{"id":627,"date":"2019-03-07T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/07\/201937student-programming-board-cannot-afford-top-tier-artists-for-wake-the-giant\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:36:00","slug":"201937student-programming-board-cannot-afford-top-tier-artists-for-wake-the-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/07\/201937student-programming-board-cannot-afford-top-tier-artists-for-wake-the-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Programming Board cannot afford \u2018top-tier\u2019 artists for Wake the Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">By Marissa Davis<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Although the Student Programming Board (SPB) did not suffer a budget cut this year, it is missing a significant donation from former Quinnipiac President, John Lahey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The donation, specifically intended to be used for the spring concert known as Wake the Giant, allowed SPB to obtain contemporary R&amp;B artist, Khalid, as a headliner last year. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cSPB did not experience a budget cut this year from SGA, last year they did receive a donation from President Lahey specifically to use for the concert,\u201d said Hannah Pancak, the SPB faculty adviser and assistant director for Student Centers and Student Involvement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Many students such as Quinnipiac senior, Julia DeLutrie, were disappointed to learn that Blackbear would headline this year\u2019s spring concert, \u201cI don\u2019t plan on attending Wake the Giant this year because I think it\u2019s a waste of money to pay $20 for an artist that I\u2019ve never even heard of and I really just have no desire to attend,\u201d DeLutrie said.<\/p>\n<figure\n          class=\"\n            sqs-block-image-figure\n            image-block-outer-wrapper\n            image-block-v2\n            design-layout-card\n            combination-animation-none\n            individual-animation-none\n            individual-text-animation-none\n            image-position-left\n            \n          \"\n          data-scrolled\n          data-test=\"image-block-v2-outer-wrapper\"\n      ><\/p>\n<div class=\"intrinsic\">\n<div\n          \n              \n              class=\"\n                \n                image-inset\n                \n                  content-fit\n                \n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              data-description=\"\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_3381.jpg\" alt=\" - \" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\n            <img data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_3381.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_3381.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"828x1792\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"IMG_3381.jpeg\"  \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Wake the Giant stage has hosted many notable artists such as Jason Derulo, Fetty Wap, Tiesto and Kesha. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cIn past years I have liked the Wake the Giant performers&#8230;their track record has been pretty good. It\u2019s really disappointing that as a senior this is the concert we get and it\u2019s just kind of disappointing,\u201d said DeLutrie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Some students seem to believe that SPB has paid hefty fees for artists to perform at Quinnipiac, and this year\u2019s concert will be much more inexpensive. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI don\u2019t know why people think that SPB\u2019s budget got cut,\u201d said Student Government Associations vice president of Finance, John Khillah. \u201cIt seemed that people believe that to reserve Tiesto it\u2019s actually a more expensive concert. That\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Killah said that every year, the artists for Wake the Giant are usually around the same price range. He said SPB does their best to find an artist within the $50,000-75,000 range. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">SPB has a number of things to consider when it comes to selecting an artist for Wake the Giant, like artist availability and the genre the university voted on via a survey put out by SPB. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThere are other factors that go into what creates our list of artists to choose from: 1. Tour date conflicts 2. Coachella (an annual music festival held in California) is the same weekend 3. Some artists do not perform on college campuses,\u201d said Pancak. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">SPB is able to provide a number of different programs for the student body through the budget it is provided, but Killah says it does not have enough to book an extremely well-known artist for Wake the Giant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cSo overall SPB has an operating budget of $380,000, they also then keep and utilize the ticket sales for Wake the Giant and that adds on top of their budget, so they\u2019re roughly around $420,000 for the year,\u201d said Khillah. \u201cDo they have enough to be able to effectively program for the student body? Absolutely. Do I think that they have enough to be able to get the top tier artists for our spring concert? Um, probably not.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">If SPB was allowed a slightly higher budget, Khillah thinks it could be used to improve Wake the Giant. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThey don\u2019t have enough money to get a \u2018great\u2019 artist but I do think that with a budget increase they can effectively allocate a little more to be able to get someone who\u2019s in a higher tier,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Student Programming Board did not have its budget cut this year, but it is missing a donation from former Quinnipiac President, John Lahey, to be used towards the spring concert. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}