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MSU

Murder Mystery event gives students chance to improvise

On stage, two men crashed their way through an improvised scene. They were basing the performance on cues written by the audience. Every thirty seconds, the men would pause, read off one of the cues, and the performance would veer in a wildly new direction. The setting: a clock tower. The plot: a fear of worms. And then the revelations: “You’re adopted!” “You’re also adopted!” The scene concluded with the actors embracing and the audience enthusiastically applauding.

SPORTS

Women's tennis drops 2 Big Ten matches

After a weekend that saw the MSU women’s tennis team (10-14 overall, 0-9 Big Ten) lose to Iowa, 4-3, on Saturday, and to No. 12 Nebraska, 6-1, on Sunday at the MSU Indoor Tennis Facility, the only thing they could do was suck it up and look forward.

FEATURES

Grand Ledge to offer free historical festival in May

For those people who want to do something different after they finish their finals — or for those who aren’t in school and simply want to do something different — the city of Grand Ledge, Mich., presents an event for the Saturday and Sunday immediately following finals week: the Victorian Days.

COMMENTARY

Put down your #$%&-ing phone

I am standing at the urinal pissing, and I need to whip out my phone to check Twitter. That’s how bad it has gotten. I can’t even drain my body of fluids without stuffing information back into it at the same time.

MSU

Students show little interest during ASMSU election week

It’s been a rough week, and even ASMSU can’t deny it. Between low turnout at a $25,500 carnival and the cancelation of the Ne-Yo concert, MSU’s undergraduate student government’s election week — meant to promote the group and engage students — didn’t go as planned.