Johnny
Cash, promiscuous girls and everything in between
Brooke
Tacker, posted Sept. 29, 2006
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Emcees
Miranda Leppin and Jim Spain introduce the 2006 CAFNR
Week Steering Committee, kicking off Skit Night in the
Missouri Theatre on Sept. 26.
Photo
By Sara Muri. |
The
Missouri Theater held a new crowd Tuesday, Sept. 26 as CAFNR
students and faculty gathered for the annual Skit Night competition,
a contest that is part of CAFNR Week at MU.
“The theatre is a much better location that the Blue
Note,” general agriculture major Scott Coleman said.
Freshman Luella Fischer agreed that she liked it being in
the theater and thought it was a good atmosphere.
The competition comprised of 10 CAFNR-affiliated clubs performing
skits and lip syncs to try and show off their spirit and support
for their Barnwarming king and queen candidates. Club participants
included Collegiate Farm Bureau, Agriculture Economics Club,
Alpha Gamma Rho, Sigma Alpha, Mizzou FFA, CAFNR Ambassadors,
GDI, Collegiate Cattle Women, Block and Bridle and Alpha Gamma
Sigma.
Sophomore Agriculture Education major Miranda Leppin and CAFNR
Assistant Dean Jim Spain hosted the event. Spain introduced
each of the judges and then began skit night, while encouraging
the audience to be active participants.
“Just because we are in the theater doesn’t mean
you can’t be loud,” Spain said.
Many of the clubs took this opportunity to joke about their
teachers and fellow students. Some of the favorites were Spain,
Jan Dauve and Michael Monson, both agriculture economics professors.
Collegiate Farm Bureau performed a skit centered on the characters
from The Wizard of Oz. The skit, titled, “The Wizard
of CAFNR,” included Dorothy, a student struggling to
decide on a major; her pet tiger, Truman; the scarecrow, Dauve;
the lion, Stephanie Chipman, director of CAFNR Career Services;
the tin man, Monson; and the wizard, Spain. The characters
were searching for the classic things: Dorothy a home, Dauve
a brain, Chipman some courage and Monson inspiration. In the
end, the lesson was that CAFNR is a family, the students are
its children and they all help each other.
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Collegiate
Farm Bureau members (from left to right) Nicki Busdieker
(Dorothy), Jared Thomas (Dr. Dauve the Scarecrow) and
Zach Kinne (Dr. Monson the Tin Man) perform the “Wizard
of CAFNR.” The skit’s lesson showed attendees
that by working together everyone can succeed.
Photo By
Sara Muri. |
The
lip syncs, performed by each clubs’ king and queen,
ranged from “Promiscuous Girls” to an interpretation
of the dance from the movie, Dirty Dancing. Agriculture Economics
lip sync was general agriculture major Scott Coleman’s
favorite. They had more than a few laughs when their king
and queen switched roles in the country song, “Tequila
Makes Her Clothes Fall Off.”
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Mizzou
Collegiate Farm Bureau members Nicki Busdieker and Mike
Ockerhausen perform a dance routine (left) to “(I’ve
Had) The Time of my Life.” Busdieker and Ockerhausen’s
performance mimicked the ending scene of the movie “Dirty
Dancing.”
Photo By Sara Muri. |
Sigma
Alpha Barnwarming candidates (right), Tyler Francis
and Jo Wyatt performed “Jackson” a tune
made famous by June and Johnny Cash during their portion
of the lip sync competition.
Photo
By Sara Muri. |
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Tanner
Schmoll Meyer and Jamie Swoboda (left) of Block &
Bridle show a little country spirit during their lip
sync. They performed a Chris Ledoux classic.
Photo
By Sara Muri. |
There
were also classics like “Jackson,” performed twice
by Sigma Alpha and Collegiate Cattle Women and non-classics
like “I Love NASCAR,” performed by GDI.
Another skit
that drew attention to the characteristics of faculty members
was Ag Econ Club’s version of CAFNR Family Feud. It
featured students posing as Dauve and Monson, with the real
faculty members posing as students. Dauve’s infamous
greeting, “Good morning econ fans!” was said loudly
by an Ag Econ member while he tossed candy out to the audience.
Another participant described himself as enjoying golf and
smoking cigarettes and not much else as he portrayed Monson.
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The
Ag Econ Club skit showcased not only CAFNR students,
but also CAFNR faculty. Megan Twellman, right, questions
Jan Dauve, center, and Jim Spain during CAFNR Family
Feud.
Photo
By Sara Muri. |
The
real Dauve stood across from these students dressed as a female
college student.
“I liked the teachers being involved - it shows their
support,” Fischer said. “I think it is funny to
see our teachers outside of a classroom so we can see their
real personalities.”
The theme of CAFNR week is, “It’s not only what
we do, it’s who we are,” and having students and
faculty involved showed that this includes all of CAFNR.
