MICHIGAN
St. Patrick’s Day brings influx of customers to local restaurants
For some East Lansing bars and restaurants, Saturday won’t be business as usual.
BASKETBALL
MSU to take on No. 7-seed Cardinals in first round
The madness has arrived. This weekend, the No. 10-seed MSU women’s basketball team (20-11) will open the first round of the NCAA Tournament against No. 7-seed Louisville (22-9) on Saturday (1:45 p.m., ESPN2) in College Park, Md.
BASKETBALL
Wood to make 1st NCAA Tournament appearance
Brandon Wood hasn’t always had it this good. Now a senior guard with the MSU men’s basketball team, it wasn’t long ago that Wood was playing at mid-major schools and community colleges.
MSU
Students celebrate East Asian culture in Brody Hall
For graduate student Tingli “Chilly” Cai, seeing a mixture of faces from all cultural backgrounds on Thursday evening made him feel at home.
FOOTBALL
Football's recent success shows in Pro Day performances
As 15 former Spartans worked out before 52 NFL representatives to prove their worth in the upcoming NFL Draft at MSU’s Pro Day on Wednesday, they also helped to prove the worth of MSU football.
MSU
RHA elects vice president
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, elected another student to its leadership ranks Wednesday night, as the group begins to build its executive board for the 2012-13 year.
SOFTBALL
Softball prepares for Hoosier Classic
When looking at the MSU softball team’s record (7-15) the initial impulse is to assume the team isn’t very good. But the Spartans have gone through a grueling preseason that head coach Jacquie Joseph touts as the toughest in the country and said, as a result, the team’s record is deceiving.
COMMENTARY
Criminalizing drugs has failed U.S.
At a young age we learned that violence is a poor way to solve our problems. The vast majority of us live our lives in this fashion, refraining from using violence to solve our disputes.
COMMENTARY
The dead live in family, friends
Some college kids spent their spring breaks partying in a hot-spot destination, and some spent theirs at home catching up with family and old friends.
BASEBALL
Baseball travels to Cincinnati for three-game series
As the MSU and Cincinnati men’s basketball teams prepare for the end of their season in the NCAA Tournament, the seasons of its respective baseball programs are just starting to come together. The Spartans (7-7) are looking for their bats to heat up and create a little March Madness this weekend in a three-game road series with the Bearcats (8-6) at Marge Schott Stadium in Cincinnati.
COMMENTARY
Students have right to keep life private
As summer draws near, many students are in the final process of applying for internships and jobs following graduation. n the social media-driven world we live in, the job-seeking process is no longer limited to just résumés and interviews. Job applicants are facing companies who look at Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and more to determine applicants’ candidacy for positions.
SPORTS
Gymnastics closes regular season at Michigan
After the MSU gymnastics team jumped from No. 44 to No. 28 in the Regional Qualifying Score, or RQS, rankings this past week, it wouldn’t be surprising if the Spartans got complacent and fell off a bit in their final meet of the season. But head coach Kathie Klages doesn’t think getting her team to stay focused will be an issue, considering the competition her gymnasts are up against this week.
SPORTS
Three wrestlers win first match of NCAA Tournament, resume tonight
With session one of the NCAA Tournament in the books, three of the six Spartans that made the trip to St. Louis have kept their championship dreams alive.
FOOTBALL
Nichol continues to push for NFL attention as draft approaches
After he transferred to MSU from Oklahoma following his freshman year of college, Keith Nichol always has been out to prove himself. Coming in as a quarterback, Nichol saw his playing time quickly evaporate in favor of Kirk Cousins.
MSU
Smoked out
Once about every two weeks, David Schmitt and a few of his friends make their way through the campus and city in the dead of night, shrouded in shadows as they hunt for a place where they can get high in relative peace.
NEWS
Student plans to sue Jimmy John’s
An MSU student is planning to sue Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, the popular sandwich chain, after she contracted a case of E. coli after eating a sandwich with allegedly infected raw clover sprouts at an East Lansing location.
NEWS
MSU sees graduation rate gap between races
A recent report shows MSU’s gap in graduation rates between Caucasian and black students is in the double digits. According to statistics published by The Education Trust, a group focusing on academic equality among races, and data from MSU’s Office of Planning and Budgets, between 2006-2008, black students had an average six-year graduation rate of about 56 percent, while Caucasian students had about a 78 percent rate — a gap of about 22 percent.
NEWS
City officials searching for Barnes & Noble replacement
City and development officials continue to search for ways to fill the former site of the East Lansing Barnes & Noble, 333 E. Grand River Ave., and have both fielded inquiries and talked with businesses about the location.
NEWS
Police Brief 03/15/12
A 19-year-old female student reported her bicycle was stolen between 8 p.m. Feb. 24 and 6 p.m. March 11 from a bike room in Akers Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU
New York Times reporter details experiences covering the White House
The first thing New York Times Washington Correspondent Sheryl Stolberg did when she took the stage in the Kellogg Center Auditorium on Wednesday night was show everyone how to ride a hovercraft. Pulling up a video, she shared her experience touring a factory with President Barack Obama, who personally called her out to ride a hovercraft in front of other members of the press.