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SPORTS

Spartans look to clinch Big Ten championship vs. Michigan

Chris Vannini
March 6, 2010

With just one regular season game remaining, MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo seems to have had it. Following his team’s two-point victory over conference bottomfeeder Penn State on Thursday, Izzo said he was going to change the way his team practices and subsequently could make dramatic changes to the lineup. “We’ve fought it all year and we’re going to fight it another game only we’re going to maybe fight it in a different way,” Izzo said.

NEWS

Providing refuge

Brittany Shammas
March 4, 2010

The Lansing community welcomes refugees to the area and resettlement organizations in the area coordinate support. Lansing has become one of the several areas designated for refugee resettlement since the 1970s. Refugees are given a fresh start and are helped in the transition to their new homes.

BASKETBALL

MSU in prime shape to take tourney title

The Spartans, the hottest team in the league, have shown the ability to beat anybody — from the top-tier teams to the squads in the basement — and that’s exactly what a team needs to be successful in the postseason.

BASKETBALL

Walk-on known for energy, toughness

Chris Vannini
March 4, 2010

Jon Crandell didn’t have the typical path of a walk-on. He was just a normal student during his freshman year, playing intramural basketball, until former MSU walk-on guard DeMarcus Ducre spotted Crandell and told him to look more into basketball.

BASKETBALL

Senior duo has led Spartans in different ways

Isaiah Dahlman is the most likeable player on the MSU men’s basketball team. But it’s not because he’s a lockdown defender or will have the ball in his hands in crunch time. Raymar Morgan is the most frustrating player on the MSU men’s basketball team. But it’s not because he’s cold, indignant or an incompetent basketball player. As the two seniors’ careers in Green and White come to an inevitable end, it’s certain both players — who will go down as some of the program’s most valuable, in their own right — had an indelible impact on the success of MSU basketball through the past four years and its great promise for years to come. “We’re so different,” Dahlman said.

MICHIGAN

IBM to host career fair for college grads

Lauren McKown
March 4, 2010

Spartan engineers will be given the opportunity Monday to pursue up to 60 new jobs with IBM — jobs they wouldn’t have to leave the city of East Lansing to get. Recruiters from IBM’s Global Delivery Center, which is located on the second floor of the MSU Federal Credit Union at 600 E. Crescent Road, for application services will be on campus for a meet-and-greet with both MSU and non-MSU graduates next week.

MSU

MSU to change vet surgery practices

Zane McMillin
March 4, 2010

MSU no longer will use live animals to teach veterinary students surgical techniques, a spokesperson for the College of Veterinary Medicine said Thursday. Linda Chadderdon, spokeswoman for the college, said the university will switch from live animals to alternative methods of animal surgery education, such as animal cadavers, beginning in the fall.

FEATURES

Workshop trains students to rock

Jeremy Warnemuende
March 4, 2010

“The School of Rock,” workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 13 at the MSU Community Music School, 841 Timberlane St. Any middle- or high school-aged students with some experience on guitar, bass, keyboard, drums or vocals are welcome at the workshop.