Political discourse in our country, sadly, is often no better than what one would find in middle school children, where the shortage is not in the quantity of opinions, but in concrete facts on which to base those opinions. It is far easier for politicians to resort to demagoguery and rhetoric than to actually educate themselves on the issues they face.
MSU football player and track runner Mitchell White was sentenced to 30 days in jail Monday, the result of a fight involving several MSU athletes last year.
When Tom Luster left to visit family members in Chicago last weekend, he brought along a bunch of bananas to the Windy City for his father. Luster knew his dad loved to eat bananas and worried his hotel wouldn’t have any at breakfast.
The highs, lows and inconsistencies of the MSU men’s basketball team’s regular season are in the past. All that matters now is that the Spartans (22-6) are officially in one-and-done territory, learning Sunday evening they earned the No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional, drawing No. 15 seed Robert Morris in the first round on Friday at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
A college-aged man was shot and killed in Lansing’s Hunter Park Sunday afternoon, but it was not known as of Sunday evening whether he had any MSU affiliation, Lansing police Lt. Noel Garcia said.
Several MSU research projects will receive more funding after President Barack Obama signed a controversial $410 billion spending bill last week packed with billions of dollars in earmarks.
Although charitable giving to higher education in the U.S. reached an all-time high in fiscal 2008, MSU officials don’t expect that trend to continue this year. Last year, $31.6 billion was given to the nation’s universities and colleges, according to the Council for Aid to Education.
A second MSU football player pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges originating from an October brawl at an off-campus party, officials from East Lansing’s 54-B District Court said.
A debate that has raged for several years within Michigan during the existence of a breeding population of cougars will come to East Lansing next week. Dennis Fijalkowski, a wildlife executive who has spoken to residents in the past, will be at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, on March 26 to talk about cougars.
Regions where people have “old-fashioned values” have discovered a way to have some newfound fun. People in states that tend to be politically and socially conservative subscribe to pornography Web sites more frequently than their more liberal counterparts, a Harvard study concluded.
Speaking out could have potentially unwelcome consequences for faculty participating in academic governance. A California case in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could define whether faculty speech during governance proceedings is protected under the First Amendment, said Steve Sanders, an attorney with the Mayer Brown law firm in Chicago, who is representing the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, in the court case.
This was a season the MSU hockey program would like to forget. After one of the worst regular seasons in program history, the Spartans were eliminated from postseason play in the first round of the CCHA playoffs.
In the final two weeks of the MSU hockey season, senior goaltender Jeff Lerg was playing with a torn ACL, his father, Ken Lerg said.
As the MSU women’s basketball team waits to hear its NCAA Tournament fate tonight, it has a lot to look forward to in what could be an exciting postseason.
With the Big Ten Tournament done and the NCAA Tournament on the horizon, men’s basketball reporter Cash Kruth examines four questions surrounding the Spartans as they look to rebound from a disappointing conference tournament with a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
The MSU women’s basketball team failed to capitalize on an opportunity to seal the deal on an NCAA Tournament spot and, instead, put itself back on the bubble with a loss to Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals last weekend.
After his team’s season-ending victory against Purdue, MSU senior guard Travis Walton made a bold guarantee during the Senior Day celebration. “We’re gonna raise another banner up in here,” said Walton, moments before the team hoisted its 2008-09 regular season championship banner into the rafters.
The case against former ASMSU official Nigel Scarlett, accusing him of sexually assaulting a woman on campus last year, was dismissed Tuesday, court officials said.
MSU and Michigan Tech scientists will partner and use $1.4 million in federal funding to solve complex issues surrounding the biofuel industry.
The MSU College of Nursing will receive $1.1 million in grants to address a shortage of nurses and nursing educators.