INDEX
Emory Events Calendar, Page 2
Staff Editorial, Page 6
Police Record, Page 2
Student Life, 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 15
www.emorywheel.com
Friday, October 25, 2013
Every Tuesday and Friday CONSTRUCTION
WHIMSICAL WEDNESDAY
Emory Point Phase II Construction Begins By Naomi Maisel Staff Writer
Nick Bradley/Features Editor
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onderful Wednesday was sustainability themed this week. Some of the booths included Emory’s Indian Cultural Exchange (ICE) which sold Indian clothes for charity and played Bollywood music at Asbury Circle. Emory’s radio station, WMRE, advertised for this Saturday’s Localsfest, an event that showcases Atlanta artists.
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Faculty Celebrates Anniversary of OpenEmory By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor Emory is celebrating International Open Access Week with a number of events in honor of the one-year anniversary of OpenEmory, a free database for faculty to publish their work. Emory’s database has logged 1,800 articles with more than 9,000 article downloads, according to an Oct. 16 University press release. Thus far, the University has hosted a faculty panel and two webcasts. The panel consisted of Emory faculty who discussed the effect of open access on scholarly communication. The two webcasts explored the positive impact of free digital availability of research results and a conversation with
Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Office of Scholarly Communications, respectively. According to Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian Melanie Kowalski, Suber is the “godfather of the open access movement.” Suber has been a long-time proponent of open access with the hope of eliminating access barriers and the expectation of payment. He argues that because scholarly journals do not pay authors, there is no loss of revenue in consenting to an open access agreement. The movement encourages unrestricted access to scholarly publications online, Kowalski said. She added that it gained momentum about five years ago with the advent of the
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy. The policy states that all researchers funded by the NIH must submit articles to the National Library of Medicine’s electronic database, PubMed Central, to be made available for public viewing no later than 12 months after publication. Panelists at Emory’s Open Access Week events weighed the costs and benefits of having an open access repository. During the faculty panel, some discussed the convenience of having the information available online. “It made us realize the web was an ideal tool for scientific communication,” said John Nickerson, vice director of research and professor
of ophthalmology at the Emory Eye Center. Nickerson, who has a number of articles published on PubMed, added that open access has increased the number of citations on articles. Kowalski noted that open access online makes it so that students and researchers from every country in the world can have access to these scholarly articles. The panelists also compared open access to subscription repositories like JSTOR and EBSCOhost. Rex Matthews, associate professor in the practice of historical theology in the Candler School of Theology, said peer review is equally important
See KOWALSKI, Page 4
Cousins Properties has implemented Phase II of construction at Emory Point in the space previously occupied by the Emory Inn, which was demolished in June of this year. The new buildings, which are expected to be completed spring of 2015, will include 307 apartment units and 40,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, according to Jason Frost, vice president of Cousins Properties. Mike Mandl, Emory’s executive vice president for business and administration, handled the planning and financial aspects of the construction. “The vision for Emory Point is to create an intellectually and socially vibrant campus edge to the north — one that fosters academic community,” Mandl said. Emory Point opened Phase I last fall. Phase II of Emory Point will provide housing, shopping and dining options for faculty, staff and students that are conveniently located near campus. Frost said that at this point in time he is unable to release specific information about the plans for future buildings. According to Mandl, the plan to develop the 15-acre site on Clifton Road was approved in 2007 or 2008 and involved building Emory Point in three phases, resulting in the demolition of the Inn for the second phase. He added that Phase I is complete. The site formerly occupied by the Inn, he said, will be about half the size of Phase I. “It was a little worse than a Holiday Inn but better than a motel,” college sophomore Juan Jose Pinto said about his stay at the Inn.
EMORY POINT TIMELINE 2008 to 2010 Construction postponed following the economic downturn
July 2011 Construction begins
December 2012 Emory Point businesses begin to open up
October 2013 Emory Point Phase II begins Pinto added that he is excited about the renovations and hopes to live in the Emory Point Phase II housing someday. On the other hand, college junior Abby Olinde spent a weekend at the Inn with her parents and, though she said she agrees Emory Point Phase II will be nice for students, she expressed confusion as to why the University would knock down the Inn when there are already so few hotels nearby. Yet, according to a 2009 University Press Release, 127 guest rooms and 6,000 square feet of additional meeting space were added to the Emory Conference Center Hotel in 2009, along with a bowling lane and parking garage. In a statement to the Wheel, Mandl wrote that the Conference Center expansions were intended to account for the number of rooms that had been lost from the demolition of the Inn.
— Contact Naomi Maisel at namaise@emory.edu
HEALTH SCIENCES
‘I’m Shmacked’ Smacks Emory
Study Tests Stem Cells For Heart Disease
By Dustin Slade News Co-Editor
By Harmeet Kaur Health Sciences Beat Writer
Two years ago, the first “I’m Shmacked” video was posted to YouTube and followed the students of Temple University as they ate pizza, threw back shots of alcohol and smoked marijuana. Since then, their Facebook page has garnered more than 88,000 likes and their videos have accumulated more than a million views. On Tuesday evening, the “I’m Shmacked” crew drove down to Atlanta as part of its fall college tour and hosted a party at the Atlanta nightclub Tongue and Groove to begin filming their Emory “I’m Shmacked” video. The “I’m Shmacked” videos have become “a movement,” Co-Founder Arya Toufanian said in an interview with the Wheel. “I’m Shmacked” announced the party on Twitter on Oct. 17 writing, “Emory. We’ll be putting a show on for you Tuesday night. More info [and tickets] coming soon.” The tweet was retweeted more than 100 times. Toufanian explained that friends from high school who are now in Greek life at Emory convinced him and Co-Founder Jeffrie Ray, who goes by “Yofray,” to add Emory as a
An Emory study makes strides in stem cell therapy for heart disease by introducing techniques that improve the lasting power and effectiveness of stem cells in the heart. Professor of Cardiology W. Robert Taylor and a team of researchers led the study, which was published in the
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Emory commemorated the opening of the new Woodruff Health Sciences Research Building during a dedication ceremony Thursday. The building, which is located on Haygood Drive, is five stories and is more than 200,000 square feet.
Dedication Ceremony Opens Research Building By Harmeet Kaur Health Sciences Beat Writer Emory celebrated the opening of the new Woodruff Health Sciences Research Building on Haygood Drive with a dedication ceremony Thursday. The 200,000-square-foot, fivestory building located will house laboratories for pediatric, cancer and drug discovery research, among other fields, according to a Oct. 22 University press release. More than half of the research conducted in the building is devoted to pediatric research, Holly Korschun, director of research com-
See TOUFANIAN, Page 5
munications in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and David Stephens, vice president for research in the Center, wrote in a joint email to the Wheel. Korschun and Stephens wrote that the remaining spaces in the building focus on cancer research led by the Winship Cancer Institute, drug discovery research led by the Emory Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology and genetics research led by the School of Medicine’s Department of Human Genetics. In addition, the press release notes that the new building will also house the research labs of Emorybased faculty in the joint Wallace H.
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Korschun and Stephens wrote that the new research building allows for the recruitment of new pediatrics research faculty and the expansion of joint programs between Emory and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). They also wrote that the building strengthened Georgia Tech and Emory’s joint Biomedical Engineering Department, and facilitated greater collaboration among biomedical engineers, pediatrics fac-
See NEW, Page 5
BUILDING TIMELINE June 2011 Construction begins following the demolition of Turman West residence hall
April 2013 Construction completed and researchers move into the building
October 2013 Emory holds dedication ceremony
Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA). Taylor and his lab began by testing stem cell therapy on rats that had undergone induced heart attacks. However, preclinical trials have shown that stem cells do not stay in the body long enough to prove truly effective. Taylor said his team sought a way to retain stem cells in the heart after they were delivered. Stem cells are “nature’s own transformers,” the Cleveland Clinic website says. Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can develop into different cell types. Under special conditions, they can take on the functions of cells from certain organs and tissues. In cases of heart disease, stem cells travel to the site of injury in the heart and secrete hormones to help the body rescue damaged tissue and perform the functions of heart cells. Emory Professor of Surgery Colin
See DAMAGED, Page 5
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