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June-August 6/1- Dixie Chicks @ Gund Arena 6/1- 92.3 Xtreme Radio Xfest 2003 @ Tower City Amphitheater 6/5- Beck @ Tower City Ampitheater 6/10- Coldplay @ Tower City Ampitheater 6/18- Alive Festival @ Clay’s Park 6/21- Dave Matthews Band @ Blossom 6/27- Journey, REO Speed Wagon and Styx 6/29- Ben Harper and Jack Johnson @ Tower City Ampitheater 7/11- 50 Cent @ Blossom 7/20- Lollapalooza @ Blossom 7/22- Ozzfest @ Blossom 7/27- Aretha Franklin @ Scene Pavilion 8/9- 3 Doors Down and Our Lady Peace @ Tower City Ampitheater 8/11- John Mayer and Counting Crows @ Blossom Radiohead: Hail to the Online Thieves By By Amy Amy Liu Liu Staff Writer In yet another case of online music piracy, eager Radiohead fans all over the world are downloading tracks from an unreleased CD scheduled to come out June 10. The album is titled “Hail to the Thief.” Can you say irony? In late March, according to several fan websites, Radiohead’s unreleased sixth CD was leaked onto the Internet. Parlophone, Radiohead’s record label, is conducting an investigation to find the thief, according to www.xfm.co.uk. Stories like this are not new in the music industry. Two point six billion music files a r e shared every month, with approximately 99 percent of The Scene Updates Minors to be blocked from buying explicit games? Going to Best Buy to purchase a new video game has always been easy. You picked it up, paid for it and went home to play. Now it might get a little harder. In Los Angeles, the Lion and Lamb Project, a parents group, met with Representatives Frank Wolf and Joe Baca. Their mission: to make it illegal to sell minors video games that include killing, car jacking, rape, or sexual assault. Acorrding to USA TODAY, the bill targeted games such as “Mortal Kombat,” “XXX,” “BMX,” and “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.” If the bill is passed into law, the video game industry will take it to court. They believe it will affect business. Some students at Hoover are opposed to this bill. “You should be able to buy any kind of game because you should realize it’s just a game,” freshman Jonathan Iler said. them being unauthorized or illegal, said USA Today. Global record sales fell 6.8 percent in 2002, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, largely due to piracy. The leaking of the “Hail” album did not surprise Radiohead bassist Jonny Greenwood, according to www.ateaseweb.com. In an interview he confessed that he and the other band members had, in paranoia, been destroying recordings of their early mixes after listening to them. “But apparently,” he added, “all that wasn’t enough.” “It’s like having your house done over halfway through without having it done up,” lead guitarist Colin Greenwood said. Jonny Greenwood agreed. “The leaked music is a stolen copy of early, unmixed edits and roughs,” he said on the Radiohead message board. “…The songs are good on the [early] recordings…but we worked on them after this point until we were happy with them.” Junior Adam Nolte does not feel guilt about downloading the unreleased -Whitney Whitney Whitney Wappler Wappler Wappler tracks. “Someone’s ability to listen to something new shouldn’t be based on if they can pay for it,” he said. Nolte is not alone. A survey taken by the Recording Industry Association of America said that 91 percent of Amerians ages 12 to 17 felt that file sharing over the Internet was justifiable. Freshman Diatra Joseph, on the other hand, said that she has not downloaded any of the “Hail” tracks. “I have not downloaded so as not to exploit the unfinished CD,” she said. Joseph added that she did not want “false hopes or disappointments” about the final album. Colin Greenwood does not think that Joseph or other Radiohead fans will be disappointed. Despite the setbacks presented by the album leak, he is still optimistic. “All the attention is gratifying, but we want it when all our hard work’s done and the best it can be,” he said according to www.ateasenet.com. “This is all just unhelpful noise. Wait till you see the final, real, finished album!” �V May 30, 2003 The Viking Views the scene 23
sports 24 Turfin’ urfin’ it it up up By By By Katie Katie Maloney Maloney Staff Writer When football season kicks off in August, the players will be stepping off onto brand new ground. For two years now, stadium groundskeeper, Jerry Wolfe and director of business, Ray Nist have noticed sporadic patches of shallow rooted grass called Poa Trivialis. However, this past summer the drought left the stadium in trouble. “Because of the drought, the poa trivialis was able to thrive,” said Nist. This grass could have been very dangerous to Hoover and opposing teams to play on. The shallow root system made it so that when the players ran on the field their cleats would pick up the grass, causing them to fall. Since the infestation, Nist and Wolfe started looking up specific ways to rid the stadium of the grass. “We started researching using the services of the local Ohio State University Agricultural Service,” said Nist. The field had to be torn up in order to remove all forms of the grass. Then after removing the grass, the field had to be gassed as to keep from future invasions. The fumigation process took three days to complete. Sports Sports Updates Updates LIFETOUCH Athletic department prevents future injuries; rolls out new sod Tennis Tennis �Mattew Schick waits to return a serve at practice. The tennis team ended the season with a 13-5 record. The Viking Views May 30, 2003 Ending the regular season with a 13-5 record is no small feat. Especially for a Viking tennis team that was supposed to be in a rebuilding year. The Vikings exceeded expectations after losing five out of seven starting players from last year, leaving only Jimmy The real decision came down to whether or not the stadium should be reseeded as opposed to using sod. Eventually the decision was made to resod the stadium, because it takes a good six months for a good seeded field to grow, according to Nist. “The risk of weather factors in our area gave us a great concern that by seeding the field it may not be ready for football in the fall, and we all know what that would mean around here,” said Nist. Although good for the football team, the project had its downfalls. “Basically, the fumigation process and removal of old grass cost approximately $8,000. The new sod cost approximately $24,000,” said Nist. The athletic department funded this entire project. Not only was it costly, but it also interfered with winter sports. “It was a hassle to have all the away meets,” track team member junior Annie Revoldt said. “It wasn’t really bothersome, but sometimes it interfered with our practice schedule.” While the renovations proposed problems, it also ensured a much safer field as well as a better football field for a great season next year. “We can look forward to an excellent and much safer playing surface [for next year,” said Nist. �v Vogelgesang and Joe Grande as returning starters. Vogelgesang was pleased with the results. “The season went well seing how we lost five seniors,” Vogelgesang said. “We were able to come back with only a few losses and with some good wins too.” The team will also be losing more valuable seniors again after this season, including four-year varsity player Grande. “He’s good at getting the team pumped and adds a lot of competitive attitude to the team,” Vogelgesang said. The team improved throughout the season, according to first team doubles sophomore Casey Eck. Ashley Pucci • The grass taking over Memorial Stadium’s field is called Poa trivialis • When the players would try to plant their cleats in the turf, the grass would rip out of the ground because of the shallow root systems it has. • The district is paying for the work to be done. • The field is to be resodded with 8,000 square feet of new grass. • Workers sealed the field for a three-day fumigation. • Gas was pumped beneath the plastic to soak into the ground killing any root systems and seeds of the Poa trivialis. • Resurfacing the field will cost approximately $32,000. • It will cost about $8,000 is for the fumigation process and about $24,000 fot the resodding • The sod piled out on the east side of the stadium can be taken by anyone on a first come first serve basis. • Left over sod will be hauled away to be composted. Information found in The Repository Submitted Submitted by by Britney Britney Green Green “We came together more as a team at the end,” said Eck. The team even advanced to the postseason, participating in the sectional tournament May 15 at Jackson High School. The doubles team of Matt Schick and Jimmy Vogelgesang and Casey Eck as a singles player advanced to the second stage of the matches May 17, but both the doubles team and Eck lost in the quarterfinal matches on that day. “The season turned out to be better than what was expected,” Vogelgesang said. “The kids stepped up and tried their best in every match.” –Chris –Chris Tomin Tomin
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