April 5, 2017

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

DOOLEY’S WEEK

ANNEXATION

SPC Students Removed from Artist Booking Process SGA Denies Requests for Public Documents

By JacoB Durst anD rIcharD chess Senior Staff and Asst. News Editor/City The search for a Dooley’s Week headliner has been assumed by Student Programming Council (SPC) Adviser Vernon Smith and the Division of Campus Life following the revelation that the announced performer was booked through a fraudulent company, according to SPC President Ria Sabnis (17C).

“Right now, it’s … a rushed process to find [an artist] of the caliber that we want,” Sabnis said. “It’s going through our adviser and not through any members of SPC at all.”

Neither SPC nor the University announced a replacement artist by press time.

The Dooley’s Week concert has been moved to Friday to better accommodate potential replacement artists, Sabnis said. sPc asks WMre For Money Campus Life informed SPC March 27 that Global Talent Agency, the third-party booking agency that SPC believed represented Migos, was actu-

University Buys Home to Join Atl.

By Isa MartIns Contributing Writer

SPC had realized March 21 that Migos was booked for a performance in Mississippi on the same date that the band was supposedly performing at Emory, according to Sabnis.

“We are currently in discussions

Emory’s acquisition of a 1,240-square foot home in August 2016 could serve a crucial role in the University’s ongoing efforts to be annexed into Atlanta. The prospect of officially filing an annexation petition with the city is now more plausible than ever.

The home purchase is meant to satisfy city orders that require the campus, currently located in unincorporated DeKalb County, to share a border with Atlanta before an appeal can initiate.

Property owners can annex into the city of Atlanta via the “100 percent method”: either 20 percent of the entire border of the property or 50 feet must be touching the city of which the property owners are

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Wala Hassan (17C) tapes flyers with an encouraging quote from author H.G. Wells on Cox Bridge March 29. ally a fraudulent agency, Sabnis said.

Global Talent Agency managed to secure a payment of an undisclosed amount before the University realized its mistake.

After Campus Life started its investigation into Global Talent Agency, but before it informed SPC that the

agency was fraudulent, members of SPC reached out to Emory’s studentrun radio station WMRE March 23 in hopes of raising money to finance an additional performer for Dooley’s Week 2017, according to SPC Vice President Aaron Levey (17B). WMRE declined the offer, Levey said.

IMMIGRATION

Coalition of Universities Ally Against Trump Executive Order

By MIchelle lou Executive Editor

Emory University signed its second amicus curiae brief in two months opposing President Donald J. Trump’s immigration policy, joining a coalition of 30 other U.S. universities filing against Trump’s revised execu-

tive order on immigration. The brief was filed March 31 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit of Maryland following a March 16 injunction on the president’s revised travel ban issued by U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang, according to The Washington Post.

The revised order, signed March

COMMENCEMENT

Emory College Picks Cole As Orator

By Varun GuPta Contributing Writer

A student leader from the Oxford College student government, Campus Life and Greek life can now add one more accomplishment to his resume before the end of his college career: orator at the Emory College of Arts and Sciences diploma ceremony as part of Commencement May 8.

A political science major from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Noah Cole (17C) will be the only student speaker at the College diploma ceremony. He has experience with delivering keynote addresses after serving as president of the Oxford Student Government Association.

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Arts and Sciences Michael A. Elliott, who notified Cole of his selection, said Cole is an inspiring example of leadership at Emory. noah Cole (17C), College diploma ceremony orator

6, removed Iraq from the banned list of six predominantly Muslim countries and exempted permanent residents and current visa holders. The order also reversed an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees, instead replacing it with a 120-day suspension that requires review of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program’s procedures,

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EDITORIAL

The 40-page amicus brief states that Trump’s executive order threatens the different perspectives that international scholars bring to higher education, as well as the “scientific discoveries,” entrepreneurship and “works of art and literature” that they contribute

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CONSTRUCTION

Hospital, DUC-ling Construction Disrupts Students By alex kluGerMan Asst. News Editor/Campus

Students have had to to adapt their daily patterns by evading barriers and avoiding loud noise when possible, as construction ensues on both the Hospital Tower/Clifton Streetscape and the new Campus Life Center (CLC) projects. The Wheel spoke with Harris Hall and the Complex Hall residents, the majority of whom said they found themselves deprived of sleep after nighttime work commenced on Clifton Road.

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Construction workers pave Clifton Road, which is adjacent to Harris Residence Hall.

Construction on the new Emory University Hospital (EUH) “J-wing” 10-story tower has been ongoing since 2013 in conjunction with the “Clifton Road Streetscape” project and the replacement of the bridge that connects EUH Clinics A and B. Benefits to

the road improvement include “calming traffic, increasing pedestrian, bicyclist and vehicular safety, improving access and traffic flow on North Decatur Road and greatly enhancing the aesthetics of Clifton Road,” according to the project’s website.

EUH is on a “completely separate [management] side of Emory” although

communication has been ongoing between the two entities regarding construction projects, according to Housing Facilities and Operations Manager for the Department of Residential Life Jonathan Cooper.

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“I am excited that he will have the chance to share his vision of social justice with our Emory College graduates and their families,” Elliott said. “[He]

and dropped language allowing for the “prioritization of refugee claims from members of persecuted religious minority groups.”

Despite the changes, the order still contains elements from its predecessor, including decreasing the number of refugees allowed into the United States annually by about 60,000.

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Speaker Plans to Share Students Adorn Cox Bridge With Flyers Social Justice Vision Continued from Page 1

Continued from Page 1 has combined his classroom education with his tremendous experiences outside the classroom, and I think he has a unique perspective on how what we do on campus matters for the lives of our graduates when they leave.”

Cole submitted a 750-word draft of a speech and his resume to the selection committee toward the start of the Spring 2017 and was informed a week later that he had been selected as one of the five finalists. After revising his draft, Cole delivered his speech in front of a selection committee of about 10 individuals consisting of graduating seniors and members of College faculty and administration.

Following the oratory round, the committee members interviewed Cole.

Two weeks later, Elliott informed Cole that he had been chosen as the orator.

Cole said he plans to center his speech around three components: the transformative journey of college, the values he holds most sacred and the advocacy efforts student organizations are involved in.

“I felt it was really important to highlight less so individuals but more so organizations that have made an immense impact on the community and challenged how people think about certain issues,” Cole said.

Neha Bansal (17C) said she wanted someone to talk about ”something that is super relaxed and reminiscent of our time here.”

Bansal added that she did not want to hear about something “that is going to make everyone sad, because it’s graduation — everyone is already going to be sad.”

After interning last summer at the White House in the Office of Presidential Correspondence, Cole said wants to focus on issues larger than Emory.

“It’s very easy to be caught up in the smaller issues,” Cole said. “We need to constantly think … ‘What am I doing to help other people?’ It doesn’t need to look like donating and volunteering.

It can be as simple as helping out your friends when they are feeling down.”

Kadeem Trimble (17C), one of Cole’s Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers, applauded Cole’s leadership on both Oxford and Atlanta campuses.

“He has the experience that really a lot of students can relate to,” Trimble said. “It’s a different experience coming from Oxford and being SGA president as a sophomore and still being a leader on main campus.”

— Contact Varun Gupta at varun.gupta@emory.edu

ACTIVISM

with a second artist to perform at our Migos concert and are slightly short on the money to afford the artist,” Levey’s March 23 email to WMRE Special Events Chair Jamison Murphy (18C) reads. “If WMRE would be able to provide $3,000 - $5,000 ... SPC would gladly say in all our publicity that WMRE is providing this new artist to the SPC concert.”

Murphy questioned whether there was ever a potential second artist given the timing and nature of the request.

“I suspect that there never was a ‘second artist,’” Murphy said. “I imagine that I would only get this email if they were unexpectedly short on funds. I was suspicious of it at the time, and the revelation of the Migos scam only confirmed this to me.”

Murphy said that WMRE decided not to contribute funding to the concert, given that their money is devoted to their Spring Band Party.

Levey said that the funding request and discovery of the double-booking were unrelated.

“I got a pretty good sense that [WMRE] was really focused on [their Spring Band Party],” Levey said. “The partnership wasn’t going to click.”

College Council (CC) offered financial assistance to SPC following the announcement that SPC was scammed, but CC President-elect Cassidy Schwartz (18C) said, “It doesn’t sound like [SPC] need[s] our help as of now.” sGa DenIes PuBlIc Doc. requests

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Comparative literature professor angelika Bammer (leFt), History professor Gyan pandey (MIDDle) and Middle eastern and south asian studies professor naryana Rao (r IGht) protest trump’s america april 4.

Following the announcement last week that Migos would not perform at Emory, the Wheel made several attempts to obtain public documents from the Student Government Association (SGA) that would indicate the dollar amount that SPC paid to Global Talent Agency.

“The papers of the SGA shall be considered public records,” Article VII, Section One of the SGA Constitution states.

Assistant Vice President for

Community Suzanne Onorato said she was unable to share the dollar amount of SPC’s payment to Global Talent Agency, citing a possible legal investigation. SGA President Max Zoberman (17C) refused to turn over documents related to SPC’s attempted procurement of Migos to the Wheel four times, also citing the ongoing legal investigation.

Zoberman officially ended his term as SGA president April 3 but was serving in that capacity during his communications with the Wheel.

SGA President Gurbani Singh (18B) did not respond to request for documents.

“We will make sure to furnish you with all relevant documentation when the circumstances allow us, [but] at the present moment, you are not entitled to the paperwork and we will not be distributing it accordingly,” Zoberman wrote in an March 31 email to the Wheel. “While SGA is self-governing, we are choosing to selfgovern in accordance with the position of Campus Life.”

Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair wrote in an April 3 email to the Wheel that Campus Life does not have an official stance regarding the release of papers.

Director of Student Involvement, Leadership and Transitions Lisa Loveall, who will be the adviser to the 51st Legislature of the SGA, agreed with Zoberman.

“The release of this information could be detrimental to the outcome of the case and is not in the best interest to the students and campus community,” Loveall wrote in an April 3 email to the Wheel.

Zoberman apologized via email March 29 to the student body for having lost the money spent on booking Migos as well as damaging the trust between students and SGA. Prior to the referendum that split SGA into autonomous graduate and undergraduate bodies, SGA oversaw the distribution of approximately $2.5 million in student funds to campus groups, including SPC.

FrauDulent aGency not reGIstereD

Global Talent Agency’s website claims that the group is under the company GTA Bookings LLC and is licensed and bonded and “has been a cornerstone in the booking entertainment industry since 2008.”

However, the agency is not registered with either the state of Georgia or the city of Atlanta as a company.

The address listed on the agency’s website — 500 Bishop Street, Building C, Atlanta — does not turn up results either. Instead, Sonica Recording (Studio) and Cheveux Hair Empire are the only businesses that claim to occupy Building C at 500 Bishop Street, according to the city of Atlanta business lookup. stuDents taPe Flyers to BrIDGe Flyers mocking SPC for being scammed were hung along Cox Hall Bridge Wednesday night by an anonymous party before being removed the next morning. The signs satirically offered to sell the bridge to SPC for $65,000 and asked for “immediate payment without snippets or thinking.”

According to Emory Associate Vice President for Facilities Management Todd Kerzie, Emory’s facilities management staff did not remove the signs.

Wala Hassan (17C) saw the signs mocking SPC and decided to print flyers quoting author H.G. Wells in response: “Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.” “[The original signs] were funny at first, but I decided to head to the library and print these,” Hassan said.

“When I got back, they had already taken them down but I decided to put [mine] up anyway.”

Alex Klugerman and Michelle Lou contributed reporting.

— Contact Jacob Durst at jacob.j.durst@emory.edu and

Emory Takes Next Step Toward Annexation Into Atlanta Continued from Page 1 seeking annexation, according to Atlanta Municipal Code 30-36-20.

Additionally, the property owners — in this case, Emory — must unanimously support the annexation by signing a petition.

Emory’s purchase of the home at 1664 Briarcliff Road satisfies the “100 percent method,” barely exceeding the county ordinance minimum by 22 feet.

The new property is within 72 feet of the Atlanta border.

“Emory’s boundary is a very long couple of miles … that property [the University purchased], which is 75 feet wide, is the only direct point of contiguity between the University and the city of Atlanta,” DeKalb County Commissioner Jeff Rader said.

The petition to annex has not yet been presented to the city of Atlanta, but neighboring properties like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, located within the Clifton Corridor has previously expressed interest in annexing, as doing so would provide means for a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) train station near Emory, according to The Atlanta

Journal-Constitution.

The house — the official link between the Clifton Corridor and the city of Atlanta that Emory needed for the petition to be accepted — costed Emory $345,000, according to DeKalb County property records.

Vice President of Government and Community Affairs Cameron Taylor declined a request for interview.

Associate Vice President of Media Relations Nancy Seideman told the Wheel that there were no new updates on the annexation process and referred the Wheel to an August 2016 statement that said Emory is beginning the process to annex its campus into Atlanta.

“Emory already promotes its location as Atlanta, is known internationally as being located in Atlanta, routinely recruits faculty and students to Atlanta, and has an Atlanta address and zip code,” the August 2016 statement reads. “The prestige of Emory as an international university and Atlanta as a global city are inextricably linked.”

Should Emory join the city, Rader said Atlanta would need to fund basic public services that DeKalb County currently provides for the University, such as fire and police services.

“If Emory is no longer in unincorporated DeKalb County, they are no longer in our service,” Rader said. “If Atlanta doesn’t work out a reciprocal governmental agreement where DeKalb would continue to provide services and be compensated by the city, they need to develop a capacity to serve the Emory campus on their own since it’s so far from the center of the city.”

Rader cited fire service, which DeKalb County currently provides to the University, as a service Atlanta would have to provide the campus.

The closest city of Atlanta fire station to Emory is located more than 2.5 miles away in Virginia Highlands, and is too small to accommodate the more than 600-acre campus, Rader said. According to Rader, Emory could potentially enter into an agreement where they make “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” (PILOT) to the city to compensate for public services.

“By virtue of their educational mission, Emory has never paid property taxes to DeKalb County,” Rader said. “It makes it harder for a jurisdiction to provide services without a stream of revenue to mitigate that cost. If Atlanta had to build a new fire station without collecting taxes

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emory purchased the house, located at 1644 Briarcliff Road, for $345,000. to pay for it, that might be difficult for city council members to support [annexation].”

Therefore, since Emory is a taxexempt institution, it is likely that the University will not resort to this option if it can continue to avoid it.

Citizens living in the surrounding area of DeKalb County have expressed concerns that a “domino” effect could occur, with neighboring subdivisions petitioning for annexation as well,

which could cause changes to school districts.

According to the August 2016 University statement, “annexation of Emory into the city of Atlanta will not affect school districts, since neighboring communities like Druid Hills will still be self-determining regarding annexation.”

— Contact Isa Martins at isa.martins@emory.edu

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Crime Report

Compiled By Monica Lefton On March 27 at 10:19 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding a theft at the Dobbs University Center (DUC). An Emory student reported his black backpack stolen after leaving it at a table on the second level of the dining area. The student said he left for about two minutes to get food. When he returned, his backpack was missing. The bag contained an Acer laptop and charger, his passport, keys and school supplies. The case has been assigned to a detective.

On March 29 at 12:53 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a disoriented person in Longstreet-Means Residence Hall.

Officers met with an Emory student in a second floor study lounge who told them that the disoriented student said he wanted to die. Prior to the officers’ arrival, there was an altercation between the two students. Campus Life

was notified.

On April 1 at 3:28 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an intoxicated Emory student in Dobbs Hall.

Emory Emergency Medical Services (EEMS) and DeKalb American Medical Response (AMR) also responded to the scene. Officers found the student lying on the floor of a locked women’s bathroom stall.

The EPD officer unlocked the stall so the EEMS responder could render aid to the student, whose speech was slurred and feet were unsteady.

The student was transported to Emory University Hospital (EUH). Campus Life was notified.

On April 1 at 8:54 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding harassing messages on social media. An Emory student reported checking her Instagram April 1 at 8:18 p.m. to find two direct messages containing threatening and profane language. A March 26 message called the student an “ugly

News Roundup terrorist psychotic b*tch,” and a March 27 message told the student to kill herself. The student said she was unsure of the sender’s identity because she did not recognize the username. Campus Life was notified. The case has been assigned to a detective.

On April 2 at 4:40 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a person semiconscious due to alcohol at the roundabout outside of Clairmont Tower on Dooley Drive. EEMS and DeKalb AMR also arrived on the scene. The 19-year-old Emory student reported consuming 12 shots of tequila between midnight and 2 a.m. at a bar in Buckhead.

The student received medical attention but refused transport to Emory University Hospital (EUH). EPD assisted the student back to his room.

Campus Life was notified.

— Contact Monica Lefton at monica.lefton@emory.edu

HOUSING

Incoming Freshmen Displace Rising Sophomores

By Vanessa IshIMWe Contributing Writer

Although the University typically assigns sophomore housing through a room selection process undertaken in March, less than 200 rising sophomores have yet to be assigned living spaces for the next academic year, according to Director of Housing Operations Sherry Ebrahimi. Emory Housing hopes to assign all rising sophomores housing by the end of this semester, but it’s possible that students on the waiting list will not receive their housing assignments until sometime this summer, Ebrahimi said According to the Office of Residence Life and Housing policies, students should be able to select a room during their assigned date and time during the housing selection window.

Although the housing process was originally slated to close on March 16 at 11:59 p.m., students participating received an email at 5:07 p.m. that day informing them that the window had closed.

According to Assistant Dean and Director of Residence Life Scott Rausch, some students still don’t currently have assigned housing because Greek organizations have yet to submit their rosters of students who will be living in the fraternity houses and sorority lodges. Some students who currently have spots in the sophomore residence halls will actually live in Greek housing, freeing up their rooms

for students on the waiting list.

Next semester, the ground floor of Harris Hall, traditionally a sophomore residence hall, will house freshmen along with Sophomore Advisers (SAs) and Resident Advisers (RAs), according to Rausch. For the purposes of Songfest, orientation and freshmen programming, the ground floor of Harris will be associated with Complex Hall, which will remain a freshmen dorm.

Rausch said this arrangement was “not ideal” but it is the best way to handle the larger incoming freshman class – an expected 133 more students than this year’s freshman class.

If sophomores do not receive housing, there are rooms on hold in Clairmont Campus for sophomores, Ebrahimi said.

Some rising sophomores were taken off of the waiting list and assigned rooms this past weekend when Greekaffiliated students opted to live on Eagle Row and relinquished their spots in residence halls.

Mino Cha (20C) said she felt relieved when she finally received housing this past weekend. “[Not having housing] was very sad for me, and because I didn’t know where I was going to live, it actually affected my course registration,” Cha said. “Some people told me that I might have to live on Clairmont campus, but that would affect my morning class schedule.”

Although Housing sent her one

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email saying that housing would be guaranteed to her, Cha found Emory’s lack of communication “annoying.”

The University permitted Greek organizations to open up their houses to non-members this year, Ebrahimi said.

Sororities and fraternities must evaluate whether their organizations could fill the house or lodge themselves, the national chapters’ rules and the preferences of the members and executive officers.

Though traditionally there are designated freshmen and sophomore residence halls and Clairmont Campus is typically reserved for upperclassmen, Housing has decided to deviate from the norm with housing options to accommodate all students who live on campus.

Vivian Fan (20C), who currently does not have an assigned room, expressed frustration with her lack of housing and Emory’s response.

“I’m annoyed by the possibility of living at Clairmont next year — I don’t want to live so far away from other sophomores,” Fan said. “I’m also angered by how slow the process is and the silence on Housing’s part. They sent me an email after the housing process [was over] but that was it.”

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— Contact Vanessa Ishimwe at vanessa.ishimwe@emory.edu

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eMoRy – The search advisory committee for the dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, co-chaired

by Oxford College Dean Douglas Hicks and Winship Distinguished Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Department of Biomedical Informatics Li Xiong, has narrowed its pool to four finalists, according to an April 4 College-wide email from University President Claire E. Sterk. The dean candidates will be interviewed April 7 in Harland Cinema in a search forum that students can attend, according to a April 4 College Council email.

eMoRy – Caroline Holmes (17C) won the Lucius Lamar McMullan Award, a $25,000 award that recognizes “graduates who show extraordinary promise of becoming future leaders and rare potential for service to their community, nation and the world,” according to Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education Jason Cjieka.

Holmes will graduate with a Bachelor of Science in physics and biology, and intends to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. Woodruff Research Scholar, Holmes has worked as an EPASS tutor for organic chemistry and physics, directed the Volunteer Emory program and played viola in the Emory Symphony Orchestra.

Holmes did not respond to request for comment by press time.

GeorGIa hIGhWay collaPses atlanta – A major section of northbound I-85 collapsed Thursday after someone set fire to a chair under the bridge, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Basil Eleby, 39, was charged with first-degree arson Saturday. Construction crews are working around the clock to rebuild the missing section, and the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) expects repairs to be completed by June 15, according to an April 4 GDOT press release. Commuters are facing increased vehicle and Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) traffic due to the I-85 closure. Emory sent out a March 30 University-wide email following the collapse to advise employees to

tornaDoes touch DoWn In GeorGIa atlanta – Up to 20 tornadoes touched down across the state of Georgia Monday night, leaving thousands without power, the AJC reported. Tornadoes were worst in North Georgia. Tornadoes continued Tuesday, and severe weather is expected to follow Wednesday through Monday, with high winds exceeding 60 miles per hour, tennis-ball sized hail and more tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service.

— Contact Richard Chess at richard.chess@emory.edu

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Corrections

•In last week’s issue, the “Fraudulent Agency Scams SPC” article misidentified Christopher DeVore as graduating in 2019 instead of 2018. The article also said that Emory paid Global Talent Agency through a check, but the payment was actually made through electronic transfer.

COFFEE

Starbucks Renovations to Accommodate Increased Traffic By natalIa BroDy Contributing Writer

The Starbucks in the Oxford Road Building will close for renovations over the summer in anticipation of increased foot traffic next fall, according to Emory Campus Dining Assistant Director Chad Sunstein.

The changes are a result of the impending demolition of the Dobbs University Center (DUC), which currently hosts Kaldi’s, the coffee shop most central on campus.

Sunstein speculates that the absence of the Kaldi’s located in the DUC may increase traffic to Starbucks, which offers its own variety of coffees, teas and baked goods. Other campus coffee vendors like Kaldi’s at the Depot and Highland Bakery are also expecting a customer influx, though Starbucks is the only vendor undergo-

ing renovations, Sunstein said.

Starbucks first came to Emory six years ago and has not been renovated since.

“A lot changes in six years [at Emory] — we need to keep up with those changes,” Sunstein said.

Sunstein said he expects the renovation to begin immediately after graduation and finish before students return in the fall. When students return from summer break, Starbucks will have an entirely new layout: the floors will be re-finished, new furniture will be added and lighting fixtures will be replaced, according to Sunstein.

“The updates will be more studentfriendly,” Sunstein said, adding that several of the small tables and large sofas will be replaced by larger tables that can seat groups.

The vendor’s current setup is frequently overcrowded and unable to

seat all of its customers, according to Sunstein. Although Starbucks will undergo numerous physical changes, its drink and food options will remain unchanged.

The Starbucks store manager, Kieira Rogers, said that she had not yet received specific renovation dates.

Rogers declined to comment on the feelings of Starbucks employees toward the renovation.

Jazmine Colvin (19C) said she does not like the Kaldi’s Coffee in the DUC and is a frequent Starbucks customer, but had no opinion on the renovation.

Allison Zieser (19C), who said she visits Starbucks twice a week, said the temporary closing won’t affect her.

“I’m not here over the summer, so I don’t care,” Zieser said.

— Contact Natalia Brody at natalia.brody@emory.edu

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starbucks Coffee, one of emory’s coffee hubs, will undergo renovations this summer in anticipation of increased foot traffic when the dobbs university Center (duC) is torn down.

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School Files Second Amicus Brief Against Trump Continued from Page 1 to America.

Additionally, the brief cites instances when the order impeded U.S. universities’ ability to host international scholars for academic conferences, as “faculty members from around the world already have called for a boycott of academic conferences in the United States.”

Emory currently employs more than 2,000 full-time instructional staff members, of whom 5 percent are nonresident aliens, according to the brief. About 320 of Emory’s 944 full-time research staff members are nonresident aliens, the brief reads.

The Wheel requested comment from Sterk via Associate Vice President of Media Relations Nancy Seideman, who redirected the Wheel to Senior Vice President and General

Counsel Stephen Sencer. He declined to comment.

Last month, the University, alongside 16 other universities, filed an amicus brief against Trump’s original executive order on immigration in the New York federal district.

Emory’s International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) office declined to comment on the number of students directly affected by the executive order.

Sterk, jointly with 47 other university presidents, signed a Feb. 2 letter denouncing Trump’s immigration order, characterizing it as “unfairly target[ing] seven predominantly Muslim countries in a manner inconsistent with America’s best principles and greatest traditions.” Sterk signed the letter because the order “hinders Emory’s ability to be a global research

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university,” according to her Feb. 6 allEmory email.

Emory alumnus Neil Lampe (80B) said that he was “disappointed that the University has lost its educational focus” in a comment on the University’s Facebook post about the amicus brief.

“The nation’s immigration and security policies have absolutely nothing to do with academic excellence,” Lampe added.

Chris Wyllie (20C), disagreed with Lampe in another comment, writing that “when many of your greatest students are immigrants … it has everything to do with academic excellence.”

Lampe and Wyllie did not respond to request for comment by press time.

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— Contact Michelle Lou at mlou3@emory.edu

lady Claire e. dooley and her bodyguards meander through Cox Computing Center april 3 during dooley’s Week 2017.

Construction Town Halls Attract Low Community Attendance Continued from Page 1 states that, “construction and demolition activity or deliveries shall only be performed between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays, or between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturdays.”

Director of Planning and Sustainability Andrew Baker did not respond to multiple requests for information regarding potential special construction permits acquired by the University.

Clifton Road Project Manager Alfred Herzog did not respond to request for comment by press time. EUH CEO Bryce Gartland wrote in a March 24 statement to the Wheel on behalf of Emory Healthcare that construction crews for EUH tower and Clifton Streetscape work from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, per DeKalb County ordinances, but that sometimes overnight work is required to prevent traffic congestion during the day.

“There are times during both proj-

ects where work needed to be completed overnight to keep traffic flowing smoothly,” Gartland’s statement reads.

“Some of those incidences include: erecting the new pedestrian bridge crossing Clifton Road, removing the old pedestrian bridge crossing Clifton Road and milling and paving Clifton Road. Otherwise, construction crews work normal hours, respecting evening quiet hours.”

The Streetscape website clarifies that lane closures and “other inconveniences” were scheduled to take place during the day and night.

“Much of the regrading and resurfacing work [on Clifton Road] will be done at night,” the website reads. nIGhttIMe Work DIsruPts stuDents More than a dozen students living in Harris and Complex said they have been disturbed by evening and earlyhour construction.

“It’s annoying because I hear the construction at midnight and I try to

go to bed at 11:30 p.m.,” Harris resident Sereena Jivraj (19C) said. “I wake up at 1 a.m. consistently because of the noise.”

Harris resident Sarah Elmongy (19C) echoed Jivraj’s sentiments.

“If Emory can afford to bring a camel into the center of campus for the hell of it, they can afford to do construction at more convenient times,” Elmongy said.

“Considering the amount Emory costs and the experience we’re meant to be getting, we shouldn’t be woken up by construction that isn’t even benefitting us. We shouldn’t be forced to take other routes just because Emory wants to make its hospital prettier.”

However, not all students were bothered by the ongoing work.

“I don’t really mind it because I’m a heavy sleeper,” Harris resident Anna Lee (19C) said. “I can’t hear the construction anytime because we live on the opposite side of the [project].”

Other students complained about the noise waking them up in the early morning hours.

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“It wakes me up before 8 a.m., and I can hear it through my window,” Harris resident Karla Guevara (19C) said. “If I have a later class and I want to sleep in, I can’t. Sometimes at night all I hear [are] the machines and beeping.”

Complex resident Joel Varner (20C) said his room shakes because of the construction.

“It’s inconvenient especially at 12 a.m. and one o’clock in the morning,” Varner said. “When they were paving the street at night, it even got to the point where my room on the third level [of Hopkins Hall] was shaking and other guys on my floor had the same experience.” clc, Duc-lInG on scheDule On the University’s campus, students have had to navigate the everchanging maze of temporary fencing as work continues on the DUC-ling interim dining facility and construction of the CLC to replace the Dobbs

University Center (DUC).

Student complaints regarding noise and disruption from the DUC-ling/CLC project have been minimal, although the project is still in a pre-construction phase.

“We have occasional complaints [about noise and disruption] and we deal with those individually,” Cooper said.

The University held two town halls March 15 and 22 with approximately 10 students in attendance at each, to answer questions about the projects and display building designs. Barring unexpected incidences, the DUC-ling is anticipated to open on time and scheduled to serve its first meal to people living on campus over the summer in May, according to DUC-ling project manager Charles Rossignol.

Brian Savino and Richard Chess contributed reporting.

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A capella group Dooley Noted sings at Couchella yesterday in Asbury Circle during Student Programming Council’s (SPC) Dooley’s Week.

Students line up yesterday at Taste of Emory, an annual event hosted

by SPC where students can enjoy free food catered by local restaurants.

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Mia Eisenhandler (17C) creates her own personalized cupcake at DUC Day on the DUC Terraces March 31.

Alice Halter (17C) strikes a pose at AHANA Dance’s performance April 1 in the Burlington Road Building, ending her senior year gracefully.

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Matt De LeReaux (17C) performs a heartfelt rendition of Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” at MSA’s Art Gala April 1.

Students signed a banner created by Project Welcome April 4, a student organization that supports immigrants, migrants and refugees.

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 | Editorials Editor: Annie Cohen (annie.cohen@emory.edu)

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Emory Catfishes Prospective Students Despite the comforting fantasy of finally ditching your hometown for a community of unique students and quirky professors, the modern college experience boils down to one unromantic transaction — an exorbitant check and four years of your life for a degree with a fancy letterhead.

It seems counterintuitive to be critical of the exceptional treatment Emory students receive in April, when Wonderful Wednesdays really are wonderful (rather than the stuporous, mundane affairs they are for the other six months of the year) and Dooley’s Week sends spirits soaring. Yet it is disheartening that the only time Emory students receive the quality of campus life we were promised on admissions pamphlets is when Emory poses, postures and peacocks for another generation of prospective and admitted students.

To their credit, the Admissions Office is seldom overtly dishonest, and emphasizes that student ambassadors and tour guides should never lie. But the subtle practices and omissions Emory utilizes are nonetheless deceptive. Tour guides boast that we have 11 libraries on campus, when four of them (Goizueta Business Library, Stuart A. Rose Library, Matheson Reading Room and the Music and Media Library) are located within the Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Applicants learn that they can choose from over 550 student clubs and organizations without knowing that only a handful receive adequate funding to provide consistent, quality programming.

Campus visits are peppered with buzzwords and phrases, like Emory representing the ideal fusion of a research institution with a liberal arts education, despite a whopping 80 percent of first-years harboring pre-health aspirations, according to Admissions, and Goizueta Business School annually absorbing 400 sophomores. Those slogans are seldom more than a means to justify the General Education Requirements that force students to take perfunctory classes in

which they have no vested interest. PACE advisors are lauded as omniscient freshmen mentors when they typically have no knowledge of requirements outside their own departments.

Other attempts to coat Emory with the varnish of an Ivy League trailblazer are more institutional. Despite being located in Dekalb County and not Atlanta proper, Emory uses our 30322 zip code to capitalize on the implicit metropolitan name recognition, knowing that “DeKalb” doesn’t have quite the same je ne sais quoi. Students, especially those without the opportunity to tour, arrive with the preconception that Emory is a city school. In reality, even Midtown is largely inaccessible without a car.

To a certain extent, we cannot fault the admissions staff for doing their jobs too well. Emory presents a sparkling, iridescent exterior to bulk up application numbers and deflate admissions rates, and persuades students to give up full scholarships for four years of a mute, capricious skeleton and overpriced King of Pops to increase our yield. After all, these salient metrics of success bolster our widely touted U.S. News and World Report rankings and are vital to attracting competitive applicants.

Yet as much as we bemoaned slipping out of the top 20, we must remember that these are real students with distinct academic and personal objectives, and oftentimes financial limitations. Funneling resources into a proverbial arms race against schools of similar calibers and masquerading as something Emory is not builds a discordant and resentful student body, undermining the entire idea of “fit” that we supposedly value and continually espouse.

Whether Emory is your dream school or your parents had to drag you here for a visit, don’t be duped.

Just like every other university out there, Emory uses all the glitz, glam and artifice it can muster to depict college as something it cannot and will never live up to.

Administration at Fault for Migos Booking Failure Nothing has rallied students together this year as much as the news that Migos would be performing at Dooley’s Week. But when Emory realized it been scammed by a fraudulent third-party agency, the March 28 letter published by Student Programming Council’s (SPC) contained no hint of an apology, and failed to place blame for the oversight on any group or individual.

Following SPC’s letter, frustrated Migos fans jumped to accuse their fellow students on SPC of negligence, but that blame should be redirected toward the administration and paid Emory employees whose responsibility is to prevent mistakes of this scale.

Extreme vetting should have occurred, but it appears that not even a Google search of Global Talent Agency or of Migos’ tour schedule did. Intermediaries between SPC and the fraudulent Global Talent Agency included SPC Adviser and Student Engagement Coordinator Vernon Smith, the Office of the General Counsel and Dave Fuhrman, senior director of Campus Life Auxiliary Services and Administration. None of those three entities tasked with reviewing the booking contract noticed that Migos was double-booked on the day they were scheduled to perform at Emory, nor

did they find any red flags in a company not included on Emory Campus Life’s list of pre-approved vendors with no credible references and a history of fraud.

To guarantee that students can be trusted with large amounts of money, the University must have appropriate checks and balances in place. The Office of the General Counsel is one such check. In their core values statement, they promise to “exercise prudent judgment” and “[cultivate] a culture of trust.” Those words mean nothing if they represent a group of employees unable to carry out their intent.

While some of the funds used for the payment came from the Student Activities Fee, reimbursing students individually for the loss would unfortunately be ineffective and counterproductive. Each student would receive a nominal amount, and the funds would have to come from somewhere — most likely from Campus Life or SPC itself, which could affect future events and programs. This year’s largest and most anticipated student-run University event has been ruined by a scam that could have been avoided with a simple Google search. Preventive measures exist because institutions are run by people who make mistakes — Emory must ensure those measures work.

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Research Cuts Deserve More Attention decided to double down on cuts.

In its first budget proposal, the administration recommended slashing 18 percent of the NIH’s budget, as Wiretap allegations, travel bans well as large spending reductions for and congressional gridlock have other research agencies such as the dominated recent news coverage, National Oceanic and Atmospheric meaning that one critical statistic Administration and the U.S. Departprobably escaped the notice of most ment of Energy.

Americans. In March, data from To the Trump administration, the the National Science Foundation cuts represent a new reality in govshowed that for the first time since ernment, in which agencies will have World War II, the percentage of ba- to “do more with less,” as stated by sic research funded by the federal President Donald J. Trump in Febgovernment fell below 50 percent. ruary.

While not plastered on the front However, his senseless budget pages of newspapers or trending proposal slashes the very sectors on Twitter, that statistic represents of our government that already do a significant change in government “more with less.” Today, funding policy over the last several years that for scientific research composes will affect the daily lives of Ameri- only 1 percent of our budget. This cans and decrease the U.S.’s global is in stark contrast to the military leadership role. and entitlement programs such as To many, that change may seem Medicare and Social Security that unlikely. The dividends from science combine to form three-quarters of don’t flow directly into most people’s federal spending, and would be unbank accounts, and research papers touched or, in the case of the defense haven’t traditionally been seen as budget, increased by Trump’s prosymbols of America’s power. How- posals. ever, without government-funded Fortunately, the ultimate power research, the U.S. today would be a to draft the federal budget lies with drastically different country, lack- Congress. ing drivers of our economy, national However, while Congress has been prestige such as top research univer- willing to provide large amounts of sities and everyday technologies like money dedicated to specific projects, the microwave and internet. many members engage in the same When most people think about fallacies mentioned earlier when scientific research, they often think judging whether to fund research. about big breakthroughs and devel- Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) even releases opments, such as landing a man on annual reports attacking spending the moon or discovering the polio that he views as wasteful, including vaccine. While those research into topics and other highly pubranging from driverlicized stories repless cars to political resent the pinnacles parties in Pakistan.

Ultimately, if large of scientific achievePolitical intrusions ment, they rest upon cuts to basic research like those ignore the countless other studfundamental nature make it through the ies produced by reof science. While budget process, searchers. not every study will academics and Those papers may produce revolutionnot be headline-grabbureaucrats won’t be ary results, scientific bing, but they form a into obscure the only ones to suffer. inquiry collective body of sciand far-ranging topentific knowledge that ics is essential for enables scientists to producing the ground conduct and publish breaking developfurther studies. ments that make When large breakthroughs occur, front-page news. it is largely due to this continuous Ultimately, if large cuts to basic cycle of innovation and collabora- research make it through the budget tion. process, academics and bureaucrats Before the 1940s, researchers won’t be the only ones to suffer. Evseeking funding mainly relied on ery American depends on governthe private sector and philanthropy. ment funding, whether for life-savThat system worked well during pe- ing cancer treatments, clean air and riods of economic boom, but was drinking water or even the microdevastating for scientists during processor that powers their smarteconomic crashes; some institutions phone. The consequences of those lost over 60 percent of their funding cuts are impossible to fully predict, during the Great Depression. World as science is by nature unpredictable.

War II was the first time the U.S. saw However, what is certain is that less large-scale government investments U.S. spending will damage scientific into science. progress and hurt our country, but Research during the war would help nations like China, which has lead to discoveries with that far bold plans to dramatically increase outlasted the 1940s, including the research its spending. China underdiscovery of chemotherapy and the stands that while they may never mass production of penicillin. Post- be able to outgun America, they can war political leaders made basic replace us as the world’s center of inresearch funding a priority, setting novation by attracting talent that we up agencies such as the National turn away.

Institute of Health (NIH) and the Despite the alarmism of our curNational Science Foundation. Those rent administration, the greatest organizations provide a steady flow threat to our superpower status of research grants that allow the U.S. comes not from outside our borders to remain the world’s preeminent but from within. hub for research.

It exists in the form of a dangerHowever, since 2000, govern- ously simplistic worldview that ment funding for research has pla- equates power solely with military teaued as foreign wars and balloon- strength while ignoring what has ing entitlement costs have taken made our country so great to begin spending priority. As research costs with. continue to grow and universities Considering that scientific rechurn out postgraduate students, search has driven as much as half of there is increased competition for U.S. economic growth since World less money.

War II, narrowing this sliver of our Today, the NIH approves just one budget would be would be a devasin six grant applications, compared tating mistake. to one in three in 1990. Instead relieving pressure on scientific fundAndrew Kliewer is a College ing, the Trump administration freshman from Dallas, Texas.

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Investigations Justified Daniel Park

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Modern Anti-Semitism Alive Small Scale, Unnoticed Prejudices Exist Annie Cohen It is scary when people don’t realize that anti-Semitism exists today. Throughout history, the persecution of Jews often involved violence rather than a silent hatred, and without recognition of modern day anti-Semitism, the possibility that history could repeat itself becomes more and more likely.

I had provided a real-life anecdote of my own experience with anti-Semitism in a story for my creative writing class, and many nonJewish people in my class commented that they felt the situation wouldn’t happen today — maybe in the 1950s, but certainly not in present-day America.

The fact that non-Jewish young people do not understand the extent to which anti-Semitism still exists today is concerning and upsetting.

When I explained to my class that my anecdote was actually nonfiction, they could hardly believe it.

While it is easier and more comforting to think that the fall of Adolf Hitler brought with it the fall of anti-Semitism, that prejudice is alive and well in the world today. There is a lack of visibility surrounding the issue, and the non-Jews who do not see anti-Semitism continue to

believe that there is nothing there to see. That lack of acknowledgement, whether intentional or not, is dangerous.

One needs to look no further than The New York Times to see this. The paper of record has an entire topic page on their website dedicated to news on modern-day anti-Semitism. Bomb threats at Jewish community centers, vandalism of Jewish graveyards and daily threats to Jewish people are chronicled, with the most recent post dated March 6, 2017. The mere existence of that section proves that the issue is alive and well.

It is easier and more comforting to think that the fall of Adolf Hitler brought with it the fall of anti-Semitism , that prejudice is alive and well...

Jewish people endure small acts of anti-Semitism everyday. One Jewish Emory student stated that on a visit to Wonderful Wednesday, she was handed a Bible. When they declined it by saying that they were Jewish, the student was told

that it was why they needed it even more. That type of everyday antiSemitism can often go unnoticed, but it is a dangerous prejudice that needs to be addressed. It’s obvious that large-scale acts such as bomb threats to Jewish community centers must be noticed, reported and hopefully prevented. But those smaller acts, such as anti-Semitic comments, go unmentioned and perpetuate dangerous stereotypes that, when unnoticed, can grow and seep into the everyday lives of others, much like what happened in 1925 when Hitler’s rise to power began in Germany and small prejudices against Jews — such as Hitler’s blaming Jewish people for Germany’s loss in World War I — began to permeate everyday life in Germany.

The Jewish people have faced adversity and violence throughout history and if we do not acknowledge and educate the public about such continued hatred, we run the risk of repeating a past of exile, violence and genocide. Yes, large-scale acts of anti-Semitism are important to focus on, but just like all types of prejudice and discrimination, it is dangerous to disregard the smallscale offences that prevail in everyday life.

Annie Cohen is a College freshman from New Orleans, La.

Recently, Duncan Cock Foster levelled accusations against the Emory administration in his op-ed, “Emory’s War on Greek Life.” The flawed article argues that Greek life is “persecuted” by Emory administrators. The author specifically cites the Emory administration’s failure to follow proper procedure during an investigation into his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi (Beta). However, this asinine article clearly fails to consider the serious nature of the allegations against Beta.

No matter what mistakes were made by the administration, they was right to take such a strict stance against Beta. After all, it was placed under investigations for allegedly drugging a student. Such serious allegations demonstrate a clear and present danger not just to Greek students, but also to anyone who would attend a party on Eagle Row. Emory was right to conduct a serious and intense investigation because the administration is responsible for our safety. The University was not working to target Beta or Greek life. Rather, it was seeking to protect its students. The administration was actively looking for what they could fix in order to prevent something like this from ever becoming a reality. Many forget that this is not the first time that Beta has been investigated for potential wrongdoing. In 2013, a female student reported that she had been raped in the Beta house.

The fact that another student was reportedly harmed in the span of only four years shows that Emory failed to reform Beta and Greek life to make it safer for others.

The existence of such allegations makes it clear that Emory was not seeking to target or persecute Greek life or Beta. If that were so, there would be more documented instances of Emory unfairly punishing fraternities and sororities.

Tell me, did the Emory administration bungle the investigation into Sigma Nu’s hazing and reported sexual assaults? How was Phi Delta Theta “persecuted” by the administration?

No, the existence of multiple allegations against a particular fraternity instead demonstrates that Beta is incapable of reform and of making itself safer for its fellow students on its own. This further demonstrates the petulance and arrogance displayed by “Emory’s War on Greek Life,” which complained that Beta had no chance to defend itself against the administration’s actions. Whether or not Beta did something wrong, they ought to have acknowledged a need for reform and a willingness to assist the administration in furthering campus safety. Furthermore, it’s not as if a temporary alcohol ban and an in-house advisor were severe, intolerable punishments. Rather,

those restrictions should have been welcomed as means of regulating behavior until the fraternity or Emory found a way to make the partying experience safe for everyone.

Such consequences are not the results of persecutions. Cock Foster’s article is merely the whinings of an entitled fraternity student who forgets that people have reportedly been hurt and instead chooses to moan about minor inconveniences.

The fact that Beta has come out of those investigations largely unscathed should not be seen as a bill of clean health or a badge of honor. The fact that Beta has had to undergo multiple investigations should be a cause for concern.

To complain about unfairness or a lack of justice in lieu of severe punishment after a string of reported misconducts implies a desire for lenience. In fact, it calls into question what the author meant when he wrote that “Emory must take drastic and immediate steps to earn that trust back.” Would such steps include the reinstatement of former Beta members or a more lenient punishment? If so, that would be most ill-advised. Any lenience would continue to feed such insidious actions at Emory. It would also send a message that Emory is willing to tolerate such atrocities in Greek life. That shows that Greek life is unwilling to welcome regulation or reform, thus allowing the potential for more victims.

To clarify, the Greek life community has not wronged me and I do not believe it is inherently evil or bigoted. There are plenty of moral and upstanding members, such as those who supported Emory’s Interfraternity Council’s (IFC) 2014 self-imposed suspension of social activities to act against hazing and sexual assault. Rather than citing specific members of the community, Cock Foster instead chose to cite a former Beta president, a single response to a feedback form and a secret society, Ducemus. Maybe those three quotes alone can do an adequate job of representing every single Greek life member’s opinion.

But do they really?

Beta claims to be “developing men of principle for a principled life.” I fail to see the virtue or “principle” behind ambiguous accusations against the administration and a disregard for the fraternity’s failure to protect those people. Although the new incarnation of Beta will not include any of its previous members, time will only tell whether they choose to embrace student safety or whether they instead walk the immoral and nebulous path of their predecessors.

Either way, the disregard of previous members certainly calls into question whether or not Beta ever deserves a chance to be one of the Greek organizations that represents Emory University.

Daniel Park is a College sophomore from Ridgewood, NJ.

Self-Driving Vehicles to Render Human Drivers Obsolete Jon Jennings There’s something about the allure of an open road which gives pressing the gas pedal a unique thrill. That feeling is timeless and quintessentially American: it’s what drives the Fast and Furious movies and what motivates Ferris Bueller to steal Cameron’s dad’s priceless Ferrari. That’s why letting a manual car gather dust in the garage might prove difficult for many in the current generation. As a result of that lingering attachment, our democracy just might be seeing federal legislation in the 2050’s encouraging the taxation or even prohibition of manual vehicles. The U.S. Department of Transportation is seemingly prepared to increase control, saying laws “should be expanded to realize the safety potential of automated vehicles

over the next 50 years.” Beyond that, giving control of transportation to robots probably won’t cause problems, because sentimentality doesn’t last.

A kid who has grown up zooming around in a robot car doesn’t want to be bothered with learning the operations of some obsolete and dangerous old machine; most of contemporary America even rejects learning to use a stick shift. Historically, it didn’t take long for Americans to leave their stagecoaches on the curb once Ford introduced the Model T. So when people are once again given the chance to upgrade, it’s plausible to expect that autonomous cars will behave similarly to the Model T in today’s market. People who don’t like the change might not have a choice, since human error would be the one of the biggest hazards left on the road.

These manual car enthusiasts will become the hipsters of the future.

If you are still skeptical and are thinking, “Hey, driving is too cool, everyone’s still gonna be curious,” just think of hoop rolling. It was a form of cheap fun that was all the rage from 400 B.C. to the Old West — but, with all the entertainment in the universe on your phone, who the hell wants that?

People who don’t like the change might not have a choice ...

Hoop rolling just isn’t something that you find applicable or relevant to life as you know it. In the future, most of our grandkids will probably think

along the same lines with manual vehicles. Some could potentially form communities where manual driving is still the norm, not unlike the Amish, who are still making it work with horses.

Companies such as Google and Tesla have been experimenting with self-driving cars for a few years now.

Potentially within a decade of their introduction, Americans will take their hands off the wheel for good.

However, don’t get too excited just yet, because preliminary efforts have recently been marred with criticism. A Tesla driving on its “autopilot” feature didn’t register a truck cutting it off — resulting in the death of the driver, and many overtly critical voices.

It is a situation that the current emergency braking systems aren’t able to handle, which the driver clearly did not comprehend. Honestly who could blame the poor guy for not knowing?

Turns out many of these errors stem

from the camera’s inability to detect the color white. This tragedy was not an isolated incident; lack of color has been responsible for other automated collisions. Sources like Scientific American deem the crashes wake-up calls, exposing “ignorance of the technology’s limitations.” I agree — in early stages of any new technology, it’s crucial to remain vigilant until the bots have reached total independence.

So if you’re ever in Michigan seven years from now, you might be sharing the road with fleets of autonomous vehicles, essentially trucks without drivers. Audi and Nvidia announced they will produce autonomous cars as soon as 2020. Get ready for things to change, because once people think the grass is greener, they’ll be eager to take their feet off the pedal.

John Jennings is a College junior from Chicago, Ill.

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GOODRICH C. WHITE LECTURE

An evening with JUNOT DÍAZ Award-winning author Junot Díaz will read from his work and engage the audience in conversation across topics that have impassioned him throughout his career—the immigrant experience, civic sensibility, community, race, justice, equality, and, of course, writing.

The event is free and open to the public, though seating is limited.

A book signing will follow.

Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Díaz is the author of the 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His first collection of short stories, Drown (1996), earned him recognition as one of the foremost contemporary practitioners of the art of the short story. His latest collection of stories, This Is How You Lose Her (2012), was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award.

Díaz has received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, he is the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 • 7:30 pm Schwartz Center • Emory University

_________________________ The Goodrich C. White Lecture was created and endowed by the DVS Senior Society of Emory University to honor the legacy of Emory’s fourteenth president, who was a member of the society in the Class of 1908 and served as president from 1942 to 1957.

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Art Gala Dazzling Display of Culture

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AHANA President-elect Katie Messina (18C) jumps in mid-dance along with the rest of her fellow performers at AHANA Dance’s performance April 1 in the Burlington Road Building.

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In a culturally strenuous time, in which President Donald J. Trump’s travel ban threatens openness of borders and beliefs and stereotypes based on skin color leave people on edge every day, Emory’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) hosted an art gala that brought attention to cultural and racial issues, and opened attendees’ minds to the Muslim community’s beauty and beliefs.

The Art Gala, held at Westside Cultural Arts Center in Atlanta this past Saturday, is an annual event put on by Emory’s MSA that displays Muslim students’ art and performances. Hosted by Sindoos Awel (19C) and Samah Sadig (19C), attendees enjoyed art pieces, poetry, music and food.

Before the performances began attendees admired student-made art, including a mask with the Syrian and American flags on it, a piece of paper depicting three spray painted different-colored copies of rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard and curated white roses in a glass vase. Though some of the art seemed randomly put together, all of it fit in with the Art Gala’s theme: “borderless.” Popular cultural icons and hijabs painted with the colors of

the American flag seemed to unite the world, highlighting the facts that everyone on Earth is equal and every culture has something to learn from others.

After a humorous opening speech from Awel and Sadig, the main event kicked off with a statement from MSA’s president, Sundus Tameez (18C), who spoke on the recent political and cultural unrest in the United States. She said that though times have been hard, exposing Muslims’ lives to the world will result in a better understanding of their mission to enjoy life and spread joy.

Matt De LeReaux (17C) followed with an emotional performance of Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” which was fitting since the event fell on the anniversary of Gaye’s death. De LeReaux walked around the stage and reached out to the crowd, encouraging attendees to snap along and closing his eyes during the iconic saxophone solo, revealing the comfort and connection he felt with Gaye’s work.

Soon afterward, Emir “Emiricus” Brown (19C) performed two original poems: “Lone” and an untitled piece. Brown impressed the audience

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‘You Only Live 2wice’ Takes First Breath By leigh Schlecht Copy Editor Freddie Gibbs is Jesus Christ, or so he claims on his newest album, You Only Live 2wice. Released March 31, the album received little fanfare as Kodak Black’s first full-length EP, Painting Pictures, dropped only minutes later. Nevertheless, Gibbs’ eighttrack album is an incredible resurrection for an artist best known for his 2014 album Pinata. “20 Karat Jesus,” the album’s intro, is typical gangsta rap. Rife with boasts, toasts and coke, the rapper details his hustles: rapping and dealing. Nowhere is this more evident than in the first verse when he cleverly claims, “No sleep, bags under my eyes is designer.” The song soon moves into the metaphysical, though, with Gibbs urging his listeners to pursue their dreams, whether it’s selling dope or cheffing “up that boysenberry creme brulee, man.” Admittedly, this is an odd note with which to end a song advocating for street authenticity, but

Freddie giBBS you only live 2wiCe

Gibbs is almost always unpredictable.

The one time Gibbs succumbs to the genre’s norms is “Amnesia.” For all its tight verses and fresh slant rhymes, the track doesn’t say much. Gibbs brags about his women, cars and jewelry: the hoes are on leashes and the cars never leased, but he has so many gems that you’d think they were free. What else would you expect from a genre in which every rapper, regardless of their status, feels the need to assert themselves and their riches, proving their investment accounts or at least the duffel bags in the rafters are bigger than those of their competition.

“Crushed Glass” requires a bit more of an explanation. Following a July 2015 performance in Vienna, Gibbs was accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl by drugging her drink.

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Holden Layfield (Matthew Fahey, a Bove), the titular character, enjoys a moment of solitary joy in the autumn leaves.

‘Holden On’ is Hopeful, Human By rachel Singh Contributing Writer Grade: A

Some stories contain such spirit and joy for life that they make us wish their characters were real; others encompass suffering and pain that we would not wish on anyone.

Holden On, written and directed

by Tamlin Hall, contains both, and what makes it even more special and saddening is that it is based on a true story. The film focuses on a teenager, Holden Layfield (Matt Fahey), who has a mental illness and ultimately takes his own life at the age of 19.

Holden On premiered this past

weekend at the Atlanta Film Festival, and the journey to its debut has spanned the past decade. For both Hall and Fahey, the project was first and foremost about honoring Layfield and his family. Hall was friends with Layfield in high school, and years after Layfield’s 1995 death, Hall felt Layfield’s story needed to be told. He contacted Layfield’s parents, who gave their blessing for the film. Layfield’s parents’ encouragement was echoed by residents of LaGrange, Ga., Holden’s hometown, during filming.

Whether they brought homecooked food to set, donated old clothes to give the film its 1990s feel or served as extras, LaGrange residents came together to help tell Layfield’s story in

any way they could. Hall and Fahey described the set as a “family”; Holden On’s production was very much a grassroots effort in which the community played a vital role.

In the film, the Layfield family is characterized as close-knit and funloving. The intimate shots of the family include discussions at dinner and games of Scrabble and charades. In school, Layfield is well-liked and compassionate, and everyone sees a bright future for him in college football.

Unfortunately, Layfield’s foundation of love and stability is fractured by the onset of schizophrenia, which plague him with harrowing hallucinations.

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SUMMER FLICKS

By vikrant nallaparaju Film Critic

The summer blockbuster season creeps ever closer with the start of April. There are plenty of films to be excited about this year, as all the major studios have at least one horse in the race. With so many interesting films coming out, it was tough to narrow the list to only the five most anticipated summer films.

No. 5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

When people discuss how Marvel Studios has revolutionized the modern blockbuster scene, most are quick to bring up The Avengers or Captain America: The Winter Soldier. However Guardians of the Galaxy strikes me as Marvel’s best output. It is a vibrant love letter to space opera and 1980s kitsch as well as the first Marvel film with its own voice; it hasn’t lost itself in a chorus of films competing for the coveted Best Franchise Builder title.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 already promises us more of what made the first film great, namely the irreverent sense of humor and rocking soundtrack. I was already on board with the casting of Kurt Russell as Peter Quill’s father, J’son, but we’re also getting Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Yondu (Michael Rooke). Director James Gunn’s humor doesn’t always work for me, but combined with this cast and his source material, I am confident he can wring another hit out of this series.

No. 4. Spider-Man: Homecoming I won’t claim that this will be the greatest Spider-Man film ever made, since Spider-Man 2 is one of the greatest comic book films. However, Spider-Man: Homecoming seems to be doing the one thing every prior Spider-Man film fails to do: make Spider-Man a kid. Putting aside the fact that Tom Holland is 20 years old, he looks barely older than 16, which

makes him a more believable teenage Peter Parker than Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield.

Furthermore, everything about the film’s concept is fresh. Instead of dredging out the Green Goblin for the third time, we’re getting Shocker (Bokeem Woodbine) and Vulture (Michael Keaton). Rather than Mary Jane or Gwen Stacy, Liz Allen (Laura Harrier) is Peter’s love interest. The Daily Bugle seems entirely absent from this film, and that’s a smart move considering nobody could top J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson.

My favorite Marvel Studios have generally been their side films like Guardians of the Galaxy or Doctor Strange, but this film might finally win me over to what is shaping up to be one of their core franchises.

No. 3. Alien: Covenant

Ridley Scott took a lot of heat for Prometheus, but nobody can deny that the visionary director behind Alien and Blade Runner has an eye for shot composition and visual storytelling.

After getting back into Hollywood’s good graces with The Martian, Scott has returned to the franchise he kicked off with Alien: Covenant, his first real return to the series after the sort-ofprequel Prometheus.

The trailers have been selling this film as a return to the franchise’s roots, a creepy concoction of 1970s slow-burn horror and pulp science fiction that make the original Alien the classic it is today. The combination of James Franco as Captain Jacob Branson and Danny McBride as Tennessee will surely make for an unconventional horror movie cast. I have my doubts, but I’m interested to see how two actors primarily associated with stoner comedies can pull off serious roles.

There also seems to be a stronger emphasis on the xenomorphs, rather than the bland mystery of the Prometheus Space Jockey. There are multiple aliens running around the ship, so we’re veering into Aliens ter-

ritory as well, but you won’t find me complaining about that. I don’t know how well a gritty sci-fi horror film like Alien: Covenant stacks up against more conventional blockbuster fare, but I’m happy to see some genre diversity in the theaters.

No. 2. The Mummy (2017)

I feel like I’m the only person excited about this reboot of The Mummy.

From the first announcement of its development to the first trailer release, the internet has been angered over the supposed tarnishing of the Mummy franchise that Brendan Fraser helmed back in 1999.

I had the opposite reaction for two reasons. First, divorced from any nostalgia I had from watching them growing up, the Brendan Fraser films are not very good. They’re poorly written, clichéd and have dated CGI effects that don’t hold up nearly as well 15 years later. Second, I have no greater cinematic weakness than monster movies. Seeing a cinematic universe built around the universal monsters is my childhood dream come true.

Rather than deal with inevitable comparisons to the 1932 Boris Karloff classic, The Mummy wisely sidesteps that possibility, casting Sophia Boutella as the mummy. Since the film seems to be as much an action movie as it is a horror film, Boutella is a solid choice considering how great she is as Gazelle in Kingsman: The Secret Service. Hollywood is in desperate need of well-written female villains and hopefully The Mummy can deliver on that front.

Rounding out the cast is the Hollywood’s go-to action star Tom Cruise as the lead, Nick Morton, and Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll. The film is likely setting the foundation for future installments in this “Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe,” so I’m eager to see what role Crowe’s character plays in this. This film probably won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I’ve been looking forward for a good monster movie, and this could be it.

No. 1. Baby Driver

Simply put, Edgar Wright is the best comedic director around. Guys like Paul Feig and Tyler Perry rake in box office numbers with questionable comedy, but nobody understands visual comedy and executes it as well as Wright. Combine that with his reverence for historical genre film and you have the master of the modern spoof.

His films combine a playful lampooning of genre tropes and satire of British culture to to create comedies that are as insightful as they are hilarious.

Wright’s latest film, Baby Driver, is his second attempt at creating a film for American audiences, without the aid of his usual collaborators, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Shot and set in downtown Atlanta, the film centers around a young getaway driver named Baby (Ansel Elgort) who must pull off one last heist to leave behind his life of crime and run away with his girlfriend Deborah (Lily James).

Conceptually, the plot sounds pretty generic, but Wright’s knack for genre inversion is still on display. Baby suffers from chronic tinnitus and listens to music constantly to drown out the ringing. Beyond being a quirky character trope, this seems to be a way for Wright to fuse the film with a rocking soundtrack that turns what could be an ordinary heist film into something of an action musical.

The international trailer is the most accurate representation of Wright’s comedic sensibilities: breakneck editing, rapid-fire banter and a generous spoonful of pop culture references (that Michael Myers bit in the American trailer is pretty hysterical).

Action movies centered around cars are not my thing at all, if my continued dislike of the Fast and Furious franchise is any indication. But if any director could make this genre palatable, Edgar Wright will be the one to do it.

— Contact Vikrant Nallaparaju at vnallap@emory.edu

Continued from Page 9 The single “Crushed Glass,” released March 8, marked the first time the rapper spoke openly about the case, and he did it on the record.

After being acquitted of all charges, Gibbs rapped about the incident: “I just beat a rape case, groupie bitch I never fucked / tryna give me 10 for some pussy that I never touched.” While the lyrics are explicit, his unapologetic message is clear. And so are the instrumentals behind this track — violins, guitars and synth beats smooth out the rapper’s gravelly voice. The slow grooves and heavy basslines that roll through this release are all Gibbs.

His emotion, cleverly masked in previous projects, takes center stage on this album, as he ruminates over his daughter’s birth and his relationships to God, his mother and the corner.

With the exception of “Crushed Glass’” anthem-like chorus, none of these eight songs will make you want to sing along. But that’s alright — they are thought-provoking selections from a rapper whose influences, from Master P to The Notorious B.I.G., always draw directly from the hip-hop canon. With this album, Freddie Gibbs hopes to continue adding his voice to that same body of work.

Though he’s not yet the rap god he claims to be, the rapper is steadily progressing towards canonization. This featureless project, his latest step on this journey, promotes Gibbs’ upcoming collaboration with Currency: Fetti, You Only Live 2wice.

And if these eight tracks are any indication, you’ll want to keep listening.

— Contact Leigh Schlecht at lschlec@emory.edu

Film Producers Focus on Power Rangers Pull Through Activism, Engagement

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By katherine Mcclure Contributing Writer

Grade: B+ I have vague memories of the Power Rangers from my early childhood — most saliently, the memory of my younger brother dressing up as the red Power Ranger every Halloween for five years straight. So when I heard that a remake, Saban’s Power Rangers, was coming out, I was excited to compare it to the original 1990s series.

Power Rangers made a big impression on kids like me and my brother, and the 2017 remake did not disappoint.

The Power Rangers are certainly not new to popular culture, as the show began as an American adaptation of the 1975 Japanese television series Super Sentai. The American version, which aired in 1993, filtered through several entertainment companies as the show gained huge popularity amongst American youth.

Although Power Rangers drifted off of my radar in the early 2000s, the show has maintained a large fanbase to this day, with Nickelodeon airing its newest edition, Power Rangers Ninja Steel, just this year.

The 2017 Saban’s Power Rangers follows a group of misfit teenagers, Trini Kwan (Becky G), Jason Scott (Dacre Montgomery), Kimberly Hart

(Naomi Scott), Billy Cranston (RJ Cyler) and Zack Taylor (Ludi Lin), who meet in detention. Together, they discover a series of glowing stones on the outskirts of a gold mine which transform them into the Power Rangers.

The previous owner of the stones calls upon the teens to train them for their newfound responsibility — defeating super villain Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks).

The Power Rangers cast included many familiar faces as well as a few new actors. Regulars to the big screen included Banks, Bryan Cranston (Zordon), Bill Hader (Alpha 5) and singer Becky G while some newbies are Montgomery, Scott, Cyler and Lin. Surprisingly, the majority of the newcomers had better acting chops than expected.

Most notably, Cyler stands out as having the most potential for future big screen success. Cyler portrays Billy’s autism authentically without over-emphasizing his condition’s importance as a plot device, thereby creating a good role model for children with developmental disabilities.

Scott, however, falls flat in portraying her character realistically, as her lines are often over-exaggerated or stilted. Of the more acclaimed actors, Banks portrays Repulsa in a laughable, cringeworthy and cliché manner.

Repulsa’s desire to control the universe (yes, even her evil plan is overdone)

has almost no contextualization, simply explaining that she turns completely evil after a newfound desire for power.

Most notably, her dialogue is simplistic and overused; at one point she says something along the lines of “It’s time to kill everyone” as she walks into battle. Banks fails to breathe life into her character, making Repulsa entirely two-dimensional and unbelievable.

The cast of Saban’s Power Rangers represented almost every race, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation and ability, making Saban’s Power Rangers one of few films that portray such diverse superheroes.

The film portrays this diversity in such a subtle way that it succeeds in normalizing it, making it a non-issue, which is a feature that every future film should aspire to imitate.

The action in Saban’s Power Rangers is on par with that of the Transformers and Marvel superhero movies.

There are the quintessential training scenes, in which the Power Rangers prepare for the ultimate fight against Repulsa, and the adventures in which they discover and test their superpowers.

The final fight scene, however, is the most action-packed, as the Rangers bring out their Zords, dinosaur-

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Continued from Page 9 In the film, two versions of Layfield emerge — the star football player who is close with family and friends, and the Holden who desperately attempts to self-medicate his mental illness through drug abuse. Fahey’s performance captures both sides of Layfield, and he cites Hall’s talent as an “actor’s director” for giving him confidence to take on the role. Hall described Fahey’s work ethic and passion for the project as the vital factors in his casting.

While Holden On brings mental health to the big screen, another representative will bring attention to this topic on the Miss Georgia stage in June.

At the Holden On premiere, Courtney Hinesley, Miss Magnolia 2017, bravely opened up for the first time about her own struggle with depression, and stressed the importance of being open about one’s internal conflicts.

Hinesley said she partnered with the film because she “saw that it was more than just a story; it was a movement.”

Layfield’s spirit also lives on through the I Am Holden On Art Initiative. The movement was inspired by pieces of artwork Layfield’s sister created for

him after his diagnosis. In the film, Layfield intensely struggles to selfmedicate and keep his mental illness a secret in fear of stigma. The “I Am Holden On Art Initiative” gives high school students a creative and positive outlet to discuss mental illness, which has produced inspiring results. “Art can communicate things that words can’t,” Hall said of the project during our interview, which has already sparked essential conversations about mental illness in schools nationwide.

Holden On does not just tell Layfield’s tragic story — it communicates to the viewer the uplifting kindness he had for others. At the premiere, Hall called for everyone in the audience to embrace someone next to them, and this gesture not only speaks for Hall’s warmth but also the positive energy surrounding the film.

The film’s message and Layfield’s life philosophy are ones of acceptance and compassion for everyone. Holden Layfield’s life may have ended, but his story and humanity are celebrated through the art and the people he inspired.

— Contact Rachel Singh at rssing2@emory.edu

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Harry Lennix Talks Art, Activism and Coffee Filters By naoMi keuSch Baker Contributing Writer

Human expression and activism are inevitably intertwined, but religious beliefs can also enhance the importance of art. Actor Harry Lennix and Associate Professor of Music Theory Dwight Andrews discussed the intersection of spirituality, art and social justice March 25 at Ackerman Hall in the Michael C. Carlos Museum. Lennix is known for his Shakespearean roles, such as Aaron in the film Titus and King Henry IV in H4, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV: Part 1 and Henry IV: Part 2. He currently plays Harold Cooper in the television series The Blacklist.

As part of Emory’s Social Justice Week, Lennix and Andrews, who is also Senior Minister of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Atlanta, shared their perspectives on black religious art and experiences in America. Lennix showed the audience excerpts of his unreleased film, REVIVAL: The Experience, an interpretation of the Book of John from the Bible. REVIVAL: The Experience retells the story through a predominantly black cast, just as his previous film H4 does, as part of his mission to produce more black religious entertainment.

The Emory Wheel interviewed Lennix following the event. This transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

Naomi Keusch Baker, The Emory Wheel: How did you first get into Shakespearean acting? What inspired you?

Harry Lennix: The first Shakespeare play I ever read was Julius Caesar, and I understood it. I think I was a sophomore in high school when we read it. I heard some of those lines, such a famous play with “et tu Brute,”

and I became fascinated, even when I wasn’t interested in becoming an actor, with his language, and how this gentleman could write verse and all these things. So that was my first real interest in it and then I didn’t really engage with it again until college. We had an entire year of Shakespeare, and after reading a few of his plays as a freshman I was [performing] Shakespeare because I had a deep voice and the directors were very interested in using me. I was considered very castable so that’s how that started. eW: How have your experiences in Shakespearean roles contributed to your portrayal of modern roles?

HL: I don’t know that they do. I say to a certain degree my demeanor, my bearing as an actor is based largely in my stage work so I don’t think that it’s possible to separate the sort of Shakespearean training. I can’t separate my background and training from current [roles]. eW: Since you’re a cofounder of a production company, how do you use your influential position to shape the world and press for social justice?

HL: The work itself is more important [than] my position. The function of the work is to draw attention to critical matters whether [they] be faith, politics or some combination of those two things. In the case of H4, these were deeply religious people, Catholic people, who were about to go off on crusades. [...] But I don’t think that my being a producer yet has had any kind of impact on social justice.

Me being Harry Lennix and a recognizable face from Chicago who has a certain degree of what I call “a license to operate” in ethnic communities, particularly black and Latin communities, but [also] even [in] Chicago places that are Irish, Mexican [or] Polish, because I’m from there. Because I

have a deep blue-collared background I think people, when they see or hear me, realize that I’m from a similar background and so [my identity matters] more than what I do for a living, I think it’s who I am as a person that lets people believe that I’m concerned about the things that they’re concerned about, which I am. eW: Do you regularly talk about the issues you discussed today with your friends, family and coworkers?

How do they usually react?

HL: Generally speaking, most of the people that I engage with on a daily basis agree, [but] not always.

My wife has voted for people I haven’t voted for and so forth. She’s interested in things that are as important to her from a social justice standpoint. For example, young girls who are in the sex trade, sexually exploited workers and so forth, commercialized trafficking of women.

I think that something she’s deeply involved with. She’s the treasurer of such an organization and I try to support that with her, and she certainly has been supportive of the things I’m interested in.

My brother Michael was in law enforcement for 30 years and lots of my friends are in law enforcement, so we don’t always [end] up agreeing on things. If a cop is killing somebody, what [is] the due process?

My brother doesn’t like cops that are bad either; he probably dislikes them more than I do, but I don’t think there’s animosity between anyone I’m talking to even if they’re not in the same political bent because we can usually find something to agree on.

Some things are pretty clear cut. eW: So you’re a big proponent of engaging in discussion.

HL: Yes, absolutely. I like talking to people who disagree with me.

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Carrie Ferris (Christina Wren, leFt) and Calvin Swanwick (Harry Lennix, r ight) face otherworldy threats in Man of Steel. eW: Do you have any advice to college students who either through art or some other way want to support a movement?

HL: This is something that has been going on for a really long time.

When I was in college, divesting in companies that did business in South Africa was a big cause. Campus issues involving race, marriage, there was a lot of that going on. I think that it’s difficult for someone in my generation to give advice to this generation, millennials, whatever it is this generation is called. I don’t think they’re millennials, something else.

I think that most of it has to involve organizing around social media because that’s the chief tool, communication. Be in touch with each other; movements can happen spontaneously, but I think that art can be the same thing. We can have, art is a way for people to

process what’s going on politically, religiously [and] culturally. Art is a kind of beautiful filter, like a coffee filter. You can get the rich coffee and the grinds, and I think you can distill it to a point where you can demonstrate what a desired outcome is through picture or through presentation even if it’s nonfiction.

So I think that being able to make small independent movies, shorts, public service announcements, drawing attention to matters, where even if it’s not you providing the content, that something they can focus on is young people and draw attention where it has been displayed and demonstrated.

These are powerful, powerful tools that we’re mostly now using for personal satisfaction and distraction but I think it can be used for good through social media.

— Contact Naomi K.B.at nkeusc2@emory.edu

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a donation box for the International Community School (ICS), an organization determined to educate thousands of refugees in DeKalb County. Both organizations provided attendees with the chance to help causes in a time when refugees need open-minded support more than ever.

If MSA’s Art Gala spoke to one thing, it is acceptance. Art that emphasized harmony between countries and cultures paired with unguarded performances broke any barriers between differing ideologies. In that sense, the Art Gala was indeed borderless.

inspired, Transformer-like vehicles to battle Repulsa’s gigantic golden soldier.

Adding to the modernized remake is a peppy soundtrack, which includes contemporary hits like Fitz and the Tantrums’ “Handclap.”

The songs are applied well throughout the film, matching the excitement or suspense of each scene.

The soundtrack consists of songs from many popular artists, like Kanye West, Twenty One Pilots and Tove Lo, making the film especially engaging for teenagers and young adults.

I enjoyed Saban’s Power Rangers and foresee this becoming a major feature film franchise, spawning several sequels as the Power Rangers battle new villains.

Saban’s Power Rangers is the new Transformers; it has the same familyoriented, fun action and light comedy as the successful yet dwindling Transformers series. Saban’s Power Rangers was a truthful, and yet progressive, rendition of the original series, and gleefully transported its older viewers back to their childhoods of imaginative adventure.

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Two attendees thoughtfully consider a piece of art on display at the Muslim Student Association’s Art Gala April 1 at Westside Cultural Arts Center.

Gala Breaks Boundaries, Addresses Everday Injustices

Continued from Page 9 with his technical skill as his mouth blurred during “Lone” — he belted out alliterations and rhymes about his experiences with depression and loneliness, emphasizing that escaping his poor Harlem neighborhood to attend college only caused a different type of suffering: lack of motivation. In his untitled poem, he expanded on identity, stating, “I have always been a disappointment/Lacking in melanin,/ blacker than my other kin,/But too light for my black friends.” Emiricus’ performance brought light to inescapable battles that many people have to deal with every day, which stunned the

crowd into silence.

Nora Elmubarak (19C) then presented her poem, “Safar” (“Travel”), which spoke of an incident in which an ignorant airport worker mistreated her family. The poem expertly interplayed English and Arabic, accentuating the “borderless” theme and raising the question, “why would someone treat others like this?” The pain in Elmubarak’s voice resonated with the crowd — and the emotion her work instigated was visible in the audience’s reaction. Listeners snapped in approval during the reading, and the performance was met with thunderous applause. The performances were followed by a delectable Indian

meal, catered by Tava Indian Bistro in Atlanta. Attendees chatted happily as they filled their stomachs with fried potatoes, light rice and naan bread dipped in creamy masala sauce.

Dessert was cheesecake from Alon’s Bakery & Market in Atlanta and, more fittingly, baklava made by a local Syrian refugee family. The cake was soft and airy and the baklava rich and sweet, the nuts perfectly complementing the layers of filo and honey. A representative, Jarred Schmitz, from Project Hope spoke about his organization’s desire to support and educate refugees in the Atlanta area by facilitating refugees’ assimilation processes into the U.S. Emory’s MSA also set up

Tough classes, immense social and academic pressure and the imminent thought of applying for jobs? A pret-­ zel represents how we endure all of that;; we punch through the hurdles of a tertiary education that provide us with a pleasant satisfaction, just as the seemingly unappealing saltiness and bitterness blend so wonderfully into a single coherent flavor.

But alas, I cannot spent my quar-­ ters on this for there exists one more treat in this machine that resonates far more soundly with my values.

“Once you wake up in the morning, to assume a “big brother” or “uncle” and you’re healthy, you can make the role. He enjoys seeing and talking with day what you want it to be, so make it people on the shuttles so much that after many years as a driver, he doesn’t a beautiful one,” Daniel said.

College sophomore Megan Withers even consider his daily routine work.

“In the morning, I come [to Emory] has experienced his positivity herself and it always brightens her mornings. with the notion that I drive my friends “Whenever you see that Daniel is to work and school, so it doesn’t feel driving your bus you know that you’re like a job,” Daniel said. “Like every-­ about to smile on you way to school,” thing else you’re doing, you have to she said “I really feel like when we’re find in it something you like, if you on his bus, we’re not ignoring each really want to be successful at it.”

Daniel credits his positive life phi-­ other any more. We’re all listening, losophy to his time spent traveling. In and smil[ing] about the little things.”

— Contact Aditya Prakash at Wednesday, April 5, 2017 | Assistant Emory Life Editor: Niraj Naik (niraj.naik@emory.edu) New York, he worked in the cargo area Daniel has been driving shuttles for aditya.prakash@emory.edu and Emory since he moved to Atlanta from for American Airlines and received

academic constraint (and the gout) if it means entering the sweet world of Kellogg’s snack food zenith, just like Charlie Bucket entering Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory (minus the domestic violence).

I proudly take my prey back to my room, where I devour it in seconds and, with crumbs scattered all over my face, shamelessly consider buying another one.

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“I always say, ‘Look at the glass as always half full. If they give you a lemon, you just make some lemonade.

In the end, you can’t have a testimony without a test,’ ” Daniel said.

Because he truly enjoys his work and has a “beautiful life” here, Daniel plans to continue working as a shuttle bus driver.

“I have all the things that I really need,” Daniel said. “I try to make every day the best I can, [because] I think this is my calling in life, to be here.”

— Contact Monica Lefton at monica.j.lefton@emory.edu

Doolino Knows Doolino Knows Best: Taste the Finish Line Best: April Foolishness

ADVICE

We have marched a long jour-­

awkward questions from obscure relatives.

For many, this is a well-­deserved break where we can recharge our

If you are staying on campus for Thanksgiving break, treat yourself to some non-­DUC food (because you literally have no other choice).

Until then, persevere and con-­ tinue to climb toward Nov. 23;; it is just one midterm away!

Dear Doolino, What the heck do I do this Thanksgiving? I forgot to book my tickets back to Hoboken!

Now I have to stay on campus and watch every friend leave.

What am I supposed to do when all my friends are gone? What do I do without Georgia Tech?

What do I do without the DUC? Yours sincerely, Thanksgrieving

Visit the World of Coca-­Cola (a single time before you realize you cannot go there more than once), the Georgia Aquarium (if you’re made of gold) and Little Five Points (if you want to get robbed).

If I haven’t sold you yet, take comfort in the fact that there are a multitude of other students (most-­ ly international) who will still be around.

This is a prime opportunity to make some new friends. Out-­ door sports, while the weather is “cold for Atlanta,” is an outstand-­ ing idea;; frisbee on the Quad is a great way to pass the time. Strolls through Lullwater Park with the chilly winds tickling your face are a great way to appreciate our beauti-­ ful campus.

Plus, the standard crowd of “Lullwater hooligans” are not around, so nothing shall tarnish the natural beauty of the woods, except for the splatter of duck feces surrounding the lake.

Oh, you could get a head start

gets harder from here and I’m willing to accept a less than sat-­ isfactory grade for now, but how am I supposed to cope with this next year?

I am just an innocent biology major with no intent to pursue chemistry. Why is my future po-­ tential as a biologist dependent on something irrelevant?

We have marched a long across the hills lies the sweet nectar of gravy, questions from obscure relatives.

I don’t want advice;; I am just questioning the innate unfairness

by its ability to climb a tree. When the subjective biases of the agent Ruth R eyes/Photo editoR far too many episodes of Stranger are the hand that feeds the mouth, Dear Thanksgrieving, ocal food vendors cater to Emory students April 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. as part Student how can one expect me tof o succeed?

The campus may die down as the Programming Council’s “Taste of Emory” event, part of the Dooley’s Week festivities. Students Yours sincerely, Yours truly, holiday comes around, but the city can attend throughout the entire week, which will culminate in Dooley’s Ball April 7.

Bohrdom of Atlanta truly does events come to life. Doolino Go downtown and actually experi-­ Dear Bohrdom, ence this city for once — those odd Dear Doolino, Looks like somebody is overly I have angst. I screwed up my Ubers FOODto Georgia Tech or walking Chem 141 midterm. I know it only proud of themselves for taking an to Chipotle do not count.

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Pig-N-Chik: Flavor (H)ambush

By Sara Cunningham Contributing Writer

The heavy smell of smoky barbecue hung in the hot spring air as I approached Pig-N-Chik. The aroma, which became stronger as I entered the restaurant, provided me with a mouth-watering preview of the meal to come. I ordered a small pulled-pork plate with two sides: broccoli and corn.

The food arrived in record time, after no more than 10 minutes. Each plate is served with a dense, fluffy piece of bread.

Much to my chagrin, the corn was extremely buttery and over-spiced. I moved on to the broccoli next, and once again, was met with disappointment. The broccoli was soggy, completely drenched in grease and oil. I was on the verge of declaring this trip a negative eating experience just before I tried the pork.

The french fries were some of the best I have ever had, and I have had many a french fry in my lifetime.

The meat was tender and juicy; the homemade sauce accentuated the smoky flavors of the pork and added a sweet, tangy taste. The blend of sweetness and acidity paired with the meltin-your-mouth texture of the meat made for a delectable meal.

The bread wasn’t toasted or buttered, but was fluffy and thick enough to act as the perfect sponge for the remainder of my barbecue sauce. Due to my disappointment in the two sides I ordered, I took a few of my friend’s french fries and was met with perfectly

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The colorful aesthetic of Pig-n-Chik’s exterior mirrors the zany barbecue food. salted, crispy, hot fried potatoes. The french fries were some of the best I have ever had, and I have had many a french fry in my lifetime. The addition of the fries to my hefty helping of meat redeemed the poorly-done vegetable sides.

For a Friday night, the restaurantwas surprisingly empty, with only four parties besides my own.

I sat at the window overlooking Clifton Road, where a blue-and-whitecheckered cloth was draped over the table. Before me was a roll of paper towels, salt, pepper and Pig-N-Chik’s homemade barbecue sauce.

The quaint barbecue hub sits at the busy intersection of Briarcliff and Clifton Roads and boasts a zany atmosphere in addition to the mouthwatering smell. The restaurant catches the attention of your average passerby with a colorful mural depicting a pig and rooster toasting with twin cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

The inside of Pig-N-Chik boasts the same quirky atmosphere. Small blue

Pig-n-Chik dRuid hills

and yellow lights hang on wires strung across the ceiling, and framed posters of different alcoholic beverages, football teams and black and white photographs cover the warm burgundy walls.

Overall, I walked away from the meal satisfied despite ordering a small pulled pork plate, as opposed to a medium or large.

The meal was more than enough, even without the full two sides, and cost only $8.74 plus tax. Pig-N-Chik may not be a place for vegetarians or healthier eaters, but the restaurant does barbecue, and does it extremely well. If you are in the mood for some meat, fries and slaw, Pig-N-Chik is the place to go.

— Contact Sara Cunningham at sara.cunnigham@emory.edu

introductory philosophy class and knowing the name of an existen-­ tialist philosopher. What did you do, Sparknotes Fear and Trem-­ bling or something?

Your anger at the system is jus-­

of pre-­meds do you think have cried their eyes out studying for organic chemistry?

How many With only a month left of school, pre-­business students have banged in four weeks, we will juxtapose this heads against a wall to remind living Hell of a workload with a livthemselves that they are ing Hell of monotony as we living amble when faced towith of from room roomthe in monotony our respective houses with absolutely nothing to do. examples from other subjects, be-­ Some of us may work to bring purpose cause let’s be honest, this is Emory into our meaningless life; others might — nobody does anything else. plate agar for 10 hours a day and the The issue with your angst is that transcended ones among us will be there is no clear, decisive solution. endocytosed by learn the world of Netflix The skills you in these bor-­ and video games. Let us not yet coning requirements are crucial to ad-­ vancement in to the path you template what docareer then, because for have chosen. now we still have one last hurdle to The most bountiful of treasures leap: finals week. is at the end of the most treacher-­ ous of roads and your B.S. in biol-­ Dear Doolino, ogy is no different. You will despise For my English class, I had to do moments of it without a doubt, but weekly blogof posts eventually make at the end the to day it will maxi-­ a writing portfolio at the end of the year that is worth 70 percent of my grade.

I haven’t evenautonomy started it yet.

It’s Freedom is not over at leastdecision 30,000 words worth— of writevery you have it is ing based on about constraints six different books choosing what you want to put into your life. Like it or that I have yet to read and they’re all hate it, that topics, is how you maximize on different from chimpanzees to South Asian religions. I really need an A in this class, too. How do I deal with this situation?

From Jain Goodall

your worth in any given livelihood.

Yours sincerely, Doolino For your day-­to-­day qualms and minor life crises, send anonymous questions to doolino.emory@ gmail.com.

not put in a semester’s worth of work, so don’t expect the positive results of a semester’s worth of work.

Doolino out.

Dear Jain Goodall, Maybe if you spent as much time doing your blog posts as you do mak- Dear Doolino, ing clever pen names, you would not be I chatted with the Career Center in this situation. to try and get an internship for the Seriously, the fact that a professor summer. After promptly rejecting all doesn’t check your work is not equiva- the advice they had to offer, I walked lent to you having no to Falafel King to homework. It actually clear my head. On pisses me off that you the way there, I met still want an A when You have been taking a gentleman with a you aren’t deserving a dump for the last beard, a fedora and a of one in the slightest. trenchcoat. three months of Ease up your expectaHe introduced himtions and then we can school; it is now time self as “Nightingale” talk. and said he had a job for you to clean up Normally, you for me if I was interafter yourself ... hear good people give ested. It was super advice like “Don’t pull easy — all I had to do caffeine fueled allwas take this heavy nighters” since that can really hurt black briefcase to an underground you in the long run. I am not a good Italian restaurant downtown, for a person. You have been taking a dump man named “Bad Alphonse.” for the last three months of school; The guys whom I gave it to were it is now time for you to clean up kind of rude, but Bad Alphonse kissed after yourself no matter how dirty the my cheek and gave me a bottle of outcome might be. Time you would wine. have spent playing with yourself in I think the briefcase had some sort your room at night, spend at Robert of baby powder in it because Bad W. Woodruff Library with a shot of Alphonse stuffed his face into the conespresso furiously typing your essays. tents of the briefcase the moment I Skim your readings, flash through gave it to him. summaries of these books, write so Anyway, Nightingale told me that furiously that you ignore basic gram- I was now working for him. I really mar rules and then fish through the like the job security too. He said that book to find the quotes you want. there is “no way [I] could ever work Rinse and repeat until you have a anywhere else for as long as [I] live”.

30,000-word portfolio.

Do you think I should take the job?

Your essays may be shallow, and From Jimmy Cartel you probably will feel like crap afterwards, but if you stick to the plan at Dear Jimmy Cartel, least you will have something that can Atlanta is the home of Coke, but this be handed in. is ridiculous.

After all that effort, the grade might From Doolino be less than what you wanted. You might complain that life is unfair.

For your day-to-day qualms and Bullshit. Your own idiocy, negligence minor life crises, send anonymous and inability to pace yourself are what questions to doolino.emory@gmail. culminated in this situation. You have com.

EMORY LIFE

The Emory Wheel

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

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TEDX

PHILANTHROPY

Oxford Students Bring Dooley Dollar Donation Plan to Atlanta Campus By kiera XanthoS Contributing Writer To those on campus with “meal plan A” — a required plan for freshmen with unlimited Dobbs University Center (DUC) swipes and 150 preloaded Dooley Dollars — having leftover Dooley Dollars at the end of the year might be a foreign concept.

However, as students advance through the years, some opt to load their worn Emory ID cards with more of the ever-so-valuable Dooley Dollars, a campus-wide currency that students can load in set amounts on their Emory IDs to purchase food and other items at a discounted rate around campus.

Crissy Hendrickson (16OX, 18C) and Caroline Abbott (16OX, 18C) found a way to repurpose leftover Dooley Dollars at the end of the spring semester by providing a selection of donatable food that students can purchase and subsequently donate at the end of the school year.

After they implemented the program at Oxford College in 2015, they’ve now set their sights on Emory’s Atlanta campus.

“What happens whenever the year ends? What happens to all those extra dollars?” Hendrickson asked.

Positive Dooley Dollar balances roll over to the spring semester, but when the academic year ends in May, the remaining dollars are removed from the account and students cannot be refunded.

According to Hendrickson, that’s because Bon Appetit is compensated upfront and it is up to the student to use all of their allotted Dooley Dollars.

In reaction to her discovery of the impossibility of financial reimbursement, then-freshman Hendrickson created a program at Oxford that provided the opportunity for students to donate their end-of-semester Dooley Dollars by buying food to donate to a food bank with Dooley Dollars.

Hendrickson and Abbott contacted Director of Auxiliary Operations at Oxford College Margaret Dugan, who set them up with Sodexo’s General Manager (the food vendor at the time) Lynn Tucker.

Hendrickson and Abbott held multiple meetings with Tucker to work out the details, later contacting Assistant Director of Student Development and supervisor of the students running Volunteer Oxford Kasey Robinson Harvill.

After the food vendors changed from Sodexo to Bon Appetit, the pair worked with the new Executive Director J. Paul Keiser and Head Chef Duke Walsh.

“The system we worked out with dining will have a shelf with donation items, and a student can go and grab whatever items they want, check it out, pay the Dooley Dollars and put it in the donation bin,” Abbott said.

“The process was designed with the meal plan and students in mind, making it an efficient, painless and simple process.”

Abbott commented on the difficulties of getting the program up and running.

The extensive list of components Hendrickson and Abbott coordinated was daunting, including the challenges of advertising, transporting the donated food and coordinating with the dining staff and food bank.

Abbott, however, said making a program to unite a community and create a positive influence was worth the efforts.

At Atlanta campus, the shelf will be located at the Eagle Convenience Store on the bottom floor of the DUC at the

end of this academic year.

The student buying the food will have the option to place the items in a bin to either The Atlanta Community Food Bank, the largest food bank in the city, or Bread Coffeehouse, an organization designed to help with food insecurities and act as a refuge on campus.

Abbott said that the option to donate to two organizations is meant to entice students, and to help them pay forward to the specific cause they are passionate about.

In the first year, 2015, on a campus of about 900 students, the “Dooley Dollars Donation Project” brought in around $1,090.

The second year, 2016, the program raised about $700 according to Abbott and Hendrickson.

Raquel Solla (17OX, 19C) said the program has a strong presence on the Oxford campus.

“It was very well publicized [via Facebook] … people were kind of enthusiastic about it,” Solla said.

The pair said that they have high hopes for the program at the Atlanta campus.

Abbott said that the increased campus size promises more donations, with nearly seven times more students than Oxford.

Ruipeng Liu (17B) was receptive to the idea of the program coming to Emory, confessing that having extra Dooley Dollars on his account is a problem he will likely face in the upcoming weeks as the semester comes to an end and he prepares to graduate. “[The donation system] applies exactly to people like me,” Liu said. “I think it’s a great idea … It’s not asking too much.”

Cecily Spindel (18C) said that last year she used her extra Dooley Dollars at Emory to purchase snacks, but that the snacks she bought might have had a better use in a charity donation bin, instead of in her room.

Abbott and Hendrickson hope to make the program permanent at Emory in upcoming years, as they did at Oxford and ease the integration of the program into campus life by merging it with an existing club, making it potentially more stable.

“It’s merged with [Volunteer Oxford], so we’re hoping to get it to the same point here,” Hendrickson said.

The pair is unsure which organization will be merged with the program, but Hendrickson said they are open to suggestions.

Liu said that despite the need for the program, he had some doubts about the willingness of students to donate, and how offering a small “thank you” prize may reap major benefits.

“If [the students] don’t get rewarded [the program] it might not persist,” Liu said.

Abbott and Hendrickson have been working directly with executive members of the Oxford Campus dining team to create flyers to promote the club.

They believe that with the increased size of target audience, and the right amount of publicity, the program may continue successfully.

Hendrickson and Abbott maintained their initial philosophy of enacting change where they can, in this case, to help fill the stomachs of those not fortunate enough to be able to fill themselves.

“It’s the little things we do that make a big difference,” Hendrickson said.

— Contact Kiera Xanthos at kiera.xanthos@emory.edu

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Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Master of Public Admistration program at Reinhardt University (Ga.) Karen Owen addresses the Emory community on Saturday in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Building on the topic of women in politics.

TEDx Conjures Magic in the Air By kiera XanthoS Contributing Writer The sleight of hand TEDxEmory pulled last weekend was far from a simple card trick.

Emory’s student-run chapter of the international nonprofit TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) held its annual conference April 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (WHSCAB), where 13 speakers, including five Emory alumni and two current students, addressed an audience of approximately 500.

This year’s theme — Do you believe in magic? — was emphasized in the opening remarks from George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor Benn Konsynski and Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Stuart Zola.

STONE Academy Executive Director Tony Lowden also scrutinized that theme in his speech.

Lowden broached the topic of mass incarceration and emphasized how atrisk children are in danger of future incarcerations, as well as the power of mentors to turn children’s lives around.

“What are we going to do [to help incarcerated individuals and at-risk youth]?” Lowden asked.

“How much magic are we going to believe in across this country?

What purpose do we have … to change the trajectory of someone else’s [life]?”

His talk called into question the idea of magic itself: is it the magic that makes a successful person, or is it the hard work of the individual and those around, willing to help?

Lowden spoke about how hard work and a proper education is what atrisk youth and incarcerated men and women need to straighten out their lives. Unfortunately, that proper education is out of reach without education reforms around Georgia.

Lowden went on to say that Emory students are lucky to be where they are and that their lives change for the better after they enroll.

Many opportunities at-risk youth do not have are open to college students, such as two undergraduates who were student speakers at the event.

Two current students, Damon Routzhan (16OX, 18C) and Pari Majd (17C), also spoke at the event.

Routzhan’s speech focused on the

commonplace, “How are you?” and the superficial sentiment behind said question.

He explored how he feels the need to lie about his feelings when asked, even though the typical response, “I’m feeling fine,” shows a lack of genuine care in the interaction.

“Fine is an adjective,” Routzhan said, “To say that ‘I’m feeling fine’ — it’s not an emotion, so there is a disconnect between that person and their thoughts.”

In addition to Routzhan’s philosophical approach, other speakers sought to portray messages that would resonate with the audience.

Starting off the afternoon was a speaker with a near-death experience, Rais Bhuiyan, a Muslim-American man, shared his close brush with death after 9/11.

Bhuiyan spoke about being shot in

“How much magic are we going to believe in across this country?”

— Tony Lowden, STONE Academy Executive director

the face at point-blank range by a man days after the attack, and explained how he fought to save the life of his assailant when his assailant was convicted and sentenced to death.

“Although retaliation is the initial response [when someone hurts you], it does not make you feel as good as you think it will,” Bhuiyan said.

Other speakers relayed personal anecdotes, such as founder of technology and media outlet The Tempest Laila Alawa, who spoke about not seeing enough minority women in the media.

This misrepresentation of the world’s population skews children’s perception of reality, especially when children, like Muslim-American girls, do not see themselves represented on the air.

“As a teenager, I made a vow that if I ever had the power or ability to do something about it, that I would make sure no woman or girl would ever feel silenced, censored or otherwise stereotyped,” Alawa said.

In order to ensure the most inspir-

ing speakers were chosen, candidates went through several audition rounds, and each required approval from the overarching TED organization.Each speaker whom was chosen was allotted an 18-minute slot for their speech.

Other speakers included photographer Kate Parker, founder and Executive Director of the Center for Civic Innovation in Atlanta Rohit Malhotra, Teach for America and Emory alumnus Ian Cohen (12C), Associate Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University Michelle LaPlaca, CEO of FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative and owner of FE3DS LLC Robin Sanders, Executive Director and founder of STAG VETS, Inc. Jonathan Jackson and Emory hospital radiologist Ernest Garcia.

The minutes could be filled however the speakers wanted. Some, like Majd, included a demonstration, while others, such as Alawa, included visualizations.Routzhan said that he worked on the topic of his speech with TEDxEmory club members to mold his it to fit a general body of people.

“I want this speech to be as accessible and as open as possible,” Routzhan said.

Routzhan also said that the idea he shared, creating an easily understood speech on a relevant topic, lines up with TED’s value of sparking a connection with the audience.

The nonprofit organization values idea sharing through word of mouth, organizing events of diverse speakers via separate organizations at schools.

TEDx, the “x” standing for “independently organized event,” is an offshoot of the parent organization, TED. To extend its reach beyond a live audience, TED films its talks and uploads them to YouTube for the general public. The Emory event was free for students and Emory’s chapter provided a live stream to anyone who wished to tune in.TEDxEmory President Hilary Hoffstein (17C) weighed in on the meaning behind the organization.

“The mission [of TEDx] is ‘ideas worth spreading’,” Hoffstein said. “[It] is an idea-generating organization.”

Alisha Compton and Niraj Naik contributed reporting.

— Contact Kiera Xanthos at kiera.xanthos@emory.edu

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SPOrTS

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Swoop’S Scoop Friday April 7

The Emory Wheel

Gamecocks’ First Title, Lindo UAA Sixth for Tar Heels Athlete of

Sport

Opponent

Time

Softball

Brandeis

2:30 p.m. & 4:30 p.m.

Baseball

Brandeis

3 p.m.

Track & Field

Berry Field Day Invite

All Day

Track & Field

Tiger classic

All Day

W Tennis

Sewanee

3 p.m.

Softball

Brandeis

1 p.m. & 3 p.m.

Saturday

Baseball

Brandeis

Noon & 2:30 p.m.

April 8

Track & Field

Berry Field Day Invite

All Day

Track & Field

Tiger Clasic

All Day

Golf

Emory Spring Invite

All Day

Sunday

Baseball

Brandeis

11 a.m.

April 9

Golf

Emory Spring Invite

All Day

Tuesday

Baseball

Oglethorpe

6 p.m.

April 11

M Tennis

Sewanee

2 p.m. *Home Games in Bold

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and the sheer will to win of guard Nigel Williams-Goss, and Gonzaga is clearly a formidable force.

The Bulldogs showed no fear in the game’s early stages, holding the lead through much of the first half. The second half saw each team tighten up and struggle to connect on shots from the field (Gonzaga 34 percent, North Carolina 36 percent).

Ultimately, turnovers did in the Bulldogs, who handed the ball over to North Carolina 14 times throughout the game and in so doing handing the game over to the Tar Heels.

Berry II, who was named Most Outstanding Player of the tournament, kept North Carolina in control down

the stretch with 22 points and six assists, helping the Tar Heels secure a 71-65 victory.

North Carolina won their sixth title in school history, while South Carolina claimed its first.

Granted, there were No. 12 seeds in either Final Four this year, yet each tournament culminated in historic fashion.

With an upset for the ages on one side and the validation of a Gonzaga program that was finally able to make it into the Final Four on the other, this tournament offered more than enough shining moments, even if you don’t hail from the Carolinas.

— Contact Kevin Kilgour at kkilgou@emory.edu

Softball Baseball Drops Sixth Consecutive Contest Aims for Consistency Continued from Back Page

Continued from Back Page our house,” Turnquest said. “On Saturday I think we started out strong … but our energy started to drop.”

Sophomore pitcher Klamath Henry agreed with Turnquest, stating that Saturday didn’t go in the Eagles’ favor. referring to the third game, Henry explained how a mistake resulted in a pitching change that threw off the team’s focus, offering just one example of how simple mistakes hurt the Eagles in the final two games.

Turnquest also remarked on her team’s final month of regular season play and the goals they have for a successful finish.

“Our biggest goal is to give it our all for our seniors,” Turnquest said.

“Whether we’re stepping on the field for a practice or a game, it’s really all for them in this last month.”

The Eagles will continue the regular season with four home games next weekend against Brandeis University (Mass.).

— Contact Allison Gelman at allison.gelman@emory.edu

NHL

Dimlow had a solid day on the rubber as well. He allowed three runs (two earned) on eight hits and a walk.

Despite Emory’s solid showing from the mound, Emory’s batters did not figure out how solve Margolin. Junior shortstop Nick Chambers had Emory’s only hit with a single in the sixth inning.

Although the Eagles got on the scoreboard, Emory dropped the first half of a doubleheader 6-2 April 1.

Three errors in the field plagued Emory’s hopes of victory as the Eagles allowed four unearned runs.

Senior pitcher Jackson Weeg led the Eagles on the mound, pitching a solid seven and one-third innings, allowing three runs (one earned) on four hits. He also tallied four walks and 10 strikeouts.

Weeg said that the work he’s done to improve his game has helped him better contribute to the team.

“I have been working hard to make adjustments,” Weeg said. “The work has been paying off and I saw that this weekend. Mostly I am trying to put the team in position to win.”

With the game tied at two heading into the eighth, Washington scored four runs to grasp a 6-2 lead.

Entering the game with one out and a man on first, Monk struggled to keep Washington from crossing the plate.

Emory’s batters put together another lackluster performance in the second half of the doubleheader April 1.

A three-run first inning catapulted Washington to a 5-2 triumph over the Eagles.

Starting for Emory, senior pitcher Luke Emmett had a forgettable day on the mound, allowing four runs on four hits and five walks through four innings. After Washington burst ahead of Emory with a three-run first inning, the Eagles failed to answer back.

Emory scored runs in the third and seventh innings, but were never able to string together a breakthrough.

Washington’s pitchers held Emory in check, allowing only four hits.

The Bears added two more runs of their own in the fifth and sixth innings, walking away with a third straight win against the Eagles.

Failing to salvage the final game of the series, Emory fell 7-5 to Washington April 2. The Eagles flew out to an early lead, scoring a run in the second inning on a Washington throwing error. Monk helped Emory maintain the lead through five innings, yielding only two hits to the Washington batters.

The Bears fought back in the sixth and were able to tie the game at one apiece. Emory responded with a vengeance at the top of the seventh, knocking four runs across the plate.

Senior third-baseman Philip Maldari drove in two runs in the inning with a double.

Leading the game 5-1 heading to the bottom of the seventh, Emory seemed poised for victory, but to their dismay, Washington answered back.

Monk and freshman relief pitcher richard Brereton combined to give up six runs to Washington in the seventh. Adding to the Eagles’ frustration, Twardoski was ejected in the disastrous inning for arguing balls and strikes.

Emory did not respond in the eighth or ninth innings and went home winless for the weekend. Emory’s record faltered to 19-11 and 2-6 in UAA conference play.

Despite the team’s losing streak, Twardoski praised his team’s effort and suggested that improvement may require nothing more than a tighter focus.

“This team is one of the hardest working team’s I’ve been around,” Twardoski said. “We have too big a scope. Instead, we need to worry about one pitch at a time.”

Weeg mentioned that it will take a team effort to make this change.

“The pitching staff batters have struggled at times,” Weeg said. “But it has been a team effort the entire season and in order to get out of this slump it will take the whole team getting together and moving past what has been a tough 10 games.”

The Eagles will return to the diamond April 7, traveling to Waltham, Mass. to face Brandeis University.

With only two UAA series’ remaining, the Eagles’ success will hinge on a strong showing.

— Contact Stephen Mattes at stephen.mattes@emory.edu

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Continued from Back Page qualify for nationals at this meet while others aimed to earn a spot in UAA Championship.

Freshman Jackson Holt explained that coaches select the conference squad based on how team members rank in relation to their competitors in the UAAs.

“We’re doing a little less volume but definitely increasing the intensity ...”

— Jackson Holt, freshman

“We only took a small group [to the VertKlasse Meeting], so it will definitely be more exciting when we get to UAAs with all our top performers there,” Eisenhandler said.

From now until the UAA Championship, the team is ramping up practice and honing in on the next two meets.

“We’re doing a little bit less volume but definitely increasing the intensity, just trying to make practice feel like meets,” Holt said. “We’re definitely putting a lot of focus on these next couple meets because for some [these meets are their] last chance ... to get really good marks going into conference and nationals.”

According to Eisenhandler, only a small portion of the team went to the VertKlasse Meeting because either some members need a break or there wouldn’t be great competition in that member’s particular event.

However, Holt said that the meet proved valuable due to the high volume of DI teams.

The Eagles’ path to the UAA Championships continues April 7 to 8 as some members will compete at the Berry Field Day Invitational (Ga.) and other members at the Tiger Classic (Ala.).

— Contact Alisha Compton at acompt2@emory.edu

NHL Power Rankings: Capitals, Blackhawks Reign Supreme

By Stephen MatteS Senior Staff Writer

The field is nearly set for the April 12 start to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, with only three spots in the Eastern Conference still up for grabs. If the season ended today, the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators would each clinch a playoff berth.

Vying to steal one of the final spots are the Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Islanders and Carolina Hurricanes who respectively sit three, five and seven points from playoff positions. Asserting their spot atop the Western Conference, the Chicago Blackhawks have also clinched the No. 1 seed in their conference.

No. 1 Washington Capitals (52-18-8) This past week the Capitals continued to scorch their opposition and build on their league-leading regular

season record with three wins over a four-game span.

Washington’s star forwards spearheaded a 5-4 overtime victory against the Minnesota Wild March 28, with exceptional performances from Alexander Ovechkin, who had a hat trick, T.J. Oshie, Nicklas Backstrom and Marcus Johansson.

Oshie fired a wrist shot for the gamewinning goal coming on an assist from Johansson, who scored four on the night. Washington’s offense continued to click March 29 in a 5-3 win against the Colorado Avalanche.

Forwards Johansson and Evgeny Kuznetsov were both active, each recording a goal and an assist. But in a poor defensive performance March 31, the Capitals fell at the claws of the Arizona Coyotes. Concluding the week on a more positive note, the Capitals bested their divisional foe, the Columbus Blue Jackets, 3-2.

Goaltender Braden Holtby played his best game of the week, stopping 35 of Columbus’ 37 shots.

No. 2 Chicago Blackhawks (50-22-7) Living up to their title as “the best in the west,” the Blackhawks put together another solid week. Beginning March 29, the Blackhawks struck down the Pittsburgh Penguins in a 5-1 victory.

Forwards Tanner Kero and Artemi Panarin were two of Chicago’s top players, each marking a goal and an assist.

Goalie Corey Crawford blocked an impressive 31 of 32 shots. Facing another tough opponent from the Metropolitan Division March 31, the Blackhawks tallied a 3-1 win over Columbus.

Linemate Panarin and forward Patrick Kane crushed the Columbus defense, recording two goals and three assists respectively. Once again, Crawford was stingy in the net, allowing one goal on 33 shots.

Despite a 3-2 loss to the Boston Bruins April 2, the Blackhawks’ No. 1 seed will provide the team with home

ice in the first three rounds of the playoffs and puts them in prime position for a deep playoff run.

Living up to their title as ‘the best in the west,’ the Blackhawks put together another solid week.

No. 3 Montreal Canadiens (46-24-9) The Montreal Canadiens are catching fire at the right time with a fivegame win streak heading into the final week.

In the first of Montreal’s victories this past week, the Canadiens defeated the Dallas Stars 4-1, thanks to forward Max Pacioretty’s goal and assist, as

well as goaltender Carey Price’s solid night in net. Montreal’s offense lit up the scoreboard against the Florida Panthers March 30, with forwards Brendan Gallagher scoring a goal and three assists, and Paul Byron scoring two goals.

Squaring up against the Tampa Bay Lightning April 1, the Canadiens escaped with a 2-1 overtime victory.

Forward Alexander radulov blasted in the game-winning goal on a one-time pass from Pacioretty.

Price had another spectacular performance, yielding one goal on 22 shots. With a 4-1 victory over Florida April 3, Montreal clinched the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic Division. Young players, forward Artturi Lehkonen, who had two goals and an assist, and goaltender Charlie Lindgren, who allowed one goal in his second career appearance, helped the Canadiens march to victory.

— Contact Stephen Mattes at stephen.mattes@emory.edu

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 | Assistant Sports Editor: Kevin Kilgour (kkilgou@emory.edu)

SOFTBALL

MARCH MADNESS

North, South Carolina Teams Dance

By Kevin KilGour Asst. Sports Editor

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Senior outfielder Taylor Forte swings for the fences in the Eagles’ home series against UAA rival Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.).

Four-Game Win Streak Ends By allSion GelMan Senior Staff Writer

In an extended weekend of play for Emory softball, the Eagles came away with a positive 4-2 record over six games. The team won both games March 30 against the DePauw University (Ind.) Tigers 9-1 and 7-6. In their two-day series against Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) Bears, the Eagles shutout their opponent 5-0 and 7-0 in the series’ first two games March 31. The momentum shifted during the second half of the series April 1, with the Bears avenging Friday’s defeats with two wins of their own, winning 8-0 and 10-8 against Emory.

Emory Softball Player of the Week and freshman pitcher Sami Feller attributed the wins to the Eagles’ hitting expertise. She recognized junior infielder Janelle Turnquest and sophomore shortstop Cassie Baca as instru-

mental to their four wins; they each contributed two rBIs in the first and second games against Depauw.

In the first DePauw game, the Eagles managed to collect eight more runs than the Tigers because of their consistent talent at the plate. In the bottom of the third, freshman utility player Jessie Michael hit a single to bring Baca home and advance senior outfielder and captain Taylor Forte to second. After senior second baseman Amy Wray was walked, the bases were loaded. Turnquest then hit a double to left-center field that resulted in an additional three runs that brought the inning total to four runs, contributing to Emory’s 9-1 win.

Excellent pitching also played a significant role in the Eagles’ fourgame win streak. In the second WashU game, senior captain and pitcher Brittany File assisted sophomore starting pitcher Toko Miller during the top of the third inning. Miller provided

TRACK

Team’s Meet Success Is a Step Forward By aliSha CoMpton Senior Editor

The Eagles had multiple top 20 performances against a field dominated by DI teams in their third to last meet before the UAA Championships.

Although overall team scores were not calculated at the VertKlasse Meeting at High Point University (N.C.) and inclement weather paused the meet March 31, the Eagles built their confidence as they faced off against some of the toughest competition they have faced thus far.

“No one ran super fast times [because of the weather] but we did have our 10k runner, [senior] Sophie Cemaj, [earn] a really big Pr on Friday night,” senior team captain Mia Eisenhandler said.

Cemaj placed first in the 1000m with a time of 38:26.73, the fifth best time in the history of the VertKlasse Meeting. Junior Gabrielle Stravach finished sixth overall in the 1500m with a time of 4:36.46, just 0.04 seconds off of her personal record, which is also Emory’s current school record.

Stravach also placed No. 13 in the 800m with a time of 2:18.77. In another impressive performance, sopho-

more Bennett Shaw ran the 3000m steeplechase in 9:38.77, finishing third overall. “[The steeplechase this weekend] was definitely a good performance for [Shaw],” senior Kyle Veator said. “We had some pretty bad weather too at this meet, so if you get a time like that it’s definitely notable.”

Freshman Nyla Lindo was named UAA Track athlete of the week due to her triple jump performance. Her 11.20m triple jump earned her eleventh place in the meet and placed her ninth in the country among DIII athletes and first in the UAA. Additionally, senior Michael McBane placed seventeenth in 1500m with a time of 4:03.60; senior Casey rhode placed 17th in the 10000m with a time of 35:30.69; freshman Luis Torres placed twentieth in the 5000m with a time of 15:47.08; senior Mia Eisenhandler placed sixth in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 11:26.76 and sophomore Jordan Small placed tenth in the high jump with a height of 1.43m.

With a wide variety of team talent, some athletes attempted to

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Emory with five strikeouts, holding the Bears’ run total to zero.

Things were looking up for the Eagles after the third game, but the team gave way in the final two WashU games, losing the third game of the series 8-0 before falling 10-8 in the series’ conclusion. The Eagle’s longest win streak this season came at the end of February with five consecutive wins against Wesleyan College (Ga.), Messiah College (Pa.), N.C. Wesleyan, Piedmont College (Ga.) and Averett University (Va.).

Securing consistent wins has been a challenge for the Eagles thus far, but with a 10-4 record over the course of the past 14 games, things are looking up as the end of the season approaches.

Turnquest said that the team’s energy was a big factor in these games.

“On Friday we came out really strong, with the mindset that they’re in

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The end of March brings with it a barrage of rain showers, pollen and finals. It also brings an end to the Madness. However, April began with some excitement of its own, with the women’s title game April 1 and the men’s title game April 2. On the women’s side, two Southeastern Conference teams clashed for the crown as the University of South Carolina defeated Mississippi State University 67-55 in Dallas. Perennial powerhouse, the University of North Carolina, held off a tough University of Gonzaga (Wash.) team 71-65 in Phoenix to claim the men’s championship.

For years, women’s basketball has revolved solely around the greatness of the University of Connecticut (UConn) program, a reality that was no different this year. The Huskies, fourtime defending national champions, entered the Final Four on a 111-game win streak (no, that is not an error, the Huskies won 111 consecutive games), making them the overwhelming favorite to claim their fifth-straight title.

Meeting UConn in the Final Four was Mississippi State, a team that fell to the Huskies by 60 points in the Sweet 16 of last year’s tournament, where no team had ever lost by such a margin. Mississippi State has fed off that loss ever since, reportedly posting the number 60 in the team’s weight room during the offseason.

While it is unheard of for a semifinal contest to overshadow the tournament final, Mississippi State’s stunning 66-64 overtime dethroning of the Monstars of women’s college

basketball will likely be what people remember most from the 2017 NCAA tournament.

In the title game, Mississippi State was unable to seal the deal, falling to a South Carolina team led by forward A’ja Wilson (23 points, 10 rebounds) and Head Coach Dawn Staley, who became the second African-American coach to lead a team to a women’s NCAA tournament championship.

The men’s side saw a matchup of blue-bloods and newbies, as the North Carolina Tar Heels met the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Falling in dramatic fashion during last year’s title game to Villanova University (Pa.) after Kris Jenkins’ buzzer-beating three pointer, North Carolina worked their way back with hopes of a different outcome this year.

With guard Marcus Paige no longer on the roster, questions lingered as to who would lead the Tar Heels in his absence. There to answer were forward Kennedy Meeks and guard Joel Berry II, who more than filled the gaps left by Paige.

On the other side, history shined dimly on Gonzaga’s title hopes. A team from the west coast has not won the tournament since the University of Arizona in 1997, while a team from Gonzaga’s West Coast Conference has not won it all since the University of San Francisco triumphed with backto-back titles in 1955 and 1956.

But Gonzaga is no scrub. One of the tournament’s most consistent representatives, Gonzaga has developed into one of college basketball’s most reliable programs. Add to that the brute power of center Przemek Karnowski

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BASEBALL

CourteSy of GraCe Burton

Junior infielder Nick Chambers dives to beat the tag in the Eagles road series at Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.). The series sweep drags Emory’s losing streak to six straight.

Eagles Suffer Series Sweep

By Stephen MatteS Senior Staff Writer The Emory baseball team suffered a four-game sweep in a series against their UAA foe, the Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) Bears.

Emory’s losses this past weekend stretched their losing streak to six games. The Eagles have struggled as of late, dropping nine of their past 11 games.

Head Coach Mike Twardoski said that the team is struggling with some of the basics and that he needs to figure out how to help his team rediscover their winning ways.

“We are playing tight, missing the signs and not bunting well,” Twardoski said. “We are not doing the little things that win games. My job is to figure out what button to push because we are still working hard and we are still energetic.”

Emory began the four-game series March 31 on the road with a 3-0 loss.

Washington pitcher, freshman Brad Margolin, nearly no-hit the Eagles, allowing only one hit in the game.

Marking an impressive performance, Margolin recorded a complete game with one hit and one walk with nine strikeouts.

Emory sophomore pitcher Billy

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