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Music for Relief charity rocks NIU

By Kelly Johnson | February 23, 2005

Students will get a chance to donate to a cause as well as enjoy some rock music with a Tsunami Relief Concert at 7 p.m. Friday at the Holmes Student Center’s Diversions Lounge.

The Beta Mu Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota is organizing the show. Bands confirmed to play include Second Star, The Buzz Spectors, Protosaur, Super String and Steven Bartholomew.

"We have the Diversions Lounge booked from 7 p.m. to midnight so bands will get a chance to play for about half an hour," organizer Jon Walter said.

The show started as an idea for a philanthropy project for Sigma Alpha Iota. According to its national Web site, www.sai-national.org, the SAI Philanthropies, Inc. is the "charitable arm of Sigma Alpha Iota ... Its mission is to promote all aspects of music creation and encourage music for and through the music on campus."

The band Protosaur plays at the SAI house from time to time and helped spread the word about the concert to other bands.

"We organized the event through the Internet and word of mouth. We put information in our profiles online and shared it with our friends," Walter said. "We want to help out [with the Tsunami Relief] as much as we can."

Second Star hails from Arlington Heights and released its demo Feb. 18. Its punk sound draws comparisons to The Early November and Something Corporate.

Since 1996, The Buzz Spectors have evolved into a punk pop band. Its last record, "Attacked by Ninjas," was released in 2003.

The event costs $5. All proceeds will benefit the charity "Music for Tsunami Relief."

Stargazer navigates the night sky

By Mark Pietrowski | February 22, 2005

Andrew Morrison controls five planets, the moon and the sun. Well, at least NIU’s perspective of them. Morrison, a graduate student in physics, manages the Davis Hall Observatory. He said he always has had a passion for stargazing, even when he didn’t...

Grad student makes an offer we can’t refuse

By Mark Pietrowski | February 21, 2005

After looking through entry after entry of candidates, Sweeps has found what we believe to be NIU’s version of the "Godfather" - "Old School" style. Graduate student Patrick Pyka, president of the highly unofficial co-ed fraternity Smelta Delta, demonstrated...

‘Decade of excess’ hits campus full-force

By Mark Pietrowski | February 18, 2005

Every two weeks, Sweeps will take a look back at NIU decade by decade. This is in no way a rip-off of that VH1 series we’ve never seen and certainly never bought the DVDs of. The 1980s at NIU were all about "Star Trek" nerds, "Star Trek" nerds attending...

So long, my friend …

By Brayton Cameron | February 17, 2005

A priest, a rabbi and a dead music teacher walk into a bar ... But seriously, folks, a friend of mine recently died and death is not all that funny. Rufus Stennis Brown was a music instructor at Kishwaukee College, and he died Feb. 8 at the age of 32....

The life of a cover band

By Collin Quick | February 17, 2005

Ah, the glamorous life of being in a band. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Trashing hotel rooms night after night and waking up next to someone you’ve never met before. Climbing on your private jet to bounce from one corner of the globe to the next....

“Pooh’s Heffalump Movie”

By Jessie Coello | February 17, 2005

A heffalump is a visualization of our innermost nightmares and the tendency we all have to fear what we don’t know. In "Pooh’s Heffalump Movie," we meet a heffalump face-to-face and, instead of Pooh-ing our pants with fear, we end up with a new friend...

Extreme Makeover: DeKalb

By Greg Feltes | February 17, 2005

We have a Portillo’s now and I comb my hair down instead of up, but other than that, things haven’t changed much since I came to DeKalb three and a half years ago. Thursday nights are either always spent at bars or doing laundry - with both activities...

“Eulogy”

By Richard Pulfer | February 17, 2005

Every character of the black comedy "Eulogy" can be described in two words: cliche or annoying. The story of an oddball cast of cliche or annoying family members arriving at the funeral of its enigmatic patriarch, "Eulogy" builds and builds upon a punch-line...

Do you want to be an extra?Do you want to be an extra?

By Jessie Coello | February 17, 2005

Calling all extras: An independent movie is looking for local extras in DeKalb. NIU alumnus Nathan Stein, NIU student Adam Perly and Eerie, Ind., resident Jason Schaever will be shooting a few scenes of a yet-to-be titled movie in DeKalb the weekend of...

Lagwagon: Live in a Dive

By Kelly Johnson | February 17, 2005

Oh, the live album. Do you remember the last time you heard about your favorite band releasing one and thought, "Hey, this will do just fine until they release their new material?" Generally, the live album wears out its welcome within a couple of weeks...

“Shark Tale”

By Richard Pulfer | February 17, 2005

If there was a one-line pitch for "Shark Tale," it would probably be "Finding Nemo meets Dragonheart with a touch of Goodfellas." Although "Shark Tale" isn’t as inspiring as any of these, it is by large a fun and fast-paced family flick. The film follows...

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