Kudos to the officials from MSU Residential and Hospitality Services — you were successful in brainwashing me into believing dorm life would result in the best experience of my college career.
Columbus, Ohio — This time last year, junior guard Brittney Thomas was on the sidelines after tearing her anterior cruciate ligament.While she was injured, Mia Johnson stepped in and assumed the point guard duties, bringing an aggressive mentality to the position.
Friday’s bus ride home from Big Rapids wasn’t fun for the No. 12 MSU hockey team. The Spartans had just played one of their worst games of the season, losing 4-1 to No. 14 Ferris State. MSU looked completely out of sync, and after the game, head coach Rick Comley called out his team’s work ethic.
Throughout the season, MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo has talked about the distractions facing his team and how the players had yet to put them behind. Twenty-eight games into the season, Izzo still is talking about distractions.
When food service management senior Tom Chodl and his roommates agreed to paint the living room area of their apartment a darker shade, they thought it would be a simple task to get the white color back by the end of the semester.
In the final home match of his career, Franklin Gomez wasted no time in securing an advantage and pinning Indiana’s Matt Ortega for a six-point fall.
About 5,000 volunteers from 33 different churches came together to distribute almost 3,000 boxes of food to families across Greater Lansing as part of the Church of Greater Lansing’s Food Drop 2010. The Church of Greater Lansing is a network of churches in the Lansing area, and most are Christian denominations.
After the university-required year of living in a dormitory, moving off campus represents independence for students. But many sign on to a host of new duties.
As spring break approaches, city officials say home invasions are on the rise and offer safety tips for students. “There (are) more break-ins over Christmas break and spring break,” East Lansing Police Capt.
Seven female MSU students competed for the title of Miss Michigan State on Friday at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road. Five judges, including guest judge Tom Herzog, a junior center from the MSU men’s basketball team, scored the contestants based on their talent performance, a two-question interview and service to the community.
MSU provides endless opportunities to its student body — boasting the eighth largest in the country — and is doing a fantastic job of bringing a large university down to size.
A new joint 911 call center is being re-examined by the city of East Lansing. The contract for the new call center, which will consolidate the two current 911 centers into one, is being contested by city officials from East Lansing. City Manager Ted Staton said the city is upset because Ingham County officials are asking the city to pay pension costs for former workers — a cost the county used to carry.
After almost a semester and a half living off campus, I feel like a freshman all over again, getting used to an entirely different aspect of college life.
New legislation proposed in a Michigan Senate committee would require health insurance providers to cover testing for human papillomavirus, or HPV. Insurance providers would be required to cover the HPV test, which exposes a virus that is linked to cervical cancer, under a two-bill package sponsored by state Sen. Martha Scott, D-Highland Park.
It did not take long to decide I wanted to live in a housing cooperative. It was an easy decision, and I think I’m going to benefit almost in every way.
Writer Diane Glancy will be speaking at 5 p.m. Monday in the North Conference Room (W449) of the Main Library.Glancy was born in 1941 of a Cherokee father and a German/English mother. As the author of “Asylum in the Grasslands,” “The Dance Partner” and others, her work has won many literary prizes, including the Native American Prose Award.
The MSU Asian Studies Center will host a lecture titled Globalization and the Social Life of Human Organs at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Room 303 of the International Center.
The Pilobolus dance company will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Organizers of the MSU Religious Studies Film Series will present the movie “I Have Already Given My Heart Away” at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Room 204 of the Natural Science Building.
More than 300 chocolate lovers united at the 21st annual Chocolate Benefit Party hosted by the MSU Museum. Starting as a small event inside the home of the museum’s former director, the benefit has evolved throughout the years into a large event that has been held at Kellogg Center for more than 15 years.