The goals for MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio and his Spartans have been clear all season long— reach higher.
The State News has compiled a list of just a few of the many activist groups that students looking to make a difference in the community can join.
Five MSU swimmers are looking to take a big step in their careers as they compete in this year's AT&T Winter National Championships in Federal Way, WA. The event is an opportunity for the best swimmers in the nation--from high school athletes to olympians--to showcase their talents and, hopefully, post a time fast enough to earn them a spot on the Olympic team. This competition is especially important for senior Ian Rodriguez, last year's Puerto Rico National Champion, who is looking to post a time in the 100m backstroke good enough to earn him a spot on the Puerto Rico Olympic team.
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.
East Lansing City Council approved an ordinance to mandate the council meet three times a month, televise the meetings, and require candidates to make their campaign donors public.
East Lansing City Council unanimously approved a resolution declaring the city of East Lansing a welcoming community for Syrian refugees at the Tuesday meeting.
East Lansing City Council approved an ordinance purposed to deal with "dangerous buildings" at the Tuesday City Council meeting.
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.
Social media apps such as Facebook and Twitter have changed the way that society as we know it has communicated with one another.
When Brittany Galliers was a kid, she wanted to be chef. After several attempts at making meals and burning them, she realized culinary arts were not her calling.
Eight Spartans received all conference offensive recognition, four received First Team All Big Ten Honors, and two received individual awards Tuesday night during a special broadcast of the conferences all league selections and awards selections on BTN.
Two years ago, as a sophomore at West Virginia University, Eron Harris was about as talented a scorer as they come.
A resolution declaring the city of East Lansing a welcoming community for Syrian Refugees is on the East Lansing City Council's agenda for the Dec. 1 meeting.
Following the basketball team's 77-64 victory over Providence for the Wooden Legacy trophy, both Denzel Valentine and Deyonta Davis received Big Ten honors for their performances last week.
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.
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 students for choice held a candlelight vigil at the rock monday night in the wake of the recent attack on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. “Because we are a pro-choice organization working closely with planned parenthood, the vigil is something we feel really passionately about.
At two football games this year, monetary prizes in the MSU Athletics Department/MSUFCU 50/50 raffle went unclaimed.
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.
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.