Pedro loses election at Eastern
Editorial Board
Issue date: 10/22/07 Section: Opinions
There was lots of fun to be had this Homecoming week.
Coronation on Monday evening was a classy event. All the candidates looked wonderful, dressed to the nines. Seeing the royalty dressed up for the rest of the week was a great contrast to the casual look of most students.
Yell Like Hell, the annual cheerleading competition, and Who Wants to be a Mascot? were very entertaining. The antics of people vying for laughs and applause were incredible. The timing was tight and everything moved along very smoothly.
The parade was excellent; there were so many wonderful floats and entries. Students and community groups really stood up and made it a fun event.
And University Board provided great support for the parade. It didn't feel like an amateur production; Eastern students can be proud of how well it went.
Floats kept together at a comfortable pace, leaving plenty of opportunities for candy to be thrown.
There was a gap, but that's to be expected with so many floats.
But the pep rally was painful to watch, especially after the excellent volleyball match.
Does anyone else remember the days back when pep rallies were short, exciting and to the point - a celebration of sport and school spirit and not a seemingly never-ending atrocity?
People were leaving before the Pep Rally was even half over. It was not fun, nor was it engaging.
Pep rallies back in high school were very simple; people would pump up the crowd. The coach would talk some, so would a team captain or two, and the principal might get a word in too.
The band would roar in, and there would be shouting and cheering.
Remember leaving those pep rallies with your heart pounding, looking forward to tomorrow's game and having the fight song still replaying in your head?
That excitement was noticeably absent in the more than more hour-long, disjointed mess that was the pep rally.
But these are problems UB has shown it can conquer in the past.
Last year's performance was exciting and flowed beautifully over its two-hour-long performance.
Having the animated Roc Bellatoni, assistant head coach of the football team, emcee the Pep Rally would have been a much better choice then a harmonica-playing "Pedro," and cheaper too.
Students form an automatic connection to a local figure of some notoriety, unlike the tenuous connection to minor celebrities like Pedro.
UB had elements of an excellent Homecoming. But the pep rally, a key element of the festivities, was a major let down.
In bringing Kari Byron from "Mythbusters," UB proved it can make excellent selections.
They have a challenge ahead for Up All Night on Nov. 30.
Hopefully it can pull the organization of the parade and act selection of Yell Like Hell together, and turn Up All Night into a milestone along UB's rocky road.
Coronation on Monday evening was a classy event. All the candidates looked wonderful, dressed to the nines. Seeing the royalty dressed up for the rest of the week was a great contrast to the casual look of most students.
Yell Like Hell, the annual cheerleading competition, and Who Wants to be a Mascot? were very entertaining. The antics of people vying for laughs and applause were incredible. The timing was tight and everything moved along very smoothly.
The parade was excellent; there were so many wonderful floats and entries. Students and community groups really stood up and made it a fun event.
And University Board provided great support for the parade. It didn't feel like an amateur production; Eastern students can be proud of how well it went.
Floats kept together at a comfortable pace, leaving plenty of opportunities for candy to be thrown.
There was a gap, but that's to be expected with so many floats.
But the pep rally was painful to watch, especially after the excellent volleyball match.
Does anyone else remember the days back when pep rallies were short, exciting and to the point - a celebration of sport and school spirit and not a seemingly never-ending atrocity?
People were leaving before the Pep Rally was even half over. It was not fun, nor was it engaging.
Pep rallies back in high school were very simple; people would pump up the crowd. The coach would talk some, so would a team captain or two, and the principal might get a word in too.
The band would roar in, and there would be shouting and cheering.
Remember leaving those pep rallies with your heart pounding, looking forward to tomorrow's game and having the fight song still replaying in your head?
That excitement was noticeably absent in the more than more hour-long, disjointed mess that was the pep rally.
But these are problems UB has shown it can conquer in the past.
Last year's performance was exciting and flowed beautifully over its two-hour-long performance.
Having the animated Roc Bellatoni, assistant head coach of the football team, emcee the Pep Rally would have been a much better choice then a harmonica-playing "Pedro," and cheaper too.
Students form an automatic connection to a local figure of some notoriety, unlike the tenuous connection to minor celebrities like Pedro.
UB had elements of an excellent Homecoming. But the pep rally, a key element of the festivities, was a major let down.
In bringing Kari Byron from "Mythbusters," UB proved it can make excellent selections.
They have a challenge ahead for Up All Night on Nov. 30.
Hopefully it can pull the organization of the parade and act selection of Yell Like Hell together, and turn Up All Night into a milestone along UB's rocky road.
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