The North American Indigenous Student Organization’s 26th annual MSU Pow-Wow of Love on Saturday and Sunday united distant families this weekend through their common heritage.
Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund will highlight Michigan’s events during National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, with a press briefing at 10 a.m.
The Capital Area Humane Society today is encouraging residents to follow the advice of Bob Barker and have their pet spayed or neutered. Tuesday is Spay Day USA, the Humane Society of the United States’ celebration of keeping pets healthy.
While Michigan’s overall economy stumbles, one sector is growing at an unprecedented pace. An MSU study released this month found Michigan’s agribusiness sector increased 12 percent in 2007, the year the data was collected. The number represents more than double the amount of growth in the industry during the previous two years combined.
MSU Rodeo Club and the International Professional Rodeo Association, or IPRA, rounded up some of the best rodeo riders in the country for the 40th annual Spartan Stampede last weekend at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education.
I wish I could say that my week as a yogi was life altering. But the truth is, my week was much like an average week: haphazard and half-assed on occasion.
In response to the article Best in show (SN 2/18), in breaking down the Oscar race for best picture, MSU English professor Bill Vincent was incorrect in his assessment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences notoriously shunning gay cinema.
The prospect of a more secure campus is never something to undervalue, but with money tight for the university, one has to ask — is it the right time for fancy additions?
Ursula Zerilli’s column Living life to the fullest worthwhile choice (SN 2/19) highlights a serious problem quietly happening on college campuses across Michigan. She, as a college student, is being exploited to fill the employment voids in our economy.
The citizens of any government follow the laws of their society for better or worse. America is a country based on the ideology that the government was formed “of the people, by the people, for the people.”
With 12:31 remaining and his team trailing Wisconsin 41-29, MSU head coach Tom Izzo called a 30-second timeout with a very simple message for his team — play defense. The sixth-ranked Spartans did as their coach asked, outscoring the Badgers 32-9 the rest of the way to win 61-50 on Sunday at Breslin Center.
Bowling Green, Ohio — Saturday’s game was a first and a last for Bowling Green senior goaltender Jimmy Spratt. In the Falcons 4-0 victory over the MSU hockey team, Spratt earned his first career home shutout during his last game at BGSU Ice Arena.
After each goal scored by the MSU hockey team, members of the Spartan Brass take a celebratory lap around Munn Ice Arena with their instruments. But when MSU scored its third goal of the night, the band didn’t start the lap at their usual rallying point. Instead, they were 50 feet away from their section – trying to make it back from an MSU goal that was scored only 26 seconds earlier.
Six straight losses in January led Wisconsin to be a team written off by many people around the country. MSU head coach Tom Izzo, however, was not one of those people.
With heavy snow storms moving across the Midwest tonight, Mid-Michigan will be under a winter storm warning through Saturday evening. A winter storm warning means that severe winter weather conditions should be expected and that high amounts of snow can make travel dangerous.
MSU will share its College of Human Medicine campus in Grand Rapids with Ferris State University’s School of Pharmacy after the Ferris Board of Trustees unanimously approved the 10-year lease today. MSU’s Board of Trustees approved the lease last week, which will allow Ferris’ School of Pharmacy to occupy the seventh floor of the Secchia Center.
Another ASMSU official announced his resignation at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday. Garrett Faulk stepped down as internal vice chairperson of Student Assembly, citing personal reasons.
The MSU women’s basketball team set a record for defense Thursday, beating Michigan 52-27. The 27 points the Spartans held U-M to are the lowest ever allowed at Breslin Center. The previous low was also against U-M, when MSU beat the Wolverines 67-33 on Jan. 18, 2004.
Every fall, college football administrators around the country collectively hold their breath in anticipation of their grades. Atypical of grades normally seen on college campuses, these are released by the Black Coaches & Administrators, or BCA, and reflect on the demographics of black coaches in Division I football programs.
After injuring her knee and paying the hospital bills on her own, journalism senior Maryhelen Harper knows how helpful a health care plan can be.