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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Vintage finds for students By Erin Lenczycki Staff Reporter
Fashion is generally on a cycle that’s bound to repeat every 20 or 30 years. After taking one step into Crossroads Mall in Portage, this is only re-affirmed. Bright, florescent colors line the racks and the outfits look strikingly similar to the ones featured in many aging photos of one’s parents. Searching for a cheaper, authentic version of the blossoming trend can not only take hours flipping through hangers draped with musty clothes but can often times end up costing just as much if not more. Tori Washington and Michelle Costello, Western Michigan University seniors, saw the trend and decided to capitalize on it by creating Buy Only Vintage (BOLV), a website designed to serve as a college-friendly thrift store. “We’ve seen it make its way back into recent trends [the ‘80s and ‘90s] which I think is fantastic. BOLV is fueled by the culture of those decades, the role they played on our lives and ultimately the iconic role they played in fashion,” Washington said. “The pieces created then were something people had never seen before and they influenced anything that was made after it. We’d like to bring back a collection of trendy, authentic vintage apparel stemming from the colors, silhouettes and themes the ‘80s and ‘90s represented.” While doing research, Costello found that the vintage retail is a predominately male dominated industry and many websites featured a majority of gender specific clothing. For example, men’s sites had mostly sportswear and women’s sites having only dresses or skirts. Costello wanted her site to have the best of both. “Although I’m personally a big fan of vintage sportswear, I wanted to create a site where both men and women could go simultaneously to purchase a wide range of merchandise in a semi-gender neutral environment,” Costello said.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Search for the funniest WMU student By Kassie Charnley Staff Reporter
The annual comedy search, Last Bronco Standing, has returned and each of the three finalists are in it to win. Comedy Coordinator of Campus Activity Board (CAB), Nick Spaleny said that Last Bronco Standing is a three round event. In the audition round all competitors preformed for five minutes in front of three judges, who were members of the CAB comedy committee. The judges chose five comedians to move onto the next round. The semi-finals were preformed at the end the CAB General Assembly meeting. Each contestant preformed for up to seven minutes in front of CAB’s members and three finalists were selected. The final round of the annual comedy competition, will take place Thursday, Feb. 23 at 9 p.m.
in the Bernhard Center Ballroom and features seniors Joe Stando and Alec Robbins and freshman Brendan Duffy. “Each comedian will perform in front of everybody for up to 15 minutes. There will be three judges, all hand-picked Western Michigan University staff, and after each of the comedians perform, they will decide on who will be the Last Bronco Standing,” Spaleny said. Last year’s winner, Sohrab Foroozesh, will host the event, according to Spaleny. This is Stando’s second time participating in Last Bronco Standing. He auditioned for last year’s event, but didn’t advance. This year, Stando took on the challenge of trying out again. Stando said that he prepares his stand up by practicing at home, or even when he’s out walking around or in the shower. Stando said that he is looking
forward to wearing a favorite Tshirt of his for his act on Thursday. He’s also excited for the song that he picked out to have played when his name is announced and he comes up to the stage to perform at Last Bronco Standing. “I just really hope that it won’t be awkward and silent for my act,” Stando said. “But obviously, people think I’m funny since I’ve made it this far in the event.” As for Robbins, stand-up comedy is what he would like to do with his life. “I think that’s probably a bad career choice, but I’m stubborn and it’s too late to change paths now. Basically, it just makes sense for a stand-up comedian to compete in a stand-up comedy competition,” Robbins said. This is also Robbins’ first time as a finalist in Last Bronco Standing. “This is not my first time participating. In the past, I’ve been
beat out by fellow comics and good friends of mine like Trevor Smith and Sohrab Foroozesh, which I accept entirely because they’re very funny people. This year they’re both out of the picture, so I actually have a chance,” Robbins said. Robbins joked that after three years of performing, he has found the best way to prepare for stand-up is to sing the lyrics to “That’s How I Beat Shaq” by Aaron Carter out loud in his car. “I know the lyrics by heart,” he said. “In reality, though, I just go through my material and choose a set-list. Not a whole lot of preparation goes into it anymore, honestly. I just get out on stage and hope my jokes can carry me through it.” Robbins said that he is excited to get on stage in front of a large crowd of his fellow students. “Sometimes it’s hard to make college kids laugh. I can work a comedy club crowd or a drunk
downtown bar crowd, but college kids are full of cynicism and stuffiness. I take that as a challenge. I might just go up there and reference old ‘90s Nickelodeon cartoons and hope I win based on nostalgia alone,” he said. “Students should come out to this event to support their fellow students. We have some funny students at WMU, and some students who have competed in past Last Bronco Standings have even gone on to become successful comedians,” Spaleny said. “It is a great opportunity for these students to showcase their talents.” Spaleny said that he would really like to see Last Bronco Standing grow in popularity, especially since it is an annual event. Campus Activities Board (CAB) sponsors this event and admission is $1 with a Bronco ID, or $2 without.
Interior design exhibit showcases student projects By Taylor larson Staff Reporter
Studio Room 2305 is tucked down a squeaky side hallway of North Kohrman, easily overlooked from traffic to and from the computer lab, nearby stairway, or drinking fountain. It’s hard to imagine anything coming from the stack of glittering fabric swatches, marble tiles, woven tweed and cardboard cutouts stacked floor to ceiling, but that’s just the beginning. Enter the showroom to find detailed models, their tiny windows painstakingly cut with an X-Acto knife, arranged together under the light of graceful chandeliers constructed entirely out of tinfoil, hanging high over brightly colored diagrams of lavish penthouses and business suites. Exposed is the work of five young women—Carly Zagorski, Riley Walters, Amanda Peck, Renee Gahn and Kimberly Porco-- showcasing four years of hard work in the Interior Design Senior Exhibit Exposed, running through March 1. Though a senior thesis is required by the program, Exposed had ulterior motives as well. “It was in terms of our content that we chose the word Exposed. We’re not only exposing ourselves as designers, we’re exposing what
we do as interior designers, kind of teaching and educating along the way,” said Porco. “More like educating people on what interior design really is or what it entails is what we do in terms of the profession,” said Gahn. “There’s a lot of graphics that go along with it, so different aspects of design, that people would normally think that we might not touch upon--for example, model building. A lot of people don’t know that we do an extensive amount of research for the projects that we do, and it’s not just decorating or doing fun pretty things. We wanted people to know that we do a lot of other work that is not necessarily seen. Here we’re sort of getting a backstage look into the profession.” It may be a backstage look, but it is also one that is thoroughly modern, sleek and polished. The idea of sustainability, the “Go Green” philosophy, is prevalent throughout all designs. “We work a lot with materials people wouldn’t necessarily expect to be used,” said Walters. “We try to use as much recycled content as physically possible--that’s obviously a trend, but also something that we’re leaning towards as designers in this industry. We wanted to show that things aren’t always as they appear.” They certainly aren’t. A sprawl-
ing wave of wire curls throughout the entire exhibit, suspended from the ceiling and covered with red and white plastic shopping bags that spring from the holes like tissue paper flowers. Constructed entirely out of 750 square feet of poultry fencing, and 554 plastic grocery bags, the installment is the very definition of eco-chic. The exhibit also features 1,829 pounds of recycled concrete alongside 72 recycled incandescent lamps. On display, and Erin Lenczycki / Western Herald furthering the ecofriendly trend, are lu- Allison May, a junior fashion design major, visits the interior design exhibit minaires, made from in North Korhman Hall Studio room 2305. The exhibit showcases the works of 80 percent recyclable cardboard. One cre- students over the past four years. ation, fashioned to sequences to the exact dimensions routine basis; work that one would look like a flower, features delicate for most functional bathroom are not expect. cardboard cut outs layered to give stacked end to end beneath colorful the illusion of bright, sunny petals Prisma-color displays, while photos and twisted stem. of the girls and their projects fill evA technicolor palette of tantalizery inch of the showroom walls. The ing pop art makes up the “Mock’n volume and imagery of work is eye !"##$%&'() Bird Hill Steak House,” its design a watering; almost too much to take bit of retro revival. Thick books diain…but also a clue to the amount gramming everything from lighting 0,%&,(*/,(-#.12'3 of work these students take on on a
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By nathan Palcowski Staff Reporter In celebration of the 25th annual National Eating Disorders Association’s Awareness Week, Western Michigan University along with donations from Forest View Hospital in Grand Rapid, welcomed Darryl Roberts and his documentary “America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments” on Feb. 16. Roberts, a Chicago native, took the challenge of his own personal slim-down and talked with experts about the nation’s obsession with weight and obesity. The National Eating Disorders Association’s Awareness Week, which begins Sunday, will focus on
the goals of prevention, treatment, and minimizing stereotypes of eating disorders. “People of all shapes and sizes have developed an intense fear of fat that plays havoc with their selfesteem and promotes disordered eating and exercise behavior,” said Jon Robison, WMU associate professor and leader of Health at Every Size movement. In Knauss Hall, audience mem-
bers had the opportunity to meet Roberts and participate in a lengthy Q&A session after the documentary. The audience, made up of mostly WMU students, had a positive response to the documen-
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tary overall. “I love how the movie pointed out the injustices of ignorant people in today’s society,” said Patrick Lewis, a WMU junior majoring in social work. “It showed how much people overlook obesity.” Kathy Strickland, a dietician amongst the spectators, had a critical view of the documentary. “I disagree with what was in the film,” Strickland said. “It was a good film, but I think it needed to shed a different light on obesity.” Eating disorders in the United
States are becoming more prevalent than ever before. In 2011 over eight million people suffered from eating disorders, according to the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. “As people try to achieve the ‘perfect’ body, they often develop unhealthy attitudes towards food,” Roberts said. For more information on Eating Disorders Awareness Week visit www.nationaleatingdisorders. org or www.kalamazooeatingdisorders.org.
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