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Robbie Couch ·
FEATURES

Students welcome 'Shrek the Musical' premiere with flash mob

Robbie Couch
February 7, 2011

Normally students don’t get lunch with a show when they dine at the International Center’s food court, but Monday wasn’t a typical day. A few minutes past noon, a clearing formed near the first row of tables as nine dancers sporting ogre ears erupted into a choreographed dance to Smash Mouth’s “All Star.” The group of students, participating in what commonly is referred to as a flash mob, was promoting “Shrek the Musical,” which will debut at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall and run until Sunday.

BASEBALL

MSU set to play CMU at Comerica Park in April

Jeremy Warnemuende
February 7, 2011

The MSU and Central Michigan baseball teams will renew their in-state rivalry this spring by playing the first ever college baseball game at Detroit’s Comerica Park on April 20, CMU said in a press release Monday. A press conference officially announcing the game with representatives from both schools will be held at 10:30 a.m.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Free throws start falling for Spartans

Anthony Odoardi
February 7, 2011

The No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team is excelling in almost all aspects of the game this season. It hold the highest national ranking in the Big Ten, id second place in the conference standings and among the top five in the league in most of the statistical categories.

NEWS

Who are Spartans?

Dillon Davis
February 7, 2011

Every day as students walk to class at MSU, they will pass by more than 40,000 fellow Spartans. Each person has a story that sets him or her apart.

NEWS

Japan Center earns award for international education

As soon as she returned from her study abroad program in Japan in the summer of 2008, Mandy Kline wanted to go back. Through the Japan Center for Michigan Universities, or JCMU — where Kline, a psychology and Japanese senior, now works as a peer adviser — she found a new passion and developed the necessary language skills, both of which might some day allow her to return. “I decided to add an additional degree because I loved it so much,” Kline said.

Ashley Brown ·
MSU

Students celebrate Chinese New Year together

Ashley Brown
February 6, 2011

Spending a holiday away from home might not be the most comfortable, but international students, such as Zeming Teng, have been making do with the celebration of Chinese New Year during the past week.

SPORTS

Bogatov sparks MSU to victory against Wake Forest

Josh Mansour
February 6, 2011

Maybe it was the racket. After losing the first set, 6-0, MSU sophomore Denis Bogatov was left searching for answers. He decided to start the second set with a new racket, hoping a change would help get him back on track. And the racket seemed to help as Bogatov rolled to an impressive come-from-behind victory over Wake Forest’s Jonathan Wolff (0-6, 6-4, 6-3). “I just told myself that I couldn’t continue playing as horribly as I did in the first set,” Bogatov said.

COMMENTARY

Rhyming about the Middle East

I want readers to know the stereotype of all Muslims as terrorists is not true. Every society has its “bad people,” which for Muslims is about 3 percent of the population. So, here is a general idea of how the other 97 percent feels about the problems going on.