INDEX Emory Events Calendar, Page 2
Police Record, Page 2
Staff Editorial, Page 6
Entertainment News, Page 9
Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
On Fire, Page 11
THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 94, Issue 35
www.emorywheel.com
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Every Tuesday and Friday
ACTIVISM
BUSINESS SCHOOL
Business School Dean Steps Down By Dustin Slade Asst. News Editor
James Crissman/Asst. Photo Editor
At the opening of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference exhibit, students protested University President James W. Wagner’s controversial column that used the Three-Fifths Compromise as an example of political compromise on Friday.
Civil Rights Exhibit Opens Amid Protests By Rupsha Basu Staff Writer Students protesting University President James W. Wagner’s controversial column about the ThreeFifths Compromise joined members of the Emory and Atlanta communities at the opening of a civil rights exhibit in the Robert W. Woodruff Library Friday evening. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s (SCLC) exhibit, titled “And the Struggle Continues,” chronicles the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his contemporaries in achieving desegregation, gaining suffrage and dismantling systematic discrimination in the United States. The event, which began at 6 p.m.,
included speeches from civil rights leaders who were contemporaries of King. The exhibit comes to campus at a time when local and national groups are outraged over Wagner’s use of the Three-Fifths Compromise as an example of political compromise in a column for Emory Magazine. The clause was an agreement made between the Northern and Southern states in 1787 and stated that only three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for purposes of taxation and voting representation. Faculty voted to censure Wagner on Wednesday. At 5:30 p.m. Friday evening, approximately 30 students convened at Asbury Circle with flyers and
signs with phrases such as “I am NOT an afterthought“ and “I deserve 5/5 respect.” Protestors consisted of members of the Student Revisioning Committee (SRC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), among others. The protestors marched silently from Asbury Circle to the exhibit in the Schatten Gallery and Jones Room at Woodruff Library. “We’re here to show our solidarity against what — at least I personally feel, but I think a lot of us feel — is a shameless co-optation of the legacy of the civil rights movement by James Wagner,” said Patrick Blanchfield, sixth-year Laney Graduate School student.
Both Blanchfield and NAACP members said they did not wish to disrupt the opening of the exhibition. “We will continue to fight against the systematic disenfranchise and marginalization of students and faculty at Emory, and dismantle the culture of apathy and ignorance ingrained in Emory’s community,” said Kayla Hearst, president of Emory’s NAACP. Upon arriving, the protestors stood in a circle away from the exhibit holding their signs, awaiting the arrival of Wagner. “As long as they’re respectful of the event, I don’t have a problem with it,” said Rich Mendola, senior vice provost of library services and digital
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STUDENT LIFE
College senior Matthew Schwartz has spent the last couple of months working and reworking a script, pestering friends late at night to bounce off ideas and pulling together a production team for Emory’s 2013 Campus Movie Fest (CMF). CMF, a global competition in which the organization provides college students with the technology to make a five-minute short film in one week, kicked off at Emory on Feb. 13. University students scrambled to turn in their short films by the Feb. 19 deadline. CMF will take place in the Schwartz Performing Arts Center on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. Schwartz, College senior Craig Swidler and Goizueta Business School sophomore Casey Horowitz spoke to the Wheel about their film, entitled “Temporality.” “Without revealing too much, we worked with eight different locations in four days,” said Schwartz, the director, editor, producer and screenwriter for the film. “It’s something that we didn’t think we would be able to accomplish.” The script started as a 32-page assignment for Schwartz’s screenwriting class last spring. Over winter break, he molded the script to about six and a half pages to fit the fiveminute limit. “[The script] was almost too ambitious and too complex to be executed in a five-minute short
The article also cited that in 2012, Goizueta did a better job placing its MBA graduates than every other top 25 business school in the country. Business students have expressed their appreciation for Benveniste’s service and expressed hope that a new dean will help push the school even farther. “I think it is important we stick to our roots and our core mission at Goizueta, but there is always room for change and improvement,” said Patrick McBride, the Undergraduate Business School Leadership Conference Chairman on the BBA Council. “I am not looking for someone who is going to come in and maintain the status quo … At the same time, I don’t want someone to come in and say, everything we’ve done, and everything we’ve worked on in the last eight years, we’re going to change.” Hannah Chung, the BBA Council president, wrote in an email to the Wheel that although Benveniste’s largest contributions have been to Goizueta’s MBA program, the BBA program has also benefited from his leadership. The search process for a new dean will be conducted by the Provost’s office. Benveniste said he will remain dean through the transition process and he believes that whoever is next to take on the role of dean at Goizueta will be inheriting a phenomenal school. “From the staff to the faculty to the students to the alumni to the engaged business community, the next leader of Goizueta will be well-poised to accomplish great things during their tenure,” Benveniste wrote. Benveniste will remain in his position as dean of the B-School until a new successor is selected.
— Contact Dustin Slade at dpslade@emory.edu
POKER FACE
Schwartz Directs Film for Campus MovieFest By Rupsha Basu Staff Writer
Larry Benveniste announced Feb. 15 that he is resigning from his position as dean of the Goizueta Business School after eight years. Following a transition to the next dean, Benveniste will maintain his position in the faculty as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance and will assume an academic leadership role in the school’s Center for Alternative Investments. Benveniste explained in an email to the Wheel that his decision to step down came at a good time for both him and the B-School. “When I reflected on all we had accomplished in my eight years here, I felt now was a good time for me to do that and to allow the University ample time to complete a process of transition,” Benveniste wrote. “Our current footing as a school is very strong and that is important when you are looking for a successor.” In a letter to the Emory community, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Claire Sterk lauded Benveniste’s commitment to leadership post-resignation. “In his tenure as dean, Larry accomplished many goals, including guiding the program through the recent economic downturn,” Sterk wrote. “Despite huge economic pressures for both the school and its growing alumni — numbering more than 17,000 worldwide — Larry ensured Goizueta’s ability to thrive amidst such turmoil.” Benveniste was recently featured in a Feb. 12 article on Fortune.com in which he was accredited for helping turn around the B-School by leading a dramatic overhaul of the school. According to the article, during Benveniste’s leadership the last four years, Goizueta has shown the largest growth in reported salary and bonuses among U.S. News & World
Report’s top 25 business schools.
film,” said Horowitz, the film’s art director, recalling late-night brainstorming sessions. “When he showed me the script after winter break, I was in shock at how amazing it had become.”
Assembling the Team Schwartz directed the 2012 Campus Best Picture winner “Blackout.” This year, he assembled the largest team an Emory CMF production has ever had, which was around 20 students composed primarily of students in the Film Studies Department. All three agreed that they want to expand Emory’s film studies department. They hope that the department will gradually move away from an academically-based program and become more balanced between theory and practice, according to Schwartz. “It’s not a very large department here — it’s not NYU Tisch, but the filmmakers that have been coming out of this school lately are paving the way for new filmmakers, and inspiring them along the way,” said Horowitz. “I hope that through them we’re going to be able to build up this department to hopefully hit the same caliber one day as these really prominent film studies programs.” Schwartz said that he wanted to unify the talent of the Film Studies Department. “There was something telling us
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uniors Rhonda Caston (left) and Andre Haymer (right) engage in a tense poker hand during GlobeMed’s Casino Night Fundraiser Friday. With music of the roaring ‘20s in the background, students had the opportunity to show off their poker skills while also raising money for a good cause.
CONSTRUCTION
Alabama, Harris Halls To Be Renovated By Harmeet Kaur Staff Writer Alabama and Harris Residence Halls will undergo renovations during the course of the next two years. Renovations will include upgrades to the infrastructure and interior of the
residence halls. Andrea Trinklein, the executive director of Residence Life and Housing, said some of the renovations for the halls will include the additions of private bathrooms and study lounges. Trinklein said the project is going
to occur in two phases, with the first phase taking place this summer and the second phase to follow in summer 2014. Confining the renovations to the summer will allow the residence halls to remain open during the academic year and maximize the number of students that can live on
campus, according to Trinklein. “We have to be strategic with planning and make the most of the summer months,” Trinklein said. “Our goal is that we need to maintain a certain number of beds available for
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