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Richard Chess
Executive Editor
[email protected] | Richard Chess (20C) is from Seattle. He served previously as assistant news editor and news editor, covering issues related to the city of Atlanta and broke the news that the Migos scandal cost Emory $37,500. For his coverage of the Migos booking scam, he was selected as a finalist for the Society of Professional Journalist in the Breaking News Reporting category in the 2017 Region 3 Mark of Excellence Awards. Chess also earned first place in the 2017 Georgia College Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest in the category Best News Article Based on Investigative Reporting. Last summer, he interned for Heritage Wealth Advisors, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Last year, he served as president of Complex Hall Council.
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Student Government Association (SGA) Attorney General Kaia Ordal (17Ox, 19C) said on Friday that she plans to meet with the Constitutional Council in the coming week regarding College Council’s closed-door ...
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A man trying to steal a food truck from an Emory University Hospital (EUH) loading dock opened fire at about 6 a.m. on Wednesday. No one was injured, according to ...
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Campus Life is scrambling to replace senior administrators in the Office for Racial and Cultural Engagement (RACE) after Director Jade Turner and Associate Director Tiffany Del Valle quit their positions. ...
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Law Professor Paul J. Zwier II, who was suspended from teaching after he said the N-word in an Aug. 23 class, will not teach mandatory first-year courses for two years, ...
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Jennifer Gunter King was announced on Tuesday as the new director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books (Rose) Library. King is currently the director of the ...
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Woodruff Residential Center was evacuated Monday night due to a small fire on the kitchen stove, according to Associate Director of Media Relations Elaine Justice. An all clear has been ...
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An Emory School of Law professor is under investigation after he said a racial slur in a class lecture to first-year law students. The University is reviewing an incident in ...
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SGA President Dwight Ma (17Ox, 19C) has launched an investigation into College Council (CC) spending. Ma said that he ordered the probe into CC possibly overspending on food and travel ...
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Emory’s admissions process will remain the same, despite the Trump administration’s rescission of Obama-era policies that encouraged colleges to consider students’ races to foster diversity in admissions. “The information we ...