Cavorts needs new talent; new standards

Letter To The Editor

Letter To The Editor

Enough Already!

I attended the annual Cavorts on Friday night. After glancing at the program, I realized that Clint Weckwerth, the Cavorts winner for the last two years, was ONCE AGAIN playing “The Piano Man.” Clint walked on stage and then before he proceeded to play, said something like, “This is the reason that people came tonight.” This comment frustrated me. Cavorts is supposed to be a talent show, not a concert where it is tradition to play the same song. I am shocked that he would want to play the same song again. However, what shocked me even more was the fact that he claimed the first-place prize of $200. I couldn’t believe, along with some of the other students around me, that he won. Surely, I thought that the judges would not let him win for the third year in a row playing the SAME talent. Even despite the fact that “The Piano Man”: is a great song, it wasn’t as good as let’s say, Micah Wetzel’s original song. In concluding, I would like to suggest to the Cavort’s Committee for next year: do not allow people to do the same talent as they did in previous years. During auditions, that should be a major criterian. It is supposed to be a TALENT SHOW, not a show where people that are good at playing one song can continue to win when there are other people with clearly more definite talent.

Laura BakkerSeniorFamily and Consumer Sciences major