In the fall semester, Javier Trujillo (24C) worked with two close friends, one in a pre-med fraternity and the other in a pre-business fraternity. Upon hearing his friends’ pre-professional opportunities, Trujillo felt that Emory University lacked many resources geared toward pre-law students. With dead-end emails to pre-law organizations and no sense of pre-law communities, he [...]
Read MoreOctober is a month notoriously busy with midterms; it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all the schoolwork. But for Oxford students, Halloweek is something that everyone can look forward to. (Courtesy of Kelly Zhuang/The Emory Wheel) Hosted by Oxford’s Student Activities Committee (SAC), Halloweek consists of an event every night from Oct. 25 to 29 [...]
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In anticipation of Emory University’s bicentennial anniversary, the school launched the 2O36 campaign on Oct. 22 as the second phase of a fundraising initiative designed to garner $4 billion by 2025. According to the campaign website, fundraising efforts will focus on student flourishing, faculty eminence and research excellence by “investing in people for the benefit [...]
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Emory University announced on June 28 that it will rename Language Hall at Oxford to Johnson Hall in honor of the late Judge Horace J. Johnson (77Ox, 79B). Language Hall was so named because it originally held classes of English, Greek, Latin and modern language. Oxford College hosted the renaming ceremony on Oct. 8.. Johnson [...]
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The Williams Gymnasium, the main gymnasium at Oxford, is the only space for indoor sports on a campus that houses nearly 1,000 students. To make matters worse, there is only one indoor court. Popular intramural sports such as basketball, volleyball and badminton all take place in the Williams Gymnasium as do many varsity sports, which [...]
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