Leadership, focus crucial to move on from tough losses
Penn State shot 51 free throws Saturday night against the MSU men’s basketball team — 19 more than the Spartans have allowed in any game all season.
Penn State shot 51 free throws Saturday night against the MSU men’s basketball team — 19 more than the Spartans have allowed in any game all season.
Americans love jumping on bandwagons. Whether it is the temperance movement or the latest diet craze, we simply love throwing ourselves into a cause — at least for a while.
Two MSU College of Music students face up to 35 years in prison after being charged in connection with several local break-ins if convicted.
Animals stole the show in Sunday’s Super Bowl.Public relations professor Robert Kolt held a party for professors in the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing where the professors rate the 10 best advertisements of the Super Bowl as well as the five worst.
Music is Anthony Carlo’s passion. But as the director of special events for MSU Residence Halls Association, or RHA, it’s Carlo’s job to find out what students are passionate about — and find ways to bring those acts to campus.
MSU’s $1.2 billion endowment grew by 19 percent in 2007, thanks largely to a $184.3 million return on its investments.
Penn State didn’t even need a field goal in the last 7:11 to defeat the MSU men’s basketball team Saturday night. Their free-throw shooting sealed the deal for them.
Sophomore gymnast Rochelle Robinson had a rough start to her season this year. After a bad dismount from the balance beam, Robinson suffered a high ankle sprain and some torn ligaments that took her of the floor for two months during her fall conditioning.
After losing its second road game to a lowly Big Ten opponent, the MSU men’s basketball team wasn’t focused on the big picture. While the Spartans went into Saturday night’s 85-76 loss to Penn State with a chance to stay tied for first place in the Big Ten, the defeat left the MSU players and head coach Tom Izzo without much to say on the topic.
Sara Clark sat in the stands with her husband and daughter as she watched her 7-year-old son Benjamin, who she described as “the mean little redhead,” block the hockey net from the shots being taken by the children around him.
Sophomore wrestler Franklin Gomez couldn’t have always been this good, could he? “I think I was,” Gomez said with a smile.
Riding an eight-game unbeaten streak, this weekend’s series against Nebraska-Omaha was supposed to be a chance for the MSU hockey team to cut down Miami (Ohio)‘s five-point CCHA lead.
Altos, sopranos, tenors, basses and others with a passion for singing gathered in East Lansing for the sixth annual Mid-Winter Singing Festival on Friday and Saturday.
Two MSU scientists were presented with achievement awards from representatives of the French government following their contributions to U.S.-French institutional relationships and agriculture.
From the time the dough is rolled until the pizza arrives at your door, Domino’s Pizza is trying to take the mystery out of delivery. Domino’s launched Pizza Tracker last week, a feature on its Web site that allows customers to follow where their pie is in the delivery process.
Philip Litchfield doesn’t let pregame jitters get in the way of his game. Litchfield, a chess team member of the Memphis Elementary Yellow Jackets in Memphis, already competed in two chess competitions before the Michigan Chess Association 2008 Elementary/Primary Team Championships on Saturday at the Union.
Initially I was elated to see veganism given large coverage in The State News. While I assumed the journalists would present accurate and well-researched facts, Liz Kersjes proved me wrong with her opinion column, Vegetarian contemplates changing diet (SN 1/29).
Let’s be honest. East Lansing’s various redevelopment projects around the downtown area act as a modern version of villagers wielding torches and pitchforks. In the end, it’s the MSU students who are being driven out.
I would like to tell you a true story. It’s about a failed democracy where the winner takes all and politics are reduced to fights between two opposite parties. Its people come to think the two parties represent something universal — transcending time and space, somehow existing in every democracy at every time.
I just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to The State News for publishing Vegan tales (SN 01/29). I have been a vegan now for about a year and a half following a surgery to remove my gallbladder.