The sounds of laughter and joyous singing mixed with the footsteps of students dancing in celebration of Simchat Torah. The festivities took place in the basement of the Hillel Jewish Student Center Thursday night.
Senior forward Ash Goldie had a goal and two assists and senior forward Kevin Estrada had a goal and an assist to lead the MSU hockey team to a 7-2 victory over Toronto on Sunday at Munn Ice Arena. "Tonight, I thought two of our better forwards were Goldie and Estrada," MSU head coach Rick Comley said.
MSU fans saw something old and something new in a 38-25 victory over Illinois on Saturday. The old - the Spartans (3-3 overall, 2-1 Big Ten) beat the Fighting Illini (2-4, 0-3) for the eighth straight time, going back to 1995. The new - sophomore quarterback Drew Stanton threw his first career touchdown pass and then threw two more. "We played a really good game and made some plays today," Stanton said.
This year marks the 19th annual Looking Glass Music and Dance Festival, which will be held this weekend at MacDonald Middle School on the corner of Hagadorn and Burcham roads.
The Residence Halls Association considered expanding its agenda to include the Student Greenhouse Project at a Committee on Internal Affairs meeting Friday. The new section of the agenda would allow for RHA-sponsored groups to give reports to the association during meetings. "If groups we support have complaints, this is also where we could talk about them," Committee Chairman Thomas Edwards said.
The creation of the MSU LBGT Students of Color Scholarship becomes all the more meaningful when put in context. The scholarship was the product of one student - LaJoya Johnson - standing up to address a real need. A person who is both a racial ethnic minority and lesbian, bisexual, gay or transgender faces discrimination from two fronts.
The MSU women's soccer team lost its fourth consecutive game against Purdue on Sunday. The 1-0 loss moved MSU to 8-6-1 and 2-5-1 in the Big Ten, while Purdue improved to 7-6 and 3-4 in the Big Ten.
A stranger to Odessa, Texas, might think every young man in the small town is a war hero. The 17 year olds there - most with buzz cuts, all of them clean-shaven - are hailed by the local townsfolk wherever they go. Most of the boys respond to their celebrity in that distant, uninterested way, like a returning soldier who refuses to relive his battles by talking about them.
By Gabrielle Russon Special for The State News Covered wagons, hoop dresses and Union soldiers were scattered around the parking lot at the Michigan Library and Historical Center in Lansing on Saturday. The event, which commemorated Civil War history, was part of the Civil War Saturday festivities for Family History Month. During Civil War Saturday, reenactors displayed weapons used in battle and gave firing demonstrations.
Calling out to the governor and reading women's prison numbers, members of the Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project rallied at the Capitol steps Friday on behalf of women behind bars. The Ann Arbor-based project's goal is for Gov.
With nearly 4 million books in MSU's Main Library, fitting all of them and seating students can be difficult, said Director of Libraries Clifford Haka.
A win at the Adams Cup of Newport helped the MSU men's golf team make its first appearance in the GCAA/Precept Coaches Poll at No.
I don't understand why everyone has to be so faithful. OK, wait, let me rephrase that: I don't understand why everyone has to be so faithful for the sake of being faithful. For the past few years, the debates between Republican and Democrat voters have been cheapened and stooped to ridiculously low levels - it makes me cringe. "Tell me this," Bill Maher said on a recent episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" to a Republican CNN correspondent . "If you truly support your party, then you can explain to me - If you were president, would you have stayed entertaining elementary children for nearly seven minutes while you knew your country was under attack?" As irrelevant as the question was, since it had nothing to do with Republican values or ideals concerning this upcoming election, the correspondent decided to take the popular route and support Bush's choice. Why?
On Saturday, millions of Afghan citizens bravely defied the threat of physical harm and death to do for the first time what we here in America have come to take for granted. They voted. When, despite threats of Taliban violence, Afghan men and women stepped out to the polls by the hundreds to participate in the country's first presidential election, democracy took a step forward.
Police found the body of a woman in her mid-20s in a Cedar Village apartment on Sunday morning, East Lansing police Sgt.
National Coming Out Days are a weeklong celebration for MSU students to proudly celebrate who they are.
The third annual MSU Housing Fair will take place 1 p.m. Oct. 21 on the second floor of the Union.
Students expressed concern about how tailgate restrictions on drinking games and overcrowding at the Wilson tennis courts will be enforced. Concerned students spoke at a South Complex forum on Thursday to vent their frustrations and give suggestions to student leaders. The current ban includes beer bongs, roulette wheels, boards or tables to set up a table-top tennis game called "beer pong" and other accessories for drinking games.
The trick play called for receiver Jerramy Scott to pass to quarterback Drew Stanton, and the defense was so fooled, both players knew there would be no excuse for failure. Scott, with the football in hand, after receiving a pitch from Stanton, saw his sophomore quarterback streaking toward the end zone, wide open.
Many people know Shakespearean plays have successfully been set in places such as Britain, Denmark and Italy - but who would've thought in the Caribbean? For the same reasons people loved the creativity of last year's MSU Department of Theatre production "Lysistrata," people will love this year's "Twelfth Night." The production opened at Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre on Thursday with a beautiful purple-hued backdrop against black, cutout palm trees - the unique and eye-catching setting looked as if it were to house any story besides one from the 1600s. The story begins with a shipwreck off the coast of an unknown Caribbean island.