The Heisman Trophy is awarded each season to college football’s most outstanding player. Seven candidates currently lead the nation, but the trophy isn’t won four weeks into the season.
A winless MSU team heads to Wisconsin on Saturday to take on the undefeated Badgers as it opens Big Ten play.
Junior quarterback Brian Hoyer is the first to admit he took some risks against Notre Dame on Saturday. He took a risk throwing a bomb downfield to junior wide receiver Devin Thomas, only to have his pass intercepted in the end zone.
At this point in the season, records aren’t going to say it all. The Spartans come out of the nonconference schedule 4-0, but face it, the competition hasn’t been exactly stiff. Their toughest opponent was Pittsburgh, and they’ve been here before, only to collapse for the remainder of the season. So here’s how the Spartans look heading into their Big Ten conference schedule.
Prognosticators predict the outcomes of the weekend’s upcoming Big Ten football showdowns.
If you show, you blow. A new policy at University of Wisconsin, Madison for football games this fall requires students who have been removed from prior games for drunken behavior to submit to a Breathalyzer test for future admittance.
Here’s the breakdown for the upcoming Big Ten battle between the Spartans and the Wisconsin Badgers.
A cup of coffee may be a morning energy boost for some, but it’s a social activity for Nicole Nguyen, Web master of the MSU Coffee Club. “For me, having a cup of coffee is not something you do to just wake up in the morning,” said Nguyen, an English and professional writing junior. “It’s a really good way to get together with people. It’s a social environment.”
There’s no middle ground when it comes to jeans. As straight-leg skinny jeans have made a reappearance on runways, in magazines or just on the streets of East Lansing, so have wide-leg pants.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm addressed the state last night in an effort to reassure Michigan’s citizens that legislators would continue working to avoid a government shutdown.
My first column of the semester, Jesus is not returning (SN 9/4), generated a torrent of responses. The point of my column was that we all ought to concern ourselves deeply with critical long-term issues rather than delude ourselves with apocalyptic nonsense.
I am writing in response to Shiming Zheng’s letter Completely banning firearms only solution for gun crimes (SN 9/27). The writer displays an enormous lack of knowledge and an even more appalling grasp of logic.
Everyone is so caught up in the 2008 presidential election that we’ve forgotten there is another election in 2007 that will impact every MSU student. Of course, I’m talking about the East Lansing City Council election. I’m sure most SN readers are thinking, “Yawn!”
There are a million different ways to illustrate freedom of speech rights without using profanity and blind, unsubstantiated statements. Apparently, the editorial board at Colorado State University’s newspaper doesn’t feel the same way.
It is true that apples are “packed with nutrients,” as reported in An apple a day … (SN 9/25). But if you’re looking to reap the most nutrients from an apple, most nutrition experts will advise you not to peel.
Anishinaabe, known commonly as the Odawa, Ojibwe and Algonquin indigenous people of North America, have a tradition of planning seven generations ahead in an effort to preserve their culture.
The Second Annual Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition Summit will kick off at 7 p.m. Friday, at the Chemistry Building.
Local police said a recent district court ruling making it illegal for police officers to issue a Breathalyzer test to minors without a search warrant will not affect their current practices. As the law stood prior to the ruling Wednesday, police had the authority to force minors to take a Breathalyzer test — and those who refused could be issued a civil infraction and a fine of up to $100.
The East Lansing City Council will vote on the Hagadorn Road conversion during next week’s city council meeting, Mayor Sam Singh said at Tuesday’s work session.
Before most MSU students were in diapers, Kathy Ackerman was paging through the primitive ages of the Internet.