Students swarmed through the University’s Earth Day celebration at the EMU, attracted by sunny afternoon weather, more than 20 energetic campus groups and environmental advocacy organizations, and the solar-powered music of local band Rare Monk. The group performed a diverse variety of tunes for the crowd of curious students sitting on the amphitheater steps – everything from their own high-powered, violin-fueled headbangers to a lilting cover of Bob Marley.

The Athiarchists (Thanks Commentator!) put on a late-night heavy metal concert in the EMU Amphitheater, Mar. 4, 2009, drawing a crowd of interested students that stayed until the final minutes before the city’s nighttime noise ordinance set in at 10 p.m. The concert was intended to raise awareness of the University’s funding-troubled OSPIRG group, according to OSPIRG spokesman Rich Hastings. OSPIRG is attempting to increase its visibility on campus as it struggles to salvage funding recently cut by the ASUO.