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Friday April 26, 2013

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COLLEGIATETIMES 109th year, issue 108 News, page 2

People & Clubs, page 5

Bikers continue support for Tech

Opinions, page 3

Sports, page 6

A sip of success

Study Break, page 4

N.Y. dancer rises above challenges HAYDEN ROBERTS features staff writer

COURTESY OF FRANK SALZANO

Organizer Frank Salzano poses with Coach Frank Beamer in front of his customized Chicago maroon and burnt orange motorcycle

Hogs4Hokies organizes rides across six locations from N.C. to Va. to remember April 16 shootings. LESLIE MCCREA news reporter

It is not only the current students, staff and faculty that remember and celebrate the lives of those lost on April 16, 2007 — but also the alumni. Frank Salzano, 1983 Tech graduate of Civil Engineering, remembers his days spent in Norris Hall, and recalls the day that changed how he’d view that memory forever. In order to pay respect to the 32 lives taken that day, Salzano took small steps to create the largely recognized motorcycle ride, Hogs4Hokies. “After the shootings I felt

like I just wanted to do something for the Hokie Nation,” Salzano said. He promptly had his own 2007 “hog,” or Harley Davidson motorcycle, painted Chicago maroon and burnt orange to showcase his Hokie pride. The first ride took place in the spring of 2008, after the oneyear anniversary of the shooting. The motorcyclists will be rolling their bikes out again this weekend, six years later. Dave McCain, who lost his daughter in the shooting six years ago, has participated in the ride every year. see HOGS / page two

Outdoor production plays on uniqueness MADELEINE GORDON features reporter

In hopes of pursuing their creative dreams, two friends reached out to the Blacksburg community, and were met with unexpected results. The upcoming play, “Agamemnon,” directed by Tech alumnus Aaron Horst and administrative assistant Amy Splitt started as a personal project, but soon turned into a community production. Horst and Splitt, who have been friends for over ten years, have wanted to pursue a directorial debut in the theater since they fi rst worked together on a play in 2009, with Splitt as a lead actor and Horst as the director’s assistant. “We had been wanting to do theater for a while and it had not come together until one day Aaron and I were sitting together and we’d had this discussion so many times and Aaron fi nally said, “Well, lets just do it,’” Splitt said. It wasn’t until Horst reread “Agamemnon” in August that they found the inspiration to follow through. “Agamemnon” is the fi rst play in the tragic trilogy “Orestia,” which was written by Aeschylus in 458 B.C. The story features Agamemnon, the King of Argos, returning from the Trojan War to his adulterous wife. It’s a dark,

BY KATRINA SPINNER-WILSON | features staff writer Years ago in a small French town, an 80-year-old gentleman stepped outside of his store to offer Joyce and Ivon Beliveau wine tastings, changing their lives forever.

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hat was kind of just a moment in time that made us want to be there at that age, sharing something we created,” said Joyce Beliveau, overall manager of Beliveau Estate and Beliveau Estate winery. Ivon Beliveau is department head of building construction at Virginia Tech and through his job, he and his wife traveled to Europe, Australia and New Zealand where he spoke at several conferences. In each country, the Beliveaus made it a priority to visit wineries. After moving to Blacksburg in 1986, they purchased the estate in December 2001. The bed and breakfast and winery opened in August 2007 and most recently, they opened a wine shop on Roanoke Street. The estate and winery are 12 miles from

Virginia Tech and the wine shop. The vast 165-acre lot, hidden from major highways, provides the wines. Ivon makes the wine on his own, and learned how to by reading and experimenting. “VT has a wonderful program that helped him get started,” Joyce said. “He developed friendships with other local wine makers in the area, who were very helpful offering information to him. We also go to wine trade shows to learn.” The oldest wine the Blacksburg shop sells is a 2011 vintage from the May 2011 crop. They also carry a variety of white and red wines, such as “Afternoon Delight,” “Reflection” and “Silhouette.” see WINE / page two

High schoolers experience architecture

info on the go runs from April 26 to 28 at 8 p.m.

see THEATRE / page two

Collegiate Times: When did you first fall in love with dance and know it was something you were going to do for the rest of your life? Miller: I loved it from the start. I was three or four, so you just kind of love it without thinking ‘This is going to be my career.’ I stopped when I was about 13. I missed it enough to get back to it at the end of high school and into college. After college, I went to grad school at Ohio State and then went back to New York. I think it was even after I got out of school that I was working with a choreographer for several years, and I was like ‘Oh, this is my career. This is the dance life.’ CT: At 12 years old you were training at Carnegie Hall; do you think that made you part of who you are today? Miller: It was disastrous. It was my first and only children’s ballet class. I was coming from a very different, creative background with modern dance. There were these girls from New Jersey and Long Island who were there and I was the only black kid. It was crushing. The whole social set-up was just terrifying. So I just gave up dance and gave up my piano lessons, and was like, ‘let me be regular.’

“Agamemnon”

bloody story, Horst said, but he was attracted to its beautiful and lyrical language. Horst and Splitt decided to bring the ancient Greek tragedy to life in Blacksburg, and reached out to their friends and acquaintances for help. “It was remarkable how many people really wanted to (get involved), help out and lend their talents,” Splitt said. According to Splitt, a production like this is unusual in Blacksburg because it is completely independent and will be performed off-campus. “There are a lot of people who came into this (play) that put blood, sweat and tears into it.” Splitt said. According to Splitt and Horst, they reached out to many of their friends and received all avenues of help — from a local artist creating sculptures to accent the set to local band “Outlands” contributing to the soundtrack for the show.

Bebe Miller is on the fast track to making history in the world of modern dance. Miller, who MILLER is being hosted by the Center for Arts at Virginia Tech tonight, grew up in Brooklyn, and was determined to burst the bubble of what people expected her to be, and make her mark in the dancing world. In 1985, Miller opened her own dance company in New York with her long-term collaborators Darrell Jones, Angie Hauser and Talvin Wilks. They created dances and toured across the country while also teaching dance full-time at Ohio State University. Bebe Miller sat down with the Collegiate Times to tell her story.

COURTESY OF DONNA DUNAY

“Inside Architecture + Design” will be held at Tech June 23-28 this year for high school students.

An architecture and design program is offered to young students each year. ANUJA DAS news staff writer

Each summer, Virginia Tech offers a week long summer program, dubbed "Inside Architecture + Design" for both resident and international high school students. Started in 1998, this program has grown from a fourstudent class to a class of 100 students, as of last year. This year, the program will take place from June 23 through June 28. The participants will arrive to campus on Sunday afternoon for an

optional introductory lecture and classes start on Monday and conclude at 3:30 p.m. on Friday. “The main idea is that they receive a glimpse of what working in architecture and design is about,” said Donna Dunay, G.T. Ward professor of architecture and one of the current program directors of the summer studio. “It helps foster a curiosity in the discipline.” Inside Architecture + Design is open to students from the 9th grade to the 12th grade. There is normally a very even

mix of students from all four years. The program is not intended to concentrate on one specific discipline. Instead, it incorporates material work and teaches skills from architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and industrial design. “It fosters thinking about design rather than the specificity of one discipline,” said Robert Dunay, the director of Virginia Tech’s Center for Design Research and the program’s other creative director. see DESIGN / page two

CT: How did you decide to open up your own dance company and create a name for yourself? Miller: In 1988, we had the really good fortune of three things happening in sort of the same three-month period. Within a few months we had a way to bring in income, someone who was going to fi nd work for us to perform and an organization that wanted to send people out. We were able to take part of the dance wave that was happening in to the mid-‘80s, and our first tour took us to Seattle and Atlanta. CT: How did you take your experience living in the projects and incorporate into your dance? see MILLER / page two


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