On Tuesday, students will have the opportunity to get some freebies and learn more about clubs and registered student organizations on campus. Sparticipation will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Cherry Lane Field.
Plans for a complex to replace the old Spartan Village Apartments was approved by the MSU Board of Trustees over the summer, and will be located at the corner of Harrison and Kalamazoo roads.
On Saturday, MSU ROTC held a parent orientation at Demonstration hall. The event provided the new cadets and their families with the opportunity to learn about the ROTC program at Michigan State.
On a Friday morning two days before official move in for freshmen, a group of alumni gathered in a familiar spot on MSU's campus.
A crowd-funding campaign for a project to re-design the US127 Bridge over Michigan Avenue has been started by the Michigan Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority. The bridge, located between Howard Street and Homer Avenue, is near the Frandor Shopping Center. The goal is to raise $50,000 by September 11.
Two years after a pilot program to phase night receptionists out of Brody and North neighborhoods, Residence Education and Housing Services will still not move forward with expanding the program to East and South.
For the freshman moving into the dorms, Sunday marked the beginning of a new life.
Both MSU basketball teams made changes to their staff on Thursday, according to msuspartans.com. Men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo announced that former MSU basketball player David Thomas has been named as the new men’s Director of Basketball Operations while Merchant announced Alysiah Bond will fill Thomas' void as the Women’s Director of Basketball Operations and Technology. “David Thomas is a great addition to our staff as Director of Basketball Operations.
It’s that time of year again. Time to pack up all your stuff and move back to school. Leaving your home and your childhood friends behind can be hard, but going back to a place where you have the freedom to do whatever you want makes the transition a little bit easier.
The upcoming schedule for men’s basketball in the Big Ten has been released. The Spartans will travel to Ann Arbor for a lone matchup with our interstate rival and the highly touted Maryland Terrapins will make a trip to East Lansing in the slate’s only matchup, according to a Spartan Athletics release.
The 2015 captains have been named: senior center Jack Allen, senior defensive end Shilique Calhoun and senior linebacker Darien Harris. The coaches have no say in the naming of the captains, the captains are named through player voting. Head coach Mark Dantonio has chosen to stick with a three captain system while incorporating a fourth rotational captain so all of his leaders get the experience. “I think (the players) did a nice job of picking the three, those guys are all guys that have played a lot of football here and have been in the program for five years," Dantonio said. After a summer of building chemistry within the team with everything from movie nights to texts letting guys know what to work on, Harris was humbled by his selection. “It’s a tremendous honor, I told the team after that I’m very thankful, very humbled and honored for this.
An international career fair is in the works for MSU this fall on Sept. 30, 2015. The event is spearheaded by MSU's Broad China Business Society and aims to give the thousands of international students at MSU a career fair that better suits them than the ones currently in place. Executive Vice President of the Broad China Business Society Alex Qi said the idea first came to him when he learned from a friend attending Purdue University they had an international career fair at their university. "I thought 'if they can do it at Purdue, we can do it at Michigan State too,'" Qi said. Thus, the BCBS has gone to work for the
Michigan State University Athletics announced Tuesday its latest class of six former Spartan athletes to join the 125 current members of the MSU Hall of Fame.
East Lansing City Council elections will take place November 3 with three seats up for vote. There are six candidates and only one incumbent running, being current Mayor Nathan Triplett.
The season starts in Lexington, Ky. for the MSU women’s volleyball team. The Spartans will play AVCO 15th ranked Kentucky on Friday, Aug. 28.
From major-related organizations to intramural sports to obscure interests, Sparticipation offers an opportunity for incoming and returning students to find a place to fit in among a community of 40,000 people.
Incoming freshman and returning students are going to start to see the beginning of MSU's campus-wide smoking ban. Though the ban will not take full effect until the fall of 2016, MSU's first outreach and information initiatives after the ban was approved by the MSU Board of Trustees earlier this summer, MSU spokesperson Jason Cody said. According to the new policy, not only cigarettes, but all tobacco products including smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes will be included in the ban.
Studying abroad can appear to be a luxury for most students, out of reach for most financially. MSU’s Study Abroad program ranks globally for study abroad participation. A good portion of students find ways to participate in spite of financial and
While most students were away for the summer, the East Lansing City Council was operating at full speed.
In her fifth year running the program, head coach Helen Knull and the MSU women’s field hockey team began practice in mid August.