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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Forty-eight hours later, and I still can’t believe what happened Saturday night.
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.
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.”
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.
The Visiting International Professional Program, or VIPP, no longer will be held at MSU, Libyan officials announced Thursday.
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.
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’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.
On Friday, the newly unveiled Culinary Business Learning Lab looked more like something from Food Network than a classroom.
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.
It was only fitting for a pair of seniors to send the MSU women’s soccer team out with a win on Senior Day. Following a 3-1 defeat Friday at the hands of Penn State, the Spartans turned around and got goals from forwards Hannah Peterson and Laura Heyboer to dominate Ohio State and come away with the 2-0 victory at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field. With the win, the Spartans clinch their spot in the Big Ten Tournament, which will be held on Nov.
DayGlow East Lansing was the highlight of Kayla Borkowski’s weekend.
Through his involvement in a collaborative production between the Williamston Theatre and MSU’s Department of Theatre, theatre junior Ian Page was able to get a head start on his future acting career.
Joe Arbow thinks there was a special force driving the MSU football win against Wisconsin on Saturday. The finance junior said the presence of ESPN’s College GameDay in East Lansing added some extra hype for both the players and the fans. “(GameDay) will give us great momentum going in,” Arbow said before the game.
At the end of a four-game stretch in which MSU athletics dominated its in-state rivals, the MSU field hockey team was unable to complete the sweep Friday, falling 2-0 to No.