TEDxEmory Hosts 13 Speakers, Draws 600 Attendees
Emory hosted 13 speakers who discussed a variety of topics related to the sciences, humanities and arts at TEDxEmory’s Saturday event in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Auditorium. The event, which was founded and began in 2010, is one of the largest of its kind in North America. This year it drew around 600 spectators. This year’s conference invited a number of professionals from multiple disciplines including David Wolpe, named Newsweek’s most influential rabbi in the nation in 2012, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court Carlos Moreno and Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines Director Henrik Christensen. TED is…
New Human Health Major Awaits Approval
The College Curriculum Committee approved in March a new major in Human Health, which could join Emory’s list of majors by fall 2013 if approved by the Board of Trustees and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). This program — the brainchild of Center for the Study of Student Health (CSHH) Director and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology Michelle Lampl — consists of faculty members who are as interdisciplinary as the study itself. The major would require a total of 41 credit hours fulfilled by three foundational health courses, a medical or health ethics course, a quantitative methods…
SGA Appoints Committee Chairs, Discusses Sustainability
The 47th legislature of the Student Government Association (SGA) unanimously appointed committee chairs, a new executive member and a new Associate Justice to the Constitutional Council yesterday. College sophomore David Bailey was appointed as associate vice president for alumni relations. The position is a two-year appointment — during the first year Bailey will assist the current vice president for alumni relations and assume the position himself during the second year. College junior Shaunesse Jacobs was appointed chair of the SGA student life committee. The committee addresses issues of community life, academic life, admissions and financial aid, according to the bill….
Emory Admissions Sends Unintended Emails to Non-Admitted Students
Savannah Jones, a high school senior from Chicago, received an email on the afternoon of April 5 from the Emory Office of Admission congratulating her on her acceptance to the College and inviting her to an admitted students event as part of the Choose Emory campaign. Jones immediately called her mom to express how excited she was that she had been admitted to her top choice school. However, upon checking OPUS, she noticed her status on the waitlist had not changed. Jones was one of approximately 350 wait-listed students who wrongly received the invitation to accepted student events. The Office…
Crime Report 4/23/13
• On April 21 at 3:57 a.m., Emory police received a call from the house director of the Kappa Alpha (KA) house located at 14 Eagle Row. The house director noticed multiple individuals attempting to break into the house and was able to identify those individuals to police. Officers located the individuals by White Hall. The students, who are members of the Sigma Chi fraternity, claimed that they were pulling a prank and not committing a crime. According to the individuals, they were avenging a previous prank by KA. • On April 21, officers received a report from the house…
Crime Report 4/19/13
• On April 11 at 9:10 p.m., officers received a call from an individual whose car was parked at the Peavine Parking Deck. According to the individual, a paper was attached to the windshield of the car that read, “you can’t park for s—t.” The incident has been turned over to an investigator. • On April 14 at 1:12 a.m., Emory police responded to a report of underage consumption of alcohol at the Longstreet-Means Residence Hall. According to a female student, an intoxicated male student entered her dorm room. The female student said she did not know the male student…
Laney Students Vote ‘No Confidence’ in Wagner
Laney Graduate School students voted through an electronic ballot Tuesday that they do not have confidence in James W. Wagner as University president. The Graduate Student Council (GSC) passed a bill earlier this month that allowed the vote to take place. Twenty-two percent, or 433 students, of the approximately 2,000 total Laney students voted. On the question — “Do you have confidence in James Wagner as President of Emory University?” — 68 percent of voters, or 295 students, voted no, while 27 percent, or 117 students, voted yes, and five percent abstained. The results were announced on the GSC website…
Univ. Holds Vigil for Boston Tragedy
The Office of the Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life hosted a vigil on Wednesday afternoon for those affected by the explosions during the Boston Marathon earlier this week. Campus ministers and religious advisors helped organize an interfaith service for the somber event. The small crowd of students who attended the event at Asbury Circle from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. cut construction paper outlines of their feet and wrote messages of grief and comfort on them, such as “Tears, sadness and love to you each” and “Chin up, Boston.” The messages will be sent to Boston University (Mass.)…
New Tactics For Admitted Students
As Max Zoberman, a Regular Decision applicant to Emory College from Delray Beach, Fla. rushed to leave work on March 27, he paused as he received an email on his phone alerting him that his admission decision was available. Not wanting to know the verdict before getting behind the wheel, Zoberman waited until he could safely view the decision at home on his laptop. Once he logged into his online OPUS, he needed to read no further than “It gives me great pleasure…” to know he had been accepted to Emory College. “I felt an overwhelming sense of catharsis, this…
Sequester to Impact Health Care
This story is the final article in a Wheel series about the effects of the sequester on Emory University. Other articles have focused on the sequester’s impact on financial aid and research funding. The sequester, a series of automatic federal spending cuts that took effect March 1, will decrease funding for Emory Healthcare, including estimated reductions of $9 million per year for Emory Hospitals and $2.9 million per year for The Emory Clinic and Specialty Associates. As a result, Emory Healthcare will continue the consolidation and standardization efforts to reduce costs that it has started in the past few years,…
