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University of South Carolina Scholar Commons February 2017 2017 The aiD ly Gamecock, Monday, February 13, 2017 University of South Carolina, Office oftude S nt Media Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/gamecock_2017_feb UConn goes for 100 against SC PAGE 10 File Photo: Kamila Melko / THE DAILY GAMECOCK dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2017 VOL. 109, NO. 11 ● SINCE 1908 SG Candidate Profiles PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TY DILLARD ROSS LORDO STONE DAVIS Courtesy of Marytree Band Profile: Charleston grunge band Marytree Brad Dountz @TDG_ARTS For over two decades, the Charleston-based grunge band Marytree has been doing things its own way. Although it was formed in 1995, it wasn’t until 2011 when Experience: Marytree began to take off. The Experience: Experience: — Third-year mechanical engineering — Third-year public health student — Third-year mechanical engineering band consists of guitarist James student — Current VP of Student Government student George, bassist Brandon Hicks, and — Resident Mentor in Cliff Apartments — Former president pro tempore of the — President of National Honors Society drummer David Dietze. Marytree Former Cocky student senate in high school —Main initiatives: tries to stay hands-on with its music Main initiatives: — Has attended one student senate as well as the fans’ accessibility and — Carolinian Creed Edu — similar to AlcoholEdu, focusing on LGBTQ and — SG president seat on the board of meeting experience. Over the past few years, minority inclusivity trustees Main initiatives: the band has kept busy writing and — More parking enforcement to encourage — WiFi at athletic facilities, especially — Improving parking recording new music, producing people to buy passes Williams-Brice — System for students to submit music videos and going on tour. — Increasing accessibility and inclusivity of — Lobbying for new student union complaints to Student Government This includes releasing videos such Student Government Quotable: — Student Government email newsletter as “Marytree in the Studio” and “A Quotable: “I understand, especially from your Quotable: Moment with Marytree” to help “I believe that the people in student side, what it sounds like when there “It’s not my government, if I get elected, gov(ernment) have been living in a bubble are empty promises or things that are it’s not the Momentum campaign’s document its progress as a band. where they kind of like each other’s ideas, Marytree’s music videos have but they begin to retract from hearing the unattainable. But at the end of the day, government — it’s the students’ been a great way for the band to ideas of outside people.” all these things that I’m proposing are government.” thematically brighten its songs with things that … I know how to get done.” a visual aesthetic. “We love working with Docent Prodigy when it comes to producing videos,” Marytree said VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TREASURER CANDIDATE in a collective email. It also looks DANI GOODREAU JAY SELESKY at the past to form something new MERRITT FRANCIS within the present. “We’ve also created videos out off slicing and dicing various videos and putting them together,” Marytree said. “The first one like that was Don’t Ask Me How, and most recently the video for Duck and Cover was put together by slicing up nearly a dozen public domain archive films from the 40’s & 50’s about preparing for an atomic invasion.” With a wide range of influences that range from Jimi Hendrix, Dave Grohl and Metallica, Marytree tries to stay true to the core building blocks of rock. “We prefer our music fast, loud and intense, with a nice balance of power and pretty,” Marytree said. In an age where pop, EDM and rap have begun to dominate the charts more than ever, Marytree is aware of its unique and distinctive sound. “We Experience: Experience: Experience: write and perform the kind of music — Third-year political science student — Third-year mechanical engineering — Third-year economics student that we ourselves enjoy, and with the — Former president of Students Veterans student — Currently Secretary of Alumni pooling of our likes and infl uences, Association — Currently on the student senate Relations we really dig the outcome,” Marytree — Currently SG Secretary of Veterans Aff airs — Sponsored bill to hold referendum on — Transferred from Woff ord College said. “We’re not concerned with Main initiatives: speaker of the senate position Main initiatives: topping charts or getting millions or — Kicking the senate into gear with Main initiatives: — Quarterly system for student anything like that, but we don’t want attendance accountability — Recording every lecture organization fi nancing to sit and spin in circles, either.” — Increasing mental health support for — Phone chargers at Williams-Brice — Transparency and accountability in Another source of influence struggling students — Gamecocks Week student organization funding and exposure has been the bands — Continuing to expand the It’s On Us Quotable: Quotable: Marytree has opened for over the campaign “I will always want to listen. My platform, “At the end of the day you really have years, such as Theory of a Deadman Quotable: whenever I was talking to my staff , was to ask yourself, what funding is going and All That Remains. “Like one of my great friends and mentor that if you have an idea, I want to hear to impact the most population of the “We appreciate the number says, ‘Confl ict is good.’ So if there is it.” study body as possible?” of people we get to perform in backlash, I believe you have to take that, front of, who get to not only hear, because confl ict will create change.” / THE DAILY GAMECOCK but EXPERIENCE our music,” Photos by Leland McElveen Marytree said. — SEE PAGE 7 FOR EDITORIAL BOARD ENDORSEMENTS — Living in Charleston has inspired the band to grow musically and geographically. “Charleston is more about the acoustic and Americana bands, so Zero campaign violations reported for SG elections we are a bit heavy for the majority residing here. This has motivated Brittany Franceschina Monty Vallabhapuram happened with Michael candidates understand us to write more mellow and @BRITTA_FRAN joined Student Parks last year, that threw the rules. Candidates melodic music, in turn adding to Government this year with the grenade in the tunnel. understand that being Currently, there are our versatility,” Marytree said. “The the goal of avoiding what The people saw what was collegial is also very no Student Government other thing, we are highly motivated happened last year when happening,” Vallabhapuram important and that’s really campaign violations for to take Marytree on the road!” Student Body President said. come through. We’re very, this election. This comes in Marytree is building on the Michael Parks faced a Attorney General Cory very, very excited about stark contrast to last year, release of its studio album “Chipper” hearing for a solicitation Alpert felt this was a huge that,” Alpert said. when there were at least in January. The by-product of two violation and voting fraud achievement for Student Vallabhapuram 10 violations filed against years of work, “Chipper” has been violation that was given to Government. credits the success to the candidates. his campaign. “I think that’s a massive Elections Commissioner SEEBANDPAGE2 “The whole fiasco that step. That means that SEEVIOLATIONSPAGE2 2 Monday, February 13, 2017 About The Daily Gamecock Editor-in-Chief LARISSA JOHNSON Managing Editor LINDEN ATELSEK Design Directors LOGAN ZAHNER GREER SCHNEIDER Copy Desk Chiefs DEBBIE CLARK MICAELA WENDELL Assistant Copy Desk Chief ANDREW CROSSAN Photo Editor VICTORIA RICHMAN Assistant Photo Editor YANGXING DING News Editor BRITTANY FRANCESCHINA Investigations Editor MIKE WOODEL Arts & Culture Editors DARBY HALLMAN JENNA SCHIFERL Opinion Editors THALIA HOBSON DAN NELSON Sports Editors BOBBY BALBONI ABE DANAHER Senior Designer MARIELA RODRIGUEZ Senior Copy Editor JOY BRANTON Copy Editors MADDIE COMPTON ATHENA MAROUSIS Faculty Advisor DOUG FISHER Student Media Director SARAH SCARBOROUGH Social Media Coordinator SYDNEY PATTERSON Courtesy of Tribune News Service Social Media Editors TAYLOR EVANS SARAH HARDIN ADAM ORFINGER Creative Director EDGAR SANTANA “The United States of America Creative Services WANDA FELSENHARDT, ELIZABETH JENNINGS, EMILY LOR Advertising Representatives JOLIE DELIA, stands behind Japan, its great ally, MORGAN MACLACHLAN, ANDREW SNIGHT, DREW THIEL, CAMERON WHITE The Daily Gamecock is the editorially independent student newspaper of the University of South Carolina. 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Walmart to check papers dailygamecock.com — we know who we are EDITOR ARTS & CULTURE [email protected] [email protected] NEWS SPORTS going out to seek.” [email protected] [email protected] OPINION PHOTO [email protected] [email protected] Newsroom: Editor’s offi ce: 777-7726 —Immigration and Customs Enforcement 777-3914 offi cial said on 600 people arrested across US in one week. Courtesy of Tribune News Service BANDPAGE1 still be surprised at the signs of slowing down process. anytime soon. a high mark in the band’s “I think what surprised “You know, we trajectory. me most about this don’t really have many “A ntifoniq Recordings album is just how delusions of grandeur, but (Dwayne Greenhill) dynamic it turned out our sights and goals ARE produces our music, and being,” Marytree said.