Junior hurdler Amere Lattin is the only athlete with top ten times in two events this season with the No. 7 and No. 3 best 110m hurdle and 400m hurdle times in the country. | Thomas Dwyer/The Cougar

Following the annual Houston Alumni Invitational against the No. 2 Texas A&M Aggies on Saturday, the men’s track & field team dropped from No. 3 to No. 5 in the USTFCCCA rankings.

Regardless, both the men and women are putting up numbers that will qualify them for the NCAA West Regional, even with more than a month of competition remaining. Presently, 23 athletes and four relays from both teams own qualifying marks and times.

Here are some of the most notable qualifiers:

Junior hurdler Amere Lattin has the highest placement of any athlete regardless of event. He is currently No. 2 in the West in the men’s 110m hurdles with a time of 13.72s. Lattin and freshman hurdler Quivell Jordan are No. 3 and No. 9 in the men’s 400m hurdles at 50.29s and 51.11s, respectively.

Senior sprinter Elijah Hall is the only other athlete with a top-two mark. In the men’s 200m, he is No. 2 in the West and in the NCAA with a time of 20.11s.

Junior sprinter John Lewis III has the No. 3 best men’s 100m time in the West at 10.13s, also good for No. 6 in the NCAA.

Hall and Lewis are also on the men’s 4x100m relay team, along with freshmen Nick Alexander and Cameron Burrell, who is No. 2 in the West and No. 3 in the nation with a time of 38.92s.

Rounding out the men are redshirt seniors Brian Barraza, Jack Thomas, and Antwan Dickerson. Barraza is No. 3 in the NCAA in the men’s 3000m steeplechase with a time of eight minutes, 41.58s. Thomas is No. 4 in the West and No. 6 in the NCAA in the javelin throw with a top mark of 71.58m. Dickerson is No. 7 in the West in the men’s long jump with a best jump of 7.75m.

Sophomore Samiyah Samuels owns the best mark from the women. At 6.29m, her long jump mark is No. 4 in the West and No. 12 in the NCAA.

Sophomore Taylor Scaife is No. 11 in the West and No. 16 in the country for the hammer throw at 62.10m.

Senior Tonye’cia Burks has a best triple jump mark of 12.76m, ranked No. 15 in the West.

Freshman Naomi Taylor has a time of 13.45s in the women’s 100m hurdles, No. 12 in the West Region, while sophomore sprinter Brianne Bethel is No. 11 and No. 13 in the 200m and 100m in the West, with a time of 23.10s and 11.42s, respectively.

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In the first scene of “A Quiet Place,” the new film from actor and director John Krasinski ’01, a family tiptoes around an abandoned general store to gather a few necessities. We hear the soft taps of their bare feet on the linoleum and the slight rattle of pills in a bottle as the mother carefully picks them up. No one speaks, and nothing goes boom. And yet the longer the quiet lingers, the more uneasy we become. It’s an effective opener, putting the audience on edge as they wait for a pin to drop. But it also puts into stark relief what is maybe an obvious realization: Most movies are awfully loud, aren’t they?

The decibel count eventually goes up in “A Quiet Place,” and the movie becomes significantly less interesting when it does. But for a few brief stretches, the film uses silence in a way that sets it apart from most movies of its ilk. The quieter something is, the closer we listen, and “A Quiet Place” occasionally takes this lesson to heart, using it to craft some delicious scares and to deploy tension with admirable finesse. Had Krasinski been more ruthless in sticking to his premise, the film might have been a real nerve-jangling knockout. But as it stands, “A Quiet Place” is decent, scary fun.

The story unfolds in a world ravaged by nonhuman predatory creatures. Gifted with extremely sensitive hearing, they hunt and kill anything within earshot with quick, violent efficiency. The stakes are viscerally established at the beginning of the film when a child, Beau, is snatched up mere seconds after his electric rocketship toy makes noise.

Beau’s death will haunt his parents, Lee (Krasinski) and Evelyn (Emily Blunt), and their other two children, Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and Marcus (Noah Jupe), for the rest of the film. The four of them live in a country farmhouse surrounded by rows of corn, where they’ve created a viable but always precarious lifestyle amongst the world’s new order of violence. Sand muffles the sound of footsteps on the paths around the property, paint circles mark the floorboards that creak the least, and leaves replace plates to prevent dinnertime clanking. And, of course, the family almost never speaks aloud to each other, instead communicating through American Sign Language.

But they persist. Perhaps the most obvious sign of their optimism is the fact that Evelyn is pregnant, although this comes across as a little more delusional than Krasinski may have intended. Babies are great, but not exactly silent, and the solution the film proposes to this is patently absurd. So is most of the stuff in this movie, as a matter of fact, but nobody likes a pragmatic scold, and I don’t intend to be one.

Nothing particularly scary happens for much of the film — we watch the family merely live their lives and act out some dull smudges of emotional drama. The cast, at least, is good, including Blunt — married to Krasinski in real life — and Simmonds, a deaf actress who, between this and last year’s “Wonderstruck,” is shaping up to be one of the most talented young actors in Hollywood. And everything is nicely accented by the fluid cinematography of Charlotte Bruus Christensen.

But at least one scene amidst the film’s more sedate first half really sticks with you: As Lee and Marcus walk back to the farm from a fishing expedition, they come across an old man standing by his wife’s bloody corpse. His face is troubled, his lips curled inward. Just as they start to run, the old man lets loose a mournful scream. In seconds, he is killed. In this world, to scream is to die; to express pain is to be ended by it.

The motif of the scream returns twice more throughout the film, and both moments are among the film’s best. But too much in between lacks urgency or invention. An expert set piece turns into a bloated latter half of a film, story beats are repeated and cheap jump scares crop up like cornstalks in the springtime. Meanwhile, excess noise starts to seep into the film’s meticulous soundscape, from Marco Beltrami’s score to the smorgasbord of overused sound effects. Krasinski spends a lot of his time shushing people in this movie; it’s a shame the same impulse didn’t make it into his direction.

As it nears its end, “A Quiet Place” grasps around for a conclusion for a while without ever really finding one, eventually coming to a defiant halt that only works if you don’t think about it for too long. And maybe you shouldn’t. All I know is when the last shot cut to black, the audience clapped and I took my hand away from eyes and said “what’d you think?” to the person next to me, it felt good to speak again.

Campus Services (CS) is facing some challenges with the University’s installation of new standardized waste bins, including trash overflow during peak periods and missorted trash, according to Associate Vice President for Facilities Management Todd Kerzie. The new waste disposal system, which has already seen some improvement in landfill diversion, was part of the updated waste management policy implemented in January.

After CS purchased and installed new waste bins, people have been discarding items in the wrong bins. As a result, waste “rejections” have been occurring at an off-site collection facility. Rejections happen when a particular waste bag contains too much of another type of waste and the facility redirects the waste to a different recycling center or a landfill site. Indoor waste bins have also faced issues with trash being improperly sorted, with most rejections occurring in Greek housing, the DUC-ling and Cox Dining Hall, according to Kerzie.

The five different containers are compost, plastic/cans, mixed paper, white paper and landfill. CS spent between $200,000 and $300,000 on the new waste bins, the Wheel reported on Nov. 8, 2017.

“Implementing the policy has been the easy part,” Vice President for CS Matthew Early said. “The only thing is people now moving forward with the policy, especially on the external containers across campus. I still see plastic and aluminum cans placed in the composting containers.”

Within the first month of implementation, total waste diverted from landfill trash to recycling or compost increased by 5 percent to 66 percent, Kerzie wrote in a March 2 email to the Wheel. The University diverted 75 percent of its waste from landfill in February, Kerzie wrote in an April 10 email to the Wheel. For comparison, the diversion rate for the 2017 fiscal year ending on Aug. 31, 2017 was 59 percent, according to the CS website. The University’s goal is a 95 percent diversion rate by 2025.

Cahoon Family Professor of American History Patrick Allitt, who lectures in Bowden Hall, said that people put food waste in the recycling or landfill bins that are not serviced as frequently, causing an unpleasant odor in the area.

“The problem … is that the food waste smells terrible and the container doesn’t get cleaned out often enough,” Allitt said. “So most of the time the entire History Department is contaminated with the nasty smell of old, almost rotten food waste.”

Allitt added that he thinks that the new policy of sorted trash bins is “very sensible.”

Matthew Callahan, a CS custodian who services recycling bins for fraternity houses on Eagle Row, said that missorted trash is a campus-wide issue but it is especially prevalent in fraternity houses.

Early said that CS custodial staff have shown him images of how one fraternity house has Hefty trash bags placed around the house to collect all forms of trash. These bags, containing unsorted garbage, are then disposed of in recycling containers meant only for plastic, metals and paper.

“I don’t know if it’s an education thing or if people don’t want to take that extra second [to separate waste components],” Early said.

Kerzie and Director of the Office of Sustainability Initiatives (OSI) Ciannat Howett both acknowledged that recycling and compost bins outside Cox Hall frequently overflow during lunchtime.

“It’s sort of a nice problem when your compost bins are overflowing because it means you’re being successful,” Howett said. “We need eyes and ears on the ground to help us … [students will email us] and say ‘Oh, the bins are overflowing on Cox Hall Bridge’ and we can say ‘Oh, great, we’ve got to find a solution for that.’ ”

To resolve the issue, CS and Emory Dining are ordering Bigbelly solar trash compactors and increasing the number of bins that surround the staircases and elevator leading to Cox Hall, Kerzie said. A lease to pilot a Bigbelly compactor is “being worked out” with the Bigbelly company and the compactor will be placed near Cox Hall once it arrives.

As of March 5, there are 26 combined recycling and compost bins around Cox Hall. During the “two to three hours” of the lunch rush, those bins are serviced “every 15 minutes,” according to OSI Intern Jamie Nadler (19C).

According to Howett, Emory’s “Waste Think Tank,” comprised of employees in OSI, CS, Building and Residential Services (BRS) and the Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHSO), has been brainstorming ideas about how to move forward with the new policies in an attempt to address this issue.

OSI is responsible for educating faculty, staff and students on sustainability initiatives, according to the Waste Management Policy. Howett said the University is working with a team of faculty, staff and students who help Emory community members understand the new policy and how to sort waste appropriately.

Howett attributes the organization and coordination of the new waste policy to the work of the Waste Think Tank.

While CS has not yet reached out to Greek organizations about waste management concerns, “the Residence Life and Housing Operations staff has been monitoring and providing additional guidance to the individual Greek organizations as this sustainability initiative continues to be implemented and refined,” Kerzie said.

Devin Bog contributed reporting.

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Students around the country recognized for revolutionary solutions to global challenges CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 10, 2018 – Following a nationwide search for the most inventive college students, the Lemelson-MIT Program today announced the winners of the 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. The Program awarded a total of $80,000 in prizes to 14 undergraduate and graduate student […]

Students around the country recognized for revolutionary solutions to global challenges

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 10, 2018 – Following a nationwide search for the most inventive college students, the Lemelson-MIT Program today announced the winners of the 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. The Program awarded a total of $80,000 in prizes to 14 undergraduate and graduate student inventors, selected from a large and highly competitive pool of applicants from across the United States. Students were selected based on a variety of factors including: the overall inventiveness of their work, the invention’s potential for commercialization or adoption, and youth mentorship experience.

The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is supported by The Lemelson Foundation, serving as a catalyst for young inventors in the fields of health care, transportation and mobility, food/water and agriculture, and consumer devices.

“This year’s Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winners are the embodiment of the inventive spirit,” said Stephanie Couch, executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program. “They have not only invented solutions to real-world problems, they are also paving the way for their peers through their mentorship. We’re excited to share their accomplishments and to continue seeing them grow as Lemelson-MIT winners.”

“These students represent a new generation of inventors with big ideas on how to improve healthcare, agriculture, mobility, and scientific discovery,” said Dorothy Lemelson, board chair of The Lemelson Foundation. “They are an inspiration to their communities and we’re proud to honor their accomplishments.”

2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winners

The “Use it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize: Rewarding technology-based inventions that involve consumer devices.
• AssistENT: Melissa Austin, Eric Cao, Talia Kirschbaum, Theodore Lee, and Harrison Nguyen, Johns Hopkins University, $10,000 Undergraduate Team Winner
The AssistENT team developed N-Stent, a comfortable and discreet nasal dilator designed to improve breathing for those who suffer from nasal obstruction. Unlike existing external nasal dilators, N-Stent is inserted into the nose, making it undetectable and comfortable for wear during the day or night.

• Kayla Nguyen, Cornell University, $15,000 Graduate Winner
Kayla invented the EMPAD, a fast, highly-efficient detector that enhances imaging for a range of microscopic applications. The detector is a special camera designed to detect and display electrons in microscopes at a much greater level of detail than existing versions. This detailed data can be utilized to make faster computers, more effective drugs, more advanced electric cars, and can even aid with art conservation.

The “Eat it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize: Rewarding technology-based inventions that involve food/water and agriculture.
• Maher Damak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $15,000 Graduate Winner
Maher developed a polymer additive that can be mixed with pesticides and other agricultural sprays to help them adhere to plants more effectively. Plants currently retain only a tiny portion of chemical sprays, resulting in runoff that leads to the contamination of soil, ground water, and surface water. Maher’s invention would result in the use of 10 times less pesticides and could save farmers 10-20% of their total production costs.

The “Cure it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize: Rewarding technology-based inventions that involve health care.
• Treyetech: Kali Barnes, Stephanie Cai, Akash Chaurasia, Conan Chen, and Eric Chiang,
Johns Hopkins University, $10,000 Undergraduate Team Winner
The Treyetech team developed a device to help surgeons successfully perform corneal transplant surgery. About three million Americans are at risk of corneal diseases, but surgeons are hesitant to perform the only procedure that can restore vision to 20/20 because of a challenging and sometimes unsuccessful portion of the operation that involves unrolling a delicate cornea tissue graft into a patient’s eye. The Treyetech team has created a device that prepares and transports the donor cornea graft from an eye bank to surgeons, eliminates the unrolling step, and allows for more effective and successful insertion into the eye.

• Tyler Clites, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $15,000 Graduate Winner
Tyler developed a new approach to amputation called the Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI), which is comprised of a novel surgical technique for limb amputation and a complementary prosthetic control system. The AMI is unique in its ability to provide patients with proprioception, or the sense of the relative positioning of their prosthetic body parts in space, which is not possible in the current clinical standard of care. In this way, the AMI enables persons with amputation to receive feedback of joint position, speed, and torque from their brain-controlled prosthetic limb, improving their ability to perform everyday tasks and enabling them to feel as though their prosthesis is truly a part of their body.

The “Drive it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize: Rewarding technology-based inventions that involve transportation and mobility.
• Guy Satat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $15,000 Graduate Winner
Guy invented All Photons Imaging, a system that can image through dense fog, intended for augmented driving, autonomous vehicles, drones, airplanes, and helicopters. The system computationally removes dense fog from camera images in order to produce an image as if the fog were not there. Seeing through obstructions helps avert great danger for the various modes of transportation to which this system can be applied, and the invention has useful applications in other fields, such as providing enhanced medical imaging.

Students interested in applying for the 2019 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize can find more information here.

The Lemelson-MIT Program is also seeking partners with interest in sponsoring the competition, in addition to supporting the execution and scaling into new categories. Interested sponsors can find more information here.

ABOUT THE LEMELSON-MIT PROGRAM
The Lemelson-MIT Program celebrates outstanding inventors and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention.

Jerome H. Lemelson, one of the most prolific American inventors, and his wife, Dorothy, founded the Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. It is funded by The Lemelson Foundation and administered by the School of Engineering at MIT, an institution with a strong ongoing commitment to creating meaningful opportunities for K-12 STEM education. For more information, visit Lemelson.MIT.edu.

ABOUT THE LEMELSON FOUNDATION
Established in the early 1990s by Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson and based in Portland, Oregon, The Lemelson Foundation uses the power of invention to improve lives. Inspired by the belief that invention can solve many of the biggest economic and social challenges of our time, the Foundation helps the next generation of inventors and invention-based businesses to flourish. To date, the Foundation has made grants totaling over $200 million in support of its mission. For more information, visit http://lemelson.org.

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Maine 1, Stony Brook 4

The University of Maine Black Bears (9-21, 5-4 AE) returned to Mahaney Diamond on Saturday, April 7 to take on the Stony Brook Seawolves (17-12, 6-3 AE). Pitching for the Black Bears was third-year Eddie Emerson. On the mound for Stony Brook was second-year Brian Herrmann.

Both teams were scoreless until the fourth inning when Maine’s fourth-year designated hitter Jonathan Bennett ripped a single back up the middle scoring fourth-year catcher Christopher Bec from third to take a 1-0 lead.

It continued to be a pitchers’ duel until the seventh when Stony Brook’s first-year catcher John Tuccillo doubled off the left field fence and was driven in by fourth-year infielder Bobby Honeyman’s double off the fence in right to tie it at one. First-year pitcher Matt Geoffrion took over for Emerson with one out and immediately ran into trouble.

A passed ball sent Honeyman to third and he was then brought home on a single between first and second by second-year outfielder Chris Hamilton to take a one-run lead for Stony Brook.

The Seawolves extended the lead to two in the eighth when a base hit to left from second-year infielder Nick Grande slipped through Maine third-year outfielder Colin Ridley’s legs. Grande would then score on a single to left from Tuccillo to take a 4-1 lead.

Ridley made up for his error later in the inning when he threw a dart home to make Tuccillo rethink going home on a single to left, saving a run.

Fourth-year sidearm pitcher Connor Johnson took over on the mound for Maine with one out and runners on second and third in the eighth. Johnson kept Stony Brook scoreless for the remainder of the game, but so did Herrmann as the Seawolves held on to beat the Black Bears by a final score of 4-1.

Herrmann went the full nine innings, allowing only one earned run on six hits and a walk with five strikeouts.

Emerson was solid in his outing, giving up just two earned runs on four hits with no walks and four strikeouts.

Maine beats out Stony Brook in Game 2, tying up series

Maine 4, Stony Brook 2

The University of Maine Black Bears and the Stony Brook Seawolves played Game 2 of their double-header on Saturday afternoon at Mahaney Diamond. The Black Bears looked to tie the series at one game apiece after dropping the first game by a score of 4-1. Pitching for the Black Bears was fourth-year John Arel. Third-year pitcher Bret Clarke was on the mound for the Seawolves.

Third-year infielder Jeremy Pena tripled to left on Maine’s first at-bat of the game and later scored from third when Bec grounded in to a double play, putting the Black Bears up 1-0.

Stony Brook tied the game at one in the next half inning when Honeyman tagged and scored on a sacrifice fly to left field off the bat of third-year outfielder Christian Montes. Stony Brook took the lead one hitter later when third-year infielder Brandon Janofsky singled to left, scoring third-year catcher Sean Buckhout.

Maine tied the game at two in the following inning when Ridley doubled down the right field line, bringing home Bennett. Ridley was then brought in by second-year catcher Cody Pasic on a double to center, giving the Black Bears a 3-2 lead.

Maine extended the lead to two runs in the bottom half of the fourth inning when Ridley drove in second-year infielder Kevin Doody from second on a base-hit to right field.

Second-year pitcher Cody Laweryson came in to close out the game and did so, picking up his second save of the season.

Arel was credited with the win, improving to 3-0 on the year. Arel went six innings, giving up five hits and two earned runs while walking two and striking out five.

Stony Brook takes Game 3 to win series

Maine 2, Stony Brook 5

The University of Maine Black Bears returned to Mahaney Diamond on Sunday, April 8 to host the Stony Brook Seawolves in their third game of a three-game weekend series. The teams split the two games on Saturday. Third-year pitcher Nick Silva got the start for the Black Bears with second-year Greg Marino pitching for the Seawolves.

Stony Brook got off to a strong start, scoring three runs in the top of the first inning. Second-year outfielder Michael Wilson got the scoring started when he singled to right field, scoring Grande and advancing Tuccillo to third. Tuccillo was then brought in on a sacrifice fly to center off the bat of Honeyman to extend their lead to two. The score was brought to 3-0 later in the inning when Hamilton singled in Wilson.

The Black Bears got a run back in the bottom half of the first when Bec was brought in from second on a single to right by second-year first baseman Hernen Sardinas.

However, the lead would go back to three runs in the next half inning when Grande scored on an error.

Tuccillo extended the lead to 5-1 in the fourth on a hit to the left side between Maine’s shortstop and third baseman that scored Grande from second.

The Black Bears added one more run in the bottom of the seventh but it wasn’t enough, as they went on to lose 5-2 to Stony Brook, dropping two of the three games in the weekend series.

Marino was credited with the win, putting him at 2-1 on the season while Silva fell to 2-3 on the year.

The Black Bears return to the diamond on Friday, April 13 when they travel to New Jersey to take on Monmouth University. The game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Stony Brook will play again Tuesday, April 10 against Iona. The game is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.

Traffic on Interstate 35 permitting, the student apartments at Riverside are just a 15-minute UT shuttle ride from campus. Surrounded by aging strip malls, bisected by the quiet Country Club Creek and neighboring the forests of the Ray G. Guerrero River Park, this student community is quiet, peaceful and laid-back — everything that West Campus is not.

By choosing to live in Riverside, students trade closeness to campus for ample parking, tennis courts and green spaces. It’s the kind of relaxed living arrangement that Marina Flores, a fourth-year sociology major who lives in the Ballpark Apartments, appreciates. “It’s just more enjoyable to get away from campus … to not be surrounded by all that all the time,” Flores said.

But Riverside may not stay that way for long.

A cocky Los Angeles developer is eyeing Riverside to construct a supersized “urban village.” If approved by the city, the plan would demolish the Ballpark East student apartments and build 160-foot skyscrapers in their place.

The concept, called Project Catalyst, has been dubbed “Austin’s next Domain,” in reference to the neighborhood built in a similar fashion — close-in buildings, narrow streets and mixed-use high-rises. The Domain, located just north of the Pickle Research Campus, has itself been billed “Austin’s second downtown” for its trendy, high-priced attractions including an Apple Store. Sterile, impersonal and bourgeois, the Domain is hardly worthy of that title.

Bye-bye Riverside. Redevelopment on this scale indicates that more development is on its way.

“Across the entire United States, city cores are rebounding,” said Jake Wegmann, architecture assistant professor who studies affordable housing. “In a place like Austin, any property within … five, six, maybe even eight miles of downtown is going to have pressure on it going forward.”

Riverside, despite its reputation for affordability, is within spitting distance of downtown. The fact that it’s already slated for redevelopment is the proverbial canary that signals demand for more to come. “Real estate development happens in response to rapidly escalating land prices,” Wegmann said. “By the time buildings are being built, it’s too late to really reverse that fundamental dynamic.”

In other words, Riverside is facing the G-word: gentrification. And unlike the New York City case studies in your urban studies textbook, the people that stand to lose are the Longhorns with whom you go to class, form study groups and participate in clubs with every day.

Lifestyle preferences aside, students call Riverside home for more quantitative reasons: good UT shuttle service and lower costs of living. Flores, for example, currently pays $600 a month for a bedroom that previously cost her $1000 in West Campus.

“I think it’s a big issue for the University, a big issue for students — particularly as UT tries hard to be accessible to everyone in Texas and not only students from higher-income backgrounds,”

Wegmann said.

Flores was shocked when informed about the proposed development, which could spell the end for affordable housing in Riverside. “Why can’t they find somewhere else to put that?” Flores said. “Where else are these students supposed to live?”

If Project Catalyst kicks off a chain reaction that causes that price difference to evaporate, then it’s on the city — and UT — to answer those questions.

Young is a computer science senior from Bakersfield, California. He is a senior columnist. Follow him on Twitter @ryanayng. 

Three members of The Emory Wheel were selected as finalists for two of the 2017 Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).

News Editor Alex Klugerman (20B) and Executive Editor Richard Chess (20C) were one of three finalists in the “Breaking News Reporting (Large)” category in Region 3 for their story “Fraudulent Agency Scams SPC,” which detailed the Migos booking scam for the 2017 Dooley’s Week concert.

In the weeks following the story, the Wheel reported that the University lost $37,500 due to the scam. Most recently, the Wheel reported that one of the individuals behind the scam, Octaveon Woods, is facing criminal indictment for five counts of wire fraud and six counts of money laundering after scamming $66,250 out of entities including Emory and the University of Missouri.  

Former Photo Editor Parth Mody (21C) was one of two finalists in the “Breaking News Photography (Large)” category in Region 3 for his photo depicting a protest outside of Emory University Hospital (EUH) after EUH delayed a kidney transplant for toddler A.J. Burgess.

Region 3 includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each award had two subcategories: Large and Small. The Large category is for publications at universities with a student enrollment of 10,000 or more, while the Small category is for publications at universities with a student enrollment of 9,999 or fewer.

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CSU’s Men in the Movement discuss men’s relationship to the #MeToo movement

Originally posted on The Rocky Mountain Collegian at Men in the Movement help men become allies for #MeToo