Shawnee State University's Student Programming Board had a very busy first three weeks of the spring 2010 semester. During Homecoming week, SPB coordinated activities each day leading up to the game and dance Saturday Jan. 23. The 'Pink-Out' game was a success as fans packed the stands in their pink shirts to cheer on the Bears and await the announcement of the homecoming king and queen.
The Vagina Monologues will be performed Friday, Feb. 5 and Saturday, Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kahl Theatre, which is located inside the VernRiffe Center For the Arts. Ticket are $10 general admission; $25 patron tickets (reserved seating as token of appreciation for extra donation).
Recognize this friendly face? This is Vi Hill, one of the many friendly faces you encounter when you visit the Bear's Den cafeteria here at SSU. Vi swipes our cards or collects our money for lunch every day; however, most of us know nothing about who she is, where she came from or what make her Vi.
A "new" dance craze has taken over Shawnee State University-belly dance. Student Activities has begun offering an extracurricular belly dance class, open to all students. The class is taught by foreign exchange student from Kazakhstan, Aina Amiralina. Amiralina, who is also a member of SSU's Dance Team, has been dancing for 12 years in styles such as Russian, Jazz, Ballet and Hip-hop.
As video games continue evolving, revolving and involving more multiplayer and online content, teamwork has become an essential trait among gamers across the consoles. Some games have made such a development the basis of their storylines (see Army of Two or Left 4 Dead 2) while others have yet to grace the online community.
The national freestyle dance group, the Groovaloos played a nearly sold out performance Jan. 26 at the Verne Riffe Center for the Art's main theatre. People from all over the area piled into the theatre to catch one of the Groovaloo's only Ohio performances.
Time is fast approaching for the SSU Student Writing Awards. The deadline for submissions is Monday, March 1. Three winners will be chosen from each of the categories: poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction. Entries will be judged by Prof. Neil Carpathios and other members of the English and Humanities Department.
If you have something happening on campus, a fundraiser, a play, a poetry bash, etc, how do you get your information out? There are the posters put up by the student Activities Office, a press release sent through the communications office; or even here in the Chronicle.
Can't you just sit on your thumbs for a while? Perhaps I'm ancient, but I find the fact that so many people are completely engrossed with texting to be disturbing. Sure, I'm a non-traditional student, a little bit older than most others, but I appreciate and love technology too.
Aries (March 21-April 20) Those who are working on creative projects at home will find this to be a productive period; get as much done as you can in the next two weeks. Taurus (April 21-May 21) Someone may give you some advantageous information, but be wary of old habits.
The Lunchtime Poll is a new item which replaces the Campus Views man-about-town survey of previous editions. While Campus Views gave only four students a forum to voice their answers to the questions posed to them, this new survey feature seeks to investigate greater trends in student viewpoints by interviewing a larger number of people.