Consider having no final exam, but being asked to organize, choreograph and produce a dance performance.Welcome to Theatre 454: Choreography and Dance Production.The class teaches students the process of creating a show, from inspiration to rehearsal to execution.
NNEKA NNOLIM For The State News MSU’s African Students Union brought a taste of African culture to campus last week. The group’s annual Culture Week, which took place Wednesday through Saturday, focused on creating awareness and appreciation through a series of events, including a film screening, panel discussions and a final gala. MSU students, staff and faculty, as well as members of the East Lansing and Lansing community were on hand to celebrate African culture and also to learn something about the continent and its people. “This event was a good chance for the MSU community and the surrounding community to see what (Africans) are about,” said Lanre Williams, president of the African Student Union and a psychology junior.
Scott Peoples remembers watching “I Love Lucy” reruns with his grandparents, Don and Wendy Stevens.“Grandma and Grandpa were exactly like Ricky and Lucy,” Peoples said.Peoples’ grandfather, former MSU Trustee Don Stevens, died Friday.
Some fans were grinding their teeth just as hard as the MSU hockey team was trying to grind out a goal during the NCAA Tournament West Regional on Friday in Ann Arbor. In the end, the toil didn’t pay off for the Spartans - who wrapped up their season with a 2-0 loss to Colorado College that day.
After 37 years as MSU’s head diving coach, John Narcy will finally leave the pool. Narcy, 66, brought closure to his collegiate coaching career at the 2002 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. The Spartan’s only diving representative, senior Carly Weiden, placed 11th in the one-meter dive and 24th in the three-meter dive. “I had a great farewell,” Narcy said.
Undergraduate students rejected a proposal in last week’s universitywide elections to increase ASMSU’s semesterly tax by $3.
I am writing to express my disappointment and irritation to the majority of the business representatives at the Liberal Arts Career Fair on Thursday.
Lansing - A $180,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will help Ingham County better prosecute perpetrators of domestic abuse. Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III joined U.S.
Sophomore point guard Marcus Taylor is filing for the NBA Draft, intensifying the talk that the Lansing native is leaving MSU and the basketball team early.Head coach Tom Izzo held 5 p.m.
A big chunk of the uncertainty surrounding the MSU hockey program’s future ended Monday with the hiring of Northern Michigan head coach Rick Comley.But the uncertainty for Tom Newton and Dave McAuliffe is just beginning.The two Spartan assistant coaches are in a precarious position.
Rick Comley was so firmly entrenched at Northern Michigan University that only a “very good reason” could sway him to leave Marquette. Apparently, the head coaching position at MSU was enough persuasion. Comley, 55, was formally introduced as the fifth head coach in the history of MSU hockey at a press conference Monday in Munn Ice Arena.
The second of a three-part series on women’s issues will take place tonight in the Union Green Room. The series, called “Borders, Barriers and Bridges,” deals with various issues affecting women.
In 2001, four Detroit residents died as a result of violent scuffles with security guards.And Sen.
While a card with 10 black smudges on it can be an important safety precaution for children, it isn’t the only choice parents have to protect them.“Fingerprints are fine, but if there is an abduction you want as many ways possible to identify the child,” Michigan State Police Sgt.
If you don’t want your teenage children to get roughed up by police, then teach them not to steal cars. That’s what I would have told a group of about a dozen people who turned out at a meeting earlier this month to discuss an investigation into Lansing police officers’ use of force in arresting two teens. For those of you not familiar with this story, let me offer you a quick recap.
Oooh, another vampire movie. Perhaps I should make fun of goth kids again. Or, instead of doing that and facing the inevitable backlog of e-mails telling me I’m just another whitebread joiner making fun of things I don’t understand, I’ll just go for the gusto: “Blade II” rocks.
Sometimes the best way to learn about a culture is not sitting at a desk in a classroom and listening to a professor lecture about it.
For a second time this year, MSU’s landmark statue Sparty was vandalized. Between 4 a.m.
On Sunday, the fifth annual East Lansing Film Festival wrapped up, complete with plenty of awards and excitement. The festival this year included a new audience award, which is currently being tallied. But for the “Michigan’s Own” portion of the festival, which took place Sunday, awards were already prepared for the winners. For the feature category, the winner of the grand prize of $400 was “Living with the Fosters.” Second was “Wicked Spring,” winning $250 and third was “Coping.” All three received three rolls of film for future projects. In the shorts category, first place went to “Race Condition,” winning $400 and a $500 certificate for film development from Film Craft Lab.
A survey by the Harvard School of Public Health found 44 percent of college students admitted to binge drinking within the previous two weeks, the same percentage found in a 1993 study.But while binge drinking numbers remain the same, colleges and universities have seen an increase in students living in substance-free residence halls and a decrease in students living in sororities and fraternities, Harvard reported.The study questioned 10,000 students at 119 four-year colleges, and defined binge drinking as four or more drinks in a row for women; five or more for men.Olin Health Center health educator Dennis Martell said the Harvard study doesn’t fully measure the problem.