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Friends, family commemorate Alex Vallejo as spreading ‘immeasurable joy’
Alexander “Alex” Vallejo, who was a senior at Emory University and is remembered by friends and family as a caring person who never ran out of topics to discuss, died on Sept. 16, 2022 at 22 years old. He is survived by his parents, Cathleen and Vicente Vallejo, and his brother, Andre Vallejo (20C). Alex [...]
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Emory advances in AI.Humanity initiative development
Emory University onboarded 19 new faculty members in fall 2022 for the AI.Humanity Initiative. The University plans to hire a total of 60 to 75 new faculty through AI.Humanity within the next three to four years, according to interim Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Lanny Liebeskind, who is one of the co-conveners of the [...]
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UGA football wins back-to-back titles
University of Georgia senior running back James Cook carries the football against the University of South Carolina on Sept. 18. (Wikimedia Commons/Gamecock Central) The University of Georgia (UGA) Bulldogs football team defeated Texas Christian University (TCU) 65-7 in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Jan. 9. The victory earned the Bulldogs a second [...]
Read MoreDespite another losing season, Falcons find refuge in younger players
Entering the 2022 National Football League (NFL) season, expectations were understandably low for the Atlanta Falcons. In 2021, the Falcons finished with seven wins and ten losses and left the season with a lot of unknowns for the future. During the offseason, wide receiver (WR) Calvin Ridley received a year-long suspension from the league after [...]
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Gloves off with Gabriella: Cash is king, especially in sports
From left to right: former San Francisco 49ers quaterback Colin Kaepernick, former Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka, United States Women's National Team forward Alex Morgan and National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell. (Gabriella Lewis/Managing Editor of Digital Operations) I have previously posed the question: who are sports for? The loyal fanbases? The dogged players? [...]
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Eythen’s Blu-ray emporium: the best of European animation
Ha-Tien Nguyen / Staff Illustrator An image, a drawing, or a pic, In motion, either slow or quick. Can be a source of glee, Or challenge thee To find some truth in a flick. Animation has amazed children and adults alike, bringing viewers into beautifully-crafted imaginative worlds while also tackling difficult themes like destiny and [...]
Read MoreExploring Emory arts: must-see events from Jan. 18 to Feb. 2
If you want to explore the Emory arts scene, support your fellow peers in their artistic journeys or kill time, and you’re not sure how or where to do any of these things, fret no longer! Start here, with a list of some upcoming art events on Emory campus. Emory Cinematheque: “Camp Vibes, Queer Feelings” [...]
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The Alleged Greatest Film of All Time: ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’
As we consume art over a lifetime, our understanding of books, movies, sculpture, paintings and music becomes rigid. We’re so confident in our observations of these art forms, so sure in our personal taste, that we begin to arrive at our own definitions of not only what good art is, but we commit the creatively-constricting [...]
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Women’s basketball earns two important wins, men split UAA matchups
As Emory students returned from winter break, Emory’s basketball teams were hard at work preparing for University Athletic Association (UAA) conference play. The Emory University men’s and women’s basketball teams faced the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (Pa.) Tartans on Jan. 13 and the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) (Ohio) Spartans on Jan. 15 in two [...]
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The unconscious beauty of animated short films
In a summer 2022 advertisement for grocery delivery app Instacart, singer Lizzo is laying in a bathtub. She wishes for various items, selects them in the app and watches them appear in larger-than-life form. First, she selects cherries, which rain down from branches that have appeared above her. She next selects ice cream and watches [...]
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A&E’s favorite first-watches of 2022
It’s an experience familiar to most of us. You’re catching up with a friend, one thing leads to another, and the conversation shifts toward art and then to movies, prompting your friend to tell you about the most amazing film they saw recently. Now you listen, maybe write it down on your Notes app or [...]
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The artistry of the everyday: what moved me in 2022
I tend to see art as quite a broad category in my life, even if that is simply the artistic quality of a conversation, an outfit, a meal, a tree or a laugh. Celebrating the art of the everyday has acted as a guiding principle for me when navigating the complexity and pressures of 2022. [...]
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