Simpson Students Show Their Skill and the Audience Doesn't

West of E Street, the 2011 winners, play the crowd.

On weekends it seems that the Simpson campus is usually barren. The parking lots are empty with students heading home or on other off-campus adventures. The opposite happened this weekend because the popular spectacle that is Simpson’s Got Talent reeled in the masses.

            The talent this year consisted of eight musical acts and one entertaining dance number. Most of the performers sang their hearts out, but their acts ranged from songs from musicals to classic rock to pop and everything in between. One of the two acts that didn’t consist of vocals still rocked the audience. Senior Kevin Rice wowed the crowed with his acting and piano expertise. The other non-singers were Sam Elsner and Braden Everding who did a dance and lip-synch act to Grease that John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John would guffaw at. The performance that got the crowd to their feet was the rocking band of West of E Street. Their rock and roll got the audience jamming along and this is what won them first place.

            Even though students flocked to this event to support their friends and peers, one could say that their overall attitude toward the show left a negative effect. Audience etiquette lesson #1: If you’re feeling antsy before the show starts, do something to prepare yourself for the performance. Walk around. Go to the bathroom. Get a drink of water. Do NOT go to the balcony section just to shake the tree that grows in the BSC and watch the leaves fall on the audience below and laugh at their disgusted reactions. It’s not fun for those who do get “rained” on and even less fun for those who have to clean it up. Lesson #2: I realize that you are at this event to cheer on your friends, but we are all here to cheer on all Simpson students. Therefore don’t talk while someone is performing. It is distracting to the performer and all in all rude. Lesson #3: Drunken behavior is never smiled upon. Drunken public behavior at a school function is worse. It not only makes the person doing the idiotic act look foolish but also shines the school in a bad light. Student Body President Macy Koch tweeted that she saw students “humping, smacking air asses, and taking shots during ‘To God be the Glory.’” This sort of behavior should not be tolerated.

            Though this did happen it is something that we can take away and use to learn from for next year. Then with the combined powers of  talented people and positive attitudes, the future performances of Simpson’s Got Talent will always end with a bang.