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Paczki hit dorms for Fat Tuesday
Paczki hit MSU dorms in honor of Fat Tuesday before Lent began, when many Catholics give up specific indulgences for a 40-day period.
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Freshmen fifteen Q's: 2/16/10
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and his perspective of his new frontier.
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Professor to offer sunspot lecture
Professor Horace Smith will present “Where Are All the Sunspots?” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Abrams Planetarium.
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Orchestra to perform at Wharton
The MSU Concert Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
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Students to bring in lunar Year of Tiger
MSU’s Vietnamese Student Association will hold a Year of the Tiger celebration from 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Family drama to premiere at MSU
Steppenwolf’s “August: Osage County” will premiere Tuesday at Wharton Center.
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Festival brings frost to Lansing
During Valentine’s Day weekend last year, Lansing celebrated its 150th anniversary of becoming a city. This year, the directors of the Lansing Principal Shopping District decided to expand on last year’s success and created a new winter festival: Frost Fest.
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Valentine's Day bleak for males
Across the country, men with any type of love interest are experiencing an annual feeling of panic. They are flocking to florists, corralling to card stores and jumping to jewelry shops hoping to find the perfect gift for their significant other. You guessed it — Valentine’s Day is upon us.
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Navigating the love maze
Single? Taken? Looking for something to do in (or against) the theme of Valentines Day this upcoming weekend? Take a peek at what’s going on in and around town for the holiday of love.
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Spartans give Chicago shot of MSU
The friendship among MSU students Marvin Husby, Anthony Eugenio and Matthew Butler began at a bar, and it’s never left. “My partner, Matt Butler, was a bartender at P.T. O’Malley’s, and myself and my partner Anthony Eugenio were far too frequent of patrons,” Husby said. “That’s how we became friends.” Butler said his friends were regulars at the bar.
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Wharton Center to bring Lewis Black
Comedian Lewis Black will be coming at 8 p.m. on Friday to Cobb Great Hall in Wharton Center.
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Sock Hop event to bring swing dance
The University Activities Board will host a Swingin’ Sock Hop at 9 p.m. Feb. 12 in the International Center.
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Valentine’s poetry workshop Feb. 11
The Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Center for Poetry will be hosting Love Is A Battlefield: A Valentine’s Workshop at 7-8 p.m. Feb. 11 in Snyder Hall.
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Freshmen fifteen Q's: 2/10/10
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and her perspective of her new frontier.
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Chicago rapper to come to MSU
Hip-hop artist BJ The Chicago Kid will be performing at 7 p.m. Thursday in Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. Doors are scheduled to open at 6:15 p.m.
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Spartan keeps it 'green' on red carpet
It’s not every day something that started as a class project wins you a trip to the Oscars, but for Jillian Granz, this slim chance has become a reality. Granz will be meeting “Avatar” director James Cameron and his wife Suzy Amis Cameron when she leaves for Los Angeles this month as part of her grand prize for winning Red Carpet Green Dress, a global dress design competition.
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Music professors to perform together
Caroline Hartig, associate professor of clarinet, and Deborah Moriarty, professor of piano and chair of the piano area at MSU’s College of Music, will perform together at 7:30 p.m. today in the Music Building.
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International art to come to campus
Fabian Marcaccio will give a lecture at 7 p.m. today in Room 105 of South Kedzie Hall as part of the Department of Art and Art History’s Artist Guest Lecture Series.
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'Dear John' doesn't live up to previous Sparks films
Maybe I should have reconsidered my alternative to the Super Bowl. I walked into “Dear John” hoping for another Nicholas Sparks love story to awe me, just as “The Notebook” had, but left the theater disappointed.
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Kresge opens doors to give students 'HeART'
The Kresge Art Center invited the MSU community to make homemade Valentine’s Day cards last Saturday.