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DeKalb County Courthouse /Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons A ballot referendum to restructure the DeKalb County Ethics Board failed to pass, with about 39 percent of the vote in favor of the proposal. The referendum proposed the establishment of a new ethics board for DeKalb County and replaced the position of ethics officer with an “ethics [...]

Derrick Tran, Contributing Former Mayor of Columbus, Ga. and 2020 U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Teresa Tomlinson (91L) stressed the need for structural reform in the upcoming 2020 elections during a Nov. 4 lecture in Tarbutton Hall. “Our government is very dysfunctional,” Tomlinson said. “We have a leadership structure that believes that government is the problem, [...]

Derrick Tran, Contributing Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella stressed the importance of pursuing universal democratic values and human rights in an emotional speech at the eighth annual David J. Bederman Lecture, held in the Tull Auditorium at the Emory School of Law. Speaking on the state of international law, Abella described what she saw [...]

This weekend, students and alumni gathered to celebrate 150 years of Greek life at Emory. Celebrations included a breakfast conversation between students and alumni and an open house and parade on Eagle Row. Anniversary Planning Committee Co-Chairs Ginger Hicks Smith (77C, 82G) and Daniel Shoy Jr. (95C) led a team of students and alumni in [...]

Courtesy of Kristian Bush After Emory failed to secure a contract with Uncle Kracker, the country singer will no longer perform at the Homecoming alumni concert on Oct. 26. Instead, Emory alumnus Kristian Bush (92C) of country duo Sugarland is set to take the stage.  Gloria Grevas, director of campus engagement for the Office of [...]