Follow along live with Daniel Eggerding, the president of the MSU College Democrats, and Noelle Cohn, the secretary of the MSU College Republicans, during the first presidential debate of the 2016 election season.
The first presidential debate will be held Monday night at 9 p.m.
Taking their voices from the stage to the big screen, the Accafellas, an all-male a capella group at MSU, performed on Morning Express with Robin Meade on Sept. 23. Though the group was founded in 1996, this is the first time they’ve sung for a popular TV program.
Dear Michigan House Speaker Cotter, I am writing to you on behalf of The Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU). We, as the undergraduate student government, have recently passed a resolution advocating for the enactment of Senate Bill 332.
This past week, I had the incredible opportunity and honor to join in the congratulations of over 140 Spartan student athletes as they earned their varsity letter jackets.
MSUnicyclers: a new MSU club that’s taking over campus one wheel at a time. That’s the legacy environmental studies and sustainability junior Evan Fischer said he hopes to create with the club he helped cofound in the spring of 2016. Although he and current Lansing Community College emergency medical technician student Miranda Lieblein, had the idea in fall last year, it took them a while to get the ball rolling he said. Both students participated in the MSU Outdoors Club at the time, after those meetings they would go in the basement of IM West and practice their unicycling skills.
Despite the pitch-black sky, discouraging 5:45 a.m. flashing on nearby clocks and the 35-pound backpacks tugging on their shoulders, each cadet proudly and without hesitation went to attention as soon as the flag was raised. MSU’s Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or ROTC, meets three times a week to practice road marches, a three-mile march around campus. Sept. 21 was the first time many of the newest recruits would perform a road march. Mastering this skill is crucial to one’s success in the program and in the military as well.
Stargardt’s disease: “The most common form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration. The progressive vision loss associated with Stargardt disease is caused by the death of photoreceptor cells in the central portion of the retina called the macula,” according to blindness.org. In short, Stargardt’s disease decreases the sight of the carrier and makes their central vision progressively more blurry and distorted.
MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio made it known throughout the week that conference play in the Big Ten is where the season really starts to matter.
“Mike was one those guys that first of all, had a great demeanor about him, he was extremely competitive, he was a guy that liked to have fun, very intelligent individual.” - Mark Dantonio Sadler passed away this summer in a car accident, along with Nebraska punter Sam Foltz. The punter, along with seven other Spartans were inducted into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday.
Over 7,500 people came to Jenison Field House over the weekend to watch the No. 20-ranked MSU volleyball team start off their conference schedule, splitting the two games. On Friday MSU ousted the University of Iowa (10-4, 0-2 Big Ten) before falling to the No. 1 University of Nebraska (11-0, 2-0 Big Ten) on Saturday.
When Arturo Santa Cruz came to East Lansing in 1976, he had a dream of starting a restaurant unlike any other in the area--Mexican cuisine.
A new restaurant will be moving onto Grand River Avenue as soon as late October. Panda Express, the Asian fast casual restaurant, is currently under construction at 439 E.
Once a week, Professor Joe Grimm teaches JRN 492, a class which is better known as Bias Busters.
Chick-fil-A is opening a location at 5617 W. Saginaw Highway in Lansing on Oct. 13, which has several students from out-of-state excited to have a piece of home.
A small group of student activists is demanding MSU take action on environmental sustainability. And they want action soon.
It was Labor Day, and the stands were nearly full with 1,522 in attendance at DeMartin Stadium. The game was tied 1-1, and Columbia had resisted nearly all of MSU’s numerous advances.
It began with a tweet. MSU senior graduate transfer defensive end Gabe Sherrod spoke of taking the movement to the realm of college football.
Mylan Hicks, a former MSU linebacker and current member of the Canadian Football League’s Calgary Stampeders, died early Sunday morning in what the team is calling an “act of violence.” Hicks, 23, played for the Spartans from 2010-2014 and was a three-year letterwinner under Mark Dantonio.
Trailing 30-6 fifth-year senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor rolled to the right, didn’t bother to see true freshman wide receiver Donnie Corley by himself in the endzone and zipped a pass to triple covered fifth-year senior Monty Madaris.