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BASEBALL

MSU baseball falls to No. 1-seed Illinois, takes on Minnesota Saturday

Dillon Davis
May 27, 2011

Junior pitcher Tony Bucciferro couldn’t match his complete game effort of a week ago, as he battled a high pitch count combined with high-powered No. 1-seeded Illinois (27-25 overall, 16-9 Big Ten) offense Friday as the No. 2-seeded MSU baseball team (35-20, 16-10) fell, 4-1. Bucciferro would allow eight hits over six and ? innings to drop his season record to 8-3.

BASEBALL

Baseball wins its opening Big Ten Tournament game

Dillon Davis
May 26, 2011

The No. 2-seeded MSU baseball team (35-19 overall, 16-9 Big Ten) shook off a two hour and 15 minute rain delay and used a collaborative hitting effort to rally behind senior pitcher Kurt Wunderlich to defeat Purdue, 7-1. With the win Thursday, MSU remains undefeated against the Boilermakers on the year, earlier sweeping them in three games during the first weekend in May.

MSU

Museum continues as scheduled

Josh Mansour
May 25, 2011

As the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum continues to take shape, it is becoming clear MSU is going with a modern look to display modern art. The $45 million project is on schedule — expecting to be completed in December and opened in April 2012 — despite an additional $6 million to $7 million to be raised, museum director Michael Rush said.

NEWS

Provisions found unconstitutional

Marina Csomor
May 25, 2011

Two provisions, which would call for reporting requirements and benefit changes for Michigan’s universities, included in state budget legislation have been deemed unconstitutional and unenforceable by Gov.

Dena Elian ·
MSU

Environmentally friendly cabs hit campus

Josh Mansour
May 25, 2011

A new mode of transportation with a Far East feel has been circulating across campus — the pedicab. Spar-Thai Green Cab Service has begun using pedicabs, or bicycles with electric assistance and a canopied seating area, giving students a new way to get around.

NEWS

Professor dismissed after plagiarizing

Beau Hayhoe
May 25, 2011

MSU professor Sharif Shakrani has been released from university affiliation after a campus investigative committee found he engaged in research misconduct, university spokesman Kent Cassella said last week in a statement. An investigation led by two separate committees of university officials found Shakrani guilty of plagiarism and announced their findings in April after nearly eight months of investigation. As a fixed-term faculty member who worked in MSU’s Education Policy Center, Shakrani used unattributed material during a 2010 report examining the consequences of school district consolidation. Senior associate provost June Youatt made the decision to release him from the university and suspend him without pay beginning April 27.

NEWS

New bank to open close to campus by fall

Jesse O'Brien
May 25, 2011

There will be another convenient banking option for students when they return to campus this fall after Chase Bank opens its new branch in downtown East Lansing. The bank is expected to open in mid-August and will be located at 639 E.

NEWS

Police Brief 05/26/11

Summer Ballentine
May 25, 2011

A 31-year-old female jewelry vendor from Ypsilanti, Mich., allegedly was robbed at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the MSU Arts and Crafts Show, MSU police Sgt.

COMMENTARY

We can’t live on cuts alone

Why aren’t tax increases more commonly mentioned as a possible solution to America’s debt? I understand no one wants to give up anything; we’re conditioned not to. It’s the American way of life to hold on to everything you have so tightly they have to bury you with it. But we’ve been cutting and hacking and slashing at government spending for the last six months. Has it gotten us anywhere? It doesn’t look like it.