NEWS
Investments bring $184.3M growth to endowment in 2007
MSU’s $1.2 billion endowment grew by 19 percent in 2007, thanks largely to a $184.3 million return on its investments.
NEWS
Exploring everything it takes to book a concert
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.
SPORTS
'Fight-for-it attitude' has Robinson near full health
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.
BASKETBALL
Even after two upset losses in conference play, Izzo not immediately concerned with Big Ten race
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.
ICE HOCKEY
Icers spend day teaching children hockey
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.
BASKETBALL
Free throw-down
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.
SPORTS
Far from home, close to greatness
Sophomore wrestler Franklin Gomez couldn’t have always been this good, could he? “I think I was,” Gomez said with a smile.
ICE HOCKEY
Lerg's 2-goal game helps icers to split series
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.
MSU
Chess tournament takes over Union
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.
MICHIGAN
Feature tracks pizza orders
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.
MSU
MSU professors recognized by France
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.
MICHIGAN
E.L. residents join their voices in song
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.
COMMENTARY
Change to vegan diet tough but beneficial to health
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.
COMMENTARY
Do some more research; vegan lifestyle can be political tool
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).
COMMENTARY
Students will have to pay up or get out of E.L.
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.
COMMENTARY
Democracy more than partisan
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.
BASKETBALL
Penn State upsets Spartans, 85-76
State College, Penn. – The MSU men’s basketball team went on another road trip to a Big Ten cellar-dweller and was handed another upset loss.
ICE HOCKEY
Icers overcome Nebraska-Omaha
After a disappointing performance the night before, the MSU hockey team came out firing Saturday evening at Munn Ice Arena.
ICE HOCKEY
Icers upset by Nebraska-Omaha
After clawing back to erase a two-goal third period deficit, the No. 5 MSU hockey team let it all slip away in overtime.
NEWS
Building a village one day at a time
Cedar Village and the other apartment complexes that dot the 35-acre swath of land between Bogue Street and Hagadorn Road have been a spot of tension among the city of East Lansing, students and property owners.