In a sea of electrified students, Michael Gonczar wobbled back and forth to the beat in the middle of Jenison Field House on Saturday evening. The environmental studies and agriscience senior was one of many attendees at the first-ever Cultural Remix who participated in a line dance number at the event. “It was a lot of fun,” Gonczar said.
This week the nation funds our priorities as we pay our annual tax bill. Tax expenditures thus speak to who we are as a people. They define the sacrifices and choices we are willing to make as we look to the future for our nation and citizens young and old alike.
Since this will be the last column I will be writing this spring, I figured I should leave State News readers with a little life lesson that I’ve learned from myself going into the summer.
Some students look at college as a time to experiment, make mistakes and learn from them — it’s supposed to be a learning experience, not only in the classroom but also in life.
For the first four innings, the MSU softball team was step-for-step with No. 20 Michigan at Secchia Stadium at Old College Field. But then came the fifth. Freshman pitcher Carly Nielsen threw four innings of shutout softball before letting up a one-out, two-RBI single to U-M’s Haylie Wagner that sparked an eight-run fifth inning that ended the Spartans’ day early, falling at home 8-0.
Seven practices in, the MSU football team prepared for its first scrimmage of the spring football season, and there has been some movement at several different positions. Head coach Mark Dantonio spoke briefly about his decision to move junior Denzel Drone from defensive end to tight end and indicated the switch could be permanent.
The MSU Board of Trustees unanimously approved the Energy Transition Plan at its Friday meeting, prompting many students to express their disapproval and shout over board members.
For comparative cultures and politics freshman Tommy Kladis, there’s more to school than hitting the books and studying day in and day out. Kladis has a passion for writing his own lyrics to express his thoughts through rapping. “What I’ve learned from James Madison (College) is you should do what you can to change the world, and I feel I could be the most effective influencing the world through music,” Kladis said.
Looking up at the words she had written across a wall in Morrill Hall, Melissa Downing could not help but feel nostalgic. Morrill Hall is scheduled to be torn down in March 2013, and the English Department hosted A Literary Graffiti Project on Thursday to celebrate National Poetry Month and the department’s place in Morrill Hall.
MSU alumni will be saddled with more debt a decade after leaving school than other college graduates, according to a new service that compares college debt at institutions across the country. The U.S.
Since the release of a Macintosh Java update, a virus has affected more than 600,000 Apple computers. But MSU IT Services communications manager Beth Bonsall said the virus has not affected computer labs across the MSU campus.
A 25-year-old male student reported his backpack and laptop were stolen between 1 and 5 p.m. April 2 from the Plant and Soil Sciences Building, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
A report released last month by Pediatrics, a scholarly journal on youth medicine, claims more young adults are suffering bad reactions from the substances, often named “K2” or “spice.”
Just in time for summer, a new ice cream shop will open its doors for business at 2850 E. Grand River Ave., in Okemos, on April 20. The shop, Twisters Soft-Serve Ice Cream, will be the eighth in a franchise that was started 12 years ago by owner Joe Spadafore, his brother and his father.
Emily McKay sees room for growth in urban farming, and she’s been cultivating her education to start her own plot. “There are so many opportunities that are popping up,” said the horticulture senior, who volunteers at a local children’s garden. “I’m not worried about finding a job.”
When Sarah McPharlin was 11 years old, she almost died. After catching an autoimmune virus that caused her body to attack her heart, she was hospitalized and eventually placed on the organ donation wait list — she needed a new heart. After 38 days on the list, the kinesiology senior underwent a heart transplant. Although McPharlin realizes how lucky she was to have her life saved by organ donation, many others still are waiting for that chance.
This weekend, MSU’s campus will be invaded by curious visitors and students of years past for the College of Natural Science’s third annual Science University event. Beginning Friday, about 140 alumni, faculty, staff, students and visitors are expected to make their way to MSU to attend an awards program for the college, tours of campus buildings and courses and presentations about the latest scientific happenings at MSU, Elizabeth Wheeler, College of Natural Science alumni relations coordinator, said in an email.
Lansing’s second annual Capital City Film Festival began rolling Thursday evening, with leaders and filmmakers gathering downtown for a red carpet opening celebration.
Born in Somalia, biomedical laboratory operations junior Salman Muridi holds the country close to his heart. But that’s not the only reason he cares about the famine currently affecting Somalians nationwide. “It’s not just the fact that that’s my homeland, it’s the fact that people are dying and nobody (is) doing anything about it,” he said.
After dropping two out of three against Michigan last weekend and a lopsided loss at the hands of Eastern Michigan on Wednesday, the MSU baseball team will look to right the ship in Big Ten play on Friday with the first of three games against Indiana in Bloomington, Ind. With Wednesday’s 13-5 walloping by the Eagles in the past, the Spartans (20-11 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) are challenged to raise the level of fervency in their play against the Hoosiers (15-18, 5-4).