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Tuesday, February 10, 2015 technology services
Bid farewell to your email’s Quarantine Summary: a new email filtering service will affect how all Emory registered email addresses receive junk mail beginning Feb. 16, according to an all-Emory email from Jay Flanagan, manager of enterprise email and messaging at Emory. Instead of the dreaded late afternoon Quarantine Summary in your Emory inbox, all filtered messages will appear in the Junk Mail folder. According to Flanagan’s email, the filtering service will switch from Postini to Microsoft’s Exchange Online Protection (EOP) service, which will be implemented through a partnership between the Emory University Messaging Team and
Emory Health Information Services. Postini is a Google product that filters potential spam and virusinfected messages before they reach user inboxes, according to Project Manager Trisha Wilson. Flanagan noted that there will be a “bake-in period,” during which customers will need to get used to the new way of handling spam. “Initially, customers may see more spam in their inboxes as we tweak the service, and as they determine whether to block or allow certain senders,” Flanagan wrote. “In the end though, the ability to manage your own spam easily from within your email client is, we believe, a big win.” Wilson wrote in an email to the Wheel that the University’s decision
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Brief: Emory, WellStar Discuss ‘Unification’
Emory University and WellStar Health System, the largest not-forprofit health system in Georgia, are formally discussing the creation of a unified health system in Metro Atlanta, according to an all-Emory email from University President James W. Wagner. The Board of Trustees for each organization has approached a resolution to continue formal discussions for the next 45 days. According to the email, the stated purpose of the merger is to create a health care environment that would offer the best of communitybased care and the best of academic medicine. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that the two parties are still early in discussions, and there are no official plans yet as to where the headquarters of the new health
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system would be. Additionally, the new entity’s board will have to choose one CEO to lead it, according to WellStar CEO Reynold Jennings. Emory Healthcare CEO John Fox announced his resignation in January. Fox was elected the new chairman of the Georgia Hospital Association’s Board of Trustees in November 2014. Jennings’ contract expires December 2015, and he will be succeeded by current WellStar COO Candice Saunders, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Emory Healthcare is Georgia’s largest and most comprehensive health care system. WellStar serves a population of more than 1.4 million residents in five counties. See Friday’s issue for a full story.
— Written by Asst. News Editor Annie McGrew
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n celebration of Black History Month, which takes place anually in February, the Emory Black Student Alliance kicked off programming with the Step It Up event. Step It Up showcased performances from historically African American campus groups, such as the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, at White Hall on Saturday night.
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SGA Increases Graduate Student Funding By Luke White SGA Beat Writer
The Student Government Association (SGA) increased the amount of money allocated to the Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) from the Student Activities Fee (SAF) split and confirmed the internalization of the Student Programming Council (SPC) Vice Presidential election last night. The SGA’s 48th Legislature discussed and debated a bill proposing an amendment to the SAF split for well over an hour during the
Monday meeting, as members vacillated between whether or not GSGA required or deserved a considerable increase in funding. Next year, the SAF will increase to $92 per semester from $89, the result of a scheduled Cost of Living Adjustment (CoLA). Every division will receive an increase in absolute funding. However, as part of this bill, GSGA will receive an additional two percent increase in funding, financed in part by reducing the Student Legal Services (SLS) fee allocation from one to zero percent. The current GSGA budget is roughly
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$80,000, and the current SGA budget is approximately $45,000. It will also move SLS to the account for University-wide organizations, and decrease the amount that graduate students contribute to SGA by one percent to compensate for the GSGA funding increase. SGA President and College junior Jon Darby and GSGA President and second-year Goizueta Business School MBA student Ely Goldberg co-authored the bill after members of the Executive Board reviewed the University-wide organizations’ account distributions to see which
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atasha Armstrong (left) and College freshman Chelsea Jackson (right) participate in Elect Her, a program to encourage college women to run for student government positions. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) and Running Start hosted the event.
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Freshmen Advance to Hult Prize Finals By Anwesha Guha Contributing Writer
A team of Emory freshmen advanced to the finals of the Hult Prize, an internationally-recognized competition hosted by former President Bill Clinton that is focusing on the education gap of children 0 to 6 years of age this year, according to the Hult Prize website. College freshmen Mehul Bhagat, who is the team’s leader, Rostam Zafari, Michelle Skelton and Nick Parker will represent Emory University at the San Francisco com-
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petition, which is worth a prize of $1 million. Their challenge: building “sustainable and scalable social enterprises” for young children in the urban slum. Taking into account the potential global impact of their project, Bhagat said that he and his team brainstormed and were able to put together a few ideas. “We are investigating mobile technology as one possible solution, and then we’re looking at different models for caregivers, which is a really important part of delivering childhood education,” said Bhagat, who is
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planning on pursuing a double-major in economics and creative writing. “When you’re trying to scale this to 10 million people, that’s kind of a problem, right? How can you get a close-term relationship with them?” As for how the group got involved, all four said they’ve always been interested in social enterprise and entrepreneurship, but it was Bhagat who brought up the Hult Prize competition after discovering it online, according to Zafari. “I’m really fascinated [with] using
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Yale Prof. Talks Russian Propaganda in Ukraine By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor
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services graduate students were actually using. After that review, the participants concluded that GSGA was in need of a substantial fund increase. However, many undergraduate representatives disagreed. Vice President for Finance and College senior Patrick O’Leary reiterated his opposition to the bill, saying that it “takes away the increases of all the University-wide organizations and gives it to the GSGA.” According to O’Leary, the Finance
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By Rupsha Basu News Editor Continuing Eagle Row’s annual round of musical chairs, two fraternities will likely change addresses for the 2015-2016 school year, according to Assistant Director of Sorority and Fraternity Housing Jeff Tate. If both fraternities meet membership requirements, Chi Phi fraternity, currently at 22 Eagle Row, will reclaim its historic property at 8 Eagle Row, where Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) fraternity is currently located. The new housing assignments were sent out last week but are temporarily tentative. These assignments are contingent on whether the respective fraternities fill their houses during the room selection process. Chi Phi owns 8 Eagle Row under the Phoenix Plan, a document to clarify governance of Greek Life which provides fraternities with long-term housing through signed agreements. The Wheel reported in November 2012 that 8 Eagle Row was historically Chi Phi fraternity’s residence until its charter was revoked in 2009 by the national Chi Phi organization
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A Yale University history professor shed light on the propaganda surrounding the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution and its ongoing aftermath at a lecture in White Hall on Friday evening. Timothy Snyder, Yale’s Bird White Housum Professor of History, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of five award-winning books on eastern European history, cited both historical myths and modern media portrayals in discussing how both sides view the conflict to an audience of about 100 faculty members and students. Snyder also gave a lecture on “The Holocaust as a Political History,” sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, last Thursday, Feb. 5. The Friday night lecture was sponsored by Emory’s Department of Russian & East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Halle Institute for Global Learning and the Program in Russian & East European Studies at Emory, as well as the Jean Monnet Center for Excellence of the Sam Nunn School of International Relations at the Georgia Institute of Technology, according to a Feb 2. University press release. After a brief run-down of Ukraine and Russia’s shared history, Snyder elucidated the origins of Moscow’s anti-Western rhetoric, often used as a means of stirring up anti-European Union (EU) sentiment and
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nationalism. “All of Russian propaganda — the ‘us vs. the West’ — all of it comes from the Second World War,” Snyder said. Despite the fact that, until the German invasion of Russia in 1941, the Soviet Union had been held in a non-aggression pact with Hitler’s Germany, the “myth” of the Soviet Union defending the eastern European states from fascism prevailed, he said. “There is a slippage going on as to whether the Second World War was a war of Russian defense against German aggression or a war of Russian aggression,” Snyder said. “That myth of Russia fighting a defensive war has fallen apart.” A lost sense of unity with Russia, according to Snyder, was not the only reason for the 2014 ousting of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych just after he swapped a trading agreement with Russia for one with the EU. “The people who got together and overthrew the government were Russian speakers — not all of them, but many,” he said, describing the rebel group known as the Maidan as more economically-minded than anti-Russian. Ukraine’s oligarchic class structure, which Snyder said remains intact even after the Yanukovych coup, triggered violent protests in Kiev’s Independence Square. “When you’re a little guy or gal
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