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Friday, April 27, 2012
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mory Students for Israel brought iFest 2012 to Asbury Circle yesterday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. iFest featured free food, music and a camel. The event serves as both a celebration of Israel’s independence and a way for students to learn more about Israel. College freshman Noah Selman (above) admires a camel during the event. See page 4 for more information.
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Eleven Forum Addresses Rail Line Sales Tax Computers Stolen from Classroom By Daniela Viteri Staff Writer
Atlanta government and transportation officials discussed a regional sales tax transportation referendum at an on-campus Town Hall meeting on Wednesday. The referendum, which will be held on July 31, will support the development of a light rail service connecting the Emory/Centers for Disease Control (CDC) complex to Lindbergh station. Emory’s Office of Sustainability
By Nicholas Sommariva Asst. News Editor Computer equipment worth $17,000 total was stolen from a third floor classroom in the Burlington Road Building between April 23 at 11 p.m. and April 24 at 6:50 a.m., according to Emory Police Department (EPD) Lieutenant Cheryl Elliott. Eleven Apple iMac computers, each valued at $1,545, are now missing from a classroom inside the building. The Burlington Road Building is located at 1804 North Decatur Road and houses the department of music at Emory. According to Elliott, the room opens at 8 a.m. and closes at 11 p.m. every day and requires key card access. Only staff, faculty and students who use the classroom have card access. A facilities management building service employee who had been in the building since 4 a.m. that morning but did not visit the room until 6:50 p.m. discovered the missing computers, according to Elliott. College freshman and music major Bradley Mintz said that the situation is very unfortunate and has put the music students in a bind, especially because these computers have a special program called Sibelius, which allows users to write music compositions. “We use the computers almost each class session and extensively since spring break for our composition projects,” Mintz wrote in an email to the Wheel, adding that there are now only four computers on campus with Sibelius. “The 11 stolen computers [are] a big blow to all of the students who need to finish their composition projects,” he wrote. Elliott said EPD feels they have solid leads that they are actively pursuing but could not comment further because the investigation is ongoing. — Contact Nicholas Sommariva at nsommar@emory.edu
followed by a question-and-answer session afterward. If the referendum passes, Georgians will face a one-percent sales tax during the next 10-year period to fund a series of regional transportation projects. The one-percent sales tax is expected to generate a total of $7.22 billion in the 10-county region during a 10-year period. Eighty-five percent, or $6.14 billion, will be used to finance regionally
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The University appointed Robert Schapiro, the interim dean of the Emory School of Law since July 1, 2011, as the new Law School dean and an Asa Griggs Candler Professor, effective May 3. “The ability of the law to effect transformation in people’s lives, making the world a more just place, is what makes this work so important and so exciting,” Schapiro said. “Lawyers and law schools are central to promoting the rule of law and human rights around the world. In the years ahead, their role will only grow, as we engage some of the most complex social, political and economic challenges we have ever faced.” In addition to Schapiro’s appointment, the Law school also announced the recruitment of Mary Dudziak who is currently the Guirado Professor at the University of Southern California (Calif.). “Robert brings to the role superb academic and legal credentials as well as strong administrative experience,” Emory Provost Earl Lewis said in a press release. “He has been sought after by law schools across the country for both academic and leadership roles. He is recognized for his innovative thinking and his ability to integrate cutting-edge academic research with teaching so that students develop practical skills in the law. We are happy he will continue to make Emory his home.” According to the press release, Schapiro’s administration will focus on enhancing students’ success in the global law environment, drawing on the perspective of the alumni community and increasing Emory Law’s international impact and developing the school’s focus in health law and policy. Schapiro has been a member of
Robert Schapiro, current interim dean of Emory Law, has been appointed dean of the School of Law. Emory Law’s faculty since 1995. He has additionally served as associate vice provost for academic affairs of the University and co-director of the Emory School of Law’s Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance. According to the April 26 University press release, Schapiro specializes in constitutional law, federal courts, civil procedure and legislation and regulation. While serving as Emory Law School’s interim dean, Schapiro recruited Rafael Pardo from the University of Washington (Wash.) and Sue Payne from Northwestern University (Ill.) to build Emory Law’s programs in bankruptcy law and transactional law. Schapiro is a 1984 summa cum laude graduate from Yale University who received his Master’s degree at Stanford University in 1986 before returning to Yale in 1990 to complete his Juris Doctorate. During his time at Yale Law, he served as the Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to coming to Emory, Schapiro clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and also taught for two years at Duke University. Schapiro became interim dean of the Emory School of Law when former Law School Dean David Partlett stepped down on June 30, 2011.
— Contact Roshani Chokshi at rhchoks@emory.edu
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Philosopher Explores Politics in Fiction By Stephanie Fang Asst. News Editor
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his week’s Wonderful Wednesday featured a puppy petting zoo. Students had the opportunity to take a break from their days to play with dogs.
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New Council to Replace President’s Commissions By Arianna Skibell Executive Editor The three President’s Commissions will be replaced by an Advisory Council on Community and Diversity in fall 2014. The purpose of the council is to institutionalize and broaden the University’s involvement in issues of diversity on campus. Senior Vice Provost for Community and Diversity Ozzie Harris established the council, which will begin transitioning during the summer with presentations to the University’s governance committees.
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Initiatives, Bike Emory and the Office of Governmental and Community Affairs sponsored the event, which featured officials including DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis, Mayor of the City of Decatur Bill Floyd, Director of Development and Regional Coordination at Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) John Crocker and Chief of the Atlanta Regional Commission of the Division of Research Mike Alexander. Panelists gave a brief introduction
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The three commissions currently consist of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW), the President’s Commission on Race and Ethnicity (PCORE) and the President’s Commission on Sexuality, Gender Diversity and Queer Equality (PCSGDQE). Each commission advises members of Emory’s community about matters pertaining to each respective area. The Advisory Council is designed to take on the responsibilities of
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Jacques Rancière believes that the genre of fiction encompasses more than just stories conjured up by novelists and sold along the shelves of bookstores. For him, fiction represents “a practice of presentation that makes things, situations and events perceptible,” a combination of sensory imagery and action that creates a dynamic story. A renowned French philosopher, Rancière — whose work with literary analysis, aesthetic theory and philosophy have received critical acclaim — lectured on “Telling, Showing, Doing: The Poetics and Politics of Fiction” Wednesday evening. He spoke on the evolution of fiction writing and its implication for both novels and other modes of discourse, such as political or social dialogue. The Department of French and Italian sponsored the event, which was free and open to the public. Following an introduction by Claire Nouvet, an associate professor of French who spearheaded efforts to coordinate the event along with Professor of French, Philipe Bonnefis, Rancière began to discuss the rise of what he called the “modern novel,” drawing examples from various writers, such as Virginia Woolf, Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert. In order to construct a novel that does not fall flat as merely the description of a series of events, a novelist must incorporate sensory imagery that reflect the “perceptions and affections which are the real form of manifestation of life,” Rancière said. “The problem is to reconcile the luminous halo of life and the organic
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Jacques Rancière gave a talk about poetics and politics of fiction Wednesday at 6 p.m. in White Hall. link of the fiction with a beginning, a development and an end,” Rancière said. “This also means a story of wills, actions, successes and failures.” According to Rancière, when writing fiction, novelists must pay close attention to detail — particularly to the physical and emotional sensations that each character experiences — in order to drive the plot forward successfully. “Such is the essence of ‘modern fiction’,” he remarked. “It is an arrangement of the relationships between the perceptible and the sayable [sic] — a rearrangement that entails a jump between heterogeneous regimes of the sensible.” Rancière cited Flaubert as having mastered this technique of fiction writing, which uses seemingly innocuous sensory details to make any action or story progression seem more realistic, in certain scenes of
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his novel, Madame Bovary. He recounted one scene in particular, during which the female protagonist smells “a perfume of vanilla and citron” which evokes “memories of old desires.” “Like grains of sand, [the memories] get mixed with the sweetness of the perfume,” Rancière commented during the event. “This is how a continuum of sensations is turned into a cause and makes for the success of the causal chain.” In an April 23 University press release, Elissa Marder, the chair of the Department of French and Italian as well as an associate professor of French, cites Rancière’s work as revolutionary in that it “crosses the boundaries” of several different disciplines of contemporary thought such as “history, psychoanalysis, cinema
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