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Volume 94, Issue 29The Independent Student Newspaper of Emory University

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

GREEK LIFE

By Jordan Friedman Associate Editor

The number of bids given dur-ing this year’s underclassmen soror-ity recruitment rose about 50 per-cent. This change resulted from an increase in the number of sorority participants, and the fact that Alpha Epsilon Phi (AEPhi), whose charter was revoked in 2011, and Sigma Delta Tau (SDT) did not participate in rush, according to College senior and ISC President Camille Sheppard.

The number of girls a sorority can accept is based on a quota, Sheppard wrote in an email to the Wheel. Because of a rise in the number of girls who rushed this spring, the rec-ommended quota for each sorority — and thus the number of bids offered — increased, Sheppard wrote.

This year, 470 girls participated in recruitment, up from 405 last spring. Eighty percent of girls, or 385 rush participants, received bids — a rise from the 65 percent of rushees who were offered bids last year, according to Megan Janasiewicz, director of the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life.

If a rushee maximizes their options — meaning that they mark two soror-ities as their top choices during “pref night” — it is recommended that she receives a bid, Sheppard wrote.

The number of accepted bids was not available by press time.

Meanwhile, Sheppard wrote, with fewer sororities on campus, other sororities “are often able to take larger pledge classes.” SDT is inactive this semester, Sheppard wrote, so they did not hold a formal recruitment. The University revoked AEPhi’s charter in spring 2011 due to alleged hazing violations (Read more about SDT in the next issue of the Wheel.)

The rise in the number of rushees was also, in part, the result of a larger

freshman class for the class of 2016, Sheppard added.

“It’s really only a good thing that more women are excited to be part of the Greek community and do great things,” Janasiewicz said.

Sheppard explained that in addi-tion to these factors, ISC hosted new recruitment events this year, including a “hot chocolate mixer” to increase interest in sorority life. ISC also changed the format of other events, such as Sorority 411, which is an opportunity for potential Greek life members to learn more about the experience through a panel and dinner event.

While Sheppard said the process “will always have some bumps” with so many participants, she is satisfied with this year’s recruitment. She wrote that Jordan Krant, the vice president of recruitment and a Goizueta Business School senior, did “an amazing job of getting girls to register and then making sure the process ran as smoothly as possible.”

Sorority recruitment aside, the number of fraternity participants held steady, rising slightly to 408 from 404 last year. Last spring, the number of participants rose to 404 from 269.

The number of fraternity accepted bids decreased slightly to 223 this year from 234 last year. A total of 322

Sorority Rush SeesMajor Rise in Bids

Courses Move From Classroom to Chatroom

SOUND OF MUSIC

Jason Lee/Staff

From sitar players to painters, finalists of the 2013 Emory Arts Showcase presented at Gala Night on Friday at 8 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. The event was planned by senior Kevin Kang and supported by Campus Life, the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts and students in the Hamilton Holmes “Creativity and Innovation” Living-Learning Community.

ACADEMICS

By Lydia O’Neal Staff Writer

After a series of seemingly endless adjustments — lighting angles, his distance from the camera, his speak-ing pace — in a studio in the base-ment of Woodruff Library, Professor of Music Steve Everett began his lecture. His audience: nearly 35,000 students, the majority of which live outside the U.S.

“Hello, my name is Steve Everett,” he said to the camera. “I’m a profes-sor of music at Emory University, and I want to talk to you about a course I’m offering: The Introduction

to Digital Sound Design.”Everett, one of the three Emory

professors now teaching massive open online courses (MOOCs), launched a virtual class providing free, not-for-credit education for upwards of 30,000 students across the globe.

Emory has joined 33 other univer-sities — including Stanford, Duke, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — in collaboration with Coursera, an American-based company bringing a diverse, grow-ing student body free, not-for-credit courses.

These courses, the subjects of

which range from equine nutrition to fundamentals of personal financial planning, last between three and 15 weeks and require a weekly work-load of three to four hours. Those who complete a course receive a certificate from its professor, as well as a new set of skills.

Everett’s four-week Introduction to Digital Sound Design began on Coursera Monday. His class will help meet the high demand for a similar one taught in-person at Emory.

“The reason I was interested in doing Coursera was that my [in-per-son] class only held 15 students, and there was always a big waiting list,”

he said. “If I can do a big, not-for-credit first semester course through Coursera, the students can use it as an unofficial prerequisite to get into my second semester course.”

Lee Clontz, an adjunct faculty in the Journalism Program and a University Technological Services (UTS) specialist who helped create the courses, finds them “extremely flexible” after test-driving several himself.

“It’s a really awesome opportu-nity for people who just want to learn something,” Clontz said, who

DANCING WITH THE STARS

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Indian Cultural Exchange and Xi Kappa Fraternity hosted a Bhangra workshop in the Woodruff P.E. Center yesterday. Xi Kappa Fraternity seeks to promote Asian awareness, according to Emory’s Interfraternity Council’s website and ICE serves those of Indian origin, according to their website.

ACADEMICS

By Jordan Friedman Associate Editor

Students with questions about the credit-hour changes that will take place next fall can now find several answers online.

In a College-wide email sent to students yesterday evening, the University announced the launch of a webpage providing information on the credit-hour changes.

“We have tried to anticipate some of the biggest questions that students will have regarding these changes,” Steve Savage, communications spe-cialist for the Office of Undergraduate Education, wrote in the email. “To help answer those questions, we are launching an information webpage. This site outlines some of the biggest questions we think students will have, and we’ll continue to add questions and answers to the site as we discover other common questions students are asking.”

Next fall, the College will begin following the Carnegie Credit System, meaning that the number of credit hours designated for each course will match the amount of time students are in the classroom each week.

As a result, the “standard” course will be worth three credits, though others — particularly those with an extra component, such as a lab — can range from four to six.

The site provides some infor-mation that, until now, has been unknown to students. Specifically, students will have to complete at least 32 academic courses during their

time at Emory, even if they reach the graduation requirement before then.

The website states that it would be possible, for instance, for a student majoring in a subject with mostly four- or five-credit hour courses to reach the 124 hours required for grad-uation much more quickly than other students.

“The 32-course requirement is a way of ensuring that all graduates of Emory College have appropri-ate depth in their majors as well as breadth across the curriculum,” the website states.

According to the site, summer 2013 courses will adhere to the current credit-hour system, but the changes will affect these classes — including those offered during Maymester — in the following summer.

In addition, courses that satisfy the continued writing requirement GER will be worth four credit hours, reflecting an extra hour needed to revise assignments, meet with faculty and, in some cases, attend writing workshops, according to the site.

Courses satisfying the writ-ing requirement will simply carry the letter “W” in the course name. According to the website, HIST 301W would fulfill the writing requirement, but HIST 301 would not.

Science courses with lab will be designated as Science, Nature and Technology with Lab (SNTL). Currently, all courses are designated as “SNT” either with or without a lab component.

“[The current designation] makes

SGA’s Two Bills Fund Student EventsSTUDENT GOVERNMENT

By Rupsha BasuStaff Writer

The Student Government Association (SGA) held its first meeting of the semester yesterday evening, passing bills to fund the Emory Chinese Student Association’s (ECSA) Lunar Banquet and a compe-tition for pre-health students.

The Lunar Banquet is a celebration of the Chinese New Year. ECSA has received funding for the event in the

past two years. SGA provided $4,200 for the event this year.

At first, however, SGA’s finance committee recommended that SGA provide only $3,000, explaining that SGA had provided about that amount to the Indian Cultural Exchange (ICE) for their annual Diwali event last semester. The legislature, how-ever, voted on a motion to amend the bill from $3,000 back to $4,200 after some SGA members, including College senior and SGA President

Ashish Gandhi, voiced concerns about comparing one event’s funding to another’s.

ECSA is asking for $200 more than last year due to steeper catering costs, according to bill authors – EASDA President Qilin Liu and Vice President Dong Ba.SGA Student Life Committee Chair and College senior Calvin Li warned the legislature that ECSA has had financial issues in the

Webpage Off ers OverviewOf Credit-Hour Changes

Winship Receives

$10M Donation

FUNDING

By Rupsha Basu Staff Writer

The Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation donated $10 mil-lion to Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute for advancing breast cancer research making it the first grant of this magnitude to the institute.

The Winship Cancer Institute conducts a variety of clinical trials from experimental drugs that treat the deadliest forms of breast cancer to pioneering surgical procedures.

The Glenn family donated in grati-tude for the experience their daugh-ter had as a patient at the Winship Institute in 2003.

Previously, the family also funded Ruth O’Regan, an expert in cancer research, to hold an endowed chair position, according to the Emory news center.

The Glenn Family Breast Center — a subdivision of Winship — con-sists of a team of physicians that conduct trials and research on more than 900 breast cancer patients a year.

Walter J. Curran, Jr., executive director of Winship Cancer Institute, explained the institute’s relationship

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Participants: 470, up from 405Off ered Bids: 385, up from 257

Sorority Recruitment

Participants: 408, up from 404Accepted Bids: 223, down from 234

Fraternity Recruitment

RUSH NUMBERS

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THURSDAY Event: Emory Symposium on Digital Publication, Undergraduate Research and WritingTime: 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.Location: Jones Room, Robert W. Woodruff Library

Event: Campus Peace VigilTime: 12 – 12:20 p.m.Location: Cox Hall

Event: Peter W. Kalivas, PhD - “Using Neuroplasticity to Cure Addiction”Time: 12 – 1 p.m.Location: Whitehead Auditorium

Event: Open Advising Hours for Summer Study Abroad Financial AidTime: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.Location: Candler Library, Room 216

Event: AntiquiTEATime: 4 p.m.Location: Carlos Museum, Reception Hall

Event: Masters of Bioethics Open HouseTime: 5 – 7 p.m.Location: Center for Ethics

Event: Author Talk: Joe Crespino, author of “Strom Thurmond’s America”Time: 6 – 7 p.m.Location: Jones Room, Woodruff Library Level 3

Event: King Week: Ecumenical Celebration at Oxford CollegeTime: 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.Location: Oxford College Campus: Old Church, Oxford, Georgia

Event: Toastmasters@Emory Club MeetingTime: 8 – 9 a.m.Location: Old Dental Building, 1462 Clifton Rd., Room 231

Event: Compassion Meditation GroupTime: 5 – 6 p.m.Location: Cannon Chapel, Bottom Floor, Room 106

Event: Pillow Talk (1959)Time: 7:30 p.m.Location: White Hall 205, 301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322

Event: Living Donor and Split Liver TransplantationTime: 7 – 8 a.m.Location: Emory University Hospital Auditorium

Event: RNA regulation in epithelial-mesenchymal transitionTime: 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.Location: Whitehead Building, Ground Floor Auditorium

Event: Copyright & Your Thesis or DissertationTime: 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.Location: Room 314, Robert W. Woodruff Library Level 3

Event: Clara C and Jason Chen ConcertTime: 7:15 – 10:15 p.m.Location: Glenn Memorial Auditorium

Vegetarians were cited as “a growing minority” on campus, as students began noting less and less meat

options and an increasing number of vegetarian entrees offered at

the DUC. Vegetarians, concerned that the food provided for them at the DUC was either unappetizing or unhealthy, began buying food

off-campus. Whether for spiritual, ecological or health reasons, 1995 saw a growth in vegetarianism in

colleges from Emory to University of California Berkeley, where vegans

petitioned for animal-free foods.

• A blaze at the crowded Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil killed over 233 people around 2 a.m. Sunday after acoustic insulation caught fire during a pyrotechnics show. In parts of the building, the roof collapsed and trapped many of the 2,000 people inside. Kiss, the license of which had expired in August and had not been renewed, had a capac-ity of 1,000 and no exit signs above its doors.

• After seizing Gao, northern Mali’s most populous city, French-led forces in Mali continue advanc-ing towards Timbuktu in the effort to oust Islamist rebels, known as Operation Serval. African states will deploy nearly 5,700 troops in support of the French-led operation, while the U.S. will provide mid-air refueling for French warplanes. Approximately 3,700 French troops are currently engaged, 2,500 of them in war-torn Mali.

• Three teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 were shot at a DeKalb County house party around 12:30 a.m. Sunday. The shooting stemmed from a fight within the Creekside Place home. Victims were

taken to local hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries, and arrests have not yet been made.

• Mice at a Wichita, Kansas police station nested in and chewed through three packages of marijuana seized as evidence during arrests in 2009 and kept in a storage facility. Officials photographed the scene, resealed the packages, and reweighed the left-overs, following standard protocol. The so-called “stoner mice” remain at large, but an exterminator has been called.

— Compiled by Staff Writer Lydia O’Neal

• On Jan. 16 between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. a student residing at Clairmont tower contacted Emory police to report that some of his clothing was stolen from the laundry room. The missing clothing is valued at $350. The incident is cur-rently under investigation.

• On Jan. 25 Emory police received an anonymous report of sexual assault. The date, time and location are unknown.

• On Jan. 24 between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. a female student’s wallet was stolen from the Woodruff Physical Education Center. The stu-dent said she left her wallet on the elliptical machine and left to go to

the bathroom, and when she arrived back, the wallet was gone. The wallet is valued at $60. The incident is under investigation.

• On Jan. 19 officers responded to a call that three students were trapped in a Dobbs University Center eleva-tor. Facilities management was noti-fied to help extricate the students. No students were injured. The elevator manufacturer was notified.

• On Jan. 24 at 1:51 a.m. An indi-vidual spotted an unconscious and incoherent student on Eagle Row. The student was unable to respond to offi-cer’s questions. The individual drove the student to the Longstreet-Means Residence Hall (LSM) where he con-

tacted Emory police. The student was transported to Emory hospital. The LSM residence hall director was notified.

— Compiled by Staff Writer Dustin Slade

THE EMORY WHEEL NEWS Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3

is currently enrolled in a calculus class on Coursera. “I don’t want to go for a four-year degree. I just want to learn calculus. And at the end of this 15-week, free class, I’ll know all I need to know about one semester of calculus.”

Kimberly S. Hagen, director of the CFAR LINCS Initiative at the Center for AIDS Research at Emory, spent hours videotaping lectures for her AIDS course, which will launch Feb. 25 and feature “many experts on AIDS and public health.”

According to Hagen, “A very large circle of faculty members will be teaching with me and delivering guest lectures.”

Over 10,000 students have signed up for her nine-week MOOC. Of the dozen students who emailed her per-sonally, only one was a U.S. citizen — the rest came from India, Europe and Africa.

Hagen attributes the marginally foreign enrollment to lack of simi-lar MOOC opportunities outside of the U.S. and the intrigue of taking classes sponsored by elite American universities.

“In some countries,” she said, “this may be some people’s only oppor-tunity to take a college or graduate school course on a specific topic.”

Of course, learning from a profes-sor you’ve never spoken to has its drawbacks.

Emory Law School professor and Harvard Law honors graduate Polly Price cites the necessity of self-motivation as a disadvantage of the MOOC format.

Price’s six-week Coursera class, Immigration and U.S. Citizenship, begins April 29.

“Some students need the discipline of regular class attendance, with a professor who knows you are there to keep up with the pace of the learn-ing,” said Price, who considers the enormous class sizes a concern as well.

“MOOCs allow very little inter-action with the instructor, given that thousands of students may be enrolled,” she said. “An online plat-form with smaller, limited enroll-ment can avoid some of these disadvantages.”

Though Price prefers the class-room setting, she enjoys the benefits

of an expanded audience and new ability to convey the fundamentals of the subject she loves through Coursera.

Despite tens of thousands of enrolling students, MOOCs often suf-fer high rates of attrition, according to Clontz.

In one course he took, the instruc-tor informed students that 9,000 of the 90,000 who enrolled had suc-cessfully completed it and received certificates.

This particular fraction — 10 per-cent — is considered above average for most online classes.

“People sign up because it’s a free class,” Clontz said. “But you need to follow through and invest some time.”

Students like Clontz who do put in the time are not the only ones rewarded.

“A side benefit of this is the vis-ibility of my own research,” Everett said of his digital sound course. “I’m getting calls from around the world about what I do. This kind of way of advancing your work is something you hire marketing firms to do.”

According to Everett, the impact on individual educators involved, as well as Emory’s reputation, will be profound and positive, as any viewer with Internet access can see these professors in action.

The impact MOOCs have on learning efficiency and higher edu-cation will be even greater, Everett said, referencing an experiment con-ducted at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001.

In the study, researchers compared the outcomes of two platforms of the same course — one online, the other standard, in-person. The online module would quiz students after every 10-15 minute video and review the problems test-takers answered incorrectly.

“The learning outcome of that [online] class was much higher than that of the standard, in-person class,” Everett said.

Everett sees free MOOCs as a fast-growing, altruistic new branch of global academia.

“This whole MOOC phenomenon is what higher education is moving toward,” he said. “I think in a few years, we’ll have much more.”

— Contact Lydia O’Neal at [email protected]

with the Glenn Family Foundation.“The support of Glenn Family

Foundation has just been fabulous,” he said in an interview with the Wheel. “We’ve worked with them for years in defining what our priori-ties are.”

Curran said that the grant will be used primarily for three different purposes.

First, the money will be used to fund a number of medium-sized research projects that will generate new data in order to received future funding for the institute’s larger-scale projects.

Another priority for Winship is to

attract new breast cancer researchers to the organization.

They have already used the money to hire experts in the field, according to Curran.

Finally, the money will strengthen the research base and acquire bio-specimen for tumor tissue banking.

Winship is currently doing exten-sive research on triple-negative breast cancer, a type of aggres-sive cancer that disproportionately affects African American women and whose only known treatment is chemotherapy.

Curran says that he hopes to use money from the grant toward a better understanding the disease.

The institute will also be the first

in the United States to test a new brain tumor drug that will help in surgical tumor removals.

While Winship has interest in many different cancers, its target is breast cancer — the most common type of cancer among women.

“As Winship’s first named center focused on a specific type of can-cer, the Glenn Family Breast Center represents visionary donors who are making a lasting and tangible differ-ence for patients facing breast can-cer,” says S. Wright Caughman, exec-utive vice president for health affairs at Emory and chief executive officer of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, which includes Winship.

In an interview with the Wheel,

Curran stressed the importance of Winship’s relationship with the Robert Winship Woodruff Foundation, whose namesake began Winship Cancer Institute in honor of his cancer-stricken mother.

Philanthropy is critical to the con-tinued success of Winship Cancer Institute, according to Curran. While it continues to receive grants from donors, it also participates in fundraising.

Emory will be holding a 5k Color Run on Feb. 16 to benefit Winship in conjunction with the Student Programming Council (SPC) and Emory Athletics.

— Contact Rupsha Basu at [email protected]

were given.College junior and Interfraternity

Council (IFC) President Jason Stern explained that for the first time, the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life discussed Greek life during presenta-tions at freshman Pre-Major Advising Connections at Emory (PACE) ses-sions in the fall in order “to inform [freshmen] about Greek life and about the benefits of joining a Greek organization.”

IFC also expanded its Sunday Night Dinner program, during which potential fraternity members have the opportunity to enjoy free dinner from local restaurants and meet fraternity brothers at their houses on Eagle Row.

According to Stern, each fraternity was able to host two dinners, rather than one, this year.

“Almost all of the chapters chose to host an additional dinner, which speaks to the success and popularity of the program,” Stern wrote in an email to the Wheel.

Rush week annually culminates in Run the Row, when pledges run down Eagle Row to their respective fraternity houses.

This year, Run the Row took place on Friday, Jan. 25.

— Contact Jordan Friedman [email protected]

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Profs. See Drawbacks, Benefi tsOf Teaching Online Education

New Grant to Help Fund Research Initiatives, Large-Scale Projects

past, citing a past incident during which the organization asked SGA for funding only a week before the event. Legislators responded to these financial concerns, citing what they see as the importance of the event.

“It’s very important for this event to occur because a lot of people like this event,” College sophomore and Governance Committee Chair Ted Guio said.

Liu also defended ECSA, stating that past problems involved the lead-ership, not the integrity of the event. College senior and senior representa-tive Mallika Begum also voiced her support of the bill. Eventually, SGA voted to fund the entirety of the $4,200 on a 24-0-2 decision.

Annie Harold, a third-year law student, presented the second bill of the evening, which requests fund-ing for a pre-health competition this Saturday hosted by Emory American Student Dental Association (EASDA) and Science and Society. SGA unani-mously voted to pass the bill in a

25-0-0 vote.EASDA is an inter-school char-

tered organization under the Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA). The competition, which started in 2009, is open for Emory students in all schools interested in public health. This year, 12 teams of six students each will compete from every school on campus, including the graduate schools and Oxford College of Emory, according to Harold.

Lee said this competition is exact-ly the large-scale event for which the Student Activities Fee (SAF) should be used — one that caters to all Emory students. Some SGA legisla-tors, like senior representative and College senior Brad Clement, were concerned that SGA would be deplet-ing funds too quickly in funding the event.

“We need to think about whether this event is something we want to be spending a fourth of our funding on,” Clement said.

At the beginning of the semester, SGA had about $27,000 in its alloca-tive budget, $19,000 of which rolled

over from last semester. After fund-ing the Lunar Banquet, SGA was left with $23,000.

Harold, however, promised that EASDA would ask other divisional councils to reimburse SGA for por-tions — if not all — of the $4,000 because SGA is not allowed to retro-actively fund events.

The event’s magnitude is far larger than just the competition compo-nent, as there are more than 30 stu-dent volunteers, participation from 40 students of the Student Advisory Committee of Global Health and judges from the Atlanta community, among others, according to Harold.

Despite concerns about the deple-tion of the budget, SGA legislators voiced support for the bill, especially because it brings together students from all of Emory’s schools.

Harold also added that if SGA gave EASDA no funding, the event would still be held as planned, but EASDA would have to dip into funds allotted for an international event.

— Contact Rupsha Basu at [email protected]

THE EMORY WHEELNEWS4 Tuesday, January 29, 2013

GALA NIGHT

Jason Lee/Staff

The participants of the Emory Arts Showcase entered their work into three different categories: “re.present” for performing art, “re.create” for visual arts and “re.invent” for a blend of genres. The finalists performed on Friday in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

it difficult for students to identify which courses satisfy the lab require-ment of SNT,” the site explains.

Another change described on the website — but one that will not affect current students — is an adjustment to the requirement for Humanities, Arts and Performance (HAP) and Humanities, Arts and Languages (HAL) courses.

Students presently can take a total of four HAL courses to satisfy the requirement for two HAP and HAL courses.

But, with the credit-hour changes, students will be able to either com-plete two HAL courses and two HAP courses, or three HAL courses and one HAP course.

Essentially, students will be required to take at least one HAP course.

This change will only affect stu-dents who enter the College in fall 2013 and later.

The College catalog, which will list courses and their designated cred-its, will be available Feb. 15.

The College will also host town hall events late next month for more information and to provide answers to students’ questions.

— Contact Jordan Friedman [email protected]


College to Alter HAP Requirements for Incoming Students

THE EMORY WHEEL NEWS 5Tuesday, January 29, 2013

By Sarah FlukerFSView & Florida Flambeau,

Florida State U.

Florida State U. graduate student Ryan Bennett will have $20,000 in student loan debt. Senior Torie Nugent will accumulate $24,000. Junior Melia Orrell will surpass $70,000. These three Seminoles, though from different states and engaged in dif-ferent fields of study, all share in the common struggle to finance their education through student loans.

In 2012, Americans racked up over $1 trillion in student loans. It has become 35 percent of the federal government’s debt and now outpaces credit card debt as a leading source of household debt. As a college degree becomes more crucial to compete in today’s workforce, students are taking on more student loans to ensure a return on their educational investment.

Marc Samardzija, an FSU doctoral student in Economics and teaching assistant, was trading stocks on Wall Street in 2008 during the onset of the Great Recession.

As he observed with the housing mortgage crisis, he foresees another bubble waiting to burst in student loan debt.

“I think it’s already kind of burst a little bit,” said Samardzija. “This is kind of being swept under the rug. But if it’s not addressed, we could see in two or three years, if things haven’t improved and the economy hasn’t turned around enough where more jobs are created and these loan debt obligations aren’t able to be met, then you will see this become a forefront as an issue both in education and the

finances of this country.”Samardzija believes that college

has become an institution of business rather than education, creating a dan-gerous relationship with financial and banking industries.

“You have all of these investment banks who depend on a very strong source of revenue of loans to basi-cally be able to upkeep their busi-ness and schools the same thing they bring a strong supply of students,” said Sarmardzija. “You mix two together and the cost of education is skyrocketing.”

Ryan Bennett has dreamed of studying meteorology since he was in kindergarten. Now a graduate stu-dent, Bennett is closer to realizing his dream but deeper in student loan debt as he pursues it.

“If I didn’t have these loans, I wouldn’t have made it through under-grad,” said Bennett. “I wouldn’t have even been able to come to graduate school because my tuition—there’s no way I would have been able to pay it off.”

Bennett proposes that student loans be adjusted for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors to give them the financial means to succeed in these areas that are critical to our nation’s ability to compete in the international arena.

International Affairs and Spanish student Melia Orrell considers her impending $70,000 student loan debt “outrageous” and challenges the nation to demand greater access to post-secondary education.

“I could make anywhere from $20,000 a year to $200,000 a year and I have no way of knowing what I’ll end up making and therefore

it causes me a lot of anxiety,” said Orrell. “I don’t know how I’m going to pay it back.”

With financial uncertainty, Orrell also believes that Florida State should address the practical uncertainty associated with loans by educating students about the implications of student loan debt.

“Honestly, I’m a junior and I still don’t know how its going to work after I graduate,” said Orrell. “I don’t when I’m going to have to start pay-ing loans back, I don’t know how much I’m going to be paying a month or a year, I don’t know if it’s going to be based on my salary. I know it sounds irresponsible, but honestly I don’t really know where to go for the right information.”

FSU acting major and Massachusetts native Torie Nugent is paying out-of-state tuition, but says that the prestige of Florida State’s program outweighs what will become “just another bill.”

Nonetheless, she said she believes that the government should play a role in helping students repay their loans.

“I think that a deferment program would help a lot of people trying to make the transition from college to real life,” said Nugent. “It would allow them more economic freedom so they might be able to work and save more so that it would be easier to pay off those loans.”

While companies like MassMutual Insurance are reaching out to students through social media to offer creative student loan debt solutions, it is clear that the future of college affordability will require input from the front lines of universities, the federal govern-ment and private industry alike.

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Friday, January 25, 2013In its staff editorial, titled “Hope and Skep-

ticism” the Crimson Staff discusses the intri-cacies of President Obama’s second inaugural address.

President Obama spent almost 20 minutes addressing the nation during his second inau-gural address on Monday. As he delivered his remarks, it became increasingly clear that we were in for a speech different in both tone and substance than the largely post-partisan and conciliatory approach proffered four years prior. While the first-term Obama pleaded America to hopefully accept the notion that “the stale political arguments that have con-sumed us for so long no longer apply,” the new and improved version implores an unidenti-fied opponent to not “mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.”

The shift in the nature of his speech marked a momentous occasion. Instead of blithely pretending that all Americans share the same principled beliefs, Obama argued that the fight for freedom and justice is not complete until there is necessary action on a variety of progressive fronts. The president made history by becoming the first of his of-fice to publicly come out in favor of gay equal-ity under the law, and he attracted almost as much post-address attention for his support of legislation addressing climate change. Some, including Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, criticized the audacity of his remarks, ominously announcing “the era of liberalism is back” in what is ultimately a mistake “directed at an America [he] still [be-lieves] is center-right.”

While Senator McConnell is not wrong about the liberal nature of President Obama’s peroration, his assertion that Obama’s pro-gressive views conflict with those held by the majority of the country is nonsensical. This fall, Obama not only won reelection, giving him a mandate to carry out the agenda he pleases, but his Democratic Party also picked up seats in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Furthermore, public opinion polling con-

tinually demonstrates nationwide support for the social agenda outlined by the president. Sixty-three percent of Americans now identi-fy global warming as a serious problem. Sup-port for same-sex marriage rises year after year, such that a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows 51 percent of the coun-try in favor. This measure is up from 30 per-cent in 2004 and 41 percent in 2009. At this rate, an overwhelming majority will likely approve of marriage equality by the next elec-tion. We strongly believe it is the duty of the nation’s leader to reflect the views of where the country is going, as opposed to those of where the country has been.

The problem we have with President Obama’s address does not stem from his bet-ter-late-than-never advocacy of issues many have spent the last four years so patiently wait-ing for. Rather, the speech’s flaw results from the issue the president conveniently ignored: the perilous state of our nation’s finances and impending budgetary decisions. We are disappointed with the president’s wholesale commitment to entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, each of which he mentioned by name. Men-tion of these policies in the same breath as important constitutional rights reflects a fun-damental lack of seriousness in confronting one of the most urgent battles ahead. It is no secret that the structure of American entitle-ment spending needs to be reformed. As such, it is disappointing to see the president return to election-style demagoguery, reminiscent of when each side spuriously accused the other of wanting to take away Medicare.

On the whole, it was refreshing to see Obama take up the issues that originally at-tracted so many passionate campaign sup-porters. We are optimistic that the president will make strides in the realm of civil rights such as those not seen in half a decade. How-ever, we also hope that he does not lose sight of the financial uncertainty plaguing so many Americans since the days of his predecessor. There may remain a yet un-bridged divide in the nation on the topic of social issues, but the country stands united in its desideration of more jobs and a growing economy.

Jenna Mittman Jenna Mittman is a member of the Class of 2013. Her cartoons have become a staple of the Wheel over the years.

ROSS FOGG

A Diff erent Kind of Future

Out With the Old and in With the New Richard Nixon had a run at it in 1960,

George H. W. Bush succeeded in 1988, and of course, it fell through Al Gore’s fingertips in 2000. The vice presidency is a tricky animal.

Despite many vice presidents who went on to have transformative presidencies like Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson, only Martin Van Buren and George H. W. Bush have been elected president after the president with whom they shared a ticket completed his terms in office.

With the inauguration now behind us, many have speculated that Vice President Joe Biden will run for president in his own right in 2016.

Joe Biden knows the Senate thorough-ly, has great experience in foreign rela-tions, has championed legislation like the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and is a hero to blue-collar America with a captivating personal narrative.

Conventional wisdom says that if Vice President Biden wants the Democratic nomi-nation in four years, it is his for the taking.

The problem, however, is that Biden is currently 70 years old and should not, by any means, be at the top of the ticket in four years.

The same argument applies to Hillary Clinton. At 65, she too is simply too old to be president.

She has had a wonderful career in poli-tics as first lady, senator from New York and especially so as secretary of state. She enjoys immense popularity at the moment, and James Carville even claimed early last month that 90 percent of Democrats want her to run. Although a certain front-runner, she is not the best person for the job — the country

requires bold, new leadership, not old party bosses.

In 1992, the presidency irrevocably shifted away from the GI Generation to the Baby Boomers and again in 2008, it shifted to Barack Obama who, as the fifth-youngest president in the nation’s history, was born in the gray area between the Baby Boomers and Generation X.

The next administration or two or three will require fresh, ground-breaking programs like President Obama’s Race to the Top initiative.

This is not to disqualify either politician exclusively because of their age, but rather a call to new policies geared toward a new era and this is not something Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton can deliver. There is not a shortage of young talent in either party and most of the nominees in four years will be from Generation X. It is essential to continue bringing new ideas forward, and this is neces-sary of both political parties.

In last week’s Inaugural Address, President Obama consistently urged Americans to respond to the new challenges that the coun-try faces and the election of either Biden or

Clinton would be a disservice to such a call. Their moments have passed, and in four

years, the country will need to continue with younger leadership.

During the next four years, President Obama is sure to take up gun control, immi-gration reform and perhaps climate change legislation.

But there will be plenty of work left in order to make the United States more com-petitive in the global economy and rejuvenate its leadership among emerging countries like China, Brazil and Singapore.

In the long term during the next several administrations, American leadership will require legislation to reestablish the American public education system as the best in the world, regain the status as the country with the most college graduates, train workers for higher-skilled manufacturing jobs and help lead in innovation, entrepreneurship and research.

As President Obama said in his Inaugural Address: “For now decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford delay.”

Speculating as to who will or will not run, or which party will be in power in four years is a senseless pursuit, and what matters more is what will be accomplished in the coming years rather than who will be sworn in.

With many demanding issues during our time, it is easy to focus solely on those that are the most impending. Americans, however, must constantly evaluate the long-term inter-ests of the country and take the necessary steps to keep the nation striving toward its potential.

Ross Fogg is a College junior from Fayetteville, Ga.

“It is essential to continue bringing new ideas forward ...

of both political parties”

Emory College faculty voted at their monthly meeting last week to establish an independent committee to review the decision-making process that precipitated last semester’s controversial department changes. The motion passed by a margin of just four votes, and many of the faculty at the meeting expressed concerns that looking backward was not an efficient way to move forward. We at the Wheel feel that there is a pressing need to review the process that led to the department changes, and we support the College faculty on their decision to do so.

There has been much confusion on campus regarding the department changes and the community’s outcry has been well-publicized. The lack of transparency, both during the decision-making process and after the changes were announced, on the part of College Dean Robin Forman and the College Financial Advisory Committee (CFAC), which worked with Forman, has done little to clarify the situation. That local and national chapters of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have questioned whether proper procedures were followed is yet another signal that this review should be undertaken.

We also feel that if the decision to suspend and eliminate the various departments was made in the spirit of due process and with the College’s best interests in mind, there should be no reason not to review its process. If the changes were implemented in a fair and well-reasoned manner, such a review will give those who support them a chance to demonstrate the changes’ validity to the Emory community. If, however, they were not, we hope that this review will expose the flaws in the decision-making process and serve as a lesson for the future.

In regards to those professors who believe that looking backwards will not help move the faculty and College forward, it is worth reminding them that this is a uni-versity, a place of learning and understanding, exploration and discovery. We must understand the past in order to move into the future without making the same mis-takes. Historians and scientists, alike, can agree on such a philosophy.

We support the establishment of a committee to review the department changes, and as journalists we support any venture that seeks to find the truth. We also acknowledge that the committee’s task will not be an easy one. Moving forward, we hope that the review committee will be granted all the powers necessary to conduct a thorough investigation, and we wish the members of this committee the best of luck.

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In the coming months, the Georgia House of Representatives will introduce a bill, HB 29, or the “Georgia Campus Carry Act of 2013.” The resolution would amend the Georgia State Constitution, which forbids concealed weapons in “a building that is occupied by a government entity,” to allow individuals at public and private colleges and universities to carry firearms.

In other words, guns at Emory.This legislation, in the midst of the current

gun control debate, demonstrates how far extremists in this country will go to “protect the right to bear arms.” That the 2012 elec-tions yielded a new republican supermajority in the General Assembly suggests that this bill has a strong chance of passing.

On his website, the representative who drafted the legislation, Charles Gregory (R-Kennesaw), wrote that “there is no more appropriate, and no more necessary, time to defend our liberties than when they are under attack!”

He went on to write, “If the principal [in Newtown, CT] had access to a gun that day, many lives could have been saved; or who knows, if Sandy Hook wasn’t a ‘gun-free zone,’ maybe Adam wouldn’t have even tar-geted the school.”

Let me get this straight. Mr. Gregory believes Adam Lanza went and massa-cred school children school because their school was a gun-free zone. So it was the school’s fault, or the parent’s fault or maybe Connecticut’s fault. But certainly, the sense-less killings were not the fault of the mentally disabled man with an automatic weapon.

However, we, in the state of Georgia, will never be blamed for the death of innocent children because we will have guns in our schools.

Instead of proposing legislation to prevent massacres from happening, such as testing for mental illness before selling firearms, treat-ing the mentally ill or, God forbid, an assault weapons ban, Mr. Gregory has introduced a resolution to start an arms race fueled by fear.

If Mr. Gregory’s legislation were merely meant to prevent another mass shooting on a college campus by an irrational actor, it would be misguided and wrong. Guns do not pre-vent insane people from massacring children; treatment for the mentally ill and restrictions on gun access do.

However, this resolution was introduced to combat all types of crime on campuses, not just mass murder. Thus, this legislation is beyond wrong — it’s dangerous.

Especially at schools like Georgia Tech and Georgia State, where on-campus crime is more prevalent than it is at Emory, all students are susceptible to some degree of crime. So, under Mr. Gregory’s logic, if a college student feels that he or she is vulnerable to armed robbery or other kinds of violence, he or she should get a gun.

But isn’t that why we, in Georgia, have police to protect students and a legal sys-tem where guilty criminals are punished in accordance with their crimes? Aren’t these institutions society’s means of combating undesirable activity?

However, even if we live in Mr. Gregory’s world and don’t believe police are an effective use of the public’s money or that laws are an effective means of deterrence, Mr. Gregory

seems to ignore the fact that many of these potential new gun owners will be untrained to handle firearms or may have ulterior motives for obtaining them.

Additionally, Mr. Gregory does not under-stand that wider gun ownership will increase violence on college campuses. Increased gun ownership will create an incentive to use guns to carry out crimes. If a robber is planning on stealing someone’s money, while he used to be able to beat up his victim, he now has to account for the victim’s potential firearm by bringing his own. Thus, if we give Mr. Gregory the benefit of the doubt and say that crime rates would go down with mass gun ownership, the percentage of those crimes that would be violent would increase.

In today’s society, if citizens do not believe

existing law enforcement agents adequately protect them, they should advocate for steep-er deterrence (harsher penalties) and/or an increase in the police force. That might mean more guns, but at least we know, hypothetical-ly, that the finger on the trigger will protect us.

HB 29 is dangerous because it, along with other extremist pro-gun legislation, proposes an alternate vision for American life. Mr. Gregory, by advocating a world where indi-viduals protect their own rights with their own guns, must live in a Wild West fantasy, where citizens can only trust themselves to protect their lives and property.

However, humans have established gov-ernments and laws because life in Gregory’s armed dystopia would be nasty, brutish and short.

Thus, it is imperative that Emory students, either through the new “Emory Students Against Guns on Campus,” initiative or via their own means, fight this resolution by lob-bying state government or raising awareness. The passage of Gregory’s gun legislation, rather than alleviating violence, would insti-tute a society of constant fear, where no one will be safe.

Ben Leiner is a College junior from Baltimore, Md.

BEN LEINER

Guns on Ga. Campuses

Would Increase Violence

House Bill 29 will decrease security and hinder progress

on all college campuses.

JONATHAN WARKENTINE

I’ve heard a lot of atheists use the “Spaghetti Monster” argument in my day. Perhaps you are familiar with it: There could, for all we know, exist a spaghetti monster orbiting Jupiter. Although to date we have no record of it. If you so wish, you can have faith that it exists, but I see no reason to believe that it exists any more than unicorns.

I will make a lot of atheists angry, but that argument is nonsensical. I respect the idea of not believing in something until it is proven or at least has some evidence to back up its existence, but people who believe in God do not do so because they think the idea sounds nice or because someone dreamed Him up a while back and they liked the idea.

Along with the existence of God should come a long list of other beliefs, including evidence of His interaction with the universe (or at the very minimum formation of it, according to deists).

Theists take ideas, notably the fine-tuning of the universe, the incredible and the harmo-ny of the complexity of chemistry, the exis-tence of objective moral values and evidence of the supernatural (though its very nature or should I say, “supernature,” makes it the cause of much controversy) to mean that God exists and interacts with the world. Of course each of those arguments in and of themselves — or even taken as a whole — do not prove the existence of anything, though they do, accord-ing to many, seem to point to a Designer.

It is by a leap of faith that one takes them to believe in God’s existence.

Before my atheist readers condemn this article for sentimental religious rubbish and burn it in the nearest fireplace (I recommend Longstreet’s, where you will also have a chance to meet champions), I would like to present your side of the issue.

Atheists are naturalists; that is, they believe the natural world is all there is. Their faith is not in God, but it is in science. Science, how-ever, hasn’t the explanation for everything. It may, one day, as many atheists like to claim, but it takes a measure of faith to believe.

Atheists commonly cite the atrocities of the Old Testament along with many cur-rent examples of suffering (though this is in fact only evidence against a “loving” God), the problem of evil, the ability of science to explain what was before attributed to God, the hiddenness of God and the absence of the supernatural today, all as evidence against the existence of a God.

It still takes faith to come to that con-clusion, because none of that evidence is conclusive in and of itself (if it were, only ignoramuses wouldn’t be atheists).

Faith does not only pertain to matters of religion; we see it quite often in our otherwise secular lives. For instance, in marital fidel-ity. No one has proved that a spouse will be faithful; rather, by extrapolating from past experiences one can only have faith that will be the case.

This reminds me of a debate in which an atheist, after ridiculing faith, was asked by his opponent about his wife and whether or not he had faith in her.

He did not respond but turned cherry-red.

The fact is, faith extends to many parts of our lives and is not something to be shunned; rather, faith is sometimes an expedient means by which to operate. Not many people lack faith in the Earth’s ability to turn year after year and orbit around the sun. Not many people lack faith in the sun’s continued ability to shine either.

My most important point is that faith is not — should not — be blind. There is evidence upon which it is based, though, granted, there is evidence against it. But in the end, atheism is as much a faith as theism; the only true middle ground is agnosticism, which simply skirts the decision entirely. Hence, by ridicul-ing one’s faith — if it is indeed grounded in a conscious decision made on facts and not merely nominal — one is ridiculing one’s decision, which, by the the same logic, can go either way.

Essentially, you are ridiculing the fact that they see differently than you — that they are different from you. If you want them to share your own decision, present the facts as you see them, shed the context from which you see them, but always be ready to receive theirs. Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

Jonathan Warkentine is a College freshman from Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Th e Dangerous Nature of HB 29 Stewart Hinders Liberal Agenda

In the wake of the Sandy Hook shoot-ing, America finds herself amidst a debate that could not have higher stakes. National security, the Bill of Rights and child safety have become embroiled in a fury reaching across party lines and into our family rooms. Outrage from the left and right increases each day as each’s call for action grows contested and desperate.

At the vanguard of the left’s gun control initiative stands comedian and television host, Jon Stewart. Renowned for his political satire and nightly fake news broadcast “The Daily Show,” Stewart commands a widely influ-ential media personality. Although he ranks among the most vocal of the gun control campaign, ironically, Stewart represents per-haps the largest impediment to the success of his cause.

In a recent segment, Stewart outlined his platform on gun control: “All of us, on any side of the debate, are anti-massacre ... we’re looking for a series of steps from different areas that over time could improve the situa-tion.” He then explains his frustration: “Some gun enthusiasts won’t even entertain the idea of common sense law enforcement supported, small bore, so to speak, moves to try to reign in this violence.”

Stewart’s problem can be outlined as fol-lows. He wants Washington to pass a series of measures to reduce gun violence but the measures he has in mind can’t garner enough support for a majority vote. In other words, Stewart needs there to be less of the people who oppose gun control and more of the peo-ple who do not. Since the opposition is com-prised largely of those across the aisle from Stewart, in essence, his real problem is this: he needs to convince conservatives of the case

for gun control. Liberals already support it.Consider a recent study by George Mason

University in the journal Science. Researchers surveyed 1,183 participants, asking them to read an article about the benefits and draw-backs of nanotechnology followed by a fab-ricated comment thread. The article was the same for all participants, but the comment threads varied. Some threads were civil, but some contained rude language arguing both for and against nanotechnology. Researchers found that the harsh language caused partici-pants to polarize in whatever their positions about nanotechnology were to begin with. The believers became more convinced and the skeptics more doubtful. Essentially, the research suggests that insulting language only serves to make people more assured of their original belief on an issue.

In light of this study, Stewart’s record as a diplomat to conservatives is absolutely abys-mal. In the gun control segment, he calls the Fox News viewership an amalgam of “God, media and crazy people” and condemns their pro-gun position as being paranoid against “the rise of imaginary Hitler.” Regardless of any opinion of Fox, it seems counter intuitive that invoking the Third Reich might endear Stewart’s cause to skeptics.

This strategy should not come as a surprise considering Stewart’s history at “The Daily Show.” He regularly mocks and vilifies all things conservative and not without reason. His show is a comedy written to appeal to liberals: he should be poking fun at conser-vatives. Still, when he speaks as a serious advocate on a serious issue, he must be judged by serious standards, the same standards any other gun control advocate would face.

Stewart acts as though he knows of some tipping point, some critical mass of sarcasm, that might eventually cause the pro-gun camp to abandon their entrenched positions. But the more he taunts, the more adamant conserva-tives become in their devotion to the second amendment and the less of a chance liberals have to enact any kind of firearm regulations. Stewart is shooting himself in the foot.

With a viewership of over two million, the consequences of Stewart’s rhetoric become especially dire. He is creating a culture of counter-productivity among liberals, encour-aging them to entertain themselves at the expense of those who desperately need prog-ress. Of course Stewart should always be free to joke as he pleases, but when the stakes are so high, he would do well to find some new material.

Charles Woodlief is a freshman at Oxford College.

Discourse Hurts Gun

Control CHARLES WOODLIEF

Jon Stewart must convince conservatives, not liberals, that

gun control is necessary.

A Defense of Belief: An Advocation of Faith

The setting was perfect: Our nation’s first black president took his second oath of office on the same day we choose to celebrate the life and legacy of one of our nation’s most important civil rights activists. In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama appropriately referenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for individual freedoms from almost 50 years earlier. Some would say that Obama’s rise to the presidency of the most powerful nation on Earth is the embodiment of Dr. King’s dream — that finally, racism has

been eradicated and we can all come together as one human race for the first time in our existence.

Of course this is not entirely the case. Sure, the president is a black man. Yes, every-one is equal before the law. However, it is undeniable that the government is generally dominated by older white men. While the African-American population of the U.S. is around 13 percent, approximately 46 percent of the prison population is African-American and the rate of poverty is the highest for black people at about 27 percent. It is clear that there is still a race problem in the United States.

There are several reasons race continues to be an issue. Some people legitimately believe that having a pale complexion is superior to having a dark complexion. However, these people are in the minority today. More com-monly, a person’s lack of everyday experi-ence with other races contributes to a feeling of discomfort when interacting with them. This, more than a satirical news show or the N-word, is the primary reason for most of the racial tension we experience both here at Emory and in the U.S. in general. People have a natural tendency to associate with other people who are similar to them. This is why we have many different clubs on cam-pus, so that people of similar interests might

congregate and share those interests with one another. This easily translates to the question of race: If I have spent all my life surrounded by white people, I will tend to associate with other white people in a new setting because of my unfamiliarity with people of other races. I personally remember being stricken by this phenomenon when I was six years old. My family had just moved from a small-town in Pennsylvania to Little Rock, Arkansas, and suddenly everything was different: the cli-mate, the geography and yes, even the people. For the first time there were black kids in my class, on my baseball team and in my neighborhood. Being so young, I didn’t think, “These are black people,” but I do remember thinking something like, “Some of these people look different from what I’m used to.”

Fortunately (with the help of my parents) it did not take long for me to get used to the fact that not everyone in the world has a pale com-plexion. In fact, I did not become explicitly conscious of the fact that most of the students in my classes were black until I reached high school. However, not many people have the benefit of growing up in a place like Little Rock, Arkansas. Upon coming to Emory I was shocked by the number of my peers who came from schools and towns with very small or nonexistent non-white populations.

This lack of experience more than any-thing will negatively impact a person’s view of other races. If my only perceptions of black people are the local news reporting on this week’s crime and the depictions of gangster rappers in music videos and songs, this will leave me with a very narrow perspective on black society and culture. While I may know that I have to treat all people equal-ly—and while I may truly believe so—my tainted impression of one minority group will always inform my actions and unconscious thoughts. I may call the MARTA “sketchy” or I may avoid going to a certain club downtown because its patrons have different skin tones than I do.

While I cannot be held responsible for how I was brought up or where I come from, I am responsible for my actions today. It ultimately comes down to the individual to recognize his or her faults and address them, particularly at an institution of higher educa-tion which prides itself on offering a diverse community. Granted, this is not to say that all students who come from monochromatic upbringings are racists. The problem is simply one of experience, and this is something that individuals, not a black president, can change.

William Hupp is a College sophomore from Little Rock, Ark.

WILLIAM HUPP

Race Relations Within Th e United States

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Throughout the vast majority of Catellier Dance Projects’ simply-titled “E,” I had no idea what was happening. And it was perfect.

Going into the performance, I knew that the title’s singular letter “E” stood for energy, but that was about all I (or, for that matter, anyone) had been told about this show. And that one-word explanation didn’t provide a lot of context. What kind of energy was the title meant to imply? Energy can mean a myriad of things: usable power, dynamic quality, exertion of force,

the base for being able to perform work…you get the idea.

As it turns out, Catellier Dance Projects (CDP) meant all of those definitions.

Following 2011’s time-focused “Tempo” and this spring’s space-based “The Final Frontier,” CDP created “E” as the third of a series of four dance performances centered on each of the four elements of dance. Conceived and choreo-graphed by Emory dance department faculty member Gregory Catellier, “E” was quietly bril-liant—it took on a gigantic concept in a concrete

way, miraculously succeeding in compressing a notion that embodies the source of all action into one comprehensible performance.

Catellier opened the show by explaining to the audience that creating a show about energy had inspired him to make the show entirely car-bon neutral, an announcement that was met with enthusiastic applause. So in that vein, the show began with Catellier dancing with the stage lit by one sole light, which was powered by riding a bike. But after just a few minutes of that carbon neutral performance, the light went out. And

just like that, we were back to releasing plenty of carbon in the name of dance.

For the next hour, a quintet of dancers moved through the stage, expressing absolutely every kind of energy imaginable. The dancers’ respec-tive energies complemented, clashed, perfected, and struggled with one another. And their vari-ety was nothing if not impressive.

At first glance, it was clear that the danc-ers were different: in terms of race, gender,

DANCE

Courtesy of Catellier dance Projects Catellier Dance Projects’ latest performance, titled “E,” conceived and choreographed by Emory dance faculty member Gregory Catellier, is the third installation of a four-part series of dance performances centered on each of four elements of dance: time, space, energy and body.

By Annie McNuttStaff Writer

Hosted by Emory College fresh-man Stephen Fowler and Yamini Kumawat and Emory College seniors Lauren Henrickson and Kevin Kang, the Emory Student Arts Showcase

was a phenomenal display of visu-al and performing art surrounding the theme “re.imagine, re.invent, re.create, re.present.” The pieces evoked strong emotions from greed to heart-wrenching despair, which led to intense reactions from both audience members and judges alike.

The event was held in the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts last Friday. A total of 18 finalists had their pieces entered into the competition. Ten artists spoke about their visual arts pieces on dis-

By Grace CummingsContributing Writer

Star Wars fans are still reeling from the earth-shattering news that Disney now owns the franchise. So the news that J. J. Abrams has signed on to be the director of Star Wars: Episode VII seems to rub salt in the wound, especially since he is as deep into the Star Trek franchise as Luke Skywalker’s X-wing was in the Dagobah swamp. But someone has to be devil’s advocate and say, what is the worst that could happen when J.J. Abrams directs Star Wars?

The Felicity Approach: Princess Leia has had a crush on Han Solo for four years of high school. When he writes the cryptic message “I know” as a response to the “I love you” she wrote in his yearbook, she decides to follow him to Jedi University. In a later season, Leia cuts off her trade-mark cinnamon-roll buns and ratings decline sharply.

The Alias Approach: Princess Leia is recruited as a spy for SD-6, a top secret branch of the Rebel Alliance. She tells her boyfriend Han Solo and he is murdered. Leia learns that SD-6 is actually a Sith organiza-tion that wants to rule the galaxy, so she becomes a double agent and relays information to the real Rebel Alliance.

The Lost Approach: Leia, Han, Luke, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2 crash the Millennium Falcon on the

island planet Dharma. In addition to having to learning how to survive on the planet, they also have to deal with the mysterious Others. Then it gets weird. There’s the Force, something about a polar bear and a smoke mon-ster, and it’s all an allegory for death or something? People will probably watch the first couple of movies but then get confused and lose interest for the rest of the series.

The Star Trek Approach: . . . Not even going to go there.

The Super 8 Approach: Elle Fanning, known better as Not Dakota Fanning, stars as Luke Skywalker’s daughter in a movie that is a loving homage to 80’s science fiction mov-

ies made by . . . Steven Spielberg. Not George Lucas. Awkward.

So, Star Wars fans, put down the brown paper bag and stop hyperven-tilating. The Marvel fans panicked when Disney bought Marvel in 2009, and then Joss Whedon was brought on to write and direct The Avengers, which is now the highest-grossing movie of all time.

Yes, Disney bought Star Wars, and yes, J. J. Abrams will direct the next movie. But, in his own roundabout way, he may just be the droid we are looking for.

— Contact Grace Cummings at [email protected]

Jason Lee/StaffLast Friday at the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, the Emory Student Arts Showcase estab-lished that the arts do indeed have their place at Emory, displaying the performing and visual art of 18 finalists.

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Wikimedia CommonsJ.J. Abrams, renowned director and producer of Lost and Star Trek, among others, has signed on to direct Star Wars: Episode VII.

‘E’ Proves Dynamic, Quietly Brilliant

THE EMORY WHEEL10 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTTuesday, February 5, 2013

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Flora Glenn Candler Concert SeriesSaturday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m.Emerson Concert Hall

Emory Annual Jazz FestThursday, Feb. 7 - Saturday, Feb. 9

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Chinese New Year Celebration- The Year of the Snake

Emory Chamber Music SocietySunday, Feb. 10, 4 p.m.

Michael C. Carlos Museum

Emory Wind EnsembleSaturday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m.

Callaway C101 Candler Library 114

Under African SkiesFilm Screening

Wednesday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m.White Hall 205

Frankenstein and DraculaFilm Screening

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m.White Hall 205

The Hidden FortressFilm Screening

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m.White Hall 208

Midnight’s ChildrenFilm Screening

Wednesday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m.Landmark Midtown Cinema

Arts Events at EmoryFebruary 2013

FILMMUSIC

“Watching Chekhov Watching”Feb. 14-24

Schwartz Center Theater Lab

Dance for Reel: An Evening of Dance on Camera

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m.Oxford Road Building Presentation Room

Friends of Dance Lecture: “The Integra-tion of Functional Anatomy, Somatic Practice and Contemporary Dance”

Tuesday, Feb. 19, 6 p.m.Schwartz Center Dance Studio

Monica Bill Barnes & CompanyFlora Glenn Candler Concert Series

Thursday, Feb. 28 - Saturday, Mar. 2Schwartz Center Dance Studio

DANCE/THEATER

This spring, Emory’s Department of Film and Media Studies continues Cinematheque, a series of free 35mm film screenings every Wednesday evening at 7:30 pm, from Jan. 30 to Apr. 24 in White Hall 205. For 2013, Emory College and the Department of Film and Media Studies join forces to show the series “Universal Pictures: Celebrating 100 Years” pre-sented by American Express and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Film. Emory is the only venue in the southeast to host the touring series of outstanding Universal Pictures films, as well as one of very few venues in the Southeast to screen 35mm programming.

According to the department’s website, the series, curated by film and media studies faculty, will include 12 films, two documentaries and two special features hosted by Sir Salman Rushdie. The diverse slate of films, spanning from 1931 to the 2000s, is meant to illustrate Universal’s diverse output through the decades.

“Every decade is represented from the 1930s to the 2000s except the 1970s ... Back in the day, each studio had a pretty specific identity (Universal had horror films in the 1930s, hence the double feature on the 13th; pink Technicolor com-edies in the late fifties, 1960s, hence Pillow Talk) comprised of genre, star and visual style,” Dr. Matthew Bernstein explained in an email to the Wheel.

Such shifts in focus are to be expected from a centenarian movie studio. As the oldest continuously operating producer-distributor in the U.S., Universal Pictures has explored a myriad of cinematic styles. German-born Carl Laemmle founded the pioneering Hollywood movie studio in April 1912. Although popular movie genres and filmmaking tech-niques have changed dramatically in its century’s worth of production, the iconic spinning globe logo has remained the same.

Throughout its history, Universal Pictures has strived to strike a balance between prestigious and popular entertain-ment, often questioning the distinction altogether. From the 1930s horror flicks “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” to the 1980s blockbuster “Back to the Future,” the films selected for the series surely reflect Universal’s ongoing struggle to let art and profitability share the screen.

One may not expect the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock classic “The Birds” or the highly accoladed “Apollo 13” to appear in the same series as a 2005 Judd Apatow comedy, but the film studies department wanted to showcase the Universal ancestry in its entirety.

“Perhaps the biggest surprise for students is “The 40 Year-old Virgin.” As the first feature film to make a huge splash from Judd Apatow and his crew, we thought it was important to link this highly successful comedy with the Technicolor fantasies, melodramas, horror films, sci-fi, rom-coms and westerns that preceded it,” said Bernstein.

Bernstein feels fortunate to have been asked to screen the series and expressed his hopes to see large audiences come out to White Hall on Wednesday nights this semester. “Our series take a lot of time and work, and we offer them to the entire campus community,” he said.

All screenings are free and unticketed. For the full list of film titles, visit the film studies website.

— Contact Emily Jackson at [email protected]

size, shape. But upon more mindful inspection, they were also unmis-takably different in their movement styles: some of them moved smooth-ly, some moved emphatically, some moved viscerally. Yet, they each man-aged to communicate whatever kind of energy they set their mind to.

Dynamic energy was conveyed through all forms: music, lighting, costumes, backgrounds, and, of course, movement. Generally, these mediums all work together to cre-ate one specific feeling. But in the case of “E,” the show was all about defying those norms. The sparkly, psychedelic costumes would conflict with serious, emotive music, or happy, bright lighting would contrast against solemn movement.

Though those inconsistencies ran the risk of making the performance discordant or overbearing, Catellier was able to keep things just for-eign enough to be thought-provoking, but also just familiar enough to be comfortable.

In one particularly noteworthy section, the dancers walked onstage one by one, and asked each other, “How are you doing?” Each of them responded, “Great,” in markedly dif-ferent manners. One dancer rolled her eyes and said the word with a twinge of sarcasm; another with a fist pump and a big smile.

With the dancers in place, the world’s most iconic song about hap-piness began: Katrina and the Waves’ “Walking on Sunshine.” But the cho-reography could not have been more contrary—the dancers looked truly miserable, barely moving, as they gazed at the audience with melan-choly expressions, eventually making their way down to the floor, only to lie on their stomachs and bury their heads in their hands. Every single element onstage evoked sheer glee—except for the movement, which was so emotive that it cancelled out every-thing else.

“E” concluded as three CDP danc-ers lined themselves up onstage, one after another articulating some form of excitement: a cheer, applause, a grin, anything. They moved through the line, each quite literally taking their turn to be excited, making those pedestrian movements as choreo-graphed as any traditional dance step. The final round of excitement led into the three of them applauding together—applause which the audi-ence joined in on.

And throughout all of this activity, understudies Hannah Frankel (‘12C) and College junior Kevin Huang were onstage, in the upstage right cor-ner, riding a bike and running on a treadmill. So even between sections of “E,” while there was no dancing happening onstage, there was still palpable energy. And that movement, albeit simple and routine, captivated your attention, if only for a minute.

And maybe that’s the message of what was happening during “E,” even though it wasn’t particularly apparent during the performance. No matter what was happening—whatever the feeling or situation or sensation or state of affairs, they always managed to keep moving.

— Contact Elizabeth Howell at [email protected]

Jason Lee/StaffOf the 18 finalists, six winners were selected. Third place, second place and first place prizes were awarded in both the visual and performing arts categories.

Arts Showcase Re-Imagines Performing and Visual Art

Catellier Succeeds in

‘E,’ Keeps Moving

play upstairs in the Chace Upper Lobby while eight artists performed a variety of art forms from inspir-ing monologues to instrumental and vocal performances.

A few pieces stood out in par-ticular. Among the visual arts can-didates, College sophomore Megha Chiruvella’s painting, “The Sound of Wrong,” and College senior Tianjiao Chu’s “Take Care” were masterful in their uses of color. Each painting pos-sessed the ability to tell a story.

Chiruvella, motivated by a Natasha Trethewey poem, depicted what one would look like upon hear-ing “wrong.” Essentially, the paint-ing depicts an individual’s reaction to hearing the sound of something wrong.

Comprised of varying colors of blue, orange, black and white, the painting shows a distorted face half covered by a hand. Very detailed and intricate, Chiruvella’s piece manages to accurately visually depict a single phrase.

Chu’s piece, created digitally on

a computer using a stylus, combines all of the natural forces — earth, fire, water and air — into one. Her piece depicts the fusion of nature’s forces and humanity.

Among the performing arts can-didates, College freshman Harriet “Zoe” Yin’s original composition “All Fall Down” was strong and smooth, while College senior Ruben Diaz’s monologue “Struggle & Triumph” was incredibly moving in its lyricism.

Yin’s voice completely filled Emerson Concert Hall and harmo-nized perfectly with the piano mel-ody. The lyrics were strong and Yin sailed ever so smoothly and effort-lessly over the high notes.

Diaz performed a dramatic mono-logue following the intense struggles and triumphs and the basic ups and downs of life. The monologue had a very raw feeling as Diaz shouted the rhymes one after another, each sounding more desperate and emo-tional than the last.

At the end of the evening, the win-ners were announced. First, second and third place for visual arts, win-ning $100, $50 and $25 respectively,

went to College junior Amanda Mui (“Beneath the Universe”), College sophomore Megha Chiruvella (“The Sound of Wrong”) and Candler School of Theology graduate student Ashley Nicole Kirk (“The Alpha”).

First, second and third place for performing arts, winning $100, $50 and $25 respectively, went to College freshman Harriet Yin (“All Fall Down”), College junior Hao Feng (“Sunflower”) and second year graduate student Bryant Chica (“Recuerdos de la Alhambra”).

All of the pieces were strong dis-plays of the artistic ability that exists within Emory students and thrives on our campus everywhere. A strong emphasis was placed on the idea of tradition and keeping the arts at Emory alive despite the recent pro-gram cuts.

Filled with art, appreciation and unparalleled talent, the Emory Arts Student Showcase proves that the arts still matter, and that artistic endeav-ors will always have a place here at Emory.

— Contact Annie McNutt at [email protected]

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1. Sayonara RondoLegions of anti-Boston fans

rejoiced as news of Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo’s season end-ing injury broke this past weekend. Rondo, that brilliant, moody enigma. Out for the year with a torn ACL, a muscle apparently important for the animation of the knee, which in turn is an operative mechanism for many basketball related activities, its demise is signals the demise of the Celtics season. Or so they say. Multiple implications here.

The loss of Rondo hammers home his emergence, for those not paying attention. It seems so long ago, barely five years give or take, that Rondo was just the young enigma. Back in Year One of the Five Year Big Three run, which ended with Ray Allen’s defection to the Heat this summer, Rondo was the starting point guard that no one trusted.

With KG and Ray-Ray newly imported to jumpstart the proud Celtics franchise, with three Hall of Famers on board, fans fretted over the issue of whether Rondo, as the distributor, would jettison the team with his ‘uneven’ and ‘inexperienced’ play. Indeed veteran point guard Sam Cassell was brought in as the back-up to stabilize the situation, and Cassell did receive the lion’s share of the crunch-time reps. Year One yielded the only title of the Big Three era.

Rondo’s prominence to the team has increased in every year since then. Now, his injury has triggered speculation that the Celtics will now blow the whole operation up, liquid-ize the veteran assets and start anew. In short, the broad-shouldered, at times scoring-timid but at other times brilliant quarterback is currently the most important guy on the team. Ironic trend.

The ACL injury came out of nowhere. Apparently, Rondo ini-tially thought he was hamstrung by his hamstring, seen with an icepack stuck to his leg going into Sunday’s battle-royale against the Heat. A trip to the hospital clarified that up. Injuries affect all the parties involved. Already with a very finite amount of productive playing time, the player’s uncertain future is thrown into fur-ther uncertainty. Rehab, recovery, rehab.

Forget peaking and refining his game, returning to his original swag level is daunting enough. For the fran-chise, their best laid plans are now in complete disarray. (Unless they planned for this and are now enact-ing contingency plans. If so, the front office is still swearing collectively like a sailor). And, most ‘important-ly’, the fans suffer, deprived of the chance to enjoy a player with combi-nation of skills unique to the NBA. Ask Bulls fan how much it sucks to lose your star point guard to an ACL.

Until the next Martian sighting, we all must move on. As if we had a choice.

2. I’ll Say My Name: Beyonce.

So Beyonce landed the Big Gig, the Superbowl halftime show. This after singing the national anthem at Obama’s inauguration. Okay she may have lip-synced that (and If so, so what?), but her career is looking quite rosy. There were rumors that Sunday’s Superbowl performance might be the platform for a Destiny Child’s reunion for all the Children of the 90’s.

Not so, according to Michelle Williams. Who you say? Yes, Ms. Williams previously of Destiny Child. In an interview with some random internet radio company, Williams spoiled everything and informed those who care that she has a schedule conflict. The conflict?

She’ll be in D.C. performing on the Fela! tour, a Broadway musical. Michelle can’t get an understudy to cover for her as she whisks away to New Orleans for the biggest night in New Orleans? Guess not. The com-pletely different career planes these two Destiny Child alums are on? Don’t ask.

What’s the other third, Kelly Rowand up to? (Yes I had to look up the name). Well, they’ll survive. Beyonce more so though.

3. Braves Talk

The Braves landed Justin Upton! So their outfield is looking like it’s going to be Upton, Upton and Heyward. Damn. The first thought is how cool and athletic of an outfield that will be. But seriously that is a nice outfield. Power. Speed. Brotherly love. Ride these stallions into the next decade Braves!

Take a break Falcons, the Braves are here. Hawks? Call back when you guys land Dwight Howard. Opening day at Turner Field is ... some day in early April as always.

The champion has been dethroned... Congrats Ryan

tle 30-5. Emory was down by eight points early on in the game, but the Eagles finished the first half on a 19-7 run to propel their lead to 14 points at halftime.

The game was not close for most of the second half. At one point, NYU was able to cut the Emory lead to 11 points, but the Eagles were able to finish the game on an 11-2 run to close out the win. Jake Davis led the scoring again for the Eagles with a team high total of 19 points, 11 com-ing in the first half. This was the 40th consecutive game in which Davis was able to score in double figures for the Eagles. Junior McPherson Moore also contributed with 16 points.

“Winning two this weekend is big for our team,” Moore said. “We are on a roll, and we hope to maintain our momentum going into the second half of UAA play.”

Emory hopes to continue its strong play as they dive deeper into their UAA schedule.

“Our defense has been strong so far this year, and we need to con-tinue playing the kind of defense that has led to our success so far,” Zimmerman said. “We need to show we can go on the road in conference and continue to win games.”

The undefeated home stand

improved the team’s record to 12-4 on the year and 4-2 in conference play.

“We just need to keep focusing on what makes us good,” Davis said, “emphasize defense, ball movement

and rebounding.”The team will return to the court

on Friday, Feb. 1, with a road match-up against Brandeis.

— Contact Brian Chavkin at [email protected]

the year. Lilly continued the prec-edent set by Jackson with three three-pointers and four successful field goal attempts.

Senior center Danielle Landry fin-ished the game with 11 rebounds, her fourth double-digit rebounding effort of the season.

The Eagles were ahead in this game early on with a whopping lead of 20-2 within eight minutes of the game. The women had a large, 20-point cushion, towards the end of the first half. At halftime, they were at a 32-12 advantage. Junior point guard Savannah Morgan and fresh-man guard Ilene Tsao contributed to this effort, scoring five points apiece.

Although Brandeis was more suc-cessful offensively during the open-ing of the second half, the team’s final score of 28 points represented one of the lowest scoring efforts against the Eagles and the lowest turned in by a conference opponent.

“These were two very different games,” Thomaskutty said. “We played well enough on Friday night but we got lucky that Brandeis didn’t make some easy shots. We weren’t necessarily fully focused for 40 min-utes. That is what made Sunday spe-cial, this time the girls were. I was very pleased with the team’s perfor-mance against NYU.”

On Sunday, the Eagles pushed the NYU Violets record down to 8-10 overall and 1-6 in the conference with a win of 73-49.

The Emory women, on the other hand, were looking at a fifth consecu-tive win. They now have a record of 16-2 overall and 6-1 in the UAA. At the midway point of the conference season, the Eagles are in a tie for first place.

In this game, Lilly continued to step up her play with a contribution of 19 points.

The Eagles were ahead the entire game, making 27-of-64 shots from the floor, eight shots from beyond

the arc and an impressive 43-31 lead in rebounding. This was the seventh time this year that Emory held a dou-ble-figure advantage in this category.

The women continued to impress, pressuring the Violets into 24 turn-overs. The Violets’ turnovers led to a 21-5 growth for Emory, the women’s eighth straight success recording 20 plus points off of the competitors’ errors.

Lilly dropped a season-high of five three-point field goals, marking her 22nd straight game with at least one three pointer. She also hit seven shots from the field.

“Hannah had one of her best shooting games of the season,” Thomaskutty said. “She played hard, anchored defensively, and had strong and vital rebounds. It was definitely her best all around game of the sea-son, especially against a team with speed like NYU’s.”

Junior guard Selena Castillo con-tributed 13 points and four steals, raising her total to 54 this year, ade-quate for a ninth-place tie on Emory’s seasonal list. Morgan crowned the team’s double-figure contributors with 12 points, accompanied by eight assists and six rebounds.

By halftime the Eagles held a comfortable 40-21 lead. The points in the first half came from a number of offensive runs, as well as strong defensive play and continuous move-ment forward on the court.

“At Sunday’s game we finally played our game and it didn’t matter what the other team did,” Lilly said. “It’s important that we played well going into the second half of confer-ence season.”

NYU stepped up its game in the beginning of the second half, cutting down Emory’s lead with back-to-back three pointers, but the Violets

still trailed 40-27. The score stayed at 45-32 until another burst from Emory’s Tsao and Landry, pushing the Eagles ahead with less than ten minutes left in the game. The game ended with a final score of 73-49.

“We did a lot of the little things right this weekend,” Landry said. “We all boxed out, crashed on offense, played help defense, we did it all. We ran the court really well and had a ton of points in transition in both games.”

The Eagles will be back on the court this Friday at 6:00 p.m., kicking off the month of February with anoth-er exciting game against Brandeis University up in Massachusetts.

“We are looking forward to going to New York and Boston next week-end and will hopefully have the same results,” said Landry.

— Contact Nicola Braginsky at [email protected]

Senior Guard A Leader On and Off the Court

Continued from The Back Page

Aaron Weiner, Golfer

Nathaniel Ludewig: When did you start playing golf?Aaron Weiner: I don’t know, probably when I was 8? I have no idea.

NL: What is your major?AW: Finance

NL: What has been your most embarassing moment on the golf course?

AW: I once hit [alum] Mike [Mullavey] in the back of the knee at practice on the driving range.

NL: Any pet peeves?AW: No.

NL: Do you have a favorite golf club?AW: 9 Iron, definitely.

NL: What is your favorite clothing brand?AW: Probably polo.

NL: Hillary 2016?AW: Huntsman 2016.

NL: Who is your favorite Emory Athlete not named Aaron Weiner?

AW: Alec Berens.

Q&AAaron Weiner is a sophomore golfer from Newark. Del. He sat

down with Sports Editor Nathaniel Ludewig to talk about his child-hood, golf and favorite athlete.

Historic Basketball Season Continues at Home

Emily Lin/Photo EditorSenior guard Alex Greven leads the offense against Brandeis. The men’s basketball team went on to beat Brandeis by a score of 69-55.


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ence stuff. I like philosophy. I like chilling at Sig Nu.”

His unique interests will give him plenty of options when it comes to his post-collegiate career. He plans to pursue his first love, basketball, professionally overseas for as long he can.

But in the present, he is leading the Eaglles in the midst of a contentious UAA title hunt.

“Everybody has just bought into the system,” Greven said of his team. “We’re all brothers. We do everything together. We go to war together.”

Greven hesitated when he was asked to pinpoint the biggest les-

son from his four years of Eagles basketball.

“It’s almost hard to verbalize,” he said. “I put so much time and effort into it. I can’t define one thing. It’s helped make me the person I am today.”

— Contact Ryan Smith at [email protected]

Jackson, Lilly Continue Th eir Assault on Conference Opponents

Emily Lin/Photo EditorSophomore center O’Dez Oraedu dribbles the ball against Brandeis University. Oraedu’s Eagles beat Brandeis by a score of 59-28.


Ostdiek: Sir Brady and Lady Elizabeth

Emily Lin/Senior Editor

Sophomore guard Josh Schattie goes up for a shot in front of a large home crowd at the WoodPEC.

come closest to reconstructing the glory of days gone by.

While watching football, of course! Specifically, while watching Tom Brady play.

So, yes, by building a moat Brady is saying ‘Look at me!’ But not in the way that one would first think.

I have been unable to confirm whether or not alligators live in this moat. If Brady is a man consistent with the opinions I have assumed of him above, then he surely does.

Lady Elizabeth the Fair

In related news, a Texas fantasy hockey league is off to a rip-roaring start. I was not aware that the NHL season was not going on, but appar-ently some people were quite upset about it.

Elizabeth Weinstein (better known for being followed on Twitter by the Brave’s correspondent and being the voice of Dubs at 680 the Fan) is beat-ing both her sixth-grade brother and all of his sixth-grade friends in their league. From the bottom of my heart, congratulations.

— Contact Bennett Ostdiek at [email protected]


So, yes, by building a moat Brady is saying,

‘Look at me!’


SPORTSTHE EMORY WHEEL

Tuesday, January , Sports Editors: Nathaniel Ludewig ([email protected]) and Elizabeth Weinstein ([email protected])

Featured Athlete — Hannah Lilly

Hannah Lilly was named the University Athletic Association (UAA) Co-Player of the Week. This came after a stellar week in which she averaged 15 points and 3.5 rebounds per game. The wom-en’s basketball team is 16-2 on the season and 6-1 in UAA conference play.

Men’s Basketball The men’s basketball team

continued its recent hot streak this weekend. On Friday, the Eagles beat Brandeis University by a score of 69-55. They followed this win up with an 80-61 win against New York University. Emory is now on a five-game win-ning streak. They are 5-2 in UAA play.

Track and FieldThe men’s and women’s

track and field teams are gear-ing up for the Hilton Garden Invitational. The meet will take place in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Friday and Saturday of this week.

FEATURE

By Ryan Smith Asst. Sports Editor

Alex Greven doesn’t like to talk about the future.

Ask the Eagles’ star senior guard about the rest of the 2012 season — a season that could very well be a defining one for the Emory basketball program, with the Eagles currently second in the University Athletic Association (UAA) and riding a five-game winning streak — and his responses are filled with “one game at a time” and similar coach speak.

“We don’t really look at the UAA standings too much,” he said. “We don’t think about that. It means a lot, but we’re trying not to look too far ahead.”

Such is Greven’s role on the team. He is one of a strong core of senior leaders who set the program record for most wins with 67 over four

seasons. With Greven on the team, alongside fellow seniors Michael Friedberg, Ollie Carleton and Nash Oh, the Eagles have never had a los-ing season.

He fills up a box score as well. Greven provides 16.2 points per game for the 13-4 Eagles, good for second on the team.

His 4.8 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game, second and fourth on the team, respectively, are both career highs.

“For all his four years here he’s been a force on defense as well as offense,” Head Coach Jason Zimmerman said.

Greven’s impressive senior season is the culmination of a lifetime of dedication to the sport.

“When I was a little kid, I always wanted to play basketball,” he said. “I wanted to play every sport. Soccer, football, track … I did just about

everything.”Naturally, basketball played a

large role in his decision to attend Emory. Greven cited Head Coach Jason Zimmerman and his visions for the program as the main factors.

He averaged 8.5 points per game in the 2009-2010 season as a fresh-man, and emerged as a sharpshooter from off the bench, finishing in the

top 10 in the UAA with a .393 three-point field goal percentage. His defin-ing moment of the season came when he sank a jumper with five seconds left to give Emory a one-point win over Brandeis University.

Greven blossomed into a starter his sophomore season, upping his contributions to 14.5 points and 3.4 rebounds per game.

Greven’s penchant for down to the wire, clutch finishes continued in leading the Eagles to late victories over the University of Chicago and New York University.

He also emerged as a dangerous offensive threat, notching double-digit points in 20 games, and was a dominant free throw shooter with an 83.3 percent mark from the line. He earned a Second Team All-UAA spot at the end of the season.

His junior season was delayed by an injury, but Greven rebounded to

put up 12.4 points per game and posted a much more efficient .450 field goal percentage, including .403 from three-point range.

Greven’s senior campaign is shap-ing up to be his best yet, as he leads the Eagles in pursuit of the first UAA title of his career.

“He’s grown into the system and become a better player for it,” Zimmerman said.

Greven has grown to love the uni-versity as well as the basketball team.

“I love everything about this place,” he said. “I’ve really enjoyed every moment with this team.”

Greven’s dedication extends to areas beyond basketball. He is a brother at Sigma Nu and is finishing up his neuroscience and behavioral biology major.

“I’m a nerd,” he said. “I like sci-

By Nicola BraginskyStaff Writer

The No. 18-ranked Emory wom-en’s basketball team recorded two victories this weekend. The Eagles were victorious in games on both Friday and Saturday nights against Brandeis University (Mass.) and New York University (N.Y.), respectively.

On Friday, the women defeated Brandeis with a final score of 59-28. The Eagles raised their overall record to 15-2 on the season and 5-1 in University Athletic Association (UAA) after this game.

Junior guard Hannah Lilly scored 11 points, following senior forward Misha Jackson who added 12 points. The two lead the team to victory against Brandeis as the team made 24-of-59 shots from the floor, includ-ing 8-of-21 from the three-point range.

Jackson’s five-of-seven successful shots from the floor gave her 13th double-figure scoring presentation of

By Brian Chavkin Staff Writer

The Emory men’s basketball team wrapped an undefeated weekend at home on Sunday. Led by Head Coach Jason Zimmerman, the team was able to finish the home stand 2-0 against two University Athletic Association (UAA) rivals. Both games were played at the Woodruff P.E. Center (WoodPEC).

“I think we’re getting better every game we play,” Zimmerman said. “We started slow during both games, but were able to close each first half very well and continue with that momentum into the second half.”

The first game was won on Friday night when the Eagles defeated the No.19-ranked Brandeis University Judges by a score of 69-55. Emory shot 47 percent from the floor throughout the game, which was better than the 39 percent shot by Brandeis.

Emory was down by eight points early on in the game, but went on an 11-1 run to lead at the half by three points. The team used a strong sec-ond half, outscoring Brandeis by 11, to secure the victory.

The Eagles were able to increase their lead for most of the second half by capitalizing on three separate runs of more than seven points each. The final run was with about six minutes left in the game when the Eagles scored 12 straight points, help-ing them build their lead to 18 points, an amount Brandeis was unable to overcome. Junior forward Jake Davis led the way for Emory with 18 points.

“I thought we played very well as a team during the times we needed to most,” Davis said. “Every time the game got close we were able to come together and play as a group, resulting in increased leads in our favor and ultimately the win.”

Seniors Michael Friedberg and Alex Greven also contributed to the win. Friedberg gave the Eagles 15 crucial points, while Greven scored 14 points and racked up six rebounds.

The Eagles were able to take the second game of the weekend Sunday afternoon against New York University by a score of 80-61, the fifth straight win for the team.

Emory forced 20 NYU turnovers and won the points off turnover bat-

SPORTS GENIE

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Eagles Continue

Conference Success

WOMEN’S B-BALL

Sir Brady the Brave

I was perusing real estate ads in California the other day, and I ran into a description of Tom Brady’s house. For $20 million, Mr. Brady

bought himself 22,000 square feet, a massive resort-style pool and a moat.

Let me repeat: Tom Brady’s new house is surrounded by a moat.

Good for Tom Brady. This is the man who is married to Gisele Bundchen. This is the man who has won three Super Bowls. This is the man who was been a spokesman for Uggs.

In other words, this is a man who knows what the heck he wants, and goes out and gets it.

Who would not want a moat defending their house? California (even after extensive research, con-sisting of looking at the top three results of a Google search for ‘Tom Brady Mansion,’ I was unable to determine the location of the house within the border of the nation’s big-gest state by population) is known to

be filled with medieval knights look-ing to lay siege to various castles in the neighborhood. If anything, I must congratulate Brady on his good sense and prudence.

The thing about Tom Brady is that he is an everyman. He has the com-mon touch. A man of, by and for the people. That is what I respect about him. That is what I love about him.

He is a man who looks to the past, because we all know that you must study the mistakes of history in order not to repeat them.

Brady, in the infinite wisdom that led him to a super-hot wife, three Super Bowl Championships and a sweet deal with Uggs, has realized that, in addition to this truism, it is best to study the good ideas of the past in order that we do repeat them.

There is nothing pretentious or ostentatious about a moat. Brady is in no way comparing himself to an elegant earl or dominating duke of the early English era.

Rather, in paying tribute to them, he is making a subtle, satirical com-mentary on society. This commen-tary went right over the heads of most observers — but not over the head of your astute correspondent.

Tom Brady is really mocking the riches of the society he lives in. Why else would he leave the moat uncompleted?

I mistakenly asserted earlier that the moat surrounds his house — in

actuality, it only passes through the house’s front yard.

What is the significance of this? By leaving the moat unfin-ished, Brady is subtly address-ing the unfin-ished nature of our lives in the materi-alistic, godless society that we have the misfor-tune to live in presently.

But, I hear my readers asking them-selves, could Brady not have built anything and left it unfinished to make this point?

Yes, of course he could have. But your astute corre-spondent has figured this one out as well. By using a moat, Brady is draw-ing our minds back to the past.

A past in which men were men, dam-sels in distress were dam-sels in dis-tress, peo-ple never

j a y -walked, people loyally read their

c a m p u s newspapers, d r a g o n s stayed in their moun-tain lairs and the world was full of beauty

and meaning.But this is not

all Brady is saying. He is reminding us of where,

in our modern, empty lives, we can

See HISTORIC, Page 11 See JACKSON, Page 11

Squad Breezes Th rough

UAA

Courtesy of Emory AthleticsSenior guard Alex Greven dribbles past a University of Chicago defender on a fast break. Greven’s Eagles went on to beat Chicago at home by a score of 79-48. Greven shot 8-for-15 from the floor and led all scorers with 22 points on the game.

Senior Greven Leads A Historic Team

“I love everything about this place. I’ve really en-

joyed every moment with this team.”

— Alex Greven,senior guard

A Word From the Wheel’s Sports Genie

Bennett Ostdiek

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