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A&E, Page 9
Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
On Fire, Page 11
THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 95, Issue 28
www.emorywheel.com
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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ADMINISTRATION
ADMINISTRATION
Committee Releases Results of Dept. Changes Review Board of Bylaws Need Revision but Forman Did Not Violate Them, Report Says By Arianna Skibell Editor-in-Chief The Process Review Committee (PRC), which formed last spring to investigate the decision-making process that determined the department changes announced in September 2012, has concluded that College Dean Robin Forman and his predecessor Robert Paul did not violate College Bylaws, according to a PRC report released yesterday. However, the official report, released to College faculty via email, also says that the current College Bylaws “do not contain clear and sufficient procedures for the closing, changing or reorganizing departments or programs.” The committee also concluded that communication errors occurred between the College
administration and the affected departments and programs. The report detailed several recommendations for moving forward, including a revision of the Emory College Bylaws to delineate a clear procedure for future department or program changes and a call for more transparency. In September 2012, the University announced the “phasing out” of the Visual Arts Department, the Division of Educational Studies and the Journalism program, as well as the suspension of admission to a few Laney Graduate School programs. Many students and faculty reacted to the announcement with rallies, the formation of #EmoryCuts and the filing of several appeals and grievances, which detail alleged Bylaw violations and discuss the position cuts and
departmental reassignments that will result from the plan. The PRC, which was established on March 19, 2013 after faculty voted at a meeting to create an independent committee last January, included five faculty members: Matthew Bernstein, professor and chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies; Oded Borowski, professor of Biblical Archaeology and Hebrew; Scott Lilienfeld, professor in the Department of Psychology; Fred Menger, Charles Howard Candler professor of Chemistry and Gordon Newby, Goodrich C. White professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and Chair of the PRC. According to the official report, the PRC attempted to evaluate the role of the Emory College Governance Committee (GovCom) as well as
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the College Financial Advisory Committee (CFAC) — the committee that helped Forman determine which departments and programs would be affected — by interviewing deans, members of the affected departments and programs, reviewing public records and minutes and reviewing written communications to the committee. “The committee worked very hard on its reports, and as a member of the committee, I participated in its interviews, deliberations and the production of the report,” Borowski wrote in an email to the Wheel. “Thus, needless to say, I am satisfied with the report and the conclusions included in it.” The Committee members said in the report that they attempted to look at both the pros and cons of the
department changes process in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of the process and recommend a more effective system for the future. “If anything has become clear to us,” the report says, “it is that greater faculty participation in governance and clearer, more effective communication between the Emory College Faculty and the College administration will alleviate, it not forestall, future difficulties of the sort we have recently experienced.” Although Forman wrote in an email to the Wheel that a balance must be struck between public and private discourse when making hard and important decisions. “The process we followed was
See PRC, Page 5
SPRINGING INTO MOTION
University Course Initiative Launches By Brandon Fuhr Senior Staff Writer Graduate and undergraduate students are sitting in the same classroom this semester to learn about the war on poverty, disease, America’s health care system and cross-cultural communications as part of four new courses this semester, offered through the University Course program. The University Course initiative is offered through the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE), a program to support and develop faculty members. According to the CFDE website, the idea behind the University Course program is that faculty and students from all the schools at Emory come together to learn and discuss an issue of common concern. The University Course started in 2011 with the course Methland and has since grown to include four new courses. The courses offered for spring 2014 include “Sick: Healthcare in the Modern Era;” “The War on Poverty and its Legacy: Assessing Fifty Years of Social Policy in America;” “Translating ‘America,’ Translating the ‘Other:’ CrossCultural (Mis)communications in an Age of Globalization;” and “The Commercial Neglect of Treatable Disease: A Global Health Perspective on Neglected Disease and Drug Development.” Donna Troka, Associate Director of the CDFE, wrote in an email to the Wheel that her office chose these four courses because they engaged various schools on campus and were on the cutting edge of academia. Some of the classes extend beyond the boundaries of the classroom. According to Troka, the students in the class about the War on Poverty will attend several field trips to differentiate poverty in urban, suburban and rural settings. While about 15 students attend each course, the professors will open up some events and class sessions to the larger Emory community, Troka wrote. Karen Stolley, professor of Spanish, is the convener for the new course about cross-cultural miscommunications. According to the course
See STOLLEY, Page 5
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tudents perform a dance routine at the Atlanta Spring Festival Gala, which took place this Saturday in Glenn Memorial Auditorium. The gala brought together talented Chinese students and scholars from the Atlanta area and included Kung Fu, dancing, professional band music, comedy and several other acts.
GREEK LIFE
Trustees Adds Two Members By Nick Sommariva Associate Editor
Shantella Carr Cooper and Timothy Rollins will join Emory’s Board of Trustees for six-year terms, the University announced last week. Cooper will be the Board’s newest alumni trustee and Rollins the newest term trustee. The Board of Trustees — which consists of 34 term trustees and up to Shantella 11 alumni trust- Carr Cooper ees — governs the University by (top) and Timothy establishing policy and exercising Rollins, fiduciary responwill join the sibility, accordBoard of ing to the board’s website. Trustees Cooper is the current vice president of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company and general manager of the company’s Marietta, Ga. facility. She serves as the aeronautics company’s vice president of business ethics and has occupied this position since 2011. Rollins graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He is the current vice president of the Rollins Investment Company in Atlanta. Before being appointed, Rollins served on the Emory Board of Visitors. According to Allison Dykes, vice president and secretary of Emory University, the Governance, Trusteeship and Nominations Committee of the Emory University
See DYKES, Page 5
ACADEMICS
Greek Life Adds 577 New Members School of Nursing to By Lydia O’Neal Greek Beat Writer Almost 500 female students, a nearly 9 percent increase from last year, braved the cold, lining up eagerly outside of Sorority Village for Intersorority Council (ISC) recruitment during the last two weekends. The Interfraternity Council (IFC), however, saw the number of recruitment participants drop from 408 to 332 students — about a 19 percent decrease — between 2013 and 2014. Of the 251 fraternity bids given, 180 students accepted them, down 18 percent from last year, when 322 bids were given and 223 were accepted, according to College senior and IFC President Jason Stern. New fraternity members may receive up to three fraternity bids — or invitations to join a particular chapter — while new sorority members may receive only one bid per student. “Although recruitment numbers were lower than in years past, I believe that most chapters are happy with the quality of their new member classes,” Stern wrote in an email to the Wheel. Numbers aside, 2014 IFC recruitment was an overall success, Stern said. “Run the Row was extremely successful again this year,” he wrote. “The fraternities always get very
excited, and we appreciate a strong showing from the sororities and the surrounding Emory community.” Run the Row is an event where new fraternity members run to their chosen houses at once. Stern added that each fraternity hosted two Sunday Night Dinners during the course of the semester, which “provided good opportunities for fraternities to meet freshmen students and for the guys to get a sense of what each chapter is like.” Participants of ISC recruitment, on the other hand, received a total of 403 bids, up about five percent from last year, when 385 bids were given. Nearly 400 accepted bids this year. About 81 percent of sorority recruitment participants were given bids, down about two percent from last year. Despite the increase, ISC Vice President of Recruitment and College senior Rebecca Rosen said she thinks the addition of a seventh sorority, returning chapter Sigma Delta Tau (SDT), could “even out” the disparities between pledge classes this year. “Overall, it will likely be a oneto-one ratio,” Rosen said, referring to the number of “bigs” and “littles” paired within each chapter this year, as opposed to multiple sorority members being assigned two “littles.”
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SPRING IFC RECRUITMENT 2014 2013
By Stephen Fowler Asst. News Editor
Participants 332 408 Bids extended* 251 322 Bids accepted** 180 223
SPRING ISC RECRUITMENT 2014 2013 Participants Bids extended Bids accepted
499 470 403 385 397 ***
*Bids extended: a single male student can receive up to three bids each one from a different fraternity. **Bids accepted: a single male student can only accept one bid to join a fraternity. ***Information not reported
SDT’s national chapter halted the Emory chapter’s recruitment last year because of its small chapter size, vacating Eagle House F as members graduated. During the fall 2013 semester, however, the chapter engaged in a recruitment revamp in an effort to fully participate in 2014 ISC rush and reestablish SDT at Emory, according to Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life President Megan Janasiewicz. “I think that they’re a really strong
See ISC, Page 5
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is launching a new Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) program in fall 2014, the only one of its kind in the state of Georgia, according to a Jan. 17 University press release. NNPs are a special group of registered nurses who are trained as primary, acute and critical care advanced practice nurses, said Terri Marin, interim specialty coordinator for the program. The School of Nursing previously offered a similar NNP track until 1998, when a lack of faculty forced the program to close, according to Marin. The program is four consecutive semesters in length and requires 780 hours of clinical practice at all Emory-affiliated neonatal intensive care units and outpatient clinics, according to the University press release. Registered nurses who graduate this specialty master’s program become skilled in performing comprehensive assessments, diagnostic evaluations and symptom and disease management for babies and infants up to age two, according to Marin.
NEONATAL NURSE PROGRAM The program is the only one of its kind in Georgia
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS - four semesters - 780 clinical hours In addition to those responsibilities, the NNP program focuses on health promotion, ethical considerations, parental counseling and education to promote optimal infant and toddler development, Marin said. According to the program website, students learn multiple aspects of advanced nursing practice from an evidenced-based approach, including the roles of educator, researcher, consultant and advocate. Marin said a combination of workforce needs, community needs and national assessment led to the rebirth of the track. “Statistics show a supply to demand deficit [in NNPs] that is only growing larger,” Marin said. “The opportunity for NNPs to fill this void neonatal care is evident.”
— Contact Stephen Fowler at smfowle@emory.edu
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