| | I predict a riot . . .the Lady Terps beat Duke and won the NCAA championships in basketball tonight. The score was 78-76 in overtime, I think. Walking around campus you could see TVs blaring in every room and screams pouring from every room. Everyone was watching - except a cappella singers, who had a concert at the Santa Fe Cafe (bar) tonight. All the a cappellas were there - The Generics, Pandemonium, Trebs, Kol Sasson . . . and the Faux Paz. And when the game ended and the riots broke out, the show had to go on.
Now presenting "A Cappella vs. The Riot - A Cell Phone Album":
 The show starts well enough. (The picture is of the Generics.) I run into my cousin Navendra, who's like in his mid-twenties and hasn't accomplished a great deal (though he says he's going to NYU to study law) but he has a very nice car. He offers me a drink. I say no. "I hear ya," he says. "Light beer. Nothing too hard." I say no again. "When's your group going up?" he asks. That's more like it.
The riot begins as people spill out onto Route 1 and Knox Road. A shuttle bus is trapped at the intersection and everyone has to jump off and run. Not that you can see that because we were not allowed off the Santa Fe property. Andy was out in the street because he wanted to see the riot. Rather scared, I told him to go home.
Inside, the Generics keep singing. This is their Boy Band Medley. All the fake-ID sorority chicks love them:
And the riots rage on. Kids have filled the parking lot of the Wawa:
After Faux Paz, PandemoniUM is the last group to go. I think they're singing "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand in this one.
Eventually, I get the hell out . . . alone, because I lost everyone else, or they lost me, and I'm pissed. But then I see some firefighters trying to put out a trash can fire but instead throwing fire onto the grass:
Here's McKeldin Mall when I got back to campus, and at the bottom of it - chalking for The Results Party, which is what I spent my evening before the show doing. It was a big relief to see something familiar and civil.
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