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Show Take Note: 4 Friday, April 13,2007 Think you have issues? Go to www.animalshaveproblemstoo.com and see how things aren't much better in the animal kingdom. 797-1769 diversions@statesman.usu.edu Winter camping, the coldest way to die When Gotten Wheelet I was 13 years old, I made two major personal promises that have affected my life Chew on even until This now. wheel@cc.u5u.edu F o r the life of me, I can't remember the first one, but the second was a decision to never go winter camping again. Before moving to the United States from the warm, comfortable, equatorial climate of Singapore when I was 11, I never really had the opportunity to camp very much, especially in cold weather. I loathe winter. I endured my first two harsh winters as a U.S. resident in Virginia, where I thought I would die a horrible frozen death every day at school during recess. Then someone who called himself a "leader" decided it would be to our benefit take a bunch of us Boy Scouts on a camping trip in February. "Winter camping is great," they all said. "There aren't any mosquitoes." After enduring a week at summer camp and returning home looking like I caught the chicken pox a second time, the invitation sounded very appealing. i hated every minute of that frigid outing that didn't occur half a foot from the roaring fire. Golly, it must have gone down to 31 degrees that night! I more resembled a meat locker item than a Boy Scout. Unfortunately, as a 12-yearold boy, I was very clumsy. I must have hit my head on too many hard objects, because I decided to go winter camping again the following year. That's when I made my official decision. Of course at the time, I had no idea that I would ever reside in Utah, or what I have heretofore affectionately called The Frozen Tundra State. Here in Cache Valley, it is practically impossible not to go camping in the winter. Nine months out of the year, any trip can be threatened by the onslaught of snow or even worse, a canyon wind. Also, folks here have tried to confuse me about winter camping. Back home, the annual winter district camp is aptly called the Freeze-ORee. Whether it was sunny and 70 degrees outside or 20 degrees and sleeting, as soon as I heard the name FreezeO-Ree, I would immediately devise a brilliant excuse to be absent, like the great need to wash my hair. . Here in Logan," the local districts call their winter scout camp the Winter Klondike. What the hell is a Klondike anyway? I just assumed it was an outing that ended by handing out the popular frozen novelty dessert. I really like those. It turned out that what I had to do for a Klondike was endure an overnight camping trip where I got blanketed in 8 inches of snow. I was duped! Klondike bars were never to be seen, and all I got from the trip was meat-lockeritis. Obviously, my personal promise had been broken. Since then I've had to relinquish my abhorrence for winter camping and admit that I • W I N T E R CAMPING see page 7 grooves Salt Lake's break dancers to compete in front of USU students Jacob Rosen, a student at BYU-Idaho, will be competing in the popping competition. He said his Salt Lake B-boys and B-girls will be gathercompetition is "wicked awesome," but ing in Logan tonight to battle it out Rosen has won the popping contest with windmills, turtles and hand for the past two years. Still, he said glides in the hopes of picking up he's been practicing a lot to match the some mad cash. At 7 p.m. in the TSC dancers from Uprok. Ballroom, students should expect a "I'm hoping the best come up, Disk Jockey scratching beats, and because you can always learn new maybe even a suicide. things from the best,'' Rosen said. Don't worry. Nobody's getting Rosen said he originally began hurt, except maybe their pride. Its popping in 6th grade because of one the fifth Annual Busta Groove of the best, Michael Jackson. Breakdancing Competition. "It started with the moonwalk, and Shaun Kjar, the the rest is history," he said. vice president of campus He said he likes breakdancing diversity and organizabecause it is so expressive. tions, which co-sponsored "In any other dance, like ballroom the event along with campus or something, you have set moves you activities, said he's lookhave to do. But in breakdancing, it's ing forward to giving some just basics, and then you take it where exposure to the breakdancyou want to," Rosen said. ing culture. A DJ from Uprok "It's physically demanding and Records, a hip-hop-themed store physically rewarding. It leaves a lot of in Salt Lake City, will be spinning room to express yourself and discover the music for the dancers. yourself," Rosen said. "We wanted somebody to be Mig, the DJ who will be spinning able to do it authentic for them," for the competition, said he is a B-boy Kjar said. "It's an opportunity for himself, so he likes to spin what the them to show what they have." B-boys like to dance to, a mix of funk The contest will have two cat- and hip hop from the old and new egories, one for popping, and one school. But he doesn't just want those for B-boys and B-girls. First prize in the competition to dance. in each category will be $200, "The funnest part for me in spinsecond will be $100, and third ning music is having people enjoy and fourth will get $50 each. The the music that I present. When I see competition will have a preliminary people dancing to the music and I'm round, and the winners of that playing and I know it's good music, will move on to a bracket-style that's what I like," Mig said. one-on-one competition. Mig said breaks music - the kind As of Thursday, no he spins for dancing - is underapprecontestants had entered ciated in Utah, and he likes to be able from USU, but there to get it exposure. will be a lot of danc"I think everyone should listen to ers that practice at it," Mig said. Uprok coming to He said spinning takes a different compete from Salt kind of energy than breakdancing. Lake. "You have got to know what you've got, know your records. It's more your mind," Mig said. Kjar said anyone who is still interested in signing up for the competition can do so in TSC 326 or by going to the competition an hour before it begins to sign a waiver. For those who don't dance, Kjar said there will be an iPod given away as a door prize, and admission to the competition is free. BY JEN BEASLEY Staff Writer —jenbeasley@cc.iLsu. edu '?:•-& Everything goes well in 'Anything Goes' I've had the theme song from 1930s. Billy Crocker is a stowaway "Anything Goes" in my head the on the ship, hoping to break up an Tom Liljeqten last two days. The song exemplifies engagement and win the heart of what's best about the play - that it Hope Harcourt. She is sailing with her serves as almost a greatest nits collecEnglish fiance, Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, tion with some of Cole Porter's most to oe married. Crocker receives help memorable music. with his quest by Moonface Martin, a conman posing as a minister, and Songs like "It's Delovely," "I get a Reno Sweeney, a nightclub singer. Kick out of You" and "You're the Top" show off Porter's knack for combinOne of the challenges of putting Behind the on "Anything Goes" was getting the ing memorable music with cleverly Curtain ironic wordplay. actors to jump into the over-thetliljegren@cc.usu.edu If you are a fan of the movie or top style of acting and comedy that musical "Chicago," then there's a the play requires, Preeshl said. The good chance you're going to like majority of the play sticks to this style the USU theatre department's production of of vaudeville-based humor revolving-around "Anything Goes." The similarities to "Chicago" Crocker (played by Jon McBride) putting on are why the department chose to produce the various costumes and acts to be able spend play. more time with Harcourt. "Anything Goes" is similar to "Chicago" in "Anything Goes" changes from being merely that it is set in the same time period, has a simi- a farce to having an added layer of depth after lar vaudeville influence, and even has a similar intermission as they examine and satirize the theme of examining the "cult of celebrity/' said the play's director, Artemis Preeshl. The play takes place on the deck of a cruise • ' A N Y T H I N G GOES' see page 5 ship sailing from New York to England in the Jamie Crone/jamiecrane@ctusu.edu J. WHITNEY, played by Brandon Sean Pearson, places a bouy around a ship attendent as Mrs. Harcourt (Joanna Johnson) watches. EUSHA |
