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BASKETBALL

MSU basketball's busy schedule continues with No. 24 Louisville on Wednesday night

Ryan Squanda
December 2, 2015

The No. 3 MSU basketball team (7-0) is off to a fast and busy start to its 2015-16 campaign and is currently in the midst of a stretch which, when it's all said and done, will include seven games in 15 days. What started as a 79-73 victory over Kansas on Nov. 17 in Chicago, was followed by a 92-46 victory against Arkansas-Pine Bluff and continued with a four-game week, where the Spartans finished a Wooden Legacy championship. But MSU's busy stretch doesn't stop there. The Spartans, after getting back from California at 6:30 a.m. Monday morning, will turn right back around and take on the No. 24 Louisville Cardinals (5-0) Wednesday at 7:15 p.m.

FEATURES

Events this week to help de-stress before finals

Rachel Fradette
December 2, 2015

The fall semester is coming to a close and finals will be starting in a little over a week. MSU’s campus has a wave of grey approaching as students begin to stress and study. Here’s a list of upcoming events to help students survive finals week: Thursday, Dec.

FEATURES

Student uses Etsy to sell homemade knit items

Kateria Hines
December 1, 2015

As Christmas is approaching fast, buying crochet or knitted products may seem like a great gift idea for a loved one with the cold weather approaching. Serenity Tyll, animal science sophomore has made an etsy store by selling homemade knit products on her website. She began knitting at a young age and decided to turn her talent into a profitable way to help pay for her education.

FOOTBALL

Football runs in the family for MSU wide receiver Monty Madaris

Ryan Kryska
December 1, 2015

Monty Madaris, redshirt-junior wide receiver and defensive back at MSU, played for the skinny bricks alongside his cousin Rodriguez. Lined up across the backyard on the roughnecks were the boys’ other cousins, Greg and Michael Means Jr. While also in the Eastside of Cincinnati, their cousin Isiah Gentry was growing up a few years behind the six-year-olds’ makeshift league. Madaris, Means Jr. and Gentry, all products of Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati and all wide receivers, now play NCAA Division I football across the Midwest, with Means Jr. being a redshirt-junior at Akron and Gentry a redshirt-freshman at Minnesota.

MSU

MSU offers a number of unique study abroad opportunities

Peter Nuttall
November 30, 2015

From the banks of the Red Cedar to holding a passport getting ready to travel across the world, MSU’s commitment to international education is evident through its’ study abroad program, a program that is consistently ranked as one of the three largest study abroad programs in the country.  MSU currently offers over 385 study abroad programs in more than 65 different countries on all seven continents of the world.

COMMENTARY

Letter: Big Ten Championship ticket sales were botched for loyal students

Luke Malburg
November 30, 2015

I speak for many students at MSU when I say this. Last night’s “ticket glitch” to the Big Ten Championship game was a "slap to the face" for loyal student fans here at Michigan State.  After MSU beat Penn State and after Coach Dantonio gave his “Reach Higher” speech (which I was there for) a graphic displayed on the Jumbo-tron at Spartan Stadium saying tickets for the Big 10 Championship Game against Iowa next Saturday will go on sale at 9PM tonight.