After a massacre in Homs, Syria, on Sunday, lifeless bodies and charred remains of desolate homes fill some streets of the same city where international relations junior Anas Attal once played soccer.
As the success of the MSU football team grows, so does the number of fans who wish to be at every game. The Spartan Ticket Office has received a high volume of orders for season ticket packages for the upcoming home football season, to the point where Associate Athletics Director Paul Schager said MSU is expecting a record number of sales.
New details regarding the arrest of State Rep. Bob Genetski, R-Saugatuck, by MSU police show a more vivid picture of what happened during the early hours of Jan. 19, when he was taken into custody on campus for drunken driving.
Caroline Roberts is already spending more than $80 per week on gas commuting to MSU. However, with the expected gas spikes approaching, she can expect to spend even more money at the pump.
When accounting senior Mike DeBona came to MSU, he had the intention of majoring in a business-related field. After initially choosing marketing, he eventually changed his major to accounting because of the strength of the program. “The economy’s tough and I wanted job security,” DeBona said. “The fact that (the program) was recognized so highly and challenging … I thought it would provide me with a versatile degree.”
As the worlds of entertainment and technology unite in Austin, Texas, thousands of people — including some from MSU — are attending the annual Southwest Music and Media Conference. The conference, commonly referred to as South by Southwest, or SXSW, hosts several sessions to showcase the latest in interactive media, said Tim Bograkos, the young alumni coordinator for the MSU Alumni Association and a conference attendee. During Twitter’s infancy, years ago, the service was first shown off at the conference.
Spartans aren’t known to root for Wolverines, but as the MSU women’s basketball team (20-11 overall, 11-5 Big Ten) waited to see if it made the NCAA Tournament, the school from Ann Arbor gave reason to hope.
Results of a recent study questioning the legitimacy of the U.S. Naturalization Test might cause concern for immigrants, including some MSU students vying for official citizenship status in the U.S., according to an MSU professor. Paula Winke, assistant professor of second language studies and lead researcher on the study, said the analysis largely focused on the randomness and level of difficulty of different questions asked in the civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test and determined the test structure might be unreliable.
ASMSU is hosting a contest for a student to win an invitation to dinner with New York Times White House correspondent Sheryl Stolberg. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
The men’s basketball team defeated Ohio State on Sunday to win the Big Ten Tournament and went on to earn a spot as the No.
Discussions of gender-neutral housing on campus by student government groups have turned a corner with the suggestion of more flexibility for students with specific needs.
Tyler Pratt almost didn’t attend MSU. As a high school senior last year, Pratt thought for sure he was going to be able to attend MSU in fall 2011, but that was before he was deferred by the Office of Admissions.
Spartans are known for being spirited, and when it comes to celebrating holidays or other worthy occasions, students tend to go all out.
Although interdisciplinary studies in social science junior Megan Smith grew up volunteering regularly, she said she truly did not understand how easy it is to take little things such as food and water for granted until she took a mission trip to Venezuela during spring break. “I can’t imagine what my life would be like if I was in (the people’s) shoes,” she said.
For most people St. Patrick’s Day is a day of parades, parties, leprechauns and green beer. But just as Christmas is about more than commercialized fun, so too does St.
One’s true beauty is not determined by the number of “likes” he or she receives on a Facebook profile picture. I recently saw a girl’s profile picture with more than 310 likes.
MSU’s Main Library is playing a part in cutting back on students’ study time rather than providing it, and members of ASMSU’s Academic Assembly are fighting back.
Entering the Big Ten Tournament, the MSU men’s basketball team dropped two in a row and a chance at an outright Big Ten regular-season title,but the Spartans (27-7) bounced back and won their outright title on Sunday and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
A tornado watch has been issued for Ingham County, including MSU, until 11 p.m. tonight. According to the National Weather Service, tornadoes, hail up to an inch in diameter and wind gusts up to 70 mph are possible with any thunderstorms that develop. Keep checking statenews.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/thesnews for the latest developments.
A car hit a street light and flipped upside down near the intersection of Albert Avenue and Collingwood Drive between 5:30-6 p.m. Sunday, East Lansing police officer Derek Rodriguez said.