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WAKE FOREST’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1916 VOL. 105, NO. 7

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TEDx presents “metamorphic” theme Diverse set of speakers deliver TED Talks about the idea of change to the WFU comunity

BY LUCY NELSON Staff Writer nelsld16@wfu.edu

Photo courtesy of the Howler

Pictured at center in the front row is Dean of Admissions Martha Blevins Allman. This photo, in which members of Kappa Alpha Order pose in front of a Confederate flag in 1982, has recently circulated and caused controversy on campus.

Deans pictured before Confederate flag Students responded with social media posts and the creation of the Wake Forest Anti-Racist Coalition

BY LILLIAN JOHNSON Editor-in-Chief johnlg16@wfu.edu

Last week, photographs of current university administrators in front of Confederate flags in old editions of the Howler surfaced and circulated among the Wake Forest community. In response, many students, including the newly formed Wake Forest University Anti-Racism Coalition, have called for action rather than conversation.

During “Creating Inclusive Climates at Wake Forest University,” a forum held last Thursday, Feb. 21, several students asked about a particular photograph from the 1982 edition of the Howler that featured current Dean of Admissions Martha Blevins Allman di-

rectly situated in front of a prominently displayed Confederate flag amid members of Kappa Alpha Order, including her husband, M. Joseph Allman, who is currently an adjunct professor at the School of Law. Allman was not present at the forum. The photo quickly circulated among students.

On Saturday, images from the 1983 and 1984 editions of the Howler also showed Associate Dean of Admissions Kevin Pittard, a 1985 graduate, in Kappa Alpha photographs with the Confederate flag. As of Feb. 27, Pittard, who is married to Dean of the College Michele Gillespie, had not sent out a statement to the Wake Forest student body.

This story surrounding the photographs and subsequent apology has been covered by local media outlets, such as the Winston-Salem Journal and Triad City Beat, as well as national media outlets, such as Inside Higher Ed and The New York Times.

Students find administrators’ apologies insufficient Following the forum, and as news of the photo quickly made its way around the student body, an email was sent out to the entire university community on behalf of Allman to apologize for and to acknowledge the photograph she was featured in.

“That flag was a symbol of pain and racism then just as it is now, and I understand that much differently in 2019 than I did in 1982,” Allman said in the email statement. “Thirty-seven years of life, experiences, relationships and education have made a difference in my way of understanding the world and my ability to empathize with those who are different from me.”

She concluded her statement by maintaining her commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive Wake Forest.

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At the TEDx event last Saturday, a blue- and red-hued Wait Chapel came to life with large flowers and tree projections popping out from the stage to match this year’s theme and title: “Metamorphic: What Will You Become?” TEDx WFU, one of three student-run TEDx conferences in the nation, hosted eight vastly different speakers to give presentations centered around the common theme of change.

After last year’s business-oriented talks, the student organizers of the event wanted to bring forth a broader theme that would attract a more diverse audience base.

“I think we were focused a little bit more this year on niche topics, but it really benefited the conference as a whole because we also had a lot of unique audience members which was really cool,” said sophomore Zoe Walling, the director of marketing for the event.

In order to attract a more unique audience, the team selected a motley crew of speakers to give 18-minute presentations.

Derrick Day, a former senior special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, kicked off the event. Among other attendees, a group of computer science students joined the audience to listen to him speak about the dark web and cybersecurity.

Through a series of examples, Day shined a light on the dark web and demonstrated how it could be implemented in both useful and dangerous ways. He explained that the dark web was originally created for naval use because the government wanted more ways to communicate in private, but nowadays anyone can utilize it to buy prescriptions, guns or even hitmen.

“Knowing the dangers of the dark web had me thinking deeper about the pros and cons of technology,” said junior Jordan Smith.

Lorraine Gudas, chairman of Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, was the next to stand on the classic TEDx red-dotted stage. The professor and researcher emphasized female-empowerment in the scientific world and detailed her research on cancer-preventive uses of Vitamin A, as well as therapeutic uses of stem cells and drugs to treat prostate and kidney cancers.

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In the past several weeks, colleges and universities across the country have scrutinized their old yearbooks in order to confront the roles that racist imagery and memorabilia played on their campuses in the past. Our campus was not alone in finding such images, including some that involve prominent figures on our campus today.

Last week, pictures were discovered in the 1982, 1983 and 1984 editions of the Howler that separately depicted Dean of Admissions Martha Allman and Associate Dean of Admissions Kevin Pittard with members of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity, standing in front of a large Confederate flag hung on the stairs leading to Hearn Plaza. Pittard was a member of KA, as was Allman’s husband, Joe Allman, who is currently an adjunct professor in the School of Law. Mr. Allman also appeared in the photos.

Amid widespread calls for her resignation

Both Allman and Pittard should have been held to the same standards ... both wield a great deal of influence over diversity and inclusion on campus." among students, Allman released a campuswide apology to the Wake Forest community.

“That flag was a symbol of pain and racism then just as it is now, and I understand that much differently in 2019 than I did in 1982,” she said. “Thirty-seven years of life, experiences, relationships and education have made a difference in my way of understanding the world and my ability to empathize with those who are different from me.”

While Pittard gave a statement to the Old Gold & Black, Triad City Beat and Inside Higher Ed, he did not broadcast an apology email to the student body as Allman had done; nor did

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The Editorial Board of the Old Gold & Black believes that both Allman and Pittard should have been held to the same standards and scrutiny for appearing in the photo, as both hold a great deal of power over the future and opportunities of minority applicants, and both wield a great deal of influence over diversity and inclusion on campus. Holding Allman, but not Pittard, to account is imbalanced and misleading, especially considering the fact that Pittard was actually a member of KA, the organization electing to use a Confederate flag as the backdrop of their photo.

In addition, President Nathan O. Hatch released a statement to the student body acknowledging the “acute and ongoing hurt, frustration and fatigue surrounding the underrepresented

student experience on campus and the slow pace of change in bringing racial equity to our community.” He also said that he had accepted Allman’s apology.

The Editorial Board further also believes that Hatch should not have stated that he accepted Allman’s apology — an apology that was not directed at him personally, but at the greater community of past and present students of color at Wake Forest. As a white man, Hatch was not personally wronged when Allman and Pittard posed in front of the Confederate flag, and his acceptance of her apology marginalized the feelings of hurt that students of color on campus feel now and have felt in the past.

In the aftermath of the discovery of these photos, emotions on campus remain raw; the pictures are a reckoning for how much progress Wake Forest must make in order to become a welcoming and inclusive home for all students.

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BY LIAT KLOPOUH Staff Writer klopla18@wfu.edu

Thursday, February 28, 2019 | Page 3

Deacon Profile: Jack O'Connell

Sophomore Jack O’Connell is very involved around campus. He works with Project Launch and hopes to earn a leadership position on the Club Basketball team.

However, O’Connell’s passion lies in music. Since his senior year of high school, O’Connell has been making music under the name Cambii, releasing songs such as “Rollin,” “Kick it With You” and “Pull Up” on Spotify and SoundCloud. His music is popular across campus, and in the future, he hopes to use his marketing major to work in the music industry.

How did you get into making music?

In high school, I was really into basketball and that used to take up all my time, but when I came to college, I stopped spending time playing and picked up music. I’ve always loved music, but I never really thought I would do anything with it. Then my dad kind of got me into it.

When I was younger I tried to play piano and guitar, but I didn’t really follow through. It took me up until this summer to really learn everything about mixing and mastering and just making everything sound good. I just do the vocals and production now.

When I applied to Wake Forest, instead of writing a supplemental essay, I wrote a song. I guess that’s when I started recording music — about three years ago. Coming into college, I was trying to walk on the basketball team, but it was pretty difficult and things just didn’t line up. I believe everything happens for a reason, though. I spend my time doing other things, like making music, and it’s going well.

Where does the name Cambii come from?

Photo courtesy of Jack O'Connell

Jack O'Connell pours forth his passion into rapping and the creation of new music, like his recent single titled "Rollin," which is available on the music platforms of SoundCloud and Spotify.

Right now, music is just a hobby for me. One of my friends told me about a musical production class, which I’m looking into. I’m also looking into musical clubs. In the future though, I don’t intend to be an artist — but if something happens, it happens.

I’m a marketing major and I recently thought about working in the music industry. I haven’t looked too deep into the idea, but it would be great to work for a record label that incorporates marketing.

The name comes from the word cambio in Spanish, which means change. It just reminds me that things Is there a particular artist who has influenced change and people change, but I’m always open to you in the past? [change].

How has your music influenced your time in colMy favorite artist is probably John Something. I like lege? his style because he doesn’t rap as much — it’s a lot of more singing. If I was going to compare my music to The weirdest part is hearing other people, like friends, play your music. Before, I was just making someone, it would probably be Little Dirk, because music for myself as a way express myself and I re- I’ll rap some and sing some and find a balance there. ally enjoyed it. But now, they ask me when I will But I like that John Something really sings, it’s not put something else out. I just recently put some new classic rap — it definitely makes you feel something. music on Spotify and there are a few more coming. Other than that, I would not say I’m trying to be like

any particular artist. When I hear a beat, I just let myself express it.

What kind of music do you listen to? Is it different from your own style?

I think my taste in music and my style of music are pretty similar. I definitely listen to a wider range of music than my own genre. The type I like the most would be hip-hop, rap and R&B, which I try to incorporate into my music. But I also like listening to reggae, some alternative and rock.

What kind of feedback do you usually get on your songs?

When I was starting off, people would usually give me advice like “it sounds kind of fuzzy here” or “you can change something here and there.” Lately though, I haven’t been given as much of that feedback. I guess if people are playing it on their own or listening to it, that’s a good sign.

POLICE BEAT • Offender had consumed alcohol at an unknown location and was found unconscious in Martin. Offender was transported from Martin to WFUBMC. • Suspect indirectly threatened a victim. The report was filed on Feb. 20 at 3:04 p.m. The report was filed on Feb. 23 at 3:40 a.m.

• Offender was reported missing after consuming alochol at an off-campus • WSPD responded to reports of possible gunshots near Brookwood and Polo party.

Offender was located, cleared by student ERTs and relocated from the lobby Roads and University Parkway, but were unable to locate the source. The report of NCA Building 5 to her room. The report was filed on Feb. 24 at 2:50 a.m. was filed on Feb. 24 at 12:11 a.m.

Miscellaneous

• Winston-Salem State students caused a disturbance with Wake Forest stuLarceny dents near Deacon Boulevard and were asked to leave. The report was filed on Feb. 24 at 12:29 a.m.

• Unknown subject(s) removed WFU parking decals from vehicles parked in Lot • Seven students were crammed into a four-door car. The car was stopped, and Q. The report was filed on Feb. 19 at 8:27 p.m. the students were issued a verbal warning. The report was filed on Feb. 24 at 1:33 a.m.

• Unknown subject(s) removed a Razor scooter that was left unattended outside of Reynolda. The report was filed on Feb. 19 at 8:27 p.m.

Underage Consumption/Intoxication • Unknown subject(s) removed boots that were left unattended during a basketball game in Sutton. The report was filed on Feb. 21 at 4:45 p.m.

• Offender had consumed alcohol at an off-campus KA function and was trans• Unknown subject(s) removed a toolbox and hangers from a room in Angelou. ported from Luter to WFUBMC. The report was filed on Feb. 22 at 11:40 p.m. The report was filed on Feb. 24 at 5:27 p.m.

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Flag: Students respond with activism Continued from Page 1

Allman has been appointed as Assistant Senior Provost and Dean of Integration, according to a statement from Provost Rogan Kersh released last fall. The position is set to take effect July 1 of this year. Allman, who earned both a BA in 1982 and an MBA in 1992 at Wake Forest, joined the admissions office after she earned her undergraduate degree. She was named dean of admissions in 2001.

Allman’s husband is featured in the same photo as her, standing one row up and to the left of her. Mr. Allman, another 1982 alumnus of the university, earned his Juris Doctorate from Wake Forest in 1986 and is currently an adjunct law professor. Mr. Allman did not respond immediately to request for comment.

In an email to the Old Gold & Black, Allman declined the opportunity to answer questions, noting that all she can do right now is to “simply offer [her] sincerest apologies to the campus community for the pain that [she has] caused, especially to underrepresented students and colleagues.”

“There are no words to right this, no excuses or explanations,” she said. “I regret the mistake that I made as a college student and understand the justified anger, disappointment and distrust that has come in its wake. I am deeply sorry and remain committed to the hard work of community-building at Wake Forest.”

Unlike Allman, Pittard did not broadcast an apology email to the student body, but he apologized for and acknowledged his actions in an email to the Old Gold & Black.

“I apologize and express my deep regret for taking part in those photos,” he said.

“I made a mistake that hurt and angered others, and I should have known better. I know that in my years in the admissions office, I have worked steadily to increase the diversity of our community and I will continue to do so.”

He did not immediately respond to a request for further comment and clarification.

Given recent national events, including racist photos that surfaced in Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s yearbook from Eastern Virginia Medical School, colleges and universities across the country have audited their yearbooks for racist imagery. Subsequently, many institutions of higher learning, including Elon University, have discovered images similar to those in the Howler.

“These aren’t necessarily surprising to those on this campus, because we live with these sentiments, images and practices on a daily basis,” said junior Tariq Shanks.

President Nathan Hatch sent out an email expressing support for students and Allman Friday afternoon.

“Several students voiced their acute and ongoing hurt, frustration and fatigue surrounding the underrepresented student experience on campus and the slow pace of change in bringing racial equity to our community,” Hatch said in his statement.

Photo Courtesy of the Howler

Associate Dean of Admissions Kevin Pittard is pictured in the fourth row of this photo of Kappa Alpha Order members in front of the Confederate flag in 1983. A member of the fraternity, Pittard graduated in 1985.

“I want students at Wake Forest to know, at a deep and personal level, that you are valued here, even if it doesn’t always feel that way.”

Hatch wrote that he “accepted [Allman’s] apology” and that he would be meeting with student leaders and university administrators in efforts to foster an inclusive environment.

Students later expressed discontent with Hatch’s response in particular, calling it inadequate and inappropriate.

“With all due respect, I don’t think it was President Hatch’s place to accept her apology,” said freshman Kate Pearson.

“Her actions didn’t affect him. It affected us very personally as minorities and black students on this campus.”

Shanks echoed this sentiment and further noted that the concept of apologizing over email does not create a space for the productive, community-wide conversation that needs to be conducted if the university is going to interrogate its past.

“The fact that President Hatch and Dean Allman think it will just happen through an email apology is not sufficient,” Shanks said. “There needs to be an in-person [forum] where everyone is called to come.”

Student activists organize to address #WhiteForest Students have taken to social media platforms, particularly Twitter, to express their feelings about the situation, often using the hashtag #WhiteForest. Collages of the blackface and Confederate flag photos have also been circulating among students and on social media. One of the collages includes the 1982 Kappa Alpha photo and singles out Allman and Pittard, call-

ing for their resignation.

Alongside student’s tweets and conversations, the Wake Forest University AntiRacism Coalition released an official statement on Sunday night on social media and by email to select students, detailing nine demands of action from the university. The coalition has the ultimate goal of a zero-tolerance policy toward white supremacy, and the members of the coalition hope to foster a collaborative spirit through the absence of an internal hierarchy structure within their group.

Pearson said she believes that the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy toward white supremacy would be the best course of action so that the university is backing up what they preach with concrete action.

“If the university is really for humanity and Pro Humanitate is our motto, then [a zero-tolerance policy] should really be written into our code of conduct and our bylaws,” she said.

In their statement, the Wake Forest University Anti-Racism Coalition also calls for a space explicitly for black students, transparency in the Bias Incident Report process and that anything named after Confederates, white supremacists or eugenists on campus be rededicated, among other demands.

In addition to the statement, other students have also taken actions to bring awareness to the situation. Student activists interrupted the Dean’s List Gala Friday night by throwing a flurry of fliers from the sixth floor of the library down into the atrium, where the gala was being held. The fliers displayed the collages, which called for the resignation of Allman and Pittard and had the hashtag #WhiteForest.

Some faculty in the department of English released a letter Wednesday supporting students who wish to promote racial equality and want to end institutional racism, calling on the university to devote adequate resources and to create concrete steps to move forward.

“The study of literature and language teaches us to listen to the perspectives of others, to look at the world through eyes not our own,” read the statement. “We call upon the administration to listen to the experiences of black students and students of color, faculty, and staff as a preliminary step before instituting meaningful change.”

A symptom, not the problem Freshman Christopher Cates noted that several student communities on campus have responded with apathy, as the issue does not necessarily affect them directly.

“They’re just like, ‘okay, let me ignore that,’” Cates said. “If [a student activist is] claiming to be for something, now is the time we need you, and we need you to stand with us. It’s a very polarized thing right now, and it should not be because it’s not a political issue, it’s a human rights issue.”

Many have noted that the photographs of Allman and Pittard, in addition to photographs of blackface in the yearbook, is not the exact problem. Instead, it is representative of a larger issue.

“It’s really important not to center [Allman] or any individual person, because it’s not about her,” Pearson said. “Somebody said she’s not the problem, she’s a symptom of the problem.”

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Thursday, February 28, 2019 |Page 5

Confederate statue to be removed

BY MARY DANIEL CHEEK Staff Writer cheemd15@wfu.edu On Sunday, preparations to remove the Confederate statue from its current location on the corner of the intersection of Liberty Street and Fourth Street in downtown Winston-Salem began as construction workers assessed the height and construction of the statue. According to the city, the workers took measurements of the statue to ensure that it will be removed safely once litigation regarding the statue’s current location concludes.

These actions follow recent developments in the ongoing legal battle between the city and United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) regarding the removal of the statue.

The James B. Gordon chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the Confederate statue in 1905.

In a Jan. 30 letter to James A. Davis & Associates, the legal representation for the UDC, Winston-Salem City Attorney Angela Carmon denied the UDC’s request for a delay of action that would have prevented the city from taking further action regarding the statue for sixty days.

Prior to these recent developments, in December 2018, Carmon ordered the UDC to “remove and relocate” the statue to “a more secure location.” In a letter sent to the UDC in December, the city stated that the group must remove the statue from its current location before Jan. 31.

In response to the letter from the city, the UDC issued a statement on Jan. 3 vowing to fight for the preservation of the statue in its current location.

“We wish for the memorial to remain in its place … and will do everything in our power to see that it continues to remain,” said the statement.

Now that the Jan. 31 deadline has passed without action from the UDC to relocate the statue, the city has begun to move on with its plan to relocate the statue.

The city’s proposed new home for the statue is Salem Cemetery, where 36 Confederate soldiers are buried. WinstonSalem Mayor Allen Joines supports the relocation of the statue to this site and has offered to finance the movement of the statue to this location. Joines has also stated that any movement of the statue to the cemetery would be a “quiet and serene” event.

In her Jan. 30 letter to the lawyers for the UDC, Carmon cited concerns for public safety as the main reason for seeking a resolution to the controversy around the statue’s location.

“It is clear that the presence of the Confederate statue, in its current location, jeopardizes the preservation of said Confederate statue, and is prejudicial to public safety,” said Carmon.

The UDC responded to the city’s denial of the delay of action by requesting an injunction to prevent any further action toward relocating the statue. According to Carmon, a judicial hearing for this latest request will occur on March 25.

In an email written Monday, Carmon reiterated the city’s prioritization of public safety as the city takes further steps to remove the statue.

“For public safety reasons, the city, in cooperation with the landowner, plans to move forward with the removal of the statue,” said Carmon.

The city’s concern for public safety stems from past incidents of vandalism.

In the week following the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., the Confederate statue was first vandalized on Aug.

17, 2017. In this incident, someone spray-painted “shame” on the base of the statue. In December 2018, the statue was vandalized once again. This time, someone wrote “cowards and traitors” on the base of the statue.

After both incidents of vandalism, the city directed the Winston-Salem Police Department to temporarily patrol the area around the statue.

According to a Feb. 12 statement from Sara Powell, president of the North Carolina Division of the UDC, the city’s claim that keeping the statue in its current location would be dangerous is illegitimate.

“In the 114 years which the Confederate memorial has stood in Winston Salem, there have only been two recorded instances of graffiti vandalism with no arrests and just a couple of peaceful protests,” wrote Powell. “This does not make this monument a public nuisance. By this measure, most bridges and many buildings in the city should also be removed.”

Currently, the city has not set an official date for the removal and relocation of the statue.

Staff panel discusses inclusion and diversity The Wake Forest Women’s Forum hosted its annual panel for faculty and staff on Feb. 25

BY OLIVIA FIELD News Editor fielor17@wfu.edu “The enduring truth is that everyone has something to contribute to this conversation.”

Dave McIntosh, vice president and chief inclusion and diversity officer at Wake Forest Baptist Health, finished his introduction during the Women’s Forum’s Panel on Diversity, Inclusion and Pro Humanitate with this statement. The panel, which featured a discussion among staff from the Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest Medical School and Wake Forest Baptist Health, was held on Feb. 25 and focused on the current ideas about and work being done on diversity and inclusion across these specific spaces.

“The panel was planned before current student calls for greater accountability from the institution, but certainly we appreciate the timeliness of the panel’s conversation,” said Erica Still, Women’s Forum co-chair.

“The Women’s Forum works explicitly to support the professional development and success of women faculty and staff, which is why the event was targeted toward that population. We recognize that women are doing important work across the institution, and there’s no reason to think we don’t also have much to offer in terms of moving forward toward greater inclusivity.”

Alongside McIntosh, speakers included Lilicia Bailey, vice president and chief human resources officer at Wake Forest Baptist Health, Carmen Canales, vice president and chief human resources officer at the university, Brenda Latham-Sadler, associate dean of student inclusion and diversity at Wake Forest School of Medicine; and José

Villalba, vice president and chief diversity officer of the university. The event was only open to faculty and staff.

After each speaker gave an introduction about themselves, Still, who also acted as the panel mediator, opened up to questions from attendees.

The first inquiry from the audience was whether or not the panelists believed there was a “critical point” at which schools are failing their students. Villalba spoke of the shift from middle school to high school, where certain minorities and genders are told what they “are supposed to be good at and what they aren’t supposed to be good at.” McIntosh also spoke of the negative repercussions of contemporary school segregation.

“Everyone loves to point to systems and institutions, but they are maintained by individuals as well. The buildings didn’t do it; it’s the people making the decisions inside the buildings,” said McIntosh.

The second question was from Collections Archivist Stephanie Bennett. She asked whether the panelists thought the university had a good measure of what diversity looks like, and further, where Wake Forest is failing in terms of its achievement.

“How do we define diversity and inclusion? Wake Forest is really good at speaking the language and counting the brown people, but we are not really good at embracing the concept,” Latham-Sadler said.

“We haven’t really been innovative and truly done what we could do.”

Villalba also addressed this question — speaking to the fact that measuring success in terms of diversity and inclusion is difficult, as there cannot be one single goal that can be achieved. Rather, Villalba said that he wants to avoid the plateauing of effort by continuously upholding higher aspirations for inclusion. This was also a key element of the discussion — all of the panelists agreed that inclusion is much more important to creating an inviting campus than diversity itself is.

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The panel featured staff from the Reynolda Campus, the Medical School and Wake Forest Baptist Health. It was hosted in the Porter B. Byrum Welcome Center.

“The panel also aimed to connect women faculty and staff with thought leaders who are focused on diversity and inclusion at Wake Forest; this introduction will hopefully allow women faculty to reach out to the panelists as resources in the future,” said Sobia Shariff Hussaini, Women’s Forum cochair.

Another question was presented by Michaelle Browers, a professor from the department of politics and international relations. She asked how the panelists recommended facilitating conversations about the racial climate on campus, as well as to create a space to help those “feeling this pain acutely.” Although Browers did not explicitly state where this pain was coming from, Villalba’s answer addressed the recent controversy surrounding images of the Howler featuring current Wake Forest staff and faculty members, as well as the photo that circulated of a student at Subway with a rope around his body (which many students interpreted as a noose).

Specifically, he discussed the importance of creating a safe space within classrooms to facilitate conversations about the climate of race and gender-related issues on campus.

Further, Villalba presented the idea that students within these minority populations should not need to carry the burden of cre-

ating this dialogue. He alluded to the current issues being discussed on campus with an example of how he would address nonminority students and faculty.

“Because you ask for advice, I wonder what it [would] be [like] to challenge a non-underrepresented student to process … what they have heard in their residence halls, what they have seen at 2 a.m. at Subway…This is about pushing back on [the idea] that more and more people want to have these conversations,” said Villalba.

“What I have heard, turned up to 11 over the past 72 hours, is ‘I Jose Villalba, junior, son of immigrants, undocumented dad, I am done. I am done having to tell you, Dr. Browers, what it’s like to be all of these things. And I told you several times.’ So, one of the ways of turning it around in your classroom, is to turn it into a discussion … to give [those who do not identify as members of minority populations] a chance to share their thoughts and see how it goes.”

After addressing a few more questions, the panel concluded with a statement from McIntosh.

“The thing that gives me hope is that Wake Forest is not ushering this under the rug,” said McIntosh. “We are trying to grow and learn from this, and be comfortable with our own discomfort as an institution.”

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The event was followed by a more local speaker: Jim Otteson, Wake Forest’s presidential chair for Business Ethics and executive director of the Eudaimonia Institute.

The emphasis of his talk was on maintaining honorable businesses and practices within them. He further dispelled the negative connotations surrounding business and the financial world, including how it does not have to only involve money and scheming.

Another unique audience group of Wake Forest yoga students were drawn to Wait Chapel to see Michelle Johnson, a yogi, activist, author and social change influencer. Johnson spoke about her story of fighting white supremacy with the help of yoga. She explained how, after many years on the front lines of justice movements, she craved a space for healing “through ritual, ceremony, and sacred practice,” and outlined the importance of having centered healing as a tool to create justice.

Post-intermission, Jay Schroeder, founder of the EVO UltraFit Training System, began his Ted Talk by telling the story of how he learned to walk again after being paralyzed by a severe motorcycle accident.

He used a Soviet Training Manual that a doctor gave him to reprogram neurons in his brain to feel what at first was pain, which later turned into full feeling and motion in his legs.

“By birth we have the right to live as a miracle but it is up to us to make it happen,” said Schroeder.

He kept the audience laughing through his incorporation of humorous videos of people getting injured in order to portray

the concept of pain — which he then explained is essential in the revolutionizing healing process he uses to help professional athletes.

“He kind of translated a really serious topic into something more uplifting,” said Walling.

Some Wake Forest alumni were among the audience to see the next speaker, Ben Sutton, Wake graduate from the class of 1980 and current chairman of Teall Capital. Sutton enthusiastically touched on the idea of a more supportive business world than the one we live in today. He took a spin on the abbreviation for the business motto, “doing business as” (DBA) to reveal his own theory as to what makes a good company: “Dream, Believe, Achieve.”

He explained how the business world nowadays can be very black-and-white and many people are fired for making just one mistake. For a business to be successful, the company should “build community through deeply personal, meaningful relationships.”

Elizabeth Clendinning, assistant professor of music at Wake Forest, entranced the audience as she calmly smiled while using a certain type of xylophone to demonstrate the impact that music-making has on building cross-cultural communities.

The last of the eight speakers was bestselling author and life coach on mental health issues, Mastin Kipp. His talk, “United States of Differentiation,” offered an alternative approach to trauma.

“Your trauma is a prerequisite for your purpose,” said Kipp.

With this idea, he illustrated that those who have gone through traumatic life events such as domestic abuse or mental health issues can actually be a force of pos-

itivity for their families through empathy.

The talk concluded with the tying in of the event’s overall theme of metamorphosis and how a positive change in the way we adapt and react to trauma is crucial in “harnessing the power of our differences to heal our divided nation.”

The event wrapped up with a round of applause for student volunteers as lead student organizer and curator senior Guill-

ermo Torres gave his concluding remarks.

“Honestly some of the talks that I didn’t think I would like were the ones that hit me the most,” said Torres. “So my biggest takeaway from this year’s talks is actually being open to different things; not just being open to the idea, but actually being immersed in it and listening. You’d be amazed at how some of these talks can actually impact you.”

Photo courtesy of Riley Herriman

Large-scale flowers and trees were built on the stage for the purpose of visually representing this year’s “Metamorphic” theme.

OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE Michael Cohen delivers testi- Trump meets again with North Carolina’s ninth district mony to members of Congress North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un will conduct another election A historic hearing took place on Wednesday when Michael Cohen testified before Congress to the House Oversight Committee. The testimony revealed information about the infamous Trump Tower meeting, President Donald Trump’s knowledge of Democratic emails being leaked to WikiLeaks and Roger Stone’s involvement and payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Cohen also stated that Trump allegedly lied to the public about business interests in Russia. Cohen had plead guilty to lying under oath to Congress, among other crimes, and did this to protect President Trump.

Before Congress and the American public, Cohen stated that he is deeply fearful of the threats he has received and cannot walk outside his own New York City apartment with his family because he does not want to put them in harm’s way. He instead walks in front or behind them.

Cohen is set to serve three years in prison starting in May for campaign finance violations. Federal prosecutors in New York City are also looking into other potentially illegal acts by Trump.

For over ten years, Cohen served as Trump’s attorney.

President Trump met again with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un this week in Vietnam. The two met at the Metropole hotel in downtown Hanoi, the capital of the country. A ceremony to sign a joint agreement between the two leaders is scheduled to take place, which could lead to a diplomatic breakthrough in declaring permanent peace in the Korean Peninsula.

American officials hope to convince Kim Jong-Un to end the country’s nuclear program and instead establish trade ties with the United States, South Korea and other countries. This is the second meeting between the two leaders within an eight-month period.

The first took place over the summer in Helsinki, Finland. Trump is also meeting with President Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam’s Communist Party chief, and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc while he is in the country.

Trump has made it part of his agenda to improve relations with North Korea, an adversary of the United States for nearly 70 years.

A North Carolina political operative who oversaw a fraudulent voter turnout scheme on behalf of a Republican congressional candidate was arrested. The candidate was Mark Harris, who was running for Congress in North Carolina’s ninth district.

A grand jury accused Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. of a series of felonies. He is one of five people charged in Wake County, N.C. in connection with misconduct related to absentee ballots. Dowless was accused of directing his associates to gather absentee ballots from voters and instructing his employees to sign ballot envelopes as if they had been legitimate witnesses.

Dowless has previously been convicted for perjury and fraud. This was all done to give more votes to Harris, who will not run in the next election.

Harris repeadedly denied that he knew of any wrongdoing by Dowless or his employees. He also insisted Dowless had assured him that his efforts would not involve any improper actions.

There will now be a new election and Republicans will have to find another candidate to run.

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Author and ecologist Carl Safina visits campus Safina teaches Wake Forest students the importance of science and writing

BY CAMERON MUNLEY Contributing Writer munlcn17@wfu.edu Last Wednesday, Stony Brook University professor of biology and author Carl Safina gave a public talk on his book Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, one of seven books he wrote on animal ecology.

In addition to the public talk, Safina conducted a three-day writing workshop that taught students skills in both science and writing.

“I liked being able to talk on a personal level [with] Safina and learn of his experiences with writing and the natural world,” said Maggie Burns, a sophomore who participated in this workshop.

Safina’s public talk addressed the question of whether animals could feel emotions in a similar way to humans. He also suggested that humans do not appreciate the mental capacity and capabilities some animals have.

For example, an octopus is an extremely intelligent animal and its proficiency is often overlooked because it is a mollusk.

Octopuses have brains as sophisticated as modern ape species, but many cultures around the world ignore this heightened intelligence and boil octopus as a seafood delicacy.

“There is a pattern that has been created,” said Safina. “There are capabilities in other animals that we don’t seem to appreciate until they hit a plate.”

In the past, there has been limited evidence that supports the capacity of animals to feel emotions and show empathy; however, this is changing due to current technology. Safina brought up a multitude of examples supporting the idea that animals have feelings, some technologically based and others supported through realworld experience.

One example Safina illustrated was how a human voice could provoke fear in elephants. Recordings were taken of people saying “Look, there’s an elephant” in English as well as in the Maasai language.

These recordings were placed in bushes where elephants could listen. The elephants were unfazed by the English recording, presumably because English is associated with harmless tourists. However, elephants were provoked with fear when they heard the Maasai recording because the elephants likely associated that sound to hunters and their spears.

Many undergraduate students were at the talk and seemed extremely interested in Safina’s examples.

“My favorite part of the [talk] was learning about wolves,” said sophomore Meredith Rasplicka. “I didn’t realize how close knit each pack was. When one family member was killed, it was amazing and devastating how the pack just crumbled apart.”

Safina mentioned that wolf packs are actually a nuclear family and that in fact, these animals need this type of atmosphere to successfully survive. He explained that there is a reason we have ancestors of wolves laying around our homes and not chimpanzees.

From a technological standpoint, Safina indicated that there are ways to show that animals react and have feelings; putting dogs into MRI machines is one example.

When the dog is put into the machine, it can be shown pictures of strangers and humans whom the dog loves. It has been supported by the MRI imaging that dogs' brains lights up when seeing the loved one’s picture.

Safina also touched on the idea of what makes us human. He believes that animals and humans both have the ability to feel and show all of the same emo-

tions, but humans have the unique ability to show emotion to extremes.

The human ability to have the “extremes” of feeling seems to have both positives and negatives. Safina observed that humans are often the most compassionate species, but also the cruelest.

“There was love on Earth before us, and there is love on Earth beside us,” said Safina.

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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Alcohol impairs physiological mechanisms Here's how alcohol effects your body, physiologically speaking

BY JONATHAN TRATTNER Associate Science &Technology Editor tratjd17@wfu.edu Many college students consume alcohol without understanding the full effects of it on the body. Below is a discussion of general side effects of alcohol, degradation pathways and gender-specific variations and interesting asides involving alcohol.

But first, a background on compensatory mechanisms is required.

One main point about all drugs, be it alcohol, cocaine, tobacco, heroin, or 1-3-7 trimethyl xanthine (caffeine), is that they cause compensatory mechanisms within the body. In essence, as you consume a drug and it causes a physiological effect, your body counters it.

For instance, if a drug decreases the release of serotonin, your body senses that it is being altered and will upregulate the serotonin release to compensate. Once the drug is no longer present, however, the compensatory mechanism may still be active, which can lead to adverse side effects.

General effects of alcohol Once consumed, alcohol makes its way through the stomach, passing through to the small intestines, where approximately 90 percent of it is absorbed. From there, it interacts through a variety of physiological and metabolic pathways to increase the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens (a neurotransmitter, or chemical, in the brain that causes you to feel good), along with decreasing the amount of glutamate and increasing the amount of GABA, both neurotransmitters, which make you less inhibited.

In the short run, while alcohol is present in your body, this downregulation of glutamate can lead to memory loss (blacking out) because it is not available in sufficient amounts to help with the formation of long-term memories. More so, as your body compensates for the downregulation of glutamate, the risk of seizures when you stop drinking increases.

Other than this, alcohol has a host of side effects, including gastrointestinal tract irritation (increased stomach acid production), blood vessel dilation (especially in the face, so you feel warmer because more blood is close to the thermoreceptors in your skin, but you actually release heat which can lead to hypothermia), lower sensitivity to sensory stimuli, dehydration and hallucinations (which primarily occur with chronic usage). Also, long-term alcohol consumption causes neuronal damage

through disturbing the cell membranes causing them to leak water, proteins and other essential molecules.

With these non-optimal side effects in mind, it is important to note that in low to moderate doses, alcohol may actually reduce the risk of heart disease by increasing the amount of “good” cholesterol and decreasing the amount of “bad” cholesterol in the blood. This dosage, according to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, is defined as having up to one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men.

How alcohol degrades, and why women typically get drunk more easily Alcohol is broken down in the body primarily by the liver (95 percent), and the rest is exhaled — which is how law enforcement officers can get an accurate measurement of your blood alcohol content. There are many metabolizing enzymes in the liver, and for alcohol, the main metabolic pathway utilizes alcohol dehydrogenase to break down ethanol into a toxic intermediate called acetaldehyde. This causes headaches, blood pressure increases, neuronal death and a host of other problems if it accumulates. Luckily, acetaldehyde is rapidly broken down by another enzyme, aldehyde dehydrogenase, into acetic acid which gets removed via other metabolic processes.

One main reason alcohol does not affect men as much as women, independent of body weight or size, is that males have al-

cohol dehydrogenase in their stomach, so some of it is broken down before it gets to the small intestine where it’s absorbed.

Interesting asides When under stress, the hormone cortisol is released, which can lead to immune system suppression, premature aging, and alterations in neuronal structures over time.

Along neuronal alterations, cortisol actually increases the sensitivity to dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens (makes the pleasurable feeling more rewarding).

Carbonated alcoholic beverages, such as champagne, can make you more drunk.

Why? Because the carbon dioxide increases stomach pressure, which decreases the time it takes for the alcohol to get to the small intestine (increasing the rate of absorption).

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Different types of beverages have different alcoholic concentration, effecting metabolism.

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“ deflects conversations about race Misplaced outrage Cultural Conversation

The notion that outrage is an incommensurate reaction ignores the real issues at hand

Jack Portman

Staff Columnist porttjt17@wfu.edu Outrage culture is what those complicit in the perpetuation of harmful narratives call passionate and emotional objections to the status quo. Employing it in conversations about racism at Wake Forest is problematic.

The term supposes an incongruity between the severity of an issue, especially one concerning racism, sexism, homophobia or transphobia, and the magnitude of reactions it garners. It furthers the notion that liberal youths are emotional and easily offended.

Derivations on the word “snowflake” became politicized insults in the 2010s, meant to suggest that those who take offense to problematic speech or content feel special. But a variety of people react outrageously to seemingly insignificant stimuli everyday: Tony-winning

How are those whose identities are the subject of prejudice to react when many refuse to acknowledge their dignity, if not with outrage?” performer and singer Billy Porter wore a gown to the Oscars and garnered a slew of harsh criticism on social media; conservative pundits called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to pay her staffers a livable salary communism for an entire day on Fox News; when Starbucks removed Christmas imagery from its cups several years ago, many declared it a “war on Christmas”; and when Colin Kaepernick lead a coalition of NFL athletes in kneeling for the National Anthem, he was ousted from the league and fans burned his apparel.

Why are emotional reactions to painful imagery outrageous? Why is this label only applied to issues of political correctness and social justice? How are those whose identities are the subject of prejudice to react when many refuse to acknowledge their dignity, if not with outrage?

Addressing pressing issues of social justice is necessary to further contemporary discourses on critical and timely subject matter. Only

by opening dialogues about the presence of racism on campus can progress be achieved.

Considering Wake Forest is a primarily white institution, and considering that seventy-one percent of its student body comes from the top 20 of income earners, a serious conversation about racism and privilege at Wake Forest is critical.

Dismissing the visceral and passionate reactions to Dean of Admissions Martha Allman’s resurfaced yearbook photo as “outrage culture” reflects the unwillingness of white students to critically analyze their own positionality. Just as President Nathan Hatch is not in a position to accept Allman’s apology, nor are white students in a position to determine the validity of black students’ emotions.

The controversy surrounding the photo, as well as the anger and criticism resulting from the resurfacing blackface imagery in college yearbooks, has facilitated a conversation about the racialized lived experiences of college students that must not be discounted.

If you believe that Allman’s photo in front of a Confederate flag is inoffensive, consider whether you have experienced racism personally. Consider how your perception of reality differs from that of other students because of your unique lived experience. Now con-

sider whether your conclusion regarding the inoffensive nature of Allman’s photo makes sense in the context of your lived experience.

If you haven’t experienced racism, in its uncountable forms and unrelenting, systematic and humiliating ubiquity, it may make sense that you were not immediately angered by the dean of admissions’ proximity to racism. If you find yourself well-represented by the Wake Forest student body, it may not frighten you that the person responsible for shaping the university’s freshman class each year decided it was acceptable to pose with a symbol of racism while attending Wake Forest. A lack of personal experience with racism does not, however, excuse a willful ignorance to its presence at Wake Forest, nor to one’s involvement in perpetuating it.

It is important to understand that individuals perceive the world in the context of their personal experiences. It should not be the role of white students to assuage the racism of a white faculty member. Doing so only obscures a critically important discussion of racism and the white identity on college campuses. To suggest that outrage culture — not racism — is the problem at Wake Forest is precisely why serious conversations about

The IPA never wavers, never varies, never even threatens to crest the wave of recognizable flavor, yet the IPA drinker has mastered the art of obfuscation and fabrication. He or she sucks down the same bitter twelve ounces, while having to fantasticate some diversified, flavorprofile blather that dissolves quicker than the words can trip over each other.

It’s a pitiful existence, one that epitomizes some sort of latent creative quashed by capitalist specialization. “Man hopes.

Genius creates,” Emerson said, who in his infinite wisdom forgot that desperate hope often manifests as useless and facile creations, and that almost none of us are geniuses.

The IPA Movement represents yet another of our cravings for niche-ification.

As culture becomes one big humble-brag about how my niche is better than your niche, we will continue to find ways to make more niches in a flailing attempt to carve some superficial path for ourselves out of oblivion. The IPA and its invented universe of curation and taste not only pulverizes the tongue, but creates from the ashes yet another unneeded niche, the only redeeming quality stemming from the fact that one twelve-ounce beer can have a high-enough alcohol percent-

age to drown our discrimination on contact.

But to reiterate, I have no problem with the IPA atmosphere, as long as I can order a pilsner and not hear about the on-tap options that each individually house twelve unique flavors from the Far-East. The problem arises when people pontificate, when people begin to think the movement has legs, that it isn’t just another bulging cultural hernia sapping the vigor from real, cultural novelty. I have no problem living a life in the mind, creating fantasies and enjoying their invisible company. I can frolic in fields of imagined play as well as the next guy. But when those fields of fancy try to break out of their dome and claim cogent contributions when their imaginative qualities are otherwise tawdry, I chafe. I’m not saying don’t imagine, I’m just saying run it through the consideration machine, or else, as Cheever says, we will “mistake a lack of discrimination for Christian love.” The cockamamie connoisseurship birthed from boredom and indolence helps no one. Do not start telling me IPAs are any good, or that they are of any legitimate cultural relevance. Just slam back your pilsners and, please, try to stay sharp.

“ proffers a useless cultural farce The IPA Movement Cultural Insights

As we complixify useless movements we distract ourselves from cultural novelty

Kyle Ferrer

Staff Columnist ferrka16@wfu.edu

The India Pale Ale Movement, tidal force that it is, is a pansy farce. Breweries remain effective for the end-of-week roundtable with friends, cornhole or colloquiums, where you can proffer your latest takes on flannels, Southern Proper and even politics. And although the brewery tropes can be made fun of, too, I actually don’t mind them because they are symptoms of the larger IPA contagion. The brewery environs represent the inevitable inventions of an effete, IPA Movement that neutered and abstracted beer consumption into a pinkies-out exercise in taste-bud obliteration. The IPA is, as internet memes have said, the pumpkin spice latte for white boys. Beer is now “hoppy” (one of the more repellent words introduced into the popu-

The IPA never wavers, never varies, never even threatens to crest the wave of recognizable taste, yet has mastered the art of...fabrication.” lar lexicon), which basically is code for “substantially augmented alcohol content with a flimsy façade of taste.”

The IPA Movement epitomizes new, elitist forms of degeneracy. We (the elites) are no longer satisfied with a partial-hegemony of vices. The cranial thumping persists, and now has urged us to colonize beer, the age-old water substitute and social monolith. We now have splintered this timeless institution into obscure, academic categories of taste, so now we can add passionfruitinfused IPA to our massive portfolio of things we’ve tried that you haven’t.

This fake diversification of flavor within the IPA Movement is as repellent as it is transparently traitorous. I saw recently a snickerdoodle-flavored IPA. Even among the irredeemable spread of tropical fruit flavors, this seemed to be an absurd joke. Although I’m sure, as is the case every time, that the fresh-from-theoven-flavored IPA tasted like some sort of vile extract, the unmitigated parody here seems especially monomaniacal.

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“ threatens future of the U.K. No-deal Brexit European Politics

A no-deal Brexit would pre cipitate catastrophic politi cal and economic chaos in Britain, with inevitable glob al ripple effects."

As the Brexit deadline approaches, Great Britain finds itself in a difficult spot

Amanda Wilcox Staff Columnist wilcaf16@wfu.edu

A democracy that cannot change its mind is not a democracy. At the moment, the citizens of Great Britain — which consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — are reckoning with this harsh reality as the clock ticks closer to Britain’s departure from the European Union at 11 p.m. on March 29. As this issue goes to print, Prime Minister Theresa May has yet to cut a formal exit deal with the European Parliament as public support for Brexit wanes. The leader of the opposition party has signaled his openness to a re-do on the public referendum that set the whole process in motion. However, a so-called “no-deal Brexit,” which will be forced if an agreement is not signed by the deadline, is still a possibility. And a no-deal Brexit would precipitate catastrophic political and economic chaos in Britain, with inevitable global ripple effects.

Thirty months ago, British citizens voted to separate from the European Union, an economic and political partnership of 28 European countries formed after World War II on the premise that a strong Europe bound together by trade and economic in-

Letter to the Editor To the Editor of the Old Gold & Black, I fear that our university has become intoxicated with political correctness, and it has impaired our ability to rationalize.

In recent days, our undergraduate dean of admissions has apologized for appearing in a 1982 photograph with a Confederate flag. Several students called for her resignation, and the university president has “accepted her apology.”

The students calling for her resignation would benefit from giving thought to the fact that they are attending one of the top undergraduate universities in the country, and the target of their anger is a person who has played a very critical role in building the reputation of the very same university.

Given that Dean Allman’s critics were not alive in 1982, they might benefit from understanding that the very same flag symbolizes many things. “Hatred” and “racism” are over-simplified interpretations.

We could also over-simplify and similarly argue that the U.S. flag stands for many bad things — the country that dropped nuclear bombs on Japan, or the country that sent thousands of young men to Vietnam to die in an unwinnable war. The American flag, like many, has its flaws.

I am not here to defend the Confederate flag, and I can directly correlate it with the

terdependence would be less likely to go to war. Fifty-two percent of Britons voted Leave while 48.1 percent backed Remain.

Like the ascent of far-right candidates in Europe, such as Marine Le Pen of the French National Front, a good deal of antiEurope sentiment in Britain was driven by nationalism and the fear of being bossed around by a united and hostile Europe, especially as the European Union globalized.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron had promised to hold a Brexit referendum in 2013, although he believed that Liberal Democrats in Parliament would block the vote. However, when they did not, Cameron was forced to play his hand, and in the intervening months, Britain’s political and economic future has teetered on the edge of a cliff.

It is increasingly apparent that many who voted Leave did not fully understand the risks of separating from the European Union. Worse, the Leave campaign peddled deeply damaging false claims and misinformation. One of the most prominent claims was that Britain would save 350 million pounds a week from leaving the European Union, but this statistic was entirely fictitious because it did not account for the money that Britain receives in turn after paying into the European Union’s budget.

Hard-right Brexiteer and MP Nigel Farage admitted to this lie just one day after the referendum. Similarly, Leavers from the Tory

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Given that Dean Allman's critics were not alive in 1982, they might benefit from understanding that the very same flag symbolizes many things." worst chapter in American history, but we need to be more tolerant and aware of the bigger picture.

Speaking of “tolerance” and “awareness,” where was the call for dialogue one year ago, when student Ryan Wolfe was classified by fellow-students via a raciallyoffensive term?

Classifying someone via a racially offensive name is a racially offensive act. Yet, I seem to recall that the university did nothing about this — no investigation, no disciplinary action against the perpetrator(s), and certainly no calls for a dialogue about “tolerance” and “inclusiveness?”

It seems that our recent calls for “tolerance” and “inclusiveness” have become very “selective,” and I’ve become skeptical that desire for such a dialogue is nothing more than fashionable political correctness.

These calls for an inclusive dialogue are profoundly insincere. What a shame.

Patrick McMullen Associate Professor of Management School of Business, Wake Forest University

Party repeatedly assured the British public that leaving the European Union would not require leaving the single market (which allows goods and people to move around the European Union as if the member states were one country), but since the referendum, May has repeatedly said that Britain would have to leave the single market. Finally, Britons have been presented with a fuller picture after seeing only a partial or distorted one for months, but for now, they have no recourse.

Pro-Europe sentiment has ticked up in Britain since the referendum as former Leavers have had second thoughts, but catastrophic political blunders by May’s coalition government in Parliament have increased the likelihood of the worst-case scenario: a no-deal Brexit. If Parliament cannot cut a formal exit deal with Brussels

by March 29, all European Union rules and regulations will immediately cease to apply to Britain. There will be no transition period and no agreements between Britain and the European Union on how to manage customs, trade, travel and citizens’ rights.

Britain would no longer be bound by European Union regulations, so many British goods could not be sold on the European mainland, but Britain would have to comply with the European Union’s external tariffs. Hence, Britons would be forced to contend with rising prices, crashing exports and overwhelming uncertainty on the parts of both firms and consumers — a dismal economic outlook.

Perhaps the most frightening consequence of a no-deal Brexit is that it would immediately impose a hard border between the Republic of Ireland (which would remain

part of the European Union) and Northern Ireland (which would exit with the rest of Britain). The border region is deprived and damaged after being torn apart by thirty years of sectarian violence between the two countries before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought relative peace.

In the time since, a frictionless border has helped to normalize and depoliticize relations. Considering the fact that violence has centered on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland, with Protestant unionists wanting it to remain in the United Kingdom and Catholic republicans wanting to form a united Ireland, checkpoints and border posts have historically functioned as targets for terrorism. A no-deal Brexit, and the hard border that would result, would likely reinflame some of the tensions that have eased in recent decades to potentially deadly results.

Luckily, a no-deal Brexit is not inevitable.

According to The Times of London, if the withdrawal agreement set for a vote on March 12 fails, May has told Parliament that she will put forward a vote on a nodeal Brexit in addition to a vote to delay the negotiation process beyond March 29; however, she would require approval from Brussels, and there is no reason to believe that many firm Brexiteers would vote against a no-deal Brexit. In addition, leader of the opposition Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn said that he was prepared to support a second referendum. No Brexit deal matches the fantasy proposed in 2016, and as the Brexit endgame approaches, Britons deserve a second say that includes the option to remain — the potential fallout of a no-deal Brexit looms too large not to try.

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Letter to the Editor To the Editor of the Old Gold & Black, Wake Forest University’s Student Government is to be commended for its recent adoption of an antisemitism resolution. Coming on the heels of the Tree of Life synagogue shootings in October and the rise of antisemitism globally, the resolution makes an important statement about our collective unity and support of our fellow Wake Forest Jewish brothers and sisters.

According to the FBI, of the 1,749 religiously perpetrated hate crimes committed in 2017, Jews accounted for 58.1 percent of all victims; France’s Interior Ministry reported a 74 percent increase in antisemitic acts; and Germany reported a 60 percent rise in violent attacks against Jews. Antisemitism is real and must be taken seriously.

Critically, the text of the Student Government resolution is built upon the U.S. State Department’s

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You know it's bad to carry critiquing the actions of Israel and aroud constant access to Jews more broadly. these addictive apps everywhere you go, but you do it We recognize that we are generanyway." ally quick to condemn the venomous antisemitism spewed by such definition of antisemitism as "a extreme right-wing groups such certain perception of Jews, which as neo-Nazis and the KKK. But may be expressed as hatred to- we are less condemning of similar ward Jews. Rhetorical and physi- expressions coming from the pocal manifestations of antisemitism litical left and masked as anti-Isare directed toward Jewish or non- raelism. It is particularly troubling Jewish individuals and/or their when newly elected members of property and toward Jewish com- Congress openly express an antimunity institutions and religious semitic ideology. We must stand facilities." Central to this concep- together with our Jewish brothers tualization are the three D’s: de- and sisters and against all forms monization, delegitimization, and of antisemitism regardless of its double standard, which includes source. And we must stand with the purposeful targeting of Israel, our Palestinian brothers and sisIsraeli Jews and world Jewry with ters for peace and national liberademonizing and dehumanizing tion in the Middle East. memes and claims about conspir- Sadly, many of those who zealacies similar to those promulgated ously advocate for the rights and in the fallacious diatribe The Pro- self-determination of the Palestintocols of the Elder of Zion; efforts ian people — with whom I firmly to deny and delegitimize Jewish stand — effectively deny the Palself-determination and the use of estinian people agency and an aca radical double standard when tive role in realizing their dream

of self-determination. Efforts by Palestinians to build a better future for themselves and to build bridges with their Israeli neighbors are frequently denounced as traitorous acts of normalization that must be stopped. These efforts serve only to perpetuate the victimization of the Palestinians and deny them the opportunity to create a new national narrative of hope. Let us stand together with our Palestinian brothers and sisters in their quest for self-determination, hope for the future, and peaceful co-existence with their Jewish neighbors. Let us also stand with our Jewish friends and denounce antisemitism in its myriad forms, including those that dehumanize and delegitimize the Jewish people. We are one community against all forms of racism and bigotry and dedicated to respect for the rights of all peoples.

who don’t know much about snitching, the snitcher gains very little benefit. Although someone who snitches may get a reduced sentence, the repercussions for them snitching outweighs getting out of prison sooner.

Cohen's testimony against Trump molds a target on his back. His family, as he testified, is already being harassed and after this testimony and Trump’s inflammatory tweets about Cohen, his family is only going to be in greater danger. So in all reality, Cohen lost more than he will ever in his life gain for testifying against Trump.

I don’t believe that Republicans were after the truth during the hearing.

They were after covering their own asses for supporting someone for several years who is now confirmed to be many of the things they tried to say he wasn’t. Any response that Cohen gave that sounded like it was going in the direction of incriminating Trump was swiftly cut off and met with another irrelevant question to try and discredit Cohen.

The Republicans’ questioning of Cohen only shows how far they’ll go to ignore facts and reveal their own hypocrisy. Cohen’s own charges don’t automatically discredit him, and they know that. God forbid this was Obama, or the Republicans would’ve instead directed their questions to Obama’s actions to get as much dirt on him as possible to use against him.

But because it’s a member of their own party, they do everything that they can to redirect the heat off of Trump and onto anyone in opposition of him. By doing so, they’re actually endangering American people.

To have someone who has proven to be a liar, con man and racist through his own behaviors and actions, have someone who was one of the closest people to him corroborate this and still try to protect him shows that they don’t really care. They don’t care about people of color because they’re protecting a man who’s so obviously racist. They don’t care about the average hardworking citizen because they didn’t even acknowledge Cohen’s comments about Trump cheating people out of their money. They don’t really give a damn about having someone in the highest office who’s a proven danger to American democracy; all they care about is that they don’t look bad for ever associating themselves with or supporting an awful, dishonest, cruel man like Trump.

I believe Cohen, not because I want another reason to loathe Donald Trump, but because he was clearly telling the truth. I think he was unfairly attacked during his hearing and not given an honest chance to give the American people a full scope of all of Trump’s deeds that he personally knows about. I think that Republicans believe Cohen, too.

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Michael Cohen's testimony represented republican avoidance of Trump misconduct

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On this episode of “While People Are Trying to Make Things Right, Republicans Do Everything They Can to Find a Way to Defend Trump,” we get to see Michael Cohen’s damning testimony on Donald Trump.

Cohen’s testimony against Trump shouldn’t have surprised anyone. For several years now, people have said that Trump is racist and has made racist comments. With the exception of a few, Republicans ignored it. The story of the payoffs to the porn stars that Trump had affairs with has been known about and spoken on before the testimony. Again, the majority of Republicans swept it under the rug. The story of Trump misreporting his income and cheating people out of their money in business deals has also long been addressed. Most Republicans stayed silent.

Cohen didn't give any new information, he only corroborated what has already been made known and provided."

Cohen didn’t give any new information; he only corroborated what has already been made known and provided documentation. Yet, Republicans in the meeting spent more time trying to discredit Cohen by bringing up the crimes he himself is being charged with in an attempt to protect President Trump. This is not only bullsh*t, but it’s dangerous.

First, it was ridiculous of the Republicans to squander their questioning time trying to grill Cohen about the charges against him. He has already been charged, he’s already going to prison, he’s already lost his license and the prospect of him and his family fully recovering are slim. The focus of the meeting was to find out more about the allegations surrounding Trump: the hush money payments, his business deals, Russian collusion, him being a racist and so forth. So why spend all this time trying to discredit his testimony?

If Cohen is facing consequences already, then why not ask relevant questions about the person who hasn’t faced any consequences yet? The argument that Cohen was testifying to get back at Trump is also bullsh*t. For those of you

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Demon Deacons down Miami at home Junior Brandon Childress led Wake Forest to a gritty comeback win over Miami

BY CHRISTIAN ODJAKJIAN Staff Writer odjact18@wfu.edu

A go-ahead three with 26 seconds remaining by junior guard Brandon Childress capped off a miraculous comeback by the Deacs as they beat Miami (12-15, 4-11) 76-75 on Tuesday at the LJVM Coliseum.

Wake Forest (11-16, 4-11) finished the game on a 16-5 run in the final two minutes, erasing a 10-point deficit.

"I thought the biggest takeaway from this game was that our guys continued to battle and fight,” said Head Coach Danny Manning.

Prior to Tuesday, the Deacs were 0-14 on the year in games in which they trailed by 10 or more points at any moment. They trailed by as many as 14 in the second half.

Wake Forest uncharacteristically jumped out to a great start in the contest, leading 17-8 after the first 10 minutes.

However, Miami’s 5’7” Chris Lykes, the shortest player in the ACC, caught fire, hitting five 3-pointers over a sixminute span to help give the Hurricanes a 35-28 halftime lead.

The Canes led 58-44 with around eight and half minutes left on the clock. They didn’t hit a single shot

from the field the rest of the game, only free throws.

With two minutes left, Lykes hit both shots from the line to give Miami a comfortable 10-point lead.

Sophomore Chaundee Brown quickly knocked down a 3-pointer, and after a Hurricane miss, Childress drove right in for a layup to cut the deficit to five.

Wake Forest’s press in the final minutes was very effective in speeding up Miami, forcing turnovers and getting the ball out of Lykes’ hands. The Hurricanes shot 5-7 from the line during the Demon Deacons’ 16-5 closing run.

Down five with 53 ticks left on the clock, Childress missed badly on a tough shot from the corner, trying to draw a foul, when he had an open lane down the baseline to get to the basket.

"We always talk about the next play in our program,” Manning said. “[Childress] took that shot, and it obviously didn't go in, but he got into the next-play mode and did some really good things from that point forward.”

He certainly did. With 38 seconds remaining, Childress hit a deep 3-pointer off a dribble handoff from senior Torry Johnson. A bad inbounds pass trying to force it to a double covered Lykes gave the Deacs the ball right back with a chance to tie down 74-71.

The Deacs elected to go for a quick two instead, which they got as Brandon drove in and got a bucket. Mi-

ami’s Zach Johnson made 1-2 free throws, giving Wake Forest the ball down two with 30 seconds left.

Childress brought the ball up the court, hearing Miami yelling that they were going to switch on a screen.

Freshman Jaylen Hoard came up to set it, and Childress created enough space off a dribble hesitation to elevate and drain another from deep to give the Deacs a one-point lead, and the Coliseum erupted.

“It was a great feeling," Childress said. "You practice those shots as a kid."

With one chance to regain the lead, Miami miscommunication and excellent defense by the Deacs lead to a tough last shot for Lykes, which fell short.

Miami Head Coach Jim Larranaga mentioned after the game that the volume in the arena made it very difficult for him to communicate with his players on the last possession.

Childress finished with 21 points, 10 of which were scored in the final two minutes, to go along with five assists. Brown had a great performance as well, with 21 points and 14 rebounds. Jaylen Hoard also had a double-double, finishing with 12 points to go along with 10 boards.

Center Olivier Sarr remained out for the second game in a row with an ankle sprain. Sophomore Sunday Okeke filled in admirably with a solid 12 minutes.

Both teams shot the ball well from the free-throw line in the game, as

Miami went 24-29 and Wake hit 1923.

All hope looked lost after the Deacs were destroyed by North Carolina, but the team has valiantly responded, winning two of their next three games, albeit against fellow teams in the basement of the ACC standings.

Wake Forest will look to build off its encouraging recent success on Saturday as they host NCAA-Tournamentbound Syracuse, and then will travel to Durham on Tuesday to take on #3 Duke.

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Brandon Childress has been stellar in every outing following the UNC game.

Diamond Deacons season rolls forward The Deacons both struggled and shined on the mound and at the plate through another week of non-conference play

BY JOSEPH RAFSHOON Staff Writer rafsjm17@wfu.edu

Wake Forest baseball is still trying to find its stride as they finish their second week of the season with a clip of 4-4. There have been multiple positive signs that point towards growth; however, they have not played up to their high preseason ranking.

The diamond Deacons' second week started off with their first away game at Liberty. The Deacs started off strong with two two-out rallies during the first and second inning to take a 2-0 lead. However, sophomore pitcher William Fleming could not get out of the third inning on the mound. The turning point in the third was a passed ball that allowed Liberty senior Ayden Karraker to score all the way from second base.

At first, Karraker was called out at home, but video replay illustrated that he beat the tag, pulling Liberty ahead of the Deacs 3-2. After Liberty took the lead, they did not look back, as the Deacs stumbled to a 9-3 loss.

The Deacs then hosted Quinnipiac for a two-game series. During the first game, Quinnipiac scored early and often, putting up four runs in the first inning.

The Deacs put up eight batters in the first inning scoring three runs. However, the bats went cold for much of the game, losing 8-6. The surprise of the game was Wake Forest ace Morgan McSweeney’s subpar outing.

McSweeney is the lockdown pitcher for the Deacs, but he did not get through the first inning. Expect this to be a fluke for McSweeney, as he is still the Deacons number one choice on the mound. The second game was a completely different story. The Deacs got back on track, steamrolling the Bobcats 15-5. The Deacons hit four home runs and were led by a multi-home run game from sophomore Shane Muntz.

The Deacons then also split a two-game series with the Elon Phoenix. The Deacons dropped the first game 3-6, but they got back on track with a 13-7 win the next day. Sophomore Chris Lanzilli led the team with three RBIs and sophomore starting pitcher Jared Schuster recorded another 11-strikeout game on the way to his second win of the year.

The season has been a short roller coaster for the Deacons. Considering the team is not even in ACC play yet, they must be frustrated with a .500 record.

The Deacons will be facing even more challenging

opponents as ACC play gets closer. That frustration was illuminated when Head Coach Tom Walter was ejected for arguing balls and strikes during the loss to Quinnipiac.

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Pitching has been a strength for the team this year, with a consistently effective bullpen.

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DEACONS: Baseball season is in full swing Continued from Page 11

Along with the ejection, Tom Walter has been busy trying to shake up things for the Deacs.

Walter changed the lineup multiple times to try and spark the Deacon offense. Sophomore DJ Poteet, senior Patrick Frick and freshman Michael Turconi have all had their crack at the leadoff spot.

There have been multiple positive signs for this Wake Forest baseball team as well. Sophomore Shane Muntz is swinging the hot bat as he is slugging an unbelievable clip of .750. Muntz is in the midst of a breakout season and it is not going unnoticed by Walter.

“From start to finish, he has been leading the team from the plate," Walter said about Muntz. "Some other guys have been better in spurts, but through the first eight games Shane has had the most quality at bats.”

The sophomore class continues to carry the team as relief pitcher Antonio Menendez has been

lights out. Menendez has five appearances recording only one earned run. The sidearmer has been the most reliable arm out of the pen for the Deacs. Walter will be hoping for continued success from Menendez as the opponents and game will only become more competitive.

The season is still early, but the Deacons need to find their rhythm as ACC play is quickly approaching. Eight games should be enough for the Deacons to find their form, so this week is crucial in defining their season. With a quality week, the Deacons could find themselves back in the top-25 conversation.

The Deacons continue their season with a weekend series against Furman. The series is a tour of the Carolinas, as they play in three different Carolina stadiums over the weekend. The first game is this Friday at BB&T Ballpark downtown at 6 p.m. Then, the Deacons travel with the Paladins as they will play a neutral site game in Charlotte Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications before heading to Greenville to The batting order has been the most changed thing on this play in Furman's home stadium. years team, as Walter looks to sparkfrequently the offense with the changes.

Heppenstall highlights ACC Indoor Championships The track and field team had a few stellar performances at the ACC Indoor Championships held in Blacksburg, Va.

BY SAMANTHA WEXLER Sports Editor wexlsn17@wfu.edu

The men's and women's track and field teams traveled to Blacksburg, Va. for the 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 20 and 21. The highlight of the championship was Wake Forest senior Robert Heppenstall winning the men’s 800-meter run in record fashion of day two of the championship.

Heppenstall is a six-time NCAA All-American and he set the Rector Fieldhouse record in his ACC title win. He ran a blistering 1:46.87, which puts him at the top of the NCAA as he heads into the NCAA Indoor Championship season. While Heppenstall set the facility record and blew out the competition, he was fractions of seconds off of his personal best time, 1:46.68. With the NCAA Indoor meet coming up, followed by an entire season of outdoor, Heppenstall is one to watch moving forward. He was joined in the 800m by Dakota Greenwalt, who improved his personal best by nearly two seconds with a time of 1:50.83 Also contributing to the men’s 14th-place finish with 20.5 points was freshman Zach Facioni.

Facioni totaled two second team All-ACC awards for the Deacons in the two distance events at the

Indoor meet. He started the meet off on day one with a sixth-place finish of 14:16.35 in the men’s 5000m final. He then wrapped it up with another second-team nod in the 3000-meter run with a fifth-place finish. He was the second freshman to hit the finish line and his time is just over a second short of the indoor record. In the field for the men, freshman Kane Aldrich, took eighth in the men's pole vault, matching his career-best of 4.85m.

On the women's side, Johanna Schulz started it off strong for the Demon Deacons with her first team All-ACC award in the women's mile. Schulz set a new personal best in the discipline with a time of 4:43.50 for the mile event, almost a full five seconds faster than her previous personal best.

In the distance arena, Samantha Halvorsen tallied a second-team All-ACC finish in the 5000m final on day two of the championship. Also on day two, Alva Hicks set a new indoor school record in Blacksburg in the women’s weight throw. She broke her own record mark of 20.16m set in 2018.

Her new school record was good enough to garner second-team All-ACC recognition. Another contributor to the 12th-place finish for the women's team was Janese Lynch. Lynch was named to the second team All-ACC with her fifth-place finish in the women’s shot put.

It was a strong performance overall for the Demon Deacon Track and Field team in Blacksburg.

Next up for the team is the NCAA National Indoor Championships held in Birmingham, Ala. in the second week of March. Watch for Heppenstall

to make his mark on the 800m field in Birmingham.

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Heppenstall beat the ACC and now turns his attention to NCAA 800m opponents.

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Spotlight: Alva Hicks

BY SAMANTHA WEXLER Sports Editor wexlsn17@wfu.edu

The cousin of U.S. Olympic Team member Justin Gatlin, Alva Hicks has grown up in the track and field community. At Classical High School in Providence, Hicks was a three-sport athlete in volleyball as well as both indoor and outdoor track and field.

She was a force in the field, winning the state title in the discus three times and shot put twice, setting the Rhode Island record in the discus and hammer throws. An All-American in the weight throw, she also was the New England champion for discus two times and shot put one time.

In her first indoor season at Wake Forest, Hicks broke the weight throw school record in each of her first three meets. She was a force to be reckoned with, finishing sixth or higher in all seven regular-season meets with three wins. She set a school record and placed 13th at the ACC Championships to cap off the year. She continued that dominance outdoors, earning Second Team All-ACC accolades with a sixth place finish in the hammer throw while setting a school record. In her sophomore season indoors, Hicks competed in every meet for the Deacons, finishing third at the ACC Championships in a new school record. In the outdoor season she continued to throw personal bests and capped her season with a seventh-place finish at the ACC Championships in the hammer throw and a 17th-place finish in the discus. As a junior, Hicks broke her own school record in the weight throw in indoor season, totaling six top-five finishes throughout the season and taking ninth at the ACC championships. In the outdoor season she finished second in the hammer throw and discus at the WF Outdoor Opener and took sixth in the hammer at the Raleigh Relays with a season-best mark. After some rough times, Hicks, now a senior, looks to improve on her school-record perfor-

mances. She has already set a personal best in the shot put and earned two straight victories in indoor meets. She looks to continue that dominance into the outdoor season and ACC competition.

Samantha Wexler: How has indoor gone so far and what are you looking forward to in the outdoor season?

Alva Hicks: Indoor season was very consistent to say the least. [It] would get annoying for me [to not see improvement]. In the end, I [was able to pull] out [a good performance] at ACCs. [My performance was] not what I wanted to end with, but it was a personal best nonetheless and a new school record. My true events are hammer and discus. I love them both! I also just know that where I ended indoor won’t be how I end outdoor season. Outdoor has always been my favorite, so it’s going to be fun.

SW: How did Indoor ACCs go and what were you most proud of for the team?

AH: Indoor was bitter -sweet. I took fifth overall, but I know that with one more throw, I could have easily won. The support was what I was most proud of. I saw so many of my teammates cheering me on and vice versa.

It was incredible to see!

SW: How do the practices between indoor and outdoor differ, if at all, and what changes

when you make that switch.

AH: The practices won’t be that different, as it will be the same intensity. The only switch will be the implements I throw, really.

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SW: What are your goals for the season in the ACC and nationally?

AH: My goal is to have fun this year. For the past three years, I didn’t have fun; it was more like a pile-up of things I have to do — that stressed me out. Having fun comes first for me in every meet and in all that I do because if not, what’s the point? Just doing that will lead me to the distances I want to throw and the places I want to go that includes NCAAs for outdoor!

Class: Senior

SW: What are you doing in the fall to prepare for the season?

AH: [In the fall I am] training hard. I would say the [fall] training season is to prepare for the indoor and outdoor season.

It was intentional on my part [to train that way, as] I knew what I wanted to do and what I needed to get there. That’s what I’ve been doing since June.

Hometown: Providence, R.I. Accolades: - 2017 First Team All-ACC in the Indoor Weight Throw - 2019 Second Team All-ACC in the Indoor Weight Throw -2016 Second Team AllACC in the Outdoor Hammer Throw - School record in the Indoor Weight Throw - Placed 38th in the Hammer Throw at the NCAA Division I East Preliminaries.

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Deac Notes Sophomore Shane Muntz and baseball team draw 14 walks in one game

Freshman Lindsey Jarosinski has best game as a Demon Deacon in loss to Duke

In their game against Elon, which the Demon Deacons won 13-7, the team drew a total of 14 walks. The 14 walks were the most since also drawing 14 against Mount St. Mary’s in 2016. Shane Muntz tied the program record with five walks in the game. The multitude of walks gifted to the Demon Deacons propelled their offense, leading to loaded bases in many instances.

The Demon Deacon women’s basketball team took on Duke at home on Sunday, Feb. 24. The team fell 55-44, however freshman Lindsey Jaronsinki had her best game yet. Jarosinski finished with career-highs in points (11), rebounds (7), field goals (5), minutes (29) and connected on her first-ever 3-point attempt, a buzzer-beating heave from just beyond the arc to end the first quarter.

Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications

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ACC Basketball: What happened to Duke?

In a shocking turn of events, Wake Forest won while Duke lost on Tuesday

BY DAN PACHINO Senior Writer pachdb15@wfu.edu

After a series of uneventful weeks in ACC basketball, fans finally got the dramatic week of basketball they had been hoping for. It all started last Wednesday, Feb. 20, when Duke squared off against UNC in their first meeting of the year in Durham, N.C. The story of the game was not how UNC manhandled Duke and controlled the entire game — which happened — but it was why they were able to do so. In the opening minute of the game, Duke star forward Zion Williamson was lost to what appeared to be a devastating knee injury after busting through his Nike shoe when planting his foot on defense. While it seems Williamson will not miss as much time as initially expected, losing Williamson could prove to be a devastating blow to a Duke team with legitimate title aspirations.

In the week since losing Williamson at the start of the UNC game, Duke has looked like a shell of the dominant force they have been all season. Without Williamson,

Duke is 1-2. As mentioned, Duke was essentially run out of its own gym against UNC at home, they only narrowly defeated Syracuse on the road over the weekend and they lost to a good Virginia Tech team in Blacksburg, Va. on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

The UNC loss really exposed Duke’s lack of depth without Williamson as the rest of the roster beyond RJ Barrett and Cam Reddish shot a mere 4-28 from the field.

Additionally, without Williamson on the court wreaking havoc defensively, teams have been far less afraid to attack the paint against Duke. In the UNC game, Carolina’s Luke Maye and Cam Johnson were able to do anything they wanted offensively, combining for 56 of UNC’s 88 points. Losing Williamsom has been a huge problem for Coach K’s Blue Devils this past week, and they will certainly need him back soon if they have any hope to make another deep NCAA Tournament run.

While the big news of the week in ACC basketball was undeniably the injury to Williamson and Duke’s struggles since losing him, that was not all that happened, as the rest of the conference was also in action. In particular, UNC rode the momentum of the big Duke win to two more wins this week in a blowout over Florida State and another victory over Syracuse.

UNC was very balanced offensively in their 18-point victory over FSU, with four different players in double figures. John-

son led the way with 18 points thanks to his usual elite outside shooting (3-4 from deep). On Tuesday night against Syracuse, it was Coby White who led the way with 34 points (9-14 shooting, 6-11 from deep) in a narrow 93-85 home victory.

Also on Tuesday, Wake Forest got one of its best and most impressive wins of the season with a shocking come from behind victory over Miami. The Demon Deacons trailed Miami all game only to come back from down 14 points with eight and a half minutes remaining as well as six points with 41 seconds left. Brandon Childress was extremely clutch in the final minutes of the game, however, scoring Wake Forest’s final eight points in the final minute of the game. Childress hit a 3-pointer to cut Miami’s six-point lead to just three, and then after a Miami turnover made a layup to cut the lead to one with 33 seconds left.

Then, after Miami made a free throw to extend their lead back to two, Childress drilled what amounted to the game-winning 3-pointer that put Wake Forest up by one with 26 second left. This was a great win for the Deacons, as they look to close out the season on a positive note with just three regular season games left.

Games to watch for this coming week include UNC at Clemson on Saturday March 2, Virginia at Syracuse on Monday March 4, Wake Forest at Duke and Virginia at FSU next Tuesday.

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Duke has proved to be a vulnerable team without Zion Williamson.

Petros Chrysochos: A worldwide tennis journey From Cyprus to Wake Forest, tennis has taken Chrysochos all around the world

BY RENTING CAI Staff Writer cair17@wfu.edu

Last year’s NCAA National Champion hails from Cyprus and is currently in his last season wearing the Wake Forest jersey. He has seen a lot of changes in himself and in the tennis team over the years.

Despite losing the ITA National Team Indoor Championship against Ohio State, Petros Chrysochos reflected on how the team worked hard towards the goals this season. One of the most experienced players on the team, Chrysochos emphasized the importance of the winning culture.

“It was tough transitioning from losing the seniors we had last year, and the freshman coming in this year had big shoes to fill in,” Chrysochos said.

“We needed to keep the same kind of winning culture in the team, and we shouldn’t deviate from that. It took years to build and to develop that kind of culture we are having right now.”

After having been a Demon Deacons for four years, Chrysochos has seen Wake Forest as a second home.

He is amazed by the passion people here have for sports, and he was overwhelmed by the support he got.

“Coming here and seeing all these people that just loved the sport and

they appreciated you just for repre- the little things, and then senior year for and representing the team. But I senting this school were amazing,” comes, and I’m like ‘oh, I am out of think another main job I have right Chrysochos said. “Obviously, I played here,’” Chrysochos said. “I am not go- now is to make sure the team is on the for something bigger than myself. I ing to have another chance to compete right path and to translate the message competed with guys, and we repre- with those guys, and it is my last year of how to lead the team. The seniors sented Wake Forest, the people, the wearing the Wake Forest jersey. are not always going to be there, and staff, the organization, the depart“I mean, it is going to be hard for I need people from sophomores and ment, our majors, our sports, our cul- sure, because I am so used to playing juniors to take the lead.” tures, our parents, everything, and it was just amazing.”

Last year, Chrysochos led the tennis team to win every trophy, and he won in the finals of NCAA singles tournament against his own teammate.

Apart from the efforts he and the team made, he gave credit to the support of the fans.

“When we won the NCAA tournament last year, I saw the whole community in Winston-Salem come together,” Chrysochos said. “They brought like 1,500 people to watch our game, and they outnumbered the Ohio State fans something like 200 to one.”

“The next day after we won, we went to a restaurant where people just started clapping for us when we walked in,” Chrysochos continued. “I was sure they watched the game, and they knew about it, and that just felt fascinating.”

Despite leaving the team when the season ends, Chrysochos is dedicated to the job. Emotionally, Chrysochos opened up about his feelings and shared his wishes for the team.

Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications “When I was a freshman and soph- Now as a senior, Petros Chrysochos is one of the most decorated players omore, I kind of complained about in Wake Forest history even before playing his full senior tennis season.

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NBA : Will the Kings finally make it?

After a 14-year playoff drought, the Kings find themselves just one and a half games behind the eight seed

BY NIKO KOLEV Contributing Writer kolens18@wfu.edu After 14 years of not making the playoffs, 2019 seems to be the year for the Sacramento Kings to defy all the odds.

The Western Conference playoff race seems to be perhaps the closest it’s ever been, with one or two games being the difference between the eighth and the ninth seed and between the ninth and the tenth seed. In an amazing turn of events, as of Feb. 24, 2019, there are three teams with the same record that come one after the other.

One of them, the Utah Jazz, was not even in the standings for the playoffs early in the season but managed to turn the season around and is now the sixth seed. What does this tight race mean for the Kings? This close race may mean that it’s easier for some teams to lose the playoff race, but it could also serve as a last saving grace that could get the Kings into the long-sought-after eighth or seventh seed. Much like the Minnesota Timberwolves experienced in 2017-2018, when their playoff spot came down to the last game of the season against the Denver Nuggets. After a win against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night, the Kings are now one and a half games behind the current Western Conference eighth seed.

That eighth seed, the Los Angeles Clippers, just traded away their best player. So, it’s unlikely that the Clippers, without a superstar, can be consistent enough to make the playoffs. What about the Los Angeles Lakers, who are two games behind the Kings and just got LeBron James back from an injury? The Lakers have been experiencing a sharp decline since the early success at the beginning of the season. When LeBron went out for injury, the young core of the team was floundering to find success. Tensions seem to be rising in Los Angeles because this year’s trade deadline revealed which players were expendable and which were long term. A good amount of the starting

lineup was in trade talks to get Anthony Davis. The fact that these trade talks did not result in a trade left the team morale very shaken. Though the Lakers are still very much a wounded team, they have LeBron James, and LeBron is still LeBron. However, it’s very much up in the air if the Lakers will even make the playoffs.

Something more consistent that will push the Kings to the playoffs is that the team is at the forefront of the NBA’s massive increase in pace. The league’s pace has gone up by 2.7 since last year, which is the fastest pace average the NBA has experienced in recent years. The Kings’ offensive tactics are very beneficial to this upwards trend in pace being that they have the second fastest pace in the league with 104.32 possessions per 48 minutes.

The team’s leader and point guard De’Aaron Fox is among the fastest players in the league and has had a 5.6 points-per-game increase in only his second year in the league. Fox’s field goal percentage is up by 4.8 percent from 41 percent to 46 percent and his 3-point shooting has improved as well, as he is above league average with 37 percent, a seven percent increase from his rookie year.

Fox’s speed, good chemistry with his teammates and his increase in point output pairs very well with his partner in crime, Buddy Hield.

Hield is also having a career year. Hield is averaging a career-high 20 points-per-game on a career-high field goal percentage of 48 percent. Hield’s real value to the team comes from his fantastic ability to make the shot from the 3-point line. He is averaging a career high of 45 percent from the three-point line while taking eight 3-pointers per game. Hield’s ability to force NBA defenses to cover him from everywhere on the floor creates great space for his counterpart, Fox, to drive the ball to the basket and draw a foul or get the shot.

Not to be overlooked is the spark plug off the bench, Bogdan Bogdanovic, the second-year forward that is changing the basketball culture of the Kings. Bogdanovic serves as the last minute help when Hield and Fox are not making shots and need a break. He has become somewhat famous in the league for his ability to make clutch shots during crunch time. All these positives for the Kings’ offense do not come without drawbacks. If the Kings man-

age to make the playoffs, good NBA teams will exploit the lackluster defense that the Kings have. The Kings play a very fast game of basketball, but this effort is not always there on the defensive side of the ball. Luckily, there have been hints of potential for good defenders on the team.

But this is most definitely one of the biggest roadblocks to the Kings playoffs dreams. This young core could mature and become one of the best teams in the league in the coming years. Don’t forget about this dark horse playoff contender.

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Guard De’Aaron Fox (blue) can make history by bringing the Kings back to the NBA Playoffs.

NBA: Warriors seek to improve team chemistry With 22 games left on the season, the Warriors are making the final adjustments for another playoff run

BY RENTING CAI Staff Writer cair17@wfu.edu

Although All-Star Center DeMarcus Cousins returned from his injury, the Golden State Warriors lost by 36 points total over the last nine games.

After winning two consecutive championships in the past two years, the Warriors are loaded with talent, as Cousins joined the team last summer. With already two former MVPs and two all-star players on the team, the Warriors seemed to be insurmountable. The Warriors are the first team since 1976 that had a starting line-up with five all-star players.

However, the Warriors still can’t seem to find the key to bond the team. In the game against the Houston Rockets on Feb. 24, the Warriors lost at home by six without Houston’s franchise player James Harden. In case you didn’t notice, it was the third time the Rockets beat the Warriors this season.

In the first quarter of the game, Rockets’ guards Chris Paul and Eric Gordon kept scoring, helping the team start perfectly with a 15-0 run. Despite that, the Warriors responded with Steph Curry and Klay Thompson hitting 3-pointers, but they were down by 15 points in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, the Rockets’ height inside the

paint gave them an advantage. Cousins could not contain Rockets’ forward Kenneth Faried, who scored 10 points with four baskets out of six attempts. Cousins, however, struggled to find rhythm and scored only six points, shooting one out of seven in the first half.

Although the Warriors took the lead in the third quarter, Paul kept making baskets and organizing the offense of the team well. For the entire game, Paul had one of the best performances of this season, with 23 points and a season-high 17 assists. The Rockets’ two-way guards Gordon and P.J Tucker contributed 47 points together, including eight 3-pointers.

Some previous matches also reflected the Warriors’ shaky performances. In the home game against the Sacramento Kings, the Warriors won by the tiny advantage of 125-123 with Curry’s 10 3-pointers made. In the away game against the Portland Trail Blazers, the Warriors lost by 22, with Thompson making two shots out of 16 attempts.

One of the reasons the Warriors struggled was that Cousins was still trying to find his rhythm. In the past four games, he averaged only 9.8 points and 7.4 rebounds in his 21.8 minutes playing time.

“Sure, he’s frustrated,” Warriors’ coach Steve Kerr said of Cousins in an interview with ESPN. “Think about what DeMarcus has been through with the yearlong injury and the frustrating free agency. So, it’s not an easy thing, a very difficult injury to come back from.”

Despite tearing his Achilles tendon last season, Cousins was still one of the best centers in the league. He averaged an all-around performance of 25 points, 12.9

rebounds, five assists, one steal and one block per game with the Pelicans last season.

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Getting Cousins up to speed will be one of the Warriors biggest concerns moving forward.

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Tartuffe is a comedic commentary Filled with subtle jokes and an abundance of rhymes, WFU Theatre’s production of Tartuffe elicited loads of laughter from the audience

BY OLIVIA FIELD News Editor fielor17@wfu.edu

When Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664, Louis XIV was the king of France, New Jersey just became a British Colony and the plague finally dissipated from Europe. Despite its ancient origins, WFU Theatre’s rendition of the French comedy hilariously highlighted the timeless themes of hypocrisy and the out-of-touch high class.

Directed by J.E.R. Friedenberg, an associate professor in the department of theatre, the play is set in the home of Orgon (played by junior Tut Gregory). Within the trappings of their home, the story follows Orgon’s obsession with Tartuffe (senior Matthew Zoltners), a religious imposter, whom he invites into his home. With lavish stage decorations, from porcelain statues to floral vines, the set quickly engulfed the audience into 15th century bourgeois Paris.

Despite the rest of his family’s aversion to Tartuffe (withholding his mother, Madame Pernelle [senior Sierra Leslie]), Orgon laughably indulges all of Tartuffe’s statements and desires. In one of the first scenes, Orgon returns back home after travel and asks Dorine (sophomore McKinley Meuller) what has happened while he was gone. Dorine proceeds to tell him how his wife Elmire (senior Lillie Burrow) was deathly ill, but Orgon only seems concerned with Tartuffe. Repeatedly asking Dorine how Tartuffe was, he consistently responds with the line “Poor Man!” to the fact that he got good night sleeps, relaxed and ate lavish meals. This is just one of the many scenes where Molière makes fun of the wealthy — and where Friedenberg did a quality job.

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One of the most unique elements of Tartuffe is the fact that the dialogue is a series of poems with couplets ending in rhymes. This stylistic choice adds to the lightness of the play, where the language itself becomes both comedic and reminiscent of the bourgeois. It is extremely impressive that the actors not only mastered their lines, but could not deviate in the fear that they would ruin the flow of the rhyme.

The first half of the play worked to set up the story for the most enthralling elements of the play, which took place after the intermission.

After Tartuffe, who is supposedly a virtuous

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man of the Church, tells Elmire he is in love with her, she plots to expose the hypocrisy of their house guest to Orgon. So, she adopts a plan to seduce Tartuffe while Orgon is hiding under a table and listening. This was by far the most hilarious scene within the play — Orgon is so bent on believing Tartuffe that he stays under the table despite Elmire’s ques for him to catch Tartuffe in the act. However, it takes until the moment Tartuffe is advancing on Elmire for a kiss that Orgon jumps out from under the table in protest.

Although Orgon almost ends up accepting his apology, he banishes Tartuffe from his home. However, he does this right after giving Tartuffe the deed to his property and a box containing compromising information about Orgon going against the French royalty. Given these comical circumstances, it makes sense for Tartuffe to promptly send a court order for their eviction.

The play ends with an unsurprising scene, if one knows the historics of how close Molière was to the King himself. Rather than letting Tartuffe the imposter get the final word, the all-knowing Louis XIV condemns Tartuffe to jail and rids Orgon and his family of any legal trouble. Although the comedy does function as a commentary on the bourgeois and religious devotees, it is also a sort-of propaganda piece for French royalty.

Ultimately, WFU Theatre did an amazing job with this work. From the costumes that involved personally-fitted corsets to the timely music, everything about their interpretation of the story created a riveting experience for the audience.

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Book Review | Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing explores social issues The story focuses around the life of Kya Clark as she faces discrimination

BY CAROLINE WALKER Asst. News Editor walkct18@wfu.edu Delia Owen’s novel Where the Crawdads Sing is a riveting thriller that is set within the time period of 1952 — 1970 in the fictional North Carolina coastal town of Barkley Cove. The novel focuses on the complex relationship between Kya Clark, the mysterious girl of the marsh, and the recently murdered Chase Andrews, the handsome popular boy of the city. As the storyline approaches the crux of the mystery surrounding the murder of Chase Andrews, the environmental and social pressures of geographical isolation and racial segregation are profoundly illuminated and explored.

Within the recesses of the marsh, Kya forms an intimate connection with nature and becomes a profound observer of the plethora of flora and fauna within the marshes. However, due to the pressures of both this geographical separation and her racial difference as a darker-skinned native of the marshes, Kya becomes increasingly isolated from the other children her age and detached from the city.

The underlying question throughout the novel is whether Kya, who is this supposedly saturnine and supernatural figure from the marsh, has murdered Chase Andrews, the beloved man of the town.

The white townspeople instantly implicate Kya, which makes the reader question whether Kya can be held culpable for the crime of the murder or whether the true injustice in the novel is actually the societal pressures of geographical isolation and racial segregation that have irreparably marginalized and harmed Kya. The juxtaposition of Kya’s proficiency in the comprehension of ecological matters with the formal education or “street smarts” of the white city people contributes not only to the tension and suspense of the mystery that is unveiled, but also reflects modern conversations about the ingrained prejudices and their impact.

As the storyline progress, the widening chasms of race, education and opportunity existing between Kya and the white people is revealed progressively with details leading up to the murder.

Kya educates herself through experiences of immersion within her marsh-like realm of bird feathers. She illustrates books of the many bird species residing within the swamp, while the white people become formally educated through institutionalized schooling and assume jobs in the town. This educational difference represents the barriers that people in marginalized communities, like the marsh, still face today, as well as challenge whether or not it is justifiable to hold Kya accountable for the murder based solely upon the townspeople’s prejudiced perspectives of her as an irrational actor.

Furthermore, the taboo nature of the complex relationship between Kya and

Chase Andrews, who come from two polar opposite worlds intrigues the reader. One yearns for not only knowledge of whether the townspeople accurately identify Kya as the murderer.

However, the most compelling factor of this novel is the ultimate moral question of whether Kya is indeed the murderer and if she will be implicated in taking action against the cherished townboy and patriarchal figure, Chase.

Is this merely a crime novel, or could the narrative potentially present a call to action against the dominant forces of society that marginalize and oppress the genuine identity of a girl who exists outside the geographical and racial boundaries of the town and acts unrestrained by social expectations and normative behaviors?

THE HOT LIST Top 10 Memes from the Academy Awards

By Catherine Regen It’s no secret that most of us only watch the Oscars to see what will go wrong. So let’s live and let meme.

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Irina Shayk sat between Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper

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Rami Malek’s crooked bowtie Jason Momoa’s pink Fendi scrunchie Emma Stone’s waffle dress

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Chris Evans is the best Chris in Hollywood

Pharrell wore shorts

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The novel was released in August 2018 and has since become a bestseller.

Rami Malek falling off the stage right after winning That ~steamy~ “Shallow” performance

Spike Lee / Samuel L. 9. The Jackson hug

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1/2 cup of coconut milk 1 tsp date sugar 1 tsp ground tumeric 1 tsp freshly grated ginger 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg pinch of kosher salt

Whisk coconut milk, sugar, turmeric, ginger, five-spice, salt and ¾ cup water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and let mixture steep 5 minutes.

Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a mug and serve.

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After first semester, there are some first-year boys that become men, but there are others that digress into their true form, the toilet. During this time they will spend their last days continuing to hit the juul.

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Relationship Column | Shoot Your Shot

Seniors learn final lesson pre-graduation The end of the year is near, and it is time for all of the seniors to try to shoot their shot in relationships

BY DAVID ADJAMY Senior Opinion Adviser ajamdg15@wfu.edu

For those of us graduating in May, we only have 80 or so days left here in the Forest. While some find refuge in the fact we have limited time left here, others aren’t so happy. While the reasons vary from person to person, I have found many of my fellow single-and-ready-to-mingle seniors ready to make their next move, so they can make the next move.

But, listen, this advice column goes to both my friends using the short timing as an excuse and all you thirsty seniors urging to bust a move within the coming months. Oh, and maybe the rest of y’all, but this is for my graying fellow seniors, mostly.

While I understand why some of you may not want to shoot your shot, you’ve got to remember, the shot clock is ticking. Soon the game will be over, and you will be out of here with that possibility gone forever.

Maybe you are worried that opening up and expressing your true feelings will corrupt or disturb your friendship, and I understand this. But don’t David Adjamy/Old Gold & Black blame the timing; acknowledge that you are fearful and that you are don’t want to possibly ruin a rela- By following this relationship advice, you could tionship. But more so, deconstruct why you believe be sharing this with a very special someone.

being open with someone will hurt your relationship. Are we not adults? Well, for us seniors, we will need to be soon. But truly, we have the emotional ability and maturity to recover from some awkwardness. Given this, I say make the move, shoot the shot, just do it and see what happens. Maybe it will work out, maybe it will complicate things, but at least you won’t worry about the “what if.”

Plus, if things get messy, we only have a little bit of time left here, so if it is actually awkward, who cares? Soon you and whoever’s DMs you try to slide in may not ever see each other again.

Real connection doesn’t happen often in life and if you feel it, be real with your friend. Just because one doesn’t work out, keep shooting if you feel a connection.

Maybe you don’t want to listen to some single scrub like me. I understand that, but I’m just like you; I am feeling those feelings for someone and unsure what to do.

What I am really saying here is don’t be scared; take a chance because real connection is something beautiful, something that while it can bring drama and pain, brings a ton of happiness. And who knows, maybe time won’t limit the relationship — the future is unknown. Don’t make assumptions of what they will say, where you will be, or where you could be together.

So, slide into those DM’s, ask someone out for a messy dinner at Moe’s Southwest Grill, or see if someone will let you rip their Juul, but most importantly, just ask and have a conversation.

Humor Column | The Smell in ZSR

The smell in the entrance needs to be wiped away All students should do their duty by taking care of business either in the new side of ZSR or elsewhere on campus

BY JONATHAN TRATTNER & AMANDA WILCOX Associate Science andTechnology Editor &Online Managing Editor tratjd17@wfu.edu & wilcaf16@wfu.edu

$hit. That’s what it smells like when you walk into the Z. Smith Reynolds Library (ZSR)! Many tour groups have passed through the doors of our campus’ shrine to learning and self-actualization with stars in their eyes and springs in their steps, only to be greeted by wafts of $hit to their noses.

True, it is Wake Forest and the majority of the toilet paper on campus finds its way from the bathrooms to the quad instead of to the students’ butts. However, the only brown substance whose aroma should be wafting through the library should be Pike Place coffee from Starbucks.

For this reason, the Editorial Board of the Old Gold & Black has one crucial plea directed towards the Wake Forest student body: stop $hitting in the old side of the ZSR Library, which includes everything from the entrance to the Circulation Desk. There are a few reasons why this makes sense.

For starters, there is something deeply disquieting about the old-side bathrooms. They have a certain vibe that makes the user feel stressed, and as everyone knows, once the pressure starts to build up, it’s hard to crap.

We both enjoy a peaceful poop. Who doesn’t like to poop in peace? If you’re looking to relax

and enjoy some Irish Potty Poetry, compliments of Wake Forest University Press, in quiet solitude, the bathrooms in the front of the ZSR are not the place to go. There is an endless stream of people who come in and out, from parents on campus tours to the professor who just graded your latest midterm (you probably did a crap job). As for us, we prefer not to poop for an audience. Indeed, as Superman once said, “We must go to the fortress of solitude.”

In contrast, the bathrooms on the newer side of the library (including those in the atrium) are much less crowded and much more spacious.

Freshly renovated, they provide a welcoming environment in which you can do the doo-doo.

With midterm season fast approaching, we both know that the amount of poops in the library will skyrocket. Worse yet, the amount of stress poops will skyrocket (and yes, there’s a difference).

Imagine if these poos were being dumped on the old side of the library. The $hitty smell in the front of ZSR would invariably escalate, and no one would be able to smell the sweet particulates of vanilla soy lattes — tragic indeed.

All this is to say that we, as students who value our olfactory bulbs, kindly request that the repugnant odor be removed from the entrance-way of the ZSR. It may well highlight some of the crappier aspects of Wake Forest, but unlike the lack of peanut butter in the Pit, it is something that can be fixed.

As students, we urge you to do your part in David Adjamy/Old Gold & Black cleaning up our library and dump your dung on the new side of the library. Better yet, take it to Do your part to eliminate the smell in the ZSR library and take that $hit somewhere else.

Benson.

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Paris Fashion Week mixes the visionary with the classic As the notable names from the industry make themselves seen in the front row, desginers and fashion houses bring their ’A’ game for Paris Fashion Week. or as an addition to her Met Gala ensemble.

As one of the larger and more globalized fashion houses, the Dior show had a star studded attendance. Karlie Kloss, Jennifer Lawrence and Cara Delevingne all sat front row together. Kloss was wearing one of the new graphic T-shirts from the collection, emblazoned with the phrase “sisterhood is global.”

This is one of the many feminist slogans that appear in the collection.

Dior is most likely capitalizing on the success of their shirt from 2016 that stated “We Should All Be Feminists,” which was worn by several celebrities to the first-ever Women’s March. Besides the graphic tees, the other pieces in the collection are reminiscent of the silhouettes that established the fashion house to the canon of style.

Of course, we’re only halfway through the week, with so much more to come. The Chanel show hasn’t happened yet (at the time this article was written), but it is easy to predict the show will have some aspect of homage to the late Karl Lagerfeld who died on Feb. 19. Smaller, yet equally as important, fashion houses such as A.P.C. have yet to debut their new collections, but it is those shows that I

find the most fascinating. The more quintessentially French designers of smaller brands are often more reliable in predicting or setting trends. While the huge global companies are masters at showing avante garde pieces that are often more art than clothing, each season, smaller design houses produce the clothes that will shape style for the next season.

Bar the specifics, PFW is a nod to the Paris of our dreams: the Paris where Coco Chanel rises from the grave and fits you for a custom tweed suit. The Paris where a handsome Frenchman or Frenchwoman sweeps you off your feet. The Paris where you dance the night away in an underground jazz club. The Paris that we doodle and daydream about is personified in the style displayed at Fashion Week.

Paris is where couture was born and where it continues to flourish each season in the window displays along Avenue Montaigne. I am wistful for the time I spent there rushing around the city on the metró, pausing only to smell the fresh baguettes or peer into a shop window. The ever-present excitement and anticipation for the next adventure are always just around the next corner.

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Photo courtesy of Instagram account of Karlie Kloss

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Photo courtesy of Instagram account of Dior

BY CATHERINE REGEN Assistant Life Editor regecl17@wfu.edu

The proverbial “they say Paris is best in spring” may perhaps ring true this week. As a former Parisian, I am seriously missing the city this week. Right now, nous sommes en train de Paris Fashion Week (PFW). Some say that the city’s sparkly allure has started to dull in comparison to the displays in London, New York, Milan and Tokyo. However, the rumors must be false, because the industry’s favorites have once again come out in full force to sit front row.

The week started with Simon Porte Jacquemus debuting a colorful collection featuring what appears to be a popular trend in high fashion — the mini bag. The tiny accessory, known as the Chiquito, is available for $500 in a diverse range of bright hues. Each one could fit in the palm of your hand, and could barely hold a single Tic-Tac, the diamond earring Kim Kardashian lost in Bora Bora or a single Juul pod; the list could go on. I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw notorious tiny-bag collector Gigi Hadid sporting one on Instagram

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Oscars filled with highlights While there were some unexpected wins in the Oscars this year, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga blew away all of the competition for their performances in A Star is Born, one of the best movies of the year.

BY KYLE FERRER Opinion Editor ferrka16@wfu.edu

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I fail to remember every year that the best films rarely win Oscars. I am swept up in the momentum of projections, championing lesser-known films and acceding improper value to probable winners, and thus am inevitably deflated when the results dash my hopeful delusions and replace them with cynicism.

This year, after ousting Kevin Hart and failing to find the perfect PC substitute, the Oscars went on without a host, and the result was largely incoherent. The program was rudderless and devoid of context, proving that no matter how useless, unfunny or tedious he or she may be, the host does the important work of setting the scene. After a video-paean recapping the year in film, Sunday night’s show accelerated right into the first award, and as the evening progressed, the galloping pace became exhausting. Breathless and concentric, the program was a back-firing experiment in austerity, and what was meant to be a concise presentation became a slight to the viewer’s attention. In the past, the languorous, indulgent pace of the Oscars, in which one could nod in and out and then perk up for the big awards toward the end, gave the show a slow-cooked feeling of import. For a program running over three hours there are, inevitably, the in-and-out dilettantes and the committed few, who watch from start to finish no matter the length. So, the notion that a slightly shorter version of an already long show would attract more people or assuage “popular” ire is ridiculous. The Academy might as well have back-channel commissioned WikiLeaks to release the winners all at once if they wanted to grind the show down to a palatable nub.

But enough about logistics and more on the actual results, which were a mixed bag. Regina King won Best Sup-

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porting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkin’s adaptation of the James Baldwin short-story, and although my choice would have been Marina de Tavira from Roma, King’s performance had ample vitality.

Mahershala Ali won Best Supporting Actor for Green Book, which was a disappointing choice considering Sam Elliot should have been a shoo-in the moment he was able to pull his truck out of Bradley Cooper’s driveway.

The Best Supporting awards bookended what seemed like an endless spate of acclaim for Bohemian Rhapsody, mostly baffling praise that found its Oscar-worthy material in a middling biopic that basically amounts to band nostalgia. Nonetheless, the poorly-edited film about music took home the Oscars for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing, in addition to Film Editing and Best Actor. Black Panther also won its share of nonacting awards, notably the Oscar for Music (Original Score), composed by Ludwig Göransson. Although it wasn’t nominated, the score for First Man by Justin Hurwitz — flitting, harp-heavy and downright Kubrickian — deserves at least an honorable mention.

Black Panther also won the Oscars for Production and Costume Design, deservingly so for their mystical set-design and sartorial world-building (Vice won for Makeup and Hairstyling, the Academy apparently hesitant to liquidate the jowly tradition).

Alfonso Cuarón, writer, director and cinematographer of Roma, almost swept the corresponding categories, but exchanged the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, which Green Book took, for Best Foreign Language Film. These were the most heartening victories of the evening. Cuarón’s singular masterpiece about a Mexican woman and her personal clash with domestic servitude was shot with an unflinching, silver-silk objectivity and directed with an eye toward the political (which is not hard to do), while still elevating itself to something more. Cuarón realized that didacticism is a hard sell, and for him, aesthetics remain paramount.

Which leads me to my final jaunt: the sad premonition that Rami Malek’s win for Best Actor and Green Book’s win for Best Picture represent. Both are some-

what counterbalanced by Olivia Colman taking home the Oscar for Best Actress. Her paranoid and volatilely ignorant Queen Anne was an endless reward to watch, not to mention her improvisational, acceptance-speech charm. Colman’s win, as well as Spike Lee’s ebullience at his much-belated Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, were two highlights of the evening.

But Rami Malek’s win for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody most could see, in all its facile dimensions, from a mile away. Although he gave a good performance, it fits neatly next to Paul Dano’s Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy, and below the high watermark of biopic performances, Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line. But historical precedent, important though it is, pales in comparison to the actors this year alone that out-performed Malek.

Ethan Hawke’s intensely-tempered possession in First Reformed was not even nominated, and should have won the whole thing, and Willem Defoe’s literal habitation of Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate made the list, but probably never had a chance.

Malek won in part because of popular nostalgia, because the Academy capitulated to a popular taste without having to make a popular film category. The slowmoving coup in popular film is gaining speed, and with it the cheap adrenaline of films like Bohemian Rhapsody and Crash-like didacticism of Green Book have risen to undue prominence. The Malek win says less about his acting (he is a fine actor) than it does about the films we now lend cultural currency.

Let me finally say this: A Star is Born was the best film of 2018. No other nominated film was as robust or as rapturous as Bradley Cooper’s take on the thrice-done classic. With original music (“Shallow” won Best Song, and unequivocally should have), deep performances and scrappy aesthetics, A Star is Born represents a rare thing: the popular film with a sprawling artistic register. It imposes itself on our reality, whether we like it or not, pervading the senses and memory. If film is about anything, it is about what it leaves inside us. A Star is Born emblazoned itself not only on our brains, but also on our hearts, and although it remains unrewarded, it is undoubtedly the Best Picture of 2018.