While many of you may be looking forward to Movin' On and Last Stop, there's another spring festival coming up this weekend.
Arts Crawl 2010 will be held from 6-11:30 p.m. on Friday in the Arts Buildings in North Campus. Put on by Students Organizing the Multiple Arts and the Visual Art Student Allience, the multifaceted event is now in its fourth year. There will be performances by a dozen or so local bands, national acts No Age, artist Ira Sherman, as well as hands-on art demonstrations, student films, and an "epic dance party".
A list of acts and times follows after the jump.
After the success of February's JT Woodruff show, Nittany Booking will be bringing two more shows to State College.
On April 25, Jason Reeves will be performing at SOZO with Rosi Golan and TJ Cornwall, Penn State grad and veteran of the State College music scene. Reeves performed here spring of 2008 with Colbie Caillat. Then on April 29, there will be an over-21 show at Cafe 210 featuring Pat McGee and Bishop Clay.
Both shows will be $10 in advance and $12 at the door. You can buy tickets here and here through Ticketmaster.
If you're into acoustic singer-songwriters, these are two shows definitely worth checking out.
Pete Francis, former guitarist and vocalist for Dispatch, will be heading to HUB Heritage Hall on April 27 at 8 p.m. (the doors open at 7:30). The show, which is being organized by the Student Programming Association, is part of a tour to promote his new album, "The Movie We Are In", his sixth album since his former band's breakup in 2002.
Amber Rubarth, an acoustic "soul singer", will be opening for Francis.
Admission is free on a first-come, first-serve basis.
You can check out his new single, "Glue", here.
The large white and yellow structure that graced on the Pattee Mall last week was produced by Dave Celento, a professor of architecture, and his architecture class. The installation is officially called the Digital Daffodil Pavilion.
Students in last fall's ARCH 497C Digital Fabrication created the installation as a class project, but it was only constructed last week. The delay seemed to have worked out well, as the design seems perfect for spring.
All the elements were designed digitally and constructed using a computer controlled mill by the students. The design itself was inspired by flower petals and, unlike many of the sculptures around campus, students are encouraged to interact with the pavilion, rearranging petals or simply sitting inside.
Jeff Kern of the CDT seems to think so. In his most recent column, he suggests that, like a good parent, Penn State needs to crack down on its wayward charges. Apparently Penn State has been codling students, reducing 8 a.m. classes and allowing 21-year-old students to have alcohol in their dorms.
A former Borough Council member, Mr. Kern cares about the State College community, and in the wake of recent events, he has decided Penn State needs to start punishing its student body for their bad behavior. Forget the fact that a majority of these students do not engage in risky behavior, you have to go after the whole lot to get your message across.
College should be like work, Mr. Kern suggests. Make classes early and mandatory, just like the office work week. Keep students who can drink legally from having alcohol in their dorms, because that will keep the underage kids, who are real problem, from drinking.
Read on for my thoughts.
Instead of lounging around their parents' house (what seems to be the spring break destination of choice this year), students in Comm 498B International Reporting spent the week "studying" during a class trip to Shanghai, China.
This is the second year the class has taken a spring break trip, last year visiting Mexico City. The purpose of the class is to give students hands on experience reporting from the field. Part of this experience was keeping a blog updated throughout the trip. While there isn't much hard hitting reporting, there are some great pieces about the culture of Shanghai.
Unfortunately, only two days of posts have been updated on the web site, so coverage is a bit light. Hopefully we'll see more when the class publishes their in-depth pieces later on in the year.
If you're interested in taking the class next spring, it is open to all journalism majors. You may want to start preparing your application now, though. Of 60 applicants, only 15 were chosen, and the course is only growing in popularity.