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[ Monday, May 7, 2007 ]

Every Day’s a Song
A Collegian reporter offers a soundtrack to your semester

Collegian Staff Writer

This semester came and went pretty quickly, didn't it? To immortalize it, I've put together a bit of a mix tape so that you can relive it for years to come.

To remember our snow day earlier this winter, I chose Snow's "Informer." A day of classes canceled by snow at Penn State and a hit song by a white Canadian rapper -- two things which won't be happening again for quite a long time.

No snow days for a while is kind of a downer, but I don't think there's anyone who really misses Snow (though I really, really, really hope there is, because the idea of a wistful Snow groupie is absolutely hilarious).

State College put its own spin on an old tradition with State Patty's Day this year, so to celebrate further I picked the Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" because sober people dislike both of them and even drunk people can't really rationalize either's existence.

They're both fun to laugh at from afar, but when you're walking down College Avenue at 1 p.m., neither a drunk frat guy in a green top hat nor "WHAT YOU GON' DO WIT' ALL THAT JUNK" blasting into my ears is terribly appropriate.

The Collegian music reporters, myself included, have gotten copious amounts of (mostly) baseless hate mail, which is why I've chosen of Montreal's "There Is Nothing Wrong With Hating Rock Critics."

Here's an example some of the sound reasoning I found in many of the letters: the thousands of Central Pennsylvanians who went to the show love Nickelback and enjoyed the concert, therefore Nickelback makes great music.

You've probably noticed a theme by now that trends toward heckling, but I'm going to bite my tongue and pick Radiohead's "Dollars & Cents" to honor Thon, or at least to honor all the money they raised.

While Thon has its own share of flaws and foibles, I'm really not so soulless to jeer anything that raises millions of dollars for cancer research.

There was a lot of talk about adding new CATA buses this semester, but because it didn't happen, how about Neutral Milk Hotel's "Someone is Waiting"?

I don't really have much to say on the matter because I don't use the buses all that often, so I'll use this opportunity to complain about the exorbitant amount of people who ride the White Loop from East Halls to the Forum. Come on.

There has been a lot of talk about rising tuition costs, so in regards to the protests to lower them, I'm going with Wilco's "Wishful Thinking."

Yeah, lower tuition would be nice, but it probably isn't going to happen.

For the record, I'd also like soda in the drinking fountains, guaranteed A's for all Collegian music reporters and Elliott Smith to be brought back to life and gently encouraged to resume his musical career.

Basically, as long as you keep paying tuition, the university is going to keep asking you to pay more.

The Association of Big Ten Students has again failed to recognize our student government -- that is, the University Park Undergraduate Association -- as an official student government, and in spite of the recent elections, I'm going to wax political for a little here and pick Weezer's "Why Bother?"

Sorry, but there's still a lot of work to do here, and until it's done, we the students remain underrepresented and at the mercy of the administration.


 



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