FEATURES
Conference empowers women to lead
Anita Gonzalez wanted to show her 14-year-old daughter what women can do.
FEATURES
Season’s final exhibit combines photos, text
Local photographer Robert Turney hopes his images of a psychiatric hospital patient and the text portraying this patient’s deranged story will provoke.
COMMENTARY
Votes for E.L. school board matter
Four members of the East Lansing Public Schools Board and the superintendent backed a plan, requiring borrowing millions of dollars, based on credit derived from inflated property values from the past five years.
COMMENTARY
Triplett right city council choice
I am delighted to write this letter in support of Nathan Triplett’s reelection to the East Lansing City Council.
COMMENTARY
Embrace uncertainty of travel
Before going to South Africa, I would not have had the confidence or determination to handle the challenges I have faced this semester. Studying abroad helped me become better accustomed to handling foreign situations and new obstacles.
COMMENTARY
E.L. council elections affect student life
The city council and school board elections are taking place this Tuesday. Although most students are not affected by the school board election, voting in the city council election is one of the many ways students can participate in the community where they live and study.
FOOTBALL
Offense steps up in win
Despite not always being able to convert for a touchdown Saturday, the No. 15 Spartans’ offense held the game together and kept the team moving up the field against Minnesota.
FOOTBALL
MSU escapes Minnesota 31-24
An MSU team that appeared to be sleeping through the game’s first 29 minutes, finally woke up. Although they endured some shots from the home Spartan Stadium crowd, the Spartans (7-2 overall, 4-1 Big Ten) escaped Minnesota (2-7, 1-4) with a win, 31-24.
BASKETBALL
Spartans beat Hillsdale 80-58, begin preparation for No. 1 North Carolina
The warmups are over. Fans barely had started filing out of Breslin Center on Friday night following the MSU men’s basketball team’s 80-58 win over Hillsdale, and head coach Tom Izzo and the Spartans already had shifted gears.
ICE HOCKEY
Carney has feeling, movement, strength in extremities after sustaining neck injury
MSU hockey defenseman Branden Carney sustained a serious neck injury in practice Thursday at Munn Ice Arena.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Spartans dominate Lake Superior State, 94-31
Coming off one of the strongest seasons in program history that ended with a Big Ten championship, the expectations couldn’t be much higher for the MSU women’s basketball team in 2011-12. In the team’s first exhibition of the season, the No.
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NEWS
Risk management
On a typical night out last summer, Ty Forquer stumbled into the restroom of a bar in Lansing to take care of business. What he didn’t know was that he literally would be taking care of business.
NEWS
Misconceptions about sexual assault endure
When a crime is reported, numerous questions arise. What happened? Where were you? Are you OK? But victims of sexual assault often are met with a different question — are you sure?
NEWS
Police Brief 11/04/11
A 29-year-old Lansing woman reported a larceny from her car occurred between 5 p.m. Oct. 28 and 3:15 a.m. Oct. 30, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
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MSU
Kirk Cousins, Cru tackle Christian cause
For weeks, MSU students have been asked repeatedly if they agree with senior quarterback Kirk Cousins. Thursday at the Auditorium, Cousins made his pitch, telling a packed crowd about his faith as a Christian.
MICHIGAN
Leo’s Coney Island to open Saturday
Starting at 7 a.m. this Saturday, East Lansing residents and MSU students will see a Michigan restaurant recognizable to many from the Detroit area settle in downtown at 333 Albert Ave. after months of preparation and planning.
MICHIGAN
Speed limit change causes fallout
Public officials on the local and state level launched a barrage political of assaults and opinions this week following the change of the speed limit on a section of Grand River Avenue.
MSU
ASMSU passes grief absence, preferred name policy bills
Students no longer will be penalized for missing an exam to attend a loved one’s funeral if a bill passed by ASMSU makes its way through the university’s Academic Governance system.
MSU
RHA aims to help E.L. community
MSU’s Division of Residential and Hospitality Services and Department of Intercollegiate Athletics are cosponsoring the fifth annual Help Tackle Hunger Food Drive.