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EMERGENCY

CEPAR Modifies Emergency Kits

By Becca Levy Contributing Writer

Emory’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) implemented new measures to increase emergency preparedness on-campus, according to CEPAR Executive Director and Professor of Emergency Medicine Alexander Isakov.

The changes will include Stop the Bleed kits, which contain medical products to quickly stop heavy bleeding, and emergency preparedness classes.

CEPAR has been placing the kits around campus over the past five months. The kits are also in the same cabinets as automated external defibrillators (AEDs).

The Obama administration launched the Stop the Bleed program in 2015 to raise awareness and equip non-medical professionals for bleeding emergencies.

Isakov explained that “disaster response is better with broad engagement” and that simple training can make all the difference.

CEPAR will collaborate with the American Red Cross to make classes on emergency preparedness available for interested students and employees, said CEPAR Senior Administrator and Director of Operations Sam Shartar.

The classes currently offered by the American Red Cross are often expensive, and CEPAR hopes to make training more accessible to

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‘Astroworld’ rapper Travis Scott entertains audiences at the 2019 Music Midtown festival on Sept. 15. Other performers included Lizzo, Billie Eilish and Cardi B. Roughly 50,000 festivalgoers braved the 90-plus degree temperatures.

CONDUCT

2 More Law Profs. Accused of Saying N-Word

By Isaiah Poritz News Editor

Two Emory Law School adjunct professors were accused of using the N-word in their respective classes on Sept. 9, according to Assistant Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs Laura Diamond.

The University is “looking into both incidents,” Diamond said.

Although Diamond did not identify the professors, Emory Law School Adjunct Professor Robert Saunooke told the Wheel on Sept. 17 that he was one of the professors who used the racial slur on Sept. 9 while teaching a Federal Indian Law class.

Saunooke, who is a itizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the president of the National Native American Bar Association, said he was trying to illuminate demeaning and racist terms used to describe Native Americans during his Sept. 9 class. He told his class that “sand [N-word]” and “red [N-word]” were common racist descriptors used by white Americans to label Native Americans.

According to Saunooke, after he said the slur, a student commented that she was offended by his use of the word. Saunooke said he immediately apologized to the student and explained to her that he was trying

to teach an “unfiltered history” of the Native American community.

In an interview with the Wheel, Saunooke said he went to the Law School’s Registrar’s Office after class to report the incident to Assistant Dean for Enrollment Services and Registrar Katherine Hinson. At the office, he also met with Black Law Student Association (BLSA) President Enuamaka Mkparu (20L) and Student Bar Association President Amneh Minkara (20L).

Saunooke said he apologized to the students and became very emotional.

That day, Mkparu wrote a letter, co-signed by Minkara, to the Law School community addressing

ESL Merges With Emory Writing Center

By Phyllis Guo Contributing Writer

Forrest Martin/Photo Editor

Administrators and student government leaders cut the ribbon to the Emory Student Center to celebrate the official opening of the new building on Sept. 11.

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the incident. She did not identify Saunooke by name or mention the second professor who reportedly used the slur.

Mkparu’s letter recounted the incident as reported by students, which Saunooke said was accurate.

She also addressed her meeting with Saunooke and referenced Law Professor Paul J. Zwier II’s use of the N-word last year.

“I expressed to [Saunooke] how emotionally fatiguing the incidents of last year were and why it is particularly important to be mindful of the use of racially derogatory slurs,” Mkparu wrote. “I stated that while I

The English as a Second Language (ESL) program changed its name to the English Language Learning Program (ELLP) and merged its tutoring program with the Emory Writing Center this semester, according to Senior Associate Dean for the Office of Undergraduate Education Joanne Brzinski.

Brzinski said the change should allow ELLP and the Writing Center to streamline the tutor training process and better offer writing support for non-native English speakers.

“One of the things that we learned over time is that there was significant overlap between the work the ESL tutors did and the [work the] Writing Center’s tutors did,”

Brzinski said. “[With this change,] all of the tutors have the training that we think they need, and we are able to more flexibly work with students’ writing.”

ELLP Director Jane O’Connor said the new department will clarify the process to access learning resources to students, who previously had to choose between two ways to sign up for writing assistance.

Former ESL tutors were integrated into the Writing Center staff as English Language Learner specialists, according to Associate Director for English Language Learning in the Writing Center Levin Arnsperger.

O’Connor said the program changed its name from ESL to ELLP to reflect its scope of work.

See ELLP, Page 4

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The Emory Wheel

UN Official Discusses Internet Hate Speech CEPAR to

LECTURE

By Thomas Kreutz Contributing Writer

United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye discussed internet hate speech, the platforms from which it thrives and the roles governments and companies play in its mitigation at the Emory School of Law on Monday.

The lecture was part of the Law School’s annual Global Leaders Lecture series.

Kaye’s presentation outlined the difficulties in monitoring social media hate speech and highlighted the increasing prominence of the issue.

He cited the Facebook livestream of the terrorist shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the spreading of rumors relating to child abduction on Whatsapp that incited mob lynchings in India and an antiSemitic tweet directed at him as evidence of how pervasive hate speech has become.

“What to do with all this content?”

Kaye asked. “I think this is one of the

key public policy questions we are facing in the United States, and all around the world.”

Kaye said social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, have complete authority in regulating and monitoring this content.

Kaye reported that Facebook uses algorithms and human monitors to scan social media for harmful content. The company also holds forums every other week that work to amend Facebook’s framework on free speech security and mitigate hateful content, whether that be through adjusting algorithms used to filter posts, or addressing incidents that arise during the week.

Though social media companies have internal policies to combat hate speech, Kaye said governments are seeking to adjudicate speech on these platforms.

“Governments are jealous of the power that companies have,” Kaye said. “They think that the power of deciding what is legitimate and what is

not legitimate to be public is a decision for government to make.”

Kaye theorized that governments fear the ability of social media companies to provide information not in line with their plans.

He explained that the government of Myanmar is particularly fearful of social media and its influence on public opinion because the people in Myanmar largely receive news information from Facebook.

Kaye listed Europol, an agency that allows police in Europe to flag posts and report them to social media companies for deletion, as another example of government legislation that regulates social media companies.

Kaye described the regulation process as an ongoing battle, with governments and social media companies vying for control. He added that even though internationally standardized policies are the clear solution to regulating online speech, the question of who should regulate speech — the government or social media companies —

has yet to be resolved.

Kaye’s solution revolves around the UN Guided Principles on Business and Human Rights, and would give companies most of the legislative power in determining the framework around hate speech, as well as the responsibility for positive legislation.

“Companies should conduct a human rights impact assessment to determine whether what they are doing impacts individual rights … or anything else that might be in the corpus of human rights law,” Kaye said.

Kaye’s indictment also incorporated the individual’s right to dictate their content, positing that companies should allow their users the ability to choose filters for themselves.

“We risk allowing algorithms to make a decision without allowing humans to make a call,” Kaye said.

“There needs to be humans who are part of the decision process.”

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

Offer Emergency Training Continued from Page 1 the Emory community. Classes will teach attendees to use Stop the Bleed kits to prevent severe hemorrhage, stop opioid overdoses, clear obstructed airways and properly use AEDs. These developments follow Wade Miles’ appointment to the position of CEPAR operations and training manager last month. The position had been vacant since February.

Miles is a former paramedic and EMS supervisor with over 20 years of emergency response experience.

— Contact Becca Levy at rebecca.haupt.levy@emory.edu

RESEARCH

Emory Study Examines For-Profit Kidney Dialysis Centers

By Caroline Catherman Senior Staff Writer

Patients at for-profit kidney dialysis centers are less likely to receive kidney transplants than those at nonprofit centers, according to a Sept. 10 study published by researchers at Emory and health care company Kaiser Permanente.

Dialysis is a medical treatment that substitutes the kidney’s functions by removing excess water, salt and toxins and regulating other chemicals in the

bloodstream for patients with kidney failure.

Kaiser Permanente reported that dialysis is often more expensive, time consuming and dangerous than a kidney transplant.

Though the study did not research the reason why patients at for-profit centers are less likely to receive transplants, Director of the Transplant Health Services and Outcomes Research Program at Emory and the study’s senior author Rachel Patzer offered the potential explanation that

for-profit centers are financially motivated to keep their patients on dialysis.

“For-profit dialysis facilities make more profit when they have more patients on dialysis, meaning they don’t send them to get a transplant,” Patzer said.

The study examined publicly available national data from 2000 to 2016 on over one million patients with endstage kidney disease.

The researchers found that during that time, patients at for-profit centers were 64 percent less likely to get on a

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waiting list or receive a kidney from a living or dead donor.

Patzer hypothesized that this disparity could exist because for-profit centers engage in activities that may discourage their patients from getting transplants, such as providing fewer referrals for transplantation. Patzer hopes to test her explanation in an upcoming study.

She and her team have already collected data on referral rates in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, and plan to expand their study to more

— Contact Caroline Catherman at caroline.catherman@emory.edu

LIBRARY

Woodruff Library to Redesign Website

By Musa Ya-Sin Contributing Writer

Noyonika Parulekar/Contributing

The Student Government Association convened on Sept. 16 to appoint two new positions and discuss bills that would create committees for sustainability and the arts.

SGA Confirms VP of Alumni Relations

By Tanika Deuskar and Ana Kilbourn Senior Staff Writer and Staff Writer

The Student Government Association (SGA) appointed two new positions at a meeting on Monday evening. Kushal Bafna (22C) was confirmed as Vice President of Alumni Relations and Mo Singhal was elected as ranking member.

SGA also tabled two bills that would create respective committees for sustainability and the arts with reservations that the designated responsibilities could be handled by existing clubs and initiatives.

Bafna Confirmed VP Relations

states.

Patzer recommended that lawmakers create financial motivation for centers to take their patients off dialysis.

“If we can incentivize dialysis facilities by rewarding them financially for patients that they are … sending to get evaluated for a transplant, that’s a good thing for patients, and it could be a good thing for the health system,” Patzer said.

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Bafna was unanimously confirmed as SGA Vice President of Alumni Relations on Monday evening. Bafna will work as a liaison between the

Student Alumni Board (SAB) and SGA. Bafna, an economics and sociology major, has served on SAB for the past semester.

“My role [in SAB] was to foster the community between alumni and current members, and help out at events that they are having,” said Bafna in an interview with the Wheel. “Over here, it’s basically to act as a liaison between the two … and make sure that there isn’t asymmetric information between the two.”

Singhal Elected R anking Member Singhal was unanimously elected as ranking member to step in for the SGA Speaker of the Legislature in the case that Emily Ferguson (21B) is not present.

Sustainability Committee and Arts Committee Bills Tabled SGA Oxford Continuee Junior

Representative Stephanie Lee (21C) proposed two separate bills to create a sustainability committee and an arts committee.

The sustainability committee would seek to coordinate clubs and other environmental initiatives and activities taking place around campus.

The arts committee plans to encompass clubs involved in arts other than print media, such as performing or visual arts.

Both bills were tabled until the next SGA meeting, giving Lee time to reevaluate whether the respective committees are necessary, given established clubs and initiatives on campus that could address these issues.

Editor’s Note: Kushal Bafna has served as a staff photographer for the Wheel.

— Contact Tanika Deuskar at tdeuska7@emory.edu and Ana Kilbourn at akilbou@emory.edu

Hannon Hill, which also created the University’s content management system, Cascade.

“The research informed the designs The Emory University Library system will significantly redesign its web- [Viget] provided us,” Metz said. “The site to streamline user experience as goal [of the designs] is to provide mulpart of the Libraries Web Redesign tiple pathways to the content that we project, according to Director for have on our website and make our Library Technology and Digital services easier for people to identify Strategies Rosalyn Metz. The redesign and find.“ will not include the Although the Hugh F. Macmillan development proLaw Library or cess is ongoing, the “The goal is to the Pitts Theology library has launched provide multiple Library, Metz said. a preview of the new pathways to the Metz, who has homepage. overseen the library “The goal [of the content ... and make website for the past preview] is to provide our services easier for users a chance to react three years, said the people to identify.” to the designs, so that library regularly conpreview homepage is ducts user surveys, and recent feedback — Rosalyn Metz, Director by no means the final suggested the need for for Library Technology product,” Metz said. a more streamlined and Digital Strategies “We really wanted to engage users in getwebsite experience.

“For many stuting some initial feeddents, faculty and staff, [the library back, because we recognized that these website] may feel very disjointed — designs will propagate throughout the content might be repeated on the dif- libraries various applications.”

Metz also said that individual ferent websites,” Metz said. “Our goal is to bring these [websites] together in libraries will still have their own weba broader view, and remove barriers to sites, though students will be able to accessing the services that we provide, access their content through the new but also the content that the libraries site. The next phase of development provide.” will focus on improving performance The library worked with Viget, a and increasing accessibility. The Washington D.C. design and develop- library will also conduct more focused ment firm, to conduct user research user research as the redesign process and form focus groups to provide input continues. on the website design. The library also receives development support from — Contact Musa Ya-Sin at Atlanta-based development firm musa.ya-sin@emory.edu

NEWS

The Emory Wheel

News Roundup Compiled By Phyllis Guo

On Sept. 8 at about 11:30 p.m., the Emory Police Department (EPD) met with a student in reference to a theft.

The complainant stated that on Sept.

7, he left his $350 silver Bose headphones, which were inside a black protective case, at a computer station on the second floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library.

The complainant said he remembered having his headphones at 3:30 p.m. but did not remember having them when he left the library at around 5:00 p.m.

The complainant said he searched the area where he remembered leaving his headphones, but was unable to find them. He also checked with the Woodruff Library lost and found and was told that the headphones had not been turned in.

On Sept. 9 at about 11:01 a.m., EPD responded to a report about harassing communications. The complainant stated that from late May to July 2019, a male subject was communicating with her via phone call and text message.

After the first couple of weeks, she asked him to stop contacting her and blocked his number. However, the complainant said she received anonymous phone calls and texts in July. The complainant stated that on Aug. 27, the subject approached her, grabbed her wrist and insisted that they needed to talk.

She told the subject to leave her alone and that she needed to leave to meet a friend. The complainant said that the subject let go of her but continued to follow her until she met her friend at the Rollins School of Public Health.

The complainant said that on Sept. 5, the subject approached her at Woodruff Circle and asked her why she was ignoring him. The complainant also said that on Sept. 6, she saw

the subject and attempted to ignore him but he followed her and grabbed her arm. After yelling, “Don’t touch me,” the complainant met with her friends. The subject walked away, exclaiming, “I’ll see you later!” The complainant reported that on Sept.

8, she saw the subject sitting near her at church services and proceeded to move away from him.

The complainant said that she had never seen the subject at the church service before, despite attending it every Sunday. At the end of the service, the complainant felt somebody behind her and discovered that it was the subject, who asked her why she was ignoring him.

Afraid, the complainant left the church with her friend and ran to their vehicle.

The complainant reported that when they got to the car, the subject hit the door with his hands while saying something inaudible.

On Sept. 9 at 3:35 p.m., EPD responded to Lowergate Parking Deck in reference to an assault. The complainant, an Emory employee, stated that at around 3 p.m. she was assaulted outside the Facilities Management E-Zone Shop while inside her supervisor’s vehicle.

A witness saw a female subject approach the vehicle and punch the complainant in the head, after which the subject entered the vehicle and proceeded to fight.

The witness and the driver broke up the altercation. The complainant said she had dated the driver one year ago but ended their romantic relationship once she became a supervisor.

The complainant said the driver is now dating the subject, who allegedly did not like that she and the driver were communicating.

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Crime Report Compiled By Isabel Coyle

California Gov. Considers Bill to Increase Student Athlete R ights The California State Legislature sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 11 that, if signed, would allow college athletes to obtain endorsement deals and hire agents.

The Fair Pay to Play Act, which received unanimous bipartisan support in both the California State Senate and Assembly, would allow college athletes to make money from their names, images and likenesses.

Newsom has 30 days to sign, veto or allow the bill to become law without his signature.

The NCAA, the nation’s top college sports regulatory body, warned that it would consider challenging the bill in court. The NCAA sent Newsom a letter the same day he received the bill, writing that it could exclude California schools from NCAA competition due to the “unfair competing advantage” the bill would create for California students.

The bill’s supporters argue that the college sports industry funnels players’ would-be profit to the NCAA, leaving players to fend for themselves with scholarship funds.

Supporters also argue that the industry exacerbates gender inequality within sports by offering dispropor-

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tionate opportunities to graduating athletes of different genders.

Meanwhile, those opposing the bill say that the legislature fails to fully understand the workings of the NCAA. The NCAA is currently conducting a study to be released in October. Working group co-chair Gene Smith said while the study would not necessitate greater pay for athletes per game, it could change current policies.

Uber Ends Electric Bike Use Atlanta, K eeps Scooters

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Uber decided to end the use of Jump e-bikes in Atlanta on Sept. 13, according to the Atlanta JournalConstitution (AJC). However, Jump e-scooters will still be available through the Uber app. The company did not provide an explanation for its termination of its e-bike operations in the city.

E-scooters have faced increasing regulation since their arrival in Atlanta in the summer of 2018, according to the AJC. After two e-scooter related deaths, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms enforced a nighttime riding ban on Sept. 13 prohibiting the vehicles after 9 p.m.

Scooters must also be ridden on the street at or below 15 miles per hour.

Potential Study Could Reduce Danger for Atlanta’s Pedestrians

The Atlanta City Council Transportation Committee unanimously requested legislation to conduct a study evaluating the city’s motorist speed limits in an effort to make Atlanta’s streets less dangerous, according to the AJC. Proposed

by Councilmember Andre Dickens, the legislation will go to the Atlanta City Council on Monday.

The study would examine speed limits and the usefulness of speed trackers, as well as lighting and sidewalk availability. However, the study will likely not mandate new, lower speed limits, according to the AJC. A ctr ess F elicit y Huffm a n R eceives 14-Day Jail Sentence U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani sentenced actress Felicity Huffman to 14 days in prison, 250 hours of community service and a $30,000 fine for her role in the college admissions scandal, according to The New York Times.

Huffman is the first parent sentenced in the scandal, which involved wealthy families paying bribes to secure elite college admissions for their children. Huffman paid $15,000 for a proctor to increase her daughter’s SAT score.

— Contact Isabel Coyle at isabel.anne.coyle@emory.edu

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LEGISLATURE

College Council Adopts Emory Student Bill of Rights

By Tanika Deuskar Senior Staff Writer

College Council (CC) adopted the Emory Student Bill of Rights during its second legislative meeting on Sept. 11. CC Chief of Staff Alexander Chanen (21B) introduced the resolution, which enumerates the rights of all Emory students.

“I feel really strongly that we have a little bit of an activism problem on campus, and that we don’t talk about a lot of the stuff that is going on and

affecting students,” Chanen said. “A lot of students … don’t have voices in councils like this.”

Chanen said that problems such as food insecurity and homelessness significantly restrict students’ lives and freedoms because these immediate concerns often overshadow academics. “[T]here is a lot of food insecurity on this campus. You cannot effectively be a student if you are going to bed hungry at night,” Chanen said.

“There is a lot of homelessness on

campus. You cannot be an effective student at Emory University if you are homeless.”

Emory does not have publically available statistics on homelessness.

Chanen noted that even though adopting the resolution would not affect legislative change to the CC policy, it serves as “a statement by College Council saying that we want to work to a better tomorrow for Emory,” Chanen said.

In an interview with the Wheel, Chanen said he wanted the resolution

Honor Council

By Emma Simpson Senior Staff Writer The Honor Council found a freshman in a social sciences course responsible for seeking unauthorized assistance on an assignment. The professor reported that two students submitted the same photo for an assignment that required them to photograph part of their daily routine. In a full hearing, the student admitted to submitting the same photo but thought it did not violate the honor code because both students were engaged in the same activity. However, the instructions for the assignment clearly stated students should capture and submit their own photos using their own devices. Due to the insubstantial value of the assignment, the Honor Council recommend-

ed a reduced sanction of a zero on the assignment, an overall one-letter grade deduction, a verbal warning and an educational program.

The Honor Council found a senior in a science course responsible for plagiarism in a group assignment. In an administrative hearing, the student agreed that a portion of the assignment appeared to be plagiarized, explaining that the affected portion of the assignment was completed by a different group member. The Honor Council determined that each member of a group is responsible for the entire work submitted, regardless of how the group chooses to divide the tasks, and thus recommended the sanction of a zero on the assignment and a verbal warning.

The Honor Council found a senior in a humanities courses responsible for plagiarism. The professor reported that the student’s work was highly similar to an uncited online source. It matched the argument and organization of the source while only substituting certain words with synonyms.

In an expedited hearing, the student said they did consult the online source but did not cite it because they were paraphrasing. Due to the substantial value of the assignment and the extensive uncited paraphrasing, the Honor Council recommended the standard sanction of an F in the course, a oneyear Honor Code probation and an educational program.

— Contact Emma Simpson at emma.simpson@emory.edu

to raise awareness among the general public about the hidden problems that students often face.

“It is very hard to be an advocate for these issues when you don’t realize they are going on,” Chanen said.

“I just want to make sure that we are having these critical conversations.”

Chanen said that he would like to bring the resolutions to the rest of the divisional councils and to the Student Government Association, adding that he hopes the resolution will eventually be used as a platform for change.

The resolution passed with nine legislators voting for and one abstention.

First readings were held for bills

by CC President Jacob Hicks (20C) to deallocate funds for the printing initiative and to combine the roles of the legislative liaison and the president pro-tempore into a singular position.

Both bills will be voted on during the Sept. 25 meeting.

— Contact Tanika Deuskar at tdeuska7@emory.edu

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Saunooke Addresses Racial Slur Continued from Page 1 could understand the context of the conversation, the use of the word was unnecessary and disruptive to the learning experience.”

The reported incidents come a year after the University investigated Zwier for using the N-word during a class lecture to first-year law students.

Zwier was placed on paid administrative leave after reports that he used the slur a second time in November 2018.

He remains on paid administrative leave, and his case has been referred to the University’s Faculty Hearing Committee, according a University statement, dated Aug. 20, sent to the Wheel.

Mkparu suggested in the letter that Saunooke attend the next BLSA general body meeting on Sept. 25 to apologize and have a conversation with students.

However, Saunooke said he

met with Mkparu and Minkara on Monday, and the pair told him meeting with BLSA was no longer necessary.

“I am apologetic, but at the same time, the reality for my people is that our history is ugly and tainted and bloody and I don’t filter it because I want it tohave the same impact it has on me.”

— Robert Saunooke, Emory Law School Adjunct Professor “They had suggested previously that I meet with the BLSA group,”

Saunooke said. “They said, ‘We don’t feel that is necessary. We think you’ve handled this correctly and we’re done with the matter at this point.’”

Saunooke reiterated his apology to the Wheel but recognized his original justification for using the N-word.

“I continue to be very much willing to do whatever is necessary to keep that dialogue, that discourse open,” Saunooke said. “I’m apologetic, but at the same time, the reality for my people is that our history is ugly and tainted and bloody and I don’t filter it because I want it to have the same impact it has on me.”

Mkparu said she was unavailable for an interview.

Minkara did not respond respond to the Wheel’s request for an interview by time of publication.

— Contact Isaiah Poritz at iporitz@emory.ed

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ELLP to Develop Teaching Programs Continued from Page 1 Aside from supporting international students, the program also provides mentorship for graduate students who work with non-native English speakers and students studying English-teaching methodologies.

O’Connor is currently working to optimize support for such graduate students.

ELLP also advises faculty members on how best to work with students who began learning English later in life.

“This is something that has not developed as much as we want, but the changes we’ve made gave us the possibility of actually developing some of those resources for faculty,” Brzinski said.

While ELLP tutoring has thus far focused on writing skills, Brzinski said the program directors are interested in expanding the program to also help students with listening and communicating skills.

“This semester, for the first time, we developed the class called Academic Communication Skills, ENG 124 … to develop [non-English speaking students’] reading skills, listening skills and presentation skills,” O’Connor said.

She added that the ELLP hopes to develop support for faculty and graduate students who work with students whose first name is not English.

— Contact Phyllis Guo at phyllis.guo@emory.edu

VIGIL

Emory Community Gathers to Remember El Paso Shooting

By Emily Kim Contributing Writer

Taina Figueroa (16G, 20G) wiped away tears as she addressed 20 Emory students and faculty members who gathered on Sept. 12 at Asbury Circle to mourn those who died in the El Paso, Texas, mass shooting in August.

The vigil included time for students and faculty to share stories, a candleto-candle exchange, and concluding remarks by Assistant Chaplain Kevin Crawford.

The event began with an audio recording of a corrido, a traditional Mexican ballad, created for the El Paso shooting.

The shooting, which killed 22 people and injured 26, was believed to be a hate crime connected to an anti-Latino manifesto that the shooter published

on an online message board, according to NPR. Following the ballad, Emory students and faculty took turns listing the names of the 22 victims, for whom they lit candles and placed carnations on Asbury Circle. Figueroa said the event honored all those affected by gun violence and aimed to encourage healing and resistance in the face of misfortune.

“We wanted to make sure we did everything we could for the Latinx [community at Emory],” said Emory Racial and Cultural Engagement Director LaNita Gregory Campbell.

“Hopefully it brings out larger conversation as a place for healing and talking about things, especially for students who are from El Paso.”

Figueroa wanted to create a space for community members to discuss

their trauma.

“I think I wanted to create a space for students to process what has gone on over the summer, and it’s still something that we carry with us even now,” Figueroa said.

Emory students distributed candles to each person in the crowd. The group passed the flame from one candle to the next until a link of fire joined the spectators.

Crawford delivered the final remarks.

“The world comes crashing in and colliding,” he said. “But we get together when tragedy and grief strike. As you’ve done tonight, our hearts have found each other. In doing so, we found belonging and community.”

— Contact Emily Kim at emily.kim2@emory.edu

From the Archives: 1998

Forrest Martin/Photo Editor

Students and faculty gather on Sept. 12 to commemorate the 22 people killed and 26 injured in the El Paso shooting.

Emory Drops to 16th in U.S. Ranking

By Ben Klehr News Editor

Aug. 25, 1998

Emory dropped from No. 9 to No. 16 in this year’s edition of U.S. News and World Report’s annual college rankings guide.

The change was largely downplayed by administrators, who hold the magazine’s finding unreliable and unrealistic.

According to material published by the U.S. News website early Friday morning, Emory has dropped in four categories on which the magazine bases its rankings.

Administrators have predicted a drop in the rankings since early March, when University President William M. Chace decided not to provide the magazine with some of the data it requested.

Chace said he would have needed to hire a full-time additional staff member in order to accommodate the magazine’s requests.

Chace, a consistent critic of the magazine’s annual rankings, said the drop reflects a change in the methodology used and does not reflect poorly upon Emory.

“The formula was once again changed, this year to our disadvantage,” Chace said. “This year we went ‘down,’ but last year we went ‘up.’ Yet, to anyone looking closely at what we are and what we do, we changed little. … If anything, I would say we got slightly better, by which I mean that

better students applied, were admitted and enrolled.”

Provost Rebecca Chopp agreed with Chace, saying she believed “Institutions as complex as universities cannot be reduced to a few lines of numbers,” but added that she found it “gratifying to be on U.S. News’ best universities list.”

In defense of the changes of methodology published on its web page, U.S. News said its methods reflected more accurate ways of looking at universities.

“Every year since U.S. News began ranking colleges, we have refined the methodology in consultation with experts in higher education,” the magazine said. “While we have not made any significant changes in methodology this year, we think it’s important to make changes that improve the quality of information available to prospective college students.”

Last year, Emory tied for ninth place with the California Institute of Technology, Brown University (R.I.), Columbia University (N.Y.) and Northwestern University (Ill.), but saw its ranking drop from 23 to 25 in academic reputation, 19 to 20 in student selectivity, 8 to 12 in faculty resources and 9 to 14 in graduation and retention.

The only category where Emory’s ranking went up was alumni giving, which jumped 4 places to 18.

As a record number of freshmen arrived on campus over the weekend, many students said they did not think

the new ranking was important.

“I know the ranking doesn’t mean anything,” senior Josh Friedman said. “I just don’t think you can rank schools.”

College Freshman David Katdanoff said, “I thought Emory was gradually going up. The rankings don’t necessarily mean anything.”

“It has an effect on people applying but not students already here,” said Sushil Mody (96C), a medical school teacher. “It does not affect my opinion of the school.”

But Dean of Admissions Dan Walls said he does not believe the new ranking will lessen the quality of next year’s freshman class. “I have no evidence in any of our admission research that our applicant pool is impacted by movement up or down in the U.S. News rankings,” Walls said. “I think there is some measure of name recognition by being listed in the top 25.”

Walls said interest in Emory has increased at a steady rate from the time when it was unranked to when it was ranked ninth last year.

“Over that period of time, prospective student inquiries, campus visits and application to Emory College have surged,” Walls said. “Interest in the Class of 2003 appears to again be at record levels.” He said he did not believe it was possible to accurately rank major universities. “By changing a few survey questions each year, U.S. News can ensure a different order of ranked schools each year,” he said.

“That sells magazines.”

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Emory’s Legacy Admissions Policy Belongs in the Past The College Board’s recent introduction of the Landscape tool has brought questions about equalizing the admissions process to the fore.

We stand with The New York Times’ Editorial Board in calling for one modification to work toward this equality: the end of legacy admissions.

Legacy admissions are inherently unequal. They emerged after World War I as a means to keep mostly Jewish immigrants out of top universities.

More recently, a New York Times investigation showed that wealth is the most crucial factor in admissions, as schools are constantly looking to earn the most money they can from tuition. Wealthier students are less of a financial burden on universities, and this cost-benefit analysis is factored into the admissions decision.

Accepting the children of alumni guarantees a cycle of affluence for well-connected individuals, even when universities tout their efforts to diversify.

With a national student debt crisis, attending expensive universities can be impossible for some lower-income individuals. Offering students preferential treatment just because their family members went to a particular school undermines the allegedly meritocratic nature of college admissions that values a student’s achievements in and out of class over all else.

Colleges should create more equal opportunities for all students, regardless of familial connections. Instead of being judged solely on their test scores, essays and extracurricular involvements like all other applicants, legacy students have the added bonus of a familial connection to the school. This type of admissions create a qualifi-

cation based on privilege, not actual ability or achievement.

Nearly half of all U.S. private institutions use legacy status in their admissions process, and critics note that students with this status are usually already in the upper echelon of a school’s applicant pool.

Factoring legacy into their applications only adds to the advantages of the most privileged.

Supporters of legacy admissions claim alumni families are likelier to donate, and that these donations could increase financial aid opportunities.

However, researchers found that there is no evidence that families of legacy admits donate more to their school than non-legacy admits. For example, while Yale University’s (Conn.) alumni acceptance rate decreased from 24 percent to 13 percent over the past 30 years, total alumni giving actually increased over the same time period. Schools may also view intergenerational admissions as a way to give back to their alumni, but that shouldn’t justify the practice.

This preferential treatment for the children of alumni reinforces their existing privilege and connections to specific universities, giving them advantages that other students lack for no good reason. As an elite private institution, Emory should lead the way in ending legacy admissions to level the admissions playing field.

If the University is truly committed to welcoming the best and most diverse freshman class it can every year, it cannot give the most privileged an even better shot at admission to the school.

Students Deserve More Affordable Textbooks At the beginning of each semester, students find themselves emptying out their wallets for a necessary but often excessive expense — textbooks. In Emory’s estimated cost of attendance for the 2019-20 academic year, $1,244 is allocated for books alone, comprising about a third of the estimated out-of-pocket expenses for the year.

With this high financial burden in mind, Emory and its professors should work to reduce their reliance on costly textbooks and provide more resources to students struggling to purchase them.

College sticker prices have skyrocketed over the past several decades, and book prices have followed at a similar rate. According to a Bureau of Labor and Statistics Report, the average cost of textbooks increased 88 percent between 2006 and 2016, rapidly outpacing inflation. Online access codes for digital components of books have compounded the problem, as they add additional costs and are impossible to re-sell.

While it’s not entirely Emory’s fault that students must purchase expensive textbooks due to high publisher costs, administrators and professors can take steps to reduce this financial burden on students. For instance, Rice University (Texas) has launched a program called OpenStax that connects more than two million students to free books each year. The initiative saved students at the University of Georgia just under $4 million in the 2017-18 school year. Emory administrators should look into adopting the platform for the University, and faculty should consider using OpenStax textbooks to mitigate the rising costs of higher education.

Emory can start alleviating these costs by eliminating its mandatory $45 Health 100 books. Since the entire textbook is fewer than 80 pages long, freshmen are pay-

ing more than $1.50 per page for something that provides students with little new information that will just be repeated in class through lectures. The information in the Health 100 textbook could easily be relayed to students online via Canvas. It is irresponsible for the University to require freshmen to needlessly pay for this book when alternatives could be made readily available.

Professors can also do more to support their students by better communicating textbook costs and providing alternative sources to more cheaply purchase them.

One class that serves as a model for successfully eliminating book costs is QTM 100, which uses an online, open-access book, like those available through OpenStax.

Additionally, if professors only rely on certain sections of a given textbook, they should scan those pages in compliance with copyright laws to prevent further unnecessary costs to their students.

For low-income students, a mere reduction in costs may not be enough to ease the textbook burden. Emory should consider reimbursing the cost of books for all Pell Grant recipients each semester, as this would help ensure that those with the greatest financial need are not forced to drop classes or pirate materials just to keep up with their peers.

Reducing textbook costs would reinforce Emory’s reputation as a university known for its generous financial aid. Mitigating the supplemental costs of higher education, such as textbook prices, should be Emory’s priority. Students should be worrying about the content of their readings, not whether they can afford the privilege of reading them.

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Dem. Debates Lack Policy Nuance Stand Up Against Candidates Seem Ill-Prepared to Govern White Nationalism Sara Khan In the third Democratic debate, we saw much of the same as in the first two debates: candidates attacking each other, almost no discussion of concrete policy and plenty of unnecessary, pandering Spanish phrases.

However, this debate improved on the past two because it showcased the opinions of several previously-undercovered candidates like entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).

However, candidates failed to be transparent about their intended agendas if they were to be elected, and ABC failed to distribute speaking time equally to the detriment of audiences.

The ABC moderators made the rules of the debate clear.

Candidates would lose time if they interrupted one another, and they could only respond to a question for a maximum of one minute and 15 seconds.

However, like the rest of the debates, we saw the same people talking over and over again, despite a few questions directed specifically toward lower-tiered candidates.

This consistent disparity in speaking time makes it difficult for viewers to decide which candidate to support in the coming months.

This debate was probably the most I’ve ever heard Yang speak, but he only spoke 1,546 words, compared to former Vice President Joe Biden’s 3,363 and Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) 2,769, according to FiveThirtyEight.

But just because some candidates spoke more than others doesn’t mean that anything substantial was discussed. While Biden spoke the most at this debate, he spent most of it defending himself from attacks rather than explaining his own plans.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg even called out the rest of the candidates on stage, stating that “this is why presidential debates are becoming unwatchable. This reminds everybody of what they cannot stand about Washington — scoring points against each other, poking at each other.”

The candidates did not sufficiently discuss some important issues like climate change, nor did they offer meaningful solutions to the ones that they did talk about.

As someone who believes the government must act quickly in response to climate change, I was extremely disappointed to see another debate pass in which the candidates barely discussed the impending threat. Topics like foreign policy, immigration, guns and education took center stage instead.

However, 56 percent of Americans believe that people should address climate change right now, according to a CBS news poll, so the lack of discussion about the topic is worrisome.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) was the only candidate that adequately addressed the issue with mentions of strategies like regenerative farming to protect our environment.

Just because some candidates spoke more than others doesn’t mean that anything substantial was discussed.

Although the candidates discussed a plethora of topics, they presented very few firm plans of action.

Biden claimed to have a concise plan on health care, building off of Obamacare and claiming that Americans would only have to pay a maximum of $1,000 out of pocket per year, and that his plan would work best for people who prefer their private insurance plans.

He even went as far to say that Medicare for All would cost more than double our federal budget.

Health care made the disparity between moderate and far-left candidates especially clear, as candidates such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed that Medicare for All would

save the United States approximately $20 trillion in the long run and that no American would pay more than $200 per year for prescription drugs.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Booker, Sanders and Yang all support a Medicare for All plan that eliminates private insurance, and they claim that it would better suit the average American’s needs.

Although such a plan would work in theory, Warren and Sanders failed to provide the exact logistics of their plans.

The rest of the candidates support an alternate plan that preserves private insurance.

For example, Buttigieg has stood his ground on his “Medicare-for-All-WhoWant-It” plan, which essentially treats Medicare for All as an experiment, giving Buttigieg the time to observe the effects of a plan that provides Americans choice before fully eliminating private insurance.

The lack of policy nuance from progressive candidates on healthcare in America as a whole shows how ill-prepared the Democratic party is headed into the upcoming election.

That said, some candidates did present clear, well-designed plans. Booker provided a detailed and compelling case for fundamentally changing our country’s criminal justice system, including the release of individuals serving sentences for marijuana-related offenses, ending life sentences and authorizing $2 billion dollars a year to encourage states to reduce prison populations and keep crime rates low.

However, he was one of very few candidates to do so.

From Sanders and Warren’s lack of transparency on Medicare for All to the failure of most candidates in mentioning how we would negotiate with China to reduce tariffs, I’m still waiting to see someone hold their ground on their policies rather than trying to avoid certain questions.

It’s time for the Democratic candidates step up and become more transparent about their tentative agendas with the American people.

Sara Khan (23C) is from Fairfax, Va.

Jake Busch It’s time to stop hiding from the truth about U.S. President Donald J. Trump. On Saturday, Sept. 14, Chester Doles, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi leader and convicted felon, held a pro-Trump rally, which he advertised on social media as a family event, in downtown Dahlonega, Ga. In reality, the rally was nothing more than a pathetic display of Trump’s mandate to hate.

I joined more than 100 anti-fascist counterprotesters to oppose the rally’s crowd of about 50 people. They waved Trump 2020 and Blue Lives Matter flags while listening to speakers, one of whom was a convicted felon, spew racist, anti-Semitic remarks. The presence of hundreds of city, county and state police officers, including prison guards in full riot gear, made the dismal turnout from the white nationalist contingent seem far more significant, further distorting the true strength of white supremacy while displaying the excessive militarization of Georgia’s police forces.

Doles, the rally’s organizer, spent time in federal prison on weapons charges and has a history with raciallymotivated violence. Some Trump supporters there rallied alongside Doles as they listened to people like Charles Edward Lincoln III, a keynote speaker from the 2018 “Unite the Right 2” rally, call for racially-segregated police forces and denounce international bankers controlling the world. Others stood by and watched from the barricades with silent approval.

Though this rally had no backing from any Republican officials or the president himself, it served as a reminder that Trump has emboldened the most virulent white supremacists in this state and across the country.

His presidency has continued to normalize hate, divide our country and suppress the truth. Each and every day, our silence becomes his strength, and with our inaction comes the empowerment of heinous individuals like Doles who stand with this administration.

We must reclaim the truth from Trump and the far-right factions he

has empowered. That begins with acknowledging the unusual, reactionary nature of this presidency. From the rollback of environmental protections to the unlawful separating of families at the border and attacks on the mainstream press, the Trump administration ticks too many boxes on the fascist checklist.

The counterprotesters I joined were anti-fascists who recognize the danger of Trump’s totalitarian tendencies.

They were not the militant antifa factions that have drawn the ire of Trump and conservative media outlets, but a diverse, non-violent group committed to workers’ rights, inclusion and equality.

Being anti-fascist does not make you a violent extremist. As we work to reclaim the truth from the alt-right, we reassert the pride we should all take in being against fascism anywhere and everywhere.

As 2020 approaches, I refuse to sit idly by and watch this country fall victim to the hate that Trump has normalized. White supremacists would not have held a rally for former U.S. President George W. Bush back in 2003.

I guess the cult of personality surrounding Trump is more palatable for neo-Nazis, and his other supporters seem uninterested in opposing the extremist factions that stand with them.

These supporters, though they may disapprove of neo-fascists in their ranks, are nonetheless complicit in allowing them a foothold in American politics. Their silent acquiescence allows Doles and others to fulfill Trump’s mandate to hate.

As I was confronted by a notorious alt-right agitator and anti-Semite at the rally, Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ words rang true in my ears: “You have to stand up for some things in this world.”

I stood up for freedom, democracy and love in Dahlonega on Saturday.

Now, we must all unite, both at the ballot box and in the streets, against white supremacy in our state and our White House before it’s too late.

Jake Busch (22C) is from Brookhaven, Ga.

Republicans Should Embrace Protectionism to Survive Robert Schmad Texas, Arizona and our very own Georgia have cemented themselves in the American collective consciousness as conservative strongholds.

However, due to an array of demographic shifts, that reputation is poised to change, and if the Republican Party wishes to survive this societal transition, it will need to alter its policy goals.

Instead of doubling down on appealing to the American South, Republicans must drastically modify their economic policy to appeal to moderate working class voters in the Midwest. Otherwise, they stand to become unelectable and all the other ideals they claim to value may slowly erode by means of liberal governance.

The Republican Party is currently sitting on thin ice with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) carrying the state of Texas by less than three points, Gov. Brian Kemp winning Georgia’s gubernatorial election by only 54,723 votes (despite

using some, admittedly, shady tactics) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) becoming the first Democrat to represent Arizona in the Senate in over two decades.

Republicans should be seriously worried if they want to retain a presence on the national political stage.

The big question is, of course, why are these former bastions of right-wing ideology turning purple?

Three primary factors are contributing to the decline of Republican support in these states: urbanization, proportional growth of racial minority populations in places such as Texas, Arizona and Georgia as well as migration from left-leaning states.

These phenomena all serve to bolster the size of the Democratic base within these states given that urbanites, minorities and people from liberal states tend to favor the Democratic Party.

Republicans must now compete harder with Democrats to gain votes given that these trends show no sign of slowing down in their core states.

If Texas turns blue, the Republican Party will be in some serious trouble.

Without the state’s 38 electoral votes,

winning a national election might just be impossible.

Conservatives may try to recover the state but that would be incredibly difficult.

For one, urbanization and internal migration cannot be effectively curbed through legislation.

Republicans cannot expect to survive as a party if they don’t make concessions to voters outside of their current base.

Even if Republicans were given free rein over immigration policy, as of 2017 liberal-supporting minority populations tend to have higher birth rates than white populations, thus cementing a majority-minority demographic shift.

We must accept that Texas, Georgia and many other states like them may become Democratic territory.

If you hold conservative views, then

this may come across as demoralizing.

But rest assured, there is hope for a Republican resurgence elsewhere. To survive, the party must ditch the nearreligious worship of the free market, get out of bed with massive corporations, put our workers first and embrace a policy of economic nationalism to appeal to middle America’s working class.

Donald Trump’s performance in the 2016 presidential election, especially in the typically Democratic-leaning Midwest, is evidence of this strategy’s viability.

Trump’s success in union-heavy, industrial states like Pennsylvania and Michigan can largely be attributed to his campaign’s unorthodox economic policy.

By campaigning to put the American worker above massive corporations through tariffs and protectionist trade deals to “bring back” industry, the president convinced otherwise moderate working class people to vote for him despite his far-right ideologies.

This is a winning formula, as it allows Republicans to retain many of their views while also successfully coping with the challenges presented by a shifting electorate.

Even though many of the

demographic trends harming Republicans’ success rates persist in the Midwest, they’re far less pronounced, which makes the region an attractive long-term investment for the party.

Not all conservatives like the idea of government interference in the market, and those concerns might be valid given that Trump’s efforts to combat outsourcing have netted meager returns.

That said, Republicans cannot expect to survive as a party if they don’t make concessions to voters outside of their current base. Electability in the face of demographic transition poses an existential threat to the Republican Party.

Unless Republicans expand their electorate, which economic populism accomplishes, everything they claim to stand for may suffer a slow, painful death at the hands of the Democratic Party.

As conservatives, we should not be willing to risk the survival of our constitutional rights to ensure that some faceless corporation can turn a slightly larger profit.

Robert Schmad (23C) is from Kennewick, Wash.

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Democrats’ Costly Green Students, Take Care of Yourselves Policies Doomed to Fail Daniel Krinichanskiy

The frontrunners for the Democratic Party’s nomination unveiled their ambitious plans to destroy the U.S. economy for the noble cause of saving the planet on CNN last week. Most candidates’ plans, as one would expect, have quite impressive price tags. For example, Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) plan to shift the country to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2030 and to a 100 percent carbon-free economy by 2045 would cost approximately $3 trillion. If you think that’s too much, just remember that whenever a Democrat wants to spend taxpayer money, the sky’s the limit. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) proposed a $10 trillion climate plan and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), adopting the “Green New Deal” as part of his presidential agenda, demands $16 trillion to “(reach) 100 percent renewable energy for electricity and transportation by no later than 2030 and complete decarbonization by 2050 at latest” and to “directly invest an (sic) historic $16 trillion public investment.”

These proposals are utterly dangerous for the U.S. economy and shouldn’t be taken seriously because of how economically unrealistic they are.

It seems like the Democrats forgot about the ever-increasing national debt. The debt interest payment is already at about 1.4 percent of the country’s GDP. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget projects that it will rise to 3.3 percent of GDP by 2028, a modest sum of $965 billion.

Given the fact that the expenditures associated with social security will for the first time “exceed its total income,” government funding will already be stretched too thin for the Democrats’ proposals. And since Hauser’s Law dictates that federal tax revenue will always rest around 20 percent of GDP, Democrats’ aggressive tax plans may fall short.

That, of course, means more deficit spending if any of those programs are signed into law. Don’t forget that most Democrats want to add expensive entitlement programs on top of their climate plans. Free college, free healthcare and universal basic income — you name it, they’ve offered it. Combined with the military budget and mandatory spending, these climate plans seem ever more improbable.

At some point, we’ll be left with two options.

First, we could print money to pay debt interest, as has been done several times around the world in recent histo-

ry. For example, when Zimbabwe tried doing this, it resulted in a hyperinflation of more than 79.6 billion percent and the abandonment of their national currency.

Our second option would be to default on the debt. The 1998 Russian financial default, or a formal declaration that the government cannot pay back its debt, showed us that decision wouldn’t be very beneficial because it caused their banking system to collapse and launched an all time high in unemployment rates. As a bonus to the mentioned adverse economic effects of a default, the world would also lose confidence in the dollar.

The thought that the United States can save the world by destroying its economy may be prevalent in today’s Democratic Party, but it’s plain wrong.

The U.S. contributed about 15 percent of all global carbon dioxide emissions in 2014, while China, Russia and India combined contributed 42 percent of all emissions. None of these three countries is willing to transform its economy. Vladimir Putin even said that he feared that wind power plants would cause “worms to come out of the soil,” and he asked “how many birds are dying?” at a televised conference.

Climate change is an issue that can only be solved collectively, but with all the other major contributors refusing to chip in, such drastic efforts by the U.S. are not effective.

Germany is one of the world’s leaders in green energy. On Jan. 1, 2018, renewables covered 100 percent of German power use for a single day, and the country used renewable energy for 47 percent of its power in the first five months of 2019.

While German carbon dioxide emissions have dropped over time, the decline was not as drastic as expected.

From 1991 to the implementation of the green energy initiative in 1999, carbon emissions decreased by almost 16 percent. After the program’s implementation, emissions only decreased by 12 percent through 2014, and experts claim that the recent decrease is not thanks to renewables, but to warmer weather. So, we can assume that green energy might not solve the existing carbon emissions crisis. While Germany is just one country, its example suggests that renewable energy may not be as effective as Democrats may think.

The Democrats may claim that the cost of inaction is very high, but I would say the cost of their proposed action is even higher.

Daniel Krinichanskiy (22C) is from Moscow.

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Boris Niyonzima I started writing this piece a little over a year ago. It was the day after I was found on the floor of my single dorm in Harris Hall by a Student Intervention Services (SIS) team member and two Residence Life employees.

I had called the emergency SIS number in distress after I slit my left wrist three times with fragments of a glass bottle that I had broken in my room’s sink. With tears in my eyes, glass still in hand and the SIS member’s arm draped over my back, I was rushed over to the nearby emergency room at Emory University Hospital. It was only a three-minute walk away.

Emory employees and doctors rescued me after the University broke my spirit.

I was full of anger and contempt when I started writing this piece. The original pitch was to write a screed on how the University does not care for its students’ mental health, does not effectively fund Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and refuses to acknowledge that there are deep-seated problems at the core of the school’s demands of peak performance at all times from young, ambitious students. It is not uncommon to hear students complain about poor sleeping and eating habits, using drugs as a coping mechanism and intense imposter syndrome. That is an institutional failure.

Nonetheless, today, I write this piece — not to Emory administration, faculty or staff — but to my peers.

I write this piece to students like me whose hearts race when a Canvas notification appears on their phone, laugh off jokes about committing suicide and wake up every morning to put on an appearance of happiness, all the while papering over their declining mental health.

After a year of reflection, I come to you with a simpler message: take care of yourself, even while it feels like everything — including the school you attend — is against you.

As you start your college career, you can easily forget your own worth.

Many young people suffer from impostor syndrome, or the overwhelming feeling of being in a room full of people who are much more qualified.

I remember the day I got into Emory, it was my birthday. Days after recieving my acceptance letter, the impostor syndrome started to agitate. I rushed to my college counselor for answers: what if I am not good enough? Did the admissions counselor see my last name and mark it special?

Her response was to remind me that my logic made no sense. To reach this point, I had to spend four years curating a stellar academic profile and clear the hurdle of a 21 percent acceptance rate.

Regardless, students still experience drastic changes to their psychological functions in the first two years of college. According to a study from Loyola University Chicago (Ill.), students experience decreased self-

esteem and increased depression, anxiety and stress from starting this new phase in life. A report from the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood supports this hypothesis, finding an increased risk of developing depression and related symptoms for university students.

Self-care is not only a healthy practice, it’s also a necessary one.

Another study shows that there are associations between sleep and anxiety symptoms in emerging adults.

Spending every night and day constantly thinking about your social status and GPA is bound to lead to a loss of sleep. One easy way to boost your mental health is to prioritize sleep.

Limit your alcohol and coffee consumption so you can enjoy a restful eight hours every night.

You can also boost your mental health by not trying to fight your battles alone. Last April, I could not stop thinking about my failing grades. After failing a class the year prior, my GPA was in danger and I needed to do well on all my finals or risk academic probation. My immediate response was to become a shut-in, lock myself in my dorm and work countless hours toward high exam scores, but this only exacerbated my mental health problems and made me feel isolated.

There is a proven link between loneliness and increased mental health problems among students. One way to mitigate a crisis of loneliness is for the community to band together and demand more inclusion, friendship and warmth toward our friends, peers and strangers. Individual suffering will be aided by collective love.

“It takes a village” is not only an old adage; it’s also a truism.

When I was at my lowest, my mind started to wander and contemplate death instead of confronting failure.

I’m not alone, as a 2015 study shows that one in five college students in America have considered suicide. This is a mental health epidemic, and it’s up to institutions, workplaces and colleges to help young people with what they are going through.

Unfortunately, there are many horrific stories of colleges falling short of their obligations. In Katie J.M. Baker’s seminal Newsweek piece, “How Colleges Flunk Mental Health,” she documents several accounts of students facing mental health problems and their respective colleges doing their best to sweep it under the rug.

One student at Princeton University (N.J.), Dan, attempted suicide and was hospitalized. The day after leaving the hospital, an administrator told his parents that Princeton had banished him from campus. Dan was punished by his college for harming himself. Any institution with policies that interfere with struggling students’ pursuit of education should be named and shamed.

Fortunately, my experience with Emory’s services was pleasant. With assistance from the Center for Student Success and Services, I was able to finish the semester, go on medical leave and transition into the summer with less stress on my back. If students are

unaware of that office, Emory should do a better job of advertising its functions. Even for students who are not experiencing crisis periods, it is useful to have a University official walk you through how to schedule your week.

A good step forward is that the University is hiring five additional mental health counselors, increasing the number of clinical staff to 16. Notwithstanding, Emory would do well to closely examine the resources it commits to mental health care, as the University is seriously lagging behind peer institutions. Emory lands in 17th place out of 21 for number of clinical staff. Maybe the next multi-million project the University should announce is a serious investment in the mental health care of its students, bringing us up to parity with institutions such as Stanford University (Calif.) and the University of Pennsylvania, which have more than double the amount of clinical mental health staff as Emory.

However, you cannot rely on an institution alone to protect your interests. For Dan, Princeton kicked him out because he was a liability. For me, there is a reason my academic advisor’s first recommendation was medical leave — the quicker I was off campus, the culpability of the University for my poor mental health would drop. I am thankful for the help that I received, but I am not naive to believe that the University doesn’t have its own interests, separate and contradictory to mine.

Emory is not the reason I survived the past year. In the words of Esmé Weijun Wang, who wrote about her experiences with Yale, “I owe [Emory] nothing. I recycle the donation requests … without opening them.

Same goes for the alumni magazines.”

When I was laying on my floor last April, I could not imagine how happy I would be to be alive and participating in school again. At the time, all I saw was despair. Today I am much more optimistic about my future. I climbed out of that hole with a lot of personal strength, but I couldn’t have done it without help from my friends, parents, kind and gracious administrators and professors, a lot of therapy, sertraline, prazosin and quetiapine.

In a perfect world, universal health care would pass and every person would have access to the same services that I received. That is not our reality. A grim fact is that most people who experience severe mental health problems are thrown to the wayside and never recover.

But in this reality, I can only hope that every Emory student understands these problems and responds by taking care of themselves.

If you feel like the institution does not care about you, remember that you’re probably right. But you’re not unique in that feeling, I felt that way and so does the stranger sitting across from you in class. That is where real solidarity is formed: knowing this fact and still pledging to take care of each other in the face of cruel indifference.

Boris Niyonzima (20C) is from New Milford, NJ.

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Theater at EMORY

AJFF Explores Jewish Identity on Big Screen

By Eli Mars Contributing Writer

Emory’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies partnered with the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) to host on-campus film screenings and talkbacks in White Hall from Sept. 15 to 17.

The three-day festival showcased five films all grounded in Jewish themes, representing a wide range of genres that included action-adventure, documentary and even comedy. Through their selection of meaningful, engaging movies, AJFF proved that film is more than just mere entertainment.

Behind each film lies a heartfelt message that painted a better picture of the Jewish community and its history.

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University of Kansas Professor Emeritus of Classics Stanley Lombardo kicks off the weekendlong reading of his translation of Homer’s the ‘Iliad’ at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.

Lombardo Revisits the ‘Iliad’

By Zack Levin Contributing Writer

As Nick Fesette, assistant professor of theater at Oxford College, chronicled the epic clash between the Trojans and the Greeks, the room rumbled from the turbulent thunderstorm clashing just outside. It was as if Zeus himself had come to electrify the event.

From Sept. 13 to 15, the Michael C. Carlos Museum collaborated with Theater Emory and Georgia Public Broadcasting to host a live reading of Homer’s “Iliad,” as translated by Stanley Lombardo, professor emeritus of classics at the University of Kansas.

Lombardo also lent his voice to the event’s proceedings by narrating several books of the poem.

Ackerman Hall’s stone decorations, engraved with images of ancient combat, and its fragments of Greco-style pillars made it the perfect location for the event.

When asked why he chose to contribute to the long list of “Iliad” translations, Lombardo explained that he “just fell in love with Homer.”

“I was a poet, took Homeric Greek,

and I had never read poetry like that,” Lombardo said in an interview with the Wheel. “I heard a voice that was not like any other poet’s voice I had ever heard.”

He explained that his translation is made for performance, unlike other versions of the “Iliad.”

According to Lombardo, the poem “expresses the human condition, which does not change through the ages — it gets at the heart of what it means to be human.”

“What I am trying to do in my translation is not simply translate the meaning — I’m trying to capture Homer’s voice, which means capturing his mind,” Lombardo said. “I don’t claim any great success, but that’s

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the direction of my translation. It’s for performance. I don’t know of any other translation that was composed for performance.”

Listeners of the reading shared the reverence for the classical world, as several noted their experiences researching Greek history. Many attendees followed along in personal copies of the “Iliad” during the performances.

Even Ébrik Coffee Room contributed to the Homeric spirit, assembling a menu of “Iliad Specials” that included Greek classics like dolmades and olives, hummus and baklava.

Though an outside observer may have scoffed at the thought of listening to a bunch of people recite a nearly 3,000-year-old text for four hours at a time, the performative reading was lively and exciting. It featured a revolving door of readers, each designated to a specific book or section of the epic poem.

The readers, mostly Emory faculty from the Classics and English departments or members of the Atlanta theater community, each presented the story in a different style. This setup

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“Go for Zucker” The 2004 hit comedy film “Go for Zucker” kicked off the festival. Set in the early ’90s, the German film meditates on sibling rivalry as Jaeckie Zucker (Henry Hübchen), a rambunctious daredevil and persistent liar, quits his hustling career and abandons his Jewish roots after the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Zucker soon learns of his mother’s death and his subsequent inheritance; however, in order to collect this staggering sum, Zucker must come to terms with his distanced brother Samuel (Udo Samel), who happens to be an Orthodox Jew. Needless to say, the two share little in common.

The sibling rivalry creates an engaging rollercoaster of emotions for viewers, and the film steadily rises toward its climax, which leaves the audience in constant suspense. Afterwards, audience members were treated to a post-film reception, which included German-style treats from Ali’s Cookies.

“Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators” Children across the world have come to know and love the iconic Curious George; however, there is more behind the little brown monkey than meets the eye. The 2017 documentary “Monkey Business” follows the miraculous story

of Hans and Margret Rey, Curious George’s creators and German Jews forced to escape from the rising Nazi regime while protecting their artistic creation. Originally from Hamburg, Germany, the husband-wife authorial duo found themselves regularly on the move to places like Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York and eventually New Hampshire. For many viewers, the film comes as a surprise, as it reveals the grim backstory behind the jovial ape. The documentary is beautifully crafted, with a Curious Georgestyle animation portraying the Rey family story. Prior to the film, former neighbor and Hans Rey protégé Nat Scrimshaw discussed his relationship with the couple and his former role as director of the Margret and H.A. Rey Center in New Hampshire. After the screening, Scrimshaw talked to moviegoers and even gifted on-the-spot Curious George drawings to students.

Hans and Margret’s story shows audiences the art of perseverance, as their cartoon monkey has created a life for itself even after their passing.

“Bethlehem” “Bethlehem” raked in one of AJFF’s biggest audience turnouts, and it did not disappoint viewers. The film follows unpredictable Palestinian teen Sanfur (Shadi Mar’i) and his work with Shin Bet, a secret Israeli security organization. Sanfur is helping Shin Bet suppress his brother Ibrahim (Hisham Suliman), a wanted suicide bomb director. “Bethlehem” was selected as Israel’s official bid for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2014. In his debut writing-producing role, Yuval Adler pulls from his experiences working for secret Israeli intelligence organizations to alternate between Israeli and Palestinian points of view. After its release, “Bethlehem” shocked critics and earned high praise, including 12 nominations at the Israeli Academy Awards. The film went on to win for Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director and Best Film awards.

With a perfect balance of storyline and action sequences, “Bethlehem” reiter-

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Music Midtown Draws ‘Hustlers’ Commands Crime Genre 50,000 Attendees

By Eythen Anthony Contributing Writer

By Alex Klugerman Editor-at-Large Back for its ninth iteration in its modern two-day format, Music Midtown catered to pop, hip-hop and rock fans alike, with headlining sets from chart-topping artists and a number of jaw-dropping moments from 2019 sensations Lizzo, Billie Eilish and more.

Despite temperatures in the 90s on both days of the festival, Sept. 14 and 15, about 50,000 fans turned out to Piedmont Park, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A majority of attendees resembled the age demographic of the younger acts, which included 21-year-old rapper

Jaden Smith and the teen alt-pop phenom Eilish.

Fans started crowding the barrier of the festival’s four stages on Saturday afternoon. At one early performance by pop singer Madison Beer, she described the audience as the largest she’d seen and thanked them for her “best show ever.” Beer showed off her vocal prowess, adding runs to her singles “Home With You” and “Dead,” both off of her 2018 debut EP, “As She Pleases.” In what may have been a nod to her earlier days in the industry (Justin Bieber discovered her YouTube covers in 2012), Beer performed a stripped-down rendition of

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The crime genre has played a crucial role in cinematic history, with gangster films garnering some of the most prestigious film awards of all time. Films such as “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas” proved that audiences love seeing gangsters in action and introduced the genre’s frequent presence in award ceremonies. However, the presence of well-written, strong female leads in many of these crime dramas has been a clear oversight — that is, until the recent release of “Hustlers,” which features exclusively female leads.

“Hustlers,” a film based on a 2015 New York Magazine piece titled, “The Hustlers at Scores,” chronicles a group

of exotic dancers who steal from wealthy men. The film tells the story of Destiny (Constance Wu) and Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), two strippers who work to fight against the financial tyrants controlling the country.

Critics have argued that Lopez deserves an Oscar for her role, especially given the intense exercise regimen she endured to learn how to pole dance.

It’s written and directed by the talented Lorene Scafaria, who starred in

the 2013 indie sci-fi film “Coherence” and most notably directed the grim 2012 comedy “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.”

Scafaria’s drama stars an extensive, famous cast. Lopez and Wu give exemplary performances, providing viewers with a compelling mother-daughter dynamic.

While critics have argued that Lopez deserves an Oscar for her role, especially given the intense exercise regimen she endured to learn how to pole dance, Wu’s presentation is just as noteworthy because of the life she breathes into her character. Lili Reinhart, Keke Palmer and Julia Stiles also execute their roles in outstanding fashion.

The cinematography, from the vibrant mixture of neon color to the

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Music Midtown 2019 Ayushi Agarwal | Photo Editor

Music Midtown returned for its 2019 iteration with jaw-dropping performances by pop phenom Lizzo, rap sensation Travis Scott and others. Pictured below (clockwise) are Billie Eilish, Reignwolf, Lizzo, Playboi Carti, Jaden Smith and Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco. Highlights included Eilish as she entertained with performances of her hits “Bad Guy” and “idontwannabeyouanymore,” and Jaden Smith who buzzed his hair off on stage. Travis Scott brought on surprise acts Playboi Carti and Offset of Migos during his set. About 50,000 people attended the festival, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Kronos Quartet Plays For Social Change

By Kamryn Olds Contributing Writer

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Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels through space to find his missing father in ‘Ad Astra.’

‘Ad Astra’ a Stellar Achievement

By Jesse Weiner Associate Editor

Grade: AThe summer movie season has officially come to an end, and the release of director James Gray’s incredible “Ad Astra” is a sign that awards season is in full swing. Fresh off of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Brad Pitt’s second starring vehicle in the past two months is a big-budget film that breaks the blockbuster mold with emphasis on introspection over spectacle and character over action. While it takes some time to buy into the experience, the overall result is a jaw-dropping journey through the solar system that captures the vastness of space while tackling themes of isolation, intimacy and emotion.

The film takes place in the “near future” and introduces us to Roy McBride (Pitt), a dedicated astronaut following in the footsteps of his legendary astronaut father Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones). Clifford led a failed mission to Neptune called the Lima Project, and he has been labeled missing for years. Shortly after a near-death experience at a space station, Roy finds out that his father may still be alive. He’s sent on a treacherous mission across the galaxy to find him, and on his journey he unearths unexpected truths about his peers, his family and the cosmos.

First and foremost, “Ad Astra” is the most visually stunning film I’ve ever seen, no questions asked. I can’t say that I’m surprised: cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema is responsible for “Dunkirk,” “Interstellar” and

“Spectre,” three films that were primarily praised for their visuals. Van Hoytema’s depiction of space is the most realistic and tangible that I’ve ever seen put to film.

Not once did I suspect that I was watching Pitt act in front of CGI or a green screen. This is especially impressive given that the film was shot in Los Angeles, a city not particularly known for its rocky landscapes. The use of color is striking: Van Hoytema seamlessly blends in spontaneous reds and blues that add to the film’s depth and dynamism.“Ad Astra” may feature other stars like Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland and Ruth Negga, but the movie is Pitt’s film through and through. All other actors amount to slightly more than cameos, with Jones the lone exception (although his appearances are mostly in flashback sequences). While this lack of character development would be concerning in any other film, “Ad Astra” is so committed to Roy’s individual experience that it’s entirely forgivable.

Roy is detached from everyone around him — from his estranged wife to his father who abandoned him in childhood. Likewise, the audience is removed from everyone in the film other than him. This separation explains the learning curve of the first 30 minutes or so; you likely expect “Ad Astra” to be a bombastic space adventure, but instead everything that happens is behind a veil of detachment.

The action scenes are more casual and matter-of-fact than in-your-face because that’s how Roy is seeing them in the moment.

Counterintuitively, this distance lends to an immersive theatrical experience that places you directly in Roy’s

shoes as you traverse the dangers of space. Pitt’s performance is memorable, albeit not particularly dynamic.

Roy is a stoic man who has experienced a great deal of trauma, and Pitt skillfully blends Roy’s passion for space travel with his constant pain and isolation. The whole film essentially rests on Pitt’s shoulders, as he’s featured in almost every shot, and he carries it with grace. While the script doesn’t allow him to be much more than an apathetic, James Bond-esque protagonist, you can’t take your eyes off of him, and he’s eminently likable.

What the film may lack in character development is more than compensated for in its unpredictability and pure shock value. The story progresses in startling ways that continuously keeps the audience guessing. While Gray borrows aspects of other sci-fi adventures like “Gravity,” “Alien” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” he shakes it up enough that “Ad Astra” never feels derivative. Instead, it’s a constantly thrilling flick that goes in directions you could never see coming.

In the hands of any other director, the screenplay of “Ad Astra” may have been turned into a commercial scifi thriller. But Gray brilliantly turns inward and crafts an elegant, introspective film that defies sci-fi norms and takes the viewer on a breathtaking journey. The film borrows from other space flicks, but it stands out with its intelligence, unbelievable special effects and immersive cinematography. Start preparing the Oscar trophies, because “Ad Astra” deserves a lot of them.

— Contact Jesse Weiner at jweine8.@emory.edu

“It begins as a meditation. In darkness, only the cello is lit, trying to wake the world with a call to prayer,” the program states. For a time, the cellist plays, illuminated by just the faintest blue light. Her notes are soft and low, her rhythm gentle and constant. But eventually, other members join her, and they gather their instruments to begin a kind of battle. The tempo picks up as the lights grow brighter, and thus commences the face off between light and dark.

This is “Zaghala (2017),” the opening number of the Kronos Quartet’s concert, which took place on Sept. 14. in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Entitled “Music for Change: The Banned Countries,” the show was created in response to the U.S. 2017 travel ban and featured songs in various genres penned by composers and arrangers from all over the world.

Composed of David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Sunny Yang, the Grammy Award-winning ensemble carefully mixed modes and cultures as they showcasing diverse styles of music not often played by string quartets, and, in some cases, not familiar to Western listeners at all. The performance was upbeat, never lacking the element of surprise.

The first half of the concert particularly demonstrated the innovation and experimentation that have now become hallmarks of Kronos Quartet. As they consistently pushed boundaries and sought to expand beyond the limits of form, quartet members put down their bows and became percussionists on occasion. In the Yemeni-influenced piece “Ya Mun Dakhal Bahr Al-Hawa (Hey, Who Enters the Sea of Passion?),” three of the musicians struck rhythms with common metallic objects like pans and whisks, while the cellist played the melody. Likewise, sound technicians played various recordings in different languages between and during some songs, giving the impression that they had been recorded in different spaces, such as a quiet street or a busy crowd, the sounds of a single chirping bird or a festive celebration. And with each song, the lights brightened and dimmed, rotating colors that would illuminate the stage and the audience in warm reds, cold blues or bright pinks depending on the mood.

Though jarring at certain points, this international blending proved effective.

The jazzy rhythms and hip-hop beats of the Somali “Dooyo” elicited smiles

from audience members, while the Afghan “Bia Ke Berem Ba Mazar” created pensive, intense musical moments that layered beautifully atop one another. In the second half of the concert, this adaptation expanded with the introduction of Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat. Prohibited by law from singing publically in her own country under the edicts of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Vahdat travels the world in order to share the Persian vocal tradition. On Saturday, she shared the stage with the Kronos Quartet to perform both traditional and contemporary numbers.

Vahdat’s first note, sung a cappella, rang out clear and strong in the Schwartz Center. Each member of the audience listened intently as she sang the lines of “The Sun Rises,” inspired by the eponymous poem by Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This powerful, educational moment — the vocalist at center stage and the quartet now serving to support her voice — helped listeners gain access to a cultural tradition thousands of years old, interpreted through the lens of a single Persian woman, as she noted during a talk after the performance.

Vahdat sang several songs about love and liberation, but her final song before the encore was one of hope. In an adaption of classical Persian poet Rumi’s “I Was Dead,” her closing line translates to: “I belong to you, my moon, come and behold you and me! / Because of his laughter, I became a laughing garden.” To adapt a piece unconventional for string quartet into that format is already a feat, but to do this successfully while simultaneously preserving the piece’s original cultural significance requires a commitment, not only to the composers but also to the cultures from which they come. For this sheer difficulty and its talented execution, the Kronos Quartet’s “Music for Change” deserves praise.

Whether these quick snapshots of the peoples and places were enough to promote true caring and understanding on the part of the audience, it is more difficult to say. When asked during the post-concert Q&A what his future hope for the project would be, Harrington, the quartet violinist and group founder, stated in a semi-joking tone, “I would like there to be no more wars.”In an increasingly globalized world, with this project’s both political and warm intent, the Kronos Quartet radically sought to recognize those often placed on banned lists and, with them, to create a new tradition.

— Contact Kamryn Olds at kamryn.olds@emory.edu

Literary reading

Laura Otis and Jericho Brown Share Newest Publications

By Fred Thompson Contributing Writer

Not all of us have the courage to be publicly vulnerable over a huge breakup or to confront our subconscious grievances that stretch back hundreds of years into traditions passed. Yet Emory English Professor Laura Otis and Director of the Creative Writing Program Jericho Brown do just that in their newest publications, which were highlighted on Sept. 10 in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.

The two professors were selected to present their newest works in the English Department Spotlight series, formerly known as the English Department Research Spotlight.

Otis’ book, “Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel,” investigates the taboo of expressing emotional extremes in public

spaces. Brown shared poems from his recently published volume of poetry entitled “The Tradition” that combats the values placed on the intersectionality of one’s self struggling against oppressive traditions. High above the Atlanta skyline, the eager mix of about 100 students and faculty gathered in the Rose Library with hardly a seat to spare, filling the room with a buzz of excited chatter before the event began.

PowerPoint in tow, it was clear Otis’ background in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University (Conn.) greatly influences her work and her approach to research. Otis writes at the intersections of neuroscience, linguistics, English and psychology. In her book, Otis deftly links her scientific endeavors to the liberal arts by analyzing the metaphors used by authors of decidedly influential works such as Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.”

Otis shared how the social meta-

phor of “letting something go” became increasingly apparent to her in 2012 when she experienced a traumatic event in her life. Although her concerned friend’s efforts were well-intentioned, she more often felt trapped by people telling her how to feel. An equally thought-provoking discussion followed her presentation, moderated by fellow English Professor Deepika Bahri.

Brown was second to present and even without a PowerPoint, Brown’s presence commanded the room as he stepped up to address the eager audience. His ease of conversation and purpose in speaking engaged listeners and made his invention of a new poetic form, the duplex, seem equally as effortless. The duplex is a 14-line poem in the style of the sonnet. Brown remarked at how even if one knows nothing about poetry, if they hear the word “sonnet,” they can identify it as being a core form of poetry.

Due to this phenomenon, Brown developed the duplex to combat the subjugation inherent in poetic structure. He challenged the antiquated notion that one’s art is not worthwhile unless they can achieve a traditional and recognizable form like the sonnet.

More poignant, however, is how this subjugation by form becomes increasingly more complex in issues of identity; Brown addressed the complications that arise when he, as a person of color, uses English, a language not historically his own, in a poetic form yet still not conceived by his own people.Thus comes the advent of his new poetic form, the duplex, where intersectionality of identities and form can coalesce. “I do not feel part black, part Southern and part queer,” Brown declared. Society, however, tells him that he is composed of traits that should not coexist but should, on the contrary, be at war.

Brown also emphasized the experience of coming into contact with your subconscious through writing, explaining that if you write long enough, eventually something is going to come out that you don’t agree with. Then, you should ask yourself, “If I don’t agree with it, then why did I write it?” This rhetorical question points to something lingering deeper within you that you have yet to fully explore. For that is worth reading.

A reception followed the talk, and I could reflect and understand why so many students came out every year: to be surrounded with and confronted by the liberal arts. No matter the field of study, everyone should endeavor to stay informed and engage with the conversations that faculty are having, available right at our fingertips.

— Contact Fred Thompson at fred.thompson@emory.edu

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Sept. 18, 5 p.m., 3D Modeling Workshop, Cox Hall Lab Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m., Emory Cinematheque: “Double Indemnity,” White Hall 208 Sept. 18, 6:30 p.m., Lantern Parade Workshop, Globe Lanterns, Hillside Sept. 19-22, Imagine Music Festival, Atlanta Motor Speedway Sept. 19, 7 p.m., Lantern Making Worshop, The Bakery ATL Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., Creativity Conversation, Visiting Artist Dafi Altabeb, Dance Studio, Schwartz Performing Arts Center Sept. 20, Noon, Mozart at the Musuem, Ackerman Hall, Michael C. Carlos Musuem Sept. 20, 11:55 p.m., Movie Night: “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” Plaza Theatre Sept. 20, 8 p.m., Metamorphosis Art Show, Goat Farm Arts Center Sept. 21, 9 p.m., SUCKAPUNCH! Drag Wrestling, The Bakery ATL Sept. 21, 7 p.m., 10th Annual Atlanta Lantern Parade, Beltline Eastside Trail Sept. 21, 3 p.m., Old Fourth Ward Fall Festival, Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark Sept. 24, 7 p.m., Rich Riordan Author, Glenn Memorial Auditorium

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ates that there are multiple sides to every conflict and that all are important to find a common solution. To drive home this point, Adler hired Ali Waked, a Palestinian reporter, to work alongside him as co-writer to show how individuals with two disparate ideals can collaborate harmoniously.

“Olympic Pride, American Prejudice”

The festivities continued on Tuesday with “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice,” a documentary which reached viewers in both Germany and the United States. The 2016 film follows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Nazi Germany and the complicated racial conflict that resulted. Narrated by actor Blair Underwood, the film highlights the points of view of the participating athletes. At the time, the United States had to decide whether to participate in the games or to boycott them, while dealing with issues like the Great Depression and segregation on their own soil. Americans back at home were outraged when the U.S. decided to enter 18 African Americans and a number of Jews in the games. After much debate and astonishing athletic performances, the U.S. returned home as second place victors with an impressive total of 56 medals. This victory became a symbol of racial equality, a theme which the Nazis abhorred, and also paved the way for the coming civil rights movement. The film earned

where the audience isn’t participating with the lead characters but is instead listening to the aftermath.

Despite its strengths, one disappointment of “Hustlers” arises in the roles of Cardi B and Lizzo, as the film’s promotional materials inflated their importance in the film.Dan While they do appear, it’s in the form of cameos. The pair were likely strategically placed in the movie to attract members of their massive fan bases.

If you’re looking for an intriguing film that perfectly blends powerful performances with comedy, give “Hustlers” a watch.

offered variety over the three-day reading, keeping listeners engaged in the dynamic performances. While Lombardo narrated with a riveting intensity that imbued immense gravitas to the epic, Emory Cahoon Family Professor of American History Patrick Allitt read his section of Book 2 with a bouncy energy, offering the poem a lightness that contrasted with the later, bloodier books of the story.

Even though the “Iliad” is thousands of years old, Lombardo argued that audiences can still connect with the story. According to Lombardo, the poem “expresses the human condition, which does not change through the ages — it gets at the heart of what it means to be human.”

Though some students may read the “Iliad” begrudgingly if it’s assigned in class, the epic’s oral presentation at the Carlos Museum provided the story with a powerful resonance and emotional weight that is often lost on the pages.

The live reading of the epic poem captured just why the “Iliad” has withstood the test of time and how it will remain relevant for millennia to come.

— Contact Eythen Anthony at eythen.anthony@emory.edu

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From L to R: Annabelle (Lili Reinhart), Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), Mercedes (Keke Palmer) and Destiny (Constance Wu) celebrate after a successful evening out on the town.

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Cinematographer Todd Banhazl constructs several impressive shots, such as the continuous opening shot evocative of “Children of Men” or the spontaneous, flashy introduction of Ramona. Though it might be a small thing to note, the camera work sweetens the already-rich movie with enticing visuals.

In addition, the film’s soundtrack and sound design offer insight into its meaning. The soundtrack, a combination of 2000s pop and classical music, might seem odd conceptually, but the mixture of these two genres plays out in a meaningful manner as a way of

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itself an Image Awards nomination for Outstanding Documentary. From the first clip, its serious tone confronts audiences. “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” illuminates the similarities between the struggles of African Americans and Jews in the mid-20th century. The film included a Q&A forum with its director Deborah Riley Draper, who is currently working on additional films about inequality.

“My First Wedding” To close AJFF on a cheerful note, Emory hosted a showing of “My First Wedding.” The 2011 Argentinian film, which was nominated for four Argentine Academy Awards and directed by Ariel Winograd, details an outof-control wedding between a secular Jew, Adrián Meier (Daniel Hendler), and a non-practicing Catholic, Leonora Campos (Natalia Oreiro). Shown through a series of flashback scenes, plans begin to go awry when Adrián loses the wedding rings. This mistake sets into motion a pattern of white lies and ridiculous antics in attempts to delay the wedding. The film’s comedic effect comes from the conflict of juxtaposed figures such as arguing family members, crazy ex-partners and a debating priest-rabbi duo. “My First Wedding” keeps audiences laughing and entertained as the conflict snowballs into utter chaos.

— Contact Eli Mars at eli.mars@emory.edu

destigmatizing stripping.

The profession has often been dismissed as immoral, but the use of classical music provides an antithesis to these stereotypes by offering respectability to the career. The film’s sound editing helps frame the events as if they have already happened, like in “Goodfellas.”

However, unlike “Goodfellas,” “Hustlers” utilizes a story style that focuses on previous events, while intermittently jumping back to the present to tell viewers that the speaker is reminiscing.

This stylistic choice is also noticeable through sound editing; for example, one scene’s audio cuts out when Destiny pauses a tape recorder. These small touches create an atmosphere

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Sigrid, another pop breakout on the bill for Saturday, brought her trademark carefree and spunky lyrics to the Roxy Stage, leading an energetic crowd through multiple chants and sing-alongs. The Norweigan singer and songwriter bounded across the stage, grooving in time with her band and colorful visuals, as she performed tracks off her 2019 full-length debut “Sucker Punch.”

In contrast to the relatively loose nature of Sigrid and Beer, alternative artist Banks performed a tightly choreographed showcase of tracks off her latest LP, “III,” and 2014’s “Goddess.”

Adorned in all black and accompanied by two dancers, Banks made the camera crew capturing her performance work to keep up with her synced movements, as she utilized all parts of the Roxy Stage. While she managed to captivate audience members in the pit closest to the stage, her dark music and visual aesthetic would have benefited from a later set time after the sun went down.

While pop singer Charlie Puth and pop-punk band Panic! at the Disco closed out Saturday evening on the larger Salesforce Stage, the night clearly belonged to Lizzo and rapper Cardi B. Despite performing on the slightly smaller Roxy Stage, both women drew crowds that spilled out hundreds of yards from the stage into the viewing area of the adjoining venue.

Up first, Lizzo proved that she is truly a force to be reckoned with. Since

the lineup announcement in June of this year, Lizzo’s 2017 single “Truth Hurts” has rocketed up the Billboard Hot 100 chart after placement in the Netflix film “Someone Great.” The song currently sits at No. 1 as of Sept.

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Before getting to the hit single at the end of her set, the singer took time to marvel at the size of the crowd, much larger than her last Music Midtown appearance just two years ago, and she led the group in screaming self-love affirmations at the top of their lungs.

Along other artists who preach selfcare and body positivity, Lizzo seems to deeply believe in her mission, which comes out through the lyrical content of songs like “Soulmate” and “Tempo” off of her 2019 album “Cuz I Love You.” The singer took time to call out U.S. President Donald Trump and talk show host Bill Maher for spreading hate and discouraged the marginalization of the body positivity movement as a trend to be latched on to by companies looking to score points with consumers.

Of course, Lizzo’s message is second only to her talent, proven by her hyperenergetic set in which she showed off her belting, rapping, dancing and flutist skills in equal measure.

The lack of a live band or dynamic visuals à la her MTV Video Music Awards performance were the only downsides to her set, and these would’ve only enhanced the performer’s powerful hold over the all-ages crowd.

After a shoutout from her “Hustlers” co-star, Cardi B brought similar amounts of energy to the Roxy Stage to close out the first night of music

with a troupe of dancers and a dazzling visual package. The rapper twerked and popped her way through more than a dozen of her singles and features including Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You,” Bruno Mars’ “Please Me,” and her own “I Like It” and “Money.”

Cardi B punctuated her songs with several comical asides, offering tidbits about the creation of the tracks; the weather and the city of Atlanta; and whatever else seemed to catch her attention.

At one point, she encouraged the audience to look at the sky and “make a wish.” Upon noticing the lack of stars in the Atlanta skyline, she told the crowd to “make a wish on a fucking airplane!” before breaking out into her signature cackle, as a segue into performing “Wish Wish.”

Cardi B closed the night with “Bodak Yellow,” before letting out a playful “The End. Okurrr?” and exiting the stage.

At the same time, on the opposite end of the park, Panic! at the Disco treated fans to a career-defining set by the band’s sole-remaining permanent member, Brendon Urie. Backed by a horns section along with the band’s normal touring members, the 90-minute set included singles “Hey Look Ma, I Made It” and “High Hopes,” both from 2018’s “Pray for the Wicked,” as well as earlier hits like “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and “Girls/Girls/Boys.” described as “overplayed.”

To read the full version of this article, visit emorywheel.com/ arts-entertainment.

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

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Aside from promoting the GoFundMe page she created with seven other students, Tiera Ndlovu (19OX, 21C) has been creating and selling stickers to sell at Wonderful Wednesdays.

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The Tanaka Classic, a tonkotsu ramen bowl at Emory Point’s new Japanese restaurant, features a rich, zesty broth.

New Point Ramen Joint Doesn’t Disappoint

By Sun Woo Park Contributing Writer

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For many Emory students, a toasty chicken-flavored cup of noodles constitutes a typical budget- average and failed to make a lastfriendly meal. ing impression. The chashu, though However, after six servings of delicate and melting in the mouth cup noodles a week, the MSG starts with a sweet and savory taste, was to kick in and the flavor all but scant in quantity. Its quality failed disappears. to compensate for the two mediumFor those interested in a more sized pieces that were served. flavorful and higher quality ramen, My friend ordered the Tanaka Tanaka Express, recently opened on Spicy as his entree. This dish conAug. 4 at Emory Point, offers a bowl- tained virtually all the same ingrediful of fresh-and-savory harmony. ents as the Tanaka Classic, but with The restaurant, which replac- a spicier broth. es Chow Mei Mei, serves authenMy friend noted that his dish tic modern Japanese cuisine, and offered the perfect amount of kick, although Tanaka Express is smaller while the variety of vegetables gave than many of its neighboring restau- the bowl a wholesome and fresh rants, the quality and taste. Although the variety of the food blend of spice suitcompensate for its ed his appetite, he humble 14 tables. stated that the qualThe thick ramen Accompanied by ity of the noodles noodles, though a group of friends, I was mediocre, and inoffensive, were ordered 15 pieces of the quantity of meat karaage, or Japanese remarkably average insufficient. fried chicken, as an A two-man crew and failed to make a appetizer for the efficiently operlasting impression. ated the restaurant, table. I had tried karaage chicken at ensuring we all different restaurants, received our meals but Tanaka Express within 12 minutes. managed to succeed in frying up The customer service was superb; a crispy karaage dish with sim- when one of my friends accidentally plicity. The appetizer was not too left money at the counter, the staff salty, which often occurs at many kindly returned it. ramen bars, while the homemade Soft background music added spicy mayonnaise, though not at all to the restaurant’s relaxing ambispicy, was incredibly delicious along- ance. The interior, though largely side the chicken. Although the dish unremarkable and lacking in decowas simple, we devoured it in mere rative artwork, featured a suit of minutes. samurai armor at the entrance.

Following the appetizer, I ordered Overall, the atmosphere of Tanaka the Tanaka Classic, a tonkotsu Express allowed my friends and I ramen dish. Tonkotsu, originating to eat in peace, which enhanced our from Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture, experience. features ramen soaked in a rich pork Students willing to take the bone broth featuring fresh kikurage short ten minute walk from Emory mushrooms and a swirl of garlic oil. University to Tanaka Express will The steaming bowl was topped with find it easily accessible and convea seasoned, runny boiled egg and nient to visit. For those interested in sliced chashu, which is pork belly enjoying authentic ramen for around braised in soy sauce, sake and mirin. $13 a bowl, Tanaka Express, while The broth boasted a zesty flavor not glamorous, offers beauty in its and the bean sprouts, green onions simplicity. and fried onions complemented the dish well. The thick ramen noodles, — Contact Sun Woo Park at though inoffensive, were remarkably sun.woo.park@emory.edu

Students Raise Money For Dorian Relief

By Caroline Silva Emory Life Editor

After category five Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas over Labor Day weekend, a group of undergraduate and graduate students gathered in the Emory Student Center (ESC) on Sept.

6 to discuss the struggles their families, friends and country were facing.

Although those on the island have been donating clothes, helping with cleanup, distributing food and opening spaces for those who lost their homes, Rebecca Henderson (21C), Luke Carey (23C), Tyler Russel (22C), Tiera Ndlovu (19Ox, 21C), Gianne Ifill (22C), Sujith Swarna (19C), Raaven Goffe (25M) and Cedric Bowe (25M) decided to aid the country by fundraising on GoFundMe. Rebecca Henderson (21C), Hurrican Dorian Relief GoFundMe Co-Creator CourteSy of r ebeCCa HenderSon

Born and raised in the Bahamas, Henderson, Carey, Russel and Ndlovu were devastated by Dorian’s damage. Although their families were not directly impacted, as Dorian had mostly spared their islands, the students still felt a strong urge to help their country in this time of need. “[The] Bahamas is so used to hurricanes,” Henderson said. “We know how to handle this stuff. But this is a catastrophe that’s beyond the scope of anyone’s imagination.”

Tyler Russel (22C), Hurricane Dorian Relief GoFundMe Co-Creator CourteSy of tyler ruSSel

Despite the devastation, island residents have made efforts for relief and recovery. Henderson pointed to the New Providence Community Church, which is collecting items and shipping them to affected areas, and HeadKnowles, a leading hurricane relief and fundraising organization that for the Bahamian islands.

Several schools in New Providence have also welcomed students from other islands, offering lower admission fees and scholarships.

“It’s definitely devastating to see what’s happened, but at the same time it renews your pride in

your country,” Carey said. “It’s just been amazing to see everyone come together through so much division ... joining hands and helping each other despite our differences.”

Russel reached out to every Bahamian Emory student he knew, and during their Sept. 6 meeting, they launched a fundraiser on GoFundMe. Soon after, they contacted the Emory College social media accounts to promote the fundraiser on their Instagram story.

The project aims to collect money for HeadKnowles to help with hurricane relief.

“We would like to help in any way that we can when we can’t be there … [but] if we can provide [HeadKnowles] with a little bit of money, we’re happy to do whatever we can,” Russel said.

The involved students have shared the GoFundMe page on their personal social media accounts to increase the range of possible donors, but the main source of fundraising has come from members of the Emory community.

After just five days, they had amassed over $8,000 from over 100 donors. Just a few minutes after the GoFundMe page went live with its $10,000 goal, the first donation rolled in.

Henderson and Ndlovu both expressed that they had not expected to receive this much money. So far, the group has consistently received $1,500 in donations each day.

“I don’t know if I have fully processed what we have done so far, like the fact that we have had this GoFundMe that has been so successful,” Ndlovu said.

Ndlovu had been making stickers to spread awareness without knowing the efforts that other Bahamian students were doing. Henderson saw them online and asked Ndlovu if they could sell them to raise funds.

Each sticker sold for two dollars, but multiple students paid more.

They printed 100 stickers and sold out within an hour. One of the stickers features the Hope Town lighthouse, which remains standing despite the devastation, and the country’s national motto “Forward, Upward, Onward Together.”

The students plan to continue selling stickers and spreading awareness for the cause during upcoming Wonderful Wednesdays. They will also hang flyers across campus. The flyers will bear a QR code that leads to the GoFundMe page.

Although the group originally decided to give their GoFundMe donations to the Atlanta Consulate General of the Bahamas, they grew wary of trusting the Bahamian government.

Ndlovu had become familiar

with the organization HeadKnowles after her family was affected by 2015 tropical cyclone Hurricane Joaquin, and she suggested donating the money to the group. “[The Bahamian] government is slightly corrupt, so we decided that we do not want to trust the government,” Henderson emphasized. “Who we do trust is the community, and HeadKnowles is the most organic community that is present right now.”

Unlike other organizations, HeadKnowles will provide Tiera Ndlovu (19OX, 21C), Hurricane Dorian Relief GoFundMe Co-Creator Caroline Silva/emory life editor

Henderson and her group with records on the organization’s spending of the GoFundMe proceeds.

Although they do not have a say in what the money goes toward, Henderson and Carey both admitted to the difficulty of identifying the priorities.

Carey recognized that some resources should be valued before others.

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“Just seeing what’s been going on, [my priority] would be medical aid because of the number of injuries,” Carey said. “I think food and water are also extremely important … [because] the rations that I’ve been seeing are just ridiculously small.”

The group will continue to fundraise through the end of September and will likely send their proceeds to HeadKnowles when donations slow down.

Henderson recognized the past few weeks as a period of reconnection to her native country.

“Having this happen and seeing my own reaction, just how involuntarily emotionally affected I was, made me realize how I’m still in love with my country,” Henderson said. “Then seeing the community being built up everywhere, I was like, ‘Wow, my country is beautiful. The people are incredible.’”

— Contact Caroline Silva at ccsilva@emory.edu

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Munch with MealMe: Alum Debuts Foodie App Matthew Bouchner (20B), Cofounder of MealMe

By naSSem youSef Contributing Writer

You’ve locked yourself in your dorm to finish that Econ 101 assignment that’s due at midnight. You take a quick study break and go on Instagram. On your feed is a drool-worthy photo of a a /P e your friend’s sushi from last night, and your stomach grumbles. app’s software since its inception in Your first instinct may be to check December 2018, and Bouchner conPostmates or UberEats, but what if ducting marketing, finance and legal there was an app exclusively for food services, as well as any other nonthat combined the best features of technical duties. Bouchner and Said Postmates and Instagram? What if you currently earn commission through could tap on your friend’s photo and through food delivery companies such order that exact dish all in one app? as GrubHub and UberEats, which Self-proclaimed foodie and entrepre- complete all deliveries made through neur Matthew Bouchner (20B) has the app. attempted to create just this app with Through word of mouth and Reddit MealMe. posts, MealMe met viral growth that Bouchner’s story started in his continues to increase by 50 percent Lafayette, La. kitchen when he was each week. Now, Bouchner continues three years old. At age 11, Bouchner to spread the word through online was already hosting a cooking show marketing and by pitching the project called “Lil’ Lagniappe” on Lafayette’s to on-campus Greek life chapter leadlocal channel Cox 4. It was while pre- ers and local restaurants. He hopes paring Cajun cuisine on live television to further promote his app through that Bouchner got his “first big break.” local and state news, as well as paid Bouchner went on the show to pro- marketing. mote a cookbook by the Junior League Bouchner has taken full advantage of Lafayette, a charitable women’s of his position as an entrepreneur to organization of which his mother was devise the app. He is currently enrolled a member. The producers received in the Goizueta Business School and Bouchner so well that they asked him majoring in information systems and to do four more segments of the show. operations management with a secondBouchner’s foodie career continued ary concentration in entrepreneurship. into high school, when he created an In his spare time, Bouchner works Instagram account with Emory’s Atlas dedicated to the meals Consulting Group and he cooked. Bouchner Emory Consult Your “[MealMe is a] eventually took leave Community, which from his account, dishe claims has aided great app in a satisfied with the lack unique niche of the him in starting up his of food-centric social career. huge food delivery networking apps.

MealMe isn’t marketplace.”

Although he realized Bouchner’s first the difficulty of comforay into the world peting with Instagram of entrepreneurship.

— Pete Prados, COO In high school, he to offer an app with of Prep Tech, LLC ran a drop-shipping food-based feeds, he began working toward company that bought a solution. and resold “preppy” clothing from Since high school, Bouchner has other businesses. He ran the venture dedicated his time to creating a social through high school and closed it upon networking app with built-in deliv- coming to Emory. ery and reservation booking services.

Director of Entrepreneurship at MealMe allows users to post a picture the Goizueta Business School Amelia of their meal, scroll through others’ Schaffner first came to know Bouchner photos and order the same dish — all after he presented initial concepts for within the same app.

MealMe at “Pitch the Professors,” one Users can find restaurants and of the entrepreneurship initiatives proreserve tables by filtering their photo grams within the business school. feeds or using the search function.

“I am excited to see [Bouchner’s] Filters also allow users to select spe- continued energy and momentum on cific locations and price ranges, while growing MealMe,” Schaffner said. comparing delivery prices between “Especially as he learns more about services like UberEats. the market, not just here in Atlanta, The iOS-only app launched nation- but nationwide.” wide in August 2019 and is currentBouchner is currently accepting prely beta-testing with over 400 users seed funding from investors to market through an app called “Test Flight.” to a larger base, grow the organization Bouchner eventually plans to expand and optimize user-friendliness.

MealMe’s availability to Android and Chief Operations Officer of Prep aims to officially launch it on Apple’s Tech, LLC. Pete Prados has known App Store by the end of 2019.

Bouchner for three years since they Bouchner credited his success first met at a CEO roundtable in in kicking off the app in December Louisiana.

2018 to the Emory Entrepreneurship “[MealMe is a] great app in a unique and Venture Management (EEVM) niche of the huge food delivery market“Excellerator,” a student-led incubator place,” Prados noted. “[I] love the ease program for startups. The program of use and features … especially that led him to MealMe Co-Founder Will it’s agnostic to all delivery services.

Said, a computer science student at Pictures are crisp, and comments from the Georgia Institute of Technology foodies tell the real story of a meal.”

(Georgia Tech).

Although Bouchner hopes to make Said was the perfect partner for MealMe the go-to food app, he conBouchner, who lacked computer tinues to explore his foodie interests science knowledge to code the app outside of business matters. Bouchner himself. The two met at the EEVM can be seen cooking and checking out Excellerator after Bouchner posted checking out new restaurants on a a job opening on the Georgia Tech regular basis, falling in line with his College of Computing website. After motto: “If you never ask or don’t try, sensing their chemistry, Bouchner then the answer is always no.” brought him onto the team.

The two have split the work between — Contact Nassem Yousef at themselves, with Said building the nassem.a.yousef@emory.edu yuSHi

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Associate Professor of History Daniel LaChance relates an account of professional failure and rediscovered faith at the first “F#ckup Night,” organized jointly by the Faculty in Residence Program and Residence Life at the Emory Student Center on Sept. 9.

Emory Faculty Members Dish on Failures By angela Tang Contributing Writer

As five Emory faculty members took to the stage at the Emory Student Center (ESC) on Sept. 9 for the first official “F#ckup Night,” the crowd of approximately 200 students and faculty abruptly alternated between eruptive laughter and somber silence.

Organized by the Faculty in Residence program, the Office of Residence Life and the Office of Admissions, the event centered on stories of failures, mistakes and regrets.

In planning the event, host and Associate Professor of Organization and Management Wesley Longhofer and Director of Marketing and Communications Lisa Coetzee had hoped to encourage a judgment-free attitude toward discussions of failure and disappointment.

“The idea is to try and change campus culture a little bit ... just to acknowledge that we all fail,” Longhofer explained. “I think faculty are eager to show this side of themselves.”

Associate Professor of History Daniel LaChance was the first to take the microphone. He recalled being a young, passionate and idealistic high school English teacher in Bethlehem, PA. In an attempt to make his class more enjoyable, he tried to give students greater creative freedom with their projects.

But the plan backfired when a group of students presented a video featuring a mock lynching, which LaChance said trivialized the history of racial violence in the U.S. At the time, LaChance only mildly criticized the project. Surrounded by a riveted audience, he admitted, “I didn’t do what I needed to do, and I really think a lot about that fuck-up.”

The next speaker, Associate Professor of Organization and Management at Goizueta Business School Emily Bianchi, also shared a regrettable experience earlier in her career, when she worked at a nonprofit homeless center.

An inexperienced 23 year-old, Bianchi felt very unqualified for her job representing clients whose legal issues jeopardized their access to public housing.

She vividly remembered an encounter with a terrified elderly woman who faced eviction after her grandson was caught dealing drugs from their public apartment.

“I was really passionate and incredibly nervous about representing this

woman, because I wanted so badly for her to do well,” Bianchi said.

As Bianchi was parking her car at the apartment complex the morning of the hearing, another car swerved into the only remaining parking spot.

Bianchi, who had furiously gestured towards the other driver, realized upon entering the hearing that the reckless driver had been none other than the judge.

To Bianchi’s shock, the judge graciously apologized.

At a loss for words, Bianchi was unable to effectively defend her client, who ultimately lost her public housing.

Bianchi had not expected her brazen actions in the parking lot to have consequences.

“Some of our worst behavior is when we feel anonymous,” Bianchi said. “I decided that I wanted to be ... the same person when I was anonymous as I was when I wasn’t.”

Soye Han (20C) observed that the speakers’ “fuck-ups” mostly occurred at an age that she and her fellow College seniors are fast approaching.

Though nervous for the future, Han acknowledged the value in learning from mistakes. “[Fuck-ups are] part of the process of becoming an adult and living in a society with other people [and] learning that it’s not just about you,” Han said.

The discussion took a more lighthearted turn when Senior Director of the Barkley Forum Ed Lee III took the stage.

Though now an award-winning debate coach for Emory varsity debate team, Lee recounted a time where he did not feel so worthy of acclaim.

During the final round of the prestigious 2011 National Debate Tournament, two of his most talented debaters, Stephen Weil (11C) and Ovais Inamullah (11C), competed against Northwestern University (III.). After winning the coin flip, they obtained the choice of debating either affirmation or negation.

On the affirmation side, Weil and Inamullah were heavily advantaged to win.

But the duo ignored their prospects and decided to take a risk and debate on the negation side because it was their final debate round as students.

Lee did nothing to interfere, and they ultimately lost.

“I had one job, and I couldn’t figure out how to do that one job,” Lee lamented.

After Lee, Professor of Biology at Oxford College Nitya Jacob took the stage.

Though she now boasts years of experience teaching classes and conducting research, her early years as a researcher saw her once wrongly measure an expensive compound tenfold, wasting hundreds of dollars.

“That’s a pretty bad start to being a scientist,” Jacob said. “I went away with my tail between my legs, but that didn’t discourage me from continuing to pursue science.”

Many years later, Jacob wrote a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant proposal.

She was optimistic throughout her application, but received unexpected harsh criticism calling her project “too ambitious” and her technical expertise questionable.

More determined than ever to prove herself, Jacob worked furiously to improve her proposal, only to meet another crushing rejection. “‘Why is the world thinking of me as this not so innovative, not so creative person?’” Jacob remembered asking herself. “‘What do I need to do to change that?’”

As Jacob passed back the microphone, the speakers received a long round of applause.

Longhofer concluded the event by proposing future collaborations with student organizations to host regular “F#ckup Nights,” including a student-organized version in the Spring.

The event was well received by students, most of whom seemed to appreciate the message of embracing past failures.

Raven Crosby (22C) noted that the stories helped to put into perspective the struggles that students face today.

“As a society, we have these views now that we have to be perfect [and that] we have to have everything figured out,” Crosby said. “[The talk] still shows you that if you eff up early, you can still be successful going into your future.”

Longhofer said he hoped that by having faculty show vulnerability to mistakes, they could encourage students to persevere through their own set-backs.

“As academics, we fail constantly,” Longhofer said. “Some of the faculty [students] look up to ... and some of our most beloved faculty on campus, have also gone through similar experiences as them.”

— Contact Angela Tang at angela.tang@emory.edu

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By Josh Gelfond Contributing Writer

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Senior hitter Morgan McKnight circles up during the team’s 2018-19 season on Oct. 26, 2018. They would go on to win the NCAA Division III National Championships in 2019.

California Lutheran University (CLU) on Saturday, with set wins of 25-20, 25-21, 25-17 and a .261 hitting percentage (47-17-115).

Senior outside hitter Morgan McKnight led the match in kills with 13, and Martin finished closely behind with 11.

The Eagles held a 58-43 margin in digs, but CLU recorded nine blocks to Emory’s four.

“Our main goal is positivity and energy,” McKnight said. “When we play with a lot of energy and we play with a passion for the game, as we usually do, we play really well.”

After their performance at the start of the season, McDowell remains confident about her team.

“I’m excited about where we are,” McDowell said. “To go eight and one with the toughest schedule in the country says a lot about our team and the way they prepared this summer.”

The Eagles will return to the court on Sept. 21 and 22 at the University Athletic Association Round Robin I at Brandeis University (Mass.).

— Contact Max Wolf-Valdes at max.wolf-valdes@emory.edu

The Emory women’s golf team, appearing in their first tournament in program history, played this weekend at the NCAA Division III Fall Preview held at the 5,846-yard Palmer Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The Eagles finished in eighth place out of 13 teams, an impressive feat considering this was the team’s first ever competition.

The Palmer Course proved to be a challenging test for the 70 golfers who participated in the tournament, with 15 mile per hour winds creating tough course conditions. Emory shot a total of 986 over three rounds, firing a 326 in the first round and 330 in both the second and third rounds.Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) came out on top with a total team score of 926, followed by Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) with a score of 937 and Oglethorpe University (Ga.) with 958.

Head Coach Katie Futcher had a lot of praise for the team of freshmen.

“Everyone handled themselves well and represented Emory in a great way,” Futcher said. “Having a team that consists of all freshmen is difficult, but there is a lot of opportunity for leadership, and I’m very happy with what I’ve seen so far.”

Emory’s newly minted squad consists of five freshmen, including Ksheera Jalakam, who had a stand-

out performance. Jalakam fired off a team-low first-round 76, finishing in 21st place overall with a total tournament score of 243. Jessie Ji, Alice Acosta and Shriya Agarwal also had solid weekends, as they all found themselves within the top 41. This was just the beginning for a resilient group of freshmen who fought hard in their first collegiate tournament.

Natalie Spitzer, who carded a threeday total of 257, said she learned to persevere despite unfavorable conditions.

“I think one of the biggest takeaways from this weekend was that, even if you have a bad hole, you can’t give up because you never know what’s going to happen with your competition,” Spitzer said. “The course was in great shape, but the weather was very unpredictable. The wind was changing directions every few holes, and the rain was on and off all weekend.”

Despite the team’s lack of experience, Futcher embraced the community the team has built so far.

“It would be nice to have upperclassmen to help the freshmen adjust, but it’s unbelievable that they get to experience all of this together,” Futcher said.

The team will head to Montgomery, Ala., on Sept. 28 for the Montgomery Country Club Women’s Intercollegiate tournament.

— Contact Josh Gelfond at josh.gelfond@emory.edu

This Week in Photos: Eagles Sweep Weekend

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Senior forward Shivani Beall races for the ball against the University of Lynchburg (Va.) on Sept. 14. The Eagles defeated Lynchburg 3-2 in 2OT.

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Freshman defender Peyton Robertson scores the first goal of her collegiate career against Mount St. Joseph University. The Eagles won 5-0.

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Senior forward Caroline Kolski fights a Mount St. Joseph University (Ohio) defender for possession of the ball on Sept. 15.

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Freshman midfielder LJ Kolodge outruns a Lynchburg defender. Although she didn’t score, Kolodge recorded three shots during the game.

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Although she was happy with her time, Dwier was careful not to be complacent.

“It definitely gave me a lot of confidence,” Dwier said. “But at the same time, I know that I wasn’t completely satisfied because I know that I still have a lot left for the season.”

Rounding out the finishes at the UTC Twilight Meet for the Eagles were juniors Olivia Hoekendijk (17:02) and Michelle Ly (17:18), followed by freshmen Virginia Brown and Lauren Musachia in 17:29 and 17:53, respectively. While Emory certainly found success at the meet, they had to battle through significant adversity. The team received inaccurate information about the course distance and did not find out about the mistake until the race itself. According to Nguyen, the

team expected to run a 5K race for the women when it was, in fact, a 4K race.

“We didn’t find out until they finished, so a lot of them actually thought they had another kilometer to go when they were running,” Nguyen explained.

“So some just mistimed ... the rationing of energy, thinking they had more to go when they didn’t.”

On top of this confusion, the Eagles battled through temperatures as high as 99 degrees with no shade during the race, according to Nguyen, making their success even more impressive.

“I thought they did a really good job,” Nguyen said. “It was pretty brutal conditions, so they did really well.”

The team will compete again at the Rhodes College (Tenn.) Invitational on Sept. 21.

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Chang Beall Credits Emory Secures Win With Comeback Focusing on Resilience Chemistry In Win MEN’S GOLF

By Anirudh Pidugu Senior Staff Writer

Continued from Back Page The Eagles’ powerful offense and sound defense became unstoppable, and Blanchard tacked on another goal halfway through the second half. The Eagles finished the match with a 5-0 win.

While it was a long weekend for the Eagles, Beall noted how the team remained resilient and consistent throughout.

“This weekend was physically taxing on us,” Beall said. “We were definitely tired, but I think we did a good job of pulling it together, sticking it out and coming in strong even though we were pretty beat.”

The Eagles will hit the road to take on Maryville College (Tenn.) on Sept.

21 at 3 p.m.

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

The No. 2 nationally ranked Emory men’s golf team earned first place at the NCAA Division III Fall Preview on Sept. 14 and 15.

The 54-hole tournament took place at the par-72 PGA National Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., which doubles as Emory’s home course.

Heading into the final eight holes on Sunday, the Eagles were losing by six shots but rode a massive comeback to secure first place. Emory finished with a score at 874 (302287-285) to finish seven shots ahead of No. 1-ranked Illinois Wesleyan University (296-291-294, 881).

Huntingdon College (Ala.) placed third with a score of 891 (296-306289). University of St. Thomas (Minn.) and Washington and Lee University (Va.) rounded out the rest of the top five.

Head Coach John Sjoberg said the Eagles were actually not sure how far behind the team was and just kept playing.

“It went pretty quick there,” Sjoberg said. “We made five birdies between 12 and 16, and Illinois Wesleyan made three doubles and a bogey. All of a sudden, we went from

“Plenty of stuff to work on so [we have to] get sharper.”

— John Sjoberg, Head Coach

five down to five up.”

Junior Eric Yiu led the Eagles and spurred the comeback on the last day with a five-under-par 67. Yiu finished the tourney as the top scorer for the team and third overall with a score of par-216 (76-73-67).

Senior Matt Organisak shot twoover-par 218 (77-69-72), earning sixth place overall. Sophomore Max Schwarz played on the Eagles’ A team

for the first time and impressed with a score of 218 (73-72-73) to put him in sixth place alongside Organisak.

Sophomore Logan Ryan came in 17th place overall with a score of 225 (79-73-73), while senior Sam Galloway finished in 27th place with a score of 228 (76-77-75).

Sjoberg praised Yiu’s performance in the win.

“He [came] out on Sunday to start with a bogey and then [ripped] off six birdies and was pretty flawless [after that],” Sjoberg said. “That’s one of the better rounds I’ve seen in my 17 years.”

Preparation for the next tournament has already begun, Sjoberg said.

“We’ll do some qualifying this weekend, a couple rounds,” he said.

“We’ll have our lineup on Sunday and a good seven practices. Plenty of stuff to work on so [we have to] get sharper.”

The Eagles return to action on Sept. 30 at the 54-hole Gordin Classic in Columbus, Ohio.

— Contact Anirudh Pidugu at anirudh.pidugu@emory.edu

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Yoon won hers 6-2, 6-2.

Chang emphasized that this was the team’s first tournament and that there’s still plenty to work on during the fall season.

“Our biggest focus right now as a team is to get to know what it feels like to be competing with each other,’’ Chang said. “[When representing Emory,] we’re representing something so much bigger than ourselves … [We’re] learning how to compete with each other, feed off of each others’ energy and carry each other through tough matches.”

The team next takes to the court on Sept. 27 for the three-day ITA South Regional Championships at Berry College (Ga.).

— Contact Michael Mariam at michael.mariam@emory.edu

Braves Know What It Takes to Win Eagles Fail to Find

CALLAHAN’S CORNER

By Ryan Callahan Sports Editor As much as it pains me to say, as a native of suburban Philadelphia, the Atlanta Braves have absolutely schooled the Philadelphia Phillies all year.

Coming into the 2019 MLB season, the two teams were primed for an intense, season-long battle for the division title. Each team was supposed to flip-flop atop the National League (NL) East standings only for the division winner to be crowned during the season’s twilight. Instead, the Braves ran away with the division, leaving my hometown Phillies in distress.

Entering the offseason, Phillies owner John Middleton boldly claimed that the team would spend “stupid money” on free agents. And in a way, they did — they signed star right fielder Bryce Harper to a 13-year, $330 million contract, the largest contract in MLB history (for about two weeks).

The Phillies were so focused on Harper that they largely neglected other free agents, a lapse in judgement that is coming back to bite them right now.

The Braves signed third baseman Josh Donaldson to a one-year, $23 million contract in the winter, which honestly seemed like a gross overpay at the time. Donaldson, 33, is a former American League MVP whose multiple injuries sidelined him for the majority of the previous season.

Obviously, the Braves saw something in Donaldson that the Phillies didn’t, as he is currently hitting .262 with 37 home runs, far better production than any of the several third basemen the Phillies have trotted out.

Further, after failing to get his desired contract and beginning the season as a free agent, pitcher Dallas Keuchel signed with the Braves on June 7 for one-year and $13 million.

Again, Philadelphia’s decision not to sign Keuchel is understandable, as the former Cy Young Award winner was originally asking for a six-year, $12o million contract despite declining fastball velocity and overall numbers over the past few seasons.

Since landing in Atlanta, however, Keuchel has posted an 8-5 win-loss record with a 3.35 earned run average — better than any Phillies pitcher

so far. Keuchel had some choice words for the Phillies’ front office after he pitched a gem against Philadelphia on Sept. 11, and who could blame him?

Keuchel was well within the Phillies’ budget, and for a team willing to spend “stupid money,” it’s inexcusable that Philadelphia, a team with a mediocreat-best pitching staff, didn’t even call Keuchel to discuss a potential contract.

Middleton and the rest of the Phillies front office should be ashamed of themselves.

The Braves schooled Philadelphia at their own game: spending money.

Building a contending ball club doesn’t mean breaking the bank on one player (Harper). It means acquiring any player that could help your club, either through free agency or a trade deal.

The Braves understand this, while the Phillies do not.

Atlanta, congratulations on your second consecutive NL East division title. Philadelphia, learn from the Braves and spend your “stupid money” in the offseason.

— Contact Ryan Callahan at rjcalla@emory.edu

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“I think to have things go so poorly 72nd minute, and within three min- has helped us revamp our mentality utes, fellow freshman midfielder John so now we are a lot more focused, and Peterson scored the we know consistency Generals’ fifth and is just as important as “We seemed to play getting results,” Tsuru final goal.

Emory junior fortimid, and we lacked said. “To generalize, I ward Nate Sampson think we have a more concentration and said he thought the concentrated minddiscipline in our Eagles need to be set, and we have a shape and decision- group mindset to kind more focused to sucmaking.” ceed in the future. of keep each other on “It was a really the same page.” inconsistent perforThe Eagles return — Nate Sampson, mance,” Sampson Junior Forward to action on Sept. said. “We had patches 21 and 22 at the where we played well, University of Marybut it ultimately came Hardin Baylor (Texas) down to a lack of focus. We seemed to and University of Texas at Dallas. play timid, and we lacked concentration and discipline in our shape and Sammy John (20C) contributed decision-making.” reporting.

Despite the team’s inconsistent play from last season, senior team captain — Contact Zach Zaiman at midfielder Jun Tsuru has high hopes. zach.zaiman@emory.edu

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WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

Beavers Shines at Twilight Meet

WOMEN’S SOCCER

MEN’S SOCCER

Emory Routed Over Weekend

By Nathan Parks Contributing Writer The Emory women’s cross country team traveled up to Chattanooga, Tenn., on Sept. 13 to take on 11 other teams in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) Twilight Cross Country Meet. The Eagles finished with a total of 120 points, resulting in a fifth-place finish among seven nonDivision I teams and a ninth-place finish overall.

First across the finish line for the Eagles was senior Heather Beavers, who achieved a 15:51 time in the 4K race, good for 31st place out of 88 runners. Head Coach Linh Nguyen had high praise for Beavers’ performance in the meet.

“I thought that [Beavers] did a really good job,” Nguyen said. “She dropped … almost 90 seconds from two weeks before and just was steadily moving up through the whole race.”

Junior Christina Dwier finished second for Emory with a personal record time of 16:10, resulting in a 38th-place finish.

Dwier was pleased with the encouraging early-season result, both individually and as a team.

“If I’m not mistaken, our entire team that went [to the meet] PRed from two weeks ago, and this is definitely the fittest I’ve ever been [at this

See NGUYEN, Page 15

By Zach Zaiman Contributing Writer

themselves tied 2-2 at the end of regulation. In the first overtime period, both teams failed to put the ball in the net. During the second overtime, Williamson found senior forward Caroline Kolski at the top of the box, and Kolski powered the ball through traffic and into the goal, taking the win against the Hornets.

The next day, the Eagles carried their momentum into their second match of the weekend against the Lions. Within the first 17 minutes of the game, the Eagles already led 3-0.

Beall scored the first goal at the 12-minute mark, followed shortly by a header from freshman defender Peyton Robertson.

Freshman forward Aubrey Blanchard then took advantage of a mistake from the Lions defense, putting the Eagles up 3-0. With eight minutes remaining in the first half, junior forward Caroline Moore assisted freshman forward Natalie Klar for the Eagles’ fourth goal.

The Emory men’s soccer team suffered a 5-1 loss against the Washington and Lee University (Va.) Generals on Sept. 13. The Eagles ended the game with 13 shots on goal, behind the Generals’ 18. The Eagles seemed to have some openings on offense but couldn’t capitalize on their opportunities.

The Eagles started the match off strong with junior goalkeeper Cole Gallagher making two incredible saves against Washington and Lee’s freshman midfielder Michael Kutsanzira.

But a little over halfway through the first half, Kutsanzira bested Gallagher and scored in the corner of the 18-yard box.

The Generals added one more goal courtesy of sophomore midfielder Ethan McCann in the 36th minute and went into halftime with a 2-0 lead.

Emory attempted a comeback at the beginning of the second half, but it was short-lived.

Freshman midfielder Joe Beare scored a short-range shot off a header, putting the Eagles on the board, but Kutsanzira scored yet again a little over a minute later, leaving the Eagles trailing by two points.

Kutsanzira scored again in the

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See EAGLES, Page 15

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Junior midfielder Samantha Hilsee dribbles past a University of Lynchburg (Va.) defender on Sept. 14. The Eagles defeated Lynchburg 3-2 in double-overtime.

Women’s Offense Comes Alive vs. MSJ

By Jessica Solomon Contributing Writer

The Emory women’s soccer team bounced back after suffering their first loss of the season last week, defeating the University of Lynchburg (Va.) Hornets 3-2 in a double-overtime victory on Sept. 14 and crushing the Mount St. Joseph University (Ohio) Lions 5-0 on Sept. 15.

The Eagles flew in hot against Lynchburg with an aggressive and fast-paced offense.

In the 20th minute, senior forward Shivani Beall scored off a rebound, after senior defender Paige Santee’s shot hit the crossbar, putting the Eagles ahead 1-0. The Eagles kept their foot on the pedal, and sophomore midfielder Arielle Williamson scored off a free kick just a few minutes later to take a 2-0 lead.

Although the Eagles led going into halftime, the Hornets came out with a vengeance in the second half. In the 49th minute, Lynchburg senior forward Alyssa Rudy nailed a shot into

the back of the net, almost evening the score. Rudy played aggressively the entire match, which resulted in a yellow card in the 60th minute after she pushed another player.

As the second half wrapped up, the Eagles anticipated victory. But, with one minute left in the match, the referee called a foul on Emory in the box, giving the Hornets an opportunity to tie the game with a penalty kick. Lynchburg sophomore midfielder Amanda Wigboldy took the shot and drove the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal past senior goalkeeper Haley Pratt.

Head Coach Sue Patberg noted how the team’s missed chances and defensive mistakes influenced the flow of the game.

“I think if we had scored a third goal, the second half may have looked differently,” Patberg said. “Lynchburg changed their system, and it took us awhile to adapt to the game. We also made some defensive errors that cost us two goals and led to the overtime.”

The Eagles and Hornets found

WOMEN’S TENNIS

VOLLEYBALL

Underclassmen Fly High at Elon CMS Hands Eagles Their First Loss

By Michael Mariam Contributing Writer

The Emory women’s tennis team began their journey toward an eighth NCAA national championship at the Elon Fall Invitational, held at Elon University (N.C.) between Sept. 13 and Sept. 15.

The team returned home with freshman Katelyn Thomas winning the Oak draw in singles and the doubles pair of freshman Stephanie Shulman and sophomore Emma Cartledge winning the Gold draw.

“It was a lot of fun getting back on the court for the new season,” said junior team captain Katie Chang. “It was nice to have my teammates by my side again.”

The Eagles’ season kicked off on Friday with five doubles wins and four singles wins across 18 total matches. Chang and sophomore Lauren Yoon both picked up singles victories. Yoon won in straight sets over junior Tayah Cross from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, while Chang came back after losing the first set to win 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 over Presbyterian College (S.C.) junior Ella Rowley. Shulman won her collegiate debut over North Carolina Central University senior Sofia Miller 7-5, 6-3,

while junior Sasha Hartje also won in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 over Presbyterian sophomore Shelly Ray. Shulman carried the momentum from her singles win to the doubles tournament. She, along with Cartledge, won both of their matches in the Gold bracket, recording scores of 6-4 and 6-3.

Junior team captain Defne Olcay and sophomore Jessica Fatemi also started the day off strong with a 6-4 win but were eventually eliminated in their second match after losing in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-5).

Junior Stephanie Taylor and freshman Katelyn Thomas dropped their first match 6-4 to Gardner-Webb University (N.C.) but won their consolation match 6-3.

After being defeated 6-2 in their opening match, freshman Alexa Goetz and sophomore Christina Watson bounced by for a 6-4 win the consolation round.

On Saturday, Shulman and Thomas each picked up two straight singles wins in straight sets to reach the finals of their respective draws. Shulman won her matches 6-1, 6-4 and 6-0, 6-3, while Thomas recorded 6-1, 6-2 and 6-4, 6-4 victories. Hartje won her first match of the day in her draw 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) but fell short in the semifinals

7-5, 7-6 (7-4) to Mercer University (Ga.).

Assistant Coach Barbora Krtickova was really impressed by the performances of Thomas and Shulman.

“When we recruited [Thomas and Shulman], we knew that they were going to do great,” Krtickova said. “It’s amazing that it already shows in the first tournament that they will contribute to the team not only in singles but also in doubles.”

Shulman and Cartledge advanced to the Gold bracket finals in doubles with a 6-1 win, while Watson and Goetz along with Hartje and Chang also picked up doubles victories in the consolation rounds.

On the final day of the Invitational, the Eagles dominated singles in the Oak and Phoenix draws and doubles in the Gold draw. Thomas won the Oak draw with a 6-4, 6-2 finals victory.

Shulman lost a tough finals singles match in three sets 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 but she and Cartledge still took home hardware in the Gold Draw with a walkover win over Gardner-Webb in doubles, after a forfeit from the Gardner-Webb pair due to injury.

In the Phoenix draw, Chang won her consolation match 6-0, 6-2, while

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Team Ends Difficult Tournament On High Note

By Max Wolf-Valdés Contributing Writer The No. 1 nationally ranked Emory volleyball team closed out the East to West Battle this past weekend at Washington University of St. Louis (Mo.) on Sept. 13 and 14.

The Eagles lost their first match, but ultimately bounced back to win the next two.

Emory dropped their first match on Friday afternoon to Claremont-MuddScripps Colleges (CMS) (Calif.). Emory lost the first set 25-18, racking up just nine kills.

They almost turned the match around in the second set, logging 10 kills, but ultimately lost the set 26-24.

To complete the sweep, CMS registered 14 kills and beat Emory 25-18 in the third set.

Rebounding from their first loss of the season, the Eagles evened their tournament record on Friday evening by sweeping Juniata College (Pa.), a performance that made Head Coach Jenny McDowell proud.

“I love how we responded in the next match,” McDowell said. “It says everything about our team.”

Emory won the first set 25-18, registering 13 kills. They carried this momentum into the next two sets, winning them 25-17 and 30-28, with eight and 16 kills, respectively.

Sophomore outside hitter Tara Martin led the match in kills, producing 12 with a .417 hitting percentage (12-2-24).

Emory closed out the tournament with a convincing sweep of

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