The MSU volleyball team will finish its nonconference schedule this week with matches against Oakland and Central Michigan, the first of which will be played tonight at Jenison Field House.
The Big Ten Players of the Week were announced Monday and three Spartans made the list. For the second straight week, football senior running back Javon Ringer was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week. Ringer ran the ball 43 times and had 282 yards during Saturday’s game — both were career highs.
With water streaming down from the sky and piling up on the sidelines and corners of DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field on Sunday afternoon during the MSU women’s soccer game, MSU sports turf manager Amy Fouty knew the effects from Hurricane Ike that blasted through campus wouldn’t be an every-weekend event.
Editor’s note: This letter was corrected to fix an error regarding MSU’s affiliation with Illinois’ Argonne National Laboratory. MSU is competing with Illinois’ Argonne National Laboratory to bring the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, to our campus.
After reading that the MSU Board of Trustees voted to tear down Morrill Hall in Trustees approve demolition of 108-year-old Morrill Hall (SN 9/15), I was deeply concerned.
Many MSU students remember their time in high school, counting down the days to graduation and planning their next stage in life. That’s how all of MSU’s students ended up here.
The relationship between politics and hip-hop has been an unsteady one to say the least. You can draw parallels between it and a family reunion — politics being the well-to-do success story families rave about, while hip-hop settles into a role of the talented yet troubled youth whose potential is squandered by several character flaws.
Kate McAlpine and six other science communication interns descended into a cavern about 300 feet below the Swiss-French border armed with a video camera and a boom box.
Another link in a nine-year-old MSU arson case will close today. Marie Jeanette Mason, one of four people charged with setting the 1999 New Year’s Eve fire in Agriculture Hall, will plead guilty to involvement in the arson.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden will make two campaign stops in Michigan today.
Hurricane Ike wreaked havoc along the Gulf Coast last week, but the storm also can be blamed for a deluge of inconveniences that reached the Lansing area. The price of gas skyrocketed over the weekend amid rumors of price gouging, and rain caused many students not willing to brave the elements to miss the MSU football game. Local businesses also reported rained-out sales, and the level of the Red Cedar River climbed to flood potential.
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has created a new incentive for MSU students to register to vote.
With a name and tradition representing the land-grant history of MSU, 108-year-old Morrill Hall may soon be history itself.
A glass clothing display was cracked Thursday at the Spartan Bookstore in the International Center, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Saturday was the kind of day when nature is trying to tell you to stay inside, take a nap and not play football. The kind of day when the only person smiling because of nonstop rain is an umbrella salesman. The kind of day when even Sparty, the most macho of mascots, had to don a poncho to stay dry.
The No. 10 MSU field hockey team got back on track this weekend with two big wins in New England. The Spartans got off to a hot start, defeating No. 18 Boston University 2-0 on the strength of goals by sophomore forward Angela Pagura and freshman forward Chantae Miller.
A weekend full of downpours couldn’t stop the Spartans’ season-long dominance. The MSU women’s soccer team’s patience and willingness to stick it out in the pouring rain and standing water on the field allowed them to enter the Green and White record books — posting their seventh straight victory in a 3-0 win to Kent State on Sunday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field, the best start in school history.
The men’s soccer team had its game against Illinois-Chicago canceled Sunday due to standing water at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field. “We were disappointed we couldn’t play,” MSU head coach Joe Baum said. “But once you get standing water on the field, it’s very dangerous for the players.”
On many occasions, inclement weather levels the playing field and gives an underdog a better chance to win. That was hardly the case Saturday, as pass-happy Florida Atlantic had trouble moving the ball through heavy rain at Spartan Stadium.
The wind and rain that engulfed Spartan Stadium on Saturday during MSU’s 17-0 win over Florida Atlantic had many people ringing out their shirts and cursing the weather. Although that sentiment was shared by more than a few fans and players, MSU redshirt freshman guard Joel Foreman was more than happy with the weather conditions.