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Volume 96, Issue

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Friday, April 17, 2015

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Zaya to Undergo Renovation Over Winter Break By Lydia O’Neal News Editor

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he “Sweet” Nu Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA) at Emory University had their new member presentation behind the Anthropology building on Tuesday night. During the presentation, the six new AKA members greeted other chapters of the Greek community, recited history about their organization and showcased their sorority through performance.

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Community Responds to EHC-WellStar Merger By Annie McGrew News Editor Two of the largest health care systems in Georgia, Emory Healthcare and WellStar Health System, will merge to create the largest health care system in the Southeast. While CEO and President of Emory Healthcare Michael Mandl said the Emory Healthcare-WellStar merger will increase efficiency, some worry that the new entity’s large share of market power will lead to higher consumer costs. The Board of Trustees of both WellStar and Emory’s Executive Committee have started to design the new, unified health care system,

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according to an April 2 University press release. Mandl said he expects the design process to last about a year. “We are pursing [the merger] for all the right reasons for society, which is to increase the value of the health care delivery system and keep people healthy, cost effectively,” he said, adding that the merger aims to “create the model health system for the future.” That system includes five components, such as providing diverse care for a large population, multiple locations for care, talented physicians, a robust clinical and supporting database and research.

The Qualms Beth Stephens, Health Access Program director at Georgia Watch — an Atlanta-based non-partisan consumer advocacy group that keeps hospitals accountable for their decisions, said that although the new system could increase coordination and transparency, she is concerned the merger could increase prices without an equal increase in care. “We want to ensure [tax-exempt entities] … keep the community at the forefront of their thoughts,” she said, referring to the fact that both companies are not-for-profit. “Nonprofit hospitals have a responsibility to give back to the community.”

She highlighted that it is important for WellStar and Emory Healthcare to be as transparent as possible throughout the process, adding that the Affordable Care Act has incentivized similar consolidations nationwide. “I don’t know that the Hospital did the most it could to publicize [the discussion period],” she said, referring to the month and a half period beginning in February that the boards collected comments from patients, physicians, employees and any other interested persons. Stephens said that Georgia Watch found out about the discussion period indirectly.

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Zaya Mediterranean Cuisine, also known as Zaya at Dooley’s Den at the Depot, is set to undergo an interior design transformation along with menu changes by the end of the upcoming winter break, according to Senior Director of University Food Service Administration David Furhman. The restaurant, sandwiched between Eagle Row and two sets of train tracks, is a trademark of New Orleans-based 3 of a Kind Restaurant Group, which held a contract with Emory’s food services provider Sodexo USA to serve students there. When Emory’s 10-year contract with Sodexo ends on May 31, the University will switch to a new provider, Bon Appétit, on June 1. As Emory Dining has only begun planning for the renovations and is in the process of gathering student feedback for the new and improved Zaya, “nothing’s off limits right now” in terms of potential changes to the popular post-party eatery, according to Furhman. “We really need to renovate that building,” Furhman said, calling the spot “a great location” for its proximity to the Freshman Quadrangle. “I want to make that space a warm, comfortable, inviting space,” Furhman said. “I want students to say, ‘Let’s go to the Depot and hang out there.’ I want it to be a preferred place on campus.” As for the restaurant’s possible changes, Furhman suggested including a small performance venue, more salad and burger options and dinerstyle food. Though he said there were no plans in place for a formal survey of students’ hopes for the Zaya makeover, Furhman said student feedback through informal discussions and Food Advisory Committee at Emory (FACE) meetings would steer much of the planning. Zaya is working to transition from Sodexo to Bon Appétit as a

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third-party contractor but will most likely retain its name, according to Furhman. Bon Appétit, he added, will be involved in the renovations in the likely event that Zaya gains a contract with the University’s new food provider. Zaya Regional Manager Marshall Edge said he hopes to see a setup similar to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Zaya Mediterranean Grill, which is also owned by 3 of a Kind. “We would have a smaller menu with an open kitchen, so that by the time you get from the cashier to the counter, your food is ready,” Edge said, adding that Zaya’s current business model is too slow, overloaded with menu options and hardly sustainable over the summer. Edge said he would prefer to move the kitchen and counter to the elevated area of the restaurant, the side closest to the fraternity houses on Eagle Row, and keep the rest of it — including where the restaurant’s counter sits now — open for seating. The menu, he added, should also be whittled down to a few popular meals. “This menu is a Frankenstein of three different restaurants,” he said, referring to 3 of a Kind’s other subsidiaries, which include Burger Bytes, Byblos Mediterranean Cuisine and Salú Southern European Bistro. “I’m not saying we want to get rid of all the options, but we do want to streamline the menu.” The number of different meals Zaya offers strains the restaurant’s budget, Edge said, adding that customer traffic — he estimated about 40 patrons daily — hasn’t helped. “Renovation here would be amazing, but the ideal would be to move [Zaya] to Cox Hall,” Edge said. Seated at a table in the nearlyempty restaurant in Thursday afternoon, College freshman Simon Crespo expressed similar frustration with Zaya’s inefficiencies. “It’d be nice if there were more

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Ebola Expert to Speak in Louisiana By Ryan Smith Associate Editor

By Emily Lim Staff Writer “In 1939, Hitler said to his army: ‘Who, afterall, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?’” Bedross Der Matossian, assistant professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said to open his lecture in White Hall on Wednesday evening. “Well, here we are today, remembering the Armenian Genocide.” Der Matossian’s talk, “The Armenian Genocide and Historiography on the Eve of the Centennial: From Continuity to Contingency” served as a remembrance of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which began on April 24, 1915. Widely recognized as one of the first modern genocides, the Armenian Genocide was a campaign of systematic extermination that included deportation and mass murder carried out by the Ottoman Empire against its minority Armenian subjects. It is estimated that up to 1.5 million Armenians were massacred, accord-

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blocks of this camp near the humanitarian hub of Goma, conversing in Swahili about the residents’ displacement and how they wished to be represented. After snapping the pictures — that she said were “cocreated” because the subjects, consciously or not, responded to her as the photographer — Graham printed the portraits and returned copies to

Jay B. Varkey, assistant professor in Emory’s Department of Medicine and one of the five physicians to treat the first Ebola patients in the United States, was selected on April 6 to be the commencement speaker at Centenary College of Louisiana. Varkey, along with five of his peers in the Serious Communicable Disease Unit at the Emory University Hospital, aided in the successful treatment of all four Ebola patients at Emory between August and October of 2014. His experience treating the disease put him on Centenary’s radar after he was first suggested as a potential speaker by a mutual friend of his and Centenary President David Rowe, who graduated from Emory with a Master of Divinity in 1992. “One of the things that was really interesting to us is his very public background in treating Ebola […] but also his background at a liberal arts college,” Centenary Interim Senior Director of External Relations Kate Pedrotty said. Varkey earned his undergraduate degree from

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Zelda is from an internally displaced people camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Aubrey Graham — the first Ethics and the Arts Program artist in residence at the Center for Ethics and Ph.D. candidate in anthropology — asked residents how they wished to be represented in her photographs.

Photographer Portrays Local Desires in Portraits By Karishma Mehrotra Executive Editor Above, a photo of Zelda, 59, shows her sitting with a slight smile and lightly touching her sewing machine. She is a seamstress in Mugunga III, a well-known internally displaced people (IDP) camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Aubrey Graham — the first Ethics and the Arts Program artist in residence at

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the Center for Ethics and Ph.D. candidate in anthropology — shows another photo of Zelda. Its slightly greyer. Zelda is bent over, grabbing volcanic rock, looking up with a sobering expression. Graham took the photo above. A United Nations (UN) refugee agency took the other one. “Why do we need to think about humanitarian photography … as objective, as this found truth?” Graham asked an audience of roughly

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30 in a small Center for Ethics classroom on Wednesday afternoon for the lecture “Portraits in Disneyland — Stories from Mugunga III.” “It’s also incredibly powerful to think of these things as constructions, where people … [advocate] how they want to be represented.” For eight months, Graham photographed the people of the DRC. Followed by a barrage of children, she walked through much of the 83

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