President Barack Obama has recently taken action to make higher education more affordable across the nation. One of the steps Obama took included a Student Aid Bill of Rights that includes four rights for students, which were outlined in a press release
Senior guard Travis Trice talks about balancing school with MSU's Final Four run.
Last night on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Fallon had seven guests predict who would win the NCAA Final Four Championship game in Indianapolis. Those guests?
Graduating from MSU in 1998, Carl Winans took what he learned at MSU and applied it.
“(The Act) allows folks to save some money on student loans, that put some money on their pockets, which is good for them, for the family,” U.S Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., said. “(It is) also good for the economy because if they are not paying higher interest of student debt they are probably spending it on other things important to their families, which is good for the Michigan economy.”
Facing two misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and one minor in possession of alcohol charge, 19-year-old Dylan Carl Donell was arraigned in 54B District Court on Tuesday in connection with the revelry in Cedar Village after MSU's victory over Oklahoma in the Sweet Sixteen.
Anyone who spends a significant amount of time around the athletic staff at MSU knows they are a tight-knit group, always eager to support one another. With the men’s basketball team making their seventh Final Four appearance under head coach Tom Izzo , a few of the other head coaches at MSU weighed in on the man Izzo is, the basketball team’s success and Izzo’s ability to keep producing quality teams that make long post-season runs.
In an age in which some of the top college basketball players look to increase their own playing time and career prospects, the unselfishness within MSU basketball has vaulted the team to the Final Four. Quite a few relationship dynamics exist across the roster but three stand out among the rest.
I usually refrain from publishing my opinions in The State News. But I wanted to use this opportunity to respond to the anonymous letter published in Tuesday's edition of the paper, and to some of the reactions it’s received.
The city of Indianapolis is no stranger when it comes to intriguing matchups between MSU and Duke, as both programs have squared off twice at the capital of Indiana in two different locations.
The Black Sheep is being sheared away from campus. In a decision which, according to recent student polling, literally 100 percent of people saw coming, the MSU chapter of the so-called publication The Black Sheep will fold today due to not being funny enough to keep anyone — and we do mean anyone — entertained.
At this point we need to all come to grips with something: Tom Izzo may be a coaching god of some sort.
Students of MSU have a luxury that is often taken for granted. The university offers over 150 majors, allowing for a wide range of options for a career path.
A lack of funding from the state is pushing universities to raise tuition costs, only adding to the massive debts some students face. A bill introduced by state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. might alleviate the burden.
Hope Project, a recent MSU student group founded in November 2014, organized the event to raise money to build a secondary school for HIV-positive orphans being taken care of by HOPE Village Children’s Home, run by its parent group, Hope Endeavors. The organization’s name is sometimes stylized as H.O.P.E., which is an acronym for “Helping Orphans, Prospering Everyone.”
While students tend to believe they can leave a class if a professor is more than 15 minutes late, the MSU ombudsman denies the existence of this policy.
The first individual arrested in relation to the weekend disturbances in Cedar Village after the MSU men's basketball victories in their Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight victories, was arraigned on Tuesday, according to an East Lansing Police Department statement. Dylan Carl Bonell, a 19-year-old from Plymouth, MI, is charged with two misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges and one minor in possession of alcohol charge.
So we got into the Final Four. Great. Woo-hoos and Aw Yeahs and other celebratory phrases abound.
MSU police Cpt. Kelly Roudebush was sitting at home, surfing social media following the Spartan's Elite Eight win, when she noticed something curious: bagels flying through the air at Cedar Village. Seeking to make sense of the absurdity, Roudebush took to the department's Twitter account and posed the question "Guys, what's with the bagels?"
Witnessing the first Final Four appearance by the men's basketball team since 2010 Saturday is going to require a major sacrifice of a person's wallet, as the ticket and hotel prices for this weekend is increasing at an alarming rate.