Thursday www.thetowerlight.com FREE PublishedThe by Baltimore Student Towerlight Media for the Towson University Community Nov. 20, 2008 Tigerfest: Who will headline? COMMENTARY CAB, campus Dashboard debacle demonstrates need begin process for students to let toward spring distaste be known festival lineup Who do you absolutely Students given opportunity not want to see in spring? Pete Lorenz to help pick from array of Sports Editor popular, opening acts With Tigerfest on the horizon and the Campus Activities Board desperately trying to make it Carrie Wood right, we as students have once again been given Arts Editor the opportunity to vote for the headline artist at the annual concert. We have the responsibility The Campus Activities Board brought the pain – to tell the administration who we want to see. T-Pain, anyway – to this year’s Homecoming concert. Last year it worked out; many students enjoyed Now, they’re giving students a chance to choose who The Roots. they want to see at Tigerfest in the spring. However, the 2006 fiasco was not so kind Among the bands and artists listed in the online to students. Dashboard Confessional may have survey are the Foo Fighters, Daughtry, Counting been deemed the most popular band by the Crows, Lenny Kravitz, All American Rejects, Fall Out votes, but campus reaction to the news that the Boy, Pink, Weezer and Taylor Swift. wholly depressing four-piece group was playing CAB has been running the online poll to see Tigerfest was unfavorable to say the least. who students want Why? If the students said they wanted to see for the last few Dashboard, why did they get upset when the years. The survey will Headliner candidates band was signed? have a “huge impact” clockwise from top right It’s because there were at least as many on which bands are Lenny Kravitz students who absolutely loathed Dashboard as selected, according to those who loved them. CAB president Tiffany All American The online poll asks you to name which artist Sutherland. Rejects you would most like to see perform, but it has “We go and pick our no regard for which “artist” you would least like top five from the per- Foo Fighters to see perform. centages and we start Daughtry So how do we solve that problem? Who could with number one and possibly figure out which bands are hated on work down until we get Pink such a massive scale that they should not be someone to come to Taylor Swift brought onto University property? Tigerfest,” Sutherland I could. said. Counting Crows Why? I am just a regular student, like you, The poll format dif- Fall Out Boy who is going to attend Tigerfest for the sake of fers from last year’s– enjoying myself. As the sports editor I will not instead of having stu- Weezer have to cover the event, so I would definitely you dents pick their first like to see a band that I do not despise. Like and second choice they many of you, I am not familiar with every single will be choosing a headliner and an opening act. band on the ballot CAB has put together. I don’t Openers include Jason Mraz, Rooney, Paramore, Boys know exactly which band did which songs. choose Like Girls and Metro Station. But I know enough. I know that I really, really “Last year we had the same list twice, so you could hate Fall Out Boy. They sound whiny and cliché pick your first and then your second choice. It got to me, and when I hear two of their songs in suc- super confusing to choose who you want to see,” cession, they sound the same to my ears. Sutherland said. “So we did a main act and then I can’t express that on CAB’s ballot. All someone who you’d like to see opening, so if we end I can do is vote for a different band. All the up with lots of people from the opening list that have Fall Out Boy haters will be spread out among high percentages we’ll know to maybe get two open- the other bands, while the Fall Out Boy lovers ers instead of an opener and a headliner. concentrate their votes on getting “Sugar We’re “It’s just to make our job a little easier, to see how Going Down” to Burdick Field or Johnny Unitas people would like it split up, if they want one really Stadium if the event is moved there. big one or two kind-of-big ones,” Sutherland added. Not to say that Fall Out Boy definitely Another big question on this year’s Tigerfest poll is shouldn’t come. 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Editor Daniel Abraham Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco Masquerade Ball Staff Writers Samantha Buckley 7 – 10 p.m. • Paws • University Union 8 - 11 p.m.• Potomac Lounge • University Union Andrew Constant Campus Activities Board presents the comedic styling’s of The International Student Association is hosting a semi- Karen Hoobler Sebastian Maniscalo. Towson graduate Will Carey will open formal masked dance. Ticket prices in advance are $6 for TU Alissa Katz the show. students and $8 for general admission, while prices at the Kara Manos event are $8 for TU students and $10 for general admission. Olivia Obineme Matt Shea Lauren Slavin 7:32 – A New Musical Wintry Mix Dance Concert Joe Whiting Paul Williams 8 p.m. • Ruth Marder Theatre • Center for the Arts 8 p.m.• Theatre • Stephens Hall Photo Editor Kristofer Marsh Based on the true events of the Ashtabula Train Disaster, A Wintry Mix dance concert features works by visiting Asst. Photo Editor Blake Savadow 7:32 explores the collapse of a bridge and the collapse of a guest artist Rungiao Du, of the Washington Ballet. Tickets man in 1876 America. Tickets: $12 general admission; $7 cost $20 for general admission and $10 for seniors and Video Editor Eric Gazzillo seniors and students. students. Video Staff Gina Garcia Staff Photographers Cara Flynn Ana Martinez Chamorro Casey Prather Matthew Sprague Benjamin Strauss Proofreaders Camille Goleb Amy Hefter Football vs. Adam Kirchner James Madison General Manager Mike Raymond Business and Cheryl Johnson Advertising Staff Saturday, Nov. 22 Art Director Rachel Fauber 1 - 5 p.m. Johnny Unitas Stadium Online Editor Blake Savadow The Tigers will take on the No. 1 JMU Dukes in their Circulation Staff Jesse Barbato last game of the season. The game is also senior day and is Clifton Blount the final time to watch the senior class, led by quarterback Olu McKnight 8000 York Road Sean Schaefer. 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