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Spring Day 2013: More than just T-Pain and Tyga Former
Highly anticipated day costs nearly a quarter million dollars to fund Enron CFO
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T-Pain. Tyga. Pulled pork. Duct tape. These are just four of many line items on the Campus Activities Board’s (CAB) budget for Spring Day, scheduled for this Saturday, April 27. As many students know, the Student Activity Fee sponsors events presented by CAB. Two weeks ago, The Vanguard published an article explaining which clusters the Allocation and Internal Audit Committee (AIA) allocates all of that money. Digging for more information about the process and the logistics of the year’s biggest event, Spring Day, The Vanguard recently sat down with several members of CAB and AIA. The exclusive interview revealed for the first time the complexities and concrete costs of putting together Bentley’s largest student event. CAB’s leaders see Spring
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Spring Day is Saturday, April 27.
Day as an entire day of activities, not just two artists getting on a stage in the Dana Center to sing a few songs in front of around 3,500 students. “A lot of people fixate on the concert, which is understandable because it is a big event, but we always try to have Spring Day be seen as more than just a concert,” said CAB president Patrick Maguire. “We really work toward that every year and it’s not something that you
can do in a year; it’s a cultural change both within the organization and throughout the university.” There are two sides of Spring Day: the concert and traditions, which are the activities that students partake in before the concert begins. In total, CAB’s budget for Spring Day is just over $225,000, which is relatively consistent compared to the last couple of years. CAB budgeted $170,225 for the concert and $55,950 for tra-
ditions. But don’t take those numbers out of context. T-Pain and Tyga make up only 76 percent of that $170,255. TPain is budgeted to receive $100,000. The remaining 24 percent of the concert budget is made up of line items that many wouldn’t even think about when planning a large concert. For example, CAB has $275 budgeted for 50 rolls of
The group met with various senators and their staffs about energy policy.
By Lacey Nemergut News editor
Fourth-credit students in Bentley University’s Environmental Policy (NASE 402) class headed down to Washington, D.C. earlier this week. Led by professor David Szymanski, the group has worked to assist the
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Environmental and Energy Institute (EESI), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and the Department of Energy (DOE) in marketing an innovative course framework, “Energy 101,” to colleges across the nation. The primary objective of Energy 101 is to provide students with basic
By Lacey Nemergut News editor
researched the links among energy literacy, education and sustainability, so they had the tools to speak with senators, staffers and even President Obama’s choice for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in his second term, Boston native Gina McCarthy,” he continued. “Overall, they had the wellrounded understanding of issues at the nexus of science, business and policy that made them stand out on the Hill. Bentley should be proud of the work this group did in advocating for systemsthinking in policymaking.” Throughout the semester, the students have actively gauged the interest of colleges across the country in Energy 101 through the use of a survey, which generated 55 responses from schools. The group presented their findings to the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and Gina McCarthy, the current Assistant Administrator of the Air and Radiation branch of the
On Monday, April 22, the Bentley University Academic Integrity Society (AIS) hosted Andy Fastow, the former Chief Financial Officer of Enron Corporation, who pled guilty to two counts of wire and securities fraud and served six years in prison. Students filled the Koumantzelis Auditorium to hear Fastow and a distinguished panel of the Bentley community discuss the grey area of fraud presented by the Enron case. Tickets for the event were sold out within 10 minutes of their release. “I’m guilty,” said Fastow, who refuses compensation for his talks. “That’s why I’m here.” The presentation began with details on how Enron impacted all stakeholders. $40 billion was lost in market value, pensions were destroyed, and thousands of jobs were lost. Ultimately, the downfall led to Sarbanes Oxley. “Accounting is not black and white,” said Fastow, describing the grey area of what can be considered fraud. “The world outside of accountants thinks of it as black and white. You’re mostly taught about the black and white situations. Those situations don’t really happen too often. It’s the situations that are far more insidious where you might think you’re doing the
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See FASTOW, Page 14
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NASE 402 students energize Washington, D.C. knowledge of alternative energy sources and terms, a concept referred to as “energy literacy.” There are seven students in this fourth-credit ServiceLearning group: Alyson Bisceglia (senior), Aaron Pinet (junior), Kaila Reed (junior), Monica Tshanakas (senior), Ryan Vermette (senior), Dan Westervelt (sophomore) and Laura Yates (senior). “Energy 101 isn’t a sustainability course, but EESI hopes that by educating students about different types of energy alternatives, students will be able to make smarter decisions about energy in the future,” said Bisceglia. “All of the students in the class learn that solid scientific data aren’t enough to make good policy,” said Szymanski. “By the time we make the rounds on Capitol Hill, they understand that making good policy requires them to think about matter and energy as systems, but at the same time considering the economic and social impacts of making decisions about the environment.” “This particular group had
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