Dancing at the Silent Disco!

By: Kamil Wojciak, Staff Writer

On April 11th, people were dancing and having great amounts of fun at the silent disco here at Regis. Regarding location and time, this silent disco took place in the Mountain View Room in Claver Hall at 7:00 PM, all the way to roughly 10:00 PM.

As already implied in its name, this disco was silent (other than the people who were singing the lyrics) by having each audience member listen to the music through headphones. These headphones were the key element to this silent disco, as they allowed you to connect to any of the three DJs at the event. To connect to the specific DJ you wanted to, you would move the switch located on the back of the left ear pad; this switch had three options, correlating to the amount of DJs that you could listen to. On the back of the right ear pad, there was a knob that changed the volume of the headset.

Each channel for the DJs had a color associated with it to indicate which DJ is playing on the channel the audience members were listening to. To figure out the channel you were listening to, you just had to look at the your headset’s ear pads. Each headset displayed red, blue, or green, depending on the channel you listened to; the color displayed on your headset correlated to the DJ you were listening to, as the DJ had the same color headset as yours.

As there were three DJs that you could listen to, the audience had different musical preferences to choose from. The red DJ mainly focused on modern pop and hip-hop, using songs like “It’s Tricky” by RUN-D.M.C and “24K Magic” by Bruno Mars. The green DJ had a broad range of EDM and dubstep songs and also some hip-hop songs like “Rockstar” by Post Malone. The blue DJ had music that I would as “chill vibes” like “Africa” by Toto and “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. Also, while people were jamming to the music provided, there was a machine with a camera and screen that people could use to take pictures. To receive the pictures that were taken, they only had to enter their email address and the photos would be sent to that email.

Overall, the silent disco was a blast of an event, and will be highly cherished by many of the participants. It is of great thanks to RUSGA, for planning the events of Ranger Week, and SoundDown Party, for providing the silent disco service.

Ranger Monday 2019

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By: Kamil Wojciak, Staff Writer

This Monday of Ranger Week had a major amount of activities that strung from 5:30 PM, all the way to roughly 9:05 PM. From 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM, their were food trucks, music, and outdoor games that anyone could enjoy; roughly starting at 7:20 PM and ending at 9:05 PM was the Who UR Talent & Drag Show.

Lot 4, Claver Hall’s parking lot, was where all the fun activities resided, except for the “Who UR Talent & Drag Show”. For the food trucks, they had two food trucks, Sweet Cow and The Bamboo Skewer. The Sweet Cow food truck gave out ice cream of many flavors, including the flavors strawberry, mint chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookie dough, cookies and cream. Aside from tasty desserts for all the guests, there was also proper meals available from The Bamboo Skewer; The Bamboo Skewer gave out street food, which consisted of chicken teriyaki, potstickers and much more. All of the food provided from the food trucks was free!

With all the energy obtained from their free food, the participants were able to enjoy the music and the outdoor games. The music was provided by the band Ten Miles South. In case you didn’t know, Ten Miles South is an indie pop & alternative band that does gigs in and around the Denver area. At the event, some of the songs they played were “Kids” and “Tongue Tied”, while also playing their own original songs like “Future Lover” (a fan favorite) and “Philadelphia” (an upcoming song planning to be released soon).

Jude Montanez, Regis student and the bass player of Ten Miles South, said that “Everyone was just jamming to what we were doing and that made it easier for us to have fun and not really stress about what we were playing.”; both the guests and the band were having a blast at this event. With the bangin’ music in the background, people also participated in outdoor games that were provided. These outdoor games were hugely popular with the audience and some of the the popular games played were bean bag toss, ladder ball, KanJam, and Spikeball.

After all the events at Lot 4, people waited in line for the Who UR Talent & Drag Show that was in Claver Hall’s Mountain View Room. This event started roughly at 7:20 PM and was nearly packed. Starting out with the talent show, many individuals performed songs with different sorts of instruments; some of the instruments used in the talent show were the ukulele, trombone, and the piano. While many of the participants of the talent show were playing and singing songs, one performance way different than the others was the “Lion Dance”. The “Lion Dance” is a traditional dance in Chinese culture (and also other Asian cultures), where two performers in a single lion costume perform choreographed dance and acrobatic moves.

In the Mountain View Room, this performance took place and won first place for the talent show. After a five minute intermission, the drag show took place for the remainder of the night. With the two hosts, Claudia Mercury and Reina Terror, the drag show started with a bang in the form of their opening duet. Onward, there were many more spectacular performances by the drag kings and queens that ended up with one group finale of all performers performing to “Last Dance” by Donna Summer.

At the end of the night, Rico Gomez, Student Body President of Regis University, elaborated on the theme of Ranger Week, “Who U R”. In the words of Gomez, “You are a part of our community”; Gomez’s message tells us that no matter how lonely or how isolated we may feel, we will always be part of Regis University, a community that we can lean on.

Celebrating Earth Day at Regis!

By: Kamil Wojciak, Staff Reporter

At the beach here at Regis University, people were making tie-dye shirts, taking care of succulents, eating snacks and much more! Specifically, all of these activities took place during the Earth Day event on April 3rd, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

Earth Day, a day that is celebrated internationally on April 22nd, is meant to give recognition to environmental issues that impact our planet and how to protect our environment. Founded in 1970 to originally teach people about these environmental issues, it has now become a staple holiday around the world.

While our Earth Day event at Regis was not one that helped resolve any environmental issues in our community, it allowed students to enjoy being outside in the sunny environment and to participate in multiple activities of their choice. The two main attractions were the tie-dye shirts and the succulents.

For making their own personal tie-dye shirts, the participants were given a white shirt and many materials to help aid their creative process. Firstly, students clumped up their shirts into a spherical shape, and used rubber bands to keep that shape formed. Then, the students were appropriately able to start tie-dying their shirts with the large variety of colored inks to choose from. When they were satisfied with their tie-dye shirt, they were given a Ziploc bag to safely store and keep their new personalized shirt.

While many participants made tie-dye shirts, the succulents also were high in popularity; as there was a limited amount of succulents, only the earlier guests were able to participate in this activity. With each individual having their own succulent, they had the opportunity to paint their pot for the succulent that they are going to plant in that pot. Like the tie-dye shirts, there was a large variety of paints that the artist could use, but no paint brushes in the vicinity. To solve the lack of paint brushes, finger painting was used and allowed great fun for this activity.

The Earth Day event at Regis was a great way to enjoy the sunny spring weather outside that was somewhat lacking by the recent weather we were having, and was also a fun way to express our artistic sense within us.

Making Mosaics!

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By: Kamil Wojciak, Staff Writer

On March 23rd, students had the chance to craft their own personal mosaics that they were allowed to keep. The students had many options to craft mosaics, with different types of canvases, and a great amount of tiles to choose from.

Now for a small lesson on mosaics, mosaics are art that consist of assembling tiles to create an image; these tiles have limitless options, factoring from material, size, shape, color, and more. Surprisingly enough, the earliest evidence of mosaics can be traced back to the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia.

Now, back to the event that took place, students had a great range of options on crafting their mosaics. For the tiles, some tiles they had were shaped as squares and triangles, with different sizes. The remaining tiles were actually all asymmetrical, as they were all personally cracked at the event. Even with the great options for the tiles, the event also had different canvases that were available. Two types of the canvases available were standard, white, flat canvases that just deviated in dimensions and size. However, greatly stemming from the linear canvases available, students were able to use jars as their personal canvas.

The mosaic event was a great way to spend the weekend and stimulate our artistic sense within us. Hopefully, there will be more events like this in the near future giving students opportunities to be satisfied, creating and building their own personal art.