October 24, 2018

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HOMECOMING

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

College Council Restricts Public Access Legislators Enter ‘Executive Sessions,’ Redact Info By alBert Zhang Contributing Writer

Ayushi AgArwAl/Photo Editor

Rapper Waka Flocka Flame headlines the Homecoming Ball on Oct. 19 at the Quad.

Waka Flocka Flame Attracts 1.8K Attendees

By Calen MaCDonalD Contributing Writer Rappers Waka Flocka Flame and Ugly God drew a crowd of about 1,800 to the Quadrangle for their Homecoming Ball performances on Friday night, according to Student Programming Council (SPC) President Abbey Kelly (19B).

Waka Flocka Flame came onstage at 10:32 p.m., after an introduction

from Atlanta-based DJ Big Tiny, who played some of Waka Flocka Flame’s songs to hype up the crowd. The rapper wasn’t afraid to engage with the crowd: while performing his featured verses from Machine Gun Kelly’s “Wild Boy” and Flosstradamus’ “Mosh Pit,” Waka Flocka Flame left the stage to join the crowd. He also performed fan-favorite “Turn Down for What” by DJ Snake and Lil John.

Waka Flocka Flame invited

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Merveille Oluoch (22C) on stage after noticing her enthusiasm, saying “she was literally singing [every song] word for f*****g word.”

Oluoch told the Wheel after the concert that she is a long-time fan of the rapper.

“I was shaking on stage, I didn’t even know my own name,” Olouch said. “I got to touch one of his dreads

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College Council (CC) began restricting access to legislative meetings and redacting bills after the Wheel started regularly reporting on its weekly meetings this semester. ‘exeCutive SeSSion’ To bar public observation of an Oct. 10 legislative meeting, CC voted to enter “executive session.” CC leadership says these impromptu sessions are closed-door meetings in which the legislature’s actions and debate are not disclosed to the public. During the Oct. 10 executive session, legislators debated and voted on club funding requests and discussed “internal issues,” according to CC Vice President Hemal Prasad (19C).

CC Chief of Staff Jacob Hicks

(18Ox, 20C) said CC can enter executive session because it adopted Robert’s Rules of Order as parliamentary procedure in Spring 1971.

However, when the Wheel requested CC’s governing documents, Hicks emailed a “Rules of Procedure” passed in March 2014 that makes no mention of Robert’s Rules of Order or executive sessions. Instead, on the first page, it says that “any student ... shall be admitted to the legislature galley.”

Hicks told the Wheel that the legislature may invite guests to executive sessions, but the Wheel was not invited to stay during the Oct. 10 executive session.

CC President Radhika Kadakia (20C) said CC would continue to enter executive session for funding bills and possibly other deliberations.

“Any other sensitive informa-

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POLITICS

Emory EmoryCreates CreatesChief New Diversity Officer Officer PosiRole Diversity By eMMa SiMpSon Contributing Writer Emory plans to appoint its first chief diversity officer (CDO) by Fall 2019, according to Vice Provost of Equity and Inclusion Lynell Cadray. The position is expected to address diversity issues by examining policy changes, conducting assessments and developing strategic plans, Cadray said.

“Many of the initiatives around diversity that we’ve had at Emory ... [aren’t organized] in a collected way,” Cadray said. “We don’t really have a central place where people can go and learn what’s going on around the University.”

Cadray said the CDO will serve on Provost Dwight A. McBride’s leadership team and report directly to the provost. The CDO will also work with divisional schools’ diversity chairs, Cadray said. Laney Graduate School and Goizueta Business School already have similar diversity-related positions, and more schools might add similar positions, according to Cadray.

“Our hope is that every school will have someone designated and a committee designated to work on these things [improving diversity],” Cadray said. “This will be ... an opportunity to have someone at the senior level at the University that can collaborate with all of our partners within the University to put together a stronger strategic

plan and strategic initiative around these issues.”

Cadray said the University first identified the need for a new diversity position when Emory conducted a University-wide diversity engagement survey in 2016. A committee reviewed the survey results and made several recommendations to the provost, including the new position, Cadray said.

Cadray noted that the Emory student population is diverse, but the faculty does not mirror student demographics.

“Our student diversity is much more robust than our faculty diversity,” Cadray said.

The University has faced calls for improving faculty diversity in the past. In Fall 2015, student group Black Students at Emory issued 13 demands to administrators, including an increase in the amount of black and Latino full time, tenured professors. In addition, the Class and Labor 2 Committee found “significant[ly]” low levels of faculty diversity at Emory compared to peer institutions.

McBride will begin the search process this fall by hiring an executive search firm and launching a search committee, according to Cadray.

University staff, administrators and student-facing personnel formed

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (left) says Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s (r ight) confirmation was ‘a very serious mistake,’ calling him ‘tempermentally unfit’ to serve on the Supreme Court based on Kavanaugh’s behavior at the hearings.

Carter Calls Kavanaugh ‘Unfit’

By MiChelle lou Editor-in-Chief Former U.S. President and Emory University Distinguished Professor Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday that he believes Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is “unfit” to serve on the nation’s most powerful judicial body.

The 39th president called Kavanaugh’s appointment “a very

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serious mistake” in response to Alexandra Miljanic (19C)’s question as he addressed Professor of Practice Hank Klibanoff’s Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project class.

Miljanic referenced Carter’s Georgia Law Day speech, in which he had called for a strong and ethical judicial system, and asked about Carter’s perspective on Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

“Whether or not [Kavanaugh]

attempted to rape [Christine Blasey Ford], I thought he was temperamentally unfit to serve on the Supreme Court because of his outburst during the hearing,” Carter said in a video posted on Facebook by an attendee.

Carter’s remarks came after a tense confirmation process for Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault by

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Waka Flocka Heads to KA for After-Party Continued from Page 1 and that just blew my mind. My life is complete.”

After performing his 2010 hit single “No Hands,” Waka Flocka Flame invited Georgia-based rappers Bob Lennon and Prince Ink to perform onstage. A majority of students left the Quadrangle when Waka Flocka Flame stopped performing, and the concert ended soon after.

Ariel Stephens (22C) said she enjoyed the concert despite not being familiar with Waka Flocka Flame’s music beforehand.

“It was fun,” Stephens said. “[My favorite part] was when he came offstage and started singing.”

Ugly God opened for Waka Flocka Flame, performing tracks from his 2017 album “The Booty Tape,” including “F**k Ugly God” and “I’m Tryna F**k.” He also performed the 2016 hit “Water” and threw water bottles into the crowd during the song. Ugly God closed the set with his 2017 single, “B***h!”

Due to construction on McDonough Field, the usual location for Homecoming concerts, SPC moved the concerts to the Quadrangle.

Kelly told the Wheel that the change in location did not impact students’ experiences, but the venue change made preparations for SPC more complicated.

“It was a lot to consider in terms of production, having to build that stage on that space,” Kelly said. “It didn’t necessarily impact student experience of the concert … but there were definitely more considerations to take on the logistics side.”

Kelly said 130 people bought guest tickets to the concert. Guests of undergraduate students paid $10, and graduate students paid $18 for admis-

sion, according to SPC and Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) Facebook posts. Fifty tickets were offered to graduate students, according to Kelly.

Future concerts will return to McDonough Field once the construction is completed, Kelly said.

Emory Emergency Medical Services (EEMS) responded to six medical-related reports at the concert, according to EEMS Director Rachel Barnhard.

After the concert, Waka Flocka Flame attended a party in Kappa Alpha Order’s (KA) off-campus house.

Posts on social media by KA members show Waka Flocka Flame playing drinking games and taking pictures with partygoers.

Abbey said that 130 guest tickets were sold for the concert and that 50 tickets were set aside for graduate students. Graduate student tickets were sold for $18 and graduate student guest tickets for $26, according to the GSGA Facebook page.

On Saturday afternoon, Emory alumna Keri Hilson (03Ox, 05C) headlined the alumni Homecoming concert, opened by country singer Emma White.

In between her songs, Hilson talked about her experience as an Oxford and Emory alumna, recounting how she would frequent the Rich Building because students who studied theater, like herself, hung out there. Hilson never graduated from Emory because she received a record deal during her senior year.

The R&B artist performed her top hits including “Pretty Girl Rock” and “Knock You Down,” as well as “Turnin’ Me On” and “Energy.”

— Contact Calen MacDonald at ccmacdo@emory.edu

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after the Homecoming Parade was canceleed due to rain, Residence Hall association (RHa) hosted a smaller-scale event where students drove the residential hall floats from the parking deck below longstreet-Means Hall to eleanour Raoul Hall and back.

Homecoming Parade Canceled Due to Rain

By MiChelle lou Editor-in-Chief The 2018 Homecoming parade was canceled due to potential rain, according to the Emory Alumni Association’s website.

“There wasn’t any way to have this event as it is 100 percent outdoors, with paper floats, golf carts, etc.,” Student Programming Council President Abbey Kelly (19B) told the Wheel. “However, if we can find another way to plan an event that showcases our student organizations, we will do that. We are also super disappointed, as a lot of planning and logistic heavy work went into this on the SPC side.”

SPC, Campus Life and Emory Alumni Association decided to cancel

the parade at 9 a.m, according to Kelly.

The parade is an annual tradition in which students, alumni, faculty and staff walk through campus with themed groups.

Residence Hall Association President Aaron Jordan (20C) said RHA had more than 100 hall council members working on 10 floats for the parade.

The hall councils had started planning and working on them about one month ago and put in “countless of hours,” Jordan said.

In lieu of the parade, RHA hosted a smaller event where the floats traveled from the parking deck below Longstreet-Means Hall to Eleanor Raoul Hall and back. Some SPC members and Residence Life alumni judged

the students’ decorations.

“They still got to have that short feel of recognition, but it wasn’t like everyone who was planning to come to the parade,” Jordan said.

Jordan added that, for the future, SPC and RHA should have contingency plans for weather.

“There wasn’t any communication for what’s the contingency plan,” Jordan said. “For RHA, it really wasn’t an option to do a last-minute cancel because of how much work was put in.”

The Saturday concert featuring Keri Hilson (03Ox, 05C) will start as scheduled at 2 p.m. rain or shine, according to the website.

— Contact Michelle Lou at michelle.ann.lou@emory.edu

College Council Leaders Say Restrictions Protect Clubs

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tion, if it were to be sensitive, yes,” Kadakia said.

Hicks said CC has no plans to enter executive session for non-funding deliberations, and CC Chief of Staff Julian Pradeep (19C) said CC would avoid executive session whenever possible to be transparent.

Prasad told the Wheel that CC’s Oct. 10 executive session also included discussion about “internal College Council issues.”

“This was a matter that CC alone could resolve, so we had to deal with it internally in order to move forward,” Prasad said. reDaCtion of DoCuMentS The Wheel began regularly attending legislative meetings on Sept. 26. At that meeting, CC deliberated and voted on a funding bill but did not enter executive session.

After the meeting, the Wheel asked Vice President of Communications Alexander Chanen (21C) for a copy of the approved bill, but the next day, Chanen said the information is “protected” and emailed an electronic document with all information redacted.

Hicks told the Wheel that CC is redacting funding information to “protect clubs.”

“Outside vendors can’t know how much we’re spending,” Hicks said,

noting that vendors could manipulate prices negotiated with CC clubs.

Hicks explained that if vendors know how much money a club receives, the club could lose bargaining power.

He added that vendors may not be willing to enter contracts with Emory clubs if contract values are published.

Kadakia and Prasad expressed similar sentiments to the Wheel.

“At the end of the day, the risk of that getting out into the public is too high,” Prasad said.

Chanen acknowledged that the information was presented during a public meeting.

“We are working to address this for future meetings and how to better keep protected information of our constituents and their respective organizations private,” Chanen wrote to the Wheel.

To vote on funding requests from multiple clubs, legislators typically combine the requests into one bill.

After meeting with the Wheel on Oct. 17, CC leadership agreed to provide aggregate funding information for each bill, including how much was requested, how much was approved and a list of all included clubs.

However, the lack of itemized allocations prevents constituents from independently determining whether CC is equitably dispersing funds.

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Kadakia and Prasad said CC began restricting access to financial information after Student Governance Services (SGS) Associate Director VonYetta Hunter told them to do so. SGS is composed of University employees who are hired to work “closely with student groups to process payments, transfer funds, and support and manage student financial accounts,” according to its website.

“We decided to follow SGS’ advice because in our minds they are the foremost individuals with the most experience,” Prasad said. “We defer to their judgement with regards to the privacy of these monetary values.” In an interview with the Wheel, Hunter said she didn’t recall a specific conversation with CC leadership regarding public access to dollar amounts.

CoMMunity r eaCtionS The Student Government Association (SGA) Constitution states that all papers of the SGA are public. CC is a divisional council that serves under SGA’s jurisdiction.

CC, SGA and SGS have contended for more than a year that the SGA Constitution’s public records clause excludes some information not delineated in the constitution.

“Access to emails, meeting minutes and financial documents can

be excluded,” Campus Life Senior Director of Communications Tomika Depriest wrote in an Oct. 13, 2017, email to the Wheel.

Prasad said that funding request information is not public, as the records are maintained by SGS. Prasad later clarified that both CC and SGS maintain funding request information but did not clarify why the documents would be exempt from the public records clause.

“This joint jurisdiction over organizations’ budgets puts things in a murky water,” Prasad said. “I think that’s where we’re getting stuck between a rock and a hard place.”

Pradeep said individual clubs may choose to release information to the Wheel or others if they choose.

SGA President Dwight Ma (17Ox, 19C) acknowledged that negotiating and entering contracts could be a concern for CC. Ma explained that SGA allows full access to deliberations and bills because most clubs that request funding from SGA already have their contracts secured with vendors.

“I think we will leave the decision up to the divisional council,” Ma said.

Ma said SGA has no plans to restrict access to club funding requests presented before SGA. He suggested that students who “feel uncomfortable” with the level of transparency in CC may petition the

Constitutional Council.

Kadakia’s Spring 2018 presidential campaign platform called for “swinging our doors open for community” and striving to make CC general body meetings “more accessible.” Prasad also said prior to the election that CC should be “transparent.”

Some College students told the Wheel they support greater transparency in student government.

Lauren Mahoney (22C) said students deserve to know club funding amounts and that CC should provide evidence to support their concerns.

“I don’t think vendors are probably paying that much attention to how much one Emory club has,” Mahoney said. “Students at Emory knowing where their money is going is probably a lot more important … If it’s out of the blue and they’re using that as an excuse to restrict transparency then that’s not the way a legislative board should be run.”

Jonathan Lung (20C) acknowledged CC’s concerns but also stressed the importance of transparency.

“I encourage them to find another way to be more transparent while in the interest of protecting the integrity of the budgets of the clubs,” Lung said. “I want them to be honest.”

— Contact Albert Zhang at albert.liang@emory.edu

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Crime Report

Compiled By Valerie Sandoval On Oct. 13 at 8:08 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a report of a harassing communication.

The complainant, a male Emory student, said he communicated with an unknown female he met on an online dating site. The female gave his phone number to a male named Nick. The complainant said Nick first texted him on Oct. 8 at about 3 a.m. for casual conversation and again at about 5:30 p.m. from a different number. The complainant told Nick he was not interested in conversing and blocked the number.

At about 8:01 p.m., Nick sent the complainant another text message from a different number, asking why he blocked his number, adding, “I’m going to find you and kick your ass.”

Officers suggested the complainant change his number if Nick continues to contact him. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On Oct. 15 at 9:11 a.m., an EPD officer spoke with an Emory student via telephone regarding a theft report.

The student, reported that on Oct. 14 at 4:30 p.m., he left a Universityowned Dell laptop on a table in room 721 of the Grace Crum Rollins Building but realized it was missing when he returned the next day at 8:30 a.m.

The student reported to police that the classroom is usually left unlocked, and employees and students typically rearrange the furniture in the morning.

Building staff told him nobody had turned in the laptop, according to the complainant. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On Oct. 15 at 10:30 a.m., an EPD officer spoke with an Emory student via telephone regarding property damage. The student, reported that on Oct. 12 at about 10:30 a.m., she parked her 2018 Toyota Corolla on the first level of the Michael Street Parking Deck. When she returned at about 3:30 p.m., she noticed a one and a half foot scratch on her vehicle that began

on the roof. She also discovered that the paint on her front passenger side door was scratched. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On Oct. 15 at 7:30 a.m., EPD responded to a report of suspicious activity on Dickey Drive. Emory Police Dispatch advised that a complainant observed a male kicking vehicles in the parking lot of the Rita Anne Rollins Building.

Emory University Hospital (EUH) Public Safety Department advised via radio that the subject may be a patient who had been discharged from emergency treatment earlier that morning. An officer observed a subject on Eagle Row matching a description of the suspicious person. When the officer approached the subject, the male began speaking rapidly and incoherently about “religious warfare,” the officer reported. The man said he was hearing voices and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Three witnesses observed the subject repeatedly kick the driver side rear door of a 2012 Nissan Murano. Officers transported the subject to Grady Memorial Hospital’s Behavioral Health Services.

On Oct. 16 at 10:33 a.m., an EPD officer was dispatched to the EPD lobby regarding a report of suspicious activity. The complainant, an Emory graduate student, reported that he received an error message on his laptop on Aug. 12 that prompted him to call an unknown number to fix an issue with his computer.

The complainant said he called the phone number and spoke with an unknown male who advised him that he could fix the issue for $1,500.

The complainant made the payment to the company via his Chase Bank checking account, and shortly after, his laptop began working again.

About two weeks after this initial interaction, another male contacted the complainant by phone, advising that there was another issue with his laptop that required the installation of remote access software.

News Roundup After the complainant downloaded the software onto his computer, the male advised him that the issue was fixed and that it cost another $1,500, but he would receive a refund of $1,400. The male said he needed access to the complainant’s checking account to make the payment, and the complainant agreed to give the company access to his checking account. The complainant did not receive the refund and observed fraudulent activity on his Chase Bank checking account, including a transfer of $11,400 from his savings account to his checking account. The complainant transferred the money back to his savings account, uninstalled the software and shut down his computer.

A few days later, the complainant began receiving text messages asking that he turn his laptop back on, saying that failure to do so would result in his checking account being “zeroed out” and the incident being reported to the FBI. An officer called both phone numbers the complainant reported and both corresponded to an unknown Magic Jack phone account.

The complainant told EPD he had not yet contacted Chase Bank regarding the fraudulent activity but planned to do so shortly. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On Oct. 14 at 2:19 a.m., EPD was dispatched to 11-C Eagle Row, the Alpha Delta Pi (ADPi) sorority lodge, in reference to a person down due to alcohol. The complainant said she found the male subject unconscious on the curb of the street and assisted him to her room. Officers found a fraudulent ID card in the subject’s wallet. Emory Emergency Medical Services (EEMS) arrived on the scene and provided the subject with medical attention. American Medical Response (AMR) arrived shortly after and transported the subject to EUH. Campus Life was notified about the incident.

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

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multiple women. Ford, a California professor who said Kavanaugh attempted to rape her while they were both in high school, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27, days before the judge was confirmed by the U.S. Senate 50-48 on Oct. 6.

Kavanaugh, who denied any cases of sexual misconduct, also delivered an emotional testimony before the committee that ranged from tears to anger.

“I saw him lose his cool,” Carter said, adding that Kavanaugh’s testimony was partisan at times.

The former president said Kavanaugh seemed “very wellqualified” from his legal career, but he believed Ford’s testimony to be truthful.

Carter did not appoint anyone to the Supreme Court, although two of his Court of Appeals appointees — Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — were later selected for the Supreme Court by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Angela Jiang (19C), a student in Klibanoff’s class, told the Wheel that Carter is responsible for dynamic changes in politics.

“While current events at times [are] disparaging and personally troubling to me, in the room, I couldn’t help but wonder about how pivotal President Carter’s political career was for progressivism in America,” Jiang wrote in an Oct. 17 email to the Wheel. “I believe locally, President Carter was a catalyst for progressive sentiment we’re experiencing with our new candidates today.”

Arianna Murray (20C), another student in the class, said she appreciated hearing Carter speak about other topics, including Georgian history, that were related to the Cold Cases class.

“I thought it was great to hear more about the history and social environment of Georgia, especially during President Carter’s time working in state and local government,” Murray wrote in an email to the Wheel.

— Contact Michelle Lou at michelle.ann.lou@emory.edu

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Continued from Page 1 a committee that met in Spring 2018 and early Summer 2018 to identify qualities that would be important for the position, including leadership and prior experience, according to Cadray.

Cadray said the selected candidate may determine that additional support staff is needed to effectively complete their goals.

John Priddy (19C), executive vice president of the Student Government Association and member of the Committee on Racial and Social Justice, said he thinks the position will greatly benefit the University.

“I think it sounds like a great idea,” Priddy said. “Definitely something that would be really important for Emory.”

— Contact Emma Simpson at emma.simpson@emory.edu

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President Donald J. Trump’s administration penalized Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for the alleged killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by revoking visas for Saudi agents who are implicated in Khashoggi’s death, according to the Post. Saudi Arabia acknowledged that Khashoggi was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier in October. However, Saudi officials denied that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the journalist’s death, blaming the murder on a “rogue operation,” according to the BBC. truMp a DMiniStration C oulD narrow genDer Definition

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Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia, defended her presence at a 1992 protest where a Georgia state flag with a Confederate design was burned, according to CNN. “During Stacey Abrams’ college years, Georgia was at a crossroads, struggling with how to overcome racially divisive issues, including symbols of the Confederacy, the sharpest of which was the inclusion of the Confederate emblem in the Georgia state flag,” the Abrams campaign said in a statement to The New York Times. On Tuesday, Abrams added that she is a “very proud Georgian.” Abrams’ Republican opponent, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, has not made any public comments on the issue.

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The Trump administration is considering defining gender as a biological, unchangeable state determined solely by the genitalia an individual possesses at birth, according to memos obtained by the New York Times. This change could severely hurt transgender rights under federal law. The Trump administration plans to narrow the definition of gender used by federal programs, arguing that government agencies should identify gender as either male or female, the Times reported. An estimated 1.4 million American citizens choose to be recognized as a gender other than male or female, according to the Times, and new policies could eliminate federal acknowledgment of these citizens.

The Marcus Foundation pledged to donate $5 million to Emory’s School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics to to renew support for 15 pediatric physician/researchers who belong to the Marcus Society in Pediatrics, according to an Oct. 19 University press release. “Support for the Marcus Society has helped Emory and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta recruit and retain exceptional physician/researchers, allowing us to identify serious pediatric diseases earlier, improve treatment, care for many more patients than ever before, and enhance quality of life and overall health outcomes for children,” Lucky Jain, professor of pediatrics and director of the Emory + Children’s Pediatric Institute, said in the press release.

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— Contact Aadit Jhaveri at aadit.ajay.jhaveri@emory.edu

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Corrections •In last week’s issue, Aidan Vick was credited with writing “Emory Prof Directs Powerful ‘Man Made.’ ” In fact, James Patrignani wrote the article.

•In last week’s issue, “Hidden Gems: Spring 2019 Courses” states that Business and Society is a pre-requisite course to Social Enterprise in Latin America. In fact, there is no pre-requisite.10, 13 and 21.

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PHOTOS: HOMECOMING WEEK

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Emory University’s Student Programing Council (SPC) celebrated this year’s Homecoming Week with the theme of “Homecoming at Sea: S.S. Swoop.” Events from Oct. 14 to Oct. 21 included myriad games, food and free merchandise. On Oct. 18, SPC hosted comedian Beth Stelling in Glenn Memorial Church. Friday’s concert featured Ugly God and Waka Flocka Flame. Emma White and Keri Hilson (03Ox, 05C) performed at the Alumni Concert on Oct. 20. The alumni parade that typically takes place on Saturday was cancelled due to inclement weather, but Residence Hall Association put together a smaller procession.

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Opinion

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | Opinion Editors: Madeline Lutwyche and Isaiah Sirois (madeline.lutwyche@emory.edu and isaiah.sirois@emory.edu)

New Seminar May Give College Students an ‘Edge’ A new Emory College seminar set to pilot next semester addresses a gap in the curriculum, as it will help liberal arts majors follow a more career conscious path during their undergraduate education.

The seminar is part of the Emory Edge initiative, which connects students with academic and career mentoring and other resources. Listed as “Emory College Seminar (ECS) 120: The Liberal Arts Edge,” the pass/fail course teaches freshmen and sophomores how to leverage a liberal arts education in the professional world. In essence, it ameliorates tensions between Emory’s liberal arts and pre-professional cultures.

The new course bears resemblance to the Goizueta Business School’s one-credit “Professional Development” class (BUS 380), which helps BBA students prepare for success beyond Emory. Both courses require students to work on resumes and cover letters, do mock interviews, network with alumni and create LinkedIn profiles. Whether you’re majoring in art history or biology, these skills translate directly into the job-seeking process.

Students in the seminar will roadmap their futures, network, explore interests and goals at Emory that connect to potential career paths and learn liberal arts skills as well as how they can be applied to life in the workforce, strategizing for the college-to-career jump, according to Director of Emory’s Quality Enhancement Plan and seminar instructor Tracy L. Scott. These aspects will equip liberal arts majors with tools to outline career paths that pre-professional tracks do not exist to serve. Adding this seminar would be a big step in addressing student complaints of a lack of career coaching in the College, and might alleviate some pressure on underclassmen to attend the Goizueta Business School solely for secure post-graduation employment.

We commend the College for innovating and piloting the seminar program. It seems more useful than Pre-Major Advising Connections at Emory Program (PACE), and we hope the seminar moves beyond the pilot stage and becomes available to a wider array of Emory students.

College Council’s Censorship is Anti-Democratic Do you know where your $92 Student Activities Fee (SAF) is going? A Wheel reporter tried to find out by attending a recent College Council (CC) session, but he was removed because CC went into an “executive session.” When the reporter asked to read copies of the bills passed during the session, he received versions with financial information redacted.

Student government institutions like CC are meant to give students a voice in how their SAF is spent. The procedure described above completely negates that purpose by closing off meetings that determine funding.

Though CC claims to be protecting clubs’ financial privacy, they are destroying the necessary mechanisms of transparency and accountability. These claims are unfounded: Student Government Association (SGA) publicizes funding requests they receive, and the Wheel has published student government budgets in the past. CC should follow the lead of SGA, their parent organization, by holding legislative meetings open to the student body and releasing financial documentation.

To justify the procedural changes, CC Vice President Hemal Prasad (19C) and Chief of Staff Jacob Hicks (18Ox, 20C) both cited Robert’s Rules of Order, a rulebook for legislative bodies adopted by CC in Spring 1971. While neither the latest revision of CC’s constitution nor standing rules reference Robert’s Rules, the rules would allow those bodies to call for private, executive sessions.

However, the rules of procedure of CC that Hicks sent to the Wheel should supersede Robert’s Rules, and they fail to mention any such executive session. What’s worse is that CC is currently using executive sessions for legislative activity, which, though permitted under Robert’s Rules, violates their spirit and undermines transparency.

CC has also said Student Government Services (SGS), an office of University employees hired to assist student government process finances, has urged them not to make financial documents public. SGS’ claim is based on a poor interpretation of the SGA constitution, which reads, “All meetings of the Student Legislature shall be open … [and] the papers of SGA shall be considered public records.”

SGS has repeatedly interpreted that clause to exclude financial documents when Wheel

reporters requested financial documents. Such an interpretation is completely unjustified by the Constitution’s text, and interpreting the student Constitution is outside SGS’s purview.

SGS officials are unelected. These administrators do not pay into the SAF, and there is no constitutional mechanism through which their interpretation should hold any weight. If CC concedes that SGS can interpret the student constitution, they are handing sovereignty over to a wholly undemocratic body.

Further, using SGS’s interpretation to close legislative meetings also breaks from the norms of other student government bodies; none of them actively remove observers while passing bills.

This would be less of an issue had student government bodies not repeatedly demonstrated a need for oversight and electoral accountability. While CC has largely avoided scandals, its members should continue to act openly and responsibly instead of hindering public access to information.

It’s worth noting that CC’s use of executive session followed the Wheel’s decision to regularly send reporters to its meetings this semester. Preventing media access to CC meetings severs a vital link in communication between the student government and students, many of whom do not have the time to regularly attend meetings.

CC’s decision is an unnecessarily adversarial stance toward the press that ensures students will vote in the spring with incomplete knowledge of their elected representatives’ performance.

We understand that funding diverse student organizations and organizing CultureShock are difficult tasks that may require heated debate, but that does not justify anti-democratic action.

As long as Emory students are required to pay the $92 Student Activities Fee, the financial process of student government organizations should be open to scrutiny.

Kimia Tabatabaei is a freshman legislator on College Council and recused herself from this piece.

The above editorials represents the majority opinion of the Wheel’s Editorial Board.

The Editorial Board is composed of Zach Ball, Jacob Busch, Ryan Fan, Andrew Kliewer, Madeline Lutwyche, Boris Niyonzima, Omar Obregon-Cuebas, Shreya Pabbaraju, Isaiah Sirois, Madison Stephens and Kimia Tabatabaei.

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Federal Minimum States Should Decide Wage Checks Poverty Their Minimum Wage Andrew Kliewer Under Georgia law, one hour of work isn’t worth a whole lot. Employers are only required to pay their employees $5.15 an hour, an amount that equates to just over $10,000 per year for a full time job. Our neighbors aren’t doing much better.

South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana currently have no minimum wage laws on the books.

Luckily, these states and others are covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which preempts state law and requires a slightly more palpable $7.25 per hour.

While this yields only an annual income of $15,080 for full-time workers, an amount that situates families of two below the federal poverty line, the federal minimum wage still serves as minimum guarantee of economic security for the 1.5 million American workers who currently earn it. Some states have experimented with raising the minimum wage in an effort to further improve conditions for their workers.

However, the examples of Georgia and its neighbors show that some states would be more than happy to take the opposite track and revert to lower or no minimum wages, demonstrating exactly why a federal minimum wage is so necessary.

Since its inception, the federal minimum wage has been under constant attack by business interests and conservatives who claim it promotes economic inefficiency. The libertarian-minded Koch brothers, who spent over $889 million on the 2016 elections, have consistently lobbied for the abolition of the federal minimum wage. When Congress last voted to raise the minimum wage in 2007, more Republicans voted against than for it. President Donald Trump has expressed a somewhat incoherent set of views on the issue, but stated in a 2016 Washington Post article that he would “leave it to the states ... to compete with each other.”

These responses rest on the boilerplate Republican response to government regulation: that it stifles growth, harms workers and interferes with what would otherwise be a functioning free market.

Theoretically, these arguments hold up. As anyone who has taken introductory economics knows, the demand for labor equals supply in a perfectly competitive marketplace, setting an optimal price and quantity. However, a quick American history lesson shows that this point

is anything but “optimal” for many workers.

During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, many workers were paid little to nothing for long hours of work in dangerous conditions, trapping them in a cycle of dependence akin to slavery.

Clearly, the labor market was not perfectly fair, as businesses held more bargaining power than workers in determining wages. Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed the need for a minimum wage best when he stated in 1933 that “no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.”

Roosevelt managed to push the FLSA through Congress in 1938, and it was subsequently ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish under the federal government’s authority to regulate interstate commerce.

Since then, the minimum wage has been raised 28 times under both Democratic and Republican presidents.

Studies on the results of these raises have been inconclusive — some found that raises result in modest job losses and others found no effect.

However, what is crystal clear is the benefits the raises carry for American workers.

Research consistently finds that these raises lead to measurable reductions in poverty.

This income boost can be a major difference for the parents and working adults who make up an increasing percentage of minimum wage earners.

As the power of the federal minimum wage erodes due to inflation, states have taken matters into their own hands. In 2016 alone, voters in four states ranging from Arizona to Maine voted to raise the minimum wage. To some, this might be evidence that states are capable of handling the issue themselves.

However, other states have gone in the opposite direction, with 27 states passing legislation to prevent local municipalities from raising their own minimum wages.

Without federal mandate, these states would likely engage in a further race to the bottom, selling out workers by lowering or abolishing their minimum wages. In a nation without campaign finance regulation, a return to the days of routine worker exploitation is a very real prospect.

The federal minimum wage, however imperfect, is a bulwark against such a mistaken action.

Andrew Kliewer (20C) is from Dallas.

to $15, and it might well turn out that this will benefit everybody. Henry Ford comes to mind — the automobile industry pioneer paid his employees famously high wages so they While one hour of work might not be worth a could have enough money to buy the very whole lot in Georgia, the state’s $5.15 minimum automobiles they produced. wage is a meaningless metric to begin with.

But so too, it might hurt everybody, with The federal minimum wage, currently $7.25, huge numbers of service, retail and other prevents virtually all employers from actually traditionally low-skilled workers being laid off. paying employees according to Georgia state Whether the Affordable Care Act, for law. instance, netted more good or bad, there was In principle, I don’t have a problem with a no shortage of companies that either cut the federal law mandating that a minimum wage hours of workers or laid them off to bypass laws guarantee workers live above the poverty line. regulating employer-provided health care.

But in practice, the federal government is The problem with federal intrusion beyond unequipped to do anything of the sort. a basic provision of a certain standard of living Let’s look at the differences in cost of living is that it incidentally proscribes any economic across the United States: a pack of cigarettes experimentation. will run you a hair under $14 in New York But even in the event that we know the best City. In Kentucky? Less than half, ringing up set of economic policies to reach a specific at $5.72. end, why not let the states fight it out among This pales in comparison themselves?

Competition, to the differences in rent in after all, breeds innovation. places like Los Angeles or New The obvious retort is The problem with York City versus Mobile, Ala., that this incentivizes states federal intrusion or Youngstown, Ohio. to engage in a race to the In providing a uniform bottom. But states like Oregon, beyond a basic baseline from sea to shining provision of a certain California and New York show sea, the federal government that this is not a hard or fast standard of living is rule. either forces employers to that it incidentally pay a prohibitively high wage If the gap in the standard to workers in the South and of living between Oregon, proscribes the Midwest, or it provides California and New York and any economic no meaningful wage at all for other places continues to rise, experimentation. anyone along the coasts. then people should vote with Although minimum wage their feet. legislation might actually be We live in the most mobile beneficial at the federal level, society ever; though there for it to work, the federal government must task might be significant barriers to movement the states to discern for themselves whatever a in the short term like immediate moving “living wage” constitutes and require them to expenses, the concerns about these constraints hold to that wage as a function of time. are overblown.

While federal enforcement might be Just a century ago, the population of necessary to ensure a living wage, the best way California was below 5 million. to realize that is through the states’ internal By 2015, it had grown roughly tenfold to mechanisms. around 40 million.

But I am unsympathetic to any federal There was more opportunity in California mandate that guarantees a wage that ensures then, and should recent trends continue, the workers are above the poverty line. coastal economies will continue to outpace The key word of the last sentence is “federal.” the rest of the country, prompting even more What actually happens to the economy with a migration thereto. $15 minimum wage in the long term? We don’t Whatever the solution is, the best way to know. incentivize poverty reduction is by forcing Economists today have wildly diverging competition between states to provide the best opinions on the outcome. quality of life; wherever that place is, people We can learn, though, but only by one way: will go. using the states as testing grounds, testing opposing ideologies against one another.

Grant Osborn (19C) is from Springfield, Seattle’s minimum wage is currently set Ohio.

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North Carolina Must Rectify Education Disparity Omar Obregon-Cuebas Growing up in Greensboro, N.C., I was raised with the understanding that education is vital. It’s meant to make students functional members of society, but in states including North Carolina, the standard of education is not equal for every child. In a 1994 lawsuit that’s still meandering its way through the legal system, thenstudent Robb Leandro and various local school superintendents from lowincome districts sued the state government for not providing the same quality of education in their communities as compared to other counties.

When the case first landed in the state Supreme Court, judges ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, arguing that every child in North Carolina deserves to

have a basic and sound education for which the state was obligated to provide the “necessary resources.” Until 2017, nothing was done to enforce the decision. Though Gov. Roy Cooper’s decision to appoint an independent consultant group to investigate educational disparity is an important first step to ensure the state can meet the Court’s ruling, there is much more to be done. He must enforce to the fullest extent of the law equal education for every child in North Carolina.

Unequal funding is an especially prevalent issue in North Carolina.

A 2018 study by the Public School Forum of North Carolina found that, in the 2015-16 school year, the state’s 10 highest-spending counties allocated an average of $3,103 per student while the lowest 10 averaged $739 per student. This gap manifests itself in the abysmal conditions of some North

Carolina public schools: overcrowded classrooms, outdated textbooks and broken climate-control systems.

While I am grateful for the quality of my education, all children, regardless of their situation, should be able to receive the sound education that I did.

Geography plays a big role in an individual’s educational experience. In Greensboro, I benefited from growing up in a metropolitan area and having a parent with some college experience;

I never thought about whether or not I would get into college, but rather which college I would attend.

Many do not have that advantage elsewhere in the state. There are many factors that played into my success, but my location, community and background are huge reasons for my acceptance into college.

While I am grateful for the quality of my education, all children, regardless of their situation, should be able to receive the sound education that I did.

Education plays a fundamental democratic role, as it ensures that every individual can become an engaged citizen: without it we could not read, write, think or be able to participate in life or in government.

If America wants to meet the high standard of its own democratic ideals, it must iron out the contradictions between the narrative of “all Men

are created equal,” and the reality of rampant disparity in America’s educational systems. A Lumbee child in Robeson, N.C., should be receiving the same quality of education as a white one in Charlotte, N.C. In March 2019, WestEd, the independent educational consultant group that Cooper commissioned to investigate educational disparity in North Carolina, will release their findings.

Hopefully Cooper takes decisive action to ensure educational equality, but regardless of what he does, there should be a push for all children to receive a sound education no matter their background.

North Carolina has a chance to take the lead on this issue. Let’s hope it’s up to the challenge.

Omar Obregon-Cuebas (20C) is from Greensboro, N.C.

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Prior to Waka Flocka’s performance, Ugly God brought his trademark eccentricity to open the concert.

The 22-year-old Texas rapper has had several brushes with mainstream success, as his 2016 debut single “Water” went platinum and has garnered over 100 million streams on SoundCloud.

Furthermore, Ugly God was featured in the XXL 2017 Freshman Class alongside artists such as XXXTentacion, Playboi Carti and Amine.

His DJ spent a long time trying to pump up the crowd, and when Ugly God took the stage at 9:22 p.m., it was evident that people in the audience were not familiar with his music, as

Oct. 18 was not Beth Stelling’s first time performing in a church, she told her audience of over 75 students sitting in the pews of the Glenn Memorial Church.

If you’ve seen Stelling’s Netflix special in “The Standups” or have experience with stand-up in general, you might imagine that her material did not exactly fit the church setting. As the Homecoming comedian this year, Stelling surprised the audience with her adaptability and quick wit.

When Stelling came on stage, she immediately addressed the sparse crowd and asked if Emory “fills this place on Sundays,” because, if so, she was disappointed with the Thursday turnout. Her introduction earned some laughs. She tried to make the best of the small audience by addressing specific students, especially the photographers in the front row. The “I Love You, America, with Sarah Silverman” writer asked them if they were taking photos for a calendar of hot female comedians, and proceeded to pose for the camera. She even did splits on stage, which received enthusiastic applause —“this is how I like to start [my set],” she announced. She

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By AidAn Vick Contributing Writer Homecoming headliner Waka Flocka Flame represented the Atlanta music scene by bringing his signature trap sound to Emory on Friday night.

The 32-year-old rapper, most famous for his 2010 hit single “No Hands,” drew a crowd of around 1,800 students, and while that is certainly a respectable audience size, last year’s headliner Post Malone drew over 4,500 people. Waka Flocka has had a massive influence on the popular subgenre of hip-hop known as trap rap, but hasn’t released a full studio album in six years, so his current popularity is much lower than Post’s.

Waka Flocka fared well initially

when he took the stage at 10:32 p.m., as he immediately rushed into the crowd and started rapping to his song “Big Dawg.” His performance was loud and energetic, and it was obvious that Waka Flocka is a highly experienced showman. This vivacity persisted for several tracks, including “15th and the 1st,” “Wild Boy” and a cover of Flosstradamus’ “Mosh Pit.” On “Round of Applause,” Waka Flocka went off beat to showcase his rapping skills and did so phenomenally. By the time he got to his 10th track, “Sinning,” the crowd’s energy had dwindled a bit, which wasn’t surprising given that the concert had been going for over an hour and a half at this point. However, Waka Flocka wasn’t showing any signs of slowing

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down and went off beat again on “For My Dawgs.” He took a short break after this, and the DJ played a remix of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and Martin Garrix’s “Proxy” during the downtime.

Waka Flocka came back strong after the brief intermission, diving into several of his biggest hits like “Grove St. Party” and “Hard In Da Paint.” He then performed his most well-known song, “No Hands,” and the audience sang along to the chorus. It was easily the highlight of the event, as the crowd’s energy and enjoyment was palpable. To finish the show, Waka Flocka brought out two up-and-coming artists, but a large percentage of the students had already left by this

ALUMNI CONCERT

Curtis, Carpenter Hilson Inspires but Underwhelms Revive ‘Halloween’

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Grade: AIn 1978, writer-producer Debra Hill and director John Carpenter put their heads together to give horror a new name. That name was Michael Myers, the most terrifying slasher villain since “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”’s Leatherface. Grossing an adjusted $46 million on a $300,000 budget, Carpenter’s “Halloween” stands as one of the most successful independent films of all time. After an onslaught of maligned, cash-grabbing sequels, the series returns 40 years later with David Gordon Green’s “Halloween,” a fresh take on Myers’ legacy of terror that ignores every previous installment — except for the original. With Carpenter returning to compose the score and produce, along with original star Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role as Laurie Strode, Green and company shape a bold new vision of an undisputed classic.

The new “Halloween” opens with

true-crime podcasters Dana (Rhian Rees) and Aaron (Jefferson Hall) paying a visit to Dr. Sartain (Haluk Bilginer), the resident psychiatrist at a home for the criminally insane.

Sartain introduces them to the object of their obsessions — Michael Myers (Nick Castle), the most infamous prisoner at the home, who murdered several teenagers on a Halloween night four decades ago. Afterwards, they pay a visit to the sole survivor of the killings, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and has grown estranged from her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak). Strode refuses to work with the podcasters, retreating to the confines of her heavily armed home. She’s waiting for Myers to return, and she’s prepared to face him.

On the night before Halloween, Myers escapes from his prison transport bus, heading to Strode’s hometown of Haddonfield on a mission to

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In a gloomy afternoon with intermittent rain, Keri Hilson (03Ox, 05C) managed to bring out the sun.

The 35-year-old Decatur, Ga., native and Emory alumna performed at Saturday’s “Homecoming at Sea” Alumni concert. Hilson, best known for hits such as “Knock You Down” and “Pretty Girl Rock,” entertained a crowd of enthusiastic alumni and students on the Quadrangle. While Hilson’s presence onstage was lively and captivating, her performance fell short in terms of vocals, as Hilson did not sing nearly as much as one would expect at a concert.

After an exceptional opening set from Baltimore country artist Emma White, Hilson took the stage. Clad in spandex, a jacket and hat, Hilson could have nearly passed as an Emory student herself. She began her set with her hit “Turnin’ Me On,” which featured on her debut album “In a Perfect World…”

Although the concert was considered family-friendly, this did not stop Hilson from adding a bit of sensuality to her performance. After flirtatiously asking a student to “show

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Emory alumna Keri Hilson (03Ox, 05C) sings on the Quad on Saturday at the Homecoming alumni concert. [her] around” campus, she preceded to serenade him with her hit “One Night Stand” in an array of lewd dance moves and lyrics. While this was probably not the best idea on Hilson’s part, considering the many young audience members in attendance, it was effective in piquing the interest of other audience members, who appeared as shocked as they were awed at Hilson’s bold performance.

Hilson’s song “Energy” — her first single — was a crowd favorite; young and old fans alike cheered her on as she danced across the stage. Although

not flanked by the likes of Nelly or Chris Brown, both of whom have featured in her songs, Hilson managed to hold her own; her energy and enthusiasm was positively contagious as she belted out tunes like “Got Your Back” and “Turn My Swag On.” While Hilson’s voice proved clear and strong in her performances, she spent far more time dancing around the stage and talking to the audience than she did singing. Hilson appeared to be relying on the backup track for

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Ugly God Fails to Energize Crowd Continued from Page 9 few sang along. As he went into his first track, “Leave a Tip,” Ugly God failed to generate much energy from the students. People seemed to enjoy the song, but obviously didn’t know the words.

After “Leave a Tip,” Ugly God performed several other songs that also didn’t make much of a spark. However, he did get the crowd chanting along to the chorus of “F**k Ugly God.” While performing “Bernie Sanders,” he asked the students to start a mosh pit. Many of the people towards the front obliged, although the energy died down immediately after the song was over.

Due to the often comedic nature of his music, Ugly God made several attempts to make the crowd laugh during the show, to varying results.

His transitions between songs featured air horns and sound effects from the game “Fortnite,” and he cracked numerous jokes throughout the concert.

The crowd finally hyped up for his last two songs, and responded especially strongly to his hit single “Water.”

For this song, Ugly God stopped the show and threw water bottles into the audience, encouraging students to shake the bottles while he rapped.

This is not an uncommon sight at concerts, but it disrupted the flow of the set and ultimately wasn’t worth

the time.

With a somewhat lackluster stage presence and low reception from the audience, Ugly God’s performance was decent but a little underwhelming. His discography is still pretty limited, so he could only fill a 50-plus minute set with singles and tracks from his debut album, “The Booty Tape.” With more tracks and experience, Ugly God could put on a truly exceptional show; for now, he’s a satisfactory opener with potential.

Ugly God and Waka Flocka both presented a lot of talent, but neither was spectacular, and the somewhat lacking energy from the students accentuated this shortcoming. Ugly God is too young and obscure to have the kinds of hits that pump up the audience, and although Waka Flocka brought the energy (especially during his biggest hits), he still didn’t have the name recognition needed to draw a massive crowd.

This kind of event needs an artist with a lot of hits under their belt so that people in the audience can sing along, but the only time this really happened was with Waka Flocka’s “No Hands.” Both artists certainly gave respectable performances, but hopefully Emory is able to find an artist with more star power for Dooley’s Week.

— Contact Aidan Vick at aidan.vick@emory.edu

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If you’ve seen Stelling’s episode on Netflix, you would have recognized a few of her jokes with slight variations, but not all of them went over well. Her classic off-handed remarks such as “I am currently heterosexual” and “My mom is a virgin” seemed to play better on “The Standups.”

However, her discussion about working in a bagel shop was better received. This was part of a bit on what it’s like to be a woman, when she mentioned how the only catcall she has able to get at this point in her life was a guy hanging out of his driver’s window and yelling “B-minus!”

She discussed her weight gain during her bagel shop job and how she wished that women’s worth wasn’t based on appearance, which received a number of excited yells and snaps from the audience.

She countered this by saying, “but it is.” Compliments about women’s weight loss, she continued, were basically just complimenting women on taking up less space. Still, Stelling said women were delighted with compliments about their appearance because it just “fills us up … ‘cause we’re hungry.”

After commenting on women’s bodies, Stelling delved into riskier subjects. When talking about her time in gymnastics as a young girl, she made a joke that she said it has “literally never” gone over well, because it

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If there’s a significant fault to be found in the film, it’s Green’s strict adherence to Carpenter’s original style.

Even the opening titles assume the exact form as their predecessor, using the same font, rhythm and design. The strongest of the film’s formal ties to the original is its music. Collaborating with his son Cody Carpenter and nephew Daniel Davies, Carpenter’s new score is a certified banger. In perfect tune with the film’s wavelength, the compositions elicit bone-deep terror even upon an outside listen. It’s an instant classic piece of film music that plays the audience like the tightly wound strings of a violin, dragging its nails across our nerves with a bloodcurdling shriek.

Even with its explicit ties to its predecessor, “Halloween” never sells out to egregious fan service. Green’s narrative is a holistic evolution of Carpenter’s, finding its depth and scares in its causal relationship with the original.

The long-lasting effects of Strode’s

initial encounter with Myers form the film’s backbone, with Green essentially filtering the events of a cultural touchstone through a contemporary lens. Green’s own voice as a filmmaker shines through with the film’s sense of humor, at least partially indebted to co-writer Danny McBride. Jokes are parceled out conservatively, lightening the overwhelming darkness of the narrative to mold it into something skeptically hopeful.

It’s a welcome touch, especially in an era of “elevated” horror films that all but ignore the genre’s historical ties to macabre comedy. The tone is a home-run in this sense, and Green’s humor never detracts from how scary the film is. Myers, as a character, is particularly terrifying because of his mysterious nature. His motives are never discovered. Green develops this characterization further, positioning Myers as an aloof, pure manifestation of evil: a lumbering, unstoppable force that we’ll never understand. Here, his body count is higher, his kills more brutal. It feels as if the only being who could contend with him is Laurie.

And contend she does. Curtis’ per-

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formance is her finest hour as Laurie, and she synthesizes the fearsome threads belonging to Carpenter and Green into something both devastating and hopeful. Curtis isn’t concerned with psychoanalyzing Laurie’s trauma; rather, she acts on it. The deep scars left in 1978 are felt in every facet of her character, from her obsessive dedication to ending Myers’ menace to her sensitive shows of strength. Greer and Matichak play off of Curtis phenomenally, with each subsequent generation embodying a sliver of Laurie’s experience passed on. Only together can they defeat the monster at the door, and the results are immensely satisfying and cathartic. Green develops this relationship among his actresses beautifully, the three forming a fraught, if unified, front. In order to save their family’s future, they have to face the past.

The film’s final shot quotes another ‘70s horror maestro, Tobe Hooper, with its ambiguous freeze-frame in the back of a pickup truck — a shocking reminder of how trauma carries on from generation-to-generation, between families and cultures alike.

Here, the horror of “Halloween” burrows deeper than its contemporaries.

Green isn’t interested in simply scaring us for 90-odd minutes, then letting us escape the theater into the arms of our everyday lives. His film, even in its entertaining comforts, gnaws at the spirit. It’s a master class in how to follow a tremendous work of cinematic fiction, even with so many years in between. The messiness of the film’s connections evolves into something true, and contending with them is the only way we can leave evil behind.

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

sounds a lot like a “pedophillia joke”: despite her past lack of success, she joked that female gymnastics might be late bloomers so their male coaches weren’t tempted. The Emory audience didn’t prove an exception to the trend, but Stelling was able to recover somewhat by bringing it back later, specifically when she said of her dating life, “I snagged a teen,” and, after seeing the confused looks in the audience, continued, “I was also a teen [at the time].”

Stelling continued to get explicit about her personal relationships, talking about Tinder and how she has done her “10,000 hours” in bed. It felt like this discussion went on for quite a while, and that perhaps she was being more explicit because she was in front of an audience of college students.

This, combined with a diatribe about how everyone is dependent on technology nowadays, gave the impression that she was on the opposite end from matronly opener Kristin Rand when it came to catering to the audience — which is a good idea in theory, but it didn’t seem as authentic as it could have.

Rand began her short set at 8 p.m. sharp, as students were still arriving. Light laughter reverberated in the church as Rand addressed the audience, asking any students with tattoos to raise their hands and telling them how none of her own tattoos meant anything.

The crowd was slow to warm up to her, and it seemed that many of the subjects she covered were not very relatable for the Emory audience — marriage, childbirth and motherhood, for example.

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Beth Stelling performs stand-up comedy at Glenn memorial Church on Oct. 18.

She seemed to sense this, and there were some chuckles when she sarcastically asked if anyone in the audience was thinking about becoming parents. This concluded her portion of the night, and she passed the mic to Stelling.

Overall, despite the small audience filling only a fraction of the massive church, Stelling’s ability to read the room and connect with individual members shone through. Many students were busting guts at her wit. She ended her somewhat edgy set with a look around at the crowd.

“We’ve officially desecrated this church,” Stelling said.

— Contact Hanna Wagner at hanna.wagner@emory.edu

Emory Alum Doesn’t Exhibit True Vocals Continued from Page 9 most of her performance, only singing for small parts of the concert before allowing the recording to do the rest of the work for her. While it is certainly not unheard of for artists to use a backup track, it was disappointing to observe how much it detracted from Hilson’s performance. Anyone can listen to a recording of Keri Hilson’s songs; the point of an Emory concert was to hear her voice in its rawness and authenticity, not the pre-recorded, perfected, auto-tuned version.

Hilson took to interacting with the audience as she performed, hailing her alma mater every chance she got.

Hilson attended Oxford College and Emory University, pursuing a degree in Theater Studies. She gushed about her love for the school, praising the intelligence of its students.

“I’m so excited to represent such an esteemed school of such esteemed people,” Hilson said to the audience.

“I’m home.” Audience members met her remarks with passionate cheers. It was a refreshing sentiment to hear, a nice nod to the strong work ethic and intelligence Emory students value so highly.

Unfortunately, it did not negate Hilson’s rather raunchy performance of “One Night Stand” and certainly did not render Hilson’s heavy reliance on her backup track null and void. Hilson may be motivating individuals to work hard and educate themselves, but her role in coming to Emory was to sing, and Hilson spent more time interacting with the audience than doing so.

The highlight — and much-anticipated moment — of the concert was Hilson’s performance of “Pretty Girl Rock.” The song, released in 2010 as the lead single on her album “No Boys Allowed,” reached number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. Hilson invited several women onstage for her performance of the hit, singing alongside them. Every audience member appeared to know the words to the song, singing the line “don’t hate me ‘cause I’m beautiful” at the top of their lungs.

Like her strong emphasis on continuing education, Hilson’s proclamation that all girls should feel beautiful was refreshing to hear. It was also very entertaining to watch audience members belt out “Pretty Girl Rock” onstage. However, once again, Hilson acted more as a motivational speaker than a singer at her own concert.

It would be remiss to say Hilson’s performance was not entertaining, as it certainly was. Her presence onstage was powerful and her cheeriness enthused even those who did not know the lyrics to her songs.

However, it was rather disappointing to watch her rely mostly on her backup track during her performance, even if her time was spent inspiring and motivating young fans to work hard and love themselves. Hopefully, Hilson’s future concerts will include much more singing, or else Hilson will likely only ever be regaled for “Pretty Girl Rock.”

— Contact Becca Moszka at becca.moszka@emory.edu

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‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 4,’ the latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise, was released on Oct. 12.

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Jazz master Gary motley and his trio perform and teach kids about jazz in Ackerman Hall at the Carlos museum on Oct. 21.

FOX THEATER

‘School of Rock’ Rocks the Fox

By JoeL Lerner Contributing Writer

The set of the musical remake of 2003 film “School of Rock” changed from a fully constructed classroom to an apartment in the blink of an eye. The musical, which played at Fox Theater from Oct. 16 to 21, was a whirlwind of unexpected turns that ultimately detracted from the show, but the company of children takes the audience through a loop with their talent and intelligence.

The singing, dancing, acting and rocking out on a variety of instruments captivates the audience from the children’s introduction all the way to the closing number.

Short on money, washed-up former band guitarist Dewey Finn (Merritt David Janes) takes on the identity of his best friend, acclaimed substitute teacher Ned Schneebly (Layne Roate), to teach a class at the prestigious Horace Green School.

Here we see examples of high-quality acting from some of the characters on stage; the connection between Ned and Dewey is clearly communicated by the camaraderie of the two actors, especially in Scene 5 of Act 2 in which the two rock out together in Ned’s apartment.

Upon his arrival, Dewey immediately throws Horace Green’s traditional math and English curriculum out the window in exchange for classes like rock history and appreciation. In addition, Dewey introduces the kids to rock ‘n’ roll classics, teaching them to play instruments, loosen up and “Stick it to the Man.” The song, “Stick it to the Man,” was the anthem of rebellion that had the kids on the stage jumping and shouting and bonding over their rejection of “the man.” The end of the song signaled the end of the act, and was met with the most enthusiastic applause of the night.

The looming Battle of the Bands, a competition that the students, now members of the band “School of Rock,” are scheduled to compete in, primarily moves the plot forward. Dewey, hoping to be in the battle, introduces the contest to his students and motivates them to unite as a band. The band then sets out to find its identity and becomes the School of Rock by the end of the titular song. As the battle nears, the students come out of their shells: Tomika (Grier Burke) begins singing lead vocals and Summer (Sami Bray) starts to shine in her role as band manager. The show often introduced themes of exclusion. The kids feel they don’t belong at home because of their parents’ high expectations. Similarly, Dewey is constantly reminded that his quirks and odd mannerisms have no

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Dewey Finn (merritt David James, r igHt center) leads his band, the School of Rock, at the Battle of the Bands in ‘School of Rock’ at the Fox Theater. place at Horace Green, such as in the number “Faculty Quadrille” when the staff comes together for the sole purpose of questioning Dewey’s actions.

An ordeal between Dewey and the principal of Horace Green, Rosalie Mullins (Lexie Dorsett Sharp), marks a shift in the pacing of the show. Just as Dewey gets the kids comfortable with their new roles as rock stars, he also gets Rosalie to open up and reconnect with her love of rock ‘n’ roll. She goes from the strict and controlling principal who scolds children running in the halls to a single woman looking for love and pours her heart out over a pint and Stevie Nicks blaring in the background. The audience finds itself witnessing a love story unfold between a principal and the teacher who she thinks is ruining the reputation of her preparatory academy.

The show was entertaining, but to take that next step ... the company needs to give it 10 percent more excitement.

The communication of tone and atmosphere to the audience has strengths and weaknesses through the performance. The show uses adult humor (with an occasional curse word to remind us how Dewey doesn’t truly belong in the school faculty), and it was eye-opening to see families get up and leave early, likely because of the mature content.

In that moment, it felt like the show had lost sight of its target audience.

The show has worked before, as it has run on Broadway since 2015, but

the audience clearly lost interest, as I could hear whispering during what was supposed to be a quiet and romantic moment.

The energy also fell short at the very beginning of the show — I waited a long time for the story to truly get started. From the opening by Dewey’s old band No Vacancy to the introduction of Ned and his wife (Madison Mucucci), the setting of the musical didn’t feel like it was being developed, but was rather just presented to the audience.

Improvement could come from the increased ease of conversation between Ned, his wife and Dewey, as it is there that much of the setting is established.

The introduction of the characters’ life in high school feels like it is discussed only because of how it ties in to Dewey’s motivation to win the battle of the bands, and it was evident that this was the case as the show continued.

Overall, the show reflected the youth of the actors on stage. It was an enjoyable but rushed story. The characters change over time, but it happens through just one or two scenes; the children come out of their shell, yes, but do so at the snap of Dewey’s fingers and not through any individual struggle or experience.

The production as a whole could improve with refinement as an unnecessary sense of urgency was communicated to the audience through experiences such as an additional intermission to fix technical issues causing desire for the show to get back up and running as soon as possible.

The show was entertaining, but to take that next step into being an admirable piece of art, the company needs to give it 10 percent more excitement.

— Contact Joel Lerner at joel.lerner@emory.edu

‘Black Ops 4:’ A New Beginning

By BriAn sAVino Senior Staff Writer

Grade: A It has been years since I last enjoyed a “Call of Duty” game. Any release past “Black Ops 2” (2012) has either been boring and failed to innovate, or introduced an aspect such as exo movement, which I was not fond of.

However, in the week since “Call of Duty: Black Ops 4” was released, I have developed a renewed sense of love for the series.

“Black Ops 4,” released on Oct. 12, is another first-person shooter in the popular “Call of Duty” franchise. Opting to ditch a campaign mode, developer Treyarch has instead included a battle royale game mode, Blackout, along with a new multiplayer experience and their famous zombies mode. Considering the changes that “Black Ops 4” brings to the franchise, a new game mode is only a fraction of what Treyarch has in store for players.

The biggest change is its health system. Whereas every other game in the franchise gives players automatic health regeneration after getting damaged, “Black Ops 4” forces players to press a button to regenerate health. Though a seemingly small change, this completely alters enemy engagements and makes every battle different — some risky players may continue shooting despite their low health, while others will duck behind cover, inject a health serum and come back out with full health. In past games, it takes much longer for health to regenerate than in “Black Ops 4,” which slows battles and makes camping, a tactic where players hide, more prominent. “Black Ops 4” manages to minimize this strategy and keep multiplayer games flowing at a constant rate, with few lulls.

Treyarch also maintains an unmatched level of balance when it comes to weapons — there isn’t one that stands out as the best. The GKS submachine gun has low damage and high accuracy while the Rampart 17 assault rifle has high damage and low accuracy; this type of balance is maintained for all weapons. During my time in multiplayer mode and Blackout, I have seen each weapon used in nearly equal amounts — players use different weapons that complement their own playstyle and preferences. However, there are some questionable choices in weapon attachments (modifications for guns). For example, High Caliber II increases damage to the upper chest, which is too powerful considering it can drop enemies before they realize what’s happening.

The maps mirror the weapons in regard to balance — Arsenal has flank routes and tight corners for closerange players and Icebreaker contains long-range sightlines for those who enjoy sniping and slower gameplay.

The same goes for Blackout; there

are ledges for sniping, buildings for close-range engagements and rocks and trees that dot the entire map for cover. Adding maps like Summit and Jungle from “Black Ops” and Slums and Raid from “Black Ops 2” add a nostalgic sense to the game; not to mention, they play well on “Black Ops 4” despite being designed for games that are quite different.

Along with balance and variety, graphics and audio make the “Black Ops 4” experience exemplary. When zooming in on players in theater mode, facial expressions are ever-changing and you can see individual hairs on players’ faces. Treyarch has gone above and beyond, tweaking tiny, almost unnoticeable details.

The audio is just as great — explosions and weapons firing sound real and intense, adding a sense of chaos to every game. Player footsteps and vehicles are loud enough to be heard, forcing players to be extra wary of their movement. Many of these graphic and audio-related novelties do not act as necessary components in the game, but as improvements that players will be happy to have.

Zombies is another aspect that everyone can enjoy — Treyarch is celebrating 10 years of zombies since the mode began in “World at War” (2008).

“Black Ops 4” was released with three zombies maps: Voyage of Despair, a boat with undead passengers, IX, a spiritual map full of gladiators and Blood of the Dead, an underground laboratory remake of Mob of the Dead from “Black Ops 2,” containing zombies and Hellhounds — zombie dogs.

Each map has its own storyline and Easter Eggs (secrets in the game that players can unlock by following a certain procedure), and Treyarch has done a great job of making sure that there is a lot to do without overly complicating things. Classic characters, such as Nikolai and Dempsey, are back and the pack-a-punch machine has returned, allowing players to upgrade weapons. Zombie-specific tools, such as the Hammer of Valhalla and the Scepter of Ra, are creative and novel additions to the mode. Phenomenal graphics and audio make the zombies look and sound scary, and players will be jumping out of their seats when a zombie sneaks up behind them.

Treyarch took risks in “Black Ops 4” — changes in health, removal of a campaign mode and other alterations make the game a good deal different from the rest of the franchise.

But these risks have certainly paid off. This is the balanced, imaginative and enjoyable experience I have been waiting for since “Black Ops 2,” and it is consistently supported by Treyarch through game updates and Reddit posts. Though recently released, “Black Ops 4” is bound to be the “Call of Duty” savior.

— Contact Brian Savino at brian.savino@emory.edu

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Emory Life

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | Emory Life Editor: Seungeun Cho (seungeun.cho@emory.edu)

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ALUM SPOTLIGHT

The Experience After Emory Rei Wang Talks ‘Fairy Godmother’ Job

By CoNNor ClerkiN Staff Writer

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Artist Jonny Sun (left) talks mental health and being Asian with Emory Asian Student Organization (ASO) Co-President Irena Kuan (r ight, 20C) at Harland Cinema on Oct 20.

Jonny Sun on Identity as Art

By Nassem yousef Staff Photographer Artist Jonny Sun discussed reconciling his creative side with Asian stereotypes at an oct. 20 event hosted by the Emory Asian Student organization (ASo).

The creator of graphic novel “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” — written under pseudonym “Jomny Sun” — has a background in science and technology.

He illustrated a recently released book with lin-manuel miranda called “Gmorning, Gnight!: little Pep Talks for me & you.”

Despite his prolific creative career, Sun has always had a strong interest in scientific and technological fields, earning a bachelor’s degree in engineering at the University of Toronto and a master’s degree in architecture at the yale School of A rchitecture (Conn.).

Sun is now a doctoral candidate in urban studies at the massachuset ts institute of Technology.

Between studies, Sun has managed to make time for his creative work. “i think i’ve always been into creative work … and i’ve always been kind of supported by my parents,” Sun said. “But that also comes with the caveat that you have to be good at math and science and everything … i’ve always been a person who’s done both of those things and tried to really push forward on all those fields at the same time.”

Sun’s most popular work thus far, “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too,” was intended to be “a really long kid’s book,” according to Sun. “it’s about an alien who comes to earth to study humans but instead meets a bunch of animals and think they’re [the] humans and studies them instead,” Sun s a id .

“A nd t he

animals are … prototypical symbols and metaphors of different aspects of … a personality or of mental health.”

An advocate for the destigmatization of mental health, Sun has been open about his journey with mental health and discussed toxicity in academia, depression and his experiences with therapy.

Sun often incorporates conversations about mental health into his tweets and written works, using his characters to ref lect different elements of his mind.

“it’s really interesting for somebody who has succeeded in a field [uncommon] for Asians ... to talk about their experiences [and] ... the effects of having an Asian identity.”

— Eunice Kang (21C) “The egg [character], for example … represents my worry of … [what] unachieved potential looks like and what that means,” Sun said. “like, am i hatching, or should i hatch — or have i hatched already?”

The story, “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too,” evolved from Sun’s illustrations and tweets, and is peppered with slight misspellings of common words, including “aliebn” and “ur.”

Sun deliberately incorporated typos into his work to challenge the stereotype that non-native English speakers make specific grammatical mistakes.

“When i was in comedy, like, before i started Tw itter, a

lot of … the jokes that people wanted me to do were about … my Asian-ness,” Sun, who has garnered over 571,000 followers on Twitter, said. “i always kind of grew up seeing my parents get made fun of or see my parents … be seen as these outsiders and … i didn’t want to [use any] grammatical error style that is related to [those stereotypes].”

As a longtime fan of Sun’s works, ASo Co-President irena Kuan (20C) invited Sun in hopes of sharing his insights with a greater audience. “i was struck by his humor and style that [were] both whimsical,” Kuan said. “it had melancholy elements to it, [too].” for audience members who could relate to Sun’s anecdotes, the talk was a reassuring experience. “it’s really interesting for somebody who has succeeded in a field [uncommon] for Asians … to talk about their experiences [and] … understand the effects of having an Asian identity,” said Eunice Kang (21C).

Emory alumna Anjie yang (17C) attended the event after following Sun on Twitter. “i think [what resonated with me most was] navigating and like finding what you want to do [despite] … the cultural stress and the issues that we feel as AsianAmericans,” said yang. ”Hearing how [Sun] found his way was really inspiring to me.”

Though his work may seem simple and goofy at first glance, Sun writes purposefully and introspec-tively, inviting his readers to ponder topics such as mental health, following one’s dreams and being Asian.

By combining humor and art to tackle deeper personal issues, Sun paves the way for the continuation of such conversations.

— Contact Nassem Yousef at nassem.yousef@emory.edu

people feel more valued, more connected and less lonely,” Wang said. “is there a way we can apply the When rei Wang (07C) entered skills, knowledge and wisdom that college, she pursued a degree in older adults have and help them international studies with hopes share that with younger geneto work in government or diplo- rations?”

Born in northern China, Wang lived macy.

Soon after graduation, howev- in Beijing and later in Cambridge, er, Wang began to notice that her England, before settling in Boston career was looking very different where she grew up.

She discussed how her career path from the vision she had as a freshreflects her upbringing in the same man.

“Starting at Emory, i realized i household as her grandparents and wanted to do something more tan- great-grandparents. “one of the reasons i am such a gible,” Wang said.

Wang found “something tangible” strong believer in [an] intergeneraas CEo of Dorm room fund, a stu- tional community, and why it is the dent-run venture capitalist firm that focus of my next startup, is because supports student startups through i grew up in a multigenerational household,” Wang said. investment. long before she would be named The company has invested $500 million in nearly in forbes’ 2018 Venture Capital 30 250 startups founded by both under 30, Wang was a typical undergraundergraduate and graduate stu- duate who did not know the many paths her career would take after dents.

The idea of supporting student-run graduating.

She credits Emory’s liberal arts businesses appealed to Wang’s belief curriculum for teaching her how to in student potential. think critically and “Students do adapt. amazing things,” “i learned how Wang said. “The “i’ve been thinking to hold my own idea of a fund run by a lot about what opinions, really. students for students is a very compelling we can do to create i learned how to information narrative. … investing intergenerational intake and hold my own is such an honor. community, and point of view,” Wang you feel like a fairy godmother. you to help people feel said.

Wang said this are giving somemore valued, more is the basis of what one money to make their dreams come connected and less she does as an investor: instead of readtrue.” lonely.” ing articles and While at Emory, books to write a Wang was a member — rei Wang (07C), Dorm paper, she goes into of the co-ed business fraternity Alpha room fund CEo the field and speaks with other startup Kappa Psi (AKPsi) and worked as design manager for founders and project experts. “my job [at Dorm room fund] the Wheel, where she often called local small businesses to sell ad is to meet with smart people all day long and learn from them space.

Wang said her time on the Wheel what their industry is workon,” Wang said. “i taught her many of the skills she now ing wouldn’t call myself an expert, uses as a CEo. Working at the Wheel “was my but now, i am a lot smarter inall first taste of what it was really like of those areas than when i to be an entrepreneur,” Wang said. started.”

Wang advised current students “i didn’t have any sales experience or training, but the Wheel taught to not feel limited by their me how to effectively run a small major.

“When i declared my major, i business.”

Wang is now working on the thought i would only ever be able early stages of another startup, The to do work related to international studies,” Wang said. “Now, i am Grand.

With The Grand, Wang aims about to become an entrepreneur, to tackle the alarming increase which is not a traditional job that in loneliness levels nationwide international studies majors have. by “building a platform for all ... What Emory is teaching you is gene-rations to see, value and how to think for yourself, so don’t be support each other in a way that afraid to take a non-traditional path reminds us we’re all in this so you can figure out what is right for you.” together.” “i’ve been thinking a lot about what we can do to create inter— Contact Connor Clerkin at generational community, and to help connor.clerkin@emory.edu

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PRIDE DRAG SHOW

Alum Most Produced Living Playwright in U.S. Lauren Gunderson (04C), Awardwinning playwright of ‘i and you’ (2013)

By aNNie li Contributing Writer

lauren Gunderson (04C) was a College senior completing a degree in English and creative writing when her play, “leap,” premiered in february 2004 as one of the first professionally produced student-written plays to take C L g the stage. fourteen years later, Gunderson wright, as well as in mime, and boasts the title of the “most produced rathskellar, Emory’s improv comedy living playwright in America,” accord- troupe.

She began acting in elementary ing to American Theatre magazine.

While nearly two-thirds of school, but her playwriting career American plays produced are written began in high school.

Gunderson’s play “Parts They Call by men, Gunderson has emerged as a prominent female voice in a male- Deep” was produced by the Essential Theatre in Atlanta when she was 17 dominated profession.

Gunderson, who went on to earn her years old. for Gunderson, the producmaster of fine Arts in dramatic writing in 2009 from New york Univer- tion of “leap” with Theatre Emory sity Tisch School of the Arts, took was a critical experience that taught the No. 1 spot on American Theatre’s her the directing process, dramatop-20 list for the 2017-18 season, turgy and how to develop a play in with 27 plays produced and eight rehearsal.

She said the lessons she learned co-written.

This year, for the 2018-19 season, while producing “leap” formed the foundation for her Gunderson was named current philosophy — runner-up with 29 that playwriting does plays produced and 14 “There’s incredible not begin until the co-written.

She appeared on strength and struggle first day of rehearsal.

Great actors, Gunthe lists for the 2016- that you get when you 17 and 2015-16 seawrite about women, derson said, can expose the holes in a sons as well. because so much of play and point to Gunderson recalled the world is against areas that require feeling giddy the first revision. time she appeared on them.”

English and Creathe top-20 list. tive Writing Professor When she was — lauren Gunderson of Practice Jim Grimsnamed the runner(04C), award-winning ley, who served as up in 2016-17 behind playwright Gunderson’s mentor August Wilson, who during her time at American Theatre magazine called “a titan of the Emory, commended the playwright’s American theatre,” she said that it was resolve. “it’s hard to think of myself as an honor to be in his shadow. “my plays [mean] things to people,” mentoring her when she needed so Gunderson said. “They [mean] things little along those lines,” Grimsley said. to a lot of different communities. i “lauren always knew what she wanted wouldn’t be on that list if a lot of my to do, how to do it and how to get plays weren’t being produced in a lot where she was headed as a playwright. of places. The stories are working and i’ve never seen a student or any other person who moved more directly to that’s incredible.” many of Gunderson’s plays center her goals.”

Though Gunderson dabbled in and on women, such as Caroline, the heroine of “i and you” whose chronic illness discovered a talent for fiction writing, she eventually returned to playwritfails to dampen her spark. “i and you” won the 2014 Harold ing, or “what she loved,” Grimsley said.

Gunderson said Grimsley influand mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play enced the way she perceives her Award and was a finalist for the 2014 career.

“The critical thing that Jim said to Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. “i naturally am drawn to telling me was that … the act of writing — of the stories of women, partly because articulating your thoughts, of trying a lot of [those stories] are unspoken something and seeing if it works — and people aren’t telling them,” she that’s the heart of being a writer,” said. “There’s incredible strength and Gunderson said.

While Gunderson is also a screenstruggle that you get when you write about women because so much of the writer and fiction writer, she said playwriting appeals to her because of its world is against them.”

Gunderson collaborated with dra- intimacy.

When audiences sit down in a thematurg, manager and writer margot melcon, on “miss Bennet: Christmas atre, the stories of dynamic characters at Pemberley,” a spin-off sequel to have the ability to “change hearts and Jane Austen’s classic “Pride and minds,” Gunderson said.

“What you’re doing is writing for Prejudice.”

With 13 productions, the play a congregation of people that are in became the fourth most produced play real time and real space with the art of the 2018-19 season, according to — they’re not separated by a screen,” Gunderson said. “They’re not watchAmerican Theatre magazine.

“As a writer, lauren has so many ing it on demand in their bed. it’s very extraordinary talents, but her stron- church-like. you’re writing for a group gest assets are her sense of wit and of people that have come together to comedy and her fierce dedication to see this journey.”

Gunderson was unabashedly deterlifting the voices and experiences of women,” melcon said. “She insists mined to make a living out of writing, on creating a world on stage where saying she would “confidently learn” women are dynamic, hilarious, strong anything she didn’t know.

Today, her boldness allows her in themselves, unafraid to be vulnerable, perfectly messy and messily to carve a space for women in the spotlight. perfect.”

During her undergraduate years, Gunderson was involved in Theatre — Contact Annie Li at Emory as an actress and a playafli2@emory.edu ourtesY of

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Atlanta drag king Hayden Fury emcees at the annual Emory Pride Drag Show on Oct. 20. Proceeds will benefit the Emory Law School LGBT Law Clinic.

STUDENT LIFE

United at Uni: Married Undergrads

By Dilara shahaNi Contributing Writer

Though college is typically characterized by casual hookups — made increasingly easier by dating apps like Tinder and Bumble — some students choose to tie the knot during their undergraduate years.

Noah Eilken (21C) and Clarice Eilken wed on may 30, 2017, after Noah Eilken finished his freshman year at Emory.

The childhood sweethearts have known each other since middle school.

After the Eilkens eloped, they now live at an Emory Point apartment while Noah Eilken attends Emory and Clarice Eilken takes online courses at Arizona State University.

Noah Eilken believes marriage spared him from the whirlwind of “college dating drama” and said he is fully devoted to his wife.

About 18 percent of the undergraduates who were enrolled in 2011-2012 were married, according to a National Center for Education Statistics report.

Women marry at the average age of 27.4 years old and men at 29.5, according to the 2017 U.S. Census Bureau.

The declining marriage rates and increasing average age of marriage make the Eilkens a rare pair on college campuses.

Although Eilken feels his friends have been supportive throughout his journey, he admitted that the marriage has somewhat distanced him from them.

“Sometimes my friends feel like they can’t communicate [with me] because they don’t feel so close with my wife,” Noah Eilken said. “And sometimes her friends feel like they can’t talk to her because i’m there.” it’s only been a few months since the two began their sophomore year as a married couple, so they say they don’t think this obstacle is pivotal to their relationship. for Clarice Eilken, marrying her husband represented a lifelong commitment.

“A lot of people think of marriage as starting a family,” Clarice Eilken said. “A lot of people don’t want to get married — they just want to move in together. But to us, being married means being committed to each other. i wouldn’t want to move in together without knowing if he was committed.”

The Eilkens said their small private wedding was all they needed and

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Clarice Eilken (left) and Noah Eilken (r ight, 21C) married last May and now live together at Emory Point. wanted.

“Even saying our vows to each other, it almost acted like it turned the promises into reality for me,” Clarice Eilken said. “it made it more concrete.”

Despite attending to both marriage and academics, the two have managed to develop a balanced schedule to accommodate their responsibilities.

“it didn’t seem like there was a point in waiting if we were going to be together regardless.”

— Acadia Silveira Santos (19N)

The Eilkens said they divide chores and work around their different schedules to spend time together.

Acadia Silveira Santos (19N) expressed a similar outlook on life as a married undergraduate.

After meeting her husband at their local community college before coming to Emory, she did not want to wait until graduation to tie the knot, she

said. “it didn’t seem like there was a point in waiting if we were going to be together regardless,” Silveira Santos said.

Those surrounding Silveira Santos supported her decision.

“Everyone was supportive, [but] my parents definitely made me keep in the front of my head that school was the most important thing at the time, [rather than] saving up to have a house with him or anything,” Silveira Santos said.

Though marriage hasn’t posed a strain on the couple’s academics, Silveira Santos admitted that she makes a conscious effort to maintain a balance between her home and school responsibilities. “it’s definitely an extra thing on your mind,” she said. “it can impact school, but at the same time, it’s also helpful because he can work while i’m at school. i try to keep it balanced … but it’s like this whole third part of your life added on there.”

Both the Eilkens and Silveira Santos said they have received support and acceptance from peers and faculty at Emory, and neither said they have experienced negative consequences from their marriages.

— Contact Dilara Shahani at dilara.shahani@emory.edu

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Fire “We didn’t come in with a mentality, feeling like we had all these mistakes. We came in actually on a high note.” - Ohio State wide receiver Terry McLaurin after the team’s 49-20 rout at the hands of unranked Purdue.

If the current climate of college football is surprising to you, you probably don’t go to a school with a football team. Alabama is still an uncontested first overall, quarterback tua tagovailoa is still on lock for the Heisman and the Big ten is still an absolute embarrassment.

After ohio State star defensive lineman Nick Bosa’s sudden-but-unsurprising decision to put his own future above the Buckeyes’, Head Coach Urban Meyer finally managed to lead his second-ranked team to an inspiring defeat. But this loss was almost unremarkable; had ohio State sealed the deal and actually lost to Northwestern earlier in the year, Meyer’s accomplishment would not be receiving the attention it deserves.

Where Meyer really isn’t getting enough credit is his role in helping Michigan finally gain the lead in the Big ten East. Head Coach Jim Harbaugh’s Wolverines tenure has been exceptionally mediocre so far despite his $40 million contract, so Michiganders everywhere should thank Meyer for this professional courtesy: it might give Harbaugh and his taxpayer-funded khakis a chance at the Big ten title for the first time since their 2004 shared championship with Iowa.

But if you still aren’t convinced that this year’s Big ten is a complete joke, I encourage you to start watching American football.

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Continued from Back Page player ever, but he’s still the underdog in every single finals he’s in, so I kind of appreciate that because he’s just going after it.

EW: Who’s your favorite swimmer?

TK: Honestly, my favorite swimmers are the ones that I’m friends with. there’s some I’m friends with that are really fast like Andrew Wilson (17C). It’s weird to say your friend is your favorite swimmer but I’d want him to win the race more than anybody else. He won second at nationals and two events. then he represented the United States internationally, so that was cool. Also Lily King. She’s the world record-holder in the 100-meter breaststroke right now, and she’s from where I’m from. We’re in the same grade, and we’ve taught kids together.

Watching her on [the olympic] stage is kind of cool.

EW: What are some major life aspirations you have?

TK: I want to have a family at some point. I really like kids so maybe [a couple of] kids. In terms of profession, right now I’m going into accounting and forensics.

I want to make a difference in the world. Everyone says that, but I enjoy helping people, and I want to do that in a way that allows me to live comfortably.

EW: Do you have any specific plans after college?

TK: I recently accepted an offer within Grant thornton’s Forensic group in New York.

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Continued from Back Page point in his career, missed his kick or more. Conversely, five games were wide right. the ravens were unable to recover decided by four points or less.

In the second NFL game in London the subsequent onside kick, resulting this year, the Los Angeles Chargers in a heartbreaking loss for tucker and beat the tennessee titans by one point. the ravens. “[the kick] just happened to get Although the titans scored a touchdown with 31 seconds left and could away from me,” tucker said in a posthave kicked an extra point to tie the game interview, taking accountability game at 20, Head Coach Mike Vrabel for the missed point. “I can’t tell you went for the two-point conversion, exactly what happened, but at the end of the day, I feel like I cost us the which backfired.

Quarterback Marcus Mariota threw game.” on the other end of the spectrum, an incomplete pass to wide receiver the Chiefs destroyed taywan taylor to end the Bengals on offense, the game in defeat for defense and special the titans.

“At the end of the teams. offensively, “I told the team that day, I feel like I cost the Chiefs accumulatI made a decision that us the game.” ed an impressive 551 we were going to be total yards. aggressive early in the Defensively, they drive,” Vrabel said in a — ravens kicker Justin allowed only 10 points post-game interview. tucker to the Bengal offense “When that drive that came into the started, I thought … game averaging 29 when we scored if there was less than 40 seconds, we points per game. on special teams, the Chiefs nulliwere going to go for two points, and we fied dangerous punt and kick returnwere going to win the game.” the titans-Chargers game was not er Alex Erickson and set up their the only one-point game this week. offense with a drive that started at the ravens-Saints game also came the Cincinnati 33-yard line, tackling down to the final seconds. the ravens Bengals safety Clayton Fejedelem prior received the ball trailing by seven to the first down on a fake punt.

Week Seven separated pretenders points with one minute and 59 seconds from contenders. left on the clock on their 34-yard line.

While teams like the Chiefs firmly they embarked on a six-play drive that ended in quarterback Joe Flacco’s established themselves as one of the touchdown pass to ravens wide league’s best, teams with playoff aspirations like the ravens, titans and receiver John Brown. the touchdown pushed the score Bengals faltered. oh, how football is a to 24-23, leaving the ravens hang- game of inches! ing with just one extra point to tie and send the game into overtime. But — Contact Alex Moskowitz at tucker, who had never missed an extra apmosko@emory.edu

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Continued from Back Page UAA challenge,” Curtin said. “the UAA is without a doubt the toughest cross country conference in the country.” the No. 31 men’s squad finished strong in Milledgeville with 196 points.

University of North Carolina at pembroke finished first with 59 points; the University of Alabama at Huntsville was the runner-up with 71 points; and Augusta University (Ga.) placed third with 80 points.

Sophomore John Cox finished first for the Eagles, clocking in an 8K time of 26:18, placing him 27th out of 162 runners.

Sophomore Jonathan rosenfeld crossed the finish line next, clocking in at 26:38 and placing 42nd overall.

Also running for the Eagles were junior Bobby Wilson (26:41, 44th), sophomore Matthew Burke (26:42, 45th) and freshman Jon Marcus (26:41, 52nd).

“We went out hard and hung on for as long as we could,” rosenfeld said of his team’s performance. “We really took advantage of a fast course and good competition.”

Both the men’s and women’s sides return to action on oct. 28 at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships in Kenosha, Wis.

— Contact Ava Villalba at ava.villalba@emory.edu

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And with Northwestern somehow leading the Big ten West, it would take a truly mythical meltdown for Harbaugh’s Big Blue to blow this game. they might even have to one-up their 2015 botched punt against Michigan State that handed the undeserving Spartans a victory with time expiring.

But if you still aren’t convinced that this year’s Big ten is a complete joke, I encourage you to start watching American football. Because you clearly haven’t been already.

Surprisingly, their football team’s unpredicted upset of ohio State wasn’t the only story in purdue sports this week.

Alumni quarterback Drew Brees passed for the 500th touchdown of his career, a feat that only four other NFL players have achieved, while leading his Saints to a 24-23 victory against the Baltimore ravens. His victory made him the third quarterback in NFL history to best all 32 teams.

Except it almost didn’t happen. the ravens’ fourth-quarter touchdown would have sent the game to overtime had kicker Justin tucker not missed the extra point for the first time in 223 career attempts.

His lapse evoked scenes of the river City relay, or the 2003 Saints-Jaguars game that the Saints lost after lateralling their way to a unbelievable touchdown — only for kicker John Carney to miss the extra point. time is a flat circle, or whatever.

So congratulations, Boilermakers, for being this week’s biggest story in sports. Hopefully it makes up for having to live in West Lafayette, Ind.

The Mental Health & Development Program is now accepting participants for an NIMH research project concerned with identifying factors that contribute to mental health problems.

Volunteers may be eligible if they are 13 to 30 years of age, and are experiencing unusual thoughts or perceptions, or increased suspiciousness.

Participation includes diagnostic and cognitive evaluations, MRI scans, EEG, and blood work. There is no charge for the assessments, and participants are compensated for their time.

For more information, contact the Mental Health & Development Program: (404) 727-7547

mentalhealth.research@emory.edu

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Opponent

Time

Volleyball

Emory Natl. Invtl.

3 & 7 p.m.

M Soccer

Carnegie Mellon

5 p.m.

W Soccer

Carnegie Mellon

7:30 p.m.

Oct. 27

Volleyball

Emory Natl. Invtl.

10:30 a.m. & 3 p.m.

Sunday

W XC

UAA Championships

11 a.m.

Oct. 28

M XC

UAA Championships

Noon

M Soccer

Case Western Reserve

11 a.m.

W Soccer

Case Western Reserve

1:30 p.m.

Friday Oct. 26

Saturday

*Home Games in Bold

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Sophomore defender Jordan Fitzgerald (Top), sophomore midfielder Samantha Hilsee (Middle) and senior defender Nikki Batt (BoTToM) dribble the ball against Covenant.

terms of being dangerous and creating chances, then we can hopefully try to turn a mistake by our opponents.” the pacing of the first half slowed substantially after Emory found no further success from their early volley of shots. the clock reached five minutes until half without major action, only to be interrupted by a goal from Berry freshman midfielder Mason Hemstreet. overall, the half showed even play from both teams. tied at 1-1 with a shot total of 5-4 (Emory), neither squad found enough leverage to pull away during the first 45 minutes. often a second-half team, Emory resumed play with a burst of strength. the Eagles found two shots on goal in the first two minutes, but both deflected.

Berry faced a second opponent in the officials, acquiring an unusual five fouls early in the second half.

With 20 minutes remaining in regulation, the Eagles finally obtained the shot they needed.

Senior midfielder Michael Stier took advantage of a Berry defensive gap to score, giving Emory a 2-1 lead. Maintaining momentum, Khattab encountered a one-on-one opportunity with the Berry goalkeeper three minutes later, which yielded one more goal.

Stier, who was injured for the past three games, said “it was really nice for me to be able to get back on the field and contribute in an important game.”

After the goals from Stier and Khattab, Stier said the team’s energy was reignited. “[the team] just kept the pedal to the metal there in the second half and created even more chances,” Stier said. “We dominated after that.” the match concluded with a slew of substitutions from both teams, eager to keep up the fight. Berry added three more fouls and a penalty to the scorecard in an attempt to take back

the lead.

Emory held on tight to keep the score at 2-1 and bring home a muchneeded win. on their progress this season, Greiner said the team “hit a stretch early in the UAA that was little bit of a reality check,” adding “I want to make sure we finish strong in the UAA.” Sunday’s match marked the final non-conference game of the season for the Eagles. their year so far has told a tale of two teams: one unstoppable regionally and one struggling in its conference. the rest of their schedule provides an opportunity to change that. three wins in their final three matches would mean an overall record of 12-5-1 and a conference record of 3-4.

Current conference leader University of Chicago holds a 3-1 conference record.

If UChicago struggles to close out the season, Emory could climb to a tie in both their overall and conference records.

“We want to limit some of the bleeding,” Greiner said of his aspirations for the end of the season.

“We also have an opportunity, if we do well, to make the NCAA tournament. that’s been a goal every single year. ” the obstacle for the Eagles then is not just winning three matches but winning three conference matches.

Having won mainly non-conference matches so far this season, the team will need to make some changes quickly to turn their season around, but luckily, the point totals in all their games have been very close.

Adjustments to Emory’s first-half strategy such as early goals could be enough to push them to a victory. one thing is for sure: the Eagles are out of room for error.

Emory will play Carnegie Mellon University (pa.) on oct. 26 at 5 p.m. and celebrate Senior Day against Case Western reserve University (ohio) on oct. 28 at 11 a.m. at home.

— Contact Daniel Huff at daniel.huff@emory.edu

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Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | Sports Editor: Annie Uichanco (tuichan@emory.edu)

MEN’S SOCCER

Eagles End UAA Drought

CROSS COUNTRY

By daniel huff Contributing Writer A clean 3-1 victory over Berry College (Ga.) on oct. 21 put an end to the Emory men’s soccer team’s sixgame drought.

In familiar fashion, the Eagles found renewed energy in the second half to secure a victory, utilizing strong defensive play to allow only nine shots from the Berry College Vikings during the afternoon. the Eagles were the first on the scoreboard with one of the earliest goals they have had all season. only 21 minutes into the first half, senior midfielder Aidan Datene routed an assist from senior forward Moustafa Khattab into the left corner of the goal.

Emory kept on the offensive after the opening point, sending three more shots on goal in the next 10 minutes.

“We are trying to ramp up some of the intensity in the first 10 minutes and trying to press our opponents a little bit higher defensively,” Head Coach Cory Greiner said. “If we can’t manufacture a goal for ourselves in

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Sophomore Carrie McIntyre (lefT), freshman Ashling Devins (Middle) and senior Kaylee Slade (R ighT) race in the Bobcat Invitational in Midgeville, Ga., on Oct. 20. The women’s cross country team finished No. 5 out of 19 teams.

Team Runs Toward UAA Champs By ava villalBa Contributing Writer the Emory women’s and men’s cross country teams took control of the competition on oct. 20 at the Bobcat Invitational in Milledgeville, Ga., finishing No. 5 out of 19 teams, and No. 7 out of 18 teams, respectively. on the women’s side, the newly ranked No. 17 team finished with 175

points.

Florida State University placed first, tallying 47 points; the University of Alabama in Huntsville finished second, recording 59 points; the University of Montevallo (Ala.) placed third, racking up 99 points; and Georgia College finished fourth with 132 points.

Freshman Zoe Friedman crossed the finish line first for the Eagles,

WOMEN’S SOCCER

clocking in a 6K time of 23:21 and placing 15th overall out of 142 runners. Senior paige Lesslauer finished next on the Eagles’ scoreboard at 24:50, placing 42nd.

Head Coach John Curtin applauded Friedman’s speed, especially since she has suffered from injuries since her arrival in August. “[Friedman] is just now starting to get going and could be an impor-

tant runner for us down the stretch,” Curtin said of his frontrunner.

Not far behind Lesslauer, juniors Jordan Burgess (24:56, 44th) and Ileana Zeissner (24:56, 45th) crossed the finish line, as well as sophomore Amanda Li (25:13, 55th).

“We are backing off our workload so we can be fresh and ready for a tough

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SWIMMING & DIVING

Two Minute Drill With Trey Kolleck

By Ryan Callahan Contributing Writer

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Senior midfielder Madison Phaneuf possesses the ball in a matchup against Covenant College (Ga.) on Oct. 17 at home. The Eagles shut out the Scots 4-0 in their 10th victory this season.

NFL

Saints, Chiefs Sum Up Week Seven By alex MoskowiTz Contributing Writer

two marquee matchups on oct.

21 summed up Week Seven perfectly: the Baltimore ravens’ 24-23 narrow defeat at the hands of the New orleans Saints and the 45-10 Cincinnati

Bengals’ demolition by the Kansas City Chiefs. the former game featured four lead changes and a last-second missed extra point by ravens kicker Justin tucker, resulting in victory for the Saints. But the latter matchup saw the Chiefs blow out the Bengals, further

cementing the Chiefs’ status among the NFL’s elite. those two games encompass the blowouts and dramatic finishes of Week Seven.

Five games in Week Seven finished with a score difference of 20 points

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Senior swimmer trey Kolleck (19B) was named the Men’s UAA Athlete of the Week for his efforts in a meet against Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) on oct. 20. Kolleck recorded Division III’s fastest time of the year in the men’s 50-yard freestyle, clocking in at 20.76 seconds. the Newburgh, Ind., native also finished with a 45.25 second mark in the 100-yard freestyle, which is currently the fastest DIII time this season. this transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

Ryan Callahan, The Emory Wheel: How long have you been swimming?

Trey Kolleck: As long as I can remember. About 15 years at this point.

EW: What’s your major?

TK: I’m a BBA and will also be getting a master’s in accounting.

EW: Do you have any pre-game rituals?

TK: Most of the time, it’s just

stretching [and] listening to music. that sort of thing.

EW: What’s your favorite game day song?

TK: At the moment, I’d probably say “House of Wolves” by My Chemical romance.

EW: What’s your favorite memory that you have on the swim team?

TK: At Emory, it’s when the men’s team won nationals in 2017. that was pretty cool because it was the first time we’ve ever done that. … there’s various races and instances [in my life] where [I’ve] caught someone [in a race], but the [2017 NCAA Championship] is definitely up there.

EW: Who is an athlete you look up to?

TK: I like LeBron James. My whole family [is] from ohio, so I’m a fan of him, but also the fact [that] he is so socially responsible and just tries so hard. It’s so sad he’s going up against one of the greatest dynasties, so it’s kind of like one of those underdog things. He’s top two, if not the best

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