How sweet is too sweet?

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Is Mike Mitchell a
bad enough dude to
save “The Planet”?
Read our review.
Kappa Delta Rho
hosted its first open
mic night on Tuesday.
How did it go?
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Students flock to Fall Fest
by matt frohnapfel
matthew.froh napfel .0 8 @ cn u.edu
As Ashley Starks walked out of her
Residence Hall Friday afternoon and
rounded the David Student Union, she
saw two stuntmen doing BMX tricks
in the Trible Plaza. It didn’t stop there,
however.
As she continued, numerous tables
lined her path to Ratcliffe, a rock wall
was raised in the middle of the Great
Lawn and a band played loudly in front
of Gosnold Hall. “My first thought was
‘Why didn’t I know that this was going
on?’ Shouldn’t I be aware of a big activity
like this happening at the campus I live
on,” said Freshman Ashley Starks.
Many other students were surprised
by this carnival that sprung up within
the past couple hours. “I walked out of
my class around 4:00, saw people playing
Twister by the construction site, and
thought ‘Wow! What the hell is going
on?’ I hadn’t heard about any of these
activities, and I didn’t know if it was a
club sponsored event or Greek rush,”
said Freshman Robert Gary. Despite the
lack of advertisement, Fall Fest ‘08 was a
success for the Campus Activities Board
Special Event Committee.
Junior Lisa Lazzari, event coordinator
and chair of the Special Events Committee, explained, “We wanted to make
it bigger and better than last year and
gender-friendly. We decided that a sports
theme would be the best idea. We wanted
to go beyond people’s expectations so we
hired professional bikers to perform,
and that had never been done before.”
The CAB-sponsored event, featured
booths from many organizations, including Rita’s Italian Ice, who gave away free
samples, and Alpha Sigma Alpha, who
offered goldfish as a game prize.
You, Me and Everyone We Know also
performed a great set of songs and put
on quite a show. They even hung around
to talk to their crowd after the show. A
committee made up of Brittany Lahr,
Meghan Butler, Linsey Quarles, Christy
Philyaw, Mary McLaughin and Angie
Palma – most of them, first-year CAB
members – organized the festivities. n
(Right) Fall Fest is a multi-sponsored event that included live
music, sports, and a giant game of
Twister.
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Three big names crash onto campus thanks to Crocs
joseph.fitzpatrick.0 6 @ cn u.edu
If you already have plans for this Friday
night, you better clear your schedule. In
case you have been living under a rock or
have been immersed in a game of “World
of Warcraft,” you may have missed the
exorbitant amount of advertising the
Campus Activities Board has been doing to
get the word out about the biggest concert of
the year, the Crocs Campus Next Step Tour,
featuring MC Lars, Yung Joc and Cartel.
MC Lars, a graduate of Stanford University with a BA in English, is 25-year-old
white nerdcore rapper with an affinity
for literature and pop culture criticism.
Described as “Post-Punk Laptop Rap,” MC
Lars is not content with the current status
of mediocrity in the music industry.
Desiring to make a statement through
his socially conscious lyrics, as well as his
sense of humor, MC Lars hopes to spark
creativity in the minds of the iGeneration,
which he describes as “people growing up
see crocs page B2
image courtesy of department of student activities
Is It Edible? is a biweekly evaluation of bizarre food and drinks
that common sense would decide against consuming.
by mark newton
“You know when you go to the dentist, and they
put that fruity stuff to numb a certain area? It kind
of tastes like that.”
– Ryan Kelly
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“My Best Friend’s Girl”
Tank (Dane Cook) is a master
at seducing – and offending –
women. When guys get dumped,
they hire Tank to take their exgirlfriends out on the worst date
of their lives . Rated R.
Check out our exclusive online content
for a video of the taste test.
“Oh no, it’s horrible.”
– Jesse Hutcheson
cd releases
“It doesn’t even taste carbonated. It doesn’t really
have much of a taste to begin with.”
– Summer Gladden
“George Clinton and Some
Gangsters of Love” - George
Clinton
“Down to Earth” - Jem
“Brass Knuckles” - Nelly
“Doll Domination” - Pussycat Dolls
“Green sour apple stuff in Jones Soda, only flat.”
– Cole Hogan
“Why are you twitching?”
– Laura Gee to Cole Hogan
Ramune is everything that a soda shouldn’t be,
even if one of the bottles that we purchased was a
little flat. Regardless, this is just another novelty
beverage that should be skipped over. n
“Ghost Town”
Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais)
is a man whose people skills
leave much to be desired. When
Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is
miraculously revived after seven
minutes, he wakes up to discover
that he now has the annoying
ability to see ghosts. Rated PG-13
“Lakeview Terrace”
A young couple (Patrick Wilson
and Kerry Washington) has
just moved into their California
dream home when they become
the target of their next-door
neighbor, who disapproves of
their interracial relationship. The
stern, single father, this tightly
wound LAPD officer (Samuel L.
Jackson) becomes increasingly
harassing to the newlyweds.
Rated PG-13
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September 10
Sunset Kayak Paddle, 5:30 p.m.,
False Cape State Park
Norfolk History Museum “Second
Wednesday” Series, 7 p.m.,
Chrysler Museum
September 13
2008 Chesapeake Rubber
Duck Race, 9 a.m., Intracoastal
Waterway at Great Bridge/Old
Fire Station #5
Third Annual Hope on the Horizon
Luncheon, 3 p.m., Virginia Beach
National Golf Club
Let’s Get Real Health Fair, 9 a.m.,
Berkley Center
Leslie Jordan - My Trip Down
The Pink Carpet, 8 p.m., Roper
Performing Arts Center
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How sweet is too sweet?
Japan. Just hearing the name of the country
conjures a series of images of overtly cute cartoon
caricatures of ordinary objects dancing while
a hyperactive electronic beat screeches in the
background with seizure-inducing colors flashing
left and right. This is what we are greeted with
before we try Ramune, a carbonated fruit drink
imported from Japan, which can be found anywhere
from international grocery stores to World Market
for less than $2. While the lime-flavored, pale green
drink is advertised with a pair of smiling limes on
the wrapper, the sickly pink peach drink doesn’t
have any faces on its fruit.
The odd drink does gain points for its unique
opening method. After unwrapping the top, you
have to dislodge a marble to get to your fizzy concoction. The beverage, however, loses points for not
actually listing water as one of its ingredients. So
then, what did our staff think?
September 17
Zeta Tau Alpha Fundraiser, 6 p.m.,
Rita’s Italian Ice
September 18
Crocs Next Step Campus Tour:
Cartel, Yung Joc & MC Lars, 7 p.m.,
Freeman Center
“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
Caspian,” 8 p.m., Anderson 105
Night of Homelessness, 6 p.m.,
Great Lawn
“Always Outnumbered, Always
Outgunned” film screening and
panel discussion, 4 p.m., Trible
Library
September 19
“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
Caspian,” 8 p.m., Anderson 105
September 20
Comedian Dan Cummins, 9 p.m.,
Studio Theatre
September 18
Flogging Molly, 8 p.m., The Norva
September 19
The Commodores, 8 p.m., Sandler
Center for the Performing Arts
Drive By Truckers, 8 p.m., The
Norva
September 20
John Anderson, 9 p.m., Isle of Wight
County Fair
Skip Friel & The Resonators, 8 p.m.,
Savannah’s
Celebrity Gunfight, 7 p.m., The
Norva
in post-Cold War Internet era that takes the
convenience of our access to technology for
granted.”
Yung Joc, a 24-year-old Atlanta native,
has been working to get to the top of the
charts every day. Despite the fact that he
successfully solicited over one million
customers to buy his platinum debut, “New
Joc City,” which featured his hit single, “It’s
Goin’ Down.” In addition to earning nominations from the GRAMMYs, American
Music Awards, BET Awards and Billboard
Awards, “It’s Goin’ Down” was also the
number one selling ring-tone in all of the
Warner Music Group.
With his upcoming album, “Hustlenomics,” Joc is aiming for the top. “I make fun
music, but don’t get it twisted,” says Joc.
“I’m a hustler. That’s why I’m in the position I’m at.”
Cartel, the co-headliner for the show
along with Yung Joc, formed in 2003 out
of their hometown of Conyers, Ga. Their
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campus
local
(Left) Students attempt to climb
up a huge rock wall set up in the
middle of the Great Lawn for Fall
Fest. This was just one of the many
fun events set up on Friday.
by joe fitzpatrick
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“The Love Guru”
“Made of Honor”
“Risky Business: 25th Anniversary”
“Speed Racer”
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full-length debut album, “Chroma” put them
on Alternative Press’s 2005 list of “Bands You
Need to Know.”
Soon enough, they made the switch from
the indie label, The Militia Group, to Epic
Records, and following a few tours opening
for regulars in the pop punk scene, such as
New Found Glory, Boys Like Girls and Cobra
Starship, they were privileged enough to start
headlining their own tours.With the success of
their first album and their follow up self-titled
album, which was released last year, Cartel
has been gaining a strong fan-base that seems
to be getting bigger.
Bill Cottam of 360 Productions created the
Crocs tour, which is currently in its third
year. Cottam, the former entertainment
marketing manager at Crocs, set up the tour
to promote Crocs products as well as many
other sponsors in a way that appeals to college
students.
Other sponsors for the show include Xbox
and Major League Baseball.
To determine the lineup for each tour, 360
productions polled the schools for what acts
they would be interested in seeing, so there is
some student involvement in the process. “We
always try to have something that’s new and
next step. That’s kind of how the tour was created. We want that new, up-and-coming music
that the college students will really enjoy and
might be something new to them,” explained
Cottam on how they create the line-ups for the
tours.
To spread the word about the show, CAB has
been hard at work. “We have been posting
fliers, handing out balloons, and a student
from the art department is making a wire
sculpture of a crocodile to put up on campus,”
said Junior Rachel Nuell, the CAB music
committee chair. “In addition, the marketing
committee has been wearing green Crocs
clogs and Crocs t-shirts,” added Nuell.
They have also advertised off campus
since the event is open to the public through
newspaper advertisements as well as radio ads
on local stations such as 96X and 103 Jamz.
So far they have sold about 800 tickets, but
there are still some available so get them
while you still can. n
Low budget shows on “The Planet”
redbox reviews | Redbox kiosks allow customers to rent recent
movies for one night for $1 per movie. We rent one and ask the
obvious question: Is this movie worth your hard-earned dollar?
by harrison crews
harrison.crews.0 8 @ cn u.edu
Sometimes, when we watch a bad movie,
we feel bad. It’s like a birth, beautiful to the
creators but traumatic to all others watching
it. And yet, we feel we must be gentle. We feel
like, with some of these movies, we should
respect what it really meant to the creator.
“The Planet” is not one of those movies, and
is instead a low-budget, short-schedule movie
and it shows. Many lines are replaced with
cheap, gritty profanity for no apparent reason
while the script itself leaves too much to the
imagination.
While some mystery in a plot or motivation
is sometimes enjoyable, this is not so in “The
Planet.” The writer jumps from simplistic,
stock sci-fi themes to nonsensical character
and story directions. Actions seem to be taken
on the slightest whim from the character who
simply says the least lines. Many conversations follow the formula of a well-reasoned
or intelligent idea, a simple “That’s stupid,”
rejection, and then a rejection of the idea
altogether with no further argument.
Aside from that, the deplorable acting
makes the few more interesting moments dull,
with the best actor of the lot getting killed far
too early in what may be the least thought-out
villain monologue this viewer has ever seen.
The villains themselves deserve a few lines.
One has no dialogue at all, save for a single
scream and fulfills almost all of the moments
in the movie that could be considered interesting. However, given no motivation or back-
Talent shines at open mic night
photos by cole hogan / the captain’s log
Brian Grandinetti (left) and Shannon Oliver (right) both perform at Kappa Delta Rho’s Open
Mic Night in Einstein’s on Tuesday night. Another night is scheduled for October 7.
by matt frohnapfel
matthew.froh napfel .0 8 @ cn u.edu
Kappa Delta Rho held their first “Open
Mic Night,” which is an open showcase of
student talent, in Einstein’s last Tuesday.
Senior Joe Hamm, the drummer of Chasing Arrows and member of Kappa Delta Rho,
was very happy about the outcome despite
the lack of advertisement. Their aim was to
give people a place to show up whenever they
wanted, express themselves through perfor-
mance and have fun.
Unfortunately, there was a definite lack
of variety in the types of expression. The
predominant performance of the night was
music and while the types of music and
instruments maybe have varied, attention
started to become lost after the fourth or
fifth guitarist.
Sign up for the next “Open Mic Night”
with your comedy skits, short stories,
expressive poetry or any strange talent you
may posses and we’ll see you on Oct. 7. n
Students gear up for Lazer Rush
photo illustration by cole hogan
ground, he appears hollow and is clearly just a
device of the creator’s sordid fantasy of being
a screenwriter.
The other villain is only such for less than
five minutes of the movie, also has no motive,
but manages to give a psychotic and staggered
speech before engaging in the most pointless
violence in the movie. This leads to a doublewhammy of stupid when he kills the most
engaging actor (who receives very little screen
time) and delivers an awkward “Why not?” in
response to the question of why he didn’t have
plans to kill the heroes.
In short, “The Planet” is a great movie for
those who are “Mystery Science Theater 3000”
fans or insomniacs. Otherwise, save your
money.
More importantly, save the hour and a half
of your life you’ll never get back. n
karen hymes / the captain’s log
CNU students are being placed into two groups outside of Lazer Rush on Saturday. For $2, CAB
shuttled students to the 4,700-square foot laser tag arena.