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By BriaN SaviNo Arts & Entertainment Editor The SGA election period has been postponed by one week, pushing back information sessions, candidacy declarations, the campaign period and vote.

The start of the SGA election and voting period moved from March 13 to March 20 because the 50th legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) delayed a vote on a bill that details the undergraduate student government restructure.

The delay allows constituents more time to understand and “digest” the bill, according to the Speaker of the Legislature and College senior Justin Sia. SGA originally planned to vote on the bill Monday night, Sia said.

Elections will finish by the end of March, and officers will be seated at the beginning of April, SGA President and College senior Max Zoberman said.

Should SGA approve a proposed undergraduate student government restructure bill next Monday, the bill will go to an undergraduate referendum in which a simple majority is required to pass it.

The legislature hosted a town hall in the Jones Room of the Robert W. Woodruff Library on the structure and implementation timeline of the post-

referendum undergraduate government Monday night. Zoberman said that the legislature anticipates passing Bill 50sl24, which would amend the SGA Constitution to reflect the new undergraduate student government structure, next week. The restructure follows the passage of the Jan. 31 University-wide referendum that split SGA into two autonomous graduate and undergraduate branches.

SGA will host another town hall Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Jones Room to address constituent concerns and to answer questions. After the town hall, legislators will vote immediately vote, according to Zoberman. Should legislators approve the bill next Monday, it will go to an undergraduate-wide referendum in which constituents will vote online on OrgSync from March 13 to 15.

Prior to the referendum, legislators will inform their constituents via emails and town halls about the details of the bill and changes that would be implemented. If a simple majority votes in favor of the bill, the new SGA Constitution will be ratified and information sessions will be held regarding positions available for election, Zoberman said.

Zoberman added that April will function as a “transition period” for

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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore addresses the impact of climate change at the Climate and Health Meeting to more than 300 attendees at the Carter Center Feb. 16.

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Trethewey Choice Garners Indifference By aliSha coMptoN aNd NiraJ Naik Emory Life Editor and Staff Writer

Following last week’s announcement that former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey will deliver the keynote speech at this year’s commencement

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ceremony, the majority of undergraduate and graduate students The Emory Wheel interviewed expressed indifference toward Emory’s selection.

The Wheel spoke to 26 randomly selected students — both graduate and undergraduate — who are graduating this year, the majority of whom said they were unaware of who Trethewey

was or of the commencement speaker selection announcement.

All but one graduating student who knew of Trethewey expressed indifference or distaste about her delivering the speech at the May 8 commencement ceremony.

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Poet Laureate Decries Trump Wall Ex-Student Emory Joins Flint Announces Crisis Group Bobby Jones

By Julia MuNSlow Executive Editor

At five years old, U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera watched border patrol arrive at a neighbor’s home, pull the family into a van and leave. Nearly 60 years later, he still remembers that day.

“Everything was just left,” he told the Wheel. “The land, the house. But we had to pack up because my father worked for them, find something else.”

Herrera, the son of migrant farmworkers in California, has come face to face with stories of immigration and deportation throughout his life.

Now, in a time of divisiveness in America, the first Latino poet laureate is attempting to break down walls between communities while working under a presidential administration that has threatened to build them.

For Herrera, the story of deportation is nothing new. Thanks to a childhood riddled with friends’ and family members’ interactions with border patrol, he’s familiar with issues of immigration, though for many, it’s a new hot topic in national politics.

Despite the Trump administration’s threats to deport undocumented immigrants and Trump’s campaign promise to rescind Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows certain undocumented individuals deferred depor-

tation, Herrera said he will remain an employee of the Library of Congress.

He spoke at Emory Sunday, Feb. 19, reading poems about deportation and immigration in the 12th season of the Raymond Danowski Reading Series.

He condemned the “border machine,” the institutions that enforce the U.S.-Mexican border such as detention centers, border patrol, police and the necessitation of being “approved” to cross into the U.S. in an interview with the Wheel.

“It’s a vicious machine,” he said.

“We use that machine to resolve our sense of nation, our sense of protection, of who we are, but it’s an ugly

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He compared the “machine” to the U.S. internment of JapaneseAmericans in the 1940s, denouncing the “segregation” caused by the camps.

“What kind of nation are we if we use that thing?” he asked. “It’s like having a 50-foot barbed wireshooting, beaming, howling fence with watchtowers around our home to feel like a family … I don’t think I’d want to be that family that way … We’ve turned ourselves into the makers of a sick, border-securitizing machine and that’s our downfall.”

A former Emory graduate student is on cleanup duty a major American environmental and public health crisis.

Chris Kolb, executive director of the Michigan Environmental Council, was one of 19 law, environmental science and policy experts appointed to the Environmental Justice Work Group, which Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder created last week to develop materials on environmental and health hazards for the government following the Flint.

Mich., water crisis.

Snyder’s creation of the Environmental Justice Work Group came amidst the city’s recovery from a years-long crisis in which Flint residents’ drinking water was contaminated with lead. He created the group in response to recommendations from the Flint Water Advisory Task Force, which he commissioned October 2015 to investigate the phenomena.

The new group will examine policy issues and develop guidance, training

Four Emory College seniors were named Bobby Jones Scholars: Jason Ehrenzeller, Julianna Joss, Ekaterina Koposova and Joan Shang. The scholarship winners will pursue a paid year of master’s study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland for the 2017-18 academic year, according to a Feb. 21 University press release.

The Robert T. Jones Jr. Scholarship was established in 1976 in honor of late Emory alumnus and acclaimed golfer Robert T. Jones Jr. (29L). Inspired by Jones’ diverse interests and international experiences, the award honors the close relationship between Emory University and the University of St. Andrews via a yearly exchange program. A panel of Emory faculty members, Bobby Jones Scholar alumni and community supporters of the program selected fi-

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On Feb. 14 at 5:40 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding a theft from a car parked in the Lowergate Visitor Parking Deck. The car owner was visiting Emory and said that she parked her 2008 silver Lexus at 9:55 a.m. that day.

When she returned around 5 p.m., she found her rear driver’s side window broken and two coffee machines missing from her car. The machines, a generic electric drip machine and a french press, are valued at $50 total.

The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On Feb. 14 at 5:21 p.m. EPD responded to a call regarding a missing bike from 12 Eagle Row, the Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) fraternity house.

An Emory student reported his grey Trek 8.5 Hybrid bike, valued at $1,100, missing.

He last saw the bike May 10, 2016, when he placed it in a basement storage room of the ATO house. Between May 2016 and December 2016, he traveled internationally and went home to Pennsylvania.

House residents cleaned the basement October 2016 because the clutter was considered a fire hazard. He returned to Emory’s campus mid-Jan-

uary 2017 and could not find his bike.

The student believes that the residents left the bike behind the house in a fenced-in area after they cleaned the basement. The case has been assigned to an investigator. Campus Life was notified.

On Feb. 14 at 5:41 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding hazardous materials at the Emory Woodruff Memorial Research Building.

Officers found two sinks overflowing with water and an unknown irritant. Facilities Management and Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHSO) also responded to the scene.

Facilities Management told officers that a liquid containing ammonia spilled on the first floor, but a Merry X-Ray (MXR) representative on the scene determined that the spill was a mixture of X-ray developer and X-ray fixer, flushed by healthcare workers on the seventh floor of the building.

The MXR representative told officers that, when combined, the products create the smell of ammonia, but are safe to flush with water.

Nicole Campbell, EHSO professional III in charge of general safety and industrial hygiene, reported elevated pH levels in the water but declared the scene safe to clean.

Facilities Management sectioned

off the area to clean and asked a contractor to clean the pipes of the affected sinks. A keyholder to one of the nearby labs was notified.

On Feb. 16 at 2:04 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a bike theft at the Goizueta Business School.

An Emory student reported that his rented black and blue Fuji bike, valued at $410, was stolen Feb. 15 between noon and 2 p.m.

The student left the bike at a bike rack outside of Goizueta’s Highland Bakery but had not locked it. He called Bicycle South, the company that owns the bike, and Manager Brian Dunne told him to file a report with EPD. The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On Feb. 18 at 12:16 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a noise complaint at Clairmont Campus on Building B’s third floor.

Officers met with a resident of the apartment. They heard loud music and observed a large party at the location.

Officers asked the resident to lower the music volume, and the student complied immediately. Campus Life was notified.

— Contact Monica Lefton at monica.lefton@emory.edu

Theater Students Call for Arts Council Continued from Page 1 SGA during which “new officers will be instructed on what [their] position means, the new government will spend time discussing legislative priorities [and] what the post-referendum era will look like.”

Six students attended the Monday night town hall on the future of undergraduate student government at Emory, which was publicized in a Monday afternoon all-undergraduate email from Zoberman.

College juniors Amanda Camp, Victoria Hood and Adam Friedman requested that SGA add an Arts Council, which Zoberman proposed in a previous SGA meeting. They voiced concerns about College Council’s (CC) funding system regarding to theater groups at Emory. The three students, who are involved in various Emory theater groups, said that they had encountered difficulties gaining funding since their ticket profits go to CC, and students involved with theater productions have to pay hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets in order to fund their productions.

College-wide Representative and College junior Will Palmer presented a proposed undergraduate legislature structure in Bill 50sl24. The proposed legislature consists of 15 members: two freshman, two sophomore, one junior and one senior College representative; one freshman, one sophomore and one alumni Oxford College representative; one junior and one senior Goizueta

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College-wide representative and College junior will Palmer (r iGht) presents to the Student Government Association about the undergraduate government restructure Monday.

Business School representative; one Goizueta Business School-wide representative; and three Undergraduate Nursing School representatives.

Under Palmer’s proposal, the Student Programming Committee (SPC) could hold an internal election for its president, and the SPC president would no longer act as vice president of programming on SGA. Palmer’s proposal would also eliminate representatives-at-large and College-wide representatives.

Additionally, the associate vice president for alumni relations and associate vice president for communications positions were eliminated. The SGA president could reinstate any of those positions if he or she desired.

The bill also detailed the structure of the Joint Governance Committee

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Crime Report Compiled By Monica Lefton

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

(JGC), stating that the SGA president, executive vice president, vice president of finance, speaker of the legislature and secretary will sit on the JGC to deliberate University-wide matters with Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) representatives.

In response to an Emory Spoke Facebook post criticizing SGA for only allowing 30 minutes for students to voice concerns and their town hall’s low attendance, Palmer said, “There is a distinct possibility that we can tell the student body five times and they won’t come, because this [bill] is relatively non-controversial.”

Michelle Lou contributed reporting.

— Contact Brian Savino at brian.savino@emory.edu

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Compiled By Seungeun Cho and Richard Chess eMory adviSeS iNtl. StudeNtS eMory — The Office of International Student Life (OISL) sent an email Monday to all international students in response to “unease and anxiety” surrounding “immigration, travel bans and work visas,” expanding eligibility for summer housing and reminding them of summer jobs and classes available at Emory.

OISL will rent Clairmont Campus apartments to all students who complete a form and claim they are potentially at risk of seeking re-entry into the United States should they leave for the summer, according to Program Coordinator for International Student Life Rick Huizinga.

In its email, OISL encouraged students to focus on studies and research instead of worrying about the current political climate. docS reveal plaNNed exec. orderS waShiNGtoN, d.c.

— Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly released documents Tuesday detailing Trump’s planned executive orders on immigration and border security, according to The New York Times.

The executive orders outlined in the documents would instruct Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to deport all undocumented immigrants convicted of any criminal offense, The Times reported.

SecoNd coNvicted iN city BriBery atlaNta — Charles P. Richards Jr., president of ABCO Builders, pled guilty Thursday to bribing an unknown city official $185,000 in exchange for accepting construction contract bids, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Last month, contractor and owner of the E.R. Mitchell Company Elvin Mitchell Jr. became the first to plead guilty in the Atlanta City Hall bribery case and admitted he paid more than $1 million in bribes between 2010 and 2015 in return for city contracts, according to CBS46.

Law enforcement does not yet know which Atlanta City Hall officials accepted the bribes. truMp appoiNtS Natl. Sec. adviSer palM Beach, Fla. — President Donald J. Trump appointed Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser Monday, according to The New York Times. The decision came

after former National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn resigned last week after a Washington Post report disclosed he misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top administration officials about the nature of his communications with Russian officials. yiaNNopouloS leaveS BreitBart New york — Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos resigned Tuesday following the release of a video in which he appeared to condone pedophilia and underage sexual relationships, The New York Times reported.

Yiannopoulos credited his resignation in a Feb. 21 statement to his unwillingness “to detract from [his] colleagues’ important reporting,” and stated he made the decision independently.

Simon & Schuster withdrew its publication deal Monday for Yiannopoulos’ memoir, Dangerous.

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) also withdrew a speaking invitation, according to The Washington Post.

About half a dozen Breitbart employees threatened to quit if Yiannopoulos wasn’t fired, according to The Post. eMory Flip preS. SiGNS letter provideNce, r.i.

— Emory First-Generation Income Partnership (FLIP) Founder and College senior Harpreet Singh signed a letter written by Brown University Student Body President Viet Nguyen that urged select universities to automatically waive all college application fees for firstgeneration and low-income applicants beginning with the 2017-18 application cycle.

The letter was signed by 26 student leaders in first-generation and low-income student groups at toptier universities.

Although nearly all U.S. universities already offer application fee waivers, the initiative is designed to encourage first-generation and low-income students to apply to college, Singh said.

In the letter, Nguyen criticized the lack of socio-economic diversity at the universities included and urged them to follow the example of colleges such as Bowdoin College (Maine) and Trinity College (Conn.), which automatically waived application fees for first-generation and low-income students beginning in 2015.

— Contact Seungeun Cho at seungeun.cho@emory.edu and Richard Chess at richard.chess@emory.edu

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•In “Laney Students Pursue Unionization,” the article said that Laney Graduate School student Jonathan Basile launched the website promoting unionization and started the signature collection. The graduate organizing committee started both the website and signature collection.

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Students Lament Lack Of Celebrity Speaker is different [than undergraduate Continued from Page 1 graduation] because when you Trethewey, the Creative Writing graduate from undergrad it’s a big Program director, has taught at the deal, but you’re a little less attached to where you went to grad school.”

University for 15 years.

Emory does not pay its The renowned poet will also receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Commencement speakers, but it does At the end of this academic year, award them with an honorary degree Trethewey will leave Emory to join each year.

The Honorary Degrees Committee Northwestern University’s (Ill.) English Department for the start of of the University Senate typically receives approximately 100 nominathe Fall 2017 semester.

College senior Chloe Biren, who tions from the Emory community for heard Trethewey speak as a guest honorary degree candidates, which lecturer in one of her classes, said that it whittles down to a list of six finalshe is looking forward to hearing the ists, according to Vice President and Senior Adviser to the University poet’s speech in May. “[Trethewey] guest spoke in one President Gary Hauk.

From that pool, the University of my classes with such eloquence,” Biren said. “[Her speech] showed us president chooses up to four nomithe magic of poetry, and I think it’s nees to award honorary degrees; one such a honor for her to be our com- of those honorary degree recipients is also selected to speak at commencemencement speaker.”

No other students interviewed by ment, Hauk said.

University President Claire E. the Wheel shared Biren’s excitement.

The remainder of graduating students Sterk wrote in a statement to the interviewed indicated disappointment Wheel emailed via Associate Vice or indifference toward the choice of President for Media Relations Nancy Seideman that as the speaker.

19th U.S. Poet Laureate “I don’t know who and a teacher among Trethewey is; my “I don’t know who other roles, Trethewey parents don’t know Trethewey is, my has shared her vision who she is and none parents don’t know of poetry as a means of my friends know who she is and none coming to understand who she is other than people who of my friends know more about ourselves and the world around are English majors who she is other us. at Emory,” Goizueta than people who are “Natasha Trethewey Business School English majors at has been a source of senior Pranav Emory ... ” wisdom, great artistry Venkatraman said. and inspiration for our “All my friends at — Pranav Venkatraman, students, Atlanta and other schools have Goizueta Business School the nation,” Sterk’s more prominent speakers, and Senior statement read. “It is fitting that Emory it’s kind of weird recognize Natasha that we’ve had singular literary no [commencement speakers] that Trethewey’s influence, her generosity and insight famous.”

While Venkatraman said he thinks as a scholar, teacher and member Trethewey is an esteemed professor, of the Emory community and her he fears she may not have the same enrichment of the lives of hundreds of influence as the CEO of a major Emory undergraduate and graduate students.” company or a top federal official.

Sterk held an informal discusLast year, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg sion with the Honorary Degree comdelivered the commencement speech mittee about awarding an honorat University of California, Berkeley, ary degree to Trethewey since she Ford Foundation President Darren was not on the Committee’s initial Walker spoke at New York University’s list of nominees presented to Sterk, commencement and U.S. Secretary of according to Joseph Crespino, head Energy Ernest J. Moniz addressed the of the Honorary Degree Committee and Jimmy Carter Professor in the graduates at Boston College.

College senior Saigenesh Department of History.

“We never took a vote, but there Ravikumar echoed Venkatraman’s sentiment, suggesting a was widespread support within the “compassionate … world-leader committee that she was certainly who was a product of the American the person of the kind of esteem education system.” A speaker from and accomplishment that would be a Silicon Valley technology start- deserving of an honorary degree,” up would have been an excellent Crespino said.

As Trethewey says goodbye to alternative, he said.

Emory School of Medicine fourth Emory, she carries these accomplishyear Lucy Shi said that although ments with her to Northwestern.

“While it’s sad that she’s leaving, she cared about the prestige of her undergraduate commencement Emory was lucky to have her,” Biren speaker, she doesn’t hold the said. “I think it’s fine [that she is same concern about this year’s the commencement speaker] because commencement speaker as she we’re also leaving and moving on to graduates from Emory’s medical different things.” school.

Richard Chess contributed “Our commencement speaker [at the University of Pennsylvania] reporting. was Joe Biden, and I think he did a good job in framing what future — Contact Alisha Compton at leaders or future graduates should do alisha.bhatia.compton@emory. in the current political climate,” Shi edu and Niraj Naik at said. “[Graduate school graduation] niraj.naik@emory.edu

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Scholars To Study in Scotland Continued from Page 1 nalists interested in cultural interaction between the U.S. and Scotland based on academic record, character, integrity and citizenship.

Each applicant submitted a personal statement as well as a proposal detailing their intended area of study. Finalists were interviewed and attended a networking reception, according to Joss.

More than 250 Emory students have received the scholarship since its establishment, according to the press release.

All four of this year’s winners are currently completing honors theses.

“My hands were shaking [when I received the acceptance letter],” said Ehrenzeller, a double major in Spanish and international studies. “My eyes met the first line. ‘We are pleased to inform you’ … My whole body just kind of froze.”

Ehrenzeller will pursue a master’s degree in cultural identity studies at the University of St. Andrews. Joss, a double major in political science and dance and movement studies and a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar, will seek a degree in sustainable development.

Ehrenzeller and Joss are joined by Ekaterina Koposova, an art history major and anthropology minor who will pursue a master’s in art history.

“One of the things I noticed over the course of the interviews is I really connected very well with the people who were interviewing me,” Koposova said.

She hopes to return to the U.S. after her year abroad to pursue a Ph.D. in art history.

Shang, a biology major and Dean’s Achievement Scholar, credits her success to Emory’s interdisciplinary curriculum. Shang said she strives to “integrate biomedical advances into health practices,” noting Scotland’s National Health Services, which funds social and healthcare policies, as an excellent resource. She will seek a master’s in global health implementation.

Should any of the recipients be unable to go, the final selection committee chose College senior Emma Reidy as first alternate and College senior Jhénelle Elder as second alternate from the pool of 13 finalists.

— Contact Nicole Sadek at

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Former U.S. V.P. Speaks At Climate Meeting By chriStiaN Garcia Contributing Writer

More than 300 scientists, public health officials and policymakers convened to discuss climate change and potential solutions at the Carter Center Feb. 16 following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) abrupt cancellation of its Climate and Health Summit.

“Sixteen of the 17 hottest years ever measured with instruments have been since 2001,” former Vice President Al Gore said in his keynote speech. “The hottest year of all was last year … the third year in the row that we had the all-time record hot year.”

The Climate and Health Meeting brought climate change and public health experts together to discuss concerns about and possible solutions to climate change. They urged everyone to remain hopeful and resilient in the fight against climate change despite challenges such as a presidential administration that has repeatedly denied climate change.

Emory’s Departments of Environmental Health and Environmental Sciences were cosponsors of the event, according to Uriel Kitron, chair of the Department of Environmental Studies.

“Emory’s Departments of Environmental Health and Environmental Sciences were part of a ‘partnership circle’ that offered event organizers help to make sure that meeting did go forward” after hearing that the CDC cancelled its event, Chair of Department of Environmental Health Paige Tolbert said.

Gore, who helped organize the conference, discussed what he said are wide-ranging effects of climate change, from higher rates of foodborne and waterborne diseases to predictions that geographic regions that might become uninhabitable. The former vice president noted recent successes in combating climate change, such as the growth of solar and wind energy, China’s retirement of 103 coal plants and global participation in the Paris Agreement last year.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivered an unannounced speech at the event, emphasizing that climate change will first impact the poorest populations, some with which the Carter Center is heavily involved.

“When political exigencies press on from the pending or possible disapproval of Congress, the CDC has to be a

little more cautious politically,” Carter said. “The Carter Center doesn’t.”

Public health researchers and academics discussed how climate change can worsen public health due to issues such as lower air quality and heatrelated illnesses. Speakers suggested targeting Republican politicians at the state level to support combating climate change and making healthcare companies more climate-friendly by being energy efficient in their daily operations.

Climate change could affect the health of everyone, regardless of political affiliation, Harvard Global Health Institute Director Ashish Jha said.

“Walls will not keep pathogens [caused by climate change] out,” Jha said.

The CDC cancelled its planned event “out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration,” Jha said, so Gore and several nongovernmental organizations initiated a one-day Climate and Health meeting to fill the void. Approximately a dozen Emory community members attended the event, according to Tolbert. As cosponsors, Emory-affiliated individuals were invited to participate in the meeting, with one graduate student even staffing the conference, Kitron said.

Tolbert said she was especially moved by a panelist who said that there are actions that can be taken to combat climate change that are “palatable even to conservatives,” which Tolbert said is important amidst a contentious political climate.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences Eri Saikawa said that the interdisciplinary perspectives presented on climate change enhanced her understanding of the topic. She pointed to Sam Myers, senior research scientist in Harvard’s Department of Environmental Health, who spoke about the importance of potential nutritional deficiencies from climate change. The U.S. Senate recently confirmed Trump’s nominee for the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who has sued the EPA several times over its environmental rules, according to The New York Times. Trump is readying executive orders that would recall former U.S. President Barack Obama’s policies on climate and water pollution, The Washington Post reported.

— Contact Christian Garcia at

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Kolb Calls for Unbiased Regulations Continued from Page 1 and curriculum on environmental and health hazards to support government officials, according to a Feb. 15 press release from Snyder’s office.

Kolb, who will co-chair the new work group, pursued graduate studies in political science at Laney Graduate School for one year — but then took a job in the environmental management field instead of completing his PhD. During his time at Laney, Kolb conducted research on interest group politics at the Supreme Court.

“Knowing the power that research can do to further your goals is really important,” Kolb said. “It was more of the tools and the discipline to apply research in a way that makes a difference.”

Kolb said that in order to recover from the Flint crisis and achieve “environmental justice,” Michigan ought to implement non-discriminatory envi-

ronmental regulations and collect input from the public during the legislation process.

The new work group has not met yet, and Kolb said he does not know when its first meeting will occur.

“Knowing the power that research can do to further your goals is really important.”

— Chris Kolb, Former Mich. state rep.

As co-chair of the Flint Water Advisory Task Force, Kolb and his team recommended a mandate of environmental protection guidance and training across all state agencies to standardize assessment protocol during disasters.

The team’s findings also suggested that industrial areas were dispropor-

tionately burdened with pollution, a disparity that Kolb said he aims to address through the Environmental Justice Work Group.

According to the Flint Water Advisory Task Force report, Flint failed to uphold two major principles of environmental justice — treating all people fairly through non-discriminatory practices and involving the public in decision-making. To prevent another drinking-water crisis like that in Flint from occurring, Kolb emphasized the need to alter environmental regulations to ensure better public feedback and government transparency.

The task force’s report praised citizens’ willingness to challenge and participate in the government, and Kolb said he hopes for similar community involvement in future decision-making.

— Contact Varun Gupta at varun.gupta@emory.edu

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From the Archives This Week in Emory History “American filmmaker Spike Lee will speak Thursday in the Coca-Cola Commons of the Dobbs University Center.�

Feb. 20, 1996, Vol. 77, No. 33 ‘Spike Lee to Speak Thursday’

“Emory University experienced and survived its first panty raid of the year Monday night.�

Feb. 20, 1973, Vol. 54, No. 15 ‘Last Night’s Raid Nets Panties’

‘Woman Denied Trustee Position’ Feb. 27, 1973, Vol. 54, No. 16

‘Aldridge Recognized As First Woman AfricanAmerican Faculty Member’ Feb. 22, 1994, Vol. 75, No. 35

‘War Not Inevitable, Says British Envoy’ Feb. 20, 1951, Vol. 32, No. 25

“Approximately 50 percent of the Emory law students who took the recent Georgia Bar Examination failed to pass.�

Feb. 20, 1964, Vol. 45, No. 18 ‘Half Flunk Ga. Bar Exam’

“What is the reasoning behind penalizing a student for just one bad grab into the barrel?�

Feb. 25, 1983, Vol. 24, No. 33 ‘Housing Lottery Unfair’

the life we live may seem unappealing.

Tough classes, immense social and academic pressure and the imminent thought of applying for jobs? A pret-­ zel represents how we endure all of that;; we punch through the hurdles of a tertiary education that provide us with a pleasant satisfaction, just as the seemingly unappealing saltiness and bitterness blend so wonderfully into a single coherent flavor.

But alas, I cannot spent my quar-­ ters on this for there exists one more treat in this machine that resonates far more soundly with my values.

in the area and took it upon himself giving them advice. make any day great.

“I always say, ‘Look at the glass “Once you wake up in the morning, to assume a “big brother” or “uncle” and you’re healthy, you can make the role. He enjoys seeing and talking with as always half full. If they give you a day what you want it to be, so make it people on the shuttles so much that lemon, you just make some lemonade. after many years as a driver, he doesn’t In the end, you can’t have a testimony a beautiful one,” Daniel said. without a test,’ ” Daniel said.

College sophomore Megan Withers even consider his daily routine work.

Because he truly enjoys his work “In the morning, I come [to Emory] has experienced his positivity herself and it always brightens her mornings. with the notion that I drive my friends and has a “beautiful life” here, Daniel “Whenever you see that Daniel is to work and school, so it doesn’t feel plans to continue working as a shuttle driving your bus you know that you’re like a job,” Daniel said. “Like every-­ bus driver.

“I have all the things that I really about to smile on you way to school,” thing else you’re doing, you have to she said “I really feel like when we’re find in it something you like, if you need,” Daniel said. “I try to make every day the best I can, [because] I think on his bus, we’re not ignoring each really want to be successful at it.”

Daniel credits his positive life phi-­ this is my calling in life, to be here.” other any more. We’re all listening, losophy to his time spent traveling. In and smil[ing] about the little things.”

Wednesday, february 22, 2017 | Emory Life Editor: Alisha Compton (alisha.bhatia.compton@emory.edu) — Contact Aditya Prakash at — Contact Monica Lefton at Daniel has been driving shuttles for New York, he worked in the cargo area aditya.prakash@emory.edu and Emory since he moved to Atlanta from for American Airlines and received monica.j.lefton@emory.edu ADVICE Health class, I am willing to bear the academic constraint (and the gout) if it means entering the sweet world of Kellogg’s snack food zenith, just like Charlie Bucket entering Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory (minus the domestic violence).

I proudly take my prey back to my room, where I devour it in seconds and, with crumbs scattered all over my face, shamelessly consider buying another one.

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ADVICE

Visit the World of Coca-­Cola (a gets harder from here and I’m single time before you realize you willing to accept a less than sat-­ cannot go there more than once), isfactory grade for now, but how awkward questions from obscure the Georgia Aquarium (if you’re am I supposed to cope with this made of gold) and Little Five Points next year? relatives.

I am just an innocent biology For many, this is a well-­deserved (if you want to get robbed).

If I haven’t sold you yet, take major with no intent to pursue break where we can recharge our comfort in the fact that there are a chemistry. Why is my future po-­ If you are staying on campus for multitude of other students (most-­ tential as a biologist dependent on Thanksgiving break, treat yourself ly international) who will still be something irrelevant? to some non-­DUC food (because around.

This is a prime opportunity you literally have no other choice).

Until then, persevere and con-­ to make some new friends. Out-­ We have marched a long tinue to climb toward Nov. 23;; it is door sports, while the weather is “cold for Atlanta,” is an outstand-­ just one midterm away! ing idea;; frisbee on the Quad is a across the hills lies the great way to pass the time. Strolls Dear Doolino, sweet nectar of gravy, What the heck do I do this through Lullwater Park with the Gemy Sethaputra/Staff Thanksgiving? I forgot to book my chilly winds tickling your face are a great way to appreciate our beauti-­ tickets back to Hoboken!

College junior Jake Rosmarin and College freshman Hayat Geresu pose for a photo questions from obscure Now I have Club to stay on campus at Photo Emory’s firstful campus.

Light Painting on the Quad event Sunday evening. The the standard crowd with of light in the and watch every friend leave. relatives. students used cameras set on Plus, long exposure to paint photos.

What am I supposed to do when “Lullwater hooligans” are not all my friends are gone? What do around, so nothing shall tarnish I don’t want advice;; I am just the natural beauty of the woods, I do without Georgia Tech?

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT except for the splatter of duck feces questioning the innate unfairness What do I do without the DUC? surrounding the lake.

Yours sincerely, Oh, you could get a head start by its ability to climb a tree. When Thanksgrieving the subjective biases of the agent far too many episodes of Stranger are the hand that feeds the mouth, Dear Thanksgrieving, how can one expect me to succeed?

The campus may die down as the Yours sincerely, holiday comes around, but the city Yours truly, Bohrdom of Atlanta truly does come to life. Doolino Go downtown and actually experi-­ Dear Bohrdom, ence this city for once — those odd Dear Doolino, Looks like somebody is overly I have angst. I screwed up my Ubers to Georgia Tech or walking Chem 141 midterm. I know it only proud of themselves for taking an to Chipotle do not count.

We have marched a long jour-­

Make It or Break It: Rudy Oku on Failure

By Niraj Naik Staff Writer

Residents at Woodruff Residential Center are used to seeing College senior Rudy Oku around their hall, where he works as a Resident Advisor.

However, not many of them know about his commitment to the passion he considers central to his identity: breakdancing. While Oku said it has been hard to balance all of his commitments, he said that he owed his success to his sense of structure, a virtue that touches every aspect of his daily routine. Oku has faced many challenges throughout his time at Emory, and through those challenges he has been able to refine his way of life and learn more about himself. “[Breakdancing] was the first thing I did that no one told me how to do,” Oku said. “It was just complete control over everything I was doing.”

Although he dislocated his left shoulder in 2011 and was told he could never dance again, Oku combined his strong discipline with his fervent passion and never gave up.

“One day right before my sophomore year [during the summer], I just woke up one day and I was like, ‘I just want to be the best at dancing,’” Oku said. “‘I just want to be the best. How hard could it be?’”

Rudy Oku, College senior

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Each morning he watched motivational videos on YouTube, and trained for about five hours throughout the day. With that daily effort, he said that his skills began to grow. Eventually, he competed at a Kennesaw State University dance tournament where

he placed in the top eight. He said this experience serves as an example of what he thinks true discipline can accomplish.

In order to become truly disciplined though, Oku believes he must be completely self-aware. He designed his room thoughtfully, creating a relaxed atmosphere that welcomes a sense of focus. It is lit by two lamps that warm up the room. A guitar case pokes out from beneath his bed, easily accessible. He keeps his favorite sneakers on a display rack against the wall; his hats hang like works of fine art. Small plants sit by the window, angled towards the sunlight.

He speaks slowly and consciously.

He wears a simple olive green t-shirt tucked into dark fitted pants. He styles his black hair over to the side ,and bold black frames complement his face.

“If you clean a shoe really well, you can live,” Oku said his late grandfather told him. “At the time it wasn’t a really profound statement,but now today it’s really profound. There’s a lot of small things that can be done well and if they’re done well, you can survive.”

While Oku sits and chats with visitors to his room, he shares his love for coffee, which he offers in elegant, ceramic china. He considers drinking and enjoying coffee to be his other main passion outside of Emory.

“When you have a good cup of black coffee, it changes your outlook on what this thing that we drink daily can be,” he says as he pours himself a cup. “It’s exciting to know something that nobody else knows about.

While Oku’s day-to-day routine is full of structure and discipline, his path at Emory had many twists and turns. During his freshman year, Oku wanted to pursue a creative writing major on the pre-med track.After a year, he decided to try economics instead of creative writing. He com-

pleted the pre-med track, but was rejected from each of the medical schools to which he applied.

“I just woke up one day and I was like, ‘I just want to be the best at dancing.’”

— Rudy Oku, College senior After being rejected from medical schools, Oku re-evaluated his choices at the beginning of his senior year and considered trying a less traditional path as a street dancer in Los Angeles or a fashion designer in New York City.

His love for coffee tempted him to become a barista but eventually, Oku decided on a career in transfer pricing with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. A field similar to consulting, transfer pricing has much to do with international tax. Transfer pricing will allow Oku to work on different projects each year and also utilize his degrees in mathematics and economics.

“For the first few years, you do a lot of paperwork,” Oku said. “But thirty years in, you get to see the supply chain of many different companies, and [when I realized that] I was like, ‘Whoa.’”

But Oku’s positive outlook on his career is unsurprising-- he doesn’t believe in failure.

“I started drinking coffee and really enjoying it when I dislocated my shoulder. I started playing guitar when I couldn’t dance. I fell in love with economics when I did really badly on a creative writing paper,” Oku said. “All the hobbies I do now are a result of my failures.”

— Contact Niraj Naik at niraj.naik@emory.edu

introductory philosophy class and knowing the name of an existen-­ tialist philosopher. What did you do, Sparknotes Fear and Trem-­ bling or something?

Your anger at the system is jus-­

of pre-­meds do you think have cried their studying for With the eyes Springout semester reachorganic chemistry? many ing its halfway point,How one of the pre-­business students have banged most hyped sources of excitement heads against Spring a wall Break. to remind is imminent: From themselves that they are “plan living relaxing visits home to the to when faced with monotony of visit Cancun” thatthe always inevitably fails, Emory’s student body is going examples from other subjects, be-­ to have a lot of different experiences cause let’s be honest, this is Emory within the first part of March. With — nobody does anything else. some advice from your good friend The issue with your angst is that Doolino, hopefully you will be able there is no clear, decisive solution. to maximize the fun from your week The you learn in these bor-­ off ofskills school. ing requirements are crucial to ad-­ Dear Doolino, vancement in the career path you I am staying at Emory for Spring have chosen.

Break because I cannot afford a The most bountiful of treasures ticket back home. is at the end of the most treacher-­ I was here for Thanksgiving and ous of roads and your B.S. in biol-­ it was ThereYou is no DUC and ogy is nawful! o different. will despise therefore no hope. What on Earth moments of it without a doubt, but can I do this in order surat the end of break the day it will tomaxi-­ vive? How do I stop myself from going mad?

From Springis Breakdown Freedom not autonomy over every decision you have — it is Dear Springwhat Breakdown, choosing constraints you Your problem is one that unfortuwant to put into your life. Like it or nately not is properly addressed by hate it, isthat how you maximize any sort of authority here at Emory.

Your first issue is the lack of food since the D.U.C. is closed. In the early days of the holiday, you may be tempted to walk to nearby eateries at Emory Point or maybe a little deeper into Decatur.

Since it simply is not financially beneficial nor practical to walk to a different restaurant three times a day, you would be wise to perhaps buy a single large portion at the beginning of the day that should hopefully last you multiple meals.

Additionally, if you go to a couple of restaurants in the morning or afternoon and buy a lot of food from a few different restaurants, you not only save a bit of cash, but get a variety of foods to choose from for the next couple of days. Honestly speaking, I would even consider cooking a bit. Buying ingredients in bulk is infinitely cheaper than a $11 sandwich at Which Wich.

If you are not really into cooking, even simple things like macaroni and cheese (which is undebatably delicious) are so much more inexpensive than any other alternative.

It may be a rough few days, but as long as you don’t fall victim to an expensive Postmates addiction and have at least a modicum of intelligence when dealing with your expenses, hopefully you can live through the break without too much of a dent to your wallet.

From Doolino Dear Doolino, The people from my Health 100 class decided to plan a Spring Break trip. At the moment, we don’t really know where we want to go. On one hand, some of us want to head out to California but on the other hand, some of us want to spend less money and go camping at Stone Mountain right here in Atlanta. What do you recommend we do?

From Stoner Mountain Dear Stoner Mountain, Given your penname, it would appear that you were not listening in your Health 100 class.Try looking at scenic places in the South. If the Cali group really wants the beach, then

your worth in any given livelihood.

Yours sincerely, Doolino For your day-­to-­day qualms and minor life crises, send anonymous questions to doolino.emory@ gmail.com.

renting out an AirBnb at Daytona Beach, Fla., is surprisingly reasonable (at least relative to California).

Myrtle Beach, S.C., is a small shore town within driving distance of Atlanta that you could consider as well. Personally, I would rather be in a cheap place with my close (Health 100) friends than in a lavish place with just a couple others. At the end of the day, the company makes the holiday fun, not the place.

From Doolino Dear Doolino, My suitemates and I are planning a trip to Cancun. We were going to grab a few beers and unwind on the beach, maybe even talk to some girls during some parties.

Maybe even bring one of them home, heck, I wouldn’t even rule out a little trip to see the sunset on a particularly warm and windy afternoon as we sit down and laugh, her beautiful blue eyes shining so radiantly in the twilight as I blast some soulful Kendrick Lamar in the background. I wouldn’t even be completely against the idea of taking one of them back to Atlanta, living together and the like, and hey even settling down and getting married one day. Three kids, a golden retriever, perhaps a medium- to large-sized house in a Mercer County, N.J., the perfect commuting distance from both my job as a banker in New York and her job as a vet, I can definitely see all of this as a possibility after Spring Break. What do you think?

From King CanKunta Dear King CanKunta, In my lifetime I have seen some pretty weird questions. This one is by far the strangest.

Sincerely, Doolino For your day-to-day qualms and minor life crises, send anonymous questions to doolino.emory@gmail. com

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Transcending Language with Poetry: Fernando Valverde

By Laura FraNCo Contributing Writer

Visiting Professor Fernando Valverde doesn’t speak fluent English, but he said working through that barrier yields a deeper connection with his students. Valverde, whose most recent book, titled “The Insistence of Damage” was a bestseller in 2014 and earned Book of the Year from the Latin American Writers Institute of the University of New York, moved from Granada, Spain, in 2014 to teach Spanish and poetry at Emory.

As he finished his Poetry in Spanish Today class on a Tuesday, he greeted me with a smile and welcomed me into his office. Pictures with famous Latino artists were scattered across the overflowing book shelves. I barely situated myself in the room before he asked if I wanted a tea, as a conversation always merits one.

Valverde said that he loves being in an environment where poetry is studied and appreciated. He considers Emory a “center for poetry” and is inspired by interactions with poets he looks up to such as Natasha Trethewey, Jericho Brown and Kevin Young.

He attributes his difficulties with the English language to his poetic nature. Valverde relies mainly on his ability to speak Spanish as he is most comfortable using that language.

“I am always trying to search for just the right word to use in English because in poetry, each word carries so much meaning,” Valverde said.

“However, not speaking the same language forces both parties to make an effort to communicate, and that’s where things happen.”

For over an hour, we talked and sipped our tea as if we had been friends for years. Valverde admitted he adopted his kind, relaxed attitude from two female role models in his life: his mother and grandmother, who he said mostly raised him.

“My grandmother was the first one who gave me a book,” Valverde said. “I owe everything to these two magnificent women. They have given me my ‘emotional’ education if you will, and I think, and probably, owe the fact that I am a poet to them.”

Valverde’s books have been translated into other languages, and his last book, published in 2014, The Insistence of Harm, was named Book of the Year by the Latino American Writers Institute of the City University of New York.

“I was seventeen years old when I discovered poetry,” Valverde said.

“I never thought it would become something permanent in my life, but I became entranced by the universality of it; that one can write something and it became a sort of message for the world.”

Valverde compares the discovery of poetry to an early childhood memory.

“Poetry is like stepping onto an airplane for the first time as a child.

You’re there staring out the window and you see the whole world in front of you. It’s fantastic. I think the reaction that your first poem evokes from you is like sitting on that airplane,” he explained.

This feeling, he said, is something he wishes to impart to his students.

College freshman Ross Greenberg said that he appreciates the experience Valverde brings to the classroom.

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“Valverde combines his knowledge of Spanish literature and poetry and full immersion in order to create an optimal Spanish class experience,” Greenberg said.

In addition to writing poetry, Valverde has also dabbled in writing flamenco music—and not without success. In 2014, he was nominated for a Latin Grammy for a collaboration with famous flamenco singer and friend Juan Pinilla. While Pinilla performed the music, Valverde wrote the lyrics for their album ‘Playing With Fire.”

Fernando Valverde, Visiting Professor

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“There is music in poetry and poetry in music,” Valverde said. “I got together with [Juan] and we started recording. I wrote the lyrics, he wrote the music. The album did well in Spain but I never expected anything from it.”

Though the duo did not win the award, he said it was an incredible experience.

“It was very emotional. I got to meet all of the Latin stars, Juanes and Carlos Vives. It was crazy, I was among the nominated! It was a great opportunity. And even though I haven’t done anything else with music, I still get to vote every year on the nominations. I had to be inducted into the Academy as a lyricist. Can you believe that, a poet in an academy of music?”

The nomination was not the only award Valverde has earned. Valverde has also won the XXI Andalucía de la Critica Award.Valverde said that although he is more focused on the impact he is making, he is grateful for the opportunities that these accolades have brought him. The poet met various people that he otherwise might not have; he’s even had lunch with renowned literary critic Harold Bloom.

Valverde said he was surprised by the impact his work could have.

“I didn’t know my poetry could reach so many people,” Valverde said.

“That so many people from remote areas had read my poetry impacted me more than the result of the voting.

I thought I wrote for a limited audience, but at that moment I discovered that even if I write for a small group of people, those people are scattered around the world.”

Although he has had the opportunity to meet celebrities and has received awards for his poetry, Valverde humbly remarks that he does not think of himself as greater than other poets — rather, he considers himself an ordinary person.

“I write poetry from a normal person to normal people,” Valverde said.

“Oftentimes, poets make poetry too complicated for a regular person to understand. I try to give it back to the people. I try to use a language that, without abandoning the poetic expression, can be understood by the readers.”

This interview was conducted in Spanish and translated to English.

— Contact Laura Franco at laura.franco@emory.edu

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The spicy and sour green mango chaat is texturally rich and moderately spicy, making the sweet thickness of the mango lassi an optimal accompaniment to the dish.

An Excellent Place for Some Chit-‘Chaat’ Chai Pani Provides Authentic Food With a New Twist Chai PaNi deCatur

By aditya Prakash Staff Writer I first encountered Chai Pani the day before my father dropped me off for international orientation.

Surrounded by the colorful decor reminiscent of 1980s Mumbai and a suitable classic Bollywood soundtrack echoing in the background, the venue seemed like the ideal place for me to realize my newfound independence.

The atmosphere reminded me of my yearly visits to India from my home country of the United Arab Emirates, those precious months each year in which I could remind myself of my heritage.

Chai Pani was the perfect place to bid farewell to my father while addressing another question: would my new lifestyle in the U.S. mark the end of my Indian identity?

With this question on my mind, I was not able to truly appreciate the food, but craved the safe comfort of silence as I appreciated these moments with my father.

This weekend, I revisited Chai Pani. I ordered at the counter, greeted by the rustic charm of the sitar on Runa Laila’s “Dama Dam Mast Qalandar” from the speakers. After placing my order, I sat down at a nearby table.

The aroma of pungent spices brought back memories of sitting in my grandmother’s kitchen in Bangalore waiting for a meal.

Wishing to make the most of my rare excursion off campus, I ordered

the green mango chaat (a savory snack containing onions, cilantro, dried fruit, and savory puffs called poha) and a plate of the vada pav (“spicy potato dumplings fried in curried chickpea batter topped with green and tamarind chutneys,” according to the menu).

The mango chaat arrived within a minute of my sitting down.

A mosaic of mostly brown corn poha (comparable to cornflakes) and bright green slices of mango, the chaat also contained hearty portions of cilantro and onions with green chutney drizzled on top.

The aroma of pungent spices brought back memories of sitting in my grandmother’s kitchen in Bangalore waiting for a meal.

Impressed by the authentic details, from the pattern of the chutney drizzle to the stainless steel plate, I was excited to take a bite and end my palate’s DUC-imposed boredom.

The dish was incredibly crunchy, from the satisfying snapping of poha to the pleasing cracking of peanuts.

Taking a bite instantly brought back memories of walking through the street of Vishweshpura in Bangalore, aka “food street,” where I visited over the summer.

Even as it struck the perfect balance between Indian spices and chutney, the addition of the rather unorthodox mango truly elevated

this dish to divine levels, as the acidity of the fruit perfectly contrasted with the intensity of the spices.

I was blown away; for the first time in months I found Indian food that perfectly highlighted the panache of authentic cuisine with an innovation that allowed the dish to truly distinguish itself. The vada pav arrived at my table within ten minutes. Sizzling hot, the crunchy exterior of the potato was in a heavenly textural equilibrium with its soft interior.

The intensity of the spices, while not overwhelming, softly embraced the slight sweetness of the bun and produced a dish that was just as tasty as its Mumbai counterpart, though far more accessible to a Western palate.

Of course, if it was ever too spicy, the cool satisfaction of the well-seasoned mango lassi I ordered proved to be the perfect remedy.Each dish ordered exhibited the ideal yin-yang of authenticity and uniqueness.

From the rich, creaminess of the butter chicken to the steaming comfort of the cheese and tomato uttapam, Chai Pani provided me with not only gastronomic comfort but also a relief from all the stress I had struggled through since I was last there with my father.

Though I may be thousands of miles away from India and my personality may have changed, I am no less of an Indian than before.

Just like the chunks of green mango interspersed between the layers of spicy poha, the end product not only celebrates its Indian roots but also champions its Western influence.

— Contact Aditya Prakash at aditya.prakash@emory.edu

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INTERVIEW

‘Logan’ Concludes Wolverine Trilogy

By ViKraNt Nallaparaju Film Critic Grade: B-

teacher’s employment being terminated. In response, Strickland challenges Campbell to an old-fashioned fist fight after school.

Although Strickland feels onedimensional and seems to only break out into unexplained fits of rage, Ice Cube portrays his character as convincingly as possible. However, I can’t help but think that he’s not doing much acting at all.

Similarly, Day repeats his typical character role: a squeaky-voiced, frantic good guy caught in a sticky situation. Despite this typecasting, Campbell is more complex than Strickland.

Subsequently, his acting becomes more believable. A pregnant wife, young daughter and high-school pranksters all contribute to his character’s depth and, though it takes a while, tallow Campbell to develop a more confident, assertive character.

Much of the supporting cast is on the rise to big screen recog-

What’s most remarkable about the Wolverine series is just how far it’s come since the first film. To say that X-Men Origins: Wolverine was disappointing would be a gross understatement, but The Wolverine was an improvement, transporting Wolverine to Japan and delving into the character’s comic book roots.

Hugh Jackman dons the claws one last time as the titular character in Logan, crafting a story that struggles to live up to its lofty ambitions, but still offers a dark, mature take on the iconic character.

It’s 2029 and the government wiped out all mutants, except for Logan and Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart). The two heroes hideout in Mexico. Charles suffers from a neurodegenerative disorder and dementia while he loses control of his powers. When a young mutant, Laura (Dafne Keen), with powers similar to Logan’s enters their lives, Logan must come out of the shadows one last time to save her from a nefarious group of cyborg mercenaries, the Reavers, led by Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook).

From the outset, Logan was described by many as an unconventional superhero film, focusing more on character development rather than mindless action. It’s not a superhero film, but a western of sorts. The plot beats rhythmically and characters have a lot in common with the Spaghetti Western subgenre of the 1960s: Logan is the gunslinger with a mysterious past, Laura the girl he tries to protect and Donald Pierce the scenery-chewing villain.

The shots of barren deserts and the red and orange color pallet paint a grimy world of lawlessness and decaying morality, reminiscent of Sergio Corbucci’s Django.

It’s the most visually dynamic Wolverine film yet and perfectly sets the tone for the story director James Mangold tries to tell.

The film proudly sports its R-rating, with enough graphic violence and gore to make Quentin Tarantino blush.

Point-blank shotgun blasts to the head, claws through the face and decapitations are the tip of the iceberg for what the film has in store, and it’s all rendered close-up or in brightly lit set pieces. A couple scenes are more horrifying than some horror movies, which was a welcome surprise in a superhero film.

Jackman doesn’t get much recognition as a serious dramatic actor, but he puts all his effort into his acting in this film.

His passion for Logan is reflected in his performance, particularly in the

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Vanessa Carlton, pop singer and writer of “A Thousand Miles,” hopes to escape the one-hit wonder fame that many artists experience.

A Thousand Words with Vanessa Carlton Singer Talks Album, ‘Liberman’

By Naomi Keusch BaKer Contributing Writer Vanessa Carlton, known for “A Thousand Miles,” released Liberman Oct. 23, 2015. The Emory Wheel had a phone interview with Carlton Feb. 14 to ask about Liberman. She also spoke on her then upcoming release, Earlier Things Live, and gave insight

into her past experiences with piano and future as a singer-songwriter. This is an edited transcript.

Naomi Keusch Baker, The Emory Wheel: Broadly speaking, your style is pop, but there are other elements at work. Where did your inspiration for Liberman come from and what was your goal with this album?

Vanessa Carlton: [My inspiration] was this

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place in my house where if you sat at the piano, all you look at is this painting that was made by my grandfather. The colors in the oil painting all blend together almost like watercolors. It’s a very beautiful, colorful, psychedelic pallet and I think that painting and the colors influenced the album.

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‘Fist Fight’ Takes a While to Heat Up

By KatheriNe mcclure Contributing Writer Grade: B+

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Commander Chen (Kenny Lin) prepares to release an arrow against European mercenaries in ‘The Great Wall.’

‘Great Wall’ is Mindless Entertainment

By ViKraNt Nallaparaju Film Critic Grade: BThe spectre of the “overseas market” has loomed over Hollywood the past decade like an ominous ghoul, but has never been so apparent as in the last few years. From beating dead-horse action franchises like

The Terminator or Die Hard series purely for the profitability in Asian markets to adding foreign actors to films for broader appeal, it’s clear that Hollywood values its foreign audiences almost as much as, if not sometimes more than, American viewers. The Great Wall feels like an odd exercise in market pandering, presenting a

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Imagine your high school’s senior prank day. If yours was anything like mine, you filled your calculus teacher’s classroom with a bunch of pet rocks named Steve or put a life-sized cardboard cutout of Pope Francis in the handicap bathroom stall. It’s all in good fun, right? Sometimes, not so much. Fist Fight takes senior prank day to a new extreme.

Amid the chaos of a senior prank day gone overboard, high school English teacher Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) struggles to keep his students civil and maintain a professional relationship with irritable history teacher Ron Strickland (Ice Cube).

While students pull over-the-top pranks, such as letting a cocaine-ridden horse on the loose in the hallways, Campbell attempts to teach, but is interrupted by Stickland. Hilarity ensues, culminating in the history

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Continued from Page 1 Herrera preached inclusion and compassion over violent responses, pointing to the violence perpetrated in the late 1960s Civil Rights movement.

The violence, he said, will not create lasting change.

“We have to just get out of our personal cultural boxes and talk, then create, and then respond,” he said. “You and I might disagree, but let’s get to the core of it.”

In his position as poet laureate, Herrera’ storytelling brings communities together. His poet laureate project, La Cases de Colores, employed the power of the internet to create a collaborative epic poem written by Americans nationwide. Herrera urged individuals to share their stories of immigration, to use libraries and archives, to translate their work and to become bilingual in his interview with the Wheel.

“When we begin to shut down and begin to get fearful, that is the first step in being deported,” he said. “We’re becoming victims, and we lose our voice. We have to continue, we have to come together and talk about what’s going on with us.”

All we have are words, Herrera said. He encouraged aspiring writers to explore writing through the lens of different cultures and to cultivate a unique collection of words. To create more conversation about immigration and get to the core of issues, Herrera preached increased information flow.

With modern technology, students can discuss current issues and share their stories instantly. That communication is essential, and allows for the creation of community through storytelling, he told the Wheel.

Herrera relates his parents’ immigration story in his work to honor them.

They led a “limited resource life,” and he remembers them as brave and hardworking. It’s a story Herrera believes resonates with millions of families today. He encountered students at Fresno State — where he taught as a professor from 1990 to 2004 — and in his work as poet laureate, all of whom share similar stories of immigration, he said. Writing can only “transmute” the immigrant experience, he said, recognizing that writing about an experience cannot completely capture the experience of living it.

“We’re adding new spices to it [when we write],” he said. “That’s very different from our parents working in the fields or crossing borders.”

Herrera implored the audience at Emory’s Schwartz Center to present their voices and “break through the silences.” And in a rare move at a poetry reading, he incorporated the audience into his performance, reading a line and then coaxing the audience to repeat it back to him — a call and response that had the audience reciting the entirety of his poem “Aztec Invasions.” At the poem’s conclusion, Herrera grinned, delighted.

“That’s the first time you read a poem in four languages,” he said, praising the crowd. “That’s quite an accomplishment.”

After he finished his planned reading, the audience called for an encore.

Herrera, laughing, danced across the stage to their chants, then returned to the podium for a final poem. He smiled. He coaxed the audience members of their shell and, in a 90 minute-reading, created a community of poetry.

“You have a poem to offer,” he said.

“It is made of action — you must search for it, run outside and give your life to it.”

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

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Mia (Emma Stone, left) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling, r ight) dance in ‘La La Land,’ which is nominated for 14 Academy Awards.

‘La La Land’ Aims to Dominate In Predictable Oscars

By BraNdoN WagNer Wheel Alumnus The world burns around us, but art moves ever forward, trying its best to understand, filter and give us something to grasp onto.

With all that’s going on, it may seem silly this year (as perhaps every year) to care about the Oscars and what congratulations Hollywood may hand itself.

It’s hard to disagree, but it’s also hard not to feel that the frivolity is the point.

The Oscars are a celebration of the power of cinema and the ways in which it spreads empathy and escapism. Why not get swept up in a competition between a selection of films that do exactly that? Let’s take a look at the competition as we ramp up for Feb. 26.

The desire to escape is why La La Land looks to be the big winner of the 89th Academy Awards. The original musical by Damien Chazelle is a Technicolor whirlwind, an emotional and grounded story that brings its audience on a (literal) flight among the stars, a love letter to the transportational power of cinema. Perhaps the sweeping romance of it all is why it ties the record for most nominations ever (14).

This leads us to the big question: whether or not La La Land can take the all-time record (11, a tie between Ben-Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King).

It has a shot. Out of its 14 nominations, it’s eligible to win a maximum of 13 given that two of its nominations are both in Best Original Song.

Realistically, it can only win 12 thanks to the Best Actor competition, where Ryan Gosling is the solid 3rd place.

Best Actor is a dead heat between Denzel Washington for Fences and Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea; Affleck has the momentum and an overwhelming critical love for him (with a series of sexual harassment allegations from his past that might hurt his chances) and Washington has industry clout (including a Screen Actors Guild Award, the members of which compose much of the Oscar voting body) and equal universal praise.

That one will be a nailbiter. This isn’t true for any of the other Acting races.

Whatever the ceremony, the Oscars offer to take us away — and don’t we all need that right now?

Emma Stone’s central turn in the overall frontrunner La La Land will net her a first Oscar win. Mahershala Ali’s majestic performance in Moonlight has had a number of surprising challengers, but Ali took home the Screen Actors Guild prize, which shows us where the Oscar wind is blowing.

Viola Davis, reprising her Tonywinning role in Fences, has had this on lock since she was announced.

The rest of the main Awards look to be there for La La Land to sweep. Right now, the film is the odds-on favorite for Best Director, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song for “City of Stars,” Best Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Original Screenplay.

That brings it to 11, a tie for the all-time record. So, who else is going to win?

There are a few challengers dotted throughout, of course. Best Original Screenplay may go to Manchester by the Sea, as Lonergan’s difficult and nuanced writing garnered more critical recognition and La La Land seems more indebted to its showy camerawork than its script.

Best Costume Design might go to the unconventional biopic Jackie and its replication of the iconic fashions of the Kennedy-era White House. Best Director may go to Barry Jenkins for the beautiful and heartbreaking Moonlight.

But despite all that, La La Land is the juggernaut that your smart money is on the whole night.

So, what about where La La Land isn’t nominated?

Best Visual Effects will likely go to The Jungle Book for its major innovations in motion capture technology.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling is likely going to Star Trek Beyond, as it has less baggage than major competitor Suicide Squad.

Best Adapted Screenplay is going to Moonlight, based on the still unpublished play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by the film’s Terrell Alvin McCraney.

For those of you taking notes for your Oscar party betting, that just leaves Best Animated, Best Foreign Language and Best Documentary.

Best Animated is Disney and Zootopia’s award to lose, though Kubo and the Two Strings has mounted an impressive campaign.

Best Documentary is a fiery competition between some vital works (check out I Am Not Your Negro, it’s vital), but nothing has accumulated buzz like OJ: Made In America, the eight-hour long documentary on the life of OJ Simpson that blurs the line between

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Lucas Hedges stars as Patrick in ‘Manchester by the Sea,’ which is nominated for six Academy Awards.

TV and film.

Fun fact: If OJ: Made In America wins, it will be the longest film ever to win an Oscar.

A month ago I would have told you Toni Erdmann was the frontrunner for Foreign Language, but this category is all about name recognition, and thanks to Trump’s travel ban leading famed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi to skip the ceremony, his film The Salesman looks to be a clear steal and a potential political knockout.

It’s most likely a year of few surprises, but I’ve said that before. Whatever the ceremony, the Oscars offer to take us away — and don’t we all need that right now?

— Contact Brandon Wagner at brandon.h.wagner@gmail.com

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Pop Singer Discusses Inspiration, Curiosity Continued from Page 9 EW: How do you express yourself differently through singing as opposed to playing the piano or other instruments?

VC: I’m my most comfortable self playing the piano, that instrument, because I’m more of an instrumentalist than a singer in a way. Piano was the first instrument, the first thing I ever learned how to do. I think it’s also possible for something that’s worth it to connect in different ways.

EW: Some of your lyrics are more metaphorical; there’s more room for interpretation, whereas with others you’re more forthright in your lyrics. Is this something you think about when you’re writing, how your lyrics can be interpreted differently by different people?

VC: I think the concept of the record was … it’s easy to be a singersongwriter and not be a conceptual artist but I think this was how the two paths crossed. For me, everything just became so clear, there was a lot of clarity to the project, this record is sonically and lyrically yearning to be personalized to the [listener] to detail somebody else’s life … I think there are a lot of hidden messages.

EW: A lot of other artists tend to stick to the typical mold of the verse/ chorus/bridge, but in this album you experiment and try different patterns in your music. Do you consider yourself an experimental artist or are there certain rules you always follow when you’re composing?

VC: I just think it’s important to always explore foreign territory because it’s always very uncomfortable and wherever I am in my life, either in my work or my personal life, whenever you venture new territory and for whatever reason it scares you, that’s always a good sign. It leads to something more and I think that a lot of rules are being rewritten. There are no rules anymore, you don’t have to follow the crowd. I don’t have to have a major leading role. I don’t have to write pop songs. I don’t have to be anything that I don’t feel. I feel absolutely obligated to explore territory and formats that I don’t normally live in. I think it’s important for all artists. I work with a major label and the conventional pop singer-songwriter girl, there is that kind of role and they care more about

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Vanessa Carlton has been playing the piano since she was a young child and states she is her most comfortable self when playing the piano. the song structure and how the videos are but that’s not for me. You can call it experimenting but it’s not really that, I think it’s more just me following my curiosity.

“I don’t have to have a major leading role.

I don’t have to write pop songs. I don’t have to be anything that I don’t feel.”

— Vanessa Carlton, Singer-Songwriter EW: Your new live album, Earlier Things Live, was released Feb. 17.

What’s different about performing live compared to in the studio?

VC: The two are totally different.

Live has a performance to it; you have to capture the audience. In the studio, it’s like you’re in a workshop doing arts and crafts. You can play with pallets and sounds. Live you are presenting the work as is, so it’s very different. I

nition, including Jillian Bell (Holly) and JoAnna Garcia Swisher (Maggie).

Viewers may recognize Hendricks as Joan Harris from television hit Mad Men, who seems to be redirecting her talents to the big screen.

Although she only has a supporting role, Bell strikes me as the next Amy Schumer.

She effectively and consistently delivers characters with a vulgar sense of humor, much like her depiction of goofy drug dealer Mercedes in 22 Jump Street. Her blank-face quips and dry confidence make it clear Bell has the potential to become a household name.

Fist Fight is, in essence, a slightly less funny 21 Jump Street: both feature well-intentioned adults comically wreaking havoc on a high school.

The film begins with a few jokes that made me giggle, but nothing made me laugh-out-loud. The comedy was largely superficial, consisting of foolishly inappropriate jokes about drugs or sleeping with students, but the second half of the movie really turned it around for me.

The film became more about character and plot development than a bland narrative linked by strungtogether jokes.

In fact, as the narrative progressed, the jokes became funnier.

I found myself laughing for the last 30 minutes of the movie, especially during the final fight scene in which Campbell tries to fight the intimidating Strickland, despite a puddle of baby oil.

— Contact Katherine McClure at katherine.mcclure@emory.edu

just always thought in the moment, “oh wow I’ve done this before.” Liberman Live which came out last year was really the time for me to do that. And then Earlier Things [Live] is pretty cool, it’s from that same night from Liberman Live but it’s older songs packaged into a record.

I’m happy to get back on the road, just a pretty short tour I’m about to jump on, but you connect with people.

I think in a way maybe it will allow an audience to hear me live; some people prefer that experience.

EW: Do you have specific goals for the future? What can listeners look forward to?

VC: Liberman was a good opportunity to create a pallet; it was a concept we all had in the studio [and] I’d like to up the game on that.

I don’t know how, at this point I can say I don’t think I’m going to make another album. I think while I’m still young enough to get on the road and continue to perform as a long-term goal.

— Contact Naomi Keusch Baker at nkeusc2@emory.edu

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tired Hollywood story meshed with Chinese culture, creating an interesting hybrid of East-meets-West blockbuster filmmaking.

Our heroes, brothers William (Matt Damon) and Tovar (Pedro Pascal), are Spanish mercenaries traveling through China in search of the mythical “black powder” (gunpowder) while being chased by bandit hordes.

They make their way to the Great Wall, where they are captured by the Nameless Order. The brothers quickly learn that this is an army of thousands of monsters that attack China every 60 years. William and Tovar are forced to join forces with Commander Lin (Jin Tiang) to stop the attack and save China from apocalypse.

As ambitious as the central concept of The Great Wall is, the film never quite settles into a comfortable groove.

In many ways, it feels like a spiritual successor to 2007’s Korean-American production Dragon Wars: D-War. It throws so many elements at the screen, constantly upping the ante with ludicrous visuals and action beats. These feeble attempts at weighty melodrama and world-building clash heavily with the mindless action sequences breaking up the obligatory plotting.

Director Zhang Yimou has a knack for impressive visuals, shown by the sweeping, wide shots of desert landscapes and war-torn valleys. Yimou knows audiences want to see every dollar on-screen, so he’s keen to show you the film’s budget. Furthermore, the scenes are drenched in color, from the bright reds and blues of the Nameless Order’s armor to the murky greens and blacks of blighted valleys.

Unfortunately, Yimou failed to wring something remotely interesting out of this unremarkable script. We’ve seen the same “unlikely hero rising to the occasion” story so many times that even the transposition of this story to post-classical China isn’t much to write home about.

The casting of Matt Damon as the lead in a film with a predominantly Chinese cast raised issues of white-

washing and white savior tropes; fortunately the film doesn’t quite go that far in making him a Mary Sue. When he’s not channeling his inner Connor MacLeod, Damon still gets many of the film’s best action moments and delivers the funniest one-liners.

However, the real highlight of the film is Jin Tiang as Yin. She serves as William’s moral compass, motivating him to fight alongside her. Tiang dives off walls and spears monsters while wearing what can only be described as a rejected Mortal Kombat costume.

In fact, the only weak link is Willem DaFoe, who is completely wasted in a minor supporting role as a mercenary in the fortress. While his casting probably gave the film more cache in the American market, his character only spouts exposition and exits the film before the real action even begins. It’s a complete waste to use such a great actor for such an insignificant part.

When it comes to exhilarating action filmmaking, The Great Wall might just take the cake for some of the most off-the-wall, insane moments I’ve seen recently. The laws of physics are clearly ignored as characters bungee-jump off the Great Wall or swing from pagoda towers while harpooning monsters hundreds of feet away. I wish I remembered to leave my brain at the door so I would have been in more child-like awe of what I was seeing instead of vainly trying to make sense of it all. The lesson here is obvious: don’t think about it, just accept what’s happening and have a good time with it.

For what it is, The Great Wall offers an interesting diversion in a time of year when high-concept genre films are rather sparse. It’s genre filmmaking at its most gluttonous, embracing crowd-pleasing spectacle and mindless entertainment to the nth degree.

The Great Wall wears its fusion of cultures proudly, and while it doesn’t have the skill to balance Western and Eastern sensibilities, it manages to entertain in spite of itself.

— Contact Vikrant Nallaparaju at vnallap@emory.edu

End to Trilogy is Bittersweet, Appropriate Continued from Page 9 quieter scenes between him and Keen or Stewart. Jackman portrays Logan as a man who life has constantly beat down, a man struggling to find the motivation to fight back one last time.

Stewart and Keen are no slouches either, with the latter giving a good performance despite her young age.

The majority of her acting involves little to no dialogue and relies purely on facial expressions.

I do also have to address some major problems I have with the film.

The villains are poorly and criminally underwritten caricatures: Donald Pierce and the Reavers were never particularly compelling antagonists in the X-Men comics; they’re generic soldiers for hire.

The writers could’ve opted for a more compelling villain for this role, like Mister Sinister or another member of the Hellfire Club.

That’s not to say Holbrook does a bad job; he’s actually rather charismatic and has some of the best jokes

in the film. However, Holbrook cannot even be compared to Ian McKellen’s Magneto.

This becomes more of an issue when a mid-film reveal upstages Pierce’s role entirely.

[‘Logan’ is] brutal, uncompromising and downright heartbreaking at times, especially if you’ve followed the characters since the beginning of the franchise.

From that point on, his character becomes superfluous and never regains traction.

At its core, the film is a road trip, with the motley trio travelling across the country; however, like most road trips, things get monotonous.

The glacial pacing of the middle portion of this film teeters on the edge of completely draining the life out of the story.

The film hints at a compelling backstory of how Logan and Charles ended up the way they are and what happened to the other X-Men, but our questions are never answered.

It’s frustrating because the dropped hints make it sound like a more interesting story that should’ve been further developed.

For an R-rated superhero film, Logan does what it needs to and then some, even if it sometimes misses the mark.

It’s brutal, uncompromising and downright heartbreaking at times, especially if you’ve followed the characters since the beginning of the franchise.

It’s not perfect by a long shot, but for Jackman’s last hurrah in this iconic role, he exits on a good note.

— Contact Vikrant Nallaparaju at vnallap@emory.edu

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017 | Editorials Editor: Annie Cohen (annie.cohen@emory.edu)

Gorsuch Mirrors Scalia’s Ideologies Brandon Wood As you have no doubt heard by now, President Donald Trump named Neil Gorsuch, a judge from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, to Antonin Scalia’s vacated seat on the Supreme Court. Obviously, he will be a conservative voice; however, the right wing of the Court does not always rule in unison; each member has unique views, so we must know Gorsuch’s specific beliefs in lieu of grouping him with the other court conservatives.

Gorsuch is a straightforward Constitutional conservative. He does not believe in changing the law through appellate cases brought before the Court. His philosophy is that law must be changed through the legislative, rather than judicial, process, an ideology constantly invoked by late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

No case, save for Obergefell v.

Hodges (2015), drew as much attention as the Hobby Lobby (2013)

such takes a clear pro-life stance.

He would likely have ruled with the dissenting conservative opinion in Whole Women’s Health v.

Hellerstedt (2016) in which the court voted 5-3 that Texas state laws requiring doctors to have hospital-admitting privileges and surgical facilities at their office in order to provide abortions, was ruled a “substantial obstacle” to women seeking abortions.

We will likely see more 5-4 decisions when Gorsuch joins the court if and when more abortion cases reach the Supreme Court.

President Trump lived up to his promise of replacing Scalia with someone remarkably similar who applies both originality and textualism and whose decisions will read quite similarly to those written by Scalia himself.

With Gorsuch’s nomination and likely confirmation, the Court will resume the familiar voting blocs leading to 5-4 rulings on many contentious issues.

case. Gorsuch wrote a concurring opinion on Hobby Lobby while still in district court, ruling in favor of the private company’s ability to claim religious exemption from providing four types of contraception categorized as abortifacients.

Gorsuch also ruled on another lesser-known Supreme Court case, Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged v. Burwell (2016), while still in the 10th circuit, again ruling in favor of the religious organization’s refusal to supply contraceptive coverage to their employees.

His rulings follow a clear pattern of prioritizing individual religious beliefs as being subject to a great deal of protection, even against secular laws, suggesting Gorsuch will be receptive towards objections to other secular laws by private and nonprofit groups.

A major non-judicial focus of Gorsuch’s has been bioethics. He has not yet faced a case where he has had to rule on bioethical legal issues, such as abortion or assisted suicide, however, he has written well-known comprehensive books on the topic, where Gor-

Brandon Wood is a College junior from Northridge, Mass.

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Why a Sanctuary Campus Matters Georgia’s Past and Present And our Nation’s Future sions ban as modern segregation and urged students to demand action from Emory’s administration.

Access to education regardless We write in response to the recent editorial “Faculty ‘Sanc- of citizenship status is enshrined tuary’ Petition is Misguided” and in Article 2 and Article 26 of Tyler Zelinger’s “The Dangers of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Uninformed Activism.”

The first piece argues that the Emory can make an important designation of Sanctuary Cam- public stand against segregation pus carries no legal force and in higher education, and in supthe second, that the Sanctuary port of the basic human rights of Coalition has not done its re- undocumented students. Emosearch. We argue against these ry’s location in Georgia, and its assertions. Emory’s recent state- privileged status as a private inments, which are distinct from stitution, makes the “sanctuary policies, draw from the well- campus” designation especially researched demands put forth meaningful.

The chilling roundups in citby the Sanctuary Coalition in ies across the country during January.

1) Welcome: Expand admis- the past weeks make clear that sions and financial aid to include Georgia’s recent history regardnot only DACA but also fully un- ing undocumented youth now documented students because intersects with the Trump administration’s nathe future of tionwide agenda to DACA is uncerdeport three miltain.

Emory should take lion undocumented 2) Protect: people. inspiration from Pledge lawful The ACLU imnon-cooperathe courageous migrants rights tion with federproject and other undocumented al immigration immigrants rights authorities unyouth who time and groups contend that less presented Trump’s agenda far with a judicial again risk arrest exceeds that of the warrant. This and deportation Obama administrais a committion, which had limment to the rule through acts of ited its dragnet to of law, not a nonviolent civil those with a crimipledge to break nal record. the law. disobedience.

This situation, 3) Support: which has produced Provide access fear and anguish in to university immigrant commuservices such as pro-bono legal nities, will likely worsen, and the clinics and mental health serrisks for undocumented youth vices.

In effect, the Emory adminis- will intensify as the administration has adopted the language tration sets its sights on rolling of a Sanctuary Campus with- back DACA. Now is not the time to hope out making it university policy or declaring itself a Sanctuary that federal and state authorities won’t notice Emory’s pledge of Campus.

This shows a failure of lead- non-cooperation with immigraership, especially given Emory’s tion officials who seek information about its students’ citizenlocation in Georgia.

Georgia’s laws prohibit un- ship status, or to back down documented students from at- to threats made by politicians tending Georgia’s top public in- regarding Emory’s funding. Institutions, making it one of three stead, it is time to show leaderstates — alongside Alabama and ship and declare our position South Carolina — to have a col- openly, which is what a “Sanclege admissions ban based on tuary Campus” designation will citizenship status. Georgia is the achieve.

Emory should take inspiraonly state to ban DACA students.

Veterans of the Student Non- tion from the courageous unviolent Coordinating Committee documented youth who time (SNCC) pointed out this policy and again risk arrest and deporis reminiscent of Jim Crow. It tation through acts of nonviolent makes the struggle of Georgia’s civil disobedience at the Georgia undocumented youth to acquire State Capitol and meetings of access to higher education reso- the Georgia Board of Regents nant with past efforts to deseg- to call attention to injustice and regate Georgia’s colleges and advocate for change. Change entails risk, bold action and couruniversities.

At the Feb. 2 panel “Activ- age; this is Emory’s credo.

We urge Emory to stand by ism and Inclusion: The Struggle its principles and go where coufor Civil and Human Rights at Emory,” co-sponsored by Volun- rageous inquiry leads: send a teer Emory, Candler Social Con- strong message that it supports cerns Network, Emory Global the fundamental human rights Development Student Council, of all of its students — including the Laney Graduate School and freedom from fear — by declarthe Latin@ and Black Graduate ing itself a sanctuary campus.

Students Association, Charles Black, the chairman of the AtKaren Stolley is a Professor lanta Student Movement and of Spanish and Yanna Yannakakis an Associate Morehouse College alumnus, Professor of History. characterized Georgia’s admis-

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Trump is One Expensive Hypocrite

Annie Cohen If there is one thing we know about President Donald Trump and his family, they live a lavish lifestyle. Something that I had not considered about this wealthy man becoming our president is the amount of money it would cost for him to maintain his standard of living alongside the protection he now requires.

According to The Guardian, Trump Tower alone currently costs $500,000 a day to protect, and this number could rise to as much as $183 million annually. That’s just one tower, and utterly ridiculous. It took $35 million to protect Trump Tower between the election and the inauguration. To compare, look at Obama. It cost a mere $2.2 million to watch his home during the

same time period. Seem ridiculous yet?

Enough about Trump Tower; let’s talk about his sons. Eric and Donald Jr. have been quite the travelers recently, costing the government a ton now that they require Secret Service protection.

The pair recently traveled to Dubai to open up a Trump Golf Course, racking up Secret Service hotel bills of $16,000.

Eric went to Uruguay recently, spending $100,000 in taxpayer money for Secret Service hotel bills alone. The Trump sons are using exuberant amounts of taxpayers’ money on these trips to open Trump-branded golf courses and resorts, now that they need the Secret Service. The Guardian estimates that taxpayers will have to pay hundreds of millions over the next four years to cover the cost of this luxurious lifestyle and that is

obscene, unprofessional and unacceptable. Donald Trump owns an estate and club, Mar-a-Lago, which has gotten quite a bit of attention.

The President travelled to Mar-aLago three consecutive weekends this past month, despite slamming Obama for playing golf and saying that he himself would be too busy to leave the White House. This is hypocritical considering how much golf Trump played in his first 32 days as President.

While White House Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that Trump was all business at the estate, professional golfer Rory McIlroy played 18 holes with the President. Palm Beach officials say it costs $60,000 a day in police overtime to protect President Trump at the estate. His visits also hurt local businesses. The small airport in the area shuts down for Air Force One, causing

Diversity Presentation Entirely Useless Madeline Lutwyche As a product of the private education system, I’ve suffered through innumerable talks on “diversity and inclusion.” Most have been subpar, and the presentation given to Emory student-athletes by NFL player Kelvin Beachum last Friday was undoubtedly subpar.

The talk, delivered in Cox Ballroom, began with a cliched, slightly embarrassing introduction by Emory Director of Athletics Dr. Michael Vienna. The introduction was like many I’ve heard before.

Vienna spent the majority of his time boasting about how “privileged” Emory students are because of our place at such an impressive academic institution and our immersion in the amazingly diverse community on campus.

In struggling to avoid saying anything politically incorrect or offensive, Vienna essentially said nothing. He was clearly uncomfortable connecting diversity and inclusion to Emory’s athletic community. As the Director of Athletics, Vienna’s inability to admit weakness or actively address issues of inequality should be a red flag. I fervently hoped that the talk itself would be better. I was wrong. In speaking about diversity and inclusion, presenters usually choose one of two approaches: personal narrative or factual argument. Beachum did little of either.

He began with a twenty-minute meet-the-celebrity schtick, filled with lots of high-fiving, calling people out and unfunny, ego-fueled jokes with cameraman and sound crew in tow. His PowerPoint consisted mainly of borrowed video

footage, including a Danish ad titled “All That We Share” which went viral earlier this year, and the stock photos that come up when you Google “diversity and inclusion.”

Beachum’s strongest argument in favor of inclusivity was the earthshattering suggestion that being excluded feels bad, citing the scene from The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride where the animal kingdom shuns and exiles Scar’s son. While I usually support any Disney-related content by default, one has to ask: is this really the deepest level of discussion in which Emory students are capable of engaging?

The only other message from Beachum’s talk addressed the benefits of inclusion and diversity in the workforce. With approximately 25 percent of undergraduates transitioning directly into the workforce where employers are valuing diversity more than ever, Emory students will need tangible interpersonal skills and the capacity to unite and work with a diverse range of people. Although he managed to repeatedly assure the audience of his own corporate successes, Beachum completely failed to address what these skills are or how students can build them. For the rest of the presentation, audience members filled out a work packet.

The final page in the packet asked students to identify two concrete ways they could be more inclusive in their lives at Emory. Beachum laughingly called on freshmen to come to the front of the room and share their responses for the amusement of their teammates.

While not an overtly offensive gimmick, the more worrying aspect was the lack of substance in students’ responses. Most shared something

along the lines of “be more accepting.”

This trivialization of inclusivity and the tangible ways in which students are discriminated against on college campuses was appalling, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the lack of diversity displayed in Division III athletics.

Admittedly, race is only one aspect of identity demographics, but the lack of such diversity in coaching and administrative staff at Emory, and among our athletic peer institutions, is telling.

According to NCAA annual demographic data covering the past four years, there currently are no non-white athletic directors in the the University Athletic Conference, and across all teams in the eight schools, only six head coaches identified as non-white, two of whom-Penny Siqueiros of Women’s Softball and Christy Thomaskutty of Women’s Basketball-- coach at Emory. How can student-athletes be expected to think critically about the role of inclusivity in leadership when the sports culture that surrounds them is so unprepared to do the same?

While the event organizers were likely not to blame, Emory coaches and athletic staff should assume responsibility for filling the glaring holes left by Beachum’s presentation. No program is perfect, and most of the challenges Emory faces regarding diversity and inclusion are shared by our peer institutions, but if Emory Athletics wants to fulfill its vision to build the “nation’s preeminent intercollegiate athletics program,” they need to step up their game.

Madeline Lutwyche is a College freshman from Baltimore, Md.

the airport to lose business, in addition to another losing $40,000 dollars in contracts, according to The Guardian. Even if he is doing business at Mar-a-Lago, this could be, and should be, conducted at the White House. Mar-a-Lago is a club, and offers an unfair advantage to people rich enough to afford a membership, because now they can buy quality time at the same resort as President Trump.

To join Mar-a-Lago, one has to drop $200,000, and then pay $14,000 a year to stay a member.

That gets you access to the pool, the tennis courts and the president of the United States of America.

That is appalling. Camp David is a mere helicopter ride away from the White House, which would save the thousands Trump spends to fly Air Force One all the way to Florida every weekend. We, as a country, are in debt. Trump is spending extreme

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amounts of money on unnecessary traveling and should be focussing on foreign affairs, immigration and the other issues plaguing the United States since his taking office.

Trump should not be wasting time at his vacation house.

It is clear that Trump does not want to give up his exceedingly lavish lifestyle just to be President nor is he willing to stop dipping into taxpayer money to continue to travel. Over Obama’s two terms, it cost $97 million to protect him on trips and vacations.

The Guardian estimated that Trump costs eight times more, potentially reaching one billion dollars. Donald Trump has been privileged with access to the White House. Too bad he is spending our money to avoid using it.

Annie Cohen is a College freshman from New Orleans, La.

Milo Crosses The Line ... Again Boris Niyonzima The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) invited Milo Yiannopoulos to speak Feb. 18. Yiannopoulos was uninvited after an offensive video of him surfaced defending pedophilia two days later. Over the weekend, CPAC realized Milo’s volatile statements were not worth defending. American Conservative Union (ACU) Chairman Matt Schlapp wrote in a statement that Yiannopoulos endorsed the “evils of sexual abuse of children.” This was a step too far for CPAC, but for many paying attention to Yiannopoulos’ career, he has crossed the line many times before. Last December, he was invited to speak at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

In that speech, he openly mocked a former UW-Milwaukee student, a transwoman, and displayed her photo and name on-screen.

Yiannopoulos said, “I have known some passing trannies in my life. Trannies you’re not allowed to say that … Well, no, the way that you know he’s failing is I’d almost still bang him.”

That is not only transphobic, but also a targeted offense towards an individual in a public forum. This particular comment, insulting someone based on their gender, is only a few steps from hate speech.

This is where CPAC should have drawn their “line.”

With a platform as large as Yiannopoulos’ , his words have substantial consequences. There is no reason to attack vulnerable individuals. The student Yiannopoulos attacked was in the room and

their pained response speaks much louder than mine: “Do you know what it’s like to be in a room full of people who are laughing at you as if you’re some sort of perverted freak[?]” Earlier last year, Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter for another harassment situation.

Leslie Jones deleted her Twitter account after she was harassed for her appearance in the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters in the summer. This crusade was fueled by Yiannopoulos (@Nero) and his 300,000 followers. Tweets comparing Jones to an ape, a racist caricature, were not personally sent

by Yiannopoulos, but he further mocked Jones when she expressed her discontent with the comments.

He contributed to the hate by calling her “barely literate,” another racially-charged insult.

One of Yiannopoulos’ headlines is “The Solution to Online ‘Harassment’ is Simple: Women Should Log Off;” this argument falls apart when considering the real-world repercussions of online harassment. Yiannopoulos demonstrated more than once that he does not understand how his platform can be used for abuse and if he does know, he seems not to care.

As a conservative provocateur, his job is to make charged statements that anger the progressive left, but when those statements cause extreme offense, society should reject his voice and ignore his defense of free speech. Today, Yiannopoulos retired as editor from Breitbart News - a reassuring sign that societal rejection is finally getting to him.

Boris Niyonzima is a College freshman from Kigali, Rwanda.

An Insurance Company with an Army Joshua Lewis With Republicans in control of the White House and Congress, Washington will soon be debating a new federal budget. House Speaker Paul Ryan and his congressional allies are widely expected to rein in federal spending. The Federal budget could use an overhaul, but Speaker Ryan has some terrible ideas about how to do it.

There’s a popular myth on the political right that most taxpayer dollars are being given away to the undeserving: either as foreign aid or welfare for lazy individuals who refuse to work. This narrative is not supported by the facts.

Foreign aid and welfare constitute less than 1 percent and 6 percent of the federal budget, respectively. Depending on how the budget is reimagined, slashing federal spending could undermine our economic growth and weaken programs on which most Americans

will depend for healthcare and retirement income.

Peter Fisher, former undersecretary of the Treasury, once quipped that our government is little more than an insurance company with an army. He was not wrong. 47 percent of the government’s budget is devoted to social insurance programs (Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security). Another 16 percent is consumed by the military.

This isn’t inherently bad; much of our social insurance spending provides income and health care for the elderly. But there is a problematic trend within these numbers.

Our government invests far less in our future than it has in the past.

As a percentage of our economy, federal funding for research and development (R&D) is only half of what it was in 1964. Our investment in roads, bridges and other infrastructures fell so much that the Army Corps of Engineers gave America a D+ in its most recent report.The U.S. also under-invests in human capital: American students’

test scores have fallen behind much of the developed world. While our collective investment in our future has declined, federal spending is increasingly dominated by consumption of services in the present, especially healthcare. We spend more on healthcare than peer nations, many of which control healthcare costs by having regulators set prices. These are just some of the issues Congress must address.

Speaker Ryan and his congressional Republicans championed two major ideas to cut federal spending.

The first is to convert Medicare and Medicaid into premium support and block grant programs, respectively. This isn’t a solution to growing health costs; it’s a plan to force other people to come up with a solution. Rather than providing seniors with health insurance, Medicare would provide seniors with money to buy private insurance.

This saves the federal government money because Speaker Ryan would give less money to seniors than Medicare currently spends to

insure them. As the cost of private insurance grows, seniors will bear more of the cost or be forced to buy skimpier coverage. Similarly, block-granting Medicaid would cap federal funding for state governments, causing federal support to fall even further behind the cost of healthcare. In both cases, the federal government would do nothing to address runaway costs in the healthcare sector; it would simply shift costs to state governments and senior citizens. This would not be an improvement.

Speaker Ryan’s second idea is to make draconian cuts in nondefense discretionary spending. This category constitutes just 16 percent of the federal budget, but encompasses everything from meat inspectors to the federal highway system. It includes the National Institutes for Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, the Centers for Disease Control and many others. These agencies fund R&D, our nation’s infrastructure and the education of our youth.

In short, this sliver of our budget is devoted to investing in our future.

This category of spending is small, and it’s not growing, so slashing it will not resolve our budget quagmire. Gutting non-defense discretionary spending is one of the most foolish, shortsighted and ineffective ideas for trimming the budget.

Right now, our government under-invests in our infrastructure, our people and our future. Meanwhile, it writes a blank check to our private healthcare sector.

Instead of pushing these problems onto state governments and senior citizens, Congress should roll up its sleeves and directly address rising healthcare costs.

Republicans should embrace funding for R&D, education and infrastructure as crucial investments in our future. America doesn’t need our government to do less; we need it to do better.

Joshua Lewis is a Laney Graduate School Student from Athens, Ga.

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By Stephen MatteS Senior Staff Writer After two tough losses, the Washington Capitals abdicated their throne atop the National Hockey League. The new No. 1, the Minnesota Wild, played terrifically and earned the league’s top position. This week’s top four consist of the Minnesota Wild, Washington Capitals, Pittsburgh Penguins and the Chicago Blackhawks.

All teams from last week’s top four dropped games this week. However, these teams accumulated comfortable play-off positions throughout the season and maintained top four consideration. The following rankings are based off play as of print time.

No. 1 Minnesota Wild (39-13-6) Minnesota’s rise to the top is due to their offensive play. Forwards Jason Zucker, Jason Pominville, Mikael Granlund and Eric Staal have taken the Wild’s forecheck to the next level.

The Wild received reliable goaltending from Devan Dubnyk and backup Darcy Kuemper. Their week started poorly, falling to the Anaheim Ducks last Tuesday. Goaltender John Gibson shut out the Wild, helping the Ducks win 1-0. Rebounding from an offensive lull, the Wild defeated the Dallas Stars 3-1 Thursday. Kuemper spearheaded the Wild’s victory, making 34 saves. Recording their second straight win Saturday, the Wild trounced the Nashville Predators in a 5-2 victory.

Zucker led the offense with two goals and an assist. Dubnyk’s winning performance was his league-leading 32nd win of the season.

No. 2 Washington Capitals (39-12-7) The Capitals had a quiet week, playing two games over the weekend.

Both games failed to yield sought-after results for the current league leaders. Washington’s first game went to a shootout against the Detroit Red Wings. Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg snapped the winning shot in the shootout, beating Washington goaltender Braden Holtby. In the second half of a back-to-back, the Capitals took on the New York Rangers. Despite a powerplay goal by forward Alexander

Ovechkin, Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist held off Washington’s forecheck to win the game 2-1. Despite the two losses, Washington showed that they are poised to claim the prime position heading into the playoffs.

No. 3 Pittsburgh Penguins (36-14-8) Penguins forward Sidney Crosby reached a career milestone this week, scoring his 1,000th career point. His trek to 1,000 began Tuesday when the Penguins faced the Vancouver Canucks. Crosby tallied his 999th career point by assisting forward Jake Guentzel. The Penguins won the game 4-0 and goalie Matt Murray notched his third shutout of the season. Crosby scored his 1,000th point Thursday in a Penguins victory over the Winnipeg Jets. The monumental point occurred after Crosby dished a pass to forward Chris Kunitz, who converted on the scoring chance. To make the night even sweeter, Crosby scored the gamewinning goal in overtime, stuffing in a rebound on a shot from Malkin. After Crosby’s historic night, the Penguins faltered in play Friday, and Sunday, losing to the Columbus Blue Jackets and Detroit Red Wings, respectively.

The Penguins are currently in second place in the Metropolitan Division.

and another 10 in the second, Jim ‘the commissioner’ Gordon was the hero Emory needed Friday night, but maybe not the hero the team deserved.

Down 75-84 with fewer than five minutes remaining in regulation, buckets from junior forward Adam Gigax and sophomore guard Gebereal Baitey helped the Eagles claw back to an 85-all tie at the buzzer.

In overtime, the Eagles took control, taking advantage of an overlyactive officiating crew by driving the lane and sending themselves to the free throw line. Seven points at the charity stripe helped push the Eagles ahead of Case Western for a scrappy 99-92 victory.

Sunday, the Eagles provided the WoodPEC crowd with one of the team’s most complete performances.

Emory and Carnegie Mellon traded punches through the first half, but Emory’s balanced scoring attack built a steady lead.

With an impressive put-back from sophomore guard Spencer Osborne at the halftime buzzer, the Eagles

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“I know it wasn’t my best time but it was still a really good learning experience,” Brock said. “It helped show me what I need to be working on moving forward.”

Junior John Copses and sophomore Matt Varraveto qualified for two more B cut times Saturday to close the Royal Open.

Copses placed second in the 200 yard breaststroke with a time of 2:03.94. Varraveto placed second and bested his finals time in the 400 yard IM with a prelim time of 4:04.12.

While the Royal Open marked the end of the season for Emory’s swim team, some Eagles will be back for the NCAA Division III championships in Houston, Texas, March 15-18.

“I am really excited for what our team is going to be able to accomplish at nationals this year,” Brock said.

“The guys have performed remarkably all season and we have a lot of potential going forward.”

— Contact Prosper Fields at prosperity.fields@emory.edu

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brought a 39-31 advantage into the locker room.

Refusing to let up in the second half, the Eagles pounded away against Carnegie Mellon’s defense. Another strong showing from Gordon (25 points), Baitey (11 points) and junior forward Christopher Avant (18 points) kept the Carnegie Mellon Tartans at bay.

“In the past, fouling has kind of taken me out of my game,” Avant explained. “When I’m not fouling I can play my game, be strong inside and score.”

In what may have been the game’s turning point, Zimmerman received a technical foul after he expressed significant displeasure towards the officials’ treatment of an altercation between Gordon and Tartan senior forward Jack Serbin, sending Serbin to the free-throw and cutting the Eagle lead to five points with 11 minutes to play.

From that point forward, it was all Emory. The Eagles outscored the Tartans 29-19 throughout the remainder of the game, securing a solid 88-73 home win.

“[The technical foul] definitely energized me,” Gordon said. “It was a result of my play – the guy hit me – so I was definitely a little more hungry after that.”

The weekend’s results largely mirrored what happened all season, with the Eagles struggling to get results in their Friday night matchups before returning Sunday with much better performances.

“We have come out a little choppy on Friday nights, but Sunday we are good about gathering energy,” Gordon said. “Whoever wants it more on Sunday usually wins.”

Zimmerman reiterated the sentiment.

“Our Friday night games just have not been very attractive. They have to be better ... but we don’t have any more, so we don’t have to be better,” Zimmerman quipped.

Emory will conclude regular season play when they welcome Rochester University (N.Y.) (21-3) to the WoodPEC next Saturday at noon.

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received his third win of the season, keeping the game tied into the bottom of the ninth.

Unlike the first two games in the series, Emory pounced on their opponent in a decisive victory Sunday afternoon. Senior pitcher Luke Emmett kept Washington and Lee scoreless through six innings, allowing only three hits and striking out four batters.

Emory’s bats came alive in the fifth.

Up 3-0 to begin the inning, Emory brought in six more runs on four hits and two walks to take a commanding 9-0 lead. The Eagles continued to score in each of the following three innings to grow their lead to 13-0.

Twardoski discussed what made his hitters so effective in the game.

“We strung hits together and we got hits with runners in scoring position,” Twardoski said. “Whenever you do that you put up some runs.”

Four Emory pitchers helped keep Washington and Lee scoreless in the game and contributed to a massive 13-run victory. Emmett received the victory for his second win this season.

Young was among Emory’s best hitters in the game, going three for three.

The Eagles will head on the road beginning Friday, Feb. 26, against Huntingdon College (Ala.).

with a solid game.

“Every time that I would give up runs, the team would keep on fighting back,” Weeg said. “Catcher [senior] Chris Young called a great game, the bench was into the game and it was a great team effort more than anything.”

In the first game of a day-time double header Sunday, Feb. 19, the Eagles were led on the mound by sophomore pitcher Billy Dimlow. Dimlow allowed no runs in the first five innings. The Eagles themselves struggled to score, but broke through in the fourth thanks to an RBI single by senior right fielder Brian Hernandez.

Clinging to a one run lead in the top of the sixth, Emory yielded a run that tied the game after a fielding error allowed Washington and Lee to have a man on first and second with no outs.

Neither team scored until the bottom of the ninth, when Emory executed its third walk-off victory of the season. Chambers hit a sacrifice fly into center field that scored sophomore third baseman Thomas Baumgartner.

The walk-off sacrifice fly gave Emory a 2-1 victory.

Building off of Dimlow’s glorious performance, which included seven innings pitched with no earned runs, one hit, one walk and eight strikeouts, senior relief pitcher Kyle Monk

— Contact Kevin Kilgour at kkilgou@emory.edu

— Contact Stephen Mattes at stephen.mattes@emory.edu

No. 4 Chicago Blackhawks (36-18-5) Much like the Capitals, the Blackhawks had a quiet week, playing only two games Saturday and Sunday.

The Blackhawks fell to the Edmonton Oilers in their first game of the weekend. Oilers goaltender Cam Talbot stymied the Blackhawks, saving 35 of Chicago’s 36 shots. On the other side, goaltender Corey Crawford failed to lock down the goal creases and allowed two goals. The Blackhawks’ offense came to life Sunday, lighting up the scoreboard with five goals against the Buffalo Sabres. Five different players scored for the Blackhawks and back-up goaltender Scott Darling saved 25 of 26 shots. Chicago has a 10-point lead over the St. Louis Blues for second place in the Central Division.

— Contact Stephen Mattes at stephen.mattes@emory.edu

Continued from Page 16 tightly contested first quarter. With two three-pointers, senior guard Fran Sweeney was instrumental in contributing to Emory’s offensive attack in the first.

The Eagles lost traction in the second quarter as the Tartans jumped ahead to a 39-33 lead before the half.

Carnegie Mellon outscored Emory by an 18-11 margin in the quarter. Down by six, Emory had a manageable deficit at the beginning of the second half.

However, the third quarter turned disastrous for the Eagles as they were outscored 32-10. Emory yielded 18 points to Carnegie Mellon’s star center/forward, junior Lisa Murphy.

Her 18 points helped Carnegie Mellon

carry a 28-point lead into the fourth.

Thomaskutty explained that the team defense was unable to find any remedy for Carnegie’s offense in the third quarter.

“Our defense let us down and [Carnegie] got almost anything that they wanted,” Thomaskutty said. “We were supposed to double the low post and we were slow getting there.”

Although Emory outscored Carnegie Mellon 17-11 in the fourth quarter, Carnegie Mellon’s lead proved insurmountable. The Tartans comfortably handled the Eagles and won the game 82-60.

Oldshue once again led Emory in scoring and rebounding with 15 points and seven rebounds. In a dominant performance, the Tartan’s Murphy

scored 35 points and grabbed 15 rebounds. The Eagles could not find a way to stop the Carnegie Mellon junior in the paint, and allowed the Tartans easy buckets and costly second-chance opportunities.

Oldshue considered Carnegie’s post presence to be one of the greatest challenges Emory faced.

“A team like Carnegie is a challenge defensively because they have a good post presence,” Oldshue said. “You can’t help too far off their guards either because they can beat you as well.”

Emory will conclude its regular season at home Saturday, Feb. 25, against the University of Rochester (N.Y.).

— Contact Stephen Mattes at stephen.mattes@emory.edu

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Sophomore James Spaulding (left) prepares for a backhand swing in a match against Georgia Gwinnett College Sunday. Freshman forward Erin Lindahl (right)drives in the Eagles game against Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) Sunday.

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Sophomore guard Gebereal Baitey (left) skies to the rim in Emory’s impressive win over Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) Sunday. Senior third baseman Phil Maldari (right) connects on a pitch from Washington and Lee University (Va.) Sunday. The Eagle bats exploded for 13 runs on the afternoon.

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Freshman third baseman Greta Wilker (left) makes contact in the Eagles’ 13-1 win Sunday over Wesleyan College (Ga.). Sophomore designated hitter Jenna Wilson (right) slides safely into home.

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Team Returns to No.3 in UAA

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Senior forward Jim Gordon drills a three in the Eagles’ win Sunday. The Eagles defeated Case Western University (Ohio) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) over the weekend.

By Kevin Kilgour Asst. Sports Editor Returning to the WoodPEC after an arduous hiatus from UAA road play, the Eagles capitalized by pocketing close wins over Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) Friday and Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) Sunday.

The complete weekend brings the Eagles’ win streak to three and improves their record to 17-7 for the year.

This jumps them back ahead of Carnegie Mellon to the No. 3 spot in UAA standings.

Starting Friday, the Eagles did something they haven’t done often this season: take an early lead.

With a three-point make from senior forward Jim Gordon on the team’s first possession, Emory took control of the game early and held a slim lead through the game’s initial stages.

The tide soon shifted as Case Western gradually pulled ahead to a nine-point lead at the half. Case Western senior guard Javier Alvarez and freshman forward Sam Hansen were averaging 10.3 ppg and 6.8 ppg respectively before the game, but each

SWIMMING

By proSper fieldS Senior Staff Writer Emory’s swimming and diving team competed in their final meet of the regular season this past weekend at the two-day Royal Open at Queens University (N.C.). The meet highlighted 10 NCAA B cut time qualifications

by Emory athletes.

Paving the way for the women’s team, which qualified for six of the cut times, were junior Ava Salmi and sophomore Hannah Lally.

The athletes competed in the 200 yard backstroke and the 100 yard breaststroke respectively Friday.

Salmi placed first with a time of 2:03.79, while Lally placed second at 1:03.89, both B cut times.

The women’s team closed Saturday’s portion of the meet with the final four B cut times, two of which were accomplished by freshmen Mia Morrell and

inflicted significant damage with 11 points apiece in the first half.

“They scored on 11 of 14 [possessions] down the stretch of the first half,” Head Coach Jason Zimmerman said. “We call that a flood. We just can’t allow that to happen.”

However, in what is becoming a regular occurrence for this Eagles team, Gordon played with an intensity that kept the Eagles within striking distance despite a difficult shooting night for most of the squad.

With 16 points in the first half

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The Emory women’s basketball team recorded its first victory in over two weeks. The Eagles’ victory Friday, Feb. 17, against the Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) Spartans was followed by a loss Sunday, Feb. 19, to the Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) Tartans. The Eagles currently are 5-8 in UAA play and 14-10 overall.

On the tails of a lengthy losing streak, the Eagles rediscovered their winning ways against Case Western.

Five different players scored for Emory, helping the team start the game with a 14-9 advantage.

Case Western battled the Eagles hard in the second quarter, inching one point closer to Emory at the half.

Sophomore center Ashley Oldshue was Emory’s most reliable offensive player in the quarter, scoring 10 points.

Oldshue’s contributions helped Emory carry a 35-31 lead into half-time.

Emory maintained the upper hand, leading by as much as 13 points with less than three minutes in the third.

However, the Eagles 52-39 lead was slashed to a 52-47 advantage following a late run by Case Western to end the quarter.

Head Coach Christy Thomaskutty noted that her team played with a lot of energy in the second half.

“I thought in the second we channeled our energy,” Thomaskutty said.

“By doing so we were able to play a really good game overall against a tough match-up for us in Case Western.”

Despite the challenging end to the third quarter, the Eagles glided to a victory in the fourth. Emory amassed a

comfortable lead against Case Western and gave the Spartans no prospect of a comeback. The Eagles outscored Case Western 27-20 in the final quarter and walked away with a 79-67 win.

Emory’s leading scorer and rebounder in the game was Oldshue, who racked up 21 points and totalled eight boards. She was joined by senior guard Shellie Kaniut, who scored 16 points and freshman guard Allison Chernow, who led the team with nine assists. Oldshue spoke about how consistency gave Emory an upper hand in the game and how it boosted the team’s morale.

“We came out against Case pretty consistent, a lot more consistent than we have been in a while,” Oldshue exclaimed. “The win was a big boost to team morale, considering that we are so close to ending the year and we want to end really strong.”

Thomaskutty indicated that the team’s guard play and ball movement were two major factors in the victory. “[Case Western] was bigger than us, so we definitely wanted to give a lot of ball pressure to help match-up with their bigger guards,” Thomaskutty said. “Offensively, we moved the ball really well, and anytime we have had over 18 assists in a game we have done really well.”

Unfortunately, Emory ended with a much worse result in its second game of the weekend, defeated by Carnegie Mellon in a lopsided 82-60 Tartan victory.

Emory came out of the locker room strong to begin action Sunday, outscoring Carnegie Mellon 22-21 in a

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Maria Kyle.

Morrell opened Saturday with a qualifying time of 4:29.77 and finished first in the 400 yard IM. Kyle touched down first in the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 56.43.

Junior Sia Beasley placed third in the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 56.25 and Lally placed second in the 200 yard breaststroke.

She swam 2.18.87 in the prelims, besting her finals time by 0.06 seconds.

Both Beasley and Lally earned B cut times with their performances.

The men registered four NCAA B cut times, two of which freshmen Tom Kiangsiri and Evan Brock swam Friday afternoon.

Kiangsiri placed fourth in the 100 yard breastroke with a time of 56.37 and Brock placed second at

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Senior Pitcher Luke Emmet pitches in Sunday’s game against Washington and Lee (Va.). Emory went on to win 13-0.

By Stephen MatteS Senior Staff Writer The Emory baseball team continued their dominance by sweeping their opponent for the second straight week. Over the course of the weekend, three games became three wins for Emory against the Washington and Lee University (Va.) Generals. With the series sweep, Emory improved to 7-0 on the season.

The Eagles began the series

Saturday, Feb. 18, with their ace, senior pitcher Jackson Weeg, on the mound.

Weeg had a historic performance, setting the Emory all-time record for strikeouts in a game. His 18 strikeouts topped a record of 16 set in 1994. Weeg had a long afternoon on the mound, pitching eight innings and allowing only three runs on six hits and a walk.

In light of breaking the single-game record for strikeouts, Weeg noted that his main goal was to keep Washington and Lee off the scoreboard.

“I knew my first six outs of the game came on strikeouts,” Weeg said. “After that I was pitching to limit runs and to put our team into position to win.”

Head coach Mike Twardoski affirmed that Weeg was ready to handle a long afternoon on the mound and was able to pitch well from start to finish.

“Weeg was ready for it; it would have been hard to take him out of the game,” Twardoski said. “I considered taking him out of the game, but he talked me out of it. He’s ready to get a lot of innings in, so I was comfortable allowing him to approach the 100 pitch count.”

Both teams held the lead throughout the first seven innings. The game remained close until the bottom of the eighth when Emory hit their stride offensively. The Eagles scored four runs in the inning, giving them a 7-3 lead into the ninth. Junior first baseman Bubby Terp, senior third baseman Philip Maldari and junior shortstop Nick Chambers all had RBIs in the inning. Pitching a scoreless top of the ninth, junior relief pitcher Rhett Stuart helped the Eagles maintain their 7-3 lead. On top of his strong performance on the mound, Weeg commended his team for backing him up

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