Adreanna Scribner, an out-of-state international relations sophomore, traveled about 800 miles from home to come to MSU. Being that far away from home was a challenge for Scribner, which got her thinking about how some troops overseas must feel being more than 5,000 miles away from their homes in the U.S.
After watching both her parents fight cancer, special education junior Megan Jenkins refused to take the reality of cancer sitting down. Instead, to help raise money for children with cancer and their families, she chose to stand up to the disease as part of the MSU Dance Marathon.
Flashing lights, circling cameras and screaming fans greeted Lansing-based metal and hard rock band DeverauX as it took the stage to tape its first music video Friday.
Blake Treadwell knows both sides of the line better than most — probably because he’s played three positions in four years for the MSU football team. Starting his Spartan career at defensive tackle, the now-junior made the switch from a defensive lineman to an offensive lineman during spring football last year and started at center in MSU’s first three games in 2011.
For the second straight weekend, the MSU softball team suffered a weekend sweep at the hands of a Big Ten opponent. The Spartans (10-23 overall, 0-6 Big Ten) dropped both games of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon, 9-4 and then 14-1 in a game that ended after the fifth inning because of the mercy rule.
MSU student season tickets for the 2012 football season will go on sale April 7 from the Spartan Ticket Office. The tickets are priced at $175 and include admission to each of MSU’s seven home games this fall and an official 2012 student section T-shirt priced at $10.
In just two days the MSU women’s tennis team (8-8 overall, 0-5 Big Ten) suffered two similar losses to Indiana and Purdue, both 6-1.
The MSU men’s tennis team continued its winning ways this weekend, as it defeated Indiana 5-2 on Saturday and Purdue 6-1 on Sunday at MSU Indoor Tennis Facility. Despite Purdue picking up the doubles point on Sunday, the Spartans (14-8 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) rallied with a sweep in singles action.
This is one of the major times of the year when people search for new housing space in East Lansing. Because there is no MSU Housing Fair this spring, it is especially important to remind readers of East Lansing’s civil rights ordinance that protects against discrimination in housing, public accommodations, services and employment.
Ah yes, an unusually warm spring day, and I’m sitting by the Red Cedar River, pondering life beside the sound of billowing rapids. All at once I see it, a piece of plastic floating through my otherwise unspoiled view of nature.
After months of meetings and developments, ASMSU has achieved little progress on its tracking mobile application for MSU students, faculty and local residents. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, has planned to develop an app to track Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, buses on mobile phones.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., celebrated its 10th Annual Hair and Fashion Show on Satruday evening at Wharton Center. With 42 female models, nine different scenes and one musical performance, the show attracted a crowd of more than 200 people. The models showcased clothing from a variety of stores ranging from swimwear to formal wear.
It just wasn’t the MSU softball team’s day. In the Spartans’ (10-22 overall, 0-5 Big Ten) first conference series of the seaon against Ohio State (20-11, 4-1) at Secchia Stadium at Old College Field, they lost the first two games in Saturday’s double-header. Despite attempting to make a comeback, MSU fell 9-4 in the first game before being mercied, 14-1, in the second game as the Buckeyes made contact at nearly every at-bat.
Tony Bucciferro hasn’t always had the best luck against Ohio State. Coming into Saturday’s matchup, the senior pitcher had surrendered 22 hits and 13 earned runs in 10.2 innings of work in his last two outings against the Buckeyes. Even as Bucciferro reversed his fortune Saturday with a nine strikeout performance with just two hits surrendered in eight innings, the MSU baseball team (15-8 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) couldn’t overcome the two walks by his replacement sophomore David Garner in the ninth and were out-dueled by the Buckeyes, 1-0, at McLane Baseball Stadium at Old College Field.
Although it’s early in the spring season — with the spring game not until April 28 — the coaching staff said it’s been impressed with the first week of practice, seeing potential for development in several areas.
The East Lansing Police Department and East Lansing Fire Departments responded to a vehicle submerged in the Red Cedar River at about midnight Friday morning near the intersection of Grand River Avenue and Hagadorn Road.
Local police and fire respondents are investigating a vehicle submerged at the bottom of the Red Cedar River near the bridge on Hagadorn Road.
After more than a year’s effort, the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, passed a bill Wednesday night setting up flexible housing for fall 2012, a year earlier than previously planned. The new flexible housing option, which will allow some on-campus residents to live with members of the opposite sex, is expected to be implemented as a pilot program in some suite-style rooms in West McDonel and North Wonders halls, said Kathy Collins, Director of Campus Living Services and Residence Life.
On April 1, 2011, Charlie was diagnosed with a rare brainstem cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG. Survival rates are slim to none, and most children die within a year of their diagnosis. Almost a year later, Charlie isn’t bedbound or visibly sick. A beaming smile rests on his face as he plays dinosaurs with his sister or stops to admire a spider crawl by.
A 20-year-old female student reported her wallet was stolen between 2-2:20 p.m. March 27 after she left it on a Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus, MSU police Sgt.