A trip to State College, Pa., might be just what the doctor ordered for the MSU men’s basketball team. No coach would play a road game in the Big Ten if he didn’t have to, but if there is a team you want to face on their home floor, it’s the Nittany Lions.
Across the country, men with any type of love interest are experiencing an annual feeling of panic. They are flocking to florists, corralling to card stores and jumping to jewelry shops hoping to find the perfect gift for their significant other. You guessed it — Valentine’s Day is upon us.
Single? Taken? Looking for something to do in (or against) the theme of Valentines Day this upcoming weekend? Take a peek at what’s going on in and around town for the holiday of love.
Injuries throughout her basketball career might have taken away some of Aisha Jefferson’s physical gifts, but they haven’t affected her heart.
It’s that time again! The prognosticators are here to make their weekly picks.
It’s easy to say that converting the coal plant is not feasible at this time due to the poor economy, but how long will we wait? MSU has a responsibility to its students and the community to provide a healthy living environment, and times of economic difficulty should not halt the potential progress toward a more clean and green campus.
With the popular MTV series “16 and Pregnant” coming back for a second season this month, 10 new teens will be examples of the unintended consequences of teen sex. Sadly, this reality isn’t just confined to television.
Families across the United States are struggling to find ways to live within their means, and the city of East Lansing is no different.
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed restoring the Michigan Promise Scholarship as a $4,000 tax credit in her annual budget proposal Thursday morning. The tax credit would be available to any student that completes a degree and stays in Michigan for one year.
Sophomore wide receiver Fred Smith, former redshirt freshman defensive end Jamiihr Williams and former junior safety Roderick Jenrette pleaded guilty to various assault charges Thursday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. The charges stem from a Nov. 22, 2009 incident in Rather Hall, where 15 football players allegedly entered the dorm and assaulted members of the Iota Phi Theta fraternity, witnesses said.
A 17-year-old female MSU student sustained minor injuries after she was involved in an altercation with another female student over a beverage in Hubbard Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Up-and-coming Canadian rapper Drake is scheduled to perform at MSU in April, although details about the rapper’s performance remain uncertain. Tour dates for Drake’s The Away from Home Tour indicate the rapper is scheduled to perform at MSU on April 14. His Web site does not specify a venue.
The MSU Board of Trustees is expected to vote on the progress of several campus construction projects and also might approve a student rights and responsibilities document at its meeting Friday. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 9:30 a.m. in Room 401 of the Administration Building.
Dwindling stimulus dollars mean Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Michigan lawmakers will have a tough time balancing the state’s 2010-11 fiscal year budget. More than $3.3 billion of federal stimulus money has been used in the past two years to balance the state’s budget, but this year Granholm and state lawmakers need to eliminate a projected $1.7 billion deficit with the aid of only $395 million of federal stimulus funding.
After trekking an hour up the slippery face of a mountain in full space gear, Mike Moran had reached the summit. Moran and two other crew members traveled 30 minutes from their temporary home in the Mars Desert Research Station to Olympus Mons, a Martian mountain three times the size of Mount Everest.
A report released by Massachusetts-based policy think tank MassINC found students and their families often do not make the best financial investments in higher education because of a lack of readily available information.
Detroit businesswoman and University of Michigan regent Denise Ilitch announced she will not run for governor despite being the Democratic front-runner, according to a January poll. Ilitch said in a statement that time constraints were the main reason for her exit, but she will not rule out further endeavors into public office.
With a gift of $150,000, MSU has its first sponsor for a relatively new program geared toward giving students real-life experience in the field of engineering. Consumers Energy and the Consumers Energy Foundation donated the money as the inaugural gift for the Engineering Theme Partnership Program, or ETPP. The program lies within the less than two-year-old Residential Experience and Cornerstone Engineering program, or RECE, which acts as a first-year experience for freshmen majoring in engineering.
Optimistic students braved the winter weather and poor economy Wednesday to attend the annual criminal justice career fair. Despite the fair peaking last year at 82 agencies and falling 15 percent to 20 percent this year, Tim Homberg, career development coordinator for MSU’s School of Criminal Justice, said he is expecting a better fair next year.
The Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, or MAES, has renamed its Escanaba, Mich., facility, originally known as the Upper Peninsula Tree Improvement Center, or UPTIC, to the Michigan State University Forest Biomass Innovation Center.