After tabling a scheduled vote on whether to use public right-of-way to acquire a property for its Avondale Square project, East Lansing City Council members will have to wait to complete construction of the project’s west alley.
The MSU men’s basketball team fell one game short of the mountaintop Monday, losing to North Carolina 89-72 in the National Championship at Ford Field. But don’t despair, Spartans fans, because MSU will be back on college basketball’s biggest stage next season. With a talented nucleus of players set to return, MSU should enter the 2009 campaign as a top-five team in the nation and a foolproof favorite (I’m looking at you, Digger Phelps) to return to the Final Four.
The arrival of spring and deep NCAA Tournament runs by the MSU men’s basketball team used to be signs of impending disturbances in East Lansing. However, police and university officials are hoping two celebrations within the last week they deemed as “peaceful” might signal progress in their efforts to improve a reputation tattered by riots in years past.
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.
Hershey Jayasuriya sometimes studies for 12 hours a day. As a second-year student in the MSU College of Human Medicine, she and the other students in her classes are expected to put all of their effort into learning about everything that can go wrong with a human body and how to fix it.
The sixth national Race in 21st Century America conference, launches today with a keynote address by former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders at 1 p.m. in the Kellogg Center auditorium.
The Academic Year Task Force drafted an initial report on its findings regarding changes to the academic calendar to begin as early as 2010. Based on survey data from faculty and students and calendars of other universities, the task force suggests MSU adopt a 14-week fall semester, to begin after Labor Day. There would be a one-week finals period, according to the report.
Steve Sharra might have many lectures to come, but he is working on one as if it were his last. Sharra is an MSU visiting assistant professor in philosophy and peace and justice studies.
Paul O’Connor bought his grandma’s cutting board from a Michigan Department of Treasury auction Tuesday morning of the remnants of Flats Grille, the business he used to own. The sentimental piece and his computer from the restaurant’s office were the only things the owner of the former eatery was able to keep of items sold in the auction.
The MSU men’s basketball team finished the season at No. 2 in the final USA Today/ESPN poll released Tuesday. National champion North Carolina received all 31 first-place votes.
The MSU softball team’s doubleheader against Purdue, originally scheduled for today, has been moved to Thursday, according to MSU Athletic Communications.
The MSU baseball team has been perfect at home this season and nearly the complete opposite away from East Lansing. This week, the Spartans will have a chance to right that ship while also making a dent in the Big Ten standings early in the conference schedule.
The MSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics let down our men’s basketball team. What should have been a raucous gathering to celebrate one of the most historic and highest-achieving seasons in Spartan history was instead a pitiful gathering of those lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time Tuesday morning at Breslin Center.
I am writing to thank our men’s basketball team and men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo for a fine season. Even though the last game didn’t go as we wanted it to, team members have nothing to hang their head about. They were tough and fought hard all season.
As a vice president for policy and government affairs at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, I have debated animal protection issues around the world, frequently engaging with representatives from the meat, fur, animal-experimentation and circus industries.
Imagine how many arrests would be made if 45,000 students clumped together to burn piles of clothing, tear down street signs, spray beer at people and climb street posts. Two.
Fans are encouraged to welcome the MSU men’s basketball team back to campus between 11-11:15 a.m. today at Breslin Center.
Detroit — Before the start of Monday’s game, North Carolina guard Wayne Ellington said he and MSU senior guard Travis Walton were immersed in some friendly trash talk. As soon as the ball was tipped, Ellington was anything but friendly.
Detroit — Travis Walton had it all figured out. The MSU senior guard was going to climb the ladder and cut down the Ford Field net with “One Shining Moment” playing in the background on Monday night, celebrating the 2009 NCAA national championship. Instead, it was North Carolina and Tyler Hansbrough who lived Walton’s dream, as the Tar Heels beat the MSU men’s basketball team 89-72.
As he trudged off the court for the final game of his sophomore season, Kalin Lucas looked ruefully into a colossal sea of green. His head bowed and shoulders slumped, the guard looked like he had done much more than lose a basketball game — he looked like he had just let down the world.