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DENNEWS.COM EastErn nEws TWITTER.COM/DENNEWS JANUARY 20, 2012 Check out this week’s Panthers come up cold edition of Verge! on Miller’s hot night The Daily Eastern News' weekly arts and entertainment section Section B Page 8 VPunk Yankees mix dance, humor “Even for general audiences, enough is contextualized that they completely enjoy it. It’s inviting to pretty much everybody.” Julia Rhoads, artistic director for Lucky Plush Productions By Sara Hall Verge Editor Many people recognize stealing music is wrong, but they may never consider the ram- ications behind borrowing someone else’s dance and choreography. is is the idea the Lucky Plush Produc- tions’ show “Punk Yankees” will be present- BOARD OF TRUSTEESing on Jan. 21 and 22 at Doudna Fine Arts Center. Julia Rhoads, artistic director for Lucky Plush Productions, said many mainstream dances and choreography are often stolen without acknowledging the artist. She cited this as the inspiration behind the "Punk Yan- kees" show, which explores the relationship between sampling choreography and appro- priating dance moves of others. “Most people have no idea where a move- ment came from, and it’s an important thing to talk about in the dance eld,” she said. Rhoads cites music artist Beyoncé as a performer guilty of using the choreography of others. “At the time we had started the Punk Yan- kees project, the 'Single Ladies' video was going viral, and (Beyoncé) directly ripped o movements and didn’t discuss it,” she said. Rhoads said instances such as this cre- ate an unintentional ignorance in the pub- Strategic Planning lic. She described how many people often see these dances in YouTube videos and even create their own reaction videos, furthering the trickle-down eect of stolen choreogra- phy. “People are just learning and borrowing choreography o the Internet and not realiz- Newing the implications,” she said. housing rate Rhoads said to address and provide com- mentary on these problems in the dance community, Lucky Plush Productions com- pany created the Punk Yankees show in 2009 as part of the group’s ten-year anniversary. e Punk Yankees performance consists of six dancers performing direct sampling of other performers’ choreography. Rhoads said utilizing computers and live video and Twit- ter feeds enhances the performance. to present findings Rhoads said the performance explores the subject of dance theft in fun, lightheart- ed ways. “It’s something that’s serious and has a lot of implications, but the work that we made kind of addresses it from angles of humor and playfulness,” she said. Meghann Wilkinson, a collaborating en- semble member of Lucky Plush Produc- tions since 2004, said the performance is not meant to be intimidating. Instead, she said the production is meant to invoke in- sight while still being enjoyable for the au- SUBMITTED PHOTO dience. The Lucky Plush Dance Co.: Punk Yankees are coming to Doudna "'Punk Yankees' is full of moments of humor, and it is so fun for us as an ensem- on Friday and Saturday. Friday's cil and the Staff Senate. performance will begin at 7:30 ble to hear laughter and share in that expe- p.m. and Saturday's will begin at rience with the audience,” she said. to be4 p.m. DANCE PAGE 3 proposed Future actions Weber said after each of to be planned these sessions he and the oth- er steering committee members Fire system will have worked to “sharpen and also be discussed Rates for the 2011-2012 refine” the goals and plans. By Amy Wywialowski “In the open sessions we Staff Reporter went through page by page,” school year Weber said, “It was a really By Rachel Rodgers After nearly a year and a half good and thoughtful discus- Administration Editor of work, the Strategic Planning sion, and we received a lot of Committee is ready to present good feedback.” The proposed increased housing 12 plus meal option their findings to the Board of This is the same process We- rates for Fall 2012 and a re sprinkler per semester Trustees during the board’s ex- ber and the steering committees system expenditure of almost $1 mil- Current: $4,271 ecutive session today. will follow after today’s read- lion will be presented to the Board of Residence Hall & Proposed: $4,410 William Weber, the vice pres- ing, he said. Trustees for approval today. ident for business affairs and “The board will have the e Board of Trustees is scheduled Greek Court co-chair of the Strategic Plan- draft to study for the next six to meet at 1 p.m. today in the Grand 15 plus meal option ning Steering Committee, said weeks and they will notify me Ballroom in the Martin Luther King per semester the board members will not be of changes and suggestions they Jr. University Union. Current: $4,442 addressing the plan until their have,” Weber said. “We will Proposed: $4,587 next meeting. then work to create a more cur- 10 plus meal option Lowest housing increase to be 7 plus meal option per semester “We hope to have the board rent draft.” voted on per semester Current: $4,116 take formal action and endorse Weber said he has watched Mark Hudson, the director of Current: $3,942 Proposed: $4,250 it at their March meeting, but the goal evolve since the begin- Proposed: $4, 069 housing and dining, said they are pro- that is up to the board’s digres- ning, and the process for the posing a 3.25 percent increase for the sion,” Weber said. current plan differs from the room and board rate, which is the This presentation is con- Strategic Plan that occurred in lowest increase in about 20 years. Super Eciency trary to the Steering commit- the mid-1990s. e room and board rate increase Current: $4,008 tee’s original goal of present- “This is what I call a much last year for Fiscal Year 12 was 3.5 University Proposed: $4,640 ing at today’s meeting, a goal more organic process, we start- percent, and the rate increase was 6.5 set out by President Bill Perry ed with themes and really percent for FY 11. Apartments at the beginning of the process watched the plans emerge,” he If approved, students living in the in early 2010. said. “I’ve been working on this residence halls and Greek Court in “When I brought the idea of for more than two years and it Fall 2012 would pay an increase rang- this process to President Per- truly is exciting to get to this ing from $128 to $145 depending on ry’s attention two years ago, stage.” their meal plan. 2 Room Apartment he set parameters, our timeline The Board of trustees meet- e rent for students living in Uni- Current: $4,504 of the 2011 calendar year, and ing begins at 1 p.m. in the versity Apartments would increase 3 Proposed: $4,640 the Jan. 20 deadline,” Weber Grand Ballroom in the Mar- percent and would increase by about said. “The agenda is up to the tin Luther King Jr. University 1.5 percent in University Court, board’s discretion, and they felt Union. Hudson said. it was more appropriate to dis- ose housed in University Apart- cuss it at the March meeting.” Amy Wywialowski can ments would pay an additional $13 or 1 1/2 Room Apartment This latest draft of the stra- be reached at 581-2812 Current: $4,284 or [email protected] $14 per month for rent, and students Proposed: $4,412 tegic plan developed after four in University Court would pay $35 to open sessions this week and $52 extra depending on the contract presentations to the Faculty and room type. Senate, the Civil Service Coun- HOUSING, page 5 DOUDNA ‘Lions in Winter’ series continues to roar By Andrew Crivilare lined the evening as the second guest at oral inuence was on display in Staff Reporter speaker of the “Lions In Winter” read- Stielstra’s story “e Flood”, a tale in- ing series, which brings writers to East- volving a woman’s troubled relationship Storytellers and poets owned the ern to share their work. with her son Niki’s father, where Stiels- Doudna Lecture Hall stage Thursday Stielstra said she comes from a mixed tra’s character used oral communication as part of the “Lions In Winter” read- background of traditional English train- to develop her character over long peri- ing series. ing and a ground level view of what ods of time. Chicago-based writer Megan Stiels- narrative is like in day-to-day life. Stielstra read, “The snow stopped tra, local winners of the James K. John- “During the day I would be reading and started again and in-between Niki son Creative Writing Award, and mem- these amazing stories by Chekhov and talked. His rst words were ‘mom’.