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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

BRIARCLIFF MANSION PROPOSAL

SECURITY REPORT

Reported Campus Rape Cases Drop

Annual Security Report Details 2015 Statistics, Univ. Policies

By JacoB Durst Breaking News Editor

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resident and Founder of Republic Property Co. Jerry Daws shares preliminary plans that proposed the development of Briarcliff Mansion into a hotel and culinary destination.

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DINING

Univ. Begins Work on DUC’ling

By Lauren BaLotin Staff Writer

Construction of the DUC’ling, the interim dining facility between the tearing down of the Dobbs University Center (DUC) its replacement with the new Campus Life Center (CLC), began two days ago at the courtyard in front of the Woodruff P.E. Center (WoodPEC), according to Assistant Director of Campus Dining Chad Sunstein. Site work on the DUC’ling will last until February 2017, Senior Director of Emory Dining Dave Furhman said, adding that interior work will take place April 2017.

The DUC’ling’s construction will be finalized immediately after com-

mencement in May 2017, Furhman said.

Demolition of the DUC will begin following the DUC’ling’s completion.

The DUC’ling’s construction was slated to begin January 2016, but was postponed until October 2016 “to make the transition less complicated and disruptive for [the Emory] community,” Furhman said. “Projects of this scope and size run a very fluid schedule in the early planning stages.”

Pedestrian traffic will be redirected to circumvent Asbury Circle instead of passing through it because of construction delivery traffic, Emory’s Program Manager of Design and Construction Charles Rossignol said.

There will be safety personnel to

flag incoming vehicles in the construction area around Asbury Circle, he added.

The DUC’ling layout will be more efficient than that of the current DUC, with approximately 500 seats and only one level, Sunstein said.

Preparations for CLC construction will begin as early as Fall 2017, with completion projected for Summer 2019, according to Director of the DUC Benjamin Perlman. He noted that the timeline for the CLC construction may change.

The DUC’ling’s budget has been continually modified through the design phase and will be modified further as the project continues, Furhman said.

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Reported cases of rape on Emory’s campus dropped over 80 percent from 2014 to 2015 while drug-related arrests on campus more than doubled in the same time period, according to Emory’s 2016 Annual Security Report released last Friday. The report also details Emory’s various University policies.

While 25 on-campus rapes were reported in 2014, four on-campus rapes were reported in 2015.

Emory reported 13 on-campus rapes in 2013.

Lynell Cadray, associate vice provost for equity and inclusion, said that it was difficult to pinpoint what caused the drop from 2014 to 2015.

“We’d like to attribute it to all the great work we’re doing, but we can’t underestimate the lack of reporting that exists on campus,” Cadray said.

“It’s very intimidating for any student to even think about reporting, but we’re trying to make sure that we’re developing processes that make students feel comfortable doing so.”

Last year’s Campus Climate Survey indicated that Emory has an issue with under-reporting, Cadray said.

According to the survey’s responses, around 61 percent of sexual assault

victims report their assaults.

For that reason, Sexual Assault Peer Advocates (SAPA) Co-president and College senior Jocelyn Hong said the drop in reported incidents is more concerning than reassuring.

“Studies say that when sexual assault totals are close to zero, there’s usually a lot of under-reporting,” Hong said. “I think the drop represents a red flag more than anything else.”

Hong and SAPA Co-president and College senior Emma Kern agreed that increased education and resources can help address a campus culture that creates an unfriendly environment for reporting sexual assault.

Kern believes education would best alleviate the culture of intimidation surrounding sexual assault.

“Intimidation about the process comes from a lack of knowledge about the rights and processes involved in reporting,” Kern said. “By helping students better understand the process, I think survivors would feel more comfortable reporting.”

For the most part, Cadray and Judith Pannell, Emory’s Title IX coordinator for students, agreed with Hong and Kern. Cadray and Pannell have made increased Title IX education their goal for this year.

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HEALTHCARE

Emory, UNC Partner to NIH Funds Pediatric Research Create Research Center

By Joshua Lee Contributing Writer A joint center for research headed by Emory University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) will be created with an $18 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over the next five years.

Though the UNC/Emory Center for Innovative Technology (iTech) will not have a physical location, the collaborative research effort will allow seven institutions to study HIV prevention and suppression in adolescents through hosting and managing various technology-themed research projects.

All studies will be managed and led by Rollins School of Public Health Professor of Epidemiology Patrick Sullivan and UNC School of Medicine Associate Professor Lisa HightowWeidman. Sullivan and HightowWeidman said they will to launch the iTech website as soon as possible.

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The goal of the research is to develop and provide HIV prevention resources that are more easily accessible to members of the younger population, Sullivan said. She and Hightow-Weidman plan to conduct six HIV-related research projects and to create apps and websites that help HIV-positive and at-risk individuals maintain a medication regimen. Such routines could include Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and other HIV prevention medication, scheduling diagnostic appointments and informing individuals about HIV testing and prevention resources.

“If we can find a website or a mobile app that is effective in helping young gay and bi men reduce their risk of HIV, we can then … reach a high number of men at a low incremental cost,” Sullivan said. With limited resources being allocated to competing health priorities such as

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[the] prenatal and perinatal studies as they [age] out of infancy,” Brennan said. Emory will study prenatal stress, environmental toxicants that impact fetal development and the microbiome, the microorganisms of a body.

Emory’s cohort, consisting entirely of African American mothers and children, will provide data on a group that “has typically been underrepresented in research to the table,” Dunlop said.

The study already has nearly 325 women enrolled and is currently enrolling almost 50 of their infants in the study, according to Dunlop.

Every institution will pool data from all cohorts to create a single nationwide cohort, which will provide data on both similarities and differences between and within populations, Dunlop said.

In addition to looking at how racial discrimination affects the health of African Americans, Emory will study how environmental risk factors, such as lead exposure and nutritional deficits, can impact biological processes, including the immune system, influ-

Several Emory schools will receive part of a $157 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct research on the effects of environmental exposures on children’s health for a nationwide study in collaboration with other institutions, according to Associate Research Professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Anne Dunlop.

Emory, alongside 30 other universities and research institutions including Dartmouth College (N.H.) and University of California, Berkeley, will participate in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program, a seven-year initiative to research environmental exposure’s effects on children’s health, according to a Sept. 21 NIH press release. During the study’s first two years, Emory will receive $2.48 million from the NIH, Dunlop said. After two years, NIH will evaluate each facility to determine whether its initial goals have been met, in which

case it will receive a five-year award for nearly $14 million to continue the research, according to Associate Dean for Research at the School of Nursing Elizabeth Corwin.

Various sectors of the University will collaborate on the research, including the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory College of Arts and Sciences’ Psychology Department, the Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory School of Medicine, Corwin said.

Dunlop will be the principal investigator for the project alongside Corwin and Professor of Psychology Patricia Brennan.

NIH awarded funds to institutions with existing pediatric cohorts — groups of research subjects — to further current research and to “add more sophisticated testing to what [institutions] have already been doing,” Corwin said.

Emory will build upon its existing children’s health research, such as the Maternal Microbiome Project, the Epigenetics of Preterm Birth Project and the Infant Microbiome Project and “continue to follow children from

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congress overriDes pres. veto

KennesaW, Ga. — Reports that Emory alumnus Sam Olens (83L) may become Kennesaw State University president were met with resistance from students, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 11Alive reported that the students organized a protest and drafted a petition Monday because of Olens’ previous defense of Georgia’s gay marriage ban and his lawsuit against the federal government over the transgender bathroom initiative.

WashinGton, D.C. — Congress overturned President Barack Obama’s veto on a 9/11 victims bill Friday, according to The Washington Post. The override was the first in Obama’s twoterm presidency.

The bill, which had a 97 to 1 vote in favor in the Senate and a 348 to 77 vote in the House, will allow victims of the 9/11 attacks’ families to file claims against Saudi Arabia. Congress told The Post that it is important that the victims’ families be allowed to pursue justice.

hurricane prompts evacuations u.s., russia haLt negotiations atLanta, Ga. — A state of emergency has been declared in 13 counties near Georgia’s coast as Hurricane Matthew makes its way to landfall later this week, according to AJC. The hurricane is expected to hit just east of Miami, Fla. Oct. 6 at 2 p.m., AJC reported. funDraising recorD Broken eMoRY — Winship Cancer Institute raised a record $880,000 for cancer research during its sixth annual Winship Win the Fight 5k Walk/Run Saturday. More than 3,000 individuals

WashinGton, D.C. — The U.S. formally suspended talks with Russia Monday in light of Russia’s involvement with Syria in the Aleppo bombings, according to The New York Times.

This decision increased the widening divide between U.S.-Russia relations, and Russian President Vladimir Putin withdrew from an arms control agreement with the U.S. Monday that called for the disposal of 34 tons of plutonium from each side, The Times reported.

— Contact Joshua Lee at

josh.lee@emory.edu

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Corrections •“Professor Wins Gold, Silver in Paralympics” incorrectly stated that Research Professor Cassie Mitchell won a gold and silver medal in the 2016 Paralympic Games instead of a silver and bronze medal.

•“Emory Looks to Join Atlanta Limits” incorrectly stated that DeKalb County Commissioner Jeff Rader speculated that Emory’s move was a way to seek increased transit funding instead of summarizing view presented at the meeting.

• In “DJ Rehab Attempts to Pump Up the Crowd,” the reviewer mistakenly identified a song as Calvin Harris’ “This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna).”

This song was not included in the set list.

SGA

Crime Report compiLeD By monica Lefton Contributing Writer On Sept. 28 at 3 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding suspicious activity at the Michael C. Carlos Museum loading docks. An Emory student reported that she had been standing behind the museum with her boyfriend when a man in a red minivan approached them. She told EPD the driver drove past them and then reversed toward them. He then opened his door and asked her to sit and smoke in his vehicle, and told them he was going to enter the museum, she told EPD. When the student refused the driver’s request, he got upset, slammed the door and drove away, she told EPD. The driver was described by the student as a white male in his late sixties, with thin gray hair. Multiple officers responded to the call to locate the vehicle, but they were unable to do so. The case has been assigned to a detective.

On Sept. 30 at 9:22 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding suspicious activity at 1462 Clifton Rd. An employee observed someone carrying what appeared to be a lifeless human body covered in a sheet. She said that something resembling feet dangled from

beneath the sheet, and that the suspect holding the body promptly recovered them and kept walking.

The employee captured a photo of the person in question. EPD checked the area but was unable to make contact with the suspect. A detective reported to the scene and has been assigned to the case.

On Sept. 30 at 5:16 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding criminal property damage at the Whitehead Biomedical Research Building. Officers arrived on the scene and made contact with research associates, who stated that someone broke the door of a MiSeq sequencer machine, which is used by Emory’s Rheumatology Department to sequence human cells. The machine is valued at $200,000 and the estimated repair cost of the damaged door is between $2,000 and $10,000. The case has been assigned to a detective.

On Sept. 30 at 11:27 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding possession of less than one ounce of marijuana at the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) house, located at 17 Eagle Row. A Campus Life employee had been conducting building checks when they smelled marijuana,

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approached the room from which the smell was coming and saw what they believed to be marijuana in a bong in the room.

EPD spoke with the room’s resident, who admitted that the green leafy substance belonged to him. The resident was issued a citation for less than an ounce of marijuana. Campus Life was notified.

On Oct. 1 at 1:08 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding underage alcohol consumption.

A student called from Clairmont Towers after being woken up by his roommate, a 19-year-old Emory student. The caller’s roommate had been crawling on his bedroom floor with bloodshot eyes and slurred speech.

The caller also discovered vomit on the floor. Emory Emergency Medical Services (EEMS) and DeKalb American Medical Response (AMR) arrived on the scene and decided the student did not need to be transported to the hospital. Emory Facilities Management’s Bodily Fluid CleanUp Team responded and cleaned up the vomit. Campus Life was notified.

— Contact Monica Lefton at monica.lefton@emory.edu

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Institute of Child Health and Human obesity epidemics and Zika concerns, Development, a branch of NIH which Sullivan stressed the importance of conducted a competitive selection procontinuing to develop cost-effective cess to determine where it would allotools that will reach a large population. cate the grant funds. “[NIH] invited all kinds of institu“We’d like to be able to use technoltions to propose a cenogy to prevent infecter, or a collection of tions in young people “We’d like to be able research projects with at risk, and for those to use technology to a theme, that would that are infected to ensure that they are prevent infections in address the issue of engaging in care and young people at risk.” HIV in adolescents, so we chose HIV focusthat they are taking on young men who ing antiretroviral — Lisa Hightow-Weidhave sex with men,” [drugs] to the point of man, associate professor Sullivan said. maximum viral supAccording to pression,” HightowWeidman said. Though the grant will Sullivan, the comprehensive, over be distributed over the next five years, 1,000-page application he and Hightow-Weidman hopes to see the Hightow-Weidman submitted scored center’s research applied in the public competitively and highly enough to receive approval for the five-year scope within the first year of the grant.

“We are hoping to be in the field by of work. early 2017,” Hightow-Weidman said.

The project’s funding came from — Contact Joshua Lee at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National josh.lee@emory.edu

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encing the risk of children for obesity and autism, Brennan said. Long-term goals for Emory’s study include identifying the social, environmental and biological factors that put African American children at risk for poor health outcomes as well as effective prevention and treatment strategies.

The NIH funding will allow Emory’s research to improve the health of African American children and “reflect the diversity of the community in which we live,” according to Brennan. She added that the data will be valuable to children’s health research. Brennan also noted that although the research is a collaborative effort between different sectors of Emory, all share a “common passion for research on children’s health and a desire to eliminate health disparities.”

— Contact Lauren Balotin at lbaloti@emory.edu

SGA Roundtable Addresses Lack of Grad. Student Voice By haLey gast Contributing Writer

The Student Government Association (SGA) convened Monday evening for a Legislative Roundtable to discuss graduate concerns over SGA’s disproportionate focus on undergraduate affairs.

Graduate students called for equal representation both in the number of legislators and in fiscal spending.

Legislators from both graduate and undergraduate divisions expressed concern over the infrequency and limited number of shuttles for commuters.

“Many SGA grad students are preparing a proposal to split SGA in half,” Speaker of the Legislature and College senior Justin Sia said. “We want to find more simple solutions before considering that.”

Sia said that as of 2015, Emory University was composed of 53 percent

undergraduates and 47 percent graduates. SGA’s current structure establishes 16 graduate representatives and 19 undergraduate representatives, but the four additional University-wide positions are currently held by undergraduates, he said.

These positions have led to a dramatic undergraduate majority of 16 graduates to 22 undergraduates — speaker of the legislature excluded — and a sense of underrepresentation among graduate legislators, Sia noted.

Karen Sawyer, a Candler School of Theology third year, said that she does not feel welcomed in SGA as a graduate student.

“I don’t feel like my voice is heard,” she said.

Concerns over the undergraduate majority arise from past instances of the legislature pushing through bills despite graduate opposition.

“When it comes to bills, having

over 50 percent majority is the same as having 100 percent,” said Junior Representative and College junior Adam Scharf.

Scharf suggested restructuring SGA’s bill consideration process to prevent undergraduates from pushing through bills that disproportionately fund undergraduate events.

“I don’t feel like my voice is heard.”

— Karen Sawyer, Candler School of Theology third year “You would need over 50 percent of the entire legislature, and at least 40 percent consensus within each division to pass a bill,” Scharf said.

SGA Executive Vice President

and Goizueta Business School junior Gurbani Singh agreed with Scharf, acknowledging that the current legislative structure “isn’t a fair way to spend money.”

Singh added that she intends to propose a bill outlining restructuring.

“There have been funding requests passed despite concerns [from graduate students],” Elizabeth Minten, Laney Graduate Student Council representative and second year in Laney Graduate School, said.

Minten referenced SGA’s funding for this year’s Homecoming concert featuring DJ Rehab, which many graduates felt did not accommodate them.

SGA Governance Committee Chair and College junior William Palmer disagreed with Minten, arguing that undergraduate students will vote against bills that graduate students have opposed due to disproportionate funding.

Palmer cited a funding request for an undergraduate Jewish holiday event that was not approved last year.

SGA President and College senior Max Zoberman said he will designate time next session to review SGA governing documents, particularly monetary code related to funding approval.

Additionally, Stephen Lang, a first year in Emory Law School, called for expanded shuttle time frames.

“The shuttles are always packed and come too infrequently to be a reliable option for commuter students,” Lang said.

Lang also reminded fellow legislators that the shuttle system isn’t a problem unique to graduate students.

“Housing is only guaranteed for undergraduates’ first two years. This affects all of us.”

— Contact Haley Gast at haley.brynhild.gast@emory.edu

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Facility Projected to be NBA Hot Spot Plans Re-imagine Historic Briarcliff Mansion as Hotel By nathan Janick Senior Staff Writer

After breaking ground on the Emory Sports Medicine Complex in Executive Park with the Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club this past summer, Emory University is now at the center of what Atlanta Hawks Executive Vice President, Real Estate and Chief Financial Officer Thad Sheely calls the “arms race in facilities in the NBA.” The two-story, 90,000-square-foot facility in Brookhaven is a major part of the Hawks’ plan to become a “firstclass organization [by] investing in people and facilities,” Sheely said at an Oct. 4 meeting at the Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce.

Both Emory’s Sports Medicine Center and the Hawks Operations Department will reside in facility, a result of the partnership between the Hawks and Emory.

The ownership structure is “a threepart deal, where Emory owns the building and leases it to the Hawks, who lease it back to Emory,” Sheely said. “This structure allows the Hawks to design [and] Emory to maintain ownership of the property.”

The Complex is scheduled to be completed in about a year.

“It’s the first facility that will colocate medical care, sports science and training facilities,” Hawks General Manager Wes Wilcox said.

The Atlanta Hawks training facility, Emory University and sports science firm Peak Performance Project (P3) will share the complex’s first floor.

P3 specializes in motion capture technology that can monitor an athlete’s performance over time to better performance and injury prevention.

The designs for this floor include two full courts on which the Hawks will practice, according to Sheely.

Emory Orthopaedics will house its medical offices on the second floor of the facility, which will also feature state-of-the-art medical equipment, including a 3 Tesla (3T) MRI scanner.

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the emory sports Medicine Complex, which is scheduled to open in about a year, will house emory orthopaedics, the hawks practice courts and sports science firm P3. one another’s work.

Emory and P3 plan to share resources for medical research, while P3 and the Hawks are “currently working out an agreement” for the exchange of data and information, Sheely said.

“It’s the first facility that will co-locate medical care, sports science and training facilities.”

— Wes Wilcox, Hawks general manager Emory’s partnership with the Hawks is poised to be a key factor going forward for the Hawks’ effort in “attracting and retaining world class basketball talent,” Wilcox said.

Historically, NBA players across the league have come to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to train during the offseason, Wilcox said. UCLA facilities hosted summer pick-up games, during which “40 NBA players play[ed] on two courts, creating [the] best [pick-up games] in the world,” he said.

However, the venue of those games

changed in 2008 when the Los Angeles Clippers opened a new training facility, which Wilcox described as having been “very unique at the time.”

Wilcox said that this facility’s development played a key role in the Clippers’ ability to more successfully recruit players, contributing to their achievements in recent years.

Los Angeles, Texas and Atlanta are the most popular locations for NBA players to reside in the offseason, Wilcox said.

“Our vision was to recreate what the Clippers have done in L.A., and do it at a higher level,” Wilcox said.

He added that this facility is expected to become an NBA off-season hot spot and a potential host for nearby NCAA basketball teams from Duke University (N.C.), North Carolina University and University of Florida.

Those hopes for the facility follow the first part of the “Hawks basketball philosophy” of “the goal to identify and acquire [players],” Wilcox said.

In addition, Wilcox said that the partnerships with Emory and P3 will aid in achieving the second part of “for development and player care.”

— Contact Nathan Janick at nathan.janick@emory.edu

Emory University and Republic Property Co. announced a preliminary plan at a community meeting this past Wednesday to turn Briarcliff Mansion, currently in a state of disrepair, into a hotel.

The proposal would see Republic Property represented at the meeting by its president and founder Jerry Daws, restore the mansion and grounds.

Once restored, the property would be a “boutique hotel and event venue,” Daws explained. Michael Mandl, CEO of Mandl & Co. and former executive vice president for business administration at Emory, joined Daws in presenting to about 50 community members.

Refurbishment of the mansion alone is estimated to cost $32 million dollars.

In his presentation, Daws stressed that this plan is the only economically viable option for the restoration of Briarcliff Mansion. According to a 2011 video published by Emory University, the mansion itself cannot be torn down as it is on the national register of historic places.

As proposed, the redevelopment plan proposes to add to the property 54 rooms for guest lodging by constructing new cottages, built in the style of the main house, along with rooms in the mansion itself. The project would occupy nine-and-a-half acres of land.

“The grounds [of the property] would be open to the public to enjoy,” Daws said, adding that he envisions a future in which the renovated property would be integrated with the community. In addition to the proposed boutique hotel, Daws planned to have the mansion serve as a “culinary destination” of the South, with a signature restaurant open to diners who are not hotel guests.

Despite the fact that Daws stated the refurbishment would probably not conform to the Secretary of the Interior’s standards for the treatment of historic properties, Republic hopes to use the rooms for their originally intended purposes in the mansion if the project moves forward.

Those in attendance had a generally positive reaction to Republic’s proposal. Some prefaced questions to Daws with affirmations or congratulations on the presentation.

The preliminary renders for the project were done by Smith Dalia Architects (SDA), who recently worked on the refurbishments of Emory’s Alabama and Harris Residence Halls.

SDA has previously renovated other historic buildings in the Southeast.

Republic and Emory are in negotiations regarding the length of a potential grounds lease. Such a lease would allow Republic to operate the proposed hotel on the grounds for a predetermined number of years, and in exchange, Republic will fund the renovation of the property. Emory would not give up possession of the property it acquired in 1998, which has remained unused and boarded-up since then.

Briarcliff Mansion was originally built in 1920 by Asa Candler, Jr., and it was sold 28 years later to the General Services Administration to be used as a veterans hospital. However, this plan never materialized. Instead, the mansion was used by the Georgia Mental Health Institute as a psychiatric hospital.

When describing a timeline for the project, Daws stated that Republic Property tentatively plans to open Briarcliff Mansion as a hotel in late 2018.

— Contact Tarrek Shaban at tarrek.shaban@emory.edu

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Continued from Page 1 He added that design and construction budgets must always have some fluidity based on project timing and the evolving costs of materials and labor.

Emory has considered input from various focus groups, surveys and Food Advisory Committee at Emory (FACE) meetings regarding expectations and needs for the DUC’ling and CLC facilities, according to Sunstein.

Hundreds of students, faculty, staff and alumni met with Emory Dining over the past few years, Perlman said.

“A very important point that everyone brought up was to make sure that the interim dining center was still in a centralized location on campus, so it will be just across the street from the current DUC,” Perlman said.

“Many students dine in the DUC, so

it’s important not to lose anything but to improve upon everything we have.”

Students have voiced mixed expectations for the DUC’ling and the CLC. Goizueta Business School junior Mengtian (Lori) Jin said that Emory Dining should use the change as an opportunity to adjust food quality and variety at the DUC’ling and CLC. She suggested adding more Asian options to the menus.

“I just hope the new CLC will be worth our money,” College sophomore Anna Wang said.

The DUC’ling’s first guests will arrive for the Georgia State Summer Games for the Special Olympics of Georgia (SOGA), which will be held at Emory May 2017, Sunstein said.

— Contact Lauren Balotin at lauren.paige.balotin@emory.edu

“We want to educate, but we also want to listen to the needs of our community,” Pannell said. “We want students and the community as a whole to know what the school can do.”

According to Cadray, Office of Equity and Inclusion staff is planning to augment its use of data collected from surveys like the Campus Climate Survey to determine its next steps.

Cadray and Pannell said complying with Title IX doesn’t mean simply checking a box — it’s about bringing together the law and the Emory community.

“As long as we have sexual violence, we will always work to improve things,” Cadray said. “We are guided both by law and by the spirit of Emory, which drive us to continual improvement.

They can fit together and we are working to find that union.”

The 107 percent increase in drugrelated arrests represents the other major change in statistics between 2014 and 2015. While there were 13 drug-related arrests in 2014, Emory reported 27 drug-related arrests in 2015.

According to Associate Vice President for Public Safety Craig Watson, the jump was not due to any policy change implemented by the Emory Police Department (EPD).

“There’s no real significance to the jump in arrests, other than that

arrests jumped,” Watson said. “We’re not running a heightened program.

We just happened to catch more people with drugs this past year.”

Watson said that “Drug Law Violation Disciplinary Referrals” are cases handled by Campus Life, and he clarified the difference between arrests and referrals.

“We’d like to attribute it to all the great work we’re doing, but we can’t underestimate the lack of reporting that exists on campus.”

— Lynell Cadray, associate vice provost for equity and inclusion If an EPD officer catches someone with drugs, they get a citation, which counts as an arrest. If a Residence Advisor (RA) catches someone in their dorm room with drugs, Watson said that person would probably get reported to Campus Life. Those count as referrals.

Someone who is arrested has to appear in state court, but those who get a referral don’t have to, Watson said. Emory handles liquor law violations in a similar manner, he said.

Watson identified education as a

top priority for EPD in the coming year. EPD’s current efforts to connect with the community include programs like “Coffee with a Cop” and “Operation ID.” “Coffee with a Cop” is designed to allow Emory students to get to know EPD officers in a capacity outside their badge, and “Operation ID” seeks to register laptops’ and cellphones’ serial numbers with the EPD in case they go missing or get stolen.

Cadray expressed optimism about the report and strong belief in both University President Claire E. Sterk and Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Stuart Zola.

“There has never been a better time to be at Emory,” Cadray said. “The levels of support we have from both President Sterk and Interim Provost Zola — we are very fortunate to have them as leaders and to have their support for [the Office of Equity and Inclusion]. They are going to provide resources to us.”

Watson added that he believes that Emory is a safe campus.

“The [2016 Annual Security] Report should give people a tool to see the totality of the institution,” Watson said. “I feel excellent about the state of campus security … We are not immune from crime, but people should and do feel safe.”

— Contact Jacob Durst at jacob.j.durst@emory.edu

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College seniors Matt De LeReaux (Left) and Ocean Clarke (r ight) rap to students at the Sept. 30 Rock the Row, which took place at the Campus Life Pavilion.

ALUMNUS

Ian Fried: The Experience After Emory

By Marina PoPova Contributing Writer

Ian Fried (13C) began his second year of teaching environmental science at the Woodstock School, an international school in Mussoorie, India, this year.

Fried shared his experience of teaching while living in a new environment in an interview with the Wheel.

When I was a kid, I thought that teaching was cool, but never really gave it too deep of a thought.

As I was graduating from Emory with a Bachelor of Science in environmental studies, I was planning on pursuing a Ph.D. However, as I talked to others I realized that none of my friends were particularly happy about [the work required to attain a Ph.D.], so I

thought that maybe [getting a Ph.D.] was not a track for me.

I then worked in a New York public school in Brooklyn as a teacher, and I learned a lot.

There are many differences between private and public schools, and you see a big gap between the wealthy and poor kids.

At first, it was very hard for me to teach, and in the first six months of school there was not a day that I did not want to quit.

However, the more you [teach], the easier it becomes. Teaching is very similar to learning. The amount you put in is proportional to what you get out of it.

I also learned a lot about content. For example, as I was teaching AP Biology, I had to review the content before I taught it in class and I would constantly add on to my knowledge.

But content is an easy thing to learn, and it gets easier as you do more and more of it.

[One of the best memories] from my Emory experience would be going to Madagascar as one of the Emory-supported programs.

I really like travelling, but that was the first time I did something of that sort, and it lasted for two months — I loved it.

I lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., most of my life and after teaching for two years there, I decided to change my life.

So I went to a job fair, where a lot of international schools were represented, with an intention of leaving N.Y. I came across a representative from [the] Woodstock School in India, and [the representatives seemed] to be great people. So I applied and got the job.

Living in India is great.

I enjoy outdoors a lot, and in here I get to go on many treks around the mountains.

I also do rock climbing and volunteering and get to know the students a lot through these activities.

A lot of times you tend to judge a student by their performance in your class; however, they might be an awesome person outside of your class. So it is pretty important to get to know them I miss everything about N.Y., but at the same time I really love it here in India.

India has a very different way of doing things than the U.S. For example, if someone cuts you off on the road in the U.S., your mood is going to be terrible — you will get annoyed.

In India, you will say “OK” and just let them go. This attitude applies to

everything. I love it.

The thing I miss most [about Emory] is being with [my] friends 24/7.

When you are in college and you are bored, you can just go bother your friends whenever you want.

As an adult, you don’t have that anymore.

[Being in a] fraternity taught me the most about social life.

It was great to be [myself] with other people. Usually you can always be yourself with your friends, but it is nice to have an opportunity to do that with other people, as well.

It also gave me a chance to meet people I would not have met otherwise, which is the best opportunity ever.

— Contact Marina Popva at marina.popova@emory.edu

EMORY LIFE

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

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STUDENT FEATURE

ADVICE

Doolino Knows A Glimpse Into Best: Rankings, Trans Life at Money and Drama Oxford College

Emory was recently named a top-20 school by U.S. News and World Report and a top-17 school by The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education.

However, even the glow of our new prestige can’t mask the fact that after almost six weeks on campus, students are starting to recognize that they’ve developed questionable lifestyle patterns.

The initial spark of the year is gone.

We’re all doomed until we fix our mentality on class-based privilege and stop starting drama.

Peace out, mortals!

Dear Doolino, Emory’s a pretty fancy school, right? But as of 2014, 48 percent of the students here were on need-based financial aid, illustrating Emory’s economic diversity.

I attended a public high school, but come from a rich county and honestly just am not used to being around people with such different backgrounds.

It never occurred to me that when I ask someone to grab dinner off-campus, they may not be able to afford it.

I want to be considerate without being offensive.

I know I sound spoiled and ignorant, but I really am just trying to make friends.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Sincerely, Checking Dat Privilege Dear Checking Dat Privilege, As an immortal being, it is very difficult for me to understand the plights of the delicate, slowly expiring humans.

However, I don’t complain about how on my 1,000th birthday party, none of the DJs I had reserved many years in advance will be able to perform.

Be classy.

Don’t talk about how you wanted a Range Rover but your parents gave you their old BMW instead. More importantly, don’t complain about how much you hate that car.

Feel lucky for what you’ve been given. Be careful about making broad statements about people less fortunate than yourself.

Be thoughtful: if you’re having a gift exchange, make sure everyone can afford the costs by setting a reasonable price limit.

When going out to eat with others, don’t just assume everyone wants to split the bill evenly.

Some people actually factor in the price of the food when deciding what to order.

While people back home have likely worked hard to achieve their current success, it’s not as though people who aren’t as financially successful as your family aren’t just as hardworking.

Money issues are complicated; even if you’re not eligible for financial aid, it isn’t easy to come up with $60k tuition every year.

Learn from your friends: hear them out when they’re talking about their own financial situations and find out ways to become an ally to communities fighting socioeconomic injustice.

Doolino Dear Doolino, So basically I hate drama, but I keep getting sucked into this crazy

Yiqian Wang/Contributing

Oxford College freshman Rose Porter studies in her room, shared with a cisgender woman.

By CeCiLia SChraMM Contributing Writer

first-year experience.

It all started when I was in Dobbs visiting my friend Lindsay (who I kind of hate because she’s a total dirtbag but who you’d totally love. She’s the sweetest.)

I was walking down the hall, and I saw my friend Monica with this random blonde girl, who asked me who I was in the rudest tone.

Can you believe that? “Who are you?” Like excuse me, ask me for my name like a person with some manners.

She is the worst. I want her dead.

People here are the worst.

Sincerely, Drama Llama Dear Drama Llama, Look at your life. Look at your choices. Look at your grades.

Look at the poorly worded email you sent your Philosophy of Religion professor begging for an extension on a two-page, double-spaced paper.

How much has living life this way hurt you and your peers?

Calm down, kid. You’ve been here six weeks; you can’t start hating people yet.

Save that for junior year. Only hang out with the people you genuinely like — none of this “she’s my best friend but she’s also completely terrible and I hate her” nonsense.

No more lying. No more manipulating. No more backstabbing.

Just follow one of my favorite quotes: “Think before you speak, breathe before you sing, dance like nobody’s watching.”

Doolino Dear Doolino, I got my foot stuck in the toilet again.

Back in Oregon, I always had my mommy and daddy help me get it out whenever this happened. What do I do?

From, Potty Mouth Dear Potty Mouth, Exams really do bring out the weird in people.

Try to get enough sleep, so you can function normally!

Doolino

At the start of college, many students join campus organizations hoping to find a like-minded community of people who can understand them.

Oxford College freshman Rose Porter attended Oxford’s PRIDE meeting in hopes of finding students who could relate to her story as a trans woman shortly after her arrival to campus this fall. Unfortunately, she did not.

“There’s a lot of people who probably still see me on campus and don’t really know what to think of [me], and that’s kind of weird,” Porter said.

“It’s rough because there are no other trans people [at Oxford] by which any context can be given, or kinship to be had.”

Porter felt a sense of loneliness upon realizing that she was, to her knowledge, the only openly trans person at Oxford, but she has still been able to find an accepting community within the liberal arts campus.

Before calling Oxford home, Porter was born in Atlanta, Ga. She then moved to Gainesville, Fla., at a young age. As a child, Porter said that she didn’t think in terms of gender. She just liked certain things that happened to be traditionally feminine, such as the idea of geishas or female characters on TV. For this, she often felt harshly judged by society. However, as she matured, she realized that who it is she was trying to be and who it is she wanted to be was what society would call a girl. She felt restricted in her way of life because she was expected to act like a boy; eventually, she realized that she had to change.

But even as a trans woman — even after changing how she identifies — Porter feels restricted. Porter said she now feels as though she is expected to act in alignment with society’s ideals of a typical woman, and while cisgender women are also judged by this code, Porter believes that it can be a much harder standard to reach for trans women. She said that it is important that she act ultra-feminine and that she is expected to tailor her behavior to fit into that feminine mold if she wants to be taken seriously: the way she carries herself, speaks, stands and her mannerisms are judged more radically by society’s definition of femininity.

“No one knows the social codes for how women are supposed to behave better than trans women,” Porter explained.

Struggles like these continued after Porter arrived at Oxford. According to Porter, she does not always pass as a girl and thus feels inclined to explain herself in new environments. She said that she had to constantly re-introduce herself and explain that she was trans to everyone, furthering her feelings of isolation. Porter describes her life as normal, despite certain aspects that are hard for her. According to Porter, communal bathrooms scared her when she first came to college, and the showers still do. She usually tries to spend as little time in the communal bathrooms as possible.

“Part of living my day-to-day life is being very, very consciously aware of

your presence in social situations and what people are thinking and looking and doing,” Porter said.

This includes her dorm room, where she was prepared to never be nude in front of her roommate, so her roommate would not feel uncomfortable.

She bought full-length, total body coverage pajamas.According to Porter, her roommate, Oxford College freshman Annalys Hanson, luckily cared little about nudity .Hanson, originally from a small town in Minnesota, is perfectly comfortable rooming with Porter; in fact, it was Hanson who suggested living together when Porter introduced herself in the Oxford College Facebook group.

“She needed a safe place,” Hanson said. “There aren’t any other trans people on campus; it’s up to somebody who was cisgender to step up and make it a safe place for her.”

Hanson believes that Porter being trans has only brought benefits to their room. Hanson and Porter mutually respect each other and work hard to ensure both are comfortable within their living arrangement. According to Hanson, her family was initially concerned with her roommate choice, but she was sure she wanted to room with Porter and feels very safe in their room.

Oxford’s housing policy states that students will be paired with someone who identifies as the same gender, according to Assistant Dean for Campus Life, Office of Residential Educational and Services (RES) Director and Chief Conduct Officer Michele Hempfling.

Porter was unaware of the samesex roommate policy and afraid that she would have been assigned a male roommate if she had not found a female roommate on her own. She said that she could not imagine having a better roommate.

Outside of the room, though, Porter has found that identifying as trans can make it difficult to join certain social groups and make friends. In general, Oxford students treat her politely, Porter said. Although she has heard rumors about herself that sometimes include slurs, she believes that these reactions stem mostly from confusion and curiosity, not necessarily from malevolence. Porter enjoys educating others about issues of misunderstanding, and she is happy to help anyone who is confused or needs explanations.

According to Porter, frictional transphobia, derived from the economics term frictional unemployment, means that transphobia is part of our current system, and as long as this system is in place, transphobia will be present. Porter said there is still a lot of frictional transphobia at Oxford.

Despite Porter’s belief that frictional transphobia is still embedded in Oxford’s campus, she says that the faculty and staff have been very supportive, especially Oxford Dance Instructor Alejandro Abarca, who offered to be there if she ever needed to talk. Porter explained that Oxford as an institution did not have to go out of its way to make her feel comfortable, since Porter is currently rooming with a cisgender woman and enjoys the

school’s gender-neutral housing and secluded bathrooms.

“I think what a lot people don’t realize is that Oxford is a much more trans-accepting place than most of the places [I have lived],” Porter explained.

“I got more harassment at my high school for being trans than I ever had at Oxford and probably ever will at Oxford.”

Porter’s Oxford community has been more than open and mature when approaching Porter about being trans. However, she still wishes people would see the bigger issue represented by her story.

“Trans people are a testament to everything that is wrong with how we view gender,” Porter said.

She added that our society needs to learn how to accept and understand trans people, but also what exactly trans people say about this society.

Porter eventually wants to get into trans activism and work with trans youth. She plans to double major in sociology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies.

The University itself has also tried to educate people about gender; however, its efforts are not always successful. During orientation, for example, Porter found the the Peer Assistance Leaders’ (PALs) skit trying to explain trans people inaccurate.

“You have this cis girl actor [with a] ponytail, tight jeans and everything come on, and she starts talking about how she doesn’t feel like a woman and that was just kind of like, ‘I don’t think you guys really get the idea here,’ ” Porter said. “And then of course they had a cis man actor, who was [a] scruffy, very manly looking guy come on and say, ‘I feel like a woman,’ and of course everyone laughed at that, and that was kind of rough.”

Porter did not feel attacked, but she also did not think the skit helped protect the trans community. She said that events like this skit are unavoidable if students are uneducated about trans people.Overall, Porter said that Oxford does a good job in ensuring she feels accepted. She explained that in order to protect the trans population at Oxford, the College has implemented policies such as the Safe Space program, which trains allies to help and advocate on behalf of LGBT students, and anti-discrimination policies. Although she has never felt the need to use these tools, she appreciates that there are people she could turn to if necessary. Porter encourages society to work on many gender issues, but she understands that colleges can only do so much. As long as colleges continue to accept trans students and make them feel comfortable, Porter believes that they are encouraging the necessary discussion. “[Trans people] don’t exist as this outside anomaly. We exist as a result of systems that everyone lives in and that’s kind of scary,” Porter said. “Gender is something that affects everyone. ... I think people need to realize more … how gender affects them, look at how [these] systems affect them.”

— Contact Cecilia Schramm at cbschra@emory.edu

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Editorials

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 | Editorials Editors: Brian Taggett (brian.andrew.taggett@emory.edu), Pranati Kohli (pranati.kohli@emory.edu)

The Flaws in College Rankings ANDREW KLIEWER Whether they were sitting in class, studying at the library or sleeping in, for most college students across the country, Sept. 13 was likely just a typical, tiring Tuesday only a few weeks into the new semester.

However, while any observer on a college campus may have seen simply students go about their daily lives, anyone happening to wander into an administration building would likely have encountered a different scene. Even if calm on the surface, the faculty and staff of every college across the country were facing the same annual stress.

As they stared at their computer screens, many administrators undoubtedly breathed a sigh of relief, while others slammed their fists down on tables in frustration.

Only one event can lead to this simultaneous display of emotion at colleges across the country: the release of the annual U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings.

For Emory, the rankings brought mostly good news. The University regained its top-20 status, tying with Georgetown University (D.C.) and University of California, Berkeley, after sliding down to the 21st spot for the past two years. Goizueta Business School’s BBA program was ranked 15th in the country; Emory also earned the distinctions of 17th best valued school and the 11th best college for veterans. Many other colleges were not so fortunate. For example, Emory’s rival institution, Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.), slid down four spots from 15th to 19th overall.

While a slight shift may seem trivial to outsiders, it is a big deal to institutions. In the current college admissions landscape, with soaring tuition costs, the proliferation of social media and an increasing number of colleges claiming to be “elite,” many students feel overwhelmed with the staggering variety and number of choices they face. In the past, students may have only applied to a handful of colleges, but today, due to the relative ease of online applications, they are routinely applying to over 10.

a small group of selective wealthy colleges at the expense of others.

Instead of choosing schools based on specific programs or opportunities offered, students are led to believe that their chance at future success is based off the position of their college in these rankings.

At best, this notion is misleading. Studies have repeatedly shown that the selectivity and ranking of a school do not necessarily lead to higher earnings for graduates. For many students, attending public universities with in-state tuition or less selective colleges offering scholarships can still lead to satisfactory salaries with a fraction of the debt. This is a particular benefit to middle class students who fall above the threshold for financial aid and must shoulder the full cost of tuition.

At their worst, the rankings can be far more than misleading. Many institutions have learned to game the system, oftentimes by focusing on the SAT and ACT scores of its applicants. Although this is an easy way to increase the perceived selectivity of an institution, it disadvantages poor and minority students who don’t have the resources to prepare for these challenging exams. SAT/ACT scores correlate strongly with income and not at all with academic performance beyond the first year. It also creates a onesize-fits-all model, where a university may ignore redeeming features of candidates with low test scores.

Rankings are not what they claim to be. They attempt to quantify what fundamentally is a qualitative decision. While the vast majority of students will attend and thrive at universities far down in the list, the media and society feed the myth that the only path to success is an acceptance letter to an “elite” institution. Only by actively fighting this broken system can we hope to achieve change. So the next time you have the urge to show-off to your friends and family by sharing a link on Facebook about Emory being a top-20 school, think again. Our greatness is not defined by a number.

Many are confronted with difficult choices when decisions come out, often choosing between colleges unfamiliar to themselves and their families. The U.S. News data provides a way to quantify this choice by presenting a neat list comparing colleges. As the oldest and most publicized ranking source, U.S. News has a large impact on institutions’ yield rates and the percentage of admitted students who choose to attend. Colleges with higher yields can be more selective with their admissions, which in turn increases their prestige and reputation. This creates a treadmill system, with up-and-coming colleges finding it hard to catch up to those already established.

Prospective students are increasingly being sucked into this process, heavily considering a college’s rank when deciding where to apply and attend. However, as attention to rankings has increased, their effectiveness in determining whether one college is better than another is coming into increasing doubt. The final numbers are an aggregation of many pieces of data, mostly related to a college’s selectivity, financial resources and graduation rate.

Highly selective private institutions dominate the rankings, with many costing over $60,000 a year and boasting admission rates below 20 percent. While these colleges meet the traditional definition of “prestigious,” they are unattainable to the vast majority of students for both financial and academic reasons.

The flood of applications these universities receive each year leads to extremely low chances of students being accepted. Most applicants will inevitably receive the dreaded small envelope, containing a letter telling the recipient that they had the misfortune of being part of the largest and most qualified group of students ever to apply to the college, and are being turned down due to lack of space rather than ability.

This is where the heart of the problem lies with the U.S. News rankings. These numbers perpetuate the belief that the college experience can somehow be quantified and packaged into a simple number, ignoring the fact that they are causing an endless cycle of lifting up

Andrew Kliewer is a College freshman from Dallas, Texas.

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This month’s debate was written by Barkley Forum members College senior Kristen Lowe and College junior Katie Duval.

The Legalization of Prostitution Katie Duval

Kristen Lowe

Sex workers are currently in a legal and social limbo in the United States, and the only way to resolve this is to legalize prostitution. There is constant demand for sex workers in our society, but a taboo clings to their profession, making their job more dangerous and denying them basic human rights such as access to healthcare, social security, etc.

The societal bias against sex workers results in their unfair treatment within the legal system and increased violence against them. In addition to the stigma against sex workers, studies have shown that laws criminalizing prostitution result in a plethora of negative consequences. Open Society Foundation found that when prostitution was decriminalized, sex workers experienced less abuse and sexual assault. In a world of criminalized prostitution, sex workers are doing everything possible to avoid arrest, including working far away from law enforcement and in the most dangerous parts of communities.

In addition, some studies found that 90 percent of encounters with police officers result in violent acts against the sex workers. To exacerbate this problem, sex workers often cannot report violence while working without being arrested themselves. This makes sex workers exceptionally vulnerable to violence, because perpetrators know that the crimes will not be reported.

Assault isn’t the only dangerous part of being a sex worker in the current world of criminalized solicitation; sex buyers are often untested for HIV/AIDS and other STIs, which means sex workers are at risk to contract these diseases.

Decriminalization of sex work could result in the availability of regulated testing for both workers and buyers, in addition to an increase in condom usage. The Lancet reports that when sex work is decriminalized, the transmission of HIV decreases by as much as 33 to 46 percent within the population.

The report also indicates that in a world of criminalized sex work, one-third of sex workers don’t carry condoms with them, fearing they will be used as evidence if they are accused of being a sex worker. In addition to health benefits, decriminalizing prostitution would allow sex workers to obtain all the benefits of being a legitimate part of the work force. This could include unionizing, workers’ compensation, healthcare and a regulated way to report and respond to violence perpetrated against sex workers. The lack of these basic rights makes sex work one of the riskiest professions in our society even though the demand for these services is ever-increasing.

Moreover, decriminalizing prostitution would also help address broader issues within communities.

Open Society Foundations reported instances of self-run sex worker regulatory boards successfully helping address human trafficking by collaborating with law enforcement and identifying individuals who were survivors of sex trafficking.

In a world where, regardless of legal status, sex work will always exist, decriminalizing this profession is the only logical solution.

Recognizing sex workers as genuine members of the work force would help combat the transmission of STIs and staunch the quickly rising rates of violence in our society.

On any given day, over 2,000,000 individuals are trafficked around the world. Of those 2,000,000, 80 percent are women and children, many of whom are bound for the illicit sex trade.

This sex trade, which has become a globalized and ever-expanding industry, dehumanizes and abuses its victims while subjecting them to heightened rates of violence and risk.

Women in the sex trade are more susceptible to sexual and physical violence, coercion, longterm health issues, incarceration, substance abuse and death, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Operating in almost every country in the world, the illegal sex trade is a large and growing source of global gender violence.

While politicians, theorists and activists have dedicated ample time to understanding the complex web of factors that drive the expansion of sex trafficking, there is one factor that undeniably allows the sex trade to flourish: demand. For this reason, prostitution should not be legalized.

Despite the potential economic benefits it may provide to some women, legalization will likely lead to an increase in the demand for paid sex, increasing the power of the already existent sex-slavery industry.

Ample theoretical and empirical evidence contribute to the idea that legalizing prostitution causes increases in sex trafficking via the scaling effect, through which the expansion in the size of the market increases and overwhelms the substitution effect that legalization has, through which supply in the legal market displaces illegally supplied sex.

Empirical analysis from studies conducted in over 150 countries illustrates how, in countries where prostitution has been legalized, trafficking has increased, while countries with strict anti-prostitution laws observe lower rates of trafficking.

While many argue that increasing opportunities for domestically sourced sex-workers to thrive in a legalized market would introduce a new supply of workers available via trafficking, observable trends in countries like Australia illustrate that the substitution effect is negligible.

Moreover, these trends hold even when controlling for different regulatory and legal schemata for legalizing prostitution.

Additionally, without strong preexisting social or legal mechanisms in place to provide oversight and control on where sex-workers are coming from or how they are being treated, even wellmeaning regulatory schemata risk increasing the demand for illegally transported and coerced sex workers and reinforcing violence.

Widespread sexism and scarce chances for reporting are also likely to contribute to violence within the sex industry.

While sex work offers a very legitimate and important source of labor for many individuals, until governments, institutions and society are ready to grapple with human trafficking, prostitution cannot be legalized without also unleashing threats of coercion and violence upon women and children worldwide.

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Letter to the Editor When Grades Didn’t Matter Daniel Elchediak To anybody that has read Daniel Park’s article, “DJ Rehab is Generic, Repetitive on McDonough,” I’m sure you can appreciate that the one thing that was repetitive was the amount of times a student offering to open the concert for free was maliciously stacked up to a professional, international DJ. I’m not here to make a fuss of this; I’m just very disappointed at the lack of professionalism that went into this review. First off, I doubt that any research went into reviewing the Homecoming Concert, because I’m sure if the author knew I was an Emory College junior, I would hope he wouldn’t have gone at my throat as much as he did. It is one thing to give a negative critique about even a student performance, but I felt personally attacked by a fellow student in a publication that is supposed to promote the University.

Second, I am very disappointed about the false comments regarding

my performance. Unless he was reviewing the songs played intermittently by the production crew’s iPod, the author said I played only top-50 hits, and criticized me for playing a song that I actually didn’t. How credible can he be after inserting false comments in a review? It’s a shame that this was yet another story that was unappreciative of all the work SPC does to make campus a better place to be, and moving forward I’m sure everybody would like to see more hype in the school paper rather than reviews that make these events feel like the lesser option for the night. I would once again like to publicly thank SPC for featuring me at this event, and hope to continue to perform at others. For anybody who wants to hear a more widespread opinion of the concert, just ask any student that was in attendance that night.

Much love, Cheddy DJ Cheddy is a College seniorfrom Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.

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Duncan Cock Foster Paul Nitze would have made a terrible Emory student. While he was a student at Harvard (Mass.), he decided to skip the final exam for his economics class so that he could attend a party in Rhode Island. He received a zero and failed the class. When asked about it later, he said, “In those days, grades didn’t count. Harvard was more like a European university.

You just tried to absorb wisdom.”

Nitze went on to serve as U.S. deputy secretary of defense, Scretary of the navy and to found the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (Md.).

He became an important member of the group of foreign policy experts known as the “Wise Men.” It seems impossible that a student who skipped a final exam to party would go on to achieve such incredible success. But the education Nitze received is very different than the education modern students receive. College taught him how to belong, not just how to study. He was able to find success in his adult life because he was the product of a strong, united community that instilled in him the confidence and worldliness that success requires. Of course, grades were an important aspect of college life, but there were many other aspects that were just as important. Inheriting the tradition he did allowed him to overcome his academic flaws.

Nitze graduated from Harvard in 1928. Since then, the definition of what it means to attend college and obtain an education has changed significantly. College has become more transactional.

Grades and test scores are how people judge themselves now.

Universities have observed their students become less focused on helping others and more focused on gaining financial security. There is an abundance of research that shows that today, “external measures of success are more important than learning and autonomous development.”

Of course, colleges in the past had problems that we have thankfully left behind, most notably how exclusive and lacking in diversity they were. American universities have progressed significantly in many incredible ways: we are now more open and have made significant steps towards ending institutional discrimination. But over the years,

we lost some of the most important aspects of the college experience.

Emory is one of the many colleges that has experienced this loss. For example, Wonderful Wednesday originally meant that no classes were held on Wednesday, a scenario that is difficult to imagine now given the school’s strong focus on academics. Emory Historian Gary Hauk told me, “From 1967 until 1982, the University scheduled no college classes on Wednesdays in order to give students a chance to study, catch-up on assignments or whatever. I gather from those who lived through those years that it was like having two weekends each week.”

American universities have progressed significantly in many incredible ways: we are now more open and have made significant steps towards ending institutional discrimination.

The preamble of the University’s bylaws states Emory’s mission to shape not only students’ minds, but also their hearts and souls. In his book A Legacy of Heart and Mind: Emory Since 1836, Hauk says that “[this] philosophy has shaped a university that aims to nurture moral imagination as well as critical intellect and aesthetic judgment.”

The communal aspect of college is a terrible thing to have lost. It is this aspect that instilled upon students the unshakeable confidence that can only come from a genuine sense of belonging. As students have become more focused on their grades and their job prospects and embraced the transactional side of college, they have lost a sense of purpose. Students today are less resilient and less confident.

In recent years, anxiety rates for college students have risen precipitously, displacing depression as the most common mental illness found on a college campus.

The changing nature of college is not a result of any specific policy on the part of Emory or any other school; it is a consequence of our

time. To state the obvious, both getting into college and obtaining a job upon graduation has become significantly more competitive.

But mostly, this phenomenon is a result of the fact that we have lost our desire for large institutions to provide us with a sense of belonging. In Nitze’s day, one attended Harvard with an expectation and a desire to be shaped. Students did not go to stand out; they went to fit in. Some of the era’s great original thinkers found conforming incredibly difficult, the most notable example being Winston Churchill, who was an unmitigated disaster as a high school student.

Our generation is more focused on individual success than previous generations. It is more difficult for Emory to instill a sense of belonging upon all of its students, because its student body is increasingly diverse, polarized and lacks the desire to be shaped.

We desperately want to be ourselves, and we desperately want to prove ourselves superior to our peers. In an age where individual identity is all-important, the old style of schooling is destined to lose prominence. In our modern era, forcing students into a box is destined to fail.

The correct course of action for Emory to take is to create an environment that encourages students to form their own small communities. Small communities that unite people have historically given young people the same benefits as large ones, and are the only way to provide students with the sense of belonging that Nitze had.

Dean Acheson, arguably the most influential secretary of state in the 20th century, did not fit in at Groton, his high school. He was ruthlessly bullied.

However, he did fit in at Residency 25, a small working outpost that Groton boys were assigned to by Groton as part of their schooling. His situation is an excellent example of the amazing effects that small, close-knit communities can have on a person.

Reflecting on his time at Residency 25, Acheson eloquently summarized the power that a small community can have on an individualistic young person. He wrote, “These men had given me new eagerness for experience. …

They had restored to me a priceless possession, joy in life. Never again was I to lose it or doubt it.”

Duncan Cock Foster is a College senior from Seattle, Washington.

For Brutus is an Honest Man This month, Alex Chen will be writing a series on the theme of love. This is the first of those installments.

ALEX CHEN Let us imagine a gallant knight and his lady, deeply in love, sitting in a moonlit bower in some rural English county, steeped in the high magic of antiquity, gazing in each other’s eyes, until he leans in, takes her into his arms and presses his lips to hers. Is not this a perfect moment, never to be surpassed? Whatever might possibly consummate it?

They draw back, and he begins to utter his solemn protestations of love. He says such things as lovers are wont to — he promises to her the stilly light of the Moon for eternity, he swears by all flowers to honor their love forever and finally, promises even upon the sanctity of their love itself that he shall love her, thinking, mistakenly, that his words shall lend a crowning pleasure to the moment.

Perhaps the wounds committed by his vows are not yet ones fatal

to his love, but then he errs again: he takes her in the harsher light of the day to church — or rather, let us grant them marriage at night, which is decidedly so much more romantic than the day, and thus they run to the local parish church, and rouse the priest to marry them, before such solemn witnesses as God Himself – yes, solemn utterances these must be indeed, that dare but once to ratify a temporal love for all eternity!

But then the months turn into years, and this couple, worn out by marriage, have thus worn out their love. The sleepy bower of yore is long since overgrown — mute nature and the trees no longer shelter them from the gaze of society — nor do they have need any longer to hide, for society has long since sanctified their love by the approval implicit in the marriage ceremony. Even God, once defied, has nodded his assent; thus, with no stars left to defy, their love is absconded utterly. But why do these several promises drive love

out? Because love is the most immediate, and thus most private feeling. Anybody who has been affected by love knows that in its throes, time seems even to stop, that all the world seems to disappear, that, for that moment, one is elevated beyond the mundane and trivial concerns of all the world.

Love must accordingly removed so far as possible from the public eye, for the same reason that great art should be kept from those who know not to appreciate it. Other people, looking from the outside in, might see two rather silly and foolish people kissing and embracing, but for those lovers, there can be nothing in the world that could capture adequately how they feel — save the feeling itself. They are united in feeling love immediately.

Thus, when our gallant knight pulls back from the kiss and begins to promise to his lady that by all flowers he shall love her, he mediates his love. His feeling is indeed still uniquely his own; the arrangements of the words that he uses,

however, were perhaps taught to him by poets, the words he uses learned from society and convention. As soon as he speaks his love, he makes it reflective, because he couches it in the vestments of representation. The words themselves are not love; they are only a set of signs that he uses to signal that he loves her; but as soon as one ceases to signal love itself, and signal rather that the love is, one has stepped out of the realm of the immediate into the mediate. For the same reason, their marriage is fatal to their love — because it is its ultimate reflective act.

In such things as lovers’ vows are made of, there remains at least the illusion of privacy — not so with marriage, which is a promise before family, before society and before even God Himself. When once they thus declare their love, it is as though the world becomes a mirror; they see no longer each other reflected in their eyes. Marriage makes others to partake of their love and to celebrate it joy-

ously, and in so doing, the world becomes privy and partner to the secretive, inward and essentially introverted nature of love; by forcing love to disclose and evolve itself beyond the lovers, love is sublated and finally destroyed.

The foregoing ought not, however, be taken as an attack on marriage. Those who are married for a long time undoubtedly share a deep bond — a bond of very intimate friendship, one might say. But it is simply to say this: love of the sort defined, love as immediacy, love as that indescribable passion that sweeps away the world and makes one dizzier than the headiest wine, cannot be except that it hide itself.

Those who dare to bring it into the public light and give voice to its ineffable pleasures have destroyed it — but perhaps this destruction is, in the end, merely a form of transcendence, whereby they move love into higher spheres.

Alex Chen is a College senior from Palo Alto, California.

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‘Ugly’ Reveals Reality of Post-War Trauma By isaBeL OLsen Contributing Writer

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Janice (Kate McKinnon) (Left) and David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) (R ight) pose for their wedding photoshoot.

‘Masterminds’ Keeps Laughs Rolling

By KatheRine MccLuRe Contributing Writer All David Ghantt ever really wanted was adventure, and he takes the audience along with him for an hourand-a-half of side-splitting comedy in Masterminds. With a star-studded cast including Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Jason Sudeikis and director Jared Hess, Masterminds was bound for comedic success.

Masterminds follows the rural, redneck life of the simple and awkward yet lovable Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis), a blue-collar armored vehicle driver tasked with transport-

ing millions of dollars worth of cash for Loomis, Fargo & Co. every day.

Ghantt’s life is presented as hilariously unfortunate, with an eerily distant fiancée (Kate McKinnon), a beat-up truck with a flimsy sheet of plywood for the driver’s door and a cringeworthy bowl cut paired with Galifianakis’ signature scruffy beard. He soon meets Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig), an adventurous and ambitious coworker on whom Ghantt quickly develops a crush.

Aware of Ghantt’s infatuation with her, Campbell, with encouragement from her friend Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson), coerces him into assisting them in stealing $17 million in cash from Loomis, Fargo

HORROR

Retro Rewind: ‘Phantasm’ (1979)

By ViKRant naLLapaRaju Film Critic Grade: A-

It’s October, and you know what that means: horror movies. Whether it’s the chill creeping into the air or nights getting longer, something about this time of the year just makes horror movies feel right. While I would contend that horror movies are fantastic year-round, they’re even better under the auspice of the Halloween season. Fortunately, the Plaza Theatre is running a series of cult classic horror films throughout October, kicking off their run with Don Coscarelli’s 1979 masterpiece, Phantasm.

The film centers on 13-year-old Mike (Michael Baldwin) and his older brother, Jody (Bill Thornbury), who live together after the deaths of their parents. Following the death of one of Jody’s friends, Mike begins to notice weird phenomena surrounding the local funeral home, especially the local mortician (Angus Scrimm) whom Mike sees stealing bodies from graves. Discovering that the mortician, or “Tall Man” as Mike

calls him, is turning the bodies into an army of dwarf zombies, Mike enlists the help of Jody and their childhood friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister) to stop Tall Man before he can take over their town.

Though Phantasm has been cemented within the horror community as an iconic horror film of the late 1970s, Tall Man has never achieved the same level of pop cultural notoriety as Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees, despite there being five films in the Phantasm series. So why didn’t this film catch on with the mainstream audience?

The film makes no sense.

Phantasm doesn’t play out like a film, but rather a feverish dream, plunging you into a never-ending series of nightmarish sequences that you hopelessly attempt to make sense of after waking up. The film’s plot operates under a sense of dream logic, blurring the lines between reality and surrealist horror. Characters frequently wake up to find that their previous experiences were all a dream, but then these same horror elements show up

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& Co., where gullible Ghantt has easy access to a vault full of money.

After the robbery, Ghantt escapes to Mexico with a measly $20,000 in the naive hope that Campbell will join him. Afraid that Ghantt will reveal his identity to the police, Chambers sends a psychotic hitman, Mike McKinney (Jason Sudeikis), after him in Mexico, where they quickly become best friends.

Seems too hilarious to be true?

Well, it is. Masterminds is based off of the 1997 Loomis, Fargo & Co. vault robbery of over $17 million in Charlotte, N.C. The investigation of the heist was broadcast across the

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The word “war” speaks to a largescale conflict in which battles are lost and won, and heroes either return or fall. With the all-too-relevant theme of disillusioned veterans returning to society after their service, playwright Lindsey Ferrentino interprets this mind-numbing issue in a grounded tale of a soldier’s life after the military.

Ugly Lies the Bone, which opened Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company Fall 2015, has rapidly garnered praise nationwide and is showing at the Alliance Theatre’s Hertz Stage in Atlanta Sept. 16 to Oct. 9. Following the one-act show was a talk with Emory representatives regarding ex-soldiers’ mental suffering and new forms of technological treatment for it. Audience members also had the chance to try virtual reality treatment.

Battling the long-term effects of post-war trauma, Jess (Julie Jesneck) returns to her hometown Titusville, Fla., NASA’s space command during shuttle launches, to find that her world has changed. Jess enrolls in the modern-day practice of virtual reality healing, meant to overwhelm her pain and enable her movement, which is handicapped in real life. Through her time in therapy, she, her family and friends learn how to cope with the troubling psychological effects of war, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and a disconnect with normal society.

The shifting black box of the

Hertz Stage adapts well for an intimate production such as this. The audience enters to bare, tiled floors and a simple modern square centerpiece on the ceiling of the room that serves as a reminder of the high-tech therapy institution where Jess is treated. What begins as a bare set quickly shifts into a lowermiddle class home and a gas station counter. The set is what one would expect for the show and at times appears somewhat fake compared to the realistic storyline, but brilliant moments, such as the square ceiling lowering to act as a rooftop for Jess and her old love interest Stevie (Lee Osorio) to watch the space shuttle launch, allows the audience to cross easily between the imaginary worlds of Jess’ mind and the harsh realities of the everyday life.

While Ugly focuses on Jess’ chronic mental condition, it is difficult to disregard the fact that her appearance will never be the same as before the war. Due to being maimed on the battlefield, the right side of her face is torn up and drooping, making Jess a changed person inside and out. Makeup artist Jordan Venetis turns half of Jess’ face into rough terrain and sinking skin, serving as a constant reminder of the horror that Jess must have experienced.

Although the plot alternates between reality and the dreamworld brought about by Jess’ therapy, Ferrentino never loses the audience.

Rather than jumping from point a to point b, Ferrentino drives the scenes

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Danny Brown performs at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., in 2012.

‘Atrocity Exhibition’ not an Atrocity By aBduL BingahLan Music Critic Grade: 4/5 Danny Brown’s tendency to duck expectations is the most predictable thing about him. Brown’s music is inventive, brash, original and uncompromising. He draws influence from his hometown, Detroit,

but maintains a je ne sais quoi that separates him from his peers, from Detroit or otherwise.

A concept album examining the dichotomy between Brown’s notably wild behavior and crippling depression that’s been both a cause and an effect of his drug-fueled lifestyle, his major label debut XXX premiered to raving critics. Atrocity Exhibition is an unadulterated dose of Brown, free

of fear and restraint.

Rap music is undergoing a subtle genre shift, as the simple kick-snares and boom-bap beats of the ‘90s gave way to the glitzy, overproduced poprap of the early 2000s, and eventually becoming dominated by the deep bass and rattling hi-hats of traprap in the last few years. However,

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Rap Classic Horror Ignites Childhood Fears Album Is Brash, Inventive Continued from Page 9 Brown scoffs at genre limitations and “traditional” beats and, from Atrocity Exhibition’s first track, the listener is hit with walls of wailing guitar and distorted punk beats.

The album doesn’t let up on the aggression for the entirety of its 15 songs. Tracks like “Ain’t it Funny” and “Golddust” are left-field, experimental beats, ones that a majority of rappers would have difficulty creating an entire project out of.

His beat selection is as abrasive and non-traditional as his delivery, as Brown is noted for his shrill, almost shrieking vocals that perfectly complement the utter insanity of his lyrics.

For his unorthodox beat selection, piercing delivery and shocking subject matter, Brown is an acquired taste. Many listeners will, understandably, not even make it past the first song — Brown is not for everyone. Continuing beyond the surface, though, reveals a complex picture of a man stuck between two worlds, that of his history as a dealer and fiend and his current rock star lifestyle, constantly hungering for a way to escape the life that brought him so much success and adoration.

None of the songs on Atrocity Exhibition feel like “traditional” rap, with the exception of “Really Doe,” the absolutely stacked posse cut that is five minutes of lyrical flexing over an exquisitely crafted beat produced

by Black Milk. Brown brings in three of the most talented lyricists in the game: Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt. And they do not disappoint. The beat is airy and ominous, and each listen further reinforces the fact that all four artists are clearly at the top of their game.

Brown thrives in environments that would prove troublesome for other artists. The funky cadence and out-there flow on “White Lines” initially seem ill-fitted, but Brown’s self-confidence lends authenticity to his tracks. “Pneumonia” is a left-field banger that’s grimy and untraditional to say the least, with SchoolBoy Q’s signature ad-libs expertly peppering Brown’s manic and unhinged vocals.

Above all else, Brown serves originality and creativity. In an era where posturing and pretending for the camera is an epidemic, Brown is a breath of fresh air.

His music is decidedly him, and it is better for it. Atrocity Exhibition takes the listener on a raucous journey filled to the brim with sex, drugs and solemn self-exploration. The album is by no means easy listening; it challenges listeners, constantly forcing them to stay on their toes to try and keep up with the frenzied energy that Brown so effortlessly emits. Atrocity Exhibition encapsulates Brown, with its rough edges, frenetic energy and meticulous lyricism.

— Contact Abdul Bingahlan at abingah@emory.edu

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Continued from Page 9 moments later. For instance, a scene ends with Mike waking up from a dream in which the Tall Man is chasing him, only to find the Tall Man looming over his bed in a graveyard. The scene then cuts away to a completely unrelated scene as if the previous events didn’t happen. It’s a very disorienting experience that puts-off viewers, but it’s an effective use of atmospheric horror to tell the “story.”

What makes Phantasm so

unnerving is that it circumvents conventional horror aesthetics and targets something else entirely: our childhood fears. Framing Mike as our youthful protagonist allows Coscarelli to explore a child’s perception of death and loss.

Tall Man serves as Mike’s boogeyman, always lurking behind him in the shadows and invading his dreams. The hallways and rooms of the funeral home are white and sterile, emphasizing the sense of isolation and coldness that death represents to a child.

A horror film is only as good as its terrifying visuals, and Phantasm’s imagery packs a punch. For a lowbudget independent film, the cinematography and visuals are phenomenal, especially in the re-mastered cut released this year.

Coscarelli’s use of backlighting and over-saturated color palette are more polished than ever in this gorgeous 4K restoration.

Everything from the yellow zombie blood to the eerie red lighting of Tall Man’s dimension have been lovingly cleaned up in this new print.

However, the restored film doesn’t

fall into the common trap of cleaning the print too much, so makeup and matte painting lines are still obscured enough to hold our suspension of disbelief.

Despite having no big-name actors due to it being an independent film, the acting is solid across the board.

Scrimm cuts an imposing figure as Tall Man, with his natural lankiness and stone cold expressions, not to mention his booming voice. Baldwin is the highlight of the film as Mike, bringing a Spielberg-esque youthful naivety to the proceedings. His relationship with Jody is the heart of the film, and he sells the hell out of it.

He’s able to flip between quiet aloofness and temper tantrums with ease, portraying a realistic teenager grappling with his emotions. Banister’s Reggie is the film’s comedic relief, providing levity as the film continues to get more ludicrous. After all, he’s a shotgun-wielding ice cream truck driver gunning down zombie dwarves!

If Phantasm has one flaw, it’s in the ending. I won’t spoil the plot twist, but if you’re an avid horror buff, you’ll probably call it in

advance. While it could be argued that the film’s disregard for internal continuity of any kind allows for this kind of ending, I’ve always had an issue with the abrupt shift in tone of the film’s final moments. While your mileage may vary on how much you think it fits the rest of the film, it does not detract from the film’s masterful buildup to that point and will not be a deal-breaker to most new viewers.

Horror films that rely on chilling atmosphere and visuals are a rare treat these days, so I highly recommend checking this one out before it’s gone.

It’s rare that a horror film gets under my skin, but even I was looking over my shoulder walking out of theater, expecting to see Tall Man lurking in the shadows. Phantasm is moody horror personified, and with the new restoration out, there’s never been a better time to see this overlooked classic.

The Plaza Theater will be running Phantasm until Oct. 6.

— Contact Vikrant Nallaparaju at vnallap@emory.edu

Comedy Unites Actors Seamlessly Continued from Page 9 nation, as it was one of the largest cash robberies in the history of the United States at the time, second only to an almost identical robbery of $18 million just a few months earlier. The FBI recovered all but two million of the stolen cash and, after a seven-year sentence in prison, Ghantt lives out his days peacefully as a part-time movie consultant.

The Masterminds cast does a fantastic job satirizing the stupidity of Ghantt and the Loomis heist. The actors bring their own strengths and comedic styles to their characters.

Galifianakis brings the same goofy, too-sweet-for-his-own-good character that had viewers reeling with laughter in The Campaign (2012) but with an added twist of bravery, as Ghantt will do just about anything for Campbell’s love.

At one point, Ghantt and Campbell go to a makeshift shooting range, where Ghantt spins a loaded gun around his pointer finger, à la Clint Eastwood, and sticks it between his buttcheeks. Unsurprisingly, the gun goes off, ripping a hole in the seat of his pants and grazing the skin off his rear end. With a classic southern twang, Ghantt lightheartedly remarks, “it feels like it just grazed my biscuits right there in betwixt them.”

Another classic one-liner occurs when Ghantt and his fiancée Janice pose ridiculously for their engagement photos.

One pose involves Janice lying on top of Ghantt when he exclaims.

“You farted right into my butthole!

It’s like a fart transplant.” Perhaps the most gruesomely funny scene depicted is when Ghantt eats a dead tarantula after Campbell tells him that he’ll need to learn to live off the land while hiding out in Mexico.

Ghantt squeezes the entire tarantula into his mouth and bites down

on it, and a nasty spurt of orange goo shoots out of its hairy abdomen, much to the horror of the audience.

This sort of slapstick humor starkly contrasts the dry, sarcastic humor of other Galifianakis characters and possibly even Galifianakis himself, as in his hit YouTube interview series Between Two Ferns. It highlights Galifianakis’ versatility as a comedian, proving to the audience that he can take on a completely new role and nail it, but still emanate the silly humor that makes him so easy to identify.

The Masterminds cinematographer, Erik Wilson, orchestrates a setting of dull colors, like warm browns and oranges, while the characters sport rather trashy, bright colors, like vibrant blues, whites and pinks.

The walls of Ghantt’s house are lined with brown, wooden panels while Ghantt wears an entirely white tuxedo with a camoflague cumberbund and bowtie in preparation for his wedding. These color schemes stay true to the rural 1990s setting and accurately reflect the cheesily flamboyant way in which one would expect country bumpkins to dress after suddenly obtaining millions of dollars. The 90s setting is humorously contradicted by a very modern soundtrack of upbeat hip-hop songs about money, like Flo Rida’s “Zillionaire.”

Although I was a bit worried that the cast of huge comedians would feel disconnected from one another, the actors blended together harmoniously, strengthening each other’s performance. Masterminds is undoubtedly one of the best new comedies I have seen in a while with consistently outrageous humor. It kept me and the entire theater in gut-wrenching laughter throughout the entire film.

— Contact Katherine McClure at katherine.mcclure@emory.edu

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Kelvin (Hugh Adams) (Left), Kacie (Wendy Melkonian) (MiddLe) and Jess (Julie Jesneck) (R ight) talk after Jess’ return from war in ‘Ugly Lies the Bone.’

Alliance Poses Virtual Reality in New Context

Continued from Page 9 without the final result in mind, instead creating a deeper scene that leaves viewers with a different perspective of the situation. In the scene where Jess’ mother (Megan McFarland) recognizes Jess after so many years, the moment is all the more impactful when you find yourself moved at the end, unsure of how you got there.

Beyond the sensational playwriting, the highly qualified Alliance cast delivers brilliant performances.

Jesneck personalizes an unfathomable character, responsibly telling a sensitive story.

Osorio perfectly displays the uncomfortable confrontation with an old friend who has drastically changed physically and emotionally. He also illuminates awkwardly attempting to relive the past, in this case pre-war Jess.

The voice of the virtual reality game is dictated by McFarland, possibly representing Jess’ yearning for familial support from her mother whom she thought had forgotten her.

The virtual reality game is crucial to theme development: “To get rid of pain, we let go, and when we do

that, we see the world not for what it was but for what it is,” the voice tells Jess. But it isn’t until Jess accepts her past, that she can begin finding joy and purpose in her life.

The balance of the traditional questions that are posed intimately throughout the play within the context of the technological treatment creates a fascinating dynamic of the technology unable to comprehend Jess’ emotions. The projections of snow-covered landscapes and burning fuel of rocket launches simulating the battlefield enable the audience to jump into the virtual reality alongside Jess. The experience becomes so vivid that one almost expects to feel freezing temperatures or searing heat.

With clarity and brutal honesty, Ugly Lies the Bone provides a brief glimpse into the mind of a troubled war veteran who yearns for the past but must keep moving forward. The Alliance Theatre goes beyond giving the show a platform and successfully educates the public through the arts and serious issues facing our communities today.

— Contact Isabel Olsen at isabel.olsen@emory.edu

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Volleyball

Women’s Tennis

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place 30th among all entries.

Making his first competitive appearance this season on Saturday, senior Lukas Mees was a major highlight on the men’s side. Displaying no hints of being out of practice, Mees led his team in the 8K with a time of 25:37 to reach 19th place among 388 entries.

Not far behind, freshman Luis Torres, Jr. posted a 21st overall finish by clocking in at 25:39.

“We knew that Luis [Torres] was going to be an outstanding freshman, but he has exceeded all expectations,” Mees said. “He runs with the indefatigable will of the legendary Tarahumara tribe in his blood.”

There seemed to be top-five finishes for Emory’s cross country team as far as the eye could see on Saturday, as another talented cohort of Eagles competed in the White Division (non Division-I programs) at the JSU Foothills Invitational.

The women’s group earned fourth

place out of 10 teams with 126 points, following University of Montevallo (18 points) (Va.) in first, University of North Georgia (53 points) in second and Tennessee Wesleyan (86 points) (Tenn.) in third.

“[Luis Torres] runs with the indefatigatble will of the Tarahumara tribe ...”

— Lukas Mees, College senior Freshman Isabelle Robbins was atop the pack for Emory, finishing 44th out of 165 5K runners (in both the Red and White Divisions) with a time of 19:31. With a mark of 19:57 to earn 58th overall, junior Dyess Verfurth was the next closest Eagle to finish.

The men placed third among 11 teams with 89 points, following only Montevallo (43 points) and Tennessee

Wesleyan (83 points). Freshman Chase Gornbein was the top contributor thanks to a time of 27:06, ranking 49th out of 161 entries. Almost right behind him was senior Phil Edwards at 27:08 and a 51st overall finish.

The Eagles look forward to having the next weekend off.

“You can’t race every week. You can only ask these kids to go to the line so many times every year,” Curtin said.

“We try to spread the competitions out over the season so we don’t get fatigued or injured. And we’re going to take this weekend off and use fall break to train and make sure also to have the kids catch up on their studies and their rest.”

The team hopes to realize the fruits of their preparation as they split up again to attend two meets Oct. 15: the Inter-regional Border Battle in Glassboro, N.J., and the local Berry Invitational.

— Contact Niko Vidger at graham.vidger@emory.edu

Ricketts Finds Comfort at Emory Swim Team Aids in 2-0 Continued from Back Page Ricketts, it was an easy decision.

“I wanted to see [what the coaching experience] would be like, and a friend of mine is an alumn[us] at Emory, so the opportunity was there when Emory needed a goalkeeping coach, and the pieces all came together,” Ricketts said.

Ricketts last played professionally in 2015, making his transition from playing to coaching a short one, but coaching has always been a goal for the former MLS goalkeeper.

“As a player, coaching is one of those things you want to have a chance at in your career. [The most challenging part of the changeover to coaching is that] I take responsibility for the goalkeepers I have, because the way they perform is a reflection of the work we do in the week,” Ricketts said.

However, Ricketts’ quick transition from playing to coaching provides him with a distinct advantage in his ability to relate with the players on Emory’s team.

“He was a player a year ago, so he still has that player mindset, and he interacts with us as if he was one of us, as if he is part of the team,” junior goalkeeper Jake Deuel said. “He cracks jokes with us, makes fun of us … The way he has been able to come right

in and fit in with the team has been really cool.”

The intense competition for the team’s starting goalkeeper position only adds to the intrigue of Ricketts’ entry. So far, three keepers have seen time in goal for the Eagles, with a fourth ready to prove himself. Having multiple keepers ready and able to compete has been one of Ricketts’ primary goals this year, a task in which he has thus far had significant success.

For the keepers working with Ricketts, this is an experience they will not soon forget. Junior Graham Labran-Boyd, from Los Angeles, Calif., has long been familiar with Ricketts.

“It’s honestly crazy, because I’m from [Los Angeles] and I used to watch him play,” Labran-Boyd said. “He has played in Europe, he has played in the MLS, he has played for the national team, he has played in the World Cup … It’s tough to ask for a coach with better experience than that.”

Despite his impressive pedigree, Ricketts brings a humble approach with his coaching technique.

“A lot of goalie trainers have their style [of play], and they try to instill that into their players, while Ricketts understands that there are different ways to play the position. He is more focused on helping us improve on what we need to improve on, rather than

getting exactly [the style] he wants,” Labran-Boyd said.

As a coach, Ricketts combines his hands-off approach with an attitude of intensity and high expectations. “[Ricketts] demands a high level of play just from the way he serves the ball to us and the pace that they come in,” Deuel said. “Day one, he said he wants us to catch every ball that comes at us. He really cares about the development of the goalies and wants us to get better. He wants us to win just as bad as we want to win.”

For both the players and the coaching staff, Ricketts brings an indispensable level of knowledge and insight.

“When [Ricketts] says something, the players really respond, and as a coach, having him to bounce things off of and hear what he sees is invaluable,” Head Coach Sonny Travis said.

Currently in his first year as a coach, it is difficult to say how long Ricketts’ tenure at Emory may last, given his status as a player, but as it stands, he is excited to be a part of the Emory program.

“I do not know what the future holds,” Ricketts said. “But for now, I am happy here, and I am comfortable here.”

— Contact Kevin Kilgour at kevin.j.kilgour@emory.edu

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8-4. Strong defenses on both sides of the field prevented the offenses from Emory swimming and diving team. scoring in the second half until, in The team stormed out of the Woodruff the 86th minute, freshman forward Physical Education Center (WoodPEC) Caroline Kolski fired a shot past the and into the stands, dripping wet, car- outstretched arms of UChicago’s goalrying kickboards and clad in bathing keeper, sealing the game and the final score in favor of the Eagles. suits from their morning practice.

Head Coach Sue The team dove Patberg thought her into a well-rehearsed team rose to the occachant, making enough “We love it when sion on the challenges noise to attract curithe [swimming and they faced against ous onlookers strolling diving team] do[es] UChicago, which she past the soccer field. that.” said is “always a hardTheir school spirit got fought match.” the 123-person crowd She thought the pumped up and join— Cristina Ramirez, entire team played ing in on the action. senior striker well, but that the Only minutes after defense did an espethe swim team’s display of school spirit, Ramirez scored cially good job containing who she felt from close range with the help of a was the Maroons’ best player — sophobeautiful assist from sophomore more midfielder Jenna McKinney.

The Eagles will play next when they defender Nikki Batt. Emory took the hit the road to take on Washington lead 1-0 at the 21-minute mark.

“I felt the momentum switch, and University in St. Louis (Mo.) Saturday, [then] we scored,” said Ramirez, who Oct. 8.

“Playing Wash. U at Wash. U is led the team with six shots out of the always tough,” Patberg said. “And it is team’s 18 overall.

“We love it when [the swimming one that we are really excited about.” and diving team] do[es] that.”

— Contact Presley West at At the half, Emory had taken twice presley.west@emory.edu as many shots as their opponent —

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Continued from Page 1 good leaders by example, and when they’re on the court, we watch how they interact with the rest of the players,” Freshman defensive specialist and libero Elyse Thompson said.

Various players and McDowell have in the past expressed their desire to achieve greater stamina during play as a long-term goal.

Even as the Eagles win 10 straight games — with a season record of 14-3 — they continue to work on improving their stamina.

McDowell attributed this extensive winning period primarily to the “little things” the players have been doing to

improve.

Part of what has gotten the Eagles to their current status is commitment.

“They’re always asking us to set up the net on our off days and asking our strength coach for extra exercises.

They’re putting in all the extra time,” McDowell said.

On Saturday, Oct. 8, the Eagles will challenge Salem College (N.C.) and Covenant College (Ga.) for their last away matches before returning home Tuesday, Oct. 11, to play against Oglethorpe University (Ga.) at 4 p.m. and Agnes Scott College (Ga.) at 8 p.m.

— Contact Allison Gelman at allison.gelman@emory.edu

McCartney more, and I think we were able to find him and run off of him better in the second, which increased our possession,” Head Coach Sonny Travis said.

To Emory’s dismay, plays like the deflected cross typified the remainder of the second half. Emory was knocking on the door for the entirety of the second half; including a header from McCartney that was inches from crossing the goal line in the 51st minute, a goal called back on a keeper interference violation in the 70th minute, a scrum in front of the goal in the 83rd minute and a one-touch rip off the volley from junior midfielder Gabriel Vasconcelos that was denied by the fingertips of a diving Bonin in

the 86th minute.

Junior midfielder Christian Meyer, while disappointed with the score line, was pleased with the team’s efforts.

“I think we were unfortunate not to score any goals,” Meyer said. “We created more chances than UChicago; we just weren’t able to get the ball into the back of the net.”

Despite plenty of opportunities, Emory just couldn’t break through what seemed to be a screen covering the plane of the UChicago goal. The nail in the coffin came from UChicago in the final 30 seconds as UChicago freshman forward Dayo Adeosun managed to put a close-range shot in to seal UChicago’s 2-0 victory. Despite the unfortunate finish, spirits were high amongst the Eagle squad.

“I think we have known pretty

much all year that we have talented players individually and that we could play with pretty much anyone in the country, but this game gives us more confidence and confirms our belief that we can play with anyone,” Meyer said.

For Travis, the steps ahead are simple: “This group is clicking as a team, and the chemistry is good. We just need to get a little bit better each work, and we will be where we need to be by the end [of the season],” Travis said.

The Eagles’ next UAA match falls on Saturday, Oct. 8, when they travel to St. Louis, Mo., to face off against Washington University in St. Louis (6-0-1).

— Contact Kevin Kilgour at kevin.j.kilgour@emory.edu

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Emory Dominates Louisville Classic By niKo vidger Staff Writer

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Current Emory Goalkeeper Coach and former MLS Goalkeeper of the Year Donovan Ricketts boots away a goal kick for Orlando City Soccer Club in 2014.

Ricketts Brings Experience, Wisdom

By Kevin Kilgour Contributing Writer Believe it or not, a former professional athlete with a resume that boasts highlights such as experience playing in the World Cup, winning an MLS championship and earning two MLS Goalkeeper of the Year awards is on the coaching staff of one of Emory’s athletic programs. That per-

son described above is Emory’s men’s soccer goalkeeping coach, Donovan Ricketts.

Born in St. James, Jamaica, Ricketts began his professional soccer career playing with Village United in 2002. Since then, Ricketts’ accolades include an MLS championship with the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2011 and MLS Goalkeeper of the Year in 2010 and 2013. Ricketts also spent signifi-

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cant time playing internationally with the Jamaican National Team, accumulating over 100 caps and making it as a member of Jamaica’s 1998 World Cup roster.

Ricketts’ announcement that he would be coming to Emory to serve as the men’s goalkeeping coach this past year was fairly unexpected. But for

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This past weekend, Emory’s cross country program split up to attend two different meets: the 15th Annual Louisville Sports Commission Cross Country Classic in Louisville, Ky., and the 11th Annual Jacksonville State University (JSU) Foothills Invitational in Oxford, Ala. The cross country teams performed well at the Louisville Classic, with the women finishing third and the men taking fifth. In the JSU Invitational, the women finished fourth and the men took third.

Head Coach John Curtin explained that runners attended the Louisville Classic because it served as “the prenational meet.” “[The Louisville Classic was] an opportunity for us to run on the same course they will contest the national championship in November,” Curtin said.

The Louisville Classic has been a highly touted race, given that it will also be the grounds that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division-III Championships will be held on this season November 19. The No. 16 Emory women’s squad

MEN’S SOCCER

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women Extend Win Streak To Four

Squad Extends Win Streak to 10 Games

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missed its intended target and was intercepted by UChicago senior forward Brenton Desai about five yards outside the box. Desai took a touch and smashed the ball into the right upper 90 of Emory’s goal. UChicago took the 1-0 lead into halftime.

While Emory had opportunities in the first half, the Eagles who took the pitch to start the second half came out even stronger than before, attacking UChicago from all sides. In just the first minute of the second half, a cross from Emory freshman midfielder William Jones was deflected onto the goal. Unfortunately, UChicago junior goalkeeper Hill Bonin’s chest collided solidly with the ball, collecting the fortunate save.

“In the second half, our game plan was to find [junior forward Jason]

Their contribution was not logged onto the final box score, but consider the Emory swimming and diving team’s cheering a factor in women’s soccer’s 2-0 win over the University of Chicago (Ill.) on Saturday.

The Eagles handed the fourth ranked UChicago Maroons their first loss of the season, kicking off University Athletic Association (UAA) conference play with a decisive victory over a team Emory had not beaten since 2013.

The win improved the Eagles’ record to 6-3 on the season and increased the team’s win streak to four.

“We knew [the Maroons] were good and strong,” senior striker Cristina Ramirez said.

“But, we also knew we could beat them if we worked hard.”

The two sides have played some contentious games in the past, which showed on the pitch Saturday.

In two of the last three matchups between the Maroons and the Eagles, an Emory player had to leave the game “on crutches.”

“We have had a bad history with them,” Ramirez added.

Both UChicago and Emory had great chances in the first 20 minutes of the match, but neither team managed to get on the scoreboard.

The tide changed after the Eagles received a huge morale boost from the

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By Allison gelmAn Contributing Writer

“When it comes to UAA, we play teams that we play every year, and it becomes a lot more personal. You “About three weeks ago, after we go in and you see the same girls that had lost our third match, we all looked you play every year. There is a greater at each other and said, ‘It’s time for a sense of rivalry when it comes to these win streak,’ ” Emory volleyball Head conferences,” Trinka said. “We tried to Coach Jenny McDowell said with approach these games very disciplined … and I think we stuck to our system pride.

And it seems that McDowell very well.”

In terms of the team’s successes predicted exactly what was to come.

With a total of three wins this weekend, this weekend, along with overall discipline, both McDowell the team extended and Trinka specifitheir winning streak from seven to an “We tried to approach cally noted sophomore middle hitter Sydney impressive 10 games. these games very dis- Leimbach, senior The Eagles played ciplined ... we stuck to middle hitter Jessica three matches this our system very well.” Holler and senior past weekend in Pittsburgh, Pa., — Kathryn Trinka, right side hitter Sarah for the University senior outside hitter Maher as key players this weekend.

Athletic Association In the Rochester (UAA) Round Robin game, Maher made 33 total attacks, and No. 1.

On Saturday, the squad won 3-1 in the match against NYU, Leimbach against the University of Rochester attained a .667 kill percentage.

Holler maintained a constant pres(N.Y.) and 3-0 against New York ence on the court, securing a total of University.

The Eagles finished off the tour- 35 kills for the weekend.

Watching sophomore Leimbach’s, nament with a 3-0 win against Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) or seniors Holler’s and Maher’s performances inspired the younger players, Sunday.

Senior outside hitter Kathryn especially as the Eagles make their Trinka, one of four upperclassmen on first UAA appearances. “[The upperclassmen] are all very the team, explained how the UAA wins were of immense importance in her final year of playing for Emory.

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came away with 128 points for a third place finish among the 39 teams that entered. The team fell short only to first-place finisher No. 14 Hope College (103 points) (Mich.) and runner-up Bates College (108 points) (Maine). The women had five personal bests and they all finished under 23 minutes, a rare occurrence, according to Curtin.

The No. 34 Emory men’s squad was also quite successful, coming home with fifth place out of 43 teams on a 134-point performance, following No. 2 North Central University (26 points) (Ill.) in first , No. 5 PomonaPitzer (108 points) (Calif.) in second , No. 13 Carnegie Mellon University (111 points) (Pa.) in third and No. 18 Johns Hopkins University (130 points) (Md.) in fourth.

Junior Gabrielle Stravach led the way for the Eagles in the 6K, with finishing 17th among 332 runners with an impressive time of 22:23, the second best time she has achieved in her career. Junior Tru Powell finished right behind Stravach, placing 18th with a personal best of 22:27.

Megan Waples also achieved a personal record, as she clocked in at 22:49 to

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Junior midfielder Jason McCartney fights for a ball in the game against UChicago this past Saturday.

UChicago Shuts Emory Out

By Kevin Kilgour Contributing Writer In their first University Athletic Association (UAA) match of the season, the Emory men’s soccer team finished just short of the University of Chicago (Ill.) Maroons, losing 2-0 at home Saturday. UChicago, currently No.3 in the NCAA D-III rankings, improved to 11-0 on the season, while Emory fell to 5-3, ending a three-game win streak.

Taking into consideration both UChicago’s national ranking and Emory’s goal to win a UAA championship, the stakes could not have been higher for this young Emory team in Saturday’s contest.

The tide swung in favor of the Maroons fairly early when, on what looked to be a good cross-pitch release out of Emory’s defensive end, the pass