In the final meeting of ASMSU’s Student Assembly on Thursday night, assembly members of the outgoing 46th session unanimously — but unhappily — approved new language for a tax referendum to support its Readership Program. The new language requires the tax to be revisited again in 2011.
More than 30 international student-athletes from 13 different countries have come to MSU and now call themselves Spartans. From all around the world, these athletes found a home in East Lansing. The international athletes bring outside talent to teams at MSU and develop bonds with their teammates.
Three male MSU students reported their belongings stolen Tuesday from the IM Sports-West gymnasium.
Korie Lucious’ game-winning 3-pointer to beat Maryland, 85-83, Sunday won more than just the game.
The No. 5-seed MSU men’s basketball team, with three players (junior guards Chris Allen and Kalin Lucas and sophomore forward Delvon Roe) suffering leg injuries, are hurting. No. 9-seed Northern Iowa battled its way to an upset of No. 1 overall seed Kansas, an easy pick for a national title winner.
One team came out of its last game with three injured players and a fourth with a chipped tooth, while the other has nine healthy players averaging 11 minutes or more per game. So who’s the favorite?
Three MSU scientists recently received more than $1.4 million by the United States Department of Agriculture, or the USDA. Grants were awarded under a USDA program called National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, to George Smith and Juan Steibel, both professors in animal science, and C. Titus Brown, an assistant professor in molecular genetics.
The indoor tanning industry might need some aloe for the burn of a 10 percent tax on the service included in the nation’s health care overhaul.
A new program announced Monday will give selected students in the University of Michigan-Flint’s premedical program early admission assurance in MSU’s College of Human Medicine, according to a statement released by MSU.
A man suspected of robbing an East Lansing bank Thursday is in police custody, East Lansing police Capt. Tom Johnstone said.
The MSU Muslim Studies Program hosted a lecture about Iran and the politics surrounding it Thursday. About 50 people attended the event, titled Iran at the Crossroads.
Kelly Beaton covers Northern Iowa for the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Beaton is in his first season covering the Panthers and on Thursday spoke with The State News about Friday’s game with the Spartans.
Don’t call the No. 9-seed Northern Iowa Panthers an underdog.
This isn’t the demeanor expected from the MSU men’s basketball team’s two freshman centers who have never played this much basketball in their lives.
With time winding down in the MSU men’s basketball team’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against New Mexico State last week, it felt like every Spartan and their next of kin was in dire foul trouble when MSU needed some big rebounds. Enter Draymond Green.
William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of young star-crossed lovers brought together by fate and separated by feuding families, “Romeo and Juliet,” will arrive at MSU this weekend with a few surprising twists — it’s an opera, it’s in French and it’s set during the 1980s in Miami Beach, Fla.
Granted, conference play hasn’t started yet. But the MSU baseball team is off to a 12-4 start, the team’s best since the 2002 season when it posted a 14-2 record through its first 16 games.
As the No. 25 MSU women’s gymnastics team prepares for this weekend’s Big Ten Championships, it enters with plenty of good news and a little bit of bad news.
Google’s companywide motto of “Don’t be evil” sounds a bit ironic considering the company’s business in China. But recent days have shown the company is willing to stand by its words.
Four MSU football players have been reinstated to the team, ending months of speculation about the players’ futures at MSU. Now that these athletes have faced consequences, it’s time for the Spartan community to move on.