet, ideas and communication can travel from one side of the world to the other in seconds.
COMMENTARY
Vote for Obama, expect more war
One of my roommates, Pat, isn’t someone who is very vocal about being disappointed too often. However, I vividly remember the beginning of our freshman year, when Pat was livid about losing a bumper sticker he had gotten for free. The bumper sticker, which Pat claims was stolen by one of our friends, was from the Green Party, and it read: “Make love, not war.”
VOLLEYBALL
Volleyball splits weekend road trip in Indiana
This weekend was one of highs and lows for the MSU volleyball team, as they won one and lost one in Indiana.
ICE HOCKEY
Icers split weekend series with Lake Superior State
The MSU hockey team (2-3-1 overall, 1-1-0 CCHA) returns home from the opening weekend of CCHA play with a weekend split to Lake Superior State, or LSSU.
FOOTBALL
Column: Gritty win restores life, optimism to MSU's season
When Andrew Maxwell took the field with just over six minutes remaining and Wisconsin leading 10-3, the feeling of déjà vu was unmistakable.
FOOTBALL
Miracle in Madison
The last time MSU beat Wisconsin on the final play of a regular season game, then-sophomore defensive end William Gholston found himself on the outside looking in as his teammates celebrated a 37-31 victory over the Badgers in East Lansing.
NEWS
Two shootings reported Saturday on I-96, motorist wounded
Two shootings were reported on I-96 in Livingston County earlier Saturday, and police believe they are connected to 22 other shootings that occurred late last week, according to the Detroit Free Press.
FOOTBALL
Spartans rally to defeat No. 25 Wisconsin in overtime, 16-13
The MSU football team stole a win at Camp Randall Stadium, topping the Badgers 16-13 in overtime on a 12-yard touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Bennie Fowler.
SOCCER
Women's soccer ends season with 1-0 loss to Northwestern
Even in a year of transition, this wasn’t the season the MSU women’s soccer team expected. It wasn’t the one they would have hoped for. And by any stretch of the imagination, it certainly wasn’t the one head coach Tom Saxton would have liked.
FOOTBALL
Spartans trail No. 25 Wisconsin 7-3 at halftime
Once again, missed opportunities haunt the Spartans (4-4 overall, 1-3 Big Ten) as they enter the locker room at halftime trailing Wisconsin (6-2, 3-1), 7-3.