All season, MSU wrestling head coach Tom Minkel has drawn attention to the youth in his team’s lineup. This weekend, the best wrestlers in the country will take notice.
Like most coaches, Tom Izzo sits down before every season to evaluate his MSU men’s basketball team’s potential and predict wins, losses and where the Spartans can finish the season.
A 55-year-old female employee at the Shaw Hall cafeteria reported an envelope containing $300 stolen from her purse, which was stored in her office desk, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
As city officials prepare for a second public hearing and possible vote tonight on an ordinance that clarifies riot conduct, drafters of the ordinance said they continue to receive positive feedback from students.
A collective cheer took a year’s worth of grief off the shoulders of the MSU women’s basketball team. After being left out of the NCAA Tournament last season, the Spartans were awarded a No. 9 seed this season and will play No. 8 Middle Tennessee State in the first round of the tournament.
Cardigans aren’t just for librarians or your grandpa anymore. As spring temperatures arrive, sweaters that button, zip or tie are making a comeback in the outfits of MSU’s fashion-forward generation.
I chose to forgo the question of the week because I just learned of the sudden passing this weekend of a colleague and mentor of mine, professor Tom Luster. Tom was a professor in the Department of Family and Child Ecology here at MSU where I did my studies. I have known Tom for almost 20 years, and he was, to all who knew him, the consummate educator and researcher.
Internships have a reputation for being competitive, and the prospect of an interview might be daunting for some students. The good news is there are ways to stand out in an interview that can help students land their dream internships.
Does the task of finding an internship wreak havoc on your sanity? Well, take solace in the fact that on a campus of more than 45,000 students, you are not alone and definitely not at a loss. In the interest of keeping this as the easiest part of your internship trek, here are the five Ws of successfully weeding your way through the woods of tracking down your college internship. Happy hunting!
The East Lansing Citizens’ Police Academy will be holding its graduation at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Courtroom 2 of the 54-B District Court, 101 Linden St.
City residents looking to get their game on can sign up for the East Lansing Department of Parks, Recreation and Arts spring and summer adult softball leagues.
Aspiring artists or residents with an interest in art still can apply for the East Lansing Arts Commission’s upcoming project after the commission extended the registry deadline to the end of April.
While East Lansing revelers fill their cups with green beer today, police and a student group will work to keep drunken drivers off the city’s roads.
ASMSU hopes to ban exotic animal acts from MSU. Its Student Assembly passed a bill at a joint meeting March 5 to mandates this goal. The bill will be presented to Academic Assembly at a meeting today.
In what the U.S. Department of Education has called “a historic investment,” President Barack Obama proposed expanding financial aid offered to college students. And although the stipulations of the proposal — which include an expansion of funding for the Federal Perkins Loan Program from $1 billion to $6 billion per year — would not go into effect until 2010, MSU officials agreed current high school seniors should not take a year off in hope of saving money.
Having early morning classes Wednesday might deter students from drinking green beer and wearing shamrock paraphernalia today, but the economy most likely won’t. The number of people going out has remained the same, but instead, many are spending less, said Paul Stewart, general manager of Crunchy’s, 254 W. Grand River Ave.
The Council of Graduate Students will hold its first Graduate Academic Conference at 9 a.m. Friday, on the second floor of the Union.
Having trouble with your bracket? The State News is on the job. Men’s basketball reporters Alex Altman and Cash Kruth dissect this year’s field of 65.
As an American, I implore my fellow citizens to stop what they are doing. Stop cooking. Stop working. Stop driving. Just stop. Stop and count out 15 seconds and feel how long those brief moments in time truly are.
As students go green for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, they shouldn’t forget to go to class today or Wednesday, either. It is every student’s right to do what they please with their money — and let’s be honest, there is a tremendous amount of deals today at bars across East Lansing.