Strike club
After a tough week of classes, the “Friday Bowling Association” convenes at KU’s Hangar lanes to let off some steam. Here L-Ben Danklefsen rolls smoothly toward the pins as Dan Fink, and Joe Schambach look on. Other members of “FBA” include A.J. Ferguson, Erik Vasilaus, Travis Schubert, and Tom Hanson. They are all friends and share classes in engineering, math, or business.
1-27-12 by Larry Burgess
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Everything’s going just swimmingly
Looking like a living screen saver, these three salt water fish swim about the tank in Miriam Hall-053, the Computer Help Desk room.
1-24-12 by Larry Burgess
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Help your neighbor
R-Mallory Martindale helps L-Genie Morgan look at a microscopic slide of some monerans in biology lab in Sherman Hall. Monerans are one-celled organisms, like amoebas, but without a nucleus.
1-24-12 by Larry Burgess
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Flyers dominating ESPN on court, speakers
Michael Bernot ’06 will be using his musical talent to fire up UD fans all over the nation.
As the Flyers are battling the Xavier Musketeers at 1 p.m. Saturday on ESPN2, 2nd HALF’s rock ballad, “Got It Made,” will be sounding over the speakers, an encouraging anthem for a hopeful victory.
So how does a sociology major go from graduation to iTunes, Amazon and now ESPN?
“We spread ourselves through free music sites for exposure.”
Bernot says he put the group on ourstage.com, a social networking site for artists, to see how the band stacks up compared to other rock bands.
“We got a phone call from ourstage last Thursday,” he says. “There was an interest in playing ‘Got It Made’ in a college basketball game.”
That wasn’t the only good news.
“[ESPN] commissioned us to do our own cover of their song during the breaks.”
Bernot says the chance to play on ESPN has been great.
“You wait for an opportunity like this to come along,” he says. “It might just end up being my 15 minutes, but it’s something to me.”
Bernot started developing his musical style in front of Flyers in the Ghetto during his undergraduate years.
“In college you are trying to discover yourself,” he says. “Guitar became my go-to common thread for changes and transitions.”
Bernot joined Drew Scalero and Ed Gandolf, the original 1997 band members, in 2007 with friend and guitarist Matt Majoros.
“We are not confrontational or negative,” he says of the band. “The themes of our songs are universal. Everyone can feel them”
Check out the single “Got It Made.” Also, don’t forget to tune into ESPN2 tomorrow at 1 p.m. to cheer on our Flyers, playing both on the court and over the speakers.
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Home is where the hearth is
With 13 degree temperatures outside these students found a cozy place for breakfast at Marycrest Hall by the first floor fireplace. They are from left to right: Melissa Galvin, Monika Morawa, and Stephen Scott.
1-20-12 by Larry Burgess
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Hip-hop dreams
“I don’t see how you can hate from outside the club, you can’t even get in.”
The college crowd is familiar with these opening lines to Chris Brown’s “Look at Me Now,” the No. 1 hit on the Billboard year-end rap chart in 2011.
But at the University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration Tuesday, Jan. 17, keynote speaker Ebony Utley encouraged students and community members in the audience to consider the lyrics in a new context. In her words, they are a representation of a “new segregationist scenario based on haves and have-nots.”
Utley, an assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, Long Beach and expert on popular culture, race, gender and romance, offered her perspective of how the legacies of the civil rights generation influence the hip-hop generation.
In the spirit of that day, there was much talk of dreams.
“The root of all resistance is the unrelenting belief that dreams can come true,” Utley said. “The spirit of hip-hop continues to be about the business of resistance.”
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How bitter is that wind
A traffic light rocks in the wind at Stewart and Zehler. The forecast calls for 40 to 50 mph winds across the state.
1-17-12 by Larry Burgess
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But who was Averdick?
A couple of years ago, Herbert Woodward Martin — poet, professor and Paul Laurence Dunbar scholar — obtained what looked like a previously unpublished Dunbar poem. Handwritten in a book that made its way to a James Averdick and was passed on by his descendants, the poem turned out to be genuine, an unique and newsworthy find.
But who was James Averdick?
An apparently well-respected and generous man. When he died in 1931, the flags in Covington, Ky., flew at half mast for a month in memory of his contributions to that city’s schools. His dedication as a medical doctor led the local paper to editorialize that “the physician was known to every man, woman and child in the western section of the city.” As a state representative, he pushed for child labor laws and for better sanitation and health care for prisoners. He raised several orphans, one of whom helped pass on Dunbar’s poem.
A graduate of St. Mary’s Institute, later to be the University of Dayton, he is credited with receiving the school’s first honorary degree, a B.A. in 1901. In 1928, he was awarded an honorary J.D. degree by the University of Dayton.
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A sterling record of service
Dayton Habitat will recognize the University at a ceremony next week for its volunteer work supporting the Habitat mission of “providing a hand up, not a hand out” for lower income families seeking home-ownership.
The University will receive one of three President’s Volunteer Service Awards during Dayton Habitat’s annual volunteer recognition celebration Jan. 19 at the Packard Museum. The University earned the Silver Award, given to groups completing between 500 and 999 service hours in a calendar year.
Last year, 165 individuals from UD volunteered a total of 781 hours with Dayton Habitat.
That number includes hours completed by faculty, staff and students through the student-run Habitat for Humanity club, other University volunteer groups that completed Habitat volunteer projects and individual volunteer work by UD community members.
Kevin Longacre, president of the campus Habitat for Humanity club, will accept the award for the University.
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On the slopes
Workers atop Keller Hall replace and repair some shingles that blew off during last week’s strong winds.
1-9-12 by Larry Burgess
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