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.
Spartans will rise to the occasion. As the world changes, grassroots movements have been challenging the social, environmental and systematic rules that currently exist in society.
The offense defeated the defense, 34-18, in the second jersey scrimmage of preseason camp Saturday in Spartan Stadium according to a press release.
In what is MSU’s highest preseason ranking in the Preseason Associated Press Poll since 1967 (No. 3) the Spartans are ranked No. 5 in the AP poll which was released Sunday, Aug. 23.
The East Lansing Police Department is currently investigating two home invasions and assaults which occurred early Aug. 22, according to an ELPD statement.
The MSU men’s basketball non-conference schedule has been announced and includes two home games against the University of Louisville and the University of Florida, according to a Spartan Athletics release.
The men’s basketball team will be making a trip to Italy on Friday for a series of four games against international teams and an academic credit for cultural experience. The team will play one game in Florence on Aug.
In a recent article on USA Today, Coaches and Coming Out, men's basketball head coach Tom Izzo made his stance on having gay players clear.
An MSU student from West Bloomfield faces child pornography charges after he allegedly filmed prepubescent boys in a locker room and distributed the photos online, according to Click On Detroit and The Detroit News.