The Loveliest Village

This highly select singing and dancing group is open to all Auburn students by audition. Auditions are held in May for current students, and during Camp War Eagle for incoming freshmen.

The group travels all over the southeast to perform for various groups, whether it be at schools, civic organizations, exhibitions or nursing homes. However, the AU Singers are known for its performances on campus.

The AU Singers will host its Spring 2008 show on April 26, 27 and 29. There will be 5 total shows over the three day period, a first for the group. Tickets are $10 a piece.

The performance will include solos, many modern hits, ballads and a fun medley.

For tickets and more information, please call the AU Singers Box Office at (334) 844-4194.

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T

he Environmental Awareness Organization serves as an informant to the student body about Going Green. On March 6, they held a “Green Living” workshop.

Living green is all about taking steps to do things that are beneficial or at least not harmful towards the environment. It is be beneficial to help stop global climate change and lower America’s dependancy on foreign oil. Plus, it’s economically wiser than most of us are living now.

The Green Living Workshop laid out many ways that we can all start going green. The EAO says that it is small day-to-day changes that can make a huge difference.

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Jazmine Maddox is the Black Student Union (BSU) President at Auburn University. The group of students that she leads is in charge of the Tiger Stomp step show that occurs every spring semester.

Stepping incorporates all types of movement including cheerleading, military, and drill-team moves, especially the call and response element inherent with those forms. That aspect is important to aid with the energy of step. Stepping is deeply rooted in African American culture through fraternities and sororities. It has also been described by some as a display of organizational unity.

There will be many groups competing in Tiger Stomp this year. Attendees will also see performances by Opelika Middle School’s Step Team, The RipTide Dance Troup from the University of Alabama and Auburn’s own AU Rhythm. The grand prize winner will receive $2,000 and the runner-up with win $1,000.

This year, Tiger Stomp will be held at the Student Activities Center on Friday, March 7 at 7:00.

Admission for Auburn students is $5 in advance and $10 the day of the show and the general public is $15 in advance and $20 the day of the show.

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Welcome Week is Auburn’s way of welcoming new students to the Auburn Family and returning students back to campus fall semester. The week is packed with more than 30 events on campus that range from a free movie, Grocery Madness, a Gym Expo and community service events to a pep rally and class tours.

Welcome Week provides students with various programming and information to assist them in making Auburn University their home away from home. Students have the opportunity get to know each other and the campus and become comfortable with the routine of campus life.

Applications to be a part of the Welcome Week leadership team for 2008 will be due on Friday, February 22 in the UPC Office (Foy 316).

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Behind the Mask: African Art from the Ellen Hobbs Collection & the Kennedy Museum of Art is an art collection at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University.

The collection will be in the museum until Spring graduation on Saturday, May 10, 2008.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Marilyn Laufer, Director of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University and Andrew Henley, the Education Curator for K-12.

They gave great insight about the history of the African masks and how they were used. I learned the masks also vary from culture to culture. It was interesting to find out what the meanings were “behind the mask.”

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