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SGA Prohibits Joint Candidacy

By Michelle lou and alex KlugerMan Executive Editor and News Editor The 51st legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) passed the Elections Code bill 8-4 after two weeks of vacillating.

SGA also funded $4,016.48 for the Black History Month Gala and tabled a bill that would fund $8,000 toward the Emory African Student Association (ASA) 2018 “Taste of Africa” event.

After two weeks of indecision, the legislature voted to pass the Elections Code bill with eight votes in favor, four against and one abstention.

The bill amends the Elections Code to prohibit candidates from running on a joint ticket or sharing campaign materials and platforms.

Both Oxford representatives voted

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Of 40 eligible voters, 37 voted in the election for a turnout of 92.5 percent. Lou received 22 votes, or 55 percent, while Managing Editor Alisha Compton (19C) received 15 votes, or 37.5 percent.

Eligible voters included the newspaper’s editors, editorial board members, staff and business team members.

Three eligible voters did not vote in the election. Election results were declared valid since the quorum of 50 percent voter turnout was met.

In her election speech, Lou said that as editor-in-chief she would increase

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By Molly Ball Staff Writer About 60 Emory and Atlanta community members mourned the 17 lives lost and discussed gun control laws at a Feb. 16 vigil on Cox Bridge for the Parkland, Fla., high school mass shooting.

“We stand here together today to pay homage to the 17 individuals that lost their lives to gun violence this week,” Student Government Association (SGA) Sophomore Representative Johnna Gadomski (20C) said. “But we also stand here today to remember

the 430 people that have been killed in school shootings since Sandy Hook Elementary School.”

Nikolas Cruz, 19, who has been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, stormed the high school on Valentine’s Day with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, killing 17 students and employees total, according to The New York Times.

He faces 17 counts of premeditated murder, the Times reported. The fatal shootings have sparked nationwide protests, and students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School went to Tallahassee, Fla., to call for a ban

journalistic training across all sections; strengthen the working relationships with the section editors; push reporters to develop relationships with sources; and increase “the diversity of perspectives” represented on the paper.

Lou, a political science major, joined the Wheel her freshman year as a copy editor.

She was promoted to assistant copy chief her freshman year in Spring 2016 before she became copy chief in Fall 2016 during her sophomore year. Lou subsequently served as news editor the spring of her sophomore year before she was promoted to executive editor in Spring 2017 of her junior year. Last summer, Lou worked as the copy desk intern at USA Today. She is headed to The Boston Globe this summer as an intern.

Under Lou’s leadership, the news section has published several notable stories, including the award-winning coverage of the Migos booking scam and the most recent SGA election campaigns.

“It [serving as news editor] was really hard for me at first because I had never done any news writing before [I became news editor],” Lou said. “We’ve had some pretty big stories, and I’m really proud of where the news [sec-

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EDITORIAL

By Michelle lou and richard cheSS Executive Editor and News Editor

on assault rifles Tuesday, according to the Times.

SGA and the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life (OSRL) hosted the vigil, which lasted about 15 minutes.

Amid the glow of the attendees’ candles, OSRL Assistant Chaplain Kevin Crawford led the group in prayer.

“These are the kind of things that show us we are bound together, and in that binding we find ourselves discovering light,” Crocker said. “With our thoughts, with our meditation and with our prayers cause us to cease suf-

Federal prosecutors have charged one of the individuals behind the third-party fraudulent talent booking agency that Emory University used to attempt to book Migos, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Octaveon Woods, 26, of Decatur, Ill., was charged Feb. 6 with five counts of wire fraud and six counts of money laundering in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, according to a criminal indictment.

Through his companies, which included Global Talent Agency (GTA), Woods allegedly falsely represented dozens of top musicians and celebrities and scammed entities, including

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Community Honors Fla. Shooting Victims

U.S. POET LAUREATE

Lou Elected Wheel Editor-in-Chief

Executive Editor Michelle Lou (19C) was elected the next editor-in-chief of The Emory Wheel Feb. 18. Current Editor-in-Chief Julia Munslow (18C) will leave her position March 12. Lou and her incoming executive board will assume their roles after Munslow’s departure.

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U.s. Poet laureate tracy k. smith reads poetry from several of her collections Feb. 17 to an audience of more than 200 people in the schwartz Center for Performing arts.

Smith Warns Against Curbing Free Speech By nicole SadeK Copy Chief When it comes to confronting hate speech in public spaces, Americans often discount productive conversation, according to U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.

“We’re blurring that commitment to free speech with our decision about how to relate to hate speech,” Smith told the Wheel in an interview Feb. 16. “I think instead of making it a debate I wish we could make it a quiet, thoughtful … session. … We get so nervous publicly when these big questions

come up that we … flip into knowledge and authority mode as opposed to confusion and vulnerability mode.”

During her first visit to Emory as poet laureate, Smith drew more than 200 members of the Emory community into the annals of African-American history during a Feb. 17 reading at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts for the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series. Showcasing her voice through nontraditional forms of poetry, such as found poems, Smith implored listeners to “figure out where compassion might live and how it might become a way of being with

each other.”

Since the Library of Congress appointed Smith as poet laureate in June 2017, Smith has journeyed to rural areas and small towns in the United States, starting with New Mexico, to engage in conversations that literary scholars often overlook.

In the first stop on her tour, Smith met with Native American students and learned more about their culture, according to U.S. News and World Report.

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Crime Report Compiled by Valerie SandoVal On Feb. 12 at 9:21 a.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding unauthorized interference with a parked vehicle.

The complainant, an Emory employee, reported that he parked his 2010 Yukon GMC in a two-hour parking space in the parking lot outside the Visual Arts Building and Gallery at 9 a.m.

After the complainant parked his car, the film/media operations manager informed the complainant that he wasn’t allowed to park there because it was a visitor’s parking space.

The complainant ignored the request to move his car and walked away. After the complainant heard a hissing noise, he turned around and noticed that the individual was letting the air out of the complainant’s car tires.

The complainant called EPD and an officer issued a citation to the individual who deflated the tires for violating Atlanta Ordinance 10657(2), which prohibits interfering with a parked vehicle.

The complainant said that he did not believe parking in the space would be an issue because the sign stipulated a two-hour limit, not who was allowed to park in the space.

The person who received the citation told the officer that unauthorized parking is an ongoing issue in the lot.

The officer advised the complainant to clarify with the University Parking Office who is allowed to park in the lot.

On Feb 13. at 4:35 p.m., EPD responded to a call from an Emory employee regarding simple battery.

The complainant reported that at 12:30 p.m., he was about to check out at one of the cash registers in Cox Hall when a female Emory University Hospital (EUH) employee approached him and began arguing with him about cutting in line.

The complainant told EPD he responded to the woman with profanity and said that there was no line.

The complainant also reported that there was a male standing

next to the woman, presumably an acquaintance, who tried to intimidate him by blocking the complainant’s movements with his own body.

The complainant reported that the woman shoved him with her hands but bystanders started accusing him of picking on a smaller female.

The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On Feb. 13 at 5:50 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding someone who entered an automobile. The complainant was the umpire for a Feb. 13 baseball game at Chappell Park on Emory’s campus.

He reported that he parked his 2014 Dodge Challenger in the parking lot of the WaterHub at 1 p.m. When he returned to his car at 5:30 p.m., he discovered that someone had broken into the front passenger side window of his car.

The complainant reported that his Kel-Tec PMR-30 .22-caliber handgun and a money clip that contained $320 in cash, a debit card, a union membership card and his driver’s license had been stolen. The complainant also said that there were scratches on the passenger door that were not there before.

The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On Feb. 13 at 7:01 p.m., EPD responded to a call from an Emory student, who is a resident adviser (RA), regarding a report of drug paraphernalia.

The RA reported that a Campus Life professional told her he saw a student on the first floor of Evans Hall using a bong.

An officer arrived at the scene at 7 p.m. and asked the student for permission to enter his room.

After the officer entered, the officer noticed the student had red, glossy eyes and smelled marijuana. The officer asked the student where the drug paraphernalia was and if the student possessed any marijuana.

The student retrieved a bong from under his bed and gave it to the officer along with marijuana he retrieved from his dresser.

The student acknowledged that he had been smoking. The officer issued

The Emory Wheel Volume 99, Number 17 © 2018 The Emory Wheel Alumni Memorial University Center, Room 401 630 Means Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30322 Business wheelbusinessmanager@gmail.com Editor-in-Chief Julia Munslow julia.munslow@emory.edu Founded in 1919, The Emory Wheel is the financially and editorially independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University in Atlanta. The Wheel is a member publication of Media Council, Emory’s organization of student publications. The Wheel reserves the rights to all content as it appears in these pages, and permission to reproduce material must be granted by the editor-in-chief.

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Corrections • In last week’s issue, the author of “Rose Library Director to Depart in March,” Valerie Sandoval, was incorrectly identified as a staff writer. Sandoval is a senior staff writer.

• In last week’s issue, “Swoop’s Scoop” mistakenly stated that the baseball team was scheduled to have a home series against North Carolina Wesleyan Feb. 17-18. The series is actually at Rocky Mount, N.C. • In last week’s issue, the jump headline “Strategic Adjustments Spur Baseball’s Wins” misstated the sport in the article. It should have read “Strategic Adjustments Spur Basketball’s Wins.”

• In the Feb. 8 issue, the article “Emory Eliminates 4-Year B.S./M.S. Programs” mistakenly abbreviated the Department of Education as DoE. The article has been corrected online.

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News Roundup the student a citation for violating the Atlanta Ordinance 186-182 prohibiting possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

The student has a court date March 18 at Municipal Court of Atlanta.

Campus Life was notified of the incident.

On Feb. 15 at 5:54 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding someone entering an automobile.

A softball player reported that she saw an individual who looked nervous in the stands watching her team’s softball game.

She described the individual as a black male, about 5-foot-8-inches tall with tattoos up and down both his arms.

She reported that at 5:45 p.m., the player and some of her teammates heard the sound of broken glass and saw the same individual reaching into a 2011 Volkswagen Touareg in the parking lot behind 17 Eagle Row, the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity house.

The player told EPD that the individual ran to a yellow Toyota, jumped into the driver’s seat and drove away.

The owner of the vehicle, an Emory student, discovered that his backpack that contained his Macbook Air and Bose wireless headphones was stolen.

The stolen items are valued at $2,450.

The case has been assigned to an investigator.

On Feb. 16 at 6:59 p.m., EPD spoke to an assistant coach for the track team regarding property damage.

The complainant reported that he parked his 2007 Pontiac Vibe in the Peavine II parking deck at 11:45 a.m., and returned to his car at 5:30 p.m. His car has a bumper sticker that reads, “NRA Stand and Fight,” but when he arrived at his house, he realized that someone had written “and kill children” next to the sticker on his bumper with a black permanent marker. EPD was unable to locate the vehicle that fled the scene.

The case has been assigned to an investigator.

— Contact Valerie Sandoval at valerie.sandoval@emory.edu

Compiled by MadiSon BoBer eMory accidentally cutS iB credit Emory erroneously announced a decision to no longer accept credit for IB Computer Science when it revamped the Test Credit Policy, which decreased the amount of credit hours incoming students can receive for AP and IB tests from 24 to 12, effective Fall 2018. In the same overhaul, Emory also cut the maximum number of AP Calculus BC transferable credits from six credit hours to three.

Math and Computer Science Associate Professor Ken Mandelberg wrote in a Feb. 15 email to the Wheel that “it turns out that the change in IB for CS was inadvertent. … Last spring the college merged with the Oxford and Campus policies, and during our consultation with Oxford, IB just got lost in the shuffle.” The Admissions Office is set to correct the error. IB Computer science will still be accepted as a credit. The change is set to affect students who enroll at both Emory and Oxford College.

Syrian attacK KillS at leaSt 100 A Damascus suburb was bombarded in a Feb. 19 airstrike attack

by Syrian-led forces, killing over 100 people and injuring 500 more, according to the Washington Post. The attack comes in a string of heightened airstrikes by Syrian forces, which started late February.

Syrian forces targeted over five rebel hospitals, killing 97 alone. Nonprofit aid organizations are calling the latest attacks “the bloodiest 24-hour periods in Syria’s seven-year war,” according to the Post.

The death toll since Sunday totals more than 190, prompting the United Nations to issue an appeal urging the international community for a ceasefire, but it is unknown whether the appeal will be answered. atl. naMed SuStainaBle networK The United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) designated greater Atlanta one of six U.S. Regional Centres of Expertise on Education

for Sustainable Development (RCE), according to a Feb. 14 University press release. RCEs are committed to implementing U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, with issues such as no poverty, zero hunger, quality education and climate action designated as particular priorities for the greater Atlanta area. Emory University, along with Georgia Institute of Technology and Spelman College, will lead RCE Greater Atlanta for the first two years.

There are currently 157 RCEs worldwide. — Christina Yan eMory coMMeMorateS roBerSon Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics James Roberson was honored at the Emory Sports Complex Feb. 3 for his 15 years of clinical work at the Emory School of Medicine.

Roberson was appointed chairman in 2002 and oversaw the creation of the Emory Orthopaedics and Spine Center in Executive Park, the Emory Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital and the Emory Sports Medicine Complex, according to a Feb. 19 Emory press release. In honor of Roberson, 68 faculty members from the Department of Orthopaedics donated more than $325,000 to endow the Kelly Society Fund, a fund providing orthopaedic residents with educational training and clinical experience.

‘BlacK Panther’ haulS $235 Mil. The Marvel movie “Black Panther” hit theatres last week, bringing in $235 million, the fifth-largest opening of all time and largest opening weekend for a movie directed by a person of color according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Director Ryan Coogler shot the film predominantly in Atlanta, and its filmmakers spent about $84 million on its production in the area, with a majority of that money going to the local Atlanta economy to pay for caterers, prop makers, technical equipment and hotel rooms, according to the AJC. Georgia was the No. 1 destination to shoot feature films in 2016, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

— Contact Madison Bober at madison.bober@emory.edu

AWARDS

Emory Seniors Recieve Bobby Jones Scholarship By alex KlugerMan News Editor

Four College seniors were named recipients of the 2018 Bobby Jones Scholarship: Wei Wei Chen, Leah Neiman, Carli Kovel and Jason Sell.

The scholars will complete a paid year of master’s study at University of St. Andrews in Scotland next year.

Established in 1976 to honor Emory alumnus and renowned golfer Robert T. Jones (29L), the scholarship, which provides a tuition waiver and living stipend, is awarded annually to four graduating or recently graduated students, according to the scholarship’s website.

The application consists of a resume, transcript, two essays and three letters of recommendation.

Applicants attended an evening reception with the selection committee Feb. 16 and conducted three interviews the following day, according to Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Director of the Bobby Jones Program and Bobby Jones Advisory Member Joanne Brzinski.

The selection committee is composed

of University faculty members and administrators, former Bobby Jones Scholarship recipients and the award namesake’s grandson Bob Jones IV. Recipients of the scholarship must be “excellent representatives” of the University and exhibit “intellectual excellence,” “a record of significant leadership in the Emory community,” “excellent speaking and writing abilities” and “strong interpersonal skills,” according to the scholarship qualifications.

Chen is majoring in film studies with a concentration in film and media management from the Goizueta Business School and plans on pursuing a master’s in contemporary studies. She plans to examine modern issues from 12 perspectives and culminate her program with a film portfolio. At Emory, Chen is president of Emory Arts Underground and a resident adviser (RA).

She previously worked as a graphic design and marketing intern at Emory’s Center for Women and participated in Issues Troupe and Theater Emory.

“The [part of the process] that stood

out to me is that in previous interviews [for scholarships] I felt like I was acting as someone that they wanted to see, and this is the first time that I was completely myself,” Chen said.

“The fact that [the selection committee] liked that meant a lot more to me.”

Neiman, a double major in anthropology and human biology and Ancient Mediterranean studies, plans to use the scholarship to complete a master’s degree in museum and gallery studies, building on her archaeological field work in Greece and Kenya.

She has served as an academic fellow mentor in the Office for Undergraduate Education and a chemistry and Ancient Greek mentor for EPASS. “I was shaking and crying [when I found out I won] and not processing it all, and then I called my mom,” Neiman said. “It was entirely surreal and very humbling.”

A chemistry mentor with research experience and STEM leadership, Kovel will pursue a master’s degree in catalysis. The program “aims to

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US Poet Laureate Seeks Emory Team Advances Toward Alexa Prize Missing Rural Voices TECHNOLOGY

“I felt emboldened by the fact that there were other young people trying rural communities that don’t have to do the same thing and who were programming on a consistent basis, saying … we are black writers, these where people’s lives are equally are our literary ancestors,” Smith said affected by the kinds of questions and of the Dark Room Collective. “That was memories that poems can draw upon,” incredibly valuable because I always had the impression Smith said. “If writers that someone became and scholars are only a writer at the end of talking to each other, “Poetry’s not their life.” we’re missing out on a Director of huge part of the story.” something to answer Princeton University’s Smith, who grew it, solve it or heal it, (N.J.) Creative up in Fairfield, but it’s a form that Writing Program, Calif., said she hopes says, ‘This is what you Smith has published poetry will venture into the collective do when you have no four books and in words.’ ” 2012 won the Pulitzer consciousness of the Prize for Poetry for nation. The 45-yearold poet argued that — Tracy K. Smith, “Life on Mars,” a poetry is not an U.S. Poet Laureate collection that elegizes her father, a scientist antidote in the face who worked on the of tragedy, like the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Hubble Space Telescope. Her fifth Douglas High School shooting in book, “Wade in the Water,” is set to be Parkland, Fla., but that it can help released in April.

Smith’s poetry has been lauded for people cope “Poetry’s not going to answer it, or solve it or heal it, but it’s its metaphysical characteristics and a form that says, ‘This is what you do emotional resonance.

She said she believes poetry is when you have no words,’ ” Smith said.

“This is how language can intersect “more aligned with the energy of the with feeling even when feeling is unconscious minds” and create a sense of order. inconceivable.”

“I think poetry is language that’s Smith recognizes the value of community as a former member of working resourcefully against most the Dark Room Collective, a group odds to get to emotional truth,” of African-American writers that has Smith told the Wheel. “I think it’s in witnessed rise to acclaimed poets such service of making what is sometimes as Charles Howard Candler Professor overwhelming graspable and clear, of English and Creative Writing Kevin even just momentarily, making it into Young, and former U.S. Poet Laureate something that can be shared.” and former Director of Emory’s Creative Writing Program Natasha — Contact Nicole Sadek at Trethewey. nicole.sadek@emory.edu

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Iris to Create Conversational Bot

By cecillia Bae Contributing Writer A team of five Emory students and one Emory professor, known as “Iris,” beat out more than 200 universities from 15 countries to earn fifth in the final rankings of the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize competition.

Team Iris has received a $250,000 research grant, Alexa-enabled devices, free Amazon Web Services (AWS) and data and could win up to $500,000 and a $1 million research grant.

Amazon tasked the teams with creating a “socialbot” capable of engaging in 20-minute coherent conversations with humans about a range of current events and popular societal topics. Although the socialbot technology will not be integrated into Amazon’s line of Alexa products, some of the algorithms may be implemented when they’re ready for commercial use, according to Iris team leader and computer science Ph.D. candidate Zihao Wang (21G).

Iris’ socialbot will be capable of fluent and coherent conversation, incorporating real-time search and the ability to offer informed advice and news information, according to Wang.

Amazon selected the 15 finalists based on their socialbot’s potential contribution to the field of artificial intelligence (AI); the technicality of their approach; the creativity in designing their socialbot; and the team’s ability to execute their proposed plan, according to the competition’s guidelines.

Team Iris, named after the computer process of informal retrieval and

information search, is composed of Wang, Sergey Volokhin (22G), Harshita Sahijwani (22G), Ali Ahmadvand (21G) and Mingyang Sun (19C).

Volokhin, Sahijwani and Ahmadvand are all computer science Ph.D. candidates.

A recent graduate of the College, Jason Choi (17C), could not be considered an official member due to the competition’s policy of only accepting full-time students, although he served as a team member in an unofficial capacity.

The variety of experiences and diversity that the graduate and undergraduate members bring to the table is one of the team’s distinctive strengths, Wang said.

“Only a few of us are from computer science,” Wang said. “This project needs people from many different interests to make it work.”

A panel of Amazon employees and Amazon Alexa customers will evaluate the socialbots during a customer feedback period this May, according to the competition website.

Alexa customers will select two socialbots, and the panel will select at least one team to advance to the finals.

After a second round of customer feedback between August and October, three teams will remain eligible to compete for the first-, second- and third-place prizes in August 2018.

Amazon will award $500,000 to the winning team members to share and a $1 million research grant to the winning team in November.

The team’s socialbot could play a significant role in advancing the development of conversational bots, accord-

ing to the team members. “[The socialbot] is much more usable information [as opposed to an internet search on a regular computer],” Sahijwani said. “You could just omit the need to go to a computer.”

The team hopes that their prototype will not only entertain and socialize with users, but also provide them with informational content on general knowledge and topics such as news, sports, entertainment and science.

“The challenge … is how to provide useful, valuable information while still keeping the conversation somehow entertaining,” faculty adviser and Associate Professor Eugene Agichtein said.

Team Iris aims to reach demographics that could benefit from easily accessible technological platforms.

Wang said using socialbots like Iris can help individuals with mental illnesses like depression who find it difficult to confide in other people.

Another possible use for the bot is for people who live in countries with limited access to the technology, according to the team members.

The team members said they are striving to make a meaningful impact in the realm of AI for users all over the world.

“It proves that we have the capability,” Wang said. “As students, we have the chance to deploy a system in theory to the real world. It feels like we’re making a difference.”

Varun Gupta contributed reporting.

— Contact Cecillia Bae at cecillia.bae@emory.edu

Woods Faces 11 Counts of Wire Fraud, Money Laundering; Pretrial Set for Next Week Continued from Page 1 Emory and the University of Missouri, out of $66,250 total, the indictment reads.

Woods has pleaded not guilty to all charges and posted a $10,000 unsecured bond Feb. 13.

“The Government has not yet provided me necessary discovery,” Woods’ attorney John Lovell wrote in a Feb. 16 email to the Wheel. “I am not informed enough to make a meaningful comment.”

The grand jury issued the indictment after it determined probable cause that Woods intentionally defrauded universities and other entities by pretending to represent popular entertainers and laundering money.

Woods had claimed to represent performers such as Migos, Lil Yachty and Lil Uzi Vert, but the grand jury found that Woods did not represent any of those artists.

The grand jury charged that Woods operated Global Talent Agency, GTA Bookings Inc., National Artist Agency and Blueprint Group-Client Exchange CA Inc. Although Woods’ company websites state that his businesses were licensed and bonded, they were not.

“Woods allegedly convinced others to pay him thousands of dollars to ‘book’ these artists for concerts and festivals — when he had no relationship with the artists at all,” U.S. Attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Byung J. “BJay” Pak said in a Feb. 16 U.S. Department of Justice press release. “Woods immediately laundered the money to try and conceal his fraud.”

Last spring, Emory paid $37,500 to GTA to book hip-hop trio Migos for a Dooley’s Week concert, the Wheel previously reported. Less than two weeks before the concert, Emory discovered it had been duped.

Emory arranged last minute for Ty Dolla Sign to headline the concert for at least $85,000, the Wheel previously reported.

“Emory University is pleased to learn that Octaveon Woods has been charged with money-laundering and wire fraud offenses involving multiple transactions,” Associate Vice President of University Communications Nancy Seideman wrote in a Feb. 16 email to the Wheel. “Emory cooperated in the federal investigation and is gratified for the partnership among the U.S. Attorney’s Office, U.S. Department of Education and law enforcement agencies that resulted in an indictment on these charges.”

More than half of the $66,250 total payments Woods fraudulently obtained came from Emory’s payment, according to the indictment.

If convicted, Woods could face fines of up to $500,000 and up to 20 years of imprisonment for each count of money laundering and wire fraud.

Woods would also have to forfeit any money he received from the transactions.

If the money Woods allegedly received cannot be located or retrieved, the United States may repossess Woods’ other property.

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating the case. A pretrial conference is set for Feb. 28 at 9:30 a.m.

Campus Life Senior Director for Communications Tomika DePriest directed the Wheel to Seideman.

Student Programming Council President Tamara Ezzat (18B) directed the Wheel to DePriest for comment. the ScheMe Woods and another individual identified as “M.N.” in the indictment typically requested an initial deposit of 50 percent of the total performance cost, the indictment reads.

Woods and M.N. then entered into contract negotiations with the entities booking an artist, promising that the artist would perform at a set location on a certain date, the indictment reads.

Woods and M.N. asked that the money be transferred into a bank account which was under Woods’ control, and when the money was deposited, Woods would “quickly deplete” the funds in the account. Woods never intended to fulfill his contractual obligations, as he had no existing relationship with the artists he claimed to represent, according to the indictment.

The grand jury determined that Woods allegedly “did knowingly devise and intend to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud and for obtaining money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises,” the indictment reads. Woods allegedly began committing wire fraud as early as April 15, 2015, according to the indictment. wire Fraud chargeS To execute the fraud schemes,

Woods “transmitted and caused to be transmitted … in interstate commerce” via wire communications that included a March 10, 2017, wire transfer of $37,500 via Automated Clearing House (ACH) credit to Woodforest National Bank to secure a performance by hiphop trio Migos.

A spreadsheet of SPC’s finances for the 2016-2017 academic year titled “SPEAKER’S FUND-A” obtained by the Wheel last year revealed that Emory paid $37,500 to GTA. Woods also received a March 10, 2017, wire transfer of $12,500 to secure a performance for rapper Lil Yachty based on false GTA representation.

Investigators found an April 19, 2017, email from a GTA email address to “N.V.” regarding a refund for the Lil Yachty performance.

On May 15, 2017, someone sent an email from a GTA email address to “I.B.” about a contract for a performance by rapper Lil Uzi Vert.

Woods received a subsequent May 23, 2017, wire transfer of $16,250 from PNC bank to Regions Bank to secure a performance for Lil Uzi Vert based on false GTA representation.

The wire communications violated Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343 and Section 2, which prohibit schemes to defraud via wire communication in interstate or foreign commerce, according to the indictment.

conduct financial transactions that unlawfully affected interstate and foreign commerce, according to the indictment.

The transactions were “designed … to conceal and disguise the nature, location, source, ownership and control of the proceeds of … unlawful activity” and were conducted while Woods knew that the money involved in the financial transaction was obtained through illegal activity, the grand jury charged.

The unlawful financial transactions include: a March 11, 2017, withdrawal of $8,500 cash from Woodforest National Bank; a March 13, 2017, withdrawal of $14,000 from Woodforest National Bank; a March 14, 2017, wire transfer of $10,500 from Woodforest National Bank to Soy Capital Bank; an April 11, 2017, wire transfer of $10,000 from Fidelity Bank to Soy Capital Bank; a May 24, 2017, wire transfer of $10,000 from Regions Bank to Soy Capital Bank; and a May 24, 2017, cash withdrawal of $5,000 from Regions Bank.

The transactions violated Title 18, United States Code Section 1956(a)(1) (B)(i) and Section 2, which prohibits people from conducting financial transactions that involve the proceeds of unlawful activity, according to the indictment.

Alex Klugerman contributed reporting.

Money l aundering chargeS Woods, who was aided and abetted by other individuals, knowingly conducted and attempted to

— Contact Michelle Lou at mlou3@emory.edu and Richard Chess at rchess@emory.edu

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Gadomski Calls for Stronger Gun Control Laws Continued from Page 1 fering in all its forms and inspire with us the will to be liked as movements of compassion oppressing darkness.”

After the prayer, local Atlanta resident Adam Marc Leonard, an alumnus of the affected high school, shared his thoughts with the crowd on how the shooting personally affected him. “[It is] still so surreal seeing your school all over the news,” Leonard said. “I hope none of y’all experience that. … Hopefully these things stop.”

After a moment of silence to commemorate the victims, Gadomski reminded attendees that the Florida shooting is not the only recent mass shooting. “[Gun violence] is not normal. It is not acceptable, and we’ll fight the trend in gun violence that has created a situation in the past two years that we’ve seen the top five deadly shootings in U.S. history,” Gadomski said. “Despite this dreadful pattern … we must let our sorrow empower us to engage in difficult conversations about how to prevent such unspeakable violence.”

The White House released a Feb. 15

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Honor Council Report Compiled by chriStina yan The following reports are based on real cases adjudicated by the Emory College Honor Council. Any personally identifiable information has been omitted to protect the privacy of all parties involved unless involved parties have granted the Wheel permission to identify them.

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Holding candles, students honor victims of mass shootings. statement from President Donald J. Trump, in which he sent his support to the families who lost their loved ones.

“We are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools, and tackle the difficult issue of mental health,” the statement reads.

Trump’s statement did not mention gun control.

Dom Refuerzo (20C), who attended the vigil, told the Wheel that he was pleased that SGA held a vigil for the mass shooting.

“I think [the vigil] needed to happen,” Refuerzo said. “Even though

it happened not on this campus, it’s something we can empathize with because they are students like us.”

Ethan Mock (20C), another attendee, said he appreciated that this vigil allowed people to grieve and pay their respects to the victims’ lives.

“All these dead [people] deserve to be respected and have a moment for them,” Mock said. “I appreciate the initiative [from SGA] because it helps get a lot of us out of our dark, little corners where we’re finding our comfort.”

— Contact Molly Ball at molly.ball@emory.edu

• The Honor Council found an underclassman in a lower level science course guilty of cheating for looking at neighboring students’ work during an exam. During the Honor Council hearing, the student said that they felt unprepared for the exam but understood that they were putting their peers in jeopardy by copying answers.

The Honor Council recommended an F in the course and a two-year mark on the student’s record.

• The Honor Council found an underclassman in a humanities course guilty of providing unauthorized assistance on a homework assignment to another student. The professor identified similarities between several students’ responses to a question requir-

ing a real life application of a concept taught in the course. The student said that they gave a copy of their assignment to a friend, who had asked for help.

The Honor Council recommended a zero on the assignment for the student who provided assistance as well as a one-year mark on the student’s record.

Information about the student who requested help from his friend was not immediately available.

• An upperclassman in a social sciences course accepted responsibility for using an unauthorized cell phone during an exam.

The student was seen using a phone several times throughout the exam before the proctor approached the student.

During the hearing, the student said that they were stressed and experiencing unrelated personal circumstances.

As the student had a prior violation, the Honor Council recommended an F in the course and a permanent mark on the student’s record.

— Contact Christina Yan at christina.yan@emory.edu

RESEARCH

Psychologists Use Big Data To Analyze Decision-Making By oMar elSaai Contributing Writer

Two Emory psychologists analyzed more than 38,000 people’s tweets with big data methods, finding that people’s perspectives on the future influences their day-to-day decision-making.

Associate Professor of Psychology Phillip Wolff and Ph.D. candidate Robert Thorstad (19G)’s study suggests that causal links between an individual’s future sightedness, i.e., how far into the future their thoughts about the future extend, and their decision-making habits and risk aversion. The study was published Feb. 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

“We live in this interesting age where we write incredible amounts of our lives on Facebook and Twitter,” Thorstad said. “We wanted to ask whether it says something about how you think.”

The experimenters used two types of in-person experiments to analyze a person’s future-sightedness and then compared it to the future-sightedness of their online content.

The researchers established a connection between future thinking and decision-making by showing that Twitter users who reflected “relatively far future sightedness” in their tweets took fewer risks than people with “relatively near future sightedness,” according to the study. Wolff and Thorstad found that people who are future sighted are more likely to invest in the future and avoid harmful risks.

Wolff and Thorstad analyzed thousands of tweets to confirm the link between future sightedness and decision-making by showing that people with more future sightedness are “likely to choose future rewards over smaller, immediate rewards,” according to the study.

To determine the effect of future sightedness on investment decisions, the experimenters surveyed people in person and asked them if they would prefer to receive $60 immediately or $100 over the course of six months.

If the individual chose the $100, they would be characterized as future sighted.

Another experiment the authors

used showed the effect of future sightedness on risk-averse decisionmaking using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), a computerized measure in which participants could earn money by continually inflating a balloon. Participants were told that each additional inflation could result in the balloon popping. The participants would then lose any money that they had earned.

Participants in each in-person experiment provided their Twitter usernames to the experimenters, who classified their online future sightedness based on past public tweets. Those tweets were then measured against the decisions they made during the experiment.

The research suggests that risktaking decreases if people exhibit more future sightedness in tweets, meaning that the “ability of future sightedness to predict decisions suggests that future sightedness is a relatively stable cognitive characteristic,” according to the study.

The importance of the study, the psychologists claim, lies in its explanation of how automated analysis of an enormous amount of social media text can measure psychological constructs.

“In the not-so-distant future, a computer can get that information much more rapidly,” Thorstad said.

“For example, I can tell that you are [a] partier without ever tweeting about going to a party.”

Using Twitter as their evaluation media allowed Wolff and Thorstad to review how people authentically write. “[People who tweet] do not seem to be self-monitoring,” Thorstad said.

“Certainly some people’s tweets are composed and produced, but most of it is spur of the moment.”

Wolff and Thorstad studied the participants’ public tweets to eliminate observer bias, a phenomenon that results from respondents inadvertently providing incorrect or misleading responses due to the knowledge that they are being monitored or observed.

Wolff and Thorstad are now working on diagnosing clinical disorders through Reddit.

— Contact Omar Elsaai at omar.elsaai@emory.edu

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FroM leFt to r ight: Carli kovel (18C), Wei Wei Chen (18C), Jason sell (18C) and leah neiman (18C) win the Bobby Jones scholarship.

Strong Group Spurs Committee to Pick Extra Finalist Continued from Page 2 introduce awareness of the role catalysis plays in improving sustainability and solving environmental issues in chemical manufacturing,” according to St. Andrews website.

Kovel is also vice president of technology for Emory Media Council, co-president of Hybrid Vigor science magazine, treasurer of Emory Undergraduate Medical Review, outreach chair of Association for Women in Science and a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) mentor.

“I think [my application stood out] because I’m passionate about chemistry but also the arts,” Kovel said. “I’m interested in bridging the sciences and humanities.”

Sell, a psychology major, plans to study management at St. Andrews. He said he was “ecstatic” when he found out he received the scholarship.

At Emory, Sell was a Community Building and Social Change fellow at the Center for Community Engagement

and conducted research at the Policy Analysis Lab and the BUILD Lab.

“These four students ... have a love of the work that ... they will develop that interest at St. Andrews.”

— Joanne Brzinski, Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

“It felt like I’ve been working for this for four years, so to get it was gratifying,” Sell said.

The committee selects the four students for their leadership and contributions to the Emory community, according to Brzinski.

“These four students … have a love of the work that they are doing here and a sense of how they will develop that interest at St. Andrews,” Brzinski

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said. “They stood out in part due to their ability to really talk about their passions, their academics and how they developed here.”

Although 12 students are normally accepted as finalists, 13 were accepted due to the strength of this year’s applicant pool.

“One of the things that always is a struggle with the scholarship is the applicants at both stages are really excellent,” Brzinski said. “One of the comments that the committee makes almost every year is that they wish that they could send more than four because every single one of the finalists is outstanding.”

Forrest reporting.

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Editor’s note: No Wheel staff member who was a candidate for the scholarship was involved in the editing or writing of this article.

— Contact Alex Klugerman at alex.klugerman@emory.edu

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after two weeks of indecision, legislators pass the elections Code bill to prohibit joint candidacy 8-4 in sga elections monday evening.

Legislators Table ASA’s $8,000 Funding Request for ‘Taste of Africa’ Continued from Page 1 against the bill. Oxford SGA Speaker of the Senate Jacob Hicks (18Ox) said that Oxford SGA met Sunday night to discuss the bill and decided that they did not support it.

Despite the ambiguity of the Elections Code, Oxford SGA felt that abolishing joint candidacy was not the correct solution.

“We generally feel that a joint ticket system … would allow the students to focus on the merits of platform and policy, not on the individual candidates,” Hicks said. “We feel that encouraging a system with running mates requires that individuals engage in small-scale campaigning and coalition-building, but forces that campaign to maintain a compelling message to the entire student body.”

SGA Sophomore Representative Johnna Gadomski (20C) proposed an amendment to the bill to prohibit candidates from endorsing other candidates, but it failed Monday. The amendment did not garner enough votes to obtain quorum, so SGA Freshman Representative Austin Graham (21C) proposed the same amendment to rectify confusion among legislators about the voting process for the amendment,

but it again failed to pass with five votes in favor and eight opposing.

“Individuals campaigning with a running mate would have an obvious advantage over individuals running independently in terms of the number of voters they can reach with their campaign,” Gadomski wrote in an op-ed in the Wheel last week.

The legislature tabled Bill 51sl46 which would fund $8,000 for ASA’s “Taste of Africa” event. If the funding is granted, then it will represent the largest amount of funding for any single event this year. ASA President Clementina Nyarko (18C), Treasurer Onyi Ohamadike (16Ox, 18C) and SGA Sophomore Representative Ngozi Ugboh (20C) presented the bill.

Due to demand, ASA moved the event this year from the Emory Conference Center Hotel to the Fox Theatre in downtown Atlanta.

Members of the legislature expressed concern at the low percentage of Emory students who would attend the event, which is open to the general public.

Out of 400 estimated attendees, ASA projected that 120 would be Emory undergraduates, 90 graduate students, 100 non-Emory students, 40 Emory affiliates (faculty, staff,

administrators) and 50 Atlanta community members, according to ASA’s presentation. “$8,000 for an event that’s not 100 percent Emory students doesn’t make any sense to me,” SGA Vice President of Finance Javi Reyes (18B) said.

“A joint ticket system ... would allow the students to focus on the merits of platform and policy, not on the individual candidates.”

— Jacob Hicks (18Ox), Oxford SGA Speaker of The Senate Nyarko said that the group has struggled to attract Emory students, who often only sign up for the event after tickets are sold out and must be turned away at the door.

She also emphasized the importance of the event for the students of color on campus.

“Diwali is put on in the Fall semester by Indian Student Exchange [ICE]

Lou Hopes to Enhance Paper’s Digital Presence Continued from Page 1 tion] is right now.”

Lou expressed excitement for the paper as she explained her decision to run for editor-in-chief.

“I really love the paper and believe in what we do,” Lou said. “Every time someone turns in a story, they are making Emory a better, more informed place.”

Compton, Lou’s opponent, hopes that the common goals expressed in both candidates’ platforms will be realized under Lou’s leadership.

Compton has previously served as assistant Emory Life editor, Emory Life editor and senior editor.

“I’m really lucky that a lot of my platform and Michelle’s platform overlapped, so those things will hopefully come to fruition under Michelle,” Compton said. “Michelle was a worthy opponent and is very capable of this role. I am excited to see where the paper goes under her and am hoping to work with her in the year to come.”

Lou and Compton both stressed

the importance of building a stronger sense of community within the Wheel and expanding coverage on Emory research.

“My decision to run surprised some people, but I’m hoping that it sets a precedent on the Wheel that if you are qualified and have passion for this, you should go after positions,” Compton said.

Lou also echoed her support for competitive elections.

“It was exciting that it was a contested election. As a political science major, I appreciate contested elections,” Lou said. “We both ran a great race.”

Munslow also praised the Wheel’s first competitive election for editor-inchief in recent years.

“I’m proud of the voter turnout and competitive election — it shows that everyone is invested in the future of the paper,” Munslow said.

“Both candidates ran impressive campaigns.”

News Editor Alex Klugerman (20B), who worked closely with Lou

throughout his time at the Wheel, said he believes Lou will make a “wonderful” editor-in-chief.

“She excels at all aspects required by the job,” Klugerman said. “She is a great detailed writer, an investigative reporter; she always makes sure that we have every detail of the story we need. She also is a strong editor — she cares deeply about ethics.”

Munslow, who has also worked closely with Lou, said that Lou is an experienced and capable leader who is fully committed to the Wheel, citing the development of the news team under Lou’s leadership.

“I have watched her really manage the news team and build it and grow it,” Munslow said. “I … see her as a leader who supports her team, someone who is willing to put in the work. I think that most people only see about half the work that she does for the Wheel. … She’s going to do a fantastic job.”

— Contact Connor Clerkin at connor.clerkin@emory.edu

and it’s important that [that] isn’t [the] only premiere event for any kind of student of color community,” Nyarko said. “The community depends on ASA to come through. [We] always push for diversity and equity; this would be a great way to testify to [that].”

Nyarko also added that all additional proceeds from ASA’s ticket sales will be donated to Emory-approved charities. The legislature decided to table the bill, with SGA President Gurbani Singh (18B) noting that SGA tabled the bill for the event last year three times, with the group eventually receiving $2,000 in funding.

Palmer also said that the group should apologize and re-request funding from College Council after ASA skipped a supplementary budget hearing.

The legislature passed Bill 51sl47, presented by Black Student Association (BSA) President Imani Brooks (20C), providing $4,016.48 in funding for the BSA Black History Month Gala taking place Feb. 24.

The bill initially called for $3,800.05 in funding but was amended by Brooks at the meeting because the number had changed.

The event costs around $9,000 total with the rest of the funding coming

from College Council. About 200 students are expected to attend the gala at the Miller Ward Alumni House, according to Brooks.

SGA members were concerned about the short turnaround time between the vote and the event.

“They’re coming in six days before the event so we feel pressured to make a decision,” Junior Representative Madelyn Zapata (19C) said. “On our part, next year we can [tell the group] it needs to be two weeks in advance.”

SGA Executive Vice President Natasha Armstrong (18B) expressed support for the event.

“It’s a huge event for the black community,” Armstrong said. “It is something that we cherish as a black student group, so if giving this funding is going to allow us to enjoy that celebration that we look forward to every year I would keep that in mind.”

The legislature voted 10-0 to fund the event in full with three members abstaining.

Belicia Rodriguez reporting.

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FORMER FIRST LADY

After Surgery, Rosalynn Carter Recovers at EUH By eMily SulliVan Associate Editor

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, 90, underwent surgery for scar tissue removal on her intestine Sunday at Emory University Hospital (EUH), where she will recover for several days, according to a Feb. 19 statement on behalf of The Carter Center. rosalynn Carter, Former First Lady Of the United States Courtesy oF Wiki CoMMons

Former U.S. President and Emory University Distinguished Professor Jimmy Carter, 93, said his wife had been experiencing health problems with her bowels and intestines for 25 years, the result of an earlier surgery

to remove a tumor, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC).

After the operation, scar tissue developed on a significant portion of her small intestine.

Carter visited his hometown of Plains, Ga., Feb. 19 as scheduled, and addressed a crowd that had gathered for Presidents’ Day at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, the AJC reported. Carter said he prayed for three hours and was “deathly afraid” as his wife underwent the surgery, during which doctors hadn’t been able to give him “a lot of hope.”

But around 5 a.m. that morning, doctors told Carter that his wife would be all right, the AJC reported. Both Carter and his wife, who founded The Carter Center together, have spoken at Emory University and are invested in human rights initiatives and mental health advocacy.

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

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Wednesday, February 21, 2018 | Editorial Page Editor: Madeline Lutwyche (madeline.lutwyche@emory.edu)

MARTA Proposals Benefit Emory, Atlanta While Emory students and employees must travel and commute in a city whose light rail line through the Clifton Corridor has greater access to more Atlanta traffic ranks among the most congested in the world, some relief may be on the way. neighborhoods and surrounding areas. Students could more easily explore wider Two proposals working their way through Georgia’s General Assembly could lead portions of the metro area, while employees living in Atlanta’s fast-growing northern to the largest changes in Atlanta’s Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority suburbs could bypass heavily congested highways on their commute and fewer cars (MARTA) since its creation in 1971, including increased funding on Emory’s campus would simultaneously decrease pollution and and expanded light rail service. While still in early stages, H.B. increase pedestrian safety.

More affordable 930, proposed by State Sen. Brandon Beach (R-Alpharetta) and Tanner’s bill contains additional state funding for MARTA S.B. 386 proposed by Rep. Kevin Tanner (R-Dawsonville) constitute through a 50-cent flat tax on ride-sharing services and a tax on public transportation consumer goods at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International an important step in creating a strong public transportation system with benefits both to Emory and the greater Atlanta area.

Airport and the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport is critical to Central to each bill is a proposed process to expand MARTA Revenue from those fees would help alleviate the funding increasing MARTA’s Airport. beyond its current three-county area. Today, 13 different transit problems currently faced by MARTA, which receives only 9 cents operators serve 11 different metro Atlanta counties. Both bills would per ride from the state government compared to a national average appeal to Emory consolidate those transit agencies into a single agency and allow of $1.32 per ride. MARTA could use that money to lower its fares, voters in areas seeking public transit to vote to raise taxes to fund community members which currently are among the highest in the country, at $2.50 for a those projects. Expansion of transit lines is a crucial step in attracting and Atlanta residents. one way trip. companies such as Amazon.com, Inc., to Atlanta. Amazon lists More affordable public transportation is critical to increasing rail access as a requirement for its new headquarters — for which MARTA’s appeal to Emory community members and Atlanta Atlanta is being considered as a potential location. If Atlanta were chosen, then the residents, and the taxes would be a small price to pay for the resulting benefits. resulting new jobs would benefit Emory students and graduates seeking nearby If the bills gain sufficient support, then they will likely be combined into a final employment and internships as well as contribute to the overall health of the city. package that Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has indicated a willingness to sign. Both Emory is working to secure a light rail connection to MARTA through the Clifton Emory administration and community members should work to support their Corridor Project. While that initiative is already primarily funded through a city of passage, which would further the vision of a University more closely integrated into Atlanta sales tax, these bills would ensure that anyone traveling on a future MARTA our surrounding community.

Entrepreneurial Alumnus an Adequate Choice Some students have expressed disappointment in response to the University’s recent announcement that Dollar Shave Club founder Michael Dubin (01C) is this year’s commencement speaker. While Dubin appeals as both a recent Emory alumnus and an engaging speaker, he offers a novel perspective. But Emory students, even those with little interest in business, need not despair. Dubin’s commencement address, if well-crafted, could be a compelling speech. Graduating students should try to be open-minded.

Despite being best known for his entrepreneurial success, Dubin graduated from the Emory College of Arts and Sciences with a bachelor’s of arts in history. As he returns to his alma mater, Dubin has the opportunity to describe the significance of Emory’s liberal arts curriculum outside of academia.

But Dubin’s appeal extends beyond his ability to offer practical advice. His viral advertisements, interviews and other public speaking engagements suggest that this year’s commencement address will be, at worst, entertaining. And since Dubin

knows what spending four years at Emory is like, he will have a lot of material to work with.

Though the commencement speaker is ultimately chosen by University President Claire E. Sterk, the University Senate’s Honorary Degrees Committee chooses the pool of honorary degree recipients from which the speaker is selected.

Both Sterk and the Committee, chaired by Jimmy Carter Professor of History Joseph Crespino, should be commended for their decision to invite Dubin to speak at graduation. If his speech fulfills our hopes, then Dubin’s presence is a fresh departure from the public servants and academics who have given commencement addresses in recent years.

The sage advice of experienced individuals has shaped past commencement addresses, and though it will be interesting to have a recent Emory College graduate and businessman as a speaker, its value is in its perspective. Moving forward, the University should continue to find speakers who can inspire graduates in all fields.

The above editorials represent the majority opinion of the Wheel’s Editorial Board.

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Reckoning With Gun Control Lax Restrictions Endanger Lives NRA Funding Stymies Legislation The inevitable response when examples such as this are cited in American political Andrew Kliewer debates is that the Second Amendment would prevent similar legislation in the U.S. Those arguments rest on a faulty On Valentine’s Day, a single person walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas interpretation of our constitution and High School in South Florida. Five minutes ignore past gun control measures that later later, 17 people lay dead or dying, more have been implemented effectively.

In 1934, responding to an outbreak of than 20 were injured and countless others were plunged into incomprehensible grief. gang violence, Congress passed the National As news coverage and shock value fade, Firearms Act, taxing heavily certain the narrative that this shooting and the weapons, including machine guns. In 1968, many that preceded it were somehow further legislation was enacted banning not preventable has emerged yet again, the importation and sale of new fully providing American voters and legislators automatic weapons and implementing strict a convenient excuse for complacency. registration requirements for existing ones.

Today, machine gun use is almost But the notion that no action can decrease nonexistent in crime. the likelihood of future such The time has come to tragedies is false, flying in the extend such restrictions face of existing evidence to semiautomatic rifles the contrary. While attempts The gun lobby may to used in at least 11 mass at serious reform seem since 2010. unlikely amid today’s political claim that ‘guns don’t shootings The gun lobby may gridlock, Americans should, kill people; people claim that “guns don’t kill at the very least, examine kill people.’ But the people; people kill people.” responses that have succeeded But the undeniable in curbing these supposedly undeniable truth is truth is that these weapons unstoppable tragedies. that these weapons enable individuals to In 1996, Australia faced a similar act of horrifying enable individuals to murder others with high rates of speed and precision. violence when a lone gunman murder others with If the Florida shooter armed with a semiautomatic had not possessed an rifle murdered 35 people in high rates of speed AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the popular tourist destination it is unlikely that 17 people and precision. of Port Arthur. This massacre would have been mortally shocked into action a country wounded in the span of just that had seen a sharp rise five minutes at Marjory in mass shootings since Doug la s Hig h. the 1980s. In the face of intense opposition, Stonema n Limiting the sale and possession of weapons Australia’s prime minister at the time, conservative John Howard of the Liberal Party designed for the sole purpose of efficient killing of Australia, proposed sweeping reforms, would be consistent with the “well regulated” including a national gun registry and a ban phrasing in the Second Amendment and position on the sale and possession of semiautomatic the U.S. in line with other developed nations.

Mass shootings are not a weapons. Some regarded the proposals as an American phenomenon. unfair attack on law-abiding gun owners. But uniquely What distinguishes the U.S. from Howard and former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer succeeded in pushing through other countries is an inability to support new legislation, which Fischer said won logical measures proven to save innocent him “respect across the political spectrum.” lives and prevent future massacres.

Americans face a stark choice: ending A mandatory buyback program for the newly banned weapons led to the easy access to high-powered weapons or voluntary surrender of more than 700,000 accepting senseless acts of violence as the guns. The results speak for themselves. new norm. The right decision should be clear.

Since 1996, Australia has not seen a single Andrew Kliewer (20C) is from Dallas, mass shooting. Studies credit the reforms with saving more than 200 lives each year. Texas.

Laurel Sutherland When we learned about the 17 deaths of innocent students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., we were deeply disturbed. But sadly, massacres have become more of a norm than a rarity. In 2017, nonprofit Gun Violence Archive estimated that about one mass shooting occurs per day in the United States. This is a disturbing yet undeniable trend. Two months into 2018, there have already been eight school shootings in the United States, with numerous fatalities.

Each time shootings occur, we ask: Why do these massacres keep happening?

It’s not that people haven’t been personally and emotionally affected by these events. They have been. It’s not that Americans haven’t been asking Congress and the president to take action on gun control. They are begging.

It’s that one organization dictates the actions — or lack thereof — of Washington: the National Rifle Association (NRA).

The NRA’s stance on gun rights is clear.

NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre purported after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that the way to stop bad guys with guns is to give good guys guns. And behind the scenes, LaPierre and the NRA have contributed extensively to the congressional gridlock on gun control.

More than half of federal candidates in 2016 were backed financially by the NRA’s political action committees (PACs), receiving donations not only from these committees but also from NRA members themselves.

That involves more than a simple vocal endorsement. In fact, some politicians have been accepted such contributions for the length of their entire political careers.

According to a 2018 opinion piece based on data from Center for Responsive Politics, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) received $7,740,521 from the NRA, mostly for his 2008 presidential run. That sum includes the money that the NRA and its affiliates gave directly to McCain, as well as money that the NRA spent in the campaign’s interests. The second-highest recipient of NRA donations was Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), coming in at $6,986,620.

The NRA isn’t donating $20 to fund a few campaign signs. It’s the backbone of a complex fundraising network which donates millions that can make or break campaigns; millions that can keep politicians in office.

And if politicians want to remain in office, they have to play by the NRA’s rules.

The NRA-funded Congress members don’t push for universal background checks, and they vote against proposals that seek to prevent people on government terrorist watch lists from purchasing guns. They don’t condemn the sale of AR-15s, the semiautomatic rifle used by the perpetrator of last Wednesday’s shooting.

The only thing these elected representatives seem to have no problem doing is accepting the NRA’s money. During the 2016 presidential election, the NRA spent more than $30 million on President Donald J. Trump’s campaign, more than it spent on Presidential races in 2008 and 2012.

Recently, however, those donations have come under scrutiny. The F.B.I. is investigating the involvement of a Russian central banker in a potential money laundering scheme. That banker, according to CNBC, may have channeled money through the NRA to the Trump campaign, circumventing a law that forbids donations from foreign nationals to U.S. campaigns.

Considering Trump’s close relationship with the NRA, it’s no surprise that just one year ago, he nullified a regulation instituted by former President Barack Obama aimed at preventing mentally ill individuals from purchasing guns. In a Feb. 15 speech after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Trump had no problem emphasizing the importance of monitoring and reporting “mentally disturbed” people.

In his 5 minute and 27 second speech, he did not emphasize guns at all.

Unfortunately, mass shootings will likely continue to break families, stain communities andscartheU.S,andwewillcontinuetoask:Why? Amid deep sorrow in this country, the answer has never been more clear.

The NRA has blocked gun control measures through its strategic manipulation of the president and members of Congress.

It remained silent publicly after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. shooting and repeatedly ignores the realities of gun violence. The influence of this organization, while absurd, is incontrovertible.

Until the NRA stops influencing members of Congress with massive sums of money, effective measures to stop mass shootings will not be taken in Washington.

Laurel Sutherland West Chester, Pa.

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To Incite Change, Memorialize Mass Shooting Sites Spencer Castle The Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church shooting is the largest mass shooting to take place in a church in America and the fifth largest shooting in the nation’s modern history — but it was preventable, and we cannot forget that.

Devin Patrick Kelley entered the First Baptist Church (FBC) of Sutherland Springs, Texas on Nov. 5, 2017, and opened fire with an AR-15 semiautomatic weapon on the worshipping congregation, killing 26 people, including an unborn child, and injuring 20 more.

The construction firm contracted to design a new church building revealed Feb. 4 that plans for the new building would be on paper within the next six weeks. Part of the development costs are set to be funded by the $1.1 million of donations that flooded in following the tragedy, allowing for a larger church with “auditorium-style” seating.

That construction requires that the original church, which currently houses a memorial to those lost, be torn down. Twenty-five chairs are set up, each one where a victim was sitting during the service, and each painted with a red cross and adorned with a rose. The bullet-holeriddled walls testify to the horrors wrought upon those worshippers.

As a nation, we must ask the people of Sutherland Springs to preserve the FBC so that it might stand as a reminder to American voters that lives could have been saved. While the new building will also include a memorial, no reminder can be as effective as the original church.

The FBC of Sutherland Springs should not

be torn down until the American people and Bay hotel, which claimed 58 lives, no national government have taken steps to address gun gun control legislation has been passed. If control problems. the U.S. cannot acknowledge that it has a gun Walking through the site of a tragedy control problem, then gun violence issues will conjures up intense emotions — feelings that never be addressed. can only be felt in the location, like the FBC of To those who argue against gun control Sutherland Springs. The church can also serve legislation because they believe that access as a reminder to the rest of the to guns serves as a check country to fight for reasonable on violence, a 2014 Federal gun control laws.

Bureau of Investigation Think of the icon that the study on U.S. mass shootings The FBC of Pulse nightclub has become determined that argument to Sutherland Springs be incorrect. to so many people since last October’s mass shooting. The After the F.B.I. analyzed the should not be torn original Pulse nightclub is 160 mass shootings between down until the being turned into a memorial, 2000 and 2013, it found per the owner’s wishes, to American people and that only five ended with an educate the world about armed civilian stopping the government have the shooting that occurred perpetrator. What prevents a there on Oct. 1, 2017. That taken steps to address mass shooting is a reduction memorial has become a in the number of guns in “‘healing initiative’ for victims’ gun control problems. circulation. Mass shootings families, survivors and first aren’t something that responders,” according to Americans just have to live CNN. with.

This education will last as long as the original In 1996, Australia experienced its largest nightclub — and the memorial — stands. The mass shooting ever. The Port Arthur Massacre nation doesn’t view the still-standing Pulse claimed 35 lives when Martin Bryant opened nightclub only as a reminder of the sorrows fire with a semiautomatic rifle on a popular incurred, but also as a sign of respect toward tourist site. In the months that followed the Port those lost and a symbol of future change.

Arthur Massacre, the Australian parliament The same can happen for the FBC of united political forces to pass legislation that Sutherland Springs. outlawed “automatic and semiautomatic Almost 31 percent of mass shootings take rifles.” From 1996-2016, Australia had zero place in the United States, which only accounts mass shootings, down from 13 in the 18 years for 5 percent of the global population. Other prior. nations do not experience atrocities of this This is where we come back to the proportion anywhere near as frequently. Yet destruction of the FBC of Sutherland Springs. even after the largest mass shooting in recent The inaction of the American people and our U.S. history in from the Las Vegas Mandalay government has contributed to this tragedy

and all losses due to gun violence. The anguish the FBC shooting evoked from Sutherland Springs is precisely why this church must remain standing and become a symbol of change. We are obligated to honor the victims of mass shootings by attempting to prevent future mass shootings.

Jeannie Brown, a former Sutherland Springs resident, asked “If [the church] is destroyed, does that mean he [the gunman] won?” Perhaps. If the church is destroyed, then fear and violence will have triumphed over the rule of law.

Last November, Sen. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called for stricter gun legislation and tweeted “thoughts and prayers are not enough. … We must end this violence.”

Like the Pulse memorial, the FBC of Sutherland Springs can become a symbol that drives the U.S. to do so.

But perhaps in light of last Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17, the largest shooting at a U.S. high school in recent history, change will come.

Survivors and their families have taken an active stance, pressuring lawmakers for gun legislation and change not seen since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Survivors will march on Tallahassee and call out lawmakers who argue that gun control wouldn’t have prevented the shooting. The activism Florida survivors have adopted demonstrates how witnessing the effects of gun violence firsthand can motivate change. The question is whether the rest of America will join the effort to prevent future mass shootings.

Spencer Castle (21C) is from Nashua, N.H.

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Trump Cuts Target Donors, Hurt Students Alexandra Grouzis When President Donald J. Trump unmasked his federal spending plan for 2019, unveiling a number of budget changes on Feb. 12, a notable provision emerged for current and aspiring college students.

Trump is proposing changes to the way student loan debt is handled in the United States.

Students in the U.S. currently hold about $1.3 trillion in college debt, and debt restructuring is one of the primary debates for politicians and a major concern for future and current college graduates.

Under Trump’s proposed budget, important tax breaks and loan stipulations would be revoked, potentially increasing the cost of higher education for millions of aspiring college students.

That spending change would terminate the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.

The program allows individuals that have worked in public service for at least 10 years to qualify for student loan forgiveness.

PSLF most directly affects teachers, police officers, social workers, public defenders and anyone else who works for government organizations.

Implemented in 2007 as a attempt to reduce college debt in America, PSLF also incentivizes talented, educated individuals to take lower-paying jobs in the public sector that they otherwise might not have taken. For example, according to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), public defenders in the state of Georgia with 10 years of experience make approximately $64,000 a year, whereas the average salary for a lawyer in the private sector is $135,000 a year.

That $70,000 difference makes it exceedingly difficult for the government to attract skilled lawyers to defend some of the most in-need citizens. The same goes for teachers. The PSLF program attracts some to public instead of private schools and colleges, increasing the quantity and quality of public educators.

PSLF has a literal cost, as individual debt is taken on by the federal government.

But a restructure of the program is far more desirable than the complete termination of a program that

helps to absolve a portion of the everincreasing student debt in the U.S. Additionally, Trump’s proposal would eliminate federal subsidized loans and change the interest rates and tax deductions that are aimed specifically at lower income households.

Subsidized loans allow students to take out loans which only begin accruing interest once the student has graduated — the government pays all interest that accrues while students are pursuing their degrees.

The proposal would also eliminate tax deductions for earners in certain tax brackets.

Currently, certain deductions apply to single filers who make under $65,000 and filers in joint households which make up to $130,000.

Both subsidized loans and income deductions have stipulations that require benefiters to be in lower income tax brackets.

Essentially, Trump’s proposed changes in spending on student

Essentially, Trump’s plan cuts off your foot and bandages the scrape on your finger as compensation — and lower-income individuals will bear the brunt of the damage. loan relief would adversely affect lower income brackets. This budget is a change that would cut spending without upsetting the many wealthy companies and individuals who helped finance Trump’s 2016 campaign and would offer valuable financial support in 2020.

The spending changes would lower the required time for more universal loan forgiveness from 20 years to 15 years for undergraduate loans.

But in order to compensate for that change, income-based interest rates would rise from 10 to 12.5 percent. Trump’s budget could lead to lower spending on student loans overall by granting forgiveness soon-

er with higher monthly payments.

But an increase in monthly payments for student loans could disadvantage lower-income recipients by making them potentially unable to pay the individual monthly payments, regardless of the lower overall amount they would have to pay before loan forgiveness kicked in.

Budget documents highlight the proposed expansion of Pell Grants to career technical training, claiming that expansion would incentivize prospective students to take part in non-four-year programs such as community college and two-year colleges.

That would increase the amount of students pursuing careers in sectors of the economy that are important but under-acknowledged as a means of post-secondary education such as plumbers and technicians.

While this may be true, Trump’s plan fails to address the tens of thousands of dollars in loans per person that the other cut provisions were created to address.

Essentially, Trump’s plan cuts off your foot and bandages the scrape on your finger as compensation — and lower-income individuals will bear the brunt of the damage.

The problem with Trump’s spending cuts isn’t just the cuts themselves, but it’s what the cuts reveal about the administration’s priorities.

The Trump administration is far more concerned with cutting costs than with addressing problems that affect the average American, the very demographic that Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign once swore to help.

Cuts to the PSLF program would disadvantage teachers, police officers and other public servants.

Trump’s proposed tax deductions and cuts to subsidized loans would almost exclusively affect middle- and lower-class Americans who aspired toward higher education.

In 2014, students from the top-quarter of U.S. households (by income) make up more than half of degree earners while students from households that earn less than $35,000 a year make up only 10 percent of degree earners.

Yet again, Trump’s administration has failed to prioritize the middle-class American voters who put them in office.

Alexandra Grouzis (21c) is from Franklin, Tenn.

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North Korea’s Empty Olympic Diplomacy Liberal Media Glosses Over Regime Atrocities Madison Stephens Sports are often utilized as a political tool for peace, most notably the example of ping pong diplomacy between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and former Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong in the early 1970s. This year, the Winter Olympics offered another political opportunity to two nations whose history is just as fraught: the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea).

Those two nations have generally respected the ceasefire across the demilitarized zone agreed upon following the Korean War. However, tensions between the sister countries flared about 13 times since 2015.

We shouldn’t give North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un too much diplomatic credit. As the ruler of a country notorious for its human rights abuses, Jong-un, an avid sports fan, is also a master of political propaganda.

Jong-un is no stranger to utilizing sports as a form of political propaganda, and continues that tradition in Pyongyang. North Korea sent 22 athletes to South Korea this Olympic cycle, the largest delegation the country has ever sent to the Olympics. Despite decades of political hostility, the two countries marched together in the opening ceremony under a united Korean flag, sending a message of unity and peace. The Olympics is certainly the ideal stage on which to send this message, as the event exemplifies international cooperation and community.

With North Korea’s recent symbolic messages at the Olympics, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s snub of Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yojong, at the opening ceremony made

the United States appear petty, as stated in a New York Times article, especially given the flurry and fury of hostile messages exchanged between Jong-un and U.S. President Donald J. Trump in recent months.

Some media coverage portrayed North Korea as the victim invoking a sense of sympathy that isn’t completely deserved.

While it would’ve been best had Pence not ignored Yo-jong, Pence should not have been the subject of so much media scrutiny for shunning someone complacent in genocide.

Pence justified his actions as a refusal to give attention or convey acceptance to someone who is an integral part of the North Korean propaganda machine.

In an effort to discount and condemn Trump and his administration, major U.S. media outlets are lightening the atrocity of the actions committed by Jong-un. While the U.S. may have been left in an unflattering light after Pence’s blunder, that diplomatic misstep is hardly comparable to the actions committed by North Korea’s current leadership. There’s a big jump between Trump’s whining about “fake news” and the complete lack of an independent media in North Korea.

The current news coverage of North Korea’s history-making presence at the Olympics ignores that moral gap between the two administrations.

The international community as well as U.S. media should not simply ignore the decades of human rights abuses perpetrated by Jong-un’s regime because of a facade put on for one month in 2018. While sports may play a role in politics, North Korea should not be given a pass. Relations with the nation should not improve without a radical shift in international relations and a new commitment to diplomacy.

Madison Stephens (21C) is from Little Rock, Ark.

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FILM REVIEW

New Leilo Well-Acted, Woefully Hamfisted

By Evan amaral Senior Film Critic

Grade: BIt’s frustrating when a great performance is trapped in a mediocre film. Such is the case of Daniela Vega, an immensely gifted performer and one of the most extraordinary recent breakout talents. In fact, she made history as the first transgender actress to receive an Oscar campaign for Best Actress (but was not nominated). She plays Marina Vidal in Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Lelio’s new drama “A Fantastic Woman” — a standout piece of acting marred by unimaginative direction.

Marina is a transgender nightclub singer who works as a waitress by day. Her longtime partner, Orlando (Francisco Reyes), gifts her a trip on her birthday. They party and make love, but he wakes up in the middle of the night acting strangely. Soon, he collapses. Marina rushes him to the hospital, where he dies. She calls his good-natured brother Gabo (Luis Gnecco), who helps her handle

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CAMPUS MOVIE FEST

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From left to right: han-yu (hank) Chen (21C), Jiarong (Vincent) Fan (21C), Tianyu (Rain) Yang (21C) and Peijian (William) Ding (21C) pose for a photo after their documentary ‘Nian’ won a Jury Award at Campus movie Fest.

Movie Fest Flaunts Emory’s Finest Filmmakers

By EmErson Harmon Contributing Writer

It is difficult for a film on a $10 budget to suspend an audience’s disbelief.

But this past Friday, perhaps bravely, perhaps foolishly, some of Emory’s most talented filmmakers gave it their best shot for Emory’s 2018 Campus Movie Fest. Surprisingly, a significant number of them succeeded.

Campus Movie Fest, which takes place on dozens of campuses in the United States, has a simple concept: Any student who registers is provided a camera, audio equipment, a laptop with editing software and a week to produce whatever kind of short film they want, as long as it’s under five minutes. It’s a hackathon for movies, lettings amateurs develop their portfolio and provides a scouting opportunity for companies. Students give their passion projects their best effort, they

fail, they learn something about making movies or maybe themselves, and they try again next year — the whole process looks like a blast. There’s no barrier to entry, no cost to failure and a variety of rewards for those who succeed. On each participating campus, judges select 16 films to be projected on the big screen. Several of the successful “Silver Tripod Award” winners can apply for their films to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, with their producers and cast flown to France for the occasion.

I won’t cover all the films here — I don’t have enough space to do justice to each of them. Instead, I’ll go over the four best films of the night, the Silver Tripod Award winners.

Documentaries, which don’t need to draw their audiences into a fictional world, fared well at the festival. About half the films shown were documentaries, with topics ranging

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from how LGBTQ dancers incorporate their identities into their art to a film on Georgia’s largest no-kill animal shelter.

The two documentaries that won Jury Awards each highlighted the humanity of their subjects, but did so in opposite ways. The first winner, “Nian,” directed by Jiarong Fan (21C), featured interviews with Chinese Emory students about the significance of Chinese New Year. When most of them answered that it is an opportunity to appreciate family, the interviewer invited them to call their family.

“Nian”’s bold and well-executed production choices facilitated the organic humor of family interaction and the occasional melancholy of being separated from that family. The film’s clean edits, static shots and uncompromising color palette of red, grey and white made it instantly distinct on screen. Its decision to primarily fea-

‘Twin Fantasy’: A Tonal Reimagining

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A foreshadowing shot of a cell phone on the platform version of ‘Final Fantasy XV.’

A Fine ‘Final Fantasy’ for Your Phone Grade: BTwelve years ago, nearly everyone had a portable gaming console, whether a Nintendo DS or a PlayStation Portable (PSP).

Now, the ubiquity of the smartphone has reduced the demand for dedicated consoles for on-the-go gam-

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ture Mandarin with English subtitles lent it an auditory uniqueness.

Where “Nian” focuses on the commonalities of its subjects, “On the Horizon” by Aaron Campbell (21C), the other documentary to win a Silver Tripod, focused on the diversity of the experiences of black Emory students navigating both a campus marked by inequality and the rifts between the previous generation of activists and the new one. “On the Horizon” has no gimmicks, no tricks up its sleeve.

It relies on the eloquence and intelligence of its subjects to carry it, and it emphasizes the individuality of each of its interviewees, filming them in different locations and from different angles.

Only a few narrative films found clever ways to overcome their limited budget and worked with the time con-

ing since it is more convenient to play Candy Crush Saga on your iPhone than on a DS. Fast-forward 10 years and big companies like Square Enix and Nintendo are diversifying, putting more time and attention into their portable games, from ports of older games like “Chrono Trigger” to full-fledged new titles like “Super Mario Run.” “Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition,” an abridged take on 2016’s “Final Fantasy

XV,” is a well-made rendition of the original that proves that mobile gaming does not need to be limited to barebones gameplay.

The biggest issue “Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition” faces is its category.

Neither a port nor a remake, “Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition” offers too little (bar a totally new Chibi art style) to somebody who has played the orig-

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From the moment Car Seat Headrest announced their newest project, it was the record both everybody and nobody asked for.

Will Toledo and co. return after 2016’s “Teens of Style” with a redux of 2011’s lo-fi indie internet cult classic “Twin Fantasy.” It’s been almost seven years since Toledo, who then was the sole member of the group, released that album — one that would find its way into the shadowy nooks and crannies of online music discussion boards before it ultimately landed him a record deal with Matador Records.

Now, after three releases on the label, the band officially announced Jan. 9 that its newest release would reimagine “Twin Fantasy.”

“It was never a finished work, and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” Toledo wrote in a Jan. 9 Matador statement.

And depending on how you feel about Car Seat Headrest’s latest releases, this either excites you, scares the everloving sh*t out of you or both. Toledo is returning to one of his most beloved albums (plus, we’re finally getting a physical release of both versions), but sonically and devel-

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opmentally he has almost certainly moved on. If you’re a die-hard fan of just Twin Fantasy, then this makes you instantly skeptical: what the hell is he trying to do with my favorite album?

You can tell from the first sound on this album — the track “My Boy (Twin Fantasy)” — that we’re dealing with a different beast. Instead of the echoing, low-fidelity thuds that opened the 2011 version, we hear tight, crystal-clear kicks before Toledo’s voice joins in.

This might cause some doubt among the lo-fi fanatics — but luckily for the skeptics, Toledo got a lot right in 2011, and he knows it. For the most part, you’re not going to hear any changes in the fundamental melodies or song structures on this record. All the chord progressions, melodies, harmonies and vocal parts are basically intact. If you’re coming into this straight after repeat listenings of the original version, you’re not going to have any problems singing along to the choruses.

Basically everything else is different, or, at the very least, updated. “My

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‘FF XV Pocket Edition’ Expensive but Enjoyable Continued from Page 9 inal game.

Established Final Fantasy fans who did not play the original will also find this game too empty given its sizeable price tag relative to other Final Fantasy games available on mobile.

That being said, for a newcomer to the franchise, this might be the perfect introduction to the series.

I was not surprised to see that the plot is trippy, like that of most Japanese role-playing games (JRPG).

You play as the laidback Prince Noctis, accompanied by his three friends, as they set out to bring peace to the Kingdom of Lucis, which the Empire of Niflheim is attacking.

YouTuber and writer Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw jokingly said that “a JRPG just isn’t a JRPG unless it doesn’t end with teenagers using the power of friendship to kill God,” and his proposal fits well into the Final Fantasy archetype.

Even though the graphics are a castrated version of those of its home console companion, “Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition” does justice to the epic scenes from the original game, ensuring that the cutesy style never distracts from the plot.

The witty writing from the original game still feels fresh on a phone, particularly in the banter between Noctis and his boys as they drive through the world of Eos. Though the original “Final Fantasy XV” has been praised for its breadth of side quests, my experience with “Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition” was far more streamlined.

Each chapter of the game feels like a simple movement from A to B, with dialogue and enemies along the way. The linear story matched the linear gameplay. Action RPGs often have a disconnect between real-time combat and navigating menus to choose attacks, but the simple controls of “Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition” mean that the game’s fighting is intuitive.

Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw jokingly said that a ‘JPRG just isn’t a JPRG it doesn’t end with teenagers using the power to kill god.’

Take into account the dynamic camera angles that change to best suit your situation, and you have the first action RPG that hasn’t given me an aneurysm while in combat.

Even when swarmed by enemies, the simplicity of the combat meant that I wasn’t randomly swiping my fingers on the screen in hopes of killing enemies.

The biggest issue with the game is its pricing. The first chapter is free, but the next four chapters cost $1 each, and the remaining five chapters cost $4 each, unless you buy the entire game for $20.

It is difficult to justify a $20 price tag to the average casual gamer, and a true fan of the franchise would shell out the same amount of cash for the

While Vega Impresses, Directing Disappoints Continued from Page 9 incoming family members. In the coming days, the police pester her for fleeing the hospital in a moment of fear, as does Orlando’s intolerant sister Sonia (Aline Kuppenheim), who refuses to invite her to the funeral.

“A Fantastic Woman” is trying to be two things — a melodrama about the psychological state of grief and a social realist picture about transgender rights. Lelio flounders in both regards, but Vega’s performance knocks both out of the park. The two are clearly working together but not on the same wavelength. Lelio’s boring grab-bag of tricks is pulled from the toolbox of modern art house cinema, notably magical realism and elliptical storytelling. Tthe magical realism provides a somewhat effective, if rudimentary, window into Marina’s psychological state. Orlando often appears to her as a ghostly presence, and she is swept up in cataclysmic weather. But other Latin American filmmakers have adapted this literary tradition in more thoughtful ways. Lelio also leans too far into the visual language of mirrors, with many shots focusing on Marina’s reflection. These shots are a nice touch at first, considering all of the questions it brings to mind about identity and perception, but it becomes yet another overused trick fairly quickly.

On the other hand, not enough praise can be thrown at Vega’s central performance. “A Fantastic Woman” lives and dies by her ability to carry the emotion of the film on her shoulders, and she far surpasses any expecta-

tions of an actress. Few performers have had such a natural screen presence, and you can’t take your eyes off her. She navigates the film’s stylistic tightrope perfectly, registering every naturalistic and melodramatic beat with the utmost precision and power.

Sadly, it often feels as if she had no collaborative role in telling this story, though she’s the most qualified person on set to do so.

It is crucial that filmmakers consider telling the stories of people who aren’t like them, otherwise the world of cinema would be nothing but navelgazing nonsense. But questions of representation come with that consideration, and telling those stories must be done empathetically and collaboratively. Here, Lelio fails. Vega’s performance feels imprisoned by his lens. He’s too timid of a filmmaker to tackle this story, refusing to allow it to become the great melodrama it could be and constantly dragging it back into didactic territory.

Despite this interior rift in quality, “A Fantastic Woman” has real social value. By shedding light on transgender issues in an accessible format, it does something that few films have achieved before. The casting of Vega in the lead role is a watershed moment.

But one wishes that this moment belonged to a better film — and that a better filmmaker was receiving the accolades for it. In the end, it’s a shame that Lelio didn’t take notice and allow a fantastic woman to lead the way.

— Contact Evan Amaral at evan.amaral@emory.edu

fully loaded PlayStation 4 version, meaning there is no obvious target market for this game.

I am the rare Final Fantasy fan who does not own a compatible console, but even I felt uncomfortable dishing out $20.

Additionally, the Google Play Store and App Store offer several classic RPGs like “Final Fantasy IX” and “Final Fantasy VI” which are more fleshed out games at similar or cheaper prices.

Another issue is how much this game taxes the average smartphone. I played the game on a OnePlus 5T with a huge 6GB of RAM and a blazing fast Snapdragon 835 chip so I didn’t experience lag, but if you have a weaker or older phone you might experience performance drops.

This game drained my 3300 mAh battery to the point that I had to carry my charger around with me, which I normally don’t do.

Overall, “Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition” is Square Enix showing off exactly what it can do with mobile gaming.

Though this game is marketed to existing fans, newcomers and old fans of the franchise will be impressed by how engrossing a game you can play on the bus can be.

If you have $20 and need a good excuse to mess around in your next psychology lecture, give “Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition” a chance before dismissing it for its simple art style and hefty price tag.

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

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Despite Limited Budget, Student Films Soar Continued from Page 9 straints, but those that did were excellent. “Deja Vu” by Halsey Quinn (18C), which follows a young black woman facing a possible unexpected pregnancy, explored generational cycles of pregnancy, divorce and fractured families. The film is driven by the protagonist’s stream-of-consciousness monologue, giving it an emotional intimacy that the film exploits to great effect. It also uses abstract visuals, like hands messily finger painting and marriage certificates burning, to reflect the character’s anxieties about having children too early and her guilt over her own birth destroying her parents’ marriage. “Deja Vu” darkens its colors for scenes in the real world but leaves them bright for the protagonist’s reflections, emphasising just how vivid the past and potential future are for her.

The movie that stole the show was “Housewife Horror,” a delightfully ’60s flavored thriller about an increasingly fed-up and unhinged housewife.

“Housewife Horror,” directed by Leila Yavari (18C), has an unmistakable style: The film has been edited into the rounded, abridged aspect ratio found in footage from the ’60s, and everything on screen swirls in bright pastels. The film’s genius goes beyond its visual aesthetic, though. The directors and producers of this film made intelligent choices in disguising their meager budget. Not a single word is spoken in

“Housewife Horror,” and the emotions and deliberations of the characters are shown entirely through physical acting and a few sound effects. This choice not only gives the film an artsy charm, but bypasses any jarring microphone consistency issues, which plagued other narrative films. “Deja Vu”’s use of a single monologue also avoids this trap. “Housewife Horror” leaps visual hurdles as well. The film’s use of montage to show the gradual unraveling of the titular housewife allows the film to reuse the same locations and camera angles under the guise of a cinematic device.

Similar flashes of inspiration and ingenuity illuminated the rest of the screening, and I recommend you search out these films on Campus Movie Fest’s website.. That said, why watch when you can act - or direct or produce? Campus Movie Fest is coming back next year, and anyone can participate. Maybe give it a try yourself.

Editor’s note: All films created by Emory students are on Campus Movie Fest’s website under the Emory tab.

Design Manager Ruth Reyes participated in “Housewife Horror” and Sr. Film Critic Evan Amaral worked on “A Third of a Dozen Angry Men.” They were not involved in the editing or writing of this article.

— Contact Emerson Harmon at emerson.harmon@emory.edu

Album Hits Its Stride in Its Final Three Tracks Continued from Page 9 Boy (Twin Fantasy)” gently eases you into this realization — it sounds almost exactly the same as its 2011 counterpart, apart from the aforementioned higher-fi sound and a slower, more subdued rhythm guitar contributing flourishy riffing forward in the mix.

“Beach Life-in-Death,” the second track, plays the same game as “My Boy” in the beginning. It’s a 13-minute song (the original is a minute shorter) broken into three distinct parts.

The first section sounds pretty similar to the 2011 content, aside from some compelling drumming and noisy background samples, providing a much more frantic feeling. One of the best passages on both versions of this album is the end of part one, jumping into the second. The song steadily builds up to this climax, punctuated at each rise by one repeated, syncopated, ascending riff. At some point, it’s played again, and out of nowhere the song jumps to Toledo playing this fuzzy broken chord for a good 30 or 40 seconds before it’s joined by a rolling bassline and becomes the backbone of the second part. We get this section in the 2018 version too — the chord is even more fuzzed-out and warm than in the original. Instead of seamlessly flowing into the development of the second part, the song immediately transitions into this weird, bluesy section which loses all emotional momentum the song had.

The songs that follow are filled with similar surprises. “Sober to Death”’s ending, filled with erratic, disjointed guitar leads is smoothed out to the point of blandness. The glam rock of “Nervous Young Inhumans,” while a fun update, sounds tonally inconsistent until it’s saved by some good

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Will Toledo poses during a promotional shoot for ‘Twin Fantasy: Face to Face.’ transition work at the beginning of “Bodys.” There are a handful of hits, but the misses add up — and, ultimately, none of the songs give you the sense that all this was worth returning to an album for.

Until the last three, which redeem this record’s existence entirely. The ending trilogy of “High to Death,” “Famous Prophets (Stars)” and “Twin Fantasy (Those Boys)” bring this album straight to its conceptual center, similar to the way they did in the 2011 version. But here, the conceptual center is the work that Toledo produced in 2011. He completely reverses the way he’s handled the previous songs’ updates — massive changes and additions to lyrics while sonic dimensions remain the same, instead of vice versa.

There’s a good amount to unpack in these last three songs, an endeavor worthy of the active listener. At the end, Toledo acknowledges who he was when he made that record ” someone who couldn’t face himself. He finds that “twin fantasy,” his desire to be one with the person who left him, is exactly that — a fantasy, because his entire

conception of the person was a fantasy, projected from his own desires. But it’s not a stunning revelation to him, more than half a decade removed from the events of the album, as revealed from his almost uncaring spoken-word. It’s just a truth, something lived by essentially another person, disconnecting itself from passion and only returning in the gray, neutral substrate of memory. “This is the end of the song, and it’s just a song,” Toledo sings tiredly at the end of the album.

This complete opposition to selfindulgent sadness is pretty striking, especially considering “Face to Face” was an album considered in the same canon as, say, “Pinkerton,” or your favorite Death Cab album. And the exasperation in Toledo’s voice at the end reveals that, in some portion, this album isn’t for him, but for his listeners. Snap out of it, he says. See people for who they are, not what you might want them to be. Go outside, he croons, “Look at the sun.”

— Contact Devin Bog at devin.bog@emory.edu

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Wednesday, February 21, 2018 | Emory Life Editor: Niraj Naik (niraj.naik@emory.edu)

DINING

SPOTLIGHT

FOOD REVIEW

Drive-Thru: Bhojanic’s New Menu Makes Grade

East Lake Oysters, Chicken Impress

By aditya Prakash Associate Editor

By CoNNor ClErkiN Contributing Writer

Opting for Meal Plan B was the end of my reliance on a single cafeteria at Emory. I initially basked in the honeymoon period, enjoying my capacity to have udon for lunch and tacos for dinner, but unfortunately, that imagining was just a transient pleasure.

After I ate at Cox Hall for a few weeks, boredom kicked in, and what was once a hearty bowl of pho became a chore to get through.

When I discovered that Bhojanic Market had revamped its menu, I leaped with joy at the chance to eat something different for the first time in months.

Bhojanic’s revamped menu now offers the “Karma Melt,” the Kathi roll, “The Lopez,” the “Buddha Bowl” and the poutine bowl in addition to their previous options. The Kathi roll caught my eye as the only new menu option based on a dish I recognized.

Traditionally, this humble roll is the forefront of portable Indian food.

Like an Indian burrito, its ergonomic paratha exterior acts as a sheath to protect its various contents.

Bhojanic’s take on the classic is a little wayward, more similar to a taco than a burrito, with the insides falling out of the flaky paratha’s open side.

Moreover, rather than the classic fillings of mutton or paneer, Bhojanic offers either seasonal vegetables or chicken, with a side of its masala potatoes.

While this bizarre set of ingredients does not function as an authentic

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CourtEsy of MICHIGaN MosEs GoLDsBy

Campus Life Center (CLC) worker Michigan Moses Goldsby (CENtEr) performs in rap track ‘Pacino (U Know the Deal),’ released Oct. 28, 2016, by hip-hop group The Watusi Tribe.

CLC Worker Constructs Life of Art, Purpose

By Niraj Naik Emory Life Editor Campus Life Center (CLC) construction worker Michigan Moses Goldsby likened his daily routine to going hunting — one of a few analogies he often makes about his life.

“You [have to] be in a certain psychological space to endure that type of environment on a daily basis,” he told the Wheel, noting the constant level of caution and focus required on the construction site.

Goldsby spends his days on the construction site, working for BHW Sheet Metal Co, a subcontracted company based in Jonesboro, Ga., that makes sheet metal into the ductwork used inside Emory’s future student center.

His days start at 5 a.m., when he travels from Stone Mountain, Ga., to Druid Hills for a 7 a.m. start time.

According to Goldsby, the team typically begins by stretching and flexing their muscles to get limbered up for the day’s activities, which include welding, overseeing ductwork installation and unloading materials delivered on any given day.

Goldsby said his job requires that

he oversees every part of the process, from shaping the sheet metal into ductwork to sealing it, staging and installing it in the building.

Michigan Moses Goldsby, Campus Life Center (CLC) construction worker saraH taHa/staff

Other than a quick break at 9 a.m. and a lunch break at noon, Goldsby is on the move most of the day, completing these tasks — all of which require his more than 20 years of experience in the sheet metal industry. The construction worker said he clocks out around 3:30 p.m., picks up his six kids from school and makes it home around 5:30 p.m.

After he cooks dinner, he spends the evening nurturing his artistic passions: photography and videography.

Sometimes, he takes photos on his Canon EOS 70D camera and edits in Adobe Creative Cloud, a graphic design software, and other days he

Mary hooPa’s housE of friEd ChiCkEN aNd oystErs East LakE

creates music or edits videos shot on his Sony Rx10 Mark II. Many of his projects, like a commercial shoot for a beauty supply brand or music videos for local artists, eventually end up on his website.

“A lot of people have misconceptions about construction workers,” Goldsby said. “[But] we talk about everything under the sun. ... It’s a lot of well-educated [people].”

When it comes to Goldsby, these misconceptions couldn’t be more relevant. He avidly studies the zodiac. He has been a vegetarian since 2012. He calls himself “a spiritual being.”

Born in Cincinnati, Goldsby said he knew he wanted to go into a trade profession after he graduated high school.

Although he was first inclined to become an electrician, he eventually settled on the sheet metal industry, taking a five-year apprenticeship with Sheet Metal Workers Local 24, a sheet metal union in the Midwest.

Three years into his apprenticeship, Goldsby received a Fujifilm pointand-shoot camera as a Father’s Day present, which sparked his passion for

The odd name alone of East Lake’s soul-food joint “Mary Hoopa’s House of Fried Chicken and Oysters” took me by surprise and created an image in my mind of a family-owned shack that specializes in authentic Southern cuisine.

Add to that the odd combination of the universally beloved fried chicken with the classic, polarizing seafood item: the oyster.

This piqued my interest, to say the least. The core of the menu is straightforward. If you want oysters, you can get half a dozen, either raw or grilled.

As for the fried chicken, there are three flavor options — house fried, sweet or hot — and three serving sizes — a half bird, whole bird or two birds.

Our table opted for the bare-bones classics — raw oysters and house fried chicken.

Oyster lovers, rest assured.

Mary Hoopa’s oysters are exceptional.

The six oysters came well-presented with a cocktail sauce and slice of lemon.

The manageable size of each bite and the subtle saltiness that followed impressed our table of oyster

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SILENT DISCO

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The University Center Board hosts another iteration of their Silent Disco event. Students quietly jam throughout the night to one of three stations controlled by Emory student disc jockeys from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Feb. 17 in the Cox Hall Ballroom. Students dance their hearts out to songs like ‘Cotton-Eyed Joe’ and ‘What Do You Mean?’

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Goldsby Balances Creative Mind, Construction Work “I think it’s the type of individual you [have to] be,” he said. “I care about my work whether it’s doing sheet metal photography.

In 2005, after he completed the or doing photography or film. You have apprenticeship, he moved to Georgia in pride in your work.”

Goldsby said he was able to work on pursuit of more career opportunities.

“Unfortunately, I wasn’t in the posi- the trailer for a film about life in the tion for [photography and videogra- ghetto, “Beyond the ‘G,’ ” but the projphy] to help me raise my six children,” ect was halted due to a lack of funding — which he said was a Goldsby said. “Sheet common occurrence. metal had the benefits “I got a notebook and the means to help A lot of people have full of [projects],” me raise my children, misconceptions about Goldsby said. “I’m but my love for phoconstruction workers actually … [working tography, videograbut we talk about on] a project basically phy, music and all of that still remains, so I everything under the about my current situation: a 42-year-old do both.” sun. ... It’s a lot of Although Goldsby well-educated people. construction worker [who] is trying to said he rarely finds make his own films.” ways to incorporate — Michigan Moses While he said he his artistic mindset Goldsby, wants to continue into his daily work, he Campus Life Center (CLC) making films, Goldsby has found similarities construction worker said lacks the connecin his work and anothtions in the filmmaker one of his passions: ing industry to make chess.

“In my opinion, chess is like having a full-length film. He said one day he a staff [of] workers that you have to hopes to direct and produce films.

Until then, he will continue to work know how to manage,” Goldsby said.

“Chess makes you accountable for with sheet metal as the wages are every move you make, and it also gives consistent and allow him to support his family. you the courage to make that move.”

For Emory students, he has one Because of his passion for the game, he plays most days on the app Chess piece of advice: “Stay grounded at all With Friends. As to what drives his times and don’t get lost in the sauce.” passion for both sheet metal and photography, Goldsby cited his pride in — Contact Niraj Naik at his work. niraj.naik@emory.edu

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Mary Hoopa’s Gambles With Odd Combo, Pays Off in Spades Continued from Page 11 enthusiasts.

The only drawback was that it was impossible to split equally a half-dozen among four people.

As someone who was never a fried chicken lover, I did not expect my meal to astound me.

But Mary Hoopa’s fried chicken converted me from a skeptic to a true believer.

The first bite of my drumstick took me aback with a punch of juicy flavor.

The light and crisp batter complemented perfectly the tender, sweet and peppered white meat.

Any fallen batter spent little time resting on our plates, as we were quick to scoop it up and salvage as much flavor as possible.

The chicken impressed us so much that we ordered an extra half bird, this time in the sweet variety.

Our reactions were similar.

The light and crisp batter complemented perfectly the tender, sweet and peppered white meat. Any fallen batter spent little time resting on our plates.

The sweetness was subtle enough not to divert attention from the deliciously cooked meat but present enough to add a novel dynamic to an already exceptional recipe.

For dessert, the banana ice cream

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Cox Hall’s Bhojanic Market debuts new menu items in time for the Spring semester.

Texture Redeems Bland Kathi Roll, Karma Melt

Continued from Page 11 Indian Kathi roll, it does a pretty good job as an American one so I enjoyed the meal despite its flaws.

A parallel might be a Mexican person who admits that Taco Bell’s food tastes good even if it is not really Mexican food. Though the Kathi roll’s paratha was a bit too chewy, the soft potatoes melted in my mouth and blended well with the sweet tamarind chutney.

The slight bite of carrots — though fundamentally un-Indian — offered a heartier textural element that compensated somewhat for the lack of meat. I did not, however, appreciate the broccoli, which failed to fit comfortably in the paratha, meaning that at the end of my meal all that was left were some other tasteless potatoes and dry broccoli. This has more business being in the hospital next door than

at Cox Hall.

I also tried the “Karma Melt,” another wrap-like offering with chole (chickpeas), spiced Monterey Jack cheese, vegetables and naan instead of paratha.

The naan’s crispy exterior was unlike the soft, chewy naans Bhojanic offers as sides, and it disappointed me.

The naan’s crispy exterior was unlike the soft, chewy naans Bhojanic offers as sides, and it disappointed me.

But the chole added needed protein and zest, which refreshingly juxta-

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posed the lightly fried vegetables.

With prices starting at just $4.95 for the vegetable Kathi roll, Bhojanic changes the game of Cox Hall with its new relatively filling, cheap additions. If you are on the go and need something to fill your empty stomach before a lecture, consider Bhojanic before deciding to go hungry.

There will always be that irritating Indian student who insists that it is “way better back home” but provided you aren’t a stickler for authenticity and you have a stapler to shut their mouth, you will finish your meal pleasantly surprised.

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

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Mary Hoopa’s House of Fried Chicken and Oysters chef robert Phalen also operates popular American-style eatery One Eared Stag, in Edgewood. sundae featured strawberries, fudge and roasted pineapple. Our table of four devoured the delicious concoction in less than one minute.

The ingenious mix of rich chocolate and assorted fruit flavors somehow matched the incredibly high standard set by the main course. The quality of the food was only enhanced by the charming ambiance of the space.

When we arrived, we found a more refined establishment than we had expected.

The building featured dim lighting that one might find in a more romantic venue and plenty of varnished wood.

It felt more like a neighborhood res-

taurant than a bohemian shack.

“Mary Hoopa’s House of Fried Chicken and Oysters” exceeded expectations.

According to Eater Atlanta, the restaurant’s name comes from the caretaker of chef Robert Phalen’s motherin-law, Mary Hoopa, who was known for her “farm-to-table meals.”

This homemade character is apparent in its delectable food accompanied by an attentive and conversational wait staff, which made us feel we had truly experienced the best of soul food.

— Contact Connor Clerkin at connor.clerkin@emory.edu

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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Crossword

By Aditya Prakash

Across 2. One-horned national animal of Scotland 4. Frontman and founder of indie rock band Car Seat Headrest 5. Black-haired prince, protagonist of “Final Fantasy XV” (Page 9) 8. Lithium, sodium and potassium are all _____ metals 9. Seventeen-year-old Red Gerard won gold in this sport after he overslept on the day of the event after he stayed up late to binge-watch Netflix 11. Ronald Reagan famously said “Mr. ______, open this gate.”

13. South Africa’s recently elected president, once owned the most McDonald’s franchises in South Africa 15. Host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics 17. The ______ studies minor at Emory explores the Portuguese-speaking world 19. This company’s car was recently blasted off into space Down 1. Political satirist and creator of Netflix TV show “Black Mirror” 3. Cox Hall Food Court restaurant with a recently revamped menu (Page 11) 6. Newest residence hall at Emory 7. b2 - 4ac 10. “Jason Bourne” actor 12. Emory’s men’s basketball guard who broke the school’s all-time assist record in a game against New York University last Friday (Back Page) 14. Author of “War and Peace” 16. First book of the Old Testament 18. Fast-food chain with most locations in the country

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SOFTBALL

Spizizen Pitches Team to Victory

By Anirudh Pidugu Staff Writer

the Emory softball team split a pair of doubleheaders against Averett University (Va.) Feb. 15 and swept Berry College (Ga.) Feb. 18. Against Averett, the Eagles edged out a 1-0 win but then suffered a 5-3 loss.

In the opening game, sophomore second baseman Sarah Katz hit a single, prompting a point by freshman pinch runner Drew Bullock from second base. Altogether, Emory grabbed five hits during the game.

Sophomore pitcher Sami Feller started the game, allowing only one hit and striking out six. Freshman Jacqueline Spizizen came in as relief to throw four shutout innings and allowed only one hit. Spizizen maximized her time on the mound, striking out seven players while also picking up the win.

In the second game, Averett returned for revenge. Averett scored first in the second inning, and doubled their advantage in the fourth off sophomore third baseman Andrea Grant’s homer. the Cougars collected two more runs in the top of the fifth frame.

Grant and freshman pitcher Kaitlyn Aherron both gathered rBI doubles.

Spizizen said that the difference in the two games against Averett was timely hitting. “[our problem] was just timely hitting,” Spizizen said. “We didn’t get our hits together. However, we worked [hard] and we continued to fight and [come back].”

Emory responded with three unanswered runs in the bottom of the sixth. Katz advanced on a two-run single, allowing junior outfielders Sam Vincent and Sarah Flanders to score.

Sophomore infielder Jessy McLean hit a sacrifice fly to help the Eagles to

another run by junior shortstop Cassie Baca.

Averett closed out the doubleheader after an insurance run in the seventh inning off an Aherron triple sealed their victory. Emory followed the split with two shutouts against Berry (2-0, 1-0). Spizizen led the way with some stellar pitching in both wins.

In the opener, Spizizen tossed six strikeouts and allowed three hits. She retired 13 straight batters in the first four frames before loading the bases in the fifth inning. But she escaped the problematic scenario thanks to a popup during a two-out situation.

Berry freshman pitcher Meredith Holland played a strong game in the first four frames, holding onto the shutout before the Eagles grabbed a pair of runs in the fifth inning. Bullock hit an rBI double to bring juniors outfielder Jenna Wilson and Flanders to plate. In the evening game, Spizizen continued her hot run of form. She gave up nine hits but dodged any scoring threats. Flanders notched the lone score of the game. She started off with a single, and eventually ended up at third base after stealing off an error.

After Katz attempted to steal second, Flanders scored. Spizizen praised the Eagles’ defense, but noted that the offense needed work. “our defense is really gelling,” Spizizen said. “our team is really coming together [on that side]. [on offense], we just need more time to prepare on our timely hitting. the power is there and it should come together.”

After a successful weekend, the Eagles have boosted their record to 4-2. they return to action Feb. 24 to host Covenant College (Ga.) in another doubleheader.

— Contact Anirudh Pidugu at anirudh.pidugu@emory.edu

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Alice Chen Proud of ‘Baby’ Brother’s Bronze Medal Continued from Back Page Nathan Chen saw his first glimpse of olympic glory when his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, hosted the 2002 Winter olympic Games and his sisters Alice and Janice Chen danced in the opening ceremony.

Despite a 10-year age gap, Alice Chen said she has always been “protective” of her brother, the youngest of five siblings, which made it difficult for her to watch him suffer uncharacteristic mistakes in his first two olympic performances.

After he nailed the first quadruple flip ever performed in an olympic event during the team short program Feb. 8, Nathan Chen turned his quadruple toe loop into a double and fell on his triple axel, scoring a disappointing 80.61. Despite the stumble, he managed to place fourth that day but fell to an unsatisfying 17th place during the men’s individual event Feb. 15.

“As a sister, it was hard to watch because my hope for him going into this was just for him to enjoy the experience of being at his first olympics, regardless of outcome,” Alice Chen wrote. “Getting here alone is an incredible thing that few people are able to accomplish — I wanted him to recognize that and be proud of himself.”

As Alice Chen watched her “baby” brother compete on the world’s biggest stage, she said she expressed “literally every emotion that exists.” those emotions became “excitement, pride [and] this feeling where it’s like your heart is about to burst” when Nathan Chen put blade to ice for the men’s free skate Feb. 16. His roughly 4.5-minute free skate program shattered records as he performed six quadruple jumps — a lutz, two flips, two toe loops and a salchow. He earned a first-place finish that afternoon with 215.08 points, scoring almost nine points ahead of No. 2 Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan.

“Everybody in my family texted him immediately, freaking out — all caps,

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Nathan Chen (Center), Alice Chen(Left) and older brother Colin Chen (r ight) skate at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex. emojis everywhere — and he was so casual about it,” Alice Chen wrote. “He texted the group chat, ‘thanks guys’ — no punctuation, no caps. … But that’s just how he is; he’s humble, and while the rest of us think of him as superhuman, he’s just human.”

“When he’d let go of the pressure and the expectations, he was able to skate lights out.”

— Alice Chen (12C) Nathan Chen’s seemingly superhuman talents triumphed over a tough grading scale. Figure skating’s International Judging System (IJS) weighs a skill’s difficulty with its execution. Everything from the number of spins a figure skater performs to the position of their leg affects their score.

With clean lines and massive difficulty, Nathan Chen’s record-breaking showing slated him fifth overall in the men’s competition, raising his short program position by 12 places.

Hanyu, men’s figure skating champion of the 2014 Winter olympic Games, took home gold, with team-

mate Shoma Umo and Spain’s Javier Fernandez claiming second and third place, respectively.

As a world-class athlete, Nathan Chen’s hectic olympic schedule did not allow for much time with his family.

When Alice Chen and her siblings saw him between practices, they served as an escape.

“We were sort of a break from everything that comes with being at the olympics,” Alice Chen wrote.

Nathan Chen entered this olympic year as the reigning two-time U.S. Figure Skating men’s champion and International Skating Union (ISU) Grand prix of Figure Skating Final gold medalist.

“He’s at the forefront of evolving figure skating,” Alice Chen wrote. “obviously we saw the pressure [affect] him in the team event and during the short program in the individual event … When he’d let go of the pressure and the expectations, he was able to skate lights out — and skate for himself.”

Alice Chen majored in English and served as the executive editor of the Emory Wheel her senior year. Her younger brother walks away from the 2018 Winter olympics with a team bronze medal, the redemptive title of “Quad King” and a family of ferocious supporters.

— Contact Nicole Sadek at nicole.sadek@emory.edu

Cheng Wins Third UAA Swimmer of the Year for Third Consecutive Year Continued from Back Page Gordon said. “I found a long time ago in swimming that, if you swim for yourself and to just get times and get on the podium, you end up falling short of any goal you have. If you find a way to make it about your teammates … it makes it all so much easier.”

Gordon also anchored Emory’s champion 800-yard freestyle relay team, which was led by junior Alex Kohlman and followed by junior Matt rogers and freshman Kellen Stillman.

“Before any of us step up on a block for a relay, your mind knows that we were chosen to be on that relay and represent Emory,” Gordon said. “It’s not just any other race. Being up there, not just with the three guys on that relay with me, but having my parents and seeing some of my friends up in the stands … that moment before I dove in is going to stick with me for a while.” the women’s UAA Swimmer of the Year award also went to an Emory swimmer, senior Cindy Cheng, who earned the award for the third consecutive season. She is the third woman in UAA history to accomplish the feat, according to Emory Athletics.

“I am really happy that my hard work has paid off,” Cheng said. “[But] even though all of the accomplishments that I did at this meet were awesome, I am definitely still shooting higher and trying to go win at Nationals as well.”

Cheng left no stone unturned in her final UAA Championship meet, touching first in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:47.94 and sweeping the backstroke events, going 54.16 in the 100 and 1:57.87 in the 200. She

set UAA records in all three races.

She also contributed to victories in the 200-yard and 400-yard medley relays and the 400-yard and 800-yard freestyle relays.

For both teams, the freestyle events were largely an Emory heyday. In the 50-yard freestyle, junior Fiona Muir claimed first with a time of 23.05, good enough to break her own UAA record of 23.12, followed closely behind by junior Meg taylor at 23.38. the 100-yard freestyle may have been the greatest stunner, with Muir and taylor going one-two yet again, followed by seniors Ming ong, Julia Wawer and sophomore Caroline olson, giving the Emory women a first through fifth place sweep in the event. that dominance also showed in the freestyle relay events, with the Emory men and women reaching the top of the podium in each of the 200-yard, 400-yard (another UAA record) and 800-yard freestyle relay events.

Senior oliver Smith swam his final UAA Championship meet in great form, winning the 50-yard freestyle in a time of 19.93, the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 44.53 (a UAA record), and second in the 100-yard butterfly, just 14 hundredths of a second behind Washington University in St. Louis’ junior Andrew pek.

Likewise, senior rebecca Upton closed out her final chapter in the UAA with an incredible, albeit exhausting, performance. on thursday, Upton finished No. 3 in the 500-yard freestyle behind teammates Cheng and turcanu, then swam both the mile and the 200 butterfly on Saturday. She finished second in the mile behind teammate

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Emory dominates the freestyle events at the UAA Championships Feb. 14-17 at the WoodPEC. Both men’s and women’s teams swept the 200, 400 and 800-yard freestyle relays. junior Julia Durmer before she claimed victory in the 200-yard fly with a time of 2:03.06. “the [200 butterfly] has always been my favorite and has always been the most challenging mentally, for me,” Upton said. “I honestly think it would have been a best time had I not swam the mile earlier in the day. I hit the 150 and I was like ‘Man, I think I’m going like a pace for a 2:01,’ and I was, and then I started on that fourth 50 and I was like, ‘oh God, there go my legs, there go my arms.’”

Upton’s results speak to another facet of this meet: Emory athletes often find themselves battling one another for the top spot in their events.

“As much as it is great to be part of a team that is really successful, a lot of the success is due to how close we are,” Kushner said. “As much as we care about winning, we just honestly want everyone to do their best, and I feel like this weekend we did.”

other strong finishers included sophomore Sage ono, who won the 100-yard backstroke, and junior Ashley Daniels, who touched first in the 100-yard senior and second in the 200-yard. on the men’s side, Cooper tollen finished No. 3 in the 200-yard breaststroke.

With two decades of consecutive UAA titles to consider, the meet results were a celebration of both the current team’s accomplishments as well as the accomplishments of the many Emory athletes that came before them. “that first group [in 1999] contributed to what this group did, and every team in between has kind of added something to it and moved things forward a little bit more,” Head Coach Jon Howell said. “When you start looking at it being 20 years, it’s much bigger than this current team, though this current team has added something that future generations will also benefit from.”

on top of the team’s other successes, the Emory University coaching staff composed of Howell and assistant coaches Bobby Hackett, Cindy Fontana, Chris Marshall and John petroff earned Men’s and Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year honors at the conclusion of the weekend.

Emory swim will suit up again for a last-chance qualification meet, the Queen’s Invitational, in Charlotte, N.C., Feb. 23-24. the 2018 region II Diving Championships will take place March 2 and 3 in San Antonio, texas, before the season’s conclusion at the 2018 NCAA DIII National Championships in Indianapolis, Ind., March 23-24, when the Eagles will try to defend their titles.

Editorials Page Editor Madeline Lutwyche is on Emory women’s diving team.

— Contact Kevin Kilgour at kkilgou@emory.edu

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of the game more.”

In the end, Emory failed to make a comeback due to losing key battles on the glass.

“Down the stretch, there were [a] couple times where we gave up too many second chances,” oldshue said. “[Head Coach Misha Jackson] always says we have lost when the rebound margin is close or we are behind in it.

It was more things we could have done earlier than final plays, in retrospect.”

Emory’s balanced effort on both ends of the floor defined the game against Brandeis.

“Against Brandeis, we were a pretty balanced team,” oldshue said. “[Sophomore guard] Allison [Chernow] was shooting well and Erin [Lindahl] was playing really hard. [Sophomore guard] Safiya [Dzotsi] is always playing hard. It was a good balance compared to games we’ve had this year.” trailing by four at the half, the Eagles responded by taking a commanding eight-point lead going into the fourth quarter. the 12-point swing proved critical in pulling out a 57-50 victory.

“We took the aggressor role in the second half to control the tempo and make them defend all the options we have in our offense,” oldshue said.

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Sophomore guard Allison Chernow (Center) skies for a layup in the Eagles’ defeat against New York University Feb. 16.

“It was partly a toughness piece more in the second half then we had in the first.” the team addressed ball security between the games. the significantly lower turnover margin proved to be a pivotal factor in their victory against Brandeis. Another key area was improving on the boards, which was a big factor in Emory’s loss against New York. the game against Brandeis also happened to be the final home game of the season for Emory. With no seniors on the roster, the Eagles faced an unusual scenario on what would have normally been the team’s senior day celebration. the team has

embraced its relative youth, and players believe it will benefit them moving forward.

“It doesn’t really impact us on a team dynamic perspective,” oldshue said, referring to the team’s lack of seniors. “We only have three upperclassmen. We definitely have a young team. It helps with confidence going into next year knowing everyone is returning.” the Eagles are set to close out their regular season at rochester University (N.Y.) Feb. 24 at 2 p.m.

— Contact Craig Supcoff at craig.supcoff@emory.edu

Bats Fail in Midweek Loss to Berry Rapp Breaks Emory’s

BASEBALL

By StePhen MAtteS Senior Staff Writer Emory’s bats went cold tuesday night in a 5-0 loss to Berry College (Ga.). Earlier this past weekend, the Emory baseball team went 1-1 in a back-to-back series on the road against the North Carolina Wesleyan College Bishops Feb. 18. Emory overcame a two-run deficit in the final inning of the first game to take home a 7-5 victory and fell to the Bishops 5-3 in the second.

After the split and tuesday night’s game, Emory’s record is now at 4-5. tuesday night, sophomore third baseman Christopher Stern amassed two singles, accounting for Emory’s only hits on the evening. Freshman pitcher Jack Moore put together a strong effort on the mound, allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits, no walks and three strikeouts in five and a third innings.

Emory triumphed in the first half of the two-game series, topping the Bishops 7-5. Sophomore pitcher richard Brereton started the game for the Eagles. After the Bishops blanked the Emory offense in the top of the first, Brereton gave up a solo shot in the bottom of the inning to give the Bishops a 1-0 lead.

Despite the solo blast, Brereton recovered and retired his next five batters. Emory struck back in the top of the third, grabbing a 3-1 lead. Stern put the Eagles on the scoreboard, bringing in a baserunner on an rBI double. Brereton tacked on two more runs with a base hit up the middle of the infield.

Emory maintained its 3-1 lead until the bottom of the fifth inning, when the Bishops bounced back with a fourrun inning. the Bishops’ barrage began with a leadoff single. During the ensuing atbat, the Wesleyan base-runner sophomore designated hitter Nick Beaver scurried to second base after a wildpitch and advanced to third base after another single. Unable to work out of the jam, Brereton balked, advancing the third-base runner across home plate.

Matters only became worse for Brereton. His day came to an end after two runners crossed home plate due to a throwing error from senior shortstop Nick Chambers.

Freshman pitcher Jared Gaer came in relief of Brereton and cleaned up the mess, retiring all three batters he faced in the inning and giving up only one more run on a sacrifice fly.

Barring a tie ballgame, the first game of the double-header was scheduled to end in seven innings since the Wesleyan stadium has no lights and the two games had to finish before dark.

Headed into the top of the seventh inning, the Eagles were up against the wall, down two runs with one last chance to bat. Emory rallied, matching Wesleyan’s four-running inning with one of their own.

“We’re talented and young, we just need experience as the season goes on.”

— richard Brereton, Sophomore pitcher Stern, senior first baseman Bubby terp and sophomore second baseman ryan Adelman all drove in runs.

Another Emory baserunner, Brereton, was brought home on a wild pitch.

Gaer kept the Bishops off the scoreboard in the bottom of the seventh and locked in Emory’s 7-5 victory. the Eagles met a different fate in the second game, falling to the Bishops 5-3.

Head Coach Mike twardoski said that it was difficult for the team to play a double-header after an intense day of traveling and a closely contested first game.

“We traveled eight hours to play a doubleheader and the guys got tired by the second game,” twardoski said. “In the first game we came out swinging well and our bats were great, but by the second game we didn’t have the same level of success.”

Senior pitcher Mack Wilkins started on the mound for Emory and lasted only two and two-thirds innings after giving up two runs on three hits and three walks.

After Wilkins’s start, five other Emory pitchers contributed to getting the team through five and a third innings.

Increasing their margin to five, Wesleyan added one run in the fourth and two in the fifth. In the meantime, Wesleyan’s starting pitcher junior J.D. Makauskas completed seven shutout innings, giving up four hits and a walk with six strikeouts. twardoski said the team should have competed better against Makauskas and utilized a more effective gameplan.

“We should have hit better and had better gameplans at the plate in the second game,” twardoski said. “[Makauskas] was a fine pitcher, but we could have easily hit him better than we did since nothing he did was overwhelming.” the Eagles decreased the deficit in the top of the eighth, scoring three runs on three hits from Brereton, Stern and terp.

Despite the three-run eighth inning, the Eagles could not to replicate that success in the top of the ninth and lost the game 5-3. twardoski said the team needs more contributions from the bottom of the batting order to complement the success of the leadoff hitters. “our players at the bottom of the order have to string some better at-bats together,” twardoski said. “they’re swinging out of the strike right now, but they’re capable of putting some good at-bats together to bring us back to the start of the lineup.”

Sophomore pitcher richard Brereton said although the Eagles have had a lackluster start, the team is gaining valuable time on the field.

“We’re improving every game and playing well as a time,” Brereton said.

“We’re talented and young, we just need experience as the season goes on and we’ll keep improving.” terp, Stern and Brereton are Emory’s three most productive hitters thus far. together they have accumulated more than half of the team’s rBIs. Stern leads the team with a .528 batting average and has tallied the most rBIs with 16. the Eagles have a week off before they are scheduled to play Birmingham Southern College (Ala.) Feb. 28.

Associate Editor Brian Taggett is a pitcher on Emory’s baseball team.

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

All-Time Assist Record

Continued from Back Page Matt Davet also proved their prowess on the court, contributing 13 points and 11 points, respectively.

But the night belonged to senior guard Whitt rapp, who recorded 11 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds to make Emory history.

With 17 minutes left in the second half, rapp’s assist to junior forward Beau Bommarito broke Emory’s all-time assist record, besting former guard Austin Claunch’s (12C) record of 580. rapp stands alone at 583 career assists after Friday’s match.

“Breaking the assist record ... was so special to me because it wasn’t just my award,” rapp said. “I’ve been lucky enough to be surrounded by some unbelievable players over these last four years, and they have made my job easy. they’re the ones that make me look good.”

With 14 minutes left in the first half, the Violets held a five-point advantage over the Eagles, but after a 17-2 run, the Eagles never looked back.

Williams started the barrage by nailing back-to-back threes, while Davet added five points. Later in the half, Williams added three treys, bringing his first-half point total to 17 and helping the Eagles to a 50-36 edge at halftime.

During the second half, the Eagles maintained their offensive onslaught.

While NYU fought back with an eightpoint deficit on a couple occasions, the Eagles halted every chance the Violets had of coming back. With a 53-45 Eagle advantage and 18 minutes left, five consecutive points from Baitey and a Bommarito three-pointer pushed their lead to 16. After NYU cut the deficit back to eight points late in the half, an Eagle trey by rapp all but sealed the game.

Emory shot 50.7 percent from the floor and converted a season-high 16 three-pointers in one of their best offensive performances of the season. two days later, the Eagles proved once again that they were a force to be reckoned with when they defeated Brandeis on Emory’s senior day.

Davet led the Eagles with 22 points in only 18 minutes of action, while rapp continued to build on his assist

record, adding nine.

Meanwhile, senior forward Donald Avant, in his first career-start, provided a massive spark by posting a career-high 17 points on a perfect seven-of-seven from the field and adding a game-high eight rebounds in 18 minutes. reflecting on his past four years on the team, Avant said that he anticipated senior day as a special occasion that he celebrated with his family, who visited from out of town.

“Senior day is a day you think, as a freshman, will never come,” Avant said. “then you look back as a senior, and it feels like the last four years have happened in the blink of an eye. For me personally, it was a special day because it was my first career-start.” trailing 46-44 at halftime, the Eagles’ dexterity in the second half stole the win.

With the game knotted at 57 points each, the Eagles responded with a 10-0 run, featuring layups from Bommarito and Avant and a pair of threes by Davet, resulting in a 67-57 lead with nine minutes and 22 seconds left.

While the Judges drew close within nine points with less than six minutes left, late baskets by Baitey and Gigax sealed the Eagles’ victory.

In the second half, the Eagles held the Judges to a 29.6 shooting percentage, while shooting 51.7 percent in the decisive half. the Eagles’ seniors were able to finish their last regular season home game as winners.

“It was a great team win, and I’m glad we were able to close it off in the second half and get the win,” Avant said. “I could not have asked for a better senior day with my family, the three other seniors and the rest of my teammates.” the Emory Eagles (20-4 overall, 11-2 in UAA) tied the school’s secondhighest conference win total with the weekend’s victories.

Emory will close out their regular season with another conference matchup at the University of rochester (N.Y.) (16-8 overall, 7-6 in UAA) Feb. 24.

— Contact Joseph Oh at joseph.oh@emory.edu

The Emory Wheel

Sports

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 | Sports Editor: Kevin Kilgour (kkilgou@emory.edu)

WINTER OLYMPICS

SWIMMING & DIVING

Sister Cheers ‘Quad King’ By niCoLe SAdek Copy Chief

prepared to make up the points in the swimming events. A key contributor to that effort was junior tom Gordon, who dominated the distance freestyle events. His first-place finishes in the 200-yard freestyle (1:39.34), 500-yard freestyle (4:28.65) and mile (15:34.65) were good enough to earn him the men’s UAA Swimmer of the Year award. “[Swimmer of the Year] represents, not myself, but the entire team,”

At 2 years old, U.S. olympic figure skater Nathan Chen watched his brothers play ice hockey and took a liking to the sport.

“But hockey skates don’t come in sizes as small as he needed at age 2, so he was put in figure skates,” his sister Alice Chen (12C) wrote in a Feb. 18 email to the Wheel. “the rest is history.”

Nathan Chen, 18, earned a bronze medal in the men’s figure skating team event and finished fifth overall in the men’s individual competition at the 2018 Winter olympic Games in pyeongchang, South Korea — but only after proving himself with a recordbreaking six quadruple jumps in the free skate.

Nathan Chen was slated as a definite medal contender prior to the Games, but stumbles in his first two olympic performances cast doubts in his audience’s minds. His comeback program stupefied the audience.

“It was definitely redemptive,” Nathan Chen wrote in a Feb. 18 email sent to the Wheel by Alice Chen. “I’m very happy to end my olympic experience with a long program like that.”

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The men’s and women’s swimming teams compete at the UAA Championships held at the WoodPEC Feb. 14-17. The two Emory teams won in dominant fashion, each claiming its 20th consecutive UAA conference crown.

Emory’s UAA Reign Hits Two-Decade Mark By kevin kiLgour Sports Editor

the last time Emory’s swimming and diving teams lost the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships, Bill Clinton was president, Google was merely an idea and Seinfeld was still airing new episodes.

With the opportunity to stretch their streak of titles to 20, Emory’s men’s and women’s teams each delivered at the Feb. 14-17 UAA Championships. the women dominated with 2049

team points, well ahead of No. 2 New York University’s (NYU) 1246 points. the men’s competition was a tighter race, with Emory’s 1725 points giving them a 206 point victory over second place NYU. Emory welcomed seven UAA rivals into the WoodpEC as hosts of the 31st annual UAA Swimming and Diving Championships. that hospitality did not extend into the pool, as Emory came prepared to take care of business. the week began with the one-meter diving competition, in which Emory

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Young Squad Lacks Consistency on Court

By CrAig SuPCoff Contributing Writer

Emory women’s basketball had two respectable performances over the weekend with a close defeat at the hands of New York University (NYU) Feb. 16 and a victory in a balanced effort against Brandeis University (Mass.) Feb. 18. the two games bring the Eagles to an overall record of 13-11, 7-6 in the University Athletic Association (UAA).

In the game against NYU, Emory looked to build on the success they had last weekend when they defeated Carnegie Mellon University (pa.) and Case Western reserve (ohio) on the road. the Eagles had three doublefigure scorers: Sophomore forward Erin Lindahl (11 points), junior guard Azzairia Jackson-Sherrod (12 points) and junior center Ashley oldshue (17 points) who also shot a perfect 4-4 from the charity stripe. Emory also received a big spark off the bench in what turned out to be a standout cameo appearance by sophomore point guard Hazel Carmona.

“Carmona plays the one or two guard for us,” oldshue said. “She scored seven points in two minutes in the first half, which was big for us.

We had a lot of trouble scoring on their defense where they pack the lane, which helped our guards get more space to attack the basket.”

After Emory fell into a hole at halftime, Emory lost in close fashion as the gap proved too much to overcome. the Eagles fell to NYU 63-58. the unrecoverable deficit in the game highlights a larger trend that oldshue said is an area upon which the team is looking to improve.

“We have struggled with cutting off [the] team’s momentum all season,” oldshue said. “We had some trouble scoring in the second, and they came out aggressive for the entire game. We have to be more aware of when a run is starting and try to cut it off earlier.”

Despite the Eagles’ deficit going into halftime, the team responded well to start the second half, giving themselves a chance down the stretch.

“We just started playing tougher and more [aggressively] to match their physicality,” oldshue said. “NYU is always a good hustle team with good physicality. We made a few offensive adjustments which helped. If we had started to build momentum earlier, [then] it could have changed the course

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freshman Katie Kushner provided the best result of any Emory diver at UAA’s. Her score of 450.2 points was good for second place in the event. She also finished No. 8 in the three-meter.

“I was really happy with my performance on one-meter, that’s kind of my favorite board and the one that I feel most consistent and confident on,” Kushner said. “It was my first real big college meet, so I feel very happy with how I ended up.” though the men’s team didn’t have any divers at the meet, they were well

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Freshman guard Romin Williams (r ight) attacks through contact in the Eagles’ home win against New York University Feb. 16. Williams led the team in scoring with 21 points.

Eagles Solidify Tournament Bid

By JoSePh oh Contributing Writer

the No. 7 Emory men’s basketball team garnered two victories against conference foes New York University (NYU) and Brandeis University (Mass.) over the weekend, improving its University Athletic Association

(UAA) record to 11-2. the Eagles checked NYU 96-85 with a recordbreaking performance from senior guard Whit rapp Feb. 16 and bested Brandeis 82-69 Feb. 18, making for a cheerful senior day celebration.

After a Jan. 19 road win over NYU, the Eagles dominated yet again in their offensive game over the Violets at

home Feb. 16.

Freshman guard romin Williams and junior guard Gebereal Baitey led the Eagles in scoring, posting 21 (7-13 shooting) and 20 points (8-12 shooting), respectively. Senior forward Adam Gigax and freshman forward

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