Lansing residents know how to not only welcome the holidays, but how to decorate the entire city accordingly. The 25th annual Silver Bells in the City will Christmas-ize downtown Lansing into a North Pole-esque town from 5-9 p.m. today and is free to the general public.
After receiving several quality performances in Wednesday’s 3-2 loss at No. 14 Michigan, the MSU volleyball team will hope to build off that showing but get a different result Saturday when it hosts No. 12 Minnesota in what is likely the team’s final home game of the season.
With the prevalence of the spread offense in college football, the fullback slowly is fading away from the football landscape. But while other Big Ten schools have decided not to utilize one, the fullback is a very important part of MSU’s offense. And senior Andrew Hawken is a big reason why.
It is winter 2006, and then-freshman kicker Brett Swenson is alone, playing in the snow. While his teammates are sweating in the indoor practice facility at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building, Swenson is clearing the snow outside and kicking field goals.
Memories of last year’s heartbreaking, season-ending loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament still resonate in the minds of the MSU men’s soccer team.
The MSU Residential and Hospitality Services and Athletics Department are co-sponsoring the Help Tackle Hunger Food Drive, which runs through Saturday’s MSU-Penn State game.
This is prognosticators comin’ at you like a mob of sorority girls at a Victoria’s Secret sale. Except maybe less scary.
The MSU men’s golf team announced two student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent for the 2010-11 season.
A lot is on the line when MSU and No. 13 Penn State meet for the Land Grant Trophy on Saturday at Spartan Stadium. In what has become an increasingly important game each year as the Spartans return to respectability under head coach Mark Dantonio, MSU is looking to pick up the all-important seventh victory — a win that would secure a winning season, regardless of what happens in a bowl game.
I rush from class to office hours, then to my counselor, back to class and to work. I don’t sleep for 40 hours in an attempt to get caught up from that one night I spent talking about religion, politics and the English army instead of doing my Mandarin Chinese. I bike in the pouring rain, the cluttered leaves, the freezing temperatures. And I keep getting lost on the Capital Area Transportation Authority buses.
Since the passage of Proposition 2 in 2006, public universities in Michigan have been prohibited from using race as a factor in admissions, meaning all affirmative action in the state effectively has been banned.
The MSU women’s basketball team announced that sophomore forward Courtney Schiffauer will miss the remainder of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee Tuesday.
A dorm room window in West Wilson Hall was shattered at about 12:09 p.m. Monday when a banana was thrown through it, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Officials from MSU’s graduate student government received two unexpected responses from council members Wednesday as the group met for its third full council meeting this semester.
For E. Dean Detrich, the classical studies major, which is on the university’s chopping block, makes up the heart of MSU.
Interviewing for jobs can be disheartening, especially when there are more candidates than positions, marketing senior Justen Morrow said.
Sam Inglot might spend a little less time relaxing this summer. Inglot, a journalism sophomore, said he’ll look for a second job to patch a hole the Michigan Promise Scholarship used to fill on his MSU tuition bill.
Centerman Lee Reimer (Landmark, Manitoba) and goaltender Willie Yanakeff (Jerome, Mich.) signed letters of intent Wednesday to join MSU for the team’s 2010 campaign.
The treacherous month of November rolls on for the No. 6 MSU hockey team. The Spartans will host No. 14 Notre Dame tonight and travel to Fort Wayne, Ind., on Sunday to face the Irish in a neutral barn, marking the third straight series for the Spartans against a team ranked in the top 15.