The Journal

Issue date: 3/26/09 Section: Lifestyle

Media Credit: David Kovalluk Freshman Ian Lubar performs at the ONE Webster event in the University Center Sunnen Lounge on March 24. The event is aimed at ONE's goal to end poverty.

Three Webster University bands performed at ONE Webster's Campus Challenge Concert on March 24 to show their support for ONE's campaign to end extreme poverty.
The event, planned by ONE Webster and Campus Activities, took place in the University Center Sunnen Lounge, where the three bands each played about 30 minute sets. Ian Lubar, a freshman jazz guitar performance major, kicked off the concert with an acoustic set featuring a few Rolling Stones' covers. Brian Collins, a senior audio production major, performed his hip-hop set second and Illphonics rocked the set last with their six-person band.
Students attending the concert were asked to call their state senator for the ONE cause before they were allowed to enter.
"It's sort of the admission," said Nick Stevens, a junior public relations major and president of ONE Webster. "Instead of paying for something, you're going to make a quick 30 second phone call to your senator on the global food security act."
The goal of the global food security act is to provide a foundation for agriculture in developing countries to build on to make them more self-sustainable, Stevens said.
Eric Mayle, a junior religious studies major and chairman of ONE from Missouri State University, attended the event to show his support for Webster and the ONE cause. A concert is a good way to raise awareness and get people involved but maybe not the most affective, he said.
"The best way is word of mouth from people you know," Mayle said. "Imagine if everyone who came to this today told one friend. That'd be doing something."
While the crowd was small, Mayle and Larry Morris, a WU alumnus, said reaching at least one person is most important.
"If you can touch one person, that's all that matters because one person can touch another person, and the trickle down effect can be big," Morris said.
One person reached by the event was Carson Ritz, a senior audio production major. He said he thought a concert was a good way to make people aware and become involved.
"Music's kind of the universal language," Ritz said. "If anything music brings people together."
Stevens said the bands played great, and he was pleased with how the concert went.

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