Speaking of roundabouts!   An Emory Village update via the Clairmont Heights Civic Association…

Roundabout Update :

DeKalb County’s new roundabout and streetscape project in Emory Village is on the near horizon. A contractor has been selected and following the final Georgia Department of Transportation approvals, the roadwork will begin as soon as this May. Check back with AIEV (www.emoryvillage.org) for updates.

Burbanck Park Work Day in March

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I’m unsure of whether I should be impressed or mumbling “Oh, please!” to myself after reading Creative Loafing’s “First Person” account of “Sid”, a homeless-by-choice Emory student.   However, there’s no debating it’s a compelling read.  Nice work CL!

Here’s the build up…

Editor’s note: First Person is a series of commentaries that gives voice to those not commonly heard in Atlanta media. In this instance, the subject’s real name is being withheld to protect him from a crackdown on his unorthodox living arrangement.

Sid is not the typical Emory student. He spends most of his time studying and hanging out with friends, but unlike his peers he goes home at the end of the day to a van he parks at the YMCA. Considering Emory’s tuition costs about $50,000 a year, a “kudzu leaguer” living out of his van and scavenging meals from dining hall leftovers might seem surprising, but Sid lives a Spartan lifestyle by choice. Sustainable homelessness is something to which he aspires, and he hopes to always live as simply as he does now.

From an Emory news release…

Emory University’s 10th annual Tibet Week is set for March 22-27. Through films, lectures, art and other exhibits and events, Tibet Week provides opportunities for the Emory and Atlanta communities to experience firsthand the diverse dimensions of Tibetan Buddhist culture. It brings both Tibetan artists and monks to campus as ambassadors to share religious and artistic traditions.

Click here to view the complete schedule of Tibet Week activities.

In other Tibet/Emory news, the Dalai Lama has scheduled a return visit to Emory in October.

Just when I think I’m in tune with what’s going on around me, I miss something like this.

Christopher Hitchens in conversation at Emory on Salmon Rushdie, freedom of expression, poetry, literature, and star dust.  With the added bonus of a recitation of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est.

Many thanks to Emory for making it available.

h/t: wpdarling

From the Emory Wheel yesterday…

Five Emory students were robbed at gunpoint at their residence on North Druid Hills Road Thursday at approximately 2:30 a.m., according to DeKalb County Police Department reports.

According to police reports, two masked male subjects entered the residence at 2497 North Druid Hills Rd. with weapons and tied up the five individuals inside, all of whom have been confirmed as Emory students.

The two masked subjects ransacked the home during the next three hours and stole items such as televisions, laptops, an undetermined amount of cash and assorted valuables, according to the police report.

According to Mekka Parish, public information officer at DeKalb County Police Department, one of the students involved in the incident was struck with a gun by one of the intruders.

According to the Wheel, DeKalb Police do not believe that this was a “random event.”  Nevertheless, quite frightening.

A sampling from the newly discovered Emory Police Beat blog, which I highly recommend adding to your feed reader.

…On Feb. 21, EPD officers responded to the Clairmont Campus field and located several white male subjects taking turns hitting ketchup bottles with wood. EPD officers observed that the subjects had glassy eyes, an odor of alcohol on their person and that their speech was slurred. Officers also discovered a large amount of debris near Clairmont Tower, including pizza boxes, a chair, balloons, a fire extinguisher and glass alcohol bottles.

The report continues here…

http://policebeat.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/police-record-friday-february-26/

(My apologies for the lack of formatting. Posting from my Blackberry.)

From the Wheel report of Carlo Petrini’s talk at Emory last night…

“When my grandfather finished his meal, he would collect the bread crumbs from the table, and if one fell to the floor, he would pick it up and kiss it,” Petrini said.

But now, he said, young people are not aware of the cultural importance of food.

“If your great-grandmother knew about this, she would be very anxious,” Petrini said, as he pointed to a student in the front row. “If you could talk to her and tell her you live in a society where you spend more to lose weight than to eat, your great-grandmother would say you are crazy.”

Look out Emory Village CVS.  From an Emory press release…(h/t to WCDarling)

Emory patients, visitors, faculty and staff will soon have access to a new outpatient pharmacy that is currently being constructed in The Emory Clinic – providing a new level of customer service and quicker access to prescription and over-the-counter medications.

Construction on the new facility began in January on the retail outpatient pharmacy called “The Pharmacy at Emory.” The full-service pharmacy will provide access to all the prescription drugs patients would find at a local pharmacy, some over the counter drugs as well as some more difficult to receive medications that are often needed by some patients, according to Amir Emamifar, Pharm D, MBA, administrative director of pharmaceutical services for Emory Hospitals, The Emory Clinic and the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

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Emory announces this morning that the creator of the “microloan” Muhammad Yunus, will speak at the University next month.  The lecture is currently “sold-out”, but apparently you can still get on a waiting list.

Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work to reduce poverty through microloans, will present the 2010 Goodrich C. White Lecture on Wednesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Glenn Memorial Auditorium.

The lecture, titled “The University and Creating a World Without Poverty,” is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. 
 
Currently, the event is sold-out, but names may be added to a waiting list.

Renowned as “banker to the poor,” Yunus was an economics professor in his native Bangladesh when he began making small personal loans to destitute basket weavers more than 30 years ago. From this humble beginning, he developed Grameen Bank into the advance guard of a world movement to eradicate poverty through microlending.

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Emory announced today that California Governor and Kindergarten Cop, Arnold Schwarzenegger, will speak at this year’s commencement address on May 10th.

Bragging rights to whomever can come up with the funniest thing that Schwarzenegger SHOULD say to Emory’s starry-eyed graduating class!

(To the right, Arnold on the set of the 1983 political action thriller, “Teddy Roosevelt: Unleashed”.)