Last season, the MSU men’s basketball team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament and met one of college basketball’s powerhouses — North Carolina. After keeping up with the Tar Heels’ run-and-gun style of play, North Carolina eventually pulled away just by sheer depth and strength.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority will split Route 32 into two separate routes beginning March 24 due to construction on Farm Lane.
At the stroke of noon, Miguel Sanchez took his cell phone and what he considered to be one of the most important unopened envelopes he would ever hold into the hallway.
The prospects of a second Michigan primary are all but dead after the state Senate adjourned Thursday with no decision on a June 3 revote.
Hundreds of protesters marched through the MSU campus and clogged East Lansing streets Thursday in protest of the war with Iraq.
Clear, crisp high-definition television could be coming to campus next year. The MSU Telecommunication Systems Department is conducting a campuswide test until the end of the month that provides high-definition channels to students on campus.
Here we are, five years later. It was on March 19, 2003, that President Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq under the pretense that former dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime possessed weapons of mass destruction. As the years went on, so did the reports of successes and failures, bombings and casualties.
This is in response to the article Tickets in Mile High City scarce for MSU students (SN 3/20). Not only were tickets for MSU’s tournament games in Colorado available to the official team traveling party, players and coaches’ families and donors, but also to alumni and MSU students.
Of the many metrics by which one can estimate the health of a society, one of the more interesting approaches is to compare the amount of public money spent on corrections versus how much is spent on higher education.
Arguably the most important contribution from the MSU men’s basketball team in its win against Temple can’t be found in the box score. A combined MSU effort in defending guard Dionte Christmas, Temple and the Atlantic 10’s leading scorer, doesn’t show up on the stat sheet, but might be the most notable of the afternoon. Thanks to Kalin Lucas, Drew Neitzel, Raymar Morgan and especially Travis Walton, the Spartans held Christmas to three points — his lowest point total of the season.
A crowd of more than 30 residents gathered to pay tribute to former East Lansing City Councilmember Beverly Baten on Wednesday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road. Baten, who graduated from MSU in 1966, served on the council from 1999 to 2007.
In a marathon match that lasted three overtimes, sophomore wrestler Franklin Gomez overcame a tough unseeded opponent and a hurt ankle to advance to today’s quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships.
MSU students could have another way to protect themselves if a bill allowing civilian use of nonlethal Tasers passes in the Michigan House of Representatives.
As Danny Kulas wandered past Bailey Hall dorm rooms selling green-and-white T-shirts stating “This is madness,” the marketing freshman could only dream about making the trip to Denver for MSU’s first-round basketball game against Temple.
Through a roller-coaster ride of a season, the MSU men’s basketball team has found ways to win and ways to lose. They’ve shown flashes of brilliance in games against top-10 teams and floundered against cellar-dwellers. Now, with everything on the line in the NCAA Tournament, here are three things the Spartans should and should not do to better their chances for a postseason run.
A blue and silver Haro Extreme X1 bicycle valued at $1,500 was stolen from a bike rack in the Holden Hall parking lot sometime between 1 p.m. March 13 and 9:40 a.m. Friday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Michigan golfers are used to hibernating from November to late March, but the university’s golf course soon will be offering a way for locals to keep swinging during the winter.
As a professor of mechanical engineering, Tamara Bush often finds herself surrounded by a sea of men and only a handful of women.
A federal judge has upheld the constitutionality of Proposal 2, dismissing a lawsuit Tuesday that challenged the measure passed by Michigan voters in 2006.