Head coach David Grewe and the MSU baseball team took three of four games from Indiana and outscored the Hoosiers, 25-11, in a Big Ten-opening road trip this weekend. The Spartans (11-9 overall, 3-1 Big Ten) dropped only the opener, in which they outhit the Hoosiers, 15-5, but managed only one run in a 2-1 defeat.
Animal lovers got some hands-on experience this past weekend on how they can turn their passion into a career — veterinarian medicine. The MSU College of Veterinary Medicine held its Vet-a-Visit event Saturday to teach attendees about the life of a veterinarian and how to become one. Vet-a-Visit featured more than 30 exhibits and demonstrations, including a K-9 agility course, proper pet care, a stuffed animal hospital and an equine treadmill. Families roamed from one exhibit to the next, speaking with students, faculty and staff along the way. "My daughter, who is 14, is running around with her mother looking at the small animals now," Owosso resident Charles Dahl said.
A nationally renowned high school math teacher and the director of the Centers for Disease Control will speak at Breslin Center during the May 4 spring commencement ceremonies. Jaime Escalante will speak to undergraduate students at 1 p.m.
Jessica Gray and her son Diego bond over sidewalk chalk and bubbles. Like most 2-year-olds, Gray said, Diego loves trains, books and especially miniature cars. Although Diego is a well-adjusted child, two years ago, Gray wasn't sure if her son would even like her. Gray and her husband, Bruce, of Dimondale, adopted Diego from Guatemala in 2005. "He was around 10 months when we brought him home, so we knew his personality was already developing," she said.
I am a student at MSU, and I am writing to bring attention to the atrocious condition of the MSU e-mail system. The MSU e-mail system is the default e-mail for all MSU students and is notoriously slow and unreliable.
After sustaining a sprained right knee in MSU's fifth game of the season last year, Javon Ringer was supposed to miss the remainder of the year. Instead, he came back after missing four games and played the final three games of the season with a brace on the knee. Now that it's time for spring football, Ringer has healed, but the brace remains at the behest of the MSU staff. "We made a deal," Ringer said last Tuesday after spring practice.
The No. 19 MSU gymnastics team finished the Big Ten Championships over the weekend with a score of 192.650, good for seventh place in the competition. Rival Michigan took first place and Penn State and Illinois finished second and third, respectively. Despite the overall team performance, senior Kristen Coleman was named the Big Ten Gymnast of the Year, the first Spartan to win the award since 1989. "I was really excited to get the award," Coleman said in a written statement.
On a college campus, student voice is essential. Be they vital academic decisions or merely trivial ones, students must be represented in all of them. Which is why one of the proposed changes to Academic Governance — namely the ratio of students to faculty on a council — is important to watch. Under the proposed changes brought about by the university's Task Forces, is the creation of a Faculty Congress, a faculty governance body that would be chaired by a faculty member, rather than Faculty Council's leadership under MSU President Lou Anna K.
America has always had a problem with porn. Some people chalk it up to the fact that our country was settled by the repressed, puritanical dregs of English society.
Two warrants were issued Thursday for Lansing residents who've been "preying" on MSU students, East Lansing police Lt.
Though the MSU women's tennis team fell to No. 33 Indiana, 5-2, on Sunday, head coach Erica Perkins was pleased with the energy her team brought to the court. "No one gave up," Perkins said.
As far as ASMSU is concerned, nothing ever happened. A 14-6 Student Assembly vote and a 586-552 undergraduate student vote to remove Great Issues from the organization's Programming Board were declared null and void when ASMSU decided in a closed session that the group should never have been removed in the first place. "Technically, they weren't ever off," said Nigel Scarlett, ASMSU's vice chairperson for external affairs.
A nationally renowned high school math teacher and the director for the Centers for Disease Control will speak at Breslin Center during the May 4 spring commencement ceremonies. Jaime Escalante will speak to undergraduate students at 1 p.m.
There will be plenty of music and confetti this summer in downtown Lansing, but for the first time in 16 years, it won't be because of the Michigan Parade. "The skinny on the parade this year is that we decided to cancel it," said Calvin L.
Imagine that. A radical, liberal organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, throwing the label of "hate group" at a conservative organization it can't compete with in the arena of ideas.
Advertising junior Megan Schneider lives in a home on Spartan Avenue with more than a half dozen other students.
Tremors, rigidity, loss of balance. More than one million Americans suffer from Parkinson's disease. There are drugs to treat some of the symptoms during the disease's early stages of development, but once it progresses, little can be done. John Goudreau, an associate professor in the departments of neurology and pharmacology and toxicology, is conducting a study that might help slow the progression of the disease. "If you can find patients early, and keep them in the early stages of development, that's as close to a cure as we can get," he said. The study will look at the effect creatine has on the disease. "I don't want people to go out and start taking creatine for their Parkinson's disease," Goudreau said.
Her friends call her an inspiration to the Hispanic community. "Every day, she is doing something to help someone," Maria Theresa Penman said.
I am a huge fan of displaying diversity and different cultures of the world in a university setting.