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Generation Y: technology- addicted, North Face-wearing, Facebook stalkers
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Attention Bloomington: Clear your schedules, and turn up your stereos.The ninth annual Hip Hop Awareness Week, organized by the IU Hip Hop Congress and Union Board, is in full swing. Genre-related speakers, performances, contests and showcases are available to anyone interested.And the party doesn’t stop until Friday.Hip Hop Congress – denoted by its Web site as “an international grassroots network that educates, empowers and unites individuals” – is the chief supporter of the week, former IU chapter president and current graduate student Tim Zawada said.The events are planned to raise awareness of hip-hop culture and how the culture can benefit IU.“Students can meet and network with each other, and decide how to incorporate hip-hop into the community,” Zawada said.Thursday brings The Martians, Wiz Kids, Jip Jop, S-Preme and Wondermaxx to the Indiana Memorial Union Gallery as part of Union Board’s weekly NOISE series. Wondermaxx, aka IU junior Jacob Kowalczyk, said his performance will incorporate dancing and politics.“I address social political issues, issues relevant to everyone no matter what music they listen to,” he said. “We usually get people groovin’.”The week’s self-expression isn’t limited to vocal performance.Junior Keane Rowley, president of the IU Breakdance Club, said he looks forward to b-boy action in the Hip Hop Elements Gallery Friday night. The event, taking place at the Indiana Memorial Union, will showcase breakdancing and graffiti art and include competitions for the hip-hop-savvy.“All of the elements of hip-hop come together,” he said.Friday night will also feature a benefit show for Grind Time Midwest, an MC Battle League. It will take place at Uncle Fester’s and feature an open mic for MCs, as well as performances by Sonny Bamboo, Tree City All-Stars, 2 Mics and a Kit, Feso and Remnent.Wednesday’s festivities put politics to the forefront as Dead Prez took the Buskirk-Chumley Theater stage Wednesday night.Freshman Nichole Binder said she bought tickets after receiving an event invitation on Facebook.“I love political science and music, so the two together are a great time for me.”Currently an informal advisor for IU Hip Hop Congress, Zawada said the week’s featured speakers and performers add intellectualism and cultural education to entertainment.“Across the years, (Hip Hop Awareness Week) has a similar theme, but the biggest separator from year to year is our headliners,” he said. “They have potential of mass influence. People recognize this, and take their words seriously,” he said.Cornel West, author and civil rights activist, spoke Monday at the IU auditorium. West answered student questions and signed copies of his book “Hope on a Tightrope.”“IU students need to see more speakers like Dr. West,” freshman Erika Hall, Union Board Public Relations committee member, said. “He offers different insight to those used to old-fashioned ways of thinking. Plus, he’s brilliantly funny.”From dancing to artwork to academics to music, Hip Hop Awareness Week has something for everyone, Zawada said.“The week is about taking advantage of the college experience,” he said. “It takes you away from the classroom and builds you as a person, whether you’re familiar with hip-hop or not.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With a crimson rose in one hand and construction paper-matted poetry in the other, actor Gabe Gloden, managing director of the Bloomington Playwrights Project, entered the Wright Place Food Court at 5:45 p.m. Friday.Tuxedo-clad, Gloden weaved through tables of dining students until he reached his target, cleared his throat and began to recite, “I have this feeling inside me ...”Love-You-Grams, a fundraiser of the playwrights project, featured live poetry performances by trained actors and actresses sent from one friend or lover to another, and deliveries startled many recipients all over Bloomington Feb. 13 and 14.Senior Bryson Bosson said he was shocked but happy upon receiving a Love-You-Gram.“I was completely surprised,” Bosson said. “Before it happened, I had actually commented on someone walking through the food court all dressed up. I thought, ‘Wow, he must be doing something for Valentine’s Day.’”Sophomore Amanda Stahl, partially responsible for Bosson’s Love-You-Gram, sat next to him as Gloden performed.“It was the funniest thing I had ever seen,” she said. “I was crying.”Bosson said his friends lured him to the food court with promises of ice cream, but what he received in front of a snickering audience was, he said, much more memorable.Through two days of Love-You-Gram deliveries, the performers visited personal residences, classrooms, the Herman B Wells Library, the McCulla School fine arts studio and a Hobby Lobby.“I was embarrassed and excited,” Hobby Lobby employee Tiffany Ward said after receiving a Love-You-Gram from her husband Bryon. “I’ll be sure to send him one at work next year.”Ward stood laughing by a cash register as Playwrights Project actor and junior Ian McCabe recited William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18.”“It was my third Love-You-Gram, so I wasn’t nervous,” McCabe said. “(Saturday) morning, I delivered to a 94-year-old Argentine woman on Wiley Street. It was so fun and exhilarating.”The playwrights project raised more than $200 for the organization with plenty of chaotic, last-minute orders, said Carmen Blubaugh, development assistant of the playwrights project and IU graduate student.“We continued to receive requests throughout Valentine’s Day,” she said. “It was frenzied, but everything worked out nicely.”