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It’s taken a little while to become apparent, but NBC’s “! e Voice” is one of the weirder contest shows out there.

! e show is essentially “American Idol” with teams, coached by big-shot singers Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.

! e teams are chosen during preliminary shows in which contestants sing to the coaches, who have their backs turned, presumably to eliminate image bias. Coaches can decide during the performance to choose the singer, and if multiple coaches do, they battle it out for the singers to be on their teams a" erward.

! e show unfolds for the most part as one would expect, with plenty of painfully hammy interactions between judges, at least one obviously set-up reunion between Aguilera and a former Mickey Mouse Club costar, and plenty of that bat-for-the-fences-on-every-single-goddamned-note style of singing made so popular by shows like this.

Sounds fairly routine at # rst, but the more you watch, the stranger it gets.

For one, it is not your traditional average up-from-nothing Joe or Joann success story. A lot of the people competing on the show are already professionals. ! ey’re just not selling out stadiums.

For instance, Jesse Campbell, a contestant on the # rst episode this

season, released an album on Capitol Records in the ‘90s. Yes, Capitol Records. According to Allmusic.com, it peaked at 53 on the R&B charts. OK, not a massive success, but still; it was 53rd, on Capitol Records.

Other contestants include backup singers for major artists, and of course, the aforementioned former Mickey Mouse Club star. We all know that show was some kind of crazy talent mill in the ‘90s, producing the likes of Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, Aguilera and quite a few other people successful enough to have Wikipedia pages.

As the show says, “! e Voice” is di$ erent from other talent shows in that it starts with the cream of the crop. What they don’t say so explicitly is that a good number of those people are already fairly successful in the biz. Just not successful enough, presumably.

What this means for the show is there’s no mean-spirited “look at these freaks” early auditions a la “American Idol.” ! at’s nice, though the show has its own brutal ways far more subtle and strange than Simon Cowell’s sneering Britishness could ever hope to be.

First, when singers don’t get picked, it’s far more painful than in “American Idol.” For one, they’ve already made it far enough that they’ve been deemed to have some talent, so it’s not just a spectacle of awfulness. ! ey have non-delusional reason to believe they could make it.

So, it’s all the worse when not a single judge turns around during

their performance. You want to see what Hell is for at least some people (aspiring singers, say)? It’s them singing their heart out to the back of Adam Levine’s head. Granted, singing to, or just seeing, his face would probably rank pretty high in most people's (mine) lists of worst tortures, but these singers aren’t most people.

And as for the “blindness” of the show, I have some doubts. It seemed somewhat suspicious that the # rst person to be rejected outright was also the only, let’s say, non-traditionally attractive person on the show. To my ears he sounded just about like everyone else, but the judges complained of “pitch” problems. Well, as the coaches, isn’t that what you’re supposed to help them with?

In any case, the obligatory supportive post-failure talk between the contestant and the judges, during which the singer was assured he had a great future ahead of him, was, to say the least, a little undercut by the fact that his exit from the stage was accompanied by a song (the title eludes me) with the lyrics “! e dream is dead.”

! e subtlety of the show’s sense of judgment, along with the somewhat swept-under-the-rug fact that many of the contestants are already professionals make “! e Voice” one of the intriguing, and weirder, shows to emerge in the recent explosion of contest shows.

Also, basically everything Ce Lo Green says is creepy. So it's worth watching just for that, anyway.

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! e battle for Earth is about to begin when one of the year's most anticipated video games, “Mass E$ ect 3,” hits store shelves March 6.

To help ease the wait, a demo was released Feb. 14 on Xbox Live and Playstation Network.

! e “Mass E$ ect” series is a science # ction story from space. Human beings can travel the galaxy at hyper speed for the # rst time, thanks to a device known as the Mass E$ ect Relay. Players take control of the game's main character, Commander Shepard, and his % eet as they try to save the galaxy from various dangers including terrorist plots and alien harvesting.

In "Mass E$ ect 3" though, Shepard must defend Earth from an alien invasion with the odds against him.

BioWare, the game's developer, has included a brief sample of the game's campaign mode and the multiplayer mode in the demo.

Fans of previous “Mass E$ ect” games should feel right at home. Shepard controls similarly to the way he did in “Mass E$ ect 2.”

But this time the game plays a little more smoothly. ! e shooting mechanics feel more polished, allowing players to have even more command placing their shots.

Changes have also been made to the way the player chooses to experience

the game.Before the demo starts, players are

given the option to play the game three di$ erent ways: action, RPG and story.

! e action experience gives the player no control of Shepard’s dialogue options throughout the demo, giving it more action-packed play. All of the cut scenes have pre-rendered choices already made for the player.

! e story feature gives players control of Shepard’s responses, but it makes the game's combat much easier, which makes it harder to die.

! e RPG experience plays like the previous “Mass E$ ect” games, giving players full control of Shepard’s dialogue and making combat in the game more of a challenge.

! ese features help give the game more universal appeal, while at the same time giving fans of the series

the same experience from previous games. All of this is topped o$ by the conclusion to the “Mass E$ ect” story.

! e demo doesn’t spoil anything signi# cant to the game's story, but gives the player similar emotional experiences seen with the predecessors.

It plays similarly to cooperative modes in other games such as firefight in “Halo: Reach” and Horde in “Gears of War 3.”

! e player is given a choice of weapon load out, character appearance and powers/abilities before heading into the game. Waves of computer-generated enemies attack all at once as soon as the match begins, and players have to work together to take them out.

! e demo to “Mass E$ ect 3” impresses and gives fans of the series hope that it will continue its trend of emotional storytelling and good gameplay.

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Sometimes the only thing a parent needs to win a beauty pageant is a little glitter, projection and authoritarianism.

“Little Miss Grotesque,” a play written and directed by Andrea Baldwin, a graduate student in speech communication from Abilene, Texas, focuses on three young girls — Matsy Stark, McKenzie Kay and Georgina Vandercamp — and their moms Rosie, Marsha and Jan as they prepare for the Little Miss Everything beauty pageant where, so the play claims, “If you’re not everything, you’re nothing.”

! rough individual monologues, mood-setting music and intriguing photographs, viewers learned quickly that beauty pageants aren’t all they seem cracked up to be for both children and parents. As the play progressed, the audience watched the three parents instill their competitive spirits, greedy intentions and personal desires to win

into their rebellious children.But then the girls suddenly turn

into puppets and start reciting their pageant introduction lines as though they were programmed to do so, just like they came with batteries and an instruction manual.

However, all of the doll-like attributes were no match against Baby Ti" any, the 6-month-old plastic doll who competed alongside the girls and took the pageant’s Grand Supreme title despite all the girls’ training and practice.

Baldwin said the idea to include Baby Ti" any came when she was watching an episode of “Toddlers in Tiaras,” where a baby won the Best in Show title at a pageant and all the other girls became upset with how undeserving she seemed to be. She said a conversation with assistant director Diana Woodhouse con# rmed that they needed a physical representation in the play of all the plasticity and fakeness they were expressing that comes with pageant competition.

Baby Ti" any not only represented that fakeness, but also proved that it doesn’t take much to win a beauty competition, said Rachel Birdsell, a freshman from Jacksonville studying architecture.

“(! e play) didn’t show the baby being made-up, and it didn’t show her working out or (her parents) worrying about being completely prepared,” she said. “With Baby Ti" any, I think the writer was trying to show the audience that the people who spend all their time and money on being the best aren’t necessarily always the ones who are.”

! ough interesting moments were frequent and well-received, the play’s # nal monologues seemed to provide the most insight into why the girls’ parents put them through all the stress and discipline, Birdsell said. She said the # nal monologues proved that a lot more goes on behind the scenes in the little girls’ minds than what’s pasted on with glitter and bows.

“It’s almost like the moms needed

their own assurance that they were pretty and that their daughters were pretty,” she said. “And that’s really why they put their daughters through that.”

Hanna England, a freshman from Cobden studying geography, said the monologues that put the play into perspective for her were the ones that discussed the girls not coming with an instruction manual.

“Some parents unfortunately do think that way, and they think it is important that their kids have to be talented to be successful, “ she said. “But it’s not like that at all.”

Toward the middle of the play, viewers were able to watch the genuine and naïve Matsy and her mother Rosie discuss her pageant con# dence as well as her intentions for ones to come. It was then that Rosie began to sing Matsy a song as she stood up and recited a monologue that sent the play for a twist.

As Matsy stood under the red light in her red and pink pageant out# t, she started to talk about her # rst sexual experience as literally as it can be taken — her moment of birth. While the 6 1/2-year-old girl stood there indirectly explaining that the Little Miss Everything crown wouldn’t be the # rst to ever sit on her head, the audience watched as birth photos of crowning babies $ ashed on the screen

mixed with others of young pageants girls at holding their trophies.

Baldwin said although the photo set was open for interpretation, there were at least two messages behind it. She said it all boils down to wanting some kind of accolade for acceptance whenever she thinks about mother and daughter relationships, and that accolade is a crown in this play’s case. She said it was that realization that started her research on all the meaning that comes with a crown.

“First, I image-searched a crown on Google, and my # rst results were crowning as in the act of birth,” she said. “So then I just kept researching the act of birth as it ties into mother-daughter relationships, but the deciding factor to include the photos came when a friend of a friend told me a story about a mother who said her daughter would win a beauty pageant because she was born with a crown on her head.”

England said she knew she was in for an entertaining and slightly political treat to watch a play in the Communication Building’s Kleinau ! eater so much that she watched it twice. She said the # rst watch was just as entertaining as the second, but she realized something about kids with her second viewing.

“Pageants are probably never, ever OK for children,” she said.

Janelle Briggs, left, a graduate student from Monroe La., and Carlye Schweska, middle, a junior from Sterling, and Lindsay Greer, a graduate student from Clare, Mich., all studying speech communication, perform “Little Miss Grotesque” Saturday at the Kleinau Theater. The show was directed by Andrea Baldwin and assistant directed by Diana Woodhouse and was held Thursday and Saturday.

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Janelle Briggs, left, a graduate student in speech communication from Monroe, La., portrays the character Georgina Vandercamp, while Sam Sloan, a graduate student in speech communication from New Orleans, plays the role of Jan Vandercamp on Saturday during the play “Little Miss Grotesque” at the Kleineau Theater.

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Cancer — Today is a 6 — Don’t give your money away, even if tempted. Balance studies with socializing. Enjoy a delicious meal. Chocolate figures in the plan.

Leo — Today is an 8 — You’re especially keen for business. Create new opportunities for you and a partner. Add artistic flair to the work. Others are saying nice things about you.

Virgo — Today is a 9 — Someone’s in love. Add a touch of adventure to your routine. Your creativity’s welcome, even if it doesn’t feel that way. You do great work.

Libra — Today is an 8 — It’s all about new partnerships until the middle of March. Go out and meet new people. You’re growing more attractive with age. Show respect and gain love.

Scorpio — Today is a 6 — Being polite gains you extra points. It’s easier to deal with problems. You’re lucky in love. You get more with honey than vinegar.

Sagittarius — Today is an 8 — Family’s extremely important right now. They can support you in your goals. Love’s getting interesting. Accept an invitation while you can. Find beauty.

Capricorn — Today is a 9 — Keep your eyes open for income opportunities, but don’t get greedy. Others love your ideas, so keep them coming. Be thankful for what you have.

Aquarius — Today is a 9 — Go ahead and chase a white rabbit. Your curiosity gets rewarded in the next four weeks, but you may have to take some risks. Are you ready?

Pisces — Today is a 6 — You could rake in a lot of money. Don’t sprint before you’ve warmed up your muscles. You might find some bumps along the romance trail.

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Freshman women’s tennis player Natasha

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during the home game against

SIU-Edwardsville at Sports Blast.

Tomishima won her doubles match

with partner Jennifer Dien and

both of her singles matches. The

Salukis defeated the Cougars 6-1.

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No. 6 seed freshman Gisela Cairo Baza fell to Laura Horning 6-1, 6-4.

No. 2 Lee won 6-4, 6-0.

No. 3 seeded Dien won her match while not dropping a single game in either set, winning 6-0, 6-0.

No. 4 Tomishima continued the singles success with her 6-2, 6-3 win.

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Freshman swimmer Hannah Pinion, center, is congratulated by her teammates Friday during the Missouri Valley Conference Championship swim meet at the Edward J. Shea Natatorium. Pinion took first place in both the 400-yard individual medley and the 200-yard individual medley, and set the MVC Championship record for the 200-yard individual medley. The SIU women’s swim team took third place overall after three days of competition.

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