Columbus, Ohio — Sometimes lost in the ups and downs of the offense, the No. 11 men’s basketball team’s defense was the key in the 58-48 win in at No.
Columbus, Ohio — The No. 11 MSU men’s basketball team ended No. 3 Ohio States 39-game home court winning streak with a 58-48 victory tonight in Columbus, Ohio.
Torey Krug knows what’s at stake when his team plays Michigan. With in-state bragging rights and respect of the college hockey world on the line, the junior defenseman and team captain stepped up and scored two goals and added an assist before a season-high crowd of 7,103 fans. He sent the No. 17 MSU hockey team ahead of the Wolverines, 3-2, Friday at Munn Ice Arena.
A 19-year-old student living in Snyder Hall died early this morning of a suspected bacterial infection, according to an email released by the MSU Provost office.
ASMSU’s General Assembly continued a discussion on a controversial bill regarding the potential for a smoke-free campus at its Thursday night meeting but ultimately voted to table it for further discussion. The bill, introduced into the Executive Committee on Student Affairs by Arab Cultural Society representative Monica Shamass last week, would advocate for ASMSU to encourage the university to make MSU a smoke-free campus.
As Black History month runs throughout February, many students and officials on campus are still in the fight for racial understanding.
Two men wanted by police in New Jersey for charges including armed home invasion and aggravated assault were arrested Feb. 7 at Chandler Crossings by the Michigan State Police Fugitive Task Force and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, U.S. Marshals officials said.
No matter how you measure it, the MSU and Ohio State men’s basketball teams find themselves in a neck-and-neck battle as the regular season winds down.
In a room filled with computer monitors, video game controllers and white boards covered with numbers and other programming jargon, William Jeffery sat at a small table with his headphones in on Thursday afternoon. Jeffery, a media arts and technology senior in the game design specialization, works in the MSU Games for Entertainment and Learning, or GEL, Lab.
Gov. Rick Snyder offered a slight funding kickback for MSU in his budget proposal released Thursday, while other universities received more in a proposed system to tie additional money to university performance rates. The governor proposed a 1.4 percent increase in additional funding for MSU during the 2012-13 fiscal year, one of the lowest amounts of restored funding among all the state’s public universities.
About 100 community members attended an informational session Thursday evening to discuss a $53 million bond proposal that would close an East Lansing elementary school, among other things. The proposal is scheduled to be on the ballot Feb. 28 and would renovate and reconfigure five of the six other elementary schools as well as close Red Cedar Elementary School, 1110 Narcissus Drive.
With the finish line looming up ahead, Lykendra Johnson is doing everything she can to be ready.
Since Julie Rapson was a child growing up on her family’s horse farm, she has dreamed of becoming an equine veterinarian. The MSU Equine Club president and second-year veterinary student is part of a minority in the world of veterinary students, as she is hoping to hold a position as a large animal veterinarian who specifically works with horses after graduating.
Food safety and security will be the topics at the third annual “Everybody Eats: Cultivating Food Democracy” conference, held this weekend in Lansing.
MSU’s Sparty’s Convenience Stores are helping to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, or MDA, this month through their 17th annual Shamrocks Against Dystrophy campaign. Customers who visit Sparty’s stores on campus through March 4 can purchase special MDA mugs, drinks and shamrocks with some of the proceeds going to the MDA. In its 17-year partnership with the MDA, Sparty’s has raised more than $45,000. For more information on the MDA in Ingham County, visit mdausa.org.
MSU’s undergraduate student government groups are planning to address concerns they have with the accessibility of card-scanning security systems installed in residence halls. But university officials say the systems largely are working, and any problems with the relatively new system come from trying to work out kinks in balancing security and accessibility.
Even as people prepare to send Valentine’s Day cards and presents, the United States Postal Service, or USPS, continues to sustain losses, according to its first-quarter report.
As a mother of three sons born with cleft palates, Joanne Green knows the challenges children with the disease face.
East Lansing officials are projecting about a $35 million total drop in the taxable value of the city’s residential homes for the 2012-13 fiscal year, a loss equating to about a 6.3 percent drop in overall value, according to city budget documents. The documents estimate the overall taxable value of homes in the city will drop from about $555.5 million in fiscal year 2011-12 to about $520.5 million in fiscal year 2012-13.
Before you think about grabbing a second bowl of cereal at the cafeteria, MSU dining officials want you to make sure you’re hungry enough to finish it. MSU Culinary Services officials are conducting a food waste study campaign this semester to show how much food is wasted after each meal and what could be done to reduce such waste. “What you take is what you should eat,” said Carla Iansiti, MSU Culinary Services sustainability officer.