The halls of the Johnson Museum filled with the echoes of students’ poetic voices from 7:30 to 9:30pm on Friday November 12 when the English and Museum Clubs co-sponsored a Poetry Night. Members and associates of the English Club took the mic for the first half of the night. During a short intermission, students were able to browse through the visiting exhibits. An open mic portion followed, where unpublished student authors had the chance to perform, as well did established student authors.

Kate Pascucci ’12 read two selections from the student publication Rain, of which she is editor in chief. Remanu Phillips ’12 read two of his original poems as did graduate student Abraham Burickson. Burickson’s selections centered on a character named Charlie and his personal struggles. Both were from his published chapbook Charlie, while Phillips’ poems appeared on loose leaf. Phillps’ poems had an improvisational feel that blended with his scat-like performance style. His poems often referenced his friends and elicited the audience’s laughter-in a good way. Kia Rogers ’13 briefly rapped about today’s society. Rogers’ message to look past stereotypes and live as an individual was not new to the audience, but his swift, soulful performance gave his message a fresh energy. Isle Bastille ’14 read an original poem structured around an elementary school student’s recitation of the alphabet. Each letter branched off onto a different topic, and the topics evolved from innocent anecdotes to a deep personal message regarding depression. These readers filled the first half of the night with a wide range of performance styles.

Many individuals walked through the tree-themed exhibit during the intermission. The tree exhibit featured drawings of trees, segments of trees, video installations involving trees, and a tree bench. The tree bench was the most dramatic piece of all. It consisted of one tree cut down the middle of the trunk from its root base to mid height, its two halves resting on the floor so that the flat side functioned as a bench. The tree drawings ranged from an amateur sketch of an African schoolchild to detailed pieces that left no twig undefined. Some tree drawings had an interestingly fuzzy appearance when viewed up-close, but morphed into trees when viewed from afar. After 20 minutes, the open mike portion began. Two male freshmen read self-reflective poems. Neither have yet been published in a student publication, but this event definitely gave them exposure that will hopefully lead to future publication.

1. having sex
2. texting (IMing)
3. peeing – finding new places to pee
   1. peeing on people
4. being in a frat
5. first dates
   1. dinner conversation is wayy better
6. cornell bar scene
   1. cuz there’s no work out there
7. party games
   1. jenga
   2. wister
8. roadtrips
   1. talk about the random urge to just drive/go somewhere when youre drunk
   2. mardi gras
   3. montreal
   4. jimmys 17 hours in nyc
9. cooking
   1. late night
   2. concoctions (peanut butter and jelly on tortillas)
   3. ordering food
10. dancing
    1. drunk girls
    2. JO tables
    3. frat parties

• things that don’t make it
  • senior year
  • going to class
  • facebook

• frat guy – that guy
  • stickers
  • bumper stickers
  • laptop stickers

• Freshmen Friday
  • How to pre-game
    • making mixed drinks in dorms
    • rooms parties

1. having sex
2. texting (IMing)
3. peeing – finding new places to pee
   1. peeing on people
4. being in a frat
5. first dates
   1. dinner conversation is wayy better
6. cornell bar scene
   1. cuz there’s no work out there
7. party games
   1. jenga
   2. wister
8. roadtrips
   1. talk about the random urge to just drive/go somewhere when youre drunk
   2. mardi gras
   3. montreal
   4. jimmys 17 hours in nyc
9. cooking
   1. late night
   2. concoctions (peanut butter and jelly on tortillas)
   3. ordering food
10. dancing
    1. drunk girls
    2. JO tables
    3. frat parties

• things that don’t make it
  • senior year
  • going to class
  • facebook

• frat guy – that guy
  • stickers
  • bumper stickers
  • laptop stickers

• Freshmen Friday
  • How to pre-game
    • making mixed drinks in dorms
    • rooms parties

this week on open mic: Top 10: The top 10 Those Guys : That guy

• listen to the podcast for the full list
• number 3: that guy in class who loves to hear his own voice
• number 4: that guy that who is way to comfortable in a public bathroom
• number 5: that guy that talks in the library like hes not in the library
• number 6: that guy that constantly checks this phone
• number 7: that guy that can’t close / that guy who tries to hard

You tube video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLcR-Mb6yRI Jump off of the week: Rhymefest feat. Kanye West – More playlist:

• bubba sparxxx – the other side
• ghostface – cherez la ghost
• juvenile – slow motion
• da back woods – youre gonna luv me
• jay-z – I just wanna luv u

• listen to the podcast for the full list
• number 3: that guy in class who loves to hear his own voice
• number 4: that guy that who is way to comfortable in a public bathroom
• number 5: that guy that talks in the library like hes not in the library
• number 6: that guy that constantly checks this phone
• number 7: that guy that can’t close / that guy who tries to hard

You tube video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLcR-Mb6yRI Jump off of the week: Rhymefest feat. Kanye West – More playlist:

• bubba sparxxx – the other side
• ghostface – cherez la ghost
• juvenile – slow motion
• da back woods – youre gonna luv me
• jay-z – I just wanna luv u

Slope Radio, Cornell’s online radio station that has become an established campus presence after one semester of operation, plans to expand into new offices and television broadcasting in 2007.

The concept for Slope Radio sprang from an experiment in the fall of 2005 by its three creators, Yaw Joseph Etse ’08, Alex Zahn ’07 and Jeff Bookman ’07, who began an online broadcast from their fraternity house.

Lindsay France/University Photography

Yaw Etse ’08, right, and James Norton ’08 banter about myspace.com and other hot topics on the radio program “Open Mic with Joey & Jimmy,” which airs live on sloperadio.com Friday nights from 6 to 8 during the semester. Copyright © Cornell University

“We had some friends abroad who heard it and said we could do something more legitimate with it,” said Etse, the organization’s president and information technology director. Those friends have since brought “The Gong Show,” a variety program on the London School of Economics’ student radio station, to Slope Radio.

Over the summer, Etse met with Tracy Vosburgh, the university’s director of multimedia development and production, who became the group’s adviser. She referred him to Michael Tolomeo of Cornell Information Technologies, who helped with logistics and with using CIT’s multimedia server for the broadcast.

Slope Radio began broadcasting over the summer and officially launched Sept. 4. The service broadcasts online at http://SlopeRadio.com 24 hours a day, with a variety of live shows offered between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m. from a studio in Appel Commons. The rest of the day, an automated computer program plays music including hip-hop, reggae and indie rock.

“If you tune in, you’re going to hear anything from country to rap, and people seem to have been pretty receptive of that, overall,” Zahn said. “In essence, it’s good that we have no specialization.”

The live programming includes music, news, comedy, interviews with performers coming to Ithaca, and talk shows on topics from sports to sex. Zahn’s show, “Pit Stop,” Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m., explores music, musicians and trends, and provides historical context.

“One day we did a show on bands that had evolved thanks to Myspace, which is a huge scene in itself,” he said.

Students are always dropping by. During the “Open Mic” show on Fridays, “we usually do a top 10 list and talk about recent events and have freshmen come in and talk,” Etse said. “It’s intended to be comical.”

All 23 shows are archived and available as podcasts on the Slope Radio site, which has around 1,000 listeners a day, Zahn said. Besides entertainment, the service provides practical training for broadcasters. (WVBR-FM, owned by the nonprofit Cornell Radio Guild, is managed by students but operates independently of the university.)

“A lot of students feel there aren’t enough opportunities to practice the production side of broadcasting,” Etse said. “We’re working with Geri Gay [chair of the Department of Communication] to set up some kind of lab, hopefully for credit.”

The student activities fee and some donations have helped with equipment and operating costs. “It’s been a problem getting advertising and funding because we’re new,” Zahn said. “We don’t need a lot, but it would be nice to have better microphones and sound quality. Right now we’re making do.”

Slope Radio’s student officers will be working during the winter break on revamping programming and on steps to establish a channel on CUTV.

“We’ve talked about getting our own channel that has Cornell news and Cornell events,” said Zahn, who has co-hosted “Campus Insights” on Ithaca’s public access station. “We could even maybe move to satellite [radio] if we get a big enough following the next few years.”

Participation in Slope Radio is open to anyone in the Cornell community, and the station is taking proposals for new shows and applications for officers, producers and DJs; for information see http://sloperadio.com/cgi/wp/community.php.

“It’s a lot of work to get it running,” Zahn said. “We want to have shows that are politically driven or news-driven. We would like to provide another venue besides the Daily Sun to know what’s going on.”

Slope Radio will move its operations to 107 Willard Straight Hall next semester, over spring break.

“Looking down the road, we really feel like Slope Radio is a service, and a way that students can express their opinions,” Etse said. “Next semester, we’re really focusing on getting more student groups to have their own shows.” The Whistling Shrimp improvisational comedy group has already approached them to do a show, he said.

Source: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec06/SlopeRadio.dea.html

PDF: slope-radio-looks-to-expand.pdf

Slope Radio, Cornell’s online radio station that has become an established campus presence after one semester of operation, plans to expand into new offices and television broadcasting in 2007.

The concept for Slope Radio sprang from an experiment in the fall of 2005 by its three creators, Yaw Joseph Etse ’08, Alex Zahn ’07 and Jeff Bookman ’07, who began an online broadcast from their fraternity house.

Lindsay France/University Photography

Yaw Etse ’08, right, and James Norton ’08 banter about myspace.com and other hot topics on the radio program “Open Mic with Joey & Jimmy,” which airs live on sloperadio.com Friday nights from 6 to 8 during the semester. Copyright © Cornell University

“We had some friends abroad who heard it and said we could do something more legitimate with it,” said Etse, the organization’s president and information technology director. Those friends have since brought “The Gong Show,” a variety program on the London School of Economics’ student radio station, to Slope Radio.

Over the summer, Etse met with Tracy Vosburgh, the university’s director of multimedia development and production, who became the group’s adviser. She referred him to Michael Tolomeo of Cornell Information Technologies, who helped with logistics and with using CIT’s multimedia server for the broadcast.

Slope Radio began broadcasting over the summer and officially launched Sept. 4. The service broadcasts online at http://SlopeRadio.com 24 hours a day, with a variety of live shows offered between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m. from a studio in Appel Commons. The rest of the day, an automated computer program plays music including hip-hop, reggae and indie rock.

“If you tune in, you’re going to hear anything from country to rap, and people seem to have been pretty receptive of that, overall,” Zahn said. “In essence, it’s good that we have no specialization.”

The live programming includes music, news, comedy, interviews with performers coming to Ithaca, and talk shows on topics from sports to sex. Zahn’s show, “Pit Stop,” Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m., explores music, musicians and trends, and provides historical context.

“One day we did a show on bands that had evolved thanks to Myspace, which is a huge scene in itself,” he said.

Students are always dropping by. During the “Open Mic” show on Fridays, “we usually do a top 10 list and talk about recent events and have freshmen come in and talk,” Etse said. “It’s intended to be comical.”

All 23 shows are archived and available as podcasts on the Slope Radio site, which has around 1,000 listeners a day, Zahn said. Besides entertainment, the service provides practical training for broadcasters. (WVBR-FM, owned by the nonprofit Cornell Radio Guild, is managed by students but operates independently of the university.)

“A lot of students feel there aren’t enough opportunities to practice the production side of broadcasting,” Etse said. “We’re working with Geri Gay [chair of the Department of Communication] to set up some kind of lab, hopefully for credit.”

The student activities fee and some donations have helped with equipment and operating costs. “It’s been a problem getting advertising and funding because we’re new,” Zahn said. “We don’t need a lot, but it would be nice to have better microphones and sound quality. Right now we’re making do.”

Slope Radio’s student officers will be working during the winter break on revamping programming and on steps to establish a channel on CUTV.

“We’ve talked about getting our own channel that has Cornell news and Cornell events,” said Zahn, who has co-hosted “Campus Insights” on Ithaca’s public access station. “We could even maybe move to satellite [radio] if we get a big enough following the next few years.”

Participation in Slope Radio is open to anyone in the Cornell community, and the station is taking proposals for new shows and applications for officers, producers and DJs; for information see http://sloperadio.com/cgi/wp/community.php.

“It’s a lot of work to get it running,” Zahn said. “We want to have shows that are politically driven or news-driven. We would like to provide another venue besides the Daily Sun to know what’s going on.”

Slope Radio will move its operations to 107 Willard Straight Hall next semester, over spring break.

“Looking down the road, we really feel like Slope Radio is a service, and a way that students can express their opinions,” Etse said. “Next semester, we’re really focusing on getting more student groups to have their own shows.” The Whistling Shrimp improvisational comedy group has already approached them to do a show, he said.

Source: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec06/SlopeRadio.dea.html

PDF: slope-radio-looks-to-expand.pdf