In separate opinions, the court also upheld three other ballot proposals: requiring a two-thirds vote in the state Legislature to raise taxes; voter approval for new bridges to Canada; and protecting collective bargaining rights from possible right-to-work legislation.
The MSU football team has been getting attention lately because of some players’ tweets about the U-M football loss to Alabama, but one MSU student-athlete has been making an impression for quite some time — and causing much less trouble along the way.
MSU’s receiving corps have heard it all before. They’re young. They’re untested. They make mistakes. They can’t make the big plays. Junior running back Le’Veon Bell will have to carry this offense. After Friday’s game, it only got worse. The passing game took a backseat to Bell’s monstrous performance, as the Spartans struggled to move the ball through the air. Three interceptions and a fumble by sophomore wide receiver Tony Lippett later and MSU doesn’t appear to boast the same wideout pedigree it has in the past.
When the No. 11 MSU football team (1-0) takes the field and one of the country’s most heralded defenses lines up each Saturday, a glance across the field often shows Johnny Adams and Darqueze Dennard matched up on their own, with no one around to help them.
On Sept. 4 and 5, the Music Building began to fill with the clammy hands, heightened heartbeats and humming voices of prospective new members of State of Fifths, one of MSU’s coed a capella groups.
When interior design sophomore Kelsey Powell began visiting her grandmother in the hospital during her sophomore year of high school, she couldn’t help but notice her surroundings.
Editor’s Note: Views expressed in guest columns and letters to the editor reflect the views of the author, not the views of The State News. When I walked into my first class at MSU three years ago, I didn’t really know what to expect. The class was held in the largest lecture hall on campus, which I quickly found out.
The upcoming November election will be shaped by many factors, whether voters concentrate on the economy, illegal immigration or social issues.
As social relations and policy sophomore Curtis Audette washed his hands in a hotel restroom Tuesday afternoon, he looked to his side and was shocked.
The drama and controversy the St. Anne Lofts has experienced throughout its construction, which began last October, continued at Tuesday night’s East Lansing City Council meeting, when city officials debated whether the structure would be safe enough for residents to occupy.
There wasn’t a louder moment during Tuesday afternoon’s LGBT Caucus at the Democratic National Convention than when American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten pounded her fist on the podium and the entire room erupted in cheers.
On Oct. 24, the Union can be added to the list of buildings on MSU’s campus to receive a face lift within the past few months.
MSU did not make it onto the Princeton Review’s top party school list for the second-consecutive year, leaving some students pleased and others disappointed.
After reading an investigative report on the allegations against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon has taken measures to prevent sexual abuse at MSU.
The players included junior linebackers Denicos Allen and freshman Jamal Lyles, redshirt freshman safety Kyle Artinian and sophomore running back Nick Hill, and Dantonio made it clear the behavior would not be tolerated.
It’s becoming clear that this year’s MSU field hockey team is very different from last year’s, even if most of the players are the same.
MSU graduate students can rest easy knowing their student government is taking strides to implement transparency and self-regulation policies for this semester.
With the Big Ten season looming, the MSU women’s soccer team looks to take its level of play to the next level in the next three games, which all are against in-state teams.
It sounds like the sentiments of a hopeless Detroit Lions fan circa 2008, but the above statements fit the MSU men’s soccer team (1-2-1) better than any other to this point in the season. Junior keeper Bryce Dobbins summed up the season perfectly last week, saying the team is always right there.
After his 265 total-yard, two-touchdown performance against then-No. 24 Boise State Friday night, junior running back Le’Veon Bell has been thrust into the national spotlight, raking in Offensive Big Ten Co-Player of the week honors and eliciting talks of possible Heisman candidacy.