UNH Monday Updates 12/14

Well, finals week is here. Prepare for over-crowded libraries, extended quiet hours, massive amounts of coffee intake (which leads to massive urine output) and compulsive room cleaning. Personally, I don't have any finals until Wednesday night and I plan on leaving Friday. So, I honestly don't know how frequently I'll be posting this week. I'll try for everyday, but they'll probably be short and sweet. As for break, I probably won't be posting too much, I'll be heading down to NYC for a few days and getting in as much skiing as possible before heading back to Durham.

Just a reminder, the Smith Hall/student voice walk is today (Monday) at one. Students plan on gathering in front of Smith at one PM. Whether you are for or against the repurposing of Smith Hall this is a great opportunity to show the university that you deserve a voice on campus. Weather.com is calling for it to be 40 degrees and sunny, but this is New Hampshire...

Speaking of weather/news services. It looks as if WMUR is trying to steal my steeze:

Not cool.

In sports news the men's hockey team finished out the first half of the season leading hockey east in average attendance with 6,222 per game, which was over 600 more than UMass, the next closest. UNH also has the best record in the conference after going 6-0-1 in their last 7 games.

 On Friday night, comedian Bo Burnham was on campus and he was hilarious; much better than I anticipated. MC Mr. Napkins opened the show up with a few of his witty raps to the best of his white-Jewish-rapper ability. As for Burnham, he was excellent at crowd interaction between songs  and having to deal with a crappy guitar connection. During his encore when someone in the crowd squeaked an air horn Burnham quickly shouted "Whoa, that scared me. I thought a four-year-old queefed." I'm not sure if that is how to spell it, but I'd rather not Google that.

In more recent news UNH professors are threatening to boycott summer school in protest over contract issues. Read this Boston Herald article for more info.

Stay classy, not UMassy.

SCOPE: Primed for a big spring show.

Don't believe me? Well for once I have facts to back up my statements. Everyone at UNH already knows about SCOPE, the Student Committee On Popular Entertainment. They are the students who hire different bands, various musicians and comedians to entertain, or at least attempt to entertain, the student body. I have already dedicated several posts in the past to mocking SCOPE, but I feel it is necessary to take a look inside SCOPE.
Through the help of several anonymous field agents at various universities I have been able gather information that is usually not released to the public. This is serious stuff, one student has already been fired for tipping off one of my field agents at UMaine. Don't believe me? Read this.
What I have learned is that for this year SCOPE has a budget of $203,000 to cover artist and agent fees and a production budget of $65,000. The production fee covers expenses such as security, renting the Whittemore Center, lighting, sound equipment and other things of that nature. SCOPE is budgeted for a revenue of $140,000 a year, which actually goes to the Student Activity Fee. The SAF is where the original money comes from and SCOPE must get an approval from that office before committing to a specific performer. If SCOPE meets or exceeds that $140,000 they are more easily approved for a bigger show in the spring or the following year. So the bottom line is if we by tickets to the homecoming and winter shows (preferably make them sellout) we can expect a bigger and better show for Spring Climax.
My Maine agent was able to find out (through the VP of their student entertainment board who has since been fired) that UMaine was alloted $260,000 this year. And for that I applaud SCOPE because we have had Akon (who although I don't like is a huge name that made a lot of money) and a very funny, but not a hugely named comedian. (Bo Burnham tonight!)  So far this year UMaine has had The Decemberists, Dierks Bentley and Bob "I suck dick for coke" Saget. Saget may be a bigger name than Burnham, but he is old and past his prime. I don't really see him appealing to a younger college-aged audience. SCOPE has been getting better college shows for less money, well done. (But is that really a surprise, I mean who would want to go perform at UMaine, even if they can pay more?) I feel as though SCOPE has set themselves up nicely for a big Spring Climax show because of how much money they probably brought in from Akon alone, plus tonight's show. This means that they should have a nice amount left to spend and an approval for a bigger show. SCOPE, please do not let me down. You have earned my trust that the spring show will be big. Please don't make me eat my words.  Let's see what you got!

On a side note I heard this song the other day and I think I like it. It's by Goldfish who I guess are like South Africa's answer to MGMT. It's different from my usual music taste, but it's kind of catchy.


Stay classy, not UMassy.

Bo Burnham Coming to UNH

Well done SCOPE... but I still hate you...



I take full credit by requesting him on SCOPE's online survey. He is great for a live college show.
Stay classy, not UMassy.

Today's Post

Last night I attended the first ever flash-dance at UNH. Hundreds of students gathered in the courtyard in front of the library for a 15 minute rave thing. A lot of people had fun and I think the organizers did a great job, but I was hoping to capture UNH students at their finest. Only after it was said and done nothing really happened. Overall I came away disappointed. The music wasn't loud enough and clearly not enough people were belligerently drunk. Secretly I hoping for a huge mob of students to march around campus, but I guess we'll have to wait for the Sox to win the World Series in the fall. It's too bad the NBA and NHL championships won't occur while we're in school. Apart from election night (OBAMA!!!) we didn't have one good mob all year. Common! How do you expect to regain that top 10 party school ranking if we can't even have one legit mob? Jeez, kids these days... 

I was scanning over the Wikipedia page for "May 13th" looking for a musician's birthday or death  for inspiration for a song of the day and I saw that today is Ronnie "Lightweight" Coleman's 45th birthday. For those of you who don't spend your study time on youtube, Ronnie "Yeah Buddy" Coleman is an eight time Mr. Olympia, but he is perhaps even more famous for his youtube videos of him pumping himself up for a heavy lift. This is one of my personal favorites. I did hear that comedian/youtube sensation Bo Burnham will be appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight, meaning that I may actual enjoy the show for a few minutes. (I'm sorry, i just haven't gotten into Fallon yet, although he is getting better. I usually watch clips from the show on Hulu, mainly just to see the Roots.) (<-- Great song.) 

Seeing as how I have already used a Roots song I have decided to  use one of Burnham's for today's song of the day. I hope this will make you laugh and ease some of the tension during your finals. 

That's it for now, I to got to study for a change. I apologize for being brief but I have my hardest final tomorrow and it also happens to be the only one I need to do really well on. I'm pretty sure I've already mentioned to never take Politics 401.

Stay classy, not UMassy.*

*Maybe I should change this signature if I'm so set on regaining that top 10 ranking during my time here. I'll think about it.