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For at least a year now, Emory University has been the subject of two separate though similar investigations. The first focused on Dr. Charles Nemeroff. Nemeroff, for more than two decades, took money from drug makers while working on making examinations of drugs from the drugmakers that were paying him. He failed, systematically, to disclose the conflicts of interest that these mixed relationships created to the public. He rarely disclosed it when he published articles that spoke favorably in articles that analyzed said drugs in medical journals. Nemeroff gained a reputation in the early 1980's and used that reputation to...

For at least a year now, Emory University has been the subject of two separate though similar investigations. The first focused on Dr. Charles Nemeroff. Nemeroff, for more than two decades, took money from drug makers while working on making examinations of drugs from the drugmakers that were paying him. He failed, systematically, to disclose the conflicts of interest that these mixed relationships created to the public. He rarely disclosed it when he published articles that spoke favorably in articles that analyzed said drugs in medical journals. Nemeroff gained a reputation in the early 1980's and used that reputation to...

Imagine if a school principal insisted year after year that their school use textbooks made only by one company. even though there are plenty of textbook companies out there. Imagine that this principal defends this company's textbooks and makes public statements about how valuable they are in the classroom. Imagine if it is revealed after more than a decade that while the principal was demanding that this company's textbooks be used at their school the company was paying the principal money to give speeches, advertise for them, and promote their product. Furthermore, it's revealed that the principal didn't even disclose...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A U.S. Capitol Police officer was charged by a grand jury Wednesday with setting a fire Nov. 2 in a women's bathroom in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The federal indictment of Officer Karen Emory, 36, of Waldorf, Md., did not mention at least six other fires in Senate office buildings since late September. Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, the Capitol Police spokeswoman, said the other six fires remain under investigation. Investigators are exploring whether the fires are linked but have reached no conclusions, Schneider said. Emory was charged with one misdemeanor count of willfully injuring property of the...

Leftist Brown Shirts Shut Down Horowitz Speech at Emory   By Ruth Malhotra and Orit SklarFrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, October 26, 2007 On Wednesday evening, the Emory University Chapter of the College Republicans hosted acclaimed author and activist David Horowitz for a lecture on radical Islam as part of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. From the beginning of Horowitz’s speech, rowdy protesters continually interrupted him and less than half an hour into the event, the crowd became so disruptive that police were called in and Horowitz had to be escorted off stage.  The event was part of the Terrorism Awareness Project, a...

Wednesday, Feb 14, 2007 (CBC) - Award-winning author and essayist Salman Rushdie got back into the classroom on Tuesday, teaching his first world literature class at Atlanta's Emory University. In addition to counting Rushdie as its writer-in-residence for the next five years, Emory is now also the holder of his literary archive, which includes journals, letters, e-mails, photos, unpublished works and manuscripts - including more than 1,000 typewritten pages from his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. Asked why he chose to donate his archive to Emory, a school which he had only visited once before for during a 2004 lecture...

A promient Middle East scholar, Dr. Kenneth W. Stein, announced his resignation as a fellow of Emory University’s Carter Center, in response to former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” Stein, an Emory University professor who also directs the university’s Middle East Research Program and the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, characterized Carter’s book as “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments” in an email that announced his resignation yesterday. He explained: “My continued association with the Center leaves the impression that I am sanctioning a...

Novelist Salman Rushdie will join the faculty of Emory University and donate his archive to the institution, marking the writer's first extended relationship with a university, Emory officials said Friday. Rushdie will join the school in the spring of 2007 and lead a graduate seminar, participate in undergraduate courses and deliver lectures during his five-year appointment. "We'll have one of modern literature's giants on our faculty," said Emory President James Wagner. "And students will have access to his records - and the man himself. We're very, very pleased." Rushdie, the author of "The Satanic Verses," was forced into hiding for...

David W. Key, director of Baptist Studies at the Candler School of Theology at Emory, put it more starkly. “The real underlying issue is that fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist form is incompatible with higher education,’’ Professor Key said. “In fundamentalism, you have all the truths. In education, you’re searching for truths.’’

Professor Mark Bauerlein of Emory University traveled from Atlanta, Georgia to Millersville, Pennsylvania for hearings on academic freedom in late April to share his thoughts on how bias in academia becomes institutionalized. “If we get too much uniformity, too much agreement on debatable issues, too little dissent, then the group slides into complacency, insularity, and groupthink. Within the group, attitudes harden. As the years pass and the members reinforce each others’ opinions, those opinions start to look like more than just opinions. They become the truth. To agree with them is simply to be rational and ethical. Anybody who disagrees...

NAPLES, Italy (NNS) -- As part of a larger U.S. interagency effort towards greater stability in Africa, approximately 1,400 Sailors and Marines aboard USS Emory S. Land (ESL) (AS 39) are deploying to the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) region in late February 2006. Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet, Vice Adm. J. Boomer Stufflebeem says the deployment is part of a comprehensive theater security cooperation strategy benefiting all involved. “U. S. European Command and CNE-C6F (Commander, Naval Forces Europe-Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet) efforts in Africa, and specifically in the Gulf of Guinea, focus on strengthening partnerships and improving overall maritime security. By...

"A lawsuit filed by the Baptist university charges Candler School of Theology student Matt Bass with sending more than 1,000 e-mails containing “highly offensive pornographic images and/or lewd descriptions of various sexual acts attributable to various Baylor employees or their family members.” Bass, 25, who studied theology at Baylor before transferring to Emory last fall, first grabbed national headlines when he told media outlets, including Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” that Baylor rescinded his scholarship last January and forced him to leave the school because he is gay."

As former President Jimmy Carter walked into the Woodruff P.E. Center Wednesday evening, Emory students and faculty gave him a standing ovation. Carter donned Emory colors for the occasion: a blue and gold tie, white striped shirt and blue suit. More than 1,200 students, faculty and staff filled the WoodPEC gym. James W. Dooley, the eternal spirit of Emory, arrived shortly after Carter, his wife Rosalynn, University President James W. Wagner, Vice President for Campus Life John Ford and Student Government Association President Jimin Kim. During his speech, Carter called the war in Iraq one of the most “gross and...

David Horowitz Beats Emory's Campus Blacklist By Robbie Brown Emory Wheel | March 31, 2004 Conservative writer David Horowitz will be returning to speak on campus April 15, despite College Council’s ruling last month to deny him funding, the College Republicans said this week. Though the College Republicans have not yet generated the full $5,000 to fund Horowitz’s speech, they said they are close enough to declare his visit a certainty. College Republicans Chair Edward Thayer said the speech is set, though the location remains undetermined. “It will happen — barring Armageddon,” Thayer said. “There are no two ways about...

Use of 'n' word, blackface incident stir controversy at Emory By MAE GENTRY Atlanta Journal-Constitution An Emory University professor's public use of the "n" word in September and a "blackface" incident last week have sparked controversy at the school that three years ago underwent a "Year of Reconciliation" on race and diversity issues.Anthropology Professor Carol Worthman used the phrase "like six n-----s in a woodpile" at a Sept. 15 panel, according to a complaint that assistant professor Tracy Rone filed three days later with the university's Equal Opportunity Programs office.Rone, who declined to comment for this article, had said she...

Conservative Speakers Cleansed From CampusBy Lyle RubinFrontPageMagazine.com | February 28, 2003 On the night of Wednesday, Feb. 19, Emory University’s College Council, in a 3-6-3 vote, set an unspoken quota for the funding of speakers who challenge the political status quo on campus. This was preceded by College Council President-Elect Amanda Edwards' proposal to "strongly encourage" controversial speakers to be balanced by a speaker of an opposing view, which was instigated, in turn, by the October 9 appearance of the first major stand-alone conservative speaker in four years at Emory: David Horowitz. Beginning with the Council’s initial and reactionary attempts...

A Gun Battle Is Over: Truth WinsIn March 2000, 47 law professors and historians sent a stiff letter to Charlton Heston, president of the National Rifle Association. They told him "the Second Amendment permits broad and intensive regulation of firearms" and urged him to move beyond such trifles as constitutional guarantees to "the real issue" -just how much.regulation is needed to "prevent the killings and violence that plague our country today."This letter takes on new meaning now, as we consider the past 18 months of controversy over Michael Bellesiles's "Arming America." That award-winning book, published by Knopf in 2000, purported...

Release date: Oct. 25, 2002Contact: Jan Gleason, Assistant Vice President, Public Affairs, at 404-727-0639 or jgleason@emory.edu Oct. 25: Michael Bellesiles Resigns from Emory Faculty October 25, 2002Robert A. Paul, Interim Dean of Emory CollegeI have accepted the resignation of Michael Bellesiles from his position as Professor of History at Emory University, effective December 31, 2002.Although we would not normally release any of the materials connected with a case involving the investigation of faculty misconduct in research, in light of the intense scholarly interest in the matter I have decided, with the assent of Professor Bellesiles as well as of the...

<p>Michael Bellesiles, the history professor who wrote that firearms were rare in early America, has resigned from Atlanta's Emory University after an investigation found he "willingly misrepresented the evidence" in his award-winning book.</p> <p>The three-person committee — composed of scholars from Princeton University, Harvard University and the University of Chicago — found that Mr. Bellesiles' work showed "evidence of falsification," "egregious misrepresentation" and "exaggeration of data."</p>

October 28, 2002, 10:00 a.m. Bellesiles Is Out. A professor at the center of controversy is forced to resign. Emory University announced on Friday afternoon that it had accepted the resignationof history professor Michael Bellesiles, the author of Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. The award-winning book stirred up controversybecause it appeared to confirm what many scholars already believed: that the Second Amendment protects only a collective right to bear arms and that individual gun rights were unimportant to America's Founders. The facts, however, were not there to back up Bellesiles's contention. Emory also released a 40-page...