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Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
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On Fire, Page 11
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DANCING AT DIWALI
Univ. Senate Approves Open Expression Policy
Emory Hospitals Rank in Top 10
By Stephen Fowler Central Administration Beat Writer
By Harmeet Kaur Health Sciences Beat Writer Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown were recently ranked in the nation’s top 10 academic medical centers for quality leadership by a University HealthSystems Consortium (UHC) study. Emory University Hospital was ranked second on the list, while Emory University Hospital Midtown was ranked third. According to its website, UHC is a national organization representing academic medical centers across the country. UHC annually recognizes the top 10 academic medical centers that demonstrate superior performance in delivering high-quality patient care. Using its Quality and Accountability Study, UHC evaluates academic medical centers on factors such as patient safety, mortality, clinical effectiveness and equity of care. William Bornstein, chief quality and medical officer for Emory Healthcare, said Emory Healthcare implemented various measures to improve its quality score in the past few years. One such measure was creating a “Quality Academy,” which educates health care leaders on terminology, basic concepts and approaches to improvement. “There’s a whole other set of skills that historically most health care providers haven’t been trained in, so that’s why we needed to develop the Quality Academy and help train people in the techniques,” Bornstein said.
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mory’s female dance group Zeebah performs at Indian Cultural Exchange’s Diwali 2013 on Friday night, held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. The organization started selling tickets for the event on Oct. 17.
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Students Volunteer to Show They ‘Care’ By Brandon Fuhr Senior Staff Writer Students participated in activities ranging from raking leaves to cleaning up a park this past weekend as part of Emory Cares Day, an annual, joint community service effort between Volunteer Emory and the Emory Alumni Association (EAA). According to College senior and Volunteer Emory Co-Director Rachel Cawkwell, Emory Cares Day is Emory’s largest day of service. Renelda Mack (’83C), who led the effort to establish an alumni day of service, founded the service day in 2003. This year, projects included maintaining outdoor trails and working on a farm to writing messages to
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children in the hospital. In 2012, Emory Cares Day had 1,848 volunteers for 70 projects in 35 cities and five countries, according to the Volunteer Emory website. The website states that the service day’s mission is to collaborate with agents of change for service projects and social justice work that promote learning about self and society. “It’s a great opportunity to meet new people and even learn about potential career pathways in nonprofits,” Cawkwell said. Some volunteers went to Kittredge Park in Atlanta on Emory Cares Day, where they teamed up with the Friends of Kittredge Park to remove invasive species and beautify the park. Friends of Kittredge Park is an organization founded by residents in
the communities that surround the 30-acre park in DeKalb County. Alan Pinsker, 53, is one of the members of Friends of Kittredge Park who guided Emory Volunteers. “The ultimate goal is to make this a pleasant escape from the urban aspects of the area and enjoy an unspoiled natural environment that is right in the heart of DeKalb County,” Pinsker said. Pinsker said the park was overgrown and had many invasive species. The initial mission of Friends of Kittredge Park was to make the trail accessible. It was difficult to navigate the park because there was a large squatter population and trash everywhere,
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The University Senate approved a new policy on open expression that includes the creation of a Committee for Open Expression at its Oct. 29 meeting. The new policy and committee will serve to better articulate standards for expressions of dissent, according to Matt Garrett, director of the Office of Student Leadership and Service and a member of the task force that rewrote the policy. According to Garrett, the policy has created two new groups within the Emory community to handle dissent: the Committee for Open Expression and Open Expression Observers. The Committee for Open Expression is a group of Emory community members who seek to promote and protect the rights of community members related to issues involving speech, debate, open expression and protest, according to the committee’s website. According to the Respect for Open Expression Policy, the committee will consist of 13 members, including four faculty members, three staff members, one representative from the Division of Campus Life and five student members. Of the five student members, two must be Emory undergraduates, two graduates or professional students and one from any academic division at Emory not already represented. The Open Expression Observers will be a pool of 20 individuals who would attend events of protest and dissent and assist with protecting the rights of the meeting or protest participants in non-disruptive ways, according to the Open Expression website. This group will help address potential limitations that involve health and safety standards dur-
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Emory Students for Israel (ESI) commemorated the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a 1938 series of coordinated attacks against Jews in Europe by Nazis, on Sunday evening. Holocaust survivor, Laura Gris, and Chief Political Correspondent and Analyst for The Jerusalem Post, Gil Hoffman, spoke to a group of students in the Winship Ballroom about their experiences and connections to the Holocaust. According to College sophomore Aaron Karas, ESI’s executive board member at-large, it is important for Emory Students for Israel to hold an event like this one because the Holocaust is a large part of Jewish
history. “It is important to share the words of Holocaust survivors with everyone, also because it’s a large Jewish ideal to prevent genocide or anything like the Holocaust to happen again,” Karas said. Kristallnacht — also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass — occurred on Nov. 9-10, 1938 in Germany and parts of Austria. According to Gris, at least 91 Jews were killed and 30,000 were deported to concentration camps around Europe by the paramilitary of the Nazi Party. “I think that Kristallnacht, more than anything else, was a wake-up call,” Gris said.
Latino Conference Promotes Education By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor
the main speaker, by highlighting some of his more notable roles, including Jonathan from NBC’s “30 Rock,” Sanjay from Showtime’s “Weeds” and Baljeet from Disney’s “Phineas and Ferb.” Pancholy opened by expressing how much he loved Atlanta, the South and Southern hospitality. “People are so nice down here,” he said. “I’ve never been called ‘sugar’ or ‘honey’ in my entire life.” Pancholy said the purpose of him
The Latin American Association (LAA) hosted the 14th annual Latino Youth Leadership Conference this weekend, featuring speakers and workshops for middle and high school students to encourage them to pursue higher education at Emory. This is the third consecutive year that Emory partnered with the LAA to host the event. More than 1,200 students and 200 volunteers participated, according to LAA Communications Manager Aixa Pascual. In addition, more than 90 schools from all over Georgia were represented among the participants, according to a Nov. 6 LAA press release. The press release notes that through its youth program and annual conference, the LAA and its partners “are working to decrease Latino dropout rates and close the achievement gap.” The conference began with an opening ceremony at the Woodruff P.E. Center Saturday morning and continued with presentations from
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College Council’s first-ever CultureShock featured actor Maulik Pancholy in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (WHSCAB) Saturday late afternoon.
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CC’s CultureShock Features Pancholy By Stephen Fowler Senior Staff Writer
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Paula Gris, a Holocaust survivor, spoke at Emory Students for Israel’s event commemorating the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
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Survivor, Journalist Remember Kristallnacht By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor
ing instances of protest and dissent, Garrett said. The policy change and committee formation make up the second stage of recommendations of the 2011 Task Force on Dissent, Protest and Community Report, which aimed “to lay the foundations for, and to initiate, dialogue and education about the fundamental commitments of the Emory University community to dissent and protest,” such as how to foster and respect dissent activities, according to the report. The 2011 Task Force was assembled at the request of University President James W. Wagner after the April 2011 arrests of seven members of Students and Workers in Solidarity, a group that protested the alleged mistreatment of Sodexo workers on campus, on the Emory Quadrangle. After five days of protesting and camping out in tents on the Quad, the students — some of whom were students from other Georgia institutions — refused to vacate the area and were arrested for trespassing. Garrett added that the committee can also serve as a body that makes recommendations to change policy and advocate for those who feel their open expression rights have been violated. “The new policy and process calls for us to take an affirmative commitment to still support that protest,” Garrett said. “So instead of trying to figure out ways to shut down that protest, we want to find ways to help them continue with the spirit of the protest with both the goals they have and the limitations of the policy.” Garrett said instances such as the 2011 arrests should not happen in the future. “[The policy] takes what was a very restrictive, limiting policy and turns it on its head,” Garrett said. “It now requires the University to
College Council (CC) held its first-ever CultureShock event last Saturday, featuring actor Maulik Pancholy and student group performances, and including food from several Emory cultural organizations. The event took place in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (WHSCAB). According to an email that CC sent to students, CultureShock serves
as a “huge celebration of the unique identities on Emory’s campus and the overall unity we share as Emory students.” The WHSCAB auditorium filled with more than 500 students as CC members threw CultureShock shirts into the crowd and danced to music. College seniors Alex Lopez and Bisi Adeyemo served as emcees for the night, welcoming the audience as AHANA a cappella, the R&Bfocused singing group, performed two songs. Lopez then introduced Pancholy,
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