November 15, 2017

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Volume 99, Issue 11

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Wednesday, november 15, 2017

CULTURE SHOCK

LEGISLATION

GOP Tax Plan May Cost Grad Students

CRIME

Student Arrested On Drug Charges

By Madison BoBer Staff Writer

By Monica Lefton Staff Writer

The U.S. House of Representatives GOP tax plan would make graduate school less affordable for some students and tax some university endowment returns and could cause Emory to lose millions from the endowment tax. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act bill, introduced by House Republicans Nov.

Mulan dance club performs a traditional East asian dance at culture Shock, an event that celebrates diversity at Emory, nov. 10 in White Hall 208.

A Goizueta Business School junior is facing three drug-related felonies after Emory Police Department (EPD) found illegal drugs, drug-related objects and cash in his room. EPD executed a search warrant in John McGourty’s (19B) room at 20 Eagle Row, the Kappa Sigma fraternity house, the morning of Nov. 9.

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CURRICULUM

New Joint Majors Available in 2018 By VaLerie sandoVaL Staff Writer

Emory’s Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods (QTM) is partnering with Goizueta Business School and the Department of Political Science to offer two new majors next year. A joint bachelor’s of business administration (BBA) and quantitative social sciences (QSS) major will be

offered in Fall 2018. The QTM department and the Political Science department are offering a Public Policy Analysis (PPA) major starting Spring 2018. Discussions of a BBA+QSS major have been ongoing for four to five years, according to Senior Associate Dean and BBA Program Director Andrea Hershatter. Hershatter worked with QTM Director Clifford Carrubba to create

THEOLOGY

LIBRARY

CLINTON

the major and get approval from Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Joanne Brzinski. Carrubba said he worked with several Emory political science professors, including Michael Rich, Michael Owens, Adam Glynn and Pablo Montagnes, to develop the PPA major. There are currently more than 300 colleges in the United States that offer

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Pitts to Woodruff Library to Digitize Undergo Renovations Clinton Looks Toward Library Midterm Elections Collection

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Hillary clinton (Left) and agnes Scott President Elizabeth Kiss (r ight) discuss clinton’s book ‘What Happened.’

By Madison BoBer Staff Writer

By MoLLy BaLL Staff Writer The newly appointed director of Pitts Theology Library, Richard Manly “Bo” Adams Jr. (05T, 12G), plans to make the library more accessible to other universities and people outside Emory by digitizing the library’s collections. Adams replaces former Director M. Patrick Graham, who retired in August after serving as director of the Pitts Theology Library since 1994. Adams had served as interim director since September. “We cannot simply think we have all these neat things,” Adams said. “We’re all trying to figure out what changes in

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Renovations to the Robert W. Woodruff Library will redesign the second through ninth floors if funding is approved AFTER a feasibility study into estimated costs and timeframes, according to University Librarian Yolanda Cooper. The project is in the final phase of the study, which is also looking into changes to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library and the Computing Center at Cox Hall. Woodruff Library floors will be redesigned to incorporate more “open study spaces,” Cooper said. The plans call for a new entrance to the third floor of the Woodruff Library on Fishburne Drive and a “scholar commons” section, which would encompass a lab-like environment geared toward faculty, graduate students and experts in teaching and learning technologies. Proposed changes to the fourth floor include an increase in group

study rooms and more open study spaces. The proposal calls for a graduatestudent-only space on the fifth floor that can only be accessed with an EmoryCard swipe. “We have individual study [spaces] for graduates and faculty now, but we’re going to create spaces to make it more equitable — what happens is people can’t get spaces,” Cooper said. “That way when we open the space, we won’t have that problem.” The proposal includes opening a reading room, increasing open study space and adding historical collections to the WHSC Library. “Once we find out the feasibility study and get the phasing going, we’ll promote it more and start to request funding for different portions,” Cooper said. “It could be as far out as five to six years before we can complete all the renovations.” Cooper said she hopes the feasibility study will be completed by the end

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“I wanted to pull back the curtain on one of the wildest elections in American history,” former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Nov. 13 at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre. In both her September 2017 book “What Happened” and the accompanying tour, Clinton said she hoped to “take the gloves off” and explain her experience as the first woman to win a major political party’s presidential nomination. Clinton answered four pre-collected audience questions from Agnes Scott College (Ga.) President and moderator Elizabeth Kiss for more than one hour to an almost sold-out crowd at the 4,678-seat capacity venue. The lack of conversation about Russian interference in the 2016 election inspired her to return to the public

eye, Clinton said. “What we learned about Russian interference in this election is more than alarming — it is a clear and present danger to our democracy,” Clinton said. “We know that they intruded and hacked into voter rolls, and there’s increasing evidence that it went further than that. If it had been reversed and I had been in the White House … I would have had a presidential commission that would have subpoena power to get to the bottom of what happened.” The former presidential candidate also wanted an opportunity to respond to critics who told her to “go away” after her loss. “If they had left me alone I might still be wandering in the woods,” Clinton said, referencing several pictures taken of her hiking in the woods after her loss that went viral online.

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