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Low turnout spells demise for SEB’s Rap Battle

Paul-William deSilva — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:15:46 +0000

By Ingrid Garcia

Staff Writer

On Thursday night, April 8^th, Bartleby and SEB cosponsored a ‘Rap Battle’ in the Commons Sports Zone. Three empty mikes held the stage for about twenty minutes as one of the Commons staff members announced that only one person had signed up to compete.

The winner would get two free WALE tickets. People waited patiently until another person signed up and the ‘rap’ battle finally began, at almost 8:25pm.

Sophomore Chris Coleman, and graduate student O’Smith grabbed the mikes and began to spit lines. Each contestant was granted one minute to freestyle to three different beats, each more creative than the next.

Best crowd pleasing lines: Coleman: “I’ve got more lines than Chinese got rice.” O’Smith: “steady like a boat.”

O’Smith won the WALE tickets. The low turnout came to a surprise since it had been advertised that the winner would receive TWO free tickets to the long-sold out WALE show. Enough people roaming the UMBC campus brag about their rapping skills, some even freestyle around the dormitories, so where were all the rappers on Thursday night?

Maybe next year there will be a larger turnout and make the performance more entertaining, but in the meantime, maybe just come up with a couple of lines or so, and start practicing. You never know when the next ‘battle’ will be.

Wale and Third Eye Blind to perform at Quadmania

Gaby Arevalo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:12:25 +0000

The UMBC Student Events Board has booked Wale and Third Eye Blind for this spring’s Quadmania. Third Eye Blind is known for late 1990s hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It Going To Be.” They will be performing in the RAC on Sunday, April 16. Wale, a local rapper-turned-national phenomenon has garnered recent attention for his hit song “Chillin” and will perform in the UC Ballroom on Wednesday, April 21.

Tickets for the concerts will go on sale Wednesday, March 10 at the Commons information center.

For more information on this and other quadmania events, visit the UMBC Student Events Board website.

Robbery In UC

Gaby Arevalo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:48:35 +0000

On Sunday night between 9 and 10 p.m. on the top floor of the University Center after the SEB-sponsored girl talk concert, an unidentified male stole two purses belonging to SEB members. The purses were in a box under a table in the lobby outside of the UC Ballroom, where the concert took place. The purses were later recovered, but some of the contents were missing, including $100 cash and an iphone. SEB President Sameeha Azeez was one of the victims. She stated: “it is very disappointing that after all of the work that we put into making this event happen, that one of the attendees would stoop so low as to steal our personal belongings. I’m taking this as a personal attack, I don’t understand how someone could do this.”

Because only UMBC students were able to purchase tickets to the girl talk concert, it is believed that the suspect is either a UMBC student, or is affiliated with a UMBC student.

The incident is currently under investigation. Any relevant information should be reported to UMBC police at (410)-455-5555.

Update: UMBC police has released pictures of the suspect.

Courtesy of UMBC Police

Quadmania 2009 performer announced

Gaby Arevalo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:41:51 +0000

SEB has announced the performer for this year’s Quadmania. Girltalk, a DJ specializing in mash-up remixes of popular songs, will be performing in the UC Ballroom on April 26th. Information regarding tickets will be released soon.