Aggies rock for a cause
In true hippie style, Friday’s Reduce, Reuse and Rock Concert was casual and relaxed, and everyone bashed on “The Man.”
This is the second year the concert has been held, though this may have been the first time “The Man” was represented by a pinata shaped like the devil.
“I think Satan was a big hit,” said Patrick Clark, junior in music. Clark played bass for the band Viewers Like You at Friday’s concert.
Students smashed the candy-filled Lucifer representing those who create too much waste in between subtler messages to recycle waste and save the planet.
Isaac Anderson, a USU student who is not currently enrolled, told the audience he made $140 by recycling discarded copper scraps from a construction site.
“I’m pretty stoked about that,” he told the audience amid congratulatory applause and whistles.
Viewers Like You sang a song about recycling and the familiar blue recycling bins.
Morgan “Mo Eddie” Edwards and Ry Morse crooned, “Recycle,” and “Stop global warming,” in between verses during their set, drawing cheers from the crowd.
The concert, put on by Aggie Recyclers, drew about 100 audience members and included a raffle give-away of USU paraphernalia and discontinued “Recycle or Die” t-shirts made famous by Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Ashley Workman, senior in international and environmental studies and director of Aggie Recyclers, said the money gathered from admissions would go toward awareness education on campus. One of the projects the club is working on is raising funds for outdoor recycling bins, she said.
Workman said club members hoped to make the concert a yearly event.
Edwards, senior in art, said she feels recycling is a good cause to fight for, but there are other, better ways to save the planet people should focus on.
“I feel like recycling is great, but reducing and reusing are better,” she said. “Recycling still uses materials and energy, so basically people should just buy less stuff and share with people.”
Anderson said recycling is something he thinks pretty much everyone can feel good about.
“I think it’s a great thing,” he said. “I don’t see how anyone could disagree.”