West Lafayette, Ind. — Assist-to-turnover ratio usually is a useful stat to judge offensive efficiency. But when the ratio being looked at is field goals-to-turnovers, you know you had a tough day offensively.
Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” was the main attraction Saturday as the James Madison College hosted its seventh annual Marathon Book Reading. Students and faculty read the book cover-to-cover Saturday.
While ASMSU has made available $225,000 to pay O’Brien for a couple of hours of entertainment, MSU is struggling with cuts that not only challenge faculty and administrators but are felt most profoundly by students who have to keep up with increasing tuition rates.
The East Lansing City Council and East Lansing Planning Commission should do what they can to stall the development. The city cannot stop a sale outright, but the planning commission will look at how the development would comply with city codes, a process that can take months and give the local fraternity time to find another buyer or solidify its tentative deal with the alumnus. Too much tampering would be illegal, but for once, bureaucracy and drawing things out would look good on the city of East Lansing.
In February, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute released a study that assessed how well American college graduates understand crucial components of American civics, even things that would be asked on a citizenship test. The results from the survey surprisingly show that college actually fails to sufficiently produce civic knowledge in college graduates. Yet, for some strange reason I find it pretty hard to easily accept that. What I don’t find hard to believe is that the study also shows that college can actually influence students’ opinions to lean toward the liberal end of the spectrum.
The No. 14 MSU men’s basketball team overcame a staggering turnover total in a physical game to steal a 53-44 win from No. 3 Purdue on its home floor Sunday. The win keeps the Spartans’ Big Ten regular season championship hopes alive.
Bowling Green, Ohio – The game was packed full of energy and end-to-end action throughout, but after the teams played to a 2-2 tie through regulation and overtime, the Falcons won the ensuing shootout, 1-0.
Competing in their final career meet Friday at Jenison Field House, seniors Rochelle Robinson and Nicole Curler set the tone with memorable launches that gave the No. 23 Spartans early momentum. Unfortunately for the Spartans, they saw a below-average performance on the bars, eventually falling 196.825-194.125 to the Sooners.
During Senior Night at Munn Ice Arena senior forwards Nick Sucharski and Jay Sprague each recorded goals as the No. 12 MSU hockey team got back into early season form to rout Bowling Green, 5-2.
An MSU student and two University of Michigan students were arrested Wednesday after a package shipped from Canada containing fake IDs was intercepted by immigration agents, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
Led by junior forward Kalisha Keane, the MSU women’s basketball team notched its 20th win of the season with a 79-64 victory over Purdue on Thursday at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. The Spartans now can clinch the No. 2 seed in the Big Ten Tournament with a win Sunday on Senior Day or a Wisconsin loss.
Anthony Pollreisz, an Alaska native and MSU senior who has led the hockey student section for three and a half years, will cheer at his last home regular season game Friday. Pollreisz has become a fixture at Munn Ice Arena, initiating cheers and performing his signature dance each home game.
A portable shower, a recycling service and combining a bakery with a smoothie shop were just a few of the ideas presented at the Next Bright Idea competition Thursday at The Loft, 414 Michigan Ave., in Lansing. The first competition of its kind in the Lansing area, Next Bright Idea was started by the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, or LEAP, to foster and reward smart and innovative thinking and ideas aimed at making the world a better place.
ASMSU Student Assembly unanimously voted Thursday to allocate $225,000 from its risk management fund to place a bid to late-night host Conan O’Brien. Assembly members also unanimously voted to reduce a proposed $1.75 tax increase to $1.25.
Violating emission limits for burning coal will cost MSU at least $27,000 as the university works to correct errors made at the T.B. Simon Power Plant two years ago.
Jessica Langnas remembers the lollipop tree, dressing up and the fish named Cookie — part of the Purim celebration at her synagogue in Southfield. This year, she will experience it again, thanks to the Hillel Jewish Student Center.
Once again, a top-five Big Ten team has lost perhaps its best player leading up to a matchup with the top spot in the conference on the line. This time, it’s not MSU junior guard Kalin Lucas. It’s Purdue forward Robbie Hummel, who tore his right anterior cruciate ligament in the first half against Minnesota on Wednesday night and will miss the remainder of the season.
Two years ago, I watched from my seat on Mackey Arena’s press row one February evening as a green blur jetted the length of the floor, lofted an orange orb at one end, bouncing it off the glass and through the net in a repetitive fashion.
The No. 3 Boilermakers (24-3 overall, 12-3 Big Ten) came to East Lansing on Feb. 9 to hand the Spartans (21-7, 11-4) their first home loss of the season, part of three consecutive MSU losses that dropped it from standing alone in first place in the Big Ten. Now the Spartans will head to West Lafayette, Ind., for a game that could be decisive for both teams.
Every time sophomore forward Delvon Roe goes up for a rebound, those who know him must hold their collective breath.