Editor:

I attended the Guster concert during Dawg Daze and I felt downright sorry for the band.The band did a great job keeping its spirits up during the concert, even when the moment came for the audience to sing and no one — and I mean no one — sang.

I think the lowest moment of the event was after the concert ended.My fiancé and I happened to run across Brian Rosenworcel, the percussionist. We shook his hand and told him he did a great job and that we've been big fans for quite some years.His response was less than enthusiastic.You could tell he was disappointed with the performance.

He asked us about the audience.All we could tell him is that every person we had met there was a freshman, because it was Dawg Daze and I had not been notified about a concert that was supported by my school.The only reason we had shown up is that we happened to hear a Guster song on KEXP (which is out of the ordinary) and the DJ had mentioned they were playing that day on the UW campus.

I am not sure the reason for the less-than-knowledgeable audience. Nor am I sure how one of my favorite bands played on my campus and I was not in the least bit informed about it.

Dawg Daze is centered around welcoming freshmen to campus, but what about the rest of the student body?There are plenty of us who would appreciate some form of "welcome back" bash.The rest of us need to be reminded of why we love the UW, and we need to be reminded that the UW cares about us too. Now, I'm not asking to be invited to learn how to ride the buses, or even asking the UW to spend more money on a barbecue that includes the entire student body.

The simple act of an e-mail making us aware of an already scheduled and free concert before classes start by a great band would do wonders.

— Kelly Zuehlsdorf

Graduate student

mechanical engineering