COVID-19 Immunization Required for Emory Students in Fall
On April 19, President Fenves announced that Emory University would require all students to be immunized for C...
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OPINION
A Letter from the Wheel’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force
Almost a year ago, this newspaper acknowledged its lack of diversity, longstanding inequity and barriers to ac...
The U.S. Needs to use Multi-member Districts
The House of Representatives should be reflective of the citizens. It should mirror the ideas, backgrounds, values and needs of every American citizen and not cater to a certain majority.
Decriminalizing Sex Work Protects Asian Immigrant Women in the Spa Industry
Over the last decade, the stigma surrounding sex work has begun to shift from being considered a taboo practice to a more normalized profession in the U.S. Despite the growing acceptance around sex work, the sex trade is still incredibly dangerous. The line between voluntary work and trafficking is easily blurred as women and others [...]
American Tipping Culture is Harming the Food Service Industry | Sophia’s Smorgasbord
(Unsplash/Jessie McCall) The experience of genuine hospitality is a gift. To me, it is a formidable force. It’s more than the attention to detail and the welcoming smiles of the servers, or the quality of the food and the ambience of the restaurant. Done right, hospitality transcends social boundaries. But today, hospitality has been stained [...]
Music, Activism and LGBTQIA+ History: The Role of Music in Queer Resistance | Let’s Be Perfectly Queer
Queer music helps us contextualize the broader sociopolitical conditions through which generations of queer people survived
Vegan Leather Is Not as Sustainable as it May Seem
(Emory Wheel/Gabriella Lewis) As recent data supporting the sustainability of a vegan diet has surfaced, the vegan lifestyle has swept across the United States, and the fashion industry is no exception. Brands and consumers are striving to incorporate veganism into other areas of their lives. From this movement, the vegan leather trend has arisen. Whether [...]
The Politicization of Food is Diminishing Its Simplicity | Sophia’s Smorgasbord
Tunde Wey, Nigerian chef. (Emory Wheel/Ally Hom) For most people, trying to tackle the racial inequity in health care is a multi-faceted problem, complicated by numerous factors like race, socioeconomic status and inadequate accessibility. But for Tunde Wey, a Nigerian chef and founder of BabyZoos, his solution was simple: applesauce. Wey’s start-up company, BabyZoos, sells [...]
It’s Time for Emory to Prove its Climate Leadership
Photo Courtesy of Jaylan Jacobs (Emory Climate Analysis and Solutions Team) Climate change is already having dire effects on all forms of life worldwide, and Georgia is no exception. Over the coming centuries, Georgians will continue to suffer greatly from the public health impacts associated with climate change, including extreme heat, natural disasters such as [...]
We Must Prepare Ourselves for Post-Pandemic Life
(Creative Commons/wuestenigel) As 46 states open up their vaccination processes to all individuals above the ages of 16 or 18, Americans are preparing for a summer of greater immunity and looser restrictions. A pandemic-free life is on the horizon. A recent Axios-Ipsos poll found that during the first week of March, 44% of Americans reported [...]
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OPINION
COVID-19 Immunization Required for Emory Students in Fall
On April 19, President Fenves announced that Emory University would require all students to be immunized for COVID-19 for fall 2021, with exemptions based on medical conditions or strong personal objections. Emory has added the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of already required vaccines for students after extensive consultation with public health experts, vaccine scientists, [...]
A Letter from the Wheel’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force
Almost a year ago, this newspaper acknowledged its lack of diversity, longstanding inequity and barriers to accessibility since its inception in 1919. We vowed that we had a responsibility to uplift and support diverse voices within our newsroom and nationwide. Student journalists operate in a strange space between collegiate and professional worlds, and those at [...]
Looking Beyond the Party Line: the Facts of SB 202
The national outcry over the passage of SB 202, a Georgia law which aims to promote election integrity by amending state electoral procedures, is one of the most egregious examples of political groupthink in recent history.
Drag in Atlanta, Contextualized by Queerness in the South
(Pixabay/nnguyen) Southernness and queerness are often constructed in antagonism to one another. In fact, 21st century novelist Brandon Taylor describes this in relation to his own identity by writing, “I thought that there was nothing worse than being gay and southern, that no two parts of a person could be more in conflict.” Yet within [...]
The U.S. Needs to use Multi-member Districts
The House of Representatives should be reflective of the citizens. It should mirror the ideas, backgrounds, values and needs of every American citizen and not cater to a certain majority.
Decriminalizing Sex Work Protects Asian Immigrant Women in the Spa Industry
Over the last decade, the stigma surrounding sex work has begun to shift from being considered a taboo practice to a more normalized profession in the U.S. Despite the growing acceptance around sex work, the sex trade is still incredibly dangerous. The line between voluntary work and trafficking is easily blurred as women and others [...]
American Tipping Culture is Harming the Food Service Industry | Sophia’s Smorgasbord
(Unsplash/Jessie McCall) The experience of genuine hospitality is a gift. To me, it is a formidable force. It’s more than the attention to detail and the welcoming smiles of the servers, or the quality of the food and the ambience of the restaurant. Done right, hospitality transcends social boundaries. But today, hospitality has been stained [...]
Music, Activism and LGBTQIA+ History: The Role of Music in Queer Resistance | Let’s Be Perfectly Queer
Queer music helps us contextualize the broader sociopolitical conditions through which generations of queer people survived
Vegan Leather Is Not as Sustainable as it May Seem
(Emory Wheel/Gabriella Lewis) As recent data supporting the sustainability of a vegan diet has surfaced, the vegan lifestyle has swept across the United States, and the fashion industry is no exception. Brands and consumers are striving to incorporate veganism into other areas of their lives. From this movement, the vegan leather trend has arisen. Whether [...]
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