Former President Jimmy Carter held his 34th annual meeting with Emory University's freshman class on Wednesday night. The AJC's Jill Vejnoska was there:
Some 1,300 students had packed the bleachers at the Woodruff P.E. Center to quiz him about everything from his views on mass prison incarceration to the first thing he says to his wife of 69 years every morning. Despite — or perhaps it was because of Carter's recent cancer diagnosis — when the 90-year-old emerged waving at at the front of the gym a little past 8 p.m., his young audience cheered as if he were a star hoops player arriving for the big game.
But it was this line that caught our attention:
The town hall, which was closed to the public, started with an appearance by "Dooley," a skeletal-like creature that is the school's unofficial mascot.
A word of explanation from the Emory University website:
Taking his first name and middle initial from the current university president, Dooley is represented on campus by a student -- whose identity is kept secret -- dressed as a skeleton with a black cape, a black top hat, and white gloves.
Then there’s this:
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