With only 10 games remaining this season, the Spartans (22-22 overall, 3-9 Big Ten) have a chance to take control of their season, and they want to prove they’re tough enough to do so, starting with two road games against Minnesota (27-20, 5-7) at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
The three college students accused of supplying alcohol to four teenagers at a party leading to a fatal car crash, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in 55th District Court today. MSU students Charles King III and Jordan Henika and their roommate, Lansing Community College student Michael Freund, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to contribute to the delinquency of a minor, Freund’s lawyer Scott Mertens said. Mertens said the students feel terrible for what happened and for the victims’ families, but they do not feel they contributed directly to the deaths and their pleas are reflective of that, he said. “There was one thing our clients were guilty of — holding a keg party and not monitoring who was consuming alcohol,” Mertens said.
MSU junior defensive end Corey Freeman has been suspended from Saturday’s spring game after being ticketed for driving with a suspended license and a failure to disclose a concealed pistol to an officer, a court clerk from East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. Driving with a suspended license carries a maximum of 93 days in jail and a $500 fine and is a misdemeanor charge.
MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson said he will keep his position at MSU if he’s not allowed to serve on both the MSU Board of Trustees and Detroit’s Greektown Casino board of directors. Ferguson said he was considering a position on the Greektown board in June 2010 — one he’s been contemplating since — but Greektown officials have said a 1996 Michigan Gaming Control and Revenue Act prohibits all elected officials from serving on a casino board of control. “If I can’t work this out and I have to choose, I’ll stay at MSU,” Ferguson said. Ferguson was elected first to the Board of Trustees in 1986 and currently serves as chairman.
Following his hiring as the MSU baseball coach Jake Boss Jr. asked his father, Jake Boss Sr., to help lead the team after years of high coaching experience.
The East Lansing Fire Department and five other fire departments in the Lansing area are looking into options to further efficiency and reduce expenses by sharing resources. Discussions between Lansing, Delta, Delhi and Meridian townships, as well as the cities of Lansing and East Lansing, began last summer, East Lansing Fire Chief Randall Talifarro said. To gather more information on viable options, the municipalities are considering a study that will investigate the most effective ways for the departments to operate, Talifarro said. With the recent loss of state revenue sharing, the municipalities are considering consolidating departments or cooperating in other ways to save money, Talifarro said. “We’re trying to build on what’s similar and where we have common ground,” he said.
A 31-year-old male reported damage to his vehicle at about 9:30 a.m. April 24 in Lot 23 near Owen Graduate Hall, MSU police Sgt.
Danielle Winterberger is a direct descendent of a Holocaust survivor. The marketing junior has been researching her family’s history since she was 16 years old — putting together her grandmother’s story in the greater context of the Holocaust.
Presidential candidates would be required to furnish a birth certificate to Michigan authorities in order to appear on ballots in the state if a state representative has his way.
The Kresge Art Museum will close after the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum opens in April 2012, but the university art collection will not be left out of the new museum’s exhibitions, which will give historical context to its modern art focus.
A reunion of past roommates and old college friends, women prepare for the Kaleidoscope conference Friday in celebration of the many facets and reflections of women at MSU.
The MSU softball team followed up Tuesday’s loss against Central Michigan with better offensive production Wednesday, but settled for a split with Oakland in a double-header.
When they were underclassmen, MSU alumnus Alex Poe and social relations and policy senior Cliff Walls would joke about canoeing down the Mississippi River. But last fall, it wasn’t a joke anymore.
When Brendon Thomas thinks of his experience at MSU, his mind is filled with memories of warm Saturdays in the fall before football games.
John Revitte confirmed Wednesday morning he will retire from his post as faculty grievance official later this year.
In an attempt to bring more fashion and street culture to downtown East Lansing, Ray Colville officially opened the doors to his Michigan-based retail store, Double Up, yesterday afternoon.
Erika Vivyan spent this past spring semester in what she described as a challenging classroom of high school freshmen — something most students her age don’t get the chance to experience. Vivyan, a Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, sophomore who aspires to work in education, took one of the four classes in the Pay It Forward program within the college, which centers around giving back to the Lansing area.
When Brad Johnson moved to California for an internship last summer at Angel Stadium of Anaheim, he knew it was an opportunity he had been looking for. Then Johnson, a hospitality business senior, got a phone call from the food and services corporation in November 2010 indicating that the same company, Aramark, wanted him back and hired him as a manager in training in its Pathway to Leadership program, which begins in May at Angel Stadium.
The University Activities Board, or UAB, and the Senior Class Council will sponsor Lugnuts Night for graduating seniors as a part of Senior Week at 7:05 p.m. Thursday at Cooley Law School Stadium in Lansing.
The Animal ArtVenture Community Reception will be from 7-9 p.m. Friday at the Lansing Art Gallery, 119 N. Washington Square, in Lansing.