As members of the MSU and Greater Lansing community came together to commemorate the 2011 International Day of Peace, speakers emphasized the value in embracing the area’s diversity.
After last weekend’s 31-13 loss to Notre Dame, the Spartans said they returned to the drawing board with an especially critical eye to find the costly mistakes and look to eliminate them this time around. Learning as much as possible from the first loss of the season, MSU’s goals are still in tact as it looks to get back on track.
The long history between MSU head coach Mark Dantonio and Central Michigan head coach Dan Enos makes preparing for Saturday’s game that much more difficult.
The long history between MSU head coach Mark Dantonio and Central Michigan head coach Dan Enos makes preparing for Saturday’s game that much more difficult.
Last year, the MSU men’s soccer team entered the Big Ten season on a five-game winning streak, eventually finishing sixth out of seven with a 2-4-0 record in the conference. This year, the Spartans (1-5-1) will start the Big Ten season with a less-than-successful record Saturday at Northwestern.
Although medical marijuana is allowed in the state of Michigan, federal law still lists it as illegal, and Eastern Michigan University, the University of Michigan and Oakland University follow federal law. MSU and Eastern Michigan’s medical marijuana policies on campus are slightly different from other the other universities’ policies.
There was a half-page advertisement in Wednesday’s State News on the behalf of Real Partners. Real Peace.
MSU officials and state lawmakers are once again playing the blame game with state funding. Around and around the blame will go, and no matter where it stops, students will lose. Last week, House Republicans introduced a bill that would take $18 million in state funding from MSU.
The Spartans (11-1) had a hot start to the season, winning 18 consecutive sets before falling to Bowling Green, 3-1, in the Best Western Falcon Plaza Invitational. However, MSU’s sole loss seems to have been a blip on the radar as the team has continued to steam roll its opponents, accumulating a 35-4 set record in nonconference play. But playing in the Big Ten is a different beast altogether, as head coach Cathy George and her players were quick to point out.
The MSU field hockey team opens its Big Ten season Friday, when it travels to Iowa City, Iowa, to take on the Hawkeyes. The Spartans will return to East Lansing on Sunday for its home opener against Kent State.
The MSU women’s soccer coach is preaching a gospel of physicality and grittiness as his team (8-1-0, 1-0-0 Big Ten) heads into a weekend series against Wisconsin (6-3-0, 1-0-0) and Minnesota (3-5-1, 0-0-1). With the Spartans riding an eight-game winning streak, Saxton will look for his team to step up at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field early in its Big Ten schedule.
An East Lansing resident reported an unidentified man armed with a knife entered his apartment in the Landings at Chandler Crossing at 11 a.m.
It might have been Patrick Essenmacher’s wife that got him into his first class at MSU Evening College two years ago, but now it’s his own interest that has him flipping through the course catalogue every semester.
Keeping promises to lash back at MSU’s tuition policies, a small group of House Republicans are commencing with plans to strip the university of millions in additional state funds.
The upcoming closure of a local Barnes & Noble Booksellers branch could make a significant mark in the pages of East Lansing’s history, community members said Wednesday.
At approximately 7:30 a.m. Sunday, Maxine Mei and Stella Hua were sleeping in their ninth-floor dorm in South Hubbard Hall when two strange men entered, grabbed Hua’s laptop, iPad and iPod Nano and promptly left the room.
An 18-year-old male student reported his laptop was stolen between 3:35 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Sept. 18 from his East Wilson Hall dorm, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Tjardo, a military dog, was deployed overseas in the war against terror. He fought and trained alongside fellow soldiers and then was wounded alongside them. Assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment, Tjardo, or TJ, was sent back to fight after recovering. But when the canine suffered his second injury, the IRONDOG fund at MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine came in to help.
After hearing about a shortage of bodies in an MSU anatomy class about 20 years ago, Edith Barnes decided she wanted to donate her body to science.
Political theory senior Nina Patchak said she has become disappointed with a lack of student involvement on campus about the current Israel-Palestine debate brewing in the United Nations.