2008 Woodie Awards
Where's Boken?
Regina Pynn
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: Opinion
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Boken is the festival held to mark the end of the spring semester. Rumor has it that this year it will take place from April 23 through April 29. There is no sign of this very expensive highlight of the Stevens calendar anywhere on campus. A few scattered posters promoting Battle of the Bands can be found if you look carefully enough, but little else.
From what I understand, Boken is something of a cursed event here at Stevens. Last year, the festival chairs allowed expenses to go several thousand dollars over budget, leading to the SGA officially censuring the gentlemen behind the fiasco.
This was under the Steve Stump/Mike Manzella administration. As vice president, Manzella reportedly swore that Boken would never be allowed to deteriorate like that again- not on his watch.
It seems that even when he is holding the reigns, Manzella is unable to rear in the monster that is Boken. Though, to be fair, there was a change in planning pushed upon the Boken Chairs and SGA. Boken was originally scheduled for the week of April 16th. However, word came from Howe that the date for the President's Tea had been moved and, therefore, the $35,000 festival had to move as well.
President's Tea, a great opportunity for the Stevens community to put forth our best to impress prospective freshmen, is also the bane of scheduling. No organization is allowed to hold any event that at all conflicts with President's Tea. The campus beatification accompanying this tea party, of course, makes it rather difficult to have the running around outside that accompanies Boken.
In an interview with SGA President Mike Manzella and Vice President Jon Matos, the pair pointed to the late rescheduling of the President's Tea as the reason for the confusion.
"The decision to move the President's Tea was made after the Chairs had planned almost everything, and to give them credit they tried to pull it together," Manzella explained.
Matos assured The Stute that the SGA was fully involved in every step of the Boken planning. "I talk to the Chairs pretty much every day in the friendly brother sense and in more formal e-mails."
From what I understand, Boken is something of a cursed event here at Stevens. Last year, the festival chairs allowed expenses to go several thousand dollars over budget, leading to the SGA officially censuring the gentlemen behind the fiasco.
This was under the Steve Stump/Mike Manzella administration. As vice president, Manzella reportedly swore that Boken would never be allowed to deteriorate like that again- not on his watch.
It seems that even when he is holding the reigns, Manzella is unable to rear in the monster that is Boken. Though, to be fair, there was a change in planning pushed upon the Boken Chairs and SGA. Boken was originally scheduled for the week of April 16th. However, word came from Howe that the date for the President's Tea had been moved and, therefore, the $35,000 festival had to move as well.
President's Tea, a great opportunity for the Stevens community to put forth our best to impress prospective freshmen, is also the bane of scheduling. No organization is allowed to hold any event that at all conflicts with President's Tea. The campus beatification accompanying this tea party, of course, makes it rather difficult to have the running around outside that accompanies Boken.
In an interview with SGA President Mike Manzella and Vice President Jon Matos, the pair pointed to the late rescheduling of the President's Tea as the reason for the confusion.
"The decision to move the President's Tea was made after the Chairs had planned almost everything, and to give them credit they tried to pull it together," Manzella explained.
Matos assured The Stute that the SGA was fully involved in every step of the Boken planning. "I talk to the Chairs pretty much every day in the friendly brother sense and in more formal e-mails."
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