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Emory Events Calendar, Page 2

Student Life, Page 9

Crossword Puzzle, Page 8

Staff Editorial, Page 6

Police Record, Page 2

On Fire, Page 11

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Friday, April 11, 2014 ADMISSIONS

Every Tuesday and Friday

REMEMBERING PROFESSOR STRAHAN

Applications See Slight Overall Increase Global Diversity, Early Decision Admissions Drive Class of 2018

By Stephen Fowler Asst. News Editor A slight increase in applications, more offers to underrepresented minority students and a larger global makeup are hallmarks of the admitted Class of 2018, according to an April 8 University press release.

This year’s admission rate stands at 25.9 percent for Emory College, down from 26.5 percent last year, according to the press release.

As of March 28, 17,797 students applied to Emory College compared to last year’s 17,681, and 7,409 applied to Oxford College compared to 6,881 last year, according to the press release.

John Latting, assistant vice provost for undergraduate enrollment and dean of undergraduate admission at Emory, wrote in an email to the Wheel that the constant increase in application numbers over the past few years is part of a higher recognition of Emory and its quality.

“We’re seeing more students apply from places like the West Coast, the Northeast and from other countries,” Latting wrote. “In addition, we’re seeing a larger percentage of the applicant pool move from regular to early decision – also a sign that more high school students recognize that Emory is right for them.”

According to the press release, roughly 29 percent of admitted students in the United States come from the Southeast, 22 percent from the Mid-Atlantic region, 12 percent from the West, 10 percent from the Midwest and 7 percent from both New England and the Southwest.

Preliminary numbers also show

ADMITTED STUDENTS Emory College 2014: 17,797 applicants 2013: 17,681 applicants

Oxford College 2014: 7,409 applicants 2013: 6,881 applicants the top five countries represented outside the United States are China, India, Republic of Korea, Canada and Mexico for Emory College.

China, India, Republic of Korea, Canada and Turkey comprised the top five countries of origin for Oxford College.

This year there were 2,111 Early Decision applicants, comprising 11.9 percent of applications to Emory College and 10.6 percent of applications to Oxford College.

Latting wrote that an increase in admitted students’ diversity is a key focus in the selection process of the applicant pool.

“This year’s increase in offers of admission is a function of Emory’s success in growing the number of applications from minority students,” Latting wrote.

Latting wrote that he expects about 30 percent of the admitted class to enroll at Emory College, putting the number close to the 1,350-member goal, and attributes it to the “matchmaking process” that early decision provides.

“Early decision allows better enrollment management, given that

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tudents, faculty and community members attended a memorial for Political Science professor Randall Strahan, who passed away January 16, 2014. His family has asked that donations be made to Emory College’s Voluntary Core Program, which Strahan co-founded with his colleague Harvey Klehr.

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Nathin Elected SPC President in Runoff

By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor The Elections Board announced the winners of the student government run-off elections on Thursday shortly after midnight.

Goizueta Business School junior and current Student Programming Council (SPC) Treasurer Michael Nathin was elected SPC President, Oxford freshman Noah Cole was elected Oxford Student Government Association (SGA) President, Goizueta Business School sophomore Paul Kagan was elected BBA Council Junior Representative and College freshman Raven Whitmore was elected Residence Hall Association (RHA) Vice President of Advocacy.

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Nathin won by a margin of 457 votes against College junior Niyeti Shah, with a total vote count of 1,605.

“Being elected SPC President has been a dream of mine since joining the organization three years ago, and it is such an incredible feeling to have realized this feat,” Nathin wrote in an email to the Wheel. “I am extremely grateful for this opportunity and cannot wait to begin initiatives to continue the SPC legacy of programming excellence.”

He added that he is grateful for the help he has received from classmates over the last few weeks.

Originally, the SPC President race had three candidates, including Nathin, Shah and B-School junior Nick Bertha. SPC is a University-

wide organization, so the entire student body was eligible to vote.

Former SPC President and B-School senior Raghvi Anand wrote in an email to the Wheel that every candidate who ran for the position was “extremely qualified.”

Cole won by a margin of 26 votes against Oxford freshman Justin Ian Sia, with a total vote count of 408.

Kagan won against B-School sophomore Huyen Nguyen by a close margin of seven votes, with a total vote count of 93.

Whitmore won by a margin of 84 votes against College freshman Abe Adam, with a total vote count of 764.

Run-off elections were held from midnight on Monday, April 7 to 11:59 p.m. on April 9. A University-

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wide email was sent by the Elections Board on Sunday evening detailing the election period and included a link to the ballot.

The run-off elections yielded a decrease in voter turnout of more than 1,000 votes compared to the regular election period.

“Relative to past runoffs the number that voted in this one is actually much higher than it usually is, which is probably an effect of the SPC race attracting more people to vote than would for smaller positions if the runoff did not include a high-level position,” College senior and Elections Board Chair Matthew Pesce wrote in an email to the Wheel.

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Student Website Facilitates Earth Day’s OPUS Class Swapping Impact Grows Larger

By Stephen Fowler Asst. News Editor

Rupsha Basu/Asst. News Editor

Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda delivered the annual David J. Bederman Lecture on the ICC at the Tull Auditorium in the Emory School of Law.

Lecture Explores International Law

By Rupsha Basu Asst. News Editor Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda delivered the third annual David J. Bederman Lecture to members of the Emory community in the Tull Auditorium at the School of Law. The lecture, entitled “Fostering the Promise of the Rome Statute: A Prosecutor’s Perspective,” was presented by the School of Law’s center

for International and Comparative Law. Bensouda spoke to a group of undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty about the court’s ongoing investigations of crimes under its jurisdiction as well as its role in the international arena.

She also engaged in a question and answer session after the speech.

The ICC is an international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands that oversees 122 countries and prosecutes individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and

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crimes of aggression.

Bensouda is a Gambian lawyer and international criminal law prosecutor. She began her position as chief prosecutor in June 2012, previously serving as the deputy prosecutor since 2004.

According to Bensouda, as chief prosecutor of the ICC, her job is to trigger investigations of crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the court, such as genocide.

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Emory students may have an easier way to get the classes they want during the add/drop/swap enrollment period thanks to AddDropSwap.com, a website designed by College senior Michael Sacks to facilitate class swapping through OPUS. The website is designed to make the course registration process run more smoothly by facilitating swaps between anywhere from two to five people for classes.

After positive feedback from friends and professors and a “soft” launch of over 400 swap requests last year, Sacks said he faced opposition from the Office of Undergraduate Education.

“After explaining how the site worked and why it followed all of the honor code, the site was discussed at a dean-wide meeting,” Sacks said. “At the meeting, they officially approved the site.”

With this approval, Sacks wrote the website is ready for full operation for Emory’s add/drop/swap period, which opens on Monday, April 14.

The website uses the four-digit course number found in both the course atlas and OPUS to match students up with each other based on the section of a class they currently have and the section they would like to swap it with.

Currently, the only solution for getting the section you need is asking around on Facebook or emailing a

Michael Sacks, College senior, developed a website to help students swap classes with their peers online.

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professor to overload, Sacks said.

Sacks, who is from San Diego, Calif., said the idea for the site struck him during his freshman year, when he encountered a problem getting into the right section for a class he wanted.

“I was enrolled in a time that conflicted with another course that I wanted to take and eventually overheard someone who mentioned that they had the class I wanted as well as a similar issue with times,” Sacks said.

“We swapped in person and ended up happy, but I thought it would be nice if there was a place to find matches using computers.”

Logistically, Sacks wrote he and a friend from home found the website very simple to design.

AddDropSwap.com’s website uses Django, the same web framework Twitter uses, and figuring out how to program five-way swaps.

Additionally, Sacks is launching the website at the University of Southern California and the

This year Emory University is celebrating Earth Day with a month-long series of events to promote environmental protection called Earth Month.

Emory’s Office of Sustainability spearheaded Earth Month and put together a number of events in anticipation of the celebration, including an Earth Day festival on April 22.

“The University’s Sustainability Vision calls on the Office of Sustainability Initiatives to help restore our global ecosystem, foster healthy living and reduce the University’s impact on the local environment,” Sustainability Programs Director Emily Cumbie-Drake wrote in an email to the Wheel.

Director of Sustainability Initiatives Ciannat Howett and her office are dedicated to teaching Emory how to be environmentally friendly. The office’s website defines sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations.” Since its founding in

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HONOR COUNCIL CASES The following reports are real cases adjudicated by the Emory College Honor Council. Any personally identifiable information has been omitted to protect the privacy of all parties involved.

• A junior received an F in his upper level social sciences course and a four-year mark on his record after copying several paragraphs from a scholarly essay for a research paper without citation. Though the student claimed to have forgotten to cite the essay, the Honor Council found this highly unlikely.

• A professor accused a junior in a lower level science course of providing false information after the student claimed to have urgent need to leave the country for a family emergency the night before an exam.

Though he provided his flight ticket as verification, the airline found no records of the student taking his flight. According to the student, the flight ticket was no longer valid when he arrived at the airport, forcing him to catch a later flight. The Honor Council dismissed the charge once the student provided his second ticket as evidence.

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online essay. In an expedited hearing, the student admitted to paying a paper-writing website to write it. The online essay, despite the website’s plagiarism-free guarantee, contained work copied without citation by the ghostwriter. The Honor Council gave the student an F in the course and a four-year mark on his record, as well as an Honor Code education program on plagiarism.

• A sophomore received an F in a lower level science course and a twoyear mark on her record after copying the work of a friend — albeit changing the names of variables — for several homework assignments. The student, who admitted to having difficulty with the assignments and asking to see her friend’s work, appealed for a lighter sanction and was denied this request.

— Compiled by Senior Staff Writer Lydia O’Neal

•When a response paper reminded a professor of something he had read before, an online search quickly revealed that his student, a freshman in a lower level humanities course, had copied material from an

Corrections The Wheel reports and corrects all errors published in the newspaper and at emorywheel.com.

Please contact Editor in Chief Priyanka Krishnamurthy at pkrish4@emory.edu.

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This Week In Emory History

POLICE RECORD • On April 6 at 4:39 a.m., the Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding an individual under the influence of alcohol at McTyeire Residence Hall. A male subject walked into a Sophomore Advisor’s room and became lethargic and could not be awaken. He said he was drinking in the residence hall. Emergency Medical Services was called but the individual refused transport to the hospital. The case has been turned over to Campus Life.

• On April 5 at 3:34 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding two individuals under the influence of alcohol on the top of Starvine Parking Deck. Both individuals were intoxicated, and they were lying on the drive-in lane of the deck. EPD identi-

fied both men as Emory alumni. One of the individuals had to be transported to Emory University Hospital. The other individual was stable enough to not need further medical care.

• On April 5 at 5:33 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a brush fire near the CSX railroad fence. After a train passed through the area a small bit of brush caught fire. Officers used fire extinguishers to put out the fire. DeKalb County Fire & Rescue also responded to the scene. Officers checked the location periodically throughout the night to ensure the fire didn’t reignite.

• On April 5 at 11:17 p.m., EPD responded to a call regarding a fire on the 14th floor of Clairmont tower.

DeKalb County Fire & Rescue also responded to the scene with a ladder truck. An oven in the building caught on fire. The owner of the oven said that he left cardboard under pizza he was making. The individual was able to use a fire extinguisher to put out the fire.

• On April 6 at 12:30 p.m., EPD responded to an individual lying in the grass at Sorority Village. The individual, who is not Emoryaffiliated, received treatment from EMS and was transported to Emory University Hospital. She said she had been drinking alcohol all night.

— Compiled by Crime Beat Writer Brandon Fuhr

April 13, 1999 Buffalo, N.Y.-based rock band the Goo Goo Dolls performed at the 1999 Student Programming Council (SPC) Spring Band Party. Alternative rock group New Radicals opened for the Goo Goo Dolls, attracting about 3,000 students on Thursday, April 8, 1999. Seconds into the first song by the Goo Goo Dolls, lead singer and guitarist John Rzeznik stopped to reprimand fans for throwing grass from McDonough Field at the stage.

After the Goo Goo Dolls finished an encore, Rzeznik smashed his electric guitar onto the stage, leaving audience members to pick up the pieces.

EVENTS AT EMORY FRIDAY Event: Spring Break Art Camp: Mosaics Time: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Location: Carlos Museum, Tate Room Event: Frontiers in Neuroscience: Michael A. Nader, PhD — “Behavioral Neuropharmacology of Cocaine Abuse in Monkey Models: How Neuroscience Research Can Inform Policy Makers” Time: 12-1 p.m.

Location: Whitehead Biomedical Research Building Auditorium Event: Athletics — Baseball Time: 2-4:30 p.m.

Location: Chappell Park Event: Barenaked Voices: Eleventh Annual Emory Student A Cappella Celebration Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Event: “Conversation Piece” (1974), Screening Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: White Hall 205

SATURDAY Event: Men’s Rugby Tournament

Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Location: Kaminsky Field Event: Spring International Student Debate Tournament Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Location: Callaway Event: Athletics — Baseball Time: 1-3:30 p.m.

Location: Chappell Park Event: Student Recital: Hao Feng Time: 5 p.m.

Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

SUNDAY Event: Emory University Worship Palm Sunday With The Rev. Lyn Pace Time: 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Location: Cannon Chapel Event: Athletics — Baseball Time: 12-2:30 p.m.

Location: Chappell Park Event: Student Recital: A.J. Bancroft Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Event: Student Recital: Zoe Pollock & Laurie Ann Taylor Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Performing Arts Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Event: Emory Chamber Ensembles Time: 4 p.m., 7 p.m.

Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Event: Annual Student Arts Showcase Time: 7 p.m.

Location: White Hall Lobby

Event: “Christ and the Stations of the Cross” Dedication Service Time: 5:05-6:05 p.m.

Location: Glenn Memorial Sanctuary

Event: “Atlantic City” (1980), Screening Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: White Hall 205

Event: “The Killers” (1946), Screening Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: White Hall 205

Event: Student Recital: Rwei Hao Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

MONDAY Event: Digital Pedagogy: Creating Instructional Videos with Easy to

Use Technology Time: 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Location: Woodruff Library 215 Event: Computing the Shape of Stories: A Macroanalysis Time: 12-1:30 p.m.

Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room Event: Late Modern Exfoliation of Visual Exegesis, Part 1 Time: 4-6 p.m.

Location: Candler School of Theology 102 Event: Conducting Research in International Archives Time: 4-6 p.m.

Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room Event: Maribel Morey: From Tuskegee to Mrydal: How the Globally-Minded Carnegie Corporation and the Postwar US Federal Government Became Voices for Racial Liberalism Time: 4:15-6 p.m.

Location: Gambrell 575 Event: Conflicting Memories, Conflicting Identities: Russian Jewish Immigration and the Vision of a New German Jewry Time: 4-6 p.m.

Location: Modern Languages 201

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A rendering of the new science building on the Oxford College quad was released on April 1. The building, which is LEED-Gold Certified, will include teaching laboratories, research space and a greenhouse.

Oxford Plans New Science Building Oxford College plans to have a new science building completed by January 2016.

According to an April 1 University press release, the building, which is LEED-Gold Certified, will be at the northwest corner of the Oxford quad, where Branham and East residence halls are currently located.

“Everyone is excited because this building will enhance our ability to do science,” said Eloise Carter, Oxford College professor of biology and lead faculty member for the planning and design of the building.

EYP, a company that has built academic buildings on college campuses throughout the country, designed the building.

The plan is for this new building to be built out of red brick to match the look of the Oxford campus.

“It is a gorgeous building,” Carter said. “It is respectful of the tradition and history of Emory, but it is also a vision for the future.”

Additionally, the press release

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states that the total cost of the project will be about $30 million.

“I think that the addition of the new science building is definitely worth the money,” Oxford freshman Roy Zhou said. “It not only gives the professors more resources to teach but also gives the necessary classrooms to make more classes available for students.”

“It is a gorgeous building... respectful of the tradition and history of Emory, but it is also a vision for the future.”

— Eloise Carter, Oxford College professor of Biology According to Carter, the current building situation does not allow for group research and the amount of space per square foot per student is too small.

“The building we’re currently in was built in 1961,” Carter said.

“That’s before the Nobel Prize was given to Watson and Crick for the discovery of DNA. Think about how much science has changed since then.

[The current building] doesn’t meet the standards for today.”

According to the press release, the new science building will include nine teaching laboratories, three laboratories for cross-disciplinary research, three non laboratory classrooms, an imaging center, a greenhouse and an outdoor garden space.

However, while the science building is being welcomed with excitement, students think the University should also pay attention to other Oxford needs.

“With the Fleming residence hall coming in and the new science building, not much attention has been given to the athletic facilities,” Zhou said.

“Oxford has lots of space, almost too much. A field, like McDonough, to hold concerts or a new weight room would receive lots of use.”

Bensouda’s speech outlined the jurisdiction and limitations of the Rome Statute, which is the treaty that established the court as well as its functions and structure in 1998, after it became a global priority to hold individuals accountable for heinous crimes.

“This is the promise that more than 120 states made to humankind,” Bensouda said.

She added that the criminal justice system established by the Rome Statute has provisions for the victims of crimes. This includes specifying the definitions of crimes such as sexual violence and a trust fund for reparations to victims.

Throughout her speech, Bensouda emphasized the limitations of the ICC’s jurisdiction.

She added that the ICC operates under a system of “complementarity,” which means that it can only intervene in situations when a state is unable or unwilling to act.

Currently, the ICC is investigating eight situations in Uganda, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Kenya, Libya, Cote d’Ivoire and Mali. There are 21 cases in front of ICC judges, five of which are in trial while the others are in appeal, Bensouda said.

During the question and answer session, an audience member asked Bensouda to respond to criticism that the ICC focuses too heavily on the African continent.

Bensouda explained that of the eight ongoing investigations in Africa, five of them were at the request of the countries, and two were referrals from the United Nations Security Council. She added that the ICC has not intervened in the atrocities being

committed by the Syrian government because it does not have the jurisdiction to do so, because Syria has not abdicated control of the situation.

Bensouda also discussed some of the problems the court has been facing in convicting individuals. One of these issues is witness interference and evidence tampering. She said this phenomenon has increased as a method of compromising the integrity of cases.

Another issue is the fact that the ICC does not have police officers or enforcement mechanisms.

“Cooperation is the key to effectiveness and success,” she said. She added that a large part of the maintenance of the institution is “strong, consistent and timely cooperation” on the part of its constituent parties.

Indeed, Bensouda acknowledged that the lack of an enforcing body has interfered with some of the courts proceedings. She cited Omar Al Bashir, the President of Sudan, who has had two pending arrest warrants for years and remains in power. She said that the ICC currently has an additional 13 pending arrest warrants out for suspected criminals.

However, Bensouda noted that these problems do not mean the ICC is ineffective.

“I don’t think it is sufficient to measure the success of the ICC in convictions,” she said.

Following an ICC case that convicted Thomas Lubanga of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the conscription of children, the ICC held the first conference on the issue of child soldiers, according to Bensouda.

An audience member noted that the court is balanced in terms of gender and asked whether female judges have an obligation to promote

women’s rights globally.

Bensouda responded that the Rome Statute has provisions for gender crimes, specifically ones against women and children, and that she believes the law can be used to promote gender equality.

“The fact that she is such an important world leader, and a woman, was inspiration for me personally,” College sophomore Jessica Margolis said.

The David J. Bederman Lecture was established in honor of Gyr Professor of Private International Law David J. Bederman, who died in December of 2011, and his contribution to teaching, academics and advocacy, according to the School of Law’s website.

Students attending the event not only said it was an informative experience but also expressed that it was a unique opportunity to learn directly from an individual in the center of the action.

“I thought it was an amazing experience to hear the international political dynamics of the ICC explained by [Bensouda] herself,” Margolis said. “It was fascinating to hear from someone who has such extensive experience with international law and human rights.”

Others said Bensouda was inspirational. “[Bensouda] was definitely the most interesting guest speaker that I’ve been to at Emory, especially because she’s the first African woman to serve on an international tribunal,” College sophomore Deepa Mahadevan said. “She was really inspirational, and I really got a lot out of hearing about her perspective of being chief prosecutor for the ICC.”

—Contact Rupsha Basu at rupsha.basu@emory.edu

—Contact Dana Youngentob at dana.youngentob@emory.edu

Class of 2018: Expect Four Years of Benefits, Latting Says Continued from Page 1 we build our class in stages and observe its characteristics at each stage, rather than having to do so all in one swoop,” Latting wrote. “Early decision adds energy to the class by providing us a way to identify students who would have special enthusiasm for being at Emory.”

Latting acknowledged potential detractors to the early decision pro-

cess, namely attracting a less diverse class of wealthier students.

However, Latting pointed out that the ultimate goal is to build one freshman class, and all admitted students have worked to a very high level in their in- and out-of-class pursuits while in high school.

Ultimately, Latting wrote that the Class of 2018 represents the decisions of a great team of staff, current students and also faculty and

alumni, who help ensure success in this mission.

“Emory seeks students who will thrive in its classrooms and contribute to the university community,” Latting wrote. “So any admitted student should have no doubt that four years at Emory will be an incredible experience, with benefits for a lifetime.”

—Contact Stephen Fowler at smfowle@emory.edu

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Sustainability Office Plans Expand Earth Month Activities Continued from Page 1 2006, the office has launched several campus-wide projects related to recycling and saving energy.

Cumbie-Drake wrote that the goal of Earth Month is to inspire environmental activism on campus, as well as bring attention to sustainability projects going on locally, nationally and globally. She added that she hopes the various activities lined up for Earth Month will motivate students, faculty and staff to see the importance for increased action.

The Office of Sustainability’s website includes a list of events, including “Emory Recycles E-Waste and Shredding” and “Oxford Campus Residence Hall Recycling Competition,” which will both run throughout April, encourage the easy but impactful act of recycling.

The website indicates a medley of panels, discussions, speakers and presentations, all of which are related to environmental sustainability.

Arun Agrawal, a professor at the University of Michigan, spoke on sustainability development, and Jim Hartzfield (‘93B) gave a presentation on “sustainability as a source of innovation and trends in human tech.”

Upcoming events include a film screening of “Food, Inc.,” which

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examines the United States’ business of food production; a guided tour of Lullwater Preserve, which “focuses on the intersection between humanity and the environment;” 100 Mile Meal, which will serve lunch to students using only food products from within 100 miles and a community food symposium, which will delve into the issue of food security.

The largest and most anticipated event, is the Earth Day Festival on April 22, the globally recognized Earth Day. The celebration will take place in Asbury Circle alongside Emory’s weekly Farmers Market, where local vendors and campus organizations will promote environmental missions and educate students on the importance of caring about the earth.

Cumbie-Drake wrote that there will also be live music, free food samples and some fun activities for students who drop by the festival.

At Oxford, she wrote there will be a similar Earth Day Festival featuring a Trashion Show, Earth Day Market, a sustainable art exhibit and other attractions.

She wrote that she and the Office of Sustainability hope to see students at the Earth Day Festivals.

—Contact Cindy Tang at xin.tang@emory.edu

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In light of problems with the electronic ballot during the regular election, which resulted in some students receiving ballots that corresponded with their class standing by credit hours instead of their graduation year, the email addressed these issues by advising “students presented with an unexpected ballot” to email the Elections Board to override their class standing on the electronic ballot.

The email also stated that students’ class standing data is taken from the official Registrar and/or Housing data.

University of Chicago after friends at those schools complained about similar issues.

“I have come to realize that it works best when the word spreads to as many people as possible, and it has become apparent that I need to be on that campus to make that happen,” Sacks said.

As such, after he graduates in May, Sacks plans to travel to college campuses across the country to spread the word about AddDropSwap.com and hopes to implement it in more schools.

—Contact Rupsha Basu at rupsha.basu@emory.edu

—Contact Stephen Fowler at smfowle@emory.edu

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tudent artwork was displayed in Cox Hall Ballroom as part of The Southwest Airlines Art & Social Engagement Project at Emory on Tuesday. In addition to the student artwork, Edward Queen and Carlton Mackey taught a social engagement course that partnered with local non-profits Forever Family, Gateway Center and Trees Atlanta.

Professor Wins Grant for Investigative Journalism Program

By Naomi Maisel Campus Life Beat Writer Emory Journalism professor David Armstrong and his Georgia-based team were awarded a $35,000 grant from the Online News Association (ONA) to pilot their new program called the Georgia News Lab (GNL), which hopes to revolutionize investigative journalism studies among students.

The grant is part of ONA’s Challenge Fund, which is supported by the Democracy Fund, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism, the Knight Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, according to ONA’s website.

According to ONA’s website, the fund lasts for two years and offered up to $1 million for “experimentation in the academic and media system.”

Armstrong’s team is the Georgia Collaborative in which Georgia State University (GSU), the University of Georgia (UGA), Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) and WSB-TV will work together to reinvent investigative journalism in the classroom and in practice.

The partner schools were chosen based off of talent and partnership quality, as UGA’s Journalism program is ranked number three in the country while GSU has lots of talent and resources, Armstrong said.

He added that the collaboration will also address the lack of diver-

sity in newsrooms and thus he felt it important to include schools from all over Atlanta.

“Living in Atlanta, we can be a pipeline to provide greater diversity not only in investigative reporting but in journalism in general,” Armstrong said.

The project, titled Georgia News Lab (GNL), wrote in its proposal that “leading journalists and educators will work with student reporters to produce in-depth, data-driven, public service journalism across platforms and better serve their communities while increasing newsroom diversity.”

According to Armstrong, the program originated within the Journalism program at Emory in 2011 and was based off of News Enterprise, an investigative reporting course at Emory created to teach techniques and supply hands-on Journalism training in conjunction with WSB and AJC. Armstrong said that he felt it was unfortunate that Emory couldn’t claim the program as its own due to the program cuts.

He added that, although the program was always envisioned to be at Emory, after the department changes, he began looking for ways to save the program and find a new and hospitable home for it, leading to the current GNL. According to UGA Journalism Department Head Janice Hume, Armstrong approached her last sum-

mer with the idea of GNL. She said that she and UGA Dean Charles Davis were on board immediately and were pleased to receive the grant.

According to Armstrong, the program is a “win, win, win,” benefitting students, newsrooms and communities by providing students with highlevel investigative journalism education and experience while providing the community and newsrooms with accountable journalists with fresh perspectives.

The partner schools involved in the collaboration will recruit students, contribute facilities and resources and will provide training in areas relevant to journalism such as data mining, videography and media law and ethics, to name a few.

Students who have shown an initiative within investigative journalism will be chosen for the program, Armstrong said. He added that he envisions the program to include eight to 10students for the first year.

The media partners — AJC and WSB — will help with talent, resources and facilities, as well as providing advanced training in investigative journalism, according to Armstrong.

“The students are lucky to have professionals such as these at their disposal,” Armstrong said.

Students will work with editors and producers from these media outlets to determine investigations and coordinate reporting, providing them

with hands-on experience from highly trained professionals in the field.

According to Armstrong, the learning component is both training and immersion-based, as students will spend their time in and out of meetings, in the field and in newsrooms.

He added that the program is not a one-way street. While the media outlets can teach traditional and successful journalism techniques, Armstrong said that he hopes students will add new insights, innovations and skills to make something better that everyone can be proud of.

“The ONA grant gives us a jump start, and not just financially,” Hume said. “It’s great affirmation that this News Lab is innovative and viable.”

“It’s going to be a big undertaking,” Armstrong said, but added that once they get a taste for investigative journalism, students won’t need much convincing.

Out of 125 applicants, only 12 schools were picked to receive the grant, including Arizona State University, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Florida International University, the Georgia Collaborative, San Diego State University, San Francisco University, Texas State University, the University of Illinois, the University of Missouri, the University of New Mexico, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

—Contact Naomi Maisel at namaise@emory.edu

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• On Thursday, Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov promised not to prosecute proRussian activists occupying official buildings in two eastern cities as long as they surrender their weapons. Kiev authorities accused Moscow of stirring up unrest and said the actions of the separatists in Luhansk and

Donetsk could give Russia a pretext to invade. According to NATO, about 40,000 Russian troops have amassed near the country’s border with Ukraine.

• Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius denied prosecutor Gerrie Nel’s accusations that he had screamed at his girlfriend, the deceased Reeva Steenkamp, and disregarded her feelings. At the murder trial in Pretoria, South Africa, on Thursday, Nel read to the courtroom a number of revealing text messages, including several in which Pistorius complained about Steenkamp’s habits and accused her of flirting at a party. Pistorius continually asserted that he had never treated her badly.

• On Wednesday afternoon, a man in a Dodge Durango crashed into a Toyota Solaro convertible, which jumped a curb and smashed into an Orlando, Fla. day care. One girl died,

while 14 others at the KinderCare building were injured. The driver of the convertible was unharmed. On Thursday, the Florida Highway Patrol identified 26-year-old Robert Alex Corchado, who has been arrested eight times since 2000, as a possible driver of the Durango.

• Tennessee Senators voted 23-3 on Wednesday in favor of the Capital Punishment Enforcement Act, which would give the state’s Department of Corrections the legal backing to kill death row inmates with the option of the electric chair. The executive director for the Death Penalty Information Center, however, warned that the electric chair would likely be challenged in court on the grounds that such a method violates the Constitution’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

— Compiled by Senior Staff Writer Lydia O’Neal

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NEWS ROUNDUP • Police in Murrysville, Pa., charged Alex Hribal, 16, with four counts of attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault and one count of possession of a weapon on school grounds on Wednesday. Hribal went from classroom to classroom at Franklin Regional Senior High School, just outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., wounding 20 students and a security officer with a pair of kitchen knives until the assistant principal tackled him. Four students, including one whose survival was unlikely, remained in critical condition on Wednesday.

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embers of the Xi Kappa fraternity sold bubble tea at Wonderful Wednesday. Xi Kappa, an Asianinterest fraternity, was founded in 1998 and has been on Emory’s campus since fall of 2011 and stands for the principles of Honor, Loyalty, Respect and Philanthropy.

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Friday, April 11, 2014 Editorials Editor: Rhett Henry

CONTRIBUTE Email: crhenr2@emory.edu

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Early Decision Presents Hazards On April 8, Emory released its undergraduate admission statistics for the Class of 2018’s Regular Decision applicants.

According to the report, 25.9 percent of students who applied were admitted. Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Enrollment and Dean of Undergraduate Admission John Latting noted that, among the students admitted specifically to Emory College, there was an increase in offers to underrepresented minority students. He also stated that classes in both colleges are becoming more nationally and internationally diverse each year.

We at the Wheel applaud the Office of Undergraduate Admissions’ efforts to embrace and increase diversity on Emory’s campus. However, we have some thoughts concerning the growing size of Early Decision (ED) students that comprise each incoming class.

In the report, Latting estimated that 50 percent of enrolling students in Emory College’s Class of 2018 will have applied ED, a number that has been rising for the past few years. We encourage the Office of Undergraduate Admission to carefully watch this increase of students admitted through the ED process, because even as it has its advantages, it could also be problematic.

We acknowledge the benefits of ED, a binding admission policy used by many schools that allows students to indicate that a specific school is their top choice. Students may only apply to one school ED, and if students are accepted, they must attend. This process may be beneficial on our campus because it attracts students that show a strong interest in Emory — students who apply ED clearly want to be here. Additionally, the process takes a burden off of students undergoing the grueling admissions process who truly want to attend Emory because they are notified of the decision earlier in the year.

However, we feel that there may be significant costs when emphasizing ED. The ED1 acceptance rate for the Class of 2017, our current freshman class, was 52.9 percent, much higher than that year’s Regular Decision rate of 25.4 percent. These numbers were calculated by the Wheel based on statistics provided by the Office of Admissions. In moderation, ED can create a class of students who are excited about Emory, but in excess, ED can limit the socioeconomic diversity of the school. Statistically, students who apply ED have more secure financial standing, since the binding nature of ED acceptance can deter students who may not have the same flexibility or can be sure they can afford the school’s ever-climbing tuition.

Latting noted that applying early is an option that attracts students who don’t need the competitive financial packages offered by Regular Decision. Students with more financial ability who are able to apply ED enjoy the benefits of higher acceptance rates, and therefore, these students may have an advantage when gaining admittance to Emory. We see a potential area of weakness in the system: the ED process generally gives an unfair advantage to students with higher socioeconomic status.

We encourage the Office of Undergraduate Admission to continue to take this problem into consideration. Perhaps a solution is the Single-Choice Early Action process, which allows students the option to demonstrate their interest in Emory as their first choice in private school but is non-binding.

We at the Wheel also recognize our limited knowledge of the application and admittance process, but we encourage the Office of Undergraduate Admission to provide more transparency with demographic information in upcoming admission seasons so students are able to form more educated opinions about the makeup of their school.

Lastly, we would like to congratulate the incoming Class of 2018 on their acceptance to Emory. We acknowledge the difficulty of the college application process, and we applaud you for your achievements.

The above staff editorial represents the majority of opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board.

Zachary Elkwood

Zachary Elkwood is a member of the Class of 2015. His cartoons appear in every Friday issue of the Wheel.

Breast Cancer Is Not Sexy

Editorial Roundup College editorials from across the country The Harvard Crimson Harvard University Tuesday, April 8, 2014 In its staff editorial, “Internship or Internment” The Harvard Crimson discusses the issue of unpaid internships, their impact on college students and why Harvard should support paid internships.

Peers and parents alike tell students at Harvard and elsewhere that summer internship opportunities at organizations ranging from The New Yorker to the White House are priceless. Unfortunately, more often than not, they are also payless.

In recent years, unpaid internships have become more and more popular among college students seeking summer jobs. But on the tails of the surge of popularity has come a matching inundation of complaints. Harvard should respond by ensuring that students in need receive funding for their internship aspirations. Unpaid internships rely on a captive labor market: Companies who deny pay to student members of the workforce contribute to an unfair system centered on exploiting the vulnerable.

No student should feel forced to forgo an exciting summer opportunity due to financial concerns, especially not a student at an institution as fully endowed with resources and riches as Harvard. Though Harvard’s Institute of Politics gives 100 lucky students the chance to participate in its Director’s Internship Program every summer, providing its grantees with a $4,000 stipend for their efforts, the vast majority of the student body cannot snag a coveted spot. What’s more, even those fortu-

nate enough to serve as Director’s Interns may only do so for one summer. Come the next, they may feel as down and out as those who never received the stipend in the first place.

Harvard’s Office of Career Services offers other sources of funding, but mostly in the international sector, and domestically only when jobs conform to specific criteria.

Harvard should engage in a concentrated effort to develop more programs of a similar nature. When it comes to determining which students receive grants, Harvard should look to those who demonstrate financial need.

Harvard should change, but more importantly, so should the myriad companies and organizations that recruit students to work for free. When so many students flock to jobs at high-profile organizations, others begin to believe that their resumes will appear sparse and unimpressive should they do anything less highfalutin, dooming their shot at success after graduation. These concerns may be exaggerated, but companies certainly do look to summer experience when hiring permanent employees out of college. As a result, students submit themselves to unjust labor practices, in which workweeks more than 40 hours long do not lead to a single dollar of pay. Students who do take these jobs risk financial distress; others cannot take them at all.

Harvard, colleges like it, and organizations across the nation should support internships that pay as much in money as they do in intangibles. At a minimum, they should pay enough to make those intangibles—career prospects, experience, networking—accessible to all who deserve them.

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Sexualizing Disease Dehumanizes the Afflicted HOBIE HUNTER I was leaving Taste of Emory last Monday when a student fundraising for Beta’s “Breast Week Ever” asked whether I wanted to buy a tank top with pink ribbons and a baseball that read, “Save Second Base.” I told him, “I would rather save the women attached to second base,” while awkwardly skulking away.

Although a concern for breast cancer victims is admirable, there is a way to raise funds and awareness without sexualizing the disease and objectifying its victims. Tactics such as these privilege breasts’ sexual appeal over the intrinsic value of a human life.

There was a time when this discourse could have been considered helpful, even revolutionary. Before the advent of secondwave feminism and modern cancer treatment, breast cancer was considered shameful. It was spoken about in hushed tones, and many women were too ashamed to seek the treatment they needed. Strong, committed activists brought mainstream recognition to breast cancer in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Today, with the vast majority of Americans aware of breast cancer, problematic tactics such as “Save the Boobies!” add no benefit. They do not increase consciousness, but rather turn the tragic into the erotic.

Of course, this sexualized rhetoric is not meant to be taken seriously. No one is earnestly suggesting that the only threat breast cancer poses is to men’s sexual pleasure. However, in a culture that routinely objectifies and values women solely for their sexual appeal, this light-hearted approach to a horrifying disease becomes demeaning.

This attitude is obviously not limited to Emory’s campus. Wrist bands that say, “I <3 Boobies” or “Save the Ta-Tas” equate survival with sexuality and femininity. This feeds into the narrative of the “shero,” or the “female hero.” The shero fights breast cancer with verve and assertiveness, but does so in a characteristically feminine way. Such a narrative leaves no room for women who don’t seek out wigs or reconstructive surgery, men or, most strikingly, those who do not survive breast cancer.

A link between bodily sexual appeal and survival is particularly disturbing when one keeps in mind a common form of treatment — mastectomy. The sexualization of breast cancer does not comfort those who have lost one breast or two. It does not comfort a woman enduring a second round of chemotherapy. It does not console the victims’ worried friends and family.

When Angelina Jolie chose to undergo a double mastectomy because she had a high likelihood of developing breast cancer, many were supportive. However, there was a vocal minority that expressed outrage that Jolie would deny the world her cleavage.

Two particular tweets: “Angelina Jolie had to remove her boobs, I call that karma hoe!” and “Why has Angelina Jolie lobbed her tits off? She hasn’t got breast cancer so why do it.

Attention seeking slut.”

In one particularly egregious example of the intersection of titillation and breast cancer awareness in 2012, Pornhub offered to donate a penny for every 30 views of their breastfocused videos. Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the intended recipient of the donation, rejected Pornhub’s offer. A strident pragmatist may

ask why a foundation would decline a wellintended, legal donation. The answer may very well lie in a campaign that uses turns of phrase like “Let the good times bounce.”

Breast cancer is the only disease sexualized to this extent. When men experience prostate cancer, there are no comedic campaigns.

When groups fundraise for Alzheimer’s, no one would dream of making shirts that say, “Got head?” Nor would anyone sell tanks that read, “Give me some sugar” for diabetes research.

Breast cancer is treated as a “sexy” disease, not only in terms of its sexualization, but also in its mass appeal. When we focus our attention and resources on breast cancer, we decline to take notice of other pressing issues.

Many more women will die of heart disease than breast cancer, but no tanks have been sold this spring that say, “Have a heart.” There is nothing sexy about the cardiovascular system. Although funding and awareness for breast cancer treatment is indeed important, there is an opportunity cost — attention and resources for other serious diseases.

Although the desire to help women suffering from a horrible disease is laudable, it is important to think critically about the best way to do so. At times it involves reaching out to less “sexy” diseases that warrant more funding or attention. Sometimes it means toning down sexualized methods and focusing on the women at risk. It could be shrewdly examining which organizations merit donations. Philanthropy is important for any organization, but there are better ways to handle it than shouting, “Save Second Base!”

Hobie Hunter is a College freshman from Boca Raton, Fla.

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DOO LEE

“Poverty Rising; Awareness Needed”

by Jonathan Lass, Originally published in November 8, 1994 Issue of The Emory Wheel

The Case Against Political Dynasties

The problems of homelessness are evident to anyone traveling in the United States.

Poverty seems to be growing and can be seen everywhere from inner-city Atlanta to the rural areas of Appalachia. According to the Task Force for the Homeless, three million individuals are homeless in our country.

Families with children comprise 40 percent of the homeless population.

Just within Atlanta there are approximately 50,000 people who are homeless at one point during each year, and that number has been growing annually. More than half of those people considered poor (those who live under the poverty line) are from female-headed households. Minorities comprise a large percentage of poor people. African Americans are 12 to 13 percent of the total population, however, they comprise 30 percent of all people below the poverty line living in the U.S.!

During the Reagan era, the budget for Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an agency of the federal government, was cut from $32 billion in 1981 to $7.12 billion in 1987. This is ironic since the number of poor and homeless people continues to edge higher and higher as the amount of assistance has been curbed or discontinued.

A recent study by the National Coalition for the Homeless reports that the number of homeless people will continue to increase at a predicted rate of 25 percent per year. It is impossible to exactly account for every homeless person, although estimates range from 350,000 (the federal government’s estimate) to three million homeless people. Regardless of the actual number, both sides agree that the numbers are growing at an even greater rate.

Other interesting figures establish that 22 percent of all homeless people are between 22 and 29 years old, as 68 percent of all homeless people are between 30 and 59 years old.

The Census Bureau reported that 52 percent of homeless people have not graduated from high school, whereas 27 percent of the general population do not graduate from high school.

These statistics point to a sad fact in American society: people who are born poor grow up poor and beget poor children. It is this cyclical poverty that I believe is most disturbing. Thirty-nine percent of homeless people have spent some time in jail, 29 percent abuse alcohol and 14 percent are hard-drug abusers. The existence of someone who has nowhere to live and has been given so little by society is one that is rife with the hopelessness that leads to social pathologies.

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While the Republican Party faces a crowded field of potential presidential candidates in the 2016 election, Democrats seem ready to crown former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton their nominee for President, bucking the cliché that “Republicans fall in line while Democrats fall in love.” Rather than a competitive nomination process, Clinton appears poised for a sumptuous coronation convention.

The fear of a Clinton bandwagon cruising into the White House is spooking mainstream Republicans to dig out one of their own party godfathers: Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and brother and son of two former U.S. presidents. Current polls indicate that both Clinton and Bush are leading the race for their respective party’s nomination.

There is, however, something inherently undemocratic, even ungainly, about another Clinton or Bush presidency. If either one of them were to win a second term as president, it would mean two families would have held the presidency for 28 of the last 36 years.

The presidential lineup (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Clinton or Bush) then looks more like a game of Duck Duck Goose, with Obama as the goose, rather than the orderly succession of executive power. It is an emblem of a

much larger tendency at work — America is goes on and on. a democracy in love with dynasties.

Many of these dynastic politicians have Political dynasties aren’t just confined to fortressed themselves in impregnable conthe presidential level, either. To see political gressional seats. Sometimes, they end up in dynasties in action, you don’t have to look far. the clutches of a single family for decades.

In this year’s Georgia senatorial and guber- Congressman John Dingell for example, has natorial races, candidates from both parties served 58 years in Congress! Rep. Dingell are feigned products of long-time Georgia himself took over the seat from his father who political brands. The served in Congress for Democrats’ presump22 years. His district is tive nominee for gerrymandered to the Dynastic politicians owe their Senate is Michelle hilt, and Rep. Dingell’s Nunn, the daughter of longevity to advantages in resources... wife is running to keep four-term U.S. Senator the seat in the family’s Sam Nunn. The hands.

Republican’s front runner nominee is David Despite its pluralist DNA, there seems to Perdue, the cousin of former Governor Sonny be, in the American electorate, a pervading Perdue, and the Democratic nominee for gov- comfort in electing political progenies into ernor is former President Jimmy Carter’s own office. Americans were born in rebellion, yet grandson, Jason Carter. we seek tradition and familiarity.

Travel out of Georgia or Washington, D.C. Political scions often have an innate advanand the patterns are the same. The 2014 tage because voters tend to look for the midterms are jam-packed with dynastic poli- shorthand of a candidate’s views and positicians running for re-election. In Michigan, tions. Often, a well-recognized name is an you have the Dingells; in California, the imprecise but popular signifier of knowledge Browns; in Louisiana, the Landrieus; in New and talent. Hence, dynastic politicians owe York, the Cuomos; in Colorado, the Udalls; their longevity to advantages in resources, in Rhode Island, the Chafees; in Alaska, the creditability, name-recognition, influence, a Begichs; in Arkansas, the Pryors. The list big rolodex and the swell of political infra-

structure and connections inherited from their parents or relatives.

Voters should approach progeny politicians like Clinton and Bush with caution. Not only are political dynasties plutocratic and contrary to the spirit of the 22nd Amendment, which sets presidential term limits, but they strengthen the propensity of political power for viscous self-perpetuation and gum up the government by bringing in old allies and crowding out new people with fresh perspectives.

Neither Bush nor Clinton ought to be the Republican and Democratic nominees for president. The former Bush White House speechwriter David Frum put it best: “Parties have good reasons to avoid reaching back to politicians of prior generations. When they do, they bring forward not only the ideas of the past, but also the personalities and the quarrels of the past.” So, before christening Clinton as president or inducting another Bush into Pennsylvania Avenue, Americans should think long and hard whether they want to continue the stale politics and ideas of the past two decades or opt for change and rejuvenation.

Doo Lee is a College sophomore from Suwanee, Ga.

A Turbulent Reassertion of Turkish Power BEN PERLMUTTER Following the capture of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Empire ruled a vast multiethnic expanse from its capital in Istanbul, stretching across the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and Southern Europe. Following its defeat in World War I, the Allied Powers dismembered the Ottoman Empire. The Anatolian heartland of the empire subsequently fell to Turkish nationalists in 1923.

Led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the nationalists established the Republic of Turkey, which ceased to be the major regional power in the Middle East that the Ottoman Empire was, instead focusing on domestic development and Soviet containment with its NATO allies.

In recent years, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has reasserted Turkey’s role as a major regional power in the Middle East, independent of its NATO allies.

While the Republic of Turkey for the most part consists of historically ethnic Turkish lands, since the state’s creation there has been a substantial ethnic Kurdish minority living in the southeastern region. Due to what the Kurds believed to be violations of their natural rights as a people at the hands of the Turkish government, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) launched an insurgency offensive against the Turkish state in 1984.

In the ensuing conflict, which persists to this day, more than 40,000 people have died, including more than 4,000 civilians. Turkey, the United States and NATO have deemed the PKK a terrorist organization. This conflict has long been central to Turkish policy, but in recent years, the conflict has died down, and the AKP-led government has been able to focus on other policy issues.

The AKP has devised a foreign policy tactic called “zero problems with neighbors.”

Under this policy, Turkey aims to create warm relations with all of its neighbors, which include Israel. Turkish leadership hoped that the zero problems doctrine would provide a way for Turkey to reassert itself as a regional great power in its own right, not merely just the most Eastern flank of NATO. The zero problems policy’s first major test was during the Arab Spring uprising of 2011.

Turkey was called on to respond to the uprisings because it is one of the Middle East’s most populous countries, the region’s largest economy and, at the time, considered a model of democratic Islamist government. The zero problems doctrine failed to be effective in the

face of a multitude of regional problems.

In order to gain legitimacy amongst its Arab neighbors as a leading Muslim power, and not just a secularist Western pawn, Turkey took a dramatic stand against Israel in 2010 over an Israeli commando raid against a Turkish humanitarian aid flotilla headed towards the Gaza Strip. In response, Turkey ceased diplomatic relations with Israel. The Arab world lauded Turkey for its response.

By creating this “problem” with Israel, Turkey was able to credibly demonstrate that it wanted to work constructively with its Arab neighbors as an independent actor of NATO. The zero problems policy breaks with Turkey’s former foreign policy doctrine, which used to roughly coincide with that of the United States and NATO. For example, Turkey has helped Iran enrich its uranium, a measure that the United States dramatically opposes.

In Libya, Turkey helped unseat Gadhafi. In Egypt, Turkey supported the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood government of Muhammad Morsi that replaced the Mubarak dictatorship.

When Morsi’s government was ousted in a coup in June 2013, Turkey heavily criticized the military regime that replaced it. Since then, Egyptian-Turkish relations have frayed dramatically, with the two countries ceasing diplomatic relations. Also in response to Turkey’s condemnation of the Egyptian coup, Turkish relations with the various Arab states of the Persian Gulf’s relations have grown much colder.

Turkish foreign policy has gone from zero problems to lots of problems. Turkey has become particularly embroidered in the ongoing Syrian Civil War. While in the onset of the zero problems policy, Turkey reproached the pariah Assad regime, Turkey quickly denounced the government with the onset of the civil war. Turkey harbors rebels in its territory, letting them use Turkey as a staging ground for the war against the Assad government.

Tremendous controversy has emerged in the past few weeks regarding a recording of a government meeting that was leaked to YouTube where top political leadership, including the “top spy chief,” the foreign minister and a top military official, discussed secret plans to invade Syria. The New York Times reports, “One option that is said to have been discussed was orchestrating an attack on the Tomb of Suleyman Shah, the grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, which is in northern Syria and is considered by the government here to be Turkish territory.”

Mariana Hernandez | Staff

This reemergence of Turkey as a dominant regional power in the Middle East has tremendous historical precedent. Turkey lies in a tremendously important geopolitical location, on the Anatolian peninsula, lying between the Balkans in Europe, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Caucasus and the Middle East.

In addition to its strategic location, Turkey also controls the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates region, which gives it control over tremendous amounts of water, vitally important in the arid Middle East. While much of the geopolitical discussion of the Middle East revolves around oil, sufficient water is equally, if not more, important. Because of recent dam projects, Turkey has the ability to export water all over the region and can even export water all the way to the West Bank.

While geopolitics dictate that Turkey will be a major regional player, the domestic institutions affect the way that the Turkish power manifests itself.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the Kemalist, western-oriented military led Turkey. They promoted Westernization and strived to join the European Union. But the EU did not

reciprocate Turkey’s enthusiasm for the country to join the organization. This rejection worsened Turkey’s perception of the West, making it turn more inclined towards its old sphere of influence, the Middle East.

Concurrently, Turkey has become more democratic in the past 15 years. This democratization has also contributed to a foreign policy oriented more towards the Middle East. Turkey is a largely Muslim country, and its recent foreign policy has reflected this demography.

While the secular military leaders oriented Turkey more towards the West prior to the recent increased democratization, now that leadership is accountable to the public, its foreign policy has turned to the Muslim world.

In 2010, when Turkey ceased relations with Israel over the flotilla incident, the public lauded the move.

In recent months, Prime Minister Erdogan has engaged in frequent anti-democratic measures that have brought into question the extent of Turkey’s recent democratization.

After a round of recent elections, which Erdogan’s AKP did exceedingly well in, the Prime Minister swore “to make political

enemies pay a price.” While the elections were free and fair, if these words are followed up upon, it does not bode well for Turkish democracy. In the past year, the Turkish government also brutally cracked down on peaceful protesters, imposed various constraints on free speech and free press and had high-level officials face corruption allegations.

It remains unclear the effects on Turkey’s recent autocratic policies, and if this frightening policies will persist. If these policies continue, the effects on Turkey’s foreign policy are unclear.

Regardless, Turkey’s recent rise as a regional great power in the Middle East will have dramatic effects on the unstable region’s future.

For decades, the Middle East has been subject to the influence of great powers not native to the region, such as most recently the United States. Hopefully the rise of Turkey, a mostly-democratic Muslim country, will provide a model example for this region that has so long been troubled by radical Islam, war and political unrest.

Ben Perlmutter is a College sophomore from Chappaqua, N.Y.

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Student Life Friday, April 11, 2014 | Student Life Editor: Jenna Kingsley (jdkings@emory.edu)

CAMPUS EVENTS

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Last year, TEDxEmory boasted an audience of 650 participants from all over Atlanta. This year’s attendees can expect quality talks from prominent speakers such as the technical manager of the Google’s Project Glass and the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

TEDxEmory: Touching Talks, Teaching Tales

By Jun Jeon Staff Writer What are some ideas worth spreading? How about TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design. You’ve probably read about, heard about and even seen TED talks shared online and over social media. The ideas and speakers in TED talks might not seem very close to home, but these big ideas are closer to Emory than

you might think.

TEDxEmory is a student organization that brings prominent guest speakers to campus, and its biggest event is coming to Emory tomorrow. Established in 1984, TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing powerful ideas with the world. It invites a wide range of guest speakers, from science to business to global issues, allowing each of them a maximum time of 18 minutes to

share their ideas.

But there seems to be a question on everyone’s mind: what’s the x in TEDx? “The x means an independently organized TED group under the license from TED,” College senior Nikhil Raghuveera, current TEDx president, said. “So, TEDxEmory is an independent TED group at Emory with the license.”

Raghuveera was one of the found-

ing members of TEDxEmory when it came to campus in 2011.

TEDxEmory is run by students from the College, Goizueta Business School and some graduate schools at Emory. While the first event, hosted in 2011, had about 300 attendees, about 650 people came last year.

As more and more people became interested in TED, other Georgia schools, such as Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia began organiz-

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ing their own TEDx events.

Because TEDx operates under the TED guidelines, TEDx speakers are unpaid.

However, as the brand name for TED and TEDx grows, TEDxEmory is increasingly able to get speakers who usually charge up to tens of thousands of dollars for paid events, Raghuveera said.

Raghuveera also explained how TEDx speakers interacted and con-

nected with the audience in between the sessions.

“It is about interaction with the speakers,” he said. “A lot of speakers, they leave after they give a talk, and people go ‘oh great’ and applause, but that is it. At TEDx, it is different.”

Raghuveera said that Michael Luckovich, a political cartoonist, drew cartoons for his audience after

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Although shelters provide animals with basic necessities, animal shelters are not the best places for animals to live. Even with their staff, donors and volunteers who devote themselves to providing better environment for the animals, animal shelters face problems like euthanization, overcrowding, post adoption problems and capital insufficiency.

Animal Rights: A Social Justice Issue

By Yahui Su Contributing Writer I have been interested in the social justice issue of animal rights since I began leading a Volunteer Emory service trip to Georgia’s largest no-

kill animal shelter, Furkids. Leah, the volunteer coordinator at Furkids, gave us an orientation about animal rights and told the heart-warming story of the establishment of the cat shelter before we got to clean the cats’ rooms. Samatha Shelton, the founder

of Furkids, also shared her story: she was inspired to solve the pet overpopulation problem in Georgia after she found a stray mother cat with kittens and was unable to find a shelter.

I personally have always loved animals but have never owned a pet.

Volunteering at Furkids has shown me the responsibility and rewards of looking after another living being.

After volunteering, on the way back to Emory, the volunteers and I

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HOROSCOPES MAKE THE STARS YOUR FRIENDS. SUNNY OR CLOUDY, LUCKY OR NOT, YOU WILL BE MORE IN TOUCH WITH YOUR OWN REALITY.

Aries

(3/21-4/19)

For the next two weeks, Mercury is moving into Aries, and you will be feeling inspired, creative and impulsive. Speak your mind this week, because your ideas will be well received.

Taurus

(4/20-5/20)

Your artistic and imaginative side will be fully present this week, Taurus. Try working your brain in new ways to take advantage of this changed perspective.

Gemini

(5/21-6/21)

You will be feeling like a leader this week, which is great since your social nature connects you to many different groups. Schedule in some extra time for friends and activities.

Cancer

(6/22-7/22)

Your career should be the central focus for you this week, Cancer. You will be very persuasive when it comes to asking for new positions or membership to a new organization.

Leo

(7/23-8/22)

With Mercury in Aries for the next two weeks, you will be feeling a strong sense of adventure. Take time to plan an exciting day trip, or spend a weekend trying unfamiliar things!

Virgo

(8/23-9/22)

Communication is key for you this week, especially when it comes to your love life. Be open to starting a conversation with someone that you would not ordinarily speak with.

Libra

(9/23-10/22)

Opposites attract should be your mantra for the week. If you have been searching in the same place for a result, try looking somewhere entirely different, and you may find what you need.

Scorpio

(10/23-11/21)

You might be feeling like a bit of a troublemaker this week. Mischievous Mercury is giving you both the creativity and wit to pull off the ultimate prank. Act wisely.

Sagittarius (11/22-12/21)

Your emotions will be running high, but in a positive way. Use this week to express yourself to friends or love interests. Your honesty and heart will resonate strongly with others.

Capricorn (12/22-1/19)

You will be feeling a close connection to home this week, Capricorn. Focus on your closest relationships and strengthen them. Empathy will help you build strong connections.

Aquarius (1/20-2/18)

Passion is driving you this week. If you don’t already have a project you feel strongly about, get out there and look for a new activity. This week will lead to a lasting obsession.

Pisces

(2/19-3/20)

Weighing costs will be important for you this week, Pisces.

Whether the costs are financial or physical, do not overextend your resources if you can avoid it.

This week’s stars interpreted by Celia Greenlaw

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Animal Shelters Only a Short Term Solution Continued from Page 9 talked about the issues with animal shelters and animal rights. We had heard the sad story of an 8-year-old dog that was abandoned by its owners when they moved to New York from Atlanta. Even though the dog had been a part of their family, they chose to leave him behind.

Apart from moving, there are many other reasons why animals go into animal shelters: lack of training, lifestyle changes, cost of ownership, health issues and stray animals on the streets. Behind every dog and cat at a shelter, there is a heart-breaking story.

Although animal shelters provide these animals with basic necessities, animal shelters are not the best places for animals to live. There are three types of animal shelters: kill facilities, no-kill limited admission facilities and no-kill open admission facilities.

The kill facilities sometimes decide to kill animals, regardless of their physical condition. On the other hand, the no-kill animal shelters do not kill animals unless they cannot be rehabilitated. Animal shelters are never safe havens for abandoned and stray animals.

Even with their staff, donors and volunteers who devote themselves to providing better environment for the animals, animal shelters face problems like euthanization, overcrowding, post-adoption problems and capital insufficiency. Even when people come to adopt animals from shelters, they want certain breeds, and often they adopt puppies and kitties instead of more mature animals. The best environment for animals is with their loving owners.

Animal shelters offer only a glimpse of the colossal animal rights issue. Other problems include human overpopulation, animal experimentation, factory farming, fishing, humane meat, hunting and fur. For more than two centuries, people around the world have tried to fight for the idea that all nonhuman animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings.

Meanwhile, people also argue against animal rights for various reasons. Some arguments include: animal rights as extreme; animals should not have rights because they do not have duties; other beings in the food chain consume meat as well so it should be fine for people to consume humane meat; domestic animals will not be able to adapt to the environment if they are “freed” and so on.

We cannot easily judge which side is wrong or right. For example, at the current stage, the issue of testing on animals is fraught due to the fact that it benefits human health and substitutes for animal testing are still elusive. This does not mean animal rights are impossible to attain, but that we must conquer the problems step by step.

Vivian, the volunteer coordinator at Small Dog Rescue, believed that “mentioning to people around you — friends, relatives, colleagues, neighborhoods or even strangers — about the animals in the shelters is the best way we can advocate animal rights in an everyday setting.” I believe, as a student, we should publicize the problem as much as we can while actively searching for methods to challenge the status quo.

— Contact Yahui Su at yahui.su@emory.edu

Courtesy of TedxEmory

As part of the team’s marketing efforts, hundreds of red balloons have been placed all over the campus. The balloons are intended to attract attention to TEDxEmory’s next event on April 12.

Upcoming TEDxEmory to Deliver Dynamic Dialogue Continued from Page 9 his talk.

“He sketched our former president Ishaan Jalan and then allowed the audience to come up and request drawings,” Raghuveera said. “People were talking to him and interacting with each other, and it is something we try to create every year.”

Since 2011, TEDxEmory has brought speakers with powerful ideas who otherwise would not have visited Emory. Last year, the organization invited Carlos Moreno, a state Supreme Court justice of California, as a guest speaker.

Moreno, the sole dissenting justice on Proposition 8, spoke about his

views on marriage equality during his talk.

TEDxEmory has also been able to bring in speakers from places such as Vancouver, British Columbia, New Orleans and Kansas.

For example, they have had David Wolpe – ‘The World’s Most Influential Rabbi,’ according to Newsweek Magazine – and magician Jamie D. Grant.

However, TEDxEmory does not rely solely on outside speakers. Many of their talks come from Atlanta and Emory, including students.

“One of the most exciting and rewarding parts of our conference is the Student Speaker Competition,” Raghuveera said. “One or two stu-

dents are chosen to give their talk at the main conference in front of hundreds of people, and the student speakers are traditionally some of the most well-received.”

According to Raghuveera, TEDxEmory prefers topics that are accessible and interesting to everyone. The organization works carefully to coordinate speakers so that the talks are on a variety of topics.

This year, TEDxEmory speakers will address the reduction of child sex trafficking in Atlanta, the intersection of music and math and the social determinants of health.

On April 12, TEDxEmory will host its main TEDx event with 13 speakers at the Woodruff Health

Sciences Administration Building.

A technical manager of Google’s Project Glass and a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia are among the invited speakers. Any Emory student who wants listen to these talks can register for a free seat on TedxEmory’s website.

Raghuveera said that he hopes the event will bring fresh ideas to Emory’s campus.

“Through TEDxEmory, we hope we are able to promote ideas worth spreading at Emory and the Atlanta community and showcase Emory speakers to the worldwide TED community.”

— Contact Jun Jeon at jjeon5@emory.edu

HUMANS OF EMORY

Pictured: Carlos Luciano Benito Maas-Guanes, Photo by Bahar Amalfard/Staff

“If you could give a piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?”

“The habits you make in high school come with you to college.”

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Arizona Cardinals quarterback Drew Stanton makes a lateral pass. In the coming season, Patel expects Stanton to be throwing to a new wide receiver, Clemson University’s Brandon Thomas.

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Patel: Expect Jaguars, Browns, to Select QBs Continued from the Back Page

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Without Tiger, A Different Masters

Brian Chavkin

This week marks the unofficial start of spring in the sports world; The Masters once again has returned at Augusta National Golf Club. For as long as I can remember, I have watched the Masters every year with my dad, going back to that historic Sunday in 2004 when Phil Mickelson dropped his birdie putt on the 72nd hole and leaped into the air as he won his first of five majors and three green jackets.

Every year, as March turns to April, I have been excited knowing that The Masters was only a week or two away. This year, however, The Masters does not feel the same. In fact, The Masters has not been this way since 1994. For the first time in twenty years, Tiger Woods will not be participating in the event because of a back injury, which required surgery. This is something completely new for me.

I have never experienced The Masters without Tiger Woods. I have never experienced the Masters without a discussion on Sunday morning where Tiger is on the leaderboard. I never experienced The Masters without CBS and its constant coverage of Tiger’s every shot, whether he’s in first or barely trying to make the cut.

I have never experienced The Masters

without the leaders approaching the first tee on Sunday, knowing their lead is not safe, because Tiger is out there doing everything he can to move up the leaderboard.

You can love him, you can hate him, but you cannot deny the excitement and exposure he brings to the game. The thrill he brings when he steps in between the ropes on to the golf course is unlike anything we will probably see for a long time. The absence of Tiger will make people decide not to watch this year because without him, they do not see the point. To them, there is no longer excitement in the game of golf without Tiger.

Normally I would agree with them. As long as he is out, which could be till August, the PGA Tour will take a huge hit financially and in the ratings. The Masters, though, is not your average golf tournament.

It is the best tournament of the year, played on the best and one of the most famous golf courses in the world, played at the perfect time of the year.

So, will I be on the couch, in front of a TV with my dad once again this year, just as excited to watch The Masters as I am every year? Of course I am.

Why? Because it is the only tournament where it should not matter who is playing.

It is the only tournament that is without a doubt, bigger than Tiger Woods and his legacy.

It is golf’s Super Bowl.

It is a tradition unlike any other.

It is The Masters.

— Contact Brian Chavkin at brian.chavkin@emory.edu

range, draft an OL first and a wide receiver at 12.

3) JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS: Blake Bortles, QB, University of Central Florida Jags fans have been clamoring ownership to sign a certain Floridian who experienced massive success at the collegiate level and has a cult following throughout America (Tim Tebow). After this pick, those fans will have their wildest dreams realized. Bortles oozes potential, and the Jaguars are in a rebuilding situation.

He immediately becomes the quarterback of the future and shores up a glaring position of need for the next decade and change.

4) CLEVELAND BROWNS: Derek Carr, QB, Fresno State University If I were running the Browns, I would absolutely take Johnny Football in this slot, then hope to draft Kelvin Benjamin/Marqise Lee/ Odell Beckham Jr. with the 26th pick. Some pundits believe a guy like Manziel could drop to 26, so the Browns should look elsewhere here. I believe that because they got burned once (Brandon Weeden) with a latefirst round quarterback selection, the Browns will be adamant about getting their guy. Several reports have shown that the Browns think very highly of Carr, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see him as the pick.

5) OAKLAND RAIDERS: Greg Robinson, OT, Auburn University There has been a buzz that the Raiders could go QB with Manziel here, or look to solidify their front seven by taking Khalil Mack. Neither scenerio will occur. The Raiders got burned by letting Jared Veldheer leave via free agency, and by voiding Rodger Saffold’s contract. Although

Austin Howard is a capable right tackle, they still need a mauler and protector on the left side. Robinson has great tape and even better workouts, and will become an anchor for the Raiders for years to come.

19) MIAMI DOLPHINS: Brandon Thomas, OG, Clemson University

6) ATLANTA FALCONS: Khalil Mack, OLB, University at Buffalo

21) GREEN BAY PACKERS: Calvin Pryor, S, University of Louisville

7) TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS: Mike Evans, WR, Texas A&M University 8) MINNESOTA VIKINGS: Teddy Bridgewater, QB, University of Louisville 9) BUFFALO BILLS: Jake Matthews, OT, Texas A&M University 10) DETROIT LIONS: Justin Gilbert, CB, Oklahoma State University 11) TENNESSEE TITANS: Darqueze Dennard, CB, Michigan State University 12) NEW YORK GIANTS: Eric Ebron, TE, University of North Carolina 13) ST. LOUIS RAMS: Taylor Lewan, OT, University of Michigan 14) CHICAGO BEARS: Aaron Donald, DT, University of Pittsburgh 15) PITTSBURGH STEELERS: Anthony Barr, OLB, UCLA 16) DALLAS COWBOYS: Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, S, University of Alabama 17) BALTIMORE RAVENS: Zack Martin, OT, University of Notre Dame 18) NEW YORK JETS: Marqise Lee, WR, University of Southern California

20) ARIZONA CARDINALS: Brandin Cooks, WR, Oregon State University

22) PHILADELPHIA EAGLES: Odell Beckham Jr., WR, Louisiana State University 23) KANSAS CITY CHIEFS: Kelvin Benjamin, WR, Florida State University 24) CINCINNATI BENGALS: Bradley Roby, CB, The Ohio State University 25) SAN DIEGO CHARGERS: Timmy Jernigan, DT, Florida State University 26) CLEVELAND BROWNS: Davante Adams, WR, Fresno State University 27) NEW ORLEANS SAINTS: Dee Ford, DE, Auburn University 28) CAROLINA PANTHERS: Allen Robinson, WR, Pennsylvania State University 29) NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS: C.J. Mosley, MLB, University of Alabama 30) SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS: Jordan Matthews, WR, Vanderbilt University 31) DENVER BRONCOS: Ra’Shede Hageman, DT, University of Minnesota 32) SEATTLE SEAHAWKS: Morgan Moses, OT, University of Virginia — Contact Jayson Patel at jayson.patel@emory.edu

Genie: All Championship Teams Deserve Equally Wild, Similarly-Sized Riots Continued from the Back Page time at all when I have felt the desire to riot that does not involve having just eaten some form of fried chicken.

On Tuesday night, the UConn women’s basketball team also won the NCAA Tournament — to be clear, the less important NCAA Tournament, that is, the women’s tournament.

Why do I say it is less important? Is it because I am sexist? No, it is because the facts speak for themselves.

No, I am not referring to the facts that demonstrate how fewer people watch the women’s tournament, that it makes less money and that women’s sports are just generally less interesting than men’s.

No, I am not saying any of those things. I have nothing but respect for women’s sports, especially college women’s basketball. In fact, it is one of my favorite things.

But the UConn students hate women’s sports. How do I know? Because they did not riot after the UConn victory.

What kind of double standard is this? I find this situation to be incredibly problematic. After all, these UConn students are nothing if not essentialist.

Why would you not riot after your women’s basketball team won the

Courtesy of Flickr/Dan Malloy

A banner celebrates the University of Connecticut’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship. UConn students, who rioted when the men’s team won, did not riot in celebration of this victory. national championship? I can say with absolute certainty that we at Emory would have painted the town red if the Emory women’s basketball team had won the championship.

Because we care.

How do I know this? Just look at

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the wild reaction that the recent women’s swimming and diving national championship elicited. Our school literally went crazy after this incredible victory. Does UConn think that arrests and destruction to buildings are cool? Well, we went to class and

the DUC just like normal. Suck it, UConn.

Real talk now. The problem here is not that people are not rioting after a women’s sporting event. Rioting is stupid, unless you are a Russian band.

People should not riot after any

sporting event, men’s or women’s sports. But maybe people should pay just a little more attention to women’s sports. Especially when they win championships.

— Contact Bennett Ostdiek at bostdie@emory.edu

We at On Fire have decided to create a definitive ranking of all 50 states, based completely on objective criteria that On Fire itself has determined. We will accept no questions, comments or feedback on this list.

1. Colorado: The Rocky Mountains, Denver, Boulder and legal marijuana. What more could you want?

2. Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, freedom and cheese steaks. Plus it gave us Zak Hudak’s hair and bone structure.

3. Washington: Okay, the rain sucks. But coffee shops, mountains, the ocean, legal marijuana and “Twilight!”

4. Rhode Island: Mad respect for Rhode Island and its struggle to survive in a world with so many larger states. Pluto is no longer a planet, but Rhode Island is still fighting the good fight.

5. Massachusetts: It is so small that it has a city, a beach and literally nothing else.

6. Utah: It looks like the jigsaw piece that you were missing, and it fits perfectly into the West. Plus, Mormons are just so quirky, and we love a good musical.

7. Minnesota: Minneapolis is the top biking city in the country, and Minnesotans are nice as hell.

8. Louisiana: Crayfish boils, po’boys, Mardi Gras, beignets, jazz — this is what heaven is like.

9. North Dakota: The good Dakota.

10. Texas: Barbecue, Austin and the Wild West. Plus, there is no state income tax.

11. Oregon: The state is really cool, but the people suck. We get it, you guys are hip. Shut up.

12. California: It has five cities with professional baseball teams, which is really impressive. And some really tall trees.

13. Georgia: The southern state with the most soul. And Stone Mountain is kind of cool.

14. Connecticut: A poor man’s Massachusetts.

15. Vermont: Maple syrup is fun, but it loses points for being so close to Canada, which sucks.

16. Arkansas: Mainly because Bill Clinton is from there. Although we suspect that Bill and Hillary Clinton are secretly the same person. Think about it, have you ever seen them together at the same time?

17. Hawaii: Surf’s up, bro!

18. Michigan: It’s the only state with two separate parts, but it has Detroit. You cannot win them all.

19. New York: Okay, you have the City, but what else? Upstate New York is Canada. And as Vermont taught us, Canada sucks.

20. Ohio: The blandest state in the country.

21. Virginia: Mad respect for Thomas Jefferson.

22. North Carolina: Just because we love college basketball.

23. Wyoming: Yellowstone.

24. Kansas: Impressively flat.

25. Indiana: A perfectly middle state. We have literally zero thoughts about Indiana.

26. Wisconsin: Same.

27. Delaware: Because George Washington has to cross something.

28. Illinois: Because we like Sufjan Stevens.

29. Oklahoma: The musical.

30. Tennessee: Because you are the only ten we see.

31. New Mexico: Yeah, it is just a barren wasteland. But they own it.

32. Alabama: In a word, bleak.

33. Mississippi: Tough to spell.

34. Alaska: A Cold War impulse-buy.

35. Idaho: It has a chimney.

36. Iowa: Corn.

37. Nebraska: Corn.

38. Kentucky: It looks prickly.

39. Maine: Canada sucks.

40. Maryland: Baltimore, really?

41. Missouri: They had a nice compromise.

42. Montana: Bleak.

43. Nevada: Desert.

44. South Carolina: Secession.

45. New Hampshire: 46. Florida: Dustin Slade.

47. West Virginia: Coal mines, incest and moonshine. And only one of those is even marginally good.

48. New Jersey: This does not even have to be explained.

49. South Dakota: With the great state of North Dakota so near, why would you even try? Mount Rushmore sucks. We should be on Mount Rushmore.

50. Arizona: When the apocalypse comes, the world will look something like Arizona — vast expanses of sand, coyotes and giant pigs wandering around and random giant holes in the ground. But they pretend like their state is so awesome — come on guys, at least own how much you suck.

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Friday, April 11, 2014 Sports Editors: Bennett Ostdiek (bostdie@emory.edu) and Ryan Smith (ryan.smith@emory.edu)

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NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Awardees Graduating soccer players Kelly Costopoulos and Lauren Gorodetsky were each selected to receive a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The scholarship grants student-athletes who stand out in their academic record, athletic accomplishments and community achievements a one-time amount of $7500 to be used for postgraduate study. Costopulos and Gorodetsky are the 83rd and 84th Eagles to receive this honor since the program was started in 1964. Since 2000, Emory is second to only Stanford University with 67 student-athletes being selected. Costopoulos, a two-year captain midfielder, Biology major and Global Health, Culture and Society minor, holds the Emory record for games appeared in with 85 and has a 3.95 GPA. Gorodetsky, a Psychology and Political Science dual major, anchored this past season’s Emory defense that recorded 10 shutouts and has a 3.89 GPA. Baseball: Kyle Monk After Berry College scored two runs, making the score 5-4 Emory, freshman Kyle Monk came in to shut the Vikings down in the bottom of the fifth. The Eagles rallied up five runs in the sixth and Monk held Berry scoreless for three innings, picking up his second win of the season.

Women’s Soccer: Michelle Satterfield Freshman Michelle Satterfield won both her singles and doubles matches in third-ranked Emory’s win over top-ranked Johns Hopkins University last Saturday. Competing in her first No. 1 doubles match of her career, she teamed up with senior Gabrielle Clark, to defeat the third-ranked Atlantic South Region pair of Hailey Hogan and Sydney Lehman. Satterfield is the first Emory player to reach 20 wins this season. She is now 20-6 in singles and 18-6 in doubles.

The Eagles are now 15-2 overall and 9-0 in Division III play.

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Freshman pitcher Brittany File fires a pitch toward home plate. She picked up two wins, making her record 10-4, this week, giving up only one earned run over 12 innings. The Eagles are now 35-6 overall, 5-3 in University Athletic Association (UAA) play.

Eagles Extend Win Streak to Seven

By Ryan Smith Sports Editor The softball team had an impressive weekend, sweeping both Covenant College and Piedmont College en route to extending their winning streak to seven games. The Eagles, ranked No. 16 in the nation, now stand at 35-6 on the season.

Emory got off to quick start in the first game against Covenant on Tuesday, scoring three runs in the bottom of the first inning. Senior outfielder Ally Kersthold worked a leadoff walk and scored on senior second baseman Claire Bailey’s double.

Senior first baseman Megan Light followed with another double, knocking in Bailey and eventually scoring on sophomore catcher Melody Carter’s one-out single.

Senior outfielder Lauren Gorodetsky almost singlehandedly extended the lead to 4-0 in the bottom of the second, tripling and scoring on a ground-out from sophomore outfielder Cortney Sugihara.

The lead stayed at 4-0 until the bottom of the fifth, when Light knocked in Bailey on a no-out homer to right. Covenant cut the lead to 6-2 in the top of the sixth, but that was the closest they would get for the rest of

the game. Light hit a three-run homer run in the bottom of the sixth to make the final score 9-2.

Light started out hot in the second game of the day as well, doubling home Kersthold in the first to put the Eagles up by a run. Emory pulled away in the bottom of the third, scoring three runs on a pair of singles and an error. Convenant doubled home a run in the bottom of the fourth, but they would get no closer; Light and junior catcher Micah Scharff knocked in a pair of runs en route to another Eagles blowout, this one by a score of 9-1.

The Eagles had a tougher matchup

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on Wednesday again sixth-ranked Piedmont College, but once again jumped out to a quick lead on a three-run double from freshman first baseman Tara Fallahee.

Emory extended their lead to 5-0 in the fifth on a pair of RBI singles from junior shortstop Moira Sullivan and sophomore outfielder Alyssa Pollard and never looked back, racing to a 7-0 victory in the opening game of the doubleheader.

The nightcap was the Eagles’ only close game of the week. The team managed just four hits for the entire game, but the game remained scoreless until the bottom of the sixth,

when Bailey led off by getting hit by a pitch and advanced to third on an error and a walk. With the bases loaded, Scharff singled to knock in the game’s first run, and Gorodetsky followed with a sacrifice fly two batters later. The Eagles surrendered a homer run in the top of the seventh, but senior Amanda Kardys retired three batters in a row to earn a 2-1 win, their fourth victory of the week.

The Eagles will take the field next on Sunday when they host Middle Georgia State College for a doubleheader.

— Contact Ryan Smith at ryan.smith@emory.edu

SPORTS GENIE

The Beej Knows Best: Mocking the Draft Sports Genie Thinks Rioting Is Sexist

By Bennett Ostdiek Sports Editor

Jayson Patel Twenty-nine days, 20 hours, 35 minutes and 35 seconds (from when I am currently typing). Once that short period of time has elapsed, ladies and gentleman, we will be at the main event, the feature entertainment, the pinnacle of the year: the 2014 NFL Draft.

A sacred event in which professional franchises spend months of time and millions of dollars in scouting in order to rebuild their teams or find a few missing pieces. The examples of Tom Brady (sixth round) and Shannon Sharpe (seventh round) come to mind when we think of players that were drafted late but helped define a team for years to come.

Conversely, guys like Ryan Leaf (second pick) and JaMarcus Russell (first pick) have crippled franchises, and impeded years of development. So where does that make us stand today?

The 2014 NFL Draft is incredibly similar to the 2013 NBA Draft in the sense that there is incredible uncertainty at the top. However, there is much talent to be had at many key positions, so teams who have stockpiled draft picks are in prime position to make a leap in the 2014 season.

Below is a mock draft, with explanations for the top five teams. This is not necessarily what I think a team should do, but what I think they will do. No projected trades have been factored in.

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Auburn University defensive back Khari Harding lunges for Clemson University cornerback Mackensie Alexander in Clemson’s Memorial Stadium.

1) HOUSTON TEXANS: Jadeveon Clowney, DE, University of South Carolina I have two main reasons why I believe the Texans will draft Clowney over Blake Bortles. First, Bill O’Brien probably believes that he can grab a second round quarterback (Jimmy Garoppolo, Teddy Bridgewater if he falls, etc.) that he can mold into a star, and doesn’t believe that they are too far off of what Blake Bortles brings to the table. Secondly, O’Brien is an

offensive guy, so having the opportunity to solidify his defense so he can focus on rebuilding the offense is too tantalizing to pass up. Clowney and J.J. Watt would be an unstoppable force, and the potential for this dynamic duo will solidify Clowney at this position.

2) ST. LOUIS RAMS: Sammy Watkins, WR, Clemson I believe that the Rams will allow themselves to pick at two for luxury,

and at 13 for need. The Rams need to do something for Sam Bradford to help him out. Drafting Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey was a start. Adding in Sammy Watkins to the mix creates a juggernaut at the wide receiver position. The added benefit is that if Bradford cannot succeed given his tools, it becomes apparent that the Rams need to move on. Realistically, I believe that Rams move this pick to someone in the 6-10

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After the University of Connecticut (UConn) Huskies won the NCAA basketball Tournament in Cinderella fashion, UConn students celebrated in fitting manner on Monday night.

They rioted.

I love a good riot. There is nothing better than seeing some young people let off some steam and having some good, clean, wholesome family fun. And there is no better way to do that than a good, old-fashioned riot.

We have not seen a good riot in ages. Back in the ‘60s, they really knew how to riot.

Angry hippies, disgruntled civil rights activists, feminists — they gave us some riots to remember.

Then in the ‘90s, LA gave us a riot for the ages. And even today, the Russians have Pussy Riot.

But that was then. That is Russia.

As a white, middle-class Texan, where is my riot?

That is why I am so thankful to the UConn students. They gave this country what it so desperately needed — a little jolt of passion.

According to Eyewitness News Three, which presumably is a local news affiliate in whatever city UConn is in, though I honestly do not care enough to confirm this fact, school buildings were trashed and students were arrested.

This is what sports are all about.

Caring so much about a game that you destroy buildings where learning takes place. Being so moved by a Cinderella story that you go to jail while celebrating it.

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very few events in my life t h a t h a v e moved me so m u c h that I was tempted to riot. Is that a personal failing on my part? I am not completely sure, but it is definitely a sad fact that I do not often like to bring up a t parties.

In fact, I cannot think of any

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