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Events this week
This week marks the middle of the semester. Rather than letting the studying blues hit, take a break at one of these events.
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Finding Sasquatch
Sasquatch, the face of Jack Link’s Beef Jerky, visited campus this weekend for Homecoming. The jerky mascot, who only talks in grunts and hand motions, was in East Lansing on Friday for the parade and roamed around tailgates Saturday. Sasquatch visited with students and his picture taken.
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Alumni headline Homecoming concert
Performing at Mac’s Bar Friday night was the perfect excuse for members of the rock band Dryvel to return to their alma mater.
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Steve Aoki visits Breslin Center with first dance pit
Students and guests took over the floor Thursday night in the first dance pit at the Steve Aoki concert. Electronic dance music, or EDM, artists Steve Aoki, Gareth Emery and R3hab lit up Breslin Center with multicolored strobe lights.
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Homecoming grand marshal: alumnus and comic writer
To supplement this year’s Homecoming “Creating Spartan Super Heroes” theme, comic creator and alumnus Geoff Johns has returned to campus as this year’s grand marshal. Johns has worked with film director and producer Richard Donner on movies including “Conspiracy Theory” written episodes of the TV show “Smallville” and co-produced the action movie “Green Lantern.”
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Weekend events
This weekend is filled with Homecoming events, but there also are other things happening to grab the attention of students and community members. Friday Homecoming Parade MSU will be celebrating it’s annual homecoming parade with a Creating Spartan Superheroes theme.
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MSU Bakers make pink bagels for breast cancer awareness
Every morning at 3:30, bleary-eyed bakers put dozens of pink ribbon-shaped bagels in the oven as part of the final preparation before the bagels are distributed to Sparty’s locations, residential dining halls, the MSU Bakers’ farm stand and for individual orders. This October marks the fifth year Gwen’s Bagels have been a staple for the MSU community. The bagels, baked and sold by MSU Bakers, promote breast cancer awareness.
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How to throw a tailgate on a budget
Game day in East Lansing is filled with tons of green and white, rows of? houses barbecuing and students and alumni playing games outside.
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'Flashdance' worth the time
Graceful pirouettes spun into racy thrusts and gyrations as ’80s classics spilled from Wharton Center Tuesday, marking the 30th anniversary of the cinema classic with a rendition of the film, “Flashdance the Musical.” A trailblazer for many other 1980s dance films, “Flashdance” excited audiences, and the musical succeeded in reviving that excitement while still managing to add a few comical curves that kept the audience chuckling.
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Fighting domestic violence one finger at a time
Members of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority are manicuring a new type of fundraiser to raise awareness about domestic violence — selling nail polish. During October, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Sigma Delta Tau is partnering with Jewish Women International, or JWI, in a national campaign to sell a $10 special edition Girls Achieve Grapeness!
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Alumni create Bar Crawl Bingo app
Bar crawls are a fun college tradition, and with the creation of a new app, these adventures can be taken to a whole new level. Alumni Paul Recchia and Erik Sundberg have created Bar Crawl Bingo, an app that combines the amusement of bar crawls with the gambling game bingo. Recchia, who developed concept, said users put in the names of select bars, favorite drinks and challenges.
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Organizations build floats for Homecoming Parade
On Monday, 11 organizations began a weeklong process of creating a float worthy of winning over a panel of judges at Friday’s Homecoming Parade. Various organizations, including Spartans Fighting cancer, Lyman Briggs College and the MSU Black Alumni and Black Graduate Student Association, are working on the floats in Spartan Stadium that fit this year’s “Creating Spartan Super Heroes” theme.
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Homecoming Week to focus on superhero theme
To celebrate the life-changing impact Spartans have all over the world, MSU’s 2013 Homecoming will include superhuman touches to support this year’s superhero motif.
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Ten Pound Fiddle dance event draws crowd
Some feet were bare, while others wore tennis shoes as they tapped the floor in sync with the beat of the fiddle and guitar Saturday night at the Central United Methodist Church in downtown Lansing.
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Plaid all the rage in Old Town Friday
A sea of plaid covered the Brenke Fish Ladder in Old Town this Friday as part of the third annual celebration of Plaidurday, the brainchild of MSU alumnus” Justin “Bugsy” Sailor. “It started in 2010 when a coworker made fun of me for wearing plaid flannels so often,” Sailor said.
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Old Town Oktoberfest draws crowds to Lansing area
The smell of beer and the sounds of Bavarian bands filled the streets of Old Town in Lansing this weekend for the 8th annual celebration of Old Town Oktoberfest. Hundreds of people, including many students, gathered in downtown Old Town Friday and Saturday to embrace the longstanding German tradition.
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Events this week
Looking for a study break? There are a few different events going on in both East Lansing and Lansing this week. Flashdance the Musical Tuesday, Oct.
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Faces of East Lansing
In 1969, Ray Walsh began selling books out of the basement of his house on M.A.C. Avenue. Forty-four years later, the MSU alumnus still is providing a plethora of reading material for students and community members at Curious Book Shop on Grand River Avenue. Walsh said many people walk by the store without sparing a second glance because it appears to be so small. Although the book shop is only 18-feet wide, it is 100-feet deep and has three floors stuffed with books, comics, magazines and posters. “We have a lot more than people expect,” Walsh, 63, said.
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The Second City comedy show visits RCAH Theater
The Second City, a legendary comedy theater from Chicago, presented Happily Ever Laughter last night in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, Theater in the lower level of Snyder Hall. The theater erupted in laughter and applause as the five members of the show pelvic thrusted their way on to the stage.
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Flash mob in Brody Hall promotes 'Flashdance the Musical'
As the ‘80s hit “Maniac” played in Brody Hall, bystanders were caught off guard as members of the MSU Dance Club and Wharton Center Student Marketing Organization broke out in a “Flashdance” rendition. The neon-shirted flash mob wandered into Brody Wednesday and performed a choreographed routine to promote “Flashdance the Musical” coming to Wharton Center Oct.