After all the recent coverage that First Cellular’s Carbondale Main Street Pig Out has received from the Daily Egyptian, I thought that someone should make notice of another significant event that occurred on our campus on that same day. The event that I am referring to was Music and Motion, a high school marching band competition at McAndrew Stadium. There was no mention in the Daily Egyptian (about the event as a story).

First of all, I think that the gentlemen of the Phi Mu Alpha professional music fraternity should be commended and congratulated on the overwhelming success of the very first Music competition. In a combined effort with the SIUC School of Music and the Carbondale Convention and Tourism Bureau, Phi Mu Alpha took what was a mere idea last fall and made it into a great victory for everyone involved especially the high school students and our University.

Music and Motion was able to bring about 1,400 potential students to this campus and fill the west stands of McAndrew Stadium which has not been accomplished in quite some time. Music and Motion is planned to be an annual event that will be able to grow with continued and expanded support from all sources. The development of this competition could, and hopefully will, become a special tradition and a promising promotional tool for the University.

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Once again, congratulations to all on a job well done. Your hard work did not go unnoticed by everyone.

Senior, Early Childhood Education