The forecast predicts that the high will be 57 and the low will be 45.
MSU baseball wins 18th-annual Crosstown Showdown
Michigan State baseball took on the Lansing Lugnuts in the 18th annual “Crosstown Showdown” exhibition game. MSU basketball alum Steven Izzo threw the first pitch, and the Spartans defeated the Lugnuts 16-10 at Jackson Field. This match-up was a friendly game between the two sides, with many Spartans looking to play at this level when their college careers come to a close. Senior first baseman Randy Seymour shared his experience playing against the Lugnuts all four years at MSU. “It’s always good to go talk to those guys too, and we played with a couple of them, played against them,” said Seymour. “It’s just fun to see all the fans, and just play a game and have fun with it, I mean that’s what it’s all about right?” The Lansing Lugnuts will use this exhibition as their final test before kicking off their 30th season on April 2 for their opening weekend against Dayton. MSU baseball alternatively is underway in its 142nd season, with its first organized season in 1884.
New campus gym set to open April 15: Here’s what to expect inside
The construction of the highly anticipated Student Recreation and Wellness Center is in its final stages ahead of the facility opening to students on April 15. The $200 million project has been in the works for over five years and will replace the historic IM West, which is set to be demolished next spring. The three-level facility offers triple the workout space compared to IM West, a 50-meter pool and an elevated track within eyeshot of the Breslin Center and Munn Ice Arena. It includes two sports arenas for basketball, volleyball and badminton, along with six multipurpose fitness spaces, including an indoor-outdoor yoga studio and a combat sports room. Additional amenities include a cycling studio, personal and athletic training suites, a rock-climbing gym and a bouldering wall across from “Hammock Grove,” a lounge space for students to set up their own hammocks. The center also features a virtual sports simulator next to a turf arena, a ping-pong alley featuring the world’s largest table-tennis paddle on an adjacent wall, an outdoor workout area with “shred sheds,” plus an outdoor lounge and two classrooms.
In a first, MSU board holds public livestream of board committee meeting
The Michigan State University community got a glimpse at what happens during a Board of Trustees committee meeting on Wednesday afternoon, during a first-of-its-kind livestream of the board’s Student Life and Culture Committee. The committee oversees student activities outside the classroom. It’s one of four non-voting board committees, which meet in private and present short summaries of their discussions during the five scheduled public board meetings throughout the year. Making the committee meeting open to the public was an attempt to bring “greater transparency to the Board of Trustees,” Trustee Dennis Denno, the committee chair, said during the meeting. It’s MSU’s latest experiment in how the public can interact with top leadership after drawing ire for replacing its September board meeting with a closed-door forum. In February, the board reinstated the meeting for 2026 but kept the forum. “The board is constantly seeking different ways to engage the community, and the topics addressed by the committee provide an ideal platform for this exploration,” Board Chair Brianna Scott wrote in a statement. The half-hour livestream featured a presentation on campus voting initiatives and testimonies from student leaders in fraternity and sorority life. Five trustees and several administrators were on the Zoom.
Student musicians interpret Broad art at Sightlines and Soundscapes event
Many musical performances are guided by sheet music, time signatures and keys. For students in Michigan State University’s electronic music workshop course, however, these guidelines are less conventional. “We are really used to playing pieces where, instead of a traditionally notated musical score, we often use things like pictures, images or poetry to make music,” Anthony T. Marasco, Assistant Professor of Composition and Technology and co-director of MSU’s electronic music workshop said. “It really opens up, for our students, the availability to say: your art can look very different and sound very different than you might expect, or have been told it should.” This fresh and flexible approach to music performance was recently brought to one of MSU’s most popular creative hubs, the Broad Art Museum. On Tuesday March 24, Broad hosted the Sightlines and Soundscapes event. This semesterly event features student performers from the electronic music workshop who perform pieces that interact with the art on display in the museum.
