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Friday, January 30, 2015 administration
Volume 96, Issue
29
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dobbs university center
Board of Trustees Elects New Members
Wagner Meets With Freedom at Emory
By Annie McGrew Asst. News Editor
By Lydia O’Neal Asst. News Editor
The Emory Board of Trustees, a governing body that establishes University police, recently elected four new members, according to a Jan. 22 University press release. The new members include Glenmede Trust Company Managing Director, N.A., Lee Miller; Bauerfeind USA, Inc. CEO Greg Vaughn; Ernst & Young Global Chairman and CEO Mark Weinberger and Global CFO of McKinsey and Director of the Atlanta office Tom Barkin. Of the new members only Barkin is a term trustee, meaning he is not an Emory alumnus. The other three will serve as alumni trustees. All four new members will serve six-year terms on the Board. According to Vice President and University Secretary Allison Dykes, alumni must fill 11 of the 25 Board of Trustees positions. Dykes said the new trustees are “engaged alumni ... these are individuals who are deeply connected to the Institution, to the Alumni Association and that have served Emory in a variety to leadership positions.” Of his new position, Vaughn wrote in an email to the Wheel that when the Alumni Association and Board of Trustees reached out to him about the possibility of joining the Board, he was honored to serve in this meaningful capacity. “I am excited to collaborate with students, faculty, staff, administrators and other trustees in the ongoing work, new challenges and opportuni-
even graduate students — in order to make the Campus Life Center more welcoming to students of all backgrounds and interests. Students were asked what they wanted to see in an improved student center and the Campus Life Center will reflect this input by expanding the current space and making it open to more student organizations, Perlman said. The webpage also states that dining will be improved through a new menu that will not only be healthy,
During the first of perhaps many meetings, a group of undocumented students and members of Freedom at Emory University, an advocacy group for undocumented students, urged University President James W. Wagner to address the financial needs of undocumented student applicants during his office hours on Wednesday. “It was a very productive first meeting,” Wagner said afterward. “I think we have a lot of common goals.” Before an audience of Wagner and Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Claire Sterk, the students pressed the University to work toward four short term goals: to allow a legalized subset of undocumented students who were brought to the U.S. at a young age to receive need-based financial aid; to ensure that undocumented high school seniors have equal financial aid and admission opportunities; to elucidate the admissions and financial aid process for such students and to reach out to such students so that their lack of citizenship does not bar them from attending Emory University, according to Freedom at Emory Co-Founder and College senior Andy Kim. The meeting, however, lasted for about half an hour, and “didn’t really get into details,” Kim said, who headed to the president’s office in the Administration Building along with College senior Hannah Finnie, another member of Freedom at Emory, and two undocumented students. Kim
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Courtesy of Perkins + Will
A new facility will replace the Dobbs University Center as a center of student life and is tentatively called the “Campus Life Center.” Construction on the center is set to begin later this year.
New Campus Life Center to Replace the DUC By Vikrant Nallaparaju Contributing Writer After decades of walking through its halls, students will bid farewell to the current Dobbs University Center (DUC) later this year, as it is set to be replaced by a new, larger student center. Originally built in 1950 to honor members of the Emory community who were lost in World War II, the DUC was renovated in 1971 and 1986. Since then, it has become a prime location for dining and student organization activity, serving as the
heart of Emory’s campus. But in recent years, some feel that the building no longer suits the needs of the many students and faculty involved on Emory’s campus, according to Senior Director of Emory’s Food Service Administration Dave Furhman. “Simply put, the Dobbs Market facility at the DUC has outlived its usefulness,“ Furhman said. “The current dining room space and configuration is generally considered uncomfortable, loud and certainly not a place where the community wants to gather or linger for any period of
time.” In an email to the Wheel from the Director of the DUC Benjamin Perlman, the new building, tentatively called the “Campus Life Center,” will be designed on five basic principles: welcoming all students, providing inspiring dining, fostering collaboration, embracing large events and meetings and providing a uniquely “Emory” image and character. According to the DUC’s official webpage on the project, the building layout will reflect students at all levels in their academic careers — including freshmen, seniors and
Professors talk politics and the past
clairmont CAMPUS
academics
Environ. Science Launches New Minor
Fire Sprinklers Flood Clairmont Tower By Kelsie Smith Contributing Writer Late Sunday afternoon, fire alarms sounded on the seventh, eighth and ninth floors of the Clairmont Campus Tower Apartments. Residents soon discovered the alarm had not been a drill or prank: a grease fire on the eighth floor caused sirens to signal nearby residents to evacuate and sprinklers to go off flooding nine floors of the Tower. Residents on floors in proximity to the affected area were able to safely evacuate the building. Soon after, a fire truck and police appeared on the scene. Firemen, fully geared and carrying axes, entered to inspect the
apartment complex. The basement of Tower Apartments was flooded with water released by the sprinkler system, with a few inches of water on the ground and more falling from the ceilings, according to Tower resident and College junior Sean Healy, who evacuated with other students. Healy initially considered the warning to be a drill and nonchalantly began to exit the building, but as he entered the stairwell, he learned the immediacy of the situation. The kitchen area sprinkler was able to successfully extinguish the fire, although many apartments,
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Spotlight: Editorial Board
The Emory Wheel writes a staff editorial for each issue, which is an opinion piece that is collectively written. The Editorial Board — comprised of all of our editors, a list of whom can be found online or in the staff box on Page 6 — meets before every issue to decide on a topic and then discusses the topic at length. A notetaker compiles arguments contributed from different editors, and then reads the notes at the end of the meeting. The editors vote on whether the argument represents their individual opinions. If a majority of editors vote yes, the staff editorial is written and edited by multiple editors for publication. Editorial Boards across publications have different roles, but all try to voice opinions on relevant subject matter, from political endorsements to social commentary. Our Editorial Board, which has existed for 96 years, has written a staff editorial for almost every issue and functions as a semiweekly discussion forum for our editors, where we talk about issues we find relevant in our own lives and campus. Please send any questions or comments to emorywheelexec@gmail.com.
News Researchers
explore effects of
marijuana on lungs
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By Enakshi Das Contributing Writer
and to improve sustainability. “We’re trying to improve the quality of the food served on campus, simply put,” Furhman said. According to Furhman, food service companies interested in serving Emory’s campus submitted proposals to the University last fall. A specially established committee is now reviewing these proposals.
Environmentally-minded students can now add a new Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EASC) minor to their degrees. Launched by the Department of Environmental Sciences (ENVS) this spring, the minor is a rigorous 6-course sequence that aims to provide students with a strong foundation in “the physical science of Earth systems, the fundamental processes of the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere and the flux of materials and energy through these systems,” according to the EASC website. This program differs from the pre-existing minor in Environmental Sciences in its intention to narrow the focus of study on clearly “[defining] and [strengthening] the role of geosciences within ENVS,” according to the website. To facilitate this, the program combines traditional lectures along with field-based instruction, according to ENVS Director of Undergraduate
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Heejae Choi/contributor
ssociate Professors of African American Studies and History Brett Gadsden and Carol Anderson discuss Anderson’s latest book, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960, which explores the NAACP’s role around the globe and in the U.S.
dining
FACE Oversees Dining Contract Renewal By Harmeet Kaur Digital Editor
Emory Dining, in conjunction with the Food Advisory Committee at Emory (FACE), is deciding whether to renew its existing contract with food service company Sodexo or switch to a new campus dining vendor. A University-wide committee will select finalists by early February, and
OP-EDs Students
respond to sorority recruitment op-ed
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remaining contenders will showcase their proposals for improved campus dining in presentations open to the University from Feb. 16-18, according to Dave Furhman, senior director of the University Food Service Administration. Furhman said the new vendor selection process, which began last October, is part of Emory Dining’s larger effort to introduce fresh, local foods to the University’s dining scene
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