With the imminent closing of Barnes and Noble Booksellers at 333 E. Grand River Ave., residents and students can’t help but begin to worry about how downtown East Lansing will soon look. As city officials work to fill that hole, they should consider smaller businesses.
Penny Gardner is a survivor. Nearly 50 years after an abusive marriage, the mother of three is a self-proclaimed feminist, determined to help victims of domestic violence in the community by spreading awareness. And Gardner, an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures, is not alone.
MSU’s Office of the Vice President for Governmental Affairs has appointed two new assistant vice presidents for governmental affairs, according to a press release.
For the fourth consecutive year, the No. 23 MSU football team defeated No. 11 Michigan on Saturday at Spartan Stadium, 28-14.
With 39 of the last 41 games won by the team with the most rushing yards in the rivalry series, junior running back Edwin Baker and the No. 23 MSU football team knew they needed a big day on the ground to beat No. 11 Michigan.
ORION TWP., MICH — President Barack Obama paid his ninth visit to Michigan on Saturday, championing a new automotive trade partnership between South Korea and the U.S.
This summer, senior quarterback Kirk Cousins was asked a question he’ll probably never forget. While speaking to a K-8 grade school in Michigan, Cousins opened it up for questions when a second-grader raised his hand.
The Paul Bunyan Trophy is a coveted award for MSU and Michigan, and Saturday, the Spartans will compete to keep the trophy in East Lansing, where it’s been for the past three years.
President Barack Obama will have a seat on the USS Carl Vinson this Veterans Day to watch MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo’s Spartans take on North Carolina in San Diego, Calif., an Obama spokesman said in an email to The State News on Thursday.
It is almost the weekend. Classes are ending, and students are ready to unwind. Here is a roundup of events to attend during the weekend respite. Burton’s Garden show: Upcoming band Burton’s Garden will be performing at 8 p.m.
They live among the Spartans. They look like any other student at MSU. They might even be next to MSU fans on Saturdays in Spartan Stadium. But what most students don’t know is that they are University of Michigan fans.
When most of this year’s senior class first arrived in East Lansing in 2007, the times were much different. The Spartans were loved by many, but undoubtedly Michigan was seen as a maize and blue state.
What’s more sickening? That Michigan is ranked No. 11 in the country, or that I offer the newspaper I saw those rankings in as toilet paper for my apartment?
Normally a group of die-hard fans from MSU, the University of Wisconsin, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan wouldn’t enjoy watching a college football game together, let alone be in the same close circle of friends.
For the 115 years since you started playing football, you’ve been obsessed with waging an imaginary battle against Michigan. Your original fight song included lines of “smash through that line of blue” and “Michigan is weakening.” Your name as the Spartans came as a direct response to Michigan being called the “Athens of the Midwest” (Athens and Sparta were rival city-states in ancient Greece. Wikipedia it. I hear that always works for class.).
Graduate student Emily Young goes the extra mile when it comes to doing her homework. Young, a graduate student in the Department of Theatre, traveled to New Orleans to do research for her role in the department’s upcoming production, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” “It’s very rare that you actually get the opportunity to go to the place where your story is set and to experience it firsthand,” she said.
Shops on the Union’s first floor are set to relocate if about $2.25 million worth of construction progresses as expected in spring and summer of 2012, the project’s design representative said.
Gov. Rick Snyder got an unexpected surprise Thursday — one he likely wasn’t happy about. Sparty, a rival of Snyder’s University of Michigan Wolverines, paid an unannounced visit to the governor’s office when he was between meetings Thursday.
Benjamin French’s confession of involvement in the murder of MSU student Darren Brown and his roommate Owen Goodenow in March 2010 will stand as valid evidence, according to a ruling from Lansing’s 30th Circuit Court.
In 1981, Linda Stevens enrolled in a stained glass class at Lansing Community College, a decision that would change the course of her life. Motivated by a desire to produce Victorian windows, Stevens began to learn the art of glass cutting.