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T-Pain To Perform At Oxford Campus

Election Ballots Incorrect Despite New Electronic Interface By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor

By Sonam Vashi Executive Editor He may not “buy u a drank,’ but hip-hop artist T-Pain will be performing at Emory’s Oxford campus for its Spring Concert on April 11. All currently enrolled Oxford and Emory students are eligible to attend the event, which will be held on Oxford’s Quad in Covington, Ga. To see the show, Atlanta campus students need to bring their Emory cards and can take Emory’s Cliff shuttles that night to Oxford campus, a 45-minute ride. The Spring Concert marks the culmination of Oxford’s Spirit Week, hosted by the T-Pain, hipStudent Activities hop artist, Committee will perform (SAC), Oxford’s equivalent to the at the end Atlanta cam- of Oxford’s pus’ Student Spirit Week Programming Committee (SPC). “We wanted to bring someone that everyone was aware of and would enjoy to create a communal experience,” SAC President Brent Buckley said. “We feel that T-Pain fits that, and that he’ll bring a great concert to the Oxford community.” Famous for popularizing Auto-

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College junior Mukundha Sastry threw shirts out to the crowd at the ‘Taste of Emory’ event during the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-inspired Dooley’s Week.

Students Flood ‘Taste of Emory’ By Dustin Slade News Editor Hundreds of students lined up in front of restaurant booths on McDonough Field yesterday as part of the Student Programming Council’s (SPC) fifth annual “Taste of Emory,” the first event of this year’s Dooley’s Week. More than 2,000 students visited McDonough field as local restaurants — including Johnny Rocket’s, BurgerFi, Tin Lizzy’s, Doc Chey’s and Willy’s Mexicana Grill — offered students samplings of their cuisine, according to College senior and event Co-Chair and Matthew Willis. Co-Chairs Julia Baker, a College sophomore, and Willis led the SPC committee tasked with organizing the event.

Willis and Baker worked to ensure that the event was an improvement from the previous year not only by bringing in new restaurants, including Whole Foods Market and Holeman & Finch, but also by improving the “ambiance and overall experience,” Willis said. Both Baker and Willis reached out to numerous restaurants in the Atlanta area in preparation for the event. After receiving feedback from various restaurants, there were around 30 businesses that showed interest in participating in the event, according to Baker. She added that 17 restaurants confirmed for the event and 16 ended up participating. Many students were satisfied with

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DOOLEY’S WEEK EVENTS Today Wonka’s Speakeasy 7-9 p.m. at Cox Hall Ballroom

Wednesday Wonderful Wednesday 12:30-2:30 p.m. at Asbury Circle

Thursday Comedian Chris D’Elia 7 p.m. at Glenn Memorial

Friday Dooley’s Ball feat. 5 & A Dime 8 p.m. at McDonough Field

Saturday Chance The Rapper 7 p.m. at McDonough Field

Despite this year’s new interface meant to fix past election ballot issues, students still experienced problems while voting in student government elections this week. The Elections Board, a subsidiary of Student Government Association (SGA), sent out a University-wide email on Monday afternoon suggesting tips to students who have been having problems completing the election ballot, including slow loading, error messages and ballots that fail to correspond to correct graduation years. The election ballot was sent to all students at midnight on Sunday, and elections will end on April 2 at 11:59 p.m. Goizueta Business School students received ballots that mistakenly corresponded to their class standing — determined by the number of credit hours taken — instead of their graduation year, according to B-School sophomore and Elections Board RHA Commissioner Bryce Robertson, who is also a sales associate of the Wheel. This means that students in the class of 2016 in the B-school who qualify for junior standing with their credit hours received the names of class representatives from the class above them. They were asked to vote for representatives not in their graduating class. Robertson said this year, he coordinated with all the representatives from the divisional councils to ensure that the ballots were set to graduation year instead of class standing.

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PATTERN OF ISSUES Previous Years Students’ ballots corresponded to class standing, not graduation year.

October 2013 SGA voted to fund a new interface that was supposed to fix the balloting issue.

This Year All B-school students and some College students have reported having incorrect ballots. However, he added that the BBA council ballots were mistakenly set to class standing. Still, it is unclear why there are some incorrect ballots for College students, but not others. While many students outside of the B-school did not have this problem, some students like College junior Lex Gardner reported that they also had incorrect ballots. “I thought it was disappointing that, with all the issues with elections last year and the creation of the new elections board, there were still issues,” Gardner said. “I am encouraged, however, that the website seems to be working more effectively after the first night. Good thing they extended the voting period to be over a few days [unlike last year].” In past elections, this problem has

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FEATURE

Q&A: ‘Pineapple Express’ Director By Casey Horowitz Contributing Writer David Gordon Green is a writer, director and producer best known for studio comedies “Pineapple Express” and “The Sitter,” as well as independent feature films including “All the Real Girls” and “Prince Avalanche.” Before premiering his 10th feature film “Joe” at the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival, Green paid a visit to Emory University to deliver a talk to the student body. The Wheel had the opportunity to sit down with Green and learn about his experiences as a filmmaker. Where are you from, what sparked your interest in film and what was your college education like?

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Director and producer David Gordon Green, I was born in Little Rock, Ark., but I grew up in known for comedies such as “Pineapple Dallas, and I always loved going to the movies. I Express,” spoke to Emory students last week. Andy Ie/Staff

seven-story-tall banner of Dooley, Lord of Misrule, hung from the side of the Robert W. Woodruff Library to mark the beginning of Dooley’s Week, which is the annual celebration honoring James W. Dooley, Emory’s unofficial mascot.

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SGA Funds New WoodPEC Equipment By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor The 47th Legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) voted unanimously to fund new weight-lifting equipment for the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC) and to approve revisions to the Media Council Constitution. College sophomore and SGA Sophomore Representative Michael Lor presented the bill to the Legislature. He said he asked stu-

dents and members of the WoodPEC staff what equipment they wanted in the WoodPEC. According to him, students wanted more dumbbells. The bill asks that SGA fund 26 sets of dumbbells of various weights ranging from five pounds to 60 pounds. Additionally, the bill funds a Magnum multi-adjustable bench and the freight, delivery and installation costs. In total, the bill asked for $8,776 from SGA’s Fee Interest Account

(FIC), which is designated for longterm projects lasting three or more years. The Legislature voted unanimously to fund this amount. SGA also voted unanimously to revise Media Council’s Constitution. Media Council is a University-wide organization (UWO) that oversees student-produced media like Emory Television (ETV) and Emory’s student-run radio station WMRE. According to full-time MBA

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You find people that are excellent at what they do, and some of your best friends maybe aren’t the best for the job. It’s about surrounding yourself with a group of people you’re inspired by. I want to work with people where, when we have a great success, we’re there to celebrate together, and when we have a great failure, we’re there to lift each other back up and get to work and not really be bound by the perception of traditional Hollywood observers. You mentioned that you went into college without a connection in Hollywood. How did you overcome that networking obstacle? We never asked for a connection in Hollywood. We just started saving our money and spending our money. We didn’t ask people for the keys to the Porsche; we just started driving the Jalopy. Eventually, people started catching on and started paying us to do it. We

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on your movies in college, like Tim Orr, your cinematographer and David Wingo, your composer. What do you feel the importance is of forming these creative partnerships?

You met a lot of professionals who work with you

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would go with my dad a lot. I always had a bit more than an entertainment interest in movies; I really just took them seriously. I loved absorbing anything I could get my hands on behind the scenes, or if I could find a script that I could read or movie magazines I’d subscribe to. I started really exploring what it took to make movies from a young age. I was always really drawn to the concept of movie-making. My mother told me there was a great arts program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. It was just a campus of musicians, dancers and artists of various types and a brand new film school. So I went to school there. It wasn’t full of people with a ton of cash or networking. It was filled with people like me that loved watching movies and thought about making movies. I worked in the film archive, and that’s where I met most of the guys I make movies with. We went to school for a few years and started playing with equipment, talking about stories and things we’d like to make and our influences. We got out of school, saved up our money and started making movies. We just finished our 10th movie together, and we’ve done a ton of TV shows and commercials. It’s an interesting collective. Danny McBride and Jodi Hill lived down the hall from me in college, and now we own a company together!

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NEWS ROUNDUP National, Local and Higher Education News • In a statement from its defense ministry, South Korea reported that it had returned fire on North Korea on Monday after shells from the latter landed in South Korean waters. Earlier that morning, North Korea announced that it would hold livefire drills in seven parts of a border area designated by the United Nations after the Korean War. North Korea, however, has never recognized this territorial boundary, killing four South Koreans on a border island in 2010 and exchanging fire with South Korea in the area in 2011. • United Nations scientists and officials in Japan released, on Monday, the most comprehensive assessment on the impacts of global warming to date. The effects of climate change, according to the report, are likely to be “severe, pervasive and irreversible,” specifically resulting in higher risk of flooding and changes in crop yields and water availability.

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stitution and instituting emergency rule in 2007. Musharraf, the first Pakistani army chief to face such a prosecution, pleaded “not guilty” and claimed that the charges were politically motivated. • At least 21 people have been reported dead and 30 remain missing as a result of the March 22 landslide in Oso, Washington. The state’s governor Jay Inslee said that officials would be in active rescue mode as long as any possibility of finding survivors remained. Along with victims of the massive landslide, volunteers have found, cleaned and returned family mementos to Oso residents whose homes had collapsed under the terrain.

POLICE RECORD • On March 28 at 9:00 a.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding an individual who had been sleeping on the first floor of the Callaway Center. EPD met with the individual and made sure he was alright. The individual said he was just hanging out and agreed to leave the area. • On March 29 at 9:54 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an individual who had been sleeping in the Emory Clinic. The individual said that he had been out drinking with friends and he didn’t know how he got to the clinic. He said that he was trying to visit a friend at Campus Crossings. The individual was pro-

Corrections • The article entitled “Presidential Candidates Encourage Students to Vote Against Referendum,” mistakenly says that Elections Board members helped author the constitutional amendments. No Elections Board members authored the amendments. The Wheel reports and corrects all errors published in the newspaper and at emorywheel.com. Please contact Editor in Chief Priyanka Krishnamurthy at pkrish4@emory.edu.

Dobbs University Center, Room 540 605 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322 Business (404) 727-6178 Editor-in-Chief Priyanka Krishnamurthy (404) 727-0279 Founded in 1919, The Emory Wheel is the financially and editorially independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University in Atlanta. The Wheel is a member publication of Media Council, Emory’s organization of student publications. The Wheel reserves the rights to all content as it appears in these pages, and permission to reproduce material must be granted by the editor in chief. The Wheel is published twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays during the academic year, except during University holidays and scheduled publication intermissions. A single copy of the Wheel is free of charge. To purchase additional copies, please call (404) 727-6178. The statements and opinions expressed in the Wheel are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Wheel Editorial Board or of Emory University, its faculty, staff or administration. The Wheel is also available online at www.emorywheel.com.

vided transportation to his friend’s residence. • On March 26 at approximately 6:10 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a theft at the Woodruff PE Center. The student said that she left her bag on the first floor of the PE center when she was playing volleyball. When she came back, she noticed that her wallet was missing from her bag. The wallet contained $100 dollars cash, credit cards and identification.

raped in Harris Residence Hall. • On March 25 EPD received a report that a student was raped on Oct. 31, 2013 in an apartment on Clairmont Campus.

— Compiled by Crime Beat Writer Brandon Fuhr

• On March 25 EPD received a report from the Respect Program that an individual was raped on Jan. 29 at 4:30 p.m. The victim said she was

April 6, 1999 In April 1999, a Student Government Association (SGA) subcommittee sought funding for a new bell system in Cox Hall tower to “ring in the new millennium.” The bell system, a set of cast bronze bells accompanied by an electronic system, would cost about $75,000 and play the Emory Alma Mater, the Westminster Chime and an hourly bell toll. It would also have the ability to encode religious, ethnic and other types of music during holidays and special occasions, including Commencement.

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— Compiled by Senior Staff Writer Lydia O’Neal

• On Monday, A Pakistani court charged former military ruler and president Pervez Musharraf with treason, unlawfully suspending the con-

This Week In Emory History

TUESDAY Event: Breaking the Gender Bias Habit Time: 9-11 a.m. Location: E334 DUC Event: Emory Woman’s Club Meeting Time: 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Location: Houston Mill House

Location: White Hall 103 Event: Bisexual / Pansexual Discussion Group Time: 7-8 p.m. Location: 232E DUC

WEDNESDAY

Event: Copyright & Your ETD Sciences/Health Sciences Focus Time: 2:30-3:45 p.m. Location: Woodruff Health Sciences Library Classroom Event: Interviewing Skills Workshop Time: 3-4 p.m. Location: Career Center Conference Room

Event: Toastmasters@Emory Club Meeting Time: 8-9 a.m. Location: Old Dental Building

Event: Gilman/Scholarship Advising Time: 4-5 p.m. Location: Candler Library 200

Event: Mini Summer Study Abroad Fair Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Location: DUC Coke Commons

Event: Scholarship Information Session Time: 5-6 p.m. Location: Candler Library 216

Event: Interviewing Skills Workshop Time: 2-3 p.m. Location: Career Center Conference Room

Event: Summer Study Abroad Open House Advising Hours Time: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Location: Candler Library 200

Event: Queer Students of Color Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Location: 232E DUC

Event: AntiquiTEA Time: 4-5 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall

Event: Interviewing Skills Workshop Time: 12-1 p.m. Location: Career Center Conference Room

Event: Faculty Response Forum XIII: The Humanities and the Nature of Evidence Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall

Event: Interviewing Skills Workshop Time: 4-5 p.m. Location: Career Center Conference Room

Event: Dr. Daniel Weissman - The effect of gene interactions on evolution - University of California at Berkeley Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m. Location: Mathematics & Science Center E300

Event: Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945), Screening Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: White Hall 208

Event: “A Cell Autonomous Loss of Muscle Stem Cell Function during Aging” Time: 12-1 p.m. Location: 5052 Rollins Research Center

Event: Study Abroad in China Panel Discussion Time: 4:30-6 p.m.

THURSDAY Event: Immortality, Immorality, and the Price of Progress Time: 7-8 a.m. Location: Emory University Hospital Auditorium Event: Copyright & Your Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Time: 10-11:15 a.m. Location: Woodruff Library 314 Event: The Regulatory Network Coordinating Natural Competence for DNA Uptake in the Human Pathogen Vibrio Cholerae Time: 12-1 p.m. Location: Whitehead Building, Ground Floor Auditorium Event: Summer Study Abroad Open House Advising Hours Time: 3-4 p.m. Location: Candler Library 200 Event: 2013-2014 Awards & Honors Reception Time: 3:30-5 p.m. Location: Governors Hall, MillerWard Alumni House

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DOOLEY’S WEEK 2014

Clockwise from top left: A child grabs lettuce at the Taste of Emory event on McDonough Field (Photo by staff Khang Huynh). A Willy Wonka-inspired gateway framed the Dooley statue next to Asbury Circle (Photo by photo editor Thomas Han). College junior Natasha Mofrad (left) and College junior Uyen Hoang (right) posed with Dooley at the Taste of Emory event during Dooley’s Week (Photo by staff Khang Huynh). Emory students waited for Dooley’s Week shirts thrown out during Taste of Emory (Photo by staff Khang Huynh). Workers from Zoë’s Kitchen prepared food for students at Taste of Emory during Dooley’s Week (Photo by staff Khang Huynh).

DUC DAY 2014

SAC Budget Largest in Recent History, Buckley Says Continued from Page 1 Tune with songs like “Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” and “Bartender,” T-Pain is set to release his fifth studio album titled Stoicville: The Phoenix later this year. SAC hosts a number of campuswide events throughout the year, like open mic nights and coffee houses, but Spirit Week and the Spring Concert are its biggest events of the year. Last year, SAC brought Canadian dance music duo Adventure Club for the Spring Concert. “We would love to have as many people as we can,” Buckley said, although he predicts long lines this year due to the positive response from both Oxford, which includes about 850 students this semester, and the Atlanta campus. The SAC will be providing refreshments but no alcohol, since Oxford is a dry campus. The opener to the concert will be College senior Chris Alfonso, an

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Applied Mathematics major who performs house, EDM and mainstream music. “[T-Pain] is probably the biggest name that I’ve ever opened for or ever will open for,” Alfonso said. “I’m really excited to end my senior year opening this show.” This semester, SAC received about $65,000 for its events — $56,000 originally allotted plus a $4000 surplus from last semester and about $5000 in additional funds from Emory’s Student Government Association (SGA) and SPC, according to Buckley. “This is the most money that we’ve ever had to my knowledge, especially with the additional surplus and funding,” Buckley said. SAC had $60,000 to work with last year. At the beginning fall semester, the SGA passed a bill that included a clause allowing SAC to ask for spring funds in the fall semester, according to Oxford sophomore and SGA President Cam Williamson.

Previously, SAC would know its spring funding in February, only allotting two months to book acts for April’s Spring Concerts. With the passage of this bill, SAC knew its spring funding in November and was able to spend more time booking acts. “This gives them a leg-up in negotiating contracts,” Williamson said. “We hope to have higher-quality acts like T-Pain moving forward because of this.” While many Atlanta campus students are unaware of this concert due to its remote location, word is spreading. “I know a lot of people that are pumped up about this concert,” College freshman Jason Tsai said. SAC hopes to continue bringing big-name acts to Oxford. “We’re setting a precedent for Oxford campus,” Buckley said. “If it goes well, it’ll make an impact. Seeing people get excited and happy makes it all worth it.”

—Contact Sonam Vashi at svashi2@emory.edu

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Continued from Page 1 the local restaurants SPC brought to campus while others found the selection somewhat redundant. “I would have loved to see food places that I don’t have easy access too,” College sophomore Ankita Shirahatti said. Other students complained that the wait times to get food made the satisfying event slightly less enjoyable.

“The lines were way too long and weren’t moving at all, but it was fun to talk to people.” — Keywan Behbahani, College freshman “Although the lengthy lines precluded me from actually getting any food, it was nice to see so many Emory students participating in an Emory school spirit event,” College sophomore Madhav Valla said. College freshman Keywan Behbahani also expressed a similar sentiment. “The lines were way too long and weren’t moving at all, but it was fun to talk to people,” Behbahani said. Baker said each restaurant brought about four staff members to accommodate the crowds. “There are measures we can take in the future to help with crowd control, however, there will always be lines at Taste of Emory,” Baker wrote. “We see it as an opportunity for friends to enjoy the great weather and take in the experience that is Dooley’s Week.”

—Contact Dustin Slade at dpslade@emory.edu

existed for the entire student body. These problems persist despite a new interface for electronic ballots that was meant to address the issue. In October, SGA voted to fund the new interface. According to Robertson, the new system allows Elections Board representatives from each divisional council — which includes the BBA Council and the Graduation Student Government Association (GSGA) — to input the correct ballots for each graduating class in their school. The ballot each student receives depends on various parameters regarding each student. Depending on one’s academic school, class standing, level of professional or doctoral school, residence hall, netID and graduation year, each student receives an individualized ballot, Robertson said. “The platform we use is quite good,” College senior and Elections Board Chair Matthew Pesce wrote in an email to the Wheel. “We asked every division to create their offices on the ballot,” Robertson said. “Each division may not have been as diligent as they could have been.” He added that there was also a miscommunication with the Oxford SGA. The sophomore representative position on the ballot allowed students to vote for up to eight people instead of the actual number of representatives, which is four. Similar to the past, students can rectify their incorrect ballots by emailing the Elections Board, whose members can then manually override the system and re-send the student a correct version of their individualized ballot. The email sent out on Monday afternoon states that students experiencing error messages should clear

their browser cache, close the browser and re-enter the ballot address in a new browser window. The email also advises choosing a different browser. According to Robertson, students have had issues with Google Chrome because the browser is unable to read certain scripts. He advises that students use a different browser and Emory computers if possible. According to the email, the ballot has been taking up to a minute and 30 seconds to load. Robertson said this was due to server overload as a result of the unprecedented voter turnout for this year’s elections. “We have had unparalleled voter turnout,” Robertson said. According to him, by 10 a.m., more than 1,400 people had voted. By 5 p.m., that number increased to more than 2,000. Robertson attributed this year’s turnout to a longer election period as well as a change in the time the email was sent out. Previously, voting has been from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. However, Robertson said that data shows that the best time for the University to ask a question via email is around 10 p.m., when students are most active on their emails. More students across the divisions know about the elections this year, according to Robertson. Robertson also said these problems are not likely to occur next year. “As long as we have people invested enough in the divisions, I don’t anticipate [the problems] happening again next year,” Robertson said. Robertson said ballot issues until the end of the election period can be rectified by contacting the Elections Boar at ElectionsBoard@emory.edu.

Assistant News Editor Stephen Fowler contributed reporting. —Contact Rupsha Basu at rupsha.basu@emory.edu

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Students rode a mechanical surfboard, limboed and hung out during the luau-themed DUC Day, a celebration of the anniversary of the DUC, that took place last Friday.

Media Council Updates Constitution Continued from Page 1 student and SGA Governance Committee Chair David Kaplan, the changes to the Constitution update its language to reflect current practices. For example, SGA updated its chartering bylaws last semester, which the new Media Council constitution now reflects. He added that Media Council is working on a monetary code separate from the Constitution in order to comply with the new budgeting

procedures for University-wide organizations (UWO), which no longer gives UWOs a fixed percentage of the student activities fee -- the $89 student activities fee paid each semester by every student -- and instead requires UWOs to submit an itemized budget every spring for the following fiscal year. This is known as the feesplit bill. The Legislature approved the revisions unanimously. Additionally, College senior and SGA Finance Committee Chair

Calvin Lee updated the Legislature on the repairs to McDonough Field, which SGA funded last semester also using the FIC. The repairs, which started in January, are now complete, he said. The SGA contingency account has $2,678 remaining in it. This amount will roll over to the 48th Legislature’s contingency account if the 47th Legislature does not reconvene again this year.

—Contact Rupsha Basu at rupsha.basu@emory.edu

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Study Shows Student Loans’ Impacts By Alisha Rosenwein-Noss Daily Bruin, University of California, Los Angeles Steven Sabel, a former firefighter, decided to go to law school after a knee injury prevented him from returning to duty. He had wanted to be a lawyer since he was young. Sabel, now a second-year student at UCLA, is financing his degree almost entirely on loans. Tuition at the UCLA School of Law costs more than $45,000 a year, and Sabel expects to graduate with around $200,000 in debt. “From day one of starting law school (I was) already accruing interest,” he said with a sigh. “(The debt) will impact what I do for work. … I have to get the big law firm job just to pay off the loans.” Sabel is one of many individuals who said student loans will influence their life decisions. A recent report by the Campaign for College Opportunity, a nonprofit advocacy organization in California, estimates that the amount of student loan debt in the U.S. was $1.08 trillion by the end of 2013, exceeding the national aggregate totals of auto loan, credit card and home-equity debt balances. The report notes that student loans are the second largest source of debt for American households, after home mortgages. Almost a third of people who receive a bachelor’s degree in the U.S. now graduate with loan debt. The report says that the number of federal student loan borrowers jumped 69 percent in 11 years – from 5 million in the 2002-2003 academic year to 8.45 million in the 2013-2014 academic year. For the 2012-2013 academic year the average amount of student debt was $25,884, up 47 percent from nine years prior.

Kim Tran, policy director of the Sacramento office of the Campaign for College Opportunity, said student debt is rising partly because more people are attending college. “More students are going to college so the overall entire debt package increases, which is a good thing,” Tran said. “We recognize student loans are good since otherwise some students wouldn’t have an opportunity to go to college.” UCLA’s students on average fare better in student debt than the state and national average. 48 percent of UCLA undergraduates take out student loans, said Ronald Johnson, the UCLA director of undergraduate financial aid. At UCLA, the average undergraduate student debt at graduation is $20,229, Johnson added. The study also found that, nationally, low-income families tend to spend more overall on college education costs, as many attend more expensive for-profit schools. Moreover, because their income is less than their wealthier peers, low-income families tended to pay a higher percentage of their income on college costs. Low-income students had as much debt as those with a higher income, but were also significantly less likely to graduate, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity’s findings. Black students took out student loans at the highest rate of any racial and ethnic groups, according to the report. The New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute, maintains that much of the $1.08 trillion in student debt is attributable to graduate students. Johnson said there are many more financial aid options available for

undergraduate rather than graduate students. While undergraduates have several grant and loan options, graduate students must primarily rely on competing for fellowships, assistantships and a small amount of federal grant aid, he said. More than half of undergraduate students at UCLA receive financial aid, which is higher than graduate students, Johnson said. The Campaign for College Opportunity report also argues that debt impacts students’ ability to fully partake in the economy. The majority of survey respondents said their student debt will make them reconsider whether they want to purchase a car or home, start a business or save for retirement early. The report says 44 percent of all undergraduates who took out private loans, which usually charge more in interest, did not make the most of their eligibility for federal student loans, possibly because they were unaware of the options available to them. Johnson said he thinks some UCLA students may have not completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid because they were unaware of the opportunity. He recommends that all undergraduate students fill out the FAFSA, regardless of socioeconomic status. Johnson also encouraged student borrowers to explore loan repayment options available to them early in their time at UCLA. “We want students to make sure that they continue to explore the options that are available to them for repayment and that they don’t wait until their senior year to do so,” Johnson said. “We want to plan ahead as much as possible to make the situation more manageable.”

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Emory Wheel to Acquire Spoke “Humor” Publication Has Several Traits After much consternation and deliberation with various parties and stakeholders, we are extremely excited to announce that The Emory Wheel has decided to merge with The Emory Spoke. It wasn’t an easy decision — the only way we could afford it was by offering our collective remaining Dooley Dollars, three SPC golden tickets, an expired Peavine parking pass and a couple of DUC swipes (Sports Co-Editor Bennett Ostdiek refused to relinquish his Dooley Dollars so you can thank him for the swipes). “We fielded a few acquisition offers, namely from Yahoo for $2bn, Facebook for $5bn and Build-a-Bear Workshop for $12bn,” Dave Stess, College senior and Editor in Chief of the Spoke, commented in a Facebook exchange with the Wheel. In order to compete with these multi-national corporations, we also offered the publication a human sacrifice in the form of our dictator Editor in Chief Priyanka Krishnamurthy. We are certain this acquisition will be agreeable and, more importantly, profitable for all investors. Indeed, when Spoke editor and College junior Martin Sigalow heard the news, he is reported to have said “lol.” As a part of our publicity campaign to promote the new campus publication, The Emory Wheel’s Spoke, we have decided to revamp the newspaper by putting Sudoku puzzles on the front page, implementing an effort called “proactive content creation” (committing crimes ourselves and reporting on them) and also hosting monthly public roasts of University administrators (you’re first, Dean Nair). Of course, we have to give props where they are most certainly due. We’ve compiled a listicle (see our website for corresponding GIFs) of 11 reasons why we’re merging with the Spoke.

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1. The Spoke’s website is REALLY nice. Like, really. And not just in a “cool navigation bar, bro” kind of way. Have you seen that masthead? That RSS feed? The conveniently located box where you can immediately like their Facebook page with little to no effort? 2. Speaking of Facebook, we recognize and applaud the Spoke for having almost 6,000 likes, the majority of which originate from an obscure town in Turkey, where we’re pretty sure that the pit scene in “The Dark Knight Rises” was filmed. As such, one of our primary reasons for merging with the Spoke is to expand our global appeal. We heard there might even be some spambots in Bratislava who are interested in liking the new Facebook page. 3. We feel the Spoke is more accessible and relatable to the average Joe. This is demonstrated by the fact that one of the Spoke’s staff writers is in fact named “Joe” and has been quoted as saying “Hey, I’m just your average Joe.” 4. They are undeniably the most accurate voice in student journalism. 5. They are known for asking the hard-hitting questions, such as “Can the Wheel be used as bonfire tinder?” and “Wait ... what?” 6. You can always rely on them for some sophisticated and well-thought out criticism. For example, when the Student Government Association (SGA) discussed controversial legislation about the student activities fee split, the Spoke recapped the meeting with astounding accuracy and such journalistic detail that we had to fire our SGA beat writer in sheer embarrassment. 7. GIFs. 8. They have unmatched breaking news capabilities, including multimedia blasts like iPhone push notifications, and there has even been some rumblings about getting thousands of little birds to personally come and whisper breaking news in every person’s ear every morning so you can say with 100 percent sincerity “a little bird told me.” 9. They hold the Wheel accountable.

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10. They actually read the Wheel. Incidentally, they comprise 95 percent of our readership, the remainder of which are made up of “affluent individuals in the 65-85 age bracket,” according to Stess. 11. They know how to take a joke. And hopefully you do too, since this entire staff editorial is an April Fool’s joke. Did you actually think we would ever merge with the Spoke? In their dreams. The above staff editorial represents the majority opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board. Duh.

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Rationality Valued But Rarely Practiced ERIK ALEXANDER Rationality is a flexible term. We all have some idea about what it means to be rational, but the definition varies from person to person. Overall, it is a conservative measure with utilitarian undertones. Thinking rationally entails carefully weighing the different potential outcomes of one’s decisions and choosing the option that will be most beneficial, or least harmful, for as many people as possible, assuming that selfishness and rationality are mutually exclusive. We expect others to always be rational. It is our great expectation, a deviation from the Golden Rule which tells us to treat others the way we wish to be treated. To be a critic of others’ irrational behavior is no difficult task. Rarely, however, do we critique our own irrationality. Whether it is because we are our own best friends or our own worst enemies, we give ourselves a free pass. Cigarette-smoking is a great example of this strange fallacy. People do not smoke cigarettes against their will. They do it by choice, despite the fact that it is casual masochism or at the very least a form of inadvertent and prolonged self-destruction. Smoking is now widely recognized as a leading factor behind heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases and strokes, the top four causes of death among Americans. Thus,

smoking cigarettes is plainly irrational, and to scorn a smoker is to voice one’s own golden expectation. Yet when we are called out for disappointing this expectation, we deploy rationalization as a defense mechanism. We rationalize as a substitute for behaving rationally. Our excuses for smoking cigarettes vary from “I’ll quit in a couple months” to “I do it to calm my nerves.” In crafting these excuses, we practice the art of self-deception. We demonstrate an understanding of the importance of behaving rationally, but we do not make it much further. Even the best excuse is merely a shortcut out of a momentarily troubled conscience. To rationalize is to sugarcoat irrational behavior for an audience that expects the opposite. We rationalize to justify laziness, incompetence, disappointment, self-medication and countless other by-products of our free will. Despite the hypocrisy of our judgments, the solution is not for all of us to suddenly and collectively behave rationally. Rationalization is a natural instinct, a defense mechanism, and to abandon it would be to declaw the mountain lion, so to speak, or to place the orca behind glass, if you prefer. A completely rational being would be incapable of acting upon emotion. That means no cheering, no sobbing and no loving. Think about it: only in the field of economics, for some bizarre reason, is it assumed that all beings are rational. If such were to be the reality of things, then those simplified

models of supply and demand would actually be accurate. I don’t know about you, but for me that would be a reality both demeaning and terrifying, a reality suitable only for an automaton with no self-concept or free will. He who shaves against the grain in the name of smooth skin is doomed to riddle his face with cuts. Likewise, if everybody tried to be always rational so that they did not feel like hypocrites upon judging the irrationality of others, a number of potential side-effects could be anticipated. For one, we could expect the average human’s stress load to at least double under the weight of having to continually check one’s behavior. Abandoning an evolutionary instinct like rationalization is not a feasible goal; to do so would be as irrational as smoking cigarettes. Since we are stuck with this instinct, it would be in the interest of humanity as a whole for each of us to hone our craft, that is, to learn how to rationalize in a rational way, as paradoxical as that might sound. We need not waste rationalization in defense of our irrational behavior, for doing so would be using one human instinct to justify another. Everybody behaves irrationally, yet nobody is completely irrational. Rationalization may not be as virtuous as rationality in the eyes of the beholder, but we might as well reconcile it because we will never rid ourselves of it. Erik Alexander is a College sophomore from Alpharetta, Ga.

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A Russian Perspective On Crimean Crisis BEN PERLMUTTER Russia is in the midst of annexing the Crimea, with the possibility of a war with Ukraine looming overhead. Over the course of the past few weeks, Crimea went from being a more-or-less forgotten peninsula, most noteworthy for the Crimean War, fought in 1854 between an alliance of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire against the Russian Empire, to the center of international attention. Once again, Crimea enters the international spotlight. In the American media coverage of the ongoing Crimea crisis, most of the reporting that I have read seems quite biased against Russia, assuming from the beginning that Russia is misbehaving. In defense of American political leaders' judgments, Russian leaders have told multiple outright lies. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged that hundreds of thousands of ethnic Russian Ukrainian citizens have fled to Russia, fearing persecution at the hands of ethnic Ukrainians; there has been absolutely no evidence of this. Nonetheless, certain aspects of the Russian position about the Crimean Crisis remain true. I would like to explore the legitimate aspects of the Russian perspective on the ongoing crisis to elucidate the other side of this complex international drama. On March 18, Putin delivered a speech to the Kremlin about the ongoing Russian attempt to annex the Crimea. He began by declaring that the Crimean referendum was legitimate and proceeded to defend the annexation using a series of historical arguments and legal precedent. Many write off Putin as a calculating practitioner of realpolitik, the political system that pragmatism, power and material concerns are what should decide a country's decisions. While it is certainly true that his assertive diplomacy has a nihilistic pragmatism to it, Putin embraces an ideology that legitimizes this realpolitik and, more specifically, the Russian actions in Ukraine. This ideology has been called Eurasianism or the Fourth Political Theory, presenting it as an alternative to the three other dominant political theories of the past century: liberalism, communism and fascism. Alexander Dugin, a Russian political scientist and ideologue, is the most prominent advocate of this "fourth" ideology. Dugin frames Eurasianism in opposition to liberalism, the ideology that has swept the world in the past 25 years, following the end of the Cold War. He believes that liberalism needs an ideological opponent, otherwise it descends into implosive chaos. Liberalism opposes any ideology that suggests that society should have a collective goal, such as Marxism, because liberalism argues that society should be based on the individual. Without an opponent, liberalism loses its purpose. Without an opposing ideology since the end of the Cold War, liberalism has turned in upon itself. Liberal countries have been destroying their last "illiberal" elements, such as sexism, racism and homophobia, in order to have its always-necessary opponent, and maintain purpose. Through the Crimean Crisis, the elites of the West are attempting to resurrect Russia as an enemy, to once again give liberalism a purpose. In the early 2000s, liberalism attempted to cast al-Qaeda and radical Islam as an enemy in the same regard, but only to limited success because it lacked significant global reach, save sporadic terror attacks. Dugin believes the liberal West has presented Putin and Russia as villains, not because the Russian actions in the Crimea and the

Ukraine are illegitimate, but rather because liberalism once again needs an enemy. In fact, there is tremendous popular support and historical precedent for the Crimea to once again be part of Russia. Crimea had been part of the Russian state since the end of the 18th century, when the Russian Empire captured the peninsula from the Turkic Crimean Khanate. Only in the 1960s did the Soviet Union give Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR, when the division between the central government in Moscow and the various republics was more nominal than actual. Moreover, western countries have strong domestic reasons not to allow the Crimea to secede. There are prominent regional secession movements in various Western countries including: Catalonia from Spain, Scotland from the United Kingdom and Quebec from Canada. If the Crimea unilaterally secedes from Ukraine, these other regions may attempt the same. A dangerous precedent would be set for these countries. There is tremendous popular support in Crimea for it to join Russia. In a referendum regarding secession on March 16, 93 percent of Crimeans voted to join Russia. More than 80 percent of eligible voters participated in the election. One minority group, the Tatars, who constitute 12 percent of the population, abstained from the election. But, even if they all voted against secession, there would still be a vast majority in favor of Russian annexation. International observers have criticized the Russian use of military power throughout the crisis, claiming that it has been used to leverage the situation in their favor. Russian has responded by claiming that the troops have been deployed to protect the ethnic Russians in the Crimea, who constitute over 60 percent of the peninsula's population, particularly from fascists. While many commentators in the West have brushed off these accusations, Ukraine is in fact home to Svoboda, one of the most influential far-right parties in Europe that also controls over a quarter of national ministries. The deputy prime minister of Ukraine is also a member of Svoboda. The far right party's radical beliefs include: increased state involvement in the economy, using ethnicity as a basis of government representation and benefits and criminal prosecution for anti-Ukrainian sentiment. A party leader is on record claiming that Ukraine is run by the "Muscovite-Jewish mafia," and one of its members of parliament founded the “‘Joseph Goebbels Political Research Centre' and has hailed the Holocaust as a 'bright period' in human history." Putin has also cited a failed piece of proposed legislation that would limit the use of Russian as an official language as a example of the threat that ethnic Russians face in Ukraine. This is only one of multiple perspectives on the ongoing crisis in the Crimea. While by no means am I advocating the Russian perspective as ultimately correct, it is nonetheless important to understand that there are certain aspects of Putin and Russia's position that remain true and, certainly from their perspective at least, just. We in the liberal West tend to automatically denounce any perspective that falls outside our conception of the postCold War order. This post-Cold War order is ending, as other non-Western powers, such as Russia and China, become more powerful. We should therefore attempt to approach the Crimean Crisis and future international dilemmas with a more open-minded perspective, trying to understand the other sides' ideologies. Ben Perlmutter is a College sophomore from Chappaqua, N.Y.

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Medicare: Mugging Young Americans DOO LEE If you thought penis pumps were novelty items found only on the shelf of sex shops, think again. Under Medicare, the federal government’s health insurance program for seniors, penis pumps are covered for beneficiaries whose erectile dysfunction can’t be treated by conventional drugs like Viagra. Yes, Medicare won’t cover dentures or hearing aids, but it will pay for penis pumps. According to a report by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services, between 2006 and 2011, Medicare spent over $172 million on penis pumps for the elderly. Officially referred to on the books as “vacuum erection systems,” the government paid $360 apiece for the scurrilous devices, twice the competitive retail market price. The story sheds light on the unmitigated largesse of the federal Medicare system. Over the last few decades, Medicare’s original intentions have been grossly distorted to justify its reckless expansion. When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965, he based the program’s passage on the benign principle that in the United States, no one should go broke because of illness or old age. At the law’s signing ceremony, he summarized, “No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine. No longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime ... No longer will young families see their own incomes ... eaten away simply because they are carrying out their deep moral obligations to their parents ... And no longer will this nation refuse the hand of justice to those who have given a lifetime of service ... to the progress of this progressive country.” Medicare was meant to be a sensible health insurance scheme for the elderly, a security against financial ruin by illness or old age.

But now, it has swollen into an entitlement trap that is unfairly robbing our generation. Its finances have simply become unsustainable. Programs like Medicare are only selfsustaining if cash outflows can be matched by monetary inflows. As more and more beneficiaries are added and as less and less people are able to pay into the system, demand outstrips supply; the liabilities exceed the assets. Medicare will soon become an inverted pyramid scheme. In 1965, when the program was first created, there were six working people for every retired senior. Today, there are only four working people for every retired senior, and the ratio will soon be even lower. Every day, 10,000 seniors are added into Medicare’s payroll. The looming retirement of millions of Baby Boomers will only put further stress on Medicare’s creaking finances. The confusing fact about Medicare is that different parts of Medicare are going broke at different times, which is part of the reason why the debate over the program has been so complex and polarized. Medicare is made up of four separate parts. Medicare Part A covers hospital insurance; Part B covers medical insurance for physician’s fees, medical devices and the like; Part C includes Medicare Advantage, which includes private insurance plans, and Part D covers prescription drug plans. Of these, Part A is most at risk of bankruptcy. By 2026, the trust fund for hospital care will go broke, and not long after, the other three will follow as Medicare funds become depleted. The devils are in the details, but the unmistakable take away is that, if current projections continue, Medicare will not be there for those Americans currently in their 20s and 30s. There are over $34 trillion of unfunded Medicare liabilities. That is the equivalent of 40 Iraq wars! For the government to meet this guarantee, it will need to either tax the next generation into oblivion or face the sort of austerity seen in Greece, with steep and sudden slash in government spending that

will instantaneously spike unemployment and trigger a major recession. Political hard-liners who protect Medicare’s status quo argue that current seniors have paid into the Medicare system all their lives and that what they are collecting now is simply their due, but the truth is that the average Medicare beneficiary now collects $3 to $4 dollars for every one dollar he or she has paid into it. The difference has been made up by borrowing money from foreign countries and Generations Y and Z who will need to pay dramatically higher taxes. Not only is our current system of health care entitlements unaffordable, but they hurt the very individuals who are taking the first steps into adult life. It is generational wealth redistribution, taking away from the young and unborn to gratify the old and aging. The writing on the wall is clear: to save Medicare for all, we must reform it. There are no pain-free remedies. Benefits will need to be dialed down, and the retirement age will need to be raised, but the faster we implement change, the more gradual and less painful the reforms will be. Vice President Hubert Humphrey once said, “the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” I, like most people, believe that we have a duty to our seniors as well as our children. I believe that the end of our life is just as important and deserving of dignity and happiness as the beginning of life. To live up to that promise, America must embrace the sober reality that if left unchecked, Medicare will not only bankrupt itself, but a whole generation of Americans. Congress and the President must act now. If there is a time when political courage needed to trump political careerism, it is now and it is with Medicare. Doo Lee is a College sophomore from Suwanee, Ga.

The True Value of Fiction is the Aesthetic Experience DANIEL HANFELT While I admire the enthusiasm for reading fiction found in an editorial published on March 20, 2014 by College senior Ross Fogg, there are some points made about the “why?” of reading fiction that are questionable and disturbing. Why read fiction? The day we can provide a practical and specific answer to this question is the day fiction’s power dies. The solitary act of reading fiction is useless for dayto-day social utility and political action: and it is all the better, all the more worthwhile, all the more profound and life-changing for its uselessness in these areas. Subjugating literary fiction to Dale Carnegie-esque selfhelp and leftist anti-establishment polemic is myopic and stupid, and if this attitude is adopted among our generation, we will have dealt literature its death-blow. Certainly there are a myriad of positive attributes to be gained from reading fiction, as well as a myriad of skills required to read fiction. However, these positive attributes and requisite skills, even if empirically provable, should not be answers to the question of why we should read. It is a fallacy to presume that if one reads a book and it produces a kind of effect, then every book should be read for the purpose of obtaining that effect. Authors of fiction write, thankfully, for different reasons other than to increase their readers’ emotional intelligence or to advocate political causes. Each one of those skills and positive attributes, taken separately, is better accomplished through other means. It’s no difficult feat to imagine a thousand

different and better ways of increasing social awareness, political change and emotional intelligence than reading fiction. One can immerse oneself in new and varied, real social situations, for instance, or advocate political change, or read factual nonfiction works on social and political situations. Literary critic Harold Bloom in his book How To Read And Why, agreeing with the positions of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Francis Bacon and Samuel Johnson, asserts that he is “wary of any arguments whatsoever that connect the pleasures of solitary reading to the public good.” Additionally, for every specific attribute we attempt to associate with reading, there is somewhere a great work, well worth reading, in which the desired attribute is not to be found. Besides, even if our ultimate goal is to aggrandize emotional intelligence, empathy or social change from literary fiction, when we adopt these goals as we read, we paradoxically cannot even reap these things from fiction as effectively. We remain mired in assumption or selfishness, unwilling to be imaginative and enter into a world not of our own creation. We get from books what we put into them, and when we lead our minds into the pages of a book with the sole expectation and goal of gleaning a sense of community or challenging the status quo or applying an author’s political perspective, we have severely reduced the actual power and purpose of fiction When we approach fiction with these things instead of an all-encompassing pleasure and imagination, we fail to reap fiction’s best rewards. Virginia Woolf writes in her

essay “How Should One Read a Book?” that “we must not squander our powers [of reading], helplessly and ignorantly ... [we] say that ... we should separate [books] and take from each [book] what it is right that each should give us ... yet few people ask from books what books can give us.” What can books give us? What is the power and purpose of fiction? One thing is at least certain: we are allotted immense freedom and imagination with fiction-reading, too much to constrict ourselves with specific reasons. Reading fiction should above all be pleasurable: we should not be driven to read reluctantly, as a puritanical joyless mechanism for the sake of improving ourselves and our societies. What is literary fiction if not decided by the production of empathy, the diversity of a viewpoint or the destruction and replacement of sociopolitical narratives. When fiction is held to these narrow and transient standards the results are ludicrous. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s hilarious parody of this nearsighted literary criticism in his novel Bend Sinister, whose Professor Hamm has discovered the so-called “The Real Plot of Hamlet”, where, “The author of Hamlet has created the tragedy of the masses and thus has founded the sovereignty of society over the individual ... the real hero is of course Fortinbras,” unfortunately rings all too familiar. Writers and readers of literary fiction should not be confronted with the clamoring criticism of social justice activists or pursuers of a mystic human “oneness” but instead with, as Woolf again so eloquently puts it, “another kind of criticism, the opinion of people read-

ing for the love of reading.” How can reading be loved? Art can be loved, and fiction, to put it simply, is art. Social condition, political theory, philosophical inquiry are all reasons, themes and motivations used to create art, from Middle English writer Will Langland to 20th century novelist David Foster Wallace, medieval Italian poet Boccaccio to contemporary poet Tao Lin. But we err when we take these influences and torture them into evaluations. We err when we look at the social conditions behind art and evaluate art based on them. We err unforgivably when we evaluate art based on what is politically useful rather than what is artistically worthy. Art is more. Art is a transcendent pleasure, a kind of pleasure we barely even come close to capturing with our word for it: sublimity. Ancient Greek literary critic Longinus famously describes sublimity as “grandeur [that] produces ecstasy ... the combination of wonder and astonishment” that “exert(s) invincible power and force and get(s) the better of the hearer ... tears everything up like a whirlwind.” Ancient Greek philosopher Plato reaches to describe it as well when ancient Greek philosopher Socrates speaks in Phaedrus of “manic art” bestowed by the Muses: “madness, which comes from god” that “takes hold upon a gentle and pure soul, arouses it and inspires it to songs and other poetry.” Sublimity is the irrational and inexpressible awe we feel, of something so beyond yet so in tune within us. When gazing at a mountain for example, or at the stars above in the night sky, when looking at a painting, or when

being absorbed into a novel. Sublimity does not come close to providing a specific and practical answer for why we should read fiction, nor should it. But sublimity as Longinus writes “contains much food for reflection, is difficult or rather impossible to resist and makes a strong and ineffaceable impression on the memory.” This is something worth reading (and writing) fiction for. It’s why I, and many I know, read, and it’s something anyone can get behind and yearn for. Great fiction in its artistic value and sublimity transcends the capricious and ephemeral notions of what is politically correct, what requires social change, whether we should be community-driven or selfish. This is exactly why the greatest fictional works strike with such brilliant lightning our hearts and our societies — their beauty and sublimity make up their social value, not the other way around. Sublimity’s is the great pleasure of the beyond, the boundless wonder and joy of being immersed in worlds wrought by the pen of an author; even one a thousand miles or years away, transcends even what is human and how we should live. It is high time to consider that maybe we are not really brought closer together with the latest movement for social change, a current reactionary devotion to abstract “community” or navel-gazing about the human condition. Perhaps what brings us closest together as humans, from the earliest Neanderthal to the modern fiction reader, is our shared awe and wonder of the stars above us. Daniel Hanfelt is a Oxford College freshman from Tucker, Ga.

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“Presidents may come, presidents may go; professors may come, professors may go; students may come, students may go; but Dooley lives forever!” This decree marks the end of any proclamation made by Dooley, the effervescent and omnipresent biology lab skeleton that serves as the Spirit of Emory and our unofficial mascot. Dooley, The Lord of Misrule, came to life in October 1899 in the Phoenix, Emory’s monthly literary journal at the time. His essay “Reflections of the Skeleton” is both biographical (Dooley hails from New York) and philosophical (he questions his purpose in the world). In 1909, Dooley appeared again in the Phoenix with “Dooley’s Letter –By Way of Introduction” that clarifies he is a “son of a wealthy Virginia planter” who developed an addiction to alcohol and had his skeleton preserved for medical instruction, eventually ending up in Emory’s care. Dooley’s next big moment came in 1941, when the allowance of dancing on campus led to the first “Dooley’s Frolics,” which has continued to this day as “Dooley’s Week.” As the legend of Dooley grew, so did his antics. At the beginning of his weeklong celebrations, Dooley has appeared on campus in every dramatic way imaginable, from helicoptering into the Quadrangle to rising from his own grave. Taking the first name and middle initial of the current president of the University, Dooley offers a playful reminder that he is indeed larger than life. Dooley’s website spells out his illustrious accomplishments over his lifetime, including holding a JD, PhD, MBA and an MPH, among other degrees. Yet Dooley is most known for visiting classes during Dooley’s Week and letting them out, speaking his decrees from beyond the grave by way of his black-clad bodyguards. At the end of Dooley’s Week, Emory’s campus echoes with the same affirmation, paying homage to a skeleton from humble beginnings that has come to embody the spirit of a University that cannot be tamed: Presidents may come, presidents may go; professors may come, professors may go; students may come, students may go; but Dooley lives forever! As the Spirit of Emory, Dooley transcends time to serve as a manifestation of Emory’s past, present and future.

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Exploring Gender, Values Through Language

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By Emily Li Arts Beat Writer “Who says that only girls can get jealous? Guys get jealous too!” The enthusiasm and sense of humor of Marjorie K.M. Chan, a professor of Chinese at The Ohio State University, added an extra spark to her ambitious lecture last Thursday, a program titled “Gender, Society and the Chinese Language” under the Chinese Language, Culture and Society lecture series. Even as a student that has taken courses in Gender Studies, Linguistics and Chinese, I still wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the lecture, or honestly even what language the lecture would be given in at all. The moderately-sized classroom began to fill quickly as Chan prepared to give her lecture. It was soon evident that extra chairs were needed to accommodate more students. Though unsurprisingly the space was dominated by Asian students, it was gratifying to see the number of students from other cultures that attended. Chan was introduced as the Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies and Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics at The Ohio State University — clearly an expert on the subject. However, she also engaged students from the start with her smiling, cheerful demeanor and fashion sense, effortlessly rocking a patterned scarf, flowing maxi skirt and round glasses. The lecture’s abstract explained that the program would examine the “sociolinguistic as well as pragmatic issues” in gender and language use in Chinese society, with Chan focusing on “gendered voices, gender differences in communication style and gender-linked variation in the use of sentence-final particles.” However, due to the interdisciplinary implications of the lecture, it came as no surprise that Chan ended up covering a wide variety of topics. The subject matter ranged from her planned notes to Cantonese vernacular internet slang, how individuals with certain

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Chance the Rapper, born Chancelor Bennett, will perform at Emory this Saturday evening for the final night of Dooley’s Week 2014.

A Crash Course in Chance By Saher Fatteh Contributing Writer Born and raised in Chicago, Chancelor Bennett always knew he was destined to rap. But the man now known as Chance The Rapper had an unusual start to his career. His career began while under suspension from his high school for smoking weed off campus when he created his first mixtape 10 Day. The mixtape gave the world a small glimpse into Chance’s storytelling abilities and his unique voice. After 10 Day, it wasn’t only Chance’s schoolmates who were interested in learning more about this high school kid from South Side Chicago. Released in 2012, the mixtape was Chance’s big break, gaining the atten-

tion of Forbes magazine and artists like Childish Gambino. Attention for the tape would lead him to go on to tour and collaborate with Childish Gambino as well as work with Hoodie Allen and Joey Badass. His career would only progress from there. Early in 2013, he released his second mixtape Acid Rap, which features guest appearances from Action Bronson, Childish Gambino and BJ the Chicago Kid. Best listened to all at once, Acid Rap takes you on a smooth musical journey through the intricate mind of Chance. From imagining Jesus’ Twitter count on “Everybody’s Something” to arguing about the crime rate in Chicago, Chance tells a story that deals with serious topics in a way that’s remarkably pleasing to the ear.

He explains that for most of his sessions, he takes LSD beforehand in order to open his mind to ask more questions. Chance once explained to an interviewer, “It’s less of a mind altering drug to me ... it just frees you and allows you to think outside of what you would normally write about or listen to or how you would evaluate a song that you were making.” Acid Rap would go on to gain the attention of Lil Wayne and Big Boi and give him the opportunity to tour with Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. As a child, Chance always had a desire to perform in front of others. He began his live performances as a teenager at YOUmedia, a youth

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Can an indie breakout band catapulted to fame by a 2010 smash hit survive in today’s market, saturated by new artists and fan favorites? We’re about to find out with the release of Foster the People’s newest album Supermodel, which came out on March 18 after a nearly fivemonth delay. The band uses the same formula as was used on their 2011 debut Torches to create a mediocre sophomore effort with colorful yet disjointed songs and weak, uninspired lyrics. It’s not bad music, but with the indie pop genre continually expanding and changing with the times, this album just can’t stand up to other recent albums. Do you remember the first time you heard Foster the People’s breakthrough indie-to-pop smash hit “Pumped Up Kicks”? I do. I recall driving down the highway with my windows down and the radio blasting when I first heard that undeniably catchy tune. I remember how happy and carefree the song made me feel. Just a couple of weeks later, I looked up the lyrics to the song and learned its true meaning: a story about a high school shooting. How can a song that sounds so exuberant have such morbid subject matter? To answer this question, we can look to the background of the band’s founder. Before forming Foster the People in 2009, Mark Foster (vocals, multiinstrumentalist) was a struggling jingle writer in L.A. At the time, Foster was working on marketing

Foster the People Supermodel toothpastes and cereals and yearned to tackle topics of far greater weight. However, this job certainly helped to shape Foster’s musical style and explains why he writes such catchy tunes that everyone ends up humming in the shower — even when the lyrics hold grave messages. The band’s sound on Supermodel is glossy and blissful, mixing various genres together into a bowl of euphoric pop. The album is filled with the same chart-friendly indie pop featured on their debut album with the exception of a few tracks that stray from the formula with mixed success. As one reviewer at SPIN put it, “It’s hard to think outside a box you built yourself.” The album opener, “Are You What You Want To Be?” has a spacey

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FILM REVIEW

Blood, Lust, Entertainment in ‘300’ By Malika Gumpangkum Contributing Writer This particular red parade of machismo-mania and gore is not for the scholars and purists of history. “300: Rise of an Empire” a sensationalist’s massacre of historical facts that depicts Greek culture as a cesspool of such acute homophobia that can only be read as homoerotic. Such is the tendency of entertainment. But now that we have that disclaimer out of the way, cinema-goers might find “300: Rise of an Empire”

a more satisfying venture than its insta-classic predecessor in its complexity in plot and its richer array of characters and backstories. But the film’s greatest achievement is the crafting of its utterly kick-ass villainess. Directed by Noam Murro (“Smart People”) with a script by Zack Snyder (“Man of Steel,” “300”) adapted from the original graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City), “300: Rise of an Empire” takes place simultaneously, before and immediately after the events of “300.” Inspired by the true events of the

300: Rise of an Empire Now Playing Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green

Battle of Salamis, the story follows the legacy of Athenian naval general Themistocles (played by Sullivan Stapleton, “Gangster Squad”). As

the canonical 300 Spartans face a “beautiful death” at Thermopylae, Themistocles strives to unite all of Greece for a definitive fight against the invading Persian Empire. The Father of Democracy meets his match in Artemisia, the leader of Persia’s navy. Artemisia just so happens to be a woman, played by indomitable femme fatale Eva Green (“Casino Royale”). What results is a series of epic battles on the Mediterranean Sea that end in Greece’s united triumph against the Persian Empire. This new film retains the iconic

burnt sienna color palette of its predecessor; the crimson scarves of the Spartans are replaced with the rich cerulean blue capes of the Athenians, while maintaining the luxurious and demonizing hues of black, bronze and gold leaf on the Persian adversaries. The battle sequences do not disappoint, magically utilizing the brilliant potentialities of the churning, stormy sea as battleground. In one critical battle, Artemisia astutely employs elements seemingly

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MUSIC PERFORMANCE

CULTURAL EVENT

Barnatan, Weilerstein Duet With Ease

MSA Celebrates Twenty Years

By Samuel Budnyk Contributing Writer Bringing an invigorating close to this year’s Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series, pianist Inon Barnatan, the New York Philharmonic Artistin-Association and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, and cellist Alisa Weilerstein, a 2011 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow, performed at Emory Friday night. Billed as a “dynamic classical duo” on a March 3 press release by the Schwartz Center, I entered the Schwartz Center’s Emerson Concert Hall with great curiosity. My exposure to Barnatan had consisted exclusively of his recordings of solo piano works, leaving me interested to see how he would function in an accompanying role. Conversely, my experience with Weilerstein is a single recording of her rendition of the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. So basically, I had never heard either musician in such an intimate — but not solo — setting. Ultimately, I left the performance with a smile on my face and a desire to rush to my dorm room to download some new-to-me pieces. Upon entering the Emerson Concert Hall, I was greeted with a full house. After squeezing past a number of fellow music lovers, my concert-mate and I sat down at our chairs and flipped open our programs to see what was in store for us. The program read like a graduate student’s doctoral program recital in its diversity, featuring pieces from the early Romantic era through the present. As the concert hall lights dimmed, I set my program down and

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Pianist Inon Barnatan and cellist Alisa Weilerstein performed a duet concert this past Friday at the Schwartz Center, the final concert of 2013-2014 Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series. faced the stage, ready to hear this exciting programming put into play. As Barnatan, dressed in a slimcut coat-and-tie, and Weilerstein, dressed in a colorful gown with her 1790 William Forster violoncello in tow, stepped onto the stage, I was almost immediately struck by their apparent youthfulness and vitality. Barnatan took his seat at the piano and Weilerstein sat just in front of the piano, on the edge of the stage, and

they began to play. The evening’s first work, Claude Debussy’s “Sonata for Cello and Piano,” served as an exciting start. This sonata has always been a fairly progressive work: the cellist must utilize many forms of extended technique — left-hand pizzicato, false harmonics and various bowing techniques — in the context of a threemovement sonata, as opposed to the traditional form featuring four

movements. Unlike Debussy’s more famous works such as “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” the sonata is more diverse harmonically and features some particularly modern moments, particularly in the work’s attacca (or no-pause-between) last two movements. These aspects of the piece’s performance paid off: I enjoyed the work, hearing the piece

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Art, comedy and a definite sense of community pride were in full supply at the Muslim Student Association’s (MSA) 11th Annual Art Gala this past Sunday. Held in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of MSA’s launch, the Art Gala offered dinner, performances and all forms of artwork. MSA welcomed two guests of honor: visual artist Faraz Khan and comedian Dean Obeidallah. Each guest gave a presentation on their respective forms of art. Both Khan and Obeidallah discussed how their art influences and has been influenced by Islamic culture. The event also honored Susan Henry-Crowe, who served as Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life for 20 years before leaving her post in 2013. She ultimately watched MSA begin, develop and find its role in today’s Emory community. The gala took place downtown at The Biltmore Ballrooms, a swanky location perfect for this celebration of identity and culture. The lobby held works by local artists, and the main ballroom hosted the program and boasted chandeliers, elaborate architecture and tables decorated to the nines with blue cloths and rose petals. By the time the evening’s program began, the room was nearly packed. The president and vice president

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of MSA, College seniors Zeeshan Anwar and Maydda Qureshi, opened the program with a big “thank you” to the audience and a brief history of MSA. They explained that the purpose of the Art Gala is to demonstrate the oft-overlooked connections between art and Islam. Today, the Art Gala is MSA’s biggest event of the year, and Anwar noted that this event was among the biggest Art Galas he’d seen. As Qureshi put it, “Tonight is a testament to how far we’ve come over the past 20 years.” And after a video introduction to the MSA board members, the show was officially on. The first presentation of the evening was from Khan, a New Jerseybased artist who serves on the Arts Council of Princeton and spent time studying in Damascus, Syria.

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Barnatan, Weilerstein Show Their Ranges Continued from Page 9 in person for the first time. The second work, Franz Schubert’s “Fantasia in C Major for piano and violin, D.934, Op. posth. 159,” represented the appearance of the more-widely digestible Romantic era. The six-movement work, originally written for piano and violin, was tuneful and playful at times, but rich and challenging at others. Barnatan and Weilerstein showcased some of their best interplay during this piece, at parts utilizing a healthy touch of rubato, or a slight relaxation of the strictness of the tempo. The pair was perfectly in-sync, responding to one another with fluid ease, and provided a tease for what was in store after the intermission. The audience was ready for more, anxiously lingering in their seats. After intermission, the third work, which featured selections from Lera Auerbach’s “24 Preludes (after Shostakovich 24 Preludes, Op. 34),” pushed a bit further beyond the Debussy in terms of modernity. Both Barnatan and Weilerstein are known as major patrons of contemporary music, and these selections afforded a delightful representation of their desire to explore new music. Auerbach is an acclaimed contemporary composer, having studied at the Juilliard School and receiving numerous awards, including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Paul Hindemith Prize, and this work presented an interesting spin on Shostakovich’s own preludes. With each prelude functioning as a short snippet of independent music, the selections acted almost an album, offering a diverse cross-section of the larger work. Weilerstein was at the top of her game and her nonverbal communication with Barnatan was, as it was during the Schubert, wonderfully seamless. The final piece of the concert, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19” was filled with emotive Russian melodies. It also put Barnaton on equal footing with Weilerstein, as the work heavily features the piano. Expressive and powerful, this sonata was both undeniably my favorite work of the night. The duo’s encore of the third movement (Andante) was one of the most entrancing and intimate moments of the evening. On the whole, this was a performance worth attending. The duo’s emotional musicality and technical virtuosity came together to make for a spectacular concert. Barnatan and Weilerstein ended the 2013-2014 Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series on a bright and tuneful high note.

— Contact Samuel Budnyk at samuel.ross.budnyk@emory.edu

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Chicagoan Chance Was Always a Performer Continued from Page 9 center in downtown Chicago through the Lyricist Loft, an open mic program for teens geared towards artistic expression through singing, emceeing and spoken word. The opportunity to perform in front of hundreds of kids fostered the growth of his now amazing stage presence. Live performances were key to Chance from the very beginning. To him, this was the ultimate way to connect with the audience. “Any time you’re standing up there in front of a group of people saying shit; whether you’re a politician or a rapper or selling insurance; it’s all relative. It’s all attention. For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There’s nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.” And that is exactly what he has learned to do. Chance embarked on his Social Experiment Tour in Illinois on Oct. 25, 2013. This tour was geared towards kids who were around Chance’s age, i.e. college students. Live performances of a record as psychedelic and varied as Acid Rap can be extremely challenging, but Chance delivered it with ease and control while simultaneously working the crowd and giving them a remarkable performance. Accompanied by an energetic live band, Chance had the crowds on their feet screaming lyrics back at him and had a blast while doing it. In front of his fans, Chance is frenzied and dramatic but simultaneously down to earth. The tour was an immense success, with Chance displaying a complete command over the stage and delivering an immensely entertaining set. Still, perhaps what is most interesting about Chance is the fact that he

A Conversation With Gordon Green On Directing, Producing, His Future Plans Continued from Page 1

Our favorite Chance songs

Saher (A&E Writer) Favorite Song (feat. Childish Gambino) Nostalgia NaNa (feat. Action Bronson) Juice Lost (feat. Noname Gypsy)

Ryan (Sports Editor) Chain Smoker Smoke Again (feat. Ab-Soul) Prom Night

Priyanka (Editor in Chief) Good Ass Intro Good Ass Outro

Rhett (Editorials Editor) The one with the sick beat can probably choose to sign to any label he wants but has no desire to do so. His view of the music industry and his purpose for making his music makes him even more likeable. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, he explained that he has not signed with a label because “there’s no reason to. It’s a dead industry.” He went on to elaborate, “The whole point of Acid Rap was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it’s all original music and it’s got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape?” His view that his music can translate his ideas and views while simultaneously causing his fans to question things around them is what makes critics and fans think that this is just the beginning for him.

— Contact Saher Fatteh at saher.fatteh@emory.edu

turned a pastime into a career, which is the coolest thing you can do. It’s also kind of confusing sometimes because I don’t know how to take a vacation. If I have a few days off, I’m thinking about the next films I’m going to do, which isn’t much of a vacation. In 2013, you directed both “Prince Avalanche” and “Joe.” What was it like directing two feature films in that short span of time? It’s fun. There’s a lot of directors whose instincts are in perfection, but my processes are drawn more to the efforts of momentum, uncertainty and exploration. Just trying things. Not that we don’t have a massive amount of preparation for our projects, but there’s a lived-in, breezy quality to what we do because it’s loose and less stressful. We don’t necessarily have a concept of what we’re doing before we do it. We have a blueprint architecture for something that we want to accomplish, vaguely. We just try this, try that, improve through it and always have the script to fall back on if we need it, but for the most part, it’s just trying to find a fresh way to look at a story. Paul Rudd is a great comedic actor. Emile Hirsch is a great dramatic actor. What was it like putting them together? In a lot of ways, flipping the stereotypes, it was fun seeing a comedic side of Emile come out, or a more dramatic side of Paul. I was trying to engineer a movie that had two of my friends that I could trust who would be down for a nitty-gritty movie like this. I had to narrow down the actors who would be up for a movie like this. The idea of a Paul Rudd and

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Tye Sheridan and Nicolas Cage star in “Joe,” the latest effort from director-producer David Gordon Green. Emile Hirsch movie made me laugh, because they would just never be in a movie together. We had no idea what the chemistry would be like, but we just did it. It was pretty clear from the first read through that we knew it was going to be a very funny dynamic, and it’s very similar off-screen as it was on-screen, which was very entertaining for me. Television has acquired both narrative complexity and a cinematic aesthetic over the past few years. Do you foresee yourself directing and producing more in television? I’ve done four seasons of “Eastbound & Down,” and I plan on doing a TV pilot and a show for HBO next year. We’ve got a lot of exciting things in development. Television has taken on a cinematic quality of excellence that it used to not have. But now it’s at a point of genuine substance, and the acclaim it’s getting and the viewership it’s getting is really deserved. It’s taken a bite out of the movie

Chan Calls For Further Research of Language Continued from Page 9 relationships interact and a shift to a more international dialect in Beijing. All of this came off with an impeccable sense of humor and irresistible charm. One of the focuses of the lecture included pointing out marked features of gender-influenced communication styles, whether it was between women and men, men and men or women and women. For example, Chan discussed the notion of rhotacization in Beijing being associated with males, which refers to an increased use of “r” in speech. Others included lenition (softening of consonants) and interdentals (placing the tip of the tongue between the upper and lower front teeth), which are stigmatized as they are interestingly associated with who Chan called “gangster dudes.” One of the most eye-opening charts Chan pulled up outlined the

many Chinese characters with negative connotations. The words for “shrew,” “someone of loose morals” and a “son of a b---h” all contain the same female character. As College freshman Wendy Ye said, “I didn’t know how Chinese characters could be so gender-biased. I think it tells a lot about Chinese culture.” However, College freshman Cathy Tang said, “There’s this stigma that the Chinese culture is deeply rooted in patriarchy and sexism, especially in comparison to the American culture, but when looking at the language, it’s pretty surreal to see how the gendered phrases in Chinese mirror those of gendered phrases in the English language.” In that way, it’s important that we apply the ideas of Chan’s lecture not only to cultural and linguistic implications in China but also how they apply to English and gender-biased swear words associated with females. A major point Chan discussed was

the pronunciation of [w] versus [v] in Chinese, and how [v] was associated more with females, perhaps because the higher acoustic frequency suggested daintiness or softness. She also went beyond the mere logistics of pronunciation and talked about the cultural implications of these largely subconscious choices we make every day in language, and how some broadcast news networks in China have trained their female reporters to use the [v] pronunciation. Chan ended on a note that she’d been stressing throughout the entire lecture: despite promising results from more than 20 years of research and study, the defining problem in the field as of right now is the lack of research to build on. She mentioned the difficulty of teaching courses and finding relevant material for the syllabus. This demonstrates the work that we have to do going forward in the field and how much research has yet to be done,

despite Chan’s conclusions. College freshman Ujwal Rai said, “I’m really interested in seeing where this research ends up going.” Though the average Emory student might think that this lecture doesn’t apply to their daily lives, I’d argue it has everything to do with the way we communicate with each other, consciously and subconsciously. As Tang said, “The lecture served as a reminder to me that gendered spaces and languages are the norm, and that even the most innocent of messages often carry a significant ‘gendered’ meaning.” Simply by paying more attention to the way we use words and in what context, we can bring more awareness to gender and language issues going forward. It is only through awareness and thoughtfulness in communication that we can bring more attention to gender and language issues moving forward.

— Contact Emily Li at emily.li@emory.edu

‘Supermodel’ Proves Enjoyable But Lackluster Continued from Page 9 Moroccan feel with Afrobeat-infused verses and arena-ready power choruses. The heavy piano chords and rhythmic vocals work well and serve as a predictable (albeit fun) way to start. Supermodel’s first dud is “Ask Yourself,” a shapeless, derivative track with lyrics that could be mistaken for sad amateur poetry on paper (Foster sings: “I’ve tried to live like the way that you wanted me to / Never needed the proof, just followed the rules”). But thankfully, the abbreviated chords, syncopated claps and reverberated synths of the single “Coming of Age” follow and give the listener a much needed boost. The song still feels somewhat expected, but relative to other tracks on the album, its old-school vibes (nods to Fitz and the Tantrums) and gleeful simplicity make it a highlight. Similarly, “Best Friend” has a ‘70s disco-funk vibe and just enough dance floor swagger to be one of this summer’s radio jams. The few times that Foster the People does, in fact, stray from their predictable path leads to varied success. On “Nevermind” and “Goats in Trees,” Foster’s lyrics fall short over the bare, acoustic tone, hindering the listener from being fully immersed in the songs. However, on a later track entitled “Fire Escape,” elusive metaphor and stripped down guitar allow for a stand-out track. Foster croons, “I am a fire escape, my spine’s made of iron, my heart pumps that old red paint.” The stark contrast between the level of maturity and sincerity in this song relative to others is astounding. It is clear that at least in this case, deviating from the norm paid off for

Foster. Another evident highlight is “Pseudologia Fantastica,” a twirling psychedelic cut with ambient vocals and galactic synth textures. The song is weird, and I mean that in the best way possible. It is filled with interesting twists, a meaningful message about a war veteran returning home and just enough static feedback to entice fans of MGMT and other more predominantly electronic artists. The last song I’d like to mention is the shortest on the album, but to me, the most effective. “The Angelic Welcome of Mr. Jones” lasts just 33 seconds, but its beautiful cascading harmonies a la Fleet Foxes and Local Natives leave me yearning for more. I am glad that the band included this track and hope they continue to explore alternative styles going forward. Overall, Supermodel is a vibrant, supersaturated collection of predictable pop songs with some real flaws and a few pleasant surprises. Foster the People makes a formidable effort, but the result is just marginally meeting expectations. As bands continue to blur the lines between genres, it becomes increasingly difficult for bands to differentiate themselves and create memorable albums. Tracks from Supermodel will surely make their way onto Top 40 and alternative radio in the coming months, making for fun, easy listening for beautiful weather and happy times, but come the end of summer and facing of hundreds of other indie pop releases, Supermodel will be forgotten.

— Contact Jason Charles at jason.charles@emory.edu

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Warner Brothers’ new release “300: Rise of an Empire” exists in the same world as 2006’s “300.” Both films are loosely inspired by historic Spartan battles.

Green Captivates, Men Fall Flat in ‘300’ Continued from Page 9 incompatible with naval warfare: fire and oil. Launching a single flaming arrow upon a suicide bomber depravedly planted in a sea of oil, she lays waste to a devastating number of Themistocles’s vessels without straining a single muscle. This also leads me to my next point: the men in this film are all a bit sorry. The fact of the matter is that the male performances in this film fall comparatively flat to the work of the two female actresses. The miscast Stapleton flimsily delivers his bored, uninspired speeches penned by admittedly weak writers. In fact, the film is mottled with far too many cringe-worthy, pseudo-archaic exchanges between the brothers-inarms that they all start to fester into one general expression about duty to Mother Greece and freedom. “We chose to die on our feet,

rather than live on our knees,” he announces. Fantastic! Now can we fast-forward to the bits with Green? Her acting is what really owns the screen. While Stapleton ably performs stunts and flaunts the necessary Adonis build, he simply fails to convincingly command the respect and loyalty of his awkward men as well as the loyalty of audiences. Green is the one to watch in this film as she dominates the screen with her deadly concoction of skillful violence and sexuality; in one scene, Green decapitates an Athenian soldier and kisses the cold lips of his severed head. With a character backstory of unspeakable tragedy and furious comeuppance, Green will have you wanting to die for her on the battlefield. Her gothic rage and cold manipulations of the Persian god-king Xerxes will have you bemoaning the facts of history — her infidelity to the

story’s “good guys” creates an interesting and delicious feast of tension. But this is not completely out of fashion; the figure of Artemisia is merely the latest in a contemporary resurgence of “bad” women with whom audiences seem to fall utterly in love.And yes — Artemisia was a real historical figure and was indeed a female Persian naval commander. That she slashed men down like a dancing dervish of death, all the while clad in awesome black leather armor adorned with golden dinosaur vertebra is a bit doubtful. Is she worth spending an hour and a half film to get to know? Maybe not. But the level of sensationalism and stylistic fun accounts for much of the appeal in watching “300: Rise of an Empire.” Save your desire for intellectualism for another film and give in to the blood lust. — Contact Malika Gumpangkum at

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business, but it’s fun, lucrative and you can explore more complicated themes that don’t necessarily have to be so high-concept or star-driven; they don’t have to be dependent on the opening weekend box office. They can live and breathe, and people can think about them. They can infiltrate culture for a little bit before somebody tags them as a success or failure. Is there any genre that you want to tap into? I want to do horror. I want to do a classy, elegant horror movie. Like a Polanski movie, or something that has an artistic ambition to it. Or “The Shining,” which scares the crap out of people generation after generation because they’re made with substance. Read our full interview with David Gordon Green at emorywheel.com.

— Contact Casey Horowitz at cdhorow@emory.edu

Gala Celebrates Art, Culture, Community Continued from Page 9 Khan recalled that in immigrant families like his, there was a strong “focus on engineering, medical senses, becoming a doctor, becoming a lawyer ... but there was no emphasis on creative ideas.” For the main part of his program, Khan showcased some of his favorite artistic creations. He explained a work of art that was designed to look like lines from an electrocardiogram (EKG) scan but formed in the shape of the Arabic character for Allah. “It’s the heart of a believer,” Khan said. Next up was Obeidallah, a halfItalian, half-Palestinian stand-up comedian who has been featured on CNN and Comedy Central and recently released his docu-comedy “The Muslims Are Coming.” “For the record, I’m originally from New Jersey,” Obeidallah said. “And let me tell you, dispelling myths about Muslims is easier than dispelling myths about New Jersey.” Obeidallah’s routine went on to poke fun at the discrimination that Muslims face on a daily basis, including jokes about how he lays low at the airport and the “horrible possibility” that Obama might be a Muslim. The room was filled with laughter for the entirety of his routine, as the hilarious but painfully striking jokes rang all too true. At the end of the act, Obeidallah got to the crux of the theme he’d been hinting at for the past half hour: getting involved in art is how people can make their voices heard. He called the room to action to “fight against Muslim being a pejorative word.” Before the evening was over, guests enjoyed a buffet dinner and a cake dessert. As they ate, students also got the chance to go up onstage and present their own works of art. Only a couple took advantage of the opportunity, but those who did made the best of their time, offering their own forays into slam poetry and comedy. In its entirety, the MSA Art Gala presented a way for the Muslim community of Emory to honor its culture. Religion is often kept under wraps, but cultural events like the MSA Gala can give individuals a chance to explore cultural identities. “Bringing art and religion and culture together is such a strength of this group, in a way that I don’t think any other group does,” HenryCrowe said. “It’s a claiming of their identities.”

— Contact Emelia Fredlick at emelia.j.fredlick@emory.edu

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SPORTS

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at Berry College 6 p.m. Mount Berry, Ga.

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The heart of this star-crossed voyager beats in time with yours.

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at BSC 5 & 7 p.m. Birmingham, Ala. vs. Georgia Gwinnett College 2 p.m. WoodPEC

vs. Johns Hopkins 9 a.m. WoodPEC vs. Johns Hopkins 12 p.m. WoodPEC VertKlasse Meeting High Point, N.C. & Wofford Relays Spartanburg, S.C.

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Junior Gui Silva sprints to the finish line. He finished first in the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.41 seconds at the Emory Classic last weekend.

Men, Women Finish First and Second in Emory Invitational

VertKlasse Meeting High Point, N.C. & Wofford Relays Spartanburg, S.C.

Hansen Shuts Out Panthers Six Innings, Eagles Win Game Three Continued from the Back Page test and won in the 10th inning. In the second game on Sunday, Emory won 4-2 over BirminghamSouthern. The second game demonstrated better play from the pitchers, as Emory freshman Hans Hansen improved to 6-1 this season with eight full innings of hard work. Hansen limited the opponents to two runs on six hits, striking out four and walking one. He simultaneously lowered his season ERA to 2.94. Hannon and Peacock both registered RBI hits off of BirminghamSouthern, breaking a scoreless tie in the third inning. With a 2-0 lead, Hansen continued to shutout the opponents through the next six innings until Peacock scored on a balk in the bottom of the sixth, bringing Emory to 3-0. The Panthers scored twice, once

in the seventh and once in the eighth, but the Eagles took advantage of a scoring error and a groundout by senior Ben Hinojosa to maintain their lead. Maldari led the team with a threefor-four performance at the plate, raising his average to .378. Sophomore Jack Karras contributed one-for-two with a pair of walks and a run scored. “This was a huge series win for us,” Dillman said. “It shows that we are right up there with the top teams in the nation.” Hannon agreed. “We won two games and outplayed them for all three,” he said. I think if we bring our A game there are very few teams that can beat us.” The Eagles will be back on the diamond on Tuesday, April 1, at 6 pm, playing at Berry College. — Contact Nicola Braginsky at nbragn@emory.edu

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By Shawn Farshchi Staff Writer This past weekend, the men and women’s track teams hosted the Emory Classic, the second meet of the outdoor season. The women’s team placed first among the 13 women’s teams competing and the men’s team placed second among the 14 men’s teams competing. Both teams combined for 13 first-place finishes and 25 top three finishes. The women’s team finished far above the other competing teams, finishing 35 points ahead of AlabamaHuntsville. Coming off a strong finish to the indoor season, junior Electra Korn continued her good form with three first-place finishes. In the 400-meter hurdles, Korn beat her personal record and had the second fastest time in Emory history, with her 1:02:39 just short of the 1:02:23 set by Kahlilah Jennings. Along with Korn, many other Emory runners delivered first-place finishes. Senior Morgan Monroe won the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.77 seconds, junior Elaina Kim won the pole vault by clearing 3.25 meters and senior Emily

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Caesar won the 1500-meter run in 4:46:31. Additionally, Madison Hoeninghausen won the javelin throw with a distance of 33.53 meters, Debora Adjibaba won the 800-meter run with a time of 2:19:45, and the 4x400 meter relay team won with a time of 4:06:88. Overall, the women’s team had a dominating performance. In the Emory Classic, the men’s team performed well, but it was not enough for them to place first amongst the men’s teams. The men’s team finished with 166 points, 15.5 points shy of AlabamaHuntsville. Junior Gui Silva finished first in the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.41 seconds. Sophomore Adam Rabushka won the 110-meter hurdles in 15.44 seconds, while junior Ankush Mohile finished second with 15.69 seconds. Junior James Bassen won the javelin throw with a distance of 50.78 meters. The men’s 4x800 relay team, consisting of senior William Matheson, freshman Ian McIsaac and juniors Patrick Crews and Kevin Delaney finished first place in their relay with a time of 7:49:78, the fifth fastest time in school history. While this event is not designed to

have a championship-level intensity, Emory’s track and field team did not take the event lightly. While they did not compete against many of the top NCAA Division III schools, Emory is building their confidence with strong performances from both the men and the women. While both teams had a plethora of first place finishes, many other team members finished in the top three, and most finished in the top seven to ten places in their respective competitions. These early performances showcased both the depth and the excellence of Emory’s top track and field athletes. Coming up, Emory has two meets this weekend, the VertKlasse Meeting at High Point University in North Carolina and the Wofford Relays at Wofford College in South Carolina. As a result of the two conflicting meets, Emory will be splitting both squads in order to represent the University in both events. Both the men’s and women’s teams hope to build their confidence and experience in these two upcoming events. — Contact Shawn Farshchi at sfarshc@emory.edu

We at On Fire have had a very successful year thus far. Disregarding our recent demotion to fifth place in the Wheel’s staff box rankings, we were recently ranked as the section of the Wheel with the best hair, and we won the On Fire Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism back in February. Given these accomplishments, one would naturally assume that a multitude of eager young students, and perhaps even a few mid-career professionals, would inundate our offices with applications for the newly formed On Fire internship. For purposes of confidentiality and shame we will not disclose the total number of applicants for the position. However, we are pleased to announce the hiring of Jenna Kingsley, a sophomore double majoring in Marketing and Creative Writing, as the On Fire intern. “I felt nothing,” Kingsley said, when asked about the emotions that surged through her after she heard about her acceptance. “What is the On Fire internship?” Kingsley possesses all the characteristics that we were looking for in an On Fire intern. She has a resume and a cover letter, and even almost 200 Dooley Dollars left. “Well, I love the word squad,” Kingsley said, when asked what set her apart from all the other applicants for the internship. “Also, I have a very low prescription on my glasses.” However, perhaps the most distinguishing part of Kingsley’s skill set is the fact that she fits perfectly into the sports team’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”-themed nicknames. Bennett is a restless warrior, Ryan a star-crossed voyager, Zak a wideeyed wanderer and Nathaniel a king/ vagabond. But who fits in as the twisting kaleidoscope, the one that moves us all in turn? Clearly, Kingsley does this perfectly. “What’s a kaleidoscope?” Kingsley said, when asked how she felt about her new nickname. “Never mind, just stop bothering me. I’m really close to figuring out 2048.” We are very happy to have Kingsley on the team. Even if she has stopped answering our phone calls.

MEN’S TENNIS

Florida vs. UConn We expect this game to be an all-time classic. Be sure to note where you were when this game takes place, because you are going to want to be able to tell your kids. Expect a four-point shot, a dance-off during half-time and a surprise appearance from Jay-Z. Predicted result: Florida 69-51

Wisconsin vs. Kentucky Honestly, this is a pretty bleak contest. We cannot in good faith courtesy of emory athletics

even recommend watching this game. After all, each team in this match-up represents a state that has three syllables in its name. That is pretty weird. However, the score should be close. Predicted result: Wisconsin 58-57

Florida vs. Wisconsin Well, this is the championship game. Congratulations, you did it, we are proud of all of you. You tried so hard, wanted it so badly and all your dreams came true. Well, not your’s, Wisconsin. You are better at making cheese, but Florida is better at things that matter, like basketball. Predicted result: Florida 63-55

Junior Eric Halpern returns a hit. Over the weekend, the tennis team won 5-4 against both 9th-ranked Kenyon College and 10th-ranked Middlebury College.

Team Beats Ranked Opponents By Michael Scheck Staff Writer The men’s tennis team continued their incredible season by defeating two difficult opponents in No. 9 Kenyon College (Ohio) and No. 10 Middlebury College (Vt.) in an exciting fashion, winning 5-4 in both outings this weekend. The wins are significant, as both Kenyon and Middlebury are ranked nationally. Additionally, this win demonstrates Emory’s competitiveness as they prepare for NCAA postseason run. The Eagles showed lots of pride and should be proud of their performances this weekend, as the team persevered for both wins. Both competitions started out

rough as Kenyon and Middlebury took two out of the three doubles matches. However, the Eagles stepped up their game in singles play, winning four of the six games necessary to come away with the victory. Leading the Eagles was junior Alex Ruderman, who rose to the occasion twice to break the 4-4 deadlocks and seal the victory. While both matches started very close, Ruderman took advantage of the momentum and pulled out a win in both matches. In both matches, Ruderman continued to outplay his adversaries, capturing the second and third sets needed for victory. Head Coach John Browning praised Ruderman’s performance in both outings.

“Each match, Ruderman saved us,” Browning said. “He’s playing with the best players in the country and is staying composed when we need him most.” While Ruderman has had a truly fantastic season to date, other players have also contributed to the Eagles’ success. Players like Rafe Mosetick and Ian Wagner, who won their matches against Kenyon and Middleburry, deserve credit for keeping victory possible. “We need to take things one match at a time so we don’t get ahead of ourselves,” Browning said. The Eagles return to action Wednesday, April 2 against Georgia Gwinnett College. — Contact Michael Scheck at michael.scheck@emory.edu

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Sports Editors: Bennett Ostdiek (bostdie@emory.edu) and Ryan Smith (ryan.smith@emory.edu)

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Featured Athlete: Micah Scharff Junior catcher Micah Scharff had a huge day at the plate for Emory during their 15-1 victory over Roanoke College (Va.) Scharff went two for three, hitting two home runs and knocking in eight runs. She is hitting .308 on the season, with 35 RBIs and 24 runs to go with four home runs. The Eagles will be taking on Birmingham-Southern College (Ala.) next on Thursday, April 3. Featured Athlete: Connor Dillman Junior pitcher Connor Dillman has been performing well for the 29th-ranked Eagles as of late, throwing a complete game—his second of the season—against 10thranked Birmingham-Southern on Saturday as the Eagles earned the 4-1 win. Dillman gave up five hits and just one unearned run, striking out seven batters and walking just one. He now stands at 5-1 in eight appearances on the season with a 2.44 ERA. The Eagles visit Berry College tonight at 6 p.m. Featured Athlete: Gabrielle Clark courtesy of emory athletics

The third-ranked Eagles topped 11th-ranked DePauw University (Ind.) thanks in large part to the performance of Gabrielle Clark, who won in both number one singles and number one doubles matches. She defeated Claire Marshall 6-1, 6-1 in the singles match and along with freshman Katarina Su won the doubles match 8-5. Clark is now 6-4 in singles play and 11-6 in doubles play on the season. The Eagles have a tough test up next, hosting topranked Johns Hopkins University (Md.) on Saturday at 9 a.m. Featured Athlete: Electra Korn Junior Electra Korn had a strong performance at the Emory Classic, the Eagles’ second outdoor meet of the season. Korn won three events at the meet--the 400 meter hurdles, 200 meter dash, and 100 meter dash.

The Eagles meet as a team before going out to their positions. Over the weekend, they defeated 10th-ranked Birmingham-Southern College in two games out of three. The second game went to extra innings, with Emory falling to BSC in the 10th. Emory’s record is now 20-9.

Eagles Take Two of Three from BSC By Nicola Braginsky Staff Writer The 29th-ranked Eagles took two of three games against the 10th-ranked Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) (Ala.) Panthers over the weekend. Emory now stands at 20-9 for the season while BSC moved to 21-6. In the first game on Saturday afternoon, Emory won 4-1 on BSC’s home field. Senior Daniel Iturrey singled to start off the second inning for the Eagles and proceeded to second on a throwing error by Panthers pitcher Blake Stevens. Following Iturrey’s lead, freshman

Philip Maldari put the Eagles back on the board, scoring Iturrey on a base hit to right field and pitting the team up 1-0. Junior Connor Dillman maintained this score through the bottom of the fifth inning as he retired the first nine batters he faced and 12 of the first 13. Dillman improved to 5-1 with the victory and lowered his ERA to 2.44. Overall, he held the Panthers to one unearned run on five hits, allowing the Eagles to break through for three runs in the eighth inning. Senior Jared Kahn set the eighth inning comeback off with a double and advanced to third on an error by the Birmingham-Southern third baseman. The error was made on a

hit by senior Brandon Hannon, which successfully put men on the corners without any outs. Next, junior Brett Lake followed with a single up the middle which drove in his Division III leading 43rd run of the season and scored Kahn. Emory now led by a score of 2-1. Teamwork sealed the deal for Emory as Iturrey moved runners to second and third on a sacrifice bunt and junior Wes Peacock followed with a two-RBI base hit. The advantage was up to 4-1. Dillman struckout BSC’s Kevin Shelton to end the game. The Eagles enjoyed their roadtrip to Birmingham to begin the series. “It rained the whole bus trip to

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fielder’s choice from Maldari. At that point, the Eagles were up 4-1. Throughout the next couple of innings, the game proceeded to be a back-and-forth affair until the Eagles snatched the lead on an RBI double from Lake. In the fifth, the Panthers pulled ahead, but Emory tied the game out on an RBI groundout by junior Jordan Selbach. The Eagles then took the lead on a run-scoring double by Hannon in the sixth. Peacock continued to put the Eagles back on top at the bottom of the eighth with an RBI single, but that was the last for Emory, and the Panthers eventually evened the con-

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Squad Stomps On Roanoke College By Ryan Smith Sports Editor The softball team made short work of Roanoke College (Va.) on Saturday, earning a 15-1 win that moved the 16th-ranked Eagles to 29-6 on the season. Roanoke now stands at 6-11. Emory struck first and struck fast. Senior left fielder Ally Kersthold started off the game with a double and scored after senior second baseman Claire Bailey reached first on an error. After two walks and a fielder’s choice, Bailey scored on a sacrifice fly from junior catcher Micah Scharff and junior shortstop Moira Sullivan knocked in senior first baseman Megan Light to give the Eagles a 3-0 lead at the end of the first inning. The Eagles followed with a monster second inning, knocking in eight runs on five hits and a pair of errors. Light and Scharff both hit homers to bring home two runs apiece, while Bailey provided the icing on the cake with a two-out, two-run single that scored Kersthold and senior center fielder Lauren Gorodetsky. Emory’s offensive onslaught slowed a bit after the second inning, but the Eagles added insurance runs in the fifth inning on a grand slam from Scharff, who knocked in Light, sophomore third baseman Hannah Sendel and freshman designated hitter Tara Fallahee to make the final score 15-1 Every starter for the Eagles reached base safely, but Scharff was the star of the day, going two for three at the plate with an astounding eight runs batted in.

Birmingham and their field was soaked,” freshman Cole Vercammen said. “One time, the ball came to a dead stop in a puddle in center field. We had a great time playing in those conditions on Saturday, and it prompted the quote ‘I love that wet water.’” In the opening of the doubleheader on Sunday at Chappell Park, Emory fell in extra innings to Birmingham-Southern 10-8. The Panthers were leading from the start of this game until the Eagles fought back with four runs in the bottom of the third. Emory scored a pair on a two-RBI triple from Iturrey and two others on an RBI single from senior Jared Welch as well as a

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Junior Micah Scharff listens to Head Coach Penny Siqueiros while on base. In the Eagles’ last three games, Scharff hit .400 with three home runs and 11 RBIs. Senior Amanda Kardys pitched five quality innings to earn the win, improving her record to 20-1 on the season. Kardys surrendered just a single run on five hits, striking out seven

batters while walking two. The Eagles were slated to play Roanoke again in a doubleheader, but the game was cancelled due to inclement weather, as was the team’s doubleheader with Ferrum College

(Va.). Emory will return to action on Thursday when they take on Birmingham-Southern College (Ala.) for a doubleheader starting at 5 p.m. — Contact Ryan Smith at ryan.smith@emory.edu

The women’s tennis team, ranked third nationally, faced off with the 11th-ranked DePauw University (Ind.) Tigers this past weekend at the Woodruff P.E. Center. After falling to the Tigers in two of the three doubles matches, the Eagles rebounded and won all six singles matches, giving Emory the overall victory 7-2. With the win over DePauw, Emory improved to 14-2 overall, with a perfect 8-0 record against Division III squads. Even more impressive, the Eagles have won each of their three games against ranked opponents. DePauw dropped to 11-3 with the loss, with all three of their losses coming against ranked opponents. Emory is 20-0 all-time against the Tigers. After a rain delay on Friday afternoon, the doubles matches began, as senior Gabrielle Clark and freshman Katarina Su led the Eagles to an 8-5 first doubles win over the Tigers. After that win, however, the Tigers won the next two doubles matches 9-8 and 8-5 in second and third doubles, respectively, and DePauw went up 2-1 for the day. In singles play, the Eagles would regroup and dominate, as they won all six matches and claimed the 7-2 victory for the day. In first spot singles, Clark won

6-1, 6-1, and got Emory back on track. In second spot singles, sophomore Beatrice Rosen won her match 6-2, 6-7, 10-6. Clark is ranked first in singles play and sixth in doubles play in the Atlantic South Region. Freshman Michelle Satterfield continued the momentum, winning her match 6-2, 6-2 in third spot singles. Sophomore Madison Gordon won her fifth spot singles match 6-1, 6-1, and Su rounded out the effort with a 6-4, 6-1 victory in sixth spot singles. On Friday, the tennis team also sold bracelets to raise money for the Team Riggle Foundation, a non-profit organization started by DePauw Head Coach Scott Riggle. Team Riggle Foundation raises money and awareness for Parkinson’s disease research and this is the second time in two years that Emory has participated in this charity event. Additionally, all unsold bracelets were donated back to DePauw so they could be sold at a later date. Emory was originally scheduled to play again on Monday, March 31, but the game was postponed until Tuesday, April 15. In the meantime, the Eagles hope to continue their winning ways against a tough opponent this Saturday, April 5, when they host top-ranked Division III school Johns Hopkins University (Md). — Contact Ethan Morris at ethan.morris@emory.edu