FOOTBALL
Trip down memory lane: Looking back at MSU/Notre Dame rivalry
There’s little doubt MSU’s rivalry with Notre Dame has become one of the most interesting in college football.
FOOTBALL
Prognosticators
Step right up! Step right up! Watch in awe as the prognosticators pull out magical predictions out of their prognosticatin’ hats! And then saw those predictions in half! And then put them back together again!
MSU
New assistant professor rises from unlikely background
What began as a career headed toward owning a business eventually led Hui Liu toward a different field of study. Liu, an assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Sociology, joined the faculty this semester — a position she never pictured herself in while growing up in China.
MSU
Proposed calendar sees opposition
Susan Cooper stooped over the rock on Farm Lane and dipped her paint brush into the can of white paint. But instead of brushing a fresh coat of paint onto the rock Wednesday, her brush connected with the back of her sister’s green shirt and formed the words that later appeared on the rock — save Welcome Week.
COMMENTARY
All facts about candidates must be presented to be fair
As a fifth-year senior acquiring a second bachelor’s degree, I can no longer tolerate the liberal monarchy that runs rampant on the Red Cedar. To those disbelievers, simply gaze over to the political cartoon and you will understand.
COMMENTARY
Background checks help improve campus safety
Just as the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 have shaped the way people view the high school experience, so, unfortunately, have the Virginia Tech shootings affected people’s perception of universities.
COMMENTARY
E.L. thieves should consider impact on families, children
An open letter to the persons who stole my 10-year-old son’s bike after last week’s football game:
COMMENTARY
Learn about Mich. government now
At the beginning of the school year, I find myself reflecting on my experience as an undergraduate student at MSU from 2001 to 2005. Though I am now a graduate student at MSU, I take my classes in the Detroit area, where I work full-time, and seldom find myself in East Lansing.
COMMENTARY
Bedouins share same plight as most Arabs living in Israel
I have to applaud the recent article MSU student helps build mosque in Israel (SN 9/10). It exposes MSU students to the plight and daily discrimination that the bedouin Arabs (among other Arab groups) in Israel face.
MICHIGAN
State Legislature approves new energy standards
The Michigan State Legislature approved a comprehensive energy package today that Gov. Jennifer Granholm intends to sign into law.
MICHIGAN
MSU to discuss ways to control steady enrollment increase
A preliminary fall report showing that MSU will see an enrollment increase for the fifth consecutive year this fall has administrators looking for ways to control the growth.
NEWS
Student faces charges for filing false police report
MSU police plan to bring felony charges against an 18-year-old student who filed a false report of a Sept. 11 sexual assault near IM Sports-East, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
SOCCER
Women’s soccer team blasts past Detroit Mercy in Okemos
The MSU women’s soccer team treated Detroit Mercy as if they were just a speed bump on the road to bigger and better things.
NEWS
Police Brief 09/18/08
A cell phone was stolen Monday from the Wilson Hall cafeteria, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
NEWS
McCain, Palin appear in Grand Rapids Wednesday
John McCain said Wednesday he wouldn’t forget Michigan if he is elected president. About 4,000 supporters of the Republican senator from Arizona watched him speak at a “Straight Talk Town Hall” meeting at Ford Fieldhouse at Grand Rapids Community College.
NEWS
MSU's finest on display
Lynn Wisper looks like any other girl in any other magazine. She’s kneeling, eating mint chocolate chip ice cream, with a red and gray striped cardigan over her shoulders. The hospitality business senior has straight blonde hair and she’s grinning from ear to ear. Except, well, she’s topless. And this isn’t any other magazine. This is Playboy. But just because Wisper bares all in the latest “Girls of The Big Ten” issue doesn’t mean she bares all in person.
NEWS
Obama campaign pursues suit over plans to block voters
Despite Republican officials’ assertions that a party leader’s controversial quotes were fabricated, representatives for Barack Obama’s campaign are still pursuing a lawsuit against the Republican Party.
SOCCER
Women's soccer wins 3-0 against Kent State
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.
MICHIGAN
Capitol rally celebrates Constitution Day
A rally was held Wednesday on the steps of the state Capitol to promote the First Amendment and how it affects students, in accordance with Constitution Day.