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Zaya to Undergo Renovation Over Winter Break By Lydia O’Neal News Editor

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he “Sweet” Nu Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA) at Emory University had their new member presentation behind the Anthropology building on Tuesday night. During the presentation, the six new AKA members greeted other chapters of the Greek community, recited history about their organization and showcased their sorority through performance.

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Community Responds to EHC-WellStar Merger By Annie McGrew News Editor Two of the largest health care systems in Georgia, Emory Healthcare and WellStar Health System, will merge to create the largest health care system in the Southeast. While CEO and President of Emory Healthcare Michael Mandl said the Emory Healthcare-WellStar merger will increase efficiency, some worry that the new entity’s large share of market power will lead to higher consumer costs. The Board of Trustees of both WellStar and Emory’s Executive Committee have started to design the new, unified health care system,

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according to an April 2 University press release. Mandl said he expects the design process to last about a year. “We are pursing [the merger] for all the right reasons for society, which is to increase the value of the health care delivery system and keep people healthy, cost effectively,” he said, adding that the merger aims to “create the model health system for the future.” That system includes five components, such as providing diverse care for a large population, multiple locations for care, talented physicians, a robust clinical and supporting database and research.

The Qualms Beth Stephens, Health Access Program director at Georgia Watch — an Atlanta-based non-partisan consumer advocacy group that keeps hospitals accountable for their decisions, said that although the new system could increase coordination and transparency, she is concerned the merger could increase prices without an equal increase in care. “We want to ensure [tax-exempt entities] … keep the community at the forefront of their thoughts,” she said, referring to the fact that both companies are not-for-profit. “Nonprofit hospitals have a responsibility to give back to the community.”

She highlighted that it is important for WellStar and Emory Healthcare to be as transparent as possible throughout the process, adding that the Affordable Care Act has incentivized similar consolidations nationwide. “I don’t know that the Hospital did the most it could to publicize [the discussion period],” she said, referring to the month and a half period beginning in February that the boards collected comments from patients, physicians, employees and any other interested persons. Stephens said that Georgia Watch found out about the discussion period indirectly.

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Zaya Mediterranean Cuisine, also known as Zaya at Dooley’s Den at the Depot, is set to undergo an interior design transformation along with menu changes by the end of the upcoming winter break, according to Senior Director of University Food Service Administration David Furhman. The restaurant, sandwiched between Eagle Row and two sets of train tracks, is a trademark of New Orleans-based 3 of a Kind Restaurant Group, which held a contract with Emory’s food services provider Sodexo USA to serve students there. When Emory’s 10-year contract with Sodexo ends on May 31, the University will switch to a new provider, Bon Appétit, on June 1. As Emory Dining has only begun planning for the renovations and is in the process of gathering student feedback for the new and improved Zaya, “nothing’s off limits right now” in terms of potential changes to the popular post-party eatery, according to Furhman. “We really need to renovate that building,” Furhman said, calling the spot “a great location” for its proximity to the Freshman Quadrangle. “I want to make that space a warm, comfortable, inviting space,” Furhman said. “I want students to say, ‘Let’s go to the Depot and hang out there.’ I want it to be a preferred place on campus.” As for the restaurant’s possible changes, Furhman suggested including a small performance venue, more salad and burger options and dinerstyle food. Though he said there were no plans in place for a formal survey of students’ hopes for the Zaya makeover, Furhman said student feedback through informal discussions and Food Advisory Committee at Emory (FACE) meetings would steer much of the planning. Zaya is working to transition from Sodexo to Bon Appétit as a

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third-party contractor but will most likely retain its name, according to Furhman. Bon Appétit, he added, will be involved in the renovations in the likely event that Zaya gains a contract with the University’s new food provider. Zaya Regional Manager Marshall Edge said he hopes to see a setup similar to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Zaya Mediterranean Grill, which is also owned by 3 of a Kind. “We would have a smaller menu with an open kitchen, so that by the time you get from the cashier to the counter, your food is ready,” Edge said, adding that Zaya’s current business model is too slow, overloaded with menu options and hardly sustainable over the summer. Edge said he would prefer to move the kitchen and counter to the elevated area of the restaurant, the side closest to the fraternity houses on Eagle Row, and keep the rest of it — including where the restaurant’s counter sits now — open for seating. The menu, he added, should also be whittled down to a few popular meals. “This menu is a Frankenstein of three different restaurants,” he said, referring to 3 of a Kind’s other subsidiaries, which include Burger Bytes, Byblos Mediterranean Cuisine and Salú Southern European Bistro. “I’m not saying we want to get rid of all the options, but we do want to streamline the menu.” The number of different meals Zaya offers strains the restaurant’s budget, Edge said, adding that customer traffic — he estimated about 40 patrons daily — hasn’t helped. “Renovation here would be amazing, but the ideal would be to move [Zaya] to Cox Hall,” Edge said. Seated at a table in the nearlyempty restaurant in Thursday afternoon, College freshman Simon Crespo expressed similar frustration with Zaya’s inefficiencies. “It’d be nice if there were more

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Ebola Expert to Speak in Louisiana By Ryan Smith Associate Editor

By Emily Lim Staff Writer “In 1939, Hitler said to his army: ‘Who, afterall, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?’” Bedross Der Matossian, assistant professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said to open his lecture in White Hall on Wednesday evening. “Well, here we are today, remembering the Armenian Genocide.” Der Matossian’s talk, “The Armenian Genocide and Historiography on the Eve of the Centennial: From Continuity to Contingency” served as a remembrance of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which began on April 24, 1915. Widely recognized as one of the first modern genocides, the Armenian Genocide was a campaign of systematic extermination that included deportation and mass murder carried out by the Ottoman Empire against its minority Armenian subjects. It is estimated that up to 1.5 million Armenians were massacred, accord-

blocks of this camp near the humanitarian hub of Goma, conversing in Swahili about the residents’ displacement and how they wished to be represented. After snapping the pictures — that she said were “cocreated” because the subjects, consciously or not, responded to her as the photographer — Graham printed the portraits and returned copies to

Jay B. Varkey, assistant professor in Emory’s Department of Medicine and one of the five physicians to treat the first Ebola patients in the United States, was selected on April 6 to be the commencement speaker at Centenary College of Louisiana. Varkey, along with five of his peers in the Serious Communicable Disease Unit at the Emory University Hospital, aided in the successful treatment of all four Ebola patients at Emory between August and October of 2014. His experience treating the disease put him on Centenary’s radar after he was first suggested as a potential speaker by a mutual friend of his and Centenary President David Rowe, who graduated from Emory with a Master of Divinity in 1992. “One of the things that was really interesting to us is his very public background in treating Ebola […] but also his background at a liberal arts college,” Centenary Interim Senior Director of External Relations Kate Pedrotty said. Varkey earned his undergraduate degree from

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Zelda is from an internally displaced people camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Aubrey Graham — the first Ethics and the Arts Program artist in residence at the Center for Ethics and Ph.D. candidate in anthropology — asked residents how they wished to be represented in her photographs.

Photographer Portrays Local Desires in Portraits By Karishma Mehrotra Executive Editor Above, a photo of Zelda, 59, shows her sitting with a slight smile and lightly touching her sewing machine. She is a seamstress in Mugunga III, a well-known internally displaced people (IDP) camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Aubrey Graham — the first Ethics and the Arts Program artist in residence at

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the Center for Ethics and Ph.D. candidate in anthropology — shows another photo of Zelda. Its slightly greyer. Zelda is bent over, grabbing volcanic rock, looking up with a sobering expression. Graham took the photo above. A United Nations (UN) refugee agency took the other one. “Why do we need to think about humanitarian photography … as objective, as this found truth?” Graham asked an audience of roughly

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30 in a small Center for Ethics classroom on Wednesday afternoon for the lecture “Portraits in Disneyland — Stories from Mugunga III.” “It’s also incredibly powerful to think of these things as constructions, where people … [advocate] how they want to be represented.” For eight months, Graham photographed the people of the DRC. Followed by a barrage of children, she walked through much of the 83

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The following reports are real cases adjudicated by the Emory College Honor Council. Any personally identifiable information has been omitted to protect the privacy of all parties involved.

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• When a sophomore in a lower level social science course did not understand a homework assignment question, he consulted his roommate, who showed him the answers and left. The student copied his roommate’s responses, which the course professor noted while grading the assignment. While collaboration was permitted, the student’s roommate said he did not know the student had planned to copy his responses. The student received a two-year mark on his record, a full letter grade deduction in the course and a zero on the assignment. • For a short writing assignment, a freshman in a lower level social science course copied a few sentences verbatim from a website without using quotation marks. After typing the phrases into a quick online search, the professor soon found the original text, which had been referenced in the student’s bibliography. As an international student, he claimed that he did not know that direct speech should be placed in quotations but acknowledged that he had committed plagiarism by U.S. standards. The Honor Council required the student to complete an educational program

and gave him a one-year mark on his record and zero on the paper but decided that he would have the opportunity to replace the grade after writing another paper on the same subject. • While working on a paper about a contemporary author for a lower level humanities course, a junior student contacted the author and included some of his communication with the author in her paper. The professor noted a difference in the student’s language and ideas while grading the paper and consulted the student, who said he didn’t know the content of his conversations with the author should have been cited. Though the student argued that he supplemented the author’s ideas and claims discussed during the unreferenced conversation, he received a failing grade in the course and a two-year mark on his record. Convinced that the student did not intend to plagiarize the discussion material, an appeal panel maintained the two-year mark but gave the student a zero on the assignment instead of an F in the course.

— Compiled by News Editor Lydia O’Neal

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• Four people survived and 40 drowned after an inflatable boat carrying migrants across the Mediterranean Sea sank off the coast of Sicily on Thursday. Although nearly 10,000 migrants have been rescued near Italy’s coast in recent days, hundreds have died in an attempt to seek refuge in Europe. • Around 5,000 anti-xenophobia protesters took to the streets of the South African city of Durban on Thursday. The demonstrators condemned recent violence against immigrants accused of stealing the jobs of citizens of South Africa,

where the unemployment rate is 24 percent. • After a Massachusetts jury found him guilty of the 2013 murder of his friend Odin Lloyd, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, 25, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday. Hernandez, who once enjoyed a $40 million contract with the Patriots, affirmed his innocence. • A Fulton County judge sentenced nine of the 10 convicted former Atlanta Public Schools educators to jail on Tuesday as part

of a widespread standardized test cheating scandal. Sentences ranged from one to seven full years in jail, while one former testing coordinator received a sentence of six months of weekends spent in jail. • On Tuesday afternoon, an airline passenger flying into the HartsfieldJackson Atlanta International Airport from a West African nation complained of diarrhea, a symptom of Ebola virus disease, and was transported to the Emory University Hospital. By Wednesday, the individual was cleared for travel and returned to their home state.

• A Peachtree City grand jury indicted a former police chief on Wednesday for accidentally shooting his wife. William McCollum, who resigned in March, was charged with reckless conduct and could face a year in jail if convicted.

— Compiled by News Editor Lydia O’Neal

Events at emory FRIDAY Event: WaterHub Dedication Time: 10 a.m. Location: 301 Facilities Management Drive Event: Learning Analytics Speaker Series: Do Counts of Digital Traces Count for Learning? Time: 12 p.m. Location: Jones Room at Woodruff Library Event: Bate-Papo: Portuguese Conversation Hour Time: 1 p.m. Location: Longstreet-Means Great Room Event: Second Annual International Festival and Emory World Cup Time: 6 p.m. Location: McDonough Field Event: Haydn’s Creation presented by Emory University Chorus and Emory University Symphony Orchestra Time: 8 p.m. Location: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

SATURDAY Event: Haydn’s Creation presented by Emory University Chorus and Emory University Symphony Orchestra Time: 8 p.m. Location: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

SUNDAY Event: Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church Worship Time: 8:30 a.m. Location: The Little Chapel in the Church School Building Event: Emory University Worship With the Rev. Lyn Pace Time: 11 a.m. Location: Cannon Chapel Event: Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church Worship Time: 11 a.m. Location: Glenn Sanctuary/ Auditorium Event: Baltu Painted Screens Children’s Workshop Time: 2 p.m. Location: Michael C. Carlos Museum

Event: Planetarium Show and Gallery Tour Time: 2 p.m. Location: Math and Science Center Event: The Tallis Scholars Time: 4 p.m. Location: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Event: The Gathering @ 5:05 Worship Time: 5:05 p.m. Location: Ward Fellowship Hall at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church

MONDAY Event: Graduate Education and the Career Horizons of Graduate Students in the Humanities Time: 12 p.m. Location: Center for Ethics, Room 102 Event: Avoiding the Darkness: Patent Eligibility of Biologicals and Biomarkers in the United States Time: 12 p.m. Location: Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Whitehead Auditorium

Event: Obstacles and Opportunities: Graduate Education in the Humanities Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: Center for Ethics, Room 102 Event: Emory Law Diversity Speaker Series Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Tull Auditorium

TUESDAY Event: Café Chocolat Luncheon Hour Time: 12 p.m. Location: Callaway N108 Event: Matthew Torres, Ph.D. — “Quantitative Analysis of PTMs in G Protein Signaling Systems: New Tools and Unsuspected Discoveries” Time: 12 p.m. Location: 5052 Rollins Research Center Event: Bettye Rose Connell Memorial Lecture Series Events Time: 2 p.m. Location: Claudia Nance Rollins Bldg, Klamon Room

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Pam Franklin, who has worked at Zaya since August and said the cashiers, just more staff in general,” employees had been informed of he said, adding that ordering food the future renovations, also said she at Zaya “takes a lot of time” and thinks the menu needs to change. She that he wished there could be more specifically cited seafood as a popuoutdoor tables. Still, as a waitress lar request among student patrons lowered a steaming bowl of spaghetti and also suggested the possibility topped with Parmesan of a weekly karaonto his table, Crespo oke night as a way said with a smile that to bring in more he hoped the menu “Renovation here would customers. would stay the same. “I hope it’s a be amazing, but the ideal Unlike Crespo, would be to move [Zaya] little more spaCollege junior cious in the to Cox Hall ...” Chrissy Grech, who kitchen,” Franklin doesn’t frequent Zaya, said, adding that — Marshall Edge, she hopes the ressaid she would appreciate some new menu Zaya regional manager taurant’s interior options, as the current can have more of offerings are “just not a “college feel,” my favorite food.” with Emory banCollege junior Rachel Storms said ners and posters, in the future. she would miss the Depot’s vintage Still, like Storms, she said she feel. hopes the restaurant will retain its School of Medicine Research “classic” look. Specialist Sangeeta Yellumahanti, a “Everyone who comes in after self-described “regular here” at Zaya, being away from Emory for a while said she’s satisfied with the current says, ‘I used to come here 15 years menu. ago!’ and I hope it stays that way,” “Structure-wise, it should stay the Franklin said. — Contact Lydia O’Neal at same,” she added, emphasizing the lmoneal@emory.edu place’s uniquely-Emory qualities.

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reedom at Emory held their final event of the year, “State of Freedom: Freedom at Emory GBM and Celebration.” This was their first event after it was announced on March 31 that the University would be providing financial aid to undocumented students for the upcoming school year.

Der Matossian Explores Current Politics Regarding the Recognition of the Genocide ing to a History Channel article. Addressing an audience of more than 70 students and faculty members, Der Matossian began by giving a brief historical background of what he described as the three main phases leading up to the genocide. The first phase, according to Der Matossian, included the Hamidian massacres from 1894 to 1896, in which Ottoman officials killed between 200,000 and 300,000 Armenians, who had led an uprising against over-taxation. As for the second phase, Der Matossian cited the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, in which a group of reformers overthrew the Sultan Hamid and established a modern constitutional government. The third phase, according to Der Matossian, was the 1909 Adana massacre, in which Islamic theological students and the Ottoman military led a counter-coup against the government that led to the deaths of between 15,000 and 30,000 Armenians, who were blamed for supporting the new constitution. Der Matossian also discussed the development of the historiography

on the Armenian Genocide by scholars, which has become increasingly publicized despite the Turkish government’s refusal to recognize the killings. “The prohibition by the Turkish government of speaking about the genocide is crumbling,” Der Matossian said. Der Matossian listed arguments that provide interpretations as to why the genocide took place, such as the significant role of religious conflicts between Muslims and Christians and the growth of Armenian nationalism. He also discussed the Ottoman Empire’s demographic engineering and assimilation of minority groups. For example, in the 1912 Balkan Wars, the Ottoman Empire lost 90 percent of its European territories and deliberately relocated Muslim populations in Armenian regions in an attempt to neutralize ethnic differences. The increasingly nationalist Turkish ideology at a time when its empire was crumbling called for extreme security measures to preserve the Ottoman Empire, according to Der Matossian.

Der Matossian’s areas of interest include the ethnic politics in the Middle East, inter-ethnic violence in the Ottoman Empire, Palestinian history and the history of the Armenian Genocide, according to his profile on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln website. Aside from Der Matossian, Distinguished Emory Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Sander Gilman and Visiting Distinguished Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology Nikolay Koposov also gave brief talks on the genocide. Walter Kalaidjian, the English department chair, moderated the lecture. Gilman stressed the importance of literature in remembering the past. “It is poets who capture the memory of the past,” Gilman said. “It is literature that remembers and memorializes the Armenian Genocide.” Gilman discussed the importance of preserving historical memory by giving examples of historical works like Franz Werfel’s 1933 novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, which is based on events that took place in the Armenian Genocide, and Edgar

Focus on Ebola Crisis Brings Global Connection Continued from Page 1 Marquette University, which does not have a graduate medical school. Centenary has an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 500 and advertises itself as the “oldest chartered liberal arts college west of the Mississippi River,” but Pedrotty said the college prides itself on the diverse interests of its undergraduates, par-

Hilsenrath’s The Nazi and the Barber, which depicts the Holocaust in Nazi Germany from the perspective of a German. Associate Professor of Russian Studies Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, who helped organize the lecture and whose father was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, said that, although Der Matossian was invited to speak because of the centennial anniversary of the genocide, the implications of the event resonated far into the modern day. “How can violence be understood when it is so tied to other aspects of national consciousness?” Apkarian said. “We continue to be challenged by the recognition of certain incidences of violence, for instance against the Native [Americans] and against the African American population.” The lecture is relevant to modern times because of the ongoing political challenge to recognize the historic past and the question of how to address historical cases of mass violence, Apkarian said. “How can we move forward without remembering history accurately?” Apkarian asked. She added that

the Armenian Genocide does not receive enough attention because of contemporary politics. “History is often something which is utilized, packaged, reconfigured,” Apkarian said. “The question is how to address national constructions of history to find a truth.” Since Turkey has been a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally since 1952 and is a strategic partner for United States foreign policy interests in the Middle East, Apkarian noted that the United States government has been reluctant to recognize the Armenian Genocide. “Obama had said [prior to becoming president] that he would recognize the genocide, but he has not,” Apkarian said. “This is because politics and history often go together.” The lecture was co-sponsored by the Emory Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program (REES); the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies; the Departments of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC), History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS); the Institute for Liberal Arts (ILA) and the initiative

in Intercultural Studies. College freshman Becky Lebeaux said that while the lecture was informative, she would like to have seen a more balanced argument. “It was informative, especially about the historical, political and economic background of what is known as the Armenian Genocide,” Lebeaux said. “However, I felt it was a onesided presentation on the violence as a genocide. I felt it would have been interesting to discuss the opinions of the denialists.” Kate Cyr, a College senior, described the lecture as one of the best ones she’d attended at Emory. Cyr wrote her undergraduate thesis on Turkish policy toward Kurds, the largest ethnic minority in Turkey and will be travelling to Turkey on a diplomatic mission next year. “I really liked how [the lecture] discussed the Armenian conflict from a historical, literary and legal standpoint,” Cyr said. “I am very interested to see how the past and the influences of history impact Turkey today.”

— Contact Emily Lim at emily.lim@emory.edu

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ticularly in the sciences. They aimed to find a blend of the two in Varkey. ”We try to instill in our students an understanding of the world being bigger than their part of it,” she said. “We try to make connections for them between them and what’s going on in the world. The Ebola crisis brings that into very sharp relief.”

— Contact Ryan Smith at ryan.smith@emory.edu

police RECORD • On April 4 at 8:17 p.m., an individual notified the Emory Police Department (EPD) that her Dooley Dollars account had two unauthorized Domino’s transactions. She was unable to determine who was making the purchases. The case has been turned over to an investigator. • On April 11 at 9:30 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a suspicious individual taking pictures of a female student at Starbucks Coffee on 1390 Oxford Rd NE. Another individual in the café notified the student that pictures were being taken of her. The

student confronted the suspicious individual and asked him if he would like it if someone were taking pictures of his daughter. By the time officers arrived on the scene, the suspicious individual had left. • On April 11 at 11:25 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a suspicious package on a MARTA bus. When officers searched the bus, they discovered that the package was an empty box that was discarded. No further action was taken.

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he six new members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA) were revealed Tuesday evening in the plaza behind the Anthropolgy building. AKA, founded at Howard University in 1908, is the oldest Greek-letter organization established in America by black college women. The “Sweet” Nu chapter at Emory University was founded in 1979.

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The first Ethics and the Arts Program artist in residence at the Center for Ethics and Ph.D candidate in anthropology Aubrey Graham walked through an internally displaced peoples camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo, asking residents how they would like to be represented. Her photos, on display at the Center for Ethics, transition from humanitarian expectations to local photographic desires.

Residents Shift From Fulfilling Humanitarian Expections to Local Inclinations Continued from Page 1 her subjects.Graham’s photos, on display at the Center for Ethics, portray the transition from humanitarian expectations to local photographic desires, asserting the social politics at play in a region that has become a poster child for humanitarian agencies for the past two decades, to the point that it was ironically dubbed “Disneyland” because of the influx of

visitors, including actor Ben Affleck and the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Powers. Initially, the residents treated Graham like a humanitarian worker or journalist, she said. But, as the community began to trust Graham more, something changed. “No one’s hardship had lessened,” she said. “However, how they thought about the photos and how they wanted to use the photos — that changed.”

Research Shows Merger May Raise Costs of Health Care Continued from Page 1 Designing the Consolidation Now that the design phase has been initiated, the next steps include outlining the leadership and support structure, identifying the Board of Trustees’ members and finding a name and location for corporate headquarters, according Mandl. Mandl also said that building new facilities will likely not be in the plans for the initial design phase. “That’ll be in the future,” Mandl said of the new facilities. “The idea would be to grow the system over time.” The design phase will end with the approval from the boards but will include “decision points” along the way in communication with the boards. The Research Associate Professor at University of Colorado’s Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy Richard Lindrooth said he was surprised by the size of the merger and noted that Emory Healthcare and WellStar are “two pretty large sys-

tems coming together.” He said the Federal Trade Commission may look into the merger to ensure it will not interfere with antitrust laws. Mandl said Emory does not expect to face hurdles during that process. Lindrooth’s research into the cost impacts of mergers found mixed results but did indicate that a merger between two independent hospitals can often lead to lower costs, because the merger can eliminate duplicate processes. However, his research found that mergers of two systems that own multiple hospitals — such as Emory and WellStar — do not significantly cut costs unless there is significant integration between the two systems. He added that health insurers may not be able to bargain for lower prices, because a merger decreases their options. “Previously they may be able to negotiate separately with Emory Healthcare and WellStar and even perhaps play them off each other in the negotiations,” he said. “If there’s not another similar health system within the market — at least one, ideally more — then prices would increase.”

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

The subjects began to take more control of the situation, taking the opportunity to add their stories to the pictures, to show themselves repairing cellphones or cooking, inviting Graham into their tent-like homes and incorporating local photographic elements into their decisions. Graham said she aims to problematize humanitarian agencies’ photography that “proves” situations in places of disaster. In reality, each photo is a dialogue

between the photographer, the subject, bystanders and the environment outside the image. “Whether people are showing suffering or whether they are showing joy … this is a construction,” she said. “This is not an objective … truth.” Tricia Francisco, who graduated from the College last semester, found that Graham’s talk added layers to the topic of relief photography.

“When we look at humanitarian photos, we often forget that there is some conversation happening even though it’s unsaid,” Francisco said, who is interested in photography and studied anthropology. Carlton Mackey of the Ethics and Arts program at the Center for Ethics, said he valued not only Graham’s ability to engage classrooms and curriculum across campus in her research but also her emphasis on the ethics of

her project in each stage, from taking the photos to editing, choosing and displaying them. “Those things [ethical standards] were drawn out in concrete ways and were a part of the entire methodology, from the plane landing [in the DRC] to her giving this talk today,” he said. “That stands out because that is what [the Center is] here for.”

— Contact Karishma Mehrotra at kmehrot@emory.edu

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From the Archives: Voter Apathy

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

The following editorial appeared in the Friday, November 11, 1988 issue of the Wheel under the headline “Americans apathetic on democracy.” It was written by Gaius Stern. The election is over. Once again our democracy has chosen a new leader. The people have chosen but how many of them chose? To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, “Democracy is that form of government which ensures that the people get what they deserve.” In other words, if you didn’t vote last Tuesday and your guy lost, you have no one to blame but yourself. The falling trend of voter turnout in each subsequent election is a sign that Americans do not value their democratic rights. Complaints that no candidate appeals to them is a poor excuse at best. Abstention from voting does not voice dissatisfaction with the candidates, it merely demonstrates stupidity. Choices will never be any better unless voters register their dissatisfaction at the voting booth. Admittedly, neither George Bush nor Michael Dukakis were especially exciting attractive candidates. The lack of an exciting attention-grabbing candidate probably drove many voters from the polls. But, the fact that those voters declined to vote does not tell the major parties how poor their nominees were. It only proves the voters were stupid. In Italy, 94 percent of adults vote in elections. This is because they value the right to vote. Italy is a multi-party system, so there are generally enough candidates to appeal to almost every block of the electorate. This is not thought to be the case in the United States, but in actuality it is. There is no stronger way of showing the Democratic and Republican parties that they nominated unappealing candidates than by casting a vote for Ron Paul (Libertarian), Lenora Fulani (New Alliance) or Lyndon LaRouche – well, not Lyndon LaRouche, but any other third party. The point is, if everyone dissatisfied with the major candidates voted third party, those candidates would win a lot more than attention. That would force the major parties to focus on what the nation really wants. It would make them clean up their act. In the 1984 election, less than 57 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots for Reagan or Mondale. Reagan was reelected by a margin of about 58 percent to 42 percent. That means that a quarter of the eligible voters chose the next president. If Mondale had been able to appeal to a majority of those 43 percent of the eligible non-voting population, he would have dusted Reagan in a bigger landslide than he himself lost. Obviously, the two major parties do not appeal to enough of the people. In fact, the major parties appealed to such a small percentage of Americans, that a higher percentage of Nicaraguans, Filipinos and Chileans voted, even in elections we do not consider to be free. Those Americans who don’t vote are not only displaying their stupidity, they are telling the world they don’t appreciate the privileges democracy grants them. People from all over the world, in Korea, Chile and South Africa, just to name a few, are protesting. Sometimes they are killed for the right to vote. In this country which constitutionally guarantees the right to vote, just over half the citizens exercise their civic duty. Most of it is the fault of ignorant, stupid people who do not understand how unpleasant it would be to live in a country that does not guarantee free elections, but part of it is the fact that the major parties do not offer candidates for whom voters will take the time to vote. They won’t do it in the future, either, unless they are forced to. The only way that will happen is if they feel a major threat from a third party. In the 19th century the Democratic and Republican parties sometimes joined together to defeat third parties. In the 1910’s, a Socialist congressman, Meyer London, was elected from a New York City district. He served three nonconsecutive terms. The Democrats and Republicans merged to run against him every race after his first victory. After his final defeat, they returned to the old system of unresponsive government. Only because they were forced to address the people did they give them the type of representation they deserved. Unless the two major parties feel challenged again, they will continue to give the electorate poor choices. What better way to do so than to vote for a third candidate? At times, the major parties resemble the old mule that won’t budge, even when you wave a carrot in front of its face. It is more determined to be stubborn than anything else, even if you are both standing in the rain. The proverbial solution is to get its attention by hitting it on the head. Then it is usually willing to get moving. Next Election Day, consider your choices. If you don’t like them, don’t abstain from telling the parties. The best way to tell them is by voting against them – both of them. The chances of electing a lunatic fringe third party candidate are pretty low, and if it does happen, you can bet the major parties will offer a better candidate the next time around. Sometimes you have to hit them on the head to get their attention.

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College editorials from across the country The Miami Student Miami University Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Last Friday, the board of directors at Northern Michigan University’s student newspaper, The North Wind, dismissed the newspaper’s faculty adviser, Cheryl Reed, and refused the current student managing editor — the only applicant — the position of editor-in-chief. Their justification: Reed was teaching The North Wind’s editors to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to request public records, like university contracts and travel expenses for members of the administration, and to write transparent investigative journalism pieces. The board’s response is alarming and shows a blatant disregard for both the First Amendment and the role a newspaper holds in a democratic society. ... Nobody, whether it is a government, business or university, is going to be completely transparent. That is where the position a newspaper holds in society becomes essential. ... the newspaper serves as an important medium for students and faculty to hold

thoughtful and constructive conversations on the issues of the day. What if Miami didn’t have this channel for discussion? What if the conversations about Greek life, drinking culture, sexual assault, racism and Bishop Woods were non-existent? Or worse, confined to Yik Yak? ... University administration has no say in the direction or coverage that The Miami Student newspaper chooses to take. The Miami Student is a student-run organization with students working on both the editorial and business sides of the operation. ... it is the student editors who have the final say and that is exactly how it should be. The North Wind’s problem hasn’t happened to The Miami Student in the past five years. When the administration doesn’t like something the Student has published, it doesn’t dismiss the adviser or scold the editorin-chief. It responds, like other disgruntled readers, with a Letter to the Editor. The Miami Student is not here to make Miami look good or bad; it’s here to report the facts, and there should never be fear that a university will retaliate against a college newspaper for doing so, even if those facts shed an unflattering light on the university.

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Alec Woodard “You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident … Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.” – George Orwell, 1984 “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” – Karl Rove I wrote an article last week in which I compared the foreign policy and associated rhetoric of the GOP, specifically of the Bush administration (though little has changed under new leadership) with that of the authoritarian Party from George Orwell’s 1984, which was motivated principally by the clear — and unnerving — similarity between the above quotes. The other area of general policy of an administration, which remains to be discussed, is domestic policy. The governments of the world of 1984 are police states, totalitarian to the point that there is no real individual privacy at any level. They rely on fear and total control of the media and education and achieve this control in the public mind by enforcing a government sanctioned language called “Newspeak.” Newspeak is a simplified language intended to diminish the range of thought and expression of the average person. It contributes to the cognitive dissonance — called doublethink in Newspeak — required by government officials and normal citizens to justify

their frequently self-contradictory actions and thoughts. Doublethink is explained in 1984 as, “basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.” If the GOP really is like the Party of 1984, or like a precursor in spirit, and I believe that it is, then its politics would rely on a manipulation and misrepresentation of facts to push the public toward policies that do not actually benefit them. George Mason University conducted a study of truth-value assessments made by the political fact-checking site PolitiFact of 100 total claims made by Republicans and Democrats in 2012 between Jan. 20 and May 22. PolitiFact assigns levels of dishonesty to claims ranging from half-true to pants-on-fire lies and found that 54 percent of Republican claims made within this period were at least mostly false, compared to 24 percent of statements made by Democrats. This is a trend that matches, in principle, Republican economic policies that form the bulk of their domestic rhetoric outside of social issues like gay marriage and abortion rights. The GOP’s official platform of 2012 states that, “We are the party of maximum economic freedom and the prosperity freedom makes possible,” and it goes on to claim that “Our vision of an opportunity society stands in stark contrast to the current administration’s policies that expand entitlements and guarantees, create new public programs and provide expensive government bailouts,” as well as that they do not support “policies which, for the last three and a half years, have stifled growth, destroyed jobs, halted investment, created unprecedented uncertainty and prolonged the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.” This ignores the fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which was based almost entirely on stimulus and creation of public programs, mitigated the effects of the Great Depression. It also puts in conflict the concept of an opportunity society and entitlements despite extensive evidence that social

welfare programs keep millions of Americans out of poverty. So, unless the GOP thinks that Americans somehow have greater opportunity in life when they are living below the poverty line, the assertion that opportunity is lessened by entitlements and guarantees is entirely wrong. Later in the platform comes support for extensions to be made to the Bush tax cuts and the assertion that such extensions would help the economy. Largely, they wouldn’t. Rather, a continuation of those cuts would increase the budget deficit because of lost revenue from the tax breaks, which contradicts aggressive Republican criticism of Obama over the deficit. This criticism of Obama’s proposed budget is especially Orwellian in the context of the Republicans’ proposed plan, which claims to support the middle class, though its policies would effectively only benefit the very wealthy. Republican doublethink over fiscal issues is primarily in the service of their incredibly wealthy campaign contributors. When Representative Paul Ryan says that rising costs of living are “a serious problem for many Americans,” yet proposes a budget plan that takes away health care benefits and education grants, he is engaging in exactly the kind of anti-reality propaganda that the Rove and Orwell quotes endorse. Republicans in government have lied and misrepresented their economic policies. The contradiction between their attempts to be the party of the common man — represented by their deification of people like Joe the Plumber — and their support for policies that help the wealthy more than other classes (if they do not actively harm other classes) is resolved in the context of American politics. That is, movement toward an Orwellian propaganda model fuels the success of the Party. The Republican Party, like Orwell’s Party, is trying to create their own reality, a reality in which America would be ruled not by the people but by a wealthy few. Alec Woodard is a College freshman from Burlington, Iowa.

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Consciousness Does Not Make Humans Supreme Kagan Fletcher For the majority of our brief and largely uneventful time on this particular space rock, we human animals have believed that we are the pinnacle of evolution. We think we are the supreme beings; the crème de la crème of the gene pool. In recent years, we have begun to understand how flawed this perception is. On June 7, 2012, a truly remarkable event took place. A group of prominent neuroscientists gathered at the University of Cambridge to sign a proclamation declaring human and animal consciousness alike. Called the “Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness,” the document states: “We declare the following: ‘The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures like octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.’” This discovery has massive implications for the fields of science and philosophy. We must now begin to reevaluate our conception of consciousness and what it means to be conscious. To begin this reevaluation, let us consider emotions. The concept of animal emotion goes back to at least Ancient Greek philosophy and was prominent in Charles Darwin’s works, most clearly in his 1872 book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. In modern times, emotions are considered to be an integral aspect of intelligence and, while intelligence and consciousness are different things, you can’t have one without the other. In the 20th century, physiologists recognized the significance of emotion to animal behavior. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Dr. [O.E.] Dror explains how the emotional state of animals was considered to be a source of noise in physiological experiments at that time, and researchers took steps to ensure that animals were calm before their experiments.”

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This proves that, even when we were doing experiments on animals, we still were aware of at least the presence of enough emotion to warrant calming them down. More recently, psychologist, psychobiologist and neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp (2004, 2005) has been conducting a research program in the subfield he calls “affective neuroscience,” which encompasses direct study of animal emotions. Over several decades, his work has elucidated the neuro- and moleculophysiological bases of several “core emotional systems” including “seeking,” “fear,” “rage,” “lust,” “care,” “play” and “panic.” Panksepp argues that these are shared by all mammals and may be more widely shared among vertebrates. Another interesting line of inquiry that is integral to what we believe it means to be conscious is self-awareness. Gordon Gallup Jr., an evolutionary psychologist, developed the mirror-mark test to analyze self-awareness. The test took chimpanzees that had exten-

sive prior familiarity with mirrors, anesthetized them and marked their foreheads with a distinctive dye, or, in a control group, anesthetized them only. Upon waking, marked animals who were allowed to see themselves in a mirror touched their own foreheads in the region of the mark. The idea for the experiment came from obser-

... animals experience this world ... through a similar lens as we do. vations well known to comparative psychologists that chimpanzees would, after a period of adjustment, use mirrors to inspect their own images. However, this test has been criticized due to the fact that it could be unfair to animals that relied much more heavily on other senses

than sight, as well as animals such as dolphins that cannot physically touch their own foreheads. Even more interesting, I think, is the bailout response test. Animals, primarily chimpanzees and dolphins, were placed in situations of cognitive uncertainty and, when given the “bailout” option, which allowed them to avoid making difficult decisions, would do so in a manner that was very similar to humans. According to observations from a 2006 study, “The fact that animals who have no bailout option and are thus forced to respond to the difficult comparisons do worse than those who have the bailout option but choose to respond to the test has been used to argue for some kind of higher-order self understanding.” So where does that leave us? We have strong and growing evidence that animals experience this world, this face of time, through a similar lens as we do. They feel pain as we feel pain. Their experiences of love, laugh, play and fear are as powerful as

ours. These findings should incite an ethical revolution in the treatment of non-human animals. As the beings that impact our environments the most, we must reconsider our role in the treatment of animals. The majority of literature on the experience of animals is based in pain and suffering due to our perception of animals as objects to be utilized in the service of our selfish goals. If we understand that animals experience the world in much the same way we do, we must change our behavior to respect that similarity, that closeness to nature that is implicit in our existence. No matter how much we like to imagine that we are separate from the environment, we are not. Reevaluating our relationship with all life on earth can begin with the understanding of what it means to be conscious, to experience existence and to be able to react to change over time. Kagan Fletcher is a College freshman from Little Rock, Arkansas.

What ‘Daredevil’ Teaches Us About Ourselves Bobby Weisblatt On Friday, April 10, Netflix released its first season of “Daredevil,” the latest production from the comic book leviathan known as Marvel. The show has already been met with rave reviews and avid viewership, or bingewatching as we call it these days. While most critics and fans have been praising the dark atmosphere and uncompromising action, the elements that make the show a success (and it is indeed good) are perhaps more subtle. In an early scene in the first episode (no spoilers here), our masked vigilante beats up some henchmen in order to rescue a group of girls that are about to be sold into a human trafficking ring. When he has finished dealing with the villains, he approaches the girls and tells them to “head toward 48th street, stay in the lights and flag down the first officer you see.” While this is perhaps not the most sagely advice to give to a group of traumatized young women, it puts the modern daredevil miles ahead of his superhero predecessors. Too often in this genre, and truthfully in all media, do characters ignore the next logical step for those that are not essential to the narrative. Good guy beats up bad guy, saves bystanders and moves on to the next case; however, so rarely do writers, directors or audiences think about what happens next for the bystanders. Yet, while this seems like such a small issue, it is actually a problem that stems from something we see every day in our current civilization. From here on out, I would like to refer to this problem as “the superhero conundrum.” I used “Daredevil” as an opening example, because this is an issue that is found in so many superhero and action films. The essential narrative elements get treated justly, while the periphery gets entirely ignored and forgotten (how many innocent lives do you reckon were lost during the 40-minute destruction of New York City in Marvel’s “The Avengers”? Doesn’t matter, because the good guys won.). This problem appears so frequently in media because it appears so frequently in life, and by continuing to facilitate these ideas we may be ignoring the superhero conundrum more and more in the future. For an example of how this appears negatively in common practices of modern day life, think about littering. Although environmental education is on the upswing, and littering is certainly not as bad as it once was (at least in some areas), it is still a significant problem.

I believe that the reason this problem persists in the face of so much positive information against it is because of the superhero conundrum. When people litter, whether it be leaving beer bottles on a sidewalk or tossing a “Mc Chevron” bag out of a car window, they are clearly not considering the next step for the item they are discarding. Once it has been tossed, it is cast out of the individual’s life and most people consider it to no longer exist. However, it obviously does exist, and there are certain consequences of its existence that are irredeemable. These trash items could float around for several years, causing environmental harm, hazards to peaceful animals and (not to be nitpicky) general untidiness. Yet, once they are cast from our lives and tossed into the amorphous idea known as “the world,” we so frequently forget about them and cease to care about the potential damage they can cause and our responsibility in the matter. To take things one step further, I believe that the heart of the problem is the way that we have come to define our living spaces in contemporary society. Our lives are very insulated as are the things that we possess. We build small realms for ourselves, where we place our friends, our possessions and even our interests and beliefs. However, we have come to define the threshold of our spaces very firmly, and in doing so, we begin to ignore the world outside of our personal spaces. When a person litters, they toss a personal item from their own space, out into an indefinable space, thus trying to eliminate culpability and continue living in a serene and personal bubble. There is hardly enough room in one article to discuss the ways that the superhero conundrum affects our contemporary society; however, I beseech you to think about it and its implications. I think that the more we identify it in the world around us, the more we can solve the problem. Think like daredevil; don’t just beat up the bad guys and leave the bystanders to an equally doomed fate: think about the next logical step for them and aid them to safety. Don’t drop this copy of The Emory Wheel on the ground; think about what would happen to it after you dropped it and reconsider. We all have the potential to be superheroes if we think about the conundrums they face and the ways that we can innovate to solve them. Bobby Weisblatt is a College senior from Belle Mead, New Jersey.

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Dear Doolina: Life, Love and Lox Dear Doolina,

Help me find love (or at least a date to formal). Sincerely,

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College senior Natalia Via plays the lead character in Marisol, a post-apocalyptic play by Oscar-nominated playwright who has also won awards for his off-Broadway plays. Via sat in over 30 hours of rehearsals a week in preparation for her performance.

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Everyone has scars. The stories behind them vary, from those embarrassing missteps you would rather not talk about, to 3 a.m. adventures with friends that are the essence of the college experience. Some, though, come in the process of making something great. College senior Natalia Via got hers from Marisol, a post-apocalyptic play by José Rivera, an Oscar-nominated playwright who has also won awards for his off-Broadway plays. “I have about seven scars that I’m taking from the show,” Via joked. She played Marisol, the title character in Rivera’s award-winning

play, shown by Theater Emory at the Mary Gray Monroe Theater in Dobbs University Center from April 2 through April 12. The story of Marisol is the story of a young Puerto Rican woman who lives in a dangerous neighborhood in the Bronx. She is forced to survive alone in a post-apocalyptic world when her guardian angel leaves her to fight a senile God. After receiving the audition notice sent out by Theater Emory, which called for both professional actors and students, Via read the script, prepared and performed a monologue in her first audition, then was called back for the next round of auditions. She received an email saying that

fashion

Mompunk or Hip Or Just Lazy? By Rupsha Basu Executive Editor

This is meant to be both a personal fashion manifesto as well as a public call-out of my good friend Christopher Rhett Henry. If you think back to Wheel articles of yore, you may remember a fashion trend penned by said Rhett Henry called “Dadpunk,” a love letter to jean jackets and paisley-patterned shirts. In its origins, Dadpunk is a critique of masculinity, which is unequivocally awesome. But it has evolved from that. It is my personal belief that Dadpunk has become institutionalized and somewhat corporate. Exhibit A: How many people do you know who own jean jackets? Exactly. Exhibit B: Dadpunk, Rhett claims, is supposed to be about wearing what makes you happy. I’m sorry, but what is so happy about a pink blazer? Dadpunk raises an important question. My answer to Dadpunk is Lazy Chic. As someone who wore a uniform five out of seven days of the week throughout high school, it used to be very difficult for me to get dressed when I came to college. So, I decided that trying to meticulously put together “cool” outfits that “match” was a colossal waste of time. To justify my lack of style, I said to myself things like, “You don’t need layered shirts,” and, “Patterns are for squares.” Some have called my fashion sense “hip” (I’m looking at you, Mom). Others have called it “Mompunk,” which is giving me way too much credit. What these people don’t understand is that my sense of style is motivated by blatant laziness, entirely mediated by the elements and my whims, neither influenced nor informed by fashion trends or anti-fashion trends. That’s not to say that I’ve never tried to be hip. Trust me, I have. But every time I did, it was an unmitigated disaster. Lazy Chic is a critique of

she was cast as Marisol during one of her acting classes, a few days after the second audition. Via beat out not only her fellow students but also professional actresses for the lead role. Though Via has been cast in a Theater Emory show in the past (Witch #3 in the fall 2013 production of Macbeth), she did not anticipate earning such a large part in the show. “I definitely did not expect [to get the role],” Via said.“I wasn’t really counting on anything to happen. It was such an honor because this is such a huge role, I felt honored to be trusted for that [kind of] responsibility for this role.” Despite her previous Theater Emory experience, she explained that

Marisol was vastly different simply due to the magnitude of her role. While most actors are normally only called into rehearsal for certain scenes, Via had to be there for each one as the lead actor. “It was physically [and] mentally demanding to a degree that I had not expected,” Via said. At rehearsals, the cast would take a scene or monologue, which is typically about five to ten pages, and tackle it for up to six hours at a time She prepared for the role by reading the play over and over again, looking at the themes of the show and connecting them to her own life. Even before she was cast in the

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Doolina is many things. A love guru she is not. For that, you should try consulting other sources, such as Yik Yak, Emory Secrets or the Magic 8 Ball. However, I can offer a few suggestions to help ignite the spark for you to find a formal date. First, find a prime location on campus: Starbucks, Asbury Circle and that one awkward balcony table outside the DUC are good places to approach your potential date. When you approach said person, try one of the following lines: “Hello, I’m conducting a survey of people willing to go to formal with me. Your options are yes or yes,” or “Formal???” followed by awkward flailing arm movements. After that, you should easily have a date. If not, there’s always Craigslist!* *Doolina does not endorse Craigslist as a source for formal dates. Sincerely,

Doolina

Dear Doolina, My thumb is developing carpal tunnel syndrome from swiping too much on Tinder without a match. How do I step up my Tinder game? Sincerely,

Swiping For Love In All The

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So, I’m a REALLY big Doors fan. There was a time when my account on music website Last.fm (yes, I still use Last.fm) could have belonged to a middle-aged man who may have been a Deadhead at one point but now teaches the guitar in his basement and frequently jerks off to “Baywatch” reruns. One time, I thought it would be really cool to buy a Jim Morrison shirt off the Internet. It took approximately two weeks to get to me, which in this day and age is frankly ridiculous. I open up the package and lo and behold: not a Jim Morrison shirt but a Jimi Hendrix shirt. Now, when I wear my Jimi Hendrix shirt, people probably think I’m a pretentious music snob. Don’t get me wrong; I like Hendrix. I wish I had written “Little Wing.” But I did not intentionally buy a Hendrix shirt, and for that I am eternally grateful. Because not only did I avoid the actual pretentiousness of wearing a Jim Morrison shirt unironically, but I come off as cool and into music without trying at all. So, the ultimate lesson here is every time you really try to be hip, it won’t end well, and you might as well let fate happen to you.

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Dear Swiping, Never fear. I happen to be quite the expert at Tinder. First things first, check your bio. Are you adequately conveying how funny/charming/athletic/quirky you are? Take for example this bio of a nice young man I matched with last weekend: “bow tie obsessed, hopelessly romantic atlien pursuing a ph.d. in brunch. my instagram makes me look cooler than i actually am, i’m friends with three rappers on snapchat and sometimes i’m funny on twitter. guaranteed 2.6 laughs your first swipe right or your money back.” Now, regardless of your opinions on bow ties (which I may have a certain soft spot for), there’s something to be said for this level of humor and different approach from the usual “Gym/bro/frat” I encounter on the daily. While pictures are worth 1,000 words, these fifty or so words made me curious to picture just what he had to say (and if everything he typed is in lowercase). Another tip I have for your Tinder trials is to just relax. People go on Tinder for different reasons, ranging from a desire to meet new people to sheer boredom. If you take yourself and the app too seriously, heartache (and carpal tunnel) are sure to follow. Finally, let’s take a look at your discovery settings. I know you really want 19-21 in a one mile radius so Jordan from Russian will finally notice your previously-futile attempts

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business school

Students Engage In Social Enterprise

Dadpunk’s critique of masculinity. It operates insidiously. It is everywhere and comes from everywhere. It pervades society and is in constant flux and negotiation. Resistance to it is futile, because it creates its own resistance (thanks, Foucault). I would say that Rhett did not respond to requests for comment before press time, but that would be a lie because I did not make any attempt to reach out to Rhett for comment before press time. Sorry, Rhett. The following is a simple, anecdotally-driven guide to making yourself seem “hip” and “trendy” while maintaining your supine lifestyle. 1. Happy Mistakes

Wrong Places

By Caroline Ciric Contributing Writer

Nguyen said. “I love putting them in clothes that make them look and feel good, that’s why we are selling these specific clothes! Personal appearance has this therapeutic quality that I think everyone should invest in.” The social aspect of the business is also vastly appreciated by Cheng, as it keeps her motivation and passion leveled throughout the ups and downs of running a small business. “My favorite thing about Misthrifts is the love and support I have from all my friends and even strangers,” she said. “It means a lot to me when someone comes up to me and says, ‘Aren’t you the one who is selling thrifted clothing on Wonderful Wednesday?’” The weekend after the photo shoots, the photos are posted on the company’s Facebook page. “Social media is key,” Nguyen said. “I’m sure everyone on campus is tired of us by now from mass promotion.” Indeed, social media has been one of the key pieces for the business, as

When registering for a class at Emory’s Goizueta Business School, it is easy to picture yourself spending mornings and afternoons hauling a bag up and over the steep street toward the infamous B-School archway and settling into a lecture, hopeful that you will receive tools to become a successful business leader, financial manager or accountant. Less sought after, though, is the social enterprise aspect of business that is becoming more important to a sustainable modern economy. BUS344, at first glance, appears to merely be one of those class name codes so often associated with OPUS and its late-night defeats. However, the class — BUS344: Social Enterprise in Nicaragua — is part of a larger picture at Emory: Social Enterprise @ Goizueta, a program that works with a variety of organizations to combine business insight with market-inspired solutions for durable social impacts. The class is comprised of a group of six deeply passionate students in partnership with the Nicaragua Community Health Connection, an organization that helps isolated communities create strong, dependable and sustainable networks of support. It accomplishes this by investing in social capital, countering poverty in isolation and stimulating leadership. The class also works with the coffee community Los Robles, a group of over 2,100 people located in the Northern Nicaraguan state of

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College sophomores Caitlyn Winders and Rudy Oku model clothes for Misthrifts, a new student-run pop-up shop at Wonderful Wednesdays.

Misthrifts: Budget-Conscious Fashion By Caroline Ciric Contributing Writer

If you frequent the parlor of Dobbs Hall, live in the freshman dorm itself, or walk by it during Wonderful Wednesday, you have probably seen a few racks of eclectic colors and enticing fabrics. It is not uncommon to see the rows of clothing guarded by their petite and trendy owners, College sophomores Brittany Nguyen and Audrey Cheng, ever-present during the sunny bustle of Wonderful Wednesday. The pair are the co-founders of the small business Misthrifts, a pop-up thrift store that provides Emory students easy access to unique curated looks, ranging from brand new pieces to thrifted looks. Cheng originally approached Nguyen with this “brainchild,” as Cheng first described the idea of the business, after meeting her while working on Emory’s student fashion magazine publication, (404), and noticed their shared open-mindedness, ambition and passion for beau-

ty. She had hopes of creating easy access to quality styles that most students can’t afford — financially or time-wise. As a sophomore advisor in Dobbs Hall, Nguyen notes that since freshman aren’t allowed to have cars, bringing an affordable retail (indeed, the average piece for sale seldom passes the $20 mark) specifically for Emory undergraduates would be a “win-win situation.” Cheng and Nguyen obtain the clothing that is put on sale at blowout sales and thrift stores, where they go hunting on a weekly basis. They then set up a shoot with the models, who are usually friends with the co-founders. This intimate and personable aspect of the endeavor is one of the greatest and most unique parts of Misthrifts. ”Most of the models are my personal friends; they’re all beautiful, but with how hectic school, extracurricular activities, and trying to get our lives together, sometimes they forget that or don’t see it themselves,”

Friday, April 17, 2015

Doolina: Hip Tips for Your Annoying Summer Outfits Questions Continued from Page 9

Continued from Page 9 to flirt with her in between discussions of Dostoyevsky, but let’s be real. There are many more fish than the Emory sea, and, if you widen your net, you never know what you might find! Sincerely,

Doolina

Dear Doolina, I’m a senior about to graduate and if there’s one thing that annoys me more than the $215 Dooley Dollars I have to get rid of by May, it’s the constant nagging and questions from literally everyone I know about my postgraduation plans. How do I tell people to f-off without being rude? Sincerely,

Yes, I’m Sure My Journalism Degree Isn’t Worthless Dear Yes I’m Sure, First off, congratulations on being one of the last people at Emory who remember what the journalism program was like (I may or may not still be upset about the foolish decisions that were made)! It’s alright to be frustrated at the constant barrage of questions about your future when just weeks before, the biggest decision you had to make was whether or not to finish that halfeaten pizza from last night. One suggestion would be to fill out a Cards Against Humanity-style poster with your degree, job and future address penciled in that you can wear around your relatives/ friends/that one hookup who just won’t let go. Maybe make up an extravagant lie about your world tour with the Chinese underwater circus. Or, accept that people are curious about your future plans, grit your teeth and tell Aunt Myrtle for the 1,000th time that you’re moving to Athens, Georgia, not Greece. Sincerely,

Doolina

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Student Life

2. Velcro Is Key This past summer, I studied abroad at Oxford University in England. I was told that British weather was abysmal, and I should come prepared. So, naturally, I packed lots of close-toed shoes and rain boots. Little did I know that Great Britain was about to have one of the hottest summers in history. When I got to Oxford, I bought a pair of Clark’s sandals that functioned as my walking shoes. Purely practical. I did a lot of walking while abroad. But something else happened that summer. I discovered the wonder of Velcro. Why don’t all shoes have Velcro? Why isn’t every adhesive made of Velcro? Velcro is amazing. It’s quicker than shoelaces, safer than slip-ons and certainly makes a more satisfying sound than zippers. Many people think I wear these shoes as a fashion statement. But I actually wear them for the Velcro. Velcro is key. 3. Hoarders Always Win If you know me at all, you know that my black crossbody bag is kind of like another appendage. I’ve had it

for years, and it may be falling apart, but it’s not going anywhere. The bag is leather, nondescript and very worn. It’s the perfect size to fit my wallet, some makeup essentials, pens, moisturizer, a small notebook and other odds and ends. I wear this bag all day, every day. To class, to bars, to fancy dinners and probably would to weddings if I ever got invited to them. It’s not that I don’t like other bags. In fact, I find designer bags to be works of art. The reason I never take off this bag is simply because it’s portable, does not require hands and goes with most outfits. So the lesson here is usually things that are convenient and fit in with your lazy lifestyle are also things that make you seem like you’re rejecting mainstream fashion trends. 4. Dress for the Weather. If You Want. There’s really not much else for me to say here. Sometimes, I dress for the weather if I remember to check my weather app. Sometimes, I don’t. The lesson here is that if you’re cripplingly lazy and live in a place with a mild climate like Atlanta, you can get away with that pretty easily.

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

Nicaragua Class Focuses on Los Robles Community Continued from Page 9 Jinotega. The goal of this collaboration is to support the creation of the community’s first health clinic, which is not only an essential component — and right — of every community worldwide, but is crucial for the lifestyle of the members of the community. Because of the region’s severe poverty, the population’s diet lacks diversity — they eat rice and beans for almost every meal — making them prone to malnutrition. As a coffee community, lots of the inhabitants work in the fields to cultivate and pick coffee beans, work that contributes to injuries and accidents being some of the biggest causes of medical ailments. In an attempt to keep the class small, it is reserved for juniors. It focuses on the adversity the Los Robles community faces in regards to poverty and health, and teaches students about the immediate needs for adequate medical care and how to approach the different aspects of creating health infrastructures. The students learn the value of networks and community on large scales to further influence and add to the larger picture of economic growth. The class will conclude with a trip to Nicaragua from May 8 to 17, when they will visit the clinic and learn about the country’s vibrant culture beyond the classroom.

Social Media Promotion Key, Nguyen Says Continued from Page 9 well as one of the greatest challenges for the co-founders. Since the business is still in the early stages, social media promotion is heavily relied on for advertising and promotion of the Misthrifts name. It is also one of the most consuming parts of the job, according to Nguyen. “I had to actually turn off notifications from Facebook and Instagram from the constant bombardment of them because it’s too tempting to be sucked into likes, shared photos, shout outs, etc. and forget about what’s going on outside my phone,” she said.Nguyen also related her experience with Misthrifts to her academic pursuits as an Emory undergraduate student. “As of now, I am double majoring in Business and Women’s Gender

and Sexuality Studies. I’m really interested in how gender relations play into the context of fashion,” she said. “What makes some retailers and designers successful and others not? Is it an understanding of how consumers want to brand themselves, or how they’d rather stray away from capitalistic branding by utilizing fashion to their own ‘autonomous selves’?” Cheng is utilizing her experience with Misthrifts differently, as means to explore and tailor her interests and passions. “Right now, it’s just an interest that I’m pursuing so I’m just going to roll with it. For me [working in the fashion industry in the future is] going to be a maybe,” she said. Misthrifts has indeed been a particularly unique learning experience for Cheng and Nguyen, in regards to their professional, academic and even social lives.

The novelty of the company is enforcing flexibility and “on-the-go” learning style, as Nguyen calls it, skills that will be essential for many future professional endeavors. Misthrifts is also an opportunity to witness a first-hand account of the role and power of marketing and how consumerism functions are related to specific factors such as age, gender and season. The ultimate goal of the co-founders is to help students and themselves, and to maximize their experience and fulfillment while at Emory. “We didn’t start Misthrifts as a way of getting bank. We did it because we’re really excited that something like this is even possible,” Nguyen said. “We’re learning something new every day, so to say what we hope to learn is such a vast terrain.”

— Contact Caroline Ciric at caroline.ciric@emory.edu

Despite the admirable intentions of the cause, it is not without adversity. When asked what the greatest challenge was for this project, B-school junior Ryan Sacher responded, “Raising awareness, definitely. You can share this campaign with your friends and really encourage them to donate. This is something that’s really hard to do, making sure people really know what we’re doing.”

“You can share this campaign with your friends and really encourage them to donate. This is something that’s really hard to do, making sure people really know what we’re doing.” — Ryan Sacher Goizueta Business School junior

The class created an Indiegogo page, which is a campaign platform that is used for raising not only the funds but also the awareness needed regarding different ideas, charities and businesses. The class aims to raise $3,000 in order to fund the construction of the clinic, provide the necessary supplies and have the necessary salaries in place for the workers. All donations

go directly to the clinic. To incite larger donations, the class set up incentives to support its culture. With a five dollar donation, you can receive an album of the photos of the trip and see how your donation has helped contribute to building the clinic. For $50, you will receive a bag of Farmers to 40 coffee, which donates 40 percent of the price to the coffee farmers — far more than fair trade. For a $250 donation, you will get an authentic Nicaraguan hammock hand woven by the organization Centro Social Tio Antonio, which seeks to provide education, health resources and economic opportunities to the people in need. “You know, we’re business students,” Sacher said. “We’re mostly involved in accounting and marketing all day every day so this class really opens you up to some of the facts that are affecting us and people outside of our normal circles.” While ending poverty is one of the motivating factors of the program, it is not the principle focus of the partnership. Sacher stressed how this class is not about “guilt-tripping” or exposing how poor certain communities are. In his opinion, the objective is not to receive donations through pity of the present, but through belief in a better future.

— Contact Caroline Ciric at caroline.ciric@emory.edu

Acting A Rare Opportunity, Via Says

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show, Via was able to recognize parallels to her own experiences. “I was really excited that Theater Emory was bringing a Hispanic playwright to Emory and that there was going to be a strong female protagonist who was also Hispanic,” Via said. Via was also well aware that the complexity of her character required long conversations and reflections about the role. “I couldn’t even begin to comprehend it until I started rehearsing, until we started actually embodying it and going through it,” Via said. On top of 36 hours per week in Marisol rehearsals, Via had an additional four hours of rehearsal each week for Rathskellar, Emory’s student improvisation group, not to mention her 19 credit hours of classes. Nevertheless, she managed to find a way to balance the various parts of her life. Though she had to work hard to manage everything in her life, the entire experience was incredibly rewarding — particularly the opportunity to work with professional actors and actresses. “I felt very intimidated at first,” Via said. “Finding my footing and finding my stride and feeling comfortable expressing myself artistically took a little bit.” Once she got to know the professionals and felt more comfortable with them, Via was quick to gush praise about working with each one.

Not only did she gain invaluable experience by directly working with them during the play, she also grew as an actor by simply observing them. “[We talked about] what it is to be a good artist, and what life is like after college,” Via said. “Each one of them shared with me parts of their career and [gave me] advice. [I learned from] just watching them and [seeing] how they interacted with everybody else, and [how they are] still just so grounded and awesome.” She also got the chance to talk to playwright Rivera himself, who flew to Atlanta to see one of the shows. “He was just so gracious and so funny, so down to earth,” Via said. “He said really kind words about [the performance].” While fitting Marisol into the life of a busy second-semester senior was difficult, Via said that she wouldn’t trade it for the world. “It’s an incredibly rare opportunity,” Via said. “You’re this person for so long, and then all of a sudden, you’re never going to go through these motions again with these people you built this world with, so intimately, and it’s gone now forever, and you have to mourn it.” Via expressed her gratitude for everyone whose work helped the success of Marisol, sharing that she cried when it ended. “I really do think it was a great show,” Via said. “Being able to be Marisol and go on [this] journey was just crazy.”

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

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Sports

Friday, April 17, 2015

On Fire

agle xchange Sat 18

Mon 20

Sun 19

at LaGrange College 7 p.m. LaGrange, Ga.

Women’s Tennis

Softball

men’s Tennis

Sewanee & Georgia Georgia Tech Invite Tech Invites All Day All Day Atlanta, Ga. & Sewanee, Tenn. & Athens, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.

at Georgia Gwinett College 2 p.m. Lawrenceville, Ga.

Golf

I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking.

Tues 21

Baseball

Track & Field

Fri 17

at East Texas Baptist vs. Millsaps & East Texas Baptist & Louisiana College 12 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. 12 p.m. & 2 p.m. Jackson, Miss. Jackson, Miss.

vs. Johns Hopkins University 10 a.m. WoodPEC

at Wofford College 12 p.m. Spartanburg, S.C.

Wolfpack Spring Wolfpack Spring Invite Invite Time TBA Time TBA Raleigh, N.C. Raleigh, N.C.

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New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick observes his team. According to this weeks ‘Beej Knows Best,’ the Patriots have a knack for savvy trading.

Patel: Patriots Will Move Down, and Vikings Up Continued from the Back Page Manziel and will be looking to upgrade at the quarterback position. Enter Mariota. Considering his miss last year, I would imagine that General Manager (GM) Ray Farmer is looking to hit a home run and potentially save his job. Although I would advise against making this trade, the Browns management would probably see this as a move to keep them in town just a little bit longer. Trade 2: New York Jets receive: 2015 picks eight and 73 Atlanta Falcons receive: 2015 pick six I will admit that when the Jets were looking for a GM, I emailed consultant and former NFL executive Charley Casserly expressing my interest in the position. However, after what I am sure was a long and arduous debate amongst the Jets’ brain trust, Casserly emailed me back saying that the Jets were interested in someone with personnel experience at the NFL level. At first, I was disappointed, but after seeing the job that Mike Maccagnan has done so far, I feel confident in the direction that Gang Green is headed in. No, the Jets won’t be able to snag their quarterback of the future here. But by trading down only two selections, the Jets can not only get the pass rusher they seek, but also add depth in the third round, potentially grabbing an extra lineman such as Tre’ Jackson out of Florida State University or Arie Kouandjio out of the University of Alabama. Meanwhile, the Falcons have never been shy about trading up in the draft to get their guy. Most famous was the king’s ransom they dealt to acquire the dynamic Julio Jones. Considering that the Falcons hired Dan Quinn from the Seattle Seahawks, one could easily project them taking a pass rusher or defensive back. However, the Seahawks were able to win by finding gems in the later rounds that ended up becoming defensive stalwarts. Additionally, I believe that, similar to the recent Detroit Lions’ drafts, the Falcons will look to bolster their offensive attack. Roddy White is aging,

they have no impact tight end, and their running game is weak. There is speculation about the Oakland Raiders taking one of Amari Cooper or Kevin White, who are universally considered the top two wide receiving prospects. I can’t imagine a scenario in which the Chicago Bears, picking at seven, pass on the remaining guy. Although they could sit tight and grab a talent like DeVante Parker or wait until the second round and draft a guy like Nelson Agholor. However, their past history of aggression makes me believe this trade to jump ahead of the Bears is quite plausible. Trade 3: New England Patriots receive: 2015 Picks 44, 110 and 2016 third round pick Minnesota Vikings receive: 2015 Pick 32 The Super Bowl Champion New England “Deflatriots” have a knack of trading down to gain depth, and in this draft they will need to do so more than ever. One of the key reasons for their success was having Darrelle Revis and Brandon Browner anchor their secondary. However, they are both gone. There is a lot of talent to be had in the second round at that position, such as Ronald Darby from Florida State University or Eric Rowe from the University of Utah. Additionally, they could draft a wide receiver or defensive lineman. The second round this year will be littered with first round talent due to the overall depth of the draft, and I highly doubt Bill Belichick will only pick once in that juncture. Adding two additional picks doesn’t hurt, either. For some reason the Vikings love first round picks. In the last three drafts, the Vikings have had seven first round selections. That’s incredible. I expect the Vikings to try to sneak back into the draft and get some help on the offensive line, wide receiver, or middle linebacker spots. That’s what they do. I can’t see a situation in which New England doesn’t move down or the Vikings don’t move up, so I think this is a match made in heaven. heaven. — Contact Jayson Patel at jayson.patel@emory.edu

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In 2014, the San Antonio Spurs played the Dallas Mavericks at the AT&T Center, their home arena. According to this week’s ‘Nosebleeds,’ the Spurs will win against the Atlanta Hawks.

Janick: Spurs Will Win and Coach Will Retire

Continued from the Back Page

JD: This will also be a great series, but it’s going to come down to the classic young players versus old players battle. I’ve given up on betting against the Spurs, as no one ever wins that bet. San Antonio wins in 6 games. Eastern Conference Second Round: (1) Atlanta Hawks vs. (5) Washington Wizards NJ: Atlanta is jumping for joy that they don’t have to play the Bulls in the second round. Washington poses no real upset threat to the Hawks. The real question is will they sellout Phillips Arena for this series? JD: No, no they will not. Hawks in 5, Phillips Arena doesn’t open the 400-section until the next round. (2) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (3) Chicago Bulls JD: This series is going to be great. There are so many storylines. Over-under on J.R. Smith’s threepoint attempts is 50 for the series. He won’t make more than 15. Does LeBron wear his headband or not? Does D-Rose finally go 2011 MVPlevel D-Rose? Does Nikola Mirotić out-duel Kevin Love (sneakily a good match-up)? NJ: Get excited for this series. Well, until Derrick Rose injures his knee for not the first, second, not third, forth, fifth and sixth time, then you can lose your excitement. Cleveland wins in 6 games. (Due to disagreements about the West, we decided to finish the East first) (1) Atlanta Hawks vs. (2) Cleveland Cavaliers JD: This comes with a huge caveat, but the Hawks are the better team. If they are healthy, even if the Cavs have angry, headband-less LeBron, Kyrie “40 points, 0 Assists” Irving or Kevin Love, Korver is still better than the Cavs. Like a white Steph Curry who can’t handle, drive or run an offense. I once saw him hit approximately 389 3-pointers in a row while warming up. He said it’s his fifth longest streak before 8 p.m. NJ: Not only does Atlanta have a much easier path to this round, but I also believe they are the better team. When I saw these two teams play in person earlier this year, Atlanta handled LeBron very well. This could lead to Kyrie thinking, “let me win this series for my team leading to the Cavs offensive efficiency declining as fast as their odds of making it to the finals.” Atlanta wins in 6 games (1) Golden State Warriors vs. (5) Memphis Grizzlies JD: Memphis and Golden State are on two different sides of the spectrum. One is a post-heavy team that prefers slow games, and the other

has a fast-paced, spread-the-floor attack. This is probably one of the scariest match-ups that Golden State could see. Memphis will slow the game, destroy, and I mean destroy, the Warriors in the post, and use Mike Conley, Tony Allen, and Jeff Green to slow down Klay Thompson and Curry. Ultimately, Golden State is just too good at home, and too good overall, so I see them taking the series. NJ: Lets be real. Golden State is praying that Memphis loses to the injury-riddled Blazers in round one. Memphis plays exactly how the Warriors don’t like to play. Ultimately, the Warriors have too much firepower on offense, but this series will be way closer than people think. Golden State wins in 7. (2) Houston Rockets vs (3) San Antonio Spurs NJ: This is will be our first disagreement. Granted something like this doesn’t happen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mejFtEY5faU) in round one, this will be the first playoff matchup between two legitimate title contenders. But guess what, San Antonio will win this series. The Spurs just beat the Rockets in a home and an away series that mattered greatly for both teams. This trend will continue, and guess what Dursty? The Spurs will do to the Rockets what they would have done to your squad if this hadn’t happened last year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mejFtEY5faU). Harden won’t be quite as effective with Kawhi Leonard on him. Get ready for this Dursty. Hold on to your Bud Light … (Durst was next seen chugging at least one Bud Light 40 and later reports note crying at Maggie’s) NJ: San Antonio in five. JD: We may or may not have bet on this series already (if gambling was “legal”). This is a close series and Janick called it right. It’s the first between two real title contenders. The Rockets have been the better team throughout the season series between these two teams over the past two seasons. They went 5-3, with two of those losses happening with Dwight Howard on the bench. This is going to be a really, really good series. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich (Pop) is by far the better coach, but not by as much as you would think. Kevin McHale has gone from ok to good or even great this year. That being said, in close series, you have to take the team with the best player, who may or may not have a beard. If this series makes it back to Houston for game seven, the Rockets win. Bring on the Warriors. JD: Huston in seven. Western Conference Finals (1) Golden State Warriors vs. (2) Houston Rockets/(6) San Antonio

Spurs JD: Golden State has been a great team this year, and they’ve killed the Rockets all season. The one thing that’s changed? I’ll give you a hint, he’s 6-10 and wears number 12. Dwight is going to be the x-factor in this series. If he plays like he did against Portland last year, a la 90 percent of Orlando Dwight, then this series is going to be phenomenal. If he doesn’t, then it could be over really quickly. Sadly, I think this is as far as my beloved Rockets go. Golden State in six games. NJ: This is the series that everybody has been waiting for. These are two teams that play gorgeous offensive basketball, and are both elite defensive teams. There would be more assists in one game of this series than the Rockets have had all year. I am personally guaranteeing that it is one of these two teams that will represent the Western Conference Finals, but in a bracket you can only pick one. Cue the inspirational music; the Spurs are making it to the finals. Spurs win in seven games. (1) Atlanta Hawks vs. (1) Golden State Warriors /(6) San Antonio Spurs JD: While I would love to see the master and the apprentice face off in the finals (Pop and Budenholzer … think of all the Star Wars references here), I don’t think it will happen. But this series is going to be great nonetheless. These two teams are essentially different versions of each other. The Hawks rely on their team as whole, but wouldn’t function without Kyle Korver’s spacing, and the Warriors rely on Thompson and Curry to set everything up. I really hope this series happens, as it’ll be the best finals since last year. But nothing beats last year. Hawks win in seven games. NJ: Whoa. I like where you are going with this, but no, this isn’t going to happen. In what will be remembered as the greatest end of an era in sports, the Spurs will win the title against the Hawks and Pop, Manu and Duncan will all retire together. The story lines are perfect. The Spurs, whose innovative techniques have revolutionized the league, will go out after beating the team that has tried to imitate them the most. Pop, Manu and Duncan all going out together after winning back-toback titles far surpasses John Elway’s historic end to his own career. This is too perfect; it has to happen. Screw filling out this bracket in pen. It’s down in sharpie. Gold sharpie, the color of the Larry O’Brien trophy. Spurs win the title. — Contact Jacob Durst at jacob.j.durst@emory.edu and Nathan Janick at nathan.janick@emory.edu

Some devastating news just fell into the inbox on your On Fire correspondent’s desk. NFL quarterback Tom Brady’s wife, Gisele Bundchen, is bidding farewell to the runway. Your On Fire correspondent is crying. The 34-year-old Brazilian beauty (and mother of Tom Brady’s children) announced that she would end her 20-year-long career during a runway show in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as Brady sat in the front row. Bundchen says she wants to “spend more time with her family.” But … why? She’s the world’s highest-paid model, according to Forbes magazine’s 2014 ranking. Last year, she out-earned her husband (may it be repeated her husband is Tomfreaking-Brady), making about $47 million. After she retired, Tom wrote a nice love-Facebook post to his wife: “Congratulations Love of my Life. You inspire me every day to be a better person. I am so proud of you and everything you have accomplished on the runway. I have never met someone with more of a will to succeed and determination to overcome any obstacle in the way. You never cease to amaze me. Nobody loves life more than you and your beauty runs much deeper than what the eye can see. I can’t wait to see what’s next. I love you.” Wow, Tom Brady. This man has it all: the looks, the football skills, the Uggs and now he’s a poet?! This got your On Fire correspondent thinking about other couples of the athlete-and-celebrity kind. 1. Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom “But On Fire correspondent, they broke up!” Yes, he (or she) knows that … everyone knows that. Yet, this couple intrigues your On Fire correspondent. Khloe, a Kardashian, is a part of the famous family that is still on TV — who knows why — but they kind of just shrug off the fame because they’re pretty entertaining … even if they do pose a threat to the intelligence of their watchers. Lamar, on the other hand, is an athlete/entertainment star wannabe. He owns his own music and film production company, Rich Soil Entertainment. He appeared in a Taco Bell commercial along with Charles Barkley during Super Bowl XLIV. He had a cameo on the second season of the HBO television series “Entourage.” Oh, and he was on a bunch of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and 20 episodes of “Khloe and Lamar.” The couple divorced in 2013, but hey, at least Lamar got to fulfill his dream of appearing on TV? 5. David Beckham and Victoria Caroline Adams The Beyonce and Jay-Z of sportsmodel couples. They truly have it all: the looks, the net worth (combined over $345 million), the cute kids, the accents, the international fame. David gets to spend all day in his H&M underwear, while Victoria gets to do her pouty face that never changes on the runway. What a life. Oh, to be a celebrity or athlete. Almost brings a tear to your On Fire correspondent’s eyes.

Game Cancelled, Eagles to Continue Season on Tuesday Continued from the Back Page The Eagles added two more in the fifth with RBI singles from Maldari and sophomore outfielder Wilson Morgan. In the top of the eighth, with Young on first, Peacock went deep again to give the Eagles a 9-0 lead. “I’ve been seeing the ball pretty well lately,” Peacock said. “I was just trying to get a good pitch to hit and swing hard, and fortunately I got two good pitches to hit and took two good swings.” Peacock led the way in batting with his two two-run home runs and four more runs with major contributions from Maldari, who had two hits and three runs scored, and Selbach, who had two hits and an RBI. “Our hitters kept it simple. They were finding good pitches and putting their barrels to them,” McGuinnes said. “Peacock had a monster game for us, and to see his offensive power like this means he’s definitely a guy that teams have to be careful of. We, of course, love it.” As the season winds down, with five games left in the next 10 days, McGuiness stressed that the team will keep things the same as they have all season.

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Sophomore infielder Philip Maldari and senior captain and infielder Jordan Selbach congratulate one another. Maldari, Selbach and the Eagles will play against LaGrange College (Ga.) on Tuesday.

“Everyone knows it’s the last stretch, but our guys know to take it one game at a time,” he said. “The only thing on their mind is the next game.” The Eagles were scheduled to take on Millsaps College (Miss.), at Birmingham-Southern College (Ala.), however, the game was can-

celled due to the inclement weather forecast. The game will not be rescheduled. Emory is off this weekend, and will return to action on Tuesday, April 21, when they will travel to LaGrange, Georgia to take on the LaGrange College Panthers. “Our team as a whole is just trying

to hit the ball hard and put pressure on the defense,” Peacock added. “We have to stay selective and make sure we get out pitch. When we hit the ball hard and get on base, we get energy on the bench that gives us momentum to create rallies and win.” — Contact Joseph Shapiro at joseph.elliott.shapiro@emory.edu

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Friday, April 17, 2015 Sports Editor: Elana Cates (elana.cates@emory.edu)

Baseball

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Nosebleeds: Preview Of the NBA Playoffs

Jacob Durst & Nathan Janick

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Senior pitcher and captain Connor Dillman winds up to throw a pitch. Dillman and the Eagles defeated Covenant College (Ga.) 10-0 this past Tuesday. The Eagles were scheduled to play Millsaps College (Miss.) yesterday, but due to inclement weather, the game was cancelled.

Eagles Defeat Covenant College 10-0 By Joseph Shapiro Senior Staff Writer On Tuesday, the Emory baseball team traveled to Lookout Mountain (Ga.) and handedly defeated the Covenant College (Ga.) Scots, 10-0. Senior outfielder and captain Wes Peacock led the Eagles with two home runs. Despite getting only four more hits than the Scots, the Eagles took advantage of their opportunities

and were able to prevent the Scots from stringing anything altogether. Sophomore lefthander Jackson Weeg started on the mound for the Eagles and put together another brilliant performance, going eight innings, giving up five hits, striking out four and improving his record to 9-1. In addition, he lowered his ERA to 1.56 on the season. The Eagles got things started in the top of the second inning with a

two-out single from freshman infielder Nick Chambers that scored sophomore infielder Philip Maldari. In the fourth, the Eagles added four more runs. A RBI single from Chambers, followed by a groundout by sophomore catcher Chris Young, scored senior infielder Jordan Selbach. Peacock then hit a tworun home run to left, increasing the Eagles’ lead to five. “[Chambers] is starting to find his

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way at shortstop,” Assistant Coach Connor McGuiness said. Chambers, who recorded two hits and two RBIs on Tuesday, has played well recently, both in the field and at the plate, McGuiness said. “He’s improved so much over the season and I think it’s fun for guys to see a comfortable kid out there,” McGuiness added.

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The Wheel’s newest senior staff writers (yeah, we don’t know what the world is coming to, either) are giving the people what they want: Brackets. No, not the traditional March Madness bracket, the NBA Playoffs bracket. East Round 1: (1) Atlanta Hawks vs. (8) Brooklyn Nets/Indiana Pacers Nathan Janick: Yeah, we are not going to waste our time or yours. Atlanta wins in 5 games (4) Toronto Raptors vs. (5) Washington Wizards Jacob Durst: Does anyone actually care about this match-up anymore? Three months ago, I would have been really excited. But now, it’s a solid “eh.” I wish the Raptors’ Kyle Lowry scores 50 points per game in this series, but I would still pick Washington. Washington wins in 7 games. (2) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (7) Boston Celtics NJ: There are two things that the Celtics have going for them: 1) Brad Stevens is a much better coach then

David Blatt. 2) Bill Simmons is the biggest homer in American journalism; he only roots for his home team. Yes, he is a bigger homer than Jacob Durst. Cleveland wins in 5 games (3) Chicago Bulls vs. (6) Milwaukee Bucks JD: What’s that team that you know is going to make the leap next year after they lose in a really competitive series in the first round? Your 2014-15 Milwaukee Bucks. Chicago wins in 6 games. Western Conference First Round: (1) Golden State Warriors vs. (8) New Orleans Pelicans NJ: Curry is likely going to be the season’s MVP (sorry Durst), however, behind the 2015-16 MVP, the Pelicans will throw up a heroic game on the back of a buzzerbeater turnaround 24 footer from Anthony Davis over Andrew Bogut to win by one. Golden State wins in 5 games. (4) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (5) Memphis Grizzlies NJ: Durst and I have a better shot at having a basketball game televised on ESPN or TNT during the first round. Tune into NBA TV for this pick and every second of the series. (2) Houston Rockets vs. (7) Dallas Mavericks JD: This will be the best series in the first round this year. These teams hate each other, but one of them has James Harden. Houston win in 6 games. (3) LA Clippers vs. (6) San Antonio Spurs

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Men’s Tennis

Squad Shuts Out Sewanee 9-0 By Jacob Spitzer Asst. Sports Editor

Junior Rafe Mosetick was named the University Athletic Association (UAA) Men’s Tennis Co-Player of the Week. He contributed to the team’s pair of wins this past weekend against nationally-ranked Skidmore College (N.Y.) and Tufts University (Mass.). He shares the honor with freshman Nicholas Chua from the University of Chicago. This is the second time this season Mosetick has been awarded UAA Athlete of the Week; the first was on Feb. 23 after his performance at the ITA National Indoor Championships in St. Peter, Minn. Mosetick has won his last 14 singles competitions and stands 15-1 this season.

Freshman Kora Dreffs was named the UAA Field Athlete of the Week following her performance at the Catamount Classic in Cullowhee, Tenn. last week. Dreffs finished ninth in the shot put competition, with a career-best 11.53 meter throw and the best mark by any Eagle this season. The distance was also the second-best record by a UAA athlete this season. She also added a career-best record in the hammer throw, placing 22nd with her 33.43-meter throw. Dreffs’ performances helped the Eagles place fifth overall as a team. This is the first UAA Athlete of the Week honor for Dreffs. Photos Courtesy of Emory Athletics

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Beej Knows Best: Draft Trade Predictions

Jayson Patel Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Beej Knows Best. We are currently less than two weeks away from the NFL Draft, and the rumor mill is just about overflowing with speculation. However, the reality of the situation is that most teams that are “leaking” information at this juncture are most likely selectively choosing what the public and, more importantly, other teams get to hear. For example, if I were the Tennessee Titans with the number two pick, I would absolutely tell everybody that I want Marcus Mariota. Because of course, only an

absolute whale of an offer could compel me to possibly consider parting with my dream quarterback. It doesn’t really matter to me that my coach prefers quarterbacks who are a completely different style. And it doesn’t matter to me that our roster is barren and could use an infusion of talent from a deep draft like this one. Wait, what? That’s what they are actually doing? Well then, I guess you get my point. So, in this edition, I look to break down potential blockbuster trades that could be made involving first round picks. Trade 1: Tennessee Titans receive: 2015 Picks 12, 19, 77 and 2016 second round pick Cleveland Browns receive: 2015 picks two and 177 I would like to dispel two rumors before getting into this trade. First, Ron Jaworski and Mike Mayock are human trolls who have no desire for anything in life other than to get page views by saying something controversial. Both of these men have proclaimed that Marcus Mariota is ahead of Jameis Winston on the draft board of the

Tampa Bay Buccaneers, even though they have no supporting evidence for this. Jaworski has done this before, an example being when he proclaimed that Colin Kaepernick would be one of the greatest quarterbacks ever. His face ended up being plastered on ESPN all week long. Come on, Jaws. Do you really need to see yourself on TV that badly? Secondly, there is no way the Titans would trade for Phillip Rivers when they are in a rebuilding process. He is in the last year of his contract, and I see no reason for him to stay beyond a season, so the Titans definitely don’t need a rental. Anyway, I think that the Titans, as per numerous reports, would prefer to go into the season with Zach Mettenberger as their quarterback, perhaps with a big-armed rookie such as Bryce Petty or Sean Mannion as competition. With the 12 and the 19, the Titans could go after a wide receiver and a front seven guy. On the other hand, it seems like the Browns have given up on Johnny

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The Emory men’s tennis team defeated the Sewanee: University of the South (Tenn.) Tigers 9-0 on Wednesday. Junior Rafe Mosetick took up the first singles position, defeating sophomore Avery Schober in a three set match 6-4, 2-6 and 6-1. Senior Alex Ruderman played second singles, defeating junior Eric Roddy in straight sets 6-1 and 7-6. Senior Ian Wagner played third singles, winning against junior Connor Winkler 6-3 and 6-1. Sophomore Josh Goodman defeated freshman Davis Owen 6-2 and 6-1 in the fourth singles position. Sophomore Aman Manji played fifth singles, beating senior Alex Cooper 6-0 and 6-4. Freshman David Omsky wrapped up the singles competition, defeating sophomore Scott Gallimore 6-1 and 6-3. “We played well and we stayed focused,” Mosetick said. “After our loss at [Middlebury College (Vt.)] we needed a match to get our heads back on right and this definitely helped. We’ve kind of gotten complacent lately. We needed that Middlebury match to get us into focus.” In the doubles competition, Ruderman partnered with Wagner in the first singles spot, defeating the Sewanee team of Cooper and Roddy 8-3 in a pro set. Mosetick replaced senior Eric Halpern, playing second singles with Omsky, and defeated Sewanee’s Owen and Schober 8-2. Manji and freshman Scott Rubinstein defeated Sewanee’s Gallimore and Winkler 8-2 in third doubles. With the season coming to a close, the team is focused on preparing for the University Athletic Association (UAA) Conference Championships, and the NCAA Championships down the line, Mosetick added. In 2012, the Eagles won the UAA Championships. The next year, they placed second, and last year, they placed third. In 2012, the Eagles won the NCAA Tournament, and, in 2011, they came in second. Since then, however, the

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Sophomore Josh Goodman launches the ball over the net. The Eagles defeated Sewanee: The University of the South (Tenn.) on Wednesday.

Eagles best finish has been in the quarterfinals. “We really are focused on preparing for the NCAAs,” Mosetick said. “We’re going to focus on our fitness. These matches are long and daunting. The real goal is to play thousands of hours to prepare for that.” With three strong seniors on the team, other team members feel they can make a big run at the NCAA Championships, according to Ruderman. “That’s the goal for the season,”

Ruderman said. “Every game, every practice is to prepare for the NCAA Championship. Winning the tournament my freshman year was a completely surreal experience … We have a really strong team this year, and it’s my last chance, so I’m going to do everything I can to win.” Emory will continue its season on April 21 when the team will travel to play Georgia Gwinnett College at 2 p.m. — Contact Jacob Spitzer at jacob.alexander.spitzer@emory.edu