When our basketball coaches e-mailed the students to behave responsibly this past weekend, I think they forgot to send a copy to the police officers of East Lansing.
Thousands of MSU students and fans charged East Lansing streets late Saturday night after MSU's loss to North Carolina in the Final Four round of the NCAA Tournament in St.
St. Louis - As MSU senior swingman Alan Anderson left the court on Saturday for the final time as a college player, North Carolina coach Roy Williams grabbed him aside. It was the biggest game of his career and Anderson sat much of the second half with a knee injury as he was held scoreless in a painful Final Four loss to the Tar Heels, 87-71. "I grabbed him at the end and said, 'Don't make this let you lose sight of what a great year you've had,'" Williams said. Anderson missed two days of practice trying to rest his knee and said it felt good before the game. And although the Spartans (26-7) transformed from a team that lost in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament to a squad that beat NO.
As this weekend's Final Four basketball games draw near, MSU and East Lansing officials want to get one message across - celebrate responsibly.
The No. 1 seed MSU women's basketball team out of the Kansas City Regional will face No. 1 seed Tennessee out of the Philadelphia Regional. Tennessee (30-4) is making its 16th appearance in the Final Four, as the Spartans (32-3) are making their first ever. Along with their 16th appearance, head coach Pat Summitt recently became the winningest coach in NCAA Division 1A history, passing none other than former North Carolina coach Dean Smith.
It is great to see that The State News is excited about the issues that ASMSU is facing and what ASMSU is doing to affect the student body today and in the future.
No. 5 seed MSU (26-6) Coach: Tom Izzo Leading scorers: guard Maurice Ager (13.8 points per game), swingman Alan Anderson (13.7 ppg) and center Paul Davis (12.2 ppg). It's been a mini-Cinderella run for the Spartans, as they have unexpectedly made it to the Final Four. After overcoming the No.
All I can say right now is - who'd have thunk? Both the men's and women's teams in the Final Four together - Wow! I remember going to the men's Final Four in 2000, when I was a senior in high school, and how exciting it was to watch my team cut down the nets and host the crystal basketball. Spartans fans must be on top of cloud nine right now, thinking about what could be. After 2000, I came to MSU my freshman year with great expectations for the men's team and watched as they made it to its third-straight Final Four.
First and foremost, congrats to both the men and the women on making the Final Four. It is an outstanding achievement for both the men's and women's team, and I know the entire campus is beaming with pride; a pride you can honestly feel and see with all the Michigan State memorabilia worn across campus.
Envision a stage littered with sand and actors dressed in tie-dyed T-shirts - it's a far call from the more obvious picture which comes to mind when thinking about a Shakespearean play. But that's exactly what audiences will get when they go to see the BoarsHead Theatre rendition of William Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." Co-director Geoffrey Sherman said he and his partner Diana Van Fossen chose to set the play in modern Greece because the contemporary setting makes it easier for the audience to understand. "You look for a modern parallel of the story that's being told," Sherman said.
Despite efforts to increase student interest, voter turnout for this year's ASMSU election was once again disappointing.
Detroit has Hockeytown. Could East Lansing be the home of the nation's best basketball? MSU's two teams combined have won 58 games and only experienced the pain of losing nine times.
When students set their clocks forward an hour for daylight-saving time this Sunday at 2 a.m., there are health, safety and practical issues they should be thinking of too, experts say. Although an hour is lost with the change, daylight-saving time is meant to help people, Bill Mosley, spokesman for the U.S.
I am writing on behalf of all the Izzone members who will be driving down to St. Louis this weekend - especially on behalf of those who faithfully sacrificed time and class Sunday night and Monday morning while waiting in line for Final Four tickets at the Union. We all received great news in our inboxes Wednesday afternoon.
Students, faculty and administrators gathered at the library Thursday during the state's second annual day to honor the legacy of Cesar Chavez. Chavez is best remembered for his role in organizing the National Farm Workers Association, which would later become the United Farm Workers.
Corinne DeVries Special for The State News Every day, fisheries and wildlife sophomore Mark Williams studies in what is popularly known as "the polar bear room," a student lounge in the Natural Resources Building.
Now that both the MSU men's and women's basketball teams have advanced to the Final Four, the MSU Dairy Store has found its own way to commemorate the event. A new flavor of ice cream, Final Four Fudge Dribble - a mixture of vanilla ice cream, fudge swirl and chocolate malted milk balls, which are supposed to look like basketballs - is being introduced today, said John Engstrom, dairy plant manager. "I tried to find basketball (candy), but I couldn't find any in that short of time," Engstrom said.
Staff of the East Lansing Film Festival, which is set to hit campus this weekend, said the event will be made possible by a large supporting cast - including many members of the MSU community. The festival, which brought about 8,000 people from across the country to the MSU campus last year, will show dozens of independent, foreign and student-made movies in Wells Hall, which has been its primary theater since 1998. "It's really become a destination point for a lot of people," said Susan Woods, director of the festival.
Not only is the men's basketball team splashed across multiple pages in The State News, the boys are seen giving Tom Izzo noogies after the Kentucky game, proudly wearing their Final Four T-shirts after the buzzer sounds and holding up their precious string from the basketball net all across newspapers and screens around the country.