The No. 18 ranked MSU women's basketball team hosted Big Ten opponent Purdue on Wednesday in a gritty defensive battle. MSU won by a final score of 68-56 and was able to climb into third place in the Big Ten standings.
Elizabeth’s case, like the two others mishandled in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, report from Sept. 1, 2015, highlights an issue in the way MSU handles sexual assault and harassment cases that the university is working to address through revisions and updates to its sexual assault and relationship violence policy.
Austin Thornton has always had a knack for shooting. Playing in high school at Cedar Springs High School, he averaged 26 points per game his senior season, shooting 49.8 percent from the field and 86.3 percent from the free-throw line. In fact, he holds the Michigan High School record for most made free throws with 572 and places second with 54 consecutive makes from the charity stripe.
"Moving home" is the way Marty Sturgeon, The State News' general manager, described the publications move from its current space on the first floor of 435 E. Grand River Ave. to the second floor of 435 E. Grand River Ave.
A strong, determined and intelligent woman, Ann Sherman started her successful life and career from simple, humble beginnings.
Regardless of its name, the weight room of Snyder Hall does not contain any weights or barbells. Other residence hall workout areas have the same issue. The rooms are either lacking in equipment or contain damaged equipment.
Finance junior Nick Bonaccini and second-year member of the Spartan Ski Club was one of almost 500 MSU students to pack into seven buses and travel cross country to Keystone, Colorado, during winter break.
Founded just shy of seventy years ago, the MSU Press publishes 30 to 40 works a year and helps MSU to stand out among american colleges for a variety of reasons.
Recent state, local and national elections have seen pitiful attendance from millennial, specifically student, voters. Studies have shown a steadily declining number of student voters since the tumult of the 2008 election.
In this year's installment of Coaches vs. Cancer, teams all across the nation are honoring the late Spartan basketball super fan Lacey Holsworth, by wearing golden shoelaces in a movement known as "Lace up for Lacey."
On cold winter mornings, afternoons, evenings, whichever pleased the local East Lansing kids that day, a hodge podge of kids could be found on flooded and frozen fields in local parks. The local gathering holes, the multiple ice skating rinks found in East Lansing, provided a way to make friends, memories and teach lessons. Some speculate East Lansing city officials were responsible for creating the fun while others speculate it was the East Lansing Fire Department. Nonetheless, whoever spawned the slick rinks ultimately halted it too. But now after a long hiatus, an East Lansing ice rink is back, in a new form and coming to Valley Court Park.
With only 10 games left in the regular season, the No. 12 MSU men's basketball team (17-4, 4-4 Big Ten) is looking at every game as an important one.
Their website describes them as “relentlessly chordgasmic.” The group's name is State of Fifths and they are one of the seven student a cappella groups on MSU’s campus. Although the different a cappella groups on campus have their own distinct styles and characteristics, what now sets State of Fifths apart from the others in the credentials department is that they performed the opening act for the world-renowned a cappella concert experience, Vocalosity, Tuesday night at Wharton Center.
The Spartans are gearing up to play Big Ten opponent Purdue on Wednesday. Tip off is set for 7 p.m.
MSU's State of Fifths, a co-ed a cappella group founded in 2008, will open up for Vocalosity at Cobb Great Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Defense and rebounding — these are the aspects of basketball MSU head coach Tom Izzo wants to see. And at his press conference Monday, Izzo said the team is finally starting to show him they understand why.
College can be a scary place. Whether you are a transfer student or just a freshman, meeting people and trying to navigate through campus can be tough.
He is a family man with two families. The one he goes home to every night and the ones in uniform. For 29 years Jeff Murphy has called the East Lansing Police Department home, and after 29 years of effort and a multitude of jobs within the department he now leads that second family.
Former MSU professor and doctoral student Dr. Gerard T. Donnelly was named to the Botanic Garden Conservation International (BGCI) Board of Directors in late December.