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MIGOS

SGS Prohibits Vendor Deposits New Policy Follows Migos Booking Scam By RichaRd chess News Editor/City

Student Governance Services (SGS) is no longer allowing deposit payments to vendors following the phony Migos concert booking that cost Emory $37,500, according to SGA adviser Lisa Loveall. “We don’t do deposits because of things like that,” Loveall told about 150 SGA club treasurers Monday. “We are out that money if anything happens so please plan ahead and talk with your

vendors.” Loveall explained vendors may apply pressure to provide a deposit, but according to her, vendors are aware that most state universities do not allow deposits either. Advance deposits for alcoholic beverages will still be allowed, Loveall said. Last March, students lost $37,500 after paying a deposit to an illegitimate booking agency for the 2017 Dooley’s week concert.

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Residents of The Complex, who claimed first place in Songfest for the second consecutive year, perform parodies of popular songs Aug. 25 at the WoodPEC.

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GREEK LIFE

Theta’s ZBT Loses House, on Probation Housing Offer Blocked By RichaRd chess News Editor/City

By RichaRd chess News Editor/City Emory’s Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) chapter will not have housing in Sorority Village for the 20172018 academic year, although it is in good standing with the University, according to Director of Sorority and Fraternity Life Marlon Gibson. The sorority’s lack of housing lies with its national headquarters, which disallowed the chapter from accepting Emory’s housing offer, Gibson

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Emory’s Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) chapter faces sanctions after an investigation uncovered violations of the school’s anti-hazing policy and use or possession of alcoholic beverages under the age of 21. The chapter lost their on-campus housing at 8 Eagle Row for the 20172018 academic year and will be under disciplinary probation until Aug. 1, 2019, according to an Aug. 7 email Campus Life Senior Director for Communications Tomika DePriest sent the Wheel. The chapter will also lose University recognition pending completion of a membership review, according to DePriest. She said that those are the only sanctions being placed on the fraternity. The Office of Student Conduct, in cooperation with Emory Police Department (EPD), determined that the fraternity violated the Undergraduate Code of Conduct after the office concluded an investigation

MIGRATION

Professor Returns to US After Detention By Michelle lou Executive Editor

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The former Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) house at 8 Eagle Row is now a residence hall for sophomores, juniors and seniors. mid-July into ZBT for allegations of hazing and use or possession of alcoholic beverages under the age of 21, DePriest wrote. ZBT International Headquarters was notified July 27 that the chapter had violated three codes of student conduct at Emory, according to a

July 28 statement Headquarters sent to the Wheel. DePriest originally told the Wheel “serving beverages to individuals under the age of 21” was a third violation but later corrected that statement, saying the chapter was only

“You’re on your own.” That’s what Isabella Alexander remembers an Algerian police officer telling her during a days-long detention in Algeria, during which she was deprived of food and water for 24-hour periods. The Algerian police, she realized, were not going to contact the U.S. Embassy on her behalf despite her repeated requests. isabella Alexander, visiting assistant professor of anthropology

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CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS

Georgia Debates Fate of Confederate Symbols By Nicole sadek Copy Editor

Two summers ago, a South Carolina native set out to ignite a race war. Two weeks ago, his hopes were fulfilled when several hundred white supremacists emerged from the guise of the internet, chanting “blood and soil.”

Before walking into a Charleston, S.C., church with a .45-caliber Glock handgun, Dylann Roof was known for posing with Confederate flags on the internet. His actions spurred an extremist movement that had been largely absent from the mainstream news cycle until the recent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., where the ideas

and violence espoused by the so-called “alt-right” alarmed the nation and triggered discourse about Confederate-era symbols and their place in modern society. Georgia is home to the second-largest number of Confederate symbols — including monuments, streets, counties and parks — in the United States

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with 194, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The August “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville prompted petitions nationwide to relocate Confederate monuments from public spaces, including the “Lost Cause” monument

Alexander, a visiting assistant professor of anthropology, was in Algeria working on a documentary over summer break when police arrested her on suspicion of foreign espionage. In detention, she was tired and hungry and had been “roughed up,” she told the Wheel. But several days into the

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News Roundup Compiled By Natalia Brody caRteR ceNteR lauNches electioN oBseRvatioN iN liBeRia liBERiA — The Carter Center announced an international mission to observe Liberia’s Oct. 10 presidential and legislative elections, according to an Aug. 28 Carter Center press release. A first team of observers from the Center is already in Liberia meeting with representatives of political party candidates, the National Election Commission, civil society organizations and citizen election observers to evaluate issues like voter education and election administration, the release said. A larger delegation of election observers is scheduled to join the team in October and assess the voting, counting and tabulation processes, according to the release. This marks the fourth set of Liberian elections observed by the Carter Center. The Center has observed more than 104 elections in 39 countries. PRiNcetoN Review: eMoRy FiNaNcial aid R aNks No. 15 iN NatioN EMoRy — Emory was ranked No. 15 for best financial aid in the Princeton Review’s “Best 382 Colleges” 2017 edition. The Princeton Review scored Emory’s financial aid 95 out of 99 possible points, noting that undergraduate freshmen receive, on average, $38,834 in need-based gift aid and $4,747 in need-based loans. Emory awarded $154 million in financial aid to undergraduates for the 2016-17 academic year, according to its website. Total estimated cost of attendance for the 2017-18 school year is $66,950 for Emory College and $64,708 for Oxford College, according to Emory’s website. The Princeton Review collected data via surveys on various topics related to the college experience from over 137,000 students at 382 different institutions to determine its rankings. daca decisioN exPected Next MoNth FRoM tRuMP WASHingTon, d.C. — A decision on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program from the Trump administration is expected to be released by Sept. 5 in response to increasing pressure by a group of conservative state lawmakers, according to the Washington Post. If the DACA program, which grants some immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children permission to stay and work in the United States, ends, those who receive the temporary immigration benefit from the program would become eligible for deportation. President Donald J. Trump vowed to disband the program on the campaign trail, but called the recipients of the program “abso-

lutely incredible kids,” the New York Times reported. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Trump that he believes the program is unconstitutional and cannot defend it in court, according to the Times. The program currently supports over 800,000 undocumented people. caMPus liFe oFFeRs helP to those aFFected By huRRicaNe haRvey EMoRy — An Aug. 27 Campus Life email from Assistant Vice President for Community Suzanne Onorato offered resources including Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and Emory Helpline to students. “Our deepest sympathy and sorrow to all of our students, faculty, and staff who are impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey,” the email read. At least 10 people have been killed and many more injured in Houston after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on Aug. 25, according to the New York Times. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called the hurricane “one of the largest disasters America has ever faced,” and said the region would not recover anytime soon, the Times reported. -- Michelle Lou eMoRy a luMNa JoiNs MuelleR’s Russia iNvestigatioN teaM WASHingTon, d.C. — Emory alumna Elizabeth Prelogar (02C) signed on to special counsel Robert Mueller’s legal team, which is investigating potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to the National Law Journal. Prelogar, an assistant to the solicitor general who speaks Russian, is working with Deputy Solicitor General Michael Drebeen on the investigation. A Harvard Law School graduate and former clerk to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, Prelogar has argued five cases at the Supreme Court. At Emory, Prelogar was a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar and double majored in English and Russian. After she graduated, she studied as a Fulbright Scholar in Russia for one year. At Harvard, she was awarded an Overseas Press Club Scholarship to study Russian media and censorship. williaMs’ Book collectioN oPeN to FRieNds, studeNts EMoRy — An open house for friends and students of Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Lynna Williams is scheduled to be held for her book collection Aug. 29 and 30, according to an Aug. 28 email from the Creative Writing Academic Program Coordinator Paula Vitaris. Williams died July 29 at age 66 after a battle with gallbladder cancer. Attendees will be able to view and take home items from her book collection, which include thousands of fiction and nonfiction selections.

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Crime Report Compiled By Monica Lefton On Aug. 7 at 8:55 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a public indecency at the Robert W. Woodruff Library. An Emory employee reported that a female Emory student told her a male exposed his penis to her on the fourth floor Aug. 4 at 4 p.m. After reviewing video surveillance footage, EPD identified the subject, a 36-yearold male, and obtained an arrest warrant which has not yet been served. On Aug. 14 at 3:45 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a burglary at 20 Eagle Row, the Kappa Sigma fraternity house. Officers spoke with the student house manager who said that prior to the end of last semester, the University gave returning members an option to store their belongings in a locked room on the lower level of the building during the summer. The room was last confirmed secured May 9. After returning Aug. 13, the student reported several items missing, including a 43-inch television, MacBook Air, Nintendo Wii, clothing and video games, totaling $1,460. On Aug. 23 at 4:30 p.m., three other Emory students who stored their belongings at the Kappa Sigma house contacted EPD to report stolen items. One student reported a Zinus foam mattress, Ray-Ban sunglasses, gold chain and marketing textbook stolen, totaling $725. Another student reported a container of whey protein and Robert Talbott shirts stolen, totaling $450. A third student reported stolen a MegaBoom Speaker, valued at $300. All four cases have been assigned to an investigator.

responded to a call regarding an intoxicated individual outside of Raoul Hall. Officers arrived on the scene and met with several people assisting a 19-yearold female student. The other students reported the subject was having a difficult time getting from a vehicle to her room and officers noticed her slipping in and out of consciousness and vomiting repeatedly. The subject had returned from Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill, where she reportedly had consumed four tequila shots and one mixed drink. The other students said she vomited in the Uber ride back to campus. American Medical Response (AMR) arrived on the scene and transferred her to DeKalb Medical Center. Campus Life was notified. On Aug. 25 at 12:10 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an intoxicated individual outside of LongstreetMeans Hall. Officers arrived on the scene and met with the Residence Advisor (RA) on duty who had called EPD. The RA did not know how much the 19-year-old female student had consumed. The subject was vomiting and could not speak clearly or walk on her own. AMR arrived on the scene and transferred her to DeKalb Medical Center. Campus Life was notified. On Aug. 25 at 10:11 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a bike theft at the Clairmont Student Activity & Academic Center (SAAC). The student had secured her bike using a cable lock at Aug. 24 at 9:30 p.m. in front of the SAAC and realized it was missing at Aug. 25 at 8 a.m. The bike, a blue SE Draft single speed road bike, is valued at $192. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

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detention, amid police interrogations, she managed to persuade the authorities to let her text her friends and family, alerting them of her location and detention. They contacted the U.S. Embassy, and she returned safely to the United States late July. Alexander had planned to travel to Mali, Algeria and Morocco over the summer to work on her documentary on the migrant and refugee crisis on Europe’s southern border. She traveled safely to Mali and left for Algeria the weekend of July 7. A few days after she arrived in Algeria, police arrested her under the suspicion of foreign espionage in Draria, a suburb of the country’s capital, Algiers. The Algerian government deported her back to the U.S. the last week of July. Algerian police did not file a formal charge of foreign espionage against her but placed her in detention during a period of investigation into her and her work during her time in Algeria. Alexander said she was not an American spy. Although Alexander had a visa to travel to Algeria, she had not applied for a film permit. “It’s a really intense review process, and I knew from previous experience that [the Algerian government] would not give a film permit for the project that I’m working on because they don’t want me to do this project,” she said. Once police detained her, the journalist and anthropologist swallowed her cell phone’s SIM card, a trick she picked up from a friend who previously had been detained in Nigeria, to prevent police from accessing the information. “Algerian [detention centers] are not

a spa,” Alexander quipped. Despite the tough interrogations and conditions, occurrences like this are routine for her work as a journalist, she said. During the third full day of police interrogations, Alexander convinced Algerian police to let her send text messages, arguing that the police didn’t want a media frenzy over a missing U.S. citizen. Police agreed to let her do so. Her text included her location, that she had been detained and a request to alert the U.S. Embassy. The U.S. Embassy helped Alexander find an attorney to guide her through the legal process and provided updates to her family and friends. The embassy did not respond to requests for comment. Although the government deported her back to the U.S., Algerian police did not come to any conclusion on their investigation, Alexander said. If she returns to Algeria in the future, police could reopen the investigation and detain her again. “They decided, [under] political pressure, to deport me home … which is a really poetic ending for someone who is studying migration,” Alexander said. Alexander has traveled to North Africa several times before and interacting with police is a regular part of her work, which is centered on human rights abuses. “What felt different this time was [the possibility of] facing formal charges and the long sentences attached to them,” Alexander said. Algerian authorities “arbitrarily arrest and prosecute” activists and “the Algerian government blocks the registration of Algerian nongovernmental human rights organizations and has maintained its non-coopera-

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On Aug. 26 at 2:35 a.m., an officer patrolling Eagle Row and Asbury Circle observed a male subject urinating on some bushes. The officer made contact with the subject, a 20-year-old male student, as he was zipping his pants and walking away. The subject smelled of alcoholic beverages and admitted to drinking earlier in the evening as well as to urinating in the bushes. The student was issued a violation of DeKalb County Ordinance 16-51 and given a court date to appear at the DeKalb Magistrate Court. Campus Life was notified. On Aug. 36 at 8:01 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a burglary at the Clairmont Campus, Building C. Officers met with a resident who stated that at 6:45 a.m. he awoke to an unknown male opening his bedroom door and turning on the light. Seeming to realize it was the wrong room, the person turned off the light and left. The student heard the apartment door open and close. He got up to check the hallway after a few minutes but saw no one. At 3:20 p.m., the resident called EPD again to report the lock on one of his roommates’ bedroom door was broken. His roommate reportedly could not unlock his door with his key and had to call facilities management to unlock it. A third student living in the apartment reported $20 missing from her wallet, which she said was on a table near her bedroom door. The complainant said the residents of the room found a bobby pin on the floor of the hallway, which they suspect may have been used to unlock the door. The main door had been locked before everyone went to sleep, the complainant added. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

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tion with U.N. human rights experts,” according to Human Rights Watch. A June 21 U.S. State Department travel warning cautions U.S. citizens to avoid travel “to remote areas of Algeria due to the threat of terrorist attacks and kidnapping.” Authorities deleted the footage on her film equipment, but Alexander is still working on her documentary and is aiming to finish it by Summer 2018. Emory University also helped Alexander return home by providing the U.S. Embassy a letter for the Algerian government certifying that she is a University employee, according to Alexander. Vice Provost for Global Strategy and Initiatives Philip Wainwright (85C, 85G) confirmed that the University provided the letter. Wainwright said that Emory consulted with International SOS (ISOS), a travel assistance company that contracts with the University and provides evacuation services, about Alexander’s situation, but he declined to provide further details. Alexander said she did not register for ISOS. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Michael A. Elliott wrote in an Aug. 2 email to the Wheel, “I am delighted and relieved that Dr. Alexander was able to return to the United States.” Editor’s note: The Wheel temporarily removed online an April 19, 2017 article about Alexander and her work from June 20, 2017 at 10 a.m. to June 25, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. out of concern for Alexander’s safety while she was in detention. The article was republished once the Wheel determined Alexander had been deported back to the U.S.

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Chemistry Department Restructures Curriculum

By valaRie saNdoval Contributing Writer The Department of Chemistry has updated its undergraduate curriculum by redesigning courses and allowing chemistry majors to explore more electives. General Chemistry I and II (Chem 141 and Chem 142) have been combined into one class, Chem 150: Structure and Properties. Laboratory courses are now independent, twocredit courses rather than being paired with a lecture as one credit. By Fall 2018, Organic Chemistry (Chem 221 and Chem 222) will be replaced with Chem 202: Foundations of Reactivity, Chem 203: Advanced Reactivity and Chem 204: Macromolecules. The changes aim to “improve student learning and understanding of chemistry and improve students’ scientific reasoning skills,” accord-

ing to Department of Chemistry Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies Douglas Mulford. The new curriculum aims to shift from teaching topics in a detailed but isolated manner to emphasizing connections between topics, Mulford said. Topics such as kinetics and thermodynamics, which were previously not covered in depth until higher-level courses, will now be introduced in the foundational courses. Mulford said that he hopes the changes will allow students to focus more on reasoning and understanding rather than memorization. “We wanted to move away from labs being verifications of lecture material to focusing on specific aspects of the experimental science of chemistry that were specific to laboratory environments,” Mulford said. The department agreed the amount of work required of

students for lab as a separate course is more in line with two credit hours than one. Chemistry majors will also now have more options for electives. Previously, chemistry majors could only choose one elective and the remainder of their required major courses were outlined for them. Under the new curriculum, students have the chance to take more classes that interest them. Chemistry department faculty members began discussing possible changes to courses and major requirements in 2013, Mulford said. The decision was largely faculty-driven, although some professors spoke with some student chemistry mentors to gain insight into topics students have trouble learning. The change is largely cost neutral as the department has not had to hire additional faculty. However, a $1.2 million from the nonprofit research

Migos Booking Cost Students $37,500 Continued from Page 1 A spreadsheet of Student Programming Council (SPC)’s finances for the 2016-2017 academic year titled “SPEAKER’S FUND-A” indicates that Emory paid $37,500 to third-party booking agency Global Talent Agency, an entity that falsely claims to represent musicians and entertainers. Scott Wile, SGS senior office assistant, released the financial documents to the Wheel 65 days after the Wheel made its initial requests to Campus Life March 28. The Wheel also made 12 subsequent requests for the documents to Assistant Vice President for Community Suzanne Onorato, Student Government Association (SGA) President Gurbani Singh (18B) and former SGA President Max Zoberman (17C). Under the SGA Constitution, “the papers of the SGA shall be considered public records.” SPC had intended to secure hiphop trio Migos for the Dooley’s Week 2017 concert with the $37,500 deposit, but discovered that the booking was invalid. Global Talent Agency did not respond to request for comment. SPC President Tamara Ezzat (18B) declined to confirm the amount of money lost in the scam, but noted, “With everything that happened last year, there’s a lot of trust lost from our students … and we want to make sure we regain that trust.” In response to the Migos incident, SPC, SGA and Campus Life formed a task force to reduce the chances of a similar incident happening again,

Ezzat said. The group generated ideas that would add safeguards for the vendor booking process, Ezzat said, declining to elaborate on the specific proposals. Onorato said the group started meeting before the Spring 2017 semester ended. Onorato declined to confirm the amount lost in the scam. The group has yet to meet in person this academic year, but has been in communication over the summer and will continue to work with SGA and Campus Life in booking artists for Dooley’s Week and other concerts, according to Ezzat.

“With everything that happened last year, there’s a lot of trust lost from our students ... and we want to make sure we regain that trust.” — Tamara Ezzat (18B), SPC President Onorato and Loveall did not respond to an Aug. 27 request for updates on the task force. EPD is currently assisting the University with an internal investigation into the circumstances of the incident, according to Sgt. John Harper. The investigation is ongoing as of August 29, Harper said. SPC Advisor Vernon Smith had

filed a report with Emory Police Department (EPD) March 29 and Smith provided a typed statement. The responding officer determined there were no grounds for criminal fraud subject to the department’s jurisdiction to investigate, and the statement became part of an information report, EPD officer Ed Shoemaker said. When asked if the University is still working to recover the money lost, Onorato said, “Oh, we would love to.” The speaker’s fund spreadsheet also reveals that Emory paid at least $85,000 for rapper Ty Dolla Sign’s last-minute April 7 Dooley’s Week performance. Emory made one payment of $10,000 and another of $75,000 to “dolla sign world touring,” according to the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet indicates that the payments to Global Talent Agency and to Dolla Sign World Touring both came from allocated accounts. Under SGA Finance Code, allocated accounts are “SGA-controlled financial accounts” supported by Student Activity Fee funds. Onorato said in March that if the money is recovered, “it would go back to students.” She did not clarify whether Emory would reimburse SGA if the money is not recovered. Alex Klugerman, Michelle Lou and Alisha Compton contributed reporting.

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organization Howard Hughes Medical Institute will help fund the purchase of modernized instruments as well as the improvement of laboratory courses. Pre-med students will now take Chem 150, 202, 203 and 204, according to Mulford. Although the courses no longer have the traditional names of General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, Mulford said the new curriculum will cover more topics that appear on the MCAT so students can be better prepared than in the past. Senior Lecturer Tracy McGill piloted the new curriculum during the 2016-2017 academic year. The class explored the integrated ideas of the new curriculum and was well-received by both students and faculty, according to Mulford. “I think the new curriculum is a positive change,” Francesca Rossi (20C), who took McGill’s pilot class, said. “It introduces foundational

organic chemistry knowledge at a slow pace to make actual organic chemistry less daunting.” Students in other sections of General Chemistry during the 20162017 school year were taught based on the previous curriculum. “I don’t understand why Organic Chemistry, which is currently two classes, is being replaced with three classes,” Jessy McLean (20C) said. “It seems unnecessary.” Mulford added that the new curriculum will better help prepare students for a post-Emory career. “We as a faculty are very excited about this chance to improve learning for Emory students and to be leaders in chemistry education on a national scale,” Mulford said.

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Sorority in Good Standing With Emory Continued from Page 1 said. Gibson declined to comment on the headquarters’ alleged interference, directing the Wheel to the Theta Headquarters Director of Chapter Services Kelley Hurst. In an Aug. 11 email to the Wheel, Hurst wrote, “the advisory board for Kappa Alpha Theta at Emory University is currently being reorganized this summer and new board members will be appointed this fall.” The headquarters did not confirm whether there is an investigation into Emory’s chapter. When the Wheel asked Senior Director of Housing Operations Elaine Turner where Theta members would be relocated, she directed the question to Gibson. Gibson then directed the question to Campus Life Senior Director for Communications Tomika DePriest, who did not respond by time of publication. Gibson referred the Wheel to Emory’s Title IX Coordinator for Students Judith Pannell for details about Emory’s investigation into Theta. According to Pannell, an anonymous report submitted by an office within Emory detailed a violation of Emory Policy 8.2 regarding sexual misconduct, which prompted the investigation. A recently concluded Office of Title IX investigation into Theta determined that allegations of

sexual misconduct were unfounded, Pannell said. Theta occupied Lodge D in Sorority Village last academic year. Lodge D will house rising sophomores this academic year, Turner wrote in a June 26 email to the Wheel. The Office of Title IX interviewed student members, the chapter adviser and the national headquarters. RoseAnn Hansen, who is most recently listed as the adviser, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Pannell declined to say whether her office interviewed students who are not members of Theta. Virginia Dollins (18B) resigned as chapter president and relinquished her membership, she wrote in a June 27 email to the Wheel. Dollins declined a request for an interview. The chapter’s chief operations officer, Jessica Urgo (18C), also declined a request for an interview. Pannell did not respond to a request for a timeline of events. She said that there are recently closed Title IX investigations into other fraternities or sororities but declined to provide further details. The outcome of the chapter is “110 percent” dependent upon the findings of the national investigation, Gibson said.

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Dalai Lama Delays Visit to Emory, Citing Exhaustion By alex klugeRMaN News Editor/Campus

The Dalai Lama postponed his scheduled October 2017 visit to Emory’s campus because of exhaustion, according to a statement from his office. The Emory presidential distinguished professor’s trip will likely be rescheduled to Spring 2018, according to Associate Director of Media Relations Elaine Justice. “During and after the recent visit to the United States, despite His Holiness’ overall good health, he has had a recurring feeling of exhaustion,” said the statement, which Justice

forwarded to the Wheel. “His Holiness finds the long journey from India to the United States to be extremely tiresome and taxing on his body, so having to undertake another visit to North America in October would be too much for him,” the statement said. The Dalai Lama recently cancelled an August 2017 trip to Botswana because of exhaustion, according to Reuters. “The hope is he’ll come back, but it’s up to him,” Professor of Pedagogy and biology group leader for the Emory-Tibet Partnership Arri Eisen said. “[The postponement] is not too surprising given his age and I was

thinking this might be his last visit anyway. You always miss someone like him who is uniquely authentic and full of wisdom.” His Holiness, dalai lama

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During past campus visits, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism has given lectures and seminars on topics such as the ethics of major religions

to the Emory and greater Atlanta community. During the cancelled visit, the spiritual leader was set to give three lectures covering secular ethics in education, according to Eisen. Each talk was designed to cover a different sect of the education industry: kindergarten through 12th grade, undergraduate education and medical education. Emory’s relationship with the Dalai Lama dates back to his first visit in 1987. He returned to Emory in 1995 as part of his United States tour, during which he delivered the 1998 Emory commencement address and received

an honorary doctor of divinity degree. Upon his campus visit in 2007, the Dalai Lama was named presidential distinguished professor, his only accepted appointment with a western university. He has since returned to campus every few years, visiting most recently in 2013. The University’s relationship with the Dalai Lama spawned the Emory-Tibet Partnership, established in 1998. The partnership strives to converge Western academia and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual traditions, according to its website. According to Eisen, the partnership

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

Chemistry Department Restructures Curriculum

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Dalai Lama Delays Visit to Emory, Citing Exhaustion By alex klugeRMaN News Editor/Campus

thinking this might be his last visit anyway. You always miss someone like him who is uniquely authentic and full of wisdom.” His Holiness, dalai lama

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During past campus visits, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism has given lectures and seminars on topics such as the ethics of major religions

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Annexation Halted by DeKalb Challenge By eMily sullivaN Associate Editor

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The ‘lost Cause’ monument in decatur, ga., memorializes the Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War.

Send Confederate Statues To Museums, Prof. Says Continued from Page 1 located in front of the DeKalb County Courthouse in Decatur, Ga. Georgia state law, however, does not allow publically owned military monuments to be removed, relocated or altered. To remove the monument, the law must be amended. Jimmy Carter Professor of American History Joseph Crespino said Confederate symbols bear different meanings for different people, and, as important artifacts in our history, they should not be erased. “I am always, as a historian, in favor of contextualizing, rather than [getting] rid of them entirely,” Crespino said. “I believe strongly that we can move them to other places. Confederate memorials can be moved from the central square of DeKalb County … to a museum or moved to a cemetery where there are other Confederate graves.” Crespino publicly advocated for the relocation of the “Lost Cause” monument in a letter to the editor on decaturish.com, calling for the memorial to be moved into a museum. “The Confederate monument on the Decatur Square, erected in 1908, only two years after a deadly race riot in nearby Atlanta that killed dozens of African Americans, was clearly part of this broader movement,” Crespino wrote. “We know that not only from the historical context, but also from the language of the Decatur monument itself, with its phrases about a ‘covenant keeping race’ that ‘held

fast to the faith as it was given by the fathers of the republic.’ This kind of language invokes notions of racial hierarchy that are anathema to our community today.” According to Crespino, those supporting the removal of these monuments face a major problem with Atlanta’s biggest Confederate emblem, Stone Mountain, which depicts carvings of Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and was the founding site for the second Ku Klux Klan. “I would never be in favor of the destruction of one of these historical artifacts,” Crespino said, adding, “They’re not teaching us about the history of the Civil War. They’re teaching us about the memory of the Civil War and the way that the war was memorialized in this very political way that was used to … justify and rationalize … white supremacy.” Amid protests and petitions to remove monuments and rename streets in Georgia, the city of Atlanta unveiled a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. on the state’s Capitol grounds Aug. 28, beside statues of Confederate leaders Gen. John Gordon, Sen. Richard Russell and Gov. Eugene Talmadge. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed notified Atlanta residents that he would soon make decisions regarding petitions to rename Confederate streets in an Aug. 14 press release.

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A Sept. 5 vote to approve Emory University’s petition for annexation into the city of Atlanta has been postponed in an effort to resolve issues between Atlanta and DeKalb County, according to Atlanta City Councilmember and Emory Director of Development Alex Wan. Emory filed for annexation in a June 27 petition and had anticipated its main campus to be annexed into the city of Atlanta by the first week of September. However, the Atlanta City Council delayed the vote following an Aug. 1 letter from DeKalb County Commission citing numerous objections, including increased demands on DeKalb County infrastructure and legal infirmities that require corrections or more collaboration before the proposal is approved. Wan said that the Atlanta City Council is aiming to vote on the proposal by Dec. 4, which will be its last meeting of the year. If the proposal passes on time, the annexation would take place Jan. 1. Emory’s petition included Egleston Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA), Synod of South Atlantic Presbyterian Church, Georgia Power and Villa International. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) submitted its own petition for Atlanta annexation on the same day as Emory, and had also anticipated that its annexation would be complete this fall, according to a June 27 CDC statement emailed to the Wheel. Emory gained eligibility for annexation by purchasing a $345,000 home at 1644 Briarcliff Road in August 2016 that adjoins Emory’s campus and the Atlanta city border. The petition cited Atlanta’s 100-percent method for annexation, which requires all involved property owners to consent to annexation. The DeKalb County commissioner representing the petitioned properties, Jeff Rader, said he believes the annexation procedures ignore potential consequences. Rader said he is concerned that the arrangement will gloss over DeKalb leaders’ abilities to maintain roles in policy conversations. Rader’s also worried about a domino effect in which residents and local communities, including Oxford Road homes and some Emory Village restaurants, follow Emory’s example in

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Emory gained eligibility for annexation by purchasing a home at 1644 Briarcliff Road that adjoins Emory’s campus and the Atlanta city border in August 2016 for $345,000. pursuing annexation. Those areas would be eligible to join the venture because they’d share a border with the newly annexed Emory and, therefore, with the city of Atlanta. Rader said this effect jeopardizes neighborhood stability, as it is within the rights of eligible residents to petition for annexation into Atlanta on their own. Emory Village Alliance Chair David Moore said that he’s spoken with a property owner whose land is adjacent to Emory’s border and would become eligible for annexation if Emory is annexed. Moore said the owner has no intention of pursuing annexation because of the increase in taxes that would result. “I don’t see any direct effects from this annexation for Emory Village,” Moore continued. Newly annexed properties would experience sales tax increases of about one percent to match the amount levied in the city of Atlanta, DeKalb County School District (DCSD) Chief Financial Officer Michael Bell said. Even so, he said that it would be “a feather in Atlanta’s hat to get Emory and the CDC.” Emory University does not pay property tax on its educational buildings. DCSD filed a lawsuit against Atlanta in December 2016 to stop 58 homes from annexing in Druid Hills. The case was dismissed by a judge, and DCSD is appealing. APS declined a request for comment. Atlanta residents may see a cost increase if the county continues to undertake additional fire service

responsibilities, according to Bell. The Atlanta fire station that would cover Emory is too small, so an intergovernmental agreement including “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” (PILOT) would have to be made to DeKalb County to continue normal fire service operations. Police services would also become Atlanta’s responsibility though the university-funded Emory Police Department (EPD) would remain in place. MARTA would like to dip into Atlanta tax revenues to move forward with the Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative. A proposed two-mile MARTA light rail line could extend an additional two miles to reach Clifton Road businesses including Emory University, Emory University Hospital (EUH) and the CDC, three of the largest employers in the Atlanta area. Betty Willis, senior associate vice president for government and community affairs at Emory, said that this would be the first major MARTA expansion into the area in 20 years, and that while Atlanta taxes will fund the project, DeKalb residents will most directly receive the benefits. “The whole area is just exploding,” Willis said. Associate Director of Media Relations for Emory University Elaine Justice was unable to provide a statement by publication time. Richard reporting.

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Fraternity Violates Code of Conduct Leader Expected to Continued from Page 1 charged with two violations and that the third she had sent to the Wheel was a “typographical error.” ZBT has accepted responsibility for the charges, according to DePriest. Former ZBT chapter President Michael James (19C) did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The chapter is “fully cooperating” with the University, ZBT Headquarters wrote. “ZBT Professional staff have been working closely with the undergraduate chapter leadership, chapter advisors and university administration to determine the next steps to ensure the Eta Lambda Chapter can meet the expectations of the University,” the Headquarters statement said. Director of Student Conduct Julia Thompson, Director of Sorority and Fraternity Life Marlon Gibson

and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair declined to comment and referred the Wheel to DePriest. Rising sophomore ZBT members previously set to live in 8 Eagle Row were to be relocated to other maincampus housing or the Clairmont campus, according to DePriest. Emory guarantees on-campus housing for freshmen and sophomores. DePriest said that the Housing Office would work with rising juniors and seniors to secure other on-campus accommodations, but there is no guarantee that those members will have housing. 8 Eagle Row is serving as a residence hall for sophomores, juniors and seniors, Turner said. An April 17 EPD crime report states that an EPD officer spoke with a ZBT pledge regarding an assault at 8 Eagle Row at the Emory University Hospital (EUH) Clinical Interaction Site. The

officer determined that the pledge had been allegedly hazed, the report said. DePriest did not respond to a request about whether there was any connection between that incident and the Office of Student Conduct’s investigation. The case is active and EPD is investigating as of Aug. 24, according to Sgt. John Harper. No arrests have been made. The report classifies the case as “hazing” and states that the incident occurred between April 13 at 8 a.m. and April 14 at 10 a.m. The pledge was admitted to EUH April 14 at 5:24 p.m. and discharged April 19 at 4:34 p.m., medical records assistant Yolanda Brown said. Michelle Lou contributed reporting.

— Contact Richard Chess at rchess@emory.edu

Speak Spring 2018

Continued from Page 3 has been developed through the Dalai Lama’s vision, which is put into practice by those in the partnership. The partnership sponsors the Mind-Body Sciences Summer Abroad Program, which sends students and professors to the Tibetan community of Dharamsala, India, where they can interact with the 82-year-old spiritual leader, live in a monastic community and teach science to practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. “[The Dalai Lama] is an unusual human being and just being around and hearing him is transformational,” Eisen said. “Students always come back inspired and wanting to learn more about his ideas looking at the common thread among all humans for

compassion and empathy.” The Dalai Lama is the title of the leader of the Tibetan Buddhist community as well as the name taken on by the specific man in the role. Each member of the succession is considered to be a reincarnation of the last. The current Dalai Lama is the 14th leader. He can decide if and where he should be reborn and said he will make a decision on if he will reincarnate and continue the line near his 90th birthday, which is in 2025. Alisha Compton reporting.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | Editorial Page Editors: Annie Cohen (annie.cohen@emory.edu) and Pranati Kohli (pranati.kohli@emory.edu)

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When Addressing History, Actions Speak Louder Than Words The deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va., earlier this month were a reminder of a truth many would rather ignore: Race relations in this country, and on college campuses like Emory’s, need work. This year’s Creating Emory curriculum contained an incomplete, slapdash attempt to address the University’s history of slavery and racism. As a response to the current political climate, this brief history lesson during freshmen orientation was insufficient. Perhaps the attempt in itself is commendable, but the execution lacked the depth necessary for a nuanced discussion of race. The script for Orientation Leaders abruptly introduces a 30-second section of historical facts such as Emory namesake John Emory’s prominent slave-owning family and the University’s strong opposition to abolition. The script says that “in its early years most of the faculty, college trustees, its most generous donors and every antebellum president owned slaves.” It then awkwardly asks students to silently reflect on how they feel about Emory in that immediate moment without any room for a comprehensive, informed dialogue. Moreover, simply acknowledging the wrongs of the past is not enough to ensure equality in the present; the Charlottesville protests are evidence enough that escalating racial tension is an ongoing and ever changing issue in this country. Although Emory has become increasingly di-

verse since its official 1962 desegregation, it is easy, and all too common, to spend your years here in a social and, often, racial bubble. Students frequently fail to communicate with those outside of their communities as a result of instinctual social segregation. While our social lives need not be totally dominated by concerns about diversity, a complete education includes understanding diverse groups of people and values contradictory to our own. The administration also has a concrete responsibility to facilitate dialogue and foster understanding between different groups on campus. University President Claire E. Sterk’s condemnation of intolerant hate groups — the first time Sterk has taken such a forceful stance on a contentious issue — marked a principled step in the right direction, but it was just one email, words which most students have quickly forgotten. Emory must work to mirror the sentiment of Sterk’s response to Charlottesville in its daily decisions. While Emory’s attempt to acknowledge its past is appropriate, a few paragraphs in an orientation session won’t create lasting change at Emory. Institutional change is possible, but the administration, students and faculty must work to make continuous, comprehensive efforts to build the “foundation of civil discourse” Sterk’s letter so enthusiastically champions.

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Statues Commemorate Hatred, Not History Grant Osborn When George W. Bush captured Iraq in 2003 to conclude the stillcontroversial U.S. invasion of the country, there was no protest in either Iraq or the United States when the infamous Saddam Hussein statue in the city square was toppled by US marines — or if there was, it must have been so covert that I could not find any evidence of it. A cursory Google search returned not a single article even arguing against the dismantling of the statue. Hussein was a colonialist who paraded through his country like Louis XIV while his country starved under crippling economic sanctions. If I were an Iraqi citizen circa 2003, I would have wanted to see the statue unseated as well; Hussein represented a decade and a half of an oppressive regime. This anecdote illustrates an important point that is often lost in debates surrounding the removal of statues in this hemisphere: Statues stand not to memorialize individuals independent of their moral inclinations, but to celebrate those individuals and their character in the polis or contributions to our world. The way we remember individuals who we have no interest in celebrating is not by constructing statues in their honor. To collapse statues of those individuals is not an erasure from history. Few could deny that Hussein still inhabits the collective psyche of Iraqi, and even American, consciousness. If statues of important men are the way in which we remember rather than celebrate people, then why have we no statue of Osama bin Laden at Ground Zero to remind us of his evil; no statue of Eric Harris at Columbine to remind us of his hatred; no statue of Lee Harvey Oswald in Dealey Plaza to remind us of his malice? Statues are not how we remember people. They are how we celebrate them. Bin Laden, Harris and Oswald are still etched into our history as deeply as Alexander Hamilton, Franklin Delanor Roosevelt and Douglas MacArthur, whose statues occupy Washington, D.C., and West Point. Because of the role statues play in our culture, the only ones that ought to adorn our cities are those that represent individuals whose character and contributions we would like to see emulated and repeated today. Nobody decried the erasure of Hussein from history as his statue was destroyed because nobody wanted the bust of a war criminal to sit atop a stately pedestal in the middle of Baghdad. Likewise, in our own country, we should not allow statues of individuals responsible for our darkest days to remain decorating our city squares. A frequent response to this position — President Donald J. Trump among its promulgators — is the reductio ad absurdum that we ought to remove statues of those like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as well, given that they were slaveholders. As a counterpoint, though both Washington and Jefferson were slaveholders in their private lives — a stain that should be included in any statue of or memorial to them — we remember them for their greatness. Take, for instance, Cecil Rhodes. Although he was a white supremacist and colonialist who believed that the superiority of the British would rub off on Britain’s colonies by osmosis, he also founded the Rhodes Scholarship, which has consistently proven instrumental in developing the best minds of our time. While we do not consent to his

perverted colonial preconceptions, those perverted preconceptions do not define his legacy. Despite some calls to remove his statue at Oxford University, it is not his white supremacist ideals for which we remember him and for which the statue was constructed. This can get quite hairy for those important individuals whose legacies approach the middle of the continuum between sinister and humanitarian. But when it comes to Confederate leaders, there is no such moral conundrum. It should be the easiest thing in the world to disavow the values that constituted the genesis of the Confederacy. Let’s look at the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va., that reignited the whole debate a few weeks ago. Lee has one legacy: leading a revolt against the North as a preemptive measure against the abolition of slavery. Anyone not akin to white supremacists Richard Spencer or David Duke has little trouble denouncing, at the very least, Lee’s indignant support for slavery — which is, at most, everything for which we remember him. And yet many of the same people argue that a removal of his statue is an attempt to erase his legacy from history. If the Robert E. Lee statue were built in 1862, then these people may have a point -- removing these statues might preclude having to grapple with a difficult historical episode. In that case, the statue would be contemporary to the Civil War and therefore an important historical monument to the most formative, albeit dark, years in our nation’s history. To destroy such statues would truly amount to the erasure of history. Virtually all of the statues of Confederate leaders, though, were constructed between the 1890s and 1950s as a response to the end of Jim Crow laws, when the civil rights movement was at its peak. The Lee statue, for instance, was built in the 1920s — long after Lee’s legacy was cemented into the annals of history. That, along with the great balance of the other Confederate statues in the south, is not a historical artifact but a retroactive celebration of a malefactor who spit in the face of those who fought for freedom from slavery, the most basic of human rights. To leave such statues erect would amount to a celebration of men who encouraged the most damnable segment of our history. We happen to have institutions designed to house precisely those types of objects: museums. The legacies of these men consist of leading whole armies to uphold the institution of slavery in the bloodiest war in American history. Clearly, they were not erected out of regret; they were not erected so we could reflect on the nuances of history as we pass by them in our cities. A century and a half since the final battles of our Civil War, when presumably so few people would fail to denounce the evils of the Confederacy, there is no reason we should still display, much less celebrate, the leaders of the Confederacy. The fact that they remain unmoved edifices in the squares of our great cities remind us not of the greatness of the individuals, not of the complex moral questions of history and not of the events in our past that we must grapple with today. The statues remind us of little more than the fault lines that still run though our country and the divisive politics of our time. We cannot and should not erase history — but we can choose which legacies to celebrate and uphold. Grant Osborn is a College junior from Springfield, Ohio.

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Take the Nuclear Standoff Seriously From the Archives: Daniel Weinberg Never run away from a lion. That’s what my uncle told me when I was younger. If you encounter a lion, he said, puff out your chest and try to look as big as possible. In the midst of a nuclear standstill, the United States and North Korea are both puffing out their chests. But so far, both the U.S. and North Korea have deterred each other from deploying a nuclear warhead for the fear of mutually assured destruction. That standstill represents more than just a lack of progress; it benefits citizens on both sides looking for safety and security. On July 28, North Korea testlaunched the Hwasong-14, an intercontinental ballistic missile that traveled over 2000 miles toward the shores of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost large island. Most recently, on Aug. 29, North Korea test-launched a ballistic missile over northern Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean after it traveled for about 1,700 miles. To put things into perspective, these missiles traveled almost the entire length of the U.S. Even scarier, it took only 45 minutes for these missiles to approach their desired targets. This year alone, North Korea has tested 11 other various missiles to flex its military muscles. According to experts, these missiles may have the potential to reach California. It is a sobering reality that the U.S. would have roughly 10 precious minutes to react if the

North Korean supreme leader were to strike the U.S. mainland with a ballistic missile. Those threats are real and escalating to a juncture at which a response from the West is necessary. I too often hear people say, “We have nothing to worry about,” because we are the U.S. and we have the largest military in the world. And while the U.S. remains a world superpower, North Korea’s recent activity is a wake-up call to those who feel that they are impervious to international attacks just because they live in this country. In response to North Korean missile tests, the U.S. military conducted bomber-jet drills and tested out its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system — a justified and necessary response. In addition, President Donald J. Trump promised Aug. 10 that the U.S. is “locked and loaded” to retaliate against a potential North Korean attack on Guam. “All options are on the table,” Trump promised Aug. 29, following North Korea’s latest missile launch. While Trump’s comments indicate that we are prepared for a fight, I personally err on the side of safety when it comes to halting the growing tensions between North Korea and the West. One possible solution involves increasing sanctions on companies that buy and sell raw materials in China, North Korea’s primary trading partner. The U.S. has already sanctioned companies with ties to coal and metals, which are typically used in the production of nuclear weapons. In doing so, the U.S. has

non-violently mitigated nuclear threats from North Korea by drying up Chinese exports. That strategy is safe in the short term for the U.S. because it focuses its resources on the developmental side of nuclear research, rather than the dangerous, and likely fatal, side of conflict. But the U.S. should have no remorse if it has to fight fire with fire. On June 13, North Korea sent Otto Warmbier, a U.S. citizen, back to the U.S. after he had been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. Warmbier was returned in a vegetative condition, from which he never recovered. His death prompted Trump to call for a travel ban to North Korea, which is set to start in September. Some argue that the North Korean leader used Warmbier to send a message to the U.S. — that he is willing to kill his country’s hostages, an argument I accept. Kim Jong-un would probably like nothing more than to show the world that he has no tolerance for negotiating with the West. If the U.S. must fight fire with fire, Americans must encourage the attempt to stop dictatorships and human rights abuses worldwide. When the U.S. makes its next move, it should have the complete encouragement of all Americans — and all those wishing to stop dictatorships, especially ones that perpetuate human rights abuses, in their tracks. Daniel Weinberg is a College junior from Syosset, N.Y.

‘Council Earns Black Mark’ Oct. 17, 1963

The College Council committed a grave error last week in passing a resolution which ostensibly will help Emory’s Negro students get served by Village merchants. The resolution — consisting of two letters, one of which was sent to Emory Village proprietors who do serve the colored students and the other to those who do not — stands as a black mark against the elected body. Editorial comment in The Wheel last Thursday approved the action, which requested that the merchants “receive and serve all Emory students who conduct themselves in a mannerly way, regardless of race.” Although a member of the Editorial Board, I disagree with many of the ideas expressed therein. The issue centers not on the question of integration, but on the questions of whether an individual has the right to personal liberties, and whether such things as free enterprise and private property have meaning any longer. This country was founded with the idea that a man has the choice of governing himself, his actions and his property as he sees fit and not as another would have him. Most of the merchants of Emory

Village own their businesses. Into their establishments they have put money, ingenuity, hard toil and their ideals — and as a result have created profitable, respected firms. The College Council in its irresponsible action, is doing no more than following the example of the usurpation of power given by our inept current Administration and the misuse of power by the Supreme Court. As an elected body which to outsiders represents the will of the student body and in the name of “all students enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences,” the Council is censuring these businessmen because they conduct their business as a private business rather than bow to the preferences of others. In so doing, these elected representatives abrogate and abuse the very system of democracy which put them into office. They deny merchants the liberties granted in the Bill of Rights. The federal government — created “by the people for the people” — has taxed the productive minority’s welfare and patience by putting a levy on ingenuity, forcing the successful to support the lazy. It is frightening when students follow suit and call themselves righteous in condemning individuality and freedom of choice. Or perhaps the totalitarian state is what they want? This article is abridged.

To Weather Harvey, Look to Lessons from Katrina

Emory’s Obligation to Hurricane Victims help. Our university has the means to Annie Cohen help and should have the motivation to help. After Katrina, Emory University I know how a city smells after bedoctors stepped in and provided ing underwater. Hurricane Katrina hit my home care to evacuees who fled to Atwhen I was seven years old. We lanta. Our school let the University of weren’t expecting Katrina to turn into a category five storm, but it New Orleans swim team practice and compete in Emory’s facilities. did. My family and I left New Or- Now, in the midst of Harvey, it is leans with one weekend’s worth of Emory’s turn to step up again. Right now, Texas residents are clothes just two days before Katrina made landfall. We were gone for searching the flooded streets for their pets while others are sitting four months. As far as natural calamities go, on top of their roofs, waiting for Katrina and Hurricane Harvey are rescue crews. While they search similar. They both for food and shelcame right at the ter, we need to help end of hurricane them solve probOur university has season; both were lems they haven’t large storms that the means to help had time to worry left chaos in their and should have the about. Donate to the wakes. I don’t have to motivation to help ... cause, go to Houston for the cleanup, offer reach too far to Emory calls itself a your support in any imagine what the way you can. people of Houston moral leader. Now it Even the smallest are feeling. I lived the time to prove it. gesture can make a through the reperdifference in somecussions of Katrina. one’s life. Texas, and HousI’m sure that ton especially, were there is a little girl instrumental in our survival. Almost everyone I knew evacuated to who needs the help of strangers and friends, just as I did. Houston. These people need help not only The rest of the country, especially Texans, took us into their schools now, but also after the floodwaters and city. They gave us a home when recede. Twelve years later, New Orleans we didn’t have one. has yet to fully recover, but thanks Everywhere we turned strangers to the help of strangers, we have did everything they could to help us and the thousands of other New made more progress than we ever could have alone. In order to surOrleanians in Texas. A parent at my evacuation school vive these natural disasters, Amerisurprised us by signing me up for cans need to band together and the soccer team and Girl Scouts. help one another. Be the stranger who helps reThere was a basket of stuffed anibuild a home — who helps rebuild mals delivered to our apartment a life. because everybody knew I didn’t Emory calls itself a moral leader. have toys. Now is the time to prove it. In the aftermath of Harvey, Emory — a Southern institution — should do everything it can to

Annie Cohen is a College sophomore from New Orleans, La.

Years Later, FEMA Still Struggling Brian Taggett

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf shore of the United States on Aug. 29, 2005, inducing devastation in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Twelve years later, America is dealing with a similar crisis in the form of Hurricane Harvey. A category 4 hurricane, Harvey will present obstacles similar to the ones Katrina did and should be treated with urgency. As the costliest natural disaster in American history — with $110 billion estimated in property damage — and the fifth deadliest American natural disaster — with figures ranging from 1,023 to over 1,800 casualties — Katrina generated long-lasting destruction to the area. The catastrophic nature of the Katrina paralleled the disastrous relief efforts. From the days following landfall to several months after the flood waters subsided, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the primary U.S. agency responsible for responding to natural disasters, demonstrated that it was not capable of adequately handling the catastrophe. Inhibited by an overly bureaucratic response protocol, the agency poorly prepared and lethargically assisted rescue operations. FEMA’s inhibitions may come into play once more in relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey, as the agency still lacks the resources and leadership to properly aid to disaster victims. When the storm hit, more than 200 volunteer firefighters were in Atlanta learning the history of FEMA and its sexual harassment policies in order to comply with FEMA’s mandatory employee training rather than assisting victims in New Orleans. Additionally, FEMA’s intra-agency communication was embarrassingly poor; media outlets reported that citizens had taken shelter at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center before the former chief of FEMA, Michael Brown, even learned of it. That lack of communication induced an unnecessarily long delay in providing food, water and medicine to victims in the Convention Center. Days after Hurricane Katrina

made landfall, state and local governments requested a total of 120,000 trailers for its displaced citizens; however, only 14,000 trailers were available, sending trailer production into overdrive. FEMA is responsible for providing shelter in times of disaster, but over a month after the trailers request, FEMA had only provided 109 trailers. The federal government allocated $42 billion to FEMA after the storm, and yet a full year and a half after the storm, just over 50 percent of that fund had been distributed. How does an organization fail so astonishingly at its core mission? It’s simple: an executive branch that disregards its necessity. In 2002, George W. Bush streamlined FEMA into a newly created Department of Homeland Security (DHS), shifting the focus of the once autonomous organization to a variety of other problems. A total of $2 billion of FEMA’s budget was allocated for counterterrorism and $180 million toward disaster relief funding. That contrasts with FEMA receiving over $3 billion directly for disaster relief prior to its merger into the DHS. With less funding for natural disasters, several of FEMA’s senior members and disaster relief experts stepped down and joined nonprofit groups where their expertise was comparatively valued. According to FEMA’s former Federal Coordinating Officer William Carwile, III, funds were cut so severely that training exercises for FEMA emergency responders ceased completely by 2004. To address some of FEMA’s most glaring limitations, Congress passed the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006. These reforms included a reevaluation of the position of FEMA director. Previously, the position was in risk of being doled out as more of a political favor than by experience, as had been the case with Brown — who had no prior experience with disaster management. The role was more or less analogous to being the U.S. Ambassador to Saint Lucia. Under the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, the head would be required to have emergency management experience. While the changes at least led to better leadership, it further com-

plicated the bureaucratic structure. FEMA previously adhered to the Stafford Act, which attempted to codify disaster protocol, and rather than directly amending the Act, Congress created a separate, contradictory piece of legislation. That created a scenario in which a hypothetical hurricane could be designated as both a “major disaster” under the Stafford Act and a “catastrophic incident” under the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act simultaneously — leading to different response protocol. In a catastrophic incident, the FEMA director would report directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security; however, a major disaster requires the FEMA director to report to other DHS officials first. With uncoordinated responses, comes slower response times, leading to a still flawed FEMA. Ultimately, the organization still remains a bureaucratic mess illprepared to respond to a federal disaster. Today, Daniel Allen Craig and Daniel Kaniewski, Trump’s selections for Deputy Administrators of FEMA, are yet to be confirmed. Additionally, FEMA is streamlined under the DHS, preventing it from being autonomous in its relief efforts. Further, Trump’s recent budget cuts to FEMA set the stage for a potentially underwhelming relief effort in response to Hurricane Harvey. Perhaps the solution to disasters such as Katrina and Harvey lies within the private sector. The overly bureaucratic structure of the federal government delays adequate responses to time-sensitive emergencies like a hurricane. Already, Bass Pro Shops has donated $40,000 worth of relief supplies; the Tampa Bay Rays are donating all ticket, concession and parking revenues to Harvey relief funds; a donation center requires an additional warehouse for an overflow of contributions. Perhaps bypassing bureaucracy is the best way to provide relief directly to hurricane victims. Regardless, it must be better than relying on an organization still awaiting the appointment of two of its deputy administrators. Brian Taggett is a College junior from Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Back to School Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | Managing Editor: Hayley Silverstein (hsilve3@emory.edu)

A Guide To Feeding Yourself in College By Madeline lutwyche Asst. Editorial Page Editor Adjusting to college life is never easy, but the daily trial of feeding oneself is high on most students’ list of grievances. Finding the time, resources and motivation to put together a reasonably well-balanced meal can seem impossible, especially for new students. While these suggestions may not all be food-pyramid-approved, hopefully they’ll provide a bit of inspiration for the morning cravings and late-night snackscapades that will soon rule your waking hours. First, go to a real grocery store to stock up. That small investment will save you about a million Dooley Dollars and prevent you from subsisting exclusively on pastries and Nana G’s. Only buy in bulk what you know you, or your pesky friends, will actually eat. Pretzels, granola bars and cereal are good places to start. If you plan to eat full meals in your dorm, take a stroll down the microwaveablemeals aisle, but you’ll probably be better off eating your leftover Dragon Bowl. If you have a fridge, grab yogurt and milk, but remember that what your family might have finished in two days at home will probably go bad before you get around to eating it.

Merriam-Webster: The Emory Edition By nicole Sadek Copy Editor OP · US 1) The bane of your existence. 2) The Online Pathway for University Students, although, let’s face it, the only path it’s leading you down is unemployment. 3) The website that reminds you that you’re enrolled in six sections of underwater basket-weaving and waitlisted for 13 of your required courses. (But don’t fret; Emory is a liberal arts institution and strongly encourages academic and artistic exploration — even in the form of palm leaves.) Pas · ta John 1) You know him: He’s the genie with the fettuccine, the bro with the orzo, the bae with the penne. He greets you on the way to class and reminds you that there is still good in this slowly imploding world. He shows you that eating pasta can be a phantasmagorical experience and that $252,232 is worth a four-year education. 2) He shows up to all the Emory basketball games and has more school spirit than every orientation leader and tour guide combined. 3) A fashion icon. With that newsboy cap and twinkle in his eye, he

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Pasta John dishes out some delicious noodles in Cox Hall. Wood · ruff makes Gigi Hadid look like any other 1) Woodruff Library. 22 year old. 2) Woodruff Physical Education Center. My Hous · ing 3) Woodruff Residential Center. Oh sweet, sweet freshmen and 4) Woodruff Arts Center. freshwomen. You have not yet experi5) Woodruff Scholarship. enced the fun that is MyHousing. 6) Woodruff Foundation. 1) Reliable, as you know it will 7) Woodruff, the man. always crash during your housing 8) Woodruff, the man’s brother. appointment. 2) Destroys your Fevans dreams. 3) Places you in the smallest room — Contact Nicole Sadek at in Woodruff with some cockroaches. nicole.sadek@emory.edu

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Adjusting to college life is never easy, but the daily trial of feeding oneself is high on most students’ lists of grievances.

You’re starving. It’s a late night at Emory and the DUC-ling is closed, if it’s the weekend you can’t count on Cox Hall and the wait at Steak ‘n Shake is out the door and spilling onto the street. What do you do? Here are some recommendations for some popping late-night takeout and delivery spots. Thaicoon & Sushi Bar Restaurant Oddly enough, Emory’s favorite sushi place is named after Thai cuisine. The restaurant serves staple Thai dishes in addition to curry, fried rice and, of course, sushi. The biggest draws for students tend to be their free delivery policy and “Dollar Sushi” specials on Tuesdays, which include $1.25 per piece for nigiri, $2 for four rolls and $3 for two pieces of spicy crab and spicy tuna each. Golden Buddha Located in Decatur, Ga., Golden Buddha serves traditional Mandarin cuisine and Chinese takeout favorites like egg rolls, mu shu shrimp, General Tso’s chicken and fried rice and noodles. The restaurant has a $15 minimum charge for delivery and is open until 11 p.m. on weekends. Top Spice This restaurant, which specializes in Thai and Malaysian cooking, offers patrons the option to customize most dishes with pork, chicken, shrimp or beef. Its location in Toco Hills falls within delivery range for Emory’s campus at a $15 minimum purchase. Wingnuts Back from a night at Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill and can’t decide between Chinese or something fried for your drunchies? Wingnuts has you covered! This carryout/delivery restaurant located on Briarcliff Road is open until 2 a.m. seven nights a week and offers a discount menu after 11 p.m. As implied in the name, wings are the speciality here, with more than two dozen sauces to choose from.

If coffee is a big concern for you (and it will be), take a moment to determine how you’ll be getting your fix for the next academic year. If you’re frugal and caffeine-dependent, invest in your own brewing machine now. If you’re a fan of grabbing it on the go, set a loose coffee budget, or you might end up with shaky hands and no money for real food. Unless you’re very picky or have lots of free time, you can buy fruits and veggies with a quick visit to the DUC-ling. Even if you have unlimited swipes, leaving that perky tent empty-handed is just a waste. Ultimately, surviving at college usually comes down to resourcefulness and good planning, so grab a banana — or a whole bunch — and enjoy the peace of mind that only a sufficient potassium level can provide

— Contact Madeline Lutwyche at madeline.lutwyche@emory.edu

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Freshmen residence halls compete for the coveted title of Songfest champion Aug. 24 in the WoodPEC by singing parodies of popular songs.

Domino’s Does it even need an introduction? The pizza chain in Emory Village is a popular option for students to satisfy those pizza cravings, even at 3 a.m. But be warned: as many a freshman have come to discover, its prime location and hours often lead to long wait times for delivery.

— Contact Alex Klugerman at alex.klugerman@emory.edu

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The Office of Undergraduate Admission 2016â&#x20AC;&#x201C;17 Faculty and Staff Appreciation Awards We would like to recognize and honor the following for their tireless efforts on behalf of future Emory undergraduates.We look forward to another great year with colleagues across campus.

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Winship Distinguished Associate Professor Department of Environmental Sciences

Associate Dean / Director of PHMO / Director of PACE Office for Undergraduate Education

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Director of Creative Services Office of Communications and Public Affairs

Director University Center

Jasmine Hoffman Associate Dean, Communications and Student Services School of Nursing

Erika James John H. Harland, Dean Goizueta Business School

Katie Kennedy Director of Admission and Financial Aid School of Nursing

John Sisk Assistant Director Office of Financial Aid

Bonna Wescoat Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History Department of Art History

Li Xiong Winship Distinguished Research Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

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The Mental Health & Development Program is now accepting participants for an NIMH research project concerned with identifying factors that contribute to mental health problems. Where: James W. Wagner Quadrangle When: Monday September 4 thru Friday September 8 Time: 9 A.M. - 5 P.M. Sponsor: University Center

Volunteers may be eligible if they are 13 to 30 years of age, and are experiencing unusual thoughts or perceptions, or increased suspiciousness. Participation includes diagnostic and cognitive evaluations, MRI scans, EEG, and blood work. There is no charge for the assessments, and participants are compensated for their time.

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

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What I Wish I Knew as a Freshman The Emory Wheel asked three of its graduating editors to reflect on their four years at Emory Univeristy and offer advice to the freshman class.

You Don’t Have to Go to That Party

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Pranati kohli hold us back, we miss out on what could have been memorable experiences. My advice to incoming freshmen is this: Participate in everything you think you’ll enjoy doing and also try some totally new things. Leave At the end of my first almost no space to secsemester at Emory, my ond-guess yourself. Join professor decided to hold a fraternity or a sorora lecture dedicated to life ity, spend a semester lessons for freshmen. An abroad, take courses in entire lesson sans clicker subjects you didn’t even questions — know existed, join I was excita variety of clubs Be unsure of to make sure ed. I expected the usual yourself and you’re in the right suspects: revel in that. ones, make good Maintain friends because a balance they’re the ones between academics and who’ll stick by you, but a social life, try new also make bad friends and unexpected things, because they’ll ensure diversify your friend you’ll grow as a person. group, etc. Little did I Do stupid stuff without know I would walk out of a shred of fear because the lecture with the most you’re never going to get practical piece of advice: this time — your time to leave my comfort zone. in college — back. Don’t Like every pompous stop yourself from doing student, I didn’t realize things because you’re that those words would worried people will judge shape my college career. you. Be unsure of yourWhile it sounds simple self and revel in that. enough, moving out of your comfort zone isn’t — Contact Pranati Kohli always the easiest thing at pranati.kohli@emory. to do. We are held back by edu our preconceived notions and self-expectations, and when we let those

Take your work seriously. Stepping into your big-kid shoes means you’ll likely have much more freedom than you did at home. Regardless of what you do and how you do it, be serious about the choices you make. Do your readings. Go to office hours. Speak up in class. These are the ways you will intellectually grow and thrive; don’t give up that opportunity. You might not stay premed. Though you might entertain the idea of being pre-med your first semester like many other freshmen, you might learn science might not be for you. Take the hint and drop it. If you’re stubborn and don’t drop biology or chemistry your freshman or sophomore year, you might end up deciding to not be premed your senior year.

And that’s Ok. Change your major, and everything will still work out. You might have mental health crises. Between classes, extracurriculars and work, you may pile more things on your plate than you can actually handle. You will be overwhelmed and you might struggle with getting even the smallest of assignments done. You might even miss a deadline (I know, who would have thought?). That is Ok. As tough as this will be, it happens to everyone. When it happens, don’t be afraid to ask for help. Tell your peers how you are doing and what they can do to help. Tell your professors that you need an extension (and you’ll probably get one). Take a moment every day to decompress, rest and take care of yourself. — Contact Anwesha Guha at anwesha.guha@ emory.edu

hannah conway

Dear Freshman, Quit worrying about add-drop-swap. It doesn’t matter. Or perhaps it does matter, but not in the way that you think it does. The classes you “somehow ended up in but didn’t mean to” will enrich your lives in ways that you can’t yet recognize. Sometimes the blue box on OPUS is a blessing. The subject matters that seem irrelevant to your own goals and aspirations are the blood and sweat of other people on this campus. Despite what the MemEmory Facebook group might have you believe, the thick lines on this campus dividing pre-med students, from the business school, from the College can be eased through the simple act of listening to others talk about what they care about and reserving all judgment. There will be many a time when aspects of your childhood will infiltrate

your daily life. This will become especially pertinent when your mother’s coffee order somehow becomes your own, or when you come to realize that the boy in your history class who keeps posing, what seems to you to be, concerning theories was raised around a different dining room table. Or perhaps didn’t have a dining room table at all. Tearing down your preconceived notions about how things operate and who people are is hard work, but it’s worth it. Let people surprise you. Your relationship with Atlanta will change over time. So much lies beyond the confines of Clifton and Briarcliff Roads, and those places will become more accessible as you get further into your college career. There will be times when you fall short, and there will be times when your friends fall short. Be kind to all versions of yourself and them. It’s okay to not go to the party. I suggest it, even. — Contact Hannah Conway at hannah.conway@emory. edu

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To Do Before Graduation: The Emory Bucket List 1. Read The Emory Wheel 2. Watch the sunrise from the stacks after an all-nighter 3. Do something risqué in Lullwater (open to interpretation) 4. Make an appearance in the Wheel’s crime report 5. Find the hidden labyrinth between Cox Hall and the hospital 6. Wander the train tracks at night 7. Explore the woods by Glenn Memorial Church 8. Go ghost hunting in the graveyard at Clairmont Campus 9. Listen to a First Friday a cappella show 10. Go to a fraternity party 11. Go people watching in front of Cox Hall on the bridge 12. Study for finals somewhere off of campus 13. Write an op-ed for the Wheel 14. Have class outside 15. Get let out of class by Lady Claire E. Dooley 16. See the Atlanta night skyline from the top of the Michael Street Parking deck 17. Go to an apartment party at Clairmont Campus 18. Go to a sports event for an Emory sports team 19. Study abroad 20. Make a mandala 21. Swim in the Medical School fountain 22. Be on a first-name basis with Pasta John 23. Visit Oxford College during Dooley’s Week 24. Attend Diwali

25. Visit the Carlos Museum 26. Find the shower in the Atwood Chemistry Center 27. Eat at the DUC-ling after freshman year (bonus points if you convince a freshman to swipe you in) 28. Steal a golf cart after the homecoming parade 29. Climb Stone Mountain 30. Get quoted in the Wheel 31. Get on a first-name basis with one of your professors 32. Eat at Falafel king 33. Join a club 34. Stargaze on the Quadrangle at night 35. Spot one of the Cox Hall bridge cats 36. Find the tunnels underneath Emory 37. Crash a mixer for a frat/ sorority you do not belong to 38. Attend a Dooley’s Week concert 39. Eat free food at Wonderful Wednesday 40. Defiantly drink a Pepsi product on campus 41. Play frisbee on the Quadrangle 42. Go to Stir-fry-Friday’s at Rollins 43. Have at least one snow day bestowed upon you by Gary Hauk 44. Attend Music Midtown 45. Cheer for an Atlanta sports team 46. Eat at The Vortex 47. Visit Pitch & Putt 48. Get drunk at Maggie’s 49. Eat at Waffle House after a night out 50. Go to the farmer’s market

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Arts Entertainment Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | Arts & Entertainment Editor: Devin Bog (devin.bog@emory.edu)

FILM REVIEW

ALBUM REVIEW

‘Villains’ is Criminally Boring by devin bog Arts & Entertainment Editor

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Mel (voiced by T.J. Miller, A bove) recoils in the face of his annihilation due to his ability to express more than one emotion as an emoji, which most emojis regard as a dysfunction.

It’s Time to Stop ‘The Emoji Movie’ by AdityA PrAkAsh Senior Staff Writer Grade: DLet’s be perfectly honest for a second: You aren’t reading this review because you question whether “The Emoji Movie” is comparable to the likes of summer titans like “Baby

Driver” or “Dunkirk.” You’re reading this either to giggle at how utterly terrible the film is or to see whether it’s worth watching ironically. “The Emoji Movie” lives up to its beautiful 8 percent on Rotten Tomatoes but I still found myself deriving some sort of sadistic pleasure in watching the film writhe in its own pathetic capitalist vomit.

SOUNDCLOUD

The Currency of Hip-Hop Hype by sindoos Awel Contributing Writer

Despite narrowly avoiding collapse, SoundCloud still remains a commonly-used music streaming service. SoundCloud, unlike competitors Spotify and Apple Music, allows new, unknown artists to upload their music easily. Therefore, up-and-coming artists — particularly hip-hop artists — are often discovered on SoundCloud. But by allowing a wide spectrum of experienced and inexperienced artists on SoundCloud, the platform also gained a reputation for primarily hosting tracks with low production quality and amateur lyricism, discouraging those with a self-proclaimed “sophisticated” taste in music. What those skeptics fail to realize, however, is that the new style marks a generational shift that’s consuming the hip-hop scene. SoundCloud has largely been responsible for supporting a subgenre of hip-hop known as “mumble rap.” Described as having “incomprehensible” lyricism with rappers typically using mumbling in tune with the instrumentals to create an appealing flow, the subgenre became prominent in the United States,and later made waves internationally. Artists such as Lil Yachty, Playboi Carti and Desiigner are especially notorious. “Mumble rap”

has influenced artists such as Rich Chigga, Higher Brothers and RIN. It’s given birth to a new subculture focused around “Soundclout.” Rap artists that have intense amounts of hype surrounding their music and style are notorious for having “clout.” The artists hold several similarities in style, execution, music video production and visuals. Some listeners assume that the artists lack distinct characteristics, but their cultural backgrounds allow their unique styles to flourish. For example, each artist often makes low budget music videos with what’s around them. For Higher Brothers, that meant using surrounding temples in their homeland, China. Their video might have cost them less than a few hundred dollars to produce and film, but fans were in awe of their original visuals, which differed from popular hip-hop music videos. Despite language barriers, the shared style in this new generation genre helped foster for global collaborations between artists. For instance, Higher Brothers featured U.S.-based rapper Famous Dex in one of their top tracks, which introduced both Famous Dex’s and Higher Brothers’ fan base to a new circle of artists. That intermingling helped international artists

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The film’s premise is so utterly bizarre that it makes “The Bee Movie” seem like a documentary. Within the smartphone of a teenager named Alex (voiced by Jake T. Austin) exists a society of sentient emojis that live for the sole purpose of allowing the messaging app on the phone to function.

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After a four-year break dominated by heavy touring, alternative rock band Queens of the Stone Age have returned with their sixth studio album, “Villains.” It’s pretty mediocre. Queens of the Stone Age has never been a particularly innovative band — their sound has stayed pretty consistent since they released their first album 18 years ago — but that seems almost certainly by design. Their music has always felt more like a loving homage to their forebearers, a tribute to that old ideal of a rapacious, pushing, punishing brand of alt rock and heavy metal fused with their own modern sensibilities. They found a loose, visceral, fun sound that just simply worked; their 2002 album “Songs for the Deaf” was a smashing critical hit. But “Villains” simply isn’t the same even though they’re playing to the exact same tools and strengths that made “Songs for the Deaf” great. First off, these guys can play. If there’s one thing founder and lead vocalist/guitarist Josh Homme is good at, it’s finding high-grade talent to bring into his projects. Guitarists Troy Van Leeuwen and Dean Fertita trade off shredding hypnotic, perfectly executed riffs, while bassist Michael Shuman and drummer Jon Theodore lock into each other to form a rock-solid layer of low-frequency fracas as the band’s rhythm section.

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Mark Ronson, best known for “Uptown Funk,” also holds production credits on the album. Ronson’s involvement is an interesting choice on the band’s part, considering he’s never produced a rock album before, but he’s indisputably an industry-grade talent. Second: It’s pretty clear that these guys don’t take themselves too seriously. While clad in black leather in scores of promotional photos, other material has shown them to be pretty light-hearted guys. That becomes important when you’re listening to the lyrics — it’s the difference between feeling like you’re laughing with them or at them. The lines vary in their melodrama, from your standard ‘80s glam-metal rock one-liners (“Life is hard, that’s why no one survives”) to there being a song actually called “Head Like A Haunted House.” But these factors alone aren’t saving graces, not for “Villains,” and not really for any album. To its credit, the record has a strong start. “Feet Don’t Fail Me” slowly builds from airy, ominous synths over a drum kick, gradually speeding up before crashing into a fast, pulsating groove accentuated by an almost psy-

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RETROSPECTIVE

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Baby (Ansel Elgort, A bove) narrowly avoids a passing car in stylish fashion in summer 2017 blockbuster “Baby Driver.”

Summer’s End: 2017 in Film by vikrAnt nAllAPArAju Film Critic

With September just around the corner, the summer blockbuster season is quickly drawing to a close. It’s as good a time as any to take stock of the year in cinema so far. Here are a few highlights of movies released to date.

the good ‘Baby Driver’: Visual comedy maestro Edgar Wright knocks it out of the park again with his latest passion project “Baby Driver.” Diverging from the territory of his trademark British slacker comedies, Wright blended heist film clichés with a killer soundtrack to create a high-octane action musical

that will leave you floored. While the film lacks the emotional depth of his previous works, it more than makes up for it in sheer originality, engaging characters and nearperfect editing. You’ve probably heard everyone and their mom talking about this one, so believe the hype — it’s that

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‘Alien: Covenant’ One of the Biggest Disappointments of the Year Continued from Page 15 good. ‘Kong: Skull island’: While it certainly won’t end up on anyone’s “worst of the year” list, I get the strong feeling most people missed this film, which is a shame. “Kong: Skull Island’s” transposition of the iconic ape to the Vietnam War-era South Pacific is a great twist on a tired story. The “Apocalypse Now”-esque madness melded with giant monster mayhem harkens back to the political kaiju flicks of the 1960s and 1970s. The only things chewing more scenery than the monsters are Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson) and Hank Marlow (John C. Reilly), who ham it up beyond belief. the bAd ‘Baywatch’: Who asked for this film? “Baywatch” is the definition of lazy cash-grab filmmaking, a bland adaptation of the TV series that ignores good writing and characters for tired references, poorly written dialogue and a plot so simple it makes the original Baywatch series seem like high art in comparison. Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, who continues to make a career out of being the best part of terrible films, is the only shining light in this one, as his natural charisma at least brings some fun to the lifeless story. Priyanka Chopra is woefully

miscast as the lead villain, Victoria Leeds, whose feminist undertones are ignored almost as quickly as they’re introduced. At almost two hours long, the film’s plot struggles to maintain momentum and will have you wishing for a lifeguard to pull you out of the theater. ‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’: In his own attempt to compete with his “Fast and Furious” co-star for making the worst film of the year, producer Vin Diesel, who plays as Xander Cage / xXx, resurrects the “xXx” franchise to take you back to the cheesiest excesses of the early 2000s action films: extreme sports, terrible club music and an emphasis on style over any semblance of creative substance. Seemingly written by a teenager hopped up on Mountain Dew and too many X Games viewings, “xXx: Return of Xander Cage” comes across less like a self-aware throwback and more like a lesser “Fast and Furious” knockoff. The characters are bland, the directing is flat and the stakes are nearly non-existent. Though the film is clearly a vanity project for Diesel, he’s completely outshined by Donnie Yen as Xiang, whose martial arts prowess isn’t given enough screen time. More Yen and less Diesel would make this much more watchable. Even for action movie junkies, there’s much better content out this year to satisfy your palate, and “xXx:

Return of Xander Cage” will only leave you hungry for something substantial. the disAPPointing ‘Alien: Covenant’: After years of creative abuse and studio meddling, “Alien: Covenant” was supposed to redeem the “Alien” franchise. Director Ridley Scott, who seemed to be on an upswing after the success of “The Martian,” was going to shepherd the franchise he created back to its rightful place as one of the masterpieces of horror-science fiction. Unfortunately, he didn’t. “Alien: Covenant” is bad, the kind of bad that leaves you asking, “Where did it all go wrong?” before throwing your hands up in defeat because there are too many possible answers. It’s worse than “Alien 3” (1992) and “Alien: Resurrection,” which are at least fascinating in how much a studio meddling can ruin a project or how comedy just doesn’t work in this franchise. No, “Alien: Covenant” is just a bland mess, throwing decades of continuity out the window in favor of Scott’s continued insistence on navel-gazing philosophizing. The film is a half sequel to “Prometheus” (2012) and half prequel to “Alien” (1979), mangling both films in its attempt to please both fan groups. The resolution to the “Prometheus” storyline is unceremoniously handled within the first hour of the film before

devolving retread of the original “Alien.” And the lazy sequel bait teased at the end of the film issues a final punch to the gut. Michael Fassbender returns in a dual role in the film as androids David and Walter, elevating the hammy dialogue he’s been given to something entertaining. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast members can’t match Fassbender’s presence on screen and easily make up the worst part of the film. Whereas “Alien” and “Aliens” (1986) thrived on characters with distinct personalities, everyone in “Alien: Covenant” is so one-note that I often forgot about them until they were killed off. Katherine Waterston’s Daniels is billed as the next Ripley, but when the character spends most of her time crying and throwing temper tantrums, Daniels just doesn’t hold a candle to Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley. It’s becoming more evident that Scott is just wrong for this franchise. He doesn’t seem to understand that the 1979 original film’s use of ambiguity surrounding the xenomorphs is what made the film so eerie and suspenseful. “Alien: Covenant” proves, without a doubt, that it was screenwriter Dan O’Bannon and producer Walter Hill are the reason “Alien” holds up even today. Scott’s just lost the flare for this franchise and needs to call it a day.

— Contact Vikrant Nallaparaju at vnallap@emory.edu

Online Stars Stake Their Claims Continued from Page 15 start touring in the U.S. Rich Chigga performed this past summer at Rolling Loud Festival in Miami, one of the largest hip-hop music festivals in the United States. His U.S. visit also presented him with an opportunity to sign with EMPIRE Distribution. It is impressive that a movement based in the U.S. has made such an impact so quickly, since it was mainly driven by inexperienced youth. But one must question whether the line between appreciation and appropriation is being crossed, with artists echoing styles of a black artist-dominated genre. For instance, Masiwei, the lead rapper from Higher Brothers is seen rocking dreads in his music videos, which is a blatant example of appropriation. Hip-hop music, as always, will continue to be the one of the most influential genres on a local and global scale. As this movement within rap continues to envelop the music scene, it will surely transform the dynamic between upcoming self-made artists and the traditional hip-hop music scene.

— Contact Sindoos Awel at sindoos.areb.awel@emory.edu

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lead vocalist Josh Homme (Center) performs with Queens of the Stone Age at the Grammy Awards January 2014.

Edgy Rockers Deliver Neutered Product Continued from Page 15 chedelic droning guitar riff. Muscular guitars and the synths from the song’s beginning lead the song into its choruses and its eventual end. It feels aggressive and sharp-edged without ever feeling out of control, trapping its belligerence within each swell of the groove. But that track is the exception to the rule. The rest of the record struggles and fails to keep up. It’s not as if there’s an intentional change in tone here; the writing just feels significantly weaker and less viscerally engaged. The riffs dive deeper and deeper into a chasm of boring, edgy tropes, especially on “Domesticated Animals.” It’s not the

most offensive thing you could listen to, but if you’re at all familiar with the common trappings of alternative rock, why would you? In retrospect, Queens of the Stone Age have had almost 18 years and six studio albums to eek out as many iterations and expressions of a single vision, a single sound, as they could. It’s really not surprising that their well’s at least temporarily run dry — that’s a lot better than many other artists do. But that fact doesn’t save this album from being the middle of the line, uber-generic product it’s turned out to be.

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Each emoji is confined to one emotion from birth. A defective “Meh” emoji named Gene (voiced by T.J. Miller) appears as an emoji that is not a “Meh” in one of Alex’s texts, committing the ultimate taboo in emoji society, which leads Alex to believe that his phone is dysfunctional. As a result, Gene is ostracized from his fellow citizens of Textopolis and seeks out Jailbreak (voiced by Anna Faris), a hacker that can remedy his problems. In order to eventually reach Dropbox — a sort of Elysium for our threesome of protagonists — Gene must make his way through various apps. At this point in the film, you can witness the filthy byproducts of late capitalism in all of its glory, which is hard to ignore if you have the cognitive ability of a 12 year old. The most loathsome example in the entire film takes place near its end. In order to escape killer anti-virus robots chasing down our heroes, they jump into Dropbox intentionally, slowly and clearly stating that “this app is secure.” To a child, that is an innocuous justification. To anyone older than 18, it is the financial might of a company influencing the elastic minds of children, using its large corporate fist to sully their pure souls. A child’s freedom is robbed unknowingly by the subliminal messages of this 91-minute advertisement, and they become naught but puppets, with large companies like Dropbox and Facebook cackling as they clench the marionette. For further clarification, I redirect you to my bucket of popcorn, which suffered a fatal blow as I bludgeoned it

in anger when a Twitter bird appeared near the end of the film. I suffered a similar bout of rage when social media app WeChat inexplicably appeared on the American teenager’s phone. Sony has sacrificed any of the plot’s sanctity for a few bucks. Rather than an organic world with real incentive behind plot points, “The Emoji Movie” just feels like a tour through a smartphone to show off some apps.

A child’s freedom is robbed unknowingly by the subliminal messages of this 91-minute advertisement.

Most of the characters are dry and uninteresting, the exception being a hand emoji called Hi-5 (voiced by James Corden). While irritating for this pretentious 19-year-old viewer, his exaggerated humor is funny for a child. This is great for parents, who can proceed to stab their eyes with pins while their kids laugh at the repeated jokes about Hi-5 not having hands while being, in fact, a hand. Gene — while not a particularly bad character —is made infinitely more annoying by his liberal yet inconsistent use of the word “hashtag” in front of various adjectives. And there is nothing special about him that makes him a particularly likeable protagonist. Gene’s parents (voiced by Steven Wright and Jennifer Coolidge) do nothing to catalyze the plot except fill a few minutes of screentime, in which they have a long, pointless debate on

their marriage within the Instagram app, just so that Instagram can get the exposure for which they must have paid millions for. Those characters were also included so that director Tony Leondis could create several minutes of dialogue done in an intentionally bored voice for a funny gag. Although that dialogue is less funny the umpteenth time, it at least gives you a few more minutes to gouge out your eyes while your kids laugh. Jokes aside, those meaningless moments throughout the film build up to make it the cesspool of second-rate slop that it is. There are numerous flaws in “The Emoji Movie,” from the dodgy dialogue to the irritating soundtrack, which sounds like the director couldn’t hire a real music team and just used his personal Spotify playlist and hoped for the best. But despite the cornucopia of crap that composes the film, I left that cinema feeling mildly entertained. Occasionally, the humor is genuinely funny, and while the animation style is not nearly the same quality as that of Pixar’s, it’s still perfectly fine. Even if I used my popcorn bucket as a punching bag, I did not feel bored in the theater, although perhaps boredom is more savory than sheer rage. This is not to say the film is good at all by any means, but akin to the likes of “The Room” or “Foodfight!”, it becomes rather amusing when you laugh at it rather than with it. Given the incredible quality of most every Pixar film, I can only hope that Sony takes the universally negative reception of “The Emoji Movie” to heart and truly improves from here on out.

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

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SONGFEST

FOOD

DUC-ling Hacks: More Bang for Your ‘Beak’ By aditya PraKash Senior Staff Writer

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Complex Hall residents assembled into formation during their victorious Songfest routine, an annual competition among freshman residence halls, at the WoodPEC Aug. 24.

Complex Crowned: Hall Defends Title By Kiera Xanthos Contributing Writer “Never gonna let you win / Never gonna lose again / Trophy’s gonna stick around in Complex / We’ve got the biggest staff and we’ll get in one last laugh / Dooley knows that we are the best hall.” The words reverberated through

the WoodPEC Thursday night during this year’s Songfest as The Complex residents and staff members sang their own version of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Less than an hour later, their deafening roar boomed from the WoodPEC after they learned they won their second consecutive Songfest. “This back-to-back win was really

special to me, being a ‘double ‘plexer,’” Complex Sophomore Advisor (SA) and former resident Summer Joy Huey (20C) said. Songfest is an annual competition among freshmen residence halls. Per tradition, each hall’s Residence Life staff creates parodies of popular songs,

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most bizarre concept I experienced in this country was dipping Wendy’s fries into the signature Frosty. Initially the In Greek mythology, the phoenix idea was distressing, but after trying is a fabled bird that dies in a fierce it myself, I understand the appeal. combustion, and from the ashes of The light saltiness of the fries perthat kindling is reborn. Here at Emory fectly balances the sweetness of the University, we have our very own bird ice cream, and the slight crispiness of the outside of the spud that comes back to provides a necessary life after death: the textural balance to the DUC. After the bruApples are incredible soft Frosty, like a firm tal dismantling of the fruits thanks to their mattress underneath a campus cornerstone, crunchy texture, their plush blanket. we received a less Foregoing the convenient conve- blend of sweet and sour nience store, a smaller flavors and, quite like much-loved yet often broken soft-serve ice mailroom and most Organic Chemistry, cream machine from critically, the DUCtheir ability to keep the DUC, we instead ling. With its smaller doctors away. get a far more reliable yet swankier interior gelato bar. Crucially, and different food gelato is a little bit station arrangement, the DUC-ling still has food for several more solid than soft-serve, forgoing a hacks one can use to better their eat- melt-in-the-mouth texture for a rich ing experience when forking over a silkiness. The thickness makes the gelato, particularly the vanilla, a great meal swipe. partner for the now-elusive french fries. The double fried potatoes juxtaPoor Man’s Wendy’s As an international student, the

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SOUTHERN DINING

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Prof. Spotlight: David Chicken Joint Smokes Competition Samuel Levinson By Mitchell FriedMan Contributing Writer

By liWen Xu Contributing Writer David Samuel Levinson created “one of the most despicable characters in all of literature” in “Tell Me How This Ends Well,” according to one Goodreads review. But the former Emory Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction took the criticism in stride: “I couldn’t have gotten a better compliment,” he said. Published April 2017, Levinson’s novel is a satirical, dystopian narrative that uses dark humor and pulls inspiration from his experiences teaching at Emory. Levinson, who held a passion for writing from an early age,

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taught at Emory for two years, during which he drew inspiration from the school’s community — especially from its students. His novel, “Tell Me How This Ends Well,” tells the tale of three siblings who have suffered under the mistreatment of their father throughout their lives, and later in their lives, plot his death. The novel is set in a futuristic America that becomes increasingly dangerous for Jewish citizens. At Emory, Levinson encountered many Jewish students from the northeast who came to the South for a different academic environment. Levinson,

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the colonnade Cheshire briDGe

When I started the college application process a few years ago, I joked with friends and family members that I had to attend school in a city with a good reputation for fried chicken. What they didn’t necessarily realize is that I was serious. Eagerly accepting Emory’s admission offer, I began to daydream of local chicken shops. Although it has been satisfying hungry Atlantans since 1927, The Colonnade Restaurant slipped past my gaze as I skimmed through Yelp results. I wish I would have found this gem sooner.

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The Colonnade, located on Cheshire Bridge, serves classic fried chicken in addition to over 500 side combinations. Each serving of their flagship fried chicken dish comes with four pieces: mixed, all white or all dark. The preparation is simple: Batter the chicken in a savory, peppery crust and fry until

golden brown, leaving a moist interior. No bones about it, what makes the dish so tantalizing is the contrast between

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Doolino Knows Best: Return of the King After nearly four months of absence, the student population has finally returned to Emory, raring to start a new academic year. While I say students have “returned,” a rather significant bunch of those irritating pre-med people won’t shut up about their research and have probably been here for most of the summer, rotting away on Clairmont Campus. Nevertheless, with the rise of the DUC-ling and the influx of a class of confused freshmen who can’t pronounce “Goizueta,” one cannot help but feel that our wonderful school has been topped with a new coat of paint. Dear Doolino, I’m a freshman that got onto the varsity soccer team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I applied to the school through a thirdparty admissions company called

Global Talent Agency, and, when I arrived on campus, I was knocked out and thrown into the back of a van. I was in the van for days, chiseling tally marks on the walls with a broken incisor whenever my watch’s alarm went off. After that six-day ordeal, someone dumped me onto the curb of 646 Means Drive. Despite the blood from my temple seeping into my filthy ears, and despite my vision being severely impaired after days of absolute darkness, I could hear the driver speaking to an Emory student. All he said was “Now we are even. Drop all charges.” He then got back into his van. I don’t understand what happened. What is the Global Talent Agency? How are they related to Emory? How will I adapt to studying here rather than going to UNC Chapel Hill? Sincerely, David Luiz-er

Dear David Luiz-er, Oh boy, not even two weeks into the semester, and I’m already getting weird questions. I shall not sink my teeth into the Global Talent Agency fiasco too much since that’ s been done before, but a relatively prominent student organization made a fiscal decision equivalent to giving your bank details to a Nigerian prince via email. Needless to say, it didn’t turn out well. Regarding your other, yet equally valid, concern, many people who come to Emory hold different opinions about this place before the semester begins. To some, it’s a major step up from their local state schools. Others sought different, more prestigious schools for whatever reason, be it sport or a certain department. That’s not just an Emory concept though; almost every private institution will be composed of

a similar spectrum of mindsets. While initially it may be a rough transition, with due time you’ll find your group of friends, and, hopefully by then be content where you are, even if the circumstances of your enrollment are a bit unorthodox. Also, please file a lawsuit. Yours truly, Doolino Dear Doolino, I’m a freshman. I was president of my high school’s student council, captain of the recycling club, lead bassoonist of the orchestra, secretary of the tap water society and grandmaster of the watch repair club. Also, I am academically brilliant. I got a 5 on my AP Human Geography exam, a 29 on my ACT, a 10/10 on a BuzzFeed quiz

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Turmilton Takes Second, Longstreet-Means Claims Third Continued from Page 12 changing the lyrics to both brag about their hall and playfully bash other halls. While Complex took the win, Turmilton, a combination of Turman and Hamilton Halls, took first runnerup, and Longstreet-Means Hall (LSM) won second runner-up. Awards for best lyrics went to Raoul Hall, best T-shirt to Alaharris, a combination of Alabama and Harris Halls, and best banner to Dobbs Hall, the oldest residence hall on campus. College Council President Cassidy Schwartz (18C) and Student Government Association President Gurbani Singh (18B) were among the judges for the competition. Both Schwartz and Singh said that the performances have improved significantly since they were freshmen. According to Schwartz, Complex residents stood out with their energy. Raoul resident Jovaan Velez (21C)

said that he and other Raoul residents met up frequently over the few days leading up to Songfest to polish the routine to perfection. According to LSM resident Jonathan Rosenfeld (21C), the practices were “brutal,” and staff posted the lyrics in the LSM shower stalls to ensure peak memorization. “Songfest is pretty much the greatest thing Emory has to offer,” Rosenfeld said. “[It is a] great way for the hall to get together, great way to build community [and] scream your head off — It’s a great time.” SAs did the majority of work planning and creating the routines and lyrics, while Resident Advisors (RAs) supervised and mentored. According to SA Danial Arslan (20C) of LSM, SAs can be a part of two committees: choreography or lyrics. Arslan said the lyric video displayed during competition, the banner displayed behind the freshmen and the T-shirt designs are all left to the RAs. After the SAs chose the songs for

competition, RAs approved them. SAs write the lyrics with guidance from RAs, and then send the final drafts to the RAs for approval again. After the final sign-off from RAs, dance moves are paired with every line. “[RAs] help a lot during the lyric and [choreography] process because for the [SAs] it’s the first time they’re doing it, and [RAs] have this experience from previous years,” Arslan said. Before the freshmen displayed their hard work on the floor, their Orientation Leaders (OLs) performed a special dance routine. Unlike the freshmen in their performances, the OLs did not change the lyrics to their accompanying songs, nor did they sing along. According to OL Sydney Hwang (20C), the OL dance captains completely choreographed the dance. She said that the OL group was really unified and enthusiastic this year. “[The OL dance is] our last opportunity to really show the first-years

the school spirit we all have for them, the school spirit we want them to emulate,” OL Captain Zach Denton (18C) said.According to Denton, the captains also choreographed Lady Claire E. Dooley’s dance, which Dooley and her bodyguards performed as the judges deliberated. “I think this event is so great because this is the time that Emory really gets to show their spirit … [the competition between the halls] carries on throughout the year,” Singh said. The Resident Hall Association (RHA) attempted to use Songfest to increase school spirit on campus, according to RHA president Aaina Pahwa (19B). “In previous years, there’s been a lack of communication on what exactly [Dooley’s Bowl] is and where exactly your Songfest points go,” Pahwa said. Dooley’s Bowl is a competition held between the freshmen residence halls throughout the year, with points awarded based on the residents’ par-

Former Creative Writing Fellow’s Book Inspired by Emory Continued from Page 12 who has always been intrigued by these students’ choices, said that much of his curiosity is rooted in the specific reasons they chose to come to the South. He explored that curiosity through one of his novel’s protagonists, Edith Jacobson Plunkett. Through Edith, an ethics professor at Emory, Levinson pays tribute to Emory University and Atlanta. “I was just interested in writing a character who [spent] a lot of her life [in] culture shock, how that plays out in her world and how it leads to the choices she makes in her life,” Levinson said. Levinson said that his characters, storylines and current success build on his past experiences — at times coincidentally, and at times deliberately. According to Levinson, his passion for writing started when he began writing plays for his elementary school’s PTA. He added that a defining moment in his writing career stemmed

from an encounter with the mystery series “Encyclopedia Brown” in a San Antonio bookstore. Although he was at first reluctant to read the mystery series, which his mom had recommended to him, Levinson ended up falling in love with “whodunit” stories. David Samuel levinson, Former Creative Writing Fellow Courtesy of DaviD samuel levinson

Levinson went on to study creative writing at Columbia University (N.Y.) and later taught creative writing at Texas A&M University. Although he enjoyed his teaching experiences there, Levinson said that he had been immersed in the town’s culture for long enough, and was ready to move on. He was overjoyed when he was

offered a job to teach as a fellow at Emory in 2013. “When Professor of Practice Jim Grimsley called me to tell me that I got it, I had to pull over on the side of the road. I was so floored,” Levinson said. “I had such a great time at Emory, and the students are amazing.” During his time writing and teaching at Emory, he tried to show his students that creative writing is simply a different way of thinking. Emily Li (17C), a former student of Levinson’s and creative writing instructor at the Taft School (CT), said, “He really encouraged me to take risks in my writing. It’s tempting to fall into patterns of writing that you’ve heard before or draw on cliches and tropes you see in other writing, [but] something that Levinson taught me was to not be afraid to try completely different things.” Though he specializes in fiction, Levinson believes that the best prose writers are former poets, emphasiz-

Best Ways to Enhance Your Meal Swipes Continued from Page 12 pose the creamy texture of the dessert. The bristles of the fries and the heavy, salty oiliness adds a layer of excitement to the simple, pure vanilla, like a conservative, small town girl going to the big city and letting herself loose for the first time. While it’s not as good as the Wendy’s staple, the mix of textures and flavors is like fireworks in your mouth.

— Contact Liwen Xu at liwen.xu@emory.edu

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The DuC-ling offers several ingredients to DiY your meal.

spread a little bit of jam on the apple and then add a generous dollop of cream cheese. If jam is not your jam and you would prefer something sweet rather than tart, honey can be substituted and generously drizzled on top of the cream cheese. With one bite, you penetrate the crisp, paper-like apple, allowing the tangy and sweet juices to to fill your mouth, quickly countered by the thick, creaminess of the cheese, which acts like a comforting blanket after a dance in the rain. That’s then supplemented by the pulpy jam sandwiched in the middle, its sticky texture acting as a saccharine adhesive between the

somewhat salty cream cheese and the apple. conclusion Hopefully, this article has put forward how resourcefulness can help you make the most of your DUC-ling experience. While some of these concoctions are as bizarre as the giant inflatable duck on McDonough Field’s stage, the intention is that you open your ideas to the limitless options you receive the moment you conscribe yourself to a meal plan with DUC-ling swipes.

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

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about Disney characters and boast a 120/80 blood pressure. Do you think a triple major in business, NBB and computer science will be too easy for a prodigal freshman like myself? I’m also in freshman organic chemistry because I am simply that gifted! From IQ 84 Dear IQ 84, I cannot wait for your first orgo midterm. Sincerely, Doolino For your day-to-day qualms and minor life crises, send anonymous questions to doolino.emory@gmail. com.

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aPPles cracKers The DUC-ling houses myriad ingredients that can be rather bland when tasted separately. Exposure to contrasting flavors and textures sublimates the dish as a whole, ensuring that what is on your plate is far more than the sum of its parts. One example is this simple yet innovative combination: apples, cream cheese and jam. The now-pre-washed fruit section of the DUC-ling is generally full of apples. Apples are incredible fruits thanks to their crunchy texture, their blend of sweet and sour flavors and, quite like organic chemistry, their ability to keep doctors away. With some handy butter knife skills, attempt to cut a (preferably red) apple into very thin slices. When completed,

ing how poets can enrich the imagery prevalent in prose and control the economy of language used. “The best writing marries poetry and prose, like there’s a lyrical quality to the writing,” Levinson said. “And that’s what I try and do. And well, with prose, you clearly have a much bigger canvas to work with.” Levinson’s writing path reflects not only in his written works but also in the lives of students he has impacted. Through his thorough social explorations and caring regard towards his students, Levinson has contributed to Emory’s culture through both his writing and his teaching. “I’d like to explode the [writing] tropes, and kind of rework them,” Levinson said. “[Creative writing is] a different way of using your mind. It’s a way of being, it’s a way of thinking, it’s a way of living.”

ticipation in campus events, Pahwa said. For Songfest, halls won points based on their final standings and specific awards. The points won will remain in a continuous tally, the hall with the most points at the end of the academic year winning the bowl. Despite the losses, some freshmen remained proud of their residence halls. “It’s a bummer we didn’t win, but we’re going to come back next year and win,” Raoul Hall resident Carmen Baden (21C) said. “I’ll still be passionate about being in Raoul, my first home.” LSM resident Austin Graham (21C) said that the overall experience exceeded his expectations. “To any people who skipped tonight — you know who you are — you missed a good time,” Graham said. “I’ll always remember this.”

the crunchy skin and the tender layers beneath. When the plate landed in front of me, I wanted to dig in immediately, even though it was piping hot. Although I recommend the fried chicken entrée above all else, the salmon croquettes and shrimp plate are also excellent choices. Both are elegant preparations of seafood in a Southern tradition. A mere 10-minute drive from campus, The Colonnade is an excellent venue to bring out-of-town guests when they request Southern delicacies. When passing under the colonnade that gives the restaurant its name, you’ll notice the old menus adorning the foyer. While a fried chicken plate and two sides cost a bit more than 35 cents now, I assure you the price you’ll pay is a worthy investment. While the term “side dish” implies that it is somehow inferior in merit to an entrée, those at The Colonnade best dispel such a notion. With a list of side items taking up the better half of a menu page, common side effects of having to choose only two include indecision and an increased appetite. After I sampled many choices, I

reserved the highest praise for the macaroni and cheese, whipped potatoes and tomato aspic. Served by the scoopful, the well-cooked macaroni and cheese had a pleasant noodleto-cheese ratio. Each airy forkful of the potatoes provided a stark contrast from the heaviness that came with each bite of chicken. If you’re feeling brave, try the tomato aspic. Essentially a combination of Jell-O and a Bloody Mary, the authentic dish is a true palate cleanser. As if eating a full fried chicken dinner was not sinful enough, The Colonnade offers an expansive dessert menu as well. There is no wrong answer; however, I personally enjoy the hot fudge cake and the key lime pie. Each provides a unique and refreshing way to end the meal that does not leave you feeling overfilled. In addition, an early bird prix fixe menu is available for $13 from Monday to Thursday from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. It includes a beverage and dessert with your meal. As the old saying goes, “The early bird gets the drumstick!”

— Contact Mitchell Friedman at mitchell.friedman@emory.edu

SPORTS

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Swoop’S Scoop Sport

Opponent

Time

Cross Country

Watermelon Run

7:30 p.m.

Friday

Volleyball

Johns Hopkins

5 p.m.

Sept 1

M Soccer

N.C. Wesleyan

4:30 p.m.

W Soccer

Georgia Gwinnett

7 p.m.

Volleyball

Wittenberg

10 a.m.

Volleyball

Ill. Wesleyan

3 p.m.

M Soccer

Pacific Lutheran

7 p.m.

W Soccer

Pfeiffer

Noon

Saturday Sept 2 Monday Sept 4

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Emory Alumnus Adds To Medal Collection Continued from Back Page Notably, Wilson defeated Kazakh breaststroke swimmer and 2016 Olympic champion Dmitriy Balandin in this event. Emory Swimming and Diving Head Coach Jon Howell attributed Wilson’s victory to his incredible ability to persevere, particularly after he failed to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games. “[Wilson] is very hard on himself when he fails, but he fails really well,” Howell said. “He has a moment where he is really upset and disappointed, but he is always able to circle back and really reflect on what he could do better.” Wilson finished in 1:00.15 in the final 100m breaststroke, tying for gold with Belarusian swimmer Ilya Shymanovich. Wilson also finished in fourth place in the 50m breaststroke in 27.57 seconds. In the 4x100 medley relay, Wilson provided an impressive 59.29 split in the breastroke leg. The team finished with a time of 3:33.27, 1.58 seconds ahead of runner-up Russia. Wilson’s pursuit for success has influenced the Emory swim team’s cul-

ture, indicated in part by last season’s Division III National Championship victory, said team captain and teammate Cooper Tollen (18C). “[Wilson was] a big part of why I wanted to come to Emory,” Tollen said. “He was a brilliant guy … and he made sure the team knew to [take both swimming and] academics very seriously.” Wilson graduated with a degree in applied mathematics and physics and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in computational mathematics at the University of Texas. He will continue to train full time with the Texas Aquatics swim club, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “He has really redefined what is possible in Division III swimming,” Howell said, citing Wilson’s excellence in academics and athletics. “The level that he has hit is really unprecedented for a Division III swimmer and, combined with his academic achievements, is a pretty unique accomplishment.” Wilson could not be reached for comment by publication time.

— Contact Anwesha Guha at anwesha.guha@emory.edu

Travis Resigns, Heads On To Coe College Fire Men’s Soccer Prepares for Sonny Carter Invitational Continued from Back Page ture already in place. “We have the same group, the same values, the same core,” Greiner said. “There is nothing too drastically different.” With so many returning starters and six seniors on this year’s roster, the Eagles can ill afford to struggle through the coaching change if they wish to avoid a repeat of last year’s result and capitalize on their potential. Their 10-5-1 record last season would be considered excellent by most standards, but some players felt slighted by their absence from the NCAA tournament.

“We have the same group, the same values, the same core.” — Cory Greiner, Head Coach “We had 10 wins, or whatever it was, but no one really cared about that given that we didn’t make the tournament, didn’t win the conference,” Gardiner said. “There is a lot of resentment about how things finished off last year and we want to go out and prove that getting left out of the tournament isn’t indicative of the talent that we have as a team.” Returning seniors this year include defenders Gardiner and Georges Daoud, midfielder Adam Ferguson and

Stravach Tops Strong Roster of Runners Continued from Back Page emphasized that, while UAA competition is a focus, first priority lies with the Eagles’ regional competitors. “Our main goal is to win regionals,” Curtin said. “If we can’t win regionals, we want to at least finish in a position where we could finish high enough to qualify for nationals.” A new season is on the horizon, but there is still a hint of bitterness left over from last year’s final results: Curtain had hoped for better outcomes on a national level last year, especially on the women’s side. “The women’s team was definitely a top-20 caliber team last year,” Curtin said. “However, our team fell off a bit in our fifth person, as the top five runners on your team count towards your score.” This season, the team hopes to find some consistency and regularly field five successful runners rather than only relying on the team’s top runner. With the season yet to begin, Curtin said that it’s too early for the coaching staff to predict if both teams will have the improved depth to outperform last year’s team. “It is hard to be really sure of what we have right now,” Curtin said. “We have lost some terrific seniors so we will need new runners to step up.”

This year, the Eagles will field their “largest team ever,” according to Curtin. The men’s team has 31 members, including five seniors, and the women’s team has 29, with four seniors. The addition of 14 and 11 members to the men’s and women’s team, respectively, gives the Eagles several new runners to put into meets this year. Senior Gabrielle Stravach, Emory’s top runner in all seven of her races in 2016, expressed her excitement about the larger team. “We usually have our strongest teams when we have a lot of girls on it,” Stravach said. “Having a lot of girls creates a positive atmosphere, and we work better as team when there are more of us.” Senior Shane Sullivan and junior Bennett Shaw return to the Eagles as two of the men’s team’s top runners. Sullivan was deemed Emory’s most improved runner in the 2016 season, recording a personal best 8K time of 25:38 at the Division III Championships. He was also No. 3 on the team at the UAA Championships and the Furman Classic. Shaw, one of Emory’s top five runners in six of his seven races last year, posted a personal best 8K time of 25:50 at the UAA Championships and

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finished second among Emory runners at the Furman Classic. On the women’s side, Stravach comes into the season as one of the squad’s top runners. Curtin praised Stravach as one of his best female competitors. “[Stravach] is the lead dog,” Curtin said. “She’s talented, she works hard and everyone looks up to her and respects her.” Last season, Stravach posted a career-best 6K time of 21:33, achieved second-team all-UAA honors and posted Emory records at Nationals and the UAA Championships. Stravach said that she attributes the success of her breakout year to preparation and diligence. She hopes that her success motivates her teammates. “Our sport is the type of sport where you get out of it what you put into it,” Stravach said. “I hope this helps the other girls work harder and stay determined to get to where they want to be.” Stravach and the rest of the women’s and men’s cross country teams will have the opportunity to demonstrate just how much work they’ve put into this offseason, with the teams’ first meet Friday, Sept. 1, in the Watermelon Run at Mount Berry (Ga.).

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

forwards Christian Meyer, Michael Carragher and Jason McCartney. Last year, McCartney led the team with seven goals and seven assists and was named to the All-UAA First Team. Gardiner was named All-UAA Second Team, as was junior forward Moustaffa Khattab. Of the team’s newer players, Greiner was most impressed with junior defender Tyler Santee, a transfer from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Greiner explained that one of the team’s biggest areas of improvement must come in their ability to recognize mistakes and make adjustments accordingly. “There are going to be times when we make a mistake and it’s going to cost us a goal,” Greiner said. “That’s natural, that’s a part of soccer, that’s a part of life. We want to be able to see that, replicate that, and fix it.” The Eagles typically face a challenging schedule, both in and outside of UAA play, and that will surely be no different this season. Key matches include an early road challenge at Washington & Lee University (Va.) Sept. 9 and another away contest at University of Chicago Oct. 7. For now, the Eagles have their eyes set on their first match against North Carolina Wesleyan College Friday, Sept. 1, at home in the annual Sonny Carter Invitational. Emory will have little rest before their second game Saturday, Sept. 2, against Pacific Lutheran University (Wash.), which will conclude the weekend invitational.

— Contact Kevin Kilgour at kkilgou@emory.edu

Volleyball Strong in Preseason Continued from Back Page ter Sydney Leimbach, who was an an All-American Honorable Mention last season, will also serve as co-captain. In the meantime, the head coach said that she is gearing up for an intense season with her players. “We’re really focusing on our ball control, because along with our passing, this team has the potential to be one of our best serving and passing teams that we’ve had in a long time,” McDowell said. “Our setting and leadership will improve our team and give us the ability to take our game to the next level.” The Eagles begin the regular season this Friday, Sept. 1, in Springfield, Ohio, where they face Johns Hopkins University (Md.). The Eagles will then prepare for a quick turnaround, with two additional contests on deck Saturday, Sept. 2, against Wittenberg University (Ohio) and Illinois Wesleyan University (Ill.). — Contact Allison Gelman at

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“I attempted to bet on myself but was denied.” — Floyd Mayweather Summer is over, school is here, and one thing is as certain as OPUS crashing exactly at your enrollment time: the return of On Fire. After a summer spent watching SportsCenter reruns until the wee hours of the morning, your On Fire correspondent returns to the sports page, bursting with useless sports knowledge. While the comforting lullaby of Scott Van Pelt’s voice has been replaced with a nagging alarm that begs the question, “Why the hell did you schedule an 8:30 a.m. class in the North Decatur Building?” the thesis of this summer remains unchanged: It was all too predictable. What does your On Fire correspondent mean by this? Well, let’s start with the NBA Finals. As was the case last year — and even the year before that — the same two damn teams were in it again. Even the Mayans (we’re still here, liars) foresaw a Golden State vs. Cleveland matchup. And shocker: the Warriors won after they acquired Kevin Durant — you know, the guy who changed locations for the most convenient opportunity for success (ahem, Kaldi’s business strategy). Anyway, no shocker there; we’re probably going to have another Warriors vs. Cavs matchup come June 2018.

The thesis of this summer remains unchanged: It was all too predictable.

In baseball? As per usual, the beloved Home Run Derby champ has experienced a post All-Star break slump. Aaron Judge, the best gap-toothed New York athlete since Michael Strahan, absolutely mashed baseballs in the first half of the season. And, to no one’s surprise, hitting 40 mph pitches in the Derby messed with his timing in the second half. His Derby performance, during which Judge hit the baseball a combined distance of nearly four miles, has been juxtaposed by his newly set record of most consecutive games with a strikeout … ever. Regardless, you know every guy named Tony in Brooklyn still chants MVP whenever Judge’s name is mentioned. Most recently in the tale of predictable sports outcomes, one of the greatest boxers of all time bettered his career record to 50-0 by defeating an opponent that doesn’t actually box. Sure, Conor McGregor held his own in the ring, but the fight was equivalent to Tim Tebow hitting against Clayton Kershaw. Nonetheless, your On Fire correspondent was lured into spending money to watch the fight with the mere optimism of “Hey, maybe something crazy might happen!” It didn’t. Rather, your On Fire correspondent burned both money and time — just like when you wait in line at Mag’s just to have your ID taken. However, as summer has ended, there is reason for excitement: Football season is just around the corner. And honestly, who knows what surprises lie ahead? Maybe Alabama will compete against someone other than Clemson in the National Championship game this season. The possibilities are endless.

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Wilson Strikes Gold Overseas By AnweshA GuhA Associate Editor

experience of both this year’s roster and the current coaching staff would help mitigate the challenge. “I feel like I have left the program in really good shape, and that’s the only way that I would leave this late in the summer,” Travis said. “There was a good assistant coach in place, we had good captains in place, we had a good returning roster … and I hope they can take it to the next level.” As an experienced member of this Emory program, Greiner has a solid foundation from which to work and is hopeful that he can build on the cul-

Andrew Wilson just keeps swimming (and placing himself on the podium at the highest levels of competitive swimming). The former Emory swimmer, who graduated in 2017 from the College, won two gold medals in the 200m and 100m breaststroke this week at the 2017 World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan. He also swam the breaststroke leg of the men’s 4x100m medley relay for the U.S. team, which claimed gold in the event and brought Wilson’s medal count up to three for the meet. The biennial World University Games, known internationally as Universiade, connects more than 9,000 students from more than 170 countries in an Olympic-style sporting event, according to International University Sports Federation’s website. The event invites the world’s top student athletes to compete. In his preliminary heat of the 200m breaststroke, Wilson finished in 2:08.37, the ninth fastest time in the world this year. His performance set a new meet record for the 200m breaststroke, according to World University Games. Wilson then claimed gold with a winning time of 2:08.45 in the final heat.

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The emory men’s soccer team practices at the WoodPeC as the preseason period nears its end. The eagles will compete at home this weekend in the Sonny Carter Invitational, kicking off at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1.

Eagles Kick Off with New Head Coach By Kevin KilGour Sports Editor

Last season, the Emory men’s soccer team failed to earn a bid to the NCAA DIII Men’s Soccer tournament. Now, the team returns to the pitch with a chip on its shoulder. The Eagles will have no shortage of experience with 10 of the 11 starters from last year’s squad back on the field, but one key member will no longer be in the huddle: Head Coach Sonny Travis. Travis became the athletic director at Coe College (Iowa) Aug. 28, leaving Emory after 10 years and 122 wins. Prior to his term at Emory, Travis

served as both the athletic director and men’s soccer coach at Virginia Wesleyan University. Now, with more than 400 wins tallied across a 31-year coaching career, Travis is ready to take on a new challenge. “[Returning to an administrative role] is something I have been thinking about for a while,” Travis said. “I wanted to get back to a situation where I could do just administration and build an athletic program and work with coaches.” Cory Grenier, who has served as assistant coach for the last five years with the men’s soccer program, was named Interim Head Coach. While

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no one on the team could have predicted Travis’ departure, the transition to Coach Greiner has been nearly seamless. “Things have transitioned pretty smoothly,” captain and senior center back Cody Gardiner said. “All the guys are excited about the direction the program is going, but it was definitely a shock when we were told about the coaching change because no one knew it was coming.” Travis’ abrupt departure certainly creates a hurdle for the Eagles as they prepare for their first match less than a month after switching head coaches. However, Travis was confident that the

Teams Nicaragua Trip Sets Up Eagles for Season Aim for Regional Success By Allison GelMAn Senior Staff Writer

By stephen MAttes Senior Staff Writer Last competing November 2016, Emory’s men’s and women’s cross country teams have worked diligently during the offseason to prepare to take flight their first meet of the 2017 season. Both the men’s and women’s squads enjoyed successful seasons in the Southeast Region in 2016. The men finished third overall in the Southeast, earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III National Championships, and the women won the regional title in the Southeast, qualifying for an automatic bid to Nationals. Despite falling short of the top of the University Athletic Association (UAA) in 2016, Head Coach John Curtin

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After an eventful 2016 season that concluded in an NCAA quarter finals appearance, the Emory women’s volleyball team returns to the court this fall ready to take it all the way. After a short week of preseason practice, the Eagles traveled this past weekend to Tennessee for games against Lee University (Tenn.) and Carson-Newman University (Tenn.). While the team did not have a set starting lineup, the Eagles won both scrimmages. “It really shows how deep the team is and how easily we can adapt to change,” junior defense specialist Mila Barzdukas said. “This program will be so successful because we all have been working so hard.” Eight days before preseason, 14 upperclassmen players and Head Coach Jenny McDowell traveled to Nicaragua to face the Nicaragua Women’s National Volleyball Team and to volunteer and bond as a team. While away, the team adapted to concrete courts and volunteered at a preschool and a center for those with special needs in addition to hosting a volleyball clinic. Many of the trip’s events were

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The women’s volleyball team prepares for their for their road trip this coming weekend in Springfield, ohio. Their first match is set for Sept. 1 against Johns Hopkins University (Md.). recorded in the team’s blog for the week. As a result of the trip and the particular timing of this year’s orientation activities, the team’s preseason lasted for a shorter time than usual. Even with the shorter preparation period, both Barzdukas and McDowell emphasized that the work the team has done during the offseason will hope-

fully have positive effects for the team this year. “Our 14 upperclassmen returned in incredible shape, which really got us off on the right foot,” McDowell said. “It will be hard to replace our three seniors from last year … because those are big shoes to fill, but we have some people who are ready and excited to step up.”

With 26 players on the squad, the Eagles boast a diverse and talented roster. This year, the team welcomed a strong freshman class of seven players. The Eagles have only one senior playing, setter and co-captain Hannah Billings. Junior middle hit-

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