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DANCING AT DIWALI
PulitzerWinning Journalist to Visit Emory
Email Alerts Emory About Reported Rape on Campus Message Claims Two Males Raped Female Student at Beta Residence By Jordan Friedman Executive Editor
By Karishma Mehrotra News Co-Editor Pulitzer Prize winner and Los Angeles Times reporter Sonia Nazario will be visiting campus at the end of this week. Nazario began her career at The Wall Street Journal and has since earned numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for a 2003 newspaper series that was the basis for her book, Enrique’s Journey — a bestselling novel about a Sonia teenage Honduran Nazario, boy who took a treacherous trip to Los Angeles America to find Times his mother. reporter and Nazario not only shadowed author, will Enrique for weeks be visiting but also spent months retracing Emory at his trek, much of it this week. atop freight trains while facing bandits, corrupt cops and gangsters. The book is required reading in numerous high schools and colleges in the United States and has been translated into several languages. Nazario will speak and sign books in Room 102 of the Center for Ethics Commons at 7 p.m. Thursday for an event called “The American Immigration Battlefield: ‘Enrique’s Journey’ and the Search for a New Path to the Future.” Additionally,
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mory’s Indian co-ed bhangra dance team, Karma, performed at Emory Hindu Student Association’s celebration of Diwali, which is the Hindu festival of lights. The puja, or prayer, portion of the event took place in Cannon Chapel and the performances took place in the Math & Science Center.
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Campus Internet Gets ‘Unplugged’ By Dustin Slade News Co-Editor Emory’s wireless internet service “EmoryUnplugged” has been experiencing outages and “spotty coverage” in the last two days, according to Emory Deputy Chief Information Officer Brett Coryell. As part of a year-long project to update the foundation of Emory’s network, University Technology Services (UTS) performed equipment upgrades during the weekend that have led to some instability in the wireless network, Coryell wrote in an email to the Wheel. UTS has been working around the clock in an effort to bring the system back to full functionality, according to Coryell. “We are working with Cisco tech-
nicians and another consulting firm to diagnose the symptoms and distinguish between the possible root causes,” Coryell wrote. Many students on campus had course enrollment times through the OPUS system that they were unable to complete on campus due to the issues with the network. College sophomore Madhav Valla expressed his frustration with the lack of connectivity especially during student enrollment times. “It is mind shocking to me that on top of having an incredibly flawed system for registering for classes that the administration neglected to inform students about the wireless connectivity issues that they expected when a large group of students were in fact registering for classes today,” Valla wrote in an email to the
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Wheel. “When you pay $60,000 a year in tuition, you expect to be able to take the classes you need to take, and when the administration further inconveniences you, and you find out they actively withheld something so big from you its definitely more than disappointing.” Coryell wrote that a different aspect of his department has been in touch with the teams on campus keeping them informed regarding the availability of OPUS and other systems so “that the right offices can decide whether to adjust various deadlines.” He wrote that the technology team implemented changes Sunday night that were intended to keep the network stable. However, those changes
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An Emory student reported that she was the victim of a rape by two males at the Beta Theta Pi (Beta) fraternity house at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, according to a Universitywide email sent on Monday afternoon. According to the email, sent by Interim Vice President for Communications and Marketing Nancy Seideman, the victim said she was acquainted with the alleged perpetrators prior to the incident at 15 Eagle Row. Both of the alleged perpetrators were Emory students, according to the email. The email does not specify whether they were members of the fraternity. Emory Police Department (EPD) Lt. Cheryl Elliott said she could not comment on the incident at this time. But the University said in a Nov. 4 statement to the Wheel that EPD and the Division of Campus Life have interviewed the student and are conducting an investigation, which is still active. EPD also executed a search warrant Sunday for the fraternity house to gather evidence, according to the statement. Staff members in the Division of Campus Life have “provided the student with ongoing support and advised her of available counseling resources,” the University said in the statement. College senior and Beta President Niko Franchilli wrote in a statement to the Wheel on behalf of both himself and Beta fraternity, “The chapter leadership is aware of the allegations,
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and we take them very seriously. Our chapter will cooperate fully with local law enforcement and University officials throughout any investigation. At this time we must reserve further comment out of respect for the ongoing process.” Megan Janasiewicz, the director of the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life, did not immediately respond to an email message and phone calls for comment Thursday. The alleged rape that occurred this past weekend comes amid more reports of sexual assaults on campus. The Wheel reported Oct. 3 that, based on data from Emory’s annual security report, 25 rapes were reported in 2012 — a rise from the 12 reported in 2011 and 10 in 2010. Lauren Bernstein, assistant director of the Respect Program, wrote in an email to the Wheel that she believes increased student reporting of sexual assault is “directly correlated to an increase in student engagement and outreach.” “More students who have been affected by sexual violence are coming forward to get help and support,” Bernstein said, adding that the issue affects about one in four women and one in 33 men on college campuses across the nation. College senior Emily Machesney, peer facilitator of Sexual Assault Peer Advocates, said more survivors feeling comfortable reporting assaults to police “suggests our campus is taking steps in the right direction.” “Unfortunately, sexual assault is a reality on our campus,” she said. “However, we’ve made strides in the past few years.”
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GRADUATE SCHOOL
Student Hardship Fund Ethics Receives $200K Donation Program Extends Reach By Lydia O’Neal Senior Staff Writer
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The Emory women’s rugby team performed at Emory Pride’s Drag Show, which showcased a number of student groups in a competition in Glenn Memorial Auditorium.
Annual Drag Show Exudes ‘Pride’ By Naomi Maisel Senior Staff Writer Emory Pride’s annual Drag Show showcased multiple student groups who performed in friendly competition to a packed Glenn Memorial Auditorium audience Friday night. According to College senior and Emory Pride President Josh Bergeleen, the show was held to both celebrate and break down gender norms and expectations on campus. The event raised money for
“Lost-N-Found,” a shelter for homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) youth who are kicked out of their homes due to their sexual orientation and/or gender expression. Bergeleen said more than 450 tickets were sold, raising around $500 through ticket sales and $250 from extra donations alone. The event had more than three dozen volunteers and 100 participants. The judges rated undergraduate, graduate and faculty groups separate-
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ly. Women’s Rugby took first place in the undergraduate division with Karma Bhangra coming in second. The Candler School of Theology won first place in the graduate division, and Residence Life and Housing’s “Scarlett Fever” won first place out of the staff. The audience laughed and cheered as a rainbow-clad Dooley, complete with a pride flag cape and tie-dyed bra introduced the show and gave a
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Students facing sudden adversity will find that a fund supporting them will have more money than ever before. Emory’s Student Hardship Fund received a donation of more than $200,000, which will generate $10,000 annually in interest, according to the program’s founders. This endowment, the Hardship Fund’s largest donation to date, will allow the program to continue distributing grants to students suffering from unexpected catastrophes threatening their ability to stay in school, according to an Oct. 31 University press release. The donor, Walter H. Beckham III (’77L), did not wish to comment on the endowment in an effort to emphasize the Hardship Fund rather than the donation itself, according to Associate Director of the Office of University Media Relations Elaine Justice. The Beckham Family Fund, established in the late 1970s as a loan fund for Emory students in need, now supports the Student Hardship Fund, which was founded in 2012 by students Jordan Stein (’12C) and Stephen Ratner (’12C). The Beckham family’s legacy at Emory dates back to the end of the Civil War, according to the press release. Thirteen members spanning more than five generations have earned Emory degrees. After engaging in some research
with a sociology professor, Stein and Ratner both noticed a widespread financial need on campus. “There was nothing to support a student who has had some unexpected catastrophe in their lives,” said Stein, a sociology and political science major. “Even if you’re on full scholarship, you’re still one disaster away from having to leave school.” Ratner said he found that there were no “no strings attached” grants; there were only loans. “Our hope is that down the line, when the students we’ve helped out are in a better place, they might come back to contribute,” he said. During the program’s early stages, Stein and Ratner worked closely with the Office of Development to create a brochure describing their mission, guidelines and the stories of two students given Hardship Fund grants. “The key was to prove that the program was viable and that it works,” Stein said. “It was a tough pitch to make — why donate to one student organization over another?” However, the brochure was “wellproduced,” Stein said. “It was courageous of the students to allow their stories to be published, to show where the money was going.” While the Student Government Association (SGA), University President James W. Wagner and former University Provost Earl Lewis fundraised a total of $20,000 for the Hardship Fund during the course of the 2011-12 school year, the program
The Program for Scholarly Integrity (PSI), a Center for Ethics program that provides students with a cross-disciplinary introduction to research ethics for their research, will now include humanities and social science students. According to Toby Schonfeld, the director of graduate studies for the Master of Arts in Bioethics Program at the Laney Graduate School, the program was restructured to ensure students in the social sciences and humanities have more relevant information for their respective fields of study. Navyug Gill, a graduate assistant for the program, said the program’s expansion was “the vision of the administration.” According to Schonfeld, students were hungry for training in ethics and they were only getting it haphazardly in graduate studies. “Emory has been innovative in broadening [ethics training] to everyone and not just keeping it restricted to the natural sciences,” Gill said. The program includes a PSI semi-
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