April 1994
1. PHILOSOPHY: It is the intent of the Campus Activities Committee to
encourage students to display their creativity and talents through SPOTS. We realize that
this campus has many talented individuals who should be encouraged to perform before the student
body and receive public recognition for their talents. It is to be considered a privilege to
be allowed to perform in a SPOT and, as such, the privilege to perform in a SPOT may be denied.
SPOTS provide a medium in which students are allowed to express themselves
in artistic,
creative, and humorous manners in order to provide entertainment for
the student body. Houghton College, in seeking to enrich the social, cultural, and academic experiences
of the student body, allows those SPOTS to be performed on campus whose content, message,
and quality do not conflict with its objectives as a Christian liberal arts college. The
following guidelines have been established to ensure moral content of SPOTS performed on campus.
2. AUDITIONS:
a. An audition committee will oversee all auditions. The audition committee
will consist of students appointed by the Campus Activities Board (may include the SPOT director)
and the Director of Student Programs or designatee may be a staff/faculty member or a student.
b. Auditions will be held two weeks prior to the performance date. Anyone
wishing to perform in the SPOT MUST AUDITION AT THIS TIME. If an act wishes to be in a SPOT
but due to scheduling conflicts can not be present at any of the auditions, arrangements
can be made at the discretion of the SPOT Director to audition at another time.
c. At the audition the performer(s) must run through the entire act.
NO ACT WILL BE ALLOWED IN A SPOT UNLESS A COMPLETE RUN THROUGH THE ACT IS
DONE.
d. The audition committee will determine whether or not the act will
be allowed. Qualified acts will be notified no later than one week prior to the SPOT.
3. PERFORMANCES:
a. There will be at least one rehearsal held prior to the spot. If an
act does not show up for the rehearsal, the act will be dropped from the SPOT.
c. It is recognized that improvisation is an important element of any
performance, but should any act deviate from the act performed during auditions, the SPOT Director
reserves the right to cut the act during performance and the performer(s) will not be allowed
to be in future SPOTS.
d. Humor guidelines:
1. When you try to get your listeners
to laugh at someone, make it yourself.
2. Try not to use material that
will embarrass pure-minded listeners.
3. Try not to make the sacred
appear common or profane.
4. Try not to use material that
will bring pain to another individual or group.
5. Strive to develop material
that will permit everyone to join in the laughter.
6. In humor as in all other activities
of life do all to the glory of God.
SPOT CRITERIA
