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Students try the cupcake challenge

Recently, the cupcake challenge has taken over the MSU Snapchat story. The goal is to eat a whole cupcake in one bite and without using hands. The State News asked students to try out the challenge and see if they could be successful. 

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MSU premieres play as part of Big Ten Theatre Consortium

Incidents of racism have been prone to the U.S. for years now, but particularly on college campuses this has been an issue as well. Baltimore by Kristen Greenidge is a thought-provoking play that deals with the issue of racism on a college campus. The name of the play comes from a poem written by Countee Cullen called Incident, which discusses Baltimore in the context of racism. The play follows college freshmen, as they have to take on the issue of blatant racism after a racial drawing is written on someone’s whiteboard. Kristy Allen is a first year MFA candidate and portrays Dean Hernandez in the play spoke with the State News about why the play is important. “Regardless of what people feel like about the incident that is portrayed in the play, it leaves the audience with at least the idea that they should be able to have a conversation about race,” Allen said.