MSU’s Main Library is playing a part in cutting back on students’ study time rather than providing it, and members of ASMSU’s Academic Assembly are fighting back.
Entering the Big Ten Tournament, the MSU men’s basketball team dropped two in a row and a chance at an outright Big Ten regular-season title,but the Spartans (27-7) bounced back and won their outright title on Sunday and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
A tornado watch has been issued for Ingham County, including MSU, until 11 p.m. tonight. According to the National Weather Service, tornadoes, hail up to an inch in diameter and wind gusts up to 70 mph are possible with any thunderstorms that develop. Keep checking statenews.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/thesnews for the latest developments.
A car hit a street light and flipped upside down near the intersection of Albert Avenue and Collingwood Drive between 5:30-6 p.m. Sunday, East Lansing police officer Derek Rodriguez said.
When the MSU men’s basketball program won its last national championship in 2000, the current Spartans were in grade school, still familiarizing themselves with the game of basketball.
When Complex Director at Snyder and Phillips halls Corey Malloch met members of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Council for the first time, he brought snacks and a smile.
The MSU men’s basketball team got its outright conference championship in the Big Ten Tournament title game, where the Spartans bested Ohio State, 68-64. Just as head coach Tom Izzo promised last week at Senior Day, after a loss to Ohio State, they won their title back.
Indianapolis — Brandon Wood came to MSU seeking an NCAA Tournament appearance in his final year of college eligibility. And in his last attempt, he helped will the Spartans with 21 points to Big Ten Tournament championship and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
For much of the season, the No. 15 MSU hockey team has been waiting patiently to procure its first playoff win in more than four years. After dropping two games and being eliminated from the CCHA Tournament this weekend, that wait might be a little longer.
Following the trend of the season, the MSU wrestling team saw some impressive individual performances at the Big Ten Tournament last weekend, but finished near the bottom as a team.
One week removed from its final meet at Jenison Field House, the MSU gymnastics team swept Alaska-Anchorage in a weekend series that saw the Spartans make the 3,795 mile hike to Wells Fargo Sports Complex in Anchorage.
Lined up elbow to elbow, MSU Archery Team members shot a flurry of arrows at red and blue targets yards away during the U.S. National Indoor Championships, an archery tournament held Saturday and Sunday. College students from the Midwest area ranging from University of Wisconsin La Crosse to Miami University in Ohio participated in the event, which was held at MSU Demmer Shooting Sports, Education and Training Center, 4830 E. Jolly Road, in Lansing.
Last Tuesday, James Madison freshman Riley Mahoney clicked on a Twitter link leading her to a video about an African guerilla leader who until recently was virtually unknown to the Western world. For her, the 30-minute video of a grassroots movement to end Ugandan guerilla leader Joseph Kony’s cling to power evoked some strong emotions.
Nozomu Hida remembers the fear he felt for his family and friends a year ago when he heard about the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear explosion in Japan. Luckily, the accounting senior’s family reported back to him that they were safe. But even today, he can feel the weight of the devastation that still is affecting his native country, he said. Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan, which was followed days later by a tsunami that caused severe flooding and a nuclear power plant explosion.
Playboy Magazine representatives will be in East Lansing on March 20 and 21 in search of female MSU students to pose in their October issue “Girls of the Big Ten” pictorial. Playboy Magazine is only disclosing location information to students who plan to audition.
Although both MSU and East Lansing police departments reported a few unusual crimes during the university’s spring break week, it was business as usual for the most part, with the crime rate on par with past university holidays, police officials said. Those who remained in the area, particularly in university housing complex Spartan Village, were surprised by the announcement of an alleged armed robbery in the complex that took place at about 8:40 p.m. March 5.
Google’s new privacy policy, which was implemented March 1 , has no effect on MSU’s online activity according to officials, but could be worth a look for concerned students. Under the policy, Google can track and share data about users across its various applications and platforms, such as Gmail and Google searches, to provide better search results and more accurate advertisements.
Economics professor Steven Haider is teaching more than 1,200 students this semester. With two sections of 600-student, lecture-style economics classes, he said it is impossible for him to get to know most of his students well enough to write them letters of recommendation. Yet each spring, students in his classes approach him for letters of recommendation for graduate school or summer jobs and internships, hoping he can vouch for their character.
Last week, East Lansing officials recognized the 40th anniversary of the city’s decision to include sexual orientation protection in its civil rights ordinance, a move officials said still has repercussions decades later. On March 7, 1972, the East Lansing City Council voted to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the city’s hiring practices, becoming the first city in the country to do so.
A bill aimed to provide legal protection for minors who turn themselves or a friend in to police for being dangerously drunk passed in the state House last Tuesday in a near-unanimous vote and now will move on to the Senate. The proposed law would shield minors from a minor in possession charge if they seek police help for themselves or a friend for being too drunk.