Heading into the MSU men’s basketball team’s first meeting with Michigan this season, Travis Trice didn’t know exactly what to expect. Growing up near Dayton, Ohio, the freshman guard said after the 60-59 loss in Ann Arbor he didn’t realize the intensity that comes along with the in-state rivalry.
When Draymond Green went down with a left knee injury late in Tuesday’s 42-41 loss to Illinois, his thoughts raced. The senior forward felt “discouraged, worried (and) scared” and wondered if he had lost a shot at a championship.
Standing in line at 5 a.m. surrounded by the unemployed or those desperate for some extra cash, fisheries and wildlife senior Mahala Clayton would wait her turn to be poked and prodded with a needle — for money.
The cause of death for MSU student Jessica Hockensmith could not be determined, but likely was not drug-related, according to a recent autopsy report from the Ingham County Medical Examiner’s office.
The phrase, “You play like a girl,” has been thrown around in gymnasiums and playgrounds for decades — typically as an insult from one male to another.
Lansing resident Dave Cripe and his father, Al, began making buttons for car shows as a hobby. Little did they know a business would develop into what is now known as Betty’s Buttons & T-Shirts, 1135 S. Washington Ave., in Lansing, named after Cripe’s mother, Betty.
MSU students and officials are working to help an MSU student from Korea who has been diagnosed with a severe form of cancer.
With the student election season fast approaching this spring, ASMSU officials are preparing to raise visibility and voter turnout with a new level of student engagement.
When the Internet was invented, it opened up a gateway for students of all ages and education levels to cheat, share information and plagiarize — leaving instructors to develop countermeasures.
Racism could be the source of premature births in black women, according to a documentary shown in Brody Auditorium on Thursday.
ASMSU’s committees discussed several controversial bills concerning student safety and security at their Thursday night meeting in Student Services.
In an attempt to increase the school’s national academic ranking, an admissions official at Claremont McKenna College in California exaggerated students SAT scores, an issue which has raised concerns from MSU students and administrators. “The problem with rankings is that they can have a negative effect on many colleges’ perceived status,” said Jeff Olson, Kaplan Test Prep vice president of data science.
Some say practice makes perfect. And after a few years of refining his skills, Middle of the Mitten creator Joel Heckaman said he thinks he finally got it right.
MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business ranked No. 1 nationally and No. 2 worldwide in placement success for graduates, according to a Financial Times MBA ranking released Monday.
On Sunday, MSU will participate for the second year in the RecycleMania Tournament — a competition that runs from Feb. 5 to March 31. More than 600 colleges from across the country compete to collect the largest amount of recyclable products, and MSU officials aim to collect more than 1 million pounds of recyclables during the competition.
When MSU alumnus Nate Daniels’ friend Kevin Willson asked him to help out with the promotion of his newest work for the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl commercial contest, he was more than happy to oblige — little did he know he would get tickets to Super Bowl XLVI and thousands of dollars out of the deal.
MSU’s 2011 endowment funds rank No. 5 of the 12 institutions in the Big Ten in terms of percentage increase, according to the initial results of a national survey. The survey, released Tuesday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, or NACUBO, shows the percentage change in the market value of an endowment from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2011, MSU chief financial officer Mark Haas said in an email.
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.
In her four years as a Spartan, senior guard Porsché Poole has never lost to Michigan, and with Sunday’s matchup likely serving as her last experience in the rivalry, she doesn’t want to start now.
Branden Carney can walk. Although not an impressive feat for most, the freshman defensman realizes how close he came to having that simple aspect of his life taken away.