“An easier, more organized way to work.” This is what Slack, the workplace communication app, promises its customers. Maybe it’s an easier way to work, but it’s definitely not a happier way to live. Since COVID-19 struck over a year ago, the workplace has invaded Americans’ homes, destroyed our work-life balance and eviscerated our mental [...]
Read MoreIn March 2020, conservative columnist and author Heather Mac Donald’s visit to Emory provoked widespread protests. During my first week as an editor at the Wheel, we published seven opinion articles responding to her invective, which included incendiary assertions that most “campus rape[s] [are] voluntary hookups” and that “anti-bias effort is unnecessary.” Many of those [...]
Read MoreApril 5, 1962. The Wheel reports that Emory has sued to permit its integration. Courtesy of the Rose Library. Content warning: This article references and includes images of the Ku Klux Klan and past articles containing racial slurs. In 1973, two students sat at a table during Emory’s student activities fair, pictured below. One, sitting [...]
Read MorePicture this: a small group of Methodist ministers build a university from the ground up, against all odds, while dreaming of a place to build character and sharpen minds. They struggle to make ends meet for years until a “million-dollar letter” and land donated by the Coca-Cola Company paves the way for the acclaimed powerhouse [...]
Read MoreAs President Joe Biden and his team prepared to take the reins of government last month, the new administration read book after book about the famed first 100 days of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. If Biden’s flurry of executive orders and proclamations in the two weeks since he took office is any indication, [...]
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