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Engineering Major Awaits Approval By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor

By Bradyn Schiffman Contributing Writer Burgers, beer and dogs will fill a vacant space in Emory Village in the form of a new restaurant. Lucky’s Burger and Brew, a local business primarily known for its famous burgers, wide variety of beers and dog-friendly environment, is expanding to the closed Starbucks location in Emory Village between Slice & Pint and Rise-n-Dine. Lucky’s first opened in Roswell, Georgia in 2010 and is owned by Ernie and Diane Geyer, whose dog provides the name for the restaurant. Additionally, the restaurant, which opened another location in Brookhaven, aims to combine three ideas of man’s best friends, according to Pete Hussey, partner and manager of Lucky’s. “While man’s best friend is dog, we also know that man’s best friend is burgers and brew,” Hussey said. Hussey claims that Lucky’s offers customers the enjoyment of a freshcertified Black Angus ground chuck burger with the ability to sit outside with their dog, enjoying the nice Atlanta weather. Lucky’s burgers were voted the best in North Fulton County by the North Atlanta Business Post, and the restaurant offers more than 16 different choices of burgers in addition to a create-your-own burger option, seven different sides, wings, salads and draft and bottled beers according to Hussey. According to the restaurant’s website, Lucky’s Burger and Brew

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n Friday evening, Feb. 13, Regina Carter and the Gary Motley Trio kicked off the second and final weekend of Emory’s annual Jazz Fest. The festival kicked of on Feb. 7 with a performance from Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.

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Rushdie Talks Freedom of Speech By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor

Salman Rushdie, a worldrenowned author and University Distinguished Professor, returned to Emory on Sunday evening (Feb. 15) to deliver his final public lecture as an Emory faculty member in Glenn Memorial Auditorium. The lecture, hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Provost, was titled “The Liberty Instinct” and focused on what Rushdie calls the human beings natural “‘instinct’ for freedom.” Rushdie visits Emory and lectures each year as part of his role as University Distinguished Professor. College Dean Robin Forman introduced Rushdie, who was greeted with a standing ovation as he walked onstage in the packed auditorium. Calling the lecture “bittersweet,” Forman reminded the audience

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that this year marks Rushdie’s final year as a University Distinguished Professor and thus this would be his final lecture on campus as an Emory faculty member. Forman also announced that Rushdie had accepted University President James Wagner’s invitation to deliver the keynote address at Emory’s Commencement ceremony this year on May 11 and that the Emory Board of Trustees voted to award Rushdie with an honorary doctor of letters degree from the University. “These are not good days,” Rushdie said of the current state of freedom in the world at the start of the lecture. “How do ... cartoonists lie dead in Paris?” Rushdie asked, referring to the Jan. 7 attacks on the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Rushdie then commented on a

separate shooting that occurred on Saturday, Feb. 14 in Copenhagen. “And, just yesterday, there was an echo of that terrible event in what one ... referred to as their fairy tale country, a place where they were not expecting such things,” he said. “In Saudi Arabia, a blogger can be whipped for stepping very mildly out of line. In India, supposedly democratic India, girls are arrested and jailed for making comments about their politicians on Facebook ... in Turkey, in Egypt, in Pakistan, in Iran, fundamental freedoms not only to speak, but even to go to school if you are a girl, are under attack.” Rushdie said he that was struck by the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo murders, specifically the “speed with which” many people found it easier to blame the victims instead of abhorring the mass murders that took place.

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An engineering sciences degree may be available at the College of Arts and Sciences by fall 2016, according to Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Joanne Brzinski. The new major, which would allow students to earn a Bachelors of Science (B.S.), could replace the currently available applied physics major, Brzinski said. The College Curriculum Committee approved the proposal for the new major, which includes concentrations in physics, material sciences and geosciences, on Feb. 9. According to Brzinski, the proposal is awaiting approval by the University Substantive Change Review Committee. The engineering sciences major would be “more interdisciplinary and more rigorous” than the current applied physics major, which is a B.S. program that focuses on current technology with classes such as Digital Electronics and Computational Physics, according to the proposal. The new engineering sciences major would also “provide a strong foundation in the science underlying modern technology,” according to the proposal. Jed Brody, a senior lecturer in Emory’s Physics department who helped write the new major proposal, said his department has considered adding bioengineering and computer science as additional concentrations if the major is fully approved. Currently, the only way to pursue an engineering degree at Emory is to apply for the dual-degree program between Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology, which takes a minimum of five years to complete and offers 11 concentrations. Emory’s Physics department

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This week, the 48th Legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) passed a resolution that advises the University to extend the Add/Drop/Swap period, tabled a bill that would institute a formal “dead week” period, which would prohibit major assignment deadlines the week before final exams, and failed to provide funding for the annual Lunar Banquet. College junior, SGA College-wide Representative and Student Life Chairwoman Elyse Lee proposed the resolution calling for the extension of the Add/Drop/Swap period, the time at the beginning of each term during which students can switch into and out of different classes without penalty. “[Many] people did not have adequate time to shop around for classes,” Lee said. During the current Add/Drop/ Swap period length of one week, she added, some students have to decide which classes to take without having the opportunity to get a sense of those classes’ demands. Lee’s resolution recommended that the Add/Drop/Swap period be extended to two weeks. Several SGA members voiced concerns that such a change could disrupt professors’ schedules. Others noted that a two-week Add/Drop/ Swap period could overburden students who would have to make up the

work for up to two weeks of a class that they added to their schedules at the last minute. In response to these fears, Lee emphasized her resolution’s nonbinding status — it serves as a recommendation to the University about how to proceed, unlike a bill, which is binding. SGA members generally approved of Lee’s resolution, and it passed by a 17-1-2 vote. However, the other resolution that Lee submitted on Monday evening, which proposed that Emory institute a formal “dead week” prior to exams during which professors could not give any assignments beyond basic homework and readings, received mixed reviews from her fellow SGA members. “There’s a lot of stress during finals week,” Lee said. “This would create [a model] that says reading and other assignments can be assigned, but no major assignments can be given.” People took issue with the vagueness of this resolution, and several people observed that in certain classes, it is not only customary but also advantageous for students to have papers due the week before exams. SGA decided to table this resolution in order to discuss the matter further in a future meeting. SGA also tabled a bill requesting money for a trip to the National Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial

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SGA Passes Resolution for Longer Add/Drop/Swap By Luke White SGA Beat Writer

began discussing the possibility of an engineering major last summer after some students began asking the department about the potential for such a program last year, according to Brody. “We already have a lot of physics majors who want to go to grad school in engineering, and this will make that even better for them,” Brody said. Still, Brody added that the benefits of the new major would not be comparable to the skill set provided by the dual-degree offered by Emory and Georgia Tech. “[The engineering sciences major] is not identical to an engineering degree,” he said. “We are not trying to compete with Georgia Tech head-on.” As for the major’s course structure, all 16 to 19 required classes but one are already available at the College, according to the proposal. The one additional course, Fundamentals of Engineering Design (PHYS 222), a core requirement for all concentrations, will be taught by Brody. The major’s core requirements include General Chemistry (CHEM 141), four lower-level mathematics courses and five lower-level physics courses. The applied physics degree requires the same mathematics courses required by the engineering sciences major, albeit with 10 upperlevel physics courses. While the physics track requires a combination of upper-level physics and mathematics courses, the material science track requires a combination of upper-level physics and chemistry courses, and the geosciences track requires both lower-level and upper-level physics, computer science, environmental science and geology courses. Curriculum Committee Student

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for Best Social Studies Documentary, while another — “Stolen Ground” about Asian Americans — won honorable mention at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Equipped with knowledge about cross-cultural communication, awareness and conflict intervention strategies, Lee has advised thousands of government and social agencies, schools and corporations on diversity issues. He has consulted private schools and worked with students who have social and learning issues.

The 2015 University Athletic Association (UAA) swimming and diving championships kicked off last Wednesday, Feb. 11, with host school Emory University taking leads in both the women’s and men’s team standings. On the first full day of competition, the Eagles broke four conference records. At the end of Thursday’s action, the women’s team had totaled 699 points, followed by Washington University in St. Louis (Ill.) with 425, while the men’s team’s 477.5 points were trailed by the University of Chicago’s 458 and the University of Rochester (N.Y.)’s 455. Two Eagles broke UAA records in individual events: senior McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg finished the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:52.13 while junior Andrew Wilson won the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:49.34. “I think a huge part of our success was the atmosphere,” NewsumSchoenberg said. “We were at our home pool and everyone on the team

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Lee Mun Wah spoke at this year’s State of Race, an annual event hosted by College Council during its Social Justice Week. Lee engaged the audience in a diversity reflection exercise.

State of Race Speaker Challenges Audience By Karishma Mehrotra Associate Editor Lee Mun Wah, documentary filmmaker and executive director of a diversity training company, took the stage for Emory’s 15th annual State of Race event, kicking off College Council’s third annual Social Justice Week. Speaking to roughly 100 Emory community members yesterday evening, Lee engaged the audience in a diversity reflection exercise and a speech about diversity in America. “We have a race problem in

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America, and I hope you came here not to talk about it, but to get started,” the Chinese American — whose titles include filmmaker, author and poet, among many others — said in Cox Ballroom. The renowned educator, executive director of Stirfry Seminars & Consulting, said he aims to change the nation’s conversation on race. He was the subject of a one-hour special on Oprah Winfrey’s show and presented a TedxTalk titled “The Secret to Changing the World.” One of his films, “The Color of Fear,” won the Gold Apple Award

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news roundup National, Local and Higher Education News • Egyptian state television reported on Monday that the country had hit Islamic State targets in an airstrike in the militant-held city of Derna in Libya. The bombings came hours after the Islamic State released a video showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians. Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced plans on Monday to retake the major city of Mosul, which the Islamic State occupied in June, from the militants in the next few months.

Friday, halting the executions of 180 people on death row, the earliest of which was scheduled for March 4.

• Despite a ceasefire planned to take effect Sunday, along with a weapons withdrawal set to begin Monday, Ukrainian and pro-Russian separatist forces continued fighting in Mariupol, Debaltseve and the Donetsk airport on Monday.

• Chatham County, Georgia commissioners debated on Friday whether same-sex couples can enroll in the county’s health insurance plan. Though the commissioners voted 4-3 in favor of the county ordinance change, five votes were needed to enact the measure, and two commissioners were absent.

• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg blamed fine wine for her inability to stay awake at President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union address at George Washington University on Thursday. At 81, she is the oldest serving justice on the Supreme Court.

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• Georgia Governor Nathan Deal issued a state of emergency for 15 northern Georgia counties on Sunday. A winter storm warning, lasting from 7 a.m. Monday to 7 p.m. Tuesday, was also issued for the North Georgia mountains. School districts in seven counties, including DeKalb, closed schools Monday in anticipation of the inclement weather.

— Compiled by Asst. News Editor Lydia O’Neal

• Newly-elected Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf imposed a moratorium on the state’s death penalty on

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• On Feb. 8 at 12:30 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding a burglary on the third floor of Few residence hall. A resident at the location was taking a shower when money was removed from his room. A $50 bill and a $20 bill were taken out of his wallet. Twenty-three dollars was left in the wallet. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

• On Feb. 9 at 12:30 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a theft at the Dobbs University Center. A student placed her iPhone 5C near the stairwell to the second floor and walked away. When she came back to retrieve her phone, it was gone. The iPhone is valued at $450 and the case is valued at $20. There are no suspects at this time. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

TUESDAY

Event: 6th Annual Art Kellermann, MD, MPH, Health Policy Lecture Time: 11 a.m. Location: James B. Williams School of Medicine Building Auditorium 110 Event: Research Roundtable Presentation: Carolyn Reilly and Melinda Higgins Time: 12 p.m. Location: Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing 400

Event: Dr. Tim Buchman Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: Math and Science E300 Event: Dining Contractor Presentations for the Emory Community Time: 6 p.m. Location: Harland Cinema, DUC

• On Feb. 11 at 4:25 p.m., EPD responded to an incident involving the Emory shuttles. A First Transit shuttle ran into a light pole in front of the Woodruff Memorial Research Building. No one was injured in the incident.

there was a scent of marijuana coming from one of the rooms. Officers arrived on the scene and knocked on the door. When the officers entered the room, they noticed a grinder commonly associated with marijuana as well as containers of marijuana. Officers also noticed a vaporizer and other paraphernalia commonly associated with marijuana. One roommate admitted to owning the marijuana and the other roommate admitted to being in possession of alcohol. Both individuals were cited, and Campus Life was notified.

— Compiled by Crime Beat Writer Brandon Fuhr

• On Feb. 11 at 10:46 p.m., officers responded to Harris Hall after a Resident Advisor notified EPD that

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Georgia House Speaker and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Fred Hand accepted an invitation to join a political panel to be hosted by the Student Council in the Glenn Memorial Auditorium on May 14. Two other gubernatorial candidates, Georgia House Representative Charles Gowen and M. E. Thompson, who served as the state’s governor between March 1947 and November 1948, were also invited to take part. As soon as other potential governors announced their candidacies, the Student Council planned to send them a letter of invitation to join the panel as well.

Events at emory

Event: Human Genetics Seminar Time: 8 a.m. Location: Whitehead Biomedical Research Building 300

Event: Intro to Text Analysis Time: 2 p.m. Location: Center for Digital Scholarship, Woodruff Library

• Between Feb. 10 at 6 a.m. and Feb. 10 at 2:30 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a theft from the McKenney’s Construction Company. A Genie Super Hoist lift valued at $1600 and $1500 worth of aluminum were stolen from the back of a truck near the Carlos Museum. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

This Week In Emory History

Event: Jim Grimsley, Prose Writer Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room

Event: Faschingsfest Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: German House, Clairmont Tower 733 Event: Carnaval Party Time: 7 p.m. Location: Spanish House

WEDNESDAY Event: Intro to Text Analysis Time: 10 a.m. Location: Center for Digital Scholarship, Woodruff Library Event: In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: Revisiting, Renovating, and Revolutionizing the Path: Black Church Studies Alumni Reunion Conference Time: 11 a.m. Location: Woodruff Library 314 Event: Collective Computation in Biological Communication, Neural Dynamics, and Behavior Speaker Series: Decision Making in Groups Time: 12 p.m. Location: Modern Languages 201

Event: Human Health in Paris Information Session Time: 12 p.m. Location: Candler Library 107

Event: Summer Programs and Transient Study Info Stop Time: 11:30 a.m. Location: White Hall

Event: Climate and Clean Energy Policy in the Southeast Time: 2 p.m. Location: White Hall 207

Event: Mindfulness Meditation for Caregivers Time: 12 p.m. Location: School of Nursing 201

Event: Scientific Evidence for How We Dress is Related to Success Time: 3 p.m. Location: School of Nursing 108

Event: Copyright & Your ETD Sciences/Health Sciences Focus Time: 12 p.m. Location: Woodruff Health Sciences Library Classroom

Event: “The Visitor” (1979), film screening Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: White Hall 208 Event: Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra and Emory Junior Chamber Orchestra Time: 8 p.m. Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

THURSDAY

Event: Advances in Extracorporeal Liver Support Time: 7 a.m. Location: Emory University Hospital Auditorium

Event: African Cosmos: Stellar Arts Workshop for Teachers Time: 5 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Tate Room Event: Publication Anxiety in Early Modern Rome Time: 6 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall Event: “Nonprofits Are Businesses Too: Ensuring Excellence in Nonprofit Management” Panel Discussion Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Goizueta Business School 301

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Infant Treated for Measles, Many Remain Undiagnosed By Anwesha Guha Contributing Writer An infant diagnosed with measles, the first confirmed case in Georgia since 2012, received care at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) at Egleston on Emory’s campus. The hospital released the infant last Tuesday, Feb. 10. The infant began showing symptoms on a flight after taking off from Kyrgyzstan and heading towards Atlanta and was diagnosed after his arrival to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The infant had traveled through Istanbul and Chicago for connecting flights before arriving finally in Atlanta on Feb. 4. He may have infected over 300 people during his trip, 30 of which were unvaccinated for the disease, according to 11Alive news. DeKalb County health officials took the infant under their care before transferring him to CHOA at Egleston two days later. The infant, though less than one year old, went through treatment successfully, according to WSB-TV. 11Alive news labeled the disease as “deported” since the child contracted the disease internationally rather than within the borders of the United States. Though measles may have been largely eradicated from the United States, countries such as Angola, Ethiopia, Indonesia and the Philippines, among others, battle measles profusely, according to the World Health Organization’s website. CHOA refrained from further disclosing details of the case due to patient confidentiality. Measles, the highly contagious viral disease, is airborne and can be spread through contact with an infected individual who may be sneezing and coughing, allowing infected droplets to travel through the air. The virus may then remain active in the air or on surfaces for two or three hours. If not vaccinated, getting infected is extremely probable, according to the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC). Young children are especially vulnerable due to their limited immunity and incomplete vaccination for the disease, the CDC website states. Both CHOA and the CDC emphasize the importance of vaccinations in response to recent outbreaks in multiple states, caused by outbreaks such as last month’s incident in Disneyland, where at least 51 cases of measles have been reported in the California theme park, according to CNN. Measles can be easily prevented through two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Health officials recommend the first dose be administered at 12-15 months followed by the second dose at 4-6 years, according to CHOA’s website. However, there is no link between the outbreak in Disneyland and the infant’s contraction of measles, according to Carrie Moyer, a member of CHOA’s public relations staff. To date, the health care center has been working with Georgia’s Department of Public Health and the DeKalb County Board of Health to find and identify any patients and staff who might have been exposed to the virus, especially due to its contagious nature, according to Moyer. More may have been infected before the flight due to the four-day incubation period before symptom visibility, Moyer said. The Georgia Department of Public Health also encourages reporting any and all cases so they can take appropriate steps to intervene and alleviate the problem, according to its website. The CDC has also been trying to contact those on the flight to alert them of the potential risk of measles, but contacting over 300 people discreetly has been taking some time, according to WSB-TV. However, treatment is available for those already infected, according to the CDC. Regardless, Moyer remarked that Georgia has been working to ensure that any individual affected could receive preventative care if necessary.

— Contact Anwesha Guha at anwesha.guha@emory.edu

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tudents gathered on the Quadrangle on Friday, Feb. 13 to honor the lives of Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammad and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, who were shot dead on Feb. 10 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The candlelit vigil was organized by the Muslim Students Association.

Instead of Lecturing, Lee Fosters Audience Engagement Continued from Page 1 After a short performance from Issues Troupe, an Emory theater group that explores social justice issues on campus and society, Lee piqued the audience’s interest with personal anecdotes, including a moment in his youth when he threw his Chinese food away because his fellow students complained about the smell. “For the first time, I realized that being different was being un-American,” Lee said. “It is only now that I realize that I threw a whole lot more than just my food away. I threw away the very best parts of me.” He then led the audience through an interactive exercise that he called “What We Do Not See,” which he has conducted with Pentagon members and will soon bring to Ferguson town hall meetings. Lee asked the audience of mostly

students to stand up, find someone new and move their chairs to face one another. Then, he asked the pairs to share the assumptions they have about each other. “I could easily do a talk. You could listen to me, but would you ever do this on your own?” Lee asked the audience. “We know how to talk about that conversation. We know how to hope about it. But we don’t know how to do it.” For about 10 minutes, chatter filled the room as the pairs shared surprisingly comfortable giggles and intense eye contact. After that, the pairs were told to have one person face the front of the room and ask the other person, who faced the back wall, questions displayed on a projector such as “When others look at you, what do they see?” and “What do you wish they’d see? Why?” “Today, I could have given you

a formal speech,” he told the group after the exercise. “But I’m so tired of diversity being about awareness. I’m so tired of reading about it. I wanted to make it real.” He told the audience a moving story about how his mother’s murder by a black man led him to think about race relations in a deeper way. “I had to face all the stereotypes that this country taught me about black men.” Lee added that he hoped to teach the audience about listening. “I strongly believe that this country doesn’t know how to listen,” he said, using presidential debates as a prime example of disconnected communication. “When you see the people working in this school, look at them,” he said. “My father used to say, ‘They don’t even see us. They don’t even notice us.’” College senior Steven Claude Dorsainvil started to tear up during

Lee’s personal story about his mother. “[The event] was more than I expected by far,” he said. “It will allow be to be more truthful when I approach certain issues … I feel like we tend to shy away from certain questions certain times.” Another participant, College junior Sakile Taylor, agreed that this event will help her be less afraid to ask people questions. “I actually have never been to something like this,” she said. “Usually we talk about making people aware about the cultural differences. [Here], we actually got to engage people.” The rest of the third annual Social Justice Week 2015, titled “A New Generation of Activism,” includes a movie screening of “Selma” on Thursday and a social networking night on Friday.

— Contact Karishma Mehrotra at kmehrot@emory.edu

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Students Burger Joint to Move to Show Interest Old Starbucks Location In New Major Continued from Page 1

Continued from Page 1 Representative and College sophomore Jason Friedman wrote in an email to the Wheel that the EmoryGeorgia Tech program offers a technical degree, while the new major offers a degree in applied sciences. Student demand for an engineering science major apart from the dual-degree, however, may stem from a lack of “more technical” coursework within the liberal arts education offered by the College, according to Friedman. He added that the engineering science major offers “a unique balance of theory and applications” that should appeal to many College students. Sean Chew, a College sophomore who will be applying for the second phase of the dual-degree program at Georgia Tech by the end of this year, wrote in an email to the Wheel that he loved the new major proposal, because “it offers more options for people who want to pursue engineering, yet aren’t quite sure if it’s for them.” He added that he knew around 200 students with an interest in engineering had come to Emory in the fall, but “only a handful end up pursuing it.” (This statistic appeared in the major proposal, which Chew has read.) “I think Emory definitely would benefit from an engineering major,” Chew wrote. “The very existence of this program would give students more of an incentive to explore engineering, since courses to learn about it would be more readily available.”

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

also offers “The Grim Reaper” eating challenge, which includes a four-pound burger patty, eight slices of American cheese, 12 strips of Applewood smoked bacon, seven fried eggs, onion rings and mayonnaise served on a challah bun. Hussey said that all of the restaurant’s side items, such as its onion rings, fried pickles, artichoke hearts and mozzarella sticks are all hand-cut and breaded. “So, it’s not just like we grab a bag of frozen stuff and throw it in a fryer,” Hussey said. “We really are particular about our side items.” When Starbucks closed its Village location in Sept. 2014 (with a location still open in the Oxford Road Building on Emory’s campus), it took everything, gutting the place of all of its appliances and leaving the building empty, according to Hussey. “Right now, if you peer in the window, it is an empty shell,” he said. “Starbucks took everything. So the renovation will be extensive. It will look nothing like what the Starbucks looked like.” Lucky’s Burger and Brew is planning on setting up tables, booths and a bar, in addition to incorporating Lucky’s colors and logo into the design of the restaurant. When it comes to the type of customer base the restaurant will attract, Hussey said he hopes Lucky’s Burger and Brew will attract Emory students, faculty, hospital employees and members of the Druid Hills community. Hussey stated that Lucky’s moved into the old Starbucks location due to the great diversity of the area from the University, hospital and local community. Hussey hopes that Lucky’s will

be able to have a partnership with Emory University and the local community through potential sponsorship and support of club or varsity teams at Emory or in the Druid Hills area. According to Hussey, sponsorships help when it comes to attracting customers, but it “also lets people know that we are part of the community and that we want to sponsor our local schools.” Hussey says that the company prides itself on being very familyfriendly. Additionally, the restaurant offers daily burger specials, which include a burger and fries on Mondays through Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for $8. When asked about Lucky’s impending arrival at Emory Village, College freshman Marcho Droumev said he was excited. “It sounds like a very nice opportunity for all Emory students to relax and enjoy new food, especially with no burger places in Emory Village,” Droumev said. College sophomore Mark Kravitz said he believes that Lucky’s Burger and Brew will be a positive addition to Village, compared to the Starbucks location that closed. “There is a Starbucks a block away anyways,” he said. College freshman Cole Margol said he thinks Lucky’s will be good for the Village. “The closest burger place tends to be [The Vortex Bar & Grill], but they have an age restriction,” Margol said. “As long as [Lucky’s] doesn’t have an age restriction for going inside to eat, it should be a fun place.” Lucky’s Burger and Brew should be open around June, according to Hussey.

— Contact Bradyn Schiffman at bradyn.schiffman@emory.edu

Legislature Rejects Funding for Lunar Banquet Continued from Page 1 Competition in Portland, Oregon for the Emory Black Law Students Association Mock Trial team. Although SGA members agreed that the trip represented a good potential use of SGA funds, some were uncertain as to exactly how much money SGA would need to supply. Thus, the members decided to save the bill for another week. The Emory Chinese Student Association (ECSA) submitted

the final bill of the evening, which requested $5,000 from SGA to help fund their 2015 Lunar Banquet. ECSA’s poor planning ahead of the event frustrated SGA members, and although a number of SGA representatives were willing to finance the event in theory, many felt that ECSA was not deserving of the funds due to reasons such as their delay in requesting funds, their failure to appear at SGA meetings in person and their history of financially irresponsible event planning.

SGA Vice President and College junior Raj Tilwa, who supported the proposal, also recognized ECSA’s failures. “The organization’s leadership is not doing its role, but it is an event that the legislature is supporting,” he said. After amending the bill so that it would provide ECSA with $2,500 instead of the proposed $5,000, SGA voted and the bill failed 7-12-2.

— Contact Luke White at william.white2@emory.edu

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Salman Rushdie, a novelist and University distinguished professor, gave a lecture on Sunday evening at the Glenn Memorial Auditorium and discussed the state of freedom both in the U.S. and globally.

‘Charlie Hebdo’ a Matter of Free Speech, Rushdie Says Continued from Page 1 “How depressing it is that, in a quarter of a century, nobody has learned anything?,” Rushdie said. Rushdie identified a new, modern danger to freedom of speech. He calls this danger a “new timidness” in our culture, or a fear of offending people. “Even here [in the United States], the classical values are being tried in the First Amendment by this new timid culture,” Rushdie said, citing the cancellation of the Vagina Monologues by Mount Holyoke College for fear of discrimination against women without vaginas. The Huffington Post reported on Jan. 16 that Mount Holyoke College had cancelled plans to perform the “Vagina Monologues” because it is “not inclusive enough.” “[The cancellation] would be absurd except for that it actually just happened,” Rushdie said. What concerned Rushdie, he said, was that the “danger to free expression is beginning to be greatest where it is most accepted,” meaning educational institutions, such as college campuses. If anyone on an American campus today tried to start a magazine like Charlie Hebdo, they couldn’t, Rushdie said. He added that not only administrators but also students would not allow a magazine like that to exist on campus because “large numbers of young people have accepted the argument that offending people is wrong.”

Throughout the lecture, Rushdie cited the importance of defense of free speech of people who offend you. Later in his lecture, Rushdie discussed the idea of freedom of speech on a global scale. Rushdie noted that even countries committed to freedom of expression define it differently. The problem, according to Rushdie, is new type of advocate of free speech: “the but-brigade,” otherwise known as, according to Rushdie, those who would say, “We believe in free speech but...”

“The point when you discover if you believe in free speech is when someone says something that offends you.” — Salman Rushdie, University distinguished professor For Rushdie, believing in free speech excludes any “buts.” “The point when you discover if you believe in free speech is when someone says something that offends you,” Rushdie said. Rushdie ended his lecture by calling the audience to action. “This is who we are, free men and women who are born free but everywhere in chains,” Rushdie said.

“It’s up to you to break those chains wherever you find them. It’s in your hands. The future is yours. Don’t screw it up.” Laney Graduate student Miranda Wojciechowski, who is a Masters student in English, said she thought Rushdie’s “humor and insight were a remarkably eloquent call-to-action, as always.” “Human rights, censorship, the liberty instinct are all such broad disembodied concepts, but Rushdie has a real knack for combining vast rhetorical statements with tangible events and relatable anecdotes,” Wojciechowski said. “One of the most powerful aspects of his lecture was his condemnation of political correctness and academic carefulness in the midst of an audience of college students and faculty.” As part of his annual visit to Emory this month, Rushdie will also attend a number of events and classes, including the 15th annual “Twelfth Night Revel” celebration and poetry reading on Friday, Feb. 20, at the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library according to a Feb. 3 University press release. For his second public event on Tuesday, Feb. 24, Rushdie will join a panel discussion on “Disability Rights as Human Rights” alongside Emory English professors Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Benjamin Reiss and Stony Brook University Visiting Philosopher Eva Kittay.

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

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Tuesday February 17, 2015 Editorials Editor: Rhett Henry

Our Opinion

Shuttle Merger Sacrifices Safety of Students In response to student feedback, Emory and the Student Government Association (SGA) have discontinued the NightOwl shuttle route, extended the C Route shuttle until 12:30 a.m. and added a second SafeRide bus from Thursday to Sunday. These changes, made in response to customer feedback and ridership statistics, affect a large number of students studying in the library, some student organizations (such as the Wheel), faculty and staff who work late and students attending parties or other events. While we appreciate that SGA and the University’s Transportation and Parking Services have made an effort to better meet the demands of shuttle riders, these changes ultimately fall short of meeting Emory’s late-night transportation needs. We feel that the design of SafeRide is effectively unsafe. For SafeRide to pick up a student, riders must already be standing at the location at which they ask SafeRide to pick them up. Students are frequently left standing alone outside, sometimes in the cold or rain, in a situation in which they are at just as much equal risk as they would be walking home. Additionally, SafeRide strictly only picks up people who call for the shuttle, while students who may need a ride to the same location are not allowed to board the bus. If the goal of this route is to safely transport students from one location to another, the design must change. If a shuttle followed a scheduled route at night, as NightOwl did prior to this semester, students would know more reliably when a shuttle would arrive and could wait inside a building until the shuttle came. Now, however, students must wait for SafeRide indefinitely. Without NightOwl, which ran until 2 a.m., SafeRide is now responsible for transporting riders who would have taken NightOwl last semester. While SGA extended the C Route until 12:30 a.m. to accommodate for NightOwl’s removal, this time is relatively early for many college students, who often study or work late at night and are then forced to wait for SafeRide, often for about half an hour. While SafeRide now has another bus to decrease wait times, many students still must wait an unnecessarily large amount of time. With a routine schedule, students can plan around the time when they know a shuttle will appear, as opposed to SafeRide, where it is difficult to know exactly when a shuttle will appear or how long your ride home may take — and often, it’s faster to walk. Waiting for SafeRide has the potential to put students at risk. The termination of the NightOwl route has clearly placed excessive demands on SafeRide, decreasing the latter route’s efficiency and delaying students’ late-night (or rather, early morning) travels. We also find fault in the ways with which SGA and the University communicated these changes. According to a previous article in our Feb. 6 issue, the University placed signs in Cliff shuttles, posted the changes on the Transportation website and used Twitter to communicate the shuttle changes. The information may have been available to those who were looking for it, but without a University- or student-wide email or increased signage around shuttle stops, we feel that the University left the majority of the student body unaware of NightOwl’s discontinuation, let alone the additional SafeRide bus. To address many of these problems, we have several suggestions and recommendations. First, SGA and Transportation and Parking Services should allow a shuttle to follow a schedule from 12:30 a.m. to 5 a.m. — the hours when the C Route does not run. Even if this route was the only shuttle making these early-morning trips from Clairmont Campus to Woodruff Circle and the main campus perimeter, students would at least be able to plan accordingly, instead of waiting outside without knowing how long it will take SafeRide to reach them. While Emory community members can use apps like TransLoc and Rider to track shuttle routes, the University should better integrate SafeRide into these apps so that students can track that shuttle more easily, allowing for greater accountability for this shuttle. SafeRide should also allow all students who have an Emory ID to board the bus, regardless of whether or not they have called. While we understand efficiency concerns, it is unacceptable for SafeRide to abandon students who simply forgot to call for the shuttle and planned to board it with friends or nearby students who did call for SafeRide. Finally, it’s no secret that shuttles frequently run empty during the day, when walking is not only a safer option, but has clear health benefits. As for the inefficient use of near-empty shuttles during weekday afternoons, we fail to see why it is acceptable to limit shuttles at night when safe transportation home is more urgent. If anything, it seems that there should be a surplus of shuttles at night, rather than during the afternoon. While SGA has been responsive to student concerns and attempted to make changes on a basis of student feedback, we encourage a more comprehensive review of the use, efficiency and safety of each of these shuttle routes, rather than using unquantified student opinions. We also encourage all students and Emory community members to voice opinions on their transportation experiences. The above staff editorial represents the majority opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board.

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Flipped Teaching An Inexact Solution

With education reform being one of the top issues challenging modern American society, many college campuses are hoping to serve as a top-down model for other classrooms by implementing novel classroom structures. In particular, many professors have begun piloting the “flipped classroom” approach in order to shake up the teacher-student relationship dynamic. The premise of flipping a classroom is fairly simple, and indeed sounds promising. The teacher essentially teaches the material outside the classroom by using technology and supplementary materials, which the students are expected to read and understand. Then, during class time, students typically work on problem sets in groups, with the teacher playing a more facilitatory role during the process. This model is highly aided by the usage of technologies such as Blackboard and Echo360, allowing the teacher to quickly and easily provide materials online for their students. Flipping a classroom has a lot of evidence in favor of the method. The rise of “e-teaching” technologies such as Khan Academy and online schools has proven that online education does have some merit. It’s widely believed that students can learn at least some of the material on their own without teachers, and it is believed that self-motivated learning, as opposed to lecture-based learning, is more effective. Even noted psychologist Donald Hebb, whose ideology is summed up in the phrase “neurons that fire together, wire together,” would be pleased to see students having so much additional engagement with the material through the flipped classroom model. However, the flipped classroom is both incomplete and insufficient to achieve the goal of increasing student engagement and can often prove qualitatively ineffective and even burdensome to student learning. The phrase “actions speak louder than words” coins a key argument against the flipped classroom. Tight schedules and high levels of stress when it comes to academia threaten the premise by which the flipped classroom hopes to build itself upon. Currently, college students are often burdened with everincreasing workloads, often having to result to caffeine-fueled debaucheries in order to just barely accomplish a laundry list of readings, assignments and exams. Now, it’s not clear whether this burden is reflective of student

work habits or the university system in general, but this status quo means that the flipped classroom could pose an additional burden on students despite its meanings. In particular, because the flipped classroom is both rare and unique to college campuses, students would have a difficult time having to go back and forth between traditional lecture hall classes and classes that are flipped. Additionally, the expectation that students should master the material before class can be easily ignored by those who have hard deadlines for their homework and upcoming tests. This flaw threatens the very foundation that any flipped classroom is attempting to build itself upon, and therefore exposes a key reason as to why this method needs significant reform before it can be called a success. Another key flaw in the flipped classroom model is that it does not take into account the different learning styles of students. Emory prides itself on its diverse community; does this diversity not extend to student learning styles? While flipping a classroom may benefit a certain population of students with a particular learning style, it fails to address the population that does not. For example, kinesthetic learners would have a very hard time trying to ascertain material online without live teacher demonstrations. At least with the traditional lecture style, teachers can see student reactions to new material, and have the choice to gauge their lecturing accordingly to answer questions in class and have dialogue about what is being presented. With the flipped classroom, most of the teacherstudent interaction is either online or during office hours, meaning that teachers have less flexibility to help their students before they are required to demonstrate mastery of the material on problem sets, quizzes and tests. Despite its shortcomings, I do acknowledge that some flipped classrooms will succeed; however, this success is largely dependent on the lecturer’s ability to adapt to a new model of instruction, not necessarily an intrinsic property of the model itself. I understand many professors are currently piloting this method of teaching, with many more to come in the future as they seek to understand student learning. However, the success of this method is still debatable, and students do not pay tuition to be experiments. That being said, the method does indeed attempt to solve many important concerns

about the modern lecture hall classroom. Many proponents of the flipped classroom method argue that it increases teacher-student interactions; Socrates himself proposed the phrase “question everything,” which could very well pertain to engaged student questions in the classroom about the previous night’s material. Additionally, even though the flipped classroom isn’t holistically popular among students, students do seem to appreciate many of its components. Additional problem sets, online recordings of lectures (usually recorded in class by the lecturer) and group work remain to be great ways to increase engagement in the material. Interestingly, the flipped classroom’s emergence as a nouveau term in the education lexicon largely arose from positive student feedback about teachers posting lectures online in PowerPoint format for those who missed class. However, the imperfection from the flipped classroom is that its impact is entirely theoretical in nature. Studies that support the method are very few, and frankly the method isn’t perfect. Because literature on the flipped classroom is few and far between, the method can easily be misunderstood by students wishing to understand its purpose. Lecturers wishing to try this method could easily come off as lazy despite intentions due to the flipped classroom’s lack of standardization and popularity. Indeed, college lecturers attempting to flip their classrooms should be wary of potential student backlash due to growing pains. In essence, the flipped classroom represents a brave new step in what could be the right direction for education; however, in practice, the method falls short in order to solve the problem for both the short and the long term. The flipped classroom’s purpose and impact requires far more corroboration, both from student satisfaction with the method and from scientific studies that can quantify its effectiveness, before it can be considered an ideal solution for collegiate and high school classrooms. While I certainly do agree that the modern university education system can serve as an excellent top-down model to experiment with emerging classroom models, the flipped classroom only serves to disappoint if it isn’t reformed on a much larger scale. Somnath Das is a College sophomore from Warner Robins, Georgia.

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Op — Ed

Tuesday February 17, 2015

Rhett Henry

Lazy Cynicism Disrupts Activism

Around the world, couples celebrated Valentine’s Day this past Saturday. The usual litany of plastic junk and chocolates filled drug stores, and every ad on the radio may as well have been for rings and pendants (sold with a smooth, warm voice, naturally). For the single people or the perennially cynical, however, the holiday marked a prime opportunity to flex their easy disenchantment. The Valentine’s Day cliché is, of course, “Ya know, the card companies came up with it.” And, though it’s a bit of a misrepresentation ... yes, the card companies did come up with it. If someone’s really engaged, they’ll offer vague criticisms of the holiday’s artifice and consumerist frenzy. All of which are totally accurate. And things usually just trail off after that. This isn’t limited to witty putdowns of a fake holiday — maintained social criticism and engagement can be lacking in an environment that fosters hyperkinetic exchanges on a posture-oriented social media. We — the Millennial generation — are witnessing a period of sustained decentralized social activism. What differentiates us is our ability to distribute information quickly, foster discussion and organize direct action without a large centralized leadership apparatus. All of this means that Millennials are able to respond in force with unprecedented agility, as proven in the past year in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City following the murder of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. There are so many great young people working towards greater social justice. But there can be limitations. A great deal of ink has been spilled, mostly by old guard publications like Forbes and Time, on the supposedly endemic laziness of Millennials. It’s hard to take a lot of these claims seriously, when most of the complaints appear to me as economic in origin and the necessary differences in the generations. This is not what I consider the dangers of our generation’s activism and overall social engagement. My concern is the casual social critic, who attacks society from a distance and an overall ludic or ironic attitude. In this framework, arguments are not a genuine engagement with problems of significance. Instead, any given issue is criticized with repeated, easy and ultimately uncritical ‘criticism.’ I wrote above on the classic criticisms of Valentine’s Day. Compared to the whole host of social plights, it may be a bit muted, but consider: Valentine’s Day, as it exists in the United

States, is a celebration (usually) of monogamous, heterosexual romantic-sexual love, expressed through (usually expensive) material gifts. All of these facts together represent fertile insight into some of the macro-social trends that play out every day. But the logic of cynicism, of the plain, satiric orientation cultivated in much of our generation, can prevent us from accessing genuinely radical avenues of theory and practice. I mention satire because I think that much of the United States’ socio-political consciousness is shaped by the satiric mode of thought. Satire dates back thousands of years across cultures, but the Anglo-American tradition emerged in the Enlightenment under such figures as Jonathan Swift. In our day and age, consider the recent announcement of Jon Stewart’s forthcoming departure from “The Daily Show.” Viacom’s stock fell $350 million while think pieces poured out in reverent fondness of Stewart and his work. To say that Stewart hasn’t been influential would be disingenuous. But his politics, largely moderate, are brave or controversial only in the context of the American media landscape. And when I see a video of President Obama on Buzzfeed doing the wacky things he does, I cannot help but feel horrified that someone who has projected a new, deadly manner of American military might is being presented in such a jokey sort of way. But he’s an ironic, charming guy! On the other end of the spectrum, we find that even the fiery conservative discourse of Fox News and co. is conducted as a mass display of political theatre. The cynicism of American discourse is one where the stakes are non-existent, because its participants, situated amongst their privileges and the cynicalsatiric mode of debate, means that it’s all ... a game! The particular truth of cynicism and the satiric mode that pervades the United States is that it does not enact change or even advocate for direct change, in most cases. Instead, it can serve (at best) as a pin prick for further work. Cynicism prevents further progress and obscures the lived horrors of social injustice. Awareness alone is not enough, but it is necessary for further action. Turn away from the easy criticisms, or dig deeper into them. Do not settle at the joke; fight to remove the setup and the punchline. Editorials Editor Rhett Henry is a College senior from Lawrenceville, Georgia.

My concern is the casual social critic, who attacks society from a distance ...

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Vaccines Deserve, Need Public Support Roger Tieu The recent outbreak of measles in Disneyland highlights the unprecedented rise in cases of measles and introduces a frightening possibility: if measles can come back, so can polio and tuberculosis. The prospect of their return makes the issue of addressing misconceptions about vaccines ever more important. Last week, the Wheel published an editorial discussing the measles outbreak and vaccine controversy, where the writer, Maya Lakshman, notes “the lack of information provided about vaccines and the ways in which vaccines are administered.” Fortunately, this is not true. The World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Health, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, the American Medical Association and reputable peer-review research journals agree that vaccines are beneficial and important to protecting individuals from disease. The information regarding their safety and efficacy are readily available to the general public on the websites of these trustworthy organizations. For those who are curious, decades of research provide insight into how vaccines work as well as their components. With this well-established research translated by health officials for the public, Lakshman must be careful in stating “the public has been split on the issue of vaccines” when it is quite the contrary. A new national survey by the Pew Research Center found that over 80 percent of adults in the United States view vaccines — such as the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine — as safe for healthy children. Thanks to the efforts of

public health officials, researchers and physicians, most of the air has been cleared about the safety and necessity of vaccines. However, the story was entirely different 17 years ago. In 1998, Andrew Wakefield published a study in The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, claiming to have found a connection between autism and the MMR vaccine. Upon discovery that he falsified data, his paper was retracted and his medical license was revoked. Nevertheless, the damage was already done, and the anti-vaccine movement gained significant momentum. This is where the other 20 percent in the Pew survey come into play. Half of that group believes vaccines are not safe, while the other half are not sure. It is urgent we convince those on the fence of the necessity of vaccines in order to achieve a vaccination rate of about 90 percent, which will be just enough to achieve what is known as herd immunity. Herd immunity revolves around the idea that when a large percentage of a population — “the herd” — is vaccinated, paths of infection are blocked, thus limiting the spread of disease. This approach protects the entire population, and most importantly, those who are too young or too sick to be vaccinated. With over five million babies born every year in the United States, they face a risk should measles enter the community. Of course, when enough individuals are not vaccinated, holes begin to appear in herd immunity, which increases the risk of disease transmission. As demonstrated by the Disneyland measles outbreak that has led to cases appearing across the country at increasing levels, herd immunity for measles is beginning to collapse. History has already illustrated the success of vaccination and herd immunity with the eradication of smallpox. A similar approach

is being used for measles as well as other diseases. Measles was supposed to be a disease that we only read about in textbooks. Paradoxically, the success of vaccines may have contributed to the rise of the anti-vaccine movement. Most of the diseases that vaccines protect against have been pushed into hiding, resulting in generations of people who have never personally experienced the devastation they can cause. With the luxury of forgetting these diseases, it becomes easier to fall prey to fear and begin refusing vaccines, making it ever more important for scientists and doctors to educate the public on this matter. Lakshman does bring up a valid point regarding the need for “a better ... line of communication between [physicians] and patients.” However, the use of a single negative experience does not warrant the disaccreditation of the health care system or presumption of a “vaccine controversy.” There is no controversy; instead, we face the threat of misinformation that must be readily addressed by physicians and researchers alike. We, the Emory community, have the responsibility to lead the way in this endeavor. As one of the leaders in health sciences education and research, we need to actively communicate with the public and engage in dialogues to break down the boundaries between the experts and everybody else. While science’s greatest triumph in medicine was the development of vaccines, the fight is far from over. We now face an even more difficult challenge in preserving and garnering public support for vaccine programs long after these diseases have largely vanished from our everyday lives. We have carried out the research. Now we need the trust. Roger Tieu is a College senior from Rochester, New York.

Southwest Airlines Moves Into Delta Home Turf Alex McIntyre Atlanta, sporting the nickname “Hotlanta,” earns some notoriety for its often blazing heat during the summer. But Southwest Airlines wants you to remember it by a different name: “Heartlanta.” Southwest, which recently completed its integration with AirTran Airways (a process dating back to September 2010 when the two carriers announced intentions to merge), is ramping up its pursuit of local travelers with a new marketing push. Signs coated in the “Heartlanta” theme will decorate the city, and promotional fares designed to lure passengers from regional-hegemon Delta Air Lines will abound. Most Emory students arrive at and depart from campus in the hands of Delta Air Lines, which presents itself as Atlanta’s hometown carrier. But, in doing so, many bypass a better travel situation. Southwest flies to about 40 cities nonstop from Atlanta, and boasts the nation’s most vibrant domestic service; so there’s a strong chance Southwest services wherever it is you call home. Southwest actually turns two years old at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport this month, but until the start of this year it operated simultaneously alongside its subsidiary AirTran. On December 29, 2014, AirTran officially bid farewell to the airport and to the industry as its own entity, flying its final flight from Atlanta to Tampa, Florida. With entirely synchronized operations, Southwest, the airport’s second largest carrier, believes the time is right to engage in an aggressive battle for the heart of Atlanta. Instant and broad access to Atlanta ranked highly among Southwest’s motivations for deciding to buy AirTran. Prior to the acquisition, Atlanta stood out as the largest market not served by the airline, the nation’s largest domestic carrier. And Southwest carries a distinct culture and reputation with it — as a fun yet low-cost airline — that it plans to employ in its attempt to sway customers from Delta. The city of Atlanta should welcome Southwest with open arms. Traditionally, the presence of Southwest bodes well for capping airfares to and from a market. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in 1993 coined the term the “Southwest Effect” to describe the depression of fares when the lowcost carrier enters, or even threatens to enter, a new city. Southwest generally controls costs by operating only one type of aircraft (Boeing 737) to reduce maintenance expenses, by opt-

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ing (for the most part) for secondary airports in larger cities with multiple fields, and by maximizing aircraft utilization and keeping turnaround times to a minimum. Delta, which maintains its headquarters and a fortress hub here, controls over 75 percent of the local market share, and Atlanta desperately needs some formidable competition. Because it dominates such a large slice of the airport, Delta, free of much competitive threat, can almost individually set prices, subjecting Atlanta-area fliers to a “hub premium.” While potentially able to undercut AirTran, a much smaller airline by itself, on some routes, Delta will face far stronger headwinds in its duel with Southwest. Some believe the “Southwest Effect” lacks some of the punch it used to carry, citing a recent uptick in fares from Atlanta. In particular, Vinay Bhaskara, an aviation analyst, proposed the “Spirit Effect” as an alternative, finding that Spirit Airlines applies more downward pressure to fares than Southwest. However, examining only the trend of base fares doesn’t represent an adequate apples-toapples comparison, as Southwest offers fliers up to two free checked bags and an absence of change fees (the last major airline to do so, with JetBlue recently defecting). These represent major components of the total cost of flying; with Southwest and its more inclusively-defined airfare weighting more heavily in Atlanta’s airport data, and with airfares up 15 percent nationally since 2009, pinning the upswing of fares to a greed-hungry Southwest

is misguided. For most people, for most routes, Southwest continually emerges as the cheapest option more often than any other airline. While travelers might occasionally nab a better advertised fare elsewhere — perhaps on Spirit or Frontier, two airlines manifesting a new wave of ultra-low-cost carriers (ULCCs) overtaking the industry — all but the most bare traveler will usually end up paying more in the end from a slew of ancillary fees. Spirit and Frontier (as well as Delta to a slightly lesser extent) have in recent years espoused the strategy of “unbundling,” the practice of stripping services from an airline ticket and tacking on an extra fee for them. It began with tagging a fee to a second checked bag, and later all checked bags, in 2008 when the economic downturn struck airline revenues (among other things). Since then, unbundling continued to overtake the industry, adding an additional fee for just about everything related to traveling. The result: airfares that look cheaper and grab the eye, but sum to just as much if not more, as airlines usually cut their base airfares by a disproportionate amount when instituting a new fee, in fact raising the price. Southwest also incurred a substantial cost in its integration of AirTran. It purposefully blended AirTran slowly in a calculated effort to avoid a similar labor and culture conflict that plagued other airlines that merged over the years (Delta and Northwest serving as a prime example). With that process officially

concluded, Southwest sheds those costs, and can therefore afford to reduce its fares. And if this marketing blitz offers any insight, it definitely intends to do so. But Southwest offers its customers more than just consistently cheap flights. It boasts a unique culture crafted around three primary values: a “warrior spirit,” a “servant’s heart” and a “fun-LUVing attitude.” The “Heartlanta” marketing push and Southwest’s broader brand refresh, emphasizing the airline’s customers and employees along with its passion with a bold simplicity, demonstrate the continued importance of this identity to Southwest. The airline industry as a whole is no stranger to public discontent and incessant moaning, falling in the company of the much loathed cable television and Internetservice industries. But, according to the DOT, Southwest almost always registers the lowest number of complaints per passenger. This suggests something very powerful about its legendary service and its ability to aptly resolve dissatisfaction when things go awry. Again, Atlanta should happily celebrate the presence of an airline concerned with more than its bottom line. Southwest Airlines also offers a key ingredient evading many other airlines recently: punctuality. It often ranks in the upper tier when comparing the percentage of flights arriving and departing on time. Its ability to consistently operate in a timely manner stems largely from the airline’s point-to-point route

structure, designed to facilitate direct flights rather than first shuttling fliers to and from a central hub, as Delta operates (as do each of the other remaining legacy carriers, including American and United) with a hub-and-spoke route system. Southwest instead runs a multitude of focus cities rather than a few hubs, minimizing the inefficiencies and sometimes rampant delays that result from such large operations while still offering a wide array of nonstop flights from a diversity of locations. Of course, as beneficiaries of Delta’s hub status in Atlanta, local residents maintain a wealth of nonstop flights; but they will benefit from Southwest competing with Delta, which monopolizes many routes from the airport, on a large number of flights. Critics will point to a recent hiccup in on-time performance that caused Southwest to temporarily plummet in the rankings during the early months of 2014. Cramming more flights into its schedule combined with upward-moving load factors (the percentage of available seats filled) challenged the airline’s ability to remain on schedule. But the evidence suggests that Southwest has returned to its historically-unmatched timeliness, or at least moving in that direction. Southwest tweaked with its schedule (with changes taking place last August) to allow for more wiggle room in between flights, resulting in a spike in its on-time percentage, landing it close to the top in January 2015. It seems reasonable to attribute some of these struggles to growing pains lingering from Southwest’s merger with AirTran. But it’s also reasonable to believe, based on its promising history and systematic schedule revisions, that this rejuvenated on-time performance is sustainable, and that Southwest continues to reflect the punctual image it earned over the years. Meanwhile, Delta continues to rank well, but suffered a slip of its own during January. Delta will probably not fall very far, as unusual winter storms may have suppressed its performance, but undoubtedly Southwest represents a formidable competitor for those customers who enjoy arriving when promised. And Southwest represents an especially formidable competitor for a college student body that demands both thrifty and easy travel. With a majority of Emory students calling somewhere outside the state of Georgia home, nearly all students here stand to benefit from the presence of Southwest a short distance from campus. Alex McIntyre is a College freshman from Dallas, Texas.

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Arts Entertainment Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Arts & Entertainment Editor: Samuel Budnyk (sbudnyk@emory.edu)

Music PROGRAM

Alumni Production

Atlanta Symphony Emory Alumnus’ ‘Yankl on the Moon’ Takes Off Performs ‘From the Heart’ By Julia Munslow Staff Writer

By Elbert Liang Contributing Writer When I first walked into the Atlanta Symphony Hall, I was surprised at the variety of people bustling back and forth. From classy ladies wearing evening gowns and men in tuxedos, to fussed-up teenagers that clearly had been planning this night for a long time, the Atlanta Symphony Hall was filled with all types of patrons. It was a diverse mix, which made for an exciting change of pace from the normally more homogenous crowd of orchestra concertgoers. My date and I were there for the Atlanta Symphony Valentine’s Day program — a program put together and lovingly adorned “From the Heart” by Maestro Michael Krajewski and singer-songwriter Tony DeSare. The holiday made for the perfect musical opportunity. Tony DeSare, named a “Rising Star” Male Vocalist in the 2009 DownBeat critics’ poll and “one of the most promising young male performers” by The New York Times was no new face at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. “He’s kind of our go-to guy for holidays and special events,” Krajewski explained to the audience. Krajewski was no new face himself. Having conducted many sym-

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phony orchestras around the world, Krajewski is also the first ever to hold the title of Principal Pops Conductor at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Both men had extensive musical backgrounds and impressive experience, but it was clear that the two had a kind of musical chemistry and a friendly respect for each other as they kept the program moving, interspersed with short stories and groanworthy jokes that only added to the momentum. The night started off in a more classical sense, with orchestral arrangements of songs like “With a Song in my Heart” and “The Rose,” alternating between high energy, fastpaced crowd pleasers and more slow, romantic ballads. From the beginning it was obvious that Karjewski had a special place in his heart for this program. “Today in the crowd we have a very special couple that, for their first date, came to our Valentine’s Program back in 2009,” he started. “Tonight the couple wanted to recreate that very first date and I’m proud to announce that they are now engaged!” he announced. From the soft-spoken older gentleman on my left with a kind look in his eyes, to the young couple on my right, it was clear that everyone was

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It’s hard to take your eyes off of Jake Krakovsky. The Emory University alumnus (‘14C) sits on top of a wooden barrel, a large book in his hand; he is quiet, innocuous, even. However, the moment the show begins, Krakovsky’s vibrance springs to life as he fully becomes each character in his one-man show, Yankl on the Moon, telling the stories of villagers of Chelm. Yankl on the Moon began as Krakovsky’s senior honors thesis at Emory University. The show explores the tragedy of the Holocaust through the comedic stories of the clownish villagers of Chelm, a mythical town traditionally used in Jewish folktales. It opened on Feb. 12 in the Alliance Theater’s Black Box space at 8 p.m. and will continue its run on Feb. 19 at 10 p.m. and then Feb. 20-22 at 8 p.m.. Producer and Emory alum Emily Kleypas (‘13B) introduced the show, telling the audience that “more people need to hear these stories.” Krakovsky’s main character, Yankl, the hogwatch, tells stories about the villagers, from the village schmutz and the village cobbler to the three rabbis of Chelm. Krakovsky began transitioning from character to character immediately. Though initially a bit difficult to remember the name and role of each

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Jake Krakovsky (C’14) in costume as Yankl, the protagonist of his work Yankl on the Moon. The play explores the consequences of the Holocaust on the Jewish psyche through humor.

character with all of his transitions, he attempted to use both his body and his voice to distinguish between the characters. Thanks to his training at Accademia dell’Arte in the style of Italian street theater, portraying

Jazz Fest

By Megan Waples Contributing Writer

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egina Carter performed at the Schwartz Center Friday Feb. 13 as part of the Emory Jazz Festival. The concert featured, from left to right, Professor Gary Motley on piano, Rodney Whitaker on bass, Regina Carter on violin and Carl Allen on drums.

Television PREMIERE

Need a Series? ‘Better Call Saul’ By Erin Penney Staff Writer After the finale of “Breaking Bad” in 2013, the fans’ appetite for more suburban desert corruption was ravenous to say the least. As someone who has clocked in an inexcusable fraction of my life browsing the “Breaking Bad” subreddit, I can certainly relate. The Feb. 8 premiere of the crime drama’s spinoff, “Better Call Saul,” was more than enough to satisfy me (at least until there is a Jesse Pinkman spinoff). “Better Call Saul” focuses on the life of public defender Jimmy McGill (played by Bob Odenkirk) long before he became the less-than-ethical Saul Goodman that we all know and love from “Breaking Bad.” Jimmy has difficulty making ends meet, all while taking care of his ill brother, a formerly successful lawyer named Chuck (played by Michael McKean). As Jimmy struggles to find a way to make more money, he slowly learns that good men don’t necessarily make good lawyers. I had two anxieties going into this series: 1) it wouldn’t take itself seriously enough or 2) it would take

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‘Chef’: One of the Most Underrated Films of 2014

By Shalvi Shah Asst. Copy Chief The book, Fifty Shades of Grey, was supposed to be a Twilight fanfic, and if that doesn’t tell you about its contents, very little else will. There is also the distinct possibility of you having seen your mom read it secretly, or you yourself might have (in secret, of course). I read the whole series as it came out, and once I could escape all the sex scenes I could see what Will Ferrell meant about E.L James’ story: “the writing is exquisite.” The book, from which the movie is based on, is reported to have sold over 100 million copies and has been translated into 52 languages. Packed in a theatre with about 50 women and five men, I resigned myself to watching a softcore porno. Soon, the starting notes of Annie Lenox’s “I Put A Spell On You” serenaded the viewers as the camera rolled onto Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) going through his daily routine amidst the Seattle skyline. As someone who read the book, this struck me as something that deviated from the novel, as it was always narrated from Anastasia Steele’s (Dakota Johnson) perspective. Words like “my inner goddess” (the portrayal of which in the movie is totally and unfairly omitted, by the way) seem to have melted mostly the female readers into a puddle of over-sensitized nerve-endings, but we don’t see that in the movie. What irks me is that, in the beginning, director Sam Taylor-Johnson tries to play it off as a rom-com. Anastasia is a senior college student and a virgin who likes to put pencils in her mouth with “GREY” written on them and suck on them erotically (of course, done subconsciously), while Christian is a busy billionaire who owns too many ties and who Anastasia happens to interview. They meet, ask each other questions and shoot loaded glances from

the amount of humor was entirely unexpected. The audience seemed unsure about whether or not they could laugh at the first comedic moments in the play, despite the fact that they were

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multiple characters using physicality and vocal shifts seemed natural for Krakovsky. After the first few scenes, it became easier to keep track of each significant character. In a piece about the Holocaust,

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“Better Call Saul” premiered Feb. 8 on AMC. The show tells the story of Jimmy McGill, played by Bob Odenkirk (above). itself way too seriously. It would be all too easy to make a series about a shifty lawyer and make fun of him the whole time. Lawyer jokes rank among jokes about Congress and ex-girlfriends as the most overused, groan-worthy gags in history (based on a very scientific study I did in my

head just now). I knew this would be an unlikely route for creator Vince Gilligan to go but the fear was placed in the back of my head ever since I saw the first trailer for the show, which was short, sweet and quippy. A more likely way for Gilligan to go

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What better way to cope with the semester’s first round of midterms than with a movie? You’re in luck — one of the most enjoyable (but underrated) films of 2014 was just released on Netflix. “Chef,” a comedy-drama written, produced, directed by and starring Jon Favreau, is sure to delight anyone who appreciates good food, road trips and a classic family bonding story. “Chef” premiered in early 2014 at a handful of film festivals before receiving a limited commercial release in May. It performed modestly well in box office earnings, grossing close to $31.5 million domestically. However, the overwhelmingly positive critical response was the most lucrative aspect of its release. Maintaining a respectable 86 percent on the popular movie critic site, Rotten Tomatoes, “Chef” garnered 3.5 stars out of 4 from Rolling Stone, USA Today and The Boston Globe. Called “aggressively feel-good” by The New York Times, “Chef” is characterized as “nothing terribly profound...but its message — that relationships, like cooking, take a hands-on approach — is a sweet and sustaining one” by The Washington Post’s Michael O’Sullivan. Favreau plays Carl Casper, an exceptionally talented but unsatisfied head chef at a popular Los Angeles restaurant. After receiving a highly unfavorable review from a prominent food critic mocking his lack of originality, Casper quits his job to reclaim his creative freedom in the kitchen. At the urging of his ex-wife (“Modern Family”’s Sofia Vergara), Casper launches a food truck in Miami with the help of his son Percy and friend (John Leguizamo). Traveling back to Los Angeles through New Orleans and Austin, Texas, the food truck acquires a substantial fan base, thanks to Percy’s innovative use of social media to document the road trip. Predictable yet heartwarming, the road trip sheds light on the importance of family and returning to your roots to achieve a truly rewarding life. With a charming cast including Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey Jr., “Chef” celebrates imagination and work ethic through the most egalitarian of ways: food.

While the charismatic cast serves up generous helpings of humor throughout the film, it is crucial to acknowledge one of the other stars of the film — the photography. As it is a movie about food, “Chef” does not disappoint in its vivid depictions of food preparation. The preparation of culinary masterpieces ranging from pasta aglio e olio to authentic Cuban sandwiches are given substantial screen time, and the colorful dishes will almost certainly make your stomach growl. As the truck travels across the Southwest, a fusion of flavors including classic New Orleans beignets, Korean BBQ and Mexican fare unite to generate a constantly evolving menu. In case you were curious, the cast enjoyed all the dishes that appear on screen. As Favreau told Buzzfeed: “We were eating the food...there was nothing that we shot that wasn’t amazing.” Besides the mouthwatering culinary cinematography, the film includes vibrant shots of a variety of southern American cities, underscoring the unique culture of New Orleans, Miami and Austin. The soundtrack complements the aesthetically pleasing qualities of the film, and consists of a distinctive blend of Latin jazz and New Orleans jazz and blues. At the heart of the film, there is a familiar, but nonetheless meaningful emphasis on the importance of chasing your passions and dedicating genuine effort into relationships with your friends and family. Favreau wrote the script in a mere two weeks and it has autobiographical aspects, such as the difficulty of balancing a hectic career with fatherhood and the necessity of doing what you love. While he has worked on a number of blockbuster films, such as the Iron Man trilogy, Favreau made a conscious choice to go “back to the basics” to create “Chef” on a smaller budget, hoping to produce a cinematic masterpiece in a more artistically authentic process. With its entertaining cast, visually appealing cinematography and meaningful storyline, “Chef” is a delightfully relatable film that is certain to please just about anyone. Leaving us hungry for more, it is guaranteed to make you smile (and feel famished).

— Contact Megan Waples at megan.waples@emory.edu

‘Yankl’ Explores Jewish Psyche Through Humor Continued from Page 9 clearly meant to be humorous — the characters were so absurd that it almost felt inappropriate to laugh; after all, this was supposed to be a play about a major tragedy. Soon, however, everyone realized that the piece was going to be in the style of such over-the-top humor and began comfortably laughing at the clownish nature of the villagers. Perhaps this was Krakovsky’s greatest accomplishment: though the topic of the Holocaust has been tackled from a comedic standpoint in other works, his style and delivery made it impossible to find offense or to remain serious for long. Krakovsky cited an Emory class with Professor Deborah Lipstadt on the history of the Holocaust as part of the reason why he chose to use comedy for his work. He noticed how much humor she brought into the class and realized that he was, for some reason, no longer being affected by most of the material. Krakovsky wondered if the reason for this was his own desensitization to the material, because being raised Jewish meant learning about the tragedy from an incredibly young age — it was something that was always there in his life from the outset. Whatever the reason, he knew that he needed to approach the Holocaust from an angle that was different from the style of the documentaries and fictionalized movies of the previous generation. “Comedy serves to open [the audience] up and allow the tragedy to come in in a more pure form,” Krakovsky explained. “For the third generation [of Holocaust survivors], the Holocaust is inescapable, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know about the Holocaust, and so [documentaries and movies] weren’t working anymore, and comedy has always been my way into everything. So, I’m gonna come at the Holocaust through comedy.” His plan worked. Easily the most powerful moment was Yankl’s reflections on the Holocaust in his conversation with the Angel of Death: it was not millions of murders, but “one murder, six million times.” Though Yankl, in all of his comedy and humor, had moments of seriousness in the play, Krakovsky’s sudden transition from humorous and naive to complete dismay elicited an empathy from the audience that was more intense than that from previous poignant moments presented in the play.

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Instead of talking about the Holocaust for 67 minutes, Krakovsky simply told the stories of the people: he brought them to life, made them real and, ultimately, kept them alive through their stories. He infused the play with Jewish elements, though it was unplanned in the writing process. “I was writing from the perspective of a Chelmsman,” Krakovsky shared. “What type of bank of imagery they would be pulling from — of course, a Jewish one, so the show is riddled with Jewish imagery. It helps build a universe.” Despite running around the stage for the entirety of the play, he credited his team (who are all Emory alumni) with the success of the piece. “This would not exist at all if it weren’t for the the incredible dedicated patient, inspired artists with whom I am so lucky to be surrounded by,” Krakovsky praised. Krakovsky shared that he realized that he had something special after having performed a version of the play at Emory’s Burlington Road Building in April 2014 as he was working on his honor’s thesis. People came up to him and told him that the story was important, and he listened, bringing it to its next stage at the Alliance Theater. “It is a play about the Holocaust, certainly,” Krakovsky asserted. “It is a play about heritage and the legacy of trauma, but it’s also a play in service of ‘tikkun olam,’ [a central tenet of Judaism], which means ‘to heal the world.’” Krakovsky hopes to take the play on the road, to share it with those in high schools, colleges, community centers, synagogues and anyone who will listen. “I really believe in it,” Krakovsky confessed. “I don’t know if I’ve ever made something before where I believe in this so much that I want to show it to as many people as humanly possible.” While the metaphor of Yankl on the Moon represents Krakovsky’s personal distance from the Holocaust as a member of the third generation (his grandfather is a Holocaust survivor), he deals with his conflict in the same way as Yankl: by telling stories. His “tragi-comedy” is hilarious, poignant at times and a remarkable illustration of the power of stories. “It’s a play about how comedy can be a force for healing and transformation,” Krakovsky concluded passionately. “It’s a play about how storytelling can heal the world.”

—Contact Julia Munslow at julia.munslow@emory.edu

Valentine’s Day Well Spent at Symphony Continued from Page 9 enjoying the night. It wasn’t until DeSare came out and started playing his very own “New Orleans Tango,” however, meshing together his vocals and piano rendition with orchestral support, that I saw the audience pick up. The older balding man a few rows in front of me waved his hands through the air and pretended he was conducting, miming playing the piano at the parts where DeSare chimed in to the melody of the orchestra. The night was meant to be very fun. From stories that DeSare recalled of meeting Paul McCartney, to husband and wife jokes that the Conductor was making (“...whether you are all here tonight with that special someone or just your husband...”) and especially when DeSare began musically clacking out high-pitched piano notes with his shoe, the crowd became both alive and entranced. The theatrics were a major part of

the show. People were snapping along to the tunes, humming along at DeSare’s prompting and humming even more sensually when DeSare told the crowd that they weren’t “sexy” enough. With a charmingly cocky demeanor and charismatic smile, DeSare stole the spotlight. It didn’t matter whether he was explaining the rationale behind some of his songs (“I wrote this song for the sexiest form of dance — other than the ‘Macarena’ of course”) or passionately serenading the crowd with music that he wrote about some of his fondest memories, DeSare was not just a great musician, but a great entertainer as well. The entire crowd on the upper balcony leaned over to see DeSare strut down the aisle and politely walk past a bemused elderly man to give the man’s wife a rose. I walked away from the event with a great appreciation both for the professionalism and musicianship of the members of the Atlanta Symphony as

well as DeSare. One of the most striking things to me, however, was that despite there being people from all walks of life at the symphony, everyone was as excited as I was to be there. Music appreciation, it seemed, was not reserved just for the talented and classically-trained. “I can appreciate it because I’m not [musical myself],” one patron Martin Halicek noted. From the young medical school student on my right that remarked that DeSare was “wicked good at the piano,” to the elderly gentleman on my left that asked if I had enjoyed the show after a standing ovation and encore by DeSare, it was a community of music lovers that had all come together to enjoy a night at Symphony Hall. I left the show and hopped in the car that I had called moments before. “Man, must have been a good show,” the driver remarked. “The streets are packed.”

— Contact Elbert Liang at elbert.liang@emory.edu

Salman Rushdie Lecture

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mory University Distinguished Professor Salman Rushdie spoke Sunday, Feb. 15 to students in a lecture on the topic of personal liberties. This lecture marked his final lecture in his ten year tenure as a Distinguished Professor.

‘Breaking Bad’ Prequel A Success Continued from Page 9 would be to take Saul’s character and try to give it the dark intensity that we saw with Walter White. The series is still young, so this may happen, but Gilligan seems to be easing into it. Thankfully, “Better Call Saul” makes a happy home between drama and comedy, and places character development as its number one priority. Every small action in the show is another building block towards Jimmy becoming Saul. More importantly, the series answers the question we always ask about a prequel: “Why should we care if we already know what’s going to happen?” Even this early in the series, we see Jimmy’s transformation and development in subtle, yet significant ways. In every scene, pieces of Saul break through Jimmy’s well-meaning exterior. Much of this character depth comes from Bob Odenkirk’s performance. Where Bryan Cranston acted with quiet intensity in “Breaking Bad,” Odenkirk conveys more of a jumpy, quick energy type that’s both entertaining and endearing. The performance remedied any anxiety about Saul’s character (an oftentimes wacky secondary role) getting watered down in order to be more palatable for a main role. It’s hard to find anything to dislike about this show so far. Everything from the writing to the acting, from the cinematography to the editing, is done with the same methodical care that was put into “Breaking Bad.” And yet, “Better Call Saul” manages to be its own distinct series with its own unique voice and tone. If there is one thing that can be criticized about “Better Call Saul,” it’s that much happens in very short periods of time. The show’s hyper pace is only appropriate to match its fast-talking character, but slower moments are needed in a show in order for all of the action to sink in with the audience. That’s not to say that the show doesn’t have it’s slow moments, but rather, that the fast moments soak up more than their share of the hour-long time slot. Of course, this is to be expected in the introductory episodes of a new series, but everything still happens before your eyes at a breakneck pace. The verdict? “Better Call Saul” is an expertly built series from topto-bottom. The comedy is smart, the tense moments are heart-stopping and the character development is fascinating. This is a series you will not regret becoming obsessed with.

— Contact Erin Penney at erin.penney@emory.edu

Shah: Less Satisfied With ‘Fifty Shades’ Than Grey’s Anastasia Continued from Page 9 across the table. All the while, the movie progresses in a way much like Twilight, in which the sexy hero has a mysterious outlook of the world and a way with words that outshines being a sparkling vampire and, of course, the virgin likes to bite her lip way too much, while also being interested in old English novels. But then, suddenly, the tone of the movie changes. Christian starts talking about taking his shirt off (while middle-aged ladies in the audience shout “Lord Jesus, yes”) and having his way with Anastasia. While here the movie starts delving into the infamous “Submissive Contract,” and Anastasia loses her virginity, what amazes the most is the soundtrack. Beyoncé’s “Haunted” and “Crazy in Love” wow and so does Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do,” which, in your critic’s humble opinion, are what make up one and a half of the two stars that are relegated to this movie by multiple critics, websites and blogs. Numbers by The Weeknd, Sia, AWOLNATION, Frank Sinatra and The Rolling Stones are also featured during parts of the movie, lending it at least some semblance of an air of sophistication as well as a light poignancy. Whether the original story is about abuse or consensual sex has been hotly debated by almost everyone; the movie tries to play off this issue. Not until the very end of the movie do we actually see any type of physical “punishment” or “abuse;” however, Christian is shown to “punish” Anastasia sexually. And by punish, I mean softly tying up her hands with a silk tie and rubbing peacock feathers

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Fifty Shades of Grey opened Feb. 13 as a box office smash hit. Starring Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele (left) and Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey (right), the film is an adaptation of the best-selling ‘mommy porn’ novel Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James.

over her. While the sex scenes attempted to present tastefully, the context of the scenes were shrouded in the BDSM world, where Grey’s “Red Room of Pain” — called so by Anastasia — looked like the inside of an Amsterdam Red Light District room, not inclusive of black lights and strobes. In the film, Christian and Anastasia went over her “hard” and

“soft” limits, for example blindfolds, floggers and the like. Grey also mentioned the woman who had seduced him when he was 15, first introducing him to the BDSM lifestyle. Anastasia called it “child abuse” and calls that woman “Mrs. Robinson.” All of this is portrayed in the movie exactly as it is in the book but, during this very short conversation, we only get to see a glimpse of the darkness that lies

within Christian’s heart. Christian, breaking tradition, is the more sexually objectified character in the movie, while in the book the focus is more on his emotions rather than his gorgeous body. Dornan’s portrayal of Christian is sometimes en pointe and sometimes awkward. I felt bad for him when he had to say “I don’t make love, I fuck. Hard.” (Here the female audience

went “Mhmmm.”) Johnson’s acting is at first cute, with drunken incidents and accidental falls (when she is “saved” by Christian) and then suddenly this erotic woman tries seducing you through the screen and this gives the viewer a feeling of whiplash. It is no coincidence that people get notions about abuse when they see this movie or read the books; there is a distinct aura of a lion stalking his

prey in Dornan’s character. There is much to discuss regarding the limits of dominant/submissive relationships and domestic abuse, but, for now, Fifty Shades of Grey has only one saving grace — its music. If you go see it with your partner, don’t be surprised if, later, he wants to make love to you while listening to the soundtrack.

— Contact Shalvi Shah at shalvi.shah@emory.edu

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Junior Madison Gordon returns the ball. Gordon and the Eagles won their first competition of the season this past Saturday. Their record now stands at 1-1 on the season.

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Continued from the Back Page By the middle of his match all of the other matches were completed with four wins going to Emory and four wins to AUM. “Josh Goodman didn’t have a lot of match experience. He was put in a situation that the entire match would come down on him,” Halpern said. The entire team stayed and cheered on Goodman, who fought back after losing the first set to finish the match winning two sets to one against Francisco Mendieta, 3-6, 7-6, 6-2. “This was a big win,” said Emory Head Coach John Browning. “We haven’t beaten AUM in three years.” The match lasted such a long span

— seven hours, from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m — that Emory’s scheduled match against Oglethorpe University (Ga.), which was supposed to take place that night, was cancelled. “One of the things we are committed to is physical fitness,” said Browning. “It was such a long match that some of the AUM guys started cramping. We stayed both mentally and physically tough.” The Eagles will continue their season at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Indoor Championships on Friday, Feb. 20 in Manktako, Minn., playing the Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) Tartans in the first round. — Contact Jacob Spitzer at jacob.alexander.spitzer@emory.edu

By Elana Cates Asst. Sports Editor This past Saturday, Feb. 14, the NCAA Division III number one ranked Emory women’s tennis team picked up the first win of the season at Brenau University in Gainesville (Ga.). The Eagles were coming off a loss against the Division I University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. After winning against the Golden Tigers, a part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Emory’s record now stands at 1-1, while Brenau’s dropped to 0-2. “There is a big difference between the teams,” sophomore Katarina Su said. “Chattanooga was a much stronger team. This weekend, I think we all played very well. It was very

windy so we really had to adjust and move our feet more.” Emory claimed wins in all three of the doubles matches. The duos of freshman Anna Fuhr and sophomore Katarina Su, sophomore Melissa Goodman and junior Beatrice Rosen and sophomore Michelle Satterfield and freshman Bridget Harding each won their respective matches. For the singles matches, the Eagles claimed five out of six matches. Rosen defeated Brenau junior Fatyha Berjane 6-7, 6-4, 13-11. Su claimed a win over freshman Nathalia Bolivar 6-1, 6-2. Goodman won 6-1, 6-0 over freshman Patri Recalde Pacua. Harding won over freshman Paula Rives Palau 6-1, 6-4. Junior Madison Gordon defeated sophomore Snezhana Kiseleva 6-2, 6-2.

“Winning both matches, for me, was definitely a confidence booster,” Su said. “Going into this weekend, us returners know what to expect, but for the freshmen, it’s a lot to handle.” The freshmen will be looking to the upperclassmen for support during the triple-header, according to Su. “Our upperclassmen are giving the freshmen advice and explaining what to expect based on last year’s tripleheader; we split up the lineups so everyone plays, and we’ve been doing a lot of conditioning and practicing to prepare.” The Eagles will return to action next Sunday, Feb. 22, with a triple-header against Millsaps College (Miss.), Agnes Scott College (Ga.) and Oglethorpe University (Ga.). — Contact Elana Cates at elana.cates@emory.edu

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Emory women swimmers prepare to dive into the water. The women’s team, in addition to the men’s team, won the University Athletics Association (UAA) Championships for the second year in a row.

Swimming and Diving to Host Emory Invite Continued from Page 1 was on deck, regardless of whether or not they were swimming or diving.” The Emory men and women also set conference records in the 400yard medleys on the day. On the men’s side, Wilson, senior Hayden Baker and sophomores Hayes Burdette-Sapp and Mitchell Cooper took first with a mark of 3:16.81. For the women’s relay, senior Nancy Larson, sophomores Claire Liu and Annelise Kowalsky and freshman Megan Campbell finished first with a time of 3:45.71. The women’s team furthered their lead on Friday with 1,385 points, while the men found themselves tied for first place with the Chicago with 1,054 points each. UAA records were set in nine out of 15 events on Friday, with the Eagles securing three. Individual records from freshman Julia Wawer in the women’s 200-yard freestyle (1:50.60), Wilson in the 100-yard breaststroke (54.12) and the 200-yard medley by the

team of Liu, Kowalsky, Campbell and sophomore Marissa Bergh took first (1:42.80). “I think in this meet, we really found our identity as a men’s team and came together — people stepped up when they needed to and everyone was supporting each other,” Wilson said. The Eagles took the top three spots in the women’s 400-yard individual medley with senior Megan Beach taking first, followed by freshman Phoebe Edwards and senior Michelle York. By Saturday evening both the men’s and women’s teams were comfortably in first. The women finished with 2,076.5 points — the third most ever scored by a team in the history of the UAA Championships — while the men earned 1,408. A number of Eagles won awards Saturday night. Wilson was nominated for the UAA Men’s Swimmer of the Year Award. Newsum-Schoenberg received a nomination for the Women's Swimmer of Year Award. Wawer

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was also selected as the UAA Women’s Rookie of the Year. “It’s an honor,” NewsumSchoenberg said. “The meet was insanely fast on both the men’s and women’s side, and it was just such an incredible environment to be in.” Additionally, Head Coach Jon Howell and his assistants Cindy Fontana, Chris Marshall, John Petroff and Miller Douglas were named the UAA Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year for the second year in a row and the eighth time in Emory’s history. “We have an incredibly supportive coaching staff cheering us on — we have two more big meets coming up, so we are looking forward to carry this momentum forward,” NewsumSchoenberg said. “It’s back to work on Monday.” The Eagles will host the Emory Invitational, the team’s final meet before the 2015 NCAA Division III Championships, on Feb. 20 and 21 in the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC). — Contact Jenny Nutovits at jenevieve.nutovits@emory.edu

infielder Ashley Powers made her debut with a three-run homer. Meanwhile junior catcher and captain Melody Carter and sophomore outfielder Amy Wray knocked in a pair of runs to fuel the Eagles in a mercy rule win. The second game pitted the Eagles against the visiting Lynchburg Hornets. Emory sent junior Sydney Carpenter to the mound where she showed signs of rust. Lynchburg freshman corner infielder Kayla St. John managed to cross home on a wild pitch. However, Emory took a lead in the bottom of the first that they would never relinquish. A pair of doubles from outfielder Taylor Forte and corner infielder Tara Fallahee led to four Eagle runs in the inning. Carpenter would go on to pitch four innings, giving up three runs on three hits before freshman Audrey Weller and File held the Hornets to notch a 7-3 victory. Fallahee finished the day three-for-three. Freshman utility player Janelle Turnquest homered to left in the second for her first hit of the young season. Cold conditions pushed the first pitch on Sunday to noon. This time, Carpenter was tasked with facing Rhodes and she again benefited from Emory’s early striking offense. Forte and Fallahee drove in two runs in the first. Carpenter enjoyed that lead until it was whittled to one after Rhodes’ Rachel Pewitt scored on a sacrifice fly. Home runs from infielder Hannah Sendel and Powers put the contest out of reach for Rhodes. Freshman Jacky Farrow and File pitched the rest of the way, surrendering just one run between them in the 5-2 win.

The final game Sunday started slow but was an exclamation point conclusion for the weekend. A day after her perfect game, File shouldered the start once more. Scoreless until the fourth inning, Powers put Emory on the board with a double to left. Junior outfielder Alyssa Pollard pushed across the second run legging out and infield single to short. The Hornets struck back in the fifth, after an error led to Lynchburg scoring runs on a fielder’s choice and a sacrifice fly. Powers doubled yet again. Turnquest placed a single up the middle, allowing Powers to score a controversial run as the Hornets’ catcher, freshman Logan Walker, was forced to move up the third-base line to chase down a errant throw where she collided with Powers. Interference was called and Emory took a 3-2 lead. In the final frame, Lynchburg junior infielder Nicole Riley singled and was moved to second on a ground ball. St. John doubled to tie it up. File fielded a lazy ground ball and flipped it to Powers at first, who dropped it, and St. John scored from second to take the lead 4-3 going into the bottom of the seventh. With the Eagles at the plate, Fallahee was hit by a pitch, Forte walked and the table was set for Powers to redeem herself. Powers made up for her mistake with a walk-off double to right center to win the game in dramatic fashion. “A lot was going on in my head because the previous inning, when we had two outs, I made a costly error for my team,” Powers said. “During my at-bat I had to make sure that I let go, stay relaxed, not tense up and really try to come through for my teammates and coaches.” Emory will host Fontbonne University (Mo.) and Christopher Newport University (Va.) this weekend in another 3n2 event. — Contact John Keuler at jkeuler@emory.edu

Nick Burt cut the deficit to 70-74 with six minutes and 19 seconds remaining. After a flagrant foul was called on the Bears, Rao hit both free throws and junior forward Will Trawick followed with a layup that put the Eagles ahead by eight. Foster scored eight of the team’s final 15 points and the Eagles made 16 of their 18 free throw attempts in the second half, as they continued to get stops on defense and hold off the Bears. Rao led all scorers with 27 points on an efficient 8-11 shooting, Florin added 11 points and dished out eight assists, and Terry contributed 16 points and nine rebounds off the bench. Schattie contributed in all areas with four rebounds, three assists and five steals to go along with six points. On Sunday, the Eagles continued their quest for first place, taking on the Chicago Maroons. Coming into the weekend, the Eagles were in a four-way tie for second place in the UAA, but Sunday’s victory would put them in a tie with Chicago for first place. Both teams struggled early on, turning the ball over and unable to find a rhythm offensively. Forced shots by both teams led to a fast-paced and sloppy play in what was a very gritty first half. In an exciting sequence of events, Schattie followed up his basket with a steal and an impressive finish off a spin move. Another steal came from sophomore forward Austin DaGue, who put in a layup off an assist from freshman guard Whit Rapp. Backto-back three pointers by Chicago junior forward Alex Voss tied the game at 17. A three pointer from Foster with 7:22 remaining put the Eagles ahead 28-21, the largest lead up to that point. Both teams began to establish some consistency on offense and continued to trade baskets for most of four minutes. With just over three minutes to go, Rapp knocked down a three pointer that gave Emory a ninepoint advantage, the largest lead of the half. Maroon guard Jordan Smith threw down a ferocious two-handed dunk with 1:11 left that made it a two-point game. However, Florin answered with three points, putting the Eagles ahead 42-37 going into the half. In the second half, Smith continued to shoot well from beyond the arc, knocking down two three-pointers early on. A pair of free throws by Chicago sophomore forward Waller Perez tied the score at 51 with just over 15 minutes remaining. Following the bucket, Terry entered the game for the Eagles and provided an immediate spark off the bench with a put back layup that gave the Eagles the lead, a rebound and a monster block all within his first 90 seconds. The Eagles continued their aggressive defense and forced turnovers with steals from Schattie and Terry. A second block by Terry, this one even bigger, made the crowd erupt and the energy fueled a 19-2 run in a collective effort from the Eagles that put them up 77-58. The Eagles held their largest lead after a layup by Schattie with 7:40 remaining in the half extended their lead to 21. Head Coach Jason Zimmerman emphasized that his team played with a great sense of purpose and with extra drive, with 15 men motivated by the opportunity to take a share of first place in the UAA following a win. However, the Maroons began to mount a comeback and narrowed the gap to 83-76 with just over a minute remaining. However, the Eagles were able to hold off the Maroons and come away with an 85-82 win. “We showed tonight what we’re capable of and what happens when we play to our full potential” Foster said. After two big wins, both Zimmerman and Foster expressed their confidence looking ahead to the postseason. If the team continues this level of play, they have potential to win a conference title and a deep run in the NCAA Division III tournament, they said. “Winning the league is one of our goals,” Zimmerman said. With three big games left, the Eagles need to “take it one game a time.” The next game for the Eagles will be away against Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) on Friday, Feb. 20, at 8 p.m. — Contact Joseph Shapiro at joseph.elliott.shapiro@emory.edu

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Sophomore pitcher Brittany File winds up for a pitch. File threw five perfect innings against the Rhodes College (Tenn.) Lynx. The 3n2 Invite will continue next weekend.

Emory Hosts 3n2 Softball Invite By John Keuler Contributing Writer Every new season brings fresh hopes of hoisting a trophy. This past weekend, the 16th-ranked Emory softball team hosted Lynchburg College (Va.) and Rhodes College (Tenn.) for a 3n2 sponsored invita-

tional event. The Eagles went undefeated with a pair of wins against each school, building confidence for the year to come. Emory sophomore Brittany File started the opening game with a bang versus the Rhodes Lynx. File pitched with precision, retir-

ing the Lynx in order without allowing a batter to reach first. With plenty of run support in a 10-0 victory, File recorded a rare perfect game with nine strikeouts over five innings of work. At the plate, freshman corner

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This past weekend, the Emory men’s basketball team faced two tough University Athletic Association (UAA) conference opponents, Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) and the University of Chicago. The Eagles won both games, earning them a shot at the NCAA Division III Championships. On Friday, Feb. 13, the Eagles took on the Washington University Bears. In what was once again a high scoring affair, the Eagles pulled out a 93-87 win at home after losing to the Bears at their previous matchup in St. Louis. Both teams battled during an extremely intense and physical first half that included six ties and eight lead changes. The Eagles were focused on both ends of the floor and prevented the Bears from getting into their comfort zone and taking control of the game. The Bears led by five with under three minutes to go before an 11-0 run by the Eagles put Emory up 45-40 at the half and ahead for good. As usual, the Eagles were very aggressive on defense. Senior forward Josh Schattie led that defensive effort with four of Emory’s eight steals in the first half. The Eagles were locked in from behind the three point line in the first half, burying seven threes, including four by junior forward Davis Rao, who led all scorers in the first half with 18. “Getting such a big contribution from [Rao] gave us a nice cushion and it forced the defense to alter their game plan,” senior forward and captain Alex Foster said. Foster, the team’s leading scorer this season, was scoreless in the first half and benched after picking up two personal fouls. The strong play from teammates like Rao forced the Bears’ defense to shift their focus away from Foster. Once he was back in after half time, Foster found more opportunities to score as he poured in 18 points, leading the way in the second half. Foster credited his scoring outburst to the play of his teammates, senior guard and captain Mike Florin. “[Florin] is so good at finding

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Sophomore guard Jonathan Terry goes for a layup. Terry and the Eagles defeated both of their opponents over the weekend.

the holes in the defense and he was able to put me in positions to score,” Foster said. The Eagles never trailed in the second half and continued to get help from other places, including from sophomore guard Jonathan Terry who contributed 10 points and four rebounds in the half.

A layup by Terry with 15 minutes remaining gave the Eagles a 14-point lead, the largest of the night. However, the Bears kept up their effort and briefly fought their way back into the game after a layup from WashU junior forward and captain

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Women Drop Two Conference Games By Ryan Smith Associate Editor

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Senior Alex Ruderman returns the ball to his opponent. Mosetick and the Eagles hosted the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta and Aubrn University (Ala.) this past weekend to continue their season.

Eagles Start Season Strong With Two Wins By Jacob Spitzer Staff Writer The men’s tennis team is off to a strong start to its season, winning its first two matches 9-0 against the Savannah College of Art and Design — Atlanta Bees and a 5-4 victory against the Auburn University at Montgomery (Ala.) Warhawks. The Eagles blew out the Bees, winning all nine of their matches without dropping a set. Senior Alex Ruderman played in the number one singles position and defeated SCAD senior Julian Guzman (6-0, 6-0). Emory senior Eric Halpern played

number two singles and overtook Alex Maeda 6-3 and 6-1. In the doubles competition, Ruderman partnered with senior Ian Wagner, the two defeating opponents junior Alex Maeda and sophomore Stephen Craig in a decisive 8-1 pro set. “While they were good players, this was more of a tune-up match,” Ruderman said. “It was a good way to start off the season.” The team’s second match the following day was much more intensive and hard-fought. Ruderman once again played first singles, this time topping AUM senior Nicolas Pinones-Haltenhoff in

straight sets (7-5, 6-4). “I knew [Pinones-Haltenhoff] from last year,” Rudderman said. “We had a really tough match last year. He’s a really good player. I just was able to find my form and play at my pace.” Halpern played second singles, losing two straight sets to sophomore Vincent Dubosclard (6-2, 7-5). Ruderman and Wagner continued their partnership playing in the first doubles spot, but fell in an extremely close match against senior Othmane Lalami and sophomore Birkir Gunnarsson 9-8. Halpern played with freshman Scott Rubinstein, securing a solid 8-4

win over AUM’s Pinones-Haltenhoff and senior Miguel Grifol. Emory junior Rafe Mosetick and freshman David Omsky pulled out a win in a tough match defeating sophomore Francisco Mendieta and junior Luis Vivas 9-8. “I was impressed with how Omsky played,” Halpern said. “He had a very gutsy performance. He had a huge volley winner on match point to close it out.” Another Emory freshman who had a strong performance against AUM was Josh Goodman in the sixth singles spot.

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The women’s basketball team hosted two University Athletic Association (UAA) squads over the weekend, but lost to both the Washington University (WashU) in St. Louis (Mo.) Bears and the University of Chicago Maroons at home in the Woodruff P.E. Center (WoodPEC). Emory lost to WashU 70-50 on Friday, Feb. 13, before falling to Chicago by a score of 73-52 on Sunday, Feb. 15. The Eagles dropped to 11-11 on the season with a 3-8 mark in UAA play. “We took on the top three teams in the [UAA] in a row,” Head Coach Christy Thomaskutty said. “All three will be in the NCAA tournament in two weeks.” The Eagles hung tight with the league-leading Bears early. However, a three-pointer from freshman guard Natalie Orr put WashU up 16-6 seven minutes into the game. Emory couldn’t close the gap from there, as the Bears extended their lead to a dominant 37-16 going into the half. WashU started the second half with a 10-0 run to effectively put the game away. Still, the Eagles finished the game strong, scoring 15 of the game’s final 18 points en route to closing the game to a 70-50 final. Junior guard Ilene Tsao was the only Eagle in double figures with 12 points. Junior guard Khadijah Sayyid and sophomore guard Fran Sweeney

added eight apiece. Tsao also led the Eagles with nine rebounds, narrowly missing a double-double. The game against Chicago was a defensive struggle, with both teams combining for just two baskets in the first four minutes of play. A three-pointer from Sayyid gave the Eagles their first lead of the game, but the Maroons countered with a 13-0 run to put Emory in an early hole. The Eagles chipped away at the lead, closing to 35-24 after Sweeney drained a three before halftime. “Both teams are so much bigger than us,” Thomaskutty said. “There’s nothing we can do to grow overnight.” Two straight baskets from freshman center Dumebi Egbuna out of the intermission pulled the Eagles within seven, but it was the closest they would get for the rest of the game, as Chicago pulled away with 38 second-half points. Sayyid led the team with 11 points, while Egbuna chipped in with 10 points and six rebounds. Sophomore guard Shellie Kaniut and freshman forward Mikaila Schmitt both had strong outings off the bench with eight points apiece. “Where we’re at right now, we’re trying to build some momentum for the offseason,” Thomaskutty said. The Eagles will take the court next on Friday, Feb. 20 at Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) at 6 p.m. and then to Carnegie Mellon University (Penn.) on Sunday, Feb. 22. The Eagles now only have three more games until the UAA Championships. — Contact Ryan Smith at ryan.smith@emory.edu