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Double-fisting your perceptions of sex

Oct 23, 2024 | emorywheel.com | Saanvi Nayar

Content Warning: This article contains references to sexual assault. Sex is shocking. Stories about sex make people blush and squeal, and one time, in Emory University’s beloved Dobbs Common Table, a particularly graphic sexual anecdote made a group of girls throw me and my friends dirty looks before getting up and moving away. Unfortunately for those girls, brunch happens to be the most ideal meal for sexual discourse, but more on that in a later piece.
The pendulum problem: Everyone is talking about your sex

Sep 25, 2024 | emorywheel.com | Saanvi Nayar

Sex, in its many forms, is experienced universally in some way or another, yet it remains the most sensational facet of the primordial and modern human experience alike. Everyone in a college bubble exists one degree apart: Sex is never between two people, and, despite how terrible this sounds, we all relish in it. I have always known about sex. Without stigma or shock, it existed in my head as a fundamental, mechanical process, just like the leaves turning red at the end of September.
Burst the Bubble | The Emory Wheel

Apr 10, 2024 | emorywheel.com | Saanvi Nayar |Pierce McDade |Sara Perez |Sara Pérez |Ellie Fivas

Burst the BubbleCollege is both transitory and transcendetal; everyone at Emory is interconnected because we are all students at this institution – and that’s where the similarities end. Dichotomies persist in our individual experiences: Oxford and the Atlanta campus, being a white student or a student of color, living on campus off, staying in Decatur for all four years or making Atlanta a larger part of your time here.
Bursting small bubbles, one side quest at a time

Mar 6, 2024 | emorywheel.com | Saanvi Nayar

I used to think that if I ever got pregnant, I would treat nine months with a fetus in my womb as a stint in homeschooling. I would play Johann Sebastian Bach and Mazzy Star and the Fugees and read aloud textbooks on ancient civilizations, novels by Khaled Hosseini and poems by Pablo Neruda.
Emory, silence won't protect you

Dec 1, 2023 | emorywheel.com | Saanvi Nayar |Safa Wahidi

Emory’s Respect for Open Expression Policy, which was implemented in 2013, affirms students’ rights to voice a wide variety of opinions. Although the policy protects freedom of expression, many organizations have also criticized the policy for permitting hate speech against marginalized students and providing exceptionally ambiguous guidelines on why a protest should be shut down. The Emory Social Justice Coalition called for expansion of the policy in 2020.
Unlearning my activism, relearning my political indifference

Sep 6, 2023 | emorywheel.com | Saanvi Nayar

Since I was 15, I’ve been called an activist. I’ve organized, I’ve worked for nonprofits, I’ve made it my social media. I am tired. Theoretically, to be American is to have faith in the political organization of a nation that is the stronghold of democracy and freedom. To be American is to be led by the so-called “leader of the free world,” the election for which is already underway.
Doolino’s due diligence: Advice for the class of 2027

Aug 30, 2023 | emorywheel.com | Saanvi Nayar

Over the years, the history books have referred to me as a spirit, skeleton, unofficial mascot and, most accurately, an absolute legend. While few are bestowed with the honor of carrying on my legacy during Dooley’s Week and various special appearances, almost none are aware that before any of these miscellaneous titles, I, too, was an Emory University student. Having heard about the timely ascent of Emory’s 185th freshman class, I am finding myself suddenly nostalgic for my own experience.
Emory, Atlanta Police removed ‘Cop City’ student protestors, and we won’t stand for it

Apr 26, 2023 | emorywheel.com | Saanvi Nayar |Sophia Peyser

Early Tuesday morning, the Atlanta Police Department (APD) responded to protests against militarization on Emory University’s Atlanta campus Quadrangle with further militarization. Emory students planned to camp out in front of the administration building to protest the development of a “Cop City” in the Weelaunee Forest, meant to be an 85-acre cop training facility where urban combat tactics would be enhanced with militarization.
Agree to Disagree | The Emory Wheel

Apr 13, 2023 | emorywheel.com | Ellie Fivas |Marc Goedemans |Elyn Lee |Saanvi Nayar

Every year, the Editorial Board creates a special project together – this year, the project theme is “Agree to Disagree.” Members of the Board have all written dissents to previous editorials, rethinking the arguments and reformulating their opinions through a different perspective. During a time of unrelenting opinions, “Agree to Disagree” reminds all of us to step into each others’ shoes and be able to reframe perspectives.
Indulging in the Met Gala fosters unity, not political ignorance

Apr 12, 2023 | emorywheel.com | Saanvi Nayar

The Met Gala is an event worthy of cultural appreciation and artistic expression — far from what the Wheel’s Editorial Board describes as a “fiasco” focused on “the superficial nature of celebrity culture.” Beyond this, in the Board’s Sept.