All Your Bass Are Belong To Us - Join RWS

by Salonee Bhaman (current RWS member) and Lauren Feldman.

As students, we've all attended at least one SAMOHI event – whether it be an assembly, film festival, convention, or even a pep rally. These events usually go down without a (major) hitch, with near perfect audio/visual synchronization to aid the plethora of extremely interesting presentations and events occurring throughout SAMO. But the success of these events is really owed to the people who don't get much credit for them at all: the people who work for hours setting up the technology to make them possible. Remember the last pep rally you attended? Well, maybe not, seeing as it was quite a while ago thanks to our beautiful artists in '07. But while you were busy cheering yourself hoarse and/or laughing skeptically at those around you, the chances are you didn't notice the small but capable army of students slaving away on the corner of the stage amid a large tangle of wires.

Next Friday, the silent workforce behind SAMO's audiovisual crew holds their first recruitment rally of the year. Running With Speakers (RWS) is a great opportunity to become more involved with your school and your peers, learn the ropes of theatrical lighting and sound, rack up community service hours, and gain access to many events RWS is in charge of. In addition to the knitty gritties for resumes and applications, Running With Speakers is also a valuable camaraderie-building experience. After all, it is highly doubtful that you'll find such a rare combination of sarcasm, huge work ethic, chronic lethargy, begrudging affection, awkward yet endearing techies, and half joking spurts of abuse all melded into one convenient organization. So on Friday, September 21st, we urge you to come by the science quad to sign your soul away and join us for the year.