University Union

Comedian Eliot Chang

Need some laughter in your life?

University Union presents comedian Eliot Chang

November 4th @ 8pm in Tate Theater

*Free for UGA students (w/ UGA card)/ $5 for non-students

Comedian Eliot Chang is on Comedy Central’s Hotlist 2009 as
one of the best new voices in comedy. TV appearances include
Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, E!’s Chelsea Lately, and NBC’s
Last Call w/Carson Daly. His comedy is honest, unapologetic,
and not based on predictable Asian stereotypes. TALK IS CHEAP.
WATCH THE CLIPS.

Eliot’s sharp biting opinions combined with his trademark
polished wardrobe (which has branded him as “the best dressed
Asian in comedy”) has made his live stage appearances one of
the most anticipated memorable acts in Hollywood.
Every year he tours America for 8 months and has performed at
over 400 colleges.  Whether the show is requested to be RATED
R or PG it is guaranteed to be a night that students will be
talking about for years.
*This was taken from the website www.EliotChang.com

Augustana- IMMEDIATE HIT!

Augustana
Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt

Beginning before they were even “old enough to drink,” as frontman/songwriter Dan Layus puts it, the band Augustana has grown up tremendously over the past three years, touring relentlessly while supporting Epic debut All the Stars and Boulevards (which reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart) and hit single “Boston.” Inking a producer before they’d been seriously tested before an audience, and finding themselves in the recording studio tracking a major-label debut before the masses knew who they were, the band had to grow into the ambitious blueprint they’d set out for themselves, and grow they did.

The results of the time in the trenches are found on Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt, the band’s assured follow-up.

While the record is about the experience of becoming more seasoned as a band; Layus’ songwriting grew up as well, informed by becoming a husband and father, dealing with life’s attendant challenges. “It really affected us in a positive way,” observes the pianist and native Californian, who formed the band in Illinois with pal Jared Palomar (bass) before finding the missing pieces in L.A.— Justin South (drums) and John Vincent Fredricks (keyboards/vocals), the latter of whom Layus had known for years. Chris Sachtleben (guitar), a childhood friend of Palomar’s, moved from Nashville to join up.

The increased responsibility also had Layus getting more serious about his chosen profession. “I took voice lessons, we changed management and I did anything I could to get better and learn—and I’m still doing that,” he says. “I also worked a lot harder on my songwriting, and spent enough time to get it absolutely right.”

While most bands spend all their lives writing a debut record—then six months on a follow-up, Augustana actually did it backwards; arriving at the label with what everyone agreed was a solid single and a few other songs, but not much else. “We had six months to write our first record,” Layus recalls. “But then all of a sudden we were on the road for three years, with really nothing to do but write and demo. I was constantly writing songs and weeding stuff out.”

As a result, Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt is 10 studiously-chosen cuts of modern, melodic, piano-driven rock, informed by Layus’s love of classic pop/rock songwriters—from The Beatles to Tom Petty—and covering deeper subject matter than the band’s debut. “Still Ain’t Over You” is a love song in the context of a committed relationship, while “Dust,” with its a capella introduction, is the sound of Layus attempting to make peace with his religious upbringing. “Meet You There Someday” was inspired by Layus’s young daughter and his frequent need to leave her behind in order to tour.

Augustana hit the road even before All the Stars and Boulevards was released, crisscrossing clubs with the Stereophonics before graduating to much larger venues. By the time the band was logging well-received stints opening for Snow Patrol, Dashboard Confessional and Counting Crows, “Boston” was in rotation on radio, the video was getting plays under VH1’s “You Oughta Know” banner, and the band knew it was onto something.

“I didn’t realize that this wasn’t always the way it happens, to come out with your first record and get a single on pop radio,” Layus recalls, laughing. “It was hard to get any real perspective on how incredibly lucky we were to be in that position.”

With “Boston” well on its way to being certified digital platinum by the RIAA, the band made appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen Degeneres Show and The Today Show among countless others.

The band chose producer Mike Flynn to usher Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt into the world. “I think he did an incredible job in terms of getting me outside my box and really exploring the potential of the songs,” Layus recalls. “Some of these songs I had been singing the same way at shows for over a year. Then comes this producer who says, ‘I think you should try it like this.’ I could feel it, physically, when I’d go home every night, like an uncomfortable stretching sensation. But I can’t look back and see that the songs would be even close to what they are right now if I hadn’t done the stuff that Mike and I had worked on.”

The result is an intensely emotional album, borne of the band’s growth, cohesion as a unit, and Layus’ newfound fatherhood. And thanks to Flynn’s spot-on production, the results are delivered winningly.

“I’m so happy I actually got to say things the way I wanted to say them and how I wanted to say them,” Layus says. “We all feel really confident about it.”

CITATION

This resource was taken from http://www.augustanamusic.com/biography.

Homecoming T-shirts are on sale!!!

Above is the design for the 2009 Homecoming t-shirt. They are on sale now in Tate 102, the Student Activities Office! They are $10 and will be on sale through November 7th or until we run out.

Abortion Debate between Michael Waldman and Judge Napolitano

Come see Judge Andrew Napolitano go head to head with Michael Waldman about the legal, ethical, and social issues associated with the topic of abortion. See the biographies of each speaker below.

• Date: Thursday, October 15th
• Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
• Location: Tate Grand Hall

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Former White House Chief Speechwriter Michael Waldman spent seven years shaping the way the world views presidential policy, Washington, D.C., and the nation. A nationally prominent public interest lawyer, government official, teacher and writer, Waldman is also the Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

Mr. Waldman was Director of Speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995-1999, serving as Assistant to the President. He was responsible for writing or editing nearly 2,000 speeches, including four State of the Union speeches and two Inaugural Addresses. Previously, he was Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination (1993-1995). Mr. Waldman was the top administration policy aide working on campaign finance reform, one of the Center’s signature issues, and drafted the administration’s public financing proposal.

One of the few senior aides who remained with President Clinton throughout both terms, Waldman experienced the workings of power from the inside, from the “War Room” in Little Rock to the war in Kosovo.

Waldman is the author of several books, including My Fellow Americans: The Most Important Speeches of American Presidents (Sourcebooks, 2003); POTUS Speaks: Finding the Words that Defined the Clinton Presidency (Simon & Schuster, 2000); and Who Robbed America? A Citizens’ Guide to the Savings and Loan Scandal (Random House, 1990).

Prior to his government service, Waldman was the director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, then the capital’s largest consumer lobbying office. After leaving the White House, he was a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2001-2003), teaching courses on political reform, public leadership and communications. Most recently he has been a litigator in private practice in New York. Waldman appears frequently on television and radio to discuss public policy, the presidency and the law.

Waldman is a graduate of Columbia College (B.A., 1982) and New York University School of Law (J.D., 1987), where he was a member of the Law Review.

A popular political commentator who has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline and MSNBC’s Hardball, Waldman speaks out in his own voice and brings his one-of-a-kind perspective to the lecture podium. His behind-the-scenes perspective and personal experiences shaping the presidential message paint a clear picture of life within the White House. Waldman tells the gripping untold stories of working during President Clinton’s media-frenzied two terms. In addition, he looks outside the Beltway to offer invaluable lessons for American corporations and organizations on how to project stability and maintain a committed vision during times of crisis or uncertainty.
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While on the bench from 1987 to 1995, Judge Napolitano tried more than 150 jury trials and sat in all parts of the Superior Court —criminal, civil, equity and family. He has handled thousands of sentencings, motions, hearings and divorces. For 11 years, he served as an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School, where he provided instruction in constitutional law and jurisprudence. Judge Napolitano returned to private law practice in 1995 and began television broadcasting in the same year.

Judge Napolitano joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in January 1998 and currently serves as the senior judicial analyst. He provides legal analysis on both FNC and FOX Business Network (FBN). He is also a fill in co-host for FOX & Friends and regularly co-hosts FOX News Radio’s Brian and The Judge show daily. He hosts “FreedomWatch” on Foxnews.com Wednesdays at 2 p.m., Eastern time.

Judge Napolitano has written four Books: Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws; a New York Times Best-Seller, The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land; A Nation of Sheep, and Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom In America. His work has also been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The New York Sun, The Baltimore Sun, The (New London) Day, The Seton Hall Law Review, The New Jersey Law Journal and The Newark Star-Ledger. He lectures nationally on the Constitution, the rule of law and human freedom.

Judge Napolitano received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1972, and received his Juris Doctor from University of Notre Dame in 1975.

At the podium, Judge Napolitano tenaciously defends the natural law freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Famous for his candid remarks, signature wit and personal anecdotes, Judge Napolitano is the American media’s most outspoken analyst of the legal system, most fervent critic of government intervention into personal lives and commercial transactions, and most passionate defender of the Constitution. With great conviction and brutal honesty, Judge Napolitano reminds audiences what America is all about: the purpose of government is to protect our freedoms; you cannot make a poor person rich by making a rich person poor; and that the engine of our prosperity has been rugged individualism, not government intervention.

The Dan Band

The Dan Band perfomed on Legion Field on August 16th and below is the interview I had with front man, Dan Finnerty. University Union has a beach ball with questions written all over it, and Dan had to flip the ball 3 times and answer each question. The results are below.

Question: What’s the worst place you’ve been stuck waiting?

Dan: Well, I almost said Athens in a tent waiting to do my show because it’s pouring rain out. I think the worst place I’ve been stuck waiting is Quizno’s. I love Quizno’s. They ran out of bread and I was freaking out.

Me: That sucks.

Dan: That’s horrible when you run out of bread.

Me: Because it’s a sandwich shop.

Dan: Yeah. Where’s the joy in that?

Dan: Now what do I do?

Me: You flip it two more times.

Question: If you could hang a motto in any home what would it say?

Dan: Go to thedanband.com and purchase our cd. That’s what I would say.

Me: Ok. Cool.

Dan: Is that the right answer.

Me: It’s whatever you want.

Dan: Great.

Question: I’m always looking for…

Dan: The truth is I’m always looking for a Starbucks. I used to have a frappuccino a day then I quit. It’s been exactly 372 days since I stopped. It’s hard, you guys. It’s bad don’t start.

Me: So how many years did you have a frappuccino a day?

Dan: I think it was like 10…10 years. Don’t do it.

Laura: Wow. That’s a frappuccino addiction.

Dan: It seems cool when you start, but then everyday you want to quit but you can’t.

Me: Well thank you for answering our questions.