The 46th session of Student Assembly, and ASMSU as a whole, have had very productive and successful summer and fall semesters.
In life, we come to discover that we must become self-sufficient in order to make our lives the most effective. We cannot rely on our parents for the rest of our lives — at least most of us can’t — and above all, we cannot count on anything from anyone.
If you’re planning to catch your favorite network television show tonight, you might be in for a little surprise. Your favorite show might have been bumped for what’s becoming an extremely familiar face on TV.
The MSU men’s basketball team narrowly escaped a stellar 3-point shooting effort by the The Citadel to come away with a 69-56 win Monday night at McAlister Field House in Charleston, S.C.
On the evening of Feb. 17, 2002, MSU alumnus Joshua Clark was on his way home from playing basketball on campus when the unthinkable happened.
As 7-year-old Cody Funkhouser roasted his marshmallow over an open fire pit, his mom, East Lansing resident Lisa Funkhouser, sat bundled up, enjoying the winter festivities. Lisa Funkhouser said this was her first time attending East Lansing’s Winter Bowl — an event that began about 10 years ago — and she and Cody were enjoying the free activities.
An Academic Governance committee reviewed a request to freeze admissions to MSU’s Deaf Education Program on Thursday, leaving one of the program’s directors questioning MSU’s College of Education administrators’ decision to not notify him and other faculty members of the meeting.
Despite recent struggles on and off the field for the MSU football team, university officials have said their support for head coach Mark Dantonio never has been stronger.
The feeling MSU head coach Mark Dantonio gets when he receives the call that his team is going to a bowl game never fades. Dantonio received that call for the third straight season Sunday as he learned the Spartans will play Texas Tech in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2, 2010 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
A potential arrangement between Wharton Center and the city of Traverse City is expected to be finalized at a city meeting tonight, which would send some of the center’s programming to Traverse City, a city official said.
Parents always tell their children not to play with food, but these artists are breaking rules by using food as the inspiration for their artwork. At the “Food for Thought” art exhibition in the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center, 325 E. Grand River Ave., artists explore different mediums to show how food affects everyday life.
ASMSU will decide Thursday whether to move forward with a proposed tax referendum to fund its Readership Program and a proposal to create two new scholarship opportunities for students.
Mussa Maingu moved to East Lansing in 2000 with the goal of becoming a dentist. From Mwanza, Tanzania, he said the shortage of health care professionals in his home country was a primary influence on his career path.
The No. 11 MSU hockey team returned to CCHA action this weekend in Marquette, earning a split against Northern Michigan. The Wildcats won Saturday’s game at 3:59 of overtime when the puck deflected off an MSU defenseman’s skate and into the Spartans’ net.
The MSU volleyball team suffered a season-ending loss Friday against No. 13 Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Despite pushing Kentucky to the brink in the first two sets, the Spartans were unable to finish and fell 3-0 in Lexington, Ky. MSU closed the season with a 17-16 record and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the third time in four seasons.
In the span of three days, the MSU women’s basketball team went from a game it’ll always remember to one it can’t wait to forget. The Spartans opened Big Ten play against Indiana on Sunday but failed to capture the magic they had against North Carolina, despite head coach Suzy Merchant calling it the team’s most important game to this point.
The MSU men’s basketball team is on the road once again. But instead of playing at North Carolina’s Dean Edwards Smith Center or in Atlantic City, N.J., the Spartans are heading to a small military college for their next challenge.
Nathan Dahlman needed to sit. The excitement of the past few hours, in which he saw his two sons, Isaiah, a senior guard on the MSU men’s basketball team, and Noah, a junior forward for Wofford, play against each other Friday evening had been too overwhelming.
Although there still are 18 days until Christmas, the MSU women’s basketball team gave Indiana the biggest present it’ll receive this year. Following their big win against North Carolina on Thursday, head coach Suzy Merchant said the No. 22 Spartans played without the same energy, enthusiasm and excitement as they did against the Tar Heels.
The MSU football team will meet Texas Tech in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2, 2010, Athletics Director Mark Hollis announced Sunday night.