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Several students dedicate their spring break to serving others By Elliot Engstrom | Managing editor “It’s amazing what water can do when it gets moving,” Sarah Romeo, a site supervisor for the St. Bernard Project, told university students as they worked to destroy the immense amounts of mold in the remains of a house just outside of New Orleans. Despite the fact that it has been over three years since Hurricane Katrina flooded the entire region and claimed more than 1,800 lives, the need for help remains as great as it was weeks after the storm made landfall.
This cry for help is hardly limited to New Orleans. Communities all over the country and world are in need of volunteers to come give them a variety of aid, and this is why a multitude of students opted to spend their spring breaks working to answer this call. Students served in a vast variety of places, including domestic locations such as Louisiana, Georgia, Washington, D.C., South Carolina and Florida, as well as international locations such as the Dominican Republic and Greece. AJ Warr, a junior at the university, went to Comer, Ga., with the Baptist Student Union to work with Burmese refugees currently living with an association called Jubillee Partners. “I think the trip to Jubille Partners helped the community out a lot because we did work that would
have been difficult for the community to do themselves,” he said. Jubilee Partners is a community that hosts refugees who have gained United States citizenship. Throughout the course of the trip, students taught English to Burmese adults and children, mulched a blueberry field, painted cabins and worked in a garden. Wesley Campus Ministry and Intervarsity Christian fellowship teamed up to send a group containing dozens of students to the New Orleans area to aid in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The group divided into teams that engaged in activities ranging from helping in reconstruction to working with area children to participating in day care at a local church. “At first it was kind of hard to see the
impact of our work,” junior Amanda Slemp said, “but there was just so much satisfaction in the homeowners’ eyes when they saw the work we had done on their houses.” However, while students certainly had an impact on those whom they helped, students themselves were impacted by the people and communities in which they worked. “I think the impact was very profound on the students,” Wesley Campus Minister Larry Jones said of the trip to New Orleans. “The experience awoke us to the realities the people of New Orleans have been struggling with since the headlines went away.” Some students traveled extremely far to serve others in other parts of
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Math teacher Divinity dean announces honored he will step down in 2010 nationally By Cheryl Johnson | Staff writer
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When Hugh Howards, associate professor of mathematics, began his undergraduate education at Williams College in 1988, he was looking for anything but a math degree. “Math just always seemed like a tool for other things,” Howards said. He could not have foreseen his successful decade -spanning career as a mathematics professor at the university, much less the highly prestigious award naming him the 2009 Distinguished Teacher of the Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), which he received March 14. Howards is the first university faculty member ever to win this prize, which singles him out from a pool of professors representing five states and more than 210 colleges and universities within those states. Fortunately for Howards, a throw-away course, “Discrete Math,” taken during his sophomore year of undergraduate work for extra hours, changed his perspective on the entire mathematical discipline. “Math was finally fascinating for its own sake. The questions in the course were so elegant and so fun; I had always considered them games and
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The founding dean of the university’s School of Divinity, Bill J. Leonard, will step down from his position on June 30, 2010. He will, however, remain at the university as Chair of Church History in the divinity school and religion department. A national search for Leonard’s successor will begin later in the year. Leonard joined the university as dean on July 1, 1996, with a bachelor’s degree from Texas Wesleyan University and a Master of Divinity from a Baptist seminary. Before arriving at the university, he was a professor at Samford University in Birmingham where he taught religion and acted as chair of the religion and philosophy departments. Leonard has also taught courses at Yale Divinity School and Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan. The Wake Forest School of Divinity is one of only five divinity schools in the United States with no formal denominational affiliation because it identified itself as “Christian by tradition, ecumenical in outlook and Baptist in heritage.” When the school first opened, it only offered a threeyear Master of Divinity program, but throughout Leonard’s tenure, the school has begun expanding its list of degree programs. The school now also offers several dual degree programs including a Master of Divinity/Master of Counseling and a Master of Divinity/Juris Doctor as well as a Certificate in Spirituality and Health, which is
Michael Sandoval, a 7-year-old child, was found on March 17 after being separated from his hiking group the day before. He had been hiking in the Red Mountain area with three adults and 10 clients from the Coconino Community Guidance Center. Sandoval had to spend a freezing night alone and was taken to a local hospital for observation, but he is described as being in good condition.
Clinton and Palin star in new comic books Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin are being featured in a comic book series released by Bluewater Productions on March 11. The company wanted to show female role models and reach a larger demographic with its comics. It is planning to release comics featuring Michelle Obama and Caroline Kennedy in the future.
Actress Natasha Richardson dies at age 45 On March 18. Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson died in a Manhattan hospital, where she had been flown after suffering from head injuries after a skiing accident on March 16 north of Montreal. Lyne Lortie, Mont Tremblant ski resort spokeswoman, reported that Richarson had fallen during a beginner’s skiing lesson and had not been wearing a helmet.
Indiana man missing since 1993 found alive Monty Stutzman, a man who disappeared in 1993, was found alive and well in Mississippi. When Stutzman, then 23, had disappeared he had been on probation for a burglary charge and had a warrant for theft. He was found living under an assumed name and Social Security number, has started a new life, is married, and works full time. The charges against him were dropped and he was reunited with his family.
Resort employees protest cutting down of trees
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Leonard joined the university as dean in the summer of 1996. open to School of Divinity and School of Medicine Students. Leonard recruited faculty who developed an interdisciplinary approach to educating ministers
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Employees of Westgate Resorts in Florida protested and tried to block Progress Energy workers from cutting down trees on March 17. Progress Energy had a work order to cut down the trees because they are too near high-tension power lines, but Westgate’s employees insisted it was not true. They stationed themselves in the heat until the workers left without cutting down the trees. Westgate is in the process of getting an injunction to stop the work order.
Great Decisions series examines foreign policy topics By Lauren Mahomes | Staff writer
From March 19 through April 23, the Center of International Studies will host Great Decisions 2009, a lecture/discussion series focusing on certain foreign policy topics, every Thursday at 7 p.m. in Scales Fine Arts Center, room A102. Great Decisions is an educational program sponsored by the non-profit organization, Foreign Policy Association (FPA). Great Decisions was created to facilitate intelligent discourse as well as awareness of critical inter-
national topics. Each event in the series will include a the lecture from an expert in the field as well as a discussion directly following that allows the audience to directly engage the topic along with the expert. 2009 will mark the Great Decisions Discussion Program’s 55th year. On March 19 Dr. Hank Kennedy, professor of political science, will speak on Afghanistan and Pakistan. This topic will explore what the FPA describes as “one of the most volatile regions in the world” and the impact of America’s push for sta-
bility in Iraq on the two countries. Dr. Kennedy has spoken about South Asia and the PalestinianIsraeli conflict in several Great Decisions series on campus, as well as at other universities. Sarah Lischer, assistant professor of political science, will speak on March 26 about Human Rights in a New Era: War on Peace. Lischer has spoken twice in the series about military intervention, international humanitarian law and migration. Her interest began in college with a focus on African studies which
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led to an interest in humanitarian crises, refugees, and the application of international law. Her approach to the discussion will provide holistic information and explain her analysis as well as spark further discussion for the question and answer session that follows the lecture. “I’m going to talk about why human rights abuses occur and what underlies that. I want to answer questions such as why do we have international law prohibiting these abuses, and why is that law often violated? Do we
need an international response to these abuses? I’m also going to touch on some dilemmas about U.S. actions. There’s been a lot of press about coalitions causing casualties with civilians for example,” she said. On April 2, Wei-Chin Lee, professor of political science, will lecture on the U.S. and the Rising Powers, specifically that of China due to its rise in political power and the world economy. Lee contends that the topic of rising superpowers other than the United States is a staple within the study of
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international politics because “we want to know more about the continuity, changes and challenges of the international system and try to find ways to improve international peace and security, if possible,” he said. Lee is also a veteran of the Great Decisions series, speaking previously about China and International Politics. On April 9, Joseph Daniels, visiting professor of international economics, will provide a lecture on Global
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Brieflies Committee plans campus-wide event to foster student unity The inaugural Seize the Quad will take place from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday, March 20 on Hearn Plaza. The event is being funded by the Student Activity Fee (SAF) and will be open to the entire student body. Fraternities will have their lounges open starting at 9 p.m. The event will also include a concert from Rubberband, a local group, in front of Reynolda Hall. Seize the Quad was organized in an attempt to bring on-campus parties back to the university.
Event teaches effective postgraduation money managing The Office of Career Services will be hosting “From Backpack to Briefcase,” an event that aims to help seniors budget during their first year after college. Shenell Thompson, the director of the Center for Financial Education with the Consumer Credit Counseling Services, will be speaking. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday, March 31 in Benson 409.
Carter, Angelou to speak in Wait Chapel for Baptist convention Former President Jimmy Carter and Reynolds Professor of American Studies Maya Angelou will speak in Wait Chapel as a part of the New Baptist Covenant Southeast Regional Meeting. The university’s Divinity School is hosting the event, which will take place April 24-25. The theme for this year is “God’s year to act: responding to a society in crisis.” Find out more at www.newbaptistcovenantse.org.
Museum receives grant to conserve Comanche Robe The university’s Museum of Anthropology will be able to undertake conservation work on a 19th century Comanche child’s robe. This was made possible through a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The robe is made from a painted hide. It is one of two Comanche hides from the southern Plains in the Museum of Anthropology’s collection.
University hosts conference to rethink college admissions With the goal of addressing the latest research on standardized tests for college admissions and explore alternative ways of evaluating applicants, economists, sociologists and other higher education experts will join admissions directors from the nation’s most selective universities in Benson University Center April 15 and 16. The national conference, “Rethinking Admissions,” is free and open to the public.
Kappa Delta hosts male beauty pageant On March 29, Kappa Delta will host “Mr. Wake Forest” from 7-9 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall in the Scales Fine Arts Center. 80 percent of the proceeds will benefit the Winston-Salem Battered Women’s Shelter and the remaining 20 percent will go to Prevent Child Abuse America. Tickets will be on sale in front of the Pit from March 23-27.
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TACKLING HEALTH TABOOS Eating disorders: A Wake Forest reality By Brianna Pellicane | Contributing writer
It was a normal school night last spring when university student Danielle Johnson noticed a rash around her friend’s eyes. “It looked like little red specks,” Johnson said. “We both started freaking out and looking on the Internet.” To their initial relief, they discovered the specks were most likely popped blood vessels. But then Johnson read it could be the result of two things: either Julia Davis had a cough, or she was forcing herself to throw up. Davis did not have a cough. “I questioned her about the throwing up,” Johnson said. “She admitted to me that she had forced herself to throw up in the shower and that she had been doing it a lot.” The story of Julie Davis and Danielle Johnson, whose names have both been changed to preserve privacy, shares a theme with those of many other students. University health educators, representatives of the University Counseling Center, and students themselves acknowledge that eating disorders and disordered eating are significant health concerns at the university. Tanya Gunter, counselor at the University Counseling Center, called eating disorders a “prevalent” issue confronting the students she sees. “It is one of the top issues facing women on campus that seek help in the counseling center,” she said. There are no concrete statistics on how many university students suffer from eating disorders or disordered eating. However, surveys of students conducted by the Student Health Service indicate that while the overwhelming majority of female students are not overweight, an overwhelming majority also exercise, diet, or turn to alternatives such as diet pills and vomiting to lower their weight. “We don’t have those people that really really need to lose weight (on campus),” said health educator Natascha Romeo, who is part of Student Health Services, said. “You can … see the disconnect.” A Real Problem Each year, the university administers a health survey to freshman students in conjunction with the efforts of the American College Health Association. The organization seeks to define health problems on college campuses and to direct the development of health education programs. In fall 2006, results of this survey at the university showed that just under 90 percent of female students were a healthy weight or underweight based upon BMI measurements. A healthy 5-foot6-inch female, according to these measurements, weighs between 115-154 pounds. However, the same health survey revealed 70 percent of female
students engaged in behaviors with the intent to lose weight. These behaviors were defined as exercising, dieting, vomiting or taking laxatives and diet pills. In spring 2007, a subset of freshman was again surveyed. Ninety-four percent of students were now a healthy weight or underweight, yet the number of students actively pursuing weight loss increased 6 percent. Freshman girls at the university are not gaining the “freshman 15.” But are they – healthy girls – losing it instead? The problem is not just an isolated one. Nationally, 20 percent of college students believe they have, at one point, suffered from an eating disorder, according a survey conducted by the National Eating Disorder Association. In the same survey, more than 80 percent of respondents said they believed eating disorders “lead to major lifelong health problems and serious or fatal health issues.” This belief is indeed true. Long-term physical health problems of eating disorders may include heart failure, kidney damage, osteoporosis, tooth decay, hair loss and esophagus, colon and intestinal problems. More than Weight Loss
One startling statistic: of all mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest mortality rate. “(Treating an eating disorder) is a medical issue and a psychological issue,” Gunter said. To Danielle Johnson and other friends, university student Julia Davis always appeared to be an attractive girl of average height and average weight. What they couldn’t see was how Davis struggled through every day. “I look back at that spring, and I don’t think I was myself hardly ever,” she said. “I was too busy thinking about (eating and purging) to think about the conversations I was having.” She explains that it brought the “absolute end” of the relationship with her then-boyfriend. And her relationship with close friend Johnson has not been the same. “It’s funny because everyone around you responds to your body turning off,” she said. According to Gunter, eating disorders typically begin as more of a concern with body image. They can also evolve from issues with control, or they can be a symptom of stress. “When I got overly stressed about everything and I just was so frustrated that I was doing so much work and … making time for everything and just getting by, that’s when it would be the worst,” Davis said. “I was just like, ‘I don’t even care. I don’t care.’” Why Wake? Gunter and Romeo both acknowledged that the competitive nature of the university could translate into competitive weight loss. Just under 65
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percent of last year’s incoming freshman ranked in the top 10 percent of their graduating class, according to the university’s institutional research Web site. “I never have a problem being myself,” Davis said. “But for some reason, when it comes to (my appearance), I don’t want to be just what I can. I want to be better than everyone.” According to Romeo, high-achieving women with Type A personalities are most susceptible to eating disorders. She also suggests the fact that a significant number of university students are of a “far higher” socio-economic status than most may contribute to the prevalence of eating disorders. “(Reality is) you don’t see eating disorders in third-world countries…why would you selfstarve? Only if there were so much food around that you could choose to do that,” she said. Whatever the reason, the problem is a reality — even in those who are not visibly ill. “We have a wide spectrum of people who have not quite healthy perspectives to the full-blown anorexic,” Gunter said. “They may not be sick, but may need help.” The conclusion of the article will run in next week’s issue.
Res. Life introduces new housing system By Samantha Cernuto | Asst. sports editor
Signs around campus are shouting the words “You Choose!” to introduce the new on-line housing system. The system is a departure from that of previous years. Instead of anxiously standing in multiple lines, students now have the leisure of picking out their room assignments anywhere with an Internet connection. Every year after the room selection process, there would be surveys and
students overwhelmingly answered yes for an online housing system. The new software, RMS, fits the students’ desires perfectly. Every student must use the Web site and there will be no paper applications, so it’s green and convenient. The Resident Life and Housing office is taking this process one step at a time. After finishing the returning student housing, the summer school and off-campus housing Web sites will roll out in mid-April. Come
mid-May, the Web site for the incoming freshmen will be posted. And finally, in the fall, abroad students will be able to pick their spring housing online as well Karen Wernsing, assignment administrator, said, “After years of a manual, outdated system, it’s wonderful to be caught up technologically with our students.” There are three main components to this process of which students need to be aware. First, the e-mail sent out on March 16 gives specific instructions on how students log in, when students log in, how to pull in roommates and
where to find crucial information. If any students did not get the e-mail, they must contact Residence Life and Housing immediately. Second, the “You Choose” Web site provides the answers to questions a student might have about the process. It contains calendar, links, tutorial videos and access to the help center. Staff will be readily available during the room selection times. And finally, the “Gateway to student online room selection” portal is the most important aspect.
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POLICE BEAT University Police responded to 107 calls from March 2-15, including eight incidents and investigations and 99 service calls. The following is a summary of the incidents and investigations.
Property Damage • An unknown subject(s) broke a fluorescent bulb and drew graffiti on the blackboard in a Manchester Hall classroom March 3 or March 4. • An unknown subject(s) broke the rear window of a university-owned van with an unknown ob-
ject while the van was parked in Lot F, adjacent to the football practice field, between March 3 and March 9. Damage was estimated at $500.
at the Reynolda Road entrance that he was not a student. Information about the incident was provided to the dean of student services.
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• A student used his university ID card to gain access to a suite at Kitchin Residence Hall without proper authorization. Information about the incident was provided to Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services. • A student was charged with failure to comply after telling a security officer who questioned him
• Cash totaling $105 was reported stolen March 3 from an unattended wallet in the Pit at Reynolda Hall. • A purse containing a cell phone and other contents valued at $353 was reported stolen March 3 from a residence adjacent to campus on Polo Road.
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Event to HOPE hosts annual KidsFest carnival showcase diversity By Katie Phillips | Staff writer
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For the first time in over two years, the campus minority groups are corroboratively hosting International Flair. This event will showcase the different cultures represented at the university. WISA, ASIA, OLAS and ASA have been working for five months to plan the international event, which will take place at 7 p.m. on March 22 in Benson 401. The event is scheduled to last for one hour, giving students the perfect opportunity to take a break from schoolwork and learn more about the diversity on campus. It will feature an international fashion show in which students from the different organizations will model clothes from different cultures around the world. Students will also have the opportunity to watch theater and dance performances that showcase the diversity on campus. Student members of ASIA will perform a skit that addresses cultural stereotypes. Other students will perform dances from different parts of the world, including a dance that features both traditional and modern African dancing. Following the performances, the dance floor will open up to students. Students will have the opportunity to taste different cuisines from around the globe. Provided by restaurants from around Winston-Salem, the food will represent many different cultures, including Japanese, Italian and Caribbean. WISA, as well as the other groups, is made up of international students, students who have studied abroad and students who are interested in interacting with people from different backgrounds. The different student minority groups hosting International Flair are also active throughout the year on campus, hosting many other multicultural events in the fall and spring semesters. WISA hosts international movie nights, and ASIA helps to organize the Moon Festival and Diwali in the fall and the Lunar New Year each spring. The different campus events help to enrich the cultural diversity on campus as well as in the community, attracting students and WinstonSalem residents alike. International Flair is funded by the Student Okudo Activity Fund. Sophomore Crystal Okudo, the president of WISA, is responsible for helping to organize the event. “Most schools have international events, and after attending some at other colleges, we decided that it’s time we gave it a try,” Okudo said. “Of course, we have a significantly lower number of international students here, but we are still a pretty diverse campus.” Despite the university’s relatively small size, many different ethnicities and cultures are represented on campus. At International Flair, students will have the opportunity to learn about various cultures from Africa, Europe, South America and Asia. There will be students representing countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Korea, China and Argentina, to name a few. “We definitely hope to make the event something annual,” Okudo said. “We are working hard on making our presence more known on campus, and events like this one are crucial.” International Flair is a free event open to all students.
“What I like about HOPE is that it spreads joy to the kids and college students alike; I come away from HOPE each week completely re-energized,” Taylor Collins, sophomore HOPE volunteer said. This Saturday, March 21, HOPE will be sponsoring the fourth annual KidsFest. Every October, HOPE also hosts Project Pumpkin, an event catering to the local Winston-Salem children who may not have another opportunity to participate in Halloween festivities. Children have the opportunity to Trick-or-Treat around campus. KidsFest is simply the spring version of the event. Helping to Overcome Physical Expectations, or HOPE for short, is a growing network of collegiate Service Chapters dedicated to working with children with disabilities in local special needs schools. Through weekly one-on-one mentorship, HOPE volunteers, sometimes called “Hopesters,” help children with special needs exceed goals and objectives identified on their children’s Individualized Education Plans (IEPs). Committed to helping children with disabilities, HOPE’s mission is to build social capital that allows
volunteers to break down the barriers which isolate “us” from “them.” The university’s chapter of HOPE sponsors, plans and organizes the local KidsFest every year. “HOPE is the most rewarding experience I have had in college; it is unlike any other organization I have been a part of,” junior Hannah McOwens said. The group has over 90 volunteers that spend two hours per week with their buddies throughout the semester. Ali Garatoni, the president of HOPE, said about KidsFest, “The purpose of KidsFest is to provide a fun and accessible day for the wonderful special needs children and their families that HOPE volunteers work with each week at The Special Children’s School and The Children’s Center.” This year HOPE has extended their Old Gold & Black file photo invitation to other Winston-Salem organizations that are dedicated to Student members of HOPE interact with special needs chilserving children with special needs. dren at the second annual KidsFest in 2007. Organizations include Beyond Academics, which works with young on the Wild Side: KidsFest Safari.” 800 handicapped children and their college students with special needs. There will be three large inflatable family members participated in the Twelve of Beyond Academics’ stu- moon bounces/slides, an animal pet- event. A lot of work goes into Kidsdents will be helping run some of ting zoo, 22 booths with games run Fest, according to Garatoni. “HOPE the large activities on the day of the by student groups, the Chris Burke volunteers are amazing! They give so event. Band and lots of healthy food for the much time to wonderful kids ... and The theme this year is “Take A Walk children and families. Last year over they get so much back in return.”
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never thought about them as math problems.” The decision to enter teaching was an easy one for Howards who claims he loved being a student so much that he never wanted to leave the college community. “I could have gone out into an economic climate like the one we have today, only not nearly as bad, or I could become a professor and stay in college forever, so I did.” He kept this youthful attitude intact when he secured a position in the math department of the university in 1997, after graduating with a doctorate from the University of California at San Diego in the same year. On his first day of class as a professor in 1997, Howards asked another professor, Stephen Robin-
son, to start the calculus class as if he were Howards. A few minutes into a monotone mock lecture, Howards knocked on the door dressed in a Papa John’s Pizza delivery outfit, pretending to be looking for a history class. When he “realized” he had stumbled upon a calculus lecture, his face lit up, as it had in that first discrete math course almost a decade prior, and he took over the lesson, handing out pizza to the confounded students. “I just thought it would be an appropriate way for me to go through this rite of passage. It was such a dramatic step that it was just natural for me to do in a dramatic way,” Howards said of the experience. The students in that first class, and the semesters to come, loved this enthusiasm and sense of fun. Howards’ classes, from introductory calculus
classes to graduate mathematics courses are routinely packed to the gills with wait lists as long as the class capacities. “I think this is because I try to get across exactly what I discovered in that first math course; that math is interesting for its own sake,” Howards said when addressed about his popularity. “Students see math as a sequence of formulas and frankly, that math is boring. I want students to understand why things are true. They react very positively when they discover that it (math) is not just a route process, it is a creative process that explains the way the world works.” “This award is more about Wake Forest than about me,” he said. “What a great thing for the university to be recognized for. Teaching is really what this is all about. I had to learn so much from this department, from my fellow professors and from my students.”
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by drawing widely on the academic resources of the university. The school also assists by offering a three-year vocational program, in which area ministers guide students to internships, together with multicultural ministry courses centered in rural, urban and international settings. 163 students have graduated from the School of Divinity and the school currently has 104 students enrolled in its programs. “The opening of a School of Divinity introduced a new, vital program of professional education at Wake Forest consistent with our commitment to academic excellence and the spirit of the university motto, Pro Humanitate,” Provost Jill Tiefenthaler wrote in a letter e-mailed March 5 to the university’s faculty and staff that announced Leonard’s plans. “I am grateful to Dean Leonard for his
diligent work in shaping the vision of a divinity school at Wake Forest.” Leonard, a scholar of church history, dedicated much of his extensive career to the study of the Baptist church. He has written 16 books, articles for several scholarly journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of numerous publications. Two of his most recent books are Baptist Questions, Baptist Answers and Baptists in America. A frequent commentator on American religious life, he has presented papers and delivered invited lectures at a variety of schools, conferences and churches, nationally and internationally. “The opportunity to work with Wake Forest undergraduate and divinity students has been one of the highlights of my time as dean and I look forward to continuing those classroom relationships,” Leonard said. “When I hear the seniors preach in weekly Divinity Chapel, I know that this endeavor was worth the effort.”
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world. Freshman Sarah Willet is one such student. She traveled to Volos, Greece with Reformed University Fellowship to help an Evangelical church in the area. They picked up trash around the city, painted a fence for a special needs school and helped raise awareness for the church in the community. “I think they really appreciated our help,” Willet said. “It was really neat to see how excited they got. I really enjoyed the people, the family was really welcoming. I really felt like we did accomplish something.” As all of the students participating in these trips are currently at some point in their education, it is interesting to note how much a student can learn from spending their spring break serving others.
“(The trip) was extremely informative of the refugee situation in the world and especially informative of the situation in Burma,” Warr said of the trip to Georgia. Liz Magargee, also a junior at the university and a participant in the same trip, had similar ideas about the educational value of such a trip. “Working with Karen refugees really made me consider life in the rest of the world and how privileged we are to live in the United States,” she said. “Hearing their stories and getting different perspectives on life from the partners and volunteers at Jubilee gave me a lot to think about and encouraged me to reevaluate some of my beliefs and how I live them out in my life.” Students interested in participating in such a trip in the future can do so by contacting an organization directly or finding a trip through the Wake Alternative Break Program.
WAKE TV’s film festival takes on high school interns WAKE TV prepares for upcoming film festival
By R. Hunter Bratton | Asst. opinion editor In its second year of activity, the Reynolda Film Festival will again be held by WAKE TV, which plans to expand its role by mentoring four Reagan High School students on filmmaking, television and entertainment production April 1-5. With special speakers such as Lee Norris, university alumnus and well known actor (he most notably played Stuart Minkus in the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World); John Sayles, independent film director; and Adam Burke, Pixar Animation Studios animator, festival planners hope
to attract even more followers than last year’s showing. In addition to these speakers, the festival will feature two Saturday afternoon movies. The Betrayal is an academyaward nominated documentary with over 23 years of footage, and Wendy and Lucy is an award winning movie starring Michelle Williams, Will Saks Patton and Will Oldham. The four local high school students, Isabel Echeverri, Jacob Wells, Mary Kathryn Snider and Trey Vickers, were selected to be mentored by three un-
dergraduate students and one professor from a field of qualified applicants late in the fall of 2008. Alex Saks, university senior and executive director of the festival, initiated the mentoring program and plans for it to be highly individualistic and tailored toward the filmmaking/television goals of the high school students. John McGowan, university senior and festival marketing coordinator, said that this mentor program is a way of increasing the utility of the event; taking the film festival as a pleasurable campus activity for faculty, students and community members, and employing it as a great opportunity for high school students to become involved in television. Some students plan on taking advantage of observing the film
festival and shadowing the students as they work, while other students wish to fulfill a more active role with one student editing a promotional video for the festival. “Either way is fine – this program isn’t designed to give a grade and it isn’t a job for the students – it’s just for fun and to allow them to get a glimpse inside the f e s t i va l’s workings whichever way they see to be most beneficial for their particular aspiration,” McGowan said. Saks will be Trey Vickers mentor and McGowan will be mentoring Isabel Echerverri.
Max Negin, communications lecturer and festival faculty advisor, remarked, “Some people are lucky enough to be in high school and have a clear vision for where they are headed; others may need to see a bit more before they are ready to take the plunge.” Negin will be mentoring Mary Kathryn Snyder. The program is at heart built around the individual needs of the student, with mentors serving in the capacity the student wishes, if only someone to answer questions about television. Even more, three of the students are high school seniors
and can use this opportunity to observe campus life at the university. “This is a chance to see, hear and breathe the communication department and get a behind-the-scenes look at the process of putting on a film festival, working in a student television station, and gain this first-hand knowledge from Wake Forest students and faculty,” Nagin said. “While they will help with the actual festival, the idea of the internship is for them to learn things that they would like to learn,” Sam Smartt said, university senior and festival’s filmmaker liaison. “I know from my personal experience that simply spending time with someone who has experience in the field you want to pursue and picking their brain is immensely helpful.”
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ecently, the university decided to reexamine its alcohol policy. We are optimistic that its results should benefit the student body. The old policy meant that students with merely one alcohol violation were sent to the dean, which we thought was severe, unfair and not actually feasible. This policy meant that the dean had to deal with many cases, most small in nature, that could have easily been resolved by Residence Life and Housing. With more students coming onto campus than ever, the dean would be dealing with even more cases every year. Additionally, there had been some discrepancy with regards to who actually ends up getting punished after being written-up. Some people get alcohol violations and others never hear anything again after the initial incident. The new policy makes everything a little bit more fair because every first-time offender who is not abusing alcohol can get off without a fine and a mark on his university record. Now, after one violation, students get a warning from Residence Life and Housing. If the student is caught again, he is then sent to the dean’s office and faces more serious punishment. The new policy is not something the university randomly crafted; rather, it reflects policies at other campuses across the United States. The slightly more relaxed alcohol policy encourages more on-campus activity, which is beneficial for several reasons. First off, hopefully this will lead to less drunk driving, because students will not
be traveling off campus as frequently to drink. The more frequent on-campus activity will then bring the Wake Forest community closer together. The upcoming Seize the Quad is an example of an attempt to add much needed campus unity. Also, the new alcohol policy reflects a greater movement to make the legal drinking age at college campuses 18 instead of the national drinking age of 21. Though President Hatch opted not to sign the petition to enact this policy, 123 college presidents have signed on, including the presidents of Dartmouth, Duke, Ohio State and Tufts, giving the petition potentially enough weight to be passed. While we await the results (if any) from this call to action, we can at least take solace in the fact that the university has become slightly more laid-back in its alcohol policy. This change was much needed and we are happy that the administration finally stepped up and did something about it. Of course, we are not suggesting that anyone use this new alcohol policy as an excuse to “party hard.” After all, if someone receives a warning, then he has lost his only shot to evade dean punishment. It is best to hold onto the warning and save it for when you are in an unfortunate situation. That is, keep playing it safe and you should never have to speak with the dean, and you won’t have a mark on your record. This policy simply provides a cushion for students and makes the university a better place to live.
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Beneath the history of the nation lie the stories of countless tribes of Native Americans, each with unique traditions and cultures. The physical landscape of the largest national economic power in the world is just as diverse as its population. The terrain drastically changes from low, sloping coastal fields up to the peaks of the Rockies and encompasses even frozen Caitlin Brooks tundra in Alaska and tropical paradises in News editor the Hawaiian archipelago. Some university departments do oughly 60 percent of Wake Forest sponsor programs to exploit the offerings undergrads take advantage of the of this huge resource. more than 400 programs that Eric Bowne, visiting professor of the university’s extensive Center for Anthropology, and a specialist in the International Studies coordinates and ethnohistory and archaeology of Southern supports during academic semesters and Native Americans, developed a summer summer sessions. program that requires students to travel Students can travel virtually anywhere, just under 150 miles west of Winstonfrom the well advertised and promoted Salem to the Appalachian Mountains of Flow and Worrell Houses and Casa North Carolina to explore not only the Artom to summer wildlife conservation ancient cultures of the native Cherokees, programs in South Africa and Kenya. but such wide-reaching, global issues as The abroad experience is coordinated, sustainable farming and development executed and in many cases partially practices. funded through university support. Students will live in a cabin in the These experiences set the university apart mountains and spend time with various from its competitors, and their value alternative living communities in addition cannot be understated. to lectures and day hikes to culturally Whether participants are fully significant locales. immerged in a language program It’s a great opportunity, one that via home stay, performing extensive promises to promote a global perspective community service to promote the Pro by focusing on local action, introduce Humanitate motto students to new ways in less fortunate of life and thoroughly areas of the world or enhance the education The importance of the inhitting the books for of the Wake students numerable opportunities in-depth specialized selected to attend, that for growth of understanding study, students come is, if you can afford the away with enriched presented by an intra-national trip. educations and wider This pilot program education is lost in a hum of perspectives on the provides participants buzzwords like globalization global community. with six credit hours Life is colored of field research, and international community. differently abroad, in directly supervised by brighter, more vivid a university faculty hues than any textbook member, and the or lecture hall can university incurs not present. only the costs of the summer tuition, but These things cannot be taught on additional travel and living expenses as the Reynolda campus, but they don’t well. necessarily have to be experienced on Though additional costs are low, only foreign soil. around $1,200, they are substantial Unfortunately, it seems the only for undergrads who are struggling just experience of value to the university is the to meet tuition payments during the international experience. academic year, yet the university is The importance of the innumerable providing no support. opportunities for growth of The Study Abroad scholarship, offered understanding presented by an intraannually for Fall, Spring and Summer national education is lost in a hum semesters by the Center for International of buzzwords like globalization and Studies, provides $1,000 (summer) or international community. $2,000 (semester) to eligible students We can see across the ocean, searching studying in a Wake Forest program. for answers and insights, but look to our Want to go to Austria for the summer? neighbors here at home with eyes and Here’s a grand! minds closed, seemingly with university Hoping to earn crucial field study support (through their lack thereof ). credits for that Anthropology major, The United States of America is a pretty while studying some of the gravest amazing place. ecological concerns of modern times? The nation spans 3.79 million square Great! Wait, it’s only in North Carolina? miles (including Hawaii and Alaska) Sorry, we’re not authorized to do that, and has one of the most ethnically maybe you should take out a loan. diverse populations on Earth, owing to generations of immigration from all Caitlin Brooks is a sophomore English major corners of the world. from Mechanicsville, Md.
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Mouth of a Millennial | Voices from the Arch Society
America shouldn’t forget global society Haowei Tong Photo editor
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he U.S., once a formidable, untouchable financial giant, has been brought to its knees. In light of this swelling international economic turmoil and rapidly shrinking job market, young and old alike have been forced to mull financial prospects. Some of us reach a state of zen-like peace and gratitude, while others despair at the losses that lie ahead. The Arch Society and guests gathered just before spring break to discuss the economy’s effects on U.S. aid to foreign countries and compare and contrast various methods. Despite sharply differing opinions on the recovery plan for our nation, several consensuses were reached on the progress of developing countries and the future of sustainable aid. Additionally, of course, a wealth of questions was raised. Foremost, attendees agreed that handouts to foreign governments are toxic. A lack of transparency, accountability and shady history
clearly prove that this approach is wasteful and corrupt. Examples of destructive U.S. intervention litter our nation’s history from independence to today. Afghanistan, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Iran and Iraq are just a few of the countries with which we’ve tampered. Furthermore, it was concluded that China’s interest in Africa is single-minded and selfinterested: fueled by oil, copper, timber and diamond mines. While trade between the two regions is burgeoning, relations remain tense. Though it has built much in Sudan, Angola and numerous other countries, China does not display consistency. Many deals, such as a $2 billion infrastructure, education and telecommunications project with Nigeria, have floundered. The future of relations between China and Africa, particularly smaller, lowvisibility countries like Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, may be exceedingly suspect. On the other hand, industrial development was the single source of power for many underdeveloped countries, including China, to nurture a booming middle class. While this development has wreaked havoc on the environment and grown the gap between economic classes, its positive consequences are not insignificant. Should aid come in the form of globalizing technology? Essentially, do the ends justify the means? Would monitoring or controlling protectionism,
the “brain drain," and other forms of first is a traditional foundation which places globalization reinforce foreign aid? emphasis on highly-engaged grant-giving; the In the ensuing dialogue, it was concluded second matches individual donors and a separate that “homegrown entrepreneurship” is ideal. professional staff; the third involves partner Promoting people to foster economic growth investors, individuals who donate and engage in in their own societies, through microcredit, for the grant-making process. example, generally allows the most efficient use Philip Berber’s A Glimmer of Hope of resources. Foundation is a social enterprise in Ethiopia and Muhammad Yunus’ Nobelis a tremendous example of Peace Prize-winning economic the potential success achieved concept of small-scale loans On the other hand, industrial in venture philanthropy. The was praised across the political foundation awards grants development was the single spectrum. Foreign investors to Ethiopian organizations source of power for many who do not actively, steadily based on merit, need and their seek feedback cannot maximize business model. underdeveloped countries, their outlay. Quarterly reports are including China, to nurture a Finally, we agreed that required to qualify for grant booming middle class. “venture philanthropy,” renewal. Since its launch also known as in 2000, more than 2,500 “philanthrocapitalism,” projects have been funded, incorporates a degree of liability ranging from support of and acuity missing in past models of foreign aid. the Dembi Dollo hospital to the complete Obviously there is no reason or excuse for aid construction of a school in six months. organizations to be mismanaged; and instead, Some may argue that America is already too if led carefully like a corporation, institutions involved in foreign development and that our like USAID, a government agency, and the current financial struggles at home take priority. American Red Cross can better improve the In the long-term, however, a capitalist economy world and regain respect. and “liberal” conscience may prop America back Venture philanthropy’s defining characteristics on its feet. are financial capital, focus on measurable We live in a global society. results and capacity building, and a dynamic relationship between donors and grantees. Haowei Tong is a sophomore biology major from There are three models which have evolved: the Winston-Salem.
Seeking Middle Ground | Left Says
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Dems support a greener America Ally Landuyt Guest columnist
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hether it is watching a polar bear float into the ocean on a tiny piece of iceberg with Leonardo DiCaprio providing a voice-over or watching the series of graphs Al Gore presents to the entire world, the statement is clear — if we don’t do something about the environment now, our negligence will affect not only the next generation, but every generation after it. While visuals appeal to everyone and there is nothing more depressing than watching an entire glacier crumble in mere seconds, the facts speak for themselves: 7.2 billon metric tons of greenhouse gases — the amount of emissions from the U.S. alone in the year 2005; 2050 — the year most of the Arctic Ocean is ice-free; 183 — the number of countries to sign and ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which commits countries to stabilize GHG emissions. It is clear that something must be done within the new administration of President Barack Obama. From the appointment of Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of California: Berkeley and Nobel Prize recipient Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy to the clear outline of capping emissions and plans for the future, the United States is on the right track with regard to environmental policy. The New Energy for America plan will save more oil within 10 years than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined, put one million plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015, ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025, implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent
by 2050 and help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next 10 years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future. All of these goals will help the U.S. not only domestically to create jobs and encourage innovation, but also internationally to give us a better reputation as a leading power for good. The emphasis on oil distribution is important for the U.S. because it is the one area where we lack adequate reserves. In order to curb our dependency on other countries for oil, we must save our own and attempt to be self-sufficient without the use of oil, but rather on the use of alternative fuels. With the Obama administration, the attempt to create “green” jobs will largely come from the harvesting of alternative fuels. Obama supports cleaner and more energy efficient solutions such as coal, wind and solar power. The benefits of these alternative energies have been proven numerous times through research and development. With renewable energy the United States can save money and develop several new economic ventures for companies to expand and grow upon. Overall, the environment has been a source of speculation and fear for the American public and we can see the consequences of doing nothing playing out every day. With the new administration taking over, there seems to finally be a movement in the right direction. The goals of the Obama administration glorify the environment as well as the individual that contributes to it. It is a resourceful and dominant strategy that is well within our capacity as a nation as well as a world power. As students you must do your part where you can. Whether it is using a cloth bag for groceries whenever you go, turning off the water in the sink when you are brushing your teeth or taking a quicker shower (who doesn’t want to get out of the hall bathrooms as fast as they can?), you can make all the difference with your support and behavior. Ally Landuyt is a freshman from Rumson, NJ.
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FMLA Today | Bridging the gender gap
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here is a class on pornography at Wake Forest University? Most students are probably unaware of this. The class Pornography: A Discussion of Equality, Speech and Harm is offered at Wake Law School and is open to undergraduates as a women’s and gender studies course. Co-taught by Professors Shannon Gilreath and Patricia Willis, the course focuses on feminist theoretical perspectives of pornography. So, no, you will not be able to spend two days a week just watching pornography (even though it is inevitable to watch some pornographic material as a part of the course), but students actually study feminist texts about pornography. This class is definitely not for the advocacy of pornography. While the course explores both sides of the debate on pornography, it goes even further into the complexities of the feminist debate on pornography. Besides the conservative antipornographers and the liberal free speech and pornography supporters, there is heavy debate between feminists about pornography. In the course students read about feminist theories in support of pornography and its so-called liberation of women and sexuality. However, as Professors Gilreath and Willis point out at the beginning of the semester, the class mostly focuses
on the feminist theories against pornography. Feminists against pornography, such as Catharine MacKinnon and the late Andrea Dworkin, claim that pornography is not simply about sexual pleasure. In fact, most mainstream pornography includes the humiliation of women, a power imbalance in favor of men and the objectification of women. If you disagree, simply browse the pornographic Web sites of today, most of which include cruel acts that are so shocking that it would be considered obscene to mention them out loud. Supporting pornography is not about defending free speech, sexual liberation or art. Pornography is not art. According to Dworkin and the Greek etymology of the word, the definition of pornography is “the graphic depiction of whores.” While the course is offered at the Law School, the object of the class is not to decide whether or not pornography should be legal. This is a part of the class, but most of the course is devoted to examining the pornography that has become a part of our everyday life. Pornography affects all men and women, whether we think so or not. The “Pornography of Everyday Life,” a term coined by Jane Caputi, is becoming a more serious issue every day. Aspects of the porn world have infiltrated mainstream media and our way of thinking about sex. Simply browse through any fashion magazine; high fashion ads from Dior to Versace depict women as sexual objects, gang rape scenes, male domination over women and the humiliation of women. What was once thought of as pornographic in the 1950s and 1960s is now part of the majority of media. Everything from shoes to
makeup to cars has become a part of the pornographic world, but what is most harmful to all women is the depiction of women as objects to be marketed, sold and used. One must not consider himself a feminist in order to disagree with the harmful effects of pornography and the pornography of everyday life. The pornographic world has transformed the way men and women talk about sex and have sex. Pornography has become a rite of passage for young men. It is readily available on the internet to anyone. We are no longer shocked by such films as Zack and Miri Make a Porno or television shows such as The Girls Next Door. Yet the debate over whether pornography is moral or just is still considered taboo. As feminist Robert Jensen claims, “people routinely assume that pornography is such a difficult and divisive issue because it’s about sex. I think that’s wrong. This culture struggles unsuccessfully with pornography because it is about men’s cruelty to women, and the pleasure men sometimes take in that cruelty. And that is much more difficult for people — men and women — to face.” FMLA works to make women equal to men. If pornography reduces women to objects for men’s usage, it would be against feminism and human rights to simply ignore that it exists. Willis is also the active faculty sponsor of the university FMLA. With her help, the FMLA will be able to educate others on campus about the dark truth about pornography. Constance Miller is a junior English major from Lexington, N.C.
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Steelers’ owner nominated to U.S. ambassador to Ireland On March 17, President Obama nominated Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Ireland. Rooney has done philanthropy work for Ireland over the years. He established the American Ireland Fund, which focuses on improving peace and education in the country. Rooney also built a Steelers-themed bar in the slums of Belfast. Obama said that Rooney “will ensure America’s continued close and unique partnership with Ireland in the years ahead.” The Hall of Fame owner became president of the Steelers in 1975. The Steelers were founded in 1933 by Rooney’s father, Arthur J. Rooney. Obama made the nomination on St. Patrick’s Day. Rooney was a stong Obama supporter and campaigned for him in Steelers’ country in western Pennsylvania.
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By Martin Rickman | Staff writer Wake Forest made a living over the course of the regular season by attacking the rim, finishing inside and going to the foul line. In Friday, March 13’s quarterfinal match up against the Maryland Terrapins, the Deacs must have lost their identity somewhere in the enormous Georgia Dome, falling by a final score of 75-64. Maryland out-rebounded Wake Forest 44-40 and used a zone to perfection as the Demon Deacons were unable to get easy looks inside all night, opting instead to shoot over the top of the zone. The inherent problem in this is that Wake Forest is not a good
three-point shooting team, at 33 percent on the year. They are a team built on size, and they did not use that size advantage well at all against the Terps. “The only thing you can do with that size thing is try to get in their way,” Maryland Head Coach Gary Williams said. “You can teach technique but they can jump over you. The big thing is to get in their way and then try to get to the rim before they do. We did a good job of that.” It is a wonder that more teams have not zoned Wake Forest over the course of the season. On Feb. 4, Miami used a disciplined zone and Wake took 20 shots from distance, hitting just
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three, good for 20 percent. In that game, they fell behind early and tried to dig themselves out of their hole by shooting jumpers, but missed shots led to long rebounds and easy opportunities for the Hurricanes, who shot 49 percent for the game and outrebounded Wake 33-30. “(Maryland) really sagged off of us and invited us to shoot threes,” junior L.D. Williams said. “At Maryland we really rebounded well, but tonight we did not rebound as well at all.” Friday’s game was almost a carbon copy of that game plan. Maryland Head Coach Gary
“I have really high expectations. I know they’re young, but they’re really talented – probably one of the most talented teams in basketball, so hopefully they can go out and win it.” Trent Strickland, former player “If they all choose to declare, Wake Forest has three players who could go in the first round of the NBA draft in Jeff Teague, Al-Farouq Aminu and James Johnson. The Demon Deacons had moments this season (beating North Carolina and Duke) when they played as well as any team in the country. If Wake Forest can wake from its slumber, this team could get to Detroit.” Andy Katz, ESPN “I think we can match up with anyone in the country. If we come with our A game every game, there is no doubt in my mind we will get to the Final Four. And with support form the community this can be a great March for the Deacs.” Jermyn Davis, Student Body President
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Bingham dashes to national title The spring By John Harrison | Staff writer
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{ DEAC OF THE WEEK } Sophomore Jeff Teague wins Deac of the Week yet again because he was nominated second team All-American by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. He also won second team all-ACC. Teague won two other All-American awards this season from the Sporting News’ second team and FoxSports.com’s third team. Teague Teague is the first Deacon since Chris Paul in 2004-05 to be named to the USBWA All America teams. He is ranked fourth in the ACC with his 19.1 points per game average. He currently holds the longest current streak in the ACC for double-figure scoring at 34 games.
{ SPORTS WORDS } “When it’s played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.” ~ John Edgar Wideman Photo Courtsey of Media Relations
With the fastest time recorded in the world this year, senior Michael Bingham captured the 400m national title at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in College Station, Texas, on March 14. The Burlington, N.C., native posted a final time of 45.69, eclipsing Texas Tech’s Gil Roberts’ second-place time by just two hundredths of a second. “I really wasn’t concerned about winning,” Bingham said. “For me the sport is just about defeating myself. My goal was a 45.8, and whether that got on the podium or not, that’s what I wanted to do.” Bingham exploded off the blocks in lane five in the first heat of the finals, jumping out to a slim lead by the half-way point. He began pulling away from the pack over the next 100 meters and went on to win the heat by almost a full second. The time held up through the second heat, as Gil Roberts, who entered the race with the top qualifying time, bettered Bingham’s time in the first 200m but failed to keep up the pace. “I was unconcerned with the second heat,” Bingham said. “I knew I’d be near the top of the podium. Plus, Gil Roberts is a good friend of mine, and I certainly would not mind losing to a person as talented as him.” Bingham’s time also shattered Swedish runner Johan Wissman’s previous record of 45.89 for the world’s fastest indoor 400m time this year. The world record for the event is held by Michael Johnson, who set the mark of 43.18 in 1999. Bingham joins Olympian Andy Bloom and Michele Sikes as the only Deacons to win track & field national titles. Bloom won the shot put and discus national titles during the outdoor season in 1996 and Sikes won the 5,000m national title. Junior Brent LaRue also had a successful showing at the championships, taking 13th overall in the heptathlon. His performance was good enough for eighth-best among American athletes in the field, and thus he earned AllAmerica honors from the coaches association. On the women’s side, sisters Dina and Anna Nosenko led the way for the Deacons in recent regional action in South Bend, Indiana. Both runners recorded personal bests in their respective events, with Dina posting a 4:53.00 in the mile run and Anna winning the women’s 5,000meter run with a time of 16:25.91. The Demon Deacons return home this weekend, March 20-21 for the Wake Forest Open. The two-day event will be held on campus, and both men and women will be in action.
gem that is the WBC By Steven Johns | Staff writer
During this time of the year, most of you are probably fixated on your March Madness brackets and how well Wake Forest is going to do in the NCAA tournament. If it is possible to take your mind off of basketball for just a moment, you will witness one of the most fantastic sporting events in a long time, the World Baseball Classic. This 16 country competition has brought even more excitement than the Classic in 2006, which Japan won. The WBC has already had some fantastic moments, highlighted by the advancement of the underdog Netherlands past the mighty Dominican Republic. In the first WBC, the United States team did not seem too enthusiastic about playing, which made many fans ignore this world tournament. The U.S. was unprepared to play at such a high level so early in the year and did not seem to care about winning. This year the feeling is different. Players are now prepared for the WBC and are looking to avenge their early exit from the first WBC. After being mercy-ruled by Puerto Rico in the first game of the second round, the U.S. was able to knock off the Netherlands and sneak past Puerto Rico with a walk-off single to advance to the semi-finals. The walk-off win brought out the emotion of the U.S. team and silenced anybody who thought that the U.S. players lacked enthusiasm. The United States is looking to capitalize on this emotional victory and win the second World Baseball Classic. With the WBC also comes the question about the timing of the tournament. Everybody agrees that the WBC is a great idea and should take place, but nobody wants their star players, especially pitchers, to play in the WBC. Teams think that their pitchers will either hurt their arms, or burn out late in the season because they prepared for the WBC. So when is the right time for the WBC? Some people have suggested putting ir in the middle of the baseball season and others have suggested putting it at the end of the season. Personally I think it is perfect right where it is. I like how the WBC in the spring brings attention to baseball sooner, meaning that we
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Album Review | All I Ever Wanted
Book Review | A Thousand Hills
Idol winner brings back her roots Author pens rebirth of nation By Jermyn Davis | Staff writer
The first American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson, is back, and she is better than ever. I have to admit that I was not a fan of Clarkson’s by any means because of her weak vocal range. Actually, I was appalled when American Idol judge Simon Cowell stated that Clarkson’s vocal ability was “up there” with the likes of Celine Dion (what a foolish thought) in a 2007 statement. However, this album shows Cowell may know something about Clarkson’s talent. Releasing her fourth studio album, All I Ever Wanted, Clarkson is back to her pop/ rock roots. A must needed change according to some music industry professionals after Clarkson’s last album was considered to be a flop. This album will be no flop. Though containing songs that are mostly mid to up-tempo synthesized heavy guitar and percussion tracks, All I Ever Wanted contains great stylistic balance. The album also will also perform well because Kelly is catering to so many women with a range of women’s issues. The album opens with the former American number one single, “My Life Would Suck without You.” Kelly passionately exclaims that she needs her ex-partner as “he has a piece of (her).” This was a rather simple song that is not her best vocal performance, but a great reintroduction to pop music. Similar to the first single’s up tempo nature, “Whyyawannabringmedown” is absolutely fantastic. This song will definitely give Clarkson’s pure rock fans something to bounce their heads to. The final up-tempo song that will race up the dance charts is “If I Can’t Have You.” Upon hearing the song, instantaneous body moving is expected. Clarkson’s album really starts to get moving with the best song on the album, which is also slated to be her second single, “I Do Not Hook Up.”
Though I think Kelly is doing sin while leading the man, I think this is by far her best vocal work. Almost a year away, I am predicting this song will earn Clarkson a Grammy nomination for best pop vocal performance. Other great mid tempo songs include “Don’t Let Me Stop You” and “All I Ever Wanted.” Again, “All I Ever Wanted” was a great and catchy song, but the lyric writing was horrendous. The lyrics make absolutely no sense. In the chorus of the song the lyrics state “we have been here before and tell me what you want,” but does she really want him to tell her what he wants if he is all she has ever wanted? It sounds like she is begging. Kelly, come on! Clarkson also did not do as well performing her slow ballads. Tracks such as “Cry” and “Already Gone” were okay, but they were definitely not her stronghold. The worst song on the album was definitely “Save You.” This A-B-A sectioned song was a disaster. The production was not my cup of tea at all. During the B section there is a key change that discombobulates the A section’s theme. Overall, this single was the most disconnected song I have ever heard. Other songs that were not so memorable were the Katy Perry penned “Long Shot” and “Impossible.” In regards to “Long Shot,” though the song was written and performed well, it was very bland. The song “Impossible” may have been strategically placed because the final three songs on the album are very different from the other songs on the album as she takes huge, successful risks. The final three songs are soft pop. The second to last song, “Ready,” is very similar to Sara Bareilles’ “Love Song.” The next to last song, “I Want You,” sounds like a blast from the past, primarily 1960s era. The final song on the album, “If No One Listens,” is a message of keeping continual persistence when fighting for something you believe in. With this album Clarkson proves that she is a force to be reckoned with. Overall, this album is a must buy. This album will be one of the best albums in 2009.
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power as he becomes the president of Rwanda, a post he has held since 2000. Kinzer does deal Journalist and author Steven Kinzer has built a with the genocide in some depth, but adds direputation by dissecting the moral failures of the mensions that readers may be less familiar with, United States: anti-democratic regime changes in such as explorations of Kagame’s military career Iran and Guatemala, characterized by a striking prior to the genocide. willingness to value the welfare of Western corMoreover, he goes beyond those tragic events to porations ahead of human life. explore Kagame’s ambitious development goals Rwanda, the “Land of a Thousand Hills” that for the country. Kinzer’s interviews with local lends its name to his lat- businessmen draw attention to the innovative est book, is certainly solutions that Kagame’s leadership is inspiring in the site of U.S. and Eu- his countrymen. Interviews with human rights ropean moral failure. activists, however, highlight Kagame’s aversion to That country’s distin- domestic dissent and press freedom. guishing feature, in the It is a rather common situation: a progressive eyes of the West, would leader, who is seeking to lead his country into a have to be the bru- better future, brooks no contradictions to his new tal genocide of 1994, order. when members of the Kinzer’s treatment of this raises important quesHutu ethnic group tions about the nature of authority, and about slaughtered 800,000 economic and human development, particularly ethnic Tutsi and Hutu in the plural societies of Africa. moderates. That is this book’s value. The Clinton adminRwanda is a model which will be seen as one istration refused even worth emulating, on a continent that should be to call the genocide by of strategic and human interest to the U.S. its right name that fatal summer, afraid that UN Quotations from Kinzer’s extensive interviews rules would then obligate Western nations to do with Kagame punctuate the pages, and an exsomething to stop it. tended quotation follows each chapter. But this book is not concerned primarily with Kinzer is going for the full psychological porthat indictment. While the U.S. and Europe play trait here. bit roles, they’re not the imporHe is seeking to draw tant players here. a man who is indifferent Kinzer does deal with the This book is unequivocally cento corruption and selfgenocide in some depth, but tered on the rebuilding of Rwanenrichment, and uninda and its remarkable president, terested in kowtowing to adds dimensions that readers Paul Kagame. Western liberalism. In this, it mirrors the focus of may be less familiar with, such as Sometimes this attempt its subject, a Tutsi military genius, explorations of Kagame’s military succeeds. At others, the raised in refugee camps. passages are flat. career prior to the genocide. Kagame, moreover, is a man Kagame may be the with a vision: the transformation Napoleon of East Africa, of a tiny and impoverished Afribut that doesn’t mean can country into a developed nation. that he is a phenomenal orator or a public relaThis book is many things. Kagame’s biography tions spin-master. is recounted alongside the narrative of social and By the end of the book we get the impression political changes in Rwanda. that he is saying the same thing over and over We trace his route through exile in Uganda, again. where he learned soldiering, to his return to Perhaps he was impatient with his American Rwanda as the commander of an ethnic insur- interlocutor – eager to return to work, and the gency which ultimately put a halt to the 1994 realization of a vital vision for his once shattered genocide. The story continues with his rise to country.
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Carlos Lopez The first pitch freshman Carlos Lopez saw in his college career he sent out of the park. The Boynton Beach, Fla., native hasn’t looked back. He has been instant offense for the Deacs so far this season. The third baseman is leading the team in batting average (.393) and has belted seven home runs.
By Connor Swarbick | Sports Editor Where else were you recruited and why did you decided to come to Wake Forest? I was recruited by the Ivy league schools, Villanova, William & Mary, Ole Miss and some schools in Florida. I wasn’t a big prospect like some of the guys in my class. I decided to come to Wake Forest because I liked the school and its location. I thought the coaches and the guys on the team that I met would be a good group of people to work towards winning a championship with. I had also heard from baseball coaches at home that Wake Forest Coach John Palmieri was a very good hitting coach. What are your goals for this season? As a freshman, my only personal goal is to do everything I can, on every defensive play, and in every at-bat, to help the team win and to earn the confidence of my teammates and coaches. What are the goals for the team this season? The upperclassmen on our team have made it clear that our main goal is to win games and series so we can compete for an ACC championship and an NCAA title. The seniors and juniors have been very good about working with all the freshmen to help us adapt to college baseball. They give us advice, help us make adjustments in our game and point us in the right direction. In the past the team has struggled in the ACC, do you think this group will be different this year? The ACC is the best baseball conference in the country. It is very competitive, and I think all teams struggle at some point. From what I have seen there are no gaps in pitchers or hitters on any team including ours. We have had some tough games and some tough series already this season, but we have also learned a lot from those games. All of us, particularly the underclassmen, have benefited from those experiences. Just look how great guys like Jarrett, Kroker, Dimmick, Stadler, Marrs and White have done with just a few innings of experience. I believe that we are getting better every day. Why do you play third base? I have played infield all my life, and I am not very fast so third base is best for me. You are leading the team in just about every offensive category; to what do you attribute your early success? When I come to the plate pitchers aren’t worrying about me; they are worrying about getting Murray, Hoody, Ocheltree, Smith and Woody out. They look past me, so I see a lot of good pitches with runners on base. Who do you model your game after? Why? Derek Jeter, he is a great player who knows how to win. He plays the game hard, and always finds a way to get the job done. What do you think about when you are standing in the batters box? It depends on the situation. I try to have a productive at-bat every time. Get on base, advance a runner, drive in a man in scoring position, hit a Sac-Fly. I mainly try to see the ball as long as I can and then drive it as hard as I can where I think it needs to go. What is your favorite pitch and location to drive a ball out of the ball park? Is there a pitch that you dread getting? A hard thrown, middle-in, belt high fastball. I don’t dread any pitches but I am starting to see some off speed stuff that is tough to hit; but I’m working on it. What do you want to do after you graduate? Well, I would like to be able to keep playing baseball, but if that does not work out I hope to get a business degree and find a good job. What is your favorite Cookout milkshake, musical artist and Major League Team? Strawberry Cheesecake, Lil Wayne and Boston Red Sox.
Changes to come for men’s soccer coaching staff Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach Carson Porter has accepted a new position with Capital Area Soccer League in Raleigh. In his five years as part of the coaching staff, Wake became a dominant program in men’s soccer. He coached 15 All-Americans and 18 players currently on MLS rosters. To fill the empty coaching position, Head Coach Jay Vidovich has hired Adegboyega “Bo” Oshoniyi. He enjoyed a 12 year professional career, led his college team to two NCAA Division II National Championships and twice earned Final Four Most Valuable Player honors. After serving as an assistant for one year with USF, Oshoniyi will work primarily with the goal keepers.
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Three athletes honored with ACC post-graduate scholarships
Men’s soccer falls to New England Revolution 2-1
Men’s soccer senior Sam Cronin, volleyball graduate student Natalie Mullikin and women’s socceer senior Camelyn Dillon have been named recipients of post-graduate scholarships. The Atlantic Coast Conference awarded 42 scholar-athletes with either the Weaver-James-Corrigan or Jim and Pat Thacker scholarships. Scholarships are granted to students who intend to pursue graduate-level degrees after graduation and who have excelled in both the classroom and their respective sports and have exemplified good conduct in the community. The scholarship grants each recipient $5,000 to use toward his or her graduate education.
For the first time since December, men’s soccer took the field for a match up against MLS team New England Revolution at Macpherson Stadium at the Bryan Park Soccer Complex in Greensboro on March 7. The New England Revolution’s roster included a pair of former Deacs, Pat Phelan and Wells Thompson. Although scoring first in the game, the Demon Deacs ultimately fell to New England in front of an overflow crowd of 2,478 fans in a 2-1 decision. The Deacs are back in action on March 21 as they face United Soccer League’s Carolina RailHawks.
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M. Tennis Women’s basketball to host NIT grabs two victories By Joe Maugeri | Staff Writer
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Like most other Wake Forest students, the No. 18 men’s tennis team was outside and near the ocean last week; however, the Deacons tackled a slightly more strenuous task then lounging out on the beach. For their first outdoor matches of the season, the Deacons were pitted against No. 55 East Tennessee State University and Costal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, S.C. It was quite the dog fight as four out of the six singles matches went to three sets. The match started well with the Deacons taking the doubles point with wins from the No. 1 duo of junior Steve Forman and senior Cory Parr as well as sophomore Jonathan Wolff and freshman David Hopkins. Parr, ranked No. 37 in singles, was less sucHopkins cessful as he dropped his singles match to the No. 15 Enrique Olivares in straight sets. Sophomore Iain Atkinson and junior Jason Morgernstern also suffered singles defeats despite each taking the first set. The Deacons received victories, however, from Forman and Hopkins which once again set the stage for Wolff to clinch the deciding point to win the match 4-3, just as he did against the University of Louisville with a marathon 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory. Assistant Coach Chris Brandi cited Wolff ’s improved maturity from last year as the reason for his turnaround in three-set matches recently after falling just a little bit short several times in similar situations last year. Of course, as Brandi said, “a little bit of luck” never hurts sometimes, which rang true for Hopkins as he was able to stave off three match points that would have given ETSU the victory and never would have given Wolff a chance for his own heroics. Was Brandi surprised at the freshman’s ability to come through in such a tight situation? Not at all, as Brandi said that “he always does.” After the grueling match, and only an hour of rest, the Deacons took on Coastal Carolina. Once again, the Deacons claimed the allimportant doubles point. This time around the match was a little bit easier, at least according to the final score, as they only dropped one singles match to the Chanticleers. Just as in the previous match, the Deacs were pushed into a barrage of three sets, but junior Andrew Brasseaux, freshman Joost Vogel and senior Carlos Salmon took full advantage of their opportunity and picked up key victories after having not played singles against ETSU. The pair of victories moves the No. 18 Deacs to 9-4 for the season. Next up are the University of South Carolina Gamecocks who are slotted just one spot below them in the rankings at 19.
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Despite dropping four straight ACC games to end its regular season, the women’s basketball team knew that its dream of going to the NCAA Tournament was still in the picture. The Deacons would, however, have to make a significant run in the ACC tournament to impress the selection committee to be granted a coveted spot in the field of 64. After defeating N.C. State 59-54 on March 5 in the opening round of the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C., the Deacons advanced to face the No. 4 Maryland on March 6 in Greensboro. After playing one of their best games of the season, the women’s basketball team fell 72-70 to the Terrapins and their aspirations of going to the dance have been relegated to a seed in the Women’s NIT. In their first ACC tournament win since 2005, the women’s basketball team was able to establish an early first half lead against the Wolfpack. The Deacons would go into the locker room up 29-22. The N.C. State squad would not go down quietly, though. The Wolfpack came out swinging after the intermission and shaved six points off of the Deacon lead by the midway point of the half to make the score 38-37. The N.C. State surge would be quieted after the Deacons went on a 13-2 run midway through the second half to establish a lead that would not be relinquished. The Deacons survived and advanced, beating the Wolfpack 59-54. The Deacons were led in scoring by senior forward Corrine Groves, who missed the last meeting between these two teams when she was hospitalized with an illness. Groves netted 18 points, which led all scorers. Freshman guard Brooke Thomas, junior guard Courteney Morris, and senior forward and ACC All-Academic Team member Alex Tchangoue each contributed nine points in the victory. Freshman Secily Ray pulled in 13 boards for the Deacons, seven of which came on the offensive glass. With the Wolfpack out of the way, an ominous meeting with the No. 4-ranked Maryland Terrapins loomed over the Deacons. The Terps, who soundly defeated the Deacons by 27 points on Jan. 8, came into the ACC Tournament matchup hot off of a nine game winning streak. The Deacons came agonizingly close to knocking-off the nation’s No. 4-ranked team, but fell in the end 72-70. The Deacons came out hot in the first half and quickly showed the crowd in Greensboro that they were capable of running with the one of the nation’s best. The Deacons went into the locker room at the half up 42-41.
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Freshman guard Secily Ray rises over a Duke defender Feb. 25. The Lady Deacs are appearing in postseason play for just the third time since 1982. With the smell of a huge upset and one of the greatest victories ever for the program beginning to permeate the Greensboro Coliseum, the Deacons came out of the locker room and extended their lead to 12 points following a crucial 17-8 run in their favor. With about 10 minutes left in the contest, the women’s basketball team led the Maryland squad 63-51. Then the Deacons went cold. With 10 minutes left, Maryland senior guard and ACC Player of the Year Kristi Toliver netted a huge three-point jumper for the Terps that sparked a 19-2 run for the Maryland team. Five minutes later, the 12 point Deacon lead had been reduced to one point and the Terps took their first lead of the half after Marissa Coleman’s fast-break layup put Maryland up 66-65 with four minutes left in the game. Maryland would not let go of this lead and the Terps, who some experts think is the only team that can beat Connicicut, who is undefeated on the season, held on to beat the Deacons 72-70. The Deacons were led in scoring by Groves and Tchangoue. Groves scored 16 points for the Deacons and Tchangoue added 16 points of her own and 10 rebounds to post a double-double.
Freshman guard Brooke Thomas also posted a double-double for the Deacons with 15 points and 11 assists. Following the disappointing result of the Maryland game, the Deacons were left out of the field of 64 on women’s basketball’s “Selection Monday.” The Deacons, however, were awarded a spot in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament and their participation in the contest will mark their third post-season appearance since 1982. Being given a first round bye, the Deacons will
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Club Baseball
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Junior Rob Atkinson drives the ball in a recent game against Georgia Tech. The team plays its games at Ed Price Field at the High Point Athletic complex.
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face the winner of the Winthrop vs. Georgetown game on March 22 at 5 p.m. in the LJVM Coliseum. The Deacons are 1-0 all-time against the Hoyas and 3-1 all-time against Winthrop. While the women’s basketball team is now playing to make a run in the Women’s NIT, it is also playing to make history. A win over Georgetown/Winthrop would give the women’s basketball team its first 20-win season since 1988 and mark this year’s squad as one of the most successful in school history.
So it’s a sunny, warm day at Wake Forest. What better way for a Demon Deacon to spend a Carolina spring day than to bask in the sun while enjoying the leisurely pace of a baseball game? But, alas, the baseball team plays on the road, so how is a Deacon to get his national pastime fix? Enter club baseball, which not only offers an alternative for baseball fans, but might be one of the best kept secrets among campus activities. The Wake Forest club baseball team, which consistently ranks among the top twenty club teams nationally, is a member of the National Club Baseball Association and competes in the Mid Atlantic Conference-South along with East Carolina, NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, Elon and Charlotte. Considered in club baseball circles to be the toughest conference in the country, the Mid Atlantic-South includes two former national champions as well as the Deacons, who are ranked 17th in the most recent NCBA poll. The Mid Atlantic-South is so tough that the perennially strong Deacons have been able to capture just one conference title, in 2007. The Deacs have had players named All-American and All-Regional on a regular basis, including current club president and reigning First-Team All-American, senior Matt Stefany. The club baseball team has begun the spring season on a very successful note, posting a 5-0 (3-0 conference) record on the strength of sweeps of Georgia Tech and Charlotte. Stefany is excited about the team’s performance to date. “Despite losing some of the best players in our club’s history,” Stefany said, “we have been able to maintain our competitiveness through a solid freshman class and other upperclassmen newcomers”. Some of those newcomers contributing to this year’s successes are junior pitcher Brian
Smith, freshman pitcher Adam Watson, freshman outfielders Ryan Schroeder and Scott Wilson, and freshman catcher Dan Hodges. Furthermore, the roster is replete with players accustomed to success on the field, many of whom were standout players in high school and turned down opportunities to play intercollegiately elsewhere in order to attend Wake Forest. Some club players have or had varsity ambitions, as the transfer of players between club and varsity rosters is not uncommon. The Wake Forest club baseball team plays approximately a thirty game schedule during the academic year. This includes a three game weekend series against each conference opponent (a Saturday double-header and a single game on Sunday). Remaining games this spring include a March 26-27 series against NC State, an April 4-5 series at Elon, an April 18-19 series against UNC-Chapel Hill and a yet to be rescheduled trip to ECU. The team has their sights set on earning another conference title and a trip to the regional tournament. The ultimate prize on the horizon is the Club Baseball World Series, held in Fort Meyers, Fla., May 22-28. The Deacon club baseball team prides itself on fielding a very competitive team without putting excessive practice requirements on the players, although Stefany acknowledged that the resources do exist for a serious practice schedule to be developed. The team practices on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. and Fridays at 4 p.m., both for about an hour, and plays its games at Ed Price Field at the High Point Athletic complex. The Deacs’ progress can be tracked through the national club baseball Web site (http:// www.clubbaseball.org/) or through their own Web site (http://groups.wfu.edu/clubbaseball). If anyone is interested in the club baseball program or wants more information, Stefany can be contacted at stefmd5@wfu.edu.
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Senior golfer Hill Deacs top two non-conference foes posts school record By Steven Johns | Staff Writer
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While most Wake students spent last weekend returning from Spring Break, the women’s golf team had an exciting weekend March 13-15 in Baton Rouge at the University Club for the LSU/ Cleveland Golf Classic. The No. 7 team started the weekend with a strong round of fourunder 284 in the opening round. The score gave the Deacs the early lead in the event. This score was the fourth best 18-hole round for Wake Forest women’s golf, tying with two other rounds on the same course. It was also the second time that all Wake Forest players scored par or better. Sophomore Natalie Sheary was a spotlight player for the Lady Deacons, finishing at 3-under 69. She was followed by teammate senior Jean Chua, who finished for the Deacons 1-under. Finishing at par were senior Nannette Hill, junior Dolores White and freshman Cheyenne Woods. At the end of the day, the Deacons were ahead of ACC opponent UVA by one shot. On Saturday, March 14, Wake Forest fell to second place with a round of 296. Hill fired a bogeyfree 70 to lead the team. Rain made the course more difficult and the Lady Deacs did not play as well as they hoped. Sheary started her round with four birdies in the first nine holes to go out in, however, but rain lead to a back nine 40.Chua finished with a 75 and White and Woods both carded 7-over 79s. On Sunday, March 15, the course was shortened to 5,900 yards to avoid casual water on the fairway.
This ended up hurting the Lady Deacons more than assisting them, and the girls did not respond to the shorter distance as well as they hoped. The course change did not affect Hill, however, who posted her second straight bogey-free round to finish with a 54-hole school record of 210. She bettered her previous low score of 211 at the 2007 NCAA East Regionals, which was on the same course. Hill began the day with two birdies and she made the turn in 2-under 34. Hill pared her first five holes on the back nine before birding 15 and 17. She finished just one shot out of a playoff with a round of 4-under 68. Hill made nine birdies and three bogies in the three rounds of the tournament. However, the rest of the team struggled in very wet conditions. The team posted a final round 290 to finish six-over for the tournament, tied for fifth with UNCChapel Hill and Louisville. Sheary finished her tournament with a round of 2-over 74 and tied for 11th. Chua had a final round of 75, and tied for 37th individually, while White and Woods both had matching Friday- Saturday-Sunday scores of 72-79-74 and tied for 51st individually. Virginia emerged from the field and posted consistent scores of 285-287-284=856 (-8) to take the tournament win. Three players tied for the individual title at 7-under. Arkansas’ Lucy Nunn won the playoff on the second hole. The Lady Deacons return to action in the Liz Murphy Collegiate Classic in Athens, Ga., which will be hosted by Georgia on March 27-29.
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After a very disappointing opening to the ACC season, the Deacons got back on track with a couple of non-conference games. On March 17, in a rematch against Appalachian State, the Demon Deacons got a much needed win. Freshman Michael Dimock went 6.2 innings to get his first collegiate victory. Dimock only surrendered one run on six hits while striking out five in the Deacons’ 3-1 win. In this close victory, senior Weldon Woodall gave the Deacs the lead with his third home run of the season. With the score 2-1 in the eighth, freshman Shane Kroker launched his first collegiate triple. Later in the inning, he was driven in when senior Tyler Smith grounded into a 4-6-3 double play. While the Deacons got a needed victory, the bats that were so hot at the beginning of the season have not been clicking as of late. In their last nine games, the Deacons have eclipsed the four run mark only once and have been held to two or fewer runs three times. “We’re getting ourselves in positions to score runs, (but) we weren’t coming through. But, that will come around,” Woodall said. In their matchup against the High Point Panthers on March 18, the Deacons came out on the victorious side of a 6-5 score. The Panthers got off to a good start by loading the bases for center fielder Bill Manion, who singled to drive in the first run of the game. The Panthers got another run when senior Garrett Bullock threw a pitch in the dirt that got away from catcher Ian Tomkins. The Deacs tried to come back in the third, starting off the inning with back to back walks by freshman Carlos Lopez and Woodall. Woodall later scored on an Ian Tomkins single. With the score 3-1 in the fourth, Lopez launched a triple into the left-center alley. Fellow freshman Shane Kroker singled between the shortstop and third baseman to make it a one run game.
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A Deacon pitcher delivers a curveball to a High Point hitter in the Deacs’ 6-5 win over the High Point Panthers March 18. After Bullock went five innings, sophomore Ryan McGrath came in to pitch. He walked Murray White IV to lead off the inning. After a stolen base and a ground out, White IV reached third base. McGrath then threw a pitch in the dirt past Tomkins to give the Panthers a 4-2 lead. After allowing a run in the eighth, the Demon Deacons shut down the Panthers for the 6-5 game. The big inning for the Deacs came in the bottom of the sixth. Murray led off the inning with a walk and was followed two batters later by a Woodall single. Kroker lined a ball off the shortstop to allow Murray to score. Woodall was later able to score on a passed ball. Freshman Austin Stadler kept the rally going by lining a single over the shortstop’s head. The big hit came off the bat of sophomore Steven Brooks. Brooks launched a double into the left-center gap to drive in two runs and give the Deacons a 6-4 lead. “These are the games that we have got to win. We’ve got to win the midway games,” Coach Rick Rembielak said. Before these two out-of-conference games, the Deacs had to take on the tough ACC schedule, but they were unable to handle the competition. In the
first ACC series Wake Forest hosted the Virginia Cavaliers. Unfortunately, the pitching did not show up for the Deacons as they surrendered a total of 47 runs in their three losses to the Wahoos. The bats were not of much help either, as the Deacs only scored 13 runs in those three games. Wake Forest finally got another win when they traveled to South Carolina to beat Winthrop 6-4. Home runs by junior Mike Murray and senior Weldon Woodall paved the way for coach Rick Rembielak’s 500th career win. Unfortunately, the Deacs ran into more trouble when they ran into Clemson. Despite decent pitching, the Deacons were unable to win a game and fell to 0-6 in the ACC. “(In order to win) we’ve got to end up acting like we want to end up being successful. We’ve got to toughen up in situations. With guys in scoring position we’ve got to come through better. That’s something that we have not done,” Rembielak said. After the tough series against Virginia, the pitching staff has done fairly well. There is still a lot of room for them to improve but they have been giving the team a chance to win almost every game.
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Junior Sasha Kulikova stretches for the ball in the March 18 home match against N.C. State’s Lenka Hojckova. Kulikova and her fellow Deacs defeated the Wolfpack in a 6-1 victory. By Zachary Halpern | Staff Writer
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The Wake Forest women’s tennis team rebounded after losing to a talented No. 15 UNC-Chapel Hill Tar Heel team by defeating the College of Charleston in a crushing 7-0 victory March 10. The women started their spring break by traveling to Charleston, S.C., to face the Cougars and they came out attacking. The Lady Deacs’ doubles play continues to be outstanding this season as all three doubles pairs posted 8-1 victories. The women looked to continue their success on Wed., March18 when they faced the N.C. State Wolfpack at Leighton Stadium.
Once again, the Lady Deacs were victorious in their doubles match-ups to jump out to another 1-0 start. Although No. 55 junior Sasha Kulikova and senior Sierra Poske fell in the number one doubles position to No. 46 Berkeley Brock and Lenka Hojckova (8-5), junior Aileen Davis and sophomore Emilee Malvehy and sophomore Katarina Reveche and senior Christian Tara had already secured the doubles point for Wake. Malvehy got the Lady Deacs off to a great start in singles play by defeating Daria Petrovic in two straight sets in the third singles spot (6-3, 6-1) to put the Deacs up 2-0. In the fourth singles position, Tara defeated N.C. State’s Neils Barringer (6-3, 6-0) to push Wake Forest up 3-0. Wake Forest freshman Ryann Cutillo added another point to Wake as she dominated Pender Sessoms (6-1, 6-1). Reveche and No.
51-ranked Kulikova also posted victories. Reveche defeated N.C. State’s Diana Mortlock in three sets (6-4, 2-6, 6-2). The No. 51 Kulikova rallied after being down 4-3 in the third set to defeat another ranked opponent in No. 99 Lenka Hojckova (6-4, 2-6, 6-4). It was the Wolfpack’s number two singles player Berkeley Brock who earned N.C. State’s lone point of the match when she squeezed out a victory against Poske after a super tiebreaker (4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 1-0 (10-8)). The match finished with a 6-1 victory for the Lady Deacs over the N.C. State Wolfpack. The Lady Deacs improve their season record to an impressive 10-4. The team will play host to Maryland on Saturday, March 21 at 12 p.m. The Deacs will host the Boston College Eagles on Sunday, March 22 in a second ACC match of the weekend. Both matches will take place outside at Leighton Stadium.
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The Wake Forest men’s golf team won the General Hackler Invitational at the TPC of Myrtle Beach, which was contested March 7-9. The team rallied with a final round 290 to win by 10 shots over ACC rival N.C. State. The Deacons recovered from an opening round 300 with rounds of 291 and 290, the two lowest rounds of the tournament, to finish with a win over a solid 14-team field that included — along with N.C. State — Pepperdine, Coastal Carolina and East Tennessee State. The win came at a critical point in the season for the team, as they had fallen to 41-41 on the year. This year, new NCAA rules prohibit teams from being considered for NCAA tournament berths if they are not above .500 for the season, so the Deacons now find themselves with some breathing room. Three top-ten individual finishers carried the Deacons to the title. Junior Brandon Gielow came back from an opening 77 with a pair of 71s in the final two rounds to finish tied for third overall. “I was very proud of the way he turned it around after a disappointing tournament at the Gator Invitational. He displayed good play all-around throughout the tournament,” Head Coach Jerry Haas said. Also in the top ten were junior Travis Wadkins and senior Dustin Groves. Wadkins led the tournament after two rounds with a 73-70 start before falling back in the final round with a 78 to finish tied for eighth. “Travis may have been nervous, being in that position for the first time in college,” Haas said. “He has shown that he is a very capable player in all conditions.” Groves finished at six-over-par 222 to tie for tenth. “He has shown good senior leadership throughout the year, and his desire to get better is what a coach would hope for in any senior,” Haas said. In order to make a run at the NCAA Tournament, the Deacons will have to work on their consistency and maintaining a positive attitude. Haas believes that his team is peaking at the right time, as they have moved up to 22nd in the national rankings. “We will have to fight our recent inconsistency, but if we have the right attitude, this team has a lot of potential.” Next up the Deacs travel to the Hootie at Bulls Bay March 29-31. They are two time champions of the event.
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have a smaller period with only basketball and hockey. As a result of the WBC, this year’s spring training has started a little bit earlier than it normally does, which is always a good thing. Yes, players have to get prepared sooner, but that is not that big of a deal. Most of the players in the MLB, especially those from Latin American countries, play in winter ball leagues. Players are no more likely to get hurt in the WBC than they are in winter ball. You don’t see teams restricting their players from playing in winter ball, so why should they restrict them from playing in the WBC? I don’t think we should put the WBC in the middle of the season because it would disrupt the flow of the season. Yes, the WBC would have players in the primes of their seasons, but those players would go without a break the entire season, causing fatigue. Not only would the WBC replace any breaks in the season, but how would MLB teams be affected? Usually the ace of the staff pitches right before the break; if the WBC team wants to pitch that pitcher in the first game of the tournament does it ask the MLB team to not throw him? No. Finally you can’t put the WBC at the end of the season because the players are already tired from the entire season and postseason. Playing while tired would cause a higher risk for injury and would not allow the players to play best. Plus, by then, baseball season is fading away and football is taking precedent. I think the best solution to the timing of the WBC is to leave it where it is. It is a fun and exciting event that gives people a reason to watch baseball sooner. So instead of watching basketball 24 hours a day, flip over to the WBC and watch this fantastic international event.
Williams, who is one of the best coaches in the game, recognized that the zone would bother Wake Forest if the Terps could pack in the middle and make it difficult for the Deacs to get inside. Wake shot 25 threes on the game and hit just three. They shot 1-15 in the second half from distance and a season low 29 percent for the game. “They really packed it in and we knew they would do that,” Head Coach Dino Gaudio said. “We have spent a lot of time preparing. We had spent a lot of time with our zone offense. We did not do a good job tonight.” To add insult to injury, sophomore James Johnson, who was the only bright spot for the Demon Deacons with 20 points and 12 rebounds on 9-18 shooting, was held out most of the first half with foul trouble. Johnson picked up two fouls in the first minute and his third early in the first half, forcing him to sit the remainder of the period. The team has shown that it can run with the best when they are firing on all cylinders, but this team has not been good at three-point shooting all year and they usually address that. They get 15 percent of their points from shots beyond the arc, good for second to last in the entire country and they attempt the third least amount of threes in the NCAAs. “We need to work on Wake Forest, Williams said. “We need to do what we do and go back to doing what we did. Wake was taken out of their game even more because of the fact that they
could not get out and run. The Deacs had just six fast break points and usually those easy stops on defense lead to quick points on offense. For now though, the focus needs to come off of the loss and the disappointment of losing as a two seed in the ACC Tournament and back on next week. This team is in the field of 65 and is playing in the NCAA Tournament. “We deserve to be in the tournament and we’re going to prove ourselves,” Johnson said. “This could be an eyeopener for me and all my teammates. None of us take losing lightly. We hate losing and we have a lot of heart. I know we’re going to bounce back, go hard and shock the world.” The loss hurt Wake’s seeding, as they dropped from potentially a three seed (and even a two had they been able to knock off Duke on Feb. 22) to a four seed. They will be playing in Miami at American Airlines Arena on March 20. Their opponent is Cleveland State, 25-10 (12-6). The Vikings defeated the 16th ranked Butler Bulldogs in the Horizon League Championship to earn their first NCAA Tournament bid since 1986. Cleveland State has shown they can play with the best as they already earned a win against Syracuse earlier this season at Syracuse. The Deacs are playing in the tough Midwest bracket, which features twoseeded Michigan State, three-seeded Kansas and the overall one seed in the Tournament, Louisville, who earned their seed with the Big East regular season and tournament titles.
THE OPPONENT : CLEVELAND ST. Horizon League Tournament Champions Record: 25-10, 2-1 against AP top 25 Key wins: Syracuse, Butler Leading Scorer: Forward J’Nathan Bullock, 15.3ppg
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Sophomore James Johnson goes up for a layup against N.C. State earlier this season.
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While students eagerly search for housing for the fall, here are some of the pros and cons of living on or off campus.
By CeCe Brooks | Contributing editor As the “You Choose” posters from Residence Life & Housing have been plastered all over campus, you are most likely working on finalizing your housing situation for next year. For rising juniors and seniors especially, the added possibility of moving off-campus comes into the already intense, chaotic process of housing.
Benefits • It’s a chance to see what living in the real world will be like before graduation. • The possibility of pets. • Not having to deal with University rules. • More privacy. • Can be more cost efficient. • More dining options.
Warnings • Many apartment complexes will charge extra for pets. • Having to drive to school. • Having to pay separate bills for utilities, etc. • Nosy neighbors or bad landlords • Can be difficult if you’re involved in a lot on campus (could be stuck on campus all day).
Popular off-campus choices: Crowne Polo Web site: crownepartners. com (they also have a Facebook page) Prices: 1 bedroom – start at $750 2 bedroom - start at $900 3 bedroom - start at $1,275 Distance: 2.56 miles from campus Amenities: Controlled access entry gate Luxury swimming pool Modern exercise room Computer/study center Personal garages available The Corners Web site: cornersatcrystallake. com Prices: 1 bedroom – starts at $490 2 bedroom – starts at $530 Distance: 1.77 miles from campus Amenities: Sparkling swimming pool with sun deck Lighted tennis courts
Two on-site laundry centers Interior Features High-speed Internet access available Large walk-in closets Ample storage for supplies and equipment Full-size or stackable washer/ dryer connections in two bedroom homes Houses Web site: winstonsalem.craigslist.org Price: Costs can vary extremely with houses depending on location, size, quality, etc. Finding a house: Your best bet for houses is probably simply driving around and looking for “For Rent” signs. Beware of people, especially with nicer houses, who do not want to rent to college students. On-campus options: Even if not moving off-campus, there are still tons of different choices to make in terms of suite, apartment or hall style, location on campus and number of people with whom you want to live. Most rising sophomores do not have the option of living in Polo or Student or North apartments, but for upperclassmen who don’t want to or cannot move off-campus, these residence halls can be good alternatives. The fully-functioning kitchens and the higher probability of a single bedroom are among their perks. Polo or the apartments is also a good transition from dorm-style living.
Benefits Everything on campus is within walking distance. • May be necessary for keeping scholarships . • Little up-keep required on your part. • Known to be a bonding experience with other students. • More in tune with community. • Easier access to on-campus resources such as the library. •
Warnings Very little personal space • Hard for storage. • Depending on location, noise can be an issue • Limited decoration possibilities. • Isolation from Winston-Salem community. • Few or no parking spaces near residence halls. • No pets. •
Nuclear Cooooookie Crisp | Not for the faint of heart
Post-spring break stress may make students a bit scary Austin H. Jones Staff columnist
Ah, friends, it’s time again. That means that, to open, I am going to analyze exactly where we lie on a composite timeline of the school year and of the Roman calendar. It’s the week of the Day of Saint Patrick (may he rest in peace). It’s the week after Spring Break. One sees the typical university student at his finest. He has put off all of his work – professors have graciously assumed that his parents want their tuition’s worth, so they don’t let up at all over the so-called “break” – and is now feeling the weight of making first priority his forays into whatever or
whomever he ended up getting himself into. Currently, I am sitting in the Pit listening to the normally soothing chopping sound of the salad bar ladies manhandling carrots. My ears are usually struck with the simplicity of the sizzling, grease-soaked stoves. But today is different. Today, I don’t find pleasure in any of this. Today, tensions have been raised to the top of Wait Chapel. Stress has skyrocketed as high as the top of the recently planned and developed Space Elevator, which, oddly enough, is going to be built on BB&T Field next summer. I bumped into a girl earlier this week. It was literally like a love tap. I bet it felt like less than an ant crawling on her. Anyway, she went off on me about how I need to watch where I am going because some people have places to get to in one piece. I pictured a blinding green light originating from within her as her face cracked open and split apart
like Agent Smith at the end of the first Matrix. What I should have pictured was myself answering a phone and getting morphed back to the real world, before the girl slapped me because I was staring at her with an idiotic smile on my blissfully unconscious face, which she apparently took to mean I didn’t care at all about what she was saying. Okay, so maybe I didn’t. But, seriously, get over yourselves people. First of all, you shouldn’t care so much about school. Sure, officially you’re a “full-time student,” but that doesn’t mean you spend your entire life worrying about due dates and papers and classes and dumb things like that. It means you spend 32-40 hours a week thinking about it, including class time. If this month were a week, this week would be Sunday afternoon. We’ve crammed all of our work from the weekend (spring break) into the last possible moment, and now we’re tak-
ing it out on everyone else by being short with them. We take it out on everyone else by constantly complaining, by arriving to things purposefully late, mainly because we want to have some control over the timing in our lives, which was something we didn’t have earlier this week when we turned in an application for a summer job three days late. It was something we didn’t have when over the course of the entire week there were only two consecutive free hours in our schedule, and our professor told us we had to have four consecutive hours to finish his take-home test or else it would be a violation of the honor code. Like we have any honor here. Our honor lies in ranting to our friends about how much work our professors have thrown upon us and what little time we have left to complete anything after the insurmountable, unrealistic heap of respectable extracurriculars to which we have alloted.
Basically, what my article boils down to is this: I wrote this in just under an hour, and I have a four hour take-home test to do later today, and I have to meet to prepare a presentation for class tomorrow, and I have to read like eight chapters of the Bible for my religion divisional I put off until this semester, and I think I failed one of my three math tests I had the week before spring break, and I have work at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, class all day, a meeting at 4 p.m., another meeting at 7 p.m., and then literally, like, four other things that are going to keep me occupied until well after midnight; then I’m going to start my Spanish homework. The “we” that you kept hearing/ reading over and over really was the collective we; it is you and me. You’re pissed at me because I’m pissed at you because you’re pissed at me because you’re pissed at everyone. We all need to just get over ourselves. Okay you can laugh now... if you have time.
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He Said | Sex for the opposite sex, same sex and every sex in-between
Clinginess can cause unwanted results Jay Lowrey Staff columnist
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If you read the books, you probably saw this film multiple times in theaters. Now die-hard Twilight fans can actually own the chick-flick that appeals to an audience ranging from squealing teenage girls to their middle aged mothers with a few college girl fans in between. Enjoy the twinkle of Edward’s (Robert Pattinson) golden skin and his Rayban-framed self in the comfort of your own home on March 21.
Top 10 Most Valuable Luxury Brands We see a lot of good labels on our university campus, but which brands pull in the highest revenue world wide? Confess your shopaholic status by counting how many of these you have in your closet. 1. Louis Vuitton 2. Hermes 3. Gucci 4. Cartier 5. Chanel 6. Rolex 7. Hennessy 8. Armani 9. Monet & Chandon 10. Fendi
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As spring break comes to a close, I’m reminded of all of you out there following my advice and trying to find that special someone to date. Maybe you had a great date the Wednesday before spring break, but one of you went home to Oregon and the other went to Aruba for a week long orgy. No matter what the location was, the two of you likely had a whole seven days without any kind of physical contact with each other. For some, this period can mean the end of a budding relationship. In this crazy interconnected world we live in, there are so many ways to communicate. From Facebook to MySpace, text messages to e-mail, the means of
communication are endless. While all these options are great, most of the time in the vulnerable area of a budding relationship, they can become your own worst enemy. As Liz Lemon of 30 Rock fame said, “There are so many ways for boys to NOT call you now.” I’ve seen plenty of my own relationships fall to clingy overcommunication. Perhaps I sent one too many texts or Facebook pokes, but , for whatever reason, lots of boys sensed my insecurity and ran for the nearest exit. At first, I did not really realize I was doing anything wrong. I mean, we both like each other, so why not talk all the time? The main lesson I took from this heartache is that everyone moves at their own pace in the discovery phase of a relationship. While I was knee deep in the ocean of commitment, my boyfriend-to-be was only sticking his toes in. Fortunately, I can help you avoid some of the mistakes that I made. The first step toward overcoming your cling addiction is to admit you have a problem.
No one wants to think of themselves as clingy, but if you are calling your date three times in one hour, sending two or more texts without a response, IMing constantly or pestering him or her in person, then chances are you are pretty darn clingy. Luckily, curing a cling addiction is a pretty simple matter. The first thing to do is establish concrete limits with yourself about how often you will communicate with your love interest. Here are a few rules that I have picked up over the years: Only communicate when you have something to say. I know breaking a nail is pretty dramatic at the time, but is it really important? Make the importance of the message match the intrusiveness of the communication medium. If you just want to say hello, send it in a text. Do not communicate in any way if your original message goes unreplied. This one is super important. If you send a text, do not send another message until you receive a response.
This is an ultimate sign of cling and will almost certainly send bad vibes toward the other person. Getting to the second date can be one of the hardest aspects of dating. I know it has always been one of the hardest periods in any of my relationships. The underlying factor behind cling addiction is self-esteem. Communicating too much tells the other person you don’t have enough confidence in yourself to go a minute without reinforcing the positive feelings of the relationship. So, for next time, remember that confidence and self-esteem are some of the sexiest things you can ever convey.
“He Said” is a bi-weekly column that presents one guy’s perspective on the college sex scene. You may contact him with your feedback or ideas at lowrjs7@ wfu.edu.
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Movie Review | Confessions of a Shopaholic
Girly movie may not be the perfect fit By Samantha Hoback | Staff writer
Check back each week to see what events Student Union is hosting at the university. Mythbusters Lecture Tuesday, March 31 7 p.m. Benson 401 Springfest Week Monday, March 23- Friday, March 27 Check out Student Union’s calendar for a full list of events! Sushi-Making Short Course Tuesday, April 7 To reserve a spot, sign up in the Benson Ticket office
Drink of the Week Spring Fling
Though our spring break is over, March 21 marks the official start of spring. Celebrate the ever warming weather and the blossoming branches with this Spring Fling Drink of the Week. 1 oz. gin 1/2 oz. Chartreuse 1 tbs. lemon juice ice Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass and serve.
We’ve all been there: you see a pair of shoes at Monkee’s that you just can’t live without. You flip through the J.Crew catalog and dog-ear seventy percent of the pages. You go to Hanes Mall to “window shop” and leave with a new pair of sunglasses, a cute new outfit for your date on Friday and another Wake Forest sweatshirt. Shopping is fun. It is therapeutic. It is a way to take a break from school Confessions of a work, hang out with Shopaholic friends and get Starring | Isla Fisher and Hugh away from Dancy campus for Director | P.J. Hogan an afterWho’s it for? | Shopaholics or just noon. girls on a night out L i k e Running Time | 104 min. many of Rating | (out of 5) us, Rebecca Bloomwood loves to shop. Her infatuation with designer handbags, sparkling jewelry and chic dresses is her way of letting go of the stress in her life. However, for Rebecca, retail therapy becomes a serious addiction. Based on the first novel in the popular Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic is a funny, lovable film about Rebecca and her struggle with her shopping obsession. Rebecca, played by Isla Fisher of Wedding Crashers and Definitely, Maybe, is a journalist with an eye for fashion. She shares an apartment with her best friend Suze, played by Krysten Ritter of 27 Dresses, in New York City, the shopping capital of the world. Her room consists almost entirely of a huge closet full of fashionable pieces. When the gardening magazine for which Rebecca works shuts down, she is out of a job and up to her Tiffany earrings in debt. As if $9,000 isn’t enough stress for Rebecca, she is also being harassed by her smarmy debt collector, Derek Smeath, played by Robert Stanton. In order to recover from her financial crisis, Rebecca takes another job as a journalist. Ironically, she begins working as a columnist for a financial magazine after her job application letters are switched in the mail. With the help of her editor, Luke Brandon, played by Hugh Dancy, Rebecca surprises her friends, her family and her-
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Isla Fisher’s bubbly personality carries this retail therapy chick-flick that proves to be about as interesting as buying a new pair of shoes. self by transforming into “The Girl in the Green Scarf,” writing articles in merchandising metaphors under a pseudonym to protect her reputation as a fashionista. Although she ultimately dreams of writing for the fashion magazine Alette, chemistry between Rebecca and Luke emerges and her success with the financial magazine exposes an unexpected outlet for her pent-up retail energy. Getting closer and closer to achieving her goal of working for Alette, Rebecca finds herself coming out of debt but facing a new set of dilemmas which could jeopardize her relationships with Suze, her parents and Luke as well as her international success with her financial column. Also starring Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow and Kristin Scott Thomas, Confessions of a Shopaholic is a fun-loving movie filled with lovable characters and a sweet, although predictable, story.
The film is directed by P.J. Hogan, whose other credits include My Best Friend’s Wedding and the television show Dark Shadows. Despite the amiable characters and the pleasing plot, the film leaves much to be desired. Like many romantic comedies, the story is often cheesy, thin and unforgivably predictable. Luckily, Fisher and Dancy’s performances make up for some of the film’s shortcomings. Their characters have opposite personalities that compliment each other perfectly and add to the simplesity of the film. Confessions of a Shopaholic is a great choice for a girls’ night out. I wouldn’t recommend it for date night despite the romance in the film. Your boyfriend will not be impressed by the fun outfits or myriad of designer names scattered throughout the film, so do him and yourself a favor and save you both from the post movie complaint session.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 B9
Traditions Council| Keeping the old with the new
Trip to original campus celebrates university’s anniversary Elizabeth Garrett Contributing columnist
This year marks the 175th anniversary of Wake Forest. In honor of this milestone, the Wake Forest Traditions Council is sponsoring a day trip this coming Saturday, March 21st to the former site of the University, known as the “Old Campus” which is located right up the road about two hours away in Wake Forest, NC. It has been a goal of the Traditions Council to sponsor such a trip for the past few years, and with the coming of 2009 and subsequently the 175th anniversary of the college’s founding, they felt that it was finally the perfect time to organize an event to pay tribute to our beloved university. The humble history of our school began in 1834. The NC Baptist State Convention purchased a plantation from Dr. Calvin Jones, and this 600 acre swath of land became the birthplace of what is now called Wake Forest University when doors were officially opened on February 3, 1834. Initially known as the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, students and staff alike were required to spend about
half of each day doing manual labor on the plantation, quite a different workload than what students face today. Fortunately for us, this practice of manual labor only lasted five years, and in 1839, the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute became simply Wake Forest College. The College thrived under the leadership of men such as Dr. Samuel Wait, a Baptist Minister who was the first “principal” (aka president) of the college and is the namesake of Wait Chapel. In addition, Dr. William L. Poteat, renowned biologist, advocated the teaching of evolution and eventually won academic freedom for the school. Students excelled, the campus grew, and the town of Wake Forest boomed until 1862 when the overwhelming demands for Confederate soldiers and the use of campus as a makeshift Confederate hospital caused the College to temporarily shut down. Four years later, Wake Forest re-opened and picked up right where it left off. The School of Law was established in 1894 followed shortly thereafter by the establishment of what would become the hallmark of the College, the School of Medicine, in 1902. The peace was soon disrupted when in 1941, the School of Medicine moved to Winston-Salem, NC in order to be associated with the North Carolina Baptist Hospital and thus obtain proper recognition by the American Medical Association. The school was now divided, but it would only be a matter of time before the campus would be reunited in its
soon-to-be home of Winston-Salem. First, however, a war would once again serve as the agent of change for Wake Forest College. In 1942, the first female undergraduate students were welcomed to the College due to the fact that most potential male students were serving their country during WWII. The introduction of female students would not be the only change experienced by the College during the war era, for in 1942 the US Army exercised its military power and used about half of the available space on campus to house the Army Finance School. Soldiers and students mingled, and thus an interesting dynamic was created, the likes of which students today can only imagine. According to “War-Time Invaders”, an article written by Ed Morris director of the Wake Forest Birthplace Museum, “They dined at Miss Jo’s, they hung out in their free time at Shorty’s or Snyder’s Soda Fountain. They even formed a cheering section to route the Demon Deacons’ on to victory at football games. And yes, they fell in love and some would marry college co-eds or local girls.” Just as the Civil War and WWI which preceded it, WWII drew upon the many resources of the College, including tangible space and man power for the military forces. Though war was certainly trying upon campus life, the impact that war-time America made on Wake Forest only serves to enrich the history and tradition of our wonderful and well-established university.
Soon after the chaos of WWII died down, the move which was instigated by the transplantation of the School of Medicine was finally finished in 1946 thanks to the contributions of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Established by the daughter of R. J. Reynolds, Mary Babcock, and her siblings, the Foundation honors the tragically short life of their brother Zachary Smith Reynolds who was murdered at age 20 on the grounds of their “Reynolda” estate. The promise of 350 acres of the estate along with an annual grant of $350,000 (later raised to $500,000), was the motivating force behind the removal of the College from its home of 122 years. News of the move sent waves of shock and fear throughout both the campus and surrounding town. Many worried that without the College, which was undoubtedly the heart and soul of the town, Wake Forest would simply fall apart. Such fears proved unwarranted thanks largely to the acquisition of the College’s original site by the Baptist State Convention and the subsequent establishment of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. So while Wake Forest the town continued to stand on its own two feet, Wake Forest the college blossomed in its new, current and presumably final resting place. Fourteen new buildings were constructed on the new campus between 1952 and 1956. Finally, after a decade of construction and financial planning, the school
opened for the first fall semester of 1956. Throughout the years, the university continued to evolve and grow into the prestigious institution that it is as of today. It gained accreditation and the new title of Wake Forest University in 1967 and later, in 1986, gained autonomy from the Baptist State Convention of NC, although a fraternal relationship still exists between the two institutions. In the past 175 years, our university has witnessed some amazing changes. She has lived through three vicious wars, recognized the equality of women, experienced the effects of the Civil Rights Movement and embraced the growing diversity of the student body, all the while maintaining a sense of honor, dignity and philanthropy. So whether you are about to graduate in May or are counting down the days until your first year of college is over, what better way to fully appreciate our “Mother so dear” than with a trip back in time to the very roots of the place that has or is sure to become part of your own personal legacy. Thanks to Ed Morris and The Wake Weekly, Centennial Edition for providing the information used in the writing of this article. This FREE trip for 50 students will take place on this coming Saturday, March 21st from 8:30am-4:00pm. The limited number of spots are being taken on a first come, first serve basis, so if you are interested, e-mail Sarah Mason at masose6@wfu.edu as soon as possible!
What You Didn’t Know | By Caldwell Tanner
College Couture | Looking good without breaking the bank
Sunglasses always add extra style
Caroline Hallemann Staff columnist
With spring break behind us and summer not all that far away, sunglasses are most definitely the most prominent accessory of the season. To be perfectly honest, I never quite understood how to distinguish what your face is supposed to look like in order to fit into one of the four face shapes (round, oval, square, and heart shaped) so often used in fashion magazines. I feel like the real question worth addressing is: in the realm of Wake Forest’s campus, will you go with the flow and pick one of the popular styles of frames? Or will you go your own way? By far the most popular brand of sunglasses on campus would have to be Ray-Ban wayfarers. In the outside world, wayfarers are often seen as an alternative fashion statement or a nod to pop culture idols such as Andy Warhol, John Lennon, James Dean and Elvis Costello. However, here at Wake Forest, these eclectic glasses have become the mainstream. Worn by hipsters and preps, boys and girls, Greeks and Independents alike, the classic shape of these glasses looks good on pretty much everyone. They come in all different colors from
sleek and sexy black to bright, neon pink. The brand even offers more funky color combinations like red and black, and indigo with cream. Granted, I can’t really hate on wayfarers considering I have a tortoise-shell pair of my own, but if there were one fashion bandwagon I would advise you to jump on, I certainly believe it would be this one. Regardless of personality or face shape, these shades will look good and for a reliable pair of nice glasses, you can’t find a much better price tag coming in at just over 100 dollars. Not to mention that if these are going to be your primary party shades, knock offs in every color under the sun can be found at Urban Outfitters, Forever 21 and Wal-Mart for as little as 5 dollars. So, in short, wearing this type of sunglasses really just means you go with the flow. In 1986, aviators stepped onto the fashion scene with the help of the Tom Cruise in Top Gun. From then on no one could escape the trend, and Wake Forest students are no exception. While not seen nearly as often as the previously mentioned wayfarers, aviators definitely have a strong presence on campus. Coming in mirrored or unmirrored, silver, black or gold, Aviators provide a sassy alternative to the mainstream wayfarers. However, I feel this specific type of glasses requires a certain personality. Not everyone can rock aviators; you have to have the confidence and a bad-ass attitude. Looking like a giant bug has also interestingly become increasingly
popular in recent years. By this, I mean the trend of huge sunglasses on girls is unfortunately prevalent on campus. While some people may use these glasses to hide their true identity, avoid putting on makeup for the day or disguise the signs of a hangover, regardless of purpose, I really just do not like this style of sunglasses. I think it just makes people look silly. Not to mention, many of these excessively large accessories also have a well-known designer label slapped up on it. While I already admitted to splurging on a pair of authentic Ray-Bans, in all actuality, with designer sunglasses the only thing you’re getting for the price is a status symbol. These glasses are often made in the same factories, with the same plastic and hinges as glasses seen at Target, Forever 21 and Wal-Mart. Is it really worth it? On a college budget, I think the best way to approach choosing sunglasses is this: think about a pair you would be happy wearing for several years with all different outfits. Then splurge a little bit. Maybe don’t opt for the 400 dollar Chanel crystal encrusted frames. That might be something you want to ask for as a serious gift. Instead, try an accessory that you will wear for years. It will be worth it to buy something you really want. One last word of advice- if you really want to look “fratty,” never be seen in your shades, whatever style they may be, without your favorite croakies.
BANSHEES WITHOUT PANTS
Rachel Cameron/Old Gold & Black
Campus comedy troupe the Lilting Banshees brought large crowds as they performed with their “Pants Down.” Junior Anna O’Brien presents an Oscar to junior John Track (The Rock) for a mix of Titanic and The Scorpian King.