Stay wide AWAKE

JANA FAGOTTI ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Tired? Rundown? Stressed out? There is a solution, folks, and, today, I am here to tell you just whafit will take to keep you bright-eyed and bushytailed for the next eight weeks of classes. Th_is remedy has been proven effective since 1997 and can be yours for free. "What is it,'' you ask. AWAKE,a band. Yes, music can actually get you through it all. Don't believe me? Let's ask Joe.

Scene: Drexel Hill, Pa, 1997.

'Twelfth Night' will be playing at the ArdenTheatre until April 13.

Steve Tague played the dry humored Malvolio. Throughout the play, he is .ridiculed and the butt of people's jokes. In a society where one would think outsiders such as Malvolio would be helped to try to become the society norm, he is constantly kept outside the circle and merely kept around to entertain the main characters. Tague does an excellent job portraying this bland character.

The play boasts Nancy Boykin who played the part of Olivia, which was her first professional role and Patrick Brinker who played Orsino who is "delighted to be back at the Arden Theatre." These among others bring this play from the time of Shakespeare to life in a realm of music, lights, color and vibrant energy.

"Twelfth Night or what you will" will be showing until April I 3,at the Arden Theatre. For show times and tickets visit www.ardentheatre.org.

• Joe Gallo. Mike Myers and Mike O'Brien were high school students who played together for fun. Joe played bass, O'Brien was on lead vocals, and Myers was on guitar.

"We just started playing together, writing stuff for the fun of it, and really just messing around," Gallo said.

But, as time went on Gallo,

• Myers and O'Brien realized that what they were writing was more than just "messing around" and they began taking it more seriously. Chris Stackhouse was soon added to band as the second guitarist in January of 2001.

Scott Gaydos soon followed as the drummer added that same summer.

Gallo admits that the band is hard to classify. "All of our songs are very intense, melodic, catchy, and different," Gallo said.

Bands such as Alice in Chains, Tool, and Dream Theater originally inspired the band. AWAKE feels that they, too, can make it to the top and feel that they possess the talent and desire to do just so.

"We also know how tricky the music business can be:' Gallo said. "So for now we are focused on smaller goals, which are just to play as many shows as possible, get as many people hooked as we can, and use any money we make to record a new CD."

Do not fret folks, AWAKE is music for anyone, any age, anytime. "All of our stuff is pretty easy to listen to, and we have a very wide fan base as well, old people, young people, and everyone in between," Gallo said.

Gallo admits that the band does not have a particular 'message' that their music send out but just a concept that encourages taking out of their music "whatever you can."

"A lot of our songs are about just dealing with life, people, situations, that everyone comes across and just conveying feeling and energy and emotion through music," Gallo said.

There you have it, folks, a simple and easy solution for college survival. A band guaranteed to keepyou wide: AWAKE.

"From chwnp to champ!" Those were the words used by Joey Giardello to explain the first fifteen years of his boxing career. As far back as he could remember, Carmine Tilelli, better known as Joey Giardello, always wanted to be a fighter. Born in Brooklyn, on July 16th, 1930, Giardello was always known as a fighter. Everyday after school he would challenge some one to a fight. He fought for his brothers, and to let everyone in his neighborhood know he was the boss.

As Carmine grew older, his reputation as a fighter grew larger and larger. Fighting came natural to him and his will to win was insurmountable. By the age of sixteen. Carmine was bored with the neighborhood and felt that it was time to move on, so he followed in the footsteps of his older brothers and joined the Army. Although he was to young to join the Army, he got a fake I.D. and went by the name Joey Giardello. He soon joined the 82nd airborne and fell in love with the army life. He loved the training, but most of all he loved jwnping out of planes. Although he loved the Army, it was soon found out that he was to young to serve, and he was asked to leave.

Although he was disappointed, Carmine kept his faith in God and moved to Philadelphia. Since he did not have a lot of money, he was left with no other option than to become a professional fighter. In 1948 in Trenton. the career of Joey Giardello began with no amateur experience. His first fight was a four round fight that paid him twenty-five dollars. A natural to the sport, Giardello started taking fights whenever he could. He would fight two or more times a month, and his reputation began to grow as he won his first twenty. The thing that amazed many was that Giardello was not much of a trainer. He would run and work out, but not as much as other fighters. While in Philadelphia Giardello met Rosalie Monzo and the two quick.Jyfell in love. This was the turning point in Giardello 's career, because he got married, and like every other man he wanted to give his wife everything she wanted.

The newly married Giardello, was focused and ready to go. He was quickly building a fan base in Philadelphia and at the same time he began climbing the ranks of the middleweight division. In the 1950's there was an abundance of great fighters in the middleweight division. Everyone from Gene Fullmer, Henry Hank, Dick Tiger, and "Sugar" Ray Robinson wanted to be champion; these men fought for pride and championships. In this era fighters didn't make that much money because there was no Pay-Per-View or HBO. There was no pre- fight build up to put people in the seats, it was just boxing to be nwnber one.

Giardello fit in perfectly with all of these fighters. He was determined to become one of the greats. Rapidly climbing the ranks with his counter- punching style, Giardello was looking for his chance to fight for the title, and finally, in 1960 he got a chance to fight Gene Fullmer for the championship. It was a lopsided fifteen round fight that Giardello was believed to have won, but the decision ended up being a draw. Giardello was very disappointed by the decision and was unable to get a rematch with Fullmer. Now Giardello was lost in the shuffle and with so many other great fighters in his division it would be years before he would get another chance at making history.

As the years went by Giardello was making history in other ways. He became the one and only fighter to score three knockouts in three consecutive months at Madison Square Garden. His career gave him many opportunities to travel around the world. He was able to fight all over Europe and the U.S. As his career moved on Giardello kept on fighting anyone that was willing to stand in the ring with him. As the years went by Giardello felt like ti teen years in the hurt I to fight for the title, be be fair if Ray Robinso1 shot. This was the w knew that he had jus Giardello knew he wa making history, so he looked forward to for he dominated one of Robinson down sever~ December 7, 1963 Gi, used his strong left h, World Middleweight < meant he was the toug; he was now on top of Giardello went on t In that fight Giardello

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