March 4, 2020

The Emory Wheel 100 Years of

Emory University’s Independent Student Newspaper

Volume 101, Issue 7

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Printed Every Wednesday

Emory Prepares For Coronavirus

By Isaiah Poritz and Musa Ya-Sin News Editor and Contributing Writer

Noyonika Parulekar, Staff

From Left to R ight: Crystal Greer, Jon Ossoff, Genny Castillo and Taos Wynn (06Ox, 09C) discuss policy advocacy strategies for young people.

See FREE, Page 4

Univ. Faces Leadership Vacuum

By Nicole Sadek Editor-in-Chief Outgoing Goizueta Business School Dean Erika James is the third senior administrator within the last five months to announce her departure from Emory. After the news that former Provost Dwight McBride and President Claire E. Sterk had plans to step back from their positions, James was named the next dean of the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania last week.

She will assume her new post in July.

Emory College Dean Michael Elliott

views the administrators’ departures as a reflection on Emory’s ability to garner talent.

“I see this as a confluence of events that is a coincidence of timing, and I don’t really see an underlying pattern here,” Elliott said. “We want to have ambitious leaders, and they are going to be presented with other opportunities.”

But the departures of McBride, Sterk and James have also raised questions and concerns among faculty and students about the future of the University’s leadership.

“I was surprised to learn [about the

departures] because the University’s had a history of administrators at that level staying around for a number of years,” said Jeffrey Staton, chair of the political science department.

Before leaving Emory to serve as the president of The New School (N.Y.), McBride served a two-year tenure as the University’s provost and executive vice president of academic affairs.

When Sterk concludes her Emory presidency, she will have served in the position for four years.

Out of the three, James stayed at

See FACULTY, Page 4

In the wake of the University’s decision to cancel all Spring 2020 study abroad programs in Italy, all nine Emory students in the country will have left by Friday, according to Associate Dean for International and Summer Programs Sarah Gouzoules.

“Due to the challenges of rearranging travel, not all students have been able to leave yet,” Gouzoules wrote in a March 3 email to the Wheel. “All students have left northern Italy now.

We are in daily contact with all the students and are tracking their travel arrangements.”

The cancellation came on Feb. 28 after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designated the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy a Level 3 threat, strongly advising against all nonessential travel.

Gillian Gurney (21C) was studying abroad in Milan, Italy — the center of the outbreak in the country — in a program from the multi-university Institute for the International Education of Students (IES). She trav-

eled back to the United States this week after receiving notice from the University to evacuate on Feb. 29.

Gurney told the Wheel that she was never screened during her travels back to the U.S. “That’s the biggest shock to me,” Gurney said. “I could feel the stress in the airport because I was anxious to get home.”

Gurney came home after a Feb. 26 press conference from President Donald J. Trump, in which he stated, “We’re screening people, and we have been, at a very high level — screening people coming into the country from infected areas.”

Before she left, Gurney said that increasing numbers of universities were suspending their study abroad programs.

Due to the high volume of suspension notices, she began to anticipate a similar notice from Emory.

“Before Emory sent the email, many other schools had pulled their kids, and we were kind of just starting to freak out,” Gurney said. “I called [my friend], and I said I don’t know what’s in store for us. … When I got the email, I wasn’t surprised.”

See STUDENT, Page 2

Alumna Shannon Melendi’s 1994 Killer Up for Parole

By Ayushi Agarwal and Gabriella Lewis Asst. Copy Editor and Staff Writer On March 26, 1994, Emory sophomore Shannon Melendi disappeared midday from a gas station on North Decatur Road. This month Colvin “Butch” Hinton III is up for parole for the second time since his 2005 conviction for kidnapping, raping and murdering Melendi.

“This is our life sentence — having to continue to fight to keep him in there,” Monique Melendi, Shannon’s younger sister, told the Wheel. “It has completely destroyed our family. …

Growing up as a teenager, I had severe social anxiety disorder. I couldn’t go anywhere by myself. … My parents have never been the same. This isn’t

something you just get over and move on with your life.”

Per Georgia law, any individual serving a life sentence for a crime committed before 1995 remains eligible for parole consideration after every seven years.

This year, Melendi’s family is once again confronted with the possibility that her killer could walk free.

“What I want Hinton to be right now is dead. Just like my daughter is,” Luis Melendi, Shannon’s father said to the Wheel. “We don’t have any hope. … He might get out. He has a sliver of hope which we don’t. So I want nothing to do with [Hinton’s] family, they can all die — I don’t care.”

The Georgia parole board makes a decision based on the inmate’s file, which includes letters and notes from

community members, and their performance and behavior whilst in prison. Georgia’s parole system does not have parole hearings. The Melendis have an active Change.org petition with upward of 6,000 signatures to deny Hinton’s parole.

During that Saturday afternoon in 1994, Melendi left her Harris Hall room to go to her scorekeeping job at the now-defunct DeKalb Softball Country Club. Hinton was an umpire in the same game she was keeping score.

According to Jerry Chastain, Hinton would turn around and look at Melendi frequently mid-game. She took a break at 12:40 p.m. and drove to a former Citgo gas station on North

See FAMILY, Page 3

Courtesy of Athena Perez

Shannon Melendi (Foreground Left) and then-roommate Athena Perez (96C) (Second From R ight) pose for a photo.

Board Elects 3 New Trustees

By Anjali Huynh Contributing Writer

Courtesy of Emory Photo and Video

From Left to R ight: Bishop Jonathan Holston, Bishop David Graves and Andrew Evans were elected trustees on March 3.

NEWS

Recent Emory

Grad to Complete on ‘Jeopardy!’ ...

PAGE 2 P

The Board of Trustees has elected three new members, the University announced on March 3: businessman Andrew W. Evans (88C) and two Methodist bishops, Bishop David W. Graves (90T) and Bishop L. Jonathan Holston.

The addition of Evans, Graves and Holston brings the total number to 40 out of 45 permitted active trustee members, five of whom are bishops affiliated with the United Methodist

Church.

Trustees serve six-year initial terms, after which they can be renewed for four-year terms.

Established in 2015, the Board ”governs the university by establishing policy and exercising fiduciary responsibility for the long-term well-being of the institution.”

Evans graduated from Emory with a bachelor’s in economics and later participated in the Booth/Kellogg program and CEO Perspectives.

He joined Southern Company Gas, a gas and electric utility holding compa-

ny formerly known as AGL Resources, in 2002.

After serving in multiple positions, including president and chief executive officer of Southern Company Gas, Evans became executive vice president and chief financial officer of Southern Company in 2018.

He also serves on the energy advisory council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Graves obtained his master’s of

See 2, Page 4

OP-ED Students Should A&E Theater Emory’s EMORY LIFE SPORTS Eagles Clinch ‘Wooden Nickels’ Adapts Brewing Brothers Bond Fight for Reproductive UAA Title, Advance to NCAA Justice ...

Back Page PAGE 9 Over Beer ...

PAGE 13 Tournament ...

PAGE 6 Prose to Stage ...

2

NEWS

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

The Emory Wheel

Recent Emory Grad to Compete on ‘Jeopardy!’

By Niraj Naik Editor-in-Chief When Matt Ribel (19C) took the “Jeopardy!” test in April 2019, he didn’t think much would come of his attempt to compete on “America’s Favorite Quiz Show.” He was sitting on Emory’s Quadrangle a few weeks later when he received an email: out of the roughly 100,000 applicants each year, Ribel had been invited to the next round of auditions in Washington, D.C. What followed was a rigorous application process that involved two additional paper tests, a simulated live-round of play and an eight-month waiting period.

Eventually, he got a call in early February 2020. By that time, Ribel had already graduated from Emory and taken a job as a speechwriter in D.C. “I waited eight months before I heard anything and at that point had basically forgotten about it,” Ribel said.

The “Jeopardy!” production team gives contestants just two weeks to prepare for the show’s official tapings.

Ribel said he didn’t prepare much for the show, instead focusing on mastering the buzzer, as well as studying a few of his “known unknowns.” For Ribel, these were mostly fine arts and humanities categories.

“The little studying that I did do — maybe a day or two — prior to leaving for LA, was literally, I was reading a page from ‘The Bible for Dummies,’” Ribel said.

In addition to studying the book,

Ribel said he read up on opera, Renaissance art and musical theater.

He felt confident in topics related to politics and geography. In the end, he said the studying did not prepare him for the overwhelming experience of the game show.

“It’s not like cramming for an AP exam where you know what you need to know,” he said. “I talked to people who had been on the show, [and] they told me studying will independently probably only stress you out, but it kind of depends on how you work. And I knew that would be the case for me.”

Ribel said he watched about 50 episodes in the eight months prior to his taping as well as two dozen more episodes in the two-week period leading up to the taping.

On Feb. 18 and 19, Ribel and his family flew to Culver City, California, where the “Jeopardy!” set is located at Sony Pictures Studios. At 7 a.m., he and the other contestants took a shuttle to the studio, where they began to prepare for the day.

“I was kind of expecting a weird high school debate sort of dynamic where everybody is kind of on edge and trying to engage in these weird psych-out tactics,” Ribel said. “I found that everybody was very friendly and … made it a lot less stressful than it could have been.”

The studio tapes each week’s five episodes in a single day to accommodate contestants who fly in from across the country as well as long-time host Alex Trebek, who was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in 2019.

Ribel, who met Trebek for the first time during his taping, expressed gratitude for being able to compete while Trebek still hosted the show.

“He is an enormous presence,” Ribel said. “He really commands that entire room. … It’s great to be able to get on now and have that opportunity.”

Ribel described the experience as completely different from what viewers see at home. For starters, the studio could be as cold as 55 degrees; Ribel said he even saw people wearing coats and gloves before the taping.

Though he had the chance to rehearse his introduction and practice with the buzzer, the experience was still foreign to him.

“One thing that did strike me is … how much harder it is there then at home when you’re watching on TV, just cause there’s so much stimulus,” he said.

Ribel was surprised to learn that the clues were smaller than they appear on screen, forcing contestants to squint across the stage to see them.

Contestants also must wait to buzz in until Trebek finishes reading the clue, or else they risk a time penalty that effectively locks them out of the question.

Ribel’s parents, Shannon and Jeff Ribel, described a palpable air of stress as they watched their son compete.

“I was completely nervous — it was nerve wracking,” Shannon said. “You want to watch your child do well. And then you sit there and have to wait to see who’s next [to compete]. … Each time you’re like, ‘Is it going to be them?

Student Recounts Frantic Departure from Italy Continued from Page 1 As soon as Gurney received the email from the University, she called her parents and booked a flight back to the U.S. and had to pack up her entire apartment within a day. Gurney flew from Italy to John F. Kennedy International Airport and then to her home in Los Angeles.

Although she foresaw her departure in the few days before the University formally requested her return, she noted the difficulty of streamlined communication in such a fast-moving situation.

“Everything was very unclear, and I think nothing was concrete,” Gurney said. “It was literally hour by hour updates.”

According to Gurney, IES suspended in-person class meetings, opting to have students participate in online lectures.

The program distributed masks to students and gave them advice on how to stay hygenic.

However, Gurney found that the outbreak did not disrupt her or Italians’ daily routines in the days leading up to her departure from the country.

Other universities such as New York University pulled their students from the country on Feb. 24, before the CDC issued the Level 3 advisory.

The University suspended all sponsored travel to China, after the U.S. State Department updated their China Travel Advisory on Feb. 2. Programs to South Korea were canceled on Feb. 27.

According to Vice Provost for Global Strategy and Initiatives Philip Wainwright, at the time of these cancelations, academic terms had not begun in those countries, so students who were planning to study in those countries had not traveled to them.

Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs Christa Acampora said that the University will work with the study abroad programs to make sure that affected students can complete their

academic credit hours remotely.

“Withdrawal is a last resort,” Acampora said. “We are doing everything we possibly can to ensure that students are able to maintain their academic progress.”

Regarding aid money which has already been disbursed and used to pay for programs, it is not anticipated that anyone will lose their money entirely.

“We believe that most students will be accommodated by their provider with an alternate plan, so they should not experience any type of financial loss or negative impact on their financial aid,” Acampora said.

Students who have already paid their deposits will be refunded if their program is canceled.

The University will also reimburse students for change fees on their airfare, but students are advised to buy trip insurance in case their plans change.

Emory hopes to avoid canceling programs and would prefer to postpone or relocate a summer program before canceling it entirely.

As the situation overseas worsens, some international students studying at Emory remain at risk of being unable to return to their home countries.

“We are committed to working with students who will have to change their plans for the summer because of disruptions to travel or other health considerations,” Wainwright said. “At this point, we have people looking at what the housing possibilities would be and what the possibilities would be for them to enroll in classes over the summer.”

Preparations for an Outbreak in Georgia Within the last week, six Americans have died from COVID-19. On March 2, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced that two Fulton County residents

tested positive for the virus after returning from Milan. The patients are a father and son, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“At present time there is no widespread transmission identified in Georgia and no confirmed illnesses on Emory’s campuses,” Assistant Vice President of Reputation Management Laura Diamond wrote in a March 3 email to the Wheel. “A team of representatives from emergency preparedness, health care, campus life and other units are closely monitoring the situation.”

Acampora said that the Office of Critical Event Preparedness And Response (CEPAR) will coordinate the University’s response to a potential outbreak.

CEPAR is looking at contingency plans for the outbreak. CEPAR advises maintaining hygiene and avoiding public areas if feeling ill. With spring break approaching, students are advised against traveling to affected areas.

“Emory students who are traveling should make themselves aware of the CDC advice for that, and also bear in mind that affected areas are responding to significant challenges at this point, Wainwright said. “Travel to these areas for tourism will not help the situation. … Be flexible about changing plans, and think about where you can go to avoid putting a burden on local health systems and authorities.”

On March 3, Emory sent a University-wide email that advised students to be aware of the CDC travel advisories and to take steps to protect their health.

The email also advised students to follow the University’s situation updates website.

— Contact Musa Ya-Sin at musa.ya-sin@emory.edu and Isaiah Poritz at iporitz@emory.edu

Courtesy of Matt R ibel

Matt Ribel (19C) took part in the “Jeopardy!” game show on Feb. 18 and 19 in Culver City, California.

Is it going to be them?’”

But once Ribel finally went on stage, the experience flew by.

“There’s this huge rush of adrenaline,” Ribel said. “You may or may not blackout. And then when it’s over, it’s over very quickly because [the show is] a well-oiled machine.”

Since the taping, Ribel’s D.C. coworkers have attempted to discover the outcome of the taping, but Ribel, like all contestants, is bound by a nondisclosure agreement not to talk about the results of the show.

Director of Emory Conference Services and Housing Administration Sherry Ebrahimi (97C), who became familiar with Ribel while he was president of Alpha Tau Omega, said she is excited to watch him compete on the show.

“I can’t wait to see him on TV,” Ebrahimi said. “I’ll definitely be watching with friends ready to see him be the next super ‘Jeopardy!’ champ.”

Ribel advised prospective contestants to watch the show as much as possible and to take the online test more than once.

“Everybody who enjoys the show and wants to be on it should take the online test whenever the opportunity comes up,” he said.

Ribel is not the first Emory alumnus to compete this year. Mandy DeLucia (97C) competed this past Monday, earning a 2nd-place finish.

Ribel’s appearance on “Jeopardy!” will air on April 27 on CBS.

— Contact Niraj Naik at niraj.naik@emory.edu

News Roundup Compiled By Calen MacDonald

Emory, Grady Hospital Partner To Study Airway Trauma The Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine and the Grady Memorial Hospital will partner for a clinical trial to study methods to secure the airways of an individual who has suffered a traumatic injury, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Prehospital Airway Control Trial (PACT), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, is part of a nationwide study that includes eight other academic medical centers. PACT will provide $8.8 million over a four-year period to examine different methods that first responders can use to secure the windpipe of a person facing trauma.

Patients who are in a coma and have the ability to oxygenate and be brought to the Grady Memorial Hospital by ambulance will automatically be enrolled in the trial.

The study seeks to enroll more than 2,000 participants over four years.

UC Santa Cruz Fires 54 Graduate Assistants Over Strike Fifty-four graduate teaching assistants were fired by the University of California, Santa Cruz on Feb. 28, following a months-long strike for increased wages, according to the Associated Press.

The strike began in December 2019, when graduate teaching assistants demanded a $1,412 monthly wage increase to match their cost of living. The students refused to release their Fall final grades unless their demands were met.

The scope of the strike expanded in February, with teaching assistants refusing all teaching responsibilities, leading to the cancellation of some classes. UC Santa Cruz spokesperson

Scott Hernandez-Jason reprimanded the students for “withholding grades for undergraduate students in a way that unfairly impairs their education,” AP reported.

CDC Suggests Colleges Cancel Exchange Programs The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that colleges “consider postponing or canceling upcoming student foreign exchange programs” due to COVID-19 concerns on Sunday.

The CDC guidance also suggested colleges consider requesting current exchange program participants return to their home countries and recalling current study abroad participants.

The statement notes that “all plans for returning study abroad students should be designed to protect participants from stigma and discrimination.”

MARTA Anticipates COVID-19 Spread In a statement released on Tuesday, MARTA said it is taking steps in preparation for the possible spread of COVID-19 through its system based on suggestions from the CDC and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). MARTA will focus on sanitizing “high touch areas,” such as handrails, elevators, buttons and escalators. Additionally, MARTA has communicated strategies to prevent the spread of COVID19 to its employees. MARTA’s “See and Say” app can also be used to report concerns to its Emergency Preparedness Unit. These actions are taken in collaboration with the CDC and the APTA. — Contact Calen MacDonald at ccmacdo@emory.edu

NEWS

The Emory Wheel

Crime Report Compiled By Gabriella Lewis

On Feb. 19 at 12:28 p.m., EPD responded to a stalking complaint made by a Starbucks employee in the Oxford Road Building. The complainant said she had received unwanted calls to her cell phone from a distant relative. The complainant said that the subject had also called her workplace and made false complaints about her in hopes of getting her terminated.

The subject also posted on social media asking if she should show up at the complainant’s workplace and attempted to contact the complainant’s family members over social media.

The complainant said the unwanted communications made her feel unsafe. The case is under active investigation.

On Feb. 21 at 12:17 p.m., EPD responded to a report of theft. The complainant said that on Feb. 18 at approximately 6 p.m., he left his rose gold Dell XPS 13 laptop in a black AmazonBasics case in the Goizueta Business School.

At approximately 9 p.m., he returned to the place where he left the laptop and found that it was missing. The complainant stated that he checked with the security officer and looked in the building’s lost and found, but the laptop had not been turned in. The complainant estimated the value of the laptop at $900. The case is under active investigation.

On Feb. 21 at 4:09 p.m., EPD responded via phone to a report of harassment at White Hall.

The complainant said that at approximately 4 p.m., he received a phone call and that a “male agitated loud voice” demanded to speak with “the dean.” The complainant gave the unknown caller her last name

W

and told the caller that the dean was out of the office, to which the caller responded with verbal threats.

The complainant told EPD that she did not know of any students who had issues with the dean but that students can get upset from time to time. The EPD officer attempted to call the number, retrieved the name of the caller through their voicemail and found that the caller is a former Emory student. The case is under active investigation.

On Feb. 22 at 2:10 p.m., EPD received an anonymous report of rape from Campus Security Authority (CSA). The report was disclosed to CSA on Feb. 11 for statistical purposes.

On Feb. 25 at 6:49 a.m., EPD responded to property damage complaints at the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The Woodruff Library Operations and Access Services personnel told EPD that they received a call reporting burn marks on the carpet of Classroom 874. The case is under active investigation.

On Feb. 25 at 3:16 p.m., EPD responded to a report of public indecency outside of the Depot by Kaldi’s Coffee. At approximately 2:30 p.m., a light gray Honda stopped before the stop sign outside Kaldi’s and stayed for about five minutes. The complainant’s friend said the driver of the car appeared to be masturbating. After the driver left, he came back to the stop sign 15 minutes later and stopped for another minute. The responding EPD officers circulated the area for about 20 to 30 minutes but could not identify the described driver. The case is under active investigation.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

3

Univ. Plans for Capital Campaign Launch

By Thomas Kreutz Senior Staff Writer In the recently released presidential prospectus, Emory announced that the University is in the “silent stage” of a capital campaign.

In a March 1 interview with the Wheel, Emory Advancement and Alumni Engagement Assistant Vice President and Chief of Staff Mathew Pinson spoke about the campaign, a major fundraising project that is expected to commence following the appointment of the next University president.

Though Pinson did not specify concrete goals of the campaign, Emory’s last major fundraising campaign, Campaign Emory, raised $1.69 billion.

Historically Emory’s capital campaigns have funded various needs of the University, including the construction of Emory’s earliest buildings and its ever-growing research grants. The first capital campaign in 1848 allowed the University to lay the cornerstone for the first large stone building on campus.

Pinson, Senior Associate Vice President for Strategic Communications Cutler Andrews and Director of University Leadership Engagement and Projects Alison Short are part of Emory’s administrative staff responsible for the capital campaign.

As it pertains to Emory’s presidential prospectus, Pinson said that the next president has the potential to play a big role in prioritizing focus points of funding.

“You can think of it as a centralized rally, so that each school and area across campus doesn’t feel like they are

off doing their own thing,” Short said.

“That rally is really important and I think that is what they are speaking to in the prospectus.”

According to Short, fundraising during a silent stage is not very different than fundraising during a “public stage” of a capital campaign.

Matthew Pinson, Emory Advancement and Alumni Engagement Assistant Vice President Courtesy of Emory Photo/Video

Short said that most universities are in a constant campaign cycle, focusing on funding anything from expendable money used across campus, programmatic needs or even growth of the endowment. Without a campaign, Emory raised an average of $376 million per year between 2017 and 2019, according to the presidential prospectus.

According to Short, capital campaigns take a more targeted strategy, focusing on donors with “more philanthropic capacity” and on specific goals like a scholarship or new building.

Pinson said a constant campaign cycle targeting bigger donors is not Emory’s only aim.

Pinson said that fundraising is becoming less about setting fiscal goals like in the past and more about establishing a “conversational” process. Pinson contextualized the shift in strategy through an anecdote about what it means to walk across Emory’s campus.

“You’ve got a group of undergradu-

ates reading on the Quad, helicopters landing on hospitals, countless pieces of research coming from all around you. We are fortunate to be a part of this,” Pinson said. “How to make Emory meaningful – those are the things our partners and our fundraising make possible.”

Pinson said that specific monetary priorities of the campaign will not be made public until the public phase of the campaign, but Andrews said that the following months will be spent focusing holistically on the wants of the campus, looking to the needs of students and of various divisions to gauge where to target fundraising.

Pinson added that the Board of Trustees and the next University president will be involved in the decision to move the campaign into its public stage.

During the remainder of the silent stage, the three strategists will engage focus groups and meet with representatives of Emory’s schools and student leaders to better understand the needs and priorities of each division of the University.

Pinson added that the campaign staff will meet with a variety of outside stakeholders, including foundation partners and philanthropists who have worked in the past with Emory.

“Most people really want the big splashy dollar, but that’s really not what it’s about – that’s heresy in our world,” Pinson said. “It’s not about the ‘big total’ but about what it represents — the people that it is impacting.”

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

— Contact Gabriella Lewis at gvlewis@emory.edu

Have a tip for News?

Email Isaiah Poritz at iporitz@emory.edu

Family Petitions Against Hinton’s Release Continued from Page 1 Decatur Road. That was the last time Melendi was seen by an attendant at the gas station. The next day, thenroommate Athena Perez (96C) and her friends found her car sitting at the station with the keys still in it.

Soon after Melendi went missing, an unidentified male called the Emory Helpline and stated that he found one of Melendi’s rings taped in a pouch inside a phone booth in McDonough, Georgia. Authorities identified similar tape in Hinton’s home.

On Sept. 8, 1994, Hinton burned a large portion of his Clayton, Georgia, home, claiming it was caused by a malfunctioning vacuum cleaner.

Because of Hinton’s previous criminal record, the fire garnered mass media attention, according to former Wheel Editor-in-Chief Dan Sadowsky (95C). On Jan. 17, 1996, Hinton was convicted for charges of arson and mail fraud.

Over the next year, Melendi’s disappearance drew national attention and was investigated by numerous state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the Emory Police Department, DeKalb County

Department of Public Safety, DeKalb County Police Department and the FBI. Soon after he finished serving his earlier sentence, on Aug. 30, 2004, Hinton was indicted by a DeKalb grand jury in relation to the Melendi case.

The trial lasted from Aug. 22, 2005 to Sep. 19, 2005, and he was sentenced for life for felony and malice murder.

Melendi’s ring and testimonies from Hinton’s jail mates were prime evidence in his conviction.

According to ABC News, Hinton was the first individual in Georgia history to be sentenced for life without a body or crime scene.

On July 17, 2006, he confessed to kidnapping, raping and murdering Melendi but never disclosed the location of her remains.

“We’ve never had closure,” Monique Melendi said. “He’s never given up her remains. We’ve never been able to bury her. We don’t have a gravesite.

We have nothing, other than the possibility that he could get out and do this again.

Hinton was first denied parole in 2011. Perez recalled having submitted

letters to the parole board in favor of denying him parole. If denied parole again this month, he will be up for parole again in seven years.

Since they first heard about Hinton’s parole in 2011, Melendi’s family has reshared their petition on the anniversary of Melendi’s death each year in hopes of garnering signatures to send to the parole board.

Students who attended Emory during Melendi’s kidnapping are still scarred, 26 years after the case.

Perez, who still keeps in touch with the Melendis, expressed her view on Hinton’s chances for parole.

“He needs to stay. He needs to stay there and die,” Perez said. “If god is just, somebody else will take care of him. I will be okay with that.”

Today, Shannon Melendi would be 45 years old. As a student, she planned on joining the Navy in the JAG Corps and serving on the Supreme Court.

“I often wonder what her life would be like if she were alive,” Perez said.

— Contact Ayushi Agarwal at aagar83@emory.edu and Gabriella Lewis at gvlewis@emory.edu

The Emory Wheel Volume 101, Issue 7 © 2020 The Emory Wheel Alumni Memorial University Center, Room 401 630 Means Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30322 Business (404) 727-6178 Editors-in-Chief Nicole Sadek and Niraj Naik nwsadek@emory.edu and nhnaik@emory.edu Founded in 1919, The Emory Wheel is the financially and editorially independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University in Atlanta. The Wheel is a member publication of Media Council, Emory’s organization of student publications. The Wheel reserves the rights to all content as it appears in these pages, and permission to reproduce material must be granted by the editor-in-chief.

The Wheel is printed every Wednesday during the academic year, except during University holidays and scheduled publication intermissions. A single copy of the Wheel is free of charge. To purchase additional copies, please call (404) 727-6178.

The statements and opinions expressed in the Wheel are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Wheel Editorial Board or of Emory University, its faculty, staff or administration.

The Wheel is also available online at www.emorywheel.com.

Corrections

• In the Feb. 26 issue, “‘Worth It’ Host Fuses Asian Heritage and Entertainment” stated that there were 80 people in attendance at Steven Lim’s event. In fact, there were 200 people in attendance.

• In the Feb. 26 issue, “SGA Passes Constitutional Amendments” incorrectly stated that the voting period on the student referendum was 48 hours. In fact, the voting period was 24 hours long and concluded on Feb. 28 at 9 p.m.

4

NEWS

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Free Democracy Tour Highlights Activism Strategies

By Gustavo Borjas Contributing Writer You’re not alone in feeling that way,” Taos Wynn (06Ox, 09C) said in response to a student asking about young disillusioned voters.

Wynn answered the question at a panel event hosted by the Millennial Civil Rights Campaign for their Free Democracy Tour series on Feb. 29 in the Emory Student Center.

The panelists spoke about advocating for policy and driving change through legislators.

Students came to the event to make connections with and hear from the guest panelists, like Wynn, an Atlanta native as well as founder and president of the Millennial Civil Rights Campaign.

Other panelists included Crystal Greer, communications and press publicity committee chair for the Clayton County branch of the Georgia NAACP, Genny Castillo, chief operating officer of the Blue Institute, and U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff.

The Millenial Civil Rights Campaign focuses on advocating for change both locally and nationally on political issues central to young people’s frustration with the current state of affairs – namely race relations, gun

violence, student debt and human rights.

Wynn said he founded the grassroots organization to give young people a voice in response to all these crises going on.

“I wanted young people to have a voice at the table and to be heard at the table,” Wynn said. “I wanted this [organization] to be a platform for that.”

“I wanted young people to have a voice at the table and to be heard at the table. I wanted this [organization] to be a platform for that.”

— Taos Wynn (06Ox, 09C), Millennial Civil Rights Campaign President

Despite the namesake, the Millenial Civil Rights Campaign is an intergenerational effort that works with both Democrats and Republicans.

As such, their advocacy efforts involve working with both sides of the aisle at the Georgia State Capitol. They draft and lobby policy ideas to state legislators throughout their lifespan as a bill.

Though the organization pursues policy at a national level, they place more advocacy focus on local political issues.

The campaign currently advocates for state bills to provide free access to feminine hygiene products in government buildings, including 6th-12th grade schools, and to limit single-use plastic bags.

The campaign also supports a resolution to acknowledge the inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws.

Through discussion events, the campaign informs voters on methods to create meaningful change and for these voters to go on to exercise their right to make their voices heard.

“Events like this inform students on how to get involved, where students can find these organizations to make an impact, and inspire them by letting known that it can be done,” Jonese Austin (22T) said.

— Contact Gustavo Borjas at gborjas@emory.edu

2 Methodist SGA Increases Budgets Bishops For Executive Agencies Elected to Serve 6 Years

By Thomas Kreutz Senior Staff Writer

Continued from Page 1 divinity degree from the Candler School of Theology.

He served as an ordained pastor for the United Methodist Church for over 28 years in Tennessee, including being superintendent of the Kingsport District and senior pastor for the Ooltewah United Methodist Church.

He was appointed resident bishop of the church’s Alabama-West Florida Conference in 2016 and afterward helped form the Bishop’s Response Team that supports congregations in this conference during times of crisis.

Trustees serve sixyear initial terms, after which they can be renewed for four-year terms.

Holston earned a master’s of divinity from the Interdenominational Theological Center, Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta.

Following his time as superintendent in the Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford District and senior pastor of St. James United Methodist Church, he was elected to the episcopacy in 2012 and assigned as resident bishop of the South Carolina United Methodist Conference.

He has visited 11 countries in Central America, Africa and Asia as a specialist on mission and relief trips.

The University did not respond to a request for comment by publication.

— Contact Anjali Huynh at alhuynh@emory.edu

The Student Government Association (SGA) unanimously voted to renew the executive agency (EA) status of Student Programming Council (SPC), Media Council, Club Sports, Outdoor Emory, Emory Entrepreneurship and Venture Management (EEVM) and TableTalk for the 2020-21 academic year during their meeting on March 2.

The increases to the EA budgets totaled $167,335.

According to SGA Vice President of Finance Ben Wiener (21C), EAs are University-wide organizations that serve all divisions of Emory, rather than clubs that have mission statements pertaining only to specific divisions of the school.

Club Sports, which is responsible for servicing over 25 sports teams and 668 athletes, saw the biggest increase in their budget, which will increase almost two-fold from $52,000 to $100,000.

Club Sports was most aggressive in their demands for funding, though all clubs received significant increase to their budget.

According to Club Sports Vice President Niel Trasman (21C), sports teams requested $350,000 in funding during the 2019-20 school year.

Wiener said that all EAs are subject to yearly review by the SGA legislative body and are assessed in their ability to adequately serve each school division and to uphold their respective missions.

All EAs were approved to continue operations for the upcoming school year, and every agency received an increase in their yearly budget.

According to Weiner, clubs must make a presentation that builds a case for a specific allowance, that is then viewed and voted on by the EA and divisional council treasurers.

Weiner said, the increase in the amount allocated to EAs was possible due to the $15 increase to the Student Activity Fee and due to a reduction in administrative costs of SGA. EEVM saw the second-largest

increase from $10,000 to $18,140.

EEVM, a more recently appointed EA, aims to bolster entrepreneurship opportunities for students through their five divisions across campus, their most notable and novel division being HackATL. EEVM held 21 events and served 1,300 attendees during the 2019-20 school year.

Outdoor Emory, a club that services trips every weekend of the school year and provides outdoor equipment rentals for all students, served a total of 1,400 students during the 2019-20 school year and will see a budget increase from $26,642 to $42,000 for the upcoming school year.

The remaining EAs — TableTalk, Media Council and SPC — saw the 4th, 5th and 6th largest budget increases, respectively.

TableTalk, which provides places for progressive discussion between student groups with opposing viewpoints, will have their budget increased from $5,500 to $7,500.

Media Council, which had a controversial budget cut during last year’s EA approval, will see an increase in their budget from $64,428 to $80,000.

SPC held 26 events and served 6,889 students and will see an increase in their budget from $384,435 to $462,700.

SGA also unanimously voted to pass resolution 53sl4, sponsored by Secretary of Oxford SGA Sabrina Jin (20Ox) and President of Oxford SGA Rachel Ding (20Ox), to take a stand of “solidarity and empathy” with students of ethnic groups who have been subject to racially targeted jokes following the COVID-19 outbreak.

SGA also unanimously voted to pass Bill 53sl29 to appoint Megan Yang (19Ox, 22C) as SGA secretary, Steele Quinard (18Ox, 20B) as vice president of programing, and Cindy Cheng (23C) and Mary Ehlbeck (19Ox, 22C) as Oxford continuee representatives.

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

The Emory Wheel

Faculty Reflect on Senior Administrators’ Legacies Continued from Page 1 Emory the longest — six years.

Erika James Reflects on Tenure In an interview with the Wheel, James discussed her time at Emory and her status as the first African American and first female dean of both Goizueta and Wharton.

“It’s been a difficult decision, but this was an opportunity that provided me a chance to both continue the work that I enjoy … but to do so now in a school that is larger, a bit more complex and more global in its reach,” James told the Wheel about her recent appointment.

James first joined the Emory faculty in 1998 and later returned in 2014 to serve as the dean of the Business School. In her six-year stint, James was heavily involved in Social Enterprise at Goizueta (SE@G), an entrepreneurship center that combines academic research with support for local businesses. Her tenure saw the largest donation in Goizueta’s 101-year history, a total of $30 million, a portion of which was funnelled into SE@G. Students and faculty members have expressed mixed reactions to James’ departure, specifically regarding the upcoming uncertainty that will surround the entrepreneurship center, considered one of James’ major projects.

Though Wesley Longhofer, Goizueta associate professor and academic director of SE@G, acknowledges the unknowns that will accompany the next leadership, he remains confident of Emory’s ability to adapt.

“I know that trying to find three leaders at the same time is a big challenge,” Longhofer told the Wheel.

“My hope is that the next dean shares the same vision that Dean James does for us.”

Lyndsey Garbee (21B), College Council vice president of budget, echoed Longhofer’s sentiments, adding that she felt proud that James will transition to Wharton but was disappointed in her departure from Goizueta.

“You never know if the new dean is going to hold those same priorities,” Garbee said.

Though James recognizes the uncertainties her transition brings, she emphasized Emory’s ability to recruit new administrators.

“I think these moments in time of transition, while they may be concerning when you’re in it, history will tell you that these are not moments in which the University or any university sort of falters or goes by the wayside,” James told the Wheel.

Sterk’s Departure R aises Questions of Presidential Priorities In response to the consequent administrative departures, Sterk told the Wheel in a statement that these administrators “are much sought after by other prominent institutions,” and remained confident about Emory’s ability to continue attracting talent.

Sterk cited the taxing, seven-day work week and her desire to return to public health work as the reasons for her retirement from the University’s presidency. Before Sterk took her post, James Wagner held the office of president for 12 years.

The release of the presidential prospectus in February gave the

Emory community their first glimpse of what the Board of Trustees is looking for in the University’s next president. The prospectus’ focus on fundraising has garnered the attention of some faculty members, who have expressed concern over where these funds would be concentrated.

“We all want more funds for research and scholarship and students, but also [hope] that it doesn’t leave the liberal arts in the dust,” Professor of Philosophy Noëlle McAfee told the Wheel. “I worry that with the incentive to try to raise more funding and beef up the medical side, that there’d be less and less for that central mission.”

McAfee commended Emory for “incubating people who have this leadership potential,” in regard to the departures of James and McBride.

“I think it’s more the question … about why President Sterk left, what that signals,” she said.

The prospectus does not reveal the timeline in which the next president will be appointed.

McBride Praised for Diversity Hires During his short tenure, McBride was instrumental in championing faculty initiatives, Vice Provost of Undergraduate Affairs Pamela Scully told the Wheel. Most notably, McBride oversaw the hiring of the University’s first chief diversity officer and three Latinx studies scholars in 2019.

“He focused on making sure we recruited an excellent and diverse faculty,” said Scully, who was appointed

by McBride. “He also really initiated discussions about how to ensure we pay faculty comparable salaries.”

Scully lauded McBride’s work at Emory and expressed a desire for the next provost to carry on McBride’s mission of diversity and faculty empowerment.

“I would really like to see a provost that continued the work … and was out and about and engaged with students, but I would say the same for the president,” Scully said.

Though faculty members have expressed appreciation of McBride’s work, some believe that the former provost could have been more engaged in solving issues that face members of the Emory community. McAfee, the former president of the Emory chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), believes a major issue at Emory is the lack of tenure prospects for lecturetrack faculty. As AAUP president, she lobbied the University to ensure these faculty members had job security.

“We did not make much headway at all with the administration, so I would have liked to have seen more of a commitment on their part for that,” she said.

McBride worked alongside Sterk to launch the “One Emory” strategic framework, a plan designed to attract and retrain faculty and strengthen Emory’s academic community. The goals that this framework have laid out will continue into the University’s next leadership team, Scully said.

The University will not launch a provost search until a new president is appointed.

Niraj Naik and Isaiah Poritz contributed reporting.

— Contact Nicole Sadek at nicole.sadek@emory.edu

The Emory Wheel

Opinion

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 | Opinion Editor: Zach Ball (zach.ball@emory.edu) | Asst. Opinion Editor Ben Thomas (ben.thomas@emory.edu)

Editorial

Trump’s CDC Funding Cuts Endanger Global Health Trump is currently asking for $2.5 billion in emergency funding to comIn 2014, amid fears of a widening outbreak of Ebola, Emory gained international renown for successfully treating two infected patients. Six years bat COVID-19, while proposing cuts to CDC funding for chronic diseases. later, an Emory-owned non-profit is relying in part on small-dollar online According to the Intelligencer, many former health officials say that this donations to develop a treatment for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). That amount is not enough. In November, a bipartisan task force warned that a major research university should ever resort to crowdfunding to fight a “the U.S. remains woefully ill-prepared to respond to global health security threats.” global pandemic is absurd.

Trump defended his cuts to the CDC by claiming the government can hire “We’ve used funds from Emory University, the U.S. government and our past successes to develop promising antiviral treatments,” the non-profit more doctors “when we need them.” Doctors are not genies.

This view grossly minimizes the gravity and difficulty of disease preparedwrote on its GoFundMe page. “But we have gaps in our funding that require ness; we can’t simply wish doctors to appear out of thin air during a crisis. emergency support given the pace of the current COVID-19 outbreak.”

Facing one of the greatest pandemics in decades, medical researchers Trump even proposed further slashing the CDC’s budget by 16% after COVID19 had begun to spread in China. working in the world’s wealthiest country should not need Public health experts believe these reductions would not charity to fund their work, especially during a global health only handicap the U.S. response to the current crisis, but also crisis. leave us woefully unprepared for future pandemics.

The federal government should bolster funding to Medical researchers Emory and its peer institutions, which rely in large part on research institutions and public health institutions to federal funding for medical research, would see major fallout ensure that they have the adequate resources to fight the working in the from these cuts. coronavirus and future pandemics. world’s wealthiest Additionally, Congress should reject Trump’s proposed COVID-19, which originated in Wuhan, Hubei province, country should not budget for its ill-advised cuts to public health funding and China, has rapidly spread around the world; there were fewer than 100 reported cases in early December, but that need charity to fund ensure the CDC has the resources it needs to protect health number has exploded to an estimated 90,000 as of March their work, especially abroad as well.

In 2018, the CDC downsized its disease prevention efforts 3. The disease currently has a fatality rate just above 1%, and manifests with flu-like symptoms such as shortness of during a global health in 39 countries, including China.

Having public health experts from the United States on the breath and coughing. crisis. ground in rapidly escalating situations such as the COVID-19 President Donald J. Trump’s response to COVID-19 has outbreak can ensure a rapid and coordinated international been too little, too late. response.

Last week, Trump attempted to reassure the public that This is especially true in countries such as China, which lacks the United “we’re finding very little problem” in testing symptomatic Americans for the States’ public health expertise and infrastructure. virus.

In light of recent budget cuts, it’s clear that organizations like the CDC canHowever, public health experts in his own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have stated that community transmission in the United not fully rely on federal funding to operate.

The next U.S. president and Congress must act jointly to ensure that health States is inevitable and that hospitals and schools should prepare for the research organizations like the CDC, as well as partnered non-profits involved worst.

New cases have sprung up in New York, Georgia and California in the past in infectious disease prevention, have adequate funding.

As the world becomes more interconnected and urbanized, it is inevitable week.

As of March 2, nine patients have already died from the virus in that diseases will spread faster, and our nation must proactively combat Washington state, while a newly-diagnosed case in Rhode Island adds to the future outbreaks.

It’s telling that an Emory non-profit has been forced into creating a now 118 reported cases in the U.S. A Harvard study predicts that the virus will ultimately infect 40% to 70% GoFundMe rather than trusting the leadership of the president of the United States. of the world’s population.

But in a presidential administration where political convenience trumps COVID-19’s rapid spread should push the U.S. to invest in public health and disease prevention by preserving (or ideally, increasing) the CDC’s fund- truth, budget cuts to the CDC during the rise of a global pandemic are unsurprising. Neither, then, will be the suffering that the American people will ing and prioritizing grants to researchers at leading institutions like Emory.

According to the Global Health Security Index, the U.S. is better prepared endure as a result. Global health crises such as COVID-19 do not wait for than any other country to combat infectious disease, but their findings political expediency.

Faced with crises in which a day makes a world of difference, adequate include an important caveat: “No country is fully prepared for epidemics or funding for disease prevention isn’t just necessary. It’s obligatory. pandemics, and every country has important gaps to address.”

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

The Editorial Board is composed of Sean Anderson, Brammhi Balarajan, Zach Ball, Devin Bog, Jake Busch, Meredith McKelvey, Andrew Kliewer, Boris Niyonzima and Nick Pernas.

The Emory Wheel Volume 101 | Number 7

Nicole Sadek, Niraj Naik Editors-in-Chief Seungeun Cho Executive Editor

Shreya Pabbaraju Managing Editor Madison Bober Managing Editor Jacqueline Ma Copy Editor Madison Stephens Copy Editor Isaiah Poritz News Editor Z ach Ball Opinion Editor A desola Thomas A&E Editor Caroline Silva Emory Life Editor Ryan Callahan Sports Editor Forrest Martin Photo Editor Cailen Chinn Multimedia Editor A nnie Uichanco Special Sections Editor Ayushi Agarwal Asst. Copy Editor

Joshua Papson Business Manager Mileen Meyer Design Manager

R ichard Chess Senior Editor Aditya Prakash Associate Editor Jesse Weiner Associate Editor Madeline Lutwyche Associate Editor Ninad Kulkarni Asst. News Editor Ben Thomas Asst. Opinion Editor Joel Lerner Asst. A&E Editor A ngela Tang Asst. Emory Life Editor Jessica Solomon Asst. Sports Editor Jackson Schneider Asst. Photo Editor Business/Advertising Email josh.papson@emory.edu

The Emory Wheel welcomes letters and op-ed submissions from the Emory community. Letters should be limited to 300 words and op-eds should be at least 500. Those selected may be shortened to fit allotted space or edited for grammar, punctuation and libelous content. Submissions reflect the opinions of individual writers and not of the Wheel’s Editorial Board or Emory University. Send emails to emorywheelexec@gmail.com or postal mail to The Emory Wheel, Drawer W, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322.

Disagree With Us?

Write a Letter To the Editor!

Submit here: emorywheel.com/op-edsubmissions/

6

op-ed

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Emory Track & Field Coaches Deserve Praise Andrew Kliewer As a fourth-year member of Emory’s varsity cross country and track and field (XC/TF) teams, I felt disheartened to read the Wheel’s recent article detailing the negative accounts of eight student-athletes who have left the team due to disagreements with the coaching staff. While I do not fully understand the particular circumstances that drove these individuals to quit, I can speak to my own time on the team. My experience has been one of incredible opportunities for personal growth, numerous chances to compete at the conference and national level, and, most importantly, genuine friendships.

Therefore, while I don’t mean to discount the views of the athletes who have quit, I hope to provide a perspective that the article was mostly lacking: that of the over 80 athletes who remain on the team. Over the past four years, I have seen immense improvement in XC/TF’s culture through the efforts of these individuals, who remain dedicated to what is still Emory’s largest varsity sports team. This change of culture is also due to the work of Head Coach Linh Nguyen and his assistants.

Since the beginning of this academic year, he has brought unity and stability to XC/TF, leading the team to a level of success not seen in a decade. From the beginning, Nguyen was crystal clear about the intent behind his rules.

They are not meant to be unilateral or heavy handed; rather, they heighten the expectations for XC/TF athletes to be in line with those of every other varsity sport at Emory, pushing us to be the best versions of ourselves both on and off the track.

Since their adoption, these policies have been enforced with both fairness and consideration for our outside lives.

This includes the attendance policy referenced many times in the article.

Before ever meeting Nguyen, I emailed him to let him know that I would have to miss a cross country meet because I had to take the LSAT. He was completely understanding and even took genuine interest in my law school application process. Other athletes have missed practices and competitions this year with permission for var-

ious reasons including weddings, bar mitzvahs and illness. I’ve never seen Nguyen take issue as long as these conflicts are unavoidable and communicated within a reasonable timeframe.

Those who quit also mentioned injury was another disincentive to remain on the team. Unfortunately, due to the repetitive and intense motions involved in the sport, injuries in XC/ TF are relatively common occurrences with any training method. Since arriving, Nguyen has implemented new injury prevention strategies including beginning and ending most runs with strengthening exercises. When injuries do occur, a straightforward process exists for athletes to visit the athletic trainers and cross-train until the trainers give them clearance to begin practicing again.

I know from my experience dealing with injury for two months this Fall that it can be a lonely and frustrating path. Healing from my injury involved hours of rehab each week in addition to daily cross-training sessions, away from the team, in the pool or on the bike. However, Nguyen was with me every step of the way, working with the athletic trainers to manage my injury and get me back into running as soon as I was healthy. By communicating with Nguyen, I was able to gradually build up my mileage at a rate I felt was sustainable. Several weeks ago, I ran a personal best time in the 3k, which I attribute in large part to Nguyen’s smart and consistent training plan.

As with any varsity sport at Emory, commitment to XC/TF involves a trade-off with other activities and free time. Participation in varsity athletics is a privilege, not a right, and so athletes who don’t wish to meet these demands are free to leave the team.

However, from what I have learned over the past four years, the results are life-changing for those who stick it out.

My time as a XC/TF athlete has given me passion, purpose and a sense of community I haven’t gained from any other organization. It’s been incredible to share this experience with my fellow athletes, and after I graduate, I look forward to seeing the team continue to reach new heights with Nguyen at its helm.

Andrew Kliewer (20C) is from Dallas.

The Emory Wheel

Fight for Reproductive Justice Planned Parenthood At Emory As the executive board of Emory’s chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, we were appalled

by Patrick Czabala’s (23C) recent op-ed entitled, “To Combat Abortion, Vote GOP.” We aim to address the article’s main arguments, all of which are commonly parroted anti-abortion talking points.

The article contains numerous false statistics, disreputable sources and oversimplifications of complex issues; these are common tactics used by antiabortion proponents.

As opposed to falsehoods and halftruths, here are some true statistics from credible sources: National polls demonstrate that a majority of Americans support acccess to abortion and oppose overturning the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade (which legalized abortion in the United States, although it allowed for increasing amounts of regulation throughout a pregnancy in the interest of women’s health and potential life.)

Abortion is significantly safer, and with far less complications, than pregnancy and childbirth. An overwhelming 91% of abortions in the U.S. occur within the first 12-13 weeks of pregnancy, and those conducted later are largely due to health complications.

Additionally, abortion is currently at an all-time low in the U.S., credibly attributed to increases in sex education and access to contraception.

Many anti-abortion advocates claim to support women and children. In reality, their efforts often do the opposite.

Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (“TRAP” laws) often claim to protect women’s health, but in 2016 the Supreme Court found that such restrictions were unneccsary and unconstitutional. Six-week abortion bills, which ban abortion before most women even know they are pregnant, are often labeled “Fetal Heartbeat” bills, which is inherently a scientific misnomer.

Researchers agree that what is detectable around six weeks are the first signs of cardiac activity.

This does not definitively indicate

life nor of a fully formed heart, which develops significantly later in pregnancy.

Moreover, the politicians championing what they view as the “inherent value and dignity” of human life are the same ones who are currently blocking reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and rolling back the Affordable Care Act. They’re also slashing funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides millions of people with essential reproductive and general healthcare services far beyond abortion.

If Americans truly want to protect society’s most vulnerable, we should stand against such dramatic cuts to public health insurance and genderbased violence prevention.

Many anti-abortion advocates claim to support women and children. In reality, their efforts often do the opposite.

We should acknowledge and stand with the current movements protecting the lives of adults and children — through supporting sensible gun control legislation, opposing cruel child separation policies, and reforming policing and the criminal justice system.

An oft-repeated claim of antiabortion advocates is the importance of ensuring that women are wellinformed regarding their own abortions. Yet women understand what’s going on inside their bodies quite well.

Seeking an abortion is often a difficult, complex decision, and to act as though women are unable to make that choice in an informed way is paternalistic and patronizing.

A total of 95% of women surveyed do not regret their decision to seek an abortion.

Furthermore, abortions do not have long-term negative consequences on women’s health.

Conversely, women denied

abortions are more likely to suffer financially and struggle with mental health issues.

If anti-abortion proponents truly desire evidence-based information on sex and abortion, they should be fighting for comprehensive sexeducation programs, instead of promoting abstience-only instruction, and opposing unscientific “informed consent” pre-procedure abortion requirements.

Banning abortion doesn’t stop abortions; it simply makes them unsafe.

The economically well-off will continue to access abortions through alternative means, while the most marginalized members of our society — including women of color and the economically disadvantaged — will be forced to resort to the coat hangers and dangerous back-alley abortions of generations past.

If we truly want to support women and the sanctity of human life, we must advocate for healthcare expansion, comprehensive sex education, and increased access to contraception.

These are undoubtedly the best ways to reduce abortion rates and help women live healthy, fulfilling lives.

According to SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, reproductive justice is “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, to have children, not have children, and to parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.”

As global citizens, to champion these human rights is our duty.

To ensure reproductive freedom in our country, we must listen to and advocate for women — and vote accordingly.

Special thanks to Dabney Evans, director of the Center for Humanitarian Emergencies at Emory, and Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Stu Marvel for taking time to edit this op-ed.

Ellie Samuels (20C), Sarah Gordon (22C), Joelle Wellington (20C), Jenny Braverman (21C), and Sanhitha Raghuveera (22C) are members of the executive board of Emory’s chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action.

Bernie Sanders Can Beat Trump, Revitalize Health Care Zach Ball In 2016, I supported Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) first presidential campaign, and it was evident when I decorated my wall with the Bernie 2016 bumper sticker I received after donating $5. Though I dreamed of a sudden shift in the primary race, I knew fully well that Sanders was unlikely to win the nomination that year. Nonetheless, his bold, progressive vision for America spoke to me and sparked my engagement with politics. Now, hot off the heels of victory in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, Sanders is quickly emerging as the frontrunner this time around. More moderate candidates like former Vice President Joe Biden and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg help him by splintering the remaining share of the vote. Sanders is the Democrats’ best bet to defeat President Donald J. Trump in November. This election presents us with a rare opportunity to realize the fundamental socialdemocratic reforms that the American working class needs.

Sanders’ platform directly address-

es many of our country’s greatest crises and does so far more boldly than the rest of the Democratic primary field.

His hallmark single-payer Medicare for All health-care proposal would provide health care to every person in America, abolishing premiums, copays, deductibles and duplicative private insurance; in so doing, it would reduce both health care’s overall macroeconomic burden and its individual costs to middle-class families. While the proposal from Biden would move our country further toward universal health coverage, his proposal wouldn’t be nearly as far-reaching and consequential as Sanders’ plan. Their policies would merely create a public insurance option alongside our existing private system.

Under such a plan, profit-driven private insurers would likely price out the sickest and oldest patients, effectively forcing them onto the public plan, which would skyrocket costs, sabotage the reform and hamstring future attempts to make bold changes to our broken healthcare system.

Nearly 45,000 Americans die annually in a manner related to inadequate health coverage. In plain terms, this

is a nationwide epidemic, and only Sanders is prepared to address the crisis with the transformative action it necessitates.

While health care is perhaps his key issue, Sanders has much more to offer to many different types of voters. Other key objectives on his policy agenda include making public colleges and universities tuition-free for all Americans, canceling all student debt, mobilizing to reach 100 percent renewable energy and enacting a foreign policy that seeks to end unnecessary, costly and deadly wars in the Middle East.

There’s something in there for everyone; whether you’re a laid-off employee in a Midwest factory town, a college graduate plagued by burdensome student loan debt or an armed services member with a young family at home, Sanders has a plan that would benefit both you personally and our country as a whole, more so than any other candidate.

Despite absolutely unrelenting attacks from mainstream media on both sides of the political spectrum, Sanders remains an immensely popular figure among Democrats, and he’s clearly emerging as the favorite to win

the nomination. Last month, he drew a staggering crowd of over 17,000 at a rally in Tacoma, Wash., far outpacing his primary opponents. Unlike his opponents, Sanders is also consolidating his support among non-white voters, a voting bloc essential for success in the upcoming primary states.

As Sanders continues to gain support off momentum from three consecutive popular vote victories, he’s on track to secure the nomination later this year, a testament to the strength of grassroots enthusiasm against obscene wealth and corporate greed. Even so, the primary will have been pointless if Trump wins the general election in November, and most Democratic voters prioritize beating Trump over their concerns on specific policy issues.

Fortunately for them, Sanders has a better chance of ousting Trump than anyone else in the Democratic primary field. RealClearPolitics’s general election matchup polling from February shows him leading Trump by an average of four points. This performance is topped only by Biden, and billionaire oligarch Mike Bloomberg (seriously, don’t vote for this guy).

Perhaps more striking is a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed

Sanders defeating Trump by 18% among America’s all-important independent voters. Sanders’s proudly progressive politics, a stark departure from the liberal technocracy of the Clinton-era Democrats, would no doubt bring economic prosperity, jobs and a newfound sense of hope to the Rust Belt towns that gambled on Trump and lost four years ago.

If you’re concerned about Sanders’ socialist label impacting his electability going forward, allow me to remind you that the same was said of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his proposed Social Security Administration.

But it passed easily and was quickly signed into law; now, any plans to cut funding to Social Security are met with bipartisan outrage. Roosevelt welcomed the hatred of the moneyed elite, and so does Sanders.

Bernie Sanders is the strongest candidate currently running to become President of the United States. He’s the right candidate for our era, and I urge you not to miss your chance to vote for a truly brighter future.

Zach Ball (20C) is from Griffin, Ga.

The Emory Wheel

SPONSORED

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

The Emory Wheel Housing Fair

apartment

Thursday, March 26th 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

On Cox Bridge

The Emory Wheel |

hunters

And more!

Contact Sales Manager at mileen.meyer@emory.edu or Business Manager Josh.Papson@emory.edu for more info

EMORY SUMMER PROGRAMS What's heating up for SUMMER 2020?

OPUS is open for registration Did you know?

Maymester:

Summer on campus & Emory College Online*

summerprograms.emory.edu

pre-college program

Program highlights:

precollege.emory.edu

7

8

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

PHOTOS: CAMPUS MOVIE FEST

The Emory Wheel

Campus Movie Fest 2020 Over 100 Emory students, filmmakers and family members gathered in Harland Cinema on Feb. 27 to celebrate the 19th Annual Campus Movie Fest, in which 16 original student films were screened. Throughout the night, door prizes were gifted to attendees; gifts included all-expense paid cruise vacations, a drone and a flat-screen television. The top four jury award-winning films and their corresponding teams were invited to the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Winning films included “Decay,” “RED,” “Silenced” and “Hitoribotchi (One Person).” Filmmakers participated in “red carpet” photo shoots before the awards.

Helen Bradshaw and Megan Yang/Contributing

&

The Emory Wheel

Arts Entertainment Wednesday, March 4, 2020 | A&E Editor: Adesola Thomas (adesola.thomas@emory.edu) | Asst. A&E Editor Joel Lerner (jlerne6@emory.edu)

K pop

‘7’ is Engaging, Introspective

BTS

“Map of the Soul: 7” (2020)

By Channelle Russell Contributing Writer

Courtesy of K ayla Fallick

The cast of “Wooden Nickels,” directed by Emory Professor Tim McDonough, shares the sparsely decorated stage at the Emory Mary Gray Munroe Theater.

‘Wooden Nickels’ Adapts Prose to Stage

By Lili Janasky Contributing Writer The saying “people come into your path for a reason, a season or a lifetime” is seldom truer than with family members.

Occupying an intimate and inviting set, two brothers recall their childhood, sweeping the viewers along with them on their personal journeys inspired by the memory of their eccentric uncle.

Through storytelling and comedy, “Wooden Nickels” presents to the audience a tale of friendship, self-discovery and legacy.

The play, presented by Theater Emory and directed by Emory Professor of Theater Studies Tim McDonough, debuted at the Mary Gray Munroe Theater on Feb. 26.

Although the play was origi-

nally written as prose by writer and Professor of English Joseph Skibell, he adapted “Wooden Nickels” for the stage.

‘Wooden Nickles’ thematically explores self-discovery and immortality. Both brothers and Tiger are striving to find purpose.

“Wooden Nickels” takes advantage of the small theater to create a charming and warm atmosphere.

Bathed in yellow-orange light, the stage remained clear, featuring only

Concert

three chairs, a coat rack and a wall covered in photos and posters.

This environment made it feel as though the two characters, brothers Joseph (Hugh Adams) — named after the playwright himself — and Ethan (Michael Strauss), appear as if they were speaking directly to the viewers.

The play follows the two as they rehearse the story of Jack Tiger, their father’s cousin.

Joseph claims that he and Ethan will tell stories from their childhood, in which Tiger plays a large role.

Joseph begins with an explanation of the play’s origins, explaining that a family friend asked if he would be willing to clean out a barn full of Tiger’s possessions.

This launches him into a series of side-stories that reveal details about

See THEATER, Page 11

“Yo!” — BTS’s seventh album begins with leader RM’s voice exploding over a punchy guitar riff and gritty hip-hop percussion. “Intro: Persona” takes the audience on a journey of identity, as RM repeatedly questions, “Who the hell am I?” Lyrically, RM plies apart the entanglements of persona, shadow and ego that pervade throughout the 20-track album, “Map of the Soul: 7.” The album is part psychoanalysis, part introspection, delving deep into notions of identity, celebrity and visibility.

“7” comes at a time when KPOP is near synonymous with BTS. It is hard to imagine any artists with the impact and notability of BTS, a sevenmember group in their seventh year of promotions.

It is clear that the album name was a celebration of both. BTS’s reach and international appeal has allowed the group to experiment creatively and explore deeper conceptions of identity.

BTS’s fame has grown simultaneously with their artistic vision, evident in the scope of their latest album. This new era began with a tour announcement and hints at a worldwide arts exhibition which will engage five locales around the world, such as London and Buenos Aires, and curate the work of twenty-two artists in line with BTS’s musical vision. This was the crux of “7” — curating, engaging

and mediating art through the group’s lofty global aspirations and exploration of identity.

The band’s newest album boasts five tracks from “Persona” — a sevensong mini-album with playful choruses, references to Greek mythology and a bouncy Halsey collab — and three pre-release tracks: “Black Swan” and concept teasers for “Ego” and “Shadow.”

The album is significantly self-referential, making constant allusions to other BTS tracks. Title track “ON” is a clever play on their previous title “N.O.” and “Boy with Luv” astutely calls to mind their earlier song, “Boy in Luv.” After the first five tracks, all featured on the previous album, “7” truly begins with rapper Suga’s electrifying “Shadow.” “People say, there’s splendor in that bright light,” Suga raps. His deep, marred tone hints at the worries that fame brings: “My growing shadow swallows me and becomes a monster.”

The track features desperation, a sense that Suga is engulfed by the flames of hypervisibility and fame.

“Big house, big cars, big rings,” Suga lists emphatically in “Shadow,” another lyric that BTS fans will pick up on from previous projects. In each iteration of the phrase, notions of ambition and materialism are emphasized.

Though the line’s first iteration reflected the dreams of a burgeoning group, they now hold a different meaning; the big house, cars and rings are now in their possession, but this level of fame is accompanied by an acute sense of loneliness.

See BTS, Page 11

True Colors Theatre

DJ Duo Remixes ‘School Girls’ Spotlights Teenage Cruelty EDM in Atlanta

By Charlotte Selton Staff Writer

By Mariam Akbar Contributing Writer Snakehips brought a new meaning to the “heat of the moment” with the fire dancers who accompanied their show on Saturday, Feb. 22.

Though their songs are traditionally happy and calm, their performance at Believe Music Hall was anything but.

The artist presented the audience with a thrilling show, intensified with performers who used fully-ignited candelabras and golden plates.

The dancers, visuals and intensified reworks of the group’s discography presented the crowd with a set they will not soon forget.

The D.J. duo is comprised of U.K. natives Oliver Lee and James Carter, who have released hit after hit for over five years now.

They are known for synthesizing pop-sounds and uplifting beats with unexpectedly complementary and contemplative lyrics.

Most of our generation is familiar with their successful song globally, “All My Friends” with Tinashe and Chance the Rapper.

Their other collaborations include

“Cruel” with ex-One Direction member Zayn Malik, “Don’t Leave” with MO, “Either Way” with Anne-Marie and Joey Bada$$, “Money on Me” with Anderson .Paak, and many more.

Their songs have been played on the radio, in restaurants and have even been featured in remixes by other wellknown artists.

Their songs’ traction has been due in large part to their versatility; the smooth beats and relaxed vocals provide a chill sound which works well in a variety of settings.

This led myself and the other fans expecting a show to reflect that, but everyone was happily surprised by the amount of excitement that Snakehips brought to their show.

The artist knew that Atlanta crowds can handle more intensity and they made sure to bring that element to their set.

The band catered its Atlanta performance to the crowd by integrating well-known trap beats and borrowing strong EDM drops.

The artists used recognizable drops from popular party music and paired

See Snakehips, Page 11

College is nice and marriage is better, but for the protagonists of “School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play,” the 1986 Miss Ghana beauty pageant is the ultimate achievement. This dramady explores colorism and classism while highlighting the cruelty of high school girls. In a tight runtime of a little over an hour, this stinging and evocative play provokes the audience to boisterous laughter and horrified gasps.

In “School Girls,” Paulina (Ellen Ifeoluwa George), the casually cruel queen bee of the Aburi Boarding School, tyrannizes her friends, forcing starvation diets and disparaging their clothes. With her slim figure and closets teeming with dresses from her cousins in America, Paulina eagerly awaits the upcoming visit from Miss Ghana Pageant scout Eloise Amponsah (Valeka Holt). However, when transfer student Ericka (Lauren Richards) arrives the day before the pageant scout, the social hierarchy of the school is thrust out of balance. Coming from Ohio, Ericka quickly attracts the attention of her classmates and the pageant scout for her light-skin and American upbringing. However, Paulina will not let the Miss Ghana crown go without

Courtesy of Greg Mooney-Atlanta Photographers

The ensemble of “School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play” performs at True Colors Theatre. a fight.

Written by Ghanaian-American writer Jocelyn Bioh, “School Girls” underscores a harshness to teenage girls that Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls” only brushes upon, but also shows a deeper vulnerability in their viciousness. Paulina cuts other girls down easily, but even as she mocks and threatens, her own insecurities lurk just below the surface. Bioh captures not only how easily teenage girls can hate each other, but how most also

hate themselves. Every victimizer in “School Girls” is simultaneously a victim. Colorism looms large in “School Girl,” propelling the plot and shaping the conflicts. Even in a play with no white actors, eurocentric beauty standards are dominant as Eloise explains that the Miss Ghana Pageant is scouting girls with a more “universal” look.

Ericka reaps benefits for her pale skin and long hair while Paulina takes

See ‘African’, Page 11

10

A&E

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

The Emory Wheel

The Wheel Covers Latest Pixar Film: ‘Onward’ ‘Onward’ is a Thrilling, Emotional Taste of Magic

By Bella Ross Contributing Writer Grade: B+ From Disney’s endless live-action remakes to its monotonous stream of sequels, the world of children’s movies has been somewhat bleak over the past couple years. Disney and Pixar’s “Onward” breaks this trend and delivers with an original, heartwarming and funny tale of magic in the 21st century.

Written and directed by Dan Scanlon, “Onward” takes place in a world where magic, once an everyday occurance, was reduced to a myth after being slowly replaced by more convenient modern technology. But on his 16th birthday, a meek and awkward elf named Ian (Tom Holland) and his rebellious, magic historyobsessed brother Barley (Chris Pratt) must bring back magic after receiving instructions to resurrect their late father for just 24 hours. Of course, it doesn’t go according to plan, and the boys only succeed in bringing back their dad’s legs, rendering him unable to see, hear or speak to them. Ian and Barley then embark upon a hilarious and heartwarming quest to magically

reunite their dad’s upper and lower bodies before their 24 hours with him are up, all while dragging around his disembodied legs on a dog-leash. The story is gripping: simple enough for children to understand, but emotionally interesting enough for their parents to enjoy.

The detailed animation in “Onward” does a stellar job of making the world’s complicated relationship with magic immersive and intriguing. We see modern skyscrapers topped with medieval castles and atrophied wings on creatures that could fly generations ago. Additionally, the varying attitudes towards magic make the world more complex, because while some characters are eager to preserve its history, others are apathetic.

“Onward” is more open-minded and inclusive than any children’s movie I saw as a kid. Ian and Barley’s characters are unencumbered by traditional roles of masculinity. They openly cry, show affection and vulnerability without any shame or notions that they’re being unmanly. More so, the movie doesn’t make a big deal out of it — these actions go unmentioned — but “Onward” completely jettisons any toxic masculinity, giving young boys in the audience permission to be

Courtesy of Pixar

Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley (Chris Pratt) adventure to restore the other half of their father. emotional.

The film makes a solid effort toward diversity, but only on a peripheral level.

“Onward” simulates the racial diversity that is prevalent in the human world. Characters who are voiced by actors of color tend to be racially coded through those performances. With the exception of The Manticore (Octavia Spencer) characters of color tend to be small, one-scene characters. Following

“The film makes a solid effort toward diversity, but only on a peripheral level.”

— Bella Ross (20C)

Courtesy of Pixar

Magic history buff Barley (voiced by Chris Pratt) proudly stands next to his van Guinevere.

Courtesy of Pixar

The Manticore (voiced by Octavia Spencer) triumphantly holds a map amidst tavern patrons.

this trend, “Onward” also features Disney’s first openly LGBTQ+ animated character, though she only appears once. The only way we even know she’s queer is because she briefly mentions that she has a girlfriend — a moment that could easily be edited out if audiences don’t respond well. Also notable is the inclusion of characters with disabilities, such as a student at Ian’s high school. This a good opportunity for

representation, but the student only appears once and has little impact on the story. This type of decorative representation has questionable worth, as the undeveloped, nameless character is more of a token than anything else. With this type of half-hearted, blink-and-you-miss-it representation throughout the film, it seems prob-

See Adventure, Page 11

A Conversation With Pixar’s Kelsey Mann

By Angela Choksi Contributing Writer A zealous search for magic, a playful sibling relationship and an epic quest for adventure — these are the elements you have to look forward to in the brilliant masterpiece of a Pixar film “Onward.” In this suburban fantasy world, Ian and Barley Lightfoot, two teenage elf brothers voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt, respectively, go on a journey to discover if there is any magic in the world that will help them spend one last day with their father. Although their father died when they were too young to recollect any memory of him, the brothers engage in a comical and spirited exploit to try to experience a bit of the childhood they unfortunately lost at a tender age. Inspired by the reallife story of director Dan Scanlon, “Onward” is a heartwarming tale with a set of groundbreaking, diverse characters, including Lena Waithe as Officer Specter, a gay cyclops cop, Ali Wong as Gore, a faun cop, and Octavia Spencer as Corey, a manticore restaurant owner. “Onward” is supported by a strong foundation of characters, an exuberant cast, and bright, bold and vivacious images that satisfy our kaleidoscopic imagination three-fold, culminating in an innovative and artistic dreamscape.

The Emory Wheel discussed the film with “Onward” head of story Kelsey Mann on Feb. 25. The film is slated for release on March 6.

This transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

Angela Choksi, The Emory Wheel: How have your childhood experiences and upbringing molded your imagination?

Kelsey Mann: All of us are inspired by our own lives. One of my favorite rooms at Pixar is a story room where we share our deep personal feelings about growing up because it is a safe environment where we can talk about our encounters and about living life.

TEW: How did you harness your

teenage memories to envision the storyline for “Onward?”

KM: The team and I had to reflect on how we were when we were 16, the feelings that we felt and what we were worried about. If there is any secret to Pixar, it’s tapping into the real-life experiences of the storytellers and putting the truths that are universal into the movie.

TEW: What is the one message you are hoping that audiences will take away from “Onward?”

KM: We wanted to make a super fun and entertaining film but we also wanted the audience to walk away with something emotional. That comes from [the story of] our director Dan never meeting his father. His dad passed away when he was only six months old and his brother was 3 years old, hence, neither of them has any memory of their father. Dan thought about how that experience shaped him and came to a realization about life that he thought would make a great movie.

TEW: What differentiates “Onward” from other Pixar films?

KM: The emotional ending of the movie will be a real surprise for the audience, but one that a lot of people can identify with and relate to, regardless of whether you have lost a parent or not. Ultimately, everyone has experienced loss in some sort of form.

TEW: Do you have an especially meaningful memory from the making of “Onward” that you will always cherish?

KM: The unique yet nostalgic thing about the story department is that the group of people you collect to storyboard a film is only together for one film and they will never work together in the same capacity ever again. While everyone moves onto different projects, that group will always remain the “Onward” story group. I really appreciate everyone that poured themselves into making this movie.

TEW: What role did the storyline play in inspiring the visual design of

See Pixar, Page 11

A&E

The Emory Wheel

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Adventure is Pixar Head of Story Discusses Creative Challenges Rife in Pixar’s ‘Onward’ Continued from Page 10

Continued from Page 10 able that the filmmakers care more about seeming progressive than about real inclusion. Disney and Pixar still have quite a bit to do regarding diversity, but in comparison to their films from 10 to 15 years ago, there’s been remarkable progress.

“Onward” is geared toward children, but even as a 21 year old, I genuinely enjoyed every moment of this heartwarming and thrilling tale.

Every character’s physical and emotional journey is satisfying, wellthought out and touching, as they grow closer to each other and to their own magic.

A dad and his young son sat next to me in the theater. When the movie ended, they turned to one another and said “I love you.”

As I overheard this exchange, I couldn’t help but feel that the magic in “Onward” didn’t end on the screen — the audience took some home with them, too.

— Contact Bella Ross at bella.ross@emory.edu

the characters?

KM: The job of the story department is to build a strong foundation for what needs to happen in the story and oftentimes we are the first ones to sketch the characters, but the art department ultimately designs the characters. They decide how the characters will look based on the requirements of the storyline.

TEW: What motivated the visualization of Barley and Ian’s characters?

How did they evolve from their original envisionment?

KM: Barley needed to be messy, not polished, and he doesn’t care what people think. We told the art department what the character was like from the inside and they designed what it looks like on the outside but by looking inward of the character. For instance, during the first look at Ian, the character looked too elegant, like he had a cool-looking sloping nose and we needed him to be more awkward and more unsure of himself, and that’s when the idea of giving him a big giant nose came into play. He’s an awkward kid who’s trying to make his way and doesn’t quite fit in.

TEW: Is there any talk of a potential sequel or spin-off to “Onward?”

KM: Who knows where this story

will go, but we are so excited for the film to come out on March 6. Working on the film since 2013 has certainly been a long journey for me and I’m excited for audiences to finally see what we have created.

TEW: How do you cope with the creative challenges of new projects?

KM: You take a little bit with you from each creative experience. Each movie presents new and different challenges than the previous one and it is always difficult no matter how much experience you have or how many movies you have worked on before.

But that’s what makes it interesting.

TEW: How did your previous projects, including “Monsters University,” help you with your work on “Onward?”

KM: On “The Good Dinosaur,” Peter Sohn and I created a room called the fishbowl where all the artists could work together in a common workspace and then we tried it on “Onward,” and the team took to it even more than “The Good Dinosaur.”

TEW: What new Pixar projects are you looking forward to in the near future?

KM: There’s a lot of cool stuff that we are working on at Pixar. I’m super excited about director Pete Doctor’s, Pixar’s Chief Creative Officer, movie “Soul” coming out on June 19, 2020.

We have a lot of projects in the works that are still under wraps, but there’s a really great future ahead for Pixar.

TEW: What should audiences expect to look forward to in “Onward?”

KM: I hope that the audience understands the emotion and heartbreak that went into creating this film and what we want to convey about familial support and the fragility of love, especially the tender relationship shared by siblings.

Pixar has persevered as a tenacious pioneer of revolutionary animated films, and “Onward” is no exception to that pattern. You will cry your heart out, laugh until you gag on your popcorn and experience heart-rending emotions that you might not have felt in a while during this film, but it will also be a touching and poignant reminder of the frailty of life and the importance of appreciating everything and everyone around you every moment of every day. This spring break, allow yourself to be whisked away to a whimsical and abstract world, where the farcical and ludicrous antics of two elves will win you over and force you to believe that there is still a bit of magic left in this world.

them with more relaxed build-ups from their own collection of work.

For example the song “Dimelo” with Tory Lanez has a charismatic chorus, which served well as the build-up for the drop from the song “Work” by A$AP Ferg. The well-versed listener could easily pick out Lil Yachty, Sheck Wes and Kendrick Lamar from the mix-and-match pattern of drops.

As for EDM artists, many of the fans were thrilled to hear Snakehips perform remixes of songs from their favorites like Yellow Claw, San Holo and Illenium.

As incredible as the show was, the venue may be even more of a spectacle.

Believe Music Hall is one of in their labeling the venue’s levels as Atlanta’s newer EDM venues, hav- “atmospheres.” Atmosphere Two is referred to as “Eden,” ing opened in May of which brings a dif2018. The building is a ferent perspective to historic site of a renoMany of the fans what a church basevated church that Rev. were thrilled to hear ment can be; the dark Martin Luther King Sr. once preached in.

Snakehips perform and underground vibe transports you Glenn and Madeline remixes of songs Goodhand, the crefrom their favorites to a different musical experience. ators of the Imagine like Yellow Claw, San Both areas are EDM festival, collaboHolo and Illenium. incredibly well soundrated with Mahesh proofed so there is Harjani, a well-known no overlap between name in the Buckhead nightlife scene, to create multiple envi- the music of the two stages, which is impressive considering the space. ronments within the building.

The owners clearly had an ethe- Having two spaces within the hall real vision for the space, evidenced makes it easier to party through the

‘African Mean Girls’ Tackles Colorism Continued from Page 9 greater and greater risks to compete with Ericka. The ending of “School Girls” makes the global scope of colorism and racism evident. Without overshadowing the actors, the creative design of “School Girls” proves effective.

The costume design by Jarrod Barnes brings bright colors and bold patterns to the show, when characters are not confined by the school uniforms. The exaggerated shoulders of 1980s dresses also make a bold appearance. The projection and lighting design by Bradley Bergeron impress in the few moments they get to shine. Particularly splendid are the lush green hills and rolling clouds projected behind the set and the glitzy lighting of a fantasized pageant entrance. While the show hired a dialect coach, I only noted the accents effected by the actors in the few moments I struggled to understand the dialogue, such as the opening scene, and when I wondered if Eloise’s accent was a purposeful amal-

gamation of Ghanaian, French and British accents. However, my companion, Onyie Eze (18Ox, 20C), called the accents “really bad.”

“For someone who has grown up around Africans, it was very obvious,” she said.

“School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play” brings to stage topics and settings rarely given focus on American stages. Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company triumphs in celebrating black storytelling and demonstrates that theatre is much more than stories by old white men for old white audiences. Don’t let the title or the comedic billing fool you; this is no whimsical farce. “Schools Girls” puts the cruelty and insecurity of teenage girlhood on display while exploring the painful impact of colorism on Black girls. Running until March 8, “School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play” brings a provocative and engaging story to Atlanta audiences.

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

BTS Builds on ‘Persona’

Continued from Page 9

night as a change of scenery and sound is always right around the corner. I left the innovative venue and electrifying concert wanting more.

Believe could be the future of live music venues; the way the creators managed to put a whimsical spin on what was otherwise an abandoned building begs the question: what other spaces in your city could be renovated to that level of wonder?

As for the artists, Snakehips commanded the attention of their stage and their crowd, giving fans an exhilarating show that they were not expecting, but will never forget.

What Suga orchstrated in the echoes and depths of “Shadow” is developed in the succeeding track, the album’s pre-release single “Black Swan,” a dizzying, addicting blend of pop-R&B sensibilities with traditional Korean instrumentals.

The music video — with its own string-led version of the song — displays a European dance troupe, rather than the actual group, which is evidence of their commitment to engaging global art.

“7,” like some of BTS’s previous fulllength albums, features a series of solo and unit songs, most notably the Latin pop musings on fame and appearances in member Jimin’s “Filter.”

One of the album’s stand-out moments appears in youngest member Jungkook’s solo track, “My Time,” an inner reflection on chaotic life in the spotlight. “Someday,” Jungkook croons over R&B-heavy beats, “Finna find my time.”

The album reaches it apex in moments when the music strays toward almost devastating lyrical explorations into fame, facades and fear. In the six-song section between “Shadow” and “On,” the album swells to a climax, bolstered by the strong deliveries of songs like “My Time” and “Black Swan.” “7” falters in the followup moments, weighed down by songs that muddy the clarity and cohesion found in some of their previous projects. With the inclusion of 20 songs, the album’s 74-minute length is noticeable but the standout moments make the album worth listening to. Buoyed along by BTS’s ambition, “7” is a powerful project that packs a punch, owed to BTS’s ability to delve deep into identity and their experimental approach to music-making.

— Contact Mariam Akbar at mariam.akbar@emory.edu

— Contact Channelle Russell at channelle.russell@emory.edu

— Contact Angela Choksi at angela.choksi@emory.edu

Snakehips Invigorates Crowd With Covers and Classics Continued from Page 9

11

Theater Emory Showcases Self-Discovery Continued from Page 9 the brothers’ father, Tiger and their hometown. Ultimately, Joseph and Ethan end up completing their journey to the farm before detailing the last few years of Tiger’s life.

While initially confusing in its meta-approach, it becomes clear that Joseph and Ethan are walking the audience through Joseph’s play script, which he wrote about Jack Tiger.

Because there are only two characters, though several others are mentioned in the story, Joseph and Ethan pretend to voice them as they are mentioned.

The brothers act out what they remember about their father Irwin, Jack Tiger and their other friends.

Occasionally, Joseph and Ethan break character from their reenactments to exchange jokes between themselves or the audience.

To aid in the audience’s understanding that this is a play about a play, Joseph frequently shifts through his papers and jots notes down as if he were editing his original script.

Despite the abnormal life of the play’s central subject, Jack Tiger, “Wooden Nickels” is relatable. Joseph and Ethan share a good deal of light-

hearted banter that conjured memories of my own.

Similarly, Irwin and Tiger share a friendship rooted in love and loyalty despite striking differences in personality. Likewise, one understands Ethan and Joseph’s struggle for recognition and achievement in their fields (acting and writing, respectively), a characteristic that they come to realize unites them.

“Wooden Nickels” thematically explores self-discovery and immortality. Both brothers and Tiger are striving to find purpose and leave their legacy.

Tiger aims to live his life to the fullest while Joseph and Ethan discover aspects of themselves.

While Tiger is eccentric and ambitious at his best, he is shady and irresponsible at his worst.

Despite his questionable morality, Tiger clearly wishes to leave this mark on the world through the production of movies and goes to great lengths in an attempt to fund this dream.

Similarly, Joseph, the author of the play, wishes to find meaning through writing while Ethan hopes to do the same by acting.

Joseph and Ethan see themselves in Tiger’s failures; all three wish to

be immortalized in their arts yet have not quite made it as big as they would have hoped.

The play’s small cast gave Adams and Strauss ample time in the spotlight.

Both actors displayed tactful skill; in particular, Strauss’s ability to quickly switch between the reserved Ethan and the over-the-top Tiger without skipping a beat was impressive.

Furthermore, the actors’ delivery of one-liners and anecdotes throughout the play contributed to an intimate atmosphere.

“Wooden Nickels,” wonderfully produced and delightful in mood, took the audience along on an expedition of self-discovery during its weeklong run.

Even though the personality of Jack Tiger himself is not relatable for most, viewers can see themselves in his quest to fulfillment, his reliance on his family and the generational friendships between the characters.

Ultimately, the audience travels with the brothers, coming to reflect on their own lives just like Joseph and Ethan.

— Contact Lili Janasky at lian.s.janasky@emory.edu

The Emory Wheel

Emory Life

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 | Emory Life Editor: Caroline Silva (ccsilva@emory.edu) | Asst. Emory Life Editor: Angela Tang (ytan258@emory.edu)

WHEEL

ADVICE

Doolino Knows Best: Naik and Sadek Reflect on 4-Year Trek Null and Void

By Becca Moszka Staff Writer

What does it mean to be an advice columnist? Is the purpose of the role to acutely respond to people’s deeply personal questions or is it just a self-indulgent role simply designed to feed my own ego? These are questions I have tackled for my decades-long tenure at the Wheel, questions that have measured an existential weight on my bony shoulders. At the end of the day, I would probably have had more free time if I chose not to do this. I don’t want to be a journalist, and I certainly don’t think I should try my hand as a therapist. Every logical bone in my body tells me that goalless endeavors like this are simply not worth the time commitment.

And yet, for decades uninterrupted, I have continued to write — an irrational urge that frustrates me as much as it defines me.

Dear Doolino, I created a rift in the space-time continuum and I am trapped in a black hole.I was once a writer quite like yourself. I was bogged down by imminent deadlines, spam emails and the general lack of sleep on weekdays. I thought it would be only natural to quit, so one day I decided to never respond to my editors’ messages again.

Of course, in this day and age, you can never truly isolate yourself. My Messenger application kept pinging with notifications.

They even tried to reach me on Tinder, which was a real shame because it was my first ever match.

I couldn’t simply uninstall my social media apps, so instead I decided to construct a time machine using a TI-84 calculator, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Welcome to the Universe” and some minty chewing gum. My plan was to go back in time to the day I joined my newspaper and thoroughly convince myself that it was a bad idea.

But I fudged the coordinates.

Instead of typing in “1919,” I accidentally typed in “1919,0000000,” thinking the comma was a decimal place. In this time and age, the sun has long since exploded. I was immediately swept into the crushing gravity of the dark void we once called the sun.

Spiritually broken, I could not muster the energy to shout for someone to help me. I lay on the cold vacuum, crying until I realized the tears would not save me. As a last resort, I gathered my fragments of willpower and reverse-engineered my calculator to act as a portal.

With my limited resources, I could only create a rift big enough for my femur to fit through. I have written this message on said femur using my fingers as a pen and my bone marrow as ink. Doolino, this is not a question, but a request: save me. Make a rift (there are several wikiHow guides) and come rescue me from this sublime fate.

I know the risks that this would entail, but I simply can’t let it end like this, alone in the vacuous void of space. This is a mission particularly pertinent to you.

Sincerely, An Advice Columnist Formerly Known as Doolino

Dear Doolino, Those who run away from their passions and problems are always fated to be crushed by the abyss.

Look at you, so scared of negotiating better hours or peacefully parting from the newspaper that you would instead choose to revolutionize the field of theoretical physics with no more than a set of everyday household items.

The truth is, life in itself is a black hole — slowly suffocating us spiritually and corporeally. Our only way to combat such an existence is to face it head on. If it kills you to write and it kills you to leave, then seize your fate: write, Doolino! All we truly have at the end of the day are the absurd passions that fill up hours in the days as they slowly grow longer.

If you could make a time machine, then surely I can as well with a little bit of Physics 141 and a lot of wikiHow. I will ask my younger sibling, Doolino Jr., to cover my column in the time it will take me to retrieve you.

Perhaps I, too, will be crushed by the same black hole you have found yourself trapped in. But my identity is defined by my willingness to help those in need. So, should this be the last job of my life — I can die happy knowing that I stuck to my values.

And maybe, on the infinitesimal chance that we make it out of there alive, we can return to our writing positions with a refreshed sense of purpose. We might not be breaking news or saving the world, but perhaps all that we truly need to live a happy life is just a modest, muted sense of satisfaction.

Hang tight my friend, for I shall save you and in doing so, save myself.

For perhaps the last time, Doolino I guess you never really appreciate what you have until you don’t.

It has been a fun ride and though I have faith that my sibling will follow suit more than adequately, parting with this role brings me great sorrow. Thank you to my 10 or so readers for your continued loyalty.

For your day-to-day qualms, send anonymous questions to doolino.emory@gmail.com

I was in the crowd with 10 people from the Wheel, and we lost our minds. And then Ricky took off his shirt and started flinging it around in the air!

TEW: What’s one class or professor you wish you could’ve taken during your time at Emory?

NS: I would’ve wanted to take a class with Carol Anderson or Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. They’re professors of such high caliber and I think there are a lot of really fantastic women professors at Emory that I never had the chance to take.

NN: I was very briefly in a history class with Joseph Crespino. I always wanted to take a class with him and I never got the chance. I feel like I could spend another three years at Emory just taking one to two classes that sound cool in every major.

NN: “The Godfather.” They say that it’s one of the greatest movies of all time, and you hear that and figure While Nicole Sadek (20C) and it must be pretty good. But when you Niraj Naik (20B) may have spent think about how many movies exist, numerous Tuesday production the claim that a movie is one of the nights up to their elbows in work, greatest of all time means that it has being co-editors-in-chief (EICs) of to be almost impossibly good. “The The Emory Wheel has proved to Godfather” meets that mark. It’s so be nothing but rewarding for the good. The acting is good, the script is two seniors. As Sadek, an internaphenomenal. It was nuts. And then tional studies and creative writing “The Godfather Part II” was just as double major, and Naik, a political good! science major and Goizueta Business TEW: Favorite song or artist?

School student prepare to leave the NS: Tom Misch, Jorja Smith, Wheel behind, they take with them Loyle Carner, The Head and the countless invaluable lessons and an Heart, Anderson Paak, FKJ and incredible portfolio of work.

Masego.

This transcript has been edited NN: Phil Collins, Beach House, for clarity and length.

Tame Impala, Coldplay, U2 and Carly Rae Jepsen. I just look at what’s on Becca Moszka, The Emory Spotify and listen to it.

Wheel: What has TEW: One artist being co-EICs taught you wish would make a you? comeback?

Nicole Sadek: I NS: I would’ve said don’t think I could have the Jonas Brothers, but done it without Niraj. It they’re back together. was a really hard year, The Black Eyed Peas but a really rewarding including Fergie. year. It’s been really NN: 3OH!3. They good having someone have a couple of good in my corner going songs. I don’t know through the same thing what happened. About and whom I can lean on. once a year, I go on their Niraj Naik: I agree Wikipedia page just to with all of that. I think see if there’s anything one of the key things new. that will affect how I TEW: What’s the work in the future is most embarrassing knowing how impormoment you’ve had on Forrest Martin/Photo editor campus? tant it is to have people on your team who are Nicole Sadek (20C) (Left) and Niraj Naik (20B) NN: I woke up late of really high caliber. (R ight) reflected on their term as co-Editors in Chief. for an exam during Working with Nicole, finals. I woke up at 9 TEW: What’s an article you wish a.m. and the exam started at 9 a.m., specifically, has taught me that when you’re working with people who care you would’ve been able to write? so I ran from Longstreet-Means Hall NS: I feel like there are so many to White Hall. It’s pouring rain, so I a lot, it makes you care and accomplish so much. things going on right now with the run into the lecture hall, dripping, TEW: Which of your articles are coronavirus, and with Emory being and everyone turns around to look at you most proud of? in such a transitional period with me in the doorway. They all started NS: I have a joke answer and a the University president and provost laughing. I gathered it was because I real answer. Niraj, Alisha Compton leaving. There’s a lot happening right was late, but what I didn’t realize was (19C) and I have a triple byline on now, a lot of stories that can be cov- that the professor was late because a story about library hacks. It was ered right now. Not that I wish that he had gotten hit by a car. So I just kind of ridiculous that three people any of these things would have hap- sat there, soaking, for 30 minutes needed to write that one article. The pened earlier in our tenure, but these until the professor showed up, said, real answer is when I covered the are times when I think journalism is “Sorry, I got hit by a car,” and then Democratic debate with the News super important. gave us the exam.

NN: On the day of the Super Bowl, Editor Isaiah Poritz (22C). That was TEW: What advice would you very cool. I got to talk to some politi- I wanted to hang out at Domino’s give to future EICs or people who cians and just be in the presence of and watch them make all the pizzas. currently write or work for the people like Andrew Yang and Tom I once asked how many pizzas they Wheel?

Steyer. think they make in a day, and it was NS: Figure out why you want to NN: I got to write an obituary a around 600. So I can only imagine be a writer or journalist. The “why” couple years ago and I just felt very how they’re pumping out pizzas on drives the rest. For a long time, I honored to be able to write about the the day of the Super Bowl. knew I wanted to be a journalist, but person.

Then they have to deliver them I didn’t know the reason behind that.

TEW: What’s your favorite mem- everywhere. I would have wanted Once I started understanding how ory from the Wheel? to go with a driver and see where powerful journalism is as a tool in NS: It was the Wheel’s 100th they go and what it’s like. I think it terms of holding people accountable anniversary this year and we spent would’ve been really neat. and giving a voice to the voiceless, months organizing the celebration.

TEW: What’s your guilty and once I recognized how much I We spent months laboring over it pleasure? was passionate about that, I started and stressing over it and organizing NS: Sometimes when I need putting more effort into my stories a million moving pieces to it. When a pick-me-up, I’ll go to the Eagle and thinking harder about the way the day finally came around, I was so Emporium or Cox Hall and buy one that I was reporting different things. nervous that the alumni would not of those miniature jars of Nutella NN: Write in high volume. If you show up or that I’d fall and break my and eat it with a spoon. It normally think you want to be a writer, there’s leg or something. And then it turned lasts two, maybe three days. nothing stopping you from telling out really great, and it was so much NN: I think it’s probably Pizza the stories that are around you. fun meeting all the alumni and feel- Rolls. I eat a lot of Pizza Rolls.

I believe that anybody on Emory’s ing like all of that effort that all of us They’re deceptively unhealthy. Or, campus is qualified to write for the had put into making it happen was maybe they’re explicitly unhealthy. I Wheel. The only thing standing in worth it. didn’t realize how many calories are the way of growth in writing and NN: Yeah, that was a fun day. My in them. It’s a lot. being a journalist is how hard you’re favorite memory was when Desiigner TEW: Favorite movie? willing to work to get there. came to campus for a concert and NS: “Inception.” Everything about invited people on stage. Richard it — the cinematography, the music, — Contact Becca Moszka at Chess (20C) got up on stage. the actors’ abilities, the storyline. becca.moszka@emory.edu

EMORY LIFE

The Emory Wheel

2020 ANNUAL PRIDE AWARDS

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

13

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Paige saFChik/ContriButing writer

Middle Eastern restaurant Rina, which opened on the Atlanta BeltLine, offers a modern twist on Israeli street food.

helen Bradshaw/ContriButing

The 28th Annual Pride Awards was hosted on March 3 at the Miller-Ward Alumni House to recognize individuals for their efforts to promote LBGT equality.

By Paige safchik Contributing Writer

SPOTLIGHT

Seniors Tackle Science of Brewing Beer

By URvi agRawaL Contributing Writer

After two months of production, Joseph Piccolo (18Ox, 20C), Christopher Adesanya (18Ox, 20C) and Christopher Schwaiger (18Ox, 20C) revealed their home brewery project to Emory’s senior class.

Adesanya posted on Facebook page “Senior Tuesday” asking for empty bottle donations, so the trio could bottle their batch of amber ales on March 4. They even offered donors a taste of their blueberry India Pale Ale (IPA).

Beer and wine enthusiasts, Piccolo, Adesanya and Schwaiger, along with several other friends, began brewing beer in their apartments at the start of this Spring semester.

So far, the group has produced two batches of beer and intends to make more, making the most of their last year at Emory.

After a car accident which left him with two broken wrists and medical leave for the previous Fall semester, Piccolo had to fill his spare time at home by learning to brew beer with his father and his friends’ fathers. He developed a passion for the craft, and upon returning to school, decided to gather his friends for a joint foray into beer brewing.

“When I came back to school in the Spring, I thought it’d be a great way to get my friends together, to create something before we graduated and went all around the world,” Piccolo said, “It’s a conveyor belt of people making beer, ...they’re all just our friends from Oxford, the men’s soccer team there, [and] from around Emory..”

Adesanya, an economics major, calls physics major Piccolo the group’s “ringleader.” Piccolo had recruited Adesanya and Schwaiger to join his operation as both had already brewed beer with their families. Both were eager to help out. “[I] wanted something really cool to do in my last semester … so I figured this would be a really fun thing to do with my friends,”Adesanya said.

The trio divides tasks among themselves, with Piccolo overseeing the brewing process, as he is most experienced with it, and Adesanya sourcing all necessary ingredients and materials.

Schwaiger, a self-described “sous-chef,” cooks meals for the brewers. Schwaiger is also responsible for research, consulting Reddit and his experienced stepfather when the group needs guidance.

Rina Spices Up BeltLine With Tel Avivian Flare

Prior to starting their operation, each friend had individually harbored some interest in the production of alcohol. Adesanya had attended numerous beer tastings in his home state of Texas, and often visited microbreweries while studying abroad in London during the summer of 2018.

Schwaiger’s experience with alcohol production leans more toward wine, and he claimed that he has attended more tastings for wine than for beer. To explore his interest, Schwaiger has started producing wine alongside their beer project.

“We started making wine this past weekend,” Schwaiger said.

“Hopefully, a couple of months from now, we will have 28 bottles of wine. I am the wine guy.”

Piccolo noted that the beer brewing process often lasts about four weeks. The team makes their solution and places it in an airtight container with yeast.

The yeast takes two weeks to ferment. Because it cannot absorb oxygen from within the jar, the yeast ferments, feeding off the sugar and creating alcohol.

After the fermentation process is complete, the beer is bottled with a little bit of sugar, and a beer cap is added to make the bottle completely airtight.

The team’s first batch was a blueberry-flavored IPA modeled after one brewed by the SweetWater Brewing Company.

For their next batch, the three friends have begun working on an amber ale.

They explained that brewing their usual quantity of beer — roughly five gallons — costs about $40. This includes ingredients such as ground barley and wheat, and malt, which acts as the sugar source for the yeast.

They can also add hops, which is a flavoring agent that differs in quantities in accordance with the type of beer being brewed. People can also experiment with the flavoring of the beer. They used a blueberry extract for the IPA, but one can also use mango or any other flavor.

“When it comes to flavoring, the world is your oyster,” Adesanya said. “Any other fruit or any other thing that you think you might like to consume, throw it in there and have at it.”

The equipment, which consists of a food grade plastic bucket with an air vault, an aluminum pot, 10 feet of plastic tubing, a specific gravity hydrometer, which measures the specific gravity for alcohol by

volume, a bottling wand and a beer capper cost the team $60 total. Schwaiger believes that the investment was worth it, and each member offset the cost by contributing funds to the purchase.

“If you drink a lot of wine or you drink a lot of beer, if you make it, it’s typically cheaper,” Schwaiger said.

“So might as well make it and make something that you like.”

The trio’s previous two batches were produced off campus, first at a friend’s house and then second at Schwaiger’s house. Their current batch is being brewed at Piccolo’s apartment on Emory’s Clairmont campus.

Bits of what they learn at Emory have enhanced their understanding of the process. Both on the pre-medical track, Schwaiger and Piccolo have applied their studies of chemistry to optimizing the production of beer, taking into consideration factors such as cellular respiration and fermentation.

“The theory and the science behind it are definitely separate from the craft, which is less ‘science-y’ and more [of] just people getting together and doing what their dads taught them,” Piccolo said.

They don’t currently have plans to sell their bottles and emphasized that they are brewing solely for personal enjoyment. They do however have a Facebook page, The Emory Home Brewing Society, which they use to take comments and suggestions from anyone willing to give them.

They have nevertheless customized their bottles with logos and stickers that they made at the Cox Hall TechLab. Their first batch, a blueberry IPA called the “Blue Footed Brewby,” is labeled using a sticker featuring a bird and the drink’s name.

Schwaiger and Adesanya noted that producing beer offers a unique opportunity to make meaningful memories with others “I think it would be cool for something bigger to come out of it … like, to spark more interest and to have more people interested in doing it, and we can trade beers and see what they’re trying,” Schwaiger said.

The project has been a source of education for the seniors as well as an enjoyable experience..

“It is another way to wholesomely enjoy alcohol and see how much effort actually goes into it,” Piccolo said.

— Contact Urvi Agrawal at urvi.agrawal@emory.edu

Located at the Ford Factory Lofts building and shopping complex on the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail, Middle Eastern restaurant Rina has been bringing Tel Avivian flare to Atlanta since its opening on Jan. 13. Named after the owner’s grandmother, Rina serves traditional Israeli street food with a twist.

My boyfriend had never been to an Israeli restaurant, so I brought him with me to experience the cuisine.

Thankfully, the menu was not overwhelming, concisely sectioned into categories of hummus, platters, “in pita” (pita sandwiches), mezze, sides and shakes.

We simply had to order the hummus. From Rina’s three varieties, we chose Hummus No. 1, which was delicious and creamy. Topped with a sliced hard-boiled egg, crunchy chickpeas, pickles and red cabbage slaw, the dip had an enjoyable, varied texture. The waitress kindly told us that the sides — warm pita bread and thinly sliced carrots, cucumbers and white onion — were unlimited, which made the hummus definitely worth the $8 price tag.

For entrees, she recommended the Jaffa fried fish, a whole fish head fried in falafel spice; the arayas, spicy, minced lamb cooked inside pita; and the beef kebab, currently their most popular dish. I decided to order the arayas. The arayas were beautifully plated next to three layered sauces and a traditional Israeli salad of chopped cucumbers and tomatoes. Sliced in half, the sandwiches’ crispy pita shell contrasted the succulent lamb filling. Although baked rather than fried, the flavorful meat made the sandwich somewhat greasy — my boyfriend described it as an Israeli empanada — but not so much that it was unpleasant.

On the side, tahini and yogurt were topped with green schug, a Middle Eastern sauce that added heat to the already spicy arayas.

Dipping the lamb sandwich into the sauce mixture created the perfect bite. The bright, herb-filled schug added complexity, while the yogurt mitigated spice and grease.

My boyfriend opted for the beef kebab, which arrived served in two garlic pita pockets, garnished with pickled onions and cilantro, and drizzled with a warm, tomato and brown butter sauce. The kebab was covered in this sauce, which was so mouthwatering and savory that we probably would have enjoyed it alone out of a mug. Between all the sauces and juicy meat, we went through quite a few napkins.

Though we were nearly bursting from the hummus and entrees, we couldn’t resist sharing a tahini chocolate chip cookie for dessert, which proved a good decision. Served in a parchment bag, the cookie had subtle

Rina

atlanta Beltline eastside trail

hints of salt and tahini, a crispy exterior, and a gooey chocolate center.

Those familiar with halvah, a Middle Eastern confection made from tahini, will recognize a similar nutty flavor profile.

Situated roughly 15 minutes from Emory’s campus, Rina is easily accessible from Ponce City Market, as one of its entrances opens directly onto the BeltLine. Bike racks line the walls outside the restaurant, so if you’re already walking or biking on the Eastside Trail, Rina is a convenient stop for a bite to eat.

Rina has modern four-top and two-top tables and a long, steel-colored bar. Throughout our dinner, eight of the four-top tables remained empty, yet the host sat us at the bar because all of the two-top tables were full when we arrived. With half of the restaurant empty, there was no reason to seat us at the bar.

This was an unusual aspect of our experience, perhaps a result of the restaurant’s novelty. Consequently, the bartender was our waitress. She was very friendly and attentive, and all of our food arrived quickly.

The restaurant’s vibe was extremely warm and inviting with vibrant decor and lively Middle Eastern music. The interior was casual and artsy with string lights and colorful banners hanging from the ceiling and a large, black-andwhite photograph of beachgoers spanning one wall. Little Hebrew accents decorated the space — the Hebrew word for happiness adorned the entrance wall, the menus and even the coasters. Scattered across the walls were small paintings — abstract portraits painted in red and yellow— that brought quirk to the bright atmosphere.

On top of the $8 hummus, the $16 arayas and $15 beef kebab brought our subtotal to $42 before tax and tip. Although pricier than the street food to which Rina traces its roots, the cost found justification in the high-quality ingredients, superb preparation and sizable portions.

I left Rina both satisfied and hungry for more, and will definitely return to try the falafel, which is a recipe that has been in the family since the 1950s, and the two shakes (Turkish coffee and tahini, honey, and dates). Rina succeeds by offering both a superb introductory experience for those new to Israeli food and an innovative spin on the cuisine for those who already know and love it. Its convenient location on the BeltLine will have everyone saying “l’chaim!”

— Contact Paige Safchik at paige.safchik@emory.edu

14

The Emory Wheel

ARCHIVES

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

FROM THE ARCHIVES, SPRING 1994

Police Probe Melendi Case FBI Verifies Wheel Story

By Marcy Lam & Danielle Service News Editor and Executive Editor

The DeKalb Department of Public Safety, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Clayton County police searched a Softball Country Club employee’s house in Rex, Ga., Tuesday in relation to the disappearance of College sophomore Shannon Melendi, who has been missing since March 26.

Colvin C. “Butch” Hinton, a 33-year-old contract umpire at the Club and a regular player on a team named “Spinners,” was supposed to work Tuesday, but called at 1 p.m. to say he would not be able to work, according to William F. Floyd, president of the Club.

Police searched the grounds of the home Saturday and returned Tuesday with a locksmith. According to FBI spokesman Jerry Waring, DeKalb police had obtained a search warrant for the house and requested assistance from the FBI in executing the warrant. Although Waring said the FBI are “not prepared to call” Hinton a suspect, police spent

four hours combing his home for evidence and emerged with a cooler and several bags containing items from inside the home.

FBI spokesman Jerry Waring said “items” were taken from the house and “forensics and further examinations will determine whether it becomes evidence in the case.”

Waring added it will “take some time to have those determinations made.” Police also impounded a grey Honda Prelude sitting in Hinton’s driveway.

“The police are on a fishing expedition here, and I doubt if they’re going to find anything,” said James E. Bischoff, Hinton’s lawyer, to reporters outside Hinton’s home Tuesday afternoon.

“He’s not the only thing we’re looking at,” said Sgt. Pam Pendergrass of DeKalb.

“Everbody’s a suspect until they’re eliminated.”

According to Brian Fairchild, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Corrections, Hinton has previous criminal convictions.

Hinton received a four-year concurrent sentence in 1982 for kidnapping and inde-

cent liberties with a child in Henry County, Ill., according to Fairchild. Hinton pleaded mental illness and served nearly two years in the Sheridan Correctional Center in Joliet, Ill. Hinton came to Georgia after his parole in 1984. His parole supervision ended in 1986.

Hinton also holds a fulltime job at Delta Airlines, according to Floyd.

“He’s been working here for two years … he’s a very good umpire and very well-liked,” Floyd said.

“He strikes me as an everyday guy, comes to work on time,” said Charlie Rogers, assistant league director at the Club. Rogers said he last saw Hinton, who is one of 150 Club employees, last Thursday.

Hinton is scheduled to play again tonight, but Floyd said he “imagined he would cancel.”

With the conflicting reports of Melendi’s well-being and police not providing much information on the Hinton lead, friends of Melendi were not raising their hopes.

College sophomore Anne Sorkin said, “We’re pretty much afraid to get excited about anything.”

Crossword

By Aidan Vick, Senior Staff Writer and Aditya Prakash, Associate Editor

By Dan Sadowsky Editor in Chief

Despite media reports to the contrary, the Federal Bureau of Investigation stands by the statements made by Special Agent Pat Johnson that appeared in the April 12 edition of The Emory Wheel, according to FBI spokesman Jerry Waring.

“Every reporter I’ve spoken to today, I’ve told them that what The Emory Wheel wrote and what the reporters reported is accurate,” Waring told the Wheel Wednesday afternoon.

“For the Journal-Constitution or some other news agency to … say that the FBI is saying that the report in the Wheel was anything other than correct information is wrong.”

Confusion had arisen when some media outlets, including Wednesday’s edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, implied the Wheel was used by the FBI for its own purposes. The Wheel had been deluged with calls from the news media asking if the staff of the paper had felt like they had been “used” or “duped.”

Waring denied the newspaper was used by the FBI.

“We did not in any way attempt, in any underhanded way or backdoor way or whatever you want to call it, use The Emory Wheel,” said Waring.

Based on Wednesday television reports, it was unclear if Waring’s statements had reached the local media, and there were still media who said Waring had not returned phone calls and therefore were still under the assumption the FBI had backed down from Johnson’s remarks to the Wheel.

“Some of the news services ... are saying that we’re recanting information, etc., etc., and that’s not true.”

— FBI Spokesman Jerry Waring, Despite the confusion, when contacted by the Wheel, Waring said he had told all the media he had spoken to that the article is accurate.

“No one here in the FBI is going to recant and say that

that’s an inaccurate story,” Waring told the Wheel Wednesday afternoon. “The story as written is accurate.”

Waring said he wanted to assure the Wheel the Bureau was not distancing themselves from Johnson’s remarks to the Wheel last Friday and Sunday.

He said that press reports stating the FBI had done just that were unfounded.

“Some of the news services … are saying that we’re recanting information, etc., etc., and that’s not true,” Waring said.

“That information [Johnson] gave your reporters at that point in time on that Friday afternoon was what he believed both personally and professionally to be accurate and true based on twhe investigation.”

Waring stated that the original purpose of the FBI approaching the Wheel to write a story had been to get students to come forward with information.

“We didn’t accomplish what we originally wanted to accomplish, and that was to ask the newspaper’s help in getting the student body reenergized and coming forward if they had any information that may be useful to us,” said Waring.

Ending Credits Across

Down

1 Colloquialism for madame 4 Nose run-off 8 Listen 12 Purify in Italian 13 Impoverished 14 State with most presidents 15 Best picture director 16 Deadly sub-Saharan mammal 17 Swedish auto manufacturer 18 Final performance 20 Functional 22 Prestigious U.K. college 23 Network known for Planet Earth, Fawlty Towers 24 Distress or shock 27 Team of 11 down 32 “Don’t ___ ___ your friends” 33 Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Che Guevera 34 I overtake 35 Covered road 36 Liotta, Charles, Rice 37 River mouths 39 Myelin-forming cells 40 Intelligence report 41 Addressed without enthusiasm 42 Antiquated internet feed 43 Eastern European country code 44 Spinach-snacking strongman 48 Pompeii destroyer 53 Non-affiliated viewpoint 54 Nine Inch ___ 56 Singular 57 Common world currency 58 Life, krebs, vulgate 59 Aqu-, enzym60 Historically black Houston college 61 Titular epic character 62 “Who ___ Boy”

1 Cat noise 2 Pitch Perfect Kendrick 3 Defining act of one’s career 4 Rotate continuously 5 Lack of children’s content 6 Mistake reaction 7 Bridge over these waters in Simon & Garfunkel’s 18 Across 8 High school health science organization 9 Fought a White Whale in Herman Melville’s 3 Down 10 Iranian currency 11 60 points in his 18 across 12 Abbreviation for NFL rushers 16 Spiritually good 19 Analyze swiftly 21 Proof of injury 23 Group of women in a poorly aged sitcom 24 Dehydrated 25 “_ ____ like to live dangerously” 26 Results of analysis 27 Green mushrooms give you more of these in “Mario Bros.”

28 Ideological disparity defining the Russian Revolution 29 Etsy-esque shopping genre 30 Monarchical 31 “Are you for real?” in text talk 33 Hideouts 35 Defined existence 38 Fluffy, like a dessert 39 “Dragonball Z” protagonist 41 Swears 44 Traditional rapper 45 Infamous Emory software 46 Home of Machu Picchu 47 Old name of Tokyo 48 Christian Bale as Dick Cheney 49 Jazz singing Fitzgerald 50 Small amount 51 Defined portion 52 Southern college conference 55 Rand behind “Atlas Shrugged”

The Emory Wheel

W Sports?

Sports.

Contact Jessica Solomon for more information at jesolom@emory.edu

Schner’s 20, WashU’s Loss Wins Eagles the UAA have lost to devastating buzzer beaters, Schner said.

“They had a chance to take the lead Yellowjackets had reduced the score difference to two points, with the at the end,” Schner said. “So that’s Eagles up just 78-76. At this moment, something we definitely need to prethe Eagles took another timeout. vent in the future: making sure we The clock soon after winded down close out games.” to three seconds, and in a final attempt On March 6, the Eagles will head to prolong the match, Yellowjackets to the first round of the NCAA toursophomore guard Ross Gang fouled nament and face the Methodist junior guard Nick University (N.C.) Stuck.

Monarchs at 7:30 With all eyes on p.m. When the Eagles “Finding that out in found out they would him, Stuck went to the the airport was ... line and made both his make the tournament, free throws. definitely a moment they were in the airThe Eagles finished that all of us on the port. It was an unforin an 80-76 victory gettable moment, team are going to over the Yellowjackets.

Schner said. remember.”

The Eagles four “Later that day in leading scorers all hit the airport, we found — Matthew Schner, out that the University double digits, with Junior Guard of Chicago beat Schner leading the pack with 20 points WashU and we were and junior forward Lawrence Rowley able to gain a share of the UAA title,” not far behind with 17 points. Rowley Schner said. “Finding that out in the also grabbed 13 of the team’s 30 total airport was an exciting experience and rebounds. definitely a moment that all of us on While Schner was satisfied with the the team are going to remember: runteam’s performance against Rochester, ning down the airport and being able he believes that the team needs to to celebrate that as a team.” work on finishing the game more comfortably.

— Contact Jessica Solomon at In two recent games, the Eagles jessie.solomon@emory.edu

Continued from Back Page

First Marathon Ends in Olympic Qualification Continued from Back Page the middle of the conservative pack, he picked up the pace and separated himself from the rest of the group.

After the race, Rupp explained his decision to pick up the pace at a relatively early juncture.

“The biggest thing for me was being conservative and tucking in as much as possible,” Rupp said. “I took off a little bit earlier than I initially anticipated. Before the race, [my coach] Mike [Smith] said, ‘Trust yourself, you’ve been doing this for a long time.’ The more the race went on, the more confident I got. It just felt like the right time.”

Shrader, who had by then lost some ground on the lead group, ultimately decided to drop out of the race. He was not the only athlete to drop, however.

The women’s race was shaken after a hamstring injury forced Cragg to depart, leaving the field even more open than before.

Rupp increased his pace throughout the race. His final seven miles all fell beneath the 5-minute mark, and he crossed the line first with a time of 2:09:20, a solid 42 seconds before Jacob Riley, the second-place finisher.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

SPORTS

An intense sprint to the finish decided the final two spots. Riley barely outsprinted Abdi Abdirahman for second place, finishing in at a personal best of 2:10:02 and leaving Abdirahman to finish at 2:10:03. Although not expected to finish in the top three, Abdirahman has now qualified for his fifth Olympic games. Both secured their spot over Korir, who crossed the line a mere three seconds later.

Abdirahman attributed his success on the Atlanta course to his intense training in Ethiopia.

“I was in Ethiopia since December,” he said. “I have a lot of good guys I train with there. We did some great work — a lot of hill work. If this course had been flat, I might not have placed where I did.”

None of the women who were favored to win earned a spot on the Olympic team.

The first to cross the finish line was Aliphine Tuliamuk, who broke the tape at 2:27:23. Seven seconds later, Molly Seidel — who was running her first marathon ever — crossed the line in second place to qualify.

It was not until 2:28:52 that the final qualifier, Kipyego, crossed the line and rounded out the team.

Linden barely missed qualifying and making history, crossing the line in fourth place with a time of 2:29:03.

She will run the Boston marathon in just seven weeks, leaving very little recovery time.

Afterward, Seidel spoke to the press about her mindset heading into her first marathon race.

“Going into it, I was just trying to keep a clear head,” Seidel said. “I wasn’t really thinking through the first part of the race. I wasn’t paying attention to miles or pace, I was just going off feeling. The last part definitely hurt, but it’s okay to hurt. It’s not okay to stop.”

Despite both teams’ surprising makeups, the athletes already seem to be developing chemistry with their new teammates.

“It’s just so nice to share this stage with these two beautiful women,” Tuliamuk said.

With qualifications now over, the athletes will begin training for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. You can see the athletes compete again on Aug. 8 and Aug. 9 in Sapporo, Japan.

— Contact Lynden Fausey at lynden.fausey@emory.edu

SWOOP’S SCOOP

15

Sport

Opponent

Time

Wednesday March 4

W Tennis

Penn State

3 p.m.

Friday March 6

Softball Baseball M Basketball

@ NCFA Classic Mary Washington @ NCAA Tourney

11 a.m., 1 p.m.

2 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Saturday March 7

Track & Field Baseball M Tennis Softball

@ Tufts Qualifier Mary Washington Rhodes @ NCFA Classic

All Day 11 a.m., 2 p.m.

11 a.m.

8 p.m., 10 p.m.

Sunday March 8

Softball M Golf W Golf

@ NCFA Classic @ Savannah Tourney @ Savannah Invtl.

2 p.m., 4 p.m.

All Day All Day

Monday March 9

M Golf W Golf Baseball

@ Savannah Tourney @ Savannah Invtl.

Berry

All Day All Day 1 p.m.

Tuesday March 10

M Golf W Golf Softball W Tennis Baseball

@ Savannah Tourney All Day @ Savannah Invtl.

All Day @ Texas Lutheran, Dickinson 12 p.m., 2 p.m.

2 p.m. @ Spring Break Trip 7 p.m. @ LaGrange *Home Games in Bold

Top-Down Production Defines Eagles’ Success Continued from Back Page used instead of batting average to measure hitters because it factors in the additional value of extra-base hits — was .758. Currently, out of the eight Eagles with at least 20 at-bats, seven are hitting comfortably above .850.

Leading the way for the Eagles are Brereton, junior outfielder Michael Edelman, junior infielder Caleb Shulman and senior utility player Jacob Greene, who was just named Emory Athlete of the Week. All four of these hitters are scorching hot and have begun the season with OPSs that exceed four-time MLB MVP Mike Trout’s career average of 1.000.

Though a large portion of the season has yet to be played, the explosive start is hopefully a harbinger of things to come as the team attempts to reach the NCAA Championships. If successful, it will be their first time since the 2017 season, when they won their first 10 games.

Brereton feels that the disappoint-

ing finishes of the last two seasons are especially motivating.

“Our goal is to play in the postseason,” Brereton said. “The past two years have been disappointing, and we came in really driven [this year].”

While an 8-2 start isn’t perfection, it’s significantly better than their 2018 and 2019 starts of 4-6 and 6-4, respectively.

Twardoski has confidence that if the offense can keep producing and the pitching staff can throw more strikes, the Eagles will prove a force to reckon with.

“We have to improve the pitching,” Twardoski said. “This team has great stuff, but we have to learn how to stay in the strike zone.”

Up next, the Eagles will look to add to their bright start on March 6, when the University of Mary Washington (Va.) comes to town for a three-game series.

— Contact Charlie Scruton at charlie.scruton@emory.edu

CALLAHAN’S CORNER

COVID-19 Threatens Tokyo Olympics With Shutdown

By Ryan Callahan Sports Editor

In under two months, the coronavirus (COVID-19) has plunged economic markets into disarray, claimed the lives of thousands of people and evoked fear worldwide. Emory professionals are leading the fight to slow the spread of and find a cure for COVID-19. Until then, however, the virus may claim another, unexpected victim.

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Dick Pound, a longtime member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) claimed last week that the devolution of COVID-19 into a worldwide pandemic could warrant cancellation of

the Tokyo games.

“In and around that time, I’d say folks are going to have to ask: ‘Is this under sufficient control that we can be confident about going to Tokyo or not?’”

Pound said in an interview with the Associated Press.

Other IOC officials clarified soon after that the Olympics are still expected to proceed and that Japan is implementing preventative measures to slow the spread of COVID-19. However, the unpredictability of the virus could undermine their efforts. Should COVID-19’s rampant spread continue through May, the month in which the IOC will likely decide the fate of the Olympics, we would be entering uncharted waters.

What would the cancelation of the Tokyo Summer Olympics mean? First, it would signal that COVID-19 has turned into a global pandemic. The virus is already on that trajectory, as novel cases have been reported in California. A COVID-19-induced cancellation would be the first time the Olympics were canceled in 76 years, and only the fourth time ever. The Olympics have only been canceled three times before, during World War I and World War II — 1916, 1940 and 1944. The fact that the IOC is even considering canceling the Olympics speaks to the severity of COVID-19.

Second, cancellation could hurt the Olympic image. The Olympics are a staple to global culture. Every four years,

viewers from dozens of countries are given the opportunity to express abject enthusiasm for their home and engage in friendly, yet competitive, banter with people from all over the world.

However, each of the past two Olympics — the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics — received less viewership than their respective predecessors. The cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics could exacerbate growing disinterest in the international competition.

Less interest will inevitably lead to less revenue and a greater financial burden for the host country, which would heighten the reluctance that is growing among prospective host countries.

Japan will have a tough decision to make come May. If COVID-19 is not under control by then, there is a strong chance that this summer’s Olympics will be canceled, an occurrence that could very well affect the future of the Olympics. It would also harm the country financially, as, when all is said and done, Japan would have spent upwards of $26 billion for a competition that won’t be played. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo would be COVID-19’s most expensive victim but cancellation is more than necessary if it means mitigating the pandemic.

— Contact Ryan Callahan at rjcalla@emory.edu

The Emory Wheel

Sports

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 | Sports Editor: Ryan Callahan (rjcalla@emory.edu) | Asst. Sports Editor: Jessica Solomon (jessie.solomon@emory.edu)

OLYMPICS

Atlanta Plays Host To Olympic Trials

By Lynden Fausey Senior Staff Writer

Courtesy of Emory Athletics

Junior infielder Caleb Shulman bats versus Covenant College (Ga.) on Feb. 29. Shulman had three hits and scored four runs in Emory’s 20-8 rout of Covenant.

Dominant Start Marked by 20-Run Game

By Charlie Scruton Senior Staff Writer The Emory baseball team is off to an impressive start in 2020. With eight wins and just two narrow defeats, the Eagles are powering through their regional foes as they prepare for the start of University Athletic Association (UAA) play at the end of March.

However, this winning start hasn’t been conventional by any means. The Eagles aren’t just winning games; they are also putting up astronomical numbers and making opposing pitchers’ lives miserable.

In their most recent game against Covenant College (Ga.) this past weekend, Covenant’s starting pitcher faced eight batters, gave up six runs and left the mound having recorded just one out in the first inning. Remarkably, it wasn’t even the most demoralizing inning of the game for Covenant, as

the Eagles poured on another 11 runs in the following inning.

Senior utility player Richard Brereton believes that the team’s “next man up” approach is helping them pile on the runs.

“We’re not trying to do too much,” Brereton said. “The at-bat’s not about you, it’s about getting the next guy up.”

Emory finished the game with 20 runs — the highest tally of the program since 2010 — and took the series against Covenant 2-1. While hitting the 20-run mark is exciting, it’s just one game; or at least it should be.

In baseball, where the duration of the game is controlled by outs rather than a set time, inflated score lines are entirely possible. Just last October in the MLB playoffs, the St. Louis Cardinals shocked the baseball world by putting up a stunning 10 runs in the first inning of their elimination game against the Atlanta Braves.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

But such scores are typically unlikely. In fact, in the entirety of their 162game regular season, the Cardinals never scored 20 runs, reaching 15 runs once and scoring over 10 runs in only 8% of their games. Emory’s 2o runs against Covenant should be an anomaly but, instead, it has become quite the opposite. The Eagles have scored over seven runs in all of their wins, scoring above 16 runs thrice and averaging 10.8 runs per game.

Head Coach Mike Twardoski believes consistent, quality at-bats throughout the lineup have allowed for this sustained offensive production.

“Consistency is key,” Twardoski said. “It’s not about just swinging; it’s important to get on base.”

In the MLB last season, the leaguewide average on-base percentage plus slugging percentage (OPS) — a stat

See TOP-DOWN, Page 15

On Feb. 29, Atlanta welcomed nearly 700 runners — 235 men and 456 women — for the U. S. Olympic Team Trials. Each runner competed for one of six spots on the 2020 Olympic Team. The course, which consisted of three 8-mile loops and a 2-mile diversion to the finish, was unusually hilly and featured an elevation gain of 1,389 feet. The sloping course, paired with blustering 18 mph winds, was sure to be a challenge.

Heading into the race, previous Olympian Galen Rupp was already the clear favorite to win. He had already represented the U.S. at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he won a bronze medal in the marathon. Despite his success, there was still some doubt that he would qualify after a surgery to correct his Haglund’s deformity (a defect in the heel bone) sidelined him for a year and a half. Other favorites included Leonard Korir, who also represented the U.S. at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 10,000-meter race and holds the fastest marathon debut by an American in history at 2 hours, 7 minutes and 56 seconds. Scott Fauble, Jared Ward and Jacob Riley all also held solid qualifying times heading into the Atlanta Trials.

Among the women, Desiree Linden was the crowd favorite. As the most experienced woman in the field, Linden entered the competition hoping to make history as the first

American woman to earn a spot on three Olympic marathon teams.

Other notable entrants included Jordan Hasay, who had the fastest qualifying time heading into the marathon, and Amy Cragg, who won the 2016 Trials held in Los Angeles.

Before the race commenced, the athletes hopped around at the start line in a desperate attempt to stay warm amid the fierce winds. The men were first to take off, with the women following soon after.

The athletes were both helped and hindered by the enthusiastic crowd that day.

“The crowd was absolutely crazy,” third-place finisher Sally Kipyego said.

“It felt like they were right on the course. It can be really exciting, but it can also get in the way. But around the last few miles, having people scream at you and cheer you was great.”

Most men ran conservatively throughout the race. At the 6-mile mark, Ryan Shrader and Dan Nestor decided to make their move. By the end of the first 8-mile loop, both had gained a 30-second lead on the rest of the pack. The women opted to stay in a large pack throughout the first 8-mile loop, a smart decision that helped block the strong winds and preserve the racers’ energies. Sixteen miles in, Rupp and the rest of the men’s front pack had caught up to Nestor and Shrader. At the beginning of the third and final loop, Rupp finally decided to make his move. Instead of staying in

See FIRST, Page 15

NBA

Eagles Clinch Carter Reflects on 4-Decade Career Share of UAA Title

By Jessica Solomon Asst. Sports Editor

By Jessica Solomon Asst. Sports Editor In a series of fortunate events, the Emory men’s basketball team tied with the Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) (Mo.) Bears for the University Athletic Association (UAA) title after a victory against the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Yellowjackets 80-76 on Feb. 29.

With the Bears’ loss to the University of Chicago 77-70 on the same night, the Eagles clinched the conference and advanced to the NCAA Division III tournament.

The Eagles and Yellowjackets came out to play on Saturday. For the entirety of the game, the score went back and forth. Neither team took a significant lead at any point in the game, except for when the Eagles were up 70-57 with five minutes left in the second half.

After a slow start by both teams, the first half came to a close with the Eagles up only 43-39. But at the beginning of the second half, the Eagles brought a new energy.

After a few turnovers from the Yellowjackets and several powerful offensive moves by the Eagles, Emory began to pull away. After the Eagles gained a five-point lead with 10 minutes remaining in the game — one of

their largest leads of the match — the squad took a timeout. Following the timeout, junior guard Matthew Schner made a critical steal that led to a layup, putting the Eagles up 53-48.

Schner noted how the calming energy in the timeout huddles helped the team focus on the task at hand.

“The discussion in the huddles is always very positive, and it was something that helped us gain the lead and continue to develop throughout the second half,” Schner said. “Those moments are obviously important to get everyone on the same page, and I think we did a good job of [doing] that in our timeouts.”

The Eagles continued to pick up the pace and went on a 17-9 run over the next eight minutes. With five minutes remaining and the Eagles up 70-57, Emory maintained momentary control on the court.

However, after junior guard Nick Stuck and sophomore forward Mason Johnson each committed a foul, the Yellowjackets started to crawl back.

With only a few minutes remaining in the match that would decide the Eagles’ NCAA fate, the Yellowjackets began to creep up on the Eagles.

With 48 seconds left, the

See SCHNER’S, Page 15

“I was willing to ask questions,” Vince Carter said. “I was never afraid to learn. Because of that, I’ve stuck around. I’ve learned different routines. I learned how this game works.

I learned how this business works, and what it’s done for me is being able to sit in front of you today and tell this story.”

Carter, who will finish his fourdecade NBA career with the Atlanta Hawks this season, shared this with an audience of Morehouse College (Ga.) students on Feb. 25. In a conversation with Atlanta native, Grammy-winning rapper and activist Michael “Killer Mike” Render, Carter used his athletic journey to touch on perseverance and the importance of education.

Before Carter and Killer Mike took to the stage to begin their intimate conversation, two Morehouse students recited a spoken-word poem honoring Carter’s professional career and his nickname: “Half-man, halfamazing.” After, the students showed a video lauding Carter’s recent 40-year milestone and reeled some of his famous highlights, including his dunk over the 7-foot-2-inch Frédéric Weis at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.

While the event began by honoring Carter, it quickly transitioned into a conversation about race and overcoming adversity. As soon as the con-

versation began, Killer Mike labeled Carter as “one of the best examples for success.”

“You have been a positive, philanthropic force in the community, and you’ve just provided a damn good example of how to keep your nose clean and do things the right way,” Killer Mike said.

Carter reflected upon his childhood growing up in Florida and spoke fondly of his mother, Michelle Carter-Scott, who forced him to do his homework before he could play basketball.

“I have to give my family a lot of credit for instilling a student-athlete, not an athlete-student,” Carter said.

Carter and Killer Mike discussed how they balanced their lives in order to prioritize school while pursuing their respective passions. Killer Mike, a Morehouse dropout, said that leaving school was one of the worst mistakes he’s made in his life. While he did succeed in the music industry, Killer Mike noted that he got a record deal the same year he would’ve graduated.

Throughout the conversation, Killer Mike and Carter emphasized the importance of setting goals and dedication in pursuit of personal dreams. In an interview with The Emory Wheel, Carter and Killer Mike highlighted the importance of facilitating such conversations to give younger people the opportunity to learn from Carter and Killer Mike’s successes and failures.

“We all have different paths to

be the successful people that we are today,” Carter told the Wheel. “Now, we can give these guys the lay of the land, so they don’t make those mistakes. Learn now, at a younger age, and you can probably become even more successful than [us].”

After going into depth about their successes, the two spoke candidly about their struggles. Killer Mike discussed his grapple with his weight, saying he admired athletes for their work ethic and motivation as he was struggling to work out.

However, he proudly proclaimed that he had lost 23 pounds. He also talked about competing against younger rappers for stardom, something to which Carter could also relate.

“I’m 43, and I’m still playing against guys who are 20 playing great ball,” Carter said. “They could be my kids.

So, I have to earn it. I gotta work every day just to keep up.”

Although he is in the twilight of his career, Carter is more than happy to bestow his wisdom upon and inspire future generations of athletes and students.

“I’ve never had a problem with sharing my secrets to somebody to become successful,” Carter told the Wheel. “That is success for me — that I am able to help the next man become what they want to become.”

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