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Texting while driving causes Dudley’s past shows lack of The You Inside of Me opens brain ‘brownout’ • A6 leadership • A9 at Miller Gallery • B8 SCITECH FORUM PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan March 26, 2012 Volume 106, Issue 22 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Candidates vow Motion to impeach SBP Flittner fails EMILY DOBLER policy reforms Editor-in-Chief Jake Flittner remains stu- This year a record five available next Monday and dent body president after tickets are running for stu- Tuesday in the tabling area Thursday evening’s joint Un- dent body president (SBP) of the University Center. The dergraduate Student Senate and student body vice presi- Elections Board said that and Graduate Student As- dent (SBVP). Two candidates paper ballots are intended sembly (GSA) meeting. The are running for vice president solely for “cases where a stu- vote for impeachment did not for organizations (VPO), and dent encounters issues when officially occur, as GSA did not there is one unopposed can- trying to cast the electronic have enough members attend- didate for vice president for ballot.” ing to meet its 3/4 quorum. Finance (VPF). The SBP and SBVP candi- Flittner, a senior mechani- Carnegie Mellon’s student dates will debate on Monday cal engineering and engineer- government elections open at 5:30 p.m. in McConomy ing and public policy double this Saturday at noon and Auditorium. The VPO and major, faced impeachment close next Tuesday at 6 p.m. VPF candidates will debate hearings after Senate unani- Students may cast their vote on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in mously requested on March online, on their phones, or in Rashid Auditorium. With so 1 that he be removed from of- a paper ballot. many candidates to select fice. At Thursday’s meeting, Paper ballots will only be from, every vote counts. the impeachment motion was presented to the joint session, For more information about: and Flittner presented argu- The SBP and SBVP candidates, See A3 ments in defense of his role. The VPO candidates, See A4 Jonathan Carreon/Photo Editor The VPF candidate, See A5 See IMPEACHMENT, A5 GSA did not reach quorum, so the vote to impeach student body president Jake Flittner did not officially occur. OMx asks how to achieve happiness GSA donates to MADELYN GLYMOUR News Editor CMU endowment The OM organization BRENT HEARD past few years due to unspent brought five speakers and a Assistant News Editor student activities fees and dance group to the Carnegie budget surpluses, and Im- Music Hall on Saturday to The Graduate Student As- brogno has stated that spend- share their views on happi- sembly (GSA) recently voted ing down the surplus in this ness in an event called OMx. to contribute $175,000 from account would be a main goal The five speakers were Tim its capital reserve funds to of his presidency. Bono, a professor of psychol- the official Carnegie Mellon Heckmann said in an ogy at Washington University endowment. email that prior to the dona- in St. Louis; Hari Chandan, a As GSA president and tion, there had been about post-doctoral fellow at Carn- economics Ph.D. student $220,000 in the GSA capital egie Mellon’s department of Jason Imbrogno wrote in the reserve. engineering and public policy; official announcement of this Klemperer had greater Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon’s decision, “This is a testament support for the idea of col- former vice provost for educa- to both the strength of our lecting interest on the money, tion; Patty Eppley, a medita- graduate student body and which he said he had not tion expert; and Helen Wang, its leadership. I venture to previously been aware of. a Carnegie Mellon housefel- say that nowhere else in the “That wasn’t explained at all low. They were joined by the Madelyn Glymour/News Editor world is another student that way in the email from Pitt Nrityamala, an Indian Pitt Nrityamala, an Indian classical dance group, performed immediately after the program’s intermission. government wrestling with the GSA president,” he said. classical dance team. such significant decisions Klemperer still expressed Bono discussed the ways infinite happiness, why don’t presentation. “She spoke right erything that we have is more that can impact their concern over the quantity of the focus of one’s attention we see it? Because we are to me, with the idea that you than enough.” university communities to funds the GSA had sitting in determines one’s happiness. too distracted all the time,” don’t have to worry about Attendees liked Wang’s such a high degree.” the capital reserve account. He described studies which Chandan said. He described what others think,” he said. section of the presentation. “I Imbrogno thanked GSA Imbrogno stated in the showed that people randomly the four Hindu paths to hap- “That really resonated.” thought she had a good per- Vice President for Finance same announcement that the assigned to think about good piness: knowledge, devotion, Eppley focused on medi- spective on Carnegie Mellon Will Boney, Vice President for GSA would also appropriate things that had happened to action, and meditation. tation. She said that regular students,” said Vicente Estra- Campus Affairs Michael Mur- $35,000 from the capital re- them in the previous week Nair said that she be- meditation had made her a da, a first-year in CIT. phy, and GSA Vice President serve account for a new cam- became happier than people lieves happiness can be found happy person. Eppley said “She seemed to really be- for Finance Grace Heckmann pus bike rack project. Schultz randomly assigned to think through authenticity, integri- that in her adult life, she had lieve what she was saying,” for their assistance in this explained that the choice to about bad things. “One of the ty, and mindfulness. When she once been a “crisis meditator” said junior cognitive science process. fund the new bike rack proj- easiest ways to increase hap- took her children to campus in who only meditated when major Susan Dou. “If she Andy Schultz, materials ect resulted from a survey piness is to regularly practice the ’80s, they asked her, “Why things went wrong. Then, she didn’t have her notes, I bet she science Ph.D. student and sent around last year asking gratitude,” Bono said. does nobody smile at Carnegie said, her life fell apart. She would have made the same Vice President for Campus for input on what the GSA Chandan explained the Mellon?” By the ’90s, she said, went to study meditation with speech.” Affairs for the GSA, preferred should fund. Hindu spiritual approach to the campus was happier. Nair Deepak Chopra, a physician The six presentations were to frame the contribution in “The resounding answer happiness. He told a parable said that one of the reasons who specializes mind-body structured around a narra- terms of an investment rather was bike racks,” Schultz said. of two birds sitting in a tree. for the change is that there is medicine. Later, Eppley was tive, delivered by junior in- than a donation. The project is currently One eats fruit, some sweet more love at Carnegie Mellon going to travel to India to find formation systems and deci- “The GSA will get income being overseen by a commit- and some sour, and is happy now. According to Nair, love, a guru, but found she did not sion science double major from interest on that money, tee consisting of GSA mem- and sad accordingly. The oth- connection, and kindness are need to. “The guru is within,” Archit Kumar, the president which can be used to fund ac- bers, Undergraduate Student er eats nothing, and is fulfilled the keys to happiness, and Eppley said. of OM. Kumar played a Carn- tivities,” Schultz explained. Senate representatives, and of its own glory. Occasionally, they can be achieved by prac- Wang discussed her per- egie Mellon student named “This money directly benefits faculty members. It includes the fruit-eating bird glimpses ticing authenticity, integrity, sonal journey to happiness, Arjun Patel, a senior chemi- graduate students immedi- the plans to create a bike sta- the fulfilled bird. Chandan and mindfulness. speaking about pain. She said cal engineering major, who ately.” tion in currently available said that our true nature is Junior information systems that discussing and acknowl- was searching for happiness. Electrical and computer space in the Gates Center ga- that of the fulfilled bird. major Christian Reyes said edging our pain is not detri- Each of the presentations was engineering Ph.D. student rage. “If our real nature is that that he connected to Nair’s mental to happiness, nor is it meant to be a person or ex- Peter Klemperer said that he Schultz concluded that necessarily selfish. “When we perience Arjun engaged with was “a little surprised that the funds and interest gained give our story to the world, along his journey. GSA had that much money from this contribution would we celebrate our common hu- First-year CIT student Vi- left over” for such a donation. “go toward projects that manity. We create safe spaces jay Iyengar, one of OMx’s co- The GSA capital reserve would benefit graduate stu- for others to have their pain chairs, said that the point of has increased in size over the dents for a long time.” lifted off of them. And when OMx was not to teach happi- we do that, we create happi- ness, but to make attendees ness.” think about the way they prac- Wang told a story about tice happiness in their own her first years in America.