As the chilly, drizzly late-fall weather settles upon East Lansing, local law enforcement officers say they're anticipating weekend activity to calm down and move indoors. "It's been pretty quiet this fall, and it tends to naturally get quieter when it gets colder out and football is winding down," East Lansing police Capt.
According to faculty, friends and family, MSU President M. Peter McPherson will be remembered as a forward-thinking, dedicated and tireless leader - a president who advanced MSU's international presence and propelled the university into the future. McPherson's accomplishments and character traits were discussed on Friday, when about 50 people attended a reception for the university's 19th president.
Evanston, Ill. - The No. 5 MSU field hockey team earned a hard fought 2-1 victory over Indiana on Friday afternoon in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. The Spartans (16-2 overall, 6-1 Big Ten) fell behind early after the Hoosiers (12-8, 1-6) got on the board first, a rocket of a shot from right in front of the goal by Morgan Miller, just over five minutes into the game. "I thought Indiana played really well," MSU head coach Michele Madison said.
Big Rapids - The MSU offense came to play Saturday night as the Spartans decimated Ferris State, 5-1, at Ewigleben Ice Arena. Junior forward Colton Fretter continued his hot play, scoring two goals and adding an assist.
The MSU football team got off to a slow start on Saturday at Spartan Stadium and couldn't complete the comeback in a 32-19 loss to Ohio State. The Buckeyes (6-3 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) jumped out to an early 7-0 lead.
Evanston, Ill. - The No. 5 MSU field hockey team suffered a heartbreaking 1-0 overtime loss to No.
A fast start and a backbreaking late second period goal led the MSU hockey team (3-4-0, 2-3-0 CCHA) to a 4-2 win over Ferris State (2-7-0, 1-4-0) Friday in front of 5, 217 fans at Munn Ice Arena.
One of the things I've come to love about East Lansing is that it manages a small-town feel while cramming so many people into such a limited space.
Ingham County was a disaster Thursday. A woman was left paralyzed when debris from an exploding building crushed her car.
With 18,086 people voting in East Lansing, city officials reported few problems on Election Day after months of preparations.
The No. 5 MSU field hockey team has experienced a little bit of everything this season. The team has an NCAA goal-scoring leader, lost only two games, both decided in overtime, and now will go after its third consecutive Big Ten Tournament Championship. The Spartans (15-2 overall, 5-1 Big Ten) ended in a three-way tie with No.
Michigan should be ashamed to have passed Proposal 2 into law. On Tuesday, our state and 11 others wrote hatred and discrimination into the very core of their state constitutions. We at The State News are appalled, but not necessarily surprised. Voting yes on Proposal 2 wouldn't have forced the hand of any religion - churches would have been free to marry or not marry whomever they pleased.
Jaren Hayes is an emotional player who takes pride in his performance. So it only makes sense that he was down on himself after the MSU football team lost to the Michigan last week. Hayes, a junior cornerback, was covering U-M's Braylon Edwards, who caught three touchdowns in the fourth quarter and overtime in MSU's 45-37 triple-overtime loss to U-M.
The standards that police officers are using to give MIP tickets are becoming too broad. The fact that officers are allowed to consider your body as a container when giving an MIP is unnecessary.
A lot has happened in the last three weeks when we didn't print a Heisman Trophy race update. Just like it does every season, only the best players on the best teams are still in the running to win the most coveted trophy in college football. And many people believe that might be true freshman and Oklahoma running back Adrian Peterson jumping on the bandwagon.
The MSU men's soccer team will wrap up its regular season at 3 p.m. today against Valparaiso at Old College Field. The Spartans (8-6-1 overall, 2-4 Big Ten) were winless in their last three games and are trying to gain some momentum heading into the Big Ten Tournament. "This Valparaiso game is huge," head coach Joe Baum said.
If the team coming to play MSU this weekend wasn't named Ohio State, expectations might be different.
ASMSU finalized funding for its annual retreat this year, but the process has some members concerned with how closely representatives look at the bills they pass. "It concerns me a lot," said Patricia Smith, Student Assembly internal vice chairperson, about funding for the retreat passing through both ASMSU assemblies without any debate on the money allocated. "They spent more time debating fishing than debating spending $4,000 on a retreat," she said, referring to Student Assembly's meeting last Thursday, when it defeated a bill to look at changing an ordinance that bans fishing on the Red Cedar River. Both ASMSU assemblies combined to allocate up to $5,450 for the retreat, which allows ASMSU representatives to work on team-building efforts and get acquainted with staff employees they might only see in meetings, Smith said. She added that Academic Assembly has already spent a large portion of its budget on the Associated Michigan Universities Conference held at MSU in September.
Democrat Joel Ferguson and Republican Melanie Foster won seats on the MSU Board of Trustees, with 25 percent and 24 percent of the vote respectively. With Ferguson keeping his post on the board and Foster coming back (she served in the early 1990s), we hope the new board secures a position as a liaison between the university and students. With so many crucial issues coming up, we can't overemphasize the importance of the communication between the two parties. The absence of Trustee Randall Pittman could mean the loss of a major force behind the plan to relocate MSU's medical school.
In the Preseason Coaches' Poll released Wednesday, the MSU women's basketball team was ranked No.