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Emory University’s Independent Student Newspaper
The Emory Wheel
Volume 99, Issue 2
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
IMMIGRATION
HURRICANE
Trump Orders Students Aid Harvey Relief Efforts DACA Phase Out By Christina yan Contributing Writer
Future of Undocumented Immigrants Up to Congress By alex klugerMan News Editor President Donald J. Trump is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) program that offers temporary immigration benefits to some undocumented immigrants, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday morning. Sessions announced Tuesday that Trump will “rescind” the DACA program, established by former President Barack Obama. The program will not expire until March 5, 2018, Sessions
said. Trump urged Congress to replace the policy in the interim, calling the wind-down period “window of opportunity for Congress to finally act” in a Sept. 5 White House statement. “I do not favor punishing children, most of whom are now adults, for the actions of their parents,” Trump said in the statement. “But we must also recognize that we are [a] nation of opportunity because we are a nation of laws. The president tweeted later Tuesday,
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“I didn’t sleep that night,” said Jamie Guillen (19C), who couldn’t help but feel guilty and worried as she lay in her safe bed at Emory while friends and family back in Houston, Texas, fought to survive the devastating Category 4 Hurricane Harvey. Devastation and guilt have become common threads over the past several days among Emory students from Texas, where Hurricane Harvey made landfall Aug. 25. After Hurricane Harvey’s destructive winds and rain tore through parts of the Lone Star State, entire neighborhoods sank underwater and families became separated from each other and their homes. Residents were forced to abandon their possessions, keeping only what they could fit on small rescue boats. “They lost everything,” both Guillen and Texas native Daniel Eshbaugh
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Category 4 Hurricane Harvey made landfall aug. 25 in Texas. (20C) said. Although Guillen and Eshbaugh were physically safe at school in Atlanta, they worried about the safety of their friends and family back home. Guillen, who resides in Houston, said she followed Zello, a smartphone app that functions as a walkie talkie,
for nearly the entire night Aug. 26. She and friends still in Houston used it to redirect help toward those that they knew were still stranded in flooded homes. Guillen recalled attempting to get
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GREEK LIFE
HISTORY
Examining Emory’s Past Amid Racial Tensions Nationals
Places Tri Delta on Probation
By niCole sadek Copy Editor
Outcries against the removal of a Confederate monument at the Charlottesville, Va., “Unite the Right” rally and tense discourse between Georgia state representatives have contributed to escalating debates in the South over Confederate symbols and their locations in modern society. In the face of the racial tensions exhibited in Charlottesville, Atlanta and other areas nationwide, conversations about the legacy of complex American history have led to an examination of the nation’s — and Emory’s — historical ties to slavery. Emory’s namesake, John Emory, “was from a prominent slave-owning family on the eastern shore of Maryland,” University Historian and Senior Advisor to the President Gary Hauk said, adding that most trustees and faculty members also owned slaves during the 1800s. Minutes from Emory’s Board of Trustees meetings in the 1800s note that the University often rented the labor of “colored” or “Negro” men and women from individual slave owners
By riChard Chess News Editor
deep coma for two or three days.” When students left to aid the Civil War’s Southern cause, the University closed for four years, and campus buildings were transformed
The national headquarters of Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta) has placed Emory’s chapter on probation and ceased all chapter activity, according to a Sept. 1 statement sent to the Wheel on behalf of Tri Delta Executive Office President Kimberlee Di Fede Sullivan. “Recently, we learned that members of our Alpha Omega Chapter at Emory University engaged in behaviors that do not align with our standards,” the statement said. Tri Delta Executive Office’s Director
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When students left to fight in the Civil War, emory University closed for four years. Thirtytwo Confederate soldiers are buried in the Oxford College soldiers Cemetery. for various purposes, including cooking in the dining hall, digging wells and constructing buildings, according to Hauk. Few and Phi Gamma Halls, located on the Oxford campus, are the only remaining buildings constructed by slaves, Hauk added.
Alexander Means, the fourth president of the College and the namesake of Longstreet-Means Hall, kept extensive diaries during his tenure, often mentioning his family’s slaves, writing in 1861 that the “little negro very ill (Harriet) has been insensible — with
PROTEST
Judge Extends Deadline to Indict Student Charged with Felony By niCole sadek and MiChelle lou Copy Editor and Executive Editor
An administrative judge granted the State of Ohio a 60-day extension for prosecutors to present a case to a grand jury and file an indictment against Deandre Miles (18C), who faces a first-degree felony charge of aggravated robbery after allegedly dis-
arming a police officer during a protest at a Pride parade in Columbus, Ohio, in June, according to court documents. The State has until Oct. 24 to file an indictment against Miles. The original deadline was Aug. 25. State officials have been “exercising their due diligence and conducting a thorough investigation,” which includes reviewing footage from several police officers’ body cameras and from bystander’s cell phones, the doc-
uments said. All defendants in criminal prosecutions have the right to a speedy trial, per the Sixth Amendment. If the judge had not granted the extension, the State would have had to drop its charges against Miles or present the case to a grand jury. Columbus police arrested Miles June 17 during a protest at the Stonewall Columbus Pride Parade and later charged the student with aggra-
vated robbery. Miles was released from jail after posting bond June 19. Anastasia Sydow, Miles’ attorney, denied the allegation. Miles wrote in a June 27 Facebook post that they had been charged with “a crime I did not commit.” The Robert W. Woodruff Scholar had been protesting violence toward LGBT people of color at the parade and allegedly jumped on a police officer’s back and reached for her gun
while she was arresting two other protesters, according to an account from Columbus Division of Police Officer Bradley Thomas. The officer kept her gun in its holster, according to a complaint filed by Thomas. Miles, who was released on bail June 19, had been handed a recognizance bond of $100,000, which is only to be paid if the defendant does
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