Hundreds cheered as MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon and her colleagues cut the ribbon at Wells Hall’s East Plaza on Friday, welcoming College of Arts and Letters students and professors to MSU’s new language education hub.
Song, dance and laughter filled the streets of East Lansing on Sunday afternoon as members from the MSU and Lansing Jewish communities carried a freshly scribed Sefer Torah Scroll from the Union to its new home at the Chabad of Lansing/MSU, 540 Elizabeth St. — a monumental event for the Jewish community.
As doctoral student Behnaz Ghaffari patiently waited for the route 31 Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus to Brody Complex Neighborhood to arrive, she couldn’t help but feel thankful — the bus stop she stood at in front of Olin Health Center included several improvements from last year.
For MSU Bikes Service Center manager Tim Potter, his commute to work can be a difficult one if there isn’t a bike lane. Between sharing the road with motorists, who often yell at him for riding on the shoulder, to a couple of close calls with CATA buses, biking without a proper lane isn’t ideal. “Bicyclists do venture out into riding in the road; it’s pretty scary,” Potter said.
On Thursday night, as President Barack Obama officially was accepting his party’s nomination for another term in the White House at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., I was holed up in a hotel lobby three blocks away scrounging for public Wi-Fi to watch the speech — sadly, on C-SPAN, because a student journalist is last on the VIP list for exclusive presidential access. For the past three days, I had been running all over the city covering events that are pivotal to the Democratic Party platform and the President’s re-election efforts, including caucuses targeting a specific demographic of voters and rah-rah gatherings by legislators who have devoted themselves to Obama.
Students who walked past the former Barnes and Noble, 333 E. Grand River Ave., did not see an empty building on Saturday, but rather a room filled with families bonding through art.
With the terms of current MSU Trustees Joel Ferguson and Melanie Foster set to expire in 2013, the Republican and Democratic parties each selected two candidates for the upcoming November election at each party’s convention this past weekend.
All the scoring for the MSU women’s soccer team happened in the second half, as they defeated the Eastern Michigan Eagles 2-0 Sunday afternoon.
The Spartans have opened the 2012 season with three consecutive invitational championships by winning the Spartan Showcase, University of Connecticut Classic and the Auto-Owners Insurance Spartan Invitational over the last three weekends. Junior outside hitter Lauren Wicinski now has garnered a pair of MVP trophies — sophomore libero Kori Moster took home the MVP from the Connecticut Classic — and no fewer than five Spartans have been named to an all-tournament team.
A rough weekend for MSU field hockey concluded with a 3-1 loss to Northeastern on Sunday at Ralph Young Field at Old College Field. The Spartans were hoping to bounce back from their double-overtime loss to Virginia on Friday, but a second-half surge by the Huskies was enough to put the game away.
Scattered graffiti cans and a field of worn grass on the corner of Washington Avenue and Malcom X Street were the remnants of Art Attack!, a competition Saturday meant to encourage the integration of art into the community through an on-site art contest, Michigan bands and local vendors.
Following a pair of games over a long weekend on the East Coast, the MSU men’s soccer team (2-3-1) will return to East Lansing with a loss and a win.
It was the biggest play of DeAnthony Arnett’s young MSU career. The sophomore receiver’s 48-yard reception was a careerlong and set up an MSU touchdown on the Spartans’ opening drive of the second half against Central Michigan, but after the game Arnett hardly was thrilled. After playing less than a handful of plays in the Spartans’ season-opening victory against then-No. 24 Boise State, MSU receivers coach Terrence Samuel said Arnett likely would see an increase in playing time on Saturday.
Nearly 35 years after its grand opening, the record store Flat, Black and Circular, or FBC, 541 E. Grand River Ave., remains a strong component in East Lansing.
This fall, for the first time, MSU undergraduates will have the opportunity to officially declare themselves neuroscientists.
Just a week after MSU football fans were greeted with brand new $10 million scoreboards, they are receiving news that Spartan Stadium is set for another round of renovations on the north end zone.
Five new members of the Faculty Liaison Group to the MSU Board of Trustees and the University Committee on Academic Governance chosen by the Faculty Senate were announced Wednesday.
Different weekend, same old story. For the third consecutive weekend, MSU volleyball has taken home the title from a weekend invitational.
It’s been over a decade since MSU legend T.J. Duckett donned a green and white uniform, but Saturday afternoon there was another No. 8 lining up in MSU’s backfield. Redshirt freshman defensive end Lawrence Thomas — “LT” to his coaches and teammates — saw an expanded role in a place few expected to see — at the fullback position.
There was every reason to exhale. Every reason to enjoy the victory over Boise State a little too long, and think ahead to Notre Dame a little too early. But from start to finish, the Spartans made it clear: they came to Mt. Pleasant, Mich., to dominate, and refused to relent.