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THE EMORY WHEEL Since 796 B.C.
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Volume 95, Issue 39 www.emorywheel.com
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Students Experience Voting Problems
T-Pain To Perform At Oxford Campus
Election Ballots Incorrect Despite New Electronic Interface By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor
By Sonam Vashi Executive Editor He may not “buy u a drank,’ but hip-hop artist T-Pain will be performing at Emory’s Oxford campus for its Spring Concert on April 11. All currently enrolled Oxford and Emory students are eligible to attend the event, which will be held on Oxford’s Quad in Covington, Ga. To see the show, Atlanta campus students need to bring their Emory cards and can take Emory’s Cliff shuttles that night to Oxford campus, a 45-minute ride. The Spring Concert marks the culmination of Oxford’s Spirit Week, hosted by the T-Pain, hipStudent Activities hop artist, Committee will perform (SAC), Oxford’s equivalent to the at the end Atlanta cam- of Oxford’s pus’ Student Spirit Week Programming Committee (SPC). “We wanted to bring someone that everyone was aware of and would enjoy to create a communal experience,” SAC President Brent Buckley said. “We feel that T-Pain fits that, and that he’ll bring a great concert to the Oxford community.” Famous for popularizing Auto-
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College junior Mukundha Sastry threw shirts out to the crowd at the ‘Taste of Emory’ event during the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-inspired Dooley’s Week.
Students Flood ‘Taste of Emory’ By Dustin Slade News Editor Hundreds of students lined up in front of restaurant booths on McDonough Field yesterday as part of the Student Programming Council’s (SPC) fifth annual “Taste of Emory,” the first event of this year’s Dooley’s Week. More than 2,000 students visited McDonough field as local restaurants — including Johnny Rocket’s, BurgerFi, Tin Lizzy’s, Doc Chey’s and Willy’s Mexicana Grill — offered students samplings of their cuisine, according to College senior and event Co-Chair and Matthew Willis. Co-Chairs Julia Baker, a College sophomore, and Willis led the SPC committee tasked with organizing the event.
Willis and Baker worked to ensure that the event was an improvement from the previous year not only by bringing in new restaurants, including Whole Foods Market and Holeman & Finch, but also by improving the “ambiance and overall experience,” Willis said. Both Baker and Willis reached out to numerous restaurants in the Atlanta area in preparation for the event. After receiving feedback from various restaurants, there were around 30 businesses that showed interest in participating in the event, according to Baker. She added that 17 restaurants confirmed for the event and 16 ended up participating. Many students were satisfied with
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DOOLEY’S WEEK EVENTS Today Wonka’s Speakeasy 7-9 p.m. at Cox Hall Ballroom
Wednesday Wonderful Wednesday 12:30-2:30 p.m. at Asbury Circle
Thursday Comedian Chris D’Elia 7 p.m. at Glenn Memorial
Friday Dooley’s Ball feat. 5 & A Dime 8 p.m. at McDonough Field
Saturday Chance The Rapper 7 p.m. at McDonough Field
Despite this year’s new interface meant to fix past election ballot issues, students still experienced problems while voting in student government elections this week. The Elections Board, a subsidiary of Student Government Association (SGA), sent out a University-wide email on Monday afternoon suggesting tips to students who have been having problems completing the election ballot, including slow loading, error messages and ballots that fail to correspond to correct graduation years. The election ballot was sent to all students at midnight on Sunday, and elections will end on April 2 at 11:59 p.m. Goizueta Business School students received ballots that mistakenly corresponded to their class standing — determined by the number of credit hours taken — instead of their graduation year, according to B-School sophomore and Elections Board RHA Commissioner Bryce Robertson, who is also a sales associate of the Wheel. This means that students in the class of 2016 in the B-school who qualify for junior standing with their credit hours received the names of class representatives from the class above them. They were asked to vote for representatives not in their graduating class. Robertson said this year, he coordinated with all the representatives from the divisional councils to ensure that the ballots were set to graduation year instead of class standing.
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PATTERN OF ISSUES Previous Years Students’ ballots corresponded to class standing, not graduation year.
October 2013 SGA voted to fund a new interface that was supposed to fix the balloting issue.
This Year All B-school students and some College students have reported having incorrect ballots. However, he added that the BBA council ballots were mistakenly set to class standing. Still, it is unclear why there are some incorrect ballots for College students, but not others. While many students outside of the B-school did not have this problem, some students like College junior Lex Gardner reported that they also had incorrect ballots. “I thought it was disappointing that, with all the issues with elections last year and the creation of the new elections board, there were still issues,” Gardner said. “I am encouraged, however, that the website seems to be working more effectively after the first night. Good thing they extended the voting period to be over a few days [unlike last year].” In past elections, this problem has
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FEATURE
Q&A: ‘Pineapple Express’ Director By Casey Horowitz Contributing Writer David Gordon Green is a writer, director and producer best known for studio comedies “Pineapple Express” and “The Sitter,” as well as independent feature films including “All the Real Girls” and “Prince Avalanche.” Before premiering his 10th feature film “Joe” at the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival, Green paid a visit to Emory University to deliver a talk to the student body. The Wheel had the opportunity to sit down with Green and learn about his experiences as a filmmaker. Where are you from, what sparked your interest in film and what was your college education like?
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Director and producer David Gordon Green, I was born in Little Rock, Ark., but I grew up in known for comedies such as “Pineapple Dallas, and I always loved going to the movies. I Express,” spoke to Emory students last week. Andy Ie/Staff
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seven-story-tall banner of Dooley, Lord of Misrule, hung from the side of the Robert W. Woodruff Library to mark the beginning of Dooley’s Week, which is the annual celebration honoring James W. Dooley, Emory’s unofficial mascot.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SGA Funds New WoodPEC Equipment By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor The 47th Legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) voted unanimously to fund new weight-lifting equipment for the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC) and to approve revisions to the Media Council Constitution. College sophomore and SGA Sophomore Representative Michael Lor presented the bill to the Legislature. He said he asked stu-
dents and members of the WoodPEC staff what equipment they wanted in the WoodPEC. According to him, students wanted more dumbbells. The bill asks that SGA fund 26 sets of dumbbells of various weights ranging from five pounds to 60 pounds. Additionally, the bill funds a Magnum multi-adjustable bench and the freight, delivery and installation costs. In total, the bill asked for $8,776 from SGA’s Fee Interest Account
(FIC), which is designated for longterm projects lasting three or more years. The Legislature voted unanimously to fund this amount. SGA also voted unanimously to revise Media Council’s Constitution. Media Council is a University-wide organization (UWO) that oversees student-produced media like Emory Television (ETV) and Emory’s student-run radio station WMRE. According to full-time MBA
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You find people that are excellent at what they do, and some of your best friends maybe aren’t the best for the job. It’s about surrounding yourself with a group of people you’re inspired by. I want to work with people where, when we have a great success, we’re there to celebrate together, and when we have a great failure, we’re there to lift each other back up and get to work and not really be bound by the perception of traditional Hollywood observers. You mentioned that you went into college without a connection in Hollywood. How did you overcome that networking obstacle? We never asked for a connection in Hollywood. We just started saving our money and spending our money. We didn’t ask people for the keys to the Porsche; we just started driving the Jalopy. Eventually, people started catching on and started paying us to do it. We
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on your movies in college, like Tim Orr, your cinematographer and David Wingo, your composer. What do you feel the importance is of forming these creative partnerships?
You met a lot of professionals who work with you
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would go with my dad a lot. I always had a bit more than an entertainment interest in movies; I really just took them seriously. I loved absorbing anything I could get my hands on behind the scenes, or if I could find a script that I could read or movie magazines I’d subscribe to. I started really exploring what it took to make movies from a young age. I was always really drawn to the concept of movie-making. My mother told me there was a great arts program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. It was just a campus of musicians, dancers and artists of various types and a brand new film school. So I went to school there. It wasn’t full of people with a ton of cash or networking. It was filled with people like me that loved watching movies and thought about making movies. I worked in the film archive, and that’s where I met most of the guys I make movies with. We went to school for a few years and started playing with equipment, talking about stories and things we’d like to make and our influences. We got out of school, saved up our money and started making movies. We just finished our 10th movie together, and we’ve done a ton of TV shows and commercials. It’s an interesting collective. Danny McBride and Jodi Hill lived down the hall from me in college, and now we own a company together!
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