A blog created last year by MSU graduate students about the ups and downs of graduate student life recently has partnered with news publication Inside Higher Education. The blog, GradHacker.org, officially began publishing on the Inside Higher Education website in December 2011 and now averages between 3,000-4,000 unique hits per day, said graduate student and GradHacker co-editor Katy Meyers.
Red, green and black decorations, jazz music and the smell of soul food greeted members of the MSU community during East Neighborhood’s Soul Food Extravaganza! on Thursday evening. The event, hosted by East Neighborhood and Culinary Services, was held at Akers Hall cafeteria and helped celebrate Black History Month.
In their final home game as Spartans, senior guard Porsche Poole and senior forwards Taylor Alton and Lykendra Johnson created a moment they’ll always remember. The MSU women’s basketball team (18-10 overall, 10-5 Big Ten) dominated No. 23 Nebraska (20-7, 9-6) winning, 73-53.
Zack Sztanyo will make his debut on the big screen in his first-ever full-length feature film Friday. But the political science senior said he is much more nervous than he is excited. “I hate seeing myself act,” Sztanyo said.
Rather than starting out the fall semester of his freshman year in the dorms meeting new people, no-preference freshman Gabe VanGessel spent his in a tent in the middle of Tanzania. “I wanted an adventure,” he said.
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. ATD Fashion Show The Department of Art and Art History will present its annual Apparel and Textile Design Fashion Show at 7 p.m.
Entering the final regular season series of the year, the No. 13 MSU hockey team must maintain composure with the CCHA Tournament in sight. The Spartans (18-12-4 overall, 13-10-3-2 CCHA) open up a two-game series with Notre Dame (16-15-3, 11-12-3-0) starting Friday (8:35 p.m., CBS College Sports) and close out the regular season Saturday (7:35 p.m., Comcast) in South Bend, Ind.
One week removed from its highest score of the season, the MSU gymnastics team is prepared to keep its momentum going when it welcomes Ball State to Jenison Field House on Friday night. The Spartans (3-2-1 overall) are riding a three-meet home winning streak, and last Friday’s mark of 195.175 kicked the season average up to 193.118.
For a journalism project last week, I was interviewing various people about the economy’s effect on local businesses.
Even after getting a win last Friday against No. 11 St. Johns, junior second baseman Ryan Jones and the MSU baseball team weren’t entirely satisfied with the results of the opening weekend.
Elementary schooling helps to build the character and lay the foundation of future education for a student. For some East Lansing children, however, the school in which they’ve begun their educational journey soon will be forced to shut its doors because of a financially and morally ambiguous decision.
The groundhog might have had something going for him when he saw his shadow earlier this month. Seven to 11 inches of snow are expected once the latest snowstorm is said and done Friday afternoon.
After two hours of debate and deliberation Wednesday night, members of the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, elected current RHA Vice President Kelcey Gapske as the new RHA president for the 2012-13 year.
Nearly four years after fighting the university to address policy issues that landed her in front of the Student-Faculty Judiciary Board, former ASMSU Association Director Kara Spencer once again discussed MSU policy issues on campus, along with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE.
Running up and down the basketball court, her brother stopped, and in that moment, so did her world. Lykendra Johnson and her big brother, Homer, always played basketball together, but one January day in 2001, the fun and games turned fatally serious.
The MSU College of Human Medicine is increasing efforts to recruit students from medically underserved areas with the addition of Alma College to its group of Michigan university partners in the early assurance program for admissions.
A newly styled haircut, fashionable suit and a calm demeanor characterized Andrew Thompson during a brief court appearance Wednesday — a far cry from the blue jumpsuit and handcuffs he wore only a few months ago.
Last semester, when horticulture senior Brendan O’Keefe calculated his final grades, he was satisfied he would get a 4.0. But when his sociology professor ended up giving him a 3.5 in the class, O’Keefe took issue and contacted the professor with his concerns.
A 21-year-old female student reported fraudulent charges were made from her credit card, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The No. 6 MSU men’s basketball team avoided a scare on its trip to Minnesota, winning in the last two minutes, 66-61.