New players and new rules will dictate the beginning of the season for the MSU volleyball team. The Spartans, who held their annual Green and White game Saturday, only have three upperclassmen on the team this season and have been picked to finish eighth in the Big Ten.
MSU men’s soccer coach Joe Baum started coaching the Spartans when gas prices were under 75 cents, when Earvin “Magic” Johnson was still in high school and when most of our parents were our age.
State News staffers pick and review some of the best athletes, both rookies and veterans.
With construction of the Secchia Center in Grand Rapids under way, the MSU College of Human Medicine further expanded its presence in Michigan by agreeing to establish a new community campus at the Munson Medical Center of Traverse City.
Golf, tennis and swimming are activities you might not find many people doing during Welcome Week, but that’s how the Japan Center for Michigan Universities celebrated its 20th anniversary Sunday.
Thousands of students made their way to the Auditorium on Saturday night, drawn by the promise of free goodies, the desire to explore the hundreds of student organizations in attendance and general curiosity.
The kegs are empty, the bottles are smashed and red cups are strewn about in yards. Typically, the messy remnants of a Welcome Week party would signal a successful endeavor. But couches in trees and kitchen furniture tossed in yards alludes to something bigger: Hundreds of dollars in violations and a bad image for East Lansing.
John Dent attended freshman seminars and navigated his way across campus Thursday, but the history freshman didn’t know if it would be enough to get him to his first class today.
Set to open in July 2010, the Secchia Center, MSU’s College of Human Medicine campus in Grand Rapids, is taking form.
As the school year begins, a young ASMSU assembly has a full agenda that includes a concert lineup and encouraging MSU students to vote in the upcoming presidential election.
In the midst of a struggling economy, Welcome Week provided a welcome boost in sales for several new businesses along East Grand River Avenue. Four businesses that opened since the close of spring classes saw a surge in clientele as MSU students settled in before the first week of classes, business owners said.
Members of Alpha Epsilon Pi still do not have a permanent place to live as the house they were hoping to inhabit, 1148 E. Grand River Ave., remains without a rental license.
With the growing popularity of mo-ped scooters on campus, you would think the higher-ups in the MSU administration would be smart enough to work with students, faculty and administrative staff to make having a mo-ped on campus easier.
The media spotlight once again turns toward the Democratic Party as its members flock to Denver for its national convention. In addition to officially establishing the candidacy of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the convention — which occurs every four years — also will give a chance for the party to publicize to the nation exactly what it believes and the goals it will be striving to achieve in coming years.
Iran tried to launch a few missiles August 16, stated that war was “not likely,” and said again that if it was attacked, Tel Aviv would be its first target.
Springfield, Ill. — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., today made their first public appearance since Obama announced Biden as his running mate. Obama made the announcement through a text message to supporters at about 3 a.m.
Three MSU students and two people with no MSU affiliation were involved in Wednesday’s fatal crash on U.S.
One person died and two others were taken to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital on Friday after a gasoline tanker rolled over, shutting down northbound U.S.
A 20-year-old man with no MSU affiliation was found guilty by a jury Thursday for drunken and disorderly conduct during the Cedar Fest riots in April.
Beyond the glitz of MSU’s new Skandalaris Football Center, a 25,000-square-foot, $15.5 million building expansion, the school’s rugged history was on display during the center’s unveiling Thursday. State-of-the art film technology, individual position meeting rooms and enough plasma TVs to fill an electronics store were overshadowed by the meeting of past and present MSU athletes.