The Amtrak station in East Lansing was a busy place to be at 8:21 p.m. Sunday, the day before classes resumed for the spring semester.
For five months last year, the future of MSU’s Cyclotron hinged on its bid for the federally funded Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a half-billion dollar nuclear physics research site.
Computer engineering senior Ali Aqel was walking to his cousin’s house on Dec. 27 when he heard what he thought was a sonic boom. In reality, the noise was the beginning of Israel’s airstrike against Hamas, the Palestinian authority in the Gaza Strip. The airstrike killed at least 140 people. “I got to my uncle’s house, everyone was watching the news and everyone was horrified,” he said.
After a year of unanswered questions, the mother of an MSU student who was found dead on an Indiana golf course one year ago wants more investigation into her daughter’s death.
The Old Navy apparel store in the Lansing Mall, 5330 W. Saginaw Highway, will close Jan. 26 after opting not to renew its lease this year, a store associate said.
MSU Federal Credit Union is seeking candidates to fill vacancies left in its board of directors.
The East Lansing Police Department remains in mourning after former cadet and officer Mason Samborski was killed in the line of duty Dec. 28 while investigating a traffic stop in Detroit.
ASMSU Association Director Kara Spencer, who was found guilty in December of sending a “spam” e-mail to faculty, has appealed to the University Student Appeals Board and hopes for a decision in the coming weeks.
In his Student Book Store shopping bag, English junior Mark Schoenknecht carried something he’s never used — a wireless device called a clicker, which he will use this spring to answer questions in his physical science lab.
Replacing a campus favorite like BTB Burrito isn’t easy, but it’s not a concern for Eric Gunn, co-owner of Brother’s Grill, 403 E. Grand River Ave. “It was a nice establishment and a lot of people ate there,” Gunn said. “We want to do our own legacy.”
The MSU football team held Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford in check during the first half of the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1 in Orlando, Fla. In the second half, however, Stafford showed the MSU defense why he is regarded by many to be the top pick in the 2009 NFL Draft.
The balance beam was the MSU gymnastics team’s undoing in its season opener Friday night at Jenison Field House. No. 17 MSU finished the four-team meet in third place behind No. 8 Michigan and No. 16 Illinois while beating Western Michigan for the 54th straight time.
In its 75-62 win against Kansas on Saturday at Breslin Center, the No. 8 MSU men’s basketball team set the pace with a dynamic first half en route to a 19-point halftime lead.
The MSU hockey team has scored a minuscule 35 goals in 22 games. Since the 1950-51 season, it has taken former Spartans teams an average of only 8.95 games to reach the 35-goal mark.
There wasn’t one instant or one specific moment that it clicked for Allyssa DeHaan. It just happened. The 2007-08 season had been tough on the 6-foot-9 junior center, who struggled to find herself on the court, in the classroom and in her relationship with God.
It’s said that defense wins championships. Throw in rebounding and you have the recipe for a pretty strong basketball team. And to get to March this season, the MSU women’s basketball team is going to need to continue its strong performances on its end of the court.
There is a genocide going on in Gaza today, and we are paying for it. More than 200 people have been killed in less than an hour. Hospitals are treating wounded in the dark, without electricity. No ventilators, no lights. No food, as the last border opening allowed less than a day’s worth of bread into the strip.
As a film student at MSU when I heard about the Michigan Filming Incentive, I was intrigued. I’ve read a lot about it, including the article written for The New York Times, “States’ Film Production Incentives Cause Jitters.” Let me first start by saying that I’ve lived in Michigan for 19 years, my whole life.
During his first two seasons with the Spartans, Raymar Morgan was an enigma trapped inside a puzzle muddled by a riddle. One game, he’d play so well you’d worry about him leaving school early to take his shot at the NBA. The next, you’d wonder if he was good enough to play on your intramural team.
Upon entering the local Better Health Market, shoppers are greeted with a large green sign above the bulk foods that reads: “Organic: Growing Produce with Materials and Practices that Protect and Build the Health of the Soil, Environment and Your Body.”