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Bayanihan Student Organization hosts fashion show

Celebrating the 25th annual “That 70’s Show” runway walk

By Izzy Fonfara Drewel

isabella.fonfaradrewel@marquette.edu

Fashion is a great medium to express yourself without communicating a word. Humanity has designed ways to share these feelings with the world through the invention of fashion shows.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Bayanihan Student Organization’s Fashion Show. Since it is such a big event, the students wanted a theme to fulfill that; the theme for this year is That 70s Fashion Show.

Michelle Cruz, a sophomore in the College of Health Sciences explained how the theme ties into what music is played and features in a segment where the models will wear theme-inspired clothing.

BSO is an organization on campus that aims to bring together students and educate them about Filipinx culture. The Fashion Show is designed to fundraise for a charity of BSO’s choosing, and, according to Cruz, over the years it has become Marquette’s largest student-led fundraiser.

The show coordinators, Cruz and two other students, Gillianne Savella and Sean De Asis, both sophomores in the College of Engineering, started organizing the show in May. While she is only a sophomore, Cruz has experience from last year’s fashion show.

“I was in the Opening, Cultural and Modern [segments] and that was pretty much my first exposure to BSO and Fashion Show,” Cruz explained. “I think that was what got me interested in becoming a Fashion Show coordinator; I wanted to be a bigger part of the process.”

The organization collaborates with shops, such as Abakada, Milwaukee Home and All Goods, who lend clothing for the models. Additionally, to raise more money, BSO coordinated with restaurants around campus, including Serenitea and Tangled.

The BSO Fashion Show is organized into several different categories; three for dance and four for modeling. Each dance segment features different styles including formal, cultural and modern while each modeling portion has distinct genres of clothing such as casual and sportswear. Gabriel Del Rosario, a first-year in the College of Engineering, is involved with two segments, and he says that participating in the event has been a great experience.

“I get so excited every week to go to practice,” Del Rosario said. “It’s been very crazy because it’s a lot of practice time, but it’s all been super fun for me. I know a lot of people are stressed, but when it comes down to it, when it’s show day, everyone is going to have a good time.”

As the event nears, BSO will be selling tickets throughout the course of the week. They will be selling them in the Alumni Memorial Union from 2-4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

The proceeds from the event will go to help a charity of BSO’s choosing. This year’s charity is FundLife International, which is a Philippinesbased organization that works to assist young women and children.

“[FundLife’s] main focuses are … to help educate them and get them ready for the workforce, make sure they have the skills to be employed and succeed,” Cruz said. “During the pandemic, they altered their resources to help offer students without proper study environments at home; they gave them resources to learn.”

BSO hopes to match the funds raised in 2019, but they would Photo courtesy of BSO (@bsofashions on Instagram) love to surpass that The fashion show will take place Dec. 4 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the AMU ballrooms. All proceeds will benefit FundLife.

amount. Cruz explained that the 2019 Fashion Show brought in around $3000-4000.

Throughout the past few months, BSO’s members have put in weeks of practice and planning to present a riveting show for their audience.

“I’m just excited for everybody to be there and see how hard we’ve been working, how hard the choreographers have

been working, and all the “None of us have actually seen coordinators,” Del Rosario said. an in-person Fashion Show, so While the pandemic didn’t it’s exciting that we get to see our affect much this year, there was first Fashion Show but also put it significant impact left behind together,” Cruz said. from 2020. Cruz shared that The BSO Fashion Show will be since all the social coordinators taking place in the AMU ballroom are sophomores, they have one Dec. 4. Remember to buy your Fashion Show under their belts, tickets this week to support BSO but it was virtual. However, and their dedication. they aren’t letting that hold them back. Celebrating25yearsof style:

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Alum making a difference, spreading holiday cheer

2017 graduate serves Thanksgiving meals to families in Chicago

By TJ Dysart

theodore.dysart@marquette.edu

“Be the difference” is a phrase familiar to a number of Marquette students. Even prospective students will have been introduced to this phrase the minute they receive their acceptance letter to Marquette.

While a number of students have heard this phrase at different Marquette events and functions, some students have truly grasped their own meaning of the motto.

Deonte Tanner, a 2017 graduate of Marquette’s College of Communication, is proving that “being the difference” can come in many different ways and can even be showcased years after the end of someone’s Marquette journey.

Deonte recently served over 850 Chicago area families Thanksgiving meals through the Servants for Hope organization which traditionally does Christmas and Thanksgiving giveaways to families.

“This was our fifth annual giveaway and it came about my senior year at Marquette,” Tanner said. “Basically it stemmed from the previous year when I did my first Christmas giveaway and I would always look forward to the Christmas giveaway, so I wanted to start something that I could do before Christmas.”

Each year of the Thanksgiving giveaway, Tanner tries to double the number of meals he gave away the previous year.

“People would always be asking me if I was going to do 100 turkeys more than last year and if I was going to double the numbers from the year before so eventually it came to the point where I was able to do several hundred meals,” Tanner said. “It even came to the point where someone challenged me to do 1,000 turkeys and believe it or not through fundraising, we were able to do 1,000 turkeys.”

Tanner mentioned Thanksgiving is an interesting time for him. From balancing fundraising along with being a full-time student pursuing a Ph.D, he keeps himself busy throughout Thanksgiving week. Even with balancing the fundraising and wrapping up the quarter in his ideology and stakeholder relationships classes, he still shows his passion.

“Fundraising can be interesting, but it can also be a challenge because on top of fundraising during the Thanksgiving holiday. I am also having to close in and focus heavily on my classes,” Tanner said. “Most people don’t know that and I don’t expect them to because it is a passion of mine that I do not expect other people to have the same passion for as I do, but it still isn’t easy raising these big numbers along with a pandemic.”

Tanner mentioned that he appreciates the challenge and that it only makes him strive for more. From always pushing to give away more turkeys to also building connections – he mentioned that the challenge makes it fun.

“It is always interesting to see what types of funds we can acquire and even though it is a challenge, it is a fun and interesting challenge. From COVID-19 to also some people not really believing in the spirit of giving during Thanksgiving, it always makes for an interesting fundraising period,” Tanner said. “It has always been a good challenge for me because it allows me to see what different networks I can tap into and who can I reach that I haven’t reached in the past.”

For current Marquette students, Tanner mentioned that he wants his story to motivate people on campus to strive for their own passions.

“I always want to set the world on fire,” Tanner said. “I think I would want to remind students that

Photo by Deonte Tanner via Twitter @deonte_chosen1 Deonte Tanner has hosted holiday giveaways for years. One year, he gave away over 1,000 turkeys.

life is full of ups and downs and successes and failures, but if you are passionate and authentic about something it will hold you over well throughout this rollercoaster of life you are about to embark on.”

REVIEW: Disney’s “Encanto” is a vibrant adventure

Film offers a familycentered fairytale set in Colombia

By Kim Cook

kimberly.cook@marquette.edu

There is no family like the Madrigals.

Tucked away in the mountains of Colombia, each member of the family has a magical gift that is unique to them. Isabela (Diane Guerrero) can control the flowers and make them bloom, Luisa (Jessica Darrow) has the strength of a thousand men and young Antonio (Ravi-Cabot Conyers) has the ability to talk to animals. But then there is Mirabel Madrigal (Stephanie Beatriz), the only one in her family to not receive a gift when she was a child.

And that is where Disney’s 60th animated feature film, “Encanto,” begins. Utterly normal Mirabel has never felt like she didn’t belong in her family, even with the absence of a magical gift. But when she has a vision of something that could compromise the magic that fuels the miracle granted to her family, her path is set to prevent something that only she believes could take place.

Mirabel’s adventure to save her family’s magic ends up becoming something more — a way to connect with her siblings and cousins in a way that she didn’t know she could. There are many examples in the film, which I will not spoil, that are very sentimental and reveal that not everyone in the family is as happy or as perfect as they appear to be.

The film is part adventure, part comedy and part musical — a formula that Disney has practiced to the point of perfection with recent examples like “Moana” and “Frozen 2.” The vibrant colors of the Colombian mountainside and the Madrigal’s “Casita” fit perfectly with the soundtrack for the movie.

Written by Lin Manuel-Miranda, the creator of the ever-popular Broadway musicals “Hamilton” and “In The Heights,” the songs and lyrics are as lively and eccentric as you could expect a soundtrack for a movie set in Colombia to be. The flare of drums, maracas and accordions are infectious and make the movie feel authentic and representative of the Madrigals’ culture.

The themes of this movie go

Photo by Isabel Bonebrake isabel.bonebrake@marquette.edu “Encanto” was composed by Lin Manuel-Miranda and premiered Nov. 24. beyond family and the love you feel for them. And for a children’s movie, they are refreshing and actually very moving. One scene of the movie depicts a conversation between Mirabel and her older sister Louisa. As the dialogue progresses, audiences are launched into “Surface Pressure,” a song in which Louisa confesses how much pressure she feels to always be stronger than she is. The song speaks to a lack of and an eventual discovery of self-love, and knowing that it is okay to ask for help when you feel like you have too much to handle.

A similar theme is explored through a scene with Mirabel and her other sister Isabela. Mirabel is the least connected to Isabela as the two never seem to see eye to eye. Unknown to Mirabel until this point is that Isabela feels similar to Louisa; she feels that she must be perfect at all times because it is what is expected of her. These feelings are expressed through the song “What Else Can I Do?” which is vaguely reminiscent of “Frozen” when Elsa galivants over icy cliffs singing “Let It Go.”

Overall, “Encanto” was a pleasant surprise. What I originally thought was going to be another textbook Disney animated movie with music, adventure and maybe even a love story exceeded all of my expectations and left me a little stunned. While Walt Disney Animation Studios productions usually showcase the more magical, fantastical side of animation, “Encanto” felt more like a Disney Pixar film in how emotional and deep the themes cut and left me emotionally drained by the end of the third act. And I loved every minute of it.

The soundtrack, especially “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” “Dos Oruguitas” and “All of You” help to progress the plot of the story and adds a welcomed layer of culture to the colorful scenery. Likewise, the deep emotional themes will stand out to older viewers and show younger viewers that it is okay to be unique and wholly themselves. This film is enjoyable for all ages. It will make audiences want to dance, laugh, cry and maybe even feel the need to hug their grandmother.

No matter your age, Disney’s “Encanto” is another Disney must-see that I give a 4.5 out of 5-star rating.