Animal science senior Brent Moore stood next to horses and bulls at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Saturday afternoon gearing up for that night’s Spartan Stampede performance. “Bull riding is very sink or swim,” said Moore, a bull rider and bareback rider. “You either like it or you don’t.”
After being diagnosed with stage III kidney cancer last November, Mariah Mackie’s world was turned upside down. But as the 10-year-old sat behind the MSU women’s basketball team as they faced Purdue University Sunday evening, she couldn’t help but smile.
Red lights and bumping music welcomed hundreds of MSU community members of all ages and ethnicities to the Asian Pacific American Student Organization’s, or APASO, biennial Lunar New Year Show on Sunday evening at the Auditorium. The variety show, celebrating the Asian culture on campus and ringing in the Year of the Dragon, showcased eleven different groups with talents ranging from modern dancing and singing to traditional Asian cultural dances and instruments.
On Friday evening in the Union, a small but excited crowd gathered around an owl — a special visitor from the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing — as it flapped its wings on the arm of its attendant. Among the spectators clamoring around the bird was 13-year-old Zuri Snyder of Detroit, who observed the owl and other zoo animals with special interest.
The city of East Lansing is expected to go green later this spring if plans to install two electric car charging stations in the city pan out. Preliminary details of the planned installation were presented to the city council at its work session Feb. 14.
With a single white feather in her dark hair, Rose Petoskey tapped her pink moccasins to the beat of a drum on the floor of Jenison Field House on Saturday during one of the largest powwows in Michigan.
Fred Karger used to be intimidated by wedding rings. As a young gay man not ready to be open about his orientation, they seemed like a symbol of a certain superior status — a title he thought he would never be able to hold.
MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, member Alyssa Landis has found the credit union’s current online banking system outdated when she looks at her account online. But changes coming to the credit union aim to make it easier for customers to check their finances.
On Friday, kinesiology senior Teilia Rutherford confidently walked down the sidewalk in South Neighborhood wearing a sports bra, shorts and UGG boots and shouting inspirational messages about positive self-image. But five years ago, Rutherford would not have been able to show off her body with such confidence, especially in such a public place.
While the MSU men’s basketball team is gaining momentum on the court — having won seven of its last eight games — head coach Tom Izzo could use some of that momentum off the court. Izzo is one of 48 coaches across the country competing in the Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge, a competition in which fans vote online for their favorite coaches with the winning coach earning $100,000 for their chosen charity.
Kinesiology freshman Lindsay Parker smiled as she kicked her leg up in the air on Wednesday night. She seemed to sparkle as the stage lights reflected off of her gold sequined shorts, and the bass from the music she danced to was so loud, it shook the walls of the Auditorium.
Being chased by an enraged rhinoceros while riding on the back of an elephant as it tries to escape to safety in a jungle in northeast India might sound like a nightmare for some. For Steve Winter, that nightmare is his career. “That’s the most scared I’ve ever been,” Winter said.
Members of several ASMSU committees continued discussions on bills introduced earlier this semester, revisiting the debates about creating a smoke-free campus and improving residence hall security systems.
This February, some East Lansing businesses have been brightening up their storefronts with pink heart stickers to help a local homeless shelter. About 25 Lansing area businesses are participating in the Have-A-Heart for the Homeless Campaign, a fundraiser for local homeless shelter Haven House, 121 Whitehills Drive.
Rather than living the cliché life of a college student, media arts and technology senior Josh Michels has decided to take a different path.
Nearly all of MSU’s departments and colleges have a presence on social networks — from Facebook to Twitter to Flickr. Although each is different, officials said they have one overall mission: connectivity.
A new student caucus implemented by ASMSU —MSU’s undergraduate student government — will allow students to discuss campuswide issues with their peers before taking their concerns into Academic Governance.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, has nominated more people for executive board positions.
Justin Grosjean is proof it takes less than 24 hours to change a life. In January, the media arts and technology senior and his twin brother John, who attends Oakland University, posted a video on YouTube at 3 a.m. When they woke up the next morning, the video had more than 300,000 views, and today it has almost 2 million views.
After a study abroad trip to the Dominican Republic last summer, public health graduate student Nathan Praschan knew what he had to do.