Stockton Edition of The Voice
On Wednesday the 12th of November, my friends and I had decided to watch singers perform in Stockton’s Edition of The Voice. The event was planned by SET and we were interested in seeing how everything would come together. It was an overall good show to watch and all of the singers were very talented. However, they should have explained the rules to the audience beforehand.
The way that SET ran the show was very different from the actual show on NBC. On Wednesday night, during the show the contestants came out on the stage and got ready to sing. The judges had their backs to the audience and the performer. As the performer would sing, judges would turn around in their seat if they were interested. Then they would automatically be assigned to coach that singer and the other judges would turn their seats around. At first it was unclear as to which judge would be coaching the singer because nobody had explained the rules in the beginning. My friends and I were left to figure the rules out on or own.
There was an intermission after all ten contestants had performed. During the intermission the contestants were coached by the judge that chose them. Everyone else in the audience was able to enjoy root beer floats and soft pretzels. After the intermission, the final four was revealed. I agreed with some of the singers chosen for the top four, but I had some other performers in mind.
While the judges deliberated for the final rankings, most of the singers who had performed gathered back on stage and sang an impromptu mixture of beats and songs. I enjoyed seeing them all harmonizes together. I did not agree with the final results that the judges chose, but each performer did a great job.

Homecoming Spirit Night
A great way of kicking off Stockton’s Heroic Homecoming Weekend was with Spirit Night on the 11th of October.
One of the first things to happen was the crowning our Stockton’s Homecoming King and Queen. I can tell that the competition was tough this year because everyone did a great job campaigning, and I liked the creative videos that they came up with. In the end, Matt and Laura were crowned as the king and queen.
A lot of Stockton’s clubs were able to let the audience know of upcoming events and fundraisers. One club in particular that did something different was Stockton’s Sign Language Club. They signed the Taylor Swift Song “Shake It Off”. It was cool to see them all get really into the song and show everyone how fun learning sign language can be. Stockton’s dance team and cheerleading team both had performances. It was clear that all of their hard work paid off.
The sport teams were able to give themselves a little introduction of how their season was going. I was surprised at how well some of our teams’ records were. For example, our basketball team’s record for the past season was 25-5. Our baseball team also had a pretty strong record. Other teams such as the soccer and field hockey teams were trying to finish off their seasons strong, and they had exciting matches coming up against Ramapo and Rowan.
After the program was over everyone was able to get t-shirts for our Homecoming Weekend and have some pizza. Spirit Night was followed by an event hosted by the SET club. There was a comedy show featuring Nicole Byer and Kevin Barnett. It attracted a larger audience. I was familiar with the comedians because they are on the MTV show Girl Code and Guy Code. They are just as funny in person as they are on MTV. A lot of their jokes were about finding humor in themselves and their flaws. It’s good for everyone to be able to laugh at themselves and any situations that may come their way.
Overall Spirit Night was a fun and exciting way to get everyone ready for the Osprey Ball that followed the next day.

Whose Line
On September 24th one of my favorite events took place which is Whose Line. This was my third time seeing this comedy, but what made it more exciting and special this time was having some of my great friends featured in the show. It was exciting to know that the show would feature a lot of freshmen
The show started with the improve game where all of the actors create a scene but they all enter at different times and change the plot. Then as they exit the scene the plot reverts to the previous one. It was entertaining to see how quickly everyone could shift from the different scenes.
Some of the games required participation from the audience, which was great to see. For one of the games, three people were selected from the audience and they had to keep the scene going by only asking questions. I could tell how difficult this was for some of the actors because when one is caught up in the moment and put on the spot it is hard to follow the rules all of the time.
One of my favorite games that they did was called “Why Were You Late,” and one of the actors had to actor out three reasons why the other actor was late and she had to explain them to her boss, who was a volunteer from the audience.
Overall it was a great show considering it was many of the actors’ first times being on stage at Stockton.