By Kendra ClarkCampus Editor

The Board of Trustees approved over $60 million to be used for the upcoming renovations for the University in their meeting on Dec. 5.

The renovations and con-struction funds were broken into different categories for dif-ferent projects.

Included in these projects are approval for parking lot and road renovations, Union renovations, classroom update project, Greek Housing project, Eppler Complex renovations and more.

The most expensive of the expenses came from the Greek Housing project, where Chief Financial Officer Sheri Stoll

asked the Board to approve the funding for the construction of the housing. The total pro-jected cost of the project is over $37 million.

“We put a great deal of time to student success,” Stoll said. “Housing is an important part of that.”

The second most expense item for approval, which Stoll was asking for $13 million, was the new infrastructure for buildings scattered around the University like Moseley Hall, Hanna Hall, South Hall, University Hall and the Centrex Chiller Plant.

“It will be disruptive to nor-mal traffic and pedestrians,” Stoll said. “It might also prevent August graduation from being in front of University Hall, but

these need to be done.”The additions for the build-

ings include new electrical ser-vices, heating, cooling, new sanitary sewer lines and more.

Another upcoming change is the approval for the Union reno-vation, which plans to take the Career Center from the Math Science building to the second floor of the Union.

“The layout for the office will be a wall of glass, so people can easily see inside the Center,” Stoll said.

In total, the cost for the reno-vation will be $2 million.

Lastly, another upgrade proj-ect the University is taking on is the classroom upgrade project.

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BALANCING BODY & MINDBy Natasha Ivery

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On Dec. 6, the Bowling Green community, faculty and staff came together to view a performance never experienced before in Bowling Green, the Chinese Acrobats.

Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the pro-gram was held at Bowling Green Middle School at 7 p.m.

Krishna Han-Frey, assistant director for Diversity Education Programs, was the coordinator of the event.

He said he held the event at Bowling Green Middle School to bring students, faculty and the community together in one common space.

“A lot of people asked, ‘Krishna, why didn’t you have this event on campus?’” Han-Frey said. “I held it at Bowling Green Middle School because I wanted to bring people together, the entire community and not just the one sur-rounding campus, so people could say they had something in common.”

Chinese acrobatics is a 20 centuries old art form of expres-sion that reflects the history of the Chinese culture. It can often be dangerous and challenging due to the physical lim-its that a performer is pushed to. Special and rigorous train-ing is in order before anyone is cleared to perform.

The show, which consisted of 10 different acts, featured an MC and four Chinese acrobat artists. There were three girls and a boy. The youngest was 17 while the oldest was 19.

Adorned in colorful two-piece outfits, the acrobat artists performed several tricks. The very first featured one of the girls standing on one hand while atop several building blocks varying in height. Another consisted of a different girl balanc-ing a candle on her forehead and in her mouth. Carefully and cautiously, she lit one candle single-handedly using the other. Another woman rode a unicycle while balancing and flipping dishes and spoons onto her head with one leg.

The audience participation segment featured the male acrobat artist teaching six audience members how to flip a straw fedora hat onto their heads and asking audience mem-bers if they knew how to speak Chinese.

The most dangerous performance of the night came when the contortionist performed. Contortion is the most popular movement in Chinese acrobatics. The girl appeared on-stage and sat on a rug. She performed various moves that twisted her body in different shapes and she also ended up balanc-ing a crystal chandelier set on both of her feet, head and stomach simultaneously.

Han-Frey said he brought the show in the first place because he wanted to showcase a different type of diversity.

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This is focused on updat-ing classrooms scattered around campus into a more “active learning” enviorn-ment, Stoll said.

In order to pay for these projects and renovations, the University will be taking out future long-term debt for the majority of the pay-ments.

Provost Rodney Rogers also brought a new degree to the Board of Trustees. It would be the Inclusive Early Childhood associate degree.

“This action is to allign the associate’s degree at Firelands to the bachelor’s degree here,” Rogers said.

Board of Trustees mem-ber Megan Newlove thinks the work they are approv-ing is beneficial for the stu-dents.

“We sent a lot of time vot-ing and getting these done, but I’m excited about get-ting into so many class-rooms and so many build-ings to improve our cam-pus,” she said.

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contacted us and asked did we want them to perform,” Han-Frey said. “I said we had no money in the bud-get to do so, but I said, I’ll book you guys and make it work. We ended up receiv-ing an ECAP rant from the Ethnic Student Center and they sponsored us along with OMA.”

Han-Frey said that it’s important to OMA that they carry out their mis-sion of diversity to help educate students, faculty

and the Bowling Green community.

“It’s very important that we enrich our community with something interna-tionally; reflect interna-tional culture,” Han-Frey said. “Diversity is beyond domestics, and we want to reflect not just inter-national and Chinese cul-ture, but also the culture of underrepresented stu-dents. OMA strives to cre-ate a welcoming environ-ment.”

The audience reactions were positive and well-received.

Anna Pozniak was

excited about the vari-ous moves that were per-formed.

“I loved the show,” said

Jim Zychowicz, her father. “I was mesmerized.”

Han-Frey said that uti-lizing the uniqueness of Chinese culture helps to promote diversity and inclusion, both of which intersect with the Ethnic Student Center and the Office of Multicultural Affairs mission.

“Chinese acrobatics is so different than Western acrobatics,” Han-Frey said. “Chinese acrobatics is unique and challeng-es Western stereotypes. OMA strives to give a diverse, global perspective in addition to an academic

perspective, which is why we brought the acrobats.”

Sue Zwayer, a faculty member in OMA and Access, Diversity and Inclusion said the show was particularly interest-ing because of the body control.

“Their body control was great, so precise,” Zwayer said. “It’s a very cool art form.”

Han-Frey said that the goal was to educate and entertain.

“In addition to retention and education, we just wanted people to enjoy,” Han-Frey said.

By Chris McGowanReporter

The “Amahl and the Night Visitors” opera premiered in the Wolfe Center’s Donnell Theatre Dec. 5 and 6 as part of the ArtsX celebration.

“Amahl and the Night Visitors” is a Christmas opera that tells the story of a poor shepard boy, Amahl, and his mother being visited by the three wisemen.

Amahl and his mother are poor

but offer the wisemen a place to stay for the night. When Amahl’s mother finds out the Three Kings are planning on delivering gifts to a child they haven’t even met, the mother gets outraged and tries to steal some gold.

After she gets caught, the kings decide to let her keep the gold any-way because she needs it far more

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ACTOR PLAYED main character, Amahl, who was a crippled, poor boy.

ONE OF the three Kings sings about Jesus’ birth.“AMAHL AND the Night Visitors” opera played in the Wolfe Center Friday and Saturday night.

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The Bowling Green women’s bas-ketball team displayed a solid offensive second half in a win over the University of Cincinnati on Sunday.

There was a big difference between the two halves as both teams struggled in the first. After nine collective points scored, there was a five minute gap with no made field goals. In partic-ularly, Bowling Green was 1-14 from the three-point line.

“With the age of this team, we’ve got to do something differ-ent. It can’t be a good try mental-ity because we’ve set the bar very high with what we want to do offensively,” head coach Jennifer Roos said. “But we are still giving them the freedom to shoot. I have no idea when the lid is going to come off, but I’m confident that it is. We still as a coaching staff have to give this team confidence

to shoot throughout the game.”Following the drought the

Falcons turned to Erica Donovan to jump-start the offense. After two straight lay-ups from Donovan, the team went on an 8-0 run to take the lead on the Bearcats. By the end of the half the Falcons were leading 27-24 but were shooting 30.3 percent from the field to Cincinnati’s 33.3 percent.

The second half was a big turn-around for the Falcons. To start the half, the team went on a 10-0 run behind made three’s from Donovan and Rachel Konieczki along with four points from Abby Siefker.

“The lid finally came off the basket,” senior Deborah Hoekstra said. “Erika came right out and hit a big shot for us. That three from the corner is her spot and it really got everybody going.”

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The 14th ranked Falcon hock-ey team shutout 19th ranked Northern Michigan 5-0 on the road Saturday night.

Freshman goalie Chris Nell improved his overall record to 5-0-0 and recorded 26 saves in the victory.

“I liked Chris Nell’s play,” BG head coach Chris Bergeron said. “When the game was still tight, I thought he made some good saves. There are still some things I think we could’ve done better defensively, but all-in-all we were tighter.”

Ben Murphy and Pierre-Luc Mercier scored two goals each on the night. Adam Berkle also recorded a power play goal in the third period.

“We came up to a very difficult place to play and I thought we did a nice job. I’m happy with the week-end,” Bergeron said.

BG went 2-for-6 on the power play, while going 4-for-4 on the penalty kill. BG also outshot the Wildcats on the night, 29-26 shots.

In Friday night’s game, BG and

Northern Michigan tied 5-5. The Falcons had a 5-3 lead in the second period, however the Wildcats rallied back with two goals to ultimately end the game in a tie.

BG goalie Tommy Burke recorded 28 saves in the game, and now has a record of 4-2-2 when starting. Ben Greiner scored his first two collegiate goals in the first period to give the Falcons an early 2-1 lead.

However, the Wildcats tied the game at two before the end of the first period. Early in the second period, defenseman Dajon Mingo scored his first goal of the season to give BG a 3-2 advantage.

Less than five minutes later Northern Michigan scored again to tie the game at three. Brandon Hawkins scored two goals in the

second period to give the falcons a 5-3 lead.

But, the Falcons gave up two goals before the end of regulation and nei-ther time could score in overtime.

“It was a high paced game tonight and we need to take more respon-sibility on the defensive end,” Hawkins said.

BG outshot the Wildcats on the night, 42-33, including a season-high 23 shots in a single period in the second period. BG went 1-for-2 on the power play, and 1-for-2 on the penalty kill.

Forward Matt Pohlkamp recorded three assists on the night.

With the win on Saturday, BG improved their overall record to 11-3-2 and 8-1-1 in conference play. They earned three out of a possible four points during the weekend.

The Falcons’ next game will be outdoors on Saturday, Jan. 3, at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. This will be BG’s first ever outdoor hockey game.

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The defending Mid-American Conference Champion Bowling Green Falcons came into this year’s champion-ship game a five-point underdog.

Northern Illinois covered that point spread and more with an impressive 51-17 win against the team that ruined their undefeated season one year ago.

“It was pretty obvious that was an outstanding football team that we played out there today,” said head coach Dino Babers. “They are a fine representative of our league champion. That’s a dog on good football team.”

The Huskies came out and dominated the Falcons in every facet of the game, excluding Joe Davidson’s perfor-mance punting the ball for the Falcons.

The Huskies did whatever they wanted on the field Friday night. They totaled 552 yards of total offense, 334 on the ground and 218 through the passing game. They also set a conference record for points in a MAC Championship game.

“The game plan was to come out and stop the run early and try to make it into a throw game for them,” linebacker Gabe Martin said. “They were successful in both aspects. They were able to throw and run the ball today, we didn’t play well defensively.”

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I’m just going to go ahead and let my Christmas-loving flag fly.

I’m not a fan of Black Friday’s new extension into Thanksgiving Day, but I do adore this time of year, minus the weather. The carols, the decorations, the time with family; all of it.

I, for one, am looking for-ward to finishing up this semester strongly and going back home.

Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s finally socially accept-able to listen to Christmas music and prepare for the win-ter holidays.

My family starts that very weekend after Thanksgiving, getting a real tree and hauling boxes down from the attic.

I know there’s a natural urge when you get home for winter break to recover from finals with sleep and a side of binge-watching Netflix, but the winter holidays will be

right around the corner by the time most of us get home for winter break.

At least in my house, there’s a lot to do to get ready, lots of bak-ing and decorating to get done.

Don’t complain when par-ents ask you to help them out, whether it’s in the kitchen or the “stand here, hold this” kind of help or looking after the little rascals your relatives bring to family gatherings.

Yes, it might be annoying, but you’re being helpful.

And why not ask the origins of some of your family’s traditions or decorations? That’s what I did. I asked my mom about the history of our nativity scene.

When I was growing up, my brother and sister and I took

turns, year by year, placing Jesus carefully in the manger between Mary and Joseph [we didn’t con-form to the drawn-out method of waiting until Christmas Eve to place the Holy Family; proba-bly wise when combining small

children and ceramic figurines] and we all wanted to place the Wise Men’s camels that were standing.

It turns out my mom and grandmother had each made a set at a pottery class and paint-ed their own pieces.

If I hadn’t asked, I wouldn’t have known that my mom’s grandfather had a miniature Christmas village and gave her the first piece to start her own.

My mom’s collection has grown to include a skating rink, a train station and even a greenhouse.

And as an aside: for pity’s sake, don’t get offended if somebody wishes you a happy [insert holiday you don’t cel-ebrate].

There is nothing wrong with saying “Happy Holidays” just to cover your bases, but there’s also nothing wrong with saying “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Hanukkah” or “Happy Kwanzaa” exclusively.

I have never understood why anyone would be offend-ed by somebody else wishing them a “happy” anything.

This year, don’t balk when your parents ask you to help them with the decora-tions. Enjoy the time with your family and you might even learn something along the way.

What are some of your favorite decorations and traditions?

You might pass them to your own family someday and you’ll want to know the cool history behind them.

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Last week, a congressional com-munications director resigned after getting blowback when she criticized President Obama’s daughters on Facebook for their supposed lack of style and inappropriate public behavior.

The aide, Elizabeth Lauten, was even more contemptu-ous of their parents, accusing them of not respecting “their positions very much, or the nation for that matter” and blaming them for their daugh-ters’ failings.

It seems odd that a “media-savvy” communicator wouldn’t realize that her words could go viral and that, not only Obama’s supporters, but anyone who thinks respect for others should be the starting point of our public discourse, might disapprove of her tone.

Her online behavior, how-ever, might not be just an indi-vidual choice, but also a symp-tom of crowd behavior. We all belong to crowds, even if today they are often geographically

dispersed and virtual. Members of these crowds

talk to each other, support each other’s opinions and prejudices and make us feel like the crowd has our back.

It may be that in Lauten’s crowd, flagrant personal criti-cism of people in other crowds was no big deal. Other crowds were objects of inside jokes, not to be taken seriously.

Now I’ll put on my German scholar hat. In 1960, Elias Canetti [1905-1994] published a book-length essay called “Crowds and Power”. Canetti won the Nobel Prize for litera-ture in 1981.

A Sephardic Jew, he was born in Bulgaria, grew up in England and Austria and wrote in his fourth language, German. He fled Vienna when

the Nazis took over in 1938. Canetti wrote that in

crowds, humans get relief from their inborn fear of con-tact with what is foreign or “outside”. A crowd creates an “inside,” an emotional refuge.

Crowds get charged up and discharge this energy, often violently, on non-members or the objects that symbolize them.

Canetti mainly meant physical crowds: soc-cer spectators, rioters and Nazi meetings. But virtual crowds are also strongholds of belonging and they are potentially much bigger than physical crowds.

Crowds can be sponta-neous or partly controlled. Sometimes they can be positive, not destructive, but they are always irrational and reckless.

Maybe Lauten thought she could discharge her spite and still have her crowd’s backing.

Maybe she wished more to belong than to show contempt,

but found out that members of crowds, especially virtual ones, can be easily sacrificed.

The dual role of individu-al and crowd member helps explain how someone can sincerely deny being person-ally prejudiced while speak-ing or acting in ways that reinforce divisions.

In the United States we like to believe each act is an indi-vidual choice, not representa-tive of larger power structures.

The policeman was protect-ing himself, not his crowd. The writer was expressing her per-sonal opinion, not her crowd’s.

But as we observe and participate in the virtual and physical crowds that are defining themselves after the events in St. Louis, New York, Cleveland and elsewhere, we should ask who belongs to which crowd and where that crowd gets its power.

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the gap but never got with-in six for the rest of the game. The Bearcats took nine offensive rebounds in the second half, but were only able to score four sec-ond-chance points.

The Falcons sealed the game with under two minutes left when a technical foul was called on Cincinnati that sent Hoekstra to the line. After going 1-2 at the stripe, Bowling Green would take the ball out under their own basket. Miriam

Justinger sent a full court pass to Donovan, who converted a lay-up after an intentional foul. Donovan hit the two free throws for a four point play that put the Falcons up 62-51.

“That really brought the crowd to their feet,” Roos said. “It took the air out of a potential come-back. We had to make some free throws down the stretch after that but that stuck out to me as the most important.”

The Falcons improved their shooting in the sec-ond half, shooting 40 per-cent and going 4-9 from three. They also shot 21-26

from the free throw line on the game.

“I really looked at this game as a must-win because this is our only home game in December so you want to play well in front of your home crowd,” Roos said. “Obviously going 21-26 on foul shots

was a big key as well com-pared to their 9-11. We had to make those shots down the stretch because they cut it to single digits with eight minutes left.”

One other point of emphasis was the Falcon defense. Cincinnati’s Jasmine Whitfield and Ana Owens average 50 percent of their scoring. Bowling Green was able to hold them to 10 collective points, 20 less than their 30 points per game aver-age.

The team will be back in action next on Saturday, Dec. 13, against Saint Francis.

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The Bowling Green men’s basketball team used a late second half surge to pull away and defeat Alabama A&M Saturday afternoon.

Instead of calling a time-out when AAMU cut the Falcon lead to eight points with 15 minutes to play, head coach Chris Jans decided to let the players work through their problems.

He felt the team needed to experience what it was like to see a lead go away and fight through it.

“I could have bailed them out and called a time-out, but I felt like it was an opportunity for us with our players on the court to fig-ure it out,” Jans said. “They righted the ship and got the lead extended.”

The Falcons would go on a run of their own and extend their lead up to 49-32 with ten minutes to play. From there the lead never got under ten points and the Falcons would go on to win their fifth game of the season 64-47.

Three Falcons scored in double digits, but Richaun Holmes led the team with 12 points and seven rebounds. Jehvon Clarke had 11 points and

Pep Joesph had only three points but added eight assists and no turnovers as the Falcons improved their record to 5-1.

More important than the improvement to their record, this win gave them the chance to forget their loss to Western Kentucky on Wednesday.

“I think all of us wanted to get that taste out of our mouths. It was really about us today trying to improve from the loss and get bet-ter and I thought we did,” Jans said.

The Falcons took one day off after their loss to WKU and focused on watching film to see what hindered them in that game.

Senior Jehvon Clarke said a few things they saw on film that they needed to improve on were rebound-ing, playing defense for 40 minutes and sharing the ball.

The biggest improve-

ment on paper came in the assists column. The Falcons tallied 19 assists on 25 field goals, a stat that Jans said stood out the most to him.

“I thought we were a lot more unselfish. We had a lot of selfish plays dur-ing the Western Kentucky game,” Clarke said. “From us learning from the loss of Western Kentucky it helped us today.”

AAMU came out defen-sively in a zone and in what Jans called a “nui-sance” press. The press AAMU used didn’t force the Falcons into many turnovers, but it slowed their rhythm down enough where they looked stag-nant on offense at times.

“I was excited to play their style of play because we haven’t been very good against the zone,” Jans said. “We haven’t been pressed a ton and when we have been pressed we weren’t execut-ing at the rate that we need to.”

Despite their some-time stagnant offense, the Falcons were able to keep their lead by getting stops on defense.

AAMU cut the lead to ten points at the 7:06 mark of the second half, but the Falcons locked down

defensively and went on a 10-1 run spanning over three minutes.

Then with the lead pushed to 62-43, the Falcons went scoreless from the 3:25 mark until a layup from walk on Brandon Busutill with 30 seconds left to play. Despite going almost three minutes without a basket the Falcons gave up only four points.

“Our offense for the last few games has been stag-nant. It’s kind of tough put-ting the ball in the hole sometime,” Clarke said. “Like I always hear grow-ing up playing basketball, ‘your defense can never be off, your effort can never be off.’ So on nights like that when you aren’t shooting the ball as well, it is always a time when you can play defense to substitute those times.”

With this win the Falcons move to 5-1 and will travel to the University of Dayton on Tuesday, for a match against the host Flyers.

“I’m proud of our guys we responded well and at the end of the day how-ever you get the W, whether it’s bad or good. It’s always good to get the W at the end of the day,” Clarke said.

JOSH GOMEZ looks to pass the ball inside against an Alabama A&M defender in the team’s win against the Bulldogs this past Saturday at the Stroh Center.

RACHEL MYERS looks to set up the offsense for the Falcons in the team’s win against the University of Cincinnati Sunday afternoon in the Stroh Center.

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The inconsistencies from the past two weeks that the Falcons were try-ing to put behind them were on display once again, for a crowd of 15,110 to witness.

Despite those inconsis-tencies there were short glimpses of life from the struggling Falcons.

It looked as if all of their previous struggles were behind them in the first drive, as they drove 57 yards in six plays to the NIU 24-yard line. But, just when it looked as the Falcons would put it together, back came their inconsistency.

The play after the Falcons were moved to the 24-yard line due to a NIU penalty, quarterback James Knapke threw an interception at the NIU 10-yard line.

Instead of getting points of some kind on that drive, their defense took the field.

Although that turnover did not lead to NIU points, it was one of the three time the Falcon offense would enter the red zone in that half.

“We started off the game hot. We knew we wanted to come out and pound them and hopefully after that we could open it up deep,” Dieter said. “They did a good job with their corners and after that it just felt like we were in an uphill battle.”

The most important play in the first half for the Falcons was made my wide receiver Gehrig Dieter when the Falcons were down 13-0.

The Falcons were fac-ing a third and eight on the NIU 42-yard line. The previous play Knapke had overthrown Ryan Burbrink down the right sideline.

This time he looked left and under threw Dieter a bit, but Dieter adjusted and jumped over the cor-ner back to make the catch and jog into the end zone.

“The corner was press-ing me and I won the bat-tle at the line. James threw it a little under me and the coaches were telling me to be aggressive to the ball when it’s in the air,” Dieter said. “That’s what

I did and it came up suc-cessful.”

That gave the Falcons their first points of the game with 9:26 to go in the second quarter.

“I felt a spark in the whole team,” Dieter said. “I thought that things were rolling and then it hit halftime.”

The momentum looked to be changing as the defense came out and forced a three-and-out, but the Falcons followed that with a three-and-out of their own.

The Huskies took advan-tage of the Falcon offense slumping again, as they scored a touchdown before halftime. The Falcons added a Tyler Tate field goal, but went into half-time trailing 20-10.

The second half was all NIU, as they scored on their first three drives and the Falcons went three-and-out. That run by the Huskies allowed them to jump out to a 37-10 lead with 4:07 to go in the third quarter.

“We came out at half-time and they put one on us and that was obviously disappointing and when that happens on offense you have to find a way to match,” Babers said. “With the three and out and no match then with them doing that again, it really closed the door on what was going to be happening in the second half.”

From there the game was just about over when Babers pulled Knapke and put in freshman quarter-back Cody Callaway.

The Falcons would add a late touchdown, but NIU would add two and walk to their 51-17 win. The win moves the Huskies to 11-2 on the year and the Falcons to 7-6.

The Falcons have now lost three in a row, but are bowl eligible.

“It sucks to be honest. Losing three in a row, all tough games,” Martin said. “It’s tough but the best thing about this game is that we get another opportunity.”

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Geof f Stephenson, Associate Director of Musical Theatre studies, directed the opera.

“Amahl and the Night Visitors” is the first opera to be written for television and the first Hallmark Hall of fame special, Stephenson said.

Gian Carlo Menotti, the composer of the opera,

was inspired by a painting of the Gifts of the Magi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Stephenson said.

“In Italy, gifts aren’t broug ht by Sa nta Claus,” Stephenson said, “instead, the Three Kings bring the gifts to the chil-dren.”

Menotti thought that he would capture the essence of his childhood Christmases in “Amahl and the Night Visitors” Stephenson said.

“The performance was heart-warming,” said Joel Trisel, a second-year graduate student in music. “There was strong singing from the principals and the cho-rus alike and the orches-tra supported the singers well. When the orchestra played alone they kept the magic alive.”

“[The performance] drew me right in,” said Liz Hood, also a music graduate student. “It was wonderful, very well pre-pared, and the acting was superb.”

“Amahl and the Night Visitors” was perfomed at 7 p.m. on Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday.

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