The celebration of a CCHA playoff championship stopped last Sunday when the Spartans huddled inside of Reno's East Side Sportsbar & Grill, 1310 Abbott Road, to watch as they were awarded a No.
This offseason will be different from past ones for the MSU men's basketball team, as MSU head coach Tom Izzo plans to go back to the ways that sent his teams to three straight Final Fours. Eliminated in the first round of the NCAA Tournament by George Mason, Izzo promised to get his team tougher at his year-end news conference held Tuesday. "We didn't have the season we wanted to have," Izzo said.
By: Matt Bishop, Tom Keller, and Ethan Conley The State News No. 11 George Mason vs.
We all pay too much for college. Every year we have to give up more money because university officials tell us they are getting less funding from the Michigan Legislature. The truth is, everyone from students to lawmakers to the leaders of this university have a hand in how much we have to pay.
I think magazines are pulling for Ashlee Simpson. The thought came to me when I was scanning the magazine aisle in Target, and there she was on this month's Elle Magazine, airbrushed and sparkly, shooting me a stock "you want this" gaze.
After reports predicted that by 2020, 100 million deaths will be caused by AIDS, some MSU students want to bring the issue closer to home. The Multi-Racial Unity Living Experience, a student program contributing to positive race relations through discussions and activities, will be hosting No Place to Hide: Student Activism and the Fight Against the Global Aids Pandemic at the Union on Friday and Saturday. The conference, which focuses on raising awareness about current and future issues, will feature local, national and international HIV and AIDS activists, authors and speakers. Keynote speakers will include Pat Naidoo, the associate director of Health Equity of the Rockefeller Foundation, author Greg Behrman and Anne-Christine D'Adesky, co-producer of the documentary "Pills, Profits and Protest." In March 2005, the Multi-Racial Unity Living Experience, viewed the AIDS documentary "A Closer Walk" and was motivated to bring the HIV and AIDS issue to MSU's campus, education senior Amy Yousif said. "It's not just in Africa; it's not just a gay disease — it's an everyone disease," Yousif said.
MSU police replaced the old green 2002 Dodge Dakotas used for parking enforcement with six new silver 2006 Dodge Dakotas this semester. The change has angered some students, who say they don't understand why replacing the trucks was necessary. "It seems that for as much as every student spends on parking tickets, I'd hope the department would spend the money better than on replacing trucks that were only 5 years old," animal science senior Faye Vanderhoff said. Vanderhoff said she questions why MSU police even use trucks, rather than other means of transportation, for parking enforcement. "All they do is hop in and out of them and write tickets," Vanderhoff said.
After an MSU hockey win in January, a team of youth hockey players, no older than 13, huddled together outside of the Munn Ice Arena locker room area in hopes of getting autographs from some of their favorite Spartans players. As a player passed through the team, one of the kids politely asked which player he was before signing his name across some souvenir memorabilia. The player smiled and answered, "Bryan Lerg." He was met with the excited reply, "Oh, the goalie's cousin." Here was Bryan Lerg, who's been with MSU for a year and a half — currently second on the team in scoring — being overshadowed by his cousin, freshman goaltender Jeff Lerg.
I'm sure you're still bitter about the men's basketball team's first-round exit from the NCAA Tournament.
When Elias Lopez received a handmade gray scarf in 2001, the Weslaco, Texas, native didn't even know how to wear it. The scarf came as a gift from Patricia Patrick, who worked in the MSU Office of Supportive Services.
Head to Jenison Field House at 6 p.m. Saturday as the MSU gymnastics team hosts the Big Ten Championships.
A 21-year-old East Lansing man was robbed at gunpoint in the 300 block alley of Charles Street at about 10 p.m.
It doesn't matter if it's a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior getting the job done for the Spartans because each of the classes for the MSU hockey team have stepped up at various times in the season. "The strength of this team is the balance and the depth," MSU head coach Rick Comley said.
There's no better way for a senior to end her college career than with an exceptional string of performances in her final postseason, and Liz Shimek is proving to be a prime example. Between the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA Tournament, the senior forward has been playing the best basketball of her career.
I'm appalled that protesters, "Locals protest 3 years of Iraq war" (SN 3/20), chose to demonstrate in front of the military recruiting center in Lansing. The protesters failed to portray a meaningful message.
In his letter, "Columnist promotes different racism form" (SN 3/22), Steve Sutton asserts that the state does not have the "right" to treat people differently based on race. This is simply not true. For nearly 30 years the U.S.
I was writing in regard to what I have been reading online from The State News about the men's basketball team.
If you wrote down what you ate for a week, what would your list look like? Would it include organic fruits and vegetables, or mostly soda pop and take-out?
It's been more than 50 years since the civil rights movement began, but it's clear discrimination still exists. Even at MSU. Racial and homophobic messages were written on dry-erase boards in north and south campus areas. In the Hubbard Hall cafeteria, a white student was overheard making racial comments to a group of black students. Members of the Department of Residence Life met with different residence halls last week in an effort to educate students about these incidents and about MSU's anti-harassment policy.
Robert Phipps knows his shopping center is in need of some cleanup. Since buying Brookfield Plaza, located on the east end of East Lansing off Grand River Avenue, Phipps has spent the last seven years sprucing it up. "It still looks ugly in my mind — the center — and it looks 100 percent better than when I bought it," he said. Phipps has renovated much of the interior space in the complex and plans to invest in exterior redevelopments next. But the biggest mess that hasn't been dealt with isn't in the storefronts or the parking lot.