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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
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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.
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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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news roundup National, Local and Higher Education News • After winning an absolute majority in Greece’s general elections on Sunday, the far-left Syriza party formed an anti-austerity coalition with right-wing independents in the country’s 300-member parliament. Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras promised voters he would renegotiate Greece’s €240 billion ($268 billion) bailout, write off half of the country’s debt and keep Greece in the Eurozone. • The terrorist group Boko Haram launched an unsuccessful attack on the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Sunday, only to be repelled by the country’s military. Dozens of soldiers and assailants were killed in Maiduguri, while earlier in the same day, Boko Haram captured the northeastern town of Monguno.
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met with Modi’s opposition, leaders of the Congress Party, and spoke at a business summit. • President Obama will propose shielding 12 million acres of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) from potential oil exploration, the White House announced Sunday. The Interior Department plans to make a series of similar decisions on Alaska’s oil and gas production this week, which will include barring any drilling in the Arctic Ocean. The move, another instance of Obama’s use of his executive authority, prompted backlash from Republican senators who said extensive oil production is necessary to economic health in the U.S.
police record • On Jan. 22 at 2:11 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding an underage individual under the influence of alcohol near 1510 Clifton Road. An individual who was passing by reported the inebriated individual to the police. When officers arrived on the scene, they found the intoxicated individual inside the lobby of the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center. Emergency Medical Services arrived on the scene and determined that the individual did not need to be transported to the hospital. A friend walked the individual back to his apartment. Campus Life was notified regarding the incident. • On Jan. 23 at 7:00 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a suspicious individual who may have been
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• Shoulder to shoulder with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Barack Obama attended India’s Republic Day parade in Delhi on Sunday. The parade, part of a three-day visit, followed environmental policy talks with Modi, after which the two heads of state announced a pact that would allow U.S. companies to supply India with nuclear energy. On Monday, Obama
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sleeping in the Grace Crum Rollins Building. When officers arrived on the scene, they checked the stairwell and found items that suggested that an individual was sleeping in the building. Some of the items located included: pants, food and drinks. Officers were not able to make locate the individual. The case has been turned over to an investigator. • On Jan. 23 at 11:13 p.m., officers on patrol noticed individuals smoking near the Woodruff Health Science Center. The individuals were smoking what appeared to be a marijuana cigarette. The officers also confiscated a pipe and a small amount of marijuana. The individuals were issued a citation for possessing less than one ounce of marijuana. Information regarding the case was turned over to
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Campus Life. • On Jan. 24 at 1:35 a.m., EPD received a call from an individual who said their laptop was stolen from their room in the Woodruff Residential Center. The Apple MacBook Pro was valued at $1,065. The case has been turned over to an investigator.
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Emory Women’s Alliance and students of Agnes Scott College called for equal rights for women in a forum on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) on Jan. 29 in the Tull Auditorium. At the time, the ERA awaited approval of 3/4 of the state governments. The forum featured a panel, of which three members supported ERA and three were against it. In his pro-ERA argument, Dr. Russel Bent, a professor at the School of Medicine, referenced “differences between men and women that are used as a basis of discrimination,” the Wheel reported.
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Event: Gilman Scholarship Advising Hours Time: 3 p.m. Location: Candler Library 200 Event: International Transient Study Open Office Hours Time: 3 p.m. Location: CIPA Office, Candler Library 200 Event: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds — Regional Anesthesia and Breast Cancer Recurrence Time: 5 p.m. Location: SOM — Auditorium 130 Event: Queer & Asian Discussion Group Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, DUC 232E Event: Race for Cures: On the Racial Politics of Difference in the Life Sciences Time: 6 p.m. Location: Rita Anne Rollins 102 Event: Creation Stories Lecture Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall
Event: Global Voices: “Appropriate” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Time: 8 p.m. Location: Theater Lab, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
WEDNESDAY Event: Grand Rounds: Medical lmaging Education and Radiology’s Roles With Medical Students: Where We are Now and Need to Be Headed Time: 7:30 a.m. Location: EUH Auditorium — 2nd Floor
Event: Trans-forming Gender Discussion Group Time: 5 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, DUC 232E Event: Bisexual / Pansexual Discussion Group Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, DUC 232E
Event: Walzernacht Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Clairmont Campus Tower, Apt 733
Event: Mini Summer Study Abroad Fair Time: 10 a.m. Location: DUC Commons
Event: “Cockfighter” (1974), Film Screening Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: White Hall 208
Event: Dr. Shubhayu Saha’s “Building Evidence for Climate Effects on Health Time: 12 p.m. Location: Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room
Event: Global Voices: “Neighbors” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Time: 8 p.m. Location: Theater Lab, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Event: Pathways Beyond the Professoriate: Teaching in a Preparatory School Time: 4:30 p.m. Location: Few Hall Multipurpose Room
THURSDAY Event: Challenges in Organ Transplantation: Access, Allocation, and Alloantibodies Time: 7 a.m. Location: Emory University Hospital Auditorium
Event: Flex Information Session: An Introduction to the Benefits of Workplace Flexibility Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: SPH — Grace Crum Rollins Bldg, 8th Floor Rita Anna Rollins Room Event: Campus Connections: The Administrator Scholar Time: 12 p.m. Location: DUC E338 Event: Carol Anderson: “Bourgeois Radicals” at Life of the Mind Lecture Time: 4 p.m. Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room Event: Race, Indigeneity, Affect — A Studies in Sexualities Symposium Time: 4 p.m. Location: Few Multipurpose Room Event: Guided Meditation with Emory Buddhist Club Time: 6 p.m. Location: Cannon Chapel 106
Event: Queer Students of Color Discussion Group Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Office of LGBT Life, DUC 232E
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Salt Causes Few Cardiac Health Risks, Profs. Say By Sarah Husain Contributing Writer
With heart disease, doctors often encourage patients to cut down on their daily salt intake, especially the elderly. But a new study from Emory University shows that salt intake is not necessarily associated with a higher risk of death, cardiovascular disease or heart failure in elderly people. In the study, published last week in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers from Emory Medical School looked at data from 2,642 people, ranging from 71 to 90 years old, over a 10-year period. They controlled for race, sex and body mass index (BMI) as well as specific health conditions. All of them were heart disease-free at the start of the study, according to lead author and Assistant Medical Professor Dr. Andreas Kalogeropoulos. The study participants had different levels of self-reported salt consumption that researchers divided up into three main groups. Eleven percent of participants consumed less than 1,500 mg of salt daily, 29.5 percent consumed between 1,500 and 2,300 mg daily and the majority, 59.5 percent, consumed more than 2,300 mg. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises that the population in general should consume less than 2,300 milligrams of sodium while high-risk groups, such as the elderly, should consume less than a teaspoon 1,500 milligrams. “Although our findings do not support the strict, less than 1500 mg daily, sodium restriction recom-
mendation for the general population of older adults, there was no signal of harm either,” Kalogeropoulos said. “However, a more conservative approach to sodium restriction, that is, targeting less than 2,300 mg daily, might be appropriate for older adults until more data become available.” The study’s findings do not apply to older adults with pre-existing cardiovascular disease or heart failure, Kalogeropoulos added. Over the 10-year period, 881 participants had died, 572 had developed cardiovascular disease and 398 developed heart failure. The study also found that consuming over a teaspoon of salt daily (2,300 mg) did not increase your risk of getting cardiovascular disease or heart failure or death significantly. Kalogeropoulos noted that they are still trying to “fine-tune” the most beneficial amount of salt that people should consume daily urges the public stick to the current guidelines. “Patients should not interpret our findings as a ‘license’ to consume more salt,” Kalogeropoulos said. “First, average dietary salt intake is already too high in most Western or westernized communities and well above the average reported intake in our study. Second, there is no question whether moderating salt intake provides health benefits ... Third, high salt intake, far more than a teaspoon daily, was associated with a trend towards increased mortality in our study, too; we just did not have enough participants in this category to be statistically confident about these trends.”
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Professor in the Medical School’s Division of Infection Diseases, Dr. Carlos del Rio, spoke at a panel Monday titled “Ebola, the Disease: History and Current Situation in West Africa and the U.S.”
Education Necessary for Epidemic Prevention, Barbu Says Continued from Page 1 would become involved in the effort, including a group of nurses Grant called “the Navy SEALs of nurses.” “It was quite impressive, to be honest, to watch this,” Grant said, who is also a member of the Georgia State Ebola Task Force created by Governor Nathan Deal in November. “Everyone left their positions, their hierarchies at the door. It was a team effort the entire time.” She included that the Emory University Hospital team paid close attention to the caretaking aspect of treatment as well, which was often an obstacle for nurses in so-called “space suits” recommended by the CDC. Grant recalled several nurses telling her “the fact is you can still hold someone’s hand with Personal Protective Equipment on.” Lastly, Chairman of the Liberian Law Reform Commission Jallah Barbu brought a new perspective to the panel, remarking on the need to educate Liberian citizens on the technicalities of the virus — transmission, sanitation needs, signs and symptoms — mentioned by del Rio at the start of the discussion.
“In Liberia, when we first heard about Ebola, it appeared to be a death sentence,” Barbu said, touching on the panic that struck Liberians at the virus’ outset. “Ebola came at a time when people had suspicions in their government,” he added. “What people saw it as was another effort by the government to get money out of our coffers.” Barbu continued to describe radical theories of the virus’ arrival in Liberia, as well as opposition to proper sanitary actions, such as avoiding handshakes and cremating the virus’ victims immediately after their deaths. The virus’ decline in Liberia since November, Barbu said, was the result of not government intervention, but the spread of information. “We begin to wash our hands, we begin to have community meetings, outreach programs,” he said. “The people have to be educated. You tell someone not to wash the dead, but it’s not about them. It’s about the person who died, the afterlife. Why can’t you wash the dead — that’s what people need to know.” The panel then took questions from members of the audience, one of whom asked why Emory couldn’t
have flown more Ebola patients to the University Hospital from the countries in crisis. “That would be like controlling a tsunami by pulling out glasses of water,” del Rio said. When asked about the need to invest more humanitarian aid in countries like Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the three most affected nations, Barbu instead emphasized education. “It doesn’t matter how much you invest in Liberia,” Barbu said. “What matters is education — what are we doing for people who can’t read or write, who don’t have access to the television or the internet, to make sure they know what is going on?” Del Rio stressed that governments and health organizations should not lose interest in the Ebola epidemic as it dies down. He compared it to the situation in another developing country, Haiti, which, five years after a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake killed hundreds of thousands and displaced about 1.5 million, remains in infrastructural disarray. “If people lose interest in this, we’re going to miss a huge opportunity,” del Rio said. “We need to
somehow understand that those reactive approaches are not sustainable, that there’s an opportunity to address systemic issues.” Survivors, he said, would lead the effort to give plasma donations for treatment and, most of all, educate their communities — at least if their communities welcome them home. “People are shunned by their families and can’t return to their villages because people think they are bringing the virus back,” del Rio said. “We need to not forget the power of public confusion, distortion and paranoia.” Biruh Zegeye, a second-year Laney Graduate School student who attended the panel, said he learned a lot about the extensive treatment of the four Ebola patients at the Emory University Hospital. Still, Zegeye said he had hoped the discussion touched more on future preventative actions, rather than a recap of the virus’ factual details and treatment milestones. “I would like to see more discussion on post-Ebola measures,” he said, “like what the international community and governments should be doing in the first place.”
— Contact Lydia O’Neal at lmoneal@emory.edu
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ver the last two weeks, fraternity men and sorority women underwent spring recruitment. There were 501 female participants and 376 male participants, with 374 girls and 269 boys receiving bids from a Greek organization. Throughout the week and past two weekends, students participating in recruitment visited the different organizations’ houses. Recruitment culminated on Bid Day for sororities and Run the Row for fraternities.
Search for New Asst. Vice President of Community Underway Continued from Page 1 ignation last Wednesday and plans to transition out of Emory sometime during spring break this year. Wilson said a new AVPC should be announced long before he leaves in March. Senior Associate Vice President and Title IX Coordinator for Students Carolyn Livingston wrote in an email to the Wheel that the AVPC will build upon the great work that Wilson began less than a year ago. “The AVPC will cultivate a portfolio that incentivizes the creation and encompassing of collaborative opportunities to enhance Campus Life’s co-curricular programs,” she wrote. According to Nair, many of the organizations included in the new AVPC’s portfolio were previously much more decentralized. Campus Life decided to reorganize these groups under the same umbrella so that they “can better share resources, operate with a shared agenda and affect change together,” Nair said. Nair also said he believes this new portfolio will give students a greater opportunity to work collaboratively
and to better understand the resources at their disposal. The AVPC will manage a $5.2 million budget and lead a staff of more than 90 professionals and 350 students. The re-imagination of Campus Life structures has been in the works since Nair arrived at Emory about two and a half years ago, he said. “For some time we’ve been thinking about innovative strategies to serve students better, and this is what it is culminated in, this new organizational structure,” Nair said. Campus Life has now begun what Nair is deeming a nation-wide search for a new AVPC. According to Nair, an ideal candidate would be someone who understands Emory students, establishes themselves as a leading differencemaker in the eyes of students and is an advocate and champion of students. “This should be someone who is not just deeply engaged but provides vision for the future,” Nair said. However, the search for the new AVPC will involve more than just the input of Nair and his leadership team. According to Nair, Campus Life has put together a search advisory com-
mittee comprised of students, faculty and staff that will provide input during the search process. There will also be open forum sessions where community members who are not part of the search committee can join in and offer input on the search process. “My hope is that by the end of the process many of the community members will be able to meet the candidate and weigh in on the process,” Nair said. Livingston, who co-chairs the search advisory committee with Dean of the Chapel and Spiritual Life the Rev. Bridgette Young Ross, said that Campus Life is currently advertising the position for AVPC. Livingston wrote in an email to the Wheel that at the end of the process, the search advisory committee will present the names of three finalists for the position to Nair for his consideration. College senior and President of the Black Student Alliance Kevin Satterfield is one of the students on the search advisory committee. “It’s an honor to work with Dr. Livingston on this search to find the next Assistant Vice President for Community at Emory University,”
Satterfield wrote in an email to the Wheel. “With regards to the candidates, we’re looking for someone who is either very aware of the culture here on campus or is very driven to learn more about that distinct culture ... Emory is a very unique campus and environment, and we’re committed to someone who can mirror and develop those qualities.” According to Nair, the website dedicated to the search process should launch sometime before the end of the month and will serve to keep individuals posted on where Campus Life is in the search process. The position profile, the search committee members and information about the portfolio will be featured on the website. “It’s really exciting,” Nair said of the search. “You know you think about positions on our campus that can have tremendous influence, and this is certainly one of them, and I think Emory students deserve as many advocates as they can have, right? And this is an opportunity for us to recruit, as I said, a leading difference maker in the lives of students.”
— Contact Annie McGrew at anne.elizabeth.mcgrew@emory.edu
Ferencz Recounts 22 Convictions of Genocide Continued from Page 1 22 of those responsible for the genocide of Jews on the Eastern Front. However, he emphasized that convictions were not the most important part of his career. “The important thing is not to convict people,” Ferencz argued. “It is to determine the crimes. This is the purpose of criminal law.” After 1970, Ferencz was also responsible for the promotion of international criminal justice and for his role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court, according to the Emory Law School website. Second-year Law student Joshua Carmel heard about the panel from his professor. Having taken a class on international criminal law the previous semester, Carmel said that he attended the lecture to learn about Ferencz’s role in the formation of the International Criminal Court. “I [wanted to] hear from someone at the forefront of creating the inter-
national law legal process,” Carmel said. “I [was] interested [in listening] to his experiences.” Ferencz’s career as a war criminal prosecutor involved tasks ranging from investigating the deaths of crashed pilots at the hands of mob violence, to being a part of the division which liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Despite the brutality that Ferencz witnessed, he delivered a message of hope for a harmonious future. “All human beings are entitled to live in peace and prosperity no matter their race or ethnicity,” he said. College freshman Robert Gershowitz described Ferencz as optimistic and inspirational. “He was one of the most optimistic people I have ever met, even after seeing the horrors of the concentration camps and World War Two,” Gershowitz said. “He motivated the law students by telling them that they had the power to fight war with law.”
— Contact Emily Lim at emily.lim@emory.edu
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Continued from Page 1 est preserved Egyptian mummy in the Western hemisphere: the Old Kingdom Mummy, which arrived at Emory in 1921 and was put on display in 2011. The mummy is a particularly notable feature for the Museum’s visitors as well as for Hartwig’s experience as a curator, she said. The Carlos Museum is distinct from other museums where Hartwig has worked in the past, she said, because it is a teaching museum. “We’re here to give you information in the most lively and interesting way about how the Ancient Egyptians, the Arcadians, the Assyrians lived,” Hartwig said. “And this is a permanent collection with a very large and diverse collection of artifacts that is really fun to be able to work with.” Hartwig recommends that visitors visit her personal favorite artifact in the Museum: the stele of a woman who died during a particularly tumultuous period in Egypt. In ancient Egypt, a stele was used as a type of tombstone that would feature text and ornamentation. According to Hartwig, the stele featured at the Carlos includes a painting of the woman and a hidden letter written by her mother and brother. “It gives you a little slice of dayto-day living but also a slice of death and how the Egyptians would deal with this part of life,” Hartwig says. Carlos Museum Receptionist Lance Powell has worked at the Museum for four years and has only praise for Hartwig. “When I first met Dr. Hartwig ... she was so engaging and passionate and really knowledgeable about the work that she does,” Powell said. “She’s been so warm and friendly, and I really think she will continue the great work that the Carlos Museum does.” To all the Emory students who have not yet visited the Carlos Museum, Hartwig said, “It’s really important to see objects up close, not on TV, but to be really in front of something is a whole different experience you walk away with. Every object tells a story and you can see we’re still very similar in life today as with life in the past.” The Carlos Museum is open Tuesdays to Fridays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. and is closed on Mondays. Entry for Emory students and faculty is free with an Emory ID.
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other shuttle routes. He noted that repurposing the Night Owl buses would make the SafeRide program considerably more efficient and possibly cut wait times in half. Zoberman mentioned that new safety walks were forthcoming in order to further inspect Emory’s security infrastructure. Finally, he said that the new update for the Emory Mobile app would provide a more accessible emergency contact call button that would allow people to receive help more easily, reducing the number of steps and screens involved in order to reach the call button. Candler School of Theology graduate student employee James Crowe (‘14C) also spoke to the SGA about today’s University Senate (US) vote
on updating the Senate’s bylaws. According to Crowe, this vote is the result of his discovery that the Senate’s lack of participation in University policy-making processes violates the University’s bylaws, which stipulate that “all changes in existing policies or the establishment of new policies relating to matters of general University interest shall be reviewed by the Senate.” Crowe argued that the University would use a vote by the Senate to change that clause of the Senate’s bylaws from “shall be reviewed” to “may be reviewed” as a recommendation to the Board of Trustees that they should update the University’s bylaws in the same way. Crowe said he feared that such a change would effectively end faculty governance at Emory.
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EPC Sees Decline, IFC Sees Uptick in Participants Continued from Page 1 He also mentioned some changes in Rush this year versus last year, one being that Spring Rush this year started in November. According to Walsh this was a new initiative introduced by IFC and is different from previous years where both parties would only get about four days to see if there was a fit for the next three and a half years. “Potential new members were guided to every house in November,” Walsh wrote. “We believed that this would be beneficial to both the new potential members and the fraternities ... Then, in the next couple weeks, each side could get to know each other more outside the context of rush rounds. This gave more time for fraternities to know the potential members, and vice versa.” Of sorority recruitment, Vice President of EPC and College senior Cori Newnam wrote in an email to the Wheel that she is, “thrilled with the Emory Panhellenic Council’s Recruitment this year.”
“We placed 374 women into our seven organizations here at Emory. I am confident that our new members will all be wonderful assets to our Panhellenic community, and I am so excited for each and every one of them,” she wrote. She also added that the process of recruitment would not have been possible without the support of members throughout the Emory community. “I am so thankful for my Recruitment team, volunteers from the Division of Campus Life, Annie Herold, Ambra Yarbrough and my Panhellenic advisor, Arthur Doctor,” Newnam wrote. In the future, Doctor wrote that he would be working with new EPC Vice President of Recruitment, College junior Adrian Rabin, and Vice President of Recruitment Counselors, College junior Callie Jahn, to rewrite the curriculum for Pi Chis. “As with any process, we will work with council and chapter leaders to discuss any potential changes for the future,” he wrote. Calling the Pi Chi program an
integral part of the recruitment experience, incoming EPC President and College junior Olivia Czufin wrote in an email to the Wheel that EPC is taking serious steps to formalize and improve the program. Pi Chis are sorority women who disaffiliate from their chapters during Recruitment and the semester before in order to mentor potential new members. As an example, she wrote that this year EPC partnered with counselors from the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) in order to better equip the Pi Chis in addressing various situations that could arise with the potential new members and that EPC sent several Pi Chis out to Oxford College in order to hold information sessions, meet the women and help facilitate relationships between the two campuses. “The program is continuously evolving and improving, and will continue to do so next year,” Czufin wrote.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 Editorials Editor: Rhett Henry
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Sorority Recruitment Disempowers Women For most of this weekend, Emory women stood in straight lines in business casual attire and cocktail dresses, had their cell phones taken away, were told they were not allowed to speak to one another and eventually chose one of the seven Emory Panhellenic Council (EPC) sororities to join during Sorority Recruitment, which started Friday, Jan. 16 and ended this past Sunday. This year’s recruitment brought high levels of participation, with 501 women undergoing recruitment and 374 women placed into sororities. However, we at the Wheel take issue with some of the steps and processes that occur before women are placed into sororities, specifically with the classist, homogenizing and generally exclusive implications of many of the practices. At each sorority house, potential new members (PNMs) talk to sorority women for a few minutes at a time. Based on these impressions, each sorority has a different, specific internal process to decide which women they want to invite back the following day, while the PNMs choose which chapters they would like to revisit. Despite the fact that there is no guarantee that a woman will be placed in a sorority, every girl must pay a registration fee to participate in recruitment (this year, the fee was either $65 or $80 depending on whether a PNM registered before a certain date). Before entering the houses, the women are yelled at, herded into single-file lines and told they may not wear watches. In the houses, both PNMs and sorority women must limit their conversation topics to exclude the “5 Bs:” booze, boys, Barack (politics), Bible (religion) and bank accounts (money). Conversely, IFC rush involves more time, freedom and agency, with potential members able to speak with fraternity members with less rigidity. EPC sorority PNMs are judged, for the most part, on a five minute conversation. Some sorority women may already know or have heard of a PNM and have already determined whether they want them to be in their sorority; the conversation serves simply to confirm this prior notion. Each day of recruitment has different wardrobe guidelines: the recruitment t-shirt for the first day, casual attire for the second, business casual for the third and formal or cocktail attire for the fourth. While the women are not pressured to dress to a particular style, heavy emphasis is placed on dressing to impress. During the week between the two weekends of recruitment, “strict silence” is enforced, meaning no sorority women are allowed to speak with PNMs. It is a widely accepted fact that many PNMs will be upset, feel rejected and even cry throughout the recruitment process. While EPC sorority life certainly has redeeming factors, and while these independent organizations have the right to have their own rules, we at the Wheel are taking up this issue due to the large presence that sororities have on our campus, with over 30 percent of undergraduate women in a sorority and even more participating in recruitment. For the practices listed above, sorority recruitment is objectifying, superficial, discriminatory and in need of vast reformation. The women involved in this process are forbidden from talking about some of the topics that can significantly shape a person’s identity, including politics, religion and sexuality. PNMs can receive invitations based on arbitrary and superficial conversations. At worst, PNMs are cut based on a variety of ambiguous and unexplained factors. This propagates stereotypical gender roles, where women are shut out from weightier conversations about politics or religion — which has many historical antecedents. The EPC process may encourage women to be unopinionated, which contributes to a conscious sublimation of individuality. Women should not be restricted from expression — especially when trying to join a sisterhood of other women. Recruitment de-emphasizes complex conversation and over-emphasizes appearance. As a large aspect and attraction for EPC sorority life may be fraternity interactions through date parties and mixers, the flaws in the EPC recruitment process play into patriarchal notions of competition among women for male attention. Additionally, the process discriminates on the basis of class. The strict apparel guidelines engenders pressures on PNMs to buy new outfits and wear clothes that will indicate a level of status, which contributes to producing a self-selecting population of students who decide to undergo recruitment in the first place. Even more significantly, joining a sorority is a considerable financial commitment. While women can get the registration fee required to go through recruitment waived, they still have to pay between $400 to $800 in dues. The exact price, however, is not disclosed to PNMs until after they join a sorority. While there are some scholarships to help women pay dues once a PNM has joined a sorority, women cannot count on receiving one, which means sorority women must be prepared to pay the full costs of dues. Many Emory students pay for their tuition in Pell grants or other financial aid and may not have the means to pay for this investment, which is considerable. Consequently and due to the size of the population that participates in Emory Greek Life, the sorority (and fraternity) recruitment process can serve as a de facto economic stratification mechanism. The process also erases the identities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals (or individuals who do not identify within the gender or sexuality binaries). EPC sororities use “boys” as one of the forbidden topics of conversations, assuming every PNM is heterosexual, and there’s little discussion of whether transgender women can participate in recruitment. As a University that routinely nationally rated as an LGBT-friendly campus, we find this process, which engages so much of campus, to be against Emory’s ethical values. Additionally, it is difficult to believe that very many other factors are considered during the recruitment process other than appearance, pre-conceived notions and snap-judgments on a PNM’s personality, which may foster an environment for prejudices to emerge against those who do not meet conventional standards of beauty. We recommend several reforms. First, EPC sororities should assess their racial and ethnic diversity and determine whether their diversity matches that of Emory. It is possible that flaws in the EPC sorority recruitment process may contribute to less success for people of color being accepted into the sorority. Furthermore, EPC should take away the clothing guidelines to de-emphasize appearance and wealth in the recruitment process, and to be more accessible to people from different socioeconomic backgrounds, EPC sororities should diligently pursue significantly reduced or zero-cost recruitment registration, as well as increasing other scholarships, aid or reduced costs for dues. Sorority recruitment in its current form does not reflect the University’s commitment to ethical engagement. The objective of recruitment and sorority life is to foster healthy female relationships and empower women to support each other, but we find the EPC recruitment process to be exclusive at best and oppressive at worst. In order to get into organizations that intend to empower women, women must first disempower each other through EPC recruitment. The above staff editorial represents the majority opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board. No member who reported on 2015 recruitment and rush voted.
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State of the Union and Presidential Power
This editorial by Munjal Shroff originally ran in the February 10, 1995 issue of The Emory Wheel. Shroff voices criticism against the structure of the State of the Union address and the powerless position of the American presidency. Recently, the enlightened minds and visionary eyes of America tuned in to hear our leader give us the “state of the union.” When citizens hear those magic words, “the President of the United States,” their insides swell with reverence and awe for the man at the helm. Clinton went on about the greatness of this country and the need for more effective, responsive government; how his commitment to the people of America had not ebbed, despite tough, frustrating political battles. A great performance, Bill, but the pomp and panache of the highest elected office in the land cannot hide the inherent, planned weakness of the presidency. Not that folks should not revere our President, the office and its symbols. It is in our best national interest to make sure the masses do so. But, the office was designed by highly-trained, highly-enlightened individuals who made sure the President would not be as powerful as they were. Those amazingly powerful individuals made sure the President could not do much, especially try to take their money or property. American government was designed to keep the elite happy and satisfied, while passing on the rights and privileges of democracy to other groups in society, very slowly and deliberately. Elitism was ingeniously built into the system. The President, in the early days, was
very much influenced and controlled by this elite. The American political body and culture has changed since then, but basic throwbacks to the early days of American republicanism remain intact. Ask yourselves, Republicans, Democrats, socialists, Perot supporters — what did George Herbert Walker get done in office? The Gulf War and a summit or two. It was a beautiful performance, but the masses noticed some strain on their pocketbooks and threw him out, even though he didn’t deserve it. What is Clinton going to get done in office? Even less if things don’t change soon.
How does the President really know what the State of the Union is? The fact is, the President is on a leash that has been periodically loosened and tightened by many over the centuries. Sure, he still gives the citizens the State of the Union, but in a perfect society, the State of the Union would be divided into three 20-minute sessions. Twenty for Alan Greenspan, 20 for a representative of the Business Roundtable (among the most powerful and prestigious groups in this country) and 20 for some military guy. How does the President really know what the State of the Union is? The guy is too damn busy making speeches to make any concrete, firm decisions on his own. He is told by advi-
sors and the influential elite what the State of the Union is. Look at the news. Members of the Business Roundtable feel their investments may be threatened south of the border; millions are on the line. Boom, consider it done. Screw Congress, screw Europe and the West, and just make sure the elite can still use $100 bills as toilet paper and shell out a cool $20 billion to straighten things out. Why not bail out Ukraine while we’re at it? The stakes aren’t big enough just yet. The same thing happened during the Gulf War. Big money on the line, consider it done, in 48 damn hours. Amazing, what a country. It doesn’t matter whether it is Bush, Clinton or Shroff in office; the reactions to these events would have been the same. Southside Chicago children are killing each other everyday; the same goes on 20 minutes from here. People on welfare are so screwed, nobody knows what to do. Never mind the people without day care. If you want to help the people who really need help, don’t run for office, run to the nearest volunteer organization. The President’s No. 1 priority is to keep the elitist of the elite happy. And the truth is, the satisfaction of that goal is what gives us the highest living standard in the world. Satisfying those interests while keeping most of the rest of the population secured, satisfied and at bay is what democracy and modern government has become. Pax Democratica, and goodwill to all men, right? Yeah, sure, but keep the Swiss bank accounts rolling.
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EDMUND XU
MARTA Deserves Support, Praise for Enduring Metro Atlanta is choking under the weight of its own success. Traffic here is frequently compared to the legendary gridlock in the significantly larger Los Angeles, but we can only expand interstate lanes so much until we run out of physical space. There is also a limit to how much longer we can afford to spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Developing a successful and vibrant public transit infrastructure would therefore be a significant step in solving these critical problems. Unfortunately, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) sometimes has a well-deserved reputation for being unreliable, dirty and impractical as a transportation method. When metro Atlantans need to get from point A to point B, many eschew the public transit system because it lacks an adequate reach. Presently, its buses only operate within the Fulton and DeKalb counties, and its train lines consist of a measly cross-shaped route that primarily serves downtown and the airport and barely anything else. The system’s lack of rail service on the Clifton Corridor (of which Emory is a part of) is a particularly major oversight because it is one of the largest employment centers in the state. On any given day, the corridor handles 30,000 employees, 15,000 students and thousands of hospital patients. Even more importantly, MARTA has been the victim of nasty racial politics throughout its history. The belief that buses and trains carry crime into the neighborhoods is entirely unsubstantiated and a half-baked excuse that attempts to cover up a fear of the socioeconomic and racial demographics that ride public transit. Nevertheless, this argument has been surprisingly effective in preventing MARTA’s expansion into the suburbs and hindering its operations within its existing district. The decisions made early on during MARTA’s formative years to not establish it as a comprehensive transit system is the reason why MARTA’s footprint today is so pitifully small. It is not surprising, then, that by failing to provide comprehensive service, MARTA was the only major transit system in the entire country that lost ridership in 2013. In addition, MARTA is the butt of jokes
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within the Georgia House of Representatives. Georgia legislators — especially rural ones who have no bearing on city transportation — love criticizing and micromanaging the agency, including handcuffing it with oppressive regulations. Some of the proposed restrictions included radical reshuffling of board appointments and the privatization of certain functions, controversies that continue to saddle the agency’s efforts to claw its way back into the black. Even worse, MARTA is the only major public transit system in the country that receives no funding from its home state. Other agencies may receive up to a quarter of their operating budget from their state government. But Georgia doesn’t give MARTA a single penny. In 2012, it was predicted that the agency would be financially insolvent within four to five years. When I first arrived in Atlanta as a first-
year student, MARTA was in midst of a dramatic downward spiral. Routes had been slashed, trains were removed from service and wait times skyrocketed along with fare increases. Ridership predictably plummeted. A transfer in the downtown Five Points station one weekend took 20 minutes as I waited for the train to show up. “Never again will I ride MARTA,” I remember thinking. Faced with these mounting problems, MARTA’s remarkable turnaround last year has been nothing short of miraculous. The agency has restored the routes it cut during the Great Recession and managed to scrape together funding for sleek new buses, and maximum wait-times in some downtown train stations actually decreased to five minutes. Last week, my wait-time in the downtown Five Points station was the time it took me to walk from one train platform
to the one I was transferring to, a dramatic improvement. Today, the agency has gone within a few short years from being on the verge of bankruptcy to operating in the black. MARTA’s new CEO has worked to great lengths to establish positive working relationships with former critics in the state legislature, leading to the suspension of many spending restrictions the legislature placed on the agency, such as a policy that had limited MARTA’s budget to exactly half on maintenance and half on operations. Additionally, the agency has looked into developing parcels of unused parking lots in order to generate additional revenue. Last July, voters in Clayton County voted by an overwhelming 74 percent margin to join MARTA. Service is expected to begin there this March, the agency’s first expansion since
its inception 40 years ago. Proposed expansions will increase MARTA’s rail footprint into northern Fulton County and, finally, through the Clifton Corridor. MARTA’s resurgence couldn’t have happened at a more critical time. Our roads and highways are at capacity and expanding them is a not smart transportation policy. But despite its recent successes, MARTA still has a reputation problem within the state government because Atlanta and Georgia are still stuck in a destructive car-dependent mentality. This year, the Republican-run state legislature is actually considering raising taxes to pay for an overhaul of the state’s transportation system. Governor Nathan Deal has called it “the largest interstate expansion since the 1980s.” Unfortunately, not a single cent of the expected additional $1 billion revenue will go to MARTA. Metro Atlanta cannot afford to make the same mistakes it did 40 years ago when MARTA was first established. This aversion to transit in favor of asphalt and fossil fuels is “future-proofing” our city. Young millennials, who increasingly prefer a transit-oriented and walkable lifestyle, would be much less enamored with Atlanta if it continues to disregard MARTA. When people cannot get to work in a timely manner as is happening on our interstates right now, then the region will simply stop growing. This isn’t acceptable. Most people who have ever ridden MARTA have experienced inconveniences while riding on or waiting for it. There are certainly legitimate concerns over how MARTA is operated, and a severe deficiency in infrastructure cannot be improved overnight. Still, it remains an important backbone of the region’s transportation infrastructure. So ride MARTA. Enjoy the comforts of reading a book or playing Candy Crush while zipping past traffic. Vote! Let the local politicians hear the millennials support for transit. Atlanta is at a crucial crossroads. Unless it begins to receive the kind of political and economic support that its sibling agencies in other cities enjoy, MARTA will never reach its full potential, and we’ll all be stuck in traffic because of it. Edmund Xu is a College senior from Los Altos, California.
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Students Need Passion Projects It’s our first full week of the semester. That means it’s time to start buckling down on homework and begin catching up on what we’ve already missed. I’m already beginning to hear apocryphal references to midterms and spring break. It’s outrageous how quickly the pace picks up! On top of school, we variably have student organizations, jobs and social lives to attend to. And, of course, the basic necessities of eating, sleeping, running errands and so on. With so much going on, free time can be at a premium. I know that, when I do find myself fortunate enough to have a few hours totally to myself, I often end up spending it frivolously. This isn’t so bad— but I’m sometime left with a bad taste in my mouth. What could I have done otherwise? Why did I do what I just did? And did I even enjoy the last four hours of my time? Unfortunately, the exhausting schedule of the average Emory student can make leisure less about personal pleasures and more about desperately catching our wind. Who doesn’t need to decompress? But we should take advantage of the resources available to us to engage in willful play. When I speak here of play, I mean those projects we make for ourselves for our own betterment. This isn’t a moral situation: I mean only the self-education of learning about something totally unknown simply because it is there and it interests us. It may be something that resembles class work: going to the library, digging through the stacks, following strings of footnotes. It may take the form of making art, or purposefully watching a director’s oeuvre. For many, what distinguishes our precollege years is the luxury of free time in seemingly limitless amounts. Even the hardworking, super-involved high school student has time to commit to projects of independent learning and creation. The classic refrain is, “I haven’t been able to really read for pleasure since high school.” Indeed, I cannot count how many times I’ve heard friends and strangers lament the absence of just a little leisure reading. It’s such a well-worn irony, but college often gets in the way of our independent education. Besides jobs and internships, most students keep their focus to the events of their life as a “college student.” The best-case scenario is that a student can take classes that stimulate them and appeal to their interests. In the absence of that, student organizations provide a way to pursue meaningful work. But play is defined by its unstructured- free-wheeling character.
The problem, I think, is that play can seem like an either/or proposition. Either I do my work, or I go see that new movie I really want to see. Either I see my buddies, or I start a journal. The examples can play out in infinitely many ways, but the fact remains that college students can be stuck in a cycle of ignoring personal endeavors for any number of obligations, and when free time does appear, engaging in strictly passive activities. Consider orientation period. Orientation’s major themes, besides the more serious issues of social consciousness and ethics, are about weaving oneself into campus life: picking classes, joining organizations and making friends. It’s natural for any given freshman to be concerned about situating themselves amongst their peers and getting into an academic groove. But, looking back now on my college years, I realize that what was missing was an “and more...” By that I mean that I was taught how to enter into the institutional elements of college, but the freedom to engage in play wasn’t something emphasized to me. Only last year did I begin to enthusiastically follow my whims. I changed my framework for free time, from one of ‘zoning out’ to one devoted to the purposeful use of my time. There is an urgency to these considerations. One needn’t search hard to find a student with a lot going on. But college is a terminal point for leisure. Most of us will never have this much time to kill! Emory itself is rich with resources to pursue projects of one’s own design. This isn’t about being less practical in our life per se, but rather is a call to expand the boundaries of what we find useful. Play helps us learn about ourselves— our interests, our talents. And play teaches us about the world; indeed, by putting aside our agendas and longterm plans, play gives us the space to interface with the whole of the world in creative, joyous new ways. I’m not against the Netflix binge. But we should take time to pursue meaningful projects that have no reference to our assignments and social lives. The virtue of the independent project is that we cultivate play and set goals for ourselves. Whether it be reading a strange book or mindfully sauntering through Lullwater Park, we must all recognize that play can be threaded through our lives, in ways great and small. Our time matters, and we must act as such. In so doing, we suffuse our life with the fragrance of curiosity and self-led discovery. Editorials Editor Rhett Henry is a College senior from Lawrenceville, Georgia.
It’s such a well-worn irony, but college often gets in the way of our independent education.
Uncensored Hate Speech Self-Defeating Connor Crum There is a movement taking place within the liberal camp (I say as an insider and cardcarrying Democrat) where in our attempts to be inclusive and open-minded we have become our own sort of bigots. “It’s now very common to hear people say, ‘I’m rather offended by that,’” humorist and activist Stephen Fry said in 2005 during a debate on the legality of blasphemy. “As if that gives them certain rights. It’s actually nothing more ... than a whine. ‘I find that offensive.’ It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I am offended by that.’ Well, so fucking what?” In our belief that all ideas and expressions are valid, we have waged a crusade against that which offends in the name of protecting minority groups and the underrepresented. ‘Intolerance cannot be tolerated’ has become our rallying-call and in our fervor, we have forgotten our own message. We have forgotten that freedom applies to people you dislike and that equality applies to those you hate. In other words, we have become the oppressive force we have fought so long against. We have become the evil we despise most. In essence, we ourselves have become intolerant. This is not to say that there is no merit whatsoever in attempting to protect minority groups. It is what sets us apart from a state such as modern Iraq. It is why we are called a ‘liberal democracy’ instead of a dictatorship of the masses. However, this protection can — and does — go too far at times, and that is what I am addressing here. It is easy to make the slip from defending those who need it, to the type of patronizing I will not get into currently. “We have to stop this recent culture of people telling us they’re offended and expecting us to give a fuck,” entertainer Ricky Gervais tweeted in 2012. The answer to offensive speech is not to censor, to silence or to drown out. The way to combat those who offend is to outshine, to combat them head on, on their own ground and beat them. We must counter
hatred with love and understanding; anything else would be hypocritical. The case of Westboro Baptist Church comes to mind. One is hard-pressed to think of a viler series of beliefs than those held by Phelps family. They protest at funerals, laugh and sing in the faces of the grieving and, worst of all, raise children to hate the world they live in. Their religious fervor is so strong that anything which contradicts their literalist interpretation of the Bible is damning. They view our pluralist society as hand-in-hand with the Devil Himself, and, therefore, our shared tragedies as judgments against us by God Himself. Soldiers, atheists, even the children of Sandy Hook Elementary School — it seems as though no one is safe from their vitriol. They are allowed to speak, however, and this is precisely why they have no power. They were given as much rope as they wanted, and have hanged themselves with it. By allowing them to speak their minds we not only negated their message, but created one of our own. The Phelpses, among others, helped to catalyze the nation and have brought us together. Because we countered their speech with more speech, and beat them at their own game, we are stronger. Safe havens were constructed, charities were founded and countless people’s minds were changed because of this dialogue. Because we as a society stuck to our values and tolerated the most repulsive assaults we could imagine, we are better off. As the great scholar Charles Kingsley once said: “light must beget light, good beget good, love beget love; and therefore we ought to expect that as true and sound knowledge increases, our views of God will be more full of light.” A powerful case study would be to compare contemporary Europe and America in our dealings with the rhetoric of the Golden Dawn party and other racist organizations, respectively. Following WWII, the continents adopted different philosophies in how to deal with the Nazi party. America defended its right to free expression, while most of Europe cracked down on Nazi imagery and writings. While there are a myriad of different factors
to consider, it should be noted that America has very little, if any, to fear of neo-Nazis or other popular racist movements while the Golden Dawn party has made significant gains in the Greek and European Union (EU) legislatures. It is no surprise that the Internet has been one of the great liberalizing forces in the world, like the printing press before it. The free exchange of ideas will always produce societal improvements. It is by comparing ideas with those whose reality differs from one’s own that progress is made. And by stifling that exchange (in our case for the sake of politeness), progress it is destroyed. ‘If these shadows have offended,’ please, speak up. Challenge me. Challenge what offends you, what provokes you, what makes you think, but most of all, challenge yourself. And when you finish challenging, listen to the responses. I guarantee that you will learn something. That is the true purpose of education. Your offense is a reaction to the strange and uncomfortable, a twinge of pain as your mind fights against its expansion and strives to preserve the status quo. We live in an imperfect world. There are and will always be things which will cause discomfort. Rather than curse the darkness, let us light a candle. Let us stop being captives to our own thin skins and moral superiority. It is time to stop burning books, to abandon authoritarian legislation and to make due on our promises of open-mindedness and inclusivity and allow for a real diversity of opinion. I leave you with the words of one of our Emory distinguished professors, Salman Rushdie, a man whose conscience has nearly cost him his life: “Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended, it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to burn the bookshop down.” Connor Crum is a College junior from Maryville, Tennessee.
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The Cab: Oscar Nominees Predictable, Lack Diversity Pop-Punk Remains Great By Julia Munslow Staff Writer
By Kelsey Klosterman Staff Writer
I’m one of those people who changes their favorite band on a whim. Perhaps one brilliant track changes my mind, or maybe I’m awestruck when I love every single song on an album. Whatever reason for the change, I can be pretty fickle about what I call my favorite. In high school, I’d never even heard of The Cab. It wasn’t until one afternoon at Emory, skipping around in the more musically-inclined areas of YouTube, that I stumbled upon a video featuring the track “Angel With A Shotgun,” and I promptly fell in love. After that, I found the entire album, Symphony Soldier, online, and I fell in love with it over and over again — with every single song.
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The Cab started out as two guys playing music together at their Nevada high school. Once they got a group together, Spencer Smith of Panic! At The Disco got them signed with Decaydance Records, and their journey began. The Cab toured with tons of well-known bands like Cobra Starship and Plain White Tees and slowly began acquiring notoriety for their unique, pumped-up sound. They released their first album, Whisper War, in 2008. The album featured 12 original tracks in their favorite style: pop-punk and alternative rock. The songs were quick, upbeat and impossible not to dance to. From the beginning, The Cab had the attention of more well-known bands such as Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy, and the lead vocalists of both bands were featured on the first track of Whisper War, titled “One of THOSE Nights.” In 2011, The Cab released Symphony Soldier, the album that caught my attention a couple of years later. The album’s first single, “Bad,” was released early: a song whose backing makes you want to sway like
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Some make brackets for basketball, others for soccer. But at the end of the film awards season, movie buffs everywhere are creating their own brackets to predict the winners of this year’s Academy Awards. The Academy announced the list of the 87th Oscar nominees on the morning of Jan. 15 and the awards ceremony will take place on Feb. 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Leading the pack are Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Birdman” and Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” both with an impressive nine nominations. Many of the nominated films are based off of true stories, such as “The Imitation Game,” the story of British codebreaker Alan Turing; “Selma,” about the 1965 civil rights marches; and “The Theory of Everything,” about physicist Stephen Hawking. Though “Selma” received rave reviews from critics, surprisingly the film received only two Oscar nominations: Best Picture and Best Original Song. David Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King, Jr. in the film, received multiple nominations for other awards for “Selma,” including nods from the Golden Globe Awards and the Critics’ Choice Awards, but was astonishingly left off of the list of Best Actor nominees. Not only was Oyelowo ignored, but so was his director, Ava DuVernay. With “Selma,” DuVernay managed to create a portrait of the civil rights movement that was both intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving. The Academy had the opportunity to make history this year by nominating DuVernay for Best Director, which would have made her the first African American woman to be nominated in that category.
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David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s historical drama “Selma.” The film received two Oscar nominations. Though DuVernay won’t go down in Oscar history this year, she still has laid claim to the title of the first African American female to be nominated for the Best Director category in the Golden Globes. “[‘Selma’] deserves more nominations,” College freshman Zoe Ravina said. “I’m especially upset that the director wasn’t nominated.” Another Best Picture nominee is “American Sniper” starring Bradley Cooper, an adaptation of the true story of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American military history. While Cooper gave a solid per-
formance, the film failed to seize the opportunity to create a dialogue about the politics of war, instead making it into a typical Hollywood fairytale, full of the kind of patriotism and pride that the Academy voters predictably acknowledged. Actor Seth Rogen (“The Interview”) compared the film to Nazi propaganda on Twitter and director Michael Moore (“Fahrenheit 9/11”) also used social media to denounce “American Sniper,” calling it out for its glorification of snipers. Moore clarified his thoughts on the movie on Facebook, praising the making of the film and Cooper’s
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performance as Chris Kyle, while also stating that he doesn’t believe that most Americans see snipers as heroes. Despite the criticism, the war drama managed to pick up six Academy Award nominations. Also included on the list of nominees is Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood,” a coming of age story filmed over the span of 12 years. It seemed inevitable that the Academy voters chose to acknowledge the film, especially considering that the cast and crew spent 12 years on its creation. The film received six nomina-
tions, including Best Picture and Best Director. One of its competitors is “The Imitation Game,” the story of Turing’s key contributions in deciphering the Enigma code of Nazi Germany that ultimately helped the Allies claim victory in World World II. The historical movie picked up eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. “Benedict Cumberbatch was excellent,” College freshman Anwesha Guha said of Cumberbatch’s performance. “I really liked the dynamic between him and Keira Knightley
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Movie review
Nine Movies to See This Year ‘American Sniper’ Kills Competition at Box Office By Megan Waples Contributing Writer
Back to school and already dreaming of summer vacation? Never fear — this author has scouted the most intriguing movies to be released throughout the spring semester to sustain you until commencement. “Jupiter Ascending” (Feb. 6) A “Star Wars”-esque film starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis, “Jupiter Ascending” boasts an intricate plot centered on alien dynasties and the inheritance of Earth. Written, produced and directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski (“The Matrix” trilogy), the sci-fi space opera is being compared to “Thor”
and “Star Trek” with its adventurous pace and classic “good versus evil” plotline. Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Douglas Booth and Tuppence Middleton also star. “The Last 5 Years” (Feb. 13) Based on the musical of the same name, “The Last 5 Years” chronicles the relationship of novelist Jamie Wellerstein (Jeremy Jordan, “Newsies”) and actress Cathy Hiatt (Anna Kendrick) primarily through music. The story is different from a typical romance due to its clever format, where Cathy’s songs begin at the couple’s divorce and work backwards through their love affair while Jamie’s
start from the couple’s introduction and moves chronologically through their marriage. “McFarland, USA” (Feb. 20) In the same vein as other Disney sports dramas such as “The Rookie” and “Remember the Titans,” “McFarland, USA” tells the underdog story of high school coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) and his efforts to form a championship cross country team in an economically-depressed community. The film navigates social issues plaguing Latinos during the 1980s, emphasizing the importance of sportsmanship and teamwork along the way.
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By Annie McNutt Staff Writer
Is there anything Clint Eastwood can’t do? The acclaimed actor, producer and director once again wows audiences with his new real life film adaptation, “American Sniper.” The film, which premiered nationwide on Jan. 16, earned a whopping $105.3 million at the box office during its first weekend. Needless to say, audiences related to and loved the story of reallife Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle,
played by Bradley Cooper (“Silver Linings Playbook”). The film follows the life of Kyle from his days as a rodeo cowboy to his Navy SEAL training to becoming the most deadly sniper in American history. Kyle has over 160 confirmed kills and dozens more unconfirmed, making him both a protective force and a threatening weapon; something to be revered and feared. The depiction of the struggles and hardships faced by many members of our country’s armed forces is both
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Cartoon Review
‘Legend of Korra’ Season 4 Finishes Well, Not Legendary By Jake Choi Staff Writer Water. Earth. Fire. Air. These were the four elements that characters of the beloved “Avatar: The Last Airbender” could bend. After the huge success of the original series, the sequel-spinoff “The Legend of Korra” debuted in 2012, furthering the “Avatar” universe. Finally, after nearly a decade, this successful Nickelodeon franchise ended on Dec. 19. The end of the fourth season of “The Legend of Korra” most likely means the story has finally ended for these characters, and I feel it ended with a reasonably successful sendoff. The fourth season of “The Legend of Korra” follows Avatar Korra three years after the end of the previous season, who is slowly (and unsuccessfully) trying to rehabilitate from the traumatic trials she faced. The majority of the episodes focused on Korra’s struggle with PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and her doubts over her place in the new world order. This is the season where we as viewers see Korra at her most vulner-
able. It’s not just her body that’s been poisoned; her usual confidence in her skills as the Avatar (the guardian of the physical and spiritual world who can bend all four elements) is shattered. Korra experiences the most development in her character as she journeys to find herself and throughout her soul-searching the viewers are able to connect with her on a very personal level, fortifying Korra as a stronger character than before. This brings me to the biggest positive in this season: Korra’s personal voyage allows us to see the changes in the characters after the three-year time skip while also bringing old fan-favorite characters together to interact. While Korra separated herself from society, we see how the characters have evolved and moved on with their lives. It’s a process that every group of friends goes through in real life, and I was glad that the show addressed it because it allowed me to identify with the characters more strongly. Main characters like Mako, Bolin and Asami all were at different places in their lives and their loyalties and
friendships were tested more than ever before. They had different agendas for their futures, and their personal thoughts and loyalties on the new Earth empire brought tension to the group. Overall, the change of pace was beneficial to the quality of the show as it brought drama and human heart. However, even though the character development of the main characters improved, the same problem that plagued “The Legend of Korra” since its inception still dragged this season’s quality down. The problem is that the main characters, though they faced great change, just weren’t interesting at their core. Whenever these four characters, Korra, Mako, Bolin and Asami, were in the same scene together, I couldn’t help but notice that all they did was merely serve their role in a prototypical group dynamic, resulting in them just “being there.” Mako was the silent, brooding downer; Bolin was the silly, exasperating optimist; Asami was the cool gal-pal — these are just character archetypes that we see in almost every show.
Even their bending wasn’t impressive enough to cover up these character weaknesses; many action scenes were well choreographed, but I often found myself wanting more from the main characters. Although the main characters were still mildly uninteresting, “The Legend of Korra” remained strong in the department of secondary characters. Characters like Varrick and Zhu Li were delightful with a quirky mania that kept the series lighthearted and fun. In fact, I cared about this couple’s relationship more than most relationships in the series because even though Varrick was a wacky scientist who initially took Zhu Li for granted, he grew to care for her as more than an assistant. It was a strange relationship that evolved throughout the season. Another interesting addition to the cast was the return of Toph BeiFong, a member of the original cast in “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” I enjoyed her direct, no-nonsense attitude that she retained from her prior appearances. Her Yoda-like role when she
trained Korra in the swamp was integral to the plot and the recovery of Korra’s mental health. Finally, the main antagonist Kuvira was another superb element in this season. Kuvira was an extremely potent bender and was very capable in political manipulation. Her physical prowess and mental precision challenged Korra and raised the stakes higher than before, especially in Korra’s state of self-doubt. I especially appreciated the parallels that the show offered between these characters; both characters had quite a bit in common and, instead of giving us a black-and-white approach, it showed a gray area when it came to the motives of Kuvira’s admirable, albeit radical, desire to reunite the Earth Kingdom. Finally, it’s not possible to explain the impact that “The Legend of Korra” had on me without giving my thoughts on the controversial, final scene of the show (spoiler alert). The final scene featured Korra and Asami going to another world together and the final cut shows them holding hands, looking into one other’s eyes romantically.
It was later confirmed by the creators that Korra and Asami had romantic feelings for each other. As for my thoughts, I didn’t particularly care that these characters were in love; I just felt that the show was very hastily forcing this relationship in order to be purposefully subversive to our expectations of their previous romances. Nothing really hinted at this relationship in the past, and it felt out of place. However, it didn’t really matter to me because “The Legend of Korra” had always been absolutely horrid with romance elements in the show. In the end, the fourth season of “The Legend of Korra” was a decent season with many fine moments of animation and improved character development, but it didn’t resolve its weaknesses from before. However, it ended the season with an explosive grand finale. Although there were highs and lows in the emotional, human moments, it was a pretty enjoyable sequel to “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” I definitely do not regret watching this show, and it’s well-worth a watch. — Contact Jake Choi at hahn.choi@emory.edu
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it’s the 50s. The famed “Angel With A Shotgun” takes a fantasy approach to that protective sort of love in which you’ll do anything to keep your significant other safe. It’s dramatic and heroic and filled with power and tales of sacrifice.
Are The Lies,” utilizes a more electronica approach, backed with pianos and violins as the lyrics tell the story of a man lying to himself to convince himself that he’s alright after a breakup. The Cab’s music covers numerous genres that gives them a very unique sound that is constantly evolving.
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Last year, the band released their latest EP, Lock Me Up, which featured five new tracks inspired by the R&B-influenced sound the band was looking for. “Numbers” uses this R&B style as it lists off mournful love lyrics, and “Stand Up” takes a similar but faster approach, whistling and clapping in the background as lead singer Alexander DeLeon sings with an unusually quick, rhythmic style. This EP involves all kinds of experimentation on the band’s part. The title track, “Lock Me Up,” uses many of the same features as the tracks in Symphony Soldier: a thumping, marching sort of atmosphere that reminds you of an approaching army. “Moon” takes its listeners on a journey using an electro-pop backing that screams of outer space. The final track on the EP, “These
Fans often come and go as a band changes up their style, but The Cab’s tendency to stay true to their core alternative, pop-rock style, even as their influences change, has given their music a unity that ropes in fans of all styles. I’ve only known about The Cab for a couple of years but they’ve remained my favorite since I discovered them. And for someone who constantly fluctuates between favorites, there’s still something about this band that has kept me listening for years. The Cab is a band worth listening to — with so many influences inspiring them every step of the way, there’s something for everyone in their music. — Contact Kelsey Klosterman at kkloste@emory.edu
1. “The 100” (The CW) Shows on The CW are often set aside for their perceived lack of talent. However, with the recent successes of shows like “Arrow,” “The Flash” and a Golden Globe win for Gina Rodriguez for “Jane the Virgin,” The CW is poised to become the next big thing in television. But between the leather-clad vigilantes and quirky dramas, there is “The 100.” Based on Kass Morgan’s book series of the same name, “The 100” is a gritty, post-apocalyptic drama that begins 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed the earth. Falling oxygen levels in the space station orbiting the earth, The Ark, force its leaders to send 100 teenagers down to earth to see if it is habitable again. When the 100 arrive, they quickly realize that not only is the earth habitable, but they are not alone. “The 100” is unlike any show on The CW. It’s brutal in its quest to depict reality, not shying away from death, disease, war or conflict. The characters are achingly human, capable of great compassion and great cruelty. Eliza Taylor especially shines as the show’s leading female, Clarke Griffin, and has an equally strong cast to back her up. “The 100” airs Wednesdays 9/8c on The CW. 2. “Orphan Black” (BBC) After witnessing the suicide of police detective Beth Childs, who appears to be her doppelgänger, con artist Sarah Manning assumes her identity. But it’s not long before Sarah realizes that her incident with Beth was not a coincidence and that, in reality, she has several “sister” clones throughout the world. Teaming up with her foster brother Felix and two of her clones, Alison and Cosima, Sarah sets out to uncover the deadly conspiracy that hangs over her head and that of her clones. “Orphan Black” is at times dark, following a group of women who discover that their bodies and lives
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Ron Howard’s “In the Heart of the Sea” tells the tale of the whaleship Essex, the historical basis for Herman Melville’s American classic Moby-Dick. Continued from Page 9 “Cinderella” (March 13) A live action take on the 1950 Disney film, “Cinderella” chronicles the classic fairytale of a servantstepdaughter winning the heart of a prince with a few twists. The remake boasts an all-star cast with Lily James (“Downton Abbey”) as Cinderella, Richard Madden (“Game of Thrones”) as the Prince, Helena Bonham Carter as the Fairy Godmother and Cate Blanchett as the Wicked Stepmother. After box-office successes with “Alice in Wonderland” and “Maleficent,” “Cinderella” promises to join the ranks of popular live action Disney remakes. Keep an eye out for “The Jungle Book,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Cruella” over the next couple of years. “The Divergent Series: Insurgent” (March 20) Whether or not you read the trilogy, the sequel to the lucrative box office debut of “Divergent” promises to be worth a trip to the theaters. Joining the first film’s cast led by Shailene Woodley and Theo James are a handful of notable Hollywood names, including Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts and Suki Waterhouse. The movie was filmed almost exclusively in Atlanta, so you have extra
initiative to see it. “While We’re Young” (March 27) Screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, “While We’re Young” stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as Josh and Cornelia, a childless New York couple who befriend the energetic and youthful duo of Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried). Directed by Noah Baumbach, the comedy explores the significance of age in regards to friendship and promises to be heartwarming and insightful. “The Age of Adaline” (April 24) “Gossip Girl” fans rejoice: Blake Lively stars as Adaline, a woman blessed (or cursed) with eternal youth after being in a car accident. With a plotline that Nicholas Sparks would be proud of, “The Age of Adaline” is reminiscent of “Tuck Everlasting” and looks to be a good date-night distraction amidst the onset of finals. Michiel Huisman (“Game of Thrones”) and Harrison Ford also star. “Avengers: The Age of Ultron” (May 1) Need we elaborate? (We still will.) Avengers shattered over a dozen box office records, including biggest domestic opening weekend of
all time, and it’s likely “Ultron” will surpass the first. The 11th installment in the Marvel franchise, “Ultron” boasts an impressive ensemble — Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Stellan Skarsgard, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson — and an intriguing storyline centered on Ultron, a self-aware artificial intelligence program that sets out to eradicate humans from Earth. Newcomers include Pietro and Wanda Maximoff (Aaron TaylorJohnson, Elizabeth Olsen) and the Vision (Paul Bettany). “In the Heart of the Sea” (December 11) Recounting the true story of the American whaleship Essex’s crash with a sperm whale in the fall of 1820 (the basis for Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick), “In the Heart of the Sea” stars Chris Hemsworth as First Mate Owen Chase. Directed by Ron Howard (“The Da Vinci Code,” “Rush”), the biographical thriller also stars Benjamin Walker, Tom Holland and Cillian Murphy. Expect the same high-paced action featured in Howard’s other films — except with a whale. — Contact Megan Waples at megan.v.waples@emory.edu
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Jonny Lee Miller (left) as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu (right) as Dr. Watson in CBS’ crime drama “Elementary.” are not their own, and uses cloning to facilitate discussions of autonomy, eugenics and identity. But it is balanced with the characters’ determination to not let tragedy define their lives. They jokingly refer to themselves as “The Clone Club” and often impersonate one another to fool family members or evade enemies. The star of the show is Tatiana Maslany, imbuing a unique personality into each of the 12 clones she plays. Jordan Gavaris’ portrayal of Felix has also become a fan favorite. “Orphan Black” returns to BBC America on April 15, 2015. 3. ”Elementary” (CBS) The announcement that CBS was going to make its own foray into the world of Sherlock Holmes with “Elementary” was originally meet with a heavy dose of skepticism as most people had already fallen in love with the BBC adaptation starring Benedict Cumberbatch. But the show has, in many ways, surpassed its British counterpart thanks to its refreshing take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic story. “Elementary” takes the source material and dares to make it better by not
only focusing on Sherlock’s extraordinary sleuthing skills, but also on the world around him. “Elementary” takes advantage of the multitude of supporting characters in Doyle’s world (while also bringing in new ones) by presenting them as fully developed characters that have their own complications and lives outside of just being there for Sherlock to insult. Lucy Liu is exceptional as the surgeon-turned-sober-companion in her role as Dr. Watson, but the true star of the show is Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock. He is a recovering drug addict who, while arrogant and aloof, lives in a world that holds him accountable for both his character and his actions. Zack Handlen of the A.V. Club beautifully said, “On ‘Sherlock,’ Holmes is constantly bemoaning that he’s surrounded by idiots ... On ‘Elementary,’ Holmes is engaged in the slow, painful process of accepting that those ‘idiots’ might have something to teach him.” “Elementary” airs Thursdays 10/9c on CBS. 4. “The Musketeers” (BBC) In the 170 years since its publi-
cation, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas has inspired hundreds of spinoffs in television and film. But this BBC adaptation takes viewers back to the beginning where the Musketeers were just four men serving King and Country. The show takes full advantage of the sprawling expanse of Dumas’ world, succesfully melding a period piece with impressively staged fight scenes and a touch of over-the-top dramatics that is bound to make everyone laugh. “The Musketeers” also uses its viewers’ familiarity with the material, skipping the awkward introductions and jumping right to the tragic circumstances that draw the hotheaded D’Artagnan away from his home to Paris to become part of the most legendary quartets in literary history. The show stars Tom Burke, Howard Charles, Santiago Cabrera and Luke Pasqualino as the titular characters Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D’Artagnan, respectively. “The Musketeers” airs Saturdays 9/8c on BBC America. — Contact Rashika Verma at rashika.verma@emory.edu
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and the way [that] they made both of the characters so smart and witty.” Knightley also picked up a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Turing’s fellow codebreaker and fiancée, Joan Clarke. Two of Cumberbatch’s most threatening competitors in the Best Actor category include Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) and Steve Carell (“Foxcatcher”). Redmayne, Carell and Cumberbatch were all also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama), though Redmayne emerged victorious for his depiction of the acclaimed physicist, Stephen Hawking. The Academy voters recognized both Redmayne and Cumberbatch for their portrayals of brilliant British scientists, Hawking and Turing, respectively. While Cumberbatch’s portrayal of Turing’s social awkwardness and vulnerability in the persecution of his homosexuality is certainly remarkable, Redmayne’s performance as Hawking as he struggles with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is exceptional, demonstrating the physicality of Hawking’s battle as well as his emotional frustrations with himself due to the motor neuron disease. Redmayne will fight his fellow former Golden Globe winner for Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) Michael Keaton for “Birdman.” Though many talented individuals are being rightfully recognized, the lack of diversity among the nominees is frustrating, especially considering the potential of movies such as “Selma.” Not only are all 20 acting nominees are white but the majority of categories lack diversity. The Oscars will remain the most prestigious film awards for many years, and though the Academy voters may need to be more cognizant of their nominee choices in the future, this year’s nominees are, for the most part, deserving, though predictable, films. — Contact Julia Munslow at julia.munslow@emory.edu
haunting and eye-opening. The trauma of taking a life doesn’t disappear when a soldier returns stateside, the stress stays with them and, in many cases, inhibits their ability to live a normal, carefree life. In addition to the strong backstory, Cooper, who gained 40 pounds of muscle to play the role, is at his best. A far cry from Cooper’s role as Phil in “The Hangover” trilogy, his role as Kyle was unexpected. Nonetheless, Cooper is perfect for the role convincing viewers, with stuttered lines and slight body movements, that though he is a strong military man he is vulnerable and broken in ways others cannot even begin to understand. Cooper’s performance was flawless. He was the perfect amount of loyal, unsettled and confused that one would imagine a sniper to be. For example, at one point Kyle admits to a therapist that he “will meet [his] creator and answer for every shot that [he] took.” This loyalty, strength and determination are just only small facets of a complicated character. Though Kyle is sure of his role as protector of his fellow servicemen, he struggles with being away from his family and making difficult decisions. For instance, there is one particular scene near the beginning of the film where a small child is handed a grenade by his mother. Kyle must decide whether to let the child run with the grenade towards a group of American soldiers or whether to take the young life before it can do damage to the men whose lives Kyle is protecting. He even says that “what haunts him, is all the guys he couldn’t save.” Loyal to a fault, some would say; but everyone has faults. Cooper truly deserves an Oscar for his portrayal in this film. Another notable performance is that of Sienna Miller (“Foxcatcher”), who played Kyle’s wife Taya. She played a character everyone felt for and yet couldn’t understand. Though it was easy to understand
Taya’s desire for Kyle to stay home and raise their family, it was infinitely easier to understand and accept Kyle’s desire to fight for and protect his country. And yet, Miller’s role was complicated because while everyone can sympathize with a wife raising her children alone while her husband is fighting overseas, her wanting him to stay home seems selfish. Regardless, Miller does a phenomenal job truly making audiences feel her pain. Every second of the over-two hour movie was an entertaining and thrilling roller coaster of emotions. The film is educational and relatable. Though “American Sniper” was recently bashed for only showing select parts of Kyle’s life and struggles, there is no denying that Kyle is a hero. America came to love him, something that is impossible not to do once you hear his story. Equal parts tragic and touching, viewers will leave the theater inspired, grateful and proud to be an American. The film provides those of us at home with a new perspective allowing us to take action and do things we may not have done before. For example, when I saw a soldier at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, I extended my hand and said, “thank you for your service.” We have no idea what they go through over there to keep us safe here at home. This film gives us only a small appreciation for those men and women who risk their lives every day for our safety. All things considered, though the film is, at times, tough to watch, everyone should see this movie. The more people this film reaches and touches, the more our servicemen and women are thanked for their efforts and the more appreciation United States citizens will have for the freedom that we so easily take for granted. 4/5 Stars
— Contact Annie McNutt at annemarie.mcnutt@emory.edu
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man center Dumebi Egbuna brought the Eagles within one point of the Spartans. Eight minutes in, a three pointer from Kaniut followed by a Hilton Garden Hilton Garden jumper from point guard Whitney Invitational Invitational Carmack gave the Eagles the lead, All Day All Day Winston-Salem, and brought the score to 42-40. The Winstontwo teams continued to battle, and N.C. Salem, N.C. two successful Spartan free throws at Sewanee & gave Case a 58-57 lead over the UGA 2 p.m. & 12 p.m. Eagles with 3:45 remaining on the Sewanee, Tenn. clock. Sayyid quickly sunk a three& Athens, Ga. pointer, however, and the Eagles held at Sewanee & their lead until the final buzzer, finUGA ishing 65-62. 2 p.m. & 12 p.m. Sayyid continued to lead the Sewanee, Tenn. Eagles in the game, sinking 18 bas& Athens, Ga. kets and grabbing a game-high 11 vs. Brandeis boards. Sophomore guard Shellie 6 p.m. Kaniut and Egbuna added 10 and 13 Waltham, Mass. points, respectively. “The difference was just staying vs. Brandeis tough and disciplined and making 8 p.m. plays at the end of the game,” junior Waltham, guard Ilene Tsao said. Mass. Against Carnegie Mellon on Sunday, the Eagles started off again extremely close, but a nine-point rally from Egbuna, Bevan and junior forward Sarah Arington in the final three minutes of the half left the Eagles with a 29-22 lead. The Eagles’ lead reached its peak at 11 points with 12:03 on the clock in the second half. The Carnegie Mellon Tartans persevered, however, a season, both in terms of individual and brought themselves within two times and what we can accomplish as points, with a score of 52-50, with a team,” Rosenberger said. just over three minutes remaining in For the divers, junior Kellen Hope the game. Bevan answered by drawcaptured first in the one-meter dive ing a foul and adding two more for with a score of 264.90 and placed the Eagles, followed by a layup from second in the 3-meter dive with a Egbuna and another from Bevan. 268.35, both dives surpassing NCAA With 51 seconds on the clock and qualifying scores. a four-point Eagle lead, Tsao drew Sophomore Remi Levinson scored two fouls, split by a Tartan three168.08 in the three-meter dive, and pointer, to secure a 62-57 victory. 159.45 in the one-meter dive, both In the game, Bevan and Ebunga good for second place. each scored 15 points, a career high The men and women’s dual-meet for both. record both improved to 3-2 and 7-0, “[Sayyid] has led us so much in respectively. The Eagles continue to scoring and rebounding this season,” their final dual meets of the season Thomaskutty said. “[Ebunga and next Saturday, Jan. 31. The team Bevan] found the creases and got will divide and conquer, as half the off rebounds and just score when team will travel to Athens, Georgia needed.” to compete against a top Division I The emergence of Bevan and school, the University of Georgia, Ebunga as major threats could be the where the women’s team is ranked catalyst the Eagles need to finish off number one, and the men are sec- the season strong. ond nationally. The other half will “I always want balance. You see travel to Sewanee, Tenn. to face the teams really keying on [Sayyid],” she Sewanee: The University of the South said. “When things were bad, we sat (Tenn.). back and watched her do that. It was “Swimming against the top team refreshing to see this yesterday.” in NCAA swimming will be interThe Eagles will travel to Brandeis esting to be able to see how our University (Mass.) and New York team matches up. I know they have University, the only UAA teams they picked up some incredible freshmen, have yet to play, this weekend. They some of whom I played with on my will then take on each of the other club team. But, our program has five times once more before the end also picked up some incredible fresh- of the season. men,” Burdette-Sapp added. “The Thomaskutty described the UAA women actually have a chance in standings as a log jam. winning some of the events, and “We’re chasing everyone right Andrew Wilson is a contender for a now,” she said. “It makes every game win in the breaststroke events.” a big one.” — Contact Elana Cates at — Contact Zak Hudak at elana.cates@emory.edu zachary.j.hudak@emory.edu
Eagles to Face TopRanked Division I UGA Continued from the Back Page. with a time of 55.77 seconds. In the 1000-yard freestyle, freshman Henry Copses won with a time of 9:54.79. Junior Eagan Zettlemoyer won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:43.92. Smith won the 50-yard freestyle in 21.09 seconds. Cooper captured the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:55.01, and sophomore Hayes Burdette-Sapp won the 100-yard freestyle in 46.61 seconds. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Smith, freshman Wes Duke, freshman Alexander Hardwick and Burdette-Sapp ended the day with a win time of 1:25.00. “For the girls, West Florida is a new Division II team, so they aren’t quite on the level of our girls, but they put up a good fight,” Burdette-Sapp said. “The guys came into the meet expecting to beat Darton, which we did handily.” For the women, in addition to the wins captured by the seniors, many more wins came from underclassmen. In the 1000-yard freestyle, freshman Rebecca Upton won with a time of 10:27.34. Cheng won the 200-yard freestyle with a 1:53.34 time. Liu won the 50-yard freestyle in 24.17 seconds. Freshman Megan Campbell won the 100-yard butterfly in 58.34 seconds. Junior Ellie Thompson won the 100-yard backstroke in 58.53 seconds. Sophomore Annelise Kowalsky captured the 100-yard breaststroke with a 1:05.84 time. “[This win] makes us really excited to see what we can do at the end of
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University Athletic Association (UAA) Athlete of the Week Electra Korn leaps over a hurdle. Korn and the Emory women’s team as well as the men’s team finished second at the Emory Crossplex Invitational.
Squad Prepares for Hilton Garden Invitational Continued from the Back Page. Overall, when tallying up points from all the events, the Emory men’s and women’s teams both finished second behind the competitive Lipscomb University (Tenn.). While off to a good start, the teams know how competitive it
can be to gain admittance to the University Athletic Association (UAA) and NCAA championships, Curtin said. The former will accept the top 16 UAA athletes and the latter will host the top 16 Division III athletes nation-wide. “It’s too early to tell,” Curtin said.
“The season just started, but we’re going to do our best to get as many of us as possible to those conferences.” The Eagles will continue their season at Winston-Salem, N.C. on Jan. 30-31 when they will compete in the Hilton Garden Invitational. — Contact Jacob Spitzer at
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By Nicholas Bradley Associate Editor Electra Korn, a College senior studying biology, is one of the captains of the women’s track and field team. In the past season, she has recorded the fastest time for the 400-meter dash and the second-fastest 200-meter dash of any NCAA Division III athlete. Emory Wheel: Which is your favorite event? Electra Korn: I like the 100-meter hurdle, it is more interesting than an open race. EW: What is your favorite memory at Emory? EK: When I won the Indoor Conference my sophomore year. EW: What is your least favorite event? EK: Any event I don’t run! EW: Do you like indoor or outdoor better? EK: I like outdoor because there are better events. EW: What was it like to be All-American for two years in a row?
EK: It was great, but they were both very different. The first year was with the 4x4 relay, which is very team-oriented; no matter how you do individually, you’re all in it together. The second year was in the indoor 400meter and the outdoor 400-meter and 4x100. EW: What is it like being captain? EK: We have a great team but a very young team to lead. The younger girls get lots of nerves before races from a lack of experience, but it’s exciting and they go on to improve. EW: What are your plans for after graduation? EK: I plan to take a gap year, and then go to medical school. EW: We at the Wheel think your name is awesome, is there a story behind it? EK: Not really, my parents were reading a book together with Electra in it, and really liked it so decided to name me it. — Contact Nicholas Bradley at nbradle@emory.edu
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Sports Genie: Thank You, Doritos Super Bowl Campaign By Bennett Ostdiek Editor-at-Large
If there is one thing that I have come to learn in my time as the Sports Genie, it is that good things happen when you let the people choose for themselves. After all, what could be better than American politics? Nothing, except for maybe “American Idol.” Good things happen when the people decide. In this spirit, I would like to use the powerful podium that the Sports Genie column provides me to offer a shout-out to Doritos for their policy regarding Super Bowl commercials. For the past nine years, the FritoLay (the manufacturer of the seasoned tortilla chips and a subsidiary of PepsiCo, the multinational food conglomerate that also owns Tropicana, Quaker Oats and Gatorade and generates over $1 billion in profit every year) has run a Super Bowl ad contest. In it, as in all great things, the people get to decide. Every year, Frito-Lay asks its customers to create Doritos commercials and submit them to its contest. The company then narrows down all the submissions to 10 finalists and allows its customers to vote to determine the winner, which will then be played during the Super Bowl. In addition, the winner receives $1,000,000.
This is democracy at its finest. Not only do the people decide, but the people create. And it is not just the people who are doing the creating, but a very special subset of them — the consumers. That is correct; Doritos is asking its customers to create the commercials that will then irresistibly compel them to buy their addictive seasoned tortilla chips. This is capitalism in its most evolved form. The people create, the people decide and then the people buy. Brilliant. Doritos, the Sports Genie salutes you. Through my special contacts, I have obtained access to this year’s 10 finalists for Doritos’ Super Bowl commercial (those of you without similar special contacts can just go to crashthesuperbowl.doritos.com/ finalists). Here is a sneak peak of Super Bowl commercials to come, with exclusive analysis provided by yours truly. In an entry entitled “What Could Go Wrong?” two bros are chilling in their apartment eating Doritos and checking out through the window the attractive girl standing on the roof across the street. When Bro #1 suggests to Bro #2 that he go talk to “the hottie from 3B,” Bro #2 expresses reluctance, to which Bro #1 replies, “Bring her some Doritos. What could go wrong?” The commercial then cuts to the
roof, where Bro #2 is holding a bag of Doritos and staring into the eyes of the hottie from 3B. She says, “Dance with me,” and as flamenco music starts playing the two of them start twirling around and around. However, Bro #2 forgets to hold on to his bag of D o r it o s , and while picking up the hottie from 3B to twirl her in the air, he slips on the Doritos bag and drops the hottie off the roof. He quickly leaves the scene of the crime, but quickly returns to reclaim his dropped Doritos bag. Apparently that is what could go wrong. I found this ad mildly amusing, but not the type of cre- ation that I
would expect the most evolved form of capitalism to spawn. Something more along these lines appears in the
commercial entitled “The
Lemonade Stand.” In it, a cute little girl is operating a lemonade stand in her perfect suburban front yard when a kindly middle aged man comes up to her and asks how much for her Doritos. In a perfect expression of the way all of us feel about our Doritos, she replies, “Sorry, sir, those aren’t for sale.” The man quickly offers to buy two lemonades if she will give him the Doritos, though he is quickly outbid by two female power-walkers, who offer to buy four and six lemonades, respectively. The man then quadruples his original offer, at which point the little girl pulls out a bull horn and starts speaking in the rapid-fire voice of an auctioneer, soliciting bids from the entire neighborhood until one hapless football jersey-wearing dad bids 84 lemonades, the number on his jersey. This ad began with promise, but ultimately it left a bitter taste in my mouth. The girl was just speaking way too fast. It is not natural. As the Sports Genie, I am all about natural. For that reason, I ultimately cast my vote for “Middle Seat.” In it, a guy on an airplane finds himself sitting on the aisle with an open middle seat next to him. As various unappetizing seat-neighbors pass by, he fakes illness, plays the flute, clips his toenails, snores loudly, reads a book
on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and flosses his teeth to discourage them from sitting next to him. Until he spies the perfect companion for a long flight — a smoking hot blonde girl! Hiding his floss, toenail clippers and book on IBS, he prominently displays a bag of Doritos. In a moment of pure human drama that brings all of us to the edge of our seat, the hot girl takes the bait and sits down next to him! And sitting in her lap is her cute little baby. As the hot mom naps, the guy eats Doritos with the baby and asks the little dude to put in a good word for him with his mom. That commercial perfectly sums up the human condition. We spend our whole lives pretending to have irritable bowel syndrome until a hot girl comes along, but when she does she inevitably has a baby (and presumably a husband or wife). But at least when that happens, we get to eat Doritos. That is why I voted for “Middle Seat.” That is why I still believe in America. Things are not looking so good in the big, scary world out there, but at least we can find some solace when we eat Doritos. Thank you, Super Bowl, for giving Doritos the platform through which to spread this uplifting message. — Contact Bennett Ostdiek at bostdie@emory.edu
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 Sports Editor: Zak Hudak (zachary.j.hudak@emory.edu)
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Eagles Shine At Emory Crossplex Invitational By Jacob Spitzer Staff Writer
of exhibition swims to accommodate for the third team, so everyone got a chance to step up and we saw a lot of in season best times.”. On the men’s side, the seniors added two wins. Baker won the 100yard butterfly (50.53 seconds), and then teamed up with Ruggieri, sophomore Mitchell Cooper and freshman Oliver Smith in the 200-yard medley relay to win with a time of 1:33.38. The men’s team underclassmen, too, helped lead Emory to their win. Junior Andrew Wilson recorded the team’s only NCAA ‘B’ cut time, in the 100-yard breaststroke
Emory University’s men’s and women’s track and field teams hosted an impressive meet at the indoor Birmingham Crossplex this past Sunday. In what Head Coach John Curtin said was one of the biggest meets the program has ever hosted, over 80 Eagles competed, with more than 12 notching personal bests. “The meet was kind of unorthodox,” Curtin said. “Luckily it all went smoothly, and we had a great meet.” Senior Electra Korn had a standout performance with two top finishes in the 200 and 400-meter dashes. In the 200-meter, she secured second at the meet with a time of 25.18, while in the 400-meter, she finished first with a time of 56.57 seconds. “While everyone had a great meet, Electra Korn was probably the outstanding performer for us,” Curtin said. “She had the second fastest time in school history for the 400 and the second fastest time in the country for the 200.” Junior Julie Williamson had another great performance, winning the 800-meter dash with a time of 2:16.17. Shane Sullivan came in fourth place for the men in the 3000meter race with a time of 8:41.99. In the field events, senior James Bassen came in third with a 14.20 meter weight throw. Teammate junior Jacob Seigel came in fourth in the shot put event with a 12.76 meter throw. Junior Spencer Koh won the pole vault, clearing an impressive 4.40 meters.
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Swimmers from the Emory men’s team leap into the water to the sound of the buzzer during an impressive meet win against Darton College (Ga.) on Saturday, Jan. 24.
Senior Swimmers Celebrate and Perform at Last Home Meet By Elana Cates Asst. Sports Editor The Emory University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams swept the competition at the home dual meet on Saturday, Jan. 24. The men defeated Darton College (Ga.) 119-87, while the women claimed a win over both Darton (154-34) and University of West Florida (130.5103.5), a Division II team ranked 14th in the nation. As the last home meet of the season, the graduating seniors were bittersweet as they celebrated ‘Senior Day.’ Before the meet, the 13 grad-
uating seniors were honored in a special ceremony: Hayden Baker, James Davis, Kevin Flood, Cameron Herting, Griffin Neville, Eric Ruggieri, Megan Beach, Dana Holt, Nancy Larson, McKenna NewsumSchoenberg, Lexi Tutor, Michelle York and Nina Zook. The class of 2015 has greatly contributed to the success of the swimming and diving program over the past four years. They have continued the six-year streak of University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship titles, the men’s team finishing in the national top-five for three years, and the women’s team’s three-straight
Women’s Basketball
NCAA Division III Championships. “We really have an incredible group of seniors this year. They’re great role models, both in and out of the water, and have really helped to keep a positive team atmosphere throughout the season,” sophomore Kristine Rosenberger said. “It’ll be really sad for everyone once they graduate, but the swim team has such a great network of alumni support that I know they’ll be involved with the team long after their last meet.” The seniors continued to contribute wins to the team, as many of them were successful in their events. Larson and Newsum-Schoenberg
both claimed first-place finishes in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 52.53 seconds, and the 500-yard freestyle in a time of 5:03.01, respectively. Larson then went on to team up with freshmen Cindy Cheng, junior Elizabeth Aronoff and Rosenberger in the 200-yard medley relay, winning the event with a time of 1:47.67, and then joined sophomores Claire Liu and Marissa Bergh and freshman Ming Ong to win the 200-yard freestyle relay with a 1:37.09 time. “It was definitely exciting to walk away with two wins,” Rosenberger said. “This meet was a little bit different because we did a couple heats
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Sophomore guard Michelle Bevan defends against an opposing player. Bevan scored a career-high 15 points against Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) this past Sunday.
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Senior forward Alex Foster reaches for a layup. Foster and the Eagles improved their overall record to 13-3 after they beat Case Western University (Ohio) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) this past weekend.
Squad Takes Two at Team Overpowers Two Conference Foes Home, Ends Losing Streak By Zak Hudak Sports Editor The Emory University women’s basketball team bounced back from three consecutive road losses last weekend, with a pair of home nailbiting conference victories over Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) last weekend. The Eagles’ record is now 10-6 on the season, 2-3 in University Athletic Association (UAA) play. “[Our losses came from] two bigger and better teams. This past weekend, it was just nice to be home. Found a way to gut it out and win,” Head Coach Christy Thomaskutty said.
The Eagles began Friday’s game neck-to-neck with Case, a team that was 7-7 at the time. Just over ten minutes in, the Spartans maximized their lead a pair of layups from freshman guard Kara Hageman, bringing the score to 16-8, Case. An Eagles’ scoring rally from guards sophomore Shellie Kaniut, junior Khadijah Sayyid and sophomore Fran Sweeney brought the deficit to two points with six minutes left in the half. The remainder of the first half was backand-forth, with two three-pointers giving the Spartans the edge on a 34-29 score. At the start of the second half, a series of points from sophomore guard Michelle Bevan and fresh-
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Emory University men’s basketball team walked away from this past weekend with a pair of decisive conference victories. The Eagles defeated Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) on Friday and Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) on Sunday, bringing their record to 13-3 on the season, 3-2 in University Athletic Association (UAA) play. Case Western was a stout 12-2 with a 3-0 UAA record entering the game, and the first half showed it, with the Eagles clinging to a 38-35 lead. But, the second half separated the two teams. The Eagles outscored the Spartans 40-30 in the second half to claim a 13-point victory.
“Whenever you can beat the team on top of the conference, you know it was a good game,” Head Coach Jason Zimmerman said post-game. Senior forward Alex Foster stood out among his teammates during the Case Western game. Foster led the team, finishing with a game high 24 points on an efficient 7-14 shooting night, including hitting four of his six three-pointers. “This was a tough game that we came out a little slow in, but we stayed together as a team and came out won the game in the second half,” Foster said. The Eagles ended up winning the game 78-65 to improve their home record to 8-0. Senior point guard Mike Florin also chipped in 14 points of his own, with a 6-9 shooting record.
“Alex [Foster] has been unbelievable for us this year,” Florin said. “He’s consistently putting up big numbers shooting and on the glass, while he has really improved defensively. Most of all, he’s been a real leader for us in the locker room this year.” On Sunday, the Eagles faced Carnegie Mellon, which proved to be less challenging for the Eagles. Despite their 10-5 record, the Tartans were clearly dominated by the home team. The Eagles nearly quadrupled the Tartans in the first half, winning it by a score of 43-11. In the second half, however, Carnegie Mellon outscored the Eagles by six in the second half, but by then, it was too little, too late. The men’s team won by the tally of 79-53. “The first half was good but not great,” Zimmerman said. “We came
out and struggled to shoot the ball, but we still played well.” Emory was led by once again by the senior pair of Foster, who dropped 16 points, and Florin, who made 11, with freshman forward Donald Avant adding 10 points off the bench as well. Anticipating the next games to come, Florin emphasized that the team is going to do their best to take it one game at a time. “We know our five is as good as theirs, so we just have to go out there and prove it,” he said. Emory will continue their conference season, playing Brandeis University (Mass.) and New York University on Friday, Jan. 30, and Sunday, Feb. 1, respectively — Contact Jacob Durst at jacob.j.durst@emory.edu