Arte Migrante photo essay

By: Katie Lambie, Staff Writer

Arte Migrante Denver Chapter event in the O’Sullivan Art Gallery on November 5th. 

Cupid’s Carnival at the Ranger Dome

By: Kamil Wojciak, Staff Writer

On February 16th, an event called “Cupid’s Carnival” took place in the Ranger Dome from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM to celebrate the weekend of Valentine’s. This carnival had challenging games, roller skating, free caricatures, and more, with no cost whatsoever!

Starting at 6:30 PM, all of the carnival attractions of the were already prepared and ready! Starting off with the carnival games, some games at the carnival were the rifle range, skeeball, and the ball-in-tub toss. The rifle range at the carnival was one of the more popular attractions, because of its simple and fun game mechanic of shooting down domino-shaped blocks with a NERF (N-Strike Elite Mega Magnus) blaster. The skeeball and the ball-in-tub toss were also popular attractions, catching the authenticity of a real carnival by being one of the most challenging and frustrating games I ever played.

In addition to the carnival games, people had the possibility to earn tickets, depending on their performance on a game. With these tickets, people could obtain prizes, such as cute animal stickers.

Other than the carnival games, roller skating was an important aspect for “Cupid’s Carnival”. The most popular and biggest attraction, the roller skating rink, was filled with fun, loud music and Regis students. The roller skating rink was highly accessible to the public, with individuals easily obtaining roller skates from a counter with no constraints, and the roller skating rink itself was open with no physical boundaries (other than the walls of the Ranger Dome).

“Cupid’s Carnival” was a great way to end the Valentine’s week by having fun attractions, such as the carnival games and the roller skating, allowing the partakers of the event to relieve the tension they acquired from the week.

Dave & Buster’s Date Night

By: Kamil Wojciak, Staff Writer

Photo Source: Kamil Wojciak

On February 14, Valentine’s Day, the Regis University Programming Board hosted an event named “Dave & Buster’s Date Night”. To celebrate Valentine’s day, students had the opportunity to go to Dave & Buster’s to play and enjoy game and prizes.

For the event, students had to sign up to be eligible; sign ups started on Monday, February 11, and continued all the way to the start of the event. The event started at 7:30 PM at the Student Center, where individuals did their last-minute signups and preparations for departure. With everyone signed up, ready for the event, all individuals departed from the campus on a travel bus, directly heading to Dave & Buster’s.

After the highly cozy and roomy trip on the travel bus, the participants of the event arrived at Dave & Buster’s at around 8:00 PM. When everyone was in the building, the coordinators of the event stated the plans of the event and then all individuals headed to a private room. This private room allowed people to store their belongings and served as the meeting place for the group.

With everything settled, all participants received a power card (an electronic card used for the arcade machines) and free food by the buffet that was in the private room. All the power cards provided had 200 chips ($20) that can solely be used on the arcade machines; the buffet provided had nachos, pretzel corn dogs, and even shrimp and cocktail sauce.

With all the time from roughly 8:10 PM to 9:50 PM, all the partakers of the event had the utmost freedom in Dave & Buster’s. The arcade, argued the main attraction of Dave & Buster’s, had a large amount of variety that different types of audiences can enjoy. Some of the most popular arcade machines were the claw machines, guitar hero, and air hockey.

When it was 9:50 PM, it was time to prepare to leave Dave & Buster’s and come back to Regis University. Even though the participants of this extremely entertaining event had roughly two hours of having fun, it was somewhat sad to leave that fun and entertainment by going back to campus (especially if they had remaining chips to spend).

“I enjoyed leaving the Regis campus and hanging out with my friends” said John, one of the members of the event. The “Dave & Buster’s Date Night” was an extraordinarily fun event that was a great method to casually hang out with friends and enjoy the holiday with others. This organized event that took students out of campus for fun and entertainment was a great idea, and has high demand to be replicated in the future.

An Acoustic Evening With Kelley Jakle

Kelley Jakle preforming in the Student Center

By: Allison Upchurch, Staff Reporter

After a full week of school and work, what better way to kick off the weekend than with a visit from a singer and actress straight from Hollywood. Kelley Jakle, most notable from her role of Jessica in the Pitch Perfect movies, performed on the Walker’s Pub stage last Friday February 8, accompanied on the guitar by her songwriting partner, Tom Strahle.

To start off the show, Jakle performed a cover of the song “Trampled Rose” by one of her favorite performers, Alison Krauss. She followed up this song by performing two songs that she and Strahle had written together, “Sparrow” and “Lead Me Out.”

“We wrote ‘Lead Me Out’ at a shifting point in my life,” Jakle said as she explained how she is experiencing the transition from being in her late 20s to her early 30s. “It is about learning to let go of the parts of myself that are not coming along for the next ride.”

Jakle and Strahle also treated the audience to a selection of new songs the pair had a hand in working on for the upcoming Netflix movie Walk. Ride. Rodeo. It was the first time that those songs of “Cry Baby” and “Late Bloomer” were performed live in front of an audience. “Cry Baby” in particular was significant for both Jakle and Strahle as they each recounted personal life experiences of isolation and separation that eventually worked their way into being inspirations for the creation of the song.

During a song transition, Strahle recounted how he and Jackle had met two years ago at a party in Hollywood. “I’m not very good at socializing,” Strahle admitted, “but I just sat down and started chatting with the person next to me, who happened to be Kelley.” They talked together about their careers in Los Angeles, and decided to meet up again to see if they could write some music together. “When we met up again, we wrote, or at least started, 5 songs in about 6 hours, and we’ve been collaborating ever since.”

Other songs performed that night included a cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”, “California” by Jakle’s Houston based band Robin Alice, and “Home to Mama” which Strahle helped write for Cody Simpson and Justin Bieber. Jakle even invited a member of the audience up to help sing “Home to Mama,” and the night ended with another Alison Krauss song called “When You Say Nothing At All.”

This show was put on in partnership with two non-profits based here in Colorado, Epic Experience, a program providing adult survivors of cancer a fun outdoor camp experience, and The Love, Hope, Strength Foundation which helps people get registered to be a bone marrow donor to potential save a life sometime in the future.