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By Katie Peters
COPY EDITOR & LAYOUT EDITOR

Sunday marked the beginning of Homecome
ing Week 2012, a week Homecoming prof
grammers Kaylynn Barker, Brittany Crawford,
Purcell, and Katie Peters have been planning
for since April’s Finance Board proposal

This year’s theme, Across the Uni,
verse, was chosen to be a 60s themed week be,
cause of the flexibility of the theme, and also
to pay homage to this year’s Golden class, the
class 0f1962I The 60s theme was followed in
most events during the week, starting off with
the Homecoming Kickoff Lunch in the Com,
mons on September 12 that featured 60s clase
sics such as Elvis peanut butter and banana
grilled sandwiches, Sloppy Joe’s, and tuna n00,
dle casseroleI Spirit Week started off with two
favorite games from the 60s, and alot of people
showed up to play on the inflatable Twister mat
and roll their friends in a giant ball down the
human bowling lane The rest of this week fea7
tures a movie and game show set in the 60s,
laser tag, and a createeyoureown aquarium ac,
tivity, because everyone likes free fishI

Student organizations are also en,
couraged to participate in window painting
and the bike parade this year, which they can
do by emailing kbarker@hawkiitIeduI Wine
dow painting supplies can be picked up from
the Union Board office (MTCC 221) in Office
of Campus Life, and must be completed before
judging on Friday, September 21 and com,
pletely cleaned by Monday, September 24I

The Homecoming dance on Friday
will be a night filled with 60s decorations and
starts at 9 pm in the Hermann Hall Expo
Center with a DJ, photographer, and cash bar
The Homecoming Carnival on Saturday, from
12:30 to 4:30 pm, features a variety of rides
and inflatables and giveaways The buffet of 60s
food will include Yellow Submarine sandwich,
es, swedish meatballs, bugles, Tang, and Straw,
berry Fields jellEO salad, and the attractions
include a Segway obstacle course, velcro wall,
607second caricaturist, and free giveaways like
custom license plates and spin art TeshirtsI

A new activity, happening after the
carnival, is a bike parade over to the women’s
soccer game that starts at 5 pm The bike pa,
rade is apartnership with the Office of Campus
Energy and Sustainability in an effort to reflect
the value of sustainability on IIT’s campus, and
also to allow for a greater participation in the
parade Anyone is invited to participate, and
there will be a bike decorating table available at

the carnival

Also featured at the carnival is a Bea,
tles cover band that has been together for years
bringing the joy of the Beatles to the Chicago,
land area Meet the Beetles is a group of four
friends who exemplify the Fab Four through
their music, personality, and appearance Bee
low is an interview with the four, who are ex,
cited to perform on our campus this Saturday
James Hondros appears as George Harrison
(GH), Davey Justice as Paul McCartney (PM),
Scott Carlson as John Lennon (JL), and Eric
Jensen as Ringo Starr (RS)I

KP: What inspired you to create your
Beatles tribute group?

GH: Upon coming across my elf
dest cousin Elizabeth’s Beatles scrapbook, her
brother Tony and I became intrigued with the
whole phenomenon and decided to first learn
how to sing along with, then eventually play
along with early Beatle recordsI

Later, it became important to do it
well We later decided to put a band of like,
minded musicians together What better way
to share such a thing with scores of Beatle/mu,
sic fans?

After years of practice we finally ac,
complished our goal!

JL: For years I have loved and ref
spected the Beatles And for years I would not
have dreamed of touching their music because
they did it so well I wasn’t requiredll Over time
a friend wanted to start a band that was ini7
tially going to cover all aspects of the Beatles
and their solo careers but in a low key fashionI
Well, you can see how that wentll We ended
up a fullefledged trib because we sent demos
to different festival organizations who hired
us and the only tunes we had recorded were
Beatles songs They all thought we were a tribe
ute act and we then rushed to get all equipment
and clothing matters handled and here we are
nowll

KP: What is your favorite aspect of
the Beatles legacy?

PM: The Beatles are and will always
be the greatest band in the world They were
the ones to add stuff to their live performances
to enhance a proper stage show Their music
is taught worldwide in schools When I was
on tour in Japan I learned that the Beatles lyre
ics were taught to classmates as a tool to learn
American languageI Their words also teach
us to live and love I will add one more quote,
“When The Beatles first performed television
on the Ed Sullivan show America paused their
life to watch it After that performance the
world changed’l

  

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Images courtesy ofpreclectlc.com & meetth ebeetles.lnfo

RS: How it endures & keeps building
new fans, even teenage kids that you wouldn’t
expect to like them My 3 year old son is a big
fan tool

KP: How do you express your tribute
to the audience?

PM: The Beatles can never perform
again because of our loss with John Lennon
and George Harrison I detail Sir Paul Mce
Cartney with respect and honor channeling
on stage his stage appearance, movements
and performance When it’s done proper the
audience feels the Beatlemania energy which
intensifies the crowd to sing a long, dance and
scream!

IL: I personally try to be as close to
the character of John that I can possibly do
From how he stands, the instruments and their
sounds and very hopefully the look, I want it
to be an experience “with" The Beatles that ex,
cites, brings back memories but also is some,
what able to be “modern" in its own way One
great thing is to be able to have fun with our
audience and banter with them as well as each
other on the stage We all just have a lot offunll

KP: What is your favorite part of be-
ing in the band? What was your favorite experi-
ence as a band? Do you have any funny embar-
rassing moments as part of being in the band?

PM: Once the set list was changed I
was on stage and there was no set list before my
eyes The stage got quiet and I realized “Oh it’s
my turn to talk so iwalked to the microphone
and began to speak I was really hoping some,
one in stage would whisper in my ear the next
song as I spoke but nopeI So as I spoke “Thank
you Thank you AlrightI Thank you You do,
ing 0k love (speaking to a fan in the audience)
Alright good This next song is called" Ilooked
at John and said, “what’s the next song?" he re,
plied, “All My Loving” with a cheeky laugh and
I turn my head back to the microphone and
said quickly “All My Loving" and sang“ Close
your eyes and I’ll kiss youIII”

GH: I have on more than one occae
sion started playing a completely different song
all together than the rest of the band, quite
embarrassing to me, (but funny to the other
mates)!

Band Manager Nicole says
“George’s" most embarrassing moment was
when he drove to Ohio on his way from Chi,
cago to Louisville Luckily they didn’t miss the
gig?

Don’t miss out on this week full of
free and fun activities! If you have any ques7
tions, email ubimpactvps@gmailIcom for more
information

LAN party
disappoints

By Kristal Copeland
COPY EDITOR

As an incoming transfer from
a liberal arts college, I haven’t been to any
LAN parties, but I have been to many dance
esI I figured the Dance ‘n’ LAN party, hosted
by Illinois Tech Robotics, LAN Party Club,
Alien Sound and Lighting, and 33rd Street
Productions, would be a great way to intee
grate myself from a more generic college
party to another that was more my speed
So, on Saturday, I headed to the party right
on time From the balcony, I could only see
an empty dance floor with many flashing
lights, which I assumed was due to the party
having just started Going down the stairs
informed me that I was wrong There were
several people already seated and playing
video games, as well as some people who
were sitting and eating some of the assorted
snack foods and pizzasI I grabbed some
food as they set up the projector for Portal
2, and Dance ‘n’ LAN commenced!

Watching people play Minecraft
and League of Legends was fun until I fine
ished eating, but after that I really wanted to
dance Unfortunately the floor was laugh,
ably empty I decided to just walk up to
the dance floor and run around like a ma,
niac, arms flailing and everything, thinking
someone would surely decide to follow and
at least act crazy Once again, I was wrong
No one wanted to dance, and very few
people even noticed the insane girl running
around like an idiot

Disappointed, I returned to my
chair I sat for about five minutes before
the group next to me started complaining
about the lack of dancing I told them I also
wanted to dance, and we all decided to just
head out in a group

We danced for over a full hour;
imagine four girls and two guys headbange
ing and jumping around hoping some other
group would join us There were a few times
where something interesting happenedi
two groups of two sporadically appeared
and left; sometimes different members of
our group would sit down for a while before
getting up and dancing againI

Eventually, the two guys left and
there were four girls on the dance floor
for more than 45 long minutes before any,
one else appeared Now, I know there are
many geek stereotypes, but little says more
than “all of the girls walk into a Dance ‘n’
LAN party I I I no one noticesI” Eventually,
another much larger group appeared and
everyone got up and danced, not to men,
tion when Gangnam Style came on and we
suddenly had more than ten extra people,
but overall, the Dance half of Dance ‘n’ LAN
was a bust

I knew something similar to this
would happen, but I was expecting a slightly
larger amount of people on the floor at any
given time Either way, I got to meet people
who do enjoy dancing at IIT, so sometimes
it’s fun to be in the minority