Although it is important to never forget the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, it has been long enough since that day that we should be able to put our prejudice aside and realize actions of a few do not define a whole group.
Norovirus, or the stomach flu, was identified by the Ingham County Health Department on Thursday as the cause of about 30 student illnesses this week, many of which originated in Shaw Hall.
The MSU baseball team bounced back from a weekend sweep in dominating fashion Wednesday, and every player was in on the action. Coming off three straight losses at the hands of Illinois, each batter in the Spartans’ starting lineup registered a hit, as MSU thrashed Central Michigan 20-3 at Oldsmobile Park.
Crowds of MSU basketball fans showed at Breslin Center parking lot and lined Grand River Avenue on Wednesday to wish the men’s basketball team good luck as they left for Detroit.
Anne Dorshimer knew last summer she was going to the Final Four on Saturday. As part of an NCAA-sponsored lottery last May, the no-preference freshman was selected to purchase two tickets to the Final Four in Detroit. Now that the MSU men’s basketball team will also be making the 91-mile trip Saturday, Dorshimer is all the more excited she’ll be in the crowd at Ford Field.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly is recommending a 2 percent cap on tuition increases over the next three years. The assembly reached the decision at its meeting Tuesday. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
The deadline to form a task force to investigate student concern about Sheila Contreras, director of the MSU Chicano/Latino Studies program was extended until later this month. College of Social Science Dean Marietta Baba said she hoped for the nine person task force to be formed by April 1, but it is still being assembled, said Michelle Strobel, spokeswoman for the college. “The dean sent a letter to the students (Tuesday),” Strobel said.
Results of toxicology reports for two MSU students who died earlier this semester may not be ready until late April or early May, an official in the Ingham County Medical Examiner’s Office said Tuesday.
Cameras were rolling Wednesday at Eastwood Towne Center in Lansing as the CBS reality TV show “Big Brother” held a casting call for its upcoming season and auditioners hoped to become the next Lansing area native to appear on the show.
For most people, Cedar Fest ended at 3:11 a.m. April 6, 2008. But for police, attorneys and those arrested, the effects of the riot still are being felt. Police said they have completed sentencing for all 56 suspects arrested for their actions at Cedar Fest.
Dear Student Alumni Foundation and Izzone directors: I understand that it was the ticket-selling company that screwed up the distribution of the MSU Final Four tickets initially, but I and a great many other perturbed Izzone faithful demand an apology for the bungling of the entire situation.
With regard to the article, Members still concerned about graduate student group election 3/26), The State News reported on the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, election of officers meeting, at which a controversial document pertaining to then-President Manish Madan was distributed immediately prior to voting.
I am an MSU employee. With road construction taking place on US-127, I-496, Mount Hope Road, Farm Lane and I am sure a myriad of other sites, the only way I can access my work location on Service Road is via those intersections. More drivers are taking the same route, due to those road construction projects. Add to these “obstacles” the trains that go through the same intersections during 8 a.m., noon and 5 p.m.
Of all the seismic events of 2008 — bailout into collapse, foreclosure into bankruptcy, rich into poor — the most far-reaching, brings discredit to the very foundations of our economic thought. Much like in 1929 or 1945, it appears that 2008 will be a reference point for future historians, signifying the end of a discrete era.
The education of art is a valuable resource for any university. However, when the expansion of art display is costly and has problematic architectural design, some questions naturally arise.
After its 2000 National Championship, the MSU men’s basketball team lost Mateen Cleaves, Morris Peterson and A.J. Granger. Luckily for head coach Tom Izzo, the Spartans had Charlie Bell, Andre Hudson and Jason Richardson coming back, along with two dynamite freshmen in Marcus Taylor and Zach Randolph.
In 2007, ESPN reporter Andy Katz wrote a piece anointing MSU as the top basketball program over the past 10 seasons. Two years later, I’m ready to take that coronation a step further. Not only has MSU been the nation’s best program in that span, head coach Tom Izzo has been the nation’s best coach.
Tom Izzo blames Bo and Woody. In the 1960s and ’70s, Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler and Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes were the poster boys of a rough-and-rugged Big Ten Conference.
The Student Alumni Foundation and MSU athletics department allotted 79 tickets to the Final Four in Detroit to members of the Izzone student section on Wednesday through a lottery.
Even though the Spartans will be playing 90 miles away, MSU basketball fans have the opportunity to watch the MSU men’s basketball team play Saturday from inside the friendly confines of Breslin Center.