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Emory Events Calendar, Page 2
Police Record, Page 2
Story Snippet, Page 9
Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
Staff Editorial, Page 6
On Fire, Page 11
THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 94, Issue 17
www.emorywheel.com
Friday, November 2, 2012 ADMINISTRATION
Every Tuesday and Friday
ACADEMICS
Wagner College Plans Scheduling, Credit Changes for Next Fall Pressured Faculty to Vote on Reduced Timeslots for Classes, Final Exams Altered Graduation Requirements At Univ. Address By Jordan Friedman Associate Editor
By Jordan Friedman Associate Editor
By Karishma Mehrotra Asst. News Editor University President James W. Wagner engaged in heated discussions with faculty, staff and students at the ninth annual State of the University Address Tuesday evening. The event, titled “Moving Emory Forward: Progress and Priorities,” took place in the Dobbs University Center’s (DUC) Winship Ballroom. Wagner first discussed the University’s accomplishments and stated the administration’s three main goals for the University: “engaging our community,” “enhancing education that Emory provides” and “responding to world changes.” Under Wagner’s first goal of “engaging our community,” his top priority was to “empower faculty responsibility for future opportunities.” According to Wagner, great universities require the faculty to “imagine, own and implement” changes to their institution. In terms of “enhancing the education that Emory provides,” Wagner applauded Dean of the College Robin Forman’s “courageous decision to imagine and implement a strategy for greater excellence and distinction.” The plan, according to Wagner, will strengthen departments of excellence as funds are reallocated from the closure of other departments. Finally, Wagner discussed “responding to world changes” and focused on the principle of internationalization by “refining our global strategy.” Wagner cited “responding creatively to fiscal realities in the Woodruff Health Center,” “exploring partnerships with Georgia Tech” “and “exploring new markets for resource growth” — which includes online education — as examples. “[The priorities] are highlighted topics that bring focus onto our energies to our forward progress of our collective enterprise,” Wagner said. The University’s progress, Wagner
See ATTENDEES, Page 5
The Educational Policy Committee has approved reducing the College’s graduation requirements to 124 hours from 128 as a result of the credit-hour changes scheduled for next fall. Faculty will vote to approve this change in the next two months. The Wheel reported this spring that Emory will begin following the Carnegie Unit System next fall, in
which the number of credit hours for courses matches the number of “contact hours,” or the amount of time students are in the classroom, per week. Under this system, one credit hour represents one hour per week that a student is in direct contact with a professor as well as two hours of work outside the classroom, according to the U.S. Department of Education website.
See CHANGES, Page 4
Emory College will be making changes to class timeslots and the final exam schedule effective fall 2013. The changes will coincide with the school’s credit-hour system changes. Rather than offering 50-minute classes only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the College will also hold such classes on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. In addition, the College will offer 75-minute classes on Monday and Wednesday rather than
ACTIVISM
primarily on Tuesday and Thursday. Regarding the exam schedule, the College will add a fourth timeslot to its final exam schedule and reduce the period in between exams from 90 to 60 minutes. The College presently determines final exam times for different classes based on the timeslots these classes occupy during the week. However, multi-section courses in which professors give the same exam to all students — specifically in biology, chemistry, language, math and phys-
See CERTAIN, Page 4
CHANGES FOR FALL 2013 New Final Exam Schedule • 8 - 10:30 a.m. • 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. • 3 - 5:30 p.m. • 6:30 - 9 p.m.
New Class Timeslots • 50 - minute classes will be offered MWF, TuThF. • 75 - minute classes will be offered MW, TuTh.
ADMINISTRATION
Claire Sterk to Serve as Acting Univ. Provost By Rajiv Velury Staff Writer
Dustin Slade/Staff Writer
Students protested the presence of Chick-fil-A in the University’s Cox Hall Food Court on campus. The protest took place outside Cox Hall Wednesday afternoon.
Students Protest Emory Chick-fil-A By Dustin Slade Staff Writer Students lined up on the Cox Hall Bridge to protest the presence of Chick-fil-A on Emory’s campus Wednesday. Controversy regarding the national restaurant chain Chick-fil-A arose this July when company President Dan Cathy publicly stated his opinion on gay marriage. Since then, students have held multiple sessions on cam-
pus to discuss the presence of the food chain at Emory. Protesters held signs asking Emory students and faculty to boycott the Chick-fil-A on campus. Some signs mimicked Chick-filA’s signature marketing slogan “Eat Mor Chikin.” These signs read, for example, “I don’t eat at Chick-fil-A, I’d rather eat Dik,” and “Hate mor fagz.” The protest was organized through the “Support All Emory Students, Say
No to Chick-fil-A” Facebook group. The group — which has not specified who its leaders are — invited students on the social-media networking site to stop by the two-hour protest “even if [they] could only make it for five minutes” and show their support, according to its Facebook page. Some students chose to attend the protest because they agreed that the campus Chick-fil-A is detrimental to
See PROTEST, Page 4
STUDENT LIFE
Claire Sterk will assume the position of the University’s acting provost for academic affairs on Nov. 10, following the departure of Earl Lewis. She will serve as the acting provost until a permanent replacement for Lewis, who currently occupies the position, can be found. Sterk, Candler Professor in Public Health and former senior vice provost, said that she was honored to have been given the position. She remarked that University President James W. Wagner had met with her personally in order to offer her the job. Although Sterk had not expressed an interest in taking the job beforehand, she ended up having several discussions with Wagner regarding the responsibilities that the job would demand of her. After having had these discussions, she formally accepted the appointment last week. “As a member of [Lewis’] senior leadership team, I have been in the position to become very familiar with the role of the provost,” Sterk said. Although Sterk will assume her duties as acting provost this month, Lewis will officially hold the title of provost until Dec. 31. After this date, Sterk will hold
Claire Sterk, former senior vice provost, will take over as acting provost Nov. 10 when Earl Lewis leaves the University. onto her role until a replacement is found by the University’s Search Advisory Committee. According to Wagner, Sterk is “extraordinary in her ability to juggle multiple responsibilities [in administration and academia].” He expressed confidence in her ability to manage the position, adding that she can work “in a seamless fashion across divisions.” In addition to her administrative work, Sterk holds two doctorate degrees and has been awarded more than $6.3 million in grant money to study the relationship between neighborhood effects, HIV risk-taking and drug abuse. Despite her role as acting provost, Sterk plans to continue this research. “Over the past several years, I have been able to occupy multiple roles,” she said. “I do plan to remain actively engaged with the Rollins School of
See STERK, Page 4
EMORY HISTORY
Student Exhibition on Quad Emory’s Own Cemetery, Largely Unknown to Students Promotes Suicide Awareness By Nicholas Sommariva News Co-Editor
By Dustin Slade Staff Writer Emory’s Active Minds club hosted a suicide awareness exhibition, Send Silence Packing, on the Quadrangle (Quad) yesterday. The group also held a memorial service to commemorate student victims of suicide. Active Minds is a student organization with a primary focus on advocating for the mental health needs of the college-age population. Members of Active Minds scattered more than 1,100 backpacks across the Quad. Each backpack represented one of the approximately 1,100 students that commit suicide on college campuses every year. Attached to each backpack was a personal background of a student victim. The exhibition ran from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “Each backpack was donated to Active Minds by friends and families of suicide victims,” said Jay Kim, College junior and co-president of
Active Minds. “These backpacks come with stories and personal information about the victims.” Kim had worked with the Active Minds national office for more than a year to bring the exhibition to Emory. The display is a national traveling exhibit being hosted throughout the country. The debut of the exhibition at Emory was the first the time exhibit was displayed in the southern U.S. Suicide affects many students both around the country and here at Emory. “This affects me personally. I’ve had two friends that committed suicide in the last two years,” Sarah Spitz, College sophomore and active minds co-president, said. “People don’t realize [suicide] affects many other people. This exhibit is very powerful; 1,100 is a big number.” Mark McLeod, director of Emory Student Health and Counseling Services, led a memorial service in
See MCLEOD, Page 3
Yes, there is a graveyard on campus. At Clairmont Campus to be exact, and only a less-than-five-minute walk from the Student Activity and Academic Center (SAAC). One of the earliest historical landmarks of DeKalb County, Hardman Cemetery was created when Rody, the one-and-a-half-year-old child of Naman Hardman, passed away in February 1825. The State of Georgia hired Naman Hardman in 1823 to build roads, after the state and federal governments forced the Creek Indians out of Georgia. The Creek Indians were forced to cede the land that is now DeKalb County. A devout Baptist, Hardman began to hold prayer meetings in his log cabin, which he built near what is today Clairmont Road. He eventually built a meetinghouse in 1826 and with it, deeded two acres for a cemetery. This cemetery is older
Nicholas Sommariva/News Co-Editor
Emory’s cemetary at the Clairmnt Campus is one of the earliest historical landmarks in Dekalb County. It was constructed in 1825. than Emory and the City of Atlanta. Vice President and Deputy to the President Gary Hauk said it would be hard to imagine there is anything in the DeKalb County area that is older than the graveyard at Clairmont. Hauk has written extensively on Emory’s history and
most recently co-wrote and published Where Courageous Inquiry
Leads — The Emerging Life of Emory University. The cemetery has 23 documented burials, one of which is Naman Hardman’s sister, Elizabeth. She ultimately married a doc-
tor named Chapmon Powell who owned a medicine house near, what is today, the Package Store located on Clairmont Avenue just past Los Loros Mexican Restaurant. According to Hauk, there is also
See EXPLORING, Page 4
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