The Daily Collegian Students join to talk Haiti’s past, present By Lauren Ingeno COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Though Haiti may be fading from the world's attention. Penn State students are making sure that its past and present won't be forgotten. Penn State United for Haiti held an event titled "Aviti Sore: A Haitian Awareness Reception'' in HUB Alumni Hall on Thursday night that created an eve-opening discussion. Rmdraising chairman of Project Haiti and the treasurer of Penn State's Club Krevol Khalfani Alexander said that the intent of the event was to inform the Penn State community about why Haiti is in the situation it is in todav. "We wanted to let people know all the underlying reasons why the catastrophe happened with such great magnitude." Alexander said. The evening began with a Power Point about the past of Haiti and was followed by a question and answer session with two Penn State professors and a Haitian and Haitian American Penn State student. "At one point in time Haiti produced more wealth than any other country in the world. It's really almost mind-boggling to understand," Sam Richards, a professor of Christine Reckner Collegian Dancers pause and stare out at the crowd during the Groovaloo Dance Show on Thursday night in the Eisenhower Auditorium. Dancer movements tell stories through hip-hop By Robin Tilley COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER From ballerinas to b-bovs —that's what Groovaloo advertised, and that's what it delivered. Eisenhower Auditorium shook and flashed as Groovaloo dancers played out their life stories through their bodies Thursday night. "It was executed beautifully, the chore ography was beautiful, all the elements were great," said Penn State theater pro fessor Steve Broadnax. The show included 28 scenes, which told stories of the hardships and journeys of many of the dancers. But the scenes weren't stop-and-go they flowed into each other, and so did each of the dancers' stories. Chris Park, a student in a Penn State hip-hop class, said he was impressed by how well the dancers could correlate their dances with life stories and portray their personalities. "It was indescribable, pretty awesome." Park (junior-actuarial science) said. The dancers, many of whom have per formed with stars such as Janet Jackson, Prince. P Diddy and Missy Elliot, expressed stories from having parents who didn't understand their dreams to being shot in the back and told they'd Singing Valentines spread love By Valerie Tkach COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Sitting in his 1:30 p.m. class on Thursday, Justin Maistrow had no idea it wasn’t going to be a typical day in class. As he listened to the lecture, a young man wearing a suit and tie walked in hold ing one red rose and asked the professor if he and a few friends could pass Maistrow (senior-finance) a message from his girl friend. When the professor agreed, eight more men in suits walked in and began serenad ing Maistrow with "Signed, Sealed, Delivered” by Stevie Wonder to the class's surprise. Some girls sighed, and others started laughing but Maistrow was shocked. "I was very surprised," he said. "I didn’t know that girls could do this for the guys, but I’m happy my girl did." Maistrow has Phi Mu Alpha, a singing fraternity otherwise known as The Dreamers, to thank for putting it all togeth er. The Phi Mu Alpha brothers have been singing to Penn State students on Valentine’s Day for almost 20 years and they plan on going for at least 20 more. “People love us singing to their signifi cant others or to their friends” Jamie Gunther (junior-musical education) said. “ It’s the best weekend of the year.” As the group made its way to another classroom and another victim, all the guys sociology said to open the discussion. Haiti is now one of the poorest nations in the western world and is under an enor mous amount of debt due to other western countries. Richards and others explained. Bee-Yan Roberts, a professor of econom ics, said that institutions have caused some of the fundamental problems that Haiti faces today. But there is still hope that the problems can be fixed. Roberts stressed the fact that often donors' money does not go to the right places, so it is important to give money from the bottom up i think it's the'quality of aid that mat ters and not how much." Roberts said. "It's probably a lot better when the aid doesn’t go through the government's hands.” Students and community members were passionate in telling their personal stories of dealing with the tragedy in Haiti and asking how to help as much as possi ble. "Feeling guilty and feeling sorry hopeful ly isn't why everyone's here." Tierra Oliver (sophomore-crime, law and justice) said to the crowd. "Taking responsibility our ability to respond to what we believe in is the most powerful thing we can do." To e-mail reporter: ImisolB@psu.edu never walk again let alone dance. But Steven "Boogieman" Stanton, a cho reographer and dancer from Los Angeles, did dance again. He used a cane most of the show, but eventually threw it aside to showcase his hip-hop talent. "It was personal and true, and you can't beat the truth.” Broadnax said. Linzee Cho (freshman-elementary edu cation), another hip hop student, said the show was "mind-blowing" and she thought the overall message was that nothing is impossible. Throughout the show, the dancing was accompanied by spoken word poetry, nar ration and lights that followed the rhythm of the music. The set included elements like stairs, tables and graffiti portraits including the words ‘dove," "hope," "truth" and "freestyle" the last of which was a popular theme and dance style in the show. In fact, Broadnax thought the show's title should have included the word "freestyle" so faculty and students would have had a better idea of what it was about that way, he said he thinks more people would have come. "That was some of the best work I’ve seen here at Penn State,” he said. "Hip hop theatre is rare, you don’t see it often.” To e-mail reporter: rmtso4B@psu.edu were excited and full of energy. "We love to ham it up as much as possi ble,” Jason Usdin (junior-education) said. And ham it up they do. Faced with the prospect of two Valentines in the same class, the Dreamers decided to sit the two girls in the front row, hand them each a rose and sing “Shaboom Shaboom” by The Chords. As they began singing, students took out cell phones to record the perform ance and the men’s choreography. But for the first time, the boys have a lit tle competition: The School of Theatre’s Interfraternity Council/Panhellic Dance Marathon group premiered its own singing valentines this year. "We are a lot different in that we sing fun songs like ‘Baby Got Back’ and ‘l’ll Make Love to You,’ ” said Deanna Ybarra, the group’s alternative fundraising chair woman. And their methods of performing the songs are definitely different. As they walked into a theatre class in Music Building I Thursday afternoon with out their shoes and wearing aviator sun glasses, the group consisting of Joe Pratchenko (junior-theatre), Jacqueline Rosenthal (freshman- musical theatre), Jamie Dignam (senior-theatre) and Mike Shultz (senior-musical theatre) brought the room to laughter as they sang Elvis’s “Teddy Bear” while shaking their hips like the famous singer. 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