Alpha Epsilon Pi
hosts performance
featuring comedy
sketches
By EMMA PERPICH
For the Daily
The
Lydia
Mendelssohn
Theatre was filled with glow
sticks, glow in the dark juggling
and the laughs of more than
300 community members at the
comedy show and charity benefit
“Laughter is the Cure,” hosted
by Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity
Tuesday.
“Laughter is the Cure” is
a comedy tour group whose
performances feature stand up
comedy, video skits and juggling
performances. Funds raised at
the performances go toward the
C.S. Mott Children’s hospital.
Michigan
State
University
student Sam Silverstein, who
created “Laughter is the Cure,”
did much of the comedy alongside
friend Nick Tangalia, a Berkeley
resident. The two comedians
said “Laughters is the Cure”
performances allow the audience
a night of laughter, while giving
back to the children at Mott.
”It was a way to do something
greater with comedy, a way to do
something better for the world
while getting our names out
there,” Silverstein said.
The two are both relatively
new to performing, and said
they use the shows as a chance to
gain some recognition while also
benefitting a greater purpose.
“It’s a ‘you scratch our back,
we scratch yours’ kind of deal,”
Tangalia said.
The
comedy
duo
has
performed at Michigan State
University, Grand Valley State
University and other comedy
clubs in Michigan. This was their
first show at the University of
Michigan.
As
a
visiting
Spartan,
Silverstein opened with a few
jokes to ease the tension between
the two rival schools.
“You guys have a business
school called Ross — I have a
drug dealer named Ross who I do
business with,” he said.
He also found common ground
between the two schools when he
had the whole audience scream
an epithet against Ohio State
University.
Along with stand-up comedy
routines, the performers also
used glow in the dark juggling,
morphsuits and Neil Diamond
sing-alongs
to
entertain
the
audience.
Education junior Sammy Dean,
a longtime friend of Silverstein
who attended Tuesday’s show,
said he’s been impressed with the
success of “Laughter is the Cure.”
“I remember when he first
got started with everything — I
didn’t know how it would turn
out and it was unbelievable,”
Dean said. “He is just so funny
and so talented.”
Engineering
sophomore
Justin Rogers said he both
enjoyed
the
show
and
appreciated
that
the
funds
would be going toward benefiting
children in need.
“It was great to see (Silverstein)
and the others doing things that
they love and also doing it for a
great cause,” Rogers said.
Silverstein said they raised a
total of $4,500, not including tips
and lobby donations, at the show
to benefit the children’s hospital.
The proceeds will go toward toys,
games and other entertainment
to make a patient’s hospital stay
more comfortable.
Moving forward, the duo has
a few more shows on schedule
in the southeastern Michigan
area, and said they’re looking to
expand their tour in upcoming
shows to other universities like
OSU.
“We want to keep the focus on
helping children, on bringing fun
to the kids,” Silverstein said.
Over the years, the collection
has since expanded to include
over
80,000
books,
letters
written by George Washington
and Christopher Columbus, as
well as maps of the Americas
from the 15th through 19th
centuries.
“Our mission is collecting,
preserving and making available
for research original primary
sources on American history
from 1492 through the 19th
century,” said Clements Library
Director Kevin Graffagnino at
the ceremony.
Schlissel
joked
that
he
was grateful that the noise
that came with the library’s
renovation
was
finally
complete, given the proximity
of the president’s house to the
construction site.
“I live right next door, so,
as any neighbor would say,
I’m actually delighted that the
construction part of this is
done,” Schlissel said.
LSA
sophomore
Christy
Finkenstaedt,
William
Clement’s
great-great-
granddaughter, said Clement’s
contribution to the University
in 1923 continues to have an
impact today.
“Today, with the dedication
of this expanded space, the
inspiration contained in the
collections will continue to
be accessible to many future
generations of students and
historians,” Finkenstaedt said.
Following the ribbon cutting,
Mark Dimunation, chief of the
rare book division at the Library
of Congress, gave an address
at the University of Michigan
Museum of Art, stressing the
importance of libraries such as
Clements in preserving original
documents.
“We must remember that
even ordinary objects allow
us insight into the emotional
and
intellectual
experiences
of those who lived with them,
providing visible, tangible links
to an otherwise unrecoverable
past,” Dimunation said.
Dimunation also said the new
digitization lab in Clements
will allow the past to be better
preserved and accessible.
Engineering
sophomore
Javier Taylor said he had always
been curious about the library,
and was walking by Tuesday
when he noticed it was the
re-opening.
“I’ve always walked by the
library, but for as long as I’ve
been here it’s been closed,”
Taylor said. “I honestly didn’t
know much about it before, but
it seems like a very cool place.”
Taylor added that he will
utilize the Friday hours when
the library is open to the public,
saying it could potentially be a
good alternative to the louder
atmosphere
of
the
Shapiro
Undergraduate Library.
Starting
this
week,
the
library will be open for research
Monday through Wednesday
from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., and
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 7:45
p.m.
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Phi Delta Epsilon and EkoAmazon
fundraised near the posting wall in
Mason Hall yesterday for seperate
nonprofits.
Pre-medical fraternity Phi Delta
Epsilon sold Krispy Kreme doughnuts
in Mason Hall for the Children’s
Miracle Network, an organization
that raises money for local children’s
hospitals.
LSA sophomore Heather Martin
said Phi Delta Epsilon primarily
fundraises for CMN. She added that
Phi Delta Epsilon’s president recently
attended CMN’s national convention
in Florida and found it to be a positive
experience.
“(The chapter president) learned
all these great fundraising ideas and
they even met a few of the kids and
saw where our money goes,” Martin
said. “They had such powerful stories
and she came back and shared them
with us. We’re just picking up more
fundraisers so that hopefully we can
give more money to our foundation.”
Martin noted the group has
encountered some difficulties because
they are a new student organization.
“Our last founding member is
graduating this year, so we’re about
four or five years old,” she said. “We
have been fundraising in the past,
but it’s a slow process getting started,
and there’s so many organizations
fundraising, so we’re constantly
coming up with new ideas, whether
it’s small ones like bake sales or our
student convention we had a couple
of months ago, where we brought in
some guest speakers.”
The University of Michigan’s
chapter of EkoAmazon, a larger
nonprofit organization that promotes
health care sustainability through
education in Peru and villages across
the Amazon River, also tabled near the
posting wall to raise funds for a trip to
Peru this summer and next year.
LSA freshman Anu Roy-
Chaudhary said because their
organization has only existed for one
year, they were not able to take any
of their members on the alternative
Spring Break trip offered by their
national organization.
Roy-Chaudhary added that
the ASB trip, as well as summer
expeditions that are offered, allow
students to volunteer in different
villages along the Amazon.
“They get you to interact with the
kids; you teach and you also help with
sustainability — so bringing water
filters down and things like that,”
Roy-Chaudhary said. “There’s a huge
disparity in water allocation and clean
water in Peru.”
Roy-Chaudhary said she had
taken a trip to Peru during her junior
year of high school and was inspired
to join EkoAmazon because of her
experiences.
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Comedian Sam Silverstein during his show “Laughter is the Cure to Life” in the Michigan League on Monday.
Fraternity-hosted event donates
funds to Mott Children’s Hospital