On Feb. 26, an event occurred that proves racism still is alive and well in this country. It also reaffirms some negative aspects of human character. The shooting of Trayvon Martin is a very unique case.
After years of planning, talking and virtually nothing being accomplished, the City Center II project finally is breaking ground.
On paper, the MSU baseball team has an offense to compete with any team in the Big Ten and many teams across the country.
After taking two out of three against Ohio State last weekend to open up Big Ten play, the MSU baseball fell to in-state rival Michigan 4-0 in the weekend opener on Friday in Ann Arbor. Senior pitcher Tony Bucciferro took the loss for the Spartans (18-9 overall, 2-2 Big Ten) and his record on the year falls to 3-2.
MSU basketball player Derrick Nix waived his right to an arraignment on Friday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court, according to court records.
A 19-year-old male student and a 19-year-old female student reported their cell phones were stolen between 8:45 and 9 p.m.
For the friends and family of Darren and Owen, it’s been two years of waiting. Waiting while the investigation by the Lansing Police Department was turned over to the Michigan State Police. Waiting for the trial and conviction of Lansing resident Benjamin French for the murders. Waiting for David Marion Jr. to plead guilty. Despite justice being served, Darren Brown Jr. and Owen Goodenow are forever taken.
Lansing – With a weekend three-game series against Michigan approaching, Jake Boss Jr. saw an opportunity in the Crosstown Showdown to showcase the depth of his pitchers in his arsenal.
After a break from the usual grind Thursday at the Crosstown Showdown, the MSU baseball team gets back to Big Ten play Friday with the first of three games against arch-rvial Michigan. With Thursday’s 7-0 loss to the Lansing Lugnuts being a fun exhibition, the Spartans (18-8 overall, 2-1 Big Ten) will have to turn up the intensity for the series with the Wolverines (12-16, 0-3). And junior utility player Tony Wieber said that shouldn’t be a problem. “I don’t think you need much motivation,” Wieber said.
Accompanied by a burly German shepherd named Harper, East Lansing resident Cheryl Wade enters the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing, 1710 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, each Tuesday with a smile.
Growing up in Thessaloniki, Greece, marketing senior Maria Palestis had always been told Greece and Turkey were political adversaries, constantly butting ideological heads.
Army Sgt. Taylor Ruel steps down from a truck contaminated with hazardous chemicals during his evaluated mission Thursday afternoon at the parking lot of The Peoples Church, 200 W.
Determined to win, even after being hit in the face with a water balloon, Brieanna Finn tossed one back to her partner on Thursday at the Sigma Chi fraternity house, 729 E. Grand River Ave. “I don’t care if I’m soaking wet,” Finn said, her hair dripping. “It’s all for a good cause.”
East Lansing soon will get a taste of the tropics with the opening of a new Tropical Smoothie Café. The restaurant will open at 1201 E. Grand River Ave., on April 16, said the store’s co-owner, Ruth Buko, an MSU alumna.
Democratic lawmakers and ethics experts are questioning whether State Rep. Bob Genetski, R-Saugatuck, can legitimately play a role shaping MSU’s budget while he is facing criminal charges stemming from his drunken driving arrest on campus. While Democratic leaders have opposed some of the strings attached to university funding proposed by Genetski’s committee, which would require MSU to remove its health care mandate to retain state funding, they now are arguing Genetski has a conflict of interest in deciding MSU’s budget altogether.
Susan Reverby, professor of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College, was at MSU Thursday to speak about her findings of a U.S.
Students might pay about $300 more for on-campus housing next academic year if the Board of Trustees approves a 4 percent increase in housing and dining rates next Friday. The Division of Residential and Hospitality Services, or RHS, presented the proposed increase, which would raise housing rates from $8,154 to $8,476 for the 2012-13 academic year, during a Residence Halls Association, or RHA, meeting on Wednesday.
The city of East Lansing and MSU announced yesterday their selection of this year’s One Book, One Community reading, the nonfiction narrative “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo.
Members of ASMSU’s General Assembly wrapped up this year’s session on Thursday night with a heartfelt meeting.
Erica and Jessica Cutler are roommates, competitors, best friends and twins. “Usually we have a basic understanding between the two of us,” elementary education sophomore Jessica Cutler said, who is a member of the women’s swim team with her sister Erica. “It’s not like twin telepathy, it’s just from being around each other so much.”