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CampusWise
Student Entrepreneur Trio Wins Accelerator Grant By Kadeem Porter Staff Writer Mace & Crown
“If you can find a problem that you can solve then you have a business,” are wise words spoken from Franck Tchouambou, a business administration major at Old Dominion University. Along with Daniel Calabro and John Polizos, the trio has planned the process of beginning their own business called CampusWise. The group of entrepreneurs described it as a local interactive Cragislist-type of social network, but more organized. in the sense, that any user would need a college email to sign up for each specific group and fair prices may already be determined by the administrators. Their initial plan is to execute quickly and start small, so there is a projected launch date in mid-March for the website. Old Dominion University users can expect to see find the first phase that will focus on book sharing. For any situation, where a student may need to rent a book for a few days as opposed to the whole semester, CampusWise would provide an outlet for students to reach out, help each other, and maybe make a few bucks on the side with shorter waits than shipping. The second phase, would expand into ridesharing and carpooling. Craigslist offers a similar service, however this is planned as being much safer and more organized knowing that all the options are from fellow Monarchs, and no one is going to be able to get away with sales scams.
SGA Address Dear Monarchs,
The main things we have been working on are our Employer Letters, Finish in Four videos and SGA Week. The letters are for various employers whom we want to see at our next career fair. They are basically outlines of why we believe we have qualified candidates. Students write the letters of which we send off to employers. If you have any ideas for employers you are interested in, please email me at mabdelha@odu.edu. The videos we are working on with senior Communications student, Aaron Hodnett, are about Finish in Four program and Stereotypes. We hope to have the Finish in Four video play at previews over the summer and the Stereotypes video will play at the International Festival. SGA Week is rapidly approaching and we hope to engage as many students as possible throughout the week. The schedule will go as follows:
On Monday, Feb. 18, we will be handing out pins that students typically get at convocation, especially for students that may have lost theirs, never attended convocation, or transferred. We will also be setting up podiums around the seal as a sign of our “don’t step on the seal” tradition. On Tuesday, Feb. 19, we will be hosting an STD Awareness activity, during activity hour, in House of Blue, with free Ice Cream and Cake! We also have our weekly SGA meeting at 3:30 p.m. in the Board of Visitors Room. On Wednesday, Feb. 20, we will be hosting an SGA forum to find out what student issues are arising which will be held in the Hampton Newport News Room at 2 p.m. We will be in the area before 2 p.m. if anyone cannot attend and would like to tell us some of their issues. We will hand out free REP ODU shirt with the new design and attendees will be put in a raffle for a hoodie. Chick-
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Tchouambou stated that by creating their own business, the group is learning to solve their own problems, and can fulfill their marketing dreams by starting out after graduation with their own company instead of trying to work for someone else’s. Until the official start of CampusWise, the students have been spending a plethora of their time running around from their office on Granby Street downtown. Along with office space, Hatch, a mentor-based startup accelerator program for entrepreneurship, realized the young group’s potential and granted them $15,000. As of right now, CampusWise is still in its development stages and is projected to begin mid-March. Once it becomes available to sign in, all that would be needed is an odu.edu email address to register and become a part of the action.
Nick Reaves was the designated person to start the dance in the video.
fil-A will also be provided! On Thursday, Feb. 21, we will be hosting another activity hour, in the front lobby of Webb. We will be stuffing animals for children, giving out discount cards, and raffling off hoodies. On Friday, Feb. 22, we will be hosting an “end-ofthe-week” celebration between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the House of Blue with food and a DJ. Come out and engage with some current SGA members and fellow students! Some things we are also currently working on include; a Busch Gardens trip for International Students, co-sponsoring the Exam Jam with OSAL, an “Eating with Strangers” event during Peace Week, a DVD sale and a presentation to the Faculty Senate about reading days. Hope everyone has a splendid week, please feel free to contact me with concerns you may have about campus life, academics and anything else! Mariam Abdelhamid ODU Student Body President
continued from “Harlem Shake” scene in 2000, is the creation of DJ and producer, Baauer. The dance has reemerged in the form of his trap electronic dance music (EDM) track, “Harlem Shake.” “Harlem Shake” was released over nine months ago, but is finally being noticed thanks to the power of the Internet. Relatively unknown, Baauer is a 23-year-old Brooklyn-based DJ and producer. Having found no success at making traditional house music, Baauer found his niche once he began making hip-hop influenced bass music. Fusing the two together, he has been able to rise with other DJs and producers by crafting the EDM sub-genre. Currently, the high energy, four minute track is being immortalized through the series of short, YouTube videos, typically 30 seconds or less. Each Harlem Shake video begins with one costumed dancer while others sit seemingly oblivious to the dancer’s silly moves and attire. With a simple camera trick simultaneous to the beat dropping, the onlookers join the action now dressed as silly as the first dancer. YouTube has seen a massive, unexplainable influx of uploads featuring these short, energetic videos since the beginning of February. Locally, Old Dominion’s baseball team and students within resident halls have uploaded videos of themselves performing the popular dance. While some don’t last as long as others, novelty and craze dances have been around for decades. New dance crazes often look to the previous ones for inspiration. Noticing the past’s influence on Baauer’s song and the videos it inspired, Jon Tyson, an Old Dominion junior said, “With this specific song [Baauer] took a dance exclusive to the black community years ago, and transformed it. [It has] evolved into an international craze that everyone wants to be a part of.” While the dance crazes that arise are fun, they do not go untouched by the criticism from other music artists, music critics and music fans for not being essential to their respective genres. In some cases, people even go as far as to say it almost ruins the authenticity and true vibe of the music. Although he recognizes the allure and novelty of these craze dances, Tyson said, “I don’t think they are musically important. A lot of music these days doesn’t really have much dancing, but it’s important in the music business if you can get a song that can sell and everyone worldwide will attempt to do a specific dance to.” Refusing to be left out of the fun, the Old Dominion Administration hosted a Harlem Shake video contest. Students were able to submit their own Harlem Shake videos from Feb. 13 until Feb. 20. The video showing the most Monarch spirit will be featured on various official Old Dominion media outlets including the YouTube channel and Facebook page. Videos could be submitted by uploaded to an active YouTube account and emailing the video URL to oduadmin@odu.edu.