INDEX
Emory Events Calendar, Page 2
Police Record, Page 2
Story Snippet, Page 9
Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
Staff Editorial, Page 6
On Fire, Page 11
THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 94, Issue 14
www.emorywheel.com
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 DINING
Every Tuesday and Friday DEPARTMENT CHANGES
A MUSICAL MOMENT
DUC to Suspend Late Night Next Month
Institute Rejects Program Suspension
By Stephanie Fang News Co-Editor
By Evan Mah Editor in Chief
Dobbs University Center’s (DUC) Dobbs Market, the main dining service on campus, will remove its Late Night dining option for four days in November, starting on the 12th and ending on the 15th. This temporary suspension will serve as a trial run for an initiative by the Food Advisory Committee at Emory (FACE). In addition, the DUC will remain open until 10 p.m., two hours later than its current closing time of 8 p.m., in order to accommodate students who would have otherwise gone to Late Night. Depending on student feedback after this trial, the DUC may choose to permanently implement these changes. FACE co-chairs and College sophomores Michael Sacks and Karoline Porcello began developing this initiative as a response to what they felt was a significant amount of student dissatisfaction with the DUC’s current hours. “In the past year, people have been complaining that the hours for the DUC have been really bad,” Sacks said. According to Sacks, the DUC’s closing time has made it difficult for students in sports or clubs whose practices and meetings finish after 8 p.m. to “get a quality meal.” He noted that once the DUC closes, hungry students are limited to the WRec Room at Woodruff Residential Center and Zaya’s Mediterranean Restaurant, in terms of on-campus dining. “The reason we started these DUC changes is because we went around and surveyed people, and the number one complaint was the hours of the DUC,” Porcello remarked. “They’d come at 7:30 p.m. and [the DUC] would be closing down, and there weren’t many options.” As a result, Sacks and Porcello met with administrators from Emory Dining Services as well as Sodexo, Emory’s food provider, and devised these plans to change DUC dining hours. They also suggested that the DUC remove Late Night due to the fact that very few students took advantage of the food option. “When it comes down to it, Late Night attendance is really low — [approximately] 200 people a night, which is actually really bad,” Sacks commented, adding that he thought the hours for Late Night are also inconvenient for DUC employees. Sacks explained that many DUC employees use public transportation to commute to and from work. However, because Late Night cur-
Graduate students and faculty members in the Institute for Liberal Arts (ILA) formally rejected the recent suspension of their Ph.D. program, the Wheel has learned. Shortly after Dean of the College Robin Forman announced that the College would be suspending admission to graduate programs in economics, Spanish and the ILA in mid-September, faculty members of the ILA met with Forman and made the announcement. Kevin Corrigan, the director of the ILA, said in an interview with the Wheel that their graduate students first encouraged the rejection, feeling that the suspension hurt their chances in the job market and devalued their degrees. In an effort to support students and express their own discontent with the process behind the decision, faculty members acted “in solidarity” with the rejection. “We had no alternative but to say that we don’t agree with this [decision],” Corrigan said. Faculty members and students plan to exhaust all proper avenues for expressing grievances, according to Corrigan. Avenues include petitions within the Laney Graduate School (LGS) along with presenting their case to Forman and Lisa Tedesco, the dean of the LGS, the Governance Committee, the Faculty Council, humanities and social sciences chairs and the University Senate. Forman and the College have faced intense criticism for a process that, many say, lacked due process
See DUC, Page 5
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mory Jazz Combos perform on the Patterson Pavilion as part of the event “Jazz on the Green.” The evening outdoor event showcased works ranging form Duke Ellington to Wayne Shorter and Miles Davis. The event, which took place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 18, was held outside the Goizueta Business School.
POLITICS
Emory Ineligible to Host Presidential Debates By Jordan Friedman Associate Editor As Hofstra University prepared to host the second presidential debate on its campus last week, the school mobilized more than 250 student volunteers to aid in planning the event. Three hundred students who submitted their names into a lottery also received tickets to attend. Meanwhile, Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. offered about 80 courses this semester that focused on the 2012 election. In prepping for last night’s presidential debate, the school sponsored a variety of debate-related lectures and activities for students. The fact that many schools have hosted presidential and vice-presidential debates in the past several elections — and have sought extensive student involvement in the pro-
cess — might leave some University students wondering: why doesn’t Emory do the same? The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a non-profit organization that sponsors and produces the presidential and vice-presidential debates, selects venues to host presidential debates during each election. Emory has never served as a presidential debate site, according to Vice President for Communications and Marketing Ron Sauder. Two years prior to each presidential election, the CPD releases its site selection guidelines and application information, according to the CPD website. After receiving applications from venues — which typically include but are not limited to educational institutions — the CPD visits and assesses potential sites. The organization then announces the
ELECTION SERIES This Issue: A look at how the CPD determines venues for election debates. Next Issue: Professors, students react to last presidential debate.
debate hosts about a year in advance. In addition to Hofstra and Lynn, the CPD selected University of Denver and Centre College in Danville, Ky. to serve as presidential and vice-presidential debate sites, respectively, this year. While Sauder explained that the University reviews the CPD’s site selection guidelines every four years,
he added that administrators have concluded that “Emory’s campus does not match up well with the debate requirements.” The CPD application covers security, logistics and the size of schools’ facilities, according to the website. Specifically, this year’s application called for a 17,000-square-foot debate hall and parking space for up to 30 TV satellite trucks. CPD also required a media filing center adjacent to the debate hall for 3,000 journalists — in addition to a Media Satellite Parking Lot — and a facility of about 4,000 square feet to serve as a ticket distribution center. Debate sites must have approximately 3,000 hotel rooms nearby available for the day for the event as well as “adequate air and ground transporta-
See SAUDER, Page 5
See ILA, Page 5
CULTURAL AWARENESS
STUDENT LIFE
Campaign to Collect Bras for Charity By Minah So Staff Writer Sexual Assault Peer Advocates (SAPA), in collaboration with Feminists in Action (FIA) and Emory Women’s Center, will present the Bra Chain Campaign on McDonough Field Wednesday to provide support for women’s shelters in the Atlanta community. The campaign’s goal is to receive enough bra donations that they can hook all of the bras together into a chain that will stretch across McDonough Field on Wednesday. The initiative, started by the SAPA Vice President Brielle Scully, oper-
ates on the assumption that every woman has at least one bra in her closet that she does not use or that does not fit. “Domestic violence and women’s shelters often get clothing donations, but not a lot of undergarments,” said Lindsay Falkenberg, a member of SAPA and president of FIA. “We’re pushing the Emory community to provide support.” The chain will be displayed from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m., along with informational posters. SAPA and FIA members will be available to answer any questions that visitors might have. “We’re working not only to collect donations for a shelter, but also
to raise awareness about domestic and sexual violence,” Falkenberg continued. SAPA has been receiving donations every day, and is looking hopeful for the event. Falkenberg, who has two sisters, is donating 12 bras from home. Once the event concludes on Wednesday evening, the bras will be taken down and donated to the Partnership for Domestic Violence, “a local women’s shelter that deals with helping survivors of sexual assault get onto the right path,” according to Scully.
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he Emory Chinese Student Association aims to promote knowledge and awareness of Chinese culture on campus through events and programs.
See SAPA, Page 3
STUDENT LIFE ACADEMICS
Dryer Fire Prompts Student Poster Session Focuses on Strategic Plan’s Progress Evacuations at Clairmont By Anusha Ravi Staff Writer
The Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness sponsored a poster session, which took place in the Cox Ball Room on Monday. This poster session featured several different research posters correlating to various initiatives that form part of the University’s 10-year Strategic Plan. The posters demonstrated a wide range of faculty, student and staff research projects relating to topics
such as public health, religion, art history and architecture — all of which are subjects pertaining to the plan’s initiatives. The goal of the first ever poster session was to celebrate the accomplishments of the midpoint of the Strategic Plan, as the plan was implemented six years ago, Assistant Director of University Strategic Planning Ruth Leinfellner said. The Strategic Plan consists of several initiatives that aim to guide faculty and staff toward achieving the five goals of the Strategic Plan, according to the University’s
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Strategic Plan website. The five goals include obtaining a world-class faculty, an exemplary student body, an enriching cultural environment, a scholarly community as well as maintaining an efficient use of financial resources. In terms of academic areas of growth and expansion, the Strategic Plan allows for growth in areas such as religion, race, global health, predictive health and life sciences. One initiative, for instance, includes a program that intends to focus on religion, public health and spirituality.
“The Strategic Plan is the road map to achieve Emory University’s vision, and our vision is to become a destination university for faculty, students and staff,” said Makeba Morgan Hill, assistant provost for planning and accreditation. “Becoming a destination university is the best way to create positive change in the world.” To showcase the progress of the plan, the University decided to hold an event that would allow students, faculty and staff to display research initiatives taking place around
See FACULTY, Page 5
By Karishma Mehrotra Asst. News Editor Officials contained a fire in a dryer that occurred in the E Building at the Clairmont Residential Center on Monday morning. Students were evacuated, but no one was hurt, according to Assistant Dean for Campus Life and Director of Residence Life Andy Wilson. There was little damage as officials managed the incident in the apartment. They are still investigating
the cause of the fire. “Once the investigation concludes, Residence Life staff will work with our colleagues in Campus Services, including Director of Fire Safety Bridget Mourao, to take the appropriate steps,” Wilson wrote in an email. “We would like to thank the residents who evacuated during this incident. They responded appropriately and cooperated well with the DeKalb Fire Department.” — Contact Karishma Mehrotra at kmehrot@emory.edu
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