April 4, 2018

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Volume 99, Issue 21 ELECTIONS

Ma Defeats Neibart in Run-off

By ConnoR CLeRKin Contributing Writer

Dwight Ma (17Ox, 19C) has been elected the next Student Government Association (SGA) president after winning the run-off election on Monday. Ma received 1,380 votes (76.54 percent), while Elias Neibart (20C) received 423 votes (23.46 percent), according to Vice Chair Elections Board Andy Xu (20C).

Polls for the runoff were open from 8 p.m. on Sunday through 8 p.m. on Monday.

Ma previously served in Oxford SGA as vice president of Oxford SGA and freshman senator. This past year, he was appointed to Emory SGA as Dwight Ma (17 Ox, 19B), SGA PresidentElect

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vice president of international student experience. Ma declined to comment.

Neibart congratulated his opponent on his winning campaign in an interview with the Wheel.

“I want to commend Dwight for running a great campaign for his passion and his drive all throughout the year,” Neibart said. “I do want to wish him the best for the upcoming legislative session.”

Ma and Neibart were the top-two vote getters in the three-candidate

primary election. Mario Karras (17Ox, 19B) was eliminated on Friday, after receiving the least amount of votes.

Ma earned 880 votes (37.18 percent), Neibart earned 791 votes (33.42 percent) and Karras earned 696 votes (29.4 percent).

Karras also congratulated Ma in an April 2 post on his personal Facebook page.

“I would like to congratulate Dwight Ma on his election to the presidency of Emory’s SGA,” Karras wrote. “Dwight is the epitome of someone that knows how to really love Emory. Looking forward to seeing the great things he will accomplish.

The run-off concluded a contentious election season which included an Elections Board hearing for allegations into Ma’s electoral misconduct related to drinks he had bought for other students at Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill. Ma was acquitted of all charges.

Neibart also was the subject of a controversy over his 2015 Facebook comments opposing same-sex marriage. In response to backlash, Neibart retracted the comments and issued a statement on his personal Facebook page.

Neibart, who served as attorney general for the 51st SGA legislature, said he is still “assessing” if he will continue to participate in SGA. “I do want serve the school and I do want to help in any way I can,” Neibart said. “I’m going to determine what’s the best way I can help the student body and student government moving forward.”

For the Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) presidential election, Sydney Kaplan (19L) received 502 votes (42 percent), Sakinah Watts (19B) received 382 votes (32 percent) and Kylee Borger (19PH) received 311 votes (26 percent).

Kaplan and Watts will face each other in a run-off with polling open Thursday, April 5, to Friday, April 6.

Elyse Cooke (20T) won the uncontested GSGA vice presidential race with 1035 votes (87 percent) and 160 votes (13 percent) of no confidence.

A run-off also occurred in the race for College Council (CC) sophomore legislator after the Board of Elections declared the ballot invalid because the name of a CC sophomore legislator John Priddy (19C), SGA Executive Vice PresidentElect chRistina Yan/a sst. news editoR

candidate mistakenly appeared on the SGA sophomore representative ballot, according to a March 30 email from Xu. Alice Zheng (21C), Lyndsey Garbee (21C), Alec Giufurta (21C), Aditya Jhaveri (21C) and Karen Lee (21C) were the top vote-getters in the run-off and received 84, 79, 68, 64, and 58 votes respectively. SGA outsider John Priddy (19C) defeated Muhammad Naveed (17Ox, 19C) for

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Elections Marred With Controversy

Although the Student Government Association (SGA) Spring elections normally go off without a hitch, this year’s races were riddled with an unprecedented amount of controversy.

The SGA presidential election, which saw Dwight Ma (17Ox, 19C) prevail with 76.54 percent of the vote to opponent Elias Neibart’s (20C) 23.46 percent in a run-off election, proceeded several complaints against Ma and his primary opponent Mario Karras (17Ox, 19B); the discovery of Neibart’s 2015 comments against same-sex marriage, which he later retracted; and a petition that garnered more than 300 signatures calling for the recall of the race. Additionally, a change in the voting system proved glitchy and prevented some students from voting for representatives from their year. eLeCtions BoARd dismisses ChARges The Elections Board held a hearing on March 30 after two students told

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the Elections Board that Ma was trying to obtain votes in exchange for purchasing alcoholic drinks at Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill. Two other students accused Ma of offering executive positions to receive votes. In response, Ma filed a challenge against Karras for colluding with the challengers and creating “fake stories” about him.

Ma and Karras were acquitted of all electoral misconduct charges in 5-0 decisions by the Elections Board on March 30, according to Chair of the Elections Board Betty Zhang (20C).

Zhang told the Wheel that the students who filed the complaints may have done so based on “misunderstandings.”

The charges were dropped “to keep the candidate pool diverse and allow those who are qualified to be able to demonstrate what they can do for the Emory community,” Zhang wrote in a March 31 email to the Wheel.

Ma eventually emerged victorious in a run-off election that ended on April 2.

When the Wheel asked Ma how he

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Left to R ight: Emory’s Constitutional Council Justices Owen Mattocks (20C) and Brandon Wood (18C) and Chief Justice Talia Burstein (18C) question the eligibility of Radhika Kadakia’s (20C) candidacy for College Council president.

Elections Board Chair to Resign

By ALex KLugeRmAn News Editor Elections Board Chair Betty Zhang (20C) told the Wheel that she plans to resign from her position after the Constitutional Council recommended she resign or be impeached.

In its first case in years, the Constitutional Council upheld incoming College Council (CC) President Radhika Kadaka (20C)’s victory in the elections and admonished Zhang’s

actions during the elections cycle.

Zhang informed SGA President Gurbani Singh (18B) of her resignation through text message on Tuesday, but Zhang plans on sending a formal email resignation on Wednesday, Singh told the Wheel.

The Constitutional Council’s recommendations came after two CC legislators filed a complaint with the Constitutional Council regarding

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Oxford student government assocation (sga) President Ben Palmer (18Ox, 20B) (Left) and Oxford sga speaker of the senate Jacob Hicks (18Ox, 20C) (R ight) present three bills to Emory’s sga that would revise the Code of Elections.

Oxford SGA Proposes Elections Changes

By BeLiCiA RodRiguez Senior Staff Writer The 51st legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) passed bills on Monday night that amend the Code of Elections by allowing a “No Confidence” option in contested races and clarifying registration requirements for candidates. A bill that calls for anonymity during electoral misconduct investigations was tabled. The bills stemmed from issues raised during the Spring 2018 student government election cycle.

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Additionally, SGA approved the administrative budget for the 52nd legislature and the 2018-2019 Executive Agency (EA) budgets.

The legislature unanimously passed with 10 votes Bill 51sl63, submitted by the Oxford SGA, calls for a “No Confidence” option on elections ballots and aims to provide students with “the opportunity to voice dissent against all candidates running.” Previously, the ballot only offered a “No Confidence” option in races where candidates were running uncontested.

SGA Speaker of the Legislature and

Senior Representative William Palmer (18C) stated that the bill needed to be amended to provide a formal change to the Code of Elections that would allow a “No Confidence” option for all elections ballots. Freshman Representative Austin Graham (21C) initiated an amendment to the bill that would remove the phrase “where candidates are uncontested” from Part III, Article 2, Section F of the Code of Elections. The amendment passed unanimously with 10 votes, as did the

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Crime Report Compiled by VALeRie sAndoVAL On March 29 at 12:18 a.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding possession of marijuana.

The Residence Life Coordinator (RLC) of Evans Hall reported that he saw two students smoking through an open window.

He knocked on their door and, after speaking with them, he confiscated a marijuana grinder and a glass marijuana pipe.

He also had the students dump out beer and liquor that he found in their room.

When the EPD officer arrived, he asked the students if they had any more marijuana in their possession.

One of the students said yes and gave the officer a small bag containing marijuana that he said belonged to him.

The officer issued the student who was in possession of the bag an Atlanta arrest citation for possession of marijuana.

The RLC said he would handle the alcohol violation through the conduct process. Campus Life was notified about the incident.

On March 31 at 12:45 p.m., EPD responded to a call from an Emory student regarding property damage at the Kappa Sigma house, located at 20 Eagle Row. The complainant reported that on March 31 at 1:30 a.m., he noticed that the back glass door of the house was damaged.

He said there were several people at the house the night before who stayed until the early hours of March 31, but he does not know who caused the damage.

There were broken pieces of cement on the ground beneath the scratched door.

The complainant said he believed someone used the pieces of cement to cause the damage.

The officer called Facilities Management to inspect the damages.

The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On April 1 at 3:06 a.m., EPD responded to a call from a resident adviser (RA) regarding a fight between

two Emory students in Evans Hall.

Emory Police Dispatch advised officers that the fight had started between two males, one of whom appeared to be drunk.

When the officer arrived, he heard yelling on the second floor hallway and observed the two students facing each other in a verbal altercation.

There was a subject between the two students keeping them physically apart.

The officer spoke with the first student, who said the second student had been speaking badly of another student.

The first student confronted the second student, but the conversation escalated to a verbal altercation in which both students were using vulgar language, according to the first student.

The first student stated the conversation never escalated into a physical altercation.

The officer observed that the first student appeared to be slightly intoxicated.

The second student reported that the first student came to his room and began yelling at him for being abusive and committing domestic violence.

The second student said that the first student pushed him while his back was turned during the verbal altercation, and he pushed him back in self-defense.

Two male students, who were guests in the second student’s room, restrained the first student and the two students continued to engage in a verbal dispute.

The case has been assigned to an investigator. Campus Life was notified about the incident.

At 3:40 a.m., while EPD was responding to a fight that broke out in Evans Hall, officers also filed a separate report for simple assault.

The RA who was on the scene stated that while calling EPD, the second student called the first student a degenerate.

The RA said he feared for his safety and had not decided if he would pursue criminal prosecution.

Campus Life was notified about the incident.

— Contact Valerie Sandoval at valerie.sandoval@emory.edu

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• In last week’s issue, “Eagles Make Waves with 24th Champs Title” inaccurately stated that Emory’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams received 15 national records at the NCAA Division III Championships. In fact, Emory received 15 national titles at the tournament.

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Justices Uphold Kadakia’s Candidacy Continued from Page 1 the Elections Board’s exception for Kadakia’s late declaration to run for CC president, the Council recommended SGA take no action in the 2018 College Council (CC) presidential election results that saw Kadakia win with 640 votes (51.45 percent).

The Constitutional Council called for Zhang’s removal “considering the myriad of issues regarding her actions during the 2018 election cycle,” according to the March 30 case decision.

“I appreciate the Constitutional Council’s decision and the efforts of the justices in seeing this case so thoroughly,” Zhang wrote in an email to the Wheel before she confirmed that she was resigning.

ConstitutionAL CounCiL heARing CC Sophomore Legislators Alec Giufurta (21C) and Lyndsey Garbee (21C) challenged the Elections Board’s 5-0 decision to allow Kadakia to run for CC president despite missing the March 18 deadline to declare her candidacy.

In their original written challenge, Giufurta and Garbee wrote that they were challenging Kadakia’s candidacy “for the sake of maintaining a legitimate organization of elected institutions and members.”

Kadakia missed the March 18 deadline to declare her candidacy, but the Elections Board allowed her to declare her candidacy late in a 5-0 decision on March 19.

After CC Vice President Naman Jain (18C) told Zhang that there were no other candidates except Tiffany Haas (19C), Zhang did not independently confirm.

In fact, Paolo Mutia (17Ox, 19C) had also declared to run for CC president.

Zhang told the Wheel that the Elections Board wanted to follow the precedent it had set by allowing Mario Karras (17Ox, 19B) to run even though he declared late due to “spotty Wi-Fi.” In their appeal to the Constitutional Council following the Elections Board’s unanimous denial of their challenge, the legislators challenged the Elections Board’s decision on three counts.

Giufurta and Garbee contended that the Elections Board “allowed Kadakia to run based on misinformation; the Board of Elections did not have the authority to add late candidates for the sake of a ‘contested election’; [and] Kadakia’s late declaration was a violation of the Election Code,” according to the Constitutional Council decision.

Giufurta and Garbee argued that the Elections Board’s decision to unanimously prohibit Sania Chandrani’s (19B) candidacy for SGA president should have also applied to Kadakia; both candidates should not have been allowed to run if the same standards were set.

Zhang said that the Elections Board did not think it would have been fair to prohibit Kadakia from running since the Board had already granted an exception for Karras.

“We decided that a Wi-Fi connection should not be enough to disqualify a qualified candidate,” Zhang said at the hearing. “The logic that we were following was that if we allowed one exception for one candidate then there was no reason to not allow the other exception for [Kadakia] to run.”

Zhang confirmed that she sent

both Kadakia and Chandrani a locked Google form to declare their candidacy after the deadline had passed.

Kadakia responded to Zhang asking her to unlock the form, while Chandrani did not. Zhang said this was the sole reason why Kadakia was allowed to run and Chandrani’s appeal was denied. “[Chandrani] never once even reached out to me,” Zhang said. “She could’ve communicated with me if she needed to fill out the form. At least [Kadakia] had the sense to reach out.”

Zhang did not communicate with Chandrani any further and said she took Chandrani’s lack of response as an assumption that she was no longer interested in running, despite the fact that Chandrani had emailed her before the March 18 deadline declaring her intent to run for SGA president.

Giufurta and Garbee also criticized Zhang’s incorrect belief at the time of deciding Kadakia’s case that the CC presidential race was uncontested.

Zhang said in the hearing that she “neglected” to check the Google form containing the list of all the declared candidates for CC president because candidates are allowed to change the position they are running for up to 72 hours after the closing of declaration of candidacy — a deadline that had not yet occured.

“The Council recognizes this decision does little to remedy the situation of Chandrani, who was prevented from running for SGA President by the actions of the Chair of the Board.”

— Constitutional Council Decision At the hearing, Zhang confirmed that she took Jain’s words at face value without confirming their accuracy.

“I do admit that there have been miscommunications,” Zhang said. “[CC’s] argument I thought was warranted. We should be able to have a contested election … which is why I thought if this was going to increase the competition … then I don’t see any bad sides to that, and that’s what I told my board.”

Giufurta said he perceived the board failed to act in an impartial manner when considering Jain’s argument.

“It shows that the board has partiality on behalf of the [CC] vice president who lobbied for the board to create a contested election,” Giufurta said. “The board should have never considered this lobbying, and the board should have never granted this exception.”

At the hearing, Giufurta and Garbee asked for a retroactive redaction of Kadakia’s candidacy if possible, or if not, for the case to serve as a precedent for future election processes.

“We see the only fair way to make this a uniform process is to retract the candidacy of [Kadakia],” Garbee said. “If you don’t think retroactive application works for this [case], I think in the future it should be proactive in the sense that we shouldn’t allow these things to happen. Call this the precedent.”

the CounCiL’s deCision In their ruling, the Constitutional Council found the actions taken by Zhang “to be fundamentally unfair to the candidacy of Chandrani,” one of the factors that led to them to recommend for Zhang’s dismissal.

“The Chair of the Board sent both candidates this [Google] Form knowing the link to the Google Form was inoperable as the Form locked out any submission past the March 18th deadline,” the decision reads. “The Council does not believe the Chair of the Board acted in good faith in her decision to assume Chandrani had dropped out of the SGA Presidential race solely because she, unlike Kadakia, did not email her asking for the required Google Form to be reopened.”

The Constitutional Council acknowledged that their decision is “unfair” to Chandrani’.

“The Council recognizes this decision does little to remedy the situation of Chandrani, who was prevented from running for SGA President by the actions of the Chair of the Board,” the decision reads.

“However, considering the time frame of when this case was brought before the Council, just hours before the election was to be called, we see no viable and fair option to remedy Chandrani’s situation retroactively other than to offer future solutions to prevent this event from occurring again.”

In their decision, the Constitutional Council found this argument to be “in question” as “the Board holds the power under Part II, Article 1, Clause H to make such decisions at their discretion; therefore, the reasoning of the College Council candidate for why she should be allowed to declare late is neither important to this case nor sufficient to justify the request made by the Petitioners.”

The Constitutional Council also dismissed claims that the Elections Board acted outside of their constitutional authority by allowing multiple candidates to declare late.

“The deadline [to declare candidacy] can be extended and exceptions to it granted by a twothirds vote of the Elections Board with quorum under Part II, Article 1, Clause J, which is the exact action taken by the Board through Clause H investigation provision,” their decision reads. “Therefore, while Kadakia did declare late, the Board was well within its power to allow her to join the race and thus, this alleged ‘violation’ is unsubstantiated.”

In their ruling on Karras’s candidacy, the Constitutional Council found that “his situation was sufficiently unique and differentiated from the situations of Kadakia and Chandrani,” and “the actions of the Board towards his candidacy to be fair and within the powers delegated to the Board.”

The Constitutional Council also recommended that the SGA “pass a bill that prevents future key election dates, including deadlines for candidacy and voting periods, from occurring during any school-sanctioned break, such as spring break, or during major religious holidays, to prevent a recurrence of many of the issues plaguing this year’s elections.” This year, the deadline to declare was the Sunday that spring break ended.

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

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Voting System Disenfranchises Juniors With Senior Standing Continued from Page 1 felt about his challenge against Karras being dismissed, he said that the challenge was only based on “suspicions.”

During the hearing, Ma said that he only spent $25 on drinks for friends and showed a receipt indicating that he purchased three beers and one pitcher on the night of March 23. Ma also presented a video of Maggie’s co-owner Ivan Faulkenberry who testified on camera that $25 is a low tab for most Emory students and would not be enough to win votes.

Ma did not provide evidence for his challenge against Karras except by noting that two of the four challengers are Karras’ friends. Karras said that he did not create any fake stories about Ma, but he had directed students who told him about Ma’s alleged misconduct to the Elections Board. neiBARt RetRACts Comments After backlash from Emory students, Neibart said that he “disavows” comments he made on Facebook in 2015 against same-sex marriage. “[Same-sex] marriage normalizes a relationship that is antithetical to the true prospering and flourishing of children. Children deserve a mother and father,” Neibart wrote on June 26, 2015, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage as a constitutional right. “It opens the door to a widening definition of marriage that will eventually collapse the institution on itself.”

A screenshot depicting Neibart’s 2015 comments was shared by Emory students on Facebook on March 29.

Neibart recanted his comments that same evening in a statement on his personal Facebook profile. The comments had been deleted prior to the screenshot circulating “The comments I made to this person are not a reflection of my views on

same sex marriage,” Neibart wrote. “I value and support that in our country, all people, regardless of their sexual orientation, are allowed to wed, raise children, and love each other.”

“At the time, I was old enough to know better and I should have known better, but I did not,” Neibart added.

“Now, I can say without reservation that I was wrong and naive.”

Neibart said he would work to be an “ally and a resource” for the LGBT community at Emory if elected SGA president.

“As your current attorney general and SGA Presidential candiate [sic], I have striven and will strive to make Emory a more inclusive environment for LGBT+ students,” Neibart wrote.

“I will ensure that the LGBT+ community receives the same institutional resources and support that any other community on campus receives.”

Neibart received 791 votes, or 33.42 percent of the vote, in the initial voting period and 423 votes, or 23.46 percent, in the run-off against Ma. Petition CALLs foR eLeCtion ReCALL Angela Jiang (19C) created an online petition to the Constitutional Council that requests a recall of the Spring 2018 undergraduate elections and amendments to the Elections Code. The petition has been signed by more than 327 people as of Tuesday night.

Jiang said she created the petition on Friday after reading a Wheel article describing allegations of electoral misconduct against Ma and Karras.

In the petition Jiang expressed concerns about the Elections Board’s unprofessionalism and “lack of public statements” in handling the cases.

The Elections Board cleared Ma and Karras of the electoral misconduct allegations on Friday.

The petition calls for the Constitutional Council “to recall or

institute a temporary halt to the entire 2018-2019 undergraduate elections process” and create “a referendum to contest Code of Elections, Part III, Article 2 to always allow a space for ‘No Confidence’ or the option for a write-in candidate for every candidacy, regardless of the number of candidates running.” If the Constitutional Council does not fulfill those requests, the petition asks for an option for students to cancel their votes. Currently, a “no confidence” option is only included on ballots with one candidate.

Jiang told the Wheel at the April 2 SGA meeting that she has also filed a formal complaint with the Constitutional Council. Chief Justice of the Constitutional Council Talia Burstein (18C) did not confirm the complaint has been filed as of Tuesday night.

The Elections Board was not aware of the petition until attendees of the Elections Board’s March 30 hearing for Ma and Karras brought it to the Board’s attention. Facing pressure from the petition and students at the hearing, the Elections Board announced after polls closed at 8 p.m. on Friday that the SGA president race results were invalid and there would be a re-vote. The Board reversed its decision about four hours later after SGA Speaker of the Legislature and Senior Representative William Palmer (18C) contacted Elections Board Chair Betty Zhang (20C) and said that revotes are not permitted without SGA’s permission and are granted only in extreme circumstances.

Voting uses offiCiAL CLAss stAtus When students received their ballot from Zhang, many were surprised to see that they were unable to vote for the legislator representing the graduating class they considered themselves to be a part of.

Students were only eligible to vote

for candidates who represented their official grade status, which is calculated by the number of credit hours students have completed. For example, juniors who have senior standing but will not graduate this Spring were not able to vote. Students who completed more credit hours than required for their grade could not vote for representatives for their grade, according to Zhang in a March 28 email to all students, sent out one day after voting opened.

“Voter eligibility by this status does not violate any university rules or documents in place. Therefore, voting will proceed as usual,” the statement read.

“For future references, the Board will work on improving communication with the university and seeking a longterm solution to this issue, including the possibility of moving elections to a new platform if needed.”

Zhang blamed the technical problems on OrgSync, which was used for voting for the first time this year, in a March 30 Constitutional Council hearing regarding the candidacy of incoming College Council (CC) President Radhika Kadakia (20C) .

“I see a lot of underlying problems that have surfaced during this election. The main origin of all these issues was because we now moved the elections over to OrgSync,” Zhang said at the hearing. “For future elections, I think the most important thing is for a more detailed and collaborative effort between me, SGA, CC and the Student Involvement, Leadership and Transition (SILT) office who deals with managing all technical efforts of the platform.”

Director of SILT Lisa Loveall did not respond to request for comment by publication time.

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By emmA simPson Contributing Writer Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young discussed race, politics and what it means to be “ultimately human” during a public conversation with Emory’s Schwartz Artistin-Residence Ross Rossin on March 27.

Approximately 800 community members attended the event, titled “Ultimately Human,” at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

Young and Rossin discussed how topics such as race and spirituality work to define the idea of being “ultimately human.”

When Rossin asked Young if it was time to forget the idea of race, Young responded with uncertainty.

“I don’t know,” Young said. “The difference is real, and I don’t think we

can forget it or overlook it, but I think we can come to appreciate it.”

As Young encouraged the audience to embrace differences among races, he made several references to Martin Luther King Jr., whom he considers a close friend. Young worked closely with King during his time as a civil rights leader and politician.

He served as the executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which King was the first president. Young also drafted legislation for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was present when King was assassinated in 1968.

“Dr. King’s metaphor was a symphony — a symphony of brotherhood,” Young said. “The diversity of race and culture and history is part of the richness of our tapestry.”

Rossin and Young both recounted times they spent with civil rights activists like Maya Angelou and Desmond

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You will not die; you will live forever.

You have nothing to be afraid of.”

At the conclusion of the program, Stephens and Johnson had the audience participate in an interactive improvised music and poetry piece.

About five students were asked to write down a word that summarized how they felt about the event. The students stood in front of the audience as Stephens and Johnson worked together to create a unique piece based off of words such as “resolve,” “tension” and “redemption.”

Emmanuel Wooten (19C) attended the event and participated in the interactive ending art piece.

“In this time of tension and adversity, not just nationally but globally, but even personally for me, I find it so revolutionary and very uncannily timely to have been a part of such an event,” Wooten said.

Jasper Akin (21C) echoed Wooten’s sentiments.

“It sort of opened my eyes to something I don’t really think about in my daily life,” he said. “It’s something I’ll always remember participating in.”

Young summed up his feelings about the meaning of being “ultimately human,” by referring back to his spirituality.

“That’s where we find our ultimate humanity … in our willingness to embrace our spirituality,” he said.

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

— Contact Valerie Sandoval at valerie.sandoval@emory.edu

— Contact Richard Chess and Alex Klugerman at rchess@emory.edu and alex.klugerman@emory.edu

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BBA COUNCIL

The incoming BBA Council president and vice president for the 2018-2019 academic year will appoint students to serve as vice president of finance and vice president of student clubs after no eligible Goizueta Business School students ran for those positions, according to Chair of the Elections Board Betty Zhang (20C).

Incoming BBA Council President Jay Krishnaswamy (16Ox, 19B) and Vice President Willi Freire (19B) told the Wheel that they will select students to fill the positions through an application and interview process in an April 3 email.

“We are currently in the process of identifying the best candidate for VP of clubs and VP of finance and will do so through an application and interview process,” they wrote. “We hope to have this done in conjunction with the other appointed positions in terms of timing.”

Current BBA Council President Grace Cleland (18B) told the Wheel that she thinks interest in elected positions for BBA Council depends on the students, how well the BBA Council advertises elections and students choosing to avoid the public eye during a “daunting” election season.

Cleland said she supports the decision to allow next year’s BBA Council leadership to appoint students to these positions.

“I fully trust the incoming president and vice president to appoint these positions to the best of their ability and know that they will select the strongest candidates to fill those roles,” Cleland wrote in an April 1 email to the Wheel. “The incoming Council leadership will be able to interview and fully understand each candidate’s vision for the respective positions before they appoint anyone, and I trust in that comprehensive interview process.”

The position of vice president of finance is currently held by Luke Rodin (16Ox, 19B), who defeated one other opponent in the Spring 2017 election.

Rachel Klein (19B) also ran victoriously against one other student for the role of vice president of student clubs but is studying abroad this semester. She was replaced by Ashley Daniels (19B), who previously served as a member-at-large.

Rodin declined to comment.

Klein and Daniels did not respond to request for comment. Other positions on the BBA Council are typically appointed, not elected, including the vice president of communications and vice president of programming, according to Cleland.

Carolyn Perry (18B) said she was surprised that there were no candidates running for the two positions, given how contested the other races within the BBA Council were.

This year, four students ran for the BBA Council president position.

“I feel pretty confident in those positions being appointed, as they will likely be filled by people who do care about Goizueta,” Perry said.

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Tutu. Rossin asserted that they are ordinary people, but they had extraordinary ideas.

“We’re all ordinary. We’re all mortals,” Rossin said. “Our time here on Earth is limited, but what makes us different is the ideas and the reason for life — the ideas worth dying for.”

Preceding the talk, Young discussed his political experiences and involvement with Emory as Atlanta mayor in an interview with the Wheel.

When asked about the Emory’s annexation into the city of Atlanta, Young said he thought the move was inevitable.

“It makes a reality what everybody’s already known,” Young said. “I always figured Emory was a part of the city of Atlanta.”

Young encouraged students to be active in politics.

“In any society, the brightest and the best should have a little more vision and a little more courage to influence at least the direction of society,” Young told the Wheel.

Young also related experience in politics with one’s sense of spirituality, stating students should not be afraid to take risks.

“We think we are physical beings having a few spiritual experiences, when actually the human reality is that we are spiritual beings and these are just a few physical phenomena that we have to deal with,” Young said. “But ultimately all of us are caught up in a universal spirituality. So, believe in it.

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DOOLEY’S WEEK

Club Sports Receives Lil Yachty to Headline Dooley’s Ball UWO Exemption

By RiChARd Chess Executive Editor

granting the exemption is not the same as providing funding for the group, noting that there is a separate funding The second legislature of the process for UWOs handled by the Joint Graduate Student Government Executive Council.

GSGA President Mark Neufeld (18B) Association (GSGA) convened on Monday to permit an exemption said that currently, SGA provides Club for Emory Club Sports to remain a Sports with about $50,000 in funding University-wide Organization (UWO) and GSGA funds about $5,000. The through Fall 2018 and to discuss meet- Woodruff Physical Education Center ing with Interim Vice President of (WoodPEC) matches funding by the student governments and not granting Campus Life Paul Marthers.

Club Sports President Jared the exemption could have significant Linsky (18B) and Vice President and implications on Club Sports’ finances, President-elect Samuel Stein (19B), Neufeld said.

Stein said Club Sports is launching both undergraduate students, presented information on the club’s initiatives a task force to increase graduate stuto increase graduate student participa- dent participation. He said he believes tion and requested that the legisla- the issue can be resolved through ture grant the exemption because Club increased marketing.

The legislature unanimously grantSports would face funding issues if it ed an exemption for Club Sports to lost its UWO status.

UWOs receive funding from both remain an UWO by a vote of 10-0.

Neufeld also discussed the possibilthe Student Government Association ity of a GSGA meet(SGA) and GSGA. For ing with Marthers. At an organization to week’s meeting, be eligible for UWO “I think it’s ridiculous last Neufeld said that he status, 15 percent of ... I think he can be was trying to schedule members must be a time with Marthers graduate students, flexible for half the there must be particistudent population’s to meet with the GSGA legislature to discuss pation from at least representation.”

GSGA’s priorities and five of eight graduate how he can help the schools and at least student one graduate stu— Mark Neufeld, graduate dent must serve on Graduate Student community.

On Monday, the executive board.

Government Association Neufeld said that Additionally, memPresident Marther’s communicabers from one gradutions liaison told him ate division may that Marthers is not not comprise more than 50 percent of the total graduate available at GSGA’s meeting time of 8:15 p.m. during any week. membership.

Neufeld said he would try to set Club Sports meets all of the UWO eligibility requirements except the 15 up a private meeting with himself, percent graduate student membership. Marthers, GSGA Vice President-elect Stein said that graduate student par- Elyse Cooke (20T) and the winner of ticipation is currently at 8 percent. The the GSGA presidential run-off election.

Neufeld expressed disappointment Wheel reported in November 2017 that graduate student participation was at that Marthers declined to meet with 7 percent, but Stein said that a recent the entire GSGA. “I think it’s ridiculous,” Neufeld said. increase in graduate student participation is not reflected in the percentage “I think he can be flexible for half the because there was also an increase in student population’s representation.” undergraduate student participation.

GSGA Vice President of Finance — Contact Richard Chess at Deepa Raju (18B) said that temporarily rchess@emory.edu

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atlanta-based rapper lil yachty is scheduled to perform at the concert for student Programming Council’s (sPC) Dooley’s Week on april 14 at McDonough Field.

By ALex KLugeRmAn News Editor Atlanta-based rapper Lil Yachty is set to headline Dooley’s Ball on April 14 at McDonough Field, Emory’s Student Programming Council (SPC) announced today.

The self-described “bubblegum trap” artist is best known for two 2016 hits that he is featured on: “Broccoli” with DRAM and “iSpy” with Kyle, which hit No. 5 and 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, respectively.

The 20-year-old rapper’s 2016 debut solo album, “Teenage Emotions,” peaked at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Album Chart while his March 9 follow up “Lil Boat 2” bowed in at No. 2.

SPC Band Party Co-Chair Blake Mars (18C) said that SPC wanted to find another hip-hop performer after the success of the Fall 2017 Homecoming concert, which featured rapper Post Malone.

“Coming off the success of last semester, it was clearly a very popular concert ... we stuck with a similar type of music,” Mars said. “[Lil Yachty] is from Atlanta so he already has a big fan base representing his hometown, and hip-hop is very popular with people our age.”

The group began to search for a headlining artist in December 2017 and began targeting Lil Yachty around mid-January 2018. The decision to have one artist instead of two is dictated by budget and is “out of the control”

of SPC members, according to Mars.

“We did research and knew [Lil Yachty] would be dropping an album soon so it gave students time to get familiar with the music before the concert,” Mars said.

Lil Yachty’s contract was confirmed over spring break, according to SPC President Tamara Ezzat (18B). Mars declined to state the cost of the concert, which is funded with Student Government Association (SGA) money.

Despite the Fall 2017 Homecoming Concert reaching the field capacity of 4,500 people, SPC determined it was “not possible” to change the capacity of McDonough Field after meeting with fire and safety representatives Ezzat said.

“SPC is still taking the issue [of capacity] very seriously, as we understand the various students’ complaints and want to works towards fulfilling our mission of providing programming to as many students as we can,” Ezzat wrote in a March 20 email to the Wheel. “We will be enforcing new systems and policies to ensure that as many students as possible can attend the concert.”

Mars added that SPC is working on updating and simplifying the guest registration and waitlist process, with more details to come soon.

A statement outlining “new initiatives and processes” to be implemented for the concert will be released to the public in upcoming weeks, according to Ezzat, but was not available as of publication time.

A “small portion” of tickets will be alloted to graduate students based on “historical statistics on graduate student attendance,” according to Ezzat.

Graduate students are now required to pay for concerts due to the GSGA/ SGA split in 2017. At the Fall 2017 Homecoming Concert, SPC allotted 100 tickets to graduate students.

Lil Yachty is the latest in a string of Dooley’s Ball hip-hop headliners in recent years including Ty Dolla Sign in 2017, DJ Khaled with the Chainsmokers in 2016 and J. Cole with the Knocks in 2015.

Dooley’s Week will take place April 9-15. Doors for the concert will open at 8 p.m., according to Mars.

SPC announced this year’s theme, “Dooleypalooza,” at Wonderful Wednesday March 21. The headlining comedian is still to be announced.

Lil Yachty also confirmed he is working on an upcoming mixtape with labelmate and Migos member, Takeoff.

Migos was set to headline Dooley’s Week last spring until SPC announced it had fallen victim to a $37,500 scam by a fraudulent third-party booking agency. Octaveon Woods was charged Feb. 6 with five counts of wire fraud and six counts of money laundering for intentionally defrauding several universities and other entities, including Emory.

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

GUN CONTROL

Post-Parkland: Professors Talk Gun Control

By VALeRie sAndoVAL Senior Staff Writer The Wheel spoke with Professor of Economics Shomu Banerjee, Associate Professor of Political Science Andra Gillespie and Interim Director for the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine David Wright, who shared their thoughts on where the conversation on gun control is headed and potential policy changes.

This article has been edited for clarity and length.

Valerie sandoval, The Emory Wheel: How has public opinion shifted on gun control since the Parkland shooting? What do you think the effects of the national student protests will be on gun control legislation? shomu Banerjee: I was very surprised that the aftermath of the Parkland shooting has been very different from that of Columbine or Sandy Hook. My personal feeling was that after Sandy Hook, if that could not move people to enact gun legisla-

tion of some kind, nothing would. But somehow this last one has really taken me by surprise. I suppose it’s because a large number of the people who were affected are young adults and they are vocal, and many of them are eligible to vote or will soon be eligible. They can feel that the future belongs to them. I’ve lived in this country for 37 years, and this is the first time in 37 years that I’m seeing the needle move towards some amount of sensible gun control. andra gillespie: In looking at Gallup polls over time … in general there is a lot of support for gun control, and there has been for a pretty long time.

After Sandy Hook, based on when the question had been previously asked, there was a spike in the Gallup poll, and there appears to have been a spike since the previous time the question had been asked after the Las Vegas shooting. It looks like the polls right after Parkland suggest that there was a similar spike in support of gun control measures. That in and of itself is not necessarily surprising. Looking back at old surveys, we see local spikes

sB: The NRA is an extremely powerful lobbying group. To me, it’s kind of disgusting how so many of our politicians are in the pocket of lobbying groups in general.

The NRA in particular, their agenda is very clear — they want to be able to sell more guns. The whole purpose of the second amendment has been subverted and lost since 2008 with the Scalia inspired Supreme Court judgement of [District of Columbia v.

Heller].

mind, wing, a more extremist kind of view, and now it’s doing the opposite.

They’re not even allowing gun safety to be discussed in a useful form. I don’t know how they do it other than the power of the purse and being able to influence congressmen, being able to scare people by telling them that the second amendment is going to go away, convincing people that there is a slippery slope of some kind. That if we make common sense accommodations to make guns safer, that for some reason that will all of a sudden turn into no guns.

The bottom line is, I don’t care what your politics are, I don’t care if you believe that everybody should have a gun or whether you believe that nobody should have a gun, the fact that we’re not allowed to do research on it and to discuss it openly and have some dialogue around it is just absurd and insane, and it’s leading to what we have now.

which suggests that the NRA makes a donation to a candidate, then that candidate gets elected and then the NRA then owns that candidate, but the relationship between a candidate and an interest group is actually a little bit more symbiotic.

There are people who seek out the endorsement of the NRA because it is important for their constituency, or they seek out the support of the NRA because they already agree with them.

The question or the problem that people are raising is that, if a legislator’s views about gun control evolve over time because of circumstances like Parkland, Las Vegas or Sandy Hook, how courageous are they going to be to articulate a change in support, and are they willing to weather the consequences of publicly articulating that they’re changing their mind on an issue. Doing so could mean that they would lose financial support from the NRA.

David Wright: In various types of ways. The NRA was actually created to increase gun safety, its origins were around gun safety. It has been taken over by a very perturbed, in my

ag: There are a number of things to think about in terms of the role that interest groups play. They do support candidates, but I think there’s this common phrasing about gun control

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after Columbine. I think the question is, can you get a gun control measure through a hyperpartisan, hyperpolarized congress, and would [U.S. President Donald J.] Trump sign [a gun control bill] if it were put on his desk?

EW: How does the National Rifle Association (NRA) influence the politics of gun control?

— Contact Valerie Sandoval at valerie.sandoval@emory.edu

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(19B), who received 152 votes (32.90) percent. Max Renke (19B) received 121 votes (26.19 percent).

Freire won the run-off election with 161 votes and 64.66 percent to Salian’s 88 votes and 35.34 percent.

Liam Dewey (19Ox) won the election for Oxford SGA president with 219 votes, according to an email from Oxford SGA Speaker of the Senate and Sophomore Senator Jacob Hicks (18Ox, 20C).

the position of SGA executive vice president. Priddy garnered 1,259 votes (53.19 percent) while Naveed received 1,108 vote (46.81 percent).

Priddy told the Wheel that ensuring that underrepresented groups continue to have their voices heard is one of his top priorities and he is looking forward to working with Ma. “I was really honored to have the opportunity to meet with groups across campus and engage with the student body,” Priddy said. “[Dwight Confusion in sgA PRes. R ACe and I] both bring a lot to the table.

We have a similar but a little different The Elections Board mistakenly leadership style that I think is going to declared the SGA president ballot mesh well together.” invalid and scheduled a re-vote on Naveed said he is still “ambivalent” Friday night, but the Board later over his decision to continue with issued another statement stating that student government. there would be a run-off between “I was proud of the effort that I Neibart and Ma instead of a re-vote made and I was very happy that I among all three candidates. had friends who supported me “Due to ongoing concerns on all throughout,” Naveed said. “I felt like I three SGA Presidential candidates, could’ve worked harder but in the end and popular demands to initiate a it is what it is.” re-vote,” the Elections Board initially With 640 votes called for a re-vote (51.45 percent), for the SGA president CC Vice President ballot in a March 30 “I was really of Administration email to students honored to have the from Elections Board Radhika Kadakia (20C) won the race opportunity to meet Vice Chair Andy Xu for CC president, (20C). with groups across defeating CC junior SGA Speaker of campus.” representative Tiffany the Legislature and Haas (19C), who Senior Representative — John Priddy (19C) received 458 votes William Palmer (18C) (36.82 percent) and said that when he former Oxford SGA received the email Attorney General Paolo Mutia (17Ox, regarding a re-vote, he immediately 19C), who received 146 (11.74 percent). contacted Elections Board Chair Betty Hemal Prasad (20C) received 1,030 Zhang (20C) because re-votes are not votes (82.80 percent) in an unopposed permitted without SGA’s permission race for CC vice president. The position and are granted only under extreme received 214 (17.20 percent) votes circumstances. of no confidence. Students have the Palmer said there were no extreme option to select a vote of no confidence circumstances in the SGA presidential only in races where candidates run race. unopposed.

Palmer said it’s been exciting to In a four-candidate election for BBA see a lot of people engaged in student Council President, Jay Krishnaswamy government but frustrating that (16Ox, 19B) won with 267 votes (57.79 there has been little attention to percent). Jake Gruber (19B), Hannah qualifications and goals.

Mayblum (19B) and Ashley Daniels “I wish that there were more focus (19B) received 93 (20.13 percent), 54 and debate about what are these (11.69 percent) and 48 votes (10.39 individual candidates going to do … percent), respectively. as the leaders of SGA rather than Aaron Jordan (19C) ran unopposed focusing so much on the back and for Residence Hall Association (RHA) forth and goings on of campaigning,” president, receiving 355 votes (87.44 Palmer said. percent) and 51 votes (12.56 percent) of no confidence.

Alex Klugerman and Richard A runoff occurred for the position Chess contributed reporting. of BBA Council vice president between Willi Freire (19B), who received 189 — Contact Connor Clerkin at votes (40.91 percent), and Diya Salian connor.clerkin@emory.edu

bill.

SGA President Gurbani Singh (18B) noted that the next legislature needs to codify what would happen if “No Confidence” receives the majority of votes and whether a candidate who loses to “No Confidence” could run again in a run-off election.

Bill 51sl64, submitted by the Oxford SGA, passed with nine voting in favor and one abstaining. It prohibits late registration for candidates unless the Elections Board “finds an internal error,” according to the bill. If candidate registration is extended, the bill calls for the extension to take place publicly and in a “timely” manner.

Originally, the bill had stated that if there is a reason for the Elections Board to extend the deadline, then the deadline must be extended for all eligible students. Graham called for the bill to amend Part IV, Article 2 of the Code of Elections and replace the rule that a candidate only has 12 hours after the Elections Board’s final interest meeting for potential candidates to petition for candidacy. The bill amendment states that a list of successfully registered candidates should be released to the student body after the registration period concludes. Any student who is not listed as a successfully registered candidate has 24 hours to submit a petition to the Elections Board and potentially be added to the list.

Oxford SGA President Ben Palmer (18Ox, 20B) said the use of OrgSync to register candidates would solve the issue of candidates not knowing whether they have officially and successfully registered for the election.

For the past two years, the Elections Board has used Google Forms for candidate declaration. The Elections Board heard cases this elections season regarding four late declarers: Mario Karras (17Ox, 19B), Radhika Kadakia (20C), Karen Lee (21C) and Sania Chandrani (19B).

“I do think if we moved it straight to OrgSync [for candidate declarations], that platform would … solve the [problem with] notifications because as soon as the Elections Board says ‘Yes, you are an approved candidate,’ they get an email receipt that says so,” Ben Palmer said.

SGA Attorney General Elias Neibart (20C) responded by recommending OrgSync not be codified into the bill because he had “heard rumblings about changing platforms for next year because OrgSync was not functioning properly.”

William Palmer said that, by using OrgSync to register candidates, there would be no way of knowing which students had registered properly.

The amendment passed unani-

mously with 10 votes.

Chair of the Elections Board Betty Zhang (20C), who told the Wheel she planned to resign on Tuesday night, asked if the bill would give the Elections Board power to decide what constitutes an “internal error.” Ben Palmer said the bill was left intentionally vague in order to leave it up to the interpretation of the Elections Board.

Zhang said she did interpret each case brought to the Board during the election cycle differently.

“I did it on a case-by-case basis, so that this candidate had a case of technological error and the next candidate [had] a case of a completely different error, and that proved to be problematic because people started challenging the basis of which I decided,” Zhang said.

William Palmer said students should have the ability to challenge the Elections Board.

“Being challenged doesn’t mean you were wrong,” William Palmer said. “It just means people think that you may have been wrong and want to challenge [or] petition. I don’t think that’s a problem.”

Graham said he didn’t agree with the bill’s vagueness and recommended that the 52nd legislature codify what an “internal error” means.

“It would allow you to make ex post facto decisions based on biases of the committee,” Graham said. “As we’ve seen this year by some of the widespread failures of us to provide a transparent, trustworthy election cycle for our constituents is that we are critically unselfaware of what we’re doing wrong. And so it’s important for us to not make these rules and make these decisions on a case by case basis.”

Ben Palmer said that any biases would be nullified because the bill would extend the registration to all candidates. William Palmer said he believes that allowing an extension for everyone is “too forgiving” and should be removed from the text of the bill.

Graham offered an amendment to the bill that would remove the deadline extension offered to all candidates.

The amendment passed with nine votes in favor and one abstaining.

Bill 51sl65, submitted by Oxford SGA, called for students to be allowed to submit complaints anonymously during an investigation by the Elections Board and that all complaints become public only after the investigation is complete and a public hearing is held. The bill was tabled, and the legislature will resume its discussion next Monday.

Ben Palmer said this bill is in response to the Elections Board’s investigation into alleged misconduct by incoming SGA President Dwight Ma (17Ox, 19C). Although one of the

complainants asked to be anonymous, Zhang provided his name and his complaint to the Wheel. Ben Palmer clarified that he was not “going at the Wheel, who reported it” but wanted to discuss “what constitutes the right to a fully public trial.”

Neibart said that he thought it would be “premature to pass this” and that the rules around anonymity should “mirror the language in Emory [Student] Conduct Code.”

Graham said the legislature should codify when the Elections Board should communicate with the community about investigations. Graham also mentioned that he does not support the Wheel’s decision to release information regarding investigations during the past election cycle.

“I don’t think [the Wheel] did the right thing by the community, by the election’s committee or by their journalistic standards,” Graham said. “But I think we should codify the way in which these things are released to the broader community rather than codifying the rights of anonymity first.”

According to Article VII, Section I of the SGA Constitution, “the papers of the SGA shall be considered public records.” The legislature tabled the bill because it would soon lose quorum and needed to vote on two bills as both BBA representatives had to leave for their BBA Council meeting at 8 p.m.

SGA Vice President of Finance Javi Reyes (18B) proposed Bill 51sl66, which approves the administrative budget of $27,458.80 for the 52nd legislature of the SGA. The budget is identical to the one of the 51st student legislature. Graham said he thought it was “weird” that the 51st legislature voted on the 52nd SGA legislature’s budget, but Reyes said the procedure was part of the Finance Code. William Palmer said it was a “safeguard” so that the 52nd legislature doesn’t vote on their own budget. The bill passed with nine voting in favor and one abstaining. Oxford SGA Speaker of the Senate Jacob Hicks (18Ox, 20C), who was acting as a proxy, abstained from voting.

Reyes also proposed Bill 51sl66, which approves the 2018-2019 EA budget. There was no discussion around the bill. The bill was passed with nine votes in favor and Hicks abstaining. The Wheel emailed Reyes to ask for the EA’s budgets, and Reyes responded by stating that EA budgets are “not usually publicized as per the Finance Code.” Reyes did not respond to a follow-up email from the Wheel inquiring as to what section of the SGA Finance Code prohibits the publication of EA budgets.

— Contact Belicia Rodriguez at belicia.rodriguez@emory.edu

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Emory’s annual Tibet Week was held on March 26-31 with the theme “Compassion, Healing and Transformation,” according to a March 19 Emory News Center press release.

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin and the monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta lead the March 26 opening ceremony.

It featured the beginning of the construction of a sand mandala in the Michael C. Carlos Museum. Events also included three panels on Tibetan teachings such as social, emotional

In honor of the 50th anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the Cox Hall Clock Tower will chime 39 times on April 4 at 7:05 p.m., according to Associate Director of University Media Relations Elaine Justice.

In addition, students will be distributing small bells to publicize the event at the April 4 Wonderful Wednesday.

The 39 chimes represent King’s age at the time of his assassination in 1968.

and spiritual learning and compassion-centered spiritual health care.

President of the Tibetan governmentin-exile Sikyong Lobsang Sangay will deliver the 2018 Berman Lecture on April 9 at 7 p.m. in the Tull Auditorium on the topic of “The Tibetan People’s Transition to Secular Democracy,” according to a March 28 Emory News Center press release. tRumP CALLs foR wALL funding After spending Easter weekend tweeting about immigration policy, U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced new initiatives to crack

down on illegal immigration on April 2, according to The New York Times.

The legislative effort, which would increase the difficulty in obtaining asylum in the United States and allow families awaiting decisions from immigration authorities to be detained for longer periods of time, comes after Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill in March that did not include money for his promised border wall with Mexico. “As ridiculous as it sounds, the laws of our country do not easily allow us to send those crossing our Southern Border back where they came from,” Trump said in an April 2 tweet. “Mexico & Canada have tough

immigration laws, whereas ours are an Obama joke. ACT CONGRESS.” The president also connected the issue of border security with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program which he moved to shut down in September, according to the Times.

Trump blamed Democrats after bipartisan talks to find a deal on the program failed. “DACA is dead because the Democrats didn’t care or act, and now everyone wants to get onto the DACA bandwagon,” he tweeted April 2. “Must build Wall and secure our borders with proper Border legislation. Democrats want No Borders, hence drugs and crime!”

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Editorials

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | Editorial Page Editor: Madeline Lutwyche (madeline.lutwyche@emory.edu)

Board’s Incompetence, Disorganization Warrant Review of Elections Code, Board The Spring 2018 Student Government Association (SGA) elections have been plagued by myriad issues, including changes in the date of the SGA presidential run-off; confusion over students’ voting status; unequal handling of late candidacy submissions; and formal challenges against two SGA presidential candidates. The Elections Board’s handling of these issues has revealed that the Board is unversed in its own procedures and ill-prepared to manage a fair election. By failing to equitably apply the regulations laid out in Emory’s Code of Elections, the Board brought into question the integrity of the process and sowed unnecessary confusion among students. Though Elections Board Chair Betty Zhang (20C) has declared her intention to resign, SGA’s problems are not over. With the conclusion of elections, the SGA legislature should investigate the rest of the Elections Board’s conduct and amend the Code of Elections to ensure that future elections are not marred by similar issues.

The Elections Board demonstrated a clear lack of procedural knowledge when it mistakenly invalidated the SGA presidential race on Friday, March 30, and called for a re-vote, only to reverse its decision hours later after SGA Speaker of the Legislature and Senior Representative William Palmer (18C) intervened; according to the Elections Code, the Elections Board cannot call for a re-vote.

Additionally, students were allowed to vote based on their official University class status, which is determined by the number of credit hours they have completed. This is a change from previous election cycles and it resulted in the disenfranchisement of juniors who have senior standing but will not graduate this Spring. Other classes also voted for the wrong representative because of this flawed system. For example, freshmen who had sophomore standing voted for a junior representative, but the junior representative will not serve them next year. The inability of some students to vote correctly because of their credit hours meant that the 2018 election results represent a skewed portrayal of student opinion. This shows poor decision making by the Elections Board, and SGA should immediately clarify any ambiguity that allowed the Board to structure the election in this erroneous manner.

The Elections Board allowed multiple candidates to run for office despite failing to declare their candidacies by the deadline. In a slew of ad hoc decisions, the Board allowed Marrios Karras (17Ox, 19B), Karen Lee (21C) and Radhika Kadakia (20C) to enter the races for SGA president, SGA sophomore legislator and College Council (CC) president, respec-

tively. The Board permitted Lee and Kadakia to run on the precedent set when they allowed Karras into the election because of his claims that a spotty internet connection prevented him from declaring. Additionally, the Elections Board did not independently verify CC Vice President Naman Jain’s claim (18C) that if Kadakia were not allowed to run, the race for CC president would have been uncontested; in reality, two students had declared their candidacies for CC president. However, when Sania Chandrani (19B) attempted to run for SGA president, the Board prevented her from entering the race. Chandrani initially declared her candidacy on time for CC president, but was denied after a review found that she was ineligible for the position as a Goizueta Business School student. The Board then refused to allow her entry into the race for SGA president because the filing deadline had passed.

This uneven application of rules calls into question the impartiality and competence of the Elections Board.

Additionally, the Elections Board hearing for challenges against SGA presidential candidates Dwight Ma (17Ox, 19C) and Mario Karras (17Ox, 19B) was scheduled for 1 p.m. on March 30, just eight hours before the close of the three-day voting period. During the hearing, multiple students contended that Zhang violated the Elections Code when she forwarded the name of one person who filed a complaint against Ma to the Wheel, even though he stated that he wished to remain anonymous. Zhang sowed further confusion during the hearing when she said that those who filed complaints could in fact remain anonymous even though the Elections Code does not address anonymous complaints.

The aforementioned issues are among several other problems that have affected this election, including a failure to send the declaration form to Lee, and the fact that the Board failed to clarify why the options for SGA senior legislator did not include the candidates names and were listed only as letters A, B and C. This election was clouded by social media commentary, rumors and extreme disorganization. The Elections Board’s actions created a widespread distrust and confusion in the election process. More than 300 people have signed a petition calling for a recall of all student government elections as of 6:48 p.m. on April 3. The current Elections Board members’ failure to adhere consistently to the Elections Code and seeming lack of basic knowledge concerning SGA’s governing documents demonstrate that they are unprepared to run Emory’s elections. Emory’s student body deserves better.

Anonymous Complaints Not in the Interest of Transparency During a March 30 Elections Board hearing to address electoral misconduct challenges against two Student Government Association (SGA) presidential candidates, students took issue with the Wheel’s publication of complainants’ names, one of whom requested that the Elections Board grant him anonymity; however, the student body has a right to be informed when a presidential candidate is accused of electoral misconduct.

To ensure transparency and fairness in student government elections, SGA legislators should vote against Bill 51sl65, which would allow challenges to be submitted anonymously to the Elections Board.

Student government representatives frequently tout transparency as a priority; we hope they realize that, except in extreme circumstances, protecting sources is less important than keeping the student body informed.

Any student who files a challenge should be prepared to stand by their claim and allow the public to evaluate their credibility and motivations behind filing a complaint or submitting further evidence.

The Wheel adheres to the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics, which recommends that news organizations identify sources clearly, so that readers can evaluate the credibility of those individuals’ claims. Anonymity is an inherent barrier to that end, and is reserved for extreme cases, such as when the source faces “danger, retribution or other harm.”

It is questionable whether Chair of the Elections Board Betty Zhang (20C) had the means to enforce students’ requested anonymity; all SGA documents are public, per the SGA Constitution; all Elections Board hearings are public, per the Code of Elections; and there is

no clause in the Code of Elections that specifically addresses anonymous challenges to the Elections Board. Regardless, granting anonymity to sources hinders the Elections Board’s ability to carry out transparent investigations, and should be avoided.

The Wheel’s news team published factual information relevant to student government elections, all of which was received on the record. While we are disappointed that the Oxford Business Club was “shocked and appalled” by the Wheel’s news coverage, the newspaper’s role is to distribute information to Emory’s student body, even if that means making involved parties uncomfortable.

Some claimed that the Wheel’s coverage of the allegations against SGA presidential candidates Dwight Ma (17Ox, 19C) and Marrio Karras (17Ox, 19B) revealed a bias against those candidates. This accusation is faulty and reveals a lack of knowledge of journalistic practices.

While the Wheel’s Editorial Board endorsed Elias Neibart (20C) for SGA president, that endorsement was published independently from the Wheel’s news team, which covered all allegations that were made against candidates. A firm divide exists between the editorial and news sections of the Wheel; the Wheel’s editor-in-chief and copy editors are the only people privy to both news and editorial content.

Time and time again, Emory’s student government has demonstrated that they are capable of making mistakes. Transparent practices and unbiased news coverage protect SGA and the student body from corruption and carelessness, and the Wheel will continue to inform the campus of all relevant information pertaining to student government elections this year and in the future.

The above editorials represent the majority opinion of the Wheel’s Editorial Board.

The Editorial Board is composed of Nora Elmubarak, Andrew Kliewer, Madeline Lutwyche, Boris Niyonzima, Shreya Pabbaraju, Isaiah Sirois and Mathew Sperling.

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Schools Must Remain Neutral on Protests Spencer Castle On March 17, students at an Ohio public high school staged a walkout in the name of common sense gun legislation. School officials waived all punishment measures for students who chose to participate and sent all those who didn’t to a study hall. But when a student wanted to remain apolitical and refused to report to study hall, the school district became embroiled in a controversy that was portrayed by opponents of common sense gun control as political prejudice.

The school district maintains the student wasn’t suspended for political reasons, but the fact remains that if the administration had remained neutral instead of aiding protesters, no scrutiny over politicization of the event by the school would have manifested.

Many school administrators supported the movement by refraining from punishing those who walked out of schools. In the process, however, administrators have had to express the message of the protests through their own, diluted lens as to negate severe examination of their motivation. The negative impacts of schools sanctioning student protests are twofold: it de-legitimizes the student-led aspect of the movement and creates points of attack for gun control opponents.

Furthermore, administrative refusal to punish students for breaking rules amounts to the school taking a stance, contrary to a school’s job to remain apolitical and educate students.

The Supreme Court case Tinker v.

Des Moines addressed a school’s suspension of students who wore black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War. While the case established that students’ rights don’t end at the school doors and those who wore armbands

couldn’t be suspended, students can still be penalized for actions that disrupt school proceedings.

By choosing not to punish students who disrupt school proceedings, schools fail to perform their duty to uphold a student’s right to education.

When schools ignore that precedent, they undermine the very fabric of protests by explaining a student-organized movement organized through adult terms. They cannot capture the intentions and emotions of students who organize and participate in these protests, and thus any explanation they give to justify the school approval of the protest distorts the intended messages.

A student who disrupts school in the name of gun control must not be punished more than a student who disrupts class in any other way, but not be punished less either. This isn’t to say I oppose walkouts — I support them and young activism in general.

Students must exercise their First Amendment right to protest in a constitutionally protected way if they wish to avoid punishment. However, many of the most powerful protests in history went beyond constitutionally protected measures. Think of the impact that those punished in the name of protest have had — Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela.

What if none of them had gone to prison?

These technically illegal movements incited change, especially through the creation of martyr figures, whose decisions to suffer the consequences for their beliefs demonstrated their conviction.This conviction is integral to movement-building, as it gives advocates’ thoughts more legitimacy in the marketplace of ideas.

These students should be punished for breaking school rules, but they should wear that punishment as a badge of

honor. Because many universities have expressed they won’t punish students who are punished for peaceful protests, there are few long-term repercussions students might face for acting on their convictions.

As U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the youngest speaker at the March on Washington in 1963 who has gone to jail 45 times for protesting, once stated, we must get “in trouble — good trouble, necessary trouble,” to make change.

But the impact of schools condoning student protests extends beyond how the movement progresses. When high schools state they won’t punish students walking out, they take a stance on the issue.

Public school administrations should do their job —educate students — and avoid taking a political stance.

When an authority figure gives you permission to do something, it is no longer a protest but an enactment of the authority figure’s will and a de facto stance set by the school. These are points that opponents of gun control attach to and utilize to delegitimize the movement.

Those who support high schools allowing students to walk out for gun control must remember that whatever standard is applied to these protesters must be upheld when students walk out in favor of less popular views. If a peaceful pro-Second Amendment student walkout is organized, those students deserve the same lack of punishment if they disrupt school proceedings.

The concept of equal access to rights is fundamental to our democracy and is undermined when authority figures determine on an ad hoc basis whether to enforce regulations.

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Elections Board, Let’s Save Net Neutrality While We Can You Had One Job Daniel Park

Lyndsey Garbee Consistency and clarity. Never have two words seemed so simple and yet remained so elusive to our student government and its Elections Board.

The past few weeks have been what can only be described as a brouhaha of epic proportions. Students have watched metaphorical fists fly between candidates and have struggled to keep up with the nonstop stream of politics-induced campus drama.

I keep running up to upperclassmen, asking, “This isn’t normal, right? This isn’t how it normally is?”

Here’s a brief summary surrounding the intrigue of the elections: Mario Karras (17Ox, 19B) declared his candidacy for Student Government Association (SGA) president a day late, apparently due to a Wi-Fi error.

Radhika Kadakia (20C) declared her College Council (CC) president candidacy a date late, apparently due to a misunderstanding. Both infractions, according to a March 26 email sent to CC First-Year Legislator Alec Giufurta (21C) from Elections Board Chair Betty Zhang (20C), were allowed to “let slide.” Sania Chandrani (19B) declared her SGA presidency over email a day late and was denied, the logic of which continues to blow my mind with its sheer ridiculousness.

That was day one. Fast forward to reports of SGA presidential candidate Dwight Ma (17Ox, 19C) buying students drinks at everyone’s favorite dive, Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill. Karras’s friends reported Ma to the Elections Board. This feud quickly got personal with the Facebook brawl of the century, ending with Ma telling Karras, “If you drop out of the election, as will I.” Then came voting: the time when thousands of students realized that as a result of the credits they brought into the school, they could not vote for the representatives for their grade. Hundreds of juniors were left without a vote, as they technically held senior status.

On top of all of this salacious goodness, we get to add in a Facebook post detailing comments made

by SGA presidential candidate Elias Neibart (20C) in 2015 against the legalization of same-sex marriage.

Neibart quickly released a statement to try and salvage the situation — he claimed that his views have changed — but many students were left feeling cheated out of their vote.

A day after elections ended, the student body waited for a re-vote for CC second-year legislator, because CC candidate Surya Garg’s (21C) name was accidentally put on the SGA ballot. To change this, her votes were subtracted from the total in SGA and that’s how the sophomore representative was decided. Justification for this action was found in the Elections Code Part III, Article 2, Section G, subsection 4, declaring that votes for “fictional, ineligible, or unregistered writein candidates shall be discarded.”

This clause would make perfect sense, except that this “ineligible candidate” was put on the wrong ballot by the Elections Board. The votes to her name are lost, eliminating the votes of 41 students, violating Part III, Article 5, Section A that says every student should have the opportunity to vote. Not those students, I guess.

The Elections Board, the epitome of academic incompetence, has failed to respond proactively to a single one of these grievances. They have brushed off, denied or justified every misstep and false ruling. The Elections Board, which is supposed to protect the integrity of institutions that work for students, continues to retreat behind closed doors to make decisions that don’t benefit the student body.

The hearings from the Constitutional Council have resulted in Zhang’s resignation; however, the rest of the Elections Board and the faulty Elections Code are also to blame for the issues we’ve seen during these elections.

As a political science major, I believe democratic systems work.

But the current system of student government elections, which has allowed innumerable violations and keeps tripping over its own feet, disgusts me. The election system itself needs to be rectified. Until that happens, Emory’s student government elections can only be considered an illegitimate institution.

Lyndsey Garbee is a College freshman from Sewickley, Pa., who will serve as a second year legislator on the 63rd College Council.

It’s no secret that Emory’s online services can be glitchy.

For example, Emory’s Xfinity on Campus service often crashes midway through a broadcast and OPUS’ impossible-to-navigate interface stalls tremendously during peak enrollment times.

However, the low quality of Emory’s online services pales in comparison to the reality students will face under recent policy changes regarding net neutrality.

On Feb. 22, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a “Declaratory Ruling, Report and Order” to repeal net neutrality regulations, to a startling lack of public response. Perhaps Emory students remain uninformed about the repeal, but both students and the University should should be more alarmed by the disastrous consequences of the FCC’s repeal.

Instituted in 2015 by then-FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, net neutrality forces internet service providers (ISPs), like Comcast or Verizon, to load all websites and data at equal speeds for all users.

Without this regulation, those corporations are free to not only slow down websites to the point of inaccessibility, but also to completely block users from certain websites. Net neutrality forbade money-grubbing corporations from censoring information and creating an oligopoly.

If you care about your fellow students, your freedom of expression or your own right to information, I encourage students to contact U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) to express your support for a free and open internet, and to petition Emory to end its relationship with Xfinity and its parent corporation, Comcast.

While we would lose free television services, it would be a necessary first step toward showing support for a truly free internet.

For Emory students across different social classes, political opinions and economic beliefs, net neutrality rules are necessary and beneficial.

The U.S. Senate has introduced a resolution to reintroduce net neutrality regulations, and it has already garnered support from 50 Democratic

senators for the bill. However, the Senate requires one additional supporter before April 23, when net neutrality is officially removed and ISPs are free to hold their customers’ internet service for ransom.

While this revival bill is largely split across party lines, more than 80 percent of the general public — registered Democrats and Republicans alike — support net neutrality.

The current state of the internet allows us to freely state our opinions and access information in order to form those opinions.

The loss of freedom for the sake of profit should never be tolerated.

Moreover, without net neutrality, Americans’ economic freedom would be completely crushed.

Net neutrality forbade money-grubbing corporations from censoring information and creating an oligopoly.

ISPs have already established an oligopoly of coverage. Each corporation has met to divide up land in such a way that each corporation dominates small zones of the country without competing with one another.

The FCC’s repeal cements this oligopoly and gives power to the communications giants, crushing any possibility of new competition and stifling economic growth. Perhaps what becomes most unforgivable is the violation of states’ rights to economic regulation. Comcast and the FCC are even moving to block state net neutrality legislation in states like Washington.

Emory students cannot simply assume that all their peers will have or be able to afford to maintain an internet connection without the University’s support. This is true now more than ever as Comcast seeks to slow down internet speeds to unbearable levels in exchange for profit. With the advent of Canvas and other online assignments, studying and maintain-

ing a good grade is impossible without at least some use of the internet.

Moreover, many companies have migrated their job applications to websites and electronic forms that cannot be accessed without an internet connection.

In 2018 and beyond, internet access is a requirement for competing in higher education and the job market; providing students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds with net-neutral internet should be a priority for all Emory students and University administration.

Thankfully, Emory curates and provides its own internet connection. Faulty though it may be, EmoryUnplugged is an independent network that loads websites at reasonably quick speeds. However, this commendable effort is marred by the University’s recent deal with Xfinity (and its parent company Comcast) to provide University students with television services.

Emory University has shown that it has no regard for the impact this corporation will leave on its graduating students and former employees. Emory should end its relationship with Xfinity/Comcast not only to support net neutrality, but also because their service is buggy and useless outside of the Emory bubble.

While I understand that the service is useful in providing students with more programming, the service neither works well enough or seems to have been well-received enough to warrant its continued existence. There is plenty of alternative programming and many better alternative news and entertainment sources to turn to.

Emory’s current relationship with a corporation that has acted against net neutrality should be eliminated.

Not only would the quality of Xfinity/ Comcast’s service jeopardized by an end to net neutrality, but partnering with such an unethical provider — that will swoop in and suck students and staff dry for a basic necessity after they leave campus — makes the University itself appear unprincipled.

Unless another senator changes their stance, America’s access to free information will be destroyed on April 23 by the people who were supposed to protect it — unless we stand up to save net neutrality.

Daniel Park is a College junior from Ridgewood, N.J.

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A cappella group Aural Pleasure, led by Bella Dodd (20B), performs a stirring rendition of Demi Lovato’s “Tell Me You Love Me” on March 29 at the Barenaked Voices concert.

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By Ayushi AgArwAl Photo Editor Emory’s a cappella groups highlighted their vocal chords and catchy songs for charity at the 15th annual Barenaked Voices (BNV) concert.

The concert raised approximately $2,745 for Emory HelpLine and Active Minds — two student groups with on campus mental health initiatives — according to host and Director of Emory Concert Choir Eric Nelson. Students filled the Schwartz Performing Art Center’s Emerson Hall on March 29 to watch Emory’s seven

student a cappella groups and Concert Choir take the stage.

The annual tradition started with the construction of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts in 2003 which provided a space for the first BNV concert.

In accordance with the time-honored format, individual groups perform in alphabetical order before all groups join together for a final performance.

The first group on stage was Ahana, Emory’s soulful R&B group, clad in black and white.

Chris Lowery (20C) led the group,

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Klibanoff Brings Injustice To Light in ‘Buried Truths’ By mAdison BoBer Asst. Multimedia Editor

A farmer cast his vote for the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1948 — nothing out of the ordinary, except for the color of his skin.

Because he was black, Isaiah Nixon was shot three times in front of his family by two white men for exercising his right to vote.

Emory Professor of Practice Hank Klibanoff, the director of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory, recently released a six-episode history podcast titled “Buried Truths,” which focuses primarily on the unjustified murder of Nixon and examines the racial tensions of Jim Crow Georgia that allowed Nixon’s killers to get away with their crime.

“We aren’t focused on who did it, because the people who committed those crimes have been dead for a long time,” Klibanoff said. “It’s about why. Why would anyone kill Isaiah Nixon for voting in 1948? Why would any white person kill any black person? Why did his killers face an allwhite jury, when 13 years prior the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed all-white juries?”

WABE 90.1 FM Radio approached the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and

journalist about a video documentary on one of the cases from Klibanoff’s Georgia civil rights cold cases class that he teaches annually at Emory.

The class allows students the opportunity to investigate racially motivated murders in the Jim Crow South that remain unsolved.

When WABE CEO Wonya Lucas asked Klibanoff which case he thought was the best to examine for the podcast, Klibanoff knew exactly which to pick: Nixon’s.

The man suffered an injustice that rings all too familiar in the present day.

“Isaiah Nixon was a great case for the podcast as it was the same reason I taught [the class], which was right before the 2016 election: it’s a voting rights case. A man was killed for voting,” Klibanoff said. “That topic is still a pretty hot topic in America, in policymaking.”

With the upcoming midterm Congressional elections in 2018 and the presidential election in 2020, Klibanoff said there is a strong connection between the theme of Nixon’s case — the interest that African Americans and whites had in voting rights in 1948 — and their interests today. “[The podcast] explains to anybody

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including two beatboxers, in a rendition of “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye. Next, McKayla Williams (20C), Chelsea Jackson (18C) and Amelia Joyce (19C) sung “Finesse” by Bruno Mars and Cardi B. The compatibility of their voices did justice to Cardi B’s strong voice in the song.

Emory’s oldest co-ed a cappella group, Aural Pleasure, followed Ahana’s performance.

Aural Pleasure prides themselves on their “modern style,” according to the

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Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” predates the recent influx of nostalgic media (“Stranger Things,” ”It,” “Will & Grace”), but it could not have been more punctual. This adaptation of the eponymous 2011 Ernest Cline novel is a dense nostalgia-fest which intrigues cinephiles, gamers and ‘80s pop culture fans alike without alienating those unfamiliar with such fandoms. But the film asserts itself as more than a fun, masturbatory nerd flick by focusing on the most transcendent aspects of life, tenderness and play.

“Ready Player One” is set in a dystopian 2045 overwhelmed by poverty and overpopulation. To escape the strife of daily life, people spend their time in the Oasis, a virtual reality gaming system created by the late trillionaire James Halliday (Mark Rylance).

The Oasis allows users to embody personal avatars — often of different sexes or species — in planets and worlds throughout the game. Planet Doom houses Valhalla-esque battles in which winners can usurp real-world currency from defeated opponents. Minecraft World is more straightforward. The film follows the journey of Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), an orphaned teenage boy living with his aunt and her abusive boyfriend in the stacks — stacked trailers that house low-income residents — of Columbus, Ohio. Wade

spends his time in the Oasis as Parzival, and plays alongside his techwiz best friend Aech (Lena Waithe), famous female blogger Art3mis (Olivia Cooke) and warrior friends Sho (Philip Zhao) and Daito (Win Morisaki). The Oasis proves to be an engaging escape for Wade and his virtual friends, but it is the prospect of finding Halliday’s Easter egg that keeps gamers in the Oasis. In a detailed exposition, the film reveals that it has been five years since Halliday’s passing and the launch of a contest within the Oasis to discover the game’s Easter eggs.

The eventual victor of the challenge is gifted the inheritance of Halliday’s Gregarious Games and control of the Oasis — the world’s most precious economic resource. “Ready Player One” is about Wade’s efforts to find the Egg alongside his fellow ‘gunters’ (egg hunters) before Nolan Sorento (Ben Mendelsohn), the leader of Gregarious Games competitor Innovative Online Industries, and his hired “gunters” do.

“Ready Player One” contains the familiar, dystopian moral struggle between exploitive corporate suits and the presence of a disgruntled underclass who yearn to defend their rights. But Cline and Spielberg collectively posit a fresh take to that conflict through their storytelling approaches. Cline changes challenges to find the eggs and axes the exposition of Halliday and Ogden Morrow’s (Simon Pegg) childhood friendship. These are only a few of the changes. Cline’s co-

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‘Isle of Dogs’ is Doggone Great By evAn AmArAl Senior Film Critic

Grade: AYou won’t hear a more instantly recognizable name in American independent cinema than Wes Anderson. The Austin, Texas-based auteur has carved out his own corner of the cinematic landscape, filling it with his idiosyncratic style and continued cult and mainstream success. As detailed as he is visually, and as singular in his comedic timing, animation seems like a

logical playground for him to explore.

In his second stop-motion animated feature, “Isle of Dogs,” Anderson tops himself with a family comedy that is as colorful and entertaining as it is dark and timely, creating an experience that no one else could have dreamt up.

In the near future, Japanese mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura) is running for re-election on an anti-dog platform. He creates citywide panic around “snout fever” and “dog flu,” which he claims will be spread by the island’s over-saturated canine population. However, there’s something fishy about all of this, and Kobayashi’s

family has been historically pro-cat since the dawn of Japanese history.

He orders all dogs to be quarantined on Trash Island, a dumping ground for the physical and chemical waste that his factory produces.

In response, Atari (Koyu Rankin), Kobayashi’s ward, pilots a ramshackle plane to Trash Island to find his lost dog Spots (Liev Schreiber).

Upon his crash landing, Atari meets a pack of not-so-fierce alpha dogs: the housepets Rex (Edward Norton) and Duke (Jeff Goldblum), sports mascot

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Somehow, Anderson has usurped his previous highs of imaginatively constructed narratives, fully fleshing out a living, breathing world that serves as a (literally) artificial recreation of our own. Anderson’s use of mise-en-scene makes the animation a huge step-up from his excellent “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” In particular, the lighting is timed in perfect conjunction with the movement of the camera and the edits. Frequent collaborator Alexandre Desplat’s score is propulsive, leaning into the sounds of Taiko drums and clearly riffing off Japanese musicians.

Anderson, in a rare case of a solo writing credit, crafts delightful characters out of his canine heroes. Even single-scene cameos, a frequent occurrence due to the massive ensemble cast, feel fully-formed, most notably Tilda Swinton’s pug Oracle.

In terms of language, Anderson makes the fascinating choice to have his human characters speak in unsubtitled Japanese, unless they are translated by an interpreter. As the opening scene states in Anderson’s typical deadpan, “all barks have been translated into English.” These translation choices make for some compelling comedy and serve as one of many excursions into themes of cross-cultural conversation.

Following the lead of his previous film, “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” Anderson continues his thematic deconstructions of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies under the guise of quirky, meticulously designed adventures.

While his previous film tackled the period between the World Wars and the rise of nationalism, “Isle of Dogs” sinks its canines into authoritarianism, xenophobia and genocide like they’re a nasty little chew toy.

Iconography of dictatorships, corporate corruption and the atomic bomb permeate the film as painful, tangible reminders of their visible toll on the social and environmental structures of the world. Kobayashi is a fear-monger who seeks to deport those he doesn’t like, villainizing them through propaganda — an act that sounds all too eerily familiar. Anderson seems to imply that these forces have not gone away, but have simply evolved to thrive in a new time and place. If they can affect puppet puppies, they can affect us. And if those pups can beat them, we can, too.

Leading up to and after the film’s release, Anderson has been accused of cultural appropriation for his portrayal of Japanese culture.

These criticisms, some of which challenge the character of Tracy Walker (Greta Gerwig), have some validity.

Walker, who sports an Angela Davisesque blond afro, is an American exchange student with an ardent crush on Atari. Walker doesn’t receive any real development as a character and instead functions as a device to push the plot along back home while Atari

Spielberg Wows With Blockbuster Return Continued from Page 11 writing of the screenplay for the film adaptation of his book was effective, because his intimacy with the narrative clearly comes through within the characters’ dialogue.

Parzival’s omniscient voice-overs, which can sometimes feel overexplanatory, effectively lasso in audience members who might get lost in the film’s sea of ‘80s references. There is an outstanding sequence in the film where Parzival, Aech and their friends are in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.”

Yes, in the film. Aech expresses some anxiety about what may happen, having never seen the film, and her fellow ‘gunters fill her in on their experiences watching the movie. Simple hereyou-go gestures like this one recur throughout the film.Spielberg’s decision to jam-pack the film with nods to John Hughes and Tears for Fears ballads gives the film the ‘80s zeitgeist elements people likely anticipated. The pairing of those elements with the VR premise of Cline’s politically allegorical near future makes the film work. In hindsight, having a car-racing scene through a virtual Manhattan with cameos from King Kong and a T-Rex may have been too on the nose.

But I never found myself thinking “I get it, enough already” — which is a good thing.The central romance, which develops between Wade and Art3mis’ creator, Sam, is youthful and sweet. Cooke compellingly plays Sam/ Art3mis as the clever “gunter” she is.

Similarly, Sheridan gives Wade a boyishness that is quintessential of the fanboys with whom I went to high school.

Unfortunately, we spend so much time interacting with their avatars that it becomes difficult to get invested in the humans behind them toward the film’s climax. Comparatively, Waithe’s, Zhao’s and Morisaki’s characters give the film its rich wit and essential fighting sequences, but are underserved by their short screen time. Another noteworthy performance comes from Mendelsohn, who plays into his toothy, maniacal corporate douchebag role with chutzpah. Look out for Sorento’s avatar, who pointedly resembles a bloated Don Draper.

No performance in the film is as entrancing as Rylance’s. Halliday, in all his endearing neuroses, is the emotional fulcrum of the film. His wizard avatar, Anarak, warmly guides the winning avatars closer to the Easter egg through clever riddles. But more enrapturing are Halliday’s tender, stuttery and introspective scenes to which the film effectively tethers its slicker sci-fi elements.

Halliday’s speeches are brief but generous in their wisdom. They remind the audience that, amid moments of anxiety, it is essential to cherish those dear to us and enjoy the quiet splendors of real-life play.“Ready Player One” is an inviting sci-fi film that critiques the nadirs of industrialization and encourages the audience to appreciate reality’s mirth. The book’s central message, that the reader should cherish reality, is delivered alongside ‘80s music hits and touching sentiments that are bound to thrill.

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searches for Spots. Her mini revolution feels like the most appropriative aspect of the film, where a white savior is employed to stir up social change in a foreign land. It feels particularly uncomfortable given Japan’s history of American occupation, which flies in the face of Anderson’s political logic. Still, Walker somewhat works as a broad caricature. She supports Anderson’s blanket statements that seek to broadly denounce authoritarianism and xenophobia, though her specificity is troublesome. Anderson’s treatment of Japanese culture comes across as mostly appreciative, as an excuse to pay homage to the influence he has always borrowed from Japanese cinema.

Is that a good enough reason for his setting? It’s up to you, dear viewer. We all must grapple with these questions in our own way and with our own cultural background, especially as onscreen representation improves in the near future.

“Isle of Dogs” allows us to have these nuanced conversations — whether we have them constructively or not is another story. Anderson has crafted another technically flawless, thoughtful and hilarious adventure, one that frankly has a lot of value in its comedy and commentary, as well as its simple sense of adventure.

Above all, it’s a classic tale of a boy and his dog — and that’s, arguably, all it had to be. The rest makes it something both worth debating and cherishing.

— Contact Evan Amaral at evan.amaral@emory.edu

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History Podcast Digs Into Jim Crow Georgia Continued from Page 11 who doesn’t already know why African Americans have such an intense and protective interest in voting rights, why they get nervous whenever white political leadership begins to propose ‘rational’ regulations on voting, whether through voter ID or restricting early voting,” Klibanoff said. “They’ve spent years and years trying to trick black people out of the vote, and black people are on to them.”

Klibanoff, who has spent years in the newsrooms of The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Atlanta JournalConstitution, said that the team decided to go with a podcast because the case was from 1948 and Nixon was not a prominently known person.

“As we talked more about it, our plan morphed into a discussion of jumping into a podcast, which would be an altogether new platform of storytelling,” Klibanoff said.

Given the lack of potential visuals to incorporate, Klibanoff said that the podcast format was the best way to tell Nixon’s story.

“His family has one known photograph [of him] and there is only one known photograph of each man who killed him,” Klibanoff said. “It would have been hard to show this visually in a documentary. Instead, we opted for vocal word pictures.”

Working on the Cold Cases Project has allowed Klibanoff to get to know

families of the victims the class investigates. Dorothy Nixon, Isaiah Nixon’s daughter, was sitting on the steps of her porch when her father was shot in front of her. Almost 67 years later, for the first time in her life, she was able to see the death certificate of her father, which Klibanoff found two counties over from where Isaiah Nixon was shot.

“When I handed Dorothy her dad’s death certificate, it sure was an emotional moment for me. … Dorothy has had 70 years to develop a toughness about that situation,” Klibanoff said.

“You get the impression that that’s how she’s been managing this, how much anger she had for so long about this … and the discoveries made through the case helped her to release that anger.”

Klibanoff also noted that many of the cold case victims’ families, like Dorothy, are left in the dark about what happened to their relatives.

Through the students’ and Klibanoff’s year-round investigations into a multitude of unsolved, racially motivated murders, the families are able to find some solace, decades later.

Editor’s Note: Klibanoff is the Wheel’s faculty adviser. He was not involved in the composition of or editing of this article.

— Contact Madison Bober at madison.bober@emory.edu

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They delivered just that with their first song, “715 - Creeks,” originally sung by Bon Iver and famously covered by notable a cappella group The Nor’easters from Northeastern University (Mass.).

The absence of a lead in their first song gave the performance a hauntingly beautiful tone. Next, Aural Pleasure’s Bella Dodd (20B) led the group in a powerful performance of “Tell Me You Love Me” by Demi Lovato.

Up next was ChaiTunes, Emory’s co-ed Jewish a cappella group, dressed in blue and white. Their first song was “Mi’ma’amakim,” a Jewish folksong sung by Sahrudh Dharanendra (19C) and Briley Newell (19C).

Despite the language barrier, the folksong largely captivated the crowd.

ChaiTunes’ second song was The Beatles’ classic “I Want To Hold Your Hand.”

Sara Frank’s (18C) earnest and intimate deliverance of the nostalgic tune was reminiscent of a personal serenade.

The next performance was by Dooley Noted, Emory’s co-ed, “service-oriented” a cappella group.

The group was dressed in elegant black and blue and led by Ameya Gangal (19C), Sam Kramer (20C) and Denny Shin (19C), who sang a light, upbeat version of Hozier’s “From Eden.”

Crowd members tapped their feet to the beat of the second song, a beautiful, spirited French piece called “Amour T’es La” by Brooklyn-based fusion band Snarky Puppy. Eve Gleeson (18C) led the group, whose energy shone through in their fast-paced snapping and clapping.

The Emory Concert Choir had the largest number of students performing at 57 singers and occupied the entire stage. Directed by Eric Nelson, they sang a traditional Scottish song, “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond.”

Martin Schreiner (19C) had the crowd entranced by his divine performance.

Dooley Noted’s Eric Newell (18C), a bass, performed the hymn “I’ve Been In the Storm So Long” in his trademark deep-toned voice.

Talia Green (19C) from Dooley Noted added drama to the performance with dialogue prior to her verse. Overall, her performance was was nothing short of professional...

The song was written in 1979 by Mighty Clouds of Joy, a musical quartet, and later became an anthem of tribute to those affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Nelson’s graceful conducting, paired with Newell’s powerful voice made for a transcendent and serene performance.

Emory’s all-female a cappella group, The Gathering, sang “Go Your Own Way” by Fleetwood Mac and “Tears”

by Clean Bandit.

Jasmine Anickat (21C) commanded the whole crowd with her resounding voice.No Strings Attached, Emory’s oldest and only all-male a cappella group took the stage dressed in their traditional suit-and-tie, reminiscent of television show Glee’s “Warblers.”

The boys played with gender norms

with a fresh rendition of “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton, led by John Graham (19C).

For their second song, “Strangers Like Me” by Phil Collins, No Strings Attached incorporated a thigh-clapping sequence.

The interactive and lively performance evoked classic a cappella imagery.Suri, Emory’s first and only Bollywood fusion a cappella group, closed the performances.

Suri’s Music Director Tejal Pandharpurkar (18C) and Esha Singhal (18C) sang a mashup of “Mar Jaawan” from the movie “Fashion,” as well as “Best Mistake” by Ariana Grande.

Prateek Paul (18B) performed an upbeat rap routine that aroused an enthusiastic cheer from the crowd.

Suri closed with their mainstay, a medley of Harshini Murthy’s (21C) powerful version of Adele’s ballad “Set Fire to the Rain” and “Woh Lamhe,” originally by Atif Aslam, which was led

by Zohair Lalani (18B) and Divyaansh Raj (18B).

The interplay of the songs was enhanced by the harmony among the trio. The night concluded with all groups singing a sentimental rendition of “Proud Mary,” originally by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Talia Green (19C) from Dooley Noted added drama to the performance with dialogue prior to her verse.

Overall, her performance was nothing short of professional, with the perfect amount of crowd work and soulful vocals.

The audience awarded the performers with a well-deserved standing ovation.

— Contact Ayushi Agarwal at ayushi.agarwal@emory.edu

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Emory Life Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | Emory Life Editor: Niraj Naik (niraj.naik@emory.edu)

HOLI

CONVERSATION

FOOD REVIEW

TEDxEmory Experiments With Comedy

Recess Debuts Uninspired Health Food

By Niraj Naik Emory Life Editor

By jaNvi PamNaNi Contributing Writer

A stark black background. Big red letters. One speaker, centerstage.

This is the classic recipe for TEDxEmory speeches.

However, none of these elements were present at the quiet, intimate setting of the social justice organization’s inaugural “roasTED” event, held on March 29 at the Media, Literature and Arts Outreach (MLAO) House.

Hosted by TEDx member Jake Perl (21C), the event lasted only 90 minutes but packed in three speeches punctuated by original material from Perl.

Roughly 60 people traversed through torrential downpours for the event.

TEDxEmory President Mackenzie Aime (18C) said this was the first time TEDxEmory decided to host a comedy-focused event.

Perl warmed up the crowd with a few jokes about his bar mitzvah before diving into his main bit on the 2013 Comedy “Grown Ups 2.”

He poked fun at the movie’s casting of former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal and its abysmal 7 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Although the crowd was apprehensive at first, Perl soon had the room chuckling just in time for the night’s first speaker.

Abbey Kelly (19B) wasted no time getting to her first punchline.

Kelly was born deaf on her right side due to a Grade Three Microtia, a condition which left her without an external ear.

At a young age, she underwent surgery to reconstruct her ear with skin from her backside.

She now affectionately refers to her right ear as her “butt-ear.”

Despite the reconstruction, she is

I created almost zero waste today — minus a candy wrapper.

The key to my success came down to carrying a reusable mug at almost all times.

I now notice the sheer number of cups, plastic and paper that we waste in a day, which has made the idea of reusable cups and mugs truly

Recess in elementary school often meant shuffling a kickball around the schoolyard or hiding from lunch monitors in the trees. As I grew older and the other aspects of my life lost the innocence of post-lunch play, I found myself looking to those simpler times for comfort.

Much to my chagrin, Krog Street Market’s new lackluster grain bowl location, Recess, taints my childhood memories.

Atlanta’s few days of sun last week put me in the mood for something fresh and greens-based. To get our veggie fix, a friend and I headed to Inman Park’s Krog Street Market, a 1920s warehouse converted into a trendy congregation of fine-casual dining options.

I opted for Recess’ most popular order according to the cashier, the Super Bowl, which is composed of coconut brown rice and quinoa layered with kale, chickpeas, sweet potato, pickled beets, dried mango, dates and tahini. I also ordered a Turmeric Tonic, a zippy soda water spiced with ginger and turmeric. We took our trays to sit at the bar.

The standout ingredient was easily the kale, which was well-salted and roasted, but I wished I had more than just the few leaves. The coconut rice was hearty, but ill-matched with the quinoa.

The dried mango was interesting, its texture similar to chewy candy, but didn’t seem to belong in what was supposed to be a healthful bowl. The sweet potato, dates and tahini were almost nonexistent.

Similar to some children on the brink of adolescence who still attend recess, the Super Bowl was trying way

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neha arora (21C) throws colored powder at friends at the indian Culture exchange’s (iCe) Holi event at mcdonough field on april 1.

SUSTAINABILITY

Zero Waste: Abandoning the Trashy Life By moNiCa leFtoN Senior Staff Writer

Each American produced an average of 30 pounds of trash per week in 2014, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Applying that statistic to the undergraduate population at Emory, students would theoretically produce a whopping total of 237,480 pounds of trash per week. Hopefully we don’t produce quite that much trash on a campus scattered with compost and recycling bins, but there’s always more that can be done to reduce waste, even on a daily basis.

That is why I pledged to go zero waste during the week of March 26.

Zero Waste Week is an event jointhosted by the Office of Sustainable Initiatives (OSI) and the Residence Hall Association (RHA) Sustainability Chairs to raise awareness and support for sustainable practices on campus.

Students interested in reducing their waste signed up to participate received email reminders and tips about living waste-free.

According to OSI Intern Jamie Nadler (17C), zero waste relies heavily on reusable items. She carries a water bottle, travel coffee mug, bamboo silverware set, tupperware container and reusable bag with her almost

everywhere. “[Zero waste] is a lot more difficult just because of the way our society is,” Nadler said. “But it’s possible.”

Because living zero waste can mean many different things, mainly split between zero landfill waste and total zero waste, I set specific rules for the week: Use reusable items at all times.

Shop and eat zero waste, but any food already purchased in my apartment is fair game. Wear only thrifted clothes to embody the zero waste initiative of reusability. Any waste I did produce that wasn’t compostable went into my waste jar.

PreParatioN Even though Zero Waste Week hasn’t started, I went zero waste shopping today.

I visited the produce section at Kroger (bringing my own reusable produce bags) and the bulk food section at Sprouts (bringing my own jars) and bought items including mushrooms, peppers, lentils and granola.

Shopping takes much more thought when things aren’t pre-packaged and pre-proportioned.

Because of the nature of zero waste food, I planned to eat largely vegetarian this week.

Day oNe, marCh 26 In my first day of zero waste life, I quickly realized that living low-waste or zero landfill waste is doable given Emory’s recent recycling efforts, but living truly zero waste takes planning and effort.

My first and largest faux-pas of the day took place during lunch at Highland Bakery at Goizueta Business School. I went there knowing they serve food with reusable plates and silverware.

I remembered to request “no toothpick in my sandwich” (much to the surprise of the women taking my order), but, alas, I forgot to request no dressing cup. Thus, I carried a used dressing cup around with me all day to add to my waste jar later.

Day tWo, marCh 27

REGISTRATION

Class of 2018 Looks Back at Emory’s Best Courses

By WhitNey ForBis Contributing Writer

With course enrollment for Fall 2018 in full swing, the Wheel interviewed graduating seniors about their favorite courses and professors.

From pharmacology to the classics, Emory seniors shared their thoughts on the classes students shouldn’t miss.

The following transcripts have been edited for length and clarity.

Zoey ZhaNg (18C) German StudieS You have to take the classes you are interested in. It was great to finally have a really hardcore German litera-

ture class [like Professor Peter Hoyng’s 302W Goethe class] in [the German] department. I’m a literature nerd, so it’s really exciting to have more courses tailored to specific interests.

My school spirit definitely relies heavily on my relationship with my department. It really helps me feel a sense of belonging. You meet the best people there. It’s such a cozy and supportive environment. My love for Emory stems from the German department.

really liked the professor, [Professor Kristin] Phillips. She was really engaging and really nice. She was really accepting and wanted everyone to talk.

It helped me participate more in class.

[The course] talked about Africa and how there are still implications of colonialism. [We also discussed] the United States and other core countries in ways a lot of people don’t think about. It forces students to take a different perspective on their own country.

isaBel Falk (18C) environmental Science

julie Wiegel (18B) BuSineSS adminiStration and computer Science

[My favorite class was ANT 207] Foundation Development Studies. I

One of my favorite professors is

[Professor Katrina] Dickson. I took a class with her my very first semester, [CL 104] Ancient Cities [and Urban Culture], and then I took Latin I and II. She’s just the nicest human being.

She truly wants the best for her students, more than I’ve ever seen. She’ll go so far out of her way to make sure she’s doing right by her students.

[I also enjoyed Professor Peter] Wakefield in an [interdisciplinary studies] class I took for a writing requirement. He integrated a lot of elements that were super interesting ... [and] made it enjoyable to go to class.

I wasn’t super interested in those subjects, but they ended up being some of my favorite classes because the professors [were] so engaging and pas-

sionate about what they’re teaching.

They were all very impressed [by] and respecting of their students. They held us to a high standard, but they supported us.

Peter ZheNg (18C) computer Science and BioloGy There was a pharmacology course that I took; it’s a [graduate] class. I’ve been doing EMS, and in pharmacology we learn a lot about all kinds of drugs, especially [the] first line of treatment for diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. [There are] a lot of things we see in EMS.

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EMORY LIFE

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Mindfulness and Mason Jars: A Waste-Free Week Continued from Page 13 inspiring.

Day three, marCh 28 Zero Waste Week is largely about forming good habits, and I definitely noticed incorporating reusability into my routine getting easier.

At Wonderful Wednesday today, I was a lot more conscious of the waste that I could have contributed.

I also noticed my friends becoming more aware of their waste. They asked about what items are truly recyclable and took extra time to sort their trash before recycling or composting.

My biggest piece of waste today was a King of Pops plastic wrapper.

Day Four, marCh 29 Today I packed my own snacks so I wouldn’t get hungry and create waste — my largest zero waste initiative of the day. That said, zero waste may not jive with all college students. When I went out with friends, plastic cups and straws were everywhere and I almost panicked. Enjoying the perks (drinks) of young adulthood while living zero waste felt near impossible and was a challenge I was unprepared to face.

Day Five, marCh 30 I made it. The week wasn’t as crazy as I imagined. Sure, living zero waste takes careful intention, but it can easily become second nature while living on campus.

One could say I failed because I did create waste, but I significantly cut down on my usual waste. More impor-

tantly, I became aware of many simple sustainable practices. In hindsight, I also did a poor job of estimating how much of the dry bulk goods I would need. I have lots of leftovers.

I owe a large part of my success to Emory’s continued efforts towards waste reduction. Access to compost bins 24/7 and the willingness of Emory Dining Services to accept reusable containers was crucial. Even with Emory’s impressive strides in sustainability, there’s still more that can be done, especially around education and attitude.

Nadler said that one of the largest issues to enhanced sustainability on campus is a lack of motivation to learn.

People were confused and amused by my week-long commitment. As entertaining as it might be to shop with mason jars and to refuse toothpicks, a positive attitude is crucial for a serious acceptance of sustainable practices.

“When I do a sustainable practice, I hear, ‘That’s so adorable, you care about the earth,’” Nadler said.

“Sustainability should never be something that’s cute or adorable — it should be a necessity.”

I agree. Living a sustainable life is not only important, but can also make you more thoughtful. We don’t all have to live zero waste, but we should at least make conscious efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle. Doing so is part of our responsibility as both Emory students and people on Earth. So go pick up some litter or something, and be sure to recycle this paper on your way out.

— Contact Monica Lefton at monica.lefton@emory.eduv

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recess offers alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, including the turmeric tonic (leFt), as well as various toasts, salads and bowls. the super Bowl (r ight) is gluten-free and vegan.

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The ingredients tasted good individually but clashed with each other, and I had a difficult time synthesizing a cohesive flavor profile. The fluorescent dried mango tasted too artificially sweet to go with the more Mediterranean flavors of the chickpeas and tahini. The pickled beets tasted canned and artificial compared to the full-bodied crunch of the kale.

My friend was dissatisfied with his Chick Flick sandwich, as the chicken was too dry, but he enjoyed the hummus that came with it, as well as his hibiscus lemonade.

Recess makes for a colorful corner of the otherwise rustic and urban market. Customers can either seat themselves at a slate-colored bar where they

are served restaurant-style, or order and pick up their food.

The open kitchen imitates a 1950s diner. The different colors and interior styles made Recess seem like several different food vendors; I almost didn’t realize it was all one entity.

Recess’ menu was as confused as its aesthetic, as it included four different bowl options as well as salads, toasts and sandwiches.

The menu seemed to pander to the Gen-Z hipster in me, with ingredients buzzwords like “kale,” “turmeric” and “kombucha” conspicuously jumping out. I was disappointed by the lack of a create-your-own bowl option, or a vegetarian protein. Egg, chicken, lamb or salmon can be added to any bowl, but I would’ve liked to see a tofu or lentil choice, especially from a vendor that claims to be “vegetable-centric.”

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With each bowl priced at $9, Recess fits into a market of upscale grain bowl restaurants like Upbeet. However, I found the portions meager.

Recess exerts too much effort in innovative ingredients and concepts, and loses sight of what actually tastes good. Anyone can make a bowl out of the Oreo cookies, veggie chips and Clif Bars in my dorm room, but that doesn’t mean they should. I prefer the use of fresh, simplistic ingredients to create a more flavorful, healthful grain bowl.

— Contact Janvi Pamnani at janvi.pamnani@emory.edu

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still left half-deaf, which has posed problems for her as a college student.

But as she detailed what life was like with her disability, her stories often made the crowd whoop with laughter.

One night at Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar and Grill, she couldn’t quite hear a guy very well so she turned to face him.

He thought she was turning for a kiss.

“It was my story so it just felt very comfortable talking about it because that’s what I do everyday anyways,” Kelly said.

In true TEDxEmory fashion, Kelly tied her talk back to the more serious topic of living with a disability.

Her brother lives with a severe neurological disorder and she said that he has helped her learn to laugh at the things that are not usually perceived as funny.

After Kelly’s speech, Hallie Lonial (19C) took the stage to discuss popular dating app Tinder and its bizarre culture.

Lonial had previously spoken at the TEDxEmory Passion Pit event in the Fall, but she had never performed any kind of stand-up.

Her talk explored everything from receiving gross messages from prospective dates to the anxieties she felt when finally planning to meet up with someone.

At one point, she described a time when meeting her brother’s beauti-

ful Italian girlfriend drove her to redownload the app after previously deleting it in frustration.

“Even if the audience wasn’t laughing, I was laughing at myself,” Lonial said. “It was a really good first-time experience, too, because it was kind of a low-pressure situation.

Following Lonial, Hannah Montgomery, an exchange student at the Goizueta Business School from the University of Manchester for the 20172018 school year, talked about one of her biggest pet peeves — slow walkers — which elicited an affirming groan from the audience.

She detailed an experience of rushing to class only to be stopped by someone moseying down the middle of the sidewalk.

Montgomery jumped around the stage mimicking the different types of slow walkers and her strategies for getting around them. Her frantic physical movements kept the audience engaged during the last stretch of the evening.

Unlike the other speakers, Montgomery had experience performing stand-up in England, but had never attempted it in the United States.

“I was kind of worried about performing in front of an American audience, because my sense of humor might be a little bit different,” Montgomery said.

However, with the help of Perl, she said she felt much more confident about the material.

After Perl wrapped up the event and

brought up all the speakers for a final bow, audience members arose looking energized and upbeat.

Some said they were pleased with the night’s mix of serious and silly content. “[The event] makes [these topics] more real and relatable,” said audience member Dani Reisbaum (18C). “It’s important to be able to laugh at things that seem hard or embarrassing.”

Perl echoed Reisbaum’s statements just after getting off stage.

“I really believe in the ability of comedy to give new life to things that might not be so interesting to talk about — to recontextualize tragedy and discomfort,” Perl said.

Prior to the event, audience members had climbed the stairs to the attic.

A string of Christmas lights provided the cozy room with an amber glow.

As the night came into focus, this intimate setting gave way to Perl’s vision for the evening.

“A lot of our talks are serious — obviously they are able to be fun and humorous but we wanted to have an event solely focused on spreading ideas through a different medium,” Aime said. “We thought that it would be a new and interesting spin off of ‘ideas worth spreading.’ ”

Varun reporting.

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Continued from Page 13 Knowing [which] drugs can help me figure out a faster cure for my patients, [which] definitely helps and is not something [the EMT training courses] went into detail [with]. keNDall Parks (18C) economicS

amount of service they provide for our communities.

I definitely have a new perspective on the importance of teachers and how a really good teacher, no matter the subject, can make you think ethically about the world. eli Patt (18C) neuroScience and Behavioral BioloGy

Emory got rid of the [Educational Studies] department, but one of the My favorite courses have been best classes I ever [R EL 354W ] took was [EDS 432H] Ethics of Human “My school spirit [Math Curriculum Goodness with and Instruction for] definitely relies heavily Pamela Hall, [IDS Elementary and 205W] Science on my relationship Middle School Math and the Nature of with my department. with Professor Robert Evidence with Arri It really helps me feel a Eisen and [IDS Jensen. sense of belonging.”

That was amazing.

220RW] “What You learn a lot of Does it Mean to — Zoey Zhang (18C) be insightful things about Human?” mathematics. with Kimberly There are so many different ways Loudermilk. to explain the same exact topic but in I feel like those classes really repways that can make people understand. resent what you should get out of a Throughout the class, you learn liberal arts education in terms of the there are [not] “math people” or “not- way you’re supposed to think, commumath people.” nicate and collaborate.

All some people need is a little more I’m a religion minor, and I study time or a different interpretation of the religion to understand science better. material.

That’s something I learned from Eisen.

People can really surprise you. It really inspired me.

— Contact Whitney Forbis at Teachers are undervalued for the whitney.forbis@emory.edu

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runs in the bottom of the second inning. the Eagles answered quickly, posting two of their own in the top of the third. the game remained squared at 3-2 until Case Western added one more run in the bottom of the seventh.

Emory sophomore starting pitcher James robertson pitched a solid game, striking out seven and allowing four runs on five hits and four walks. Aside from allowing three runs in the first, robertson said he regained his composure and finished with a strong outing.

“As the game went along I got into a groove and hit my stride,” robertson said. “I honed in my command and recovered from the first inning.”

With their backs against the wall headed to the top of the ninth, Emory nearly tied the game in the final inning. Chambers knocked a one-out single into left field that brought home Edelman and put Emory behind by only one run with runners at first and second. Brereton and senior first-baseman Bubby terp failed to bring home the runner on second base, and the Eagles dropped their second straight. proceeding to the last game of the series on April 1, the Emory bats

went silent as Case Western topped the Eagles 4-0. Although the Eagles out-hit the Spartans 6-5, Emory was unable to put runs on the scoreboard.

Freshman pitcher Christian Bradley started the game and allowed four runs on five hits and a walk — all in three innings. Senior rhett Stuart pitched the remainder of the game and posted five perfect innings, keeping the Spartans hitless while also striking out four batters. twardoski recapped the series and noted that the talent on both teams were pretty equal, but one sequence each game was the difference between winning and losing. “one play a game, if we didn’t get a hit or [Case Western] got a hit, made the difference in the series,” twardoski said. “Case Western didn’t really outplay us, but we have to learn how to win and hit in the crucial situations.”

Emory will host Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) in a fourgame set to be played out on April 6-8.

Associate Editor Brian Taggett (19C) plays for Emory’s baseball team.

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

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Continued from Back Page Dorsey scored five straight points to close the deal. His three-pointer with a minute and 59 seconds remaining pushed the lead back to five, followed quickly by a driving lay-in on the Hawks’ next possession that suddenly put Atlanta safely up seven.

“I seen [sic] that I had a mismatch,” Dorsey said of his critical three-point bucket. “His hands was [sic] down, and I just let it fly. I work on that shot a lot.”

Dorsey finished with a team-high of 19 points on eight of 11 shooting off the bench.

“that’s how basketball is supposed to be: fun, moving the ball, everybody gets involved.”

— Hawks power forward John Collins Hawks shooting guard DeAndre’ Bembry returned to the floor for the first time in over a month on Sunday night.

Bembry struggled with a multitude of injuries this season that limited him to just 21 games played prior to Sunday night’s meeting with the Magic.

Bembry finished with four points, three assists and three rebounds in 14 minutes of play. “this life, you just gotta get through it and push through it,” Bembry said.

“Mentally, I’m good now. I am just trying to physically get back out there.” the win halts Atlanta’s losing streak at five and improves their season record to 22-55, while orlando inches closer to last place at 22-54. Next up for Atlanta is a home and away series against the Miami Heat, beginning on April 3 in Miami.

— Contact Kevin Kilgour at kkilgou@emory.edu

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Junior Jonathan Jemison prepares to receive the ball from Johns Hopkins University (Md.) on March 31. Jemison won both singles matches 6-2, 6-4.

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must uphold mutual respect to the highest regard and refrain from any form of belligerence such as taunting, aggression and intimidation tactics. “[Ultimate is] a self-officiated sport,” Emrick said. “Making the calls and resolving the calls is on the players’ hands. We’ve taken a lot of personal responsibility in terms of making sure that we know the rules and making sure that we know how to communicate with our opponents.”

According to Glass, communication is a major part of the non-contact aspect of ultimate. the negotiation skills that ultimate players learn by talking out conflicts on the field without a referee can translate into real world scenarios, helping to form bridges between different societies and cultures. Glass said she first encountered ultimate down the street from Emory in her sophomore year of high school at the paideia School, where the sport thrives. From there, her passion for the

disc grew, which led her to join EWU and pursue projects such as analyzing ultimate game speech in her linguistics class and working for Ultimate peace, an Israeli organization dedicated to promoting youth friendships in the Middle East through ultimate by encouraging intelligent discussion between opponents. Much like the world is embracing ultimate, so too is Emory gaining an interest. this past year, the turnout for EWU tryouts doubled that of last year, forcing the team to split in two.

“Interest in the sport has grown so much that we can’t field a 60-person team,” Glass said. “then no one gets any playing time … Besides the fact that it’s a wonderful social group, it’s also a sport, and the goal is to play.”

Looking forward, EWU aims to refine their frisbee talent and prepare for the Southeast regionals with as much practice as possible, even going so far as to scrimmage with Atlanta elite club athletes to hike the competi-

tion level. According to Emrick, the team has been focusing on honing their offensive and defensive sets in addition to staying mentally aware in the game. “regardless of what the outcome of our season is — whether we’re winning, whether we’re losing, whether we make to regionals — we want to be growing within a process,” Emrick said. “there are so many ways to succeed than just by scoring a point or by winning a game. A big part of that for us is focusing on mental toughness.”

For now, the team prepares for their upcoming conference championships April 14-15 in hopes of qualifying for Southeast regionals. But the goal to completely throttle the competition is neither here nor there for these Eagles as they grasp the true meaning of sportsmanship through the noble sport of ultimate.

— Contact Annie Uichanco at tuichan@emory.edu

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Emory women’s ultimate team (Left) sprints the field in a tournament matchup, while junior team Captain Anna Glass (R ight) makes a dive for the disc.

“There’s nothing more American than grabbing a hot dog, heading to the ballpark and watching nine guys from the Dominican Republic make magic on the field.” - Will Ferrell

With the conclusion of March Madness and subsequent desire to bet on all things sports-related to win back the $10 buy-in you lost after Virginia fell first round, have no fear: a new sports season is fully underway.

Baseball is back and ready to be the source of all your disappointments as you follow a team for 162 games that last three hours each, just to find out your favorite team has no chance at making the playoffs. regardless, your on Fire correspondent is ready to give you an allencompassing season preview so you can be prepared to make small talk with that one relative who is oddly obsessed with the game.

the 2018 season should ultimately be one of no surprises: Yankees will be good, Marlins will suck.

As much as it is fact that Wednesdays follow tuesdays, carrots are healthy, Emory is better than oxford, etc., nothing has changed with the long-held practice that the New York Yankees will spend every possible dollar to build a superteam. Instead of taking strong analytical efforts to develop young players, the Yankees have continued to be the Alpha Chai Latte Brads from Long Island, N.Y., who simply buy their way to the top.

By acquiring GQ poster boy Giancarlo Stanton to guarantee the team even more home runs, the Yankees are once again ready to be the most hateable team.

While the Yankees did everything they could to improve, the Miami Marlins did everything they could to tank. By selling every star player, including the aforementioned Stanton, the Marlins sit at the level of a student who flunked out of “baby bio” and are now taking full pass/fail classes on the basket-weaving track. Most shocking with this Marlins development is the divorce between the organization and the “Marlins Man.” Laurence Leavy (78C), the Emory grad turned successful lawyer, became a fixture at all top sporting events by rocking a bright orange Marlins jersey at prominent seats at the World Series, Super Bowl, Kentucky Derby, etc. Now, by not renewing his season tickets, he is the biggest free agent in baseball willing to take his talents away from South Beach, Fla. Maybe, just maybe, he will next be spotted as the sole fan at Chappell park for an Emory baseball game.

As a change in the game this year, MLB Commissioner rob Manfred has led the charge to pick up the pace of baseball play. By shortening the amount of mound visits and considering instituting a pitch clock, Manfred may in fact speed up the game so much that games will be more short-lived than your freshman-year desire to be pre-med (still improbable). the 2018 season should ultimately be one of no surprises: Yankees will be good, Marlins will suck and topdown decisions will ruin the national pastime.

However, if the owner of Maggie’s can take an active role in campus elections, then I guess anything may be possible this season.

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Sports

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | Assistant Sports Editor: Annie Uichanco (tuichan@emory.edu)

SOFTBALL

ULTIMATE FRISBEE

Women Stay Chilly on Pitch

Luna Set to Launch Into Conference Champs

By Annie UichAnco Asst. Sports Editor

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Sophomore infielder Jessy McLean (Left) and freshman pitcher Jacqueline Spizizen (R ight) sweep a weekend series of doubleheaders against Case Western Reserve University (Ohio).

BASEBALL

Eagles Lose Bid to NCAA Series

By Stephen MAtteS Senior Staff Writer

the Emory baseball team’s fourgame slate quickly turned sour after its first win this past weekend. the team dropped the final three games of its series against the Case Western reserve University (ohio) Spartans, beginning University Athletic Association (UAA) play with a bleak 1-3 record.

Following a lackluster 9-10 record in non-conference competition, the Eagles needed a strong start to UAA play to keep themselves in the running for a bid to the NCAA Division III World Series.

Emory started the four-game set

at Case Western with a 5-2 win on March 30. Sophomore starting pitcher richard Brereton asserted his dominance on the mound and pitched all nine innings. Brereton struck out six batters and allowed only two runs on six hits and two walks. Heach Coach Mike twardoski said Brereton is a consistent pitcher, who is able to keep his composure in difficult situations.

“He fights out there and guys love to play behind him,” twardoski said.

“He threw 130 pitches and was able to maintain his stamina in a gutsy performance.” the Eagles’ offense recorded five runs on eight hits, two walks and four Case Western errors. Senior shortstop Nick Chambers, sophomore catcher

NBA

Hawks Stupefy in Magic Matchup

By Kevin KiLgoUR Senior Staff Writer In a tight battle between two NBA featherweights, the Atlanta Hawks scored a slim 94-88 victory over the slumping orlando Magic at philips Arena on April 1. It was the 11th loss in 13 games for orlando, who inched nearer to Atlanta for the coveted lastplace spot in the Eastern Conference standings.

With various injuries (of varying legitimacy) plaguing the two squads, the starting lineups for Sunday’s matchup read more appropriately as a distasteful April Fool’s joke. point guard Dennis Schroder and shooting guard Kent Bazemore will sit out for the remainder of the Hawks’ season, leaving Atlanta to field a starting lineup with a combined six years of NBA experience against orlando. the lack of experience was evident early in Sunday’s contest, as Atlanta struggled with shot selection — that is, until Atlanta power forward and rookie phenom John Collins drove the lane for an authoritative one-handed slam. the play was a turning point for Atlanta: From then on, the offense found its flow.

For a team lacking experience, Atlanta played an effective pass-first offense that created a healthy dose of open looks. Atlanta finished the game shooting 48.2 percent from the field off 33 assists, compared to orlando’s 34.4 percent shooting off 19 assists. the Hawks led at the half, 56-43.

“We came out moving the ball, spreading the ball, playing as a team,” Collins said. “Everybody got pass-happy. that’s how basketball is supposed to be: fun, moving the ball, everybody gets involved.” orlando pushed back in the second half, but poor shooting — due in part to a shifty defensive scheme that showed both man-to-man and a rare NBA zone — kept the visitors unsettled. Star forward Aaron Gordon connected on only four of 13 shots for a meager 10 points, but no Magic player struggled as mightily as center Nikola Vucevic, who made only three of his 19 field goal attempts.

Despite a dismal shooting performance, orlando stuck around.

But with the Magic trailing by just two points late in the fourth quarter, Atlanta rookie shooting guard tyler

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Jacob Greene and freshman centerfielder Michael Edelman all tallied rBIs. on March 31, Emory dropped both games in an afternoon double-header against the Spartans, losing 12-6 and 4-3, respectively. In the first game of the double-header, Emory stole a 3-0 lead after the first three innings.

Headed to the bottom of the fourth, Case Western claimed its first lead of the game with a four-run inning. the Spartans added eight more runs to take the game easily from Emory.

Emory’s second game of the day ended in a nail-biter. Case Western claimed an early lead, posting three

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For the Emory women’s ultimate (EWU) club team, the frisbee is not something to be tossed to a dog or flung in a relaxing game of disc golf. rather, the frisbee is a means to a lifestyle that warrants level-headed conversation between players, acute mental stamina and physical prowess on the pitch. Embarking on its 18th year as an Emory club sport, EWU is a testament to those skills. Since splitting EWU into an A team and a B team (Luna and tuna, respectively) at the beginning of this season, the program has recorded its first complete tournament victory at the t-town throwdown in tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 3-4, winning six out of seven matchups against four schools. “our goals are to do better at each tournament,” junior team captain Anna Glass said. “[our goals are] much more a mental game than a physical game because that leads to bettering yourself as a player. [Mental toughness is] probably one of our biggest goals, … learning how to cultivate the mindset of a competitive athlete and … still holding onto that love and community that we have.” the team has not always had such luck with tournaments, however. the

players have faced injuries, weather issues and the negativity of naysayers who deny the legitimacy of the relatively new sport. But ask any ultimate enthusiast, and he or she will educate you on the different ways in which the honorable, non-contact sport is changing the world one disc at a time.

Luna Coach Kayla Emrick (18pH), who has been playing ultimate for 10 years and currently plays for the elite women’s club Atlanta ozone and the new women’s pro team Atlanta Soul, said she was introduced to the sport during her first year at oberlin College (ohio), when she noticed players tossing a frisbee around the campus quad.

As an athlete looking to add another sport into her life, Emrick was drawn to ultimate’s strong sense of community, support and sportsmanship.

“I’ve been hooked since day one and haven’t really put the disc down since,” Emrick said, adding that she fell in love with “the people, how much they care about each other … how much everyone is thinking about growth, not necessarily just competition.”

Unique to ultimate culture is the “Spirit of the Game,” the tenets which emphasize the importance of character and integrity on the field. As per the official rules of Ultimate, players

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

PArth mody/senior stAff

Senior Bridget Harding sets up a swing in a Senior Day matchup against DePauw University (ind.). The Eagles shut out the Tigers 9-0 at home on March 31.