Increased applications to MSU’s graduate and MBA programs follow a national trend that shows students tend to seek shelter in an unpredictable economy.
After leaving their WRA class Thursday afternoon, freshmen Nick Lebel and Eric Sneller decided to smash nuclei and create some rare isotopes.
Rebecca Jacobsen knew how to teach before she picked up her first course book. Jacobsen, an assistant professor of teacher education, grew up around teachers and knew what it meant to teach well.
MSU’s annual Midnight Madness event will take place at 10:30 p.m. tonight at Breslin Center, with doors opening at 9:30 p.m. for autographs on the concourse. There also will be promotional giveaways and performances by the Spartan Marching Band, MSU cheerleaders, MSU Dance Team and Sparty throughout the night
When the MSU volleyball team went on its first Big Ten road trip, it felt a little overwhelmed.
It seems easy enough: an advantage in players with time to set up a play, a little more than 15 yards away from your opponent’s goal. But in its 2-1 loss to No. 3 Wake Forest, the No. 4 MSU field hockey team struggled on penalty corners. The team was awarded 13 and didn’t score on any of them.
The seniors on the MSU men’s soccer team have never lost to Michigan. In the past three seasons the Spartans are 3-0-1 and the Big Bear Trophy, awarded to the winner of each game between the two teams, has found a temporary hibernation home in the Spartans’ trophy case.
Music education freshman Jeffery Branch knows how to dress. His laid-back style blends chic designers with more practical clothing at reasonable prices. The State News caught up with Branch to talk about Texas, Prada and prison fashion.
Since the day it was announced a person could no longer cross the Canadian border with just a driver’s license and declaration of citizenship, there are those who have been complaining about the burden the new rules placed on them. Many along the border commute daily or enough that slowing down the time to cross becomes a great hassle.
Considering the fraud that has perpetrated as MSU football in the last 40 years, last Saturday’s honoring of the 1978 Big Ten champion football team was pathetic.
Perhaps the single most important foreign policy issue that the next president needs to address is the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
For several years now, after our football team makes a first down in Spartan Stadium, thousands of voices have rung out with “First down, bitch.” These displays of public vulgarity make me cringe with embarrassment. Until now, however, the situation hasn’t been bad enough for me to speak out.
A 25-year-old Lansing man was arraigned Wednesday for a campus assault on a 19-year-old student, according to MSU police. Jason H. Evans’ arraignment was connected to the fourth crime alert sent by MSU police this semester.
There are two main strengths MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo has seen in the preseason thus far. Athletic ability and an improved depth. And at MSU’s men’s basketball Media Day on Wednesday, Izzo said his team will continue to use those strengths and fight hard in the weeks leading up to its first preseason game (Nov. 5 vs. Northern Michigan) in order to get to a specific point as a unit — confident to take on the Big Ten schedule.
In the final presidential debate that was deemed a must-win for John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate ran the tone of the debate, but it might not have been enough to bridge the 8-point gap he is facing in the polls, experts said. “McCain really needed to have a game-changer moment in this debate to declare it a victory,” said MSU director of debate Greta Stahl. “I don’t think that he had that.”
A duffel bag full of clothing and shoes were stolen Oct. 9 from a car parked on Auditorium Road, MSU police Sgt. Randy Holton said.
Standing in front of a 37-member federal review committee earlier this week with a half-billion-dollar project on the line, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon and a team from the Cyclotron made its case for why East Lansing should be home to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
The men’s soccer team didn’t have to reschedule its game against No.14 Illinois-Chicago after it was canceled on Sept. 14 due to the heavy rainstorm that caused DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field to resemble a lake more than a soccer field. But MSU head coach Joe Baum wanted to reschedule the game against the No. 14 ranked team in the country to help his team gain experience against yet another quality opponent.
For the first time since the spring, the MSU men’s basketball team — with the addition of three new faces — was fully dressed for Media Day at Breslin Center. Answering questions about the past, present and future, the Spartans were amped and ready to kick off the 2008-09 schedule Nov. 5 against Northern Michigan, head coach Tom Izzo’s alma mater.
Maj. Zoltan Krompecher recalls hiking up a snow-covered East Lansing hill with his 3-year-old daughter, Leah, stammering behind. Leah had lost her boot in the snow, causing the Green Beret to scoop her up in his arms, burying her barefoot into his heavy parka.