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Police Record, Page 2

Student Life, Page 9

Crossword Puzzle, Page 8

Staff Editorial, Page 6

Sports, Page 11

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TIBET WEEK

Diplomat Discusses End To China-Tibet Conflict

By Bradyn Schiffman Contributing Writer

Julia Munslow/Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor

A professional fire twirler performed on Asbury Circle on Monday afternoon as part of Emory Student Programing Council’s Dooley’s Week kickoff event, DooLuau. The event also featured free food, giveaways and other performances.

SPC: Four Months, Forty Members, One Week Over the past four months, 40 Student Programming Council (SPC) members leveraged their entertainment industry connections and a large and undisclosed budget to put together this year’s Dooley’s Week.

These 40 members, armed with a chunk of every student’s contribution to Emory’s Student Activity Fee (SAF), receive the budget go-

ahead from the Student Government Association (SGA) every year.

SPC cannot publish their budget, as this would hinder negotiations and in some cases violate contracts with entertainment contacts, according to the council’s members.

With the SGA’s stamp of approval, SPC members spent months booking artists through industry connections and research. While the members have been unable to gather student input due to fears of raising student

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

DINING

By Lydia O’Neal News Editor

expectations too high, as well as the constraints of the negotiation process, they are attempting this year to integrate student responses and are always subject to administrative oversight, according to SPC members.

This year, the SPC Speakers Committee landed former “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) writer John Mulaney for Thursday night’s Dooley’s Week comedy show in the Glenn Memorial auditorium. For the culmination of Dooley’s Week events,

the Dooley’s Frolics and Dooley’s Ball Committees chose rapper J. Cole and house music duo The Knocks, respectively.

They’ve brought performers like Kendrick Lamar, Passion Pit, OneRepublic, B.o.B and Chance the Rapper to McDonough Field in the past five years, along with stand-up comedians Amy Schumer, Hannibal Buress and Rob Riggle.

See A LOOK, Page 4

By Luke White Senior Staff Writer The 48th Legislature of the Emory Student Government Association (SGA) passed three bills on Monday evening, including one that mandates clubs to submit specific plans for how they intend to use at least 70 percent of the funds they request during the budgeting process, and two bills proposing the appointments of new members to SGA administrative positions.

Vice President for Finance and College senior Patrick O’Leary submitted Bill 48sl23 proposing that SGA require student organizations to submit justifications for a minimum of 70 percent of the funds that they request during the club budgeting process.

As part of this bill, no more than 30 percent of a club’s yearly funds may be allocated unless that club has submitted an organized plan for how it intends to use the money or unless the SGA vice president for finance decides otherwise.

Additionally, the bill would require all anticipated events to be accounted for within the club’s submitted budget.

“This [bill] ... will allow student organizations to budget more

See BILL, Page 5

A small but passionate crowd of about 25 Emory students, alumni and employees gathered in Winship Ballroom on Monday evening to discuss the University’s upcoming decision regarding their food service contract. The talk, organized

by Emory Students and Workers in Solidarity (SWS), examined the choice — between Sodexo, the University’s current food provider, and the California-based Bon Appétit — as well as the cultural questions it raises, both on campus and across the nation.

The event was moderated by Ed Lee, senior director of debate at Emory’s Barkley Forum, and immediately launched into an extended history of the criticism leveled at Sodexo.

SWS formed in 2010 in response to workers’ complaints that the University’s food contractor had been named in human rights reports, interfered with workers’ freedom of association and denied workers’ access to health insurance.

Ross Gordon (‘13C), an employee of the Barkley Forum — a group that aims to encourage campus debate — laid out the SWS mission statement early in the talk: “Sodexo should not be the food service contractor at Emory, because of what they’ve done and their international practices.”

A lengthy dialogue ensued, splitting the audience into three factions to discuss the larger issues of wealth inequality in America.

“It’s difficult for us to have a conversation about what’s going on

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at Emory without talking about the issues that are going on in the global and national economy,” Lee said.

As the groups reconvened, the conversation shifted to personal anecdotes of interactions with Sodexo employees and managers. Neil Shulman (‘71M), an associate professor in the School of Medicine, kicked off the group discussion by recalling the Emory of his youth. “In 1967 ... when summer break came, they’d find the cafeteria workers other jobs on campus. Everyone had health insurance. That’s not the case today,” he said.

The fact that Sodexo employees do not get health insurance was a common complaint among the audience.

Shulman told tales of several food workers stricken with medical conditions who refused to take a medical leave for fear of being fired.

Lance Howell (‘11C), a Michael C. Carlos Museum employee, spoke of his first experience with SWS as an undergrad and the racial undertones of wealth inequality.

“This situation resonates with me as a black person, because I’d go through campus hearing stories of people who looked like me, trying to make an honest living,” Howell said.

“They couldn’t get 15 minutes off to see a doctor.”

The students in attendance, even those not affiliated with SWS, were vocal in their agreement with the organization and their condemnation of Sodexo.

“I think the contract should definitely treat the Sodexo employees like regular Emory employees,” College

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SGA: Orgs SWS Hosts Discussion On Must Sodexo, Worker Treatment Justify Use of Funds

By Ryan Smith Associate Editor

Emory kicked off the 15th annual Tibet Week with a panel about China and Tibet relations and a live Mandala art painting exhibition at the Michael C. Carlos Museum on Monday.

“The Tibet struggle is much more than slogans,” the keynote speaker Lodi Gyari Rinpoche — his holiness the Dalai Lama’s special envoy to the United States — said. “[It’s about the] preservation of the distinctive personality, of who we are.”

At the Mandala Art Painting Exhibit, the monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery created an elaborate and colorful sand design in the museum’s Reception Hall.

On Monday evening, a professor and former diplomat held a talk titled “The China-Tibet Dialogue and Its Implications for International Conflict Resolution.”

At the dialogue, the two hosts, in addition to two Emory student speakers, discussed solutions to the conflict between China and Tibet and the possibility of an autonomous Tibet. Rinpoche discussed possible diplomatic solutions to the conflict using his background in international politics while the talk’s moderator, Paul Zwier, an Emory School of Law professor and scholar on international advocacy, analyzed the relationship between China and Tibet.

The two student speakers — Richard Sui, a College senior and the co-founder of the China-Tibet Initiative at Emory and Tsewang Rigzin, an Emory graduate student and the current president of the Tibetan Youth Congress — discussed their personal connections to the China-Tibet conflict.

Rinpoche pointed out that Tibetan people were once skeptical and had deep mistrust for the Chinese, but

that the Dalai Lama has done a great job in engaging in peaceful discussion and negotiation.

A lot of informal talks have shown that “there was serious discussion [about Tibet] among the Chinese leadership” in the past two decades that Rinpoche has been the Dalai Lama’s envoy to the U.S., he said.

Despite fallouts in negotiations between China and Tibet, Rinpoche said he believed that ultimately, “there will certainly be a major breakthrough.”

However, the issue, he added, is not about the Dalai Lama’s relationship with China, but about the Tibetan people’s relationship with China.

Sui, a Chinese student studying at Emory, said he initially learned about hostility between Tibet and China while he lived in China. He said that he was subject to the ubiquitous idea that Tibetans are unfriendly. There has been a lot of tension between China and Tibet as the Chinese claim rule over this autonomous region while Tibetans believe in the right to autonomy.

Sui described a hesitant dinner he shared with some Tibetan monks studying at Emory. He said the meal, which a friend took him to, transformed his outlook on ChinaTibetan relations. There was a huge difference, he said, between what he learned in China, and what the monks were like.

Sui said he saw that Tibetans were normal everyday people who even watched Netflix. Not long after this dinner in 2011, he created the ChinaTibet Initiative, through which, he said, “we [Chinese students] can find [an importance in Tibet] greater than politics.”

Rigzin, the other student speaker — who heads the Tibet Youth

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ollege senior Tagwa El Mubarak performs at the the Muslim Students Association Art Gala on Sunday evening. The Gala also featured a performance by award-winning playwright Rohina Malik and Emory’s improv comedy group Rathskellar.

INDIA WEEK

Swarup Discusses Award-Winning Novel

By Luke White Senior Staff Writer

Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat and the best-selling author of Q & A, the novel on which Oscar winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire” was based, spoke to a group of more than 100 students and guests about his career and approach to writing at Emory on Friday evening in one of the final events of Emory’s sixth annual India Week.

“If I can write, then so can anyone else,” Swarup said. “I believe that

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creativity is not something that is confined to a select few. It is there in everyone, just in some people it remains dormant.”

After Swarup’s speech in the Rollins School of Public Health auditorium, audience members stayed for a question and answer session with the author of three books, followed by a screening of “Slumdog Millionaire.” The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning organized the event.

The Halle Institute is part of Emory’s Office of Global Strategy

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and Initiatives and works to bring distinguished speakers from different backgrounds to Emory.

Swarup grew up in the city of Allahabad in the Uttar Pradesh province of India. He said that during his childhood, “[his] best and only pastime was reading ... Books were [his] passport to a larger world full of possibility.” However, back then, he never considered a career in writing, and upon graduating from Allahabad University, he joined the Indian

See INDIA, Page 5

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NEWS ROUNDUP National, Local and Higher Education News • Singapore’s founding father and premier for 31 years died of pneumonia early Monday morning at age 91. While leaders like U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping paid tribute to Lee Kuan Yew, his death inspired seven days of national mourning in Singapore, to culminate in a state funeral on Sunday.

• As the first Republican to declare his 2016 presidential candidacy, Texas Senator Ted Cruz posted on Twitter on Sunday night, “I’m running for president and hope to earn your support!” He followed the tweet with a video, in which he said, “It’s going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to make America great again.”

• A South African court found former tennis star Bob Hewitt guilty of raping several of the women he trained and coached, all of whom were minors at the times of the assaults. Hewitt, a 75 year-old Grand Slam champion, denied the two charges of rape and one charge of sexual assault. Following abuse allegations, his name was removed from the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2012.

• As customers complained they did not want to talk about race while buying a cup of coffee, Starbucks baristas stopped writing “#RaceTogether” on the coffee chain’s cups. The hashtag was part of Starbucks’ larger and ongoing campaign against racial inequality.

— Compiled by News Editor Lydia O’Neal

Corrections

• In the last issue of The Emory Wheel, the article “Admins Meet With Freedom at Emory” incorrectly stated that Ajay Nair is the executive vice president and dean of Campus Life. He is the senior vice president and dean of Campus Life.

• In the last issue of The Emory Wheel, the article, “Emory to Offer Course on The Ferguson Movement,” spelled Jovonna Jones’ name incorrectly. Her first name is Jovonna, not Jovanna.

• In the last issue of The Emory Wheel, the article “Emory Alum Claude Sitton, 89, Dies” incorrectly stated in paragraph 11 that Medgar Evers was shot in the year 1863. Evers was shot in 1963. The article also stated that Sitton became the Times’ national editor in 1864. He became the Times’ national editor in 1964.

The Wheel reports and corrects all errors published in the newspaper and at emorywheel.com.

Please contact Editor in Chief Dustin Slade at dustin.slade@emory.edu.

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• On March 19 at 2:00 p.m., the Emory Police Department (EPD) received a call regarding a suspicious phone scam that has been affecting Emory students. A student called EPD claiming that she received a call from a person posing as an IRS agent. The agent made multiple calls to the student claiming that she owed money to the government. The student became suspicious and notified the police. The case has been turned over to a detective.

• On March 20 at 2:37 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an underage individual under the influence of alcohol at Few Hall. When officers arrived on the scene, the female individual was not respon-

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sive to voice commands. Emory Emergency Medical Services and American Medical Response arrived on the scene and transported the individual to Emory University Hospital.

The individual said that she had consumed alcohol earlier in the evening.

Campus Life was notified.

• On March 20 at 2:49 a.m., EPD was notified that a student was assaulted at Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill. The student was transported to Emory University Hospital.

The student was uncooperative when questioned by officers and did not want to press charges.

• On March 20 at 11:55 p.m., officers were on regular patrol when

they noticed seven individuals on the railroad tracks near Clifton Road and Haygood Drive. Four of the students admitted to having smoked marijuana after officers told them they had an odor of marijuana. The other three individuals said they didn’t smoke.

Officers did not confiscate any marijuana because the individuals said they had disposed of the marijuana cigarette. Campus Life was notified.

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campus house and that she had consumed five mixed drinks at Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill. The student also said she was at T’Kilas Tacos & More (Los Loros) earlier that night.

— Compiled by Asst. Digital Editor Brandon Fuhr

• On March 21 at 4:08 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an underage student under the influence of alcohol at the Emory Conference Center. When officers arrived on the scene, the individual was conscious and alert. The female student said that she had been at a party at an off

EVENTS AT EMORY WEDNESDAY

Event: Mandala Sand Painting Live Exhibition with Monks Time: 10 a.m.

Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall

Event: Violence, Disability, and the Politics of Healing Time: 11 a.m.

Location: Candler School of Theology Room 360

Event: Emory Farmers Market Time: 11 a.m Location: Cox Bridge

Event: Dooley’s Week 2015 Wonderful Wednesday Time: 12:30 p.m.

Location: Asbury Circle

Event: The Strategic Logic of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Time: 11:30 a.m Location: Emory Conference Center Hotel

Event: Building Brains From Bottom to Top with Chris Eliasmith Time: 4 p.m.

Location: PAIS 290

Event: Medicine Residency Program: Resident Research Day Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Emory University Hospital Auditorium, 2nd Floor

Event: “Illuminating the Dark Matter of the Genome” Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: John H. Kauffman Auditorium

Event: Colloquium: Carl Phillips, award-winning poet Time: 2:30 p.m.

Location: N301 Callaway Center

Event: Renowned New Testament Scholar Professor Calvin J. Roetzel on Ernst Käsemann Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Pitts Theology Library Lecture Hall (Room 360)

Event: Dooley’s Week 2015 Taste of Emory Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: McDonough Field Event: Food Insecurity: A Challenge to Faith Communities Time: 11 a.m.

Location: Rita Anne Rollins Building 252

Event: Guided Compassion Meditation Time: 5 p.m.

Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall Event: Bisexual/Pansexual Discussion Group

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Office of LGBT Life, 232E DUC Event: Drumline (2002) Film Screening, Movies Made in Georgia Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: White Hall 208

Event: Dooley’s Week 2015 Comedian John Mulaney Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Glenn Memorial

THURSDAY

Event: An Evening of Telugu Arts Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall

Event: Submitting Your Electronic Dissertation/Thesis Time: 11:30 a.m.

Location: Woodruff Library Level 3, Room 312

Event: All Being Displaced: Movement Translations of Flannery O’Connor Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Dance Studio

Event: Dooley’s Week 2015 Happy Thinks and Tropical Drinks Time: 12:30 p.m.

Location: Asbury Circle Event: Migrant Selves: A Round Table with Alain Mabanckou Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: White Hall 208 Event: Queer Students of Color Discussion Group Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Office of LGBT Life, 232E DUC Event: Emory Women’s History Month Lecture Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Woodruff Library, Jones Room

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Nursing Program Highly Ranked, New Creative Writing Fellows

By Annie McGrew News Editor Nursing school ranking

Emory’s Nell Hodgson School of Nursing ranked 10th among nursing schools in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2016 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” guide, released on March 10. This ranking is the highest in the school’s history and a significant jump from last year’s rank of 21st in the nation.

According to a March 10 University press release, this ranking was based on new statistical and reputational data the U.S. News & World Report introduced for the first time this year. Previously, the magazine’s rankings were based solely on peer assessments. The publication expanded the nursing program rankings to better account for employment rates among new graduates, the U.S. News & World Report said in a March 10 article.

Other highly-ranked Emory programs included the Rollins School of Public Health at seventh in the nation for Public Health gradu-

ate programs, Emory’s Physician Assistant Program at third for physician assistant graduate programs and Emory’s and Georgia Institute of Technology’s joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. program at second in the nation in the Biomedical Engineering/ Bioengineering category for the ninth consecutive year.

Creative writing fellows The Emory University Creative Writing program announced Lydia Conklin as the Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction and Phillip B. Williams as the Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry for 2015-2017, according to a March 9 University press release.

Conklin, who currently lives in New York City, studied as an undergraduate at Harvard University, where she was a 2007 Artist Development Fellow. She also holds a Masters of the Fine Arts (MFA) in fiction writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Conklin received the Pushcart Prize, as well as many other accolades. Her fic-

tion has appeared in The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, New Letters, The New Orleans Review and other publications.

Williams, a Chicago native, received his MFA in Writing from the Washington University in St.

Lydia Conklin, creative writing fellow in fiction

Phillip B. Williams, creative writing fellow in poetry

Louis, where he was a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow.

In addition to his forthcoming

book of poems Thief in the Interior, Williams co-authored a book of poems and conversations called Prime. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem and received the 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, as well as a work-study scholarship in poetry from Bread Loaf Writers Conference. He is also the poetry editor of the online journal “Vinyl Poetry.”

The Creative Writing Fellows Program provides young writers with recent masters or doctoral degrees in creative writing, allowing them to gain teaching experience and time to finish a manuscript, which they can submit for publication.

Their two-year terms begin on Wednesday Aug. 26, which marks the first day of classes for the 20152016 academic year.

Throughout their fellowship, Conklin and Williams will teach three workshops per semester. The two fellows will give a joint reading on Nov. 16 as part of the Creative Writing Program Reading Series, according to the press release.

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

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Senior Director of Debate at the Barkley Forum Ed Lee discussed Emory’s food service contract at a meeting on Monday evening.

Sodexo Workers a Part of Community, Students Say Continued from Page 1 senior Nikhil Bontha said. “They definitely deserve access to health care and transportation benefits.”

The talk ended with a discussion of how to mobilize the Emory student body in support of their food workers.

“It’s striking to me that students are willing to stop and watch firebreathing, but we can’t take a minute out of our day to talk about real issues,” College sophomore Andrew Jones said, referring to the Dooley’s Week festivities that took place outside Winship during the talk.

Students discussed the relation-

ships that they formed with Dobbs University Center (DUC) food workers, claiming that the Sodexo employees were as much a part of Emory as any full-time professor or student. SWS members stressed face-to-face contact as invaluable, a way to humanize the workers that are most affected by Emory’s looming contract decision.

“It’s life or death,” Jones said.

“You don’t leave members of our community hanging on a thread.

This is not how you treat a family member.”

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

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A panel of experts on Tibet discussed the country’s future and the state of its relationship with China as part of this year’s Tibet Week at Emory.

Dalai Lama’s Envoy, Experts Talk Tibet’s Future Continued from Page 1 Congress, a non-governmental organization that advocates for an independent Tibet — said the Chinese delegation failed to compromise on many issues regarding Tibet. Rigzin said he wants to see the conflict resolved, because of his personal connection to the issue: his parents are trapped inside Tibet, while he is trapped outside the region.

“There is a light at the end of the tunnel,” Rigzin said. Eventually, he added, the Dalai Lama should be able to return to Tibet, and families will be reunited.

Rinpoche, the diplomant, also expressed hope for the “Middle Way” to negotiate a solution between the two delegations, Rinpoche said.

Yucheng Lu, a College freshman who attended the talk, said that the talk was “very enlightening.”

“It was great to see experts in the field [and] to be able to ask questions,” Lu said.

For the Mandala painting Monday afternoon, the Drepung Loseling Monastery monks drew designs with chalk and white pencil and filled

them with colored sand across a table to create Mandala paintings. The monks memorized and repeated the steps of creating the mandala through the construction of geometric objects and shapes within the design, according to Geshe Phende, one of the monks.

The technique used in the creation of the mandala is known as “circling,” and the category is known as a “Mandala of compassion,” Phende said.

Phende added that the painting closely resembled the Palace of Mandala, a Buddhist palace occupied

by Gods and Buddhas.

Phende said that everything had to be correctly aligned geometrically, because “if you miss one area [of the painting] then it will mess up all [of] the map.”

College freshman Julia Mulliez said the painting was an awe-inspiring experience. “[It] sounded like a lot of patience and concentration,” she said. “When I tried doing it myself, it was hard to control the sand’s movement and required an immense amount of focus.”

Emory held the first Tibet Week in 2001 to improve the relationship between the University and Tibet.

The Emory-Tibet Partnership, which was established in 1998, stemmed from the formal academic affiliation between Emory University and the Drepung Loseling Monastery, according to Jim Wynn, the Emory-Tibet Partnership’s project coordinator.

“The Emory-Tibet Partnership has grown tremendously,” Wynn wrote in an email to the Wheel.

The events throughout the week include a discussion titled “A Legacy of Compassion: Why Tibetan Monastics Matter in the 21st Century” on Tuesday, a forum called “The Healing Power of Compassion: Insights for Patients, Caregivers and Healthcare Practitioners” on Wednesday, a talk titled “The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Secular Ethics — Cultivating an Education of Heart and Mind” on Thursday along with daily guided Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) meditations from 5 to 6 p.m.

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

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Adrenaline, a co-ed hip hop dance group at Emory, performed at the DooLau event, which kicked off Dooley’s Week 2015 on Asbury Circle on Monday evening. As part of this year’s Dooley’s Island theme there was tropical music, free food and numerous live performances.

A Look Into SPC’s Budget, Incorporation of Student Input, How to Join and How It Compares to Oxford Continued from Page 1 Difficulties in Gathering Student Input SPC, according to its members, has struggled to find ways to incorporate student input into their decisions but is moving to gather more feedback following the events.

In terms of gauging student preferences prior to the Council’s events, SPC Speakers Chair and Goizueta Business School junior Max Mayblum said the Council has tried surveys, only to receive outlandish recommendations.

“We do a lot of surveying on Facebook,” he said. “It’s a good starting point, but you’ll get people on Facebook suggesting the most worldrenowned performers, which is not really feasible.”

SPC Dooley’s Week Co-Chair and B-School senior Austin Fuss stressed that he does his best to keep the whole campus in mind when deciding on a performer.

“This concert isn’t for me specifically — this is a concert for all of Emory,” Fuss said. He added, in reference to the choice of J. Cole for Dooley’s Frolics, “I personally am not a fan of rap.”

Although requested by some students, a pre-decision vote would not be possible as it would potentially sacrifice SPC’s ability to bring performers to campus, according to Band Party Co-Chair and B-School senior Jon Goldman.

Solidifying the arrangement, according to Goldman, can take months — the process of booking J. Cole, for example, began in December.

“Therefore, when unforeseen opportunities arise it can be difficult to incorporate student input as even waiting 24 hours may cost us the chance of booking such an artist,” Goldman wrote in an email to the Wheel. “Once negotiations begin with our artists, we are contractually obligated to not release the name of the artist until a set date specified in the contract.”

Fuss also emphasized the risk of publicizing the names of possible acts, as SPC could potentially raise students’ hopes for a certain performer and then have to inform the entire student body that those plans fell through. Still, he said that SPC “wouldn’t be opposed to” a survey on students’ general musical preferences.

As for getting a sense of student approval after the event, Fuss said, “We try to get as much feedback as we can, through the surveys we send out, and people often email us and give us feedback.”

However, he added, those who go out of their way to give feedback via email are generally not doing so to commend SPC. “When people reach out to us it’s generally like, ‘Oh, here’s a way you can improve,’” he said.

Even after SPC announces performers’ names or hosts an event, student feedback is something SPC could and continues to improve, Mayblum said. He pointed to the 100-plus Facebook shares of SPC’s John Mulaney announcement as a solid indicator of student approval.

“We definitely could put out some more formal surveys,” Mayblum said.

He also suggested that SPC could provide a business ratings or customer service review system to event attendees as they exit.

Mayblum added that SPC will begin using card readers at events for the first time this year. Though SPC won’t receive information on the specific identities of those who attend the events, the Council will be able to see information such as the attendee’s school and year, which Mayblum said SPC can use to get an idea of which audiences it needs to better engage.

Committee must do so for all UWOs, which in addition to SPC includes the Media Council, the Club Sports Council, Student Legal Services and Outdoor Emory Organization.

According to O’Leary, he is currently in the process of ironing out SPC’s budget for the 2015-2016 year.

The budget allocations to different UWOs, O’Leary added, “almost always have to be weaned down” and are primarily based on how much UWO account money is available.

Within SPC, the president and treasurer decide how to divide the budget among different SPC committees based on the costs of past performers brought to Emory by each committee, according to members.

The Council splits its budget between the Dooley’s Week Committee, Band Party Committee and Speakers Committee, according to SPC members.

The SGA vice president of finance must approve the council’s transactions, as they do for transactions

Mulaney’s new show piloted last fall, and he is currently travelling the country on a comedy tour.

Oxford College’s version of SPC, Mayblum also said he pays attenthe Student Activities Committee tion to whether performers will be (SAC), uses a pre-event planning in or near Atlanta during or around survey, according to SAC Faculty Dooley’s Week. As a stop on many Advisor Judy Sun. entertainers’ U.S. tours, he said, the “SAC surveys Oxford students for city of Atlanta itself attracts both feedback after larger, annual events high-profile comedians and musiand uses that information to inform cians alike.

“There’s a lot of negotiation,” the programming and planning the following year,” Sun wrote in an Mayblum said. He added that he begins by picking favored comedians email to the Wheel.

She added that, unlike Emory’s from the agents’ lists and calling the SPC, SAC uses both verbal input agents directly to offer a price with from Oxford students who speak with his committee budget in mind. The How It’s Possible: The SPC SAC members during the planning agent then talks to the performer or Budget period and “preferences for genre and the performer’s manager.

While Mayblum — as SPC speakartist are also surveyed to help deterNeither SPC nor SGA makes mine the spring concert artist during ers chair — presides over the choice SPC’s budget public, and the other Spirit Week.” of comedian, Fuss, one of the two University-Wide Organizations’ Though the SAC, which receives SPC Dooley’s Week chairs, oversees (UWO) budgets remain undisclosed 60 to 100 applications annually and the booking and decision making as well, according to SGA President currently consists of 24 students, does process for the musicians. and College junior Jon Darby. SGA not publish its own budget and expen“The Band Party chairs have the ditures, SAC presents its budget and final say [over committee members’ does not describe the budget in dollar amounts at its public choices] — they meetings, according reach out to the to SGA Vice President agents,” Fuss of Finance and said. “We give College senior Patrick [c om m it t e e O’Leary. SPC memmembers] our bers cited contractual input, how we obligations and negofelt about each tiating needs as reaoption.” sons for not disclosing After the their budget. chairs have When asked settled on the whether SPC considtwo musicians ered making the bud— in this case, get public, Fuss said.

J. Cole and The “I can definitely see Knocks — and both sides of that, but a comedian — no, I don’t know of John Mulaney any plans to do that at — Camper, this time.” the Council’s The SPC budget advisor, gives amount approved by her approval, SGA comes from the according to UWO account, a porSPC members. tion of total revenue Camper the SGA receives from Andrew Ie /Staff wrote in an the SAF, according to James W. Dooley, the official spirit of Emory, made an appearance at the DooLau event on Monday evening on email to the O’Leary.

Wheel that Asbury Circle.

Each actively her goal is not to enrolled University student pays of other UWOs, according to SGA expenditures to Oxford’s SGA at the choose the artist, but to help SPC $184 for the annual SAF. The UWO members. The SGA vice president SGA’s public meetings, at which SGA students “see the big picture and account is 76 percent of another of finance can deny organizations’ often publicly modifies the SAC’s think through everything” during the account of the SAF revenue called transactions if they violate the SGA budget. planning process. the University-Wide Distribution. Finance Code or University Policy; “Once we have talked through SPC Knows People Who Know Different divisions, such as the but according to Darby, this is virtueverything, including many risk People College, the School of Medicine and ally never the case for SPC. management conversations, we move “Paying for a performer does not Candler School of Theology, contribforward with extending an offer,” ute varying portions of their SAF to violate the SGA Finance Code, so SPC’s entertainment industry con- Camper wrote. “I have rarely told this distribution. we would automatically approve the nections have accumulated over the SPC ‘no’ — my goal is always to get SGA recently increased the SAF transaction,” Darby said. According years and rely on past and pres- to a ‘yes.’” from $178 to $184 annually and to O’Leary, this “automatic” approval ent members’ networking abilities, While Camper mentioned keeping the Emory Police Department adjusted the percentages of divisions’ doesn’t warrant his review, regardless according to SPC members.

According to Mayblum, like the up-to-date on SPC’s finalized plans, contributions to the University-Wide of choice or cost.

Distribution.

The SPC’s budget allocations and other SPC chairs, each speakers Goldman, who along with Band Party This change will take effect for the expenditures, which also are not pub- chair, who coordinates comedy acts Co-Chair and Business School senior lic, are approved by SPC Faculty for Dooley’s Week and Homecoming Adam Bates, reaches out to musi2015-2016 year.

Each year, SGA determines what Adviser and Interim Director for Week, as well as various SPC-hosted cians’ agents, said SPC members portion of the UWO account will be Student Leadership Jill Camper, the speaker series, passes the contact even have to apply for “proper perdedicated to SPC for the following SPC president and the SPC treasurer, information of around 10 agents mitting” from DeKalb County before down from chair to succeeding hosting a large-scale concert event. academic year while considering the according to Camper.

“Oversight is especially imporCamper added that leftover funds chair. (Around 150 students apply for needs of the other UWOs, according SPC did not spend on Homecoming membership each year, according to tant when we consider the feasibility to O’Leary. and risk of a concert of such a large For its yearly budget, the SPC Week and Dooley’s Week go Camper, and 12 to 15 are accepted.) “[The agents] give us a quick list scale,” Goldman wrote in an email to treasurer submits the group’s desired to “a variety of events each year outside of concerts,” such as last of who’s on their roster, I look at how the Wheel. “No actions are made by amount of funding to the SGA. SGA’s vice president of finance, October’s Halloween-themed event this fits into the budget, and then I do SPC without approval by all necesUWO treasurer and SGA Finance “Scream on the Green,” last April’s a quick look-around, like ‘how will sary parties.”

Camper, Mayblum said, “is there Committee must approve the request- “Puppypalooza” event co-sponsored this speaker serve the community?’” ed funding, according to O’Leary. with the animal-friendly volunteer Mayblum said. He added that he with us the entire way.”

The SGA vice president of finance, group Pawsitive Outreach and a conducts research on the listed come“She’s involved in a lot of it herdians’ career states — for example, self,” he said, adding that Camper UWO treasurer and SGA Finance March 2014 “5K Retro Run” race.

How Oxford Does It

also connects SPC to entertainers’ agents by attending various networking events throughout the year.

“When she saw John Mulaney on the list, she suggested strongly that I pursue him.”

The entire process, according to Camper, is extremely variable from year to year.

“Sometimes we put out an offer [to a manager or agent] and confirm [the performance date] within a week, and other years we are going back and forth with agents for months,” Camper wrote in an email to the Wheel. “Pricing, scheduling, routing and availability all play a role, in addition to SPC gauging which artists would be most successful on campus.”

Goldman agreed, adding that some performance bookings require only “a few communications to secure an artist and agree on a price,” while sometimes SPC negotiates with agents for several months before agreeing on a price.

“This is always a negotiation process,” he wrote. “I believe SPC has been very successful in using its limited resources to bring the best talent possible.”

Who Is SPC? Any University student — graduate or undergraduate — can apply for SPC membership in September, according to the group’s website and Facebook page. SPC publicizes its application through social media every year, counting down the minutes up to the deadline on Facebook, as it did in September 2014.

The candidates are evaluated on their experience in event planning, creativity, teamwork abilities, availability, how they would contribute to SPC’s diversity and their awareness of what’s happening on campus, according to SPC’s website.

According to its website, SPC members “will deepen their appreciation for diversity and understand the creativity that can arise when diverse viewpoints exist and are openly shared,” as well as “value diverse additions to the council through recruitment.”

By maintaining a group of varying interests and tastes within SPC, according to Camper, the Council has developed outreach efforts over the years to both increase and diversify its applicant pool.

Two recruitment officers within SPC are responsible for reaching out to Campus Life offices like the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life, the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services and the Office of International Student Life, according to Camper.

These two members are also responsible for advertising the SPC application in freshman residence halls and to campus organizations like Emory PRIDE, Indian Cultural Exchange and Volunteer Emory.

Once SPC accepts a dozen or so new members from a pool of around 150 applicants in a given year, these two recruitment members are responsible for their training, according to Camper. Still, she added that “there is always room for improvement.”

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

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Bill Could Result in Less Fund Mismanagement, O’Leary Says Continued from Page 1 responsibly,” College junior and SGA President Jon Darby said.

Darby added that “funding will be distributed more equitably, and it will equip our student leaders for success in the real world.”

In a previous SGA meeting, O’Leary, who was absent on Monday’s meeting, said that many other divisions within Emory already require an upfront budgeting process within their organization.

He hoped that by implementing similar changes, SGA could ensure

that clubs would not mismanage their funds as they have often done in the past.

The bill passed by a 14-0-6 vote.

Elections Board Chair and College junior Reuben Lack and Darby submitted Bill 48sl23, which nominated Oxford College sophomore and Oxford Elections Board Chair Christopher Lam for the position of University-wide election commissioner.

Darby said that Lam had considerable experience in a similar position at Oxford, and he noted that Lam “came with the highest recommendation.”

The bill passed unanimously.

Darby submitted Bill 48sl23 proposing the confirmation of Goizueta Business School junior and Wheel Sales Associate Bryce Robertson as chief justice of SGA and the Emory Constitutional Council.

As the most senior non-graduating associate justice of the Emory Constitutional Council, Robertson is naturally the next in line for the chief justice position.

SGA passed the bill by unanimous consent.

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

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Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat and author of the book Q & A, gave a lecture on his creative process as the headline speaker at this year’s India Week.

India Too Complex for One Book to Capture, Swarup Says Continued from Page 1 Foreign Service in 1986.

“It was only when I was posted in London between 2000 and 2003 that I first thought of writing a novel,” Swarup said. Inspired by London, and by friends within the Indian Foreign Service who were already writing their own novels, Swarup decided to try his hand at fiction writing.

Swarup began writing Q & A during the summer of 2003 after his wife and two sons had already returned to Delhi. He completed the novel in only two months, and within three months of finishing, he’d found a publisher.

Q & A tells the story of a poor young Indian waiter who draws on his life experiences in order to win the grand prize on the most lucrative game show in the world. He is subsequently put in jail on false suspicions that he cheated to win the show.

Swarup said he decided to make his protagonist, Ram Mohammad Thomas, a game show contestant because he “wanted to write something offbeat,” and he drew on the story of Major Charles Ingram, who, along with his wife and an accomplice, was convicted in 2001 of a single count of deception for cheating his way to the one million pound prize on Britain’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”.

“If someone of a high a social standing as a British military officer can be accused of cheating, why not have a contestant who would definitely be accused of cheating?”

Swarup asked. “We have this latent conceit that ... those who have not had the good fortune of getting a proper education ... we think they don’t know anything.”

Swarup said that his goal with the novel was to create a protagonist with “no formal education” and to use the quiz show as “a template to tell the story of modern India.”

Although he noted that “[India] is too complex a country for any one book or film to capture its essence,” he said that he nevertheless wanted to write a novel that would be true to the Indian experience.

“He made clear that [Q & A is above all] a book of fiction,” College junior and Co-President of the Indian Cultural Exchange (ICE) Armaan Nathani said. “It’s meant more to be a compelling story rather than a portrayal of India [as a whole].”

It was also important to Swarup that his book carried a message of hope. He summarized that message as “each one of us creates his or her own luck, and he who strives, wins.”

Swarup also spoke about his writing style and overall creative process.

“My formula is the three Cs,” Swarup said. “The first C is curiosity.

The second C is confidence ... and the third C is the computer, for research, because research is very important.

Without an authentic background ... the reader will not invest in [reading] your book.”

In speaking about the movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” Swarup acknowledged that it was greatly adapted from his book. He said that he was very pleased with how the movie turned out, and was particularly enthusiastic about the score, cinematography and acting performances. “[He gave a] very cool perspective,” College freshman Julie Wiegel said. “He had a lot of interesting things to say about how his book and the movie are distinct without seeming as though he was upset about any changes.”

Despite his career as a diplomat, the conversation rarely became political. Nevertheless, several people remarked that they thought his diplomatic background brought another interesting dimension to the talk.

“It became very clear that he was a politician, as he was forced to con-

tend with questions that had to do with the Indian government and corruption problems,” College freshman John Beck said. “It was interesting to see how he dealt with those, because the line between fiction writer and politician became blurred.”

Swarup asserted that India’s progress is crucial to the future of the world, and he argued that despite its problems, India is rapidly improving and bringing millions of its citizens with it into the 21st century.

Many students were impressed with Swarup’s talk.

“To bring a dignified speaker such as him to Emory for India Week was huge and unprecedented,” Nathani said.

Even those with high expectations for the speech felt that Swarup’s presentation had lived up to their expectations.

“I was really looking forward to the talk all week,” Wiegel said. “I thought it would be a very cool, once in a lifetime kind of experience, and I was not disappointed.”

Students, and particularly those responsible for organizing the India Week activities, largely connected with the messages of Swarup’s lecture. “[As Swarup said], it’s impossible to portray all of India in a book, and I think that ties into the bigger picture of India week as a whole,” Nathani said. “We had a whole week of cultural events showcasing aspects of India, and I still don’t think we showed the whole breadth of Indian culture.”

Throughout the course of his lecture, Swarup offered many words of advice for aspiring writers. However, when asked to consider the most important characteristic of a good novelist, Swarup simply stated: “What you really need is the quality of empathy.”

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

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Ferguson Course Will Bring Major Issues to Light These days, more courses are popping up that, unlike core courses in disciplines like science and history are designed to teach an existing body of knowledge, contextualize the current events of the world. The most recent example of such a niche course at Emory is “The Ferguson Movement: Power, Politics and Protest,” which the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE) will offer in the fall. Two professors will facilitate the course, and other professors from a range of disciplines and backgrounds will guest lecture. ​ We at the Wheel see enormous value in this course and encourage the University to facilitate the introduction of other such courses that have the potential to bring the controversies that surround us under scrutiny inside the classroom.

Learning about events that are current and developing reconciles the problematic reality that although the world is radically impacted by current events on a daily basis, classes by-and-large are taught as though it is not, sticking to an inflexible, already decided upon curriculum. The nature of most courses necessitates such stability in order to achieve the goal of educating students. However, as the current pattern of police brutality against blacks in America continues, courses in a number of academic disciplines should weave​this ongoing problem into their curriculum.

When an event happens that directly relates to a course’s subject matter, it is a disservice not to at least acknowledge the relationship in the classroom.

In this moment, digital media is rampant, and as it grows, so does the ability for immediate responses to events. Take documentaries, for instance. Today, independent filmmakers with small crews and low budgets have the ability to create quality films and release them to the public in a short amount of time.

College classrooms have this same capacity to respond immediately to current events, and “The Ferguson Movement,” may demonstrate this.

We hope that “The Ferguson Movement” exposes the reality of racism in American culture, and that as a course on a controversial topic, it regularly sparks vibrant and honest peer discussion. The course should question the views held by the majority, for it is in examining assumptions we take for granted that we get at the roots of widespread social issues and challenge them.

In some sociology courses the phenomenon of alienation in the classroom is readily observed, causing white students, whose people have throughout modern history exerted their power upon the rest of the world, to avoid taking classes that shed light on this history. The most effective way that this can be reckoned with is by raising as much awareness of the repercussions still very much alive today.

“The Ferguson Movement” seems like a formidable challenge to the mentality of ignoring discussions about uncomfortable or controversial issues. These issues might be very sensitive for some and very difficult for others to engage with in a classroom setting, but overcoming these obstacles and working through these issues is a form of learning in and of itself.

Some students have voiced that they wish a course like this were introduced even prior to the events in Ferguson. Since the issue of systematic oppression of the black population in America has occurred long before the killing of Michael Brown, this move begs the question of why Emory is so late in putting together such a course.

Furthermore, students are concerned that “The Ferguson Movement” is merely a reaction to the events, rather than a proactive course that would aim to prepare students to face the realities that lie ahead. An example of a proactive course is “Men Stopping Violence,” offered here at Emory by an Atlanta-based not-for-profit program that aims to mobilize men and cultivate male leaders to prevent intimate partner violence. But we must not rule out the possibility that although the course itself is reactive, it will condition those students who take it to be more proactive towards the issue of racism in their everyday lives.

There are over 400 faculty on campus and each could potentially provide the framework for a course relating their expertise to current events. Of course, University money and professors’ time are two clear limitations to the eventual expansion of current event-related courses like “The Ferguson Movement.”

But in the meantime, professors should at least feel encouraged to weave current events into their curriculum as the semester unfolds.

Even just a brief mention of relevant events is a huge step from not acknowledging them at all.

To the administration, we ask that they continue to pave the way for the growth of these courses by providing funding when viable and by encouraging interdepartmental communication and collaboration as a means of bringing the events of the world alive in the classroom before they become history.

The above staff editorial represents the majority opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board.

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Sodexo Contract Must Not Be Renewed Anna Mayrand | Contributor

Andrew Jones In 2013, Emory University’s Committee on Class and Labor, tasked with exploring how class functions on campus, recommended that the University should “seek to reduce significant differences between the circumstances of Emory’s staff and circumstances of contracted workers.” It is my firm belief that if Emory is truly committed to applying knowledge in the service of humanity, then it must begin to confront the vast disparities between subcontracted workers and those workers deemed worthy of direct employment.

In light of the impending expiration of the contract Emory has with the company that manages its dining operations, Sodexo, the question of renewal is being discussed. If one believes the statements made by the Sodexo Group, then it actually is the “world leader in Quality of Life services.” Unfortunately, however, an examination of Sodexo’s actions tells a very different story. Across the 80 countries in which Sodexo Group operates, “quality of life services” include constructing and managing private prisons (as “Sodexo Justice Services”) and threatening workers who attempt to unionize or blow the whistle following human rights violations.

Several human rights reports unambiguously document Sodexo abuses. To name just one, the Transafrica Forum report found that “[t]he business model Sodexo employs keeps workers poor and locks their communities into seemingly endless cycles of poverty.”

Sodexo is known to cut hours and their policies exclude a large percentage of workers from benefit eligibility — in Atlanta they don’t even get MARTA cards.

Sodexo has violently disrupted workers’ attempts to freely assemble and exercise free speech. In the past, Sodexo workers, many of whom are laid off each summer, faced the likelihood that unionization would lead to unemployment. In New Jersey, amidst widespread overcharging and undelivered rebates from Sodexo’s end, Tom McDermott of the Clarion Group, a food service consulting company, found that “In the [10] New Jersey districts, all competitive RFP [request for proposal] processes resulted in the incumbent retaining its contract, raising immediate ques-

tions about whether the bidding process is truly competitive.”

It appears that the “quality of life” Sodexo is concerned with servicing is that of its executives and shareholders at the expense of the basic human needs of its employees.

At Emory, “quality of life services” means a meal plan that nets a large profit for the University while under-paying and underproviding for workers.

In 2013, Emory’s Committee on Class and Labor attempted an analysis on the quality of life for contracted workers on campus. The committee’s findings were startling: “The committee was frustrated that we could not engage with contracted employees as we wished, and as we usefully did with Emory’s own employees. We could not gain independent information about important questions, such as whether some sets of contracted workers prefer part-time schedules, or whether employees find their company’s grievance procedures problematic. More generally, we could not ascertain how Emory’s contracted employees experience their situations on our campus. Notwithstanding the belief among Emory liaison officials that they have effective relations with these companies (exercising varying administrative styles), current arrangements limit the [U]niversity’s review of these companies’ labor relations largely to reviewing what the companies themselves report. The [U]niversity therefore cannot claim that it knows the status of the contracted workers’ experience.”

Emory’s mission statement is “to create, preserve, teach and apply knowledge in the service of humanity.” We cannot assure adherence to any of those values if the University has no means of knowing the workers’ experience. For the University to assert the presence of a safe and ethical working environment while simultaneously acknowledging in an official capacity that they absolutely cannot know the status of subcontracted workers is to promote an incoherent policy that resembles Orwellian doublespeak. Our mission statement itself calls for both the preservation and application of our knowledge to serve humanity. This hypocrisy cannot be tolerated.

Several of my peers and I who have written other editorials on this issue have been

assured that there are plenty of informal interactions between Emory administrators and Dobbs Uuniversity Center (DUC) workers. But when the University’s own committee found that Emory “cannot claim that it knows the status of the contracted workers’ experience,” it seems reasonable to receive those assurances with skepticism. Absent a formal mechanism for enforcing standards on worker treatment, the University is relying on Sodexo to regulate and oversee itself.

In light of what we do know about Sodexo’s treatment of workers, it seems grossly irresponsible for the University to uphold their current regulatory approach.

We need actionable mechanisms for workers to complain directly to Emory, not just informal interactions, and we need a regulatory body with teeth, not vague commitments to generic liberal values.

To me the obvious question is this: if Sodexo and Emory are both so confident that they have done everything possible to uphold the stated values of a liberal arts university, why are they so reluctant to let a third party — or even an official Emory regulatory body — talk directly with workers? Why should we trust Sodexo to internally manage worker complaints when we know they have demonstrated a vested interest in suppressing everything from unionization to Emory committee officials speaking directly with workers? Sodexo’s track record speaks for itself — we cannot simply trust their word, and we can trust even less the idea that they will suddenly change their ways.

While we do need better oversight, the best thing that Emory could possibly do at this point is to say no to Sodexo when the food services contract is renewed in the coming weeks. It is clear to me that the presence of Sodexo on campus violates all principles and ethical commitments found in the University’s mission statement. If we claim to apply knowledge in the service of humanity, we must do better than Sodexo.

I have heard no compelling reasons to retain Sodexo. We must strongly resist the notion that contracting Sodexo could possibly align with our community values.

Andrew Jones is a College sophomore from Macon, Georgia.

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We Are All Interconnected, Not Isolated Kagan Fletcher All around us, the world seems to exist in a perpetual state of cycling oppression and exploitive objectification. Our current structure of society, as well as our philosophical understanding of “civilization,” rises from the collective subconscious ocean on jerry-rigged wings of mistrust and the insecure manipulation of desires. Our American education system is a reflection of current moral values, cultivating an “efficient” work force adept at making guesses rather than informed decisions. There is an understanding that freedom is the possession of property that is held in front of the hungry eyes of the working class in order to encourage their tireless drive to find fulfillment. These people are used as chariots of the rich, constantly growing and infinitely expendable real life versions of Boxer from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, promised the world of prosperity through glimpses and propaganda fed to them through a slow drip IV. The world over, a miasma of mindlessly self-destructive self-indulgence is poisoning our air, our water, our hearts and our minds, perpetuating a perception of reality as a competitive “you or me” relation that divides the oppressed and favors those with power at the expense of the whole.

Now is the time for a rallying battle cry, a redefinition of freedom as a relationship of interconnectivity. It is not a matter of being protected from the outside world, but of intersecting in a way that maximizes the possibilities. This does not mean we have to seek consensus for its own sake; both conflict and consensus can expand and ennoble us, so long as no centralized power is able to compel agreement or transform conflict into a “winner-takes-all” competition. Rather than break the world into tiny, individualized freedoms, let’s learn to make the most of our interconnection. Let’s begin, collectively, to move away from the primal nature of our prior imperial, hegemonic globalization, or the massive expansion of a culture of hierarchical, dominance-based power structure, for such a structure demands insecurity and mistrust, utilizing a moral system of guilt and shame and resentment to divide and manipulate the people it encounters as a means of expanding profit.

We must start by encouraging the cultivation of mutualistic self-determination — or the care of other people as a means of caring for ourselves — by reconciling the individual and the whole. We must change our current socioeconomic philosophies of fracturing the individual as a means of personal selfstimulated isolation. Our culture demands a striving against one another in the name of capital and control, a struggle which results, oftentimes, in immense, oppressive social constructions that proliferate actions of prejudice and resentment.

To quote The Coming Insurrection, a manual for the initiation of the reconstruction of our understanding of society written by the communal, anonymous anarchist group The Invisible Committee, “Two centuries of capitalism and market nihilism have brought us to the most extreme alienations — from our selves, from others, from worlds. The fiction of the individual has decomposed at the same speed that it was becoming real. Children of the metropolis, we offer this wager: that it’s in the most profound deprivation of existence, perpetually stifled, perpetually conjured away, that the possibility of communism resides. When all is said and done, it is with an

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entire anthropology that we are at war. With the very idea of man.”

I am aware of the caution with which the word “communism” must be used. Due to the unjust utilization of the concept of the commune by imperialistically minded, politically charged, authoritative individuals, the proprietors of our society and the perpetrators of domination have relegated the concept of a communal, mutually beneficial society, to a place in our collective vernacular of vehement disdain.

The Invisible Committee asserts, “Certain words are like battlegrounds: their meaning, revolutionary or reactionary, is a victory, to be torn from the jaws of struggle.” It is our duty, as the custodians of now and all future potentials, to “redefine communism as the matrix of a meticulous, audacious assault on domination.” We must remember to remind ourselves that the utilization of communism by our enemies as a means of prior oppression does not mean that we cannot reclaim our right to coexist from their clutches. Language serves to communicate only because we hold it in common. The same goes for ideas, desires, hopes, dreams and love. Each of us is composed, orchestrated, of a chaos of contrary forces, all of which extend beyond us through time and space. In choosing which we cultivate, we determine what we intend to foster in everyone we encounter.

Despite the massive efforts by those with authority to individualize, divide and control

those with power, we are not discrete, isolated entities. Our bodies are composed of thousands of different species living within us in symbiosis: rather than closed fortresses, they are ongoing processes through which nutrients and microbes ceaselessly pass. A swarming pack of wolves, a pride of lions, an evening filled with a symphony of cicadas, crickets and owls, is as individual, as unitary, as solitary, as each one of our bodies. We do not act in a vacuum, self-propelled by reason; the ties of the cosmos surge through us. The system that everyone accepts is the one that we have to live under. When people challenge this idea, however, we are presented with the chance to renegotiate our reality as well.

Nothing lasts forever. Every order, every construct, holds the conditions of the possibilities of its own destruction. Every system is haunted by all that it cannot incorporate or control, which is where the insecurity of authority develops. The Invisible Committee asserts, “It is useless to wait — for a breakthrough, for a revolution. To go on waiting is madness. We are already situated within the collapse of civilization. It is in this reality that we must choose sides.”

It is within this reality we must choose — to unite, in reclamation of our collective, communal selves. Don’t cling to this old world. To change anything, start everywhere. To change everything, start anywhere. Good luck.

Kagan Fletcher is a College freshman from Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Ben Perlmutter

Israeli Extremism Threatens Jews The Jewish people are once again under the same threat that they have been for most of their history: that of extremism. Jews have faced many forms of extremism, ranging from the Spanish Inquisition, to Eastern European pogroms, to the Nazis. Today, radical Islamism and growing populist anti-Semitism pose serious threats to Jews across the world — threats that are difficult to combat.

But even more concerning than radical Islam and populist anti-Semitism is Jewish extremism itself, which could undermine the vast progress made by the Jewish people.

Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, which just last week won a plurality of seats in the Israeli parliamentary elections, virtually guaranteeing a continuation of its government, has engaged in extreme militarism toward Palestinians.

These policies delegitimize Israel in the eyes of its international supporters, and moreover, threaten the Jewish people by failing to preserve the legitimacy of their national homeland, Israel.

Many times throughout history, the Jewish people have been oppressed and persecuted by governments and societies that failed to recognize Jews as citizens, limited their educational opportunities and professions and circumscribed where they could live. But now, approximately 14 million Jewish people flourish in Israel, North America and other parts of the world. To be sure, there is still organized anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist activity directed towards Jews throughout world, but most of this activity is not sponsored by legitimate governments.

The Islamic State may call for the destruction of Israel, and too many violent acts of anti-Semitism occur, as we tragically saw in the Ile-de-France terrorist attacks over the winter. But most powers condemn this anti-Semitism, and Israel has never been in a stronger position to defend itself militarily from its enemies.

But the Israeli political right wing, led by Netanyahu’s Likud party, is undermining the progress of the Jewish people. The Netanyahu government’s militarism and oppression of Palestinians has soiled global opinion of Israel.

The state of Israel was created by the United Nations in the wake of World War II to protect the Jewish people from the oppression that they had so long endured. For decades, Israel was spectacularly successful in protecting the Jewish people, and moreover, acted as a model state while doing so — turning the desert into farmland, acting as a beacon of liberal democracy in the authoritarian Middle East, fending off its enemies in spectacular military victories and developing a prosperous startup economy.

To be sure, Israel has always had flaws. It has often acted in its own interest and in the interest of the Jewish people with little regard to Palestinians. The blockade of the Gaza Strip has deprived Gazans of basic resources and human decency with questionable strategic benefit. And the Jewish settlements in the West Bank since the Six-Day War in 1967 have displaced Palestinians and made a lasting peace settlement more difficult to achieve.

But nonetheless, the powers of Europe and

the United States have supported Israel as a liberal democracy and a Jewish state for the many virtues that outweighed these flaws.

They have provided financial, military and diplomatic resources that have allowed Israel to flourish.

Netanyahu’s government is increasingly destroying this international support. The government’s overly destructive campaigns against Hamas in Gaza this past summer, continued settlement building and interference with American domestic politics have made many of Israel’s former supporters question the Jewish state.

The Prime Minister’s recent denunciation of a two state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict during his electoral campaign, then subsequent rejection of his comments after his Likud party won the election, have infuriated the Obama administration. The United States has long supported a two-state solution, and Israel has at least nominally supported this as well. Netanyahu’s political flip-flopping has confirmed the Obama administration’s doubts that the Prime Minister is serious about his country’s commitment.

Support for Israel has long been one of the only political issues that United States’ Democrats and Republicans could agree upon.

This bipartisan support seems to be eroding, though. Many on the left have grown disillusioned by Israel’s militarism and oppression of Palestinians. While in 1988, Democrats and Republicans sympathized with Israel in similar numbers, recently Democratic support has quickly eroded while Republican support has increased. A February Gallup poll found that 83 percent of Republicans sympathize with Israel more than Palestine, while only 48 percent of Democrats do.

Europe has turned against Israel even more than the United States has. During the Gaza conflict last summer, there were mass protests around Europe decrying Israeli aggression against Palestinian civilians. Israel is losing the support of its allies in the United States and Europe. The legitimacy of Israel as a liberal democracy is being called into question. The action and rhetoric of the Netanyahu government risk turning Israel into an international pariah that the United States and Europe will not support if new existential crises emerge.

For too much of history, the Jewish people have suffered under the yoke of outside extremist ideologies inflicted upon them.

Now, via the actions of Netanyahu and his supporters, an indigenous Jewish extremism threatens the Jewish people’s hard won success. Israel is the national home of Jews, and the support of Europe and the United States is vital for its success in protecting Jews from the oppression that so long plagued them.

The Jewish community, both inside and outside of Israel, has an obligation to distance itself from Netanyahu. While the Jewish people were unable to stop previous extremists threats, Jews are now in a better position than they have been possibly in their entire history to counter the extremism of Israel’s right wing government. It must not fall victim to this latest brand of extremism.

Ben Perlmutter is a College junior from Chappaqua, New York.

Global Airline Competition Needs to Be Preserved Alex McIntyre Wilbur and Orville Wright — the men usually credited as the founding fathers of aviation — first took flight in 1903, a huge milestone at the time. A few years earlier, Wilbur described his insatiable thirst for flying: “For some years, I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man.

My disease has increased in severity, and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life.”

And although his 59-second flight potentially quenched his own desire to take to the skies, even he probably couldn’t have realized how defining of an impact his accomplishment would leave on the following century.

Today, thanks to the swift growth of the aviation industry, travel across the globe in just a matter of hours is relatively commonplace.

The United States government encouraged such expansion in 1972 by deregulating the domestic airline market and later by signing a series of Open Skies agreements with foreign countries that facilitate international travel.

However, an unlikely coalition between three dominant carriers — American, Delta and United — may threaten the ability to easily travel internationally to some places.

Together, these carriers have challenged three Arabian Gulf airlines — Emirates, Etihad and Qatar (commonly referred to as the ME3) — with claims of competing unfairly.

They propose modifying the Open Skies agreements to limit the ME3’s access to the domestic market, an action which, if pursued by the U.S. government, would at the least suppress trade with the Gulf region if not more broadly threaten international travel.

The Open Skies agreements currently allow foreign-based airlines such as the ME3 access to the American market, permitting these carriers to offer service from their home countries to destinations within the United States. American-based airlines receive a similar benefit, with the ability to fly nonstop

from here to destinations abroad. As a whole, the Open Skies agreements serve to expand the number of choices available to consumers and to further global travel.

But American, Delta and United, in a 55-page white paper published recently, propose restricting the ME3 from unlimited flying to the United States, alleging these airlines benefit from government subsidies that create an unfair playing field.

They claim that subsidies allow the ME3 to offer artificially cheap airfares that suck market share (and supposedly hundreds of jobs) from domestic airlines. And they demand that the ME3 play by the rules laid out by the Open Skies agreements, which limit government intervention and promote “fair skies” in tandem with open skies.

Open Skies treaties function off the cornerstone of limited government, as described by the U.S. Department of State: “Open Skies agreements [expand international passenger and cargo flights] by eliminating government interference in the commercial decisions of air carriers about routes, capacity and pricing, freeing carriers to provide more affordable, convenient and efficient air service for consumers.”

Clearly, government subsidies would violate this premise.

But the Obama administration should not pursue the strategy of “retrenchment” advocated by the U.S. airline trio for several reasons. It does appear that the ME3 may benefit from government help, if not outright subsidies. In this sense, Delta, American and United make a valid point. The American “Big Three” question the ability of Qatar and Etihad to continue to fly unprofitably and, in their white paper, highlight a potential $42 billion in subsidies the ME3 enjoy collectively.

Substantially blurred political boundaries in the Gulf region may make available massive amounts of government assistance.

For example, Emirates’ Chairman Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum also serves as the

President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and the Chairman of Dubai Airports. Such heavy entanglement allows Emirates (as do Qatar and Etihad) to enjoy extremely low landing fees at their home airports.

The ME3 rely on a business model supported by feeding connecting traffic through a central hub, but only passengers originating or terminating at their hubs incur a fee. This disproportionately benefits the ME3 while straining airlines like American, Delta and United, which send only terminating passengers to these airports.

However, despite some comfy conditions that would point toward government assistance, it is still somewhat ambiguous as to whether the Gulf governments explicitly prop up their airlines. All three ME3 CEOs continue to vigorously deny allegations of benefiting from direct government subsidies. Emirates President Tim Clark even offered to resign if any accusations were proven correct, which would at least signal that the evidence is not as clear-cut as the three domestic airlines would like it to appear.

Emirates, for one, operates profitably, suggesting that it may in fact run on a legitimate business model.

After all, a number of factors other than potential subsidies, including geographic convenience and closer proximity to oil, might allow Gulf carriers to benefit from lower costs.

The Obama administration must demand more conclusive evidence before even considering pursuing further action.

Furthermore, all three U.S. carriers — Delta, American and United — each profited from Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code within the past decade, something that might closely amount to a government subsidy itself.

Under the blanket of federal protection, Chapter 11 allows these airlines to shed outdated employee compensation contracts that burden their long-term prospects and absolves them from paying debt owed “for a consider-

able amount of time.”

In a now infamous interview with CNN, Delta CEO Richard Anderson fallaciously tried to divert attention away from this fact by asserting that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the economic downturn which followed necessitated a radical restructuring: “And it’s a great irony to have the United Arab Emirates from the Arabian Peninsula talk about [Chapter 11], given the fact that our industry was really shocked by the terrorism of 9/11, which came from terrorists from the Arabian Peninsula, that caused us to go through a massive restructuring.”

Implicitly linking the 9/11 hijackers to the Gulf carriers themselves aside — unacceptable and childish by any measure — he ignores the fact that U.S. airlines also enjoyed some form of government assistance.

While most defend Chapter 11 as a necessary means of creating financially stable airlines — something that benefits the nation as a whole — the U.S. airlines are in no position to call foul on an uneven playing field.

But perhaps most importantly, repealing or modifying the Open Skies agreements comes at the expense of most other national interests (including the most populous one, the consumer) and sets a dangerous precedent that could result in a more widespread closing of international travel.

U.S. consumers benefit from more competition and lower prices, and other industries too rely on the ability to transport goods across borders. FedEx, for example, generates more business from the ability to ship goods internationally and warns the Obama administration not to “capitulate to the interests of a few carriers who stand ready to put their narrow, protectionist interests” first.

Even if the ME3 do employ relatively murky business practices, nearly everyone benefits from free trade. Closing the Open Skies agreements with the Gulf would call into question treaties reached with other nations as well.

As a Skift article points out, many air-

lines, including prominent Chinese ones, that compete with U.S. carriers are government owned. Should the U.S. revisit all agreements with any inkling of government intervention?

Delta, American and United can not reasonably urge the Obama administration to investigate a narrow set of Open Skies agreements without examining others characterized by similar circumstances.

Calling out the ME3 carries the far greater risk of threatening wider free trade as a whole, but permitting them to operate in their current manner poses little harm to the U.S. carriers, which derive only an infinitesimal fraction of their business from this region.

The non-transparent business practices of the Gulf carriers might justify anti-cabotage policies, which bar foreign-based carriers from flying within the country on strictly domestic routes.

But allowing competition — even given slightly less than ideal terms — on international routes seems appropriate and in the best interests of the nation.

If the “Big Three” really lack the motivation to compete head-to-head with the ME3, they could, instead of continuing to spew hot rhetoric, investigate codeshare agreements that would foster mutually beneficial cooperation with the Gulf airlines. This represents a far more equitable and less dangerous solution than revisiting or cutting off relations with the region altogether.

The past few decades have witnessed a more globalized world characterized by more free trade than ever before. The Open Skies agreements aim to facilitate an expansion of free trade and should not be tampered with in their current form.

The Obama administration cannot afford to jeopardize the economic prospect afforded by free trade. The U.S. airline industry hardly requires protectionist policies. It’s time for the “Big Three,” flush with new found financial health, to toughen up and compete.

Alex McIntyre is a College freshman from Dallas, Texas.

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Neustetter’s ‘Light Experiments’ Illuminates Night

By Kelsey Klosterman Staff Writer

Sometimes you like to look at art. Sometimes you like to marvel at science. Last week, the Emory community had the opportunity to experience both of them working together in a beautiful display at Marcus Neustetter’s “Light Experiments.”

On Friday, March 20, Emory students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the Atlanta community, gathered on the Quad to enjoy a night full of lasers, lights and longexposure photography.

Neustetter’s plan was to direct the crowd around the Quad with various combinations of lights and then take long-exposure photographs of the movements in order to create stunning visual displays of light movement.

Neustetter, a Johannesburg, South Africa-based artist, producer and culture activist, was at Emory for a oneweek residency program performing and creating experiments with students and giving talks about his work.

Neustetter uses an interdisciplinary approach in his work to combine art, science and technology. In “Light Experiments,” the photographs he took had the camera shutter exposed for up to four seconds. This extra time is used to track moving light sources from where they begin to where they are when the exposure ends, and the end result in photographs is a trail of light that follows the movement of the light source during the shutter exposure.

Nine thousand glow sticks were broken in preparation for the performance, and Neustetter brought 100 bouncy balls that lit up whenever they hit something. Students were also given laser pointers and strings of lights. The lights on the quad were turned off to create a better effect, making every laser pointer and glow stick shine more brightly in the darkness.

Neustetter stood upon a platform

Movie review

‘Chappie’: An Entertaining Mess

By Vikrant Nallaparaju Contributing Writer

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South African artist Marcus Neustetter led members of the Emory and Atlanta community in a series of “light experiments” this past Friday on the Emory Quadrangle.

in front of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, calling directions into a microphone.

It was tough at times for the huge crowd to organize themselves properly, and Neustetter cracked a few jokes about the difficulty everyone was having following simple instructions, laughing along with everyone as they moved into position.

He first had students hold up white mesh nets and move their glow sticks around behind them, shooting pictures of the light movements. One mysterious student showed up with a high-power green laser pointer built for pointing to the stars, and Neustetter delighted in the opportunity, directing one student to stand behind the mesh and asking “Green

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Laser Man” to stand behind her, flicking the beam back and forth along her body. The resulting photograph was a thin green light moving back and forth as it traveled up with a dark silhouette of the student’s body carved out in the middle.

Neustetter then brought out strings of white Christmas lights, also known as fairy lights. Students were instructed to take the lights and move around in a giant circle, creating a fairy light windmill.

He then had the crowd lay the strings out on the grass, creating an intricate pattern, and gave out lightup bouncy balls, asking the crowd to throw the balls back and forth over the fairy light design.

He had students pass the light-up

balls around in a circle to a rhythm, hoping to get a very clear image.

Throughout the evening, students showed off their own creativity by hanging glow sticks from the trees and building designs with them, including headbands and windmills that created rainbows when spun.

They also enjoyed dressing themselves in the fairy lights when they weren’t being used for Neustetter’s photographs. Students everywhere were taking pictures of themselves and each other with their various light displays, clearly having a blast in the lit-up night.

Students were then given wooden poles to raise into the air and a thin white mesh was hung over it. Other

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Neill Blomkamp’s latest film, “Chappie,” is what I like to call a “franken-movie.” Essentially, it’s a movie cobbled together from the various influences that inspired the work, but mashed together into something that doesn’t fully represent any of those individual parts completely. While the moral and political themes are inspired by “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” and “RoboCop,” the action scenes looked like they were ripped straight out of “Real Steel.” However Blomkamp’s unique voice as a filmmaker at the forefront of modern science fiction still shines through.

Here’s the basic premise of the movie: in the future, the country of South Africa has revolutionized its police force by purchasing armored police robots from Tetravaal, a massive weapons manufacturing corporation. The creator of these robots is Deon Wilson (Dev Patel, “Slumdog Millionaire”), a robotics genius who seeks to create an artificial intelligence for the robots that will allow them to experience human emotions and moral consciousness, using a broken down robot. However, before he can implant the A.I. program into the robot, he is kidnapped by a group of criminals (Ninja, Yolandi Visser, and Yankie). They threaten to kill Wilson unless he uses his programming skills to bring the robot to life, named “Chappie” by Visser’s character, so they can pull off a heist. At the same time, Wilson must contend with corporate sabotage from rival engineer Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman, “X-Men”) who seeks to get revenge on Wilson for overshadowing his own robot creation, MOOSE and taking the glory he feels is his.

If all that plot structure seems a bit convoluted, that’s because it

is — and the movie often struggles to keep a fully coherent flow of events. While the central drive of the film is Chappie seeking enlightenment on what it means to be human, the movie frequently attempts to cultivate character development in Wilson. However, his arc never fully comes into fruition by the end of the movie because the film frequently cuts back to the criminals raising hell or Chappie learning more about the world. Interestingly, Ninja, the group’s ruthless and bloodthirsty leader, undergoes probably one of the most unexpected character arcs in the movie, developing into a completely different person entirely by the third act that may catch the audience off guard.

I would be remiss in not discussing one of the more unorthodox casting choices for the movie. Ninja and Visser, who play the two central leaders of the criminal outfit, are part of real life South African alternative hip-hop duo Die Antwoord.

Blomkamp makes the odd decision to make Ninja and Visser play themselves in the movie.

Whether they are simply characters who happen to hold the same names as their real life counterparts or if duo really did descend from music stardom to narcotic peddling debauchery is something that is never fully explained, which left me slightly confused throughout the movie.

That disconnect was certainly not helped by the musical score being driven solely by Die Antwoord’s work, which undermines much of the tension as soon as Visser’s voice hits your ears. Her high-pitched vocals immediately suck out any sense of dread or excitement in a situation.

Their music, which sounds like a bizarre blending of Britney Spears’ auto tuned chipmunk vocals and Rick Rubin’s produced rap beats, don’t

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Five Webcomics You ‘Steven Universe’ Is a Hidden (Cartoon) Gem Need to Check Out

By Jake Choi Staff Writer

By Erin Penney Staff Writer “The Property of Hate” by Sarah Jolley — Ongoing Series There’s something whimsical about going off to a dangerous dreamland with an incompetent, anthropomorphized TV set. At least, there is in “The Property of Hate.” The main character (a boy simply known as the Hero) is whisked away by a talking TV named RGB to an emotionsbased wonderland, where he must stop the end of the world. The colorful art, unique world and memorable characters make this comic a joy to read. My only complaint is regarding its loads of expository dialogue. You know when 8-year-olds ask “Why?” about everything? Imagine that the answer to every “Why?” was a complicated issue of world building that would go and on and on. This kind of explanation should not be reserved for dialogue, but in action or imagery.

This is admittedly easy territory for any adventure fantasy to veer into (and you have to remember that the main character is a kid), and the world of The Property of Hate is so enjoyable to look at that you don’t mind so much. It’s childish and it revels in this. The reader does, too.

“Sin Titulo” by Cameron Stewart — Completed Series The 2010 winner of the Eisner Award (often thought of as the Oscars for comics) for “Best Digital Comic,” “Sin Titulo” is a surreal mystery in which a man, Alex Mackay, searches to understand a recurring dream that haunts him, as well as the mysterious life of his grandfather. The events that follow the death of Alex’s grandfather are a psychological journey that blur the lines between dreaming and reality and lead to the unraveling of everything that Alex knows. The comic spends lot of time establishing mood and character, but never

becomes tedious. The calms and squall lines of the plot are expertly placed so that the quiet parts give you a chance to breathe and let the more exciting stuff set in.

The character development can seem contrived at times, but the complexity of plot, setting and the resulting mood more than make up for it.

“Prague Race” by Petra Erika Nordlund — Ongoing Series ​If you appreciate the kind of handdrawn art in which you can see the care of every pencil mark, this is the comic for you. “Prague Race” follows three young adults: the outgoing Leona, the overly-anxious rich kid Colin and the kind-hearted Miko as they descend into an underworld of magical beings. The art style is an interesting combination of Disney energy and Tim Burton cute-creepiness. As opposed to “The Property of Hate’s” direct transport to another world, “Prague Race” is more of a slow burn when it comes to bringing in the strange world. This is one of those stories that you’re either going to hate or love depending on how you feel about the characters, as there is a great deal of focus on the dynamics between characters. Thankfully, I find the characters quirky and loveable, but it all depends on your taste.

“Ghost Blade” by Wang Ling — Ongoing Series ​For stunning digital art, look no further than “Ghost Blade.” This webcomic tells the story of the fall of a kingdom in a fantasy world and the contemptuous relationship and general spite between humans and supernatural angel-like beings. The lore of the story isn’t anything you haven’t seen before, but the art of the comic and the emotion conveyed through this art bring new life to a story you’ve heard several times before. My biggest issue with this

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Cartoons these days are getting a bad reputation for not living up to the shows that people grew up with in their childhoods. In my opinion, while there certainly are shows that are worthy of praise from the early 2000s period, people’s negative opinions of cartoons of this new generation are muddled by nostalgia. Just because it is new does not mean that animation of this decade is devoid of high quality. “Steven Universe” is a prime example.

“Steven Universe” is already special from its inception because it was the first TV show on Cartoon Network to be made by a woman, Rebecca Sugar. She was formerly the storyboard artist, writer and composer for the critically acclaimed “Adventure Time.” The story follows Steven Universe, a young boy who is part of the intergalactic warriors known as the Crystal Gems, who protect the Earth from various monsters. Other members include Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl, who teach Steven how to use his powers by drawing his abilities from magic gemstones that all Gems have on their bodies. Steven is unique because he inherited his gem from his late mother, who was the previous leader of the Crystal Gems, and he is the first Gem to be born as the child of a Gem and a human father.

If I were to use one word to describe this show, it would be charming. This show’s structure is primarily episodic; they are 11-minute episodes, several of which are weaved into the season as part of a greater story arc. As the season goes on, we see Steven’s interaction with other characters, not only with the Crystal Gems, but also with his father, his best friend Connie, and other residents of Beach City, the setting of the show. Steven’s personality as the idealistic, high-energy heart of the group fits well with the Crystal Gems, and as the viewers see his relationships with other characters grow

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“Steven Universe,” created by Rebecca Sugar (“Adventure Time”) follows a group of intergalactic warriors on their many adventures.

and develop the more they come to care for the storyline. The cast of “Steven Universe” is superb; most characters introduced are recognizable by their designs and personalities, and although the show primarily focuses on the Crystal Gems and their exploits and adventures, it never fails to add time for Steven’s human life.

Steven’s relationship with the other Crystal Gems is one of the most entertaining elements of the show.

Garnet’s stoicism, Amethyst’s free spirit and Pearl’s logical attitude are all connected by Steven’s presence, and though their personalities clash occasionally, they all seem to care about Steven’s well-being and growth because they embody a role

that resembles a mixture of guardian, mother and sister. But as the series progresses, you can see that while Gems are helping Steven as mentors, Steven is also influencing their lives as well; they help each other out like a real family, even when the Crystal Gems are technically inorganic humanoid aliens from space.

The manner by which these intergalactic warriors are portrayed as human even though they have such bizarre experiences shows how good the show is. That’s because Steven’s growth parallels the growth of the Crystal Gems, and though each interaction is different with each Gem, the story’s heart never fades away. Other relationships in the show include Steven interacting with Connie and

his father. You would think that compared to the Crystal Gems, these would be lackluster, but it’s actually the opposite; Connie represents the human side of Steven’s life that ultimately anchors his crazy world to realism to remind viewers that despite his adventures, Steven is still an innocent, young boy. Meanwhile, Steven’s father, Greg, helps the show’s flow by making references to the past about Steven’s mother, Rose Quartz, and how she led the Crystal Gems to come to Earth and fell in love with a human. It’s a heartwarming part of the show and the viewer is able to see qualities in Greg that make him so likable as both a parent and husband of a Gem.

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Emory Students, Locals Crowd Quad for Collaborative Art Continued from Page 9 students, who Neustetter had given red laser pointers, flicked the lights back and forth between the mesh, making the light bounce through ten layers of film at one time. Neustetter took some long-exposure shots of the lasers in the mesh canopy.

He then directed the crowd towards the Carlos Museum wall, where he asked everyone with a laser pointer to make various designs, including drawing circles, writing their initials and slowly drawing the lights down the wall.

Any students holding a lightup bouncy ball were then asked to climb the stairs in front of the Carlos Museum, where they would throw them all down at once.

Neustetter positioned his camera at the bottom of the stairs, ready to capture the light-up balls as they fell towards him.

In the darkness, the sight was fantastic: a bunch of flickering blue-andred lights bouncing down the stairs, each at its own pace.

To end the night, Neustetter asked the crowd to gather on the quad in front of the Carlos Museum, preparing to take a long-exposure shot of the crowd moving their glow sticks

Intergalactic Cartoon Stays Strong, Charming Continued from Page 9

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A variety of participants attended Emory Artist-in-Residence Marcus Neustetter’s “Light Experiments” event.

Together, those in attendance used a variety of lights to create long-exposure photographs.

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Green Laser Man was asked to move his laser pointer around on the tree behind the crowd, creating a beautiful sight as the beam moved through every twig and branch, almost making it look as though the tree was glittering.

Neustetter will post the finished photographs online under the hashtag #marcuslights within the next few days, and students will be able to see the results of their fun.

Anyone who attended the event and those who are interested in seeing how the photographs turned out

should keep an eye on the hashtag.

Neustetter will also be displaying them at the Carlos Museum, so anyone in the area can drop by and see what will no doubt be a fantastic final product.

— Contact Kelsey Klosterman at kkloste@emory.edu

This introduces another strength of the show: the rich mythos of the Gems. The first half of the first season deals mostly with the Crystal Gems encountering random monsters and dealing with them. However, there are some episodes that hint at the Crystal Gems’ origins and why they came to Earth. This is further explored in the second half of the season, with more focus on the history of the Crystal Gems and the individual Crystal Gems’ pasts.

I won’t spoil too much, but I could definitely say that the episodes that focus on developing the individual characters are among the best of the series.

But don’t think that “Steven Universe” is a story that relies too much on the characters; the show is also very easy to get into. The animation is very beautiful with color palettes and settings that are very easy on the eyes and clear-cut.

It is usually accompanied by superb music that fits the lighthearted

fun and magic of the show, with the occasional serious tone in certain parts. The soundtrack is one of my favorite parts of the show because it has easy-listening jazz-like tunes that fit into the entire lighthearted atmosphere.

“Steven Universe” is ultimately a growing-up story with wacky and adventures that are both heartwarming and heartbreaking. Rebecca Sugar knows exactly what she’s doing in terms of the show’s direction, and the best thing I can say about “Steven Universe” is that it is consistent.

The heart of “Steven Universe” is never lost as it reminds us of what growing up can be like: your childhood can be carefree and charming, but it can also be bittersweet as you grow up. As the first season has recently ended and more episodes of the second season will eventually come out, I look forward to watching what will unfold in this exciting, engaging universe.

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

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Continued from Page 9 comic (prepare for the nitpickiest of nitpicks) is the font. The font is more fitting for a chat session with your BFF than it is for a grand tale of a crumbling kingdom. So, if you love fantastic artwork and epic story and you choose not to care about font (supposedly because you don’t have your priorities straight), then check out “Ghost Blade.”

“Hark! A Vagrant” by Kate Beaton — Ongoing Series I originally got into “Hark! A Vagrant”because of the series of Macbeth parody strips a friend had showed me. Then I spent hours pressing the “Random” button on the website, endlessly entertained by everything Kate Beaton had to offer.

Her work mostly consists of short one to four panel strips that reference history, literature, and pop culture in general. Whether you love literary references or Top Gun references or just like laughter and joy in general, you’re bound to like “Hark! A Vagrant.” It may be the only nonseries on the list but it’s bound to take up the majority of your time — it’s that great!.

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mesh well with the action scenes that Blomkamp suddenly decides that he wants to emphasize in the third act of the film.

However, at the end of the day, Chappie is the real star of the show.

Blomkamp’s frequent collaborator Sharlto Copley provides the voice of Chappie and knocks the role out of the park. His blend of a Hal 9000esque robotic coldness married to a child-like energy holds the whole movie together.

In many ways, Chappie is the most human of all the characters, providing Wilson, Visser and Ninja insight into their own flaws and vices and into what consciousness truly entails.

Another central theme of the movie is nature vs. nurture.

While Wilson insists on Chappie serving as a shining example of morality and virtue, Ninja insists that he fight against the world to survive and show no mercy. Ultimately, the movie suggests that perhaps both are essential to fully understanding one’s existence.

I don’t want to sell “Chappie” as a masterpiece like Blomkamp’s first work, “District 9.” The third act is a mess and sticks out like a sore thumb when compared to the majority of the film. I don’t make those earlier “RoboCop” and “Real Steel” comparisons lightly. MOOSE strikes a suspicious resemblance to the ED-209 and Chappie’s battle against it looks like something straight out of a “RoboCop” fan film, with “Real

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“Chappie,” featuring Sharlto Copley as the voice of the titular robot, is director Neill Blomkamp’s third film and recounts the tale of a police robot in a futuristic Johannesburg, South Africa.

Steel” alum Hugh Jackman piloting the MOOSE himself.

Furthermore, the climax’s action scenes are actually sabotaged by Blomkamp’s attempts to create intense action in a movie that it just doesn’t fit in. The 1980s action movie clichés begin to seep in, such as over the top gore, indulgent explosions and slow motion glances of

determination make the movie seem more like a parody of action movies rather than something we’re supposed to be invested in emotionally. If Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were included as extras in the battle scenes, I would not have batted an eye.

“Chappie” is kind of a mess, but it has heart to spare. Though it doesn’t

work on every level, it definitely holds together as a fascinating experiment in storytelling. “District 9” is still the gold standard for Blomkamp’s work, and while this movie certainly doesn’t stand on the same pedestal, it is very much the ambitious political science fiction thriller that its predecessor was.

If you can look past the movie’s

flaws, you will find much to like in this oddity of film and the ending has to be seen to be believed. “Chappie” likely won’t change any science fiction fan’s life, but it’s definitely the kind of unique film that the genre has been lacking for a while and I highly recommend checking it out.

— Contact Vikrant Nallaparaju at vikrant.nallaparaju@emory.edu

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‘Insurgent’ Rebels Against Conformity With Action-Packed Twists and Turns

By Annie McNutt Staff Writer “Insurgent,” the second installment of the incredibly popular Divergent Series, was even more shocking than the first movie. If you were one of the millions who purchased tickets for the premier weekend of “Divergent,” you won’t want to miss this film.

The Divergent Series follows the lives of people in a post-apocalyptic-type society in which everyone believes they are the last of their kind.

As such, society has been organized into groups called factions, each representing different character traits.

The five factions are Abnegation (selflessness), Dauntless (bravery), Erudite (intelligence), Amity (peaceful) and Candor (honesty).

Those who do not belong to a faction are known as the factionless, those who can belong to or fit in with more than one faction are known as divergent.

The film’s protagonists are a couple, Beatrice “Tris” Prior (Shailene Woodley, “The Descendants”) and Tobias “Four” Eaton (Theo James, “Golden Boy”), both of whom are divergent. After the end of the first film, “Divergent,” Tris and Four are on the run from the erudite faction leader, Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet, “Labor Day”).

Jeanine is attempting to eradicate all of the divergents, whom she believes to be a threat to the society.

At the beginning of “Insurgent,” which has been released in both 2D and 3D versions, Tris and Four have found sanctuary with the Amity faction lead by Johanna Reyes (Octavia Spencer, “The Help”).

Given Spencer’s acting prowess, it would have been nice to see her have a bigger role in the film. Though I am

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“Insurgent,” starring Theo James (left) and Shailene Woodley (right), opened in theaters last week on March 20. The film is the second entry in the four-part film adapation of the Divergent Series of novels.

unfamiliar with the books, having a bigger name actress take on a smaller role seems a bit out of place.

Despite her small role, she did a phenomenal job playing the calm, collected leader. At the beginning of this film, everything seems to be on the mend; however, Tris is having nightmares and about 10 minutes into the movie, the members of Dauntless who have sided with Jeanine are on the hunt for divergents.

Soon after Dauntless rediscovers Tris and Four within Amity, Tris realizes that the only way for her to win

the fight and survive as a divergent is to kill Jeanine.

The big questions is: will she?

Tris’s biggest weakness is that she cannot stand causing harm, directly or indirectly, to other people.

Woodley plays the conflicted heroine well. Those watching her make difficult choices and living with the consequences can truly feel the emotions that the character is feeling — and that is remarkable acting.

In addition to the strong acting, the movie is visually stunning. I saw it in 3D, which was not my original pref-

erence. Though I do not believe that wearing a pair of recyclable plastic glasses enhances the movie experience, there were one or two scenes for which the 3D visual effect truly had an impact.

Overall, regardless of whether you see it in 2D or 3D, the visual effects of the film are incredible. The “simulation” scenes, which involve a tremendous amount of acting finesse, are especially theatrical. Characters are put into computer simulations to test their abilities. Towards the end of the film, when Tris is undergo-

ing many simulations, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern what is real and what is a simulation, which I suppose is the point. Nevertheless, the scenes are action-packed and very exciting to watch.

In addition to Woodley, Miles Teller (“The Spectacular Now”) gives a great performance. Teller plays Peter, a member of Dauntless who has never been nice to Tris. While it was clear that Peter was not a fan of Tris, he ended up siding with her at the end of the first film. Near the beginning of “Insurgent,” Peter

quickly turns on Tris and Four, leading the audience to believe that he is always going to do whatever is best for him regardless of what the consequences are for those around him. If you want to know whether he helps Tris in this film, you will have to watch until the very end of the movie.

In addition to the action scenes, the movie is full of twists and turns that you won’t see coming. While these twists and turns are exciting, they often happen so fast that you almost miss them. Without giving away too much of the plot, when it seems like Tris is finally going to be free of Jeanine, Jeanine turns on Tris and rips everything out from under her. However, immediately afterwards, Jeanine is the one who loses.

Everything happens so fast that I felt unable to fully appreciate the film.

Tris ends up having to go through five simulations, one for each of the factions, in order to open the “box” that Jeanine found buried in her parents’ home. Jeanine believes that this box will contain a message from the founders of the city proving her belief that divergents are a threat.

Will Tris and the divergents triumph over Jeanine in the end? Tris clearly believes the divergents to be the solution, while Jeanine views them as a threat. What I will tell you is this: the box is opened in the end. As for the message inside? Well, you’ll just have to go see the movie.

The movie leaves viewers with lots of questions, so it is a good thing there is a third movie already in production.

The last scene, which incited cheers from the audience, will truly shock you and leave you wondering what is next for Tris, Four, Divergents and all factions alike.

— Contact Annie McNutt at amcnutt@emory.edu

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Danny Kerning came on in relief in the seventh and gave up one run.

After loading the bases with one out, Kerning gave up a two run single and walked the following batter, ending his day and leaving the Warriors leading at 11-2.

The Eagles added two runs in the bottom of the ninth in what proved a futile effort.

In the second game of the doubleheader, the Eagles struggled offensively and fell to the Warriors 5-0.

“We just need to do a better job with runners in scoring position and focus on having quality at-bats,” Lake said. “We need to take it one game at a time.”

Senior Connor Dillman started for the Eagles and went six innings, striking out eight and walking five.

Sophomore right hander Kyle Monk came on in relief for Dillman and gave up four hits and three earned runs in two innings of work. The Eagles were unable to get anything going against the Warriors, who tossed a complete game shutout, giving up six hits, walking one, and striking out three. Eisner, however, added two hits, raising his average to .380.

The Eagles return to action today (March 24), at home against DePauw University (Ind.) at 3 p.m.

“I think we just aren’t clicking as well right now,” Eisner said. “We are getting anxious and putting too much pressure on ourselves. I have no doubt that we will get back into our groove and play baseball the way we know how.”

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The 4x100-meter relay team came in third place, as freshman Phillip Greenfield, junior Max Hoberman, Koh and Rosenberg combined for a time of 42.69 seconds. Freshman Benjamin Rogin placed fifth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.50 seconds. Junior Jacob Seigel finished fourth in the discus throw with a distance of 42.75 meters tossed.

“We had a great meet against some great competition from Division I and II schools,” Hoberman said. “After coming from the NCAA Indoor Championships, running at home was less stressful; I didn’t have to run in everything and being at home was a big advantage.”

On Saturday, the women also had record-breaking performances, as two athletes recorded top-10 times for Emory’s history books. Williamson finished third in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:14.46, the sixth-best time in the Emory program’s history and her personal-best. Gogniat claimed a fourth-place finish in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:42.55, the 10th-fastest time in the program’s history.

Freshman Erica Goldman won the 400-meter run with a time of 58.25 seconds. Goldman later ran as anchor in the 4x400-meter relay, combining with senior Hannah Parra, freshman Julia Leventhal and Young to finish third with a time of 3:58.38. Senior Elaina Kim placed second in the pole vault, clearing the bar at 3.17 meters.

Senior Elise Viox finished fifth in the 5,000-meter run with 18:30.67 minutes.

“These first two home meets [the Emory Invitational and the Emory Classic] go a long way in helping us see who we take forward into the bigger late season meets and who we will use at [University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships],” Curtin wrote. “With UAAs here at home this spring, it is a little bit of a bonus for the kids to make the UAA squad and be able to compete on the home track in front of their friends.”

The Emory track and field teams will return to action at the WoodPEC on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28 to host the Emory Classic.

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Eagles dropping even fewer games and once again defeating the team 9-0. Ruderman played first singles once again winning a decisive 6-1, 6-2 against junior Elliott Blatt.

Helpern played second singles winning 6-0, 6-2 against junior Greyson Brilliant.

Mosetick played third singles defeating sophomore Albert Vacheron 6-1, 6-3.

Sophomore Aman Manji played sixth singles and defeated his opponent freshman Jack Patton with an impressive 6-0, 6-0.

The team of Ruderman and Wagner continued playing first doubles, defeating Rhodes sophomore Daniel Oliver and Patton 8-2.

Halpern and Rubinstein played second doubles beating their opponents 8-6. Mosetick and Omsky played third doubles defeating Rhodes’ competitors 8-4.

“It’s nice to play these types of matches,” Ruderman said. “We are focusing on the big tournaments

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end of the year tournaments, the UAA tournament and the National Championships and we don’t need to tire ourselves out.”

Browning shared a similar sentiment about the rest of the season.

“We’ve had a lot of tough matches,” Browning said. “We want to focus on training over the next few weeks which means taking it a little easier when it comes to matches.”

Browning added that the tournaments have gotten much more competitive, which is a reflection of Division III in general. He thinks Division III is becoming more competitive due to Division I level athletes wanting to focus more on academics, placing them at a Division III school The Eagles will continue their season against the Oglethorpe University (Ga.) Petrels on Thursday, March 26 at 2 p.m. at the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC).

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Sophomore Philip Maldari follows through after taking a swing at a pitch. Maldari and the Eagles lost all three of their games this past weekend.

Baseball Drops Three Games at Home

By Joseph Shapiro Staff Writer

The Emory baseball team had a rough weekend, loosing to the Piedmont College (Ga.) Lions 12-7 and losing two to the Hendrix College (Ark.) Warriors 11-4 and 5-0.

“Even though we won [the University Athletic Association] Championships, we still lost the past four games in a row,” junior second baseman Dylan Eisner said. “We played some hard teams and thought we were on a roll, so it’s really tough to loose.”

On Friday, March 20, the Eagles took on Piedmont, in what was a high-scoring affair that ended in a 12-7 defeat for the Eagles. Senior right-hander Paul Merolla started on the mound. The Lions got on the board first, putting up one run in the bottom of the first. The Eagles answered with two in the top of the second on a run-scoring groundout by freshman shortstop Nick Chambers and an error on sophomore catcher Chris Young’s grounder to second that brought another run across. However, in the bottom of the second, the Lions responded with five runs. The Lions got one across on a fielder’s choice with the bases loaded. The Eagles only needed one out to get out of the jam nearly unscathed but a passed ball in the following at bat put the Lions ahead 4-2. The Lions singled, scored, stole second and then advanced to third on a throwing error by Merolla. The Lions stole third and then scored on a single to extend their lead to 6-2.

The Eagles answered with two

in the top of the third but the Lions added three more in the bottom of the fourth.

The Eagles put up three more runs in the top of the fifth, but the Lions answered again, scoring one in the bottom of the fifth and two of the bottom of the sixth. The score was set at 12-7, where it remained for the rest of the game.

The Eagles were able to get runs across, but were unable to hold the Lions offense in check. Eisner continued to stay hot at the plate, getting two base hits and scoring two runs.

Senior outfielder Brett Lake had two hits as well and sophomore third baseman Philip Maldari drove in three runs.

On Saturday, in the first of two games against the Warriors, the Eagles were not as sharp in the field or on the mound as they were the previous weekend.

The Eagles gave up 11 runs but only earned three, and fell to the Warriors 11-4.

The Eagles got on the board first with a double from Maldari that scored Lake. The team then added another run in the bottom third on a single up the middle by Eisner that scored Chambers.

Sophomore lefthander Jackson Weeg, who pitched seven innings of one-hit shutout ball in his previous start, started the game strong, putting up zeros in the first three frames. However, in the top of fourth, the Warriors got on the board for three runs. The Eagles were unable to answer and after allowing one more run in the sixth, Weeg’s day was finished. Freshman right-hander

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On the second day, the 400-yard medley relay team of juniors Ellie Thompson and Elizabeth Aronoff, Zook and Larson won and broke an Emory school record.

All-American honors were earned by the 200-yard freestyle team of sophomore Marissa Bergh, Liu, Sanchez-Aizcorbe and Larson, and individual honors in the 400-yard individual medley: Ong and seniors Megan Beach and Michelle York, earning the honors for the thirdstraight year.

More All-American finishes came from freshmen Julia Wawer, Cindy Cheng, Megan Campbell, Upton, and Larson.

On the third day of competition, Newsum-Schoenberg became the first woman in Emory’s history to win a national title in a butterfly event, winning the 200-yard butter-

fly with a time of 2:00.43, breaking her the school record she set earlier this season at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships.

On the last day of competition, the women added six more All-American Honors, rounding out the meet with an accumulated 26 individual and five All-America relay finishes.

The men scored 233 points, finishing behind first-place Kenyon College (Ohio) with 468 points, second-place Denison University (Ohio) with 383 points and third-place Williams College (Mass.) with 292 points.

“It was a great meet for the guys, we had a lot of great performances,” Howell said. “Andrew [Wilson] is on another level which makes it a lot of fun, but we have a lot of phenomenal swimmers. It was definitely exciting to be a part of [Wilson’s performance] and he deserves it for sure.”

The first day of competition for the men started with Wilson’s exciting win. In addition to Wilson, the

Emory men’s 200-yard medley relay broke a program record, as sophomore Mitchell Cooper, senior Hayden Baker, freshman Oliver Smith and Wilson finished second and claimed All-American honors. Sophomore Christian Baker and junior Eagan Zettlemoyer both claimed honors in the 500-yard freestyle, placing third and eighth, respectively.

On the second day of competition, the 400-yard relay team of freshman Alexander Hardwick, Cooper, Wilson and Hayden Baker finished second and set the new school record.

The time of 3:13.55 is the second-best time in NCAA Division III history. Christian Baker added the only individual All-American honor on the second day in the 200-yard freestyle.

On the last day of competition, in addition to Wilson’s National Titles, junior Jared Scheuer recorded Emory’s last All-American honor in the 200-yard backstroke, breaking

the school record.

The men concluded the competition with Wilson’s three National Titles, seven individual All-American honors, two All-American relay honors and 11 individual All-American honorable mentions.

“Next season will be completely different than this year,” Wilson added. “Just because I won this year doesn’t mean I will next; it’s a new year. But, hopefully next year the guys team can win a title.”

For Howell, next year’s season is already on the horizon.

“Performing well and doing something special is the highest award for the swimmers,” he said. “So, it makes sense to have nationals always on our mind and our goal. We have a lot of great freshmen who have built a solid foundation for the future, so the next couple of years with them is going to be a lot of fun.”

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sport should grind your gears to a point where your desire to gamble on of income (radio shows, TV spots, college basketball dissolves as a result etc.), and meanwhile, college athletes of anger. are paid nothing.

Alright, so say statistics, legality Putting aside the atrocities com- and capitalistic greed just don’t do mitted by the NCAA (and other it for you. sports leagues that claim to be nonSay you find it beyond thrilling to profit — I’m looking at you, NFL) lose money every year around springand not to mention time (because, let’s the joke of an edube honest, you inevication that some tably screw up your “The likelihood that athletes receive, sweet sixteen). a person will predict there are other probIf that’s the case, a perfect bracket ... is lems with the March then my last ditch Madness money effort at convincing infinitesimal ” conglomerate. you to stop wastAn estimated ing your money on — Rupsha Basu, $12 billion was March Madness Executive Editor gambling is much spent worldwide on March Madness simpler. gambling last year. There are sevYou are betting good money on eral countries on this planet whose the assumption that 500 college stugross domestic products (GDPs) – an dents will perform consistently and aggregate measure for total national reliably to not only the best of their output — don’t exceed that number. ability but also in a way that matches At the risk of sounding incredibly their previous performance. condescending, I want to take this I once heard a story about a opportunity to explain why it is so Division I college football player the astounding that people spend money night before a noon kickoff in a colbetting on March Madness (or any lege bowl game passed out drunk at large-scale sporting event for that around 5 a.m. That’s not to say that matter). college athletes are by any means An estimated 100 million people irresponsible. in the Unites States — a third of its All I’m saying is, I am a college population — are expected to par- student. I know how we are. And ticipate in tournament-style bracket I’m sure you do too. All of this is contests. The likelihood that a person to say that the next time you get out will predict a perfect bracket out of your checkbook, perhaps consider the 9.2 quintillion bracket combina- funneling your funds to a slightly tions is infinitesimal. You might as more meaningful (or at the very least well bet on which individual sperm personally profitable) endeavor. cell will be the one to fertilize the egg But, if I were a betting (wo)man, of your future offspring. there’s no way in hell I would bet on Let’s not forget the fact that, while March Madness. a third of the population is collectiveThere’s almost definitely more ly spending money that many people money in betting on American don’t even make over the course of a elections. lifetime, the practice of gambling on If only there was some way the sporting events is only legal in four, NCAA could team up with the Koch yes four, states: Oregon, Montana, brothers to form a fantasy sportsDelaware and Nevada. Furthermore, cum-politics league. Then we’d really the idea that thousands of random have something to get “mad” about.

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Eagles Dominate Rhodes and Kalamazoo

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Rebecca Upton, senior McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg, junior Carolyn Bonfield, senior Nina Zook, sophomore Annelise Kowalsky, freshman Ming Ong and the 200-medley relay team of sophomores Marcela Sanchez-Aizcorbe and Claire Liu, senior Nancy Larson and Kowalsky.

“When they called our names, well, that feeling will never get old,” Newsum-Schoenberg said. “As a senior, it’s hard to believe that it’s

The Emory men’s tennis team earned a solid two wins over the weekend, defeating the Kalamazoo College (Mich.) Hornets and the Rhodes College (Tenn.) Lynx winning 9-0 in both matches without dropping a single set. These two wins bring the Eagles’ record to 8-4.

Against the Hornets, senior Alex Ruderman played first singles having the closest game, winning 6-3, 7-5 against sophomore Branden Metzler.

Senior Eric Halpern played second singles winning 6-1, 6-3 against senior David DeSimone. Junior Rafe Mosetick competed in third singles against junior Robert Hudson defeating him 6-1, 6-2.

The doubles matches were a little closer. In the doubles competition, Ruderman partnered with senior Ian Wagner to defeat Metzler and Hudson 8-6 in the first singles spot. Halpern and freshman Scott Rubinstein defeated their opponents 9-7. Mosetick and freshman David Omsky played third doubles demolishing the team of sophomores Spencer Navarre and Eric De Witt 8-1.

“Everybody played well,” Head Coach John Browning said. “If you’re not focused these type of matches against less competitive teams can get a little sloppy.”

The second match against Rhodes continued on the same pace with the

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The Emory women’s swimming and diving team stands proud on the podium after winning the 2015 NCAA Division III Championships in Shenandoah, Texas. This year marks the team’s sixth-straight win. The men’s team placed fourth in the competition.

Women’s Swim and Dive Wins NCAA D-III Championships

By Elana Cates Sports Editor The Emory women’s swimming and diving team captured their sixthconsecutive national title win, while the men captured a fourth place finish at the 2015 NCAA Division III Championships in Shenandoah, Texas this past weekend.

Junior Andrew Wilson was named the NCAA Division III Swimmer of the Year after a successful meet.

He gained three individual champi-

onships, winning the National Title in the 200-yard breaststroke, the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard breaststroke. All three of his wins set new NCAA Division III records times, including the ninth-fastest short course yards time ever by an American in the 100yard breaststroke. Wilson additionally added second-place finishes as a part of the 200-medley team and the 400-yard medley relay team, both of which set new school records.

“My wins were pretty excit-

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ing,” Wilson said. “But, the most important thing for me was winning enough points for the team. People say swimming is an individual sport, but it’s really not. I was proud of all the guys, we had a lot of people really step up.”

For the women, the Championship win marks the sixth-straight, and the eighth overall in the program’s history. It is also the 18th Division III Championship in the history of Emory Athletics, across all varsity sports.

The women finished the fourday competition with 603 points.

Behind them was Denison University (Ohio) with 457 points, and Williams College (Mass.) with 434 points.

“The women’s win is obviously exciting,” Head Coach Jon Howell said. “For us, winning these meets never gets old and every group of swimmers is different and these women had a great meet.”

Emory’s women claimed six individual All-American finishes on the first day of competition: freshman

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Team Continues The Truth Winning Streak Behind March Madness

By Jacob Spitzer Asst. Sports Editor

Continuing their impressive run, the Emory softball team defeated the Fontbonne University (Mo.) Griffins 3-0 this past weekend. Emory’s record now stands at 20-2 for the season.

Junior outfielder Alyssa Pollard, freshman pitcher Raygan Greer and sophomore third baseman Tara Fallahee scored the team’s three runs.

Fallahee hit an RBI single to take Pollard home in the bottom of the first.

Freshman first baseman Ashley Powers singled to center field making a double RBI bringing Fallahee and Greer home in the bottom of the third. Sophomore pitcher Brittany File pitched Emory’s first seven inning no-hitter since 2005.

She gave up only one walk and struck out 10 batters, bringing her total strikeouts to 228 and pushing her to the number nine spot on the program’s all-time ladder. For her effort in this game, she was awarded Athlete of the Week by EmoryAthletics.com.

“I think my team allowed me to be so successful in this game,” File wrote in an email to the Wheel. “After all, if it weren’t for a couple of great plays by our defense, and supportive runs by our offense this might be a very different conversation. Pitching a great game always makes me really happy, and motivates me to continue playing the sport.”

The Eagles took the lead in the first inning, bringing the score to 1-0. The top of the second demonstrated Emory’s strong defense with Fontbonne senior infielder Danni Glixman grounding out to third base followed by junior catcher Emily Smith and junior left fielder Caitlin Nappier each striking out.

The Griffins kept the score tied in the second surrendering a walk but securing three quick outs.

“We played really well,” Emory sophomore outfielder Taylor Forte said. “The opposing pitcher is really

good so we were a little nervous going in.”

Fontbonne freshman Courtney Kedroski received a walk, one of the two times the Griffins got on base the entire game.

The Griffins failed to capitalize, and two strikeouts and a ground brought the game to the bottom of the third.

Senior shortstop Micah Scharff was first up and hit a strong double to start up the half inning. Junior designated hitter Hannah Sendel hit for Greer and received a walk. Scharff then stole third, followed up by Greer stealing second. Fallahee came to the plate and also received a walk to load the bases.

Sophomore right fielder Amy Wray hit a weak single to first base allowing the Griffins to throw out Scharff at home. Powers came up next, hitting a deep single to center field bringing in Fallahee and Greer home.

In the second half of the game, both teams’ defenses shined.

Emory had a chance to score in the fourth inning with bases loaded but the Griffins defense held strong.

Fontbonne got on base one last time with an Eagle error bringing Nappier to first base. The rest of the innings were uneventful with neither team having an opportunity to score.

With the NCAA Tournament approaching the team is going to train even harder to become as polished as possible.

“We’re transitioning from regular season to post season,” Forte said.

“It’s really good that we are playing this well.”

At the end of the tournament, Sendel was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP).

The Eagles will play their next game on Saturday, March 28 against the Wesleyan College (Ga.) Wolves at Emory University.

The Wolves have been on a winning streak winning their last two games, bringing their record to 9-11.

— Contact Jacob Spitzer at

jacob.alexander.spitzer@emory.edu

Courtesy of Emory Athletics

Senior Zachary Rosenberg competes in a relay race at the Emory Invitational. Rosenberg and the Eagles beat 28 teams with 96 points to win the meet last Friday and Saturday.

Rupsha Basu Not to be confused with the breeding season of the European hare, “March Madness” is an apt name for the nationwide obsession with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s Division I championships. Mostly because it A) occurs in March, and it B) drives people who would never engage in risky fiscal decisions to bet exorbitant amounts of money on college kids.

This year, March Madness started on March 17 and will conclude with the championship game on April 6 in the Lucas Oil Stadium (fun fact: aside from the bizarre implications of an automotive oil company holding naming rights for a sporting venue, the Lucas Oil Stadium had a construction cost of $720 million).

In a recent “main story” spot on “Last Week Tonight,” host and comedian John Oliver spent more than 20 minutes lambasting the exploitative and money-laundering machine that is the NCAA. In it, he explains that the NCAA accrues more than $1 billion in ad revenue from just the tournament, college coaches have salaries in the millions not including other avenues

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Men Win Emory Invitational

By Elana Cates Sports Editor The Emory University track and field team opened their outdoor season this past weekend at the Emory Invitational, with the men winning the meet and the women earning third place.

Over 1,500 athletes from all over the country came to the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC) to compete. On the men’s side, the two-day event team total rounded out at 96 points, followed by second place Albany State University (N.Y.) with 80 points and third place Cedarville University (Ohio) with 67 points.

“There was a really good vibe going with good weather bringing really fast times,” Head Coach John Curtin wrote in an email to the Wheel. “Our kids love it when they get a chance to compete against some better Division II athletes, as the tougher competition brings out the best in them.”

The women came in third place with 80 points, behind Jacksonville State University (Miss.), which won with 100.5 points, and second place Cedarville with 96 points.

“We were coming off the indoor season, which went okay; we did decent,” sophomore Alexa Young said. “But, outdoor season is a completely different sport, and running at home gives you a huge advantage.”

On the first day of the competition, the men’s distance medley team of freshmen Shane Sullivan and Max Brown, sophomore Ian McIsaac and junior Josh Traynelis shined, winning the event with a time of 10:26.16.

The time set a new school record, pushing out the previously set record of 10:34.10, set at the 2004 Clemson (S.C.) Relays.

Junior Adam Rabushka also added a first-place win in the 400-meter hurdles (53.56 seconds). Senior James Bassen won the javelin throw with a distance of 57.73 meters, the fifthbest mark in Emory’s history, and the second-best of Bassen’s career.

The women’s 4x800-meter relay team of seniors Marissa Gogniat and Stephanie Crane, junior Julie Williamson and Young also captured a school record on the first day, finishing second in the event with a time of 9:14.64. The previous school record was 9:19.25, set at the 2012 Emory Classic. Both Gogniat and Crane were also a part of that record-

breaking team in 2012.

“Before the race, Coach [Curtin] told us to go for a school record. It hadn’t even been on my mind before,” Young said. “I didn’t think it was attainable, so reaching it was really exciting.”

Senior Hannah Smith captured a win for the Eagles on the first day in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:19.87.

At the end of the first day, the men were in first place out of 25 teams, while the women were in third out of 26 other squads.

On the second day of the competition, the men’s team set many more school records. Sophomore Grant Murphy finished third in the 5,000meter run with a time of 14:53.15, the 10th-fastest time in Emory’s history.

Freshman Daniel Pietsch placed second in the 400-meter run with a time of 48.73 seconds, and sixth in the 200-meter run with 22.71 seconds.

Pietsch also ran as anchor for the 4x400-meter relay team, along with senior Zachary Rosenberg, junior Spencer Koh and Rabushka. The team finished second in the event with a time of 3:19.99.

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