Three games ago, the MSU men’s basketball team surpassed last season’s win total — and still have at least six games to play. Head coach Tom Izzo spent much of his weekly press conference Monday discussing this season’s 22-5 No. 6 Spartans compared to last year’s 19-15 team.
A lot has changed in one week, as the MSU women’s basketball team (17-10 overall, 9-5 Big Ten) enters the final week of the regular season tied for third place in the conference after beating No. 17 Purdue on Sunday, 67-52.
After Therese Penn’s high school friend was kidnapped and murdered, her view of her role in the world changed drastically.
To some, this season of Spartan basketball means an awesome pair of Izzone tickets and a guaranteed fun experience — but for most of us, it means cramming into our friends’ dorm room with 10 other people to watch the game and snack on whatever happens to be right in front of you.
As each successive shot fell through the net, Becca Mills’ smile got bigger and bigger.
On Feb 28, the voters in East Lansing will approve or reject a proposed $53 million school bond. If approved, the East Lansing School Board intends to demolish and rebuild five existing elementary schools all within three miles of White Hills Elementary.
Two weeks ago, I was provided with the opportunity to speak to a group of fifth graders celebrating their graduation from the D.A.R.E.
A lack of participation from students at University Council meetings has ASMSU representatives concerned, but their solution might just be as bad as the problem. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, recently implemented a new student caucus that will gather at-large students, which are student-held positions in University Council, to discuss issues with each other before presenting their concerns at council meetings.
A strain of meningococcal disease that cannot be vaccinated against was confirmed as the cause of death of family community services sophomore Carly Glynn, who died Feb.
Two 2011 student deaths were confirmed as accidental overdoses of both illegal and prescription drugs, according to autopsy and toxicology reports released on Friday. Kevin Rourke, a 22-year-old advertising senior who was found dead Dec.
Low-hanging electrical wires were the cause of a temporary power outage Saturday night in East Lansing, officials said.
When communication sophomore Meg Harris was diagnosed with stage II Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she didn’t so much as shed a tear.
Animal science senior Brent Moore stood next to horses and bulls at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Saturday afternoon gearing up for that night’s Spartan Stampede performance. “Bull riding is very sink or swim,” said Moore, a bull rider and bareback rider. “You either like it or you don’t.”
After being diagnosed with stage III kidney cancer last November, Mariah Mackie’s world was turned upside down. But as the 10-year-old sat behind the MSU women’s basketball team as they faced Purdue University Sunday evening, she couldn’t help but smile.
Red lights and bumping music welcomed hundreds of MSU community members of all ages and ethnicities to the Asian Pacific American Student Organization’s, or APASO, biennial Lunar New Year Show on Sunday evening at the Auditorium. The variety show, celebrating the Asian culture on campus and ringing in the Year of the Dragon, showcased eleven different groups with talents ranging from modern dancing and singing to traditional Asian cultural dances and instruments.
On Friday evening in the Union, a small but excited crowd gathered around an owl — a special visitor from the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing — as it flapped its wings on the arm of its attendant. Among the spectators clamoring around the bird was 13-year-old Zuri Snyder of Detroit, who observed the owl and other zoo animals with special interest.
On Friday evening in the Union, a small but excited crowd gathered around an owl — a special visitor from the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing — as it flapped its wings on the arm of its attendant. Among the spectators clamoring around the bird was 13-year-old Zuri Snyder of Detroit, who observed the owl and other zoo animals with special interest.
The city of East Lansing is expected to go green later this spring if plans to install two electric car charging stations in the city pan out. Preliminary details of the planned installation were presented to the city council at its work session Feb. 14.
With a single white feather in her dark hair, Rose Petoskey tapped her pink moccasins to the beat of a drum on the floor of Jenison Field House on Saturday during one of the largest powwows in Michigan.
Fred Karger used to be intimidated by wedding rings. As a young gay man not ready to be open about his orientation, they seemed like a symbol of a certain superior status — a title he thought he would never be able to hold.