There always seems to be something to do on a Saturday night at Tufts, but this past Saturday night the campus played host to a different kind of entertainment.
Along with the prerequisite stumbling across Professor's Row, the quarterfinals of the Varsity Vocals A Cappella Championship in Cohen Auditorium kept many people busy. Five different groups - The Simmons Sirens, the BU Treblemakers, the Maine Steiners, Rutgers' Deep Treble, and Brandeis groups Up the Octave and Company B - competed for the chance to move onto the semifinals in Connecticut.
The Beelzebubs won the competition in 1993, its inaugural year, but did not compete Saturday night. However, they still got a chance to perform. The audience not only enjoyed the 15-minute sets the five competitors sang, but also relished the nine songs the Beelzebubs performed at the beginning and the end of the night.
The BU Treblemakers clenched the first-place berth, and Deep Treble was runner-up. Both groups will move on to the February semifinals, with a shot at the finals in Carnegie Hall.
