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EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Swan Lake swims onto stage at Wharton

A bevy of swans in tights and tutus graced the stage of Cobb Great Hall on Sunday night for a 7 p.m. showing of “Swan Lake” put on by the World Ballet Company. With handcrafted scenery and costumes, projections and their own live orchestra, the World Ballet Company’s goal was to deliver the ballet “at its best, with all its beauty and drama, and make the story feel immediate,” said Gulya Hartwick, the executive director of the company. 

STUDENTS

MSU SURVIVAL GUIDE: Coming to Michigan from out of state is a learning curve

Everyone seemingly spoke a different language as they told me what “township” they were from, a word I only knew from a farm app; repeatedly corrected me for daring to say “soda” and not pop; balked when I pronounced “Mackinac” the way that it’s spelled (my bad); had their Midwest accent warp words like “milk” into “melk” as they failed five times to teach me euchre.