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Volume 99, Issue 5 EMORY ANNEXATION

DeKalb, Atlanta Settle on Annexation One Step Closer to MARTA at Emory By richard chess News Editor

Emory is expected to be annexed into Atlanta after a settlement was reached between DeKalb County and Atlanta, resolving objections from the county that delayed the annexation process.

The settlement was approved 5-0 at a DeKalb County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday and ends the arbitration process between DeKalb County and Atlanta.

The settlement includes zoning conditions and an intergovernmental agreement to allow DeKalb County to continue providing services, County attorney Viviane Ernstes said at the meeting.

For the annexed area, DeKalb County will continue fire operations and “underground” services, including stormwater and sewer.

Utility services will remain at the same rate for property owners, according to Ernstes.

Atlanta will compensate DeKalb County $1 million per year for up to 10 years for fire services, Ernstes said.

As part of the agreement, DeKalb County and Atlanta will make a joint request to MARTA to hold a public hearing in the annexed area to dis-

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cuss rapid transit for the proposed Clifton Corridor project, Ernstes said.

The project, if pursued, could bring a MARTA station to Emory’s campus, one of Emory’s main objectives for petitioning annexation.

Zoning regulations will require that land in the annexed area continue complying with DeKalb County zoning regulations, and property in DeKalb County’s historic districts must become part of an Atlanta historic district, according to Ernstes.

A copy of the settlement has not yet been made public.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Egleston Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA), Synod of South Atlantic Presbyterian Church, Georgia Power and Villa International will be the properties annexed into Atlanta, Ernstes said.

An arbitration panel was previously scheduled to convene Wednesday morning to resolve the objections but the panel will no longer meet, according to Ernstes.

Objections from DeKalb County included increased demands on County infrastructure and legal infirmities that require corrections or more collaboration.

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HURRICANE

Maria Sends Puerto Rican Students Reeling

By Maddie BoBer Contributing Writer

After Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico without electricity and water, Emory students from Puerto Rico were largely left in the dark as they tried to communicate with friends and family back home.

“It was the most scared I have ever been in my life,” President of the Puerto Rican Student Association (PRSA) Josue Rodriguez (20C) said.

“The only message I received [from my dad] said ‘I’m scared.’ And when you hear your dad say that, you feel it.”

In the aftermath of the storm, government officials said that recovery for Puerto Rico, which is already dealing with a financial crisis, would take at least four months.

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo A. Rossello characterized the island as being on “the brink of a humanitarian crisis” Sept. 25 and urged the federal government to send more money, workers and supplies to aid relief efforts, according to The New York Times. In response to the crisis, Emory students from Puerto Rico have united with a network of 50 collegiate organizations nationwide to fundraise aid for their home.

“It’s been a nationwide effort, and it’s called #StudentsWithPuertoRico,” Rodriguez said. “We’ve raised over $15,000 in just one day through the Students with Puerto Rico GoFundMe.” Maria was the most powerful storm to hit the U.S. territory since 1928, according to NASA. The category 4 storm was a tough blow on the island’s

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Category 4 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto rico last week, killing at least 16 people and leaving most of the island without electricity. outdated infrastructure and killed at least 16 people, according to The Weather Channel.

Frances Connor (19C) said returning to Puerto Rico “will be hard” after Maria ravaged the island.

“Puerto Rico won’t be the same,” Connor said. “I’m afraid to go back and not recognize my home.”

Lucas Mondo (19C) said Maria “completely destroyed” his home and has left his family in the dark.

“Because there’s no electricity, my family lives by candlelight,” Mondo said. “My mom and dad work from the house, so not having power affects their income [and] how they live every day.”

Multiple Emory students from Puerto Rico have yet to hear from their families, Rodriguez told the Wheel Friday evening.

“I wasn’t able to talk to family for nearly a day and a half,” Angelica

DAYS OF PEACE

Tabaro (21C) said. “I live in Dorado, and it’s completely flooded … people can’t leave their homes. Trees are all down, as well as the power lines.”

Connor added that Puerto Ricans are dedicated to rebuilding their home, whether they are on the island or abroad.

“People aren’t saying they want to leave — they’re saying they want to help,” Connor said. “And people in the [U.S. are saying], ‘I want to go, I want to go back, I want to help.’”

Jovaan Velez (21C) recalled a phone call with his mother, who weathered the storm alone.

“The windows were opening in my house [because of the wind], and my mom was alone,” Velez said. “She had to safeguard the house by herself, where she said rain was getting into my room, and she wasn’t able to close

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HOMECOMING

Post Malone to Headline Concert

By Michelle lou Executive Editor

By alexis WiseMan Contributing Writer

Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Dwight McBride said he hopes to remedy Laney graduate students’ concerns without unionization and discussed new administrative roles within the Provost’s office in his first interview with the Wheel.

“I don’t think unions, for graduate students and at universities in general, are a good thing,” McBride said.

“I think that there are other ways of remedying concerns. If we have … adequate lines of communication, I don’t think an outside third party that doesn’t understand higher education is what I would want involved in making

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NEWS College Student,

Nearly 25 years ago, Marguerite Barankitse was tied up and forced to watch the murders of 72 people.

The Burundian humanitarian, who came face to face with the brutality of the Burundian genocides, deliv-

ered the keynote address to close out Emory’s 21 Days of Peace Sept. 22.

About 50 people attended the event, held in The Center for Ethics Commons.

In the early 1990s, tensions rose between the Hutus and the Tutsis, two ethnic groups in Burundi, an East African territory.

The Tutsis dominated government positions and viewed the Hutus as inferior, Barankitse said.

In 1993, a group of armed Tutsis entered the Catholic bishop’s residence, where Barankitse worked, to kill Hutu families hiding inside.

Rapper Post Malone is set to perform Friday, Oct. 20, on McDonough Field as part of this year’s Homecoming Week, according to Student Programming Council (SPC) President Tamara Ezzat (18B).

Austin Richard Post, known by stage name Post Malone, is a 22-year-old rapper best known for his 2015 debut single “White Iverson,” which hit No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 January 2016 and his 2016 five time-platinum certified single “Congratulations” featuring hip-hop artist Quavo, who is also a member of hip-hop trio Migos.

Post Malone came to prominence shortly after the release of his debut

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Marguerite Barankitse, who witnessed 72 people die in the Burundian genocide, spoke Sept.

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On Sept. 21 at 10:15 a.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding a motor vehicle fire at the Means Drive traffic circle. Officers arrived on the scene and spoke with DeKalb County firefighters and the owner of a 1984 Dodge Ram 3500. The Dodge Ram had reportedly started emitting smoke while the subject was driving and stalled after the driver entered the traffic circle. A passerby gave the driver a fire extinguisher, which he used on the engine.

The driver was unable to restart the vehicle. The Emory fire safety director arrived on scene and concluded there was not a vehicle fire, only heavy smoke. A tow truck arrived on the scene and removed the vehicle from the traffic circle. The subject was unaffiliated with Emory.

On Sept. 22 at 12:26 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an intoxicated individual at 11 Eagle Row, Sorority Village. Officers arrived on the scene and found a group of Emory students surrounding a 19-year-old female Emory student who was lying in the bushes. She was unconscious but breathing. After some of the surrounding students assisted the individual in standing, she vomited in the bushes.

Officers spoke with the other students who said they had just returned from a date party and that the subject had consumed vodka throughout the night.

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On Sept. 22 at 12:34 a.m., EPD responded to a call from an Emory staff member regarding suspicious activity at 20 Eagle Row, the Kappa Sigma house. A parking ambassador reported that his supervisor witnessed students hitting empty beer cans with golf clubs. Officers arrived on the scene and found empty beer cans on the front lawn of the house and in the middle of the street near a stop sign.

Officers spoke with the fraternity’s social chair and told him they needed to throw away the cans. He and other fraternity members collected and discarded the cans without incident.

Campus Life was notified.

On Sept. 22 at 8:05 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a theft at the Woodruff Physical Education Center. Officers spoke with an Emory student who reported his bright yellow Nike jacket missing from behind a basketball goal on the first floor of the building. He reportedly arrived at the WoodPEC on Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and left at 11 p.m.

When he returned the next day at noon, the jacket was missing from behind the goal and had not appeared in the lost and found. The jacket is valued at $100. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

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the individual to Emory University Hospital (EUH). Campus Life was notified.

“The Emory partners will concur consent to [the settlement],” Ernstes said.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed supported the annexation in a Sept.

26 statement the Wheel received from Emory Associate Director of University Media Relations Elaine Justice.

“I am pleased by the DeKalb County Commission’s unanimous vote today to approve an agreement ... to move forward with [the petition],” Reed wrote. “I am thankful for our County partners, who worked collaboratively

with the City to reach an agreement that is agreeable to all, and I look forward to working with the Atlanta City Council to finalize this historic annexation.”

In a Sept. 26 University statement to the Wheel sent on behalf of Interim Senior Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs Vince Dollard wrote, “We are pleased with today’s progress and look forward to advancing the annexation petition.”

— Contact Richard Chess at rchess@emory.edu

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Corrections

• In last week’s issue, the “Other Univs. Follow in QTM’s Footsteps” article did not state that the applied mathematics and statistics (AMS) major is offered by Emory’s Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods (QTM) in partnership with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and that math classes that QTM majors take are within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The jump on the article, “Dartmouth, Northwestern Look to Emory,” was inaccurate. Emory took ideas for its QTM program from Northwestern’s mathematical methods and social sciences program.

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News Roundup Compiled by lauren Balotin

sgs no longer requires atg

The Decatur City Commission voted Sept. 18 to support efforts to take down a Confederate monument built in 1908 that stands in Decatur Square, according to the Atlanta JournalConstitution (AJC). The decision follows two incidents of defacement, once in August when someone covered it in feces and once in September when someone wrote expletives on it. According to state law, “any publicly owned monument … [of] the Confederate States of America … [cannot be] relocated, removed, concealed, obscured or altered in any fashion.”

In the resolution, Commissioner Tony Powers supports a change in the law to allow the city of Decatur to move the monument despite DeKalb County’s ownership of it, according to the AJC.

Ordering catered food through America to Go (ATG) is no longer required for on-campus catering, according to an email from Associate Director of Student Government Services VonYetta Hunter to club leaders. Previously, students were required to order catering through Emory Catering or ATG for on-campus events, but through this change, clubs are now only required to do so if payment must come directly from organization funds. Emory can now reimburse students who make off-campus catering purchases with personal funds.

This change is effective immediately, according to the email. Hunter did not respond to the Wheel’s email asking why the change was made or if the change increases food safety risk as of press time. Hunter said at an Aug. 28 meeting with club treasurers that the requirement to order food through ATG is in place to ensure proper food safety standards for students.

There has been an increase in the number of evacuations, numbering at least two, in Few and Evans Halls due to recent kitchen fires, according to a Sept. 20 email from Complex Director Gregory Hollinger to residents.

Improper smoke ventilation and unattended food while cooking have contributed to the evacuations, Hollinger wrote, adding that such “evacuations are necessary to ensure the safety of all residents.”

Prof.’s Book Makes nyt Bestsellers Professor and Chair of the Emory Department of African American Studies Carol Anderson’s novel “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” ranked No. 7 on the New York Times Best Sellers Paperback Nonfiction list. In the book, Anderson explains how the efforts of some white Americans have limited African American progress toward equity and advancement. Anderson also won the National Book Critics

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DACA

CC, College Faculty Senate Back DACA Students

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Price under fire for PriVate Jet use Tom Price, who completed his medical residency at Emory and serves as the current secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has spent more than $400,000 in charter jet travel funded by taxpayers, according to an investigation by Politico. The travel was “work-related and official businesses,” Price told Fox News. Price said he will not travel on private jets until his department’s inspector general formally reviews how these flights were funded, according to the New York Times. Former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub characterized Price’s actions as “a complete disregard for the expense to the taxpayer,” according to Politico.

— Contact Lauren Balotin at lauren.balotin@emory.edu

By yiyang Mao Contributing Writer Both faculty and student governments in the College have responded with support for undocumented students at Emory following the White House’s Sept. 5 announcement that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would be phased out.

The College Faculty Senate sent a Sept. 13 letter to University President Claire E. Sterk thanking her for advocating on behalf of Emory’s undocumented students. College Council (CC) also issued a Sept. 22 statement supporting undocumented students.

In its letter, the College Faculty Senate thanked Sterk for reaffirming Emory’s commitment to supporting its undocumented students and supporting the Dream Act of 2017, which would grant permanent legal status to young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally. Sterk joined 56 other University Association of American Universities presidents in a Sept. 7 letter to top Congressional leaders and wrote a Sept. 6 letter to the Emory community reiterating the University’s support for DACA students.

“Without the Dream Act, those who have come out of the shadows because of the support DACA provides are suddenly at serious risk of deportation,” the College Faculty Senate’s letter said.

“These DACA students are an integral part of the fabric of our campus.”

The College Faculty Senate also offered its own support toward Emory’s efforts.

“We stand ready to support your efforts in any manner that would best advance Emory’s support of DACA students and resolve their status so that they may continue to live and contribute to this country without fear of disruption of their lives,” the College Faculty Senate’s letter said.

Kim Wallen, College Faculty Seunate president and Samuel Candler

Dobbs professor of psychology and behavioral neuroendocrinology, sent the letter to Sterk Sept. 13 on behalf of the College Faculty Senate. After Wallen had drafted the letter, he sent it to the seven-person executive committee for edits via email. The College Senate’s Executive Council consisting of the president, the president-elect, the immediate past-president and one senator from each division (humanities, natural sciences and mathematics, and social sciences) and one senator at large elected by and from the members of the College Senate, according to its bylaws. The final draft was presented as a motion to the College Faculty Senate, which is composed of 23 senators, and the motion passed unanimously, Wallen said.

Sterk sent the College Faculty Senate a thank-you note, and several faculty members who are not in the Senate have expressed support and appreciation for the letter to Sterk.

“Thank you for the support,” Sterk wrote. “Please share my gratitude with your colleagues. It is comforting to know that the College senate is engaged.”

Associate Vice President of Media Relations Nancy Seideman confirmed that Sterk sent the letter to Wallen.

The DACA program, created by former President Barack Obama through a 2012 executive order, is a temporary immigration benefit granted to some undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.

The program offers a work permit and two years of deportation protection.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Sept. 5 Trump’s plan to “rescind” the DACA program.

The College Faculty Senate members decided to send the letter because they “do not see that disrupting education and possibly deporting [undocumented immigrants] is an appropriate response for children who were brought to this country through no act of their own and many of the ones who have lived in this country and regard

that United States as their country,” Wallen told the Wheel.

But since they wrote the letter, Trump, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) agreed to quickly push through legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation during a Sept. 13 meeting, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“There’s some slim possibility that there will be a decision in DACA from Congress which will make further action unnecessary,” Wallen said.

CC also expressed support for DACA students in a Sept. 22 statement.

“The recent actions taken to end the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) program have specifically targeted the safety and well-being of many of our peers, and we stand firmly against these acts,” the statement said.

“We affirm undocumented students’ and DACA recipients’ place in our community and we will do whatever we can to support them through not just words, but actions.”

The letter was written by the entire 62nd Council after multiple weeks of discussion, according to CC Vice President of Student Affairs Tarun Anand (19C).

CC members unanimously decided to send out the statement after review, Anand said.

CC has compiled a list of potential initiatives based on the feedback from some undocumented students, the statement said. The initiatives include fundraising for legal aid, helping undocumented students look into accelerated degree programs and conducting a workshop on how to complete DACA renewal applications.

CC posted some resources for undocumented students at Emory on Facebook Sept. 25, including information about legal workshops and legal aid.

— Contact Yiyang Mao at yiyamg.mao@emory.edu

LAW SCHOOL

Interim Law Dean Focuses on Strategic Plan By christina yan Contributing Writer During his two-year term, Emory School of Law Interim Dean James B. Hughes Jr. said that he plans to advance the school’s five-year strategic plan, which includes improving transactional law programs and building upon the school’s success in diversity recruiting of students and faculty.

Hughes also said that Emory Law is willing to evolve to strengthen its program, pointing to how it has piloted an online Juris Master program, worked with the Emory and greater Atlanta community or evaluated new admissions options.

Although he has no plans to apply for the permanent dean position, Hughes said that he is excited and honored to serve as interim dean.

Prior to his Sept. 8 appointment to the interim position, he was the associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Law from 2002 to 2006 and 2014 to present.

He also taught courses in property, real estate sales and finance and professional responsibility, according to a University press release.

Hughes replaced Judson Graves, who was appointed interim dean in June but stepped down due to personal reasons, according to the press release. Former School of Law Dean Robert A. Shapiro stepped down March 2017 to return to teaching.

The permanent dean is expected to begin his or her tenure in Fall 2019, and the search is expected to begin next year, Hughes said. The permanent dean will be selected by University Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Dwight A. McBride.

“Although Emory Law has a very strong program, even very strong programs can and should get better,” Hughes said.

To increase the law school’s academic breadth, Hughes pointed to a certificate program for students specializing in transactional law, which includes securities offerings, corporate transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

“For years, we have had a very, very strong litigation department, [but we know] many of our students aren’t litigators — they’re transactional lawyers,” Hughes said. To reflect that, “We now have a corollary program that’s available to our students: a transactional certificate program.”

The program features a variety of distinguished, local lawyers who teach courses on transactional law and aims to provide law students more exposure in that area.

Emory Law has also been making significant steps toward increasing diversity of students, faculty and staff, Hughes said.

Hughes said that he is proud to report a much larger number of international students than in

previous years, especially in its Master of Laws (LLM) degree program, which currently has more than 100 international students.

In terms of faculty members, Hughes pointed to Associate Professor of Law Fred Smith and the return of Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Margo Bagley, two African-American professors who were recently hired.

James B. Hughes Jr., Emory School of Law Interim Dean CourtEsy of EMory Photo/VidEo

Hughes also pointed to Emory’s Black Law Students Association, which won National Large Chapter of the Year for the past two years and a diversity award from the American Bar Association in 2017.

Emory Law is attempting to fulfill its strategic plan through its collaboration with the community and the rest of the University, according to Hughes.

For example, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is “a very important issue, and our faculty, the ones with expertise, are very eager to be helpful any way that they can,” Hughes said.

Established in 2012, DACA is a temporary immigration benefit

granted to some undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

The program offers a work permit and two years of deportation protection. To be eligible for the program, one had to be enrolled in high school or hold the equivalent of a high school diploma and have a clean criminal record.

A DACA application renewal workshop will be held Sept. 30 under the guidance of Emory Law’s Assistant Dean for Public Service Rita Sheffey.

The workshop is focused on helping undocumented people renew their applications by the Oct. 5 deadline.

Hughes also stressed the law school strategic plan’s goal for a more individualized experience for its students. The strategic plan was developed in 2014. “[Emory Law’s] goal is to help students define their own individual path into the legal arena, whether that’s the legal academy, the private sector or public practice law,” Hughes said. “We want to make sure that students have the opportunity to craft the best process for them.”

Emory Law is considering the Graduate Records Examinations (GREs) as an alternative to the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), Hughes said.

Four law schools currently admit students with GRE scores: University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Georgetown Law (D.C.),

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (Ill.) and Harvard Law School (Mass.).

“We are in a position where we could rely on the GREs if we sought to do that,” Hughes said. “We are still in the process of evaluating whether that’s an appropriate move for Emory Law or not, but again, that is a movement that is picking up steam in the legal academy, and more and more schools are starting to do that.”

The law school is also making its courses more flexible for students.

This academic year, the law school initiated an online Juris Master program for those who want “the Emory Law experience” but cannot manage the residential aspect of the traditional program because they have a full-time job or due to other circumstances.

There are currently 23 people enrolled, according to Emory Law Director of Communications Kenyatta Greer.

Hughes received his undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut in 1976 and his Juris Doctor degree from Yale University (Conn.) in 1979 before coming to Emory in 1992, where he has worked in various administrative and teaching positions for the past 25 years.

Michelle Lou contributed reporting.

— Contact Christina Yan at christina.yan@emory.edu

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EMERGENCY

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LEGISLATURE

Police Conduct SGA Funds Oxford Homecoming Shuttles Manhunt in Lullwater

By Belicia rodriguez Contributing Writer

By Michelle lou Executive Editor

An “all clear” was issued after Emory and Atlanta VA Health Care System police conducted a nearly hourlong search for a wanted, unarmed individual in Lullwater Preserve Wednesday afternoon.

The individual, a VA patient, was unable to be located and Emory Police Department (EPD), DeKalb County and VA police are continuing to monitor the area, according to a University statement.

The Atlanta VA Medical Center police said that they had tried to arrest the individual for a probation violation, but he had escaped to Clairmont Campus near Lullwater Preserve, according to a University statement.

VA police called EPD at 4:13 p.m. to alert them to the situation, according to the statement.

Emory issued a “shelter in place” alert at 4:49 p.m. The message said that a “police emergency” was occurring on Emory’s campus in the Clairmont Campus/Lullwater Preserve/VA Hospital area.

DeKalb police K-9 units assisted EPD with the manhunt, according to DeKalb County Communications.

At 5:30 p.m., EPD wrote on Twitter that people should avoid Lullwater,

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where they were searching for the individual.

Emory Alert and EPD issued an “all clear” at 5:40 p.m.

During the shelter in place, sirens went off at multiple locations around the Atlanta campus.

Shuttles were stopped temporarily but are running again.

People at Clairmont Campus were advised via loudspeaker not to leave buildings and to stay indoors.

Across campus, people took precautionary measures.

The Robert W. Woodruff Library announced that students should remain inside the library until given the “all clear.”

Emergency response officers went to Goizueta Business School classrooms and advised students and professors on the situation.

Some classes that were in session at the 1462 Clifton Road Building, Anthropology Building and Callaway Memorial Center barricaded doors with chairs.

EPD did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Richard Chess, Alisha Compton, Hayley Silverstein, Kevin Kilgour and Leila Yavari contributed reporting.

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The 51st legislature of Student Government Association (SGA) convened Monday night to confirm funding for shuttles to and from the Oxford campus for the Post Malone Homecoming 2017 concert and to update the meeting attendance policy for SGA members.

The Oxford shuttles bill passed with eight votes in favor and one abstention.

The attendance policy bill passed unanimously with nine votes.

Student Programming Council (SPC) President Tamara Ezzat (18B) presented Bill 51sl20, which was submitted by Ezzat, SGA President Gurbani Singh, SGA Executive Vice President Natasha Armstrong and VP of Finance Javi Reyes (20B) to allocate $800 to two Emory shuttles between the Atlanta campus and Oxford campus during this year’s Homecoming Concert Oct. 20. The shuttles will run from 6 to 8 p.m. and again from 10 p.m. to midnight and provide Oxford students the opportunity to attend the Post Malone concert. SGA legislators debated whether Oxford College SGA should split the cost of the shuttles with the main SGA. Oxford Continuee Representative Muhammad Naveed (17Ox, 19C) recommended against asking Oxford SGA to contribute.

“Over the past few years, when I was at the Oxford SGA, we were constrained by fees in terms of transport especially because that takes up a bulk of our budget, and it still is [sharing costs] for fall shuttles and Thanksgiving shuttles,” Naveed said. “This is the inner Oxford in me speaking, but I don’t feel like it’s a reasonable demand to ask them to put in more money.”

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Student Programming Council (SPC) President tamara Ezzat (18B) presents a bill to allocate $800 for shuttles between the oxford and atlanta campuses during Homecoming.

SGA legislators also questioned whether the main SGA budget has the capacity to pay for the shuttles.

Vice President of Finance Javi Reyes (18B) reported the budget allocates $2,280 for shuttle services. He also noted that SGA has previously covered Homecoming, fall break and Thanksgiving shuttles to and from the Oxford campus.

Bill 51sl20 passed with eight votes in favor and one abstention.

Speaker of the Legislature William Palmer (18C) introduced Bill 51sl21 to amend the attendance policy in the Rules of Legislature. The legislature has the power to “establish its own rules of procedure,” according to Section 3 of the SGA Constitution.

The bill permits legislators two absences per semester. Legislators are permitted to send a proxy, “a member of the constituency that the legislature represents and has full voting privileges during the meeting,” in their absence.

A proxy is only allowed to be used by a legislature twice a semester, though Palmer said that “for medical

and for other circumstances, we will be understanding.”

An excused absence or unexcused absence counts as one absence, whereas an absence with a proxy counts as half an absence.

Violations of the attendance policy will require a brief conduct hearing before the SGA speaker, ranking member of the legislature, president, vice president, chief of staff and secretary, and sanctions will be recommended on a case-by-case basis, the bill said.

“Excessive absence can result in a removal from office,” according to the bill.

The bill was passed unanimously with nine votes.

Prior to the meeting, The Emory Wheel’s News Editor Alex Klugerman (20C) and Executive Editor Michelle Lou (19C) addressed the legislature about journalism practices and communication between the Wheel and SGA.

— Contact Belicia Rodriguez at belicia.rodriguez@emory.edu

Barankitse: Educated Youth Are Key to Peace Continued from Page 1 Barankitse explained that she hid all of the children, both Hutu and Tutsi, some of whom were her own adopted children, during the invasion.

The Tutsis spared Barankitse’s life because she was a Tutsi, but when she wouldn’t disclose the location of the children, they beat her, tied her and forced her to watch as they murdered 72 Hutu adults, she said.

Barankitse’s remarks came during an event marking the end of Emory’s 21 Days of Peace, a three-week campaign to inspire students to work for peace sponsored by the Emory Institute for Developing Nations (IDN), Emory Campus Life, The Carter Center Human Rights Program and the United States Institute of Peace.

Barankitse said that pivotal event tested her faith.

“My own brothers of Tutsi blood came and humiliated me, tied me,” Barankitse said. “They killed my friends, my neighbors — 72 [people] in front of me. If I was not a Christian, if I didn’t believe that there was a reason to continue to believe, I would have committed suicide because I lost everything.”

Barankitse cared for the children whose parents were murdered and buried the dead.

The horrifying experience motivated her to create Maison Shalom, meaning “House of Peace,” an organization that aims to help children of all ethnic origins in Burundi through the establishment of schools, hospitals and orphanages.

Since its establishment, Maison Shalom has helped over 20,000 children.

“Even though I have suffered, the [Hutus] killed my family … I am not

discouraged,” Barankitse said. “They can destroy infrastructures, they can take money, but they will never reach our treasure that is love. Nobody can stop the love.”

As Barankitse gained more prominence in Burundi for her work with Maison Shalom, she spoke out against Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza and denounced his administration’s promotion of ethnic divisions.

“[The Tutsis] killed my friends, my neighbors — 72 [people] in front of me.”

— Marguerite Barankitse, Maison Shalom founder There have been numerous human rights violations under Nkurunziza’s rule including “killings, torture, and arbitrary arrests,” according to Telegraph.

Human rights organizations say Nkurunziza responds to questions against his authority with “murder and intimidation,” according to The Guardian.

After her criticism of the president, Barankitse found herself on a government list for killing, according to Interim Director of the Emory Institute for Developing Nations Dabney Evans.

Barankitse left Burundi in 2015 and took refuge in Rwanda.

She has not returned to Burundi since, and Nkurunziza has shut down all of the schools and hospitals that

were operating through Maison Shalom.

Barankitse has opened a branch of Maison Shalom in Rwanda.

Still, Barankitse said that she prays for Nkurunziza and hopes that he will change his ways.

“I have a holy rage. How can a leader oppress his own people? I pray for him,” Barankitse said.

In her closing remarks, Barankitse emphasized the importance of education and the power of young people to change the world for the better.

“They can beat me, they can try to kill me, but I will never give up,” Barankitse said. “Even if they kill me, they will never kill the message.”

Isabella Paipa (21C) said that she was inspired by Barankitse’s story.

“She didn’t give up, even when everything she had spent so much time building was taken from her,” Paipa said. “It’s that resilience and dedication to her beliefs that helped to improve the situation.”

Shreya Pabbaraju (21C), another attendee, said Barankitse’s speech reminded her that one person can make a difference.

“Before coming to this event, I was unsettled by the state of hateful rhetoric in the world, but Ms. Barankitse’s discussion helped me remember that peace is within us and that we can make efforts in our own communities to bring about change,” Pabbaraju said.

Barankitse is the recipient of the Opus Prize, a faith-based humanitarian award, and holds an honorary degree from Emory.

— Contact Valerie Sandoval at valerie.sandoval@emory.edu

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Puerto rican officials said the island will take at least four months to recover from Hurricane Maria.

Puerto Rican Students Fundraise for Island Continued from Page 1 the windows without help.”

Rodriguez expressed disappointment with Emory’s lack of discussion about the crisis.

“Yesterday we received an email from Giselle F. Martin, the associate dean of Admissions at Emory,” Rodriguez said. “She was the first and only person from Emory to contact us. There hasn’t been a message from [University] President [Claire E.] Sterk, College Council or student government.”

Connor received a Sept. 19 email from Few and Evans Hall Complex Director Gregory Hollinger, who emailed some Puerto Rican students to make them aware of available cam-

pus resources, such as Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and Student Success Programs and Services.

Puerto Rican students from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Life University (Ga.) and Agnes College University (Ga.) will host a party at Rush Lounge in Atlanta Sept. 29 from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m., where 35 percent of earnings at the door will go toward recovery efforts.

Michelle Lou, Richard Chess, Parth Mody, Emma Simpson and Alejandro Perez contributed reporting.

— Contact Maddie Bober at maddie.bober@emory.edu

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Provost Plans to Strengthen Office’s Role in Hiring Continued from Page 1 decisions about doctoral education.”

As graduate school dean and associate provost for graduate education at Northwestern University (Ill.), McBride dealt with graduate students who wanted to unionize and said that he plans to approach Emory students’ push for unionization with an open ear. Northwestern’s graduate students have not unionized as of Sept. 26.

“I will certainly sit down here and want to hear from the students what their concerns are and want to make sure if there are ways that we can address those concerns,” McBride said. His office is currently trying to set up a meeting with graduate school unionization advocates.

McBride’s appointment was announced May 3 in a University press release. McBride succeeds Stuart Zola, the interim provost when Claire E. Sterk became University president in September 2016.

The Office of the Provost plans to make two new hires for the positions of vice provost for faculty affairs and vice provost for undergraduate education. The positions will be held by tenured faculty members at Emory.

The search for the vice provost for undergraduate education has already begun, and McBride said he hopes to announce the selected candidate by January 2018.

The search for a vice provost for faculty affairs will begin after the finalists for the vice provost for undergraduate education have been selected. The vice provosts will work half time in the Office of the Provost and continue to research and teach. The two new positions will replace the Senior Vice

Provost of Academic Affairs J. Lynn Zimmerman’s position.

The provost also hopes to use his office to bolster the faculty hiring process to attract more people who are underrepresented in their field, such as minorities or women who study the sciences. McBride is considering “a kind of faculty diversity program that would have resources attached to it to really encourage cluster hires, for example, which are one mechanism that people use to bring underrepresented minority faculty to an institution.”

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To ensure faculty retention, McBride said he plans to institute direct outreach from his office to underrepresented faculty members or groups who could feel marginalized. He hopes to “meet with them in small settings” and discuss their work and any challenges they may be facing “so that [Emory] can be responsive before [a faculty member receives] an outside offer and is being poached away.”

One of the provost’s roles is to oversee Emory’s nine divisional schools. If he could accomplish one goal, McBride said he hopes to unify Emory’s various divisions, “as opposed to being a loose federation of schools.” That would include more cross-divisional programming or making it easier for students who are, for example, studying in the Goizueta Business School

but want to do a minor in a subject in the College.

In regard to national politics, McBride said he is proud that Emory is sticking to its core values by supporting undocumented scholars as they pursue their studies. That includes the University’s repeated commitments to helping its undocumented students following U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Sept. 5 announcement that Trump’s administration will “rescind” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provided a temporary immigration benefit to people who were brought to the United States illegally as minors.

“Whoever’s in Washington or in office is irrelevant to me on [the DACA] issue,” McBride said. “No one should dictate to a university who they will admit, who they will support.”

McBride added that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ recent announcements on the roll back of Obama-era Title IX guidelines will not impact the University’s efforts in protecting its students from harm.

The provost’s job also includes developing University policy and academic priorities, managing the promotion and tenure process and chairing the Ways and Means Committee, according to the Provost Office’s website.

McBride earned his bachelor’s degree in English and African American Studies from Princeton University (N.J.). He then went on to earn his master’s and Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.

— Contact Michelle Lou at mlou3@emory.edu

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Emory Takes ‘Extra Precautions’ After Migos

Continued from Page 1 studio album, “Stoney,” as the opening act of Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber’s Purpose World Tour.

Emory and Post Malone finalized the contract Friday morning, Ezzat said. “Extra precautions” were taken with the process in wake of the University getting duped by a bogus third party agency when trying to book Migos for Dooley’s week last spring according to Band Party co-Chair Zac Silber (18B).

The process of obtaining Post Malone for Homecoming began in early summer according to Silber.

Silber and Band Party co-Chair Blake Mars (18C) were solely responsible for artist selection. “[Post Malone] is blowing up after the success of his first album,” Silber said. “He’s really not your typical rapper. … He has a background in country music and … people are excited for his second album.”

Silber added that Malone was

booked through the same agency used to obtain Ty Dolla Sign, who stepped in last-minute as Dooley’s Week Headliner last year following the fraudulent Migos booking. University representatives spent seven weeks reviewing the contract according to Silber. “[The group we used] is a trusted booking agency that helped save our concert last year,” Silber said.

Doors for the Post Malone concert open at 8 p.m., Ezzat said.

The other 2017 Homecoming performer, acoustic rock band Plain White T’s, will play Saturday, Oct. 22, at 3:30 p.m. on McDonough Field.

This year’s Homecoming theme is “Emory Land,” based off the board game Candyland.

Alex Klugerman reporting.

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After Treating Ebola Patients, Emory Works to Find Cure By lauren Balotin Senior Staff Writer

In 2014, the U.S. health care system was “not at all prepared” for an outbreak like Ebola, but Emory still took in four patients in hopes of successfully treating them, according to Bruce Ribner, professor of medicine and the medical director for Emory University Hospital (EUH)’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit (SCDU).

Three years after successfully treating the patients, Emory researchers are using their knowledge to improve emergency responses for future outbreaks.

Using blood samples and medical information from the four Ebola patients treated three years ago, researchers are attempting to develop Ebola virus disease vaccines, according to Ribner. Emory researchers are also studying methods to provide care to Ebola survivors, several of whom face lasting disabilities such as blindness and anxiety, according to Ribner.

Patients’ Blood could lead to cure EUH has “phenomenal” capabilities to study the virus because it treated four Ebola patients during the outbreak, said Ribner, who established the SCDU in 2001 and has worked in the unit since. Emory was the first institution to successfully treat an Ebola patient in the United States, ultimately treating four of 11 cases in the U.S., according to Ribner.

Ribner, who led the team of health care workers that treated the patients, said that EUH has learned more about the virus from those four patients than many resource-poor countries in West Africa have learned from their thousands of local patients.

“A lot of our research is driven by

tests we did on our patients,” Ribner said. “It’s logistically a lot easier to not have to transport specimens, so it’s a lot more convenient to have labs, researchers and premier technology where the patients already are.”

Aneesh Mehta, the assistant director of transplant infectious diseases at EUH, conducts research to develop a vaccine for future Ebola outbreaks.

Mehta draws upon his experiences and knowledge as the physician on call when the first Ebola patient arrived at Emory for treatment in 2014 to conduct this research.

The SCDU began its laboratory research just a few days after the second Ebola patient arrived in Atlanta, Mehta said.

Emory Vaccine Center Director Rafi Ahmed and his team, along with the SCDU, collected the patients’ blood to study how the Ebola virus changed over time in the blood; which antibodies were being produced to protect the patients; and how cells adapt to fight the infection. The research is funded through a grant by U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), according to Mehta.

After studying these samples, Emory researchers determined that all four patients’ B and T cells, which help the immune system to fight Ebola, were active, according to Mehta.

That discovery contradicted previous research, which had proposed that immune responses to Ebola were impaired.

Now, Emory researchers are using their findings to develop new drugs and treatments for Ebola, Mehta said. After Ahmed’s team cloned the antibody-creating cells to test which are most effective in fighting the disease, the team found some candidate antibodies, which are currently being

tested in animals, Mehta added.

Prior to their research, most Ebola research was conducted on monkeys who were experimentally infected or patients who were enrolled in clinical studies well after being cured of the Ebola virus, according to Mehta.

Emory is the only center in the U.S. that has banked plasma of Ebola survivors, Mehta said. The blood plasma of a cured individual contains antibodies, which can be used to treat others with the same infection. Emory banked plasma from the patients it treated, so if another Ebola patient needs treatment and a new therapeutic is not yet available, Emory will still be able to provide them with antibodies to fight the disease, Mehta said.

“Ebola survivors develop a host of other ... issues.”

— Steven Yeh, Emory Eye Center’s Quiet Eye West Africa team member

eBola leaVes its Mark on surViVors The majority of Ebola survivors are left with disabilities, and Emory has been studying ways to alleviate the distress for survivors.

One of the most common disabilities is visual impairment, including blindness, according to Ribner. Ian Crozier, one of the patients treated at Emory, developed uveitis, a condition characterized by inflammation of the uvea, roughly 100 days after he was discharged from EUH. His eye fluids still contained live Ebola virus, and he had severe eye inflammation, said

Steven Yeh, the principal investigator of Emory Eye Center’s Quiet Eye West Africa (QEWA) team.

The QEWA team travels to West Africa every few months to assess Ebola survivors and sample eye fluids.

QEWA also researches uveitis in survivors. Uveitis is reported in anywhere from 13 to 34 percent of Ebola virus disease survivors, according to Jessica Shantha, a co-investigator for QEWA. The team also aims to provide the uveitis patients with cataract surgery through partnerships with eye surgeons in West Africa and uveitis screening education, Yeh added.

“Ebola survivors develop a host of other non-opthalwology issues like arthritis, mental health disorders, anxiety and other issues of viral persistence,” Yeh said. “Eye disease is one manifestation of post-Ebola virus syndrome, so this research has been important in recognizing that survivors need systematic care.”

West Africa may not have the ability and resources necessary to help survivors cope with blindness acquired from the disease, Ribner said.

Emory faculty and researchers also lead the National Ebola Treatment and Education Center (NETEC), which aims to prepare health care systems to cope with cases of special pathogens through resource collaboration, according to its website. NETEC evaluates health care systems on their ability to treat patients with serious communicable diseases and publishes guidelines for proper treatment to increase emergency preparedness for serious communicable diseases, Ribner added.

In summer 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approached Emory, along with the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the New York

Health and Hospitals Corporation/ Bellevue Hospital Center, to create NETEC because they each independently treated Ebola patients in 2014. Emory was later selected to lead NETEC, while the other facilities held supporting roles.

“Fortunately, the government realized [that the U.S. was not prepared for an outbreak like Ebola] and published large funding bills [for NETEC],” Ribner said. “Whenever the next outbreak occurs, we will be much more timely in initiating protocols for medical interventions to promote survival and clinical care.”

Regional Ebola and other Special Pathogen Treatment Centers (RESPTC) met at the NETEC Summit at Emory last June to discuss best practices for clinical preparedness of the virus. The summit’s goal was to increase linkage between NETEC and other federally-funded health care regions in the U.S. to form a “more cohesive, robust network” against infectious diseases, Ribner said.

In February, NETEC received a supplemental $12 million in funds, for a total of $24 million, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to an Emory press release.

Mehta said that the patients treated in 2014 are still “very engaged” with Emory’s research today.

“They are always asking about what we’re doing and are excited to see the results of their donation to science, which is a great thing for us, as physicians, to see,” Mehta said.

— Contact Lauren Balotin at lauren.balotin@emory.edu

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017 | Editorial Page Editor: Madeline Lutwyche (madeline.lutwyche@emory.edu)

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Emergency Exposes Lack of Crisis Training Last Thursday, Emory issued a “shelter in place” citing a police emergency in the Clairmont Campus/Lullwater Preserve/VA Hospital area.

Across campus, rumors circulated about the source of the emergency and distorted allegations, including the presence of an active shooter, which was not the case. For those who were in class, many professors were either unaware of the emergency because they were not near their phones, and some failed to adhere to standard emergency protocols. There was no consistency in the way professors reacted — some dismissed their students from class while others shut off lights and barricaded the doors.

According to its website, Emory’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) “serves as the center for Emory enterprise-wide planning for and coordinated response to catastrophic events affecting Emory and the broader community.” CEPAR is responsible for handling situations ranging from Hurricane Irma preparation to last week’s escaped fugitive.

Though CEPAR provides various resources, including classroom handbooks, training sessions upon request and August community training specifically for Campus Life staff and Residence Assistants, these measures do not seem to be sufficient, or they aren’t employed often enough.

During last week’s emergency, Residence Life seemed to be prepared, with some resident advisors (RAs) and sophomore advisors (SAs) distributing information as they received updates to students via group messages. However, faculty members’ lack of knowledge left some students

feeling unsafe or disoriented. Additionally, it was at first unclear whether the warning applied to Emory’s main campus. The emergency texts sent to students warned only of a potential threat to the Clairmont/Lullwater/VA area, and sirens were absent from main campus. This announcement was within minutes of an Emory Police tweet alerting students of a “police emergency occurring on #Emory main campus.”

Communication is fundamental to efficient and effective emergency management. The lack of consistency and preparedness among faculty and staff members could have been disastrous in the event of a real active shooter or violent threat.

CEPAR claims that all members of the Emory community should review safety information.

CEPAR promotes its “Run, Hide, Fight” video on its website and encourages students to download the LiveSafe safety app. It also provides guidance through “Just in Time” emergency guides, which hang in classrooms, workplaces and residence halls.

A variety of resources are clearly available, but, regardless, many faculty members and students remain uneducated. By making crisis training optional for departments, a lack of preparedness is inevitable. CEPAR should rectify its guidelines to ensure the safety of all members of the Emory community. Going forward, all faculty members should be trained to handle emergency situations more effectively. When our collective safety is at risk, students must be able to rely on their professors to calmly and correctly follow CEPAR procedures.

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Students Fuel Vitriolic Speech The Degeneration of Conservative Thought Grant Osborn

Ben Shapiro is particularly intimidating, towering over the crowd at a self-proclaimed 5 feet, 9 inches.

But on Sept. 9, Shapiro arrived at University of California, Berkeley, armed with even more dangerous weapons than 160 pounds of raw sinew.

His words, deemed so offensive and threatening by the campus populace that the college had to foot a $600,000 bill employing a minor army to keep him safe from protesters turned rioters.

Of course, I would be remiss not to preface this whole op-ed by denouncing the rioters — a group distinct from the protesters, the difference being whether the group’s aim is to silence opinions via violence or voice opinions via speech.

To silence an individual from speaking is, and has been, the favorite tactic of demagogues and authoritarian dictators across the world and across time, from Benito Mussolini to Fidel Castro to Kim Jong-un.

It is a tactic predicated on intolerance and anti-intellectualism, and those who sponsor such ignorant rejections of ideas are the real “deplorables.”

But Ben Shapiro is despicable.

He is, at this point, doing far more harm to conservatives than good, spouting inflammatory statements rather than articulate positions. This is a shame because that wasn’t always the case.

Shapiro’s ego has become so bloated that his transformation over the past two years resembles that of Walter White’s character arc.

My respect for Shapiro peaked just shy of two years ago.

In the wake of the University of Missouri protests that erupted in November 2015, Shapiro showed up on campus with, again, a small army (noticing a pattern?) to deliver a speech on the Black Lives Matter movement, among other topics.

Though I often disagreed with Shapiro, his speech was calm, straightforward and avoided inflammatory rhetoric — or at the very least, inflammatory rhetoric for its own sake.

Shapiro was everything a speaker should be: a dispenser of conservatism, truly contributing to the marketplace of ideas.

It wasn’t his profound insights that produced my respect for the man but rather the fact that he had the courage to stand up in front of a divided campus and a divided nation to deliver a controversial speech at the potential cost of his own safety.

It takes little courage to espouse liberal ideas on a college campus. It takes nothing but courage to espouse conservative ones.

Unfortunately, Shapiro’s speech at Berkeley was not of the same calm, factual delivery.

After only five minutes of speaking, he had already called identity politics “bullsh*t,” and told both the protesters of his event and the mayor of Berkeley that they could “all go to hell,” that they were “pathetic, lying, stupid jacka**es.”

Shapiro has devolved from a coherent, lucid speaker and an active pundit speaking on serious issues to a Milo Yiannopoulos-esque provocateur in less than two years.

I stand by Shapiro’s right to say everything he said, but I fail to see the intellectual value in telling a horde of volatile college students to “go to hell.”

If Republicans truly believe that “facts don’t care about your feelings,” a tagline of Shapiro’s, they ought to do some soul searching.

Facts speak for themselves; encasing them with vitriolic rhetoric signifies only a lack of confidence in their veracity or cogency.

Speeches like these, whether delivered by Ann Coulter, Trump worshipper extraordinaire, or even

by Yiannopoulos on our own campus two years ago, are not productive and do not ignite stimulating conversation about the nuances of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but inflame passions and produce only heated speeches by sophists.

They make Republicans seem just almost as puerile and intellectually vacant as the rioters. They have a right to speak, but that doesn’t make their speech right.

Anyone who is intellectually honest finds it easy to denounce riots on college campuses like Berkeley or Middlebury College (Vt.), but so many conservative speakers have decided to play into passions rather than produce clear arguments.

As long as Shapiro, Yiannopoulos and Coulter remain among the most prominent conservative speakers, people will continue to view the Republican party as lacking the thoughtfulness and seriousness we expect from such a dominant political force in this country.

These speakers are certainly not just as bad as their rioting counterparts, but they are of the same kind: anti-intellectual and disinterested in honest conversation about important issues.

This is one of the few circumstances where the solution to a major problem is actually simple.

People will never cease to capitalize on lucrative opportunities; as long as there are rioters and as long as so many protesters continue to espouse ignorance instead of ideas, speakers will continue to play into this fact.

The moment educated dialogue rather than empty rhetoric becomes the norm across campuses in the United States is the moment speakers will be forced to produce cogent positions rather than inflammatory insults.

As incendiary as speakers like Shapiro, Coulter and Yiannopoulos are, the true powder kegs are the students who make it so easy for them.

Grant Osborn is a College junior from Springfield, Ohio.

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Title IX Rollback Silences Victims DeVos’ Letter Prioritizes Radical Right Voters Alexandra Grouzis Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that she would begin the process of rewriting a key provision in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 that protects sexual assault victims on college campuses on Sept. 7. The provision, implemented by the Obama administration, provides a framework for how universities should handle sexual assault.

The Obama-era “Dear Colleague Letter” (DCL), which implemented the Title IX guidelines, outlines basic rights of victims who come forward with sexual assault allegations and includes a requirement for schools to publish clear sexual assault policies. It also requires that universities provide both the accused and the accuser ample opportunity to provide evidence, which should be the deciding factor on how the accusation is handled. Finally, the complainant must be protected by the university from harassment, coercion, etc.

DeVos’ announcement to rewrite the DCL represents the Trump administration’s disregard for women’s rights in favor of a pro-right agenda that attempts to give power back to an indignant sector of Trump’s constituency — and does little to resolve the very problem it addresses.

Many proponents of the revision sight a lack of due process as the main contingency for their support. However, the DCL explicitly states, “The parties must have an equal opportunity to present relevant witnesses and other evidence. The complainant and the alleged perpetrator must be afforded similar and timely access to any information that will be used at the hearing.”

This comprehensive framework directly benefits not only victims but those that wish to be proven innocent. In fact, the directive was used to help prove an alleged perpetrator innocent at Wesley College (Del.) in 2016. The easily contestable nature of DeVos’ argument against Title IX only furthers sentiments that Trump is trying to appease far-right voters.

To many, DeVos’ announcement represents a clear and continued disregard for women and women’s rights by the Trump administration. The DCL was seen as a major milestone in ensuring the safety of female students on college campuses. Repealing it without acknowledging the real and present danger that many women face

in American universities has led victims to feel that their cases have been cast aside in favor of policy initiatives.

Opponents of the revision have cited not only Trump’s lax comments on sexual assault but also comments similar to those made by Candice Jackson, the head of the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

Before DeVos’ announcement, Jackson claimed that “the accusations — 90 percent of them — fall into the category of ‘we were both drunk,’ ‘we broke up, and six months later I found myself under a Title IX investigation because she just decided that our last sleeping together was not quite right.’ ” According to a case study by SAGE Publications, the rate of falsely reported rapes is only between 2 and 10 percent.

The Trump administration’s continuous degradation of the legitimacy of sexual assault has left many feeling as though the severity of sexual assault, especially on college campuses, isn’t being taken seriously by the administration.

Despite releasing an interim Q&A for schools, both DeVos and the Department of Education have thus far failed to release a long-term plan for dealing with sexual assault on college campuses and, instead, encouraged silence by taking away victims’ assurance of a thorough investigation into their claim.

This attitude encourages a culture in which victims believe that silence is the best option for maintaining their reputation and future, disincentivizing victims to seek justice against their perpetrators.

Without a comprehensive approach to sexual assault, the administration seems to be taking a step back in terms of gender equality, not a step forward.

In a time when sexual assault on college campuses has become a national epidemic, it’s curious that the Trump administration would seek to defend the accused or, as DeVos put it, “victims of a lack of due process.”

The administration is implementing yet another controversial policy that seeks only to appease a demographic of voters who wish to take back their country by eliminating any progressive action merely for the sake of opposing progressivism. Until the administration can prove a present and urgent need for its revision, advocacy groups will most likely continue to protest the change of such a crucial part of the rights that Title IX works to protect.

Alexandra Grouzis is a College freshman from Franklin, Tenn.

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Institutional Sexism in STEM Charlotte Selton Although physics drew my interest long before I applied to Emory, I only began considering pursuing physics beyond the undergraduate level during my second semester. Perhaps I could be like my professors one day, teaching and mentoring the next generation of scientists while probing into science’s unsolved mysteries. But it takes considerable effort to imagine myself working in a department with a faculty comprised of only 19 percent women, especially considering Emory is more balanced than the national average of 14 percent. According to the American Institute of Physics, about 47 percent of physics departments at U.S. bachelor’s-granting institutions contain only male faculty.

At Emory, there are many talented and high-achieving women in science, math, engineering and technology (STEM) fields who provide inspiration and motivation to students. Unfortunately, as former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith explained, the difficulties women in STEM face is “the story of a thousand paper cuts.” I find that many small instances of sexism have worn me down. Individually, I could forget them, but combined I cannot simply brush them off.

One impediment that many women, especially women of color, face is stereotype threat, psychological stress caused by the fear of conforming to a negative stereotype.

My decision to pursue physics was shaken last semester when my multivariable calculus midterm went

poorly. After turning in my exam, I found myself doubting my ability to succeed academically in physics and math. However, I feared that if I failed my class or dropped my major, some would see it as the inevitable result of my gender. Because there are so few women in physics, I must represent not only myself, but women as a whole, a responsibility I never desired.

Tech leaders, politicians and professors alike argue that we need more diversity in STEM; however, both the STEM workforce and academia remain unwelcoming toward women.

The American Institute of Physics found that female physicists receive less research funding and lab space than their male colleagues, even when controlling for external variables.

Furthermore, a 2012 Yale study sent science professors at top American universities near-identical resumes, the only difference the name at the top: John or Jennifer. John was rated 7 percent higher in areas like hireability and competence. Additionally, John was offered a starting salary 13 percent higher than Jennifer was.

The assumption that women are not as smart as men in analytically-rooted fields like math and science manifests itself daily in the behaviors I observe in my classes. When my male peers interrupt and ignore women, they demonstrate that they view women’s thoughts as less valuable. However, out of many small instances of sexism, my most memorable moment was when one of my male classmates in general chemistry offered to tutor me so I could improve my grade. We had only just met, yet he assumed that he was performing so far above me that tutoring was more appropriate than col-

laborating. In fact, my test average was well over 100 percent without his help.

Women — in STEM and other fields — are not damsels, helplessly awaiting male saviors; we are instead fighting through systematic impediments, created by centuries of male authority.

Stereotypes and the absence of role models sow doubt in women’s minds about whether they belong in STEM. Considering the tangible disadvantages, like less funding and lower incomes, women face at a professional level, it should be no surprise that, whether you are examining past physics Nobel Prize winners or the faculty in Emory’s Mathematics and Science Center, most of the faces you see will be male.

Despite these discouraging facts and figures, I am still majoring in physics for the same reason I originally decided to study physics: I love the subject. However, entering a field where I will be constantly fighting to prove my competency and aptitude against centuries-old stereotypes seems a foolhardy path towards making the kind of contributions I aim to make in the world. I applaud the brilliance and tenacity of everyone who pursues a career in STEM, especially those of women and nonbinary individuals. Until more men in science and math exercise their power and privilege in supporting others, sexism will continue to haunt STEM fields. In the meantime, hopefully women can find encouragement in each other and determination within themselves to succeed despite the odds against them. May the next generation of scientists not be so burdened.

Charlotte Selton is a College sophomore from Sacramento, Calif.

In Wake of Maria, Media Neglects U.S. Territories Isaiah Sirois The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has been one of the worst in recent memory — it brings back troubling memories of my family’s experiences in 2004.

Hurricane Ivan struck Alabama on Sept. 16 as a category 3 storm and cost the United States $18.82 billion in damages. The media closely followed the story once the U.S. was at risk. However, my family was more concerned about Ivan’s damage to the Cayman Islands half a week prior; my grandmother’s family still lived on Grand Cayman, the largest of the Islands, and the American media’s apparent disinterest complicated our attempts to find out what had happened.

Ivan struck the island as a category 5 storm, and it lingered for two days. Grand Cayman had not been hit by a major hurricane for some time, meaning many structures and building codes were untested. And while everyone we knew sheltered safely, the Cayman Islands suffered $3.4 billion in damages — 183 percent of their GDP. It took seven years for the tourism industry to fully recover.

Despite Grand Cayman being functionally razed, the media mostly covered Ivan’s slow dissipation that brought little more than rain to most of the U.S. My family had to actively seek out local news on the island’s condition to supplement what our relatives told us, but those news agencies were recovering themselves.

Overlooking Caribbean islands is a trend in American media, and coverage of the recent hurricanes in

the U.S. Virgin Islands are no exception. St. Thomas, the territory’s largest island, had its only hospital incapacitated after Hurricane Irma, only for Hurricane Maria to further damage the island’s infrastructure just days later.

The territory’s governor, Kenneth Mapp, said in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR)’s Jeremy Hobson that restoring power could take months. Restoring the island’s tourism industry, a key source of revenue, will likely take even longer.

Despite this damage, stories from the U.S. Virgin Islands’ have taken a backseat to less pressing events.

Even Puerto Rico, although receiving some attention immediately after Hurricane Maria, has been marginalized by major cable news networks.

Initial damage reports made headlines, especially those that found the

island would be without power for up to six months, but the news cycle has quickly moved on; Maria’s aftermath and threats to the Guajataca Dam that forced the evacuation of 70,000 people netted the island little more than token coverage, despite the 3.4 million Americans living there.

The narrative quickly shifted away from Caribbean territories and towards U.S. states – CNN’s U.S. page featured “U.S. East Coast warned to monitor storm,” four headlines above, “Puerto Rico dam: Evacuations begin along river,” despite the National Hurricane Center’s cone of uncertainty showing little risks for the continental U.S. The key differences between the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Cayman Islands is that the former two are U.S. territories, while the latter is British. When the U.S. media

neglects to cover territories as it would cover states, it implies a devaluation of territorial experiences.

Worse, when the U.S. media puts the comparably lesser disruptions (or, in Maria’s case, its mere potential risk) for states before the total destruction wrought upon territories, the lives of Americans residing there appear less valuable.

Though we might like to think distinctions between states and territories are just legal relics of settler colonialism, the media’s handling of both Hurricanes Irma and Maria show it extends past just law.

If we ever want to live in a truly post-colonial world, media coverage must change to reflect the concerns of all Americans.

Isaiah Sirois is a College sophomore from Nashua, N.H.

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THEATER EMORY

‘Midnight Pillow’ Cool But Cluttered Series of Vignettes Come Together, But Not Always Seamlessly By layla tajmir Contributing Writer

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Jake Gylenhaal (a BovE) stars as Jeff Bauman, an average man whose life takes a drastic turn when he loses both of his legs after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

‘Stronger’ Goes The Distance

By Evan amaral Contributing Writer Grade: B

The phrase “based on a true story” can serve as a warning sign for any discerning viewer as American cinema often exploits such stories as a cheap source of inspiration or, even worse, as an easy way to gain Academy attention. It seems that every year viewers

are subjected to countless examples of this dreaded subgenre, one of thoughtless filmmaking and emotional manipulation. On the surface, director David Gordon Green’s “Stronger” appears to be another one of those far-too-common eye rollers. However, the film is surprisingly rich, even though it never reaches greatness.

The year is 2013. Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal) is an average young Bostonian — he loves his family of

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‘Investigation’ Harrowing, Blunt By anniE CohEn Senior Staff Writer

Friday nights usually find me out with friends or watching “Game of Thrones,” not listening to two and a half hours of Holocaust testimonies, yet, this past Friday, that’s exactly what I did.

Dooley’s Players performed a staged reading of Peter Weiss’s play “The Investigation” Sept. 21 to 23 in White Hall.

Student director Josh Oberlander (19C) did his job effectively: He approached the play with respect and treated it seriously. The staged reading overall was powerful considering it was a student-acted and studentdirected production — yet the play itself is problematic due to its lack of surface appeal.

Drawing in an audience is hard enough when the play is full of dancing Mormons or tragic lovers. “The Investigation,” which featured students sitting and reading the characters testimonials, had a small audience. I can’t attribute the lack of student interest simply to a lack of interest in the arts: Again, not many people will want to watch a very long play about Auschwitz on a Friday night.

The play is comprised of segments; each segment is a different court scene using the actual testimonies and scripts from the Nuremberg trials. The

staged reading was powerful because of the intensity of the subject matter, though not necessarily appealing to college students who often seek entertainment when they attend plays. The lessons audience members can take from the play are crucial and would be better communicated through a medium that attracts a larger audience. While hearing the actors read the characters’ testimonies is heartwrenching, the play needs more mainstream appeal.

While I wish this had been a full production, as it would have required only one minimal set and few costumes, Oberlander’s arrangement of the characters was helpful in keeping all the characters straight.

Each actor played several characters, and without Oberlander’s configuration — the Jews on stage left, the Nazis on stage right — the performance would have been more disorienting. As it was, actors constantly switching characters was confusing and disappointing.

Each actor seemed to have only one voice and acting technique that they used for all characters they played.

While it would have been helpful to have character names on the program instead of just a cast list, the configuration did not hinder the experience of the play nearly as much as possible.

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misfits and his local sports teams.

Jeff also happens to be an ineffable screwup who can never be relied upon to show up. After leaving his job at Costco early to go watch the Boston Red Sox play, Jeff runs into his onand-off-again girlfriend Erin Hurley (Tatiana Maslany) at a bar. When she says that she is raising money to run the Boston Marathon, he helps out and

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Call me old school, but I seek character arcs, plot twists, subplots and resolutions in plays.

Therefore, I have always struggled with experimental theater productions.

Perhaps the dislike of experimental theater stems from my family, who told me as I stage managed a devised theater piece in high school that I was wasting my time and that no one would come because no one could follow the premise.

I went into “Midnight Pillow” uncertain that I would come out liking anything.

“Midnight Pillow,” a series of interrelated vignettes about the role of dreams and creation, was conceived and directed by Park Krausen (99C).

The play is Theater Emory’s 2017 season opener, running from Sept. 21 through Oct. 1. Krausen conceptualized the production through a Mary Shelley quote.

Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein,” described creating the

story of Frankenstein as the “spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.”

Krausen said that the theme of creation stuck with her, and, as a result, she focused on the following questions: What happens when you are in the act of birthing or creating?

What happens when you refuse to create?

What keeps you up at night or rumbles in that liminal space between your dreams and consciousness?

What happens when your creation betrays you or it?

The production was developed in conjunction with 13 female and transgender playwrights who wrote monologues, scenes and short plays considering those prompts.

This is the first production in Theater Emory’s season that in part commemorates the 200th anniversary of “Frankenstein.” The Schwartz Theater Lab has been transformed into a dark, surrealist, dreamlike space, with several beds, rugs and objects hanging from the ceiling and

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David Wehle’s ‘The First Tree’ features a beautiful overworld, strong voice acting and serene background compositions but falls flat with its narrative and platforming mechanics.

Game’s Beauty Only Skin Deep By aditya Prakash Senior Staff Writer Grade: C We are living in a golden age of indie games. From the industry-changing mechanics of “Undertale” to the sheer uniqueness of “Superhot,” developers are chugging out games that feel

fresh and push the boundaries of the medium. That being said, I normally stumble upon an indie game as a result of subsequent hype, causing me to ignore what is either a treasure trove of hidden gems or a pitfall trap of utter trite. As a challenge to myself, I clicked on the Newly Released games on Steam and bought the first game that caught my eye, entering the expe-

rience completely blind.

In “The First Tree” by David Wehle, you play as a fox in the middle of Alaska, who is searching for her three lost cubs. The only dialogue in the game is the voice of a man named Joseph, who is reminiscing about his father. His speech is heard as you

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Continued from Page 9 explore the wilderness as the fox as Joseph acts as a detached narrator.

Joseph reveals early in the game that the fox story is actually a component of his dream — certain actions like digging up a toy train cause Joseph to describe certain anecdotes and experiences from his life. What ensues is some platforming, exploring and basic puzzle solving in this game’s claimed 90-minute runthrough.

Arguably, the best features of the game are the graphics and the music.

While the shapes are obviously polygonal, which can be a bit jarring to someone unfamiliar with indie games, the colors are gorgeous and can still be handled by a humble 13-inch MacBook Pro, which has the graphics processing power of a potato. The soundtrack matches the barren scenery perfectly, with its heavy piano influence but tactful use of string instruments like the cello in more dramatic parts of the dialogue. In a similar manner to “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,” the game uses silence excellently, ensuring that the soundtrack’s heavy moments have more impact.

Unfortunately, if one looks past those qualities, the flaws in the game become prominent. The story — while lucid at times and with natural voice acting — is fundamentally too obscure or meaningless to resonate with some players. Sometimes the anecdotes that Joseph recalls are banal and catalyze no development for either himself or his father, while other times the cheesy, pretentious dialogue by what should just be a “normal guy” takes away from the message of the plot

(see: any time Joseph calls his partner “my love”).

More than anything, the platforming element of the game is not executed well — to the point that I felt anxious and irritated by its poor delivery. The fox has the ability to jump, but it is often unclear how high or how low the platforms can be for you to get on them. At one point, I thought I saw an interesting hut on top of a cliff, so I attempted to jump onto it. No matter how many upgrades I got, I simply could not get on top of the cliff even though I was jumping the right height.

This leads to another spatial flaw in the game: There is a lot of empty space that you cannot easily tell is untraversable. I would often run up cliffs for minutes on end, only to realize that I could not go any higher; even though the cliff did not get particularly steep, I would often be met with invisible walls preventing further progress.

Occasionally, I deviated from what I thought was the main path to do some additional exploration, which lead to dead ends with mostly no additional plot or dialogue to be gained. Even if I returned to where I started after failed attempts of finding something unexpected, there was no guarantee that I was continuing in the right direction.

“The First Tree” is intrinsically a linear game, so the seemingly large and empty overworld does absolutely nothing to augment the experience. As this golden age of indie games continues, it is unfortunate that a game like “The First Tree” will likely be buried into obscurity by the other hits of the year.

— Contact Aditya Prakash at aditya.prakash@emory.edu

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Sure enough, he’s there waiting for her. As she approaches the finish line — boom, debris flies through the air. People scream. Panic spreads like smoke. Two bombs exploded during the race. Jeff is rushed to the hospital and a photo of his rescue circulates the news cycle as surgeons perform a double above-the-knee amputation on his legs. Erin meets Jeff’s makeshift family of relatives and friends at the hospital — including his alcoholic mother and roommate Patty Bauman (Miranda Richardson). Jeff wakes up and shares his memory of the bombers as crucial evidence in the subsequent FBI investigation, instantly cementing him as a national hero.

The emotional power of “Stronger” primarily stems from its lead actors, both of whom turn in extraordinary work. Gyllenhaal gives a more nuanced performance than he is usually known for, thankfully emphasizing Jeff as a character over the physical transformation of the role. A lesser actor (and a lesser film) would have taken the easy route and put all the focus on the superficial transformation of a man who loses his legs.

Rather, the film depicts the depths of the real person at the film’s center, an ordinary man thrust into the public consciousness by personal tragedy. It’s an unusually complex portrayal for a film of this type, equally plucking the strength and inherent weakness of its subject.

Maslany is perhaps even better as Erin, who is thankfully not relegated to the role of sympathetic partner.

She possesses her own agency and struggles as she gives up her life to take care of her lover, and their love is one of the most thrillingly tempestuous

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erin hurley (Tatiana Maslany, lEft) and Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal, r ight) share a tender moment on a Boston pier. romances seen in a real-life drama of late. Richardson also excels as Patty, the maternal force of nature at odds with both leads as they all attempt to cope with the tragedy’s aftermath.

Green deserves credit for making the film his own as well as contributing to the detailed character work.

His trademark of fleshing out such details, seen his work ranging from “George Washington” to “Pineapple Express,” is on full display, as each character receives due time to develop into multi-dimensional human beings.

Most fascinating is his decision to steer the film away from Jeff’s heroism.

Instead, Green takes aim at the ways in which heroism is forced upon survivors by the forces of popular culture, ignoring the subtleties of their guilt and trauma. The film is admirable in a major way, even if Green doesn’t quite go as far with it as he should have.

For all its ways of standing out from the inspirational biopic crowd, the film still doesn’t completely subvert the trappings of its genre. It can’t seem to escape some of its emotional cliches

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Dooley’s players performed the student-directed production ‘The investigation’ in White hall from Sept. 21 to 23.

As director, Oberlander sought to tackle a behemoth of a project and was largely successful.

The play was impactful, though that was largely helped by the heartbreaking dialogue. He was given a demanding script to work with and treated it with respect.

Overall, the directing was strong, and there were standouts among the actors; however, the appeal was low, diminishing the imperative messages from the testimonies.

— Contact Annie Cohen at annie.cohen@emory.edu

nor do much else to be, altogether, memorable.

The film is fairly boring on a formal and cinematic level, as is expected, with nothing particularly interesting or inventive going on in terms of how Green uses the imagistic and aural tools at his disposal. By adhering to the typical “based on a true story” formula, “Stronger” sacrifices some of its staying power.

As one of the films officially kicking off this year’s fall awards season, “Stronger” is a sensible choice. It’s as inoffensive and solid as a motion picture could be but doesn’t quite take as many risks as it should. What viewers are left with are two extraordinary performances and characters shaped by a skilled filmmaker and two highly talented actors. For a time soon to be packed with buzz-worthy films, this season doesn’t begin with a bang or with a whimper — but with a somber, personal reflection.

— Contact Evan Amaral at evan.amaral@emory.edu

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even when he was not speaking, which brought a cohesion to his scenes that others lacked.

While the play, for the most part, was well acted, it lacked the urgency demanded by the script. This content is some of the most draining and horrifying that the actors and audience will ever experience, demanding a certain level of emotion and fervor that the actors simply failed to provide. Rather than driving the scenes forward with desperation, the play was slow paced, which often brought the audience out of the scenes rather than pulling them along with the characters.

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Film Supported by Powerful Lead Performances

Reading Features Standouts but Lacks Urgency The play fell into some inherent limitations of the staged reading experience.

That being said, several actors stood out and truly succeeded with their material. Ruth Puryear’s (21C) portrayal of multiple victims had an anxiety and multi-faceted depth that highlighted how real those testimonies were.

She conveyed the dismay of the characters and captured the audience’s hearts during her emotional monologues.

Elizabeth Johnson’s (19C) portrayal of a Nazis’ attorney was sharp and clean.

Her voice rang with needed authority, and she gave the detestable character a real depth and drive.

Abbey Middlebrook’s (20C) and Jessica McKeown’s (20C) performances as multiple characters portrayed a more hollow desperation that, while not as shocking, drained the audience of happiness. The actresses’ defeated voices and empty eyes were haunting and effective.

Jake Thompson (20C) stood out the most; his performance was gripping as he commanded the stage at every opportunity with dramatic reading.

He mostly read as Boger, a Nazi leader in the camp.

The charges brought against Boger are horrific, and Thompson truly portrayed Boger as a dynamic character rather than a surface-level monologue.

He was the only actor who noticeably stayed in character during his scenes

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couches and chairs set up throughout the space for audience members.

The ensemble weaved in and out of the audience, completely surrounding them in the midst of the vignettes.

The majority of the scenes are standalone pieces, but one treated like a TV soap opera complete with boom mics, a title sequence and projections is returned to several times during the show.

The others ended with marked transitions, during which the ensemble walked through the space, talked with the audience or prepped for the next scene.

Some transitions contained music, others audio recordings and some dialogue.

The transitions were disjointed, as though the actors had just awoken from the previous scene.

The ensemble is strong, composed of four professional actors and four students. Maggie Beker (18C) and Roz Sullivan-Lovett (19C) were dynamic powerhouses, especially during their play “She and Her.” The standout performer was Atlanta-based actress Danielle Deadwyler, whose fantastic timing and vocal inflections brought a “Bedtime Story” to life.

However, visibility was a distinct challenge for audience members. I

watched confused audience members stare blankly ahead or contort themselves into positions from which they could see the action when a scene occurred out of their sight.

I myself was seated against the wall far from the action and experienced difficulty watching major scenes thanks to a vanity blocking my view.

I felt awkward standing up to watch major scenes or monologues, even though the program encouraged it. In this production, it felt like the audience needed to be completely immersed in the play’s world or completely removed from it.

Unlike my other forays into devised theater, “Midnight Pillow”’s structure was easy to follow with context.

However, the play felt more like a reactionary project to the prompts rather than a final polished, cohesive performance.

Those who wandered in would easily be lost in the sea of scenes.

Audience reactions were mixed; some were sucked right into the production, as evidenced by their participation at the end, and some sat puzzled the entire show. As the actors left the stage, the audience remained in their seats for some time afterward — perhaps trying to snap out of their own dreams, too.

— Contact Layla Tajmir at layla.shannon.tajmir@emory.edu

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FOOD REVIEW

True Food Kitchen

A Classic Option for the Healthy Student

By Izzy Ullmann Contributing Writer

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With lime green booths covered in mini cactuses alongside shelves topped with crates of oranges, True Food Kitchen lives up to its self-proclaimed sustainable health food paradise.

Located in Lenox Square, True Food Kitchen has a total of 23 locations, which range from Dallas to Phoenix. It prides itself on being a “health-driven, seasonal restaurant,” and has a menu that “rotates regularly to let guests experience great-tasting ingredients at the peak of their freshness,” according to its website.

Although the menu is curated to healthy eating, options range from from vegan dishes such as the Teriyaki Quinoa bowl, to heartier dishes like the Lasagna Bolognese.

I started with an iced tea, the “Hangover Rx,” a mixture of pineapple, orange, honey and coconut water.

Despite its appealing presentation with a leaf hanging off the side of the cup, I couldn’t help but scrunch up my face from the sour taste.

In the future, I would save the $5 and stick with water instead.

When the waitress brought out our first appetizer, the Heirloom Tomato and Watermelon salad ($9), I was happy to cleanse my palate with smooth feta cheese and fresh fruit.

Both the watermelon and tomatoes were extremely fresh and juicy, tasting as if both were picked directly from a garden.

Before I knew it, I was scraping the last of the cheese on the plate into my mouth, trying to gather each crumb of macadamia nut before my entree came out.

For my entree, I ordered the Grilled Chicken salad ($14), and within several minutes of devouring my appetizer, a colorful salad filled with medjool dates, dried cranberries, jicama apple, manchego, farro and almonds was sitting in front of me. The chicken, served steaming hot, was cooked to a perfect

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Located in Lenox Square, True Food Kitchen offers a variety of modern entrees including thin-crust pizza and salad bowls. temperature. It was covered in champagne vinaigrette, leaving my mouth watering after each bite. Not only that, but the trend of fresh fruits continued, as even the dates tasted juicy and flavorful, much like the thinly sliced apples that seemed to melt in my mouth.

For another entree, my friend ordered the Margarita pizza ($12), serviced with organic DiNapoli tomato, fresh mozzarella and basil. The thin crust pizza was covered in piping hot chunks of cheese, and while it was delicious, it kept sliding off onto his plate, turning the dish into more of a mess than he had expected it to. From this, I learned quickly that fruits and vegetables are more flavorful than the rest of the items on the menu. We were better off sticking to a slice of New York pizza.

The dessert menu was limited, only offering five items, including Key Lime Pie and Chia Seed Pudding, which to me is not dessert in the first place. We ordered the Flourless Chocolate Cake, served in a small mug with caramel and vanilla ice cream. I wasn’t vsure how the restaurant would put a healthy spin on a chocolate cake, but the cake was miniature and topped with cacao nibs. The cake itself was mediocre, and it would have been held together better had it been made with flour.

When I first heard about True Food

Kitchen, I expected a quaint cafe filled with customers awaiting takeout midday, post Soulcycle. To my surprise, the restaurant was actually the size of a P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, with nicely-dressed couples on dates. I was quickly greeted by an enthusiastic waiter, wearing a shirt that said “Green Goddess,” accompanied by other smiling faces wearing shirts that read, “Honest,” “Shine on” and “True.”

Despite the overwhelming size of the restaurant, every inch was decorated in something green or organic looking, contributing to its healthy-food vibe.

String lights and chalkboards that read, “Food the way it should taste,” created an atmosphere of positivity for healthy eating.

With remarkably fast service and fresh healthy food, True Food Kitchen is worth the trip off campus. The watermelon salad (4.5/5 stars) is definitely a must have, but would I recommend another dessert place for afterwards.

The food was filling but did not have us feeling stuffed, a quality which is hard to find in most Southern restaurants.

In terms of price, it matched most upscale restaurants in Atlanta, and I felt the cost was worth it knowing that the food was produced organically and sustainably.

— Contact Izzy Ullmann at isabella.ullmann@emory.edu

We are all busy, so stop making ridiculous plans to go on “that Stone Mountain trip” this weekend. Spoiled by the surprise holidays thanks to Hurricane Irma early in the month, every week of classes is a test. We must — as I always say — admire the small, beautiful things in our lives in order to march through the high obstacles in our path. Delight in the comfort of the wet grass under your bare feet as you run; enjoy the kisses of the wind as you leap into the air; and smile at the confident thud of the soil as you land.

Dear Doolino, It has been seven days since I ventured into Lullwater Preserve to escape the police. I could not help it — the candies placed on the front of the counter looked so enticing.

My plight began exactly one week ago. My puppy Reginald had a sore stomach, so I looked up the nearest veterinarian hospital on Google Maps.

I drove to what I thought was the veterinarian near Emory University, but when I arrived I realized that I was actually at the Atlanta Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Silly me.

Not wanting my trip to be a waste, I eyed the glass bowl of sweets on the counter of the reception desk. The crimson crystals of peppermint beauty shone under the white lights of the hospital, the fine cuts of the candy glistening. It was as if the sweets were calling my name, begging me to put them in my mouth. I approached the counter and popped a candy into my mouth.

Divinity.

I kept eating those edible rubies until my plump, hairy stomach could take no more. I could not bear to live in a world without that ambrosia, so I did the unthinkable. I took all the candy out of the bowl and put it into my backpack.

At 4:13 p.m., the police stormed the hospital, searching for someone whom I overheard was a “dangerous individual.” Knowing that the heavens had seen my heinous crime of pilching those sweets, I lifted Reginald, jumped out of the window and ran deep into Lullwater. Within the hour, I heard the droning of helicopter motors in the sky and the barks of the dogs of a K9 unit.

I managed to escape arrest but have barely been able to stay alive. For food, I pilfer thrown chocolate wrappers left by negligent joggers, licking the wrappers clean to maximize my calorie intake. For protein, I go swimming in the lake and grab unsuspecting turtles, breaking their brittle little necks with a forceful chomp of my incisors, gobbling on their entrails as if shucking an oyster, saving the smaller organs for Reginald.

I have written this message using a large leaf as parchment and a bloodsullied fibula as a quill.

This is not a life I want to continue living, but I cannot possibly turn myself in to the police. I have resigned myself to a life in the wilderness, like a dance major with no other options.

How do I live a prosperous and secret life here in the woods?

From Lulling in Lullwater Dear Lulling in Lullwater, A wise man with red eyes once said, “From experience, cops aren’t good at finding people in Lullwater.”

In my egotistical opinion, the value of a life is measured not by the happiness of the individual but by the vastness of the legacy. Abandon menial, fleeting feelings like happiness and focus on being remembered.

Maybe you can haunt a gaggle of unruly undergraduates who sneak in there at night and perpetuate yourself as a legend: the mysterious man who lives in Lullwater, Emory’s very own version of the werewolf. Imprinting yourself on the annals of history is the only means of obfuscating the constant feelings of fear and anxiety that consume your life.

A friend of mine — who just to clarify is not me — once got into a horrible accident that sent them far, far away from everybody that they love, with absolutely no hope of return. They were suddenly an alien in a strange world, anchored to their old life by melancholy. At some point, they realized that going back to how things were was an impossible goal to reach, that the joys of their old life — like the smiles of their children and the touch of their loved ones’ hands — were ephemeral and served as nothing but anguish manifesting itself as longing. They sublimed, as if ripping the skin off their body, and grew tired of their goal of going back to the way things were. They made a name for themselves in their new home and enjoyed their new life for whatever it was worth.

Learn to love Lullwater because there is nothing you can do to escape.

Do not complain about the cards you were handed; just do the best you can with what you have.

Also, you are probably not the criminal — there was another dude who actually committed a crime.

Sincerely, Doolino For your day-to-day qualms and minor life crises, send anonymous questions to doolino.emory@gmail. com.

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COLLEGE ROMANCE

Amour-y: Through the Hoops of Contemporary Love

By GIGI moody Contributing Writer

There are three words that turn any non-interested girl into someone willing to stand next to you at a bar for half an hour, the three words that any girl at a bar wants to hear. The three words that mean more in our modern age than anything else: “Want a drink?”

When it comes to modern love, we’re not attracted to people’s minds anymore.

Now, instead of expressing their love through sonnets and poems, men text women, “Hey, pregame at the house at 10. Come thru.”

Cue the overanalysis: Does he want to sleep with me, or does he want me to bring my friends to the fraternity house?

I think we are just friends, but my roommate swears we flirt when we get drunk. Long gone are the days when you had to write cryptic messages because you wanted to sleep with the queen and didn’t want to be beheaded by the king.

Some define courtly love as a situation that needs three to tango: a woman and two men. I am currently standing next to man number two at the bar, who just offered to buy me a drink.

Man number one — a regular hook-

up — is across the bar.

I came to this tiny bar, packed with hundreds of students, because I was hoping to go home with him, a regular hookup.

He’s currently staring down me and the guy who bought me a drink. We’ve been hooking up for weeks, yet neither of us can exchange more than common pleasantries this evening.

On opposite ends of the bar, we glance over at each other — his brown eyes locked on mine throughout the evening. As I go outside to smoke a cigarette, the hookup follows. Back and forth, back and forth, we play this game all night long.

When I had first arrived, I saw my hookup talking to some unknown girl at one of the tables against the wall.

My mind began to race, and I started to criticize her, listing fault after fault in my head. I had to one-up him, I thought, and accepted the offer of a drink happily.

Maybe our modern courtship is just a game, one in which we use people in the bar as pawns to make other people feel something — jealousy, anger, fear — in their drunken stupor. My hookup watched as the boy I’m with at the bar handed me a drink. And I watch as my hookup grabs hold the hand of the girl he was talking to and leads her out the door of the bar.

Checkmate.

“Hey,” I turn back to boy who bought me the drink. “What do you say we finish these drinks and get out of here? It’s so loud and I’m honestly exhausted.”

“Yeah.” His face lights up with excitement for the first time all evening. “I’ll call an Uber.”

“Perfect,” I say. “Chug.”

He thinks that I’m excited to get out of there. He does as I say, and I lead him out the door, his hand in mine.

Together, we walk past my hookup.

My eyes dart down to see him holding the hand of the girl he led out the door earlier. His face contorts as we walk past.

“Oh, hey.How has your night been?”

I say with a half smile.

“Fine. You heading out?” he asks as he gestures to the boy.

I nod and watch as he gets into the Uber with the girl. I go to help the boy who bought me a drink figure out which car is ours. My hookup and I both pretend that we didn’t get into an Uber together last night.

“Hey,” the boy who bought me a drink says. “I think this our car.”

Before I can respond, another girl interrupts me.

“Hey,” she says to the boy with me.Her face is contorted in the same look I received from my hookup seconds earlier.

I get into our Uber. He joins me

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in the car shortly after. It seems as though I wasn’t the only one playing a game tonight.

This is what modern love is. Instead of jousts, we run over people’s emotions with the horses. Instead of da Vinci and Michelangelo, we have Instagram filters.

Instead of corsets and hoop skirts, we have crop tops and hoop earrings.

Instead of poetry, we have direct messages on Twitter. Maybe even instead

of love, we have indifference.

We are expected to not care when we see our past flings flirting with other people, but then we accept drinks from strangers and end up in Ubers with people we don’t want to be with, in protest.

That’s what modern college love is: apathy.

— Contact GiGi Moody at gigi.moody@emory.edu

BEVERAGES

Meals on Wheels: Emory Food Trucks A Serene Spot to

‘Spill’ Out

By sam hahn Contributing Writer It’s the end of a long week and you’re approaching the DUC-ling for dinner, when you catch a glimpse of a food truck on Asbury Circle.

Your Dooley Dollars are slipping away quickly, but the thought of soggy salads and chicken that might as well be rubber becomes more and more unattractive.

With the sound of the beef sizzling on the grill at Loaded Burger and the irresistible aroma of the maple syrup wafting from Nana G’s Chicken and Waffles, the choice is inevitable: You go with the food trucks.

By KIera XanThos Contributing Writer

The loaded BUrGer The Loaded Burger’s menu features everything customers could ever want on a burger including farm fresh eggs, smoked bacon and baked potatoes.

The workers say the fan favorite is the Loaded Mac N’ Cheese Burger.

The tenderness of the meat paired with the creamy texture of the cheese made me fall in love at first bite.

Although the burger is filling, a trip to the truck is not complete without having tasted the side dishes.

The perfect crisp of the hand-cut potato chips seasoned with salt, pepper and parmesan, and the battered onion rings coated with a savory crust will make customers glad they stayed.

For those who aren’t as hungry, the ice-cold lemonade is satisfying even on the hottest of Atlanta nights. nana G’s chIcKen and WaFFles

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Students line up to order from Nana G’s Chicken and Waffles food truck parked at Asbury Circle. there are plenty of options offering just a waffle or just fried chicken for the less adventurous.

to ham.

I highly recommend the meatball and ricotta or the mushroom, but customers can’t go wrong.

necTar yUmBII Recently named as one of the healthiest food trucks in America by The Huffington Post, Nectar offers options with slightly less carbs than Loaded Burger and Nana G’s.

Nectar serves fresh juices, smoothies and paninis, creating a delicious yet guilt-free meal.

Many know Nectar for their “flu shot” drink, which is made of lemon, ginger and cayenne pepper, which, when paired with with their hearty chicken pesto panini, is a recipe for an unforgettable meal.

The Asian-Mexican style options the Yumbii food truck serves include tacos, sliders and quesadillas.

The sesame fries are crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside — truly a hidden gem on Emory’s campus.

In terms of sauces, I recommend the chipotle ketchup and the sriracha cheese dip, and then alternating between the two.

With that said, those averse to spicy food may want to stay clear of Yumbii. conclUsIon

Those trapped in the Emory bubble who have forgotten that we live in the Deep South should take a trip to the Nana G’s truck sooner rather than later.

I was initially close-minded to the idea of fried chicken and waffles on the same plate, but, if I’m being honest, I was pleasantly surprised.

The sweetness of the maple syrup pairs perfectly with the savory breaded chicken, and the crisp waffle brings the dish together. That being said,

sTrada napolI pIzza With Emory’s large and vocal New York population, let’s face it: DUC-ling pizza just doesn’t cut it.

The mediocre pizza options on campus make some students especially appreciative of the nights when the Strada Napoli food truck parks on campus.

They serve wood-fired pizza with a variety of toppings including smoked mozzarella, mushrooms and prosciut-

At the end of the day, I recommend each and every food truck that comes to Emory’s campus. After a long week of homework, tests and exams, the least you can do is treat yourself to a good meal.

To view the Emory food truck schedule, visit http://www.emory.edu/ dining/trucks.php.

— Contact Sam Hahn at sam.hahn@emory.edu

spIller parK coFFeetoCo hillS

Just a couple doors down from Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar and Grill, Most items on the menu were fairly Spiller Park Coffee is a brand new coffee house close to campus, ideal for any typical of a coffee house: There was the standard latte, cappuccino, Americano caffeine addict seeking a new haunt.

Opened only two weeks ago, the and so forth. From there, there was decor in the dorm-sized cafe is half an assortment of teas that can also be finished: The walls are half decorated found at Kaldi’s — chai and oolong, to with vinyl albums, and the menu is name two.

Apart from snacks like fresh fruit, half a sheet of flimsy printer paper.

Only a limited number of options are yogurt and granola, Spiller Park only offers toast with a variety of toppings, available.

The coffee, however, is just what you such as avocado, nut butter and nutter need to wash out the stale aftertaste n’ fig.

The peaceful atmosphere of Spiller of Kaldi’s.

I ordered a latte, and the two-per- Park was a nice break from the hustle son staff was quick to deliver it to and bustle of students at The Depot on a Sunday afternoon. my Instagram-worthy A few customers were backdrop table (beauscattered throughout tiful gray and white As an unabashedly the inside, typing at marble waiting to be their laptops. Soft, admitted coffee photographed).

Given the size of novice, even I didn’t indie music trickled into the background of the shop, the service need to add a single the shop, accentuating was great; my coffee grain of sugar to my the serene vibe. Half arrived minutes after of the walls were made I ordered. latte ... up of windows, allowAs an unabashedly ing in as much natural admitted coffee novice, even I didn’t need to add a single lighting as possible and brightening up grain of sugar to my latte due to the the small space, but, even so, the cafe creamy aftertaste of the rich, abundant felt slightly cramped.

The only drawbacks to the cafe are dairy.

All coffee items in the shop are the distance from campus (unless you served with a glass of water, and all were intending to hit up Publix, Spiller drink items (including the teas) are Park and Maggie’s all in one trip), the served on little metal trays, brought high prices and the small space.

I recommend Spiller Park Coffee directly to customers’ tables.

The seating was standard for a cof- to any local coffee enthusiast, though fee house: tables for two inside and for the price of the coffee (around $4) colorful metal chairs outside on the and the price of the commute, brewing your own cup of joe is a better sidewalk.

The pricing was similar to that of alternative when facing a late night of Starbucks (if anything, cheaper than studying.

Plus, the hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Starbucks), but the coffee was better quality. The drinks were served in every day, making late night caffeine classic mugs for customers staying in runs impossible. and clean, white to-go cups stamped with the “Spiller Park” logo for custom— Contact Kiera Xanthos at ers on the go. kiera.xanthos@emory.edu

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new stadium … [and] we have been playing together for a longer period of time now, and we are gaining confidence in our system,” Martino said.

From the opening whistle, the Atlanta attack looked just as potent as it did in the team’s 4-0 shellacking of the visiting Los Angeles Galaxy last Wednesday. United found multiple shot opportunities within the first couple minutes but failed to capitalize.

Despite a dominant start, the Montreal defense formed a wall that United just couldn’t seem to breach.

It was not until the 27th minute that United forward Hector “tito” Villalba finally broke through that wall. Atlanta central midfielder Carlos Carmona assisted the play, stealing the ball from Montreal central midfielder Samuel piette.

Villalba was the beneficiary, speeding around captain and central midfielder patrice Bernier to the inside before beating left back Deian Boldor with a nutmeg. With the goal in sight, Villalba capped the play with a smashing screamer into the right upper 90, claiming a 1-0 lead for United.

“I wasn’t able to see it because the defender turned and blocked my view,

but as soon as I heard the crowd shout I knew it went in,” Villalba said.

Montreal responded with a chance of their own late in the first half. A well-placed through ball found Bernier just past midfield with no one but Guzan standing between him and the net. If not for a sliding block from a chasing pirez, Montreal likely would have evened the score. pirez’s stop preserved the 1-0 lead, which Atlanta happily took into halftime. the second half saw the field open up for both sides: Atlanta midfielder Julian Gressel ripped a look that narrowly missed wide in the 50th minute; Impact goalkeeper Evan Bush made a tremendous save to deny Villalba a second goal in the 60th minute; Guzan preserved Atlanta’s clean sheet with a critical save of his own in the 71st minute.

“At that moment in the game we were kind of on the back foot and under a bit of pressure,” Guzan said.

“I was able to get in, get big and make that block. In games like this you’ve got to come up with one or two saves, and tonight it was [that] one.”

With this formidable Atlanta attack, it was only a matter of time until United struck again. In the 73rd minute, veteran midfielder Jeff Larentowicz

*Home Games in Bold

Cleveland, Dodgers Dominate MLB Season Continued from Back Page In the National League (NL), the Los Angeles Dodgers have undoubtedly been the strongest team. they have a 99-57 record and have given up less than 600 runs over the season. powerhouse pitcher Clayton Kershaw made mincemeat of his opponents, delivering a Cy Young-worthy performance with an 18-4 record, 200 strikeouts and a 2.21 ErA. Along with Kershaw, the Dodgers have received ample production from third baseman Justin turner, who has a .321 batting average, second in the NL to Colorado rockies center fielder Charlie Blackmon. Also benefiting the Dodgers offense is rookie sensation first baseman Cody Bellinger, who has 39 home runs.

With the powerful combination of Kershaw and turner, the Dodgers have earned themselves the NL West pen-

nant. other teams to clinch playoff spots in the NL include the Washington Nationals, who won the NL East, and the Arizona Diamondbacks, who nabbed a wild card spot. In the NL Central, the Chicago Cubs are a game away from winning the division. the final wild card spot is currently a three-team race between the rockies, Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals. the MLB shattered its single season record for total home runs in a season this year, making it a special year for power hitters. two of the year’s most entertaining players are Miami Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton and Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge. Both players have adopted the home run as the crux of their game and are first and second in the MLB in home runs, respectively.

Stanton has smashed 57 home runs, 31 of which have come after the All-Star

OKC’s Big Three: PG13, Westbrook and Carmelo Continued from Back Page of Basketball operations phil Jackson said that Anthony would “be better off somewhere else,” according to NBA. com. Jackson continued shopping Anthony throughout the league until June 28, when the Knicks and Jackson agreed to mutually part ways.

With Jackson’s unexpected departure, some believed the Knicks would keep Anthony on the roster. However, new General Manager Scott perry reiterated that the Knicks would still attempt to unload Anthony to another team. Anthony’s 2014 contract included a rare no-trade clause, which allowed Anthony to veto any potential trade. that made swapping him a major challenge for the Knicks. previous reports suggested that Anthony would only waive his no-trade clause for Houston. However, Anthony recently expanded his list to include the thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers.

Anthony waived his no-trade clause

and $8.1 million trade-kicker to complete the deal with the thunder the trade marks Anthony’s third NBA team. He was originally drafted third overall by the Denver Nuggets in the 2003 NBA Draft and played there for almost eight seasons. the acquisition of Anthony is only one of oklahoma City General Manager Sam presti’s blockbuster moves this summer.

In July, the thunder acquired a disgruntled forward paul George from the Indiana pacers in exchange for guard Victor oladipo and forward Domantas Sabonis. the reshaped thunder team will look to dethrone the reigning NBA Finals Champions, the Golden State Warriors. However, the thunder must first reconcile with the loss of key rotational players in both Kanter and McDermott.

— Contact Joseph Oh at joseph.oh@emory.edu

break. Also a prominent home-run hitter, Judge has hit 50 home runs of his own. this mark set a record for most home runs by a rookie in a single season. Judge did much of his damage before the All-Star break, hitting 30 of his 50 home runs. on a national stage, Judge used his six-foot seven-inch frame to showcase his power as he won the Home run Derby. Although Judge cooled off substantially after the All-Star break, he has reemerged in September with 11 home runs and a .284 batting average.

Stanton’s and Judge’s power symbolize this exciting MLB season. With the AL and NL Wild Card games oct.

3 and 4, respectively, teams have less than a week to secure their entry to the 2017 postseason.

— Contact Stephen Mattes at stephen.mattes@emory.edu

chested in a cross from Gressel, giving Atlanta a commanding 2-0 lead, which they preserved to the final whistle.

“A shutout is a team effort from front to back,” Larentowicz said. “to win games is great, but to get shutouts and to get it as a team — you don’t get that very often.”

While much of the team was all smiles after the game, there was a tension around the locker room.

Midfielder Miguel Almiron left the game in the 16th minute due to what appeared to be a muscle injury.

According to an Atlanta United article published Sept. 25, Almiron will miss at least three weeks due to a left hamstring injury. this marked Atlanta’s fifth of six consecutive home games in September. the home stand’s conclusion comes against philadelphia Union Sept. 27. With five games remaining in the regular season, much is still at stake as the United hope to catch No. 2 New York City FC. only three points separate the two teams, each vying for the all-important first-round playoff bye that goes to the top two teams in each conference.

— Contact Kevin Kilgour at kkilgou@emory.edu

Offense Explodes in Scoring Flurry Continued from Back Page throughout the match.

As the game progressed, the ball stayed mostly in the Scotties’ half. the Eagles’ seven goals came from McCarter, Hilsee, Kolski, freshman midfielder Yasmin toy, junior midfielder Madison phaneuf and otterbein, who scored a brace.

“We had a lot of … different players scoring,” patberg said. “I always love that.”

Worth noting is Emory’s defense and junior goalkeeper Dani Staffin. the unit has not allowed a goal in three consecutive games. “[the Agnes Scott team] is one of the more disciplined teams I’ve ever

seen them have — more athletic teams that I’ve ever seen them have — so it’s always great to play against a team that’s going to give you a fight, and I thought that they did,” patberg said.

“We just have to be really diligent and disciplined in our style of play.” this marked the third consecutive win for the Eagles, bringing Emory’s ledger to 6-2-0. this puts the Eagles on solid ground heading into their University Athletic Association (UAA) opener against reigning national champion, Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.), Sept. 30 at 1:30 p.m.

— Contact Annie Uichanco at annie.uichanco@emory.edu

Leimbach, Carr Shine in Weekend Wins Continued from Back Page cialist Elyse thompson and kills by freshman right side Leah Saunders and sophomore outside hitter Morgan McKnight. thompson’s serves and digs, combined with Saunder and McKnight’s offensive skills, were critical to the Eagles’ success all three sets, which they won 25-19, 25-17 and 25-17, respectively. the second game of the weekend proved to be a greater challenge for the Eagles, but Emory managed to pick up another win. one of the most notable moments of the match came at the end of the second set.

From a score of 23-23, the two teams were neck and neck until Heidelberg managed to pull ahead and win by two for a final set score of 30-28. Despite the loss, the Eagles returned for their third and fourth sets to win the match 3-1. the team captured one more win from the weekend, defeating Bowdoin 3-0. Bowdoin still served as tough competition for Emory, keeping the score tight throughout all three sets.

But with great strength coming from the Eagles’ middle and defensive posi-

tions, the team earned yet another strong victory.

Captain and junior middle Sydney Leimbach, who has had a remarkable season thus far, continued to shine on the court this weekend, maintaining a .583 kill percentage in the Heidelberg match.

“Leimbach is outstanding and had a great weekend,” junior setter Mady Arles said. “She’s one of the most consistent players we have.”

In addition to the junior star, McDowell praised sophomore outside hitter Sara Carr, who had 23 total attacks and a .435 kill percentage in the Bowdoin game. Despite her young age, Carr has become a valuable asset for the Eagles.

“Carr is an unsung hero for us,” McDowell said. “She does so many things for us that don’t always show up on the scoreboard. She leads by her work ethic and is one of the hardest working players I’ve ever had here at Emory.”

McDowell emphasized that the team’s recent success is due in large part to improved chemistry. Arles reiterated that sentiment. “this weekend has taught us a lot

about things we want to work on, like covering or picking up tips,” Arles said.

“It’s a great sign when a team can go on the road for a six-hour bus trip and, after such a big weekend [prior], still pull out those wins.”

As an NCAA rule, Emory must schedule 70 percent of women’s volleyball games against Southern region teams, such as the three schools they faced this weekend. But as September nears its end, the Eagles know that UAA conference play is just around the corner.

“We all take the conference so seriously,” Arles said. “this is our favorite time of the season … and we’re not here to mess around.” the Eagles will return home Sept.

28 to play Covenant College (Ga.) at 7 p.m. the team will then travel to Cleveland, ohio, for the UAA round robin I, where they will face the University of rochester (N.Y.) at noon and Brandeis University (Mass.) at 2 p.m., Sept. 30, and the University of Chicago at noon on oct. 1.

— Contact Allison Gelman at allison.gelman@emory.edu

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VOLLEYBALL

Win Streak Stretches To 10

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Emory’s women’s volleyball team once again swept the court this weekend with three victories. the Eagles won 3-0 against transylvania University (Ky.) Sept. 22, 3-1 against Heidelberg College (ohio) and 3-0 against Bowdoin College (Maine) on Sept. 23. the Eagles celebrate a 10-game winning streak, with only one loss out of their 11 games this season.

“I don’t think anyone outside of our program thought we’d be at 11-1 with such a young team,” Head Coach Jenny McDowell said. “But I believe in us, and I’ve always believed in us.” the Eagles attribute many of these wins to their defensive play, which is “as good as it’s ever been,” according to McDowell.

Friday’s game against transylvania started off slow, as the opposing team won three points right off the bat. But the Eagles quickly came back with serves from sophomore defensive spe-

the tigers fared no better in the second half, as the Eagles accrued three more goals from freshman forward Anne otterbein, freshman midfielder Samantha Hilsee and junior defender Hope Morgan. . the Eagles returned home to battle with the Scotties Sept. 23.

“I thought we had a really slow start, and that was frustrating, but we got significantly better as the game went on,” Head Coach Sue patberg said.

Almost eight minutes into the game, Kolski had the first shot on goal, setting up a series of 34 Emory shots

the National Basketball Association (NBA) has another superteam to add to its list of championship contenders. the New York Knicks agreed to trade 10-time All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony to the oklahoma City thunder Sept. 23. the thunder will send center Enes Kanter, forward Doug McDermott and a future secondround pick to the Knicks in return for the superstar.

Anthony, 33, will join an oklahoma City core that consists of reigning MVp russell Westbrook and fourtime All-Star forward paul George. together, the three superstars will form a new “Big three,” making the new-look thunder yet another formidable Western Conference contender alongside the Golden State Warriors, Houston rockets and San Antonio Spurs. the trade follows a summer swirling with trade rumors surrounding Anthony and the New York Knicks.

In April, former Knicks’ president

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Emory junior defender Nylah Hamilton presses forward in the Eagles’ 7-0 home victory Sept.

23 against Agnes Scott College (Ga.).

2 Games, 2 Wins, 12 Goals

By Annie UichAnco Contributing Writer

the Emory women’s soccer team swept the competition in another round of wins this week against Sewanee: the University of the South (tenn.) and Agnes Scott College (Ga.). the Eagles achieved their second 5-0 shutout this season over the Sewanee tigers Sept. 20. they continued to dominate against the Agnes Scott Scotties with a score of 7-0 Sept. 23.

Sophomore forward Caroline Kolski immediately established Emory’s control over the game as the Eagles took to puett Field in Sewanee, tenn. Kolski struck seven minutes into the first

MLB

A Year of Streaks, Home Runs

By Stephen MAtteS Senior Staff Writer

the Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason is quickly approaching, and the stage is set for an exciting battle that will determine the top players of the baseball world. the postseason is bound to keep baseball fans on the edge of their seats; many of this season’s storylines have already etched their place in baseball history. perhaps the most noteworthy event of the season was the Cleveland Indians’ incredible 22-game winning streak. this streak marked the second longest in MLB history, four games shy of the New York Giants’ 1916 26-game winning streak, and the longest in American League (AL) history. Starting Aug. 24, the Indians began stringing together win after win against the Boston red Sox, Kansas City royals, New York Yankees, Detroit tigers, Chicago White Sox and Baltimore orioles. their streak ended Sept. 15, when the royals finally handed the Indians a 4-3 defeat. the Indians’ elite starting pitching energized their streak. Cleveland’s pitching has been the best in the AL, as they are the only team that has not yet given up more than 600 runs this season. the ace of their staff, Corey Kluber, dominated during the winning streak, tallying four wins and allowing only five earned runs during that span.

Kluber has made a serious case as a candidate for the Cy Young Award, awarded to the best pitcher in the American and National Leagues, with an 18-4 record on the year. on top of 18 wins, Kluber also has struck out 262 batters and has a 2.27 earned run average (ErA). the most viable contender to Kluber for the AL Cy Young is red Sox pitcher Chris Sale, who has a 17-7 record, 300 strikeouts and a 2.75 ErA. Cleveland’s potent offense also contributed to their win streak. the Indians scored five or more runs 14 times over the course of the 22-game span. third baseman Jose ramirez has been a catalyst for the Indians lineup, leading the Indians in batting average. other key players in the Indians’ offensive prowess are shortstop Francisco Lindor, who has a .277 batting average and 33 home runs, and designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion, who leads the team with 37 home runs.

As it stands, the Indians have the best record in the AL and are the AL Central Division champions. Joining the Indians in the AL playoff are the Houston Astros (the AL West champions), as well as the Boston red Sox and New York Yankees, both of whom are still vying for the AL East pennant. the Minnesota twins claim the final wild card spot and are five games ahead of the next best team, the Los Angeles Angels.

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half with a far corner goal shot off a through ball from junior forward Abbe McCarter. Just before the end of the first half, Kolski netted yet another goal, heading the ball from three yards out off a corner kick from McCarter.

“I knew as soon as the opportunity came when [McCarter] sent me that through ball that I had it, that I had to finish what I was given,” Kolski said. the Eagles’ success lies in “the mentality that every game counts,” Kolski said.

“Winning big does a lot for our regional rankings, so every goal and every opportunity we have to put away … and I think we capitalized on all of our finishes.”

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Atlanta United competed at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the fourth time Sept. 24. The team has yet to lose in their new home.

Almiron’s Injury Soils Victory

By Kevin KilgoUr Sports Editor

Entering their Sunday evening matchup against the Montreal Impact, Atlanta United FC had not suffered a loss since the Aug. 23 1-0 slight against D.C. United. this weekend, they continued their unbeaten streak Sept. 24, notching a 2-0 victory over Montreal.

With the win, Atlanta is now 14-8-7, hopping past Chicago Fire for the No. 3 spot in the Eastern conference standings. Montreal fell to 11-13-6 on the season and sits just outside the playoff picture at the No. 7 spot in the East.

Montreal got the better of Atlanta in their first matchup this season back

in April, handing United a 2-1 defeat in Canada. Atlanta needed a stronger performance, particularly on the defensive end, if they were to avenge their loss.

“We know they are a good team,” center back Leandro Gonzalez pirez explained following Sunday’s victory. “they are a team that has really dangerous players, especially in their midfield moving forward, with some of the best attacking players in the league in [midfielder Ignacio] piatti and [midfielder Blerim] Dzemaili.”

Much has changed since that April loss. Despite an apparent lack of consistency and experience earlier this season, Atlanta has bloomed into an

offensive force in Major League Soccer, with a solid back line and an even better keeper in Brad Guzan. Forward Josef Martinez’s return from a foot contusion has been integral to United’s transformation. Since his return in June, Atlanta has enjoyed an 8-2-4 record, bringing them from No. 8 to their current position at No. 3 in the East.

Head Coach Gerardo “tata” Martino attributed the team’s success to the fans, the Mercedes-Benz stadium and the experience that the team has built through their inaugural season.

“We are playing really well in our

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