RHA to Hold New Election After Cheating Allegations
The Residence Hall Association (RHA) will hold a new general election for the position of president. This decision was reached after one of the candidates appealed cheating allegations that were filed against him. The new election will take place on Thursday. RHA Vice President of Programming and College sophomore Jessica Simon and RHA Publicity Chair and College sophomore Akshay Goswami had advanced to the run-off round in the original RHA presidential election last week, defeating current RHA Volunteer Chair Kadean Maddix and RHA Vice President of Advocacy and College junior Alex Elkins. During an RHA Election Committee meeting, however, Simon…
Garcia Receives McMullan Award for Service to Emory
College senior Eduardo Garcia has received the Lucius Lamar McMullan Award for his service to the Emory and Atlanta community, the University announced on Tuesday. The McMullan award recognizes a graduating senior who “show[s] extraordinary promise of becoming our future leaders and rare potential for service to their community, the nation and the world,” according to an April 2 Office of Undergraduate Education press release. The winner of the award receives a $25,000 prize to use as he or she wishes. Garcia will officially receive the award at the College diploma ceremony at graduation this May. “I remember that when…
Run-Off Results For SGA, CC Announced
College junior Ye Ji Kim, College junior Jerry Lau and College sophomore Adam Chan were elected to the positions of Student Government Association (SGA) vice president, College Council (CC) president and CC vice president, respectively, in the run-off elections that were held Tuesday. In the student government general elections last Thursday, no candidate in these three categories received a majority of the student vote. A run-off was scheduled after the candidate or candidates with the lowest number of votes were dropped from the ballot. Kim, who has served as CC divisional treasurer in the past year, defeated Goizueta Business School…
Comedian Hannibal Buress Performs
Comedy Central’s 2012 Best Club Comic Hannibal Buress rocked a packed Glenn Memorial Auditorium with his stand-up comedy act last night as part of this year’s Dooley’s Week lineup. Buress poked fun at a range of subjects from fraternity hazing to Jesus to the cost of an Emory education to technology. Prior to Buress’ act, local Atlanta comedian Chris Jones warmed up the crowd with a few jokes. “Is this Emory University or Emory College? It’s Emory University? That’s fine. I don’t know the difference,” Jones said. “I never went to college.” Following Jones’ act, Buress began the show by…
Simon Scheduled To Visit in September
The 2013 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature featuring singer and songwriter Paul Simon will take place Sept. 22-24, the University announced yesterday. The event was originally scheduled for this February but was cancelled when Simon contracted the flu. This year’s Ellmann Lectures will include two lectures from Simon, a musical performance and a conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Those who had originally purchased tickets for the February event will have to re-register to get tickets for the lectures in September. The series was highly anticipated for the Emory community, as tickets sold out in a record time…
SGA to Use More Activities Fee Money
The incoming Student Government Association (SGA) will receive two percent of the Student Activities Fee (SAF) starting next semester, a one percent increase from this year, following a decision made by the outgoing legislature. The SAF consists of the $86 that students pay each semester as part of their Emory tuition. SGA and other divisional councils — or those that support and oversee organizations in different Emory schools, such as College Council (CC) — use the fee to fund student activities and initiatives, specifically those that SGA-chartered organizations run. SGA determines how the SAF is split among the divisional councils….
FACE Reflects on Year’s Changes
Food Advisory Committee Emory (FACE) held a meeting to review this year’s accomplishments last night in the Cox Ballroom. FACE is a student organization that holds monthly open meetings to receive student feedback and relay information from Emory Dining. After attendees served themselves salad, chicken and macaroni and cheese from Emory Dining, FACE board members listed the achievements from their respective dining locations. College freshman Bryce Robertson, a Dobbs Market at the Dobbs University Center (DUC) representative, informed the nearly full ballroom about changes the committee implemented at the DUC during the past year. Some of these changes included making…
Crime Report 4/5/13
• On March 30 at 10:30 a.m., officers received a call from an individual who said his bike had been stolen from the front of Turman Residence Hall. According to the victim, the bike was purple with a white seat and was locked to a bike rack with a cable lock. The bike is valued at $234. • On March 30 at 11:18 p.m., Emory police responded to a noise complaint from a student located at the Pi Kappa Alpha house regarding loud noises coming from the Alpha Tau Omega house located at 12 Eagle Row. When confronted by officers,…
Dooley’s Week Zero Waste SPC
The Student Programming Council (SPC) partnered up with Emory’s Office of Sustainability Initiatives for the first time ever this year to make the first three events of Dooley’s Week “zero waste” by ensuring that all items were either recyclable or compostable. This year, at least 90 percent of the waste collected from Taste of Emory, Dooling Pianos and Trivia Night were diverged from the landfill. Selecting these three events specifically rather than ensuring “zero waste” at every Dooley’s Week event resulted from the fact that SPC wanted to keep the initiative simple given that this was a fairly new idea,…
Chemistry Center to Undergo Renovations
A $52 million expansion and renovation of the Stanford S. Atwood Chemistry Center will begin the day after commencement on May 14 and finish in early 2015. Largely funded by proceeds from the discovery of an antiviral HIV/AIDS drug in 1996, the project aims to foster a more collaborative and efficient atmosphere inside Atwood, according to David Lynn, the director of the Chemistry department. These modifications are all part of a long-term plan to designate Atwood-Emerson as a science commons since that area is surrounded by other science buildings, namely the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) and Math and Science…
