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Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
On Fire, Page 11
THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 94, Issue 18
www.emorywheel.com
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Every Tuesday and Friday CRIME
HURRICANE SANDY
Seven Sandy Impacts University Students, Presidential Election Rapes ED Deadline Reported Extended Due To Storm Since Aug. By Morgan Manella Contributing Writer
Hurricane Sandy struck at a stressful time for high school seniors trying to meet the Nov. 1 deadline for early decision at many universities across the country. “Hurricane Sandy came at the wrong time,” said Lynbrook High School Senior Sean Kemp, who applied early decision to Emory University. “The hurricane messed up cell phone service, and I still don’t have Internet to check on my applications.” Because of the damaging effects of Sandy, Emory, along with other universities, such as Harvard, Yale, Duke and the University of Michigan, has decided to extend their deadline for early decision applicants. “People are distraught,” said William Segura, Emory Admission Advisor. Emory has extended their overall early decision deadline to Nov. 5, but pushed back the deadline to Nov. 15 for students in the Northeast. “We want to give the students affected by the hurricane ample time,” Segura said. Although high school senior Kemp said he completed his early decision application for Emory a few weeks ago, he was still waiting for his college counselor to send a few documents. “Emory’s extended deadline is pretty positive for me, because I possibly could not have gotten my application out in time,” Kemp said.
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Hurricane Sandy’s disastrous effects were felt at Emory as students lost contact with their families back home. Administration extended the early decision (ED) deadline as a result of the storm since many prospective students lost access to power.
Exploring Sandy’s Effects, CEPAR’s Response Storm Prevents By Dustin Slade Staff Writer It’s been six days since Hurricane Sandy swept through the Northeast region leaving millions of residents in the Mid-Atlantic states coping with the aftermath. With roughly 1,700 Emory students’ families affected by the storm, Emory’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) identified areas of safe refuge on campus in an effort to improve the Emory community’s preparedness. Eric Klaber, a College freshman, says his parents in Mamaroneck, N.Y. have been out of power since the hurricane struck the coast and will not receive power for at least another week. “My parents considered evacuating but chose not to because gasoline is currently being rationed off, and they don’t have enough gas to drive anywhere,” Klaber said. “They are stuck in the house without power. Luckily, the fireplace is working.”
With more than 18 percent of the Emory student body from the Mid-Atlantic region and 5 percent from New England, the aftermath of the hurricane has affected many students and their families both physically and emotionally. “It’s hard to be here in Atlanta where nothing has happened and hear about what my parents are going through,” Klaber said. “[My parents] literally cannot move. They are huddled by the living room fireplace hoping it doesn’t go out. It’s surreal.” Hurricane Sandy, the eighteenth named storm of the 2012 season, was the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. According to an Oct. 31 Wall Street Journal article, the aftermath of the storm is estimated to have caused
Some Students From Voting By Wendy Becker Staff Writer After months of campaigning, advertising, and debating, the 2012 election candidates have a new hurdle to overcome before Election Day, Hurricane Sandy. While the nation awaits election results on Tuesday, Political Science professors at Emory are watching for potential effects Hurricane Sandy could have on
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ACTIVISM
Initiative Sheds Light on ‘Why We Need Feminism’ By Karishma Mehrotra Asst. News Editor
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Novelist Salman Rushdie spoke to a packed audience in Glenn Memorial Auditorium on Sunday. He chronicled various anecdotes about his life under a death decree from the supreme leader of Islam.
Rushdie Describes Life in Hiding By Karishma Mehrotra Asst. News Editor Novelist and Emory University Distinguished Professor Salman Rushdie discussed the humor of a not-so-humorous topic: his life in hiding from an Islamic leader’s call for his death. The author has not only written 11 novels — including Midnight’s Children, Satanic Verses and Joseph Anton — but he also often
teaches and gives presentations on Emory campus. After he was named Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emory in 2006, Rushdie’s archive was placed in Emory’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL). The experience that this Booker Prize-winning author described in his speech is chronicled in his latest novel: the memoir Joseph Anton. “[This time] had this quality of simultaneously being funny and not
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funny,” Rushdie said about the humor he found in his situation during his lecture at Glenn Memorial on Sunday evening. “The comedy is not made up. It was actually there.” After he published his fourth book, The Satanic Verses, Rushdie learned that the supreme leader of Islam, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, declared the book sacrilegious against Islam and issued a fatwa — a
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College sophomore Lindsey Falkenberg is a self-proclaimed feminist. And she knows that immediately after she tells you that, you may assume that she is an “angry, manhating bra-burner,” as she said, or some other stigmatized stereotype. That is why Falkenberg, the president of Emory’s Feminists in Action (FIA), led the organization to join the “Why We Need Feminism” movement, which began at Duke University in April. The national college campaign is a collection of photos posted on various social platforms. The photos are of students holding up signs that answer that very question. But the campaign unexpectedly snowballed, Falkenberg said, from merely campus signs and Facebook posts, to an exhibition in the library. Since Friday, FIA’s photos have been on display at Emory’s Center for Interactive Teaching Gallery on level two of the Robert W. Woodruff Library next to Falkenberg’s short explanation of the campaign’s purpose. FIA first set up a Wonderful Wednesday booth on Sept. 17, asking passersby to create signs regarding
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why they support feminism. FIA took about 50 photos of participants holding signs and posted them on the FIA Facebook page in order to spread the word. The photos were posted on the national “Who Needs Feminism” Facebook page last week. In addition, in the beginning of October, Emory Libraries Exhibitions Manager Julie Delliquanti saw some of the photos re-posted on Director of the Center for Women Dona Yarbrough’s Facebook. Delliquanti enjoyed the pictures so much that she decided to present them in an exhibition — which will be on display in the library till Dec. 28. FIA Publicity Chair and College sophomore Cara Ortiz said she found the Wonderful Wednesday event successful and effective because of the dialogue it sparked between passersby and the organization’s members about the meaning of feminism. However, she said she would have liked to see more student participation. “I think everyone needs feminism for one reason or another, so in an ideal world, I would have everyone at Emory tell us why they need feminism,” Ortiz said. FIA member and College sopho-
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Seven instances of rape have been reported in September and October of this year. Three took place in residence halls at Clairmont Campus, two in fraternity houses on Eagle Row and one in Harris Hall. An act of aggravated sodomy took place at an unknown location on campus. All of the student victims were female, and most of the instances of rape occurred between August and October 2012, with the exception of one case that took place in spring 2011. According to Emory Police Department (EPD) Lieutenant Cheryl Elliott, the two incidents of rape in fraternity houses took place at Sigma Nu and Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi). In response to the allegations, the Sigma Nu fraternity wrote the following statement: “We at Sigma Nu take these allegations of rape very seriously. This is the first we have heard of this incident, and we plan to cooperate fully with the Emory Police Department and Emory University in their investigation. Our organization does not condone activities like this and intends to help the Emory Police Department ensure that our campus is safe for all members of the community.” In a statement to the Wheel, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity wrote: “We, Alpha Epsilon Pi, take this very seriously and are deeply disturbed by this allegation because we do not condone this behavior. We intend to cooperate fully with any investigation in order to get to the facts.” Goizueta Business School senior and Interfraternity Council President Victor Rudo wrote in an email to the Wheel: “The Emory Greek community is built around respect for others, and allegations of sexual assault in any form run contradictory to our core values. IFC and our member organizations will continue to work with SAPA, the Respect Program and others in preventing and responding to these incidents.” In addition, Dean of Students Bridget Guernsey Riordan said that “no person should ever feel unsafe or have any violence [inflicted] upon himself or herself on the Emory campus. We will do everything we can to investigate and will follow this up through the proper conduct and police channels.” Approximately one in four women and one in 33 men will experience sexual assault during their college career, according to Lauren Bernstein, coordinator of the Respect Program. “Sexual assault is an epidemic, but at Emory we do not believe this is inevitable,” Bernstein wrote in an email to the Wheel. “The Respect Program’s mission is to engage the Emory community to prevent sexual assault and relationship violence, and we envision a campus in which no student fears or experiences violence. As members of our community, we each have a role in ending sexual violence and supporting survivors.” Bernstein added that the fact that students are reporting these incidents does not necessarily mean there is an increase in the number of rapes on campus, but that more students are coming forward. The Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention is hosting an event called Rally and Speak Out on Nov. 12 at 5:30 p.m. on the Quadrangle. If you have been affected by sex-
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