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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2006-2007 Student Newspapers 4-13-2007 College Voice Vol. 31 No. 19 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2006_2007 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 31 No. 19" (2007). 2006-2007. 19. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2006_2007/19 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2006-2007 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. First Class Ll.S.Postage PAID Permit #35 e o e e New London, CT ,PUBLISHED WfEKLY BY THE STUDENTS OF CONNECTICUTCOUEG£ VOLUME XXXI' NUMBER 19 FRIDAY, APRIL 13 2007 . ' CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, New LONDON, C Here We Go Again ... An Interview With • Girl Talk The Voice Interviews OK Go The "Night Ripper" Comes To Conn • BY PAUL DRYDEN capacity rooms to 3000-10900 BY HORATIO JOYCE GO: r embrace mainstream aes- capacity rooms has definitely been a thetics, and the music is all based on a&e associate editor leaming process. You have to get the a&e contributing writer Top 40 music, and that's what I lis- momentum going really fast night teu to, aud that's what I really like. Paul Dryden caught Tim after night. It's a heavier tra-in we're Horatio Joyce: I accidentally left That's my main interest in music. I Nordwind, bassist for Floralia head- trying to pull now. You have to use your album Nighr Ripper at home would like it to be mainstream. Tile liner, OK Go, by phone, at one of the different muscles. It's definitely an over Christmas break and when I way it is, I am manipulating this band's stops during their spring tour. interesting experience. returned home over spring break, my material into weirder contexts than PD: I know the load-in/set- dad was reluctant to give it up. the original to a degree, just the Paul Dryden: So where are you up/sound check schedules for arena whole idea conceptually is a little bit guys on the road? How has this big shows make the days really long. It Gregg Gillis: (Laughs) What off from just the more straight ahead tour been with Snow Patrol? must be exhausting having that all kind of music is your dad into? mainstream stuff that's very mar- Tim Nordwind: We are in start so early in the morning and not ketable. Minneapolis right now, It has been perform until late at night. HJ: Opera, but he recognized great, these are the biggest audi- TN: It's definitely very different. some of your older samples. How HJ: You said you listen to Top ences we've had the chance to play You actually don't sweat as much would you explain your fan base? 40, anything else? for in consecutive nights in a row. because it's so well-cooled as com- It's been an awesome experience to pared to a club, where it's a hot as GG: Every show is really differ- GG: I am really a radio guy. I OK Go and Girl Talk will headline this year's Floralia rock so many faces all at onC;". In fuck and you're sweating buckets. ent, 1 think depending on how it's love Pittsburg radio, but outside that, our experience on the road, we've So I feel more tired after a smaller our music with a larger sound but . They bring a ping pong table out on promoted. But it's been really great, CDs from my home right now, [like] tried to always stay one step ahead show even though it is somewhat our next record is not going to be a the road with them and we always just the diversity. I thiuk it's always the new Dan Deacon, a guy I just of the venue with our production harder to get people to react during a stadium rock album. We're trying to play with them. Silversun Pickups a good and interesting mix at shows, played with in Baltimore, I've been and live show. So now that we're huge arena show. write on the road but we're not are the first openers on the tour - people who seem like they're into listening to. Rich Boy, the. rapper here oil the big stage, we're actually PD: Have you been adjusting exactly sure where we're going with they are about to get really big. They different genres of music. from Alabama. The new Game CD, really comfortable. your writing process for the bigger it yet. are really sweet people. During their I've been getting really into it. PO: So has that transition been rooms that you are playing? Are you PO: How has the road been with HJ: How do you describe your SEE OK Go SEE GIRL TALK difficult to tackle? trying to create a "larger" sound? Snow Patrol- are they good guys? music? TN: Goiug from 500-2000 TN: Well we've always wrote TN: They're really nice guys. .Continued on page six Continued on page six .Students Create Spotlight: Human Rights Camels Around The BY ALLISON ZELMAN World contributing writer American Studies Major CISLA, the Government Department, STAND, the Middle Andrew Higgins (07 ... Eastern Club and the Renewable BY GREG SOWA Energy Club are collaborating to between 12 and 15 different cities. sponsor SPOTLIGHT: HUMAN contributing writer Acapuleo, Ixtapa, Mexico City ... RIGHTS, a production which will My favorite place was Saladitas, take place on April 20th in Oliva which is a really isolated surfing Hall, Cummings at 8:00 p.m. This College Voice: So how did you spot outside lxtapa. I went there 3 production includes a large variety decide on Mexico? times. of student performers, activists and organizations. MobRoc's own Andrew Higgins: I went there CV: What was the social life like SOUL band will be performing as the surruner after sophomore year, there? the house baud. Other performances for an anthropology project with include Dance Club and Eclipse Professor Juli. I met a lot of kids at AH: The biggest difference from dancers and choreographers, A cap- the university where we were stay- Conn is that the social life is com- pella groups ConnArtists and Scuds, ing, and I wanted to perfect my drumming and other talented singers Spanish. and performers. Aside from the artistic performers, seven students CV: How did you set it up? will speak briefly about their per- sonal experiences working with Conn student Rachel Zelinsky '10 volunteered her time in Tbe MarsballIslands untb these young children (Zelman). AH: I'd already gotten credit Human Rights organizations and from La Universidad de las victims abroad. Of these seven stu- together in support of ending human Ideally, the school will make three senior human rights activists: Americas (UDLA) , where I stayed dent activists, all proceeds will be rights violations. The goal of the stronger connections with develop- Trent Hardman '07, Emily Honstein in the sununer. I contacted them to donated to Fundacion Profiino, a production is not only to spread ing countries and more students will '07 and Allison Zelman '07. After say that I wanted to continue there, rehabilitation center for street chil- awareness about various human become aware of available opportu- living abroad, they recognized the and I had to write a letter to Conn for dren in Honduras to which Megan rights abuses across the world, but to nities. These efforts will connect all large quantity of students who return special permission, because it's not McCarthy '07 has dedicated the' create an understanding that every- those who are passionate about back to college from either an inter- one of the places where 'we always later part of her college career. one can make a difference, even if it human rights, from performers to national opportunity or volunteer have programs. This production/Is based on the means to simply be an audience activists, as well as those who sim- work and have numerous stories, idea that Connecticut College stu- member. The hope is that the pro- ply share an interest in becoming information and newfound dedica- CV: You were there for a while, dents and organizations, from vari- duction will become sustainable, more informed about the world we tion for assisting in development or weren't you? ous departments and with a varied and every year various students can live in. change somewhere in the world. Andrew Dir:r:ins '07 spectrum of passions, will come share their experiences with others. This project is the creation of Although such stories and inspira- AH: Yeah, I was there for junior tions are shared amongst friends, spring, summer, and then senior fall. pletely off-campus. We always went U comin Cam us Events: they decided that it was time that to bars, or clubs, or house parties. Photo Contest such experiences were shared CV: How were your living The people are really friendly"; amongst the entire campus commu- arrangements? everyone you meet introduces you t r Continues! "The Great Tennessee nity. Such a concept would alJow 10 or 20 other people. I had a group everyone to be informed regarding AH: My first semester there I of about 15 really close friends who Last week's Monkey Trial" plausible routes for human rights lived in a dorm. I shared an 8-room I still keep in touch with.