It wasn’t trash-talking — senior defensive tackle Justin Kershaw wanted to make that clear — but there’s an air of confidence surrounding the White team as the MSU football team heads into its annual spring game.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant announced the signing of a third recruit for the 2008-09 season on Thursday. Joining Porsche Poole and Courtney Schiffauer in signing a National Letter of Intent is Taylor Johnson.
Walking by a Ping-Pong table, gaming consoles and shelves of shining trophies filled with Spartans history, Sam Puryear’s office sits with the door wide open. Upon accepting the head coaching job at MSU in August, Puryear left Stanford, a Pac-10 team that just won the national championship.
When the MSU baseball team and Michigan meet for four games this weekend, they’ll travel a short distance to each other’s home fields, but MSU coach David Grewe won’t refer to the cross-state showdown as a “rivalry.”
The MSU softball team will try to bounce back from a lackluster weekend to battle Purdue in a two-game weekend series. But it won’t be easy, especially for a team that’s slumped as of late, MSU head coach Jacquie Joseph said.
If one team heavily beats up on the other during Saturday’s intrasquad spring game, MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio won’t be pleased.
Green hard hats and posters represented Michigan’s energy future Thursday at the Capitol, where students from several state universities rallied for stronger energy legislation.
The MSU Board of Trustees will conclude the spring semester with a meeting today that’s more about celebration than hard decision-making, board members said.
The slumping national economy seems unable to harm Lansing-area shopping centers. Even with a wave of recent national retail chain bankruptcies and closings, including Sharper Image Corp., local malls and strip malls aren’t worried about the economic impact on their shopping centers.
Mike Neller is ripped. He’s got the kind of body you see in infomercials for workout tools, with the torso of a Mortal Kombat video game character.
Students Promoting Animal Rights was very happy to see The State News editorial Treatment of animals shouldn’t be secretive (SN 4/16), encouraging transparency with animal treatment. Unfortunately, the editorial board made numerous factual errors.
Costco Wholesale Corp. and the Dalai Lama aren’t often mentioned in the same sentence. But his holiness and several business leaders, including Costco’s co-founder Jeffrey Brotman, were together Monday in Seattle for a business-inspired talk. Preaching the same peace and karma that he’s known for, the Dalai Lama offered business advice to eager ears.
Given the events of the past two weeks, it’s time we take a break from the infringements on the supposed “right to party” and focus instead on a disturbing trend affecting a more fundamental right: voting.
Michigan, once regarded as one of the most industrially influential states in the union, has been reduced to its current drab condition. It makes me sad as a citizen and fourth-generation Michigan family member to see the economic downturn that has resulted from years of neglect from the state government, as well as the unions. The economic outlook is bleak at best for Michigan. It has been in a recession for years, while the rest of the country catches up. It maddens me to see the disregard, incompetence and arrogance that is exuded by our “leaders.”
Though it may seem strange to admit, representing a northern school in the Big Ten, MSU baseball head coach David Grewe calls his a squad a “warm weather team.” So, with a temperature of above 60 degrees in the ninth inning of Wednesday’s game against Central Michigan, it was only natural for MSU’s bats to explode.
After watching Africa’s tallest mountain on the big screen at age 13, Britt Larson made conquering Mount Kilimanjaro her personal goal. “You always hear about Mount Kilimanjaro, but after I saw an Imax film when I was around 13 years old, it’s been on my to-do list ever since,” the zoology sophomore said. “For the last five or six years I’ve really wanted to climb it.”
Charlotte Wilks knows firsthand that railroad crossings can be dangerous. She once saw a fellow employee climb between the cars of a stopped train near her laboratory in the Life Sciences Building. The employee’s daughter had gotten sick while in day care on the other side of the tracks.
Housing and Food Services has begun a training program to educate employees on how to respond if there is an active shooter in their work place, one that could soon spread to the rest of campus.
Members of MSU’s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community wouldn’t let the anti-gay slurs marked on 10 buildings last week in Lansing’s Old Town affect the 36th annual Pride Week festivities.