INDEX
Emory Events Calendar, Page 2
Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
Staff Editorial, Page 6
Police Record, Page 2
Arts & Entertainment, Page 9
On Fire, Page 11
THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 94, Issue 32
www.emorywheel.com
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 FINANCES
Every Tuesday and Friday SPEAKER
A CHINESE NEW YEAR
Tuition to Increase By 2.5 Percent
Rita Dove Selected to Speak at Graduation
By Elizabeth Howell Associate Editor
By Jordan Friedman Associate Editor
The total cost of tuition, fees and room and board for students enrolled in Emory College of Arts of Science will increase by 2.5 percent for the 2013-14 academic year. At a meeting on Feb. 8, the University’s Board of Trustees increased undergraduate tuition from $42,400 to $43,400 — making the total cost of tuition, fees and room and board $56,470, according to a Feb. 8 University press release. This year’s increase was smaller than in the past three years, according to Executive Vice President for Academic Affair and Provost Claire Sterk. Tuition increased by 4.1 percent in the 2012 to 2013 school year, 4.7 percent in the 2011 to 2012 school year and 2.9 percent in the 2010 to 2011, Sterk said. Although most schools have yet to announce next year’s increases, Washington University in St. Louis has said it will increase its tuition rate by 3.8 percent and Princeton by 3.9 percent, according to Sterk. But, these numbers do not include increase in price of fees and room and board, which are included in Emory’s 2.5 percent increase, she said. She added that more schools will announce their increases in tuition in the coming months. Sterk said that the University weighs multiple factors when determining the price of tuition. “The main goal is to find the right balance between keeping increases minimal and being fiscally responsible in order to maintain high quality
tant to motivate professors to delve into the issue of inclusiveness, to make students feel welcome and comfortable in the classroom and approaching their professors. A potential advocacy committee or task force should promote both awareness of social and economic inequalities and action, according to a general consensus reached during break out committees. Specifically, participants in the forum noted that an advocacy committee would address oppression through three goals: awareness of repression, training students and faculty and responding to issues of repression and privilege. According to College senior and
Rita Dove, a former U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, will address the Class of 2013 at this year’s Commencement ceremony on May 13, the University has announced. Currently the Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995. She was also the special consultant in poetry for the Library Photo by Fred Viebahn of Congress from Rita Dove, 1999 to 2000 and former U.S. Poet Laureate the poet laureate of and PulitzerVirginia from 2004 to Prize winner, 2006. will address Dove has received the 2013 several awards and graduates. honors for her work, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for her book of poems, Thomas and Beulah. President Obama honored Dove with the 2012 National Medal of Arts, which recognizes artists and arts patrons for their contributions to the growth, availability and support of the arts in the United States. Dove earned the National Humanities Medal — the nation’s highest honor for writers and scholars — in 1996 from former president Bill Clinton, making her the first poet to receive both of these accolades. Dove additionally received
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mory Arts hosted a free Chinese New Year’s celebration on Sunday afternoon as part of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Family Concert Series. At the event, the Vega String Quartet and the Emory Chinese Music Ensemble (above) joined in the celebration of the Year of the Snake at the Carlos Museum Reception Hall.
ACTIVISM
Second ‘Dooley Show’ Forum Addresses Intolerance By Elizabeth Bruml Staff Writer Student leaders and members of the Student Task Force on Diversity called for recommendations on improving inclusion and an action plan to address issues of diversity on Emory’s campus Monday evening. The event, titled “A Community Responds: Building a Community Together,” was sparked by offensive content on the Dooley Show and released on YouTube last semester. According to Assistant Dean for Campus life and Director of the Office of Student Leadership and Service (OSLS) Matt Garrett, the purpose of the forum was to assemble a list of student-driven recommendations for campus life, student govern-
ment and the community at large. Monday’s forum consisted of an introduction by College seniors and task force members Bukie Adebo and Brian Fuller, followed by six breakout group discussions, an overview of each group’s ideas, and concluding remarks by Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair. The topics for the group discussions included brainstorming ideas for student-driven advocacy teams on racism and on broader oppressions; academic changes concerning coursework and faculty; training programs that promote inclusion for leaders of student organizations and Greek life; ways in which to report issues of bias; and recommendations to improve the inclusiveness of physical spaces at Emory.
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Both students and faculty members offered recommendations during the forum. Christine Ristaino, senior lecturer in the departments of French and Italian, suggested that posters be put in every classroom reminding students and faculty of inclusive ways in which to engage with one another. Ristaino continued to comment on the importance of University-wide faculty training programs on inclusion and diversity. “I personally want more of that training,” she said. She elaborated that training would create more of a safe space in the classroom in which different ideas can coexist. Ashish Gandhi, College senior and Student Government Association (SGA) President, said that it is impor-
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EVENT
Univ. Ranks No. 16 in Lectures Endowment Returns Featuring Paul Simon Postponed By Lydia O’Neal Staff Writer
James Crissman/Asst. Photo Editor
In celebration of Campaign Emory’s success, Emory installed 29 blue plastic chairs on the railing in the Dobbs University Center. Each chair represents an endowed faculty position created by the campaign.
Campus Art Celebrates Campaign Emory By Elizabeth Howell Associate Editor Twenty-nine blue chairs hang in midair, suspended from a railing in the Dobbs University Center. This temporary creative installment, mimicked across campus in the atrium of the Math and Science Center, pays tribute to the 29 endowed faculty chair positions that Campaign Emory has created. Three similar installments cel-
ebrating the success of Campaign Emory are currently on display around Emory University’s campus. Campaign Emory, a seven-year fundraising effort that the University publicly announced in September 2008, has raised more than $1.69 billion, according to a Jan. 18 Wheel article. Senior Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations Susan Cruse said the exhibits “illustrate the impact of philanthropy in a
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visible way.” The second exhibit consists of a row of 24 books with their pages folded to read, “Information is not knowledge” — a quote made famous by Albert Einstein. The display, first shown at the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and which represents the campaign’s gifts to research, will rotate to different locations until mid-March, Cruse
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Emory defended its ranking of 16th-highest endowment market value among the 831 schools surveyed in a study recently released by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). The NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments (NCSE), released Feb. 1, has been conducted every year since 1974, Ken Redd, director of research and policy analysis at NACUBO, said. The study is used as an educational tool for the general public and policymakers to show how well schools have allocated their endowments, said Redd. For more than 20 years, Emory remained in the top 17 of the NCSE, peaking at fifth in 1998 behind the consistently first Harvard University, as well as University of Texas System in second place, Yale in third and Princeton in fourth. According to NACUBO, a membership organization and lobbying effort representing over 2,500 colleges, universities and higher education service providers, Emory’s rate of return on investments, 1.82 percent, exceeded the national average of negative 0.3 percent. The average rate of return for the 71 schools receiving over $1 billion in endowments was 0.8 percent. Emory Investments Managing
Director and COO Melanie Pickett said more up-to-date figures are even higher. While the NCSE compiled data until June 30, 2012, Emory’s fiscal year ended on Aug. 31, with a rate of return of 7.5 percent, above the Emory Investment Management portfolio benchmark return of 4.9 percent. “For the calendar year ending Dec. 31,” Pickett added, “our final results showed a rate of return of 13.8 percent above a portfolio benchmark return of 10.8 percent.” Emory’s endowment increased from $5.40 to $5.46 billion in 2012, largely a result of Campaign Emory, a seven-year philanthropy effort in which nearly 150,000 donors invested, according to the University website. The capital campaign, according to Pickett, “has benefitted and will continue to benefit the University in ways beyond market value of endowment, given that not all donors choose to create endowments with their gifts.” To some students angered by recent cuts to the visual arts department, journalism program, department of physical education, division of educational studies and economics and Spanish graduate programs, the results of the NCSE come as quite a surprise. Freshman Haley Elise Carley transferred to Ohio State this semes-
Those who had originally planned on attending the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature featuring musician and songwriter Paul Simon from Sunday through Tuesday will now have to re-register and get new tickets at a later date. According to a Feb. 8 Universitywide email announcing the change, Simon’s representatives informed the University Friday that he had the flu. The Ellmann Lectures have been postponed to a later date, to be announced. For the Emory community, the series was highly anticipated. Tickets — limited to two per person, per event — went on sale on Dec. 3 and sold out in record time. Due to “scheduling uncertainties at this time,” existing tickets “will not be honored for the new dates,” according to the email. Updates will remain available on the event website, emory.edu/ellmann. Simon had originally planned to
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See LECTURE, Page 3
By Jordan Friedman Associate Editor
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