INDEX
Emory Events Calendar, Page 2
Sports, Page 6
Crossword Puzzle, Page 6
Police Record, Page 2
Reflections, Page 10
Student Life, Page 13
A Year in Review
THE EMORY WHEEL The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 94, Issue 48
www.emorywheel.com
Every Tuesday and Friday
Friday, April 26, 2013
More Than 4,000 Students to Graduate May 13 Rita Dove To Address Seniors at Graduation This article was originally written by Jordan Friedman on Feb. 11. Rita Dove, a former U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, will address the Class of 2013 at this year ’s Commencement ceremony on May 13, the University has announced. Currently the Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Dove served as Poet Laureate of the Rita Dove, former U.S. United States Poet Laureate and Consultant and Pulitzer to the Library of Prize winner, Congress from will address 1993 to 1995. the 2013 She was also graduates. the special consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress from 1999 to 2000 and the poet laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Dove has received several awards and honors for her work, including the Pulitzer
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University President James W. Wagner speaks to the more than 4,000 students who graduated at Emory’s 167th annual Commencement ceremony on May 14, 2012. Neurosurgeon and humanitarian Benjamin Carson addressed the Class of 2012.
Students Enter Various Post-Undergraduate Worlds By Rupsha Basu Staff Writer As the end of the year approaches and the University prepares for the 168th Commencement ceremony, more than 1,300 seniors are looking ahead to prepare for the next phase of their lives. Some seniors have
decided to brave the job market while others have chosen to remain in the Atlanta area for opportunities and connections they have made. College senior Madeline Teissler found a job through Emory ’s English department. She will be a teaching assistant at the Cliff Valley School, which is a small, progressive, inde-
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pendent school in Toco Hills for preschoolers through eighth graders. Her job will involve teaching four subjects — English, math, social studies and science — to middle school students. “I ’m really looking forward to continuing being in school while not being in school if that makes any
sense at all, ” Teissler said. “Sharing knowledge and seeing that feedback loop is just the coolest thing in the world. ” As a Theater Studies and English double major — and as somebody who always knew she wanted to
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Commencement Issue Page 3: A Year in Review: Looking back at 2012-13’s top stories Page 4: Major award winners of 2012-13 ELECTIONS
Ayalon Reveals His Simon ‘Secret’ Identity Appeals, Wins RHA President By Shivangi Singh Staff Writer
Courtesy of Emory Media
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama visited Emory in 2010. He has accepted an invitation to visit Emory again from Oct. 8 to 10.
Dalai Lama to Visit Emory in Oct. By Karishma Mehrotra Asst. News Editor His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, a University Presidential Distinguished Professor at Emory, will visit campus for the third time on Oct. 8-10. Some events will be open to the local community while others will be limited to the Emory community. The public events — a public talk and panel session — will take place Oct. 8 at the Arena at Gwinnett Center. The move to Gwinnett for these events from the Woodruff P.E. Center is the largest change in this year ’s visit and will minimize campus disruption, according to Michael Kloss, the chief of protocol and the
executive director of the Office of University Events at Emory. He also wrote that the WoodPEC is too small to hold the event. Dates, times and titles for the Emory events are tentative but will include a “Secular Ethics 101 ” lecture in Glenn Memorial Auditorium and a “Conversation with Scholars ” about secular ethics in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts on Oct. 9. A “Traditional Buddhist Teaching ” will take place Oct. 10 in Glenn Memorial. “His Holiness has spent many years developing his ideas of these ‘Secular Ethics, ’ a theme which has been a primary focus of many of his teachings and books in recent years, ” Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, the director of the Emory-Tibet
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Partnership, wrote in an email to the Wheel. “As His Holiness ’s official university, it gives us great pleasure to create a platform from which he can speak about a topic that is so dear to his heart. ” Kloss wrote in an email to the Wheel that he anticipates releasing about 1,500 tickets mostly to students through a lottery system. He added that the largest event will be the “Secular Ethics 101. ” Kloss clarified that the Dalai Lama uses the phrase “secular ethics ” to mean “beyond religion, ” rather than simply “without religion ” to still respect religion ’s role in our ethics. “While previous visits have featured events on a variety of topics
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Yaron Ayalon, a visiting assistant professor of Middle Eastern history, revealed himself last night as the Emory Secrets professor in front of a crowd of about 30 people in White Hall. College seniors Malika Begum and Meena Vanka organized the event. Ayalon has been posting on the “Emory Secrets ” Facebook page since December, posting a total of 57 secrets and simply identifying himself as a “professor. ” The page allows Facebook users to post their thoughts and opinions anonymously. He introduced himself and spoke for 20 minutes about his experiences and then opened the floor to student questions. A student asked about why he started posting on the page, and Ayalon responded by saying he took up the alias to reflect on his experiences and to provide advice for the student body anonymously. He used Emory Secrets, which
is operated by undisclosed users, as the platform. His initial motivation to take up the secret alias came from “Emory Compliments, ” a separate Facebook page that enables students to say kind words about their peers, also anonymously. After hearing his students discuss the Emory Compliments page in one of his classes, he became curious about it. After looking at the page himself, he was directed to the Emory Secrets page. Ayalon had some ideas of his own, so he decided to send them out and see the responses. But soon, Alayon
The Student Government Association ’s (SGA) Constitutional Council reversed the Residence Hall Association ’s (RHA) decision to disqualify RHA Vice President of Programming and College sophomore Jessica Simon from the RHA presidential race following an Jessica appeal Simon made Simon against the RHA Elections Board. Simon has therefore been named RHA president. This decision marks the fourth time a candidate was named RHA
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Student Trials ‘Dean for a Day’ Initiative By Nicholas Bradley Features Editor On Feb. 19, College senior Elizabeth “EB ” Pruett became Emory ’s first “Dean for a Day. ” The event, which was the first of its kind at Emory University, provided Pruett
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Yaron Ayalon, visiting assistant professor of Middle Eastern history, is the ‘Emory Secrets’ professor.
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the chance to experience a day in the life of Dean of Campus Life, Ajay Nair. Pruett said she felt that there was a severe lack of transparency between the students and the administration in the wake of Emory ’s recent department cuts and, in an attempt to get a
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better sense of what goes on “behind the scenes, ” she approached Nair with the idea for Dean for a Day. Pruett said that she was inspired by a program run by her elementary and middle school, Shore Country
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