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Knights raise $2,700 Loras starts for family health clinic Easter on a musical note W by MARY AGNOLI
executive editor
ith Dance Marathon just around the corner and last-minute fundraising picking up around campus, it would be easy to overlook the efforts of Loras’ Knights of Columbus.
In the past month, this organization has raised over $2,700 for the Vitae Family Care Clinic in Des Moines, IA. This clinic provides access to prenatal care for women of low income during the course of pregnancy. On April 1, the Knights raised $1,250 from a fundraiser at Capri College in downtown Dubuque. The five participants had various hairstyles for donors to choose from, and each Knight received whichever style had the most donations. However, their efforts to raise money for this cause did not stop there. On Friday, April 5, the Knights of Columbus held their 6th annual Night with a Knight. “We are auctioning off a dinner where the Knight will join you,” said junior Tony “Bear” Gates when explaining the logistics of the event. In other words, the Knights themselves were not being “auctioned” off, but rather a chance to have a great meal with a chivalrous gentleman was being offered. Before the event kicked off, however, there was dancing, a quick Q&A with the Knights led by junior Chuck Warren, and an introduction by sophomore Johnny Mitchell. The microphone was then handed over to junior Teresa Gwardys who
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As Knights of Columbus we are called to be defenders of life, and this event is raising money to do just that.
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by ANDREA BERNS staff writer
photo by KATHERINE EDWARDS
Loras Knights Chuck Warren, J.P. Sevcik, Lucus Evett, Tony “Bear” Gates and Colin Priest show off their crazy haircuts from Capri after participating in an April Fool’s Day fundraiser for the Vitae Family Health Clinic in Des Moines. served as the energetic MC for the evening. “A lot of upperclassmen said it was a really fun night and for a good cause, so I decided to check it out,” said first-year Sarah Koetz. Dates with 9 Knights, food from various other organizations on campus, two hand-made rosaries from Loras’ own Colin Priest, and dinner with President Collins were all up for bid throughout the night. “It was especially exciting to see two rosaries go for $300,” said junior Joel Pohland, Knight and organizer of this year’s successful event. At $220, a gourmet dinner with junior Dan Duffy went for the highest amount, while a date with first-year JP Sevcik went for the highest price among the young men ($165). By the end of the night, the Knights raised $1,460 to add to their previous fund-raiser. “This event is being put on for a great cause,” said sophomore and Knight Nate Kapraun. “As Knights of Columbus we are called to be defenders of life, and this event is raising money to do just that.”
photo by KATHERINE EDWARDS
First-year Noelle Henneman escorts junior Joel Pohland across the stage while his date is up for auction.
CAB books Best Coast by ANDY MILLER staff writer
The Loras College Activities Board (CAB) announced their annual Springfest concert this past weekend. Best Coast, a surf-pop-rock band will play at the Fieldhouse on Friday May, 17, beginning around 8 p.m. In case you have no idea who Best Coast is, or you want to find out more about them, CAB is here to help. Best Coast is a band comprised of two members: Bethany Cosentino, the band’s front-woman and founder, and Bobb Bruno. Cosentino and Bruno met while attending various concerts in the greater Los Angeles area in 2009. Cosentino, a former child actress, began her songwriting while in her teens and had developed a following on her Myspace music page. She even began to garner attention from the major labels. Wanting to avoid being another “pop princess” she instead began to record
demos with Bruno for Best Coast’s first demos. After having signed on with the label, Mexican Summer, Best Coast put out their first full length album in 2012, Crazy for You. The album has been described as having a “garageband” feel to it. Notable tracks from the album include: “Boyfriend”, “Our Deal” and the album’s title song, “Crazy for You.” The album was generally wellreviewed. Pitchfork Media gave the album an 8.4. The success of their first album led them to play the major festival circuit which included festivals such as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Coachella. In 2012, the band released their second full-length album, The Only Place. Critical reception was overall very fa-
vorable, though a major critique was that they had lost some of their garageband feel. Despite this, Rolling Stone still named the album their #14 album of 2012. The band is currently on tour with fellow California-native, Green Day. An announcement as to when you can get your 2013 Springfest tickets will be announced via CAB’s social media channels in the near future, so be sure to be checking in with them.
Easter has begun, and what is a better way to end the Lenten season than with a concert by the Loras choirs honoring Mary, the blessed Mother of God, who stood at the foot of the cross? The choirs performed last Saturday at Christ the King Chapel and received a very positive response from the audience. The Chamber Singers were the first to perform. They began the night with the song, “O Redemptor,” which was composed by Loras’ Kevin Duggan (’14) and “Regina Coeli” by Mozart. These beautiful pieces of music set the tone for the rest of the evening as the choir performed gently yet powerfully throughout the pieces. After the Chamber Singers sang “Bella Voce,” the women’s choir sun “Nigra Sum” by Pablo Casals and “Ave Maria” by Antonine Goodchild. “Nigra Sum,” translating to “I Am Black,” tells the story of a young woman working in the fields who is loved by the King, who says to her, “Arise my love, and come: for now the winter is past, and the rain is over and gone. The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come.” In addition, Ave Maria is the “Hail Mary” in the Latin translation. After a reflection by Dr. John Waldmeir of the theology department, the The movement Concert Choir bewas sung gan their collecwith five tion of twelve segments that formed non-English “Stabat Mater” languages, by Karl Jenkins, lasting over an such as Latin, hour of straight Aramaic, singing. The segments focused on Hebrew, Greek the Blessed Virand Arabic. gin Mary weeping at the foot of the cross. The movement was packed with powerful emotions: grief, angst, torment, and finally, hope. In preparation for this concert, the choirs exerted their full attention on these pieces for weeks. “We began working on this project in the very first few weeks of the semester, and this has been the focus of all of our rehearsals,” said first-year Missy Wachuta. “I think by really focusing on this work and looking at the meaning behind [the words] helped us to present this piece the way it is supposed to be presented.” This is especially important because the movement was sung with five non-English languages interspersed throughout, such as Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. This was definitely a challenge for the choirs. “I have to admit that when we got the [music to “Stabat Mater”], I was very intimidated by it,” said Wachuta. “It is a really long piece! I was also worried about [pronouncing] the words in Latin and Hebrew.” However, as the choirs practiced and grew more comfortable with the words, they truly enjoyed creating beautiful music and even received a standing ovation at the end of the concert. The choirs would like to invite everyone to their next and final concert this school year, The 2nd Annual Last Concert of the Year, taking place at 7:30 p.m. at the Fieldhouse.