The 12-game 2007 MSU football schedule, which includes seven home games, was unveiled Tuesday. MSU opens the season with three consecutive home games.
MSU organizations and the city of East Lansing are baiting students to do community service with the reward of a free concert by a mystery artist. After approximately a year and more than 100 hours of planning, ASMSU, the Residence Halls Association, MSU and the city will sponsor the Volunteer To Rock concert on April 11 at Wharton Center. The concert will be a reward for students who perform 10 hours of community service. "Everyone thinks MSU is a party school but no one realizes that more than 10,000 students do community service and this would be a great way to celebrate community service," said Cynthia Chang, ASMSU's assistant director of governmental affairs for the city.
Four players from the MSU women's basketball team earned All-Big Ten status as announced by the conference Tuesday. Freshman center Allyssa DeHaan led the way for MSU, earning Freshman of the Year honors and being named second-team All-Big Ten.
Editor's note: Phillip Pappas and Brandon Larvadain were first profiled in The State News on Dec.
When I hear the word assimilation, I shudder inside. To me, assimilation is the death of heritage and background.
The minutes for one of ASMSU's most important meetings held this year have gone missing. During the Feb.
Former MSU President M. Peter McPherson will be named chairman of the board of Dow Jones & Co. on April 18, according to Editor & Publisher.
MSU women's basketball head coach Joanne P. McCallie is glad there is now a sense of urgency with the Big Ten Tournament in sight. The Spartans struggled through the last two games of the season, losing to Illinois, then having trouble winning against Minnesota. "It's great to get results, but you really want to play your best basketball," McCallie said about the Minnesota game Monday in her weekly press conference.
One MSU fraternity house has been sold and another is up for grabs. The MSU chapters of Delta Upsilon and Beta Theta Pi became inactive during the past year, and the chapter houses went vacant as a result.
Beginning Monday, avoid Hagadorn Road near MSU's campus. If you don't, you'll face a detour. Hagadorn Road will be closed from East Grand River Avenue to East Shaw Lane until mid-August, while the Ingham County Road Commission constructs a new bridge across the Red Cedar River. The $2.3 million project involves turning the four-lane, 90-foot bridge into a six-lane, 117-foot bridge by the end of the summer.
East Lansing residents are learning new ways to put their table scraps to use. Educational programs run by Urban Options, 405 Grove St., and Ingham County MSU Extension are spreading the word about composting. With the correct information, residents can improve their soil quality and cut back on the amount of waste sent to landfills.
By most accounts, MSU already has secured a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The Spartans put a "signature win" on their résumé by beating then-No.
Lansing — One of the men charged with the 1973 murder of an MSU student said he couldn't recall the stabbing in an hour-long taped interview shown to a jury Monday at Lansing's 30th Judicial Circuit Court. "I just don't remember," Gary Mason is shown saying in the interview, replying to a detective's questions.
As spring break draws nearer, many students will be thinking about renting cars for the vacation. But before putting the pedal to the metal, there are some things about getting behind the wheel of a rental car that drivers should know. David Nowaczyk, branch manager of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co., 2311 E.
Clawing through a sea of bubbles as techno music blasted through the air, advertising senior Sheila Orosey searched desperately for her broken sandal at a Disco Beach foam party in Acapulco, Mexico, last year. "It's just foam everywhere, and you can't see," Orosey said.
By fall, Lyman Briggs School could become a college — just in time for its 40th anniversary. Students within the school hope the Executive Committee of Academic Council focuses its discussion at today's meeting on how the proposed change will affect students. It is the first time the issue will be discussed within the university's Academic Governance system. Melissa Elafros, a Lyman Briggs junior majoring in human biology and Spanish, said the school deserves to become a college because it is on the same level as other living and learning institutions on campus — all of which are colleges. "Michigan State has James Madison, which is a college, and now we have a college in arts and humanities," she said, referring to the new residential college in the arts and humanities set to open this fall.
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa will speak at 8 p.m. today at Kellogg Center Auditorium. The event is free to MSU students and residents. Vargas Llosa's novels have earned him recognition as one of Latin America's most prominent writers.
Profootballtalk.com's "The Rumor Mill" reported Sunday afternoon that several NFL teams are now considering former MSU quarterback Drew Stanton to have moved ahead of Notre Dame's Brady Quinn based on performances at the league's annual combine in Indianapolis. The Web site cites good team interviews and overall intangibles for Stanton's jump as well as Quinn's questionable ability to play on the big stage. In four years at MSU, Stanton built a career that includes back-to-back team MVP honors and the best completion percentage in Spartans history (.642).