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.
MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, member Alyssa Landis has found the credit union’s current online banking system outdated when she looks at her account online. But changes coming to the credit union aim to make it easier for customers to check their finances.
On Friday, kinesiology senior Teilia Rutherford confidently walked down the sidewalk in South Neighborhood wearing a sports bra, shorts and UGG boots and shouting inspirational messages about positive self-image. But five years ago, Rutherford would not have been able to show off her body with such confidence, especially in such a public place.
While the MSU men’s basketball team is gaining momentum on the court — having won seven of its last eight games — head coach Tom Izzo could use some of that momentum off the court. Izzo is one of 48 coaches across the country competing in the Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge, a competition in which fans vote online for their favorite coaches with the winning coach earning $100,000 for their chosen charity.
For their final series at Munn Ice Arena this season, the No. 16 Spartans accomplished what they set out to do, walking away with two wins and six points in the CCHA standings and sending the senior class off on a high note.
For the nine MSU hockey seniors, the largest class since 1977-78, it was important they left a mark for their final series at Munn Ice Arena.
For a moment on Friday night, the MSU gymnastics team had upset the No. 18 Illinois Fighting Illini in Champaign, Ill. However, after a brief inquiry, the official score gave the Fighting Illini an extra .025 points; thus, the teams tied at 195.175, and neither team left Huff Hall with the Victory Plank.
When psychology senior Krista Bur was in fifth grade, she told her teacher her name was yellow. “She just kind of looked at me like I was crazy,” Bur said.
When Residential College in the Arts and Humanities freshman Sarah Botruff sits down in the art studio in the basement of Snyder Hall to sew, she leaves behind the real world and enters one of her own creation.
After refining his skills at open mic nights on campus and at small local shows, Adrian Sanchez finally has proof his hard work is paying off.
Not too long ago, beating a top-25 team on opening day before losing the next two games of the weekend by a combined two runs might have been OK with MSU baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr. But after winning the program’s first Big Ten title since 1979 last year, Boss said expectations are higher.
Despite a team loss, individual accomplishments highlight the performances of the MSU women’s swimming and diving team at the Big Ten championship meet this weekend. During the four-day competition in Iowa City, Iowa, the Spartans took 12th place overall and scored 55 points.
It wasn’t easy, but the MSU women’s basketball team (17-10 overall, 9-5 Big Ten) earned a hard fought victory over No. 17 Purdue (19-8, 9-5), 67-52 in overtime Sunday.
It is great that MSU has been able to build and maintain parking areas by using money generated from parking violation fines. My personal experience with this source of MSU’s revenue goes back to me taking the evening short course on fruit production.
Since the end of World War II, the United States kept a tradition of making bilateral agreements with Asian countries. American policymakers have had an incredibly successful track record of advancing our economic and security interests, building upon these relationships to adapt to a fast-changing world.
Smoking on campus can be bothersome to students who are nonsmokers. When walking to class, it is common for students to be hit with a whiff of cigarette smoke — a smell that can be very irritating for some — or have to walk behind someone with a cigarette in their hand.
Led by another 20-point and 10-rebound performance by senior forward Draymond Green, the No. 7 MSU men’s basketball team beat Purdue 76-62 Sunday in West Lafayette, Ind. The win puts the Spartans (22-5 overall, 11-3 Big Ten) at the top of the conference and one game ahead of Ohio State and Michigan in the Big Ten standings.
In his final game at Munn Ice Arena, Drew Palmisano could not have asked for a better send-off. In front of a sellout crowd of 6,960, the senior goaltender deflected anything that came his way and recorded his sixth career shutout as he led No. 16 MSU to a 3-0 victory over Alaska.
In a weekend set aside to honor the seniors of the No. 16 MSU hockey team, it’s only a fitting that a senior would get the job done on Friday at Munn Ice Arena. Senior forward Brett Perlini scored three minutes into overtime to go along with freshman forward Brent Darnell’s two goals in the first period to give the Spartans the 3-2 win against Alaska.