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University Releases Pres. Search Prospectus

By Madison Bober and Calen MacDonald Managing Editor and Senior Staff Writer

Courtesy of Emory Athletics

Emory swimming and diving teams won the University Athletic Association’s (UAA) team championship in Chicago on Feb. 15. The women’s team won their 28th consecutive title and the men’s team won their 22nd consecutive title.

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Emory Receives 5K Early Decision Applications

By Calen MacDonald Senior Staff Writer The Atlanta campus received 3,272 applications across both Early Decision (ED) I and II, with an acceptance rate of 33 percent for ED I and 13 percent for ED II, according to Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Enrollment and Dean of Admission John Latting.

Oxford College received 1,851 appli-

cants, with an acceptance rate of 32 percent for ED I and 18 percent for ED II. Acceptance rates and the total number of applicants increased for the Atlanta and Oxford campuses compared to last year. Emory received 3 percent fewer international applicants between ED I and II applicant pools, according to Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Enrollment and Dean of Admission John Latting. Despite this decrease, the percentage of inter-

national students among the accepted class increased from 16 percent to 21 percent.

“In terms of getting student visas, America may not be quite as enthusiastically a friendly destination,” Latting said.

Fifty-seven percent of admitted students are female, and 14 percent are African American, Hispanic, Latinx

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The Emory Board of Trustees on Monday approved the Presidential Selection Committee’s presidential prospectus, which outlines the current financial and academic state of the University and the potential challenges the future president will have to face.

The prospectus, released on Tuesday, revealed to the Emory community that the University is currently within the “silent phase of a highly ambitious capital campaign” that the next president will oversee. The document also encourages the new president to recognize the goals behind the “One Emory” strategic framework and to unify the University’s decentralized finances.

“As a historically decentralized institution, Emory must continue to seek ways to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts, both fiscally and philosophically,” the prospectus reads.

The 19-page document was compiled from information based on almost 40 meetings with Emory faculty, staff and students. The Wheel selected and analyzed the most pertinent information.

Finances The prospectus reveals that the

University is in the silent phase of a capital campaign project, a monumental fundraising initiative that would facilitate the next stage of the University’s growth. The University has raised an average of $376 million per year from 2017 to 2019. These donations were largely aided by longterm donors to the University, although these donors are not identified.

The document highlights the Candler School of Theology, the Rollins School of Public Health and the School of Medicine as divisions with “impressive endowments,” as opposed to other academic divisions which have mostly relied on donations.

“The capital campaign will rank as one of the new president’s highest priorities,” the prospectus reads.

The prospectus explains that Emory’s finances are “decentralized,” a system where each school and department is given autonomy to execute their own fiscal strategies.

University leadership has created a central investment fund which will unify financial management through “cross-disciplinary efforts and seed money to encourage collaboration.”

The prospectus calls for diversification in Emory’s financial portfolio and financial incentives for collaboration in research and education.

The prospectus also reports the University’s $2 billion in cash assets that it uses for investments, though it does not list where those assets lie.

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Bober To Serve as Editor-inChief

Clubs Rally For Election Holiday

By Layla Wofsy Contributing Writer

By Thomas Kreutz Senior Staff Writer

Staff members and editors of The Emory Wheel voted on Feb. 15 for Managing Editor Madison Bober (20C) to serve as the next editor-inchief of the student newspaper. The election marked the third competitive election in as many years.

Voter turnout was 74 percent, with 40 voters casting a ballot out of 54 eligible voters.

Bober received 26 votes, amounting to 65 percent of total votes. Managing Editor Shreya Pabbaraju (21C) received 14 votes, or 35 percent.

Bober, a political science major and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies minor, began involvement with the Wheel as a staff writer during her freshman year. Later that year, Bober applied for the position of assis-

Reconstruction era.

To kick off the initiative, Emory students recited a speech by Frederick Douglass and reflected on his memory outside of the Emory Student Center in commemoration of the 19th-century abolitionist’s birthday.

College Council (CC) passed Senior Legislator Justin Cohen’s (20C) Election Day resolution unanimously on Feb. 12, which would advocate for the creation of a University holiday on Election Day. CC, Oxford Student Government Association (SGA), Emory SGA and BBA Council have already passed resolutions in support of the initiative, and Cohen believes that the Graduate Student Government Association and Emory Student Nurses Association (ESNA) will pass resolutions this coming week.

The resolution claims that “the University administration does not provide for adequate resources to guarantee students, faculty, and staff access to the ballots.” Though not explicitly written in the resolution,

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Students recite sections of Fredrick Douglass’ speech commemorating the 21st anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation on Feb. 14 at McDonough Plaza.

Rose Library Creates ‘Lift Every Voice’ Project

By Musa Ya-Sin Contributing Writer

“It begins with having conversations about what it means to be an American,” Pellom McDaniels III told the Wheel about civic education. “We have to have a foundation first, and the foundation comes from understanding

what it means to be a citizen.”

McDaniels, the curator of African American collections at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, launched the Rose Library’s Lift Every Voice 2020 initiative on Feb. 14, a yearlong project that aims to analyze what it means to be American through the lens of the

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SGA members debate constitutional changes that would reapportion representatives on Feb. 17.

SGA Debates Revisions To Constitution

By Tanika Deuskar Senior Staff Writer

The Student Government Association (SGA) discussed a bill that would change the number of representatives to the legislature during their meeting on Feb. 17. The bill, sponsored by SGA Attorney General Ryan Murray (19Ox, 21C), is categorized as an Issue of Significance because it seeks to amend the SGA Constitution.

All Issues of Significance must undergo two readings and be discussed in a town hall before they are voted upon and codified.

Proportional Representation in the SGA Legislature

compromise” because it ensures a more equitable allocation while ensuring that no divisional council has an outright majority.

While legislators supported the system of proportional allocation of representatives, SGA Vice President Lori Steffel (21B) and Sophomore Legislator Mo Singhal (22C) spoke about adding legislators that would represent their class year, as under the proposed structure, legislators will represent separate divisional councils and not students across divisional councils.

Changes in Executive Authority Clause

Under the proposed amendments, non-elected members of the executive The bill would allocate two branch can be removed “if for any representatives to each of the four reason they cannot perform the duties divisional councils — College Council of their position.” Dismissed officers (CC), Oxford College SGA, BBA will be allowed to appeal the decision Council and Emory Student Nurses with the Constitutional Council.

This change was Association (ESNA) proposed in light of — and allocate the 52nd SGA President eight remaining seats “We didn’t want to Dwight Ma’s (17Ox, proportionally across be put in a position 19C) dismissal of the councils based former Chief of Staff on their student where we have and current SGA populations. SGA will someone who is a President Ben Palmer determine the number rogue executive who (18Ox, 20C). Palmer’s of representatives was allocated to those is not accountable.” dismissal criticized by members seats each year.

According to — Ryan Murray (19Ox, of Ma’s executive Palmer, Murray, the current 21C), SGA Attorney board. however, admitted student enrollment in General that Ma could have each divisional college removed him even would result in an allocation of six additional legislators under this amendment.

Murray said that, under the to CC and one additional legislator to Oxford SGA and BBA Council amended constitution, members of each. ESNA will not be allocated any the executive branch should only be dismissed for not attending meetings additional legislators.

The current constitution allocates or not performing their duties, and six representatives to CC and three not due to a disagreement between the each to Oxford SGA, BBA Council and executive board member and the SGA ESNA. president.

According to Murray, the change “We didn’t want to be put in seeks to address complaints that CC a position where we have someone is underrepresented in SGA, adding who is a rogue executive who is not that since students of the College far accountable,” Murray said. outnumber students in other divisional The current constitution states councils, representatives cannot be under Article V, Section 4 that “all allocated on a strictly proportional non-elected members and officers basis. serve at the pleasure of the President “If you look at the student population of the SGA.” numbers … College Council would Discussion of the executive have 16 seats and then Oxford would authority clause was postponed until have one and everyone else would have the next meeting on Feb. 24. zero,” Murray said. “Obviously that wasn’t going to work.”

— Contact Tanika Deuskar at Murray called this method a “good tdeuska@emory.edu

Cohen said in an interview with the Wheel that his resolution aims to make Election Day a holiday in which classes and other scholastic activities would be cancelled.

“I like to think of it like a snow day; however, where snow days are unpredictable … and often times professors don’t like [them], … this is going to be planned,” Cohen said. “There would be no classes, ... organization meetings … [or] obligations that would make it difficult for students to go and vote.”

Cohen’s resolution has been cosigned by over 29 student organizations around campus, including Hillel, Young Democrats of Emory and Emory Pride.

Over the past two weeks, Cohen has campaigned across the University’s student government organizations in hopes to garner broad support for his resolution.

Cohen has shared his initiative with Emory SGA, the BBA Council, ESNA, Oxford SGA, Rollins SGA, the Graduate Business Association, the Student Bar Association, the Medical Student Senate and Candler Coordinating Council.

Additionally, Cohen penned a Feb. 13 letter that explains the purpose of the resolution: a method to improve accessibility to the polls.

“Not allowing students, as well as faculty and staff, full access to the ballots deprives them of their right and ability to use their voice against the issues they encounter,” Cohen wrote in a Feb 13. letter.

The letter, which explains the purpose of the resolution, addresses the fact that “issues such as climate change,

LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, education, abortion and sexual assault are on the ballot nearly every November.”

Though Cohen lauded Emory for reforming policies surrounding Title IX and advocating for immigration, he said that assisting students in voting is equally as important. Though there is no definitive date, Cohen plans to send a letter to the Office of the President and other administrative offices sometime next week.

When asked about passing his bill before graduation, Cohen said that he had been given the idea for an Election Day holiday by Nicholas Lal (17B) during his freshman year of college.

“This is something that I think will happen eventually –– I hope it’s before November –– but we need to get the ball rolling now,” Cohen said.

CC Discusses Bill to Regulate Club Operational Budgets CC Vice President of Finance Aditya Jhaveri’s (21C) bill to add concrete guidelines for student organization financial caps to the CC monetary policy received its first passing vote from the legislature, with 19 votes in favor, zero against and one abstaining.

The bill makes three changes to the monetary policy.

The first change only affects newly chartered student organizations during their first year of existence. The bill will cap club budgets at $1,000 and will grant a minimum of $100 dollars. According to Jhaveri, the minimum was based on the longstanding CC administrative policy that requires clubs to self-generate $100 before applying for funding.

“Because we don’t have infinite money, we can’t just fund every single thing that clubs apply for,” Jhaveri said during CC’s Feb. 5 general body meeting. “We have to limit how much we can fund clubs.”

The second change affects a club’s ability to increase their financial cap.

Under Jhaveri’s bill, CC will raise a club’s financial cap up to the amount of funds which they are able to selfgenerate within their second year. If a club with a financial cap of $1,000 selfgenerates $1,500 in their second year, their financial cap will become $1,500.

Additionally, the bill would institute a $15,000 limit on how much CC can increase a club’s budget based on the funds that club self-generates within that second year.

“If a club self-generates $200,000, their financial cap does not grow to $200,000,” Jhaveri said. “It makes the most sense to have some limit, ... to allow other organizations to still grow.”

The third change states that all clubs older than three years will keep their financial caps where their budget currently lies. These caps will increase by 1.5 percent every year to coincide with the recently amended Student Activity Fee. Though these three differences are novel to CC’s monetary policy, challenging procedures like monetary policy overrides, which allow for clubs to request more money toward their operational budgets, and supplementary hearings will still take place under the renovated monetary policy.

— Contact Thomas Kreutz at tommy.kreutz@emory.edu

Prospectus Reveals Capital Campaign Continued from Page 1 The Undergraduate Experience The committee laid out various facets of undergraduate student life that should be remedied under the new president. These priorities include increasing the impact of the arts across campus and revamping career service programs to mimic Emory professional schools. Emory’s new master plan will include expanded undergraduate housing and seeks to create a “fulltime residential college experience.”

The prospectus notes that the University has experienced lower retention and graduation rates in relation to peer institutions. Emory’s sixyear graduation rate is roughly 90 percent and its four-year rate is 83 percent, according to U.S. News & World Report.

“Student retention is approximately 95 percent, slightly below Emory’s peers,” the document reads. “The differences might seem modest, but they have strong effects on rankings and reflect the need for improvement.”

Graduates should become more committed alumni, the prospectus reads, and students should be prepared through more enhanced advising to better leverage their Emory degrees.

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the qualities it is looking for in the University’s next president, which includes prioritizing diversity, a career of scholarship, a commitment to philanthropy and a “creative and entrepreneurial” leadership style, among other attributes.

Student Government Association President Ben Palmer (18Ox, 20C) told the Wheel that he was not given advance access to the prospectus and had no direct influence in its creation, though he felt students’ voices had been represented.

Palmer further expressed his desire for greater communication between undergraduates and the new president.

“It’s been notably difficult to get ahold of the University president and have them be present and to actually have face time,” Palmer said.

The prospectus details that the next president will be able to modify University President Claire E. Sterk’s “One Emory” strategic plan, though Palmer noted that Sterk’s truncated time in office prohibited any of her plans from coming to fruition.

“I don’t think that Sterk’s four years have been frankly enough for us to see [One Emory] culminate, and I think that it’s going to be an important priority for the next president to keep in mind as they’re developing new programs and ideas,” Palmer said.

The document outlines a list of competing priorities and required investments that the University president must undertake, which includes the

construction of a new law school building and allocating more resources for faculty hires.

Diversity The prospectus states that the University is “quite diverse,” citing the Initiative to Maximize Student Development, a two-year, NIH-funded research program that began in 2017 to increase diversity in the STEM workforce. The prospectus did not state the results of the research program.

According to the prospectus, Emory’s chief diversity officer will work closely with the new president to “define community goals, establish guiding principles, and create a strategy for communicating progress.”

Historically underrepresented groups make up 14 percent of faculty and 41 percent of Emory staff, according to the prospectus, which did not mention student body statistics specifically.

Federal data shows Emory’s student population is 44.5 percent white, 14.5 percent Asian, roughly 10 percent black or African American, 7 percent Hispanic or Latino, 0.15 percent American Indian or Alaska Native and less than 1 percent Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.

— Contact Madison Bober and Calen MacDonald at madison.bober@emory.edu and ccmacdo@emory.edu

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News Roundup

Compiled By Bethany Stoller

Goizueta to Create Deferred Admissions Policy Beginning this Spring, Emory seniors applying to Goizueta Business School’s MBA programs will have the opportunity to defer admission to gain two to five years of work experience before enrolling, according to Poets&Quants. The policy change applies to applicants from other universities, though it is currently being promoted primarily to Emory undergraduates.

In recent years, many top-tier business schools, including Harvard Business School (Mass.) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (Calif.), have added deferred programs in response to declining applications.

Last year, the number of applications to Goizueta’s two-year MBA program declined by 24.2 percent. The deferral option aims to increase the number of applicants by reducing barriers that may prevent undergraduates from applying to the programs.

CBO Predicts Loan Forgiveness Will Rise Above $1 Trillion in Next Decade The Congressional Budget Office announced last week that the U.S. government is projected to create $1.05 trillion in student loans and forgive $207.4 billion in student debt over the next decade, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Of that $207.4 billion, more than $167 billion will come from loans of graduate or professional students, covering 56 percent of the amount loaned to those students.

The remainder will come from loans to undergraduate students, covering 21 percent of the amount loaned.

A large portion of the amount loaned over the next decade will be placed in income-driven repay-

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ment programs, which allow the borrower to make monthly payments proportionate to their income. At the end of the 20- to 25-year term of the loan, the remaining balance is forgiven. Due to the low payments, the final balance that is forgiven is often greater than the original loan amount.

Education Dept. Investigates Harvard, Yale for NonDisclosure of Foreign Funding The Department of Education is investigating Yale and Harvard for failing to disclose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from foreign countries, including China and Saudi Arabia, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The investigation is part of an ongoing federal review of American universities that have neglected to report approximately $6.5 billion in donations from foreign countries. Universities are required to disclose all foreign funding exceeding $250,000. The Education Department said that this funding typically goes to the wealthiest universities.

Grady High Students Petition to Rename School A group of students at Henry W. Grady High School have signed a petition to change the high school’s name due to Henry Grady’s outspoken support of the marginalization of black Southerners during the Reconstruction period, according to WABE. The students submitted a petition to the school board on Feb 3, arguing that Grady, a former editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, then known as the Atlanta Constitution, and namesake of various institutions across Georgia, pushed for the implementation of a “white supremacist agenda.” Previously,

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in 2016, students at Grady High School published an editorial in the school’s newspaper advocating for the change of the school’s name. An editorial published in The Signal, the student-run newspaper at Georgia State University, likewise called for a plaque to be added to a statue of Grady and for a recent state law preventing the removal of such monuments to be changed.

The petition suggests that journalist Ida B. Wells, who co-founded the NAACP, or civil rights attorney Donald Lee Hollowell be considered as alternative namesakes.

University of Tennessee to Offer Tuition Discount for Georgia Students The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) will start offering a discounted tuition rate to students from nine neighboring states this upcoming Fall, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Prospective students from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina will pay $18,000 per year, rather than the standard $26,000 out-of-state tuition rate.

Previously, students from counties of Georgia and Alabama adjacent to Chattanooga were eligible for a tuition discount.

That program will remain in place as the expanded regional program begins.

The goal of the program, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, is to increase enrollment at UTC and encourage students from nearby states to live and work in Chattanooga after graduation. The program is not expected to negatively affect the acceptance rate for Tennessee residents.

— Contact Bethany Stoller at bstolle@emory.edu

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Corrections

•In the Feb. 5 issue, “Former AEPi Memers to Form ZBT” incorrectly stated that former members of Alpha Epsilon Pie are involved in the recolonization of Zeta Beta Tau. In fact, they are former potential new members.

•In last week’s issue, “Emory Point Innovation Center Opens this Month” incorrectly states that there are 3D printers in the Cox Hall MediaLab. In fact, they are in the TechLab. •In last week’s crossword, Aidan Vick’s name was incorrectly spelled Aiden Vick.

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death in 1895, African American communities in particular across the McDaniels stated that the project nation have recognized this giant of will highlight voices from historical a man for his contributions in the archives and hopefully encourage fight for freedom and equality for students to use their voices through people of African descent. For these voting and participating in the U.S. communities, Douglass’ life of Census. accomplishment was one worth “We’re trying to help our students remembering.” take the initiative in having civil disRichmond, who is the president course around politics and commu- of Emory NAACP, said that the sennity,” McDaniels said. timents expressed during the readMcDaniels believes that the ing are relevant for students followReconstruction era is a great vessel to ing Heather Mac Donald’s recent talk trigger these discussions. about diversity in education.

“Reconstruction is a very fer“A lot of the sentiments that tile period of African American and [Douglass] was speaking about resoAmerican history. nate today, especially Black colleges and uniat a university, considversities were being ering what happened “If we are trying to established; former have conversations with Heather Mac slaves were opening Donald,” Richmond about constitutional said. businesses, ... becomrights, people McDaniels believes ing congressmen and that becoming more senators,” McDaniels should have read civically educated will said. “The possibilities the documents for African Americans before they get into motivate and prepare students to participate in the future of the discussions.” in politics. Lift Every country were realized Voice 2020 has partin this time period.”

—Pellom McDaniels, nered with Emory When considCurator of African NAACP and hopes to ering periods of American Collections at attract more students American history, The Rose Library to their initiatives.

McDaniels said that The next event Reconstruction is planned for Lift Every often forgotten.

“I’ve called it a time of great pos- Voice 2020 is a public reading of the sibility,” McDaniels said. “You have U.S. Constitution on March 30.

“If we are trying to have a conversapeople who were formerly systematically oppressed, and they are able to tion about constitutional rights, people come out of it and [not only] devel- should have read the documents before op a voice for themselves but [also] they get into discussions,” McDaniels refute the lies that had been told about said.

Richmond and McDaniels both them.”

At the Feb. 14 event, four Emory credit Sarkar with laying the groundstudents, Zariah Embry (20C), work for the partnership between Deen Whitaker (20C), Kassie Sarkar Emory NAACP and Lift Every Voice.

(18Ox, 21C) and Timothy Richmond The Emory NAACP hopes to have (20C) took turns reading sections a continued role in the initiative of Douglass’ speech from April 16, throughout the year.

1883, which commemorated the 21st McDaniels believes that Lift Every anniversary of the Emancipation Voice 2020 can also go beyond Emory’s Proclamation. Jordan Bates (23C) campus to motivate people in the surhighlighted the significance Douglass rounding community to participate in holds, both today and in history. politics at all levels.

“Today we come together to affirm the great abolitionist orator Frederick — Contact Musa Ya-Sin at Douglass,” Bates said. “Since his musa.ya-sin@emory.edu

Crime Report Compiled By Phyllis Guo

On Feb. 8 at 8:45 a.m., EPD responded to Haygood Hall at Oxford College in reference to a report of rape.

Two witnesses reported that an Oxford student was coerced into having sex by their partner.

The case is under active investigation.

On Feb. 8 at 7:03 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to Haygood Hall at Oxford College in reference to a terroristic threat.

The complainant, Dean of Campus Life at Oxford College Joseph Moon, asked EPD to stand by while his staff searched a student’s room to look for a firearm.

The Residence Life coordinator (RLC) explained that the subject had told a group of students that he owned a gun and “wasn’t afraid to use it.”

EPD supervised the hallway while the RLC and Residence Life staff unlocked the subject’s room and

searched it.

The subject was not in his room, and the RLC and staff did not locate a firearm. EPD telephoned the subject and asked him if he had a firearm on campus and if he was OK. The subject said that he did not have a firearm on campus and that he was fine. The case is under active investigation.

On Feb. 11 at 12:48 a.m., EPD responded to the Emory University Hospital Midtown in reference to battery. The complainant, a nurse, said that a male patient kicked her in her stomach.

She said she felt fine during the initial contact with EPD, however, the charge nurse informed her that she had to report to Employee Health Services to follow up with any injuries.

At that point, she stated she was feeling muscle spasms in her neck.

An EPD officer was unable to question the patient, who underwent head surgery a couple days prior.

The case is under active

investigation.

On Feb. 11 at 4:44 a.m., EPD received a report of terroristic threats from Emory University Hospital (EUH) via telephone.

A nurse reported that a male patient threatened to “shoot up the place” if he did not receive treatment.

The nurse said that the patient was uncooperative and unwilling to let hospital staff administer treatment and that she informed him that they would discontinue treating him until he calmed down.

The nurse said that the patient did not calm himself, so she decided to report the incident to the Emory Department of Public Safety. The patient said that the nurse was rude and forceful as she was providing him with care.

The subject said that he does not remember what he said to the nurse.

The case has been assigned to an investigator.

— Contact Phyllis Guo at xguos68@emory.edu

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or Native American, according to Latting. ED admittance is binding, meaning that admitted students are required to enroll at the University if accepted.

However, only approximately 95 percent of students admitted through ED actually attend Emory, often due to financial reasons, according to Latting.

“We know that early decision applicants tend to be in betterresourced schools.”

— John Latting, Dean of Admissions Latting explained that the demographics between early and regular decision applicants typically differ.

“We know that early decision applicants tend to be in betterresourced schools,” Latting said.

“We’re very aware of that, and we anticipate using regular decision in a somewhat different way in terms of rounding out the best possible class.”

— Contact Calen MacDonald at ccmacdo@emory.edu

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Profs. Discuss Economic Impact of COVID-19

By Gabriella Lewis Contributing Writer The Emory School of Medicine’s Infectious Diseases Interest Group hosted Emory professors Carlos del Rio and Aneesh Mehta on Tuesday to discuss the 2019 novel coronavirus.

The talk garnered an audience of about 75 students, faculty and community members.

Del Rio, a professor of infectious diseases at Emory School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, said that this was the first epidemic to occur at a time of prolific use of social media, which has facilitated the rampant spread of “fake news” on the topic. Mehta, who also studies infectious diseases, chimed in by saying that their jobs as educators compel them to “bring hysteria down.”

The professors explained that coronaviruses are a family of viruses that includes influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS). The current epidemic has been carefully named COVID-19 so as to avoid location-based stigmas, the professors said.

Coronaviruses are primarily spread through bats, which can carry the disease without being affected. According to del Rio, China is a “hot spot” for batborne coronaviruses to emerge. The medical community’s current hypothesis is that the COVID-19 path of infection moved from bats to the pangolin, an animal that is illegally traded in China for medicinal purposes, before reaching humans.

Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 originated, is conducive to escalation

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Professor of Infectious Diseases at Emory School of Medicine Carlos del Rio says China is a “hotspot” for bat-borne coronaviruses. because of its central location. “[The Chinese] say that it’s the Chicago of China,” del Rio said. “It’s in the center of the country and [is] a very important economic and transportation hub.”

As of Tuesday, there are over 75,000 confirmed global cases and 2,009 deaths.

That being said, the professors gave praise to the Chinese government for the fact that 98 percent of the cases have been contained to China.

“The Chinese have done an incredible job of closing cities, limiting travel, trying to keep it [contained],” del Rio said.

The professors examined the poten-

tial of the epidemic to inflict a largescale economic impact.

“The biggest problem with a pandemic is an economic impact on the world,” del Rio stated. “I really think the world economy, if this does not stop soon, is going to go into recession because China is such an important component of the economy.”

Del Rio and Mehta cited past examples of economic downfalls that have followed in the wake of widespread infectious diseases.

In 2009, the Mexican economy took a significant hit because of the impact of swine flu. In 2015, a super-spreader, or a person who spreads an infectious disease from one place to another,

spread MERS from the Middle East to South Korea through air travel, which forced schools and hospitals to shut down for weeks and caused the Korean tourism industry to lose $2 billion.

“Want to go to China? Wait a couple of months, and they’ll be great deals,” del Rio joked.

The professors finished by saying that the medical community is currently working to combat COVID-19 by improving on antiviral therapy, identifying super-spreaders, pinpointing causes and origins, and actively researching a vaccine.

— Contact Gabriella Lewis at gvlewis@emory.edu

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tant news editor and was not chosen.

Instead, Bober was offered the position of assistant multimedia editor to oversee the paper’s digital operations and social media presence.

As the only person in the Wheel’s multimedia section, Bober had to teach herself the digital side of the newspaper.

She became a copy editor in January 2019 and was appointed to the executive board as the managing editor for the news section beginning Spring 2020.

“My experience on the Wheel is characterized by little sleep and passion … because I don’t think any of us would be doing this if we were not passionate about the work we were doing,” Bober said.

Her top priorities as editor-in-chief are to advance the Wheel’s outreach, especially on social media. She plans to hire someone in the computer science department to revamp the website, expand the business team and diversify revenue streams.

Bober also aims to expand coverage to include historically underrepresented groups and incorporate more reporting across all sections.

Overall, she said she aims to make the Wheel a more honorable, representative space.

Bober said that the variety of roles she has had with the Wheel has familiarized her with each section, which she believes will greatly inform her role as editor-in-chief.

In response to the outcome of the election, Pabbaraju expressed hopes that the paper will pursue diversity initiatives.

“As the largest organization for journalism on campus, we have a responsibility to tell stories that aren’t being told, and to magnify student voices,” Pabbaraju wrote in a statement. “Socioeconomic challenges are compounded by implicit bias, and we often lack the voices that we claim to value. If we truly want to empower all students, we need substantive, structural reform — something I hope our organization will prioritize in the future.”

Madison Bober (2oC), Incoming Editor-inChief

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Bober and her succeeding executive board will assume their new positions after spring break.

Outgoing editor-in-chief Nicole Sadek (20C) noted that the continuation of competitive elections for the position points toward increased commitment among members of the Wheel.

“I think that speaks volumes to how dedicated people are to the Wheel and [to] how many people feel like they have the opportunity to be editor-inchief,” Sadek said. “I think … in other years … people have felt that they weren’t competitive enough for the position. Now that people feel that they are, it just sort of speaks to a culture shift.”

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Opinion

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 | Opinion Editor: Zach Ball (zach.ball@emory.edu) | Asst. Opinion Editor Ben Thomas (ben.thomas@emory.edu)

Editorial

Emory’s Hatchery Proposal Is All Bone, No Meat All around campus, murmurs of a new space of Emory’s energy; it could also be a waste of called “The Hatchery” have percolated, but funding that would be better spent elsewhere. very few can actually tell you what the space While over half of the funding for the innois intended for, or even where it’s located. The vation space was provided through the “One Hatchery, which is meant to be an on-campus Emory” initiative, Emory has not released business incubator, is one of the first tangible details of the project’s total cost. This opaque manifestations of the University’s decorous financing leaves room for great overspending “One Emory” initiative. However, it’s far from on a project that already seems unlikely to clear what resources or benefits it would actu- prove its worth. ally provide to students to support their ideas.

It also serves as proof that “One Emory” The Hatchery’s overblown website illustrates itself is ill-conceived; without proper manthe disconnect between Emory’s marketing agement, large-scale cross-divisional projects and reality. The site features sleek pictures of ultimately waste money. At the same time, the space and buzzwords such there has been a great deal of as “collaboration” and “curiosturnover at the highest levity.” While a shiny space may els of our institution (includThe Hatchery isn’t make for good marketing, how ing the upcoming resignation exactly will The Hatchery fulof President Claire E. Sterk), just a waste of fill its core mission of helping and this might jeopardize the Emory’s energy; it students collaborate to start educational opportunities that businesses beyond classrooms? could also be a waste students receive from endeavThe Hatchery’s “makerors like The Hatchery. Perhaps of funding. space” contains board games with a strong, stable executive such as Monopoly and Settlers leadership team, this project of Catan. Another room houses would have been implemented a ping-pong table to “facilitate kinetic learning.” with more resources to meaningfully aid startThe patronizing choices to include these literal ups from the Emory community. playthings were purportedly made to avoid repIf Emory wants to compete with schools licating other campus spaces like the Cox Hall like the Georgia Institute of Technology, then Computing Center TechLab, which contains 3D the administration should equip The Hatchery printers and other innovative technology. While with the tools that students need to turn ideas avoiding redundancy is important, Emory had into businesses. Replace the board games with an opportune moment to expand upon the programming bootcamps. Swap the ping-pong existing, relatively small, makerspaces which table with a computer lab. Trade in the swingat best can accommodate a handful of students. sets for entrepreneurship workshops. Aspiring The Hatchery’s location is a problem in and business leaders don’t need a playground. They of itself. Real estate in Emory Point is pro- need an innovation space. In its current form, hibitively expensive; rent for a two-bedroom The Hatchery is a half-hatched idea. Substance apartment can exceed $2,900. Emory’s lease of must accompany ornamental language and aesthe 15,000-square-foot space that has become thetic marketing materials.

The Hatchery likely required a massive investThe Hatchery has a chance to expand opporment. The space’s potential cost is even more tunities and resources where the TechLab fails, concerning when you consider that its prohibi- and to offer the types of development and mentive distance from Emory’s main campus will torship skills necessary to raise and develop a prevent many from utilizing it. Students will business from the ground up. But by building have no incentive to make the 20-minute trek the space far from campus and failing to proacross campus to make use of what few resourc- vide sufficient resources to students to justify es the space offers. Between the building’s its immense cost, Emory set itself up for failure. acquisition, state-of-the-art renovations and The space requires serious revision if it hopes to frivolous decor, The Hatchery isn’t just a waste produce any semblance of innovation.

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

The Editorial Board is composed of Zach Ball, Devin Bog, Jake Busch, Meredith McKelvey, Andrew Kliewer, Boris Niyonzima, Nick Pernas and Ben Thomas.

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BRAMMHI’S BALLOT

DNC Neglects Minority Voices

Brammhi Balarajan After failing to win any delegates in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, respectively, Andrew Yang and Deval Patrick dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, leaving an allwhite field of Democratic candidates.

That homogeneity stands in stark contrast to the beginning of the race, which was characterized by the most diverse debate stages in history. The majority-white presidential candidacy, which is a poor representation of the Democratic electorate, has been caused by faulty notions of electability and the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) exclusion of minorities.

The notion of “electability” prevents minorities from possessing a fair chance at the nomination. Democratic voters are increasingly concerned with beating President Donald J. Trump in the 2020 election; according to a research study, 97 percent of likely Democratic voters identified defeating Trump as either “extremely” or “very” important. Because Democrats prioritize victory in the fall, the question of who is electable has driven the presidential race and negatively impacted nonwhite candidates.

Our American history encompasses a political system that caters to white men. And since our perception of general election fitness is manipulated by those who have previously held office, white men have an unfair advantage in the electability contest.

While the Democratic field has become increasingly more diverse in recent years, the media and the DNC still enable strong discrimination against candidates of color and women. Words such as likability and electability are just coded terms used to discriminate against nonwhite candidates and paint them as less likely to defeat Trump.

With electability an all-encompassing priority for Democrats, minority candidates have faced greater backlash than their white counterparts.

Candidates who do not fill the mold of past nominees have faced greater criticism about whether they stand a chance at beating Trump. As former Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro argued, several news stories in the week leading up to Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D-Calif.) exit from the race demolished her campaign, making it more difficult for her to remain a viable candidate.

However, this bias in the media has been prevalent throughout her campaign. One week of cable TV coverage

showed a clear bias as Harris received only 333 mentions to Warren’s 782 although they are both candidates of similar experience.

A study indicates that African American women face greater obstruction in their campaign for the nomination through higher discrimination in questioning their credibility and a lack of institutional support. Candidates of color have to put in extra effort to not only prove that they are electable, but to overcome the undue barriers to their success created by the DNC. The Democratic primary calendar also makes it difficult for minority candidates to gain traction. Iowa and New Hampshire, which decide their delegates before all other states, play an important role in the primary process by narrowing the field early.

Most Democratic candidates who have earned the nomination have won Iowa, New Hampshire or both. Success in Iowa and New Hampshire garners more media buzz, polling momentum and fundraising necessary for future success. However, Iowa is 90 percent white and New Hampshire is 93.2 percent white, hardly a reflection of the diversity in the Democratic Party and the United States.

Clearly, Iowa and New Hampshire have undue influence over the outcome of the election despite their inadequate representation of the Democratic Party. If the DNC truly cares about fostering diversity, it should not give Iowa and New Hampshire so much sway in the election. Many candidates of color have additionally questioned the DNC’s polling and fundraising requirements to gain a spot on the debate stage, a pivotal opportunity for national exposure. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) criticized the DNC for its requirements, arguing that it allows billionaires such as Michael Bloomberg to buy their way on stage and excludes minorities from the process. As Booker noted, a stage with more billionaires than black people hardly represents the interests of the American people. Societal bias against minorities must end.

Obsessing over electability is merely another way to continue a cycle of white men in office. We must instead focus on which candidate will best represent the interests of the diverse Democratic Party, and push the DNC to establish a more inclusive, representative electoral process.

Looking at the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, I find that once again, there is no one that looks like me, no one that shares my experiences and no one that understands my identity.

Is America ready for an Asian president? Or a woman president? Or anything but a white, Christian man? By asking these questions, we Democrats have already failed at upholding the values we claim to champion.

Brammhi Balarajan (23C) is from Las Vegas.

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OP-ED

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Migrant Policies Cruel Asser Shahin Due to recent changes in immigration enforcement, the state of Georgia is currently an inhospitable environment for undocumented immigrants.

With random raids on Latino-owned stores, a new federal interpretation to the Public Charge Grounds and a hiring system employers must now follow all contribute to this problem.

Over the past few decades, thousands of Latino immigrants entered the United States illegally, abandoning violence, poverty and harsh living conditions in search of a more prosperous life. The term “undocumented” only signifies the nature under which a foreigner sought entrance.

The most common methods are entering without inspection by immigration custom border patrol officers, overstaying pre-authorized stay or entering with fraudulent documents belonging to a similar-looking person.

According to Human Rights Watch, many immigrants from Central America escape life-threatening violence. After being deported from the U.S., many are killed within two years by the perpetrators they initially tried to escape from. The same is true for immigrants escaping poverty and harsh living conditions, of whom the majority are families or unaccompanied minors.

The many Latino communities in America work hard, contribute to federal and state taxes and provide for the national interest through the operation of businesses that enrich the U.S. labor market and economy. Their children often become U.S. citizens who ultimately tend to outperform nonimmigrants in terms of contributing to our society and economy.

The search for a better life is not easy. Plenty of Georgians’ undocumented neighbors have to endure a lot to legally remain in the U.S. Those who fail face dire consequences that lead to detention and possible deporta-

tion. Undocumented immigrants face deportation for small crimes. Many of those offenses, including driving without a valid license, do not constitute crimes of moral turpitude. Such processes make remaining in the country extremely difficult, even as gaining initial entry becomes harder.

Due to the Trump administration’s recent reinterpretation of immigration laws, the federal government can reject immigrants who have or may in the future attempt to seek public benefits or funds from government agencies. Under the Jan. 20 Public Charge rule implementation, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Department of State will have the power to reject adjustment of status applications and immigrant visas if it can be proven that the applicant ever relied on any public benefits.

The current circumstances for undocumented immigrants are even worse when the impact of racial profiling comes into play. Local enforcement continues to stop and question people on the basis of physical appearance and racial ethnicity. That presumption stems from the belief that many who look non-native to the area are in fact breaking the law. Many civil enjoyments in Georgia require valid immigration documents.

But this evidence is almost impossible to produce as an undocumented immigrant in America. When it comes to larger immigration executive agencies like Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, there is additional evidence of racial bias against people of color. The Obama administration prioritized the enforcement of immigration law violators to those who posed a danger to American society.

However, the implementation of America’s current immigration policies are racially biased and defy the amnesty-minded norms our country has held for years to help and aid undocumented immigrants build lives for themselves and their families.

Asser Shahin (19L) is from Alexandria, Egypt.

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Vote GOP to Outlaw Abortion Patrick Czabala When 61 million individuals have been killed in the United States by one cause in the past 40 years, there should be public outcry.

A few weeks ago, President Donald J. Trump became the first sitting president to address the March for Life, an annual, peaceful protest of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court decisions that legalized all abortions in the United States in 1973.

Trump supports the need “to defend the right of every child, born and unborn, to fulfill their God-given potential.”

We must vote for politicians dedicated to this defense in the 2020 elections.

The fundamental basis for the pro-life movement is that human life begins at conception and, because all human life has inherent value and dignity, it ought to be protected at all stages of pregnancy after that moment.

The only exception should be the immediate, lethal medical endangerment of the mother.

While the pro-life movement is characterized by religiosity, its arguments can be made on a moral and not a religious basis.

These arguments do not express an opinion; they make an objective, moral assertion.

The majority opinion in Roe v.

Wade concedes that “If this suggestion of [fetal] personhood is established ... the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed” by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Advances in the field of fetology, the development of the ultrasound and medical improvements pushing the point of viability (where the fetus can survive outside the mother) ever closer to conception serve to demonstrate a basic truth of our individualism-based society: a fetus has innate personhood.

The so-called heartbeat bill, signed

by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last May, bans abortions once the fetal heartbeat can be identified, an idea

that makes intuitive sense.

However, that move isn’t enough.

Ninety-six percent of biologists surveyed agree that a human’s life begins at conception.

Is a person less valuable because they are small or not yet capable of rational thought?

Certainly, babies and young children and people with certain disabilities can’t think rationally, but we don’t kill them.

A sleeping person or someone with nerve damage can’t feel pain, but we don’t kill them.

In the same vein, killing a fetus, regardless of its ability to feel pain (which develops by eight weeks gestation), is wrong.

A powerful video entitled “The Silent Scream” shows via ultrasound a 12-week fetus writhing and fighting for its life as it is dismembered by a suction aspiration tool of an abortion provider.

Democrats are advocating to give the option of infanticide of babies who are born alive.

Denial of personhood is the root of some of the most grotesque events in human history. Our nation was founded to protect inalienable rights endowed by their creator (God) to every human being. The idea that rights come from God and not the government is fundamental to the United States. These rights must be applied to every human, born and unborn.

Pregnancy can pose a great burden on a woman. Illegal workplace discrimination and financial strains can make it all the more difficult.

That’s why GOP legislators in the Senate and House are working to pass a bill that gives mothers the ability to receive child support during their pregnancy.

While overturning Roe v. Wade is still a few Supreme Court nominations away, Republicans are doing all they

can to protect the fetus.

The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act sought to guarantee medical care for babies that are born alive after a botched abortion.

Democrats blocked it from passing.

That’s right.

Democrats are advocating to give the option of infanticide of babies who are born alive, something Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg recently avoided condemning.

Infanticide after attempted abortions actually happens; the Centers for Disease Controls and Prevent reports a minimum of 143 cases between 2003 and 2014.

The case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell intentionally killing fetuses born alive is particularly chilling.

The fringe argument for the moral acceptability of killing even a healthy child becomes difficult to refute if you support abortion.

Abortion is an extremely divisive, but important, issue. The pro-life movement is currently winning: more people identified as pro-life than prochoice in 2019.

Women have a duty to know what is going on inside their bodies during their pregnancy, and we should continue to make strides to ensure they are informed.

Abortion needs to be banned.

Illegal abortions must result in the prosecution of the offending abortion providers.

However, no truly pro-life advocate desires the prosecution of the mothers; our focus is on supporting women through difficult pregnancies.

So, what can you do? First, educate yourself. Live-Action is a nonprofit dedicated to education about what abortion does and the horrors uncovered by investigations into the abortion industry.

Before you make a conclusion on abortion, I urge you to learn about it. Look at the images of the “clump of cells” removed in abortions and ask yourself whether that was a person. And, most importantly, vote Republican in 2020 to show your support for the unborn.

Patrick Czabala (23C) is from Roswell, Ga.

Greek Life Exacerbates Toxic Masculinity, Cultural Theft Demetrios Mammas The Greek system is a quintessential feature of American college life.

On the whole, one should consider its purpose, which many would claim is to form friendships, to secure connections after college by way of “networking” and, let’s face it, to party.

These perks reveal prominent issues revolving around the institution: the toxic culture of deplorable behavior, hazing, misogyny and its blatant appropriation of Greek culture.

Fraternities, in particular, are guilty of heinous behaviors. Consider Alpha Epsilon Pi’s (AEPi) cocaine scandal, the ritualistic hazing that both AEPi and Kappa Alpha have partaken in, the popularity contest of recruitment, and the fraternities’ simply sexist determinations of who gets to enter parties — as they predominately favor women over men.If we were to hold fraternities to the same standards as the general population, the absurdity of their culture becomes apparent: would we tolerate the blatant objectification of women, the arbitrary rejection of men desperate to find a community or even the toxic culture of cult-like

masculinity in any other group?

The men in Greek life are willing to go to great lengths to feel accepted by others, just for the pursuit of belonging.

Those offenses are frowned upon by the rest of society, but, simply because we are college students, people write it off as permissible. (I urge you to read “Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy” for other examples of the dangers of this culture or at least visit an article on it.) The fact that we continue to overlook this kind of behavior is even more confusing, especially now, three years after the Women’s March and the rise of the #MeToo movement.

How are we expected to address gender inequality or fight corruption in business when so many college students are continually exposed to such a toxic culture dooming us to the same problems? Consider for a moment that these are the same individuals going into finance, law and so forth — the future leaders of our society.

Without preventative action, we can’t ensure that this standard of behavior is going away after college, especially in these career fields. The fraternity system is in need of an overhaul by way of establishing standards for behavior and conduct with actual consequences.

In the current system getting kicked

off campus or being hit with social probation doesn’t prevent the behavior from happening, as the frats will simply pregame on their own/in secret, in order to remain relevant in a society progressing beyond its flawed practices. Regarding the sororities, there is clear discrimination on the basis of gender within the Greek system. For instance, sororities aren’t allowed to have their own parties, unless they are “date parties,” which begs the question of why those seem to be the sole vein for partying, as the fraternities have no such restrictions imposed upon them. How is such a rule considered to be a fair and relevant practice considering it is 2020, and we are allegedly supposed to be reaching a point of gender equality?

Moreover, it simply perpetuates a cycle of patriarchal authority, whereby there is a point of deference on when and how to party based on the whims of a few brothers. To tackle another fundamental issue with Greek life, one does not need to look much further than its name. As someone who is a descendant of Greek immigrants on my father’s side, I take great issue with the appropriation of elements of my ancestral culture and applying them to such a flawed institution. For

example, the phrase “going Greek” underpins most rush activities but has no roots in Greek culture; the idea of a “Panhellenic Council” is not even remotely relevant to our people, and events such as “toga parties” make a mockery of our ancient ancestors.

Who would want their language (more often than not butchered in pronunciation) and their architectural style, let alone the word used to describe their people — Greek — to be degraded by a culture characterized by misogyny, debauchery, and countless other problems? Greek life, in its current incarnation, is fundamentally flawed and fails to honor its original intentions of encouraging fraternity, cooperation, and assistance to college students transitioning into the real world. With that being said, many reputable chapters do exist and impact their communities positively through community service and preprofessional advice. My issue, though, once again is not with the aspects of Greek life pushing to contribute to society or in their actions to better their members, but instead with the party culture underpinning the Greek system as an institution. Not to mention once more, the problem degrading Greek culture from the

tenuous connection to the abhorrent acts of Greek life members. In that vein, it would be in the best interest of the Emory administration to proactively address the root causes of fraternities’ flaw, a noxious combination of toxic masculinity and peer pressure, rather than kicking them off of campus for a few years with a slap on the wrist.

Fraternities are a place of privilege: there are costs to entry, and, more often than not, the alumni of these fraternities are generally wealthier.

Our university system stands scared to truly discipline them because those same fraternity boys become wealthy alumni who donate large sums of money to their alma mater (not to mention Emory itself has a commitment to maintaining this relationship). I believe it would benefit the system to seriously consider reformation, particularly among fraternities, or it may experience a #MeToo movement of its own. If no action is taken to address these structural issues underpinning Greek life, it may simply be best for a storm to come along to force this institution to clean house once and for all.

Demetrios Mammas (23C) is from Atlanta.

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Arts Entertainment Wednesday, February 19, 2020 | Arts & Entertainment Editor: Adesola Thomas (adesola.thomas@emory.edu) | Asst. Editor: Joel Lerner (jlerne6@emory.edu)

Ad Hoc’s Musical

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from left to right: Serena El-Khatib (21C), Cara Clements (22C) and Kylie Measimer (23C) perform their show-stopping hit, ‘Candy Store’ in front of the ‘Heathers’ ensemble.

By Joel Lerner Asst. A&E Editor What’s better than watching a musical that colorfully comments on the inherently messed up institution of public education in a way that’ll have you gripping your stomach in laughter?

Ad Hoc’s spring production of “Heathers: The Musical” does just that with added benefits of well-choreographed musical numbers and witty character rapport.

Unfortunately, after the initial introduction of characters, who rarely

deviate from the high school tropes they represent, the show’s charming facade wears off to reveal the harsh insensitivity that plagues the original script. While I enjoyed the topnotch and incredibly produced performance, I found it intermittently difficult to laugh alongside other audience members.

“Heathers” takes place in 1989 and follows Veronica Sawyer (Isabella Dodd (20B)) as she struggles through her senior year at Westerburg High, a fictional school in Sherwood, Ohio.

Unlike most seniors, Veronica’s social

standing undergoes an upheaval that puts her in the company of popular girls Heather Chandler (Cara Clements (22C)), Heather Duke (Kylie Measimer (23C)) and Heather McNamara (Serena El-Khatib (21C)), collectively referred to as the Heathers.

The ensuing petty drama unfolds into a string of fiery confrontations and, ultimately, several murders.

The show, which will be performed in the black box theater of the Emory Burlington Road Building through Feb. 22, utilizes its small area to its fullest potential, filling the room dur-

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ing group numbers and sometimes getting face-to-face with audience members.

The set is broken up by a series of blinders decorated in the distinct red, yellow and green of the Heathers’ iconic outfits.

A raised platform sits center stage and provides a space for the cast to set themselves higher than their fellow actors. Despite its small size, the stage is brought to life by the student performers throughout the entire show.

This cast’s precise execution of dialogue and lyrics resonated with the audience, who responded with raucous laughter.

During the Heathers’ showstopper “Candy Store,” a large part of the ensemble flanks an animated performance by the show’s dynamic trio.

During this song, the Heathers show their vocal prowess while performing nonstop full-body choreography.

In the middle of it all, Heather Duke’s riffs soar over the strong vocal foundation established by the group.

Chris Lowery’s (20C) performance as Jason “J.D.” Dean pulls the audience in to deliver the most effective commentary of the show; his tangents regarding the impersonal nature of public education in the song “Freeze Your Brain” especially encapsulates this reflective tone.

While “Heathers” is clearly a com-

“Breakups suck,” read a hoard of glossy posters at the storefront of Criminal Records, a record shop in Atlanta’s Little Five Points neighborhood — befitting for the Valentine’s Day setting.

Last weekend, Criminal Records collaborated with Hulu for a threeday immersive experience based on the new series “High Fidelity.” Set in Brooklyn, New York, the Valentine’s Day release navigates a string of heartbreaks and rekindled emotions for record shop owner Rob Brooks (Zoë Kravitz).

Half of Criminal Records’ weekend proceeds directly benefited New Jersey-based nonprofit Little Kids Rock, which aims to uplift impoverished youth through music education.

Much like the series, the event promoted reinvention.

As I entered Criminal Records, I expected the color schemes and romance motifs typical of the holi-

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By Kelly Martinez Contributing Writer

Student Play

Theater Emory Treats Audiences With ‘Brave New Works’

By Laney Castle Contributing Writer

After three weeks of performances, Theater Emory’s biennial play festival, Brave New Works, kicked off its final weekend with two new plays written

by Emory students.

The festival celebrates playwriting in the Emory community and showcases the works that students, faculty and others have prepared and edited since last September.

The plays, both of which were read

aloud rather than acted, attracted about 70 people to the intimate black box theater of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, the plays performed on Feb.14 dealt with the trials of affection, love and care.

Julia Byrne’s (20C) play, “Day,” features her struggles with the theme of the night: love.

Tied into the reading was Byrne’s passion for classical mythology, which often harnesses the ability of love to transcend boundaries.

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The set design was minimalistic, with four music stands placed strategically around the stage in addition to two peaches and a cup for the actors to use for effect.

Once the actors entered stage right, they propped their scripts on the stands and stared out into the audience as the play’s narrative voice began.

“Day” opens with the god Anteros (Willis Hao (180x, 20C)) and his mother Kestra (professional actor Olivia Dawson), as they discuss the quest

upon which Anteros must embark to keep peace in the mortal world.

The quest, ordered by his mother, requires that he kill and deliver a human sacrifice to her, offered to them by the mortals. Midway through the first act, Anteros meets the mortal woman Jane (Willa Barnett (23C)), the woman he is set to kill.

Anteros accidentally injects himself with his own love serum and subsequently falls in love with Jane, thus beginning their journey of forbidden love and mutual struggle.

Since the play was performed in reading, all movements were described by the narrator, who also voiced each characters’ thoughts and emotions.

And due to its complicated plot, the play itself was a compelling work of art made mysterious by the lack of dynamism and acting onstage.

The performers only made small movements such as facial expressions and brief hand gestures throughout the show.

Instead of becoming engrossed

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Psychedelic pop Rock

Classic Musical ‘The Slow Rush’ is Retread Ground Charms the Fox

By Aidan Vick Senior Staff Writer

By Charlotte Selton Staff Writer Filled with all the Victorian costumes and ridiculous business cards that one would expect, “Hello, Dolly!” swung into Atlanta for a weeklong engagement. The extravagant revival of the iconic 1964 musical brought old-school Broadway glory to songs made famous by the likes of Carol Channing, Barbra Streisand and Louis Armstrong. Although younger audiences may only know “Hello, Dolly!” from the clips sampled in the movie “WALL-E,” the original Broadway production won 10 Tony Awards, and has since seen four Broadway and three West End revivals. One of the most

enduring (and better-aged) musicals of the mid-20th century, “Hello, Dolly!” still gets standing ovations for its feelgood comedy and big ensemble numbers. In 1895 New York, Dolly Levi (Carolee Carmello), the titular protagonist of the show, keeps busy as a middle-aged matchmaker-entrepreneur.

In her own words, she is a woman who “arranges things” and always has a relevant business card on hand, whether it’s for “Mrs. Levi - Painters taught how to dance” or “Mrs. Levi - Pierced ears replugged.” Dolly happily meddles when the gruff wealthy widower Horace Vandergelder (John Bolton) seeks to marry hatmaker Irene

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Fitting given its Valentine’s Day release, Tame Impala’s fourth album, “The Slow Rush,” is sweet on the ears and uplifting to the soul. However, the album feels shallow at times, as the boldness of the production and extensive use of reverb gives some songs a feeling of intricacy that they don’t actually have. That feeling doesn’t negate the many things this project does right: it has glossy and stylish instrumentals, a style distinct from Kevin Parker’s previous albums, and plenty of little details to discover upon repeat listens. But perhaps the album’s greatest boon and burden is its overwhelming sense of pleasantness, which gives it an immediate appeal but undercuts the sense of empathy and heaviness that defines Tame Impala’s

best material.

The Australian music project, led primarily by singer and songwriter Kevin Parker, has embraced pop more with each successive album. His 2010 release “Innerspeaker” is a more straightforward psych-rock album while 2015’s “Currents” is largely synthpop, with 2012’s “Lonerism” acting as a bridge between the two. Due to the streaming success of singles like “Elephant” and “The Less I Know The Better,” Tame Impala’s audience has grown considerably since the project’s debut, leading Parker to enjoy a level of critical acclaim and commercial success that few artists ever achieve.

Although Parker’s ear for pop music is undeniable, the move away from authentic instrumentation toward more synth-based compositions has been detrimental to the diversity of Tame Impala’s sound.

“The Slow Rush” is clearly a continuation of the style Parker presented on “Currents,” but the instrumental grooves give the album a disco vibe.

The tempo is taken up a notch as well, further rooting many of the tracks in their dance music influences. The heightened momentum is tempered by Parker’s extensive use of reverb, especially on his vocals and the synthesized drums. This is sometimes used in place of a richer instrumental palette, but this is less of an issue on the more dynamic songs like “Posthumous Forgiveness” and “Breathe Deeper.”

The moments where it is most troublesome are on songs like “Tomorrow’s Dust” that run longer than they should.

The main cause of this issue, aside from the intentionally repetitive songwriting, is the lack of vocal distinc-

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Molloy (Analisa Leaming). She also lends a hand to his melancholy niece Ermengarde (Laura Sky Herman), who wants to marry starving artist Ambrose Kemper (Colin LeMoine).

Meanwhile, Horace’s clerks, Cornelius Hackl (Daniel Beeman) and Barnaby Tucker (Sean Burns), decide to skive off work for a day of thrills in New York City. Like in most musicals of this era, these many moving parts soon collide, sparking hijinks and romances.

Colorful set design and costuming brings the old-school sparkle of show business, with a few modern twists.

Beautiful painted backdrops harken back to the stage designs of decades past, although there was short technical lag for one particular backdrop’s descent. The design of the luxurious Harmonia Gardens Restaurant, the setting of much of the second act, exudes elegance, outfitted in deep red carpets and drapes. Victorian clothes can seem overly stuffy, but bright fabrics and bold patterns liven up the production. Dresses and suits in fuschia, teal and canary yellow delight in the famous ensemble number “Put On Your Sunday Clothes,” and Dolly’s second act entrance in a grand crimson evening gown and plumed hat received exuberant applause. The revival’s 2017 Tony Award for Best Costume Design was well-deserved.

Unfortunately, tempo and pacing troubled the show. Act 1 finale “Before the Parade Passes By” would have better built energy for the second act if the tempo picked up. Moreover, the second act started off rather slowly, beginning with a long sequence of filler and an acrobatic dance number that did nothing to advance the plot, although it did feature the best choreographed sequence of the show. While the show is certainly funny, its humor is very rarely sophisticated. Some slapstick gags were overplayed, including Ermengarde’s shrieking. A farcical sequence of Cornelius and Barnaby hiding from Horace could have also been tightened. The most excessive was a long scene of a Dolly finishing a meal, complete with ample scraping, chewing and slurping. Tweaking these scenes could help “Hello, Dolly!” find fans in younger generations. The latest Broadway revival tour of “Hello, Dolly!” delivers all the expected beats.

Beautiful costuming and scenery alongside a famous score keep audiences coming back to this musical after decades. While “Hello, Dolly!” has already moved on from Atlanta, it will certainly be back in town sooner or later. After more than 50 years since her debut, Dolly Levi still enthralls audiences with her style and scheming.

— Contact Charlotte Selton at charlotte.selton@emory.edu

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Little Five Points’ Criminal Records gears up for Valentine’s Day with festive decorations.

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Continued from Page 7 day. Instead, the shop leaned into the antithesis, decorated with black and orange lettering that spelled the series’ title.

Criminal Records’ distinctive deeptoned lighting flickered overhead. Still, the theme was love, just expressed in different colors.

Shoppers that attended the event discovered their own “love anthem,” (mine was Ella Mai’s “Boo’d Up”), generated from a series of romancethemed questions.

For those that participated, Criminal Records gave away an assortment of vinyl, shirts and bags themed per the show. The Hulu series, which launched on Valentine’s Day, calls back to the 2000 John Cusack film of the same name.

The film follows longtime music devotee and record shop owner Rob

Gordon (John Cusack) as he partakes in fruitless romances while funneling his experiences and emotions into fivepoint lists. These span from Rob’s five most memorable breakups to his top five favorite angry songs about women.

Kravtiz’s Rob Brooks also turns to listmaking, but to a lesser degree.

In a direct nod to the show, Criminal Records developed their own “topfives.” One list humorously featured a series of modern breakup songs like “Thank U, Next” by Ariana Grande and “Heartless” by Kanye West.

Hulu’s “High Fidelity” rearticulates the role of Rob as distinctly feminine.

The show mirrors much of its source material but simultaneously takes a step away from the organized, systematic means by which Cusack’s Rob Gordon catalogs his emotion.

There is redemptive value in Rob Brooks’ pain, in that it highlights her

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willingness to be vulnerable. To Hulu and to Criminal Records, the trials of love are just as deserving of celebration as the peaks. The event’s embrace of breakups, heartbreak and healing was an expansive and forward-facing vision of love.

The link between the comedic woes of heartbreak in “High Fidelity” and the optimistic vision of Little Kids Rock may be less than apparent.

But in the same way music serves as a healing mechanism for both Kravitz’s and Cusack’s Rob, it likewise forges a bridge for communities of young people to traverse and explore their creative spirits.

The event served as a reminder that in heartbreak, there is hope. And in hope, there is change.

— Contact Kelly Martinez at kelly.martinez@emory.edu

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tion between tracks. Parker’s falsetto is a staple of his music, so it’s welcome here, though his performances are lacking in energy on a number of cuts like opener “One More Year.”

While the leisurely vocals fit with the laid-back vibe of the album’s writing, even the unique instrumentals cannot hide the fact that some of the tracks feel like retread ground. The tracklist is consistent overall despite its flaws, but the album offers fewer individual standouts than previous Tame Impala projects. In a way, this uniformity contributes to the album’s sense of cohesion by making it easier to get lost in the ambiance, but it also makes me wish that it had a few more moments to look forward to.

With that said, the singles do fit well onto the album and act as many of the most memorable tracks. The punchier re-recorded version of “Borderline” is an improvement of its original, and the beat switch on “Posthumous Forgiveness” still goes over exceptionally, giving the song a progressive rock feel. Though I’m ultimately pleased with “The Slow Rush,” as it’s another solid project from Tame Impala, I don’t expect I’ll be revisiting it quite as much as “Lonerism” or “Currents.” The album’s best moments justify its place in Tame Impala’s discography, but it remains a bit too far within Parker’s comfort zone. Fans will surely get a lot out of this, as there is plenty to like, but new listeners might be better off starting elsewhere in their catalogue.

While the show has the potential to start a dialogue about these issues and inspire empathy among peers who experience mental health struggles, “Heathers” does more to mock due to the crassness written into the script.

“Heathers” combines jaunty melodies with a somber message of the established high school norm, and, because of the wit and charm of the cast, Ad Hoc’s production was largely effective at cultivating a positive atmosphere.

However, I do not believe the show is an effective way to have discussions about many of the more sensitive topics explored within the play.

“Heathers” is an impressively produced and performed musical, and excellently showcased the talents of the student actors while delivering stunning, off-color messaging.

in the movements of the actors, the audience was focused solely on the text which allowed the viewers to dissociate the actors from the script and see them as tangible characters.

Everything written and read aloud by the narrator is integral to understanding the nuances of “Day” and enhances the viewers’ experiences by describing what they cannot see.

Still, the actions narrated throughout the play were not the only elements left up for the audience’s interpretation.

Though the setting was difficult to imagine at times, the simplicity of the theater challenged the audience to visualize their own version of the world in which the play took place.

The script provided an outline of what the audience might envision, but the blank canvas of the stage forced viewers to use their imagination to create a world that intertwined mythology with the modern day.

Despite its unconventional delivery, “Day” was an engaging and bold performance that redefined traditional notions of theater and acting.

The focus of the play relied not on lighting, setting decor or sound haptics, but rather the voices of the cast.

To some, this style may seem unimaginative and boring, but “Day” showed how a play stripped down to its core can still evoke the same emotions from the audience.

Byrne’s play enabled the audience to imagine, to listen and to love, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

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

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Isabella Dodd (20B) and the ‘Heathers’ ensemble perform at the Emory Burlington Building.

Satirical Musical Outs High School Tropes Continued from Page 7 edy, its most powerful moments are when it stops and reflects on the heinous actions of the show’s characters, as J.D. does frequently throughout the show.

Alongside the stars of the show, nearly every member of the cast had a solo moment to shine. Playing various parents in the show, Matthew Nails (22C) and Noah Gentry (23C) display infectious energy during their song “My Dead Gay Son.” Numbers that featured more of the cast, too, were incredibly moving and powerful as the actors’ voices filled every nook and cranny of the small theater.

The full-ensemble scenes showcase the cast’s abundant talent, with each room-filling number resembling a cardio workout accompanied by resonant melodies.

“Heathers” is clearly a satirical comedy that brings issues prevalent in the

high school experience into the limelight, and then some.

The full-ensemble scenes showcase the cast’s abundant talent.

It’s important that these issues are represented in art, and while comedy can be an effective way at confronting them, the original “Heathers” script does so poorly, if at all.

The closest the show gets to having a productive dialogue is in the song “You’re Welcome.”

As Veronica navigates the threat of being assaulted by the campus jocks, her assaulters explain why their actions are justified with lyrics such as “you can’t just leave, not when you’re dressed like that.”

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The Double Life of An Emory YouTuber Katie Lee (22B), Student YouTuber

By Evan Finch Contributing Writer Katie Lee (22B) recently hit a major YouTube milestone, accumulating over 10,000 subscribers on her channel where she vlogs about her college life and travels. Lee vividly remembers watching her most popular video, in which she reacted to her college admission decisions, accumulate 10,000 views, and then 100,000, until eventually reaching a whopping 1.8 million.

Lee had just graduated from high school when her 2018 video, “I applied to 15+ colleges?!? My reactions and where I'm going 2018” went viral.

Lee got the idea for the video while watching people react to their own college acceptances and rejections. After applying to 16 colleges, Lee thought she would record her own reactions with no intention of making it viral.

As the views grew exponentially on the video, Lee remembered thinking, “It’s not going up from here. It’s gonna plateau.” But the views continued rolling in.

With that one video alone, Lee passed the monetization threshold of 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time, and can now collect money from her channel.

Lee’s friend Becky Cloud (22C) attributed the video’s success to Lee’s willingness to share not just her acceptances, but also her many rejections.

“She can be very relatable,” Cloud said. “I think people really enjoyed that, to see, like, ‘I’m not the only one that got rejected from all my schools.’”

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Though the Naples, Fla. native claims that she is “just normal,” she plans to continue to grow her channel and surpass 10,000 subscribers.

“I wasn’t expecting it, not at all,” Lee said. “When I hit it, I was just like, ‘What? 10,000 people actually care what I want to do?’ I’m not famous, but … for me, for someone that’s just normal, it’s a bigger deal.”

While students at many other universities make videos detailing the ins and outs of college life, Lee is one of few who study at Emory.

“Emory honestly didn’t have any college YouTubers,” Lee said. “Before I came to school … I was looking on YouTube … trying to get videos about Emory before I came ... And there was just not much there. So I think coming into Emory I was like, ‘Oh, I want to do more of that.’”

Lee now films the majority of her videos on campus, but has also filmed videos at home or when traveling. She said that producing a video can take countless hours of filming and editing, so she does not upload on a regular schedule.

At the Goizueta Business School, Lee studies finance and marketing. She said that training in analytics and other data analysis have informed her channel’s growth strategy.

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PROFESSOR

Cold War Inspires 5-Decade Psychology Career

By Greg Kimmerer Staff Writer

For the last 49 years at Emory, Goodrich C. White Professor of Psychology Darryl Neill, has been researching and teaching the science of how people work. Whether he’s in lab observing the behavior of rats undergoing electrical stimulation, or in lecture teaching undergraduates about the latest neuroscience advances, Neill has been guided by a desire to create and spread knowledge.

Neill, who is set to retire after the Spring semester, arrived at Emory as a professor in 1971 to begin research on reward systems in the brain. But he was not greeted by facilities that were research-ready — in fact, the lab’s temporary location was in such disrepair that wild rats would often come in and play with his lab rats.

Neill had the grants to do his neurochemical analyses, and his Laney Graduate School dean gave him materials to build a lab, but the dean could not pay to build the space. He and his graduate students

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Alma Cocina Disappoints With Soggy Tacos

By Irina Talty Contributing Writer

Alma Cocina Buckhead, Ga.

If you’ve recently found yourself stumbling around the sprawling maze of restaurants in Buckhead, you might have noticed a contemporary restaurant tucked underneath the high-rise office buildings.

Alma Cocina, previously only found in downtown Atlanta, expanded its modern Mexican and Latin American cuisine to Buckhead’s posh population on Feb. 4.

As an avid fan of tacos and guacamole, I knew I had to give this place a try.

I dragged my boyfriend to the restaurant on a freezing Friday night.

The hostess led us to a homey corner booth facing a wall of hanging plants.

The open setup and high ceilings create a spacious environment for customers, and soft music enhances the relaxing ambiance.

We ordered the fire-roasted salsa as our appetizer. Much to my chagrin, the guacamole was a whopping $11, whereas the salsa was only $4.

In lieu of typical chips, Alma Cocina serves its salsa with delightfully flaky tostada shells. The salsa had a pleasantly earthy taste with a kick of spice, and its consistency was perfect — not too watery, not too chunky.

We devoured the tostadas and our waitress brought over another bowl of them completely free of charge.

Pleased with our appetizer, we ordered our entrees. I picked chicken tinga verde street tacos, which contain chicken chorizo, pico de gallo and crema.

The dish was $15 for three small tacos and a side of rice and beans.

I don’t like beans, so I substituted them for an extra serving of rice for no extra charge. I also ordered a side of confit marble potatoes, which contain queso fresco, crema and pico de gallo.

The food arrived quickly. The entree presentation was neat, with the three little tacos surrounding a bowl of green rice. The tacos were juicy with a spicy aftertaste.

However, there was a problem once I began to eat: the tortilla encasing my treasured meat was as flimsy as a wet piece of toilet paper.

The taco became unappetizingly

learned to lay linoleum on the floor and Formica on the benchtops to build their own lab.

Neill described his first years at Emory as a drastically different experience from that of current Emory students.

“If you went back 15 to 20 years ago, you would really find faculty saying that Emory is an adolescent university, trying to find out what it wants to be when it grows up,” Neill said.

Neill traces his interest in psychology back to his earliest life experiences. He grew up in Orlando, Fla. during the Cold War era, when the town was host to a U.S. Air Force bomber base. At the time, the Orlando International Airport was the McCoy Air Force Base where all U-2 spy planes were launched from.

90 miles off the coast of Florida, nuclear-armed Soviet missiles were being assembled and installed in Cuba.

“I grew up with B-47 [Stratojets] loaded with [hydrogen] bombs flying over my house,” Neill said. “I looked at all this and I said to myself, ‘Why

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soggy within minutes, likely because of the watery crema seeping into the thin tortilla. It quickly began to tear until, one by one, my tacos broke at the seam and the meaty mix inside spilled onto the plate like a pile of guts.

I had to resort to eating the chicken with a fork, and it just wasn’t the same.

Disappointed, I moved onto the rice and potatoes. The green rice

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ADVICE

Combat College Sleep Deprivation

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Buckhead’s Alma Cocina opened Feb. 4 and serves modern Mexican and Latin American cuisine.

are people like this? This is silly.’”

Neill saw these dramatic demonstrations of human behavior and wanted to know what inclined people to behave this way. This curiosity, paired with what Neill describes as a natural tendencies towards academics, eventually led Neill to psychology.

“I’m fundamentally an intellectual,” Neill said. “When I was young, … I would read the fine print on the side of the cereal box. It took me decades [to] realize that was weird.

Most people have some curiosity, but [not] this overwhelming interest in how the world works. [For me], part of that was how people work.”

Neill fostered his academic interests at Eckerd College (Fla.), a liberal arts college he attended from 1963 to 1967. He described the college as being “infused with intellectual interest” rather than pre-professional.

As a biology major, Neill considered following his father’s path and becoming a doctor, but ultimately

My life always follows a strictly cyclical pattern. I wake up later than anticipated, work all day and still manage to go to sleep at ungodly hours of the night. Walking to class with deep, dark circles and extreme sleep deprivation is my signature look. With midterms on their way, extreme sleep deprivation can only get worse. That’s why I decided to make changes in my daily routine.

I decided that sleep, and health in general, should always be my first priority. In order to start seeing permanent improvements in my mood, performance and overall satisfaction, I developed a plan to help me relax, sleep better and feel in control of my day.

that last anywhere from one minute to two hours. The app features colorful animations to ease anxious feelings and advice from therapists about maintaining a healthy lifestyle.Many of the more tailored features require paid purchases, but the app still offers plenty of free components to help you get the most out of your experience.

With a free trial that lasts two weeks, you can explore all the options before deciding to commit to an annual subscription of $69.99 or a monthly subscription of $12.99 a month. Many times, a quick activity on “Headspace” has put me at ease before I sleep and has helped decrease my stress levels during the day.

Journaling for Those Who Aren’t Artistically Inclined

Make Use of Technology I’m a big proponent of apps that have mind exercises or stories to help me calm down before sleeping, doing work or starting my day. One of my personal favorite apps that includes these aspects is “Headspace.” The free app includes meditation courses

I was always intimidated by YouTubers and Instagram influencers who create artistic spreads in their bullet journals for each week.

Lacking that artistic edge, I questioned whether buying a journal

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“The central question I had is, ‘Why do people act the way they do?

Why don’t they sit down and figure it all out?’” Neill said. “Instead they [strut] around and preen and wave weapons. I decided there has to be an academic field that studies this.”

Initially, Neill explored a wide range of academic fields, starting with psychiatry, then anthropology, and finally psychology.

Each field didn’t quite fit Neill’s beliefs about biologically determined human nature.

He realized that if he was going to study human behavior, he would have to study the human brain itself.

Unfortunately, the field of neuroscience didn’t exist yet.

“I looked at all these people, and said, ‘None of those fields are what I want. I’m looking for human nature,’” Neill said. “Humans are humans because they have human brains, so I said to myself, ‘How do you study brains?’”

This led him to the biopsychology graduate program at the University of Chicago, where he graduated with a doctorate in 1972.

While conducting research there, Neill also taught for the first time, though it wasn’t until he got to Emory that he realized he had a passion for the practice.

In regards to his own career, Neill believes he was a teacher first and a researcher second, although he likely wouldn’t have been as happy if he wasn’t able to do both.

“If I look back, I’m primarily a teacher,” Neill said. “I had the federal grants, I had a lab, I did research, I’m still writing up papers. … I really did both, but my strength is in teaching.”

Neill has been teaching “Drugs

and Behavior” since he created the class 48 years ago. The class offers an overview of how major psychoactive drugs affect human behavior by influencing brain mechanisms.

Randy Blakely (81C) identifies Neill’s “Drugs and Behavior” class as a major milestone in his life. Blakely came to Emory interested in the humanities, but took the course his sophomore year after Neill’s suggestion. Blakely is now the first graduate of Johns Hopkins University’s (Md.) neuroscience doctorate program and a professor of biomedical sciences at Florida Atlantic University.

“I went to [Neill’s] class, and I became a passionate neuroscientist,” Blakely said. “It changed my life. I really felt like that was what I was looking for.”

Blakely described Neill’s teaching style as a mix of lectures and problem solving, which compels students to think about biological problems and challenges them on their scientific ideas. Blakely credits Neill for instilling in him a fascination with neuroscience and a desire to continue learning, which he believes is the most important goal a professor can strive for.

“It was a remarkable transition for [me], [because I] really had little by way of academic depth coming into college,” Blakely said. “[I met] a few really transformative figures, and I would say Daryl Neill is right there at the top.”

Neill said that part of what makes teaching at Emory so rewarding is the potential to change the trajectory of students’ lives.

“Undergraduates are at a stage where people can say, ‘You changed my life!’” Neill said. “I’ve seen it happen. I’ve seen students who took my course, got interested, and [changed career paths].”

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Elaine Walker, a department col-

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After 49 years at Emory, Darryl Neill will retire after the Spring semester.

league, described Neill as a storyteller, and said that his aptitude for teaching flows directly from his personality, particularly his curiosity.

Walker also noted Neill’s influence in the founding of the graduate and undergraduate programs in neuroscience, and recalled that he maintained a sense of community in the psychology department when he was chairman of the department from 1997 to 2003.

Throughout his career of nearly five decades, Neill has maintained close ties between his research and teaching — deriving satisfaction from both.

“I’ll put it in a nutshell: I’ve had a career where I get to read and learn the most interesting ideas there are, in all kinds of fields,” Neill said. “[I get to] talk [and] be friends with incredible people, and then I get paid to tell people about that. What could be any better?”

— Contact Greg Kimmerer at greg.kimmerer@emory.edu

would be a useful purchase.

However, I quickly learned that journaling can be whatever you want it to be.

My roommate keeps a very simple bullet journal that still manages to look put-together. I use mine to write diary entries.

These entries help me keep track of daily highlights, things to work on, and an occasional poem or short story written during my free time.

I find that mainstream media instills the idea that journal entries need to be several pages long and well-written, but even the daily habit of journaling short entries is sustainable in the long term.

I find that writing out the day’s events before I go to sleep helps me calm down. I channel any frustration that I may have had from a tedious assignment before going to sleep to avoid staying up all night overthinking.

Stop Cramming by Planning Along the same vein, planning out my day has significantly helped me relax before bed.

On a whiteboard right above my desk, I write everything I have to do the next day alongside longterm goals, inspirational quotes and weekly commitments.

Setting up my board every night helps me gain a sense of control over my life.

Bullet journals, planners, online calendars and to-do list apps are all ways to hold yourself accountable and add structure to your day.

Even though planning your day may add a few minutes to your nightly routine, I promise it’s worthwhile.

Being in College Doesn’t Mean Not Getting Enough Sleep!

Arguably the most essential tip to regularly having a good night’s sleep is to maintain a consistent, sustainable sleep schedule. I noticed that I was sleeping much later on weekends compared to weekdays, which caused me to be less productive on weekends. This forced me to stay up later during the week to compensate for my weekend procrastination habits.

There is no such thing as a universal perfect sleep schedule. However, setting a personal sleep goal and taking your daily schedule into consideration will help you get those hours in and avoid naps and procrastination during the day.

Building a consistent sleep schedule will condition your body to wake up and wind down at the same time everyday. You don’t have to sleep before 11 p.m. or midnight if you prefer to stay up later. As long as you maintain consistency in sleeping and waking, you’ll find yourself well equipped to combat sleep deprivation.

Conclusion With midterms just around the corner, you may find your body holding onto stress and tension as you forgo sleep for those few extra hours of studying. Remember to take time off school and relax before hitting the hay. These tips may seem simple, or perhaps even obvious, but sticking to them will help you conquer whatever challenges college sends your way.

— Contact Sara Khan at sara.a.khan@emory.edu

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Continued from Page 9 excited and intrigued me– I’ve never eaten rice this color. But with my first bite, I realized that there was a crucial point that the menu failed to mention.

The rice was heavily seasoned with cilantro. There are two types of people in this world — those who love cilantro and those who wish it would burn in the fiery pits of hell.

I fall into the second category. I still ate a little of the rice, but I was sad while doing so.

To placate myself, I moved onto the other side we’d ordered: the confit marble potatoes, which I first mistook for meatballs. The potatoes were my favorite part of the meal and were still steaming when they arrived at the table.

I had to blow on them to cool them down but once I took a bite, I was delighted. It was like eating cheesy potatoes. The crispy skin provided a crunchy texture in my mouth, and the potatoes were perfectly cooked through. However, the potatoes that weren’t lucky enough to be blessed with cheese were, for the most part, dry and tasteless.

Luckily, there was still enough cheese to go around.

My boyfriend ordered whole goat barbacoa street tacos for $17. They contained tomatillo arbol, cilantro, onion and goat.

The waitress explained that traditional Barbacoa cooking, which roasts meat in an underground oven, was not possible in Buckhead due to space, so instead, they cooked the goat for several hours to mimic the flavor of the barbacoa.

My boyfriend reported that the tacos lacked flavor, with only a mildly spicy kick. Although he enjoyed the large quantity of meat on his plate, he lamented that he couldn’t taste any of the other ingredients that were mixed with the goat. His tacos fell apart as well.

I ended my meal with mixed emotions. On one hand, I loved Alma Cocina’s atmosphere and service.

Our waitress was wonderful and incredibly attentive, filling our waters whenever they dipped below the halfway level, and answering our stupid questions (my boyfriend asked if the goat taco contained goat) with patience and kindness.

However, the food failed to live up to Alma Cocina’s self-proclaimed title of a “destination dining experience to remember.”

The food was average and not worth the price tag, and the only thing I’ll probably remember about my dining experience is my lingering disappointment.

— Contact Irina Talty at italty@emory.edu

Outside of school, Lee participates in a myriad of organizations including the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity, Emory Student Ambassadors and the Goizueta Investment Management Group. She ultimately plans to pursue a career in business, possibly as an investment banker.

Lee’s YouTube journey actually began in middle school, when she got inspired by YouTubers with beautyfocused channels. After watching several makeup tutorials, Lee decided to create her own.

“I posted one that was probably like 30 minutes long, in like seventh grade,” Lee said “[The video] did not go anywhere. It was actually really embarrassing, so I ended up deleting it.”

For the next few years, Lee only filmed videos for her own personal enjoyment but didn’t upload them.

Then, on Aug. 15, 2017, she uploaded the first video on her channel, titled “China Adventures,” a travel vlog documenting her trip with a student organization across some of China’s deserts and villages, inner Mongolia, Beijing and Shanghai.

“I wrote a journal every day too, and I have this big scrapbook of my experience there,” Lee said about her trip. “I wanted to document that experience. I’ve done that with pretty much everywhere I travel. I always take videos.”

Lee, who described herself as

“very sentimental about memories,” said that Youtube gives her a way to look back on her life.

“I think it makes a real difference when there’s a larger amount of people that actually want to see what I do, and see what college life at Emory is like,” Lee said.“It’s been a motivating factor.”

Lee’s roommate Tara Martin (22C) noted that Lee is always at work on her channel, even when not filming.

“She’s always busy, but she always finds time to ... create content,” Martin noted. “I think … in the back of her mind … her wheels are always turning, [thinking about] what she can do next.”

Cloud also said Lee’s vlogging connects with viewers because of its spontaneity.

“She’s creative, always looking for opportunities to capture her life and vlog,” Cloud said. “She just gets these spur of the moment ‘I’m gonna vlog today’ [thoughts]. She doesn’t really plan it out.”

Lee said that filming on campus used to feel a bit awkward, and she remembered holding her phone down low so people could not tell she was filming. However, filming in public is just one of several difficulties in running a YouTube channel. The most time-consuming part comes after filming.

“Combing through footage is so painful, especially if you have so much that you have to cut hours into

10 minutes,” Lee said.

In addition to filming, editing and constant brainstorming, Lee also designs thumbnails, writes descriptions and finds music to make her videos more engaging. These tasks together add up to incalculable hours of time per video. Nevertheless, Lee enjoys the hobby.

“I do the videos because I enjoy [them],” Lee said. “I don’t do it because I want to be YouTube famous. “And I do it when I have time. I don’t make it my job.”

After college, Lee sees her channel becoming more about her adult life as she enters the business world. Lee said she would like to make videos “on the business world in general” because she feels that YouTube does not have much of that content.

She pointed to YouTuber Mikhail “Doctor Mike” Varshavski, a family medicine doctor with over 5 million YouTube subscribers, as an example of how YouTubers can tie both work and personal life into a successful channel.As Lee continues to make content while balancing school, she advised aspiring YouTubers to reconsider their desires for profit and increased subscriber counts.

“You have to actually enjoy it to be able to do it,” Lee said. “You just have to stand out in a way. It’s kind of like applying to college, and like anything else you do in the world.”

— Contact Evan Finch at evan.finch@emory.edu

Mental Health Research at Emory The Mental Health and Development Program at Emory is enrolling participants, between the ages of 12 and 30, for an NIMH project on factors that contribute to risk for mental illness.

Individuals who are experiencing a decline in functioning and other symptoms (e g., social isolation, unusual thoughts/ perceptions, suspiciousness) may be eligible for an assessment that includes diagnostic and neuropsychological evaluations, all conducted at Emory.

Participants are compensated for their time and, if requested, test results can be provided to treatment providers.

For further information, contact Elaine Walker, Ph.D. at psyefw@emory.edu or contact the Mental Health and Development Program at (404) 727-7547 or mentalhealth.research@emory.edu.

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“[The club team] has a lot of funding from Georgia Tech,” John said. “They have 10 tables, so our goal is to get to where they are and to play with them in the future.”

To achieve these goals, the team has begun weekly practices. Before, TTC met only through random pickup matches. John hopes that arranging more meetings and better organization will help them become a club sports team.

In addition to building Emory’s pro-

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gram, John is working to maintain a dialogue with Georgia Tech’s team so that the Emory club can train with a variety of players in more competitive settings.

This past Halloween, a few Georgia Tech players came to Emory for the club’s Halloween Table Tennis Tournament.

With high hopes for the future of the club, John is constantly blown away by the mutual love of ping pong felt by several demographics of people on Emory’s campus.

“We’ve had the dean of Oxford [College], a few professors and the fencing coach come to tournaments,” John said. “It really surprised me; there’s a lot of people at Emory who love to play. It’s been great.”

Editor’s Note: Samuel John is a senior staff writer for the Wheel and was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.

— Contact Jessica Solomon at jessie.solomon@emory.edu

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Kobe and Daughter Gigi Honored In All-Star Game Continued from Back Page

On Team Giannis, Antetokounmpo led his team with a 25-point 11-rebound double-double, and Young, Embiid and Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz each finished with double-doubles as well.

James finished with 23 points, but teammate Leonard took home the newly renamed NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant MVP award with 30 points, eight of which were 3-pointers, and 11 rebounds. Leonard became close with Bryant over the years and he was honored to receive the newly renamed MVP award.

In honor of Bryant, James’ team wore No. 2 in honor of his daughter Gigi, who also passed in the helicopter crash. Antetokounmpo’s team wore No. 24 in honor of Bryant.

An eight-second moment of silence was held for Bryant prior to the game, a reference to the No. 8 jersey that Bryant wore at the beginning of his career. Musical performances

by Common and Jennifer Hudson

also added Kobe tributes to their performances.

Kobe’s competitiveness had distinguished him from other players, and this year’s All-Star game displayed a level of competition that seemed to honor this fact. Past All-Star games had only seen such a level of competition during the fourth quarter.

All-star Chris Paul of the Thunder was one of the pioneers behind the new all-star game format which contributed to the higher quality of play throughout the night. Paul and NBA legend Michael Jordan met with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver after Bryant’s death to discuss implementing a new format to honor Bryant.

After the game, Paul said “the best way we could honor Kobe, Gigi and everyone involved is to play like we played.”

Next year’s NBA-All Star Weekend will take place in Indianapolis, Ind.

— Contact Michael Mariam at mmariam@emory.edu

Men’s, Women’s Basketball Celebrate Senior Day With Wins Continued from Back Page conference play against CMU beginning Feb. 21.

Swimming and Diving The Emory swimming and diving teams won their 22nd and 28th consecutive UAA team championship for the men’s and women’s teams respectively in Chicago this past weekend.

To help clinch the championship on Saturday night, the women’s team won the 4x100-meter freestyle relay. The winning relay team included, freshman Caroline Maki, senior Caroline Olson, sophomore Taylor Leone and junior Lucy Daro. In total, Emory won 11 swimming titles and posted 23 AllUAA finishes, 154 points over runnersup NYU. Individually, sophomore Clio Hancock clinched gold in the 1650 freestyle to win her first-ever individual UAA title and Maki finished first in the 100 freestyle for her first career UAA title. At the end of the meet, freshman Savannah Sowards was named UAA Women’s Co-Rookie

of the Year after finishing No. 2 in the 4x100 medley relay and No. 3 in the 100 butterfly.

With an 8.5-point lead heading into the 4x100 freestyle relay, the men’s team needed a good showing by senior Sage Ono, sophomore Colin LaFave, junior Chris Nicholson and sophomore Pat Pema to secure the championship.

The group prevailed, as Pema’s anchor leg allowed the quartet to overtake UChicago in the final seconds to seal the team title.

The final 16.5-point margin of victory was the second closest men’s finish in the history of the UAA Championships.

At the end of the meet, sophomore Lucas Bumgarner received the UAA Men’s Diver of the Year award for the second time in his two-year collegiate career. Both teams will compete in the Emory Invitational Feb. 21-22 before the NCAA Championships in March.

Women’s Track and Field The women’s track and field team competed in the Samford Invite and Bulldog Open this weekend in

Birmingham, Ala. There was no team scoring at the meet, but many Eagles broke individual records.

Junior Rebekah Bondi achieved a new personal-record of 25.75 seconds in the 200-meter dash, an No. 18 place finish out of 47 runners that put her in eighth-place on the 200 sprint list in Emory history. Bondi also ran the 60 dash in a career-best 7.73 seconds.

Twelve other Eagles recorded personal-bests at the meet this weekend.

The Eagles’ next meet will take place Feb. 22 at the University of South Carolina (USC) in preparation for the UAA Indoor Championships from Feb. 29 to March 1.

Men’s Track and Field The Emory men’s track and field team also competed in the two-day Samford Invite and Bulldog Open in Birmingham, Ala. this weekend.

Sophomore Spencer Moore finished first out of 28 runners in the 3000 run with a time of 8:38.70. In the 5000 run, junior John Cox finished at No. 2 out of 20, crossing the fin-

ish line at 4:55.62, making him the seventh-fastest Eagle in the event in program history. The Eagles will travel to Columbia, S.C. for the USC Indoor Open on Feb. 22.

batters that he faced.

The Eagles will return to action on Feb. 19 at Berry College (Ga.) before taking on DePauw University (Ind.) for a Saturday double-header.

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This weekend, the Emory baseball team destroyed Millsaps College (Miss.) 18-1 and saw its games against Lynchburg University (Va.) and Huntingdon College (Ala.) cancelled due to rain. In the game that the Eagles played, they compiled 18 runs on 11 hits, eight walks and six hit-by-pitches (HBPs). The six HBPs against Millsaps tied the second-highest mark by an Emory team in University history.

Freshman outfielder Jack Masonis and junior infielder Jacob Singer led the offense with four hits and six runs batted in (RBI) between them.

Sophomore infielder Zeke Diamond also contributed to the offensive explosion with two RBIs. Senior pitcher Richard Brereton led the Eagles on the mound, tossing five innings of three-hit ball and striking out 17 of the

The Emory men’s tennis team cruised into its spring season opener this weekend, defeating Point University (Ga.) 8-1.

Junior Hayden Cassone took care of business at No. 1 singles as he beat his singles opponent 6-4, 6-4. Sophomore Antonio Mora defeated his opponent at No. 2 singles 6-4, 6-2. Together, Mora and Cassone defeated their doubles opponents 8-2 and placed No. 1.

Sophomore Andrew Esses easily dispatched his opponent at No. 3 singles.

Next up for the Eagles is the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division III National Men’s Team Indoor Championship in St. Peter, Minn. from Feb. 21-23.

— Contact Alex Moskowitz at apmosko@emory.edu

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Swimmers Extend UAA Championship Streak

By Alex Moskowitz Senior Staff Writer Women’s Basketball

The Emory women’s basketball team played two hard-fought games this weekend against University Athletic Association (UAA) foes the New York University (NYU) Bobcats and the Brandeis University Judges (Mass.). A win against Brandeis and a loss against NYU elevated the Eagles to 16-6 overall and 7-4 in UAA play.

In the first game of the weekend, NYU executed a 14-3 run late in the fourth quarter to come away with a 54-50 victory over the Eagles.

Junior center Blair Ripley led the Eagles on the inside with 13 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks, and junior guard Molly Weiss joined Ripley in double figures with 11 points and three 3-pointers. With her six blocks, Ripley moved into sole possession of No. 2 alltime on the Emory women’s basketball team’s blocks list with 109.

The 58-57 win on Feb. 16 against Brandeis also proved to be a nailbiter,. Before the game, the Eagles honored their six seniors with an oncourt ceremony for Senior Day. With less than eight minutes remaining in the game, the Eagles led by 11 points But a 12-2 run by the Judges in the ensuing six minutes cut the Eagles’ lead to 56-55. After Ripley made two free throws, the Judges scored once again to make it a one-point game with

34 seconds left. The Judges ultimately missed a winning shot at the buzzer.

Once again, Ripley dominated with a career-best 23 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks. The Eagles have a threegame road trip to end the regular season, starting with matchups against Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (Pa.) on Feb. 21 and Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) on Feb. 23.

Men’s Basketball The No. 8 Emory men’s basketball team cruised to victories in both of their games this weekend as they defeated NYU 99-81 on Friday and toppled Brandeis by a whopping 28 points on Senior Day. With the two wins, the Eagles improved their record to 19-3 overall and 9-2 in the UAA. In the first game, junior guard Matthew Schner and junior forward Matt Davet led the way with 16 points apiece, while four others joined them in double figure point totals.

In their next game against Brandeis, junior guard Romin Williams and junior forward Lawrence Rowley combined for 46 points. Trailing by five points at halftime, the Eagles exploded for 61 points in the second half while shooting 71.4 percent from the field as a team. With their 95-63 win, the Eagles tie Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) at the top of the UAA, and will head into the final three games of

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Austin Cherian (23C) and Sai Mummareddy (23C) compete at the Emory Table Tennis Club’s Valentine’s Day Doubles Tournament on Feb. 15 at the Woodruff Physical Education Center.

Table Tennis Club Aces Tourney

By Jessica Solomon Asst. Sports Editor

On a sunny Saturday afternoon, you can find many Emory students taking in the sun, hanging out on the quad or studying around campus. But for the Emory Table Tennis Club (TTC), this is the perfect time for a tournament.

On Feb. 15, the club hosted its second annual Valentine’s Day doubles tournament at the two tables on the first floor of the Woodruff Physical Education Center. While many of the participants were club members, there were also non-affiliated students who simply wanted to participate.

Austin Cherian (23C) and Sai Mummareddy (23C) competed as a team in the tournament. While neither are heavily involved with the club, they

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wanted to capitalize on the opportunity to play a competitive game of ping pong.

“We play a lot on the sides, so we wanted to test our skills and see how we fair up against these guys,” Cherian said. “It’s a great stress reliever.”

TTC hosted the same tournament last year, but it was only their second tournament ever as an organization. In January 2018, club president Samuel John (20C) started the club after noticing Emory’s lack of a table tennis organization. Since then, the club has expanded to roughly 30 dedicated members and over 200 affiliated members.

“Since we started the club, people at Emory are really interested in playing,” John said. “We have all skill levels, and we’re always looking for more

people to join the group.”

While the organization does have a significant number of members, they are not officially recognized as a club sport by Emory Recreation and Wellness and the Club Sports Council, something John hopes to change in the near future. Currently, TTC has a “Not Recommended for Funding” (NRF) charter, which is decided by the College Council.

John applied for a “Recommended for Funding” (RF) charter and had the hearing on Feb. 10, but is still waiting for a response. By receiving an RF charter, John hopes the team can become more like the club table tennis team at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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New All-Star Format Breeds Competition Wade Sets Example for

By Michael Mariam Contributing Writer

Basketball fans across the world waited months for NBA All-Star Weekend, a weekend of events surrounding the NBA All-Star game. The Chicago Bulls hosted this year’s festivities in their home arena, the United Center.

One of the highlights of All-Star Weekend was the State Farm All-Star Saturday Night on Feb. 15. The league’s top players competed in a night of fun challenges and competitions including a skills challenge, three-point contest and dunk contest.

The final event of the night was the AT&T Slam Dunk contest. After strong showings from Aaron Gordon of the Magic and Derrick Jones Jr. of the Heat, Milwaukee’s Pat Connaughton and Los Angeles Lakers’ Dwight Howard did not advance past the first round.

Gordon jumped over Chance the Rapper multiple times en route to the finals, while Jones jumped over two people and capped it off with a between-the-legs scoop dunk.

Both Gordon and Jones scored a perfect score of 50 with their dunks in the final round, so the two went to a dunk-off. Gordon jumped over Tacko Fall of the Boston Celtics, who stands as the tallest player in the league at 7 feet and 5 inches. Jones topped that with a tomahawk dunk from the freethrow line.

The result, however, was controversial as Jones earned 48 points while Gordon was one point behind in the dunk-off, even though most fans

believed that Gordon had the better final dunk.

Sunday, the final day of the NBA All-Star Weekend, featured the weekend’s most anticipated event — the NBA All-Star Game. Fans voted for five players from each conference to be chosen for the starting lineups.

Team Captains LeBron James of the Lakers and Giannis Antetoukounmpo of the Bucks drafted the starters and reserves for their teams.

This year’s game was formatted differently “to increase the level of competition throughout the game.” The first three quarters were treated as 12-minute games rather than the traditional 48 minute game, and whichever team won the quarter donated $100,000 to a Chicago-area charity.

Team LeBron won the first quarter 53-41 after Kawhi Leonard of the Los Angeles Clippers led Team LeBron with 12 points. No individual player on Team Giannis exceeded eight points in the first quarter, but Antetoukounmpo upped the ante in the second, bringing his point total to 20 for the game and strengthening the team’s strong defensive effort. Atlanta’s Trae Young also drained a half-court shot at the halftime buzzer to boost Team Giannis’ lead.

The third quarter was much more evenly matched than the previous two.

The quarterly game ended with a tie at 41 apiece, with Houston’s Russell Westbrook from Team LeBron just missing a tie breaking shot at the buzzer.

In many ways, the game honored Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, who passed away in a helicop-

ter crash in California last month with daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant. After the first three quarters, a target score was calculated by adding a point total of 24 — Kobe’s jersey number — to the leading team’s score. After three quarters, Team Giannis led 133-124, meaning that the first team to score 157 points would win the game.

The fourth quarter was full of highenergy basketball. Team LeBron rallied back from a nine-point deficit at the beginning of the quarter, but Antetokounmpo blocked a layup by James that would have brought Team LeBron team within a one-point reach from victory. The referees called goaltending, but after further review, it was ruled a clean block.

Then, James Harden of the Houston Rockets hit a 3-pointer for Team LeBron that would have won his team the game, but Toronto’sKyle Lowry took a charge to cancel the made basket.

Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid hit two free throws to put Team Giannis only one point behind Team LeBron. At 156-155, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Anthony Davis was fouled by Kyle Lowry of Team Giannis and the Toronto Raptors.

At the free-throw line, Davis needed one bucket to bring Team LeBron to the target number and a winning score of 157 points, ultimately delivering the point and securing the victory. After their 157-155 win, Team LeBron donated its $400,000 to Chicago Scholars, a group that helps underprivileged youth navigate college.

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Parents and Athletes

By Ryan Callahan Sports Editor

Dwyane Wade is one of the greatest NBA players of all time. The 16-year veteran was a 13-time NBA All-Star, eight-time All-NBA selection, threetime NBA champion and was named the 2006 NBA Finals MVP as a member of the Miami Heat.

Arguably, his defining moment came recently when he and his wife Gabrielle Union spoke out in support regarding their 12-year-old child, who is a transgender girl.

The couple received backlash over a Nov. 28 Instagram post that featured their daughter, Zaya, wearing a crop top and acrylic nails.

In doing so, Wade taught the world a lesson in change and accountability.

Wade acknowledged that he had once held the same views as those criticizing Wade and Union for allowing their child to cross-dress.

“I grew up with the same perspective as a lot of these people out here that’s a little ignant [sic],” Wade said on the “All The Smoke” podcast.

It would have been easy for Wade to stay true to his past views on the LGBTQ community and blame his prejudice on what he had learned in his community growing up, as many do.

But, while hate is taught, love is not. It takes work to love another.

Too often are children criticized or even abandoned by their parents for their sexual orientation or gender dysphoria.

These instances are caused by a refusal to change and neglect of one’s duty as a parent.

“It ain’t about him,” Wade said. “He knows who he is. It’s about you. Who are you?”

Kids are not supposed to live in line with their parents’ views; they are supposed to grow into their own, selfsufficient person.

It’s up to the parents to reflect on their values and how those may impact their children.

As Wade said, it’s not about the child and who they are; it’s about the parents’ ability to look themselves in the mirror and decide if they will accept their children for who they are.

Wade could have easily refused to discuss Zaya and her identity.

Instead, he recognized the importance of a person of his influence speaking out in support of the LGBTQ community during a time when discrimination still pervades our society.

More so than ever, athletes are realizing the impact of their platform.

Wade provided a valuable lesson in adaptability and responsibility to parents and non-parents alike.

He showed that while old prejudice can be hard to shed, it is our responsibility as people to grow, mature and become better people for the sake of ourselves and the ones we love.

— Contact Ryan Callahan at rjcalla@emory.edu