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Friday, April 10, 2015
Two Officials To Leave Div. of Campus Life Two senior administrators in the Division of Campus Life will be leaving their posts at Emory for the upcoming school year. Matthew Garrett, the interim senior director for the Center for Student Leadership and Community Engagement in Campus Life, will serve as a senior associate in people and change management of consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Atlanta. Carolyn Livingston, the senior associate vice president and Title IX coordinator for students in the Division of Campus Life, will serve as senior vice president for student life and dean of students at Carleton College in Minnesota. The resignations were announced just months after Andy Wilson, former senior associate dean for Campus Life, left Emory earlier this year. In 2006, Livingston joined Emory as special assistant to the senior vice president for Campus Life — a position she held until 2013, when she was promoted to senior associate vice president and Title IX coordinator for students. After studying applied mathematics as an undergraduate at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, Livingston received her Master of Education degree in Counselor Education and Doctor of Philosophy degree in higher education administration from the University of Virginia. Before coming to Emory, Livingston worked at the University of Virginia’s Office of the President and Office of Undergraduate Admission. “I am looking forwarding to being the leading difference maker in the lives of students at Carleton College,” Livingston wrote in an email to the Wheel.” Carleton is a selective liberal arts residential college that is dedi-
cated to creating opportunities for academic and student affairs integration in a smaller setting.” Unlike Livingston, Garrett came to Emory right after obtaining his Masters of Education in College Student Affairs Administration at the University ofGeorgia (UGA). Garrett joined Emory in 2008 as an assistant director in the Office of Student Leadership and Service. Since then he has served Emory as assistant dean and director for the Office of Student Leadership & Service and most recently as interim senior director for the Center for Student Leadership and Community Engagement. Garrett, who will leave Emory today, earned his Ph. D. in Counseling and Student Personnel Services at UGA in May 2014. Garrett wrote in an email to the Wheel that after “seven wonderful years here at Emory,” he felt it was time to take the next step in his career. For Garrett, this next step will be serving as a Senior Associate in PwC’s HumanCapital, People and Change Management practice area. When asked about the departure of Livingston and Garrett from Campus Life and Emory, Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair wrote in an email to the Wheel that, although he will miss working with Garrett and Livingston, he is proud of their accomplishments at Emory that have “made them so well positioned for their new roles.” “When I arrived [at Emory] three years ago, I started working closely with [Livingston and Garrett] on refining their professional goals and aspirations,” Nair wrote. “I’m thrilled that colleagues outside Emory recognize that we have such an outstanding group of colleagues in Campus Life. I am not surprised that they have been presented with upwardly mobile opportunities.”
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for different schools on campus. The administration created a uniform process and Title IX coordinator to have a standardized adjudicated process. The adjudication process involves a board of 37 members that are trained annually to take party in sexual assault violation hearings. When an allegation of sexual assault is reported to Emory, Livingston said that the student is asked for basic information about the report including the name of the perpetrator, if they know a name. The perpetrator is then contacted by investigators trained in handling the issue who look for areas of disagreement between both parties, if there are any, Livingston said. The administration will evaluate if the facts of the case violate any part of the Sexual Misconduct Policy. If a violation is found, Livingston
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Livingston Leads Title IX Discussion
Nearly 50 students gathered in Winship Ballroom on Tuesday for a discussion with campus administration on Title IX, a national policy that requires federally funded institutions to protect against sex discrimination. Carolyn Livingston, the senior associate vice president of the Division of Campus Life and Title IX coordinator for students, led the talk — “Title IX: Ask Me Anything with Dr. Carolyn Livingston” — about the University’s Sexual Misconduct Policy. Emory’s Sexual Misconduct Policy cites Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 as a measure that “protects people from sex discrimination in educational programs and activities at institutions that receive federal financial assistance.” Organizers, College sophomores
Sammy Karon and Caroline Holmes, encouraged students to submit questions for Dr. Livingston to answer online beginning on April 1. Through an online forum publicized on Facebook, students submitted approximately 30 questions ranging from Emory’s protocol for investigating Title IX allegations to choosing which allegations are chosen for public safety notifications. Karon and Holmes began the talk by posing questions randomly selected from those submitted online. The first question chosen asked if anyone from Emory had ever been expelled for sexual assault. Livingston said students have been expelled from Emory for sexual assault in the last two and a half years. She explained that, three years ago, members of the administration realized there were different processes dealing with Title IX allegations
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Reverend Discusses Church’s Role in Ferguson By Karishma Mehrotra Executive Editor
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s part of Sexual Assault Awareness Week, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Emory Hillel, Rathskellar and Alpha Phi Alpha created poster boards that students could sign to pledge to become an active bystander during Wonderful Wednesday on Asbury Circle. The involved organizations drew on the national campaign “It’s On Us.”
OBITUARY
Former Emory Professor Peter Dowell Dies at 78 By Samantha Goodman Staff Writer
Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies Dana White remembers when former Emory Professor of English and American Studies and Dean of Emory College Peter Dowell stood up to speak at his retirement ceremony in 2009. The entire College faculty stood up for a standing ovation. “I have never seen that before or
since,” White said. “That just shows the level of respect we all had for [Dowell].” Dowell died on March 16, according to a March 22 article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Dowell joined the Emory faculty in 1963 after he studied English at Princeton University and received his Ph. D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He stayed at Emory until his retirement in 2009.
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Joanne Brzinski, senior associate dean for Undergraduate Education, said Dowell also played a crucial role in the creation of Emory’s African American Studies Department. “For an entire generation of Emory students, he was the face of the College,” Brzinski said. She added that :Dowell was a man who cared very deeply about giving every student the chance to achieve his or her goals.” During his 46 years at Emory,
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By Emily Lim Staff Writer
Residence Life and Housing (ResLife) will expand available sophomore housing options to Clairmont Tower for the 2015 to 2016 academic year, according to an April 5 email from ResLife. The option will open up a “very limited number” of two-bedroom, four-person apartments in Clairmont Tower for rising sophomores, according to the email, and ResLife will give priority to groups of four students who sign up together. Sophomores can apply for housing in the Tower until today (Friday, April 10). ResLife opened Clairmont Tower to rising sophomores to increase the flexibility of its current “consolidation process,” in which people currently occupying one bed in a double bedroom are asked to room with someone else to facilitate roommate requests, according to Andrea Trinklein, the assistant vice president and executive director of Residence Life and Housing. Rising sophomores were initially given the options of selecting rooms at the Woodruff Residential Center or Harris, Few and Evans Halls. Clairmont Tower has been open to sophomores in previous years. Trinklein declined to disclose the exact number of rising sophomores currently on the wait list for housing next year, because she feared it might cause panic among the sophomores. However, she said that all rising sophomores will have on campus
tudents explore the different Korean customs at the Korean Culture Fair on Wednesday in the Dobbs University Center. The Korean Culture Fair is a part of Korea Week 2015, a collaborative effort between the Korean Undergraduate Student Association and other organizations.
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Dowell also served as English Department chair, associate dean starting in 1988 and then senior associate dean until 2003. In these roles, he was responsible for academic records, advising and programming. In 2010, Dowell was honored with the Emory Distinguished Faculty Emeritus award, according to a March 30 University Press Release.
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“Every other day in America is Good Friday,” the St. Louis-native with a black suit jacket, clear-framed glasses and dreads said, clamping his hands on the edge of his podium at the Candler School of Theology. “Death at the hands of the state. It happens so often that news of such a tragedy elicits a rather ordinary response. They killed another one … Ferguson: America’s Nazareth.” With moments of intense engagement colliding against moments of erupting laughter, Reverend Osagyefo Sekou captured the roughly 50-person audience in an honest, two-hour dialogue about the intersection of the Ferguson movement and theology at a Dean’s Lecture on Wednesday afternoon. Sekou, who was arrested twice while participating in the August protests in Ferguson for praying in front of riot police and co-leading a group of religious leaders, provided his vision for the role of the church in such movements. The ordained elder in the Church of God in Christ (Pentecostal) and professor of preaching at the Seminary Consortium of Urban Pastoral Education in the Graduate Theological Urban Studies Program in Chicago has published his theories in two essay collections, Al Jazeera America and more. “If you tell me what you believe about Jesus, I can tell you what you believe about Ferguson,” he
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said. “Christianity is at yet another crossroads.” Sekou said the church — representing overly conservative notions without enough “radical edge” — does not know how to confront the new forms of leadership and language emerging in a new generation. Although inserting subtle critiques of certain aspects of the new generation’s movements, Sekou focused on how the church community needs to overturn the meaning of church and enter the streets where these new movements are forming — not as leaders but as followers. “I was born again on the streets of Ferguson,” he said, his voice ringing throughout the room. “I have seen the face of God, and God has got tattoos on God’s face, and God sags God’s pants, and God is angry and God is queer.” While in Ferguson, he found that the holiest place in the community on the ground was “a coffee shop run by white lesbians,” not a church. “For the most part, the church has been a no show in Ferguson, and when they show up, they are just in the way,” he said, before providing a guide to change. “The church is like hip-hop. If the people are on the move, the church is on the move.” While Sekou resigned from the pulpit to focus on nonviolent civil disobedience, he continuously urged the young prospective clergy members in the room to be the ones to question the church’s existing model and join
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