Despite representing schools with a long-standing and heated rivalry, the graduate student governments from MSU and the University of Michigan have announced a collaborative partnership between the two groups.
The Alpha Omicron Pi sorority will have the blues Wednesday for the Catwalk for the Cure fashion show and silent auction in support of juvenile arthritis.
During a house call, Lisa Benisek, doctor of veterinary medicine, was asked to sit down and play the piano.
Music has been an integral part of Amanda Farmer’s life for as long as she can remember. That’s why, when a friend of the psychology senior told her about Red Bull Tum Tum Pa, she jumped at the opportunity to participate in the competition.
Each month, Adam Zdroik logs onto ESPN’s website on a daily basis and randomly selects the winners of various games for the Streak for the Cash contest. During a span of 13 days in March, Zdroik, an MSU alumnus and Kansas City, Mo., resident, correctly guessed 25 games consecutively and beat out thousands of other competitors to win $50,000.
Every time the MSU baseball team prepares to face an in-state rival, head coach Jake Boss Jr. talks about the team’s goal of winning the state.
Graduating five seniors this season, the MSU men’s soccer team was a relatively new group playing together in the exhibition spring season.
“Student engagement” is mentioned as an ASMSU goal every year. And, each year it is lost in the shuffle of events and falls to the bottom of the to-do list. By allowing this to happen, we lose our greatest resource — students.
I want to welcome you to a world where power and control have created truth. A world you already might know well. Where clashes over money and religion and society’s inner workings have created a global Hobbesian leviathan with ever-present epilepsy — a seizing giant of scattered information.
Now that ASMSU essentially has been forced to move its money to on-campus accounts, it’s clear MSU officials are using their power to impact MSU’s student government negatively.
For Kristine Patterson, homelessness is an issue that is all too real. “It’s more of a personal thing for me,” Patterson said.
Foreign language and international studies programs at MSU face deep cuts after Congress last week slashed $50 million from federally funded international education programs. The cuts — part of $38 billion in overall spending reductions — might dig into centers at MSU that use federal dollars to hire instructors, send students on research trips overseas and conduct outreach programs.
Students living on campus next year will face higher living cots after the MSU Board of Trustees voted to increase housing and dining rates by 4.95 percent next year. This August, the residence hall double room rate for undergraduate students will increase $160, and the silver unlimited meal plan will increase $224, bringing the standard double room and board plan to $8,154 — up from $7,770 this academic year. Rates for one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments in Spartan Village will remain unchanged, and the monthly rate for apartments in University Village will increase by $7 per person.
Financial optimism is on the rise, while trust for the government has reached all-time lows, according to a survey conducted by the MSU Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, or IPPSR. The survey is conducted seasonally to check the political pulse of Michigan’s general population, economics professor Charles Ballard said. This year’s study shows the percentage of Michigan residents who trust the state government all or most of the time is at an all-time low at 15.8 percent and the percentage of people who trust the state government seldom or never was at 29.6 percent, the second highest it has been in the past 14 years the survey has been conducted. Though the percentage of residents who have little-to-no trust in the Michigan government has dropped since last year, the overall trust of the state government has dropped below the federal government, which Ballard said is uncommon but not unexpected. “In a lot of our past surveys, the state (government) has had a higher rating (of trust) than the federal (government),” Ballard said.
A 20-year-old female student reported her drawstring bag, containing a number of personal belongings, stolen from the Phillips Hall basement lounge between 11 a.m.
Ask MSU baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr. about the new aluminum bats used in college baseball this season, and prepare to watch his eyes roll and his head shake while he mutters a series of barely audible words spoken under his breath.
Coming into the MSU baseball team’s weekend series against Ohio State, the team wanted complete focus — something that was lacking earlier in the week.
Lining up next to MSU offensive linemen, receiving instruction from MSU coaches and getting an inside glimpse of the football program comprised some of the activities that women were able to participate in at the Spartan Football Women’s Clinic on Saturday.
Relay for Life always has been a part of Greg Dowdy and Kelly Knupfer’s relationship. It was at a Relay for Life event in high school when Knupfer, a communication senior, first learned Dowdy, a physiology senior, liked her. Because of its importance in their six-year relationship, Dowdy said he realized this year’s event was the moment he had been waiting for to propose to Knupfer on Friday.
The MSU men’s tennis team hosted its final home matches of the season this past weekend, beating Iowa 4-3 on Saturday and losing to Illinois 5-2 on Sunday.