Twelve-year-old Trevor Chamberlain had the opportunity to practice his sumo wrestling technique Friday while visiting his big sister at MSU.
Some residents of Crossing Place Apartments, 3636 Coleman Road, said they do not feel safe living there and therefore want to get out of their leases.
Vishwajeet Singh wants to teach the world. It’s part of the reason why he founded Global Mentors LLC, a web-based teaching community with headquarters in East Lansing.
As soon as she returned from her study abroad program in Japan in the summer of 2008, Mandy Kline wanted to go back.
As soon as she returned from her study abroad program in Japan in the summer of 2008, Mandy Kline wanted to go back. Through the Japan Center for Michigan Universities, or JCMU — where Kline, a psychology and Japanese senior, now works as a peer adviser — she found a new passion and developed the necessary language skills, both of which might some day allow her to return. “I decided to add an additional degree because I loved it so much,” Kline said.
Spending a holiday away from home might not be the most comfortable, but international students, such as Zeming Teng, have been making do with the celebration of Chinese New Year during the past week.
Although the actuarial science degree was scheduled to begin this semester, the first official program is planned to be offered in the summer, said Albert Cohen, specialist and actuarial sciences coordinator.
Michigan’s attorney general might have won a battle last week when a federal judge ruled health care reform unconstitutional, but experts say the war is far from over.
Maybe it was the racket. After losing the first set, 6-0, MSU sophomore Denis Bogatov was left searching for answers. He decided to start the second set with a new racket, hoping a change would help get him back on track. And the racket seemed to help as Bogatov rolled to an impressive come-from-behind victory over Wake Forest’s Jonathan Wolff (0-6, 6-4, 6-3). “I just told myself that I couldn’t continue playing as horribly as I did in the first set,” Bogatov said.
Opening the match against No. 3 Penn State, junior 184-pounder Ian Hinton’s 13-1 major decision loss to Penn State’s No. 14 Quentin Wright foreshadowed the course of the match for MSU on Friday at Jenison Field House.
It was same story, different venue for the MSU men’s basketball team. Following a 20-point loss at Iowa on Wednesday, the Spartans lost, 82-56, at Wisconsin on Sunday. For the sixth-straight game, a Spartan opponent made at least 49 percent of its shots.
I want readers to know the stereotype of all Muslims as terrorists is not true. Every society has its “bad people,” which for Muslims is about 3 percent of the population. So, here is a general idea of how the other 97 percent feels about the problems going on.
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.