(editor’s note: WAC has now annouced the entertainers Wedensday. This peice was done before the announcement)
Western’s Activities Council, or WAC as they might be better known to the student body of Missouri Western State University has yet to officially announce who will be playing for the University’s spring concert. This can be looked at from many different angles. Certainly it is now spring and students in the past knew by this time who was going to be entertaining them for the spring concert. They may even have attended spring concerts that took place by this time late in the year. The fact that there is only six weeks left in the semester and there has yet to even be an announcement could encourage one to wonder just exactly what is going on?
What’s the hold up?
First instinct could be to assume that the problem lies in some level of incompetence in the organization. But that could be a false assumption. Janell Banks, President of WAC, offers her explanation as to the lateness of the announcement of the spring concert as evidence of how hard WAC is working to bring quality entertainment to the student body.
“The reason we have not announced yet, is that there were some details that we wanted to put in order” Banks said.
“But everything is good. We will announce pretty soon but it is just that we wanted to find a concert more suitable for our students. We have heard some complaints about some things that have gone on in past concerts, so we wanted to make sure that we got a legitimate concert that our students would enjoy and have fun at, one that they deserve. We had an artist picked and we kind of found out through different agencies that this was not the best artist to pick; this artist was not very friendly to the students, no meet and greet, no hello. We wanted to get artists that we knew would put on a nice show. We actually got two artists, instead of one. So we went out to find a better concert.”
This is all well and good that WAC so badly wants to give the students what they deserve, but it does raise a question; don’t the students deserve a spring concert that is timely? Many students can appreciate being given more time to polish of a research paper by a professor so that it will really end up as an excellent paper, but students are given deadlines for a reason. Perhaps WAC should be given a deadline?
It is easier to snag the big names if the search for talent starts earlier. This late in the semester many students have their schedules full of the events that will occupy their time for the rest of the year, like spring dances and making graduation plans, and now they have to wait to schedule in when the spring show will even perform. Starting late also creates difficulty in advertising, promotion of ticket sales and creation of a demand to see the quality performer it took WAC so long to land.
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