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dent body and an investigation by Emory’s Office of Student Conduct. Jewish groups on campus, including Emory Hillel, Chabad at Emory and the Emory-Israel Public Affairs Committee strongly condemned the notices, which were posted during the coinciding Israel Week, sponsored by Eagles for Israel. The Office of Residence Life and Housing Operations approved the posting of the notices around Emory’s campus but staff removed the flyers from students’ doors because distributors violated Campus Life’s policy against posting flyers on doors. The University Senate Open Expression Committee issued an opinion in which they found the fliers to be in compliance with Emory’s open expression policy and not anti-Semitic. The story made national headlines, and was picked up by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the New York Post and Fox 5 Atlanta, among others. University Investigates Extremist Blog Linked to Emory Instructor The Wheel connected an extremist blog that contained racist, antiIslam and anti-immigrant views to Emory Continuing Education (ECE) Italian instructor Laura Corvino. Corvino taught Basic Italian Grammar and Italian Opera Appreciation at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute , a program located at Emory’s Executive Park campus. The profile had more than 3,100 subscribers and 1.1 million views as of the article’s publication time in February. Corvino is no longer affiliated with the University after they
investigated her blog. Sterk to Retire as President, Remain at Emory, Effective August 2020 University President Claire E. Sterk served for three years before announcing her retirement effective August 2020 in a University-wide email, crediting the move to a tiresome seven-day work week and her passion for teaching public health. After a one-year sabbatical, Sterk will return to Emory as faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health. She is the University’s first female president and her tenure has seen a student-led movement to designate Emory as a “sanctuary campus,” the annexation of Emory into Atlanta and the construction of the Emory Student Center. SGA Overspends by Over $28,000 Student leaders, SGA legislators and the rest of the student body were left in the dark for three months after the 2017-18 SGA Finance Committee overspent $28,019.33 of incoming revenue for the following fiscal year. The committee had overestimated the number of students who would enroll at Emory by using a projection that was not supported by past trends. The mismatch was not realized until late into Fall 2018, and a proposed plan to cut Media Council funding by 83.5 percent to compensate for the loss was later cut down to 32 percent. Before It Opens, A Look Inside The Emory Student Center
The Wheel gained access to the Emory Student Center (ESC) a month before the center’s soft opening in May. The building’s North and South Pavilions boasted offices and storage spaces, dining commons, lounges, and a large multipurpose room. State-of-the-art amenities can be found throughout the building, including floor-to-ceiling fritted glass windows and noise-cancelling privacy chairs. The ESC, which took almost two years to construct, replaced the temporary DUC-ling, which served its last meal on May 8. Undergraduate Student Body Votes to Increase SAF by $15 An undergraduate-wide ballot referendum to increase the Student Activity Fee (SAF) from $95 to $110 passed on Nov. 22 with 60 percent in favor. The referendum, initiated by SGA President Ben Palmer’s (18Ox, 20C) administration, also included a clause to automatically increase the fee by 1.5 percent every year and add minor modifications to the SGA Finance Code. A total of 1,213 ballots were cast over a 48-hour voting period. Such an increase was the largest of its kind since the fee was first introduced in 2006. SGA officials argued that the fee hike was necessary to compensate for a loss in buying power of SAF-funded clubs due to economic inflation and a growing student body.
— Contact Madison Bober and Alex Klugerman at madison.bober@emory.edu and
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Jan Love to Serve As Interim Provost Jan Love, Dean of the Candler School of Theology
By Ninad Kulkarni Senior Staff Writer
Jan Love, dean of the Candler School of Theology, will serve as the University’s interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, according to a University-wide C E P /V email. She will replace outgoing Provost Senate and represented the UMC on and Executive Vice President for the World Council of Churches from Academic Affairs Dwight McBride, 1975 to 2006. “[Love] will be a strong academic who is leaving Emory in Spring 2020 to serve as president of The New leader for Emory and a tireless advoSchool (N.Y.). cate for its mission,” Academic Affairs The announcement Committee chairperfollows the recent son Katherine Rohrer news that McBride and stated in the email. “[Love] will be a University President The search process strong academic Claire E. Sterk will be for a new provost will stepping down from leader for Emory and commence once a new their respective posi- a tireless advocate for University president is appointed, accordtions. Love will continits mission.” ue to serve as the dean ing to the email. of the Candler School Until then, Love is — Katherine Rohrer, expected to serve as of Theology during Academic Affairs interim provost for her tenure as interim Committe Chairperson more than a year to provost. Jonathan Strom, facilitate a smooth associate dean of transition. The Board Faculty and Academic Affairs at the of Trustees is creating a search adviCandler School of Theology, will serve sory committee for the appointment as a senior associate dean to aid Love of a new president, according to a Nov. in her expanded role. 20 University-wide email from Robert Love has served as the first female C. Goddard, the chair of the Board of dean of the Candler School of Theology Trustees. since 2007 and previously served on Love will step into her new position the faculty of the University of South effective Dec. 16. Carolina. She is the secretary of the United — Contact Ninad Kulkarni at Methodist Church’s (UMC) University nkulka7@emory.edu ourtesy of
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