For MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio, becoming a consistent team in the Big Ten means adding top-tier talent throughout the course of several seasons. Dantonio introduced his second straight top-30 recruiting class Wednesday at National Signing Day and was excited about the potential of the 21 incoming players.
Fumiko Sakashita is on her own. Like many other international students at MSU, Sakashita, an American studies doctoral student, looked forward to being a teaching assistant to help pay for continuing her education. However, in light of the recent budget cuts at MSU, her goal seems less likely to pan out.
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said during her eighth and final State of the State address Wednesday she will reinstate the Michigan Promise Scholarship in her budget proposal for the 2010-11 fiscal year. In her speech at the Capitol in Lansing, the governor said she will fund the scholarship, restructuring it to keep graduates in Michigan. However, she did not reveal how she plans to fund it.
The vacant lots and abandoned houses of Detroit’s urban landscape could turn into green pastures soon. MSU started a partnership with the Greening of Detroit, a Detroit-based nonprofit organization aimed at encouraging environmental awareness in Detroit, Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Garden and the Detroit Agriculture Network to create the Garden Resource Program Collaborative.
In the basement of the Engineering Building is a series of doors, behind which lie robots that climb walls, detect breast cancer tumors and test protective clothing worn by soldiers.
After months of searching, MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business will have a chance to break new ground if Stefanie Lenway is approved as the new dean. Lenway, currently the dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, College of Business Administration, would be the first female dean in the history of MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business.
People might take issue with the bailout’s billions of dollars, the national deficit and the trillions tied to China, but the city of East Lansing is grabbing at every penny of grant money Washington has to offer.
Anthony Jones Jr. has been a stable presence in the middle of the MSU wrestling team’s lineup. The 157-pound junior has fought in several close matches this season, defeating Minnesota’s Joe Grygelko, 3-1, and West Virginia’s Kyle Eason, 6-2.
Le’Veon Bell 2 stars out of 5 Running back 6-foot-2, 221 pounds Reynoldsburg, Ohio (Groveport Madison) Rushed for 1,333 yards and 21 touchdowns as a senior; spring enrollee Joe Boisture 4 stars Quarterback 6-foot-5, 195 pounds Goodrich, Mich.
More than 180 quarter horses and several hundred spectators will fill the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Friday until Sunday, when the pavilion hosts the Michigan Quarter Horse Association (MQHA) Winter Spectacular Quarter Horse Show.
The Band of Irish Guards and Royal Regiment of Scotland will perform at 7:30 p.m. today at the Auditorium.
The MSU Department of Theatre will present the comedy “You Can’t Take It with You” at 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Auditorium’s Arena Theatre.
The Scene and Heard Concert Series will begin at 7:30 p.m. today at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St. The series features music written and performed by MSU musicians.
Don’t expect a week off to cool the MSU women’s basketball team. The Spartans, riding a three-game winning streak, appreciated their midseason break but are ready to resume play at 7 p.m. tonight against Penn State at Breslin Center.__
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Wednesday her plan to restore funding for the Michigan Promise Scholarship in her 2011 budget. The announcement came as part of the governor’s final State of the State address.
I guess it’s a good thing that Eric Thieleman is indifferent to torture, because getting through his most recent column was just that. It was so bloated with generic political invective I could have sworn that it was pieced together from crumpled up pieces of paper from Glenn Beck’s wastebasket.
As we near what easily could be considered the most polarizing of holidays, that which takes center stage in most of our minds does so with increasingly less clout. If romance is not lost, it is losing its way. If romance is not dead, it is slowly dying.
Lucas has sprained ankle after coming down on a Wisconsin player’s foot Tuesday night in MSU’s 67-49 loss.
East Lansing is home to tens of thousands of MSU students, but is it really home? Although East Lansing Mayor Vic Loomis made an appearance at the rock on Farm Lane to encourage students to complete the 2010 U.S. Census as residents of East Lansing, it is in students’ best interest to thoroughly think through their answers.
A 29-year-old male MSU student reported various personal belongings stolen at IM Sports-West on Jan. 28, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.