Over The Edge

UNBC’s Official Student Newspaper

Volume 7 - Issue 9 January 22, 2001

Tired and Crabby since 1994

Winterfest Follies

Clubs Compete for Cash (and Fun)

By: Andrea Larson

Over the past week clubs
were invited to compete for
fund and profit in the first
annual Winterfest. The
Northern Undergraduate
Student Society (NUGSS)
put on the event in which stu-
dent clubs could compete.
Some of the events featured
during Winterfest included a
team cheer, a modified ver-
sion of Jeopardy and a talent
show. Clubs were given
points based on both their
performance in each event
and the number of club mem-
bers who turned out to partic-
ipate. Prizes of $500, $350
and $150 were awarded
respectively to the teams that
came in first, second and
third. As only three clubs
competed in the event (the
UNBC sorority, Medieval
Culture and Combat Club
and the Political Science
Student Association), all the
clubs that participated ended
up receiving prize money.

After the initial few events the
sorority and medieval club
were within only a few hun-
dred points of each other.
The PSSA was trailed behind
in a distant third after joining
the competition late and
missing several events. The
race for first and second

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THIS WEEK

came down to the perfor-
mance in the talent show.
First up was the Medieval
Culture and Combat Club
who had a two part talent
involving a play and a song.
The play was an abridged
version of Beowulf narrated
by Greg Whyte, with Greg
Garbutt playing Beowulf and
Mike Krysko playing the
hideous monster Grendal.
The improvised lines and wild
fight scenes were met by
unchecked laughter and
gasps of delight. The play
was then followed by a beau-
tiful rendition of Danny Boy,
sung by Nicole Tonn, who has
been singing for many years
and is an accomplished bard.
Next up was the UNBC
Sorority who lip-synced a
hilarious version of “We Are
Family”, a fitting song for the
close knit group. Sarah
Peterson strutted her stuff as
the lead “singer” of the group
in a wildly curly wig and blue
feather boa, while singing into
her microphone/hairbrush.
The audience really got into
this act, but marks were
deducted for undue influence
on the judges as Peterson got
a little up close and personal
with Oliver Ray, NUGSS
President.

Finally a member of the
PSSA came to the stage and

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recited a_ soliloquy from
Shakespeare’s “MacBeth’.
She was a last minute
replacement for the act that

such limited
time con-
straints.

given
originality,
crowd partic-
ipation, plac-
ing in the
event and stage presence
among other things. It was
remarked that “Nicole’s per-
formance gave the Medieval
Club bonus points” while the
sorority “was a fun perfor-
mance with no “butts” about
it’. The participating member
from the PSSA was given
points just for having the
courage to get up on stage as

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Winterfest.

a’ last minute replacement.
The final score for the sorori-
ty was just over 10,000 points
while the Medieval Club

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edged ahead of them in this

competition with 12,000
points.

The final score put the
Medieval Culture and

Combat Club in first place
and were awarded $500,
while the Sorority won $350
and the PSSA came away
with $150. The only down-
side to this fun and original

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event was that so few clubs
came out to participate. The
University of Northern British
Columbia has over eighty

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Northern Undergraduate Student Society President, Oliver Ray, presents the
Medieval Culture and Combat Club a cheque for $500 for their performance in

clubs, and it was a disap-
pointment that only three
came out to compete.

More Pictures From

Winterfest on page 7.

For a Winterfest thank you,
see page 3.

Student
Organizations

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