During the past few weeks, members of the MSU men’s basketball team responded to the media comments along the lines of, “If we get in the NCAA Tournament, look out.” It took more than a half-hour and an almost full bracket, but the Spartans got into the NCAA Tournament as a No.
The MSU Athletics Department has yet to release a statement about the recent arrest of two MSU football players during spring break. MSU Associate Athletics Director John Lewandowski said the Athletic Department will not issue a statement until MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio has a chance to address the arrest of junior tight end Brian Linthicum and freshman linebacker Max Bullough. The two were arrested in Aspen, Colo., early Thursday morning. Linthicum was arrested for misdemeanor third-degree assault, and Bullough was arrested for minor in possession of alcohol, Aspen police Sgt.
The Japan that Yoichi Hirose is coming home to isn’t the one he left a year ago. Nine days from now, Hirose, an intern at the Office of International Students and Scholars from the University of Fukui in Fukui, Japan, will return to his hometown of Ishikawa, Japan.
A multimillon dollar development slated for downtown East Lansing is moving forward after months of stagnancy. The City Center II project received a 12-month extension to its site plan after the East Lansing Planning Commission passed the request at its March 9 meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road. City Center II is a $97 million mixed-use project slated for development on the corner of Abbot Road and Grand River and Evergreen avenues.
A 40-year-old man allegedly was assaulted by a 19-year-old male student at 1:10 a.m. March 4 in Holden Hall, MSU police Sgt.
A preliminary outline of the 2011 fiscal year East Lansing budget, which proposed numerous cuts to accommodate for decreases in funding from the state, was presented to the East Lansing City Council in its March 8 meeting.
To an MSU student, it never can hurt to earn a little extra cash — especially if it’s made through one’s own original media.
The hubbub of activity normally caused by students who leave East Lansing for spring break temporarily was replaced by people interested in farming, agriculture and similar areas in celebration of MSU’s 95th Agriculture and Natural Resources, or ANR, Week.
Less than two months after the Lansing Police Department made history, the East Lansing Police Department made a move of the same fashion.
MSU students voted to merge ASMSU’s Student and Academic assemblies into a single assembly two weeks ago.
Cyrus McNeal was sitting on a subway in New York City when an idea came to him. McNeal, a 2007 MSU alumnus, said he saw an advertisement about improvisation, and it inspired him to make a bold move to be noticed in the competitive industry of publishing.
The MSU Community Music School will host Rock Camp, a series of weekly classes during which middle and high school students have the opportunity to learn how to start, manage and perform in a band. The camp will run from 6-9 p.m. Monday through April 25 at 841 Timberlane St.
Sarah McLachlan, a Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Cathy Whims, a chef and restaurateur, will be featured in the Spring Visiting Chef Series at 7 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday at Kellogg Center.
The University Activities Board, or the UAB, will host a zumba class as part of its Stretch Away Your Stress exercise series.
Normally, I find it vile when political commentators make comparisons likening our statesmen to fascist regimes, but when I take a look at the agenda unfolding in the Midwest, it increasingly has become difficult not to feel concerned.
For a long time I’ve considered myself a pessimist or cynic — capable of seeing the problems in life and providing negative criticism, but struggling with finding real solutions.
Sneaking around with paint cans in tow during the darkest hours of the night might not be the most glamorous way to create art, but it has its place in the world — it’s a colorful collision of free speech and vandalism.
The MSU hockey team finished the season earlier than many expected, but with only two graduating seniors the Spartans will bring back plenty of experience.
The MSU men’s basketball team was awarded a 10 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will play 7-seed UCLA in Tampa, Fla. Check statenews.com for more throughout the night.