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SALARY CHANGES

Emory to Make Salary Changes

By Lauren BaLotin Staff Writer

Emory will implement changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) this year, increasing the salary threshold for exemption from overtime salaries to $47,476 (previously $23,660) per year and making roughly 300 to 400 University employees eligible for overtime pay, according to Associate Vice President of Human Resources Theresa Milazzo.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) May 2016 revision will administrative faculty-equivalent and post-doc positions, according to Emory’s FLSA website. Employees who meet this threshold will become “non-exempt” and be paid bi-weekly based on hours worked rather than a predetermined salary, Milazzo said. They will be eligible for overtime pay, 1.5 times the rate of their normal pay, for every hour worked over 40 hours per week, according to the website.

The FLSA creates minimum wage, overtime pay and other

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employment standards for both government and private sector employees, according to its website. The act was last updated April 2004, when the DOL revised exemption status rules for “white collar” employees.

Milazzo estimates the FLSA changes will take place at Emory late November, a timeline that complies with the DOL’s decision nationally Dec. 1.

Currently, Emory Human Resources is developing the including the determination of which employees will be impacted, according to Emory’s FLSA website.

Emory plans to notify employees change, the website said.

Employees will track their hours by calling KRONOS, an automated phone system that records employees clocking in and out of work, Milazzo said. Non-exempt Emory employees already use this system, said Smith.

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Once occupied by fraternity Beta Theta Pi, 15 Eagle Row now houses non-Beta upperclassmen.

By anwesha Guha News Editor Emory’s Eta Lambda chapter of Beta Theta Pi will not reside at 15 Eagle Row. The chapter has been “Under Reorganization” since early May, according to Beta Chapter President and Goizueta Business School senior Julian Adler. The fraternity’s national foundation and adminis-

and considers disciplinary action for collegiate members who fail to follow the organizational standards and principles of Beta Theta Pi, Forty-four non-Beta upperclassmen are instead occupying the space, which is currently Eagle house without a particular theme.

TROUBLE WITH THE ADMINISTRATION The fraternity ran into trouble

See FLSA, Page 2

RESEARCH

with the school last spring when it was alleged that fraternity members drugged a female student during a mid-March Saturday-night mixer, Adler said. The fraternity received a “cease and desist” probationary notice from the University the following week, which preceded the University’s investigation into the allegation, he said.

“I know the members in the chapter — I spend every day with them, I live with them, I know that See FRATERNITY, Page 2

RECOGNITION

By emiLy suLLivan News Editor

Ninja, a medium-sized black pitbull-mix, walks up to the fMRI machine, a purple wrap that secures ear plugs holding down her

ears. She wags her tail and climbs onto the machine’s platform as her owner walks to the other side. She then lies on the fMRI table, perfectly still for seven to 10 minutes.

Her owner calls out words, both familiar and new, holding up corre-

sponding items as directed by two graduate students. In an adjacent room, Distinguished Professor of Neuroeconomics and Director for the Center for Neuropolicy and Facility for Education & Research in Neuroscience Gregory Berns, the

lead researcher, watches closely through a window to ensure that the approximately 2,000 scans of Ninja’s brain are taken accurately.

With the scans, Berns notes the changes in Ninja’s brain

Global Virus Network (GVN) inducted Emory University as a Center of Excellence for its accomplishments in virology research Thursday, Sept. 1, according to Robert Gallo, GVN cofounder, director of the Institute of Human Virology and Homer and Martha Gudelsky distinguished professor of medicine at the University of Maryland.

This recognition was “[facilitated]

by Ray Schinazi [Researcher for Yerkes National Primate Research Center], whose work on developing drugs against viruses has been … essential,” Gallo said.

While this induction comes recently after Emory began work

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See GLOBAL, Page 3

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CompiLed By Joshua Lee Contributing Writer pi Beta phi sorority oCCupies h LodGe EMORY — Sorority Pi Beta Phi is now occupying the H Lodge in Emory’s Sorority Village, a previously on-designated space. members of the sorority, which was colonized on Emory’s campus Spring 2016. Asian-interest sorority Delta Phi Lambda has moved to Lodge to non-Greek students. emory to provide Free tampons EMORY — Yesterday, Emory College Council (CC) announced a semester-long pilot program to provide free tampons in three locations on campus in partnership with Campus Services. The program will operate in the main bathroom at the Dobbs University Center (DUC), main bathroom in White Library, according to CC’s Facebook page. If deemed successful, the program will be renewed and institutionalized in partnership and Student Health Services. two viCtims shot in atLanta ATLANTA, Ga. — A double shooting occurred in southwest Atlanta at the Chevron gas station on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive SW Monday, according to NBC 11Alive. Both victims were male, with one in critical condition and the other alert and breathing. Police a motive.

ConGress resumes session For FundinG WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 114th U.S. Congress resumed its second session yesterday after a seven-week break. Legislators’ year ends on Sept. 30, according to The New York Times. This legislation will likely involve funds and for research to combat Zika, the Times’ said.

GeorGetown amends 1838 sLave saLe WASHINGTON, D.C. — Georgetown University said Thursday it will grant admissions preference to the descendants of families involved in the University’s role in the slave trade, according to The Washington Post. The declaration was an attempt to make amends for the University’s sale of 272 slaves in 1838. The trade’s original purpose was to pay the University’s debts, and ultimately earned the institution $115,000, or $3.3 million in today’s currency, according to the Post.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Brock Turner, a former Stanford University swimmer charged for sexual assault March 2016, was released from jail Friday after serving half of a sixmonth sentence, according to The Guardian. Turner was released early for good behavior, and news of his release sparked protests by women’s rights and victim advocacy groups. According to CBS News, the protesters, including neighbors, rallied outside Turner’s childhood home as he moved back in with his parents.

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implement FLSA updates because the necessary administrative changes and communications are complex, according to Emory’s FLSA website. Emory created focus groups from which it gathered feedback June and July of this year to determine the best way to implement the changes at Emory, said Milazzo.

Director of Compensation Debra Smith said that Emory Human Resources will consider these factors when completing plans to implement the changes.

Emory currently has employees who hold the same position and

On Aug. 31 at 7:50 a.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) received a call regarding a keylogger, which records keystrokes and monitors the actions of a user, plugged into a computer at the Goizueta Business School. Later that day, an Emory alumnus Shermin Punjwani (16B) looking for another keylogger that she had placed in White arrived at the location, arrested Punjwani for two felony counts of computer trespass at 6:03 p.m. and transported her to DeKalb County Jail. Punjwani’s bond was set at $10,000. Punjwani posted bail and was released Aug. 2. According to her LinkedIn, Punjwani is currently a marketing specialist for MycroChange in Texas.

On Sept. 2 at 8:45 a.m., EPD responded to a call from a campus visitor, who said that he had left his wallet on a shuttle. He later made

contact with the shuttle operator but was told that a wallet had not been turned in. At the time of publishing, no misuse of credit cards was reported. The wallet was valued at $25.

and took responsibility for the individuals.

On Sept. 3 at 3:11 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an unence of alcohol at Dobbs Residence ber called the police after coming in contact with the unresponsive female student. DeKalb Fire and Rescue and DeKalb Emergency Medical Service arrived on the scene and transported the student to Emory University Hospital (EUH). Cam-

arrived at the location and made contact with the resident of the room from which the noise was dividuals at the location to keep the noise down. The individuals at the location complied without further incident.

On Sept. 3 at 10:30 a.m., EPD made contact with six juveniles The individuals forcibly entered the building by removing a plywood panel. The juveniles said that they were visiting from California and found out about the mansion guardian, who came to the location

On Sept. 5 at 7:15 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a theft from an Emory vehicle parked between Glenn Memorial Church and the Church School Building. According to the complainant, an unknown individual opened a locked compartment of the vehicle and removed a RedMax leaf blower, valued at $499. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

— Contact Brandon Fuhr at brandon.spencer.fuhr@emory. edu

salaries, Milazzo said. With this adjustment, their eligibility for overtime pay will be based on the amount of time they work rather than their salaries, which may vary because of experience and performance levels.

These changes will also improve tracking the hours of employees who work at irregular times, including those who work with students and attend events outside of regular hours and those who travel or work with colleagues in foreign countries and need to make phone calls outside of normal hours, Milazzo said.

— Contact Lauren Balotin at lauren.paige.balotin@emory.edu

Continued from Page 1 something must have happened, just [that it] wasn’t with our guys,” lieve that this girl would’ve made something up, just that something was missing here.”

No forced removal resulted from the investigation, but the fraternity was required to take certain measures to stay on campus, Adler said.

Those measures included a membership review of all brothers, a live-in advisor from the frachapter operations and an alcoholfree house for the 2016-2017 academic year, according to Adler. The membership review consisted of individual interviews of all chapter members by representatives of the national organization to determine whether the individual members met the fraternity’s standards. Two members did not pass the review, and about 10 refused to take part in the process, according to Adler.

MOVING FORWARD For an organization or fraternity to retain control over an Eagle Row house, the house must be at least 90 percent occupied, Assistant Dean for Campus Life Marlon Gibson said. He explained that Beta ment this year, providing only 11 members for the available 47 spots.

Members of a Greek organization must split the price of all empty beds in the organization’s house amongst themselves. That fact, compounded with a fear of being listudents living in the house, led to a desire of certain Beta members not to live in the house, Adler said.

The chapter originally consid-

ered attempting to rebuild membership to occupy the house next year, but the future is now uncertain, Adler said.

“I think a lot of the members felt that it may not be worth being an active member, and ... because of that, pretty much the entire brotherhood is in the process of taking an early-alumni status,” Adler said.

The University and Beta’s na-

“I think a lot of the members felt that it may not be worth being an active member, ... pretty much the entire brotherhood is in the process of taking an early-alumni status.”

— Julian Adler, president,

Beta Theta Pi, and B-School senior

chapter’s future at Emory, Gibson said.

“This isn’t a conduct issue,” Gibson said. “This is the [national] organization deciding how it want its chapter best represented on our campus.”

The chapter is unsure about its future plans with Beta on Emory’s campus and has no proposed timeline for a decision, Eta Lambda Advisor and Alumni Relations Committee Member Craig Boehm wrote in an email to the Wheel.

“Our Fraternity’s international and local alumni leaders are con-

tinuing to work closely with the University’s administration regarding a successful future for our nearly 70-year-old chapter at Emory,” Boehm wrote.

No conclusions have been reached so far regarding Beta’s future on campus, Boehm and Gibson said.

CURRENT HOUSE RESIDENTS Although a fraternity would norRow when another is removed, Beleft Emory too little time to place a Assistant Director of Sorority and Fraternity Residential Life Anne Herold said.

After receiving Beta’s notice, Eagle Row rooms were as upperclassmen housing.

Knowledge of the space’s availability started with Residential Life and circulated by word of mouth among students, Herold said.

There are currently 44 residents living in the house, including 33 sophomores, nine juniors, one resident advisor and one hall director, according to Herold.

The remaining four spaces will be available for room changes for upperclassmen until Oct. 19, the end of the room-change period, Herold said.

Unlike the Black Student Alliance (BSA) house and the Media, Literature and Arts Outreach (MLAO) house, the former Beta house has no theme. No members of Beta currently live in the house.

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

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HEALTHCARE

Stratus and Emory Partner, Combine Resources

On Sept. 4 at 11:45 p.m., EPD received a noise complaint from an individual at Building E of Clair-

turner reLeased From prison

misnamed a former dean of Emory College. The correct name is Bobby Paul.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

By isaBeL oLson Contributing Writer

member hospitals,” Saunders said.

and subspecialties that may not be available among the tertiary provider based in the southeastern member hospitals of Stratus.”

Lewin also expressed his United States, announced Aug. approval of the alliance.

29 an alliance to combine both “It’s sort of a win-win,” Lewin institutions’ medical resources to better aid Georgia citizens by said. “For the patients who live providing treatment that is more in a small town in rural Georgia, they’re able to get better care closer Both parties will work in what to home because of the things CEO of Emory Healthcare and we can do to help with their local Executive Vice President of Emory hospitals.”

He added that not only does the alliance aid the described as a patients, but it also strengthens Emory’s to determine medical practices.

“Our hope is that improved methods Emory will further of medicine while [Stratus] will be its educational simultaneously open to thinking mission by creating working with ties with the Stratus creatively about physicians across hospitals. the state to what we might be “Our [Emory] exchange medical faculty is helping to able to do for paFounded in 2013, tients in [Georgia]” teach [at StratusStratus Healthcare in terms of has 1,500 physicians — Jonathan Lewin, CEO knowledge transfer shared between education,” of Emory Healthcare and and 21 hospitals and a d m i n i s t e r s executive vice president of Lewin said. “We can help them with medical care to workforce planning patients across the and how to extend Southeast. their operating Lewin said that rooms.” this partnership will allow Emory Saunders agreed with Lewin, to reach out to a greater number of patients, and, in return, Emory will provide higher-level medical collaboration.

“This may come in the form of treatment.

According to an Emory consultative services, telemedicine Healthcare press release, the and care coordination of patients primary areas this alliance will being referred to Emory, as well as focus on include the creation of timely transfer of the patient back “integrated care systems” and to the referring Stratus hospital,” connection with Emory clinics and Saunders said.

Beyond the use of Emory’s services, as well as coordination services, the press release said that with electronic medical records. the new alliance plans to coordinate the “development of integrated care systems and information Emory Healthcare or University technology infrastructure” by using employees, said Ninfa Saunders, electronic medical records.

“Our hope is that [Stratus] will co-founder of Stratus and President and CEO of Navicent Health, a be open to thinking creatively about what we might be able to do hospital under Stratus.

Lewin said that faculty, students for patients in [Georgia],” Lewin said.

“My goal is to make sure that this alliance, because it draws from a has a big impact to help the welllarger population, thus bringing in more patients with rare, complex being of the residents of the state of Georgia in the 60 communities that diseases.

“For the last 18 months, we are served by the 21 hospitals.”

Emory Healthcare and Stratus

Courtesy of John Bence

Staff from Emory Libraries package archived copies of “The Emory Wheel” to be sent to Backstage Library Works, a scanning contractor, for digitization.

The Emory Wheel’s By riChard Chess Contributing Writer The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library announced Aug. 22 that it will digitize all archived copies of The Emory Wheel dating back to 1919, according to a tweet sent by University Archivist John Bence. All issues of the Wheel will be scanned and made available for the public through the Rose Library’s online database, Bence said.

Archives were sent to Backstage Library Works, a scanning contractor that will capture high-quality images of the pages and use optical character recognition technology to make the text searchable.

A researcher will be able to stead of sifting through individual issues.

The digitization is a result of the transfer historical documents into an internet database for the public to easily search and discover, Bence said.

He added that newsprint is notorious for degrading over time — digitizing will ensure that the archives remain accessible. “[The print archives] get brittle

Continued from Page 1 on Zika virus, with which Schinazi the decision also considered the myriad research spearheaded by Emory faculty. Gallo cited Emory’s work toward understanding HIV as an example, for which “there is no better [University] in the world.”

Director of the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity at University of Texas Medical Branch Scott Weaver added that Emory has viral infection research.

“It’s overdue that [Emory is] involved in Global Virus Network,” Weaver said.

A group of about a dozen Center of Excellence directors voted within the last several weeks to induct Emory as a Center of Excellence, Gallo said. The vote to induct an institution is guided by consideration of its respective he added.

“Emory

should

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been

over time, and [they get] used a lot in the [Rose Library’s] reading room,” Bence said. “The ideal situation is that we can digitize it, and people can start using the physical copies less and less.”

Researchers will still be able to view print versions in the Rose Library after digitization, Bence said.

Professor of Practice, English and Creative Writing Hank Wheel archives will make researchHe said that he overwhelmingly supports archive digitization but noted that some aspects of viewing print versions are lost in the update.

“I know there’s some virtue to getting the text that you lose if you’re looking at something digiHe added that unlike researching print documents, digital archives do not provide the same composition such as handwriting and paper type.

In 2011, archived editions of Emory’s former yearbook, The Zodiac, underwent a similar digitization process. Yearbook production stopped in 1999, but the digitization process has allowed students and faculty to continuously access

thought of earlier [to be a Center of Excellence], really from the start,” Gallo said. “What a serious omission.”

An institution that serves as a Center of Excellence becomes

the Rose Library’s online database to research Emory’s history.

Bence has enjoyed reading historical editions of the Wheel.

“My favorite [Wheel] article that I ever found is from 1976, and it makes predictions about the University [in] 2001,” Bence said. “It their predictions [for] 2001, and it’s kind of funny because some of their predictions are embarrassingly on point.”

College senior Mack Schroeder said that he believes the Wheel will gain readers after digitization.

“I think since most people tend to read their news online, there will likely be a stronger readership if it’s more available in digital platform,” Schroeder said.

While this project is capable of achieving the Rose Library’s longterm goals of preserving and reviving historical documents, Bence said that it will take time.

“One of the things I pointed out to folks is the Wheel’s 100th anniversary is coming up in 2019,” he said. “If we could line up with that it would be really great, so that’s what I’m hoping for. Fingers crossed.”

— Contact Richard Chess at richard.chess@emory.edu

While this funding is not guaranteed, “what’s guaranteed is that you are in contact; you get information,” he said.

When an Irish company recently approached GVN with a $2 million research proposal, Gallo brought

right quaternary partner for our

— Contact Isabel Olson at isabel.olson@emory.edu

roles in this project.

Weaver said that this virology project involves “assembling a bank of sera [blood plasma] from people who have been diagnosed

were able to compare sera between travelers that had been treated with the vaccine and those who had not, allowing them to evaluate the

infection, and then acquiring such said. “It’s a sera from recognition people … and a [in hopes of “Emory should have been thought of earlier [to be a Cen- collecting] a request for [institutions] ter of Excellence], really from the start ... What a serious gold standard to be actively samples for omission” helping [one testing.” another] …

W e a v e r — Robert Gallo, GVN co-founder, director of the Institute of Human Virol- r e f l e c t e d consulting in the [research] ogy and Homer and Martha Gudelsky distinguished professor of medicine at on a Zika the University of Maryland c o n f e r e n c e projects.”

Centers of that occurred Excellence s e v e r a l may also receive external funding Emory into the conversation about months ago, at which he at a higher frequency, given the funding because of its recent strength of the GVN network, Gallo successes in Zika research, even time. said. though it had not yet been inducted “We were talking, and he When organizations approach as a Center of Excellence. mentioned that through the GVN with grants or donations, Emory researchers Schinazi and [Emory] Vaccine Center, they had a the network considers its Centers Mark Mulligan, director for the number of travelers that had been of Excellence and the strengths of Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine diagnosed with Zika.” each individual center.

Center, have played prominent Emory researchers, therefore,

the help of external funding.

“When the right projects come along … Emory will gain Additional Centers of Excellence are located abroad, and some collaborate with international countries, including Nigeria and Vietnam.

This knowledge sharing becomes especially helpful in outbreak situations, including that of Zika virus, Weaver said.

In facilitating a network of open communication, GVN Centers of Excellence have encouraged their leaders and virologists in Malaysia, Singapore and America to connect.

“It’s not just to help Emory,” Gallo said. “It’s to help the world.”

— Contact Emily Sullivan at emily.sullivan@emory.edu

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If at First You Don’t Succeed, Chai, Chai Again: The Chai Tea Lattes of Emory Guide

By AlishA Compton Emory Life Editor

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Madeline DeShazer (18C) sits outside of Cox Hall while sporting a choker and an off-the-shoulder top.

By KArissA dzuriK Staff Writer With New York Fashion Week starting today, the Wheel is bringing you a glimpse of the best wearable trends for this fall. Sure, models strut wild ensembles full of glitz and glamour on the runway, but what are you actually going to wear on a night out, to class or while studying at the lib?

Fall fashion is fun — who doesn’t love new leather boots and cozy sweaters?

The issue with fall fashion in Atlanta is that the trends often precede the appropriate weather. We all know how strange Georgia temperatures can get: It can be 60 degrees in the morning, but 90 degrees by 1 p.m. So how do you incorporate fall styles into your wardrobe when the weather can be so unpredictable as late as November?

Here are some of my best tips and tricks for sporting the newest fall trends no matter the climate. oVer the shoulder Dresses and blouses with exposed shoulders were huge in spring and summer, and they are back for fall.

These pieces are adorable and easy to throw on with a pair of jeans or your favorite suede skirt.

Although this trend is fairly weather-neutral, you can easily pair them with a vest or cardigan for drafty classrooms or late-night walks from the library in case temperatures do turn colder.

ChoKers Yep, they’re back — anything from skinny silk scarves to thick lace neckwear are to be seen this fall. Depending on which direction you chose to go, chokers can add an edgy element to a feminine ensemble or soften more “out-there” pieces.

Chokers are no longer just for the lead singers of punk bands — add some flair to a bohemian dress (also in!) without adding layers by pairing it with a choker.

furs Real or faux, furs will be uber-popular this fall. Don’t just think brown or black, furs in all spectrums of the color wheel are being displayed this fall. Worried about bulk or heat? Use furs as statements: add a chic fur vest or a sweater with a fur collar to sport this trend while keeping cool. open-toe Booties Open-toe booties are not only stylish, but also versatile. They’re the perfect accessory for Atlanta autumns.

They look like cold-weather shoes, but allow your toes a little breathing room before the weather turns. jeAn or leAther?

Take your pick: both jean and leather skirts are big this season. Jean skirts can be paired with almost anything — even a t-shirt will look like a fashion statement when worn with a button-down jean skirt. Leather pieces will give you a bit of an edgier look, but can easily be softened by a lacy top or casual blouse. Looking for something easier to slip on for class?

Leather shorts will also make the same statement. Pair them with a chunky sweater on chilly days or a chic blouse on hot ones. turtleneCKs This is one trend I know I can get behind. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has goofy childhood photos.

Apparently, I refused to wear anything but turtlenecks. These are actually a huge trend this season — especially when layered underneath dresses, blouses and more. To stay cool while rocking this trend, look for sleeveless or three-quarter length styles.

Hopefully, these tips have left you with some inspiration for freshening up your fall wardrobe no matter how much the weather fluctuates.

— Contact Karissa Dzurik at kdzurik@emory.edu

C.S. Lewis famously said, “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

Whether you believe size, taste or convenience makes the chai you purchase the chai for you, here is a guide to nine of the different chai tea lattes Dooley Dollars can buy.

K Aldi’s Coffee Price: F | Quality: B Convenience: A | Variety: A Kaldi’s is located in the Dobbs University Center (DUC), the School of Medicine and at The Depot. In addition to masala chai, Kaldi’s serves chocolate chai and chai rooibos, all of which can be ordered hot or iced. The smallest size, 8 ounces, costs $3.50.

The masala chai at Kaldi’s is a bit more watery or milky than others, but manages to pack a little more spice than that of Starbucks. Although not overly sweet, the masala chai is still satisfying.

In comparison, the chocolate chai tastes like a less thick, more spiced version of hot chocolate. With the lightness of tea, its cocoa undertones mimic the addictiveness of a chocolate bar. The flavor is akin to that of a freshly unwrapped Tootsie Pop. The rooibos chai doesn’t have caffeine and is made with different spices than the masala chai.

“Masala [chai] is going to be sweeter and have more flavors like cinnamon, whereas rooibos is going to have spicier flavors like black pepper,” Kaldi’s employee Gabrielle Corrigon said.

The Kaldi’s cup is three-and-a-half inches tall, and on average the foam took up seven-eighths of an inch of the cup. In terms of service, I was served four minutes after arriving at Kaldi’s, and if ordered for consumption onsite, the chai can be served in a classic coffee shop mug. stArBuCKs Price: C | Quality: B Convenience: C | Variety: A Located in the Oxford Road Building, Starbucks serves the classic masala chai tea latte and the Oprah cinnamon chai tea latte, both of which can be ordered hot or iced. The classic masala chai tea latte and the Oprah cinnamon chai tea latte cost $3.65 and $3.75, respectively, for a 12 ounces tall.

With the classic warm and milky feel to it, the original chai is less spicy than that of Kaldi’s or Peet’s.

According to Starbucks Newsroom, Oprah worked directly with Teavana’s teaologist to create a tea flavored with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom and cloves that were blended with looseleaf black tea and rooibos.

The Oprah cinnamon chai has a sweeter taste than the original, and is

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Kaldi’s employee Gabrielle Corrigon makes a small chocolate chai tea latte. also a bit more spiced, leaving an aftertaste similar to that of a gingerbread Christmas cookie.

The original chai is 190 calories, and the Oprah cinnamon chai is 150 calories.

The tall cup is four-and-a-quarter inches tall, and foam took up onefourth of an inch on average. I was served six minutes after ordering. peet’s Coffee & teA Price: B | Quality: B Convenience: A | Variety: B Peet’s is located on the first floor of Woodruff Library, and offers classic masala chai tea lattes, hot or iced. Both cost $3.00 for a 12 ounces small.

Peet’s is definitely the spiciest of the masala chais on campus and is a bit sweeter than the average chai tea latte.

Although fairly quick, Peet’s Coffee’s hot chai availability depends on if their machine is working. Many students choose Peet’s because of it is conveniently located in the library. highlAnd BAKery Price: B | Quality: A Convenience: C | Variety: B Highland is located in the B-School and the Atwood Chemistry Building, and offers general masala chai hot and iced. A small is 12 ounces and costs $2.95. Highland Bakery definitely has the sweetest chai on campus. The tea is milky without losing the classic chai flavors. I was served six minutes after arriving at the B-School Highland. The cup had little to no foam.

BhojAniC mArKet Price: A | Quality: A Convenience: A | Variety: C Bhojanic Market serves Indian food in Cox Hall and offers a 16 ounces iced

chai tea priced at $2.95. It is by far the cheapest option on campus. Besides being the cheapest option, Bhojanic’s chai is the closest you can get to India’s masala tea. With just the right amount of sugar and milk, this tea will make you appreciate the diverse amalgam that is India. the green BeAn Price: B | Quality: A Convenience: A | Variety: A The Green Bean in Cox Hall serves hot classic masala chai tea lattes. They can make the chai with two-percent milk, whole milk, skim milk, soy milk or almond milk. Although milk substitutions can be asked for at many places around campus, not all have as many options. (Soy and almond milk cost an additional 49 cents).

Without add-ons, a medium 16 ounces latte, their smallest size, costs $3.99. Their lattes are smooth, not too spicy and contain approximately a quarter inch of foam, making them a classic and safe choice. I was served three minutes after arriving. the VerdiCt Overall, students seeking the sweetest chai tea latte should go to Highland Bakery; the cheapest of the classic Indian chai, Bhojanic Market; the spiciest, Peet’s Coffee; for chocolate or rooibos chai, Kaldi’s; for a cinnamon twist, Starbucks and for various milk options, The Green Bean.

My personal favorite is the hot chai tea latte from The Green Bean with almond milk, because although pricey, the location is convenient and offers a unique and healthier take on this classic drink.

— Contact Alisha Compton at acompt2@emory.edu

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Doolino Knows Best: Back to School Advice

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

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Dear Doolino, I went to the Student Activities Fair on McDonough Field with big dreams and came out with a full inbox. I want to be involved, but don’t even know which clubs will interest me and what I could be good at. At this point, I’m going to be too busy sorting all of these emails to join anything, anyway.

What should I do?

Sincerely, A Confused ‘Outlook’ Dear A Confused ‘Outlook’, I have three words for you: The Emory Wheel.

But if a sick-ass place with the best people on campus (full disclosure: I’m biased) does not appeal to you, I’d check out as many other organizations as you can! year are the ideal — I repeat, ideal — time to join and explore your interests on campus.

Try something completely foreign to you, as well as something that you are already passionate about. You can also write all of the organizations available on pieces of paper, put them in a hat and choose some at random. Pick as you please, and just go with it.

That’s how I got my Doolino role.

Sincerely, Doolino Dear Doolino, I found my roommate on Facebook over the summer. He told me he was really focused on academics, but it’s been a week and he’s gone out seven times. Don’t get me wrong — I appreciate a good party — but I picked someone I thought would be a good study buddy, not a great beer pong partner on Eagle Row. I want to surround myself with people who help me stay on track, but I can’t really avoid my roommate. Please help.

Sincerely, It’s Complex Dear It’s Complex, Generally, I’d say it’s pretty easy to pave your own path for your freshman year, a path that is entirely separate from your roommate’s.

Other than, obviously, remaining cordial with him, there’s not much else you need to do. Sit him down, have a productive, solid, adult conversation with him about your expectations, i.e., no ripping shots in the room at 4 a.m. when you have an 8 a.m. class the next morning. He should, and honestly needs to, understand and respect your space in the room. Discuss your limitations on partying, and go from there. If he doesn’t take the conversation seriously, then you can take other measures, such as consulting your RA, to alleviate the problem. Often, that’s not likely to be necessary, but sometimes you get shitty roommates. It happens.

But seriously — communicate with him. People in your generation seem to be unable to have hard conversations. Or something.

I don’t know, dude, I’m like 150 years old. I’m jaded as hell.

Sincerely, Doolino Dear Doolino, How do I master the DUC? With unlimited meal swipes, it seems silly not to go there all the time, but the chaos on the other side of the food trays can be a little overwhelming. I don’t want to gain the freshman 15 or end up sick of the food before I even start classes.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Sincerely, What the DUC

A lishA Compton /Emory lifE Editor

Zen, a participant in the language study on dog brains, prepares to enter the fMRI machine with his ears wrapped to attach his headphones.

Dear What the DUC, You will get sick of the food. You will get tired of the same old routine. Trust me, I’ve been doing this for a long time.

However, there are other places on campus where your unlimited meal swipes are accepted, such as the WREC at Woodruff Residential Center and that long line in White Hall. Take advantage of these other meal options!

Remember that you also have some Dooley Dollars included in your meal plan. Head over to Cox Hall or Highland Bakery when the DUC begins to re-use their meat or when you don’t feel like running into every single freshman in one place.

If you’re really desperate, Emory Village is also a convenient option if you want to drop some cash, with Rise-n-Dine, Falafel King and Saba.

Make sure to change things up, and don’t make the mistake of getting the same thing every single time you step foot in that atrium of a disaster, meaning go at off-peak hours unless you want to line up for half of the time you’ve allocated for your meal.

If it helps, the DUC is a lot better now than it was back then. Good luck!

Sincerely, Doolino Dear Doolino, I came in a journalism major, but realized that the journalism department no longer exists. What do I do?

Sincerely, Searching for Spotlight Dear Searching for Spotlight, Did you seriously not do your requisite research before enlisting in your next four years at an instituJust kidding. I still love you. You should write for the Wheel.

Also, the same thing happened to me when this university didn’t offer a journalism program in 1895.

I recommend being proactive and exploring some liberal arts classes — anything that interests you and will improve your writing skills.

Perhaps consider a class that will help your researching skills, as well, so you don’t end up in this situation again.

Join the Wheel! They can help make your your journalism dreams come true, one article at a time.

Sincerely, Doolino

Continued from Page 1 activity between words that she does and does not know. He is working to further understand dogs’ brains when it comes to language, in hopes of understanding more about man’s best friend.

Berns conducts fMRIs on dogs to better comprehend how their brains are structured and function.

“We’re just broadly interested in mapping the entire dog brain — how it’s wired, what parts do what, and how it does it, so we study things like reward pathways,” Berns said. “We’ve done smell, we’ve studied how they process faces, praise [and] now we’re doing some language study.”

By non-invasively mapping the perceptual and decision systems of dogs’ brains, Berns aims to learn about the neurobiological basis for individual preferences and decision-making, with applications including predicting service dog performance to their recent publication examining the impact of praise versus food. His research is funded by the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research and takes place in the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building.

Before beginning fMRI research with dogs in 2011, Berns conducted fMRI research on humans for 20 years.

“I kind of answered all the questions that I had about the human brain, and [realized] almost nobody’s doing [comparable research on dogs],” Berns said. “We were the first ones to do it in world. Now there’s a few groups doing it.”

Berns believes that in addition to better understanding decision-making processes, this research can help answer long-standing questions about dogs while improving their general welfare.

“Questions about the dogs are so fundamental,” Berns said. “A dog person myself, I want to know how their minds work. But there are bigger questions here that get to the origin of humans ... because dogs have been

with humans since humans have been humans. Somehow our evolutionary paths are linked to each other, so there’s also kind of this sense that by figuring out dog brains we also learn something about [ourselves].”

His curiosity about dogs merged with his line of work when he first considered training a dog to lay still in an fMRI machine.

“I saw that there was a dog on [the Osama Bin Laden] mission, and I

brains we also learn something about [ourselves].”

— Gregory Berns, Distinguished Professor of Neuroeconomics and Director for the Center for Neuropolicy and Facility for Education & Research in Neuroscience became aware of the fact that military dogs were being trained to jump out of helicopters,” Berns said. “I figured, well, if a dog can be trained to jump out a helicopter, it can be trained to go in [an fMRI machine] ... so, I put my own dog in.”

According to Berns, dogs’ behavior alone is not the ideal way to understand their thought processes, because when problems arise, dogs generally look to humans first for the solution.

Because brain imaging is not a behavioral test, but rather a test of the brain that can be linked directly to behavior, it is a much more accurate way to understand dogs’ behavior.

“When we started five years ago, it was first ‘Can we do this? Can we train dogs to do this? Can we get quality data that we can interpret?’” Berns said. “From there, it’s progressed to questions about their reward system, so [as to] understand what motivates them.”

Dogs that participate in the study

are chosen for their trainability, demeanor and desire to participate according to Berns.

They are owned and trained by Atlanta locals, including Emory students.

Periodically, the lab will advertise and hold tryouts for new dogs by going to Piedmont Park and various local dog events.

The lab has recruited and trained five groups of dogs since its inception.

“Most of the people [who offer their dogs’ time] do this because they enjoy doing it and want to help the research,” Berns said. “We’ve been [paying people for scans] since we got funding, because we recognize that there’s a tremendous amount of time it takes to train the dogs, and this is on their own time … But for most people ... it’s more of a token payment of appreciation that compensates for the hours it takes.”

Berns said that often, after training their dogs, owners become personally invested and place high pressure on their dogs to succeed in studies.

Additionally, as the dogs aged, some scans found tumors in their brains from genetics or other unrelated factors, making the process even more impactful.

Berns received his B.A from Princeton University in physics in 1986, his Ph.D. from University of California, Davis in 1990 in biomedical engineering and his M.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 before coming to Emory’s School of Medicine in 1998 as an assistant professor.

Berns now uses his research and background as the basis for two classes he teaches in the College: Psychology, Canine Cognition, a consistently offered freshman seminar in the fall that gives students the opportunity to watch Berns’ research, and The Advanced Imaging Practicum, a spring hands-on research class that challenges students to design, program and execute experiments involving fMRIs. — Contact Alisha Compton at acompt2@emory.edu

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OUR OPINION

On the Necessity of a New Editorial Board Following deliberation on the organization of the Wheel’s Editorial Board, we believe that it is in the best interest of the Wheel to change the current editorial system so as best to serve the Emory community. In its present form, the Editorial Board consists of the editor-in-chief, executive editor, managing editors, section editors, assistant section editors, photo editors, layout editors, social media editors and digital editors. However, under the new approach, the Editorial Board will exist as an entity independent from the Wheel’s reporting arm.

The reorganization of the Board comes in light of events that highlighted the difficulty of the paper’s ability both to report upon high-magnitude stories and simultaneously to develop a staff editorial — that being the paper’s official opinion — on those same topics. Last spring, the Wheel covered the protests that followed the pro-Trump chalkings across campus. In order to protect the integrity of the Wheel’s news coverage of the events, it was necessary to temporarily remove, or, in some cases, revoke the voting privileges of, members of the Editorial Board in the paper’s staff editorial discussions. Those involved in the reporting needed to remain objective and unbiased, and those involved in making commentary needed to take a position. While the Wheel is confident in the position it took on the events, our current Editorial Board voted to amend our constitution in order to create a better system for the future.

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2016: The Year We Were Stuck tentious and difficult, as we are deciding the future of our nation, and many good Americans have It’s 2016 and America feels stuck. genuine disagreements about what It’s not that we can’t move; it’s that the future of our nation should we can’t agree on which direction look like. But elections aren’t supwe should move. We have resorted posed to be this difficult — they’re to rehashing the safest political and not supposed to be this ridiculous. cultural ideals, almost as if the en- For me, and many other millentire nation is kicking the can down nials, picking between Donald the road on the biggest questions Trump and Hillary Clinton feels of what values we hold most dear about as inspirational and excitand who should represent us. Up- ing as picking out a funeral casheavals in the forces that create ket for your murdered parents. cultural and political norms exMy editor Brian Taggett traces plain part of this lack of movement, the origins of this disaster to the inbut a lack of consensus is the true fluence that we as individuals have root cause. Until America can find on the media. Millennial influence some kind of new consensus, our is more important than ever, and current frustration will continue. on the topic of this election, it is Let’s start with Hollywood. This clear how we feel: “It all feels like year is shaping up to be a horrific a joke,” says Jo Tongue, a 31-yearyear for box office sales — possibly old mother of two from Colorado. the worst since the 1920s. A lot of The Washington Post interviewed this can be blamed on the continu- 70 members of our generation, ous failures of many sequels and and found only a handful of people reboots to impress who were genuineaudiences. Look at ly excited for one my former colleague candidate or the The best way to Brandon Wagner, other. The shared who eloquently laid feeling is that no move forward out the case against matter who wins, from this unforSuicide Squad (he they will be unable tunate year is for charges it with secto create change. ond degree cliche), That seems acindividuals to start or look at the list curate. How on constructing a new Earth could Trump of sequels and remakes that have or Clinton solve our consensus. Milflopped financially, nation’s problems? lennials agree on a They’ll both face received terrible reviews or both. congressional oppolot; the work now As American ausition and an Ameriis to build what we diences see fewer can public, a public movies and market- agree on into policy which already views ing budgets for mov- and cultural values. both candidates unies grow more exfavorably. Neither There are already pensive, Hollywood would have any kind has become heavnew ways in which of general consenily dependent on sesus to work from; quels and superhero we are building me- both would have to movies for risk-free force unwelcome dia consensus. moneymakers. This policy onto America. has led to a major Trump is defilack of originality, reflecting the nitely exciting. But he has based his lack of consensus about what ele- campaign on contentious rhetoric ments should be most fundamen- that occasionally borders on ludital to American culture. If Amer- crous or illegal, and he is certainly ica agreed upon a new cultural not selling a universally agreeable direction, there would be money or shared vision of America. Clinto be made exploring that direc- ton is boring and safe, even tedious, tion and fleshing it out further. and she is disconnected from a speNetflix’s original show Stranger cific message. She gives off the imThings depicts the ambience of pression that she will take any posithe Reagan-era — small towns, tion necessary for her to get elected. close families, wholesome Amer- She’s also not selling a new consenica — and captures nicely the sus, and it seems her only usable satisfaction that accompanied a argument for why she should be booming economy and a fairly president is that she is not Trump. broad (but not universal) agreeThe best way to move forward ment on a set of cultural values. from this unfortunate year is for No movies or TV shows will individuals to start constructing a be able to capture our time well, new consensus. Millennials agree because we don’t have a shared on a lot; the work now is to build image of our time. If we did, Hol- what we agree on into policy and lywood would not have to resort cultural values. There are already to superheroes and sequels to sell new ways in which we are buildtickets. There is nothing blander ing media consensus. According and less culturally risky than Cap- to Symphony Advanced Media, tain America fighting Nazis. Hol- the top four series for viewers aged lywood is well aware that engaging 18-24 were all Netflix shows. New in the culture wars is a surefire way forms of media and new expresto alienate some customers, so it sions of culture are everywhere. In usually tries to shoot for the middle small pockets, we are already seeground. And just how bland and ing new cultural consensus arising. formulaic its movies have become We can’t undo the conditions that is a sure sign that even they are led to 2016 being the year of the having trouble finding some kind stuck, and we can’t keep producof cultural consensus to capitalize ing reboots and sequels — in movoff. The fact that superhero mov- ies or in politicians. We can only ies and sequels no longer support examine what changed and what Hollywood indicates the level of got us where we are, so we can cultural diffusion we have reached. start constructing a new consensus.

A similar level of diffusion and Duncan Cock Foster is a College polarization is present in politics.

What a year! Elections are con- senior from Seattle, Washington.

DUNCAN COCK FOSTER

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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

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Empathy and Democracy ALEX CHEN

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Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo di Firenze).

Looking at the Italian Earthquake from a Distance This article was written by Senior Lecturer in Italian Angela Porcarelli on behalf of Professor of Pedagogy Judy Raggi Moore and Senior Lecturer in Italian Christine Ristaino.

One day in elementary school, in the middle of the year, our teacher walked into class holding a child by his hand. I don’t remember the child’s name, only that his family had moved temporarily to Cerreto D’Esi, our village in Marche, due to the earthquake that had hit their region of Friuli. In a town of only 2,000 people, where every kid your age is a classmate, goes to the same birthday parties and takes part in the annual Christmas recitals, a boy from Northern Italy brings a special charm. He seemed to come from very far away; a place we could locate on a map but could have been anywhere for us. We all wanted to talk to him; we asked questions about his family, his village and above all, the earthquake.

His stories hit me deeply. Seventy-seven villages affected, over 900 dead, over 2,000 injured. The houses shaking, the dust followed by the search for survivors driven by fear and hope. This was in 1976. I don’t recall any images of that earthquake except those I drew in my head by listening to my new classmate. Now, 40 years later, I have seen hundreds of photos of the destruction produced by the seismic shocks in Central Italy. Yet, in order to make sense of what happened, I bring back that child from Friuli, a little lost and absent, far away from his home with an uncertain future.

This time the earthquake hit my region and I am in the U.S., both far away and close at the same time. Although I don’t know the people there, I can imagine their lives, having walked those same thousand-year-old streets several

times. The earthquake razed entire villages, such as Amatrice, famous for its 100 churches, to the ground.

Italy, geologically very young, is highly seismic. Experts have said that rebuilding in the same place is not wise; villages that have been wiped out should not have been built there in the first place.

What they don’t understand, however, is that the historic and artistic patrimony of our country is at the root of its identity. In 1847, Prince Clemens von Metternich wrote “Italy is only a geographical expression.” In 1861, two decades later, Italy was unified but still the differences and divisions among Italians remain. There isn’t such a thing as one Italian people; we are a multitude of ethnic and cultural groups, each with its own independent history that extends back to antiquity. Those differences are responsible for the Italian language, art and the creativity that gives its best in difficult times.

After a seism, Italians rebuild what they lost. That’s what happened in Assisi in 1997 after the destruction of the roof of San Francesco’s Basilica Superiore. Giotto and Cimabue’s frescoes crumbled into thousands of small pieces, an impossible puzzle which nonetheless did not stop restoration efforts. At the “utopia-construction site,” as it was immediately named, restoration work was completed within the ambitious deadlines set for the Jubilee year 2000.

Italy is a land where miracles happen, but too often to compensate for crime and political corruption. The country has among the world’s best anti-seismic standards, but they remain on paper because of local interests, fraudulent conduct and bureaucracy.

And so in Central Italy it happened that an elementary school, which was supposed to withstand an

earthquake thanks to its 700,000euro upgrade, collapsed, while the 13th-century civil tower, the oldest building in town, survived.

The tragedy of the earthquake becomes an opportunity to reflect on the place we call Italy. “The life of the expatriate,” Professor of Pedagogy in Italian Judy Raggi Moore says, “is challenging, fraught with emotions of incomprehension and marginalization in the new country, a progressive loss of immediacy and ultimately guilt with regard to our native country. We feel caught in between, not truly present in either, and not fully connected to both. The earthquake produced a sense of loss, which transcends the statistics of the disaster — almost as though that particular historic building would not have crumbled had I been present.”

Senior Lecturer in Italian Christine Ristaino shares similar feelings: “In tragic moments such as after an earthquake, even Italian Americans whose families have lived in the States for over a hundred years feel the need to identify themselves as Italian despite the geographical and linguistic barriers that separate them.”

The same outburst of solidarity did not come from public institutions. “Each person dug out from the ruins,” Italian writer Roberto Saviano said, “Every homeless person hosted in a house, every building reconstructed is an Italian victory,” one that does not belong to the institutions but to the common people. In those moments, our sense of citizenship becomes a participation in a project of justice, and as such, immediately overcomes exclusionary nationalism. Justice, in fact, can never be achieved in isolation — it needs the indispensable participation of those who are different, those at whom we look from a distance.

The principle of empathy is the single most important principle upon which the weal of a functioning democracy relies.

Montesquieu wrote that civic virtue was the most important surety for the preservation of the democratic state. In his view, a democracy required that its citizenry be educated to subordinate their individual self-interest to the interests of the state, whenever necessary. Individuals should always attempt to serve the common interest as opposed to their private interests — Montesquieu’s view can be summarized roughly by Kennedy’s famous dictum, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Self-sacrifice in the face of the higher interest of the state is well and good, but the atrocities of the past century have undoubtedly left us a little contemptuous at the naïveté of this charming French thinker who did not live to see the excesses of Robespierre and Saint-Just.

How then, ensure that the democratic civitas be virtuous? Presumably by ensuring that its leaders be so. How ensure that the leaders be virtuous? By assuming that its citizens be so. How ensure that its citizens be so? By ensuring that they be educated to know to practice virtue. We have circled back again to Montesquieu’s initial proposition.

In order to break this vicious circle, we must ask ourselves: what, then, is virtue in this day and age?

It can no longer be as Montesquieu claims. To sacrifice oneself for the greater interests of the state can nowise be good, unless there be some guarantee that the so-called greater interests of the state be good. Thus, on the assumption that Montesquieu is correct in arguing that a functioning democracy should require of its citizens that they practice self-sacrifice for the greater benefit of the state, the problem then becomes as follows: who determines what the “greater benefit of the state” actually is?

Suppose there is a country that is de jure democratic (there are free and fair elections), but which has been de facto ruled by elites for centuries. These elites instil the social and economic classes under them with a strong sense of “civic virtue,” arguing that they themselves should be continually voted into office and kept at the top of the political order and served by lower classes because the current social order has allowed the elite ample opportunity to produce great works in the arts and humanities, and make astounding leaps in knowledge. In so doing, they have brought unprecedented prestige and wealth to the “state” — even if the majority of that state’s citizens do not enjoy any such advantages, because they are kept in subjugation to the elite constantly swayed by appeals to “civic virtue” and entranced by the idea that their votes for the long-standing regime do serve, in some sense, the “best interests of the state.”

But it has become a rather trite observation that democracies are the only form of government that provide the wherewithal for their own downfalls — Napoleon and Hitler are only the most (in)famous products of democracies. The reason for this tendency has as its root this ingrained notion, expressed by Montesquieu, that the citizens of a democracy ought to be willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the state and that doing so is exactly what civic virtue in a democratic society is. Although there is nothing theoretically unsound with this notion, in actuality, adherence to it implies a simple disregard for the

fact that a democracy is, by its very nature, organized pluralistically.

There is no single “greater good” of a democratic society in the interests of which the leaders of that society might persuade its citizens to sacrifice their democratic rights. Rather, in a world of plurality, citizens have a duty to discuss their different ideas as to what the greater goods of the state might be, instead of trusting blithely in the idea that there exists only a solitary greater good for which they ought to sacrifice even their own freedom, if need be.

Civic virtue must be taken as a general form of “open-mindedness,” to the extent that it creates an atmosphere conducive to the general discussion of these various greater goods of the state. An education which aims for the cultivation of civic virtue thus ought to aim more toward the form of thought, rather than at its contents. This is, incidentally, what a liberal education should aim to do.

But, “since feeling is first,” the open-mindedness at which this liberal education aims is possible only insofar as it aims first at the cultivation of the feeling of empathy amongst its students. In the spring of this year, some people here at Emory decided that it would be a good idea to chalk “Trump 2016” or other such slogans around campus.

Shortly thereafter, people in opposition of these actions, decided that it would be a good idea to petition the administration to levy sanctions upon those who wrote these slogans. The fact that some people thought to chalk slogans in support of Trump around campus, I found abhorrent. The fact that somebody decided that running to the administration in an attempt to stifle those individuals’ free speech, I found yet more abhorrent. The fact that I found both these actions abhorrent, I found most abhorrent of all.

Why this abhorrence at abhorrence? Because abhorrence is a feeling born from prejudice, and, as such, it precludes and shuts off the ability for one to feel empathy. I know that as a citizen of the United States, I should have some basic level of empathy for Trump’s supporters. I ought, at least, to say, “I know that coal miners/fundamentalists/ businessmen, etc. tend to support him, because…” and so on, because if I cannot do that, I cannot have a rational debate with their side, and if I cannot have a rational debate, then we each retreat into the subjective world of personal opinion, and any discussion degenerates into a shouting match that leaves both parties more polarized than ever before. I am no Trump supporter myself, but I also recognize that I shall never convince anybody to cease to support him if I cannot reach even the smallest isle of middle ground with the other side.

For the same reason, I ought to empathize with the people who protested to the administration about the chalk scribblings and asked that those responsible for them be punished — and yet I find that I cannot.

Without, therefore, this common bond of empathy, the possibility for rational discourse is all at once closed off, and replaced rather with the circus into which American politics has devolved this election cycle. One can blame neither Trump’s, nor Hillary’s, nor Sanders’ supporters alone for this devolution concerning rational debate and discourse: the fault is on all our heads — at least, upon the heads of those of us who remain incapable or unwilling even to share some basic empathy with the other side.

Alex Chen is a College senior from Palo Alto, California.

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Parrot Tuesday and Scrubby the Goat, voiced by Kaya Yanar and Dieter Hallevorden, respectively, watch as Robinson Crusoe, voiced by Matthias Schweighoefer, teeters in danger.

‘Wild Life’ is a Bland Matinee

By Vikrant Nallaparaju Film Critic I’m not normally one who bows down to the almighty Pixar altar, but compared to most other kid-oriented animated film studios, it’s hard not to do so. The Pixar machine has churned out critical darlings year after year, such as Inside Out and Finding Dory, but even they have had a few kinks in the gears, as was the case with the uninspired Cars series.

However, even at their worst, Pixar films always have something deeper going on beneath the surface and never seem to talk down to their mostly-young audience. The Wild Life, produced by nWave Pictures, is

unfit even to shine Pixar’s shoes, and embodies the laziest form of cash-grab filmmaking.

Alternatively titled Robinson Crusoe in some countries, the film follows a parrot named Mak (Kaya Yanar), who lives on an uncharted tropical island with his animal friends.

A big dreamer, Mak yearns to explore the world that lies beyond the ocean.

One day, a navigator named Robinson Crusoe (Matthias Schweighoefer) washes up on the island after his ship crashes there. Delighted that an outsider has come to the island, Mak befriends Crusoe, leading the other animals to welcome him to the island.

However, Crusoe is not the only castaway on the island, as two hungry

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ratter cats from Crusoe’s ship have also come ashore, seeking to dine on the island’s inhabitants.

For a film named Robinson Crusoe in many European countries, the film bears little resemblance to the original Daniel Defoe novel. There’s not a cannibal in sight, though there’s a joke or two about them for the parents in the audience. Beyond the broad strokes of a man washing up on a strange island and befriending a parrot, the film seems like it could have been quietly dumped directly to home video without even the slightest worry of copyright infringement. It’s baffling that The Wild Life received a mainSee Film, Page 14

Four years. It has been over four years since Frank Ocean captured the hearts of fans with his studio debut album, Channel Orange. The R&B singer-songwriter embarked on a mere 14-date North American tour and disappeared from the public eye soon after its completion. Three years later, after almost zero musical output, Ocean posted on his Tumblr, proclaiming “I got two versions,” with hashtags “#BoysDontCry” and “#July2015,” leading fans to believe an album was finally on the way. However, over a year passed, and there was still no hint of anything from Ocean.

Suddenly, on Aug. 1, 2016, a livestream appeared on Apple Music and Ocean’s website, a black-andwhite video of Ocean building a staircase. Shortly thereafter, The New York Times reported that Ocean’s album was coming within the week. A week went by, and there was still no album.

Seventeen days later, the livestream began to play song snippets in the background of Frank’s carpentry, ending three hours later with the release of visual album Endless. Days later, the highly anticipated Boys Don’t Cry (now entitled Blonde) was released Aug. 20 as an Apple Music exclusive, fulfilling the promise made more than a year before that Ocean “got two versions.”

Ocean’s proclamation of “two versions” is a particularly apt one in the case of Blonde. Ocean’s career has been defined by duality, beginning with him

coming out as bisexual in 2012, along with the release of Channel Orange.

His public persona is reserved and withdrawn, a stark contrast to the raw emotion and signature falsetto that pepper his music. Even the cover of the album is stylized blond, while the official album title is Blonde, taking advantage of one of the few English words to feature grammatical gender to highlight a gender dichotomy.

Ocean has defied expectations and has delivered something that, while radically different from any of his previous projects, still feels uniquely Frank Ocean.

Blonde is a marked shift from the crisp and polished production of 2012’s Channel Orange. Channel Orange is a roaring love story about heartbreak and pain. The lush instrumentation and maximalist orchestration that were such key features on Channel Orange are absent on the grimy and uncompromising Blonde.

Grandiose John Mayer guitar solos and showering string sections are replaced with atmospheric, sparse instrumentation, generally featuring only one or two instruments to accentuate Ocean’s vocals. The production, at times, is notably lo-fi with grungy, distorted guitar and warped synths.

The instrumentals can be jarring, and on songs like “Pretty Sweet,” the layered, distorted vocals and discordant guitar make the listener uneasy, only to suddenly break into an ethereal and atmospheric instrumental.

From the first track, “Nikes,” Ocean See ‘Blonde,’ Page 14

Romantic Drama Review

‘The Light Between Oceans’ Flickers Dimly Grade: CBy Vikrant Nallaparaju Film Critic

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Spyro, accompanied by Sparx, spits fire at an enemy.

‘Spyro the Dragon’: A Classic Masterpiece

By Brian Savino A&E Editor I could always count on Spyro to be just one click of a button away in my room, waiting for me to guide him through the next challenge. I was so connected to the game that I started dreaming that I was in his world, helping him along his adventures and guiding the way against the evil Gnorcs. It was a time when my innocent mind allowed me to completely escape from the real world and insert myself into this fantasy that I loved so much.

Spyro made sense. Spyro the Dragon was the first game in which I could connect with the protagonist to

the point where I thought of the character as a friend and mentor. No game had ever done that for me before, and my mind was opened up to the fact that a video game could be much more than just a game — it could be a learning experience and picker-upper when things weren’t going well.

When PlayStation started up twenty years ago, the games that were coming out weren’t all that great. You would get stuck on a mission in a game, such as Santa Claus Saves the Earth, but there was never any motivation to fight through the challenge due to poor gameplay and plotlines.

Spyro the Dragon, though, changed See Classic, Page 14

As the new semester rolls in, we must bid farewell to the dog days of summer blockbusters until next year.

Gone are the capes and cowls, and in come the period pieces, romantic dramas and premature Oscar-bait with which we must content ourselves until new horror films creep up in October.

These genres are hard to denote one category to, and that’s how we end up with The Light Between Oceans, a rather run-of-the-mill romantic drama that aims high, but unfortunately falls short of breaking free from its Lifetime movie-esque roots.

Set in post-World War I Australia, the film follows ex-soldier Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) as he attempts to return to civilian life by taking a job as a lighthouse keeper on an isolated island off the coast of the small town Janus. He falls in love with a young woman named Isabel Graysmark (Alicia Vikander), and the two decide to live at the lighthouse together immediately. After several failed pregnancies, the couple is about to abandon their hopes of having a family when a young baby girl and her dead father wash ashore on an adrift rowboat.

Tom and Isabel blissfully raise the child as their own for several years until they return to Janus to find that the child’s mother, Hannah Roennfeldt, (Rachel Weisz) is deter-

mined to discover the fates of her missing husband and daughter.

On paper, you have a solid setup for an interesting cinematic discussion that explores paternity rights, biological versus surrogate parenting and the overbearing 20th-century pressures placed on women regarding pregnancy.

Unfortunately, the film is too selfindulgent for its own good and fails to spend time developing these themes beyond cursory dialogue sprinkled here and there throughout its lengthy runtime.

Bloated is the most apt way to describe this film. For a movie clocking-in at 132 minutes, there is very little happening on screen. Director Derek Cianfrance’s wide landscape shots overlain with inner character monologues never cease to be gorgeous to to the eye and ear; unfortunately, they also reveal how meaningless the film is underneath. Much of the dialogue is metaphorical nonsense, such as when they compare their love to the continuously pounding ocean. It may seem cute and endearing in a romantic drama geared toward teenagers, but comes across as really forced in a movie that attempts to be serious. It’s a director’s mistake to have the characters narrate their development rather than allow them to display it through their actions.

While on the topic, the characters are anything but natural. The biggest case is Vikander’s Isabel, whose char-

acterization completely lacks any real exploration of her motivations. There are no useful flashbacks or exposition that really explore Isabel’s past, so there’s no grounding for her strong convictions toward keeping someone else’s child.

As such, even though Vikander is a convincing actress, Isabel herself is never sympathetic to audiences in the slightest.

While this kind of bizarre characterization could work in the context of a darker, more unconventional film, The Light Between Oceans is an adaptation of M.L. Stedman’s romance novel, so we expect the film to have some kind of happy ending, which it does.

The de facto villain of the film, the baby’s biological mother, has an abrupt change of heart in the last 15 minutes of the film without any real developments between her and the protagonists, leaving the central conflict over who has custody of the child — which was already introduced too late into the film — feeling anti-climatic.

The cast brings their A-game, and credit should be given for the unusual casting choices for this kind of film.

Putting aside the fact that Fassbender and Vikander are currently in a relationship off-screen, the two are unlikely leads for a romantic drama.

Fassbender typically plays stoic genre film leads (X-Men: First Class, See ROMANTIC, Page 14

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Film Fails to Emulate Pixar Success Continued from Page 13 stream theatrical release when a film of this caliber normally would have collected dust in video store purgatory 15 years ago.

One of the biggest problems with The Wild Life is its inability to juggle multiple tones and blend them into a cohesive narrative. Any scene with the island’s animals wouldn’t feel out of place in a Nick Jr. morning program block, yet whenever we cut to our feline antagonists, the tone undergoes a bizarre shift, resulting in what feels like two disjointed stories that just so happen to meet occasionally when the film desperately calls for some conflict to prevent the audience from falling asleep. The cats hardly spend any time interacting with the animals or Crusoe, which robs the film of any audience investment during what would qualify as the climax.

Regarding conflict, The Wild Life hardly has any. One would assume that the central dilemma lies in Crusoe and Mak bonding over their mutual desire to leave the island and maybe learning some kind of valuable lesson in the process, but that’s not the case here. There’s no exploration of human wanderlust or feelings of estrangement with one’s home that the Pixar crew would have picked up on the second this script hit their table.

The sole conflict of this film can quite literally be boiled down to “cats want to eat animals.” Putting aside the fact that Crusoe should easily be able to fend off two ordinary housecats, the plot constantly bends backwards to find ridiculous new ways to keep this conflict going, such as the cats manipulating the animals into thinking that Crusoe ate Mak or, and I wish I was joking here, the cats mating to create an army of kittens to take over the island.

Some of this ridiculousness could be softened if the film operated under even the slightest pretense of realism, but subtlety is not this film’s strong suit. The two cats are as nuanced as your average ‘80s-cartoon villain, with a relationship resembling that of Megatron and Starscream from the original Transformers series.

Every scene they’re in is an exercise in how many supervillain one-liners the screenwriters can wring into an understandable monologue.

On a technical level, The Wild Life is mediocre, without any kind of flair to even be a visual treat. The humans look like failed Clash of Clans character designs that unfortunately escaped the artists’ trashcan. While the animals are animated fairly competently, the voice acting is grating at times, particularly with Aylin Tezel as Stachelschwein Epii the echidna, who clearly sounds like there was significant work done to raise her pitch.

The Wild Life was never going to be the next Toy Story, but it didn’t have to settle for mediocrity. Some might say that it’s just a kid’s movie and there’s no need for it to be a highbrow work by any means, but that’s a defeatist view of what kid’s movies are. Making kid’s movies doesn’t mean dumbing down the film, but rather taking broad mature concepts and conceptualizing them in a way kids can understand.

The Wild Life is a product, not a film with meaning. And that, quite frankly, is depressing.

— Contact Vikrant Nallaparaju at vnallap@emory.edu

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with “I’ve stumbled and lived every word/Was I working just way too hard?” Where Channel Orange was a marketable album with pop sensibilities, Blonde is distinctly not. There is no radio-ready single, no “Thinkin Bout You” to propel Blonde to the top of the charts.

As a matter of fact, there is arguably not a single song that would succeed as a radio single. The result is something that may polarize fans of his previous work, but this is not an album for his fans. Blonde feels like not a clean slice of life, but a mangled chunk.

Blonde is an unpolished piece of Ocean’s heart, still bloodied, still beating. Audiences can find polished, overproduced R&B with the likes of Usher and August Alsina, but Ocean delivers something that is unapologetically him and is the better for it.

Prometheus), so it’s interesting to see him play against his usual type here.

Vikander made a name for herself last year in the excellent sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, where she played a nearemotionless android, so her complete 180 in this role really demonstrates her range as an actress.

As mentioned earlier, this film is beautiful to watch. Cinematographer Adam Arkapaw’s penchant for framing the island of Janus Rock through wide landscape shots and placing Fassbender squarely in the middle effectively captures the sense of isolation and loneliness Tom experiences for much of the film’s first act.

The use of color in different scenes is also top notch, as Arkapaw paints the world in vivid reds and oranges to complement joyous moments, but the film is able to snap back immediately to the murky grey skies and rocks, returningus to the cold reality of life at Janus Rock.

The Light Between Oceans is ultimately too unremarkable to make an impression in any direction. It boasts inspired casting and breathtaking cinematography, but they’re buried under a paper-thin plot that’s screaming for some semblance of an original twist or perspective to dig into the deeper subtext available.In the end, it’s weekend-movie fodder for the baby boomer Academy-voting audience, but nothing more.

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— Contact Vikrant Nallaparaju at vnallap@emory.edu

Frank Ocean (right) performs at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2012.

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‘Blonde’ Emits Pure Love, Personality Continued from Page 13 delivers raw emotion and unyielding personality. When Ocean softly sings, “I’ll sleep between y’all, it’s nothing,” the instrumental wanes, and the listener understands the pain that Ocean is experiencing with his lost love. In this intensely personal album, Ocean chooses to keep features to a minimum, even omitting them from the tracklist. Beyoncé provides background vocals for “Pink + White,” and one of the only pronounced features on the album is André 3000 on “Solo (Reprise).”

André 3000 covers a multitude of topics in “Solo (Reprise),” despite it being only one minute and 19 seconds long, with rapid fire flow centering on the motif of him being “solo [so low].”

André 3000 mentions the current turmoil in the United States, saying that he’s “so low that [he] can admit/ When [he] hear[s] that another kid is shot by the popo/It ain’t an event

no more.” Many thought the closing bars of the song were directed at Drake, whose very public ghostwriting scandal may have inspired André

‘Blonde’ feels like not a clean slice of life, but a mangled chunk. [It] is an unpolished piece of Ocean’s heart, still bloodied, still beating.

3000 when he raps “After 20 years in, I’m so naive/I was under the impression/That everyone wrote they own verses.”

André 3000 continues the pained theme of the project, closing his verse

Classic PlayStation Game Offers Simple Entertainment Continued from Page 13 this.

If you’ve ever heard of PlayStation, chances are that you’ve also heard of Spyro the Dragon. The 1998 Insomniac Games classic was praised for its stunning 3D graphics (for the time) and high replay value. It opened PlayStation up to new possibilities and showed gamers that Sony had the capacity to make a game that was both aesthetically pleasing, relatable and smooth-playing.

The idea of the game is very basic: You play as a young purple dragon named Spyro, who seeks to free the adult dragons from crystal bonds cast by the evil Gnasty Gnorc. You start in the Artisans Homeworld and make your way through each world until you reach Gnasty Gnorc’s world. Each world contains a series of portals that transport you to various levels. But because you don’t need to complete the portal missions in order, you can freely travel in and out of the levels as you choose, giving the game a personal touch. Spyro the Dragon strikes the perfect balance between a strictly chronological story-mode game, such as The Last of Us, and an open-world game, such as Fallout. In a game world that is so open and large, much like Skyrim and Jak and Daxter, the main character must be accompanied by an ally.

Spyro is always followed by his best friend, Sparx the Dragonfly, who acts as his health meter. When you start a

new life, Sparx glows a bright golden hue and changes color, and finally disappears, as you are attacked, leaving Spyro completely vulnerable.

However, Spyro has some moves up his tail. He can breathe fire, charge with his horns, fly and barrel roll. In my many years of playing, however, I have not once found myself reliant on the barrel roll against enemies, since they are too naive.

From the creepy Clock Fools that inhabit Dream Weavers World to the starving vultures in the Dry Canyon Realm, the enemies fit their respective worlds. They are also completely hellish. So hellish, in fact, that I was scared of a good number of levels in the game as a child. Opponents’ appearances, as well as the way in which they perform their moves, can be daunting.

Slap-Happy Armored Monks from the Dream Weavers World are probably the strangest characters that I’ve ever seen in a video game. These creatures are fat with pencil-like heads, and they have the ability to shift sizes.

When they are small, they only let out an eerie screech when you approach them, which, honestly, is almost enough for me to run away from them. In their large form, they wave their arms and scream gibberish, and if you get too close to them, they slap you, not to mention that in their large form, they’re invincible. Enemies like these make up a relatively large portion of the enemies in the game, giving you a scare here and there. Other

enemies, such as Green Druids, aren’t quite as terrifying, but they manipulate the environment, forcing you to stop and think about how you can get around them.

Enemies like Clock Fools and SlapHappy Armored Monks give the game a bit of a learning curve, but they aren’t enough to disprove claims that this game is easy. When I first played this game as a three-year-old, there’s no doubt that I had trouble simply getting Spyro to move the way that I wanted. But when I revisited the game in my teenage years, I found almost no difficulty in getting through the game. Dodging enemies’ hits was no challenge, since most of their moves were so repetitive, and there was a simple formula that worked against each boss. That is the one large downfall of the game. However, defeating each enemy and boss and saving the adult dragons is not, by any means, all there is to do. Each level in the game also contains a certain number of gems, and if you put in the time to collect all of these gems, you can receive 100 percent completion in the game and unlock a secret level.

The gems give you the opportunity to add more play time to the game but do not exactly add to its replay value.

The high replay value instead comes from the game’s unique enemies, worlds and soundtrack. Spyro the Dragon’s soundtrack, composed and produced by Stewart Copeland, the former drummer of The Police, is of the progressive-rock genre. Copeland

primarily makes use of guitar and drums, creating a unique, upbeat sound for each realm that keeps the game flowing and acts as a counterpart to the gameplay itself. It gives enemies more of their own personality and makes sure that there is never a dull moment, even when you’re just trying to figure out how to jump to a hard-to-reach area.

Thus, we’re left with a truly complete game, and the only negative thing I can say about it is that it is a tad bit too easy, which is fine considering how old the game is and the fact that it was made for children.

The amazingly unique characters and landscapes, along with a soundtrack that seamlessly blends into the game, make for a bundle of nostalgia that beckons to you anytime you want to have an enjoyable, stress-free few hours.

And through my completion of the game came a connection with more than just the protagonist.

I connected each enemy to a different real-life problem I was experiencing and I connected each dragon I saved to something I solved in the real world. Spyro the Dragon became my escape while also keeping me anchored to the real world. Insomniac Games’ masterpiece will go down in history as containing one of the most relatable, fun-to-play stories of any game during its time.

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

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EaglE ExchangE Cal Luthern Inv. vs. ClaremontMudd-Scripps @ Cal Luthern

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Furman Classic @ Furman University (S.C.)

Roanoke Inv. vs. Lynchburg @ Salem, Va.

Roanoke Inv. vs. Roanoke @ Salem, Va.

NCWC Tournament vs. Methodist @ Rocky Mount, N.C.

NCWC Tournament vs. N.C. Wesleyan @ Rocky Mount, N.C. Rhodes College Rhodes College Fall Inv. Fall Inv. @ Tunica @ Tunica National Golf National Golf Club (Miss.)

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Sunday against Maryville College.

Coming out strong, Emory had numerous scoring opportunities early on, but was denied time and time again

by Maryville keeper Ryan Jorgensen.

Finally, with 30 seconds remaining in the half, Jorgensen made a rare mistake when he decided to play through the back instead of sending the ball upfield. Maryville ultimately turned the ball over deep in their own end — the ball found itself at the feet of Andrejchak, who blasted a shot past Jorgenson to give Emory a 1-0 halftime lead.

“It was just a great release for the team,” Andrejchak said. “It’s a great morale booster for the team to get a goal right before half.”

Emory continued to dominate

in the second half, with McCartney finally managing to get a shot past Jorgenson with 31 minutes left in the second half. That score would be the game’s last, giving Emory the convincing 2-0 victory.

Reflecting on the their loss against UT Tyler, Travis said, “[Games like this are] the beauty of soccer.

You always see something different.

[But] as a team, we talked about it, we owned it and did a good job of fixing it for Sunday.”

In the other games of the invitational, Maryville and UT Tyler defeated Oglethorpe University (Ga.) 3-2 2-1, respectively. The Eagles will face off next on Saturday, Sept. 10, at Methodist University (N.C.).

— Contact Kevin Kilgour at kevin.james.kilgour@emory.edu

FOOTBALL

Prepare for a Football Season Full of M(Emorys)

By Noah Zedeck Contributing Writer

This Thursday, Sept. 8, marks the date of one of the most highly anticipated and celebrated holidays in the United States. On this day, people of all ages and all walks of life will once again reclaim a piece of themselves that they have been deprived of during the summer months. I am referring, of course, to the beginning of the professional football season. It’s time for some football!

Thursday night’s opening game of the NFL season marks the first time that the season opener will be a matchup of the prior year’s Super Bowl game. The Denver Broncos will host the Carolina Panthers as Cam Newton seeks redemption after suffering a devastating loss at the hands of Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos’ powerhouse defense in last year’s Super Bowl. While the Broncos

will still be sporting the best defense in the league, Manning’s retirement could prove an issue for an offense in need of a competent leader at the quarterback position. Rookie quarterback Trevor Siemian, a seventh-round draft pick out of Northwestern University (Ill.), certainly has some big shoes to fill. As long as Siemian can get the ball to Emmanuel Sanders and Demaryius Thomas while avoiding the Panthers veteran linebacker Luke Kuechly, the Broncos should be able to keep the game close and perhaps even pull off a win on Thursday. However, Siemian needs to quickly assume an impressive role in his position should he wish to keep the Denver legacy alive for another riveting season.

The Falcons, native to Atlanta and thus an Emory favorite, are another team to watch as they host Tampa Bay Buccaneers this Sunday. The Falcons have a tough early season schedule, and although their first match-

up against the Buccaneers is one of their easier ones, it is still important.

Atlanta lost to Tampa Bay and rookie quarterback Jameis Winston twice last year, putting the pressure on Atlanta to get the win this weekend and start their season off better than in recent years.

As always, the New England Patriots are making headlines as predictions are flooding in with regard to their away game against the Arizona Cardinals. The controversial nature of this game is due in part to recordbreaking quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension on account of the Deflategate allegations against him. With this devastating blow to New England’s offense, the Cardinals should be able to exploit the Patriots’ newfound weakness and take home the win this Sunday.

As the 2016 season begins, talented rookie prospects are making their debuts and veteran players are already

drawing publicity. With so much to be talked about even prior to kickoff, this NFL season should shape up to be one of the most exciting seasons yet.

Noah’s Notes: Predictions for Week 1 Broncos 17, Panthers 14 Falcons 14, Buccaneers 10 Cardinals 20, Patriots 10 Vikings 24, Titans 13 Eagles 17, Browns 7 Chiefs 27, Chargers 20 Packers 34, Jaguars 13 Giants 14, Cowboys 10 Bengals 20, Jets 3 Saints 14, Raiders 7 Bears 13, Texans 10 Bills 17, Ravens 14 Seahawks 23, Dolphins 14 Colts 24, Lions 6 Steelers 14, Redskins 3 Rams 14, 49ers 13

— Contact Noah Zedeck at noah.zedeck@emory.edu

“I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.” — Tim Tebow This summer has brought us some hilarious sports news. Last week, your On Fire correspondent covered the Ryan Lochte disaster and Draymond Green’s off-field mishaps.

Even though week one of collegiate football brought us enticing results such as Alabama’s 52-6 trouncing of USC (RIP), your On Fire correspondent thought it might be a bit more fun to update you on a few more stories from this summer’s shenanigans instead.

If at first you don’t succeed, switch sports, according to Tim Tebow Right when we all thought we’d never hear about Tim Tebow on ESPN ever again, he found a way to crawl back into the spotlight, and he didn’t even have to sit down for the national anthem to do it.

After years of trying, it finally looks as if our old friend Timmy might actually give up on his athletic dreams.

Seriously, Tebow probably has more experience with rejection than Dikembe Mutombo. But he keeps coming back — just not in the way any reasonable person might have expected.

Apparently, like Bruce Wayne disappearing to the mountains on his path to becoming Batman, Tebow has spent the past year training privately for a professional baseball career.

Most likely he just watched one too many Bo Jackson documentaries last summer. The anticipation for the forthcoming “Te-Bo Knows” t-shirts and gear is killing your On Fire correspondent.

Who could possibly pass up such an opportunity?

Apparently, most MLB teams. Key word: MOST. One team in particular has expressed some legitimate interest. Which team, you might ask? The Atlanta Braves. Braves baseball is back y’all.

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On Monday’s game against Redlands, Emory rebounded handedly, landing 12 shots on goals versus Redlands’ zero, winning easily, 3-0.

In the first half, junior center midfielder Anna Gurney scored the first goal of the game off an assist from freshman forward Caroline Kolski.

At the beginning of the second half, sophomore forward Grace Edgarton scored her second goal of the season.

“I thought overall it was a really good effort. We played 19 of 20 people that we travelled — it was really a team effort,” Patberg said.

The Emory Eagles will look to improve their record next weekend at the Roanoke Invitational in Virgina against Lynchburg College (Va.) Saturday and Roanoke College (Va.) Sunday.

— Contact Avery Yang at ahyang2@emory.edu

fast as we usually would at the start of [the race],” he explained.

“We do try to win, but it’s really tough on the body to do an 8k at the beginning of the season, so it’s not really worth it to race this all out.”

According to Shaw, the Watermelon Run was not one of the more important races of the year; but it is a useful indicator of the team’s progress.

One notable contributor was freshman Luis Torres, who finished third overall with a time of 27:31.

“It was great to see where everyone was at,” Shaw said.

“We really have guys who can contribute.”

On the women’s side, the Eagles (30 points) came in first among six teams, overcoming Piedmont (93 points), Oglethorpe (113 points), Agnes Scott College (Ga.) (147 points) and LaGrange (149 points).

“We all tried to run together and get a feel for running a 6k again,” said sophomore Clare Ubersax, who finished third overall with a time of 24:06.

The Eagles focused on team chemistry and communication.

“We stuck together for the first two miles,” Ubersax said. “While we’re in a race, we shout to each other and push each other to go farther.”

Although Ubersax consistently deferred praise that came her way toward her teammates, she acknowledged that she has improved quite significantly from last year.

“I feel a lot stronger,” she said. “Last year, I was still trying to get used to being [a] college runner, but now I’m more confident as a runner.”

The Watermelon Run provided important victories for the men’s and women’s cross country squads, but the season has only just started, and the biggest competitions of the year have yet to come.

Emory’s next meet will be on Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Furman Classic in Greenville, S.C. On Sept. 17, Emory will then travel to the University of Montevallo (Ala.) for the Falcon Classic.

— Contact Nico Vidger at grahm.vidger@emory.edu

Team Continued from Backpage every player at the beginning of the season was given a carabiner with a specific word written on it. Thompson’s word is “joy,” so she hopes to bring that principle to the court.

As for a team goal, Thompson said, “Our goal is to win a national championship, and this team has great potential to do that.”

“We talk about how volleyball brought us together,” McDowell said.

“And we want to have fun together.”

The Eagles indeed appeared to have fun as they clinched three out of four victories to begin what is bound to be an exciting season for Emory’s volleyball team.

The Eagles will return to the court this Friday, Sept. 9, at 8 p.m. in Thousand Oaks, Calif., to face off against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.) in the Cal Lutheran Invitational.

— Contact Allison Gelman at allison.gelman@emory.edu

Hope Solo made her final mistake during this year’s summer Olympics.

After losing to Sweden in the quarterfinals, she told the media that the Swedish were “cowards” and that the “best team [USA] didn’t win.” After her comments, the United States Soccer Federation finally said that they had enough.

Boom. Fired. Career over.

One of the most decorated female soccer players of all time, Solo received neither a ceremony nor a farewell, just the knife.

To be fair, Solo may be known more for her mouth and actions off the field than her soccer skills. That one time she got in trouble for beating her husband comes to mind.

That was fine, though. No big deal.

But having the nerve to proclaim the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, the reigning World Cup champions, the “better team”?

Solo must have already been playing elite youth soccer when most kids are taught to be a gracious loser along with being a gracious winner. She called out her coach after she was benched in the world cup semi-finals against Brazil and kept her job, but this round of her post-lost antics cost her job.

On a semi-related note, who released this footage of her getting cut. How is nobody talking about this?

Can we get cameras in more sports front offices? Call up Fox Sports 2, I heard they are desperate for content.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Eagles Split at Sonny Invitational

CROSS COUNTRY

By keviN kilGour Contributing Writer The men’s soccer team played two games at the Sonny Carter Invitational last weekend, falling 5-4 in double overtime against the University of Texas at Tyler on Saturday, but rebounding on Sunday with a 2-0 victory over Maryville College (Tenn.).

There is always a certain level of excitement before a team’s first home game of the season, but no one could have anticipated the drama that was to follow in the match against UT Tyler.

The contest favored UT Tyler early on, who possessed the ball well but could not quite break through Emory’s defensive line. The tide changed when sophomore center-midfielder Moustafa Khattab scored a brilliant goal with 14 minutes remaining in the first half.

Receiving the ball at midfield, Khattab performed a Maradona, spinning past his defender into the open field.

Passing ahead to junior Jason McCartney, Khattab then found himself on the receiving end of a beautiful give and go, and managed to finish the sequence by placing it skillfully past UT Tyler goalkeeper Giancarlo Ayangui.

Khattab’s goal opened up the field, allowing Emory to ride a wave of momentum through the remainder of the half. Freshman midfielder Jun Tsuru, playing in his first collegiate game, checked in for the first time shortly after Khattab’s goal.

Mere minutes after his entry, Tsuru received a pass inside the box, composed himself and managed to score a roller into the UT Tyler goal to give Emory a 2-0 lead.

“When I went in, I already knew what I had to do. I was prepping for

it,” Tsuru said. “When [the ball] went in, I was just happy. It’s a good feeling to start off your season scoring in the first three minutes of your college career.”

Adding to the barrage, junior forward Michael Carragher notched a third goal with three minutes remaining in the first half.

Up 3-0 at half, Emory seemed set to coast ahead to an impressive opening victory. But this was when things began to turn upside-down.

Just 27 seconds into the second half, UT Tyler midfielder Erik Macias fired a shot to the opposite corner past Emory junior keeper Graham Labran-Boyd.

26 seconds later, UT Tyler scored another goal on a similar play from forward Leandro Cid Fernandez, who

WOMEN’S SOCCER

VOLLEYBALL

By Nico vidGer Staff Writer

The 3-3 tie was broken with 34 minutes to go, as Tyler scored to take an unthinkable 4-3 lead.

The game went back-and-forth until Emory finally managed to break through the Patriots’ defense with just five minutes remaining, when sophomore defender Aidan Datene placed a header past Ayangui to tie the game at 4-4.

After a scoreless 10 minutes in the first overtime period, UT Tyler midfielder Lutth Tchitembo scored the game winner in the 105th minute, giving the Patriots the 5-4 victory.

For better or for worse, the Eagles had little time to contemplate Saturday’s events, as they needed to recover quickly before their game on

Last Thursday, the men’s and women’s cross country teams began their season, competing in the Watermelon Run hosted by Berry College (Ga.).

The men and women came into the season ranked No. 32 and 21, respectively, by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Going forward, they may exceed their preseason ranking.

The men’s squad strongly outmatched their opponents.

They finished at the top of the fiveteam meet with 23 points, beating out Berry College’s 33 points, Oglethorpe University’s (Ga.) 81 points, Piedmont College’s (Ga.) 118 points and LaGrange College’s (Ga.) 155 points.

Leading the way was sophomore Bennett Shaw, who took first overall with a time of 27:04.

Shaw, last year’s Emory Most Outstanding Newcomer, was proud of his output, saying, “It was pretty cool.

It was the first time I’ve won a college race.”

Shaw knows that this race was just the beginning for him and the program this season.

“We treated it like a scrimmage.

We didn’t even wear spikes and go as

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Senior defender Scott Haley battles a Maryville player for the ball. a captain, Haley took two shots for the men’s soccer team this past weekend. decided that he might as well score two, finishing again less than a minute later for the Patriots. Just like that, the game was tied 3-3.

Emory’s defensive line, which seemed impenetrable in the first half, was suddenly bursting at the seams.

UT Tyler connected passes deep in the Eagles’ box, resulting in easy shots with little chance for Labran-Boyd to react.

Now, the challenge was to put those two painful minutes behind them.

“The only thing we could do was to accept it and just try and get the next one,” said senior forward Jason Andrejchak. “It is difficult moralewise when you get scored on three times in 90 seconds, but the only thing we could really do was keep going after it.”

Squad Cheers Through 3-1 Season Start By allisoN GelmaN Contributing Writer

By aNdrew BurNside & avery yaNG Sports Editors A supposedly easy victory for Emory’s women’s soccer team in Southern California ended in a disappointing split, with a 1-2 loss to California Lutheran University and a 3-0 victory against University of Redlands (Calif.).

Despite maintaining immense control during the first half against Cal Lutheran on Sunday — but to the tune of a 0-0 tie — the Eagles could not seem to finish the ball with precision. Tied until the 57th minute, the Eagles gave up two goals in a sixminute span.

They were unable to come back from their deficit, losing 2-1.

For the Eagles, the highlight of the match was the first career goal for freshman forward Shivani Beall, assisted by senior defender Hannah

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The Emory community gathered in excitement and support Sept. 2 and 3 for the women’s volleyball season opener, the Emory Classic, but the real cheering in the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC) came from the Eagles themselves.

“That’s our culture,” Head Coach Jenny McDowell said of the cheering that lasted throughout every game.

“We have a special cheer for every player on the team.”

On Friday, the No. 4 Eagles beat University of St. Thomas (Minn.)

3-1 and No. 25 ranked University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 3-0. The next day, Emory beat St. Mary’s College (Ind.) 3-0 but fell to the College of St. Benedict (Minn.) 3-2.

Junior Hannah Billings’ cheer, which consists of a rendition of “Who Let the Dogs Out” due to her nickname “Ru,” resembling the word “who,” was frequently used during the match against UW Oshkosh on Friday night.

Billings, a setter for the Eagles, helped the team win five consecutive points

with her serves, three of which were aces. Billings returned in the third set and served the final four points to secure a win in game two.

As the cheering continued Saturday afternoon for the team’s third and fourth games of the Emory Classic, it became evident that the Emory volleyball program recruited some key players for the Class of 2020.

Freshman outside hitter Morgan McKnight performed phenomenally at the net, with nine kills against both St. Mary’s and St. Benedict’s, and freshman libero Elyse Thompson assured that seldom would a ball hit by the opposition reach the floor, notching 19 and 20 digs in the third and fourth games, respectively.

Thompson, who is living in Longstreet-Means Hall this year with fellow freshman outside hitter Sara Carr, said that this incoming freshman class of nine players, although entering with “different traditions,” has bonded almost instantly during the two weeks they’ve been together.

“We do a lot of DUC-ing together,” Thompson said with a chuckle. “We do a lot of volleyball together; we’re doing

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Senior middle hitter Jessica Holler spikes the ball. life together.”

Thanks in large part to those freshman players, the Eagles managed to continue their win streak with another victory against St. Mary’s but fell to St. Benedict Saturday afternoon.

In the match against St. Benedict, the team had a combined 29 errors, 20 more than in the game against St. Mary’s that same day.

“I think we were all really excited

and focused,” Billings said, “but I’m not sure we as a team thought that they would bring such a fight.”

Despite the uncharacteristic loss to an unranked opponent, the Eagles are looking forward to the rest of their nascent season.

As a personal goal, Thompson referred to a team exercise in which

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