MARQUETTE - Even though the Spartans’ plane landed in this northern Michigan city late Thursday night, the top-ranked squad didn’t mentally arrive until the third period of Friday’s game.Two periods of uninspired play resulted in a 3-2 loss to Northern Michigan on Friday night, spoiling MSU’s previously unbeaten (9-0-2) road record.
MSU’s 72-55 win over Purdue on Sunday extended Division I’s longest home-court winning streak to 41.And as the last team to defeat No.
About 30 people gathered around the rock on Farm Lane Thursday night with candles blazing. Their purpose: To honor cancer survivors and the memories of friends and loved ones lost to cancer.
Sara Stid said she first fell in love with England when her son was studying there in the 1980s.So when the opportunity to return came along, she took it.Stid, an office assistant with the MSU Alumni Association, participated in Odyssey to Oxford last year.
The East Lansing City Council will discuss a project at its Tuesday meeting that will redesign the Fountain Square at the intersection of M.A.C.
MARQUETTE - MSU’s senior line led the top-ranked Spartans out of the hostile Berry Events Center with a series split Saturday night. Senior right wing John Nail scored two goals, with assists from linemates Sean Patchell and Andrew Bogle on both, giving MSU (22-3-4 overall, 15-3-3 CCHA) a 2-1 win over Northern Michigan. The Wildcats (12-9-7, 8-8-6) beat the Spartans 3-2 in Friday’s series opener.
MARQUETTE - MSU’s first ever memory of the Berry Events Center won’t be a happy one. Northern Michigan defenseman Sean Connolly snapped MSU’s streak of 37 consecutive penalty kills with a power play goal at 9:44 of the third period, lifting the Wildcats to a 3-2 upset win over No.
The premiere of the XFL football league Saturday will have many MSU students tuning in. Daniel Soffin, a chemical engineering and secondary education junior, said he definitely plans to check out one of the 8 p.m.
You know a team is in trouble when the loudest cheer at a home game comes when the visitors send in their bench-warmers.But that was the story of the MSU women’s basketball team’s 71-56 loss to conference rival Iowa Hawkeyes on Thursday night.A four-point halftime deficit seemed like something the Spartans might be able to overcome, especially with the return of senior forward and team scoring leader Becky Cummings.But MSU gave too little effort, too late.Freshman forward Julie Pagel shone for the Spartans with her third career double-double, scoring a career-high 20 points and yanking 11 rebounds.Still, she voiced her displeasure after the game.“We’re just not getting there as a team,” she said.
Halfway through the Big Ten schedule, the men’s basketball team is in a three-way tie for the conference lead.The No.
DAVID ESPOThe Associated Press WASHINGTON - Former Sen. John Ashcroft won confirmation as attorney general Thursday, completing President Bush’s Cabinet and overcoming a ferocious Democratic assault on his conservative views and personal integrity.
John Versical always has ideas floating around his head that would make good stories. And although he does entertain more serious fare, those ideas usually involve various household items violently attacking people. “I was originally going to do a cable access show about a guy who gets killed by inanimate objects, so we did one about a walkie-talkie,” the humanities senior said. Sitting alone in the empty offices of Our Small Planet Productions, 201-1/2 E.
Some MSU officials believe a nationwide effort underway by professors, aiming to raise awareness of current gender discrimination that takes place in science and engineering fields, is worthwhile. More than 40 professors and officials from nine universities issued a statement earlier this week affirming that gender discrimination does exist. “Institutions of higher education have an obligation, both for themselves and for the nation, to fully develop and utilize all the creative talent available,’’ the professors said in a prepared statement.
By TINA MOOREThe Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Slip it under your raincoat, throw it in your purse.
To Steve Springer, asthma is a potentially deadly disease that people need to be more aware of. But for people who are educated and correctly follow a treatment plan, it’s manageable, said Springer, executive director of the American Lung Association, 403 Seymour St.
Friday: First World Fridays will occur at Ramon’s Restaurant and Lounge, 1146 S.
Growing up together in Farmington Hills, Shelby Berger, Blake Boesky and Evan Feldman never dreamed they would be selling hot dogs to bar hoppers at 2 a.m.But the three college hotdoggers are doing just that with their business, Weenies, which sells hot dogs from a cart on the corner of M.A.C.
I’m confused. On Jan. 24, The State News published an article that covered the MSU Students for Life vigil at Beaumont Tower (“Abortion vigil stirs student debate,” SN 1/24). The vigil was held by pro-life students Jan.
In an effort to gain funding for several student programs this year, ASMSU is asking the city of East Lansing to provide some financial assistance.The university’s undergraduate student government made the request by applying for Community Development Block Grant funds distributed by the city government each year.The grants are annually disbursed by the U.S.