LeGrand Lawrence, a former student of BYU–Hawaii who has starred in several school plays such as “Pippi Longstalking” and “The Princess Bride,” will play the lead role of Shrek in “Shrek the Musical,” which will be playing at the Diamond Head Theatre in Honolulu.

A film industry that is producing more films than Hollywood is based in Nigeria and goes by the nickname “Nollywood,” reports Fortune online. India’s Bollywood still has more volume than both, but for an industry that began in 1992 with a straight-to-video movie, Nollywood’s growth is remarkable, says Fortune.

It’s an awkward experience when you call out to someone, convinced it is a friend, but they turn round and you see it is a complete stranger. This type of instance happens because people look alike. Some people may even look so alike to others that they are called twins, doubles, or doppelgängers. At BYU-Hawaii, there are plenty of students that look like a another person. Finding people who look alike is a rewarding experience for Peri Cook, a sophomore studying graphic design from Arizona. Cook said that this was something she found especially fun and enjoyed doing. She started an Instagram page called byuh_twinssss, which compared the appearance of students to other students and celebrities. “For some reason I can do it really often,” Cook shared. She said she finds most people’s “doubles” among celebrities, though there are some who look alike. “It’s like a game. I’ll meet someone, and I will think they look like someone else, and sometimes it will be a random person from my ward or someone I used to babysit. It’s just funny to see similarities and to see people agree with me.”Someone featured on the page is Marshall Smith, a sophomore studying biology from Washington. Smith said that people have told him that they thought they saw him on campus and yelled his name to someone who turned out to not be him.One of those people is Blake Meeley. When asked on what he thinks is most similar between Smith and Meeley, Smith said, “Third party vote says our hair. I would probably go with our hair because he’s got a nice set of hair.”Not everybody is completely identical, but some can come really close, and there are other people such as Cook who love to find the similarities between two completely different people, such as Francois Brunelle, a photographer in Canada. Brunelle compiles and takes pictures of people who look similar. A project called Twin Stranger finds people who look alike. Masaki Yamanashi, a junior studying biology from Japan, said if he found someone that looked like him, “I would be really excited. I would laugh a lot with that person. I would like to get to know that person and experience their life so I could see the similarities in our lives, not just facial features.”Uploaded July 1, 2015

Close to 900 new students will come to BYU–Hawaii this Fall Semester, as new freshman, transfer students, and returning students. Around 30 percent of new freshman students who apply get accepted, coming from regions such as Asia, Pacific Islands, Hawaii, and the U.S. mainland, according to James Faustino, the director of Admissions and Financial Aid.

Hawaii will become the second state in the nation to have an Environmental Court to hear cases concerning anything related to nature, reports the Honolulu Star Advertiser. The 22 judges assigned it will begin their work July 1.

Don't blink or you might miss the leap second on this afternoon. At 2 p.m. today, June 30 in Hawaii, an extra second will be added to the clock to compensate for the slowing of the Earth’s rotation, reports AP. It is called leap second, and it is happened 25 times since 1972, says ABC News online.

Personal finance is an issue every student at BYU–Hawaii must tackle at some point. Fortunately, there are tools available to students to help them become what Alan Akina, president and CEO of 101 Financial and alumni of BYUH, calls “financially educated.”

BYU–Hawaii Senior Marietta Tuionetoa was named the Pacific West Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year for women’s tennis, says a news release from the league offices on June 25.

The new Marriott Courtyard hotel in Laie will be opening on June 29 and residents living along the North Shore from Kaaawa to Waimea can try out the hotel at special introductory rates good from June 29 to July 18, 2015, reports Envision Laie.