Dalai Lama to Visit Emory in Oct.
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, a University Presidential Distinguished Professor at Emory, will visit campus for the third time on Oct. 8-10. Some events will be open to the local community while others will be limited to the Emory community. The public events — a public talk and panel session — will take place Oct. 8 at the Arena at Gwinnett Center. The move to Gwinnett for these events from the Woodruff P.E. Center is the largest change in this year’s visit and will minimize campus disruption, according to Michael Kloss, the chief of protocol and the executive director…
Wagner Addresses Race, Governance at Forum
University President James W. Wagner discussed a range of topics, from his recent Emory Magazine column to sexual assault prevention and race, during an open forum hosted by the Wheel yesterday evening. The event began with an introduction by the Wheel’s Editor-in-Chief and College junior Arianna Skibell, who focused the forum on the question, “How will we and President Wagner move us forward as a University?” During the conversation with Wagner, students tweeted their questions to the Wheel’s Twitter account and sent their questions to Wheel’s Facebook. Along with Skibell, the Wheel’s Managing Editor and College junior Lane Billings and…
Two Students Named HIA Fellows
College senior Perrinh Savang and Anna Nelson-Daniel (’12C) have been named 2013 Humanity in Action (HIA) fellows, according to a March 25 HIA announcement. According to a March 25 press release, fellows are chosen based on academic standing, active participation in human rights issues and recommendations. The HIA Fellowship accepted 42 recipients from 38 U.S. universities who will join other accepted international students in a one-month summer trip to Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Lyon and Warsaw, according to the Philip Ugelow, the program’s deputy executive director. HIA has taken more than 1,200 Fellows on international study programs since 1999. The group…
Petition Supports Wagner Amid Opposition
College faculty will finish voting tomorrow on whether or not they have confidence in University President James W. Wagner. And in the midst of awaiting the result, students have begun publicly expressing their views. A “Keep Wagner” online petition created yesterday received almost 700 signatures by press time Thursday evening. Meanwhile, the Student Re-Visioning Committee (SRC) gathered on the Quadrangle Wednesday to urge faculty to vote “no confidence.” The SRC is a group of students that formed in opposition to the department changes announced last semester and that has protested since the fall. Supporting Wagner The petition, available at KeepWagner.com,…
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…
Taste of Emory Kicks Off Dooley’s Week
A line of students formed on the side of McDonough Field and wrapped all the way down toward Cox Hall as they waited for the Student Programming Council (SPC) to open the gates to the fourth annual Taste of Emory event. About 2,000 students flooded through the gates in the first 20 minutes of the event. And by the end of the event, more than 3,000 people had showed up on the field. The event kicked off this year’s Dooley’s Week by offering free food samples from 20 local restaurants — including Yogli Mogli, Fresh to Order, Johnny Rocket’s, Yeah!…
ResLife Responds to ‘Act of Intolerance’
The Office of Residence Life and Housing (ResLife) discovered an incident of vandalism on a Residence Hall Association (RHA) candidate’s fliers in Clairmont Tower on Sunday afternoon, according to Andy Wilson, Director of Residence Life and Assistant Dean for Campus Life. Elizabeth Cox, assistant director of Clairmont Campus, informed the Clairmont community of the incident in an email yesterday afternoon. According to the email, a ResLife staff member found derogatory racial slurs written on multiple fliers, which constitutes an “act of intolerance,” according to Wilson. The Emory Police Department (EPD) removed the fliers, and ResLife informed the candidate. ResLife staff…
SGA Presidential Election Results Delayed, Anand and Brooks Win SPC
The Student Government Association (SGA) Elections Board has not reached a verdict on the winner of the SGA presidential election between Goizueta Business School junior and SGA Chief of Staff Matthew Willis, and College junior and SGA Representative-at-large Raj Patel. This decision was due to allegations of cheating against at least one of the candidates, according to Matthew Kuhn, the chairman of the SGA Elections Board and a second-year law student. In addition, B-School junior Raghvi Anand won the election for Student Programming Council (SPC) president with 53.02 percent of the vote, and College junior Graham Brooks won SPC vice…
Clairmont Bus Route Trial to Begin
The Clairmont Residence Hall Association (RHA) will begin a trial run that modifies the C-Toco Hills bus route this Saturday. The new route will stop at Clairmont Campus, Woodruff Circle and Kroger in Toco Hills, and back to Clairmont every 25 minutes on weekends. It will also stop at the Woodruff Residential Center. The current C-Toco Hills route has two buses from Clairmont campus — one on the hour and the other 15 minutes after. Clairmont RHA representative and College senior Catherine Levey emphasized that the new route will not be picking students up at Eagle Row — a change…
HuffPost Debates Wagner Article
HuffPost Live presented a 30-minute video in which an anchor and four guest speakers discussed University President James W. Wagner’s controversial column in which the Three-Fifths Compromise as a model example of political compromise, on Wednesday. HuffPost Live is The Huffington Post’s online video-streaming network that showcases live conversations about breaking news for 12 hours during the day. “Are his racially-insensitive comments indicative of a broader issue facing universities?” the anchor, Marc Lamont Hill, asked the speakers. Joining Hill in the live conversation were college professors, conservative radio host Ben Furgeson; and College sophomore and Black Student Alliance president Jovonna…
