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WSC
joins global campaign
'The Vagina Monologues' raises
violence awareness
By Rhea Landholm
Lifestyles Editor
“The Vagina Monologues” is coming to a
campus near you. Yes, you heard it right; “The Vagina Monologues”
will be here at WSC.
“The Vagina Monologues” is a play written by Eve Ensler,
used as a vehicle to raise awareness on violence against women and
young girls. Ensler traveled around the country getting responses
from hundreds of women telling their stories of rape, incest, domestic
battery and genital mutilation.
A group of women in New York joined Ensler in 1998, and proclaimed
Valentines Day as V-Day, until the violence stops. But, when all
women live in safety, then V-Day will become Victory over Violence
Day.
V-Day here at WSC will be kicked off with a bake sale in the library
on Thursday, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-6 p.m., to help raise $6,000
needed for the events. Local and global sponsors have donated, along
with many of the organizations on campus.
“We’ve had good campus support,” Isau Metes, organizer
and publicity chair, said. “A lot of organizations gave money
from their allocations.”
Metes, a senior, is only one member of the planning committee that
has been meeting since last summer. Karen Granberg, Liscensed Counselor,
is the sponsorship chair; Michelle Meyer, Interim Violence Against
Women Counselor, is the beneficiary chair; and Jamie Paulson, Interim
Violence Against Women Counselor, is the fundraising chair. Gwen
Jensen will be the supervisor of the production, while senior Kristin
Nollette will direct.
“The main theme is to STOP the violence,” Metes said.
“At WSC, I don’t see much that is done by peers.”
The showing of “Until the Violence Stops,” a movie based
on “The Vagina Monologues,” will be on Monday, Dec.
6 at 9:30 p.m. in Ramsey Theatre.
Also, Monday is Red Shirt Day. Everyone is encouraged to wear red
to envision the world without violence.
Auditions for Wayne State’s own “The Vagina Monologues”
will be held on Dec. 7, 8 and 9 in Ramsey Theatre 7-9 p.m. Female
students, staff and faculty members are invited to audition for
the show. The performances are on Feb. 24, 25 and 26.
“I plan to audition because, on such a small campus, you don’t
know what’s really going on,” Bri Malm, sophomore, said.
“You don’t realize that women around here might be facing
these issues.”
This is the first year that WSC has observed V-Day. Statewide, it
joins colleges UNO and UNK. Globally, the United States is one of
thirty-three countries who participates in V-Day in 2005.
Poetry Slam XII: An awesome
battle for rockstar poet supremacy
By Greta Smith
Staff Writer
Jesse Kai was named “rockstar poet” at
the Poetry Slam XII: An Awesome Battle for Rockstar Poet Supremacy
on Nov. 18 at Riley’s Pub.
Twenty poets came to present their original work to a panel of judges
and a room filled with fellow peers and professors. Cheers and applause
of support for the poets resounded from the audience, along with
laughter and tears, as the words of poets spoke to each person there.
“The students proved tonight that Wayne State has the best
slam and the best poets around,” said J.V. Brummels, associate
professor of English.
The judges, Chris Brandon, Maureen Kingston and Tim Black, judged
four rounds, narrowing the choices after each round. Poets were
judged on a scale of 1 to 10 by each judge. The scores were averaged,
and the top poets from each round went on to battle in the next
round, until four poets remained.
Cash prizes totaling $363 were awarded to each of the place winners.
Kai received $120, while Chris Geidner won second place with a purse
of $100, Johnny D. Iles was third and won $80, and Paul Moore won
fourth place with a prize of $63.
Upcoming senior recitals
Mendenhall and Kesting prepare
for final requirements in the music department
By Rhea Landholm
Lifestyles Editor
Two senior music students are prepared to perform
their senior recitals. Nicolette Mendenhall, of Omaha, and Sarah
Kesting, of Pierce, are finishing up the requirements for graduation.
Mendenhall’s recital will be at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec.
8 in Ley Theatre. She will be featured playing the clarinet alone,
and with three ensembles that include other WSC students.
The senior is a human resource management major with a music minor.
She currently is the president of SHRM (Society for Human Resource
Management), and plays in the woodwind ensemble and wind ensemble.
“I hopefully will play for the rest of my life,” Mendenhall
said. “It keeps me creative.”
The concert will feature such songs as “Concerto in B Flat
Major” by Johann Stamitz, “Concerto II” by Louis
Spohr, “Lamento et Tarentelle” by Gabriel Grovelez and
“Rhapsody” by Willson Osborne.
The ensembles will play “Trio” by Ludwig van Beethoven
and “Allegro Rococo” by Paul Koepke.
Kesting is a K-12 vocal and instrumental music education major.
She will be playing flute at the 7:30 p.m. recital in Ley Theatre
on Thursday, Dec. 9.
“I’m excited to put all of my years of practice and
fine work into one recital to show everyone what I’ve accomplished,”
Kesting said.
The recital consists of “It’s Not in G Minor”
by Johann Sebastian Bach, “Andante in C Major” by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, “Introductions and Variations” by Franz
Schubert, “Image” by Bozza, “Suites Modale”
by Ernest Bloch and “Sonota” by Sergei Prokofiev.
Kesting is involved in the WSC choir and wind ensemble.
'Take a Walk in My Shoes'
This program is sponsored by Residence Life and will
be taking place in the basement of the library this Wednesday 11
a.m.-2 p.m. and 6:30-9 p.m. and Thursday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-7
p.m.
 Members
of PRIDE organization recreate the scence of Teena Brandon's murder.
The group also had picket signs with derrogatoray terms to set the
scence of the room.
Wyatt Dagel, Kevin Lindburg and Jon Allemang help
recreate the feeling of riding in a train car to a concentration
camp as part of the "Take a Walk in my Shoes" project.
 Even
Jeff Carstens took a moment out of his day to stop by to get the
feeling of how hard it might be to be a student with special needs.
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