MSU women’s golf head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll thinks junior Laura Kueny is well on her way to becoming a professional golfer and winning her fair share of tournaments on the LPGA Tour.
A breakout three-run inning coupled with a masterful pitching performance from freshman Tony Bucciferro led the MSU baseball team to a 6-0 victory against Western Michigan on Wednesday at McLane Baseball Stadium.
Kudos to MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon for sticking to her guns and refusing to bow down to pressures from the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. How incredibly rude to even expect MSU to rescind its own invitation to respected Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The State News missed one critically important fact in its editorial regarding Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s visit to MSU, Archbishop Tutu has right to speak at graduation (SN 4/14).
The happiest day of my life didn’t even happen to me. There he was, my younger brother, walking across the stage to get his high school diploma. He was wearing the same green robe I had just one year before, walking across the same stage I had just the year before, showing a smile so wide it wrapped around the back of his head.
MSU is a school known for its sports. The cry of fans on and off campus is loud and proud, with our alma mater sprawled across our clothing as we let a “Go green! Go white!” escape from our lips. It’s no wonder student-athletes would be deemed the top of the food chain, given benefits like free tutoring and special centers for them to further their athletic and academic success.
Water, sewage and aging city infrastructure were among items in the 2009-10 fiscal year budget discussed at Tuesday’s East Lansing City Council work session. Council members were presented with the first section of the of the city’s 2009-10 fiscal year budget, which involved general funds.
Health officials investigating the campus outbreak of a stomach virus two weeks ago have determined a time frame in which they believe most students were infected.
Two female students reported belongings stolen from the Main Library when they left items unattended after a fire alarm was pulled, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
When Abhinav Katiyar looks back on his first few weeks in the U.S. as a freshman at MSU, he remembers sitting alone in the cafeteria. And he remembers one person — his resident mentor — waving him down and carrying his tray over to join him.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and her perspective of her new frontier.
For Nick Gavrilides, owner and head chef of the Soup Spoon Cafe, it has always been about the food. So when the Lansing native saw the opportunity in September 2007 to open a fresh restaurant and offer made-from-scratch entrées, he had to take it.
As MSU has grown from being the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan in 1855, so has the city of East Lansing. When Michigan Gov. Fred Warner signed a bill authorizing the city’s charter in 1907, East Lansing consisted of a mere 700 residents and stretched more than two square miles of land.
Author James McBride will visit the Capital Area District Library, 401 S. Capitol Ave., in Lansing, at 7 p.m. on April 20. McBride will be discuss his novel, “Song Yet Sung,” and partake in a question-and-answer session with readers.
Members of Spartan Students Against Drunk Driving, or SSADD, braved a damp, cold day to spread their message of drunken driving awareness Tuesday during the first-ever Spartan Students Against Drunk Driving Day.
MSU researchers have spent years working on technology to assist the development of hybrid vehicles, but until last week there was little incentive for that research to be put to use in Michigan.
MSU baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr. said there is still time for his team to get back on track in the Big Ten schedule. Fortunately for them, they can do it in the confines of their friendly Lansing-area ballparks.
I couldn’t help but notice that a recent concert was not reported and was ignored by The State News. Last Thursday, Awesome Color opened for Dinosaur Jr. at The Small Planet, 16800 Chandler Road. I find this quite disappointing, as Dinosaur Jr. was one of the most influential bands of the ’80s and ’90s.
Debating animal rights certainly never is an easy conversation, especially when one side simply dismisses everything as “arbitrary.”
The patient sat in her chair, tears streaming down her face. She had tried everything. “Nothing can make the pain in my back go away,” she said, yelling, “except those pills!” She was sure she was not addicted.