INDEX
Emory Events Calendar, Page 2
Police Record, Page 2
Staff Editorial, Page 6
Horoscope, Page 9
Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
On Fire, Page 11
THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 94, Issue 21
www.emorywheel.com
Friday, November 16, 2012 CAMPUS LIFE
Every Tuesday and Friday GREEK LIFE
WONDERFUL WORK
Emory Inn To Be Demolished In June
AEPi, Univ. Establish Housing Agreement
By Dustin Slade Staff Writer
By Jordan Friedman Associate Editor
Emory will demolish the Emory Inn in June 2013 to make room for Phase II of the mixed-use, residentialretail project Emory Point. The Inn — owned by Emory University and managed by Crestline Hotels and Resorts as a commercial use hotel — is a French-style inn adjacent to the Emory Conference Center Hotel. Emory administrators said the demolition of the Inn will not have an impact on the estimated 2.5 million visitors that come to the Emory campus every year. Mike Mandl, Emory’s executive vice president of finance and administration, said he hopes that when the Emory Inn is demolished, visitors will stay at the Emory Conference Center Hotel. The Conference Center Hotel added 127 new rooms a few years ago in anticipation of the Inn’s demolition. Following the Inn’s scheduled demolition, Cousins Properties Inc. will begin construction on Phase II of Emory Point where the Emory Inn currently resides on Clifton Road. The added phase will bring 240 apartment units and 40,000 square feet of retail property. Jason Frost, vice president of development for Cousins Properties Inc., expressed his excitement with the response that he has seen from the Emory community toward the expansion of Emory Point. Frost added that he expects Emory students to take advantage of the various restaurants and shops that will be available at the new complex. “We are very excited from the results and the response we have seen from the retailers and the residents of Emory Point and are excited for continuing on with the project,” Frost commented in an interview with the Wheel. Although the Inn was set for demolition in July 2011, the Emory Inn completed a renovation that included improvements to 107 guest rooms, public spaces and the swimming pool. Mandl wrote in an email to the Wheel that even though the demolition had been planned for that time, the renovations were necessary at the time. He noted that the improvements that were made were minimal. Revenue from the Emory Inn since the addition of the renovations fully paid for the improvements. Many Emory students have spent a night at the Emory Inn prior to their first day of school as well as during their visit to Emory as prospective students. College freshman Michelle Zeng wanted to stay at the Emory Conference Center Hotel the night before school started but said her father accidentally booked the Emory
Emory’s Goizueta Business School Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was ranked No. 1 in job placement in Bloomberg BusinessWeek Business Schools’ annual rankings. The list, released on Nov. 1, represents a six-spot leap from seventh place last year. Associate Dean and Executive Director of the MBA Career Management Center Wendy Tsung said that although she is proud of the results, it is not necessarily what the program aspires for. “There are people behind these numbers, and that’s the more important part of it,” Tsung said. “It’s that our students are able to find opportunities that they want to be at.” Tsung said the fact that the graduate offer rate — which is the percent-
The University and Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity struck a housing deal last week, guaranteeing AEPi housing at 17 Eagle Row for the next three years while the fraternity fundraises for either a renovated or new house at that location. AEPi has expressed interest in a new or renovated residence during the past few years, according to Spencer Barkoff, a Goizueta Business School senior and the former AEPi president, who has led with the fraternity’s housing initiative since last year. The Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life, Residence Life and Housing and Campus Life have continuously engaged in discussion with members of the fraternity “to meet their housing objectives within the framework of University and Greek housing parameters,” according to Mike Mandl, executive vice president of finance and administration. “The University and AEPi agreed on the possible site 17 Eagle Row, the site of the ‘Spice House,’” Andrea Trinklein, executive director of Residence Life and Housing, wrote in an email to the Wheel, in reference to the new agreement. “This is where the fraternity is currently living. A final plan will be established after AEPi raises their funds.” The recent agreement comes in light of the fact that Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity (PIKE) returned this semester to its house on Eagle Row after PIKE was rechartered during the spring 2011 semester. Prior to PIKE’s return to campus housing, AEPi had resided in the PIKE house since PIKE’s charter was revoked in 2004. Because the house belongs to PIKE under the Phoenix Plan — the agreement that provides fraternities with long-term housing through signed agreements — AEPi moved into the former Kappa Sigma house at 17 Eagle Row this fall. This house provides 22 beds for fraternity members as opposed to the PIKE house, which offered 42. Since AEPi does not own a longterm fraternity house under the Phoenix Plan, fraternity members launched a fundraising campaign that lasted from 2002 and 2009.
See ADMINS, Page 5
See NEW, Page 5
See DEMOLITION, Page 5
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n addition to prizes, giveaways and treats, this week’s Wonderful Wednesday featured several activity tables. For example, students passing through Asbury Circle Wednesday afternoon were able to take a break in between classes to paint and decorate bowls as well as participate in any other activities that organizations sponsored.
ACADEMICS
BUSINESS SCHOOL
Add/Drop/Swap Period to Start Later MBA Ranks No. 1 in Career Placement By Stephanie Fang News Co-Editor
This semester’s add/drop/swap period will commence on Monday, Dec. 3 rather than Thursday, Nov. 29, the date that it was originally scheduled to begin. The period will stay open until Tuesday, Jan. 22. University administrators made this change to add/drop/swap after recognizing that they had made a scheduling mistake when they originally planned it. According to Steve Savage, the communications specialist for the Office for Undergraduate Education, administrators traditionally schedule the add/drop/swap period to open on the first Monday that follows the enrollment appointments for first-
year students. However, he noted, during this year’s scheduling meetings, administrators accidentally moved the date to the day after pre-registration for classes — which they corrected after “one of the College departments noticed the error.” “The primary reason for us correcting this date is to give departments time to review their enrollments and work with their declared majors to ensure that they are enrolled in courses that will allow them to fulfill major requirements,” Savage explained. During add/drop/swap, students are able to add open classes to their schedules or drop classes in which they are currently enrolled that they no longer wish to take.
Additionally, students can switch classes in their schedule that they no longer want for those that have opened. Citing the economics department as a “prime example,” Savage remarked that the date revision is especially important for “departments with high enrollments and large numbers of majors.” “Additionally, the added time for departments to review enrollments allows them to see where they have the greatest demand,” Savage said. “In the past, this time has allowed departments to work with the faculty members to add additional sections of courses where there is significant demand.”
— Contact Stephanie Fang at fang.fang@emory.edu
RAVENOUS FOR RAMEN
ADMINISTRATION
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he Asian Student Organization sponsored a Ramen eating competition this Thursday at the Dobbs University Center Terraces. College junior Roy Young (above) participated in the contest which featured five different events where students could win t-shirts and concert tickets.
DINING
Longer DUC Hours to Replace Late Night By Stephanie Fang News Co-Editor The Dobbs Market, located in the Dobbs University Center (DUC), will permanently extend its hours for the rest of the semester, removing the Late Night Option. In addition, the Dobbs Market will host Premium Nights every
Wednesday evening, offering students high-quality food options on a weekly basis. For the remainder of the semester after Thanksgiving break, Dobbs Market will no longer offer a Late Night option. Instead, it will remain open until 10 p.m. on weeknights. In the past, the Dobbs Market,
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which is the main dining service on campus, stayed open until 8 p.m. and reopened for Late Night from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m on weeknights. However, Food Advisory Committee at Emory (FACE) cochairs, College sophomores Michael Sacks and Karoline Porcello, chose to explore the possibility of changing these hours due to student dissatisfac-
tion and practical concerns regarding the Dobbs Market employees who worked during the Late Night hours. In an Oct. 18 Wheel article, Sacks explained that employees who worked shifts during Late Night often had difficulty returning home because many workers did not finish their
See ALONG, Page 5
Larsen Named Next Medical School Dean By Jordan Friedman Associate Editor The University announced Christian Larsen, Joseph Brown Whitehead professor and chair of the department of surgery at the Emory School of Medicine as the next medical school dean, effective Jan. 15. Larsen also serves as the director of surgical services for Emory Healthcare and executive director of the Emory Transplant Center. He is also an internationally recognized leader in kidney and pancreas transplantation, according to his biography on the Emory website. In addition to serving as dean, Larsen will serve as vice president for health center integration for the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center and as chair-
Chris Larsen, chair of the Department of Surgery, will become dean of the School of Medicine, replacing Tom Lawley. man of the Board of Directors for the Emory Clinic. In addition, Larsen played a key role in discovering a new class of immunosuppressive drugs for transplants, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved in June 2011. The National Institutes for
See LAWLEY, Page 4
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