A new package of laws to regulate overdraft regulations in state-chartered banks will help keep Michigan-based banks from exploiting their members. If passed, banks no longer will be able to fleece their members’ accounts and roll in the profits.
Although Jeremy Mason said he always has loved art, it wasn’t until he bought a new house three years ago that he found his niche. Mason, a Holt, Mich., resident and 2001 MSU alumnus who works as a financial planner, debuted his art pieces Sunday at the East Lansing Public Art Gallery on the second floor of Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road. The exhibit will be on display until March 2.
The MSU hockey team continued to match its opponents’ intensity level but didn’t register its first sweep of the season in a weekend split with Ohio State. On Friday freshman goalie Will Yanakeff led the Spartans with 32 saves in his second shutout in his past four starts, and junior defenseman Tim Buttery scored his first goal of the season, while sophomore forward Derek Grant tallied an empty netter to lift the Spartans to a 2-0 win.
The No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team faced off against Purdue in a battle of the Big Ten’s best defenses and came away with a 76-57 victory.
The MSU hockey team failed to earn its first series sweep of the season Saturday, as it fell, 4-2, at Ohio State.
Freshman goalie Will Yanakeff’s fifth consecutive win led the MSU hockey team to a 2-0 victory against Ohio State on Friday.
One day after the MSU’s 72-52 loss to Iowa — a loss head coach Tom Izzo called “embarrassing” — the Spartans had the day off from practice. Instead, with a game at Wisconsin looking on Sunday, they gathered at the Alfred Berkowitz Basketball Complex for three hours of meetings. “We just met and talked about what we wanted to do,” junior forward Delvon Roe said.
Recently-dismissed junior guard Korie Lucious is in Ames, Iowa visiting Iowa State.
Protests have erupted in Egypt, initially against President Hosni Mubarak, with civilians calling him to step down after a 30-year rule. Mubarak announced Tuesday he will not run in September’s elections but will remain president until then, a statement that has divided protesters and turned the once-peaceful riots violent.
The scene was set for a night to remember for Badger fans, defeating one of the best teams in the country, remaining in a tie for first place in the Big Ten and allowing head coach Lisa Stone to celebrate her 500th career victory.
An 18-year-old male student was taken to the hospital Tuesday after falling off a hand railing in Wilson Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
About two and a half months ago, the MSU men’s basketball team had a team evaluation meeting. Players were told areas they needed to work on. Sophomore center Derrick Nix decided to write down the needed improvements and hang them above his locker so he remembered.
With 32 athletes and four coaches, the MSU wrestling team has made room on its roster for one additional purple, blue and yellow member of the team. Indigo — head coach Tom Minkel’s colorful hyacinth macaw — attends wrestling practice most days of the week and has become a valuable member of the MSU wrestling family.
Moving up the CCHA standings has been about as difficult as walking through a snowdrift as several quality teams occupy the middle of the conference. Moving up will be the MSU hockey team’s objective, however, when they visit Ohio State for a series this weekend to try to climb out of 10th place in the CCHA and continue a 5-3-1 run in its past nine games.
After losing to Western Michigan earlier this season for the first time in program history, the MSU gymnastics team has had two weeks off to prepare for the meet against its new in-state rival on Sunday in Kalamazoo. “They beat us for the first time ever in the history of MSU and Western gymnastics in January right after (senior gymnast Kathryn Mahoney’s) injury, and that didn’t feel so good,” head coach Kathie Klages said.
Most years, if my team isn’t in the Super Bowl then I watch with no rooting interest. This year, however, thanks to one unsuspected source, when Sunday rolls around and Super Bowl XLV kicks off, I will be all in for the Green Bay Packers. Now I know I’m not alone, and leading up to Sunday’s game most people are expressing their distaste toward Steeler Nation.
When the mediocre Michigan Wolverines embarrassed our men’s basketball team at home, I thought karma was at work. Punished by the likes of Syracuse and Texas, struggling in the Big Ten, our gentleman Spartans had finally hit rock bottom.
For two hours, communication junior Elizabeth Battiste stepped out from behind her Twitter handle of @elizbattiste and chatted in person with several of her Twitter contacts as she and others gathered Thursday in the Main Library for Spartan TweetUp.
Mark Burnham likely will become the new MSU vice president of governmental affairs, as current vice president Steve Webster has taken a position as CEO and chairman of a nonprofit, statewide economic development organization.
After working hard for years to receive a bachelor’s degree, graduates could be disappointed to find themselves without a budding professional career. But with a poor job market, internships are becoming a viable option when full-time jobs are scarce.