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Parking Department To Switch Vendors

Jewish Org. To Live in Asbury House

By Sarah Husain Staff Writer Emory’s transportation department will choose between two companies to take over the parking service contract that expires Aug. 31.

The department hopes to choose a provider this summer to leave time to finalize the contract before the current contract expires, according to Adele Clements, senior director of Emory Transportation and Parking Services (TPS).

“This partner should share our vision for the culture and experience that our customers expect when they park on campus,” Campus Services’ Manager of Business Operations Paul wrote in an email to the Wheel.

The two finalists for Emory’s Visitor Parking and Faculty Customer Service Ambassador program, SP+ University Services and LAZ Parking, showcased their proposals in the Campus Service Administration Building C on Thursday.

The two firms’ proposals included information on technology recommendations, employee benefits and increasing customer service. SP+ has held Emory’s parking service contract since 2011.

The Selection Process As part of TPS’ routine process every four years, a committee composed of TPS members, Emory Healthcare members and TPS Advisory board members reviewed proposals and chose LAZ and SP+ as finalists, weeks before the

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Emory Unveils New Water Recycling Facility

By Brandon Fuhr Asst. Digital Editor University President James W. Wagner and other Emory administrators celebrated the opening of a new water recycling facility last Friday in the parking lot behind Sorority Village that will reduce costs and Emory’s dependence on local water sources.

“It is one of the things that makes me feel so proud about Emory,” said Karen Salisbury, chief of staff and director of Customer Relations and Support for the Division of Campus Services. “This has the potential to change the water environment in the world.”

The WaterHub is the first plant of its type to be used in the United States, according to Matthew Early, vice president of Campus Services.

The WaterHub repurposes approx-

imately 400,000 gallons of waste water per day that Emory can use in heating and cooling systems as well as toilet systems across campus. The facility is expected to save Emory millions of dollars in water utility costs over the next 20 years, according to a WaterHub report. In effect, it will reduce the strain on the local water system, according to Early.

Enclosed in the glass geometric structure are large hydroponic pools in which plants and microorganisms constantly filter water. The waste water that enters the WaterHub is cleaned through the natural biological processes of the plants and microorganisms inside the building. Last year, Emory constructed pipes to connect the WaterHub to Raoul Hall.

This will allow the retreated waste water to be used in the building’s toilets once the University receives a permit.

Emory Healthcare Network and that he hopes the rape kits will be available as early as next fall.

Also, College junior and SGA President Raj Tilwa encouraging members to wear denim on Wednesday for the Respect Program’s and Intimate Partner Violence Working Group’s Denim Day. The SGA will donate $1 to the Respect program for every photo graph taken and shared on social media.

For the remainder of the meeting, University Librarian Yolanda Cooper, a guest speaker, proposed changes to the Robert W. Woodruff Library to improve the student atmosphere and comfort level. She voiced her willingness to work with students in the multi-year process of implementing these changes.

“I don’t think we’re getting the right input,” Cooper said. “I tried to put together a student advisory group in previous years, but we need one now because I want to re-utilize some library space, and I can’t do that without student input.”

As for other concerns related to the library, graduate representatives said they would like Woodruff Library’s hours extended and for the library to offer free printing. Cooper noted the concerns but said she would respond to these requests at a later time.

After the discussion with Cooper, second year School of Law student Suyash Raiborde introduced himself as the new law school representative.

— Contact Anwesha Guha at anwesha.guha@emory.edu

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Sustainable Water, the company behind the technology inside WaterHub, saw the project as a simulation of sustainable wetlands, as the biological processes that occur inside the WaterHub occur naturally in wetlands, he said.

Emory’s only involvement in the project is that the University will purchase the water produced by the facility, as a part of an agreement with Sustainable Water and the Atlanta-

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Men’s Story Project Questions Gender Roles

By Anwesha Guha Staff Writer

Defying gender roles as a female is difficult, as is evidenced in the Vagina Monologues. However, defying gender roles as a male proves to be a different sort of challenge.

The Men’s Story Project, an international project that aims to defy masculine gender norms, will share the real-life experiences of men in Rollins Auditorium on Tuesday at

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based construction firm Reeves Contracting Company, according to Early. The risk essentially falls on the contractors because Emory is simply buying the water they produce, Early said.

The WaterHub-produced water is less expensive than the water that DeKalb County provides, Early added.

tudents modeled various designers’ lines for the IDentities Xposed Fashion Show on Saturday evening in Cox Ballroom. Black Student Alliance, College Council and many other student organizations sponsored the event, which celebrated the launch of the latest edition of 404: Emory Fashion Magazine. The night also featured a spoken word and rap performance.

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“Everybody wins,” Early said of the situation created by the WaterHub. This project allows Sustainable Water, a leading provider of water reclamation and reuse solutions, to make money, allows Emory to buy water at a reduced price and reduces the strain on DeKalb water resources, according to Early.

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SGA Lacks Quorum, Discusses Library Services

On Monday night, for its second meeting, the 49th Legislature of the Emory Student Government Association (SGA) wrapped up discussions about supplying free rape kits at the Emory University Hospital and suggested changes for the Robert W. Woodruff Library but did not introduce any bills because the session did not have quorum.

There was a lack of attendance at Monday’s meeting despite a recent bill that SGA passed to toughen its attendance policy.

“The idea behind this bill is to take a stab at solving the attendance problems that we’ve had all of this session,” College senior and SGA College-wide Representative Aaron Tucek, who submitted the bill, said in a March 31 article​ in the Wheel.

“Very consistently, we’ve had to use proxies just to meet quorum, and this has been a big problem for the Legislature. This bill ... seeks to take very drastic action.”

College sophomore and Speaker of the Legislature Crystal McBrown began Monday’s meeting by reviewing each speaker’s jobs. She and Vice President Max Zoberman stressed the importance of choosing committees for members to join at the next meeting.

Zoberman updated the group on his plan to supply free rape kits at the Emory Hospital, which he proposed at the last meeting. He said that he was still in talks with the

According to Douglas Hooker, executive director of the Atlanta Regional Commission, Atlanta is the largest metro area in the United States that relies on the country’s smallest watershed, in part because Atlanta has a relatively high elevation and is at the edge of six river basins.

“Other than people, our most pre-

This fall, the Asbury House will house 13 Jewish students to form the Emory Bayit, a student-run organization dedicated to growing and sustaining a thriving Jewish community on Emory’s main campus, according to Nursing School junior and the organization’s founder Gabrielle Bloch.

Because Sigma Phi Epsilon (SAE), a social fraternity, could not meet occupancy requirements in fall 2014, the Asbury House was empty this year, according to Assistant Dean & Director of Resident Life and Housing Scott Rausch.

Two other organizations, Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) and an organization planning to form a wellness community, also competed for the opportunity to live in the house, according to Rausch.

Residence Life was able to accommodate both groups in other residence halls on campus, Rausch said.

Of the three groups, he added, the Bayit had a particular need for the house, due to its members’ kosher diet and other Jewish practices.

Asked whether he felt uncomfortable accommodating one religious groups when many religious groups exist on campus, Rausch said, “for me, it’s not much about religion, but the practice … If any other group came to me, we’d try our best to accommodate them too.”

The Hebrew word “bayit” means “house,” and according to Bloch, this

Vice President and Deputy to the President Gary Hauk examined the plants that make it possible for the WaterHub to recycle water during the grand opening of the WaterHub on Friday.

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Five Emory students will share their stories of embracing masculinity while attempting to defy gender norms.

Jocelyn Lehrer, a senior research associate at the University of California San Francisco’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and the Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, founded The Men’s Story Project in 2008 “to defy the mainstream expectations and vio-

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lence associated with masculinity,” according to their website.

Alex Plum, a graduate student at Rollins School of Public Health, brought the project to Emory’s campus this semester after working abroad in New Delhi.

“The Men’s Story Project exists so that we can provide a venue, a platform, an opportunity for men to come together and tell their own personal story in a way that has them reflect upon while also sort of chal-

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lenging harmful social norms about masculinity, about what it means to be a man,” Plum said.

As a Public Health student, he works to explore the “intersections between masculinity and health” to learn about “the health of boys, the health of young men and the health of the communities they live.”

Plum met Lehrer at a conference on gender relations and equality,

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news roundup National, Local and Higher Education News • Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a $46 billion contract with the Pakistani government on Monday to develop a 1,800-mile China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a network of pipelines, roads and railways running from the Pakistani port of Gwadar to China’s western Xinjiang region.

• Italian, Greek and Maltese rescue workers aided passengers on two boats, each carrying hundreds of Middle-Eastern and North African migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe, as they neared capsizing close to the Italian and Greek coasts on Sunday. European Union leaders announced that they would hold a summit on Thursday in Luxembourg to discuss ways to address the influx of these refugees.

• In a report from its Office of the Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation acknowledged on Saturday the use of erroneous forensic evidence in more than 95 percent of 268 trials reviewed so far, 32 of which were capital punishment cases and 14 of which resulted in the death of the accused, either in prison or by execution.

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six Somali-American men accused of trying to join the Islamic State militant group. Two of the men were arrested in San Diego, and four were arrested in Minneapolis. Their ages ranged from 19 to 21 years old.

• Valdosta State University in southern Georgia banned an Air Force veteran from university activity after she intervened in an oncampus protest on Friday in which students walked on the American flag. Michelle Manhart, the veteran, was demoted from her sergeant position for posing in an issue of Playboy last year.

• Iconic Atlanta restaurateur Ann Price, the founder and owner of Ann’s Snack Bar, died aged 72 on Saturday.

The restaurant is known for its famed “Ghetto Burger,” which The Wall Street Journal recognized as “The World’s Greatest Burger” in 2007.

— Compiled by News Editor Lydia O’Neal

• The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Sunday arrested

Corrections The Wheel reports and corrects all errors published in the newspaper and at emorywheel.com.

Please contact Editor-in-Chief Dustin Slade at dustin.slade@emory.edu.

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• On April 14 at 7:55 a.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to a call regarding a suspicious male student pursuing a relationship with a female student. The female student called the police after another male student began showing up at different locations where she had been. The female student said that they were friends with similar schedules, but the male student wanted to become more involved with her. The female student was given resources regarding the incident and Campus Life was notified.

• On April 16 at 2:14 a.m., a fire alarm was activated at 20 Eagle Row. When officers arrived at the Kappa Sigma Fraternity house, the fire extinguisher had been discharged, and the contents had been let out inside the hall. There was no evidence of smoke

TUESDAY

Event: Matthew Torres, Ph.D. — “Quantitative Analysis of PTMs in G Protein Signaling Systems: New Tools and Unsuspected Discoveries” Time: 12 p.m.

Location: 5052 Rollins Research Center Event: Bettye Rose Connell Memorial Lecture Series Time: 2 p.m., 5 p.m.

Location: Claudia Nance Rollins Building, Klamon Room, 8th Floor Event: Master Class With Gary Motley and Joe Chambers, Percussion Time: 2:30 p.m.

Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Event: Men’s Story Project Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Claudia Nance Rollins Building Auditorium

• On April 16 at 9:00 p.m., EPD received a call regarding a suspicious individual at Starbucks in the Barnes & Noble Bookstore. A female was in the café when a male individual approached her and tried to talk to her. The female said she didn’t want to be rude but that she had to leave.

The suspicious male continued to talk to her as she left, so she called the police. When officers arrived on the scene, they were unable to locate the suspicious individual.

• On April 18 at 3:55 a.m., EPD responded to a call regarding an underage individual under the influence of alcohol at Raoul Hall. The individual had been drinking at Maggie’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill

and had bruises on his body. Another individual at the scene was concerned that he may have gotten into an altercation. Emory Emergency Medical Service (EEMS) arrived and examined the individual. He refused transportation to the hospital. Campus Life was notified.

• On April 17 at 11:30 a.m., an individual stole an iPhone from a room in Clairmont Tower during a power outage. One of the room’s occupants left their apartment door unlocked, and when they returned, the phone was missing. The iPhone is valued at $500. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

— Compiled by Asst. Digital Editor Brandon Fuhr

April 29, 1954 Then University President Goodrich C. White announced that Democratic Florida Senator Spessard Holand would deliver the 1954 commencement address on June 5, 1954, the Wheel reported. Holland received his Bachelor of Philosophy degree at Emory in 1912 and served as Florida governor from 1941 to 1945. The commencement ceremony would take place “on the upper athletic field,” and students who officially graduated in December and March would receive their degrees along with those who would graduate in June.

Events at emory

Event: Café Chocolat Luncheon Hour Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Callaway N108

Event: “The Imaginal World and Kiarostami’s Zig Zag” Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: White Hall 110

or fire at the scene. The incident was turned over to an investigator.

This Week In Emory History

Event: Disability In Focus Premier of “Becoming Bulletproof” Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Center for Ethics 102 Event: Curatorial Conversation: Mildred Thompson Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Carlos Museum Reception Hall

Event: Emory Big Band With Percussionist Joe Chambers Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Event: Creative Writing Awards Night Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room Event: “Deliverance” (1972) Film Screening Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: White Hall 208

THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY

Event: Undergrad Theory Reading Group Time: 4:15 p.m.

Location: Callaway N106

Event: Toastmasters at Emory Meeting Time: 8 a.m.

Location: Woodruff Health Sciences Library 231

Event: It’s in the Cards Exhibit Art Party Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Woodruff Library Jones Room

Event: Estate Planning With Trusts Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Rita Anna Rollins Building 252

Event: Cosmopolitanism: An Ethical Challenge to Patriotism Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: PAIS 290

Event: Department of Biology 2015 Rhodes Lectureship Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Whitehead Auditorium

Event: Jazz on the Green Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Patterson Green, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Event: Emory Dance Company: Spring Concert Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

FRIDAY Event: Climate@Emory Day of Scholarship Time: 8:30 a.m.

Location: White Hall 208 Event: Mittagstisch Time: 12 p.m.

Location: Emory Village Chipotle Event: Bate-papo: Portuguese Conversation Hour Time: 8:30 a.m.

Location: Longstreet-Means Great Room Event: Jack Willis’ “Lay My Burden Down and The Streets of Greenwood” Time: 7 p.m.

Location: White Hall 205 Event: Emory Dance Company: Spring Concert Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

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Panel Talks African American Mental Health

By Ashley Cane Contributing Writer Two experts discussed how mental health problems affect African Americans in a larger social and societal sense, highlighting racism, prejudice, education and the stigma that mental illness holds in African American communities in White Hall on Thursday evening.

Clinical Psychologist Alduan Tartt and Physician and Founder of the Lorio Psych Group Sarah Vinson spoke at the lecture titled, “Suffering in Silence: Mental Health in the African American Community,” which was hosted by the Gamma Beta Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.

Vinson, an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Morehouse School of Medicine and adjunct faculty at Emory University School of Medicine, looked at a multitude of societal stressors, including experienced or perceived prejudice, institutional and internalized racism, personal trauma, mental health care access disparities and double stigma.

Vinson also discussed known protective factors against mental illness, such as a sense of connectedness with others, religiosity, one’s self-esteem and socioeconomic status.

Vinson suggested possible treatment sources for sufferers of mental illness, including spiritual outlets, self-care, physical activities and professional therapy.

In the latter portion of the event,

Tartt, a recipient of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Award and a frequent expert on CNN and HLN, focused on mental health in regard to college life and relationships.

For his part of the talk, Tartt used his experience as a clinical psychologist to provide his own therapy strategies. He touched on the most effective ways to encourage a significant other to talk and share their feelings and explained how he uses these strategies to help his own clients.

Tartt’s approach consisted of using positive and motivational psychology vis-à-vis his clients, in which he accentuates the positive aspects of the client’s life. He encouraged the audience to use this tactic in their everyday lives with their peers.

The event’s pamphlet cited statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health, such as the fact that black adults are 20 percent more likely to report serious psychological distress and are more likely to have feelings of sadness, hopelessness and worthlessness than their white counterparts. Within the African American community, according to the HHS statistics reported by the pamphlet, 63 percent believe that depression is a personal weakness, higher than the overall survey average of 54 percent.

Phi Beta Sigma Chapter President and College senior William Lowry, who attended and helped organize the lecture, said there is a major need

both at Emory and in the African American community for open discussions on mental health problems.

“We live and learn in a very stressful environment at Emory,” Lowry said. “While one of Emory’s best qualities, the effects on student wellbeing cannot be ignored.”

Phi Beta Sigma chapter Treasurer and College senior Ryland Avery, who also helped organize the event, said the chapter wanted to raise awareness of “issues that are not often publicized in our community, or even recognized.”

College junior Taylor Craig, who attended the lecture, said she felt satisfied with the event’s content.

“It was relevant and important,” she said. “I really appreciated the talk.”

Following the end of the lecture, Craig, along with many other audience members, rushed to the front of the auditorium to meet and talk to the keynote speakers.

Like Craig, College freshman Deandre Miles said he enjoyed the event and felt that the topic of mental health was an important one.

“The event introduced a muchneeded conversation on the factors that influence the mental health of African Americans,” he said. Miles highlighted the importance of one of the event’s audience members: College Dean Robin Forman, who asked one of the first questions during the question and answer session.

— Contact Ashley Cane at ashley.cane@emory.edu

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The committee will review the finalists’ proposals in the next couple months before making a decision with advice from the University Contract Advisory Group, according to Clements.

The Job The chosen provider will be responsible for visitor parking revenue collection and management as well as customer service in seven visitor parking locations, according to Clements. ​​The customer service ambassadors patrol the decks and work with the Emory Police Department (EPD) to ensure safety. They also assist drivers, such as helping jump customers’ cars. The vendor will also provide customer service, security and traffic control for special events in the 14 Emory operated parking decks, according to Reeves.

“As this is the case, we expect everyone on our team to provide a seamless experience that goes above and beyond what their customer may experience at another university campus or hospital parking venue,” he wrote. “Parking at Emory is about the relationship. We make and take our business seriously to provide safe, well-maintained parking, with pleasant, courteous and helpful customer service.”

If LAZ wins the contract, LAZ would give current SP+ employees the chance to interview for a position, Reeves said. Four years ago, when SP+ began their contract, they interviewed existing contract employees and retained over 80 percent of them.

Class Visits WaterHub to Evaluate Cleaning Process Continued from Page 1 cious resource is water,” Hooker said.

The Atlanta community must continue to take steps, such as the construction of Emory’s WaterHub, to enhance sustainability of long-term resources, according to Hooker.

Water created by the WaterHub is not potable by U.S. standards, but in other countries, the water meets potable water standards, according to Salisbury.

“The WaterHub clearly demonstrates how recycling waste water and appropriately reusing it will extend our resilience and free up water for future generations,” Hooker said.

Salisbury added that Emory is breaking ground with this new technology, but she acknowledged that Emory won’t be the only institution to have this technology in the near future.

“The benefits of this project are not theoretical or abstract,” Hooker said. “They are very real, they are very measurable and they are very immediate, leaving no doubt of the beneficial impact sustainable practices can have on our water system.”

Academic Engagement While the WaterHub can recycle water, it also serves as an academic

opportunity for Emory students.

Gloria Sclar, a second-year student at the Rollins School of Public Health, helped lead a semester long project in which students could test water quality from different sections of the WaterHub to determine how effective the cleaning process was.

According to Sclar, students can apply this field technique in their future careers.

“What was exciting was just how invaluable the WaterHub was for our coursework,” Sclar said. “It is a tool for students to make applied connections.”

— Contact Brandon Fuhr at brandon.spencer.fuhr@emory.edu

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Two Vendor Finalists for Parking Present Proposals Continued from Page 1

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University President James W. Wagner and other Emory officials participated in a ribbon cutting as part of the grand opening of the WaterHub, Emory’s new water reclamation facility, on Friday.

The Proposals During the vendor presentations, LAZ Regional Vice President Todd Lawson touched on the safety measures LAZ would implement if given the opportunity to serve the Emory community, as well as the company’s emphasis on customer service. ​He also proposed new technology on campus to decrease parking spot search time, such as a mobile app that shows live parking availability around campus and an online reservation system, according to Lawson.

Specifically, LAZ said in a statement that it would offer a mobile app verifying live parking availability, an online validation system, signs directing parkers to available spots during peak times and an online reservation system.

The SP+ presentation focused on raising customer service and hospitality standards in Emory’s parking decks, according to Reeves.

He added that one thing that stood out to him was their top level technology experts that come onto campus and provide feedback on how parking services can improve at Emory.

“SP+ is very excited about the opportunity to continue to develop the outstanding partnership we have with Emory University,” SP+ Georgia Regional Manager Jason Spoeth wrote in an email to the Wheel. “We intend to build upon the favorable changes we have made over the past several years by supporting our fantastic Emory team, providing world class customer service training and strategic technology recommendations.”

— Contact Sarah Husain at shusai5@emory.edu

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HANA Dance group performed on Friday and Saturday to a packed room in the Burlington Road Building. The performance’s main song was a remix of “Woods” by Bon Iver and featured jazz, tap, hip-hop and other dance forms. The dance group composed of student choreographers and dancers performs bi-annually.

Bayit Hopes to Host Non-Resident, Interreligious Events, Bloch Says Continued from Page 1 house would serve as “a haven for Jewish students to ground ourselves in our values.”

Although there are three other Jewish organizations on campus — Hillel, Chabad and MEOR — Bloch said the Emory Bayit will offer something that many Jewish students might not be able to find elsewhere on Emory’s campus.

“A lot of Judaism happens in the home, and so [for] the students that are more observant, it can pose challenges to try and maintain a lot of the laws of Judaism,” Bloch said. “I think

that having a home enables people to keep kosher and Shabbat in a way that doesn’t feel isolating but rather celebratory.”

Bloch cited, for example, that although there are campus events on Friday evenings observing Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, some students who view Shabbat as a full 24-hour experience where they refrain from technology use, physical exertion and any type of work, might find that there aren’t enough options for them to observe this day with others on a Saturday afternoon, for example, she said.

Although only 12 students can live

at the house at one time, Bloch said that Emory Bayit will also host events for non-resident students to attend.

Bloch also mentioned the possibility of using the Asbury House as a place to host inter-religious dialogue for students across campus.

“It would be really cool to have Bayit be a base to have dialogue with different [religious] groups,” Bloch said. She added that she had often discussed with the new residents the possibility of hosting a Shabbat dinner with an organization such as the Muslim Student Association.

Bloch added that the Bayit is not associated with a greater religious

movement or agenda.

“Bayit is strictly student-created and student-run with no other agenda than being another way to explore Judaism,” Bloch said.

College sophomore Sari Flomenbaum, who will be living in the Bayit next year, wrote in an email to the Wheel that she’s looking forward to getting to know the new residents of the Bayit.

“The Bayit is a place where a community living on Jewish values can exist and unite different people,” Flomenbaum wrote.

— Contact Annie McGrew at anne.elizabeth.mcgrew@emory.edu

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Men’s Story Project More Personal, Says McCurdy

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Continued from Page 1 where they both discussed their common hope to find “a way to bring men together in an organic setting where they can explore by telling those stories, those social norms that they learned about being men and how those social norms have played out in their lives and how they challenged those social norms in order to create peace.”

Putting together these stories, Plum said, has been extremely relevant to not only his work, but also to recent events on Emory’s campus.

He cited a bias incident and the act of vandalism of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Pi Epsilon (AEPi) fraternity house last semester as examples of issues meriting a discussion of men’s issues.

“So it seemed like we were already in an environment where some negative things were happening that maybe could be related to harmful masculinity and men showing off and creating acts of violence for reasons we condone socially, even if we don’t condone them personally,” Plum explained. “I thought it might be good to be getting men to start telling their stories.”

College senior Marcus Jenkins said he was motivated to perform because of his past.

“I decided to get involved because I thought my personal story of growing up without a father needed to be

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fully vocalized,” Jenkins said, adding that his upbringing in a single-parent household was “a part of my masculine identity.”

First-year graduate student at School of Public Health Matthew McCurdy wanted the opportunity to discuss “the nature of hyper-masculinity” and how it affects adolescent health.

After getting involved, McCurdy said his perspective changed as he adapted his story in a more personal level.

“I think this should be my story personally, so I guess my motivation has kind of grown into a self-exploration of how norms and masculinity have shaped by life, and I think it’s a process we need to explore,” he said.

McCurdy also said that while the Men’s Story Project and the Vagina Monologues are both similar productions, he believes the Men’s Story Project is more personal in nature.

The Vagina Monologues, a series of solo performances that explore female sexuality organized on campus by Feminists-in-Action, features stories based on interviews, while the Men’s Story Project has performers draw on their own experiences.

McCurdy said he feels anxious to share his story.

“I think the fact that something makes me uncomfortable gives me more reason to do it,” he said. “I think talking about masculinity so much is uncomfortable for me, even as a man.

Both McCurdy and Jenkins said they are interested to see the audience’s response to the production.

McCurdy expects the opinions to range from encouragement to inspiration.

“I think a lot of people are very unsure what this is, so I think people will appreciate just hearing men express themselves,” McCurdy said.

“I think that [it] is abnormal to hear [men] talk about emotions [and] talk about the result of masculinity.”

Overall, Jenkins said he wanted one message to come across: “I wanted to show that I’m still here, and I don’t feel restricted, but as a society, we are restricted in relation to our masculinity.”

College freshman Julie Chen said she looks forward to seeing the Men’s Story Project, especially since she was not able to attend the Vagina Monologues in February.

She added that the Men’s Story Project is different from Vagina Monologues in that it shatters traditional gender roles rather than embracing men’s empowerment.

“There are a lot of stereotypes that I think that paint men to be in a certain way, and I kind of hope Men’s Story Project undoes that,” Chen said.

“The fact that gender roles exist and the fact that men and women have to be either this way or that way is wrong.”

— Contact Anwesha Guha at anwesha.guha@emory.edu

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Dentities Xposed Fashion Show on Saturday evening featured everything from African-influenced clothes lines by College senior Melissa Issa-Boube and Akpomejevwe Mukoro to the casual wear of Lindsay Barnette on the lighted runway in the transformed Cox Ballroom.

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Changes Must Not Ruin Emory’s Zaya

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Bon Appétit Management, Emory’s new food services contractor, has plans to renovate Zaya Mediterranean Cuisine, possibly narrowing the menu to cut costs and reduce the wait time for food as well as redesigning the interior. Zaya has been one of the most convenient spots on campus for many students, and we at the Wheel have some suggestions to retain Zaya’s best qualities while improving in areas it lacks.

First, Zaya should serve alcoholic beverages to students of legal age. Many other colleges and universities across the country sell alcoholic beverages at oncampus dining establishments. DeKalb County has rules against selling alcohol 100 feet away from a college campus, but does not prohibit alcohol being sold on campus. An Emory ID card reader would be sufficient to verify the age of students and this initiative would actually help create a safe environment for responsible drinking on Emory’s campus, away from high-risk fraternity houses.

In addition, we acknowledge the pros of cost-saving menu cuts, but we are hesitant that Zaya will limit options to the point where it completely looses its current variety. We are also concerned that these cuts will hurt students with dietary needs, especially given that Zaya is one of the only late night dining options at Emory. After 8 p.m., when Dobbs Market stops serving much of its menu, Zaya becomes the only option available to students. While Eagle Convenience and Subs has alienated the gravity of late night cravings, Zaya needs to stay a viable option, especially in its offering of healthy food choices. Even though it is important that Zaya cover its costs, we hope that the University values the needs of its students more than the amount of profit the restaurant makes.

Finally, we suggest that Zaya be redesigned to serve as a venue for social functions. We agree with the University that moving the kitchen and counter would provide more community space. If Zaya were able to host live performances and music, it would help build community and school spirit and would give more evening alternatives to Fraternity Row. While we hope that the pub-like, classic and wooden design of the establishment remains the same for the most part, adding some signs of school spirit in the design may make Zaya feel more like an Emory space.

Zaya is an important icon of the Emory college experience and a late night convenience for many students, but it is in need of a change. We hope that the establishment will retain its image and continue to be a popular destination for many students on campus.

Georgia Schools Should Routines Make Us Forget What Matters Help Undoc. Students Three weeks ago, many said Emory’s decision to offer financial aid to undocumented students made it “an ethical leader in the South.” That wasn’t enough to convince Georgia’s Board of Regents, whose spokesperson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Emory’s announcement would have no impact on their policy.

It is not only morally wrong but economically senseless to not follow Emory’s lead.

Georgia, along with seven other states, wrote a bill this year to offer in-state aid to undocumented students who are exempt from deportation under the federal policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which would revoke the Board’s current policy. The policy also states that these students can only apply to Georgia colleges after they choose the regular applicant pool. Students without legal status can currently pay in-state tuition in 21 states.

The Georgia Senate’s Bill 44, however, never left committee before the Senate’s session ended last week, the AJC reported.

First, on a moral level, we at the Wheel find the Board’s decision appalling, as it punishes a group of young people — who are American in every figurative sense except the legal one — for a decision that was beyond their control: to immigrate to the United States. Many of these students did make the decision, however, to push themselves to achieve the grades, test scores and other qualifications to make them eligible for their state’s top public colleges in every way but one — their citizenship.

The state supports their education and their chance to prove themselves academically from kindergarden through high school, but stops there, denying many of them the true ticket to a better future.

We acknowledge there may be political counterarguments to our stance.

Offering lower tuition to immigrants without legal status might cross the line for many. However, the governor of Georgia appoints the Board members, and so its members are not liable to obey such voters, nor should they have any ideological reason to conform to such xenophobia. On top of that, it appears that the Board rests somewhere above the people’s opinion. The AJC reported that a group of 39 DACA qualifiers tried to sue the Board for its policy, but sovereign immunity shielded the Board from such litigation.

Morality aside, the bill makes economic sense. If the Board cites financial resources as a reason not to follow Emory’s lead, we believe it to be seriously mistaken. On a national scale, immigrants are the backbone of our economy, and the state of Georgia is no exception. How can we bolster this trend? By allowing those immigrants to attain a degree with a lower tuition that encourages them to remain in Georgia, attain a job in their state and contribute to the economy.

We may appear to be preaching from Emory’s ivory tower of acceptance, so to speak, but we do not hesitate to condemn what we see as ethically unsound and pragmatically senseless. The Board has instituted a glass ceiling for undocumented students, and we at the Wheel demand that they shatter it.

The above staff editorials represent the majority opinion of the Wheel’s editorial board.

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Tyler Teresi As college students at an elite university, we are undoubtedly busy with the many things that need to be done before tomorrow.

We are overwhelmingly focused on these things that we have to do, professors we have to meet with, classes we have to attend and meetings we have to get to.

With all of this, it is quite simple to live through our days in autopilot; we wake up, get ready for the day, grab breakfast, go to class, attend a club meeting, do homework, go to sleep and repeat. In this daily routine we are too stuck inside of our heads and only concerned with the end to our current path.

Our minds are too often set on our destination and where we are going. Of course it is important to have direction, but it is also important not to forget what’s in-between and not to discount the things that are outside of our destination.

It seems that because of the other things we have to worry about, we are lacking engagement with the world around us and not thinking twice about it.

The world is filled with things that should fascinate us, offering us nature, potential personal relationships and all of humankind’s creations, such as art, architecture and music. Emory’s campus is no exception, with beautiful greenery, flowering shrubbery, overzealous squirrels, impressive architecture (aside from White Hall, of course) and so many people with intriguing backgrounds and spectacular goals. Yet every day many of us overlook this.

We must stop disregarding the world and people around us just because we are on our own path of getting things done. It is important to be aware, appreciative and inquisitive about everything around us instead of blinding ourselves to it all. In German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, he

addresses the importance of reflecting upon the world around us and how we connect with it in order to determine what it means to “be.” His philosophy revolves around the idea of “being there” or “being in a world” and he believes that we need to be concerned with the things around us and their original nature. He emphasizes that being aware of the environment around us and being able to think deeper about it and what it holds for us allows us to better consider our own place in the world.

Walking around every day we accept our observations as they are, turn away, and give no second thought about them. We do not truly observe the objects we come across and do not think about the detail of the trees or the architecture or whatever other observations we may be making. There’s beauty in analysis of the things around us, the evaluation of them, considering how they got there and what their place in the world is. It is even as simple as saying, “I like this,” or, “I don’t like this,” and asking ourselves why that is, or considering what makes something beautiful to us and what exhibits good or bad art. This allows us to connect with our world in a large way as we are coming out of our own heads and putting thought into what is outside of what we are doing immediately or where we are going.

A huge part of our world where we are not engaged well enough is in our interactions with other people, especially when meeting new people.

It is astounding to me how many times I have had a conversation with someone one day only to walk past them at a later date and see them have no memory of our previous interaction. Often we only put half of the effort we should into our conversations, not enough for our brains to actually register the event. According to an article by The Guardian, it takes 10 seconds of devoted brain power to remember a person’s name.

That being said, we very often have trouble remembering the names of others the first time. This of course might happen as a result of some of us just having bad memories, but maybe this just goes to show that we are not working hard enough to really try and connect with both the people we are talking to and the words they are saying. We convince ourselves that we are so busy that we don’t even want to spend 10 seconds attempting to remember someone’s name.

Our engagement is lacking with others mainly because conversations are often had in the shadow of so many other distractions.

It is too common to ask a question, and as the other is responding, turn to our phone and check whatever notifications are begging to be checked. Often we listen to a person, and we do not absorb any of the information, and many other times we are not even listening at all.

Our interactions with others deserve more than half engagement, because we are missing out on the opportunity to really get to know some amazing people. It’s very enjoyable to actually become invested in getting to know a person and what they have to offer the world as opposed to having superficial conversations just to pass the time and forgetting everything that was talked about later on.

Taking time to observe the world, to think about it and connect with it is almost a necessity and nothing other than a rewarding experience from which we can only benefit.

We learn by observing, by interacting and by experiencing. The work that we do for our classes and the time that we put into activities is certainly important, but it distracts us from the rest of the world. We must take the time to be more conscious of everything and everyone we encounter and are surrounded by, because we are really missing out when we let it all pass us by.

Tyler Teresi is a College freshman from Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Atlanta: A Microcosm for Airline Deregulation Alex McIntyre Locally-based travelers in Atlanta often harbor a love-hate relationship with the airport in town. Airports Council International (ACI) recently released its 2014 data, and for the 17th consecutive year, our airport down south — Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport — was ranked as the world’s busiest, supporting slightly over 96 million passengers during the year. The airport’s vibrancy serves as a double-edged sword for locals: on the one hand, fliers can easily reach nearly any destination in the world, but on the other hand, they must also bear the inescapably long lines and congestion.

Many assume that Delta Air Lines, headquartered in Atlanta, individually drives the airport’s hegemony within the airline industry, and to some extent, it does. HartsfieldJackson represents the largest hub for one of the world’s largest airlines, and Delta owns a dominating portion — about 75 percent — of the airport’s market share. But other airlines strongly influence the airport and the region as well. In fact, Atlanta serves as an interesting case study, with its airport nicely reflecting the trends initiated back in 1978 with the Airline Deregulation Act. Hartsfield-Jackson functions as a neat microcosm of the cascading effects of deregulation across the nation.

Before 1978, the federal government largely dictated the routes airlines could fly, with a series of legacy carriers each owning a comfortable slice of the domestic market.

However, the government, encouraged largely by economist Alfred E. Kahn (considered the “father of deregulation”), opened a more competitive marketplace with the Airline Deregulation Act, removing most restrictions and allowing multiple suitors to vie for traffic on each route. This triggered a wave of effects, some designed and some perhaps unintentional. Deregulation ultimately contributed to the emergence of a three-tiered

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airline classification system domestically, and Atlanta manifests these trends perfectly.

First and foremost, deregulation shifted the axis of competition from passenger experience to price. Without many pre-deregulatory threats, airlines could largely tailor their focus to making flying as comfortable as possible for the consumer (regardless of the associated costs of doing so), leading to skies characterized by glamour and luxury. However, inundated with a series of competitors, airlines mainly began to compete on the basis of price after deregulation, resulting in lower fares and more choice, as intended by the law’s proponents.

Many cite Southwest Airlines, which conveniently debuted in Atlanta in 2012, as a quintessential example. Southwest, which champions itself as a low-cost and cultureladen airline, traces its roots back to deregulation, when it gained the autonomy to fly beyond its home state of Texas. Southwest engaged in the price-minimizing war by employing a strategy of maximizing aircraft

Gun Control Misses the Point Alec Woodard Americans, more than any other nationality, love guns. As a corollary, we have way more of them than any other nation has. So it isn’t surprising that we have a relatively high rate of gun violence. However, relative to the number of guns in America, gun violence is actually low compared to other nations. Despite the fact that violence as a whole has declined steadily over the last 20 years, and continues to decline, the American public perceives an increase in gun violence.

This perception has, of course, led to wide politicization of the issue, with Republicans generally pro-gun and Democrats in favor of stricter gun control laws. Neither side has a stance that is in line with both American history or culture and the reality of gun violence. And, since Americans, for the first time since the question was asked, overall think that gun rights are more important than gun control, Democrats are making a huge political mistake.

While Republicans would have gun rights and implicitly decreased liberties by the ubiquitous presence of police and continued National Security Agency (NSA) overreach, Democrats would have increased safety at the price of gun rights. This is incompatible with the history of guns in America and other parts of the Democratic agenda.

Gun use in America has been historically linked to nature conservation, with figures like Theodore Roosevelt and John James Audubon campaigning for conservation because of their love and respect for nature that they more or less exercised by hunting.

It is ironic that being a hunter now results in a conservative perception, lax on environmental issues, when it is essential to hunting that natural habitats are kept healthy.

Democrats’ positions on gun control go back to the seldom-quoted part of the famous line from the second amendment. The full quote is: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Democrats ostensibly think that they are enforcing the first part of the statement, the “well-regulated” part. The question, then, is to what extent is regulation in line with the Constitution? The answer to that is complex, but, given that the proposed 2013 Assault Weapons ban would prohibit 48 of the 143 weapons used in mass shootings in the last three decades, they seem to be operating fairly within the spirit of the law. However, the political ramifications of supporting gun control measures like the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 are a great cost when the problem of mass shootings would be better addressed by mental health reform. I do not mean reform for people with severe mental disorders — only 23 percent of mass shooting perpetrators had severe mental disorders, according to a 2001 study — but rather more extensive and available therapeutic support for substance abusers and adolescent males and females in general, measures that have already been proposed in Congress.

Media and schooling in the United States is overwhelmingly anti-gun and anti-violence.

Obviously, we cannot tell children that violence is the answer. But that ignores the times,

even in America’s history, when violence was so prevalent that, for oppressed groups, it was the answer.

The civil rights movement was such a time.

According to Charles E. Cobb, Jr., professor at Brown University who recently wrote a book on the importance of armament to the American civil rights movement: “There was never a family I stayed with that didn’t have a gun. I know from personal experience and the experiences of others that guns kept people alive, kept communities safe, and all you have to do to understand this is simply think of black people as human beings, and they’re gonna respond to terrorism the way anybody else would.”

So it was not just the “extremist” factions of the civil rights movement — like Malcolm X and the Black Panthers — that supported gun rights and violent self-defense.

It was every household that felt under threat and unprotected from a white majority, racist influenced power structure. That power structure still exists and, though citizens are technically equal under the law, still clearly discriminates against blacks and other minorities. The idea that gun ownership decreases violent crime overall has been refuted by multiple studies, but when there is a demonstrated bias against a certain group of people from law enforcement, they cannot be blamed for wanting protection.

Protection is now the most cited reason Americans give for gun ownership, trading places with hunting since 1999. This represents a trend in the same spirit as the false public perception of rising crime rates. A common argument cited in the pro-gun crowd is National Rifle Association (NRA) VicePresident Wayne LaPierre’s claim that: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

The idea behind this quote — that gun ownership rates correlate with safety — has been shown to be false by multiple studies, and a majority of researchers in the area consider it false. But at least that statement is sane enough to merit research. What is not sane is the line of LaPierre’s continued argument, which goes on to say things like: “I call on Congress today, to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation.”

That would be an overreaction, considering that “children are almost 100 times more likely to be murdered outside of school than at school.” And that overreaction points to the heart of the issue with Republican stances on gun control. Americans do not need or want a police state; we want safety and liberty without sacrificing one for the other.

It is hard to separate nationalist, crazed rhetoric and fear-induced paranoia from sound arguments around gun control. Such is the emotional association many Americans have with guns. But that is the point. Americans have a unique gun culture in the world that runs so deep that to work against it in even small ways is discordant. It would take a massive effort to change American attitudes about guns, and anti-gun policies could achieve their goals without reducing gun rights, so when the Democrats allow themselves to be portrayed as the anti-gun party, they concede a political failure.

Alec Woodard is a College freshman from Burlington, Iowa.

and employee efficiency, flying only one aircraft type (Boeing 737) and favoring less congested secondary airports (which helps control delays) over the nation’s busiest airports.

The relaxation of federal control bolstered Southwest’s ability to compete nationally, and today it serves Atlanta as the airport’s second largest tenant — good news for consumers.

... ULCCs represent the extreme of the movement to price-based competition.

Lower airfares for consumers also translates into less revenue for airlines. Today, even in an age of relative prosperity within the industry, airlines compete on razor-thin profit margins. Legacy carriers like Delta try to create economies of scale as a tool for minimizing costs, concentrating the bulk of

their flights to a few fortress hubs. HartsfieldJackson mirrors this trend well, handling a significant amount of connecting traffic as well as local passengers.

Delta itself reflects a major (if delayed) effect triggered by deregulation: widespread consolidation following 9/11, the biggest disaster to plague the industry. Already teetering on thin ice before two hijacked airlines downed the Twin Towers, domestic carriers endured financial crises as demand rapidly dipped. Fiscal instability generated a wave of mergers, culling the pool of competitors domestically. In 2008, Delta and Northwest Airlines officially merged; with the UnitedContinental and American-US Airways pacts, three legacy airlines mainly dominate the skies today, mirrored locally by Delta’s commanding control of Hartsfield-Jackson.

Merger activity injected necessary stability into the airline industry, but left a competitive hole. The trimming away of legacy airlines ushered in a new yet long-coming industry fad: the ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC).

Whereas Southwest, generally considered a “hybrid” carrier, exemplifies a mix of price consciousness and vibrant service, ULCCs represent the extreme of the movement to price-based competition. Emphasizing the strategy of unbundling — the stripping away of practically all features associated with an airline ticket except for the the seat itself (and not even a pre-assigned one, unless you wish to pay extra, of course) — these airlines target the heavily budget-conscious flier by promoting the lowest possible base fare. They seek to spur new demand for flying by capturing people who might otherwise not travel or travel via alternative means, making travel more available to all — an obviously desired outcome of deregulation.

Spirit and Frontier Airlines represent two of the most notable ULCCs, and both have ramped up their Atlanta service recently, asserting their respective voices at HartsfieldJackson. With their entrance to and aggressive pursuit of Atlanta travelers, combined with Southwest’s footprint, Hartsfield-Jackson, most commonly known as a Delta powerhouse, supports all three rings within the airline industry: full service carriers, hybrid/ low-cost carriers and ULCCs. This threetiered airline structure represents the culmination of deregulation, and the presence of each segment, in domestically-representative proportions, in Atlanta optimizes the benefits that air travel offers to the area.

Fliers locally benefit from both ends of the spectrum, with an ample variety of nonstop routes (many of which are supported by Delta) and pricing pressure introduced by discount carriers.

For the consumer, all this means more choice and more rigorous competition.

Kahn and other supporters of the Airline Deregulation Act would be proud of what has transpired decades later in Atlanta.

Alex McIntyre is a College freshman from Dallas, Texas.

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Be Sociable, Send Sticker Messages

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The introduction of the Facebook sticker search function was one of the most promising recent developments on the Internet. For those unfamiliar with the fledgling universe of Facebook stickers, they are pictures (sometimes moving!) of various things doing various (usually strange) actions — ranging from a Power Ranger putting its thumb up, to a stick figure performing a Russian traditional dance, to a personified hotdog laughing “heh heh heh.”

You can find these and oh so many more by clicking on the little smiley face to the right of the typing boxing in Facebook Messenger.

Stickers are truly glorious in their diversity and absurdity.

Before the introduction of sticker search, if you wanted to find a sticker, you had to go to the sticker store, find a set of stickers you liked, download them and then select the sticker you wanted to use. It was truly a laborious process, taking upwards of a minute to find the appropriate sticker — no small change for our hyper-paced, internetaddicted minds (you could scroll through at least the first eight pictures on Buzzfeed’s “The Definitive Ranking of Every Facebook Sticker Pack” in that time!)

But now with the introduction of sticker search, you can simply search whatever emotion you want to convey by sticker, and a litany of stickers from all the different sticker packs that express your desired emotion will

pop up.

What once took precious minutes of time to find, can now be found quicker than you can untag yourself from the spring break photo that would make you unemployable if a hiring manager ever saw it.

My personal favorite sticker set is “Dance Party.” The set features two stick figures, one male and one female, busting iconic dance moves.

A friend of mine who shares the love for the sticker set — College junior Marissa Klein — and I have named the male and female dancers Franklin and Cynthia, respectively.

We are moving away from simply writing to more multimedia communication.

Their moves run the gamut from Franklin flailing his disco point, to Cynthia bringing it around town, to Franklin mechanically performing the robot.

Facebook stickers, in addition to being a great way to flair up any conversation, reflect a larger trend in online communication. We are moving away from simply writing to more multi-media communication. Snapchat is probably the most popular form of multi-

media communication, combining pictures, text, drawing and video (although personally not my favorite; I selfie weird). Emojis reflect this trend as well.

Unlike the first rise of Internet communication with email and instant messaging, multi-media messaging is not changing the way that we interact on the web on a very substantive level. Rather, it’s just a lot of fun!

Stickers can be used to reinforce whatever message you are trying to convey.

For example, if you are professing your love to someone in Shakespearean sonnet across Facebook Chat, you can then follow it with a sticker of a Lego Hamlet giving a soliloquy to a Lego skull. If that does not show love, I do not know what does. (Editor’s Note: the author has not had a girlfriend since eighth grade.)

Stickers also easily let you flair up otherwise bland interactions, adding some character to what would otherwise be a one-word response.

So, next time someone Facebook messages you asking if you want to go to dinner, don’t respond with a plain old, 20th century “yes” or “for sure.” Instead send them the sticker of a giant sparkling thumbs up, a monkey holding up a sign that says “yes” written out in bananas or whatever other sticker tickles your fancy.

Ben Perlmutter is a College junior from Chappaqua, New York.

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College junior Abdullah Sufi (left), College freshman Ravi Doshi (center) and College freshman Sohrab Nawaz (right) pine over their

respective love interests in Jhalak, an annual production prsented by Emory’s Pakistani Student Association.

By Julia Munslow Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor

Despite the population of female students on Emory’s campus who are able to get an education, for girls around the world, this opportunity is often not available. The Pakistani Student Association (PSA) presented their annual play Jhalak, to bring light to this issue on Saturday, April 18 in White Hall 208 at 6:30 p.m.

The play tells the story of Samira, played by College freshman Sahar Panjwani, a young Pakistani girl living in the United States who wants to bring education to women in rural areas. Samira must also deal with her parents being in Pakistan to visit her sick grandmother, while navigating the drama of her first year of college.

The play opens with married couple Zaynab (Goizueta Business School sophomore Karishma Ratnani) and Zahir (College senior Saad Mohiuddin), who decide to return to Pakistan to visit Nani, Zaynab’s sick mother. After leaving their children, Samira and Shaheer (College freshman Shaheer Mallick) with family friends, they rush off to Pakistan to spend time with their sick relative.

Samira and her friend Rabia (College sophomore Rasika Tangutoori) are swept off to their first year of college. On the first day of classes, they along with Hana, another friend (College freshman Zahra Punja), encounter a trio of boys in their Contemporary Issues in Pakistan class: Zain (College fresh-

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man Sohrab Nawaz), Hamza (College freshman Ravi Doshi) and Yusuf (College junior Abdullah Sufi).

The boys, international students who have just arrived from Pakistan, are hoping to “spit that mad game” with any college girls that they can find.

However, their playboy plans are quickly foiled, as the moment the boys lay eyes on the three girls, they fall madly in love — despite the girls’ disgust with them.

Regardless of the girls’ repeated rejections of the boys, the six students are assigned to work on a class project together, and end up in couples: Zain with Samira, Hamza with Hana and Yusuf with Rabia.

Although this isn’t exactly surprising, the Jhalak cast manages to pull

it off in an endearing way — part of the charm and fun of the show is in its over the top nature.

For example, Doshi and Sufi are hilarious as Hamza and Yusuf, falling all over themselves (literally) in their attempts to impress the girls. “My game is magical,” Hamza proclaims at one point, to the audience’s delight.

“I am Harry Potter!”

Of course, the group must overcome a few bumps on the road before reaching a happy ending.

The professor of their Contemporary Issues in Pakistan class, Dr. Bilal Khan (College senior Farhan Momin), also falls madly in love — with the beautiful chemistry teacher across the hall, Ms. Desouza

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Composer Franz Joseph Haydn’s piece “The Creation” is considered by many to be his crowning achievement. The oratorio — a musical composition for orchestra, choir and soloists — tells the Biblical story of the creation of the world from the Book of Genesis and it has a feeling of grandeur that makes it epic. Yes, I called it epic because the musical performance was an immense, resonating event. So when the Emory University Symphony Orchestra and the Emory University Chorus performed “The Creation” on Friday, April 17 in the Emerson Concert Hall at 8 p.m., it was a majestic experience.

Haydn composed it when he was at his most religious. It has choral text that was originally inspired

by John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and it uses a variety of instruments to depict the miracles of “The Creation.” During the concert, the three soloists who represented the archangels, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael, were Abigail SantosVillalobos as the soprano, Bradley Howard as the tenor and John Wade Thomas as the baritone. Santos is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Thomas is a graduate of Samford University and Ohio State University, while Howard is the director of vocal studies at Emory.

One of the most interesting parts of this composition is its structure and how it is performed.

Throughout “The Creation,” the vocal soloists perform recitatives that relate to how God created the world.

These sparsely accompanied sections were then immediately followed by the orchestra and the choir making

music together as a mass ensemble.

It was like a play in which the performers played the roles of angels, telling humanity of the origin of the world.

The audience was able to follow the progression of the story and the angels related each new development through the recitatives, much like chapters in a book. As a result, the interaction between the audience, orchestra and choir made it a valuable experience that included everyone.

Richard Prior, the Edward Goodwin Scruggs Conducting Chair and director of orchestral studies, was adept at conducting both the orchestra and choir at the same time, and responded appropriately to the soloists.

In addition, being that “The Creation” is a fairly long oratorio, the orchestra did not play it in its entirety. However, the parts they did include flowed well together.

Overall, while I was listening in the audience, I felt the large scale of the performance. The sounds produced by the orchestra echoed well in the auditorium hall, and coordinating with the choir, the musical experience was amplified. At first, I was admittedly a little surprised that they were playing only one composition, but once I learned that it was Haydn’s “The Creation,” I knew that the orchestra had to have practiced an inordinate amount to prepare.

Luckily for me, my anticipation was not let down and the efforts of the musicians paid off.

The main reason I was so impressed with the work was because of how professional it sounded. I could tell how impassioned the musicians were because

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Live Music

City’s Pen Show Atlanta’s Indie Pop Scene Taken by Storm A ‘Pensive’ Experience

By Maya Nair Contributing Writer

By Elbert Liang Contributing Writer

When I first walked into the Wyndham Atlanta Galleria to attend the Atlanta Pen Show, I was immediately offered a free copy of Pen magazine.

“There are two of you,” the woman said, “so you can have two different ones!” The woman and her friend, sitting at a table located near the entrance, gestured towards the admissions table and smiled warmly.

I paid my $8 admission fee and walked in — unsure about what to expect.

This was the Atlanta Pen Show’s 20th year running in the city. The show, sponsored by major pen brands such as Mont Blanc and Delta, took place at the Wyndham — a conveniently located hotel and showroom where pen lovers from near and far converged both to talk about and display their own pens for sale. Birmingham’s not too close,” I overheard an elderly gentleman say, “but I always make it a point to come to the Atlanta Pen Show every year.”

The Atlanta Pen Show boasted “new and vintage pen dealers from the Southeastern United States and beyond” on their website.

Not only were there tables of vendors lining the edges of the ballroom where people were buying and selling pens, but also pen experts leading pen-related seminars, such as “Italian Calligraphy,” and “Cursive Handwriting.”

There was an eclectic mix of people attending that day. One selfdeclared “pen accumulator” claimed to have a collection of over 100 vintage pens.

Vendors sold a variety of pens and pen-related paraphernalia, from handcrafted wooden ballpoints to refurbished fountain pens from the 90s, to leather journals and rare inks.

In a separate room, young pen enthusiasts swapped pens and inks across a table littered with scraps of paper, discussing the chances of

winning the day’s raffle for a grand prize drawing.

From pen fanatics to the young man staying at the Wyndham who asked if he could take a quick look inside, everybody played a part in adding to the lively atmosphere.

I wandered over to a stall where a man was busily repairing fountain pens.

Bits and pieces of all kinds of pens as well as tools and inks were strewn about a table below a banner that read “Martin’s Pens 51” with the words “On Site Repairs” in red right below.

Vendors sold a variety of pens and pen-related paraphernalia, from handcrafted wooden ballpoints to refurbished fountain pens from the 90s ...

Martin was not only repairing pens, but displaying his wares as well.

Terry Wilson, an attorney who was displaying some of his own personal pens for sale at Martin’s table, introduced me to some of his most prized pens.

“I’m selling some of these pens on behalf of a friend. I love these so much, though sometimes I can’t help but snatch them up for myself,” he said, pulling a fountain pen out of his pocket with a smile. “I do, of course, pay for them,” he laughed.

While one room of the event was enough to keep me occupied for hours, at the end of the show I discovered another brightly-lit room crowded with collectors making their last purchases and vendors pulling out every sales trick in the book.

“Please, go ahead and try one,” one man urged as I walked past his

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Whenever I tell people that I go to see indie bands in concert, I get the feeling that they think I’m going to watch a brooding, mildly-talented singer droning on about illicit drugs and how he hates the world.

That couldn’t be further from the truth. In the last few months, I’ve seen The 1975, Bad Suns and Catfish and the Bottlemen and the energy at each concert has been uplifting and just plain fun.

The 1975 The 1975 hail from Manchester in Northern England and are known for their distinct pop aesthetic. The majority of their fans are teenage girls because their music bridges pop and indie — and it doesn’t hurt that they’re all young, attractive British guys.

The 1975 played a sold out show at The Tabernacle in downtown Atlanta on Nov. 29, 2014 to a crowd of 3,000 people.

This was their third U.S. headline tour, and it supports their debut album, The 1975, released in Sept.

2013. For me, it was the fourth time seeing The 1975, and the production, the crowd and the intensity of the fans has impressed every time. This is not an accident of the few times I saw them.

They were named “hardest working band of 2014,” as well of the last 4 years by Gigwise, a British music news website, as they had played “195 shows in 29 countries, travelling 249,724 kilometres and lapping the world six times over.”

Even before the band physically reached Atlanta, I was alerted by social media that girls were lining up the night before — in below freezing tempreratures — to try to be in the front row.

The hysteria around the band members can be excessive and there is a lot of shoving at the concert — even experienced “moshers” would be impressed.

My favorite thing about the concert was the variety in their set: “Sex” for the classic indie-rock

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The 1975 released their self-titled debut album in September 2013, debuting at the top of the UK charts. The group performed in Atlanta last November to a sold out crowd for their third headlining tour.

lovers, “Girls” for the people who prefer pop, “Menswear” for the experimenters who like R&B synths and “Me” for the more introspective parts of the crowd.

The 1975 are criticized for the heavy English accent in their recordings, but their stage presence and performance more than made up for what small difficulty in understanding there was.

Bad Suns Bad Suns is made up of four guys in their early 20s from Los Angeles and their mellow sound reminds me of California beaches.

They supported their debut album

Language & Perspective (one of my favorite albums of last year, by the way) on their first headline tour at the beginning of this year.

They played a sold out show at Vinyl, the smallest stage of the Center Stage Theater in Midtown Atlanta on Feb. 20, 2015. Vinyl is an intimate venue that holds 300 people; again, like The 1975, the crowd was mostly girls, but there were also some couples and guys who hung towards the back.

Bad Suns played almost the entirety of their debut album, along with some songs from older EPs, in a 45-minute set.

Some notable performances were those of “Take My Love and Run”

and their latest single, “Salt.” Lead singer Christo Bowman told MTV in an interview that he wrote the song “Salt” about his transgender friend who realized she was a girl and her subsequent difficult transition.

Despite the serious subject matter, all of the band members looked ecstatic when the entire crowd sang along at the top of their lungs.

At one point, Bowman tried to crowd surf, but was dropped within a minute.

It’s obvious that this band is still learning but the energy and palpable stage presence hints at a great potential.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Festival Preview

Haydn’s Masterpiece Is Majestic

Shaky Knees Festival Will Bring Alt-Rock Artists to Atlanta

By Ellie Kahn Staff Writer

There’s a music festival coming to Atlanta next month that will actually focus on music. Founder of alternative rock Shaky Knees Festival Tim Sweetwood said in an interview with the Consequence of Sound blog that the festival, which will take place in Central Park in Old Fourth Ward May 8-10, will include food trucks, vendors and bars to make the experience enjoyable, but the heart of the festival will be its music.

Sweetwood, who also put together the Atlanta country music festival Shaky Boots for May 16-17, has lined up a serious schedule of performers including The Strokes, Wilco, Pixies, Tame Impala, Ryan Adams, Nuetral Milk Hotel, Interpol, TV on the Radio, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and The Avett Brothers.

Smaller names like Flogging Molly, The Mountain Goats, Social Distortion, Kaiser Chiefs, Milky Chance and Best Coast will also place the festival in its own cultural category, providing Atlanta with a non-electronic, no frills, highenergy celebration of music with real instruments.

The festival, which is now in its third year, arose out of Sweetwood’s personal desire to bridge a gap in Atlanta’s music scene.

For years now, EDM festivals like CounterPoint Music and Arts Festival and TomorrowWorld have taken over the city and generated millions of dollars; the latter grossed as much money for Atlanta as the NCAA Final Four Championships in 2013.

Local rock and indie music fans have had less of an opportunity to sit down, sprawl out and take in good music for three days, but Shaky Knees will remedy the situation for

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The Shaky Knees Music Festival will bring over 80 different artists to Atlanta, including must-sees such as veteran act The Strokes (above), alternative band Interpol and closing act Tame Impala.

those willing to pay the $215 price tag for the weekend.

The festival was held at Masquerade Music Park its first two years, a venue conducive to the intimate kind of concert experience due to its size, but the event will now have room to spread out, borrowing a similar vibe from big league festivals Coachella and Bonnaroo.

Sweetwood is pumping up the fest’s size, but is still ensuring that it’s both navigable and intimate like it had been its first two years.

Over its three days, Shaky Knees will feature over 80 artists on five different stages, requiring a bit of strategy in order to maximize the concert experience.

The festival’s website includes a printable day-by-day schedule with performance times and stage locations that begs to be cut out, highlighted and stored in one’s back

pocket.

It’s a visual way to make sure you’re moving at the right times and that your preferred performances don’t conflict. The boldest way to approach the weekend is to pick a stage each day and stay there. Artists will come and go and will leave you with completely new playlist material.

Just make sure you see The Strokes. The band, which will continue on to Big Guava Festival in Tampa and then on to Europe, is only playing festivals right now, so festival-goers at Shaky Knees will be in the right place at the right time.

The band’s frontman Julian Casablancas has most recently worked on his own project Julian Casablancas + The Voidz, producing the album Tyranny in 2014, but will play at Shaky Knees with his original crew.

The hype surrounding The Strokes is well deserved.

Casablancas’ voice paired with the band’s distinct guitar riffs make for alt-rock masterpieces that they somehow produce reliably, again and again. The band’s performance Friday night will set the tone for the rest of the festival.

Interpol is currently touring, and will play on Piedmont Stage Saturday night just before Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

The band shares the same kind of melancholy, alternative sound of Joy Division, but with tracks that are newer and fresher and keep up with similar artists in the current alt-rock realm.

The NYC-based band’s album El Pintor (2014) made Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2014 and confirmed that Interpol can hold its own.

It’s worth staying at Shaky Knees on Sunday just to see Tame Impala, who will close out the entire festival.

The Australian band, which only floated to the top of the music scene in 2010 with its debut album Innerspeaker, channels The Beatles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience and MGMT all in one, and produces psychedelic, underwater-feeling tracks that are still danceable.

It was an unexpected move to anchor the festival with new guys Tame Impala rather than the veteran Strokes, but it will set a precedent for other music festivals and communicate that it’s not big names that matter, but the music they are making.

General admission and VIP tickets for the three-day festival are still on sale on the festival’s website, and can be purchased on Ticketmaster.

— Contact Ellie Kahn at elinor.kahn@emory.edu

they consistently sustained their level of performance throughout the entire oratorio.

The orchestra, choir and soloists were all so dedicated that I felt that it helped members of the audience, including me, to be much more invested and immersed in the music.

The atmosphere that the musicians brought to the Emerson Concert Hall seemed to fit perfectly with the composition they chose, and there were no glaring weaknesses in the performance.

I have been to Emory University Symphony Orchestra concerts before and this was my favorite one so far.

When the performance concluded, it was met with a positive response, and even received a standing ovation.

Each section, the orchestra, the soloists and the choir deserved this reception for their achievement, and I felt that it was an impressive result for a student performance.

Friday’s performance marked the first of two concerts, with the other taking place the following day on Saturday, April 18.

It was nice to see that the orchestra played twice for the public to accommodate all of the members of the community who were interested in attending the performances.

The Emory University Symphony Orchestra and the Emory University Chorus accomplished much to get to this level, and they created a beautiful concluding performance for the end of the school year.

— Contact Jake Choi at hahn.choi@emory.edu

Student Play Spreads Awareness About Women’s Access to Education Continued from Page 9 (College junior Shivangi Singh). In a hilarious scene, he approaches Zain and asks him to write a love letter to Ms. Desouza but without signing his name to remain the “mystery man” that all women desire.

This sets off a chain of events: the letter gets lost, Samira finds it and suspects that Zain is cheating on her; everything that could go wrong does go wrong.

Although the drama is still unresolved at this point, the play culminates in a “mushaira,” a traditional Pakistani poetic symposium, produced by the students as their group project.

Performed to the audience, various cast members shared facts about Pakistan and female education, read poetry and sang songs.

A standout performance was represented in College freshman Tejal Pandharpurkar’s voice as she sang, accompanying a reading of facts about girls’ education.

While I could not understand the language of the song, her singing gave me goosebumps, creating a beautiful accent to the reading.

However, in the true manner of such a fun and lively play, everything

is set right at the end.

Again, such a conclusion isn’t exactly surprising, but the Jhalak cast pulls it off well.

One of the triumphs of the play is in how it educates its audience about issues in Pakistan in a way that doesn’t feel incredibly forced.

In one scene, Samira shows her brother a video in an attempt to get him to understand the importance of educating girls in rural areas.

The video, which is also shown to the audience, is a clip of a CNN interview with Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani activist for girls’ education and Nobel Prize laureate, talking about her personal experiences in the struggle to gain an education and her fight for female education.

A 15-year PSA tradition, Jhalak brought out a considerable amount of people, filling up the majority of the seats in White Hall 208.

While the room wasn’t sold out, PSA certainly has the right to call it a successful night.

“I’m most proud of the fact that PSA is able to provide this opportunity,” Goizueta Business School senior and PSA co-president Raheem Ismaili said. “We’re really able to bring [attention to] issues that are important to Pakistan and to the

Annual Pen Convention Eclectic, Intriguing Continued from Page 9 stall. “That is the only fair way to judge a pen, after all. Any of them catch your eye?”

Unsurprisingly, most people at the Atlanta Pen Show were there to check out the pens. But the show also featured pen accessories most enthusiasts were soon convinced they couldn’t live without. At one stall, a vendor sold custom-made leather pouches and multi-tier Brazilian rosewood boxes for housing expensive fountain pens. At another table, people sold fine papers and inks.

And then there were stalls where the link to pens was slightly more tenuous, such as the man selling vanilla-tobacco and mango-habanero chocolates.

Despite people’s varied backgrounds, from local vendors to university students to die-hard fans from across the country, they were all united in a community built on a simple love for the art of handwriting. “Try the Anderson’s table,” one selfless vendor suggested to a buyer, pointing across the room with a smile. “They might have what you’re looking for.”

The show was coming to an end

and I had to leave, but not before stopping at one last stall. I perused through the selection that the man had as he looked on and smiled encouragingly.

“Please,” he said, “tell me if you see anything you like. Things are starting to die down now, but feel free to come back again tomorrow if you’d like.”

The Atlanta Pen Show was the first pen show that I had ever attended, but left me intrigued for more.

I was surprised that on a rainy day, people would come from as far as Alabama to participate in this once-a-year event.

I will admit that, although I was initially skeptical as to how entertaining a pen show could be, I was inevitably swept up in the excitement and learned to appreciate pens and calligraphy in a way that I hadn’t been able to before.

As I left the show, I heard the voice of one of the vendors echo through my mind.

“If you don’t buy it, you’ll spend all afternoon thinking about the pen you could have had.” he said.

“Listen,” he whispered, “It’s calling your name.”

— Contact Elbert Liang at ekliang@emory.edu

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An annual tradition, Jhalak is the largest event hosted by the Pakistani Student Association. The play addressed the issue of women’s access to education and shared elements of Pakistani culture with the audience.

world in a way that makes everyone have fun.”

The cast agreed with him, citing the importance of raising awareness about the issue.

“There is an issue in Pakistan about women in education,” explained Nawaz, who is also one of the freshmen representatives of PSA. “It’s important that people realize that.”

Jhalak was easily a success.

The show was hilarious and the cast made it incredibly fun to watch, bringing awareness about the issue of the lack of opportunities for women

to educate themselves in Pakistan, while also sharing the Pakistani culture with fellow students.

— Contact Julia Munslow at julia.munslow@emory.edu

Indie Pop Music Scene is Diverse and Distinct in Atlanta Continued from Page 9 Catfish and the Bottlemen Catfish and the Bottlemen are a young band from Wales, who came to America on their second headline tour to support their debut album The Balcony. The personalities of the members are as interesting as the band’s name, with their crazy hair and loud alternative rock music, their drum kit with actor Ewan McGregor’s grinning face on it and even a roadie named Larry, who is just as well-known as the band members.

They played to a sold out crowd at Vinyl on March 15, 2015 to a mixed audience of male and female and young and old. The Atlanta show was the last of the tour and it was evident that the band was tired, but, nonetheless, they put on an amazing show. Lead singer Van McCann thanked the crowd over and over for their enthusiastic responses in an accurate representation of the band’s humility.

Like Bad Suns, they also played almost every song from their album, with McCann’s notably strong voice ringing out clearly and confidently into the packed venue. The stand out performance of the set was when McCann came on stage to play a solo acoustic version of the song “Hourglass”; it was so beautiful to

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Welsh rock band Catfish and the Bottlemen released their debut album The Balcony in 2014. The group played at Vinyl in Atlanta last March on their second headlining tour.

hear the crowd singing along to the unforgivingly honestly and personal song, and to see McCann’s amazed reaction. I have no doubt that Catfish and the Bottlemen will be back in Atlanta soon to play to an even larger crowd as more people discover

these rising talents of alt-rock.

If you find yourself wanting to explore the alternative genre, you certainly have the chance here in Atlanta. Bad Suns is coming again on April 26 for a free concert at Park Tavern and Walk the Moon

will also be here on April 25 at The Tabernacle. In the fall semester, Twenty One Pilots will play two nights at The Tabernacle and Young the Giant will be in Athens, Ga..

— Contact Maya Nair at msnair@emory.edu

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

agle xchange

Tues 21

Wed 22

Thurs 23

Fri 24

Track & Field men’s Tennis Baseball

at LaGrange College 7 p.m.

LaGrange, Ga.

at Piedmont Tech College 7 p.m.

Clarkston, Ga. vs. Shorter 3 p.m. & 5 p.m.

WoodPEC

Women’s Tennis

Softball

On Fire

Yesterday was 4-20, and marijuana cigarettes were On Fire.

Sat 25

UAA Championships All Day WoodPEC at Georgia Gwinnett College 2 p.m.

Lawrenceville, Ga.

vs. NYU 9 a.m.

Altamonte Springs, Fla.

UAA Championships Time TBA Altamonte Springs, Fla.

vs. Piedmont Tech College 4 p.m.

WoodPEC

vs. Piedmont Tech College 3 p.m.

WoodPEC at Maryville 12 p.m. & 2 p.m.

Maryville, Tenn.

vs. NYU 9 a.m.

Altamonte Springs, Fla.

UAA UAA Championships Championships 9 a.m.

2 p.m.

Altamonte Altamonte Springs, Fla. Springs, Fla.

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Shooting guard Joe Johnson of the Brooklyn Nets goes for a lay-up. Johnson played against his old team, the Atlanta Hawks, this past Sunday.

Janick: The Hawks Are a Different Team This Year Continued from the Back Page year’s team is contending for a title rather than hoping for an annual second round exit.

The Hawks built up a 12-point lead by the end of the first and continued to be in control of the game, up 10 at halftime. Brooklyn was able to cut the lead to three, with 8:22 left in the third quarter, but the Hawks responded with a 10-0 run after a timeout.

The game never really got close again, with the Hawks continuing to hit shots whenever the Nets started to crawl back into the game.

Early in the fourth quarter there was a scary moment for the Hawks when center Al Horford went into

the locker room with a finger injury on his shooting hand. Horford came back later in the fourth, but described being bothered by the tape on his fingers after the game. X-Rays came back negative and when asked about his status for Game Two he said, “Oh I’m playing.”

This Hawks team is truly different from years past; their sights are set on a goal much deeper in the playoffs.

After the game, only the youngest players were smiling as they walked back into the locker room.

And that is when I knew this Hawks team will be satisfied with nothing less than winning 15 more games this postseason.

— Contact Nathan Janick at nathan.janick@emory.edu

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Freshman Sarah Strausser throws in the discus competition. Strausser and the Eagles will compete at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships at home this weekend.

Emory Prepares for UAA Championships at Home Continued from the Back Page with 62 points.

The Georgia Tech Invitational did not have team scoring.

At Sewanee, sophomore Grant Murphy led the Emory men, setting a school record in the 3,000meter run. He won the event with his 8:31.29 time, breaking the previous school record of 8:41.22, set back in 2004 by Paul Tufaro at the Charlotte Invitational (N.C.).

Freshman Shane Sullivan added a second-place finish in the same event, closely following Murphy with an 8:42.82 time, which is the thirdfastest 3,000-meter time in Emory’s history.

Senior Kevin Delaney improved his 800-meter run time, setting a career-best of 1:55.98, which placed him third. This marked the secondstraight week in which he improved his career time. The time marked the best time in this event by any Eagle this season, and the eighth-fastest time in the UAAs this season.

Senior James Bassen also added a season-best recording in the hammer throw. He threw a distance of 39.29 meters, which placed him third in the competition.

The men added five more first-place finishes at Sewanee.

Sophomore Ian McIsaac won the 400-meter dash in 51.48 seconds.

Freshman Benjamin Rogin won the 110-meter hurdles in 15.48 seconds. Junior Adam Rabushka won the 400-meter hurdles in 54.32 seconds. Junior Spencer Koh won the pole vault, clearing the bar with 4.25 meters.

Freshman Charlie Hu won the triple jump with his 12.77-meter distance.

Freshman Will Siuta added a fourth-place finish in the 100-meter dash with his 11.51-second time.

He also placed second in the 200meter dash (23.12 seconds), followed

by Koh, who placed third (22.84 seconds).

Sophomore Jake Schlessinger placed fourth in the 1,500-meter run, with a time of 4:07.34. In the high jump, senior Scott Greathouse placed second at 1.85 meters. Junior Jack Seigel placed second in the discus throw with 41.84 meters.

Emory’s 4400-meter relay team of junior Andrew Hemingway, sophomore Brandon Cromer, freshman Greg Litle and Delaney placed second with a 3:36.07 time.

For the women at Sewanee, senior

Hannah Smith led the team, winning the 3,000-meter run with her 10:20.56 time, which ties for the eighth-fastest time in Emory women’s track’s history.

The 4x100-meter relay team, consisting of freshmen Caitlin Cheeseboro, Julia Leventhal and Erica Goldman and junior Alexandra Aiello, finished second with a 49.90 second time. The team notched Emory’s best 4x100-meter relay time this season, and the second-best time in the UAAs this year.

Freshman Dara Liss won two field events at Sewanee. She first won the pole vault, clearing the bar at 2.90 meters, then won the triple jump, recording 9.79 meters.

Senior Hannah Parra also picked up a first-place finish in the 400meter hurdles with a time of 1:06.53, and freshman Abigail Hotaling won the 3,000-meter steeplechase with her 12:00.28 time.

Aiello also competed in the 400meter dash, where she placed fourth with her 12.74-second time, and in the 200-meter dash, where she placed third (26.53 seconds), followed by Leventhal, whose 26.48-second time placed her second. Goldman placed fourth in the same event with a 26.55 time.

Sophomore Liz Magno placed third in the 400-meter dash (1:02.21), and sophomore Erica Fischer placed fourth in the 1,500-meter run (5:02.48).

In the long jump, sophomore Mandy Wakefield placed third with 4.48 meters. She also placed third in the triple jump with a 9.69-meter distance.

Freshman Sarah Strausser picked up a fourth-place finish in the discus throw, measuring a distance of 27.95 meters. She also placed fourth in the hammer throw with a 33.88-meter distance.

Across town at Georgia Tech, three Eagles placed over the weekend.

On Friday, freshman Jordan Flowers placed 25th in the 1,500-meter run with his 4:00.94 time. Junior Lukas Mees placed 37th in the same event with his 4:05.91 time.

On Saturday, senior Stephanie Crane finished 32nd in the 800-meter run with her 2:16.36 time. It marked her best time of the season in the event, and the fifth-best time by anyone in the UAAs this year.

The Eagles have now begun preparing for the UAA Championships.

“It’s a home meet, which only happens every four years, so we hope

that people will come out and support us,” Williamson said.

Athletes will find out within the next couple of days which events they will compete in, according to junior Max Hoberman.

“We will work with Coach [John Curtin] to figure out the balance between what we want to do, what we’re best at and what will maximize the team points,” Hoberman said, who will be competing in the shorter sprints, triple jump and long jump.

“Individually, we will be working on each [of our] event[s], but everyone is working to stay fit and healthy and [on their] technique.”

On Saturday, April 25, field events will include the men and women’s long jump, shot put, pole vault and hammer throw.

The running events will include the men’s and women’s 10,000-meter run finals, 3,000-meter steeplechase finals and the 4x800-meter relay finals.

Trial events will include the women’s 100-meter hurdles, men’s 110-meter hurdles, men and women’s 400-meter dash, 100-meter dash, 800-meter run, 400-meter hurdles and the 200-meter dash. On Sunday, field events will include the men’s and women’s javelin, triple jump, high jump and discus throw.

Running events will include the finals for the men’s and women’s 4x100-meter relay, 1,500-meter run, 100 and 110-meter hurdles, 400meter dash, 100-meter dash, 800meter dash, 400-meter hurdles, 200meter dash, 5,000-meter run and 4x400-metrer relay.

At last years’ UAA Championships, on both the men and women’s side, Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) won the competition with 215 points for the men and 211 points for the women.

Carnegie Mellon University (Penn.) placed second on the men’s side with 166 points, while University of Chicago (Ill.) placed second with 201 points for the women.

The Emory men and women both placed third last year, the men with 141.5 points and the women with 155 points.

“I think we could get at least third. We’re obviously aiming for higher, but anything can happen,” Williamson said. “With the meet being home, we will hopefully have a lot of support and we can exceed expectations.”

— Contact Elana Cates at elana.cates@emory.edu

Before the Montreal Expos moved to Washington becoming the Nationals, Washington D.C. residents yearned for a team to root for. Most of the time, Washingtonians rooted for the team where they or their parents grew up.

These loyalties still exist, but not to the extent of the love for the hometown team. Your On Fire correspondent went through these difficult times.

In his (or her) house, the Red Sox verses Yankees debate was a hotly contested topic (but really, there’s no contest — Red Sox, all the way). Now, however, the arrival of the Nationals has united the household, despite the Nationals letting their city’s residents down for the past 15 years.

The Washington Capitals are another example. Alexander Ovechkin played his first game with the team in 2005, the same year that the Nationals came to D.C. Despite high hopes for Ovechkin, the Russian prodigy, the team has consistently done well in the regular season but faltered out in the playoffs.

The Washington Wizards and Washington Redskins are two other teams that have attracted high profile athletes to join their ranks (Think Robert Griffin III and John Wall), yet no Washington, D.C. professional sports team has won a national championship.

It is time for this to change.

Washington needs change. Not change from a new politician, but change that will unite the partisan city in a non-partisan way.

The always-accurate source of Wikipedia has informed your On Fire correspondent that it has been 22 years since Washington has won a sports national championship. No other city of major importance to your On Fire correspondent has had this long of a wait.

Call it what you want, loyal readers, but the nation’s capital needs something to celebrate besides avoiding another government shutdown.

And what has Washington done to deserve such a curse?

We didn’t trade the Great Bambino to those a-holes in New York. Nor did we kick a man and his poor, defenseless, smelly billy goat out of RFK stadium. None of our star players have even appeared on the cover of a Madden game!

The sports gods have a cruel, cruel sense of humor, indeed.

Washington needs sports. It does not need Republicans or Democrats or Independents or whatever new political party a politician can come up with.

Washington needs what every other major city has — a unifying force that breaks through all the partisanship.

So, given that the Redskins and Wizards seem unlikely to pull this off in the near future, let’s move on to realistic possibilities.

The Capitals have a chance to move on to the next round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Nationals have the opportunity to be great this season.

Let’s all get out our rally towels and root for these teams — if not for Washington, then please do it for your On Fire correspondent.

Column

Sports Genie: Tim Tebow Returns and Girl Catches Foul Ball in Beer Cup at Cubs Game

By Bennett Ostdiek Former Editor-at-Large 1. Tebow I have recently uncovered some breaking news that will devastate fans of the SEC Network: Tim Tebow is returning to the National Football League as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles.

I know, I know, this news comes as a shock to many of you. How could our most beloved sports announcer leave us in the lurch like this?

Tebow was the voice of the Southeastern Conference. His voice was the voice of God. Quite literally.

After all, we all know that Tebow has a special connection to the big man upstairs.

It was truly inspiring to watch a man do something that he is so clearly meant to do.

Tim Tebow belongs in the announcer’s booth. He was born to describe a football game.

But, unfortunately, this great gift has been taken away from the world.

Instead of listening to Tebow talk about football, we are going to have to watch him play it.

And that, loyal readers, is not a pretty sight.

Sure, the guy was good in college, winning a Heisman Trophy and a National Championship. And he invented Tebow-ing, otherwise known as kneeling and touching ones hand to ones head in order to thank God for ones football-announcing abilities.

But, to put it quite simply, Tebow did not have what it takes to make it in the NFL. We saw this when he played with the Broncos. After Denver selected him in the first round, he finished the 2011 season with the lowest pass completion rating in the league.

We saw this when he played with the Jets. The Broncos traded him to New York in March 2012, and over the course of the next year, he managed to throw only eight passes for his new team.

We saw this when he played with the Patriots. New England signed Tebow in June of 2013 and played him in its first two preseason games before cutting him.

But the Patriots did Tebow the largest favor that they could possibly have done him, for they freed him to live the life that he had been placed on this Earth to live: that of a broadcaster to a minor subsidiary of ESPN.

ESPN hired him in December of 2013, and he made his live debut during the BCS National Championship Game.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

Until that history was brutally cut short when Tebow signed with the Eagles yesterday.

I can say with confidence, however, that Tebow’s return to the NFL will be brief.

Rest assured, loyal readers, that he will be back in the broadcaster’s booth before you know it, once again as the voice of the SEC. 2. Baseball and Beer As the Sports Genie, I do not condone of drinking in any way, shape or form.

Unless it is at a Chicago Cubs baseball game and there is a foul ball in your cup.

Let me explain. At a Cubs game Saturday afternoon, a female fan (whom I would have described as pretty if I had not recently been informed that it is sexist to use attractiveness as a primary

identifier for women) caught a foul ball in her beer cup. She then proceeded to chug the beer. Bottoms up!

She is my type of girl.

Obviously, because I am an enlightened, progressive man, I do not care at all about whether or not she is good looking. She may be, but that is unimportant.

Here is what is important: 1) she chose to spend her Saturday afternoon watching baseball; 2) she likes beer (once again, I do not condone drinking in any way, shape or form); 3) she obviously has great hand-eye coordination, as evidenced by her ability to catch a baseball in her beer cup.

Cubs girl, if you read this, please find my email address at the bottom of this article.

And if you want to know what I look like, look at the picture of the giant face in the middle of this article.

I think we have a future together.

Interestingly enough, a male Cubs fan

caught a ball in his beer cup the very next day and also chugged the beer.

I am less interested in meeting him.​ 3. Fights The Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics got into a bit of an incident over the weekend.

The details are unimportant. Or, to be completely honest, they are complicated.

And I cannot remember them very specifically from SportsCenter this morning.

Someone slid a little too hard into second base.

Someone else intentionally hit a batter with a pitch, got ejected, and then pointed at his head as he was walking off the field in an obviously threatening gesture.

The story ends with the benches of the Royals and A’s clearing three nights in a row, and over five players getting ejected.

Is this baseball at its best, or baseball at its worst?

It is tough to say. Yes, it is great to see the intensity and the passion.

But baseball is also a civilized game for gentlemen. Simmer down, boys. boys.

— Contact Bennett Ostdiek at bostdie@emory.edu

Sports The Emory Wheel

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Sports Editor: Elana Cates (elana.cates@emory.edu)

Track & Field

Column

Excitement Surrounds The Start of NBA Playoffs

Nathan Janick

Courtesy of Emory Athletics

Freshman Robert Wilhelm III races past the bend. Wilhelm and the Eagles are set to host the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships this weekend at home.

Track Team Splits Up for Two Away Meets

By Elana Cates Sports Editor

This past weekend, the Emory track and field team split up, with some of the team traveling to Sewanee: The University of the South (Tenn.) for the Mountain Laurel Invitational, and a few athletes traveling across town to the Georgia Institute of Technology for the Georgia Tech Invitational.

These two meets were Emory athletes’ last chance to record qualifying

times or to get extra practice before the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships, which will take place on April 25 and 26 at home at the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC).

“Some of us who didn’t compete this weekend were just using this as a rest, but this week, we’re all backing off and taking it easier so we will be ready to go at UAAs,” junior Julie Williamson said. “We’re making sure we’re sleeping and eating well and

getting spirited and excited.”

According to Williamson, everyday this week, the team members are participating in bonding activities.

“The UAAs are the one time where we all come together and support each other,” she said. “It’s very team oriented.”

At Sewanee, both the men and women finished second in the team results.

The men earned 166 points, finishing behind first-place Birmingham-

Women’s tennis

Southern College (Ala.) with 167 points. Lee University (Tenn.) finished third with 109 points, and the home team, Sewanee, placed fourth with 90.5 points.

Birmingham-Southern also won first place on the women’s side with 200 points, while the Emory women followed with 115 points. Lee’s women also placed third with 121 points, and Sewanee placed fourth

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When you walk into a postseason venue at any level, you can feel an elevated sense of energy. In Atlanta’s Philips Arena for Game One of the first round of the NBA playoffs between the Brooklyn Nets and the Atlanta Hawks, you could feel a buzz around the entire arena. Every level of the arena was lively.

However, this isn’t merely just because Atlanta is in the playoffs.

Atlanta has begun to rally behind this Hawks team. Philips Arena was more full than I have ever seen it to start a game. This credit goes to the fans, because traffic was pretty bad around the stadium with the 420 Music Festival going on.

It was my third Atlanta Hawks game this year; I went to Game Six last year against the Indiana Pacers and this was by far the loudest I’ve seen Philips.

It is disappointing that the there were no playoff T-shirt giveaways to every fan. Not only does it look awesome on TV, but it also is a true barometer of how dedicated the fans are. The greater the percentage of people on TV wearing the shirts, the more dedicated the fans.

Remember, it is the big wigs of every city with the court-side seats so when all of them are wearing the given playoff shirts over their suits, that’s when you know the fan base cares. Unfortunately, the Hawks only gave away cheap flags, and the only sporting events flags belong in are those in the Olympics.

The story line that wasn’t really talked about before this game is the Nets’ Joe Johnson playing against his former team.

During the Johnson era in Atlanta, the Hawks consistently made the playoffs, but never came close to reaching the conference finals. Stuck in the mediocrity of the NBA, the Hawks fired their coach and many members of their front office. A major part of this transition was trading Johnson to the Nets.

Fast-forward to the Sunday’s Game One, where the matchup between Johnson and the Hawks’ DeMarre Carroll was symbolic of the change in this franchise. Every time Johnson touched the ball he was greeted by loud boos from Hawks fans. After the game, Johnson said, “No it didn’t effect me. I pretty much expected it.”

Both players scored 17 points, but Carroll won the matchup. Johnson was 6-17 and 0-6 from three, while Carroll was a force on both ends of the floor. Carroll, a prototype “three and D” player has been a key player on the Hawks this season.

The Hawks team is full of specialists and very fundamentally sound players, as opposed to the old Hawks team which centered on their two stars, Josh Smith and Johnson. This

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golf

No. 1 Eagles Dominate Johns Hopkins

By Jacob Spitzer Asst. Sports Editor The Emory women’s tennis team competed against the sixth-ranked Johns Hopkins University (Md.) Blue Jays last Saturday, winning 8-1.

The team swept the singles competition and lost just one of the three doubles matches.

The victory brought the Eagles their 22nd-straight home win, improving their record to 13-3 overall this season, while Johns Hopkins dropped to 10-4 with the loss.

“We knew this was going to be a big match,” sophomore Katarina Su said. “We were even more focused than usual because of that. They’ve always been major rivals for us.”

Junior Beatrice Rosen played first singles, beating sophomore Ashnaa Rao in quick 6-1 and 6-0 sets.

Sophomore Michelle Satterfield won in the second singles spot against junior Sydney Lehman 6-1 and 6-3.

Sophomore Melissa Goodman played third singles, defeating sophomore Amanda Austi 6-0 and 7-5.

Su defeated her opponent sophomore Jody Law in fourth singles, 6-4 and 7-5.

Freshman Bridget Harding had the closest match in the singles competition but was able to pull out a 7-5, 7-5 victory against freshman Megumi Chen in the fifth singles spot.

Junior Madison Gordon played sixth singles, defeating senior Shannon Herndon 6-0 and 6-1.

In the doubles competition, freshman Anna Fuhr played with Satterfield in the first position, defeating Rao and Herndon 8-2.

In an extremely close match — and the Blue Jays’ only win — Goodman and Rosen lost 9-8 in the second doubles position to senior Elaine Baik and Lehman. Harding and Su played third doubles, winning 8-1 against Law and Chen.

With the season coming to a close, the team is beginning to focus on the post-season, including the NCAA Division III National Championships, which the Emory women’s tennis team won last year.

To deal with the added pressure to match up to last years’ performance, the team has to put the season in perspective, according to Rosen.

“We try not to think about the fact that we won [the National Championship] last year,” Rosen said.

Courtesy of Emory Athletics

Freshman Keenan Hickton carefully putts at the ball. Hickton and the Eagles competed at the Wolfpack Spring Open this past weekend, and placed 10th out of 11 teams.

Emory Competes Against D-1 Teams

By Jacob Spitzer Asst. Sports Editor

Courtesy of Emory Athletics

Senior Rebecca Siegler prepares to return the ball. Siegler and the Eagles defeated Johns Hopkins University 8-1 last Saturday.

“This is a new season. We have to focus on this year. Our performance last year is irrelevant. We’re going to work really hard. Our team has really come together well because of hard work in the weight room and on the court, [and] we are as strong of a team as ever.”

The team is going to continue doing what it has been doing, but it acknowledges there is more pressure during the end of the year.

“We’re going to play against

tougher teams,” Su said. “We are taking it one match at a time and we are more focused than ever.”

Emory will return to action on Thursday, April 23, against New York University in Altamonte Springs (Fla.) at 9 a.m.

On Friday and Saturday, the team will remain in Altamonte Springs for the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships.

— Contact Jacob Spitzer at jacob.alexander.spitzer@emory.edu

The Emory golf team finished its regular season at the Wolfpack Spring Open this past Sunday, finishing 10th out of eleven teams, consisting of mainly NCAA Division I competition.

The event consisted of 36 holes, and was played on the 7284-yard, par-71 Lonnie Poole Golf Course in Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina State University won the tournament with a total mark of 551. University of Maryland finished second with a total 568 points.

Carolina State junior David Cooke had the strongest performance during the tournament, shooting under par both days with a total mark of 132, or 11 under par.

The tournament was divided into two days with the Eagles shooting a total of 603 over the two days.

On the first day, the Eagles’ topfour players shot 301, bringing the

average mark to a solid 75.25, or 4.25 over par. On the second day, Emory had a total of 302 with an average total of 75.50.

Senior Alex Wunderlich finished his Emory golf career with a strong performance.

On the first day, he shot par, and on the second day he shot three-overpar, bringing his total mark to 145, the strongest on the Emory team.

Sophomore Sam Nichamin shot 74 or three-over-par the first day and 76 or five-over-par the second day, giving him a combined average of 150.

Freshman Matthew Csillag shot a 78, seven-over-par the first day and 74, three-over-par, the second day, bringing his total to 152.

Freshman Keenan Hickton shot 78 the first day and 79 the second day, bringing his total to 157.

Junior Vince Sirianni, after two strong tournaments in a row, shot 82 the first day and 78 the second to bring his total to 160.

With the season ending,

Wunderlich reflected on his experience on the team.

“It goes by so fast. When you are a freshman and you have four more years, it feels like its never going to end, but now that it’s over, it feels as if it just flew by,” Wunderlich said.

“Some advice that I have for my teammates is just to cherish the time you have with your team. It’s really a unique experience.”

Wunderlich finished the tournament shooting two birdies on the last four holes, a great end to a great career, and one that Head Coach John Sjoberg is proud of.

“My favorite moment of the season actually was at this tournament,” Sjoberg said. “Seeing Alex [Wunderlich] end his career with two birdies was amazing. I’ve seen him grow up over the four years. He’s a great athlete, a great teammate and a hard worker, especially in his studies.”

— Contact Jacob Spitzer at jacob.alexander.spitzer@emory.edu