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News at 6 on WNUR News – October 13, 2021 NU Powerlifting, Much Ado About Nothing, and Deconstructing the Himbo. WNUR News broadcasts live at 6 pm CST on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays on WNUR 89.3 FM
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Speaker 1 00:00:07 Live from w N U R news. I'm Zach McCreary. You're listening to the six o'clock news on w N U R 89.3, FM HD one Evanson Chicago it's Wednesday, October 13th, 2021. Tonight on w R news news. The power lifting club opens exercise to all of campus. A look into lovers and mad men's production of much you about nothing, a deep dive into the identity and mysteries, OFS, those stories, and more coming up tonight on w N U news. Thanks for tuning to w N U R news in campus and local. Tonight. Many Northwestern clubs require interviews, applications, or tryouts to become a member. But one athletic club is, is bucking this trend reporter John and Kim talks to the club about how they're making, getting S SW an inclusive activity for everyone.
Speaker 2 00:01:00 Western students are busy signing up for clubs off in going through the tedious process of interviews. Sometimes a break at the gym may be a necessity. Paul Kim, a sophomore and member of the club says the power lifting club allows these students to participate in clubs and exercise simultaneously.
Speaker 3 00:01:18 Um, so the power lifting club is a club where basically a lot of people who like to lift and get strong and get big, they just come and do a lot of lifting together.
Speaker 2 00:01:30 Despite the quite intimidating name. Paul says the club embraces and welcomes all levels of experience.
Speaker 3 00:01:36 There's people like beginners like me, and there's more intermediate and advanced lifters as well.
Speaker 2 00:01:43 The student run organiz does not include any experts in this field, hence does not require any expertise either.
Speaker 3 00:01:51 And so it's more like trying to assure your own experiences and see if it fits with you. It's not, they're not like certified or anything like that,
Speaker 2 00:01:59 But the advance members definitely are trained well enough to guide the new ones, a core to Paul. They email weekly workouts to help keep track
Speaker 3 00:02:09 For beginners. We do like a weekly form check where on the advanced lifters, they teach us like how to do like the big three lifts, like bench squad, deadlift,
Speaker 2 00:02:20 The power lifting club school is also very straightforward. They are not so different from a, their athletic clubs.
Speaker 3 00:02:26 We had this first meeting where the execs are presented and their goal is like, let's get big. Let's get strong. Let's do this. I think that's about it. It's very simple. I liked it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:02:37 Paul adds that the intermediate and advance members ensure that they are accomplishing and improving through repeated. Check-ins not only on the new members, but also on themselves.
Speaker 3 00:02:49 Um, for intermediate members, they're going to check their max weights for the main three lists. And that's probably going to happen on like a monthly basis
Speaker 2 00:02:58 As the members events and experience and strength, the more competitive they can get further opening up different opportunities.
Speaker 3 00:03:07 Um, they're planning to like go to par lifting competitions as well, and like represent you, they're planning on like bringing speakers that are like related to par lifting as well.
Speaker 2 00:03:17 What differentiate it's power lifting from other athletic clubs is the backstory. It may be shocking news that power lifting is in fact new, but also not completely.
Speaker 3 00:03:28 Like there was something like this power lifting club a few years back, but, um, I think it wasn't like official or anything, or like a lot of people didn't really join. So it kind of died off
Speaker 2 00:03:40 A student who found that the power lifting club this year may or may not be the first even he writes in the red post, that there is a lack of information to tell whether the club actually existed. Some referred to it as a revival.
Speaker 3 00:03:54 He's a junior called Sadaka, tried to revive it. And now we're here. And I think we're trying to make it an official organization by like November, something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:04:06 While the main goal may be to exercise and just power lift, there's more to the beginning of the club. It is a community built of students sharing a single interest.
Speaker 3 00:04:16 You go to spec and there's like a lot of lifters. Lot of people working on you go to belong. You go to patent. There is just like a lot of people who love lifting. And there wasn't really like a club that's dedicated to those kind of areas.
Speaker 2 00:04:30 Paul says that these students all love to power lift, but have unique individual goals, whether that be gaining muscle, working out or getting rid of an unhealthy habit,
Speaker 3 00:04:42 Especially for me, cuz like I have like really bad posture. I'm hoping that through this and like trying to like get some workouts done, I can kind of fix my posture and fix the weak muscle areas
Speaker 2 00:04:54 Like Paul, anyone can set a personal goal for themselves and really experience a motivation while power lift
Speaker 3 00:05:01 In Korea. When there was like a like lifting boom, there was this thing called some <inaudible>, which basically stands for like the big three lift. You combine them and the weights add up to 500 kilos. Maybe if I could get somewhere there by the time I graduate, I'll be happy.
Speaker 2 00:05:19 There are no particular requirements for of this club that merely hopes to encourage people to power lift and stay fit. There aren't any interviews or formal procedures for acceptance.
Speaker 3 00:05:30 I just signed up through a form on Reddit. I don't think there's like any like limitations to anyone like even the beginner like me could join. There are also a lot of advanced lifters. And so I think it's open for anyone who just has the passion.
Speaker 2 00:05:43 If you like to exercise regularly, power lifting may be a club to check off signing off. This is John and Jennifer Kim from w N U R news
Speaker 1 00:05:55 One, Northwestern theater troop is performing their own version of a classic Shakespeare play arts and entertainment reporter has the story
Speaker 5 00:06:06 With the return up in person classes. This fall, the Northwestern 20 21, 20 22 theater season is finally back and after multiple virtual production student COVID it seems like theater could just be back to normal with this new season comes a multitude of theater productions. One of these is an adaptation of the Shakespeare play much a do about nothing with this particular version being set in Miami reporter. Sarah DRA talked to third years, Gabriel LA the director and Mark Barry, the producer of the show to learn more about how the student production brings a unique take on a class when asked what the play was about. Fu
Speaker 6 00:06:43 I would say that this production is a re-imagining of Shakespeare's much ado about nothing to highlight the explosions of joy in it, but translate it to the languages of the collaborators that we have. So being said in Miami, Florida, I feel like people are really encouraged, um, to bring in the fullness of themselves, the kind of music that they enjoy, the languages that they speak. Um, something I really value about Miami culture. And it's where I grew up is that it's very much a solid bowl culture and there's a lot of cultural appreciation and um, really wanting to just go for joy, which is something that think that we could all use right now after like a collective traumatic experience and in the play much I do, they also go through a collective traumatic experience. So I was interested in seeing, you know, how could Shakespeare's text connect to our time and somehow amplify or, um, flip inside out the struggles that we are having on a day to day basis and to help us in having a party.
Speaker 7 00:07:43 This story follows two main PR two primary couples, uh, hero and Claudia and, uh, Berics and Benedict, um, hero and Claudia very early on in the show decide they're going to get married Berics and Benedict are a little more of an enemies to lovers story, uh, or rather supposed enemies to lovers. They don't want to admit their attraction to each other.
Speaker 6 00:08:06 Yeah, that reminds me that, you know, deception plays such a big role in the play and this idea of much a do about nothing. Like there are a lot of anxieties in the play that come up and people who just really like are struggling to communicate with each other. Um, and that kind of reminds me of, you know, how we are now. Like we're coming back to an in person, world, we're trying to figure out, you know, how do we relate to one, one another? How do we communicate? Um, how can we start to like rekindle our friendships and lovey love things. <laugh>
Speaker 5 00:08:37 Barry explained that there was also a re-imagination of hero and Claudia storyline in the, a adaptation
Speaker 7 00:08:42 We've reimagined that into her, kind of reclaiming her power, um, and using that as an opportunity to grow and find her own footing in a world of Shakespeare where women don't really have footing
Speaker 5 00:08:54 To those who might be skeptical to go to a Shakespearean play. And Barry say this,
Speaker 6 00:09:00 Um, I feel like we took this particular text and just made it into what we needed at this moment. Um, and I think that's a really special thing. It's a text that's, um, unfortunately, you know, for, you know, colorizer reasons, so revered. Um, but that doesn't mean that we can't then insert ourselves and say that we have just as much, if not more worth than the dead white men who originally embodied the work. And I would say with this particular production, you know, it's a very fun one. So if I I'd say like you're intimidated by Shakespeare, this is a great one to see, because you'll see a pool on stage, you'll see disco ball, you'll get audience members can dance in the production. Um, I hope that it'll really feel like a party and not so much, you know, um, an English class <laugh>, I think it's important when we have an opportunity to put on a communal experience that is theater that we can actually interrogate what is our community need right now. And I think that we did ask those questions. So we hope that, you know, people will be able to find something there that will just kind of give them a moment of peace or hope, um, or silliness.
Speaker 5 00:10:07 They also wanted to shout out the people involved in
Speaker 6 00:10:09 The play. Um, there are 14 actors in the production, which is a lot for a play. Um, and they are absolutely like some of the best, not only artists I've met, but people which is really exciting. They do all sorts of things. They, I mean, they, they play their roles, but they also dance in the show. There's a moment in which they sing. Um, some of them play instruments. Um, some of them do gymnastics. So it's been really, really, really cool to watch all the ways that they can use their, their instrument to tell a story. Um, the rehearsal room also consists of myself, my amazing assistant director alone Rios, Anna Marvi is our amazing stage manager. And then our assistant stage manager recently joined her name is Julie and she is a wonderful, wonderful freshman who loves Shakespeare and is very good at it.
Speaker 7 00:11:04 Our rehearsal room team is all perfect. And then we have the production team, uh, which is more my territory, um, which includes all of the design team. So set designer, lighting designer, sound designer, and then choreographers.
Speaker 6 00:11:19 We're also in the cast. I forgot to add.
Speaker 7 00:11:22 Yeah, our choreographers are co choreographing the show, but they're also in the cast, which is a very exciting opportunity for us. We have everything from marketing director, uh, to, we have an intimacy consultant to help our choreographers and our director with and of intimacy. Uh, we have a joy chair who just helped plan us, uh, helped us plan a fun run of the show. Yesterday. We have dramaturgs, I have an assistant producer. Her name is Peggy. She is a first year. She is one of my favorite people on this campus. She's incredible. Uh, we have, uh, a recently added position is our, um, audience experience director. Um, and so she is helping us lead. Pre-show where we're gonna be like passing out food and mocktails. Um, so she'll be leading all of that. Um, helping us get audience members into the world of, uh, Miami before they go into the theater. Our production team is all of the like offstage people working together to make the show happen.
Speaker 6 00:12:21 Yeah, someone else I wanted to amplify was Kenny, our amazing makeup designer who actually it's her first theater process, which has been really exciting because the way that she, you know, imagines her role is like beyond how I have seen a makeup designer step in, in Northwestern, she's having the, the actors use were flowers to kind of amplify the inner beauty that they have. She has a beautiful concept.
Speaker 7 00:12:45 I just haven't shouted out enough our sound designer because
Speaker 6 00:12:48 Yeah,
Speaker 7 00:12:49 He's incredible. I
Speaker 6 00:12:50 Don't think we got to shout out our costume designers enough, Claris Keone and Jasmine, a ALIS, and they are geniuses. The cast will be wearing very colorful clothing. I feel like all of us in the rehearsal room and on the production team. Oh my gosh. And our Dramat TURs Molly McCarthy and Dan Cal were amazing collaborators and helped me cut the script over the summer. Um, so that, you know, you wouldn't have to hear a drone on about Shakespeare for too long. President Costa composed two original songs for this production. And they are beautiful. Everyone we're working with is really awesome. Our set designer is amazing Ryan Newin and it looks really good. Um, we've been in build and things are just coming together. It's equal time.
Speaker 5 00:13:35 Students can find the new production of much a do about nothing this Friday, October 15th, at seven and 10:00 PM and Saturday, October 16th at two and 7:00 PM at Chanley pavilion. The entrance is also free.
Speaker 7 00:13:47 The work that has happened in this show in and outside of the rehearsal room is so exciting and it really party everything from doing the wobble on stage to, uh, you know, we have, we start off our show with a song by Mitski and <laugh> this, this opportunity is really a chance to have fun and heal from the world we've been living in and find a new centering, uh, uh, experience for all of us.
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Speaker 1 00:15:46 Welcome back to the w Nur news. It's 6:16 PM central time. I'm Zach MC Kim is a word that has been cropping up in online discourse, more and more, but what does it mean to be a HBO? Allison RA tells us in tonight's oddity story,
Speaker 12 00:16:06 Heart, big head, empty HBOS. They've been the subject of many AME or tweet in recent years. Something about the, the hot, dumb kind men of the world is strangely captivating, but where did the HBO come from? And more importantly, what does he have to offer us today to begin a definition, reputable online source, urban dictionary sites, the term as he's a little slow, but he's trying his best, big beefy, almost always has a nice and drinks, respect women Jews. Most of the time, the only thing playing in his brain is elevator music end quote, Miriam Webster. Yes, actually defines it as quote, an attractive, but Vaus man end quote. The term was coined in 1988 by I read a ke a movie critic for the Washington post, a deification of the word bimbo HBO served as a name for the archetype of the Brony, somewhat slow action hero. Think Arnold Schwartzenegger or Soest Stallone
Speaker 13 00:17:14 Are the,
Speaker 12 00:17:16 But HBO has made a resurgence in recent years. Thanks to social media, podcasters, Evan, shin, and Emilio Casada discussed this in an episode of their show, Dewey dudes,
Speaker 14 00:17:27 But the term has come up again. It has it's it's happened a resurgence zoo to a viral tweet. Oh, right. And this is the I'm gonna the, to you. Okay. All right. So it said, quote, HBO is ableist. I find fetishizing, someone supposed lack of intelligence to be predatory. Why would you desire someone who seemingly has less power than you? Why is that sexy? Why is that different from praying on underage kids? It's not an quote. So that was the tweet mm-hmm <affirmative> um, and it got a lot of backlash, um, which, and I'll read some of the backlash.
Speaker 15 00:18:01 Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 14 00:18:01 Oh, for example, here's somebody who replied to this tweet. They go, you're not attracted to the HBO because the HBO was dumb you're of the HBO, because the HBO is hot. It also lacks the traits that are correlated in popular media with the smart character decades of building up the hyper genius led to HBO as backlash.
Speaker 15 00:18:19 There's this good male magazine quote.
Speaker 14 00:18:21 It says, oh yeah, Mel magazine shout out.
Speaker 15 00:18:23 Of course, nobody has seriously suggested that HBOS are cognitively disabled references to their humble brain. Power are exaggerate and affectionate, not clinical
Speaker 12 00:18:33 With this new internet age take in mind. I wanted to see what college kids thought, my interviewees, each defined HBO in their own words, and then discussed what they thought about the term like shin. And Kesada all of my interviewees touched on the dumb aspect of HBO cold.
Speaker 16 00:18:49 There's definitely a culture nowadays. I think around the HBO. I don't know what it is. I mean, all of those things seem somewhat positive minus the unintelligent part. But I think the lack of intelligence, uh, shows a certain like defenselessness,
Speaker 12 00:19:08 That's Jacob mill. Endorf a sophomore in the school of calm prior to our interview. He was only loosely aware of the term HBO, but he was more than willing to ruminate on the matter.
Speaker 16 00:19:19 And I think one element of the HBO is not being smart, kind of poses an openness, right? Like if you engage in conversation with them, uh, in some sort of debate, you'll be able to defeat them pretty swiftly and effortlessly. And I think that's, um, I think people like that
Speaker 12 00:19:36 Lindor's point about openness is interesting and ties back to the tweet shin and Kesada red. The archetype of the HBO is a reaction to the archetype of the know-it-all male manipulator. Think Jesse Eisenberg in the social network, or really almost anyone of in the social network for the
Speaker 17 00:19:52 Record, she may look like a 34 C, but she's getting all kinds of help from our friends of Victoria's secret.
Speaker 12 00:19:56 Perhaps it's not a true lack of intelligence then that characterizes the HBO, but rather a vulnerability and approachability.
Speaker 6 00:20:04 I don't know. I think there's been kind of a rise in appreciation of HBOS. Um, like people want like safe, they men, um, and you know, kind dumb ones are pretty safe in general.
Speaker 12 00:20:17 That's nae way SEPA school of com sophomore and Hiba appreciator. Her point here seems to coincide with Mel Endorf that dumbness can be safe.
Speaker 6 00:20:26 I think what makes a Hiba at it's very safe is like, you feel safe, safe with their, um, you know, they're just silly gooses who wanna Live's silly gooses who want to like live and do silly stuff. I found like the internet ages we're really accepting, like just being dumb and vibing, just like normalizing, just not knowing nothing in dying. I like that, which I don't mind. So I think, um, for now hi is, okay.
Speaker 12 00:20:53 So it seems as some on the internet claim too, that the HBO is not actually dumb in an article from Jebel, Julian esto shepherd writes that quote in practice, the HIPO is not even necessarily a UN intelligent, a HBO just does not feel the desire to flex his intellect over his desire to say, fix a car and quote dumbness then serves more as a catchall term for this disengagement, from the cerebral egomaniac world of the male manipulator. And with this disengagement, it seems comes a sense of liberation made sophomore Jimmy. He known to his friends as Jimbo. The HBO commented on this in our interview.
Speaker 16 00:21:34 I think that Chad's usually when I think of them, I usually think of wanting to impress and leave an impression on other people. But I feel like HBOS have really nothing to prove. Like that's why a lot of them aren't self-defining if there's an individual who doesn't need to prove anything, that's, that's hot, you know, if they can just live free,
Speaker 12 00:21:59 This freeness has a name dude's rock or dude's rock energy, shin, and Casada also defined this in their podcast.
Speaker 14 00:22:07 So if anyone wants to with dude's rock is, uh, right. So Matt Chrisman, I don't know if you guys know who this <inaudible> is, but he describes it as a dialectical non-toxic masculinity that launders toxins out of masculinity by just letting dudes be dudes and not let anything get under their skin. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Speaker 12 00:22:27 Most of my interviewees were familiar with the term dudes rock, but provided with the definition they all easily identified dudes rock behavior,
Speaker 16 00:22:36 Dudes, rock <laugh> dude's rock is just, you know, saying whatever you want, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody or make anybody feel uncomfortable. And, uh, I, I, I would love to do more of that. And I think I've been sure to. So I think in the coming months I'm going dudes, rock it up.
Speaker 6 00:22:54 It's also kinda a bare minimum. Also like dudes rock is dude's rock is like, I'm celebrating men who are not who just like living loving, laughing, right. And who are not like abusing, you know, or being generally that person
Speaker 12 00:23:09 Super makes an interesting point here. Dudes rock behavior is kind of the bare minimum for men, at least in regard to not being toxic. In other words, men don't deserve a medal for respecting women. This should be a given, but the other aspect of dudes rock about dudes being free to be dudes is fascinating. At least to me, it provides a way to be a man that is not controlled by patriarchal standards of masculinity.
Speaker 16 00:23:34 I feel like they're willing to accept, you know, that being a guide, isn't just all about masculinity and they're able to embrace more feminine, you know, parts while still being, you know, athletic, working out jacked and still being attractive. And this dude's rock thing seems like a nice kind of in between where you can have male confidence without, um, without being a piece of crap.
Speaker 12 00:24:03 So then as a purveyor of dudes, rock energy, perhaps the HBO holds the key to masculinity. That's free from the strict expectations of the patriarchy, or maybe that's a little presumptuous either way HBO or not. Dudes rock energy seems to be the way of the future. And while it's important to keep men accountable,
Speaker 6 00:24:23 Also, we can't use HBO to, to glorify anyone being copy like, oh, but he's just a HBO. He doesn't really know like, no, you know, we still have to hold people to the same standards.
Speaker 12 00:24:34 Perhaps the HBO is a way to let dudes be dudes in their truest and most nontoxic sense for w N news. I'm Allison RA.
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