It was a game of season highs for the MSU baseball team, as the Spartans successfully swung the bat for a season-high 26 hits and scored a season-high 20 runs in a 20-9 win over Saginaw Valley State on Tuesday at Kobs Field. "I think we're confident now," MSU head coach Ted Mahan said.
Congratulations are in order for the student groups that have campaigned diligently for almost five years in an attempt to get MSU to join the Worker Rights Consortium.
I see that Lee June has made statements to The State News about this past weekend's riot-turned-civil disturbance.
MSU's Pride Week begins Thursday with a series of events that organizers say will celebrate and educate the campus community about lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender identities. The week-long event is put on each year by various student groups and university office staff, who organize the demonstrations and projects.
The Rat Pack. Just the name itself exudes cool. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford were in their heyday more than 40 years ago, but their class and demeanor is rare these days.
ASMSU held the first meeting of its new session of Academic Assembly on Tuesday night and voted for a new cabinet to chair its meetings. Members of MSU's undergraduate student government elected a new chairperson, internal vice chairperson and external vice chairperson. Only nine representatives were present at the meeting to decide on the chairpersons who will spend the next year handling affairs for the organization and acting as liaisons between the assembly and university officials.
I woke up Monday morning and in my groggy state, tried to remember what I scheduled to do that day. Class?
For 19-year-old marketing freshman Travis Eichten, the second day in court on Tuesday brought testimony from witnesses and cross-examination of the accuser. Eichten is accused of raping an Emmons Hall floormate and is facing 15 years in prison. About eight people took the stand Tuesday including friends, an Olin Health Center nurse, an MSU police officer and a detective. The woman, a 19-year-old general business administration and pre-law freshman, also was cross-examined for about an hour and 15 minutes Tuesday. The trial addresses a Sept.
This is the first year communication senior Kristi Buckham has filed her taxes on her own. As the April 15 tax filing deadline approaches, local tax preparers are getting the word out about the number of resources available to filers, including local tax-preparation services, resources and Web sites devoted to do-it-yourself filing. And, like Buckham, many college students will file as independents for the first time. Buckham said she used an online tax preparation site because it was simple to use and inexpensive.
When I first read the news of the pope's death on an away message Saturday, I immediately felt a sense of loss and relief.
His face covered with blood, Nik Vuljaj struggled with his opponent for 20 seconds. Pinning his adversary to the ground, his eyes were full of tears, and the clock stopped.
Students craving a Slurpee won't be able to fill up at the 7-Eleven on Michigan Avenue anymore. Store employees confirmed that the building will become a different store after closing today. "It's just not a profitable location for us anymore," Manager Martin Block said. The 7-Eleven, 210 Michigan Ave., is one of four in East Lansing.
Residence hall room and board rates and University Apartments rates could increase 5.25 percent next year. The rate increase will be up for approval Friday at the MSU Board of Trustees meeting and would raise rates by $286 per year in the residence halls and either $29 or $32 per month in University Apartments', depending on the number of bedrooms.
Quoted from page 2A of The State News from April 4: "Large groups of people gathering in the roads and on sidewalks is illegal, police said" ("Police, student actions disputed"). I will confess that my knowledge of the law is limited to what I've read in, well, the U.S.
Student government officials say a lack of effective communication caused incorrect election results to be released last month.
They vary from being dependent on their parents, like most, to what some call engaging in reckless ignorance.
Seven months after 19-year-old Travis Eichten was accused of raping his Emmons Hall floormate, the marketing freshman appeared in court Monday to face charges that could earn him up to 15 years in prison. The trial addresses a Sept.
My parrot is better than your honor student. That's a weird bumper sticker to have on that beat-up 1980s Ford truck, I thought while driving down the center of Interstate 69 in Indiana. As I peered into the driver's seat, expecting a guy in Army gear and a NASCAR hat, I couldn't believe my eyes.
After the police made 43 arrests and teargassed thousands of people on Saturday, ASMSU leaders said the law enforcement's riot-prevention tactics were uncalled for. Student Assembly Chairperson Andrew Schepers said he was not in East Lansing at the time of the celebration uproar, but information provided to him by staff suggested that students were celebrating in a nonviolent manner. "From all the information given to me, it sounds like the police were setup to stir something up," he said.
Indianapolis - The No. 1 MSU women's basketball team wasn't playing with feeling in the first half of Sunday's 68-64 national semifinal win over Tennessee. Down by six points at halftime, MSU head coach Joanne P.