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AT&T and P.E.E.R.S. team up to show students the risks involved with texting while driving and the results are troubling. Not only were they runners-up for campus program of the year for 2012 but they provide students with a wide diversity of entertainment choices.
Talk about an outstanding year... He was runner-up for Entertainer of the Year for 2012 plus he scored the first ever perfect 5.0 in his ARC Reviews.
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An Evening Behind The Scenes Of One Of Comedy Central’s Biggest Hits
The Daily Show targets the campus demographic. Now you can go behind the scenes and discover how this incredible hit remains being so popular.
This budding campus comic is getting lots of exposure warming up audiences for celebrity artists and the experience shows in his quick wit.
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DR. JOHN CORVINO “Haters,” “Sinners,” and the Rest of Us: The Gay Debate Today What’s Morally Wrong with Homosexuality? Same Sex Marriage: A Civil Debate
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Barry Smith Writer – Performer – Humorist Career Path Choices Motivation Leadership Character Development Personal Growth A perfect addition to your lecture series, job fair event, or career day. Barry Smith’s Every Job I’ve Ever Had is a true-tolife story about his journey navigating many jobs to ultimately find his career. Through the use of multimedia and humor, he takes students on a ride through what it means to “follow your bliss,” leaving them inspired and entertained. Campus Activities Magazine “Hot Speaker” for 2011 “Barry’s show was a refreshing guide to career exploration and served as a wonderful reminder that we can find happiness by following our passions, even if they are slightly off the beaten track.” – Bryn Kass, Senior Class Council President, Tufts
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RANDOM THOUGHTS & OTHER MINDLESS DRIBBLE
What Can We Do For You?
The staff at Campus Activities Magazine® is always looking for ways to improve what we do and make your buying experience more enjoyable and rewarding. Since our last issue of last school year, we took the approach that we needed to move this magazine forward in a manner more adaptable to technology as it changes. The first thing that happened over the summer was that with the help of one of our loyal supporters who wished to be nameless here, we developed new apps in both the Apple and Android formats.
It is no secret that Apple has become the most profitable company in the world and that is the direct result of making bullet-proof products that are easy on the eye, known for their creative design and functionality and super reliability. The company has a following of a huge number of supporters who live and breathe their Apple products.
Since we have long been supporters of Apple, our first goal was to develop apps for Apple users.
So first out of the gate was our new app this summer for all Apple devices: the iPod, the iPhone and the Retina display iPad. But we didn’t leave the Android users waiting either. While the Android app was developed a few weeks after the Apple app, they both hit the market at the same time due to Apple’s very stringent review of all applications destined for their products. You are going to see more and more product available on these apps as time passes. Right now we are in the midst of making years of back content available on our apps. It’s a tedious and lengthy project but I think we already have most of the last few years loaded. NEW BONUSES FOR ADVERTISERS
The next step was to help our advertisers get more online exposure for their ads.
Already the magazine is available in a flip digital online edition with active url and email links. And all the stories on all the artists featured in our magazine are available each month with video content – and in HD when it is available. But it is impossible to cover all the content in the ads from our supporters until now. In the very near future, you will find a supporter’s section at the bottom of our home page and as a drop down menu from the menu bar.
On the home page, each advertiser with an ad in the current issue will have a logo displayed (Entertainment Warehouse Advertisers will be located under the EW logo). By either clicking on the logo from the home page or accessing the advertiser from the Supporter drop down menu from the menu bar, you will be taken to that supporter’s ad.
Not only that, each ad can be supported by a video for the act or agency at no extra charge to the advertiser. Full Page Advertisers are allowed space to load three (3) videos, Half page advertisers can load two (2) videos and all other display advertisers can load one (1) video. ALL VIDEOS MUST REPRESENT THE ADVERTISING CONTENT. Advertisers with multiple pages will be linked with a drop down to the next ad and the videos that support it. All
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you have to do is supply us with the links and we will load the video content for you.
The duration of the ad displayed and the video content is for the current life of that issue. When a new issue is released, content will be changed to support the advertisers in that edition. Advertisers with annual contracts can elect to leave the existing video in place or replace it with new content. Again, the video must be relevant to the content of the ad(s). A NEW BUYER’S EXPERIENCE
To give you a head’s up on what we are planning for the future, CAM is planning to completely turn our ARC (Artist Report Card) system into an intelligent buying system for campuses. We have already instituted the option for campuses to complete ARCs online or from their mobile devices. This system will format the results of your reports into a database that we want to take online in real time. What the future will bring is that every artist asking to have reports through our system will provide us with a photo, a bio (based on our criteria), agency support and contact for the artist at the agency.
When a campus goes in to search for an artist, our plan is they can search by agency, artist, genre and any of several other criteria. If you know the first name or last name of the artist, you can search by “Adam” or “Grabowski”, “comedy” or “Auburn Moon” or other data supplied in the act’s bio. You will have access to the act’s current real-time scores at the minute you are online as well as access to all of their past reports cards complete with buyer comments. For artists and agencies who are supporters of the magazine, you will also be able to add a video along with the artist’s name, bio and contact information. For those who are not advertisers or supported by an agency that is an advertiser, they will be able to add the video for a nominal fee.
We are planning to possibly have this process in place arounf mid-2013 at which point we hope to make your shopping experience easy because not only will you have all the data, video and contact information but you will have a complete performance history at your fingertips.
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BY STEVEN KENT McFARLAND
You Don’t Know Jack About The Magic Beanstalk!
I“Complex, cherry-and-chocolate notes with hints of flowers and brandy. Delicate, smoothly bright acidity; soft, silky mouthfeel. Flavor maintains a gentle persistence in the sweet but drying finish.” If you are guessing these are the words of a wine snob (with a nose so high in the air he would drown in the rain) you are not even close. This highbrow critic is appraising...a cup of coffee.
Whether you call it morning mud, liquid lighting, a cup of jolt, or bean juice, the soaring popularity of this beverage (that has been enjoyed for centuries without such hyperbole) now has coffee snobs talking about it in the same flowery terms once reserved for fine wine. COFFEE FACT #1: Coffee means wine!
As I write this I am sipping a cup of coffee, not a good cup of coffee either, despite being in a very good hotel. Decades ago four-star hotels were the first to add in-room coffee makers as one of the amenities to attract guests, soon cheap hotels followed suit, and then many expensive hotels removed their coffee makers and made room service coffee (at up to $20.00 a pot) the only option. Which is why my cup of coffee is not very good, because I’m too cheap to pay that much for a beverage that until somewhat recently never cost more than a buck a cup. So, I travel with instant coffee, and when necessary “brew” it using hot tap water from the bathroom sink. I believe some coffee tastes better than others but the worst coffee tastes better than nothing. COFFEE FACT #2: Instant coffee was invented by George Washington!
As you’ve already deducted, I am not a coffee snob, but that is not to say I am not a fan. To me coffee is like sex; the worst I’ve ever had was still good enough. In fact, perhaps I prefer coffee to sex, because I can go a day without sex.
When I was growing up there was no such thing as a coffee snob because there was only two types to choose from: regular or decaf (with unlimited FREE refills). Now Starbucks offers over 87,000 different coffee combination possibilities, so if I tried a different one each day it would take me over 238 years to find my favorite, and at that age I probably wouldn’t remember it anyway. Not to mention with an average price of three dollars a cup, it would cost me way over a quarter-million dollars to find my preference. COFFEE FACT #3: Coffee is cherry juice!
Coffee has become big business, with the aforementioned Starbucks raking in 7.53 BILLION DOLLARS in gross profits a year from their almost twenty thousand locations in fifty-nine countries. They employ 137,000 people (twice the population of Greenland) with that number growing rapidly (since 1987, they have opened 2-3 new stores daily!) They don’t sell small, medium or large, but “tall, grande or venti”; their 31oz “trenta” cup holds more than your stomach (at 916 milliliters compared to the average stomach capacity of only 900 milliliters). On the corner near my home in Manhattan I can choose to get my morning cup of java from Starbucks or go across the street to a family owned deli. At Starbucks my coffee will be served in a cup with a logo that makes a fashion statement. At the deli no one will look at me like I’m a simpleton because all I want is a plain cup of coffee. My decision is a nobrainer, because the deli charges fifty cents and Starbucks five times as much (and if I was really concerned with fashion statements I would simply buy an empty Starbucks cup and pour deli coffee in it). COFFEE FACT #4: The most expensive coffee in the world is crap!
I have enjoyed coffee in each of the twenty-three countries I have performed in and although I’m clearly not a qualified critic I will share my experiences: The first Espresso machine was introduced in 1822 by the French, but it was the Italians who later perfected it. In Italy, espresso is considered so essential to daily life that the price is regulated by the government. They even put it in chocolate candy and call it “Pocket Coffee” (after eating one I looked like Charlie Sheen on a cocaine binge).
Greek coffee tastes like Turkish coffee and Turkish coffee tastes like mud. Old Greek women claim to be able to read your future by looking at the thick sludge that is left in your cup. But both the Greeks and the Turks love the stuff (in the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family's pot filled with coffee).
Americans also love their Joe, consuming 3 cups a day on average (and importing a third of the world’s coffee production) but not as much as Scandinavians, who drink almost three times as much. After spending time in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, I understand why; their winter months have 19 hours of darkness a day and that can make you sleepy. The White House serves the best coffee I’ve ever tasted, which sounds like I’m boasting I had a cup
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with the President, but actually I had it on a coffee plantation on the island of Kona, Hawaii (the only state that grows coffee) which supplies the White House kitchens. COFFEE FACT # 5: Coffee was discovered by a dancing goat!
Coffee’s popularity, price, status has changed so much in my lifetime I am frightened with what its future holds. Confucius said, “Study the past, if you would divine the future.” So here are some facts on coffee’s past.
FACT #1: Coffee means wine! The word "coffee" entered the English language in 1598 via Italian word caffé, which in return is derived from Turkish kahve that came into being via Arabic qahwa, a truncation of qahhwat al-bun meaning wine of the bean. When it first arrived in Europe it was known as Arabian Wine. FACT #2: Instant coffee was invented by George Washington! Well, not the George Washington you’re thinking of, but George C. Washington, a Belgian who lived in Guatemala. In 1906, he invented the first instant coffee and called it “Red-E-Coffee.” FACT #3: Coffee is cherry juice! Contrary to popular belief, coffee does not grow in plain brown beans; it comes from a tree or bush that bears cherry fruit. The coffee “bean” is the seed within the cherry.
FACT #4: The most expensive coffee in the world is crap! Selling for over $600 a pound ($50 per cup) “Kopi Luwak” is the most expensive coffee in the world. It is made in Indonesia from coffee beans that are eaten, partly digested and then defecated by a weasel-like animal called the Asian palm civet. Supposedly, the internal digestion adds a unique flavor to the beans, which are collected from the animal's feces and sold to the ultra-rich. FACT # 5: Coffee was discovered by a dancing goat! Legend has it that in 9th-century Ethiopia a young goat herder awoke in the middle of the night to find his goats dancing around after they ate the cherries from the coffee tree. The next day he tried it for himself and found himself dancing into the wee hours of the night with the goats. A wondering monk passed by, found out what happened, word got out, and mornings have not been the same since. COFFEE FACT #6: I’ll start each of my remaining days with a cup in hand. The Coffee Revolution has begun and I am a just prisoner of war.
Steven Kent McFarlin has been described by the press as a “campus entertainment icon.” He offers two great events at one great low price, and has been voted “Campus Comic of the Year” (LaffGuru.com) and the “Campus Performer of the Year” (TalkingAboutMyGeneration.com). His credits include over fifty TV appearances, including: Showtime, Good Morning America, and The Late Show. He is represented by GP College Entertainment.
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Yes, Please
BY ABBEY FOX, Director of Community Engagement, Catharsis Productions
“Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.” Remember the first time you heard those words? Or maybe you first saw them with the funky triangular arrows graphic on the bottom of a gallon of milk? Perhaps it was the grade school project on Earth Day where you learned about the letter R and saving the planet at the same time? Regardless, that simple phrase has become a part of how we operate as a society. It’s straight forward, clear and catchy. Its’ message is proactive, simple, and everywhere. It’s stamped on nearly all recyclables, thrown around whenever anyone is talking about sustainability efforts. I can’t even imagine having a conversation about “Saving Mother Earth” without muttering that phrase in some form. It’s been ingrained in our brains and our language.
that are necessary for a society to shift? How do we make sure that these activities become conversations and these conversations lead to actively aware students and citizens?
Historically this has been done in a number of ways. Besides the Earth Day recycling ads that inspired folks to recycle, anti-smoking ads have effectively challenged the ‘coolness’ of smoking, and thus decreased the number of tobacco users in the United States. “Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk” dramatically changed the landscape of driving while under the influence and placed a responsibility on each of us to keep our friends from driving when intoxicated. These campaigns have helped shift any notion that being cool is more important than being healthy or safe. Or alternatively,
So how do we spread other messages that way? How do they become part of our cultural framework and identities? On our campuses, there are the usual suspects: issue specific programming, poster campaigns, free t-shirts, and other awareness raising outlets. These have been done, and these have been good, but lately I’m plagued by questions surrounding the intentional messaging and the atmosphere of our programming. Not only is there the need to fill the room, but more importantly, what is our reason behind having that group of students together? How do we activate our listeners to create the personal changes in behavior
One of the flagship programs under the Community Engagement initiative was the creation and execution of a new bi-annual program called, Yes, Please! The two words: Yes, Please! were chosen intentionally because they spread the message of an enthusiastic, supportive culture of consent and respect– the kind of culture we’re working toward with all our programming. In April, the event debuted to a packed coffee house and night of performances that celebrated consent and community. This was done with comedy, poetry, and some amazing original songs, that contained wit, irreverence, and truth. All left not only entertained, but inspired. In September, it will be even larger – a bigger space for the performances and a national contest with great prizes open to anyone who friends us on Facebook. The idea is to preach the gospel of consent and community through many avenues: our local community here in Chicago, our social media friends and followers, and through the audiences at the different schools and military installations we visit so often.
We rarely think twice about the power behind those words because, by now, most of us believe that recycling isn’t that hard and we should just do it. It’s the right thing to do. We should just do it because we’re thinking about our future as a world community and the future of our children. We should just do it because each one of us has an impact. We don’t need to be environmentalists to do it; we just need to care about our communities and our space.
We also do it because we remember that simple, eye-catching phrase. There is a reason “Hey idiot, pick up after yourself when you make trash” didn’t catch on. No one wants to be called an idiot, and nobody responds well (or remembers) a clunky phrase.
of bed to take on the day – it’s pro-active, it’s imperative, and it’s a choice. It’s bright eyed and bushy-tailed, but straight forward and direct. Excitement is infectious; it catches on quickly.
that the cool thing to do is to help each other out and be safe together.
So how do we do that with our programming on our campuses? At Catharsis Productions, our mission is to reduce interpersonal violence by producing artistically innovative and research-supported programming. With our sexual assault prevention program, Sex Signals, we hope to galvanize our audiences to take a more active stand against sexual violence, but how do we do this after the show has left the campus? As the Director of Community Engagement, I am constantly enamored with creative and insightful programming and ideas that not only incite action, but also incite excitement. Excitement denotes not only waking up in the morning, but gladly jumping out
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The intention behind the programming, and thus the message is to be catchy, bold, and authentic. I am truly excited about the possibility of living in a world where active and enthusiastic consent is practiced in every situation. Do I think it’s going to happen tomorrow, or even in my life time? Probably not. However, that fact incites me even more to think of creative and thought-provoking ways to invite others to join our cause. When individuals are empowered within a community to change a culture and the attitudes that surround it, change can and does happen. Oppressive cultural norms and attitudes become outdated and uncool. It takes that sort of community connection to the issue and to each other. We all owe it to each other to be more sustainably excited and pro-active community members and to try out new and exciting ways to share our important messages of social change.
For more information about our Yes, Please! event on September 27 or to participate, visit us at www.catharsisproductions.com or Like us at www.facebook.com/consentiseverywhere.
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If there is one singular problem that has arisen with the advent and rise of mobile communications technology, many would argue that texting while driving has become the most serious. It’s also one of the most dangerous and deadly behaviors plaguing young people and has even surpassed the worry over our youth drinking and driving. We do what we can to keep our young people from drinking, and certainly from doing so behind the wheel. It’s illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to drink alcohol and illegal for anyone of any age to drive while intoxicated. Almost everyone under 25 has a cell phone (we don’t have figures, but seriously) and most of them probably use their devices while driving and, very few states have taken up meaningful legislation on correcting this issue. Car accidents are, by the way, the number one cause of death in teenagers each year in the U.S. We obviously cannot definitively link all of these to texting and driving, but the reasonable person would assume there’s ample correlation.
Here’s some number soup for you, from the CDC. In 2009, about 3,000 teens between 15-19 were killed in the U.S in automotive crashes, with 350,000 treated in ERs. They represent only 14% of our total population, yet account for 30% of costs of annual motor vehicle injuries among males and 28% among females. Before any of you guys go off on female teen drivers with make-up and cell phones, from 2006 statistics, male drivers were about twice as likely to have a fatal accident as their fairer counterparts. The likelihood continues to go up for teens with passengers and those within the first year of having their licenses.
So, it’s a good thing some private corporations are doing something, including one of the largest cell phone service providers in AT&T, along with one of the largest vendors of novelties, games and preventative education in CEP Inc and PEERS Foundation (Professionals Encouraging Educational Reform) Foundation. Mike Seymore, CEO of CEP and founder of PEERS Foundation has taken up a real passion with this issue, so much in fact that his company has, in conjunction with and sponsored by AT&T, developed the premiere texting and driving educational course available in the AWARETXT driving simulator. Mike comments first hand on the evolution and implementation of this uniquely important program.
“AT&T does deserve a lot of credit,” he says, “as it has launched a massive campaign to help prevent the texting-while-driving epidemic from becoming worse, something it took AT&T’s making waves to get other carriers to take notice.” Full disclosure-as of this writing – other major carriers have invested in these types of campaigns, just not at the same level or mainstream notice as AT&T. “AT&T, as a leader in the telecommunications industry, recognized this sort of pandemic in distracted driving deaths that spiked suddenly a few years ago from around 2,000 a year to over 6,000,” Mike says. “They have set out to do something about it and are taking the initiative in multiple venues to make a difference in this problem. Like working with mobile app programmers to raise awareness among teenagers in a fun way, and enabling adults to set restrictions on their phones (like an auto answer on text messages that detects movement in the phone and withholds texts until the driver is out of the car).” While AT&T is obviously enormously successful from the mobile phone market, they are at least taking proactive measures to be a part of the solution, not the problem. And this is where CEP/PEERS comes in. “AT&T has funded us to go out and do simulation training with the public, not only educating them about the dangers of distracted driving, but giving them the chance to use a high quality simulator to really help drive the message home.”
Mike makes a stark point, regarding the deficit between the level of awareness of something as dangerous as drunk driving and the apparent apathy so many people have toward texting and driving. “Everyone knows someone who has been affected in some way by drunk driving. Now, just imagine, statistics have shown distracted drivers who are texting to be eight times more likely to cause an accident than an impaired driver. That is a sobering thought, no pun intended.”
According to Mike, AT&T has invested tens of millions of dollars toward this cause in this year alone. “Through national campaigns and commercials, apps, online training, simulation training and more and, they are just getting started. For our PEERS foundation to be picked as an official platform to deliver the “It Can Wait” message for AT&T I think
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speaks volumes. Right now we are on a 200 city tour educating people about the dangers of texting and driving specifically for AT&T. I am happy to be associated with a company that takes this issue as seriously as our PEERS foundation does.”
The program allows campuses to have their own proof statement scenarios right in front of their students. “We know we can lecture at students all day long and it’s in one ear and out the other, especially with young adults.
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What PEERS Foundation has set out to do is make the delivery system for the messages we feel need to be relayed more palatable, whether it’s nutrition, antismoking, distracted driving, drunk driving or texting while driving specifically. We allow everyone involved to become their own proof statement through the use of a high-quality, scientifically developed simulator. We use an actual automobile, modified specially to allow for play in the wheel, accurate physics and a real sensory experience. When students finish with it and get out, their
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eyes are always a little wide, skin pale, breathing shallow and when we ask what they thought, the reply is always ‘I didn’t know it was that hard.’ We give them conclusive, trackable data sets with proof to let them know how many times they crossed the yellow line, what they might have hit and what could have happened in a real scenario. It has proven to be quite effective and we hope to continue through the help of AT&T to spread this message to our young people throughout the high school and college markets.”
For more information on bringing the AWARE TXT program to your campus, contact CEP Inc., at 866.288.8126 or Mike Seymore at mike@cepincorporated.com.
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Story By Ian Kirby There aren’t many shows that have more of a cult following among the campus demographic than “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and it surely takes the title as the #1 news related program. While the show even refers to itself with the tongue-in-cheek term “fake news,” the reality is that many young people are turned on to some of our most important issues through satire. It’s a delivery system that makes sense to them, because it’s fun, and usually fun is mindless. But in a time when so many crucial issues NEED our 12, CAMPUS ACTIVITIES MAGAZINE® , SEPTEMBER 2012
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young adults to be mindful, the blend between entertainment and information is one the campus culture likes blurred. This month, Campus Activities Magazine® is proud to bring you a special and exclusive feature on “The Daily Show Live: Indecision Tour 2012,” envisioned and assembled by the show’s executive producer Rory Albanese, who himself is an accomplished stand up that travels with the tour and is Jon Stewart’s #2 on TDS. We speak with Rory and feature correspondent Al Madrigal, the show’s “Chief Latin www.campusactivitiesmagazine.com
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Correspondent” and regular guest. If you don’t see your favorite member of the team included, be sure to call Ari Levin at CAA to find out about your own custom configuration of “Daily Show” correspondents based on who your students want to see.
Rory Albanese is the kind of guy you really have to respect. Despite not being as recognizable a name as the mainstream TDS correspondents, he is an accomplished standup and has probably paid more dues at “The Daily Show” than anyone else. “I’m the guy behind the guy,” he jokes. “As executive producer and one of the writers, what I am doing every day is sort of overseeing the daily production of the show from a big picture perspective. I’m making sure all the components for each part of the show are coming together and managing how it all gets on the air. I’ll also sit down and rewrite the show with Jon and one of the other producers after we re-
hearse. I’m the guy who is sort of running the day to day operations from the morning meeting until we wrap post production before airing the show. Jon is also the other executive producer, but since he hosts the show, I have a lot of responsibility in the day to day production. He is intimately involved with all of creative processes, but there is just a lot of additional logistical footwork that someone needs to run point on. We have an incredible staff that does most of that, I just oversee it.” Reader’s can clearly see how having Rory at the center of this tour gives students an unprecedented look behind the curtain at TDS. With the correspondents, you may get name recognition, familiarity and most certainly talent, but with Rory you get a real piece of what makes “The Daily Show” what it is. “His voice is a major part of the show,” says Al Madrigal, of “The Best F#@king News Team On
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Televison” of Rory’s contributions. “He’s great to have on this tour, because he’s the executive producer and such a big part of what you see on television, even though you never see him,” Al says, in a voice which in normal conversation sounds exactly like Alan Alda (google him and then shame your parents for never exposing you to “M.A.S.H.). “Yes, people tell me that all the time,” Al comments, bursting the bubble of witty creativity I thought I saw floating before my eyes, as I digressed with this question before he steers us back to Indecision Tour 2012. “In terms of the hierarchy of the show,” he explains, “you’ve got Jon Stewart at the top, and then Rory Albanese.” When we talk about Rory paying his dues, it’s meant quite literally. He started working for the show almost straight out of college, and came from the ground up. “In 1999 I started as a production assistant, which is the entry level job and I just worked my way up. That’s not really a
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very common thing to happen for a few reasons, mostly because many shows don’t last long enough (laughs) and usually when a show is on the air for as long as this one there is not very much mobility because turnover is very low. I’m incredibly lucky and grateful to have worked my way to the place I am now. I started right after Jon Stewart came on the show and it was evolving so quickly I got the opportunity to evolve with it. I have been here 13 years now and probably the first six or seven I spent ‘shoveling coal in the furnace’ so to speak. It’s been in just the last few years that I have been involved in a much larger capacity.” Al echoes this. “I know he is behind the scenes mostly, but his voice is so present on every single show, it’s amazing. As far as having a ‘top’ Daily Show guy on this tour, other than Jon, Rory is it,.” Good luck getting Jon Stewart between now and the election season.
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Speaking with Rory, you can tell he’s a no nonsense guy, but you can also tell he’s genuine and never comes off as arrogant or egotistical about his very unique position. I comment to him he must have been doing something right during the “coal shoveling” years and he, like most people with real class, simply falls into self-deprecation. “Maybe it was hard work, or maybe I was just backstabbing and murdering my way to the top,” he laughs.
Rory’s main milestone in standup is his half-hour Comedy Central special, which originally aired April 2, 2010. Unlike most performers, Rory didn’t start out with his job in show business as a means to get in front of a camera, he was on the job several years before he was finally convinced to try stand-up. Once he got the swing of it, putting together this tour was a natural winner. “I love stand up even though I didn’t start until 2006. There are many people who do it at the show, both on and off cam-
era and I was able to make them laugh, so they encouraged me to try it out. I went on tour in 2006 with Lewis Black and never looked back.
“Creating this tour seemed like a great way to get the group together and go out and have a ton of fun, not to mention giving students a chance to feel like a part of the show live and in person much more than seeing any one of us in a club would.”
Being a standup can be a great job, none of them will quibble with that, but not everyone enjoys being a road warrior and in this instance at least the isolation that is part and parcel with this lifestyle is alleviated. “Standup is a ton of fun and no one could complain about getting paid to share your thoughts with others, but it can definitely get lonely,” Rory says. “You end up in these strange towns at strange clubs, which would be really fun with some friends, but when you are sitting alone in a
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motel, looking out the window night after night, it’s kind of creepy (laughs). When you’re with a group, it’s more fun, particularly the group that works together on this show.” And there is quite a cast of characters in this group, with most of the current and some of the former cast like Rob Riggle configured different ways depending on who your school wants to bring in. Al enjoys working with all of them. “We have so many good comics that come out,” he says. “Besides Rory and myself some of our regular tour mates are John Hodgman, Kristen Schaal, Larry Wilmore and of course John Oliver. There are so many standup comedians on the show, it was a great idea for Rory to put this tour together.” Al Madrigal is a veteran comic, but for “The Daily Show” audi-
ence is a relatively fresh face, coming on in 2011 as the newest permanent correspondent other than the very recently added Jessica Williams. “I was a contributor at first, but last May I did my first on-camera piece. I did five or six more segments throughout 2011, but there was a time when I was working on another television show with Hank Azaria (which did not get made) that I wasn’t working with TDS. Rory read about the cancellation and called me that morning.”
Talk about ups and downs. “(Laughs) Yeah, I got a phone call saying our TV project had been cancelled and then immediately after that I got another call about this opportunity to go on ‘The Daily Show,‘ full time. The Indecision Tour is a great project for everyone involved, the producers of the show, the
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comics on it, and the students on your campus who probably get more political news from Jon Stewart than they do from Anderson Cooper. “I won’t lie to you,” Rory says, “it is a huge advantage for us as comics. When you put a group of people from TDS together, you are going to get more butts in seats than any one of us alone, save perhaps Jon.”
Not for nothing, but campuses without large budgets can also book various configurations of The Indecision Tour for a fraction of what the cost of bringing in Jon Stewart, even if he has avails. Complementing the crowd-drawing power of the tour for the comics is the access students get by having the teams together on their stage. Each comic does their own material in their time slot, but the truly unprecedented jewel in this crown is the chance students have to www.campusactivitiesmagazine.com
tap the brains of the cast after their performances. “We do a Q&A after the shows and talk to the students,” Rory says. “It’s more of an experience than seeing just standup and it’s fun for us because we get a chance to get out and talk to fans of the show and meet and interact with them which we don’t really get to do day to day working in the studio.”
It should be clearly noted that this isn’t an on-the-road taping of TDS, you are getting to see the unique voices of members of the cast and crew, followed by the interactive session with all of them. “Part of the DNA of the show is present on stage, but beyond that is it much more down to earth and fun, without the television cameras or lights or pressure of taping a show that has to air 3 hours later.”
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“I won’t lie to you,” Rory says, “it is a huge advantage for us as comics. When you put a group of people from TDS together, you are going to get more butts in seats than any one of us alone, save perhaps Jon.” TDS is one of the most uniquely appropriate shows for standup comics to be on. Even more that the typical sitcom, the segments these comics do on TDS are in a live (esque) style and give a good sense of what a comic will be on stage, and that seems to really boost their stand up as a result. Al has noticed a huge difference in his career since coming on to his prominent position on the show. “I have been doing standup for 15 years, that is what
I do,” he says. “The acting stuff was just a plus but when it comes down to it, what I have always wanted to do is my stand up. This is one of those shows that as a standup comic it is one of the best gigs you can ever have. I am getting more requests, dates and better turnouts everywhere I go. It has been an incredible opportunity and ride and I am thankful to Jon and Rory for it.”
BOOK IT! As one of the most diversely adaptable shows for the 1824 crowd, this is a can’t miss tour for your school. That is true for any time, but with the election season coming up and perhaps in a time more divisive than any in our political history, that power is exponentially multiplied. Call Ari Levin at CAA at (424) 288-2000 or alevin@caa.com to set up a sure winner for your campus and an experience your students will talk about for years to come.
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FROM CAMPUS ACTIVITIES MAGAZINE’S PUBLISHER, IAN KIRBY
This just in: CAM has decided to move out of the stone age. Apparently, there was a way to stop wasting paper and time with our antiquated Artist Report Cards system through this thing called the Internet. Now, advisors and students can submit ARCs, online and free of hassle, through our website. Check out the form at bit.ly/submitarc.
A couple of things to note on the online ARC form. First and most importantly: you MUST report the name of the act AND YOUR SCHOOL properly. IF the act name is entered with a character wrong, or just referred to as a different name, IT WILL NOT GO IN UNDER THE PROPER ACT. Second, list the name of your school IN FULL. If you are “America Town Community College” PLEASE list it as such, and not your locally well-known abbreviation of “ATCC.” Our system does not understand this distinction. Not only are we saving artists, buyers and the editorial staff enormous amounts of time and the possibility for error, but we are planning some very exciting features for the database you are currently propagating. You see, as each ARC goes into the database, it tracks artist’s scores cumulatively. That means you’ll be able to actively check an artists’s rating based on seven unique categories over long periods of time.
There are many other possibilities, such as having the system searchable by artist name, genre, agency or even rating based on a certain criteria. The database also maps the submissions by school, making it possible to see who might be doing well in your area or at schools similar in student body or campus culture as yours. Your feedback is crucial so please, get us ARCs on EVERY SINGLE show you do. You’re helping us, you’re helping the artists (the good ones at least) and, you’re helping yourselves, because each ARC you submit counts as a vote toward you winning a weekend of FREE entertainment from our sponsoring agency. Details on the 2012 winner and the 2013 sponsor to come in our October MUSIC issue.
new features to roll out on our website by our next Summer Edition. Right now, we have tons of cool content up on our site and more coming regularly. We include videos related to the artists in the stories and if you look at the bottom of each story, you can find Facebook plugins that allow you to share stories with friends and colleagues, or just share your thoughts! We will continue to expand our web exclusive content, so head over to www.CampusActMag.com now and again to see what’s cooking. And, don’t forget to keep up with us on Facebook, which is also linked to our Twitter feed on @CampusActMag.
One of the most exciting projects we’ve been able to pull off this summer is the launch of our new iOS and Android App. It includes some cool features which we will continue to expand, but for now it functions primarily as a mobile reader for our website. You can send us a message directly through the app, see our monthly featured cover story or browse by issue, but the coolest feature of the app to date is the ability to see all the current articles from our website in alphabetical order in one place. As we continue to add back issues and new issues to the mix, this list will grow. So, if you have a particular artist you are interested in, not only will you be able to check their references via Artist Report Cards, but you’ll also be able to see if they are prominent enough to have been featured in our pages. That may sound snobby, but if you check out the last 20 years of issues, let me know if there’s a campus performer of note that we missed. More to come all the time. Stay with us. ~ik ian@cameopublishing.com 803-941-7228
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CORRECTION: In the Summer Advisor’s Edition, we incorrectly published Reports for Kimberly Dark, a speaker for Kirkland Productions. These reports should have been for Kimberly Clark from KP Comedy and should have been listed under Comedy not speakers. We apologize for the error.
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Methodist University is a small private institution located in Fayetteville, North Carolina and is one of the fastest growing young campuses in the Southeast. “The university is still fairly young,” says Doris Jackson Munoz, Director of Campus Life at Methodist. “We were founded in 1956 and have approximately 2,400 students enrolled. About 1,100 of those live on campus and comprise the core of the group we are programming for.” The more prominent majors on campus include nursing, business and others found on campuses across the country, but one unique area of study MU has to offer has gotten them some notation. “Our highlighted program that not many other schools have is a PGA approved professional golf management major. It is one of the top schools on the East coast and our women’s golf team has been national champions for Division III for the past 15 years in a row.” Biology, physical education, psychology and business round out the educational offerings.
The Student Activities Committee is a highly active and large one for such a modestly sized campus. Dequan Bradley, director of event logistics of SAC, gives us more detail. “We have about 40 members which includes a board of directors with 8 people. Each member has a specific job as chair of a committee, including director of so-
cial media, event logistics, publicity, talent management, sound and a couple general assistant executive members that float around as needed.”
As readers have noticed by now, the committee structure here is a little bit different from most schools who tend to divide their boards by genres of entertainment (comedy chair, concerts, films etc), whereas MU has made a concerted effort at flawless logistics by focusing their committees on more general production oriented specialties. “It is definitely easier to manage and maintain things because we can all work together on each show, we don’t individually have to worry about running around and trying to remember so many details by ourselves,” Brittany Wiggs, director of human resources, says. “We work in pairs most of the time, especially any time there is anything important going on.” Apparently there are not large
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scale fights over who gets to be the talent management chair, which is weird, since all entertainers are so famously easy to work with. The three assistants float around as needed.
Adorya Elliott is one of those floaters and tells us about some of the traditional events that do well each year on campus. “We always have a come back party at the beginning of the school year and we have a lot of food and novelties available for students. This seems to do a good job of getting the freshmen interested in who and what we are and in coming to the events.” www.campusactivitiesmagazine.com
Dequan says their annual casino nights are very successful as well. “We used to hold them in the fall but have now moved this event to the spring and it is huge. Many people are lined up and fighting to get inside that event each year.” On the last day of classes each semester, SAC also sponsors an “exam breakfast,” which has been very popular. When it comes to space, MU has a good selection for a campus with their population. “We have about an 1,100 square foot space in the Berns Student Center, which is a common grounds where all the students are www.campusactivitiesmagazine.com
used to hanging out. There is also the Nimocks Fitness and Wellness Center, which has the basketball court available to us when we need that large of an area. The Reeves Auditorium is a venue we share with local productions, so it houses not only events from SAC but also local shows and other promoters or content producers. We have a pretty good amount of space to work with.”
Adorya says MU’s SAC has a favorite four letter word, and it’s “free.” “Our students expect to be able to come attend our events with no money at all because they know they are covered in full. With such a small campus atmosphere, we are like a family here and when you invite your family to dinner, you don’t ask them to bring $5 (laughs).” The SAC hosts events weekly at the very least, there is not a Wednesday
night that goes by without something for students, in addition to other events the organization cosponsors. “Every single Wednesday, there is a program and that doesn’t include all the other programs we collaborate on with other departments at the university,” Adorya says. Just with the athletics department we collaborate on several events, so there is always something going on.”
The school has a healthy budget for a school of it’s size and location, at about $170,000 per year. “It’s extremely healthy for us,” Doris says, “but consider it does also cover the upkeep and maintenance of two student centers as well. On an average Wednesday night though, we typically spend between $3,000-$4,000 on talent, production and goodies for students.” Methodist University has a great board structure, venues, a good location for routing (off I-95) and a great budget. No wonder they’ve been nominated the last three years in a row for our Best Campus Program of the year in our annual awards. Maybe this year, they’ll even take the title.
For more information on MU or SAC, contact Doris Munoz at 910.630.7022 or dmunoz@methodist.edu
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The Undisputed “Report Card” Champion for 2011/12 And Entertainer Of The Year Runner-Up Looks Foward To A Bright 2012/13! “Comedy magic” is a peg so many performers try to hang their hats on these days, because it sounds fun and highly marketable, but how many of them can actually live up to that label? It’s a lot easier to learn a trick than to learn to be funny, so when we get a magician that truly pulls out reactions of hilarity consistently in all his audiences we take note.
One of those we have taken notice of is Michael Kent. It’s pretty hard not to, considering that he is the HIGHEST rated act of any genre in our Artist Report Cards for the 2011-12 school year. In fact, he is the only artist to ever receive an unblemished average score of perfect 5’s with at least 10 or more reports. http://bit.ly/kentarcs (Submit your own ARCs now at http://bit.ly/submitarc. Not only that, but he was a very close Runner-Up to Entertainer of The Year Natalie Stovall this year.
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“delivered one of the best shows of the year” are pretty convincing. So, what’s the mystery to his mojo? “My act is very original. I hear that more than I hear anything else from student activities directors after shows. I think one of the Artist Report Cards I got recently said something to the effect of ‘He did many tricks we haven’t seen before.’ I have this problem with the notion of doing the same thing every other magician is doing.”
There are a few great tricks that have a lot of impact for the students who are new, but anyone who has been around the market for a while has seen them multiple times from different performers. The CAM editorial staff is not knocking the abilities of performers who do some of the same effects as others (before the angry letters and calls start) and in fact they may do great shows, but the market has reached a saturation point in magic that needs innovators in the art to break through. It seems Michael Kent is one. “I wouldn’t ever call out any particular performer or trick, but
honestly I could probably name half a dozen effects that advisers have seen more than once. Like the thing with the thumbs down, fingers interlaced, now watch me turn my hands over as you break your wrist trying to do the same...that’s a really great opener, and so is the bowling ball on the pad, the problem is college students are exposed to much more magic than other audiences. I personally just don’t want anyone to see my show and say ‘Aww, I’ve already seen this.’ That is how people already react to a lot of magic. When I have someone sign a playing card, many people will say, “Oh, I love this one, but they don’t know what I’m going to do with that playing card, they just remember back in their head the last time someone signed a card and they saw something amazing. It’s a good thing that it evokes a positive reaction in people, but my whole thing is about being original and different and myself on stage. It reinforces the whole mantra that it’s better to be a first rate version of yourself than a second rate copy of someone else.”
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After years and hundreds of performances, Michael has found that special place where he can be truly unique on stage by being himself. “At some point, someone said to me ‘You know, you’re kind of a smart ass, but I like it.’ I decided that needed to be part of my mantra. There’s that old saying that nobody like a smart ass, and I set out to prove that wrong. Now, it’s in my tag line, ‘Comic, magician, smart ass.’ I say it proudly, because I can do a show that is me, and I can be edgy to an extent, but it’s still something palatable and enjoyable for campus audiences.”
There’s a relatively small and interconnected pool of magicians in the market, so it’s easy for one to see what works for the others, and there is a natural tendency for one to sit down and say “OK, what’s the most marketable persona I can use that will get me the most shows?” That often means that many overlap each other with the same sort of personalities and the wholesome, friendly ‘comedy magician’ turns into a cookie cutter. “That’s really the problem,” Michael says. “It seems like there are magicians that get in the market with the mentality of ‘I can perform in the college market, all I have to do is wear hipper clothing and do a bunch of jokes about alcohol and it’s guaranteed to be a hit for college students.’ That might work in a very general sense for that age bracket, but it ends up being pretty far from the truth in reference to campus activities buyers, not only because they are such a savvy and well-versed audience, but because that is essentially the opposite of the spirit of what campus activities is all about, unbeknownst to the uninitiated performer who views the market as little more than a cash cow. So, you end up with these cookie cutter personas that performers think are marketable, rather than being themselves and letting their originality truly come out.”
This isn’t a ‘what if’ scenario for Michael, it’s something that happened to him last year from a performer in a different country. “In that instance, I contacted the performer, I was very nice about it, I explained to him that these original routines I have written are my babies. The magic trick that is contained inside the routine might be 100 years old, but the routine itself I care deeply about and I asked him to stop. He was very cool about it and took the videos down and told me he would stop. Did he? Who knows, but when I talk to the pros in magic that everyone looks up to, they tell me just to keep writing and be me. I can’t go out and be the magic police and it is certainly not the biggest problem with magic today, and not something I concern myself with that often. My concern is entertaining my audiences and doing the very best show that I can every time I go out.”
Three key words jump out at this writer: “entertaining my audiences.” Too many performers forget the show is not about them but who they're entertaining; Michael’s attitude is the inverse. “If you were to take the audience out of my show, and make it just like one
They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery, and while this may be true to a point, it can be a little frustrating for the campus performer who is trying to be original, only to hear about someone else who has glommed on to their success. But true innovators, like Michael, don’t sweat it, because by the time 5 carbon copies come along, he has already moved onto fresh ground (rinse, repeat). “Listen, there is a very finite number of magical themes out there, and those themes can be twisted and turned into an endless number of routines and effects, stories and ideas. Most of the basic themes are nothing new; I’m going to make something disappear, change places with something else, destroy and repair, etc., but the storyline is my own. Or, at least the way that I present it. It is discouraging sometimes to see that directly lifted into someone else’s show, but I try not to get too worked up about it because I have the peace of mind that I am performing as myself and as long as I keep writing great material and stick to my guns, no one can take that away. It may be true that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it also doesn't make one feel good when there’s a performer on YouTube doing 20 minutes of your show almost verbatim.” 26, CAMPUS ACTIVITIES MAGAZINE® , SEPTEMBER 2012
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big YouTube video, less than 10 minutes of it would stand on it’s own. I don’t mean that only in terms of it being interactive, because I do use volunteers for the tricks in much of the show on and off stage, but also their energy, which is ridiculously important to my energy; we feed off of each other.”
Michael has studied every kind of audience, attuning himself to exactly what works where and when, and being a student of not only magic, but tangentially beneficial skills for a performer. “I spent the summer studying and working in a sketch comedy and rock & roll theater doing little bits and pieces of my act injected into the show (along with a few sketches here and there) and I got to see an incredible array of different types of audiences. I got to see the 11:30PM audience that’s a little drunk, and really tired and I saw the 7:30 audience, that’s super excited and just starting their night. I could see the reflections of that in my performance. My energy changes based on them and I think that’s a pretty neat thing. I think it’s something that’s great, because you have to be able to adapt.”
You can always tell the true talents because their work is their obsession, and it’s usually one that took hold long before they even knew the implications of what that meant. “I was six, and every time we went anywhere, I wanted to go to the magic shops. My parents would always bring me home a trick, so they were very supportive of the hobby during my childhood. I have always been interested in magic and music, those were the things that taught me how to teach myself.” Perhaps subconsciously self-reliance was even a more motivating factor than enjoyment. “I got a job in a magic shop in high school, working behind the counter selling magic effects, so not only did I have to know how to perform all the tricks, I got to meet all the magicians in town. At night time, the owner would send me out to do restaurant gigs. By the time I was in college I was already working at several restaurants performing and immediately after college I was working four nights a week, building up to probably 250 nights a year working birthday parties, restaurants, corporate events, trade shows, anything I could get my hands on. I really made it into a business out of necessity and right away. I was about 21.” This was a guy not eating maruchan ramen...hell not even top ramen (ftw), all through school. “No...I was living in a tiny little condo at the time and I didn’t have crazy expenses or anything, but I had a great life man. After graduation, I can remember getting up at noon and going to lay out by the pool for a few hours, putting on a suit to go work in a restaurant for two hours and then meeting my buddies out and doing it all over the next night. But, I was kind of coasting, I was young and I wasn’t making crazy money, just what I needed to get by. I wanted to do something a little bit more stable, so I got a job in marketing. I worked as a marketing manager at an electronics company. While I did that, I decided to only take the magic gigs that were really fun to do, which included colleges and the really good corporate stuff.”
After only a couple of years at the regular corporate “grind” Michael found himself in the very fortunate position of his passion overshadowing, consuming and eventually replacing his profession. “The magic job just took over and I was using all of my vacation time from my marketing job doing magic shows, making better money and having a lot more fun than sitting behind a desk. That was when I decided I was a magician again and haven’t looked back since.”
That’s also when the campus market became a priority. “I didn’t make any money in the campus market for the first few years, which is pretty typical, but I was having an absolute blast. Now, 10 years later, I am able be comfortable and truly happy following my passion, and the predominant part of that is performing for campus audiences.”
BOOK IT! Give Laura Gilman at Fresh Variety a shout, and share in the mutual joy of having Michael Kent come to amaze your campus. Contact her at 603.518.5783 or laura@freshvariety.com www.campusactivitiesmagazine.com
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2012 GUIDE TO AMERICA’S BEST ARTIST RATINGS THE RATING SYSTEM: 5= EXCELLENT 4= VERY GOOD 3= AVERAGE 2= FAIR 1= POOR
If you want to know how good an act might be that you plan on booking, just ask another campus where they have played. Here are reports from our readers for the last complete school year. All ratings here had complete verifiable information and were signed by the reviewer. All reports must have been submitted by the school where the date was played. These reports are comprised of reports previously printed as well as new reports received after the last published edition for the 2011/12 campus year. Artists report submission forms are available to every campus in the United States programming campus activities. You can receive the forms by requesting one from your visiting artist or their agency, by visiting campusactivitiesmagazine.com or calling us toll-free at (800) 7282959 for a pdf copy to be emailed to your campus. We only accept reports on the authentic form and only from the campus or institution. Reports may not be submitted by the artist or their agency. Schools do not have to rate in every category, only categories that apply to their show.
HERE ARE THE CATEGORIES FOR THE RATINGS FOUND AFTER THE BUYER’S NAME AND PLAY DATE: (1) ORIGINALITY; (2) ARTIST’S ABILITY; (3) RELATIONSHIP TO THE AUDIENCE; (4) COOPERATION / ATTITUDE; (5) ROAD CREW / MANAGEMENT; (6) AGENCY COOPERATION; (7) PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS PROVIDED. Campus Reports listed in RED indicate the buyer reported a perfect score in all categories that applied to their campus performance for that artist or event. ATTENDANCE (When Available) AND THE LOCATION ON CAMPUS WILL FOLLOW THE PERFORMANCE DATE.
SPEAKERS/ TRAINING
COLIN AND MIKE Colin and Mike
NAS Kingsville, Kingsville TX 8/31/12 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Great show, very professional. Colin and Mike have a lot of talent. Kept my junior enlisted sailors engaged and entertained. Way better than powe point slides. Scott Gunderson, Air Ops O _____________________________________________ DEANNA LATSON Kirkland Productions
California State University/ Chico, Chico CA 3/5/12 85 UHUB 3 5 4 5 5 4 3 Deanna was a great speaker. It was fun having her! Shyna Deepak, Diversity Coordinator _____________________________________________ ELAINE PASQUA Pasqua Productions, Inc.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 6/26/12 4 4 5 5 - - 4 Lisa Auld, Career Life Skills Co-ordinator
Berkeley College, New York NY 7/3/12 5 5 5 5 - - 5 Elaine is part of Berkeley College’s family. We invite her back every quarter for welcome week for her candid, engaging, educational workshops Nicole Luthman, Coord Student Development University of Arkansas, Fayettville AR 7/24/12 5 5 5 5 - 5 Elaine’s presentation was great. She really interacted
with the student athletes in a very professional manner. Roger Hunter, Student Athlete Dev Coordinator
comed back here. Trenton Nettles, Coord Greek Life
Wittenberg University, Springfield OH 8/19/12 5 5 5 5 - - Elaine was fantastic! Students loved her approach and opportunity to interact. I love how she covered a variety of subjects in her keynote. Carol Preston, Coord of New Students
ADAM MAMAWALA Sophie K Entertainment
Stetson University, Deland FL 8/16/12 5 5 5 5 5 - 5 Elaine is engaging, entertaining and educational. A masterful performance with a strong final message. Glenn Brickey, Dir of Sports Medicine
Mansfield Univ of PA, Mansfield PA 8/23/12 5 5 5 5 - 5 5 Great person! Thank you. Andee Dunham, Assoc Dir of Student Life/ Transition Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA 8/25/12 5 5 5 5 - 5 5 Anita Kelly, Director/ Counseling
University of The Arts, Philadelphia PA 8/26/12 5 5 5 5 - - Elaine is awesome. very personable. She made talking about sex with our students fun and informative. Lyndsey Mayweather, New Student Program Coordinator
University of Wisconsin/Oshkosh, Oshkosh WI 9/3/12 5 5 5 5 - - Debbie Gray Patton, Assist Dean of Students _____________________________________________ JESSICA PETTITT Kirkland Productions
Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR 5/10/12 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 Jessica was a great addition to our program. Energetic and knowledgeable about the topic. She is always wel-
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Texas Lutheran University, Seguin TX 5/10/12 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 The students really enjoyed Adam’s performance. Staff was very pleased with his professionalism and appropriate content. Andella Doe, Student Activities Coordinator
Ohio Northern University, Ada OH 8/22/12 5 4 5 4 - 4 4 Funny relatable and a nice guy. Scott Parson, Assist Dir of Residence Life _____________________________________________ DEAN EDWARDS KP Comedy
Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 8/21/12 575+ Allen Theater 5 5 5 5 - 5 5 Dean was great to work with! The students loved the show- especially how he brought the audience members on stage to participate. He is a seasoned veteran of the industry and so easy to work with. Thanks for an awesome show! Kelsey Holt, Advisor: Tech Actv Board University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio TX 8/23/11 250 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Dean was excellent! This was a clean show. The students loved him! Paul A, Director of University Events
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THE RATING SYSTEM: 5= EXCELLENT 4= VERY GOOD 3= AVERAGE 2= FAIR 1= POOR
HERE ARE THE CATEGORIES FOR THE RATINGS FOUND AFTER THE BUYER’S NAME AND PLAY DATE: (1) ORIGINALITY; (2) ARTIST’S ABILITY; (3) RELATIONSHIP TO THE AUDIENCE; (4) COOPERATION / ATTITUDE; (5) ROAD CREW / MANAGEMENT; (6) AGENCY COOPERATION; (7) PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS PROVIDED. Campus Reports listed in RED indicate the buyer reported a perfect score in all categories that applied to their campus performance for that artist or event.
JASON WEEMS KP Comedy
Fort Hays State University, Hays KS 8/12/12 35 4 4 5 5 - 4 Jason was great to work with CAB _____________________________________________
MICHAEL YO KP Comedy
Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 8/21/12 575+ Allen Theater 5 5 5 5 - 5 5 Michael was awesome to work with. So much fun- and he definitely went above and beyond interacting with the students. He made a special point to adapt to the culture of Texas Tech and our students. A GREAT show. Kelsey Holt, Advisor- Tech Activities Board _____________________________________________ MISSION IMPROVABLE Bass/Schuler Entertainment
University of North Florida, Jacksonville FL 6/29/12 Robison Theater 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 These guys were the best to work with! I highly recommend them to perform at your school. Brent Fine, Director
North Iowa Area Community College, Mason City IA 8/22,23,24/ 2012 500 Orientation 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 This is the BEST show we have ever had! Dan Juhl, Student Activities Coordinator _____________________________________________ SEAN BOTT Bass/Schuler Entertainment
Hendrix College, Conway AR 8/29/12 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 Sean was amazing and the easiest artist I’ve worked with in a while. He was funnier than the comedian we had last week. We made our own promo because the B/S promo was bland. Brent Owens, Assist Dir of Student Activities
VARIETY ARTISTS
CHRISTOPHER CARTER Bass/Schuler Entertainment
Earlham College, Richmond IN 8/21/12 800+ 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Awesome as always. This is the 9th year for Chris at Earlham College and he packed our 800-seat auditorium. Richard Dornberger, Director _____________________________________________ CRAIG KARGES Karges Productions
Rollins College, Winter Park FL 8/17/12 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Craig Karges was absolutely fantastic! Students loved him and are still talking about the show! Samantha Finan, CAB Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA 8/24/12 900+ 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
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Always a HIT---Always a pleasure! Becca Kopcie, Director of Orientation _____________________________________________ FREDERICK WINTERS Bass/Schuler Entertainment
University of South Dakota, Vermillion SD 8/26/12 1,000 Aalfs Auditorium 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Amazing show! Students absolutely loved it! Frederick is SO easy to work with! Highly Recommend! Carly Heard, Assistant DSA
Edgewood College, Madison WI 8/29/12 150 5 5 4 5 - 5 Stefanie Droese, CAB _____________________________________________ DR JIM WAND Wand Enterprises
Winona State University, Winona MN 8/25/12 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 It’s always a pleasure to have Dr Jim Wand perform for us. He continues to provide amazing entertainment each and every year. We look forward to seeing him. Kim Melle, Spec Events Director _____________________________________________ JOEL MEYERS GP Entertainment
University Of Alabama/ Huntsville, Huntsville AL 6/11/18/21/25 and July 16,19 /2012 125 Auditorium 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 Joel was AMAZING! He accommodated us for our orientation entertainment. He consistently changed his shows to keep those of us at each performance from becoming bored. Our audiences loved him. Nikki Goode, DSA _____________________________________________ MICHAEL KENT Fresh Variety
Quincy University, Quincy IL 3/23/12 158 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Teasers were great. Facebook Profile picture idea was great! Super funny. Amazed by the David Copperfield tribute. David carter, CAB President
Southern Vermont College, Bennington VT 4/6/12 Everett6 Theater 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 I think it was excellent! Very friendly and personable. Tyler Morton, Programming Assistant _____________________________________________ RAN’D SHINE Everything But The Mime
West Texas A&M University, Canyon TX 8/24/12 5000 Ceta Canyon 5 5 5 5 - 5 5 Ran’d amazed the audience with his act and went out of his way to engage our students, both during and after the show. We are so pleased with him. As always, carol is such a joy to work with! We love Everything But The Mime & Ran’d Shine. Stephanie Brackett, Assistant DSA
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Fayetteville Technical Community College Fayetteville NC 8/28/12 3 - 3 - 4 4 Gerald Daniel, DSA _____________________________________________ BALLOONS BY LESTER BODY ART BY SUSAN Everything But The Mime
Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens TN 8/`16/12 5 5 5 5 - - 5 I didn’t set up anything originally (change in staff) but it was a pleasure to work with them Kernie Lynn, DSA Hernando Community College/ Pasco, Brooksville FL 8/20/12 5 5 5 5 - 5 Sandre Lyons, Coord SA
Pasco Hernando Community College New Port Richey FL 8/23/12 600 5 5 5 5 5 Lester and Susan are Amazing! They are always friendly and so very talented. We would love to have them back more often. A pleasure to work with. Jessica White, Coord SA Pasco Hernando Community College Spring Hill FL 8/23/12 150 5 5 5 5 5 Lester and Susan are always awesome. They are always a big hit with our students. Their art is more than balloons and face paint - It is an experience! Amber Watson, Coord SA
Pasco Hernando Community College Dade City FL 8/23/12 150 5 5 5 5 5 5 Lester and Susan are always awesome. They are always a big hit with our students. Their art is more than balloons and face paint - It is an experience! Ahmy S. Aria, Coord SA _____________________________________________ BONGO BALL MANIA C.E.P., Inc
West Ottawa High School, Holland MI 6/3/12 300 North Shores Fitness 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Very please with everything. Staff was wonderful to work with. Lori Sweeney, Co-Chair Entertainment Monroe College, New Rochelle NY 7/27/12 32 Gym 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Great Event. Student enjoyed it! Samera Marsh, Assist DSA
Sheridan College, Sheridan WY 8/22/12 100 Thorne-Rider Commons 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Amazing event. Great to start the year with. Collin Wallace, Coord for Residential Education
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HERE ARE THE CATEGORIES FOR THE RATINGS FOUND AFTER THE BUYER’S NAME AND PLAY DATE: (1) ORIGINALITY; (2) ARTIST’S ABILITY; (3) RELATIONSHIP TO THE AUDIENCE; (4) COOPERATION / ATTITUDE; (5) ROAD CREW / MANAGEMENT; (6) AGENCY COOPERATION; (7) PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS PROVIDED. Campus Reports listed in RED indicate the buyer reported a perfect score in all categories that applied to their campus performance for that artist or event. Highland Community College, Highland KS 8/28/12 Wellness Center 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Tyler Norman, Student Life Assistant _____________________________________________ DISTRACTED DRIVING SIMULATOR (D.U.I. AND TEXTING) P.E.E.R.S
Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale AZ 3/28/12 5 5 4 5 5 4 - We appreciate Norman’s assistance in making this event happen in spite of paperwork delays. Students tremendously enjoyed the experience, especially with the local police department providing additional info. Zoila Tovar-Blank, Counselor
North Central College, Napersville IL 6/01/12 4 5 4 5 5 3 4 Agency did not seem to communicate at all with the road crew. Had to review everything with the road crew which should have been told to them by the home office. Nicole Spizzirri, Grad Assistant
Valdosta State University, Valdosta GA 8/31/12 100 - - 5 5 5 5 The DUI Simulator Team did a great job. Mark Williams, Coord of Drug & Alcohol Education _____________________________________________ GROOVE VIDEO DANCE PARTY C.E.P., INC. Limestone College, Gaffney SC 8/18/12 Timken Center East 2 3 3 4 5 Angel Parson, Activities Coordinator
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY 8/24/12 2,000 5 5 5 5 5 5 Christine Noonan, Evenings and Weekends Program Advisor _____________________________________________ MISTER COOL Kirkland Productions
Cowley College, Ark City KS 8/19/12 300 5 5 5 5 5 5 I loved Mister Cool! It made for a great back to school event. Would definitely like to have him back! Kristi Shaw, DSL _____________________________________________ MOVIE PICS POSTERS C.E.P., INC.
Tiffin University, Tiffin OH 8/28/12 75 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 Laura Green, Director of Student Engagement _____________________________________________ OBSTACLE COURSE/ CANNON BALL BLASTER Endeavor Entertainment
Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 5/6/12 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 Theresa Radley, Assist Dir. of Student Involvement
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Dodge City Community College, Dodge City KS 8/24/12 125 5 4 3 - 3 5 3 Great show. Students and staff loved the zip line. But staff was not prepared for needing help during the event. Justin Hergert, Assist Dean of Res Life
Utica College 5/11/12 200 Hotel Utica 4 4 4 5 - 5 - 4 Was truly the best investment for this event. The students enjoyed it very much. Would definitely do this again next year! Fran Lucia, Activities Advisor _____________________________________________
Bethany College, Lindsborg KS 8/19/12 150 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 Misspellings in the slides during the game show. Jessica Schierling, assoc Dean for Student Life _____________________________________________ Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta GA 8/23/12 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Erika Condon, Student Affairs Specialist _____________________________________________ SPIN ART FRISBEE Kirkland Productions
Morton College, Cicero IL 8/23/12 Courtyard 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 Printing of the shirts was very slow. Having an additional machine would be helpful Marisol Velazques, DSA ____________________________________________
Labette Community College, Parsons KS 8/20/12 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Tarah Cockrell, Student Life
Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs WY 8/27/12 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Harvey Anderson, Student Body President
Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX 7/24/12 80 SUB 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 We really enjoyed having Spin Art Frisbee on Campus. The students had such a great time with it. Meredith Holden, Assist DSA _____________________________________________ SPRING FLING / MONICA EVERDYKE Endeavor Entertainment
Gloucester County College, Sewell NJ 5/1/12 500+ 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Arrived on time. very knowledgeable on equipment and college/ student atmosphere. Staff was friendly and helpful and able to adapt alterations from original planning. Overall awesome! Would refer! Amanda R. Chandler, Technician _____________________________________________
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West Ottawa High School, Holland MI 6/3/12 300 North Shores Fitness 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Very impressed with how quick and how many tattoos were done during this event. Loved Shawna. She was a fast and hard worker. Will request her again if we do the show again. Lori L. Sweeney, Co-Chair, Entertainment _____________________________________________ TEAM M&M MIKE “DA ROViNG GUY” MARGARET’S “ART ON YOU” Everything But The Mime
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga TN 08/19/12 3000+ 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 Mike & Margaret were wonderful. A great Welcome Week Program. Madison Ralston, Assist Dean of Students
Georgia Highlands College 8/21/12 60 Student Lounge 5 5 5 5 - 5 5 Team M&M is so easy to work with! I love bringing them to campus and students do too! Lyric Sprinkle, Student Life Coord.
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Tim Tebow In the spirit of our cover story this month on “The Daily Show Indecision Tour,” which features behind-the-scenes show icon and executive producer Rory Albanese, we are featuring another type of comic that is incredibly important to the television shows taped before live audiences that we enjoy, yet are too often overlooked. These are the warm up guys, and while they may not get the mainstream recognition that the hosts like Letterman, Leno, Stewart and O’Brien do, these hosts are the ones who hand pick the comics to come in and get their crowds pumped.
Ryan Reiss, aside from being a successful campus and club comic, is one of those guys. He’s done warm ups for many shows taping in New York City (where he resides) for audiences and celebrities guests of all stripes.
For Ryan, the opportunity has been a boon. It’s an especially exciting time for him and a relevant one for us considering our cover story, because as we spoke, he had just put the feather in his cap of doing another successful warm up for Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” “My ability to work different types of crowds opened the door for me, and the college market was a huge part of that. Working Catholic schools versus public universities, city colleges versus rural community colleges has really proven that I can be adapt-
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Bob Saget able to nearly any situation, which is perfect for a warm up comic, as the audience will vary greatly on the show and host. You really have to be able to adjust your delivery and material, so my ability to be diverse on stage has given me the ideal skill set to work with studio audiences.”
Ryan’s first studio audience warm up experience was on a program called “The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet” a syndicated morning talk show produced by Fox. Apparently he did a great job, because it quickly led to another opportunity with Fox. “I got hired to work for ‘The Mike Huckabee Show,’” he says. The Elephant in the room is waiving at us, so we’ll be polite and just add that politics don’t play into either Ryan’s shows in the campus market, or his performances for crowds at any television studio. He views all of them as opportunities to do what he loves. “Everyone wants to laugh, you have to speak to people and try to get a feeling for what they’re going to laugh at. I don’t really do politics; I’m just trying to have a good time with everybody. I don’t know enough about it to comment any way.” Even if his performances don’t end up on the air, it doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of scrutiny involved. “The host is watching you, so you really have to make them laugh and if you do that, they pass the word on. From there I got hired to work on the ‘Rachael Ray Show.’”
In between these gigs, about 40% of his time in colleges and the rest of it in clubs, he has been called up to do Stephen Colbert’s show, arguably the most successful member of ‘The Daily Show’ team of correspondents alongside Steve Carrell. When I ask him if he’s a fan of any of the shows he does warm up for, he immediately fires back the only sensible answer, “All of them,” he replies. “They’ve all given me great opportunities. ‘The Colbert Report’ is an extremely smart show and a lot of fun to work on and I’m happy. It’s pretty cool, because when I’m on, I know Stephen Colbert is backstage watching, and to get a positive reaction and be invited back by someone so incredibly talented is encouraging.”
The signs have been positive for Ryan. “With Rachael Ray and Comedy Central I’ve gotten to do some work in front of the camera, which is very exciting and the ultimate goal obviously.” Hey, a lot of people don’t realize Nick Cannon got started off doing warm-up for “All That!” on Nickelodeon.
Let students check out Ryan at your campus soon and do it quick; you never know when that next big break for Ryan is going to land him in front of the camera in much higher demand in the campus market. Contact Bass/Schuler Entertainment about booking Ryan at (773) 481-2600 or info@bass-schuler.com
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Chrisjones (one word) wants to be the fastest hypnotist in the world, literally. No, that’s not referring to how quickly he can put his audiences under, we are talking about get-up-and-go, beating feet, whatwas-that-blur, Forrest Gump running. “I have a tattoo on my arm,” he says. “It says: ‘I will win the Chicago Marathon and set a world record.‘ I have been running since I was in the 8th grade. I started as a magician earlier and I loved that, then in college I got into running full time. I have run 86 miles in a single day as a personal best, just trying to see how far I could go. I only stopped because my knees started hurting really bad (laughs).” While he has a passion for running, his profession and passion for people make his job a true joy, not to mention the way in which the two can sometimes intersect. “It’s neat, because often when I go to a campus for an evening show, if I get there early enough I can go train with the cross country team while I’m there. I’ve had an opportunity to run and train with so many different people in so many climates, it never gets boring. Just like hypnosis.”
While Chris didn’t learn hypnosis until he was in grad school, he has been in front of people performing and entertaining for much longer. “I started doing magic when I was 5,” he says. “I had a degree in Outdoor Recreation, which is basically what I call ‘easyology.’ It was a lot of fun, but not hard and I had tons of free time. I picked up hypnosis as a hobby. I always wanted to be an entertainer and I always had envisioned magic would be the path to that for me. I met David Copperfield when I was very young and that made a strong impression on me, because he is just incredible. But, to be perfectly honest, I wasn’t a great magician.”
That was when a twist of fate changed Chris’ path significantly for the better by complete happenstance, as major turns in life so often subtly come. “I saw Fred-
erick Winters perform when I was in college; it was so incredible I thought it was all fake. I was like ‘no way could I ever be hypnotized.’ He put his hand up and said ‘go to sleep’ and I was one of those people in the audience that immediately said ‘ok’ and I was gone.” Anyone who has ever had an encounter with Frederick Winters will know he is probably the most gracious person you’ll ever meet, so it’s no surprise that when Chris approached him to express an interest in magic he made no hesitation in pointing the young aspiring entertainer in the right direction. “Post show, he told me he could show me what books to read and I could learn how to do it myself. That got me into it.”
It wasn’t just a ‘wish you well‘ from there, Frederick has in fact continued to be an influence, motivator and advisor to Chris. “I can comfortably say I can become the fastest hypnotist out there, but I am humble enough to know that I am never going to be the best. In my mind, there are three college performers who hold that title; Frederick Winters, Sailesh, and Christopher Carter. These are bar-none the best entertainers that I have ever seen. They all have their own style and do their own thing and are great in their own right. They have set a high bar that anyone performing in this market can aspire to.”
BOOK IT! Chrisjones continues to aspire. As one of the newest and hottest young hypnotists on the market, now is your chance to get an early place on his growing route before he become in as high demand as his mentor. Contact Bass/Schuler Entertainment today at (773) 481-2600 or info@bass-schuler.com
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