When on stage portraying a young, love-struck woman, Chasten Harmon said she is living out her dream. Harmon plays Eponine, one of the main characters in the Broadway musical “Les Misérables.” It’s a role many actresses aspire to land, Harmon said.
After losing the first game of the Big Ten season 1-0 against Ohio State on Saturday, baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr. said his Spartans knew they had two chances to redeem themselves against the Buckeyes. And by scraping out a 2-1 win Sunday and 10-5 victory Monday, MSU did just that, capturing two-of-three to open conference play at McLane Baseball Stadium at Old College Field.
Nearing the midway point of the baseball season, head coach Jake Boss Jr. has grown certain of the strength of this year’s ball club — the pitching. In the first two games of a three-game weekend series against Ohio State, senior Tony Bucciferro and junior Andrew Waszak combined to surrender just a single run in 16 innings of work, picking up a no decision and a win, respectively.
Growing up, decorating Easter eggs was one of my favorite spring activities. Although many college students like to think they’ve outgrown such childhood traditions, little projects such as decorating Easter eggs can give you the chance to do something fun with friends and relieve a little stress in the middle of a jam-packed week.
The fate of the middle class hinges on the November presidential election. If Mitt Romney is elected president, the middle class is doomed.
Racism has been defined as “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.”
Safety on college campuses is a concern on the back of many people’s minds, and Michigan lawmakers are trying to ease that concern a little bit.
On Monday afternoon, four members of MSU Greenpeace hung a 20 by 20 foot sign that read, “SPARTAN GREEN? I WISH! We need 100% clean energy,” off the side of Ramp 2, a parking garage near Bessey Hall.
Alexandra Pew, an 18-year-old Ann Arbor resident who fell from the sixth floor of North Case Hall last week, has been released from Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed. Pew, a senior at Greenhills High School in Ann Arbor, was visiting friends in the dorm and playing catch in the sixth floor study lounge when she fell out of a window at about 3 a.m. March 25.
When biomedical laboratory operations junior Colleen Blake was in high school, she was an avid volunteer through the National Honor Society, fundraising primarily for cancer treatments and other community outreach programs.
University officials are warning of possible tuition increases next year after House Republicans turned up the heat in the battle over MSU’s health care mandate, adding a provision in the earliest stages of the budget process that threatens to strip funding.
Even after a dripping wet and damaged Buick Lucerne was hauled from the Red Cedar River about 3 a.m. Friday morning, unanswered questions still hang in the minds of students who saw or heard about what occurred.
Driving in the winning run before earning the save in the same game would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most baseball players. For Tony Wieber, it’s becoming a regular occurrence.
A 21-year-old female student reported some contents of her backpack were stolen March 27 between 1 and 1:30 p.m. from Anthony Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Talyor said.
Draymond Green and Tom Izzo were honored Sunday by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Senior forward Green was named the National Player of the Year, making him the third Spartan to earn National Player of the Year honors.
Big dogs, small dogs, fluffy dogs and scrappy dogs joined to help fellow canines get medical treatment Saturday morning in the second annual IRONDOG 5K Run/Walk. More than 500 participants, some of which ran alongside their furry friends, accompanied hundreds of dogs to help raise money for the IRONDOG fund.
A few years ago, when Constantinos Coursaris visited Japan with a group of study abroad students, they got lost in a subway station looking for a train. Insisting on helping out, a local man showed them in the right direction, missing his own train in the process, said Coursaris, an assistant professor with the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media.
MSU’s undergraduate student governments, ASMSU and the Residence Halls Association, are holding elections this week for initiatives during the 2012-13 academic year. ASMSU’s elections take place from 8 a.m. today until 8 a.m. April 9 and serve to elect each college’s representatives to the group’s General Assembly for the next academic year.
With models in cages and money raining on the audience, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. 10th annual Hair and Fashion Show on Saturday was nothing short of wild.
For the fifth-consecutive year, MSU has received a record number of freshman applications — topping the 30,000 mark for the first time in school history.