The men’s tennis team upset No. 57 Iowa 4-3 Saturday at the Indoor Tennis Facility. The Spartans (14-9 overall, 2-6 Big Ten) won the doubles point to start the match after juniors Adam Hourani and Jimmy McGuire took the No.
The MSU football team concluded spring practice Saturday with its Green and White spring game at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building. “This has been a very positive spring practice for us,” MSU head coach Bobby Williams said.
Students living on campus next fall will be hit with one of the steepest rate hikes in recent memory, the MSU Board of Trustees decided at its Friday meeting. The board approved a 5.4 percent increase in residence hall room and board, and a 6 percent increase for living in University Apartments. The increase is one of the largest approved by university officials in the last 11 years.
The national headquarters of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity should heed Friday’s request of its MSU branch to review the chapter’s membership.
I consider myself to be the epitome of a female hip-hop chick. Some days you’ll find me dressed in my knee-high boots, fishnet stockings and bluejean minis.
Okemos - It wasn’t unusual to see a Porsche and a BMW parked inside Williams Auto World. But the hanging banners showcasing a man riding an elephant, a hot-air balloon floating by a mountain and other traveling sites and the buffet lines were certainly out of the ordinary for the Okemos auto dealership, 2186 Jolly Road. The dealership’s altered state provided the ambiance Saturday for the Junior League of Lansing’s fund-raising dinner. The night included food provided by restaurants such as Troppo, Beggar’s Banquet and Coral Gables, a live auction and dancing. The event normally is held in November to raise money to support the organization’s goals of community, volunteerism and increasing the role of women, but the date was changed this year. Junior League members still expected 500 guests, each paying $45, despite the change, league President Kim Hartman said. “This year we decided we would try a different venue and a different time, for a change of pace,” she said. Lansing resident Alex Dimmig said he attended because of his girlfriend but supported the group. “I like the whole idea,” he said. The auction, with auctioneer MSU women’s basketball coach Joanne P.
“Halo halo” is the name of a popular Filipino dessert of fruits, nuts and other items.
MSU officials and the Graduate Employees Union have continued to sign tentative agreements as they approach their target date for completing negotiations. University and union officials signed an agreement Wednesday to commit April 22 as the deadline.
Okemos - Campus athletes, MSU alumnus Dr. Graham Kelly wants you to wear tighter socks. Not a smaller-sized sock, but a pair of the Lansing physician’s new G Fit Oxysox.
The anti-gay actions of the members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity are a disgusting reminder of the moronic anti-social behavior that is all too common in the MSU greek system.
The Spartan hurlers pitched well enough to win, but their batters couldn’t get it done. The MSU softball team (20-25 overall, 3-7 Big Ten) dropped both games of a Sunday doubleheader at Old College Field to Minnesota by a combined score of 5-0.
The Spartans rallied Sunday to salvage a weekend series split with Big Ten leader Indiana at Kobs Field.MSU (22-8 overall, 6-5 Big Ten) started slow Sunday, but outlasted Indiana 10-6.
Athletes are using a new tool to help them run faster and jump farther.They’re buying MSU alumnus and Lansing physician Dr. Graham Kelly’s G Fit Oxysox, a sock designed to increase blood circulation in the feet.The idea has been used by physicians for some time in treating patients with poor circulation or for rehabilitation after injuries, but Kelly’s socks have become quite popular among the general public as well as the athletic world.The Detroit Lions, Pistons, Red Wings and Kansas City Chiefs have all bought the socks and the NHL has looked into making them the official socks of the league, sock spokesman Bill Kennis said.And Kennis said they’re still pursuing others, including Michael Jordan.“You know Michael’s out now,” he said.
The MSU baseball team dropped both ends of a home-field double-header to conference-leading Indiana on Saturday. The Spartans (21-8 overall, 5-5 Big Ten) dropped their first game 1-0 at Kobs Field and the lost the second 8-4.
An MSU student was injured in a car accident today that shut down the stretch of West Circle Drive near the Main Library for the better part of two hours. The student was transported to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, where she’s being treated for minor injuries, East Lansing fire officials said. The accident took place about 2 p.m., when the student’s car, a Ford Escort, collided with a Honda Accord near the entrance to the library.
Though Spartans usually have a lot to be proud of, MSU’s low percentage of tenured minority faculty is not one part of that group.
Why is there a tendency for members of the greek system to turn articles written about greek incidents into an anti-greek issues (“Article portrayed greeks negatively,” SN 4/11)? Stop trying to portray yourselves as the victims.
Due to the unfortunate circumstances of my education, it is necessary that I wake up at 4 a.m., six days a week.
Everyone’s known someone who, at some point or another, has said the words we all know they’ll give up on.
Judy O’Brien remembers her days at MSU in the early 1970s when she and more than 300 other education majors were corralled into the Erickson Hall Kiva for classes. With 30 years of teaching elementary school behind her, the MSU instructor says she enjoys nothing more than teaching. “There is no better profession - I have been absolutely thrilled,” she said.