The Big Ten Conference was well-represented against the Big East Conference this weekend, with the conference going a combined 2-1-2 against Big East opponents. No. 19 MSU swept its two games during the weekend in the Big Ten/Big East Challenge with a 1-0 win against Marquette on Friday at home and a 2-0 victory at Notre Dame on Sunday.
Biking on city sidewalks from downtown Lansing on Monday, Art Slabosky left work briefly to join East Lansing city officials and community members in celebrating the ribbon cutting for the Saginaw Pathways Project.
After a week of overreacting about how your team fared in week one of the 2010 NFL season, week two successfully settled everybody down and gave a more realistic outlook at the season. Wait … that’s not realistic at all.
Christmas came early for some MSU students as they caught a sneak peek at some of Victoria’s secrets on Monday. Victoria’s Secret PINK kicked off its annual college campus tour at the Harrison Roadhouse, 720 Michigan Ave., and offered items from its holiday line, including MSU PINK apparel before it hits stores.
MSU students now have become the dregs of society by taking a step closer to the complete and utter disregard for academia! This decree is, of course, in response to the half-page advertisement — poorly veiled as an objective article — for lineskipper.com featured in last Wednesday’s paper (“New website lets patrons skip lines around E.L.,” SN 9/15).
In announcing his “Rally to Restore Sanity,” comedian Jon Stewart said some curious things. He lamented that most normal Americans are too busy for today’s political discourse, overrun as it is by radical ideologues “on the Left and the Right.”
Stealing is stealing. No matter if it’s a song that’s been on the radio repeatedly, or even if it’s a song that we’ve danced to at the eighth grade formal. It’s stealing even if it’s a song we’ve only liked for a week and then never listened to it again until it randomly comes up in a playlist. Illegal downloading is, by definition, illegal. The important question is: Is it really something MSU needs to address?
What began as Margaret Grost’s fundraising bake sales evolved into Caring About Kids, Inc. or CAK, a nonprofit charity that provides funds for services and purchases for foster children that would be deemed as extra, such as music lessons, team uniforms or art classes, in Ingham County.
The MSU Library is looking to add student artwork to its main building through the “Art In The Library competition.”
Saturday night’s 34-31 overtime win against Notre Dame at Spartan Stadium was as improbable as it was unthinkable. Spartan fans have seen a different outcome too many times before. Nearly every year they witness their team give itself a chance to win late in an important game only to hand it all away in the final moments. Saturday night, it appeared it was about to be the same story but only a different season for MSU and its fans.
A suspect has been arraigned for the homicide of finance freshman Darren Brown, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said.
Football head coach Mark Dantonio will not be on the sidelines for Saturday’s game against Northern Colorado after suffering a heart attack shortly after the Spartans’ overtime victory over Notre Dame early Sunday morning.
The MSU Board of Trustees paved way for three upcoming construction projects and also announced a fundraising activity for the university during its meeting Friday.
For Dayna Bancroft, the two-mile stretch around the Red Cedar River will always be a walk to remember. Bancroft, an Ovid, Mich.
Many flocked to East Lansing for the MSU vs. Notre Dame game, but with the weekend’s festivities came several fires and robberies. Thursday night more than seven students in Case Hall had items taken from them while they slept, MSU police Sgt.
Lansing Community College could open a bachelor of science in nursing program only five miles from MSU’s College of Nursing if a bill passed by the Michigan House of Representatives Thursday is passed into law. In a vote scrambled across party lines, both pieces of the two-bill package passed by a narrow margin — 55-49 and 55-48, respectively.
Notre Dame’s game plan for Saturday’s game against MSU was clear: pass, pass and pass some more. The Fighting Irish attacked MSU’s secondary, which ranked last in the Big Ten last year, early and often, gaining 369 yards and allowing their athletic receivers to make plays in MSU’s 34-31 overtime win.
The rain Saturday afternoon couldn’t dampen the spirits of thousands of alumni and fans who gathered on campus to cheer on the Spartans or the opportunity to share their stories with the world.
In its only home competition of the season, the MSU cross country team had a successful run Friday afternoon as Spartan runners took first place in both the men’s and women’s races at the Spartan Invitational held at Forest Akers East Golf Course.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, is hosting its third annual Clean Commute Challenge today through Friday to encourage the public to participate actively in cleaner commuting and cleaner communities, said Edgerly, CATA’s Clean Commute Options coordinator.