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Football seeks elusive sixth win Page 11

EDM group Cash Cash will perform Page 17

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Crowd reacts to Clinton, Obama visits

BY CHRIS CASWELL & MELISSA LIBUTTI Print Managing Editor & News Editor caswk14@wfu.edu & libumd13@wfu.edu

Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton drew a large crowd last week during their visit

Photo courtesy of J.B. Forbes/MCT Campus

Senior Maddy Eldredge is connecting Wake Forest University students with local Title I school Cook Elementary through a tutoring program for students of the Title I school.

Students launch tutoring program

BY EMILY EISERT Staff Writer eiseea14@wfu.edu

Wake Forest students hope to mentor Cook Elementary students through new program Cook Elementary operates just twoand-a-half miles down University Drive. Plagued by poverty, the Title I school — meaning it relies almost completely on government funding — has remained the lowest-performing elementary school in the state, with rapid teacher turnover and low end-ofyear exam passage rates.

“Of the 230 students, only four percent can read at grade level,” said Marcia Cole, lead volunteer recruiter for Winston-Salem Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS). “That’s nine students.”

By virtue of a $1.7 million federal grant to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school district, Cook Elementary underwent an innovative transformation, reopening in August as Cook Literacy Model School.

Among the changes in the principal, staff and curriculum is senior Maddy Eldredge’s forthcoming mentoring program.

“The idea is that data suggests the more positive adult role models a kid has, the more self-sufficient and productive they will be as an adult,” said Eldredge, who hopes to participate in Teach for America after graduation in May. “I wanted to bridge the gap between Wake Forest students and the community.

Eldredge’s program will pair each Wake Forest volunteer with a student from Cook to meet for a minimum of

30 minutes every week, or one hour every other week.

“It’s not as much focused on tutoring,” Eldredge said. “It’s focused on building a relationship.”

The Cook students will get to determine how the time is spent, whether that means help with math homework or an analysis of World Series Game 7.

“I’m looking forward to just being there for a kid,” said sophomore volunteer Kyle Scholtz, who grew interested after discussing the school’s status in his class, ‘Issues and Trends in Education.’

Eldredge’s program — part of a larger BBBS initiative to provide each Cook student with a mentor — will start at the beginning of next semester.

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Thousands of students, faculty and local community members piled into the LJVM Coliseum on Thursday, Oct. 27 to hear Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama speak at a rally sponsored by the Clinton campaign.

The event opened with performances from Wake Forest’s own choir and Demon Divas as well as a short video appearance from Chris Paul.

North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross, the mayor of Winston-Salem, former North Carolina senator Kay Hagan and a number of congressmen from across the U.S. spoke in support of the party’s candidates.

The event’s main focus was to emphasize the importance of not only early voting, but each individual’s vote as well.

According to both Clinton and Obama, President Barack Obama’s win in the 2008 election in North Carolina was decided by just 12 votes.

Clinton received loud applause when she came on stage, but the audience was more excited about Obama.

While Clinton discussed her appreciation and admiration of Obama as well as many of the issues at stake in this election including climate change, national security, immigration, Obama spoke highly of the many achievements Clinton has had in her life time. She believes Clinton to be more highly qualified for the job as president than not only Bill Clinton, but also her husband Barack Obama.

Sophomore Zachary Bynum, a Clinton supporter and a member of Wake the Vote, said he was more excited to hear Obama speak than Clinton.

“I was looking forward to Obama more because I went to the DNC this summer, and I did not get see her the night she spoke,” Bynum said. “So, it felt very full circle.”

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Crowd reacts to Clinton, Obama visits

BY CHRIS CASWELL & MELISSA LIBUTTI Print Managing Editor & News Editor caswk14@wfu.edu & libumd13@wfu.edu

Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton drew a large crowd last week during their visit

Photo courtesy of J.B. Forbes/MCT Campus

Senior Maddy Eldredge is connecting Wake Forest University students with local Title I school Cook Elementary through a tutoring program for students of the Title I school.

Students launch tutoring program

BY EMILY EISERT Staff Writer eiseea14@wfu.edu

Wake Forest students hope to mentor Cook Elementary students through new program Cook Elementary operates just twoand-a-half miles down University Drive. Plagued by poverty, the Title I school — meaning it relies almost completely on government funding — has remained the lowest-performing elementary school in the state, with rapid teacher turnover and low end-ofyear exam passage rates.

“Of the 230 students, only four percent can read at grade level,” said Marcia Cole, lead volunteer recruiter for Winston-Salem Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS). “That’s nine students.”

By virtue of a $1.7 million federal grant to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school district, Cook Elementary underwent an innovative transformation, reopening in August as Cook Literacy Model School.

Among the changes in the principal, staff and curriculum is senior Maddy Eldredge’s forthcoming mentoring program.

“The idea is that data suggests the more positive adult role models a kid has, the more self-sufficient and productive they will be as an adult,” said Eldredge, who hopes to participate in Teach for America after graduation in May. “I wanted to bridge the gap between Wake Forest students and the community.

Eldredge’s program will pair each Wake Forest volunteer with a student from Cook to meet for a minimum of

30 minutes every week, or one hour every other week.

“It’s not as much focused on tutoring,” Eldredge said. “It’s focused on building a relationship.”

The Cook students will get to determine how the time is spent, whether that means help with math homework or an analysis of World Series Game 7.

“I’m looking forward to just being there for a kid,” said sophomore volunteer Kyle Scholtz, who grew interested after discussing the school’s status in his class, ‘Issues and Trends in Education.’

Eldredge’s program — part of a larger BBBS initiative to provide each Cook student with a mentor — will start at the beginning of next semester.

See Tutor, Page 5

Thousands of students, faculty and local community members piled into the LJVM Coliseum on Thursday, Oct. 27 to hear Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama speak at a rally sponsored by the Clinton campaign.

The event opened with performances from Wake Forest’s own choir and Demon Divas as well as a short video appearance from Chris Paul.

North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross, the mayor of Winston-Salem, former North Carolina senator Kay Hagan and a number of congressmen from across the U.S. spoke in support of the party’s candidates.

The event’s main focus was to emphasize the importance of not only early voting, but each individual’s vote as well.

According to both Clinton and Obama, President Barack Obama’s win in the 2008 election in North Carolina was decided by just 12 votes.

Clinton received loud applause when she came on stage, but the audience was more excited about Obama.

While Clinton discussed her appreciation and admiration of Obama as well as many of the issues at stake in this election including climate change, national security, immigration, Obama spoke highly of the many achievements Clinton has had in her life time. She believes Clinton to be more highly qualified for the job as president than not only Bill Clinton, but also her husband Barack Obama.

Sophomore Zachary Bynum, a Clinton supporter and a member of Wake the Vote, said he was more excited to hear Obama speak than Clinton.

“I was looking forward to Obama more because I went to the DNC this summer, and I did not get see her the night she spoke,” Bynum said. “So, it felt very full circle.”

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“ It is important that everyone votes This column represents the views of the Old Gold & Black Editorial Board.

Next week, the presidential election season will come to a close. After more than a year of campaigning, numerous debates, rallies and even scandals, our country will finally elect a new president.

Whether it be Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or a third party candidate, that will be determined by the voters and the electoral college.

This decision is one of the most important our country faces, and people need to vote.

Last week, Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama visited WinstonSalem to speak on the importance of voting.

They shared with the audience why it is a necessity to vote and to let your voice be heard.

Voting is something that many people have fought for and continue to advocate for, so it is important that students and the general public votes.”

Voting is a constitutional right that many people have fought for and continue to advocate for, so it is important that students and the general public vote.

While there is controversy surrounding this election on who to vote for and whether or not our opinions really matter — or even to not even vote — we, the editors of the Old Gold & Black, encourage everyone to go vote.

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In the 2008 presidential election, it came down to a few votes within each district.

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While this election has been controversial with the party nominations, the election encompasses more than just voting for president.

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Deacon Profile: Aishwarya Nagar

BY KATIE DICKENS Staff Writer dickkp14@wfu.edu Aishwarya Nagar took a leap of faith as a senior in high school when she was deciding where she wanted to attend college. In her hometown of New Delhi, India, she was surrounded by peers who had known exactly what they wanted to do with their lives since 10th grade.

Nagar knew she wanted to study biology but longed for a liberal arts education that would allow her to explore her other passions as well. Without ever having toured the campus, she hopped on a cross-continental flight to her new home of Wake Forest University in 2012.

Fast forward four and a half years, and she is now a member of the Wake Forest Fellows, a mentorship program for recent graduates that allows them to work for a year as full-time administrative staff. She is the first Wake Downtown fellow, working to assist the development and implementation of the biomedical sciences and engineering curriculum in the Innovation Quarter.

She originally applied to several fellow positions in offices such as Campus Life and the Provost’s Office but recognized an opportunity that better aligned with her interests in the new Wake Downtown position.

“It was a right place, right time situation,” Nagar said.

“Wake Downtown ended up needing a fellow, because determining the logistics and launching the program needed more helping hands than originally anticipated.

I couldn’t refuse the opportunity to marry my interests in STEM and collaborative programming."

Aishwarya works directly under Rebecca Alexander, the director of academic planning for Wake Downtown, as well as Samantha Perrotta, event and project manager in the Office of the Provost.

Aishwarya described her typical days as chaotic and full of activity.

“I go where I’m needed, so I don’t have much of a routine,” she said. “Overall, my tasks revolve around increasing engagement with students and faculty and creating awareness of all that’s happening with Wake Downtown. I also facilitate connections with the medical school. Basically, I’m helping to plan for everything that determines whether the building will be open in time.”

Aishwarya’s work includes a wide range of recent projects, from running social media to organizing a furniture showroom to coordinating the transportation of equipment for labs moving downtown, ensuring incubators or deep freezers are being moved at the right time and in the right way.

“The big picture has already been decided for the

POLICELarceny BEAT • Offender took money from a victim’s room in Luter.

The report was filed on Oct. 24 at 10:41 p.m.

• Victim lost wallet in Bostwick and believed it was found and then stolen. The report was filed on Oct. 25 at 2:35 p.m.

• Offender removed an unsecured laptop and charger from a study room in the ZSR Library. The report was filed on Oct. 25 at 7:20 p.m.

• Offender damaged and stole paper decorations on bulletin boards in Luter. The report was filed on Oct. 29 at 8:58 p.m.

• Offender removed a frying pan from a kitchen in Magnolia. The report was filed on Oct. 30 at 6:50 p.m.

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most part, and some people are working on the real nitty-gritty, so I get to work right in the middle of the two,” she said.

“I never know what will be next. In one meeting I might be with the construction team, electricians and project managers. But I also have leadership lunches with individuals like Provost Rogan Kersh and hop on hard-hat tours of Wake Downtown alongside people like President Nathan Hatch and Donna Boswell.”

“From joining our team in July, Ash has been a key component in all of our logistics conversations, from coordinating the move to furniture and equipment procurement to creating a true Wake Forest experience at Wake Downtown,” said Perrotta, Aishwarya’s supervisor in the Office of the Provost. “That is the place we are in now — getting ready for the first day of classes on Jan. 10, which means a lot of detailed, focused work.”

“Aishwarya does so much for us,” said Alexander, who is in charge of the academic side of planning for classes downtown. “She is constantly going back and forth from the Innovation Quarter to campus — she has to have a desk in both places.”

Aishwarya said that her work so far has been “ridiculously collaborative,” with decisions constantly made through a process of people bouncing ideas off of each other. She added that her job now, primarily focused on preparation for next semester, will be entirely different from her work next semester when Wake Forest classes actually begin downtown.

“I’ll almost have two entirely different jobs,” she said.

Underage Consumption • Underage student consumed alcohol in South and was transported to WFUBMC. The report was filed on Oct. 29 at 2:46 a.m.

• An intoxicated student was passed out in the bathroom of Taylor and transported to WFUBMC. The report was filed on Oct. 29 at 11:29 p.m.

• A student was transported to Student Health from Luter.

The report was filed on Oct. 29 at 11:46 p.m.

•Underage student consumed alcohol off campus and was transported to Student Health from Luter. The report was filed on Oct. 30 at 12:32 a.m.

• Underage student consumed alcohol at Davis and was transported to Student Health. The report was filed on Oct. 30 at 3:06 a.m.

“In the spring, my focus will shift to branding, programming and outreach.”

Aishwarya often visited downtown as an undergrad, frequenting Camino Bakery as a study spot and doing research in Innovation Quarter over the summer, as well as participating in numerous service projects with downtown nonprofits.

Aishwarya said that she hopes that taking classes in the Innovation Quarter will allow students to expand their horizons beyond the “Wake Forest bubble.”

“Once I became emotionally invested in WinstonSalem, it completely changed my Wake Forest experience,” she said. “It contextualizes where your position is with regard to the larger community of which you are a part. The bubble is so real, and Wake Downtown is an opportunity to get outside of it.”

“I would love to see this program lead to an emotional attachment to the community from Wake students and greater engagement with community service in downtown Winston-Salem.”

Aishwarya said that she believes the university’s decision to expand downtown is a positive one.

“It’s going to benefit a lot of people on campus, especially STEM students with a strong interest in engineering, medicinal chemistry or molecular biology,” she said. “I took organic chemistry lab in Salem, and I was touching elbows with my partner the whole time.

It was incredibly uncomfortable spending hours in that dark room. Now, students will have massive open windows with an excellent view of downtown and upgraded facilities. It’s going to be so beautiful.”

Miscellaneous • WSPD issued a citation for loud music on Briarcliffe Dr. The report was filed on Oct. 27 at 6:11 p.m • Subject entered a Wake Forest alumni car and vomited in the driver seat at The Last Resort. The report was filed on Oct. 28 at 2:35 a.m.

• A former Aramark employee made threats to the Wake Forest community in Reynolda. A warrant was issued and served, and the offender was taken to Forsyth County Detention Center. The report was filed on Oct. 28 at 11:14 a.m.

• A victim was struck in the face on Hearn Plaza. The report was filed on Oct. 30 at 2:00 a.m.

• WSPD responded to a disturbance with loud music at Waycross Ct.The report was filed on Oct. 29 at 12:24 a.m.

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Tutor: local school benefits from new program Continued from Page 1 According to Cole, who is currently recruiting and screening volunteers from a number of local businesses and organizations — like HanesBrands — Wake For-

engagement at the Pro Humanitate Institute, agreed.

“There is great potential for learning on both sides,” Shugoll said.

est has provided the most volunteers so far.

Shugoll has worked closely with Eldredge

One volunteer, senior Jess Jordan helped

since the program’s conception and has

Eldredge come up with the program idea

been especially excited by its “huge recipro-

by drawing upon her own experience with

cal partnership potential” with BBBS and

The Children’s Home, a local rehabilitation

the rest of the Winston-Salem community.

facility for young adults.

Eldredge’s program aligns perfectly with

“It is so important for Wake Forest stu-

the Pro Humanitate message. Moreover, it

dents to step out of our bubble and under-

aligns with the community’s efforts to rem-

stand that the community in which we live

edy Cook’s struggles.

Photo courtesy of Pixabay

Senior Jess Jordan saw the importance of targeting literacy in the Winston-Salem community and found Cook Elementary needed improvement.

is something we can actively participate in

“It’s not just about sending Wake Forest

be crucial throughout the development and

as well,” Jordan said. “The opportunity to

students out for the sake of it. You have to

growth of the program. Now, the emphasis re-

be a mentor and a role model for a younger

look at what the community is looking at,”

mains on recruiting volunteers. In an effort to

child is one of the most beneficial experi-

Shugoll said. “What are their assets? How

best cater to students’ busy schedules, Cole ex-

ences.”

do we strengthen them?”

plained that volunteers can also double up and

Brad Shugoll, assistant director of public

Community feedback will continue to

take turns meeting with one Cook student.

“The more folks that care about them, the better,” Cole said.

Cole also expressed her deep appreciation for those who have already volunteered.

“In doing this, you might actually save a child’s life.”

Gym renovations include handicap accessibility The new renovations are going to be more accessible to students with handicap needs

BY MARY DANIEL CHEEK Staff Writer cheemd15@wfu.edu The renovated Reynolds Gymnasium will be more accessible to members of the Wake Forest community than ever before.

Construction officials and university representatives have collaborated to ensure that Reynolds Gymnasium will be easily usable by those will physical disabilities.

“We have done many things to make accommodations for every member of the Wake Forest family,” said Max Floyd, director of Campus Recreation.

The renovated gymnasium will have a ramp that connects the entrance of Reynolds Gymnasium to the entrance of the Sutton Center.

However, the biggest changes in accessibility will be made to the interior of the gymnasium. Unlike the the old gym, the renovated gymnasium will have an elevator that stops at every floor.

Another major change will be in the accessibility of the restrooms and locker rooms. After the renovations, every restroom and locker room will be easier

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Reynolds Gymnasium renovations are underway. The project focuses on utilizing existing space to make it more modern with more open space.

to access and use for those will physical disabilities. The locker rooms will also have modified lockers and shower stalls that will be easily accessible to those in wheelchairs.

Additionally, the renovated pool will have a chair lift, allowing those with physical disabilities to have easier access to water activities.

While the renovated facility will be an accessible space for all students, faculty and staff, the positive changes made to Reynolds Gymnasium have not come without their challenges.

“Any time you’re dealing with an old building and trying to shoehorn new spaces into it, you run into challenges,” said Chris Poe, assistant director of project management for the university. “It’s a complicated building from a structural standpoint. Unlike if we were building from scratch, where you have some room to expand walls if you want to, we have some obstacles here where we can’t do that.”

Poe oversees the Reynold Gymnasium renovation and transformation project, as well as other major construction projects on campus. In this role, Poe works with Student Health Services, Athletics, the Office of Wellbeing and Campus Recreation to ensure that the renovated gymnasium will be a fun and relaxing environment.

“My vision for the new gymnasium is

that it would be very open and bright.

I think it will be a fun space,” Poe said.

Michael Shuman, director of the Learning Assistance Center and disability Services, is hopeful that the improved accessibility of the renovated gymnasium will serve all students better.

“I really appreciate Campus Recreation’s commitment to providing equitable access for all students, regardless of ability,” Shuman said.

The Reynolds Gymnasium renovation and transformation is a three-phase project whose plans were drafted in September of 2014. Phase I was the construction of the Sutton Center, which opened in January of 2016.

Phase II focuses on the renovation of the original 140,000 square foot Reynolds Gymnasium and is expected to be completed next fall. In this phase, a hallway will be built that connects the upper floor of Reynolds Gymnasium to the Sutton Center. Reynolds Gymnasium will also house the Office of Wellbeing and Student Health Services.

Additionally, both upper gymnasiums will include a multi-activity court for intramural use. The renovated gymnasium will also be able to accommodate 200 fitness machines.

Phase III is the renovation of the pool, which is expected to be completed in March of 2018.

The renovations are overseen by Frank L. Blum Construction Company.

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Thursday, November 3, 2016 | Page 5

Voting is not limited to Election Day Students typically avoid voting because of transportation issues, registration or busy schedules

BY HEATHER HARTEL Asst. News Editor harthf15@wfu.edu Some voters are inspired by this election, others are hesitant about the political world.

Some voters are left indifferent about the process entirely. However, with less than one week left until the historic presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, college campuses are urging students to vote.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “in the 2012 election, only 38 percent of 1824 year-olds voted, again, the least out of all the age demographics.” In other words, the nations youngest voters turn out at

significantly lower rates than their elders; therefore, their opinions are proportionally underrepresented.

The same study also explained that common reasons to skip voting on Election Day include: conflicting schedules, general disinterest, registration problems and issues with transportation. Wake Forest has addressed these issues to increase voter turnout among its students .

Since the beginning of the semester until the last day of registration on Oct. 14, representatives from various organizations were on campus to help students register in North Carolina. Wake the Vote students also helped register students at many of their election-focused events.

However, if a student happened to miss registration, the opportunity to vote is not completely lost. North Carolina is one of only 10 states to allow same-day registration, allowing voters to register at the polls on Election Day. Even if the voter is not originally from North Carolina, providing the address of their residence hall on campus is sufficient to demonstrate in-state residence.

Once the issue of registration is ameliorated, simply getting to the polling place is an issue for many Americans. The U.S. Census Bureau also found that around six percent of voters did not vote in the previous election because of transportation issues.

To solve this problem associated with voter turnout, Wake Forest will provide shuttles to and from the polling location on University Parkway. Free shuttles will take

Graphic Courtesy of Hannah Dobie

Campus Organizations are working to get students to polling places.

students every 30 minutes from Benson on Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Early voting has already began in North Carolina at various polling places around the state, however, many locations are only open on election day.

Another common issue explaining low voter turnout, especially among college students, is the difficulty of scheduling. This is partially solved by early voting, which began in North Carolina on Oct. 20 and ends on Nov. 5.

“I voted early, because I thought it would be easier than voting on Election Day,” said senior Andrew Guido. “I knew it would be too hectic with my busy schedule on Tuesdays.”

On Election Day itself, the polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m, but historically stay open much later to combat the heavy turnout after typical work hours. The range of time to vote serves to offer voters opportunities to cast their ballots despite other commitments.

“I’m personally not voting early,” said senior Mankaprr Conteh. “Because I’m a student I have the privilege of getting up and voting on Election Day. But I think early voting for others is so important because not everyone that has a nine to five job that sees the importance of voting will

be allowed to leave work to participate in our democracy.”

For others that are voting early, it is neither a matter of convenience nor transportation.

Voting is simply a matter of civic duty, of exercising one’s right to vote and give their candidate a better chance on Nov. 8.

“I decided to vote early after the First Lady’s speech on Thursday about the importance of every vote in a swing state like North Carolina,” said sophomore Catherine Seher. “I was too excited to wait any longer to play my part and help increase Hillary Clinton’s standing in the polls,” Though millenials make up 31 percent of the electorate, eligible young voters have only turned out at 50 percent or less in the last three elections. The Baby Boomer generation also makes up 31 percent of the electorate but typically votes at a 70 percent turnout rate. The raw data points to how young voters could statistically decide this historic presidential election, effectively investing in their own futures.

Reading Ibn Tufayl in the Modern Middle East Time: Nov. 3, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.

Location: ZSR, Auditorium 404 Dr. Murad Idris, Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Virginia will asses how modern Arab editors understand the allegory Hayy ibn Yaqzan.

DADA - 100 Years of Edge Innovation Time: Nov. 4, 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Location: ZSR Atrium Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Cabaret Volataire and DADA, a burst of an idea in the 1916 art movement, this event will reflect the creativity and innovation of the arts.

Honk Jr. Time: Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Location: Scales Fine Arts Center, Tedford Stage Based on Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Ugly Duckling”, “Honk” is lighthearted musical celebrating the importance of being unique.

Amazing Grace Liturgical Dance Recital Time: Nov. 7, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Location: Wingate Hall, Lower Auditorium Amazing Grace is a group of student dancers that use their bodies and their dance as means of worship. Rehearsals are held every other Monday at 7 p.m., starting Nov. 7.

Election Returns Watch Party Time: Nov. 8, 7 p.m.-12 a.m.

Location: Pro Humanitate House Wake the Vote will host an election returns viewing party including live music, free food trucks and giveaways to make the election process more exciting. All are welcome, free of charge.

Social Justice in the Desert Time: Nov. 9, 4 p.m.-5 p.m.

Location: Kirby Hall, 101 Kraig Beyerlein, sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame, will share his research on faith-based mobilizing on the U.S. and Mexico border.

The Power of Music to Change the World Time: Nov. 9, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Location: Porter Byrum Welcome Center Musician Harry Pickens and others will hold a protest music concert as part of the Festival Week of Prophetic Ministry at the School of Divinity.

Pizza and Registration Time: Nov. 10, 5 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Location: Collins Residence Hall First-year students are invited to the first floor lounge in Collins lobby for help during registration for Spring 2017 registration.

Free pizza will also be offered.

Journey to Success Speaker Series: Jose Antonio Vargas

Time: Nov. 3, 6 p.m.-7 p.m.

Location: Pugh Auditorium Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, whose work focuses on changing the American identity. Doors open to students at 5 p.m. and to the general public at 5:30 p.m.

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Law Symposium addresses human trafficking “Wake Forest Law Review” hosts symposium to discuss legislation and issues surrounding human trafficking

BY MELISSA LIBUTTI News Editor libumd13@wfu.edu

Margeaux Gray was just four years old when she was first sexually assaulted, but that was only the beginning.

For the next 14 years of her life, she was sold into domestic, child sex trafficking by her assaulter — who also happened to be a formerly trusted adult in her life.

“Most people think that when a human trafficking victim leaves their situation, they are saved,” Gray said. “However, my situation began 20 years ago and continues until this day.”

On Friday, Oct. 28, “Wake Forest Law Review” hosted their fall symposium titled “Combatting Human Trafficking: Current Trends and Cutting Edge Issues.” The symposium was held to discuss policies and practices that have been put in place to address human trafficking, as well as uncover new solutions that would protect victims and prosecute traffickers.

Some of the speakers included John Cotton Richmond and Victor Boutros, the founding directors of the Human Trafficking Institute; Christine Raino, director of public policy at Shared Hope International; and Margeaux Gray, a survivor of human trafficking and a part of the National Survivor Network.

“I don’t share my story, my voice, because I enjoy it,” Gray said. “It is not easy, but I do it because of you, for you. I believe that each one of you can help.”

Over 20.9 million people are victims of human trafficking globally, 93 percent of those within the developing world. There is a misconception that this practice happens solely in the impoverished and poorly educated parts of the world — places far beyond our reach that simply don’t have the same values as we do. On the contrary, it happens right here in North Carolina.

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Denise Brennan, Anthropology professor at Georgetown University, presents her speech titled “Moral Panics, Zombie Data and the Seduction of Rescue.”

“We don’t realize it happens here and just as much as in other countries,” senior Allie Eyers said.

According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, there have been 140 human trafficking cases reported just this year in North Carolina and 716 since 2007. However, these cases are only those that have been reported and successfully diffused. Since 2007, the total number of victims just within North Carolina is estimated as high as 1,734.

“I think the fact that this is about what is happening in North Carolina, because sure, it’s easy to place it in another country but that it’s such a big issue here makes it all the more powerful,” said senior Caroline Benson said.

Trying to identify and protect those victims of human trafficking is one of the biggest challenges.

When it comes to defining and having a standard in regards to protective provisions for child victims, Raino believes that there is still much work to be done.

“As of this year, every state has criminalized child-sex trafficking,” Raino said. “As a country,

however, we are not using the same definition of child-sex trafficking, making the definition of the victim inconsistent.”

Lacking definition becomes problematic when prosecuting traffickers and protecting victims from beings demonized or seen as needing prosecution by the law. Human trafficking must be separated from prostitution. Many who attended the symposium feel that the lack of discussion and understanding of the immediacy and prevalence of the issue of modern day slavery cast shadows on the issue.

“Victims are young children, teenagers, men and women,” said Judge Joseph Colquitt. “They can be found in numerous and varied places, often hiding in plain sight.”

Gray was a slave in human trafficking for 14 years. She wasn’t locked away in a dark basement or brought to an exotic or unknown location. She was going to school and interacting with peers. She was living an outwardly normal life, even though behind closed doors, her life was one of isolated pain and suffering.

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The FBI launched a new investiga- North Dakota pipeline protests are tion into Clinton’s personal e-mails gaining rapid attention

In the Oct. 27 issue of the Old Gold & Black, an older, unfinished version of page 17 was mistakenly sent to the printer. We apologize for any confusion.

With 11l days before the election, the FBI announced they would reopen the investigation regarding Hillary Clinton’s emails. The FBI became re-interested in the case after potentially controversial emails were found on the computer of Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s head advisor.

The FBI will most likely not know whether or not any confidential information was included in the emails until after the election. Because of this, the decision broke FBI precedents of investigating a presidential candidate this close to the election. President Obama sharply criticized the FBI director’s decision to act on incomplete information.

Correction: Incorrect information in article on ScottAnderson An article on Scott Anderson's "Fractured Lands" incorrectly stated his work was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Nominations have not yet been announced.

Last week, clashes between law enforcement and protesters erupted around the development of an oil pipeline that threatens water supplies and sacred Native American lands.

From the view of the protesters, they are standing up to protect their main source of drinking water. Over 50 protesters joined together on what the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe describes as sacred land to participate in peaceful protests.

On the other hand, the local Sheriff’s Department sees the protest as trespassing on federal and private land. Local ranchers have become frustrated with the protests and have called on local law enforcement to take action. Officers have responded by arresting protestors for trespassing.

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“ “ Vote for Republicans Vote for Democrats Pro-Con| Final Election Thoughts

Democrats hold a positive vision for the future of the U.S. that deserves a chance Sebastian Ivory

for College Democrats ivorsl13@wfu.edu

The election is only a few days away now.

Many of you have already submitted your absentee ballots or voted early in North Carolina. It’s been 19 months since the 2016 election began on March 23, 2015 with Ted Cruz announcing his candidacy at Liberty University. The past 19 months have been filled with divisive rhetoric, and the negative aura surrounding this election has disillusioned an increasing number of voters.

I’d like to change the tone a bit though, as we work to cross the finish line. Instead of writing a piece about why you should not support Donald Trump or why you cannot support Republicans in down-ballot races, I’d like to tell you why you should support Democrats in 2016.

The vision of the Democratic Party is one of equality and a brighter future for all Americans. From the primary debates between Senator Bernie Sanders and Secretary Hillary Clinton, Democrats have been working around a principle of making our country stronger for the 99 percent.

Eight years ago, Barack Obama inspired our country with hope and change. During his eight years as president, he has inspired many Americans and worked to create a country that is accessible for all Americans.

After taking office during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Obama and the Democrats passed the economic stimulus, which slowed unemployment and eventually led to significant private sector job growth. President Obama provided protections for the LGBTQ community by making federal anti-discrimination orders, repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, and the Supreme Court assisted by proclaiming marriage

Democrats have been working around a principle of making our country stronger for the 99 percent.” equality the law of the land. Obama worked to expand access to health care for all Americans, regardless of pre-existing conditions by passing the Affordable Care Act. This is not to say our work is complete. Obama has also positioned the U.S. to be a world leader in environmentalism after the 2015 COP21 summit in which America continued its mission to reduce greenhouse emissions.

During Clinton’s career, she has proven to be a successful change maker, and she will be the pragmatic politician that we need in order to succeed as a country. From Clinton’s earliest days, she has worked to provide a voice for the under privileged, and I expect that she will continue to do that from the Oval Office. We must protect Obama’s legacy, but we also must work to build upon it.

We still have a long way to go to achieve a truly universal health care. We must ensure that Americans working forty hours a week do not have to live in poverty by providing workers with a living wage. We must promote an atmosphere where Black Lives Matter. We must work towards making college affordable for all Americans. We must work towards a constitutional amendment to get big, corporate money out of politics and return democracy to the voters of our country.

We must invest in all levels of education, to ensure prosperity for our next generation of Americans. We must appoint liberal justices to the U.S. Supreme Court to protect marriage equality and a woman’s right to choose.

For these reasons, I encourage you to support Hillary Clinton for President, Roy Cooper for Governor, Deborah Ross for Senate, Michael Morgan for the North Carolina Supreme Court and all Democrats down the ballot, either during early voting, until Nov. 5, or on election day.

As Obama has said, his legacy is on the ballot. We must protect his policies of tolerance, justice and equality. To a shattered glass ceiling and a brighter tomorrow. We are “Stronger Together.”

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/MCT

The world of politics is broken and it is going to take an outsider like DonaldTrump to fix it Joe Macy

Trump is running for all Americans, while his opponent is running for herself and her special interests.” not have to run for president, but he

for College Republicans knew that it takes an outsider to fix our broken political system. macyjp13@wfu.edu

After months of debates, rallies and seemingly never-ending news coverage, the election is finally upon us. Millions of Americans have already voted and with Nov. 8 upon us, it is time for each of us to make our choice.

Before making that critical choice, that we, in the U.S. are so fortunate to have, ask yourself a simple question.

Do you want to be part of the solution?

Or part of the problem?

If you answered “the solution,” then you already know who you should vote for. A vast majority of Americans feel Washington isn’t working for them, and they are right.

So in an election when we have a clear choice between more prolonging a broken system and a change, why pick more of the same?

The Wake Forest College Republicans proudly endorse Donald J. Trump for President of the United States.

While Trump is not a well-groomed, perfect politician, his tenacity and ideas are exactly what this country needs, not a corrupt, two-face, career politician.

Trump is a proven business man that has a record of completing difficult projects both under budget and ahead of schedule, but that is not the most important thing about Trump’s candidacy.

Trump is running for all Americans, while his opponent is running for herself and her special interests. He did

Despite what his opponents would argue, Trump’s campaign represents a positive vision for America.

He has reached out to all Americans and believes there is a place for all lawabiding people in our country. He believes that America can once again be a safe place to live and a society that respects the rule of law.

He is also the only candidate in the race that knows what it takes to create jobs. Trump has opposed the disastrous trade deals long supported by his opponents that have hurt American workers.

If you are a voter who cares about the middle class, the choice is between a candidate who has enacted policies that have had detrimental consequences to American workers and someone who has long opposed these policies. Which one do you trust?

For conservatives, the choice could not be clearer. The next president will have the opportunity to appoint at minimum one Supreme Court Justice.

If Trump is not elected, our Constitution and the very principles that this country is founded on are at stake.

With all of that in mind, we encourage all Wake Forest students to vote even if they do not agree with our opinion.

The ability to vote is not something that should be taken for granted, and we believe it is our duty to exercise our right.

We hope to see Wake Forest students out voting for Republican candidates at the top and bottom of the ticket.

Best of luck to all Republicans across the country and happy voting to all.

Maria Lorenzino/Sun Sentinel/MCT

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Old Gold & Black | Opinion

“ does not result in productive dialogue Hateful language Letter from the Editor| Response

When commenting on others’ work and ideas, respect is necessary in a productive conversation Becky Swig

Opinion Editor swigrr15@wfu.edu

Last week, the Old Gold & Black published an opinion piece regarding abortion. While some of the student body agree with the views reflected in this piece, many do not.

Many of those students who disagreed with the piece have expressed their views on social media platforms including, but not limited to Facebook and Twitter.

As the Opinion Editor, I am excited and happy that many students picked up the OGB last week and are will-

I welcome students to share their views on opinion pieces ... but my job as the opinion editor is not to censor my writers.” ing to express their thoughts on an article. We strive for dialogue and interaction between the students, writers and the OGB. However, many of the comments that students shared targeted the editorial staff and the OGB as a publication because we allowed this piece to be published.

I welcome students to share their views on opinion pieces and encourage open dialogue in response, but my job as the opinion editor is not to censor my writers.

As an independent publication, it is our job to publish pieces that students submit. While many found the piece offensive, some students did actually agree with it. The OGB is a student newspaper — it is supposed

to share the views of the student writers in a way that all students and the Wake Forest community can read.

I want to reiterate that all pieces published in the opinion section do not reflect the views of the OGB editors and the publication as a whole.

I am not saying that we agree or disagree with the piece, but we do not have a collective view on it. Just because something is published does not mean the editorial staff as a whole endorses it. We are simply giving the writer a platform to voice his or her own view.

At the OGB, we value all student submissions and will not censor pieces just because they are controversial.

If we were to censor the newspaper — if Wake Forest were to censor our education — we would be limited in our knowledge and understanding of important issues.

Censorship does not allow for a difference of opinion. Censorship does not abide by the first amendment: freedom of speech. Censorship is

not something that the OGB values.

As a student publication we encourage students to write and share their views.

For those who have issue with pieces and want to express their views with the Wake Forest community, I encourage and hope that you submit a letter to the editor or a column.

We want to reflect the views of all students regardless if we agree with the piece or not.

My view is that the section can spark meaningful dialogue in response to pieces in a safe and productive manner.

Language that incites hate is not productive to opening conversations about controversial topics.

I welcome and encourage all thoughts on the content of articles but not the use of hateful and derogatory language towards the writer.

As a publication and as a student body, there is a way to have dialogue and disagreements while not being disrespectful.

Donald Trump“encapsulates evil and is unfit for president A Silber(stein) Tongue| Donald Trump

With next week’s election, voters should question whether DonaldTrump is the right choice

If you support Trump, you are endorsing an individual who constantly espouses ignorance, indifference and aggression to virtually every group other than the white male.”

Andrew Silberstein

This development is an example of how progress has been met with staunch and self-righteous backlash.

Much of this resistance cloaks itself as political but when the smoke clears and the curtains are drawn, all that stands is utter racism, bigotry and sexism.

Enter Trump. He is a product of the resistance.

This election is so difficult because it comes down to such deeply moral issues.

The election has strained relationships for me and many others and rightfully so. Simply put, I believe that Trump is a bigot.

However, I want to be clear that I do not believe that if you support Trump, you are a racist, a bigot or whatnot.

But I do think that if you support Trump, you are endorsing an individual who constantly espouses ignorance, indifference and aggression to virtually every group other than the white male.

You are sweeping vital social issues under the rug and unwittingly supporting a candidate that makes racist remarks and encourages sexist behavior.

Many Trump supporters I have spoken to simply turn a blind eye to his blatant racism, or deny it altogether.

Staff Columnist silbaj13@wfu.edu

In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president, and incredible political and social movements took hold.

The first African American and the most progressive president our country has seen in many decades championed unprecedented advances in LGBT rights, climate regulation and healthcare.

Indeed progress, but, another movement crept out from the hole it once lay: the Tea Party. This far-right conservative group supports small government and very low taxes.

It vigorously opposes immigration, LGBT rights, women’s rights, voting rights (particularly for minorities), government sponsored healthcare, climate regulation and numerous other decidedly “pro-human” oriented laws and policies.

While it shares conservative viewpoints, many of its members support racism, and bigotry, or at least do nothing to discourage it. This element of the Tea Party shares ideas with, and support from, the KKK and Neo-Nazis to boot.

Simply denying that this demagogue is racist is to live with eyes wide shut.

It is to live in ignorance, and ignorance to racism is unacceptable.

Forget income taxes, forget climate change, forget the impending WWIII and ask yourself: can I really support someone who has made his fortune on exploiting immigrants? On prejudiced selling practices?

Can I support someone who spews sexist and racist rhetoric and hates half the country? A man who brags about sexually harassing women?

Can I really support this man for president? Can I support a hateful, spiteful, petty and feeble man to be a model for the world?

This election is about more than politics and parties. It is about prejudice verse progress.

I can empathize with the educated Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, but I cannot empathize with those who blindly accept this man as good.

I cannot understand how loving husbands of our nation can believe this man to be fit for president or how the strong, proud women of this country can believe he has their best interests at heart.

Please, ask yourselves these tough questions, and you will know the truth.

Donald Trump is dangerous, he is racist, and he is the encapsulation of evil.

Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/MCT

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“ Student Gov. president addresses non-voting students Letter to the Editor| Voting

As you might know, this is an election year that will determine the leader of our country for the next four years. This decision will affect all of you, regardless of how removed you may wish to be from the political process. Additionally, this has been an election cycle plagued with scandals, confrontations and brash comments by both major party candidates.

In this firestorm of controversy and partisanship, one tends to forget the power and significance that lies in a vote.

It’s been many years since our civics class in high school and the material has likely faded from our minds, but our beloved country does not have a spotless record when it comes to equal rights or preventing discrimination. After 1776, 94 years passed before the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified to constitutionally grant people of color the right to vote. One hundred and forty-five years passed before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified to constitutionally grant solely white women the right to vote.

Finally, 189 years passed before the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, which actually attempted to give all people of color the right to vote by overcoming discriminatory legal barriers at the state and local levels that were instituted

This decision will affect all of you, regardless of how removed you may wish to be from the political process.” after the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment.

Allow the enormity and significance of that number to envelop your mind. One hundred and eighty-nine years of voices that were violently silenced due to organized animus towards an uncontrollable element of one’s identity. One hundred and eighty-nine years of struggling to achieve the basic civic right of recognition as a legitimate contributor to a government that controls the entirety of one’s life. One hundred and eighty-nine years of lost opportunities for a broader, healthier and more inclusive conversation concerning the lives of our citizens and the integrity of this country.

Unfortunately, this systematic deprivation of the right to vote still exists in America. Many people who fall into marginalized groups of racial identity, geographic origin or disenfranchisement by the criminal justice system cannot cast their ballot in a presidential election. You may have a personal opinion concerning the merit of these individuals and their right to vote, but it cannot be

argued that millions of people who live and function within our borders do not have the same right that you may be able to exercise today.

Regardless of how you may lean, I urge you to cast your vote during this election cycle. The privilege of political participation that you have is one that many others in America do not and may never know. Partisanship is frequently thought to be the most indomitable obstacle of progress: yet, the true enemy of any significant development is apathy.

It is absolutely imperative that you edu-

cate yourself and weigh the values within your mind to subsequently fulfill your responsibility to yourself, your fellow citizens and your country.

After all, if you are dissatisfied with the results of this election, what justifiable explanation will you have for the self-inflicted silence that stripped you of a right millions of others would give everything to exercise?

Jordan Monaghan Student Government President Class of 2017

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Dynamic Duo| Response

Abortion is a“ woman’s issue and must be legal The decision to have an abortion is difficult, but having one is within the realm of a women’s right to choose Natalie Wilson

Staff Columnist, wilsnh15@wfu.edu

Heather Hartel

Staff Columnist, harth15@wfu.edu The decision between a woman and her body is an individual one, and while the decision to terminate a pregnancy is difficult, it is critical that this choice be protected for all women, contrary to what a column in last week’s issue of the Old Gold & Black proposed.

Abortion procedures can both protect women from immediate medical risks and ensure that they are able to have children in the future, and the decision to have one remains between individuals and their doctors.

Giving access to abortion recognizes the identities of all of those with uteruses and their personal right to make decisions about their bodies. Yes, men are responsible for half of conception, but they are not responsible for carrying children to term — their bodies do not undergo nine months of physical changes while they are charged with the responsibility of protecting the potential development of life. They do not

Holding a woman’s personal decision to have a medical procedure within her own body akin to the horrors of slavery or of the Holocaust is ... inappropriate.” live with the social pressures around being pregnant or with the decision of whether or not to raise a new human after birth.

Also, men may provide sperm, but because men can’t get pregnant, they are not exposed to the risks associated with pregnancy.

Being equipped with the reproductive organs that allow pregnancy does not guarantee that a pregnancy will be safe or viable.

Without access to safe abortions, women who have high-risk pregnancies are forced to continue the pregnancy or seek illegal abortions at the expense of their own health and sometimes lives.

The mortality rate associated with childbirth is 10 times higher than the mortality rate associated with legal abortion care. Every year in the U.S., over 600 women die during pregnancy, over 1,000 women who have live births die from pregnancy-related complications and more than 50,000 women suffer from adverse physiological conditions that result from or are aggravated by pregnancy, according to the CDC. Additionally, restrictive abortion laws are not associated with lower abortion rates, and barring access to abortion devalues the lives of women who would risk their lives

seeking illicit abortions. In the U.S. prior to Roe v. Wade, 200,000 to 1.2 million women had illegal abortions each year, and as many as 5,000 American women died annually as a direct result of abortions performed in medically unsafe environments by individuals lacking medical training and skills.

The death rate from legal abortion, however, is just 0.006 percent according to the World Health Organization. In countries where abortion remains unsafe, it is a leading cause of maternal mortality and accounts for 13 percent of all deaths of women.

Being equipped with the reproductive organs that allow pregnancy does not guarantee the resources to raise a child.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, of the 12 million single parent families, more than 80 percent were headed by single mothers. If a single mother can work, she will statistically make less than single fathers. Her earning power is less than that of a man, approximately 78 cents for his dollar.

When the wage gap between men’s and women’s average salaries is adjusted for job title, industry, experience, location and several other factors, economists find that women still earn 6.6 percent less than their male counterparts.

For women of color, this disparity is even greater; African American women earn 26 percent less, while Hispanic and Latina women earn 44 percent less.

So yes, pregnancy and the ability to de-

cide on an abortion is inherently a women’s issue.

Employing fear-evoking language when describing an abortion misrepresents the procedure and is a rhetorical tactic that allows pro-birth ideologists to portray women getting abortions as evil murderers. Many abortions are medical abortions, wherein the woman takes abortion pills.

In surgical abortions, the kind typically described by those opposing the practice, vacuum aspiration is utilized after the dilation of the woman’s uterus. The brain and skull of a baby are not brutally sucked out of the mother, contrary to what the column stated.

While society dictates that rhetoric surrounding abortion procedures be emotional or shameful, an abortion is simply a medical procedure. Abortion, although demonized, is common, safe and normal.

Abortion is not the greatest evil of our time. Racism, xenophobia, sexism, antiSemitism, Islamophobia, genocide and systemic oppressions and manifestations of explicit hatred are the greatest evils of our time.

Holding a woman’s personal decision to have a medical procedure within her own body akin to the horrors of slavery or of the Holocaust is ridiculous, inappropriate and fallacious.

To do so is to completely discredit those who suffered. A column that so explicitly and violently demonizes abortion is a direct attack on those who have undergone the procedure or would do so in the future.

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“ not always noticeable and drastic Transitions are All is Ferr(er)|

The transition into college is not as fragmented or daunting as expected; it just happens Kyle Ferrer

The lilt of life through the lens of a college student is something of an optimistic whirlwind, a tilt-a-whirl minus (or plus) the projectile upchuck. Socially, we are all thrown into a sphere utterly unlike anything before; it is a fluid, boundary-less sort of plasm that permits all the demonstrative deviation from the mean one could want.

That is, if one so chooses. In the classroom, things go from “the reading is optional,” to “the reading really isn’t optional, and the portion size is tripled.” It’s not short assessments daily, but bigger, broader

Tried and Drew|

Many generalizations and false connections leadAmericans to have a misunderstanding of the Middle East Drew Finley

The incisive journalist Scott Anderson paid a visit to Wake Forest on Oct. 26 to discuss his landmark narrative for the “New York Times Magazine” entitled “Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart.”

When this piece first came out in August, many people, including me, were anxious to read it.

They were anxious both in the positive connotation of the word, seeing as the article was the longest in the history of “The New York Times Magazine” and would surely be a complex and powerful narrative of why the Middle East exists in the form that it does today, but some were also anxious in the negative sense.

With any attempt to encapsulate an entire region of the globe, there is always a tendency for the journalist to overgeneralize or make generic statements that do not accurately reflect what the region truly is.

Anderson essentially took on the task of a lifetime, as most people would probably concede that there is no possible way to write a piece (regardless of how long) that could fully epitomize the Middle East in all its endless intricacies.

To Anderson’s credit, “Fractured Lands” comes relatively close. Instead of a standard history lesson about the region, Anderson employs the personal narrative style, following and telling the stories of six people who have lived the reality and have seen the Middle East unravel right before their eyes.

More than anything, it is truly laudable that Anderson did not put forth any sweeping thesis about the region as a whole in his piece. At

College, for me, has become a sort of experiment in optimism, a peripatetic frenzy of sloshing

exams that count for a larger portion of one’s grade.

Emotional mutations, too, are a big part of college; this is a more mature approach, a collaborative sameness as opposed to the structured hierarchy of high-school nonsense. Every student is presented with the existential mantra: you’re all adults. Do with that what you will.

But college, for me, has become a sort of experiment in optimism, a peripatetic frenzy of sloshing mixtures and occasional reflection. I find there’s two images that make up the college ego: the mind in a constant multiplicity of blooms, like a time lapse of a dark city that progressively turns its lights on and the mind drawn and quartered, each cerebral limb yanked in four different directions by taut, muscular forces.

Before arriving at college, I thought of it as a beautiful experiment in intellectualism, an ethereal trial and error that ends in an eventual polished product. And I thought I would be conscious of this all happening. And sometimes I am. But it seems that the huge “adjustment” I am supposed to be making is just happening with a slippery quickness not unlike how Jell-O immediately takes the form of the cup it’s in. It’s like I’m hitting all these watermarks, these massive, movieish events like moving in, living on my own, making friends, etc., and instead of what happens in film, where some throaty piano man sings a ballad about the locus of my internal progress, things seem like they’re, for lack of a better term, just going.

There isn’t a big, emotive gush every time I hear a prominent politico speak, no profound brain flare every time I read the entirety of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in a night.

There’s some of that when I reflect and write such self-aware pieces like this (which speaks to why writing is so important), but on the whole, it’s depressingly normative.

But there are nights, joyous and boister-

ously proud nights, where I’m walking out of the library at some bleary-eyed hour, headphones in, and my stride is injected with glabrous silkiness that makes my entirety act like an undulating saunter.

I become some paragon of collegiate optimism, where I take in everything that I haven’t catalogued as momentous, look around me at a campus that is of inviolate beauty and smile an archaic, sly smile that somehow briefly serves as a recompense for everything I let, or more so could not prevent, from crashing over me.

My message is this: look where you are, where you live and by what boundless means your mind is cultured, by how exceedingly luminous everything you do here is, for yourself and for clicking the world one (sometimes quixotic) notch forward.

This is not meant as a boilerplate exhortation on how lucky we all are; it is but an ode to furthering the practice of thinking, to lauding the sheer cognitive spark we provide ourselves with every day through our rigorous self-growth. Look at yourself; smile.

You’re doing it.

rorist groups, is filled with individuals who are, as Anderson chillingly described, “foaming-atthe-mouth radicals.”

However, he stated, this characterization is better applied to those who are at the very top of the organization. Many of the rank-and-file Islamic State soldiers, he stressed, were confused young men who joined purely because of the money or because their friends did.

Many of the members of the Islamic State, he went so far as to say, join the organization for the same reasons as a young, disillusioned man would join a gang in an inner-city.

Some Americans likely do not take well to this comparison. Extremist terrorism, they insist, is in a league all its own.

In many ways, they are right. None of the inner-city gangs in the U.S. claim they want to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate, or at least none with which I am familiar.

But Anderson’s point bears repeating, as we cannot claim to truly understand the group if we believe that all of its members are heartless, despicable human beings with no soul or moral compass whatsoever.

Some of them undoubtedly are, but many more of them, as Anderson makes clear, are just disaffected young men who see no future for themselves.

To be sure, the choice to join the Islamic State is obviously an indefensible one, and I do not claim to be condoning the soldiers’ actions in any way whatsoever.

Rather, we must first and foremost understand precisely what the Islamic State is, what it stands for and who its members are before we can hope to destroy it.

Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, a number of former intelligence officers have come out and said that one of the biggest mistakes we made and continue to make in the War on Terror is not having a sense of who or what the enemy really is. They proclaim that it is imperative that we know this before we can expect to move forward with effective counterterrorism measures.

Given the incredibly bleak situation that confronts the U.S. foreign policy at present, the U.S. would do well to heed their advice in the years to come.

“ The truth of the Middle East, Anderson recognizes, is that there is no

the end of the riveting work, he notes that after 16 months of travelling in the Middle East, he finds it “impossible to predict what might happen next, let alone sum up what it all means.”

The truth of the Middle East, Anderson recognizes, is that there is no overarching, supreme truth. There is no one narrative, no one story and no one commentary that could ever satisfy everyone. When authors can fill multiple books with explanation and analysis of ethnic conflicts in one particular region of Afghanistan, any attempt to completely typify the Middle East is a futile exercise.

That being said, though, there are a few generalities that stand up to scrutiny, and Anderson did an admirable job of highlighting those in his talk while also shattering many of the preconceptions that Americans hold when thinking about the Middle East.

The first misconception he sought to do away with was the notion that one can understand the Middle East by simply looking at today’s conflict.

Anderson correctly insisted that the roots of the Middle East’s woes go back quite far, and he traced the origin of them all the way to World War I and the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

His fascinating take on the imperial powers demarcating their spheres of influence and carving out the different nations was that the countries that we now see today are in fact “artificial states.”

They did not exist before the imperial powers carved them out, he asserted. This idea is an important point to remember, as many of us likely learned about the agreement in school but forget it when we are inundated with today’s news of bombings and unrest.

The second key misconception Anderson discussed was the nature of the Islamic State itself.

Many Americans believe that the Islamic State, as one of the most radical and brutal ter-

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Wake Forest had a chance to win its Homecoming game against Army as they had two weeks to prepare, but the Demon Deacon offense wasn't able to put enough points on the board to keep up with the Black Knights. Wake Forest will search for the elusive sixth win next Saturday, Nov. 13 against Virginia.

Despite the loss, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons played a strong defensive game against the Army Black Knights

BY EMILY LEITER Staff Writer leiter16@wfu.edu The 28,000-person homecoming crowd expected Wake Forest to secure their bowl-game eligibility by

defeating Army West Point on Saturday.

The Demon Deacons, however, came up short, losing 13-21.

The performance and outcome can be summed up by one word: frustrating.

“To have two weeks to get ready for a team and to play as poorly as we did, I’m really disappointed in myself that I did not have my team more ready to go. We didn’t execute on so many different levels. It’s a tough pill to swallow,” said head coach Dave Clawson.

Both teams put up a touchdown early in the first half.

Army receiver Edgar Poe bolted successfully away from Wake Forest defenders and received a 43-yard pass that he turned into a touchdown.The Deacons responded with an impressive nine-play 69 yard drive that included 13 yard runs from junior quarterback John Wolford and sophomore running back Matt Colburn, ending with a three yard touchdown pass to

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Field Hockey finishes regular season with confidence No. 7 seeded Demon Deacons roll into ACC Tournament after wins over Appalachian State and Liberty

BY RYAN JOHNSTON Sports Editor johnrc14@wfu.edu When the Wake Forest field hockey team took the field against Appalachian State on Friday, Oct. 28, the object of the game for the Deacons wasn’t simply to come away with a win, it was to demonstrate that they had the ability to overcome the adversity that they’ve faced throughout the season, and that will inevitably present itself during the ACC Tournament.

Within this context, the Deacon’s display of dominance in their 9-1 victory over the Mountaineers on Friday was

not only expected, but a necessary step towards reaching their ceiling as a team before the ACC tournament.

“It’ll be a good game for us but only if we play well,” said head coach Jen Averill two days before the game.

For Averill, playing well carries its own significance on a deeper level than simply winning. To her, playing well is about taking risks and letting the game come to you on a subconscious level.

In the ACC Tournament, playing a scripted game won’t work. That risk-taking, fast-paced style of play was demonstrated on the field with nearly every goal that the Deacs scored.

“It’s about making mistakes, but it’s also about how well you can adapt to them,” Averill said. “Sometimes you just have to go for it, and if you lose the ball and have to sprint 50 yards back down the field to win it again, well, you learned not to lose the ball next time.”

Wake Forest was able to adapt extremely well against the Mountaineers, as they held a 5-1 advantage at halftime. A

hat trick from sophomore forward Jule Grashoff led the individual scoring for the Deacs, as they recorded 23 shots in their highest-scoring win since 2013, which was also a 9-1 victory over App State.

“It’s encouraging, because even though we have low numbers and we’re mixing up personnel in different spots, being able to pull out a win is really nice.” said senior forward Lindsey Graham.

Coach Averill also preached how important spacing would be during the ACC Tournament and how individual skill alone would not cut it against the perennial powerhouses of the ACC. Wake Forest was able to translate that message onto the field on Friday, as it was the off-ball runs and space created from the movement of Wake Forest forwards that set the Deacons apart from Mountaineers.

“It’s also really encouraging applying all of the things we worked on in practice this week to the game today, in

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NFL Recap: Panthers take down Cardinals Atlanta Falcons extend their lead over NFC South as they defeat Packers

BY ELIZABETH HARVELL Staff Writer harvea13@wfu.edu Coming into Week 8, all NFC South teams played at home with most of those games being hard-fought victories and close matches.

The Carolina Panthers showed resilience and perhaps a spark of resurgence with a win.

While the Packers lost a close game to the Falcons, Aaron Rodgers proved he’s got his confidence back.

Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan won the game MVP with his impressive numbers.

The New Orleans Saints pulled off the upset win over the Seattle Seahawks.

Here is a quick recap of a couple of the NFC South football games this weekend.

Arizona Cardinals at Carolina Panthers The first quarter could not have been stronger offensively for the Panthers.

Quarterback Cam Newton led the offense down the field with pass completions to Jonathan Stewart all the way into the end zone. Newton and company finished the first quarter with a 14-0 lead over the Cardinals.

Forcing punt after punt from the Cardinals, the real blowout began in the second quarter with a 24-0 lead. Finally, Arizona moved the ball, and a touchdown pass to J.J. Nelson enabled them to get on the scoreboard just before halftime.

The Panthers offense continued their momentum to start the second half, putting kicker Graham Gano within range for a 52yard field goal to extend their lead. At the end of the third quarter, the Cardinals had their

offense rolling managed to move the ball for a 30-14 score. For the Panthers, the fourth quarter has been a nightmare all season and Sunday proved no different.

Throughout the entire season, Panthers fans have seen blowout leads diminish into nail-biters.

Coming off of a fourth down conversion, Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer completed a pass to Nelson again for another touchdown.

However, the Arizona Cardinals could not complete the miracle, and the Panthers took home their second win of the season finishing 30-20. The Panthers may have even proved they’re back…just too late.

Green Bay Packers at Atlanta Falcons The Falcons showed impressive offense and (late) notable defense over the Packers on Sunday to widen their lead in the NFC South.

Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan completed a 47-yard touchdown pass to Taylor Gabriel to put his team on the scoreboard after the Packers scored on their first drive.

Ryan looked spectacular, throwing precise bullets for 288 yards and three touchdowns.

Defensively, the Falcons struggled to stop Aaron Rodgers and his passing offense most of the afternoon.

The Packers continually penetrated the middle of the field and the Falcons rarely had a way to stop them. Additionally, the Falcons defense allowed Rodgers to average 10 yards per catch and many first downs.

But with a defensive improvement in the second half, the Falcons were able to hold off the Packers in the fourth quarter, including the final offensive drive by the Packers in the last seconds, to win 33-32.

The Falcons can widen their division lead by defeating the Buccaneers on the road this week on Thursday Night Football.

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Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers had a promising first half on Sunday, but ultimately fell to the Falcons, 32-33.

Seattle Seahawks at New Orleans Saints The New Orleans Saints pulled off the upset Sunday in the Superdome over the now 4-2 Seattle Seahawks.

The Saints offense led a 15-play, 83yard drive which resulted in a field goal.

Again, the Saints had a 10-play, 40-yard drive which only culminated in a field goal.

Finally, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was picked off and the Saints ran it into the end zone. The first half opened

as expected with Seattle heading into the locker room with a 14-13 lead.

The second half opened with a pair of field goals for both teams, making the score 17-16. The momentum tilted towards the Saints as Drew Brees made a connection to WR Brandin Cooks for a 22-17 lead. At 25-20 with just 1:57 left to go, the game came down to the final Seahawks offensive possession and the Saints defense.

The Saints held on in a nail-biter to win a 25-20 and improved to 3-4 on the season.

Wake Forest men’s soccer will try to redeem themselves Deacons grab second straight Atlantic Division title as they enter into ACC tournament No. 2 seed

BY MELINA JORIZZO Staff Writer jorimm15@wfu.edu The No. 2 Demon Deacons men’s soccer team claimed their second straight ACC Atlantic Division title on Friday night in their 1-1 draw against Syracuse.

This earns them the No.2 seed in the upcoming ACC Champtionship.

Wake Forest finished their regular season with a 12-2- 3 record overall and a 5-1-2 record in ACC play.

“We had a great regular season and were able to find our game and get better each week,” said freshman Bruno Lapa. “Winning the regular season was definitely a good feeling, but everyone on the team knows that we can do bigger things this season and repeat this winning feeling in both the ACC and NCAA tournament.”

Junior Jon Bakero notched his fourth goal of the season in the 23rd minute. The play began with senior defender Kevil Politz who sent the ball to Louis Argundo. Baker took a touch past the goalkeeper and slotted the ball inside of the left post.

Syracuse tied the game in the 36th minute when they

earned a free kick. They fired a shot from just outside the box, which deflected off of a Wake Forest defender.

Syracuse was able to get the rebound and slide the ball past goalkeeper Alec Ferrell.

Head coach Bobby Muuss mentioned after the game that this is not the best soccer he has seen from his team.

However, he thinks that Syracuse is one of the toughest teams they have faced this season but was thrilled to get the point and the ACC Atlantic Division title.

In just the sixth minute of play, Syracuse’s Miles Robinson was sent out of the game with a red card. The two teams battled for the entire game, earning a combined six yellow cards and 29 fouls.

The Demon Deacon’s 17 points in ACC play this season earn them a first-round bye in the ACC tournament. Their first game will be played on Sunday, Nov. 6 at 1p.m. at Spry Stadium.

Wake Forest will take on the winner of the Notre Dame and Duke game. During the regular season, Duke beat Notre Dame 2-1 in overtime at home.

The top four seeds North Carolina, Wake Forest, Louisville and Clemson all earn a bye for the first round of the tournament. The final game will be played on Nov. 13 in Charleston, South Carolina.

“Finishing the regular season as the champions of our division in the ACC was huge for us,” said senior captain Ian Harkes. “Our team is full of confidence, and we are

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Junior forward Jon Bakero scored Wake Forest’s only goal against Syracuse. really looking forward to the ACC tournament because Wake hasn’t won the tourney since the 80’s. We know it will be very hard, but we just want to take each game one at a time and play our best soccer.”

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Field Hockey: Sophomore Grashoff scores hat trick Continued from Page 11

practice this week to the game today, in preparation for Sunday and especially for the ACC Tournament,” Graham said after the game.

Wake Forest appears to be hitting their stride just as they enter the most crucial part of their season.

“I think that’s the most exciting thing, especially with all of the things that have happened to us throughout the season,” said junior midfielder Karlee Spirit. “We are peaking right now at the perfect time.” “I think it’s encouraging to peak right before the tournament, right before the end of the season.”

The field hockey team took on Liberty on Sunday, Oct. 30, coming out on top with a 3-1 victory to end their regular season. The victory set Wake Forest’s final record at 10-7 on the year, without an ACC win to show for it.

Grashoff and senior forward Sarah Thornhill tallied three goals, with Grashoff putting up two to increase her season total to 13 on the year.

Sophomore goalkeeper Cat O’ Connor recorded two saves on the night, increasing her total to 50 on the year.

Freshman forward Nicole Pluta was named ACC Freshman of the Year on Wednesday, Nov. 2, as well as named to the All-ACC First team as a forward. Pluta was the only Wake Forest player named to the team. Wake Forest will play No. 2 seeded Syracuse in their first game of the ACC tournament on Friday, Nov. 4 at 3:30 p.m. at Kentner Stadium.

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Wake Forest’s offense has been firing on all cylinders as they enter the ACC tournament, with 12 goals in their last two games regular season games.

Football: Wake Forest eager to get sixth win Continued from Page 11 freshman Tabari Hines, who put up a teamhigh of 78 receiving yards.

This was Hines’s second career touchdown, as well as the only touchdown the Deacs could manage to score against Army.

A 37-yard field goal from Wake Forest’s Mike Weaver made the score 10-7, and the Deacs gained perhaps too much confidence that they would be able to pull out a win over Army.

The Wake Forest defense was extremely solid throughout the majority of the game, allowing Wake Forest to maintain their lead until the last 12 minutes of the game.

Senior Marquel Lee performed exceptionally well with 12 tackles and five for a loss.

Junior Jaboree Williams had three tackles for a loss and a nine yard sack on fourth down, and freshman Jessie Bates intercepted an Army touchdown pass at the goal line.

To top off the strong defensive game, senior linebacker Thomas Brown and sophomore defensive back Cameron Glenn each forced a fumble, one of which was recovered by junior Duke Ejiofor.

The Wake Forest offense, on the other hand, looked weaker than ever.

“Overall we did not play well enough on offense, myself included,” said junior quarterback John Wolford. “I continued to turn the ball over and I can’t do that. There was bad communication out there.”

Wolford overthrew a number of passes, racked up three interceptions, and recorded one of his worst career passing records: 23 completions for 43 attempts.

They maintained this unsuccessful passing strategy throughout the game, focusing less on rushing.

The Deacs recorded their shortest time of

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Wake Forest needs just one more win in order to become bowl-eligible for this season, but their offense will need to execute at a higher level against Virginia. possession of the 2016 season against Army, only managing to control the ball for 24 minutes and three seconds.

“Obviously, really disappointed. I give all the credit to Army,” Clawson said. “I thought Coach Monken had all his guys ready to go. They got after us. They had a great plan.”

The Black Knights scored two rushing touchdowns on consecutive drives in the fourth quarter. Wake Forest’s most promising opportunity for a touchdown came in their last drive.

A few passes to sophomore Alex Bachman and redshirt sophomore Cortez Lewis got the Deacs just inside the red zone, but over-

thrown first, second and third down passes eliminated any chance to score. “Offensively, we had made improvements through the middle of the season, and we’re starting to regress. We’re not making plays,” Clawson said.

Fortunately, Weaver was able to make a 34 yard field goal, resulting in the final score of 13-21.“I feel like we got kind of lazy throughout the week,” said defensive back Jessie Bates. “It’s just the bye week, and some people got kind of bored with it. That showed up tonight.”

After an intense week of practice, the Deacs will move forward on Saturday to take on University of Virginia at 3p.m. at BB&T Field.

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Spotlight: Jon Bakero BYRYANJOHNSTON Sports Editor johnrc14@wfu.edu Juni or for ward Jo n Ba k e ro h a s been a hu ge p ar t of Wak e Fo res t’s two straight Atl antic D ivi s io n titles. His l e ad ership a nd eye fo r goals wil l be ne ce ss a r y f o r Wa ke Fo rest to ad vance pas t t he s emifi nal s i n this ye ars ACC t ou r n ame nt .

Bakero, with fou r g oa l s an d t w o assi sts on the ye ar, is a k ey p i ec e o f the Wak e Fo rest off e ns e p red i c at ed on p at ien t, cle ve r p as sin g in t h e fi nal t hird of the f iel d .

A s Wake Forest ge ar s up fo r p o s tseason play, Bake ro wil l b e k e en o n leading the Wake Fo re s t o ff en se .

Why did you cho o se Wa ke Fo rest?

I gre w up in Spai n , obv i o us l y, and I w anted to co me to th e U .S .

Wak e Fore st was m y bes t p i ck, wi th obviously a great soc c er progr am an d a gre a t a ca d e mi c school . When I c am e ac ros s Wa k e Fo re s t, I t hought i t was m y b e st possi bili ty.

Has th ere be en a ro le m o de l a t Wak e Forest t hat yo u’ve l oo k ed up to si nce you’ve be e n h ere?

I mean, obviousl y all o f th e uppercl a ssm en a nd s e n i or s f ro m th i s ye ar. When I c am e i n , th ey were so phomores a t th a t p o i n t, and they took me in as on e m o re .

Ian, Jacori and Al e c a re a l l s e ni o r captains an d great g uys, o bvi o usly, and I just wa nt to c on t in ue t o get b etter and look i n g up a t th em.

A s a juni or now, h ave yo u t a k en o n a me ntori ng ro le t o s o m e of the you nge r player s?

We all t r y to help eac h ot h er ou t be c ause we’re a li ttle f amily. Ever yon e — th e s oph o mo re class, t he f reshman cla s s — we a l l

t r y t o st ick t o get h er to hel p ea c h o t he r out .

How has your rol e cha nge d o n t h e t eam throu gh ou t yo ur ca ree r at Wake Forest?

A s a a f resh man , t h ere is n’t t h a t m uc h pres sure. Press u re bui l d s a s yo u g et o ld er, an d my so pho more ye a r, we h ad a great yea r.

Th i s ye a r, m y j un io r yea r, I t h i n k we’re rea lly g o od a s wel l .

Obv io usly, as yo u get ol d er a nd t h e t e am d o es bet ter, yo u ha ve m o re p re ssure an d m o re res p on sib il it y, but I t h ink it’s so met h in g th at we all l ike .

How has this season bee n diffe ren t from seaso ns in th e pa s t , i f at all ?

La s t seaso n we h ad a rea ll y g oo d se aso n , an d we al so h a d re a l l y g o o d p layers, like Jack Ha r ri s on a nd Mich ael Gamble, t h a t l ef t us .

At t h e star t o f th is sea s on , p eopl e d i d n’t reall y expect us t o be a s g o o d a s we a re a gain .

I th i nk we ju st sti ck t og et h er, we’re rea lly cl o se g uys a nd we j u s t kn ow wh at we wan t o ut of th i s se aso n, w h ich is t he bi g ge s t th i n g fo r u s.

L oo k i ng for ward to ACC s , wh a t’s th e mindset of t h e t ea m d u r in g pr ac tice rig ht n ow ?

We d on’t h ave a to n of t ime d ur i n g th e seaso n to pr a c t ic e s i nc e we ha ve so man y ga mes.

Ri g h t n ow, ou r fo cu s i s g e t t i ng b et te r in ever yth in g we c a n a n d a l s o tr yi ng t o g et o ur bo d ies ba ck h e al th y.

How i s t he t eam prepa r in g mental ly f or the ACC tou rn a m en t ?

La st yea r, we lo st in t h e se m if i na l s in a really c lo se ga me t o Not re Da me , whic h wa s t he s a me a s i n t he NCA A to u rn a ment .

We’re rea lly an xio us to b e a bl e t o

du r i ng t h e re g ula r se as on a nd k e ep o n d oi n g w h a t we’ve b e e n doi ng th e wh ol e se a s on.

w in t rop h ie s t hi s s eas on .

T ha t’s w ha t we’re t r y i ng t o d o a s a t e a m .

Yo u’re ei t her go in g t o p l a y No tre Da me o r Duk e. Are you p rep a r in g s pe ci fi ca l l y f o r e it h er t ea m ?

W h a t h a s be e n your f avorit e mo me nt as a De aco n ?

Wi nni ng t wo reg u lar seas on c h a mp i o nsh i ps i s b ig , b u t I w o ul d say m y go al a g a i n st Not re Dam e l ast yea r.

We’re rea d y t o pl a y w h a t e ver t ea m co me s a lo ng . I t hi nk we’re o ne o f t h e b e st t ea ms i n t he c ou nt r y, a nd we sh ou l d n’t b e l o ok in g a t w ho we p la y, b ut wh a t we can do to b ea t a n y t ea m.

W ha t w a s goi n g th roug h your he a d?

It was a gre a t f ee l in g t o be a ble t o h e lp t h e t ea m , an d j u m pin g o n T h e Hi ll t o ce le br at e wi t h t h e f an s w a s awe so m e.

How ha s h e a d coach Bobby Mu us s hel p ed t h e te a m p re pa re for the ACC to u rn am e nt ?

In t he ACC t ou r na m en t , i f you l os e a g a me, yo u’re o u t , whi ch i s t he sa me a s t he N CA A t ou r namen t .

We h a ve t o pre p a re men t a l ly f o r over t ime, pen a lt y k i c ks , wha t ever h a pp ens . C oa c h t ri es t o g et u s men t a l ly a nd p hy si c a ll y rea d y, b u t we d o t h e s a m e t h in gs a s

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Deac Notes Field hockey senior midfielder Emily Conroe selected for NFHCA Division 1 Senior Game Emily Conroe has appeared in 15 contests this season and has recorded three goals and four assists for a total of 10 points.

Furthermore, she has 3 career game winning goals.

The Greene, New York native will represent Wake Forest at the yearly game on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 2:30 p.m. at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Ian Harkes and Jacori Hayes have been named finalists for the Senior CLASS Award Wake Forest midfielders Jacori Hayes and Ian Harkes are two of the ten finalist for this years’ award.

Wake Forest is the only program with two student-athletes represented.

This marks the first time that Wake Forest has two finalPhoto courtesy of Wake Forest ists for the award in program history, with the last time the Athletic Communications Deacs being in 2010.

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Women’s soccer finishes regular season The Deacs will strive to achieve a better record in 2017 despite losing seven strong seniors

BY EMILY LEITER Staff Writer leiter16@wfu.edu

The 2016 Wake Forest women’s soccer team had a season of great improvement and persistence, but they were not able to join their more fierce conference competitors in the ACC tournament quarterfinals.

Next year, they will strive to prove themselves as a competitive member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, hoping for a more impressive conference record than 2-8.

In their last game, the Deacons fired shot after shot in the final few minutes but couldn’t put a point on the board in the regular season finale.

The Deacs lost the seemingly winnable match 1-0 and now await the Division I Selection Show on Nov. 7th.

The Deacs’ overall record improved from 5-12-2 in 2015 to 10-8 this year. Their conference record, however, remained the same. They defeated unranked Louisville and Miami last year and No. 25 Boston College and unranked Syracuse this season.

Sarah Medina and Sarah Teegarden led their team in goals, points, shots and shots on goal in 2015, but junior Maddie Huster and sophomores Peyton Perea and Bayley Feist were the team’s key players in 2016, statistically speaking, with at least five goals scored each.

These players, along with sophomore Reci Smith and junior Lindsay Preston will be crucial to the team’s development for 2017.

Wake Forest will be losing seniors Maddie Brock, Kendall Fischlein, Taylor Kerxton, Kendal Robino, Caroline Wooten, Sarah Teegarden and Jenna Romano.

The Deacs will have to make major adjustments to compensate for this loss, but they anticipate a strong recruiting class, as well as intense year-round training.

While this season was better than last, the Demon Deacons must find the ability to communicate, attack the net and improve their endurance in the second half in order to be taken seriously in the most difficult soccer conference in the nation.

This responsibility lies principally on Tony da Luz, who has now been the women’s soccer head coach for 20 years.

He has a record of 237-150-38 but has had an overall losing record in the ACC for the past four years.

Despite the hardships, he is extremely proud of his team and the resilience and effort they have demonstrated over the 2016 season.

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Wake Forest women’s soccer will find out if they qualified for the ACC Tournament on Thursday.

Undoubtedly, Wake Forest has the drive and physicality to be in a top half team in the ACC. A drastic shift in strategy and mentality is necessary for them to move out of the No. 11 ranking in the conference of 14 teams.

The Deacs believe that this is an attainable goal and will continue practicing throughout the year to ensure that they achieve it in 2017.

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Find yourself a man who loves food. If he doesn’t love food, then is he really the guy for you? I don’t think so.

The greater your man’s love for food, the more food he’ll have to share with you. I’m talking pizza, cookies: the whole nine yards.

Find yourself a man who loves to travel. If your man loves to travel, he’ll always be willing to go buy you Chinese food and bring it back to your dorm.

Find yourself a man who is smart.

Make sure he knows basic addition and subtraction.

Me plus you equals endless breadsticks at Olive Garden. Me minus breadsticks equals me minus you. Do the math.

Find yourself a man who loves the “F” word: feminism. If your man doesn’t remember the ladies, then he can forget any chances he had with you.

Love yourself first, and any man comes second.

Entertainment Preview | Cash Cash

Tilt ambassadors bring Cash Cash to Wake Wake Forest students will get to enjoy the group thanks to the crowdfunding company

BY NATALIE WILSON Life Editor wilsnh15@wfu.edu Cash Cash, a popular electronic dance music group, will be coming to the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds to perform for Wake Forest students on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 10 p.m.

This concert is supported by campus brand ambassadors for Tilt, a crowdfunding company co-founded and led by Wake Forest and Sigma Chi fraternity alumnus James Beshara.

Cash Cash, a trio that hails from New Jersey and includes brothers Jean Paul Maklouf and Alex Makhlouf and Samuel Frisch, is touring with “Monster Energy Outbreak Presents: The Up & Up Festival.” In order to compete for one added tour stop, students from Wake Forest, UNC Greensboro, Delaware and other regional universities raced to “tilt,” or meet a 500-ticket sale goal. Tilt provides groups with a platform for easy ticketing and fundraising, making it popular among college students. Pre-sale tickets were posted for each university, and Wake Forest was the first to sell out.

Current senior Taylor Bryan, whose involvement with Tilt stems from the fraternity, oversees the team of 30 student ambassadors at Wake Forest.

He has led the efforts in organizing the Cash Cash concert and serves as a liaison between campus and the Tilt headquarters in San Francisco.

“I heard what they were doing from one of the older guys and reached out to see if I could get involved,” Bryan said. “I started a few businesses when I was younger, and I’m also an entrepreneurship minor, so it seemed super interesting to me. Back when they were way smaller a few years ago, I joined a team of six to seven ambassadors my freshman year, and we’ve grown so much since then.”

Wake Forest engaged in a similar campaign to compete for a Chainsmokers show last fall but was not the winner, and many of Tilt’s student brand ambassadors have cited this as a primary motivator when promoting this show.

Senior Chase Gerber, who has worked with Tilt for over a year, was selected along with a few other high-achieving ambassadors to lead this campaign.

“It was important that I stimulate buzz about the event through word of mouth, sending emails and making announcements at [sorority] chapter,” Gerber said.

Stephanie Rubin, another ambassador, says

that this buzz was easy to generate, especially on social media. “[The music is] well known so it really wasn’t difficult for us to get students hyped about the idea of Cash Cash performing at Wake,” Rubin said. The dance and house group’s highest charting song to date is “Take Me Home”, which features vocals by Bebe Rexha.

For the concert, which will take place in the education building on the fairgrounds, shuttles will be running from Lot P at Poteat from 6:45 p.m. until 11:45 p.m.

Doors open at 7 p.m., but students can accelerate their check-in process by exchanging their tickets for wristbands on campus in front of the Pit on Thursday from 10-2 p.m., which will allow ticketholders to proceed straight to security at the door. Tickets can still be purchased online through the Tilt website for 40 percent less than at the door due to venue fees.

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Drink of the Week Caramel Macchiato Espresso 2/3 cup milk 2 1/2 pumps vanilla syrup 3 pumps caramel syrup Brew espresso. Steam milk while espresso is brewing. Pour espresso into a cup, then add syrups and milk.

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Trend Alert | Bold Beauty

Be brave this autumn season with bold lip colors

Nontraditional lip colors are the year’s biggest beauty trend, and they’re great for adding a bit of edgy flair to any outfit

BY GRACEYOUNG Life Editor youngc13@wfu.edu As someone who survived the awkward middle school phase wearing a black hoodie over my school uniform every day, nontraditional lipstick colors like blue, black, purple and very dark red were some sort of unattainable level of edginess I could only dream of achieving.

According to the fashion world, however, these lip colors are now a major trend, having been featured on numerous runways and in magazines worldwide.

Being the makeup afficionado that I am, I decided I’d take the fashion world’s advice and give some of these lipsticks a try.

Black, for me, was the most difficult. Despite my middle school desire to rock the edgiest of edgy lip colors, college me was a little more hesitant. After much consulting with my roommate, though, I took the plunge.

It was weird to step out of my dorm with my lips painted black, and I immediately noticed the funny looks I got from people.

Paired with a white t-shirt, jeans and a military-style red jacket, I enjoyed the striking addition of black lips to my otherwise fairly straightlaced look.

Black, especially, is supposed to be a main event that shocks people and gets their attention. That being said, don’t incorporate black lips in a super busy outfit.

Now, I’m actually already a big fan of dark red swallowed cyanide. Thankfully, I didn’t listen.

Dressed in a simple black dress, black tights, lipsticks. They add a bit of vintage flair to certain outfits, while making others a little more my motorcycle jacket and gray heeled booties, punk-rock. Plus, these colors look good on ev- I donned my midnight makeup and braved the world. eryone.

I was not disappointed. It was, without a For burgundies, maroons and your vintage dark reds, pair with neutral-colored outfits for doubt, the best of the four lip colors I tried. It the most part. A beige sweater, jeans, brown rid- turned heads, brought out my eyes and made ing boots and a fluffy blanket scarf provide the me feel strangely confident.

As I learned from my experiment with bolder perfect background for striking burgundy lips.

If you’re feeling a little more daring, go for a shades of lipstick, the fashion world has a point: black blouse — preferably with cute details like nontraditional lipsticks are actually amazing. lace or bows for a feminine feel — and jeans Once you get used to the funny looks from a and black or gray booties. The dark red will be handful of passersbys, you become much more comfortable, and, in my experience, even more a subtle splash of color.

Much like the dark red, purple was slightly confident. The trick is simply pairing it with more in my comfort zone. I’ve never worn pur- the right outfit. ple lipstick before, but the shade I chose was close enough to some of my reds that I wasn’t too bothered. However, purple is a particularly difficult shade on many people, myself included, so finding the right outfit for it was a challenge.

For this, I chose an oatmeal-colored dress with purple tights, brown riding boots and a brown and purple scarf.

Purple is definitely my least-favorite of the four lipstick colors I experimented with, but it was still pretty fun. I suggest using it sparingly, though.

For the final part of my little experiment, I wore a vividly dark shade of midnight blue.

Strangely, this was the scariest of the four, mainly because it was such an unknown variable.

Blue almost necessitates an outfit built from Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune/MCT dark neutrals like black and gray. My mother, fashion-savvy as she is, tried to convince me not Bold lips are scary at first, but they’re also a lot of fun. to try this out, saying that I would look like I’d Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb and give them a try.

Television Show Review | “New Girl”

Make funny and poignant “New Girl” your new favorite For stressed college students, “New Girl” can provide a little perspective and a lot of laughs

BY TAYLOR WEST Contributing Writer westte15@wfu.edu

In the midst of all the chaos and stress, sometimes you need to sit in a dark room and stare at Netflix until you look like a zombie.

If you’re looking to expand your watch list go check out “New Girl.”

I’m sure you’ve heard about it, maybe seen an episode, but go back to the first episode and start from the beginning.

The female lead character, Jess, is unapologetically weird in the best ways. I want to walk around singing my own theme song whenever life gets complicated. Jess lives with roommates Winston, Nick and Schmidt.

Winston is a former Latvian basketball player.

Nick is the poster child for high functioning underachievement. My personal favorite is Schmidt. Schmidt is bold and excessive.

These four people share an apartment, and the adventures never stop. There’s a little something for everyone in this show. The friendships have no boundaries. There’s comedy at the expense of the characters, whose awkward mishaps are always caused by their own social ineptitude.

You’ve got a little romance here and there — team Jess and Nick for life, am I right?

This show is brutally honest about the struggles we face in everyday life and pokes fun at our inability to cope with our own misfortune.

If you need a little consistency in your life, turn on “New Girl” to be consistently entertained.

At the end of the day, throughout all the chaos, these unlikely four have each other, just like this show will be there for you.

Go turn off your lights, stock pile some snacks and open your computer to five seasons of comic relief.

I give this show a four out of five stars. The storyline can seem over the top at times, and Lamorne Morris’ character Winston is not always consistent. However, I can promise that this show will become a new favorite if given the chance.

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Students explored social justice and identity at fall break retreat

BY NATALIE VALDES & NATALIE WILSON Contributing Writer & Life Editor valdnm16@wfu.edu & wilsnh15@wfu.edu

Each Fall Break weekend, the Pro Humanitate Institute offers BRANCHES, a free, entry-level social justice retreat.

BRANCHES invites students to examine their positions within campus communities and in society, the many branches of their identities and their place as a unique tree within Wake Forest.

A unique community is created while students explore gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, ability and socio-economic status. Through various modules and activities, as well as discussions and debriefs facilitated by

student moderators, participants learn about how to work together to affect change and accomplish social justice.

A three-day-long retreat, BRANCHES allows Wake Forest students to learn more about their identities and how these identities affect others. This year’s retreat was held in King, North Carolina, at YMCA’s Camp Hanes.

Students who applied to the program spent their Fall Break learning about social justice and the many different identities that one can hold, as well as how intersectionality plays into these identities.

The students were accepted on a rolling basis throughout the fall before being assigned to small groups of three to four other

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participants and two moderators with which they’d be spending most of their time during the weekend.

During the weekend, students learn, live and eat meals together, so a strong community is formed. Mailboxes are displayed around the walls of the space so that students can anonymously write notes of encouragement and affirmation to other participants. Each year, there is a community art project, and a collaborative painting can be created over the course of the weekend.

The retreat strives to be an outlet for students not familiar with social justice to be able to ask questions in a comfortable space.

Sophomore Matthew Connor, who attended BRANCHES as a participant last year and who served as a moderator this year, said that the space is accepting of people with any kind of social justice background, no matter how limited, as long as there is a willingness to learn.

“I would recommend it to anyone who is even just remotely curious about social justice in the world or especially on this campus,” Connor said.

Another moderator, senior Lauren Barber, echoed this sentiment.

“BRANCHES offers a space for students to show up as their authentic selves and explore the intersections of their — and others’ — identities,” said Barber.

“It’s an opportunity to embrace radical empathy, self-inquiry and hinges on active listening. It is a deeply humanizing experience.”

“I would recommend it to anyone who is even just remotely curious about social justice in the world or especially on this campus.”

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Barber is another student who participated last year before applying to facilitate at the most recent retreat. Many students are so moved and empowered by their experiences that they choose to become involved.

“My experience as a participant at BRANCHES was so formative that I felt compelled to facilitate the experience for younger students,” Barber said. “I and other moderators enjoy learning and growing alongside each other and our participants outside of a formal hierarchy.”

“Participating also made a significant, positive impact on how I perceive my campus community which empowers me as an activist and as mindful, critical citizen of our social and academic community.”

BRANCHES provides a safe space to ask tough questions. BRANCHES allows those who are not well-versed in social justice vocabulary to ask for definitions without fear of appearing ignorant.

BRANCHES creates a space for students to be vulnerable.

“There were people that I’d meet and had only talked to for those three days that I feel like I understand better and am closer to than people that I’ve known for almost three years,” Connor said.

“This program is valuable for underclassmen, in particular, because it fosters identity formation and roots you in an authentic sense of community,” Barber said.

“BRANCHES is a beautiful way to find community on a campus that doesn’t necessarily feel like home to everyone. It’s also an ideal space for students who enjoy deep conversation and personal reflection.”

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