Study Habits of Lewis J. Ort Library

Below shows up close and personal pictures of students in the Library
By: Elisia Daniels

Imani Treadwell and Magdala Louissaint are both senior Mass Communication students. This photo was taken in the library. Magdala is researching online and Imani is observing.

 

Rebecca Singh is a Mass Communication Major. In preparation for her conference meeting for her advance writing class she gets her neccessary information and prints it off.

Julian Cook is a Senior and Majors in Foreign Language and Literature. This shot was taking as he was engaged in his study materials. He listens to music to tune out the disturbing noise in the library.

Different Aspects of College Life @ FSU

ACADEMIC

 Freshman Gretchen Scheel, a psychology major from Baltimore, MD, sits down in the children's books section of the library to relax as she does some work.

PERSONAL

Senior Christina Wiley, a psychology and Psychology major from the Eastern Shore, talks to her mom on the phone while she decides on what to eat for lunch,

ORGANIZATIONAL

 Sophomores and fellow members of the Colleges Against Cancer organization Elizabeth Macconnell, a psychology major from Great Mills, MD and Hazel Mbambo, an accounting major from Baltimore, MD, raise awareness and give students information about Relay for Life.

 

 

 



Frostburg Photo Shoot

Above: Senior, Casey Perry, gets in a quick workout between classes at the Lane Fitness Center.

 Above: Brianna Lane and Michael Changwe workout together at the Lane Fitness Center on the machines that lookout onto campus.

Above: Senior, Chelsea Smith, works on homework in the Lane Center computer lab. "I like this lab the most because it's the quietest, cleanest, and the computers are faster."

The Perfect Award Show

As students come down the stairs in the Lane University Center, they are greeted by red ropes shaping a line. Students, alumni, and family members and friends crowd the two lines. One line is for people who have reserved seating and the other line for those with regular box office seats. Both lines are long and crowded. Outside the doors, staff members stand awaiting their moment they will open the doors and accept tickets. It is 6:50 and the doors to the Armah are finally being opened, tickets are being ripped, and the line begins to move towards the entry into the Paparazzi Perfect fashion show.

Paparazzi Perfect models

As people began to fill the seats, somewhere in the room, the disc jockey put on some music from rapper 2 Chainz. The room was filled with chatter as time went on and people were still trickling in. The music slowly deceased and finally, the lights dimmed. The music returned and the Paparazzi Perfect models began to walk through the Armah entrance doors. The show had begun and all eyes were on the entering models. Their walks were slow and sexy. They wore red, black, and white leotards with nude tights underneath. When the beat dropped, they began modeling. Twisting and turning, dipping and dancing. This is what Paparazzi Perfect is known for and what everyone had been waiting for.

Paparazzi Perfect is an organization made up of students who enjoy theatrical modeling since 2007. Unlike other on-campus organizations, such as African Student Alliance and Black Student Alliance, Paparazzi Perfect is one of kind and is featured only on the Frostburg State University’s campus.

Krista Hart, a sophomore transfer student, says she was looking forward to the show. “I’ve never been to their show before,” she says. “I’m expecting to see a lot of spinning and twirling. Stuff I can’t do in my heels,” she states as she laughs. Aside from hearing good things about their show, she also added that she wanted to support her friend, junior Danielle Mitchell, who was a model in the show.

Needless to say, as the show progressed, the audience received the Award Show themed show very well. There were six scenes; Welcome to Hollywood, Creativity Award, Dynamic Duo Award, Swim Award, Live Performance, and Models of the Year. Each scene included models dancing, twirling and the creativity was quite obvious. Paparazzi Perfect president, Jasmyn Bullock, says that they “never have a problem selling out.”  “We always put on a good show,” she adds.

This year at the show, the modeling organization also included a reality/behind the scenes video in their show. The video depicted bits and pieces from the Paparazzi Perfect practices and focused on the three board members; Jasmyn Bullock, Aisha Thomas, and Jarred Sleets. 

The video was positively received by the audience. During the video, each board member introduced themselves and the models were individually interviewed to talk about one minor problem with each board member. When models were interviewed about Jasmyn for example, the models discussed how she always brought food to practice. When the models were interviewed about them, it was the footage along with the hilarious commentary from the models that made the video so funny.

Paparazzi Perfect also showed the audience that FSU has talent. During the Live Performance models were modeling clothing by a fellow FSU student, Lateef Gazel. During this modeling scene, another FSU student Kevante Edmondson began rapping.

At the end of the show, the board members took the stage and thanked all of those who helped out with the show. They also announced the new board members; India Gross, Darrell Smith, and Alexis Flowers.

At the end of the show, senior model Sade Steppe-Salem exhaled and smiled and said, “I think the show went well and I’m glad everyone enjoyed it.”

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St.Patricks Parade in Pittsburgh, PA

         Saturday March 16^th the city of Pittsburgh held their annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, a tradition that dates as far back as 1869. From Grant Street to the Boulevard of the Allies, Thousands of people lined up along the sidewalks to witness the estimated 25,000 participants of the parade. The event started at 10am and concluded at 2pm.  The Parade featured 199 Marching units; one of the most prominent was the Pittsburgh Fire Department. Craig Mahouski of Green Tree was marching in his 6^th parade with the Pittsburgh Fire Department, Mr.Mahouski said of the event “It’s a shame the weather for this year’s parade isn’t as nice as last years, but I do enjoy participating in this every year with the men I work with”. Mr.Mahouski’s wife, Lori was also in attendance. Mrs.Mahouski added that “I’ve been coming to the parade for years, but unfortunately this year I’m not up to the weather as I have been in the past”. Also going on, further up the street from the parade at CONSOL Energy Center on Fifth Avenue was the Pittsburgh Penguins playing host to the New York Rangers at 1pm. The city has been in a buzz with the Penguins winners of 8 games going into their matinee with the Rangers. The city was quite busy with tens of thousands of people attending either or both events. One person taking advantage of the busy day was Rob Kachmar of Pittsburgh was on his way to the game when asked about his day so far Kachmar explained, “I work on the North Shore, and the downtown area rarely has this much going on. I really don’t mind coming down on a very busy Saturday to celebrate the holiday and especially seeing the Pens”.  After the Parade concluded at 2, Market square was closed off to cars and became a pedestrian traffic area for “Irish Fair in the Square”.  Amongst participating was Drew McCarthy of State College, Pa who said “I have been in State College for almost 2 years now and word has traveled about the festivities they do here, I’m glad I could come out for this”. The event featured several establishments serving up Green Beer. The buzz during the fair was about the Penguins game going on. Every establishment had the game on and people focused on the game.  Not surprisingly much of those around market square were wearing Penguins St. Patrick’s themed shirts. The Penguins were able to hold off the Rangers 3-0, and extended their win streak to 9 games. 

   With the Tradition of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Pittsburgh having gone on for long, this event was a great example of the pride people who live in Pittsburgh have for their city. For the parade part of the afternoon there were people of all ages taking it all in. Then the over 21 crowd just taking up on the traditions they’ve saw growing up. What really brought the city alive was the buzz about the Penguins. It really made for a memorable St.Patricks Parade Day.

April Coverage Event: The Big Apple

The Big Apple!

On April 6, 2013, the Student Support Services took some of their students on a field trip to New York City. The trip was supervised by Mr. Robert Shawn Jones, and Mrs. Tamara Lowry, the director of the Student Support Services. We all met in front of Pullen Hall at 4:30am, and were on the road by 5:30. We arrived in New York at around noon. Upon our arrival, our day in the Big Apple started with our tour guide taking us to see some important and historical sites such as the Freedom Tower, the first fire station to answer to the terrorist attack 9/11 in 2001, and the Federal Hall National Monument (see pictures below). 

Freedom Tower

First fire company to answer to 9/11. 8 of their men died.

Federal Hall National Monument

After the tour, the students were allowed to go out on their own for seven hours to see whatever they wanted to see. If we wanted to go shopping, site seeing, or even experience the New York Subway, we could. Me, and a few of my friends walked as far as Central Park. There were tons of performances held in Central Park. Coming in, we saw the St. Columba’s Pipe and Drum band play in celebration of Tartan Day which is “a celebration of Scottish heritage on April 6, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320” (Wikipedia.org). While in Central Park, we walked as far as Sheep Meadow, where we saw families spending quality time together, enjoying the beautiful weather that was much needed. Exiting Central Park, we saw two more performances. The first one was a faux magician trying to con his audience into giving him money before he “performs” the magic trick. We also saw a couple of break dancers showing us their moves. 

After seeing the wonderful performances, it was time to start heading back to our checkpoint so we could meet up together and start heading back to campus. At the checkpoint, I asked a few other people what they did with their seven hours in New York. Brandon Richardson, a sophomore at Frostburg State, said, “I spent too much money here in New York. Me and Neesh went to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not building where we spent $27 for nothing. I wanted to go see the Empire State Building but it slipped my mind.” Paulette Lewis, also a sophomore, was one of the students that experienced the New York subway. “We took the subway to Brooklyn and Staten Island.” Overall, the experience was great, but the traffic was ridiculous! Not only on the roads, but on the sidewalks as well. Everyone was bumping into each other trying to get where they needed to go. You could tell who was from New York by the nonchalant attitude people had after being walked into. They seemed to be conditioned to it. For us tourists, we thought it was so rude. “I cannot live here,” said Samantha Hammett, a sophomore at Frostburg State.

Once we got on the bus, the biggest challenge was getting out of New York City. There was bumper to bumper traffic no matter what detour we took. It took us two hours to get out of the Big Apple. Thankfully, we arrived back in Frostburg at 4am. From there, the students dragged their feet all the way to their lovely beds in their dorms.