INDEX
Emory Events Calendar, Page 2
Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
Staff Editorial, Page 6
Police Record, Page 2
Student Life, Page 9
On Fire, Page 11
THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 95, Issue 19
www.emorywheel.com
Friday, November 8, 2013
Every Tuesday and Friday
EVENT
VILLAGE
Got Booted? Students Raise Concerns About Parking in Village By Stephen Fowler Senior Staff Writer
Courtesy of David Feldman
Passion Pit, a synth pop band, performed for Student Programming Council’s (SPC) annual Fall Band Party at McDonough Field on Wednesday night.
Emory Gets Passionate for Passion Pit By Harmeet Kaur Senior Staff Writer Synth pop band Passion Pit performed for students at the Student Programming Council’s (SPC) Fall Band Party on Wednesday. Emory was one of the band’s last stops on its fall tour supporting its latest album Gossamer, which has gained considerable popularity and reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Charts. In addition to Gossamer, the synth pop group has released another studio album called Manners, as well as two EPs. Passion Pit played for a large crowd with more than 3,500 people in attendance, according to Goizueta Business School senior and SPC Co-Band Party Chair Zach Atlas. Atlas and Jordan Francis, also a B-School senior and SPC Band
Party co-chair, both said they felt Wednesday’s crowd was more energetic than Emory’s concert crowds usually are. “I don’t think Emory students are known for dancing at our concerts, especially at a rock act, but people seemed really into it,” Francis said. Students waved their hands in the air and sang along to Passion Pit’s popular singles, such as “Take A Walk,” “I’ll Be Alright” and “Sleepyhead.” Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos spoke to the Emory crowd during the show and yelled, “You guys are awesome!” Passion Pit played most of the album Gossamer and ended with an encore performance of “Little Secrets,” a single off their debut album Manners. College junior Vincent Vartabedian said he had seen Passion
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Pit perform live twice in the past. He added that he thought the band provided more variation in their set at Emory than in previous shows. “This time, the lead singer sensed that Emory wasn’t the most excited audience, so he actually tried to excite the audience more than he would for the usual group of fans who had paid to see the show,” Vartabedian said. The event opened with The Joy Formidable, a Welsh alternative rock band who has been accompanying Passion Pit on its fall tour. Francis said booking a better-known band such as The Joy Formidable as the opener was a departure from the local acts that usually open at Emory’s concerts. He added that he was pleased with The Joy Formidable’s performance and hopes to continue this trend in the future.
“We would like to continue booking opening acts that are worth Emory’s time,” Francis said. College freshman Aaron Frankel said he attended the performances for both acts. “I thought they were both really good,” Frankel said. “I thought it was a fun night.” Atlas said SPC chose Passion Pit for Fall Band Party because of the band’s appeal. He added that both he and Francis had seen the band perform before and thought it would be relevant for college-aged students. “The sound is unique, yet mainstream enough that the average student would listen to them,” Atlas said. “We thought they’d be an exciting show and bring a big audience.”
— Contact Harmeet Kaur at hbhagra@emory.edu
Frustrated students are raising concerns about Emory Village parking, with many alleging that a private contractor is improperly booting cars in the area. Meanwhile, Village storeowners and community members are searching for new solutions to a chronic shortage of marked parking spaces in the Village that has led to the utilization of the private contractor. A newly-formed parking committee had a meeting Oct. 31 and will work with DeKalb County and Emory to move forward and search for resolutions, said Todd Hill, chairman of the Alliance to Improve Emory Village (AIEV). Storeowners have signs posted in the private lots on either side of North Decatur Road indicating that a private contractor, Alpha Booting Company, handles parking enforcement, according to property owner Stuart Meddin. One sign in the Village reads, “Parking for current patrons only.” The sign goes on to clarify that current patron status applies “during the time they are actually conducting business, eating or drinking inside.” However, Kristen Carrillo (’10C, ’12MPH), a research associate at the University of Texas and an Emory alum, said the booting company placed a boot on her vehicle even when she was a current patron. “I met a friend at Falafel King one Wednesday morning before class, and the lunch was very long,” Carrillo wrote in an email to the Wheel. “I came outside and found my car booted.” Frederick Johnson, the man who
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Signs for the Alpha Booting Company exist behind the CVS in Emory Village. booted Carrillo’s car, asked her to pay $75 to remove the boot. Johnson — when asked about the parking situation as well as his booting practices — declined to comment. Additionally, calls to the number listed for Alpha Booting Company went to A1 Mobile Auto Body Repair in south Atlanta. CBS Atlanta and The Virginia Highland-Druid Hills Patch have reported booting issues in Emory Village as far back as 2011. In the reports, students including Carrillo said they have been unfairly booted for parking in the Village and leaving. However, Carrillo insists she never left Falafel King. On Nov. 5, several booted cars sat in the CVS parking lot, and one car owner were found paying Johnson to remove a boot. The man, who declined to give his name, admitted he was “guilty of parking and visiting campus for a few hours” but had been to the Village
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Awards Student Develops Health Honor Care Literacy Group Global Impacts By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor
By Harmeet Kaur Senior Staff Writer Emory’s Office of International Affairs recently named the recipients of its annual internationalization awards, which honor Emory faculty, alumni and staff who have contributed to making the University more globally oriented. Professor of Anthropology Peter Brown, Young-Ihl Chang (‘87G) and Associate Director of the Center for International Programs Abroad (CIPA) Kenya Casey received the Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization, the Sheth Distinguished International Alumni Award and International Outreach Award, respectively. Brown received the Marion V. Creekmore Award largely for his roles in establishing the Global Health Institute in 2006 and developing the undergraduate Global Health, Culture and Society minor in 2007, according to an Oct. 30 University press release. Brown said that when he came to Emory 35 years ago, the University was well known due to its hospital but was more of a southeastern liberal arts college.
College senior Nick Goodwin has developed a keen understanding of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) over the last year and frequently sits in on meetings with health care executives as part of his health care literacy organization, Resource and Insurance Navigator Group (RING). The group is a statewide organization that recruits student volunteers to educate people about ways to acquire health insurance under the ACA, which became available to consumers on Oct. 1, and connect them with basic resources, Goodwin said. “We build student leaders and reduce disparities in health,” he said. As a result of the company, Goodwin has participated in roundtable discussions with top health care executives and also joined in on a conference call between Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. “One of the things you find out is that when Obama’s not happy, the money follows that problem,” he said. RING was not always focused on targeting uninsured patients. “We didn’t consider it at all,” Goodwin said. Not until the passage of the ACA did Goodwin say “let’s jump on the ACA bandwagon and offer health insurance.”
The Demand for Insurance Goodwin first recognized the need for such an organization on his study
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abroad trip in Italy in summer of 2012, where he learned about inefficiencies in the health care system in the United States as compared to Italy. This spurred him to start RING. At first, Goodwin said he wanted to create a chapter of an existing health care literacy organization at Harvard University, called Health Leads, to Atlanta. Expansion was not in Health Leads’ budget, so Goodwin decided to start his own company. Originally, Goodwin said, RING’s objective was to help people gain access to resources such as shelter, food stamps, utility assistance and subsidized medication. However, once the ACA legislation became a reality, Goodwin decided to take advantage of it and tackle the health care market from the perspective of insurance, he said. According to Goodwin, Atlanta is a state with one of the highest uninsured populations in the country. Emory Campus Director for RING and College senior Anna Bausum also said DeKalb and Fulton counties are among the metropolitan areas in the nation with the highest demand for health insurance. Moreover, Goodwin said, the United States’ approach to health care is uniquely inefficient because it focuses on disease treatment rather than wellness and disease prevention. According to RING’s Statewide Recruitment Director Rana Alsiro (‘13C), many Grady Memorial Hospital patients do not have insurance and have no idea how to go
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Hussainatu and Hassanatu Blake, founders of Focal Point Global and recipients of the White House Champions of Change Award, spoke at TEDxEmory’s first speaker series event of the year.
TEDxEmory Hosts Nonprofit Founders By Zoe Mesirow Asst. Features Editor TEDxEmory brought twin sisters Hassanatu (05MPH) and Hussainatu Blake, founders of Focal Point Global and recipients of the White House Champions of Change Award, to Emory on Thursday evening for their first speaker series of the year. TED is a nonprofit organization that fuses components from technology, entertainment and design at conferences around the world to foster innovation and dialogue. TEDxEmory brings people togeth-
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er to share a TED-like experience through self-organized events where live speakers provoke deep discussion, according to the TEDxEmory website. The sisters were born in Limbe, Cameroon to an American father and Cameroonian mother and raised in Baltimore, Md. Growing up, they traveled to and studied in countries including Jamaica, South Africa and Germany. The sisters said they feel as though they have always been exposed to issues around the world. “Speaking about education and major issues resonated with TEDx’s
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tagline of ‘ideas worth spreading,’ so we thought it would be a good event to have,” College sophomore Hannah Grossman said. Before founding Focal Point Global — a non-profit organization with a mission to educate and empower underserved youth to create social change — the sisters worked separately in southern Africa, where they were exposed to issues surrounding youth living there. Hassanatu managed an HIV/ AIDS program in Namibia and has
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