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I can’t believe that junior year has come and gone so quickly. Somewhere along

the way I lost track of time — probably around spring break. Now, the only thing between me and a rockin’ summer in the Champs is fi nals. I think it’s about time to put up my Facebook status about how I have 0 days to being a college Senior. OMGGGGGG!!!

I can’t exactly say the idea of perpetually hur-tling towards real adulthood is particularly jiv-ing my turkey at the moment. I’m also not one of those people who is clinging desperately to every college memory. I’m just ready to make the most of the time I have left.

Summer is that blissful, dreamy time when there aren’t any classes and responsibility is usually close to nil. Hours lazily fl oat by, days meld to-gether and sometimes, weeks go by without me ever knowing the date.

Normally, I have a lot planned for summer. I fi nd when I have a huge list of awesome plans, none of them actually get done. So, I’ve scaled it back a bit this summer. Instead of just willy-nilly adding things to my summer to-do list and exclaiming my warm-weathered desires for all to hear, I decided to take a minute and really think about what I want to accomplish this summer.

First thing on my to-do list is a road trip to New Orleans. I’ve never been, and I hear it’s the bomb-diggity. And nothing says summer like ill-planned car trips with mildly responsible 22-year-olds.

The next thing on my to-do list is to get in shape. I think this is probably on everyone’s summer to-do list. I realize I am also about three months late to this game. Normally, people will themselves out of bed in the cold months so that when June rolls around, they are in beach-body mode. I, on the other hand, am one of those people that waits until it is way too late to save myself from initial summer embarrassment because it took skimpy clothing and high 90’s to make me realize that I should probably go to the gym. No bother.

Everything else that I want to do is fi led under “would be great if I could get some of this done.” I’ll report back in a few months.

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It’s hard for me, buzz, to say this, but I think you, my faithful reader, and I need to take a break. It’s not going to be one of those breaks that never work because we’ll fi nd we are better off reading other people. I’m sure you will not fi nd another magazine like me, and surely I will not fi nd a more committed reader than you. We’ve been devoted to each other for how many months now? You know I love you and will still be here every Thursday as scheduled. Though you may be going home for the summer, I must stay here, at least in my physical form. It’s not you; it’s me.

It’s just for a few months. Once school is back in session, I’ll sneak up on you like stress, and we’ll be together again. I promise.

But of course I wouldn’t leave you without any reprieve. The buzz website will be up and running better than ever in early summer, so it’ll be almost like having a Skype date, except I won’t be able to respond. You can make kissy faces at your computer, and though I’m only a magazine, I’ll know that you care deeply for me.

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GRIPES» Crowds: The Illinois Mara-thon is a pretty great event, and

I enjoyed it a lot this past weekend, but I would have liked it a lot more if there had been about fi ve people watching it with me instead of what seemed like fi ve million.

With equal parts claustrophobia and agora-phobia, being caught up in the masses of people put me in a full-on fun-free zone. Yes, we were all just trying to fi nd our friends and family after they fi nished their big race like anyone else, but couldn’t you tell I was in a big hurry and really, really wanted to see them? JEEZ. And they say running is a solitary sport.

» Rain: Rain gets a lot of undeserved praise, be it from the kiss in The Notebook, Singing in the Rain, the supposedly fun allure of puddle-jumping or the lie that rain makes things clean. As far as I’m concerned, the only thing rain is good for is soaking your shoes at the start of the day and being a gift that keeps on giving you pruned skin on your feet. Rain causes all sorts of harm by leaving behind worms on the sidewalks, caus-ing fl oods and leaving water spots on cars. Ever heard of acid rain? Well, you defi nitely haven’t heard of acid sunlight because it is too perfect and nice for that.

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» Mom Texts: At 6:00 on May 1st, my Mom sent her fi rst text message. It read, “Hi nick im trying to tch myself how 2 text w this phone aUnt ceil passed away yesterday (sic, so sic, sic bro sic)” This text is weird for a bunch of reasons. Why did my mom want to start tex-ting if she’s avoided it for so long? Why did she choose an event obviously better explained over the phone — better yet, in person (best yet, over Skype) — for her fi rst text? Why did she struc-ture the sentence so the irrelevant information proceeds the death notice? Why didn’t she just type “to” since it’s probably harder to fi nd the 2 over t and o?

All in all, weird text. Also, don’t worry about laughing at my dead family members. It doesn’t make them any deader. Aunt Ceil was old. I only saw her in person twice (a third time if you count Skype), ages 6 and 10 (I made up the Skype thing for the sake of the joke). I don’t remember much from our visit, but I told her I loved X-Men, and she knew how to draw Wolverine because she has a daughter also interested in X-Men and was a talented drawer. Also, she recommended I read a book called The Beach by Alex Garland over the phone once. In tribute, I will read that book. RIP

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Avengers Assemble A refresher course on the summer’s most anticipated franchise. By Jamila Tyler

U nless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Marvel’s latest entry into

the superhero genre, The Avengers, set to release May 4. You might be left scratching your head if you haven’t obsessively seen all of what Marvel had to offer over the past five years. Just who are the heroes in this summer blockbuster, and where have you seen them before?Tony Stark/Iron ManLast Seen In: Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010)»What You Need To Know: Tony Stark is an ar-rogant, narcissistic, borderline-alcoholic billion-aire genius with a self-created suit of armor that he uses to battle crime. Stark starts out in The Avengers, having been courted by S.H.I.E.L.D. (a top secret government agency tasked with stop-ping superpower-based threats) director Nick Fury to join the government’s top secret Avengers Initiative, a project meant to band together Earth’s mightiest heroes in one super group.Steve Rogers/Captain AmericaLast Seen In: Captain America (2011)»What You Need To Know: Turned from skinny weakling to super soldier and American icon during WWII, Steve Rogers spent the better part of the ’40s battling Nazis on the front lines. His last battle to save the world left him frozen in the Arctic tundra for 70 years. Flash forward to the present, where Steve has been discovered and unfrozen to be a part of the Avengers Initiative.ThorLast Seen In: Thor (2011)»What You Need to Know: Thor, AKA the Norse

god of thunder, has a really big hammer with a nigh unpronounceable name. His arrival to Earth is met with skepticism by the other avengers, mostly be-cause he claims to be a demigod. His sibling rivalry with his younger (and much more psychotic) broth-er Loki is the main conflict in The Avengers.Natasha Romanoff/Black WidowLast Seen In: Iron Man 2 (2010)»What You Need to Know: As an undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Romanoff posed as Tony Stark’s secretary in Iron Man 2 to see if he was fit to join the Avengers Initiative. She has no superpowers per se but is loaded to the brim with deadly fighting moves and an expert level knowledge of weaponry. She may be the only girl on the team, but she definitely isn’t just there for eye candy.Clint Barton/HawkeyeLast Seen In: Thor (2011)»What You Need to Know: After his brief cameo in last year’s Thor, Hawkeye returns as a part of the Avengers Initiative. He is the other non-superpow-ered member of the team. However, Barton makes up for it with his expert marksmanship skills with a bow and arrow.Bruce Banner/The HulkLast Seen In: The Incredible Hulk (2008)»What You Need to Know: Bruce Banner is a bril-liant scientist with some pretty serious anger issues (to say the least). His exposure to gamma radiation makes him turn into a giant green monster whenev-er he gets too angry. In this state, Banner is more of a liability than an asset to the team. Lucky for him, the Avengers Initiative needs all the help they can get.

Nick FuryLast Seen In: The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011) Captain America (2011)»What You Need to Know: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury is in charge of putting together the Avengers Initiative. Fury proves that you don’t need superpow-ers — or the use of both eyes — to be the toughest guy in the room.LokiLast Seen In: Thor (2011)»What You Need to Know: Loki, the Norse god of Mischief, certainly will live up to his title in The Avengers. After attempting and failing to both kill his brother Thor and become ruler of Asgard (his ancestral land) in Thor, Loki’s going to try his hand at ruling over all of Earth. It’s going to take the com-bined might of all members of the Avengers Initia-tive to stop him.

I f you’re a horror fan and have not yet had a chance to see The Cabin in the Woods, go

ahead and stop reading this, believe the hype, and steer your jalopy over to the local Cineplex. It will not disappoint. Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon have put together a campy and hilarious satire that is thoughtful, terrifying when it needs to be, and — most importantly — a heartfelt love letter to fans of the genre. One sequence in particular toward the movie’s closing is an obscene spec-tacle well worth the price of admission. The film

does manage to fall into some of the very same traps of the genre that it means to dismember, but that does not stop it from being 100% original, brilliantly introspective and damn terrifying.

It’s probably too late to go into this one com-pletely cold, but the less you know the better. The film opens with all of the familiar, hokey horror tropes in place. All the characters are there: the sexy smart girl, the sexy slut girl, the cute brainiac and the dumb jock. And let’s not forget the philosophic pothead. They’re all set to spend a weekend at a cabin in the woods through some sort of elusive connection to somebody’s cousin (shaaaady). On the way, they stop at a gas station straight out of Texas Chainsaw. The movie title alone lets you know that Evil Dead mise en scène is right around the corner. And the setup is, in fact, too perfect. The kids are being followed and completely monitored by a whole organization of control-ling eggheads in some laboratory-like facility. I won’t give away anything else; just know that all the pawns are in place, something’s amiss and from then on all bets are off.

I’ve never been that big a fan of horror comedies. There’s something delightfully tongue-in-cheek about nearly all horror movie gore, and to point that out for humor’s sake has always seemed a bit redundant to me. All the wink-winking and nudge-nudging is nauseating. But The Cabin in the Woods impressively avoids this banality by means of its unique and thoroughly original meta-ficitonal ele-ment. It looks into how silly horror movies really are and how we love them for that silliness. But not all pitfalls are avoided. The film hits you over the head with plot points regarding the purpose of the shadowy corporation. Certain serious lines are unintentionally comical. I suppose issues like these will always be horror’s curse. Yet Cabin is indicative of Whedon’s pithy, engaging writing style and the perfect prompt for me to check out Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I have personally never seen an episode, and I’m sure it’s dated as all hell, but if it is anything at all like Cabin, then it must be very clever, heartfelt and in-tune with what it wants to accomplish. Still, I have a hard time imagining the WB allowing a girl to be dragged via bear trap across a forest floor.

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doughnut or donut?Champaign-Urbana tries out trends in the baking industry

By Annalisa Rodriguez

F loyd Reed, manager of Royal Donuts in Dan-ville, has seen trends in the baking industry

come and go. A few years ago, everyone had to sell croissants. Then bagels were the next big thing — still popular, though not as much as they used to be. But doughnuts are here to stay, he says.

“Over the years, things pop up, and then they kind of go away for a while,” Reed said. “I think the reason for that is it’s just a basic human thing that we all like to try new things — well, most of us do. I think doughnuts are probably always going to be around in some form or another.”

Royal Donuts serves yeast doughnuts and cake doughnuts, which can each be topped with a va-riety of frostings — chocolate, vanilla, cherry and unique flavors like strawberry cream cheese — as well as basic glaze frosting. Customers can also purchase éclairs, a yeast-raised product filled with cream and vanilla, and cream horns, which are filled with “angel filling” which is a white, fluffy mix-ture. Yeast doughnuts are a lighter, fluffier texture, whereas cake doughnuts are heavier and denser because they are not made with yeast. The most popular doughnuts, Reed reports, are the store’s glazed and chocolate iced yeast doughnuts.

Reed sees comfort as a main reason why people are drawn to the doughnut as a dessert. “Doughnuts can best be described as a comfort food, and we

all need that to a certain degree,” Reed said. “Like anything, you need to do that with some degree of moderation; you don’t want to sit there and eat a dozen doughnuts. It’s not unusual for me to see people fresh from a five mile run drop by and get a doughnut, and their explanation is they’re treating themselves; they’re rewarding themselves.”

Another dessert trend that seems to have grown in popularity recently is that of the fro-yo. City Girl Yogurt, formerly Skinni Girl Yogurt, opened in Urbana this past September. The restaurant al-ways has twelve flavors running, with over forty toppings to choose from. The twelve flavors are rotated weekly from a stock of over 110 flavors, which includes the standard vanilla, chocolate and fruit flavors, as well as more unique flavors such as maple bacon doughnut, thin mint cookie and angel food cake.

The restaurant also has a new line of Greek yo-gurt. It offers non-dairy and sugar-free yogurts, and City Girl Yogurt’s product is all-natural, which owner Amanda Yates sees as contributing to its popularity. Yates said the store developed a steady following even through the winter and has given out over 2,000 loyalty program cards since open-ing in September.

“It’s a really healthy way to treat yourself, and it tastes just like ice cream,” Yates said. “It’s creamy

like ice cream. I think that’s probably the biggest reason that frozen yogurt is coming back — be-cause the country has started to see that they need to be healthier, and this is a great option for still having your dessert but it being better for you than eating ice cream.”

Amanda Wyatt, owner of Cream and Flutter in Champaign, agrees with Reed that the tendency to want to try new things is at the heart of emerg-ing trends. Cream and Flutter has three signature cupcakes — chocolate, vanilla and red velvet cake, which Wyatt says is their most popular flavor. In addition to the signature flavors, the store has a rotating menu of seasonal flavors. The current seasonal flavors are pink lemonade and Mexican hot chocolate.

Cupcakes are not the only trendy food Cream and Flutter sells. Wyatt said she has seen interest rise in the restaurant’s pinwheel French macaroons, which come in six flavors: vanilla, chocolate, straw-berry, passion fruit, pistachio and hazelnut. “We’re really looking for unique style, products, things that are not easy to find, like you wouldn’t find them in other shops in Champaign and maybe not even in a several hour radius of you,” Wyatt said.

Wyatt sees many reasons for the cupcake’s trendiness at the moment. “I think that it’s nice to have a single serving of cake that is sort of all

your own,” Wyatt said. “They’re cute; they’re nostalgic. I think people sort of have good feel-ings about cupcakes, you know, when they were children and things like that. But I also think you can get a lot of flexibility in terms of flavors in a cupcake, so instead of buying a cake that serves ten people — you have to pick one flavor in that case — you can take home six cupcakes, and they would all be different flavors, so I think that’s kind of fun for people.” So whether it be a doughnut, a cup of fro-yo, a macaroon or a cupcake, sample one of these trendy desserts (or all) before the next thing catches the crowd’s attention.

Finals Fuel Oatmeal, fruit and orange juice are your friends during the next two weeksBy Melanie Kuta

S o it’s that time of the semester again; the time when more and more hours are spent in the

UGL and less hours in bed sleeping: Finals. While the taste of summer and maybe even graduation is nearing the corner, finals are the last hurdle to ending the year strong. For most people, though, the sleepless nights are accompanied by runs to Late Night for burgers or 3 a.m. calls for pizza.

This unhealthy late night eating may ease your stress in the moment, but the next day you will only

end up feeling fatigued, bloated and not focused. A better way to stay fueled during finals week is mak-ing sure to eat healthy, even though that might be the last thing on your mind. Eat natural foods with key nutrients such as fiber, protein and natural sugar. Although there are many examples of foods that contain these, some suggestions are nuts, fresh fruit, oatmeal and popcorn. Nuts are perfect because they are full of protein and fiber which will keep your mind in perfect form and ready to ace your microbiology final on the morning after Reading Day. On that note, whatever the time of your final exams, make sure to get up with a sufficient amount of time to wake up your brain, eat some power foods, and maybe do some last minute reviewing.

Oatmeal and fresh fruit would be a perfect power breakfast for those of you who aren’t so lucky and ended up with an 8 a.m. final. Oatmeal is filling, so you won’t get a growling stomach during your three-hour exam, and fresh fruit is full of natural sugar and carbohydrates which will keep your brain alert throughout the day. Another bad habit many students adopt during finals week is drinking energy drinks. While they may provide instant energy to keep you up during all-nighters, they also will cause

you to “crash” after it wears off. Instead of these high sugar drinks, try orange juice or tea. Orange juice has enough natural sugar to give you a boost, and tea has natural caffeine to keep you awake. So the simple keys to remember are: get your fill of protein and sugar with natural foods, and when it comes to caffeine, tea is your friend.

Baked oatmeal with Banana and Berries»2 cups old fashioned rolled oats»1/3 cup light brown sugar or 1/4 cup honey»1 teaspoon baking powder»1 tablespoon grated orange zest»1 teaspoon cinnamon»1/2 teaspoon salt»1/2 cup walnut pieces, chopped»1 cup sliced strawberries»1 cup blueberries»1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips»2 cups soy or skim milk»1 large egg»3 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled»2 teaspoons vanilla extract»2 ripe bananas, peeled, 1/2-inch slices

Preheat oven to 375°F and generously spray the inside of a 9 x 13 inch baking dish with cooking spray and place on a baking sheet.

In a large bowl, mix together the oats, sugar, bak-ing powder, orange zest, cinnamon, salt, half the walnuts, half the strawberries, half the blueberries and half the chocolate. (Save the other half of straw-berries, blueberries, walnuts and chocolate for the top of the oatmeal). In another large bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, butter and vanilla extract.

Add the oat mixture to a prepared baking dish. Arrange the remaining strawberries, walnuts and chocolate on top. Add the banana slices to the top then pour the milk mixture over everything. Gently shimmy/shake the baking dish to help the milk mix-ture go throughout the oats.

Bake 30 to 35 minutes, or until top is nicely golden brown and the milk mixture has set. For an extra tasty top, sprinkle a tablespoon or so of extra brown sugar on top, then place back in the oven under the broiler and broil for 20-30 seconds. Serve warm with an extra sprinkle of brown sugar or drizzle of maple syrup of honey.

Good luck with finals, fellow Illini!

Used with permission from Eva Blue and the Creative Commons

Used with permission from Eva Blue and the Creative Commons

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Fashioning an expressive outletCollege Fashion Week at Illinois gives students rare opportunities

by Emma Cullen

F or the second year, College Fashion Week allowed sartorially-inclined students to pur-

sue and develop their interest. From April 9 to 15, students were given the chance to explore fashion and other tangential subjects including public re-lations, design, advertising, styling, photography and writing.

The program hosted a week of events, com-plete with a trunk show, a runway show and many giveaways to promote fashion on the University’s campus and allow students to express them-selves and have a great time with clothing.

Fashion Week began last year under the name College Couture Week, when several students in-terested in fashion wanted a way to channel their interests. Last year, the event began on a much smaller scale but was still successful. However, many of the students who began the program either graduated or went abroad, so it was left in the hands of University senior Jenn Ruppert, one of the original founders. Since last year, Ruppert worked to completely restructure and expand it.

“I realized College Couture is an oxymoron; there is nothing couture about college fashion,” she said. “So I re-branded the company and made it more accessible to students all over campus.”

Ruppert also used personal contacts and so-cial media, which she credits for most of Fashion Week’s success, to spread the company’s name around campus. Following Ruppert’s changes, the staff quadrupled in size, recruiting students from Illini Public Relations and Advertising, Greek ambassadors and other promoters. There are now around 40 general members and an even bigger pool of students who partook in the events.

College Fashion Week encourages student interaction because of the fashion industry’s dependence on networking and connections.

The program features student artists and gives them publicity, while they contribute to events like the fashion show and allow the week-long series of events to be completely of, by and for Illinois students.

“We just want to help students who love fash-ion,” Ruppert said. “College Fashion Week gives students the chance to extend their connections and expand their knowledge. At the end of the day, we are all broke college students, so let’s help each other.”

This philosophy, along with the vision of the students who founded College Couture and the changes implemented by Ruppert, are resulting in a rapid growth in the popularity of Fashion Week. Although it originated at the University, over 40 different schools, both domestic and international, have expressed interest in starting their own branches.

“The world is so viral, and College Fashion Week is a very versatile program,” Ruppert said of the massive influx of applications from other schools. “It’s a process, and I’m taking it slowly, but broadening the company is definitely in the works.”

For now, Fashion Week looks forward to many more years of success at the University. Illini Public Relations and Advertising funnels several students into Fashion Week, one of them being University freshman Adriana Garst. Of her ex-perience with the event, she said she is happy to promote fashion and absorb herself in clothes, one of her passions, while also developing a use-ful knowledge of public relations.

“I get to do so many things, all of which are help-ing me learn practical job skills while having fun,” she said. “Students can do just about anything with College Fashion Week: PR, decorations commit-

tee, sponsorship committee. You naturally build so many connections and meet great people.”

Ruppert is an example of how Fashion Week gives students opportunities both within fashion and beyond. She does not aspire to a career in fashion, but she said she loves event planning.

“I enjoy fashion, but I don’t enjoy the industry per se,” Ruppert said. “What I do love is branding and communications.”

While Fashion Week may only be a week-long event, student involvement is not limited to sev-en days out of the year. Ruppert said the whole purpose of the event is to encourage fashion amongst Illinois students, not just for a week, but all the time. While all of the work may culminate within a week, its effects are echoed long after.

The wide audience reached by Fashion Week this year is also causing brands to take notice. Major companies are realizing the vast adver-tising potential of Fashion Week, especially be-cause of its prevalence on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and are expressing interest in getting involved. Ruppert said she is pleasantly shocked by the level of response generated by Fashion Week.

“It blows my mind,” she said. “You can tweet someone at a company, and they can get back to you in ten seconds, and they can be your future business partner. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. So ask away.”

While funding for Fashion Week is still in the developmental phases, with membership dues and fundraising being the primary methods of the program’s funding, Ruppert and Garst pre-dict that investors will take notice and more sponsors will flow in. Ford Models and Rent the Runway contributed to Fashion Week this year, hosting booths at Fashion Week events. Neither

company financially sponsored Fashion Week this year but expressed interest in doing so in the future. For the time being, however, they both serve as a huge asset to Fashion Week, and vice versa, by hosting events in exchange for public-ity. Ruppert is proud of the event’s symbiotic relationships with companies, speaking of its cohesion with both large companies and local brands. They are involved with Roland Realty, Canopy Club, Beats Antique and Le Shoppe, all of which were very helpful in providing venues, clothing and promotions. Ruppert’s personal connections were also a large component of Fashion Week’s success, for she works an addi-tional job as the event coordinator for Cochrane bars, which include Red Lion and The Clybourne.

Ultimately, Fashion Week wants to urge stu-dents to embrace their creativity through fashion and express themselves. The University lacks a fashion program, so the events provide an ex-tracurricular outlet for the many students who love clothes.

“There are so many kids at U of I who love clothes,” Ruppert said. “College Fashion Week shows that fashion can prevail even in the middle of central Illinois. It allows kids to do what they love and get themselves involved and connected to a field of interest.”

Fashion Week’s goal is to promote student interest in fashion, so it has chosen to work to-gether with other fashion clubs and organiza-tions instead of taking a competitive stance.

“We rely on other companies, and they rely on us,” Ruppert said. “Why burn bridges when you can build them?”

Because Fashion Week is not a registered stu-dent organization, it is open to both students and other Champaign-Urbana residents.

Photos used with permission from College Fashion Week

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community Editorial How the government owns the media and manufactures consentBy Kumars Salehi

Here’s another buzz Community Editorial! It’s by a member of the CU community, and thus does not necessarily represent the opinions of buzz or Illini Media. This week, Kumars Salehi, a senior in Media and Cinema Studies, gives his thoughts on corporate media. You can read more from Kumars at www.commiedeathsquad.wordpress.com

A nyone with a Jon Stewart addiction or a ru-dimentary sense of the ridiculous can make

the connection between the crypto-fascism of the Republican Party and Fox News Channel, with their shared language of “job creators” and bombastic warnings of the tyranny of taxation and “political correctness gone too far.” The propaganda arm of a totalitarian state is usually called “state TV.” In a corporate capitalist political-economic system, what does “state TV” look like? It looks like the cor-porate media, cable news networks, newspapers — the whole nine yards.

If we truly have a free press, then why is “inde-pendent” media the exception and not the rule? Why are radical perspectives so effectively excised from public discourse, marginalized and ridiculed as “fringe”? Our popular satire often mocks the state TV of other, more obviously totalitarian countries and the citizens who may or may not naively accept their state’s framing of issues. Viewers are fooled by their own state TV if they think that Fox News is the only way in which the elite sets the limits of acceptable discourse. In the case of Democrats and Republicans, both Fox and its “liberal” counterparts, CNN and MSNBC, systematically dramatize their differences, using the language of “right” and “left.”

All the while, the most frightening implications per-tain to those issues that are either normalized or otherwise excised from public discourse: those on which “both sides” more or less agree.

The corporate-owned “left” serves the interests of the state apparatus by shutting radical perspectives out of the mainstream discourse — thus reifying itself as the only acceptable (during the Red Scares, the only legal) “opposite” to “the right.” The least ambivalent support on MSNBC is for consumer rights and the right of corporate-bought unions to exist, as well as for race- and class-blind social liberalism on issues like gay marriage and abortion. True to the dialectic of the partisan mythology, the strongest opposition is not to a particular ideology or stance, but to the GOP.

No one doubts that liberals, with their language of political correctness and devotion to the utopian myth of a “toothless” capitalism, voice concerns about oppression and exploitation. In the partisan mythology, this is precisely their utility; while the democratizing language of liberalism persists, it is a doctrine whose revolutionary and even reformist potential has long been sucked dry, like the prover-bial milkshake, by the workings of capitalism. Quick case in point: on a recent Daily Show, progressive hero Rachel Maddow actually referred to the anti-democratic war machine that is the military-indus-trial complex as “all of these really reasonable deci-sions made by politicians who have understandable frustrations.” Meanwhile, Maddow and her ilk cast Obama as “our guy,” while his administration pri-oritizes welfare for investment bankers and not only prolongs, but expands the much-reviled neocon-

servative foreign policy of the Bush administration.Liberal cheerleading for Obama within the cor-

porate media effectively stifles the urgency of our need for radical, anti-imperialist, anti-cap-italist politics. This has long been an essential function of centrism. In the corporate state of advanced capitalism, your unconditional sup-port for Democrats constitutes a de facto be-trayal of precisely those liberal values that the political center likes to think separates it, in some dichotomous sense, from the U.S. right wing. The two-party system creates a dynamic illusion of democracy underwritten by the impe-rialist demands of global capitalism. In poll after poll on the cable news networks, “disapproval” of Congress among Americans corresponds to a tragic but telling belief that the problem with our two-party system is that there is not enough cooperation — that it is too polarized. While the corporate media spent March 15 obsessing over the election and defending one or another side of the current partisan bickering over energy policy, a bipartisan free trade deal with South Korea (the largest since NAFTA) went into effect. On Fox News? Not a peep. Not even from The Colbert Report. The liberal “equal validity of perspectives” is cynically used to preclude politics outside of the capitalist-imperialist spectrum. Truly, I can think of no more frightening occurrence than “Republicans and Democrats coming together” in support of an issue.

Yet, it is superficial difference that reinforces the illusion; the President and media liberals have been known to dismiss the GOP’s cries of “class

warfare” out of hand as a fantasy. They’re not quite right. Class warfare exists; it is the perpetual state of struggle between strata of society with different relationships to the state apparatus. It is ironic that the only pole of the mainstream discourse that ac-knowledges that class warfare exists is the pole that only recognizes class struggle when it is directed at the elite, by the elite, in the altogether castrated form of a slightly higher tax rate. The rhetoric of the center rarely strays from the interests of the middle class — God forbid — to those of the working class and the “poor,” a word President Obama has not said in front of cameras for quite some time.

Media complaints about partisan polarization “on both sides of the aisle” will always mystify the true totalitarian nature of the media in corporate capitalism. There is no aisle, and it has no sides, except the contours of the language we use to de-scribe ideological systems of control. Corporate media is why the largest recipient of Wall Street campaign contributions in history, a man whose three Chiefs of Staff all got rich on Wall Street, is represented as the candidate of “the people.”

So should you get your news from The Daily Show? Only if the most pressing issues we face today are Herman Cain quoting lyrics from Pokémon mov-ies and the sensational bigotry of Rick Santorum. Should you watch only Al-Jazeera and Democracy Now? Not even that. The only way to maintain the critical attitude necessary for radical change is to relentlessly call into question the entire scope of ideological frameworks around us and the vested interests they conceal. The only way to resist, Mad-Eye Moody once said, is “constant vigilance.”

Illustration by Michael Zhang

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End of thE yEar EntErtainmEntA few UIUC classes put together end-of-semester art projects

by Jessica Bourque

It’s exam time, which means most of us are probably strung out on caffeine and falling

asleep face-first in our textbooks as we catch up on a semester’s worth of readings (...or is that just me?). But a few UIUC classes are taking a different approach to finals week by incorporating end-of-the-semester art proj-ects. Two such classes, Art 254 and English 398, offer some free entertainment for finals-weary students.

Reinterpreting Shakespearean balladsWho: Students Julie Guzman, Stacey Klouda,

Kristin Petersheim and Sarah LangerWhat: A performance of a ballad inspired by Hamlet. The topic is celebrity culture.When: Thursday May 3 (reading day) at 7:00 pm Where: Mary Kay Peer lounge in the English Building

Students in Lori Humphrey Newcomb’s Eng-lish Honors seminar will be performing a live broadside ballad, reminiscent of those per-formed in Shakespeare’s time. The broadside ballad, which was essentially a poem or song printed on a large sheet of paper, was a popular

and cheap form of entertainment in the 16th century. Students will be reinterpreting some of Shakespeare’s plays to make their own ballads.

The upcoming performance will be the last of four; the class was split into four groups, each in charge of writing, producing and performing their own ballad. Last week, one group per-formed a ballad titled “Illinois Loyalty” in front of the Alma Mater. Their ballad, also adapted from Hamlet, chose the topic of “something rotten at U of I” You can expect today’s bal-lad to be similar. Read an excerpt of “Illinois Loyalty” above.

To be or not to be? Now gather ‘round, And hear the question we ask at the sound Of cheers of loyalty and pride so true: To be or not be the orange and blue? Old Princeton yells her tiger clear and loud, And Wisconsin sings her varsity proud, But something’s rotten at the U of I, Hidden behind our Oskee-Wow-Wow cry. Students’ prospects dimmed by a list of clout, Should we uphold standards riddled with doubt? Alma Mater our eyes are all on you, Do you stand for what you claim to do? For honest labor and learning we stand, But debt and corruption shadow our land, Blessed symbol of the old and the new, Now stained gray are your colors once so true. Dear old Alma Mater we hail to thee, Let our leaders show us some loyalty, Give us the reason to always be true, Forever to be the orange and blue.

Student-run art exhibition

What: Phasing Faces Art ExhibitWhen: Friday May 5Where: Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity on 1st and ArmoryWho: Students enrolled in Painting II

A few sophomores in the art program are rounding out their semester with a student-produced art show. Everything in the show, from the venue to the catering, was organized by the students of Patrick Earl Hammie’s Paint-ing II class.

“Everybody has a part in the show,” said Mi-chael Zhang, one of the show’s promoters. Stu-dents were given positions such as director, as-sistant director, curator and more, all of which were selected through class voting.

“I think we’re learning a lot about organizing ... Most of us have had art shows in high school, but we’ve never had to do anything like this,” said Zhang of putting together the event.

The two class-elected curators have chosen only the students’ best pieces for the exhibition. About 15 large, stand-alone pieces, some as big as 6 feet tall, along with about 10 smaller, series-long pieces will be on display. The con-tent of the work varies as the class worked on three major assignments throughout the se-mester: still life, landscape and figure painting. The primary medium was oil paints, but works of other media will be on display as well.

To find out more about the event, check out Phasing Faces official Facebook page. Above is a preview of some of the show’s pieces.

Painting by Michael Zhang Drawing by David Huettner

Drawing by Jessica Rojas.

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The life of a puppeTeer A profile of local puppeteer Ginger Lozar

by Jessica Bourque

Some days she’s a mermaid, a leprechaun, a gingerbread man, a wolf or a witch. She can

speak in a convincing Irish brogue or a smooth southern drawl, and her age can vary anywhere from 10 to 100 years — it all depends on the day you see her.

For her, playing pretend is more than just a hobby — it’s a profession. But today, sitting at her kitchen table, she is just Ginger. In her hands, she holds a lovingly-made scrapbook — the binding worn and stretched thanks to the hundreds of photos filling its pages – devoted entirely to her job.

If there is one thing to be said about Ginger Lozar, it’s that she loves being a puppeteer.

“It’s just magic — the fact that we can breathe life into an inanimate object and then create a sto-ry. And getting people to enjoy it, it’s just great.”

Flipping through her scrapbook, she stops to point out some of her favorite memories: the impromptu show she did in an Indian snake charmer village, the time she performed at the summer solstice parade in Morinesio, Italy – the list goes on.

“This picture here is from a show I did in Egypt,” she says, pulling out a photo depict-ing a group of Muslim children, parents and grandparents gathered around her feet. “It was interesting because in the Muslim religion, they don’t believe in making dolls or any other hu-man representations so I really wasn’t sure how I would be accepted. But look at all the people laughing. They just loved it!”

Puppetry has taken Ginger across the world, but her love affair began nearly 27 years ago after she earned her degree in oral interpreta-tion of literature.

“I’ve always had an interest in children’s the-atre. It wasn’t until I had four children of my own that I decided, ‘Why not try puppets?’”

Her training came from the Puppeteers of Amer-ica, a national organization devoted to keeping the art of puppetry alive. Because of this organization, she attended national conventions where she learned from the greats: Jim Henson, Frank Oz and Caroll Spinney of Sesame Street along with Velma

Wayne Dawson and Scott Brinker of Howdy Doody.“I was just like a sponge. I would run around

like crazy, taking as many workshops as I could. I was so, so enthusiastic about it.”

Years later, she would be on the Puppeteers of America’s board of trustees with a repertoire of her own shows. As of today, she has about 12 stories, each one created entirely by Ginger, that she and her partner Naomi Rempe perform.

“I spend years creating them. In order to cre-ate a story, you have to love it because you spend a lot of time with it; you have to make all of the puppets for it and practice and so on.”

She often adapts typical fairytale stories like Hansel and Gretel or Jack and the Beanstalk to make them her own, and she almost always writes a strong female lead because “so often the girl just has to rely on the prince, so I try to change that in all of my stories.”

During a show, Ginger and Naomi are constantly switching characters. On average, there are 6-8 characters per show. Most of her puppets are hand puppets, but she has a few marionettes she brings out at the beginning of shows.

The content of each show varies; most are children’s stories, but others, like her show “Morgan and the Pot of Brains,” are catered to an adult audience.

“I think more people are seeing puppetry work for adults. A lady who was turning 80 saw one of my shows and wanted me to perform for her birthday party. There is really no age limit.”

Ginger believes puppetry can be both cross-cultural and cross-generational. In the U.S., puppetry is thought to be just for kids — thanks in part to iconic shows like Sesame Street, Gin-ger says — but in other countries, Czechoslo-vakia for example, puppetry is used to make political statements, disseminate religious teachings and provide high-brow entertain-ment. Even in the US, puppets are present in mainstream entertainment.

While she performs for and appreciates both audiences, Ginger’s passion lies in performing for children.

“I love being with children. I love their innocence.

You know, everyone tries to live in the moment, but children don’t have to try. They just do it!”

For Ginger, “living in the moment” seems to be a philosophy of life. Take, for example, the time she took a year off to travel the world with her husband or the time she bought an old car and drove across the country.

Maybe it’s this carefree, lively spirit that makes her such a natural puppeteer. Or maybe it’s her seemingly never-ending desire to have fun.

“When I’m with them [children], I’m in a play mode. It’s incredible because all of the big terrible things you worry about all of the time go away, and all that’s left is the fun and the silliness.”

Puppetry, though whimsical and entertaining, is an art typically contained to a TV screen. The Muppets, Sesame Street, Star Wars and the cult classic Labyrinth — all TV shows and movies —

provide some of the only widespread exposure to the art. For live puppeteers like Ginger, it’s not always easy to book shows.

“I just keep trying to do it, even if there isn’t a lot of money!”

And she has a busy schedule ahead.This summer, Ginger’s work will be on dis-

play at the Merwin and Wakeley Galleries at Wesleyan University in an exhibition titled “Puppetry: A World of Storytelling.” Ginger’s collection of puppets, including the many she has handmade, will be on display.

In the fall, if she recovers in time from an im-pending hip-replacement surgery, she plans to travel to and perform in Turkey; Ginger Lozar won’t let anything keep her from her passions.

“There are so many opportunities this year; I hope I can take all of them.”

Ginger Lozar and one of her puppets. Photo By Jessica Bourque

Easter’s Kyle Lang has been lying low re-cently. The guitarist/vocalist/pianist

frontman hasn’t played a show in Champaign-Urbana in a few months, and his promises of new music have consistently been postponed in the face of imposing academia. However, the quiet Lang assured me this will all be chang-ing soon, as he seemed energized and focused when I sat down to interview him last week.

» buzz: It’s been almost a year since the release of Demonstration, so why don’t we start by talk-ing about what Easter has been up to since then?Kyle Lang: I’ve been playing shows in Illinois, closer to Chicago, around here, and in Spring-field. I’ve been trying to write stuff to record, but it takes me a long time: I’ve gone through a bunch of different ideas for songs, but I keep

getting caught up and starting over. I might tour this summer with my friend’s band, Freudian Slip. Three of the members of that band actually played in Easter before, so we could switch off certain members, but it would be two com-pletely different bands.» buzz: Why don’t you tell me about how you came up with the name Easter. KL: There’s a band I really like called Thanksgiv-ing, and I was just trying to rip off that. There’s no big reason, as much as I wish there could be so I could answer questions like this in a cool way. » buzz: How would you describe your sound to someone who’s never heard Easter before?KL: My girlfriend’s uncle actually asked me this recently, and I said Weezer mixed with The Beach Boys. I could probably say some sillier

stuff that would be more accurate, but I think that captures the big picture. » buzz: Tell me about writing and recording Demonstration. KL: I wrote it over the course of a year. It was a long process of coming up with small ideas, then cramming them into a bigger piece. Every song came together from making bits of songs, then seeing where they would fit in best so it feels like a cohesive unit. » buzz: Do any of the songs on Demonstration have any cool stories behind them? Any Easter trivia?KL: No, I don’t think so, actually. They were recorded at my house and in my dorm room. I guess that’s not really where things like that get done, so I think that’s interesting. Hopefully, people can hear that, and think about that, and realize they can do it, too. That’s a large part

of why I want to do music, just because it’s so much fun for me. And hopefully the way I do it will inspire someone else to do it, too.» buzz: Your live shows tend to attract very enthusiastic crowds, and you’ve also received a lot of positive recep-tion throughout Champaign-Urbana. Why do you think your music resonates so strongly with people?KL: When I write words I try to write about experiences I’m assuming other people also share. I’ve had friends and people I don’t know tell me certain words really resonate with them. It’s usually really simple things I’ve written that they’ve experienced, themselves. As far as live shows, I always try to make it as much fun as possible. I like to keep things fast-paced and constantly moving because I definitely get bored sometimes when I go see bands. » buzz: Speaking of live shows, do you have any particular favorite memory from a show?KL: I played a show in December at my friend’s house, and there were lots of kids there who’ve known the band for a while. They were screaming the lyrics and jumping all over the place. A few people, including myself, got hurt pretty bad, but it was all out of positivity and people enjoying being together, enjoying music that they all knew.» buzz: I want to ask you about your inspiration — do you have a favorite band or record, especially one that has been particularly influential on your development as an artist?KL: I can’t say I have an all-time favorite, but for the past year I’ve been really into The Mi-crophones. I also realized early Modest Mouse has been a giant influence on me. There’s a lot of stuff I’ve copied or stolen, especially in the guitar style. » buzz: Growing up, was there a lot of music in your house?KL: Not really, besides just listening to the radio. My mom and grandma listen to a lot of contem-porary country, hip-hop, R&B — radio pop stuff. » buzz: So where do you think your drive or cre-ativity comes from then?KL: It’s always been fun for me, and I want to do something productive. I think the music is just the best way to do that in a worthwhile way. I’m not very good at too many things, and I’m really lazy, but I have fun with music.» buzz: Would you mind talking a little bit about where you’re planning on taking Easter in the future?KL: I’m definitely going to put out a new EP — a substantial, full-band record — by the end of the summer. I’ve been meaning to do it for a while, but I get caught up and change my mind about things. After that, I’d like to do a tour, which I think will go to the East Coast. And it’d be nice to go to the West Coast after that. Then I think I’ll stop and do something else. Put an end to this band, and move on. I’ve never really liked things that stay past their welcome.

Easter will be performing at Mike ‘N’ Molly’s May 10. Check out their eclectic garage surf-pop at easter.bandcamp.com.

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Kyle Lang from the local band, Easter. Photo by Animah Boakye

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UNIONFEST - YES YES YESby buzz music staff

Illini Union Board’s music festival in review

The Illini Union Board may have outdone itself last weekend. Friday, April 27, the student

organization that recently brought Adrian Gre-nier and Nick Offerman to the University hosted Unionfest, a small music festival featuring acts from Central and Northern Illinois. The lineup featured U of I students in Alex Pomerantz, The UC Hip-Hop Congress, Bee.Kay, Grandkids and Draft Week. Other CU favorites, including El-sinore, Santah and Decadents shared the bill with Chicagoans Mike Golden and Friends and Kids These Days, providing a little something for fans of almost every genre. We at buzz covered every minute of it, but here are some of the fest’s most rawkin’ highlights…

Kids These Days: You could hear the music of Kids These Days

as soon as you entered the Union, booming and quaking from Illini Room B. That’s a pretty big space, but as the room fi lled with more and more attendees, it began to look like an appropriate venue for the upcoming Chicago group. Toward the end of their set, rapper Vic Mensa yelled that this was the best crowd they’d played to in a while.

Kids These Days plays a highly unique brand of soulful, feel-good music that lands somewhere between rock, soul and hip-hop. Most songs are led either by rapper Vic Mensa or female vocal-

ist (and keyboardist) Macie Stewart, though the band was also lucky enough to have Mensa’s run-ning mate Chance the Rapper join them for a few high-energy songs at the beginning of their set.

If the array of sounds made possible by having both a rapper like Mensa, who does a great job feeding off the energy in the room, and a skilled singer with the range of Stewart were not enough, the band also includes a trumpet and trombone player, both of whom add punch and fl air to ev-ery song in the set. What really made this band’s set work, though, is their lack of a clear leader and their desire to share the stage. For many songs, Mensa was the front man, but at other times Stewart or guitarist Liam Cunningham would come out and sing while Mensa hung in the background. Often, they would shout out the names of the band members to lead into a long solo. In the end, their energy and enthusiasm set this group apart and made their set worth watch-ing whether you are familiar with their music or not. –Max Huppert

Santah:Seeing a local favorite band in the heart of

the U of I campus is a treat, especially so when that band is Santah and friendly and familiar faces surround you. Singer and guitarist Stan McConnell paused in between songs to men-

tion that he used to serve food at weddings in the Illini Union ballroom where Santah played Friday. Santah played songs from their album White Noise Bed to an all-ages audience at the first-ever festival. Although they are signed to No Sleep Records and have relocated their base to Chicago, this band truly has a special con-nection to CU that is shown through the way their songs, old and new, resonate with the local crowd. –Maddie Rehayem

Elsinore:Like Santah, Elsinore has built up a loyal fan base

in this area, made clear by front man Ryan Groff’s playful interaction with the Unionfest crowd Fri-day. “Have we told you how much we love you yet? Because we do,” Groff joked, as the band went through a set featuring tracks from its latest releases Yes Yes Yes and Life Inside an Elephant and a slew of unreleased material. Vivian McConnell (of Santah, Grandkids) joined Elsinore on-stage for the duet “Ultraviolence,” adding yet another element to Groff and friends’ already varied ar-senal. As per usual, Groff’s towering vocals and versatile guitar playing stood out, especially on new tracks such as “Neighborhood Kids” and “No Actor.” Elsinore also announced that they have recorded 11 of 15 tracks for their next album, com-ing soon. –Evan Lyman

Vivian McConnell during Unionfest. Photo by Zach Dalzell

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Art & other exhibitsEXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL!Spurlock Museum 9amJerusalem Saved! In-ness and the Spiritual LandscapeKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion 9am“Crystallography - De-fi ning the Shape of Our Modern Mind” ExhibitU of I Main Library8:30am

Classes, lectures, & workshopsLive Career HelpRantoul Public Library2pmToastmasters Cham-paign IL, Toast of ChampaignChampaign Public Library, 12pmLive Adult Education HelpRantoul Public Library2pm

Live music & karaokeT.G.M PartyBradley’s II, 10pmBlues Jam with The Sugar ProphetsCowboy Monkey9:30pmRock Out Against RapeJupiter’s II, 6pmChillax with DJ Belly and Matt HarshRadio Maria10pm

Mind, body, & spiritOpen Yoga Practice with Corrie ProksaAmara Yoga & Arts5:30pmAshtanga Yoga with Lauren QuinnAmara Yoga & Arts5:30pmYin Yoga with Lauren QuinnAmara Yoga & Arts 7pmCandlelight Hot Flow Yoga with Luna PiersonAmara Yoga & Arts7pmCore Yoga with Maggie TaylorAmara Yoga & Arts12pm

MiscellaneousChess ClubRantoul Public Library3:30pmF.I.N.D. OrphyOrpheum Children’s Sci-ence Museum, 1pmYarn n YakRantoul Public Library7pmCoffee HourUniversity YMCA7:30pmPreschool Story TimeRantoul Public Library10amRaising ReadersRantoul Public Library10:30am

Movies & theaterTitanic Players Improv ComedyIllini Union, 8pm

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Art & other exhibitsEXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL!Spurlock Museum9am“Crystallography - De-fi ning the Shape of Our Modern Mind” ExhibitU of I Main Library8:30am

Classes, lectures, & workshopsLive Career HelpRantoul Public Library2pmKrannert Art Museum Council Spring Lun-cheon and LectureChampaign Country Club, 12pmLive Homework HelpRantoul Public Library2pmLive Adult Education Help133 West Main, 2pm

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MiscellaneousF.I.N.D. OrphyOrpheum Children’s Sci-ence Museum, 1pmObservatory Open House, hosted by the UI Astronomical SocietyUniversity of Illinois Observatory8pm

Movies & theaterCU Ballet presents CoppeliaVirginia Theatre7:30pm

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Art & other exhibitsEXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL!Spurlock Museum9amPublic Opening Recep-tionKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion 5pmNinth Spring Opening ReceptionIndi Go Artist Co-op 4pm

Classes, lectures, & workshopsLive Adult Education HelpRantoul Public Library2pmLive Career HelpRantoul Public Library2pmLive Homework HelpRantoul Public Library2pm

Live music & karaokeCinco de Mayhem featuring: The Smokin Gorillas appearing with Undiscovered RemainsPhoenix9pmCINCO DE MAYO PARTY w/ THE GREG SCHNIEDER BAND~DRY CREEK STATION~THE IMPA-LAS!!!!!!Memphis on Main4pm90’s DaughterCowboy Monkey10pmDJ Juan & DJ DelayneyCowboy Monkey6:30pmSinergy SaturdayHighdive10pmStand-Up Comedy Showcase Iron Post, 10pmCandy Foster / KY Derby at Boomerangs Bar and GrillBoomerang’s Bar and Grill4pmSalsa night with DJ JuanRadio Maria, 10:30pmUrbana Country Danc-ers Contra DanceKalyx Center6pm

Mind, body, & spiritYoga Fundamentals with Linda LehovecAmara Yoga & Arts9amPower Flow Yoga with Corrie ProksaAmara Yoga & Arts 4pmKettlebell RKC Russian StyleTruly Fit10am

Yoga for Musicians with Candace ThomasAmara Yoga & Arts2pm

MiscellaneousF.I.N.D. OrphyOrpheum Children’s Sci-ence Museum, 1pmWonka (and me) in the Chocolate FactoryOrpheum Children’s Sci-ence Museum, 1pmCarle Respiratory Therapist & Memphis On Main Present: 2nd Annual Cystic Fibrosis Bingo Fundraiser!Memphis on Main12pm

Movies & theaterCU Ballet presents CoppeliaVirginia Theatre, 11amCU Ballet presents CoppeliaVirginia Theatre, 2pm

SUNDAY 6

Art & other exhibits EXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL!Spurlock Museum9amSchool of Art and De-sign Bachelor of Fine Arts ExhibitionKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion 9amSchool of Art and De-sign Bachelor of Fine Arts ExhibitionKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion2pmMultiple Sclerosis Art AuctionEsquire Lounge1pm

Classes, lectures, & workshopsLive Homework HelpRantoul Public Library2pmLive Adult Education HelpRantoul Public Library2pmWest African Dance Classes with Djibril CamaraChanning-Murray Foundation6pm

Champaign Contact Improvisation Sunday Class/Jam @Living Yoga133 West Main11:30am

Food & festivalsIndustry Night Radio Maria10pm

Live music & karaokeSurreal DealRosebowl Tavern8pm

Mind, body, & spiritYoga for Men, Dudes and Regular Guys with Jim RectorAmara Yoga & Arts6:30pmSlow Flow Yoga with Kate InsoliaAmara Yoga & Arts 2:30pmHappy Challenge Yoga with Maggie TaylorAmara Yoga & Arts4pmGentle Yoga with Rebekah DeterAmara Yoga & Arts 9am

MiscellaneousF.I.N.D. OrphyOrpheum Children’s Sci-ence Museum1pmRantoul Public Library Book ClubRantoul Public Library2pm

Sports, games, & recreationBig Dave’s TriviaCowboy Monkey, 7pmSunday Late Night Student SpecialIllini Union9pm

MONDAY 7

Art & other exhibits EXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL!Spurlock Museum9amParkland College Graphic Design Stu-dent Juried Exhibition 2012Parkland Art Gallery10am

“Crystallography - De-fi ning the Shape of Our Modern Mind” ExhibitU of I Main Library8:30am

Classes, lectures, & workshopsLive Homework HelpRantoul Public Library2pmLive Career HelpRantoul Public Library2pmLive Adult Education Help133 West Main2pm

Live music & karaokeBOOM-JAM Open Stage at Boomerangs Bar and GrillBoomerang’s Bar and Grill, 9pm80’s NightCowboy Monkey10pmLounge NightRadio Maria10pm

Mind, body, & spiritRestorative Yoga with Maggie TaylorAmara Yoga & Arts7pmHatha Yoga with Grace GiorgioAmara Yoga & Arts5:30pmPower Flow Yoga with Corrie ProksaAmara Yoga & Arts12pm

MiscellaneousF.I.N.D. OrphyOrpheum Children’s Sci-ence Museum, 1pmUniversity YMCA’s Dump & Run Collec-tion Starts May 7!University YMCA9am

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Art & other exhibitsEXHIBIT: ¡CARNAVAL!Spurlock Museum9amSchool of Art and De-sign Bachelor of Fine Arts ExhibitionKrannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion 9am

“Crystallography - De-fi ning the Shape of Our Modern Mind” ExhibitU of I Main Library8:30amParkland College Graphic Design Stu-dent Juried Exhibition 2012Parkland Art Gallery10am

Live music & karaokeTango Tuesdays at McKinley FoundationMcKinley Presbyterian Church and Foundation7pmOpen Mic NightCowboy Monkey, 10pm

Mind, body, & spiritVinyasa Flow Yoga with Maggie TaylorAmara Yoga & Arts12pmSlow Flow yoga with Amanda ReaganAmara Yoga & Arts5:30pm

MiscellaneousF.I.N.D. OrphyOrpheum Children’s Sci-ence Museum, 1pmUniversity YMCA’s Dump & Run Collec-tion Starts May 7!University YMCA, 9am

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Live music & karaokeOpen Decks with DJ BellyRadio Maria, 10pmTango DancingCowboy Monkey, 8pmSalsa DancingCowboy Monkey, 10pmOpen Mic Night!Samuel Music5pm

Mind, body, & spiritOpen Yoga Practice with Corrie ProksaAmara Yoga & Arts 5:30pmKettlebell RKC Russian StyleTruly Fit, 6:30pmYoga WednesdaysIndi Go Artist Co-op7pmHatha Flow with Linda LehovecAmara Yoga & Arts5:30pmAshtanga Full Primary Series with Lauren QuinnAmara Yoga & Arts, 7pmYoga Fundamentals with Grace GiorgioAmara Yoga & Arts4:15pmCandlelight Hot Flow Yoga with Luna PiersonAmara Yoga & Arts, 7pmMindful MeditationSpurlock Museum11:15am

MiscellaneousF.I.N.D. OrphyOrpheum Children’s Sci-ence Museum, 1pmNo. 44 Society: Book Collecting Contest Winners Announced U of I Main Library3pmUniversity YMCA’s Dump & Run Collec-tion Starts May 7!University YMCA, 9amRaising ReadersRantoul Public Library3:30pm

Sports, games, & recreationPokemon Fan ClubRantoul Public Library4pm

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Friday, May 4, 8:30 p.m.; Matinees on Saturday, May 5 at 11 AM and 2 PM Virginia Theatre, 203 W Park St, Champaign All Ages $24 for adults, $12 for students and kids under 12

By the same author as the Nutcracker, Coppelia is a charming story of young lovers befuddled by a lifelike doll and its inventor, Dr. Coppelius. The ballet will be performed by the CU Ballet and promises bright costumes, fanciful scenery and classical choreography. Please, don’t eat noisy candy if you attend this ballet — nobody wants to hear your Nutter Butter! — Jasmine Lee, Food & Drink Editor

STONE COLD STEVE AUSTEN SKETCH COMEDY

Friday, May 4, 8 p.m. SoDo Theatre, 114 S. Neil St., Champaign $5

Simeon Tzolov, graduate student in Accounting, has been preparing comedy sketches to perform after his weekly improv shows all semester, but recently he decided it would be better to do an entire show’s worth of sketch comedy. Tzolov, along with Aaron Steinbrecher and many of his friends from the DeBono improv troupe, wrote all of the sketches they’ll be performing for their show this weekend. They modeled the show after Second City’s sketch comedy and chose college life as a theme to build around. “We’re really nostalgic about college being over,” Tzolov says. “It’s a refl ection about how good college is, when you go to class for two hours and have the rest of the day to dick around.” The show will last about an hour and a half, and drinks will be served at the theatre. — Max Huppert, Community Staff Writer

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If you follow music in the CU, you’ve been to a few kick-ass house shows. But nothing like this. Instead of punk rocks or metal tunes, the soundtrack to this show is dick jokes and potential laughter — explosive, diarrheic laughter. SECRET rumors say beer is free (only for those over 21), baked goods are free, and there will be super special sexy surprise set from a local CELEBRITY! Also, my douchebag co-worker, Nick Martin, will tell “jokes.” He’ll probably bomb and start crying because his friends all hate him. It’s funny because the laughter is directed right at his stupid fat face. — Evan Lyman, Music Editor

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readbuzz.com May 3 - 9, 2012Here’s to the wizard who ran the marathon on Saturday. You’re my hero.

SOUNDING BARBARIC YAWPS OVER THE ROOFSAn adventure climbing to the top of campus buildingsBy Avani Chhaya

W hile the symptoms of adulthood are tragic, they are not completely irreversible. Re-

cently, I needed to feel alive again — to be sparked with excitement and adrenaline. Alas, rooftops were calling my name, so I may have, kind of, possibly, maybe, sort of decided to climb a few on campus with an accomplice of mine.

As I walked out of my apartment, the empty, sprawling streets of Champaign-Urbana caused the beating of my heart to quicken. My frantic pace kept time with those fast-paced heartbeats beneath the navy blue sky with a mere two stars glimmering in the distance. I was mostly worried about getting caught, handcuffed and shoved into the back of a siren-wailing police car for being too much of a rebel.

I was expecting the night to be a failure. Although the Foreign Language Building was locked, Lincoln Hall was all sealed up and Gregory Hall had no rooftop access — only access to an attic through the janitor’s closet — the night took a turn in an adventurous direction.

The first stop was Davenport Hall, which was rumored to have easy access to its roof. I recom-mend bringing a tall person with you for this spe-cific roof because I could not have managed it on my own. Instead of climbing out of a window onto a desperately small ledge, I climbed up to the fourth floor attic. The duct tape on the door handle and the rock will prevent the door from locking you out. In the midst of dust, rubble and filing cabinets with class rosters from the class of 1966, the ladder will lead you right out onto a flat roof. The wooden plank can and should be used as a hatch door to prop the attic entrance open. Climbing Davenport’s roof made me feel accomplished and invigorated, yet wanting more.

I do not have a pleasant memory of Roger Adams Laboratory, especially since I left it with a bloody heel. After climbing up five levels of its rickety fire escape, my heart was pounding with the prominent thought of plummeting down to my concrete death. The metal grills hardly felt like they would hold my weight, resulting in my accomplice clinging to the

brick wall. My fearless partner in crime was not so fearless, yet I kept imagining Richard Gere in Pretty Woman proclaiming his love for Julia Roberts.

Ignoring the searing pain from my left heel that scraped against the rusty fire escape, we marched onward to the Materials Science and Engineering Building. To my pleasant surprise, two wooden chairs and a plastic table were set out, possibly for a perfect date spot. Climbing the ladder on the side of the building will lead you into a concrete pit, which you must climb out of on another set of ladders to get to the actual rooftop. And there, as we spied through a brightly lit window, was Russell. We dubbed this man as Russell and created this elaborate backstory for him. Russell, a janitor in the building, dreams of becoming a writer. Fighting loneliness and a lack of support from his mother, he strives to fully achieve his dreams with a pen instead of a mop.

With a metal smell resonating from my hands, we headed to the English Building. Avoiding the jani-tors meandering around the building, we stealthily went up to the third floor, where a window leads right onto the roof. I felt like this was the most dan-gerous rooftop because the sleek tiles lead to the ground. Sitting on the peeling window ledge, we looked down at Jamie and the Girl in Pink, runners going around the Quad. While the Girl in Pink dis-appeared, Jamie kept running. Looking as if he was about to collapse in exhaustion, he never let his body succumb and stop. For that, I am impressed. People-watching could not get any better with a view like that, as the lights twinkled in the far distance with scraggly tree branches intertwining below my feet. As we were watching the comings and goings of people on the Quad, we were being watched as well.

Passing by the English building, two frat broth-ers shouted that they had to try that some time. That? The feeling of adrenaline pumping, coursing through your veins, energizing every inch of you as you climb onto a roof uncertain of what will happen next. Yes, you do have to try that some time.

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