INDEX
Emory Events Calendar, Page 2
Staff Editorial, Page 6
Police Record, Page 2
Crossword Puzzle, Page 8
Arts & Entertainment, Page 9
On Fire, Page 11
THE EMORY WHEEL Since 1919
The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University
Volume 95, Issue 4
www.emorywheel.com
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Every Tuesday and Friday RANKINGS
CREATIVE COLLABORATION
Emory Stays at No. 20 In U.S. News Ranking By Nicholas Sommariva News Editor
James Crissman/Co-Editor
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reshmen participated in Orientation’s annual Creativity and Arts Soiree at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Friday. Students could partake in various activities including painting on the lawn, enjoying some of Emory’s many musical performance groups and even getting a sneak peak into some of the year’s upcoming performances.
TECHNOLOGY
Emory Bubble Launches, Aims to Replace LearnLink By Lydia O’Neal Staff Writer Three years ago, four Emory students created a social networking prototype in a dorm room. Now, it’s in preparation for total overhaul. Emory Bubble, the central component of the networking startup Campus Bubble, combines the benefits of LearnLink, Facebook, Google Docs, Blackboard and Office 365 onto a single site geared toward Emory students. Emory University Technology Services has provided tech assis-
tance, while the University gave Emory Bubble an advance payment to develop their system as a replacement for LearnLink. The Division of Campus Life also allowed the company to integrate Emory’s student login system’s 14,923 users into its network to ensure students can sign in using the same Net ID and password used on LearnLink, said Nir Levy (‘13B), the current managing director of the site who launched the site’s first version almost two years ago with Ian McCall (’13C), technical director Pat Shea (’12B) and product director Giovanni Hobbins (’13C).
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“Anyone can make a bubble or post campus wide events,” Levy said. Users can click “explore” to access a list of upcoming campus events, classified advertisements, activities in Atlanta and tech support for users having trouble with the site, among other services. And users can click on “bubbles” to access an array of exclusive student niches for anything from varsity sports to residence halls to organic chemistry study groups. After recently releasing the site’s third version, which only supports up to 200 simultaneous users before
additional pages fail to load properly, Bubble programmers are polishing off the company’s mobile app and back-end system to accommodate the entire campus population — just in time for LearnLink to phase out. Like LearnLink — but mixed with Facebook, Blackboard, Google Docs and Office 365 — Emory Bubble takes a “hyper-local approach” to college networking, said BBA Program Director and Senior Associate Dean Andrea Hershatter, who taught each of the four Bubble founders at the
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By Alyssa Posklensy Contributing Writer
James Crissman/Co-Editor
The Michael C. Carlos Museum recently opened up its newest exhibit entitled: Antichita Teatro Magnificenza. The exhibit features three sections focusing on a different Roman period in time.
Carlos Museum Opens Rome Exhibit By Naomi Maisel Contributing Writer Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum unveiled a new exhibit focusing on the city of Rome, which will run from Aug. 24 to Nov. 17. The exhibition, titled “Antichità Teatro Magnificenza,” explores “how the city of Rome was perceived and mapped in three distinctly different centuries,” and presents Rome as an “incredible and constantly changing city through compelling works of art,” said Bonnie Speed, the director of the Carlos Museum. The exhibit consists of three sections, representing Rome across the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
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Emory has been in the top 20 for the past 21 years.
Falsified Numbers Emory announced last summer it submitted falsified numbers for more than a decade.
Forbes Forbes removed Emory from their rankings for the next two years. Forbes announced on its website this summer that it removed Emory from its rankings for the next two years. Last year, Emory submitted its corrected data in time for the 2013 rankings and launched a corrective action plan to make sure data is submitted accurately. U.S. News also announced at the time that Emory’s rankings for 2011 and 2012 would stay at No. 20. “Emory’s eminent faculty, engaged scholars and diverse and rich academic environment have established Emory as a leading center of discovery, teaching and learning,” Claire Sterk, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, said in Sept. 10 University press release. “External recognition is gratifying, but our focus continues to be on providing the best possible academic experience for our students.” College Dean Robin Forman agreed with Sterk, writing in an email
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Emory, Cartoon Network Emphasize Anti-Bullying
By Rupsha Basu Staff Writer
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U.S. News
ACTIVISM
SGA Discusses McDonough Renovations The 47th Legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) discussed a proposal to fund repairs to the McDonough Field stage and heard a presentation about Emory Bubble at the first legislative session of the year. The first bill of the year was a proposal to fund reparations to the stage, presented by Goizueta Business School senior and Student Programming Council (SPC) President Raghvi Anand, College senior and SPC Vice President Graham Brooks and B-School junior Matthew Willis. The bill stirred some disagreement among legislators at the meeting because of its time-sensitive nature of the bill. SGA will vote on whether to fund the McDonough Field stage at next week’s meeting. Performers will be using the stage during Swoop’s Week, formerly known as Homecoming Week, during the week of Sept. 23. The Division of Campus Life has been repairing the stage since damages first appeared because the stage was built using regular plywood instead of marine-grade plywood, which is more suited for Atlanta weather, according to Willis. The stage has enough damage, such as holes, that it could collapse by the end of the
Emory has maintained its No. 20 ranking by U.S. News & World Report for the fourth consecutive year in the publications 2014 edition of “Best Colleges” released today. This is also the 21st consecutive year that U.S. News has ranked Emory within the top 20 national universities. This year, U.S. News changed its rating methodology to more heavily consider measures that indicate how well a school educates its students, rather than factors that reflect a school’s student body, according to the U.S. News website. More weight was given to having a higher-than-expected graduation rate, which measures the difference between a school’s predicted graduation rate and its actual graduation rate, according to the U.S. News website. In addition, U.S. News slightly increased the weight given to SAT and ACT scores of incoming freshmen while also reducing the weight given to high school class ranking. On its website, U.S. News said highschool class rankings are “less representative of each college’s freshman class than it was five or 10 years ago.” The news organization, which has become the gold standard in college rankings since they began in 1983, said on its website that many schools’ ranks will change in the 2014 list due to the methodology changes. Emory’s ranking has become a popular topic of discussion since last August, when the University admitted to falsifying SAT and ACT scores and incoming freshmen class ranks for more than a decade and when
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Art pieces were collected from the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory’s Manuscripts Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL) as well as a few private collectors, Boles said. Each room is painted a different color so as to help visitors distinguish which era they are in, according to Cecily Boles, intern to co-curator Sara McPhee and 4th year graduate student at Emory. The exhibit was brought to Emory mainly by co-curators Sara McPhee and Margaret Shufeldt, according to the museum’s website. McPhee and Eric Varner, an associate professor in the Art History department, are currently teaching a class titled “Views of Rome: Ancient and Baroque” that
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was “designed in conjunction with the exhibition,” according to Varner. College sophomore Amina Khan, a student in the class, said the exhibit is “fascinating because it is the first time all of these important articles of Rome are coming together, and therefore allow us to examine them in reference to one another.” Furthermore, Khan said that she is excited to be in the class because of how much time they are encouraged to spend in the actual exhibit both in and outside of the classroom. The 16th-century room, antichità, consists of two large maps of Rome and smaller etchings of monuments.
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The Emory Center for Ethics has partnered with Cartoon Network’s “Stop Bullying: Speak Up” campaign to train and educate Emory students to become mentors in three Atlanta middle schools, where they will implement an anti-bullying curriculum. The Center for Ethics is seeking 12 to 15 undergraduate and graduate students to spend the year studying to become familiar with common aspects of bullying in order to be effective mentors. Different social topics regarding bullying prevention and counteractive measures and the overall theme will be explored each month to more fully understand the complex nature of bullying, according to the forum application. According to the program’s application, the Center for Ethics will organize and teach student mentors through a curriculum developed by the Center’s Ethics and Servant Leadership (EASL) program, which actively promotes leadership and ethically engaged practices in the Emory community. The goal is to develop a “highquality, research-based training program” using materials from the campaign in three middle schools, according to Edward Queen, director of EASL and coordinator of undergraduate studies. He added that the schools have yet to be finalized but will most likely include those with which Emory has preexisting relationships. The pilot year is intended to morph into an “ongoing component of the EASL forum,” with additional locations and programs involved in
the future, Queen said. The “Stop Bullying” campaign is one of Cartoon Network’s major initiatives, which has included the production of a popular documentary entitled “Speak Up,” which premiered in March. The film showcased children ages eight to 13 discussing their experiences with bullying and emphasized the importance of speaking out to prevent similar situations. “Our ongoing research and direct conversation with kids told us plainly that bullying was a major issue most kids believed they could do something about if given the right tools for dealing with it,” Stuart Snyder, president and chief operating officer of Cartoon Network, said in a March 2012 Cartoon Network press release. The campaign will include a pledge for parents and children, as well as anti-bullying kits for educators with tips and strategies to help eradicate bullying. “The program seems like a good opportunity to learn about bullying from a variety of interesting and new perspectives,” College freshman Hallie Whitman said. She continued that she believes it will be important to “put that knowledge to good use in order to help younger students.” College freshman Molly O’Neil said that she believes the forum demonstrates Emory’s commitment to acceptance and equality, as well as presenting the opportunity to “teach university values to younger members of the surrounding communities.” Emory’s Center for Ethics is now accepting applications for the forum. During the fall and spring semesters, the forum will convene for two hours each week.
— Contact Alyssa Posklensy at alyssa.posklensy@emory.edu
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