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Breakdancers are known as George has been breakdancing B-boys and B-girls. They have B-boy for years, and competes in local and B-girl names they go by when battles. dancing. A B-boy or girl has their The four components in own sense of style in dancing. Most the breakdancing base are top of their names may reflect their rock, down rock, power moves, dance style and personality. Most and freezes. Any string of steps B-boys and girls dance in crews that performed in a standing position battle each other. is known as top rock. It is a mix of Battles occur when two different coordination, flexibility, style and crews are dancing head-to-head to rhythm. Down rock is any footwork out-dance one another. There are a performed on the floor, usually few different types of battles; some executed with hands and feet on are organized with judges for the the floor. Power moves require momentum and physical power to complete. 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"Relax, the rent includes electricity, water, local phone service, fitness center, expanded basic cable and is right here on campus!" 3101 University Circle - Ogden, UT 84408 - 801,626.7275 - www.weber.edu/housing i unday thru Thursday till u p . m . Friday & Saturday till Midnight Many Weber State University students will be attending various homecoming activities this week on campus and in downtown Ogden. The WSU Department of Student Activities and Involvement expects up to 2,000 students at each of this week'sactivities.That's2,000students attending out of more than 18,000 total WSU students. So while many students are anxiously anticipating the annual dance, football game and festivities, most WSU students aren't planning on participating at all. That isn't for lack of an effort to involve everyone. Ana Velasquez, WSU Campus Activities Director, understands that attending homecoming activities will be hard for many non-traditional or commuter students, but says that there will be many activities on and off campus all week for everyone to participate in. "Homecoming is for everyone," Velasquez said. "There are lots of things to do all vypek. It's not just the dance." Velasquez said that many people think that homecoming is just the dance on Friday night and don't want to go because "it's not their kind of thing" or because they don't want to find a date. Nancy Collinwood, also on staff with WSU Activities, said that all sorts of different activities have been planned to attract different students. That's why some of the activities happen in the morning (breakfast on Wednesday) and some happen off campus (Paint the Town Purple in downtown Ogden Monday night). Out of30students randomly asked around campus, 27 said they weren't going. Three said maybe. While this survey may not be an accurate representation of WSU, three out of 30 is the 10 percent attendance the activities department expects. Not only are many students not planning on attending any of the homecoming events, most of these students don't think many other students will attend either. "Because there are so many nontraditional students at Weber," Scott Smith, a WSU senior, said, "most people have other things to do." Alex Jeppson, a WSU English student, said he wouldn't be attending. "I live at home," he said. "So I don't know anybody on campus." Jason White, a junior, hadn't even heard about any homecoming events, but was sure that he had other more pressing matters. "I have no time," he expressed. "I'd Like to go. but between work and schoolwork I'm tapped out." Students generally seem to think that they are either too busy to attend or that homecoming will just turn out to be a hassle for them. Smith said he's never attended homecoming in all of his years at Weber. "I'm sure it would be fun," he said "But not fun enough to go to the effort to actually go." Many students who were asked had similar sentiments. But it isn't just that Weber is a commuter school or that it's just the non-traditional students who won't be attending. Students don't seem to think homecoming will be fun. "I went once," said Erin HillDowdle, "It's kinda not fun." Hill-Dowdle, a graduate student, said that homecoming isn't as exciting for college kids as it is for high school kids. She said because people are older and married that they aren't as interested in going to school activities. Some students said that if they did attend any of the homecoming activities, it would be the football game. Cyndi Brown, a senior, said she thinks homecoming is different for college students than for high school students. "For college students, homecoming isn't about dances and kissing under a tower," Brown said. "That stuff is nostalgic and cute, but let's be real, homecoming is about football! Weber State, Weber State, Great, Great, Great!" Comment on this story at wsusignpost.com. |