MSU
MSUFCU to provide finance programs
To help students understand common financial questions, MSUFCU is hosting two upcoming programs on campus.
FEATURES
Students organize local poetry event, lead artistic collaboration
Students in Leonora Smith’s class do more than write papers and take exams.
MICHIGAN
American Cancer Society to host Great American Smokeout Thursday
The American Cancer Society is hosting the 36th annual Great American Smokeout on Nov. 17 to encourage individuals to quit smoking by using the date as a starting point to kick the habit.
MSU
Honors College to discuss race issues
Members of the MSU Honors College are inviting the MSU community to attend a discussion which will be examining race, ethnicity and identity in higher education. The discussion will take place from 5:30-7 p.m.
FEATURES
Comedians playing multiple roles in movies only produces cheap laughs
Every once in a while there’s a movie that comes along that just gets under my skin. But it is only a blip on my movie radar.
MSU
VIM Magazine to host launch party
A student-run fashion and lifestyle magazine is set to launch its second year of publication this week.
BASKETBALL
MSU again set to take national stage vs. Duke
Wherever the MSU men’s basketball team goes early this season, the college basketball world is sure to be following along. Four days after playing No.
FOOTBALL
Spartans use run defense, offense in win
Two wins to go for the No. 12 MSU football team — one if Nebraska loses to Michigan — before clinching a berth in the inaugural Big Ten championship game Dec.
BASKETBALL
Women's basketball to host home opener
In the middle of a 7-day stretch that sees the MSU women’s basketball team play four times, the Spartans are set to open their home season against IPFW Tuesday night. The Spartans (1-1 overall, 0-0 Big Ten) are coming off a weekend split in the Iona Tip-Off Tournament played in New Rochelle, N.Y., in which they were treated to a strong debut by freshman forward Becca Mills, who was named to the all-tournament team and the Big Ten Freshman of the Week.
VOLLEYBALL
Volleyball receives 3 National Letters of Intent
While the MSU volleyball team is approaching the end of the regular season and must begin to think about its postseason chances, the Spartans already are looking toward their future. Head coach Cathy George and the Spartans received National Letters of Intent from three recruits to play for MSU in 2012.
BASKETBALL
Mills earns Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors
Two games into her career as a Spartan, MSU women’s basketball freshman forward Becca Mills raked in Big Ten honors for her play during the weekend.
COMMENTARY
Open letter to parking department
It has become apparent to me that this insignificant division, known simply as “parking,” has introduced itself more recently as a nuisance and disease to the populace of East Lansing.
COMMENTARY
Reforms would benefit society
Part of any generation’s responsibilities is to correct the mistakes made by the last. We usually tend to think of this responsibility in the context of examples taught in grade school, such as the woman’s suffrage movement and the civil rights movement.
COMMENTARY
No-preference option allows exploration
To help students find the right major, MSU should consider requiring freshmen to come in with no defined major and choose one after one year. This would allow students to take the required courses needed to graduate and help in not letting students go two years into college before realizing they have no interest in their chosen major.
BASKETBALL
Column: Attending Carrier Classic once in lifetime opportunity
I’ve never had as many chills in my life as I did this week. My arm hair was standing on edge almost the entire time I was aboard the USS Carl Vinson Thursday and Friday.
FEATURES
AWOLNATION moves crowd with powerful Lansing performance
When I first learned AWOLNATION and Middle Class Rut would be making an appearance just minutes away from where I lived, I was ecstatic.
FOOTBALL
Dantonio continues to move program in right direction
Saturday afternoon, Mark Dantonio couldn’t stop smiling.
FOOTBALL
MSU shuts down Big Ten's leading rusher in win
Led by the penetration from the defensive line, the Spartans held Iowa running back Marcus Coker to 57 yards — his second lowest total of the season.
BASKETBALL
Despite loss, MSU returned to playing 'Spartan way'
In Friday’s Quicken Loans Carrier Classic in San Diego, head coach Tom Izzo saw what appeared to be a return to the days of old.
ICE HOCKEY
Hockey sweeps No. 5 Western Michigan
Facing one of the toughest weekends of the season, the MSU hockey team turned the tables on No. 5 Western Michigan.