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.
This season’s class of four seniors has been part of the highest of highs (2007 National Championship) and the lowest of lows (everything about last season).
The No. 12 MSU hockey team is trying to keep an even keel entering the final weekend of the regular season. At this point, the worst thing the Spartans can do is overlook the Falcons.
The East Lansing Art Festival received a national ranking of 117th in fine art sales and 153rd in fine craft sales in Art Fair SourceBook’s Top 200 of 2009. The rankings are determined by the festival’s gross average sales for 2009, which was $2,857 per artist exhibitor.
Melissa Erdman, an animal science junior in the MSU Production Medicine Scholars Program, was named the 2010 senior division winner of the Michigan Dairy Ambassador Scholarship and Leadership Program.
A Fair Housing Workshop to help the city assesses city housing choices based on race, religion, sex, disability, familial status, national origin, student status and sexual orientation is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday at the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road.
Comedian Brian Regan will perform live at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, will be hosting local band Souldub at 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation awarded more than $156.7 million in new tax credits Thursday to fund 11 job-generating ventures across the state. The tax credits will help 10 Michigan companies and back a brownfield redevelopment project.
MSU’s University Activities Board will host their eighth annual Battle of the Bands at 9 p.m. Saturday at the International Center.
Throughout the years, Pilobolus has improvised and choreographed more than 100 works, and its performance Wednesday night at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall featured a selection of six of these works, some that were new in 2009 and another hailing from 1971, the year of Pilobolus’ conception.
Emotions and memories will flood the minds of those four — Lauren Aitch, Allyssa DeHaan, Aisha Jefferson and Mandy Piechowski — when they step on the Breslin Center court for the last time Sunday against Minnesota.
Picture this: A young student in his early 20s is sitting on a couch. He picks up the large glass bong from the coffee table in front of him, presses the lighter to the carefully packed bowl full of dried herb and draws deeply with his lungs, filling his body full of smoke. Suddenly, he’s higher than Mount Everest — and it was all legal.
Are colleges out purely to get students’ money? A recent study said more Americans believe schools are putting their financial interests above their educational mission.
Three more MSU football players pleaded guilty Thursday to charges at East Lansing’s 54-B District Court stemming from a November 2009 fight. Redshirt freshman wide receiver Myles White and junior cornerback Chris L. Rucker each pleaded guilty to one count of assault and battery. Junior defensive tackle Oren Wilson pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and battery. Single counts of conspiracy to commit assault and battery against each player were dropped.