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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 Administration
Campus Life Adds New Position
Volume 96, Issue
28
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Nuremberg Prosecutor Speaks at Law School
By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor
By Emily Lim Staff Writer
In order to re-imagine Emory’s Division of Campus Life, a new community-focused position will be added to the current Campus Life leadership, according to Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair. The Assistant Vice President of Community (AVPC) will oversee a very diverse portfolio of campus organizations. Additionally, the search process for AVPC candidates will use a website to be highly transparent and inclusive, making this the first time in Emory history to have a special website dedicated to the search for an administration candidate. The AVCP’s administrative portfolio will include the Barkley Forum Center for Debate Education; the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, which encompasses the Center for Women, International Student Life, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life and Multicultural Programs and Services; the Center for Student Leadership and Community Engagement, the Office of Health Promotion, the Office of Residence Life, the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life and the Office of Student Conduct. Senior Associate Dean for Campus Life Andy Wilson has been serving as interim AVPC since last summer. However, Wilson announced his res-
Council] and NPHC [National PanHellenic Council]) continue to experience growth,” he wrote and added, “I want to commend Cori Newnam, EPC VP of Recruitment and [Walsh], IFC Vice of Recruitment, for a job well done. [EPC] Recruitment 2015 and IFC Formal Rush both went very well this year.” Doctor also noted that although IFC’s Formal Rush is over, Delta Tau Delta will be recruiting men to their chapter here through the spring. Walsh wrote that he felt that Rush went “unbelievably” well this year.
“War is hell. Law is better than war.” Benjamin Ferencz, the only surviving chief prosecutor from the Nuremberg Tribunals, hosted a talk where he discussed international criminal justice at the Emory School of Law yesterday. The lead prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen case, another famous World War II case, Ferencz delivered anti-war messages, advocated his beliefs in an international rule of law and opened the panel for questions in his talk, titled “International Criminal Justice: Reflections of a Nuremberg Prosecutor.” The event was open to all members of the Emory community. The Einsatzgruppen case involved trying a Nazi German death squad deployed with the task of carrying out mass killings of Jews, gypsies and Soviet political commissars in territories conquered by Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe. Ferencz estimated that 3,000 Einsatzgruppen members were responsible for the deaths of over one million Jews. Ferencz served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War prior to serving in the newly created War Crimes Branch, which investigated war crimes by the Einsatzgruppen. Ferencz recounted his memories of finding evidence for trials in war-time Germany, in which he convicted all
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Recruitment 2015 kicked off on Jan. 17 and ended this past weekend, with 501 participants and 374 girls placed in sororities. The seven sororities under Emory Panhellenic Council (EPC) participated in this year’s recruitment.
Greek Organizations Welcome New Members By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor More than 500 women lined up in front of sorority houses and more than 350 men chatted outside fraternity houses for the 2015 Emory Panhellenic Council (EPC) Recruitment and Interfraternity Council (IFC) Formal Rush. Numbers of participants in EPC Recruitment have decreased while numbers of participants in IFC Formal Rush have increased compared with last year, according to Assistant Director of the Office of Sorority & Fraternity Life Arthur
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Doctor and IFC Vice President of Recruitment and College sophomore Ryan Walsh, respectively. The same can be said for bids to sororities in fraternities. Fewer women received bids this year compared to last year, while more men received bids this year when compared to last year, Doctor and Walsh wrote in an email to the Wheel. A bid is a formal invitation to join a sorority or fraternity. Doctor wrote that 501 women participated in recruitment this year and 374 received bids. Last year, almost 540 women participated, and 403 of
those women received bids. He also wrote that 376 men participated in IFC rush this year with 269 of those men receiving bids, while last year, 332 men participated and 251 received bids. According to Walsh, 171 men accepted their bids this year. However, Doctor affirmed that interest in participating in Greek Life remains high and, overall, he believes that Panhellenic Recruitment and IFC Formal Rush went very well this year. “We continue to see a growing interest in fraternities and sororities as all four governing councils (EPC, IFC, MGC [Multicultural Greek
EBOLA
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SGA Questions Adherence To Bylaws
Panel Reflects on Global Ebola Response By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor
By Luke White SGA Beat Writer The 48th Legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) convened Monday evening for its first meeting since before winter break. SGA had no bills on its daily calendar. However, it did assign three new bills from its first-readings agenda for the Governance Committee to review. Since SGA had relatively few legislative operations to handle, the meeting primarily consisted of various reports and updates from individual members. During Committee reports, College sophomore and SGA Campus Services Chairman Max Zoberman announced several changes, including that Campus Services will now offer locker space in Eagle’s Landing of the Dobbs University Center (DUC) for student organizations looking for further storage room. Zoberman also explained that the Night Owl program, which had provided a late-night shuttle service from Clairmont Campus to Main Campus, has been discontinued in order to expand SafeRide, a latenight safety escort program, and
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t the Center for Civil and Human Rights, College freshmanAnna Fuhr stands in front of a bus covered in mug shots of all those arrested during the Freedom Rides, a movement in 1961 in which black and white Civil Rights activists rode interstate buses into the segregated southern U.S.
Carlos MUSEUM
New Curator Joins Carlos Museum By Leila Yavari Contributing Writer
Egyptologist Melinda Hartwig will be the new curator of Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern art, the second such curator at Emory, according to a Jan. 7 University press release. She will succeed Peter Lacovara, the curator from 1998-2014. A professor at Georgia State University since 2001, Hartwig curated exhibitions at the University of Memphis Art Museum, as well as Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. When asked what she is looking
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forward to the most in this new chapter of her life, Hartwig credits the students and faculty. “The faculty here at the Carlos are top-notch, experts in their field and everyone works together in such a collaborative environment,” she said. “And after being a professor for 13 years, students have become such a part of my life that I can’t imagine doing something without them in mind.” Visitors of the Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern art exhibit can expect to see coffins, sculptures, amulets and tombs among other
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ancient artifacts in the permanent and temporary collections. According to Hartwig, in addition to the incredible breadth and quality the Museum offers, visitors can also expect to find artifacts that show the relatability of Ancient Egyptian life to our modern lives. “We have pottery, jewelry, eyemakeup and things that really show the day-to-day life of the Egyptians that really catches people’s attention,” she said. The Carlos also hosts the old-
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A panel of two health care professionals and a Liberian government official reflected on the successes and failures of the global response to the Ebola virus epidemic at the Rita Anne Rollins Building on Monday evening. The panel was attended by about 100 faculty, students and visitors. Professor in the Medicine School’s Division of Infectious Diseases Dr. Carlos del Rio began the discussion with an overview of the technical aspects of the virus before jumping into preventative measures for future outbreaks. “The big driver of the epidemic has really been poverty,” del Rio said, who is also the Hubert Professor and Chair of the Public Health School’s Department of Global Health. “When we try to address Ebola and don’t address poverty, this thing will keep happening.” He added that response efforts were further crippled by poor physician-to-patient ratios in the countries affected, particularly patient to doctor ratios. In Liberia, there are 86,000 patients per doctor, and in Sierra Leone, the ratio is 45,000 per doctor. Del Rio also reminded the audience to be aware of political and media distortion of the epidemic. “It’s not an African problem, it’s a West African problem — just in this little area here,” he said, pointing to a map with unaffected regions labeled “NO EBOLA.” “You saw before the November elections so many governors used the
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quarantine to say ‘we’re responding to Ebola,’ though it was just a political thing, not a public health thing,” del Rio said. Other response failures, he noted, were due to funding cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in the past few years, even though President Barack Obama’s administration still pledged millions of dollars in September to help combat the epidemic. The economic consequences in the affected nations, however, dwarf those of the U.S., del Rio said. “You have children leaving school, people leaving work, people being displaced,” he said. “This is going to have tremendous long term consequences.” Next to give a presentation, Chief Nurse Executive of Emory Healthcare Susan Grant praised Emory University Hospital’s successful treatment of four Ebola patients between August and October. When the first two patients, aid worker Dr. Kent Brantly and nurse Nancy Writebol, arrived in August, “[Emory] very quickly realized that we did not have enough people. We needed to cast the net a little bit further,” Grant said. Finding volunteers, she said, was not difficult. “We had people step up and say, ‘I want to be a part of this,’” Grant said. “No one was forced to work in the [Infectious Disease] Unit, though of course, we did pay them.” Eventually, at least 100 people
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