MSU junior guard Eron Harris has been suspended indefinitely from the MSU basketball team following a drunk driving arrest early July 1, according to the Lansing State Journal.
This year, Michigan State fans were treated to a Cotton Bowl victory in football and a Final Four appearance in basketball – last year, a Rose Bowl and three weeks at No.1 on ESPN’s 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Rankings. The Spartans’ success has created a buzzing culture in the city of East Lansing.
Every neighborhood on campus has different things to offer. Before you move in this fall, make sure you know about the places you and your friends will be living.
MSU basketball announced via a press release that the Spartans will play a home-and-home against Florida. The series will begin this season at the Breslin Center on Dec. 12, 2015. MSU will travel to Gainesville, Florida, at a date yet to be determined in the 2017-18 season.
Muslim students are fasting during the holy month of the Islamic calendar, which is called Ramadan. For some international students, the difference of observing the holy month in the U.S. presents a challenge.
The Abrams Planetarium is bringing the constellations to life this weekend. At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday the planetarium is offering a free, special show called 'Star Safari' that pairs learning about the constellations with meeting their small animal counterparts brought from the Potter Park Zoo.
The Common Ground Music Festival 2015 is set to kickoff today, after a last minute hiccup in the lineup.
Meghan Trainor, scheduled as the opening headliner for Common Ground Music Festival on Tuesday July 7, will not perform due to continued treatment of hemorrhaging on her vocal chords. Joshua Davis (The Voice finalist and MSU alumnus) has been added to the lineup, which also includes Misterwives, Be a Miller, Skizzy Mars, Life of Dillion, and more.
Denzel Valentine has accepted his invitation to the 2015 U.S. Pan American Men’s Basketball Team training camp, according to a news release by Spartan Athletics. Twenty-two players were invited and 12 will be selected to represent the USA in Toronto from July 21-25. The training camp will take place at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., from July 7-12, according to the release. If Valentine is selected, he will be the fifth MSU player to represent the USA since 1991.
On the Fourth of July, many people from Lansing, East Lansing and the surrounding areas gathered near the State Capitol Building to watch the annual parade.
East Lansing City Council will likely take action on a major construction project at its July 7 meeting at city hall, which begins at 7 p.m.
The Douglas J Companies salon in the East Lansing Marriott will be relocating to the Eastwood Towne Center before the year's end, according to a company statement.
MSU's W.J. Beal Botanical Garden and Hidden Lake Gardens have both been ranked by Best Colleges Online among the "50 Most Amazing University Botanical Gardens and Arboretums in the U.S." The rankings and ratings for each garden were assessed on a points system which awarded gardens for not only having a wide and manicured variety of plant species, but also for categories such as previous awards won, conservation and education, having a connected university degree program and 'Wow' factors. "I was certainly pleased and excited when I found out," Curator of the W.
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Begining the Monday after Independence Day Weekend, MSU Infrastructure Planning and Facilities will shut down one of the westbound lanes of Trowbridge Road at the intersection of Chestnut Road.
East Lansing City council will likely take action on an ordinance regarding the prohibition of recreational use of roofs at its July 7 meeting at 7 p.m.
Those looking to discharge fireworks this Fourth of July should be cognizant of East Lansing's fireworks ordinances, East Lansing police Lt. Steve Gonzalez said. According to East Lansing city ordinance, fireworks may only be discharged on the day before, day of and day after a national holiday. And even on those days, fireworks may not be discharged between the hours of 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. Violation of this ordinance may result in a $500 fine.
Developers are underway on real-time CATA bussing applications. CATA released public data for developers in March and at least 12 individuals have since signed a contract to receive the GTFS-RT feed, said CATA director of marketing Laurie Robison.
When Madison Academy (AL) head basketball coach Andy Blackston saw a then 7th grade Joshua Langford come to his school for the first time and pick up a basketball, that’s when he knew. For Tellus Langford, it was when he saw his son win the Alabama 3A player of the year as an 8th grader on the Madison Academy varsity basketball team.
Believing that MSU has not received proper recognition for its role in the integration of college football, class of 1978 MSU graduate and former State News employee Tom Shanahan wrote Raye of Light to fully explain the Spartans and former head coach Duffy Daugherty’s impact on college football.