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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-29-2018 The BG News October 29, 2018 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation State University, Bowling Green, "The BG News October 29, 2018" (2018). BG News (Student Newspaper). 9066. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/9066 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. bg GET TO KNOW news NO NAME An independent student press serving the campus and surrounding community, ESTABLISHED 1920 Bowling Green State University BASIS Monday, October 29, 2018 Volume 98, Issue 21 No Name Basis isn’t the only improv group at the University, but they stand out because of their use of varying improv styles. Dive into this Q&A with member Trent Thomas to explore the group and what they find funny. Continued on page 2 FALCONS VS. KENT STATE USE BGSU APP TO ACCESS YOUR TUESDAY, OCT. 30, 8:00 PM HALLOWEEN AT THE DOYT! FREE STUDENT TICKET! 877.BGSU.TICKET / BGSUFALCONS.COM 19AT7248 2018 Football Print Ads Cr/Pl - Kent State - BG News.indd 1 10/24/18 2:16 PM SPRING 2019 REGISTRATION bgsu.edu/knowyourdate BE SMART. STUDENT LEGAL SERVICES BE RESPONSIBLE. BE COVERED. REAL LAWYERS | REAL RESULTS just $9/semester [email protected] | 419-372-2951 www.bgsu.edu/sls BGNEWS October 29, 2018 | PAGE 2 Q&A: Trent Thomas of No Name Basis Performer shares love of comedy Max Hess all the other improv teams. After I saw them Adam, mentioned last year that they might Reporter and realized what improv is, I went home expand it to other places. Q: What is the funniest thing that has and looked it up online and saw New York happened to you during practice or a No Name Basis is one of several improv groups like ASSSSCAT. I spent a whole night Q: What troupes or individual comedians performance? comedy groups on campus. Trent Thomas, researching it, and then I tried out. do you look up to? A: We had a show at the Gish Theater, when an experienced member of the NNB, A: My favorite comedian is Maria Bamford. it was still a theater. It was our only show shares what membership means and Q: Where does No Name Basis typically She has three different shows on Netflix there. There’s a game called “Evil Twin” entails. perform and practice at? that I like to watch a lot. I really enjoy where you’re a character, and you have A: Typically, we perform in the Arts Village seeing female comedians in general. As a another character. One of the characters Q: When did you join No Name Basis, and in Kreischer. That’s our normal venue; group, we look up to UCB Comedy, based is played by two actors, and one of those what inspired you? it’s probably been our venue since we in New York. It’s where Amy Poehler and two actors tries to mess up the other. A: I joined two years ago, in 2016, and I started. This year, we’re trying to branch Tina Fey came from, and they have a book They’ll say something terrible, then the think I first saw them at Campus Fest with out. I know our directors, Chris, Zach and that outlines a lot of basic improv rules. other tries to justify it to the audience. It’s called the UCB Whoever was the evil Improvisation twin in this one scene RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL Manual, and it’s made a really weird more focused on relationship between long-form comedy. me and my teammate Our group does Zach. He ended up short-form and climbing up me like I long-form comedy, was a tree, and then which isn’t really he rolled off me, 1045 N. Main St. Bowling Green as common on doing a somersault [email protected] • www.meccabg.com campus. backwards and I didn’t even know how 419.353.5800 Q: Do you have to respond. a favorite skit you’ve done? Q: What are the Get your apartment A: There are a biggest things you’ve lot to choose learned from being in for 2019-2020 from. One of my No Name Basis? favorite games to play is “The Good, the A: One thing I’ve learned from improv as Bad and the Ugly,” which is a short-form a whole is how to avoid freaking out when game. We have three characters up, and I a situation happens. It’s bad to be caught always like everyone’s characters in that by surprise in improv. You need to learn to game. One time, our director Adam was problem-solve in the moment, and I think a crab. It was a terrible scene, but we all that’s something I’ve gathered. I have the kept cracking up. There are variations of confidence to handle tough tasks. Close to Campus, Close to Downtown, Large, Small, Remodeled that game like “The Illiterate, the Bad and & Unique Apartments and Houses. Stop in to see Pictures. the Ugly” and “The Sexy, the Bad and the Q: What kind of availability is there for new WE WILL START SCHEDULING SHOWINGS NOVEMBER 5TH! Ugly.” The game involves a good character members to join? who answers questions from the audience, A: We have 11 members this year. We Currently rent from Mecca? Be sure to hold or sign a new lease before a bad character who doesn’t answer actually just got three new ones, so we Nov. 5th or your apartment could get rented to someone else. the questions as well and then an ugly have a lot of team members this year. character whose role is to be useless to the Usually, we have auditions in August and CHECK US OUT ON FACEBOOK OR YOUTUBE audience. It’s so fun. September, after Campus Fest. FORUM OCTOBER 29, 2018 | PAGE 3 The inevitable melancholy of death PEOPLEON Shiva Bhusal be interpreted differently by different people. Compared to the entire universe, human Columnist But there is no doubt over its invincible nature. civilization is as small as a sand grain in a river THESTREET You can delay it, but you can’t get rid of it. The bank. Let’s not compare the Earth with the Any type of loss is disturbing. When it is poets, writers, artists, painters and musicians entire universe or the Milky Way Galaxy. The How has your off-campus linked to a person’s life, it becomes even more make a futile attempt to fancying themselves as solar system alone is 36 billion times larger housing experience been? painful. We live in a material world where we immortal through their artwork. Some people than Earth, according to Futurism.com. mourn over someone else’s death but never glorify death, as Yuval Noah Harari wrote, Although our physical existence is realize the inevitable fate of our own life. creating a myth that the person who dies for microscopic compared to the whole universe, It reminds me of a funny scene in one the nation will live forever in memories. our life is not an independent island. It is a “Great because I Bollywood movie called “Dhamaal,” in which The death of someone close is painful complex social and political entity shaped get to make my a staff member in an airport control room for weeks or months. But life doesn’t wait by the generation of people who lived before own food.” gives a profound lecture on death but never for anyone; it moves on even through the our birth and also by the other people in the realizes a plane approaching his workstation, greatest adversities. Her footprints slowly get present day connected through the means of which eventually takes his life. erased from our mind, and one day, she will nationality, desire, art and faith. The grief we suffer when someone dies, I be almost forgotten. Her memories will be As we owe the pride and disgrace of the believe, is not related to death as a biological limited to one or two days of the year when we human civilization to the generation of LAUREN HOLLARS remember her works and celebrate her life. the people who preceded us, we are also or spiritual process; its root is the attachment Junior | Inclusive Early Childhood Education we have with that person. The more intense An advantage of thinking profoundly about responsible for shaping the life and fate of the attachment, the greater the grief. The most death is it somehow keeps us away from the generations to follow. In between the painful moment is when someone loses her bad deeds, mostly from hurting others (or at generations, there is a process called “death,” “It’s been spouse, family members or close friends. The least encourages us to keep ourselves away which cleans up the old and creates space for great because grief lessens to the level of mere sympathy from doing so). It also allows us to make big the new. It is an ironic melancholy of life that I get to make when one discovers the death of someone decisions in life and helps us stay focused on death is a painful process, yet it is inevitable, memories with they do not know.

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