BASEBALL
Face time with Jake Boss Jr.
After one of the most successful seasons in MSU baseball history, Jake Boss Jr. is hungry for more.
FOOTBALL
Spartans do just enough to top Wisconsin
The No. 9 MSU football team didn’t take it to the media and fight back after accusations of being a dirty team. The Spartans didn’t complain about getting completely disrespected by the national media, who proclaimed Wisconsin “unbeatable.”
FEATURES
Student’s videos create campus dialogue
Tim City strives to say what other students on campus might not be able to.
FEATURES
Reading program educates using Michigan literature
The Great Michigan Read program not only wants to increase the appeal and accessibility of literature in Michigan; it also wants to teach Michigan residents about their home state.
COMMENTARY
Support organic, healthy food
One step forward, two steps back seems to be the motto taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives when it comes to agricultural funding.
COMMENTARY
Iraq troop drawdown not end of problems
Every generation has a war that defines them; our generation has the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, just like our parents had the Vietnam War, just like their parents had WWII. Today, our generation can share in the relief that our fathers and grandfathers felt because our war is over.
COMMENTARY
Do research before buying pink
Every year, department stores, pharmacies and even college campuses turn ‘pink’ with companies large and small slapping a ribbon on their products and feigning some interest in breast cancer awareness to woo compassionate consumers. We are encouraged to buy this or that, to wear this ribbon or this pink whatever in order to “support a cure.” As someone who has seen devastating effects of breast cancer firsthand, it has all gotten to be too much.
FOOTBALL
Cousins, Elsworth receive weekly honors following upset win
Senior quarterback Kirk Cousins and sophomore linebacker Kyler Elsworth received Big Ten honors this week after the No. 9 MSU football team’s 37-31 victory over Wisconsin on Saturday.
VOLLEYBALL
Moster earns two weekly conference awards
For the second time this season, MSU volleyball freshman libero Kori Moster earned conference weekly honors, being named Big Ten co-Freshman of the Week and co-Defensive Player of the Week after her performances in two games against ranked opponents.
FOOTBALL
A hail of a win
As senior quarterback Kirk Cousins heaved the ball 44 yards up the field on a Hail Mary pass, senior wide receiver Keith Nichol waited patiently to see where it would fall.
FOOTBALL
Column: Spartans’ win over Badgers unforgettable
Forty-eight hours later, and I still can’t believe what happened Saturday night.
NEWS
Police Brief 10/24/11
A 19-year-old male student reported items stolen from his gym bag between 10-11 p.m. Oct. 13 in the IM Sports-East gymnasium, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU
Black religion and spirituality conference hosted at Kellogg Center
As James H. Cone stood at the podium giving a lecture on the role of religion in the black experience, the lectern could have doubled for a pulpit and Cone as a preacher as he spoke to a crowd that often responded with an enthusiastic “amen.”
Julia Nagy
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MSU
East Lansing glows green, white for Homecoming
Dressed in a Spartan cheerleader outfit, 8-year-old Irene Nielsen walked in front of her father’s horse-drawn chariot at the MSU Homecoming parade, ruffling her pom-poms.
MICHIGAN
Libyan students’ program could end
The Visiting International Professional Program, or VIPP, no longer will be held at MSU, Libyan officials announced Thursday.
MSU
MSU Law hosts Diwali event
With bells on their ankles and red paint on their fingertips, a group of classical Indian dancers took the stage Friday night in the College of Law for a performance during Indian Night Diwali celebrations.
MSU
MSU crew fundraises with 3rd Rent-a-Rower
Four members of the MSU Crew Club hacked, dug and pulled away weeds in an overgrown part of East Lansing resident Linda Shankland’s backyard Sunday afternoon to raise money for their team.
MSU
Board of Trustees authorizes renovations, more funding
MSU’s master plan for campus dining now is one step closer to completion after the Board of Trustees approved an authorization to proceed with a $13.95 million renovation to Shaw Hall’s cafeteria at its Friday meeting.
MSU
Culinary Business Learning Lab unveiled
On Friday, the newly unveiled Culinary Business Learning Lab looked more like something from Food Network than a classroom.
ICE HOCKEY
Hockey goes 1-1 against OSU
The MSU hockey team did its best Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde impression in its two-game series against Ohio State late last week. In the regular season home opener at Munn Ice Arena on Thursday, the Spartans rode the strong play of senior goalkeeper Drew Palmisano to down Ohio State, 3-0.