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Despite the fact that the university suspended its need-blind admissions policy more than three years ago, prospective students and the current study body have been largely unaware of the changes.

University fails to inform students, community of admissions policy change

BY IAN RUTLEDGE Executive News Editor rutlig11@wfu.edu For students at colleges and universities across the nation, financial aid is an invaluable resource that makes receiving higher education a feasible option, especially during

hard economic times. This national trend for an increased need of financial assistance is identified in the Trends in Student Aid 2012 report, produced by CollegeBoard, which reported that education loans distribution doubled from $55.7 billion (in 2011 dollars) to $113.4 billion between 2001-02 and 2011-12. Students at Wake Forest are no exception from this need.

According to the Office of Student Financial Aid’s website, 63 percent of the university’s undergraduates receive some type of financial support and 40 percent receive need-based aid.

This may not come as a surprise to many members of the campus community since the university promises to meet 100 percent of a student’s demonstrated need. However, what many students may be unaware of is that in the spring of 2009 the Board of Trustees voted to no longer have the Office of Admissions operate on a “need-blind” admissions policy.

According to Bill Wells, director of the Office of Financial Aid, when this policy was in effect it meant that the Office of Admissions

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LGBTQ faculty still face hurdles Despite changes to culture, university still has progress to make

BY DORSEY HILL Staff Writer hillmd12@wfu.edu In light of recent diversity rankings, Wake Forest’s racial makeup has become a hot button issue. It seems that diversity is getting more attention than ever on campus.

However, there is a group, beyond race, striving for recognition: openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and faculty.

“It’s high time our diversity mission included more extensive engagement with every facet of what diversity is and means,” Shannon Gilreath, professor of law, said.

Is the university’s commitment to diversity apparent when students look at the makeup of faculty and staff? “I don’t think LGBTQ professors are well represented, because I

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Working in academia and living in the Bible Belt are challenges that many LGBTQ professors face, even at the university. don’t think that I’ve had a [LGBTQ] professor thus far. I think they’re probably underrepresented on campus overall,” junior Lindsey Davis said.

“In terms of increasing representation of LGBTQ faculty — we provide the same support that we do to all other faculty. They

have the same access to all faculty positions, including tenure track positions. We don’t specifically recruit LGBTQ representatives, but we do provide similar starting packages and similar support for same sex partner

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In a meeting with President Hatch Feb.11, it came to the attention of the editorial staff of the Old Gold & Black that the university no longer has a need-blind admissions policy. Rather, the university now follows a “need-aware” admissions policy.

Need-blind admissions, which has become the hallmark policy of prestigious institutions like Duke University and Vanderbilt University, states that a university cannot use ability-to-pay in deciding which students are admitted to the university.

Wake Forest also had this policy until 2009, when the Board of Trustees decided that the university would adopt a need-aware admissions process.

President Hatch stated to the editorial staff that the transition was made in an effort to ensure that financial aid packages would be more substantial to students. The university found that too many students

On this editorial staff, not one of us knew that the university was not need-blind in admissions anymore. were leaving college with huge sums of debt.

It came down to an ethical decision: offer fewer students more meaningful packages or allow too many students to leave owing thousands of dollars?

We are seeing a national trend emerge as other universities such as Wesleyan University in Connecticut and Tufts University in Massachusetts have also left their “need-blind” policies behind.

To compete nationally with other top-tier universities (many with larger endowments than Wake Forest), the university must decide where its money is spent to support rigorous academic programs, campus

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infrastructure, Division I sports, etc. While we understand the administration’s decision to become “need-aware,” why was there never a conversation to discuss student concerns and possible consequences?

A lack of conversation and knowledge leads to misunderstandings and frustration.

We are disappointed in the university’s lack of communication about this decision.

On this editorial staff, not one of us knew that the university was not need-blind in admissions anymore.

And every student we asked had the same reaction: “Since when?” It is as if the university made this major decision without informing anyone outside of the Board of Trustees or the administration.

Even the university’s website is confused.

The theatre and dance department’s website says, “Wake Forest is one of 27 need-blind schools where a students’ admission is not

dependent on the family’s ability to pay for college.” The Information Systems’ site also says that the university is need-blind. This is inaccurate and unacceptable.

Potential students viewing those pages on the university’s website could apply to the university under the impression that their financial situations will not be taken into consideration.

We wonder how such a major change to our university could have gone unnoticed by so many?

We call on the university’s administration to explain this decision to become needaware to the community and allow a discussion for questions and concerns to take place.

There should be more knowledge among the student body about a decision that was made three years ago. Clearly, transparency was not a priority.

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Deacon Profile: Steve Gunkel

BY MARGARET SEAY Contributing Writer seaymk11@wfu.edu

Steve Gunkel is a professor of sociology who specializes in criminology and white-collar crime. He has worked full time at the university since 2011 and has been a visiting professor at the university since 2004. Gunkel received his B.A. in sociology from Washington State University in 1984 and his Masters from the same institution in 1986. In 1992, Gunkel was awarded his Ph.D. from Indiana University.

Recently, Gunkel acted as a panelist at a symposium, Under the Gun. Next semester, through the new faculty fellow’s association, Gunkel and his wife, Ana-Maria Wahl, will be working alongside resident advisors to counsel freshmen in one of the south campus dorms.

How did you become interested in studying sociology?

I did the junior college route so I earned an associates degree at community college [before going to a four-year university]. I had only been at Washington State for two years to earn the B.A. and then stuck around for another two years. I wanted to teach from a really young age. Even as young as a middle-schooler, I was going back to my old elementary school and tutoring math.

I thought I was going to be a high school math teacher, of all things.

I discovered sociology in the second quarter of junior college. I had never had it in high school, but I had a great mentor. She was amazing.

Her name was Anne Sungren, and she was kind of rare, too. Sometimes, a downside to a junior college is the faculty are not as engaged [as those in major institutions]. I came to find out Ann Sundgren was active on the national level with the American Sociological Association and taught sociology as a specialist.

I took her for introductory sociology, then deviant behavior and social psychology, and then I fell in love with the field. Right away, I focused on criminology. It seems weird to say I ‘specialized’ in criminology, because it’s a huge field. Criminology really can kind of give you the bigger picture of why we find ourselves where we are at with crime.

I just recently took part in a gun violence symposium. There is kind of that desperate attempt that all of us have to make sense of what is really going on [in crime], and I think sociology gives you that ability to put the broader social forces into that context and see how are those forces influencing our individual lives.

What first interested you in white-collar crime?

The Iranian hostage crisis was going on and there were several Iranian exchange students that were at Tacoma community college. It was very tense.

I wonder if there was a confluence of things that were happening at the time, but it would have been shortly after Watergate which was the real awakening of the American consciousness about crime and that it could be at the very highest level of power.

I was interested in crime from a very young age.

I also love math and that’s what I thought I was going to do. I’m still on the quantitative side of things. I’m teaching research methods this semester, and next year I think I’ll go back into the rotation of social statistics.

So I guess I haven’t abandoned my love of numbers, but I think criminology was a much more attractive fit. I loved that you could actually do research, share it with your students and maybe in the process, have some kind of meaningful impact on crime in its many manifestations.

What brought you to the university and what made you decide to do research here specifically in this area?

I’ve actually been at Wake off and on for years. When Dr. Wahl came here, I worked on sabbatical in a school in North Carolina for a year, and while I was there, Dr. Smith, my undergraduate sociology professor, was then my boss. I think he was the chair at the time. I had some part-time working opportunities here at Wake.

What are some ways in which criminology can be applied to real-world situations? Why do you teach it?

I think the public kind of gets it wrong.

The crime rate has been moving downward since the 90s.

I think we often hear it reported in the media that it has been increasing, and what I find ironic is when the crime rate was starting into its most downward trend, the media actually picked up coverage on crime.

The coverage is out of step with the sort of statistical realties.

I think in terms of exposing some of those myths, I always tell students who take that class it’s probably one of the most important classes that they’ll take.

White collar crime will always be more financially expensive and it will always be more physically harmful than all common

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crime put together in any reporting period.

I think a lot of the sub-prime mortgage market meltdown was based on fraudulent practices.

When I use that price tag, a lot of times students will have just that reaction, “Well, could you show me some numbers on that or where do you get your statistics?” But that’s only for the cases of white collar crime that we know of.

The hallmark of white collar offending verses street crime is that it would have that one-on-one component of the perpetrator the victim whereas white collar crime, most people just don’t even know that they were cheated on their mortgage.

What is something your students might not know about you?

A lot of students know I did Division I athletics back in the day with track and field.

I was the fastest kid in my school in fifth grade and sixth grade. I was beating the older kids but then I just stopped running.

Then sophomore year of high school, I went out for the cross country team because I wanted to stay in a certain weight division for wrestling.

That’s all I went out for, and we [the cross country team] were awesome. We ended up third in the state by my senior year, and by that point I think I was running third.

Believe it or not, running actually paid for part of my education.

My sophomore year of junior college I was on a running scholarship for Washington State.

BRIEFLIES

Wake ‘N Shake raises money for Humanities Institute to host PREPARE hosts 21st annual Breast Cancer Narratives cancer research March 23 Speak-Out event Wake ‘N Shake, the university’s 12 hour dance marathon, will be raising money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund. The dance marathon will take place from noon to midnight March 23 in Reynolds Gym. There will be a registration fee of $20 which will go towards facility fees and dancer T-shirts.

To raise money, the dancers will submit 10 names of people they think are generous enough to donate to the cause.

Each dancer has a minimum of $50 to raise with a goal of $200.

Wake Forest University Humanities Institute with Programming Partners WFU Center for Bioethics, Health and Society and WFU Women’s and Gender Studies Program is sponsoring an interdisciplinary symposium, “Her Stories: Breast Cancer Narratives and Counter-Narratives.”

The event will be open to everyone and will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. March 1 in Babcock Auditorium at Wake Forest School of Medicine and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 2 in Benson 401. To register for the event, go to pdc.wfu.edu/event/5769/.

PREPARE will host its 21st annual Speak-Out event. The event will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in Wait Chapel. The ceremony honors sexual assault survivors. The event is part of the university’s Tie a Yellow Ribbon Week.

This week is the university’s annual sexual assault awareness week.

Anonymous testimonials submitted by university students will be read. Singing groups will also perform. For more information, contact Amy Shuman at shumanak@ wfu.edu.

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The future of college grumbling online

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John Kirkpatrick and Ryan Edwards, both Wake Forest alumni, launched their new complaints website, Campus Grumble, Jan. 14.

Campus Grumble aims to provide students with an outlet for complaints

BY FLETCHER LAICO Staff Writer laicft12@wfu.edu As the power of social media builds with every passing day, a new website called Campus Grumble is sweeping across Wake Forest’s campus. Founded by John Kirkpatrick (‘12) and Ryan Edwards (‘12), uni-

versity alumni of the School of Business, Campus Grumble was launched in full Jan. 14. The premise of the website is that students can identify problems on campus that they believe are solvable. Users simply write their “grumbles” and propose solutions so other users can “mumble” in support of the complaint, similar to a “like” on Facebook.

Grumbles can address any problem, big or small. For example, the most popular grumbles thus far are about parking, bees on the quad and the Magnolia Room’s hours.

“The idea sparked for me when I was realizing the amount of people who were tak-

ing to social media to vent about their issues on campus, [which] were being blasted through mediums that would have such a small chance of actually making a difference,” Kirkpatrick said. “I thought we could make a lot of difficulties easier for administrators and students alike by having everything in one central, easy-to-use platform.”

Campus Grumble is anonymous so, in theory, users can confidently articulate their concerns without worrying about how their complaints will be perceived.

Campus Grumble is currently used on three college campuses — Wake Forest, High Point and UNC Greensboro — because students can only use the site if their school has subscribed to it. Kirkpatrick and Edwards hope to expand to other Southern universities, such as Florida State, according to junior Parth Desai, a Campus Grumble intern.

In its single month of existence, there are already 228 Wake Forest student users and 11 administrators, and 54 grumbles have been posted.

Students seem generally positive about the potential impact of Campus Grumble on student life.

“Overall, I love the idea behind Campus Grumble,” sophomore Bobby McCooey said. “I feel like it utilizes something that students today are always on, social media, and brings that directly in front of the administration. Although I don’t think it’s been around long enough to aid any seri-

ous change yet, I have high hopes for the future.”

Freshman John Marbach agrees. “I think they’re off to a good start. Once they have their mobile app ready, they’ll really start to gain some traction,” he said.

With a recent partnership with Student Government, Campus Grumble attempts to ensure that students’ complaints will truly be heard.

Student Government regularly visits the website for ideas about how to improve campus life. Student Government President Tré Easton says, “Personally, I find it enlightening to find out what individuals are thinking about the policies and actions occurring on campus. All in all, Campus Grumble is a boon for us.” In fact, Student Government has intervened to resolve a grumble on multiple occasions. For example, one recent grumble regarding Wake Forest’s advising system read: “The random advisors we get as freshmen are often unable to give advice on courses that aren’t in their own department.” The grumble was mumbled by 14 people, a relatively high number.

Shortly thereafter, Easton posted a response on Campus Grumble, writing, “You’ll be happy to know that one of the initiatives Student Government’s Academic committee is undertaking for the semester is advisement reform. We want one that is more expansive, more discipline focused and one that has permanence from freshman to senior year.”

LGBTQ: Faculty still face subtle discrimination Continued from Page 1 hires as we would for spousal hires,” Jacquelyn Fetrow, Dean of the College, said.

The difficulty lies in numbers. Recruitment around LGBTQ populations is problematic because there is so little data available to the university.

“We have really good data on the gender breakdown of our faculty and staff, on the racial and ethnic breakdown, on our age breakdown and disabilities,” Angela Mazaris, director of Felsenburg the LGBTQ center, said. “We don’t currently collect any of that information around sexual orientation and gender identity. It makes it really hard to do things like track retention, and job satisfaction,” In August 2011, Wake Forest opened its LGBTQ center in an effort to support the campus community.

Since then, the LGBTQ community has garnered increased attention. “The college was active in supporting the initiation of

the LGBTQ Center and the hiring of its director, Angela Mazaris. Providing support for the LGBTQ community is crucial — and this center is doing much to provide that support,” Fetrow said.

“Wake Forest has a reputation nationally of being a very supportive environment in which to teach and research. I think that reputation is well-deserved. I don’t want to paint a picture of gays in the academy that is rosier than it really is.There is much discrimination against us that is real, direct and indirect. But I count myself fortunate to work at a university where I simply haven’t had to deal with personalized antigay bias,” said Gilreath.

When asked whether he had experienced discrimination against LGBTQ professors at Wake Forest, senior Calvin De Revere said, “I haven’t experienced it firsthand.”

Many other students and faculty have echoed that sentiment.

“This community has been totally accepting. While there might be some political conservatism, that doesn’t extend at all in terms of being welcoming to me,” said Katherine Bruce, a visiting sociology professor.

However, it isn’t always the social scene that openly LGBTQ professors find chal-

lenging. Situated in the middle of the Bible belt, North Carolina, and subsequently Wake, have a reputation for political conservatism.

On May 8, 2012, North Carolina voters passed Amendment One which prohibits same sex marriage. The current political atmosphere presents the university and its faculty with some very real issues.

Domestic partner benefits are available through university health insurance. How-

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Faculty have to weigh the value of being open ... and their lives with not wanting to be objects of curiosity.”

Angela Mazaris

Director of LGBTQ Center

ever, faculty with domestic partners end up paying an extra $2,000 to 4,000 a year in taxes. The policy also specifically excludes any transgender-related care, including counseling, hormones and gender reassignment surgery.

“Of the challenges professors have, some are around equity issues,” Mazaris said. “In a less tangible way for some faculty who are ‘out,’ it changes how their students think

about them. And that can be a real challenge in the classroom. So I think that faculty have to really weigh the value of being open about themselves and their lives with not wanting to become objects of curiosity.”

This only compounds any challenges openly LGBTQ face within the traditional structure of academia.

The tenure system can be a challenge for any scholar and the LGBTQ community is no exception.

“As much as academia says that it wants to be queer friendly, I think it is more difficult to climb within the peer review process if your work is queer in some way,” Heather Branstetter, visiting professor of English, said. “It means that you have to fit your ideas into previous ideas. The model of what is valued in the tenure system is inherently hostile to new ideas.”

Though many openly LGBTQ faculty have found a place within the Wake Forest community, the issues of identity and diversity still warrant open dialogue on campus.

“I will be glad when this issue is no longer an issue,” Miriam Felsenberg, professor of law, said.

“I have never felt that my students cared who I went home to. They cared only about my teaching.”

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would not consider an applicant’s ability to pay for college in determining whether or not to offer the applicant admission to the university.

Yet, when the university moved to a “need-aware” policy, it became able to consider an applicant’s ability to pay as a factor of admission.

“This is something that was decided by the Board of Trustees,” Wells said. “It was done in order to reduce the amount of loans for the students who were receiving financial aid.”

According to Wells, even with the growth of the amount of financial aid available from $22.6 million in 2007-08 to $42.7 million in 201213 the university does Wells not have enough funds to cover the financial aid that would be needed if the university operated under a need-blind policy, without creating significant student debt.

Martha Allman, Dean of Admissions, similarly citied the need to reduce the amount of loans students were taking on as the driving force behind the move by the Trustees.

“Because our endowment is smaller than many of our peer institutions and thus our financial aid resources are more modest, targeting our financial aid dollars allows us to attract a diverse and talented student body while reducing the debt burden on the students who are admitted,” Allman said.

This move by the university is one that follows other universities abandoning their decisions to either meet 100 percent of

demonstrated need or admit under a needblind admissions policy because universities cannot afford to do both, according to Kevin Kiley of insidehighered.com.

Universities like Wesleyan University and Tufts University both abandoned their need-blind policies in order to conserve financial resources.

However, many students were unaware the Board ever made this change to the university policy.

“I was unaware that a change had occurred in the way that students were considered for admission into Wake Forest,” junior Kara Harvey said.

Sophomore Margaret Mulkerrin said, “I didn’t know. They really do not publicize this information.”

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My ... concern with this news of the university as non-need blind is that I feel my admissions decision was cheapened.”

Margaret Mulkerrin Sophomore

Further complicating the issue of community knowledge of the move is that multiple university webpages including Giving to Student Aid, the department of theatre and dance scholarships and aid and the Information Systems employment opportunities all still claim that the university is need-blind.

This inconsistency shows that the decision to change policies was not well broadcasted.

However, Allman said, “Our website and university publications no longer describe Wake Forest as ‘need-blind’ but unfortunately we have no control over Wikipedia and other independent websites.”

While it is true the university’s admissions website does not claim that the university is need-blind, a potential student searching on Google or the university’s website could easily be mislead by these other exsisting outdated statements.

A different concern some students have is what adverse effects this policy change has had or could have on the make-up student body and the university’s ability to attract top students.

“It seems problematic that the university would want to attract a more diverse population including students that would require financial assistance, but also become a university who uses a student’s financial situation as a determinant of academic worth,” Harvey said.

“By becoming a need-aware institution, I believe that Wake Forest could easily deny very qualified students just because of their financial need.”

Yet, Amanda Griffith, assistant professor of economics, believes that the change may be beneficial to diversifying the student body.

“I don’t see that this policy would have an adverse impact on diversity, and could actually have a positive impact by causing more of the needy students that are admitted to actually enroll, due to the more attractive aid packages,” Griffith said. “I think that only institutions with very large endowments and financial aid budgets can feasibly do need-blind admissions.”

Both Allman and Wells agree with Griffith’s view of the benefits of the current university policy.

“Wake Forest has actually become a more diverse place in the past four years with increased numbers of minority students and first generation college students,” Allman said. “The decision to become need aware

was not one that was taken lightly but we were convinced that in the current economic climate, it was in the best interest of both Wake Forest and our students.”

Nevertheless, many students are still concerned that the decision detracts from the university’s overall appeal.

“My honest concern with this news of the university as non-need blind is that I feel my admissions decision was cheapened,” Mulkerrin said. “Maybe I was admitted because my parents could pay. Now that is a scary thought.”

Facts about Wake Forest Financial Aid: - In spring 2009 the university adopted a “needaware” admissions policy - 63 percent of students receive financial assistance of some kind - 40 percent of students receive need-based aid For more information check out the financial aid website: www.wfu.edu/finaid/

Administration names new VP of Campus Life

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Penny Rue was announced as the new vice president of Campus Life

by Provost Kersh and President Hatch Feb. 18.

Ken Zick prepares to retire from his post as current vice president of Campus Life

BY HILARY BURNS Editor-in-chief burnhs0@wfu.edu Wake Forest announced its new vice president of campus life Feb 18.

Penny Rue will assume this position in mid-July. Rue is currently the vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of California San Diego.

Rue looks forward to learning about the university culture and community.

“I will be a little like an anthropologist,” Rue said. “I look forward to participating in rituals that create a sense of belonging here.”

Rue will oversee most facets of student life with broad responsibility for the well-

being and safety of students and their engagement outside the classroom, according to a university press release.

Rue has previously held positions at UC San Diego, University of Virginia, Georgetown University and The University of Maryland as well as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Rue said that she predicts a “happy adjustment” to working with a smaller student body here at Wake Forest.

A search committee co-chaired by President Hatch and Provost Rogan Kersh and composed of faculty, administrators and student trustee Jim O’Connell recommended Rue’s appointment.

She will succeed Ken Zick, vice president of student life and instructional resources.

Last year Zick announced his plans to step down from his position this June after 25 years in the role. He will continue teaching at the university after a year’s leave, according to the press release.

“Dr. Rue is a very experienced and seasoned administrator of student affairs who has an excellent grasp of student development,” Zick said. “She is very student centered.”

Zick feels confident that Rue will engage in conversations with students about development and overall wellbeing, which will benefit the university.

Rue met with a representation of Student Government during her campus visit on Feb. 18. Rue also had a luncheon with student leaders.

“They asked me how I wanted to spend my day here and I said, ‘let me meet the students’,” Rue said.

Student leaders offered Rue insight into Wake Forest’s culture as well as tips for sucess.

“Dr. Rue definitely has a willingness to work with students and hopefully will help bring students’ voices in front of the administration,” sophomore Colby Moore said. “I thought she was very open and willing to discuss issues pertinent to campus.”

Rue has served in her current role as vice chancellor at UC San Diego since 2007 and has focused on enhancing the sense of community, advancing student health, safety and wellbeing as well as promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, according to the Feb. 18 university press release.

Rue will spend the rest of the semester at UC San Diego until she transitions into her new role in mid-July. Until then, Rue will continue learning about her future campus community.

“It is going to be an interesting process having my head in two worlds but I look forward to learning more and getting involved here at Wake Forest,” Rue said.

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The spiritual journey of a gay Christian Founder of Gay Christian Network talks opening doors to sexuality and faith

BY EMMA SKEELS Asst. Life Editor skeeer12@wfu.edu Justin Lee (‘00) was raised a Southern Baptist in his home state of Tennessee. Lee said that in high school he was the “unintentionally obnoxious Bible geek kid,” which explains how he earned the epithet “God Boy” from his classmates. He was outspoken against homosexuality.

Although he did have feelings for men, Lee thought it was just a phase he would grow out of. It wasn’t until his senior year of high school that Lee started considering that the word “gay” might apply to himself.

And that set off his transformation.

Lee is the founder and executive director of the Gay Christian Network, a non-profit ministry organization of more than 20,000 people who support Christians who happen to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, and the people who care about them. His new book, TORN: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate, came out in 2012 and has garnered national attention and acclaim.

When Lee arrived at the university for his freshman year, he faced not only the typical emotional struggles of a college freshman and the academic struggles of a Reynolds Scholar, but also many issues regarding his sexuality. He wasn’t sure who to confide in, what it meant to be gay and how would it affect his religion.

“I started looking to meet other gay people on campus, and at the time, the environment on campus was very different in terms of gay folks and conversations about gay folks,” said Lee. During his first year, Gay and Lesbian Bisexual Awareness Group (GALBA, which later turned into the Gay Straight Student Alliance) had “basically dwindled down to one person.”

Lee was also involved in Christian groups on campus. “They didn’t quite know what to do with me,” he said. “My Christian friends spent a lot of time preaching at me to become straight. And it became very difficult for me to hold on to my faith, which was the core of my life, and my identity and my future.”

In 2001, after his graduation from Wake Forest, Lee founded the Gay Christian Network. “We wanted to create a space where everyone could feel welcome, and know that even if we didn’t all agree on everything, that we could still love and support each other and pray for each other. That’s really where the Gay Christian Network came from.”

Although Lee hasn’t been back recently, he believes that things have changed for the better on campus.

However, he notes that it can still be very difficult to be LGBT and Christian on campus.

“There’s this sense in much of the culture that you kind of have to choose. For folks who are both, it can feel like you’re caught in the crossfire of a culture war.

That’s why the subtitle of my book is Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate. It’s not gays vs. Christians,” Lee said. “There are a lot of Christians who love

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Justin Lee, a Wake Forest alumnus, is the author of TORN: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate. gays and vice-versa. For gays and Christian folks at Wake, it’s important to keep the doors open for dialogue.”

Sharing stories may be one of the best ways to go about keeping those doors open.

For LGBTQ, it could be a coming-out story or what being gay means to them. For Christians, it could be sharing some of their religious experiences.

“The more we share our stories and listen to other people’s stories, the more this becomes about people instead of issues,” Lee said.

“As long as this is about issues, we’re just going to keep arguing,” he pointed out.

The university does have resources for any LGBTQ who may be struggling with their faith, whatever his or her affiliated religion may be.

Angela Mazaris, head of the LGBTQ center, stated that an integral part of the center’s mission is to meet people where they are in their faith journeys.

The LGBT Spirituality Group, led by the Wake Forest Baptist Church, meets on Sunday evenings to discuss questions of spirituality.

Graduate assistant April Johnson also deals explicitly with LGBTQ issues and spirituality issues.

Post office to be converted to pizza lounge A new student space will be added to Poteat Residence Hall over the summer

BY MOLLY DUTMERS Life Editor dutmmk11@wfu.edu Major changes will be coming to the upper quad come August. The post office, cur-

rently located in Poteat Residence Hall, will move to the first floor of Benson University Center into the space formerly held by the Office of Residence Life and Housing.

A restaurant and student lounge space will then move into Poteat.

The yet-to-be named restaurant and lounge is expected to serve pizza and wings and like Shorty’s will serve beer and wine.

The lounge space will include gaming areas featuring billiards and darts.

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When the Office of Residence Life and Housing relocated to Alumni Hall last summer, the expectation was that the first floor area of Benson would be converted into student lounge space.

However, contractors visited the space and found that lounge space would not be the best use of the area so they decided to move the post office there instead, opening up the space in Poteat.

The new restaurant in Poteat fits into the university’s plan to redevelop the upper quad.

“The center of campus is moving further north with the construction of the new residence halls and the new dining hall,” Tré Easton, president of student government, said.

“They want to reinvigorate the upper quad and make it more of the center of campus life and keep students there actively enjoying the Wake Forest experience.”

Easton says that the university recognizes the need for more lounge space and he believes that the new space and future projects will help alleviate this demand on campus.

“There is going to be a movement towards more lounge spaces in the buildings of the upper quad and having those places be places where students feel comfortable hanging out,” he said.

And while students are excited about the increased student lounge space and dining options, some students feel that the new space will not bring enough new choices.

“I don’t think it’s a very good idea. I’m a healthy person so I think if they were going to pick other food options they should give us more broad types of food,” sophomore Sarah Poulin said.

“We have Chick-fil-A and Moe’s, so I think that different types of food would be a better choice than a pizza and wings place.”

However, Poulin does believe that relocating the post office to Benson will be beneficial. “I think that Benson will probably be a better place for the post office,” she said.

“It’s a more centralized area.”

Freshman Brandon Clark also believes that having the post office in Benson will be more convenient. “If they can make it work in this area, the student center, it’s fine by me,” Clark said. “If some people are concerned about the walk (to the post office), I live in Babcock and I have to walk all the way up to upper quad and it’s not a big deal for me.”

Although there are some concerns from students, the majority of the student body is excited for the new restaurant and lounge.

“People are very excited about the project and they should be,” Easton said. “It’s going to be a really cool space I think.”

The Division of Campus Life will be releasing more information, which may include designs and architectural drawings of the new space, on the new addition to Hearn Plaza later this month or early in March.

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Spring Seize the Quad plans scrapped SG claims that more time is needed to ensure that event is a future success

BY DANNY WADLER Staff Writer wadldf11@wfu.edu Student Government has officially announced that Seize the Quad will not take place this semester to the disappointment of much of the student body.

The event was deliberated by a steering committee for several weeks and would have theoretically taken place during April of this year.

“It’s really unfair that they weren’t better prepared,” sophomore Tess Dennis said.

“Seize the Quad is a tradition that everybody loves and [Student Government] really let us down.”

Seize the Quad is a popular gathering open to every student, organized by Student Government on Hearn Plaza.

Student Body President Tré Easton ran for office last year on the promise of two Seize the Quad events, one for each semester. His platform read: “I am wholly committed to securing both a fall and spring Seize the Quad.”

Easton, however, said, “I don’t sense that a promise was broken.” He defended his position, stating that no official date had been set for the event.

“If we were promised a second Seize the Quad, I want to know why it isn’t happening,” freshman Nicole Berlin said. “I’d like to know if there’s going to be some sort of alternative event.”

No event has been scheduled for the purpose of replacing Seize the Quad. Student Government now hopes that Seize the Quad will become an annual event to take place only in the fall.

“Part of what helps an event unify the student body is that it happens once a year,” Margaret Mulkerrin, Seize the Quad steering committee member, said.

According to Student Government Chiefof-Staff Taylor Harvey, this unity was a major goal of the Seize the Quad event Oct.

13. “Last semester was an experiment,” he response team could be formed to be on said. “We wanted to take the event beyond stand-by for Seize the Quad,” Ashburn said. the whims of Student Government execuIn the past, Easton has been critical of tives.” “ineffectively far-reaching” platforms, but Seize the Quad was not a priority of the in light of the recent announcement, it is student government last year, either. A Seize the opinion of some students that his platthe Quad event had been scheduled for last form was impractical as well. spring but cancelled two weeks before the It said, “With proper planning and conset event date. sultation, the event can be pulled off withAccording to Easton, former Student out a hitch.”

Body President Nilam Patel did not think “I think last semester went well without the gathering was important. too many problems, so I don’t know why “It was not something she thought was [the steering committee] wouldn’t have good for campus life,” Easton said. been able to plan this one in time,” sopho“I’m not really surprised [it was canceled]. more Kristen Roche said.

It’s happened in the past,” senior Drew Last semester, eight student-health related Loveless said, referring to the spring of incidents were reported during the night of 2012.

Seize the Quad.

This year, Easton cites logistical issues The steering committee said the decision as reasons for not greenlighting the event. was based partially on the threat of adminHe claimed that Student Government istrative interference. needed more time to properly Mary Gerardy, Dean of organize security and place Campus Life, stated that Emergency Medical she had no idea the Services (EMS) on event was not gostandby. ing to happen Senior Nick and that the Ashburn, a a dmi ni s t ra member of tion sugthe unigested some v e r s i t y ’s changes to E m e r the event. g e n c y “It was Response our unTeam, said derstandthat EMS ing that would have the combeen able mittee was to provide moving stand-by serforward with vices. plans for STQ “We make this spring,” Geevery effort to rardy said. accommodate re“It was also our quests given with understanding that, folat least two lowing our collective debrief weeks noof fall semester’s event, there tice. With would be some tweaks to sevsuch early eral aspects of the notice, event.” an adStephen Hirst, ditional director of Student special Leadership and OrGraphic by Elizabeth Ropp/Old Gold & Black

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ganizations, agreed. “I last met with members of the planning committee a couple weeks ago and they said it was proceeding with some format changes,” Hirst said.

“The students were brainstorming other options that also sounded fun, but I thought we were moving forward with Seize the Quad.”

Harvey maintained that Student Government made the decision to avoid any problems that could come up.

“If something went wrong in April, there would never be Seize the Quad again, which is something we want to avoid,” Harvey said.

Some students feel the administration and Student Government share the blame.

“I know the administration has been stalking Seize the Quad,” senior Molly Stroup said. “But I wish [Easton] had kept his word.”

Easton stated that Student Government is fully responsible for the disappointment.

“It was a Student Government call, as Seize the Quad is a Student Government Event, but it took into account administrative concerns,” he said.

Prior to the fall of 2011, Seize the Quad looked very different. “It was much more sparse, with no centralized activity,” Harvey said.

The steering committee decided to delay the next Seize the Quad until the fall because it believes it needs more time to continue to examine and improve the design of the event.

Some students do not think Seize the Quad needs improvement, however. “I always have a good time at Seize the Quad,” Loveless said.

“It united all the Greeks and non-Greeks on campus for one night,” sophomore Sathya Williams said of last semester’s gathering.

“It wasn’t rowdy or violent. I don’t know why the administration would crack down on it.”

Easton said he did not wish to undermine quality for quantity. “I refuse to do something and not have it succeed,” he said. *Additional reporting by Daniel Schwindt, News Editor.

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PAG E 8 O N L I N E AT w w w. o l d g o l d a n d b l a c k . c o m E DITORS: Kristopher Kolb, kolbkl11@wfu.edu; Ade Ilesanmi, ilesao11@wfu.edu

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Letter to the Editor

Since the article “Health center revamps care” (Oct. 11, 2012) was published, Student Government and Student Health Services (SHS) have continued to collaborate to increase the inclusion of student input about on-campus health care. Together, the organizations crafted a survey to collect student opinion about SHS. The survey asked respondents questions about the type of appointment, quality of care, quality of explanations and advice, wait time and likelihood of recommendation of the service to another student and asked them to rank each category on a scale of one to five (extremely unsatisfied to very satisfied).

Students received the survey via email after visiting SHS, and 194 responses were collected over a month and a half long period. The full results of this survey are available on the student government web site, sg.wfu.edu/the-executives/speaker-ofthe-house/. Wait time was a particular area of concern for students.

On average, respondents ranked “satisfaction with wait time” as 3.41. In addition, 30 percent of students rated “wait time” as a one or a two, indicating that there is a room for improving both efficiency and appointment scheduling.

Another problem area the survey highlighted was that students also ranked their likelihood of recommending student health to another student as 3.91. This score demonstrates the trend of students grumbling about SHS to one another.

Despite these areas for improvement, the

survey also demonstrated that, on average, students are happy about the quality of care they receive at student health. 84 percent of respondents ranked “quality of care” as a four or a five, showing that they are very satisfied with the medical treatment they received.

Similarly, 82 percent of respondents ranked “quality of explanations and advice” as a four or a five.

SHS has recognized these problem areas and is working to create positive change.

Notably, SHS has implemented an online appointment scheduling system that cuts down on wait time and appointment scheduling confusion. Students who made their appointment, online consistently reported having a more positive experience in every survey category.

Student government and student health are continuing to look at ways to include student feedback and improve SHS. We look forward to future discussions with the Wake Forest Community, and encourage interested students to participate in the Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC). Any questions or concerns can be addressed to Cleo Johnson (johnc210@ wfu.edu) or Darren Aaron (aarondo@wfu. edu).

Sincerely, Cleo Johnson, Speaker of the House Darren Aaron, associate director of Student Health Service

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Word on the Quad How do you feel about the decision to hold Seize the Quad only once a year instead of both semesters?

“It’s a bummer for those who’ve only experienced it once before.”

Ryan Oakley (‘16)

“I don’t think it’s much of a loss for the general social life here.”

Oliver Beck (‘15)

“If it means they’ll improve it next semester, I’m okay with it.”

Hannah Gable (‘16)

WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK. J O I N O U R O N L I N E C O M M U N I T Y AT

“The fact that we’re doing it at all keeps up the school spirit.”

Nikolai Hlebowitsh (‘15)

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Thursday, February 21, 2013 | Page 9

“ lacks character Online uproar over article He’s a Kraniak| Public Decency

Students are entitled to share their opinions without fear of backlash Ty Kraniak

Sports Editor krantr11@wfu.edu

In my latest article “Bzdelik belongs at Wake Forest,” (Feb. 14) I was confident about my argument. And I still am. In my article, I reaffirmed my belief and support for coach Bzdelik because I feel as though our men’s basketball team has come a long way. Through my article, I was hoping to spread positive energy throughout the fan base and get people excited about the future

of Wake athletics. While I knew that some Wake Forest fans may disagree with his abilities and my opinion, I assumed they would do so respectfully. However, this was not the case. My article went viral on the Old Gold & Black web site, on Twitter and on OGBoards. People were verbally attacking me and even stalked my name on Google and Facebook.

My email address was found, spread and it was encouraged for people to contact me and “attack the writer until he transfers.” I was told things such as “you make me want to shred my Wake Forest diploma,” “let’s start a transfer Ty chant at the next game,” “you are an embarrassment to Wake Forest,” etc. I also want to add that these were posted under anonymous names, from behind a computer screen. Graphic and vulgar language was used simply because I support our basketball coach. This was a not a negative article in any sense, and it was meant to bind together fans in a cause to support the Demon Deacons.

Despite all the negative things said about me, I stood up for what I believe in and I feel like I did the right thing.

Contrary to popular belief, no outside motivation influenced the writing of this article. However, I want people to understand that this piece is not about me. I can handle the negative and personal remarks directed at me and I am still glad I shared my opinion. Before this situation, I believed I was a part of a respectful and humane community. Unfortunately, I now question these traits.

I thought that the Wake Forest community, students and alumni alike, followed a higher standard of moral behavior than displayed here. President Hatch always tells us to “keep it classy, Wake Forest,” and this mantra was obviously forgotten for a moment. While I do not know the names of those responsible for this behavior, it sad-

dens me to see the effects of a ruthless-mob mentality on a campus that I thought was so much more. Did we forget our Pro Humanitate motto?

A college newspaper should be a place for intelligent and productive debate. If you have an opinion, share it. Despite all of the negative things said about me, I stood up for what I believed in and I feel like I did the right thing.

I believe these people were ignorant, wrong and inappropriate. These people did not win, and they are not true Demon Deacons.

To those who respectfully disagreed with me, I appreciate you coming forward to state your views. Your voice has been heard.

To those reading this article, I want to say three things to you: If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t bother saying it. Stand up and fight for your beliefs. And above all, remain positive and hope for the best in all that you do.

Go Deacs.

“ a need for change Bzdelik’s track record suggests Weldon’s Wise Words | Wake Basketball

Men’s basketball coach has led the team far away from its once competitive status Nick Weldon

Asst. Sports Editor weldnr11@wfu.edu In the Feb. 14 edition of the Old Gold & Black, sports editor Ty Kraniak wrote an article entitled “Bzdelik belongs at Wake Forest,” concerning the state of Wake Forest basketball and its head coach, Jeff Bzdelik. Kraniak’s article reflected solely his own opinion and he believed everything he wrote to be true.

I am writing this article as a response because, while I respect Kraniak’s opinion, I could not disagree more with it. On Jan. 28, 2009, Wake Forest upset then No. 1 ranked Duke, pushing the Demon Deacons

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to the top of the college basketball rankings and improving their record to 17-1. That was only four years ago, but it already seems like an eternity.

In April 2010, head coach Dino Gaudio was fired after just three seasons, despite coaching the team to the NCAA Tournament in consecutive years. Gaudio, an assistant under Skip Prosser for six years, compiled a 61-31 record at Wake Forest and saw three of his former players selected in the first round of the NBA Draft.

At the time of Gaudio’s dismissal, athletic director Ron Wellman was very open about the decision.

“The decision was based on the overall performance the past three years,” Wellman said. “I looked at our February and March records and how the performances declined rather dramatically.”

Wellman wanted a coach that could win both late in the regular season and in the postseason. “I want someone for long-term success,” Wellman said.

One must wonder then, if Wellman indeed fired Gaudio for a lack of postseason success, how he could justify bringing Jeff Bzdelik, who has not even coached an

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One must wonder, then, if Wellman fired Gaudio ... how he could justify bringing Jeff Bzdelik.

NCAA Tournament game since his 200607 season at Air Force. Under Gaudio, Wake Forest went 20-24 in February and March and that, according to Wellman, was not good enough. Now in his third year coaching the Demon Deacons, Jeff Bzdelik’s teams have a combined record of 3-22 in that same period. That’s one more win than Bzdelik had in conference road games at his last two coaching stops. In his six seasons at Colorado and Wake Forest, Bzdelik’s conference road game record stands at 2-45.

His 2012-13 Demon Deacons have allowed their opponents to shoot over 45 percent from the floor, which ranks them 287th in the nation. On the offensive side of the ball, the team’s assist to turnover ratio of 0.77 sits at 293rd, also one of worst in all of Division I basketball. In the Deacons most recent game, a Feb. 16 loss to Georgia Tech, the team had just six assists compared to 17 turnovers. Yes, the Deacons

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sometimes play well at home and yes, they even play hard for their coach. But a coach whose players give effort is not something to brag about. That should be a prerequisite for any college basketball coach, not something anyone should highlight as a standout characteristic.

In an interview conducted with Dan Collins of the Winston-Salem Journal on Dec. 12, 2012, Wellman spoke about the recent performance of the team.

“I’m certainly not discouraged by what I’m seeing,” Wellman said. How could Wellman, who was so dissatisfied with Gaudio that he fired him after three relatively successful seasons, possibly be content with Bzdelik’s tenure as coach?

Gaudio won about twice as many games as he lost at Wake Forest. Jeff Bzdelik, at 32-56 through Feb. 16, has almost the exact opposite record. This is not the program that produced NBA players Tim Duncan, Josh Howard, Chris Paul and Jeff Teague.

This is not the program that appeared in a postseason tournament every year from 1990 to 2006. A common sports saying is that the ball never lies. In this case, the numbers don’t lie as well.

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I pledge my unbridled effort in making sure this happens.”

I wouldn’t trade him for any point guard in the country.”

The first thing I told them after game is that we have to play with a little more emotional maturity on the road.”

We’ve got to perform well to keep our recruiting on a high level ... We’ve got to perform well to justify continued respect around the country. ”

– Jeff Bzdelik on his intent to advance to post season play for the Wake Forest men’s basketball team upon becoming coach

– Skip Prosser when discussing former Wake Forest men’s basketball point guard Chris Paul

– Dino Gaudio on the Wake Forest men’s basketball team after a loss to UNC-Chapel Hill

–Dave Odom on Wake Forest University men’s basketball team during the 2001 ACC Tournament

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“ health care expenses Malpractice lawsuits raise Son of a Doctor | Tort Reform in Medicine

The costs of suing doctors negatively affect both the patients and the profession Zak Sanfillippo Guest Columnist sanfzj11@wfu.edu

Being in college, it’s pretty understandable that healthcare costs don’t grab our attention the way that frat parties and YouTube videos do. We see ourselves as young, invincible followers of the sacred credence of “YOLO,” seemingly unaware that high medical costs have ahuge impact on us, as Forbes contributor, physician and financial planner Carolyn McClanahan points out.

Massive amounts of taxpayer money go toward paying off the $1.13 trillion spent by the government on healthcare. Over the past few years the debate centered on this issue has been dominated by Obamacare.

But still, even with all this talk of making healthcare affordable, one significant cause has been inexcusably swept under the rug — medical malpractice.

The primary way this has an impact is through defensive medicine, which is defined by ophthalmologist Darrell White as “…medical care of any sort that is ordered or performed solely to prevent either the filing or the loss of a medical malpractice lawsuit.” Data from White also shows that 15 to 20 percent of medical spending comes

from this form of medicine and about 93 percent of doctors have admitted to using defensive medicine. But this isn’t simply the doctor’s means of making a quick buck (or thousands of bucks) at the expense of the patient.

The truth is that the threat of getting sued is so great that doctors will tend to do everything in their power to protect themselves. Now it would be one thing if the lawsuits were always justified and those punished were truly at fault. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Blogs such as Sammy Benoit’s “The Lid” have cited examples of how over the span of 12 years, John Edwards sued many people, including doctors, for millions, saying they were supposedly responsible for cases of cerebral palsy in delivered babies.

However, a 2003 study from American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists showed that in most of these instances, doctors were not at fault. Opponents, such as the Center of Justice and Democracy, will bring up the high number of deaths caused annually by medical errors. But even so, it is clear with cases like this that tort reform is not only logical, but a necessity.

Business Dictionary’s website defines tort reform as something to “impose some sort of civil penalty as a method of reducing the amount of money that an injured party can receive in tort litigation cases.” This would result in fewer lawsuits, which, in turn,

The threat of getting sued is so great that doctors will tend to do anything in their power to protect themselves. would result in less defensive medicine and thus lower costs. But this theory isn’t some blissful fantasy as demonstrated by Texas.

An online article from “American Medical News” mentions how Texas brought the non-economic costs of medical liability for doctors down to $250,000.

This resulted in a 25 percent decline in liability rates for physicians, which led to an increase in people applying for medical licenses.

we ever hope to lower the costs of medical care, we must enact tort reform to counter the frivolous lawsuits that plague the medical field. If this does not happen, not only will treatment cost patients substantially, it will also result in fewer people wanting to practice medicine (listen up pre-med students).

To my father, an anesthesiologist, the future of medicine is troubling. Even worse is the threat of doctor shortages.

According to Michael J. Mishak of the Los Angeles Times, California is already trying to deal with doctor shortages (due to an increase in the number of people with insurance from

Pre s i d e n t Obama’s healthcare law) by altering who is able to treat people, which would include physician assistants and pharmacists.

If we hope to avoid this happening elsewhere and keep people interested in becoming a doctor even with the troubles associated with it (medical school, accumuGraphic by Trevor Waddell/Old Gold & Black lating massive debt from student loans and the overall uncertain direction of medicine), we must make the occupation It also, according to an article from “Tex- more appealing. In the end, it is clear that ans for Lawsuit Reform,” led to a reduction tort reform is a necessity and the fact that it of costs for the public. In other words, both has not yet been put forward is troubling to doctors and patients benefited from this. If say the least.

“ conquer’s all adversity A mother’s love and comfort Of Wine, Wool and Simple Words | Lessons from a Graduating Senior

Maintaining a strong bond with one’s mother eases strain of life struggles Caroline Murray Staff Columnist murrck9@wfu.edu

As I sit at my desk, wrapped in a wool cardigan and enjoying a glass of ’10 Australia Pinot Grigio (thank you, Priscilla), I prepare for my Forest departure with a story and simple words.

Thomas Jefferson believed that the only advantage one man truly has over another is to remain “cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” Wise words, Long Tom, but sometimes, it’s just not easy to do. Now, I’d like to think I’m an optimistic, calm and

cheery person most of the time. But no degree of personal Pollyannaism can keep me level-headed during those rare moments when everything hits me in one fell swoop.

When all my problems congregate and seem to constitute the relative weight of the world, I’m completely lost.

One such instance nailed me like a sledgehammer last semester. After perhaps the most exhausting and stressful day I’d had in months, a deadly combination of life problems, uncontrollable circumstances, emotions and hormones flooded my system, and I broke down.

There I sat, in a car in the Worrell parking lot thinking that life was over.

My GPA wasn’t high enough for the consulting position I wanted, I needed to take on a fifth job to afford tuition I sustained a back injury and couldn’t run, my family was broken and divided and the only man in my life I’ve ever loved didn’t want to be with me.

Measure me for my pine coffin now. Too much stress, too many tears, too much pain.

I was utterly hysterical.

I dialed my mom’s cell phone. She let me talk. She responded.

College became that much easier and that much more rewarding knowing that mom was always there.

Two and a half hours later, I was sitting in the pit having dinner with my friends, laughing, with a bright sanguine complexion in my cheeks and calm in my heart.

And that’s why now, I pass down a learned lesson: call your mother.

Yes, fathers count, too, but what doesn’t count is a text message, leaving a voicemail or the monthly “send me money please.”

Call your mom and talk to her. Have a conversation, confide in her, especially during the rough times.

Most parents notice a steep decline in communication with their children once college life begins. This comes naturally and is, in a way, healthy, as students become more invested in their lives away from home and dedicated to future aspirations.

Adulthood, independence and opportunity lie upon them.

It’s not for everyone, but I can say that I talk to my mom on the phone at least every

other day. I tell her what’s going on, and she fills me in with the happenings of home on Country Club Drive. We chat, I tell her I love her, and we hang up. Nothing warms my heart more.

Science is on my side with this one, as well. Evolution and Human Behavior conducted a study that showed significant increases in oxytocin (pleasure hormone) and a decrease in cortisol (stress hormone) when subjects talked to their mothers on the phone instead of texting or not contacting at all. Such an effect eases the pain of those overwhelming moments, like the one that befell me last semester, and brings us back down to Earth.

There will come a day when I won’t be comforted by the prosodics of my mom’s voice, eased by her kind, practical, encouraging words or inspired by her faith in my ability to make it through the rain and start fresh in the morning.

College became that much easier and that much more rewarding knowing that mom was always there, so close when I was still 400 miles away. Thank you, mom.

I’m now on my last sip. Cheers, and don’t take these words for granted.

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What’s on Tate’s Plate? | International Relations

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Thursday, February 21, 2013 | Page 11

North Korea’s actions may further international strife The threat of North Korea’s instability has become evident to other nations George Ewing Staff Columnist ewingt9@wfu.edu

On Feb. 12, hours before President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, North Korea conducted one of its largest nuclear tests in the nation’s history. The official news network of the state announced that the device that carried out the explosion was smaller than the one used in a similar 2009 test, but had double the force of that explosion.

North Korea said the action was in response to “continued hostility” from the United States. The most recent nuclear test from North Korea shows a nation desperate to stay on the international stage, while failing to take the necessary steps to adequately feed its own people. It seems to highlight a similar pattern from the North Korean gov-

ernment — once people start to not pay as much attention to the country, North Korea undertakes a hostile action that brings people’s attention back.

The timing of this test was no coincidence: the event was in many ways a sign of resistance to the United States. However, this most recent action seems to have pushed North Korea farther into isolation, with international condemnation of the test coming unanimously from around the globe. It seems almost certain that North Korea does not really care about this, but there is no doubt that further nuclear tests could threaten the fragile stability within the region.

Understanding the often puzzling actions of North Korea is even more perplexing given the neoliberal economic reforms that many nations have implemented over the past couple of decades. In a new globalized world order, it seems almost impossible that a nation can shut itself off from the rest of the world.

Yet, the North Korean government still stands: a relic of an Orwellian fantasy, where the government seems to control almost everything that comes in and out of the country. The supreme leader of the country is worshipped through a cult of personality, with a propaganda campaign detailing the actions of a God.

In a new globalized world order, it seems ... impossible that a nation can shut itself off from the rest of the world.

Though one might point to Josef Stalin’s Russia or other dark points in history, there really seems to be no point of reference for the excessive amount of control and power that the North Korean state yields among its people.

Stories involving electric fences, minefields and lifelong prison camps have come from those lucky enough to escape the country. At the heart of the North Korean ideology is the philosophy of “Juche” or self-reliance, where citizens of the nation are constantly reminded of the “imperialist” threat that the nation is under.

The most recent nuclear test from North Korea brings up a whole set of questions related to stability in the region. Still technically at war, there seems to be no close end in sight to the sour relations between North and South Korea. This most recent situation gives China an opportunity to flex its clout in the region, but also brings up a whole set of questions for why China continues to support North Korea in the first place, and whether this is a collective action issue that must be given more precedence. Perhaps the most important thing from these recent

events is the realization that the “most logical” solutions could have unintended results that are felt throughout the region. In many ways, China supports the North Korean government because of the possible effect that could arise if the state collapsed.

For one, China would have to deal with a large amount of refugees from North Korea if the country collapsed, further straining the limited resources and population problems that the country already faces. Secondly, the unification of a Korea governed by the capitalist South would force China to share a border with one of the biggest allies of the United States.

Lastly, the relationship between China and North Korea is partly historical, where China views the country as a brother; intervening in the Korean War to keep Communist influence in the region. North Korea’s most recent nuclear test puts China in a bind deal in dealing with one of its main allies within the region. This most recent sign of hostility from North Korea will loom over international politics for the time-being, and it remains to be seen whether North Korea will follow up on its threat and test another nuclear weapon. Ultimately, actions in the Korean peninsula could shape the narrative of international relations over the next couple of years and possibly lead to more violence in the region.

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“ Lessons from the South leave indelible mark What’s on the Meenu? | Southern Living

Growing up in the South illuminates the strengths and downfalls of the region Meenu Krishnan Senior Columnist krism9@wfu.edu

If you were to drive down a quiet stretch of I-81 from Southern Virginia to Northeastern Tennessee, you might be taken aback by a farcically large cross on the side of the highway. Known locally as the Victory Cross, the structure was commissioned by a neighboring church, Victory Baptist.

Looking at the cross through strangers’ eyes, I see how it would appear to them — as an indicator of their entry into the Bible Belt, a marker of the exaggerated religiosity that stereotypes the South.

Yet, over the years, the Victory Cross has been divorced from these implications for me. Put simply, seeing that cross makes me happy because it means I am 30 minutes from home. I now look at it affectionately, as it seems to welcome me back to the mountains I love so much. Odd that such a loaded religious symbol would be so comforting and familiar to someone as nonreligious as I, but such is my conflicted, often confusing relationship with the South.

Though born in Ann Arbor, Mich., I consider a small town in Eastern Tennessee my home, where I lived during my formative years. Johnson City is a town of little renown — known for not much more than its appearance in the lyrics to Old Crow

Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” and its fabled status as a hideout for Al Capone.

It doesn’t even represent a prototypically Southern town like Birmingham or Biloxi; its presence in the Appalachian region (pronounced a-puh-latch-un, and don’t believe anyone who says otherwise) is instead shaped by an often-baffling confluence of cultures: Native-American, African-American, and Scotch-Irish. But I see the beauty that the history books have ignored — the surrounding grey mountains, the antiqued train depot downtown that has transported goods and people for decades, the quiet peace that settles on the town at dusk.

This was where I grew up. But it has taken me many years to realize how deeply embedded the region is in me. Growing up as an Indian-American in a rural, often closeminded town was hardly easy. Attending a Baptist elementary school for one year proved a traumatizing event — I was called the n-word and told I was eternally damned to hell for not being a Christian.

Even after I left that school and moved on to a more “liberal” one, I met new stereotypes. I was asked if I worshipped cows, if I was already promised in marriage to someone. And some idiotic middle school boys confused the distinction between IndianAmerican and Native-American, proceeding to dance around me near my locker as if they were at a pow-wow.

But in Eastern Tennessee, I also met some of the kindest people in my life. A man from a “holler” — the communities high up in the mountains — who came to install wood floors in our house soon became a surrogate grandfather.

He took my family to his house, made us fried chicken and showed us how to cool watermelons in the creek. On those warm summer nights, he fascinated us with stories from his childhood, when he had no electricity or running water. I’ve met many

How could I love a region that embraces hospitality yet harbors such narrow-mindedness? such individuals who opened their homes to our family and welcomed us to their community.

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For a long time, it was difficult for me to reconcile these contradictions.

How could I love a region that embraces hospitality yet harbors such narrow-mindedness?

But the South gets in your blood and stays there, a phenomenon that can be puzzling for others not from the region to understand.

I realize how unlikely a Southerner I am as a second-generation IndianAmerican; yet it is home to me and with all its flaws and beauties, has indelibly shaped who I am today.

To love the region is not to embrace its very real bigotry, its preference for tradition over progress and its troubling tendency toward close-mindedness and prejudice toward outsiders.

It is entirely possible to love the South in spite of its many faults.

Its small towns are unlike any other place in the country — bound by community, kinship and collective hardship — and I believe it is impossible to understand American history without understanding the South.

I have no desire to live or work in the South after college, or likely ever.

Growing up in Tennessee and attending college in North Carolina, I am ready for something different.

Yet, I know I will always carry the South and the wisdom it has afforded me with me, and when I see that absurdly large cross on I-81, I’ll remember that I’m only 30 minutes from home.

“ campus Students should embrace diversity on Zoe 101 | Campus Diversity

Efforts should be made to breach social and cultural barriers among students Zoe Gonzales Guest Columnist gonzzi11@wfu.edu

For several years now, Wake Forest has encouraged increasing diversity on a campus that is traditionally homogeneous. The benefits of cultural diversity are evident; in general, native students exposed to foreign cultures and languages learn to appreciate these cultures, are more respectful to foreigners, and develop a curiosity about different people and ways of life. Meanwhile, international students are immersed in

American culture, develop language skills, and reap the benefits of an American college experience.

But tolerance does not always come easily. When we are surrounded with people of a similar culture, we forget what it’s like to share the company of people who aren’t.

International students (or for them, Americans) seem to differ in ways that might render them “awkward” or even “weird” to those who lack understanding about their backgrounds.

But international students at Wake get up every day and partake in the same schedules as everyone else: they take the same classes, participate in the same activities, eat the same meals and live in the same dorms, on the same campus. They do all this immersed in what may be an alien culture to some, and doing so takes patience, adaptability and perseverance, as any student who has studied abroad should know.

And even though we tend to spend more time with those with whom we share more commonalities, there are people who would like to make friends from different cultures

and backgrounds. So it’s disconcerting to hear of instances in which people have disrespected or misjudged different cultures here at Wake.

For American students with minimal past exposure to other cultures, maybe it’s just a joke, but for the Chinese student who overhears others mocking her language, it is not funny. In an environment such as Wake Forest, where the general population is intelligent and invested in their education, recognition and respect of each and every culture is crucial, regardless of whether or not it seems strange or different.

And if we are at Wake Forest to gain a global education, shouldn’t valuing other cultures and getting to know international students not only make these individuals who are so far from home feel more comfortable, but also contribute to our personal cultivation?

Besides, no matter how much one may love all things American, there’s so much to discover from other cultures that are just as compelling, and perhaps refreshing. I encourage everyone to reflect on the way they

Recognition and respect of each and every culture is crucial, regardless of whether or not it seems strange... view people from different cultures. How many non-American friends do you have?

Do you know any international students or have classes with them? Have you ever asked them about their culture?

If you are an international student who may not feel fully accepted by your American-born colleagues, in what ways can you engage with American students? How can you find common ground between your native culture and American culture?

Take advantage of Wake’s varied population, because trust me, people love to talk about where they come from and it’s also fun to listen. Each and every exchange is an experience that everyone involved will remember; it will transport you to an unfamiliar place as well as bring to mind the aspects of your own culture for which you are grateful.

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Press Box | NBA Opinion

LeBron James is the real deal

LeBron James, now halfway through his 10th NBA season, is only getting better with age

BY NICK WELDON Asst. Sports Editor weldnr11@wfu.edu

Former pitcher for Wake Forest baseball team shows his true athleticism by taking his talents to BB&T Field

BY MOLLY DUTMERS Life Editor dutmmk11@wfu.edu Few people call a career-ending injury a blessing, but Chris Willson does. Willson, a redshirt sophomore, was forced to end his baseball career after tearing his labrum, the band of cartilage that helps keep his shoulder in place. But his days in a Wake Forest jersey are not over as he will be joining the university football team this spring.

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A natural athlete, Willson stands 6-foot-6 and weighs in at 225 pounds. He lettered in football in high school and was captain of his team in 2009, in addition to being a standout pitcher on the baseball team. When the time came to make a choice between football and baseball, the California native chose to play baseball because he had more recruitment opportunities. Now, he says that it turns out God had a different plan for him.

After having shoulder surgery this past summer, he realized that he would never be able to reacquire the whip necessary to make the pitching motion. “[The surgery] kind of put a hinder on the rest of my baseball career here at Wake,” Willson said. “It would be a long process getting back into it.” But throwing a football is an

Could you give a player a better nickname than the King? If so, LeBron James may need it.

Over the past two weeks, the Miami Heat forward became the first player in NBA history to score at least 30 points and shoot a minimum of 60 percent in six consecutive games.

He narrowly missed extending the streak to seven games against the Oklahoma City Thunder Feb. 14, but a late missed jumper dropped his shooting percentage to a still outstanding 58 percent.

As impressive as King James’ stretch has been, it’s much more than just a stretch; it’s a career-long trend.

Since entering the league in 2003 as the top draft pick, James has increased his shooting percentage every

See Willson, Page 16

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{ DEAC OF THE WEEK }

Number of televised games Wake Forest will play in 2013 New players signed as part of the class of 2013 Runs scored by the Deacs in their victory over Alcorn State Feb. 16 Place Wake Forest is expected to finish in the ACC Atlantic Division in 2013

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Junior Evan Stephens, this year’s lead-off hitter, is already off to a strong start in 2013.

As of Feb. 17, the outfielder has recorded an impressive .556 batting average with one run and five hits.

The Lexington, Ky. native finished the 2012 season with a .289 average and 46 hits on the year, including four doubles and two home runs. He was also named District Three Capital One Academic AllDistrict as a finance major in 2012.

{ DEACON QUOTE } “Our resolve will be tested and they’ll pass the test. They care and they’ve been knocked down this week, but they’ll bounce back up. I’m confident of that.”

-Head basketball coach Jeff Bzdelik on loss to Georgia Tech

Deacs downed in last minute by Yellow Jackets As losses continue to pile up,Wake falls further towards bottom ofACC

BY MATT POPPE Senior Writer poppmw9@wfu.edu

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Freshman Codi Miller-McIntyre had a rough night shooting against Georgia Tech, going 0 for 6 from the field.

The Demon Deacons were looking to turn things around Feb. 16 in their home matchup with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

After losing five of their last six games, Wake Forest returned to the friendly confines of Joel Coliseum, but the Deacs would lose a heartbreaker as the Yellow Jackets escaped with a 57-56 win.

Coming off another close loss of 66-63 Feb. 13 to Boston College, the Deacons once again were unable

to close the deal down the stretch, failing to score in the final minute of play for the second consecutive game.

Wake donned white uniforms with pink lettering along with speciallymade pink and gray CP3 Nike shoes in support of cancer awareness and to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund.

The Deacs started the game hot, taking a quick 7-3 lead. The Yellow Jackets would go on an 8-0 run, however, and would hold the lead for the remainder of the half, entering halftime with a 30-27 lead.

The Deacons would come out and take the lead in the second half at 34-32. They maintained the lead for most of the second half, but the final six minutes of play proved to be a back and forth battle. With the game tied at 53 with just 90 seconds

to play, leading scorer junior Travis McKie hit a huge three-pointer to give Wake a three point lead.

The Yellow Jackets responded with a layup, and the Deacons failed to convert on their next possession, giving Georgia Tech a chance at the lead with just 30 seconds to play.

Georgia Tech freshman Robert Carter Jr. was fouled under the basket with just eight seconds to go and hit two clutch free throws to put the Yellow Jackets up by a point at 57-56.

Wake was given the opportunity with eight seconds to win the game.

Senior C.J. Harris ferociously dribbled down the court and attempted to pass across the baseline to sophomore Chase Fischer in the corner, but his pass was deflected, leaving

See M. Basketball, Page 15

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Old Gold & Black | Sports

Thomas Birdsey Junior

BY ALEX SPEAR Contributing Writer speaar11@wfu.edu Just before the university’s men’s golf team departed for the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate Tournament in Mobile, Ala. at the RTJ Magnolia Grove course, junior Thomas Birdsey discussed the origins of his impressive golf career, his outstanding win at the 2012 Texas State Amateur Tournament, his approach to the 2013 season and his take on the embraced challenges of being a division one scholar-athlete.

At what age did you start playing golf?

I started playing competitively when I was 12 years old when I lived in Houston. I played at a course named Augusta Pines so I would go there after school and play. I really started getting serious about it when I was 14, [and at that age] I quit [AAU] basketball and started playing golf. My dad always played with his brother and I have the golfer build, so I started playing competitively from there.

Since you’ve been playing in high school or here at Wake, is there a particular memorable moment, highlight or tournament you’ve had?

Last summer, I won the Texas State Amateur Tournament which was really big event for me since I’ve lived [in Texas] my whole life. That’s one of my best memories and I actually birdied the last hole to win it so it was pretty cool. The tournament is for every non-professional golfer in Texas so it was cool [to win it].

Since you got back from summer golf and winning the amateur tournament in Texas, has there been a particular part of your game you’ve been focusing on?

My putting. I putted well all summer long, and I saw what I could do if I started putting better, so I worked pretty this fall and spring on putting. I’ve had a little bit of improvement so we’ll see how the spring season goes.

So, on a par-4 per say, what’s your game plan? Do you try to set yourself up for a particular club after the drive to get on the green?

I hit a lot of drivers off the tee just to get me as close as I can to the green. My mid-irons are really good, so I actually play long courses really well even though I’m not that long of a player just because my six, seven and eight irons are really good. I just try and get as close the green as possible unless it’s really detrimental if you hit it off the fairway.

So you have a favorite professional golfer?

Jason Dufner. I was asked that after I won the Texas State Amateur because when I won it, I didn’t really react when I made my putt to win it. They said, ‘we were expecting something crazy!’ and I just said I love watching Jason Dufner.

What’s your major? And, for you, what’s the hardest part about balancing academics and classes with golf?

My major is communication. The hardest part for me is just missing so much class. We travel [a lot], and our tournaments aren’t on the weekends — they’re usually Sunday, Monday, Tuesday or Thursday, Friday, Saturday so we miss quite a bit of school. We travel mainly all along the east coast but we usually have a full day of travel [in addition to the playing days] so we miss a lot. My teachers allow us to miss days, but it’s tough doing homework on the road [and] coming back really tired and at 1 a.m.

Is there a ritual or routine you have before every round?

I listen to the same kind of music, I’m a country fan and listen to country music before I play. I don’t have a favorite artist. I usually just listen to Pandora Radio. I like to relax, I like to crack jokes a little bit just to loosen everything up because you can’t play golf when you’re all tight. Sometimes everyone gets a little too focused so you just make a joke and everyone says, ‘ok, let’s loosen up and play’.

Personal Profile Hometown: Trophy Club, Texas High School: Southlake Carroll Former College: Kansas State Birthdate: Dec. 26, 1990 Graphic by Lauren Lukacsko/Old Gold & Black

Deac Notes Former Deac Michael Parkhurst called to training camp for national team

Women’s soccer announces spring schedule full of instate matchups

Former Wake Forest men’s soccer player Michael Parkhurst was recently tapped to be a part of the U.S. Men’s National Team’s pursuit of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The 29-year-old centerback was also part of the men’s teams that captured the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup title and represented the United States in the 2008 Olympic Games.

Parkhurst currently plays for FC Augsburg of the German Bundesliga, after recently being transferred from FC Nordsjaelland of Denmark.

The Wake Forest women’s soccer team will play seven instate teams in the spring 2013 season.

The Deacons will have their first matches of the season on Feb. 23 against Davidson (12 p.m.) and Campbell (2:30 p.m.) at Spry Stadium. They will also host Winthrop March 2 before traveling to UNCG March 23.

They will play NC State and High Point on April 14 at the BB&T Soccer Complex in WinstonSalem before closing the spring season against College of Charleston April 20 at Spry Stadium.

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Women’s tennis drops close match to UNCG Spartans overcome early deficit in taking victory from the Demon Deacons

BY GRIFFIN KURZIUS Staff Writer kurzgd11@wfu.edu The chances mounted for the Wake Forest women’s tennis team, but they suffered another tough 4-3 setback to local rival UNC Greensboro at home Feb. 16. This marks the third straight match that the Demon Deacons lost by a count of 4-3.

The day started well as senior Kathryn Talbert and freshman Kasey Gardiner tromped their opponents 8-2 at first doubles.

The Deacs appeared set to take the all-important doubles point as third doubles squad junior Brigita Bercyte and freshman Andrea Retolaza held a firm 5-2 lead. The Spartans refused to give up, winning six of the next seven games for the 8-6 victory.

At second doubles, the Spartans jolted out to a 3-0 lead against sophmore Karen Forman and freshman

Xue Zhang, but the Deacs fought back tyeng the match at 7-7. The Spartans ultimately broke serve and closed out the match — and the doubles point — 9-7.

Wake Forest rallied in their singles matches as Gardiner and Zhang, at second and fourth singles respectively, cruised to straight set victories, by an identical score of 6-3, 6-2.

These wins put the Demon Deacons on top, 2-1. Meanwhile, Gardiner maintained her perfect 5-0 record in dual matches this season.

The Spartans stayed strong though, responding with two straight set victories at third and sixth singles.

At No. 3, Retolaza was dropped in a close 6-3, 7-6 battle, while Bercyte fell 6-4, 6-3.

This pair of victories gave UNCG a 3-2 lead.

The final two matches at first singles and fifth singles both went the distance and became must-wins for the Demon Deacons.

After winning a tight first set 7-5 at No. 5, Karen Forman lost 6-4 in the second set.

Forman regained her form and beat her opponent 6-0 to seal the win, knot-

ting up the match at an even 3-3. It all came down to senior captain Kathryn Talbert at first singles. Talbert was aggressive in the first set, jumping out to a quick 6-4 win.

But UNCG’s Niltooli Wilkins, a five-star recruit from Minnesota, responded confidently.

The redshirt junior used grit and guile to conquer the second set 7-5.

The two highly-ranked players battled and the match was all tied up at five in the final set.

But Wilkins came up with the allimportant break and held her serve, winning 7-5. Wilkins clinched the final point for the Spartans the upset over their neighbors.

“This was another tough loss, but I am proud of our intensity and competitive spirit,” said coach Jeff Wyshner.

With the loss, the Demon Deacons fell to 1-4 on the season.

They return to action Feb. 23, as the Deacs face off against No. 43 Long Beach State at noon. The Dirtbags will make a cross-country trek to WinstonSalem.

This will be the first-ever meeting between the schools.

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Freshman Xue Zhang was able to take a singles victory after a tough doubles loss.

Press Box: How much better can LeBron be?

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LeBron James won his first NBA championship with the Heat in 2012.

year except one. In the 06-07 season, his shooting percentage dropped by .4 of a percent when compared to the previous year.

Aside from this small blemish, James has consistently improved his game each offseason and the 28-year-old shows no signs of slowing down. He has even managed to drastically improve his 3-point shooting, previously his only true weak spot. Before this season, James had never shot higher than 34 percent from beyond the arc. Through 50 games this year he is draining threes at a 42.6 percent clip, which ranks him 14th among qualifying NBA players.

Even with his recent success, James still finds himself the subject of a great deal of criticism. Initially most of the negativity levied against James relied on his supposed inability to win a championship. The King finally silenced that debate after securing his first NBA title last season.

Now his critics rally around the fact that James still has five less titles than Michael Jordan and that he needed Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to win even one.

People often forget that Jordan had fellow Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen by his side for all six of the Bulls’ NBA Championships. For Jordan’s second three-peat with Chicago, he also had Dennis Rodman, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011.

One great player cannot win a championship in the NBA. This makes it all the more impressive that James was able to reach the Finals in 2007 with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The other four regular starters on that team were Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Drew Gooden, Sasha Pavlovic and Larry Hughes.

Not exactly Scottie Pippen or Dennis Rodman. James has generally rejected any comparison between him and Jordan, reminding fans and critics alike that they are not the same player.

“I’m not MJ, I’m LJ,” said James on his Twitter account Feb. 13.

Jordan himself added fuel to the debate over James’ legacy when he said in an interview with NBA TV that he would take Los Angeles Lakers’ guard Kobe Bryant over James if given the chance.

“Five beats one every time I look at it,” Jordan said, referring to Bryant’s five NBA titles.

What Jordan overlooks is that Bryant won his first three championships on a team that was undoubtedly led by former Lakers’ center Shaquille O’Neal.

Bryant has also played in the league for seven more years than James. James has always been the most dominant player on his team, from his rookie season with the Cavaliers, to his most recent with the Miami Heat.

If Jordan’s comments reveal anything, it’s that perhaps for the first time, he fears that he may be unseated as the best basketball player of all time.

And who better to dethrone him than a king?

M. Basketball: Struggles continue against Georgia Tech Continued from Page 13

the clock at 1.7 seconds and one final mustscore play for the Deacs.

After a bit of trouble on the in-bounds pass, freshman Devin Thomas found himself with the ball and after one dribble, put up a jumpshot that clanged off the back of the rim, giving Georgia Tech the win and the season sweep with the 57-56 victory.

“With 1.7 seconds we had an out of bounds play,” head coach Jeff Bzdelik said.

“We had options for Travis cutting to the rim. Really, the play was designed for Aaron

Rountree III to go to the rim, and they did a good job of covering everybody. There was one player left open, and that was Devin, and he had a good look at it but we wanted to go to the rim.”

The upperclassmen once again led the Deacs in scoring, as Harris and McKie both tallied 15 points.

Thomas just missed another double-double as Thomas he had nine points and a game-high 12 rebounds. Freshman Aaron Rountree III had a great game on the defen-

sive end, blocking four shots and coming up with two steals.

The problem for the Deacons was clearly their shooting, as Wake made just seven field goals in each half, shooting just 29 percent overall for the game. They also struggled from beyond the arc, making just five of their 20 attempts.

“We stood around a lot and that really contributed to us shooting a very low percentage,” Bzdelik said. “In the second half, we moved much better and we got open shots and opportunities to the rim. We just didn’t make those open shots and convert those opportunities to the rim.”

The Demon Deacons were able to get most of their scoring from the free-throw line, where they made 23-25 for an impressive 92 percent.

“It’s a real tough game,” McKie said. “We’ve just got move on from it, and we can’t hang our heads over this. We’ve got a big game next Saturday against a very good team in Miami on our home floor.”

Wake will look to take advantage of a week off before that next game at home against the No. 2 Miami Hurricanes.

The matchup will be no easy task as the ‘Canes have yet to lose in conference play.

Tipoff is set for 1 p.m. at Joel Coliseum.

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Deacs suffer losses from two instate rivals

Junior Chelsea Douglas scores career high against Duke but her efforts were not enough carry the Deacons to a win

BY MIKE MCLAUGHLIN Staff Writer mclamj12@wfu.edu

Wake Forest began a difficult part of its schedule as it took on highly ranked in-state rivals, North Carolina and Duke.

The Deacons lost 76-56 Feb. 14 in Chapel Hill and lost 81-70 against Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium Feb. 17.

UNC started strong as the Tar Heels scored the game’s first six points and would eventually lead by as much as 19. Despite the quick start, the Demon Deacons were able to cut the lead to 24-18 before North Carolina went on a 10-0 run to increase its lead to 34-18. From here, UNC kept its momentum and took a 43-24 lead into halftime.

The first half was not kind to the Deacons, who combined 11 turnovers with poor shooting (30.8 percent).

“In physical games like that, we were able to finish at the line when our offense is struggling,” head coach Jen Hoover said.

After several exchanges of baskets, North Carolina returned to its dominant self and went on a 16-0 run in the second half over six minutes, which sealed its victory, leading by as much as 31 at 62-31. While junior guard Chelsea Douo lead the Demon Deacons, Wake Forest was beaten in the paint, where North Carolina had 40 points compared to Wake’s 26.

The game was not without a positive though, as Douglas surpassed 1,000 career points with a three-pointer with 16:21 left in the second half. By reaching the milestone, Douglas joins

her senior teammates Lakevia Boykin and Sandra Garcia in the 1,000 point club.

The Demon Deacons followed their 76-56 loss with a trip to Durham to play another in-state power, Duke.

Showing resilience, Wake Forest shook off the loss to North Carolina to challenge a highly ranked Duke team.

“The mentality of this group is we can beat and play with anybody,” Hoover said.

The team clearly came out well-motivated and their mental fortitude showed early as they jumped out to an 8-0 lead. A large part of this early success was due to Garcia who scored six out of the eight points as well as grabbed four rebounds in the first three minutes.

Duke would eventually respond but two three-pointers by Douglas gave the Deacons a 18-9 lead with 13:12 left in the first half.

Duke turned up the pressure defensively and scored the next 12 points to gain a 21-18 lead. Duke, used this momentum to carry a 37-28 lead at the break.

With 15:28 left in the second half, Duke held a 49-46 lead but Wake Forest would tie the game up 52-52 with eleven minutes to go on a 16-3 run.

The Deacons kept it close until the final 1:04 when Duke took a 74-70 lead and turned it into a 81-70 lead as they hit seven free throws to ice the game.

While the Deacons lost, several players contributed to produced a highly competitive game.

Douglas, coming off scoring her 1,000th career point, scored a career-high 24 points for the Deacons. Garcia also notched her first double-double of the year with 10 points and 10 rebounds.

The Demon Deacons will come back home to face Georgia Tech at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Joel Coliseum.

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Although the Deacs lost, they can still finish with a .500 winning percentage.

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Chris Willson will take his 2012 5.40 ERA and a 3-1 record with the Deacons to the Quarterback position at BB&T field.

entirely different motion that is much less stressful on the shoulder. Therefore, Willson will be making the transition from pitcher to quarterback.

Despite choosing to pursue a career in baseball, Willson still always had football on his mind. “I leaned more toward baseball and that’s how I felt when I came here,” Willson said. “But I always had in mind the opportunity to play both because, I mean, that was the dream growing up.”

So while he was recovering from surgery, he decided to revisit a career in football. “I just wanted to give it a shot and I talked to the coaches,” Willson said. “I’m a big guy so they accepted it.”

Now Willson will try and integrate himself into the football team, prove himself to the coaches and find his spot in the quarterback rotation.

After working on throwing and his technique

for the past few months, Willson is now participating in spring football and is looking forward to the fall season. “It’s going to be a completely different experience traveling to different schools and playing a football game rather than baseball for Wake,” Willson said.

And while he is excited for the opportunity to play another sport he loves, for the school he loves, Willson will miss being part of the baseball team. “I’ll miss just hanging out on the field and joking around with the guys,” Willson said. “It’s a whole different atmosphere between baseball and football. Football is a little more fast paced and it keeps you a little more active. There are little quirky things here and there that I’ll miss from baseball.”

And although Willson will never set foot on the baseball diamond again, he joins a rare class of athletes to play two sports in a top athletic conference. “It’s kind of cool to get the opportunity to still play and help out the school in any way I can,” Willson said.

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What’s all the Buzz about?

The popularity of websites combining humor, social media and news content is growing exponentially

BY TAYLOR DOW Staff Writer dowtw12@wfu.edu Finding a happy medium between humor and current events is a balance entertainment websites must find. It is for this reason that humor websites that strike this balance are gaining traction on college campuses. Sites like Total Frat Move, Betches Love This, Buzzfeed and Barstool are combining humor with socially resonant topics and students at Wake Forest are beginning to take notice.

Total Frat Move, with humorous interpretations of topics familiar to the Wake Forest social scene, is beginning to see its popularity soar.

Asked why this is occurring, freshman Peter Tomasiello responded, “It’s hilarious, but it’s also true. You can’t beat that.” This is a sentiment which characterizes the majority of student users’ opinions on the site.

Total Frat Move is a blog laced with funny anecdotes such as “Giving inspirational speeches that reference our founding fathers when the intramural team is down at half time.”

This is the sort of comical message that provides the backbone for a satirical approach to undergraduate life that makes Total Frat Move such a popular destination for university students.

Web sites like these attract their audiences by capitalizing off of the bubble-like atmosphere of college campuses.

An aspect inherent to the college bubble is the generally out-of-touch nature of college students in regards to national and global news. These sites realize that many of their users aren’t watching the news and reading newspapers daily. They benefit from this by sifting their comedic lens through the news stories they present.

Buzzfeed user freshman William Hayward is a classic case of this. “If it wasn’t for sites like Complex.com and Gawker I wouldn’t be aware of a lot of the big issues going on,” Hayward said. This is a trend which goes hand-in-hand with the popularity of these sites among college students.

They are ideal for gaining insight on important issues and providing a quick laugh, because they are just as likely to post the newest Harlem Shake video as they are to comment on a developing news story.

However, not all sites share this edifying component.

Despite her assertion of its “hilarious” nature, Betches Love This frequenter sophmore, Emily Cadman maintained that she “would never trust [Betches Love This] with any real world news.”

Another aspect of these websites which adds to their appeal is their ability to provide a temporary escape from college life that is still rooted in the college experience. Total Frat Move is a website based around the amusing banalities of college life.

It works because, in satirizing these experiences, it strikes the resonant chord of humor.

Like Total Frat Move, Barstool also provides comedy for those in need. Through postings of memes, funny videos and hilarious gifs, Barstool is rife with the type of material Facebook news feeds were made for. Barstool is also helping to show how the bond between social media and humor is still growing stronger. These sites are packed with stories meant to be shared. It is this aspect that partly explains their popularity amongst college students. “I always show other people the funny things I find online,” freshman Mike Cavallo explained. “What’s the point of seeing them if you don’t share them with other people?”

Websites like Barstool count on people like Cavallo to remain relevant. They know that their popularity depends on how well connected they are to their audience. Showcasing the type of stories that college students can relate to is only half of their battle.

They must also present stories in a way that is accessible and inviting. As proven by Buzzfeed, the preferred method for this involves catchy titles and funny discussions of the topics at hand.

The use of humor is a tried and true approach to reaching the college demographic. “Making something funnier ultimately makes it more interesting,” said Hayward. “There’s so much serious stuff going on that it almost seems wrong to not take advantage of the things which are funny.”

The comedic approach works with college students because it manages to diffuse the tension created by the college workload and find humor amongst the topics which are endemic to the college experience. In this sense, the blending of humor and news seems natural. It is easy for the quality of food on campus and the social scene to be satirized. They are the topics which make websites like Total Frat Move staples across computer screens during lectures. However, they also help to make college easier.

Knowing that there is a light-hearted way to view the consequences of habitual procrastination and sleep deprivation ultimately makes them more manageable. Relating these experiences on a level that recognizes that there is always humor to be found is what makes these websites destinations for Wake Forest students which are not likely to decline in popularity any time soon.

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Safe Haven fails to meet expectations Safe Haven lacks the chemistry of other Nicolas Sparks’ novels turned into films, like The Notebook

BY ELIZABETH DALRYMPLE Contributing Writer dalres11@wfu.edu With its Valentine’s Day release date and charming story line, Safe Haven will certainly allure (and satisfy) a flood of female romantics. But do not expect more than a few heartwarming moments from the film. With cliché one liners and mediocre acting, the movie lies somewhere closer to The Lucky One or

The Last Song on the scale of Nicholas Sparks’ film adaptations. While the movie is laden with the author’s classic tropes — a sleepy town setting, a relationship tested by tragedy and the infamous getting caught in the rain scene — Safe Haven brings an element of thrill and suspense that has yet to be seen in a Sparks film.

Julianne Hough stars as Katie, who opens the movie running away fearfully from a house and a secret. She disguises herself and boards a train, riding until she reaches the small coastal town of South Port, N.C. It is only through a series of flashbacks that we learn of Katie’s past and the events that caused her to flee.

Deciding to stay in South Port, Katie

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While Duhamel and Hough make an attractive couple, they do not have the chemistry that McAdams and Gosling did.

finds a small cottage and a waitressing job.

She meets a widowed shop owner, Alex (Josh Duhamel), and his two children, Lexi and Josh, but she is still tainted with difficult memories and keeps any intimate relationships at bay. However, her new neighbor Jo (Colbie Smulders), befriends her and after Alex makes a few warming gestures, she decides to give him a chance.

Despite their initial reluctance and the Boston police officer (David Lyons) who is vehemently trying to track her down, the two engage in postcard-worthy moments such as lying on the beach, dancing through an empty restaurant and canoeing through moss laced trees. And yes, you guessed it — they fall in love.

Sure, I’ll admit it. I enjoyed the movie at first. The suspense was intriguing and the courtship was cute, but when it came time for the relationship to heat up, it barely simmered. Hough and Duhamel lacked the chemistry to make their relationship believable and the tender moments that were supposed to be special were just sort of “eh.” In short, they were no Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling.

While the romantic plot line is clairvoyant from the beginning, there are two notable twists that alter the whole film. The second twist at the end of the movie will leave you either with tears in your eyes or with your jaw dropped, almost laughing as you leave the theater because it ruined the movie. Safe Haven will satisfy your craving for a cheesy love story but that’s about it. If you’re looking for deep emotional pulls or a passionate romance, look elsewhere.

Tech Column | LocalSpin

Choose eateries with LocalSpin

BY LAUREN FRIEZO Contributing Writer friele11@wfu.edu If there’s one thing I don’t mess around with, it’s food.

Any chance to escape campus and indulge in something other than the Pit, Chick-fil-A or Moe’s is considered sacred in my book. So when I do eat out, the last thing I want to do is waste my time, money and appetite on a less than desirable restaurant. I’m a notorious planner: I read restaurant reviews on Yelp, TripAdvisor and Urbanspoon before deciding if a place is worthy of my palate. But the thing is, even with all this research, I sometimes end up picking a place that, well, sucks.

Why does this happen? Because restaurant reviews aren’t reliable. Should you trust a complete stranger to tell you where to eat? You shouldn’t, and I don’t.

That’s why I use LocalSpin.

You may be wondering why I’m talking about food in a tech column. It’s because the iPhone application LocalSpin has found a way to combine social media and restaurant recommendations into one perfect downloadable package.

If you have an iPhone, head to the app store and download the application for free. Using your Facebook account, you sign in to LocalSpin, where you’re given

access to a feed of 140-characters-orless (think Twitter for food) restaurant recommendations. The fact that the recommendations are coming from people you actually know and trust (Facebook friends) makes the app so much more reliable for finding good places to chow down.

Using the “Find” tab, you can determine the mile radius in which you’re looking for places to eat. Keep things local and choose a radius of one mile, or if you’re in the mood to browse, search ALL the recommendations ever made on LocalSpin! The more of your Facebook friends that use the app, the more reliable and concise the recommendations are.

To keep the cycle going, you’ve got to write some recommendations yourself.

Using LocalSpin’s “Write” tab, draft your own recommendation (or unrecommendation). You can even tag “Great for…” keywords that’ll give friends a bit more info about exactly what you liked about the place (Is it great for breakfast, coffee, groups, healthy food, etc.?) The whole process is so easy, simple and fun that you’ll find you and your friends rushing to write LocalSpin recommendations as soon as you finish your entrées. When I choose restaurants based on recommendations from friends that I trust, I don’t have to spend hours

pouring through review websites, only to be disappointed in the end. It’s time to stop letting strangers tell you where to eat. With LocalSpin, good friends recommend.

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The best of Winston Parents visiting this weekend? Here are our dining suggestions: 1. Ryan’s Restaurant 719 Coliseum Drive Have your parents treat you to the best steak in the Dash.

2. Milner’s American Southern 630 S. Stratford Road This upscale take on down home cooking will impress your out-of-town guests.

3. Noble’s Grille 380 Knollwood St. This restaurant serves classic cuisine and is perfect for an elegant evening.

4. Willows Bistro 300 S Liberty St #125 This eatery is a good choice for lunch as well as dinner.

5. Sweet Potatoes 529 N Trade St This local favorite serves some of the best brunch in Winston.

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Sex Column | Sexonomics

Utilizing sex as an economic resource Sex is highly valued in our society but at what cost does it happen in our microcosm of the world?

BY COURTNEY ANDREWS Staff Writer andrcl0@wfu.edu These days, the casual hookup culture that dominates our campus seems like the norm. Seeing strangers making out in a party house basement on a Friday night is typical and Saturday mornings wouldn’t be the same without witnessing a few embarrassing walks of shame across the quad.

Is this really the norm everywhere, though, or has the Wake Forest bubble turned into a breeding ground (pun not intended) for easy sex? Furthermore, is this just inevitably the way things are, or do we as a student-body have the power to change these circumstances?

In my human sexuality psychology class, we recently read an article entitled “Sexual Economics.” In the article, psychologists Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs liken a heterosexual community to a marketplace where women sell sex and men buy it.

Sex, they claim, is a female resource that all men want. Men place such a value on getting this resource that they are willing

to trade resources in exchange for it. These resources include material goods such as paying for dinner or gift-giving, as well as nontangible resources such as commitment, emotional connection and support.

When I first read all of this, I thought it sounded pretty ridiculous. Relating sex to an economic marketplace!? Seems like quite a stretch. After rereading the article a few times, however, I began to see how this analogy actually makes a lot of sense, especially in terms of sex at Wake Forest. We live in a society in which female sexuality is more valued than male sexuality. From a young age, we are told that boys naturally think about sex constantly.

Many studies have also shown that, on average, guys think about and desire sex more often than girls do. Our society also places more value on female virginity than male virginity. At Wake, for example, if a guy has sex with a bunch of random girls, he gets high-fived and congratulated on his triumph. If a girl has sex with a bunch of random guys, however, she is called a slut and her reputation is tarnished. While this double standard oftentimes seems unfair, it also has advantages for girls.

According to the “principle of least interest,” the person who desires an exchange less than the other person is the one with the power in the situation. Thus, because they desire sex less than men do, women actually have the power in the

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The hook up culture dominates campus but this community devalues sex, which is an important resource in the heterosexual marketplace. sexual relationship. So, what does this mean for the ladies of Wake Forest?

Like goods in a market place, the price of sex is determined by the general prices of the marketplace. In this analogy, the marketplace constitutes the student body, and the price of sex is determined by what most girls require a boy to do before she will allow him to sleep with her. Also, like goods in a marketplace, the value of sex will go up as the competition prices go up.

In other words, if every girl at Wake started demanding more and more resources before they were willing to have sex with a guy,

then guys would start expecting to have to do more to get sex. So, ladies, my vote is that we make a decision, as the sellers in a highly competitive marketplace, to up the price. No matter what we do, the demand will always be there. But the power is in our hands, which means that we get to set the terms of the price.

I’m not saying we have to get crazy and demand marriage or anything, but the demands should probably be a tad steeper than a cup of questionable punch. And for all those over-achievers out there, a date wouldn’t be horrible either!

He Said/She Said | Open Relationships

Are successful open relationships a possibility?

BY AARON COLSTON Online Managing Editor colsaj0@wfu.edu

Open relationships are a matter of perspective. A relationship requires commitment and sacrifice. An individual must be willing to commit themselves to being with one person despite the circumstances. However, having an open relationship refutes the element of commitment.

To me, an open relationship isn’t a relationship at all. In fact, an open relationship is nothing more than the acknowledgment that someone has your interest yet the present circumstances prevent monogamy. We all have to come

to terms that titles actually do have clout because labels dictate expectations. Unclear expectations can lead to really messy situations. An open relationship, in that regard, is only fantasy.

Open “relationships” work only if everyone is on the same page. However, leaving things open makes that task easier said than done. One individual is always left wanting more while the other may be perfectly fine with current status quo.

No matter the circumstances, ambiguous titles lead to unclear boundaries and expectations.

In an ideal world we could have open relationships with all of the benefits, without having any emotional attachments.

But the likelihood of this occurring is slim.

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Open relationships may seem like the best of both worlds but the chance that they work out is slim to none.

Let’s face it, sex complicates relationships and open relationships are no different.

What’s the big deal about committed relationships anyway? Yes, they are challenging and maybe relationships aren’t the best for the college setting. But finding someone that is worth those sacrifices is what makes committed, or closed, relationships all the better.

BY EMMA SKEELS Asst. Life Editor skeeer12@wfu.edu In theory, open relationships seem ideal, especially during college years. Between schoolwork, extracurricular activities and a social life, it’s hard to find time for a “closed” relationship.

The perfect open relationship provides the physical aspect of relationship without the worry about being committed to somebody and the time it takes to actually work on a relationship.

Realistically, however, it’s hard to separate the emotional side of a relationship from the physical side. One partner will inevitably develop an attachment to the other, the outcome of which is rarely good. We’d all like to pretend that our lives closely model romantic comedies such as No Strings Attached.

Usually, though, the end scene of an open relationship involves tears and heartbreak instead of love and wedding bells.

I know a lot of people who have developed feelings for their hook-up buddy, and then fooled themselves into thinking that continuing the open relationship will lead to an actual relationship.

However, there’s almost nothing you can do to change your partner’s mind if they don’t feel similarly towards you. Although it may be harder to do, if you’re going to be in any kind of relationship with someone, it should be a completely committed one.

Committed relationships take a lot of work, but they’re worth it. In fact, developing an emotional attachment to someone may even make the physical things better. Furthermore, in a committed relationship, the boundaries are pretty clear.

People in open relationships are frequently afraid to say something about the parameters of their relationship to their partner because they worry that he or she won’t feel the same way.

The relationship rules are very vague and confusing, and can fill your life with unnecessary drama. In committed relationships, it’s clear that you won’t be hooking up with anybody but your significant other, ridding your life of excess drama and heartache.

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with hooking up with people at parties. However, if it’s starting to turn into a pretty common occurrence with the same person, you may want to talk your partner so you don’t wind up stuck in a destructive open relationship.

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Get your bikini-bod ready for spring break Nutrition Tips

BY CAROLINE MURRAY Staff Columnist murrck9@wfu.edu Perhaps you started off the school year with a great routine going, feeling strong, well-rested and energized. But then, naturally, once the heart of winter hits after a week or two, the structure of your life ruptures and you’re falling behind, pulling all-nighters and eating impulsively like Kristie Alley in a White Castle.

Before you know it, there are only two short weeks left (thank God) until spring break, the quintessential party-of-theyear for college students: raging, relaxing, splurging, drinking, hook-ups and — oh, crap — bathing suits!

Don’t panic. Obviously, you can’t move from a size six to zero in a fortnight, but with the right exercise and nutrition habits, you can shed some winter weight and tighten up to be in solid beach-body shape come March 9.

Exercise Tips Commitment: Truthfully, it’s easy to individualize an effective workout plan.

The difficult part for most people lies in the execution of said plan.

Get the hell off the couch and find motivation. Hang your bathing suit on your wall or secure a workout buddy. Stay committed to your plan, and it will work its magic.

Focus on Core: Where’s the one place where we gain the most weight and store the most fat? The abdominal area. And where do all eyes dart when you strut along the beach in your bikini? Yep, everyone is looking for the washboard (or lack thereof ).

Supplementing your workout with a core routine isn’t just adding some crunches and planks.

Core strength requires working not just your abdominals and obliques but also the muscles that support your spine and

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Although you may not be ready to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, you can definitely tone up before spring break. your whole abdominal cavity, such as your back and glutes. Strengthening all of these regions pulls and tightens your body, makes you look thinner, improves your posture and ensures efficiency and proper form in other forms of exercise like weight training and cardio.

Sprint: Yes, they suck. Yes, they’re exhausting. That’s the point. Dozens of studies show that the body will rev up metabolically and continue to burn calories up to two days after the completion of a sprinting exercise.

Furthermore, the entire core contracts and works to stabilize your body and keep you upright during sprints, so it’s a phenomenal ab workout, as well. Just make sure you warm up to get your heart rate going and loosen your muscles; otherwise, you may sustain a pretty painful sprain, strain or joint injury, which would not serve your spring break plans well.

Increase Intensity and Intervals: Sure, a slow hour-long jog is great for endurance, but if you’re looking for quicker fat loss, that just won’t cut it. Increasing the intensity of your workouts (sprints count) are a surefire way to jumpstart fat loss.

Studies have consistently shown that those who perform high intensity interval training (HIIT — spurts of intense exertion followed by short periods of rest) lose more weight and burn more fat than those who exercise at a moderate pace. By doing this, your workouts will be shorter, more effective and you’ll burn fat while simultaneously building muscle.

Listen to Your Body and Rest: You know your limits better than anyone, so when your body is shouting at you, lend it your ears. If your body is in pain or needs a rest, oblige to it. You will end up doing more harm to your body than good if you ignore the signals it’s giving you.

Alcohol Abstinence: If you know anything about the liver (and you should, as I provided an entire column about this trooper of an organ), alcohol not only abuses the hell out of your body, but it also lowers testosterone (which will, in turn, lessen your muscle “tone”) and inhibits lipid oxidation. In other words, your body won’t burn the fat you have and it’ll store the fat and sugar you do intake. Give up alcohol for the next two weeks until spring break. Hell, it is Lent, after all. Consider this delayed gratification.

Water: No explanation needed. Just drink it. Cut out the pop and energy drinks, and consume at least 64 ounces of water a day.

Stay hydrated, and your body will love you and make itself look amazing.

One Plate Rule: It’s always tempting to indulge in the all-you-can-eat feature of the Pit, but those calories add up quickly.

Follow the one plate rule: your meal should be able to fit comfortably on one plate.

On said plate should be half vegetables, a quarter meat, and the other quarter can be a small starch, fruits or a serving of dairy.

Protein and vegetables are the magic keys to fat loss and muscle build-up, so skip the pizza and fries and load up on the good stuff.

Eat Breakfast: Simply put, breakfast jumpstarts your metabolism and gets the body ready for burning energy throughout the day. Don’t skip breakfast! Make sure it’s a good one, though. No sugary cereal, no McDonald’s and no Pop-Tarts.

Snack Smart: Snacking should never add up calorically to a full meal; snacks should fall anywhere from 100 to 150 calories, not over 500 like your hearty meals. Substitute fruit and veggies for the chips and cookies.

Try berries and yogurt or veggies and hummus. Doing so will cut your calories significantly and the fiber from the fruits and veggies will make you feel full and satisfied.

Learning to love and appreciate musical classics Having some knowledge of the oldies but goodies will help you better understand musical influences

BY ZOE GONZALES Staff Writer gonzzi11@wfu.edu The year: 1998. The place: the safest four-walled enclosure in the world, a warm haven where I can reel in my reveries (aka my bedroom). The news of the day: The double-disc special edition Beatles 1962-66 album and its buoyantly euphoric melodies.

I play “Love Me Do” on repeat relentlessly.

I memorize every word from every song, unaware that I am burning into my brain the legacy of one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

Fast forward to 2003. I’m sprawled out on my bed, taking in the sounds of Deep Purple and The Stones that emanate from my CD player. If I’m not soaking up the contents of my brother’s mixed tapes, I’m listening to his fingers forming the first couple notes of Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower.”

Five years later and the teenager in me has already made a beeline for the mother of all angsty bands: The Smiths. I contemplate life and love while wallowing in Morissey’s eerie vocals and disturbing lyrics.

Now in 2013, I jam to the smooth, elegant sounds of Ella Fitzgerald, the sass of Nancy Sinatra and the swing and rhythm of Ray Charles.

No doubt you’ve heard of every one of these artists. Their music is everywhere: in commercials and on the radio. Their images are even printed on T-shirts and sold at Target. They are not only musical artists but pop culture icons. But how well do we know their music? We know who Jimi Hendrix is, but when was the last time we really delved into his ripping guitar solos?

Attempting to know every music artist that ever existed is both exhausting and impossible. However, the sheer volume of work should not deter us from wanting to learn.

By knowing the classics, you’ll be able to recognize the influence of time-honored artists on your favorite contemporary musicians; not to mention that you’ll learn to appreciate good music and determine

what matches your tastes. And building up your familiarity with the music of times past, be it 70s rock, 20s swing, or 90s punk is really quite simple.

Your family will be the best source in your quest for the oldies. Even if your parents never really cared for music as kids, they no doubt have certain songs they remember from the good ‘ole days. Trust me, they will be all too willing to share.

Even consider grandparents and older siblings, depending on which era you are interested in. Who knows, maybe they have old records, tapes or CDs that they’d be willing to pass on to you. These would be great resources for fueling your search, as well as awesome vintage collection pieces.

If you’d rather approach your exploration single-handedly, iTunes and Spotify will be your friends. All it takes is searching an artist and then listening to the musicians listed under the column entitled “Similar Artists”.

To get a basic idea of their style, it helps to listen to their top songs. Once you find an artist you really like, you can dig deeper into their work and really get it acquainted with it.

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Thetas work to build a legacy at Wake Forest

BY JENNY MAGRUDER Contributing Writer magrjc0@wfu.edu The newest changes to the Greek life system right now is the re-emergence of Kappa Alpha Theta back on campus. Three weeks ago, after info sessions, meetings and interviews, members of the first pledge class accepted bids and found themselves with over 150 new sisters.

Clearly there was great interest in joining Theta and the enthusiasm of these new members is contagious. Sophomore Zoe Corner explained, “Greek life was always something that I felt I was missing out on.

I wanted to have my friends, service and sisterhood all in the same place.”

Junior Lauren Sisak also felt that there was something missing. Having gone to an all girls high school, she really liked the idea of a sorority. She and her close group of friends all joined Theta so they could strengthen friendships as sorority sisters.

Not only are they excited about their immediate influx of new friends, but also about the impact that their organization is going to have on campus life. “We want to get the Theta name out there and hit the ground running,” junior Mattos Paschal said.

Sisak also echoed this remark. “As a junior, I want to graduate knowing people don’t think about us as the ‘new’ sorority. I want us to be able to easily integrate.”

Diversity is the one thing that the girls in Theta stress as the defining feature of the sorority.“We have a unique opportunity to

build a group of dynamic women instead of having people join because they are similar,” Corner said. “This is a diverse group and we want to play on the strengths of diversity.

The differences will better each other.”

This diverse group of girls has big plans to make an impact on campus. Currently, they are in the midst of making decisions about what kind of philanthropy events they want to have. Theta’s national philanthropy is the Court Appointed Social Advocates (CASA).

This organization specializes in pairing foster children with a trained mentor that will give them a voice and help them to succeed.

Although Theta cannot host any events until they officially have a charter in mid April, they are still brainstorming things that they want to do.

“Everything is in formation right now,” junior Meg West said. “We’ve been thinking of ideas such as ‘Cupcakes for CASA’ or ‘Rock the CASA,’ so hopefully we can do something fun.”

The other thing that the sorority sees as a benefit to being the first pledge class is the fact that all of the decisions are up to them.

They get to draft the bylaws of the chapter, plan date function themes and create the lasting traditions for the sorority.

“Since we are all new to this, no one is the expert so we all work together to make the decisions,” junior Ann Elizabeth Farrow said.

“Everyone is not afraid to disagree,” Sisak said. “We realize these decisions are going to impact the future Thetas, so we want to get it right the first time.”

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Members of Kappa Alpha Theta’s first pledge class proudly display their new sorority’s letters on Bid Day on Feb. 5.

Quad Fashions | Rain Gear

Rain rain go away so we can put our boots away

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Quinn Cutchin Junior Cutchin likes the tarnished look of her J.Crew rain boots. “I like to be cozy and waterproof when it’s raining,” she said.

Eleanor Smith Junior Smith chose to wear her red Burberry jacket for warmth. “I can’t wear my lightweight rain coat when it’s this cold,” she said.

Brandon Nguyen Sophmore Nguyen was attracted to the bright green North Face jacket . “I wanted something to keep me dry on this rainy day,” he said.

Brendan Walsh Freshman Walsh braved the rainy weather with boots that he received for Christmas. “They are fashionable and functional,” he said.

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Old Gold & Black | Life

Winston-Salem: North Carolina’s Art Capital

Graphic by Molly Dutmers/Old Gold & Black

Trade Street is for more than just barhopping, it is filled with some of the best art galleries in North Carolina

BY ELLIE BALDINI Staff Writer baldgl9@wfu.edu A group of Wake Forest girls stumble in to a cab as the lights go on inside Finnegan’s Wake. Above the usual din of bar patrons spilling out onto the street at closing time, the girls’ laughter is audible, the youthful sounds of a night well-spent. They close the cab door and speed off into the night, away from downtown and back to the familiar bubble of Wake Forest University.

For the co-eds, and the rest of their 21+ peers, Trade Street is nothing more than a Friday night romp from one bar to the next. A favorite martini at Tates, a signature Strongbow at Finnegans and then back to the Forest when the lights go up. But for the rest of the Winston-Salem community, when the bars close and daylight comes again, the real Trade Street — the one they know it as at least — is just getting started.

In the 1980s, you’d be hard-pressed to find a born-and-bred Winston-Salem native interested in “going downtown.”

And a Wake Forest student? Forget it.

That was before it became the hub for art and culture in the Piedmont Triad that it is today.

Just ask Alix Hitchcock, one of the founding members of the Artworks Gallery in the Downtown Arts District on Trade

Street. One of the original group of visual artists who decided to form a cooperative gallery in Winston-Salem in the 1980s, Hitchcock recalls how just a few decades ago, the “Arts District”, as it’s referred to now, could barely be called a neighborhood.

“Most people in Winston-Salem were afraid to come downtown for a [gallery] opening,” Hitchcock said. “Trade Street was basically abandoned spaces. Over 25 years time, the public is now comfortable coming to the Arts District, as well as other areas downtown.”

Downtown Galleries to Visit Artworks Gallery 564 N. Trade St. Fiber Company 600 N. Trade St. Delurk Gallery 207 W. 6th St. The Other Half 560 N. Trade St. Today, downtown Winston-Salem, specifically the Arts District on Trade Street, bustles with the energy of eclectic galleries, craft shops, restaurants and bars, all in an entirely artist-friendly environment. So what enabled such a huge transformation?

After all, a casual Saturday stroll down the energized Trade Street reveals virtually no remnants of the run-down block Hitchcock recalls.

Downtown Art District Association (DADA) was a fundamental player. Begun in 1998 by artists and shop owners working together to plan events, pool resources and support one another, today DADA has met and surpasses, its initial goal of creating an arts community where artists can thrive.

The modern DADA unites artists of all kinds: sculptors, photographers, interior and graphic designers, calligraphers, wood workers, jewelers and more.

It has expanded to included restaurants, retails shops, and even residences in the eclectic area of downtown, on and surrounding Trade Street. The result?

Growth that keeps on growing. “The difficulty for actual artists living here was the lack of enough funding for more individual artist grant money, the lack of enough venues to show and sell their work, and the lack of enough collectors of original art to buy new work,” said Hitchcock. “What I have enjoyed seeing is the growth of a variety of artists who live here after college, and even after living in bigger cities.”

Of course, the emergence of Trade Street as the official Arts District in Winston‑Salem — and even North Carolina in general — has a pretty significant spill-over effect for university students. Not just ones loving the new night life.

“Winston-Salem dedicates a lot of time, money and energy in to the arts,” said Briana DeVincenzo, a senior dance minor

and frequent Trade Street go-er. “I think Wake students have benefited from this.

I know through my dance classes we have had the opportunity to bring in incredibly talented choreographers to create pieces for a fall concert because Winston-Salem has such an abundance of talent to choose from.”

With collaborations occurring often among varied disciplines, and a draw for a range of artistic talent, the Arts District continues to attract the best and brightest talent to Winston-Salem. And with the bar scene flourishing, gallery hops happening every Friday and a crop of new restaurants and shops staying open late, Trade Street is experiencing significant commercial success.

Particularly with university students.

“I love going downtown on the weekends,” senior Hailey Cohen said. “Going out for dinner or to the bars on Trade Street is a nice break from what we used to do on the weekends when we were younger at Wake.”

As the Arts District continues to flourish, encouraging all forms of artistic development and supporting a range of commercial ventures, students and Winston-Salem nativesreap the benefits of a downtown growing more appealing every year. Both for the nightlife and the art scene.

“The newer artists [coming here] are coming up with ideas of how to activate and simulate the art culture in Winston-Salem so that they will continue to live here,” said Hitchcock. “And that will make it a more exciting place for all of us here — no matter what the age!”