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Police Record, Page 2
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Arts & Entertainment, Page 9
RY WHEEL
Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 95, Issue 24
www.emorywheel.com
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
On Fire, Page 11
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Many Emory Healthcare Employees to Be Rehired Eighty-One Percent of Laid-Off Employees Placed in Revamped Unit By Harmeet Kaur Health Sciences Beat Writer Eighty-one percent of the more than 100 Emory Healthcare workers who, this past September, were told they were going to be laid off will be rehired to new positions within Emory Healthcare, the company announced Nov. 15. After deciding on the layoffs, Healthcare officials devised a plan in which workers could either elect to apply for new openings in Emory Healthcare or seek other employment, in which case they would be provided assistance in finding new jobs as well as severance packages, which are payments and benefits employees receive upon leaving employment at a company, Chief of Psychiatric Services Mark Rapaport said. The opportunity to reapply for jobs became available due to the restructuring of inpatient psychiatry units at Emory. The Wheel reported in September that previously, three inpatient psychiatry units existed at Emory: two at the Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital and one at the Center for Rehabilitative Medicine. The recent restructuring downsized the hospital to two units, resulting in the layoffs. But, changes in the way the neuropsychiatry unit operates allowed for most of the employees to reapply for new job openings. According to Vincent Dollard, associate vice president for health sciences communications, as of Nov.
HEALTHCARE LAYOFFS September 2013 Healthcare announces more than 100 position cuts.
November 2013 Eighty-one percent of laid off employees rehired. 15, 81 percent of the laid off employees have been placed into open positions. Dollard wrote in an email to the Wheel that the other 19 percent of employees are receiving severance packages. Rapaport added that some of the laid off employees chose to seek jobs with private hospitals in Atlanta. The restructuring of the unit comes with a change in the model of care being used, Rapaport said. While previously the neuropsychiatry unit was “essentially a non-academic unit,” the new changes reflected a shift toward academic-focused care. “We really wanted to highlight the training of medical students and fellows and integrate our training programs into our outpatient clinics and all of our inpatient units,” Rapaport said. “That’s what we’re in the process of doing right now.” Rapaport said the restructuring was intended to produce versatile workers who could interact with different groups of people in an envi-
See RAPAPORT, Page 5
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he Emory Arts Club hosted its annual Art Lock-In this past weekend in the Visual Arts Building. The event is an all-night affair that is open to all students interested in visual arts. A variety of art supplies were available to students who attended for them to draw, paint and make collages.
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Greek Program to Address Assault Employees Receive New B-School Scholarship By Lydia O’Neal Senior Staff Writer
Emory students and staff from the Respect Program and the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life (OSFL) will launch their collaborative Greek Sexual Assault Prevention Initiative in February. The initiative brings together students from Greek life and others interested in sexual assault prevention to design a curriculum of workshops that is meant for new Greek members. The idea hatched last spring, but students began meeting this semester.
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The workshops are set to launch in the spring. The Respect Program — a branch of the Office of Health Promotion — advises Sexual Assault Peer Advocates (SAPA) and Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) members, supports survivors of assault and works on prevention efforts across campus. Greek community members interested in addressing and ending sexual violence approached members of the Respect Program this March. Eight undergraduate students, including members of SAPA and ASAP, helped
form the Greek Sexual Assault Prevention Initiative team, according to Office of Health Promotion specialist Drew Rizzo, the initiative’s coordinator. “The students got involved mainly through self-selection,” Rizzo said. He added that any interested students should contact him, as the initiative maintains an “open policy.” Rizzo and Lisa Sthreshley, senior graduate assistant for the Respect Program and student at the Rollins School of Public Health, will advise
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CAMPUS LIFE
OMPS to Launch Multicultural Retreat By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor
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Four hundred and twenty students broke up into teams and created startup company ideas in 48 hours for hackATL this past weekend at the Goizueta Business School.
Teams Pitch Startups at Hackathon By Stephen Fowler Senior Staff Writer More than 420 students converged at the Goizueta Business School this weekend as part of the inaugural hackATL hackathon hosted by the Emory Entrepreneurship and Venture Management Club (EEVM). Teams of students created and pitched a startup company in 48 hours or less, according to Goizueta Business School senior Ishaan Jalan, founder and president of hackATL and EEVM. Jalan said the inspiration for
the event came from hackathons hosted by other schools such as the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a desire to show Emory students’ knowledge to employers. “We want to make Emory the entrepreneurial center in the Southeast because we feel we have the best institutional structure, the best faculty and the best students to make it happen,” Jalan said. “The best way to break out of our enclosed Emory bubble we felt was to host an event.”
The weekend saw 46 teams comprised of students, community members and full-time professionals from Emory and more than 60 schools across the country. Participants had the option of either giving brief “elevator pitches” to other attendees Friday night to create a team or pre-registering a team before the event. Teams worked through the night Friday and Saturday to create a fiveminute pitch to explain their product to a panel of judges that included
See GROUPS, Page 3
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Emory’s Office of Multicultural Programs and Services (OMPS) will launch a retreat for upperclassmen that explores the intersection of multiple identities in January. The retreat, called Intersections, is accepting applications until Wednesday. The application is available on the OMPS website. The Office of Student Leadership and Services (OSLS), the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Life, the Office of Religious Life and the Office of Access, Disability Services and Resources also collaborated in putting together the retreat. According to Assistant Director of OMPS M. DeLa Sweeney, the program is an opportunity for students who were not able to attend the Crossroads retreat during their freshman year. The Crossroads retreat is designed for first-year students to adjust to college life and develop team-building skills, according to the OMPS website. OMPS will not reveal the specific activities during the retreat to ensure the experience is as genuine as possible, according to Sweeney. “We want them to be present in the moment and really have the experience,” Sweeney said. “It allows for people to be real and vulnerable and learn from one another.” He added that the activities on the retreat are designed to challenge students to see new perspectives in terms of social identities such as race, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation and ability.
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“Upperclass students are at typically a different developmental level,” Sweeney said. “They don’t need as much support transitioning into Emory, and they are interested in getting a different outcome out of the retreat.” While the Intersections retreat is modeled after Crossroads, it is distinct in its focus on the coherence of different identities on Emory’s campus. “It acknowledges the impact of the intersection of identities,” he said. “You’re not your race separate from your gender, separate from your class. You are these things combined.” According to Sweeney, unlike Crossroads, which is entirely studentled, the leaders of Intersections are Emory staff members. “We think the diversity that exists at Emory goes far beyond just the idea of what race looks like,” he said. “We wanted to really invite some of our partners who have a lot more experience and expertise in developing programming around those identities.” This year, the partners include Assistant Director of OSLS Aysha Daniels, Assistant Dean and Director of OMPS James Francois, Assistant Dean and Director of OSLS Matt Garrett, Associate Dean of the Office of the Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life Lisa Garvin, Assistant Director of OSLS Natasha Hopkins, Interim Assistant Director of OMPS Jessica Morrison, Assistant Director of the Office of LGBT Life Danielle Steele and Sweeney. The retreat will take place the weekend of Jan. 17. Students will be
See RETREAT, Page 3
By Naomi Maisel Senior Staff Writer Emory employees were awarded the first-ever Dean’s Scholarship for Talented Leaders upon their admittance to the Goizueta Business School’s Executive MBA program earlier this month. The awardees were Javed Butler, a professor of cardiology in the School of Medicine, and Stacy Johnson, an administrator in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. The scholarship honors faculty members who have at least 10 years of progressive management experience and must be viewed as a leader within their department, according to Goizueta Associate Dean of MBA Admissions Julie Barefoot. The executive MBA program admits Emory employees who have already Javed Butler (above) reached a leadership position with- and Stacy in their departJohnson ment and want to (below) strengthen their general management skills, Barefoot said. Along with an application, the Dean’s Scholarship requires a recommendation from the director of the applicant’s department, Barefoot said. Although both Butler and Johnson are in the medical field, Barefoot said the program is open to all Emory employees who have adequate experience. She added that the program, while awarding great benefits to future leaders in any field, especially looks to teach those involved in nonprofits and corporate America. “I couldn’t even tell you the process of how I got the scholarship,” Butler said, adding that receiving it was a surprise. According to Butler, a disconnect exists between the health and business aspects of health care. He
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