$20,000 haphazardly spent
Tom Tiellman
Issue date: 4/24/09 Section: Opinion
My name is Tom Tielleman, and you need to get involved. (I stole that intro from Brendan McNamara's article). But seriously, you need to get involved. Involved with what you may ask? Oh I'll feed you baby birdies; I wouldn't leave you with a cliff hanger. It's not my style.
What I'm talking about is the Welcome Back Concert Committee. I have learned a lot this year about the politics behind the Welcome Back Concert. For instance, I always wondered why we never had a rapper. However, this was answered by the Concert Committee's survey: "Would you like Hip Hop (i.e. Lil' Mama) or Alternative (i.e. Fallout Boy)?" Now, if you can't tell from my picture, I am a total gangsta. However, even I, with all the "swagger" and "pimptitude" that I possess couldn't bring myself to check off that Hip Hop box with Lil' Mama staring right back at me. In the end, Alternative won. Now we just had to decide what band to invite.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 seemed like your average day. It was sunny, Trinity cats were roaming about, and Coates was serving tortilla soup. However, just one floor above this multi-colored tortilla-soup bowel cleanser, an important meeting was occurring. That meeting was the planning session for next year's Welcome Back Concert.
It was an amazing turn out. Out of the 2,700 students at Trinity, a whopping 10 attended. For future reference, if you get
10 friends together, you can pretty much decide on how to spend $20,000 of Trinity's money. Next year, I'm going to get 10 friends together and we are going to push to get me to be the main performer. My concert will consist of Cranking Dat Soulja Boy 5-10 times followed by a brief intermission and a grand finale of solving complicated math problems (I am Asian, in case you didn't get that last joke). P.S. Trinity, I want my payment in cash - NO TIGERBUCKS. I don't need to print 222,000 pages out at the library.
Anyways, this year, a friend and I attended the Concert Committee meeting in order to fight for a band that I had actually heard of - Sum 41. Now, whether you agree with the band that I wanted is not the point (it just shows whether you were cool or not in middle school).
What I'm talking about is the Welcome Back Concert Committee. I have learned a lot this year about the politics behind the Welcome Back Concert. For instance, I always wondered why we never had a rapper. However, this was answered by the Concert Committee's survey: "Would you like Hip Hop (i.e. Lil' Mama) or Alternative (i.e. Fallout Boy)?" Now, if you can't tell from my picture, I am a total gangsta. However, even I, with all the "swagger" and "pimptitude" that I possess couldn't bring myself to check off that Hip Hop box with Lil' Mama staring right back at me. In the end, Alternative won. Now we just had to decide what band to invite.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 seemed like your average day. It was sunny, Trinity cats were roaming about, and Coates was serving tortilla soup. However, just one floor above this multi-colored tortilla-soup bowel cleanser, an important meeting was occurring. That meeting was the planning session for next year's Welcome Back Concert.
It was an amazing turn out. Out of the 2,700 students at Trinity, a whopping 10 attended. For future reference, if you get
10 friends together, you can pretty much decide on how to spend $20,000 of Trinity's money. Next year, I'm going to get 10 friends together and we are going to push to get me to be the main performer. My concert will consist of Cranking Dat Soulja Boy 5-10 times followed by a brief intermission and a grand finale of solving complicated math problems (I am Asian, in case you didn't get that last joke). P.S. Trinity, I want my payment in cash - NO TIGERBUCKS. I don't need to print 222,000 pages out at the library.
Anyways, this year, a friend and I attended the Concert Committee meeting in order to fight for a band that I had actually heard of - Sum 41. Now, whether you agree with the band that I wanted is not the point (it just shows whether you were cool or not in middle school).
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San Antonio Movers
posted 5/28/09 @ 2:18 PM CST
Amusing article, but you're right, people need to get involved. It's not a big time commitment to come to this meeting and it can really make a big difference if maybe 50 people came instead of just 10. (Continued…)
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