FEATURES
Kresge opens doors to give students 'HeART'
The Kresge Art Center invited the MSU community to make homemade Valentine’s Day cards last Saturday.
FEATURES
Singing event unites community
The eighth annual Mid-Winter Singing Festival, held Friday and Saturday at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, emphasized the importance of singing to a community and featured several venues for residents to sing as a community.
COMMENTARY
MSU can't afford to continue burning coal
The editorial “Moving beyond coal good idea, too costly” (SN 2/3) raises a very important point. We must consider the true cost of burning coal to Spartans and the state of Michigan. Moving away from coal is not only something that is good for the environment and public health, it’s something that we have to start doing right now for our pocketbooks as well.
COMMENTARY
Gender roles should not be so inflexible
A famous quote from author Nancy R. Smith has made its way around the world, allowing people to explore the gender roles that society has embedded into our everyday lifestyles and thoughts:
COMMENTARY
Responsible funding needed to restore promise
Promises aren’t made to be broken, and Gov. Jennifer Granholm apparently would like to make sure the Michigan Promise Scholarship doesn’t go down in history as one of her broken guarantees.
BASKETBALL
Illini drop Spartans, 78-73
Champaign, Ill. — The MSU men’s basketball team couldn’t mount enough of a comeback against Illinois on Saturday night, falling 78-73 to the Illini in Champaign, Ill.
NEWS
Freshman who 'radiated positivity' dies in crash
Friends and family remembered engineering freshman Mark Reedy, 18, of Bloomfield Hills, this weekend after he was killed Friday afternoon in a car accident. Reedy and a friend were driving in central Indiana when their car slid on ice and collided with a truck, police said.
NEWS
Ac'cell'eration
Researchers see an expansion in stem cell research and recognize the benefits more research could bring to the state and the university.
BASKETBALL
Spartans pay back Lady Lions with 65-44 win
Ever since losing three straight, the MSU women’s basketball team has rededicated itself to its defense. That commitment has paid off in spades for the Spartans to the tune of four straight wins, none more impressive than Thursday’s 65-44 rout of Penn State at Breslin Center. The Spartans not only avenged a prior loss to the Lady Lions but held them to a season low on the offensive end.
NEWS
Police brief 2/5/10
A 37-year-old female reported her car stolen on MSU’s campus in Detroit on Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU
Super Bowl commercials to be graded by faculty members
Faculty members from the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing are grading the best and worst of the commercials during Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday.
MICHIGAN
Furlough closes E.L. Library today
The East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, will be closed today for a staff furlough.
MICHIGAN
City Council to discuss budget, growing deficit
The East Lansing City Council will begin budget brainstorming Saturday during its weekend retreat as the city faces a deficit that is expected to exceed the current fiscal year’s almost $2 million shortfall.
MICHIGAN
Mich. could see new constitution after Nov. vote
Michigan voters will be offered the opportunity to overturn the Michigan constitution in November’s election.
MSU
Olin's screening questions could detect depression
Blood pressure, temperature and a two-question survey screening for depression soon will become part of a routine checkup for students seeking treatment at Olin Health Center.
MICHIGAN
Visiting professor speaks on climate change at MSU
By the year 2100, the globe is at risk to lose 40 percent of the animal population to extinction, according to Terry Root.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Spartans, fighting IllinI prepare for even battle
The MSU men’s basketball team is hoping rapper Drake wasn’t a prophet in “Forever” when he said, “Like a sprained ankle, boy, I ain’t nothing to play with.”
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Izzo confident in Lucious at PG
Point guard is a position of leadership. It’s unavoidable.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Work in progress
Darlis Nix remembers her son’s trek to and from Detroit Pershing High School by the tears flowing from his eyes. An immensely talented basketball player and future high school state champion and Mr. Basketball winner, Derrick Nix also was the heftiest kid in his class growing up.
ICE HOCKEY
Spartans, Alaska face off in weekend series
After an emotional weekend split against Michigan and a long voyage up to Alaska, the No. 12 MSU hockey team is ready to empty its tank this weekend against the Nanooks.