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THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
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Four Seniors Awarded Bobby Jones Scholarship
Local Man Misidentified As Alleged Rapist By Jordan Friedman Executive Editor Police believe a woman has misidentified a Decatur resident as the suspect in the reported rape near Emory Village, police said on Monday. According to a City of Decatur Police Department statement, a male resident of Decatur told police that he was on Erie Avenue near Clairemont Avenue in Decatur at the same date and time — Feb. 21 at around 2 p.m. — that the 17-year-old woman says she saw the suspect accused of raping a female Emory student earlier this month. Based on interviews with both the male resident and the woman who said she spotted the suspect, investigators now believe that the male resident — not the suspect — is the man that the 17-year-old woman encountered on Saturday. The suspect in the rape case is also possibly connected with three other open attempted sexual assault cases in DeKalb County, police said. The Emory Police Department (EPD) released a composite sketch of the suspect this month. The 17-year-old woman initially said that the man she encountered while walking was the same man as the one pictured in the sketch. This woman had told police that she walked past the man on Erie Avenue as he walked in the opposite direction, and that the man subsequently turned around and started walking
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Volume 95, Issue 31
Blake Mayes
Rachel Cawkwell
By Stephen Fowler Asst. News Editor James Crissman/Photography Editor
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ollege senior Keith Gordon lines up to throw the ball as a competitor in Emory’s Intramural Dodgeball tournament on Feb. 22. Intramural Sports provide students, faculty and staff members the opportunity to participate in a multitude of recreational sports and activities.
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John Lewis to Speak at Graduation By Stephen Fowler Asst. News Editor U.S. Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis (D-Ga.) will address the class of 2014 as this year’s Commencement speaker during the May 12 ceremony, the University has announced. Serving as the representative for Emory’s congressional district since 1986, Lewis has played a large role in U.S. government and politics, especially during the Civil Rights era. Lewis volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides aimed at desegregating public transportation throughout the South, was the keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in 1963 and led more than 600 protestors during a peaceful march into Selma, Ala. These events helped form what would later be defined as “one of the
John Lewis, U.S. Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis (D-Ga.), will speak on May 12. most seminal collection of events of the Civil Rights Movement,” according to Lewis’ biography on his website. Among other accomplishments, Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor granted by the President of the United States in 2010. He is the recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees, several national civil rights and peace awards and is the only recipient of the John F.
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Kennedy “Profiles in Courage” lifetime achievement award. As part of the University’s tradition of honoring its Commencement speaker, Lewis will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Commencement ceremony. Lewis’ invitation as the 2014 Commencement speaker is not the first interaction the Congressman has had with the Emory community, according to Vice President and Deputy to the President Gary Hauk. “As the representative for Emory’s congressional district, he has been a strong supporter of higher education and a frequent visitor to our campus,” Hauk wrote in an email to the Wheel. “Few persons embody the moral stature of courageous leaders who work in behalf of a common good as well as John Lewis.”
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Four College seniors were awarded the Robert T. Jones Jr. Scholarship for 2014-2015 last Saturday, providing a year of study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The scholarship was awarded to College seniors Lauren Ball, a Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy double major; Rachel Cawkwell, an English major; Blake Mayes, a Religion major and Community Building and Social Change minor; and Fiona O’Carroll, a History and French double major. The award, commonly known as the Bobby Jones Scholarship, was established in 1976 and recognizes individuals in the Emory community who exemplify the legacy of Bobby Jones, a professional golfer and Emory alum, according to the Bobby Jones website. In addition to the four Emory students selected, the scholarship sends four students from St. Andrews to Emory for a full-paid year of study. Of the original applicant pool of students who applied at Emory, 13 finalists were selected and interviewed and four were ultimately selected as recipients, according to Jane Walton-Williams, program administrator for the Bobby Jones scholarship. Dee McGraw, director of National Scholarships and Fellowships wrote
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Lauren Ball
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in an email to the Wheel that the scholars consistently represent the best Emory had to offer. “It’s always a thrill —and always a surprise — to hear the Bobby Jones Scholarship announcement each year,” McGraw wrote. “The mix of students, with their diverse and widespread interests, is new with each class of scholars.” Calkwell wrote in an email to the Wheel that the Bobby Jones Scholarship will enable her and her fellow scholars to serve as ambassadors of both Emory and the legacy of Bobby Jones. “I know this will be an amazing cross-cultural experience that will allow me to learn about myself, my chosen subject and society,” Calkwell wrote. “I can’t wait to carry the Emory spirit with me to St. Andrews next year.” Calkwell wrote that the scholarship is a continuation of her “amazing opportunities” she had during the past four years. “At Emory I’ve gotten to really explore the liberal arts and I have learned so much outside of the classroom,” Calkwell wrote. “My professors have challenged and encouraged me, and my friends have inspired me to be a better person.” Mayes, who will be studying Christian monastic tradition, is looking forward to the opportunity to
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OBITUARY
SGA Rejects Improving Emory Cox Cellphone Service Williams, Jr., 102, Caring, Generous By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor
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Emory’s Manuscript, Archive and Rare Books Library (MARBL) opened an exhibition on Saturday celebrating Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney’s life and relationship with Emory.
Exhibit Displays Heaney’s Legacy By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor The Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL) debuted an exhibition commemorating the late Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney this past weekend in the Schatten Gallery of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. Heaney died Aug. 30, 2013, a few months after his last visit to the University in March. The exhibit, titled “Seamus Heaney: The Music of What
Happens,” chronicles Heaney’s life as a poet and his relationship with Emory. According to an article written by the Director of Irish Studies Geraldine Higgins in the spring 2014 MARBL catalog, the title originates from an old legend that Heaney quoted in his poem “Song.” The gallery displays pictures of Heaney with various Emory faculty members, his visit to the grave of Irish poet W.B. Yeats and some individual portraits of him throughout his life.
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The exhibit also demonstrates that the impact of Heaney’s death reverberated across the world, displays clippings from global newspapers when the story of his death broke and provides an explanation of his poetry’s impact. “[Heaney’s] loss was mourned by scholars, writers, friends, rock stars, political activists and poetry lovers in myriad texts, tweets, blog posts, articles, obituaries and speeches,” the exhibit states.
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The 47th Legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) rejected a resolution of student support for improving cellphone service in Cox Hall by next semester. It also indefinitely tabled a bill to fund an art project that would install empty journals around campus for people to write in. According to SGA Representativeat-Large and College sophomore Sumaali Chheda, the University has two options for improving the cell phone service in Cox. The first would not require any extra money but would take five years to implement. She added that there was also no guarantee that it would be complete in five years. The second would dip into a fund that the IT department reserves for unexpected circumstances, Chheda said. If the second plan is implemented, the cellphone service in Cox can be improved by next semester with a $100,000 cost. According to Chheda, the owner of the building said he wanted to know whether the students supported this initiative. Members of the Legislature said they were reluctant to spend that much money for something that was not a necessity. “I think this is a huge waste of money,” Goizueta Business School junior and SGA Junior Representative Luke Bucshon said. “Honestly I can go for 10 minutes in Cox and get some food without texting someone.”
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Bucshon also noted that, given the increase of tuition next year, he did not feel it would be a good decision for the University to spend money unnecessarily. SGA Oxford Representative and Oxford College sophomore Hussein Halemeh agreed that he did not want his tuition money going toward cellphone service. Because the IT fund does not have a prescribed purpose, some members of the Legislature said they wanted to table this bill until they could come up with an alternative use for the money. The bill failed on a 7-9-7 decision. Additionally, College sophomore Jonathan Weiss submitted a bill for an art project entitled “Emory Journal Project.” According to the bill, Weiss would distribute around 100 blank journals to the Emory community for students, teachers and deans to fill out with whatever they want and pass them along to someone else. When the journals have been filled, they would be “published as a portrait of Emory.” The bill estimates the project would require around $1,000. However, Laney Graduate School Representative Laura Mariani said she thought it was a great idea, but the Finance Committee could not vote on the bill because it did not have a specific cost estimate. She added that because Weiss is not under a chartered organization, there is no way for SGA to transfer money to him.
By Stephen Fowler Asst. News Editor Emory Williams, Jr. (’32C), emeritus trustee and former chief financial officer of Sears, Roebuck & Co., died Feb. 11 in Hobe Sound, Fla. Williams was 102. Williams graduated in 1932, was elected to serve as a trustee in 1964 and was elected to emeritus status in 1981, according to a Feb. 14 Emory University press release. Williams, Jr. In addition (’32C), to serving as a Emory trustee, Williams gave back to the emeritus Emory communitrustee, died ty in several ways, Feb. 11. including establishing the Emory Williams Award to honor faculty at the University, the press release says. The Emory Williams Awards were established in 1972 to honor faculty for fostering participation, inquiry and creative expression in the classroom. It also recognizes faculty
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