When the Spartans and No. 15 Crimson Tide play in the Capital One Bowl, set for 1 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2011, in Orlando, Fla., plenty will be at stake, including conference bragging rights and the chance to ring in their new year with a victory.
The walk from the Main Library to Emi Bulica’s dorm in Landon Hall isn’t a long one, but it’s not one she feels safe making alone at 12:36 a.m.
A 9-3 overall record, 5-3 conference record and a berth in the Capital One Bowl versus the No. 7 ranked MSU Spartans would be considered a successful season at most programs across the country. Not at Alabama.
The last time the MSU hockey team faced off against Michigan on March 13, the Spartans watched their rivals skate off with a 5-3 win at Munn Ice Arena that ended the Spartans’ CCHA Tournament run and NCAA Tournament hopes.
The Big Ten will begin bowl season Dec. 28, and, as has been the case in previous seasons, will go in having to earn every ounce of respect it’s going to get.
With finals week quickly approaching, many students who normally would spend their Friday evenings out on the town are camped out in the library and stressing their last opportunity to push their grade-point average over the top. But advertising junior Leoniece Cheeks said she encourages students to seize the day at the first annual “Carpe Diem” fashion show Friday.
Construction across the university will be a top discussion item at today’s MSU Board of Trustees meeting, as trustees will examine proposals to renovate the first floor dining area of Case Hall and install state-of-the-art teaching laboratories in The School of Hospitality Business’ facilities.
As students prepare for possible snow this weekend, campus and city officials are working to ensure safe roads and sidewalks throughout East Lansing.
In the letter, “Overuse of antibiotics might compromise human being’s health,” (SN 12/7), Margaret Marciniak makes some biased claims and raises unnecessary fear about the use of antibiotics in production animals.
This is a reply to the letter “MSU’s Women’s Lounge a relic of past discrimination” (SN 12/3). Thirty years ago as an undergraduate at MSU, I valued the Women’s Lounge as the quietest place in the Union. It was a place where I could do some serious work on a paper or even catch a much-needed nap.
The four-person suite style of Akers Hall might receive a makeover next summer if MSU administrators approve tentative enhancements to the residence hall sometime mid-spring.
MSU’s African American and African Studies program, or AAAS, will debate Kwanzaa’s controversial state and its original meaning during Kwanzaa Intellectual Fest today.
Usually, the end of the semester column is about carrying on and enjoying the break. However, this time, I want it to be about what comes next. In the most basic sense, this page is about news analysis, which is crucial in a 24-hour news cycle where things are event — and not issue — oriented. In that world, the editorial page becomes a place to parse and analyze the events covered in the paper.
It’s 3 a.m. the night before your must-pass final. A sea of Red Bull cans, candy wrappers and note cards pile up and barricade you into a frenzied hole of hopeless PowerPoint slides.
The International Cat Association will host the Ho Ho Ho-liday Cat Show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave.
The Capitol Area Performers will present an encore presentation of the play “Fences” at 7 p.m. today and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
Starlight Dinner Theatre will perform “A (Greater) Tuna Christmas” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at Waverly East Intermediate School, 3131 W. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
Leon Gregorian, the director of orchestras in the College of Music, is directing Home for the Holidays, which will light up the stage at 8 p.m. on Saturday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall. The annual music celebration will combine the talent of MSU’s Symphony Orchestra, the State Singers, Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs and the MSU Children’s Choir.
The U.S. Senate today voted not to bring up the DREAM Act for discussion. A staffer in a Michigan senator’s office said Senate leaders also might try to pass legislation that would repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
Jamie Burns has been a Spartan his whole life, going to MSU sporting events since childhood. Burns, now a biosystems engineering freshman, went to every home football game this year and made trips to Ann Arbor University Park, Pa., and Evanston, Ill., to watch games. Now, he and his family have one final destination and one final game in one of the best seasons in MSU football history — Orlando, Fla., for the Capital One Bowl.