Payal Ravani has struggled with financial aid, and the ASMSU Academic Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs said many students share her concerns.
David Blight, an MSU graduate and professor of American history at Yale University, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Kellogg Center’s Big Ten Room C in a lecture titled Slaves No More: Newly Discovered Slave Narratives and the Legacies of Emancipation.
Michigan legislators, lobbyists and Gov. Jennifer Granholm said they expect a renewable energy portfolio standard to be passed by the end of March, which could bring future jobs for MSU graduates.
Brian Watkins sat on the floor of Administration Building’s lobby Tuesday balancing a laptop on his legs, a textbook on his stomach and a stack of quizzes to be graded by his side. But Watkins was doing more than grading — he was demonstrating. And he wasn’t alone.
About 10 Democratic members of the Michigan House of Representatives voiced concerns Tuesday about proposed plans for a second state primary, including the lack of support from Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and the time crunch on organizing a vote.
Some women spend so much time acknowledging other females’ accomplishments that they forget to recognize one of the most important women in their lives — themselves, Sarah Siewert said.
Electrocution, dog attacks, oncoming cars and human poisoning are a few of the obstacles that disrupt the average squirrel’s daily activities.
For any sports team, practice is the foundation of a good performance. But when Susan Ewart started the MSU equestrian team as an undergraduate student in the early 1980s, it wasn’t unusual for the team to attend a competition without much preparation.
Despite growing up on a lake, underwater hockey was a foreign concept to Tricia Simon, a veterinary medicine graduate student who had plenty of experience with water sports.
Even ESPN is bewildered by the NCAA selection committee’s picks for the NCAA Tournament. Actually, I think everyone except those faithful to Florida State and Auburn believes the MSU women’s basketball team got pushed under the rug.
While the thought of wrestling for a national championship in front of 22,000 people may put added pressure on some individuals, it hasn’t affected sophomore wrestler Franklin Gomez.
Sparty will be on the cover of “NCAA Football 09” for the Nintendo Wii after a close competition, EA Sports announced Tuesday.
When Josh Higginson watched “Back to the Future” for the first time and saw Michael J. Fox riding a skateboard, he knew he had to try it. “There’s a scene at the beginning where Michael J. Fox is being towed behind a truck and that was the coolest thing I’d ever seen,” Higginson said.
Like father, like son. The MSU football team received another verbal commitment for the 2009 recruiting class Sunday, landing East Lansing High School junior Blake Treadwell, according to Scout.com.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective on his new frontier.
Will Steger moved from Minnesota three years ago to dedicate his time to raising global warming awareness.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective on his new frontier.
Gary Hoppenstand grew up reading comic books and novels just like any other kid — but instead of simply enjoying the stories, he wanted to know why people cared about them.
Well, well, well. Now the Democrats might need Michigan’s help. Our state and Florida — the only states punished by the Democratic National Committee for holding primaries before Feb. 5 — could be the tiebreaker for the now closely matched Democratic contenders, Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill.
Fun stuff is happening in the nation’s highest court. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard its first Second Amendment case in about 70 years. The nine justices will decide whether a Washington, D.C., handgun ban currently in effect is constitutional. Or, simply put, whether ordinary citizens have the right to keep a handgun in their home.