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Outside the Bubble... Justice resigns over interracial marriage scandal Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana justice of the peace, has resigned after refusing to marry an interracial couple. Bardwell caused controversy after refusing to perform a marriage ceremony and sign the marriage license of Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay. Humphrey and McKay have filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against Bardwell and his wife.
Event connects students with President “Hang with Hatch” allows informal outlet for concerns By Meenu Krishnan | Contributing writer “Hang with Hatch” provides an opportunity for students to interact with University President Nathan O. Hatch in a casual setting. The monthly event, which takes place for an hour in Starbucks, was started last spring by senior Meghan Haenn, current Student Government president.
The event began as a way to facilitate communication between the president and students. “It’s an informal opportunity, with no set agenda, for students and President Hatch to sit down with a cup of coffee,” Mary Pugel, senior executive assistant to the president, said. The last “Hang with Hatch” occurred on Oct. 20 and encompassed a wide range of topics of interest to university students, from Notre Dame Football to the controversial role of the Alcohol Law Enforcement (ALE). “We talked about class sizes, parking problems,
U.S. sells embassy building in London A Qatari real estate company has purchased the U.S. Embassy building in London. The State Department will remain at the building in Grosvenor Square until a new embassy is finished being built by 2017. Post-Sept. 11 protections to the building, such as blast walls, have caused criticism from neighbors.
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For graduating seniors, the real world is becoming a little too real. With the national unemployment rate at 9.8 percent, seniors are facing the possibility of unemployment and financial stress come graduation day in May. “These times are unlike anything I’ve ever seen and I’ve been in this business for 20 years,” Carolyn Couch, the associate director of Career Services, said. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), only 19.7 percent of 2009 graduates who applied for a job are currently employed. In comparison, 51 percent of those who graduated in 2007 had already secured employment by the time of graduation. The statistics for 2010 are even worse. In a recent survey conducted by NACE, employers expect to hire 7 percent fewer graduates in 2010 than they hired in 2009. These dire statistics are worrisome for seniors who are preparing for their lives after graduation, many of whom will be financially independent for the first time. The tough job market has put pressure on seniors to re-evaluate their plans and prepare for the reality of adulthood. Senior Katie Briedenbach fears that she won’t be able to find a job next year. “It’s a big deal,” Briedenbach said of the current unemployment situation. “A lot of my friends that have graduated college have gone back home because there isn’t anything out there. They’re still looking and they don’t have jobs. I don’t want that to be me.”
Facebook won $711 million in damages against noted spammer Sanford Wallace. Wallace had been sending out false Wall posts and messages to Facebook members’ accounts. Wallace has previously been fined $234 million for spam-related incidents.
E. coli outbreak causes sickness and death An outbreak of E. coli in ground beef has left two people dead and 28 people sick. Of those sick, 16 are in the hospital and three have developed kidney failure. Fairbank Farms in Ashville, NY is recalling more than half a million pounds of ground beef products suspected to be contaminated.
GM and Ford report increase in sales General Motors has reported its first rise in monthly car sales in almost two years. Its domestic sales rose 4.7 percent in October from a year earlier. Sales at Ford were also up 3 percent. The figures from October are important because they are the first not to be impacted by the “cash for clunkers” program.
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the budget, what (Hatch) wants Wake Forest to be like and the diversity on campus. The president commented on how he wanted not only diversity of race but also of experiences,” freshman Abrams Jamassi, co-chair of the Student Government committee for “Hang with Hatch,” said. “Hang with Hatch” also provides students with an opportunity to simply learn about President Hatch as a person.
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Festival to exhibit world food, music By Scott Seal | Contributing writer
The first annual World Cultural Festival will take place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 6 on Manchester Plaza. This event, sponsored and run by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, is designed to be a nonintimidating, enjoyable way to explore the different contributions that world cultures have to offer and to give students the opportunity to spend an evening discovering the intricacies of world cultures. The origins of this event go back to last year where Alta Mauro and Jonathan Cox — the director and assistant director, respectively, of the office of Multicultural Affairs — decided that an office event that celebrated the mannerisms and intricacies of world cultures would be beneficial to life at the university. Cox When asked about the origins of this event, Cox replied that he “Saw the need for an event that would showcase different world cultures to students at Wake Forest.” The World Cultural Festival will offer a “global perspective on diversity” and will “showcase different cultural groups,” Mauro said. “Expect lots of energy and diversity with the purpose of creating a diverse setting and having quality human interactions spanning a broad range of different cultures.” Some students groups such as APSARA, the student Native American dance group, the Organization of Latin American Studnets (OLAS) and Asian
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Faith acts as shield for wayward 16th century daughters By Sara Olsen | Contributing writer
In the second event of the “Liminality and Social Marginality” lecture series sponsored by the history department, visiting professor Eric Dursteler of Brigham Young University spoke on Nov. 2 in DeTamble Auditorium of Tribble Hall to an audience of both professors and students of the university. Dursteler’s lecture, titled “Convents, Conversion and Confines: How to Avoid an Unwanted Marriage in Early Modern Dalmatia,” addressed what Dursteler referred to as “renegade women” in the 16th and 17th centuries. Using the stories of two young women, Dursteler illustrated the ways in which females could achieve independence from their parents during this era in history. Recounting the story of Elena Deodata, a Christian girl living in Venice in the late 16th century, Dursteler described the ways in which religious houses could be used to escape parental demands. Elena, for instance, joined the convent of Corpus Domini to avoid a forced conversion to Islam, as her parents in Constantinople desired. Dursteler continued with the account of Mihale Catterina, who was born a Muslim in the Ottoman
Empire around the same time as Elena Deodata. To escape an arranged marriage, Mihale ran away from home and took refuge in Venice. Like Elena, she used the entrance into a religious house to solidify her choice to become a Christian and remain in Venice. The parallels between the stories of the two girls exemplify the ways in which women in the Early Modern Era exerted their own autonomy. “‘Taking the veil’ was a common way for daughters to rebel against their parents’ wishes,” Dursteler said. Dursteler also emphasized the surprising way in which the unique political boundaries played a role in the two stories. The involvement of the Venetian and Ottoman governments served to protect the girls’ wishes and safeguard them against their parents. As Dalmatia was the border between the Ottoman and Venetian Empires – essentially the Muslim and Christian worlds – the women were able to use the Dalmatian border to escape their parents and achieve autonomy. The stories of Elena Deodata and Mihale Catterina will be included in Dursteler’s upcoming
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Eric Dursteler discusses the ingenuity of 16th century “renegade women” as part of the “Liminality and Social Marginality” lecture series.
Sports | B1 Drowned by Hurricanes A close loss to Miami on Halloween sparks concern over the Deacs’ standing for a bowl bid. Next up is the No. 10 Yellow Jackets
Opinion | A6 Ironic spending Fox-Helser calls out contradictory spending of Republican party on national defense
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Studio Series Three will be performed Monday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 4:30 p.m. in the Ring Theatre in Scales. The Studio Series is a collection of one-act plays directed by senior theatre majors. Admission is $2 per student. The plays to be shown include The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould directed by Brittni Shambaugh, 2B or Not 2B directed by Maggie Choumbakos, and Dispatches from Hell directed by Abby Suggs.
Vagina Monologues interest meetings to be held Interest meetings will be held for the Vagina Monologues at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, and 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in Benson 343. The meetings will cover ways students and faculty can be involved in the production of the monologues, including publicity, ad sales and backstage help, as well as performing the monologues. While only women can act in the shows, men are welcome to participate in other ways. Auditions for performers will be held Thursday, Nov. 19 in the WGS Lounge, Tribble Room C1 from 3-5 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. E-mail senior Kelly Bernhardt a bernka6@wfu.edu for more information, for a copy of the audition pieces or to set up an alternate audition time.
Professor to report on Rwandan genocide Sarah K. Lischer, assistant professor of political science will present “Never Again? Human Rights Atrocities and the Legacy of the Rwandan genocide” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in Room 204 of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. The talk will center on Lischer’s research and experiences in African refugee camps during Spring 2009.
University receives H1N1 Vaccine “Flu Shot” = Inactive Virus Nasal Spray, “LAIV” = Live Virus
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# of nasal vaccine doses distributed on campus on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4
Cost of vaccine for students:
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Do you have a severe allergy to eggs? Both vaccines are
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A student receives the live nasal vaccine at a clinic in Luter Hall on Nov. 3. H1N1 vaccines are free to students.
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Museum provides hands-on experience Internships provide global experience to anthro students By Samantha Hoback | Staff writer The classroom is not the only place to learn about the world. For students at the university, there are many different ways to explore and to experience history, culture and language. The Museum of Anthropology, established in 1963, has provided students with an interactive way to learn about ancient and contemporary peoples and cultures through unique exhibits, hands-on educational programs and internship opportunities. “The museum has been in various locations around the university,” Stephen Wittington, museum director and an adjunct associate professor of anthropology, said. “It was in Reynolda Village and in the basement of Tribble before coming to its current location around 1986.” Whittington, joined the university faculty in 2002. The Museum of Anthropology features exhibits based on objects from historical and contemporary cultures around the world. Exhibits include archaeological artifacts, ethnographic objects and visual art representing locations like the Yadkin River Valley and New Guinea. The newest exhibit, “Art of Sky, Art of Earth: Maya Cosmic Imagery,” opened in September
and features both ancient and contemporary pieces from the Mayan culture. One of the most popular exhibits is the “Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead)” exhibit that runs between September and November each year. “We have featured this exhibit for years, and our exhibit has been a part of our annual program longer than any other museum in the area,” Whittington said. “We found that people really missed it.” When the university had an anthropology graduate program, graduate students had a very active role in planning exhibits. “After the graduate program ended, we hired undergraduate student assistants to learn about the operations of the museum and to assist with the daily work,” Beverley Hancock said. Hancock served as the museum curator before retiring from full-time work in July 2008. University students continue to get involved at the museum, working as part-time staff members through the work-study program or working as interns. “Last semester, we had eight students in a class that did research in tattooing in traditional cultures,” Whittington said. “Three of those students are working as interns this semester to turn the tattoo research into an exhibit for the spring.” The tattooing exhibit is one of the most original projects that the museum has taken on in its history.
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The popular “Días de los Muertos” exhibit runs between September and November each year in the Museum of Anthropology.
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Youssef Yaccoubi will give a talk titled “The Play of Reason: Islam Within and Beyond Itself ” on Thursday, Nov. 12. Yaccoubi is the assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at Bard College. The talk will be held in Annenberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall, at 4:30 p.m. with a reception following the lecture. This event is sponsored by the departments of philosophy, religion and English; the Divinity School; the Film Studies Program; and Middle East and South Asian Studies.
The Wake Forest University Gospel Choir’s Fall Extravaganza Concert will be held Sunday, Nov. 22 at 5 p.m. The concert will be held at the First Baptist Church at 700 Highland Avenue. The choir will sing five to seven songs ranging from popular artists such as Kirk Franklin to more traditional gospel anthems. Admission is free for all students.Contact senior Jaymi Thomas, Gospel Choir president, for more information.
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Property damage • University Police responded to a call in reference to a broken door window in Taylor Hall valued at $100 on Oct. 31. Upon further investigation, it was determined that the offenders had damaged the glass and that one of them was at Student Health due to a laceration. A copy of this report will be sent to the Dean’s Office.
Miscellaneous • A cab driver with Willard’s Cab reported an offender that contracted his services and failed to pay his cab fare on Oct. 31. The offender was contacted by University Police and paid the cab fare. Willard’s Cab declined prosecution.
• A victim reported being sexually assaulted off campus to Winston-Salem Police. Case pending further investigation.
Drugs and Alcohol • ALE issued state citations for alcohol violations at BB&T Field on Oct. 11. The citations were forwarded to the Dean’s Office. • University Police responded to a call in reference to a noise complaint in Kitchin House at 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 31. Upon further investigation, it was determined that the offenders were in possession of alcohol while under the age of 21. • University Police responded to a call in reference to an unresponsive student in the courtyard of Poteat House at 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 31. The offender was determined to have consumed alcohol
while under the age of 21 and was transported to Baptist Hospital for treatment. • During a security check in Piccolo Hall at 3:50 a.m. on Oct. 31, University Police issued a state citation to an offender for possession of alcohol while under the age of 21. The offender is not a student of the university.
Thefts • Unknown subjects entered an unsecured room in Collins Hall and removed $140 cash from the victim’s pocketbook between 11:59 a.m. on Oct. 27 and 3 p.m. on Oct. 28. • Unknown subjects entered an unsecured vehicle parked in Lot S and took an iPod and GPS valued at $600 on Oct. 29. • Unknown subjects removed a BMW valued at $25,000 from Lot Q between 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 28 and 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 30.
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“The Unpredictable” race challenges students By Adam Edwards | Staff writer
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Four students get into the spirit and pose as a 1980s hair-metal band to celebrate Halloween at a party on campus this weekend.
For students still reminiscing about their “Pros vs. Joes” experience, or just looking for a weekend activity before the cold of winter sets in, the university’s “The Unpredictable” will debut at 12 p.m. on Nov. 7 on Poteat Field. The event is cosponsored by Campus Recreation and Residence Life and Housing. “The Unpredictable” is a race composed of 10 distinct events, all of which are intended to test students both mentally and physically. The events will be, as the name suggests, unusual and will require each pair of participants to work together. The race is intended to be completed in pairs and participants will have to think quickly to solve the unusual puzzles to make it through the course as they race for the prizes. Participants register in pairs, and prizes will be given to the the first and second place finisher in each division, as well as for “Best Costume” and other surprise categories. There will also be a raffle prize. Tickets for the raffle will be given in exchange for canned goods at the start of the race. At the completion of the race, which will end on Poteat Field where it began, there will be live music and food for the participants as well as an awards ceremony. While there are similarities to the “Pros vs. Joes” event hosted annually for freshmen during orientation, “The Unpredictable” is intended to appeal to a much wider audience.
While the event is only free to undergraduate students, graduate students can also compete for a chance to win prizes totaling over $1,000. The hope, according to Residence Education Coordinator Matt Imboden, , is that the event will “stand on its own as something that students of all class years can enjoy.” The two sponsors hope to create another annual tradition on campus that will appeal to a wider portion of the university’s students. “I think that the more annual events we have on campus, the better,” Imboden said regarding the creation of another campus tradition. “Making sure that we have activities available to students on campus is an important part of a vibrant university setting.” By providing a healthy, active outlet for students who may already be feeling the stress of finals looming ahead, Campus Recreation and Residence Life and Housing hope to provide a new and interesting way to have fun and get dirty without having to leave campus. “The Unpredictable” fills the gap between the activities and events of Halloween and the onset of finals. As part of the university’s broader objective to host more events on campus, “The Unpredictable” represents the efforts of two offices that arguably play among the largest roles in student programming. “As staff members, both offices enjoy working with students to make student life on campus more exciting and fun, and therefore we thought we’d work together in this way,” Imboden said.
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Student Interest Association (ASIA) will showcase their talents and message at the World Cultural Festival as well. According to Cox, visitors will experience “a plethora of things hitting your senses from all angles.” Not only will there be showcases of artwork, clothing and history for a vast number of different world cultures, music will play a vital role in the development of the ambience of cultural diversity and celebration. As far as performers are concerned, Drum Jungle — a group of instrumental percussionists and vocalists known for playing backup for performers such as Celine Dion and Marc Anthony — will headline the event and play music that will span a variety of cultural styles. Also, a Native American dance group called the Lumbee will perform during the festival.
Student groups Espara and Holas will perform cultural dances as well. Free food will be in abundance at the festival and will represent the diversity of international culinary fare. A number of games from around the world will also be available for attendees. Kubb, a lawn bowling-esque game from Sweden, will be featured at the World Cultural Festival. The purpose of this event stems from an overall need to celebrate cultural diversity in a nonacademic environment. Coordinators also want to display to university students the beauty of cultural heterogeneity and the opportunities for learning from people, according to Cox and Mauro. The World Cultural Festival is “what college is designed for (and) the perfect opportunity to learn about yourself and others (by stocking) your toolbox of cultural competency,” Mauro said. “The World Cultural Festival is an event to be a springboard for learning,” Cox said.
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book, Renegade Women: Conversion and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean. The book is scheduled to be published in 2010 by Johns Hopkins University. According to Dursteler, the book is based on information he encountered during his graduate school
research and set aside to pursue later. Dursteler received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brigham Young University and his doctorate from Brown University in 2000. Dursteler’s current studies include research on the Early Modern Mediterranean, identity, conversion and recently, the history of food. His first book, published in 2006, was titled Venetians in Constan-
tinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean. The “Liminality and Marginality” lecture series previously featured Cynthia Radding, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, on Oct. 8. The history department plans to host two more speakers next semester, but the lectures have not yet been confirmed.
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Other topics of discussion included his experiences at Notre Dame and “what his job really is,” sophomore Henderson Trefzger, a Student Government legislator, said. “He has a professor mentality. He asks questions and lets you answer them.” Designed to be completely casual, the event also allows students to break down the perceived barrier between the students and the administration. It can also alter many of their misconceptions about the president. “(Hatch) fights for students more than they realize. He can sometimes be hard to get in contact with because he’s so busy, but he really wants to be involved,” Trefzger said. Student response to the event has been impressive. The flexibility of the location and timing likely has an impact on the rate of attendance, as students are able to drop by on their way to and from class. “President Hatch is very open to meeting with students. By not having the event in an office setting, it’s more of a natural conversation,” Jamassi said. The event also opens up new avenues of communication between the president and stu-
dents who wouldn’t normally voice their concerns about the campus to the administration. While the discussion is not guaranteed to solve students’ problems, it can certainly draw attention to their ideas to improve the campus. By speaking directly to Hatch over a cup of coffee, students are able to easily offer their input and receive Hatch’s opinions on various topics. “Theoretically, if students voice the same concerns over and over again, it could make a difference,” Jamassi said. The organiz-
ers of “Hang with Hatch,” freshmen Jamassi and Jacob Blackwell, hope to make the event a monthly tradition. Both Hatch and the students involved with planning are completely invested in the success of the event. “Hang with Hatch” coincides with the administration’s search for more opportunities to directly interact with students. “I get the impression that (Hatch) really enjoys the event, and I’ve found it to be very wellreceived,” Pugel said. The next “Hang with Hatch” will be in the spring semester. Students may choose to optionally RSVP to Jamassi at jamaas9@wfu.edu once the date has been finalized.
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Job: Prospects look grim for seniors seeking employment Continued from Page A1
Anxious students like Briedenbach are taking counsel at Career Services, which offers students free services, such as resume reviews, mock interview sessions and career advice to help them land a job or internship. Additionally, Career Services provides an online job and internship posting system, called ECHO, which has become a popular means for students to search for jobs. Resources like these are now being used more than ever by students who are worried about obtaining employment after graduation. Career Services has seen such an increase in the number of students seeking its services that the office is planning on hiring two additional career counselors to help with individual advising appointments for students who are searching for jobs and internships. In addition, Career Services has created a Facebook and Twitter page to spread career information to students in a more efficient manner. Senior Kim Phillips found the one-onone counseling sessions to be the most helpful to her job search. “I wish I’d contacted them sooner,” Phillips said. “I definitely think the one-on-one counseling session is the way to go.” Individual career counseling sessions
provide students with access to a career counselor who guides them through the job search process. With the career counselor’s help, the student creates a personal career path plan and identifies the steps needed to obtain employment in that particular field of work. However, even the most well prepared student will likely have difficulty securing employment in these tough conditions. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report on the employment status of the population 25 years and older, the unemployment rate for college graduates with a bachelor’s degree and higher has risen from 2.6 percent to 4.9 percent from September 2008 to September 2009. This 2.3 percent increase means that more graduates are searching for jobs and there’s more competition for these jobs. This information, combined with the findings of a survey conducted by NACE that reported that 40 percent of employers plan to cut back hiring in 2010, translates into trouble for college seniors hoping for employment after graduation. Many students have already seen these national trends reflected on campus. In the past two years, the number of companies attending the Career Fest,
an event sponsored by Career Services for organizations interested in recruiting students, has significantly decreased. This year’s Career Fest, which was held in September, had only 39 companies in attendance. In past years up to 100 organizations were represented. The number of interviews on campus has also declined by 23 percent in the 2008-2009 school year compared to the previous year. What do all these figures and numbers mean for students looking towards the future? The reality of the situation is that students must be more persistent, more active and less demanding when searching for a job. Couch admits that it’s going to take longer for students to find jobs. Couch stated that students need “to develop a thick skin” because they will more than likely encounter rejection. “There will be reasons why students don’t get a particular job. They may never know the reason why, but they need to be able to pick themselves up and keep going,” Couch said. Couch also explained that because of the difficult job market students will have to accept job offers with organizations that aren’t their first choice or may even have to work part-time through a temporary staffing agency. Yet, Couch urges students to take these jobs because in the long run they will
help students “keep their skills sharp and will make them more competitive for full-time jobs related to their career.” For those students concerned about life after graduation, Couch reminds students to “keep the whole situation in perspective.” “You will become employed,” Couch said. “It just may not be in the route that you expected.” Marianne Schubert, the director of the University Counseling Center, advises students not to feel discouraged if their expectations are not met right away. “It is important for students to remember that most people don’t spend the rest of their lives in the same industry or type of job that they obtained right after graduation,” Schubert said. In fact, Schubert believes that jobrelated disappointments can actually be beneficial for students. “Students may discover insights about themselves, their interests and what they don’t like that may redirect their career path,” Schubert said in reference to possible unfilled expectations after graduation. Additionally, Schubert urges students to remember that there are other avenues in which they can find fulfillment, such as through volunteer work, hobbies and leisure activities. Most importantly, Schubert advises students to “find an emotional support
system” that will help them in their transition to the real world. For those students considering graduate school versus employment, Couch declares that “now might be a great time to go.” Yet, many students are hoping for employment after graduation simply because they cannot afford the expense of graduate school so soon after graduation. Phillips, an economic major, has opted to take time off after graduation in order to save up money for graduate school. “I just don’t have money to go to grad school right away. I need to find some sort of job and go from there,” Phillips said. Even with the rise in unemployment, Phillips believes that she will be able to obtain a job eventually. “I’m pretty sure I’m going to be ok. I went to a good school and they prepared me really well,” Phillips said. However, most students are not as certain about their future. Briedenbach worries that she won’t be able to get a job or afford to go to graduate school. “Considering that (after graduation) I’ll be cut off and will probably be in debt a couple thousand dollars, I’ll need a job,” Briedenbach said. “However, I don’t want to end up working part-time at Target with no benefits.”
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MOA: Exhibits encourage sensory learning
with the title for the exhibit last senses,” Whittington said. “It week.” reaches out to a whole different In addition to planning the group of learners.” Whittington, whose wife has big tattoo exhibit, the museum Whittington knows all about several tattoos herself, became is continuing to expand its on- learning from using the senses. interested in exploring this as- line artifact database. He has conducted fieldwork in pect of world cultures and turnThe database, which features Central America and Mexico, ing it into a hands-on exhibit photographs studying for students. and inthe Maya in The exhibit, which will be f o r m a t i o n Honduras “Object-based learning is learn- and Guatecalled “Only Skin Deep? Tat- about artooing in World Cultures,” is chaeological mala during ing from using your senses. It still in the planning stages, but artifacts, art reaches out to a whole different the 1980s the museum staff has big plans and other and 1990s. group of learners.” for the spring opening. objects from Cu r r e n t “We have been working with world cully, WhitStephen Whittington tattoo collectors around the tures, is one tington is Museum Director country and from other coun- of the ways studying the tries, as well as with students the museum culture of from the university to put the is reaching the Mixtec collection together,” Whitting- out to other university depart- people. ton said. ments as well as schools in the Last summer, he spent six This exhibit, more so than ex- community. weeks studying the Mixtec lanhibits in the past, will be aimed “Thousands of students from guage, and he hopes to travel at students. The staff has been local school districts come to back to Mexico this spring to talking to students about their the museum each year,” Whit- continue exploring this ancient opinions and attitudes toward tington said. culture. “This work is fun and tattooing. “The education coordina- fulfilling,” Whittington said. Students with tattoos will also tor also goes out to the schools “At some point, I got the bug.” have the opportunity to incor- for lectures and programs. We Students and the rest of the porate their have a lot staff at the Museum of Anthrobody art into of curricu- pology have caught the bug as the exhibit. lum-based well. “The museum offers the The staff is “The museum offers the univer- p r o g r a m s university a unique place where working on to help stu- students can see objects from sity a unique place where stucreating a dents learn other cultures of the world and wall mural of dents can see objects from other about the place the objects and the knowlphotographs cultures and place those objects history and edge of the objects and cultures of students’ culture of in the perspectives of their lives in the perspective of their lives tattoos for the world.” and their studies,” Hancock and their studies.” the exhibit. W i t h said. “ O n l y three fedAnthropological work is more Beverley Hancock Skin Deep?” eral grants, than toying with old pieces of Former Museum Curator is scheduled the museum pottery and ancient skeletons. to open on established “We leave a larger footprint Jan. 5, and the online around the world,” Whittinga big special event is being artifact database. It has been ton said. planned for after Spring Break very successful in promoting The Museum of Anthropolwhere students will have the op- “object-based learning” in the ogy is located behind the Kentportunity to watch someone be- classroom. ner Stadium. The museum is ing tattooed, to get temporary The museum hopes to obtain open 10 a.m. 4:30 p.m., Tuesand henna tattoos and to enter another federal grant in order to day through Saturday. Admisa contest for the best tattoo at expand the database to include sion is free, but donations are the university. an archive of pictures and docu- gratefully accepted. For more “We are still in the process of ments from the museum. information, visit the museum developing the program,” Whit“Object-based learning is Web site at http://www.wfu. tington said. “We just came up learning from using your edu/moa.
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The Museum of Anthropology will sponsor an exhibit on tattoos opening Jan. 5 called “Only Skin Deep? Tattooing in World Cultures.”
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Artifacts from other cultures of the world are on display at the Museum of Anthropology for students to observe Tuesday through Saturday.
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amily Weekend is intended to be a great time in the fall semester — a mini-break for students to essentially take two days off from studying for exams and cramming for last-minute presentations, catch up with their parents that they haven’t seen lately, and get a nice meal or two before returning to “Pit food” and starting to cut back on early-morning Cook Out runs. Even more, the university traditionally does a wonderful job ensuring that students and parents have plenty of activities to take part in throughout the two-day visit, whether such activities include speeches given by administrators on new admission policies or the state of the university, tailgating festivities before the football game, or evening meals on campus with a live band playing. As far as entertainment goes, the university did a wonderful job booking a live band — you can never go wrong with Beatles music. Although their sound might not be the number one choice for undergraduate students, the music undoubtedly ties together generation gaps, a primary objective of family weekend. Although the weather was damp and the football game was a disappointment, these two factors invariably fall out of the university’s control (and are factors to which students have become accustomed). It was rainy at times, but
the temperature wasn’t too cold for spending time with the parents outdoors. This time of year, when the days start getting shorter and fallen, earth-toned leaves litter the campus’ groomed grass, is great for showing off the little nooks on campus that we adore. Despite all the effort and hard work put forth by those who planned Family Weekend, it was disappointing that the university chose to make students juggle family commitments with hopes of spending Halloween evening with friends. The university’s agenda, to prevent students from the normal hoopla they suspect surrounds Halloween, only pitted undergraduates’ priorities against each other. Surely planners realized that, by scheduling Family Weekend for Halloween weekend, they wouldn’t prevent students from mingling after hours, but rather make students chose between quickly ushering their parents back to the Holiday Inn so the festivities could progress as they normally do on Halloween night, or staying up until all hours of the night and drowsily interacting with parents the next morning. The university was unsuccessful in squelching Halloween parties and in fact only limited the involvement students had with their parents this weekend. It’s upsetting that, because of a paternal effort to prevent student fraternizing, time with mom and pop suffered.
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placed in powerful positions to control production facilities that would otherwise Staff Columnist be used to produce civilian goods. As a result, civilian goods must be rationed hile it is no doubt that the during times of war because the capital Democratic Party has never and infrastructure necessary to ensure been an exemplary model of domestic well-being have been replaced consistent, logical ideology, their party’s with wartime production facilities. future is at least looking like it will exist. Basically, in times of war civilians are However, the future of their counterparts forced to sacrifice coats and butter for is looking incredibly grim. uniforms and bombs. The Republican Party is in shambles for For a party so outspoken and opposed one reason: their ideology has proven to to welfare programs, the Republican Party be so inconsistent and out of touch with does a great job of subsidizing wartime reality that it cannot survive. manufacturers. In their pursuit of power the logic of the However, it is important to remember Republican Party has led to two things: the necessity of other social welfare national embarrassment and ideological programs essential to the maintenance of inconsistency. standing armies. Let me address the ideological Instead of decreasing the number of inconsistency. recipients of government benefits, a The general platform held by the large national defense requires large scale Republican Party is based on the welfare programs. principles of free markets, limited One large block of welfare programs government, social conservatism and a comes from military recruiting that strong national defense. promises free college and a steady income However, their policies are inherently to those who enlist. contradictory, the greatest inconsistency While Republicans would oppose these of all being found in the Republican ideal types of benefits for the poor, people of a strong national defense. whose poverty is arguably caused by A standing military and hawkish foreign massive military spending, the Republican policy is as much an affront to the ideas Party understands that welfare programs of free markets as to the ideas of limited are necessary to sustaining a standing government. army. Directly opposed to the success of the Without a dependency on their free market, a strong national defense commanders, soldiers would be free to has a few historically resist unjust wars and proven characteristics. interventions. A massive military However, the other Veterans have a moral right to buildup requires large half of this welfare welfare programs and rightgovernment spending policy exists by moral to fund things like obligation. Veterans fully the government should weapons research, have a moral right not deprive them of benefits, weapons production to welfare programs but for a party that so ardently and rightfully the and resource maintenance, among government should not opposes any form of governa myriad of other deprive them of benefits, ment welfare programs, the expenditures. but for a party that so Republicans fail to realize that As the free market ardently opposes any proponent should form of government they generate the demand for know, large government these benefits. welfare programs, spending in any form Republicans fail to is antithetical to free realize that they generate market economics, the demand for these leading to deadweight losses and massive benefits. government waste, diverting resources Not only must government officials away from civilian use. offer a litany of incentives and benefits While apologists point to the to seduce civilians into the military, technology that has resulted from this they must provide for the health care of massive block of government spending, millions of vets who are suffering from they fail to realize that the technologies diseases, disorders and injuries directly resulting from this spending are rarely caused by military duty. pro-civilian, and most of the time are Over the past century, government strictly used to manufacture weapons of programs have paid for the treatment of war. diseases caused by exposure to mustard In fact, many, if not all, of the civilian gas, napalm, unhealthy living conditions technologies “created” by government and, the most recent and underreported spending were not created by the disease, cancer resulting from exposure government at all; in many cases private to uranium-tipped munitions during the engineers and inventors worked to adapt first Gulf War. and reconfigure military technology for If the Republican Party is against welfare civilian purposes. programs and social spending, it would Wartime also requires a massive severely decrease the demand it creates for centralization in the economic structure. what it has deemed “the welfare state,” but Just as in World War I and World War II, it is the “warfare state” that necessitates the wartime economy requires large scale the existence of “the welfare state.” production of munitions and the other goods necessary to sustain troops. 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The evolution of left-libertarianism explained
Libertarian roots can be traced to classical liberalism and anarchism
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common misconception among those who regard the liberty movement from without is that it is composed of people who all see eye to eye on all, or even most, issues. However, the beauty of this movement that is currently sweeping the nation is that it is less a group of people who adhere to any certain ideology, and more a coalition of individuals coming from a vast array of standpoints, but who all understand the damaging nature of government and the value, whether intrinsic or pragmatic (usually both), of freedom. Many “libertarians,” in identifying themselves as such, simply do so out of simplicity. The fact is that ideal types can be deceiving, as they can cause one to be prejudged due to a political label, but are sometimes necessary
in giving a brief synopsis of one’s viewpoint. The group of people who refer to themselves as libertarians also do so simply because despite their differences, they understand that some unity is necessary in order to be any kind of cohesive force. If mutualists, anarcho-capitalist, market anarchists, left-libertarians, libertarian republicans, classical liberals, voluntaryists, agorists and the like all split up into their own separate groups, they would wield little to no influence on the political stage. Thus we have seen the rise of such organizations as the Campaign for Liberty and the End the Fed network, both of which are comprised of people spanning much of these spectrums. I give this preface because I would like to briefly explain my political philosophy, but in doing so do not mean to alienate any other members of the liberty movement with different ideas. The best way that I can identify myself is as a left-libertarian, and seeing as I currently have a 101 degree fever and do not feel like actually researching for an article this week, I would rather simply give a brief synopsis of where this left-libertarian school of thought came from, and what it entails. To be clear, left-libertarianism does not use the term “left” in the same way that it is used in modern day mainstream politics. It instead refers to the leftist tradition of classical liberalism and anarchism (a classic example would be the leftist revolutionaries
during the French Revolution who movement was largely an outgrowth favored free markets and liberty from of the individualist sect of socialism the absolutist monarchy that had that all but died out, rather than dominated France for so many years Marx’s authoritarian version of the in history). doctrine that was put into practice in Essentially, libertarianism has the 20th century, and was a crossing historically been a school of thought of market libertarianism and the that has countered political authority. historical left. In recent years, many libertarians have Left-libertarians are libertarians seen themselves as being allies of the who are aware of the roots that modern right. Left-libertarianism is a true libertarian philosophy has in resurging movement away from this the historical left. Whereas many tendency. see the libertarian movement as I use the word “resurging” because being a reaction to FDR’s New left-libertarianism actually was alive Deal, left-libertarians understand and well in the 1800s and early 1900s that their philosophy goes much in the form of such people as Emma further back and in fact aims to Goldman, William Lloyd Garrison bring libertarianism back to its antiand Voltairine de Cleyre, though the establishment roots. achievements of In terms of goals, such people have one could say that largely been wiped left-libertarians Left-libertarians are not from our modern have similar goals merely critical of state power, history textbooks. to many of those A left-libertarian on the ideological but also corporate power, view of the modern modern Left, though though historically see that left actually finds the means involved it has been the State that has such people as are individual Barack Obama liberty and true handed corporations a great to be largely free markets rather deal of their influence. neoconservative in than government nature, as despite intervention, the fact that they regulation and seek ends that may coercion. seem very well and good, their means Left-libertarians think that free are nothing short of authoritarian market economics in fact would be a in nature, and almost always are much better solution to leftist goals incapable of actually achieving the than state intervention, and attempt end in mind. Left-libertarianism to show how state intervention can largely trace its origins in the actually often preempts its own United States back to the individualist professed ends due to the improper anarchism of the 19th century. The nature of the means.
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omrades, I hope everyone had a happy Halloween. The 31st of October has long been a favorite day of mine, eclipsed in its glorious materialism only by the birthday of a certain Messiah. I think it’s the vortex of candy and costumes that keeps me excited. Over the years, the candy has remained the same, but the costumes have changed. It’s the costumes I would like to discuss today. When we were all younger, the boys were the action heroes of the day. Perhaps a Ninja Turtle or Spiderman. The girls were something nice, like a princess, or something spookier, like a witch. As we get older, however, these costumes change and reflect our own roles in society. I’m sure most of you have already done plenty of Facebook stalking of people’s Halloween pictures. If not, I urge you to do so. The generalities I’m about to make are just that, generalities. I’m well aware that not all people will fit into the mold I’m about to describe, but a great many will. The guys are almost universally dressed up as something funny or clever. I saw a guy in the Pit, for instance, dressed as a dinosaur, another went as Dwight from The Office. The girls, again in general, are dressed differently. Many of their costumes did not reflect creativity or humor. The Sexy Sailor or Slutty Secretary has been done. There is nothing original about these costumes and the girls who wear them know it. So why wear them? It’s not that so many girls lack creativity or humor, nor do they mistake the costumes from Party City as finely designed clothing. As I walked from student apartments back to Taylor on Halloween night, I passed a large group waiting for rides to a party. The guys had the sort of costumes we expect. Most were
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funny, either because they belonged on a 10-year old or because they commented, subtly, on some ridiculous aspect of American popular culture. The girls’ costumes ranged from the “Flirtatious Fairy” to the “Seductive Schoolgirl.” And, in a real moment of individuality, a “Naughty Nurse.” Halloween has become another excuse for men to be funny and women to flaunt what is supposed to be their best attribute: their bodies. This both perverts a holiday and is indicative of the culture we have imposed upon ourselves. I’m no advocate of sexual repression, but the gender lines really should not be this clear cut. The roles we assume on Halloween are a function of our personality. The small kid who loves adventure might be a Wild Thing and the little girl who wants to help people might dress up as a doctor. The grown man in college is told that he has to be funny and smart in order to get attention, something that is perhaps pressuring for our comrades who lack in wit, but which doesn’t seem to me to be terribly destructive. The role that many, although not all, women in college are pressured into assuming on the last night of October is, frankly, insulting. It means that, even at a top-30 university, women are still considered at a basic level to be objects that are seen and used, but not heard. This is not a phenomenon limited to Halloween. Take a look at the difference in celebrities and other personalities of note. Often the men are good looking, or so I’m told, but it’s not a requirement. Talent is more or less the only thing you have to have going for you to be a male actor or singer. Not so for the women, even a talented woman who lacks good looks is hard to find in the celebrity magazines. Further, talent isn’t even a requirement. Look good enough and the engineer in a studio can make the computer essentially sing for you. This effect, which prizes the mental and physical talents of men yet places emphasis on the looks of women over these same categories, is depicted clearly in how young adults like ourselves celebrate Halloween. It’s a culture that I hope will change; I’d do without the overflowing boobs in order to have some more wit from our sisters; I hope you would make the same choice.
We see the likely outcome of a genuinely free economy as much more egalitarian than our current system, which is dominated by corporate and state interests, both of which are promoted via physical, financial or political coercion. In fact, what is celebrated as “free market capitalism” by the modern right is seen by libertarians as little more than a plutocratic or mercantile society. Left-libertarians are not merely critical of state power, but also corporate power, though they historically see that it has been the State that has handed corporations a great deal of their influence. As this is obviously a descriptive, and not persuasive, writing, it should seem obvious that my goal is not to necessarily convince anyone to become a left-libertarian. I simply hope to show that despite the fact that I have very specific views as a left-libertarian, I have no problem allying with people of other ideologies across the liberty movement. Still, it is important to remember that libertarianism is historically not some streamlined outgrowth of conservativism, but in fact a movement that historically identified itself with the left side of the political spectrum, and continues to be one of the few political ideologies that remains consistently antiauthoritarian, anti-war and profreedom.
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lection night for me is always like a holiday. Luckily for politicos like me, Virginia and New Jersey elect their governors in the year after the Presidential Election, giving me something to look forward to in between the Presidential and Congressional Midterm Elections. Along with Virginia and New Jersey, New York’s 23rd Congressional district held a special election that quickly became nationalized. President Abraham Lincoln once said that, “The most reliable indication of public purpose in this country is derived through our popular elections,” and since these were the first elections since President Obama’s election, many people want to place significant meaning into the Nov. 3’s elections. What do these elections say about feelings toward the Obama Administration? Were they merely local elections? What is the significance of these elections? We’ll get back to those in a minute, but first, a quick overview of the races and results from Tuesday night. The first, and least nail-biting race, was the Virginia gubernatorial election. In it, former Attorney General Bob McDonnell and State Senator Creigh Deeds duked it out, and by “duked it out” I mean that McDonnell crushed Deeds, 59 percent to 41 percent, retaking the Governor’s Mansion in the midst of a political apocalypse for Democrats in Virginia. McDonnell ran as a staunch Republican, but the focus of his campaign was firmly the economy and jobs. Creigh Deeds tried to use McDonnell’s college thesis, a fierce defense of women’s place in the home, against him. McDonnell, in what may be a first for Conservatives, hammered Deeds for using social issues as a wedge topic when he was too busy trying to talk about jobs. Democrats even sent Bill Clinton in to do the graveyard shift, so as not to hurt the White House too much on election day. New Jersey was a different story. Former Senator and Goldman Sachs executive John Corzine was running for reelection as governor. His main opponent was former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, well known for his efforts to stamp out corruption in New Jersey. Corzine was deeply unpopular, but many weren’t completely comfortable with voting for Christie, leaving an opening for
Independent candidate Chris Daggett to gain votes. Daggett looked to be a game-changer, drawing in 20 percent in some early polls. However, as the election neared, the polling grew tighter as voters increasingly decided to stick with the major party candidates. Many eventually decided that if they didn’t want Corzine to win, that they would need to support Christie instead of Daggett. When the votes were counted, Christie pulled it out with 49 percent, compared to 44 percent for Corzine and 6 percent for Daggett. At the end of the day, Daggett voters would have picked Corzine as their second choice, helping to seal the election for Christie. The final election under the national spotlight was the special election for New York’s 23rd Congressional District. Previously held by John McHugh, the seat opened up when President Obama appointed the former-Congressman to be the Secretary of the Army. The candidates who emerged were Democrat Bill Owens, Republican Dede Scozzafava and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, a former candidate for the GOP nomination. The race nationalized when some national Republicans, such as Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson, endorsed Hoffman over Scozzafava. Scozzafava had been selected by the GOP County Chairmen, instead of through a primary. They selected Scozzafava as a moderate, thinking that she was the most capable of holding onto the seat. The only problem was that Scozzafava was to the left of the Democrat on a number of issues. As the national spotlight intensified, Scozzafava’s support collapsed, and she suspended her campaign, leaving her name on the ballot, and endorsing Democrat Bill Owens. Though polling suggested that Hoffman could win, Scozzafava’s name on the ballot took enough votes away to give the Democrats their first Congressman from this district since Michael McNulty, and Bill Owens won with 49 percent of the vote, and 46 percent and 5 percent for Hoffman and Scozzafava, respectively. So, what are the implications of these elections? The victory in Virginia is stunning, since President Obama won the state by 53 percent last year, yet McDonnell dominated by 19 percent. McDonnell’s campaign was extremely successful, as it down-played social issues and spent much of the time tying Deeds to the president. While just tying the two together may not be the main source of victory, it is a compelling argument when you consider that Virginia’s economy is not in the dire straits that many others are, and that voters there are concerned about what the effect of national policies will be on the state’s trajectory of success. Seth Williford is a junior political science major from Wilson, N.C.
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Undergraduate negates taxing Students lack nerves academics with rhyming humor and competitive edge
University’s high-stress environment can be overwhelming
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’ve wanted to try this for some time; I’ve planned it for a while. Writing a piece all in rhyme calls upon my guile. It may not seem to make much sense, written in this way. But think of it as a long speech, appearing in a Shakespearean play. We all wish to be poets and have a desire to be funny. But I doubt that this creative piece will produce any money. This article will touch upon the stresses of our life. We work so hard here at Wake Forest, our days are filled with strife. But have no fear; there is no need to fret. Sit back, enjoy, and follow this little story — it may be my best work yet. Each day we rise, tired and toiled, marching off to our difficult day. Weighted down by our books and notes, it’s amazing our backs function in a normal way. We study, think and theorize, day in and day out. Oh the joys of taking courses in a school with so much clout. After class, the day is not done, there still is more to do. Off to the library or to a meeting, there’s hardly time for you. We cannot rest, we cannot sleep.
There just simply is no time. I even strike a balance, or we will surely die. multi-task at lunch, as I work on this We cannot continue on this path, we rhyme. cannot always run. If we fail to enjoy We must come up with a way to the college life, we’ll miss out on all balance all of our stuff. Even a 30 hour the fun. day may not be enough. We must take the time to sit back Each night we’re rushing off to more and enjoy our life. It’s incredibly of just the same. Our “OCD” and unhealthy to live with so much strife. “grad school apps” are where we point At Wake Forest, we seem to go all the blame. day, then stay up all the night. Our We rush around like chickens with parents phone in and say that our no heads. Daydreaming of the three lifestyle simply is right. hours of the day where we can lay in They tell us we all work too hard, bed. that we must have some fun. But how But the day is not defined simply by can we calm down and breathe, when a class or our meeting. Unfortunately, there is so much to be done? this system is a beast, and our social Our stress will build, this I know to life can take a beating. be true. Sadly, there is no end in sight, Sure, we all know how to play; we but try not to look so blue. seem to do it each weekend. But the We’ll put on a good face and tell all dating scene and weekday fun is what our parents that we’re alright. But as we need to mend. soon as that phone call ends, we’re off How are we supposed to date when to the library, where we will spend the there is so much to do? When we night. are all driven by a Try to breathe deep, “me-first” life, when and try to calm down. After class, the day is not done, Look at the blue sky, is there time for you? there still is more to do. Off and reverse your sad If all our stress frown. to the library or to a meeting, just continues to Let’s try to break there’s hardly time for your. We our stress, let’s try to build up, how do we let it go? It’s hard cannot rest, we cannot sleep. take life in. After all, to socially date at one little grade won’t There just simply is no time. I Wake, of this I’m determine whether even multi-task at lunch, as I sure you know. or not we are able to work on this rhyme. We all rise up in win. anger; we can’t even We must not give find time to go out up hope; we cannot with our friend. It can be hard to find lie down and die. We must rise up and a time in our lives and schedules that balance our lives; we must try to tell we can quickly bend. our stress goodbye. Emotions will flare, hearts will begin If we can take it one day at a time, to flutter. But with all our work and we may just have success. We already stress, how can we date each other? attend a great school; we’re ahead of Our bodies ache for one short break, all the rest. So go outside, forget the they scream out loud for sleep. Will we stress, and perhaps enjoy the season. get any rest at all or are we already in But then again, who am I kidding; too deep? they call it Work Forest for a reason. Can we get the rest we need, while keeping our grades and resumes high? Hamlin Wade is a sophomore from We must come up with a plan and Charlotte, N.C.
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hroughout the past couple of months, I’ve noticed that there have been a lot of leadership positions that have been just given to students. These students may have earned their positions through hard work and dedication, but there was no competition among other students for the position. It may be just me but all throughout high school, I lived for competition. I know that everyone who attends our university was extremely competitive in high school. Whether it be in academics, sports or extracurricular activities; each Wake Forest bound student did everything to his or her best ability. The question on my mind now is, where did all of that fire go? Last week, I wrote an editorial (“Students’ apathy limits college experience,” Oct. 29) concerning the lack of student involvement in the university. Students are very apathetic at our university, and while that limits their opportunities and experiences, it also leaves other students with plenty of opportunities for leadership. These students are appreciative of these opportunities, I know that I am, but it also limits the quality of leadership. When organizations are forced to give executive positions to inexperienced students, the whole organization suffers and the students feels discouraged. Last year during the Student Government elections, there was no competition for two of the four executive positions, and one position was left completely empty during the first round of election
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week. I think the two positions that were uncontested had excellent candidates who were very qualified for their positions. But this also concerns me a great deal. Why were there only two students willing to step up to the plate and take responsibility? This past week, I’ve also had the opportunity to look closely into an organization on campus that has had poor leadership in the past years. While I’m sure this organization is going to serve a great deal of purpose on campus, it’s frustrating for both faculty advisors and students. Many faculty advisors never go to meetings or even know if the club is active any longer. If they aren’t connected to the students, they definitely aren’t going to know which students hold leadership positions. These new student leaders who are still young or new to the organization don’t have the slightest idea on how to run meetings, let alone an entire organization. I hope that this editorial doesn’t scare any potential leaders away because that isn’t my intention at all. Students just need to take part in activities that they truly enjoy. I was recently at a leadership seminar and heard the best piece of advice I have heard in long time, “Do what makes your heart beat the fastest.” If students are interested in their organizations, these leadership positions wouldn’t be handed to students who aren’t qualified. I think students need to look back to their high school years and find that passion that fueled them to compete. Do you really want the glory if you haven’t worked to prove that you’re the best? Nilam Patel is a sophomore from Roanoke, Va.
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On Oct. 30, a Dutch court ruled that 14-year-old Laura Dekker was still too inexperienced to be allowed to pursue her quest to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. Judges at Utrecht District Court placed Dekker under the guardianship of child protection authorities until next July to ensure that she cannot set off on her dream voyage around the world. The ruling means Dekker can continue living with her father but her parents must consult child protection authorities about all major decisions in her life.
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rank of the field hockey team after win over B.C. that ended the regular season match-high kills made by Andrea Beck in volleyball game verse B.C. number of points the men’s soccer team has in ACC play
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On Oct. 29, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced that men’s basketball sophomore forward Al-Farouq Aminu was named as a preseason candidate for the 2010 Naismith Trophy. Aminu is one of nine players from the ACC on the preseason watch list. He is also one of just 12 sophomores and a combined 17 total underclassmen to make the list. The watch list Aminu was compiled by the Atlanta Tipoff Club’s Board of Selectors, which based its criteria on player performances from the previous year and expectations for the 2009-10 college basketball season. The Naismith Trophy will be awarded at the 2010 NCAA Men’s Final Four in Indianapolis, Ind.
{ SPORTS WORDS } In the halls of the NCAA headquarters hang 12 quotes that represent the association. Over the next 12 weeks we will print those quotes here.
“Leaders have to grip the fact that their success depends on others.” ~ Leroy Walker Benedict Class of 1940 Basketball, football & track
Senior running back Josh Adams is taken down by a raging Miami defense in a Halloween heartbreaker. The Deacs lost in the last quarter, 28-27, despite leading the game to that point. By Joe Maugeri | Staff writer
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Poised to pull off an upset that would have marked their biggest win of the season, the Demon Deacon football team was left heartbroken as No. 16 Miami mounted a fourth-quarter comeback to beat the Deacs 28-27 on Oct. 31 at BB&T Field. The loss to the Hurricanes drops the Deacs to 4-5 (2-3 ACC) and has put their hopes for a fourth consecutive bowl bid in jeopardy. Fifth-year senior quarterback Riley Skinner was having a career day, tallying 349 yards passing while completing 29-43 pass attempts and throwing for two touchdowns, until he was knocked out of the game late in the fourth quarter with a mild concussion.
The Deacon offense was running all cylinders too. Senior running back Josh AdamS amassed 48 rushing yards, while also racking up 71 receiving yards for the Deacs. Sophomore receiver Chris Givens caught three passes for 61 yards, and junior receiver Devon Brown had a career outing, pulling in 12 balls for 101 yards. From the start of the game, it was clear that the Deacs showed up to play. After forcing the Hurricanes into a three-and-out on their first drive of the game, the Deacon offense took over on their own 16-yard line and quickly drove 78 yards down to the Miami sixyard line before being forced into a 23-yard field goal from freshman kicker Jimmy Newman to establish an early 3-0 lead. After forcing another Miami punt, the Deacs got the ball back at their own 25-yard line. From there, it took the Deacs only eight plays to drive down the field and score their first touchdown of the day. A
3-yard pass from Skinner to freshman fullback Tommy Bohanon made the score 10-0 with 2:23 left in the first quarter. Forcing the potent Hurricane offense into yet another punt, the Deacons retook possession of the ball at their own 24-yard line to start the second quarter. After busting out two big runs, the Deacs employed a little trickery as they ran a double-reverse wide receiver pass with senior receiver Marshall Williams, connecting with a wide open Skinner for a 17-yard gain. From there, Skinner would complete three more passes before running untouched into the end zone for a 7-yard score that made it 17-0 with 10:36 left in the half. Miami was not able to light up their side of the scoreboard until their next series. Starting their drive at their own 33-yard line, sophomore quarterback Jacory
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Deacs drop final away match Fans played a role in Miami loss By Gary Pasqualicchio | Staff writer
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Sophomore midfielder Sam Redmond fights a Wildcat opponent for possession in the Deacs’ rain-soaked match against Davidson. Next up the Deacs face Duke. By Riley Johnston Contributing writer
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With a shot to clinch at least a share of the ACC regular season crown, the Wake Forest men’s soccer team came up just short to Boston College on Friday, Oct. 30. Boston College’s Kevin Mejia scored the only goal of the match in the 51st minute to lead the Eagles to a 1-0 victory over the Demon Deacons. Wake Forest falls to 12-3-2 overall and 4-2-1 in conference play, while Boston College improves to 10-7-0 overall and 4-3-0 in conference play. Even though Wake Forest was dominant in nearly all statistical categories, the Deacs failed to get a goal off Boston College goalkeeper Justin Luthy, who stopped all seven shots. “Well, I’m very disappointed. Statistically, we had the advantage,
and playing them there (in Chestnut Hill, Mass.) we had a lot of possession time and certainly had enough opportunities to win the game. Credit to Boston College, they did a good job and found their one goal,” Head Coach Jay Vidovich said. Senior Zach Schilawski got the first shot on goal for the Deacons four minutes into the game, but it was rescued by Luthy. Schilawski led all players with five shots, two of them on target. With the score tied going into the half, Vidovich wanted his team to come out more aggressively in the second half and try to get the lead early. The Deacs did come out with a fight; Schilawski attempted a quick shot caught by Luthy, quickly followed by another shot in the 50th minute by junior Corben Bone that was sent just wide. Unfortunately, Boston College then struck with the first and only goal of the game. Mejia trapped a long throw just outside the box and then buried the shot in the bottom right corner from 23 yards out.
“We adjusted a couple of things (at the half ). I think once again we probably did just about the opposite of what we wanted to do, which would have been come right out of half and find a goal quickly. We made a mistake, and they got a goal off a long throw,” Vidovich said. After the goal, the Deacs were forced to turn up the intensity on offense and had to move junior Ike Opara from defense to an attacking midfielder. Unfortunately, the equalizer was never scored, and Boston College escaped with a 1-0 victory. “We were able to do a couple of different things strategy wise. We started off just by moving Ike up to the midfield to try to get more dominance there. We ended up with Ike up top the last couple of minutes and almost created three or four goals,” Vidovich said. The Deacs’ last game before the postseason tournaments begin is Nov. 6 against Duke. The senior class will be honored on the field before the game.
It was after 7 p.m. on a cold, rainy Saturday night last week. Fans in half-empty BB&T Field and the surrounding streets celebrated in jubilation and chanted the name of their victorious team. Unfortunately, and inexplicably, those fans were from Miami, Fla., and were decked out in the nauseating color-combination of orange and green. I was at that football game, a 28-27 Miami victory over our Demon Deacons. But should I really say “our Demon Deacons?” Because I sure didn’t see many fellow fans out there in the second half as our team could have used a late defensive stop and a loud, raucous crowd to will them to victory. What I did see was a stadium packed at kickoff eventually turn into a halfempty mausoleum with only scattered remnants of Wake fans, a depleted student section and a loud Miami crowd. A sea of Hurricane faithful, biding their time until they could go crazy and celebrate their team’s miracle road win. As ‘Canes sophomore quarterback Jacory Harris led the final drive, converting a third down and a fourth and 15, there was an attempt from Demon Deacon fans to make some noise, but those remaining were just too few in number. I believe that if that game, with these exact extenuating circumstances, was played in Tallahassee, Blacksburg, Clemson or in front of any of the ACC’s top crowds, the Hurricanes may have left the losers. But the Deacs came up short and I was left stunned, wondering: where were our fans? They had left, presumably either satisfied with their team’s two touchdown lead (have you watched sports before?), sick of sitting in the rain or ready to get their Halloween night started early. Clothes dry out in a few hours and everyone still would have had a very long Halloween night
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Zack Schilawski
By Allison Lange | Assistant sports editor
Senior forward Zack Schilawski has been given many honors and awards this season. He was recently named to ESPN The Magazine’s Academic AllDistrict Team, given ACC Player of the Week honors, named to the College Soccer News National Team of the Week and honored by Top Drawer Soccer multiple times this season. One of the biggest honors is being named one of the top 10 finalists for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, which recognizes dedication to the classroom, community, character and competition. Schilawski has been a true team player over his four years as a Demon Deacon, as he has continued to improve his game every year, and takes full advantage of whatever time he’s given on the field. Schilawski has really stepped into a senior leadership role this season, as he leads the team in points, goals and shots, with 10, 24 and 57, respectively. Going into the last regular season game against Duke on Nov. 6, the team will undoubtedly look to Schilawski to lead the team offensively into the post-season. This season, the 2009 Men’s Soccer ACC Cham-
pionship and the 2009 Men’s College Cup will take place in Schilwaski’s hometown of Cary, N.C., about two hours down the road from Wake Forest. Schilwaski surely has fond memories of his last game there, the NCAA Championship game in 2007, when Schilwaski scored the game winning goal on an assist from former teammate Marcus Tracy. This season, the team will hopefully have the opportunity to look to Schilawski again for big plays and leadership in Cary, N.C. How do all the national honors you’ve received make you feel? I feel fortunate to be a part of a great program where your individual efforts are noticed nationally. After graduation, I think I’ll be proud to look back on honors that both myself and the team have received during my time here. What are the team’s goals going into the last regular season game? Entering the last game of the season we are focused on earning the ACC Regular Season Title with a win against Duke.
Senior selected as final ACC Field Hockey Player of the Week On Nov. 3, field hockey senior forward Raisa Schiller was announced as the 10th and final ACC Field Hockey Player of the Week of the 2009 season. The honor follows Schiller’s two goals in a 5-2 Lady Deac victory over Boston College on Oct. 31 that concluded their regular season. Schiller became the first Demon Deacon to earn Field Hockey Player of the Week honors this season. The Utrecht, Netherlands native has notched five goals and three assists this season for a total of 13 points and has landed 64.5 percent of her shots on goal.
What are the team’s goals for the season? Our goals at the beginning of each season are to win the regular season, the ACC Tournament Championship and the NCAA Championship. With a win against Duke we can accomplish one of those goals and set ourselves up well for the other two. How is the team preparing for the post-season? To prepare for the post-season we are focusing on fine tuning the details of our game. The “little things” become increasingly important as you enter post-season play when one loss can end your season. Our goal is to win the National Championship, which takes five wins against five quality opponents.
What has been your favorite game that you’ve played in? The National Championship game in 2007 was my favorite game for many reasons. The way the team came back from a goal down to win that game was the result of a lot of hard work that people have put into the program over a number of years
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and to celebrate that accomplishment with all of those people was really special for our team. What’s your favorite class that you’ve taken at Wake and with whom? I am currently enjoying Ronald Dimock’s Invertebrate Biology course which involves hands on study and interaction with animals. I also enjoyed William Conner’s Animal Behavior class. What would you like to do after graduation? Any plans? I am hoping to continue playing soccer after graduation. However, I do plan on going to Optometry School eventually. What are you going to miss most about the team after the season’s over? I think that our team is different from many others in that we are very close off of the field and enjoy spending time together. All of the seniors will miss hanging out with the team at meals and on road trips. That type of camaraderie also makes it more fun to compete together in training and in games.
Former Deacon inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame
Three women’s soccer players earn All-ACC honors
Former Deacon Lanny Wadkins, who won a PGA Championship at Pebble Beach in 1977 and played on a record-tying eight Ryder Cup teams, was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame on Nov. 2. As a Deacon, Wadkins won five individual titles and was part of eight team victories from 1969-71. He was also a three-time All-American, earning first team honors in both 1970 and 1971. Wadkins was inducted into the Wake Forest Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982. His son Travis is currently a senior on the men’s golf team at Wake Forest and had a pair of top-20 finishes in the 2008-09 season.
On Nov. 3, women’s soccer senior defender Kaley Fountain and senior forward Jill Hutchinson were named to the All-ACC First Team, while freshman defender Jackie Logue was named to the All-ACC Freshman Team. Logue became the first Demon Deacon rookie to make the ACC All-Freshman team since Fountain in 2006. One of the top freshman defenders in the ACC, Logue has been an instrumental part in the Lady Deacs’ defense, helping the team to 12 shutouts. Logue scored her first collegiate goal against Miami and also added an assist against N.C. State.
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Harris connected with his receivers for two big completions before finding sophomore receiver Aldarius Johnson on a 35-yard touchdown strike that made the score 17-7. The teams would then exchange a couple of punts before the Deacs were finally able to break through into field goal range to allow Newman to kick his second field goal of the day, this time from 42 yards to make the score 20-7 with 0:42 left in the half. A botched squib kick, however, gave the Hurricanes excellent field position and allowed them to score a quick touchdown before the half. On the score, junior running back Damien Berry plowed into the end zone from three yards out to shrink the Deacon lead to 20-14 as the two teams headed into their locker rooms for the intermission. The third quarter of play started slowly, with the two teams exchanging possession for the first half of the quarter. It was not until the Deacs took over with 8:07 left that the home crowd got to see something they wanted. The drive saw Skinner complete five straight passes before splitting the safeties on a 44-yard touchdown strike to Givens that gave the Deacs a 27-14 lead with 5:38 left in the third quarter. Unfortunately for the Demon Deacons, the scoring play would be their last in the game. After freshman defensive back Dominique Tate picked off Harris, the Deacs were unable to get anything going on offense and were forced to punt. The two teams
exchanged possession until Brown muffed a Miami punt that was recovered by the Canes on the Deacon two-yard line. From there, it took only one play for Harris to find a wide open Tevaris Johnson in the back of the end zone, chipping the Deacon lead down to 27-21 with 11:47 left in the game. On the very next drive, Skinner would be intercepted after a deflected pass fell into the hands of DeMarcus Van Dyke. Fortunately for the Deacs, the Canes could make nothing from the turnover and were forced into a quick punt. The next possession would spell tragedy for the Demon Deacons. Facing a thirdand-eight situation, Skinner dropped back to pass but decided to tuck the ball away and run for a 12-yard gain. A hit to the head snapped Skinner’s facemask and sent him to the sideline with a mild concussion, an injury that ended an otherwise successful day. The injury brought fifth-year senior quarterback Ryan McManus onto the field. The second stringer showed great poise in the pocket, but an inspired Miami defense forced the Deacs to punt the ball away with 2:40 left in the game. The Deacs had a chance to end the game as the Canes faced a fourth-and-16 situation, but Harris completed a 29-yard pass to extend the drive. Two plays later, the Canes were in the end zone after Travis Benjamin hauled in a 13-yard pass from Harris to give the Canes their first lead of the day at 28-27 with 1:08 left in the game. The Deacon offense was able to drive out past midfield but was forced into a 60-yard field goal attempt from Newman that fell well short of the uprights as time
expired, sealing the unlikely Hurricane comeback. “You have to play four quarters,” Head Coach Jim Grobe said after the game. “We had opportunities to make plays in the second half, and we really didn’t make enough plays to beat a really good football team.” But despite the heartbreaking loss, Grobe remains optimistic looking ahead. “This is a resilient team,” Grobe said. “Our kids will bounce back.” “It’s incredibly frustrating,” freshman linebacker Joey Ehrmann said. “I thought we had them. I give credit to Miami. They are a really good team, but this one was ours and we blew it.” McManus was asked to step into a big pair of shoes, replacing Skinner late in the game when the Deacs needed to stage a gamewinning drive. Despite showing poise and calmness at the helm, McManus wanted more. “Did I do what I was asked to? Yes,” McManus said. “I didn’t turn the ball over and I didn’t take sacks, but we didn’t win, so I can’t be satisfied.” McManus might be called on to fill in for Skinner again this weekend against Georgia Tech. Skinner, who was diagnosed with a mild concussion, is listed as questionable for the road trip to Atlanta and did not suit up for practice on Monday or Tuesday. The Deacons must now win two of their last three games in order to gain bowl eligibility for the fourth straight season. The Deacs will travel to Atlanta to square off against the No. 10 Yellow Jackets on Nov. 7. The game will be aired on ABC with kickoff scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
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Fifth-year senior quarterback Riley Skinner left the game in the second half with a mild concussion.
Lady Deacs soar past Eagles XC competes in Cary, N.C. at ACCs ByJ.P. Rotchford | Staff writer
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Senior midfieler Mesissa Martin chases down the ball against Virginia. The Deacs will begin ACC tournament play against Boston College Nov. 5 in Charlottesville, Va. By Maggie Cancelosi | Staff writer
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The No. 6 Wake Forest Demon Deacon field hockey squad took on No. 10 Boston College on Oct. 31 at Kentner Stadium for a sweeping 5-2 victory, concluding the regular season. The Deacons hold a record of 11-5 and 2-5 in the ACC. Before the match, the Wake Forest field hockey program acknowledged the five seniors for their athleticism, leadership and dedication to the Romansky team. “All five of us seniors possess different leadership qualities, which helps guide this 2009 team. We just try to hold each other account-
able and lead by example. Where one of us slacks, another picks up. This is the best attribute a team could ask for, especially going into tournament time, because it will help keep our team together as a unit as the pressure of each game increases,” co-captain Kim Romansky said. “We just need to execute the game plan, and hopefully we can come out victorious.” The Deacs took control early in the first two minutes when Kaitlin Piosa outran the BC defenders on a breakaway and assisted senior Raisa Schiller for the first goal of the game. Later in the half at 15:12, Liza Casella passed to senior Kim Romansky for a goal off a converted penalty corner. To conclude the half, senior Hilary Moore scored after maneuvering around several BC defenders and deceiving the Eagles goalie, Kristine Stigas, for a 3-0 lead. Although the Eagles tried to rally in the second half, they couldn’t compete with the finesse and endurance of the Deacs. At 47:26, BC’s Chelsey Feole scored her 24th goal of the season off a cross pass from Emily Kozniuk during a penalty corner. In response, Kaitlin
Piosa executed her penalty stroke skill at 54:17 to hold the team’s lead. Senior Raisa Schiller scored her second goal of the game a minute later during a breakaway on an unsettled BC defense. BC’s Kate Gillis beat out goalie Kaitlin Ruhf in a one-on-one to conclude the game. Ruhf, a freshman, clocked in 70 minutes of play and totaled four saves for the Deacs. The ACC Tournament, hosted in Charlottesville, Va., will kick off on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 1p.m. with fourth-seed Wake Forest taking on fifth-seed Boston College. At 3:30 p.m., third-seed and championship host Virginia will play sixth-seed Duke. The winning team from the Wake Forest/ Boston College game will play top-seed Maryland on Friday, Nov. 6, while the Virginia/ Duke winner will square off against secondseed UNC-Chapel Hill. The semifinalist winners will match up on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 12 p.m. for the ACC championship game. The winning team will automatically gain a bid to the NCAA Tournament.
The men’s and women’s cross country teams were in Cary, N.C., this weekend for the ACC Championships, hosted by N.C., State. The men, led by freshman Garret Drogosch, finished ninth of 12 teams, while women finished eighth of 12 behind sisters Anna and Dina Nosenko. Wet conditions on the downhill-starting, uphill-finishing course made it a tough day for all runners. In the 8k men’s event, Drogosch completed his fourth consecutive first-place finish for the Deacs with a time of 24:57, qualifying him for 41st place overall. With Drogosch out ahead, the rest of the team finished close together. Coming in second for the men was junior Keaton Morgan, who finished 64th with a time of 25:29.3. Morgan started off near the back of the 109-man field, but he continued to pass runners most of the race. “I’ve been having some lower back issues,” Morgan said. “So in order to keep the pain manageable, I knew I would have to start the race slower than normal and keep passing people the whole race. Going through the first mile I was close to last in the race, but I passed a lot of people between miles 2-4, and I was able to just hold on for the last mile. I ended up placing in the 60s, which was close to my goal so I was pretty happy with the race and felt like I executed my race plan really well.” Just two seconds and two positions behind Morgan was senior Jeremy Fisico. Freshman Sam Foster finished next for the squad in 76th with a time of 25:46.7. He was followed shortly by junior Marcus Dillon, who came in 79th with a time of 25:52.6. Freshman Devin Huizenga was not far behind, finishing 82nd and clocking in at 25:57.2. Three freshmen rounded out the Wake runners. Tom Finneran (26:14.1), Jake Graham (26:16.1), and Howard Graves (26:18.5) finished 89th to 91st, respectively. The team’s scores were good enough to finish two positions ahead of their performance last year. “Our team had a goal of placing in the top seven, which we were not able to accomplish,” Morgan said. “We had a few key injuries the last few weeks leading up to the race that really hurt us, but the day of ACC’s everyone definitely gave 100 percent, so on that day that’s all we could ask for. We’re definitely moving in the right direction as a team, and I’m really excited for the guys who are going to be here these next few years because they have a lot of potential.” In the women’s race, the sophomore Nosenko twins continued to lead the Deacons, with Dina finishing 22nd (21:10.6) and Anna finishing 24th (21:15.9). Junior Marley Burns was next to finish for the women, placing 48th with a time of 21:58.8. She was followed by freshman Casey Fowler, who finished in 22:22.9, in 59th place. Junior Caitlin Crawford and freshman Allison Homer were next for the Deacons, placing 73rd (22:43.0) and 75th (22:52.2), respectively. Homer, who has been plagued by injuries most of the season, made her Wake Forest debut in the race. Senior Whitney Curry was next to cross the finish line for Wake, placing 81st with a time of 23:16.5. Juniors Cate Berenato and Kim Vos came in back-to-back, finishing 88th (23:26.9) and 89th (23:34.0), respectively. Junior Hannah McArdle crossed the line in 97th place with a time of 24:04.4. The women did not have the same success as they did last season at the ACC’s when they finished third in the 12-team field. Florida State made it three women’s titles in a row, beating Duke by more than 30 points. In the men’s race, Virginia could not match the FSU ladies three-peat, falling to N.C. State despite Virginia runners taking first and second place. The Deacs will send runners to Virginia Tech this Friday, Nov. 6 for the Hokie Open.
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W. soccer falls in first match in ACC tourney By Gary Pasqualicchio | Staff writer
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With three losses by a single goal, two in overtime, and a pair of scoreless ties where they outplayed their opponents, the No. 10 Wake Forest women’s soccer team has had their share of heartbreaks this season. The first round ACC match Nov. 4 proved to be the most recent when the Lady Deacs lost the game, their leading goal-scorer and their ACC title dreams. Coming off a home loss to Virginia Tech and a draw with Virginia, the Lady Deacs were faced with a tough task: three games with ranked ACC opponents, all on the road, in six days. After topping No. 16 Maryland 3-1 and falling 2-1 to No. 6 Boston College in double overtime, the Deacs ended their brutal stretch with a 1-0 overtime loss to No. 19 Virginia Tech in the first round of the ACC Tournament. The crucial road trip opened with a game at College Park, Md. against the Terrapins where the Deacs broke their winless streak and picked up a convincing 3-1 win. As has happened often this season for Wake Forest, it was all seniors all the time vs. the Terps. In the first half, Kaley Fountain assisted on goals to Jill Hutchinson
and Caitlin Farrell before scoring her own on a strong finish into the top corner of the net. The pair of assists added to Fountain’s team-leading eight on the season, a career-high. The Deacs took the win and headed back to school before flying back up to Newton, Mass. to play the Eagles in their regular season finale. Things looked promising when Fountain again found Hutchinson in the third minute for the first goal of the game. A resilient Boston College team battled back, taking the game to overtime after answering Hutchinson’s goal with one in the 31st minute. The Eagles, who out-shot Wake 20-8 on the day, ended things 2-1 in double OT when Chelsea Regan put a corner kick in the net in the 108th minute. Despite a career-high seven saves, junior goalkeeper Amanda Barasha picked up the loss in net, dropping her record to 5-2-1. In the defeat, Hutchinson picked up a couple of impressive school records. The Wayne, Pa. native’s early goal was the 35th of her career and the 13th of the season, both the top scoring marks in school history. Shortly after the game, Hutchinson and Fountain were named to the All-ACC First Team. The pair has combined for 23 goals and 57 points on the year. The duo was the ACC’s second-best scoring pair behind Florida State’s Tiffany McCarty and Jessica Price who had 67 points.
The Deacs put an up-and-down end to the regular season behind them and headed to Cary, N.C., to play in the ACC Tournament. Wake, seeded fifth, drew fourth seed Virginia Tech in the opening round, a team who topped the Deacs 4-3 in Winston-Salem just over a week prior. The first matchup’s scoring was not evident in the rematch, with both teams battling to a scoreless regulation. Each side had plenty of good looks but a combination of good goalkeeping and missed opportunities kept the scoreboard clean. Another of the reasons Wake couldn’t get on the board was that Hutchinson appeared to pull a muscle in her leg rather early into the contest. She was visibly impaired throughout before leaving the field for good late in the second half. Virginia Tech capitalized on the absence of the best player on the field when seven minutes into overtime, an undefended Kelley Conheeney took a bouncing ball and fired it into the net to give her team a 1-0 win. The Deacs have plenty of time to lick their wounds, literally and metaphorically, while they wait to see where they are seeded in the upcoming NCAA Tournament. The team will have a month before traveling to College Station, Texas for the Opening Round Dec. 4. The NCAA appearance will be the program’s 14th, where they hold an all-time record of 7-12-1.
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Senior defender Kaley Fountain, recently named to the All-ACC team, chases a ball up field.
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The Wake Forest volleyball team used the spirit of Family Weekend and won both matches against the Maryland Terps and the Boston College Eagles on Friday and Saturday Oct. 30-31, respectively. Friday’s match was also the Demon Deacons’ fourth annual Dig for a Cure night, where the Lady Deacons raise money for the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure foundation, which supports breast cancer. This year, the team recorded a total of 61 digs, raising over $8,000. Junior libero Megan Thornberry led Wake with a match-high 21 digs. Her fourth match this season with 20 or more digs, Friday’s game moved her into third alltime in school history with 1,199 career digs. Not to be outdone, senior Abby Miller also reached a milestone, recording her 1,000th caThornberry reer dig in the third set. She finished the night with six digs, while junior Kristen White was just two digs shy of her career high with 14. Offensively, the team did extremely well; Wake put away a total of 63 kills, which ties a season high. The only other time this year that the Deacons notched 63 kills was in College Park, Md., against the Terrapins on Sept. 26. Freshman Andrea Beck led the way for the offense with a season-high 15 kills. Sophomore Carlin Salmon chipped in with 14 kills, while fellow sophomore Kadija Fornah finished the night with 12. On Saturday, the Lady Deacons one-upped themselves by taking over Boston College in a three-game victory. Leading the team was Beck, who clocked in 11 kills for the match. Fornah finished the evening with 10 kills and three digs, while Salmon recorded nine kills
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Sophomore middle blocker Carlin Salmon rises to spike in the Lady Deacs’ Oct. 31 victory over Boston College. to go along with her match-high five blocks. Junior setter Kelsey Jones dished out 30 assists and tied her career high with two service aces. She also notched three kills and three digs. Defensively, Thornberry led Wake with 18 digs. She passed the gauntlet to become the fastest Demon Deacon to record 1,200 career digs and now sits third all-time with 1,217.
One night after recording her 1,000th career dig, Miller recorded seven digs to go along with one service ace. The women’s volleyball team has an ACC record of 7-6 and an overall season record of 9-15. They hope to continue this streak of good performance this weekend against N.C. State in Raleigh on Nov. 6 and against UNCChapel Hill on Nov. 8.
ahead of them. What was important at that time (at least to the faithful who stayed until the end) was the outcome of the game. I understand the surrounding situations of the game. It was Halloween, as well as Family Weekend, and Miami fans are some of the best travelers in the ACC. What I don’t understand is why a nationally-televised game vs. a ranked team with major bowl and ACC implications was half-abandoned by the home fans in the crucial, waning moments. I don’t buy the answer that, in general, this school and the community don’t care about their sports teams. It’s just not true. Small as we are, Lawrence Joel Coliseum is packed to capacity for every big basketball game and is rocking as hard as any building in the country. I understand that this is a “hoops school,” but the answer to why we should support our football team is as easy as one and two: 1: the number of ACC Championships the football team has won in the last four seasons, compared to zero for the basketball team. 2: postseason wins for the football team in the last two years compared to zero for the basketball team. This isn’t meant to bash our excellent basketball program, but recognize that the football team has been very successful as well. In fact, Jim Grobe and staff have helped make the 2000s the second-winningest decade in Wake Forest’s long football history. Maybe it’s just me. Being from Pennsylvania, the middle of football Mecca, I and all my friends grew up loving what goes on between the hash-marks and under the lights. But I doubt I’m in the minority as an ESPN fan poll recently identified the NFL as the fans’ favorite sports league in the country, with college football fourth. If this school and city truly don’t know how to support a football team, I suggest it is time to learn, because there are two games being played in the next three weeks in the state of North Carolina that will decide our team’s bowl fate. I suggest you be there, and be loud.
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This year the university became the home for Sandy Dickson’s awardwinning documentary film program
By Samantha Hoback | Staff writer Next fall, the university will welcome the first class of graduate students to the new Documentary Film program. The program, directed by Associate Professor of Communication Mary Dalton and Sandy Dickson, originated at the University of West Florida before moving to the University Of Florida in 1998. Budget cuts at the University of Florida forced founding members, including Dickson, to find a new home for the award-winning Documentary Film program. After meeting at the SILVERDOCS Film Festival, Dalton and Dickson worked to bring the Documentary Institute to Winston-Salem as a part of the university’s strategic plan. “We have been gratified by the warm welcome and enthusiasm that people at Wake Forest have shown for this new program,” Dalton said. “We are looking forward to working with people from across campus.” Dalton has produced 10 documentaries including the awardwinning Martha in Lattimore, and her most recent project, Oakdale Cotton Mills: Close-Knit Neighbors. “I am drawn to stories that in one way or the other speak to community,” Dr. Dalton said. “Films about courageous people and communities that nurture them.” Dalton is a graduate of the university, and she received her Master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In addition to her responsibilities on campus, Dalton works as a media critic and a regular radio contributor, and she has published several books, including The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Sketched and The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies. Dalton emphasizes that students who are interested in pursuing a career in documentary filmmaking should have intellectual curiosity
and specific interests that they wish to explore through film. “Our motto is that we are passionate about stories that matter,” Dalton said. “Documentary filmmaking is a lot of hard work. You have to have that drive and that interest. We are looking for students with something that engages them.” The new program will admit up to 12 students each year, and so far it has received over 60 inquiries and interviewed numerous prospective students. “We are looking for students from different disciplines,” Dickson said. “Also, students from other countries and other life experiences bring different perspectives to the classroom, and it is important to be able to learn from a mix of classmates.” Dickson was introduced to the university when her husband, Pat Dickson, started working as an associate professor in Calloway. After commuting between Florida and North Carolina, she was ready to make Winston-Salem her home and was thrilled when the university showed an interest in incorporating the Documentary Institute into its Graduate School. She has a dotorate in Mass Media with an emphasis on political communication, and before founding the Documentary Institute at the University of Florida in 1998, she worked as a professor and independent filmmaker. Dickson has co-produced several documentaries, including Angel of Ahlem and Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore. Her films have been screened at film festivals in Los Angeles, New York and Detroit, and two of her films won the Erik Barnouw Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary. “I like stories about underdogs, whether that’s a personal story about a person overcoming tremendous obstacles, a person who has suffered or not gotten equal rights, or a person who has not gotten social justice or has experienced injustice,” Dickson said. “I like stories that have fallen through the cracks. These are stories we should know but we don’t.” Next fall, two other faculty members will join the university. Cindy Hill and Cara Pilson, also of the University of Florida, will work as co-associate
directors. The Documentary Institute was named one of Independent Magazine’s Top Ten Academic Documentary Programs. Although new to this campus, the program is well-established, and the faculty members have high expectations for its success at the university. “A smaller campus will increase opportunities for interdisciplinary work,” Dalton said. The opportunity for collaboration among academic departments will benefit students in the program. Interdisciplinary work is a priority at the university, and documentary students will be able to work with professors and students from other disciplines on film projects. “We have very high production standards,” Dickson said. “Documentary filmmaking is about making films that have an impact, that introduce people to new cultures and issues.” “Documentary filmmaking can change public discourse,” Dalton said. Both Dickson and Dalton emphasize that it takes more than learning how the technology works to be a successful documentary filmmaker. They suggest that students should worry more about learning as much as possible about a topic of interest. “Have some adventure,” Dickson said. “We can show you how to run a camera.” The Documentary Film program is currently accepting applications for the fall 2010 semester. Applications are due in mid-January. Unlike the program at the University of Florida, the Documentary Film program will offer a three-year MFA program in addition to the two-year MA program. Students will be able to take a wide variety of courses, including writing, production, research, documentary history and ethics. Undergraduate students will also have the opportunity to take classes with professors from the Documentary Film program. “There seems to be a curiosity about the world that students live in and that can manifest itself in so many ways,” Dickson said. “Technology is only a vehicle.” For more information about the Documentary Film Program, visit the Facebook page or their Web site: http://www.wfu.edu/documentary.
Letters from Abroad | From Austria with Love
Where anything can go wrong, it will when traveling Hannah Werthan Staff columnist
Last week, while traveling through Italy, I realized that, when you are a traveling college student, things are bound to go wrong. The problems first arose the very first morning, on the way to the Vienna airport. After awakening somewhere in the neighborhood of 4:30 a.m., I found myself ill-prepared to navigate
the Vienna public transportation system. We started well by catching the right bus and getting on the right metro line, but it was the dreaded S-bahn that caught us off guard. Our train was delayed. When the next train came, we assumed it was our delayed train. After a few stops, I began to get nervous. We asked someone, and it turned out that we were definitely on the wrong train. We got off in the middle of nowhere only to discover that there were no trains that went to the airport from there; indeed, there were hardly any trains departing from there at all. After some deep breaths, we found out how to use the subway to get back to where we started prior to the devastating train incident. We then sacrificed
10 Euro each to go on a train straight to the airport, and we arrived roughly 30 minutes before our departure and had to sprint to the check-in line. Somehow, despite all of this, we managed to narrowly make our flight. Of course, we almost missed our second flight, too, because our first flight decided to fly around for a while. By this point, my eye was twitching and my hands were shaking profusely. I do not like it when things do not go according to plan. Unfortunately, this was only the start of our travelling woes. Besides the fact that the directions to all three of our hostels were horribly wrong, we also managed to go to the wrong train station in Florence. I guess I can say that at least I got my exercise running with my belongings
all over the place. In Pompeii, our bus just decided to stop running, so we had to find the train station in the pouring rain. Once we took the train, we ended up in a different place than the bus would have taken us and had to figure out how we were going to get back to our hostel. In Naples, we got to the airport before the check-in counter even opened because we didn’t realize it was Daylight Savings Time. The best part is that I didn’t realize it until we were at our connecting airport, and I figured out why we left the Naples airport allegedly an hour late but our plane arrived on time. I would like to say that these experiences have caused me to be more easygoing about travel, but it’s probably
safe to say that it had exactly the opposite affect on me. My fear of flying has definitely increased, especially since we went on tiny planes — two of them were even propeller planes. Luckily, the beauty of Italy took my mind off my travel failures. It’s hard to be upset about being ripped off by a cabby when you are in Naples sipping a glass of wine, eating some of the best seafood you’ve ever had and looking out onto the water. In fact, the food and wine in Italy were both amazing throughout, as was the art and the shopping, so I can’t complain too much. I would definitely bear the potential stress of getting back to Italy for a few more days in Florence, preferably not at a hostel next time.
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He Said | Demon Deacons, let’s talk about sex
Halloween’s about sex not scare Oopsies...
Originally, Little Red Riding Hood’s name was Blanchette.
Accidents happen – even in marriages, as is the case in the romantic comedy The Accidental Husband that will be released on DVD Nov. 10. Join in on the love and laughs watching New York firefighter Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) give radio love doctor Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman) a taste of her own medicine. Lloyd “accidentally” becomes Sullivan’s wife, thanks to Sullivan’s computer-savvy neighbor. Needless to say, Lloyd’s fiance (Colin Firth) is not thrilled with the match.
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Ae’Jay Mitchell Staff columnist
So, let’s talk about sex! However, before we begin this week’s discourse, I would like the reader to answer the following question (I would advise one to answer the question in his or her head as to not appear as though he or she is talking to his or her newspaper less someone directs him or her to the nearest asylum): What is the most sexual United States holiday? I would assume that most of you answered that the dreadful yet beautiful holiday in mid-February named in honor of St. Valentine was the most sexual holiday.
I, myself, would have agreed wholeheartedly with your assessment until about 10 days ago when I found my world rocked by the ridiculousness of popular culture. I was walking through a local store to buy a few items and found myself in the middle of the Halloween costume section. I was not looking for anything in particular, since I do not normally dress up for Halloween, but this year I thought I would check out the selection and perhaps get into the spirit of the ghastly season. As I walked down the multiple aisles of the store, I noticed an interesting trend … all of the costumes seemed to lack fabric. I mean, the guy costumes were basically loin cloths in various colors in styles to represent a halfnaked Tarzan, an exposed Spartan, a tattered Werewolf or a bare-chested male with no true rhyme or reason. For the ladies, the costumes were naughty nuns, skanky school teachers, raunchy rock stars or anything that required the bare minimum of
Drunk Driving A driver in Neilsville, Wis., called 911 last on Oct. 31 to report herself as drunk to the police. Mary Strey, 49, told the 911 dispatcher that she wanted to report a drunken driver. The dispatcher then asked if she was behind the suspect vehicle, and Strey answered, “I am them.” She admitted to have been drinking all night and said that she called because she “didn’t want to hurt anybody.” The dispatchers advised Strey to pull over and turn on her flashers. She complied and waited for a deputy to arrive. Strey was cited with a misdemeanor for drunken driving. County Sheriff ’s Deputy George Backus said drunken drivers reporting themselves is rare.
Drink of the Week The Dark Night
With daylight savings time going into effect this past weekend the days are getting shorter. Celebrate the dark side with this rich drink. 1 1/2 oz Dark rum 1/2 oz Añejo rum 1/2 oz Kahlua 1/2 oz Heavy cream In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine all of the ingredients. Shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass.
of Halloween costumes was on the shelves. The store that could be labeled the “Target of sex” was selling a product to be worn for a holiday representative of gore and trickery. It seems as though Halloween has become the national holiday of lustfulness! It grants people permission to be scantily clad without the negative judgment of society at large. Sexual demons imprisoned within people’s bodies are released for a day of fun. Instead of a zombie attack, sexual alter-egos take over the land of the living. I, for one, would like Halloween to go back to its original design, full of haunting folklore of transcendent presences. Leave the desire to expel repressed sexuality to Freud.
“He Said” is a bi-weekly column that presents one guy’s perspective on the college sex scene. You may contact him with your feedback or ideas at mitcaa7@ wfu.edu.
Surrender to Sudoku
In honor of Veterans Day on Nov. 11, why not watch a film that puts you in the heat of the battle? From tragedy to glory, see these historical conflicts in action.
1. Apocalypse Now 2. Paths of GLory 3. The Thin Red Line 4. All Quiet on the Western Front 5. Battleground 6. Saving Private Ryan 7. Full Metal Jacket 8. M*A*S*H 9. Gettysburg 10. The Red Badge of Courage
body coverage. The kids section even had a little girl’s costume labeled as “Sexy Cheerleader!” I mean, really, a 5-year-old should barely know how to spell “sexy” let alone wear a costume that labels her as sexy. So, again I ask, what is the most sexual United States holiday? It is … HALLOWEEN!? Okay, you may say, a couple of costumes in a store do not legitimize Halloween as the most sexual holiday, and I would have agreed with you if part two of my shocking realization events did not occur. As I was listening to a local WinstonSalem radio station, a commercial for Priscilla McCall’s was broadcast over the airways. For those of you who do not know, Priscilla McCall’s in an adult novelty shop “conveniently located on Silas Creek Parkway,” according to the lively voice recording. At the end of this commercial, that same voice made the climatic announcement that their shipment
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Movie Review | Cirque Du Freak
Cirque suffers from identity crisis and more By Trevor Greene | Contributing writer
Cirque Du Freak is the latest film from Paul Weitz, new ground for the director who gave us both American Pie and About a Boy. It’s based off the quasi-popular series of youngadult books by British novelist Darren Shan. Having never read the books, I can’t offer any comparison, but I found that the film’s biggest problem is that it has no idea what kind of movie it wants to be. It attempts to combine elements of horror, adventure, comedy and romance while never fleshing any of these out enough to be interesting. Instead the movie feels like a cheap, lazy cash-grab attempting to make a quick buck by luring in the “tween” demographic whose mommies and daddies wouldn’t let them go see Saw 6 or Paranormal Activity over Halloween Cirque Du Freak weekend. The story Starring | John C. Reily and Josh is an overly Hutcherson convoluted Director | Paul Weitz mess, despite Who’s it for? | Teenage vamthe fact that pire lovers it is devoid of Running Time | 1 hour 49 mins. life and uninteresting. Rating | (out of 5) Overall, the entire movie feels like its only purpose is to lay the groundwork for a franchise of sequels, which hopefully will never come. The Vampire’s Assistant tells the story of two “secret” best friends (Steve, a rebel who is obsessed with Vampires, and Darren, a straight-A student who is obsessed with spiders) who make a series of incredibly ridiculous decisions leading to them to becoming vampires (kind of?) and as you might have guessed, arch-enemies. My favorite story line would have to be that of the laughable character Steve. He starts as a harmless rebel who encourages Darren to skip class, but after becoming a vampire (a mere 10 minutes later) he murders his strict teacher and spikes his hair (so that we can tell he is evil now). His reasons for being so evil you might ask? Well his dad has been gone for years and his mother is a drunk. This excuse is thrown in with one line of dialogue and never addressed again, a perfect example of the lazy script. This is a very typical problem of the movie: the plot is driven almost entirely by actions that are completely out of character and illogical. A few instances of this: Darren thinks it’s a good idea to steal the most poisonous spider in the world from a vampire, Steve joins the villain Mr. Tiny (who guess what? IS HUGE!) with the intent of taking over the world because his mom drinks, and Steve tries to kill his former best friend because
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Paul Weitz’s latest film based off ofseries of young adult books casts two young actors, John C. Reily and Josh Hutcherson. he got to become a vampire first! The dialogue in this movie is so reprehensible and clichéd (fun activity: count how many times the characters say “Awesome!”) that there is absolutely nothing the talented, versatile, out of place John C. Reilly (Playing the titular vampire complete with bright red hair) could do to save it, even if he tried, which he doesn’t. The two young actors who play Darren and Steve have no range and manage to go through an entire movie without ever changing their inflection or emotions. Darren (Chris Massoglia) has the same exact tone when talking with his family at dinner as he does when there is an evil vampire who is about to drink his family’s blood. And Steve (Josh Hutcherson) has the angst-ridden, emo, pre-teen loner caricature (with scowl!) down pat. There are a surprising amount of cameos from talented actors (including Willem Dafoe and Salma
Hayek) that also serve no real purpose. The action scenes of this movie are absurd; they are just overly stylized scenes of characters throwing things at each other and hitting each other while running around knocking over sets in a whirl of special effects that look like they were made by my little brother on Kid Pix (think lots of arbitrary uses of color). Another serious flaw with the movie is the editing and structure. The movie builds zero tension, has no flow from scene to scene, and has a number of scenes that just seem out of place or pointless. I really can’t think of anything positive to say about this movie. What bothers me most and makes me really hate it rather than simply think it’s a bad movie is the lack of effort. It comes off like it was a rushed, haphazardly put together film. Perhaps if they had put more thought and effort into it, it could have had a shot at being a silly but enjoyable movie. Everything is just bad across the board here; stay far away from this one.
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Event Review | Sonnets for an Old Century
Production tackles the scary unknown with style By Mariclaire Hicks | Editor in chief
Death is scary. It’s permanent and it’s unknown. It’s a period at the end of life as we know it. This is why tackling a play confronting it head-on (and doing it well) means you had better know what the hell you’re doing. Luckily, those involved in Sonnets for an Old Century, which takes place in “The Afterlife,” do. The play is University Theatre’s latest MainStage production and is directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Cindy Gendrich and Assistant Professor of Dance Christina Tsoules Soriano. Student creativity was also a driving force in the show, as the directors enlisted the help of members of Gendrich’s Development and Performance course. The influence of dance was certainly a noticeable presence in the play. The characters moved in dramatic fits and bursts in a beautiful sort of hybrid of theatre and dance. They remained nameless throughout the show, perhaps in an effort of universalizing these souls passing on to another realm. Before the show officially began, a gauzy black curtain separated the audience from the actors, who slowly trickled onstage accompanied by strange, ethereal music. The afterlife was presented as a simple affair lined with the shoes its inhabitants wore when they left this plane of existence. The play doesn’t follow a conventional plot; instead, it
is told in a series of monologues. Each new arrival to this afterlife is offered the time to send anything he or she wants “out into the universe.” From the beginning, the cast was split into two groups – those who are already established in the afterlife and the new arrivals waiting their turns to speak in the spotlight. As each monologue was completed, the speaker would step over a threshold into the afterlife to be welcomed by those already residing there. The play progressed until eventually all characters were situated on the same plane of this otherworldly locale. Due to the nature of the delivery of the monologues, the cast members must be commended for their stamina throughout the show. They remained on stage for the entirety of the performance and maintained a serene presence that didn’t in any way detract from whoever was speaking at the time. The cast is comprised entirely of students, but Gendrich and Soriano did not limit themselves to undergraduates. Medical student Louis Frazier and divinity student Guy Aiken offered some of the most powerful moments of the show, bringing an additional level of maturity to the stage. Sonnets for an Old Century is by no means a typical theatre experience and will, at times, call attention to its own moments of absurdity. In the show’s opening moments, one of the actors is
propelled on stage via a moon-shaped zip-line … while singing. Quirky moments like this one help balance the heaviness of a play not only dealing with death, but the difficulties of life as well: religion, sex, regret, guilt and crime, to name a few. As the cast members assembled to take their bows, I found myself wondering, “Is Wake really ready for this show?” It was then that I was struck by the absolutely perfect song choice for the curtain call: Owl City’s “Fireflies” – the quirky, earnest little “song that could” that started as a free iTunes single this summer and has slowly but surely made its way to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100. If the cynical, hardened mainstream can embrace a song about getting “hugs from lightning bugs,” then surely we can open ourselves up to something that deviates from the expected and offers a challenge. Sonnets for an Old Century clocks in at approximately 75 minutes. The show contains some coarse language and may not be suitable for all audiences. You can still catch Sonnets for an Old Century at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4-7 and at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 8 on the university’s MainStage Theatre in Scales Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for adults and $12 for seniors. A post-performance discussion will take place on Nov. 6. For more information, contact the Theatre Box Office at 336-758-5295.
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The latest Main Stage production, Sonnets for an Old Century, deals with the legacies we hope to leave.
Restaurant Review | Buffalo Wild Wings
Event Preview | Secrest Series
Chain offers good college atmosphere European group offers lots of talent By Renee Slawsky | Staff writer
As soon as you walk in the door, the pungent scent of hot sauce and the force of the yell from the group crowded around the big screen hits you like an offensive lineman. The lights are low but the mood is high in this family-friendly sports bar and restaurant. All together, Buffalo Wild Wings is a potential college student-haven. A nationwide chain, Buffalo Wild Wings has the right amount of distance to break the “Wake bubble” but still not have to drive far. Buffalo Wild Wings offers an array of typical sports bar food but with their own flair. Of course, they are best known for their buffalo chicken wings. These wings can be smothered in a spectrum of sauces from Sweet BBQ (for the people who want to keep their tastes buds safe) to Spicy Garlic (for those who like a medium amount of spice) to Blazin,’ which you should “keep away from eyes, pets and children.” Wings aren’t the only dish this restaurant has to offer. They put forward all sorts of appetizers like Ultimate Nachos to Popcorn Shrimp. After you finish the appetizer, you can move on to the burgers, ribs, sandwiches, wraps, chicken tenders Renee Slawsky/Old Gold & Black or salads. But whatever you choose to order, you will get Buffalo Wild Wings is a typical, college-friendly sports bar serving appropriit at a very reasonable price. ately named famous wings with a variety of different sauce options. Why not enjoy a drink with your meal? The options are pretty basic for the under-21 crowd, random spurts of cheers and boos from various go to Wake Forest and an A+ doesn’t exist. The sections of the restaurant in majority of patrons seem to give this place a similar but for the over-21 crowd that response to one of the games score, if not higher. If you look around, you see enjoys beer, this place is right for Buffalo Wild Wings on the television. It was hard families smiling and downing Cokes with their you. Buffalo Wild Wings offers to keep up with which game spicy wings. a wide array of draft and bottled Location | 1045 Hanes Mall Blvd. they were yelling about. You can also see groups of adults seated at the beer. Everything from the stan- Hours | 11 a.m. - 1 a.m. Mon. - Thurs. The majority of the patrons bar, eyes glued to the big game. A long way from dard Budweiser to Samuel Adams 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. Fri. - Sat. here were definitely there for the birthplace of buffalo chicken, Buffalo Wild is available for your enjoyment. 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Sun. the game just as much as they Wings presents an oasis of good food and good And while you are feasting your were there for the food. In spirits. stomach with the food, you can Serving | Wings fact, I saw several people ask The main thing about Buffalo Wild Wings that simultaneously feast your eyes on Dress | Casual to be seated near a television college students need to be aware of is that it has a any of the 16 televisions around showing a certain game. The lot of potential for being a good college hang-out the room. Some are smaller than Price Range | $10 - $20 hostess was happy to oblige to spot. Say you want to watch the Demon Deacons in others, but they are all showing Rating | (out of 5) their game-viewing wishes. It an away game that you couldn’t attend personally, the same thing: sports games. just goes to show that intense but you don’t want to watch it in your room. Whether football, baseball, wings and intense sports often Get a bunch of friends, go to Buffalo Wild Wings soccer, basketball or any other sport you can think of, it’s on one of the televi- times go hand-in-hand.When asked about the and have a good time. You can eat wings and get sions. In addition to the amount of sports viewing famous wings, Lewis Slawsky (a self-proclaimed your hands as dirty as the football players, but be available in the restaurant, the intensity of the wing expert) said, “Could be crispier but overall aware that you should probably ask for a wet-nap fans watching the games is abundant. There were I give them a B+.” Pretty good, especially if you before you leave.
The Sandwich Line | By Emma Hunsinger
By Jacob Eichhorn | Staff writer
On Nov. 10, the Secrest Artist Series invites to the university campus the Bruckner Orchester Linz with conductor Dennis Russell Davies and solo violinist Renaud Capuçon. The program includes Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”, Violin Concerto of Philip Glass and Symphony No. 101 in D major, “The Clock” by Joseph Haydn. Bruckner Orchester Linz, within the past two decades, has become one of Central Europe’s leading orchestras. The orchestra finds its home in Linz, Austria, the cultural capital of Northern Austria, as the theater orchestra for the Upper Austrian State Theater. It also functions as a free-standing symphony orchestra that gives concerts in Linz and worldwide. The orchestra adopted its current name in 1967 after Anton Bruckner, as they have given many concerts of his works and recently released a CD of his symphonies in their original version. As the functioning cultural epicenter of Northern Austria, Bruckner Austria has made it their mission to coalesce tradition and modernity in order to convey Linz’s intricate lattice of history into the present. Dennis Russell Davies hails from Toledo, Ohio and studied piano and conducting at the Julliard School of the Arts. He is one of the most sought after guest conductors and artists for his profound musical insight. Davies has been the Chief Conductor of the Bruckner Orchester Linz since 2002, by which he has garnered critical acclaim for his intriguing programs that give the audience a dichotomous look at classical music with his interpretive mastery. The program is a manifestation of just that: the story-telling magic of Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances, the neo-baroque Violin Concerto of Philip Glass and the Classical tradition of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 101. These three staples of any orchestra’s repertoire will coalesce with Davies’s musical finesse into a fantastical display of the orchestra. For Philip Glass’ violin concerto, Bruckner Ochester Linz invites solo violinist Renaud Capuçon. Born in Chambery, France, he started the violin at an early age and, by the age of 14, studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Since he began his solo career, Capucon has won multiple music competitions and awards. He also, by invitation, served as the concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. In 2000, French Victoires de la Musique nominated Renaud Capuçon as “New Talent of the Year” and an international jury named him “Rising Star of 2000,” championing his place among the leading violinists of his generation. Critically acclaimed for his rapturous lyricism and buoyant legerdemain, Capuçon will surely captivate the audience with Glass’ concerto full of tableaus of spectacular beauty and passages commanding definite technical prowess. The concert will not disappoint even the most amateur of listeners with the expressive elegance of the orchestra, Davies’
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Event Review | Yesterday
Album Review | Leaving Wonderland ... in a Fit of Rage
Band attracts parents and students One-hit wonder proves its worth By CeCe Brooks | Life editor
To kick off the Family Weekend festivities, Beatles cover band Yesterday brought droves of parents and students. As promised, Yesterday copied everything from the Beatles hair to their style of playing to create a semi-authentic feel. Sitting near a family of die-hard Beatles fans, I felt pretty confident about reviewing the concert. Coming on stage with matching suits and black ties reminiscent of early Beatles performances the band started off with the upbeat “Twist and Shout.” I wasn’t too sure of the quality of Yesterday as a cover band when “John Lennon” started talking. His attempt at a Liverpool accent came out with hints of an Irish accent and for some reason a vibrato. In addition, as the concert went on, he took on a persona much too cheery for John Lennon. However, “Paul McCartney” was much more believable and entertaining. He also did a great job of impersonating McCartney’s personality in concert quoting Hard Day’s Night and other occasions. The performance was unfortunately plagued with several technical difficulties. The bass and drums often drowned out the rhythm guitar and they often suffered from feedback. It is debatable whether it was the fault of the sound person or the band, but songs that required higher pitches like “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” were not pleasant for the ears. The band took a brief break and came back with outfits from the 1965 Shea Stadium show. During the course of the performance Yesterday played many of the Beatles’ famous tunes (but really, what Beatles song isn’t famous?). To name a few they sang “Hard Days Night,” “All My Loving,” “She Loves You,” “Yesterday” (the song for which they are named), “Ticket to Ride,” “Yellow Submarine,” “Eight Days a Week”
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Beatles impersonation group Yesterday helped people “come together” for Family Weekend by singing Fab Four favorites. and ended the second set with “Kansas City.” Toward the end of the show they started the famous opening notes of Rolling Stones song “Satisfaction” to a stunned and confused audience. After about an 8-count, though, they stopped and said “We’ve given them enough material already.” According to the Beatles afficianado next to me, the real Beatles said a similar line in one of their concerts back in the day. At some point four women stood up awkwardly to dance, whether they were students or parents I’m not sure, but either way it didn’t really fit in with the rest of the crowd. Although they never actually left the stage, just merely took off their instruments, the band did play a two-song en-
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core. In what I thought was a bad choice, they reprised “Twist and Shout.” Considering they cover a band with more hits than almost any other musical group in the world, I think they should have picked one of the other hundred songs they had the option of playing. They then closed with “Can’t Buy Me Love,” a solid ending. Wait Chapel was filled with more people than at least I expected, but this packed audience never stood up until the encore and even then it was at the request of the band. While the $15 ticket didn’t exactly seem worth it, Yesterday gave an enjoyable performance that made me at least feel a little nostalgic and sad my parents weren’t there to enjoy it with me.
Secrest: Show will please many in community Continued from Page B7
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Mackenzie Connellee, Tom Kozak and Thomas Pendergrass of Sweet St. Caroline helped support non-profit organization Building Tomorrow at Shorty’s on Wednesday, Nov. 4.
brilliant musical aesthetic and the technical grace of Capuçon. It is a performance not to be missed. The performance will be held in Wait Chapel on Tuesday, Nov. 10. When available, single tickets range in price from $16 to $25, depending on the event. For ticket purchases, call the University Theatre Box Office at 336-758-5295. For groups of 10 or more, tickets are priced at $12. For all children under 12, the price is always $5. For all students, the event is free — tickets for students are available in the Benson Ticket Office. For more information, contact the Secrest office at 336-758-5757.
Marcy Playground. Ever heard of them? If so, there’s a good chance that it is because of their light and immature, yet famous, hit single “Sex and Candy,” from their 1997 self-titled album. This past July, the trio, originally from New York City, released Leaving Wonderland… in a Fit of Rage, their first album since 2004’s MP3. Originally meant to be a solo effort by the band’s guitarist and lead vocalist John Wozniak, it eventually became the b a n d ’s fourth full-length release. Overall, Leaving Wonderland is a great album. For one thing, it’s musically diverse. Much of the album exhibits Marcy Playground’s usual alternative, post-grunge style. As shown on the songs “Blackbird,” “Devil Woman” and “Good Times,” Marcy Playground is particularly adept at mixing driven acoustic guitar riffs with light, lofty backing electric guitar lines to create a unique sound that can best be described as both melodic and grungy. However, no two songs sound similar on the album. “I Burned the Bed” is a heavier song, laden with aggressive electric guitars and vocals, whereas “Thank You” is a light song incorporating acoustic guitar and piano, as well as ever-so-faint country music influences. Additionally, songs like “Emperor” begin with solitary guitars and then explode into a glorious fullband sound, whereas “Irene” is a short, simple and catchy acoustic number which would have fit in perfectly on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. Wozniak’s melodic vocals are a key high point of Leaving Wonderland, as they are both versatile and catchy. On “I Burned the Bed” his voice is somewhat harsh and aggressive, while on “Emperor” and “Thank You” it is more subdued and pleasantsounding. Wozniak also tends to add strategically placed “oohs” and “aahs” throughout “Leaving Wonderland,” which almost always make for great listening. The album’s excellent final track, “Down the Drain,”
is a great example of the combination of acoustic grunge and smooth, subdued vocals that helps make the CD so enjoyable. Quite notably, “Leaving Wonderland” differs from the band’s past efforts in that it incorporates elements of folk, which make for the best moments of the album. The finest example of this is probably the song “Memphis,” a b-side that was only incorporated into the album because the lead singer’s wife thought it needed a “second breath of life.” “Memphis” combines intricate solo acoustic guitar with vaguely religious lines (“My love has gone / with the devil to the well of poison”) to create genuine, well-conceived folk music. Lyrically, however, “Leaving Wonderland” has its peaks and troughs. Throughout the album, the singer mainly recalls childhood experiences and women, both past romances and current infatuations. It seems that his lyrical musings about his early days and his past loves are deep and well thought out, but his more lovesick lyrics can be difficult to stomach, particularly in the song “Star Baby,” the chorus of which consists of Wozniak repeating the line “You’re my Star Baby” in a relentlessly annoying fashion. In fact, lyrics like these pop up randomly throughout “Leaving Wonderland” and come dangerously close to derailing the album as a whole. Overall, the musical diversity and downright catchiness of the majority of the tracks more than makes up for the album’s occasional lack of lyrical prowess. I would highly recommend this album, especially to dedicated fans. The album is not especially original or ground-breaking, but it makes for some great listening. Additionally, the overall musical simplicity of Leaving Wonderland has an interesting appeal. Those who enjoy Marcy Playground’s music will appreciate this album, as it remains true to their traditional post-grunge sound, while throwing in some folk tunes here and there, and those who found it hard to take the band seriously (with good reason) after the release of “Sex and Candy” in 1997 should definitely consider giving them another try. Leaving Wonderland…in a Fit of Rage is a great place to start.