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Class of 2019 Breaks Application Record By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor

By Rupsha Basu News Editor Retired Emory School of Law Professor William J. Carney and his wife, Jane Carney, have donated $1 million to the school’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice, the largest given to the University by a professor, according to Dean of the School of Law and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Robert Schapiro. When the School of Law matches these funds with its own fundraising efforts, it will establish the William and Jane Carney Chair of Transactional Law and Practice, to be held by the center’s executive director, who is currently Sue Payne, Schapiro said. “The excitement we feel to have a faculty member invest back into the school is a wonderful thing,” Schapiro said. Transactional law refers to legal practices that deal with negotiating contracts between two or more parties, usually to facilitate business transactions. “That’s an area many law schools have not focused on in years,” Schapiro said, stating his desire to expand Emory’s existing program. Carney, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law Emeritus, oversaw the foundation of the Center for Transactional Law and Practice in 2007 and also helped hire its first director, according to a Jan. 29 University press release.

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ooley and his bodyguards graced a Founders Day-themed Wonderful Wednesday, which included a photo booth, free food and a horse-drawn carriage. The event, sponsored by the Emory Alumni Association, celebrated the first meeting of Emory’s Board of Trustees on Feb. 6, 1837.

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Emory May Renovate, Demolish New DUC By Sonam Vashi Executive Editor Still early in the process of renovating and replacing the Dobbs University Center (DUC), the University spent the past year directing a feasibility study, a document that represents stakeholder interests and helps inform future decisions, of the new center, according to Vice President for Campus Services Matthew Early. The study, conducted by firm Perkins+Will, issued recommendations ranging from demolishing the west portion of the DUC, which currently contains Dobbs Market, Eagle’s Landing and Mail Services, and renovating the historic east DUC to adding more retail food options and creating an approximately 1,600-person sized event space.

The recommendations and figures in the feasibility study, which is done for every new University project, will not necessarily be implemented, but the study is meant to provide parameters and identify needs for the new center, according to Early. The feasibility study estimated a total project cost of $98 million, but that cost could change throughout the design and construction processes. “Moving forward, money has not been identified for it yet,” Early said. “We’re just looking at, what are our possibilities? We’re trying to come down for what is best.” However, he added that the cost would likely be lower. “The way we translated [the cost forecast] ... I know we can do it for less,” Early said. A timeline for the project could also vary, depending on factors such

as the U.S. economy and logistical problems, Early said. “Our goal is to have a general idea of what a facility will look like ... probably around April or May,” he said. “Then, there is no timeline. It could take years.” The feasibility study projected a potential opening for the new center in spring 2019. During the past year, the feasibility study met with more than 200 people, including more than 100 students, to collect community feedback and suggestions, according to DUC Director Ben Perlman. The study found that the current DUC has a number of mechanical and electrical inefficiencies, lacks accessibility for people with disabilities in some areas and is difficult to navigate.

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Total applications to Emory University’s undergraduate programs have hit an all-time high this year, surpassing 20,000 applications for the Class of 2019, according to a Jan. 29 University press release. Compared with last year, applications to Emory College of Arts and Sciences increased 15 percent to 20,477. Applications to Oxford College increased 30 percent to 9,653. In 2015, Emory College plans to enroll 1,350 students, and Oxford College plans to enroll 490. Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Enrollment and Dean of Admissions John Latting wrote in an email to the Wheel that the admissions numbers this year surprised him, noting that a 15 percent change in applications is unusual at any university. “Assuming no big differences in the mechanism of applying (e.g. a college’s moving to the Common Application) change upward or downward in application volume is typically gradual,” he wrote. “[At] Emory the only significant change to the [application] process this year was moving the Regular Decision deadline earlier by two weeks (from Jan. 15 to Jan. 1) — which we feared could, if anything, depress applications.” There was also an increase in for Early Decision I (ED I) and Early Decision II (ED II) applications, where students are obliged to go to Emory once accepted (ED II indicates applicants apply at a later date than ED I). Emory College received 1,253 ED I applications for the Class of 2019, up 9.6 percent from last year, and admitted 478. Emory College

received 1,244 ED II applications and Oxford College received 639 ED II applications, a record applicant pool for the ED II admission plan for both colleges. These numbers indicate that a higher number of applicants chose Emory as their first choice university this year. Despite being surprised by the significant increase in application numbers, Latting had a few theories on why application numbers increased. Latting wrote that the increase probably had to do with a combination of the actions of the Office of Undergraduate Admission, Emory University in general and of broad economic forces that go beyond the University. “When all those things move in the same direction, it is apparently possible to have a large change in the size of the applicant pool,” Latting wrote. “To be more specific, we are working hard here in Admission to connect with talented and motivated students all over America and the world.” He added that the extensive media coverage for the impressive activity at Emory, including treatment of patients infected with the Ebola virus, may have also helped. He also cited the strengthening of the U.S. economy as another possible factor in the increase in applications. “We should remember, too, that the economy continues to strengthen, and that investment in a high quality college education is very important to students and their families,” Latting wrote. “And Emory’s type of institution — the private, global, selective, American research university — seems to be the most sought after model in the world.”

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Emory Trains Ebola Panel Talks Treatment Center Staff Ebola’s Political Impact By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor

The Emory University Hospital team that saved the lives of four Ebola patients last fall began training staff at 48 designated Ebola virus treatment centers from California to Massachusetts in late January. The initiative stemmed from a November contract awarded and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to spokespeople for the CDC and the Emory Hospital. Along with the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which, like the Emory Hospital, treated four Ebola patients last fall, members of Emory’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit (SCDU) traveled in December to these centers to prepare treatment of patients suffering from Ebola, or a similar, future epidemic, according to SCDU Clinical Nurse Specialist Sharon Vanairsdale. “Our biggest principle has been, ‘Yeah, we’re dealing with Ebola now, but how can we be prepared for the next big outbreak?’” Vanairsdale said. She added that while Emory nurses and physicians gave their input at the designated treatment centers, most of the information was relayed — and continues to be relayed — at the Emory Conference Center Hotel and through conference calls with specialists. Emory hosted a pair of two-day training seminars on Ebola pre-

paredness at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, where dozens of physicians representing designated treatment centers attended. Physicians and nurses will hold their third and final seminar on Feb. 9 and 10, according to Vanairsdale. The seminars typically covered such topics as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) donning and doffing, infection control, staffing and clinical care. “It’s not necessarily, ‘This is what we’ve done wrong,’ but [input on] things that we didn’t have in West Africa because of a lack of manpower and materials,” such as availability of intravenous fluids and dialysis machines, Vanairsdale said, describing the experienced-based conference presentations. In addition to conferences, specialists from the Emory Hospital and the University of Nebraska Medical Center also continue to hold conference calls every Wednesday on such subjects as occupational health and laboratory operations. The first conference call was held on Jan. 21, and last week’s subject involved nursing and the staffing model, according to Vanairsdale. Emory physicians and nurses have already trained around 350 health care providers at 27 of the 48 designated treatment centers, according to Abbigail Tumpey, associate director for Communications

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By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor Three panelists discussed the economic, political and social impact of the Ebola virus in Liberia on Tuesday, part of a semester-long forum on the virus that began in late January. The panel, titled “Ebola, ‘a Neoliberal Disease?’” and attended by more than 50 people, was organized by the Institute for Developing Nations, the Institute of African Studies and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and was held in the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) building. The panelists included Senior Project Coordinator for the Carter Center’s Access to Justice Project in Liberia Pewee Flomoku; Associate Professor of Finance at the Goizueta Business School Jeff Rosensweig and Director of the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and Professor of African Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Emory’s Transportation and Parking Services discontinued the NightOwl shuttle and extended the C Route to 12:30 a.m. due to low ridership. SafeRide gained a second shuttle for its route.

Bus Hours Extended, NightOwl Cancelled By Sarah Husain Contributing Writer

A new Cliff shuttle schedule discontinued the NightOwl, extended service on the C Route to 12:30 a.m. and added one additional SafeRide bus from Thursday through Sunday, the result of customer feedback and the Student Government Association (SGA). The changes went into effect Jan. 20 and were made to reflect customer needs, according to Adele Clements,

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senior director of Transportation and Parking Services. An additional SafeRide bus was added Thursday through Sunday from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m, and the C-Toco Hills route will also now go round trip from Woodruff Circle to Clairmont Campus before heading to Toco Hills from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Additionally, service was extended on the D Express (DX) and M Route to midnight, and the hours for The Loop were extended to midnight on weekdays, according

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to Clements. “Every semester we go through and look at routes, comments, performance, time of route and on time performance and ridership,” Clements said. Clements explained that ridership was particularly low for the NightOwl. Students chose SafeRide late at night rather than the NightOwl transportation, so resources were reallocated from NightOwl to add

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news roundup National, Local and Higher Education News • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, French President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel headed to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on Thursday to present a peace initiative to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Kerry announced plans to bring the peace initiative to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. • Taiwanese rescue teams continued to search on Thursday for 12 missing passengers on a TransAsia ATR-72 plane, which crashed into Taipei’s Keelung River, killing 31, on Wednesday morning. Fifteen survivors, including a two-year-old boy, were pulled from the wreckage. • A Manhattan jury on Wednesday found Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the illegal drug black market site Silk Road, guilty on all seven counts, including narcotics trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering. Ulbricht, 30, made about $18 million in Bitcoin from the more than one million illegal drug transactions hosted by his darknet site. • Prosecutors decided not to file charges against 36-year-old Ricardo Medina after the former Power

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Rangers actor allegedly stabbed his apartment mate with a sword in their Los Angeles home. Medina, who pleaded self-defense, apologized and offered condolences to the family of Joshua Stutter, who kicked down Medina’s door before he was fatally stabbed. • Former Georgia Institute of Technology football star Recardo Wimbush and his wife Therian, both in prison on child abuse charges in Gwinnett County, agreed not to strive for custody of their 10 children on Wednesday. The couple has been in jail without bond since June on charges of locking their eldest child in a basement for months. • Students at Woodland High School in Henry County, Ga. mourned the death of 17-year-old fellow student and football player Zachary Robinson, who died 12 hours after a crashing head on into a box truck on the way to an appointment Tuesday. The marquee in front of the school read “Rest in Peace Zachary,” while grief counselors were available to students on Thursday.

— Compiled by Asst. News Editor Lydia O’Neal

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• On Jan. 31 at 12:25 a.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding an underage individual under the influence of alcohol at Evans residence hall. The roommate of the intoxicated individual called the police after she became unresponsive. When officers arrived on the scene, the intoxicated individual was lying on the side of her bed, and she told officers that she had been drinking earlier in the evening at an off campus apartment. The individual gave officers a fraudulent Illinois driver’s license, which was later confiscated. The individual was transported to Emory University Hospital, and Campus Life was notified. • On Jan. 31 at 2:24 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an individual under the influence of alcohol at Building C on Clairmont Campus.

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When officers arrived on the scene, the individual was somewhat unresponsive, and she was “ill to her stomach.” The individual said she had gone to Buckhead to celebrate her 21st birthday. The intoxicated individual refused to be transported to the hospital and was left with her roommate to take care of her. Campus Life was notified.

• On Jan. 31 at 3:01 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a fire at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at 18 Eagle Row. Someone in the house lit a shirt on fire, and the fire became uncontrollable. The individual moved the burning shirt to a dumpster and called the police. EPD notified the fire safety director, and Campus Life about the incident.

Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding an underage individual under the influence of alcohol on the second floor of Raoul residence hall. A complainant called the police when they found the intoxicated individual unresponsive. Emory Emergency Medical Services and American Medical Response arrived on the scene and determined the individual needed to go to the hospital. The individual was transported to Emory University Hospital, and Campus Life was notified.

— Compiled by Crime Beat Writer Brandon Fuhr

• On Jan. 31 at 4:12 a.m., Emory

This Week In Emory History Feb. 4, 1954

Emory’s annual Brotherhood Week, a series of fraternity-focused events scheduled for Feb. 8-12 and themed “Have we not all one father?” featured fraternity forums and talks from Atlanta-based religious leaders, such as Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, Father John McShane and Father J. E. Maloney, among others. The religious leaders’ talks followed a separate, albeit related theme, “Religious Foundations of American Democracy.” The University would hold special services over the fiveday event as well in the Emory Christian Association Conference Room of the Alumni Memorial Building, the Wheel reported.

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Event: Modular Executive MBA Discovery Day Time: 7:30 a.m. Location: 1300 Clifton Road NE, 3rd Floor Event: Girls in Sports Day Time: 3 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center Event: Ukraine: A War of Truth Time: 4 p.m. Location: White Hall 208 Event: Evening for Educators Time: 5 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall Event: Athletics — Women’s Basketball Time: 6 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center Event: Global Voices: “Birdhouse” by Diane Glancy Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Theater Lab, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Event: Athletics — Men’s Basketball Time: 8 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center

Event: Multimodal Assessment Workshop, Led by Cheryl Ball Time: 10 p.m. Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room

SATURDAY Event: Super Saturday Time: 8 a.m. Location: Student Activity and Academic Center (SAAC) Event: Artful Stories for Families Time: 10 a.m. Location: Carlos Museum, Egyptian Galleries Event: Global Voices: “Assimilation” by Jack Dalton Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Theater Lab, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Event: Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Time: 8 p.m. Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

SUNDAY Event: Emory University Worship With The Rev. Lyn Pace Time: 11 a.m. Location: Cannon Chapel

Event: Prospectus Writing Boot Camp Time: 11 a.m. Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room

Event: Great Preacher Series at Glenn — Bishop Woodie White Time: 11 a.m. Location: Glenn Memorial Church Event: Athletics — Men’s Basketball Time: 12 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center Event: Athletics — Women’s Basketball Time: 2 p.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center Event: Ptah and Egyptian Creation Children’s Workshop Time: 2 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Tate Room Event: Global Voices: “Tombs of the Vanishing Indian” by Marie Clements Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Theater Lab, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

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Event: Learning Analytics Speaker Series: Towards Long-Term and Actionable Prediction of Student Outcomes Using Automated Detectors of Engagement and Affect Time: 12 p.m. Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room Event: Archives Research Program Speaker Series: Teaching With Archives Time: 4 p.m. Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room Event: Queer Men’s Discussion Group Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, DUC 232E Event: Asian and Pacific Islander Discussion Group Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: DUC E334 Event: Global Voices: “Total Power Exchange” by Edith Freni Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Theater Lab, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

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Timothy Snyder, the Housum Professor of History at Yale University, gave a lecture entitled “The Holocaust as Political History” at the Oxford Road Building on Thursday night.

Yale Professor Examines Politics of Holocaust By Emily Lim Staff Writer “How do you get from the idea that a certain group of people shouldn’t exist, to actually carrying out the policy?” This was the main question discussed by Timothy Snyder, Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, in his lecture “The Holocaust as a Political History,” delivered last evening at the Oxford Presentation Room in the Oxford Road Building and followed by a 30-minute Q&A session. The event was sponsored, among others, by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, the Halle Institute for Global Learning, Emory’s Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Georgia Institute of Technology. Snyder, who specializes in the history of the Holocaust and the history of Central and Eastern Europe, discussed the importance of Hitler’s political ideology in causing the Holocaust, a state-sponsored attempt at ethnic cleansing that claimed the lives of more than 11 million people, the majority of whom were Jewish Europeans. “There’s something between ideas and action, and that is politics,” Snyder argued. “It begins and ends with ideology.” Snyder’s most recent book is a

2010 publication entitled Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which focuses on how 14 million noncombatants were killed in Eastern Europe by either Hitler’s or Stalin’s armies, was translated into over 20 languages. His upcoming book will focus on the causes of systematic murder in the Holocaust. Snyder listed several political factors contributing to the Holocaust. Snyder discussed Hitler’s writings in his autobiographical work, Mein Kampf, and how he used Christian ideals of struggles for ‘daily bread’ and transferred this to his own ideas of a struggle between the races for survival. The lecture also covered Hitler’s ideas of lebensraum as having the dual meaning of habitat and comfortable living space, and how this contributed to Hitler’s ideas about the racial struggle. According to Snyder, Hitler used settlers in the United States, and how they slaughtered Native Americans and enslaved the African Americans, as his key example of a successful racial struggle. According to Snyder, it was this vision which caused Hitler’s political aim of expanding territorially to create a racially homogenous ruling class which would enjoy lebensraum, or a comfortable living space. Snyder also discussed the influence of Judeo-Bolshevism, a school of political thought which believes

Jews are part of a Communist conspiracy theory, on Hitler’s foreign policy aims. “Judeo-Bolshevism believes that Communists are Jews, and Jews are Communists,” Snyder explained. He argued that Hitler used this political myth to use Jews as scapegoats for the fallen states of the countries that he invaded. According to Snyder, he also used this myth to blame the failure of states to fall on a successful Jewish conspiracy. College junior Wrenica Archibald attended the lecture because she is currently taking a class on the history of the Holocaust, creating her interest in the topic. She found Snyder’s discussion of Hitler’s use of religious ideas most intriguing. “The most interesting part was when he discussed how Hitler pulled from religious ideas of original sin,” Archibald said. “What I’ve learned changed my view of Hitler, and I now have a better understanding.” Sarah Hesse, a College sophomore, attended because she was interested to learn more on the topic. “His argument was different and offered another perspective,” Hesse said. “It was like a kind of awakening to see something you already knew in an all new way. It shows that you never know the answer to everything.” — Contact Emily Lim at emily.lim@emory.edu

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CDC Contract Grant Will Go Toward Funded Creating New Courses Through Feb. Continued from Page 1 Science at the CDC. The CDC contract, according to Tumpey, has a base period that is funded through Feb. 17, but two optional periods could allow for funding through Aug. 17. The SCDU also launched an Ebola-preparedness website, which allows health care workers to request Emory Healthcare Ebola preparedness protocol by submitting an online form. In his message posted on the site, Emory Healthcare CEO John Fox, who stepped down in early January and will start his new position at Detroit-based Beaumont Health in March, urged hospitals to reach “some level of preparedness for Ebola and other types of communicable diseases that can always impact us at any point in time.” He wrote that many centers “remain extremely limited,” but that “Emory Healthcare is committed to sharing our processes and learning on how to provide safe, effective care for patients with Ebola virus disease.”

— Contact Lydia O’Neal at lmoneal@emory.edu

Atlanta, according to Schapiro. According to the press release, Since then, the program has grown there are now 13 full-time professors with more than 200 students enrolled in the center and more than 40 practiin the certificate program. tioners as adjunct faculty. “[William] Carney has been “The Center for Transactional Law among the leading professors teach- is a key priority for the Law School,” ing corporate and securities law for Schapiro said, adding that the school decades,” School of Law Vice Dean emphasizes “experiential education.” Robert Ahdieh, The grant will also who serves on go toward creating new the center’s faccourses related to transulty, said in the “The Center for Transac- actional law, Schapiro press release. tional Law is a key prior- said. “But he has While a $1 million ity for the Law School.” gift is unusual for Emory also always been commitLaw, the school receives — Robert Schapiro, around $43 million of ted to the idea dean of Emory School of Law Emory University’s total that transactional lawyers endowment, which is need rigorous around $6.7 billion. skills training.” This number may fluctuate year Schapiro said Emory law students to year, based on a variety of factors, are particularly well-poised to pursue including market forces, particular transactional law because the City projects from the University, deciof Atlanta has sophisticated transac- sions from the Board of Trustees and tional law practitioners. internal fundraising from the law The $1 million grant will be used school’s development team. to expand the transactional law eduSchapiro said he hopes this donacation, particularly with the hiring tion will be inspirational for others to of an assistant director for the center, invest back into the School of Law. — Contact Rupsha Basu at in addition to adjunct faculty memrupsha.basu@emory.edu bers who practice transactional law in

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Rosensweig on Liberia’s Economic Downfalls, Prospects Continued from Page 1 Pamela Scully. This panel was the second of seven discussions in the Ebola Faculty and Community Forum, which kicked off with a panel titled “Ebola: Past and Present in the U.S. and West Africa” on Jan. 26. The Forum is co-chaired by Deborah Bruner, Robert W. Woodruff chair in nursing; Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, director of Emory’s Institute for Developing Nations and Scully. Tuesday’s talk began with a presentation from Scully on the history of Liberia, which she said would help the audience understand why Ebola became an epidemic in the West African nation. “History and politics enable us to understand why Ebola took hold of a country,” she said. Scully noted that many of the ways Westerners view the Ebola epidemic in Liberia stem from “cultural explanations from the point of view of Western media.” She cited, for example, perceptions that Liberian people are uneducated, naïve and refuse medical help or engage in unsafe funeral practices. Scully, however, suggested that there are many underlying structural reasons for this view, which “have to do with a really complicated history.” She then went into explaining why Ebola may be a “neoliberal disease.” The idea of neoliberalism is generally tied to a set of policies in the 1980s that stressed free trade, Scully said. During this time period, many African countries became indebted

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to international banks such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF). To pay back these debts, some countries, such as Liberia, were forced to cut funding for social services and health care. Scully cited these spending cuts as a contribution to Liberia’s vulnerability to the Ebola virus as well as Liberia’s legacy of war. The next panelist, Flomoku, joined the discussion via video-camera from Liberia. Flomoku discussed his work with the Carter Center, a nongovernmental, non-profit organization that works to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering, and the Access to Justice program, which started in 2006. Access to Justice in Liberia, a Carter Center program, “works in four areas with the aim of helping to create a working and responsive justice system consistent with local needs and human rights, paying special attention to rural areas and the needs of marginalized populations,” according to the Carter Center website. Flomoku said that as part of this program they have focused on training at a local level. The focus has been on how we could shape the thinking of the chiefs and that getting them on board was gong to help because they influence the community, he said. He also discussed the difficulty of fighting the “stigma of survival” faced by Ebola survivors. Rosensweig, the final panelist, focused on the economic implications

of the Ebola virus. He noted that although the Ebola epidemic has damaged the economy in Liberia and other African nations, those countries have made significant strides towards economic growth. Rosensweig highlighted that many people focus on emerging markets such as China, Russia and Brazil but often miss the frontier markets, markets that are emerging from dire poverty into economic growth. Rosensweig cited many African countries as frontier markets. He highlighted their impressive growth rates over the years despite the Great Recession’s global reach and the Ebola epidemic’s catastrophic effects. However, he said, Liberia’s economic future may depend on how they the nation uses its natural resources, such as iron ore. Some African countries have made the mistake of letting foreign firms exploit their country for their natural resources, Rosenberg said. He called this the “natural resource curse.” “Will [Liberians] subject themselves to the natural resources curse?” Rosensweig asked. “Or will they learn a lesson from Botswana and others and make sure they get something out of a partnership [with foreign agencies]?” At the end of the lecture, the panelists answered questions from the audience. The forum’s next lecture, “Ebola and the Law in the U.S. and West Africa,” will take place at the Goizueta Business School on Feb. 23

— Contact Annie McGrew at anne.elizabeth.mcgrew@emory.edu

Honor Council The following reports are real cases adjudicated by the Emory College Honor Council. Any personally identifiable information has been omitted to protect the privacy of all parties involved. • While grading a freshman’s response paper, a lower level humanities course professor noticed that the wording of several passages resembled that of an unreferenced online text. The student said that she had added the passages but forgot to add quotation marks and attribution and apologized. Taking into account her poor working habits and the professor’s suggestion, the Honor Council issued the student a zero on her paper, a two-year mark on her record and an educational program on plagiarism.

• A lower level humanities course professor accused a junior of using responses from a publisher’s answer key on three homework assignment questions. The student, however, explained to the Honor Council exactly how he had arrived at each of the answers, showing the council each pages that he worked from. The student was found not guilty of seeking unauthorized assistance on a homework assignment, as the Honor Council found his defense credible and none of his answers had unusual similarities with the answer key.

• After finding that the entirety of a senior’s final paper had been plagiarized, an upper level social science course professor examined the student’s previous papers, only to find that they had also been plagiarized. The student admitted to plagiarizing but added that she had several personal challenges that semester and apologized for her actions. She received an F in the course and a seven-year mark on her record.

— Contact Lydia O’Neal at lmoneal@emory.edu

SGA, Transportation Make Changes to C-Toco Hills Route an additional SafeRide shuttle to the schedule. Clements also worked with SGA members such as Sophomore Representative, Campus Services Chair and College sophomore Max Zoberman, who said he has received feedback from students, specifically on nighttime transportation. “I have had students telling me that they don’t feel safe using SafeRide. That is unacceptable,” Zoberman said. “[Clements] worked with me to find areas where the infrastructure used by Transportation department was not used efficiently, and we landed on NightOwl where ridership was underwhelming, whereas SafeRide demand was exceeding its capability.” Zoberman noted that Emory Transportation took an inefficient and underused system and turned it into a new SafeRide system, cutting the

wait time in half. Students, faculty and staff received two weeks notice before the change went into effect. There were announcements on the Emory Transportation website, Twitter and signs on Cliff shuttles themselves to inform riders ahead of time, according to Clements. She also noted that Transportation has received generally positive feedback from students. “I encourage students to genuinely try it,” Zoberman said. “Try to think of SafeRide as not just a last resort, late at night when you’re in danger. But think of it as same comfortable way to travel safe at night like NightOwl. I want to emphasize the fact that the new SafeRide program does not reflect the disappearance of NightOwl but [a] merger of SafeRide and NightOwl.” SGA and Transportation have also

received complaints about inefficiency of the C-Toco Hills route and put changes into effect Jan. 17, according to Clements. The new route has increased the trips made between Woodruff Circle and Clairmont in comparison to Toco Hills to give students on Clairmont easier access to campus on the weekends. However, now riders need to be aware of where exactly the Toco Hill shuttle is going when they are leaving Clairmont, according to College junior Sanjana Rao. Rao said that she assumed the bus would go directly to Woodruff Circle but then went all the way to Toco Hills. “I wasted a lot time and really did not like it,” she said. “But on the flip side, it is really beneficial if you plan it correctly.”

— Contact Sarah Husain at shusai5@emory.edu

Psychology ProF. Presents Happiness Lecture

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harles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology Marshall Duke discussed the active — not passive — nature of wellness in his Thursday night lecture, “Resilience and Happiness: Living Strong, Living Well, Living Good.”

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No Official Budget, Timeline for New Student Center, Early Says Continued from Page 1 The study recommends demolishing the west DUC, built in the mid1980s, because community members felt it functions poorly and is aesthetically incongruent. “The anticipated cost savings for re-using the structure was only [1.5] to 2 [percent] of the overall forecasted construction cost,” the study states. “As a result, it is determined that the best approach for the future DUC is to gut and renovate the ‘East DUC’ and demolish the 1982 addition to replace it with a more efficient, welcoming and architecturally attractive University Center.” According to University Architect Jen Fabrick, who helps manage the project for Emory, people respect the east DUC for its history and aesthetics, unlike the west side. “We looked, internally, to see if it made sense to renovate or add on to [the West DUC],” she said. “It would cost so much to renovate or change the building, so it probably makes

more sense to demolish it.” The study also recommended moving the center’s loading dock to a place more accessible for food services, keeping Theater Emory housed in the center and adding a multipurpose event space that could seat a class of students, or 1,600 people.

“We want to encourage, broaden the students’ experience of sustainability.” — Jen Fabrick, University architect

“Currently, we lack a very large meeting space,” Early said. “What if there’s a torrential downpour during Commencement? At the end of the day, we don’t have one large commencement space ... A lot of student

groups actually rent space outside of Emory because we lack that kind of space.” The study also envisioned glass on the exterior of the center and more transparency and light inside, which Fabrick said could help develop Emory’s community. “There’s a big school of thought ... that you develop community by seeing activity,” she said. “You feel a part of it, even if you aren’t a participating, if you can see it.” Fabrick referenced the new freshmen dorms such as Raoul residence hall as potential examples. “We’ve designed them to have more transparency ... to have a sense of dynamic energy,” she said. Additionally, the study emphasized Emory’s commitment to sustainability as a driving factor in the new center’s design. Fabrick said that Emory is asking architects to take ideas of sustainability “above and beyond.” “We want to encourage, broaden the students’ experience of sustain-

ability,” Fabrick said. “We want peo- phase, where talks with suppliers ple to see it, feel it, touch it.” and subcontractors would begin, Currently, five architect firms are the budget number would become short-listed for submitting proposals, more refined, and the project would and each is being assessed on past move to the construction phase after experience building the same approval student unions, abilprocess. ity to come in on Perlman said “We’re trying to find a schedule and under the student center place where students budget, individual should be more welcan call home and team members, coming to different ideas for a tempotypes of students congregate.” rary facility and and act as the “livmore, according ing room” of the — Olubusola Osunsanya, to Early. Once the University. College freshman firms are rated by “The goal of a the University, the university center overall successful should be to be a bidder will be attached to the project. college union and engage with stuOnce the money for the project is dents, faculty and staff,” he said. identified, approval for designing the “We’re not really engaging as well new project would move forward in as we could be with some of these stages, going through the University’s populations ... Our space is not necesWays and Means Committee, which sarily designed to foster collaboration includes senior leadership, who would between student groups and the rest then recommend it to the Finance of the community.” Committee of the Board of Trustees, College freshman Olubusola according to Early. After the design Osunsanya, one of the students

involved in the project’s advisory board, said she and others are supposed to be “the advocates for the students” in envisioning the new center. “We’re trying to find a place where students can call home and congregate,” she said. “When I walk into the DUC [currently], I don’t say, ‘this is my second home.’” For Early, patience is key right now. “There’s no timeline, and there’s nothing happening yet,” he said. “Be patient with us, but when we have [more information], we will let you know the minute we get it.” Fabrick echoed that sentiment but noted the widespread interest and passion for the project that she’s seen from the community. “We’re very early in the development in the project right now, but the enthusiasm has been incredible,” she said. “It tells me that it’s needed. It’s something Emory lacks that we need ... So we’ll work hard at it!”

— Contact Sonam Vashi at svashi2@emory.edu

Admit Rate Will Fall This Year, Latting Says Continued from Page 1 Latting added that although the large number of applications this year won’t change the qualities Emory looks for in applicants, the number will change the percentage of applicants who are offered a place at Emory. “The admit rate will fall this year,” Latting wrote. Several students interviewed indicated Emory was their second choice, however, these students asked not to be identified in order to not affect their applications. In response to this, Latting wrote that admission decisions are not at all affected by where Emory stacks up in the preference of universities for students when they apply. “We admit the students who would most benefit from and contribute to Emory, and then work hard to make Emory the first choice of everyone admitted through extensive recruiting activities in April,” Latting wrote. Subhash Gutti, a regular decision applicant from Eastern Kentucky, wrote in an email to the Wheel that as an aspiring pre-med student, he was

drawn to Emory’s educational standards and the opportunities offered by Emory. “Emory is a solid pick for its quality of education, the Emory “brand name” and especially the abundance of career opportunities it has to offer its undergraduates,” Gutti wrote. “This becomes especially important, as you’ll need something to set you apart from the gazillion other grad school applicants identical to you. With numerous credited hospitals, facilities and other job opportunities in close proximity to campus or within the Atlanta region, you’re bound to find something to give you that leg up in the competition.” Gutti also wrote that Emory’s location in Atlanta is a huge attraction for many applicants interested in Emory. “A bustling urban environment with music, entertainment and a diversity of night scenes is something essential to break the monotony of scholastic curriculum,” he wrote. XinNi Chai, a regular decision applicant from California, also wrote in an email to the Wheel that Emory was her first choice. “What really struck me [about

Emory] was how these students seemed happy in general,” Chai wrote about her decision to apply for Emory. “When I entered the dining hall, I did not see a single person eating by themselves. Emory seemed like a large university but also extremely strong on being a small knit community ... I also liked the aspect of how Emory did not offer a typical liberal arts education, and that it gave opportunities for research when you are an undergraduate student.” Another applicant from Warner Robins, Georgia, Sara Abdulla, wrote that she was initially drawn to Emory because of the, “city locale, strong liberal arts program and multiple research centers.” Abdulla found that the more she looked into Emory the more she liked it, citing reasons like “Salman Rushdie and the Creative Writing Program, the close relationship with Georgia Tech and then the gorgeous campus.” Emory is Abdulla’s first choice, she wrote.

— Contact Annie McGrew at anne.elizabeth.mcgrew@emory.edu

Editorials The Emory Wheel

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Political Correctness Important, May Hinder

Luis Blanco

Our campus addresses numerous issues, from race to gender to class. As the student body continues to participate in sensitive discussions, we at the Wheel feel it’s worth a moment to reflect on how we discuss these issues. There is a conflict we have observed within the community’s methods of conversation. Many of us on campus hope to engage in productive discussions about privilege and oppression and yet, sometimes stringent rules of “political correctness” can shut out some from even participating, as the price of getting the appropriate terminology wrong or coming off as ignorant is too high. We encourage our student body to seek as much education as possible, in order to have discussions that don’t unintentionally offend, from referring to someone who has experienced sexual assault as a survivor (not a victim) or avoiding heteronormative rhetoric in order to be inclusive toward different identities. This language isn’t arbitrarily used to force “political correctness.” The language we use is charged, a single word can carry a loaded meaning with a history of ideas, and these ideas are often a Google search away. It can be exhausting for people experiencing any form of oppression to constantly be put in situations where they are compelled to educate others, sometimes forced to become a spokesperson for their identity — on top of facing the oppression itself. While many people want to educate others about their own experiences and issues, this is not the case for everyone. But, there is a sentiment on campus that espouses that political correctness leads to so-called liberals shooting themselves in the foot. The Wheel does see instances in which, in the activists’ attempt to educate, their forceful reactions to outsider opinions shut down honest discussion. They can lose potential allies to their cause and are left with silence when people become afraid to disagree. Pre-constructed notions of appropriate terminology can lead to hesitant and nervous interactions regarding sensitive topics. So, within an inclusive space, how tolerant must we be to those who come off as being intolerant? We need to strike a better balance. And, of course, these situations are often circumstantial. Each side is right or wrong depending on the relationships between the people having the conversation and depending on the topic at hand. We applaud Emory’s vibrant array of discussion groups that facilitate safe spaces for these topics and urge students to attend these events, including the Multicultural discussion groups led by the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services, the Inter-Religious Council, Feminists in Action, the numerous LGBTQ discussion groups and many others. We should engage with others about this very topic — allow one another to express why we are reluctant to participate and feel comfortable in urging others to find more knowledge. While we should educate ourselves as much as possible about these debates even if we are in disagreement with perceived accepted views on campus, we see situations in which students unknowingly and unnecessarily halt conversation in the name of political correctness. The above staff editorial represents the majority opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board.

Luis Blanco is a member of the Class of 2017. His cartoons appear in every Friday issue of the Wheel.

erik Alexander Priyanka Pai | Staff

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College editorials from across the country The Harvard Crimson Harvard University Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 America was founded upon principles of individual rights: We believe that people should be allowed to live their lives as they see fit. At the same time, however, individual freedoms must occasionally be limited, especially in situations where unabridged liberty may endanger the safety and welfare of the public. Vaccination against fatal diseases is one such case. An outbreak of measles, a disease once nearly eradicated, has occurred in California as a result of high percentages of unvaccinated children. This event has turned the question of mandatory vaccinations has not only into a public health issue but also into a political one: A number of politicians, including three potential candidates for the 2016 presidential race—former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie—have publicly commented on the use of vaccinations. Whereas Clinton noted that vaccines work, Christie defended the rights of parents to have “some measure of choice.” Senator Paul went one step further, insisting that all vaccines be voluntary. Though it would be extraordinarily illadvised for the government to have unlimited control over citizens’ lives, the efficacy of vaccines, and especially of the measles vaccine at hand, is an established scientific fact. Paul and Christie are championing an unflinching insistence on individual rights that has no regard for the interests of public health. Theirs is a dangerous and destructive

position. Measles is a dangerous and potentially deadly disease, and the vaccine is remarkably effective. Nevertheless, there are some in the United States who reject vaccines not due to any religious or moral beliefs but rather because of a 1998 research paper which linked the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to autism. The study has since been definitely disproven. While it is true that not all vaccines are effective and not all diseases are deadly, neither caveat applies to measles. The MMR vaccine should be universal. Politicizing this issue, and, in particular, validating the idea that MMR vaccines should be voluntary, only lends credence to the misguided objections of a few. And even though the clarification later issued by Christie’s office suggests that he does believe the MMR vaccine should be mandatory (but that parents should be allowed to choose for other vaccines), the timing and content of his initial comment can, and has, been misconstrued by both anti-vaccination parents and by Christie’s political opponents. The doubts cast upon the necessity for vaccines by Paul and Christie provides ammunition for those opposed to vaccines and is potentially harmful for the public if resistance towards the MMR vaccine grows. Never should political posturing interfere with the lives of our nation’s children. We acknowledge both the importance of individual rights, and we believe that not all vaccines should mandatory. But even as the government must balance the principles of liberty with benefits to public health, in this case the evidence is clear. MMR vaccines save lives; abstract principles of liberty do not.

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Smoking Ban Leads to Vigilantism

Outside of the Michael C. Carlos Museum I met with a friend of mine. Out of the blue a stranger, without my friend’s consent, took his photograph. I have heard other students mention similar incidents happening to them since the beginning of the semester. To be sure, each of these students were doing the same thing when they had their photograph taken: they were violating Emory’s tobaccofree policy. Emory is tobacco-free in name only. Every day many students, professors, visitors, doctors and other Emory employees smoke cigarettes on campus. There has yet to be a day that I walk on campus and fail to see at least one person smoking a cigarette. It isn’t that many of these smokers want to openly break the policy, that they feel “cool” or rebellious or any of that nonsense. It’s simply that they think they can be the circumstantial exception to the rule. Human nature dictates that nobody wants to feel like a sucker, and current enforcement makes circumvention of the smoking ban child’s play. To be clear, “It harms your health” is a reason not to smoke in general. But it’s an inadequate reason for the ban because the implication is that the University can control what we do with our bodies. Currently twothirds of colleges in the United States have a tobacco ban in place. Emory, more or less a corporate entity, wants to maintain its edge among other universities and remain attractive to potential students. This is obviously not the sole motive, but it appears, to me, to be the primary one. But should a tobacco-free policy be given any credence in judging a university when that ban is not even remotely reflective of the reality of smoking at Emory? The mere exis-

tence of the tobacco-free policy, regardless of enforcement, appears to adequately satisfy the administration. Yet the real reason smoking remains rampant on campus is not because of the administration’s apathy towards enforcement but rather that the administration does not have the resources to effectively accomplish total enforcement by itself. Therefore, it has developed a program that employs student enforcers, of which there are currently four. These students are trained and given the green light to monitor Emory’s campus for violators. Frequent violators will be disciplined, or so the legend goes. In addition, photographers are no doubt hard at work collecting data on frequent smokers and popular locations. They are not the four students being paid to monitor campus for tobacco use. They are self-employed individuals who have not thought through the consequences of their actions. Let us call this new trend of photographing students without their permission what it really is: vigilante snitch culture. Emory could pat itself on the back for making its community more involved. But this creates a hostile, distrustful social environment. Smoking, indoors and outdoors, used to be a cultural norm. Due to growing evidence over recent decades that the practice has devastating effects on the smoker’s body, smoking has begun to fade as a cultural norm. Now, in light of evidence that smoking can harm others secondhand, the question of its legality as a public practice has arisen. As of the beginning of this year, 32 states have banned smoking in all public non-hospitality indoor facilities. The reasons for banning indoor smoking are straightforward: it’s concentrated

and therefore bothersome to others, harmful to their health and a fire hazard all around. Smoking outdoors, however, can only be legitimately banned on the basis of its secondhand effects. Each of us has the right to control what goes into our bodies, but none of us has the right to do so at the expense of others’ health. But this is not the position that the University has taken in producing its tobaccofree policy. Instead it has taken the paternalistic stance that smokers do not understand what it is they are doing to themselves. Nobody is arguing that smoking tobacco products isn’t bad for one’s health. Most people know it, smokers and non-smokers alike. Smokers hardly lose sight of the possibility of quitting; at the very least they carry it in the back of their minds. Further, this is not anything like a blanket condemnation of anti-smoking efforts. No rational individual, for instance, would label the tobacco cessation programs here at Emory as oppressive or unjust. It is strictly the revocation of the implicit right to govern one’s health that is unjust on the administration’s part, and this revocation comes with equally unjust consequences like vigilante photographers taking it upon themselves to gather intelligence on targeted smokers, presumably to build a case against them. But it would be unreasonable to expect the administration to repeal its tobacco-free policy anytime in the near future, if ever. So in the meantime, if you do not want to have your photograph taken, you should avoid smoking or standing next to a smoker while on campus. Assistant Editorials Editor Erik Alexander is a College junior from Johns Creek, Georgia.

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Measles Outbreak Ignites Vaccine Controversy Mariana Hernandez | Staff

Maya Lakshman What’s a foreboding ride in Disneyland without some measles? For almost 60 years, Disneyland has been known as the “happiest place on earth.” It’s a magical place where people can escape reality for a day. However, the park has come under the spotlight as an outbreak of measles has allegedly turned it into a danger zone after an infected person has seemingly spread it to other park visitors. The public has been split on the issue of vaccines, but the recent outbreak of measles has resulted in another anti-vaccination campaign and debate. I don’t think anyone can be judged for their indecision to vaccinate their kids, especially considering the lack of information provided about vaccines and the ways in which vaccines are administered. Generally, the American public has not worried about an outbreak of measles in a long time. The disease has been thought to be mostly eradicated in the United States, generally due to the success of the vaccination that many young children have received. Measles was “eliminated,” as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claimed in 2000. Of course, there have been sporadic cases since 2000, but not in large numbers. What is scary about this most recent outbreak, however, is the speed in which the number of cases has increased. In just one month, there have been around 100 new cases reported. Now take into account, that the number of cases reported last year was 644, with quite a substantial portion coming from another outbreak in an Amish community. Last year saw the highest occurrence of measles in nearly 20 years. What’s most frightening is that the first month of 2015 has brought nearly a sixth of the number of cases of the previous year. And the number of cases seems to grow day by day. Those who have the vaccine should not be worried, as it has a “97 percent” success rate, and most children are given the vaccine at a very young age. So

where does this put us? How important is it to get vaccinated? A chunk of the population still hasn’t received the vaccine. Measles may have been eradicated in the United States, but it is still a prevalent issue throughout the world. And in recent years, there has been a new anti-

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vaccine movement, spearheaded by numerous people such as, most famously, actress Jenny McCarthy. She and others have claimed that an increase in autism and other mental disabilities in children are a result of the vaccinations, which of course is causing quite a fervor amongst parents who are unsure of the

effects of vaccinations. The general assumption, though, is that the vaccination is a proven and effective way to combat the disease, and scientists have refuted the allegations thrown by McCarthy and the anti-vaccination movement. Since then, multiple studies have been conducted regarding the relationship between

autism and vaccines, particularly the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. The results of these studies are crystal clear: there is no connection. The debate and the anti-vaccination controversy also reared its ugly head in the 2016 presidential race, as two probable Republican candidates have been forced to walk back on comments they have made. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was quoted as saying that he “also understands that parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well. So that’s the balance that the government has to decide.” Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who was formerly a doctor, claimed that he “heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.” All this aside, it’s true that the number of cases of measles has plummeted, going from 450,000 cases in the early 60s to 20,000 by 1967, after the introduction of the vaccine. It definitely works, but it’s not the vaccine that is the big issue. There is, however, a problem with the health care system as a whole. I can understand why parents are expressing indecision about vaccinating their children: it’s hard to make an opinion that takes your entire child’s life into account when you don’t have enough accurate, unbiased information from health professionals. Doctors don’t just encourage vaccines; they force them upon families. I remember asking my pediatrician her opinion on the whole “vaccines cause autism” fiasco when I was 13. She practically yelled at me, emphasizing over and over again how they don’t and how people are dying every day due to a lack of abundance of vaccines. I left her office still completely uneducated. Although vaccines for some diseases are definitely important, we need to advocate for a better understanding of health care and a clearer line of communication between providers and patients. Maya Lakshman is a College freshman from San Diego, California.

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Trigger Warning: Self-Harm

Total Advocacy Unrealistic Last month, our very own Emory College senior Sarah Spitz of Active Minds got some well-deserved recognition when she was ranked number four on a CNN list of nine so-called “Mental Wellness Warriors: Fighting for Those Who Need It Most” for her innumerable outspoken accomplishments in mental health advocacy. She earns a spot just three below entertainer Demi Lovato and her triumph against bipolar disorder. In between them are Fred Frese and his success story, and Ted Stanley and his son’s story. But, and I cannot stress this enough, they are not celebrated achievers just because they have their own histories with the subject matter. They do not earn their recognition as a mere byproduct of their conditions. They call upon personal anecdotes, but their success is only made possible by other aspects of themselves: they are resilient, empathetic, resolute, strong, brave and a myriad of other things. Having a disorder or disease did not itself make them praiseworthy. Similarly, not everyone with a disorder or disease is a de facto good candidate for advocacy. Aid comes with strings attached; society didn’t tell me that I could be anything so much as that I had to be something. For me, that path was obviously one of words. In the United States, we enjoy the right to free speech, but globally-speaking, this right is really more of a privilege, that this part of the world should speak for itself in a way that many other parts cannot. We have the privilege of an open forum that we often take for granted. But who should take the podium? Ideally, everyone. But practically? I don’t have an answer to that. I think of myself as a talented orator and a charismatic extemporaneous speaker, but does that by itself really make me qualified to speak for others? If things were different and I were extremely well-informed and well-traveled but unable to argue or hold the attention of an audience, would that be any better? When personal connections to the topic arise, this confusion gets even worse. What empirical value can one put on my experience that it should get to occupy this space? There is theoretically enough room for a variety of perspectives, but when one has personal ties and debts, the pressures of advocacy only increases. People usually think that the problem with advocacy is that not enough people speak up, and in many cases this is true. But I have chosen to single out mental health advocacy especially because it shows us that sometimes the problem is that too many speak up. Just look at the fetishization of depression and self-

harm on popular websites such as Tumblr. This misguided rebranding campaign is the work of bad candidates for advocacy. They try to help, but instead they hurt. Much like the befuddled, under-qualified English as a Second Language teacher who cannot understand how he can speak a language but not teach it, the populace has conflated their connection to the material with the specific skill set of a good spokesperson. But those are in no way the same thing. I want to say, leave it to the mental health warriors. I want to say it, but I won’t quite yet. Because first we must deal with the root problem; the social pressure to advocate from within such communities can be overwhelming. With activism and advocacy in general the expectations of any single individual are vague, if not also low, but in the mental health community and others like it, the expectations are specific and severe, made all too clear by personal ties; some outspoken circles in the Crohn’s and Colitis community, to give a more physical ailmentbased example, all but have Uncle Sam on the wall, pointing and shouting “I Want You!” No wonder, then, that so many come out of the woodwork to share their story, some helping the cause and others simply furthering the confusion in the message. We must instill a more conscientious perspective regarding participation, or at least stop fighting the initial inertia to contribute, by not leaning so hard on each other to say something, or, rather, just to say anything at all. This occurs largely because of the emotional component and the fact that personal causes often run the risk of behaving more like a tribal system than a meritocracy, with shared experiences and relationships playing a larger role than abilities or past actions in terms of determining authority. If any sort of self-advocacy seeks to succeed, its best use of free speech is not a no-cut chorus but instead a competitive elite ensemble. One will notice that I make no reference to any specific, third-party vetting system, but I believe a large part of this problem could be resolved if everyone simply stopped, took an objective look at themselves and at their message and conceded as necessary to allow more qualified others to step up. I like to think that we would find a much more serious tone in self-advocacy if its stakes were thusly raised, with the topic used not only more sparingly but more carefully. Remember, within the right to free speech one also has the right to remain silent. Sam Ready is a College sophomore from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Flexibility, Change Key to Success Kaeya Majmundar During this past winter break, I had a conversation with a couple friends about the concept of “faking it ‘til you make it,” the idea that one can imitate confidence so that as this faux confidence produces success, success may generate real confidence. One friend started talking about someone she knew who got into Harvard Business School, not on merit but rather because he was able to put on a Harvard worthy façade, whatever that may entail, and nudge his way in. As she was telling me this, I was nodding my head vigorously with a big grin on my face, thinking, “Man that’s really impressive,” and when she finished, I excitedly responded “Kudos to him!,” not realizing that she was actually telling me the story in disdain and utterly disapproved of this guy’s methodology. Awkward. I quickly tried to explain myself. I described how when I was pitching to the investors on ABC’s TV show, “Shark Tank,” I did not necessarily know the specific numbers they had asked me for. Rather than admitting that, I gave “guesstimated” answers. Call me a fake, but I did so with extreme confidence, because there was no way I was going home without a deal just because I didn’t know a couple numbers. And it worked. I walked out of there with a $50,000 investment. My friend then got up and walked away with the clear look of disapproval on her face. I later learned that the reason she was so upset by what I said was that it came across as me taking pride in bluffing. A couple weeks later, I happened to stumble upon an article in the Harvard Business Review titled “The Authenticity Paradox,” in which the author Herminia Ibarra writes that

while authenticity has become a gold standard for success, it can also hinder your growth and limit your impact. Career advances require a person to step out of one’s comfort zone, which can make the person feel unauthentic because their “natural inclination is to latch onto authenticity as an excuse for sticking to what’s comfortable.” You may be faced with a challenge that you are unsure how to handle, and you can approach it one of two ways. Admit your hesitation, or internalize that hesitation, tackle the challenge head on and fake it until you can navigate with confidence.

It would certainly be much easier for me to stay in my comfort zone ... The latter takes a lot of courage and can feel artificial at first. However, Ibarra writes, “the only way to avoid being pigeonholed and ultimately become better leaders is to do the things that a rigidly authentic sense of self would keep us from doing.” It would certainly be much easier for me to stay in my comfort zone and admit it when I feel unsure about something. But, if I did that, how could I ever climb? How could anyone ever climb? I went into the “Shark Tank” feeling, on the inside, like the terrified 20-year-old woman I was with a couple of prototypes, zero sales to show for and no business plan to prove a single thing. On the outside, however, I exuded the confidence of the young businesswoman I knew I could become if I had a powerhouse Shark for a partner by my side. The last thing I wanted

was to lose that opportunity just because I was not quite where I needed to be yet. So instead I pretended, with unwavering confidence, that I knew exactly what I was doing even though I was shaking inside. When I think about “faking it ‘til you make it” in terms of how it may play out for others, my fellow senior classmates preparing to enter the professional world alarmingly soon come to mind. I have filled out several job applications within the past few months and sat down for interviews. I have learned from my experience running a business and negotiating with smart people that first impressions form quickly, and they matter. Employers know that very few of the recent college graduate job applicants actually possess the skills listed in the job descriptions. Do you really think your major is actually arming you with the particular skill set you need for the job you’re applying to? No. But the difference between someone who gets hired and someone who doesn’t is your attitude. University of Minnesota psychologist Mark Snyder identified two psychological profiles that identify a leader. The first are “‘high self-monitors’ — or chameleons, who are naturally able and willing to adapt to the demands of a situation without feeling fake. Chameleons care about managing their public image and often mask their vulnerability with bluster.” The second are “low self-monitors” or “true-to-selfers” who prefer to express exactly how they feel even when it “runs counter to situational demands.” I don’t take pride in bluffing. But I do take pride in being a chameleon. Which one are you? Kaeya Majmundar is a College senior from Chicago, Illinois.

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Friday, February 6. 2015 Student Life Editor: Stephen Fowler (smfowle@emory.edu)

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Emory Celebrates Founders Week By Mary Hollis McGreevy Contributing Writer

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College junior and Vice President of Sustainability for the Food Advisory Committee at Emory Hannah Dugoni stands at the Emory Farmer’s Market, future home of Emory Local Roots, an initiative she started to bring local foods to Emory students weekly.

Dugoni Embraces ‘Roots’ With Local Farmers By Jordan Morell Contributing Writer When Hannah Dugoni reaches her fork across the table at a restaurant and asks, “Are you gonna eat that?,” she is probably not referring to your fries. Instead, she is most likely talking about the kale — or cauliflower, or broccoli, or Brussels sprouts — that you immediately pushed aside when the rest of your meal came. Dugoni, a junior from Portland, Oregon, is a self-described health nut who credits her love of local, sustainable food to both her long-term vegetarian lifestyle and her upbringing. “I grew up with the notion that we should always know where our food comes from and how it was pro-

duced,” Dugoni said, adding that her family, like many others in the area, has a vegetable garden and raises chickens in the backyard. Portland, along with other West Coast cities like San Francisco and Seattle, is quickly gaining notoriety for its emphasis on the “locavore” lifestyle, which centers around eating foods that were grown fewer than 100 miles away, most often on sustainable farms. But locavores are few and far between in Atlanta, and gaining access to fresh and local food is a challenge for even the most determined college student. That’s where Dugoni hopes to change things. With the help of a grant from the Emory Office of Sustainability

Initiatives (OSI), Dugoni created Emory Local Roots, a program dedicated to providing students with easy access to fresh, local food at an affordable price. After signing up through the Emory Dining website, students will receive a weekly bag of fresh fruits and vegetables, along with other locally-made products like jams, bread, cheese and granola. Students can pick up the reusable bags at the Farmers Market on Cox Hall Bridge every Tuesday, then return them the next week to be refilled. Emory Local Roots costs $40 for one month — or four full bags — and students will be able to use Dooley Dollars to pay. In keeping with the program’s

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commitment to fresh, sustainable food, the bags will contain only seasonal items. This means that students will receive different items depending on their availability so don’t expect fresh strawberries or tomatoes in the dead of winter. But Dugoni doesn’t just want the items to be seasonal — she wants them to be useful. “You’re not going to get an eggplant a week and have it sit in your dorm and rot until we give you a new one,” Dugoni said. “You’ll get items that are easy to prepare in a dorm kitchen, or ones that can be eaten raw, like carrots or bell peppers.” Additionally, the bags will contain

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Black History Month At EMORY Feb. 7

Step It Up White Hall 208, 7 — 10 p.m.

Feb. 10 Black Tower Series Racial Identity in Spain/Portugal, 12 p.m. AAS 207 Candler Courtesy of Tom Cassaro

Members of Aural Pleasure, an Emory a capella group, won the ICCA quarter finals with their performance of “Take Me to Church” by Hozier.

AP Wins ICCA Quarter Finals Emory’s a cappella group Aural Pleasure performed in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) in Athens, Georgia, at the University of Georgia (UGA) on Saturday, Jan. 31, where the team’s 15 members sang “Take Me to Church” by Hozier and emerged victorious. As a result, Aural Pleasure now has the opportunity to represent Emory on a national level. The competition was split into six regions, each of which has three to four quarterfinals. Aural Pleasure competed in the Southern region alongside eight other groups, including Emory’s own Dooley Noted, another a cappella group. Other local universities represented in the competition included the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Georgia State University. Since Aural Pleasure won the quarterfinals, the team will compete at the semifinals in Florida on March

— Contact Mary Hollis McGreevy at mary.hollis.mcgreevy@emory.edu

events

By Ashley Marcus Staff Writer

By Ana Ioachimescu Staff Writer

Commemorating the date of the first meeting of the Emory College Board of Trustees on Feb. 6, 1837, Founders Week has incorporated Emory’s earliest history as an institution into a week full of free activities for the Emory community. Founders Week is an adaptation of an older tradition called Charter Day. This day marked the anniversary of the chartering of Emory as a university on Jan. 25, 1915, according to Vice President and Deputy to the President Gary Hauk. Hauk explained how for a time, the Emory community attempted to celebrate Charter Day, but found it to be challenging to plan any sort of celebration two weeks into the semester and on the heels of King Week. This year, Founders Week marked the celebration of 100 years of Emory in Atlanta, referring to when the University received a DeKalb County charter to build at its present location in 1915, expanding from Oxford, Georgia, where it was first founded in 1836. Founders Week promised many events, highlighted by a Sunday Bach concert at the Schwartz Center, with a selection of solo and chamber music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The week continued with a Founders Day Dinner on Monday, Distinguished Faculty Lecture by C. H. Candler Professor of Psychology Frans de Waal on Tuesday, Wonderful Wednesday and will culminate with the annual Emory Jazz Fest on Saturday. “Every year the Emory community recognizes the founding of our University with a week of events that strive to celebrate faculty accomplishments and the role of the University in promoting inquiry and intellectual life,” College senior and Wonderful Wednesday moderator

Kevin Satterfield said. Satterfield said that the Founders Day Dinner is a great way for some of the most dedicated students on campus to engage with alumni, faculty and administrators including Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair and President James W. Wagner. The evening included a performance by No Strings Attached and an address given by keynote speaker Stephen Chen (‘95C), a supervisory attorney with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Additionally, the dinner featured a new social media platform, including a “live stream social media feed, which allowed guests to upload their photos and tweets to a projection on the wall using the hashtag #Emory100,” College senior David Bailey said, who played a large role in organizing Founders Week. Wonderful Wednesday featured its usual fanfare of student groups’ tables, complete with free food, Founders Day T-shirt giveaways, carriage rides, a photo booth and the chance to chat with actors dressed as some of Emory’s “founders.” This week’s Wonderful Wednesday also saw the appearance of Lord Dooley and his highly anticipated announcement of the Dooley’s Week theme: Dooley’s Island. Satterfield said that, in the end, Founders Week is ultimately about the ideals that our founders sought to achieve. “In all, this week is not only about celebrating Emory’s role in fostering Atlanta’s distinct culture of philanthropy, business and arts,” Satterfield said, ”it also reminds the current community of the potential we, as an institution, have in instilling the values of global learning and community engagement within our students and faculty.”

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According to College freshman James Kennedy, who is a baritone for Aural Pleasure and also choreographed Saturday’s performance, the a cappella group entered the competition by creating an audition video. In the video, the team sang “Bottom of the River” by Delta Rae, “I’ll Make Love to You” by Boyz II Men and “Over the Love” by Florence and the Machine. Kennedy said the competition was a blur and mentally, a lot to handle. “I was just trying to stay focused on the music,” Kennedy said. “I didn’t see the audience, I just remember counting every single beat and trying to get everything perfect.” Tom Cassaro, College senior and president of Aural Pleasure, experienced a similar state of absorption, describing the energy onstage as palpable. “When we got on stage, it was unlike anything I’ve felt before,” Cassaro said. “Everything else melted away, and all I could think about was the song I was singing and the emotion behind it.” Aural Pleasure is Emory’s oldest

co-ed a cappella group, founded in 1994. The group mainly performs pop songs on campus and around the Atlanta area and has toured as far away as the Bahamas. The group has recorded nine CDs. The most recent CD was realized in April 2014 and a 10th one is coming out next year. Practice is normally twice a week, although they increased in frequency and intensity in the period before the ICCA. Apart from the ICCA semifinal, Aural Pleasure is also looking forward to their two annual spring concerts. The first will be in March at the Planetarium in the Math and Science Center and the second will be their end-of-the-year concert. The ensemble hopes to make it an alumni reunion concert as well, in honor of Aural Pleasure’s 21st anniversary. “I would describe Aural Pleasure as a family. When it comes down to it, we all just love to sing and that’s what drives us to be who we are,” Cassaro said.

— Contact Ana Ioachimescu at ana.serena.ioachimescu@emory.edu

Feb. 12 Founder’s Day NAACP Celebration / Rededication (Cake Cutting) EBSU 6-7pm

Feb. 13 Function Friday Cox Hall, 9 p.m. – 12 p.m.

Feb. 15 Social Justice Week, Feb. 16 — 20: “A New Generation of Activism”

Feb. 16 State of Race (CC) Reception Business School W505, 6 p.m. State of Race, Featuring Lee Mun Wah Cox Ballroom, 7 — 8:30 p.m.

Feb. 17 “Faces of Homelessness” (HOAP) Winship Ballroom, 7:30 — 8:30 p.m.

Feb. 18 Back to Black(Star) 7 — 8 p.m. EBSU Chipotle Chats: A Conversation about North Korea (LiNK)

Eagle’s Landing, 6 — 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 19 Black Tower Series Black Empowerment in ATL Since 1973 AAS 207 Candler, 12 p.m. “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf” Burlington Road Building Black Box Theater, 7:30 — 9 p.m. Movie Screening of “Selma” (NAACP) WHSCAB Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 20 “For Colored Girls” Burlington Road Building Black Box Theater, 7:30 — 9 p.m. Social Justice Networking Night Winship Ballroom, 5:30 — 7:30p p.m.

Feb. 21

Black Tower Series African American Church, Black Religious Life AAS 207 Candler, 12 p.m.

Feb. 25 Worship Night by BASIC EBSU, 7 — 9 p.m.

Feb. 26 Black Tower Series Black Nationalism AAS 207 Candler, 12 p.m. Reality Is Cox Hall, 6:30 p.m. “For Colored Girls” Burlington Road Building Black Box Theater, 7:30 — 9 p.m.

Feb. 27 “For Colored Girls” Burlington Road Building Black Box Theater, 7:30 — 9 p.m.

Feb. 28

BEU: BLACKtivismConference Math & Science Center, 8:30 a.m. — 6 p.m.

BHM Gala (Formal Attire) Math & Science Center Atrium, 7 — 10 p.m.

REMIX Talent Show (BASIC) White Hall 208, 8:30 — 10 p.m.

“For Colored Girls” Burlington Road Building Black Box Theater, 7:30 — 9 p.m.

Feb. 22 “ForColored Girls” Burlington Road Building Black Box Theater, 2 p.m.

Feb. 23 Salon Series: Mane Attraction OMPS EBSU, 6 p.m

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— Contact Ashley Marcus at ammarcu@emory.edu

Friday, February 6, 2015

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Student Life

Club spotlight

Program to Quidditch Club’s Magic Takes Off at Emory Provide Many Food Choices By Julia Munslow Staff Writer

While the members of Emory’s newly-founded Quidditch team may not have mastered the art of flying just yet, the club sport is off to a sweeping start. The Emory University Quidditch Team began in the fall of 2014 under the direction of Team Founder and Goizueta Business School sophomore Jackie Busman. Quidditch is the magical sport of J.K. Rowling’s celebrated Harry Potter series, and the opportunity to play on a collegiate team is a dream come true for many fans of the books. What exactly is Quidditch, you may ask? “It’s a combination between rugby and dodgeball,” College freshman and team Chaser Nate Silverblatt said. Despite the lack of levitation present in the books due to the Harry Potter characters’ magical flying broomsticks, the muggle, or nonmagical, version of the beloved sport manages to involve a sort of “broomstick” of its own. Busman explained that players must run up and down the field with a broomstick or a broomstick-like object held in between their legs. Quidditch is a sport that is just as complex as any other, with different roles, rules and potential results. “I like sport[s] that have multiple components going on that influence the outcome,” Laney Graduate student and team Seeker Warren Shull said, “and Quidditch is a good example of that.” The team consists of seven players: three chasers, two beaters, one keeper and one seeker. The chasers play both offensively and defensively, working as a trio to both score points with a quaffle (a slightly deflated volleyball) and defend their hoops (the equivalent of goals). Beaters focus on stopping the opposing chasers from scoring

points by throwing bludgers (a slightly deflated dodgeball) at them, while simultaneously defending their own team’s chasers from the other team’s beaters. The keeper guards the hoops, acting similarly to a goalkeeper, and the seeker’s sole job is catching the golden snitch. In the Harry Potter books, the golden snitch is an enchanted flying ball that is extremely difficult to catch due to its miniscule size and incredibly fast speed, but Emory’s team uses a slightly different version. “The [golden] snitch is a person who is dressed all in gold who runs around a designated area,” Busman explained. “Because we don’t have flying magical balls, unfortunately.” Busman knew that she wanted to play collegiate Quidditch while was applying to college. Though Emory had no team at the time of her acceptance, the idea was always in the back of her mind. “I definitely thought about [starting a Quidditch team] my freshman year,” Busman said. “I was fairly involved, but I felt there wasn’t necessarily a place [at Emory], a club that was specific to me. I wanted to create my own place.” However, Busman quickly realized that the process of starting a club sport at Emory was more difficult than she had initially realized. Emory’s club sports program requires that new teams are approved by the current official club sports teams and that they are financially independent from the University for one year. After many phone calls and one fateful meeting, Emory granted Busman permission to start a Quidditch team in the spring of 2014 with a 96 percent acceptance rate from the other club sports teams. The team began holding practices in the fall of 2014. While not yet an official club sport at Emory due to the required year of financial independence from the University, the team still holds practices twice a week on

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According to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, a Quidditch game is decided when one team’s seeker captures the Golden Snitch (above). In the real life version, it is a person dressed in gold.

McDonough Field. Busman admitted that the team floundered for the first semester. “We were very new, and we didn’t know what to do,” she said. However, as Busman and her team started to get their feet, and their brooms, off the ground, they saw much interest from the Emory community, as well as from the surrounding Atlanta area. Not only were Emory students, undergraduate and graduate alike, enthusiastically joining practices, but Busman revealed that she was even contacted by two roller derby coaches who were looking to practice with the team. Though some may find the idea of playing Quidditch laughable, Busman is quick to passionately defend the sport. “It is currently the widest growing sport in the world,” she said. “It is established in over 80 countries, there

are hundreds of teams in the U.S. alone [and] there is an international association.” And while the muggle version of Quidditch may look slightly ridiculous, it is played as a full contact sport, requiring complete physical activity. “It’s obviously a sport straight out of a fiction book,” Silverblatt admitted, “but the sport itself is very, very real. It’s physically demanding.” The Emory Quidditch team has yet to play a game, though they hope to be a part of a tournament in the coming year. Their focus for the immediate future is not so much winning games as it is creating a permanent team at Emory. “I hope to one day have a team when I can have full scrimmages,” Busman said, “to come back after graduating in a few years [and watch the team].”

However, her plans don’t stop there; she also wants to host a Yule Ball, a formal holiday dance in the Harry Potter series, at Emory once the team receives more funding. Busman also shared her pride for the effort that her team has put in thus far, despite the youth of the club. “I’m really just proud that my team can come together and have such a great time,” Busman said. “I’ve never been in sports, so I didn’t quite have that team feel before, but ever since we’ve started there’s been a huge effort on everyone’s part.” Her team members are equally as excited for the presence and the growth of the club on Emory’s campus. “What I love about it is that it’s not a traditional sport,” Silverblatt shared. “I grew up a huge Harry Potter fan. I love that it’s different.” — Contact Julia Munslow at julia.munslow@emory.edu

two or three non-fruit or vegetable items per week, like pita and hummus or peanut butter. These items will be dispensed at regular intervals as well so that students have ample time to finish the products before receiving new ones. Perhaps best of all, Emory Local Roots requires almost no work on the part of the student, which is just what Dugoni envisioned. “[Local Roots] helps people make a very easy and convenient change in their purchasing and eating habits, which is essential to changing their lifestyles as a whole,” she said. As a Predictive Health minor, Dugoni understands that people not only need to change their lifestyle habits, but also educate themselves about the importance of eating locally and sustainably. “Every week we’ll have recipe cards and pamphlets explaining how the food we’re providing is different from the mass-produced food you’ll find at the grocery store,” Dugoni said. In doing so, Dugoni hopes that Emory Local Roots will help students understand why eating sustainably is better for their health, the environment and the local economy. Ideally, she said, students will take these values and apply them to their lives after college. Dugoni, who hopes to one day expand the program to universities in both Atlanta and Portland, is passionate about her cause. “I want other students to care about where their food comes from and how it was produced as much as I do,” Dugoni said. “The health of our nation depends on it.”

— Contact Jordan Morell at jmorell@emory.edu

Food Column

By Stephen Fowler Student Life Editor When talking about food, ‘medium rare’ refers to cooking meat so the outside is browned with just a hint of red in the middle, striving to provide the perfect combination of tenderness and flavor. This column, much like its namesake, strives to provide the perfect combination of epicurean insight and Atlanta-area atmosphere.

Ria’s Bluebird When The New York Times decrees the “best pancakes in the world” lay just across the street from Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery in a tiny, intimate café, it might be easy to doubt. Ria’s Bluebird puts its money where our mouths are, offering the best damn pancakes (adorned with toasted Georgia pecans, caramelized bananas or chocolate chips) this side of the Mississippi — and beyond. Named after famed Atlanta chef Aurianna “Ria” Pell, who died in late

2013, Ria’s was converted from rundown liquor store to Atlanta breakfast mecca by Pell and co-owner Alex Skalicky. From her obituary, we see the Pell’s culinary breadth as well as her essence, which still lives on through the restaurant today: “Ria’s brisket could make a grown man cry, her vegan chili won accolades, her country fried tempeh made carnivores into vegans while her short-rib beef wellington made vegans into carnivores, her lemon icebox pie was unforgettable and perhaps her simplest but most famous dish was her signature caramelized banana pancakes,” it reads. And, indeed, the food lives up to all its hype. The biscuits and pepper milk gravy are so fresh you can almost taste the dough rising from the oven. Everything about the restaurant, from the giant eponymous bird logo painted on the side of the building to the southern prim and proper counter on the inside, smacks of hard work, dedication and vision for a culinary experience. The cozy nature of the seating pro-

vides a Mayberry-esque feeling, but the accompanying long waits do not. Seating (and parking) is limited, so make sure to arrive early if your hunger is impatient. In addition to the famous flapjacks, Ria’s offers a variety of healthy and tasty entrees ranging from huevos to a brisket breakfast. The staff looks like they were imported straight from a Warby Parker/Brawny promo shoot, and are pleasant and knowledgeable when it comes to service. The one downside, if you can call it a downside, is the lack of parking, seating and suitable waiting area, especially in colder weather. However, popularity should never be a penalty, and the wait made the food taste all the better when the time came. Overall, Ria’s Bluebird is equal parts local legend and must-eat munchies. Try a fat stack of pancakes, soak up some gravy and stay a while in Ria’s honor. 5 out of 5.

— Contact Stephen Fowler at smfowle@emory.edu

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Called “the best pancakes in the world” by The New York Times, the pancakes at Ria’s Bluebird with Georgia pecans (Above), are well worth the wait.

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Friday, February 6, 2015

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Washington Wizards guard John Wall dribbles down the court. Wall was chosen to the 2014 Eastern Conference All-Star roster as a first-time selection. Writers Durst and Janick also chose him for their Eastern All-Star roster.

vs. University of Tennessee 6 p.m. Chattanooga, Tenn.

Durst: Harden Is the Best Player in the NBA Continued from the Back Page it last year in order to make room for Joe Johnson made me question my life. There’s no mistaking it this year though, Lowry deserves to start the All-Star game. He was the best player on the best team for the first 20 to 30 games of the season and his production still hasn’t slipped. He’s averaging 19 points, seven assists and five rebounds a game. He’s good and he’s going to be a mainstay at this position for the next few years. Forward/Center: Jimmy Butler (Chicago Bulls) NJ: He 100 percent deserves to be on this list. When somebody asks who the best player on the Chicago Bulls is, don’t be stupid and say Derrick Rose. Butler doesn’t have the name recognition or shoe deal that Rose has, but Rose hasn’t returned to his MVP performance since his knee injuries. Butler’s 20.5 points per game has helped the Bulls prove that they are contenders for the Eastern Conference title once again. Forward/Center: LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers) JD: James may not be the best player in the NBA anymore, but he’s been a far cry from a bad player. He’s second in the league in points per game at 26.2. He’s the only reason that Cleveland is competitive, given the collapse of Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving’s inability to pass the ball. He has by far the best player efficiency rating (PER), of any full-time player, at least in the East, at a shade over 26. Plus, we all know the best is yet to come from him, as he coasted for almost all the first half. Forward/Center: Al Horford (Atlanta Hawks) NJ: Excluding an Atlanta Hawks

player from the starting lineup would be a crime. Horford is arguably the Hawks’ most valuable player. The Hawks were on pace to be the third seed in the East last year before he went down with a torn pectoral muscle. He is averaging 15.3 points and seven rebounds a game, which won’t blow anybody away, but his impact on both ends of the court cannot be fully captured by statistics. West Starters Guard: James Harden (Houston Rockets) JD: Is it even a question that the game’s best player this year deserves to start? Two Western Conference Player of the Month awards, 27 points, seven assists, six rebounds, on 45 percent shooting, 38 from the three, 89 from the line, with defense that’s passable most nights now. He has been the best player in a loaded Western Conference. If you don’t think Harden is the MVP right now, you’re blind. Guard: Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors) NJ: The only player that you can put in the same conversation for MVP with Harden is Curry. He is the best player on the best team in the West and has been lighting up the entire league this year. Curry has excelled in Steve Kerr’s new offense, averaging 23 points. While his MVP candidacy might be slipping away, he is an easy pick as the second starting guard in the West. Forward/Center: LaMarcus Aldridge (Portland Trail Blazers) JD: Aldridge may not be the best player on his own team, but given how stacked the West backcourt is, and the fact that he’s still putting up 24 points and 10 rebounds night-in and night-out, he’s a solid choice to

start for the West in the frontcourt. He’s been the best forward in the West not named Anthony Davis. He may not be on Davis’ level defensively. That’s no knock on him, but rather a compliment to Davis. I expect a big second half from him as well as the Blazers make a push for the second seed. Forward/Center: Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans) NJ: MVP, MVP, MVP. Well maybe not this year, but Davis is my favorite to win the MVP next year. He is single handedly keeping the Pelicans in the race for the Western Conference playoffs and leads the lead in PER by a large margin. He is averaging 24.6 points, 10.5 rebounds, and leads the league with 2.8 blocks a game. Let’s not forget he is only 21-years-old. When he wins a MVP before Durst and I graduate, we will make sure to say we told you so. Forward/Center: Marc Gasol (Memphis Grizzlies) JD: Gasol’s modest 19 points per game and nine rebounds understate his importance to a Memphis team that would be likely to collapse if he wasn’t around. He’s a defensive powerhouse and probably the best defensive big man in the league. He can pass the ball like a guard and is the only reason that the Memphis offense, if you can even call it that, somewhat works. We’re going to wait one more year on DeMarcus Cousins, just to make sure that his jump is here to stay, and with Dwight Howard missing as much time as he has, it’s a no question as to who’s the best center in the West. — Contact Jacob Durst at jacob.j.durst@emory.edu and Nathan Janick at nathan.janick@emory.edu

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Martin Brodeur announced his retirement from the NHL after 24 years in the league. He will take a desk job for his former team, the St. Louis Blues.

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and earned rightful notoriety towards the beginning of his career, while his later years in net were characterized by injury and second-string status. As in most professional sports, age is often the root cause of retirement. Brodeur was one of the oldest players in the NHL. And with players entering the league at 18 years old, Brodeur was at a disadvantage in terms of agility and speed. Another major aspect of Brodeur’s demise during the latter part of his career was the emergence of promising goalie prospects that harnessed attention as they surpassed Brodeur’s coveted records. Take Henrik Lundqvist, for example. The Swedish goaltender has earned a reputable name for himself on the New York Rangers, leading the NHL in all-time shootout wins and even impressing the world by finishing with top rankings at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Lundqvist has rightfully captured the hearts and minds of New York fans (and not just because of his swooning good looks). Similarly, Jonathan Quick is another goaltender on the rise and continues to wow the world of hockey. Quick joined the Los Angeles Kings in 2007 as a 72nd overall draft pick. During his blossoming career, much of which is still underway, Quick has won two Stanley Cup titles and even scored a silver medal in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. With stars like Lundqvist and Quick stealing the spotlight, Brodeur became old news rather quickly.

Looking back, Brodeur really should have retired during the years directly following the peak in his career. While his last Stanley Cup win was in 2003 with the New Jersey Devils, Brodeur still proved prolific in goal during a few subsequent seasons as he appeared in playoff games and maintained impressive save percentages. However, if I had to pick a cutoff season in which Brodeur should have called it quits, it would’ve been after the 2009-10 season, in which he led the NHL in wins, shutouts, games and minutes played. At this point, Brodeur could have left the NHL on a high note, but instead he continued to trudge on in his career even after his contract exhausted with the Devils in 2013. Entering the market as a free agent, Brodeur signed with the St. Louis Blues for the 2014-2015 season. Yet his time playing with the Blues was ephemeral; it was finally in the middle of this 2014-15 season, on Jan. 29, after playing only seven games with the Blues, that Brodeur decided to end his career on a sour note. Growing up as a hockey player and Devils fan, I idolized Brodeur. I had the opportunity to meet him at a local rink where I remember literally looking up to the massive 6-foot 2-inch, 216-pound man and thinking it was such an honor to be in the presence of a hockey phenomenon. Seeing Brodeur at the zenith of his career, it’s disheartening to witness him exit at a trough. — Contact Zoe Elfenbein at zoe.elfenbein@emory.edu

seven games this season. I don’t think he needed this victory for his legacy, but after winning his fourth Super Bowl, Brady has cemented himself as one of the best ever, and definitely the best of our generation. Belichick is an evil genius. His ability to impact decisions on both the offense and defense make him the ideal head coach. Additionally, his ability to create value through the draft by trading down, stockpiling picks and finding hidden gems just by taking as many players as he can has revitalized the roster every year. This has allowed for difficult emotional decisions to be made, such as cutting Richard Seymour a few years ago and, most recently, trading veteran Logan Mankins. Between the much-publicized controversies surrounding Spygate and Deflategate, there certainly will be those who question whether or not Belichick has played by the rules, and whether or not that should affect his legacy. However, I believe that his creative play calling, cunning during the draft and ability to get the most out of his players puts him in the upper echelon of head coaches. I just threw up a little after writing all that praise for people on the Patriots. Go Jets. Anyways, I digress. Carroll will continue to get heat for his play-call for the entire offseason, but I don’t think passing was a bad idea. Instead, I think that running a pick play would have been a mistake. Replaying the scene, there was about 40 seconds left when the ball was lined up, and the Seahawks had one timeout left. New England stacked the box up, leaving the

Seattle receivers in one-on-one coverage for the most part. One aspect of a head coach that is crucial is the ability to adjust on the fly. Chris Matthews was absolutely torching the Patriots. He already had a red-zone touchdown at that point. Why not line up Matthews on an island, and let him go up for a jump ball? The potential risks for a pick play, other than an interception, is that the pick causes an offensive pass interference penalty. Additionally, because it is a rhythm pass over the middle, there are many opportunities for the ball to be batted down, or even for a tackle before the end zone to occur. If I were Carroll, I would have sensed the pressure up the middle, and ran a fade to Matthews. If he wasn’t open, I would have instructed Wilson to throw the ball away. This would allow the option to run on third down, call a timeout if Lynch got stuffed and re-evaluate all options on the pivotal fourth-down play. It is foolish to look at a situation during an NFL game and say that it is absolutely a run or definitely a pass play. The Seahawks decided to make the bold move, and the interception was obviously not predictable. However, I feel that it was the wrong move not to go with the hot hand and get the ball into the man that had been the biggest offensive impact player of the day in Matthews. Overall, this was an amazing season with an incredible finish. However, the 2015-16 campaign has already started, so get ready for draft predictions and free-agent analyses in the coming weeks. Be well and go Jets. — Contact Jayson Patel at jayson.patel@emory.edu@emory.

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community. Sophomore Katarina Su and freshman Anna Fuhr, along with Bryant and Rosen, spent their Wednesday afternoons volunteering with the Atlanta Youth Tennis and Education Foundation (AYTEF). AYTEF strives to provide positive extracurricular activities for children by giving them strong role models and something to look forward to throughout the day, according to the organization’s website. While, on the surface, the program focuses on improving tennis ability, it uses the venue of tennis to give these young men and women an escape into a positive environment to help them develop healthy lifestyles, the website says. In order to promote team unity and to jumpstart practices for the upcoming season, the Eagles took a trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil over the winter break. In the surrounding area, they taught local children to play tennis one day. There, they relaxed, ate good food, partied a little bit and played a lot of tennis, according to players’ daily journal entries published by Emory Athletics. “Our trip to Brazil was truly amazing, between seeing the historical city of Ouro Preto and catching rays at Copacabana,” senior Danielle Truitt said, according to Emory Athletics. “Not only was Brazil a chance to experience a new culture, but also to grow closer as a team.” — Contact Jacob Spitzer at jacob.alexander.spitzer@emory.edu

1. Derek Jeter It is a well-known fact that for many of you, your On Fire correspondent is your role model, your idol and your mentor. In light of his gorgeous girlfriend, Hannah Davis, making the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, it is time Derek Jeter is unveiled as your On Fire’s mentor. That is, you, my loyal reader’s grand-mentor. Hannah Davis is smoking hot. She’s not the only fox whose heart Derek stole, however. I mean, come on. Mariah Carey? Can you say voice of an angel? The Jessicas: Beil and Alba. Possibly Scarlett Johanson (she publically denied it, but your On Fire correspondent has privileged information on the topic. Just don’t tell anyone). How, you might ask, does Derek make these incredible women fall for him? Why is he worthy of the honor that is being the mentor of your mentor? Why have you not secured a date in a year while Jeter hasn’t spent a night alone in 40 years (Hint: He was born in 1974)? Derek uses the same methods of courting and seducing that he taught your On Fire correspondent years ago: the “J-E-T-E-R Method.” For the first time in the history of man, the J-E-TE-R man will be released, so brace yourself, protégé. “J:” Just be yourself. You’re a professional athlete. You’re an easy 10 out of 10. You have abs of steal and can make your pecs bounce to the beat of “Jump Around.” You got this. “E:” Ease into talk about your accomplishments. Remember, you’re one of the best athletes of all time in the best sport of all time. You don’t want to be threatening. “T:” Tell the media about all of your relationships, flings, potentials and fantasies. Even if it’s not true, they’ll make everyone, including you and your desired, think it is. Don’t call it brainwashing. Call it freedom of the press. “E:” Every day, hit bombs and throw gas. You know your looks are important, but what are looks without your unbelievable talents? A regular person. You know who doesn’t date Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover models? Regular people. “R:” Realize the relationship can’t go on. You’re Derek Jeter. You’re the face of the New York Yankees. No, the face of baseball. No, the face of America. No one is good enough for you. Never settle. Now, my loyal reader, your humble On Fire correspondent realizes that the J-E-T-E-R Method cannot work for everyone. In fact, it has only ever been tested by Derek Jeter and yours truly. But, your On Fire correspondent must be going now. He has an 8 p.m. reservation for Zaya’s with Hannah. 2. The White Side A friend of your On Fire correspondent recently told him correspondent to check out his “white side” the other day while we were utterly [redacted]. I was confused by what this meant and presumed it was a comment on my privilege. Your on fire correspondent may have over analyzed the comment given that we were incredibly [redacted]. But it wasn’t until the next morning that I realized the comment was not about my privilege but about an up and coming player on the Miami Heat. Your on fire correspondent, who may or may not even go to Emory at this point, has taken particular interest in the postLeBron phenomena growing down south in Miami. Miami’s current starting center, Hassan Whiteside, came out of nowhere to take the starting position this season. Facing the T-Wolves on Wednesday, posted 20 rebounds and 24 points. I see you Hassan. With this performance, the question begs whether Hassan will surpass Reggie Bush and Jeremy Lin as the most popular and exciting irrelevant sports sensation in their respective leagues. Leading analysts over at ESPN have explained that they believe Whiteside is good, but wonder whether he will continue to play well. To that I say, in what world are you qualified to say such obvious things on TV? Put a camera in front of me, pay me a ton and I’ll tell you the sky is blue and Shaq is bald. But I digress. Bron Bron could really use a Hassan Whiteside right about now. The man is singlehandedly-keeping the city of Miami interested in basketball. With D-Wade on the outs and Bosh being well, Bosh; Hassan has become a flame of hope in Miami… trying to outshine mega resorts, internationally renowned nightlife, hundreds of miles of sandy white beaches, great restaurants and great looking people. LeBron couldn’t handle the pressure of being a star in Miami, so can Hassan?

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Women’s Tennis

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Brodeur’s Retirement Too Long Overdue

Zoe Elfenbein

lar sentiments about the way the team looks at its upcoming competitions. “We look at one game at a time,” Bryant said. “Right now we are focused on our match at Chattanooga. It’s not really about winning or losing, though. It’s more about the process.” Some players used their free time in the off-season to give back to the

Fans and teammates alike are grieving at the announcement of St. Louis Blues goalie Martin Brodeur’s retirement after 24 seasons in the NHL. At 42 years old, Brodeur has decided to hang up his skates and take up a position in the Blues front office. While many are stunned at the renowned goaltender’s abrupt decision to end his career mid-season, I believe that Brodeur’s retirement is long overdue. By no means do I mean to diminish or undermine Brodeur’s career in its entirety, but rather it seems that the Canadian native really should have announced his retirement about five years ago. Brodeur had a very successful run in which he broke countless records, received numerous awards, clinched three Stanley Cup titles and even got a NHL rule change named after him. Yet Brodeur truly proved his prowess

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The Emory women’s tennis team pauses practice for a group photo with children in Brazil. The team traveled to Rio de Janeiro over the summer to improve their own tennis skills and volunteer their time to help children learn the sport.

Squad to Open Season at Univ. of Tenn. Chattanooga Emory’s women’s tennis team will start its spring season on Saturday, Feb. 7, with an away game against the Division I University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Mockingbirds. “We’re excited to make 2015 something special,” Head Coach Amy Bryant said. With a National Championship

win and a record of 28-2 last spring for the number one-ranked Division III ranking, the Eagles have set a high bar for the 2015 season. The team has already started a rigorous training schedule consisting of weight and conditioning training, private lessons and general practices. “We’re out there practicing about three to four hours a day, six days a week,” Bryant said. “I’m still setting

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Track & Field

By Jacob Spitzer Staff Writer

up the lineup and want to see what they can do.” With such a rigorous work schedule, Bryant wants to train her Eagles both physically and mentally. “When I pick a lineup, experience is important,” Bryant said. “But what’s also important is the ability to dig deep when you need to. That’s something I like to see in a player.” The players haven’t had an offi-

cial match since the end of their fall season, and they have not taken it easy in their time off, junior Beatrice Rosen said. “We were having regular practices, just without the coaches, all throughout the off season,” Rosen said. “These practices are harder though.” When asked about the upcoming season, Bryant and Rosen gave simi-

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Beej: Belichick, Brady And Bad Coaching

Nosebleeds: Re-Picking NBA AllStar Teams

Jayson Patel

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Sophomore Kellie Harunk runs at the Emory Crossplex Invitational. Certain Eagles will travel to either Eastern Tennessee State University or the University of South Carolina.

Jacob Durst And Nathan Janick The NBA All-Star Team starters are selected by fan vote, and therefore, there are some major errors in the selections. This week, Nosebleeds brings you the players who should have been picked for the starting lineups. East Starters Guard: John Wall (Washington Wizards) Nathan Janick: Wall has emerged as one the top point guards in the NBA this year. Known for his electric speed and explosiveness, Wall has proven this year that he is a well-rounded point guard. He is the best player on the third-place team in the East and is leading the league in assists with 10.2 per game. He leads the Wizards in scoring with 17.4 points per game. Wall will be in the conversation for best point guard in the league within the next couple of years. Guard: Kyle Lowry (Toronto Raptors) Jacob Durst: I’m going to start off by saying that Lowry not making

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Eagles to Split for ETSU and USC By Michael Scheck Staff Writer With their indoor season now under way, the Emory men’s and women’s track and field teams will split up and head to Eastern Tennessee State University to compete in the Buccaneer Track and Field Invitational and to the University of South Carolina for the USC Open this weekend. While many middle and long distance runners are competing at ETSU, pole vaulters, a sprinter and a hurdler will travel to USC. “[ETSU] is primarily a meet where we will focus on middle and long distance runners,” Head Coach John Curtin said. “The next couple weeks are pretty much going to tell us how good we are and what we need to improve on. I think we are going to see season best performances out of everyone.” Throughout the season, Eagles have been stepping up to fill gaps left by graduation. “We have had a strong indoor

season so far, and a lot of talent from our freshman class,” sophomore Kyle Veator said. “Our freshmen are filling gaps that graduated team members left.” The men’s distance medley relay is predicted by Curtin to do well at ETSU. Sophomore Grant Murphy, freshmen Jordan Flowers and Max Brown and sophomore Ian McIsaac will work together to get the best time possible. At the Eastern Tennessee State University Invitational, the first invitational of the season, Brown finished sixth in the 800-meter run with an impressive 1:58.38 time, while Flowers finished third in the 3,000meter run with a 8:59.50 time. Curtin also predicts freshman Shane Sullivan to impress in the mile run at ETSU, and senior Tyler Cooke to improve his time in the 5K. Curtin will be looking towards some of his high-profile runners on the women’s team to improve their times this weekend. Senior Stephanie Crane who impressed at the Eastern Tennessee State University Invitational. She won the unseeded

800-meter run with a time of 2:20.68, and won the unseeded mile in 5:18.13 minutes. Senior Elise Viox will also be looking to improve. At the Emory Crossplex Invitational in Birmingham, Viox led her distance relay team along with freshmen Halle Markel, Erica Fischer and Gabrielle Stravach to a sixth-place finish. Many athletes have an ultimate goal of getting their times down in order to qualify for nationals. “We are mostly concentrated on winning [the University Athletic Association Championship] and scoring as many points as we can for the indoor championship next month,” Veator said. There will be good competition at the Buccaneer Track & Field Invitational, and the Emory Eagles are up for the competition. The Eagles will race at ETSU today, Feb. 6. Tomorrow, Feb. 7, certain Eagles will compete at ETSU and others at USC. — Contact Michael Scheck at michael.scheck@emory.edu

And just like that, the 2014 NFL season has officially come to a close. However, with the end of the games comes a multitude of questions in need of answering. Is Tom Brady the best quarterback of all time? Is Bill Belichick the best coach of all time? What sorts of drugs was Pete Carroll on when he called a pass at the end of the game? In this edition of the Beej Knows Best, I will evaluate the game, as well as answer a few of these lingering questions. But first, lets pour one to commemorate what has been a very exciting and eventful NFL campaign. The first half of the game was an absolute snooze-fest. Other than a Brady red-zone interception, the first 30 minutes of action featured little drama until the last minute and change. First, the Patriots, followed by the Seahawks, scored to close the half out at a 14-14 deadlock. All four scores were tallied in the second quarter; naturally fans were looking to Katy Perry to help revitalize their teams’ offenses. Although the number of points scored in the second half was less than in the first, the second half was clearly the more exciting one for the fans. Seattle opened up with 10 unanswered points as the New England offense sputtered and struggled to gain momentum. However, midway through the final quarter of the game, Brady led a precise nine play, 68-yard drive culminating with a Danny Amendola touchdown reception. After a Seattle three-and-out, Brady

led another touchdown drive, connecting with Julian Edelman. With two minutes left, Russell Wilson led the Seahawks down the field in a fury, including one of the craziest catches I have ever seen in my entire life which came from Jermaine Kearse. A Marshawn Lynch run put the Seahawks at the one-yard line. Then, Carroll and the Seattle coaching staff made the controversial decision to run a pass play, with 31 seconds left and a timeout remaining. Malcolm Butler jumped the route, and intercepted the pass. Pinning New England at their own one-yard line, however, presented the opportunity for a safety and repossession of the ball. But, Seattle ended up jumping the snap for an encroachment penalty, and after a brawl caused by Bruce Irvin of the Seahawks, the Patriots were crowned champions. So where does this leave Tom Terrific? He now has tied Joe Montana for most Super Bowl MVP awards with three. He now has tied Montana and Terry Bradshaw for most Super Bowl wins with four. He has the fifth most yards during the regular season ever, and he has the most passing yards in playoff history. I believe that making the claim, in any sport, of “best of all-time” is difficult because the league is fluid and ever-evolving. Each generation has its own greats, and the argument that Brady is the greatest of our current generation is easily defensible. Other than Randy Moss, he has never had a superstar game-breaking wide receiver, yet he has consistently put up phenomenal stats. His ability to stay cool under pressure, manufacture comeback victories and elevate the play of others around him makes the Patriots a threat year-in and yearout. I understand that New England had a successful regular season with Matt Cassel when Brady was out; I believe this was an aberration as opposed to the rule. Without him, the Patriots wouldn’t have won more than

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