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INDEX

Emory Events Calendar, Page 2

Police Record, Page 2

Crossword Puzzle, Page 8

Staff Editorial, Page 6

Trendy Tuesdays, Page 10

OnFire, Page 11

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TECHNOLOGY

New Platform to Host Student Organizations ‘Community’ to Replace LL for Group Conferences Next Month

By Jordan Friedman News Editor The Student Government Association (SGA) and the Office of Student Leadership and Service (OSLS) will launch Community, an online program that aims to help the University better manage student organizations, next month.

The program is “built specifically around needs of student organizations,” OSLS Director Matt Garrett wrote in an email to the Wheel.

The software will provide a comprehensive student organization event calendar, updates on student organizations’ activities, photo galleries and messaging capabilities, among other features.

With the new Community program, students will also be able to find contact information for student organization leaders, according to College senior and SGA President Ashish Gandhi.

The parties involved in launching Community are planning on integrating the platform with Office 365 as well as Facebook and Twitter for events, Gandhi said.

“There is still a learning curve, but after a few years with students only knowing Community, it will be the new forum,” Gandhi said. “It is extremely useful and I’m excited to see what happens ... I’ve used it, and it’s pretty easy to find groups and add groups.”

LearnLink, Emory’s former email

PHASING OUT LEARNLINK Spring 2012 Emory announces Microsoft Office 365 will replace LearnLink for email.

Summer 2012 Students begin using Office for email, calendar services.

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Fall 2012 University announces Community as future host for student group conferences system that remains in use for conferences, will still be available for the next few years, but Community will eventually be the required replacement technology for student organizations and Campus Life, Garrett wrote.

Groups that SGA does not recognize as official student organizations — such as fraternities, sororities and other academic honor societies — as well as faculty and staff who serve as student organization advisors will be provided access to Community as well.

Garrett said OSLS plans on launching Community “after giving students a little time to get used to the new email system so we don’t

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tudents attended the Creativity & Arts Soiree this past Friday at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. The Center for Creativity & Arts hosted this annual event, which featured music, presentations and performances from various student groups in addition to art and design installations.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

ACADEMICS

SGA, Dean Discuss Provost Search University Evaluates Summer Programs

By Nicholas Sommariva Asst. News Editor

The 46th Legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) convened for its first open body meeting of the semester Monday night. They discussed the University’s successor for Provost Earl Lewis, who will be leaving his position at the end of this semester.

Dean of the College Robin Forman and Assistant Dean for Admission and Student Services Lynell Cadray

attended the meeting to listen to the student government members’ ideas regarding what initiatives the next provost should focus on improving during his tenure.

Forman mentioned that one of the jobs of the provost is to oversee the deans of each of the University’s schools in addition to staying focused on the academic future of Emory.

SGA President and College senior Ashish Gandhi said he feels that the new provost should be someone who has experience dealing with a

university like Emory, which has a big research component as well as a liberal arts identity.

According to Forman, the committee in charge of finding a new provost hopes that whomever they select can begin working on Jan. 1. The committee plans on announcing the new provost by the end of November.

The conversation between Forman and the SGA legislature continued with ideas ranging from intellectual-

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POLITICS

ROW TO VICTORY

Students Share Views On Romney, Obama

By Anusha Ravi Staff Writer

Courtesy of Brenda Lin

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embers of Emory’s Taiwanese Student Association (TASA) collaborated with TASA at Georgia Tech to host the annual metro Atlanta Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival on Saturday. The joint Emory-Tech team placed first in the collegiate division for the second year in a row.

LIBRARY

New MARBL Director Appointed

By Harmeet Kaur Contributing Writer The University has appointed Rosemary Magee, the vice president and secretary of the University, as the director of Emory’s Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL).

She will replace current director Ginger Smith.

Smith, in addition to holding several other roles within the University’s library system, has been serving this past year as a temporary director of MARBL.

Rosemary Magee, vice president and secretary of the University, will become the director of MARBL. Magee will also continue to hold her vice president and secretary position for this year.

She will migrate full-time to her new position as the director of the

MARBL collections next year once the University finds a replacement for her current position.

Magee said that her decision to become MARBL director comes as a confluence of her own personal interests and the need for a permanent director at MARBL. With the appointment of Magee, Smith will now focus on external affairs at Emory University Libraries.

Magee added that she and Smith have worked together in the past and, in both their positions, will continue

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Students share their opinions on 2012 presidential candidates.

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“I like how Romney’s approaching our economic problems from a very different angle from Obama,” College sophomore David Bailey said, Bailey added that he agrees with Romney’s plan to jumpstart the economy through government spending and tax cuts.

“I think he’s the welcome change our government needs in such a pivotal election,” he said.

However, other College students have demonstrated support for Obama due to what they feel is his empathy with the middle class.

College freshman Roberto Bazan said he agrees with Obama’s plan to cut taxes for the middle and lower classes as well as his openmindedness towards immigration, in particular.

“Mitt Romney expresses ideas on how to better the middle class, but doesn’t take into account the struggles and hardships of the lower and middle class,” Bazan said. “Obama focuses on everyone, not just the upper class.”

Some students questioned whether the either of the financial plans could adequately reverse the financial struggles of businesses, industries and families across the country.

This Week:

LAUNCHES EXHIBIT FEATURING

PROBLEMS WITH THE

Emory piloted the Maymester program and the Goizueta Summer Business Institute (SBI) this past summer, both of which allowed students to gain course credits within a compressed academic term.

The Maymester program, held from May 15 to June 1, provided students with four credit hours. The program offered a total of four courses — each of which met daily for 4.5 hours — in English, history, interdisciplinary studies (IDS) and psychology. Students were permitted to enroll in only one course.

Philip Wainwright, the associate dean for summer and international programs, said Maymester’s condensed duration enabled students to pursue other summer opportunities such as internships, jobs or study abroad programs.

Student feedback was generally positive, Wainwright said.

“Generally, the courses were engaging and students enjoyed being immersed in a way they wouldn’t necessarily be immersed in a semesterlong class,” Wainwright said.

One such course was Ethics of Leadership, which Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies (IDS) Peter Wakefield and Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Institute of Liberal Arts Kevin Corrigan taught. The course examined ethics in a philosophical context, supplemented with guest lectures from leaders including University President James W. Wagner and a former advisor to President Jimmy Carter, Steven Hochman.

Wakefield said that while student feedback for the course was largely positive, he feels that students were tired by the end of the three weeks due to the intensive nature of the course.

Wakefield explained that the class will probably not be offered again for a few years, despite the course’s overall success, because the process

ELECTION SERIES

While the 2008 presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain featured record-breaking levels of student involvement, many Emory students have expressed varying degrees of apathy toward the upcoming election.

While 78 percent of young adults ages 18-29 reported that they would “definitely vote” in 2008, only 58 percent of people in the same age bracket reported they would definitely vote in the upcoming November election, according to a July Gallup Poll.

In a series of interviews with the Wheel, some students are excited to see the outcome of the election but lack faith in Obama’s ability to solve America’s economic troubles and an aversion to the prolonged mudslinging prevalent in both campaigns.

Others have simply expressed a general disillusionment towards the Nov. 6 election due to a lack of enthusiasm for either candidate.

A majority of the students interviewed were most concerned with the deep economic trouble that they believe is currently affecting the country. They said that they would support the candidate that they felt had proposed the most efficient solution to these financial troubles.

College freshman Joe Gerth, who voted for Ron Paul during the Republican primaries in Georgia, was one of several students who noted that they plan to vote for Romney in November because of his economic plan.

This plan would cut government spending, a measure that would therefore lessen America’s vast budget deficit, according to Gerth.

By Harmeet Kaur Contributing Writer

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National, Local and Higher Education News

• Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has sold 7.5 million shares of Facebook stock for a total of $143 million. Moskovitz began selling the stock on Aug. 17. at prices ranging from $17.56 to $20.08. He still owns 126 million shares.

• Every college in the Georgia university and technical college system has pledged to take steps to increase graduation rates. Gov. Nathan Deal announced the plan on Monday in hopes of improving Georgia’s workforce. Only 42 percent of Georgians currently have a post-secondary degree or certificate, but that number must grow to 60 percent in order to meet the workforce’s needs.

will conduct the first study to analyze the effects of driving under the influence of cannabis. Five years ago the NHTSA found that 16.3 percent of weekend nighttime drivers at 300 locations across the U.S tested positive for drug use.

• Sergio Alvarez, a California homeless man, has been convicted of strangling a brown pelican to death.

He claimed the bird was already dead when he found it, but he later admitted he had killed the pelican with the intent to eat it. Alvarez was arrested and taken to jail on a $20,000 bail.

• On Sept. 10 at around 4 p.m., a resident advisor of Alabama Hall called Emory Police Department (EPD) after discovering a plastic bag containing what appears to have been marijuana. EPD took the bag and placed it in their evidence locker. The bag contained less than an ounce of the plant.

bench in front of Few and Evans Hall on Sept. 8 at around 2 a.m. The student appeared to be heavily intoxicated and said he was at Maggie’s where he consumed unknown amounts of vodka. EPD confiscated his fake ID, and he was transported to Emory University Hospital. Campus life professionals were notified.

• EPD received a complaint from two male Emory students who said that a black man ran out of a black SUV on Eagle Row and proceeded to throw eggs at the students on Sept.

9 around midnight. No one was hurt and neither EPD nor the students could identify or locate the culprit.

• DeKalb Fire and Rescue transported a female Emory student to the DeKalb Medical Center after officers found her injured and intoxicated on the sidewalk by the Clairmont residence hall on Sept. 8 at 4 a.m.

She had a severe cut and had injured her head.

• EPD officers discovered a male student unconscious laying on the

• A student’s backpack was stolen from a locker in the Woodruff P.E.

— Compiled by Multimedia Editor Elizabeth Howell

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This Week In Emory History

POLICE RECORD

NEWS ROUNDUP • About 26,000 teachers marched across Chicago on Monday after striking for the first time in 25 years when contract talks broke down on Sunday. The strike was the result of unacceptable salaries and benefits as well as job insecurity and faulty teacher evaluation systems. Contract negotiations resumed Monday.

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Center on Sept. 10 between 4 and 5 p.m. The backpack contained his computer, textbooks, iPod, cellphone and wallet. Total value stolen is over $1300.

— Compiled by Asst. News Editor Nicholas Sommariva

September 13, 1983 Korean seminary students staged a non-violent sit-in to protest the recent shooting down of a Korean jetliner and death of 269 American and Korean passengers that followed.

They were joined by some American students as well. They sat on the steps of Canon Chapel from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a sign proclaiming “sitting for Peace.” Most of the demonstrators were Emory Theology School students.

EVENTS AT EMORY TUESDAY

Location: Old Dental Building, 1462 Clifton Rd., Room 231

THURSDAY

Event: Mary Paine, PhD - “Fruit Juice-Drug Interactions: Mechanisms and Causative Ingredients” Time: 12 p.m.

Location: 5052 Rollins Research Center

Event: Blood Pressure Screening Time: 9 a.m.

Location: Yerkes Research Center, 954 Gatewood Rd., Bourne Seminar Room

Event: Candler School of Theology Resource Fair Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Rudolph Courtyard outside Canon Chapel

Event: Storytime for all ages Time: 10 a.m.

Location: Barnes & Noble at Emory University

Event: OSLS Open House Time: 3 p.m.

Location: DUC E340

Event: Emory Farmers Market Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Cox Hall Bridge Event: Campus Peace Vigil Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Cox Hall Amphitheater Green Event: Sarah McPhee Lecture & Book Signing Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall Event: Opening the Space: Open rehearsal with Monica Bill Barnes Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

WEDNESDAY Event: Toastmasters@Emory Club Meeting Time: 7:30 p.m.

Event: Introduction to Blackboard - Overview Time: 1:30 p.m.

Location: ECIT Room 217, Woodruff Library

Event: Women, Sculpture and Biography: Tracking Bernini’s Costanza through Baroque Rome Time: 4 p.m.

Location: Jones Room, 3rd Floor Woodruff Library

Event: Introduction to Blackboard - Overview Time: 4 p.m.

Location: ECIT Room 217, Woodruff Library

Event: The Rights of the Needy: Children Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Emory Law Tull Auditorium

Event: Athletics - Men’s Soccer Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Woodruff P.E. Center

Event: Goizueta Executive Recruiter Panel Time: 6 p.m.

Location: Goizueta Business School

Event: Metropolis (1927) Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: White Hall, Rm. 208 Event: Carter Town Hall Time: 8 p.m.

Location: WoodPEC

Event: Film Screening: “Bitter Seeds” Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Dobbs University Center, Food E U

Event: Black Jaguar Gallery Talk Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Carlos Museum, Level Three Galleries

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TECHNOLOGY

Southern Spaces Launches Digital Journal Focusing on Katrina’s Aftermath

By Anastassia Goidina Staff Writer College freshman Mirandy Li vividly remembers the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, which hit her home in August 2005 when she was 11 years old.

Li had to evacuate to Baton Rouge from her hometown of New Orleans, La. There, she temporarily switched to a different middle school where she was given essentials such as school supplies, food and clothing.

In October, a couple months after the storm hit, she returned to New Orleans, where she and the three other members of her family lived for a year in a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailer in front of her demolished house.

The storm completely destroyed her house. Harsh wind, rain and water damage left the space almost entirely unlivable.

Stories like Li’s can now be found

on Southern Spaces, Emory’s online, open-access scholarly journal. The journal has partnered with the University of Texas Press to provide an interactive site centered on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

“[New Orleans] is still vibrant and strong, and I’m proud to be from there.”

— Mirandy Li, College freshman

After Li’s family managed to rebuild their own home, fixing the damage that the storm had wrought, Li’s father began to help other families in need reconstruct their homes.

However, while many families

have rebuilt their homes at this point, some areas remain in ruins, according to Li. “Many people never even moved back, which is sad because New Orleans is still an incredible place,” Li said. “The city is still vibrant and strong, and I’m proud to be from there.”

Southern Spaces first debuted in 2004 in collaboration with the Robert W. Woodruff Library and publishes peer-reviewed articles and essays as a regional study of the South.

The idea to create a project focusing on Katrina arose after the editorial staff, comprised of graduate students and faculty, received the book “Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora,” which contained an article by University of South Carolina professor Lynn Weber.

The essay, “No Place to be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South’s Political Economy,” explores the experiences of evacuees

Deep South states such as Alabama who had to leave Louisiana for other states and cities where they encoun- and South Carolina, he explained, tered different social programs and have a long history of a punitive attitude and stinginess towards distransportation systems. placed people.

Weber’s essay Due to interest also addresses what happens “It is the start of what I in the issues of the article, the staff of once FEMA’s think is the way in which Southern Spaces support for housing runs out, and a lot of work will be done decided to edit the what happens in the future with these essay by adding supwhen evacuees try collaborations between plementary materials such as images, audio, to find affordable additional presses and video and hyperlinks housing as well as to other stories that jobs in new comdigital publications.”

Southern Spaces has munities where the cost of living — Allen Tullos, published on Katrina. is higher. professor of American studies These additions make the essay into a much “[The article] and editor of Southern Spaces more visually-comdiscussed why pelling piece for their people who were displaced from Katrina to Columbia, audience base, according to editors at S.C. didn’t have very much in terms the publication.

Southern Spaces has drawn sigof a social safety net,” Professor of American Studies and Senior Editor nificant attention from the University of Southern Spaces Allen Tullos of Texas Press in addition to the said.

University of North Carolina.

In fact, Tullos said, the University of Texas Press appreciated Southern Spaces’ interactive site, and therefore has asked the journal to publish additional sites for other essays included in its Katrina book series.

The Emory-sponsored journal will collaborate with the University of North Carolina on a series titled “The New Southern Studies.”

The project will hopefully foster interest in buying the series in full, graduate student and Southern Spaces Managing Editor Katie Rawson said, and provide access to additional important stories.

Rawson explained that Southern Spaces has been at the forefront of a move toward digital, peer-reviewed publications.

“It is the start of what I think is the way in which a lot of work will be done in the future with these collaborations between additional presses and digital publications,” Tullos said.

— Contact Anastassia Goidina at agoidin@emory.edu

POLITICS

Obama Explores Education

By Polo Rocha Badger Herald, U. Wisconsin Thursday night, President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for his reelection race amid a large crowd in North Carolina.

Obama acknowledged his time in office has been tough for many Americans and the future may involve more pain, but he told the crowd to trust him once again to solve the problems this country has faced since far before his time in office.

“I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy,” Obama said to the crowd. “I never have. You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. And the truth is, it will make more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades.”

Obama referred to his achievements and vision for education various times during his speech, asking voters to stand with him on education so “we can out-educate and out-compete any country on Earth.”

“Government has a role in this. …

Help us work with colleges and universities to cut in half the growth of tuition costs over the next ten years,” Obama said. “We can meet that goal together. You can choose that future for America.”

U. Wisconsin College Republicans Chair Jeff Snow called Obama’s policies a failure for college students by not being able to stop tuition increases and not creating enough jobs for graduates.

On his overall reaction to the speech, Snow said everyone has heard those policies and ideas before from the president.

“Same old speech, same old policies. He promised all this great hope and change in 2008, but he has yet to deliver on any of the promises,” Snow said. “It was a pretty ineffective speech. A lot of Democrats are wishing Bill Clinton was still president rather than Barack Obama.”

Snow contrasted what he called a “weak record” from Obama on job creation with the “pro-growth” agenda of his opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. He said college students are graduating into an economy with an unemployment rate that has not gone below 8 percent in 40 months.

Young Progressives Chair Peter Anich said Snow’s comments on Obama’s overall job creation missed the point that Obama has had 29 straight months of job growth, noting those were jobs created in America.

Anich said this is different from Romney’s time in the private sector, where he said many jobs Romney created were in other countries.

Anich also praised Obama’s record on higher education and said Obama has made getting student loans cheaper and expanded Pell Grants.

“It is one of his primary goals to help people go to school and get training to get jobs. We are happy to see President Obama has that listed so high on his list of priorities,” Anich said.

Anich said the Young Progressives held six watch parties throughout campus. He used the Obama campaign rally chant to describe the attendees as “fired up and ready to go.”

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tudents enjoyed spray painting the graffiti wall, which was a feature of the Creativity & Arts Soiree that was held at the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. This was the fifth annual Soiree and typically features informational presentations and performances from the various arts programs on campus.

Students Express Concerns About Negative Campaign Advertising Continued from Page 1 Students have also remarked that they plan to vote for Obama based on his stance on social issues.

One College junior who requested anonymity said she supports Obama because she feels he needs four more years to continue improving the economy and enforcing policies that would lead to social change.

But not everyone is so keen on Obama having four more years.

College freshman Jack Lubin said that while he considers himself socially liberal, he will vote for Romney because he feels the strengths of

Romney’s economic policies outweighs any parts of Romney’s platform that he dislikes.

“I made my decision about who to vote for more based on the fact that I disagree with Obama more than I disagree with Romney,” Lubin commented.

Bazan described his feelings towards choosing a candidate as “picking the lesser of the two evils,” which is why he plans to vote for Obama.

“I don’t think that any president could have changed the economic situation any better than Obama did, but he still needs to get some change

going for people to really trust him and his policies,” he said.

Several students have pointed out that both candidates have used intensely negative campaign ads and attacked aspects of the others’ personal lives.

Such moves detract from the actual political issues at hand, students complain. College sophomore Lindsay Falkenberg said she feels that recurring negativity in campaign ads has deterred candidates from offering specific details about their policies and bred an atmosphere of negativity and distrust.

This environment, she said, led

voters to trust neither candidate, especially in her home state, Ohio, which also happens to be a swing state.

“I think political discourse is really important, but the campaign has taken an extreme turn,” she said.

“The disrespect shown by the candidates toward each other is disheartening and a waste of time.”

While students are lining up behind both candidates, many do not feel particularly inclined towards voting for either candidate and will base their decisions on the candidate they dislike the least.

— Contact Anusha Ravi at aravi7@emory.edu

Magee Says She is ‘Deeply Honored’ to Become MARBL’s New Director Continued from Page 1 to do so in the future.

Magee, who holds a Ph.D. in literature and religion from Emory’s Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, has conducted research on several of MARBL’s featured authors, including Flannery O’Connor and Salman Rushdie.

In addition, she has been involved with the acquisition of papers and

Freshman Elections to Be Held Thursday Continued from Page 1 ity on campus to Emory’s reputation abroad.

Members of the SGA legislature also told Forman that they would like to see a greater connection among each of Emory’s schools and divisions.

The legislature said that more interconnectivity between the divsions would be helpful especially for students who wish to take courses at a different school.

In addition, freshmen elections for SGA will take place this Thursday.

The ballots to vote can be found online.

— Contact Nicholas Sommariva at nsommar@emory.edu

rare books to the University.

Magee has also conducted a series of “Creativity Conversations,” which are discussions about the origins and nature of the creative process, with several international literary figures.

“All those things came together in a really magnificent fashion,” Magee said. “It provided a great opportunity for me, and also I hope for MARBL.” She said MARBL is a unique and important resource for Emory

students because the collection is “an essential cornerstone of the Emory University community.”

According to Magee, MARBL provides access to materials of great thinkers, artists and historical figures.

“I would really encourage all students to become well-acquainted with these materials,” she said.

Magee said that decisions about the next vice president and secretary of the University have yet to be

discussed.

However, University President James W. Wagner plans to make this decision at some point this year.

Magee said she is eager to accept her new position as MARBL director.

“I feel deeply honored. It’s both wonderful and meaningful for me professionally as well as personally,” Magee said.

— Contact Harmeet Kaur at hbhagra@emory.edu

ness fundamentals and management skills, while the second focused on of scheduling daily guest speakers professional preparation, networking presented challenges due to their busy and business etiquette. schedules.

Participants had to apply this “We put a lot of energy into getting knowledge while presenting a busithis group of leaders in a tight succes- ness plan highlighting how organision,” Wakefield said. “Since they are zations manage scarce resources in in positions of great responsibility, it order to create sustainable advantages would become difficult to have them within a competitive environment of back each year.” capitalism.

Wakefield said that while many Hershatter wrote that she was able students may have taken the course to measure the program’s success to fulfill certain graduation require- through the progress that was evident ments, the purpose of the course was in the students’ final projects. to attract students passionate about “These [final projects] showed a the topic. significant growth in their under“In the future, we would like to standing about how the various advertise that this is a functional areas demanding opportuniof business fit ty for students who are together, what it “We would like to motivated,” Wakefield means to manadvertise that this said. age resources like is a demanding Wainwright said time, people and the process for money, and how opportunity ...” improving Maymester to move somewill be gradual.

— Peter Wakefield, thing from con“It’s a new procept to reality IDS professor gram,” Wainwright within an organisaid. “I anticipate that zational structure it’s going to take two to three years of or framework,” Hershatter wrote. offering courses until we really have “They did a fabulous job.” the sense of what the potential is in College senior Laney Tucker, who that time slot.” participated in the SBI program, wrote Six new proposals for next year’s in an email to the Wheel that the proMaymester came in last week, gram fulfilled her expectations.

“I’d always wanted to take a class Wainwright said, and information about the new course offerings might at Goizueta, but felt that many of the classes were too specific within one be available in the coming weeks. particular realm of business,” Tucker Goizueta Summer Business wrote. “I wanted more of a general Institute overview, and that’s exactly what the SBI was geared toward providing Goizueta’s Summer Business students. We learned a surprising Institute (SBI) was an intensive three- amount of information for a mere week program designed for non-busi- three-week class, and I feel like at this ness majors who wished to gain busi- point I have a general understanding ness and management skills. of how the business world operates.”

The program took place from June Hershatter wrote that SBI partici4 to June 22. pants reported a deeper understandUpon completion of the program, ing of business functions as well as students received six credit hours and confidence and knowledge regarding a certificate. their career searches.

“The most important motivation However, students reported frusfor offering this program is to address trations with not knowing how to the needs and interests of Emory prepare adequately for quizzes, since students who do not want to pursue different faculty members taught a BBA, but do want to become con- class every day. versant in the fundamentals of busiAs a result, Hershatter wrote, ness and who would like to enhance the planned changes for next year’s their professional development and Goizueta SBI are in direct response exposure to business and business- to student feedback. related fields,” Andrea Hershatter, “This was a full immersion expesenior associate dean of Goizueta rience,” Hershatter explained. “We Business School and director of the in the program feel we delivered BBA Program, wrote in an email to what was intended with great success the Wheel. within the time frame.”

— Contact Harmeet Kaur at The SBI program was divided into hbhagra@emory.edu two courses: the first focused on busi-

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Cases of West Nile Infections on the Rise

By Taylor Wizner Michigan Daily, U. Michigan Mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus have infected more people in the United States this summer than ever before experts say, despite a scorching season that caused severe droughts throughout the country.

According to the Michigan Department of Community Health, there were 105 reported cases of West Nile in Michigan as of Wednesday.

Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now reported 1,993 cases and 87 deaths as of Sept. 4, making it the worst year the country has experienced since 2003.

U. Michigan Public Health Prof.

Mark Wilson said though the virus has now been found in almost every county in the United States since it arrived in 1999, it is fairly new to the country.

West Nile likely first entered the United States by boat from Israel and spread from bird populations to mosquitoes, before humans began contracting the disease.

Wilson said that while most mosquitoes usually die off during dry conditions, the Culex mosquito, a prominent carrier of the virus, is able to survive with limited rainfall.

“Different species of mosquitoes

end up preferring breeding sites and concentrated water that is more often found during the dry season,” Wilson said. “So your backyard might be a suitable breeding place for some species of infected mosquitoes, but a hundred meters down the road where there are houses without much vegetation it might not be.”

Wilson and other experts said they aren’t able to offer a conclusive answer for why there have been so many West Nile cases this year.

JoLynn Montgomery, an assistant research scientist of epidemiology at the UM School of Public Health, said the mosquitoes carrying the virus may have benefitted from irregular seasonal conditions earlier this year.

“It’s likely that we had a pretty mild winter here in Michigan and more of the mosquitoes that were carrying the virus were able to survive over winter,” Montgomery said.

There is no vaccine or substantive treatment for those infected with the virus, Montgomery said.

However, she said alternative care methods aimed at restoring hydration can help relieve many symptoms.

Wilson said only a small percentage of infected people — about 20 percent of reported cases — have severe reactions to the virus, and the remaining people that are diagnosed experience “mild flu-like symptoms.”

Sandro Cinti, an associate professor at the UM Medical School, said the extent of how dangerous West Nile is may be exaggerated, noting that those who have serious reactions are often already coping with weakened immune systems.

“[Most students] are in the age range where they are incredibly strong and healthy and they would tend to get a very mild form of the disease ...”

— JoLynn Montgomery, assistant research scientist “You see people in the hospital and they are really sick, but they are the susceptible ones,” Wilson explained.

He added that the mortality rate for those who suffer from neurological symptoms is 10 to 15 percent, but this number is still small compared to the number of cases in which patients have mild symptoms or the virus goes undetected.

“If you compare influenza deaths (nationally), they are about 35,000 to 40,000 on an average year,” Cinti

said. “West Nile at its best … is 200 to 300.”

Cinti said the best way to protect against the disease is to stay inside in the evenings and early mornings and to wear long-sleeved shirts and pants whenever possible.

While there have been two reported cases and one death in Washtenaw County, Montgomery says the virus is not something students need to necessarily worry about. “(Most students) are in the age range where they are incredibly strong and healthy and they would tend to get a very mild form of the disease if they got anything,” Montgomery said. “Students should be far more worried if they got influenza and sexually transmitted diseases, that sort of thing that is more common on college campuses.”

UM sophomore Hannah Poulson said she is not concerned about contracting the virus.

“I just came back from Africa and I was worried about malaria there, so this just seems like a silly thing,” Poulson said.

UM junior Costa Roumanis agreed, adding that he is not afraid of the infected mosquitoes.

“It is a pretty small number (of people infected with the virus), pretty rare. I don’t really feel like it will impact me,” Roumanis said.

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OSLS, SGA to Launch New Student Organization Platform Next Month Continued from Page 1 overwhelm [them with] too much all at once.”

The departure from LearnLink began during the summer, when University Technology Services (UTS) established Microsoft Office 365 as the official service for student email and calendar use.

Because of this transition, OSLS worked during the summer to perfect certain features of the Community platform, according to Garrett.

OSLS and SGA are still in the process of “rolling out” Community to the Emory community, Garrett explained.

According to Garrett, the University launched the program at the end of the spring but kept the launch quiet as OSLS and SGA registered and reviewed all of Emory’s student organizations.

Garrett explained that because of the learning curve, the OSLS still needs “to continue rolling out the program to the broader student community.”

A committee consisting of SGA representatives began a six-month process to review various software solutions to help the University improve how it manages student organizations two years ago, Garrett wrote.

OSLS and SGA decided on Community because of its specific focus on student groups, the various features it offers and its easy-to-use nature, according to Garrett.

Gandhi said the new Community platform will make it easier for organizations to get chartered and will allow SGA to check in to see how organizations on campus are functioning.

More than 300 college campuses use Community for student organizations, according to Gandhi.

“It’s a work in progress, but that’s what we are going for,” Gandhi said.

OSLS’ Assistant Director for Student Organizations Natasha Hopkins will lead an effort in the next few months to inform students about the launch of the new platform, Garrett said.

OSLS will send various emails to students as well as initiate an advertising campaign and discuss the program with student leaders, according to Garrett.

“We know it will take the better part of this year and even next year for students to get used to the system and begin using it to the fullest extent,” Garrett wrote.

Asst. News Editor Nicholas Sommariva contributed reporting.

— Contact Jordan Friedman at jordan.m.friedman@emory.edu

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Editorials Editor: Shahdabul Faraz (sfaraz@emory.edu)

Our Opinion

Fostering a Sense Of ‘Community’

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Jenna Mittman is a member of the Class of 2013. Her cartoons have become a staple of The Emory Wheel.

Student Groups Will Move to New Database

Within the next month, student organizations will move their online activity from LearnLink to a new, internet database called Community. Community will provide students with easy access to a multitude of information regarding club activity, such as a calendar of events, contact information for individuals looking to join, and intergroup communication between club members.

We applaud the efforts of the Student Government Association (SGA) in mandating that student clubs and organizations need to sign up on Community in order to maintain their charter. This obligation is not a hard one to fulfill and will hopefully clear out clubs that no longer exist and make a more manageable system for SGA to work with, and we anticipate that compliance will be forthcoming and quick.

We do recognize that the sudden shift from LearnLink to Community may create confusion among students — particularly among juniors and seniors — who have become used to using LearnLink conferences to receive all of their club’s information. However, we feel that any confusion will be short term. The whole-sale and immediate move of Emory’s organizations to Community will not give students the opportunity procrastinate joining the new system. The Community database also serves as a good substitute for LearnLink as it provides many of the same functions that LearnLink presently provides.

We would also hope that Community will provide clubs and organizations confidential forums (as on LearnLink) in which organization executives and members can post. It was not made clear whether this particular LearnLink function exists with Community, and we hope for a clarification from the SGA. Overall, the Wheel applauds the efforts of the SGA and the Office of Student Leadership and Service (OSLS) in moving the technology used at Emory forward towards Community. The University has already begun distancing itself from LearnLink in the adoption of Microsoft Office 365 and this is a good contribution to that advancement. As has been pointed out to the Wheel, more than 300 universities presently use Community. So long as clubs and organizations activly use the new database, there is no reason why it should not be a success. The above staff editorials represent the majority opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board.

‘Free Speech’ Zones Aren’t Free

ADITYA MEHTA

Cuba’s Health Care An Admirable Model When one mentions the island nation of Cuba, the first few thoughts that would probably enter our minds would be about the 1962 “Cuban Missile Crisis,” communism and Guantanamo Bay. There is more to Cuba than this. Despite being a low-income country, ranking 86th on the World Health Report list of GDP per capita, Cuba has created a health care system that assumes responsibility for the health care of all its citizens.

The Cuban health care system is based on the philosophy that it is better to detect conditions early and treat them before they become untreatable rather than let the condition destroy the patient. The Cuban system emphasizes aggressive preventive medicine rather than treatment because it helps detect conditions early and prevents avoidable deaths. This is one of the prime reasons that the cost of health care per person in Cuba is less than $400 annually. Preventive treatment in Cuba has been successful because of the high number of physicians in the country. The most rural and remote communities also enjoy personal and persistent medical care. In fact, houses in Cuba are regularly investigated for water quality and general hygiene. The results of these efforts are proof that the Cuban health care system is effective. According to the WHO, the life expectancy at birth of a Cuban is 78 and the under-five mortality rate is seven per 1000.

One of the key reasons that even the most remote communities in Cuba have access to doctors is that medical schools, such as the Latin American School of Medicine, admit students on the condition that they will go back to serve the communities that they have come from. Despite the fact that this condition could limit the growth of Cuban doctors, 98 percent of Cuban doctors uphold the condition. Only two percent of doctors defect to other countries. This high ratio ensures that communities throughout Cuba receive

adequate health care.

Along with its own health care system, Cuba has also provided invaluable assistance to countries such as Venezuela and the Gambia. Venezuela was grappling with the lack of medical care in their slums and doctors were unwilling to visit the so-called barrios because of the violence associated with these areas. It was Cuban doctors that visited the barrios and established the Barrio Adentro program.

Cuban doctors helped train Venezuelan doctors and assisted in the building of 4,659 equipped health care centers, in which medical care was free of charge.

In Gambia, a small African nation, there were two hospitals in the entire country.

When the Cubans arrived, they helped create the school of medicine because it would be effective to have qualified doctors who understand the need of the population in Gambia. Initially, locals had some access in the cities. With the arrival of Cuban doctors, locals had access to medical care in the most remote areas because the Cubans were spread all over the country. The Cuban doctors have implemented the same cost-effective and preventive medicine model in the Gambia. They sent messages to the public via radios and televisions, thus trying to equip the common man with basic information if he did not have immediate access to health care.

Upon reflection, Cuba is a model for lowincome as well as high-income countries because it epitomizes effective health care with minimum resources. It serves as hope for low-income countries, which believe that quality health care might take many years, and as a cost-effective model for high-income countries such as America that spend more than 20 times compared to what Cuba spends with less success.

Not only does Cuba’s health care help its own citizens, but it also helps others.

Aditya Mehta is a College junior from Mumbai, India joint majoring in Sociology-Religion.

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EMILIA TRULUCK Imagine a vacant lot covered in patches of trodden grass and fire ant beds. Around the lot, envision a nine-foot-high steel security fence. Sometimes a stray protestor will trudge through a gap in the fence, take his place on a worn wooden podium and begin voicing opinions. Sometimes the sound system will fail, but it doesn’t really matter. There isn’t anyone else in the “pen” to listen anyway.

This space, dear readers, is called a “free speech zone.”

You could be forgiven for thinking that I’m writing about some fictional Orwellian dystopia of the future. However, I’m not. “Free speech zones” made their latest appearance at last week’s Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Ever since 1988, party conventions have established zones cordoned off from the general convention area for those who feel a need to protest, petition or exercise other forms of free speech.

According to the Supreme Court, speech restrictions are constitutional if they are neutrally applied, serve a significant government interest and provide alternative means of communications. Defenders of “free speech zones” argue that they are necessary to maintain order and public safety, and act as an alternative (read: safe) means of communication. I argue, however, that “free speech zones,” as they are currently set up, do less to protect public safety than they do to inhibit

a protestor’s access to a necessary audience.

I will admit, chaos could easily ensue if protestors were allowed to run amok at a political convention. However, individuals have a right to be heard by their targeted audience.

When protestors are confined to walled pens, sometimes hundreds of feet away from convention sites, they are being denied their right to protest before an audience. An ostracized vacant lot functioning as a “free speech zone” is no alternative means of communication, as it functionally eliminates the possibility of anyone listening. No, I’m not arguing that every protestor deserves a captive audience, or that protestors should be allowed at all places in the convention area. Protestors should, however, have a right to a space that is close enough to the convention that attendees, press members and politicians will hear them.

Some say that this is a public safety issue, that mass protesting may lead to acts of violence. They’ll bring up “The Battle in Seattle,” when 40,000 protestors clashed with police during the World Trade Organization in 1999, causing considerable damage in the city.

I agree that we cannot have masses of protestors taking over cities. However, I don’t believe vacant “free speech zones” do much to prevent such mob violence. In fact, I argue that such zones could easily fuel such mobs. If protestors felt as though they were not being heard when holding their bullhorns and their signs, they would be likely to use other means

to get their point across. By placing them in “pens” away from the action of convention sites, we take away the potential power of their words and force them to resort to other, more disruptive means of protest. Our obsession with potential protest violence thereby easily becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, as disruption becomes the only way to garner attention from convention attendees. If we allowed protestors to be heard, perhaps closer to convention areas, we could help restore faith in the effectiveness of non-violent verbal protest.

As an activist myself, I’m deeply disappointed by the presence of an ostracized “free speech zone” at a political convention. When I hold up a sign, march in a parade or chant at a rally, I do so because I believe my voice has the potential to affect social change. I was taught to believe this by a society that has ensured for me the right to assemble and protest, a society that produced non-violent social change activists in the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gloria Steinem.

Without the ability to protest before the movers and shakers that attend political conventions, we peaceful activists lose our power to affect positive change, and the American legacy of grassroots social activism becomes little more than a dream. To restore the power of words, Americans must ensure that political protestors are heard.

Emilia Truluck is a College Freshman from Savannah, Georgia majoring in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Kicking Chick-Fil-A Off Campus Would Amount To Censorship To the Editor: I am not one to stand up for an organization like Chick-fil-A. The statements of their CEO and the contributions of their company to homophobic groups are outrageous. But that cannot be the basis for a decision to remove their small franchise from Emory’s campus.

We are better than that.

Emory Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair said it best: “freedom of expression and an open exchange of ideas are central tenets of the Emory community.” Do many Emory students agree with me that the Chick-fil-A

CEO is wrong? Yes. Do some feel outraged enough to not feel comfortable eating there?

Certainly. But Emory College should not be the place where we make judgment calls about the opinions of others. Creating a ‘heckler’s veto’ of any company we decide is against our own personal, social and political beliefs would make Emory into a place where only one view is the ‘right’ view. Such a move would be a step in the wrong direction; a step into the same kind of censorship that we see in Missouri and Tennessee where lawmakers want to ban teachers from saying “gay” in classrooms.

For those who are angry, upset and simply don’t want Chick-fil-A to remain, I urge you to heed the words of Justice Brennan in the controversial flag-burning case Texas v.

Johnson (1989): “The way to preserve the flag’s special role is not to punish those who feel differently about these matters. It is to persuade them that they are wrong.” I’d go just one step further. Not only should we persuade and discuss, we must also listen.

Reuben Lack Emory College Class of 2016

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It is unfortunate that I must present this viewpoint in writing, as the standards for writing today presume arguments in a logical form — the preferred choice of the rational faculties. My argument, however, is born out of feelings and an innate sense of understanding that I cannot logically derive.

Unfortunately for many readers, that declaration itself is grounds to dismiss any value in this piece. I challenge you to try reading this with faith.

Emerson once said that self-trust is sticking to one’s conviction despite forces that try to muscle you aside. One must never subordinate their unique viewpoint to that of others. To embrace this transformation is to live “with nature in the present, above time.” I believe what Emerson was getting at was something very spiritual combining divinity and the self in a way that has never been done before.

Forget the idea of God for a second. Just focus your mind’s eye on space. Picture it.

Imagine it. Let your wills and egos try to control, as they love to do. Inevitably they will surrender in futile defeat because space is infinite and the mind only wants finitude.

The obsession with finitude is often a primary motivation for people to argue against God — a practice that is enhanced by religion.

Religion shifts its focus from both the self and God to the custom and tradition that go with it. People stop seeing God as something in their present and associate it with the past.

For example, it is very difficult for someone to relate to a figure like Jesus as compared to someone they see on a daily basis. That person may be equally godly but religion distracts from the everyday man, and the present moment.

Due to the distance it puts between itself and individual man, the teachings of the religious institution are seen to be historic and almost mythical. Men may discuss or preach the stories of their holy books, but these anecdotes fail to penetrate them on a deeper level — they are only superficially connected with God. The consequence is a loss of the true power-potential in Emerson’s ideal of God. We lose the honesty of the lessons because these preachers are drawing upon the wonder of the story and not their own experiences.

People get so used to this distance as the norm for their relationship, they completely lose out on access to infinite faith.

I find the argument of ‘narcissism’ leveled at God very humorous. Disbelievers claim that such a God could not be the self-absorbed being presented in holy texts. This argument, itself, comes from human beings’ own narcissism. We anthropomorphize God, not under-

standing that She tries to protect us from the harmful rebellious instinct that plagues us all and urges us to keep our center within faith — a much more suitable master than reason.

Why is faith a more suitable master than reason? Faith is better connected with our natural human empathy — an empathy that does not need reason’s judgment of right and wrong, but naturally understands the world, other humans and what it means to survive. Faith is the method by which we can revel in that glorious self-trust that Emerson advocates.

To atheistic scientists, I implore you to give a reason why science and God cannot be compatible. While the world is Her creation, is it not ours to discover through investigation, experimentation and the wonderfully elegant scientific method at the same time? God is just a name for something we can never fully comprehend with the mind. It’s the funny feeling you get when you see an old friend. It’s the childlike wonder one has when they envision the cosmos. When people viciously try to denounce God, they forget all the simple ‘goods’ that come with such an ideal. God, in Her best sense, is not religious but spiritual. God is much closer to the heart than the mind but ultimately beyond the heart as well. Religions, too, are not that different from each other. Moses, after all, is a hero in all texts — including the Qur’an.

I also find it funny that there is an inherent paradox in religious debates. People that contend their religion is the ultimate impose duality upon a concept that is very obviously beyond the binary. However, while politicians and extremist groups are more concerned with interests rather then truth, I make this declaration for the educated — the polished minds that still choose to mercilessly uphold one religion over another. If you don’t believe, you would still surely concede that upon Her hypothetical existence, She’d be ashamed.

Isn’t it amazing that we have the ability to perceive a Creator? How does it matter whether we created Her, or She created us? Isn’t the beauty in such an ideal worth it purely for its own sake? Even if we created Her, could we not follow Her word at its highest level — a word of self-belief, faith, love, peace and trust? The infinitude of God is available to us all. Be not swayed by the biases of your rationality, and that ugly rebellious side of the will that sadistically enjoys argument over empathy. Feel Her divine power in nature, and in your actions. Use that power to act, and to better your world. Her perfection is infinite — let it shine through you.

The argument that God is narcissistic is itself narcissistic.

Dhruv Chatterjee is a College senior from Kolkata, India.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Both Party Leadership Fails Again Party Conventions Expose Flaws Of Both Parties The Democratic and Republican National Conventions shared quite a few things in common.

Both had a lot of soaring speeches and rhetoric about the future of the country. Both had a lot of talking points that were less than 100 percent accurate. And both featured tons of silly hats, pins, sunglasses, signs and shirts.

But one other shared feature shouldn’t have been at either convention: party leaders that felt it was appropriate to force their hand on key issues.

GOP officials proposed a rules change during their convention that would have given a presumptive nominee the ability to override a state’s delegate choices and replace them with delegates of their choosing.

This would have, in effect, stripped state and local parties of their power to send representatives of their choosing to the national convention and marginalized their voices.

Grassroots activists were outraged, because this rule would have impacted their groups most heavily.

A mass effort to organize opposition to the proposed rules went forward, and party leaders backed off to achieve a “compromise” that was still not desirable.

When the issue was brought before the Rules Committee for a voice vote, it was very difficult to tell which side had the majority.

House Speaker John Boehner, who conducted the voice vote, determined that the “ayes” had it amidst much shouting and booing from opponents.

To add insult to injury, the leader of the opposition to the rules, conservative activist Morton Blackwell, entirely missed the vote when the bus he was taking to the convention center “got lost” and did not arrive at the convention center in time for the vote.

What’s worse, recently released cell phone video of the teleprompter Boehner used during the vote suggests that the entire scenario was scripted from the beginning, a formality used to justify the rule change.

The DNC’s issue was arguably more public than that of the RNC. After the various committees hammered out their policy positions and the delegates approved what would finally be voted in as the Democrat Party platform, two major issues were quickly discovered by media outlets.

First, the party removed all references to God from their platform (it had had just one after the 2008 convention). Second, the party removed a statement affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Many liberal Christian, Jewish and proIsrael delegates were stunned by this turn of events, and party leaders, including Senator Dick Durbin and DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, argued to the press that the removal of God and the Jerusalem state-

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ment did not in any way lessen the party’s commitments to people of faith or to Israel.

This argument, however, did not satisfy anyone.

The issue became so controversial that the original rules were brought back up for a vote to be returned to the platform, the claim being made that President Obama did in fact prefer the original language.

With convention rules calling for a 2/3 majority voice vote, convention chairman Antonio Villaraigosa became visibly confused after the volumes of the “ayes” and the “nays” were almost indistinguishable from one another.

After two more tries calling the vote, it became clear that there was no way a 2/3 majority had been reached.

Villaraigosa said that the “ayes” had it anyway, thus violating party rules and overriding many in the party who had clearly wanted the new language — without God or Jerusalem mentioned — to stay in the platform.

Leaders in both parties acted indefensibly, undermining key constituencies by doing what they believed to be most politically

favorable against their opponents. But there is a larger issue that both these cases represent: an establishment in each party that does not reliably respond to the will of their supporters.

People from both parties agree that this election will have far-reaching effects on the future of America.

So when party members are treated as they were here, like tools to be kept in order rather than human beings who want political representation, is it any wonder that they will face opposition?

The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street both formed in response to what they felt to be the corruption and poor behavior of the establishment, and I have no doubt that these incidents will be remembered for years to come. I can only conclude that party leaders will have no choice but to respond more effectively to their base from this point onward. If actions like this continue, they will lose their own jobs in 2014 and 2016.

David Giffin is a second year Masters in Theological Studies student at Candler School of Theology from Charleston, Ill.

ROSS FOGG

Anti Chick-Fil-A It’s That Time of the Decade Crowd Are Intolerant JONATHAN WARKENTINE “We will not tolerate intolerance!”

This is essentially the cry of the many lobbying for the removal of Chick-fil-As across the country or the arrest of its expansion as a whole. The result of our widespread and growing tolerance is this ironic recurrence of intolerance. This issue has recently come to a very obvious head in the controversy surrounding Chick-fil-A and its founding biblical principles. Dan Cathy has been accused of many things, among them anti-gay sentiments and policies. The truth, one will find, has been greatly misrepresented and distorted to unnecessary and rather shameful proportions.

It should be noted, first and foremost, that Cathy never even mentioned gays in his interview. Instead, he only expressed his views on same-sex marriage. He is merely of the opinion (based, it is true, on his interpretation of the Bible) that same-sex marriage goes against the traditional views of marriage and does not foster the proper emotional nourishment essential for the well-being of a child.

People are entitled to their opinions, whether or not we agree with them. The essence of America is the fire with which we preserve the rights and beliefs of individuals, with the full knowledge that we may disagree sometimes.

We expect to be respected, hence we must respect. I don’t see protesters at every halal butcher shop protesting against the way Muslims want their meat. Just because Muslims believe pork to be unclean doesn’t entitle me to publicly malign their belief.

Although I don’t share their beliefs, we coexist in a state of mutual tolerance. I support their right to free speech and ideology just as they support mine, and the moment that ends is the moment America ceases to be.

It is perfectly reasonable, perhaps the moral responsibility of a conscious citizen, to decry a figure or organization for hate or prejudice. What you may be surprised to hear is that Chick-fil-A is guilty of neither. The supposed “anti-gay” and “LGBT hate groups” that received donations from Chick-fil-A are actually Christian organizations that provide

spiritual ministry to those who wish to find an escape from homosexuality, because, believe it or not, some LGBT people want to be heterosexual.

Would you criticize an organization that tried to help heterosexuals sort out their desire to be homosexual? They don’t force their beliefs on everyone, and although this person in this or that organization may have made some polemic political statements, those views are in no way a reflection of Chick-fil-A itself. Let us also not forget, as we have been quick to do, the $37 million in scholarships given out to college students or the various millions that fund marital counseling services and team-building.

What many have also overlooked is the actual involvement and participation of Chick-fil-A employees and managers on a site-to-site basis.

Brace yourselves: Chick-fil-A both hires and serves LGBT people. Does that sound like gay hatred or prejudice? Anthony Piccola, Chick-fil-A’s franchise operator, declares has declared Chick-fil-A’s mission to “treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.” Cathy himself says, “while my family and I believe in the Biblical definition of marriage, we love and respect anyone who disagrees.”

In this time of economic hardship, when jobs shouldn’t be taken for granted, it just doesn’t make sense to condemn and boycott a business and so hurt the economy and the very LGBT employees you are trying to defend, not to mention the various charities and scholarships supported by Chick-fil-A enterprises. It also is not fair to the Chickfil-A employees who receive the hatred and very strong views of both sides of the issue.

Need I even mention the delicious worth of waffle fries, spicy chicken sandwiches and milkshakes?

Dan Cathy tolerates others’ advocacy for homosexuality but expects tolerance and respect for his own beliefs in return. It’s perfectly within your right to boycott Chick-fil-A, but when it comes to tolerance, practice what you preach.

Emory’s quest for tolerance on campus stifles dissent.

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Well, it’s that time of the decade again.

The political polarization of our time has hit its quadrennial peak. Anyone who pays attention to American politics knows that Congress is gridlocked and the two parties consistently refuse to work together but the divisiveness in our country is not only a result of the two-party system or because this is an election year. The problem of polarized politics is rooted in both the methods in which candidates and strategists try to win national votes and how voters examine small parts of a candidate’s platform.

For months the Democrats have tried to make women’s health an issue in the campaign in order to gain votes from the female electorate. Republicans have lamented that they cannot win the Hispanic vote and worry that it will jeopardize the future of their party.

Democrats feel confident that the majority of African Americans in the country will vote for them while Republicans have to spend very little time convincing Evangelical voters to support their cause.

The two major parties have butchered the country into blocs, each with its own particular interests: Jewish voters are concerned with Israel, seniors listen closely to the Medicare debate, Veterans are linked to national security, the LGBT community votes according to positions on gay marriage, and students rally behind a platform that includes federal aid.

The list goes on and encompasses each citizen of the United States multiple times. This view falsely assumes that voters have one-dimensional identities and can be counted on to vote according to how their peers do.

This process of candidates working to attract the votes of specific demographics is considered conventional wisdom in modern politics and has been employed for several election cycles. Not only is the logic flawed, but it also weakens the unity as well as resolve of our nation and it inhibits national leaders from governing for the best interests of the nation. In essence, politicians capitalize by pitting the interests of one demographic over a nation and it is unacceptable.

The result is multifaceted: neither candidate will carry a mandate come November, which inhibits those elected officials from carrying out many of their proposals. The electorate will also feel disillusioned with whoever is elected and the cycle will repeat itself as fewer people become satisfied with their representation in the national dialogue.

In the current presidential election, this mindset has predictably resulted in a race that is a coin toss, as are many other national elections. In the days of landslide elections, namely Lyndon B. Johnson’s mandate for the “Great Society” in 1964 and the “Reagan Revolution” of the 1980s, or Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unprecedented four blowout elec-

tions and Dwight Eisenhower’s repeated landslide elections, such a consensus brought about greater unity and a stronger determination to help solve the nation’s problems.

What voters in the United States have failed to realize is that they too are responsible for the political polarization. Voters want politicians to cater to their specific interests rather than to govern for the benefit of the entirety of the country. As a nation, we have been quick to judge candidates for their willingness to divide the electorate but have failed to examine how individuals enable this self-defeating behavior.

If Americans want a political system that transcends the broken pettiness of the current one, it is necessary to look beyond their immediate interests when they contradict what benefits the country. Bill Clinton reconciled the need for a balanced and consistent agenda as he has said, “you can’t love the jobs and hate the job creators.”

Julián Castro did the same as he declared at the Democratic National Convention, “you can’t be pro-business without being proeducation.” The sentiment is best described, however, by John F. Kennedy who urged, “and so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.”

Ross Fogg is an College junior from Fayetteville, Ga.

Jonathan Warkentine is a College freshman from Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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MUSIC FEATURE

BOOK FEATURE

Kill Shakespeare Gives Life to Graphic Novel

By Mark Rozeman Senior Editor

Courtesy of Anna Palma

The band Yeasayer recently released their latest album Fragrant World. In an interview with the Wheel, member Ira Wolf Tuton (far left) talks about the band’s intentional shift from psychedelia and world music to party-centric dance music.

Yeasayer Embraces Electronic in New Album

By Jordan Francis Staff Writer In the new millenium, genrebending music has become a genre unto itself. Musicians such as Danger Mouse and M.I.A. have built careers on calling attention to the seams that connect seemingly disparate pop aesthetics.

Up until now, Yeasayer’s underground success has traded on blurring genres, first with psychedelia and world music on their 2007 album All

Hour Cymbals and again by adding dance-infused synth to the equation on 2010’s Odd Blood.

Now, the Baltimore-via-Brooklyn group seems intent on confounding expectations by moving to almost entirely electronic-inspired sounds on their latest album Fragrant World.

Though Yeasayer has not abandoned their trademark stylistic experimentation, the group grounds the entire album in the world of partycentric dance music.

Ira Wolf Tuton, one of the band’s

three core members — along with Chris Keating and Anand Wilder —, views the transition as a natural extension of their sound and thinks Yeasayer’s ever-growing fan base will hear the music on its own terms as dance music breaks away from old associations.

“We’re at a time when electronic music is coming into the mainstream,” he explained. “When someone makes an electronic pop album, it will no longer be immediately referenced to the ’80s.”

Nonetheless, the trio does plenty to subtly skew their music left of center. Single “Henrietta” introduces dub-inspired bass destined to destroy Macbook speakers, and standout “Blue Paper” features a hook that recalls ’90s-radio R&B. According to Tuton, Yeasayer finds its distinct sound from the melding of a variety of inspirations.

“If anything, genre comes from asking ‘what’s going to influence this

See IN NEW, Page 10

Each year, dozens of published and self-published novelists and poets congregate along East Ponce de Leon Avenue as part of the annual Decatur Book Festival.

Though lines of tents occupy the downtown square, one tent in particular boasts some curious merchandise, including a shirt that displays a certain literary Bard fighting off a feral bear and a book cover displaying a limp hand holding a feathered quill as blood collects around the off-screen body.

The name of this book is equally eye catching. Kill Shakespeare, it reads, with blood splattered across Shakespeare’s name.

“We come not to bury Shakespeare but to praise him,” comic co-author and Toronto native Conor McCreery assures a curious passer-by who wanders by their festival booth.

Contrary to its appearance, praising Shakespeare is what the book is all about. For anyone ever forced to trudge through a line-by-line analysis of Romeo and Juliet in high school or traumatized by a stiff, interminable production of one of the Bard’s plays, Kill Shakespeare will be a welcomed change of pace.

The premise of the book sounds like a possible film pitch from a bright, if nerdy, teenager scribbled down after a night of Dungeons and Dragons coupled with J.R.R. Tolkien’s complete works. The series imagines a world in which all of Shakespeare’s characters exist simultaneously.

The first issue debuted in April 2010, earning praise from comicfriendly sites such as Ain’t It Cool News and Comic Book Resources, as well as in national publications such as The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Courtesy of IDW Publishing

With all the critical attention, Hollywood inevitably came calling.

McCreery said he and co-author Anthony Del Col have received numerous offers from producers and studios in both the United States and Canada to adapt their book. The two are currently crafting a script of their property. Whether it will be developed as a feature film or television series is still up in the air.

The central story finds a handful of Shakespeare’s protagonists — including Hamlet, Juliet, Othello and Falstaff — embarking on a quest to find a reclusive wizard figure whose magical quill may serve as the key to their victory over the tyrannical forces controlling the kingdom (led, naturally, by Richard III and Lady Macbeth). Oh, and the wizard’s name just happens to be Will Shakespeare.

This is a tale in which Hamlet and Juliet encounter romantic tension, the deformed King Richard III matches wits with the duplicitous Lady Macbeth and the boisterous Falstaff acts as a guiding Obi-Wan Kenobi figure.

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PLAY REVIEW

RESTAURANT REVIEW

The King and I Blends Humor, Sexism

By Stephanie Minor Arts & Entertainment Co-Editor

Emily Lin/Photography Co-Editor

Emory Village recently welcomed Tin Drum to take the place of Wonderful World, replacing burgers with Asian cuisine.

Village Spot Drumming Along in Need of a Beat

By Evan Mah Editor-in-Chief I think there are students who will say they know Tin Drum Asia Café before stepping inside of it. They know there are nine other locations in existence. They’ve read the menu online, and they think the dishes span the cultures of Asia but show no apparent expertise in any region.

They think Tin Drum is another Americanized Asian restaurant that relies heavily on vague brown sauces handled by a staff that may or may not have ever used a wok before. They think all these things.

And they would be right.

But to classify Tin Drum as such is not to say that it is any less of a restaurant than some place on Buford where the servers don’t speak English and you can’t read the menu. Tin Drum has a place in the restaurant world.

I’m just not sure I want that place to be next door to Emory.

Tin Drum’s pan-Asian aspirations are a far cry from what previously occupied the south-end space of the Emory Village. Wonderful World was a personal love of mine, and maybe its menu was narrow, but I’ll take a veggie burger, teri-mayo hotdog and a tray of tempura-battered onion rings for $9 any day.

Tim Drum is the brainchild of

Tin Drum Asia Cafe

Steven Chan, who also developed Wonderful World. Word on the street is that Wonderful World’s small plates and limited menu didn’t drum up enough attention, and so now the interior has been transformed: The slick wood paneling and long, communal tables have been ripped out, replaced by vapid white walls and metallic tables with harsh glares.

Mustard-yellow and ketchup-red hues fill the room. The set design runs awfully close to a plastic show on Nickelodeon.

The menu is extensive, and from what I’ve tasted, that isn’t exactly a good thing. The Pad Woon Sen is a hearty, but heartless, bowl of vermicelli noodles tossed with near-boiled chicken in a bland brown sauce.

There’s also basil-fried rice that needs the searing love of a 400-degree wok.

Both, at least, are filling. Both are also instant bores.

Their Vietnamese pho isn’t any better, made out of vegetable broth and pho powder. The result is hilariously shallow. Then again, expecting

See TIN DRUM, Page 10

Atlanta-based company Theater of the Stars transformed the fabulous Fox Theatre into a dazzling visage of 19th century Siam (modern day Thailand), replete with towering golden Buddhas, intricate tapestries and a starry sky festooned with twinkling stars for the fall production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I. In fact, Sunday, Sept. 9 marked the homestretch of Theater of the Stars’ short-lived run of The King and I, which will conclude Tuesday, Sept. 11.

Before the show began, executive producer Chris Manos strode onto the stage to welcome a packed house.

Manos waxed nostalgic about his history with both Theater of the Stars and the Fox Theatre.

“It seemed like only yesterday we started in Chastain Park,” he said.

Manos proceeded to thank his dutiful supporters for keeping his theater company in business over the past few years, as the faltering economy sapped ticket sales.

“Once we get your name and address, you’ll never not hear from us,” Manos said. “We’ll track you down — whether you’re on your riverboat, at your lake house or climbing

Courtesy of Theater of the Stars

Theater of the Stars performed The King and I at the Fox Theater from Sept. 5 to 11. Anna (right) and the King (left) left the audience with a sense of romance and longing. the Rocky Mountains.”

When the genial Manos finished the formalities, and the lights finally dimmed, the orchestra came alive. As they pounded gongs, clashed symbols then eased into a harmony with violins and flutes, the audience members settled in for a field trip to the Orient.

The curtains opened onto a sparse

stage. A muted backdrop of blues and grays resembled the deck of a ship, and a simple brown cargo chest functioned as the scene’s only prop.

When Anna Leonowens (played by renowned theater actress Victoria Mallory) and her son Louis (Carl Kimbrough) joined the ship captain (John Antony) on deck, their

youthful energy permeated the theater. “I Whistle a Happy Tune,” the first song of the night, showcased Mallory’s deep vibrato, impeccable vocal control and expressive face.

Young Kimbrough’s voice was just as impressive as he shocked theatergo-

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TV REVIEW

Broken News: HBO Show Rejects Reality

By William Partin Contributing Writer Looking back on veteran screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s (“The Social Network,” “The West Wing”) dramatic comedy “The Newsroom,” it seems increasingly obvious that, even at its best, it was just not a good show.

But despite the flurry of negative reviews it received, the show was quickly renewed for a second season due to its commercial achievements.

So why have critics claimed that

HBO’s biggest hit since “Game of Thrones” “chokes on its own sanctimony” (Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times) and is “a dramatically inert mess” (Maureen Ryan, Huffington Post)? We should be both surprised and disturbed by that disconnect, a disparity that necessitates a little exploration to discover what “The Newsroom” is really all about.

I won’t take issue here, as other critics have done, with the things that make the show merely bad. I can get past its wanton hostility towards

The Newsroom women, the slapstick gags that derail any attempt at seriousness and even Sorkin’s infuriating habit of writing long-winded, unrealistic verbal jousts that largely define his characters’ interactions.

To be truly terrible — as “The Newsroom” is — there must exist a sense of ambition gone horribly wrong: goals set and unmet, promises

made and broken. Make no mistake, “The Newsroom” was born of lofty ambitions. Sorkin set out to argue that an informed news media, one more concerned with truth than giving the viewers what they want, has the potential to seriously impact our society for the better.

Unfortunately, the show’s complete inability to realize this argument is the source of both its commercial success and critical failure.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Critics Lampoon Sorkin’s ‘Newsroom’ Despite Success Continued from Page 9 Sorkin lays out his thesis in the first three minutes of the series with an opening scene that is among the best in all of television. Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels, “Looper,” “Away We Go”), a witty yet inoffensive news anchor, unexpectedly lashes out at a clueless college student who asks him the perennial platitude, “Why is America the greatest country in the world?”

Clearly exasperated, McAvoy stares out into the stunned audience and spots his executive producer Mackenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer, “Hugo,” “30 Rock”) holding a sign that reads, “It’s not … but it can be.” It set the stage for McAvoy and McHale, along with a motley crew of staffers, to fix breaking news and, hopefully, change the world.

On this count, “The Newsroom” fulfills its promise. McAvoy reports on the stories of our recent past — the Gulf Oil Spill, the Arab Spring, the death of Osama bin Laden, among others — with admirable insight and sobriety, which real world anchors seem to lack.

The premise is nice in theory and probably could have been in practice had Sorkin and his writers not squandered the potential present in that opening. Those first few minutes were so great because they made us uncomfortable.

McAvoy’s indictment of America forced us to confront the legitimacy of claims to our exceptionalism. And that’s the thing about great art: It doesn’t make us feel better about ourselves, it makes us re-evaluate the things we believe about ourselves and about the world.

This is why “The Newsroom” falls

so short. In every moment we feel uncomfortable, something happens to ease our doubts and assure us that everything will turn out alright.

In the worst episode of the series titled “I Will Fix You,” Sorkin juxtaposes his characters’ needs for each other against the backdrop of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting of January 2011. This episode underscores the fragility of the Gifford’s life, but also McAvoy’s need for McHale and her need for him. A moment of senseless violence, in essence, is exploited for romantic gain. A memory whose resurgence should make us uncomfortable is hidden behind the main characters’ blossoming romance. Instead of reliving horror, we smile at love.

At some point, it becomes clear that “The Newsroom” is just the kind of show its characters are arguing against: a show more concerned with giving the audience what they want than what they need.

I realize that some of this criticism is unfair. Sorkin and his writers set out to make a show about the potential for news to educate the American public, while emphasizing our own tumultuous political climate. Sorkin shows us how the stories of the past two years should have been covered, but without an alternate timeline to show us how great news could have benefited our society. The entire show feels doomed from the outset — a victim of ambition gone off the rails. The most powerful claim of “The Newsroom” is that news like McAvoy’s could have made us a better country, is nullified by history itself. And even Sorkin can’t banter his way out of that argument.

— Contact William Partin at wcparti@emory.edu

Emily Lin/Photography Co-Editor

Dishes like the Tin Drum curry, crispy chicken potstickers and masaman curry showcase the best of this new Village restaurant.

Tin Drum: Too Many Brown Sauces, Too Few Flavors Continued from Page 9 Tin Drum to excel at Vietnamese pho is like hoping that a first grader aces an exam on logarithmic differentiation. And that Cantonese noodle bowl? The brown sauce is best imagined as the Hiroshima of salt bombs.

I suggest sticking to the rice bowls.

The Tim Drum Curry is a big bowl of rice topped with creamy, coconut glory and comically large chunks of breaded chicken.

The crispy chicken potstickers, masaman curry and red curry also make for fine pickings. For a quick snack (or two for a meal), take down a thai chicken taco “drumroll style” served in griddled bread.

Given Tin Drum’s proximity to Doc Chey’s, and how similar the concepts are, you might wonder which is

better. Better is a relative term, and comparing two specific restaurants can be sticky in a review. But the answer, I’m afraid, is that Tin Drum currently falls short. It aspires to be pan-Asian American, but within that genre its menu has too many pitfalls that are bound to alienate customers instantly.

Since Tin Drum is a franchise, its menu most likely must stay in toe with other setups across the city and state. That very word — franchise — implies a corporate blandness to its culinary efforts, but the Emory Village needs places to eat, good places to eat.

Tin Drum may turn out to be one of those places, but its delivery must first find a smoother rhythm.

— Contact Evan Mah at emah@emory.edu

The grunge trend is gone — at least for the current season that is.

This fall the trends are all about luxury: rich colors, lavish materials and unique textures. Mix them together and add a touch of embellishment and you’ve mastered this season’s fall fashion.

Embellished pieces found their way into most designer’s Fall/Winter 2012 collections. Christian Dior, Givenchy and Dolce & Gabbana all put their own spin on the trend. From necklaces with elaborate necklines to oversized brooches, designers showed how versatile and personal this style is.

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Graphic Novel Unites Shakespearian Characters Continued from Page 9 Despite the comic’s high concept, however, Kill Shakespeare is far from a cynical attempt at reinventing Shakespeare for a generation defined

by Internet-addled ADD, dwindling print sales and movies about transforming robots.

Beneath the book’s exhilarating battle sequences and “Lost”like twists lies the passion of a true Shakespeare fan. According to McCreery, the Decatur Book Festival provides an ideal venue to publicize the book and introduce new readers to the creative potential of the graphic novel as a medium.

“Book festivals are a place for people to remember that books and writing and storytelling matter,” McCreery said in an interview with the Wheel. “My goal in coming to festivals like this is really to find a few people and say, ‘look, I know you don’t read comic books, but that’s only because you don’t understand comic books as a medium ... It’s such a great storytelling medium.’”

Kill Shakespeare offers an exciting adventure tale for Shakespeare neophytes while offering clever Easter eggs for the Shakespeare connoisseur.

McCreery had his view of Shakespeare forever altered after he witnessed a production of The Tempest as a youth. His attention was immediately drawn to the actor playing Caliban, one of the play’s primary antagonists.

“I remember seeing the actor jumping the stage and looming, menacing over [the actress playing] Miranda,” he recalls. “All I could think was, ‘my God, he’s planning on raping her!’ I kept thinking, ‘am I allowed to watch this?’ That’s when I suddenly realized how much was in Shakespeare.”

That being said, there was another, far nerdier reason that McCreery was drawn to Caliban in particular.

“Caliban was kind of like Wolverine,” he said with a laugh.

Prior to his work on the book, McCreery made his living as a broadcast journalist, covering everything from sports to the financial market.

During this time he also pursued success in the entertainment industry.

His idea for a children’s television program got optioned but was never aired.

Courtesy of IDW Publishing

In McCreery’s new graphic novel Kill Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s classic protagonist Juliet miraculously suvives her suicide attempt and develops into a strong-willed warrior woman.

Later, he was set for an animated added a few new layers to familiar feature, but the company that was to characters. Most notably, Juliet — produce the film went bankrupt. having survived her suicide attempt His fortunes changed when he at the end of Romeo and Juliet — has teamed up with Del Col, a man- developed from a sheltered teenager ager in the music industry. Initially, into a strong-willed young woman McCreery and Del Col envisioned capable of leading armies. the story of Kill “We certainly Shakespeare as had planned an epic, “Lord of things out plotthe Rings”-esque “Book festivals are a place wise, but a lot movie. those charfor people to remember of E v e n t u a l l y, acter moments that books and writing however, the two reveal themselves found that their and storytelling matter.” in the writrevisionist tale ing,” McCreery was best suited explained. “We — Conor McCreery, for the visual lantend to come up Graphic Novelist with a thesis for guage of comic books. these characters They enlisted and just play it the help of artist out.”

Andy Belanger, and things fell into Although the series has garnered place. much praise, it is not without detrac“I don’t think I ever thought I’d tors. New York-based Shakespearean want to be a comic book writer,” scholar Kimberly Cox (who also McCreery said. “I always wanted to just happens to be the girlfriend of tell stories, but I never locked into one legendary graphic novelist Frank way of doing it. It’s certainly a dream Miller) wrote a blistering critique come true.” of the series, taking particular aim The road to translating at its lack of iambic pentameter, the Shakespeare’s beloved characters rhyming scheme present in all of into comic book form was not an Shakespeare’s plays. She likewise easy one. expressed a desire to “b---h slap” McCreery and Del Col underwent whoever was responsible for the many different drafts of the scripts. series.

In the process, however, they also “Anytime you engender a reac-

Theater Group Delivers, Until the Very Last Scene Continued from Page 9 ers with his velvety falsetto.

The overarching theme of The King and I was established in the next scene, as Mallory’s Anna first meets members of the King of Siam’s courtly entourage. Instantly, the transgression of gender roles and the clash of East and West are established as prominent themes.

Though the musical juggles complex ideas and contentious material, Rodgers and Hammerstein address women’s roles (i.e. the traditional subversion of women) with biting wit and sarcasm, devices that both put the audience at ease and elicit laughter from men and women alike.

Mallory’s confidence on stage yielded a commanding performance, rivaled only by her principal counterpart, the King of Siam (Ronobir Lahiri).

Lahiri often strutted across stage with his hands on his hips, glancing sideways at the audience after he’d dropped a sexist quip about Anna or his many wives and concubines.

His comedic timing was spot-on, and he consistently delivered his zingers with a straight face. For example, he admitted, “slavery very bad thing,” then clapped his hands so his minions would drop to his feet in a bow.

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tion that strong, you know you got something,” McCreery said. “It may not be something good, but you got something.”

McCreery appears to take some amusement from Cox’s reaction. On the booth, he displays quotes from Cox’s vicious article alongside a glowing hand-written letter from legendary playwright/screenwriter Tom Stoppard.

No stranger to the Bard, Stoppard helped pen the script for the Oscarwinning film “Shakespeare in Love,” which also took many creative liberties with Shakespeare’s life.

“It’s weird because Shakespeare adapted his own stuff, and Shakespeare has been adapted so many ways,” McCreery said. “To me, the rabbit is out of the hat. As far as we can tell, no one has really done quite what we’ve done here before. People have been chomping and changing Shakespeare since the First Folio was printed.”

Upon departing the booth, McCreery offered me a signed copy of a tradeback. Above the signature, he wrote, “Bash the Bard.”

Surely, if Shakespeare is to be deconstructed and reimagined, you couldn’t ask for a better set of people to wield the hammer and do the bashing.

— Contact Mark Rozeman at mrozema@emory.edu

In New Album, Underground Group Goes Electric, Party-Centric Continued from Page 9

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Although the cast of The King and I gave a magnificent performance, the last scene failed to impress.

Josh Dela Cruz (Lun Tha) each delivered solid performances, though this production of The King and I only briefly touched upon their forbidden romance. As a result, the audience failed to connect with the fresh-faced duo unless they were singing.

In Ewoldt’s rendition of “My Lord and Master,” the lovely songstress crooned like a whippoorwill, and when she hit the high notes, arm hairs stood up. One audience member shouted, “Sing it girl!”

The success of Theater of the Star’s production depended upon the

combination of several factors: amazing costumes, the subtle-though-palpable chemistry between Mallory and Lahiri, an epic dance number and the entire casts’ mastery of broken English (an incredible feat that could have been cheesy if overdone).

The awe-inspiring production mesmerized the audience for more than two hours with humor and substance, that is, until the very end.

Spoiler alert: when the most emotionally gripping moment of the musical arrived (when the king dies from heart failure), Lahiri kept up his

jovial banter until action on the other side of the stage distracted the audience. When our eyes ventured back to the king, he was dead. And then it was over.

Everyone in the crowd looked at one another, confused.

Despite the anticlimactic ending, The King and I artfully wove controversial ideas, interactive banter and compelling performances into a brilliant portrayal of romance in a faraway land.

— Contact Stephanie Minor at snimor@emory.edu

song?’ and then mixing and mashing these different ideas,” he said.

This sentiment can be most vividly heard on late-album track “Reagan’s Skeleton”, which is perhaps the only song on Fragrant World that truly can be referenced to the ’80s, specifically as a politically-charged misremembering of Thriller-era Michael Jackson.

Here, the aesthetic is the content. Yeasayer comments on the Republican Party’s ideological exhumation of former President Ronald Reagan by themselves, drudging up decades-old musical platitudes.

Tuton frequently returns to the idea of aesthetic, shedding light on Fragrant World’s sonic left turn. He explains that much of the tonality of band’s first album sounded like “real, wooden, hollow world instruments,” but notes that much of it was digitally created.

“We were not trying to make an album that sounded like world music,” he said.

The tones on Fragrant World sound far from digital MIDI mimicry, but instead summon images

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of veteran musicians experimenting with hardware previously inaccessible to them.

“The longer we’ve recorded, the more our eyes have been opened up to a lot of different equipment,” tuton explained.

While the music is decidedly intellectual, Fragrant World is primarily an album to be felt, not picked over. The visceral collection is meant to soundtrack parties and clubs, and will most likely yield a handful of excellent remixes. If Odd Blood was Yeasayer in transition, Fragrant World the celebratory payoff.

— Contact Jordan Francis at jordan.francis@emory.edu

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Junior Eddie Mulder finished with a team-best time of 20:19 at the Georgia State Invitational last weekend. Mulder’s time was good for fourth place out of 37 runners.

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was a great overall team effort,” Head Coach Sonny Travis said. “Lots of young guys got a chance to play; that was a good thing.”

In Saturday’s loss to Centre, the Eagles allowed two goals in the first 10 minutes of play, both coming on second-chance opportunities for Centre.

Centre’s third goal came off a free kick in the 32nd minute. Senior midfielder Andrew Natalino scored the only two Eagle goals of the game.

His first goal came at the 13:05 mark, taking the ball into the box after beating a defender on a long run and sending the ball past the goalkeeper. His second goal, and third of the season, came off a penalty kick in the 73rd minute.

“The first 15 minutes of Saturday’s game we had some defensive lapses, but I felt like we dominated the rest of the match,” Travis said. “Natalino is learning a new position, but that was a breakout game for him. Things are starting to come together.”

Despite the loss, the Eagles took

away many positives from the game.

“Unfortunately, the mistakes we’ve made have resulted in the ultimate punishment — goals against — but as we move forward and play better teams, we have seen that these mistakes are really starting to limit themselves; the positives are definitely outweighing any negatives at this point,” Keteyian said.

Natalino is also confident about what the future holds for the team.

“There are still a few issues that we need to work out, but the rest of the season is looking very promising,” Natalino said. “Different guys are stepping up every game, which is always a great sign.”

The squad next takes the field Wednesday, facing Oglethorpe University at 5:30 p.m.

“Oglethorpe is an excellent team this year, one of the stronger teams,” Travis said. “We are going to have to play an outstanding game, but our first five games have certainly prepared us for this big game. We are going in ready.”

— Contact Nicola Braginsky at nbragin@emory.edu

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Continued from The Back Page Merrill Bachourus. It was Bachouros’ first assist of the season, while Costopoulos’ now leads the team in goals with her second one of the weekend.

Along with Emory’s offense, the team’s defense would dominate and hold Meredith to no shots until the final minutes of play. In the closing seconds of the game, Leonard preserved the Eagles’ 1-0 win by saving a shot off a corner kick.

Leonard played the second half in goal for Emory, where she made one save in the game. The Eagles’ keeper is now 3-0-1 on the season.

The Eagles’ defense earned their second shutout this season, as they have allowed just three goals in over 404 minutes of play.

“Kelly had two goals this weekend as an attacking midfielder, and our back played very well,” Patberg said.

“When you have a comeback tie it’s hard to say who didn’t play well, because it takes everyone.”

The Eagles had four players named to the all-tournament team — Costopoulos, junior defender Lauren Gorodetsky, junior midfielder Clare Mullins and Rodriguez.

“We are proud of our players after two hard road trips, and [we] are very excited to be home,” Patberg said.

The Eagles will now focus their attention to the home-opening series, where they will play Sewanee University (Tenn.) on Saturday and Roanoke College (Va.) on Sunday at the Woodruff PE Center.

— Contact Elizabeth Weinstein at eweins2@emory.edu

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minutes and 26 seconds.

Trailing behind Surtees, the remainder of the top seven included junior Emily Caesar, sophomore Marissa Gogniat, sophomore Hannah Moriarty, freshman Aileen Rivell, sophomore Elise Viox and senior captain Calley Edwards.

Edwards attributes the team’s depth as a key to a successful season.

“We had some great races from athletes who did not place in the top seven last week,” Edwards said.

Head Coach John Curtin hopes to further narrow the spread between his top runners.

“We have a number of very capable runners, but we need to focus our efforts on racing as a pack,” Curtin said.

Overall, the women scored 45 points, 30 points behind Georgia State who scored a perfect meet with 15 points. Next up for the Eagles is the Gulf Coast Stampede in Pensacola, Fla. on Sept. 22.

— Contact Megan Hunter at mhunte5@emory.edu

Four Eagles Named to Bourque All-Tournament Team Named MVP

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intense.”

Junior Hank Ashforth also put up a strong performance for the Eagles.

After a slow start at the team’s season opener, he returned to form this week. Ashforth finished the day placing fourth on the team and 12th overall in a time of 21 minutes and 14 seconds. “[The team is] still training hard, making it difficult to race fast,” Ashforth said. “[This race was] another step in the right direction.”

The rest of the top seven for the Eagles included: freshman Lukas Mees, senior Stephen Ellwood, sophomore Cameron Wheeler, junior Ishan Dey and junior Alex Fleischhacker.

The men came in second to Georgia State University, losing by only two points.

The team is trying to work on running the races together, and their practice seems to be paying off, as there was only a little more than two

minutes between the first and 11th place finishers on the team.

On the women’s side, the Eagles had seven of the top 15 finishes in the meet. The top seven Eagles crossed the finish line within 18 seconds of each other.

The women’s course covered a four-kilometer distance, roughly equivalent to two-and-a-half miles.

The women will return to this course in November as well, running six kilometers to defend their team title as Southeast Regional Champions.

Sophomore Tamara Surtees paced the women with a time of 16 minutes and nine seconds. Surtees credits her performance to the team’s training.

“The summer mileage and tough tempo runs have helped get us into shape for the early stages in the season, but we still have a lot of room for improvement,” Surtees said.

Another promising performance came from sophomore Elise Viox, who did not run due to injury last season. Viox crossed the line in 16

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of Emory Classic Continued from The Back Page victory. The Eagles won the first two sets easily 25-13 and had little additional trouble in winning the third set 25-14.

Crawford once again led the Eagles in digs with 10, and sophomore outside hitter Leah Jacobs led all athletes with a match-high 11 kills.

In their last match of the Classic, the Eagles foiled a come-back attempt from the Berry Vikings to secure a perfect 4-0 outing in the tournament.

After losing the first set 25-27, the Eagles won sets two and three (25-17, 25-16) and routing the Vikings in set four (25-12).

“I learned that the team is willing to fight for anything and work real hard.”

— Alex Duhl, senior middle hitter

Bourque concluded her last Classic stunningly with a seasonhigh 15 kills and a team-high four blocks. Bowman racked up 13 putaways with 13 digs.

Bourque, Duhl and Bowman were selected to the Emory Classic AllTournament Team, with Bourque grabbing MVP honors Because of the challenging comeback situations the team faced in the Classic, the team members feel confident that this was a valuable learning experience.

“I learned that the team is willing to fight for anything and work real hard. Even though we’re young, we’re going to grow,” Duhl said. “We’re capable of anything and [are] going to go really far.”

The Eagles next play this weekend, flying to San Antonio, Texas to take part in the Trinity National Invitational Friday and Saturday.

— Contact Zonair Khan at zonair.khan@emory.edu

1. Gambling in the NFL Here at On Fire, we believe in three things: calling your mom every night just to tell her you love her, never buying generic cracker brands and accepting every bet proposed to you, the stupider the better.

Your well-informed On Fire correspondent has long known that Aaron Rodgers is a leading advocate of those first two propositions.

And we have just received conclusive evidence that he practices the third as well.

Rodgers is a California boy, a childhood fan of the 49ers who played his college ball at Berkeley. When he entered the draft in 2005, the 49ers had the number one overall pick. It seemed like a match made in heaven.

However, the 49ers picked Alex Smith, Rodgers fell to 24th before being snagged by the Packers and the rest, as your clichéd On Fire correspondent likes to say, is history.

In light of all this, when Rodgers contacted Boyz II Men (your hip On Fire correspondent does not actually know who or what Boyz II Men is, but he (or she) feels safe in assuming they are some kind of post-modern electronic group) about performing the national anthem before last week’s Packers-49ers game, Nathan Morris of the group (again, your folk-rock loving On Fire correspondent has no idea who this is, but assumes he has tattoos and dreadlocks) responded with a bet.

If the Packers won, Morris would wear their jersey for the next week.

But if they lost, Rodgers was to wear a 49ers jersey.

The kind of man who wins an NFL MVP is the kind of man who never backs down from a challenge.

Rodgers accepted the bet instantly.

The Packers lost. Rodgers completed ten more passes than Smith for 97 more yards, but as your gamblingaddicted On Fire correspondent knows all too well, sometimes the cards just are not in your favor.

Now Rodgers is stuck wearing a 49ers jersey for a week. And let us not forget that he is no private citizen, or even a normal celebrity.

Rodgers will be wearing this jersey everywhere this week. On the Packer’s practice field, in the Packer’s film room and in the Packer’s locker room, he will be in a 49ers jersey.

From all of us at On Fire, Aaron Rodgers, for what we would call courage and most others would call a childish bet, we salute you.

2. Women in the NFL For the first time ever, a female referee was part of an NFL officiating crew this weekend.

Observers noted that Shannon Eastin used her left hand to tuck her ponytail under her hat after the national anthem, a questionable choice of both hand and timing, but other than that incident, nothing of note happened.

To be completely honest, we at On Fire are severely disappointed.

It was not quite like Rush Limbaugh feelings about Obama — his exact words, your talk radio-loving On Fire correspondent seems to recall, were “I hope he fails” — but, to once again be completely honest, it more similar to Mr. Limbaugh’s sentiment that it was different.

That was going to be the story this week. Your optimistic On Fire correspondent saw the headlines in his (or her) head: “Female Ref Stops Game to Ask What a Touchdown Is;” “Female Ref Breaks Down Crying Because She Wants Both Teams to Win, Requires Hug to be Consoled;” “Female Ref Told by Male Refs, Husband to Leave the Field and Make Sandwiches.”

But nothing happened. No one is saying she did a great job. Or if they are, your open-minded On Fire correspondent is not listening to them.

But, as many times as he (or she) has gone through the game film, she appears to have made no mistakes that we can use this space to call her out for.

So there goes our story for the week.

3. Just Google This If you do nothing else that we tell you all year, please do this. Trust us, this is a must.

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SPORTS THE EMORY WHEEL

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Sports Editor: Elizabeth Weinstein (eweins2@emory.edu)

VOLLEYBALL

Featured Athlete Breanah Bourque Senior captain Breanah Bourque was named the MVP of the Emory Classic this weekend. This year, she has reached double digits in kills in five of her eight matches, including 15 against Berry College in the finale of the Emory Classic. She now has 1,108 career kills, 11th on Emory’s all-time list.

Men’s Soccer The Eagles 4-0 victory over Spalding University Friday is the squad’s largest margin of victory in a game since September 16th, 2011, when the team beat Virginia Wesleyan College 5-0.

Women’s Soccer After Friday’s game against third-ranked Johns Hopkins University, the Eagles record against ranked opponents stands at 7-2-6 over the past three seasons, and at 26-31-15 since 1997.

Eagles Go Undefeated in Home Tournament

By Zonair Khan Staff Writer After seeing their hopes of a perfect season burnt by the Flames of Lee University last Monday in a tight five-game thriller, the fourth-ranked ranked volleyball team looked to bounce back in their home opener this weekend.

The fourth-ranked Eagles hosted Averett University (Va.), Berry College, Transylvania University (Ky.) and seventh-ranked University of St. Thomas (Minn.) in the Emory Classic this weekend, finishing the tournament a perfect 4-0. The squad’s record now stands at 8-1 on the year.

Head Coach Jenny McDowell was very happy with her team’s resolve and overall effort, particularly in her team’s challenging Friday night. “[I was pleased with] how hard we fought Friday night. We never quit; we never gave up,” McDowell said.

“I was really excited that our team never gave up on Friday. It was a great win for us.”

The Eagles were more excited than nervous about their first home game of the year.

“It was our first home match,” senior middle hitter and captain Alex Duhl said. “I think it was exciting, but we were able to work through it and win.”

The Classic began on Friday with a win for the Eagles when they

defeated the Transylvania Pioneers three sets to one. The team opened the match with a sound first set victory (25-18) before falling 20-25 in the second set.

Despite the letdown, sophomore middle and outside hitter Kate Bowman helped lead her team’s comeback. She dominated the match with a team high 14 kills, and Duhl and her fellow senior captain and middle hitter Breanah Bourque each chipped in nine kills.

The Eagles won the next two sets 25-19 and 25-20 to claim the match in four sets.

In the second match of the evening, the Eagles clawed their way back to outlast the St. Thomas Tommies.

Emory lost the first set 22-25, but came back to even the match by winning the second set 25-20.

Game three went constantly back and forth, but eventually the Tommies managed to close it out 25-22. With the team in danger of losing, Bourque and Duhl led the Eagles to capture the fourth set in dominant fashion with 25-15.

“I feel like Breanah Bourque and Alex Duhl, [the] two senior middle hitters, willed our team to win,” McDowell said. “They were unwilling to let our team lose. Having a couple of leaders on the team to pull us through was huge.”

With the additional, energized efforts from their captains, the Eagles

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Sophomore outside hitter Kate Bowman goes for the kill. Bowman had a career-high 18 kills against Transylvania University in the Emory Classic. The Eagles were a perfect 4-0 in the tournament. went on to secure the fifth set 16-13, and the match ended with a kill by Bowman.

“Kate Bowman was sensational,” McDowell said. “She took about 60 swings, which is a lot of swings in one match. She never gave up.”

Bowman ended the match with a career-high 18 kills and a cool 18 digs. Freshman setter Sydney Miles continued her impressive campaign with a massive 49 assists, and freshman outside hitter Ashley Crawford registered a team-high 24 digs.

On Saturday, the Eagles picked up where they left off with their match against the Averett Cougars.

McDowell decided to rest her first unit and looked to her reserves for the

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MEN’S SOCCER

CROSS COUNTRY

Team Splits Weekend Slate Despite Missing Key Players

By Nicola Braginsky Staff Writer

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Sophomore Stephanie Crane steadily makes her way through the pack at the Georgia State Invitational.

Crane finished 19th in the race, and the team came in second.

Both Men, Women Come in Second at GSU Invitational

By Megan Hunter Contributing Writer The men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to southern Georgia Saturday to compete in the Georgia State University Invitational.

The race was a preview of the course that the teams will be running for the Southeast Regional Championships

in two months. Both squads finished in second place out of four teams competing.

The men’s race only covered six kilometers, three laps of the twokilometer course, as opposed to the usual eight kilometers that they will be traversing in November at the Regional Championships.

Junior Eddie Mulder was the first

Eagle to cross the finish line, completing the 3.75 mile race in 20 minutes and 19 seconds to come in fourth overall.

“It was nice to preview the course where we will be running Regionals,” Mulder said. “[The hills on the course were] challenging, but nothing too

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The men’s soccer played two games in the Bob Allen Nissan Classic in Danville, Ky. this weekend. The Eagles dominated Spalding University (Ky.) Friday, winning 4-0, but lost to Centre College (Ky.) 3-2 Saturday. The squad’s record now stands at 2-2-1 on the season.

The team is disappointed by the loss to Centre but is still feeling confident about the upcoming season and eagerly anticipating the return of a couple injured players.

“Obviously, the season has had a pretty rocky start, especially with the expectations we had for ourselves before our first game,” senior goalkeeper Aram Keteyian said. “But we’ve started to score goals more frequently, and we’re moving in the right direction. This is easily the most talented Emory team I’ve been on.

When we get a few guys 100 percent healthy again, there will be no limit to what we can accomplish this year.”

Sophomore forward Dylan Price set the stage for Friday’s game with a goal in the seventh minute.

“I think we’ve had an adequate start to the season, and we’ve let a few results slip through our hands,” Price said. “That being said, we’ve got a lot of talent, and things are still coming together. I’m optimistic about our upcoming games. I believe we can definitely compete for a UAA championship, which would give us a

bid to the tournament.”

Spalding’s Stephen Hubert shot twice on goal in the 24th minute of the game but was unable to get the ball past Keteyian. Minutes later, junior Andrew Jones scored for the Eagles off an assist from freshman TJ Atchison, giving the Eagles a 2-0 lead.

Emory came out of the gate playing hard in the second half. The

squad extended their lead to 3-0 in the 52nd minute when freshman forward Matt Sherr found the back of the net off an assist from freshman midfielder Connor Curtin.

In the 80th minute, sophomore Zachary Rosenberg sealed the Eagles’ victory with an unassisted 4th goal.

“Friday’s game against Spalding

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Sophomore midfielder Zachary Rosenberg scored his first goal of the season in the Eagles’ 4-0 win over Spalding University.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Squad Finishes Weekend With Tie, Win

By Elizabeth Weinstein Sports Editor The No. 2 ranked Eagles traveled to North Carolina for the 2012 Meredith College National Invitational Classic last weekend, where they faced Johns Hopkins University (Md.) on Friday and Meredith College (N.C.) on Saturday. Emory finished the tournament with a tie and win. The team now sits at 3-0-1 on the season, extending Emory’s regular season winning streak to 27 games.

“The fact that we have three wins and a tie four games in ... we’re very happy,” Head Coach Sue Patberg said.

In Friday’s contest against Johns Hopkins, the Blue Jays came out determined and took a dominant 2-0 lead after 45 minutes of play. The Blue Jays were quick to get on the scoreboard, notching their first goal at the 3:51 mark.

Johns Hopkins then extended its 1-0 lead during the 35th minute of play, when freshman forward Issy Berkey netted a goal.

“Johns Hopkins was a very tough game; we were on our heels and couldn’t get in rhythm,” Patberg said.

“Sometimes you walk into halftime ... [and] the kids seem defeated, but that was nowhere to be found.”

In the second frame,Emory began

to turn around the game and gain some control. In the 63rd minute of play, the Eagles cut their opponents lead in half after sophomore midfielder Claudia Rowe scored her first career goal. Rowe scored the goal off sophomore forward Karina Rodriguez’s corner kick at the 63:23 mark.

It remained a 2-1 tally until the final minutes of the second half. In the 81st minute of play, sophomore forward Charlotte Butker crossed the ball to junior center midfield cocaptain Kelly Costopoulos, who then headed the ball passed the Blue Jays’ keeper for the equalizer.

It was Costopoulous’ first goal of

the season, and the first assist of the year for Butker. With neither team scoring in the final nine minutes of play, the Eagles would head to overtime for the third straight game.

The Eagles carried over their momentum from the second frame, as Butker took the only shot in the first overtime period. Both teams were unable to score a game-winning goal in the first overtime period, sending the game to a second one.

In the second overtime period, neither team would find the back of the net, resulting in a final score of 2-2.

Senior goalkeeper Kaele Leonard played the second half and the remainder of the game for the Eagles’

in goal. Leonard had to make just one save in the game and gave up zero goals in the match, which extends her scoreless minutes streak to 179:15 this season.

The Eagles finished the match, edging the Blue Jays’ 15-2 in shots, which included a 10-7 advantage in shots on goal. Emory shutdown host team Meredith College 1-0 in Saturday’s contest.

“While it’s a win, it’s not quite as satisfying as it could have been,” Patberg said. “We’re not a well-tuned machine yet.”

While neither team netted a goal through the first 45 minutes of play, the Eagles dominated offensively in

the opening frame. In the first half, Emory had six shots, five of which were on goal, while the defense held Meredith to just three shots. Eagles’ starting senior goalkeeper Erica Stein stopped all three of the Avenging Angels’ shots.

The Eagles would continue their dominance throughout the second frame and eventually were the first and only ones to get on the scoreboard halfway through the half.

Again, Costopoulos would produce offensively for the Eagles, scoring the only goal of the game off an assist from senior forward

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