When most students desert campus next week for spring break, many seeking sunshine and sandy beaches, members of the agriculture industry will be sprawling across MSU’s campus.
Special education sophomore Julia Ruggirello takes up to 40 pills per day to control her cystic fibrosis, a chronic lung disease she was diagnosed with at six weeks old.
Six local metal bands will take the stage at The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, on Saturday — but they won’t be playing their usual material.
Even though this is my first semester writing for The State News, this is not my first experience in the workplace.
An ultra-high-speed broadband Internet service will launch in Greater Lansing in the near future and is expected to make high-tech companies and businesses flock to the area.
All season long, each match the MSU wrestlers compete in has led up to the final weekend of the season: the Big Ten championships. This year, the Spartans will be sending six wrestlers to West Lafayette, Ind., to compete in the tournament with varying levels of experience.
It is almost the weekend. Classes are ending and students are ready to unwind. Here is a roundup of events to attend during the weekend respite. *The Blat!
The MSU gymnastics team is riding high going into its senior night faceoff with Illinois-Chicago, having won the last two meets and the last four at home. MSU will look to carry that momentum into Friday night’s meet at Jenison Field House as the team’s four seniors depart.
Lansing — The state House passed a bill Thursday that would ban graduate student research assistants from organizing to bargain for wages and work conditions. The bill, which has moved at a fast pace since being introduced two weeks ago in the Senate, passed in a mixed-partisan 62-45 vote.
When Rosemary Hinchey enters a restaurant to conduct an inspection for the Ingham County Health Department, she doesn’t head straight for the kitchens. First, she asks for a menu.
A bill aimed to strip union rights from graduate student research assistants is continuing to raise questions about the role of collective bargaining for students as it continues on a fast track to law.
East Lansing city attorneys will continue representing the city in a lawsuit alleging the East Lansing City Council violated the Open Meetings Act and made key decisions in secret.
On a spring evening in 2006 outside Landon Hall, Matthew Milia and Zachary Nichols sat on a bench playing the musical saw and singing together for one of the very first times. The two soon were joined by fellow student Anna Burch, who was walking by, knew the song the pair was playing and jumped in, spurring an impromptu gig that would become the basis of the folk group Frontier Ruckus’ rustic sound.
A 20-year-old female student reported her wallet was stolen at about 2:45 p.m. Feb. 27 from the Sparty’s Convenience Store in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Jason Warner has referred to resident mentors as RAs since he first arrived at MSU simply because he was more familiar with the term. Soon, however, the sophomore in the landscape and nursery management program who lives on campus won’t have to worry about this accidental misnaming — resident mentors officially will be renamed resident assistants in the near future.
Five students have been nominated for the vice presidential position for next year’s session of the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, following a period of nominations at RHA’s Wednesday night meeting.
Hitting the road for the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis, the MSU women’s basketball team (19-10 overall, 11-5 Big Ten) is out to do one thing: make magic. The Spartans will open the tournament against No. 12-seed Indiana (6-23, 1-15) on Thursday (approximately 8:25 p.m., Big Ten Network), and senior forward Lykendra Johnson said her team is confident after winning seven of the past eight games.
When race car drivers crash on the track, such as at Monday’s Daytona 500, a neck device innovated by MSU researchers is helping some stay safe from harm. The HANS neck device is one of many examples showing MSU’s success at bringing bright ideas to fruition, business professor Roger Calantone said.
At long last, a much-needed break for the No. 15 MSU hockey team. Following a weekend split on the road at Notre Dame, the Spartans (19-13-4 overall, 14-11-3-2 CCHA) have a bye week to catch their breath before meeting Miami (Ohio) in a best-of-three series in the quarterfinal round of the CCHA Tournament.
It might be early in the season, but Justin Scanlon still hasn’t forgotten the way the last one ended. The senior shortstop and captain of the MSU baseball team walked off the field at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio, at the end of May 2011 with his head down and his dreams dashed, as Illinois beat the Spartans in the Big Ten Tournament championship game by a final score of 9-1.