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The Wichitan September 23, 2009
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VIRUS.................................................................................................................................continued from page 1 performance, lasted from 6 p.m. until a little after midnight. About one hundred people attended the show, most of them students. According to Caruvana, it was a success. However, the two found an unlikely adversary while trying to promote an artistic, intellectual reverence on campus: the university itself. “MSU was probably the biggest opponent of this,” Caruvana said. Caruvana said the first thing he and O’Connor tried to do was book the Quad for the show. He said he was told a group that wasn’t an official MSU club could only rent a space three
times. That’s okay, he thought. The two then tried to make the Virus into an official club, but were once again turned down. “We didn’t have the people or the credentials to make an individual group,” Caruvana said. Eventually they appealed to the University Programming Board and were allowed to become a subgroup of it. Through the UPB the two have no limit on the number of shows they can book. Caruvana said the day of the concert he was told the Virus had to be moved inside to the Atrium because there was a chance of rain. Also, even though the event was supposed to kick off at five, it was delayed until six because
of a meeting elsewhere in the building. They said they also didn’t get the extension cords that were promised them. But Caruvana rolled with the punches. “I think the Atrium worked out better because the acoustics were really nice,” Caruvana said. Caruvana said there was a variety of musical styles present Friday, from indie rock to folk to beat boxing and free styling. One musician, Scott Rogers, came from Abilene to play at MSU. All the other musicians were local, Caruvana said. Though the two said they received a lot of positive feedback from the show, there was some
criticism as well. “Some people were thinking this is the wrong place to do it,” Caruvana said. “They were like Wichita Falls is going to be very receptive to it.” “Despite everything, it went okay,” Caruvana said. “We were kind of confused and we didn’t know exactly what was going on. Next time we do it, it should be a lot smoother.” The two created a Facebook group for the show. It had amassed 300 members in two days. For the next concert, which will occur every other week in the Student Center, Caruvana and O’Connor will design flyers to infect everyone else with the Virus.
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