Festival of student performances draws heavy crowds

Hundreds of students flocked to the Hopkins Center Saturday night for the second annual "Rock the Hop," a six-hour extravaganza of student performances and artistic displays. All throughout the center there were singers belting and crooning, a capella groups indulging in antics, light shows and displays dazzling the crowds, poets and actors reciting to enchanted audiences and of course, hordes of students milling around and taking it all in. "I thought it was great.