Rick Comley doesn't claim to be a soothsayer, but he made a prediction Saturday night: The MSU hockey team is in big trouble. After the Spartans dropped a lackluster 4-2 decision to Northern Michigan on Saturday, the MSU head coach said he doubts his team can still get an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. "I couldn't imagine (getting in) now unless we win the CCHA Tournament," Comley said.
Grapplers win 1 of 2 The MSU wrestling team closed out the Big Ten portion of its schedule with a split of two road matches. The No.
State Rep. proposes changing distribution of public school funds State Rep. Mike Pumford, R-Newaygo, proposed what he calls a more fair distribution of cuts to public schools than Gov.
ASMSU is putting the pressure on student groups to remind them that pies are for eating, not throwing.MSU's undergraduate student government has been discussing harassment toward professors and might initiate a proposal to condemn such actions.Statistics and probability Associate Professor Vincent Melfi was hit with a cream pie-like object as he was lecturing to his Statistics 315 class on Nov.
Friends and colleagues of Brandon Mellema remember him as an intelligent and friendly teacher who always wore a smile across his face.As recently as last weekend, Mellema, a 22-year-old MSU graduate student, enjoying an evening in mathematics senior Amy Rutta's apartment playing cards and spending time with close friends.
Lansing - The sound of chess pieces hitting the game board was all that could be heard while players had looks of intense concentration on Saturday during a children's chess tournament. The players were as young as 5 years old.
Wesley Willis is 320 pounds of pure rock 'n' roll.Having rocked over London and in Chicago, tonight Willis will be rocking out Kalamazoo's Club Soda, 340 E.
Lansing - Lansing police officers say an apartment complex where three MSU students were held at gunpoint last week isn't drug-infested, but the area could pose a unique threat to residents.
Propelled by consumer demand for higher quality visual stimulation, the technology age has moved into the digital era.Music performance junior Craig Karlson, who switched to the DVD format more than three years ago, said size, price and special features have all helped put the DVD head and shoulders over VHS."Special features are the best thing that ever happened to watching home movies," he said.
Students have a new way to keep up-to-date with the MSU Residence Halls Association. RHA has developed a new, more interactive Web site to make it easier for students to get information, RHA technology director Nick Clark said. Clark said he has been working on the site since last summer, but it is now easier to use. The site sports the group's new logo and many Web forums. "The site that they had last year was really bad because it was just one page of text that didn't get changed, ever," Clark said.
Most of us Generation-Y kids grew up watching the untouchable and ever-so-alluring, Michael Jordan. We stared at the TV in awe and amazement as the 6-foot-6 guard would fly to elevated extremes and execute a never before seen dunk.
With Thursday's loss at Purdue, MSU is now in a do-or-die situation if it wants to make it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1997.
Viewers may flock to the TV sets like rabid dogs each time a new reality show comes out, but I have never been one of them.
More than 50 students came to hear actor Wes Studi speak on the parallels between the Iraqi people and Native Americans at the first annual North American Indian Student Organization conference this weekend.Four schools - the University of Michigan, Northern Michigan University, Lansing Community College and MSU - were represented at the two-day conference in the Union and attended workshops about leadership and affirmative action.The conference didn't draw as many people as the group had hoped, NAISO Co-Chairman Bryan Newland said."There wasn't as much as we were expecting, but I think the weather caused some problems," he said.
The female journalism sophomore diagnosed with a meningitis-like disease last month has been moved out of intensive care, a source close to the student said Sunday. The student, whose identity and condition are being withheld at her family's request, is recovering at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital, where she was previously in a medically-induced coma. Hospital officials confirmed the student is still in the hospital's care. The student will undergo rehabilitation at the hospital and doctors are not certain when she will be released, the source said. The student, who is a resident of the ninth floor of South Hubbard Hall, was diagnosed with meningococcemia on Jan.
I am so sick of uneducated people saying things about affirmative action, especially white females, because they are covered under this policy as well ("U-M policy doesn't award for hardship," SN 2/20). I would like to give you the basics on what affirmative action is.
Lansing police officers say the area where three MSU students were assaulted last week is not drug infested, but say the area poses a unique threat to residents. Police said intruders may have mistaken the students' apartment for a nearby residence where a drug bust occurred about two months earlier. "People from time to time move into an apartment and they sell a few drugs out of it and they move on," Lansing police Lt.
Bath Twp. - When Kenya Harvey returned home from work early Saturday, she said a \"burned black mannequin head with a knife in it\" awaited in a tree outside her apartment. Earlier that morning, before leaving for work, the telecommunication junior heard people outside her Village at Chandler Crossings apartment chanting, \"burn, baby, burn.\" Bath Township police could not be reached for comment on Saturday. Later that day, community leaders and students met at Crossings, 3839 Hunsaker St.
Despite a valiant career performance from sophomore guard Chris Hill, MSU dropped a much-needed nonconference matchup against No.