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Campus Quality:
My school's campus is full of life. From walking on the quad on a sunny day to walking back to your dorm, you will always find people surrounding you. Since it is such a big school, the presence of others makes me feel secure. The facilities are beautiful. The gyms look brand new and they are taken excellent care of. There is not a day where there is nothing to do because we have art museums, theatres, etc. My school is fabulous and I made an excellent decision to attend such a prestigious school.
Health & Safety:
The McKinley health clinic has very convenient hours and nurses there. You can get a certain amount of free cold packs which is a pack of medicine for a simple cold. You can schedule appointments and they usually get back to you quickly. The clinic is also large so there is no overcrowding or uncomfortness.
Public transportation is super convenient. Transportation fees are included in the tuition. When a bus comes, you simply get on without having to show your school i.d. which is also convenient. You can also text bus stops to see the next times your bus will come.
Transportation at U of I is pretty good. The buses are usually on time or close to on time except during winter and rush hour times around 9am and 5pm. The bus fee is included with the school's fees in that your I-card is also your bus card and there are no fees you have to pay for the bus when you ride it. Just show the card. There are many bike routes on campus as well. I recommend getting a bike to get to class, as some classes are about a 15 minute walk away from eachother.
The process of getting into the Psychology program was relatively simple. Once I met the GPA requirement, I could simply declare the major. However, the GPA requirement is a 2.75 for current students at U of I, and it is not directly on the B or B- mark, so I had to make sure my average GPA reflected this criteria. I first entered the University of Illinois through the Division of General Studies, which has made it easier to transfer into another program here. When applying as a Senior in High School my GPA with honors was a 2.9, and I had an ACT of 21, which is below average for this University. However, my essay and extracurricular activities played a larger role in my acceptance.
There are many internship oppurtunities at U of I. There are many career fairs that you can attend, and there is a great career center that can help you build interview and career skills, as well as critique your resume and give you resources to find internships. I plan on having an internship during my Junior and/or Senior year to help prepare me for the job force, and get hands on experience. Some majors/colleges even include internships in their graduation criteria.
Since the University of Illinois is a research university, there are so many opportunities to get in the lab. I am considering an internship this summer in a study. Although the University is very large, the class sizes vary, and I was able to choose a smaller lecture/discussion class this semester. I am currently in the Division of General Studies, and I will declare Psychology in the Fall. The advisers here also have helped during both the registration and add/drop seasons, and they directed me to the general education classes that I would benefit from while keeping me on track for graduation.
Health & Safety:
I feel relatively safe on campus especially during the day. There are text and email crime alerts for crimes on and near campus. Also safe rides and walks are provided during the school year at night. I wish these services were offered during the summer time as well.
Campus Food:
Same repetitive foods - gets boring, but it satisfies my hunger.
Campus Quality:
Student life is awesome on campus. There's always something to do.
Campus Quality:
The social scene, such as the night life, is very alive and colorful at UIUC. Everybody goes out to bars and parties, drinks, and gets into shenanigans. There are also plenty of non-drinking events; something for everyone.
Campus Housing:
There have been times when googling "Worst Dorms in the nation" brought up some of UIUC's dorms. Needless to say, all but one of the dorms are old, run down, cramped, and horrible. They're being renovated, but still do not make up for the poor quality. You pay top dollar for terrible quality.
Campus Quality:
It's okay, at UIUC, you are only able to get the most out of your money if you actively try to attend or use everything that is offered.
Greek Life:
Very diverse and many to choose from. There are greek organizations that stray from the stereotypical behavior as well, so students can find the perfect one that fits their needs.
Drug Safety:
It isn't a really big 'tough drug' scene, just alcohol and marijuana mainly. I'm sure there are a few people (there are 40,000 students) doing harder things, but I wouldn't worry about being caught into that scene on accident
Computer labs are pretty typical in each building, including printer services. Most students have their own laptops, but you could get away with not doing so. The wifi on campus is pretty great, seems you're never out of coverage.
Campus Housing:
I was a freshman in Aug 2010, and the six pack dorms were pretty horrible. However, I then moved to the newest dorm (at the time), Nugent, which had just finished construction. It was REALLY REALLY great. I hear the new dorms (the other half of Nugent and the one south of Hopkins) are looking good, too.
Campus Quality:
You will never be in need of a library again there are so many. It really is amazing how many libraries there are on campus. I'm continuously finding new ones. The Quad is beautiful when it's nice outside and everyone is happy and chilling on the grass. We have two major gyms, ARC and CRCE. I like CRCE because it is literally 10 yards from the entrance to my dorm. They both have really great equipment and a lot of cool programs to sign up for like Zumba or yoga.
Engineering and Business seem to be the top majors for U of I, as we are renowned for these Colleges. Registration involves meeting with your adviser once a semester and "planning" what your next semester will be like. However, you must keep in mind that some classes aren't offered every semester and that might screw up your plans. So, have back-up classes. Also, it helps to have AP credit from high school, because it makes you seem like a higher class (I came in my freshman year as a junior and got to be one of the first ones to register).
Campus Quality:
Our campus life is hoppin. Everyone thinks U of I is merely a party school, but there is much more to our school than that. Yes, you can party (and many of us are very happy for that) but there are also some really chill, really cool events that seem to happen across campus all the time. Like, free swing dancing lessons or free food opportunities everywhere.
I'm in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as a Molecular Biology major. LAS doesn't get as much funding as engineering or ACES, but even then it's a great College. The professors I've had thus far have been very helpful and knowledgeable about their subjects. My workload isn't awful, but it's challenging enough and I know it will get a bit worse in the future. There are a lot of research and job opportunities around, seeing that it's such a huge campus.
Greek Life:
Greek Life lets you connect with people and make friendships from different fraternities and sororities. There are many people from different cultures that can also help an individual become aware of cultures other than their own. It is fun because of all the events that one can participate in, but it also benefits because of the amount of volunteering a person can do, as well as the networking Greek life can do for you if your chapter is active world-wide.
The fan support is better than the sports teams these past couple of years! Between Block I and Orange Crush, students are crazy over our Fighting Illini! Illinois has a lot of school spirit! I sensed it when I first stepped on campus.The facilities are great too.
Party Scene:
There are many bars on campus. There are some that are noted for being the bar you end your night with. Since there are 40,000 people that attend this school, the bars can get really crowded, but they are mostly fun! Different group of people every time.
Greek Life:
UIUC has one of the largest Greek systems on campus. Greek Life is everywhere, and sometimes, many people who are in sororities and fraternities tend to fit the stereotype, but many are also good too.
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One might expect some tentative and even negative opinions about any school, but this is truly not the case here at U of I. Students are proud of U of I's history, proud of is academic accomplishments, proud of the social opportunities it offers, and, most of all, they are proud to be alumni. For so many students to view their choice to come here as an unequivocally good one is a fantastic testament to the University's strength.
Of course students here have plenty to complain about—the weather, the parking, the Greek social scene, the rural location. But all things considered, the positive points of the U of I experience tipped the scale—the University's academic excellency, the safety, the social atmosphere, the athletic tradition, the city's excellent transportation system. Some students admitted that they had a hard time adjusting, that they occasionally wished they had made another decision—but in the end, they were all happy to be here. The most encouraging fact was that so many people mentioned that they were leaving as better people, more knowledgeable, eclectic, and better equipped to navigate through life. University of Illinois students do not just leave with a piece of paper in their hands, they leave with a wealth of experience that is not easily rivaled—and, for in-staters, without enormous debt burdens to face when they graduate.
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NOFX will turn 30 next year, but its antics remain eternally, hearteningly juvenile.
Indeed, the California punk quartet seems to have regressed a bit — in the best way possible — on its forthcoming 12th album, Self Entitled, due in stores on Tuesday. The band's customary mix of doofus humour and sneering social commentary hasn't sounded this raw and raging in years.
That bodes well for Sept. 9, then, when NOFX joins the Descendents, F---ed Up, Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music, Andrew W.K. and others for the inaugural Toronto date of the Chicago-born punk-a-palooza Riot Fest at Fort York. The band's looming visit to town was a perfect excuse to ring up always entertaining bassist/bandleader/Fat Wreck Chords impresario Fat Mike (né Burkett) for a quick chat.
Q: The new record is a pretty authentic punk-rock record. Way to keep it real.
A: I'm just inspired by old L.A. punk so I kinda went back to our basics and didn't spend a lot of time writing it. I wanted to make it not overthought. It was the fastest record we've done in maybe 20 years. It was recorded and mixed in three weeks.
Q: It sounds like you were enjoying yourselves.
A: It was a really fun record to make. We were having barbecues almost every day and toward the end of the record, I started getting real drunk, too, so I think it shows in my voice. My voice sounds more like a touring voice, not a studio voice. It's kind of gravelly. It's in pitch, but kinda blown-out.
Q: After nearly 30 years in the game, you guys have a really devoted fan base and no one to answer to but yourselves. Do you kinda feel like you're living the dream?
A: Oh, totally. When we chose to go independent in the mid-'90s and not deal with any radio stations or major labels, it just made our life so much easier. You make the correct decisions when you're not worried about doing something for money. And I think records are better when you're not trying to write some radio hit. You just write songs that are cool. People are always asking me how we do it, but there's no blueprint for it. I don't even know what to tell bands anymore. Go indie or go major? It all sucks. The music business sucks now. I say do it if you like drinking a lot and doing drugs and having a good time.
Q: Do you feel like you've never had to grow up?
A: We totally haven't grown up. We still do all the same sh--. I'm worse. I've partied more on tour for the past five years than the first 25 years. I have a great time on tour. And also, I didn't do drugs until my 30s. I took care of business. I was the responsible band member. Then when things kinda went on autopilot, I was, like: "All right, it's time to have fun."
Q: You should be a life coach.
A: People say "What kind of role model are you to your 8-year-old daughter?" I think I'm pretty good. I'm just gonna tell her: "Don't do drugs until you're out of college and you've made your fortune. Then it's time to start experimenting. Don't f--- around when you're a kid."
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Florentine Studio Artists offer romantic arias for your valentine
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The Florentine Studio Artists will sing a program of romantic Italian arias and Italian-American popular songs Feb. 14-16 at the Marcus Center.
Soprano Julie Tabash, mezzo-soprano Erin Gonzalez, tenor Aaron Short and baritone Pablo Siqueiros — this season's Florentine Studio Artists (above) — will sing a Valentine-friendly program christened "Festa Fiorentina," a concert of romantic Italian arias and Italian-American songs. Florentine general director William Florescu is your cruise director for this musical love boat. »Read Full Article


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Monday-Friday, July 20-24, 2015 at 7:30 PM in Shea Center Auditorium
Admission: $10.00 per evening concert or $40 for a weeklong pass.
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Monday-Friday, July 20-24, 2015 at 7:30 PM in Shea Center Auditorium
Admission: $10.00 per evening concert or $40 for a weeklong pass.
(Weeklong pass is only available until Thursday, 7/18/15)
Opening night of the Summer Jazz Room features the Summer Jazz Workshop faculty, with Tim Newman on trombone, James Weidman on piano, Steve LaSpina on bass, and a special surprise guest on drums. Joining the group for this performance is a new Workshop faculty member—Cecil Bridgewater. Bridgewater, a veteran trumpeter, composer, arranger and teacher, has been on the adjunct faculty of the WP jazz studies program since 2005. He has toured and recorded with Max Roach, Horace Silver, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, and has played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, Lena Horne, and Art Blakey. His music has been played by Lena Horne, Vanessa Rubin, the Uptown String Quartet, the Count Basie Orchestra, and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
Cecil Bridgewater
New Jersey native Warren Vaché's swinging
cornet moves from the familiar to the
unpredictable within the turn of a phrase.
Through a synthesis of influences across the
spectrum of jazz history, Vaché has established
an emotive style that resists classification. In the
1970s he was in the Benny Goodman Band, played
in the house band at Condon's in New York City,
and recorded and toured worldwide with players
affiliated with the Concord record label. Vaché has
many recordings as a leader, most recently Warren
Vaché: Ballads and Other Cautionary Tales on Arbors
Warren Vaché
Dena DeRose's music is innovative, direct, and
swinging. Like the iconic singer-pianists Nat King
Cole and Shirley Horn, DeRose is recognized
among the best artists in both areas, with acclaim
from DownBeat and other major jazz publications. In
2010, she participated in Marian McPartland's live
30th Anniversary Piano Jazz radio program, playing
alongside piano legends Cedar Walton, Kenny
Barron, and Mulgrew Miller. An educator as well,
DeRose is professor of jazz voice at the University
of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. Her
latest release, We Won't Forget You…An Homage To
Shirley Horn on HighNote Records, features bassist
Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson. She is
joined on this performance by the Summer Jazz
Orchestra directed by Stephen Marcone.
Dena DeRose
A longtime member of the William Paterson
University jazz community, bassist and
composer Steve LaSpina appears with his
quartet, comprised of some of the New York's
most creative musicians. LaSpina is a skillful
instrumentalist, known for his big sound,
irrepressible swing, and exciting solo work.
An in-demand sideman, he has worked with
Jim Hall, Stan Getz, Benny Carter, Marian
McPartland, Jerry Bergonzi, and Fred Hirsch, to
name a few. He has released more than a dozen
CDs as a leader. Appearing with him on this
concert will be Billy Drews on saxes, Matthew
Fries on piano, and WP alumnus Jon DiFiore on
Steve LaSpina
The Heath Brothers
Quintet returns
to the Jazz Room,
this time featuring
Tony Purrone on
guitar. From 1978
until 1982, Purrone
toured and recorded
as a regular member
of the original
Heath Brothers
Band. He then
went on to a wide-ranging career playing with a
veritable "who's who" of jazz, making important
recordings with the Heaths, Lenny White,
Grover Washington, and Ed Thigpen, among
others. Purrone joins co-leader Jimmy Heath,
2015 Summer Workshop Artist-in-Residence and
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
Heath has performed with just about every
leading jazz musician from the 1950s onward,
and his compositions and arrangements have
been in the regular repertoire of Clark Terry,
James Moody, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Dexter
Gordon, and numerous others. Co-leader Albert
"Tootie" Heath
will appear on
drums, along
with regular
members Jeb
Patton on piano
and David
Wong on bass.
Jimmy Heath
Albert Heath
Tony Purrone
Sundays at 4:00 pm in Shea Center Auditorium (unless otherwise noted)
Admission: Public $15 • William Paterson Community and Seniors $12 • Non-William Paterson students $8 • William Paterson students free with ID. (unless otherwise noted)
$3 fee added on tickets purchased on show day
Each Jazz Room concert is preceded by a "Sittin' In" meet-the-artist session one hour prior to performance. Free to all ticket holders. Audience members have a chance to meet and interact with that day's artist in a question-answer format. (unless otherwise noted)
This opening Jazz Room event promises to be memorable, featuring the much talked-about Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello as he recalls the spirit and clarity of Oscar Peterson and Dave McKenna, displaying some truly world-class stride piano chops. He will be joined on this concert by the swinging tenor saxist Harry Allen, a fixture on the New Jersey swing scene and increasingly heard at international jazz festivals and cruises.
Rossano Sportiello
Harry Allen
Vocalist Maucha Adnet has become known as one of the world's leading purveyors of Brazilian song, through her appearances with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, and on trumpeter Randy Brecker's award-winning CD Into the Sun. She is joined by the renowned Grammy-winning Brazilian drummer Duduka DaFonseca, who is a veteran of performances with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gerry Mulligan, John Scofield, Wayne Shorter, Tom Harrell, and is a member of Rufus Reid's Trio.
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Duduka DaFonseca
Vince Giordano's lifelong passion for early swing has led him to become one of the most world's most authentic, high-energy voices of this style. Giordano's eleven-piece band, the Nighthawks, is a gathering of stellar soloists who have spent years honing their tight ensemble to perfection. The band has appeared in such movies as The Cotton Club, the Howard Hughes-based The Aviator, and won a Grammy for their work in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. In the last six months, WP alumnus Paul Wells has joined as the band's featured drummer, adding his voice to an already powerfully swinging band.
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
Although many will recognize Dodgion's membership in the original Thad Jones Mel Lewis sax section in 1966, he has also had a number of other historic roles, including his 1962 Soviet Union tour with Benny Goodman's band, his longterm accompaniment of Billie Holliday as a member of the Vernon Alley quintet, and his featured role on one of Frank Sinatra's few small-group recordings. This concert will showcase Dodgion's saxophone and his compositions, including his widely played composition "Thank You" and his arrangement of Marian McPartland's "Ambience."
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This live CD recording session will feature the iconic bass of Richard Davis, heard on such landmark recordings as Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunchand others with Kenny Dorham, James Moody, Booker Ervin, and Pat Martino – and as the original bassist of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra in their 1966 debut. He will be joined by composer/violinist Aksa Kaneko, internationally known and in demand as a new-music pioneer; and pianist and WP jazz alumnus Angelica Sanchez who has performed with Joe Lovano, Dave Ballou, Tim Berne and Mark Dresser.
Richard Davis
Aska Kaneko
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A product of Detroit's musical environment, saxophonist Charles McPherson is deservedly known as one of the great speakers of the bebop language. A veteran of performances with Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Phil Woods, and guest appearances on recordings with Charles Mingus, Barry Harris, Art Farmer, Kenny Drew and most recently with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis, McPherson was the featured saxophonist in the Clint Eastwood film Bird. His iconic saxophone voice will provide and exciting finale to this fall's Jazz Room Series.
Charles McPherson
Unique among college and university programs, the William Paterson University Jazz Studies program is one of the few in the nation with an emphasis on small-group playing, improvisation, and a genuine commitment to the jazz tradition. Founded by music faculty member Martin Krivin and joined by trumpeter/arranger Thad Jones in 1973, the program was led by bassist Rufus Reid for twenty years, and by the late jazz pianist James Williams until 2004. The influential jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller was appointed director in 2005, and the program is co-led and coordinated by David Demsey. The artist/teacher faculty is made up of world-class New York area professionals.
William Paterson University is home to the Living Jazz Archive, which includes the personal music archive of legendary trumpeter and educator Clark Terry, as well as the archives of Thad Jones and James Williams. The Living Jazz Archive provides students, researchers, and visitors with the opportunity to explore original jazz manuscripts and other materials that are an important part of jazz history.
The program is a true jazz environment in which students learn firsthand about the jazz world and the requirements for becoming a successful professional musician. Jazz majors come to William Paterson this year from twenty-six states and six foreign countries.
The University also presents the Summer Jazz Workshop for high school students, as well as the popular Jazz Room Series. Now entering its thirty-fourth year, the Jazz Room Series is the longest-running campus-based jazz concert series in the nation. With a tradition of encompassing the complete spectrum of jazz from New Orleans to the avant-garde, it features world-class professionals and William Paterson student ensembles. The University's Summer Jazz Workshop, active since 1994, is a week-long intensive program in late July, featuring classes, small-group rehearsals and performances, and clinics taught by William Paterson resident faculty and special guest clinicians.
The Jazz Room has received over two decades of continuous grant support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, as well as numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The series has been featured on national and metropolitan-area media, including recorded broadcasts.


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