2008 Woodie Awards
Break into Reality
Student to appear on new MTV show
By Frank Skrip
Rocket News Editor
Issue date: 3/4/05 Section: Life
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Nyarayi Matambanadzo, a social work major at SRU, was recently chosen to participate in a reality television show on MTV U, a sister channel of MTV that broadcasts at many universities around the country.
The show, titled "I Hate Spring Break," has certain college students visit spring break hot spots to poke fun at the resident party-goers. Matambanadzo will be in Panama City, Fla., poking some fun at her peers.
"I didn't really do this to ruin anyone's time, I just don't see why people want to embarrass themselves on national TV," Matambanadzo said. "I don't want people to think I have sand in my vagina, but if all you want to do is to get wasted and sleep around, you could do that just as easy around here."
The process of getting on the show started in early February. Matambanadzo said she saw something on MTV's Web site about e-mailing them, explaining why you hate spring break. In her e-mail, she said she more or less was just venting about certain things that annoyed her.
"I wasn't really trying to get on the show when I e-mailed MTV, I was basically just telling them how some people can be really stupid and do things they're going to regret," Matambanadzo said.
Two weeks later, she got a reply from one of the show's producers asking her more in-depth questions. The producer told her to call after she e-mailed him back and then she spent the next week on and off the phone answering final questions from the show's staff.
Matambanadzo was visited by a cameraman Wednesday to film "the packing montage" and to get some random samples of her interacting with some SRU students.
"When the MTV guy was actually at Slippery Rock, we just kind of walked around for a little while asking people about their plans for the break," Matambanadzo said. "I think there was only one or two things I regret saying."
Matambanadzo said she leaves on Sunday for the two-night trip to Panama City. MTV will be paying for her airfare and hotel, and other than that, she said she thinks she has to pay for everything else.
Matambanadzo said she would be careful of what she says and does when the camera is rolling.
