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Bid farewell to your email’s Quarantine Summary: a new email filtering service will affect how all Emory registered email addresses receive junk mail beginning Feb. 16, according to an all-Emory email from Jay Flanagan, manager of enterprise email and messaging at Emory. Instead of the dreaded late afternoon Quarantine Summary in your Emory inbox, all filtered messages will appear in the Junk Mail folder. According to Flanagan’s email, the filtering service will switch from Postini to Microsoft’s Exchange Online Protection (EOP) service, which will be implemented through a partnership between the Emory University Messaging Team and

Emory Health Information Services. Postini is a Google product that filters potential spam and virusinfected messages before they reach user inboxes, according to Project Manager Trisha Wilson. Flanagan noted that there will be a “bake-in period,” during which customers will need to get used to the new way of handling spam. “Initially, customers may see more spam in their inboxes as we tweak the service, and as they determine whether to block or allow certain senders,” Flanagan wrote. “In the end though, the ability to manage your own spam easily from within your email client is, we believe, a big win.” Wilson wrote in an email to the Wheel that the University’s decision

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Brief: Emory, WellStar Discuss ‘Unification’

Emory University and WellStar Health System, the largest not-forprofit health system in Georgia, are formally discussing the creation of a unified health system in Metro Atlanta, according to an all-Emory email from University President James W. Wagner. The Board of Trustees for each organization has approached a resolution to continue formal discussions for the next 45 days. According to the email, the stated purpose of the merger is to create a health care environment that would offer the best of communitybased care and the best of academic medicine. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that the two parties are still early in discussions, and there are no official plans yet as to where the headquarters of the new health

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system would be. Additionally, the new entity’s board will have to choose one CEO to lead it, according to WellStar CEO Reynold Jennings. Emory Healthcare CEO John Fox announced his resignation in January. Fox was elected the new chairman of the Georgia Hospital Association’s Board of Trustees in November 2014. Jennings’ contract expires December 2015, and he will be succeeded by current WellStar COO Candice Saunders, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Emory Healthcare is Georgia’s largest and most comprehensive health care system. WellStar serves a population of more than 1.4 million residents in five counties. See Friday’s issue for a full story.

— Written by Asst. News Editor Annie McGrew

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n celebration of Black History Month, which takes place anually in February, the Emory Black Student Alliance kicked off programming with the Step It Up event. Step It Up showcased performances from historically African American campus groups, such as the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, at White Hall on Saturday night.

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SGA Increases Graduate Student Funding By Luke White SGA Beat Writer

The Student Government Association (SGA) increased the amount of money allocated to the Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) from the Student Activities Fee (SAF) split and confirmed the internalization of the Student Programming Council (SPC) Vice Presidential election last night. The SGA’s 48th Legislature discussed and debated a bill proposing an amendment to the SAF split for well over an hour during the

Monday meeting, as members vacillated between whether or not GSGA required or deserved a considerable increase in funding. Next year, the SAF will increase to $92 per semester from $89, the result of a scheduled Cost of Living Adjustment (CoLA). Every division will receive an increase in absolute funding. However, as part of this bill, GSGA will receive an additional two percent increase in funding, financed in part by reducing the Student Legal Services (SLS) fee allocation from one to zero percent. The current GSGA budget is roughly

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$80,000, and the current SGA budget is approximately $45,000. It will also move SLS to the account for University-wide organizations, and decrease the amount that graduate students contribute to SGA by one percent to compensate for the GSGA funding increase. SGA President and College junior Jon Darby and GSGA President and second-year Goizueta Business School MBA student Ely Goldberg co-authored the bill after members of the Executive Board reviewed the University-wide organizations’ account distributions to see which

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atasha Armstrong (left) and College freshman Chelsea Jackson (right) participate in Elect Her, a program to encourage college women to run for student government positions. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) and Running Start hosted the event.

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Freshmen Advance to Hult Prize Finals By Anwesha Guha Contributing Writer

A team of Emory freshmen advanced to the finals of the Hult Prize, an internationally-recognized competition hosted by former President Bill Clinton that is focusing on the education gap of children 0 to 6 years of age this year, according to the Hult Prize website. College freshmen Mehul Bhagat, who is the team’s leader, Rostam Zafari, Michelle Skelton and Nick Parker will represent Emory University at the San Francisco com-

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petition, which is worth a prize of $1 million. Their challenge: building “sustainable and scalable social enterprises” for young children in the urban slum. Taking into account the potential global impact of their project, Bhagat said that he and his team brainstormed and were able to put together a few ideas. “We are investigating mobile technology as one possible solution, and then we’re looking at different models for caregivers, which is a really important part of delivering childhood education,” said Bhagat, who is

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planning on pursuing a double-major in economics and creative writing. “When you’re trying to scale this to 10 million people, that’s kind of a problem, right? How can you get a close-term relationship with them?” As for how the group got involved, all four said they’ve always been interested in social enterprise and entrepreneurship, but it was Bhagat who brought up the Hult Prize competition after discovering it online, according to Zafari. “I’m really fascinated [with] using

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Yale Prof. Talks Russian Propaganda in Ukraine By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor

services graduate students were actually using. After that review, the participants concluded that GSGA was in need of a substantial fund increase. However, many undergraduate representatives disagreed. Vice President for Finance and College senior Patrick O’Leary reiterated his opposition to the bill, saying that it “takes away the increases of all the University-wide organizations and gives it to the GSGA.” According to O’Leary, the Finance

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By Rupsha Basu News Editor Continuing Eagle Row’s annual round of musical chairs, two fraternities will likely change addresses for the 2015-2016 school year, according to Assistant Director of Sorority and Fraternity Housing Jeff Tate. If both fraternities meet membership requirements, Chi Phi fraternity, currently at 22 Eagle Row, will reclaim its historic property at 8 Eagle Row, where Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) fraternity is currently located. The new housing assignments were sent out last week but are temporarily tentative. These assignments are contingent on whether the respective fraternities fill their houses during the room selection process. Chi Phi owns 8 Eagle Row under the Phoenix Plan, a document to clarify governance of Greek Life which provides fraternities with long-term housing through signed agreements. The Wheel reported in November 2012 that 8 Eagle Row was historically Chi Phi fraternity’s residence until its charter was revoked in 2009 by the national Chi Phi organization

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A Yale University history professor shed light on the propaganda surrounding the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution and its ongoing aftermath at a lecture in White Hall on Friday evening. Timothy Snyder, Yale’s Bird White Housum Professor of History, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of five award-winning books on eastern European history, cited both historical myths and modern media portrayals in discussing how both sides view the conflict to an audience of about 100 faculty members and students. Snyder also gave a lecture on “The Holocaust as a Political History,” sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, last Thursday, Feb. 5. The Friday night lecture was sponsored by Emory’s Department of Russian & East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Halle Institute for Global Learning and the Program in Russian & East European Studies at Emory, as well as the Jean Monnet Center for Excellence of the Sam Nunn School of International Relations at the Georgia Institute of Technology, according to a Feb 2. University press release. After a brief run-down of Ukraine and Russia’s shared history, Snyder elucidated the origins of Moscow’s anti-Western rhetoric, often used as a means of stirring up anti-European Union (EU) sentiment and

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nationalism. “All of Russian propaganda — the ‘us vs. the West’ — all of it comes from the Second World War,” Snyder said. Despite the fact that, until the German invasion of Russia in 1941, the Soviet Union had been held in a non-aggression pact with Hitler’s Germany, the “myth” of the Soviet Union defending the eastern European states from fascism prevailed, he said. “There is a slippage going on as to whether the Second World War was a war of Russian defense against German aggression or a war of Russian aggression,” Snyder said. “That myth of Russia fighting a defensive war has fallen apart.” A lost sense of unity with Russia, according to Snyder, was not the only reason for the 2014 ousting of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych just after he swapped a trading agreement with Russia for one with the EU. “The people who got together and overthrew the government were Russian speakers — not all of them, but many,” he said, describing the rebel group known as the Maidan as more economically-minded than anti-Russian. Ukraine’s oligarchic class structure, which Snyder said remains intact even after the Yanukovych coup, triggered violent protests in Kiev’s Independence Square. “When you’re a little guy or gal

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news roundup National, Local and Higher Education News • British bank HSBC has for years helped clients evade taxes and withdraw untraceable cash, according to files obtained and reported on Sunday by a collaboration of news organizations. The bank is already facing investigations in France, Belgium, the United States and Argentina. • A NATO drone strike in Afghanistan killed former Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Rauf, who recently declared allegiance to the Islamic State, on Monday. Rauf, whose brother-in-law was also killed, had been in a car carrying six people, along with a load of ammunition, which exploded when struck by the missile. • Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy S. Moore ordered state probate judges on Sunday night not to issue same-sex marriage licenses in state on Monday, the day the progay marriage ruling of District Court Judge Callie vs. Granade took effect. Though the state’s 68 popular-elected probate judges would face legal action if they followed Moore’s order, many had already begun denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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players against the National Football League (NFL) was set to be approved Sunday. The 4,500 players represented in the lawsuit sought compensation for neurological problems related to head injuries they had suffered on the field. • The Georgia Department of Transportation announced on Sunday what a spokesperson called GDOT’s largest-ever project, which will decrease congestion where Interstate 285 meets Georgia State Road 400. Plans for the interchange project, which will take three years to complete, include fly-over ramps and additional lanes • A gunman killed four and wounded two before turning the gun on himself in a quiet Douglasville, Ga. neighborhood on Saturday afternoon. Cedric Prather targeted his exwife, Latoya Andrews, before turning to her current boyfriend and four of his children. Two of the children survived, and one remained in critical condition on Monday.

— Compiled by Asst. News Editor Lydia O’Neal

• A $1 billion deal to end a classaction lawsuit of former football

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• On Feb. 2 at 9:40 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding a theft on the first floor of the Candler Library. The Korean Student Association (KSA) held a meeting in a room on the first floor of Candler between 8:15 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. After the meeting, a member of the KSA left a cashbox in the room, and when he came to retrieve it at a later time, the cashbox was missing. Information regarding the case has been turned over to an investigator. • On Feb. 3 at 3 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a theft at the Goizueta Business School. A black VADDIO ceiling mount camera, valued at $5000, was taken from the School. The camera was in a box and was going to be installed, but when the person returned to install the camera, it was missing. Information

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regarding the case has been turned over to an investigator. • On Feb. 5 at 2:48 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding suspicious activity in the vicinity of the athletic field near the Woodruff Physical Education Center. When officers arrived on the scene, they found Emory students driving golf carts near the field. Officers met with the students, and they said that they were using the carts because someone was injured. A witness told police that the individuals were driving the cart “all over.” Information regarding the case has been turned over to an investigator. • On Feb. 5 at 2:17 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an individual who was receiving harassing phone calls. The complainant said that she was receiving constant phone calls and text messages from

an unknown person. The individual said it was in her best interest to file a police report. The case has been turned over to an investigator. • On Feb. 5, officers were patrolling Eagle Row when they noticed four individuals smoking what appeared to be marijuana cigarettes on the patio behind Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at 12 Eagle Row. When an officer approached the location, one of the individuals jumped over the patio wall and took off running. The officer cited the other individuals for possessing less than one ounce of marijuana. Officers were not able to locate the individual who fled the area. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

— Compiled by Crime Beat Writer Brandon Fuhr

This Week In Emory History Feb. 11, 1954

Emory students would celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Student Council Winter Valentine Dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Emory University Gymnasium on Feb. 12, 1954. The dance featured a campus beauty queen contest, the winner of which was chosen by a threejudge panel at an Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house reception prior to the event. Valentine’s Day decorations covered the gym, while Walt Cunningham’s orchestra supplied the music. An intermission lasted from 11 to 11:30 p.m., during which fraternities hosted intermission parties.

Events at emory WEDNESDAY

Screening Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: White Hall 208

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Event: Love Your Major, Love Linguistics! Time: 4 p.m. Location: Modern Languages Building 201

Event: GDR/PSI — Human Subjects Research Pane Time: 11:30 a.m. Location: Candler Library 120

Event: Creating a Personal Website Time: 10 a.m. Location: Center for Digital Scholarship, Woodruff Library

Event: Creating a Personal Website Time: 2 p.m. Location: Center for Digital Scholarship, Woodruff Library

Event: Career Brownbag: Navigating the Versatile PhD Time: 12 p.m. Location: DUC E338

Event: Athletics — Swimming and Diving Time: 10 a.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center

Event: “Zimbabwefication: A Binational Poetics of Ambivalence” Time: 4:15 p.m. Location: Bowden Hall 323

Event: Dr. Vaclav Janis — Ergodicity Breaking in Disordered and Frustrated Systems: Replicas in Mean-Field Spin-Glass Models Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: Mathematics and Science Center E300

Event: Trans-forming Gender Discussion Group Time: 5 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, DUC 232E

Event: J.C. Thoroughman Visiting Professorship: New Paradigms in the Management of the Regional Nodes in Breast Cancer Time: 7 a.m. Location: Emory University Hospital Auditorium

Event: Defining the Woman Ruler in China Time: 4:30 p.m. Location: White Hall 207

Event: “The Color of Wealth” Time: 4 p.m. Location: Bowden Hall 323

Event: Linguistics Circle Movie Night: A Love Your Major Event Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: White Hall 112

Event: Queer & Asian Discussion Group Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, DUC 232E

Event: The Power of Stories in the Liberal Arts Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room

Event: Creation Stories Lecture Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall

Event: Bisexual/Pansexual Discussion Group Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, DUC 232E Event: “Glory” (1990), Film

THURSDAY

Event: Jazz Improv Class With Special Guest Regina Carter and the Gary Motley Trio Time: 10 a.m. Location: Tharp Rehearsal Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Event: Emory’s Annual Camp & Learning Expo 2015 Time: 10 a.m. Location: Woodruff P.E. Center, 4th Floor Auxiliary Court Event: Master Class With Special Guest Regina Carter Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: Emerson Concert Hall,

Event: Love Your Major: IVAC Open House Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Emory Visual Arts Building Event: “Beyond the Headlines: How Emory Nurses Fought Ebola” Alumni Panel Discussion & Reception Time: 6 p.m. Location: Rollins School of Public Health Auditorium

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Historian Dissects Russia-Ukraine Conflict the country last Sunday. Throughout Snyder, though hesitant to predict his talk, Snyder drew on similarities the next moves of the leader who in this system you’ll bump up against between Russia and its indirect oppo- unexpectedly annexed the Ukrainian the ceiling very quickly,” Snyder said. nent, the U.S. peninsula of Crimea, said that Putin Beyond a “slippage” of histori“Russia today is part of a plot. Fox needed to cut a deal with the EU to cal ties, the growing political dis- News is part of a plot. CNN is a little avoid further diplomatic alienation tance between Russia and Ukraine bit — it’s all part of a spectrum,” he and economic downfall, rather than had more modern reasons, Snyder said. “But if you don’t actually pay “get on his knees [before] China.” said, such as Moscow’s portrayal of attention to what’s going on, you’re The U.S.’s future role, Snyder said, Yanukovych’s going to think it was all should be to help the Ukrainians opponents. the Americans, it was establish a functioning state, rather “ [ T h e all the Europeans, it was than to simply supply their troops “The Russian army M a i d a n] all gay European fascist with weapons and continue a proxy is much greater than became the Maidan.” war against Russia. Ukraine’s ... Russia’s European As a final example “We haven’t done anything to win Maidan, then of Russia’s propaganda this war, and that’s what makes us saying, ‘we’re not it became the machine, Snyder dis- similar to Russia,” he said of the U.S. fighting a war against cussed the Russian gay European Goizueta Business School sophoUkraine, we’re fighting troops’ deadly missile more Omar Shihadeh, who said he Maidan, then it became the a defensive war against strike on Malaysia Flight attended the lecture to earn extra gay European MH17 in July. A favor- credit for a class, said that the lecthe U.S.’” Maidan purite theory of Moscow’s, ture piqued his interested in a global suing its fashe said, alleged that the issue he hadn’t given much thought to — Timothy Snyder, U.S. had taken the cist interests” before. professor of history at Yale missing Malaysia according to “It was the Russian Flight MH370, interesting media, Snyder said. filled it with corpses and shot “[Snyder] really put into how the long-term perspective point of The anti-European sentiment, he it down near the Russianadded, was accompanied by an abhor- Ukrainian border as a way the strategy of Russia.” [Russia’s] rence of “Western decadence,” which to turn the world’s anger on propaganthe Russian media has long portrayed Russian President Vladimir da made it — Irina Levterova, as a threat to eastern European cul- Putin. seem like ture. Russia’s forming a retaliation “The simple answer is Georgia State University gradu- t h e y ’ r e against the opposition group, painted that the Russian military is ate student, Ukrainian national trying to as an ardent supporter of the EU, always accompanied by buks appeal meant attracting far-right, anti-EU (ground-to-air missiles). They to every political party allies in Europe, such saw what they thought was an differas the Front National in France and enemy plane, and they shot it down,” ent audience, which is contradicthe National Democratic Party in he said. “There was every kind of tory,” Shihadeh said. He added that Germany, according to Snyder. evidence — we all knew that the he wished Snyder had mentioned As for its more direct battles with Russian military doesn’t go anywhere Russia’s recent demand for war repaUkraine, he remarked on Russia’s without anti-aircraft capacity.” rations from Germany, even as the unusual use of “asymmetS t i l l , professor emphasized World War II ric warfare,” in which the S n y d e r as a major event solidifying Ukraine’s warring nation in question “It was interesting how said, the ties to Russia. doesn’t declare war and om merIrina Levterova, a Ukrainian the point of [Russia’s] ccial sends unmarked troops to airline national and Georgia State University propaganda made it the front lines. Russia’s tacs h o u l d n’ t graduate, said she had enjoyed seetics, Snyder said, are “a kind seem like they’re trying have flown ing a new perspective of the criof reverse asymmetry.” to appeal to every differ- over the sis in her home country. A Kiev “The Russian army is area to native, Levterova said she was not ent audience, which is begin with. in Ukraine for the more recent revmuch greater than Ukraine’s. Russia’s state is much great“At some olution, but witnessed the Orange contradictory.” er than Ukraine’s. Russia’s level, we Revolution, which was also a demonsaying, ‘we’re not fighting a — Omar Shihadeh, knew this,” stration in opposition to Yanukovych, war against Ukraine, we’re said. in 2004. Business School sophomore he fighting a defensive war “Those “He really put into long-term peragainst the U.S.,’ and that’s people died spective the strategy of Russia,” she why the U.S. feels that it has the right because we refused to understand said, adding that she had normally to get involved,” he said. “That’s why things that lay right before our eyes.” heard that Putin’s central goal was to the U.S. finds itself involved in a war The lecture was followed by a take more Ukrainian territory, just as along with Ukraine.” question and answer session, in which he took Crimea. “[Snyder] talks about Snyder’s lecture came as U.S. many of the more than 100 audience it as a way to destroy the Ukrainian Secretary of State John Kerry pro- members asked about Putin’s plans state.” — Contact Lydia O’Neal at posed to arm the Ukrainian forces, at and motivations, as well as his ecolmoneal@emory.edu a meeting with other world leaders in nomic and diplomatic needs.

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(from left to right) College freshmen Mehul Bhagat, Michelle Skelton, Rostam Zafari and Nick Parker will represent Emory at the internationally-recognized Hult Prize competition finals in San Francisco.

Students Draw on Prior Experience in Hult Challenge Continued from Page 1 entrepreneurship to attack social issues, such as infectious diseases or education, so when Bhagat showed this idea, this competition to me, I was like, ‘We need to [put together] Emory’s team!’” Zafari said. Skelton emphasized the necessity of bringing families closer to keep young children on the right educational track. “Bridging the gaps between parents and children is what we feel is the main blockage to why we feel these children do not have access to education.” Skelton said. Bhagat and his team have been working on their pitch for months and presented it to the Hult Prize’s Organizing Committee. Hult Prize officials notified the team that they had reached the regional level in the first week of January. On Jan. 29, they hit their second deadline. In the next six weeks, they will find out their remaining challenges before traveling to San Francisco. Following through with this competition was not easy, Zafari said, who is on the pre-med track and wants to major in philosophy and

creative writing. “Having multiple team members with different schedules, finding time for people in power to listen, reaching out to them and hearing back from them — there was always a give and take” when it came to scheduling the next event, Zafari said.

“In order to be sustainable, a corporation following social good should also make a profit.” — Mehul Bhagat, College freshman, team leader Zafari used his previous experience, while Skelton channeled her ambition as a former Girl Scout to help prepare for their next round, the two said. Skelton also expressed some anxiety about the team’s odds. “We’re a team of all freshmen, and most of these other 20,000 applicants mostly are all graduate students,” Skelton said. “I’m not going to say

we have a lack of experience, but we have a lack of professional training in entrepreneurship and business and the types of things we are going to work for.” Bhagat explained the reasoning and processes behind his motivation. “In order to be sustainable, a corporation following social good should also make a profit,” he said, adding that students, corporations and the government all have an interest in long-term growth of education accessibility. “That kind of idea is really inspiring because we often think of them as purely profitable or we think of governments as only giving out charity, but there’s this room in the middle that people are filling the gap for social entrepreneurship,” Bhagat said. Regardless, the team remain motivated and hopeful for the next level, according to Zafari. “Every year, we have Yale’s, Harvard’s [teams] — actually 20,000 teams — competing this year, and we’re down to the last 253, so we’re really happy to represent Emory,” Zafari said.

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

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Phoenix Plan Unfair at Times, Mayblum Says Continued from Page 1 due to alleged recruitment violations and alcohol infractions. However, in fall 2012, Chi Phi was allowed to return to campus and participated in formal rush in spring 2013. During the 2013-2014 school year, Chi Phi did not have enough members to occupy 8 Eagle Row and instead occupied 13 Eagle Row. Last fall, following the suspension of Sigma Nu fraternity for violating the University’s anti-hazing policy, the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Housing made a number of fraternity housing changes and notified Chi Phi that it would move to 22 Eagle Row. Chi Phi President and College junior Daniel Deutsch expressed his excitement about moving back into 8 Eagle Row on behalf of Chi Phi and also spoke to the development of the fraternity as a whole in an email to the Wheel. “We’ve come a long way since our recolonization in 2012,” Deutsch wrote. “Although we appreciate the advantages offered by eight [Eagle Row], we recognize that a house does not define a fraternity, so we are going to continue to focus on our organization and brotherhood.” ZBT has occupied 8 Eagle Row for the last six years, according to ZBT President and Goizueta Business School junior Max Mayblum. “In the six years at 8 Eagle Row, ZBT has grown immensely in quantity and quality,” Mayblum said. “The move is just a new chapter in our

brotherhood.” Like, Deutsch, Mayblum noted the excitement he feels on behalf of the fraternity. However, he did express some reservations regarding the fairness of the Phoenix Plan. Under the plan, it was agreed, upon the reinstatement of its charter, that Chi Phi could move into 8 Eagle Row as soon as they had the number of members required to fill the house. According to Tate, Chi Phi has 56 projected members for fall 2015, meaning they can now sustain living in 8 Eagle Row. “[The Phoenix Plan] puts those that don’t own their house at a disadvantage,” Mayblum said, adding that losing the house despite exhibiting exemplary qualities in many respects to be a kind of “punishment.” Deutsch echoed these sentiments, writing that “the fraternity houseswapping in recent years at Emory has been disruptive, and greater stability would benefit all stakeholders.” Deutsch also suggested the prospect of a flexible-use house for fraternities in transition. According to Mayblum, the switch from 8 to 22 Eagle Row will not significantly impact the number of people that are able to live in the house. As for the future of Greek housing at Emory, Tate indicated that these decisions are still not set in stone because they are contingent on whether fraternities are able to meet membership requirements.

— Contact Rupsha Basu at rupsha.basu@emory.edu

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SPC to Internalize VP Election, Add Grad School Members Continued from Page 1 Committee believed that, “The GSGA [is] a less effective body than the divisional councils of each of the graduate divisions, and because they spend most of their money on a single event, the money could [be] better used [for] being allocated towards the divisions specifically.” Graduate students responded to O’Leary’s argument by explaining that GSGA needs more money because, historically, it has only had sufficient funds to host one event per year, a large graduate student mixer. “We don’t have the budget to do that event and much [more] additional programming,” Goldberg said. “It makes it really hard for us to approve budgetary requests from organizations ... This money will allow us to maintain our large event while doing additional initiatives.” When O’Leary said that GSGA’s budget is almost twice that of SGA’s budget, Goldberg and other graduate students responded that GSGA’s budget was still insufficient because it has to perform many of the functions that SPC does for the undergraduate students. Although SPC caters to both graduate and undergraduate students, Goldberg pointed out that SPC cannot serve alcohol, so GSGA fulfills that role instead. O’Leary proposed an amendment to the bill that would “restore the status quo” and reallocate the two percent intended for the GSGA to the University-wide account. The amendment would return the one percent being taken from

the University-wide account, and it would move the one percent taken from SLS into the University-wide account as well. O’Leary’s amendment passed by an 11-8-2 vote. However, Darby informed the legislature that if the bill containing O’Leary’s amendment passed, then he intended to immediately veto the legislation. “[Goldberg and I] co-authored this bill,” Darby said, “so when we came to this version of the fee split, there was definitely a method and a logic that got us there. I’m sympathetic to graduate students here.” SGA subsequently passed a motion to re-hear O’Leary’s amendment. When the amendment was called into question again, it failed to pass by a 4-8-7 vote. The original bill was then called into question, and the SGA representatives voted 12-6-5 against it. Because the representatives struck down the bill out of reluctance to grant a two percent budget increase to GSGA, Darby explained that SGA had also killed several other important measures contained within the bill. For example, SGA had erased the $47,000 for Student Organization Collaboration technologies, for which SGA had already signed a contract in anticipation of receiving. Following a warning from SGA School of Law Representative J.J. Gonzalez (‘3L) for other SGA members to recognize “the completely different atmosphere” at the graduate schools that makes it necessary for GSGA to “have the money so that it

can be its own programming body,” the bill that had just failed was once again called into question. This time, the bill passed by a 16-4-1 vote. The other main bill of the evening, submitted by Vice President for Programming, SPC President and Goizueta Business School senior Michael Nathin, proposed to limit voting in the SPC Vice Presidential election only to SPC members. Furthermore, it also proposed adding graduate student representatives to SPC in non-voting, ex-officio roles. Although the bill passed by an 11-7-2 vote last week, it needed to be passed in two consecutive sessions of the SGA in order to become official. Nathin acknowledged that since SPC uses the student body’s money, the SPC president should always be chosen through a University-wide popular election. However, he noted that the election process within SPC is very stressful. Considering that SPC meets in a closed-door environment, Nathin explained his belief that SPC members themselves were in the best position to at least decide on their own vice president. The role of SPC vice president is strictly internal, and the vice president has no control over SPC spending. The bill passed by a 14-2-6 vote, and it will take immediate effect during this year’s annual student spring elections, which will take place from Feb. 27 to March 2.

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

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to switch to from Postini to EOP was based largely in Google’s decision to retire the Postini product and upgrade their new tool Google Apps (GA). “Upgrading [to Google Apps] would have presented us with challenges, like not having the ability to have approved or blocked senders by domain, only email addresses, having to login to a separate account to see or manage your spam and changes to how mail is scanned when it first comes into Emory,” she wrote. Flanagan, who is part of the Emory University Messaging Team, cited another reason to switch to EOP. He wrote in an email to the Wheel that third-party vendors sending bulk email were often blocked by Postini and Google Apps, and that this problem caused the majority of complaints about the system. “These issues will be alleviated with the switch to EOP,” Flanagan wrote. Flanagan added that they have worked diligently with Postini with “minimal success.” He also wrote that cost was another factor in the choice to switch to EOP instead of upgrading to Google Apps. “EOP gives us the same and better capabilities and is part of the package we get with Office 365 / Exchange,” Flanagan wrote, “Postini / Google Apps was costing Emory between $14,000 and $18,000 per month. This cost goes away [with EOP].” As for users’ reception of the upcoming switch, Flanagan wrote that the overall consensus was very positive. “Customers were extremely happy we were going to make the change,” he wrote. College junior Olivia Meisner said that she disliked the Quarantine Summary because she “always misses important emails” blocked by the service. “I’m looking forward to the new system,” she said. “It will give me a chance to go through junk e-mail at my own pace rather than waiting for the Quarantine Summary.”

— Contact Annie McGrew at amcgre2@emory.edu

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015 Editorials Editor: Rhett Henry

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DUC Study Promising, Addresses Problems For more than a year, the University has been conceptualizing and analyzing the renovation and replacement of the Dobbs University Center (DUC). This project, still early in its development, would potentially involve demolishing the DUC’s west wing (which includes Dobbs Market, Eagle’s Landing, Mail Services and Eagle Convenience) and renovating the historic east wing, according to the new center’s feasibility study, a standard work compiling feedback about the current DUC and what a new center should entail from the Emory community. The feasibility study also recommends the creation of a 1,600-person (or undergraduate class-sized) multipurpose space, increasing retail food options available in the DUC, expanding the center’s accessibility to those with disabilities and making the center more approachable for all Emory students, among other recommendations. These recommendations will not necessarily be implemented, but the study will provide concrete parameters and identify needs for the new center. We at the Wheel applaud the University for identifying this needed project, and we applaud the Emory community for accurately recognizing several aspects that should provide the foundation of this project’s design. The feasibility study projects a total cost of $98 million for the new center, a figure that could change significantly throughout the process. The University has just renovated its Mail Services and established a new convenience store in the wing of the DUC that will potentially be demolished, but we understand that these improvements were made with a new center in mind. While the cost makes our jaws drop, we hope the University uses that money judiciously. The feasibility study emphasizes sustainability as one of the key drivers in the new center, where the renovations for the new center would include upgrades to the historic DUC’s mechanical systems, insulation and other energy sources. Emory’s commitment to sustainability sets us apart from other universities, and we commend this recommendation and encourage the University to take this commitment to the forefront of the new center. In addition, if the University does decide to gut and renovate the historic east wing of the DUC, that renovation should be severe and unflinching. While the original building (which houses the Mary Gray Munroe Theater) and the rest of the east wing, named the Alumni Memorial Building and completed around 1950, has aesthetic and historical value, many of its spaces are out-of-date for the needs of modern college students, and its design (including a dysfunctional elevator and too-few bathrooms) needs an extreme makeover. If these recommendations come to fruition, we hope the University drastically changes the layout of the east wing, which is difficult for new (and old) community members to navigate and where student media groups are unnecessarily hidden away on the fifth floor. On the other hand, if these groups were moved to the main floor or another more approachable side of the center, this would increase accessibility and visibility for these organizations. We agree with much of the study’s assessment of the current deficiencies in the DUC. Today, the DUC is mostly a place for freshmen and some sophomores to eat and for student offices, which should not be the whole extent of a student union. The study aims to make the new center more approachable and useful to upperclassmen, graduate students and other Emory community members, and we feel this should be a powerful idea in the new center’s design. Additionally, the study aims to improve several shortcomings in the DUC’s current accessibility to those with disabilities. A weakness for much of Emory’s campus, handicapped accessibility in the DUC is severely lacking, specifically in the east wing’s hallways and other points of entry. A University student union, such as the DUC, should be where all students on campus, regardless of age or ability, can congregate or study — what the study calls the “living room of campus.” The current DUC does not suit these needs. Specifically, the DUC currently does not offer enough small meeting spaces for its students. The current main options for meetings are Eagle’s Landing or Coke Commons, where students often have to shout to be heard in atriums with terrible acoustics. Like the study correctly recommends, the new center should be designed with the many organizations of its University in mind. Currently, scheduling meetings at spaces like Harland Cinema becomes an unwarranted hassle, and the University should consolidate unused rooms or shoebox offices during the east wing’s renovations to better house these types of meetings. Additionally, while Emory’s several libraries are the study hotspots on campus, the new center should also seek to provide more open study areas on its main floors, similar to the new renovations on the main floor of the Woodruff Library. If the center truly seeks to be a “living room” for campus, it should aim to provide flexible, multi-purpose spaces. Finally, the idea of a large event space would be an important addition to our campus. Currently, venues for large events tend to be outside, such as on McDonough Field or the Goizueta Business School Amphitheatre, which make events at the mercy of often unpredictable weather. This forces many student organizations to plan events in venues that may be too small, such as Winship Ballroom or fraternity houses. If the new center contains a multipurpose, large event space, which could be partitioned off, this would provide a new option for student organizations (and the University, with events like Commencement) to host events in a neutral space. Overall, we at the Wheel are excited and hopeful about what a new student center can provide for Emory, and we are encouraged by the recommendations from the feasibility study, which seem to be pointing the design of the new center in the right direction. As the design and construction of the project is set to begin in the coming years, we are eager to see the University implement these recommendations. The above staff editorial represents the majority opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board.

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While American politics can often be very dysfunctional, at least it tends to be transparent. Thanks to the media, transparency laws and frequent government leaks, we can usually see how our government fails to compromise, deliver public goods and provide social services. But, regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a multilateral free trade agreement between the United States and 11 other countries in the Asia-Pacific region that is currently in negotiations, the government has been incredibly secretive. This secrecy hinders democracy, as it allows special interest to be involved in creating the TPP, while not allowing meaningful public debate about it. The TPP is big. It is the largest free trade deal in history, covering 12 countries: the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. These countries have a combined population of 792 million people and together compose 40 percent of the world’s economy. The TPP would not only drop tariffs between involved countries, but also provide labor standards, environmental commitments, an intellectual property rights framework and rules for state-owned enterprises. The supporters of the TPP assert that it will help grow the economy. President Obama has remarked that the TPP “will boost our economies, lowering barriers to trade and investment, increasing exports and creating more jobs for our people, which is my number one priority.” He is claiming that the TPP will be a boom to American business. And, supporters of the TPP want to pass it soon. Michael Froman, the U.S. Trade Representative, aims to have the trade agreement passed by the end of the year. Opponents of the TPP decry the trade agreement as a handout to big business and Wall Street that will further undermine the American middle class. Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor and a vocal TPP opponent, asserts, “The TPP would be a disaster.” Reich

believes that the TPP would lead to the export of many American jobs overseas and enrich corporations and the financial sector at the expense of the poorer countries party to the TPP via “such things as intellectual property, financial regulations, labor laws, rules for health, safety and the environment.” It is impossible to know who is right in this debate because the United States has been negotiating the terms of the TPP in secret. Neither the text nor the terms of the treaty are open to the public. Bits and pieces of it have been leaked, but overall most of the terms of the TPP remain unknown. Even members of Congress are only allowed to view the text of the agreement in the Trade Representative’s office. They may not take members of their staff with them to look at it, and they may not take it back to their offices for further inspection. The Obama administration has argued in favor of the TPP’s secrecy because it claims that public debate would interfere with the deliberative process. Members of the administration have not provided significant reason for this secrecy. When Froman was asked in an interview with The New York Times what he thought of the secrecy of the TPP’s negotiations, he responded, “Our goal is to be as transparent as we possibly can while being able to negotiate the best deal for American interests.” He essentially dodged the question, providing no substantive reason for the secrecy beyond “American interests,” whatever that may be. Senator Bernie Sanders (IndependentVermont) has been one of the most vocal critics of the TPP’s secret negotiations. Sanders said, “It is incomprehensible to me that leaders of major corporate interests who stand to gain enormous financial benefits from this agreement are actively involved in the writing of the TPP, while at the same time, the elected officials of this country, representing the American people, have little or no knowledge of what’s in it.” Rather than taking into consideration the American people, the people that the TPP

is allegedly supposed to benefit, the government is beholden to corporations. This is the policy making process not of democracy, but of corporatism. As Sanders notes, corporations have had a large influence on the drafting of the TPP. For example, the pharmaceuticals industry is pushing for medicines called biologic drugs, drugs extracted from biological sources, to be protected from international imitators for up to 12 years. Critics of this measure say that it will make these drugs unaffordable to poor people in other countries, for little reason besides enriching already fledgling big pharmaceutical companies. A New York Times article from 2013 found that, “a group of some 600 trade ‘advisers,’ dominated by representatives of big businesses ... enjoy privileged access to draft texts and negotiators.” Past administrations have been far more open regarding the deliberative processes of trade negotiations. For example, the George W. Bush administration published drafts of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (which never actually came to be) in 2001. The Obama administration needs to at least more compellingly address why it needs to negotiate the TPP in secrecy. Otherwise the administration is playing into its critics’ claims that, as Reich says, “The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the wrong remedy to the wrong problem. Any way you look at it, it’s just plain wrong.” The government needs to be more open about the TPP. That is the only way to have a meaningful public discourse about whether the United States should join the TPP. Without more information, politicians who support and oppose the TPP will just continue to talk past each other, and the public is left scratching its head not knowing who to believe. As the TPP would be so big if enacted, the American people need to be able to learn more about it to have an informed opinion and a deliberative role in its drafting. Ben Perlmutter is a College junior from Chappaqua, New York.

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Acting On Black History From the Archives: Dr. King’s Legacy Ron Cogswell | Flickr

Month Offers Reflection, Celebration Nathyia Watson Negro History Week, the precursor to Black History Month, was created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. When it was accepted by various states’ Departments of Education and cities’ school administrators, Woodson referred to its conception as “one of the most fortunate steps ever taken by the Association.” Forty-four years later, the Black United Students of Kent State University celebrated the nation’s first Black History Month, and six years afterwards, in our nation’s bicentennial, the United States government officially recognized the annual observance. President Gerald Ford commented, “We can seize the opportunity to honor the toooften neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” On the first day of February, to celebrate the beginning of this observance, I posted to Facebook a Langston Hughes quote that I’m fond of and captioned it “Welcome to Black History Month.” A friend of mine commented on the quote questioning whether or not Black History Month was holding the race back. Unclear as to what he meant, I talked with him, and he explained his opinions, which I’m sure many other people share. Our conversation was lengthy, but his thoughts can be summarized as follows: He felt that Black History Month, despite being a great concept, would ultimately turn out to be negative. Black history is vast and significant in a multitude of ways, much more than the typical slave narrative, and he felt that Black History Month was a relegation of this rich history, turning it into a simple footnote tacked onto American and Western

history. Finally, he felt that by relegating this entire people’s history to just a month, and by not giving it the constant attention it merits, it would become more difficult for Black history to become canon in our education. His concerns are all valid, but I disagreed with his pessimistic view of the annual observance.

... Black History Month is an occasion to rejoice in Black history ... Instead, I believe Black History Month, if utilized properly, can be really useful. As of now, without the attention put on it during February, Black history, outside of the unavoidable slave narrative, would largely be ignored. So having a month to highlight it may be exactly what’s needed to give Black history its justly due attention. I believe we do need Black History Month, or at least something like it. I’d be hesitant to say that any other culture is as disconnected from its past as Black people in the United States are now. There’s so much more to Black history than slavery and Martin Luther King Jr., history that most people may never know about. I believe that, were it not for the attention Black History Month draws to all of that history, people would become even further disconnected from it, and its importance could be irreversibly lost. Furthermore, I believe Black History Month isn’t solely for the purpose of learning or discovering Black history. While that is an important aspect of the observance, I believe its more important function is that of celebrating the history.

In fact, I believe the term annual observance is insufficient for the month; Black History Month is not simply an observance of this history, just as your birthday isn’t simply an observance of yourself, and as Mother’s Day isn’t simply an observance of one’s mother. No; just as your birthday is an occasion for you to celebrate the gift of life, and Mother’s Day is an occasion to show the most important woman in your life just how much she means to you, Black History Month is an occasion to rejoice in Black history, to appreciate its richness and to praise it loudly, so that others may hear. So, is Black History Month holding Black people back? It certainly has the potential to, if we are content to let it. And if we do not, having learned of its richness, we will continue to value Black history outside of these 28 or 29 days. If we continue to view the observance in a negative light (e.g. “It’s the shortest month of the year!”) and give in to the expectation that such a view entails — that we aren’t supposed to appreciate our history outside of this month — then it becomes more difficult to truly value our heritage and, as a consequence, truly value ourselves. Then, Black History Month will hold us back, undoubtedly. However, if we let who we’ve come from help us discover who we are; if we let where we’ve been show us where we’ll go; if we come to understand how what we’ve wrestled with in the past can speak to our present struggles; if we let what we’ve accomplished inspire us to accomplish more; if we praise Black history to where others can see how brightly it shines, then Black History Month will, instead of holding us back, push us forward. Nathyia Watson is a College freshman from Buffalo, New York.

This editorial by Tracy R. Rone, former assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, appeared in the January 23, 2005 issue of the Wheel under the headline “A Few Ways to Celebrate King’s Legacy, Branch Out Across Racial Boundaries.” In it, Rone encourages Emory students to spend King Week dedicating themselves to promoting Dr. King’s vision of a “promised land” through community activism. One of my first childhood memories is related to a significant act of violence. As my family prepares for dinnertime, the banter of the day’s happenings is abruptly interrupted by the seriousness of a television announcer’s voice. A hush falls over the room, movement comes to a standstill and then the adults’ faces grow heavy. It is April 4, 1968, and Martin Luther King Jr. has been gunned down. Even though I am only three years old, I sense this event has just radically altered the world. Since moving to Atlanta in January 2000, I contemplate this memory far more often than I have any place else I have lived. Because Atlanta is the birthplace of the late Dr. King and a critical site in the Civil Rights Movement, the observation of his birthday in this city takes on a near-sacred quality. Dr. King’s life and legacy are replete with many riches, and his gifts of humanitarianism, peace, compassion and love are perhaps most appropriate to consider as we prepare for King Day observations in a world that increasingly seems short on peace. Each semester that I instruct Anthropology 202: Core Concepts and Methods in Cultural Anthropology, I extend instruction about social inequality and political economy by requiring all students to visit the Martin Luther King Historic Center, support its race relations film series and last semester to view the “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America” exhibit. In part, a visit to the King Center reflects my personal attempt to challenge the belief widely held by many Emory undergrads that anything south of Buckhead is dangerous, marginal or inherently a place to be feared. Each semester, I join students on their journey to the King Center and silently delight when we arrive and someone says, “Wow, this is really close to Emory.” There is an absence of the anticipated imagined world of danger. The South and Emory have changed for the better since Dr. King’s assassination in 1968. Yet we have miles to go before reaching Dr. King’s vision of the “promised land.” Last year, the prestigious Princeton Review awarded the Emory community the unflatter-

ing distinction of No. 2 in “Little Race/Class Interaction.” Recently, in The Emory Wheel, your peers have brought attention to Emory’s study, dining and social groups and asked, “Do they look just like you?” As we celebrate King Week, I encourage each Emory College student to assume individual responsibility for making a difference. There are not any letter grades or extra credit. At the other end of this journey are the simple, yet great gifts of faith, hope and compassion. During King Week, Jan. 20-26, I invite every Emory student to see our often-segregated daily lives as an opportunity to begin to take action of these three tasks: Task 1: Cross boundaries. Central to the late Dr. King’s message is the value of embracing a multicultural nation and world. Make the most of Emory’s increasingly diverse population. Reach out to someone who does not look like you, someone with whom you do not share similar ethnic, racial, religious or socioeconomic background. Strike up a conversation. Offer a helping hand. Task 2: Participate. Participate in a campus or local Atlanta activity that commemorates the life and contributions of the late Dr. King...and commit to participating in an activity that honors the message of Dr. King. Visit the King Center; although not closer than Club 112, it is closer than the Buckhead party scene and shopping district. And I promise you that you will learn something during your visit. Task 3: Serve. Also central to the late Dr. King’s message is the value of service. Connect your life as a servant to someone else. Two universal basic human needs are food and shelter from the elements. Use your hands and heart to feed the hungry, or build a shelter through Habitat for Humanity. Help teach a child to read or to discover his or her gifts. As always, there are opportunities for individuals and groups through Volunteer Emory. Additional information about service activities is available on the Web at the King Center’s site. I introduced this task list with the verb begin. My first invitation is to complete tasks one through three, and the second is to uphold the promise by continuing to take action after King Week becomes a memory. Now is the time, and Atlanta could not be a better place. Be inspired by the late Dr. King’s message and legacy to our local, national and international communities. May you follow in his footsteps and believe that your actions can make a difference in each of our lives.

... we have miles to go before reaching Dr. King’s vision of the “promised land.”

Fiscal Solvency a Shared, Pressing Obstacle Mark Davies “I know cause I won both of ‘em,” President Obama said defiantly during his State of the Union address two weeks ago after Republican members of Congress sarcastically applauded the fact that he had run his last campaign. As a supporter of the President on most issues, I admit that I loved this moment. His speech was cocky and partisan. If he was blamed for the sluggish economy of his first term, doesn’t he have a right to take credit for its recent upswing? Still, my urge to cheer on Obama was resisted by another feeling, that of discouragement over a fact we all already know: Washington is broken. Obama outlined a series of policy ideas throughout his speech, almost none of which will ever become law in a Republican Congress. And one issue that he had repeatedly discussed in previous State of the Unions was glaringly absent: our national debt. Today, our government’s debt is at about $13 trillion, equal to around 74 percent of our gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014. Except for the period during and immediately following World War II, this is an unprecedented level, and one that will continue to skyrocket unless major policy changes are made. Debt is not always a pernicious force. Taking on debt was crucial to our country’s recovery from the Great Depression. But the amount of debt that a country can accumulate before its citizens feel the economic burden is limited. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that a failure to act will cause federal debt to reach 106 percent of GDP within 25 years. The economic ramifications would be severe for all Americans, reducing the average income per person by $5,000, according to the CBO. Forget domestic investments. By 2050, interest costs alone on the debt are projected to be more than four times what the federal government has historically spent on education, infrastructure and research and development combined. In this era of overwhelming political polarization, two distinct courses of action on this issue gain traction. On the right, conservatives argue for spending cuts. On the left, progres-

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sives highlight the need for tax increases. Our ideologies predispose us to either of these positions, leading to a logjam in which both sides speak over each other. But we do have a common goal — All Americans have something to gain from ensuring our nation’s long-term fiscal solvency. After all, a surplus would provide an economic boom and allow the government to make the investments that American people so badly need, in areas such as education, infrastructure and scientific and technological advancement that increase opportunities for all Americans, regardless of circumstance. Entitlement programs like Social Security are vital to protecting many Americans in need, but a failure to reform them will reduce our ability to make the smart investments that our generation, our children and our grandchildren need.

Reducing our debt should be an area of bipartisan compromise. Even in the Washington of Netflix’s “House of Cards,” where murder and backstabbing reign, a compromise over entitlement reform was reached. Yet, Obama did not touch on the issue in his address to Congress and the nation, a symbolic declaration that the prospects of solving this problem during the Obama administration are dead. If logic counted in Washington, centrists on both sides of the aisle would get together and pass a compromise solution such as that developed by the Simpson-Bowles Commission. That commission was created by President Obama in 2010 and issued a comprehensive set of policy recommendations to stabilize the long-term national debt through a combination of raising revenue and cutting spending. Eleven of the 18 commis-

sion members supported those recommendations, falling short of the 14 needed to send the plan to Congress for an up or down vote. Nonetheless, the plan is often cited as a framework for a potential bipartisan deal. Unfortunately, as we have seen time and time again, such logic and compromise is ephemeral in Washington. Despite bipartisan support among the public and many political leaders (Democrats like Nancy Pelosi (California) and Steny Hoyer (Maryland) and Republicans like John McCain (Arizona) and Michael Crapo (Idaho) all support the Simpson-Bowles framework, which achieved a 2:1 ratio of spending cuts to revenue increases), extremists and ideologues on both sides, such as the liberal economist Paul Krugman and budget hawk Paul Ryan (Wisconsin), rallied opposition against the compromise. In some ways, this makes sense. Politicians

do not have any incentive to act on this issue. It’s in their short-term interest to stick to their ideological guns — the mere mention of touching an entrenched entitlement program or raising taxes can spell defeat for a politician whose re-election is their primary concern — even if it puts their children and grandchildren in the uncomfortable position of footing the ballooning bill. So who we do we turn to if we can’t count on our representatives in Washington? Ourselves. It’s up to us to solve this problem now instead of 25 years from now, when the problem will be so much worse. If our political leaders are only thinking about the present, we have to think about the future. The national debt is not a sexy issue. No one will ever have a federal holiday made in their honor for leading the entitlement reform movement. But if the college students of today want a strong economy 25 years from now and to receive benefits from entitlement programs such as Social Security that they currently pay in to, they need to make their voices heard. Young people should raise awareness about our fiscal crisis and send a clear message that anyone who wants our votes must take our future seriously. We can get informed and discuss this issue and our options to address it without the partisan rhetoric that feeds the gridlock in Washington. Changing the way we think about the national debt is the best way to get our representatives to address it. There are so many reasons to care about fixing our national debt. If you’re passionate about education, about civil rights, about taxation, about pretty much anything the government does, should or should not do, then you should care about our debt. We can’t spend our way out of this, and we can’t cut our way out of this. But bold, bipartisan solutions do exist. So keep that in mind when you go to the voting booth, when you talk politics with your friends, when you watch the next State of the Union. Raising awareness about this issue is our only choice, and it’s up to us Millennials to do so if our representatives refuse. Mark Davies (‘14C) is an alumnus of the College from Pelham, New York.

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Arts Entertainment Tuesday, February 10, 2015 Arts & Entertainment Editor: Samuel Budnyk (samuel.ross.budnyk@emory.edu)

Theater Emory

‘Assimilation’ Proves Powerful, Creates Meaning By Julia Munslow Staff Writer

How do you become a real human being? While most of us have never asked this question, let alone attempted to answer it, three of the characters in Jack Dalton’s Assimilation struggled to find the correct answer. Theater Emory presented Assimilation on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Theater Lab of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. As a part of Emory’s Global Voices, the play is one in a series of readings exploring how we perceive the diversity of cultures in the 21st century through the perspectives of up-andcoming playwrights. The series runs from Jan. 27 to Feb. 15 in the Schwartz Theater Lab. Dalton’s play tells the story of a futuristic boarding school in Alaska where three white male students are forced to assimilate into the cultures of the indigenous Yup’ik people that are replacing the remaining nation-states. The boarding school requires that the students learn the Native language, religion and traditions. When the students fail, they are not only insulted, degraded and humiliated, but also physically beaten and isolated for long periods of time. “You’re never going to become a real human being,” sneers Elder (played by professional actress Jeannette Blackwell), the malicious headmistress of the school. While Assimilation is set in a futuristic society, the abuses that took place at the boarding school are very real for the indigenous peoples in Alaska and for those around the world. Emory professor and dramaturg Michael Evenden acknowledged that the play’s subject matter might be horrific but is entirely necessary for

Carlos Museum

Carlos Museum ‘African Cosmos’ Exhibition a Success By Samuel Budnyk Arts & Entertainment Editor

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Alaskan playwright (Above) Jack Dalton’s play Assimilation was featured as a part of Theater Emory’s Global Voices series, which stages works concerned with race written by contemporary writers. the education of the public on the history of the indigenous boarding schools, describing the play as “a profoundly obscene piece of history.” Presented as a reading of the play, I expected only some dramatization on the part of the actors — I even pictured the cast calmly sitting and literally reading their lines to the audience. Thankfully, I couldn’t have been more wrong. While the stage was only set with chairs and black music stands for the actors, each cast member was fully engaged in their respective characters, using as much voice and move-

ment as possible to shape the powerful performance. The presence of scripts allowed the cast to focus on their delivery instead of their lines, particularly with regard to their voices, enunciating each word with practiced and precise emotions. Blackwell was stunning as Elder, who perpetrates the majority of the brutal punishments on the students when they cannot grasp the language or concepts of the Native culture. In one of the most emotionally difficult scenes, the audience heard Elder beating the boys behind a curtain.

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Though we could only hear her voice, Blackwell was superb, putting all of her energy into each carefully enunciated and hateful syllable. Despite her character’s viciousness, Blackwell still managed to bring a degree of poignancy to the role. In a particularly moving scene where Elder wonders if she is doing the right thing, Blackwell’s talents allow the audience to find some sort of sympathy for the callous headmistress. Opposite Elder is Teacher, a young, idealistic woman who is a new teacher at the boarding school. College

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Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum unveiled its latest visiting exhibition, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, on Jan. 31. The exhibit, which is from the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian, focuses thematically on representations of the heavens by African artists and artisans, with the bulk of the material representing the crafting traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries and supplementary objects from the Carlos’ Nubian and Egyptian collection to provide a deeper historical frame of reference for the exhibition On its opening day, the museum was filled to the brim with a diverse mix of visitors. Young families brought their children, college students from Emory and Georgia Tech browsed with their friends and a good number of locals from the greater Atlanta area were present. After flashing my Emory ID to the woman at the ticketing counter, I began my walkthrough of the museum. After a few brief stops in the New World and Greco-Roman galleries, I made my way through the Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern collections and up a flight of stairs to the exhibition’s entrance. Walking in, I was greeted by a collection of Yoruban artifacts representing a god of thunder, Shango. Crafted primarily of heavy, dark woods, and always by hand, these objects of traditional religious significance had an unusual objective charisma to them; I felt engaged in their history by bearing witness to them. In fact, this was a common trend throughout the showing. Almost every single piece presented was very obviously handmade. Slight imper-

fections, absences of machine-like perfect symmetry and plainer materials such as wood or stone offered a breath of fresh air from other presentations of only the finest, most valuable objects of the ruling classes. These items were used by people who lived an ordinary life, and the exhibition makes this very clear. Those works in the exhibit that were more of the fine arts tradition, such as Gavin Jantjes’ acrylic work “Untitled,” provided an intriguing and engaging counterpoint to most items in the collection that consisted of more mundane objects, such as furniture and drinking vessels. As a viewer, it was satisfying to see some of the traditional trends maintain their narrative in spite of greater Western involvement in African nations. The fusion of African and Western European artistic genres offers a heterotopic space that one does not often find in modern museums; these works represent a historically unpresent minority in the arts community. Looking at the big picture, the Carlos Museum did an excellent job of integrating the various media into a cohesive showing. The exhibition’s rooms on the upper floor were completely redone for African Cosmos, and it seems to have paid off. Museum attendees can approach much of the collection from multiple directions, allowing for a complete 360-degree viewing of some of the three-dimensional works, such as sculpture work or some of the wooden pieces. Allowing a viewer to look at so many of the pieces from all sides further exemplifies what this exhibition has done right: it is accessible, both in terms of literal viewing and in explanations of the pieces for

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First Friday

Live Action Remakes Ahead! By Kelsey Klosterman Staff Writer

When you hear about the announcement of a remake, it’s either the best or the worst day of your life. They always seem to be hit-or-miss: either you’re getting more amazing material for the shows, movies and comics you love, or you’re facing a horrible new take on something formerly fantastic. Recently, it seems like live-action remakes have become the television and movie-making trend. It doesn’t matter what the material started out as — comic books, cartoons, video games — as long as it was animated, anything can become live-action. That’s exactly what’s happening to the “Teen Titans” and “The Legend of Zelda” series. I have to admit, “Teen Titans” was my favorite show as a kid. I grew up watching it, so every bit of news about it is exciting for me. The appearance of “Teen Titans Go!” in 2013 was a devastating disappointment that I will never recover from, having stripped the show of its complex components and reduced it to a two-dimensional gag-reel. After that, I was left with some doubts regarding remakes in general. After all, why make a new version of something that was already so great? Still, I couldn’t help it; I was eager to learn more once I heard about “Teen Titan’s” newest remake. “Teen Titans,” which began as a comic series published by DC Comics, has a long history, tons of heroes to speak for and a passionate fanbase. When it was first announced that the series was getting a live-action remake titled “Titans,” there were mixed opinions. Would using live-action mean cheap effects? Would it mean bad acting? There’s a certain charm in animation that you just can’t find in live-action. With cartoons, things don’t have

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irst Friday is an Emory tradition featuring all of the various a capella groups to be found on campus. The performances, which take place on the Dobbs University Center Terraces on the first Friday of each month, feature various genres of music and never fail to draw a crowd.

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to be as real, and with that freedom comes a kind of magic that actual people can’t portray. Fan favorites Robin, Starfire and Raven are confirmed to appear in the new series, though there hasn’t been any news regarding Beast Boy and Cyborg, the other members of the main cast from the Cartoon Network series. The “Teen Titans” comic series was, as DC’s work tends to be, rather dark and gritty. The Cartoon Network series that later drew in so many fans was a family show, which meant bright colors, cartoon gags and PG-rated jokes. What worked for the animated series was how it managed to blend the darker themes of power and control with the lighthearted quirks of the characters. Moving from animation to liveaction will most likely bring back some of the grit that came with the original comics — no complaints there. With the family audience that both animated series catered to, there was only so much room for darker themes. Each version of “Teen Titans” has had its own strengths and weaknesses, and each focused on a different overall feeling. I’m looking forward to seeing

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The Grammys

57th Annual Grammy Awards: Surprises and Snubs By Annie McNutt Staff Writer

The Grammy Awards is the premier night in music, featuring the year’s best artists, songs and albums, and this year did not disappoint. From odd and sometimes uncomfortable artistic groupings to performances that caused chills, the 57th Annual Grammy Awards was full of surprises. The evening opened with a high octane performance by AC/DC. First, the group performed “Rock or Bust,” which was energetic and upbeat. However, their second song, classic “Highway to Hell” was a crowd pleaser. The pyrotechnics, and the devil-horn clad audience members proved that a good song can never really go out of style. From there, the host for the evening, hip hop artist LL Cool J, commented that the night was only going to go up, and he was right. The first award of the evening, presented by Taylor Swift, was for best new artist. Given the nominees, the choice was obvious to me, and the Grammy went to Sam Smith. If there had to be one winner for the evening, it would be Smith, who

took home four awards (Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album, Song of the Year and Record of the Year). Smith also had one of the best acceptance speeches of the night when he claimed his award for record of the year, saying, “Thank you to the man I fell in love with and who broke my heart, you won me four Grammys.” Not only did Smith clean up the awards, but his performance of his hit song “Stay With Me,” was one of the best of the evening. Smith performed with Mary J Blige and together, the two were a powerhouse duo of soulful tones and crystal clear high notes. Some of the other great performances of the evening belonged to Ed Sheeran, Adam Levine, Gwen Stefani and Beyoncé. Sheeran performed his hit song “Thinking Out Loud” with John Mayer on guitar and backup vocals. Though there was a great mix from country to rock, Sheeran’s performance was one of the first slower songs of the evening — and it definitely set a high bar. Levine and Stefani also had an incredible performance that wowed both audience member and viewers at home. They sang “My Heart Is Open” and became emotional, clos-

ing their eyes and appearing to really and truly feel the gravity of the words they were belting out. As Stefani swayed from side to side, she and Levine combined their voices to create a beautifully haunting harmony. Another strong performance goes out to Queen B. Has Beyoncé ever not had a good performance? She walked on stage in a gorgeous white flowing dress to sing “Take Me Home Precious Lord,” and she was amazing as usual. Beyoncé also took home a Grammy for Best R&B Song for her hit “Drunk in Love.” While we are talking about Beyoncé, she was passed over in favor of Beck for the coveted Album of the Year award. Just as Beck reached the stage, Kanye West could be seen in the corner of the screen looking like he was heading up to the stage à la MTV Awards 2009 when he rudely interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech claiming that Beyoncé deserved the award for Best Female Video. Though it appeared as though West was trying to make light of the 2009 situation, he later stated in an interview on E! that he was serious and then reconsidered. This attempted interruption at the

Grammys was distasteful and awkward; one would think that West would have learned better by now. The Grammys are known for their incredible music performances; often, it’s more about the performances than who wins the awards. Despite all of the performance greatness that is usually present at the Grammys, this year there were a few moments that didn’t live up to their expectations. One of the biggest setbacks was the odd artist pairings that seemed and sounded out of place. The most off grouping of the evening was Rihanna, West and Paul McCartney. The trio performed Rihanna’s song “Four Five Seconds,” and McCartney just did not fit in. West and Rihanna were singing and dancing together, getting incredibly into the performance, while McCartney was just standing off to the side playing guitar. On the whole, the Grammys were a great run-through of this past year’s music, the good and the bad. Though the show lasted three and a half hours, all the awards, performances and awkward moments will leave viewers replaying the songs over and over again in their heads.

— Contact Annie McNutt at annemarie.mcnutt@emory.edu

‘Teen Titans,’ ‘Legend of Zelda’ Live Action Shows in Development Continued from Page 9 what comes from this new series, and I hope it exceeds expectations. A more surprising turn of events is the announcement of “The Legend of Zelda” live-action retelling. Video game giant Nintendo is known for being protective of its intellectual property, so this was shocking news for fans. Adaptations are rarely allowed. It seems about as bizarre as making a live-action series for the Mario gang — though that movie did exist and was a complete commercial failure. The show is to be hosted on Netflix and is still in the earliest stages of development. Nintendo hasn’t released much information but the corporation has described it as “Game of Thrones” for a family audience — it’ll have a kid-friendly atmosphere with all the magic from the “Zelda” series. It’s hard to say exactly how the series will turn out.

“Zelda” had an animated series in 1989, which lasted one season and now exists as little more than an inside joke in certain circles of the internet purely by virtue of its awkward absurdity. Now, however, Nintendo tends not to release too much disappointing content because of its efforts to establish itself as a reliable brand. The show has a long way to go until it’s released, so there’s plenty of time to perfect it, so one can hope that this go-round will prove more fruitful than the last one. It’s a big step to take an idea from a two-dimensional space to a threedimensional one. It’s been done before, with both huge failures and massive successes. “Teen Titans” and “The Legend of Zelda” games are close to many hearts, so here’s to hoping that they’ll turn out to be everything we’re looking for.

—Contact Kelsey Klosterman at kkloste@emory.edu

the pulse presents: Black Dog

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tudent literary magazine The Pulse organized a creative writing reading on Feb. 6 as part of their Black Dog student readings series. Student writers are offered the chance to read their writing, both prose and poetry, to their peers. College senior Eugene Ahn (above) reads one of his works aloud in the lobby of Longstreet-Means Hall.

Theater Emory Global Voices Series Raises Important Questions Continued from Page 9 junior Zana Pouncey played Teacher as having both a quiet passion and a steadfast commitment to humanity. Her innocent optimism and desire to do the right thing throughout the play made her moments of infuriation with the lack of equality even more powerful. Travis Draper of Actors’ Equity Association tugged on the heartstrings of the audience in his performance as the naive Michael, a loveable and determined student though not the smartest. There was something about Draper’s performance that made the audience connect so strongly with his character’s constant desire and dedication to assimilate despite the fact that he is constantly abused and harassed. The actors’ performances were made even more impressive upon realizing that they had only rehearsed for a mere 10 hours. However, the most compelling part

of the performance was its content. Dalton managed to create one of the most powerful plays that I have ever seen in Assimilation. The intensity and horrific nature of the boarding schools that forced students to assimilate becomes very real to the audience, especially to those who have never learned of the violence in boarding schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We sympathize with each and every character, finally understanding that not all of the situation is their fault, but the fault of the cycle of oppression throughout history. After the play, Dalton, Evenden and the cast held a conversation with the audience, open to any questions or comments about the reading. Dalton, an Alaskan Native adopted by a non-Native family, revealed that Assimilation was born in an attempt to help his adoptive mother understand the pain and frustration that Native Alaskans still feel about past wrongs, such as the horrors of

the indigenous boarding schools. For more than 200 years, a countless number of indigenous children were forced to endure the schools’ methods of assimilation, which included beatings and sexual abuse at the hands of their teachers. He shared that he believes the play did allow his adoptive mother to gain a better understanding of the situation. “Writing these plays, it’s about healing work,” Dalton told the audience. “Change and healing can’t come from the outside, [they have] to come from the inside.” During the conversation, the audience turned to the topic of racial equality. While the three students are written as male and white and were cast as such, Teacher and Elder are written as Native, but played by black actresses in Emory’s production. “What Adam and Michael [two of the students] want is what any minority strives for,” Dalton explained. “To

Sci-Fi

Star Wars: The Franchise Revisited By Jake Choi Staff Writer

The start of a new sequel trilogy, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will be released in theaters Dec. 18. Ten years after “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” we will once again go to a galaxy far, far away. A sure blockbuster, “The Force Awakens” will be the first of the sequel trilogy, chronologically set after “Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.” Unsurprisingly, there is a great deal riding on this newest entry in the Star Wars Universe. The original Star Wars trilogy is a space opera that spawned a world phenomenon. Originally created and directed by George Lucas as an homage to old science fiction shows such as “Flash Gordon,” Star Wars started as a movie with a budget of $11 million that no one really expected to be big. Upon release in 1977, it became a critically and financially successful sleeper-hit. Filled with ground-breaking special effects, it was a cultural juggernaut that revolutionized cinema and changed people’s perception of movies. The public realized that space movies, despite the vast and unknown nature of what’s beyond Earth, can be fun and fast-paced. Star Wars transformed the movie-going experience to one filled with adventure beyond the cosmos. It influenced popular culture in countless ways and, overall, is considered one of the greatest franchises of all time by critics and audiences alike. But this was only before the dark times. Before the prequels. I’m just kidding. Unlike the majority of Star Wars fans, I don’t mindlessly hate the prequels because they are not as good as the originals. But there are reasons for the prequels’ infamy: convoluted, nonsensical plots, stilted, awkward dialogue, characters who make inane decisions and an overall failure of an attempt to surpass the original trilogy. Through further examination, you could see the prequels failed in the narrative by trying to mold an unlikeable Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader, focusing too much on mindboggling politics and interplanetary relations, portraying human relationships as wooden and boring and shoving an obscene amount of special effects into the films that take out the risk

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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is stirring much discussion within the Star Wars fan community. factor and our emotional investment in the film as a consequence. Even though the movies had their share of great moments, the fans’ expectations were let down. That’s why the public’s reaction to the sequel trilogy is so widely enthusiastic, yet also cautious. The story of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is set 30 years after “Return of the Jedi” and “Fall of the Empire.” There is a dearth of information on the movie; what we do know comes from the miniteaser released in November and news reports. “The Force Awakens” is directed by J.J. Abrams who is known for his work in “Lost” and “Star Trek”. With Abrams in charge, we can expect to see a myriad of differences from the prequels, which were directed by Lucas. The shots of X-wings skimming across the water and the Millennium Falcon looping upside down in mid-air already show a change in the aesthetic. The trailer also reveals several exciting points to look for, including the character Finn in a Stormtrooper outfit in a desert locale, a soccer-ball droid called BB-8, new designs for Stormtrooper armor and a Sith figure activating a lightsaber with a crossguard. In addition, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher will be returning as Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia, respectively. Even if it were to be poor in quality, there is no doubt that “The Force Awakens” will be incredibly success-

ful at the box office. Regardless, it’s exciting because Disney seems to be revving for an expanded Star Wars Universe by announcing three spinoffs. This is not to say that they will strictly use the Expanded Universe; in fact, Disney has already started recruiting directors and actors. One of the spin-offs will be directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) and will star Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything). Scheduled to hit theaters Dec. 16, 2016, this movie will be based around intergalactic bounty hunters, including Boba Fett. Another spin-off will be directed by Josh Trank, the director of the Fantastic Four reboot and Chronicle. If The Force Awakens is successful, this could mean a whole new direction for the franchise because it can even bring the possibility of a Star Wars cinematic universe like Marvel, a notion not too far-fetched, seeing how Disney owns both companies. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will be one of the highest grossing movies of the year, maybe the highest if it does well in critical reviews. It’s not certain what direction that J.J. Abrams and Disney will go with this, but hopefully, it will preserve the magic and wonder of the original trilogy by celebrating its rich mythos and introducing an engaging plot and memorable characters. May the Force be awakened so it can be with J.J. Abrams on opening day.

— Contact Jake Choi at hahn.choi@emory.edu

be accepted as completely equal to the majority.” Dalton shared his hope that the play will provoke dialogue and enact change. While the play does tell the story of Native Alaskans, the “us versus them” oppression is a story sadly common throughout history. “It’s the story of any minority,” Blackwell said passionately. “It’s my story.” So how does one become a real human being? In Assimilation, it is an exclusive and elusive concept. However, the play answered its own question by showing the undeniable humanity in each of the characters, reminding the audience of the importance in the understanding and acknowledgement every person’s innate humanity, even when it might be hard to find without the utmost effort.

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

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those that may not be familiar with the cultural traditions from which they have been drawn. Furthermore, greater representation of digital and film media (such as William Kentridge’s short “Day for Night”) covered significantly more artistic genre than most are accustomed to finding in a museum. I hope to see more integration of multimedia displays in the museum; maintaining relevance in both content and presentation is crucial for a museum that hopes to have a meaningful presence in its community. In conclusion, the African Cosmos exhibition is a modern museum exhibition done right. It has created an intellectually accessible space for all those who wish to come. In addition, its integration of multimedia and a

simple, elegant floorplan show what all presentations should strive to do. The presence of children and local, non-Emory-affiliated community members on the day of the grand opening is an encouraging trend as well, hopefully indicative of greater outreach on the part of the Carlos Museum. It is worth noting that your Emory Student ID Card gets you in for free — setting aside even one hour on a free afternoon would be well worth the investment. If you have not been to the museum yet, you most certainly need to; it is an opportunity unique to our campus that is really something special. The exhibition runs through June 21, 2015.

— Contact Samuel Budnyk at sbudnyk@emory.edu

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Sophomore Michelle DeMeo follows through after a serve. DeMeo and the Eagles began their spring season with a match up against Division I University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Team Opens Season with D-I Loss By Jacob Spitzer Staff Writer The Emory women’s tennis team began their spring season against Division I University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) this past Saturday, Feb. 7. The Eagles were swept across the board by the overpowering Mocs and finished on the wrong side of a 7-0 deficit. Number one singles junior Beatrice Rosen lost both sets 6-1 against UTC junior Kayla Jones. In a closer match, second singles sophomore Katarina Su dropped each of her two sets 7-6. “I thought I played really well,” Rosen said. “It was hard to find my rhythm against [Jones] though. She was really strong and had a really strong serve.” In the doubles matches, freshman Anna Fuhr and Su played against

UTC’s Jones and freshman Samantha Caswell in the first singles spot, losing 6-3. Sophomore Melissa Goodman and Rosen lost in a 6-1 tiebreaker, bringing the score to 7-6. In thirds, Madison Gordon and sophomore Michelle DeMeo fell 6-1. While Chattanooga blew out the Eagles score wise, the Eagles kept their composure, Rosen said. “Even though we didn’t have a lot of wins, no one got angry,” she said. “No one gave up early. We stayed strong mentally and that’s really important for when we play Division III schools. It’s making me excited for the rest of the season.” Su saw the competition as a predictor of a strong season. “I was impressed with the freshmen,” she said. “They’ve never played such high level players before, and they played great. Our team has a really great dynamic, and I’m excited

for future matches.” Starting the season with a Division I team was not easy. After all, the Eagles are defending Division III Champions. “We didn’t know how strong they actually were,” Rosen said. “We go into each match with the same mentality to just do our best no matter what. There aren’t any games I’m thinking about in the future because I just look at each match one by one.” The Eagles’ Division III rivals offer the most exciting play, Su said. “I’m excited to play Division III teams like Amherst and Johns Hopkins,” she said. “Those will be fun.” Emory, now sitting at 0-1 on the season, will play at Brenau University in Gainesville, Ga. for a 2 p.m. match against the Golden Tigers on Saturday, Feb. 14th. — Contact Jacob Spitzer at jacob.alexander.spitzer@emory.edu

11 rebounds, while junior guard Ilene Tsao and sophomore guard Fran Sweeney both landed in double figures with 10 and 11 points, respectively. The win provided some measure of revenge for the Eagles, who had lost to Brandeis on the road a week earlier. “We knew we didn’t perform like we should have the weekend before,” Tsao said. “There weren’t too many adjustments made, it was more about changing our mentality.” The Eagles’ game against NYU was a back-and-forth affair to start, with five lead changes in the game’s first 10 minutes. For every Eagles basket, the Violets had a response — when Bevan knocked down a jumper to put Emory ahead 18-15, NYU junior forward Megan Dawe answered with a three-point play to tie the game. Two minutes later, when Bevan responded with a three-point play of her own, Violets junior guard Riley Wurtz knotted the game at 23 apiece with a three-pointer. Emory got the last word in the first half, however, on a free throw with just one second to go to put the Eagles up 28-27 entering the intermission. The Violets came out firing in the second half. A 17-2 run that spanned nine minutes pulled NYU ahead 44-30 before Sweeney answered at the line with a pair of free throws. A three-pointer from sophomore guard Shellie Kaniut cut the lead to single digits with just under nine minutes to go, but the Violets had an answer for every Eagles run. Emory threatened once more down the stretch on a remarkable nine straight points from Sayyid, but NYU went seven for eight at the free throw line in the last minute, and the Eagles couldn’t cut the gap to a single possession. “It’s all mental,” Head Coach Christy Thomaskutty said of the Eagles’ second half struggles. “We’re not consistent enough. The only thing we’re consistent at is being inconsistent.” Sayyid once against led the Eagles with 18 points, while Bevan contributed 15. They were the only two players in double digits for Emory. The Eagles will stay in Atlanta to host UAA rival Washington University (Mo.) this Friday at 6 p.m. — Contact Ryan Smith at ryan.smith@emory.edu

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the Southeast tends to not be particularly competitive. And Emory’s UAA in the UAA. Crane’s two success- counterparts gain a certain advantage ful races are especially impressive, in frequently facing top D-III teams. Curtin said, because they took place “I think that’s far more motivating. with very little rest time in between. Up there, you’re running against kids Senior Marissa Gogniat also that you might see at the National impressed in the seeded 3,000-meter Champtionship,” Curtin said. “You run with a time of 10:36.34 and a develop rivalries, and it gives the kids 10th-place finish, while junior Aileen a little more of a sense of belonging. Rivell’s 18:56.53 time earned her a Here, we’re competition against a lot 15th-place finish in the 5,000-meter of schools we’ll never see at a conferrun. ence meet.” Sophomore Still, the Eagles’ Alexa Young placed trips to D-I or D-II first in the unseeded tracks are not in 800-meter run with “We could win UAAs, or vein. a time of 2:21.49. “Honestly, we at least do really well, For Young, who were up against but it’s definitely going some pretty strong had not competed to take heart.” since the Eagles’ D-I schools, but last trip to ETSU on having that comJan. 17, “More than — Alexa Young, petition was pretty anything, it was just Sophomore Emory women’s helpful. It can be about getting back track and field team member intimidating, but out there,” she said. it helped us and At the USC pushed us to reach Open, freshman Phillip Greenfield solid marks across the board,” Young breezed through a 55-meter dash in said. 6.87 seconds, placing him 37th in The UAA Championships are the event. He was closely followed scheduled for Feb. 28 and March 1 by junior Spencer Koh, who cleared at the University of Chicago (Ill.), a height of 4.20 meters to win the and the Eagles have only two more pole vault, and earned 38th place opportunities to earn a spot. with a time of 6.89 seconds for his “Everybody on our team is capa55-meter dash. ble of running amazing times. We On the women’s side, Caitlin could win UAAs, or at least do really Cheeseboro succeeded in both the well, but it’s definitely going to take 55-meter dash and 55-meter hurdles heart,” Young said. “This is kind of with a 7.86 second 26th-place finish our last chance, and people realize and a 8.87 second ninth-place fin- it.” ish, respectively. Elaina Kim led the The Eagles will again split up Eagles’ pole vault effort, clearing this weekend, sending mostly top3.20 meters for second place, fol- half mid-distance runners and relay lowed by freshman Dara Liss, who teams to the Samford Invitational at cleared 3.00 meters for sixth place. the Birmingham (Ala.) Crossplex, It is not uncommon for the D-III and sprinters, hurdlers and jumpEagles to take on high level competi- ers to Sewanee, Tenn for the Tiger tion; Curtin has consistently pitted Invitational. them against D-I and D-II athletes “We’re definitely in the thick of throughout the season. The UAA is things,” Delaney said. — Contact Zak Hudak at one of the best D-III conferences in zachary.j.hudak@emory.edu the country, but the D-III track in

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Senior captain Mike Florin dribbles down the court. Florin and the Eagles will host rival Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) on Friday, Feb. 13.

Squad to Rematch WashU and Chicago Continued from the Back Page Emory trailed from the start, falling behind 7-0. NYU led 39-29 with four minutes left to play in the first half, but an 8-0 run by the Eagles, which was capped off by a block from junior guard Davis Rao that led to a fastbreak layup by Foster. The Violets outshot the Eagles 54.8 percent to 39 percent in the first half, but the Eagles only trailed 39-43 thanks to their scrappy defense and hustle. In the first half, NYU forward Evan Kupferberg led all first-half scoring with 12 and Foster led Emory’s scorers with 11. In a very physical second half, both teams struggled to make shots, each team shooting under 33 percent from the field. The Eagles were strong on the boards, pulling down 15 offensive rebounds that led to 21 second-chance points. They continued to play aggressive defense, forcing the Violets to commit 11 second-half turnovers and 23 overall. With 10:14 to play, Trawick converted on a three-point play that knotted the score at 56, the first tie of the game. Foster sank a jumper with 1:34 remaining to tie the game at 70. A shot clock violation on the ensuing possession gave the Eagles the ball with a chance to take their first

lead of the game. With nine seconds remaining, the Eagles called a timeout to try and draw up a final play. Florin drove to the basket, but NYU sophomore forward Patrick Burns blocked his layup attempt. NYU gained possession with one and a half seconds to play and called a timeout. Burns inbounded the ball from under Emory’s basket, and threw a Hail Mary pass three quarters of the court, landing back in the hands of NYU forward Evan Kupferberg, who sank a layup as time expired, giving the Violets a 72-70 victory. The play was featured on ESPN SportsCenter’s Top 10 on Sunday night. “We played extremely hard and we had a good approach,” Foster said. “But, we just didn’t shoot well at all.” The Eagles shot only 2-28 from behind the three point line and 34.2 percent overall. In order to come away with the win in such a close game next time, “we need to be connected as a team for all 40 minutes,” Trawick added. The Eagles face conference opponents Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) and the University of Chicago on Friday, Feb. 13 and Sunday, Feb. 15, respectively, at home and are looking to rebound after the frustrating double NYU loss. — Contact Joseph Shapiro at

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Continued from the Back Page Going into the competition, both the Emory men’s and women’s teams are ranked number one in the UAA. The men are followed closely by University of Chicago (Ill.) and Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.). The women have a big lead on the number two Washington and number three Chicago. Last year’s UAAs proved successful for the Emory men and women, both claiming first place. The women, who then went on to capture their fifth-consecutive NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championship won the UAA Championships by 785 points. Washington came in second followed by Chicago. The men won, with second place Chicago just 3.5 points behind, the closest margin in the UAA conference’s history. Washington came in third with 1,150.5 points. The women had many strong performances at the championships. Senior Nancy Larson claimed the Women Swimmer of the Year after her first-place finishes in the 50-yard freestyle (23.42 seconds), the 100yard freestyle (50.81 seconds), and the 200-yard freestyle (1:50.86). She also led the UAA-record setting 400-yard medley relay team (winning with a time of 3:46.30) and the 800-yard freestyle relay team (winning with a time of 7:29.02). Sarah Green, now graduated, was named the Women’s Diver of the Year after her first-place win in the 1-meter dive and second-place finish in the 3-meter dive. Sophomore Annelise Kowalsky was named the Women’s Rookie of the Year after setting two UAA records in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:02.94) and the 200-yard individual medley (2:31.31). This year, junior Andrew Wilson not only has his eyes on the UAA, but is also looking forward to the NCAAs.

Wilson, a two-time All-American and All-UAA athlete, won the 100yard breaststroke in 56.65 seconds against the University of Georgia (UGA), a top-ranked NCAA Division I school, two weeks ago. He also placed second against the UGA Bulldogs in the 200-yard breaststroke, finishing with a time of 2:05.41. On the women’s side, Howell will be looking to his seniors to take the lead, including Larson and McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg, who both impressed with NCAA ‘B’ cut times at the UGA dual meet. Freshman Ming Ong showed a strong performance against the Division I Bulldogs, recording three NCAA ‘B’ cut times for the Emory women. She finished third in the 200-yard individual medley (2:06.19), fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (57.25 seconds) and fourth in the 400-yard individual medley (4:31.13). Freshman Megan Campbell is looking to have a breakthrough. As a part of the 200-yard medley relay team, she led to a first place finish with a time of 1:51.56, and individually won the 200-yard butterfly (2:10.92) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:28.34) at Sewanee: University of the South (Tenn.). “It’s always nice to be at home,” Howell added. “Having the UAAs here at home will give the campus the opportunity to see a championship meet and come and support the teams. I think it’ll be a close meet on the guy’s side, considering last year’s win. We are playing a lot of good teams with outstanding swimmers so it’s going to be fun.” After the UAAs, the Eagles will have a few weeks off until March 18, when they are hoping to travel to Shenandoah, Texas, for the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships. — Contact Elana Cates at elana.cates@emory.edu

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015 Sports Editor: Zak Hudak (zachary.j.hudak@emory.edu)

Men’s Basketball

Women’s Basketball

Team Splits Two UAA Home Games By Ryan Smith Associate Editor

ing five three pointers to go along with 12 rebounds. Emory dominated in nearly every category, outshooting Brandeis 50.8 percent to 29.8 percent, out-rebounding them 43-33 and out-hustling them 15-2 in second chance points and 15-0 in fastbreak points. Sunday would mark a rematch against the NYU Violets, who defeated the Eagles 96-92 in New York the previous week. It was once again a hard-fought, high-intensity game.

The women’s basketball team split a pair of University Athletic Association (UAA) games at home over the weekend, topping the Brandeis University (Mass.) Judges 67-61 on Friday before losing to the New York University (NYU) Violets 67-60 on Sunday. The Eagles are now 11-9 on the season with a 3-6 mark in UAA play. After a slow start against Brandeis, the Eagles went on a 12-0 run that included seven points from junior guard Khadijah Sayyid. The Judges cut the Emory lead to single digits with just under three minutes left in the half, but the Eagles responded with a jumper from Sayyid and a three-point play from freshman forward Lauren Weems to establish a 42-31 lead entering halftime. The Judges made a quick run out of the half with two consecutive three-pointers from sophomore guard Frankie Pinto to cut the advantage to 44-40. The teams traded baskets before Brandeis went on an 8-0 run with 11 minutes left to grab a slim 52-50 lead. Sayyid answered with a jumper to tie the game. The Eagles answered with a 10-0 run of their own, but the Judges slowly chipped away and pulled to 63-61 with an Olivia Shaw layup with 30 seconds to go. Brandeis fouled Sayyid on the Eagles’ next possession, and the junior made a pair of free throws to ice the game. Sayyid was the star of the game, with a game-high 16 points to go along with five rebounds. Sophomore forward Michelle Bevan notched a double-double with 12 points and

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Freshman guard Whit Rapp defends against a Brandeis University (Mass.) player. Rapp and the Eagles defeated Brandeis 89-53 after also beating them last weekend on Jan. 30, while Emory was away. The Eagles also played and lost to New York University for the second weekend in a row.

Team Defeats Brandeis, Falls to NYU a Second Time By Joseph Shapiro Contributing Writer This past weekend, the Emory men’s basketball team came away with an easy win over Brandeis University (Mass.) and a close loss to New York University. In the first of two home games this weekend against University Athletic Association (UAA) opponents, the Eagles won 89-53 over Brandeis. They established a double-digit lead early in the first half and led 41-27 at halftime.

Despite a comfortable lead, junior forward Will Trawick emphasized that the team was determined to keep up the high level of play at the start of the second half, something the team has struggled with at times this season, especially in games in which Emory held a big lead. Trawick added that Head Coach Jason Zimmerman stressed to the team that they must keep their intensity and focus coming out of the half. The Eagles took Zimmerman’s message to heart and the team’s lead grew to 44 points in the second

half with help from strong play by Emory’s reserves. To name one, sophomore forward Austin DaGue, the game’s leading scorer, contributed 19 of Emory’s 36 bench points to go along with three rebounds and two assists. The Eagles' two other sophomores, guard Jonathan Terry and forward Jim Gordon, were aggressive on the boards, grabbing six and four rebounds, respectively. The Eagles gained contributions from their freshmen as well, with six assists from guard Whit Rapp, four

points and one block from forward Donald Avant and a three-pointer from forward Adam Gigax, his first of the season. “We have a culture of working especially hard and so I have confidence that everyone [on] our team can go out and get the job done,” senior forward and captain Alex Foster said. Despite the team’s reduced minutes, senior guard and captain Mike Florin scored 10 points and dished out six assists, while Trawick had a double-double with 19 points, includ-

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Sophomore distance runner Grant Murphy runs at the Birmingham Crossplex (Ala.). The Eagles split up this past weekend, with athletes traveling to Eastern Tennessee State University or to the University of South Carolina.

Squad Beaks for ETSU and USC By Zak Hudak Sports Editor

Last weekend, mid and long distance Emory runners travelled to East Tennessee State University for the Buccaneer Invitational, while others travelled to the University of South Carolina’s USC Open for sprint and pole vault events. Although neither meet included team scoring, strong Division I and II competition drove multiple Eagles to impressive performances. In Johnson City, Tenn., Sophomore Grant Murphy wowed with a mark of 8:44.42 in the 3,000-meter run, good for fourth place both in the meet and in University Athletic Association (UAA) competition to this point. In

the 5,000-meter race, junior Lukas Mees’s time of 15:35.08 notched him an 18th place finish. The Eagles were especially successful in the mile run, led by freshman Max Brown whose 4:16.91 time — the second-fastest in the UAA and 42nd-fastest in Division III this season — earned him fourth place both at the meet and in the program’s history. He was followed by freshmen Jordan Flowers in 13th place, Shane Sullivan in 14th, and Michael McBane in 16th with times of 4:23.59, 4:23.98 and 4:25.09, respectively. “When I stop and look back on the weekend, I think Max Brown’s performance was the highlight for us,” Head Coach John Curtin said. Murphy, Brown, Flowers and

sophomore Ian McIsaac teamed up to take second in the distance medley relay with a time of 10:34.07. Seniors Kevin Delaney and Scott Greathouse also shined at the meet, Delaney in the 800-meter run, placing fifth with a time of 1:58.77, and Greathouse in the high jump with an 18th-place height of 1.87 meters. “It was a good meet for us,” Delaney said. “A lot of our distance runners had a strong showing.” The women’s team saw senior Stephanie Crane notch an eighthplace finish in the seeded 800-meter run with a time of 2:20.35 and a thirdplace finish in the seeded mile with a mark of 5:09.33, ranking her fifth

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he Emory Ultimate Frisbee team Juice huddles during the Discs Over Georgia Tournament hosted at the Candler Fields at Kaminsky Park. Juice finished the tournament in sixth place out of eight teams, while Tulane University (La.) finished first.

Swimming & Diving

Emory to Host UAA Championships By Elana Cates Asst. Sports Editor

For the second year in a row, Emory University will host the University Athletic Association (UAA) Swimming and Diving Championships. The meet will start on Wednesday, Feb. 11 and continue through Saturday Feb. 14 in the Madeleine Jude Brown Aquatic Center inside the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC). Wednesday will kick off the competition with the men’s 1-meter dive

preliminaries at 12:45 p.m., and finals at 5:30 p.m. Thursday will include the 200yard freestyle relay, 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard individual medley, 50-yard freestyle, 400-yard medley relay and the women’s 3-meter dive. Friday will include the 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard individual medley, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 100yard backstroke, 800-yard freestyle relay and the men’s 3-meter dive. The meet will conclude Saturday with the 200-yard backstroke, 100yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke,

200-yard butterfly, 1,650-yard freestyle, 400-yard freestyle relay and the women’s 1-meter dive. Thursday through Saturday’s preliminaries are set to start at 10 a.m. with the finals the same day at 5:30 p.m. “The UAAs are not really our target meet,” Head Coach Jon Howell said. “Our main focus is still nationals, but this is a good opportunity to have a dry run for nationals and try to get some times down. It’ll be a good preview of what’s to come.”

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