tl20081120-01 "Now on TheTowerlight.com: View Video Word on the Street and let your voice me heard about this year�s Tigerfest... Nov. 20, 2008 Thursday www.thetowerlight.com FREE The Towerlight Published by Baltimore Student Media for the Towson University Community Tigerfest: Who will headline? you choose CAB, campus begin process toward spring festival lineup Dashboard debacle demonstrates need for students to let distaste be known See FEST, page 16 Pete Lorenz Sports Editor With Tigerfest on the horizon and the Campus Activities Board desperately trying to make it right, we as students have once again been given the opportunity to vote for the headline artist at the annual concert. We have the responsibility to tell the administration who we want to see. Last year it worked out; many students enjoyed The Roots. However, the 2006 fiasco was not so kind to students. Dashboard Confessional may have been deemed the most popular band by the votes, but campus reaction to the news that the wholly depressing four-piece group was playing Tigerfest was unfavorable to say the least. Why? If the students said they wanted Dashboard, why did they get upset when the band was signed? It�s because there were at least as many students who absolutely loathed Dashboard as those who loved them. The online poll asks you to name which artist you would most like to see perform, but it has no regard for which �artist� you would least like to see perform. So how do we solve that problem? Who could possibly figure out which bands are hated on such a massive scale that they should not be brought onto University property? I could. Why? I am just a regular student, like you, who is going to attend Tigerfest for the sake of enjoying myself. As the sports editor I will not have to cover the event, so I would definitely like to see a band that I do not despise. Like many of you, I am not familiar with every single band on the ballot CAB has put together. I don�t know exactly which band did which songs. But I know enough. I know that I really, really hate Fall Out Boy. They sound whiny and clich� to me, and when I hear two of their songs in suc-cession, they sound the same to my ears. I can�t express that on CAB�s ballot. All I can do is vote for a different band. All the Fall Out Boy haters will be spread out among the other bands, while the Fall Out Boy lovers concentrate their votes on getting �Sugar We�re Going Down� to Burdick Field or Johnny Unitas Stadium if the event is moved there. Not to say that Fall Out Boy definitely shouldn�t come. I might be the only person who Carrie Wood Arts Editor The Campus Activities Board brought the pain � T-Pain, anyway � to this year�s Homecoming concert. Now, they�re giving students a chance to choose who they want to see at Tigerfest in the spring. Among the bands and artists listed in the online survey are the Foo Fighters, Daughtry, Counting Crows, Lenny Kravitz, All American Rejects, Fall Out Boy, Pink, Weezer and Taylor Swift. CAB has been running the online poll to see who students want to see for the last few years. The survey will have a �huge impact� on which bands are selected, according to CAB president Tiffany Sutherland. �We go and pick our top five from the per-centages and we start with number one and work down until we get someone to come to Tigerfest,� Sutherland said. The poll format dif-fers from last year�s� instead of having stu-dents pick their first and second choice they will be choosing a headliner and an opening act. Openers include Jason Mraz, Rooney, Paramore, Boys Like Girls and Metro Station. �Last year we had the same list twice, so you could pick your first and then your second choice. It got super confusing to choose who you want to see,� Sutherland said. �So we did a main act and then someone who you�d like to see opening, so if we end up with lots of people from the opening list that have high percentages we�ll know to maybe get two open-ers instead of an opener and a headliner. �It�s just to make our job a little easier, to see how people would like it split up, if they want one really big one or two kind-of-big ones,� Sutherland added. Another big question on this year�s Tigerfest poll is whether or not to move the event from its traditional COMMENTARY Students given opportunity to help pick from array of popular, opening acts Who do you absolutely not want to see in spring? Headliner candidates clockwise from top right Lenny Kravitz All American Rejects Foo Fighters Daughtry Pink Taylor Swift Counting Crows Fall Out Boy Weezer See HATE, page 16 "