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Volume 99, Issue 1 Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Printed Every Wednesday MIGOS SONGFEST SGS Prohibits Vendor Deposits New Policy Follows Migos Booking Scam

By RichaRd chess vendors.” News Editor/City Loveall explained vendors may apply pressure to provide a depos- Student Governance Services (SGS) it, but according to her, vendors are is no longer allowing deposit payments aware that most state universities do to vendors following the phony Migos not allow deposits either. Advance concert booking that cost Emory deposits for alcoholic beverages will $37,500, according to SGA adviser still be allowed, Loveall said. Lisa Loveall. Last March, students lost $37,500 “We don’t do deposits because of after paying a deposit to an illegitimate things like that,” Loveall told about 150 booking agency for the 2017 Dooley’s Gabrielle Davis/staff SGA club treasurers Monday. “We are week concert. Residents of The Complex, who claimed first place in Songfest for the second consecu- out that money if anything happens so tive year, perform parodies of popular songs Aug. 25 at the WoodPEC. please plan ahead and talk with your See MigoS, Page 3 See CoMPlEx, Page 17 GREEK LIFE MIGRATION Theta’s ZBT Loses House, on Probation Professor By RichaRd chess Housing News Editor/City Returns to Emory’s Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) chap- ter faces sanctions after an investi- gation uncovered violations of the Ofer school’s anti-hazing policy and use US After or possession of alcoholic beverages under the age of 21. Blocked The chapter lost their on-campus housing at 8 Eagle Row for the 2017- Detention 2018 academic year and will be under By RichaRd chess disciplinary probation until Aug. 1, By Michelle lou News Editor/City 2019, according to an Aug. 7 email Executive Editor Campus Life Senior Director for Emory’s Kappa Alpha Theta Communications Tomika DePriest “You’re on your own.” (Theta) chapter will not have hous- sent the Wheel. The chapter will also That’s what Isabella Alexander ruth reyes/Photo eDitor ing in Sorority Village for the 2017- lose University recognition pending remembers an Algerian officer 2018 academic year, although it is in completion of a membership review, The former Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) house at 8 Eagle Row is now telling her during a days-long deten- good standing with the University, according to DePriest. She said that a residence hall for sophomores, juniors and seniors. tion in , during which she was according to Director of Sorority and those are the only sanctions being mid-July into ZBT for allegations of July 28 statement Headquarters sent deprived of food and water for 24-hour Fraternity Life Marlon Gibson. placed on the fraternity. hazing and use or possession of alco- to the Wheel. DePriest originally told periods. The , she real- The sorority’s lack of housing lies The Office of Student Conduct, holic beverages under the age of 21, the Wheel “serving beverages to indi- ized, were not going to contact the U.S. with its national headquarters, which in cooperation with Emory Police DePriest wrote. viduals under the age of 21” was a Embassy on her behalf despite her disallowed the chapter from accept- Department (EPD), determined ZBT International Headquarters third violation but later corrected that repeated requests. ing Emory’s housing offer, Gibson that the fraternity violated the was notified July 27 that the chap- statement, saying the chapter was only isabella Undergraduate Code of Conduct after ter had violated three codes of stu- Alex- See SoRoRiTy, Page 3 the office concluded an investigation dent conduct at Emory, according to a See FRATERniTy, Page 4 ander, visiting CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS assistant professor of anthro- pology

Georgia Debates Fate of Confederate Symbols Nafimul huDa/staff Alexander, a visiting assistant pro- By Nicole sadek Before walking into a Charleston, and violence espoused by the so-called with 194, according to the Atlanta fessor of anthropology, was in Algeria Copy Editor S.C., church with a .45-caliber “alt-right” alarmed the nation and trig- Journal-Constitution. working on a documentary over sum- handgun, Dylann Roof was known gered discourse about Confederate-era The August “Unite the Right” rally mer break when police arrested her Two summers ago, a South Carolina for posing with Confederate flags on symbols and their place in modern in Charlottesville prompted petitions on suspicion of foreign espionage. In native set out to ignite a race war. Two the internet. His actions spurred an society. nationwide to relocate Confederate detention, she was tired and hungry weeks ago, his hopes were fulfilled extremist movement that had been Georgia is home to the second-larg- monuments from public spaces, and had been “roughed up,” she told when several hundred white suprema- largely absent from the mainstream est number of Confederate symbols — including the “Lost Cause” monument the Wheel. But several days into the cists emerged from the guise of the news cycle until the recent clashes in including monuments, streets, coun- internet, chanting “blood and soil.” Charlottesville, Va., where the ideas ties and parks — in the United States See SEnd, Page 4 See JouRnAliST, Page 2 back to school, PaGe 7

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