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VOL. 91, NO. 13

“Covers the campus like the magnolias”

Students found T-shirt business Changes to University New endeavor exhibits thanks ‘Class entrepreneurial mindset of Benson being university students of the Finest’

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By LIza Greenspun | News editor

In thanks to the senior class, the university and Class of the Finest Committee will be holding an “upscale tailgate” for all seniors prior to the last home football game Nov. 17 against N.C. State, said sophomores Jermyn Davis and Sarah Nick, co-chairs of the committee.

“We really just want it to be a gift from the underclassmen to the senior class,” Nick said.

“The whole school is behind this tailgate.”

The event will be held under a tent in the student parking lot at BB&T Field and will feature heavy hors’ doeuvres and alcoholic beverages including beer kegs and wine, free of charge.

Each senior will receive two free drink tickets.

In addition to serving as a ‘thank you’ to the senior class, the goal of Class of the Finest is to offer an opportunity for all seniors to get together as an alternative to Senior Fifth. “(Senior Fifth) doesn’t really fit the image of Wake Forest,” Nick said.

“We don’t want to say ‘don’t drink’, but drinking in a not-so-dangerous manner,” Davis Said.

Class of the Finest is an initiative that began last year.

According to Davis, about 350 seniors attended last year’s event, which was held in Bridger Field House, which was not available this year.

While at first disappointed about the change in location, “It was a blessing in disguise,” Nick said.

“We’re really excited about the tailgate feel.

This is definitely a different mood, but we think it’s going to be successful.”

Davis agreed that the change in location is a good one.

“We are keeping the students with the students,” he said. “It’s so much better.”

This way, seniors will be able to walk from tailgates in the parking lot to the Class of the Finest tent.

This year, Davis and Nick said they are expecting about 450 seniors to go in and out throughout the two-hour gathering.

To provide additional incentives, the first 300 seniors to enter will receive a free T-shirt and other athletic paraphernalia will be given away.

First steps underway in preparation of 2008 renovations to food court

By Liza Greenspun | News editor

By Chantel O’Neal | Staff writer

Who knew that success could be found down a steep and narrow staircase in an unfinished basement?

For two university seniors, Chris Sutton and Bill Brown, that is exactly what happened.

Working out of the basement of the Lacrosse House, Sutton and Brown created Wake Threads, a T-shirt design and printing company.

The shirts are popular for their wit and humor, but also because they connect to students on a more personal level.

They are unique because they focus on

topics that relate to the university and the students.

While it is hard to pin down exactly when Wake Threads began, this business started as an idea and slowly became a reality. “We wanted to make a business making Wake Forest and Winston-Salem-related T-shirts, but just never really got it together to follow through with it until now,” Brown said.

The shirts were first sold at the Student Activities Fair and then from dorm-to-dorm.

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U.S. justice and her husband to teach in Venice

Graphic by Ryan Caldwell Photos courtesy of www.wakethreads.com

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By Molly Nevola | Staff writer

Students protest state policy on homeless shelters

First Baptist’s insurance coverage is also appropriate for what is required, according to Ginny N. Baritt, a Wake Forest alum who works with Advocacy for the Poor.

The Corpening Plaza campout was organized by seniors Lange, Jordan Jones and Richard Roberts as an expression of solidarity with

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg along with her husband, professor of tax law at Georgetown University Martin Ginsburg, will teach a two-week course at the university-owned Casa Artom in Venice, Italy, this upcoming summer.

The Ginsburgs will teach two courses, Comparative Law of Taxation and Personal Autonomy and Equality: A Comparative Perspective, from July 7 to July 18 alongside university professors of law Suzanne Reynolds and Joel Newman, who will then continue teaching the courses from July 21 to Aug. 1.

Justice Ginsburg originally came to the law school in 2005 at the invitation of then Law School Dean Bob Walsh to participate in the series entitled “Conversation With,” a program instituted

by Professor of Law Charlie Rose in an effort to bring lawyers of various interests and careers to act as role models to law students.

Reynolds, a 26-year veteran professor and graduate of the Wake Forest University School of Law herself, Ginsburg said that whenever (former) Dean Walsh was in Washington, D.C., touring the U.S. Supreme Court with law students, Justice Ginsburg would make it a point to meet and converse with the students.

Each time Walsh took students to the capital, Ginsburg would readily make herself available to students. And each time Walsh inquired that she be part of the “Conversation With” program, she declined.

But Walsh kept after her, and finally in 2005, Justice Ginsburg relented, Reynolds said, and was interviewed in the program by Reynolds herself.

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By Robyn Showers | Staff writer A group of 15-20 bundled-up university students sat cross-legged in a circle next to the tents that would serve as their bedrooms for the night.

Though it was a Saturday night, this was no fall break camping trip.

Since Nov. 8, these students have been braving the November cold in protest of Winston-Salem’s new zoning laws, which have forced some 30-50 of the city’s estimated 500 homeless citizens to sleep out in the cold.

“These are people who want to be in the shelters,” senior Eric Lange said.

“They’re actually lining up every night and they’re being sent away because of the restrictions.”

The situation began earlier this year when the Winston-Salem City Council set a 100-person cap on the four current homeless shelters.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Council for the Homeless planned to run a shelter for about 40 people out of First Baptist Church on West Fifth Street.

According to articles in the Winston-Salem Journal, the plan was derailed when First Baptist failed to meet the occupancy fire code for new buildings.

Although the building is an existing

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A new Benson Renovations Committee, headed

by Connie Carson, assistant vice president of campus services and planning, recently began meeting in order to plan for renovations to the Benson University Center Food Court scheduled for summer 2008.

“My goals are to make sure that we get food options that people really, really want,” said senior Whitney Marshall, Student Government president and member of the committee.

Marshall said that some Marshall possible food options being considered include a hibachi grill and more vegetarian options.

While many students have expressed a desire for sushi on campus, Marshall said it is not possible now because health inspectors have only approved sushi to be sold in grocery stores and at restaurants.

Sophomore Sara Elaine Armstrong, member of the Benson Renovation Committee, said the entire Benson Food Court area will be renovated, with the exception of Pizza Hut, which is contracted outside of ARAMARK.

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University students enjoy spending time with each other while in protest. About 20 students have been sleeping outside to protest that the city will not open an emergency homeless shelter. one, its new function as a homeless shelter requires the county to hold it to different standards.

The church would need to install a $100,000 sprinkler system in order to pass inspection. “The irony is that these shelters that are established now don’t have the sprinkler system because they were built before the building code was passed,” Lange said.

This was confirmed by Sonjia Kurosky, the ex-director of Samaritan Ministries.

According to Lange, the sprinkler system is the main obstacle preventing the emergency shelter from opening. If the shelter opened, there would be two monitors awake at all times, “which I think is more effective than sprinkler systems in the event of a fire,”Lange said.

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Sports | B1 Deacons buried in Death Valley Hopes of an ACC Championship all but ended by a 44-10 rout of the Deacs after their trip to Clemson.

Opinion | A7 Bunking Blues Maza argues that Residence Life and Housing’s restrictions on who can stay in a student’s room overnight are unfair.

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Until Nov. 16, the Gamma Delta chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi will have boxes available in buildings across campus to collect new or nearly new (and clean) professional shoes and jewelry, unopened cosmetics, hosiery and briefcases.

Of particular need are size eight shoes and higher.

Pigskin Pigout to occur before last home football game Pigskin Pigout, an annual event sponsored by the Resident Student Association and the Student Activity Fee, will take place near the student parking lot at BB&T Field Nov. 17 before the last home football game against N.C. State.

The event is a tailgate that is open to all students and includes barbecue, games, T-shirts and giveaways. Food will be served free of charge from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. before the 4 p.m. kickoff time.

Study abroad scholarship applications now being accepted The department of German and Russian is accepting applications for the W. D. Sanders Scholarships for intensive language study in Germany or Austria.

The deadline for applications is Nov. 26.

Applications can be obtained from the departmental administrative assistant, Tara Ogletree, in Greene 327.

Honorary degree nominations due as soon as possible Anyone who has a special connection with someone who reflects the values of the university should nominate that person for an Honorary Degree to be awarded at the class of 2008’s Commencement May 19. The nominee could be chosen as the Commencement speaker.

To download an application form, see http:// www.wfu.edu/administration/nomination. html.

Anthony Aston Players to hold play auditions Auditions for the Anthony Aston players production of Neil Labute’s play Bash: Latter-Day Plays will be held Nov. 15-17. The cast is two men and two women, and the performances will be in early February. Auditions are open to anyone at the university.

Auditions will be 5:30-7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 and 4-6 p.m. Nov.16.Callbacks will be 7-9 p.m. Nov. 16. Scripts are available for perusal in Scales 219.

For more information or to set up a different audition time, e-mail Rebecca Cannon at cannre5@wfu.edu.

Eastern European Film Series to continue with Kontroll The Eastern European Film Series continues Nov. 18 with Kontroll (2003, 106 minutes).

Winner of the Prix de les Jeunes Award at Cannes in 2004, this Hungarian romantic thriller and dark comedy takes place entirely underground in the Budapest subway, as a variety of characters race against time and their surroundings to find one another before they’re found themselves.

All screenings, which are held in conjunction with HIS 311, are free and feature English subtitles.

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Sudanese Lost Boy speaks about his life

By Haowei Tong | Contributing writer

Wake Forest students and faculty sat in rapt attention as Sudanese Lost Boy Gabriel Chol imparted a stimulating account of his life Nov. 9 in Pugh Auditorium.

“I am so happy to share my story with you,” Chol said, “and within my house and in the street.”

Born in Bentiu, Sudan, Chol was forced into the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, a secular rebel group, at 6 years old.

He served until he was wounded, at which point he moved to Kenya to recover under the care of Catholic nurses.

Chol spent the next four years of his life in Kenya, dedicated to teaching young boys.

In 2000, Chol moved to the United States.

In addition to studying at UNC-Charlotte, working as technical support at TJ Maxx and beginning to write a book, Chol has traveled to Cuba and returned to Sudan.

One of Chol’s top priorities, however, is maintaining the national network of Lost Boys.

Many of the men were initially displaced to Ethiopia.

Now residing in states from Michigan to Texas, these kindred spirits are among Chol’s closest friends.

And as Chol said, these men are “not actually lost,” but united in their uniquely devastating experiences and motivation to carry on. “Lost Boys,” Chol said, is merely “political terminology.”

In regard to international response to the ongoing genocide, Chol said, “Everyone is talking everywhere, but the issue of Darfur is not one we can solve at one time.”

He also said that sanctions do not help and, “There is something behind the closed door – it has to do with oil.”

Though jaded and strongly indisposed to the War in Iraq, Chol maintains that he enjoys the military.

During his return to Sudan, in fact, Chol served briefly in the army despite the tumultuous impact that military experience has had on his life.

“It is hard to carry a gun, to live in the jungle,” Chol said.

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Gabriel Chol shares his amazing story about being a “Lost Boy” in Sudan. His speech was part of the campaign to promote Genocide Awareness Week.

“Sometimes I walked for two months, but I had no other choice.”

He revealed few but nonetheless harrowing details about life as a boy soldier.

He spoke of the anguish of watching “my people die in front of me.”

“It was a stark contrast to hearing (reports from Darfur) on the news,” senior Alec Lovett said of Chol’s ominous message.

In fact, the audience was moved to action, donating more than $250 to Dollars for Darfur and participating in a letter-writing campaign to North Carolina senators Richard Burr and Elizabeth Dole.

The lecture was coordinated by students in the

History of Modern Genocide class, taught by Kent McConnell, lecturer of history.

Chol’s address was just one part of a multi-faceted campaign to promote Genocide Awareness Week.

According to sophomore Rhianna Conley, the students also took trips to local schools and churches, a second element of the class’s project.

At the lecture, McConnell’s students encouraged the audience to join STAAG, Students Taking Action Against Genocide, to stay informed and to be proactive.

Junior Cliff Archey said, “Wake’s finally doing something outside our little world.”

Grad School to host ‘Christmas Cheer’ for children

By Jordan Brewster | Staff writer

Santa and graduate students will help deliver “Christmas Cheer” to local children Dec. 8.

The Wake Forest Graduate School Association and some local businesses are helping to sponsor the event, which will be responsible for bringing together the community in order to help children-in-need during the holiday season.

The event is called Christmas Cheer and during the past six years, it has taken over 240 underprivileged kids on shopping sprees at the Target located on University Parkway.

Christmas Cheer will take place from 7-11 a.m. Dec. 8.

The Winston-Salem Jaycees, Target and the Salvation Army started the event over six years ago and it has continued annually to great success.

In the past three years, the Graduate

The volunteers will also help deliver School Association has become more involved. This year they are helping the presents later in the month.

Local restaurants like Panera Bread, to co-host the event, which entails Krispy Kreme and raising money and McDonalds will awareness as well as donate breakfast “The best part of the day is volunteering.

Each of the chilwhen the kids first show up. for the event, which will be dren will receive a $150 Target Gift They are so excited, they just complementary to go crazy. ” the kids and their Card to buy Christfamilies. mas gifts for their Jennifer Kiger Santa (played by family and themGraduate Student Associate a graduate student) selves. member will also join the Volunteers from crowd at Target, the graduate schools which will be along with members of the Jaycees will escort the chil- closed to the public that morning.

Each child will have an opportunity dren.

The escorts will help the kids pick to talk with him, sit on his lap and out gifts for their families and friends, get a picture taken with him.

Jennifer Kiger, a molecular genetwhile making sure they also get someics graduate student and member of thing for themselves.

There will also be a place where the the Graduate Student Association has been helping out at the event for the kids can help wrap the presents.

past three years.

Of the annual event, Kigel said “The best part of the day is when the kids first show up. They are so excited, they just go crazy.”

Each year around $8,000 must be raised to fund the event.

While they have already raised over $3,000, the GSA is still looking for donators as well as volunteers.

They are also extending a welcome to any university undergraduates who would like to help out during the event.

“We are Wake Forest students,” Kiger said. “Pro Humanitate is our motto too.”

“We want to add community service as part of Graduate School Association as professionals in the community.”

For more information on how to donate or volunteer, e-mail Jennifer Kiger at jekiger@wfubmc.edu.

POLICE BEAT Alcohol and Drug Violations • During a security check Nov. 5, University Police heard loud music coming from a lounge in Poteat House and found 21 underage students drinking.

Information about the incident was provided to Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services.

• University Police noticed a student walking unsteadily on the Quad Nov. 8.

The officer smelled a faint odor of alcohol and determined that the student had been drinking and was under the age of 21.

Information about the incident was provided to the dean of student services.

Theft • Cash and checks valued together at $1,700 were reported stolen from an unsecured desk in a locked office in Miller Center between Oct. 30 and Nov. 1.

There were no signs of forced entry to the office.

• Two 12-packs of batteries valued at $24 were reported stolen from an unsecured desk in a locked office in Reynolda Hall between Nov. 2 and Nov. 5.

There were no signs of forced entry to the office.

• Cash totaling $160 was reported stolen between 5:30 p.m. Nov. 5 and 9 a.m. Nov. 6 from a locked desk in a locked office in Benson University Center.

The desk drawer was forced open, but there were no signs of forced entry to the office doors.

• A backpack containing a laptop computer, charger, headphones and books valued together at $1,250 was reported stolen between 9:15 p.m.

Nov. 7 and 10:15 a.m. Nov. 8 from a lounge in Bostwick Residence Hall.

Miscellaneous • University Police were called by the WinstonSalem Police Department to assist with complaints Nov. 9 from1121 Barclay and Nov. 10 about loud parties adjacent to campus at 1253 Brookwood.

In both instances, the crowds dispersed by the time campus police arrived, and no citations were issued.

Information about both incidents was provided to the dean of student services.

• During a security check Nov. 10, University Police heard loud music coming from a room in Luter Residence Hall.

When the officer knocked on the door, no one would answer at first, and then none of the 10 people in the room would provide identification cards or say whose room it was.

After students eventually gave police their ID cards, information about the incident was sent to the dean of student services.

Property Damage • The driver’s side rear-view mirror was knocked off a student’s car, causing an estimated $100 in damage, while it was parked on Jasper Memory Lane between 8 a.m. Nov. 2 and 12 p.m. Nov. 3.

• A student’s vehicle sustained an estimated $500 in damage when someone threw a bottle through the window of the left rear door while it was parked in Lot H between 10 p.m. Nov. 9 and 6:42 p.m.

Nov. 11.

University Police responded to 41 calls from Nov. 5-11, including 15 incidents and investigations and 26 service calls.

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Homeless: Students protest new zoning rules Continued from Page A1

the many homeless people with whom they have become friends through their Saturday tradition of serving meals to the homeless.

Since last February, they and other students have been serving lunch to the homeless on Patterson Avenue between two of the city’s shelters, The Bethesda Center and Samaritan Inn. “We started lamenting the fact that often at Wake Forest, inside ‘the bubble,’ it’s hard to experience what’s going on outside of it,” Lange said.

“We’d all done volunteering at different places, but wanted to have a more personal connection, so at some point we just decided to make a bunch of sandwiches, bring them down to where the homeless shelters are, go out, get out of Lange our cars, and ask people, ‘Do you want some hot chocolate? Do you want a sandwich?’”

According to Lange, the experience has expelled many stereotypes he and the others originally had about the homeless.

“The basic idea is that every homeless person is your typical skid row bum who doesn’t speak English or doesn’t have teeth — and that’s just not the case,” Lange said.

“To stereotype any population like that is detrimental.”

In fact, an estimated one in four homeless people are veterans, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

Others are often in a transitory period of life, according to senior Paul Smith, due to medical bills, debt or unexpected layoffs.

“Just acknowledging that they’re there says a lot,” sophomore Duabhav Lee said.

“People automatically assume that they just need their fix for the day or they need money for alcohol, and that really stops us from helping the ones that are really in need.”

Lee and Lange said that helping the homeless doesn’t necessarily begin with one’s wallet.

“What’s more important is sitting down and talking with somebody. If you have five or 10 minutes to just sit down with them and hear their story, that will really change you.”

While many of these students have committed to spending every night on Corpening Plaza until the city allows the emergency shelter to open, many others have been stopping by, bringing coffee and generally supporting the students’ efforts.

“We’re Wake students, so we have papers, we have tests, we have dodge ball games to go to, so some nights people just can’t make it,” Lange said.

“Anyone who wants to come out and join us is totally welcome to come. Anyone who wants to just come and experience this for a couple of hours before going back and writing their paper or whatever, they’re completely welcome.”

While the students plan to stay out in the cold until Winston-Salem’s homeless have warm places to sleep, Lange and Lee said the emergency overflow shelter is only “a symptom of a greater issue.”

“The overall issue is, even if our efforts to raise awareness leads to the ordinance being lifted or the building being used as an emergency shelter, there are still homeless people out there who are not accounted for,” Lee said.

“And the winter months are just getting colder.

It’s what, 39 right now, and I’m, like, shaking — and we’re in layers.”

Finest: Reception to honor seniors Continued from Page A1

In addition, each senior who attends Class of the Finest will receive a wristband to sit in a special roped-off section of the stadium designated for seniors.

Nick said that she has been very happy with the willingness of many university members to help make the Class of the Finest the best possible.

“If we did this at any other school, I don’t think the people involved would be so passionate about it,” she said.

While this is the second year that Class of the Finest will be taking place before the last home football game of the season, Davis and Nick agreed that this year will determine whether or not it becomes a lasting tradition.

“This is the launch pad for making it a tradition,” Davis said.

Sponsors of the event include the Deacon Club, the Department of Athletics, Student Government, Mike Ford director of student development and Ken Zick, vice president of student life, who will be providing the alcohol.

Class of the Finest will begin at 2 p.m. and run until the 4 p.m. kickoff time.

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A (Near) Perfect Circle

Future lawyer discovers career goals through work in judicial system

By Jae Haley | Managing editor Some things are conflicting, some are perplexing and still yet, some are flat out surprising.

Junior Charles Gibson’s personality is a summation of all three, producing a vivid and often startling mosaic of images and anecdotes that just don’t seem to add up in the neat way one would prefer.

Maybe he wants to surprise people.

After all, Gibson always resisted walking the career path his parents had envisioned for him.

They pushed him toward math and science; Gibson chose music. Then, when his parents suggested the idea of going into law, Gibson opted for anything but.

Two years later: another Gibson turnaround.

After serving on the university’s judicial system’s Board of Investigators and Advisors, an organization of which he is now coordinator, Gibson decided law was actually the right fit for him.

“I was so resistant at first because that’s what people expected me to do, and I wanted to go against the grain,” he said.

As coordinator of the BIA, Gibson is the crux of an organization that seeks to uphold the honor code at the university.

Dealing primarily with students who have been accused of various academic honor, social honor or alcohol and drug related infractions, Gibson and the rest of the BIA assist fellow students as they proceed through the judicial system, or research a case in order to supply the Honors and Ethics Council with relevant facts in preparation for a hearing.

Gibson is indirectly or directly involved with the approximately 400 cases that pass through the university’s judicial system in a year.

Beets and Celery Sure, Gibson and law go together like peas and carrots, but everything else is still a veritable hodgepodge, a grab bag, beets and … celery? Indeed, Gibson is hard to digest.

Consider his passion for music — classical and Christian gospel rank among his favorites — and his career goal of becoming a lawyer. So great is his love of music that he majored in music performance rather than the typical political science, history or English.

A musically gifted lawyer even sounds dissonant to the ear.

His opinion on the notorious “Wake Forest bubble” is equally as unusual compared with others’: most students complain about being suffocated by the close quarters but Gibson somehow finds a way to breathe.

The university encompassed a host of ideas unfamiliar to Gibson, who attended high school in metropolitan Atlanta, a city where more than 60 percent of the population is African American, according to the 2000 U.S. census.

“I’m not used to being the minority,” Gibson said, who is half AfricanAmerican and half Mexican.

“I came here to put myself out of my comfort zones.”

This desire to see the world from different angles is perhaps the one thread that unites Gibson’s qualities and ideas that are seemingly at odds with one another, and the one which defines Gibson’s curious yet purposeful personality.

According to the judicial administrator Martha Pyle White, Gibson was born to be analytical.

His ability to challenge ideas, to seek the truth and still be comfortable in the unexpected is precisely what makes Gibson so surprising and unique among his peers, and what allows him to be a successful coordinator of the Board of Investigators and Advisors.

A life in the law Two years of involvement with the BIA rekindled Gibson’s desire to pursue law and become a lawyer, but his interest was initially sparked by his uncle, an assistant dean for Columbia University’s School of Law. Gibson remembered traveling to Georgetown University to see his uncle graduate from law school, and there, being immersed in the world of his future life’s passion.

“There were law books all around in my uncle’s apartment,” Gibson said.

“I wanted to be a judge so bad, to wear a black robe and tell people they have to pay money and go to jail.”

Gibson began to cultivate his interest in law during high school, serving on his school’s honor council for two years. His involvement in the BIA since his freshman year cemented his decision to pursue a career in law.

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Junior Charles Gibson serves as the coordinator of the university’s judicial system’s Board of Investigators and Advisors though he was initially resistant to pursue a law career.

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Though Gibson aspires to go to law school after graduation, he is majoring in music and is currently preparing for his senior year recital.

Gibson was appointed as the BIA’s “They have to be ready for the coordinator after serving just one year worst.” as an advisor.

Gibson has seen too many stuAs coordinator, he trains new mem- dents shocked by a verdict because bers and oversees the adviser tried the 14 other advisto protect him or ers, assigning them her from the pos“I’m not used to being the to cases, all while sible negative outminority. I came here to put still serving as an comes. investigator and He pointedly myself out of my comfort advisor. avoids what he calls zones.”

Serving in a leadthe “sugar-coating” Charles Gibson ership role, Gibson technique. “The Junior is poised to live out more you sugar his idea of ethics. coat, the more you “He believes stray from what we’re all models for you need to get at,” people that come after us,” said Susan he said. “The more direct I am, the Borwick, a faculty member on the quicker we get things done.”

Honors and Ethics council.

Honesty is just as important a virtue Dressed in blue jeans and a plain, for the advisee as well. “(Gibson) wants grey T-shirt, one wouldn’t suspect students to be forthright about what such an unassuming appearance to they’ve done, but supports them at the be behind such a powerful group, the same time,” said Charlene Cherutti, members of which greatly influence associate dean of judicial affairs. whether or not a convicted student Gibson said getting a student to be will be suspended or expelled for his completely honest is often a struggle, or her transgression. especially if the truth is grounds for Gibson’s T-shirt is new, purchased severe punishment from the univerfrom the apparel shop at West Point sity.

Academy where he recently attended But, he said, a BIA member’s ultithe annual National Conference on mate job is to find the truth in order Ethics and America. to represent the case to the judicial Gibson speaks and acts as if he’s been panel from the perspective of the touched by an itch, constantly fidg- student. eting in his seat and sneaking quick To do so effectively requires an glances about the area to assess any incredible amount of empathy, somechanges in his situation. thing that Gibson demonstrates in His hands, never content resting in nearly everything he does, and which his lap, are usually in the air, molding is exemplified in his skillful yet sympait to express what his words cannot. thetic treatment of the various sexualGibson’s body language is that of a assault related cases he has worked person always anticipating someone with in the past. or something new and surprising in When approaching a case, Gibson the very next minute. said he asks himself how he would Quite simply, Gibson wants to act, have reacted had he been in the stuand is always ready to do so. dent’s situation, though he said it was “It’s not enough to have the belief,” a challenge to think in such a way Borwick said. “You have to live it, and when he first became a BIA member, he understands that.” especially because many of his advisees were of a different race and socioecoIn the heart of the matter nomic background than he.

In approaching any case, Gibson However, Gibson said his experifollows two main principles: be direct ences at the university have allowed and truthful, but also empathetic with him to overcome the immediate difthe advisee. ferences.

“I tell the student if it looks bad “Even though we’re very different, and that this is what they can expect,” the thing that ties us all together and Gibson said. the moral and ethical principles that

everyone adheres to,” Gibson said.

Sophomore Ashleigh Parker, another BIA member and a close friend of Gibson’s, said he constantly works to instill this sense of empathy into the board.

“We’re all students here,” Parker said. “We don’t have to target someone just because they’ve made a mistake.”

To have knowledge from every students’ perspective is a goal Gibson constantly strives toward — this year he applied to be a facilitator for PREPARE, an on-campus group that spreads awareness of rape prevention and response, in order to better understand the minds of the victims and perpetrators of sexual assault cases, both of whom he has dealt with as an investigator and advisor.

“I felt like I needed to understand both sides,” Gibson said.

For a BIA member, a deep understanding of the person is essential in preventing one of the most serious pitfalls facing one in such a position.

“It’s so easy to assume someone is guilty; it’s so easy to judge a person,” Parker said.

Gibson tells the BIA that judging, however, is not in the job description, and that biases make an investigator and adviser less effective.

“He told us we can’t have preconceived notions about these people,” Parker said. “That’s not our goal; our goal is to help people as best we can.”

Shedding any personal biases or prejudices is so important to Gibson because that’s precisely why he chose to attend the university.

“I was ignorant myself, and I stereotyped,” he said. “I came here to understand those ideas that I’ve never had to experience before.”

It seems, then, that everything came full circle for Gibson at the university: he rediscovered his passion for law, dispelled many of his prejudices and he found the BIA, the outlet through which he accomplished both.

“It’s a perfect place for him to be,” Borwick said.

Some things actually do end up neatly is Gibson’s life, and that’s probably the biggest surprise of all.

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Hemoglobin research opens treatment possibilities New discoveries by university, National Institute of Health could treat sickle cell disease

By Claire O’Brien | Contributing writer Researchers from the university, the National Institute of Health and several other institutions have discovered a chemical process that has opened up new possibilities for the treatment of heart attacks, stroke and sickle cell disease.

In an online paper published in early November, senior author and professor of physics Daniel Kim-Shapiro and senior author Mark Gladwin, the chief of the vascular medicine branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, explained their newfound understanding of how nitrite could be converted to nitric oxide within hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the molecule that carries oxygen in the blood.

Kim-Shapiro has been working on hemoglobin for the past 14 years; his focus has been on sickle cell hemoglobin since he was a graduate student at UC-Berkeley. “I wanted to apply my knowledge of physics to a health-related problem, hoping I could make a difference,” he said.

Kim-Shapiro’s interest in nitric oxide began

during his first year at the university during his work with Bruce King, professor of chemistry, as they studied the relationship between nitric oxide and hemoglobin and the role this relationship plays in sickle cell disease.

In 2003, in a project led by Gladwin, a discovery was made that nitrite is a vasodilator, which means it increases blood flow.

They hypothesized that hemoglobin was the agent of reducing nitrite to the vasodilator nitric oxide.

There was one small problem with their conclusion – nitric oxide reacts quickly within hemoglobin, too quickly for it to escape into the bloodsteam.

“So how could nitrite be converted to nitric oxide?” Kim-Shapiro said.

A team of 17 people from several institutions and countries have been studying this problem for the last four years.

The ability of hemoglobin to convert nitrite to nitric oxide has long confounded scientists. The process is invisible to electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, currently the most advanced analysis technique available.

But four years of hard work have led the team to conclude that nitric oxide gets out of the red blood cell and into the blood stream by an intermediate species dinitrogen trioxide (N2O3).

Because nitrite plays an important role in studies of health problems such as sickle cell disease, stroke

Other Contributors to the Research: Professors and scholars: • • • • • • • • • •

Swati Basu, research assistant professor of physics at Wake Forest University Rozalina Grubina, Howard Hughes Scholar in Gladwin’s NIH laboratory S. Bruce King, professor of chemistry at Wake Forest University Jinming Huang, research assistant professor of chemistry at Wake Forest University Xiaojun He, postdoctoral fellow in physics at Wake Forest University Zhi Huang, postdoctoral fellow in Gladwin’s NIH laboratory Jeanet Conradie, senior lecturer at the University of the Free State in South Africa Rakesh Patel, associate professor of pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Neil Hogg, associate professor of biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee Abhik Ghosh, professor of chemistry at the University of Tromsø in Norway

WFU graduate students: •

Ivan Azarov and Anne Jeffers

WFU undergraduate and visiting students: •

Atul Mehta, Ryan Seibert, Alice Jiang

and gastric diseases, among others, this discovery will help in the search for treatments.

Sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease caused by abnormal hemoglobin, currently affects millions of people throughout the world. Kim-Shapiro, who is listed as a co-inventor on a government

patent for using nitrite to treat cardiovascular conditions, hopes that by increasing understanding about nitrite’s actions, his team’s research will help in the development of new and more effective therapies for patients with sickle cell anemia and other conditions.

Benson: Suggestions wanted for Food Court renovations Continued from Page A1

Armstrong said. Rather, food items are stored on the fifth floor of the building and transported between floors using According to Marshall, other con- a trolley that moves between floors, siderations in these beginning stages located where most would assume a of the planning process include a kitchen exists behind the actual food new and improved smoothie station, stations. the preservation Armstrong said and revamping of that while Shorty’s Shorty’s as well as a will be preserved “The goal is to improve the meal plan option for during the renovaBenson Food Court to better suit tion of Benson, it is Benson.

One possibility for also part of a longerstudents, faculty and staff.”

Shorty’s, Armstrong term campus master Christina Chauvenet said, is to build a plan that will look Senior kitchen into the into the futures of campus hang out so Campus Grounds that it can be open and Starbucks. as a late-night food option.

“The goal,” said senior Christina However, logistics for such a change Chauvenet, another member of the have not yet been studied. committee, “is to improve the Benson In fact, there is not even a kitchen Food Court to better suit students, facbehind the Benson Food Court area, ulty and staff.”

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A new Benson Renovations Committee recently began discussing options to improve the Benson University Center Food Court. These renovations could include a meal plan option for Benson.

Marshall mentioned that outside companies can be brought into Benson, such as TGIFridays, provided that they have a contract with ARAMARK. As the committee is very interested in receiv-

ing student input, Marshall said that all students should receive constituent e-mails from their legislators.

There will also be a poster in Benson on which students can write what they

currently do and do not like about Benson.

Any suggestions or comments should be sent to Marshall at marswa4@wfu. edu by Nov. 20.

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Threads: Start-up aspires to expand into original business Continued from Page A1

Each shirt is individually made using a printing method called silk-screening.

First, the design is sketched onto a silk screen, and then it is cut out by hand to make a reusable stencil. “Every shirt we make, we are physically putting the ink on,” Sutton said. “They are made one-by-one.”

This procedure, depending on how detailed the design is, can take up to three or four hours. “It is an artistic process, not a form of manufacturing,” Brown said.

Because every shirt is individually made, there may be slight differences, but according to Brown this just adds character to the shirt.

Sutton creates the majority of the T-shirt ideas, while Brown focuses on the actual artwork.

They both utilize their talents and abilities, and in the end they seem to balance each other out.

The end result is an original, creative T-shirt. “We each do our part, but we collaborate on the actual design,” Sutton said.

Approximately 100 T-shirts have been sold so far. The most popular design is the Che Deacon, which is available online.

Although there are currently only six designs, several others are in the process of being made.

Some of the future ideas include a holiday themed shirt, as well as one about Senior Fifth in reference to the annual tradition at the last home football game.

Wake Threads will also produce specialized shirts for groups or organizations.

“We will work with them to come up with a design, but we like doing our own thing too,” Brown said.

Groups that they have already made shirts for include Wake Radio, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the art and literary magazine Three to Four

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Seniors Chris Sutton and Bill Brown mull over a design as they create one of their original products. So far, approximately 100 T-shirts have been sold by the student-run, student-focused company.

Ounces. They have also received orders for T-shirts it will not only grow, but expand. “We would love already carries two lacrosse teams’ T-shirts. to be made solely for groups of friends. to be a venue for groups to design and sell their According to the Web site, Wake Threads is “for Wake Threads is willing to work with a group shirts on our Web site,” Sutton said.

Wake Forest students, by Wake Forest students.” or individual to create a shirt that fulfills what is This would allow university students to easily Wake Threads is more than just a business; it is wanted. The relationship is much more personal purchase shirts that support an organization or an opportunity for Sutton and Brown. than it would be with any other business, according team. Both Wake Threads and the related organizaIt is a chance for them to take what they have to the students. The vision for Wake Threads is that tions would gain a profit as a result. The Web site learned and apply it in a real world situation.

Ginsburg: Justice to teach class focusing on comparing US, Canadian policies

Continued from Page A1 She and the deans of the law school discussed the summer programs at length and at some point after 2005, she was offered a teaching position for the summer program in Venice, Reynolds said.

The law school’s summer program admits both Wake law students and those from other schools, depending on the room available. Students in the program take courses with students at the University of Venice, and all courses are held at the University of Venice. Next summer, the Ginsburgs will have housing separate from Casa Artom itself, but most of the students and faculty will stay in the house,

which overlooks the Grand Canal. tion,” Reynolds said. Reynolds said that when Reynolds said that she is she was in law school in the looking forward to the course 1970s, Justice Ginsburg was a that she will be teaching with “To be able to not only sit in her lawyer for the American Civil Justice Ginsburg, who will Liberties Union, litigating cases classroom ... but also to teach compare the U.S. Constitution that established sex discriminawith her, is an experience bewith the Canadian Charter of tion as a violation of the equal Rights and Freedoms as well as protection clause of the Conyond my wildest dreams.” the European Convention on stitution.

Suzanne Reynolds Human Rights.

“These were cases that would Professor of law “We will be comparing varichange my life and the lives of ous treatments of things like all women,” Reynolds said. “To family privacy issues, abortion, be able to not only sit in her affirmative action and employment discrimina- classroom, as she discusses these and other cases,

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Next year, Reynolds will be running for the North Carolina Supreme Court and will be missing campaign events in July.

“She has been my hero since I have first studied law, and now, to teach with her Reynolds is good fortune that I don’t deserve, that I am so pleased and humbled to accept,” Reynolds said.

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Dorm visitation policies seriously misguided

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hough the visitation restrictions for members of the opposite sex have been on the books for years, there has been recently discussion among students about this rule, mostly because it has been enforced more than in past years and some students have been shocked that these restrictions are being followed to the letter of the law. The rule states that members of the opposite sex cannot be in a room together between 2 a.m. and 10 a.m. on weekdays and, while visitation is permitted on weekends, “cohabitation” or sleeping in the same room is not.

To address the first part of the rule, the objections are obvious. Students may wish to study together, drop off a book, share breakfast or watch Good Morning America, but this would simply not be allowed.

The second restriction involving weekend “cohabitation” is easy to get around. If you don’t sleep together, you won’t violate the rule. So just have sex, then sleep in the hallway or stumble back to your own room.

All joking aside, these rules are outdated and ridiculous.

Is this truly about roommate consideration or is it just a holdover from our Baptist roots, a way to legislate morality and keep kids apart and sheltered from the sordid affairs that go on in the wee hours of the morning? We’ll all just have to start hooking up in the afternoons.

If this is truly about roommate consideration, it hardly seems likely that having such rules on the books is necessary.

New roommates, especially those who do not know each other, are constantly forced to learn to communicate

with one another and to make decisions that will be mutually beneficial to both parties.

We value the fact that in most cases university officials choose to treat students as adults.

However, this policy paints the resident advisers and Residence Life and Housing in a decidedly parental light.

Having the television on in the evening, playing music at night, talking on the phone in bed or waking up early are all just as disruptive to a sleepy roommate as having another person in the room.

However, these issues can be resolved simply and maturely by roommates and do not require university rules about lighting and television use.

Furthermore, the rule is clearly directed at male-female couples because it makes no mention of having visitors of the same sex in the room.

The rule is hypocritical. If it is supposed to keep roommates from disturbing one another, why are only opposite-sex pairings targeted?

To put a more serious note on the matter, this goes far beyond student indignation at being told who can and cannot be in their rooms.

It’s just another reason why upperclassmen choose to move off campus.

While the rules do not apply to those in the Polo Residence Hall and Student Apartments, there are plenty of upperclassmen still living on the Quad, many in singles.

The university’s Strategic Plan listed building community as a primary goal and bringing more students to live on campus as one way of achieving this goal. But in order for students to feel vested in their community, they have to like the environment they are living in.

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Both columns wrong on Starr

Christina Chauvenet Guest columnist

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fter reading the heated editorials about the events surrounding the Ken Starr speech, I felt disappointed by the arguments made by senior Bryan Davis Keith (“GSSA poorly represented at Starr speech”) and sophomore Luke Britt and senior Kelly Chauvin (“Speaker not worth university’s money”) in the Nov. 8 Old Gold & Black. Actually, disappointed isn’t the right word; I was actually mad that the two parties had made such fervent arguments that were both so contradictory.

Let me start with Keith’s. Keith argued that the person who stated that Starr was not worth her tuition dollars was out of line and poorly represented GSSA. He claimed that GSSA should respect the right of College Republicans to bring speakers to campus and should be tolerant of differing viewpoints. In this respect, I completely agree with Keith. Regardless of individual viewpoints, members of the Wake Forest community should treat other organizations (and their guests) with respect. Such a comment is blatantly disrespectful. However, Keith goes on to completely refute his point. Instead of objectively stating that despite personal bias he did not object to GSSA’s actions regarding the annual drag show he states, “I have a strenuous objection to school monies being used to facilitate a means for the homosexual community of Wake Forest to drink booze and watch cross-dressers do whatever it is they do, regardless of where the proceeds go (there are other ways to fundraise for charities). But do I show blatant disrespect to the members of said organization and their invited guests because of how they spend their funds? No.” True, Keith did not go to a GSSA event and disrespect the organization, yet the belittling language regarding their drag show is equally disrespectful. Keith’s words should be condemned for their intolerance just as he condemned GSSA.

Now onto the Britt/Chauvin piece.

Like the opposition speaker at the Starr speech, Chauvin and Britt are both identifiable members of GSSA. In their column, they claimed that Starr was not worth the university’s money and expressed concern that the Students Activities Fee was used to foot the $10,000 bill.

Firstly, it is important to point out that no, the money did not come out of the College Republican’s $2,000 annual budget. Yet their budget comes from the Student Budget Advisory Community; in other words, under whatever name, the money still comes from the university. The fact that Chauvin and Britt did not agree with Starr’s stance does not give them the right to say that the university wasted money on bringing Starr to campus.

While I do not agree with the politics of John Edwards, I was supportive of his campus appearance last spring because bringing prestigious figures to campus serves to advance Wake Forest on a national level. Despite political leanings, all students should want to promote events that will bring attention to Wake Forest.

Obviously Starr is a recognizable national figure, but he also is extremely credible as a legal scholar, being the dean of Pepperdine Law School.

Chauvin and Britt send a clear message with their column: we disagreed with the speaker, and therefore we should not have spent the university’s money on him. Chauvin and Britt’s opposition to Starr goes against the principals on tolerance that GSSA so proudly promotes.

To conclude, what exactly does it mean to be tolerant? It means not discriminating against others based on differing viewpoints. Tolerance means being tolerant of those who are intolerant of you. Neither Keith’s condescending comments toward GSSA nor Chauvin and Britt’s criticism of the university funding Starr’s speech represented this kind of tolerance.

Christina Chauvenet is a senior political science major from Winston-Salem.

L E T T ER S Too much money spent on Starr speech

As individuals on opposite ends of the political spectrum, we, the writers of this letter to the editor, agree on very little.

Impressively we share the following conclusions in response to “Speaker not worth university’s money” and “GSSA poorly represented at Starr speech” (Nov. 8).

First, the $10,000 paid for Ken Starr’s appearance was poorly spent chiefly because the event was indiscreetly under-attended.

College Republicans did a fair job publicizing this speaker, thus the small

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audience, at most 5 percent of the student population, was reflective of a generally apathetic undergraduate body.

This sum, however, could certainly have been allocated for a number of “better” causes, like Campus Kitchen.

While the Wake Forest community consistently demonstrates aptitude, we also neglect our pro humanitate motto on a frequent and regular basis. Many of us indulge ourselves with designer shoes, electronics, alcohol and sexual gratification too often and too heavily.

Starr’s pricey speech is just one past example of a host of extravagances. This $10,000 is gone; what will the next $10,000 fund?

In regard to senior Bryan Davis Keith’s assertion, we acknowledge that

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Quick Quotes “He used the nail gun to, as they say, dispatch the animal.

It wasn’t like he held a nail gun against the head of a cute little animal in front of the class.”

- Superintendent Alvin Lievsay of Huntsville, Ark., explaining how a teacher used a nail gun to kill a raccoon in class.

“” “I have rarely, if ever, heard such strongly expressed views by children.”

- A British chief judge, in a ruling that declared that two boys who had been living in France with their mother could return to Britain, where their father lives, since the boys enjoyed the fact that they could walk to school, have their own key and not do as much homework in England.

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one GSSA member’s behavior clearly crossed the line, proving deliberately disrespectful and disgraceful. We recognize such conduct does not represent the attitude of GSSA. Finally, Starr was asked a number of different questions and responded to many with the same answer: a national discussion is needed to address the constitutionality of marriage.

Of course, we cannot agree if this common reply was truly appropriate or an evasion of the questions raised in the columns.

Freshmen Haowei Claire Tong, Colby Meador, Ben Comer, Jon Wolff, Brent Thomas and sophomore Sarah Austin Hines

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GSSA responds to Keith’s comments on Starr

Critique of Demon Drag neglects spirit and purpose of event Kelly Chauvin

On behalf of the GSSA Executive Board

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enior Bryan Davis Keith’s column (“GSSA poorly represented at Starr speech,” Nov. 8) commented on the disrespectful attitude toward Ken Starr by someone who was clearly identifiable by her attire as a member of the Gay-Straight Student Alliance.

He also raised his personal objections to the homosexual lifestyle, as well as university funding for the GSSA’s annual fundraiser, Demon Drag.

Let us first say that the individual who Keith linked

to our organization asked the question of her own volition – the Executive Board of GSSA or the general membership was not aware of her plan to ask such a pointed question that many view as disrespectful.

GSSA did not approve of Starr’s appearance on campus and there was a coordinated effort on our behalf to be present to protest his speech.

The officially recognized protest was to be silent and wear clothing that is linked to the GLBT community, such as rainbow ribbons, buttons and pins, and nationally distributed “Gay? Fine by Me?” T-shirts.

While the Executive Board of the GSSA did not authorize or know of the question that would be posed, there are members of every organization who take divergent viewpoints from the group’s leadership.

Our member who addressed

Starr is a perfect example, and practice of the homosexual while we do not adopt her lifestyle. We respect his statement as speaking for the views – however, we feel that GSSA, we nonetheless respect there are viewpoints that need her right to have made the clarification. statement.

Keith objects to “school It should also be noted monies being used to facilitate that three other members of a means for the homosexual GSSA posed community of well-worded Wake Forest questions to to drink booze Our member who adStarr that were and watch dressed Starr is a perfect answered. cross-dressers However, example, and while we do do whatever the principal it is they not adopt her statement concern of the do.” Keith is GSSA Executive as speaking for the GSSA, surprisingly Board is Keith’s we nonetheless respect ignorant about objection to the logistics her right to have made our annual of our annual that statement. fundraiser, fundraiser. The Demon performers are Drag, as well professional as certain impersonators language he used in reference of celebrities such as Cher, to homosexuals. Keith voices Whitney Houston, Jennifer a strong objection to the Lopez and Shakira. Our

performers volunteer their time (without pay) to benefit AIDS Care Services of WinstonSalem in a dignified and professional showcase of their talent.

ACS is the only nonprofit healthcare service provider for AIDS victims in Forsyth County, providing a majority of their services to heterosexuals from the minority communities of Winston-Salem – hardly the white, HIV-positive male populace that Keith presumes to be beneficiary. Furthermore, there is a cash bar run by ARAMARK for attendees that are of age. All profits generated by the cash bar go to ARAMARK. GSSA does not profit from the sale of the alcohol – it is simply a service provided for those interested.

Finally, the individual who addressed Starr is not

representative of how the organization deals with opposition.

GSSA welcomes dialogue on the issues and hopes that he will open discussion with us directly before writing misinformed and offensive articles in the newspaper.

We would like to welcome Keith to join us for our meetings at 8 p.m. on Wednesday nights in Benson 218, if he decides to open himself to new friends and experiences.

We would furthermore like to extend free tickets (so that he doesn’t have to benefit the victims of AIDS, though we hope he will choose to do so) to our Drag Show Feb. 15 for him and his friends.

Kelly Chauvin is a senior psychology major from Hillsborough, N.C.

Restrictions on dorm visitors unfair and outdated

Recent reinactment of the dorm policy is unnecessary and inconsistently enforced Carlos Maza Guest columnist

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Students deserve access to health insurance

University should give all uninsured students equal access to health benefits

these students are self-insured or uninsured, it is not unlikely that many of them and their families face financial hardships and lack insurance through their employers. Therefore, we feel the Office of Financial Aid should play a significant role to help qualifying students attain coverage in accordance with university policy.

Dylan Breese This can be achieved in several ways. Many Guest columnist universities, including Wake’s own medical ake Forest, our mother so dear, cares school, add insurance to their students’ billing greatly for the students who walk her statements, effectively making it part of their quads and fill her classrooms. She tuition. Students who provide proof that they provides us with great facilities, world class are insured have this charge removed and are professors and a beautiful campus on which to therefore completely unaffected by the policy. prepare for our future careers and the rest of Another option is to have a specific grant that our lives. students could apply for, which would be set However, a recent study up exclusively for the purchase by the Student Health Care of health insurance. Among Initiative suggests that the other ways, the grant could be university fails as many as 9 subsidized with fundraising We believe the univerpercent of us when it comes events and through solicitations sity should, and is very to securing adequate health sent to the alumni community. capable of, doing more insurance.

So what is the ultimate goal for uninsured students by of the SCHI? Simply and Our study showed that this portion of the student eloquently put: We want the guaranteeing them equal body is either uninsured or university to act on its own access to medical care purchases their own insurance, accord, independent of any beyond the basics offered outside agency – including independent of their parents.

We are not implying that the the federal government – to

by Student Health. university is apathetic towards set minimum standards under our health care needs. In which uninsured students can fact, university policy requires become eligible for a specialized its Reynolda campus students to maintain grant and/or other forms of financial enrollment in a basic health insurance plan assistance, which will be dispersed solely for at all times. What we do question is Wake’s the attainment of adequate health insurance, efforts toward enforcing this policy. thereby guaranteeing that 100 percent of Wake Thus, the SHCI was formed to confront students have proper coverage. this serious issue. We believe the university Students have enough to worry about with should, and is very capable of, doing more for our impossible exams and endless stream of uninsured students by guaranteeing them equal research papers. Breaking a bone or becoming access to medical care beyond the basics offered seriously ill without a way to afford treatment

by Student Health. should not be among these concerns. Please Currently, the plan promoted by the email us at SHCInitiave@gmail.com to share university that provides year-long enrollment your stories or concerns (with complete and the “highly recommended” level of anonymity), and visit our Facebook group, coverage, totals $1,882. Should a student Students Deserve Health Insurance, to lend us visit a hospital or need to see a specialist offyour support. We hope this finds you in good campus, there is an additional $150 deductible, health, and thank you for taking the time to essentially bringing the total cost – up front read this. and out of pocket – to $2,032.

While it would be irresponsible of us Dylan Breese is a sophomore political science to assume there is one reason why all of major from Bradenton, Fla.

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aving a late night study session? Picking up a book from a friend early in the morning? Having sex in your room?

Not anymore.

The recent decision by Residence Life and Housing to enforce a draconian policy that’s been on the books for years (likely a throwback to the university’s Baptist days) but has never, until this year, been adamantly enforced by RA’s, prohibits the presence of a member of the opposite sex in the room of another student during the late hours of night on weekdays.

Many were surprised to hear the announcement of the visitation policy, which prohibits students from having members of the opposite sex in their dorm rooms from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Though the rule has been in place for years, it appears that this year marks the beginning of a new push to actively enforce it. Many students aren’t even aware of the rule, or at least were not until they were forced to face its penalty.

Breaking the visitation policy causes the student to be written up and fined. Multiple violations could result in the student losing his right to on-campus housing.

This policy should be abandoned for a few reasons.

First, it’s overly broad. Punishing students before 10 a.m. means that even those who wish to study together at 8:30 a.m. before class are subject to punishment. Even if the school believes the policy is important, it should clearly be reformed to allow for more flexible curfew hours.

Second, it’s selectively enforced. Most students don’t know about the policy because their RAs simply refuse to enforce it. Horror stories derive from those few students who are unfortunate enough to have to deal with overzealous RAs who seek out and punish offenders. Even if the policy is justified in the administration’s opinion, selective enforcement that penalizes students unfortunate enough to face aggressive RAs is simply unacceptable.

Third, its wording is dated and exclusionary.

It is safe to assume that the intent of the policy is to prevent students from engaging in sexual activity on school nights. The wording does nothing to take account for same-sex couples, mirroring the hetero-centric intent of the original crafters of the policy.

Finally, the policy isn’t even necessary. Without it, roommates could still enforce basic rights if their cohabitants were excessively noisy or disrespectful while interacting with opposite-sex visitors past curfew times.

So, what’s to be done? Students are already petitioning and planning to make a formal case to the administration in an effort to repeal the policy. Others, however, are planning to take a more Gandhian path – civil disobedience.

On Nov. 15, two groups of students are preparing to systematically violate the policy in hopes of generating awareness and proving its absurd unenforceability. They are even inviting their RAs to crack down on them, distributing “Dear Friend” letters modeled off of Gandhi’s tactics. These letters will inform the RAs of what is occurring in order to provoke a response.

If you disagree with the school’s visitation policy, you should follow in stride. RAs won’t be able to deal with a campus full of violators, and this kind of pressure will force the administration to confront the policy’s absurdity.

It can only stay on the books if we allow it to.

An illegal campus-wide sleepover might be just the thing we need to get the job done.

Carlos Maza is a sophomore from Miami.

Banshees reviewer unfair

Review of the recent performance disappointing Danika Sorenson Guest columnist

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fter reading freshman Ryanne Wicker’s review of the most recent Lilting Banshee comedy troupe performance, I was perturbed to say the least. Being a Banshee myself I guess my support for the troupe comes with a little less credibility rather than if I was an outside spectator. Nevertheless, I feel this review was not only unfavorable but littered with contradictions and unfounded criticism.

First she attacked our chemistry sketch, which I personally had a hand in writing. “Enjoyed primarily by chemistry majors in the crowd,” is what was said. If this performance was over anyone’s head in the audience, I am appalled.

There was no joke in there that one could not understand even if one’s only chemistry experience was watching Bill Nye the Science Guy as a child.

The most complicated joke, combining Na and Cl to make table salt, was visually funny as well as “chemically.”

If people in the audience did

not comprehend this simple reaction then I apologize for overestimating the intelligence of current Wake Forest students.

“Overall the show was enjoyable and genuinely funny.” Why, thank you, Wicker! Oh, but she didn’t really mean that, did she? Only one paragraph later she changes her mind and says, “the humor came across as slightly forced.”

I don’t know how we could “force humor.” We write these sketches a month in advance, and while one can argue that the show was long for some at around 12:45 a.m., we don’t “improv” and therefore cannot “force humor.” We perform what we wrote, and we can’t make it any funnier than it was on paper.

However, her best stab at our performance comes towards the end: “Many of the skits lacked that clever humor that I was expecting after spending several weeks reading the bright yellow flyers.” I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Most of those fliers are crude, cheap, oneliner jokes that anyone could write if they weren’t afraid of the repercussions that come with them. I do not doubt that some of them are “clever,” but I think she needs to reconsider what the word clever encompasses. Many attendees would argue that our show was “clever” and covered a wide range of topics, from historical

events to the obsessive nature of Facebook.

We get chastised every year for our material. If there’s not enough campus-related sketches, people beg us to write the same tired jokes about the fraternities and sororities.

If we write too much of our “clever humor,” people think we’re uncouth, obnoxious and too outlandish. But you, as a freshman, have only seen one show (possibly two) and I don’t think you have nearly enough background or experience seeing our material to “expect” anything from us.

I’m glad after spending her $3 to see our show, Wicker assures her readers that “there’s nothing to worry about if you couldn’t make it,” because our signs are the best thing we have going for us. Just to clarify for her, we perform. We are a comedy troupe. We act, memorize lines and practice comedic timing and delivery.

We spend over 15 hours a week to do a show for only two nights.

To limit us to just our signs is not only insulting but disheartening. I hate to think that she could find nothing to write about our performance other than a synopsis, and I hope in the future you can see our show with a more open and engaged mind.

Danika Sorenson is a sophomore from Stone Harbor, N.J.

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Old Gold & Black Opinion

Environment pressing issue in presidential race

Matthew Goetz

Old Gold & Black columnist

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s the fall semester withers under the impending glare of finals, the 2008 presidential race is only beginning to heat up. Over the next three weeks, I will present the candidates’ policy positions and stated opinions on three major issues of the upcoming election: climate change, the Iraq War and the economy.

The issue of environmental policy and combating climate change has become a focal point for the democratic primary. The candidates have all spoken out on the need to lower our carbon emissions and have proposed varying measures for achieving this goal. The Republican field has been far less forthcoming on the subject, with only John McCain voicing the need to confront this issue.

Democrats: Joseph Biden – In an address to the Senate, Biden declared that “for too long we have abdicated the responsibility to reduce our own emissions, the largest single source of the problem we face today.” Biden is a co-sponsor of the Boxer-Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act that would reduce CO2 emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. He supports renewable energy, especially biodiesel and ethanol and has called for 20 percent of our energy use to come from renewable sources. Biden was a strong advocate in the Senate for U.S. participation in United Nations climate negotiations.

Hillary Clinton – Clinton recently released a comprehensive environmental policy, which focuses on increasing the use of renewable resources, improving efficiency and expanding research and development.

Clinton is a co-sponsor of the Boxer-Sanders Act, which caps and reduces CO2 emissions. Her most

ambitious proposals are setting vehicle fuel efficiency at 55 mpg by 2030 and establishing a National Energy Council to coordinate policies across the federal government. Clinton’s policy values energy independence, including the support of economically inefficient and environmentally harmful fuel sources such as ethanol and coal.

Chris Dodd – Climate change and environmental policies are a central issue of Dodd’s campaign, which has been carbon-neutral since the summer. Dodd is the only candidate to propose a carbon tax on corporate polluters, which would fund investment in renewable resources and efficiency. He has also called for all cars to have a minimum fuel efficiency of 50 mpg by 2017. Dodd opposes highly polluting coal-to-liquid technologies and has called for all new coal plants to implement carbon sequestering technology.

John Edwards – Edwards has consistently led the Democratic field in his proposals to combat climate change and pollution. Edwards was the first candidate to support the Boxer-Sanders Act, the first to release a comprehensive energy plan and the first to make his campaign carbon neutral. Edwards proposed a New Energy Economy Fund, which would invest in renewable energy and finance entrepreneurial ventures in clean technologies. Edwards does not support coal-to-liquid fuel or nuclear power and has called for a ban on any new coal plants that are not equipped with carbon-sequestering technology.

Edwards has supported corn-based ethanol production but has clarified that this is only a temporary and partial remedy.

Mike Gravel – Although Gravel has not unveiled a detailed energy plan, he has made innovate proposals for combating climate change. His global policy goals include establishing an

international carbon tax and using qualified his support to only those the revenues to immediately lower technologies that produce 20 percent reliance on fossil fuels. Domestically, less CO2 than traditional petroleum.

Gravel has proposed a moratorium Bill Richardson – He has extensive on coal-based energy and a massive experience on energy issues, having switch to hydrogen power. He also formerly served as U.S. Secretary of hopes to immediately increase fuel Energy. His energy proposals aim efficiency standards to 40 mpg and to for immediate impact, including eventually create a national network a 20 percent reduction in CO2 of Mag-lev trains. emissions and a vehicle fuel efficiency Dennis Kucinich – Kucinich has of 50 mpg by 2020. Richardson been an environmental advocate has proposed a 50 percent cut in oil throughout his congressional demand by 2030, with 30 percent of career. He is the energy coming from only candidate to renewable sources at sufficiently address that time. His plan McCain is the only Repubthe global nature of included cutting climate change by CO2 emissions to 90 lican candidate to call cliproposing a “Global mate change a major issue percent below 2006 Green Deal” that will levels by 2050. facing America. He has offer American-made Republicans: clean energy resources criticized Bush administraRudolph Giuliani – to developing tion policies, and supports Although the former economies. He has major has called a cap-and-trade system to proposed establishing climate change a reduce CO2 emissions. a Works Green problem, he opposes Administration to any mandatory finance the millions government of jobs that will be regulation. Giuliani required to implement clean and is a major proponent of energy efficient technologies in the United independence and has proposed major States. Kucinich has also called for subsidies for nuclear power, coal-tothe eventual termination of nuclear liquid fuel and ethanol production. and coal power plants, stricter Giuliani hopes to reduce U.S. oil regulations on waste and a ban on dependence, even at the expense of mining or logging on public lands. environmental protection.

Barack Obama – Obama has been Mike Huckabee – Huckabee’s aggressive on combating climate environmental policy is driven by change and energy dependence his religious belief and the need during his Senate career. He supports for energy independence. He has legislation mandating that the United stated that it is a moral duty to States cut its CO2 emissions 80 protect the earth and its resources. percent below 1990 levels by 2050 The former governor supports a by auctioning off carbon permits mandatory cap-and-trade system and implementing a cap-and-trade for greenhouse gasses, as well as system. Obama has also challenged raising vehicle efficiency to 35 mpg Detroit automakers on the need to by 2020. Huckabee pledged energy increase fuel efficiency. After being independence by expanding domestic criticized by environmental groups oil production and nuclear power. for his support of corn ethanol and John McCain – McCain is the only coal-to-liquid fuel technology, Obama Republican candidate to call climate

change a major issue facing America.

He has criticized Bush administration policies and supports a cap-and-trade system to reduce CO2 emissions.

McCain is a strong supporter of nuclear power and has proposed extensive federal subsidies for nuclear technologies.

He also supports increasing coal production but wants to implement carbon sequestering technologies in power plants.

Ron Paul – Although Paul is a self-proclaimed environmentalist, he believes that regulation should not be the responsibility of the government.

Instead, he believes that citizens should be able to sue polluters for damaging their health and property.

Paul has not indicated that climate change is a problem facing our country.

Although he supports ending all subsidies to energy companies, he has voted to expand drilling in the United States, including off-shore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Mitt Romney – Romney has made energy independence a major issue of his campaign.

He supports increasing domestic oil drilling, expanding coal gasification and liquid-to-coal production, expanding nuclear power and increasing the use of biofuels.

Romney has stated that he would oppose any international treaty on climate change that did not include mandatory cuts for all nations.

Fred Thompson – Thompson’s platform emphasizes energy independence and includes environmental conservation as part of its program. Thompson has indicated the need to improve efficiency and lower CO2 emissions but has not revealed specific targets or programs for achieving the goal.

Matt Goetz is a senior political science major Mechanicsburg, Pa.

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Peterson a sight to see

By Martin Rickman | Staff writer

In front of a sold out crowd of over 81,000, the Clemson Tigers dismantled the Demon Deacon football team Nov. 10, winning 44-10.

The Deacons, who appeared overmatched from the get-go, were never able to get their offense rolling and saw their defense falter, especially in zone coverage.

Clemson scored right away with a methodical drive reminiscent of those patented Wake drives, which was capped off by a keeper by quarterback Cullen Harper. The Tigers were able to take advantage of the pumped up crowd, holding the Deacons on their opening drive and adding a quick field goal to put Wake down 10-0 just 8 minutes into the game.

Despite an impressive drive by the Deacons to answer back, culminating in a 3-yard touchdown run by redshirt freshman Josh Adams to cut the lead to 10-7, the team never appeared to be in control, letting Clemson score on their next two possessions on touchdown passes to Tyler Grisham and Aaron Kelly. Clemson did not have to punt until close to halftime as the Tigers scored on their first four drives.

With a halftime lead of 27-7, the game seemed out of reach. The Deacons gained a little hope, from a nice return by redshirt senior Kenny Moore on a punt capped off by a 52-yard field goal by redshirt junior Sam Swank, but any momentum was immediately lost when running back C.J. Spiller took the kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown, the first return touchdown the Deacs have allowed since the Northern Illinois game in 2002.

Down 34-10, the Deacons would not be unable to score again the remainder of the game and would give up a field goal with 41 seconds left in the third quarter and another touchdown by Kelly on Clemson’s most impressive drive of the day, a sevenand-a-half minute long, 84-yard drive. Kelly set the Clemson single-season record for touchdowns with 11.

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contributing eight of the opening minute points, including a dunk.

Fairfield attempted to regain some composure, pulling back to within five points, but the Deacs were determined not to allow the Stags back into the game.

The Deacs used their momentum to take a 20-point lead into the locker room at the halfJohnson time buzzer, a lead that they would not relinquish for the rest of the game.

Besides Williams’ contribution of 10 points in the first half, freshman James Johnson and sophomore Jamie Skeen proved their talent once again with 11 and eight points, respectively, from the floor.

We students at Wake Forest are part of a privileged generation. In our lifetimes, we have seen the Clinton/Lewinski sex scandal, mindless MTV reality shows, Cheaters, Shannon Sharpe trying to read football highlights (if you haven’t seen this, watch any CBS halftime show this Sunday; it’s priceless) and the demise of Britney Spears.

And now, for the next decade or so, we get to watch Adrian Peterson play football.

His nickname says everything: “All Day.” He will run over, around and through opposing defenses all day, as seen in his record-setting performance Nov. 4 against the Chargers: 30 carries, 296 yards, three touchdowns.

His jukes seem almost rehearsed because they are so effortless, and his speed is unreal for a 220pound back.

Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden has already compared him to all-time great Jim Brown, sparking a debate as to which great running back he most resembles.

All this hype has come after just nine professional games.

Hype is nothing new for this phenomenal athlete.

He was the top-ranked recruit coming out of high school.

He announced his decision to attend Oklahoma on national TV after the Army All-American game.

The Palestine, Texas, native spurned his home state in favor of the mighty Sooners.

As a freshman, he was almost a freak of nature.

Picture how LeBron James looked for a high school basketball player. That was Adrian Peterson on the football field.

He probably could have played in the NFL immediately; instead he set several freshman rushing records and finished second in Heisman voting, the highest finish by a freshman.

The only thing that could slow him down throughout his college career was injuries, and he still ran for over 1,000 yards his sophomore year while playing just eight games on basically one leg. So this past April, he had readied himself for the NFL draft.

The illustrious list of players taken ahead of him: JaMarcus Russell (hasn’t played a game), Calvin Johnson (great talent, but maybe Peterson would have kept the Lions from rushing for -18 yards last game), Joe Thomas, “He Who Shall Not Be Named” (a certain Clemson defensive end), Levi Jones (who?) and LaRon Landry. Christmas came early for the Minnesota Vikings, who snatched up Adrian Peterson faster than Rosie O’Donnell snatches up the last cupcake.

Peterson has amazed in the NFL from his very first game.

In that debut, he ran for over 100 yards and caught a 60-yard touchdown pass. And he has had all this success without any quarterback help whatsoever.

Tarvaris Jackson is a cross between Donovan NcNabb with a sports hernia and Daunte Culpepper with a torn ACL, with just a touch of Aaron Brooks’ decision making thrown in. Brooks Bollinger looks as lost as Wake students trying to do the Soulja Boy.

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Redshirt senior tight end Zac Selmon is tackled by Clemson defenders. The Deacons lost 44-10 in Death Valley Nov. 10.

Emotional night inspires Deacs’ victory

By Ryan Durham | Sports editor

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Sophomore L.D. Williams prepares to defend the basket during the Deacs’ win over Fairfield Nov. 9.

The Deacons’ home opener against Fairfield proved to be an emotional one, not because of any amazing play on the part of the players but because of what it meant for both the fans and players alike.

In a pregame ceremony, a banner honoring the late Skip Prosser was unveiled in a touching pregame ceremony, but the Deacons did not let thoughts of their old coach visibily affect their game as they easily topped Fairfield 85-60.

“A lot of emotion went into this game, all the way (back to) July,” Head Coach Dino Gaudio said in his postgame press conference. “I thought our guys handled it very well.”

The Deacons did not spend much time getting started on the 2007-’08 season, scoring 13 points in the first five minutes of play and only allowing the Stags three points.

Sophomore L.D. Williams was a large part of this strong attack

Deacs top Clemson in first round of ACC tournament

By Andrew LeRay | Staff writer

The push for an ACC championship continues as the Deacons scored two late goals to knock off the No. 7 seeded Clemson Tigers Nov. 14.

The Deacon men’s soccer team wrapped up its regular season Nov. 9 with a 3-1 victory over the visiting Virginia Cavaliers.

Wake struck early against the Cavaliers, as junior Michael Lahoud found the net in the fifth minute. Lahoud’s unassisted goal was his fourth on the season.

The Deacons scored again in the 35th minute when sophomore Zach Schilawski scored on a pass from Lahoud. The goal was Schilawski’s seventh of the year.

Virginia cut the deficit in half shortly before halftime when sophomore Ross LaBaeux connected from long range to regain some momentum going into the second half. Wake added an insurance goal in the 70th minute when junior Lyle Adams scored after grabbing a free kick from junior Sam Cronin.

With the win, Wake Forest finishes the regular season with a 15-1-2 overall record and a 6-1-1 record in the ACC. “It’s always nice to have momentum going into the tournament,” said senior Pat Phelan

of the three game winning streak the Deacons bring into the first round of the ACC tournament against Clemson.

The 15 wins are the most in a single regular season in the program’s history. The Deacs earned the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament, finishing only two points behind No. 1-seed Boston College.

“Coach (Vidovich) has called our season a ‘dry-run’ up until now,” Phelan said. “Now we really have to focus on the little details because we don’t know if we will play the next day.”

Thanks to two Wake Forest goals in the last two minutes against Clemson Nov. 14, the Deacons will indeed live to play another day. Sophomore Cody Arnoux struck first in the 37th minute, giving the Deacons a 1-0 lead going into halftime.

Clemson junior Michael Brooks evened the score at one in the 71st minute, and the score remained tied deep into the game.

Senior co-captain Julian Valentin scored the game-winning goal in the 88th minute, off an assist from Cronin. An insurance goal was added with only 55 second remaining in regulation by junior Marcus Tracy off an assist from Arnoux.

The Deacons return to action Nov. 16 against Duke in Cary, N.C.

Field hockey bound for Final Four

By Hailey Robbins | Staff writer

In the first round of NCAA playoffs, the Demon Deacons faced off against Michigan State University, defeating them for the second time this season to continue on to the second round against University of Michigan. The two wins this weekend advanced the Deacons’ overall record to 16-5 and marks the eighth consecutive time the field hockey team has advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament.

“It’s a really great accomplishment,” said senior Lauren Love. “We worked hard throughout the season, and fought adversity. We had a rough start to the week, but we came together the second game and played well. The tournament is make or break time, and we definitely made it,” Held at a stalemate for nearly an entire half, sophomore Regina Shannon scored at the 25-minute mark to give the Demon Deacons a 1-0 lead off a corner. Twenty-two minutes later, Michigan State tied off an unassisted shot. Unable to accept such a narrow margin, the Deacons responded a minute-and-a-half later with a goal from freshman Emily Cummings.

With less than five minutes in regulation play, Michigan State once more capitalized on a lift past junior goalkeeper Crystal Duffield, tying See Field hockey, Page B5

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The Deacs hope to earn another NCAA title as they move into the Final Four.

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Curry, A.

Redshirt junior; Fayetteville, N.C.

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edshirt junior Aaron Curry had a big role to fill with the loss of Jon Abbate to last year’s draft, but he has quickly and successfully took up the role of a defensive leader both on and off the field. Curry is second on the team in tackles with 75, including 44 solos. He has also picked the ball off three times and returned the ball 169-yards on those three attempts. Curry’s

On his favorite game this season: I’ll have to say the Carolina game was my favorite game to play in this season. My family has a history with Carolina, and I had two interceptions against them.

got playing time until my junior year of high school.

The only reason I played was because I played all the time in my backyard.

On his goals for the rest of the season: I just want to finish strong. We don’t want to let our fans down or each other down.

On how the team is going to turn it around: We are practicing and focusing better and focusing more on film sessions.

We are going to come out with high levels of intensity.

On playing a different sport: I would play basketball because that is my second

On what runs through his mind right before the snap:

"We still have two weeks left to get better." real role, however, comes in bringing the team together on the sideline and trying to keep the team’s morale up. The Old Gold & Black’s assistant sports editor Allison Lange sat down with Curry to talk about his favorite game so far this season, the loss of Abbate, what got him started in football and turning around the team’s slump.

DEAC OF THE WEEK Freshman defender Ike Opara was honored this week for his hard work and inspired play during the men’s soccer season.

Opara earned a spot on the ACC All-Freshman team, along with fellow Deacon freshman Corben Bone.

Opara began the year filling in for injured senior co-captain Julian Opara Valentin.

When Valentin returned to the team, Opara remained on the backline, playing alongside the senior.

The existing backline member, senior Pat Phelan, was moved to a midfield position, allowing the Deacons to put together a strong starting lineup that earned the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament.

Opara played in every game this season, recording one goal and one assist. His goal was the team’s lone goal scored in a 1-1 draw against in-state rival Elon Oct. 2.

The unexpected emergence of Opara as a force in the ACC is a welcomed addition to a young and focused Deacon team.

They hope to end this season with an ACC championship and a run in the NCAA championship as well.

sport and that would be fulfilling my childhood dream of being a basketball star.

On this season living up to his expectations: We have met the expectations of just working and playing hard every Saturday. There have been a few disappointments but we still have two weeks left to get better.

On when he started playing football: I started playing in seventh grade but I never really

I really just tell myself to keep my focus right before the snap.

I take a look at their formation and visualize all the plays and when the ball snaps I just let loose.

On his favorite class at Wake Forest: I’d say all of my classes in my major, Sociology are interesting to me.

I think my favorite class is Gender Power and Violence.

I’m having a lot of fun and enjoying that a lot.

DEACON NOTES Men’s soccer players garner awards for regular season play Seven Deacons received ACC honors this season, including freshman Corben Bone, who was named ACC Freshman of the Year.

Bone has posted five goals and seven assists for the season. Earlier in the year he earned All-Tournament honors for his performances in the Nike Carolina Classic and the Wake Forest University Tournament where he scored four goals through four games.

The No. 1 Deacons had a player in every position on the All-ACC First Team.

Redshirt senior goalkeeper Brian Edwards made the team by virtue of his nine shutouts on the season.

Senior defender/midfielder Pat Phelan, who scored back-to-back goals against Appalachian State joined Edwards.

Sophomore forward Cody Arnoux also earned the honor. He leads the Deacons with 29 points.

Lastly, at midfield, junior Sam Cronin made the team after starting every game for Wake since his freshman year.

Junior forward Marcus Tracy earned Second Team ACC honors. Tracy is the second highest goal producer for the Deacons. He has six goals and seven assists on the season.

The No. 2-seeded Deacons defeated seventhseeded Clemson Nov. 14 at the SAS Soccer Complex in Cary, N.C. Nov. 14 in the first round of the ACC tournament.

Two Lady Deacon soccer players earn post season honors Sophomores Kaley Fountain and Allie Sadow both earned ACC women’s soccer postseason honors.

Fountain, a defender from Austin, Texas, was named to the ACC All-Tournament team for her game-winning goal in Wake Forest’s 1-0 overtime victory against Duke Nov. 7. The goal was Fountain’s first of the season.

Fountain, who leads the team in assists with seven, has played in every game this season and was recently recognized with All-ACC honors.

Allie Sadow, also from Austin, Texas, was recognized late last week for her performance

on the field and in the classroom.

She was awarded a spot on the ESPN Academic All-America District III Third Team.

Sadow has played in all 21 games for the Deacons. She has scored five goals and posted four assists.

The forward was named to the 2006-’07 ACC Honor Roll and has continued to excel in her studies throughout the season.

The Deacons earned a No. 4 seed in the field of 64. Their first game will be against Boston University in Boston, Mass., Nov. 16. If the Deacons advance, they will face the winner of the Boston College and Connecticut game.

Kickoff time set for final football game against Vanderbilt Wake Forest’s season finale football game is set for a 2 p.m. kickoff Nov. 24 at Vanderbilt.

There are no plans for live television coverage.

Vanderbilt is 5-5 going into its game at Tennessee Nov. 17.

Wake Forest, 6-4 overall, will host N.C. State in its final home game of the season Nov. 17.

Kickoff at BB&T Field is scheduled for 4 p.m.

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Lady Deacs begin with a close win at home

By Alex Botoman | Staff writer

The Wake Forest women’s basketball team started its season off on a positive note with a 58-51 win over USC-Upstate Nov. 13 at the Joel Coliseum.

The game marked only the second time USCUpstate played their second game in Division I after moving up from Division II at the beginning of the season.

Junior Corinne Groves led all scorers with 15 points. She also pulled down eight rebounds.

The sparse crowd of 513 saw the game start off close as teams traded baskets for the first five minutes.

The Deacs went on a 10-0 run midway through the first half to go up by a score of 18-7.

Both teams played a clean, aggressive game defensively and there were no fouls called Groves until seven minutes into the game. At halftime, Wake Forest led 31-21.

The Deacons shot 34.3 percent (12 for 35) from the floor in the first half. The Spartans struggled, shooting only 28 percent (seven for 25).

In the second half, the Deacs continued their good form. However, USC-Upstate picked up its game and managed to cut the lead to five points midway through the second half.

The Deacons killed any chance of a comeback with a 13-0 run that brought the score to 52-34 with seven minutes to go in the game. Wake Forest maintained the momentum and coasted to a 58-51 win.

Overall, Wake Forest shot 33.7 percent (23 of 68) from the floor and 37.5 percent (nine for 24) from beyond the arc.

The Deacs out-rebounded the Spartans 48-36 and their tenacity showed on the scoreboard as they had 10 second-chance points, as opposed

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The Deacons will look to get back on track after dropping their last two games to conference opponents.

The final home game of the season will feature the struggling Deacons and the surging N.C. State Wolfpack.

It will also be Senior Day for the Deacons, as all the senior players will be honored before the game.

N.C. State comes into the game riding a four-game winning streak, and at 3-3 in conference play, the Wolfpack sit only one-half game behind Wake Forest.

The Wolfpack are coming off three straight conference wins including a 31-27 victory over UNC-Chapel Hill Nov. 10.

Wake Forest is coming off a blowout road loss to Clemson Nov. 10.

The Deacons allowed the Tigers to score 44 points in the loss, the most they have given up all season.

The game will feature two of the ACC’s top 10 leading rushers redshirt freshman Josh Adams, who ranks fourth in the conference in rushing yards per game, and N.C. State’s redshirt sophomore Jamelle Eugene, the ninth leading rusher in the conference.

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Junior Alex Tchangoue and sophomore Jessie Cain jump for a rebound against USC Upstate Nov. 13. Tchangoue totaled seven points and 11 total rebounds against the Spartans. to only two for USC-Upstate. Wake Forest also capitalized on its opponent’s mistakes, scoring 26 points off of 26 turnovers.

Freshman guard Camille Collier showed that she can be an immediate contributor this season,

scoring 11 points and grabbing five rebounds.

Sophomore guard Tiffany Roulhac also had a strong game for the Deacs with nine points, five assists and three steals.

The Deacons play Charlotte in the Joel Coli-

seum Nov.15 and travel to James Madison Nov. 18 before heading to the Virgin Islands to take part in the Paradise Jam Nov. 22.

Wake Forest will begin ACC play Jan. 3 against Maryland.

Scoreboard Wake in the Ranks Men’s soccer standings

1. Boston College 2. Wake Forest 3. Duke 4. Virginia Tech 5. Maryland 6. North Carolina 7. Clemson 8. Virginia 9. N.C. State

ACC 7-1-0 6-1-1 4-3-1 3-1-4 4-3-1 3-5-0 2-6-0 1-5-2 1-6-1

Men’s football standings All 12-4-1 15-1-2 11-6-1 10-2-5 10-4-4 6-7-5 7-10-1 11-6-2 6-9-3

Atlantic 1. Clemson 2. Boston College 3. Wake Forest 4. N.C. State 5. Florida State 6. Maryland Coastal 1. Virginia 2. Virginia Tech 3. Georgia Tech 4. North Carolina 5. Miami 6. Duke

Field hockey standings

ACC 5-2 4-2 4-3 3-3 3-4 2-4

All 8-2 8-2 6-4 5-5 6-4 5-5

6-1 5-1 3-4 2-4 2-4 0-7

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Two men’s soccer players fight for the ball during an Intramural game Nov. 7. The regular season ends Nov. 15.

Things seem to be rolling along smoothly as we head into the next phase of the second-quarter sports season: the playoffs.

This is the last week of regular play for dodgeball, soccer and volleyball. There will be no intramural games Nov. 19 and 20.

Likewise, playoffs will begin Nov. 26 when everybody gets back from stuffing turkey down their throats.

When playoffs begin in a couple of weeks, please note that dodgeball will no longer be held outside on the Collins Outdoor Courts.

Instead, playoff games will be played indoors in Reynolds Gym 403.

Sign-ups for basketball and indoor soccer will begin Nov. 28 and end promptly at 5 p.m.

Dec. 7.

Make sure to sign your team up before you leave for Winter Break. Cost of registration is $45, and sign-ups will be held in Reynolds Gym 204A. Soccer Official of the Week: Zane Greason Volleyball Official of the Week: Claire Wofford

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By Connor Swarbrick | Staff writer

There is only one club sport on campus that has won a national championship, club golf, which recently won its second title.

The national championship was held Oct. 27-28 at Golden Horseshoe Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va. Wake Forest finished first with a team total of 768. Virgina Tech came in second, 11 strokes behind the Deacons with a score of 779. Coastal Carolina finished third with 785 total strokes. Sophomore Craig Foster’s two-round total of 152 was good enough for third in the event.

The club golf team holds tryouts every fall.

This fall they had approximately 60 men try out for the team and after two rounds, they formed a team of 18. The average handicap on the club golf team is about a 2. The National Collegiate Club Golf Association consists of 32 teams. Those teams are split up into divisions and regions. There are three tournaments each semester: divisional, regional and national. The club golf team, led by senior President Scott Brugler, finished first place in their divisional. Tanglewood, in Clemmons, N.C., played host to the divisional tournament

Sept. 29-30. Freshman Alex Miller posted the low score for the Deacons. The team then advanced to the regional which was held Oct. 13-14 at Keith Hill Country Club in Buies Creek, N.C. Brugler posted the low score and led the team to a third-place finish, which was good enough to advance them to national championship. Brugler, who plans to work for the government in Washington, D.C. next year or at an environmental consulting firm, has enjoyed his experience as president of the club golf team.

“I love the game of golf and also excel when placed in leadership roles so it was a perfect match for me,” Brugler said. “Wake Forest has such a rich tradition of being a great golf school, yet there are still some very good golfers who are not playing varsity, so club golf gives those kids an opportunity to continue their competitive careers.”

Brugler said his favorite club golf memory is when the team won the national championship by five strokes last year after trailing UNC by three going into the final round. Foster will replace Brugler as president next year and will try to lead the club golf team to an unprecedented third national championship.

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Photo courtesy of the club golf team

The men’s club golf team won its second national Championship Oct. 14.

Kelly Holcomb is still living off his 2002 playoff performance for the Browns, one inexplicable game in an otherwise lousy career.

So now, each defense goes into the game knowing that Minnesota giving the ball to Peterson is as predictable as Wake calling an inside draw on third and long, yet he still gets his yards.

Again, an injury has held him back. He will miss at least his next game with a torn knee ligament.

But if he can stay healthy, he has the talent to become one of the greatest running backs in NFL history.

And if we’re lucky, we’ll all have the privilege to watch.

Men’s novice boat leads crew team in two regattas

By Ryan Durham | Sports editor

The men’s and women’s club crew teams finished their fall season strong with appearances at two regattas, the Head of the Hooch and the Head of the South, which took place Nov. 3 and Nov. 10, respectively.

At both races, Deacon boats placed in the top 10 in their respective races.

At the Head of the Hooch, Wake Forest entered five boats into the 1,250 boat regatta.

Of the five boats, the Deacons fielded three, which finished in the top 10 for their race. The top Deacon finisher was the men’s novice 4 boat made up of freshmen Wright Clarke, Dominique Bouillet, Daniel Pittman, Robert May and their coxswain, fellow freshman Dan Kiley, who finished with a time of 19:28.8. Their finish was only the second time a Wake Forest boat finished in first place in the history of the crew team.

“I was very surprised as the Head of the Hooch is one of the biggest regattas in the US with good teams from throughout the Southeast,” Bouillet said. “It was unexpected for all of us, but it also made us hopeful for the race in Augusta.”

Two other Wake teams finished in the top 10 of their respective races. The Women Varsity 4A boat beat out 26 other boats to

finish in fifth place with a time of 20:34.9, and the men varsity lightweight 4 boat finished sixth in its race with a time of 18:52.9.

The other two boats that the Deacs fielded at the Head of Hooch were the women’s varsity B and the women’s novice 4 boats.

The varsity boat finished 29th in its race, and the novice boat finished with a time of 25:41.7, good enough for 20th in their race.

The men’s and women’s crew team’s next made the trip to Augusta, Ga., for the Head of the South regatta, where Bouillet and the team’s hopes came to fruition.

At Head of the South, both the Men’s Novice 4 boat and Women’s Varsity 4 A boat placed first in their respective races.

The women’s varsity A boat defeated its closest opponent by over 20 seconds.

“We rowed a strong race at Head of the Hooch, but it was more brute power than technique,” senior Lindsay Williamson said. “We worked on this during the week of practice before Head of the South, and really came together as a boat.

Also placing well at the regatta was the men’s varsity lightweight boat, which finished with a time of 17:45.5, good enough for second place.

The team’s appearances at the regattas mark the end of the fall season.

Photo courtesy of the club crew team

The women’s varsity 4A boat finished the fall season strong with a win at the Head of the South regatta Nov. 10 and a fifth place finish at the Head of the Hooch regatta Nov. 3.

XC teams fail to qualify for NCAAs Volleyball drops two more in ACC

Men finish ninth, women finish eighth in NCAA Regional meet

By Donovan Carberry | Staff writer

Both the men’s and women’s teams traveled to Louisville, Kent., “Tom” Sawyer State Park for the Southeast NCAA regionals Nov. 10 in the hope of qualifying for the NCAA national championship Nov. 19.

Unfortunately, it was not to be.

The men finished ninth out of 29 teams, while the women placed eighth out of 31 teams.

To qualify for Nationals, cross-country teams have to finish in the top two spots in their region or receive one of the 13 at-large bids.

“Everyone did everything they could to make it to nationals” said senior Caitlin Chrisman.

“It’s disappointing but it was by far one of the best cross country races I’ve had in college, (a) great way to end the season.”

The news wasn’t all bad. Despite having finished seventh in the ACC two weeks ago, the men placed ahead of all but two ACC teams at regionals. Only N.C. State and Clemson had better team scores.

Five ACC teams placed ahead of the Lady Deacons: N.C. State, Duke, UNC, Virginia Tech and Virginia.

The women’s quest for nationals was made all the more difficult by the fact that junior Nicole Schappert, who has been the first Lady Deacon to finish since the Bill Dellinger Cross Country Invitational Sept. 14, Billington had to drop out due to an asthma attack.

First across the line for the lady Deacs was senior Caitlin Chrisman. Chrisman finished 12th out of 225 runners. She completed the 6k (just about three-andthree-quarter miles) in just 20:54.

Chrisman was followed by junior Merry Placer who ran the race in 21:37 and finished 41st.

Freshmen Marley Burns and Chelsea Bolton followed Placer in quick succession.

Burns finished in 21:38 and Bolton followed with 21:40.

The last scorer across the line was freshman Jessica Barton who finished with 22:22 and placed 96th.

The men were led once again by freshman Greg Billington. Billington has been first to the finish for the Deacons since he was first across for Wake at the Penn State National Invite Oct. 12, which was just his second collegiate race.

Billington placed 31 overall and covered the 8k course (a little less than five miles) in 31:02.

About 20 seconds behind Billington was sophomore Marcus Dillon who finished 43rd. Senior John Compton was the third Deac across the line he finished in 31:27.

Redshirt freshman Patrick Russell, who placed 66th with 31:49, and freshman Keaton Morgan, who finished 101st in a time of 32:38, completed the Deacons’ scoring five. Failure to make the NCAA tournament means the Deacs will have to wait until next season for a shot at the title.

Women’s soccer stopped at ACC tourney

By Chris D’Auria | Staff writer

The Wake Forest women’s soccer team hope to win the ACC title this year in the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex.

However, their journey came to an end against Florida State in the Semifinal match Nov. 9. The Deacs were barely able to make it to the semis after edging past Duke in overtime to win the quarter-final 1-0 in overtime.

The Deacs have a win against the Noles earlier this season when the Ladies were able to outscore FSU 3-2 in the teams’ Oct. 25 meeting.

Heading into the semifinal, the Deacs were likely thinking that if they beat them once, they could easily do it again. Unfortunately, that mindset was not the correct one for this contest, as the Seminoles came ready to play, besting the Lady Deacs 5-2.

Seniors Maggie Horne and Laura Colven scored the only two goals for the Deacons, with Horne’s in the 87th minute of play.

Sophomore keeper Laura Morse made it

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Sophomore forward Sarah Winslow attempts to take the ball away from an opponent during a recent match. through the first half with one goal scored on her and one save.

Freshman Amanda Barasha did not have such luck in the second half. She matched Morse for saves, but she let four consecutive

shots sail into the net. After this loss, the Deacs hope to fare better in the NCAA Tournament. Their first match Nov. 16 will be against Boston University in opponent territory.

Lady Deacs’ record falls to 7-20 overall, 4-14 in the ACC

By LK Davey | Staff writer

The women’s volleyball team traveled south Nov. 8 and 9 to play Clemson and Ga. Tech at their respective schools.

The Lady Deacons lost to both teams in three games. The Tigers took down the Deacons 30-25, 30-21, 30-25 and the Yellow Jackets downed the Demon Deacons 30-23, 32-30, 30-18.

Freshman KristenWhite came within one dig of a double-double Nov. 8, finishing the night with 14 kills and nine digs. She also added an Mullikin ace.

Other spotlight players included junior Ashley Homitz and redshirt junior Natalie Mullikin who were also in double figures for kills with 13 each.

Mullikin chipped in four blocks, while Homitz hit .400 in the match.

Freshman Lauren McIntyre hit a team-best .545 with seven kills and one error in 11 attempts.

Freshman Megan Thornberry led the Deacs with 12 digs, and senior Michael Faulkner was right behind with 11 digs.

Sophomore Abby Miller tallied nine digs. Freshman Kelsey Jones dished out 43 assists and recorded five kills, four digs and two blocks.

The Deacons played their best in the first and third games of the match. In the first game, Clemson never trailed, but Wake Forest

managed to keep it tight the whole way through.

The Tigers led by as many as nine, 19-10, but the Deacs rallied back.

Wake cut the deficit to three, 27-24, but CU took three of the final four points for the 30-25 win.

Game three was similar to game one with Clemson pulling out a close win late.

The Tigers once again pulled away from a 27-24 lead with three of the final four points for a 30-25 win.

The Spotlight went to Freshmen Kelsey Jones and Lauren McIntyre Nov. 9. Jones posted her 11th double-double of the season, and McIntyre posted eight blocks and seven kills.

Jones dished out 34 assists and tallied 11 digs, while McIntyre finished her night with seven kills and two digs.

Mullikin and White were both in double-figure kills with 14 and 10 respectively. White also added two aces and four block assists. Mullikin had two block assists on the night. Senior Michael Faulkner led Wake with 12 digs, while Thornberry had eight.

Game two of the contest was the best for the Demon Deacons. Trailing at 21-15, Wake used a 13-7 run to tie the contest at 28-28.

The run was capped with three consecutive points by the Deacs to tie the score. Georgia Tech needed three game points to put away Wake Forest, 32-30.

The weekend ended with Wake Forest dropping to 7-20 overall and 4-14 in the ACC; while Clemson improved to 23-3 overall and 16-1 in conference play and Georgia Tech moved to 19-9 overall and 13-5 in conference play.

This week, the Deacons have two home games to look forward to: UNC-Chapel Hill at 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 14 and N.C. State at 7 p.m.

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and now has 25 touchdowns on the season.

Clemson was also able to run very well against the Deacs, with 145 yards on the ground from some tough yards by James Davis and some tricky moves by the Spiller.

Redshirt senior defensive end Matt Robinson, who recorded his first sack this season, said, “It was the whole defense, there wasn’t one part that was doing better than the other.

We just couldn’t get it going at any part of the game.”

Deacons redshirt sophomore quarterback Riley Skinner was not so lucky, as he was under pressure constantly by the impressive Clem-

son front four who had 10 tackles for loss and five sacks on the day.

Unable to effectively rush the football with 83 net yards, the Deacons put themselves in too many long yardage situations all day, forcing the Deacs to throw.

The offensive line fought hard, but Skinner was constantly scrambling. He was effective when given time, completing 21 of 30 passes for 170 yards with an interception that saw him throwing on the run, looking for redshirt senior DeAngelo Bryant, into a deceptive zone.

The Deacons were also surprisingly mistake-prone the whole day, giving up a lot of ground on kickoffs, as well as putting themselves in trouble with eight penalties.

“We had too many ‘gotta throw’

situations and they have a really good front, but penalties were our biggest problem today,” Head Coach Jim Grobe said.

“Any time you put yourself in long yardages against a good football team you’re going to be in trouble.”

The Deacons did get another solid game from Adams. Although he rushed for just 46 yards on 2.7 yards per carry, he was able to get tough yards with some bruising runs when the Deacs were still fighting. With just two games remaining against N.C. State and Vanderbilt, the Deacons sit at six wins, disappointed as BC was beaten again by Maryland, but not disheartened.

“I don’t think we need to go off the deep end,” Grobe said.

“I think we just played two good football teams on the road and you can’t make mistakes in these situations and we did. We just didn’t give ourselves a chance today.”

Wake is bowl eligible, but not guaranteed a spot in any bowl.

Winning out would give the Deacons a solid eight-win season, and the team currently has a realistic projection at three bowls: The Emerald Bowl in San Francisco, The Meineke Car Parts Bowl in Charlotte and the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl in Nashville.

The Deacons will have a chance to staunch the bleeding 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 at BB&T Field against ACC rivals, the N.C. State Wolfpack.

N.C. State is 5-5 on the season.

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Redshirt sophomore Boo Robinson attempts to tackle a Clemson running back Nov. 10.

Basketball: Team honors Field hockey: Deacs are Skip with convincing win ready for another title run shooting over 50 percent in the second half.

“My hat goes off to them, making 14 threes, I believe,” Fairfield Head Coach Ed Cooley said.

The second half of the game played out much “Harvey Hale really came out of his shell and shot like the first with the Deacons dominating the the ball well. I think everybody in the building made a three against us tonight.” ball.

The combination of Hale and Johnson led the Fairfield never came to within 15 points of the team offensively on the night Wake Forest lead in the second with 17 points apiece. half. This was facilitated by 12 Johnson also had yet Stag turnovers and six Deacon “It’s mission started, it’s not mis- another double-double as steals in the second half. he pulled down 10 of the Also coming up big for the son accomplished.”

Deacons’ 30 boards.

Deacs in the second half was Dino Gaudio Williams and Skeen junior Harvey Hale, who Head Men’s Basketball Coach rounded out the Deacons scored 14 points in the second in double-digit points with half.

12 and 10 respectively, but a On the night, the Deacs forced 23 turnovers and 14 steals en route to few newcomers were also close to the mark.

Freshmen Jeff Teague and Gary Clark each had their 85-60 win over the Stags.

Defense is something Coach Gaudio and his staff nine points.

Wake Forest has a short break before returning have stressed all season and the team’s performance to action 7 p.m. Nov. 19 when they play host to seems to be a step in the right direction.

“It’s mission started, it’s not mission accom- N.C. Central.

They then travel to Iowa for the Big Ten/ACC plished. We worked diligently on the defensive end of the floor,” Gaudio said. “What we didn’t Challenge Nov. 26.

“Last year, we had 24 practices before the first do well was guarding the three-point shoots.”

The Stags were 10 of 16 from three-point range game,” Gaudio said.

“This year, we had 22 practices. So I’m glad accounting for 30 of their 60 points.

The Deacons did their own damage from behind we’re going to have a little layoff so we can tighten the arc, sinking 14 of 29 three-point attempts and some things up.”

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the score two-all. Junior Michelle Kasold recorded both her eighth goal of the season and the gamewinner as the clock hit 67 minutes.

Duffield recorded seven saves against Michigan State, her second time recording seven saves against State, and her second-highest save mark of the season.

After the loss to the Demon Deacons, Michigan State ended its season with a 16-6 record.

In their second 3-2 victory of the weekend, the Deacons defeated the University of Michigan Wolverines for the second time this season to advance to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament.

The Deacons began the match attempting to recover from an early goal by University of Michigan’s Sarah Wilhite in the 18th minute of play, rebounding off a shot blocked by Duffield.

The lead for the Wolverines expired two minutes later when senior Chelsea Cipriani and Kasold offered two immediate goals, giving Wake the 2-1 lead. Ten minutes into the second half, the Wolverines closed the gap, tying the score 2-2.

Responding immediately, sophomore Aileen Davis recorded the goal off a shot from junior Minou Gimbrere, giving Wake the 3-2 lead and victory over University of Michigan.

“We pick up the intensity after we get scored on.

We try and start with that same intensity and not have to come back, but you always get more fire to win after you are down,” Cipriani said.

Although outshot 14-11 by the Wolverines, the Deacons’ nine shots on goal versus five on behalf of their opponents allowed the Deacs to advance to the next round of the tournament.

Duffield recorded another three saves for the weekend, bringing her weekend save total to 10 saves.

University of Michigan fell to an overall record of 16-7 with the Deacon loss. “Both games were a tough fight, the tournament is one (loss) and done (with the season), so everyone shows up,” Cipriani said.

The Demon Deacons next face Penn State at the University of Maryland Nov. 16. Both teams upset the No. 2 University of Maryland at the close of their seasons, the Deacons in ACC tournament play and Penn State to advance to the Final Four last weekend.

“We just think of the other team as an opponent,” Lovee said. “They never have a name, color or face. They are just in the way of our championship win, the win we deserve.”

The winner of that match will advance to the finals of the NCAA tournament, held 12 p.m.

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By Hailey Robbins | Staff writer Although blind since infancy, Eddie Timanus, a 1990 graduate of the university, is still one of the most highly regarded College Sports Writers at USA Today.

Unwilling to let his condition alter his daily life, Timanus plays competitive bridge, which he started in the lounge of Huffman House, as well as the piano. Timanus has a 3-year-old son, Evan, with his wife of five years, Kelli.

Timanus was diagnosed at infancy with retinoblastoma, a rare form of retinal cancer that if left untreated will lead to death. Both Timanus’ son, Evan and his father fought this rare eye cancer.

“Fortunately the treatments (of retinoblastoma) are a bit more advanced now, but we still have to give (Evan) regular check ups to make sure nothing has recurred,” Timanus said. “We caught his cancer very early on, at about 7 months old, because we were looking for (the tumors). My father had the same condition, but only unilaterally, and therefore only lost one eye.”

In the 1970s, the treatment of Timanus’ retinoblastoma left him blind because his treatment required removing his eyes completely after long exposure to chemotherapy and radiation failed. In the treating of Timanus’ son, Evan, chemotherapy regimes attacked the cancer locally, managing to preserve both his eyes and sight.

“I was fortunate to have been born into a good family who made sure that nothing got in my way, and that I wasn’t discouraged about anything,” Timanus said about his childhood. “My parents did a terrific job giving my life normalcy and my schools were always helpful. I was on the Quiz bowl and Academic team. At Wake, I was still on the

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At the university, Timanus majored in economics and minored in music, studying piano performance, all while helping the Sports Information Office during his senior year.

“I absolutely enjoyed my years at Wake,” he said.

“College years are a lot of fun, and that is part of why I still enjoy covering college sports.”

Timanus learned to play piano from professor Lucille Harris, now retired, who had experience teaching blind pianists at the North Carolina School for the Blind.

“Music was a lot of memorization,” Timanus said.

“Obviously you cannot sight read sheet music, but there is a Braille notation you could memorize.”

In 1999, Timanus was the first blind contestant on Jeopardy!. He won five games in a row before retiring undefeated. From his first round at Jeopardy play, Timanus won just shy of $70,000 cash and two cars.

He returned to Jeopardy! to compete in the 1999 Tournament of Champions, 2002 Million Dollar Masters and the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions.

Timanus met his wife online while discussing game shows on Yahoo! Groups in 2000, shortly after his appearance on the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.

“I met her on a forum. I receive daily e-mails with a ‘Word of the Day’ in them. That day’s particular word was ‘Whammy,’ which I posted on the forum.

“There used to be this game show called Press Your Luck, and the object was to collect as much money as you could without getting a ‘whammy.’ I figured

Press Your Luck fans would like that. So I posted it,” Timanus said. “She was a geography teacher at the time and used the word in her class to show how words disperse culturally and geographically.

She sent me an e-mail thanking me for posting it, and I replied. We met when she was visiting a friend in D.C. later that year. We were married in 2002, two years after we met.”

In 2004, Timanus appeared on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, winning $50,000.

Timanus loved game shows even as a child, growing up watching them with fascination. “My mom was a big Jeopardy! fan, and I liked all the whistles and bells. When Jeopardy! was brought back, I wanted to be on it.”

Currently, Timanus is best known for his work with USA Today. He comes from a background of sports media, as his father covered radio news and sports, which is how he learned to “see” the games without sight.

“Going to games with him, I figured out with to listen for on the fields and in descriptions,” he said. “I learned the basics of how the games worked, and through that, decided that I wanted to do something with sports.”

Timanus said his first experience with professional writing came when he wrote in in-house letter for the Supreme Court.

Later, Timanus applied for the News Aide position at USA Today and after serving in that position, was promoted as a staff writer.

Timanus now writes the Preview section for college football and basketball, avidly following his alma mater’s Demon Deacons and handles the Weekly Coaches Poll.

He also covered the NCAA Lacrosse Tournament for the last two years.

Event Review | Time for Three

String trio delights audience with original repertoire

By Jermyn Davis | Contributing writer

It is like comparing two cousins who see each other once a year for Thanksgiving Dinner and also share the same grandparents but share nothing else in common. (OK, this may be a stretch.)

My point is ... the two genres, bluegrass and classical, usually do not fit well together; however, it did Nov. 8 as the trio Time for Three, better known as tf3, performed for a packed audience in Brendle Recital Hall.

I have been to many concerts in Winston-Salem given by both professionals and amateurs, but the concert by tf3 was by far the best concert I have been to in a while.

The unusual trio consisting of two violin players, Zachary De Pue and Nicholas Kendall, and a bass player, Ranaan Meyer, met in college at the Curtis Institute of Music, one of the premier music conservatories in North America.

Tf3’s music, which blends classical with bluegrass and numerous jazz improvisation, kept the audience on the edge of their seats, yearning for more the entire night.

Tf3 began the program with two pieces that were both composed by the tf3 bassist, Ranaan Meyer. Most of the pieces played during the concert were either written or arranged by Meyer. The pieces were performed so fluidly that one could

have easily mistaken that the second piece as a coda for the first piece.

The slow but melodic first selection, “Wyoming 307,” was inspired by the group’s visit to the state of Wyoming and the fact that the entire state has the same area code, 307. Jokingly describing Wyoming, violinist Kendall said “although Wyoming is extremely beautiful, there is nothing there.” However, the piece was full of great orchestration.

The next piece, “Forget About It,” had more of an up-tempo bluegrass character to it. During this piece, tf3 really began to show their fun musical personality and amazing technique. Their personality really showed as Meyer jumped off of his stool and continued to play.

“Blackbird,” the next selection that was written by members of the Beatles, showed the contrast in tf3’s repertoire.

Beginning with harmonics played by Kendall, De Pue entered the piece playing like a bird beginning to take flight.

The piece ended with an elongated restatement of the beginning theme played by Kendall.

Tf3 continued to show their talent and brilliance in giving classical musical a bit of spice by playing Bach’s famous “Double” and Monti’s virtuosic “Csardas” with an uncharacteristic bluegrass interpretation. Although each piece was played at bullet speed, the two selections never lost their integrity.

Before intermission the program slowed down for a while with a Native American inspired rendition of “Shenandoah/ Foxdown” only to quickly progress forward with a medley of selections. The pieces, including “Turkey in the Straw,” “Jerusalem’s Ridge” and “Ragtime Annie,” showed each member’s uncanny ability to improvise.

After the short intermission, tf3 began with a piece entitled “Philly Phunk,” written to pay homage to Philadelphia where the group went to school. The piece had a hip-hop edge that was one of the jazziest pieces during the concert.

Continuing to be inspired by cities, the next piece “Of Time and Three Rivers” described the industrialization of Pittsburgh and the rivers in Pittsburgh. The piece begins with a chorale and by the middle of the piece transitions to be much more violent in character. However, the song calmly concludes with a repeat of the chorale.

Tf3 picked up the tempo with a Celtic motivated piece “Thunderstomp.”

With another piece that slowed the mood of the concert down, “Ashokan Farewell/ Amazing Grace” left the audience completely breathless. These two pieces showed off the upper register of the bass as Meyer played most of the melodic lines.

The bass line shifted its role in the next piece, “Ecuador.” This piece that begins with slow, sustained harmonics caught

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Time for Three, Zachary De Pue (violin), Ranaan Meyer (double bass) and Nick Kendall (violin), showcase their unique sound. me off guard when its character shifted to more of a South American feel. What was unique is how the piece maintained a South American element, while it consisted of a bluegrass background.

Tf3 finished the concert with two renditions of pieces, Brahms’ “Hungarian Dance No. 5” and Christopher Rouse’s “The Orange Blossom.” Each piece, especially Rouse’s work, displayed the musicians’ improvisational skills.

During the Secrest Series pre-talk, Jacqui Carrasco, associate professor of music, said “They (tf3) are incredibly talented classical musicians but what makes them unique is there love for improvisation.”

Carrasco is right.

These musicians are like a breath of fresh air to the classical music world and I wish there were more musicians and groups like tf3.

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She Said | A girl’s guide to getting it on

Studying leads to relationship revelation Kelly Curran Staff columnist

You can’t stop the beat!

1,140: Average number of phone calls a person makes in a year

The movie adaptation of the Tony award-winning musical, Hairspray, comes out on DVD Nov. 20. With a fresh-faced cast including Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Amanda Bynes and Hollywood newcomer Nikki Blonsky, this film is sure to please those looking for some carefree escapism.

Trouble in TV Land For those of us who just can’t live without shows such as Grey’s Anatomy or Lost, the Writer’s Guild of America’s strike is sending us to an early grave. On Nov. 5, WGA began picketing outside of production studios in New York and Los Angeles. The strike began after weeks of talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers regarding a share of the ad revenue generated from shows available on the Internet. As a result, late-night shows have already gone off the air and if the strikes continue, primetime shows will be forced into reruns as well.

Oh My God(Tube)!

There is a new trend on the Internet: religious Web sites based off of the models of popular secular sites.

Among these are Mychurch.org, a religious network similar to MySpace. com, Conservapedia.com, a religious response to Wikipedia.com and finally GodTube, the new video site based off of YouTube. GodTube features a multitude of religious videos like sermons, skits and debates. The videos are monitored for appropriate content, but users from all belief are encouragedto submit.

Drink of the Week Gingersnap

Get cozy and enjoy this spicy fall-themed drink during your Thanksgiving holiday.

Ingredients: 1 oz Kahlua 1 oz Bailey’s Irish cream 1 oz Frangelico 1 oz Jägermeister Ice Cola Directions: Shake Kahlua, Bailey’s Irish cream, Frangelico and Jägermeister in ice-filled shaker.

Strain contents into ice-filled highball glass and fill with cola.

So while reviewing my notes this past week in preparation for my psychology test from hell, I couldn’t help be distracted by, well, everything. But one of my sidetracking thoughts, other than a curiosity as to what Perez Hilton is stirring up, was relating my psychology principles to relationships.

One theory I find to be strangely applicable is fight or flight – the idea that when a problem arises, we fight or run away. It’s the same in a relationship: when things get hard, we respond by either fighting to keep the relationship or fleeing from the problem.

Granted, neither method is a surefire way to happiness. Both have their pros and cons dependant on the issues in your relationship and how the couple handles it.

There are many benefits to the fight response to relationship problems.

The couple has a chance to reestablish the relationship and examine it more closely. If they have been in an open relationship, for example, they may realize that the lack of rules (I like to think of it as “relationship anarchy”) is the root of their troubles and decide to be more committed. Fighting for the survival of your relationship allows people to re-define the rules, hopefully changing the relationship for the better.

Open conversation is a major part of the fight to maintain a relationship. It is also a good time to talk about the future, or more specifically, your future as a couple. Being direct about what you want in the future will help both parties to see if their plans line up. Trying to accommodate one another is where the idea of fighting comes into play – most relationships won’t come without some struggle or compromise.

Many people, however, think of the fighting response literally – but it does NOT mean that arguing with your partner will solve your problems! In fact, you must decrease your quarrels to get to the source of the problem.

I’ve seen so many couples who do

more fighting than anything else, and at that point you have to wonder what you are trying so hard to keep. Having to work too hard is a sign that the relationship may not be right.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is flight. Flight is leaving the relationship when problems arise rather than sorting through them.

This method has some positive and negative aspects too, just like fighting.

One benefit of the flight response is that it is simple. I know this is cynical, but if you are in a relationship that just isn’t working out and you don’t even care enough to put forth the effort to make it last, chances are your best option is flight. Apathy is disastrous to relationships, and those who don’t feel strongly enough about their partner to want to talk about their problems shouldn’t pretend to be invested.

There are certain problems that can’t be worked out, such as blatant ideological or personality conflicts.

Asking a person to change who they are probably won’t work out the way you want it to, so leaving the relationship might be your best bet. If the relationship is new and already overly difficult, there is no shame in ending it instead of making drastic changes

for your boyfriend or girlfriend of two weeks.

Fleeing a relationship, however, is not always the right thing to do. Often it is an escape route taken by the cowardly. Running away from the slightest problem is a sign that you are not mature enough in your relationship.

Even worse are the passive-aggressive methods used to run your partner out of the relationship. “Forgetting” to return phone calls, withholding sex for no explained reason and flirting openly with other people are all underhanded ways of making your partner want to end the relationship and are all forms of flight.

If I had to pick the best way to handle relationship problems, I’d start with fight. Talk about it, maybe even get mad. Showing passion is a sign that you have a spark between you. But when the fighting overcomes the good parts in a relationship, it might be time to bow down and admit defeat, and flight is your best option for happiness.

“She Said” is a bi-weekly column that presents one girl’s perspective on the college sex scene. You may contact her with your feedback or ideas at currkm4@ wfu.edu.

What You Didn’t Know | By Caldwell Tanner

Movie Review | Lions for Lambs

Preachy drama falls flat despite all-star cast

By Jacob Bathanti | Staff writer

“Promise and potential are very fickle,” Professor Stephen Malley (Robert Redford) tells his favorite slacker student Todd (Andrew Garfield). “If you’re not careful, they just slip away.” Given that Redford directed as well as starred in Lions For Lambs, I can only assume that he didn’t mean those words to apply to his film. Nevertheless they do, as mostly solid acting is squandered on a film that comes off as a sermon by the second-string assistant pastor.

This homily may be important and timely. But the form it takes is difficult enough to swallow that it has choir members like myself (a firm believer in civic engagement, believe Lions for Lambs me) shaking their heads, Starring | Tom Cruise, Robert and it sure Redford and Meryl Streep isn’t going to Director | Robert Redford bring anyone Who’s it for? | Those looking down to the for a government thriller willaltar. ing to tackle current events.

The film’s structure is Running Time | 1 hr. 28 min. initially interRating | (out of 5) esting: three loosely linked vignettes intercut with each other. In the first story line, Mallory and Todd make an early morning appointment to discuss Todd’s potential and his lack of realization of that potential. In the second, veteran reporter Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) meets with Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), a dashing neocon who’s granted her an exclusive interview so that the truth will get out about his brilliant new plan for winning the war in Afghanistan. In the third, two of Mallory’s ex-students, Arian Finch (Derek Luke) and Ernest Rodriguez (Michael Peña) are the boots on the ground implementing Irving’s strategy.

Finch and Rodriguez’s chopper gets hit by enemy fire almost immediately and the two find themselves pinned down by Taliban fighters. Their commanding officer desperately tries to get them evacuated as Irving’s strategy malfunctions due to more of the same “worst intel in history” that he badmouths in his interview with Janine. Not knowing that his plan is flopping even as he extols its myriad virtues, he puts forward an apologia for past mistakes while casting the operation as America’s best chance in the “War on Terror.”

Meanwhile, away from the axis of power and force, Malley tries to rekindle Todd’s academic zest and natural idealism. The boy has apparently become jaded with politics and wants nothing more than to get a good job and a nice car. However, Todd

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Journalist Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) stares down Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise) In Robert Redford’s first project as actor and director since The Horse Whisperer in 1998. reminds Malley of Finch and Rodriguez (whose student selves get extensive treatment in flashback) in terms of potential. So he tells him their story, helping link the sub-stories a little more.

Structurally this is interesting. Each major variation in this theme is centered around two people interacting, which allows for some intimacy in those scenes and enables the intense back and forth that is this film’s one real payoff.

The actors are pretty good overall. Luke and Peña might be the weakest, but they have the least to do, so it’s hard to say. Redford is excellent as an aging professor who still cares about his students and about the ideals that took him back from the jungles of Vietnam to the streets of Chicago in protest. On the other side of the desk, Garfield does just fine, but his character isn’t terribly believable, at least the way we’re supposed to see him. Does the third-most promising student Malley’s ever seen really talk openly about how his (ugly) Hawaiian shirt cost at least $70?

Critical consensus holds that Cruise does a great job as a neo-fascist creep, but I thought he offered a fair portrayal of a conservative who believes in the shtick he’s selling. Your opinion may turn on what you think of that ideology in general, but either way Cruise is dynamic and convincing. Streep is squirrelly and blasé, but this fits her demoralized character, who is 15 years into a Rupert Murdochstyle takeover of her ex-hard news network.

Despite the actors, though, the film bogs down.

Part of this is a simple misunderstanding of the way that people act. Do armed services personnel really interrupt their commanding officer in briefing on tangential points? More to the point, has anyone ever seen college students as pathetic as those portrayed in this film? Todd curses needlessly in conference; moreover, a classroom scene where Arian and Ernie present a project is simply sophomoric.

It’s simply unrealistic to have them drop the F-bomb in class, and I’ve never heard a body of students so united in selfishness, probably because people don’t voice this kind of sentiment. America may be rotten to the core, but this part of the sermonizing overstates the fact, sounding like an octogenarian carping from his rocker.

A couple of the long exchanges between Roth and Irving had me mesmerized, but even basic chemistry is scarce in this film. It clambers immediately onto a soapbox and doesn’t even clamber down for the closing credits: do we really need to see “Vote” buttons under the screen accreditations to figure out that this rather clunky talky is supposed to convince us to be more civically involved so as to change the world?

And more importantly, is a mediocre movie, shot through with the apocryphal liberal media bias that is in this case all too real, supposed to convince us anyway?

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Restaurant Review | Paul’s Fine Italian Dining

Paul’s mediocre food does not warrant high prices

By Aubrey Stiler | Contributing writer

My first impression of Paul’s Fine Italian Dining was one semi-reminiscent of a country club. When we walked into the restaurant, we were greeted by a short, balding Italian man in a bow tie who led us to a table topped with white linens, fancy folded napkins and a vase of plastic carnations.

Luckily, we had been warned beforehand that wearing jeans may Paul’s Fine Italian be inapDining propriate in Location | 3443 Robinhood Rd. this venue.

Business Hours | Mon. - Fri. 11:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. casual attire

4:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. was just Sat. - Sun. 4:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. right.

Serving | Italian Considering that Dress | Business casual/formal it was a SatPrice Range | $12 - $39 urday evening, the Rating | (out of 5) restaurant was surprisingly empty. Only a few tables were occupied, and I noticed that the average age range of the other customers dining at Paul’s seemed to be at least a generation older than my party.

Once we were seated, the waitress promptly filled our water glasses and offered to get us a beverage of choice.

Throughout the evening, the service was very prompt, and our waitress seemed dedicated to making our meal an effortlessly enjoyable one.

The menu at Paul’s features a wide array of Italian foods ranging from soups and salads to pastas with a variety of different sauces to veal and seafood.

Photo courtesy of www.paulsfineitaliandining.com

While Paul’s Fine Italian Dining creates a nice, romantic atmosphere and is close to campus, its expensive entrees make it hard for a college student to afford.

We took several minutes to finally decide on what to order.

Our meal began with a basket consisting of slices of Italian bread as well as garlic bread. Although some of the slices were more than crispy around the edges, it was good nonetheless.

One friend and I split the chicken parmesan ($17.95).

The entrée itself came with two huge pieces of breaded chicken topped with parmesan cheese, and

Don’t Stop Believin’ | Tips for your college journey

Embrace all that profs have to offer Mary Beth Ballard Senior columnist

Professors are our friends. I mean this honestly, and hopefully by this point in the semester you’ve come to think this way about some of yours.

If not, then maybe evaluating your inability to breach the student-teacher gap thus far wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Befriending your prof can only benefit your education. I’ll discuss a few ways for you to do so which might enhance the remainder of this semester – or those in your future.

But first of all, what is a professor? The most obvious answer is of course “someone who has gone to school for a very long time for the sake of scholarship and academia.” Or “someone who has given his or her life over to learning.” Dictionary.com (such a convenient resource) states that a professor is a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, an instructor in an art or science and lastly, a person who professes his or her sentiments and beliefs.

Though nothing is mentioned about being a friendly mentor to students, I think most of us would agree that at the university we can add that element to our definition.

Professors are here because they love to teach us new things about the way the world works.

In high school one can find many a coach/social studies teacher combo whose reason for being there is not in the pursuit of knowledge expansion.

Rather, it usually has something to do with expanding the championship trophy case in the high school lobby.

Now, I’m not knocking all high school teachers. I had some great ones, mind you, but I think we might too often take for granted the caliber of instructors we have on our campus.

They’re here because they want to be, and additionally, they want to get to know their students.

Professors were in our shoes at one time as well, so it’s not as if they don’t understand the college mentality.

In fact, from my own understanding, college these days is tame compared to some campuses of the late 60s and 70s.

Imagine your prof partying late into the night, performing keg stands, engaging in herbal rem-

edies or some other college “risky” behavior, and entering his/her office during office hours won’t seem so intimidating.

That is, after all, what keeps us from going to visit them, right?

Isn’t it that sense of intellectual inferiority? Or is it the notion that they must be too busy with other collegiate matters to bother discussing our upcoming paper? Or maybe because we assume they don’t “like” us because of that Cmade on our first test?

Whatever excuse we’ve come up with in our head, it’s simply not true.

The reality is that coming to a professor’s office (either during his hours or by appointment) shows initiative – a quality that will serve us well throughout life.

By taking our time to get beyond the classroom parameters and into the intimate office setting, we’ve demonstrated an eagerness about our education.

Professors appreciate and respect this, and the hardest part of getting in the door is out of the way.

Once in the office, take a look around. You’ll discover things about your prof in a matter of minutes of observance.

Chances are you’ll see photos of family members, exotic places they’ve traveled, curious knickknacks, interesting artwork and posters ...oh... and books – lots of them.

So make yourself comfortable for a few minutes, relay to your friend in academia what’s on your mind and remove yourself before it gets too awkward … (not really, but just don’t unnecessarily linger).

OK, so that seems pretty basic and sort of common sense, but you’d be surprised how many students are apprehensive about the whole thing.

First semester freshman year, I went to one professor’s office and was utterly petrified.

I locked up, had no idea what I was there for and left feeling completely inept. Don’t let this happen to you.

I’ve come a long way since then – I’m taking an independent study in which I meet once a week for an hour with a professor to discuss my reading, ask questions and learn insights I’d otherwise be oblivious to on my own.

Honestly, it’s been a beneficial experience and one I’d recommend to anyone in their chosen major.

You’ll never have the opportunity again to personally pick the brain of an expert on a subject, so take advantage of it. And don’t forget to think of them as your friend.

on the side we were offered a dish of spaghetti with marinara sauce or sautéed spinach.

My friend and I opted for the spaghetti with marinara sauce.

The chicken was cooked just right, not too crispy or soggy, and the sauce had good flavor, but it was also not anything absolutely spectacular. Additionally, the size of the meal, had we not split it, would have been astronomically unmanageable for a single person’s meal.

Another friend chose to try the capellini papalini ($13.95), a mixture of angel hair pasta tossed in cream, tomato and meat sauce mixed with prosciutto, mushrooms and sweet peas. Her meal was very appetizing, what with the array of flavors in it. However, she was also unable to finish all but a small portion of her pasta.

Another friend ordered plain spaghetti with marinara sauce ($12.95). He thought it tasted good, but then again, it is pretty difficult to fail at making a simple meal of spaghetti. This dish was a manageable portion compared to our other entrées.

Although we enjoyed our meals, we all felt that they were slightly overpriced. Our food was good, but nothing spectacular.

It was comparable to Olive Garden. Many of the entrées on the menu were priced at well above $20 or $30 each. All of the veal entrées were nearly $40.

I’m guessing that although it is veal, if it was similar to the quality of our meals, it would not be worth that price.

Overall, I found Paul’s Fine Italian Dining to be a good restaurant but not anything dazzling.

Additionally, it is not necessarily a good venue for people of college age to go to on a Friday evening with their friends to unwind after a stressful week of classes.

Instead, I would suggest it as a good, local place to take parents or grandparents should they come into town for a day or two.

The ambiance is quiet and elegant, making it appropriate for a formal dinner with the family. Our experience there was decent, but it was definitely too quiet a place to be perfect for us.

On the plus side though, Paul’s is only a 10 minute drive from campus, located on Robinhood Road.

Book Review | I Am America (And So Can You!)

Colbert’s satire gets lost in translation Michael Berkowitz | Contributing writer

Stephen Colbert’s book I Am America (And So Can You!) brings Colbert’s faux right-wing egotist persona to the page. The transition is not an entirely smooth one since much of the charm of the Colbert character comes from his delivery.

However, the book still captures the spirit of the show, and fans will not be disappointed.

Before I go insane, I will say for simplicity’s sake, “Colbert” will refer to the character and “the author” will refer to the actor.

The book serves as a sort of Colbert Bible, guiding the reader through the character’s beliefs.

Neatly divided into chapters and with a helpful index, the book provides an opportunity for the “Colbert Nation” to cite Colbert’s opinions in any political or moral argument. As he writes, “Then it’s two against one, and we win.”

The book uses similar formatting techniques to Jon Stewart’s America (The Book), including footnotes, end of chapter games and notes in the margin to help soften the fairly straightforward satire of the text.

Unlike the Stewart book, however, I Am America is limited by the scope of the Colbert character.

The author tries to include humor beyond that provided by Colbert’s pomposity but can not avoid the fact that Colbert is supposed to be writing the book.

As a result, Colbert is constantly selfreverential, overtly biased and consistently ludicrous.

Yes, that’s the same character he plays on the show, except that often the best moments on The Colbert Report are when the façade disappears and the actor shows through the mask.

Those moments of humanity make it easier to laugh along with the absurdity.

Still while the jokes about self-promotion wear thin as do his many attempts to advertise within the book (Chevron: The Gas with Techron Sports Chapter), his take on politics is filled with memorable one liners.

As an attack on homosexuality, he argues that man is made in God’s image and that God is not gay. Proof he says, comes from the role of God in the biblical story of Moses. “He turned Moses’ ‘staff ’ into a ‘serpent’ ... “If he was gay, it’d be the other way around.”

Lummox | By Will Warren

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In his new book, I Am American (And So Can You!), Stephen Colbert uses his TV persona to write satirically about political issues.

Unfortunately, he loses most of the subtle, painfully funny satire that he brings to television. Most of the jokes, similar to the one above, are gags.

At the end of the book is a transcript of his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The transcript reveals the shortcomings of the book, as the speech, which was very funny and biting (YouTube it if you have read this far and haven’t seen it) falls flat without his delivery.

The sprawling book covers topics from animals to sex and even sex with animals.

Colbert sometimes covers topics perfectly: his views on sex and science (against both, of course) provided numerous chuckles. The total number of hits outweighs the misses,

but the book is far from the author’s comedic best.

It reads like an extended version of the correspondent boxes in America (the Book).

As a result, it is a poorly delivered joke. That delivery is no fault of Colbert, but his use of a medium constraining his talents.

Ultimately, like Colbert’s show, I Am America (And So Can You!) should be treated as episodic. This is not The Da Vinci Code, which can be read in one sitting but rather a book that deserves its own breathing time.

A chapter or two could serve as a perfect study break. Or, as Colbert would hope, it may help stem the tide of tears that comes in knowing that his show will be on hiatus until the conclusion of the writers’ strike.

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Event Preview | Fall Dance Concert

Guest artists contribute choreography for upcoming show

By Ae’Jay Mitchell | Contributing writer

Photo courtesy of the WFU Dance Department

The University Dance Company’s fall concert features work by guest choreographers and delivers a variety of thought-provoking pieces.

Event Review | Thomas Kozak

What happens when one must deliver a message without words, when movement is the only medium of communication?

This is the theme of the university’s Fall Dance Concert.

From a relationship’s turmoil in South Africa to a pursuit of conquering the limitless possibility of flight, the concert promises a journey from beginning to end.

Since September, members of the 2007-’08 Dance Company have been rehearsing during the week in preparation for the fall concert.

The concert features jazz dance choreography by Director of Dance Nina Lucas, contemporary dance choreography by assistant professor of dance Christina Tsoules-Soriano and a restaging of the ballet Markitenka by dance lecturer Brantly Shapiro.

Joining the choreography team this year are guest artists Duane Cyrus, Gyula Pandi and Tina Yarborough Liggins.

Cyrus brings contemporary choreography to the members of the dance company with a unique style developed through his studies at the Julliard School and University of Illinois and his membership with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.

Pandi delivers a taste of contemporary ballet developed by his membership with the Hungarian National Ballet and 26-year career at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Liggins, an adjunct professor of dance, gives jazz dance technique a twist of what she calls “Afrofusion” in the upcoming concert.

Her experience includes working at the North Carolina School of the Arts Intensive Program and choreography of musical theatre pieces such as Cats and Sweet Charity.

Ryann DuRant, freshman Presidential Scholar for Distinguished Achievement in dance, said one piece “will present movement in comparison to falling objects, before, during and after the fall.”

Senior Jamie Patterson described one piece as “a story of a man and woman, a fight driven by love.”

Senior Morgan Partin said she hopes to present “subject material that evokes thought, reminding us that there are always tough situations in life, but that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.”

This year’s dance concert opens at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 – Dec. 1 and 2 p.m. Dec. 2 on the MainStage Theatre. Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for students, available through the Theatre Box Office at Ext. 5295.

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By CeCe Brooks | Contributing writer

penguin,” Oscar. Oscar accompanies Kozak for all of his performances as a First, let me start off by saying that I was mascot.

For several songs, Kozak opted for a very impressed by sophomore Thomas Kozak on the night of his concert in duet; once a guitar duet with freshman Olivia Milroy and many other times Shorty’s.

I can’t imagine performing in such with sophomore vocalist Kara Solarz. an intimate environment with a drink He and Milroy collaborated for a cover machine at the bar constantly causing a that reminded me strongly of Damien racket, especially when performing such Rice and his vocal companion Lisa Hannigan. personal pieces.

In one of the several songs with Solarz, As I walked into Shorty’s, I almost thought that I had come in to the wrong Kozak brought out a ukulele, inspired by venue because I just saw students gath- Jake Shimabukuro’s cover of the Beatles’ ered at tables, talking and studying, but “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on the ukulele. I, personally, have never seen that is the nature of Kozak’s music.

He is mellow and relaxed, making stu- someone play the ukulele, but all the same I was very impressed with Kozak’s dents feel at ease and comfortable.

This can be attributed not only to skills. It is interesting to watch the intenKozak’s sound but also his appearance sity of someone playing; both in Kozak’s on the stage. He was wearing jeans, a performance and Shimabukoro’s video sweatshirt and no shoes, making the on YouTube, I noticed how quickly the performance feel as if I was casually fingers move and how precise the player must be. watching a friend perform.

In another duet with Solarz, Kozak Kozak’s music is very relaxing. He does a good job living up to his idols Damien sang a song that he claimed to be his favorite original, Rice and Iron & inspired by the InvisWine because before ible Children docuhe even listed them Want an encore? mentary. as some of his influKozak demonences, I thought Visit ogb.wfu.edu to see the live strated his emoto myself that he video of Kozak’s show tional side and litsounded a lot like erary inclination in them. a song relating to a The concert was prepared, but at the same time friend’s death, where he used a poem by impromptu. On several occasions Kozak Emily Dickenson for the chorus.

Kozak, a sophomore from Alabama, responded to someone in the audience, either a request or a friend’s birthday, said he does not see a career in music, with a song. One such song was the but plans to keep doing it for enjoyoriginal, “Champagne Taste on a Beer ment because he likes the atmosphere Budget,” which was a little more upbeat of small shows. He says he decided to and energetic than his other composi- start playing guitar at the age of 16 when he borrowed his mom’s guitar and tried tions.

Another spontaneous moment was to play it.

Though Damien Rice and Iron & when a friend of Kozak’s requested a song and then proceeded to sing it with him. Wine are among his influences, he also This song reminded me of such comi- admires Josh Ritter and his family for cal vocalists as Jimmy Fallon or Adam musical inspiration. He says his favorite Sandler with lines like, “ride on, carrot cover that he performs is Ritter’s “Best boy” and a reference to Mr. Tumnus from is for the Best”. In addition to playing solo, Kozak also has a folk/indie rock The Chronicles of Narnia.

Although this was hilarious, my favor- band in which he contributes rhythmic ite part of the show was Kozak’s “show guitar and vocals.

Ryan Coons Staff columnist

In an effort to show my support for my colleagues in the Writers Guild of America who are currently on strike, I have chosen not to write an article this week.

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AMERICAN GANGSTER (R) Fri. BEOWULF (PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 11:05 11:45 1:45 2:30 4:20 5:00 7:00 7:45 9:40 10:20 & Sat. 11:05 1:15 2:50 4:35 6:30 8:00 9:50 11:20 12:15 Sun. 11:05 1:15 2:50 4:35 6:30 8:00 9:50 Sun. 11:05 11:45 1:45 2:30 4:20 5:00 7:00 7:45 Mon. - Thu. 1:15 2:50 4:35 6:30 8:00 9:50 9:40 10:20 SAW IV (R) Fri. & Sat. 11:25 4:20 9:25 11:40 Mon. - Thu. 1:45 2:30 4:20 5:00 7:00 7:45 9:40 Sun. 11:25 4:20 9:25 10:20 LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (R) Fri. - Thu. 1:00 4:00 7:00 10:00

MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM (G) Fri. - Sun. 10:45 1:00 3:15 5:30 Mon. - Thu. 1:00 3:15 5:30

FRED CLAUS (PG) Fri. - Sun. 11:00

11:35 12:10 1:35 2:10 2:45 4:10 4:50 5:15 6:45 7:25 7:55 9:20 10:05 10:35 11:50 Mon. - Thu. 1:35 2:10 2:45 4:10 4:50 5:15 6:45 7:25 7:55 9:20 10:05 10:35 11:50

LIONS FOR LAMBS (R) Fri. - Sun. 10:45 1:05 3:20 5:35 7:50 10:10 Mon. - Thu. 1:05 3:20 5:35 7:50 10:10

BEE MOVIE (PG) Fri. - Sun. 11:00 11:30

12:15 1:10 1:40 2:25 3:50 4:35 6:10 6:50 7:35 8:30 9:00 10:40 Mon. - Thu. 1:10 1:40 2:25 3:50 4:35 6:10 6:50 7:35 8:30 9:00 10:40

Mon. - Thu. 4:20 9:25

WHY DID I GET MARRIED? (PG–13) Fri. - Thu. 1:40 6:40 DAN IN REAL LIFE (PG–13) Fri. Sun. 11:20 1:20 3:40 6:00 8:20 10:40 Mon. - Thu. 1:20 3:40 6:00 8:20 10:40

30 DAYS OF NIGHT (R) Fri. - Sun. 12:00 2:40 5:15 7:50 10:30 Mon. - Thu. 2:40 5:15 7:50 10:30

MICHAEL CLAYTON (R) Fri. - Sun. 11:10 2:00 4:50 7:40 10:30 Mon. - Thu. 2:00 4:50 7:40 10:30

THE GAME PLAN (PG) Fri. - Sun. 11:15 1:45 4:15 7:10 9:35 Mon. - Thu. 1:45 4:15 7:10 9:35

P2 (R) Fri. & Sat. 9:25 12:05 Sun. - Thu. 9:25

MARTIAN CHILD (PG) Sun. 11:50 2:20 4:50 7:20

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