The Emory Wheel

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The Emory Wheel of Emory University

The Emory Wheel is the student-run newspaper of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The Wheel is published twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday, during the regular school year, and is updated regularly at its website. The sections of the Wheel include News, Editorials, Sports, Entertainment, Arts & Living and The Hub, an award-winning quarterly magazine founded in 2005. Serving the Emory community since 1919, the Wheel is editorially and financially independent from the University. The staff is composed entirely of students, with the exception of the general manager, who oversees advertising and whose salary is paid by the newspaper. The Wheel offices are currently located in the Dobbs University Center.

The Wheel's editor in chief is Robbie Brown, a journalism and history co-major from Atlanta.

1 History
- 1.1 Origins
- 1.2 History
2 Circulation and Distribution
3 Miscellaneous
4 External links

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The Emory Wheel began in 1919 as a weekly paper with its offices located in the journalism department. The name is a play on an "emery wheel," a sharpening device. An editorial published in the first issue of the Wheel explains that the newspaper will strive to sharpen the intellect of the University community. The newspaper was originally meant to promote Emory's varsity-level athletics and successfully pushed to create an Emory track team.

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In the spring of 1970, a schism developed on the staff of the Wheel over the disputed election of Steve Johnson as editor. At that time the Wheel was being published twice a week. A competing newspaper was created which was known as the Emory New Times. Both student newspapers were then published once weekly. J. Randolph Bugg, the losing candidate in the election, became the first editor of the New Times.

After several years (and the graduation of all the aggrieved parties), the newspapers merged. For a while the publication was known as The Emory Wheel and New Times.

In October 2005, Wheel General Manager Eileen Smith of eight years resigned amid controversy and animosity between the Wheel staff members and the University's Division of Campus Life. In August 2006, The Emory Wheel switched from printing in tabloid paper to broadsheet.