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Wilson Resigns, Will Move to Johns Hopkins By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor
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ivil rights legend Bob Moses spoke in Winship Ballroom Tuesday for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. lecture hosted by the Department of African American Studies. Moses was one of the leading organizers of the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi and has continued his activism through the Algebra Project, which teaches students in underserved schools.
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Doctors Test Ebola Survivors’ Blood for Treatment Emory doctors are collecting and transfusing plasma from virus survivors to infected patients as part of a new plan to combat the Ebola virus. The Ebola Plasma Bank, a store of the light yellow component of blood taken from Ebola survivors, aims to treat infected patients with antibodies found in the plasma, which may neutralize the active virus in the patients’ blood, according to Dr. Anne Winkler, assistant professor of
pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory and a principal investigator for the clinical trial of the plasma bank. “There is no data to prove that it is efficacious,” Winkler said of the results of the plasma transfusions, but she added that the plasma is under an “active study of investigation.” Winkler added that the plasma is used in conjunction with other treatment in the hopes of improving survival rates. The primary treatment for Ebola patients at the moment is supportive care, including IV fluid
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and electrolyte management, Winkler said. According to Winkler, the only requirement for a patient to receive a transfusion is that his or her blood type must be compatible with the blood type of the donor. Since the first American Ebola patient, Dr. Kent Brantly, was taken to Emory University Hospital (EUH) in August 2014 from Liberia, EUH staff has been involved with developing strict protocols and treatment to reduce the number of Ebola infections.
Dr. Colleen Kraft, assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University and the trial’s clinical investigator, first introduced the idea of the plasma bank to Winkler in fall 2014. Winkler said she could not disclose the month of the first collection so as to protect the patient’s identity. According to Kraft, who helped to treat the first Ebola patients at EUH, she and other doctors had the idea of plasma transfusions but elicited
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Emory Remembers MLK
Andy Wilson, senior associate dean for Emory’s Division of Campus Life, announced his resignation on Wednesday. Wilson, who has been at the University for 13 years, has accepted the position of Dean of Academic and Student Services at Johns Hopkins U n i v e r s i t y, Andy Wilson, effective April senior associate 6. dean for The search Campus Life for a replacement for Wilson is underway. In addition to being senior associate dean for Emory’s Division of Campus Life, Wilson serves as Interim Assistant Vice President of Community, a new position in Campus Life. Wilson said that he’ll be helping Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair to strategize how to fill the gap. According to Wilson, his replacement should be announced sometime before he leaves. Johns Hopkins offers opportunities for Wilson that will allow him to explore his passion of social justice as well as utilize his student and academic affairs experience, he said. “It’s really a unique position there,” Wilson said. “But it does require me to leave a community that I’ve been a part of for 15 years, and that’s tough.“ After Wilson transitions from Emory during spring break, he will start at Johns Hopkins in early April so that he can meet with some of his future colleagues before the end of the spring semester. Wilson said his new job will be a blend of his work at Emory between
faculty and academic affairs and the intersection between the two. “[A] majority of my job would be working with their school of arts and sciences and their school of engineering and to strengthen their academic services,” Wilson said. “I have a passion for that, so for that to be the entirety of my position [at Hopkins] is a great opportunity.” However, Wilson noted Emory is “a hard place to leave.” “I’m going to miss out on some of the milestones that some of our students will achieve in the near future, and that’s something that I wish I would be here for,” Wilson said. One of Wilson’s colleagues, Interim Senior Director in the Division of Campus Life Matt Garrett, wrote in an email to the Wheel that he is very happy for Wilson despite his sadness of his departure. “[Wilson] has provided very good guidance to staff and students as we work to build a stronger, more inclusive and more engaged Emory community,” Garrett wrote. Many of Wilson’s students expressed similar sentiments. Vice President of the Student Government Association and College junior Raj Tilwa wrote in an email to the Wheel that Wilson has been a mentor, an advisor and a friend to him. “His empathetic leadership has inspired many things that I have accomplished or am working on at Emory,” Tilwa wrote. “Any time I have an idea or a problem, [Wilson] is the first person I reach out to.” College senior Hal Zeitlin wrote in an email to the Wheel that he got to know Wilson through RHA and at 1836 Dinners. As Zeitlin spent more time with Wilson, “[he] began to see [Wilson] as a friend and a personal mentor,” he wrote.
— Contact Annie McGrew at anne.elizabeth.mcgrew@emory.edu
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
Franklin Explores Meaning of King’s Legacy Today By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor “How will we know we are living up to King’s vision? How will we know we are on the way forward?” Dr. Robert M. Franklin, the new James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership at the Candler School of Theology, lectured to a room of over 50 people on Wednesday morning as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Week events. The lecture, titled “From Here to
There: Dr. King’s Vision, Our Current Reality and the Way Forward,” is one in a series of periodic talks that Candler holds on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. Last Wednesday’s lecture was particularly timely, given Emory’s week-long celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., according to Jan Love, dean of the Candler School of Theology. Franklin is also the senior advisor for community and diversity at Emory, the director of the Religion Department at the Chautauqua
Institution in Chautauqua, New York and the president emeritus of Morehouse College. During the lecture, Franklin emphasized King’s role as not just a social activist but also as a man of faith. King was a minister who once preached at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Franklin highlighted King’s belief of the interconnectedness of all people. Highlighting King’s determi-
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Panel Compares Civil Rights Era, Volunteer Today’s Immigration Policies Emory Hosts Service Day By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor
How do the struggles of the undocumented hearken back to the Civil Rights Movement? A panel explored that question as part of Emory’s week-long celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Thursday night. The King Week discussion titled “Dreamers: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow,” drew on the discrimination and violence African Americans faced during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, as well as those faced by the children of immigrants who have come to the U.S. without proper documentation. The two students and a professor from a school dedicated to immi-
grant students’ rights joined Emory Associate Professor of African American Studies Carol Anderson for the event at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (WHSCAB). Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR) Doug Shipman (’95C) moderated the talk. Laura Emiko Soltis (’12G), the executive director of Georgia’s Freedom University — a school that provides college-level courses and scholarship help to undocumented students unable to apply to many public schools in Georgia, presented to the audience her own photographic work, some of which depicted
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In honor of civil rights advocate and leader Martin Luther King Jr., Emory’s King Week kicked off this week with Emory’s Day On, a day of volunteer work hosted by Volunteer Emory (VE). On Monday morning students gathered at the Dobbs University Center (DUC) to travel to one of 12 non-profit service organizations across Atlanta, where they engaged in volunteer work from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
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irst-year Law School student Haseeb Husain, College senior Farhan Momin, McTyeire Residence Hall Director Areeba Qazi and College sophomore Faizan Kothari gathered in Asbury Circle Friday evening, honoring the victims of the massacre at a school in Peshwar, Pakistan on Dec. 16.
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New Law School Dean to Focus on Student Public Service Opportunities By Rupsha Basu News Editor
Emory School of Law has appointed Rita Sheffey to the newly created position of assistant dean of public service. The new position was designed to expand on the existing opportunities and provide a broader array of pro
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bono, or free legal service for usually low-income clients, and public service opportunities, including expanding involvement in Atlanta-area organizations and increasing relationships with local judges, Sheffey said. Sheffey will oversee the school’s public service and interest programs, counsel students interested in pro bono opportunities and expand
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post-graduation judicial clerkship participation. Sheffey attended law school at Boston College after receiving a Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke University and a fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She then worked for a number of years at the law firm Hunton
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The following reports are real cases adjudicated by the Emory College Honor Council. Any personally identifiable information has been omitted to protect the privacy of all parties involved.
• The European Central Bank (ECB) proposed a quantitative easing (QE) program, in which the central bank would purchase about €50 billion, or $58 billion USD, per month in bonds for at least a year. The U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan have relied on the QE method in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crises, while until now, the ECB has largely avoided it. • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry joined British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Thursday in co-hosting coalition talks on combatting the Islamic State militant group. Meanwhile, Japan has not responded to the militant group’s threat to kill two Japanese hostages if the Japanese government failed to pay a $200 million ransom by Friday afternoon. • The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told the Justice Department Wednesday that it has not found sufficient evidence to charge former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson with the federal crime of depriving 18-year-old shooting victim Michael Brown of his civil rights. Though Justice Department prosecutors will not recommend civil rights charges against Wilson,
Attorney General Eric Holder will ultimately decide whether to press charges this spring. • Following a revolt by Republican Congresswomen, GOP leaders in the House abandoned a bill late Wednesday that would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, with exceptions for victims of rape who report the assault. Lawmakers worried that the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” would ruin the party’s chances of appealing to women and young voters in the 2016 elections. • AT&T has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) and the City of Atlanta, WSBTV reported Wednesday. The $5.7 million lawsuit, filed Dec. 19, 11 days before the streetcars began operating, alleges that MARTA failed to compensate AT&T for moving its phone lines and property to make room for the city’s streetcar. The City and MARTA have refused to compensate the utility company.
— Compiled by Asst. News Editor Lydia O’Neal
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• For a homework assignment in a lower level language course, a professor found that a sophomore’s responses made little sense but matched an online instructor’s manual. The student admitted to copying the manual and was found guilty of seeking unauthorized assistance on a homework assignment. He also received a full letter-grade reduction in the course, a two-year mark on his record and a zero on the assignment. • During a lower level social science course exam, two teaching assistants noticed a sophomore glancing at the test of the student next to him. Once the professor found simi-
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larities between the two test papers, the student admitted to cheating and apologized for his actions. The Honor Council found him guilty of seeking unauthorized assistance on an exam and recommended an F in the course and a two-year mark on his record.
Council recommended a two-year mark on her record, an F on the paper and an educational program to help her avoid plagiarizing in the future.
— Compiled by Asst. News Editor Lydia O’Neal
• While grading a response paper, the professor of a lower level humanities course found that a freshman had copied several passages from an online source without referencing it. The student admitted to and was found guilty of plagiarism — she cited her habit of cutting and pasting information into her documents as the reason for her mistake. The Honor
This Week In Emory History Jan. 21, 1954
A banquet on Thursday, Jan. 21, 1954 brought Emory’s 20th annual Ministers’ Week to a close. Several hundred ministers visited the University for the event, which featured a speech titled “The New South” by Bishop William T. Watkins at the Theology Chapel. Watkins, an Emory alumnus, discussed the “powerful social changes which he sees taking place in the South,” according to the Wheel. Dr. George A. Buttrick also gave a talk, “God and Suffering,” at 9 a.m. on Friday. Ministers’ Week Committee Chairman Dr. Alva Floyd told the Wheel that the 20th edition of the event “promises to be the most successful.”
Events at emory
Event: Adam Frey, Euphonium Time: 12 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum, Reception Hall Event: Poetry Reading and Reception for “B-side Modernism” From the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Time: 5 p.m. Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room Event: Athletics — Women’s Basketball Time: 6 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center Event: Athletics — Men’s Basketball Time: 8 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center Event: Staibdance Presents “Attic” Time: 8 p.m. Location: Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
SATURDAY Event: Athletics — Swimming and Diving Time: 1 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center Event: Staibdance Presents “Attic”
Time: 5 p.m. & 8 p.m. Location: Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Event: Atlanta Community Choral Festival Time: 8 p.m. Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
SUNDAY Event: Athletics — Men’s Basketball Time: 12 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center Event: Athletics — Women’s Basketball Time: 2 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center Event: Humbaba Monster Protector Children’s Workshop Time: 2 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Tate Room Event: St. Olaf Choir Performance Time: 3 p.m. Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Event: The Gathering @ 5:05 Worship Time: 5:05 p.m. Location: Ward Fellowship Hall at
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Event: Advancing Diversity through Mentoring Time: 12 p.m.
MONDAY Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room Event: Ebola, The Disease: History and Current Situation in West Africa and the U.S. Time: 4 p.m. Location: Candler School of Theology Event: Art History Program Information Session Time: 5 p.m. Location: Carlos Hall Mezzanine Event: Queer Men’s Discussion Group Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, 232E DUC Event: Carlos Reads Book Club Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Board Room Event: Gilman Scholarship Advising Hours
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Time: 3 p.m. Location: Candler Library 200 Event: International Transient Study Open Office Hours Time: 3 p.m. Location: Candler Library 200 Event: Queer & Asian Discussion Group Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, 232E DUC Event: Race for Cures: On the Racial Politics of Difference in the Life Sciences Time: 6 p.m. Location: Rita Anne Rollins Building 102 Event: Creation Stories Lecture Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum, Reception Hall Event: Service in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Old Church
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Council to Advise New Center for Diversity, Inclusion To oversee the nascent Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) and create new campus initiatives starting this spring, the Division of Campus Life assembled a new advisory council of 21 students, faculty and staff, according to Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair. The CDI Advisory Council will also help carry out the goals of a report sent to Nair in December 2012, which recommended ways of making Emory’s campus more open-minded and inclusive. The formation of the council was, in part, fueled by a reaction to incidents of bias and anti-Semitism that occurred last semester, according to Nair. “Last semester, many administrators found themselves in conversations with students who wanted to leverage their love of the Emory community” to prevent such incidents from happening, he said. In terms of responding to such events, Nair added, “we want to shift from being reactive to being more proactive.” Rather than carrying out educational programs to promote inclusiveness, however, the group’s purpose will be to solely study the need for and create campus initiatives, leaving the job of enacting those initiatives to other campus organizations, according to Michael Shutt, director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Life and the interim director of the CDI. “If they come up with an initiative, they’re not going to be the ones that do it,” Shutt said. “If a [bias] incident were to come up on campus, the bias reporting group would be the first to respond — the council would be there to say, in the long-term, what we need to do.” He added that the council will start with the 2012 report to “see what has been achieved fully and partially.” Then, he said, they will examine a study compiled by a University of Georgia graduate, who is working at the CDI to gather information
on campus inclusiveness. (Shutt did not provide the name of the UGA graduate, as he has hardly begun his research.) Nair listed renovations at the Dobbs University Center, follow-up orientation groups for sophomore and junior students and raising awareness of the bias incident reporting system as several potential areas where the council could advise improvement. According to Shutt, the advisory council will also help to organize the CDI, which Campus Life created at the end of the summer to serve as an umbrella group for minority offices, such as the Center for Women, the Office of LGBT Life and the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services (OMPS). “They will help determine what the CDI will look like, how we organize ourselves,” Shutt said. He said members of the Emory community should begin to notice the effects of the council’s short-term policies — which have yet to be determined — by the summer. The six undergraduate students, seven graduate students, one alumnus, four faculty and three staff were chosen from a pool of 75 applicants by a separate council of seven students organized to help with the selection process. The CDI emailed their acceptance notifications about a week ago, and they will have their first meeting in the coming week. (Shutt did not provide the names of the council members, as they had yet to convene before press time.) Kimberly Herard, a College senior and one of the seven students who chose the CDI Advisory Council members, wrote in an email to the Wheel that the decision was very difficult, as every applicant was “very qualified and would have brought a great viewpoint to the council.” When asked about the council’s purely directorial purpose, she wrote that “we will all work together to continue to serve Emory students to the best of Emory’s capabilities.”
— Contact Lydia O’Neal at lmoneal@emory.edu
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he Voices of Inner Strength Gospel Choir held a music concert in the Dobbs University Center Coke Commons on Wednesday evening to celebrate music that inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. The Choir sang songs about faith, hope and love. This was the group’s first annual Martin Luther King, Jr. concert at Emory.
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Emory Recognized for Community Engagement By Sarah Husain Contributing Writer
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognized Emory for its 2015 Community Engagement Classification along with 239 other universities in the country this past weekend. Recognized for the first time in 2006, Emory was only eligible to reapply this past year because the foundation states you can only receive classification every 10 years. The Carnegie Foundation evaluates institutions on their mission and efforts to engage their communities based on detailed data universities voluntarily send. The foundation does not award but instead recognizes applicants that meet its standards for community engagement and sends notes for the institution to self-assess and improve for the future. The foundation applauded Emory for its “excellent alignment among campus mission, culture, leadership, resources and practices that support dynamic and noteworthy community
engagement,” according to a Jan. 14 press release. According to Director of Operations at the Center for Community Partnership (CFCP) Martha Sweatman, members of the CFCP at Emory got together two years ago to compile a “rigorous” 50-page application highlighting the many community engagement initiatives over the past nine years. They found that Emory Healthcare provided $80.3 million in charity care in 2011-2012 alone. That is not including the $25.7 million of pro bono care that Emory medical staff contributed at Grady Memorial Hospital that same year. The Community Change and Social Fellows, an undergraduate program at Emory launched in 2002, also finished more than 40 projects in local communities while working with partner organizations, according to CFCP. Volunteer Emory also rallied more 3,100 students, faculty and staff to complete 17,000 hours of service in 2011-2012. These initiatives are not limited to the greater Atlanta
Investigators Exploring Antibody Source Without Survivors Continued from Page 1 Winkler’s help to “put all of the parts together” and legitimize the program. The process of collecting the plasma itself can only be done once a survivor has fully recovered, Winkler said. Winkler referred to the process of plasma collection as “apheresis”, where the survivors are hooked up to a machine that separates their blood into plasma component and red blood cells. The machine then returns the red blood cells to the survivor and stores the plasma. This process takes one and a half to two hours. Winkler described the next step in the plasma collection, called INTERCEPT. According to Winkler, the Cerus Corporation, a biomedical products company and the official sponsor for this trial, provided the technology for this process, in which doctors are able to destroy any pathogens found in the plasma donations themselves. These pathogens could include a
number of diseases such as malaria, especially when the patients were in at-risk countries for such diseases before contracting Ebola. The plasma is then stored at Emory for future use for up to a year under FDA standards. Although all of the plasma is stored at EUH, transfusions are taking place all over the United States, according to Winkler. The first collection was at the University of Nebraska by Winkler and a colleague. According to Winkler, after the first collection, the process grew immensely and the hospital saw a need to have products available. Since the start of this process in fall 2014, multiple patients in the United States have received the plasma transfusions, Winkler said. When a patient is in need, a hospital will request the plasma from Emory, which will ship it over. Additionally, parallel studies are underway in Ebola-afflicted countries in West Africa, and plasma is being collected from their own survi-
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vors, Winkler said. Winkler added that the hospital is working on a way to turn the plasma into powdered form to make it easier to store and ship. “We hope that the plasma will be a successful therapy, but what we really hope is that the collection of plasma can be used for other things as well,” Winkler said. She added that other investigators at Emory are looking to create a source of antibodies without collecting from survivors. Although Emory has yet to produce its own Ebola antibodies, “it’s hopeful,” Winkler said. According to Winkler, all donations by survivors are completely voluntary and unpaid. “They donate on their own goodwill,” she said. Survivors can physically donate every 48 hours, but the hospital typically only collects when the survivors are in town. When asked about the risk for the survivors in donating the plasma,
Winkler replied that it is an extensive procedure involving punctures, risk of developing infection and possible numbness and discomfort. That being said, she said that the process is safe for them to perform. Winkler explained that the protocol they use currently is Food and Drug Administration (FDA)approved since December. However, she added, the first transfusions that began in the fall had to be approved by the FDA each time a collection was made, through an emergency investigational new drug application. According to Kraft, the act of collecting and transfusing plasma will prepare EUH for other future diseases that may require similar therapies. “While I think that the threat of Ebola is waning and that things are getting better ... we are learning a lot through this process and are hopefully developing a standard that can be applied to other diseases and help patients in West Africa,” Kraft said.
— Contact Naomi Maisel at namaise@emory.edu
area, but many reach other states in the southeast as well. “What I appreciate about Emory is our continuous commitment to social justice and identifying ways to continuously grow and learn,” said Associate Director of Student Life and Leadership and Volunteer Emory Coordinator Lisa Kendall. “As a campus community, we value understanding systemic issues and working towards creating a more just society.” “One of the founding principles of the Center for Community Partnerships was to foster the integration of teaching, research and service,” said Executive Director for the Center for Community Partnerships Michael Rich. “And by doing so, make it easier for all types of students to foster stronger linkages between their passions and interests with their academic studies.” Volunteer Emory makes up a large portion of the university’s community involvement, according to CFCP. Volunteer Emory hosts an array of weekend and alternative break service trips. Students can also engage
in service days such as Emory’s Day On this past Monday, where students worked with local service groups in the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. “What is unique about Volunteer Emory is the ethos of participation,” Executive Director of Volunteer Emory Rebecca Du said. “It’s not just volunteering but community engagement. We want to avoid creating a hierarchy with the idea of us helping them. Instead, we are working with the people in our community. We want to understand what they actually need rather than imposing our preconceived notions on what we think they need.” Emory will retain its Community Engagement Classification until 2025, after which the University can re-apply according to the Carnegie Foundation. “This is an incredible recognition to continue to have within the community of other higher education institutions,” Kendall said. “It truly shows Emory’s sustained commitment to community engagement.”
— Contact Sarah Husain at shusai5@emory.edu
Sheffey Plans to Increase Judicial Clerkships Continued from Page 1 & Williams in Richmond, Virginia. This week, Sheffey will be nominated as president-elect of the State Bar of Georgia. She has also served as a pro bono volunteer in Richmond as well as in Atlanta, she said. “Sheffey’s career demonstrates an extraordinary commitment to public service and exemplifies the highest ideals of the profession,” School of Law Dean Robert Schapiro said in a Jan. 13 University press release. “Her reputation and knowledge within the pro bono realm are exactly what we had hoped for in a leader for this initiative.” Sheffey said her decision to come to Emory and leave her position at her law firm stemmed from her interest in public service. “I do have a passion for public interest work and pro bono work,” Sheffey said. “I love working with the people and the organization.” According to the press release, the School of Law has existing public service programs, including the Emory Public Interest Committee, a Pro Bono Program, a Volunteer Clinic for Veterans, externship (workplace training for students) and fellowship programs and student organizations dedicated to public service. The goal of expanding the program is to ensure that every student has exposure to public service work, according to Sheffey. “What’s exciting to me is to work
with the next generation of lawyers,” she said. Having been on the job for just three days, Sheffey has been getting to know her colleagues and attempting to better understand the existing public service programs at the School of Law. She said she also plans to establish consistent messages across the law school about service opportunities. “This is just a perfect niche to take my experience,” Sheffey said. She added that she is excited to get to know students and match their interests with appropriate public service opportunities. Sheffey said she is particularly keen on increasing opportunities for students to participate in judicial clerkships at the local, state and national level and engage law faculty with local judges. Some students, like third-year law student JJ Gonzàlez, have already expressed interest in Sheffey’s initiatives. “[Sheffey] has showed me that there are a number of ways to incorporate public service into my real estate practice when I never thought it could be done,” Gonzàlez said. “The creation of this new deanship shows Emory Law’s dedication to inspiring students to give back to the community, and it underscores the importance of preparing the next generation of attorneys to strive to complete some form of public service through any avenue of the law they pursue.”
— Contact Rupsha Basu at rupsha.basu@emory.edu
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Lecture Addresses Police Brutality, Candler “Die-In” Protest Continued from Page 1 nation to challenge the status quo, Franklin discussed King’s decision to move to Western Chicago. “Pay attention to that decision,” Franklin said. “He did not move to Los Angeles or New York, he moves to Chicago ... and confronts the system there in Chicago. It was a rat infested Ghetto town.” King moved there to bring light to poor quality of public housing in that area of Chicago, and this was the beginning of the Chicago Open Housing Movement in 1965. Franklin highlighted the special quality of the tribute paid by those who share King’s identity as Christians and clergy. “We know the great questions that haunted [King’s] evening hours, the debates with biblical and literary critics, arguments with theologians and ethicists and the pressures to churn out a dissertation,” Franklin said. “We know the special joy and burdens of writing intellectual sermons ... And we know, as he did, something about the inevitable joy as peoples lives transform in response to the wit-
ness, work and words of our faithful and flawed churches.” He also noted the importance of King’s animated vision of interdependence, citing the concluding chapter of King’s last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? The book, which he referred to as “King’s last testament,” affirms that all people are interdependent whether they realize it or not. “In the morning, we go into the bathroom where we reach for a sponge which is provided for us by a Pacific Islander,” Franklin said, quoting King’s book. “We reach for a soap that is created by a European. Then, at the table, we drink coffee, which is provided for us by a South American.” According to King, this example shows that before we even leave for work or school in the morning, “we are already beholden to more than half the world.” Franklin also talked about recent incidents that have sparked racial tension around the United States, including the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, both unarmed African American men, and the resulting pro-
tests. Franklin noted that unarmed men of color face an unacceptably high-risk of being killed by a small number of police officers who, according to Franklin, regard them through the lens of prejudice. However, Franklin said he was proud of the “die-in” that Candler and other Emory students staged days after a grand jury did not indict a police officer in the death of Garner, The die-in was “a powerful testament to solidarity with the least advantaged members of the community,” Franklin said. Through the die-in, Candler affirmed that it is unacceptable for unarmed black men to loose their lives in interactions with law enforcement professionals, Franklin said. As for the way forward, Franklin identifies three zones of moral actions in which people of faith must engage. First, he identified the zone of police and community relations. “Moral leaders must step into those places where there is mistrust and fear, with visions and values of interdependence, respect and hope,” Franklin said. Secondly, he identified the impor-
tance of providing discipline and moral education to young people, and thirdly, he urged moral leaders to step out of their ethnic enclaves. After the lecture, Love wrote in an email to the Wheel that Franklin’s lecture displayed models of moral leadership that reflect both King’s vision and address the current challenges to racial justice in the United States. “Dr. Franklin represents a powerful model of public theology, as did the ‘die-in’ organized by Candler students in early December 2014,” Love wrote. Candler’s Student Body President the Rev. Sam White wrote in an email to the Wheel that he felt Franklin’s message was timely. “It was great to hear someone speak about moral leadership at a time when it is needed in the wake of national movements, die-ins and protests,” White wrote. “Dr. Franklin also offered substantive ways to move forward as a community ... [his] insight and wisdom was exactly what Candler and Emory needed.”
— Contact Annie McGrew at anne.elizabeth.mcgrew@emory.edu
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Emory professor of African American Studies Carol Anderson raised her hands in reference to the protests against violence against black people in Ferguson, Missouri at a panel to discuss parallels between the civil rights and undocumented students rights movements.
Emory Professor Anderson Draws Ties to Ferguson Protests Continued from Page 1 Georgia police arresting Freedom University student protesters. The two Freedom University student panelists, Arizbeth Sanchez and Ashley Rivas-Triang, had both participated in numerous such protests and had been arrested numerous times. “The charge was criminal trespassing,” Sanchez, 20, said of her arrest after a Freedom Universityorganized lecture in a building that closed before the talk had finished. Emiko Soltis described the struggle endured by undocumented students under the Georgia University System Policy 4.1.6, which prevents undocumented students from enrolling at any of the Georgia System schools. In juxtaposition, Anderson, the Emory professor, described the era of school segregation in the American South. “You had kids fighting through that sort of Jim Crow education system, saying, ‘I’m going to college,’” Anderson said. She then told the audience of an African American man who graduated from college, applied to the public law school in his state — where he paid state taxes — and was denied for his race. “You shouldn’t have to leave home,” Anderson said, referencing the right of taxpayers to in-state tuition. “If you’ve got the bona fides, you’re in.” Soltis emphasized the parallels
to a current economic hurdle: the Georgia University System’s Policy 4.3.4., which denies in-state tuition to undocumented students. Sanchez and Rivas-Triang recalled their sense of defeat when they realized that their state’s public schools were not available to them. “Imagine you’re a junior in high school, you want to go to this college and you’re really excited and want to apply early decision, and you find that everything you’ve done for the past 11 years has been for nothing,” Rivas-Triang said. “I felt pretty useless — well, I have a high school diploma, so, now what?” Sanchez added that common rhetoric used to describe undocumented immigrants often cuts deep. “The words start getting to you — ‘they’re animals,’ ‘they broke the law,’” she said. “Immigrant rights are human rights, and as a human I feel inferior.” Anderson echoed something similar when asked by moderator Shipman what the best strategy for pushing forward a social movement. “What nonviolence [under King’s leadership] did was show the core of morality of human beings,” she said. “When you’re in your Sunday best and you have fire hoses pummeling you down the street, that image is a shock to the conscience.” Later, Anderson handed the microphone to Shipman and raised her hands in a symbol of the pro-
tests against the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri last summer. “To put your hands up in the sign of ultimate submission, and to be seen as the ultimate sign of defiance — that is powerful,” she said. Emiko Soltis revealed more photographs of Latino students holding signs that read “Brown is Beautiful,” “We Are Human” and “Lift the Ban,” as well as images of undocumented students partaking in a busy street sit-in, some as young as 16, prior to their arrests. “I think being visible, showing your humanity” is the best way to propel a social movement,” said Emiko Soltis, who agreed with Anderson’s emphasis on nonviolence and visibility in the media as means of success. Sanchez and Rivas-Triang, both of whom have applied to several colleges in the United States last fall, agreed that students who are citizens of the United States could have a positive impact on the undocumented students’ rights movement by pressuring their school administrations to make changes and by spreading awareness. “A lot of people don’t even know about the [Georgia University System] ban,” Sanchez said. Emory allows undocumented students to apply, but does not offer them merit- or need-based aid, according to Andy Kim, a College senior,
Volunteer Emory staff member and co-founder of the undocumented students’s rights group Freedom at Emory. “They could get an acceptance letter, but then find out that they can’t afford it,” Kim said. “It would almost be better if they just got rejected from the get-go.” He added that Emory, a private university with a large endowment, has “a unique opportunity” to give undocumented students the ability to attend college in-state. Rebecca Du, a College senior and the executive director of Volunteer Emory, said the desire to hold a panel on undocumented students and civil rights arose after Congressman John Lewis brought the similarities of the issues to light at his commencement speech last spring. “He said it was our turn to stand up and get in the way, and he specifically mentioned the way undocumented students’ issues paralleled with the civil rights movement,” Du said, adding that Volunteer Emory saw King Week as the perfect opportunity to host an event on the topics. “This was such an amazing combination of people — the student panelists were so brave and admirable,” she said. “Having undocumented students here our own age really brought home the connections we have to them as students ourselves.”
— Contact Lydia O’Neal at lmoneal@emory.edu
Students Engage With Atlanta Community Continued from Page 1 “The turnout this year was one of the strongest,” College senior and Director of Days of Service for VE Arianna Robbins said, noting the 405 students who participated this year. From maintaining nature trails with the Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve, to helping the local nonprofit MedShare redistribute surplus medical supplies to underserved health care facilities around the world, students engaged in volunteer work and reflected upon the legacy of King and his spirit for social justice. “King was an advocate for social justice and loved his community,” Robbins said. “He worked hard for the betterment of the environment. As Emory community members, we need to take action to address injustice.” Michael Shutt, the interim director of Emory’s new Center for Diversity and Inclusion, opened Emory’s Day On. “Our mission is to collaborate with agents of change for service and social justice,” Shutt said. “Everyone is great because everyone can serve.” According to Robbins, Emory’s Day On was held in collaboration with Emory’s College Council and Emory Scholars. This year, Robbins said, VE worked to integrate the day of service with the needs of their community partners. This was achieved by organizing larger groups of students for community partners which needed more labor and dispatching smaller groups to assist with smaller projects. Although the day of service lasted for two hours, Robbins believes the Day On was a significant experience for all volunteers. “It is important to step away from the Emory bubble, both academically and socially,” Robbins explained. “We need to be grounded in where we live and address inequalities and injustices. Any length of service is valuable.” College freshman Sarah Tran,
who assisted by reorganizing shelves in the Youth Center at the Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS), described her experience at Day On as valuable because of its personal significance. “As my parents were immigrants, volunteering at this project hit close to home,” Tran said. “I’m now more aware that poverty among immigrants and refugees is a significant problem and am interested in doing more for the organization, especially because I live nearby.” College freshman Robert Dicks, who volunteered with Park Pride to move rocks to clear a football field at the John A. White Park, described his experience as “enlightening.” “It was meaningful to me because I learned to do small things without expecting anything in return,” Dicks said. “I learned it is possible to focus on something as simple as moving rocks — there’s nothing to it but just serving and helping out where you can.” Students travelled in groups via buses and passenger vans to one of 12 locations. Among other activities, students performed service by cleaning houses for patients staying at the Atlanta Hospital Hospitality House, gardening at the Oakland Cemetery, assisting with landscaping and minor home repairs for Habitat for Humanity and performing maintenance work of buildings at the WonderRoot Community Art Center. Aside from Emory’s Day On, VE’s Days of Service also hosts the Freshman Day of Service, which takes place in early Sept., and Emory Cares Day, which takes place in early Nov. According to Robbins, students can also get involved with over 20 weekly service trips and alternative breaks dedicated to volunteer work during the fall, spring and winter breaks as well as over the weekend. VE is a student-run organization. According to Robbins, VE is looking to recruit new staff in March.
— Contact Emily Lim at emily.lim@emory.edu
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Free Community College Promising, Faces Obstacles Following President Obama’s announcement of a national plan for free community college earlier this month, debates flared in the media over its value as a national investment and the feasibility of such a plan on a financial level. We at the Wheel find this plan to be a step in the right direction, but we do have some reservations. The plan was officially proposed in the annual State of the Union address this past Tuesday. The goal of this program is to make higher education, including technical and vocational schools, more accessible to those that are qualified but might otherwise not be able to afford the cost of attendance. This plan is modeled on the “Tennessee Promise” program, which that state has implemented with great success. The two major stipulations of this new national proposal are that a participating student maintain a minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA and be currently enrolled in a full - or part-time program of study to maintain progress towards either a degree or a certificate in an in-demand field. This proposal supports those that wish to pursue education at a vocational or technical school, where students learn the ropes of various trades, such as plumbing, masonry or carpentry. This program would have a very wide-ranging impact on a wide variety of people with a potential for a lot of good to be done to and for our society. However, the proposal as it stands does not address a number of issues. First, Obama’s plan does not address the current stigmatization of technical schools. Our media is inundated with the message that liberal arts colleges are necessary for a successful, comfortable life. The government needs to work to raise awareness of the benefits and importance of skilled labor and establish programs to encourage students whose passions do not lie at college to consider vocational training without any sense of shame. Second, the program as stated does little to address the issue of retention at community colleges. Graduation rates at two-year schools are staggeringly low. For a six-year graduation rate, numbers around 20 percent are extremely common. However, there may be solutions. Tennessee’s program, to increase retention at their statefunded programs, features a mentoring program to ease the transition to higher education for their students. Nearer to Emory, Georgia State University (GSU), a four-year college located in Downtown Atlanta, has used data to keep its 32,000 students on track to graduation, sending automated alerts to students’ advisors when a student doesn’t take enough credit hours or the right classes to remain on track to graduate. GSU’s approach has proved so successful — raising its graduation rates by 22 percent over 10 years — that it proved a major impetus in a recently announced merger with Georgia Perimeter College (GPC), which struggles in its graduation rates. If community colleges find more innovative strategies like these to retain students, this program could become profoundly successful. Another issue raised is that low-income students already receive federal funding for college in the form of Pell grants, so free community college might more specifically benefit middleor higher-income students. However, Pell grants do not address the extremely substantial costs of both textbooks and living expenses. Obama’s program needs to address this issue and target low-income students, as tuition is not the only price in cost of attendance. Finally, the potential for continual severe credential inflation becomes a very real possibility. More and more professions, ranging from managerial positions at Target to performance positions in major orchestras, have experienced a phenomenon in which entry level positions now require a significantly higher level of education than they did in the past. As this occurs, Obama’s plan may do nothing to stave off growth of economic inequality or improve the job market, because as far more people take advantage of schooling beyond high school, its value decreases. However, despite its drawbacks and the questions we’ve raised, making higher education more accessible creates a stronger, more informed and more innovative populace. As Obama said in his State of the Union address, the U.S. needs to make college “as free and universal in America as high school,” thereby creating a more critically-engaged, stronger nation. The above staff editorial represents the majority opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board.
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College editorials from across the country The Daily Princetonian Princeton University Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015 Student responses to the Michael Brown and Eric Garner grand jury decisions have challenged the characterization of the University as a community that shies away from activism. The Nov. 25 protest on Prospect Avenue and the Dec. 4 “die-in,” along with other student-led events, have brought students of all backgrounds into a discussion on the ways in which race affects students’ experiences at the University and how the University can create a safer and more supportive environment...The Board believes the discourse surrounding pressing social issues should continue and commends the students who, through their activism, have inspired a respectful and open campus-wide discussion. All too often, students here focus on their studies and extracurricular endeavors at the expense of engaging with important national and international events. The “die-in” following the Eric Garner grand jury decision, in particular, was tremendously successful at interrupting students’ regular schedules to draw attention to an issue that all individuals, especially those fortunate enough to receive a top-tier education, should engage with. The Board believes the “die-in” and similar events that force students to confront important
questions from outside the “Orange Bubble” are an integral part of a Princeton education. Such events encourage students to apply the knowledge and analytical tools they have developed in courses to find solutions to the challenges of our society, making students internalize the University’s unofficial motto, “Princeton in the nation’s service and in the service of all nations.”...Furthermore, the Board appreciates that student activists communicated with the student body using a variety of platforms. Activists chose to balance more disruptive protests with more accessible town hall meetings and participation in a University-sponsored panel. The multitude of forums from which students could express their views gave students of all temperaments a home within the greater movement of students concerned with issues of diversity, inclusion and equity...Finally, the Board is proud of the more transparent and expressive environment that has developed over the past month. Students making their voices heard has resulted in an awareness of injustices on campus and in the University creating a task force to pose solutions to the hurdles certain students face. Moreover, the Board believes that students’ willingness to participate in the dialogue surrounding Ferguson has only positively contributed to more active discussions of other campus issues such as the challenges women face within the eating clubs...
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Jon Warkentine
Romantic Idealism Lacks Substance Writers Offer Flawed Depictions of Love
So run the famous lines from The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks’ popular romance novel that made it to the big screen: “They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.” Absolutely sigh-worthy, though we may be sighing for different reasons. It’s a familiar tale — not only to Sparks’ enthusiasts, but to anyone who has seen a Hollywood romance in his or her day. I’ve never been in a serious relationship, but I’ve seen enough of them to know that what Sparks writes are not “romance novels” — they’re fairy tales, pure and simple. So why don’t we treat them like fairy tales? Reality check: Sparks is filing for a divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.” He was married for 25 years. He reified Hollywood’s notion of romance in popular culture. Look up “romance” in the dictionary, and you can expect his picture pasted in by one of his fans. Judging by his books, if he can’t make a romance work, no one can. According to Twitter user @LANDOW747: “Nicholas Sparks getting a divorce could be equated to your rehab physician doing cocaine.” But it was Sparks himself who told us to judge by actions, not words: “You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times,” he wrote in The Rescue, “But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.” So, let’s judge him, and let’s judge the flowery romantic nonsense he passes as literature, by his actions: he is getting divorced. As the blogger Matt Walsh has pointed out, Sparks suffers from a disease, a disease infecting millions of our nation’s men and women: fantastical and unrealistic perceptions of romance. He has some highly problematic notions about romance, which he propounds in his novels. And what’s more? He’s contagious. Ultimately, Sparks’ ideology is not merely mistaken; it’s hideously and insidiously misleading, and his novels and notions do an immeasurable amount of harm to our culture. Readers and viewers who do not understand the limitations of fictitious romance as a predictor for real-world romance will find themselves expecting Sparks’ characters to walk off the page and into their lives. But in the real world, the one you and I inhabit, meeting Noah Calhoun from The Notebook wouldn’t be a heart-melting experience. Let’s think about it. This guy jumps onto a Ferris wheel seat between some girl he’s never met and an equally strange guy, insistently asking the girl out. Then he hangs from said Ferris wheel, threatening to let go unless said-girl-he’d-never-even-met went out with him. (“I was drawn to you” is his excuse.) When she gives in and they go out, he lies down in the middle of the road, which is somehow supposed to be romantic. “Trust me,” he says, telling her to lie down next to him; they almost get run over. Still catching his breath, he asks her to dance on the same
road. Seriously. Calhoun meets all the criteria of a psychopath. But this dark stranger from the other side of the tracks, this mythological, rough and rugged character so adored by women in popular media (think Christian Grey from Fifty Shades of Grey), “probably has herpes, a coke habit and a criminal record,” as Walsh puts it. And yet Calhoun and characters like him continue to establish our society’s romantic standards. Over Thanksgiving I watched the movie The Fault in Our Stars (different author, same problems) with some friends. Let me ask you: if someone you had never met just stared at you during a cancer support group, smiling knowingly when you looked his way, would you really find that flattering and attractive? It’s just creepy. But when I objected, I was told you can pull it off in real life, but only “if you’re cute enough.” Later on in the movie, Gus Walker tells the girl, “All your efforts to keep me away from you are going to fail.” Let me just say that there is a good reason people carry pepper spray. Still, it wouldn’t be fair to say that characters like Calhoun and Walker are all creep and no charm. There are the romantic picnics, witty and endearing remarks and those bedazzling good looks. But all these only compound the problem.
Love isn’t always flaming affection, scenic picnics and passionate physical intimacy ... We can’t forget that after everything, this is a world of narrative; someone makes a living spending countless hours crafting a minutelong scene. That’s why everything will always be “perfect.” But real life just isn’t like that, and it’s incredibly damaging to hold on to these ideals as a real-world standard. We find ourselves longing for and expecting something that sounds good on paper or on-screen, but these same ideas are what we actually find disturbing or weird in real life. Or we long for and expect a romance so “perfect” that could only ever exist on paper or on-screen. Like pornography, it sets unrealistic and unachievable standards that leave a second party inadequate, powerless to satiate. It’s a lose-lose situation. Although paperbacks and “chick-flicks” are more than capable of ruining a generation of lovers, an increasingly media-saturated and social network-validated culture has exacerbated the problem. Through technology, we have gained the ability to isolate ourselves, displaying selected pieces of our lives in the form of selfies, status updates, etc. Of course, we only show the best parts, the highlights and even those we like to embellish (hence the numerous photo filters on your phone). But who do you know who has tweeted their divorce filings? When has your Instagram feed featured pictures of tears, smeared makeup and disheveled hair, with the caption “first fight! :)”? We extrapolate an image of what romance
is “supposed” to look like from Sparks and social media. But of course, such a detached view of life will be idyllic; everything looks good from far away, as the saying goes. But life is not a Monet painting. Instead, we are forced to take a closer look every day, and our noses are shoved into its unpleasantries. It’s the same with romance: we are pressed to see the ugliness, the dark recesses of our loved ones, and then we continue loving them. As most people have experienced, love involves a lot of mundanity. Love isn’t always flaming affection, scenic picnics and passionate physical intimacy; nor is it always rainbows and butterflies. In fact, it often looks a lot like a friendship. Real love — not the stuff Sparks propounds — integrates the mundane, the everyday, the chores and the obligations, the sacrifices and concessions — everything that Sparks will avoid if he wants to continue making money. It takes all these things and it redeems them, giving them a new meaning, a new beauty. This is precisely the love we find in the Gospels, the Romance of all time. John’s Gospel tells us that, “No greater love has anyone than this: that he would lay down his life for his friend.” Paul finishes the thought in his letters: “Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person ... but God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Jesus’ selfless death and his reckless pursuit of a broken humanity exemplify the kind of love modern relationships could truly benefit from. Jesus didn’t send us sappy love letters; he took on flesh and spoke face-toface, and he said some pretty harsh things — because he loved us. Likewise, Jesus didn’t wine and dine us with romantic picnics, but he gave us his very flesh and blood. Jesus didn’t have butterflies in his stomach when he dragged his cross to Calvary. Nor did he endure that cross because he had some kind of vague, fuzzy feeling for us. Rather, Jesus let himself be murdered because he loved us, with a love so selfless and flawless that we can’t even comprehend what or why it is. Let’s forget everything Sparks has taught us about romance; that stuff only ends in divorce. (According to the American Psychological Association, the U.S. divorce rate is 40 to 50 percent). It’s time to examine the gaps in our News Feed, to ask ourselves what the Instagram photo looks like without that snazzy color saturation. It’s time to ask our parents, grandparents and friends what their romance looked like — and what it looks like 10, 20 and 50 years later. It’s time to understand that love, real love, is gritty. It involves pushing past “irreconcilable differences”; it takes persistence, hard work and the forgiveness of faults. Love doesn’t just form magically overnight, lasting forever or until cancer or Alzheimer’s strikes. Let’s escape the lies of Sparks and social media, and the expectations those lies lead to. Not only is it unfair for others, who can never fulfill our expectations, but it is ultimately unfair to us, who can never have our expectations fulfilled. Jon Warkentine is a College junior from Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Misinformation, Islamophobia Rampant in Media CHRIS HOOVER Last Saturday, Jan. 18, four different Fox News anchors took time out of their normal programs to utter a word not often heard on mainstream television: “Sorry.” The apology from the most watched cable news network in the U.S. was in reference to their repeated discussion of so-called “no-go zones” as a contributing factor to the terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters and a kosher grocery store in Paris earlier this month. In a Jan. 12 article on the Fox News website titled “Paris attacks prompt fears France’s Muslim ‘no-go’ zones incubating jihad,” the no-gozones are described as “breeding grounds for radicalism” where “poor and alienated Muslims have intimidated the government into largely ceding authority over them.” According to Fox anchors and their recruited anti-terrorism experts, these are the areas where terrorists such as the Kouachi brothers who attacked the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris are able to thrive. This type of anti-Islamic analysis is not uncommon at Fox News and across much of mainstream American media, but these particular comments received intense international criticism. British Prime Minister David Cameron called one of Fox’s so-called terrorist experts a “complete idiot” for stating that the city of Birmingham is “totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go,” while the French TV station Canal+ mocked Fox by visiting the no-go zones and interviewing ordinary French citizens. Unfortunately Fox’s absurd comments, deemed laughable by our Western European allies, were widely accepted here in the U.S. In one of the four apologies last Saturday, Fox anchor Julie Banderas explained that the network had “made some regrettable errors on air regarding the Muslim population in Europe” and that “there is no formal designation of these zones.” Certainly a commendable act, but what is more regrettable than their failure to sufficiently check their facts about the no-go zones is their propensity to leap headlong into support of such a story simply because it substantiates their argument against Islam. But when a major news station inaccurately reports information that ostra-
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cizes a religion practiced by nearly a quarter of the world, is sorry really enough? Following the conclusion of the nationwide manhunt for the perpetrators of the Jan. 7-9 attacks, news stations from Fox News to CNN to MSNBC attempted to explain how and why these incidents took place in a Western nation that is not too unlike the U.S. They began searching for someone or something to blame, and inevitably came up with the Islamic religion as they so often have in the decade and a half since the 9/11 terror attacks. These anti-Islamic sentiments in TV journalism are manifested in a variety of ways. Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly seems to enjoy quoting scripture from the Quran that undeniably encourages a Jihad against the Western world. Fellow Fox News anchor Sean Hannity’s favorite pastime appears to be moderating debates between himself, an antiIslamic guest and a pro-Islamic or Muslim guest whose comments are often drowned out by Hannity’s own raised voice. Other less
prominent anchors often supplement their opinions with imported experts on terrorism, Middle Eastern politics or military strategy, but the message is quite consistent: Islam promotes violence, Islam poses a threat to the Western world and Islamic extremism is an Islamic problem that the Muslim community has failed to snuff out. Fox News is not alone in mainstream TV’s so-called “Islamophobia.” A CNN interview from Sept. 2014 with Reza Aslan, a prominent Muslim author, religious scholar and professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside, has resurfaced since the Charlie Hebdo attacks. In the nine-minute interview, Aslan is visibly frustrated and baffled as his interviewers continuously cite human rights violations as problems of the Muslim religion despite his cited evidence of more regional or national causes that are unassociated with religion in any way. According to a 2014 study by the American Press Institute, 87 percent of Americans watch TV to follow the news, leav-
Censorship Obscures Hate CONNOR CRUM There is an alarming trend happening in higher education across the country. From Harvard, Stanford and Yale to Kansas State and Valdosta, universities are choosing to censor themselves and their members rather than risk the chance of someone saying something that could possibly offend or cause controversy. This is mostly due to two factors: increased litigation resulting in policy to decrease liability and the good-natured attempts from administrators to protect students from “harmful ideas.” At best, this is a misguided infringement on the freedom of conscience. At worst, it is the institutionalization of thought-police. I hold that it is somewhere closer to the former at the moment, but fear the implications if left unchecked. In today’s “liberalized society,” it is becoming more and more difficult to have opinions on controversial topics without offending the senses of some group. I have felt it impossible to discuss the hostilities (for lack of a better term) in the state of Israel, inside the context of the Political Science Department without hearing vehement accusations of antiSemitism or Zionism. Self-censorship has silenced a department whose entire purpose is to discuss the state and conflict resolution on what could arguably be considered the most important conflict of the 21st century. If only one thread is pulled through this series, let it be this: censorship is antithetical to the very idea of a university. A common misunderstanding when dealing with free speech is that we value the freedom of speech because it is the first right in our Bill of Rights. In other words, we value free speech because the Constitution says that we do. This is not true. Our Constitution values free speech because it is essential to liberty and therefore a core belief of our society. Speech is protected because it is inherently good for both society and the advancement of learning. It is ridiculous to think that we only have the right to free speech if that speech is something which the majority ascribes to. There is no need to protect something which is not under threat. Instead, it is marginalized groups who need protection. Groups like ethnic or religious minorities, political dissidents and those who disagree with essential social norms — these people are minorities for a reason. There is a reason why the majority of people in society do not agree with them. Sometimes they are just ahead of the times, sometimes it is because their beliefs are in conflict with the existing system of power and sometimes it is because they are just awful human beings. Case in point: LGBT persons in the 195060s. These individuals were vilified in the media, popular culture, the churches and even the scientific community. Until 1973, the American Psychiatric Association regarded homosexuality as a disorder in the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Openly gay men were not allowed to work in schools or hold federal positions, and faced the threat of employment termination even in the private sector. If society had used its power to oppress the speech of what it viewed as an obscene and predatory minority, we would not be able to live in a country where 19 states recognize the right for LGBT couples to marry. Society evolves over time, and what is offensive and obscene today may become an encouraged norm in the future. It is not possible, or wise, for society to regulate against what it feels to be objectionable or obscene. Russia had passed a law recently making it a crime to speak about homosexuality in the presence of a minor, causing public outrage before the Sochi Olympics. The logic used by the Russian government is the same logic that many censors use domestically, only differing in the premise of whether or not homosexuality is bad for society. Because society has shown itself unable to determine what is good and bad speech, it follows that all speech must be protected, especially when it offends. This means that racist organizations will have the right to rally, fascists can hand out fliers, war opponents can protest in the streets and that guy you hate in calculus can make a snide comment about how short the skirt is on the girl in the second row. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said that “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” If the free exchange of ideas, even objectionable ideas, is stifled, then ignorance will have a chance to breed. Bigotry and hatred must be thrust out into the light so that it can be examined and crushed through reason and compassion. When people are free to say what is on their minds, they generally will. And when that thought is offensive, others will comment on it and spark dialogue. That is how to remove intolerance, not through censorship. People often tell me something along the lines of: “Emory is a private institution, though. Shouldn’t we have not only the right, but the responsibility, to regulate what message we send about ourselves?” My answer is an unequivocal “yes.” Yes, we are private, yes we should monitor what message we send to the world, but no, we ought not to send this particular message. It is the role of the university in its abstract to question the status quo and push the limits of society. The university is an institution founded to progress the sciences, arts and culture, and Emory is a leader amongst universities. By allowing the majority to control speech and, by extension, thought that deviates from our norms, we run counter to our mission to better society. If our universities are not free to push boundaries, then who will? It is left to us to lead the charge to defend our freedom of conscience, because it seems that if we do not, no one will. Connor Crum is a College junior from Maryville, Tennessee.
ing a tremendous amount of responsibility on networks to distribute accurate information to the American people. Meanwhile, the Pew Research Center found that only 38 percent of Americans know a Muslim individual personally. So, 62 percent of Americans are left to form their opinion of a group of people comprising nearly a fourth of the world population — not to mention more than two and a half million Americans — based on what they see, read or hear. It should not come as a surprise then that a recent study from Pew assessing American feelings towards religious groups found that Muslims are the least trusted crowd in the country, and coming in just behind atheists and far behind Jews, Catholics and Evangelical Christians. Islamophobic reporting is unfortunately not the only form of misinformation represented in major news networks either. In 2014, Ebola, race riots and tensions with Russia briefly took the spotlight from Islamic extremist groups as the premier threat to
America. And yet, here we all are happily on our way in 2015. Where is the apology for Dr. Craig Spencer, who was accused of endangering thousands of New York City residents by riding on a subway with a fever after returning from West Africa? And what about an “our bad” to the African American community for the blatant racism often exhibited during coverage of nationwide protests that followed the Michael Brown and Eric Garner grand jury decisions? At some point, news networks and media outlets of all forms must be held accountable for the information they present to the American people. The government has no control over what stories the media covers, how the news is presented or in what way opinions are conveyed. And rightfully so: freedom of speech is one of the founding tenets of our country and should most certainly be defended at all costs. The Charlie Hebdo attacks only serve to reinforce this necessity. Fox News is proud to provide the forum for individuals with conservative or rightwing views to express their opinions, just as MSNBC is proud to do the same for the left. Without this type of platform for national debate, freedom of speech certainly loses some of its meaning. However, when the opinions of these groups begin to infringe upon the ability of U.S. citizens to live freely and speak freely, action — beyond retrospective apologies — must be taken. And in this free, ratings-driven industry, it is we, the viewers, who must hold the networks accountable for how they present information; we choose to support or counter their opinions, watch or not watch their programs, accept or reject their apologies. The presentation of Muslims as a threat to Western society does nothing to alleviate the threat of Islamic extremists. Continuing this kind of reporting will only contribute to the growing divide currently isolating Islamic groups throughout the Western world. Fox’s apology therefore should be directed at the entire Islamic community for inciting unnecessary distrust of a peaceful religious group and, frankly, other news stations should follow suit. Chris Hoover is a fifth year student in the Rollins School of Public Health from Manchester, Tennessee.
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Russia Prompts Detente With Cuba
As of Friday, Jan. 16, Americans will now be allowed to travel to Cuba without a special government license. This move is part of the Obama administration’s normalization of relations with Cuba, which also includes liberalization of trade restrictions, increasing the amount of remittances allowed and reopening diplomatic relations. This normalization of relations can be attributed to many factors: the failure of the embargo to topple Fidel Castro’s regime, pleas form the international community and a changed domestic political landscape. One reason for the administration’s shift on Cuba policy has received little attention, yet is possibly one of the most important reasons for this historic rapprochement: the new conflict between the United States and Russia. President Obama does not want to repeat the mistakes of America’s Cuba policy during the Cold War, in which the United States isolated and embargoed Cuba in an attempt to remove the Castro regime from power, but actually just drove Cuba in the hands of the Soviet Union. The politics of Cuba was a matter of great importance in American-Soviet relations for much of the 20th century. Only 90 miles from Florida, communist Cuba was one of the USSR’s greatest points of geopolitical leverage over the United States. Cuba is best remembered for its role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the world came closer to nuclear annihilation than it ever has before or since. But the Soviet Union also basically supported the entire Cuban economy, buying its entire sugar crop and supplying heavily subsidized oil. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and aid to Cuba ceased, the Cuban economy went into deep recession for four years. The Soviets also ran the Lourdes spy base on the island, the USSR’s largest spy base outside of its own borders, which greater than 75 percent of the Kremlin’s strategic
information on the United States filtered through at its peak. While Cuba is no longer as close to Russia as it once was to the Soviet Union, the two countries continue to have deep connections. Approximately 55,000 Russians visit Cuba every year, often for beach vacations away from Russia’s cold winters. In the past year, as a part of Russia’s new aggressive and expansionist foreign policy, the Kremlin has tried to become closer to its former Caribbean ally. In July, Putin visited Havana and met with Raúl and Fidel Castro. In a deal accompanying the visit, Russia agreed to forgive $32 billion in Cuban debt to Russia, and in return Cuba is allowing Russia to reopen the Lourdes spy base, explore for oil and gas in Cuban waters and help build a large seaport. Russia is attempting to rebuild its connections to Cuba to gain leverage over the United States, as the USSR did during the Cold War. The Obama administration is determined to not let Cuba fall within the Kremlin’s sphere of influence. A Russia-aligned Cuba would be a great security liability since the country is so close to the United States. A showdown of the magnitude of the Cuban Missile Crisis would be unlikely to occur because the United States’ current conflict with Russia is less heated and communication between the two countries is better than it was during the heyday of the Cold War. But a Russia-aligned Cuba would serve as a springboard for the Kremlin’s anti-Western foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere. There is already an alliance of antiWestern leaders in Latin America led by Venezuela, and largely fueled by its petrodollars, that includes Cuba, Bolivia and Ecuador. While members of this loose ideological alliance are vocal critics of the United States, they are not powerful enough to challenge the United States in any meaningful capac-
ity. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez infamously called President George W. Bush “el diablo,” but he cannot do much more than this cheap talk. If these states were to align with Russia though, together they could threaten the United States and its allies much more significantly. Russia could finance insurgencies and extremist parties across Latin America, using these allies like Cuba and Venezuela as bases of operations and partners, as it has done in its own European front yard and as the Soviet Union did during the Cold War. Obama’s historic rapprochement with Cuba should hopefully avoid this scenario. By reestablishing relations with Cuba, the United States will have much more influence over Cuba — influence that it can use to pull Cuba away from Russia using positive incentives such as foreign aid, trade links and broader cultural connections. The year 2014 has unfortunately shown that Russia is once again a geopolitical threat to the United States and overall global security. By pursuing rapprochement with Cuba, the Obama administration is ensuring that we do not repeat the fiasco that was AmericanCuban relations during the Cold War, as the United States now enters a new Cold War of sorts with Russia. It was a brilliant policy move by the Obama administration in both means and end. By reengaging Cuba in a manner that will hopefully promote democracy, liberty and prosperity for the Cuban people, President Obama is also countering Russia’s geopolitical aggression. While American foreign policy often does not learn from its own mistakes, by reopening relations with Cuba, Obama is ensuring that the failed Cuba policy of the Cold War does not continue into the new conflict with Russia. Ben Perlmutter is a College junior from Chappaqua, New York.
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Friday, January 23, 2015
Crossword Puzzle
Student activities CALENDAR MONDAY
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Student Life The Emory Wheel
K ing Week 2015
Friday, January 23. 2015 Student Life Editor: Stephen Fowler (smfowle@emory.edu)
Radio SHOW
Advice
Dear Doolina: Start The Year Off Right Abby. What advice do you have? Sincerely, Wants Your Job Dear Wants My Job,
Dear Doolina,
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Comedian DC Young Fly (left), Goizueta Business School junior Brandon Walker (center) and Goizueta Business School senior Daniel Assan (right) talk in the WMRE studio during Tuesday night’s “The Mix” radio show.
Radio Show Brings Celebrity Into “The Mix” By Julia Munslow Contributing Writer Anyone belonging to the Millennial Generation is all too familiar with the desire to be famous — online. In the age of social media, popularity and celebrity are defined by followers and retweets. Last Tuesday the WMRE student-run radio station show The Mix, hosted by Goizueta Business School junior Brandon Walker and senior Daniel Assan, featured a celebrity guest who has certainly achieved fame on the Internet — one of Atlanta’s own rising stars, DC Young Fly. With over two million followers on Instagram, comedian, rapper and social media sensation, DC Young Fly discussed his evolution from Vine phenomenon to soon-to-be television star on MTV2’s “Wild ‘N Out,” as well as addressing his online feud with comedian Kevin Hart. “I’m gonna turn up for my city,” the future “Wild ‘N Out” cast member said enthusiastically. Despite all of his success, the Internet phenomenon shared that it took the strong suggestions of one of his friends to join Vine at all. Although he was initially reluctant, his videos became popular quick-
ly, with the very first one racking up more than one thousand views. After only one month, he had 50,000 followers — a number that would double by the end of his second. And after only two months of Vines, he was awarded the Funniest Male of the Year at the 2013 Black Vine Entertainment Awards. The online star’s presence in his short videos translated to his persona in person — DC Young Fly was just as clever on the show, and his natural charisma and confidence became especially clear in his ability to quickly establish an easy rapport with Walker and Assan and elicit the laughs of the group of Emory students in the room. Additionally, Walker and Assan played parts of his new mixtape, Supplyin Pressure, which was released on Jan. 22. In contrast to the usual stress-relief The Mix provides Walker, he admitted that having the show’s first celebrity guest, DC Young Fly, as a guest caused him considerable stress in the week leading up to the show. While the Atlanta native was the first celebrity to be featured on The Mix, In the upcoming semester, the partners are hoping that other stars will accept their invitation to be spe-
cial guests on the show, especially as its popularity grows in the Emory community. The Mix began as the brainchild of Walker, who realized during a summer internship in investment banking that he needed to do something to help curb his stress. The early days of the show were mainly for Walker’s personal enjoyment and amusement, as he answered his friends’ calls and joked around with Assan. Although the show may have started with Walker simply blasting his favorite music and playing his friends’ song requests, The Mix grew into one of the most popular radio shows on Emory’s campus, thanks to the guests they’ve hosted on the show, such as College sophomore and successful musician Matt De Lereaux. Both Walker and Assan stated that they wanted The Mix’s selection of music to continually surprise people with the type of music that they play. “[We want] to refine people’s musical palates,” Assan said. “We definitely try to mix it up.” Not only do the co-hosts play unpredictable songs, but they also feature unpredictable topics on the show — ones that might not be expected of such a relaxed entertain-
ment program. Last semester, Walker and Assan decided to have an entire show dedicated to the Black Lives Matter protests found nationwide, with a focus on the movement on Emory’s campus. They used a live Facebook event to allow their listeners to contribute to the discussion while on air, along with answering calls about the social justice movement. Assan, a marketing major, cited this as one of his attempts to bring more and more listeners to the show through such Facebook campaigns featuring comedic posters along with simple word-of-mouth techniques. Not only do the self-titled “Mix Boys” have plans to continue the popularity of their show, but they’re looking to take their presence beyond the WMRE studio. The two revealed their plans to take their musical prowess to a much larger audience — Fraternity Row — sharing their desire to produce a big event with themselves at the helm as DJs and party hosts. Both co-hosts said they were proud of their accomplishments in the past semester, particularly with regards to the young age of their show.
— Contact Julia Munslow at julia.munslow@emory.edu
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King Week: Center for Civil and Human Rights By Ana Ioachimescu Contributing Writer Emory students will have the opportunity to visit the National Center for Civil and Human Rights on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, courtesy of the Emory College Council-hosted experience shuttles to the museum, which is dedicated to creating a safe space for individuals to explore the fundamental rights of all human beings, according to its mission statement. The shuttles are intended to give Emory students a taste of civil rights during King Week. Established in 2007 after Civil Rights icons such as Evelyn Lowery, Andrew Young and John Lewis suggested the need to build a place that would connect civil rights history with contemporary people and issues, the Center educates people on the bridge between the American Civil Rights Movement and more contemporary, international issues related to human rights. It aspires to reflect on the past, transform the present and inspire the future. The 43,000 square foot building, located in the heart of Atlanta, adjacent to the World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium, is futuristically shaped, with asymmetrical walls and a majestic glass entrance. Chief Executive Officer of the
Center Doug Shipman (‘95C), who graduated with a degree in economics and political science. said the Center is the first ‘Human Rights Museum’ in the United States. “No other institution discusses and explores human rights issues for [the] broad public everyday,” Shipman said. Currently on display in the Center is a mural by street artist Gaia exploring the hashtag “iftheygunnedmedown,” in response to the recent racial tragedies in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City. Also, Morehouse College’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection Gallery is on display at the Center until May 3, 2015. The gallery includes historical artifacts such as King’s diary from Albany Jail (1962), a letter from President Lyndon Johnson to King (1963) and King’s address on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Center has been hosting many events for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Recently, there was a town hall meeting focused around the issues of Ferguson. There was also a conversation on present issues with Essence magazine and a religious service held by a local Jewish synagogue. Finally, the Center hosted a performance by the Alliance Theater written by playwright Pearl Cleage, a renowned African American writer.
I’m a senior and want to make the most of my last semester, but I worry that I’m putting too much pressure for everything to be perfect. How do I find the balance of making sure it’s a memorable semester while not forcing it to be? Sincerely, Second Semester Senior Dear S^3, Ah, those wonderful last few months of college. When you’re already nostalgic over the best four years of your life, even though you’ve only had 3.5 of them and not all of them were really that great anyway. When every day seems to be extra sunny, and every night seems to be even more fun than the last. If you’re worried about putting too much pressure on yourself to make sure every moment is perfect, you probably are putting too much pressure on yourself. Take a step back, take a breath, and think: do you really want to spend your last few months of college worried over maximizing the last drop of fun, or do you want to live a bit more spontaneously and freely and see where that takes you? I recommend that you make a bucket list of everything you want to do before graduation, and try to do as many items on the list as possible. But you should also leave time for those fun aimless nights where you end up somewhere you never would have thought to put on your bucket list in the first place. Sometimes those are the best nights of all. Delightfully, Doolina Dear Doolina, I have aspirations to be an advice columnist. It’s been my life’s dream since last Tuesday, but I don’t know how to live up to my role models such as yourself, Dear Doolina, and Dear
Ah, finally a query that truly tests my ethics as an advice columnist! Do I reveal my tips of the trade and help you work your way into the exclusive and lucrative world of advising total strangers, or do I protect my own job in this low-wage economy by sabotaging your chances? I’ll do the former, because that’s what being an advice columnist is all about: helping people fix their problems and offering an ear when no one else will. Plus, I’ve grown weary over the years, and maybe it’s about time someone gave me a run for my money. And I enjoyed your flattery, overt though it was. My first piece of advice is to consider whether or not a dream you’ve had since last Tuesday is really a dream. It very well might be, in which case you should stick to your guns and never give up. If so, in order to be a successful advice columnist you must be empathetic, understanding and creative. You can’t be afraid to tell people the truth (that’s what you’re there for, after all), but never use that as an excuse to be mean. There’s a difference between being honest and being too honest, and it’s an important one. But really, you just have to have a genuine desire to help people — even if you like to throw in a snarky comment here and there like I do. Hopefully one day I’ll be sending in my problems for you to solve! Delightfully, Doolina Dear Doolina, My roommate last semester filled my water bottle with bleach. I think she was trying to kill me or at least seriously hurt me. I tried to reach out to get her disciplined, but I ultimately will be living with her this semester. What should I do? Sincerely, Poisonous Roommate Dear Poisonous Roommate, H2O, more like H-2-uh-oh! That’s one difficult roommate situation you’ve got on your hands. It seems like your roommate is in fact deliberately trying to hurt you. I suggest you make like a slip and slide and get out of there, fast. Even if you can’t get her disciplined, surely you can at least request a room change. And mark the request “urgent,” because her behavior could escalate — though I’m not sure how one could escalate from trying to poison you, I’d wager your roommate has an idea or two. Delightfully, Doolina
Community Spotlight
Senior Bailey Builds Bonds With Barista By Hayley Silverstein Asst. Student Life Editor
Courtesty of The Center for Civil and Human Rights
Emory students will visit the Center for Civil and Human Rights Saturday as part of the University King Week celebration.
Because of these events, the Center has hosted thousands of visitors throughout the week. During the rest of the year, the center supports women’s issues through the Women’s Solidarity Society or the Justice Society, which is a section of the Center launched in 2010 that invites women and girls to participate in meet-and-greet events, quarterly vision meetings, fundraising, recruiting more participants and sharing stories. Similarly, the Justice Society, an affinity group for the Center catered to legal professionals who seek an environment in which they can support human rights, sponsors special programs, events and training semi-
nars for members. Additionally, the Center accepts donations for Operation Inspiration, which seeks to ensure that any child in the metro Atlanta area can experience the Center regardless of their economic background. Students who are interested in getting further involved with the center and its causes in the future can do so through volunteering or interning. “The Center has year-round internships across our departments including fundraising, marketing, exhibitions, programs and events,” Shipman said.
— Contact Ana Ioachimescu at
ana.serena.ioachimescu@emory.edu
College senior David Bailey was recently involved in a Habitat for Humanity project that helped build a new house for Lashunda McNabb, a Starbucks barista at Emory. A regular at Starbucks since his first year at Emory, Bailey met McNabb and started developing a close relationship through interacting with her on an almost daily basis. During this past fall semester, McNabb informed Bailey about her new home being built through Habitat for Humanity and he offered to help. According to Bailey, his passion for community development gives him the ability to listen to what he considers peoples’ true voices and their real stories. During his time at Emory, Bailey said he has been able to interact with more members of the Emory com-
munity and learn about their troubles, hopes and dreams for the future by slowing down and taking the time to focus on others. “Everyone has a story and an interesting life as to how they got to where they are today. A lot of times we are so consumed with our own lives and ambitions that we don’t take the time to find out how other people got to where they are or what their dreams and aspirations are,” Bailey said. The project to build McNabb’s new home started in November 2014 and lasted for a total of seven weeks. Bailey, with no previous experience with Habitat for Humanity, arrived at the site to a nearly completed house. Alongside other members of the Atlanta community, Bailey was assigned to exterior painting, which included windowsills, shutters and
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Friday, January 23, 2015
The Emory Wheel
Student Life Photo Essay
Food Column
By Stephen Fowler Student Life Editor When talking about food, ‘medium rare’ refers to cooking meat so the outside is browned with just a hint of red in the middle, striving to provide the perfect combination of tenderness and flavor. This column, much like its namesake, strives to provide the perfect combination of epicurean insight and Atlanta-area atmosphere.
West Egg Café Travel along 14th street in Atlanta until it dead ends in the West Side of town and you might miss West Egg Café, a cozy and modern restaurant that is home to Atlanta’s weekend savior: brunch. Much like its Great Gatsby counterpart, West Egg the restaurant creates the aura of a modern, self-made city dweller. With a subtle orange and brown theme permeating the food, the décor and the menu itself, West Egg feels more like eating in a friend’s kitchen than a trip into the city. Speaking of the kitchen, what’s more southern-brunch than a pimento
By Mark Igbinadolor Staff Photographer I explore such questions every day as I interact with the world around me. The photo set is representative of an ongoing photo project in which I am exploring the spaces we occupy. How often do you look at a ceiling when you enter a room? How long do you take the time to process a new environment before going onto the next?
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When I went back to my hometown, Charlotte, North Carolina, for winter break, I made it a point to revisit places I used to frequently interact with and re-learn the space. These photos come from a strip mall that hosts one of my favorite places in Charlotte; bars, a hookah lounge, French bakeries and more are all contained along the inner garden corridor. Revisiting, I was immediately surprised to learn that I did not know
cheese and bacon omelet or CocaCola glazed ham? (As a southerner myself, I’ll give you a hint: there’s not much). Additionally, menu items pay homage to the neighborhood around it: the Peachtree Plate and the Georgia Benedict are both tasty favorites, and the Westside Pileup (skillet potatoes topped with onions, peppers, cheddar cheese, bacon and two eggs) is so good I was almost in a good mood in traffic on the way home. West Egg’s actual brunch menu branches out into more flavorful tangents: Chicken Chilaquiles, Challah French Toast and Salmon Cakes Benedict are all available for the foodie’s fancy alongside more typical burgers and sandwiches. One of the secrets to West Egg’s success is the ability to serve more than food — they also serve a sense of community. Eating at West Egg isn’t merely a means to an end, but a process to be enjoyed. I recommend sitting at one of their larger rectangular tables where you can enjoy the presence of your brunchmate and those around you. The other secret? The biscuits. If you aren’t from the South, ask a southerner about biscuits. Flaky,
buttery and usually accompanied by some sort of gravy, West Egg’s treatment of the biscuit will leave even the staunchest biscuit-hater wanting more. Voted best breakfast in Atlanta by numerous publications for a number of years, West Egg serves as the culinary anchor for the recently-expanding Westside Provisions District and for the food scene across the city. Happening upon West Egg on a Sunday morning will have you wait anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour, but it is the best damn hour I’ve spent in a while. Very rarely have I had an experience at a restaurant where I was wowed from beginning to end, but this was it. In the dozen or so times I’ve had the delight of eating at West Egg, not once have I had bad service or left happier (and fuller) than I entered. West Egg Café should be the number one brunch place on the Atlantan’s list, offering style, taste and the best biscuits inside the Perimeter. 5 out of 5.
— Contact Stephen Fowler at smfowle@emory.edu
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what the ceiling looked like, how there were so many details missed in the space above my periphery, and yet that it is part of the thing I call a “room.” As the project continues, I aim to learn more and more about my own interaction patterns with spaces, and also to reconstruct my understanding of a room, to slow down and truly appreciate it holistically. — Contact Mark Igbinadolor at migbina@emory.edu
College senior David Bailey paints the exterior of the house he helped build for Lashunda McNabb, an Emory Starbucks barista.
Bailey Works With Habitat for Humanity
Continued from Page 9 exterior lighting. Humbled by the experience, Bailey plans to continue participating in service projects for Habitat for Humanity after he realized how easy it is to get involved and make a big difference in someone’s life. According to Bailey, the Emory
community is more than the students, faculty and professional staff members that we see working in their various departments and divisions on campus. “[The Emory community] includes every person you interact with on a daily basis on campus that is affiliated with the University. I think it is important to give back and to show
that we are all one big community. By giving back to the various members of your community, you show that you care about those individuals, you care about the well being of the community and you let them know that they are valuable to the community,” Bailey said.
— Contact Hayley Silverstein at hsilve3@emory.edu
Student spotlight
GroupCal Creates a Solution for Group Scheduling Woes By Ksheerja Batra Contributing Writer Technology obsessed software developer and College freshman Robert Cash recently developed and released an app called GroupCal, which offers scheduling for friends, group partners, study groups and any other group of people who are interested in coordinating schedules. “This app helps connect people and makes life — well — much easier,” Cash said. With technology taking over our lives in a drastic manner, talented people like Cash are finding new ways to connect everyone in a much faster and more efficient way. GroupCal works by creating a group where you and your friends can add your schedules into a list, which allows everyone in the group to see all of the schedule. “There is also an interesting feature called the Now Events in which one can send an invite to the whole group on a particular day to do something and it has an RSVP function. It gives you feedback and makes the invitation public, to see who all can and can’t attend. You can add and
remove people from the group eliminating all of their synced calendars,” Cash said. The newest features Cash plans to add include creating a personal schedule for and syncing it to any group that you join, but it has a privacy filter to it. “It’s a lot like GroupMe. I also want to add a notification system incase you miss any notifications.” Cash said. “Further, you could also send out schedule requests in a ‘private message’ kind of format,” Cash said. He went on to note that by the “second week of college, everyone was using GroupMe.” Cash, intrigued by the struggles of other freshmen trying to coordinate their schedules, was inspired to act. “Some people on my floor and [my] roommate were trying to find out how to coordinate the schedules of all these new people they had met and my roommate suggested I come up with something that would help,” Cash said. HackATL was the first opportunity Cash had to create a preliminary version of GroupCal. Operating as a one-man army, Cash worked on
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GroupCal, seen on iOS 8, was designed to fix scheduling among groups of people after College freshman Robert Cash observed his friends’ struggles.
the entire app himself, including the graphic features and layout of the app. “The look is all default. I manipulate it to look a certain way with a layout. [The] last week of winter break, I gave it to a few close friends who then helped me figure out a few bugs that are now stabilized. Although since it was the first time I did something like this and it took the collaboration of multiple users, I wanted a couple of users to test it out to figure out what I was missing,” Cash said. After lots of coffee and prolonged hours of programming, Cash claims to have completed the IOS version of this app in a span of three days while at home on break. The Android version of the app took over a week to complete. Cash has over 53 hits so far without mass promotion. With such great work, come great hardships. “I had to predict what people would do to make it go wrong, which is really hard. I remember spending days on figuring out how to search and add someone instead of the whole ‘Add Back’ (‘Follow Back’ feature for all Instagram followers) feature,” Cash said. Cash worked hard to make the app easy to use and easily accessible. “You know how to use it, maybe other people don’t. Further, I didn’t want to seclude certain Android users, so picking up on programming and developing an Android app was hard because I had never done it before and it took way longer than it did for IOS,” Cash said. Cash also recently came up with another app called “The Party Line” with College freshman Jared FeltonGrice. While this app is only available on IOS, Cash said that it catches all the local parties close to you. “The new update has some really exciting features coming soon,” Cash said. “Check this new app out and turn up.”.
— Contact Ksheerja Batra at ksheerja.batra@emory.edu
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College freshman Robert Cash recently released GroupCal, an app that allows for the creation of synced group schedules.
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vs. Darton and West Florida 1 p.m. WoodPEC Emory Crossplex Invitational Birmingham, Ala.
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Cleveland Cavaliers small forward LeBron Janes takes the ball to the basket. According to Nathan Janick, the Cavaliers overestimated James’s ability to carry the team to the playoffs.
Nosebleeds: Midseason Power Rankings
Jacob Durst And Nathan Janick
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Senior Elaina Kim, a pole vaulter, sprints toward the bar. Kim placed 13th, clearing 3.20 meters, at the East Tennessee State University Invitational last weekend.
Athletes Serve the Community Over Break
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Continued from the Back Page still in various locations around the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC) and students may continue to donate athletic shoes. “This meet was a good opportunity to compete against Division I athletes, and it allowed us to challenge ourselves beyond our usual competition,” junior Julie Williamson, one of the several runners that had impressive performances, said. Williamson welcomed the challenge: “I was eager to race after winter break and I’m glad to be training and racing with my teammates again.” Williamson recorded the sixth fastest time in school history and the ninth fastest time in Division III this year, with a time of 2:16.22 in the 800-meter dash. Electra Korn, another runner on the team, shined as well. Korn finished 14th in the 200meter dash, with a time of 25.25 seconds, good for the second best mark in Emory history, along with the fourth best time in Division III this year. She also managed a 16th place finish in the 400-meter dash, with a time of 58.53 seconds, earning her the 16th best time in Division III this year. Two freshmen, Daniel Pietsch,
a University Athletic Association (UAA) Athlete of the Week, and Shane Sullivan, also had successful runs. Pietsch, making his collegiate debut, claimed a sixth-place finish in the 400-meter dash, after completing the race in a blazing 49.80 seconds. Sullivan missed the cross country season with an injury, and Head Coach John Curtin said that he wasn’t sure how he would perform coming back. However, he was impressed by Sullivan’s perseverance. “Shane was definitely one of our hardest workers over break, and it really showed during the meet,” Curtin said. Sullivan’s work paid off as he ran a 15:20.48 in the 5000-meter heat, good for a sixth place finish to go with the 22nd best time in Division III. “The first meet back is always a real variable,” Curtin said. “Our kids really came out and impressed. We had a real good week of practice leading up to it, but our kids really kept up with their homework over the break and were ready to go for this meet.” The Eagles started off the year strong and hope to continue their success in Birmingham, Ala. this weekend at the Emory Crossplex Invitational.
— Contact Jacob Durst at jacob.j.durst@emory.edu
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It’s been a while since our last piece, so we will quickly catch up on some of the biggest storylines before we power rank the top five teams in the NBA. Just call it your Winter Break CliffsNotes. The Atlanta Hawks Rise to Power Jacob Durst: Who saw the Hawks coming? At the time I’m writing this, the Hawks have rattled off 13 straight, along with an insane 28 game stretch of 26-2. They might be the best team in the league, or at least they are coached like it. Atlanta Hawks Head Coach Mike Budenholzer has to be the favorite for coach of the year. The only other reasonable candidate is Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors, but he has much more talent at his disposal. I’m already looking forward to the Hawks-Warriors finals in June. Nathan Janick: For the record, I do not think this match-up will be the Finals. These two teams are playing the best basketball in the NBA right now, but the Finals are not won in January. The Release of Josh Smith and the Rise of the Pistons NJ: There is addition by subtraction and then there is what happened with the Pistons. The Pistons preformed what is called addition by subtraction of $26 million. Disappointing results in the win-loss column and even more disappointing shot selection has marked Josh Smith’s time in Detroit. The Pistons chose to cut him and pay him the $26 million left on his contract instead of trying to trade him, which would have required them to give up at least one first round pick. While this decision has left experts and executives puzzled around the league for the cost they were paying him to just go away, the Pistons won the first seven games and have gone 11-3 after his release. This team went from contending for the worst record in the NBA to contending for the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference. JD: To be fair, that’s not much of a difference.
The Wild, Wild West JD: The West continues to beat up on the East when they play each other and, to be frank, outside of the Hawks I don’t know if the East stands a chance. The Golden State Warriors are by far the best team in the league, and once you include the Hawks, I wouldn’t put another East team in the top nine. As of right now, three games separate the third seed Portland Trail Blazers from the sixth seed LA Clippers. Only 10 games separate the first seed Warriors from the eighth seed Phoenix Suns, not to mention the fact that the Oklahoma City Thunder might not even make the playoffs due to a series of early injuries to Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. James Harden is playing like the best player in the league, and the MVP at the end of this year will be him or Stephen Curry. All I know is that there is going to be some really entertaining basketball when playoff time rolls around out West.
The idea that LeBron James could instantly turn Cleveland into a title contender turned out to be a farce.
— Nathan Janick
It’s still too early ... IT’S TIME TO PANIC IN CLEVELAND! NJ: The idea that LeBron James could instantly turn Cleveland into a title contender turned out to be a farce. The team was major steps away from contending for a title before their center, Anderson Varejao, went down for the season with a torn Achilles. Then, they traded away Dion Waiters and ended up receiving J.R. Smith, Iman Shumpert and Timofey Mozgov from the Dion Waiters trade and another trade. Then, LeBron took two weeks off to rest and treat various injuries and the team responded by going 1-7. The Cavs have gone 3-1 since LeBron’s return, but the major issues still remain. Kevin Love has struggled, especially on defense, without a big man to play with who can take much of the physical load on the inside of the court. LeBron, who has reportedly been acting as Cleveland’s General Manager, is likely already looking into the off-season because his third ring appears to be out of reach, at least for another season. Almost 200 words and I haven’t even mentioned that reports say all the players want the organization to fire their coach David Blatt ... Yeah, it’s time to panic in Cleveland.
Midseason Power Rankings 1. Golden State Warriors NJ: Number one seed right now in the Western Conference. That sums up why they are here. 2. Atlanta Hawks JD: Best team in the East by far. I fully expect them to run away with the East. They’re the only team in the East that’s held its own against the West. 3. Portland Trail Blazers NJ: Damian Lillard appears to be making a leap this year and is becoming an elite NBA point guard. We doubted their bench in our NBA preview but it has preformed well during the first half of the season. 4. Houston Rockets JD: We could have put Dallas or Memphis here, but when in doubt, you have to go with the team with the best player, and right now that’s James Harden. 5./6. Dallas Mavericks and Memphis Grizzlies NJ: Both Dallas and Memphis have added key offensive players through trades with the additions of Rajon Rondo and Jeff Green, respectively. Dallas is one of the best offensive teams in the league and Memphis is one of the best defensive teams, and both teams have strong veteran leadership that will be invaluable in the incredibly competitive Western Conference playoffs. 7. San Antonio Spurs JD: You can never count out Tim Duncan and Pop. They’re 8-2 over their last 10 and showing no signs of slowing down. 8. Washington Wizards NJ: I really liked this team in our NBA preview and now that everyone is healthy, they have proven to be legitimate contenders to make the NBA Finals. Paul Pierce has proven to be one of the best offseason acquisitions and the backcourt of John Wall and Bradley Beal is one of the best in the NBA. 9. Oklahoma City Thunder JD: Say what you will about when Durant and Russell Westbrook were injured. The Thunder is back and as good as ever, and will likely cause problems for the first seed Warriors in the playoffs. 10. LA Clippers NJ: This team, while frustrating to watch at times, is one of the most talented teams in the NBA. This team is one injury to Blake Griffin or Chris Paul away from missing the playoffs, but they could also make a push towards a top three seed in the Western Conference if they continue to figure things out on both ends of the floor.
— Contact Jacob Durst at jacob.j.durst@emory.edu and Nathan Janick at nathan.janick@emory.edu
Society imposed its own heroes upon your impressionable On Fire correspondent when he (or she) was but a young child. Culture told him (or her) to look up to great men such as George Washington, Martin Luther King and Bruce Willis. But your under-achieving correspondent soon learned that these men did things that were beyond his (or her) reach. How could he (or she) ever found a country that defended freedom throughout the world, lead the movement that would win basic human rights for an entire race or star in the most epic movie franchise of all time? This realization led to a brief period of existential angst for your doubtful young correspondent. If he (or she) could not live up to the example of his (or her) heroes, what was the point of even trying to make anything out of this endless struggle that we call life? This period of doubt ended, however, when your rejuvenated correspondent discovered that he (or she) could find meaning in life in ways other than those that get you remembered in history textbooks and Entertainment Weekly. That way was through sports. After all, chicks dig the long ball. And with a new passion came new heroes. Your earnest On Fire correspondent now looked up to athletes, men such as Barry Bonds and LeBron James. And for a time, all was right in the world. Your athletic correspondent played baseball, basketball and football. He (or she) hit home runs, drilled three-pointers and caught touchdowns. For obvious reasons, the ladies loved him (or her). But then your fragile On Fire correspondent’s whole world view came crashing down around him with two crushing blows. The first blow was when your correspondent realized that he (or she) was not good at sports. Chicks dig the long ball, but they are unimpressed by strikeouts. But he (or she) could have still dreamed right? After all, shoot for the moon, and if you miss, at least you will land amongst the stars. But at the same time as he (or she) realized his utter ineptitude at sports, your distraught On Fire correspondent also found himself (or herself) let down by his (or her) heroes. It began with Barry Bonds. It turns out that he did all the awesome things that he did while on steroids! Who could have seen that coming? And then LeBron James abandoned friends, family and his hometown in 2010, all for the sake of winning championships and living close to the beach. Is nothing sacred? Do we not play sports for something more than a title? Is there no loyalty anymore? Lost, confused and very, very alone, he (or she) began to search desperately for something pure to hold on to and believe in. And he (or she) found it. It turns out that the heroes of this world are not the players, but the fans. Specifically, the Baton Rouge shoe store employee who went to jail rather than name the LSU football player who gave him his game used gear to sell on eBay. That is right. When police found LSU memorabilia on eBay, they traced it back to 25 year-old Fletcher Sanders. The police told Sanders that he would be arrested if he did not name the players who had given him the gear. Sanders told the police, “Do what you have to do,” and remained silent. This is a man who still believes in something larger than himself. This is a man who represents something pure. This is a man who would never let your correspondent, the football players of LSU or anyone else down. Fletcher Sanders is a hero worth believing in.
Squad Looks to Recover Against Case Western Eagles Confident Despite Consecutive Defeats Continued from the Back Page focused [on Sunday],” Tsao said. “We worn down from that Friday game.” Sayyid again led the Eagles’ attack with a game-high 23 points, her 10th attack lead this year and her fifth 20-plus game of the season. The Eagles found themselves off to a slow start, closing the first half with an 11-point deficit. With 13:46 minutes left in the game, the team rallied a 13-5 charge, cemented with a triple by Sayyid. Kaniut then contributed five points and brought the core to 54-51 with just over eight minutes remaining.
Tsao spoke about the offensive capabilities of the Maroons. “We were more focused on their dribble penetration; they drive a very good drive and kick offense,” she said. Kaniut echoed her teammate’s sentiments. “Chicago was more aggressive than Wash U, which was more technical,” she said. The Maroons ended the game hitting 48.9 percent from the field, while the Eagles managed 40.8 percent. “It’s been a rough start for the UAAs. It was tough weekend that we had to go through,” Tsao said.
“We finally get to play at home this Continued from the Back Page weekend.” The Eagles will host Case Western Emory was up 63-61. Chicago pulled Reserve University (Ohio) tonight at away in the final minutes finishing up by six. 6 p.m. “We played better in the second “This was one of the hardest travel weekends, in terms of distance and game,” Zimmerman said. “We were level of competition we played, and defensively stronger. We had a chance although we didn’t end up with wins, to pull it out, but unfortunately we fell we got a good start,” Kaniut said. a little short this time.” Foster led Emory with 18 points, “Case Western has [been] known to be scrappy and will fight to the very followed by senior guard Michael end. We need to bring that confidence Florin with 17. Junior forward Alex Voss and that we brought to Wash U and bring junior guard Jordan Smith led in a win and keep it going.” — Contact Stephen Jaber at Chicago with 15 and 19 points, stephen.jaber@emory.edu respectively.
“We’re a high paced, offensively oriented scoring team,” Foster said. “Our shots were off, I know that I personally didn’t shoot well. When that happens, it’s hard to win.” Zimmerman doesn’t believe these losses will affect future games. “Just like when we win both games in a weekend, we look at the next game by itself,” Zimmerman said. “We’ll learn from our losses but it won’t change our momentum.” Foster also spoke about how the team is focused on the rest of the season. “I’ve only gone 0-2 in an away weekend one other time at Emory,”
Foster said. “It’s hard, the mood on the plane back — it was pretty solemn. But the turn around is really quick and we’re focused on getting ready for the next game. I’m looking forward to playing Washington and Chicago here at Emory later this season.” The Eagles return to action on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 12 p.m. when they will play the Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) Tartans at Emory’s Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC).
— Contact Jacob Spitzer at jacob.alexander.spitzer@ emory.edu
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Friday, January 23, 2015 Sports Editor: Zak Hudak (zachary.j.hudak@emory.edu)
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Senior McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg swims the butterfly stroke. She took 31st place in the 200-meter butterfly last Thursday at the Arena Pro Swim Series, competing against swimmers of all levels.
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Senior Zachary Rosenberg sprints to the finish. Rosenberg finished 28th in the 400-meter dash with a time of 51.14 seconds at the East Tennessee State University Invitational last weekend.
Eagles Off to a Strong New Year at East Tennessee By Jacob Durst Staff Writer Emory University’s track and field team impressed this past weekend at the East Tennessee State University Invitational despite intense competition. Emory was one of only three Division III schools invited to compete against 42 Division I and Division II schools at the meet. Nonetheless, the Eagles did not let the high-level competition phase them; they welcomed the challenge.
Over 60 athletes from both teams returned to Atlanta early from winter break for “Early Return” training camp. The athletes faced cold temperatures, two-a-day practices and crowded dorms, but the training paid off. The early return also gave athletes the opportunity to give back to the community by teaming up with Nike’s Reuse-a-Shoe program. The team went door-to-door to collect more than 200 shoes. Donation boxes
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Swimmers Impress at Long-Course Texas Meet By Jenny Nutovits Staff Writer
The Emory men’s and women’s swimming and diving team kicked off the Arena Pro Swim Series last Thursday, Jan. 15. The meet was hosted by the University of Texas at Austin and featured some of the top swimmers in the country. At the meet, which was longcourse, or measured in meters, the Eagles competed against both collegiate and non-collegiate athletes for a chance to qualify for the Olympic Trials.Junior Andrew Wilson and senior Hayden Baker both qualified for the finals of their respective events during day one of competition. While Wilson took 14th in the finals of the 200-meter breaststroke (2:20.90), Baker went on to finish 24th in the 100-meter butterfly (53.69). “Going into this series we expected it to be a challenge,” Wilson said, “and I think we handled that well.”
On the women’s side, junior Elizabeth Aronoff claimed 45th in the 200-meter breaststroke preliminaries (2:43.24), while senior McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg finished 57th in the 400-meter freestyle (4:30.79). Senior Nancy Larson earned 70th in the 100-meter freestyle (59.68) with sophomore Claire Liu finishing close behind at 76th place (59.84) The second day at Austin ended with junior Ellie Thompson reaching the finals in the 200-meter backstroke and finishing 29th. For the men’s side, sophomore Christian Baker was able to qualify for the finals in the 200-meter freestyle and claimed 23rd. The Lady Eagles took part in two other preliminary events on Friday. Senior Nancy Larson finished 75th in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 2:09.31 and was also a top finisher in the 50-yard freestyle, claiming 55th. On the men’s side, sophomore Mitchell Cooper placed 35th in the
400-meter individual medley while Hayden Baker finished 56th in the 50-meter freestyle. “It was such a great opportunity to see the top of the field in swimming learn from their racing technique, and get a chance to swim in that kind of environment,” Larson said. The Eagles ended the meet on Saturday with a sequence of strong performances. Wilson took fifth place in the finals of the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:02.51 — a time good enough for an Olympic Trials qualifying mark. “I think it was good for the team to get our name out on the national scene and to challenge ourselves by competing against swimmers that swim at a higher level that we are used to,” Wilson said. Cooper and Baker finished 22nd and 26th in the 1,500-meter freestyle, respectively, while senior Eric Ruggieri claimed a 40th-place finish
Team Falls Short at WashU and Chicago By Stephen Jaber Staff Writer
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Junior forward Will Trawick dribbles past an opposing player. Trawick led the Eagles with 15 points in their loss to the Washington University in St. Louis Bears last Friday.
Squad Suffers Two-Game Weekend Setback The Emory men’s basketball team’s strong season suffered a backlash, going 0-2 over the weekend as the Eagles lost to the University of Chicago (Ill.) Maroons and the Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) Bears. Their overall record now stands at 11-3. “It sucks. Both times we could
— Contact Jenny Nutovits at jenevieve.nutovits@emory.edu
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in the 100-meter breaststroke. For the women, NewsumSchoenberg took 31st in the 200meter butterfly and 37th in the 800meter freestyle. Aronoff finished 37th in the 100-meter breaststroke and 75th in the 200-meter individual medley, while Larson claimed 43rd in the 200-meter individual medley. Thompson placed 29th in the 100meter backstroke with Liu taking 59th in the same series. “All in all, we moved forward as a team by going to this meet and establishing our presence in swimming outside of Division III,” Larson said in regards to the series. The Eagles swimming and diving teams return to action next weekend, when the Eagles host Darton State College (Ga.) and the University of West Florida on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. in the Woodruff Physical Education Center.
have played better,” senior forward Alex Foster said. “They’re really tough teams.” The Bears won 80-70 against Emory, Washington outshot Emory with a 46.7 percent field goal percentage over the Eagles 33.3, and the Bears had 56 rebounds over just 37 by the Eagles. “We were missing shots,” Head Coach Jason Zimmerman said. “We weren’t diligent enough on defense.”
Foster, junior forward Will Trawick and senior guard Josh Schattie each shot in the double digits with 14, 15 and 13 points, respectively. Washington’s senior guard David Fatoki had a very strong offensive game, scoring 25 of their 80 total points. Senior forwards Nick Burt and Matt Palucki scored 12 and 15 points, respectively. Senior guard Mitch Styczynski also scored double digits
with 12 points. In the second game, Chicago won 80-74. The Maroons outshot Emory, landing 45.8 percent against the Eagle’s 42.6. Chicago had 40 rebounds over Emory’s 34 and 14 assists to the Eagles’ 11. While Chicago led most of the game, Emory went on a run in the second half. With 5:37 on the clock,
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The Emory women’s basketball team met two defeats on Jan. 16 and Jan. 18 against Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Chicago (Ill.), respectively. Going up against the Washington University Bears, the Eagles expected a tough fight. “We were prepared for a tough game, and that was one of those games that we had to keep chipping away,” junior guard Ilene Tsao said. The Bears bested the Eagles 66-59 in a close and rigorous display. Washington University is ranked fourth, and the loss to the Bears moved Emory’s record to 8–5 on the season and 0-2 in the University Athletic Association (UAA) rankings. “Wash U is definitely a rival and they are ranked pretty high this year,” Tsao said. “They have a very solid team; we respect their team. Going in, we knew it was going to be a challenge.” Junior guard Khadijah Sayyid led Emory with 14 points and received her fourth double-double of the season after netting 14 rebounds, a game high. Freshman forward Dumebi Egbuna achieved her season high of 12 points during the game, while receiving her fifth double-double of the season. “Wash U was different because they are a talented team, and they read our defense really well,” sophomore guard Shellie Kaniut said. “Our practices really helped with that. We could have pulled it out with a win, but they were pretty hard
offensively.” Given the competitive nature of the rivalry, Tsao said that the team was less determined on narrowing down a formula against Washington University and instead, focused on using their all in the contest. “In the past we’ve done more preparation for Wash U and as a team, we just needed to play and play hard. This time around there was a little less preparation,” Tsao said. “What Wash U ran was something that we had been preparing for all season. We knew the personnel and the key players of the team. We were ready.” The game followed a rhythm throughout the quarters, the Eagles managed to cut the score deficit to eight points prior to halftime after seven-straight baskets. The Bears outshot the Eagles by a small margin,sinking 41.7 percent of their shots from the floor, while the Eagles made 40.7 percent. Following the Friday night contest with Washington University, the Eagles met the University of Chicago Maroons on Sunday afternoon. The Maroons routed the Eagles with a score of 70-57 and moved their record to 2-1 in the UAAs and 8-6 overall. The Eagles’ record fell to 8-6 in the season and 0-3 in the UAAs. “Chicago was a very scrappy, hard team. They are very hard to practice for,” Kaniut said. “Knowing how to play defense, we can read what they are giving us for the next challenge. We are excited for that.” Right after the Friday night game and Saturday practice, the team had to “exude toughness and be mentally
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