The sign outside of Kitty's Cottage in Oxford, Ga. (Emory Wheel/Eva Roytburg) Last week, the Wheel published a story recounting the physical reminders of the Confederacy on Emory’s Oxford campus and the school’s failure to educate students about its problematic history with racism and slavery. In recent years, Emory has wrestled with its unsettling ties [...]
Read MoreGambrell Hall (Courtesy of Daniel Mayer) A group of Emory School of Law students staged a walk-out early in September after Associate Professor of Law Alexander Volokh said a homophobic slur in referencing a slogan of the Westboro Baptist Church during a torts class. That incident is not the first time an Emory Law professor’s [...]
Read MoreSinger Neil Young performing at Stavernfestivalen 2016. (Wikimedia Images/Tore Sætre) On Jan. 25, singer Neil Young released a letter demanding Spotify take down Joe Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, over misinformation concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine. Young is not alone; hundreds of scientists, professors and public health experts have demanded the removal of Rogan’s [...]
Read MoreEmory University was one of 16 universities named in a federal lawsuit that alleged the schools had violated antitrust laws by illegally colluding to manipulate the amount of financial aid granted to students. (Emory Wheel/Jackson Schneider) In a recent federal lawsuit, five former college students alleged that 16 major U.S. universities, including Emory, violated antitrust [...]
Read More(Wikimedia Images/TapTheForwardAssist) On Jan. 6, 2021, an armed mob, fueled by former President Donald Trump's false claims of electoral fraud, launched an attack on Capitol Hill which left five people dead and our democracy on a knife’s edge. Many corporate and industry political action committees (PACs) such as Toyota, Cigna and AT&T publicly pledged to [...]
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