Spring Break
Spring concert not 'fabolous'
Brad Zambrello
Issue date: 3/25/05 Section: Commentary
This year, like the two years before, the Spring Weekend concert will be headlined by two rap acts.
As announced in Wednesday's Daily Campus, this spring's show will feature famous hip-hoppers Nas and Fabolous, with special guest The Black Violins. Nowhere in the lineup is any non-rap act that anyone's heard of, nor any non-rap act that anyone wants to pay $10 to see.
This is an outrage! An all-rap Spring Weekend concert - again - is unacceptable.
There is simply no reason one genre of music should be able to dominate the concert, thrown for the entire university, for three consecutive years. After all, why should only rap fans get to enjoy the Spring Weekend concert? Doesn't everyone deserve the chance to have a good time there?
If I'm not mistaken, the intent of this annual concert is to give the entire university community something to do, besides drinking, for at least one night of Spring Weekend. Yet, by throwing a concert whose two main acts are both rappers, Student Union Board of Governers (SUBOG) fails to achieve this end. Rather than providing something fun everyone, SUBOG excludes students that don't want to listen to Fabolous poetically wax about the various types of women he's slept with.
This exclusion is completely unjustified, as SUBOG is supported by university fees everyone must pay. When SUBOG throws the spring concert, it uses its money, collected from these fees, to subsidize the price of tickets (that's why tickets are $10 for students and $30 for non-students, in case you were wondering). Using this money to fund an entirely rap show amounts to great injustice. There's no way the university community should be indirectly paying for an expensive show that fails to benefit much of it. If SUBOG is going to use money collected from university fees to fund this show, the biggest and most anticipated show of the year, then it should make some effort to make it something more people want to go to.
As announced in Wednesday's Daily Campus, this spring's show will feature famous hip-hoppers Nas and Fabolous, with special guest The Black Violins. Nowhere in the lineup is any non-rap act that anyone's heard of, nor any non-rap act that anyone wants to pay $10 to see.
This is an outrage! An all-rap Spring Weekend concert - again - is unacceptable.
There is simply no reason one genre of music should be able to dominate the concert, thrown for the entire university, for three consecutive years. After all, why should only rap fans get to enjoy the Spring Weekend concert? Doesn't everyone deserve the chance to have a good time there?
If I'm not mistaken, the intent of this annual concert is to give the entire university community something to do, besides drinking, for at least one night of Spring Weekend. Yet, by throwing a concert whose two main acts are both rappers, Student Union Board of Governers (SUBOG) fails to achieve this end. Rather than providing something fun everyone, SUBOG excludes students that don't want to listen to Fabolous poetically wax about the various types of women he's slept with.
This exclusion is completely unjustified, as SUBOG is supported by university fees everyone must pay. When SUBOG throws the spring concert, it uses its money, collected from these fees, to subsidize the price of tickets (that's why tickets are $10 for students and $30 for non-students, in case you were wondering). Using this money to fund an entirely rap show amounts to great injustice. There's no way the university community should be indirectly paying for an expensive show that fails to benefit much of it. If SUBOG is going to use money collected from university fees to fund this show, the biggest and most anticipated show of the year, then it should make some effort to make it something more people want to go to.