After the MSU men’s basketball team lost to Michigan for the first time in three years last Thursday, I wrote that it couldn’t get any worse for the 2010-11 Spartans. A little less than one week later, it’s pretty obvious I jumped the gun with that conclusion.
Many Spartans took advantage of a day’s reprieve from classes. Blizzard conditions buried MSU and East Lansing in about 11 inches of snow, making the area a veritable breeding ground for winter activities.
Despite the snow, students and professors are expected to plow through the rest of the semester as scheduled. Canceling classes should not be looked at as a “way to erase that day,” MSU President Lou Anna K.
With all classes canceled and the idea of a snowpocalypse looming over the city of East Lansing, many students took advantage of a unique opportunity Tuesday night and went out to the bars not worrying about the state of their condition for Wednesday classes. Though most bars typically are quiet early in the week, many were packed full of celebratory students after word got out of Wednesday’s class cancellations, Spanish junior Tony Huff said.
The Hawkeyes (9-13 overall, 2-8 Big Ten) pounded MSU (13-9, 5-5), 72-52, in Iowa City, Iowa on Wednesday night.
The Wednesday morning snowstorm that blanketed East Lansing in about 11 inches of snow brought residents and city officials together to deal with the aftermath.
At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday more than 400 students descended upon Munn field clad in hats, gloves, scarves, jackets — and the occasional trojan helmet — to spend their day off attempting to break a world record.
After the recent tumultuous weather conditions, the upcoming weekend is expected to be a relief, said Brian Mead, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids.
They call her “blackbean” – half black, half Mexican. It’s a nickname embraced by Lynette Davidson, a political theory and constitutional democracy and communication sophomore and one of the 710 students at MSU who identifies with two or more races.
Changes to the course repeat policy were discussed during Tuesday’s Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, meeting.
One student group is storming classrooms on campus in an effort to save lives and beat other universities in the Gift of Life Campus Challenge.
From studying the effects of morphine on the nervous system to examining the human heart, James Galligan has seen it all from a biological perspective.
Under the supervision of Sherrie Barr, associate professor of theatre and director of dance, the Orchesis Dance Concert will premiere at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Auditorium’s Arena Theatre. The goal of Orchesis is to bring dance to the community, offering non-credit technique classes to students of all levels taught by students in Orchesis.
Megan Gebhart, a marketing senior, started a blog on blogging platform Tumblr called “52 Cups of Coffee.” Gebhart said the goal of the blog, which began last summer, is to invite a different person she doesn’t know to have coffee with her each week.
The theater production of “Oedipus” will start at 8 p.m. Friday at Williamston Theatre, 122 S. Putnam St., in Williamston, Mich.
The Center for Advanced Study of International Development will sponsor guest speaker Andrea Freidus in its CASID/GenCen Friday Forum Speaker Series at noon Friday in Room 201 of the International Center.
The American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women, or GRFW, will hold a casting call for women to speak out about heart disease at 5 p.m. Friday at Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and her perspective of her new frontier.
As you already might know, the ASMSU has recently ratified a bill (Bill 47-19-18) that will merge both assemblies into a single body and therefore cut the size of ASMSU roughly in half.
A people’s struggle is unfolding within Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations. Once again, the U.S. has ignored the suffering of the masses, backing the despotic few who gain wealth and power through the oppression of their people and the promotion of American economic and military interests.