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Welcome back all!

As you may or may not have known (you should have!), we had our second live remote of the year at Wings, Etc., one of our great sponsors at WVUR. This one, though, had a little competition: our sports directors Dave Schroeder and Keaton Gillogly competed against VUTV’s Jeff Greco (also a DJ at WVUR) and Julian Vigliano in the “Wall Challenge.” For those who are unaware of what that is, you have one hour to eat 16 of their hottest wings. Trust me, I had one and my mouth was smokin’! Well, that didn’t phase much of our competition; Julian won by getting all of them done in 15 minutes. Dave got it in 16 minutes, while Keaton finished in 18. Things didn’t turn out so great for Jeff; he didn’t finish and also had some problems that I won’t explain here.

All in all, the event was a great time. We had a ton of people there even before the Monday Night Football Game.

In other Event news, Dreams of University, our first opener at SourceStock, performed a cover of ‘Just Dance’ at the concert. Well, they emailed us a recorded version of the song, and we put it on PSI so you can play it! Make sure you listen to it and play it on your shows! It sounds awesome and even has some auto tune.

This Sunday, I get to announce Valpo men’s basketball at Michigan State! I’ve known this for over a month (had to keep it quite), but am really excited to do this game!

Keep checking the blog and stop by my office hours from 12-2:30 Tuesday and Thursday if you need something!

Mike, Events Director

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Hi all,

First off, thanks for checking the blog. I hope everyone is enjoying their time at WVUR and having a wonderful first semester. I look forward to hearing all the DJs, News and Sports staffers put the finishing touches on a great semester and looking to start a new one.

Well, I’m Mike Targonski, the Events Director at WVUR; I am also a member of sports staff. As the Events Director, I had a pretty important job at the beginning of the year and that was to put on SourceStock. Let me tell you, I never thought in a million years I’d be throwing a concert. I began working with Cameron, our General Manager, and Michelle Niehaus, the past Events Director, in April for the show. I spent a lot of time in Valpo this summer, working as an Orientation Assistant as well as making trips to meet with Cameron and some other people for the show. When we got back to school, boy, was it hectic.

The week of SourceStock, I spent every minute that I wasn’t sleeping nor in class at the station working on schedules, making sure we had everything ready for the bands, making sure we had everything ordered for the show, and also praying that everything was going to be ok.

The day of…it seemed like I was professional. I had no worries (for some odd reason) and didn’t think anything was going to go work…nothing did! The show was great, we had a huge crowd, and the members of the band were fantastic. And I slept forever the following day!

I wouldn’t say I still have a SourceStock hang over because I have done a lot for events and the station. I was able to finally announce some games for sports and have been planning other small events with other organizations. But things are a lot more calm in my department nowadays.

Anyway, I look forward to basketball season in terms of broadcasting. I love sports and can’t wait until we get the seasons underway…next Sunday! But that’s all for now. Stop by my office hours if you need anything!

Mike Targonski, Events Director

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