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Johnson Joins Comm., Public Affairs Team P. David Johnson, new associate vice president of communications and marketing

By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor Emory named P. David Johnson the new Associate Vice President of Communications and Marketing in the Department of Communications and Public Affairs, according to a Jan. 29 University press release.

Johnson started his position on Monday, Feb. 2 and will report to Senior Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs Jerry Lewis.

The role of associate vice president of Communications and Marketing is a new position created as part of the reorganization of the Communication and Public Affairs department, Lewis wrote in an email to the ​Wheel.

He added that this new post includes marketing and communications, media relations, health sciences communications and government affairs.

According to Lewis, Johnson will lead marketing and communications strategy development for Emory with “a keen focus on fine-tuning and expressing the University’s brand.”

Lewis added that Johnson will manage a broad portfolio that includes Emory’s print and electronic communications, web and online communications, photography and video, social media and market research.

Lewis wrote that Johnson will also lead Emory’s central creative and production teams and will work closely with deans, senior administrators and others to integrate campus communications. “[I look] forward to working closely with deans and other senior leaders throughout the university to help strategically communicate the priorities they have set for their areas,” Johnson wrote.

However, this won’t be the first time that Lewis and Johnson have worked together.

The two previously worked togeth-

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er at the University of Miami and at the University of Texas at Arlington, Lewis wrote, where they worked in the office of communications and marketing in both universities. From his experience working with Johnson, Lewis added that Johnson is creative, enthusiastic, thoughtful and strategic, and that he knows how to approach large, complicated assignments and work collaboratively to find the right solution.

Lewis wrote that he is confident Johnson “will inspire [the communications and public affairs] team and his colleagues across the University to raise the bar in the way we communicate Emory to our many audiences and constituents.”

Before coming to Emory, Johnson served as associate vice president for Communications and Marketing at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Johnson was selected for the new position based on his solid background in communications, Lewis wrote, calling Johnson a nationally-recognized expert in the field of higher education marketing and communications. “[Johnson] has more than 20 years of experience developing strategies ranging from billion-dollar fundraising campaigns to enormously successful student recruitment initiatives to highly evolved web sites and online environments,” Lewis wrote. “He has tremendous expertise in staging major events and creating memorable branded environments, including the 2004 Presidential Debate at

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n celebration of Founders Week, the Emory Bookstore hosted the annual Feast of Words celebration, which recognizes books written or edited by Emory faculty and is hosted by the Academic Exchange and Center for Faculty Development and Excellence. Feast of Words is co-sponsored by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Decatur Book Festival.

faculty and staff

Title IX Training Now Extends to Emory Staff which focuses on identifying and reporting sexual misconduct and discrimination, is one of many campuswide changes to combat and better handle reports of sexual assault. Such changes, which include the November revision of Emory’s sexual misconduct policy and the November creation of a new sexual assault prevention task force, followed the federal government’s naming Emory as one

By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor For the first time starting this year, the University will require all staff to undergo a Title IX training module as a means of further preventing sexual misconduct on campus, according to Associate Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion Lynell Cadray.

The extension of the training,

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of 55 colleges and universities under federal review in May 2014.

“I think any time you educate the community, it helps,” Cadray said.

The online module, normally required for faculty by a federal mandate, generally takes from around 20 minutes to an hour to complete.

This year, the module will include an in-class component and “is primarily focused on faculty who interact with

students,” according to Cadray.

For federal officials and University administrators alike, mandatory education on the 1972 law prohibiting sexual discrimination within educational institutions receiving federal aid will help faculty identify and prevent discrimination, according to both a federal mandate and a state-

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Katy Perry Wows at The Super Bowl

By Sam Budnyk Arts & Entertainment Editor All I have to say to you is: wow, Katy Perry, you are a firework.

Super Bowl XLIX’s halftime show, continuing in the Super Bowl halftime show tradition of featuring major, viewer-drawing musical performers, featured Katy Perry as headliner and Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott as special guests.

Sitting in a packed apartment, my fellow football fans and I were antsy with the tied 14-14 at the half. The tension was palpable. Then, after a series of relatively forgettable commercials, the subwoofer begins to shake the couch and we were off into the most elaborately staged halftime show of all time. The set opened with Perry’s number-one hit single “Roar” and Perry astride a massive, blackmorphsuited-man-operated lion.

The field was dark and the lion was bright; it was visually spectacular.

The power pop anthem ended with an obligatory, cadential roar and a notably fast, well-orchestrated transition to a projected chess board on which dancers dressed as chess pieces moved in rhythm to Perry’s

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The Emory Wheel congratulates Emory University on 100 years in the City of Atlanta student government

SGA: Students No Longer Elect SPC VP

By Luke White SGA Beat Writer

The 48th Legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) passed three bills on Monday evening, including a measure that would internalize the Student Programming Council (SPC) Vice Presidential election.

Bill 48SL12, written by Vice President for Programming, SPC President and Goizueta Business School senior Michael Nathin, proposed to limit the voting in the SPC Vice Presidential election to SPC members only while adding graduate student representatives to SPC in exofficio roles.

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again next week in order to become official.

“The reason we want to internalize the election is twofold,” Nathin said.

“The stress [the election] induces on our candidates is immense… when it comes down to a popularity contest through the University, it’s a little difficult for some of our candidates to swallow when they lose. Also, the Vice President’s roles are strictly internal ... so we think it would be best for the SPC, who know the dynamics of our internal functions and relationships, to actually vote for our Vice President.”

Nathin emphasized that the amendment would not change the electoral process for the SPC president.

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He acknowledged that it was proper for the SPC president to be chosen via a University-wide election, since the SPC makes use of the student body’s money. However, he maintained that this reasoning did not apply to the Vice President, whose functions are internal and who exercises no direct control over SPC spending.

According to Nathin, SPC voted 39-1-0 in favor of the change.

However, the Governance Committee voted unanimously against the bill.

“We [thought] it was an undemocratic move,” SGA Senior Representative, Governance Committee Chairman and College

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Slade Elected EditorIn-Chief of the Wheel

By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor

Goizueta Business School junior Dustin Slade was elected the next Editor-in-Chief of The Emory Wheel Friday by the Wheel’s Editorial Board and staff.

Slade ran unopposed and received 22 votes. He and his incoming executive board will replace the current executive board, including current Editor-in-Chief and College senior Priyanka Krishnamurthy, after Spring Break.

Slade began writing for the Wheel’s News section fall of his freshman year and became News Editor in fall 2013 before switching to Digital Editor early this semester.

Slade is pursuing a Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) with a concentration in finance, as well as strategy and management consulting. Slade is the vice president of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity and is also a member of the Goizueta Business School Honor Council.

He served as Public Relations Chair for Emory’s Committee on Academic Integrity from 2013 to 2014.

Taking the role of Editor-in-Chief “is something I’ve wanted to do for a really long time,” Slade said. When asked whether his Emory Greek Life involvement will impact his leadership at the Wheel, he said, “I don’t feel like it’s going to influence the way I run things.”

As for putting his business school experience to use, he promised to

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Dustin Slade, Goizueta Business School junior and editor-inchief-elect

increase the Wheel’s operational efficiency.

As part of his vision for the Wheel’s future, Slade included in his candidate statement to improve the paper’s online presence, apply new management techniques, add a digital editor to the executive team and reexamine the editorial board and production structure.

In a speech to the Wheel’s editorial board, he also promised to use his business background to examine the paper’s finances “and work with our business team to take these challenges head on.”

Krishnamurthy, the outgoing editor-in-chief, said she feels very confident about Slade’s management abilities.

“Not only does he have the experience to successfully lead the paper, but he has the passion necessary to lead it well,” Krishnamurthy said.

Current Executive Editor and College senior Sonam Vashi said she thinks Slade “is going to bring a lot of much-needed business experience in revamping the Wheel’s finances,”

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This Week In Emory History

news roundup National, Local and Higher Education News • An Egyptian court upheld death sentences for 183 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political group, over an attack on a police station near Cairo, soon after the ousting of Muslim Brotherhoodbacked President Mohammed Morsi. Eleven police officers were killed in the attack, which erupted after Egypt’s military began cracking down on Morsi supporters in summer 2013.

• Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine will recruit 100,000 soldiers in an effort to gain an upper hand against the Ukrainian military in the country’s eastern regions, rebel

leader Alexander Zakharchenko announced on Monday. Over the weekend, dozens of soldiers and civilians alike were killed in clashes between the Ukrainian military and the separatist militants.

• On Monday, President Barack Obama unveiled his $4 trillion budget plan, which included a 1.3 percent pay raise for federal employees, tax credits for the middle-class and a tax increase for the richest Americans and corporations making overseas profits. The budget, which drew criticism from fiscally conservative Republicans, also featured a six-year, $478 billion pub-

lic works program to upgrade U.S. roads, railroads and ports.

• The New England Patriots became the first team to trail by double digits in the second half and still win the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Led by 37-year-old quarterback Tom Brady, the Patriots took the lead with two minutes left in the game.

The victory came amid an investigation of the team over allegations of under-inflating balls during a game against the Indianapolis Colts.

• Bobbi Kristina Brown, the 21-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston, was resuscitated on

Corrections • A Jan. 30 article on the new Campus Life Center to replace the Dobbs University Center stated that construction for the new center will begin later this year. Plans for construction are not determined yet. Pictures accompanying this article also were not designs for the new student center. The pictures displayed other projects completed by Perkins + Will, the organization that conducted a feasibility report for the Campus Life Center project.

• A Jan. 23 article on the resignation of Senior Associate Dean for Campus Life Andy Wilson was misquoted. In the fifth paragraph, Wilson’s quote was changed from, “But it does require me to leave a community that I’ve been a part of for 15 years, and that’s tough,” to “13 years.”​ The Wheel reports and corrects all errors published in the newspaper and at emorywheel.com.

Please contact Editor-in-Chief Priyanka Krishnamurthy at pkrish4@emory.edu.

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Dobbs University Center, Room 540 605 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322 Business (404) 727-6178 Editor-in-Chief Priyanka Krishnamurthy (404) 727-0279 Founded in 1919, The Emory Wheel is the financially and editorially independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University in Atlanta. The Wheel is a member publication of Media Council, Emory’s organization of student publications. The Wheel reserves the rights to all content as it appears in these pages, and permission to reproduce material must be granted by the editor in chief.

The Wheel is published twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays during the academic year, except during University holidays and scheduled publication intermissions. A single copy of the Wheel is free of charge. To purchase additional copies, please call (404) 727-6178.

The statements and opinions expressed in the Wheel are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Wheel Editorial Board or of Emory University, its faculty, staff or administration.

The Wheel is also available online at www.emorywheel.com.

TUESDAY

Event: Making Maps Online Time: 2 p.m.

Location: Woodruff Library Center for Digital Scholarship Event: Interviewing and Negotiating on the Non-Academic Job Market Time: 3:30 p.m.

Location: DUC E338 Event: “Ebola, ‘A Neoliberal Disease?’ Economic, Political and Social Impact in Liberia” Time: 4 p.m.

Location: PAIS 290 Event: Distinguished Faculty Lecture Time: 4 p.m.

Location: DUC Winship Ballroom

Event: African Cosmos Lecture

weeks of winter, rather than an early spring. According to AccuWeather, the rodent has an 80 percent accuracy rate.

— Compiled by Asst. News Editor Lydia O’Neal

• Dozens gathered in Punxsutawney, PA early Monday morning to watch the state’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, emerge from his burrow.

Despite overcast skies, Phil saw his shadow, indicating six more

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​The Emory Glee Club sang at a Washington, D.C. arena to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National Republican Party’s founding on Feb. 5, 1954. Distinguished members of the Glee Club’s audience included then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, then-Vice President Richard Nixon and members of the president’s cabinet, the Wheel ​reported. Eisenhower and Nixon would give brief talks following the performance at the Lincoln Box Supper event, which was sponsored by the Republican National Committee.

Events at emory

Event: Human Genetics Seminar: “Classic Galactosemia: New Insights Into Old Problems” Time: 8 a.m.

Location: Whitehead Biomedical Research Building 300

Event: Queer & Asian Discussion Group Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: Office of LGBT Life, DUC 232E

Saturday after her husband and a friend found her in a medicallyinduced coma in a bathtub in her Roswell, Ga. home. The incident alluded to the death of her mother, who was found dead among dozens of prescription drug bottles in a Beverly Hilton hotel bathtub on Feb. 11, 2012, on the eve of the 2012 Grammy Awards.

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall

WEDNESDAY Event: Global Voices: “Trials with Brownies” by Snehal Desai Time: 10 a.m.

Location: Woodruff Library Center for Digital Scholarship Event: Making Maps Online Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Few Hall Drop-In Space Event: “Adapting to Climate Change in Cities: The Party’s Not Over But it’s Getting Wet (and Hot)” Time: 3 p.m.

Location: White Hall 207 Event: CIPA@OMPS Open Office Hours Time: 3 p.m.

Location: DUC E207 Event: Trans-forming Gender Discussion Group Time: 5 p.m.

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

Location: Office of LGBT Life,

232E DUC

Location: White Hall 103

Event: Bisexual/Pansexual Discussion Group Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Office of LGBT Life, 232E DUC

Event: Look Again: Anamorphic Projection and Social Theory in Shakespeare Time: 4 p.m.

Location: PAIS 290

Event: “Zombieland” (2009), Film Screening Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: White Hall 208

Event: Golden Excess: Nero’s Portraits, the Cult of Luxury and the Rise of the Second Sophistic Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Carlos Museum Tate Room

THURSDAY Event: Liver Transplantation for HCC: Looking Beyond Size and Number Time: 7 a.m.

Location: Emory University Hospital Auditorium Event: Public Scholarship: Writing and Placing Op-Eds Time: 2 p.m.

Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room Event: AntiquiTEA Time: 4 p.m.

Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall Event: Second Maximilian Aue Memorial Lecture Time: 4 p.m.

Event: Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism Time: 5 p.m.

Location: Oxford Road Building Presentation Room Event: Veterans Program: Lecture by Col. Jack H. Jacobs Time: 6 p.m.

Location: Cox Hall Ballroom Event: The Holocaust as a Political History Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Oxford Road Building Presentation Room

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Campus updates

President’s Report, Clairmont Flood and More

By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor Annual Report of the President On Jan. 29, University President James W. Wager released his annual report as well as his 2014 “State of the University” video. In the video, Wagner discusses the how excellence, integrity and optimism are three core values that, in his words, “create the unmistakable Emory ethos.”

Wagner and other top University administrators also discussed Emory’s achievements and aspirations in the video, highlighting that we should be proud of our past achievements but reaffirm our aspirations and look “boldly” into the future.

Founders Week Launches “100 Years in Atlanta” Emory celebrates Founders Week as well as the 100th anniversary of Emory University in Atlanta, according to a Jan. 29 University press release.

Founders Week commemorates the first official meeting of the founders of Emory College on Feb. 6, 1837, but this year the celebration also honors the 1915 university charter that brought Emory to Atlanta, with the official launch of Emory’s “100 Years in Atlanta” centennial celebration.

The celebration of Founders Week and “100 Years in Atlanta” began with the Annual Bach Bowl this past Sunday and ends on Saturday with the Emory Jazz Fest. Other events include last night’s Founders Dinner, today’s Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture and the Veterans Program on Thursday, Feb. 6.

New African Art Exhibit Carlos Museum

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A new exhibit “African Cosmos: Stellar Arts,” opened Saturday at the Michael C. Carlos Museum and will be on display through June 31. The exhibit, which includes approximately 80 works from across the African continent, explores African cultural astronomy and how it has influenced traditional and contemporary African arts.

The exhibit is the first major display at the Carlos to explore the historical legacy of Africa’s contributions to the science and practice of astronomy, according to a Jan. 28 University press release.

Throughout the semester, the Carlos Museum will hold events in conjunction with its newest exhibit.

AntiquiTEA, a weekly discussion series enjoyed with tea and scones in the museum’s planetarium, will focus on works from the “African Cosmos: Stellar Arts” collection.

Art History Ph.D candidate Annie

Shanley will lead the first discussion on the astrological ties of an Egyptian goddess on Feb 5.

Clairmont Towers Update

Due to a small fire and subsequent evacuation on Sunday, sprinklers flooded nine floors of the Clairmont Campus Tower Apartments.

Over the past week, Campus Services and Full Circle Restoration, a first response disaster recovery and reconstruction company, have been doing extensive work throughout the building to manage the water damage, which affected over 45 apartments, offices, storage spaces and mechanical rooms.

By Saturday afternoon, Campus Services and Full Circle Restoration continued to monitor only three areas and would remove all drying equipment from the building on Monday, Feb. 2, according to an email from the Office of Residence and Housing Life (ResLife).Once all areas are dry, according to ResLife, campus services will assess damages and communicate with residents to ensure that all damages are repaired. However, the process will likely take several weeks due to the extent of the damage. All questions and concerns can be directed to housing@emory.edu or 404-727-7631.

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

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At Friday’s election, Goizueta Business School junior and Editor-in-Chief-elect Dustin Slade promised improved online presence, organization and business management for the coming year.

New Editor-in-Chief Draws on Business Background Continued from Page 1 collaborating with the Wheel’s business team from the editorial side.

She added that the Wheel’s new executive board “is going to further

the Wheel’s presence on campus” and “adhere to stringent journalistic ethics”.

News Editor and College junior Rupsha Basu, who has served as co-

news editor with Slade in the past, said she’s “excited to see what the next year has in store.”

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

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Faculty and Staff to Be Title IX Trained in Waves Continued from Page 1 ment from Cadray’s office. Per new government guidelines, University staff have the opportunity to gain the same expertise as of January 2015.

The staff members who will participate in the training module include food workers, librarians, janitors and all other staff employed by Emory directly, according to Cadray.

The training excludes employees contracted by outside organizations and companies that provide services at the University, such as Sodexo, Emory’s food service provider.

Alain Saint-Pierre, the European history librarian at the Robert W. Woodruff Library, said he thinks the extension of the training to staff is a good idea.

“I think it’s good for people to know these things, given the prevalence of this kind of thing,” SaintPierre said in reference to sexual misconduct on Emory’s campus. ​Vice President of Training for Emory’s Sexual Assault Peer Advocates (SAPA) and College senior Rebecca Woofter wrote in an email to the Wheel that she was glad to see the University extend Title IX training to staff.

“Faculty and staff can sometimes

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be mentors for students, and to provide this opportunity for staff to step into an advocacy role could be an important step in creating a survivorsupportive campus,” Woofter wrote.

Emory faculty began signing up for their modules, which the federal government updated in October, on the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) site in late January. ATIXA is an association specializing in Title IX training for colleges.

The online training module includes risks of indifference toward apparent Title IX violations, a brief history of the anti-discrimination law and reporting procedures, among others.

Faculty and staff will be required to undergo the training in waves — not all at once — over the course of three years, according to Cadray.

If those chosen to participate in the training at a specific time do not complete it by the deadline, they will not be penalized, but will instead receive another email reminder.

“We’ve had a really positive response to training,” Cadray said of the faculty and staff who’ve signed up so far.

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

Recognizing Excellence in the arts

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r. Richard Prior, Edward Goodwin Scruggs conducting chair, received the Distinguished Faculty Award at the fifth annual Creativity & Arts Awards for distinguished service to the Emory and Atlanta Arts communities. The event was hosted by the Center for Creativity & Arts in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts last Friday evening.

Legislature Reconsiders Student Activities Fee Percentage Distribution Continued from Page 1 senior Josh Wentzel explained. “We felt it was not good to take electoral power away from students.”

College senior and SGA Collegewide Representative Aaron Tucek pointed out that the bill was in violation of the SPC Constitution and the Emory Elections Code, which said that the SPC Vice President would serve as SPC President in the actual President’s absence.

In response to this observation, Elections Board Chair and College junior Reuben Lack suggested an amendment stating that in the event of a vacancy in the office of SGA President, a new University-wide

election would be held, and the Vice President would only serve as interim president until the election took place.

Lack’s amendment passed.

Graduate Student Government Association President (GSGA) and second year MBA student in the Goizueta Business School Ely Goldberg proposed another amendment to the bill in which the social chairs of each graduate division would serve as ex-officio members of SPC. This amendment passed as well.

When it came time to vote on the bill itself, SGA, which was missing a number of members during the meeting and needed a majority of quorum to pass the bill, failed to pass it by a vote of 10-8-3.

At this point, the SPC members present left the meeting.

However, later on, SGA passed a motion to reconsider the bill and voted by unanimous consent to review it for a second time.

This time around, the bill narrowly passed by a vote of 11-7-2. In order for the bill to take effect, it will need to be passed again at next week’s meeting.

Bill 48SL13, submitted by Goldberg and SGA President and College junior Jon Darby, proposed that the Finance Committee, in association with the Governance Committee, review the current percent-distribution of the SGA Student Activities Fee (SAF) fee split in order

Emory A Welcoming Place, Johnson Says Continued from Page 1 the University of Miami [and] a visit from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Miami.”

When asked why he’s excited to work at Emory, Johnson wrote that as one of the most respected and presti-

gious institutions in higher education, Emory is a very exciting place to help lead an established team of marketing and communications professionals and to forge new ways to expand and enhance efforts in promoting the Emory brand to constituents.

Johnson also wrote that his first

day (Monday, Feb. 2) went well.

“First days are always fun.”

Johnson wrote. “I can already tell that Emory is a gracious and welcoming place, and I’m very glad to be here and be part of it.”

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

to determine if changes are required.

The SAF will be changed to $92 as the result of a scheduled Cost of Living Adjustment (CoLA).

As part of this bill, every division would receive an absolute increase in funding, while the GSGA would receive a greater percentage of the fee split, and other University-wide organizations would also receive increases in funding.

“Everyone gets more money.”

Darby said. “The fee split sets aside around $47,000 for Student Organization Collaboration technologies… it increases the budget of this body by 10 times, and it accounts for new University-wide organizations.

We think it’s a responsible way to

move forward.”

Although the Governance Committee voted 4-0-1 in favor of the bill, the Finance Committee voted unanimously against the bill.

Vice President for Finance and College senior Patrick O’Leary explained that the Committee believed that GSGA should not receive an increase in funds and should instead use its own funds “more judiciously,” since “many graduate students aren’t very familiar with the functions of GSGA.” Goldberg responded that GSGA needs more money because it currently only has sufficient funds to hold one event a year.

Tucek offered an amendment to

the bill so that SGA would assign a committee to review the current fee split prior to making any alterations.

SGA passed this amendment, and the bill then passed by unanimous consent.

The final bill of the evening, submitted by Lack, proposed that candidates should not be automatically disqualified for failing to turn in their campaign expenditure receipts on time. Instead, those who turned in their receipts would face sanctions from the Elections Board.

The Governance Committee voted in favor of the bill, and SGA passed it by an 11-4-6 vote.

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

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Finding a Balance Between Science and Ethics

By Libby Marshall Mace & Crown, Old Dominion University, Virginia Dr. Gerard Magill, of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, and Dr. Jonathan Crane of Emory University confronted the ongoing moral debates surrounding the beginning of life and what defines it, who has the authority to declare it so, and who has the power to end what has barely begun.

The main focus of controversy centered on the highly modern technologies available today, such as In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and stem cell use, and whether they should be welcomed or shied away from.

“The ancients understood fertility to be a complicated and vexing problem,” Magill said. Religious scholars battle with accepting these medical advances because they question the moral laws of their faiths.

The first key point discussed at the talk on Thursday was an ageold question: at what stage is the embryo considered to be alive? Dr. Crane touched on his doctrine’s perspective on the steps of embryonic development.

“There’s this understanding through Judaic text that when the fetus is less than forty days old in the womb, it is considered to be the equivalent of life,” Dr. Crane said.

However, he mentions that the fetus has no understanding of any moral significance.

When the baby reaches what Dr. Crane dubs the “ring of fire,” or the moving of the baby into the birth canal immediately before crowning, it is valued at the same importance as the mother’s thigh. Following Judaic customs, babies’ names are typically

not announced until the eighth day after it’s birth; those few days reinforce the baby’s health and improvement of functionality.

In contrast, Catholic tradition dictates that the embryo is considered a human being upon conception. Dr. Magill strives to present a new way of seeing how Catholicism works.

“We don’t expect Catholic parents to be like rabbits. We do not teach that parents have to constantly procreate,” Dr. Magill said.

Instead, it is expected that parents be responsible and only reproduce when it is possible to provide education for their children, with education being used as a broad term.

“Procreation is a blessing, not a requirement,” Dr. Crane said, agreeing with this perspective.

Another controversy the scholars addressed was that of IVF and surrogacy. The Catholic Church forbids the idea of IVF and surrogacy because it breaks the marriage sanction. Dr. Magill sees a possibility of acceptance of this procedure in the future though, due to realizing some gray areas that surrogacy brings into question. “DNA in the baby is two people coming together, but it is still the distinctive DNA of the newborn,” Dr. Magill said.

The aspect of IVF and surrogacy that Dr. Crane acknowledges is the issue of a child possibly sharing the DNA of three parents. He states that Jewish culture views this problematic for inheritance, identity, and political reasons, as well as for the welfare of the baby.

One insight that the Catholic Church has recognized, regarding surrogacy and IVF, is the opportunity for what Dr. Magill calls “rescue

ethics”. He poses the question- why do embryos that have been frozen for various purposes have to thaw and die? This “rescue ethics” plan, the saving of the embryos through surrogacy, is a policy that Dr. Magill hopes to see approved by the Catholic Church in the future.

The next issue breached is a hot topic that has been circulating in widespread discussions and debates for a long time: abortion. “Abortion is outlawed, but it can be justified in some cases,” Dr. Magill said of the Catholic view.

This justification arises in situations where a mother’s life is jeopardized, and the only way to save her is by sacrificing the life of the baby. In the predicament of a cancerous womb, there might be no other alternative. “Evacuation of the womb is to evacuate the placenta, which would kill the baby anyways,” Dr. Magill said.

In Jewish views, abortion is highly frowned upon but not specifically banned. “Permission to terminate the baby is based on the mother’s capacities and/or limitations, not the child’s,” Dr. Crane said. In the case of the baby having a severe health issue while still in the womb, treatment must not be withheld unless it is completely futile.

In this modern age, where technology and fertility are converging, people from every background struggle to seek out a moral connection between science and ethics. “There’s a very delicate balance to the naturalunnatural connection, and extending the natural by using unnatural means,” Dr. Magill said. The debate to discover this balance will continue on.

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• On Jan. 25 at 3:22 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a fight with a suspicious individual at the Woodruff Health Sciences Research Building. Staff members in the building noticed items were missing from their desks and attempted to detain the suspicious individual. When officers arrived on the scene, they determined that the individual, Smith, had violated a probation warrant.

Smith was charged with criminal trespassing and reckless conduct because he left his children in his car while he was in the building. Officers transported Smith to DeKalb County Jail. In the process of reviewing film footage of the scene, detectives were able to determine that Smith had stolen items from desks at the Health Sciences Research Building. Smith was later charged with burglary.

• On Jan. 26 at 2:38 p.m., EPD arrested an individual after

responding to a call regarding a suspicious individual in the vicinity of the Grace Crum Rollins School of Public Health. When the individual – James Wall – was leaving the building, he came in contact with an officer and took off running.

Officers were able to locate Wall and arrest him. Wall was arrested for obstruction of justice and was transported to DeKalb County Jail.

While Wall was in custody, officers found he was carrying a stolen flash drive.

• On Jan. 27 at 3:53 p.m., EPD arrested an individual for trespassing at the Student Activity and Academic Center (SAAC). While the individual was in the building, someone identified her as someone who had trespassed in the past and called EPD. When officers arrived on the scene, they arrested the individual for violation of a criminal trespass warning and transported the individual to DeKalb County

Jail.

• On Jan. 27 at 11:00 p.m., EPD received a call regarding a theft at the SAAC. An individual said his red and white Cannondale bike was stolen from a bike rack in front of the SAAC. The bike is valued at $800. The case is currently under investigation.

• On Jan. 28 at midnight, EPD responded to a call regarding an underage individual under the influence of alcohol at LongstreetMeans Residence Hall. The caller contacted EPD because the intoxicated individual was unconscious.

When officers arrived on the scene, the intoxicated individual said that she had been drinking at Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill. The individual was transported to Emory University Hospital.

— Compiled by Crime Beat Writer Brandon Fuhr

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Tuesday February 3, 2015 Editorials Editor: Rhett Henry

Our Opinion

Smoking Ban Needs Fine Tuning, Enforcement In an effort to better support Emory’s Tobacco-Free Environment Policy, Campus Life recently announced the hiring of four student monitors to patrol popular smoking areas. The student monitors will warn potential violators of the policy before they start smoking, and if a potential violator becomes belligerent, monitors will ask for IDs, and violators could face disciplinary action from the Conduct Board.

Though we at the Wheel commend Emory for its efforts to become tobacco-free, applaud the University for its progress toward this goal and support increased enforcement of this policy, we feel that this particular enforcement strategy is misguided.

When considering this topic, we discussed Emory’s justifications for its tobacco ban in the first place. What right does the University have to tell its community members how to treat their bodies? American anti-smoking campaigns have been so effective that almost everyone knows the health risks of smoking, and if Americans choose to engage in that particular activity, they know they do so at their own risk.

However, the negative side effects that smoking causes for others in the environment sets smoking apart from other actions associated with negative health effects. Smoking releases secondhand smoke, which can prove harmful to those with respiratory diseases and is a general threat to health in a smoker’s vicinity. The presence of multiple hospitals on our campus — the Emory University Hospital, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Winship Cancer Institute — renders these side effects extremely relevant to our campus, where recovering patients exist alongside students and visitors. The University is justified in its desire to create an environment in which every member of its community can lead a healthy lifestyle.

However, Campus Life’s decision to implement increased enforcement of this policy testifies to the fact that the stated tobacco ban by itself has not proved completely effective, hardly a surprise to anyone who spends time on campus or passes by the corridor behind Bowden Hall near the library. Although some people continue to smoke on campus despite the elimination of such zones, we commend the University for taking step towards creating a tobacco-free campus.

It’s been three years since the ban took effect. Before Emory went completely tobacco-free, there were designated smoking zones scattered around campus. Now, we need to ask how — and whether — the University should continue to strive for a completely tobacco-free campus.

Creating a tobacco-free campus is a commendable goal, and not one that should be lightly compromised. We oppose the creation of designated smoking areas. Community members with respiratory diseases should not need to fear walking around any part of campus. Students who wish to avoid cigarette smoke should not have to plan their route to class around the smoking areas.

It is clear that the University has looked for ways to increase enforcement of the ban, but what is the best way? If we are unhappy with the current level of compliance with the policy and do not wish to return to designated smoking areas, then increasing enforcement is the only option left open to us. However, we at the Wheel feel that Campus Life’s policy of hiring dedicated student monitors is not the best way to increase enforcement.

The problem lies in the fact that we would be hiring students to police other students. This is not a job that a University should ask its students to perform. Students are at Emory to learn, grow and build bonds with other students. We are not here trying to catch each other breaking the rules. While Resident Advisors (RA) and Honor Council members are counterexamples to the above claim, students in both of these positions have very different tasks than the student monitors of the tobacco ban. An RA’s role is primarily to nurture his or her residents, not to punish them. They have the power to write up residents when they violate Emory policy, but they do so to protect students, not to police them. Nor does the Honor Council police Emory students — members of the council do not patrol areas where cheating is likely to occur.

Unlike an RA, these student monitors will have a solely punitive relationship with the rest of the student body. Unlike a member of the Honor Council, these student monitors go searching for violations. Neither of these positions is an appropriate one for the University to place a student in — especially when the student may only be doing so because the University is paying them. Instead, we suggest that the University leave enforcement of its tobacco policy to those who are already tasked with enforcing rules of campus — namely, Residence Life staff and security staff. Presumably the University already asks people in these positions to enforce its policy, but it should re-emphasize to them that enforcement of this policy is part of their job. If it finds additional enforcement necessary, then the University should hire dedicated staff enforcers, ​not people who are also students here.

We hope that in the years to come Emory becomes a completely tobacco-free campus.

However, we also hope that it proves able to do so without paying its students to police each other.

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

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College editorials from across the country The Harvard Crimson Harvard University Sunday, February 1, 2015 On January 3, Boko Haram militants in north-eastern Nigeria killed thousands of civilians in the village of Baga. Yet the Western media paid scant attention to the massacre, focusing on a different terror crisis unfolding in Paris...The attacks in Nigeria amounted to several days of unremittant terror in several communties. In the town of Baga alone, Boko Haram killed an estimated 2,000 civilians, with that number calculated after defense groups had given up counting the bodies. Amnesty International identified this attack as Boko Haram’s deadliest massacre.

In the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo killings, the media paid little attention to the historically horrific events in Nigeria.

Even the Nigerian media largely ignored the

massacre in Baga.

As media analyst Ethan Zuckerman pointed out, this apathy extended to the country’s political leaders: Nigerian President Goodluck E. A. Jonathan expressed sympathies to the French, but for many days remained silent on the events in Baga.

This discrepancy in attention should disturb us not only because of the human suffering largely gone unnoticed, but also because of the ideology behind Boko Haram’s terror.

At the root of the organization’s beliefs is the nefarious idea that Islam forbids practices deemed by them to be Western, including voting, fashion, and secular education. In truth, these values are neither opposed to Islam, nor exclusively Western. Yet Boko Haram attempts to distort Islam to harm Nigerian people and institutions, showing no compunction in atacking impoverished communities and schools...

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Cutthroat Competition Harms Students Sunidhi Ramesh Near the end of my senior year of high school, one of my closest friends was charged with being part of one of the biggest cheating scandals the county had ever seen.

Although I had no idea it was happening, he and a few friends managed to sneak into teachers’ rooms and steal answer keys prior to dozens of exams.

He was the president of his school’s National Honor Society and was to be awarded the title of “salutatorian” at graduation a few weeks later. When he was caught, he lost both his titles as well as his acceptance letters to several top-tier schools.

I was devastated when I learned of his dishonesty. Before I cut ties with him, I asked him for a full explanation behind why he did what he did.

To this day, his answer strikes me as an embodiment of what competition and grade inflation have done to our generation’s scholars.

“I did it because everyone else was doing it,” he told me, practically crying on the phone when I told him I could not be friends with someone who had been lying to me for so long. “I did it because, by not doing it, I was cheating myself. And I know it was wrong. I knew it, but I wanted to do well in school and the only way to do as well as I wanted to when everyone else was cheating was to cheat.”

The fact that a student felt the need to shortchange his morality to keep up amongst and ahead of his peers is indicative of just how serious this problem has become.

Somewhere over the past few decades, the education system has set students in an arms race against one another as well as themselves.

But perhaps the most worrisome byproduct of what has become of schooling is what it is doing to the quality of learning.

So what is it about the education system that makes learning so scary? Why has it gotten to a point where last minute cramming and memorizing facts that disappear the next day are normal methods for attempting to master? Why do the vast majority of college students admit to cheating throughout college? Why is it that those who haven’t cheated have felt the pressure to do it?

I realized the real source of learning’s degradation after my junior year of high school, when I attended the Governor’s Honors Program (GHP), a summer camp run

by Georgia’s Education Department. GHP worked exactly like school did ­— each day consisted of classes, homework and discussions. The striking difference between the program and the nine-month school system laid in a single factor: GHP didn’t involve grades.

Within hours of my first day of classes, I began seeing a difference between how people interacted in the classroom. Students were less afraid to speak out and more willing to participate in class, simply because they were no longer worried about how their behaviors would be reflected on their transcripts. In school, we were not learning solely to learn. We were learning because it had become another part of the daily agenda, a requirement that would later be stamped with

a bright red letter grade.

At GHP, I started finding assigned reading pleasurable, noticing the intricacies in the texts rather than trying to memorize facts and quotes for my next quiz.

Meanwhile, in high school, things were different.

The top five percent of my graduating class (a group that I was personally part of) were all relatively close friends, bound together by their Advanced Placement course-filled schedules. Still, there was tension. There was a general awareness among the five percent that each had the ability to threaten another’s chances of getting into their ideal dream schools.

I am envisioning a world in which grades and GPAs are only an afterthought ...

We shared our answers, but rarely. We were cautious about who we helped and what we said. Our GPAs were only hundredths of a decimal point apart, and one ruined test grade could mean a shift in class rank for all of us. Sabotage was rampant but subtle. Backstabbing was even more common.

Competition and the grading system threw into a dangerous arena a group of students who called each other “friends.”

And thus lies the call for change. I am not asking for the complete removal of grades or for honor code standards to be stricter.

I am envisioning a world in which grades and GPAs are only an afterthought, a world where a series of numbers aren’t the only factors that define an individual or measure success.

What could be done to make this happen?

School administrator Alfie Kohn presents a solution in chapter of a radical article titled “The Schools Our Children Deserve” and “The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement.” The article also addresses the various byproducts of the problem of achieving over learning.

“The real problem isn’t grade inflation,” Kohn writes. “It’s grades, which by their very nature undermine learning. The proper occasion for outrage is not that too many students are getting A’s, but that too many students have been led to believe that getting A’s is the point of going to school.”

He continues his argument with a list of five unsettling consequences of obsessing over standards and achievement:​ 1. Students come to see learning as a chore.

Students who are primarily concerned with being successful grade-wise or performancewise may do well at a task, but genuine or natural interest regarding the subject matter decreases immediately when achievement is outlined as the single greatest goal.

2. Students try to avoid challenging tasks.

If the purpose of learning is to succeed rather than expand boundaries or ascertain new limits, then many students prefer to do whatever is easiest to reach a higher level of “achievement” (or a higher grade). If less effort or the “easier way out” allows of a minimal chance for failure, this route will be the route that

students will choose to take.

3. Students tend to think less deeply. When the purpose of learning focuses on producing or recalling the correct answer in order to score well on an exam or test, students end up thinking more superficially. They ultimately memorize facts, theories or concepts without trying to understand how or why they were formed.

4. Students may fall apart when they fail.

Students are generally fine as long as they are doing well, but as soon as something changes they begin to see themselves as failures and attribute their achievement (or lack thereof) to personal characteristics and flaws. Even momentary stumbles (one “low” test grade) can cancel out any past successes. For many students, when the purpose of learning is not to learn but to prove how “good” they are, it is often difficult to come to terms with being “less than good.”

5. Students value ability more than effort.

When achievement is made out to be the primary goal of learning, students begin to attribute their successes to their abilities rather than to their work ethics or effort-levels. The “I do well because I am smart” or “I do not do well because I am not smart” mindsets take precedence and create destructive mentalities that may carry on into future endeavors.

Students may simply give up on future tasks in the workplace because they believe that “ability” is necessary and “effort” does not play a role in success.​​ The only real, probable solution is to make a solid effort to decrease the importance of traditional grades and standardized tests (which have their own disadvantages of being “(a) produced and scored far away from the classroom, (b) multiple choice in design (so students can’t generate answers or explain their thinking), (c) timed (so speed matters more than thoughtfulness) and (d) administered on a one-shot, high-anxiety basis.”

Whatever the case, a movement towards change is necessary to preserve the value and meaning of learning and to remove students from the almost-toxic setting that pressures them into finding shortcuts such as cheating.

Unfortunately, as I watch the interactions between my brother (a freshman in high school) and his teenage friends during the weekends at home, I realize that the situation is exacerbating.

My brother is taking two more AP classes than I did my freshman year and is already worrying about what his grades will do to his class rank and what this will mean for his college applications. He wants to quit his orchestra class because he worries that it will bring his numeric average down. After getting a low “A” in a double-accelerated math class, he submitted a form to take the grade off his transcript so he could re-take it for a better grade in the summer.

The pressure is ridiculous. And it is increasing.

Change is not an option. Change needs to happen. And it needs to happen fast.

In the words of Marilyn French, “Only extraordinary education is concerned with learning; most is concerned with achieving: and for young minds, these two are very nearly opposite.”

Sunidhi Ramesh is a College freshman from Johns Creek, Georgia.

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Public Speech in 2015

The discussion around free speech has always had at its center a concern for public speech. What sorts of speech are important to foster in the public sphere? And how does technology change our understanding of speech? Below, three students offer their perspectives on recent trends in public speech and their implications on society.

Loss of Free Speech Signals Greater Problems Daniel Hanfelt College senior Connor Crum’s editorials these past two weeks, “Censorship Obscures Hate” and “Uncensored Hate Speech SelfDefeating,” powerfully voice the value of free speech and the hypocrisy in politics these days. Crum points out how the Democratic Party, despite once paying lip service to free speech, now outright rejects it with the policies it promotes. Unfortunately, I think Crum’s opinion is just as worth hearing as it is likely to go unheard by those who need to hear it. Modern liberalism will not change its attitude towards free speech, and this is actually due to its progressive attitude.

Modern liberalism, just like modern conservatism, has finally caught up to the times, and has embraced the modern truth of today’s day politics: there is no rational debate about morality, about how we should live, about politics at all. Free speech is then a moot point. Like Crum states, “society has shown itself unable to determine what is good and bad speech.” Not only this, but society has shown itself unable to determine what is good and bad in general, or even what those words mean. Without sharing a determination of the definitions of good and bad, we cannot have an honest discussion of how to be good (or whether it is good to have free discussion in at all), and so it matters little whether or not the discussion is freely conducted.

Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre picked up on this over 30 years ago; as he remarked in his (mind-shattering) book “After Virtue”: “There seems to be no rational way of securing moral agreement in our culture.” We have lost the ability to come to agreement on moral issues in our discussions,

and so even the moral goodness of allowing free discussion of moral issues has now come under question. Nothing is wrong with the Left’s willingness to censor and stifle arguments, in the context of the way we really think about things today.

All too often in political debate today we find that there are no arguments proposed that must be sorted out with reason; there is only “My Side” versus “Your Side,” and only to advance our given sides will we choose to superficially promote objective reason and the cold hard facts. Whether or not we will agree with or use the facts depends first upon what side we have already adopted; rationality simply follows irrational decision-making.

Irrational decisions, made personally and unsystematically, are the foundation of our moral stances; MacIntyre deems this characteristic of modern day political debate “private arbitrariness.” This characteristic, along with what he calls “conceptual incommensurability,” or the inability to make comparisons between conceptual frameworks, explain why arguments about morality are unending and become nothing more than shouting matches.

Within the arguments of the left and the right, things make logical sense; the conclusions follow from the premises. Gay marriage is wrong, therefore it should be banned; gay marriage is not wrong, therefore it should be allowed. Both of these make logical sense, but the problem is they operate on premises of “wrong” that come from totally different viewpoints of morality, and we have no idea how to rationally weigh them.

There is a plethora of different viewpoints towards morality to adopt, and they all have a history.

Take the recent controversies over the police. The premises were made from the

standpoint of pro-police or anti-police, broadly speaking, that can be traced back to philosophers like Thomas Hobbes or John Stuart Mill, Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Immanuel Kant. The need for authority to counteract an ultimately violent and destructive human nature, pitted against the need for the individual to act freely without suspicion from authority, mixed with the maximization of pleasure, the individual’s duty to the categorical imperative or with the recent theory of white privilege all-in-all make for a chaotic grab-bag of moral stances.

I doubt many minds were changed from the positions they initially took, even with evidence. There was no real political or moral debate there, because there were no shared rational criteria. You can argue perfectly rationally about whether or not something is good from within the point of view of utilitarianism, but you can’t argue rationally about whether utilitarianism or Kantianism is good, where there is no shared rational criteria, no conceptual commensurability.

None of this stuff is new; we all tacitly acknowledge the subjectivity of morality today and the uselessness of debate. Yes, there are fringe groups that are widely condemned.

Crum brings up the Westboro Baptist Church as an example. But “hey, at least we can all agree Hitler is bad!” is not a coherent objective morality. Sure, most people hate racism and genocide; it’s been pretty well ingrained in us since birth. When we’re asked to explain why we should hate those things, however, beyond the simple reason that most people just do, we immediately delve right back into irrationality, arbitrary personal decision, and conceptual incommensurability. This is just a putting forth of fashionable-to-hate pariahs and scapegoats in place of coherent, shared,

rational ethics, and it allows us to be more easily beguiled by the next mass manipulator. It is another symptom of our rejection of objective morality, combined paradoxically with our desperate longing for it.

The only thing that has finally changed is that we have begun to drop the pretense of embracing objectivity and shared rational criteria. We no longer appeal to people’s shared reason when we make moral commands; rather we command them to do things simply for our own personal, arbitrary reasons, our own aesthetic vision of what a beautiful world looks like, our own personal hierarchy of values like “compassion” and “liberty” or “equality” that are only echoes of an objective morality that has since been lost.

MacIntyre proposes that this causes us to treat people as “means,” mere objects that we can use to achieve our own ends, rather than as “ends in themselves,” fellow humans who share the same right and ability that we do to decide whether something is right or wrong.

When we no longer communicate on moral issues using shared rational criteria, we will use irrational criteria, and our commands can then be made using anything, including force.

This is the real reason free speech is beginning to disappear.

As to whether there was ever any objectivity in the first place, any shared rational criteria in human history with which to judge right and wrong, MacIntyre makes a case in the affirmative throughout his book, and I leave it open for anyone interested in his philosophy to judge for themselves the effectiveness of his case.

However, it may be that no shared rationality will ever come to restore moral discussion, and as we abandon even the pretense of objectivity we will continue our trajectory towards

censorship, force and mob rule. MacIntyre could very well be wrong, and morality then must be judged on aesthetic, subjective and otherwise irrational criteria, dooming our political and moral discussions to drift further and further into chaos.

If this is true, I personally still believe there is some hope, purely when it comes to aesthetic criteria; if reason escapes us, morality can, in the end, be sought for in the sublime.

There is a comparison to be made between aesthetics and the dominant political ideology of the western world.

The transgressive aesthetic—praising what is worthy of contempt, freeing what was previously bounded, letting run loose the darker side of humanity in all of its gluttonous, violent, sexually uninhibited, selfish, antisocial glory — is not sustainable, and brings only ever-increasing dissatisfaction until it eventually transgresses itself.

Sublimity, in the end, will be sought for in the sacred and the good, no matter how intangible and impossible to rationally justify those things may seem. Until then, we’re left to witness the trappings of a society that has lost its moral reason: mass manipulation, selfishness and worship of the personal “self” as the ultimate arbiter of what is right. With this, expect more trigger-warnings and more privilege-checking — and expect that these things will only be countered, impotently, by rallies for Reagan, materialism and the “free market.”

Expect more professional victimhood, more silencing of “problematic” opinions, more vague bureaucratically titled initiatives like the “Bias Incident Response Teams” ​— and expect, overall, a decline in free speech.

Daniel Hanfelt is a College sophomore from Tucker, Georgia.

Issues Ignored Twitter Terrorism in Aviation On Social Media Online Threats Pose New Challenges Pranati Kohli It was the best of social media. It was the worst of social media.

Last year saw more than just “a few” incidents of violence. Beginning with the abduction of more than 250 girls from a school in Nigeria and ending with the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, 2014 truly highlighted the broken state of our societies. We live in a world that is no stranger to inhumane activity, where last year set a new record low for depravity.

With a new age of terrorism has a come a new age of information transmission. An increase in the frequency of violent activity implies the need for a medium to keep people abreast of these movements, in the fastest manner possible. Contrary to the archaic methods of awareness, say, through the headlines of the local daily newspaper, the system prevalent these days is far more person-intensive. Centralized bodies such as radio stations and newspapers are no longer the only source of information. Now there are multiple online outlets for the distribution of news.

Information is shared from person to person, blog to blog, status to status, rather than from newspaper to public. In the olden days such information would have been treated as hearsay or gossip. Nobody would bet their life on any of it. But in today’s day and age of technology, the news comes directly from the horse’s mouth if someone hears it from their neighbor. The most popular places for the exchange of such information and ideas have become social media forums. Similar to newspapers pursuing an issue to get the first headline out, people are now fighting to get the first status out.

Well-known celebrities such as Rupert Murdoch, managing director of Australia’s News Limited, and Erika Reidt, Fox sports reporter, have also indulged in this practice and have been completely burnt for it.

Immediately following the attack on Charlie Hebdo, Murdoch took to Twitter to express his “sentiments” on terrorism in general and Islam specifically. Calling upon the Muslim community to take responsibility for the actions of a few of its members, Murdoch’s tweet was welcomed with much offense.

People were appalled at his blatant ignorance. Using his own words against him, J.K. Rowling’s rebuttal was especially impressive, as she questioned whether the Christian world would have to take responsibility for Murdoch and his ignorance.

But Murdoch wasn’t the only one infuriated with the attack; further, he wasn’t the only one who so unashamedly and ignorantly posted about it. Herds of people took to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and theirs blogs to show their solidarity to the victims and their families. People viewed the attack on Charlie Hebdo as an attack on the right to freedom of speech, so they took to social media to exercise theirs. Each post was more aggressive than the last, as the crowd felt compelled to increase their cause’s momentum. After a point people were posting just for the sake of posting. The pain of a few had become a “fad” for the rest of the world. The genuineness of each post was becoming more questionable.

Hashtag after hashtag reconfirmed a cult that

was beginning to form. People were trying to prove their awareness by posting on social media forums. Further, these “social mediators” were sitting in judgment of those who refused to fall to their level of pretentiousness.

In such a scenario, what people fail to understand is that although it is their birthright to have an opinion, it is not always imperative to voice their opinion. For instance, would Murdoch also ask Ahmed Merabet, the Muslim cop who was so violently shot by the gunmen who attacked Charlie Hebdo, to take responsibility for the masked terrorists because they may have shared his religion?

The facts of a terrorist activity can change at any moment — what may be true one day may not be true the next. The irony lies in the fact that, with the increasing dependence on social media, words, once posted, carry a substantial amount of weight and cannot be taken for granted. However, with the advent of social media, people no longer pay attention to the consequences their words may have on the individual or the whole community. Every person’s thought needs to be carefully considered before it can be posted for the rest of the world to see and evaluate. Essentially what I am saying is that in today’s day and age, a post can’t just be a post, a tweet just a tweet, at least in the context of life-threatening violence.

An Internet post should be so much more; it should represent the pain and suffering felt by the victims, it should highlight the solidarity of a whole community and, most importantly, it should showcase the unity of the righteous which emerges in such hard times.

Nobody can deny the essential role that social media plays in highlighting important events across the globe and also showcasing the public’s opinion on the matter. Take, for example, the Arab Spring. The only reason that the civil conflict became a global conflict was because of social media, which resulted in intense media coverage. However, social media is often guilty of focusing attention on specific incidents while overlooking or blatantly ignoring other pressing matters.

On the day of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, there was a bombing next to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) building and a massacre in Nigeria around the same time. Neither of these was given much attention on social media. Further, neither of them were featured on Facebook’s “Trending” list, which instead became essentially a string of information from the Charlie Hebdo attack. The consequence was that people did not learn further about the other non-trending violence. Even more, social media results in a (nuance) variant of tunnel vision. The public is so busy focusing on specific examples that they often fail to see the larger social message. The latter is what is important and what can actually make a difference.

Tweeters and bloggers need to pay attention to the details of every incident and try not to be blatantly ignorant about the facts of a particular situation. They must realize the consequences their expressed opinions have. If attention is not paid, these very social media forums, which we view as the epitome of free speech, will become democracy’s worst nightmare. ​ Pranati Kohli is a College freshman from New Delhi, India.

Alex McIntyre Raging flames billowing from the Twin Towers. An apocalyptic mushroom cloud and ash lingering above on an otherwise pristineweathered day. Blank stares. Dashing fire engines and racing police cars. The nation’s largest city ground to a screeching halt. Such are the images that many Americans associate with “terrorism”.

September 11, 2001 undoubtedly left a permanent stain within the fabric of our nation, and defined a clear (if misleading) picture of what terrorism looks like in the 21st century. However, since 9/11, terrorists have increasingly employed a variety of methods to achieve their aims, challenging this traditional, one-dimensional definition of terror that hinges on stale and inaccurate stereotypes. A recent wave of online threats — Twitter terror — directed against airlines represents a new and emerging challenge with which aviation leaders must grapple.

According to CNN, airlines have received more than 50 online threats (most of which are conveyed via Twitter) since January 17, grounding many planes nationwide, including several locally in Atlanta. None of these threats proved credible, and searches for explosives aboard the targeted aircraft have continually turned up empty.

But false threats still inflict a significant burden on the airline industry, even while evading a potential catastrophe. Landing and searching a plane imposes a financial toll, inconveniences passengers and stirs a fear (even if only temporary) regarding the safety of flying, historically among the safest modes of transportation.

“Aircraft[s] have to be turned around or landed at the nearest location,” according to aviation security expert Jeff Price.

“Thousands of dollars are lost every minute that that plane is unexpectedly delayed.”

With such drastic loss of life at stake, few would debate the need to exercise caution in such situations. Airlines will always err on the side of safety, given the potentially disastrous ramifications and backlash of failing to respond appropriately. But, to minimize the costs to themselves, their passengers and to society, airlines should also only take action against threats of substantial credence.

In other words, what exactly constitutes an “appropriate” response?

Online threats pose an especially difficult challenge due to their direction specifically toward an airline, which has less ability to evaluate credibility than would a federal agency such as the FBI. In addition, the public nature of social media, which exposes the threat in the open for all to see, often compels airlines to respond in an overly cautious manner.

Despite the inclination to respond aggressively, though, online threats often carry insubstantial merit. Douglas Laird, former security director at Northwest Airlines, commented on the rarity of viable danger in these instances: “In the history of aviation sabotage, I don’t believe there’s ever been a threat called in where there’s actually been a bomb,” he claimed.

Nevertheless, this recent flood of threats encourages a broad re-evaluation of aviation

security, and specifically its preparedness to handle a relatively new dimension of terrorism. A security system characterized by otherwise strong measures would mitigate the risk online threats pose (even before instituting means to address them directly), since they would be unable to carry out their doomladen claims.

Despite the negative media attention surrounding three recent disasters (MH 370, MH 17 and QZ 8501) in the Southeast Asia region, air travel generally boasts a vibrant safety reputation, especially in countries such as the United States. As a result largely of tightened security procedures — including scrutinous inspection of passengers and reinforced cockpit doors — following 9/11, combined with a more attentive traveling population likely to intervene in the event of a hijacking, carrying larger weapons aboard and successfully taking over a commercial flight is nearly impossible.

But two crucial systemic vulnerabilities remain: unguarded employee access to secured areas and improvised explosive devices (IED’s), which can sometimes still evade detection.

... directing hostility specifically toward an airline places it under the spotlight ...

Airport employees possessing Secure Identification Display Area (SIDA) badges are granted access to highly sterile areas, including the ramp which houses the aircraft.

Furthermore, as a way of minimizing costs, these employees are usually allowed to enter work without first clearing security screening themselves. Although every badge holder must pass a rigorous background check and FBI fingerprinting prior to obtaining his or her badge, a clean past record represents a poor indicator of danger (or lack thereof), as indicated by a recent incident in Atlanta in which two Delta employees abused their privileges to smuggle loaded guns (including AK-47’s) into secure areas, load them on flights and later sell them in New York.

Requiring personal screening of employees would correct a gaping flaw in security, yet would add only “pennies” to the cost of an airline ticket, Senator Charles Schumer (D) argues.

With consolidation overtaking the industry, resulting in concentrated, strengthened fortress hubs for the remaining legacy carriers, it is more imperative than ever to secure our nation’s airports, especially its dominant ones where a misstep could lead to disaster.

In addition, while Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners have proven effective at detecting large weapons (2,212 guns, a record number, were seized at airports nationwide in 2014), many small explosives still pass under the radar. On Christmas Day of 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (infamously known as the “underwear bomber”) successfully dodged several layers of security with small explosives that he assembled and ignited onboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

While unlikely to result in destruction on the scale of 9/11, IED’s still wield the capability to destroy a commercial flight, possibly killing hundreds of lives. Abdulmutallab’s attack luckily failed to fully down the plane, but illustrates a soft spot in aviation security that others could still exploit.

Screeners often fail to notice such devices not because of an incapability to detect them, but because of a misguided approach designed to eradicate all potentially dangerous items (including small knives and harmless liquids) from the airport.

Modern security, rather than aiming to eliminate all potential danger, should attempt to secure airports to the standard of other public venues. This means directing focus toward items that could bring down an entire airplane and away from items that might result in individual-scale harm.

The TSA also mistakenly devotes an equal amount of attention to all airline passengers, implicitly assuming that all fliers represent equal risks. More progress has already been demonstrated on this front, as it began offering selected passengers who are deemed “low-risk” expedited screenings in 2011 via its Precheck program (which was later opened to public application in 2013).

Devoting less attention to known fliers (who must clear a rigorous background check like airport employees) allows for the reallocation of resources to travelers for which less is known. Screening travelers in proportion to the threats they pose while still mandating a consistent (albeit less intensive) baseline screening demonstrates a far more coherent philosophy to security.

Furthermore, Precheck bolsters security without falling victim to the dominant terrorist stereotype, instead relying on self-selection and an entirely impersonal computer-generated algorithm to select those to receive its benefits.

Finally, as a more immediate remedy for the burgeoning trend of online threats, the airlines and the FBI must communicate more fluidly to assess the validity of threats.

Social media, currently experiencing rampant growth, is here to stay, and as such these type of threats will not vanish entirely. As noted above, directing hostility specifically toward an airline places it under the spotlight to respond immediately, even though it may not have all the necessary information to respond appropriately within its grasp. The FBI is far better situated to analyze the credence of threats, but currently operates relatively independently of the airlines. The airlines and the FBI should cooperate more heavily to avoid incurring unnecessary costs in an era of cyber-terrorism.

Many probably remember the Ebola outbreak that occurred in late 2014, and the widespread hysteria and fear of flying that resulted. While airlines are hardly able to control the spread of diseases such as Ebola, they maintain full control over their reactions and responses to terrorist threats. While social media’s function as a weapon represents a new development, its degree of impact ultimately rests on how airlines and the security forces that already protect our nation choose to respond.

Alex McIntyre is a College freshmen from Dallas, Texas.

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Arts in Atlanta

Callanwolde Arts Festival Celebrates Local Atlanta Artists

By Emily Li Contributing Writer I wasn’t sure what to expect as I stepped carefully into the gleaming hallway of the Gothic-Tudor-style Callanwolde Mansion in Druid Hills.

Faint acoustic music drifted down the carpeted green stairs, as light shone through stained glass windows. The approximately 85 artists gathered were there to participate in the second annual Callanwolde Arts Festival, a two-day indoor arts festival held from Jan. 24-25. The festival claims to be “for artists by artists” by giving artists a voice in the creation and operation of the festival itself.

The artists certainly did a great job with the event. I was just the right amount of overwhelmed as I stepped through the spacious rooms of the mansion, each room a piece of art in its own right. According to its website, the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center and Mansion was built in 1920

by Coca-Cola heir, Charles Howard Candler, and serves as a “unique arts center and hub of cultural activity for the entire metropolitan Atlanta area.”

Along with the exceptional design of the mansion, including strung white lights, intricately sculpted ceilings, delicate chandeliers and draping curtains, attendees enjoyed artist demonstrations, live music and gourmet food trucks including Dominic’s NY Pizza and Roly Poly.

That Saturday, the beautiful space featured sculptors, photographers, painters, glass artists, jewelers and those who had invented their own forms of art. Mike Snowden of Snowden Guitars showed me how to play a one-string handcrafted cigar box guitar. Janet Payne at the Andrews Toffee stall enthusiastically encouraged attendees to try her homemade toffee, the sweet treat a perfect combination of chewy and crunchy. Everywhere I looked, artists sold their wares and applauded the diversity and skill of their work.

And while each piece of art was

Television Trends

The Rising Popularity Of the Dramedy

By Megan Waples Contributing Writer

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The Callanwolde Arts Festival, hosted at the Callanwolde Mansion (Above), showcased the works of many local artists.

easily enjoyed in its own right, what I enjoyed most about the festival was hearing about the history and background of the work — the kind of stuff that doesn’t quite make it to the business card but makes for a great story. Allison Richter, a talented wildlife artist, showcased her vibrant oil paintings of exotic birds.

All the while, she talked enthusiastically about different species of pink birds and how she had gotten involved with nature through the Audubon Society as a young girl.

Christy Little at The Write Stuff Pen Works talked about the first time she sold her husband’s pens at the local farmers market on a whim.

“I sold one pen for $40 and I called my friend being like, wanna get some pizza and beers?”

Now their professional pen business is incredibly successful.

Only after, she added, did her husband find out about the huge profits she and her friends were making from selling his pens to fund their increasingly inclusive beer and pizza parties. Now, Andy and Christy Little’s painstakingly crafted handmade ballpoint, rollerball and fountain pens draw fans from all around the world. And yet Christy still remi-

nisces about the good old days at the farmer’s market saving up for the next party. “I was very popular,” she said with a grin. “Everybody wanted to be my friend.”

While some businesses might have started out with monetary interests in mind, others approached it from the opposite point of view.

“I have a business degree,” Austin from Southern Botanics explained, “and [Doug] is an attorney. But this is what we really love to do.”

I examined the beautiful display of assorted pressed flowers, plants, leaves, seaweed and shells. “This helps takes us away from all the other crud.” According to Austin, each needed 45 days of pressing in a machine.

While the businesses were certainly different in many ways, they all came together to create a beautiful, supportive community of artistic common interest. Austin commented on the awesome “vibe” of the place as we discussed the event. When one vendor started explaining his backstory, a neighbor overhearing our conversation yelled, “Don’t be so humble — tell ‘em the full story!”

The vendor blushed in reply. Whether it was wishing someone a happy

early birthday, covering for a neighbor while they were in the bathroom or sharing pieces of toffee, everybody was clearly happy to be there doing and talking about what they loved. Although, they all requested a second to hide their wine before allowing their pictures to be taken.

“Wouldn’t want to give readers the wrong impression,” cheerful visual artist Christina Bray said, whose powerful and realistic portrayals of urban landscape captured the heart of downtown Atlanta.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the day (with Karen Fincannon’s ceramic section of fat, whimsical flying giraffes running a close second) was running into a group of Emory freshmen at the festival. They talked about how lonely campus felt with the majority of people rushing Greek life. It’s so easy to get caught up in the Emory bubble, and it’s important to realize that events like Callanwolde Arts Festival happen all the time in Atlanta. Between knit ponchos, handmade sterling silver jewelry, woven metal baskets and natural wooden iPhone speaker systems, there’s something for everyone.

— Contact Emily Li at emily.li@emory.edu

There is no lack of success in clever combinations (peanut butter and jelly, anyone?) and the television industry has caught on to the trend.

Like the “rom-com” phenomenon, the comedy-drama (“dramedy”) genre has begun to establish itself as a permanent fixture in the entertainment realm.

Developing over the past decade, dramedy as a distinct genre has recently entered a proverbial golden age with dozens of popular shows now adopting the “dramedy” label.

But what makes this dual genre so appealing to such a broad range of audiences?

To understand the eventual blending of the comedy and drama categories, one must first recognize the defining characteristics of the separate genres that clearly divided the two in mass media until the 1980s.

In the 1960s, comedies were restricted to half-hour specials, while dramas strictly lasted one hour.

“Comedy” referred to family sitcoms, while “drama” was more of an umbrella term to encompass detective series’, westerns, science fiction and soap operas.

Besides time restrictions and themes, the most obvious difference between the two was the presence of a laugh track in comedy series’.

Around 1970, there was a purposeful alteration in time distinctions and the use of laugh tracks in comedies.

Dramas now might only last a half hour and be followed by an hour-long comedy without a laugh track.

These slight modifications in air times and sound effects broke the widely accepted rules surrounding the two genres, laying the groundwork for innovation in both categories.

The other defining discrepancy

between the television categories is the depth of character and plot development.

Instead of an emphasis on oneepisode story arcs often seen in shows officially categorized as comedies such as “The Big Bang Theory” and “South Park,” dramas tend to have complex and extended storylines that make it unofficially mandatory to view the series in chronological order in order to fully appreciate and understand the events that transpire.

In a comedy, a character’s backstory is most likely not going to be referenced every episode nor particularly relevant to every episode’s storyline.

No one wants to start watching “Game of Thrones” in the middle of season three while that would be perfectly acceptable for starting “Modern Family.”

The late 80s witnessed the first use of the portmanteau “dramedy” in regards to a wave of shows that merged the characteristics of the two genres, including “Hooperman” and “Frank’s Place,” one of the shortestairing shows to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy.

“Frank’s Place”, with a plot centered around a New Orleans family restaurant, is one of the first successes of dramedies in the late 20th century.

It explored weighty topics such as racial discrimination and class, while still managing to be witty and relatable.

Although it only ran for 22 episodes, “Frank’s Place” laid the groundwork for future comedy-dramas.

“Moonlighting”, starring Bruce Willis, is widely considered to be one of the first truly popular and influential dramedies that established the genre as a distinct category in television.

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other number-one hit single from Prism (2011) “Dark Horse.” The visual effect of the projected board is hard to exaggerate; for me, as a television viewer, it stole the show from the inherently impressive clockworkchoreographed dance routine.

The next number, reaching back to Katy Perry’s earliest major hit in a straight forward, on-a-stage rendition of “I Kissed a Girl,” featured guest performer Lenny Kravitz on guitar and backing vocals.

Perry and Kravitz, with an overload of pyrotechnics in the background, maintained great performance chemistry as a duo. Arguably the climactic point of the concert, the pulsing rhythm of the bass combined with the energy onstage brought the at-home viewer to the University of Phoenix Stadium.

The next two numbers, “Teenage Dream” and “California Gurls” showcased Perry’s third studio album Teenage Dream (2010). The staging of both featured bright colors and a very colorful cast of costumed dancers. Beach balls, sharks and palm trees all joined Perry on stage.

Unfortunately, the fun energy was to be interrupted rather harshly.

Missy Elliott appeared on stage with Perry and Elliott slammed the brakes on the fun. “Get Ur Freak On” in no way fit with the program; its pulse and pacing were atrocious.

It reduced Perry to shouting “Come on Super Bowl!” over and over and over again in an attempt to regain the vigor that had been present, but it was hopeless. It was an utter disaster. The dancing was lost in a poor lighting scheme and Elliott and Perry were subsumed in totally un-chic pseudojerseys. Hopefully Elliott will not be invited back to any more nationally televised events.

Thankfully, the downer was featured in only one tune and Perry came back for a powerful finale with her hit single “Firework.” She was

lifted off of the ground on a seemingly floating platform and carried around and over the stadium. The crowd regained a great amount of their fervor as the full staging of the song began: a massive fireworks barrage began in and around the University of Phoenix Stadium, the lights of their bursts lighting the field and creating an unworldly landscape.

The performance was spot-on.

If this year’s Super Bowl proved anything other than the superiority of the Patriots to the Seahawks, it proved that “The Interview’”s Kim Jong Un was entirely justified in his love for Katy Perry. Her command over her audience has been unparalleled in recent years. She is a master of showmanship and her music is entirely suited to her style of feminine bravado. The over-the-top technical wizardry necessary for this concert cannot be overblown — the amount of planning and choreography necessary for this large of a presentation is absolutely obscene. This show was the complete package.

I feel that this is exactly what the NFL should seek for in its Super Bowl show: high-energy performers with broad appeal and a flare for the dramatic. Beyoncé, Bruno Mars and now Katy Perry have not received any sort of fee for their performances at their respective Super Bowl halftime shows (in 2013, 2014 and 2015, respectively) and they had no desire to because of the massive boost that such a billing grants their album sales. The NFL merely pays the cost of the production and the performer shows up and does their thing and brings in millions of additional viewers who are watching the Super Bowl for reasons other than football (like infamous commercial watchers!), thereby driving up the cost of ad time.

The League has a winning formula and now they just need to stick to it.

Perry is a crown jewel.

— Contact Sam Budnyk at sbudnyk@emory.edu

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if the kids from South Park went to Catholic school?

You will come pretty close to realizing that oddly specific dream by watching Funeral Kings, the 2012 coming-of-age story directed by Kevin and Matthew McManus.

In the film, three altar boys play hooky after altar serving at funerals.

Pint-sized spitfire Charlie (Alex Maizus) and his friend, Andy (Dylan Hartigan), find their usual postfuneral antics shaken up when their altar-serving buddy, Bobby (Brandon Waltz) is sent to juvenile detention.

Before Bobby goes to juvie, he gives Andy a trunk full of contrabands that are to remain unopened until Bobby gets out.

David (Jordan Puzzo), the straightlaced new kid, replaces Bobby in his altar duties and reluctantly tags along with Charlie and Andy on their postfuneral outings, including trying to open the mysterious trunk.

The characters speak the way you would expect 14-year-old boys to speak (which is not necessarily a bad thing, considering that they are 14-year-old boys).

The only problem with this is that 14-year-old boys can be very difficult to listen to after a while. If you don’t have a mental image of this, just think of a Quentin Tarantino character with a cracking voice that brags about seeing R-rated movies. That’s what you can expect dialogue-wise.

However, that does not prevent the characters from being their own distinct people.

Charlie is the impulsive product of negligent parents; Andy is a normal, mixed-up adolescent trying to figure life out; David is a quiet kid trying to fit in at his new school while staying true to what he thinks is right.

The characters are clearly defined, however, how they became the way they are is foggier.

The acting is nothing spectacular but there’s an undeniable sincerity

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Alex Maizus as Charlie in “Funeral Kings.” The film explores the extremely inappropriate adolescent psyche in the context of the Catholic altar boy.

that makes it enjoyable to watch.

The actors look, speak and act the way that kids that age would act. I appreciate the fact that the actors were actually the age of their characters, instead of 20-year-olds in hoodies.

It gives the movie more authenticity and relatability. You can look at these actors and say, “Oh yeah.

That was me freshman year of high school.”

Perhaps the most difficult part of this movie is the story (or, more appropriately, stories).

While the film follows only three characters that are constantly together, it manages to go in myriad directions. While many of the plot points start out intriguing, none of them come to a satisfying conclusion.

The story is full of events just zooming past you as quickly as they possibly can to make room for the next thing.

While a coming-of-age story can

sometimes benefit from a frenetic structure mirroring the characters’ everyday lives, this movie really could have used a heck of a lot more focus.

The comedy of the film is, as expected, irreverent and immature.

I don’t mean this negatively, though.

I found a good bit of it genuinely funny, if only for the sheer ridiculousness of it.

That said, the novelty of swearing, smoking altar boys wears off pretty quickly (to be quite honest, it wears off after the first scene).

If you’re going to get tired of that schtick, this movie probably isn’t for you. That includes the inevitable “non-threatening kid walking in slow-motion to funky music to look cool” shot.

Funeral Kings is, unquestionably, a mess. The story bounces off all the walls and crashes through a window. The characters are good but you don’t understand enough about

them for them to be great. The humor is nothing you haven’t seen before.

However, it’s got such a heartfelt, likeable charm to it that I couldn’t help but enjoy it. The unfocused story was frustrating on a structural level but in terms of viewing experience I never found myself uninterested or feeling that any of the plot points were hackneyed. It’s that thought that makes me feel that Funeral Kings would work better as a series as opposed to an 85 minute film.

The movie, like it’s characters, is full of potential that is not unlocked.

It feels as if you’re watching a first draft, waiting for these great ideas to come full circle, but they still need work. It’s a Hot Pocket in terms of story: awesome on the surface, unfinished on the inside.

This movie is probably best for fans of irreverent humor ­— as well as recent graduates of Catholic schools.

— Contact Erin Penney at erin.penney@emory.edu

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Dramedies Dominate Theater Emory Stages ‘Neighbors’ in Series Popular Television Today Theater Emory

By Anwesha Guha Contributing Writer

A post-racial America lacks prejudice, denies discrimination and prohibits preference. Or does it?

The first scene of playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Neighbors opens with a narrator introducing a “barely, barely, barely, barely, barely ... ” lit stage with black actors in blackface.

This piece played at the Schwartz Center Theater Lab on Wednesday, Jan. 28, and the lab held a full audience.

The explicit comedy explores racial tensions by illustrating the reactions of a perturbed theater professor named Richard Patterson when a family, identified by its blackface paint, becomes his hooting and hollering neighbor next door.

The play vividly iterated bold sexual imagery, chaotic violence and forbidden romance — elements that seemed questionable and uncomfortable by how they were shown.

The explicit and rowdy neighbors, the racist black man, the feisty but loving daughter and broken mother combined to form a dynamic that criticized racial discrimination that is evident even today.

“The style was appropriate because it accurately showed how black people were presented in society and how we perceive that. If it were censored, it wouldn’t have been perceived as well,” College freshman Alec Shannon remarked.

With roars of laughter and periods of hushed, uncomfortable silence, the audience gasped at the neighbors’ antics, seethed at Richard’s racism and became anxious as the family

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ post-racial exploration piece ‘Neighbors’ was staged by Theater Emory as part of its Global Voices series.

fell apart.

The power struggle depicted in the play shocked the audience.

“This is racism. This is violence.

This is oppression,” College senior Troizel Carr said.

He further remarked that the play spoke to him, and he hoped others in the audience also understood the message.

“With the combination of humor and fighting, people may not see the exaggeration. The humor and laughter of the audience is more from shock.” College sophomore Dalyla McGee added.

Unfortunately, tension also arose within the audience itself.

Many were concerned with the seemingly inappropriate laughter that detracted from the play.

A few audience members were even offended.

“I personally didn’t laugh. I don’t think this is funny. There’s nothing funny about blackface. I was thinking about leaving but I stayed. I still

wanted to see the rest of it,” College freshman Chelsea Jackson said.

In an interview with The New York Times, Jacobs-Jenkins explains the purpose and meaning behind his avant-garde plays, particularly Neighbors, and the audience’s consequent reactions.

“I wanted to write a play about blackness, and theatrical forms about the history of blackness, and as a writer I pushed myself to explore ideas and images that made me uneasy,” he revealed.

The most interesting observation in the play was his use of blackface.

Unlike the old, discriminatory and unconventional usage of this theatrical technique, “putting black actors in blackface changes the equation of the minstrelsy,” Jacobs-Jenkins continued.

In the play, the black family new to the neighborhood characteristically exhibited a rich dialect, exaggerated Southern speaking style and a painted face.

Choral Concert Review

Excitement filled the air as attendees of the St. Olaf Choir Concert struggled to find a seat. Having the reputation of being the “premier a cappella choir in the United States,” it came as little surprise why the attending community members were so excited.

Met with applause, the 75 purple-robed members of the St. Olaf Choir filed onto the stage. The choir is composed of a diverse group of undergraduate students, and although music education and performance are popular majors among the members, many have very different interests such as computer science, biology and philosophy. However, their love of music and collective talent are what grab the attention of audiences around the country and the globe.

They were followed by their conductor of 25 years, Anton Armstrong.

Armstrong is the fourth conductor to hold the position since the group’s formation in 1912 by F. Melius Christiansen. Each new conductor builds on the changes and advancements made by his predecessors and though Armstrong still sees himself as the “new conductor,” he has expanded the choir’s repertoire to include music from the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

The organ that dominates the back wall of the Emerson Concert Hall stood silent as the voices that comprise the St. Olaf Choir filled the air.

The group began with a performance of “The Lord’s Prayer.” Though this song was exactly what the title suggests, this performance was far from a church service. This was about the music.

Since its creation and rise to fame as one of the most recognized choirs in the country, the St. Olaf Choir has performed around both the country and the world. With numerous television specials and even more CDs, many in the audience came to the performance with a relative idea of what it would be like. This, however, did not in any way lessen the awe of the crowd once the performance began.

Accompanied by Charles Gray, a St. Olaf College professor of music, on either viola or violin, St. Olaf certainly showcases the array of talents of the young performers. Their performance is geared towards showing exactly what the human voice can do.

As the performers sway to the music, a tradition started by Armstrong, it is impossible to single out an individual voice in the perfect blend of harmonized sound. With songs performed in English, German, Hebrew and Latin, and time periods ranging

from the late 16th century to modern day, Armstrong and the St. Olaf Choir allow for actual words to be less important than the sound and the meaning of the performance.

Of every song performed, the piece that most exemplified this was the performance of “Past Life Melodies” composed by Sarah Hopkins. It is based on Australian Aboriginal music and culture that fascinated Hopkins while she was living in Darwin, Australia. In this particular piece, two performers stood in front of the rest of the group and whistled in a way that gave the illusion of a flute being played. Meanwhile, the rest of the choir mimicked the sound of a didgeridoo being played on a stage void of physical instruments. In his introduction to the piece, Armstrong explained that harmonic overtones, an ancient musical device, allow for this haunting performance of powerful and melancholy notes. Armstrong also welcomed a special guest to the concert: Anthony Bernarducci, the composer of “Veni Creator Spiritus,” who was present for the performance of his piece.

Though officially accompanied by viola, violin or piano, the audience’s own chorus of astonishment added to the music.

Though admittedly less polished than the music from the performers, hushed “wows” from the community members, myself included, created a connection between everyone present, performer or viewer alike.

Throughout the performance, the members of the St. Olaf Choir held hands.

The performers were linked by their love for music and their talent while the audience could do little to hide their wonderment.

At the conclusion of the performance, Armstrong spoke on the talent and dedication in the choir. He addressed the importance of music and teamwork, not only within his choir but also in the world. He theorized the positive outcome of forming a choir of world leaders. Because of the required teamwork, these leaders would have to work together to make something beautiful. This received a collective chuckle from the audience.

With every direction, Armstrong and his choir were able to show the capacity of the human voice. From the first note, (and every note after that) the talent of the performers drew in the audience from around campus and also the community. This performance showed the power of music both in the sheer talent of the performers and also in the message of hope that hung on every note.

— Contact Maggie Pavleszek at margaret.elizabeth.pavleszek @emory.edu

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

Continued from Page 9 Airing from 1985-1989, the detective show effectively mixed humor, drama and romance in a new time format of 45 minutes.

With ample mystery, precisely timed comedic relief and clever dialogue, “Moonlighting” captured the attention of millions of viewers, as well as a substantial number of accolades.

“M*A*S*H” and “Eight Is Enough” similarly paved the way for the innovative genre throughout the 1980s and 90s.

Fast forward to the 21st century.

With literally hundreds of shows now available through streaming services such as Hulu, Netflix, XFINITY and Amazon, television and television shows are both more popular and more accessible than ever before.

In an age where time is increasingly valuable, the shorter running time on shows makes them convenient breaks from reality in comparison to full-length movies.

Of the most popular shows airing regularly in the modern era, more and more shows are being distinguished as dramedies.

The seemingly flawless balance of intrigue and humor is captivating to an eclectic array of audiences and it is becoming harder to distinguish individual shows simply as comedies or dramas in a black-and-white fashion.

Thus, the gray area of dramedies is expanding constantly to include shows such as “How I Met Your Mother,” “Friends,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Monk” and “Scrubs.”

Chances are, the majority of the shows you’re currently addicted to

are labeled as “dramedies” — a pretty astounding change from 35 years ago, when the genre and term were practically nonexistent.

Even awards shows are now embroiled in controversy surrounding category designations for their nominations.

Why would “Shameless” be competing in the Emmy comedy categories, and not the drama ones, anyhow?

As the stark divide between the two genres is becoming increasingly blurred, more television shows are taking advantage of their flexible classification and are therefore being nominated in multiple categories.

Serialized plotlines, sharp wit and just enough character development so as to provoke sympathy from audiences without drowning the series in flashbacks, the dramedy is a far more intelligent and intricate equation than most realize.

However, it is noteworthy that the shows categorized as such rarely combine comedy and drama in perfect ratios.

The amount of absurdity found in “Psych” or “The Office,” for example, doesn’t quite match to the substantially more drama-focused “Suits” or “White Collar.”

But they are all classified as dramedies.

Not too serious nor too frivolous, the dramedy strikes the perfect chord with masses of audiences, regardless of background, who seek some significance and personal relatability from the shows they watch, while still being able to laugh.

— Contact Megan Waples at megan.v.waples@emory.edu

Bach Bowl Faculty Concert

St. Olaf Choir Amazes Crowd

By Maggie Pavleszek Contributing Writer

Oddly enough, in the pre-existing family with the black husband, white wife and their mixed child, the husband behaved in an aloof and completely different manner and he did not have a painted face.

He became the primary source of contention and spoke for the modern racial nuances of society apparent today.

“I think Robert’s wife was really good. Just by being the white wife, she completely changed the dynamic.

She was open, and it contrasted [with] her husband’s racism.

By debating whether she had a ‘husband that was black’ or ‘black husband’ asked the question, even today: do you think about race first or personality first?” Shannon said.

Jacobs-Jenkins explained that the greater picture he wants to communicate is racial turmoil in modern America depicted specifically through the chaos within the two families.

“I decided that I was going to write a play that might be the last time that I was ever going to write about blackness. My big fear is that everyone will think of this as the blackface play, when it’s much more than that,” the playwright explained further to The New York Times.

“If one person’s mind was changed by this, it would be worth it,” McGee said.

This edgy play tested the rules of theater, a place where breaking boundaries can be both felt and heard.

It pushed for change in its audience — change that successfully left the theater alongside the hushed murmurs of the audience.

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celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach’s life and works, the Bach Bowl featured Emory faculty and the Vega Quartet performing a number of solo and chamber works from Bach’s oeuvre. The concert was also a part of Emory’s University Organist Recital Series, featuring Professor Timothy Albrecht on the organ.

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Executive Editor Responds to Missy Elliott Bashing

By Sonam Vashi Executive Editor When A&E Editor Sam Budnyk lambasted hip-hop artist Missy Elliott, writing that he hoped Elliott wouldn’t be “invited back to any more nationally televised events,” I was outraged by his assessment.

Clearly, we were watching two different Super Bowl halftime shows (although, to be fair, I first watched mine in an Inman Park bar, with the sound off). However, even just watching the event’s spectacular visuals — Katy Perry’s animatronic lion and equally exciting outfits — I could see that Missy Elliott fit perfectly into what was an impressive halftime show, providing a perfect counterbalance to Perry’s sometimes too-sweet pop. For those of you — such as Budnyk — who may be ignorant on Elliott’s prolific career (or generally ignorant of anything on female hiphop before Nicki Minaj), I’ll give a brief rundown.

When she entered the rap scene in the late ‘90s, catapulting to fame with her debut Supa Dupa Fly (1997), Elliott became known for her ability to write, produce and perform (yes, she’s a triple threat) mega-hits like “Get Ur Freak On” and “Work It.”

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Missy Elliott’s guest appearance in Katy Perry’s halftime show at Super Bowl XLIX has generated a controversy over talent.

With Timbaland, Elliott helped write and produce Aaliyah’s charttopping One in a Million (1996).

In her performances, Elliott used her unconventional beauty and no-holdsbarred sexuality to challenge stereotypes, using a distinctly female type of aggression and bravado.

Her performance last night channeled this bravado, where she broke out some incredible moves to the dissonant, progressive sounds of her music. Budnyk asserts that Elliott’s “totally un-chic pseudo-jerseys” made her part of the show “an utter disaster.” Really? Do women hip-hop artists have to wear shark costumes in order to be good performers? Or can Elliott be aggressive, an amazing dancer and a woman?Yes, she’s been AWOL for a few years. While I’m sure Budnyk would attribute her absence to her lack of success, Elliott has actually been struggling with Graves’ Disease, a thyroid problem that sometimes renders her unable to even pick up a pen, according to NPR. With this in mind, her performance becomes even more incredible. Moral of the story? Do your homework, and respect your hip-hop history, children.

— Contact Sonam Vashi at svashi2@emory.edu

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Swimming and Diving Prepares for UAAs Eagles Drop Two Road Games Junior guard Ilene Tsao Dribbles down the court behind freshman Dumebi Egbuna. Tsao, Egbuna and the Emory women will continue their conference play at home next week.

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junior Eagan Zettlemoyer placed second by a margin of 33.86 seconds.

Freshman Wes Duke came second in the 100-yard freestyle only .55 seconds behind first place.

“Getting wins at UGA was not the main focus,” Wilson added. “Our main goal continues to be nationals and the UGA meet was to bring us out of our comfort zone.”

The other half of the team traveled to Sewanee, Tenn. to claim a 148-108 win, where the Eagles were victorious in 26 of 32 events.

“This win [at Sewanee] was an easy win and a good morale booster for the swimmers going into our championship meets next week,” sophomore Hayes Burdette-Sapp said. “The swimmers who went to UGA have nationals on their mind; they’ll train through the UAAs. But, the swimmers who went to Sewanee, our championships will be the UAAs and the Emory Invite.”

The 200-yard medley relay finished strongly. The team of freshman Brandon Shinsato, freshman Michael Grenon, senior Kevin Flood and sophomore David Tao won with a 1:37.94 time to Sewanee’s 1:40.96.

The Eagles saw countless individual wins, as well. Senior Cameron

Track to Travel for Invitational Continued from the Back Page and 2:02.97, respectively. Freshman Benjamin Rogin also impressed with a time of 8.68 seconds in the 60-meter hurdle preliminaries.

Freshman Daniel Pietsch came in 17th in the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.09, followed by Rogin who came in 56th with a time of 24.10.

In the women’s 200-meter dash, senior and two-time All-American Electra Korn came in sixth place with a time of 25.63. In the 200meter relay, Korn anchored lead freshman Julia Levnthal, freshman Eirca Goldman and junior Julie Williamson to a clock a time of 3:58.78 and secure eighth place with the second fastest Eagles time this season. Freshman Zoe Fowler finished 31st in the weight throw with a distance of 11.32 meters.

“We have a solid set of 400-meter runners,” McBane said. “We always have a lot of killer athletes, and this year is no different.”

In the mile run, McBane finished 39th with a time of 4:27.02, followed

by Brandon Cromer who finished 62nd with a time of 4:38.01. McBane credited long distance coach Lance Harden for his strong performance.

“It’s my first good race back since I was injured,” McBane said. “But [Harden], has kept believing in me and has been so supportive throughout the tough times.”

The Eagles will continue their indoor season next weekend, heading to the East Tennessee State University for the Buccaneer Track & Field Invitational on Friday, Feb. 6 and Saturday, Feb. 7.

— Contact Jacob Spitzer at jacob.alexander.spitzer@emory.

Herting won the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:38.72 and the 500yard freestyle at 5:02.13. Sophomore Hayes Burdette-Sapp won the 200yard freestyle (1:46.30). Shinsato added wins in the 100-yard backstroke (54.27 seconds) and in the 200yard backstroke (1:57.42). Grenon won the 100-yard breaststroke with a 1:00.36 time. Flood won the 200yard butterfly (2:00.30). Senior Brian Glatt of the Sewanee Tigers won the 100-yard freestyle in 48.22 seconds.

Eagles freshman John Copses won the 200-yard breaststroke (2:16.73).

Tao added another win with the 100yard butterfly (55.29 seconds).

“The next focus is the UAAs, where we [the men] are just trying to keep our streak alive as [University of] Chicago, Washington University [in St. Louis] and NYU [New York University] are really good,” Wilson said. “The women will definitely win, they’re very good.”

The Eagles will have a week off to rest, but will be back in action to host the first round of the UAA Championships from Wednesday, Feb. 11 to Saturday, Feb. 14 in the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC).

— Contact Elana Cates at elana.cates@emory.edu

By Jacob Durst Staff Writer The Emory women’s basketball team expected that their road trip last weekend would be a tough one — and it was. They dropped two games, one to the Brandeis University (Mass.)

Judges and a second to the New York University (NYU) Violets.

Their games began on Friday, in Waltham, Mass., where they traveled to play the Judges.

The Eagles got off to a slow start, falling behind 36-24 to the Judges in the first half, although they managed to balance the score in the second.

Despite similar shooting figures, 36 percent for the Eagles and 37 percent for the Judges, Brandeis came out on the winning end of a 68-56 score.

Brandeis was carried by an unusually high free throw disparity. The Judges reached the charity stripe 29 times, where they converted 23, compared to only 14 trips and eight makes for the Eagles.

Sophomore Shellie Kaniut was the only Eagle in double figures with 14 points on 5-9 shooting. Junior Khadijah Sayyid and freshman Dumebi Egbuna also added 9 points and 8 points, respectively.

The rough offensive showing spoiled a solid defensive effort in which the Eagles forced 22 turnovers to the Judges’ 13. The Eagles also held the Judges under 40 percent shooting, only allowing 13 on 11 attempts.

Emory was also defeated handedly on the boards, as Brandies doubled up Emory’s rebound total 57-28.

“We have to have post defense to win in the UAA [University Athletic Association],” Head Coach Christy Thomaskutty said. “Every game we have, there’s always a great post player on the other team, so we have to be fundamentally sound in the paint.”

Emory’s second game of the weekend took place on Sunday. It was a cold and windy day in New York City, where the Eagles braved the snowy weather in an afternoon game against the NYU Violets.

Once again, the Eagles were unable to crawl back from an early deficit, after they were outscored 41-30 by the Violets in the first half.

The team struggled once again from the field, shooting an anemic 29 percent overall and 13 percent from three-point land.

Sayyid, who recorded a doubledouble in the game, scored a team

Terry Break Out Over Weekend at Brandeis, NYU Continued from the Back Page showing a 57-70 lead on the scoreboard. However, The Eagles persevered, especially Terry, who got hot again and scored a clutch 14 points in the final six and a half minutes of play.

With just over a minute and a half on the clock, a free throw from Terry brought the Eagles within one, but Terry’s 6’1” guard counterpart on the Violets, junior Hakeem Harris, answered with three free throw points.

A layup from Florin restored hope, raising the score to 92-93, but with 22 seconds on the clock, the Eagles were driven to fouling, and the Violets pulled ahead 92-96.

The Violets narrowly outshot the Eagles, putting up 51.7 percent to the Eagles’ 50 percent. From behind the arc, however, Emory made 37.9 percent to NYU’s 33.3. The first team to out-rebound the Eagles on the season, the Violets came out on top of a 41-34 board count.

Terry again broke his career-high with 23 points. Florin, Rao, Foster and Junior forward Will Trawick each notched double-digit scoring with 17, 16, 15 and 14, respectively. Florin posted an impressive 14 assists, while Foster, Rao and Terry led in rebounds with 8, 6 and 5, respectively.

“They’re really talented. We played all right,” Foster said. “We let them get going and get into the stuff they wanted, which hurt us.”

On the subject of Terry, who had the biggest weekend of his career thus far, Head Coach Jason Zimmerman said he has known of the player’s potential.

“I’m excited for him,” he said.

Terry attributed his breakout to the team’s coaches.

“I just took my coaches’ advice and got the opportunities, and they worked out for me,” he said.

In the middle of the UAA season, each team faces two teams both at home and away in consecutive weeks.

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high 13 points on two for 10 shooting to go along with 12 rebounds.

Sophomore Michelle Bevan dropped 12 points on 3-9 shooting, and sophomore Fran Sweeney added 10 points on three for 10 shooting.

The two teams combined to make 42 free throws on 60 attempts.

However, the real difference between the teams was in shooting once again. As mentioned earlier, compared to the Eagles’ 29 percent, the Violets were successful a tick under 40 percent of the time.

“We need to limit their second chance points,” Thomaskutty said.

“Every time that you give up an easy basket, you’re just digging yourself into a hole.”

The Eagles are relieved to get back home and have the opportunity for redemption as they face both Brandeis and NYU again this week at home. A change of scenery may be what they need.

The team will look forward to improving their play against the Judges at 6 p.m. on Friday and the Violets at 2 p.m. on Sunday in the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC).

— Contact Jacob Durst at jacob.j.durst@emory.edu

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Senior guard Alex Foster shoots from behind the arc. Foster and the Eagles will play New York University and Brandeis University (Mass.) again this weekend at home.

“It’s interesting to flip the same teams in the middle of the season,” Zimmerman said.

Next weekend, the Eagles will host Brandeis and NYU at the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC).

“Home and home are always real-

ly competitive,” Foster said.

While the team will look to redeem themselves against NYU, they cannot allow themselves to be arrogant in the Brandeis rematch, Zimmerman said.

— Contact Zak Hudak at zachary.j.hudak@emory.edu

place with a time of 1:45.29; junior Kellen Hope contributed with an NCAA qualifying score of 276.68 in the one-meter dive, finishing second in the event.

“Even though we lost, the meet was fun,” Kowalsky said. “It’s interesting to be able to compete against such high-tier swimmers. It was senior day, so a lot of the UGA seniors came out and cheered and added a lot of energy to the event.”

At Sewanee, the women had a strong showing with junior Mikayla Carnley placing first in three events: the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:46.33, the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:14.00 and the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:00.05. Junior MacKenzie Brosnahan also won multiple events, including the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.95 seconds and the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 55.18 seconds.

The Eagles swept both of the Sewanee Tigers’ relays. The team of freshmen Sia Beasley and Megan Campbell, sophomore Kristine Rosenberger and Brosnahan won the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:51.56.

Meanwhile, freshmen Kike Afolabi-Brown and Alexandra Brown, Rosenberger and Brosnahan finished first in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:40.08.

Emory will have a week off to rest before hosting the 2015 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships at the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC), from Feb. 11 to 14.

— Contact Jacob Spitzer at jacob.alexander.spitzer@emory.edu

I. Marshawn Lynch Let’s talk about Marshawn Lynch for a minute. Lynch notoriously hates talking to the media. So much so that after a November game against the Chiefs, Lynch left the locker room without talking to the media at all.

Unfortunately for Lynch, that is a thing that you cannot do in today’s NFL, and the league fined him $100,000.

And Lynch learned his lesson. He started talking to the media, for the express purpose of not being fined.

He was very clear about this.

“I’m here so I won’t get fined.”

That was Lynch’s answer to 95 percent of the questions asked to him at the Super Bowl media day on Tuesday. Included among the other answers are the responses, “I’m just here so I won’t get fined,” and, “I’m here so I won’t get fined, boss.”

Variety is nice sometimes.

Lynch found it even easier to communicate with them on Wednesday.

To every question Lynch replied, “You know why I’m here.”

And that is true. We all know why Lynch is here. Lynch is at media day so he can give reporters interesting, thoughtful quotes. That is to say, he is there so he will not get fined, boss.

And on the football field, we also all know why Lynch is here. Lynch is here to run the darn ball. He is here to break tackles and pick up yards. He is here to be a power back on the goal line. He is here to score touchdowns.

But apparently Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson forgot why Lynch is here at the end of the Super Bowl on Sunday night. Instead of handing the ball to Lynch on the one-yard line so that he could score the go-ahead touchdown, they elected to throw the ball. And it got intercepted.

Come on Coach Carroll. Do you know why Lynch is here?

In the aftermath of the Seahawks’ loss, Lynch broke his self-imposed position of non-cooperation with the media to say that he was not bothered by the fact that he did not get the football on that play. Why? “Because football is a team sport.”

Well said, Lynch. We all know why you are here.

II. Tom Brady The night of the Super Bowl, your On Fire correspondent’s Facebook newsfeed was blown up with links to an article on CBSSports.com.

This CBS Sports piece was titled “The Tom Brady-Richard Sherman Super Bowl 49 Photo You’ll Want to See.” A little bit of background is necessary before your On Fire correspondent goes further.

In 2012, after much trash talking from Tom Brady in a SeahawksPatriots game, including Brady allegedly telling Sherman to come see him after he wins the game, the Seahawks won the game.

Sherman stayed true to Brady’s wishes and ran over to him after the game. Inches away from his face, he yelled, “You mad, bro?”

The rest was history. “You mad, bro?” T-shirts were made by the dozen. Your On Fire correspondent made a hefty investment and bought a few thousand, so if any readers are interested, please email president@ whitehouse.gov and place $25 in your On Fire correspondent’s Swiss bank account.

But yet again, your On Fire correspondent digresses. What was so important about those three words, other than their utter frat-ness?

Brady has everything going for him. He’s handsome and has the mane of a lion. He is great at football. The man models for UGG. Do you know how warm and comfy his footsies are when he treks the mean streets of Boston?

Your On Fire correspondent doesn’t want to get into details, but allow him (or her) to leave you with this: Gisele’s first love was not Tom. And Tom did not win her fair and square. Her first love and only true love went by the initials OFC. But that ship has sailed for your On Fire correspondent.

So, when CBS praised Sherman and Brady for embracing one another like perfect sportsmen after the game, your On Fire Correspondent died a little on the inside.

Die Hard doesn’t end with John McClane and Hans Gruber making peace and embracing one another. He doesn’t embrace Richard Thornburg at the end of Die Hard 2 either.

The same goes for Die Hard With a Vengance and Gruber’s weird brother or cousin or whatever. Don’t ask about the recent “sequels,” because your On Fire correspondent doesn’t play that game.

The point is that until Sherman publicly humiliates Brady again, he is public enemy number two. That is, after Tom Brady.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Sports Editor: Zak Hudak (zachary.j.hudak@emory.edu)

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Men Match Up With D-1 and D-3 Teams

By Elana Cates Asst. Sports Editor

‘B’ cut times as well: Sophomore Annelise Kowalsky in the 100yard breaststroke with a time of 1:05.33 received second place; junior Elizabeth Aronoff had a time of 2:22.76 in the 200-yard breaststroke and also came in second place; the Eagles' 200-yard medley relay team of Liu, Kowalsky, sophomore Marcela Sanchez-Aizcorbe and senior Nancy Larson came in third

This past Saturday, the Emory men’s swimming and diving team split in half to take on the University of Georgia Bulldogs and the Sewanee: the University of the South (Tenn.) Tigers.

The athletes who traveled to UGA suffered a 173-115 loss against the Bulldogs’ second-ranked Division I team.

While the Eagles suffered losses as a team against the D-I powerhouse, numerous individual Emory athletes showed tremendous performances. The Eagles recorded a total of 16 NCAA qualifying marks.

The Emory team was able to snatch one first-place finish with University Athletic Association (UAA) Athlete of the Week junior Andrew Wilson’s ‘B’ cut time of 56.65 seconds in the 100-yard backstroke. He also gained a second ‘B’ cut time in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:05.31, good for second place.

“Winning the event wasn’t actually that big of a deal,” Wilson said. “I know a lot of the UGA guys, and they didn’t swim their very best; they have many great swimmers in that event.”

Other qualifying marks came from the third-place finishes by senior Hayden Baker in the 200yard butterfly (1:53.57), junior Jared Scheuer in the 200-yard backstroke (1:52.58) and sophomore Mitchell Cooper in the 400-yard individual medley (4:05.72).

Many Eagles were able to follow the UGA first-place wins very closely. In the 1,000-yard freestyle,

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An Eagle swims in a freestyle race. The Emory women split up to travel to top-ranked Division I University of Georgia and Sewanee: University of the South (Tenn.) last Saturday. After a week of rest, the team will host the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships.

Women Take On Division I UGA, Dominate Sewanee

By Jacob Spitzer Staff Writer The Emory women’s swimming team split up with two simultaneous meets last Saturday, securing a win against Sewanee: the University of the South (Tenn.), but falling to defeat the top-ranked Division I University of Georgia.

The Emory women lost 163-127 to the Georgia Bulldogs, but won 138 to 128 against the Sewanee Tigers.

“We made an unusual decision to split up the team,” Head Coach Jon Howell said. “It worked out well, and I was happy with how both meets went with some great performances in both meets.”

At UGA, senior McKenna NewsumSchoenberg had a strong performance, notching two 'B' cut times with a third-place finish in the 200yard butterfly (2:07.52) and a fourthplace finish in the 500-yard freestyle (5:02.04). She also secured the fastest

1,000-yard freestyle time of the year by an Eagle, finishing third in the event with a time of 10:17.81.

Freshman Ming Ong also had a standout performance in Athens. She secured three NCAA 'B' cut times with a third-place finish in the 200yard individual medley (2:06.19) and a fourth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly (57.25 seconds) and 400yard individual medley (4:31.13).

“It’s scary being a freshman competing against some of the best

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swimmers in the country,” sophomore Claire Liu said. “I was really impressed by how Ming raced. She wasn’t intimidated and even beat out a lot of the UGA swimmers.”

Another standout freshman was Cindy Cheng, who notched two qualifying marks with a fourth place finish in the 100-yard backstroke (56.83 seconds) and a third place finish in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:05.27.

Several other athletes achieved

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Squad Splits at Brandeis, NYU

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Junior University Athletic Association (UAA) Athlete of the Week Julie Williamson runs to the finish. Williamson and the Eagles will compete at the Buccaneer Track Invite in Tennessee next weekend.

Individual Eagles Shine at Invite

By Jacob Spitzer Staff Writer This past weekend, the Emory men’s and women’s track and field teams continued their indoor season at the Hilton Garden Invitational in Winston-Salem, N.C., where many Eagles displayed strong performances.

Junior Julie Williamson followed up her strong performance last weekend at the Emory Crossplex Invitational with another impressive outing this week by taking a 10th

place finish in the 800-meter run and improving her NCAA Division III Championship qualifying time to 2:16.17.

“It was a great opportunity to run on the track where nationals will be held this year,” Williamson said. “We’re now number two in the nation, and we’re looking to shave off even more time in the coming weeks.”

On the men’s side, junior Spencer Koh pole vaulted a height of 4.25 meters, securing a fourth place finish.

Senior James Bassen took 25th place

with a distance of 13.32 meters in the weight throw competition.

“James Bassen is a league above the rest of the [University Athletic Association conference] UAA,” Bassen’s teammate sophomore Michael McBane said.

Continuing the strong showing for the men was senior Kevin Delaney who shined in the 800-meter run, finishing 40th with a time of 1:58.77.

Freshman Charles King and junior Andrew Hemingway ran well in the same event with times of 2:02.10

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In a hard-fought continuation of their University Athletic Association (UAA) play, the Emory men’s basketball team split two games on the road last weekend.

The squad hit the ground running in Friday’s game against Brandeis University (Mass.), stretching their lead to 18 points with just over a minute on the clock in the first half.

The Eagles shot strongly from the outside, sinking four threepointers in the first 20 minutes of play, including two from sophomore guard Jonathan Terry, foreshadowing a breakout weekend with 12 points.

Terry and the team continued to dominate the Brandeis Judges in the second half, maximizing their lead eight minutes in at 45-24. Senior guard Josh Schattie knocked down four boards, totaling six in the game.

After a scoreless first half, he also added 10 points. Terry contributed six more, raising his game total to a career-high 18. The Judges made a late run, but were unable to overcome the Eagles’ thick score padding and the scoreboard read 65-51 at the final buzzer.

The Emory defense held the Judges to a shooting percentage under 40 for the ninth time this season, while the offense put up an impressive 52.9 percent. The Eagles also sunk an impressive 40 percent of their three-point shots. On the boards, the Eagles continued their rebounding streak to an undefeated 12 games on the season, as they grabbed 36.

“JT [Terry] came out just shooting the ball. I felt like it was a good team effort and we really got the shots they were giving us,” senior forward and captain Alex Foster said. “We played good defense, too, that game.”

On Sunday, the Eagles took on the New York University Violets in

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Junior guard Davis Rao leaps for the basket. Rao and the Eagles defeated Brandeis University (Mass.), but fell to New York University last weekend.

a gut-wrenching, fast-paced scoring show. The Violets started the game with consecutive layups, but the first half showed two evenly matched teams, and the lead changed hands six more times, ending with a 36-38 NYU lead.

Senior guard and captain Mike Florin led the scoring effort at half-

time with 11. Foster and junior guard Davis Rao each knocked down four boards, but eight rebounds from NYU junior guard Evan Kupferberg left the Eagles on the short end of a 22-18 tally.

The Violets pulled ahead in the first 10 minutes of the second half,

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