The best part about the story is its happy ending. Earlier this week, Emily Kohl, a former MSU novice women's rowing coach, and her friend Sarah Kessans were racing their way into the history books by rowing across the Atlantic Ocean.
The MSU football team added an in-state pass rusher when Jonathan Misch, of Orchard Lake St. Mary's Preparatory, verbally committed to the Spartans on Monday morning. Misch, who flew under the recruiting radar, is undersized for a defensive end at 6-foot-3 and 195 pounds, but he compensates with a high energy level and great potential. "I have a high motor," he said.
An undeniable enthusiasm for art seems to make studio art and art education senior Ashley Snyder perk up like a strong cup of espresso.
Mark Zupan vividly remembers the night of the accident — at least until it happened. Following his Florida Atlantic University soccer game, Zupan went out to the bar with his friends.
Ingham County is beginning a search for a new County Controller. The Ingham County Board of Commissioners has invited public feedback in its search, and will hold a public meeting today from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
About 20 students who just arrived on campus this week posed for a photo with MSU President Lou Anna K.
Some students choose to travel and learn a foreign language, but those entering a new residential college in fall 2007 won't have a choice. The college aims to prepare students for a global experience in the arts and humanities through language, travel and community service, according to a summary released at Friday's MSU Board of Trustees meeting. And with that experience comes new requirements not found in most residential colleges. "This actually looks more like the arts and humanities program in a small liberal arts college," said June Youatt, assistant provost for undergraduate education and dean of undergraduate studies.
An information session for a New Orleans relief project will be held at 5 p.m. today in the Erickson Hall Kiva. The project is scheduled to take place for three to four weeks this summer.
Scrapbooking supplies are everywhere, cutting and pasting themselves into the aisles of large retail chains.
A reception will be held to honor former East Lansing Councilmember Bill Sharp this Sunday at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road. The reception runs from 3-5 p.m.
What is the point of giving MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon an $85,000 raise if she is going to give it back to MSU?
As an MSU senior that listens to WDBM (88.9-FM), or the Impact, quite often, I would like to voice my opinion in response to Ryan McCormick's column "Local radio needs diversity" (SN 1/12) about the music on the radio in Lansing.
"Alone in the Dark" tells the story of a paranormal detective's quest to discover the truth about himself.
The MSU Board of Trustees makes a lot of huge decisions. And it seems to make a lot of these important decisions behind closed doors. The board, of course, always announces its decisions in public, sitting down to a lengthy meeting in which it praises and thanks each member and President Lou Anna K.
Your guide for what to do in and around East Lansing ARTS Friday: Deadline for the East Lansing Art Festival's Emerging Artists program.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a plagiarist, an adulterer, socialist and power-hungry blasphemer, which I only mention because he claimed to be a reverend. Some deny the charges, others say that it doesn't matter whether they are true or not because the movement he led was so great that we should ignore his personal failings.
With a flurry of color, music and dancing animals, Disney's "The Lion King" will parade — literally — into the Wharton Center tonight beginning a nearly seven-week engagement. Wharton, which has continental seating, or no center aisle, required an alteration for the cast to make its grand entrance into the theater.
Man's best friend has learned a new trick — detecting cancer. Researchers at the Pine Street Foundation in California found a dog's scenting ability detects lung and breast cancer, said Nicholas Broffman, executive director of the foundation.
Seven minute abs, seven minutes in heaven, seven minutes — seven minutes to eat an entire meal, including dessert.