#1121 Ben Norris
Hometown: Fort Wayne, IN – Newbury Park, CA – Powell, OH (all home)
Major: Chinese, Japanese, & International Business Administration
Graduates: Spring 10
Pledge class: Spring 07
Activities: your mom, OSU Athletic Band, Student Christian Fellowship, OASIS, ΑΛΔ, ΦΗΣ, going to OSU football, basketball, and hockey games
Interests/Hobbies: Jesus, The Buckeyes, anything and everything to do with music, band, playing my baritone and piano, skiing and riding, studying foreign languages, Guitar Hero, DDR, theatre, euchre, sushi, White Castle, The Green Bay Packers, eating select cheeses
Leadership experience: OLHS Field Commander 05-06, Director and Stage Manager of various plays
Favorite music: Mike Perkins, Cobra Starship, Permanent Me, Cartel, Toquinho, Ayumi Hamasaki, Hitomi, BoA, Utada Hikaru, Porno Graffiti, Bump of Chicken, Shakira, O-zone, the Who, Styx, Pink Floyd, the Killers, the Doors, the Cranberries, No Doubt, Dido, Abba, the Beatles, Mason Williams, Five Iron Frenzy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blümchen, Earth Wind and Fire, Nobuo Uematsu, Koji Kondo, Panic! At The Disco, TFK, Relient K, John Reuben, Flyleaf, Project 86, Plumb, Pillar, 4th Avenue Jones, Emery, LA Symphony, Anberlin, the Myriad, Krystal Meyers, The Benjamin Gate, Electric Circus Suits, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, DeVotchka, Duke Ellington, Chopin, Dvořák, some Mozart, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Czerny, Bach, Debussy
Favorite movies: Charlie Brown's Christmas, Pan's Labyrinth, Transformers, The Bourne Identity & Supremacy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Count of Monte Cristo, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Shawshank Redemption, House of Flying Daggers, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hero, Kill Bill vol. I & II, The Pianist, Happy Gilmore, Lola Rennt, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Sky, etc, (pretty much anything by Hayao Miyazaki), Akira, TMNT 1&2, The Last Samurai, Napoleon Dynamite, Thank You for Smoking, My Sassy Girl, V for Vendetta
Favorite books: the Bible, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, Jurassic Park, Animal Farm, the Harry Potter series, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, So Far from the Bamboo Grove, The Da Vinci Code
Lives in house: No
Q) Why did you join Acacia?
A) Blumenschein dragged me over at least a hundred times between classes and each time I met another brother, I felt like this was the place to be. The camaraderie is unbreakable and I am proud to be a part of that.
Q) What is you favorite memory of the fraternity?
A) I-Party…it owns everything…good friends, good fun, good times.
Q) What kind of influence has acacia had on your life?
A) My brothers in Acacia drive me to do the best I can and their encouragement and friendship are things I will cherish for the rest of my life. They have supported me in all of my endeavors and are always there to have a great time! Acacia has made me a more focused student while also showing me that life is more than just work and toil; it’s about enjoying the company of good people and not flying through life too quickly.
Q) What are your plans after graduation?
A) I would like to work at an embassy in China or Japan, get married, and have a big family with at least 4 kids.
