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A Friday
Move to Johnny Unitas
Stadium, later date
change annual TU tradition
File photos by Casey Prather /The Towerlight
Illustration by Shelby Cahill /The Towerlight
LAUREN SLAVIN
Senior Editor
A stadium filled with 10,000 screamingfans welcomes a major-
label artist or band to the stage. After a day of tailgating, games and
events, it's time for a rock concert anticipated foralmosthalfayear.
This isn't a music festival; this could be Tigerfest 2011.
For the first time, Tigerfest, Towson University's end-of-the-
academioyear concert, won’t be held on Burdick Field, but at
Johnny Unitas Stadium. And that’s not Tigerfest’s only change.
This year, the event will occur on a Friday, May 6.
"The weekends in April fall kind of awkwardly for an ... event
that is so large," assistant director of student activities Bridget
Chase said. "The April 23 weekend is Easter and Passover holi¬
days, and so with so many students interested in going home
or celebrating on those weekends, we did not want to conflict
with that at all."
The last weekend in April is the Towsontown Spring Festival,
a large outdoor commimity event the university also didn’t want
to compete with. Pushing Tigerfest to earlier in April could
come with weather risks. Tigerfest was postponed for more than
an hour two years ago due to lightning, and rain fell during last
year’s performance by N*E*R*D.
"We were nervous with it being an outdoor event
that it would just be too cold and rainy or we might
have some kind of rain conflict, and we’re very tired of
having rain conflicts at Tigerfest,” Chase said.
The date and location are all that have been settled in terms
of Tigerfest, according to Campus Activities Board director
Amanda Menke.
CAB has been focused primarily on the Homecoming concert
at the end of the month, but artists available for the outdoor
concert will be available starting mid-November.
"I was one of the people who wanted a change this year, I
wouldn’t have [passed] something I didn’t agree with,” Menke
said. "I think students will be excited. I’m excited, I think it’s
going to be an awesome event.”
Student response to the change has been mixed, with most
of the negative opinions based on the event’s change in day
of the week. The concert would conceivably run from 3-9 p.m.
on Friday, a similar time slot to when the event was held on
Saturday and after many students are finished with classes.
"One of my friends complained that now they can’t celebrate
Tigerfest all day like in the past and let their great day end with
the concert," junior criminal justice major Lilia Farmanara said.
“But on a Friday, a lot of people have classes. I always have had
Friday classes, they don’t bother me. But I’ll tell you, professors
might as well cancel class." See FEST, page 18
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