By Connie Kim
Several events were lined up for the highly anticipated return of Stampede Week, which takes place during the very first week of school every year. One of the many exciting events was the popular performance of mentalist and illusionist, Chris Carter. Carter has been invited to campus multiple times for his wowing acts and creative sense of humor. This year, hundreds of students gathered in the University Center Ballroom and were amazed by his unbelievable showcase of mental reading and body language interpretation. He selected a few students during the show to participate and the audience was more than willing to be picked.
Carter was able to guess secrets and personal information through his “senses” and even covered his eyes (and the rest of his face) with a blindfold and several layers of duct tape. Students were also called up to play a Russian-roulette version of stapling his hand. Taylor Greene, freshman, was one of the many in the crowd who shared surprised expressions and gasps throughout multiple acts of his show.
“It was all absolutely insane!” Greene said. “I thought it was bogus at first, but I didn’t realize that it was all legit. That was so crazy.”
After the show, a handful of students stayed to purchase Carter’s book, which was advertised to help students read body language and subtleties to their benefit as
a student in school. Brandon Wong, freshman, was one of the excited students.
“I didn’t know what to expect,” Wong said. “The blindfolded part was my favorite.”
Students who stayed were also given a private magic card trick show.
“We love performers coming to campus, I feel like it definitely impacts the students,” Stavan Vanscoy, an active member of the Programming Activities Council, said. “It makes me happy that it makes the students happy.”
