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on the cover “Catzilla” Nick Wolf is currently studying graphic design. Wolf’s cover art is a copperplate intaglio print representing the not too distant future. A future full of highly radiated mutant “catzillas” that have destroyed much of the globe. He has created the art as a warning to the people of this time to fight against the governments “nuke the kitties” program. If they aren’t stopped meow, then the future has no hope.
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melissa flores rawr Scorpio 10/23 – 11/21 It’s been a week and you’re still finding leftover candy corn spread across your apartment. Time to break out the dust mop before the next holiday.
Pisces 2/19 -3/20 Getting into a noise war with the neighbors who insist on playing wall-shaking country music until 2 a.m. might not make you feel more mature, but it will be the most gratifying thing you do this week. Crank up the bass.
Sagittarius 11/22 – 12-21 It’s going to be a long week but never fear, a nap and a Big-Gulp sized Starbucks coffee can fix that.
Aries 3/21-4/19 Your garbage is overflowing, every dish in the house is dirty and you can’t see your living room floor. If the sight of your house is making you a little crazy, it’s OK. That’s why your overhead lights have an off switch.
Capricorn 12/22 - 1/19 You’ve been a little stressed out lately, but before you fly off the handle try an evening-long bubble bath and a “True Blood” marathon. Sexy vampires and lavender bath salts can improve on just about anything you’ve got going on. Aquarius 1/20 – 2/18 Face the facts: The giant, hairy spider that moved into the corner of your bedroom for the winter isn’t going to move back out without a little encouragement. Go find your least favorite shoe and carpe diem.
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Taurus 4/20 – 5/20 A leftover cheeseburger, a package of Top Ramen, Gumi bears and a half slice of pizza — there’s a reason it’s called hobo stew. If the ingredient list for Monday night’s chili sounded more like the contents of a dumpster, it’s probably time to hit the grocery store. Gemini 5/21 – 6/21 If you looked through your hamper this morning and just couldn’t find guitar, and then a single voice. The song slowly builds with the addition of an orchestra, a tambourine and other band instruments.
“Consoler Of The Lonely” y The Raconteurs lindsey treffr rawr The RaconIf you’ve ever heard a song teurs sound like with a sick beat, yet just can’t a good ole’ American rock quite clap along, it’s probably band with a contemporary because of a shift in meters or twist, and features lead singer time signatures. Without getting Jack White of the White too specific, the following songs Stripes. Drummer Patrick took a lot of technical talent to Keeler takes this song to a perform and are not the normal new extreme as he counts off head-bangin’ radio songs. As you a contrasting beat from the listen, try to clap along — it’s rest of the band within the practically impossible. first 10 seconds of the song’s beginning. “The First Circle” Pat Metheny “Broken Toy” This 1984 song begins with Keane a challenging clapping pattern “Broken Toy” is the longest that is then joined by a single recorded song on any of Keane’s
releases and departs from their stylistic norm with contrasting time signatures. “Happiness is a Warm Gun” John Lennon and Paul McCartney It’s a surprising fact this Beatles song (or some from Beatles members) strayed away from the normal key and time signature that was The Beatles’ forte. Other Beatles songs that differ from their compositional norm with shifting meters are “Here Comes The Sun” and “Strawberry Fields Forever.” “Bastard” Ben Folds This song is the opening track for Ben Fold’s album, Songs for Silverman. The piano rhythm keeps this piece chugging along throughout the entire piece. “Hey ya!” OutKast All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right. There’s no wonder this song was named the 20th most
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a pair of pants that smelled clean enough, you should probably just go back to bed. Cancer 6/22-7/22 I know it’s a whole pie, but you need to come to terms with reality. You’re going to eat it all eventually anyway, so it might as well be today. Dig in. Leo 7/23 – 8/22 You did a lot of involuntary running Saturday night and realized that being a couch potato might have its drawbacks. This week could be a good time to start hitting the gym. Virgo 8/23 – 9/22 If you can see your breath, then it’s probably time to turn on the heater. Libra 9/23- 10/22 Walking in to the store for a new pair of socks and walking out with five hoodies, three T-shirts and a pair of jeans doesn’t mean you’re impulsive, but it does mean you’ll avoid doing laundry for another week. P.S. Don’t forget to go back for the socks you forgot. successful song of the 2000s by Billboard. Not only is this song funky, but its meters can get pretty technical, too. “Times Like These” Foo Fighters Ahh, the early 2000s. Listen to how the chorus changes beat from the rest of the song. “Chutzpan” Avishai Cohen Trio Who knew the sounds of a bass, piano and a drum set could be so advanced? “Blue Rondo A Turk” Dave Brubeck Jazz with a Turkish twist. “The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders” Sufjan Stevens As the song begins, a triangle and piano clash rhythms, and then hands join along with the rest of the band. Much like other Sufjan Stevens pieces, the song slowly builds to a crescendo where voices join in too.
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matt maw rawr The University of Idaho’s Hemingway Festival celebrated a man as dynamic as any fictional character last weekend. UI English professor Ron McFarland said there’s a “mystique” about Ernest Hemingway that continues to allure people. Found in everything from his “man’s man” outdoorsman lifestyle, to his often-quoted ideas of “courage as grace under pressure” to his suicide in Ketchum, Idaho. Hemingway’s life was full of fast moving occurrences and relationships. “It’s like when you’re writing a novel or a story and you want to make it rich with detail to give it texture — Hemingway’s life is that way,” McFarland said. “He just did all these things. He got into WWI just in time to get himself wounded … he was active in the Spanish Civil War, he covered WWII after D-Day, he went to Africa, he went to the bullfights … He lived big, he lived broad.” McFarland said there used to be a Hemingway Festival in Ketchum where UI Master’s of Fine Arts creative writing students and lecturers shared a meal, presented papers and lectures, and taught high school workshops. Several years ago funding was pulled and the festival was moved to Moscow. He said the event has grown every year, adding more speakers, a fancier dinner and a more elaborate silent auction. This year’s Hemingway Foundation PEN Award winner Brandon Skyhorse said he appreciates the festival because it connects writers and booklovers in Moscow with the UI MFA writing program. He said the PEN Award gives aspiring authors an opportunity to fall in love with Hemingway all over again. “It gives one new writer every year a chance to shine,
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Brando Skyhorse, winner of the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award, signs his book, “The Madonna’s of Echo Park,” for Jennifer Hawk. Skyhorse was the guest of honor at the University of Idaho’s Hemingway Festival this year. “You can read a Hemingway hope that when I write somea chance to be exposed in a William Faulkner and others. story at 20 and know all of the thing the reader walks away unique way, and I think that’s “He’s one of the few writwords that are used, but you knowing more about themfantastic,” Skyhorse said. ers who blended the two … can read it at 40 and know selves as a result of having Ann Stebner Steele, UI remarkably well,” McFarland all of the emotions behind read it than they know about graduate student in creative said. “Usually you go into a those words,” he said. “I think me or any of the characters writing and a reader at the bookstore and you see there’s Hemingway endures because on the page.” festival, said the elements of literature over here and here’s he appeals to people as they Stebner Steele said Heming“place,” landscape and setting general fiction over there … evolve … He just had an incred- He would always have fit very way’s stories connect with are important in her writing, ibly intuitive sense of what it people in a similar way and Hemingway’s frequent use comfortable in either zone, and is to be human.” because they discuss issues of hunting, fishing and similar still does.” McFarland said Hemingway that will always be significant, aspects resonate with her. She Skyhorse said Heminghad a popular and “literary” such as mortality, the meaning wants to explore stories about way’s career was impressive following, and has stylistically and unique. of life and the importance of herself, her family and their influenced many writers bemoving forward. identities as defined by place. “The amount of good work fore and after his death, such Skyhorse said one reason “It moves beyond just my that he produced is remarkas Michael Shaara — author Hemingway continues to be family … (to) the stories that able (and) it’s a testament, I of “The Killer Angels,” which popular is the depth of his all people tell in order to think,” he said. “There’s only was adapted to film in “Getwork hidden beneath simple make sense (and) shape out one Hemingway — he comes tysburg,” — Raymond Carver, language. of their lives,” Steele said. “I around once in a lifetime.”
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Throughout the semester, the University of Idaho’s MFA Writer’s Studio class stages its student playwrights during New Play Wednesday. Quinn Hatch, coordinator, said the ongoing event is in its third year and all the pieces are original. “New Play Wednesday features staged readings of plays still in their infancy,” Hatch said. “This will be the first time many of these have been shown to an audience.” The fate of Idaho’s theater program rests on non-theater students, said Robert Caisley, associate professor of theater, head of performance area and dramatic writing. “There are nine MFA playwrights in the program and each one has to do one of these New Play Wednesdays on one of the nine Wednesdays of the semester,” Caisley said. Caisley said the only requirement is to write a play. “That is what they are getting their degree in. It’s a part of the Master’s of Fine Arts degree in playwriting,” Caisley said. The three-year graduate degree programs require each student to write at least one full-length play each semester they are in the program. By the time they are done, they will have six full-length scripts that have been workshopped. In addition, students write multiple 10-minute plays. “Other than being a fulllength play, there are no parameters I put on the writers,” Caisley said. “They sort of write what they are inspired to write.” Students are graded like any
other class, but Caisley said he doesn’t give exams. “It’s very subjective, obviously,” Caisley said. “Whenever I’m evaluating a student’s writing, I have to keep in the back of my mind that I have my own taste as a writer and that can’t be a part of the equation.” Caisley will only comment on where he thinks the writers need to develop, such as altering the plot or language. He said the workshop provides helpful criticism to improve the script. “For me, it’s mostly about progress,” he said. “Has the person made significant progress on this draft of the play since the start of the semester to the end?” Caisley said a single play could be revised 40 to 100 times. “Writing is really rewriting,” Caisley said. “Writing a good play requires you to rewrite and rewrite and rewrite.” After a play is read on Wednesday, a feedback session with the author gives audience members a chance to voice their opinions. Caisley said the students develop “thick skin” when it comes to criticism, which is the point of the workshop. “Your play-writing teacher will tell you if you don’t have the right dialogue, or your characters are flat (or if) the plot is not working,” Caisley said. Students learn the skill of commenting on the work of other writers. Caisley said the theater is a collaborative art form. “If you want a life of solitary, you should be a novelist, not a playwright,” Caisley said. He said about 40 to 50 people usually work on the production of a play. “It will be your script, but you are going to work with the director, the cast of actors, lighting, scenic designer, makeup designer, hair designer, sound designer, carpenter, stage manager, the list goes on and on,” Caisley said. New Play Wednesday is an
opportunity for writers to see a budding play in front of an audience for the first time. Prior to New Play Wednesday, students read scripts in a classroom and everyone analyzes the work together. The writer then goes away to revise, Caisley said. Lauren “LoJo” Simon, a third-year graduate student in dramatic writing, said writers need people, even if they know nothing about theater, because they are their average audience. “We want to know things like: Did you like it? Was it confusing? Were you interested? What characters did you like best? Or who do you want to know more about?” Simon said. “Just the kinds of things you would think about when you go to a movie or read a book.” Simon and Caisley said the feedback helps playwrights understand what works and doesn’t in their plays. “Their insight and response is even more important or valuable than our own opinions,” Caisley said. So far this semester, New Play Wednesday is attracting little attention from students outside the department, Simon said. “It’s been a small audience so far because people don’t know about it. We are only getting about 10 people. Students here are smart and they have something to say. And they have no grades and they can say whatever they want,” Simon said. Caisley said each play stands alone. “They’ve each got a very different take on things and a very different approach to style,” Caisley said. “They all write very different dialogue and they are interested
More info Lauren “LoJo” Simon’s playwright will be staged Nov. 9. Each reading will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9, 16 and 30 in the Kiva Theater. Admission is free.
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Not your grandmother’s Shakespeare joseph engle rawr Depending on the source, “The Winter’s Tale” by William Shakespeare is a comedy, a “problem play” or a romance. It is a play with two faces, the first three acts are dramatic and the last two comedic. Director Chris DuVal said the different tones between acts can cause difficulties. “It’s one of the big challenges of the play to make it seem like one play as opposed to two separate plays,” DuVal said. “We’ve been working hard to make it seem like one play.” He chose to set the play during the Cold War era of the 1950s and 60s. The setting will ideally provide the audience with a familiar backdrop of conflict and social change. Although the original
Shakespearean lines remain the same, Duval said he chose to update it to make it more accessible and identifiable to contemporary audiences. To that end, the play now includes songs and dance from the same time period. The play centers around the kings of Sicilia and Bohemia. When Leontes, King of Sicilia, suspects that his wife Hermione is having an affair with the King of Bohemia, he attempts to have the Bohemian king poisoned, and then tries his wife as an adulterer. In the second half of the play, Prince Florizel, the son of the Bohemian King falls in love with a shepherd’s daughter Perdita. Florizel is played by University of Idaho senior Phoenix Tage. Tage describes his character as young, headstrong and hopelessly in love with a woman whom he is forbid-
den to marry because of her heritage. “It’s a bit of my personality taken to the extreme,” Tage said. “He does not care who gets in his way. He is going to get what he wants.” Charlie Herzog, senior, is the lighting designer for the play. Herzog said the most crucial part of his job is to help differentiate between the two halves of the play. The first half of the play set in Sicilia is characterized by stark, artificial white and red lighting, where as Bohemia is a warmer, airier, more natural setting. Herzog said the play won’t look much like a traditional play by the Bard. “It’s not going to be your grandmother’s Shakespeare,” Herzog said. “It’s going to be a bold, muscular show that is visually stunning and emotionally evoking.”
DuVal said he is really impressed at how well that the 21-person cast has come together in the course of the production. “Shakespeare is always challenging,” DuVal said. “It’s the Olympics of acting — it requires the most out of any actor, emotionally, physically and mentally. They are all telling the story with such commitment and vigor and such muscularity, it is a really exciting production.”
Event info Event: “The Winter’s Tale” Location: Hartung Theater Date: Nov. 4-5 and 10-12 Time: 7:30 p.m. Additional performances will be held Nov. 6 and 13 at 2 p.m.
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The University of Idaho Department of Theatre Arts will put on a preformance of William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale.” The show opened at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3. Tickets are free for UI students and $8 for faculty and staff.
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melissa flores rawr They can be seen around every corner — music majors carrying bulky instrument cases, art students sitting in the grass with pads of paper and spandex-clad dancers sprinting across campus to the Physical Education Building. Every day, students campuswide engage in some form of art, from dancing to drawing to playing music. These students are undoubtedly talented, but could they
also be healthier? Jamie Nekich, an associate professor of psychology at the Univeristy of Idaho, said yes. Nekich taught a Core Discovery class for five years at UI using creative expression as a way to explore concepts about psychological theory and research. She said in her experience, students who were able to engage in artistic expression as a therapeutic tool to explore and assess emotions and stressful situations are more relaxed than those without an outlet. “I think it’s very beneficial
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and it’s in a lot of different ways,” Nekich said.“A lot of this comes from my experience working with students in art and expressive art. The benefits were really apparent and they’re written about and talked about a lot in literature, about the therapeutic uses of art, but one of the things I noticed in the process of creating art is that it’s stress reducing.” She said art is stress reducing because it’s a large part of who a person is. It also allows a break in the normal routine and pressures of school. Belle Baggs, dance teacher
at UI, said engaging in all art forms, including dance, is exceptionally therapeutic because it not only gives students the opportunity to relieve stress, but to unleash creativity and resolve problems through thought and action. “I think that the arts are really powerful,” Baggs said. “It’s those moments that we can reflect about life. The reflection moments basically allow us to see things in a very tangible way. Whether that’s in a painting, a moving body or poetry, it allows us to sense our humanity on a deep level. It allows us to
learn how to be in this world together and to share experiences and be creative.” Baggs said this is especially true of dance. She said it provides an example for life, because students are allowed to be expressive and active while making creative decisions. “I think the training you get in dance goes beyond the studio, you know, it’s not something that’s left behind,” Baggs said. “It funnels into the everyday life, whether that’s making healthier choices in their life or how to communicate, socialize with others, be-
ing creative — it all translates into life.” Jennelle Brunner, an art student, said she feels that art is not only a way for many artists to express and resolve issues that they might be having, but a way for the artist to translate the essence of their humanity into a visual representation that can be shared. “I think that learning about and studying art really gets you in touch with your humanity and puts you in a good mindset … ” Brunner said.“I think my life has not only been enriched by painting, but also by learning
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about painting philosophy along with the history.” While technical art skills can be beneficial for students, Nekich said unstructured, free expression is easily the most therapeutic. “I think self-expression is very beneficial … because it creates balance, emotional, psychological balance and that is going to support success in lots of ways, academic success and success with relationships,” Nekich said. “We’re just better people when we’re taking care of ourselves in a holistic way.”
Nekich also said it’s important for students to share their art, and thereby the story and reflection of humanity that they’ve created with others in a supportive environment that encourages connections between people. These relationships, she said, are psychologically beneficial. “There’s all these ways we’re the same. We face similar challenges, you know, each story is slightly different but the challenges are similar so it makes a connection with other people in ways that we relate,” Nekich said. “It’s a way of connecting
and connecting is really beneficial psychologically.” Taking an art class can be intimidating for students who don’t believe they have enough talent or experience with a specific medium, but Brunner said students — especially those looking for a creative outlet — have nothing to fear. “There’s no real mathematical procedure of creating work, Brunner said. “It’s kind of like a sport, you just have to practice and the more you do it, the more you get better at it, and the more awesome it is.” Baggs said it’s most impor-
tant to give art of every variety a try despite preconceived notions about one form or another. “You need to try them all, but I think often we have these preconceptions that were not going to be good at dance, or that non-majors think that they have to be ‘good’ to experience dance when dance is really just about experiencing the art of movement,” Baggs said. “It’s not necessarily requiring anything specific, so I would encourage everybody to just go out there and try all different kinds of art fields and see what you value.”
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Why we love to hate Starbucks
In the midst of Occupy Wall Express in the Idaho Commons. If you don’t want to go Street or Occupy Moscow and to Starbucks because it’s not “the 99 percent” protesting local, then there are the influence of several other options major corporations, on campus. Or you Starbucks has encan walk three blocks tered the University to Sisters’ Brew, One of Idaho campus World Cafe or Bucers. again. If you don’t like Some Vandals Starbucks because it are upset the uniis known to put loversity chose Starcal coffee shops out bucks instead of a of business, then local coffee shop. kristi you don’t know Everyone hates atkinson business. The only the best. Starbucks rawr reason a Starbucks claimed revenues would damage of $10.7 billion last the position of local coffee year and has 16,850 shops in houses is because people 40 countries. prefer Starbucks. Starbucks is a comfy, cozy If you think Starbucks is Internet café, and its goal, unhealthy, then stop drinkjust like any other business, ing coffee altogether and go is to become a third major somewhere else. gathering place beside work If you claim you don’t like and home. any of the drinks, then you I am one to support local haven’t tried them all. There anything, I am. But I’m not are more then 87,000 poscomplaining about the vansible drink combinations at dalstore’s new addition. Why? Starbucks. Because no one is making me If you don’t like the music, go there or anyone else rethink your priorities. You are It’s understandable people are tired of corporations dimin- just trying to hate Starbucks. If you don’t like Starbucks ishing cultural values for profit. because it is on every corner, If you think Starbucks is you need to re-evaluate. This too expensive, go get your is only the second Starbucks 99-cent mocha at the Vandal
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building in town. I have yet to hear a complaint about McDonalds or Subway. It is the law of supply and demand. The only reason there are so many Starbucks in the world is because consumers demand them. If you think Starbucks is pretentious and don’t like the names it gives their sizes, remember there are other options. There have been rumors regarding the labor behind the coffee beans, and claims that Starbucks hasn’t been cooperative in the effort to implement fair trade policies. I’m not arguing this. Like I said, I’m all for fair trade and buying local. But no one likes complainers. Starbucks is still annually rated as one of the best companies to work for in the world. Starbucks had 137,000 employees last year and spent $300 million on health care insurance for its employees. They’re not selling coffee so much as the “Starbucks Experience.” But the Starbucks experience isn’t about complaining and uptight people who are against anything that succeeds. If you don’t like Starbucks — go somewhere else.
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WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON STARBUCKS COMING INTO THE VANDALSTORE?
“I think it’s great. I love Starbucks.” JD Morrow Sophomore | General Studies
“I think it could be good. I think Starbucks brings an excellent amount of quality to the area and I’m not sure that other businesses on campus can compete with the quality.” David Burpee Senior | Mechanical Engineering
Adam Kessler Senior | Anthropology
“I hadn’t really thought about it a whole lot because I don’t drink coffee. I guess it’s not ideal, but I’d certainly rather see maybe a couple outlets like Starbucks here. We used to have a Burger King in the (Idaho) Commons. I’d rather see that than up tuition prices or something like that, or other influences inside the classrooms ... “
Brittany Blouch Senior | Architecture
“I think it’s actually going to be good for the university itself because there (are) a lot of individual corporations that are on campus that are all run by Sodexo ... I know that a lot of people think that Einstein (Bros.’ ) coffee isn’t as good as Starbucks’, so it’s going to provide them with some competition, and make sure that Einstein’s will keep up their game.”
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An olfactory tour of UI: Both the stinky and the savory
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Eau de bovine: This ever-present funk has been known to assault nostrils as far north as WinCo. Nothing says “welcome home” quite so well as a nice, manure-scented methane cloud. Pine: Fresh air is glorious. No air smells quite so fresh as when it is laced with a hint of pine. There are ample opportunities on campus to stop and smell the trees, but by far the most pleasant smells are to be had in the Shattuck Arboretum.
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The dance studio was filled with music of different genres as dancers let the rhythms guide their bodies movement. Dance Off Hand was organized by the ASUI Dance Major and Minors Club on Oct. 27. Karissa Jacobs, vice president of the club, said Dance Off Hand is an opportunity for students involved with dance. “It’s an informal concert that anyone can submit their own piece just to give them a chance to show their work or dancers an opportunity to perform,” Jacobs said. Dance groups were made up of dance and non-dance majors, and Jacobs said the event was open to everyone. “Any choreographer can put their piece into it and choose whoever their dancers are,” Jacobs said. Gin Robinson, University of Idaho dance major and choreographer of progressive dance, said several classes took part in choreographing and performing pieces for the show. Robinson said she had been working on the piece she performed since the beginning of the semester. Dance Off Hand included dances ranging from modern contemporary to tap, hip-hop and ballet. Nicola Elliott, who
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attended the performance, said the variety was the best part of the event. “I thought it was really good and there was a lot of variety,” Elliot said. “I liked the music, it was good and it was different for everything.” Dance Off Hand has no particular theme, Jacobs said, and is an informal venue. “It’s a combination of what you’ve worked on in class so it’s a chance for those dancers to perform it,” Jacobs said. Dance Off Hand has been put on for many years by the dance department and club members. Apart from entertainment, this year’s show also aimed to raise funds and collect canned food. People who came with a food donation paid $1 for admission instead of $2. Jacobs said all food collected would be donated to a local food bank while the money raised would be used by the club to fund other events and activities. Taylor O’Neal, dance major who performed in modern contemporary and Jazz routines said she appreciated the experience. “I have taught and choreographed before, and it’s always nice to choreograph a piece,” O’Neal said. “Every experience makes you better and stronger.”