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SPORTS

Women's tennis opens season with Spartan Invitational

The MSU women’s tennis team wrapped up its first tournament of the season Sunday at the Spartan Invitational, which took place at the MSU tennis courts on Wilson Road. Due to the MSU home football game, Saturday’s matches were located at both Mason High School and East Lansing High School.

FOOTBALL

Bell leads Spartan rush attack in win

MSU head coach Mark Dantonio used Saturday’s game against Central Michigan to make a statement. The Spartans can –and will – run the ball as they please. The MSU football team promised all week they were going to pound the football and as sophomore running back Le’Veon Bell said after the game, his head coach never has been one to break a promise. “If (Dantonio) says we’re going to run the ball the whole game then he means we’re going to run the ball the whole game,” Bell said. On the Spartans first two scoring drives, the team ran the ball 11 times for 84 yards and only passed once.

NEWS

A changing skyline

In 1999, a group of MSU administrators and officials, led by then-MSU President M. Peter McPherson, set out to develop a series of principles to guide the university’s long-term infrastructure development across more than two decades with lofty goals and improved student services in mind.

NEWS

Police Brief 09/23/11

A 29-year-old female MSU employee reported a number of items stolen between 11:30-11:45 a.m. Tuesday from Olin Health Center, MSU police Sgt.

Sean Gagnier ·
MSU

Art marathon takes over MSU

Covered in charcoal and paint, studio art senior Jane Sasso worked on her artwork among dozens of other artists sketching on the collaborative art boards strewn across the Kresge Art Center front lawn on Thursday afternoon for the MSU Department of Art and Art History Drawing Marathon.

Julia Nagy ·
MSU

New robotic fish detect harmful pollutants

In a 15-foot-long tank holding 6,000 gallons of water in the basement of the Engineering Building, a group of robotic fish swin in sync to help the enviroment thanks to a team of MSU researchers and students.