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products containing THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive constituent of cannabis), particularly those sold on the street, are linked to the most cases of death. According to the CDC, an ecigarette may come in many shapes and sizes. Fundamentally, however, the CDC defines an ecigarette as any vessel containing a battery, a heating element and a place to hold liquid with means to deliver nicotine or marijuana into the user’s system. Beyond the reports of deaths, additional lung injury cases from 49 states, the District of Columbia and one United States territory have all been reported to the CDC.
Next year’s incoming freshman class will never know what Sakai is. They’ll probably hear about it in passing from upperclassmen, but the majority will not experience it. The university is in the current process of transitioning their Learning Management System (LMS), from Sakai to Canvas, with the goal of being fully transitioned to Canvas by the fall 2020 semester. Canvas, a LMS by the company Instructure, was started in 2009 and has gained a lot of traction among universities and K-12 schools in the past 10 years. According to an article published yesterday in Inside Higher Ed, Canvas has not lost a higher education customer since it began nine years ago, except in cases of university closures. Wake Forest transitioned Sakai, from another LMS called Blackboard, in mid-July of 2010. After using it for the better part of ten years, it came time to re-evaluate the university’s LMS. Assessment began in the fall of 2017, when focus groups of faculty, students and staff were formed to evaluate Wake Forest’s needs and goals in terms of LMS, according to the university’s webpage for Canvas. From there, committees were formed in the spring of 2018 to further assess the university’s needs as well as the overall landscape of LMS in higher education.
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Many students on Wake Forest’s campus use e-cigarettes, including the well-known brand Juul. Health concerns raised by the devices have provoked extensive discussions on college campuses.
More than blowing smoke: vapes cause campus concern Duke’s proposed e-cigarette the only appropriate means of calming students’ busy minds. ban spurs Demon Deacons to “I think it’s entirely possible think about dangers of vaping that Wake Forest could enact a BY TUT GREGORY Contributing Writer gregaj16@wfu.edu
In light of a recently proposed ban of all e-cigarette products at Duke University, students at Wake Forest have turned an acutely tuned set of eyes towards their own campus vaping habits. A sense of worry seems to pervade the Reynolda Campus and beyond. Such alarming news over a seemingly regular habit has induced a state of uncertainty, leaving speculation to be
similar policy,” said sophomore Sam Bass, “and I think kids are beginning to understand that it (vaping) is horrible for human lungs.” The proposed ban at Duke is just the latest in an outburst of headlines regarding the dangers of e-cigarette usage. According to the latest publication from the Center of Disease Control (CDC) on Oct. 8, there have been 26 confirmed deaths in 21 different states with a direct link to vaping. The CDC further reported that the latest national and state findings suggest that
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Deacon Profile: Riley Phillips
Riley Phillips is a junior majoring in studio art and German. As an artist, she has expanded the scope of her artistic studies from the classroom to innovative new projects. She is an emerging fashion designer representing her label, Riley Phillips Art, which was recently shown during Vancouver Fashion Week. Why did you become interested in fashion design? I became interested in fashion design through the sculpture program of my high school. I was given an assignment to make something wearable out of unconventional materials, and, as cliché as it sounds, I really fell in love with making art that was both conceptual and functional. I moved on from unconventional materials and a hot glue gun by freshman year at Wake Forest and taught myself how to sew last year, when I also made my first mini fashion collections. How did you get involved with Vancouver Fashion Week?
I showed my first mini collections in Greensboro Fashion Week last year, and naturally, I posted all about the events and my work on social media. Representatives from Vancouver Fashion Week (VFW) saw my work online and reached out to me to invite me to show with them for the spring/ there was the added challenge of balancing schoolwork with my production’s responsibilities, like summer 2020 season. planning the runway hair and makeup or mixing my runway music. Somehow, with lots of coffee What was it like to prepare for this event? and late nights, I pulled it all together. Preparation for VFW demanded just as much mental and emotional prep as it did actual sewing. How would you describe the central elements VFW reached out to me with interest in the mini of your collection that you curated for this collection I showed in Greensboro, so I expanded showcase? that collection to a full 16 looks, which required the addition of five more full designs, stylings and My collection included jewel-toned colors, the necessary alterations of pre-existing looks. movement and texture and detailed hand-embelBecause I was abroad when I accepted my posi- lishment. All of the design choices of my collection in the event, I didn’t have my sewing machine tion reflected my inspiration: Venice, Italy and my with me and wasn’t able to begin construction until I came home at the beginning of the summer. I time abroad. I integrate artistic influence and bold also received the Richter Scholarship to complete colors, reminiscent of the canals and landscapes, to a research project on “Multicultural Influences & characterize my designs with a vibrancy that recall Developments in Berlin’s Fashion Scene” for a full a respected or “saved” Venice. Visually, I aim to month in the middle of the summer, so in total, maintain a balance of romantic fluidity and senI had two months to complete and fine-tune my suality to connect the Venetian waterways and the collection before the semester began. Time man- evolving, modern architecture with feminine silagement was the biggest factor in my preparation, houettes. I further tie the collection together with and I planned a very specific and regimented daily meticulous hand embroidery of figures and faces, sewing schedule to keep me on track for my two- which are a reference to the figurative art of Venice month sewing window. Once this semester started, and the work of Italian sculptor Lorenzo Quinn.
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Where do you find inspiration for your designs? Though this collection was specifically inspired by Venice and my time abroad, I find inspiration for most of my creative work through my travels, cinema and photography and editorial magazines or graphic design. How do you envision your fashion line growing over the next few years? I fully envision that I will continue to design and create looks or collections for as long as I am capable. Because fashion design is not included in my formal education here at Wake Forest, the balancing of schoolwork and design is a challenge, but I think I have been quite successful in devoting my minimal free time to fashion in order to cultivate my skills as best as I can. The dream, of course, is to further develop my label, Riley Phillips Art, and continue to create and show my collections; however, with my studies in photography and German, there are so many options for me to consider in pursuing fashion as a career field with multiple creative ties and opportunities.
WAKE IN A WEEK Seacrest Series: Chick Corea Trilogy Time: Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m. Location: Wait Chapel Renowned keyboardist and composer Chick Corea will be playing a concert tonight to showcase his 21st-century sound. Admission is free and tickets can be reserved ahead of time.
Wake Forest Men's Soccer vs. Notre Dame Time: Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. Location: Spry Stadium Your fellow Demon Deacons will be taking on the Notre Dame this weekend. Come out to cheer them on as they take down the Fightin' Irish.
Nathaniel Mackey & Qu'ahttet Time: Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. Location: Brendle Recital Hall Mackey will perform poems from his forthcoming collection Double Trio, with musical accompaniment from the Our True Day Begun Soon Come Qu'ahttet.
Wake Radio Fall Concert Time: Oct. 25 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Location: Campus Gas Come to Campus Gas, a short distance from Spry Stadium on Polo Road, to experience some live music and delicious food. Admission and musical camaraderie are free.
Haunted Tunnels Time: Oct. 28 at 11 p.m. Location: Tunnels between Babcock and Luter Join the Anthony Aston Players as they embark on a kooky and spooky exploration of the haunted tunnels this Monday night. Tickets are only $4.
Project Pumpkin Time: Oct. 30, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Location: Hearn Plaza This signature student-spearheaded event is a staple! Various organizations invite children from local schools to participate in a Halloween-themed festival with candy and crafts.
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Opioids’ effect on Forsyth County Even the Wake Forest campus North Carolina’s 10 million resito have 53 pills at their community is not safe from dents disposal. addiction’s devastating effects Darrell Boyles, projects manBY MAGGIE BURNS Contributing Writer burnme17@wfu.edu
Forsyth County and the rest of the United States are suffering from an ongoing opioid epidemic. This crisis affects millions of Americans yearly, yet Wake Forest seems to be impenetrable by the problem, at least so far. “We enjoy isolation in our Wake Forest bubble,” said Peter Rives, assistant director of Wellbeing. Rives added that Wake Forest students seem to be avoiding opioid abuse on campus, even though it is prevalent throughout Forsyth County. Although Wake Forest may be lucky enough to avoid the epidemic, the rest of the country is suffering. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that between 1999 and 2017, drug overdoses in the United States have increased substantially. Over 70,000 overdose deaths occurred in 2017 alone. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that of those 70,000 overdose deaths in 2017, nearly 70% were attributed to opioid use. The CDC also reports that trends of opioid use and overdoses have been rapidly on the rise since 1999. The opioid epidemic affects thousands of people each year. According to a report from the North Carolina Department of Human Health Services (NCDHHS), more than 530 million opioid pills were dispensed to residents of the state in 2017. That’s roughly enough for every one of
ager at the Addiction Recovery Care Association (ARCA) rehabilitation center in Forsyth County, reported that roughly 80% of opioid use begins with a valid prescription, but that between 14% and 18% of those patients become addicted. “Most patients only need the medication for around three days to a week, but doctors tend to prescribe 30- to 90-day doses,” Boyles said. Forsyth County, unlike Wake Forest, has not escaped this epidemic. According to the NCDHHS, 71 people died in Forsyth County of unintentional opioid overdoses in 2017 alone. The Winston-Salem Journal reported in September that the latest count of opioid-related deaths hit a record high in Forsyth County for the second consecutive year. There were 84 total deaths in 2018, 10 more than in the previous year. “Forsyth County EMS gets between 5-14 overdose calls each day,” Boyles said. “We always have more patients seeking help than available beds [at ARCA].” Iris Casey, a freshman from Kinston, N. C., said that while growing up she witnessed people become addicted to opioid drugs in her community. “[My family] knows a couple of individuals who have gotten involved with recreational drugs after using prescription opioids,” she said. While Wake Forest seems to be avoiding the opioid crisis, there is certainly no lack of substance abuse on campus. Other drugs such as Adderall and alcohol have long been bigger problems for students. Casey said that substance abuse
issues affect some students she knows: “I’ve seen acquaintances start using drugs like Adderall and Xanax, and I’ve seen that a lot.” L.B. Snipes, a graduate assistant in the Office of Wellbeing, said that when students get stressed out by the academic rigors of life at Wake Forest, they often resort to drug abuse to mitigate that stress. “Several students I have talked to have said that when they’re on campus, they will use a stronger drug to cope with all the stress,” Snipes said. “But when they’re at home, they’re not stressed out, so they don’t feel the need to use.” Casey added: “I just found out someone I know is doing hard drugs, and I have seen [them] progressively start to use more. [They] are losing weight and are struggling more academically and
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President Mellie Mesfin applauded the work of the committees on their hard work and informed the Senate that the next meeting on Oct. 29 will be more focused on internally-related topics. Speaker of the House Miles Middleton proposed a potential future resolution about cosponsoring an event with attorney Ben Crump. Secretary Laura Horton continued her goals from the previous meeting about the Affordability Initiative in regard to changing the allotment of money for student printing, transportation/parking and textbooks. II.
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The Academic Committee proposed the possibility of using Wake ID cards as voting ID and bringing back Wake Forest as a polling location. The Diversity and Inclusion
Committee presented survey results regarding minority opinions and feelings about inclusion on campus. The Judiciary Committee reinforced Mesfin’s statement about next meeting focusing on senate rules and procedures. III.
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Opioid abuse is far more prevalent in Forsyth County, outside the Wake Forest bubble. 71 people died of opioid overdoses in 2017.
SG GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY JESSICA SCHMIDT Staff Writer schmja19@wfu.edu
socially than [they were] at the beginning of the semester.” Wake Forest provides many resources on campus for students struggling with substance abuse, including, but not limited, to Student Health Services and the Office of Wellbeing. These places, and others, are safe spaces for students to have conversations around addiction and to get help when needed. Rives and Boyles both shared a similar sentiment in noting that substance abuse can be detrimental and that addiction does not target one specific group or demographic. Addiction has the potential to affect anyone, including young, ambitious college students. “Addiction doesn’t discriminate,” Boyles said. “There is no rhyme or reason as to who it affects.”
Special Presentations
In order to address the concerns regarding the sociology emails, Dean of Students Adam Goldstein, Steve Burtino of Information Services, Chief Diversity Officer José Villalba and Chief of Police Regina Lawson each gave statements regarding the event. Goldstein explained the timeline of events of the email release and his transfer of the emails to information security. Burtino explained further how the university decided to pull the emails from the inboxes but must decide on an official policy for what actions should be taken if a similar event should occur. Villalba spoke about the distribution of where the emails were sent; 12 emails were sent in total and seven were sent directly to those in the sociology department. Lawson commented on the steps taken by University
OCTOBER 23 Police to find the culprit, including reaching out to the Winston-Salem Police, local universities and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was suggested that although the investigation is still active and ongoing, the methodology used by the offender makes them difficult to track, and the campus may have to accept that they may never be found. In response to the presentation, many senators brought up questions and concerns. One concern focused on the quality of the university’s information security with the knowledge that the emails’ sender may not be found. The response to his concern was the reiteration of the difficulty to track IP addresses and the assurance that the university and all those involved are doing all they can. Another question regarded the university’s decision to not release the contents of the email to other staff and students. The speakers’ responses included their desire to not retraumatize individuals with the specific information and the desire of the university and the police force to protect the integrity of the investigation. The next senate meeting will be at 7 p.m. in Benson 401 on Oct. 29 and is open to the public.
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reaching into the local community and, more pressingly, its economy. Historically a tobacco town, Winston-Salem finds itself at a crossroads, reconciling past and present as nicotine consumption rides an ever-changing wave of public habit. For local businesses, an e-cigarette ban at Wake Forest could prove to be a death sentence. “Besides the regulars we see each day, students make up a large number of our customers,” said Brendan Dabila, an employee at Stratus Smoke & Vape, a
store about five minutes down Reynolda Road by Lowe’s. According to Dabila, the store has received numerous questions per day regarding the quality of its products since the CDC first began publishing deaths linked to vaping. Stores in general have begun to feel like underground markets since the articles, Dabila said, adding that there is a constant need to justify their products. “We’ve definitely seen a drop in sales since the articles came out,” Dabila said. “But we’re
hoping people don’t get too caught up in the media.” As of October 2014, Wake Forest enforces a “smoke-free policy” on campus. According to the document, smoking and breathing secondhand smoke pose significant health hazards. Smoking is defined as: “the burning of any type of tobacco, tobaccoderived, or vapor products.” This campus policy covers the inside of all buildings on the Reynolda Campus, but as of now there is no outright ban of the products on campus.
“It’s really sad to see this,” said Nick Contillo, a current firstyear medical student at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Contillo, who graduated from Wake Forest in 2019, expressed his concerns over an outright ban on e-cigarettes. “I think it’s the worst possible response in this scenario,” Contillo said. “It’ll just force people to buy from unregulated sources, putting them at higher risk of exposure to harmful compounds.” Contillo’s sentiment is far from uncommon. As of today, there are zero regulations from the FDA on vaping products, blurring the line between what constitutes a “black market” pod and what constitutes a “safe” pod. For users of vaping products, this is a worrying prospect. “I enjoy using a Juul,” said sophomore Connor Taggart, “but I’m worried that the government hasn’t been protecting my interests and honestly hope to kick the habit soon.” The implications of a potenTut Gregory/Old Gold & Black tial ban on e-cigarettes extend Students relax and unwind on the quad. The university enforces a “smoke-free policy” on campus, an beyond the Reynolda Campus, edict that prohibits all smoke and vapor products from buildings. There is no ban for outdoor spaces.
OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE Republican protestors de- Attorney General Barr re- Ozone hole currently the lay testimony on Ukraine leases memo on shootings smallest it has ever been Investigators into the White House’s hold on nearly $400 million in security assistance to the Ukraine over the summer were interrupted and delayed on Wednesday morning for several hours. Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, appeared at the Capitol Wednesday morning for her deposition. She was scheduled to be the first Defense Department official to testify before investigators. The investigation is exascerbating partisan division between members of congress. The session was interrupted, however, by a group of about two dozen Republican lawmakers marching into the secured room, who accused Democrats of taking advantage of “a one-sided set of rules.” The protesting lawmakers remained in the room for hours, which significantly delayed the deposition. Pizza was delivered to the protesting Republicans at a certain point. The deposition resumed at 3 p.m. Representative David Cicilline said that Cooper’s testimony fit into the narrative of events detailed by other witnesses.
Attorney General William Barr recently released a memo directed towards to the FBI suggesting methods to better identify and thwart mass shooting attacks before they occur. The series of summer mass shootings in Texas and Ohio has reignited demands for greater safeguards against gun violence and domestic terrorism. Barr emphasized a use of psychologists, community groups and intervention teams to collaborate. He asserted that this would be the best way to gauge whether or not a person is preparing to commit mass murder in some form. He likened the methods that he described to those used by the FBI to identify terrorists and radicals in the name of public safety. Barr’s memo stopped just short of proposing any stronger or more complex gun control measures. This details the White House’s lack of a concrete plan to reduce gun violence, instead relying on mental health fixes. Last month, Barr brought a plan to expand background checks for potential gun buyers, but few republican lawmakers showed support.
A hole in the ozone layer, located approximately near the south pole, is now the smallest size it has ever been recorded to be since first discovered in the 1980s. While the hole’s increase in size has depleted in rate over the years, this year’s size is primarily due to abnormal weather and wind patterns. Paul Newman, chief scientist for Earth Sciences at NASA, reported that the smaller size, while good news, is “not a sign that atmospheric ozone is on a fast track to recovery.” This shrinkage also occurred in 1988 and in 2002, due to similar weather patterns. Susan Strahan, who works at NASA Goddard, also commented on the change. “It’s a rare event that we are still trying to understand,” she said. The annual ozone hole has exhibited a gradual decline, but still emissions of prohibited chemicals have risen in some areas, particularly in areas of eastern mainland China, a region where much of the world’s population is concentrated.
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Anthony Appiah analyzes identity The renowned professor and philosopher gave a talk last Thursday on identity’s roots BY WILL MAY News Editor mayws16@wfu.edu On a breezy autumn evening, students filed into Wait Chapel to attend a talk by visiting guest speaker Kwame Anthony Appiah. The event began with an introduction from Professor James Otteson, director of the Eudaimonia Institute, the organization that co-sponsored the event with the Office of the President. Appiah is the third speaker in the institute’s Noesis Lecture Series and is part of the Voices of Our Time Series established in 2006 by President Nathan Hatch. Hatch was the next speaker at the event, introducing Appiah to the crowd, listing his numerous accomplishments and accolades that include a National Humanities Medal from the White House and his recent book, The Lies that Bind — Rethinking Identity. Appiah began his discussion on diversity by discussing his own diverse background: his mother was English, while his father was Ghanaian. “I wanted to explore the ways narratives like these shape our sense of who we are,” he said. Appiah described how he had desired to think about the differing categories that assist in shaping identity. He pointed to three distinct commonalities. He first asserted that identities come with labels, ideas about why and to whom they should be applied. Appiah goes into further detail in his book about identity having five com-
ponents: class, race, religion, culture and country. He said that none of them consistently take precedence over the other. “All of them become salient in different circumstances,” Appiah said. He pointed to a historic example of religion taking precedence in identity in Northern Ireland in the 1960’s, in which one’s identity as Catholic or Protestant played an intrinsic role in the civil conflict. Appiah went on to state that identity shapes an individual’s thoughts and behaviors, before describing how it affects the way people treat each other. He said that hierarchies of respect and power structures are “programmed”
into people from a young age by society to form generalizations about society and the ways in which groups of people function within it. He said many of the cognitive processes surrounding identity had evolutionary benefits, as prehistoric humans needed to be easily triggered to take up arms against other groups. Appiah then turned his focus toward America specifically. Although he was born and raised abroad, his studies soon took him to the United States; he has since become an American citizen. Appiah asserted that the political polarization of America is a function of the racial inequity that has afflicted the nation since its origin — which he referred to as America’s “original sin.”
He asserted that ethics is also intrinsically linked to these ideas about race and identity. “Identity precedes ideology,” he said. Appiah explained possible solutions for solving identity schisms by describing a phenomenon known as the “contact hypothesis” by Gordon Allport: intergroup contact under a specifiable list of the right conditions can reduce prejudice. Appiah asserted that people cannot make progress unless they share thoughts on what they disagree and agree about. He said that this process is delicate, and difficult to map out with theory. “I am a philosopher. I like theory,” he said. “But theory isn’t the only thing that matters.”
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Anthony Appiah asserted that theory had some practical limitations. He advocated for an open dialogue between divided groups with distinct identities as the best rule of thumb for fixing identity polarization.
POLICE BEAT Underage Consumption/Drunkenness • Offenders were cited after ALE observed them purchase 27 cases of beer off campus that they stated they were going to re-sell at their residence. Three of the students reside in the DKE House, 1101 Polo Rd. Report filed at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 14. • Offenders were issued citations by ALE for using a fake ID to purchase alcohol off campus. Report filed at 4:53 p.m. on Oct. 14. • Offenders were issued citations by ALE for possession underage, possession of marijuana and fake ID off campus. Report filed at 2:53 p.m. on Oct. 14. • Offender was charged with fake ID and resisting an officer. Offenders were charged with underage possession. Offender was charged with being 20 years old and in possession of a mixed beverage off campus. Report filed at 4:53 p.m. on Oct. 14. • Loud party reported on Long Drive. Report filed at 12:32 a.m. on Oct. 16.
• Intoxicated student found in Subway bathroom vomiting. Transported to Student Health. Report filed at 2:23 a.m. on Oct. 18. • Offender transported to Student Health after admitting to consuming vodka at Johnson. Report filed at 8:20 p.m. on Oct. 18. • A high school senior got intoxicated at the DKE House, got separated from her sponsor, went into a house on Polo Road and was later charged with an alcohol citation in Polo. Report filed at 12:11 a.m. on Oct. 19. • Student entered Babcock with severe facial injuries. Victim had consumed alcohol underage and attended a Sigma Chi party. Forsyth EMS transported student to WFUBMC. Report filed at 1:29 a.m. on Oct. 20. • Offender was transported to campus by WSPD after consuming too much alcohol on Green Street. Report filed at 2:28 a.m. on Oct. 20. Larceny/Fraud • Unknown subject(s) entered victims vehicle. Nothing stolen on Polo Road. Report filed at 2:18 p.m. on Oct. 15.
• Unknown subject(s) used the victim’s ID number and obtained $37 worth of food items from Domino’s at Alumni Hall. Report filed at 9:43 p.m. on Oct. 15. • Victim left book bag and contents in a booth in the Pit and returned several hours later and it was not there. Report filed at 4:01 p.m. on Oct. 20. Miscellaneous • Former WFU student damaged windshield parking boot in Lot R2. Report filed at 10:52 a.m. on Oct. 16. • A temp worker made verbal threats against another employee in Benson. Report filed at 12:21 a.m. on Oct. 19. • An anonymous female reported a rape through Baptist Hospital that occurred Friday night/Saturday morning at Wake Forest. Report filed at 4:54 a.m. on Oct. 20. • Vehicle parked in Lot R2 was reported stolen by owner. Later recovered by WSPD on Howell Street. Report filed at 11:56 p.m. on Oct. 20.
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Sakai and Canvas were selected as the two potential LMS vendors for Wake Forest this past spring. Each vendor had the opportunity to present to groups of faculty, staff and students and allow them to test it out. Feedback from these presentations was largely in favor of Canvas, with more than 66 attendees agreeing that Canvas will be able to meet the university’s needs, more than 65 attendees agreeing that Canvas will be able to functionally support faculty and students and more than 65 attendees agreeing Photo courtesy of WFU Canvas website Canvas is expected to be user-friendly, with multiple tools and features that are easy for faculty and that Canvas is easy to use. Laura Brewer, LMS Manager very effective with students. The full transition is expected to be made by the fall semester in 2020. for the university, noted that out having to download them While the full transition is sition, Brewer said. As the uniCanvas will be user-friendly for to their desktop, according to hoped to be made by the fall versity continues to transition to both students and faculty, with Brewer. They’ll also be able to many tools and features that can leave feedback in the form of semester of 2020, faculty can Canvas, she will also work with benefit student learning out- video messages, and the student now begin to transition to Can- faculty to help them re-imagine comes while still simplifying the can reply with a video mes- vas, as it is technically available. their courses and how they can According to Brewer, there are best integrate Canvas. interface for faculty. sage. Brewer hopes this will be currently 126 faculty who are Brian Calhoun, a professor who “My first real trial of Canvas a “trickle-down benefit” for stusigned up as “early adopters,” was probably [in] 2013, and by dents, with the hopes that viewteaches college to career classes this time Canvas was this full ing the assignment on Canvas with sign-ups going on until the in the education department, has fledged LMS,” Brewer said. “The and having different options end of the month. Brewer will be worked on committees throughdifference between Sakai and for feedback will allow the pro- holding small group workshops out the evaluation and selection Canvas is Canvas was originally fessor to return graded assign- with these “early adopters” to process and has signed up to created [and] brainstormed by ments in a more timely manner. help faculty members transition be an “early adopter.” He demstudents.” Canvas can also sync up with and move their courses over to onstrated both the student and One unique way that the LMS both a student and faculty Canvas. “This is their opportunity to teacher apps for the Old Gold & is student-driven is in its noti- member’s Google Suite funcBlack with enthusiasm. fication system. Students can tions, such as Drive and Cal- get in there, play with it and fig“I am very much so [enjoying choose how they are notified of endar. For example, due dates ure out how to make it do what Canvas],” Calhoun said. “I can messages — they can choose be- posted in Canvas can appear they want it to do,” she said. Many of these faculty will be us- access it from my phone, from tween emails, texts and more. in a student’s Google Calendar ing Canvas to teach in the spring my laptop. I think the accessibilOn the faculty side, grading and assignments can be autoor want extra assistance through ity is going to be a real benefit to will become easier, for example. matically created by faculty in Faculty members will be able Drive, all while operating inside the workshops provided for early students and faculty. I’m really adopters before they fully tran- impressed so far.” to mark up assignments with- the Canvas LMS.
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“ Street photography captures socio-political reality Photography
The virtue (and potential danger) of street photography comes from inherent political knowledge
Jack Portman
Staff Columnist porttjt17@wfu.edu Street photography is a valuable means of engaging with, analyzing and closely examining one’s surrounding environment. It is itself an intimate and nebulous medium; street photography retains aspects of voyeurism, and oftentimes renders its subjects powerless in shaping how they are perceived. Nonetheless, it seems to be the medium most equipped to capture the quotidian — the multitudinous experiences of day-today life aggregated within our bustling city streets. The ethicality of street photography is perhaps ambiguous — capturing images of unsuspecting passers-by as they go about their lives might be considered a problematic invasion of privacy. In a legal sense, photographing individuals in public spaces
Where we find ourselves within the built environment is a manifestation of our privilege and our oppression.” is perfectly legal: according the attorney Bert P. Krages III, author of the widely propagated document The Photographer’s Rights, “The general rule in the United States is that anyone may take photographs of whatever they want when they are in a public place or places where they have permission to take photographs.” As such, in accordance with American legislation, photographing people in public spaces is an acceptable practice. However, the American government is not known for governing in adherence with widely accepted moral principles. What, then, absolves street photography from its perceived invasiveness? Photography, as an art form, is inherently situated in politics. It bears witness to oppression, economics, gender, race, sexuality and hegemony. Thus are our behaviors in public; what we do on the street is as inherently political as art itself. Where we find ourselves within the built environment is a manifestation of our privilege and our op-
pression; effectually, our location reflects the political and economic factors that modulate and mediate the society we live in. Art is charged with recording the various expressions of life; the experiences of oppression and disenfranchisement, the collective tragedy, the collective guilt and ultimately the results of the interfaces between politics and life. When art, and specifically photography, and more specifically street photography, is located within its full political context, the social obligation to be photographed becomes evident. The world deserves to know how you live, and it is ultimately benefited by this vulnerability. Such was the cultural impact of Robert Frank’s seminal book The Americans. Frank’s book of street photography proved to be a pivotal moment in the discourse surrounding the American political and economic identity. Frank’s candidly voyueristic images of Americans in their various states of euphoria and despair, primarily captured in public spaces, reflected the reality of the American dream and its underlying ideological pathos. It changed how Americans conceptualized themselves within the context of the American Dream. Frank’s passersby unwittingly, and solely through their expressions of their public selves, changed how Americans
perceived American-ness. Such is the obligation of art, and such is the obligation of public citizens to have their public actions and behaviors celebrated and mourned. As each individual is inherently a political being, and capturing the behaviors of political beings is inherently a political act, street photography becomes a means by which an artist takes stock of the human condition. It expresses how politics and economics impact the daily “goings-about” of our social peers. It expresses the conditions we live in and the adversities we face. The experience of public life must be captured, for posterity and for progress; it reminds as that things aren’t as they should be and informs how we affect change. When I make a photograph of a person on the street, I may do so instinctively, given the aesthetic pleasure of the surrounding environment and the convenient candidness of the subject. However, by being photographed, the unwitting subject communicates the exact ways in which economy and politics have manifested for them. It shows how others live and behave in our shared society, and this quality of street photography is of the utmost importance. We must never forget how important it is to observe the lives of others, first as a means of exercising sympathy, and furthermore as a means of affecting change.
ceives both loans and a stipend from the government to be able to afford the £10,000-something yearly tuition and life at school. Now, compare this to the $79,340 cost of attendance for Wake Forest. Every time I look at that number, I start to laugh because it is so ridiculously large. It’s absolutely wild to think about how limiting that number is for so many high school students. Here, all young adults are given access to an education rather than being left in the dust because they can’t even afford to apply to college (or aren’t given the knowledge about forms of assistance like fee waivers). Thus, in Europe and the United Kingdom, there is cultural value placed on having a level playing field. Consequently, there is much more agency to find some form of success here — anyone who works hard is given the ability to pursue one’s passion without crippling debt. This is not to say that the workforce doesn’t deal with its own problems here and across Europe, but it just doesn’t seem to be as problematic as in the United States. One example that comes to mind is the fact that paid
leave is mandated by the government here. In the United States, employee benefits like this are negotiated between the employee and the employer. Across the Atlantic, however, all workers are allowed 5.6 weeks paid leave annually in the United Kingdom and paid maternal leave for up to a year. So, you don’t need to compete and climb up the corporate ladder to have a position with more luxury benefits. Working here has shown me that success is actually quite relative, rather than linear, and that the American understanding of it is inextricably connected with things like competition, privilege and high stakes. Going back to one of my first points, restructuring one’s schema of success will eventually allow for a more expansive conception of happiness. So, does that mean moving to Southern France and working on a vineyard will guarantee that you find true happiness? Probably not. However, thinking about the ways that we construct our world view, depending on our culture, can help us restructure our lives for the better.
Conceptions“of work affect conceptions of life Structuring
American work-life balance tips into a dangerously absolutist frame compared to Europe
Olivia Field
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After a few weeks of having internships in London, my friends and I have begun to get a good idea of what it’s like to work outside of the United States. Here, leaving the office means you are actually done with work for the day, a break for a cup of tea is a must and there is a generally relaxed vibe in the office (talking politics and cursing are pretty normal, for instance). “No one is motivated here,” announced one of my friends during dinner. She explained that she was not accustomed to the low-stakes nature of her company and thought that she would be relatively uninspired to pursue a better position here. Although
In Europe and the United Kingdom, there is a cultural value placed on having a level playing field.” she isn’t a fan of the competition that surrounds getting a job in the United States, she thinks that the environment at home is much more conducive to searching out one’s own success. I respectfully disagree with her for a few reasons, my daily cup of afternoon tea just being one of them. The United States has conditioned us to think that happiness is success, and success is more often than not a varied combination of being employed, self-applying pressure, trying to avoid burnout and endlessly searching for a passion project. Although Europe and the United Kingdom are just as “Western” as the United States, an inherently different understanding of success exists here. This begins with the higher education system. After talking to my British classmates about the college application process here, I learned that it is free or around £10 to apply to each university and that each student re-
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“ Literature aestheticizes existence in a positive way What Literature Knows
Our experience as readers can shape our experience in the world, refining reality and vision
Kyle Ferrer
Staff Columnist ferrka16@wfu.edu It is often said that literature mimics real life, that it absorbs the contours of lived experience and reflects them back to us in a new way. Paul Ricouer defines literature’s mimetic act as a kind of “redescription,” not a shot-by-shot remake of reality, but an act of “making rather than copying,” Rita Felski writes. Literature allows our consciousness to expand for a brief time, revealing unconscious or unknown aspects of the world around us. Once we shrink back into livable perspective, these new insights shade the picture, and life’s objects assume an unprecedented sheen. Harold Bloom said the power of literature allows us “to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves, and perhaps accept the change in ourselves, as in others, and perhaps even a final form of change.” This change is a solitary reinvention of vision, an attention to self-revision that can extend to other’sPresidential fluctuating existence. Politics The language of literary revelation will always remain somewhat shadowed. Its grasp of truth and life not only complicates a rationale for the discipline itself, but prevents us from telling of its virtues without cloaking them in their inherent precariousness. Hence, literary theory. The academic discipline, assailed for its intangible benefits to its disciples, splintered into quasi-scientific close-reading strategies — Feminism, New Historicism, Marxism, et. al. — meant to diagnose socio-political ills. Pressured to bring the field into clearer definition, academics narrowed thought and scope into theories of literature. Yet even in the fractious theoretical world, literature’s intrinsic ineffability and aesthetic import remains. For some time now, the argument often proffered is that the aesthetic quality of literature only creatively masks ideology. As Pierre Macherey says, “Literature challenges ideology by using it.” Since we are unable to grasp a single, concrete idea from literature’s aesthetic contradictions, some have decided that the complicatedness of a work portends an unwitting, social unconscious, filled with ideological flashpoints. These symptomatic sureties can become distillations when viewed in a vacuum, and have faded somewhat when confronted by the (re)emergent truth of untruth. “Although
The multiple clashes of con- I bring up Adorno’s complicated thecept and sense butting in- ory to illustrate the resistance on the side us, in some ways, disal- part of literature to fulfill any absolutist interpretation. Aesthetic impact low for static perception." logos is common to all, most people live as if they had a wisdom of their own,” Heraclitus tells us. Our individual realities, shaped by self-sifted data and irreducible interpretations of the world around us, have tempered conversations about literature’s absolute truth-telling. If we are to believe Joseph Campbell that “all the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us,” then it becomes difficult to construe aesthetic frictions as mere creative concealment. The multiple clashes of concept and sense butting inside us, in some ways, disallow for static perception. Ideologies can help reveal social realities, but if isolated as ends in themselves, they become a kind of bromidic glaze over an everchanging reality. Adorno said as much in his theory of aesthetics, asserting that the work of art acts as a kind of monad, autonomous and closed off, resistant to ideological assuredness. The literary form itself illumines social meaning through a series of technical innovations antithetical to reality. For Adorno, “the communication of artworks with what is external to them … occurs through noncommunication.” The work of Beckett does not convey any apparent language or logic, but works beneath the trappings of culture to knead into us a stranger human logic. If art wishes to be transformative, its aesthetic innovation cannot manipulate the instruments of established communication; it must transcend them, and in doing so, claim nothing other than contradiction. From its social uselessness, Adorno said, art transfers social knowledge. In short, aesthetics, not theory, evolve consciousness without a direct address.
could manifest as political persuasion; it could not. The ambiguities embedded in the literary experience often set us adrift in seas of beauty and awe, but those same asocial, atopic moments can reframe reality whence we return to it. My point largely relates back to literary form, to how its musical meters and absorptive qualities, though not “concrete,” shape new ways of seeing, perhaps even socio-political ones. Truth, as Nietzsche said, is just the solidification of old metaphors, therefore form and language play a vital role in reinvigorating our metaphorical (note: not approximate or dishonest) relationship with the world. If near-truths constitute our engagement with the world and others (Roth’s famous chunk in American Pastoral tells us “the fact of getting people right is not what living is all about anyways”), then phenomenological literature (that is to say, acutely observed writing) becomes helpful. Through exposure to verbal and emotional ironies, complex narrative omniscience, or an entire other “choreography of perception and emotion,… reaction and involvement, that plays itself out in and across the social field,” says Felski, readers gain, from fiction, a kind of insight. Though this knowledge does not have definite “use,” it deftly situates us in the world instead of ensconcing us in various positions of limited utility. Human logic, if there such a thing, expressed through a narrative’s psychological explication or confusion, refines perception. The simultaneous mystification and idiosyncratic presentation of human beings in fiction confounds reality, but in a doing so creates a generous intelligence and emotional sensitivity.
What literature may know, language conveys. Diction and syntax, rhythm and pattern all decide the staying power of literary insight. In general terms, they are responsible for certain reader’s attraction to Fitzgerald and dislike of Hemingway. But language also can deploy idiolect as a means of social insight. Felski uses the Australian writer Tim Winston as an example of someone who uses local idioms to perforate our comfort zone and expand our social knowledge. Words like “staggerjuice,” “skylarking,” and “chiaking about” are used to describe a day at play. Winton’s idiomatic inclusion creates a “social phenomenology cast in a purposefully linguistic key,” where language reconstitutes reality through words. It reorders things and brings us to intersubjective knowledge. “We can’t speak or think or comprehend even our own experience except within the limits of our own power over words, and those limits have been established for us by our great writers,” Northrop Frye tells us. Literature exposes us to those limits, and proceeds to stretch aesthetic standards into personally transformative experience. The novel concepts and brightened eyes with which we see the world appear through a powerful reinvention of words, those pesky particles we use to mediate experience. Literature’s grand gesture is also a subtle one, an angular reimaging, through form and rhythm, that repositions us in the world. As Emerson said, “in every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts — they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” Literature articulates the hidden sentences within us, and makes them compose the world slightly anew.
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Warren and “Sanders share what matters: policy Semantics
Their political philosophies may differ, but they share the same progressive goals
Amanda Wilcox Staff Columnist wilcaf16@wfu.edu
Within the liberal-to-left political intelligentsia there’s a debate: Are Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts actually the same? Currently, the two leading progressives are racing each other left for the chance to challenge the more centrist wing of the party, led by candidates such as former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. It’s easy to view the senators as two sides of the same progressive coin: both are liberal populists who aim to challenge the pro-corporate Democratic establishment and upend the current economic system to help working-class Americans. Their support for policies such as Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, a wealth tax, student debt cancellation and more — much of which has rested on teamwork between the two — has shifted the Overton window and expanded widely held notions of what Politics is Presidential possible. These ideas have not just existed on the fringes of mainstream
The two candidates' philosophies, albeit different, translate into policy in remarkably similar ways." debate; thanks to Sanders and Warren’s courage and clarity of vision, they have dominated the discourse. This has often left the rest of the field struggling to defend tired old centrist policies that preserve the status quo, or, in some cases, lurching left in an attempt to keep up. On the other hand, there’s a clear difference in praxis and political philosophy between the two candidates. Whereas Sanders is a democratic socialist, Warren is a social democrat; he advocates total revolution to transcend the American political order as we know it, while she believes in the power of markets and that the smartest, best-designed policies are the best route to concrete action that can help working people. For the majority of the Democratic electorate, the choice between the respective Sanders/Warren and Biden/ Buttigieg blocs of the crowded primary field will likely be the easy part. However, how then does a Democrat who wants the party to nominate the most progressive candidate that can be elected proceed? I am of the mind that political philosophies are important and merit consideration, and political philosophies beget policy — and that is the stuff that shapes our lives. And the
two candidates’ philosophies, albeit different, translate into policy in remarkably similar ways. “Elizabeth and I end up agreeing on a lot of issues,” Sanders said at a CNN town hall in April. It’s true: side by side, their agendas don’t look too different. For instance, both have long called for government-run, universal healthcare, arguing that the only way to fix the broken insurance market is to eliminate private health insurance altogether. Warren became a co-sponsor of Sanders’ Medicare for All bill in 2017 and has unequivocally endorsed the policy since (despite the fact that it continues to poll poorly with the American electorate). In the first round of Democratic primary debates, when the candidates were asked if they supported eliminating private insurance, Warren bluntly said, “I’m with Bernie on Medicare for All.” Both also have ambitious progressive tax structures to pay for a bigger social safety net. Warren’s signature tax proposal is to create a tax on wealth — the “Ultra-Millionaire Tax” — which would impose a 2% annual tax on household assets over $50 million and an additional 1% annual tax on household assets over $1 billion. In January, Sanders proposed a major expansion of the estate tax that would include a top rate of 77% (the current rate is 40% ), and would also make the tax kick in at a lower threshold. Warren introduced a similar bill last year.
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Further, both candidates have aggressive agendas targeted at Wall Street. Sanders has introduced a proposal that would cap the size of financial institutions, which would break up six of the biggest firms: JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. In her own right, Warren has a corporate governance plan that would give workers a bigger say over corporate bonds and limit executives’ abilities to sell shares of stock that they receive as pay. Going forward, the right solution for both candidates is to cast a wide net and not just look enviously at the vote share of the other progressive. For months, Sanders hasn’t had much success with this. His national vote share has been stagnant (generally a weird slice of his 2016 base, according to FiveThirtyEight polling data), and his strategy has been basically identical to his (unsuccessful) 2016 method. Warren, on the other hand, has been gaining in the polls and trying to fuse together parts of the Sanders and Clinton coalitions. As the campaign enters its next phase, it’s important that progressives remain united and remember who their real opponent is. That will demand that Warren and Sanders keep their truce and continue to compete through the boldness of their ideas rather than to clash with each other. And that goes for those Warren and Sanders supporters among us as well.
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Demon Deacons outlast Seminoles 22-20 Wake Forest defeats Florida State for the first time since 2011 in rain-soaked affair RAFAEL LIMA Sports Editor limara17@wfu.edu On a rainy Saturday night, courtesy of Hurricane Nestor, the Demon Deacons got back in the winning column, pulling a lateminute 22-20 win against Florida State at BB&T Field. Much like the forecast, for most of the night, it was not a beautiful offensive showing by either of the teams. Yet, it will be one that Wake Forest fans will remember for a long time regardless. The Deacs were fresh off their first loss of the season last week against Louisville in what was the second-highest scoring game in ACC history. So, a low-scoring, field position win against the Seminoles was definitely welcome by the Demon Deacons. “I think both teams played well, and it came down to the last minute. Once again, this week we found a way to win and I'm proud of our guys,” said Head Coach Dave Clawson after the game. “I'm proud of the defense; they bounced back from last week. I'm proud of our offense and Sam Hartman. His performance wasn't always clean
but made the throws when we needed them. Nick Sciba had five field goal attempts tonight, and he made all five of them. This was a gritty win; our team didn't give up, and we found a way to win." Hartman filled in as the starter quarterback in place of Jamie Newman for the second week in a row. He struggled with accuracy on short and intermediate routes for most of the game, even before the rain started pouring, but he kept the ball moving when it mattered the most and avoided turnovers. Hartman finished the game passing 21-38 for 308 yards, while also adding 44 more yards on the ground. Even though Hartman struggled at times, the Deacs did not have much trouble moving the ball against a porous Florida State defense. Yet, their struggle to capitalize on red zone trips held promising drives to field goal attempts. Wake Forest got to Florida State’s red zone six times, but only managed to get one touchdown on a run by running back Cade Carney out of a wildcat formation. "You always want to score — but we have a great kicker in [Nick] Sciba. Some points are better than no points," Clawson said. Kicker Nick Sciba was crucial down the stretch, converting all five of his field goals attempts in the game, including the 25yard game-winner in poor conditions. Sciba holds the nation’s longest active streak of
consecutive made field goals with 23, dating back to the Notre Dame game last season. His five made field goals tied Wake Forest’s record for most field goals made in a single game. Despite the offensive struggles, wide receiver Sage Surratt continued to perform like one of the best receivers in the country. Surratt led all receivers with seven receptions for 170 yards. This was Surratt’s fifth game of the season with more than 100 yards. He’s second in the nation with 881 yards through seven games and first in the ACC in both yards and touchdowns (9). “That was a great team win for us. It wasn't pretty, but we got it done. We played with a lot of fight and a lot of heart out there. Guys were just excited. It's a great win for us, especially against a program like that. They have a very talented team. It was a good win for us and very exciting,” Surratt said. This was Wake Forest’s first win against Florida State since 2011 and the first under Clawson. The Demon Deacons will now head into another bye week before they face NC State on Saturday, Nov. 2, during Family Weekend. After the Louisville loss, the Deacs continue winless (0-7) after a bye week under Clawson. That is a fact that neither Clawson nor his players will forget anytime soon. "Now we’ll head into a bye week and instead of reading about how we can’t beat
Florida State, now you guys [the media] can write again about how we don’t win after a bye week,” Clawson said. Wake Forest was able to shift narratives against Florida State Saturday night by successfully weathering the storm against the Seminoles. Now, sitting at a 6-1 record for the first time since 2006, the Deacs will hope they can continue to defy narratives.
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Receiver Sage Surratt dominated against the 'Noles with 170 receiving yards.
Late goals make and break men's soccer team Despite a dominant performance, the Demon Deacons allow a late goal to force the draw with Loyola Maryland JB BLOOD Staff Writer bloojj18@wfu.edu The soccer gods give and the soccer gods take away. The Wake Forest men’s soccer team was on opposing ends of late game heroics this week in games against North Carolina and Loyola Maryland. It was a vivid reminder of the dichotomous nature of soccer, a sport that can be unbelievably kind before turning devastatingly cruel. In a pivotal ACC matchup Friday night against UNC, Wake Forest won 1-0 on a late goal by Bruno Lapa. Just a few days later however, Wake Forest drew Loyola Maryland 1-1, giving up the tying goal with just 12 seconds left on the clock in regulation. Indeed, soccer is kind and cruel, heartwarming and heartbreaking. In the game against UNC, the Deacs looked like the better team for most of the match, but the Tar Heels were grinding and keeping it scoreless deep into the second half. Then, in the 78th minute, Wake Forest senior Bruno Lapa broke through to give the Deacs a 1-0 lead and eventually the victory. "We knew if we played off a switch, we could get some chances coming inside,” said Wake Forest Head Coach Bobby Muuss. Wake Forest put on a passing clinic during the lead up to Lapa’s goal. Alistair Johnson passed the ball to Machop Chol, who was right outside of the box. Chol then dribbled inside the box and deftly passed to Lapa on his left. Lapa
then hit a hard, decisive shot into the bottom left corner of the goal which gave Wake Forest the victory. “When Machop got in behind and was able to beat the guy, I made my run. I saw the opening and was screaming to him to play the ball back, and I was very fortunate to get the end of it,” Lapa said. “Me and Machop always talk about those cut balls back in training and even when we’re hanging out outside of soccer.” Wake Forest ended the night with 56% of the possession and five shots on target compared to zero for UNC. The defense for Wake Forest was outstanding in the first half. The team allowed no shots and defender Eddie Folds particularly stood out with a number of key clearances and tackles to stymie the UNC offense. The entire team was functioning as a well-oiled machine, which allowed them to preserve the victory and the shutout. It was the Deacs’ eight shutout of the season. The victory vaulted Wake Forest to the top of the ACC standings and put them in a prime position to capture the top seed in the ACC Tournament. The Deacs’ second game of the week came against Loyola Maryland. The match ended in a 1-1 tie after two overtime periods. Wake Forest’s goal came within the first 6 minutes of the game. Calvin Harris had the ball on the right side of the box and passed a brilliant ball that split two defenders to Lapa, who was towards the center. He deftly created space between himself and the defense as the pass was coming in and fired a hard and low shot into the corner to give Wake Forest the 1-0 lead. This was Lapa’s sixth goal in the past five games. It looked like Wake Forest was headed for the win until, with only 12 seconds left on the clock, Loyola’s Barry Sharifi crossed the ball into the box from near the right sideline. Josh Fawole stuck out his foot and hit the ball on a onetouch into the upper cross bar over Andrew Pannenberg. The ball ricocheted past the line and into the goal to force the match into overtime.
“We didn’t get pressure on the ball, [allowing for] service in the box, [and he] scored a really good goal. It’s not the 12 or 13 seconds, it's the minute and a half up to that [moment] where we had a transition opportunity, we underhit a ball in front of them, could have went to the corner,” Muuss said about the final goal. “We just didn’t manage the game well. When you play backwards with 25 seconds left anything can happen.” The two overtime periods included four shots for Loyola and three shots for Wake Forest. Ultimately neither team was able to score and the final score remained 1-1. “We have to bounce back and learn from it,” said Lapa. “It definitely doesn't feel good. It feels like a loss for us.” Wake Forest takes on Notre Dame at Spry Stadium on Saturday night for their final regular season game at home.
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Senior Bruno Lapa continued his hot streak, netting goals against UNC and Loyola Maryland.
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Women's volleyball loses weekend series The Demon Deacons fall to Georgia Tech and Clemson in six straight sets, putting them at 1-7 in the ACC BY NICK LALLI Staff Writer lalldp18@wfu.edu
Wake Forest women’s volleyball 11-8 (1-7) continued to falter in ACC play this past weekend, losing six consecutive sets to Georgia Tech 12-7 (5-3) and Clemson 9-10 (3-5). The losing streak now stands at five matches and seven out of the last eight. The Deacons have tumbled down the ACC rankings after ranking second one month ago. Friday’s match pitted the Deacons against the Yellow Jackets, who entered the match with consecutive victories over Clemson and Virginia Tech 8-13 (1-7). A dominant 25-10, 25-13, 25-14 continued this streak for Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets jumped out to a huge 15-5 lead to set the tone for the match, and closed out the first set with a 25-10 victory. Georgia Tech played immaculate volleyball from the outset, recording 13 kills against only one error for a 48.0 hitting percentage in the first set. The Deacons posted six kills of their own against eight errors for a -0.07 hitting percentage. Georgia Tech continued an all-out assault in the second set, as they stormed out of the gate to a 6-0 lead thanks to kills from three separate players. Wake Forest
fought back to a four-point margin at 10-6, but the kills for a 38.5 hitting percentage. The Tigers were Yellow Jackets proceeded to go on a 15-7 run to close right behind them however, recording a match-high out game two 25-13. 16 kills against five errors for a 33.3 hitting percentage. The Deacons fought again initially in the third set, Wake Forest has an excellent chance to end this losas the Yellow Jackets held another four point lead at ing streak this week, as they play two squads tied for 14-10. Georgia Tech then left Wake Forest in the dust the worst record in the ACC. First, the Deacons will again, piling on an 11-4 run on the strength of nine face Duke 8-13 (1-7) in Durham on Wednesday night kills. For the match, the Yellow Jackets put up 47 kills before returning home to face Virginia Tech 8-13 (1-7) against only nine errors, while the Deacons managed on Sunday. 19 kills against 16 errors. Freshman middle blocker Zoe Gonzales led the way for the Deacons, hammering home five kills and posting two blocks. Senior middle blocker Kodie Comby and sophomore outside hitter Mikaila Dowd recorded 10 kills apiece for the Yellow Jackets. Sunday’s match saw more of the same from the Deacons, as Clemson completed a 3-0 sweep by a score of 25-16, 25-14, 25-22. The Tigers dominated the first two sets, tallying 28 kills against only eight errors while forcing the Deacons to commit 15 errors against 11 kills. The third set was far more competitive, as the teams battled back and forth the whole way through. Clemson held a small lead all set, only once by more than four points. Wake Forest found themselves down only two points at 23-21, but two kills from sophomore outside hitter Ashtynne Alberts sealed the deal for a 25-22 set victory. Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications The Deacons’ valiant effort in the third set can be largely attributed to cutting down on costly mistakes, Senior Caitlin Clarke led the Wake Forest defense as the Deacons committed only one error against 11 with seven digs in a loss against Georgia Tech.
Basketball primed for a promising season
After a faltering season last year, the Demon Deacons hope to take back their powerful legacy BY CHRISTIAN ODJAKJIAN Staff Writer odjact18@wfu.edu
College basketball season is just around the corner, with play beginning the first week of November. So, what can we expect from the Deacs this year? Analysts still predict that the Deacs will finish in the basement of the conference again, but with seven of the top eight scorers returning and a few new faces, a return to the NCAA tournament this season is an attainable goal. Last season’s 11-20 record, with a 4-14 mark in the ACC, was a carbon copy of the team’s record the season
before. Expectations weren’t high for a young team, but with 5-star freshman Jaylen Hoard arriving, Wake Forest's most highly touted recruit to join the team in almost a decade, there was definitely some hype. However, it became evident early on that the season wouldn’t be filled with much success. Twenty losses sounds bad enough, but that figure doesn’t really capture how poorly things went. The Deacs lost non-conference home games to small midmajors Houston Baptist and Gardner-Webb. They also lost eight ACC games by 20 or more points. Shooting was one of the biggest issues for the squad. Wake Forest finished 343rd in the nation in field goal percentage and 329th in 3 point percentage. Head Coach Danny Manning’s seat was scorching hot after last season’s struggles, but was retained for the 2019-20 season. In his five years at the helm in Winston-Salem, he has only turned in one winning season, when the John Collins-led team made the NCAA
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Senior point guard Brandon Childress led the team with 14.7 points last year, and looks to lead the Deacs to a NCAA berth with the help of three other returning starters and transfer Andrien White Jr.
tournament in 2016-17. Last season was a rebuilding one, however, and other than Hoard’s departure to the NBA, the core of this team is back and ready to go. Four starters return from last year’s team — senior point guard Brandon Childress (14.7 PTS, 3.6 REB, 4.0 AST, 1.5 STL), junior guard Chaundee Brown (11.9 PTS, 5.0 REB), sophomore guard Sharone Wright Jr. (7.1 PTS, 2.4 REB) and junior center Olivier Sarr (6.2, 5.5 REB, 1.0 BLK). Key rotation players are back too: sophomore forward Isaiah Mucius (6.5 PTS, 3.7 REB), and graduate guard Torry Johnson (5.9 PTS, 1.8 REB). Other than Hoard, only backup center Ikenna Smart and walk-on Anthony Bilas are gone, who both graduated in the spring. Wake Forest also welcomes five incoming freshmen, two of whom who are expected to see meaningful playing time this year. 6’3" guard Jacobi Neath, from Toronto, is ranked the No. 33 PG in the class of 2019 on 247Sports.com. 6’8" forward Ismael Massoud, from East Harlem, N.Y., is ranked the No. 36 SF, according to the same site. The most impactful addition, however, is someone who has been here for a year already. Redshirt senior Andrien White Jr., who transferred from UNC Charlotte, sat out last season and has one year of eligibility. The 6’3" guard averaged 15 points and 4.8 rebounds in 2017-18 for his old school. Wake Forest's schedule opens with a conference game at Boston College on Nov. 6, the only ACC game they have in the month. The non-conference schedule is highlighted by home games versus Xavier and Davidson, as well as a visit to Penn State. The team will also be heading to California to play in the Wooden Legacy Tournament at the end of November. The eight-team bracket features Arizona, Providence and UCF. The loaded ACC schedule is highlighted by home games against Duke, North Carolina and defending National Champion Virginia. Anything short of an improvement from last season would be a disappointment for Manning and this squad. An 18-win season would probably be enough to make it back to the big dance for the first time since the 2016-17 season, which is absolutely an attainable goal.
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Women's volleyball loses weekend series The Demon Deacons fall to Georgia Tech and Clemson in six straight sets, putting them at 1-7 in the ACC. BY NICK LALLI Staff Writer lalldp18@wfu.edu
Wake Forest Women’s Volleyball 11-8 (1-7) continued to falter in ACC play this past weekend, losing six consecutive sets to Georgia Tech 12-7 (5-3) and Clemson 9-10 (3-5). The losing streak now stands at five matches and seven out of the last eight. The Deacons have tumbled down the ACC rankings after ranking second one month ago. Friday’s match pitted the Deacons against the Yellow Jackets, who entered the match with consecutive victories over Clemson and Virginia Tech 8-13 (1-7). A dominant 25-10, 25-13, 25-14 continued this streak with ease for Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets jumped out to a huge 15-5 lead to set the tone for the match, and closed out the first set with a 25-10 victory. Georgia Tech played immaculate volleyball from the outset, recording 13 kills against only one error for a 48.0 hitting percentage in the first set. The Deacons posted six kills of their own against eight errors for a -0.07 hitting percentage. Georgia Tech continued an all-out assault in the second set, as they stormed out of the gate to a 6-0 lead thanks to kills from three separate players. Wake Forest fought back to a four-point margin at 10-6, but the
Yellow Jackets proceeded to go on a 15-7 run to close right behind them however, recording a match-high 16 kills against five errors for a 33.3 hitting percentage. out game two 25-13. Wake Forest has an excellent chance to end this losThe Deacons fought again initially in the third set, as the Yellow Jackets held another four point lead at ing streak this week, as they play two squads tied for 14-10. Georgia Tech then left Wake Forest in the dust the worst record in the ACC. First, the Deacons will again, piling on an 11-4 run on the strength of nine face Duke 8-13 (1-7) in Durham on Wednesday night kills. For the match, the Yellow Jackets put up 47 kills before returning home to face Virginia Tech 8-13 (1-7) against only nine errors, while the Deacons managed on Sunday. 19 kills against 16 errors. Freshman middle blocker Zoe Gonzales led the way for the Deacons, hammering home five kills and posting two blocks. Senior middle blocker Kodie Comby and sophomore outside hitter Mikaila Dowd recorded 10 kills apiece for the Yellow Jackets. Sunday’s match saw more of the same from the Deacons, as Clemson completed a 3-0 sweep by a score of 25-16, 25-14, 25-22. The Tigers dominated the first two sets, tallying 28 kills against only eight errors while forcing the Deacons to commit 15 errors against 11 kills. The third set was far more competitive, as the teams battled back and forth the whole way through. Clemson held a small lead all set, only once by more than four points. Wake Forest found themselves down only two points at 23-21, but two kills from sophomore outside hitter Ashtynne Alberts sealed the deal for a 25-22 set victory. The Deacons’ valiant effort in the third set can be Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications largely attributed to cutting down on costly mistakes, as the Deacons committed only one error against 11 Senior Caitlin Clarke led the Wake Forest defense kills for a 38.5 hitting percentage. The Tigers were with seven digs in a loss against Georgia Tech.
Basketball primed for a promising season After a faltering season last year, the Demon Deacons hope to take back their powerful legacy. BY CHRISTIAN ODJAKJIAN Staff Writer odjact18@wfu.edu College basketball season is just around the corner, with play beginning the first week of November. So, what can we expect from the Deacs this year? Analysts are still predicting that the Deacs will finish in the basement of the conference again, but with seven of the top eight scorers returning and a few new faces, a return to the NCAA tournament this season is an attainable goal.
Last season’s 11-20 record, with a 4-14 mark in the ACC, was a carbon copy of the team’s record the season before. Expectations weren’t high for a young team, but with 5-star freshman Jaylen Hoard arriving, Wake Forest's most highly touted recruit to join the team in almost a decade, there was definitely some hype. However, it became evident early on that the season wouldn’t be filled with much success. Twenty losses sounds bad enough, but that figure doesn’t really capture how poorly things went. The Deacs lost non-conference home games to small mid-majors Houston Baptist and Gardner-Webb. They also lost eight ACC games by 20 or more points. Shooting was one of the biggest issues for the squad. Wake Forest finished 343rd in the nation in field goal percentage, and 329th in 3 point percentage.
Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications
Senior point guard Brandon Childress led the team with 14.7 points last year, and looks to lead the Deacs to a NCAA berth with the help of three other returning starters and transfer Andrien White Jr.
Head Coach Danny Manning’s seat was scorching hot after last season’s struggles, but was retained for the 2019-20 season. In his five years at the helm in Winston-Salem, he has only turned in one winning season, when the John Collins led team reached the NCAA tournament in 2016-17. Last season was a rebuilding one, however, and other than Hoard’s departure to the NBA, the core of this team is back and ready to go. Four starters return from last year’s team— Senior point guard Brandon Childress (14.7 PTS, 3.6 REB, 4.0 AST, 1.5 STL), junior guard Chaundee Brown (11.9 PTS, 5.0 REB), sophomore guard Sharone Wright Jr. (7.1 PTS, 2.4 REB) and junior center Olivier Sarr (6.2, 5.5 REB, 1.0 BLK). Key rotation players are back too: sophomore forward Isaiah Mucius (6.5 PTS, 3.7 REB), and graduate guard Torry Johnson (5.9 PTS, 1.8 REB). Other than Hoard, only backup center Ikenna Smart and walk-on Anthony Bilas are gone, who both graduated in the spring. Wake also welcomes five incoming freshmen, two of whom who are expected to see meaningful playing time this year. 6’3" guard Jacobi Neath, from Toronto, is ranked the No. 33 PG in the class of 2019 on 247Sports.com. 6’8" forward Ismael Massoud, from East Harlem, NY, is ranked the #36 SF, according to the same site. The most impactful addition, however, is someone who has been here for a year already. Redshirt senior Andrien White Jr, who transferred from UNC-Charlotte, sat out last season and has one year of eligibility. The 6’3 guard averaged 15 points and 4.8 rebounds in 2017-18 for his old school. Wake Forest's schedule opens with a conference game at Boston College on Nov. 6, the only ACC game they have in the month. The non-conference schedule is highlighted by home games versus Xavier and Davidson, as well as a visit to Penn State. The team will also be heading to California to play in the Wooden Legacy Tournament at the end of November. The eight-team bracket features Arizona, Providence and UCF. The loaded ACC schedule is highlighted by home games against Duke, North Carolina and defending National Champion Virginia. Anything short of an improvement from last season would be a disappointment for Manning and this squad. An 18-win season would probably be enough to make it back to the big dance for the first time since the 2016-17 season, which is absolutely an attainable goal.
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Women's volleyball loses weekend series The Demon Deacons fall to Georgia Tech and Clemson in six straight sets, putting them at 1-7 in the ACC. BY NICK LALLI Staff Writer lalldp18@wfu.edu
Wake Forest Women’s Volleyball 11-8 (1-7) continued to falter in ACC play this past weekend, losing six consecutive sets to Georgia Tech 12-7 (5-3) and Clemson 9-10 (3-5). The losing streak now stands at five matches and seven out of the last eight. The Deacons have tumbled down the ACC rankings after ranking second one month ago. Friday’s match pitted the Deacons against the Yellow Jackets, who entered the match with consecutive victories over Clemson and Virginia Tech 8-13 (1-7). A dominant 25-10, 25-13, 25-14 continued this streak with ease for Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets jumped out to a huge 15-5 lead to set the tone for the match, and closed out the first set with a 25-10 victory. Georgia Tech played immaculate volleyball from the outset, recording 13 kills against only one error for a 48.0 hitting percentage in the first set. The Deacons posted six kills of their own against eight errors for a -0.07 hitting percentage. Georgia Tech continued an all-out assault in the second set, as they stormed out of the gate to a 6-0 lead thanks to kills from three separate players. Wake Forest fought back to a four-point margin at 10-6, but the
Yellow Jackets proceeded to go on a 15-7 run to close right behind them however, recording a match-high 16 kills against five errors for a 33.3 hitting percentage. out game two 25-13. Wake Forest has an excellent chance to end this losThe Deacons fought again initially in the third set, as the Yellow Jackets held another four point lead at ing streak this week, as they play two squads tied for 14-10. Georgia Tech then left Wake Forest in the dust the worst record in the ACC. First, the Deacons will again, piling on an 11-4 run on the strength of nine face Duke 8-13 (1-7) in Durham on Wednesday night kills. For the match, the Yellow Jackets put up 47 kills before returning home to face Virginia Tech 8-13 (1-7) against only nine errors, while the Deacons managed on Sunday. 19 kills against 16 errors. Freshman middle blocker Zoe Gonzales led the way for the Deacons, hammering home five kills and posting two blocks. Senior middle blocker Kodie Comby and sophomore outside hitter Mikaila Dowd recorded 10 kills apiece for the Yellow Jackets. Sunday’s match saw more of the same from the Deacons, as Clemson completed a 3-0 sweep by a score of 25-16, 25-14, 25-22. The Tigers dominated the first two sets, tallying 28 kills against only eight errors while forcing the Deacons to commit 15 errors against 11 kills. The third set was far more competitive, as the teams battled back and forth the whole way through. Clemson held a small lead all set, only once by more than four points. Wake Forest found themselves down only two points at 23-21, but two kills from sophomore outside hitter Ashtynne Alberts sealed the deal for a 25-22 set victory. The Deacons’ valiant effort in the third set can be Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications largely attributed to cutting down on costly mistakes, as the Deacons committed only one error against 11 Senior Caitlin Clarke led the Wake Forest defense kills for a 38.5 hitting percentage. The Tigers were with seven digs in a loss against Georgia Tech.
Basketball primed for a promising season After a faltering season last year, the Demon Deacons hope to take back their powerful legacy. BY CHRISTIAN ODJAKJIAN Staff Writer odjact18@wfu.edu
College basketball season is just around the corner, with play beginning the first week of November. So, what can we expect from the Deacs this year? Analysts are still predicting that the Deacs will finish in the basement of the conference again, but with seven of the top eight scorers returning and a few new faces, a return to the NCAA tournament this season is an attainable goal. Last season’s 11-20 record, with a 4-14 mark in the
ACC, was a carbon copy of the team’s record the season before. Expectations weren’t high for a young team, but with 5-star freshman Jaylen Hoard arriving, Wake Forest's most highly touted recruit to join the team in almost a decade, there was definitely some hype. However, it became evident early on that the season wouldn’t be filled with much success. Twenty losses sounds bad enough, but that figure doesn’t really capture how poorly things went. The Deacs lost non-conference home games to small mid-majors Houston Baptist and Gardner-Webb. They also lost eight ACC games by 20 or more points. Shooting was one of the biggest issues for the squad. Wake Forest finished 343rd in the nation in field goal percentage, and 329th in 3 point percentage. Head Coach Danny Manning’s seat was scorching hot after last season’s struggles, but was retained for the 201920 season. In his five years at the helm in Winston-Salem,
Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications
Senior point guard Brandon Childress led the team with 14.7 points last year, and looks to lead the Deacs to a NCAA berth with the help of three other returning starters and transfer Andrien White Jr.
he has only turned in one winning season, when the John Collins led team reached the NCAA tournament in 2016-17. Last season was a rebuilding one, however, and other than Hoard’s departure to the NBA, the core of this team is back and ready to go. Four starters return from last year’s team— Senior point guard Brandon Childress (14.7 PTS, 3.6 REB, 4.0 AST, 1.5 STL), junior guard Chaundee Brown (11.9 PTS, 5.0 REB), sophomore guard Sharone Wright Jr. (7.1 PTS, 2.4 REB) and junior center Olivier Sarr (6.2, 5.5 REB, 1.0 BLK). Key rotation players are back too: sophomore forward Isaiah Mucius (6.5 PTS, 3.7 REB), and graduate guard Torry Johnson (5.9 PTS, 1.8 REB). Other than Hoard, only backup center Ikenna Smart and walk-on Anthony Bilas are gone, who both graduated in the spring. Wake also welcomes five incoming freshmen, two of whom who are expected to see meaningful playing time this year. 6’3" guard Jacobi Neath, from Toronto, is ranked the No. 33 PG in the class of 2019 on 247Sports. com. 6’8" forward Ismael Massoud, from East Harlem, NY, is ranked the #36 SF, according to the same site. The most impactful addition, however, is someone who has been here for a year already. Redshirt senior Andrien White Jr, who transferred from UNC-Charlotte, sat out last season and has one year of eligibility. The 6’3 guard averaged 15 points and 4.8 rebounds in 2017-18 for his old school. Wake Forest's schedule opens with a conference game at Boston College on Nov. 6, the only ACC game they have in the month. The non-conference schedule is highlighted by home games versus Xavier and Davidson, as well as a visit to Penn State. The team will also be heading to California to play in the Wooden Legacy Tournament at the end of November. The eight-team bracket features Arizona, Providence and UCF. The loaded ACC schedule is highlighted by home games against Duke, North Carolina and defending National Champion Virginia. Anything short of an improvement from last season would be a disappointment for Manning and this squad. An 18-win season would probably be enough to make it back to the big dance for the first time since the 2016-17 season, which is absolutely an attainable goal.
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Spotlight: Kaleb Bryant BY RAFAEL LIMA Sports Editor limara17@wfu.edu Hailing from Lake Oconee, Ga., Kaleb Bryant knew early on he wanted to attend Wake Forest University. The familiar feel of a small school with the opportunity to develop one-on-one interactions with faculty and other students appealed instantly to Bryant. He visited Wake Forest for the first time as a junior at Athens Academy, a school with a similarly small student body. The transition made sense and a few months after another visit to Mother So Dear, Bryant committed to the Wake Forest track & field team in 2016. Bryant’s time at Wake Forest is one that can be defined by his contributions on and off the track. He finished third with a 50.66s time in the 400m at the 2019 Dick Taylor Carolina Cup. He was also elected to be a vice-president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) in 2019. As a member of SAAC, Bryant helped implement the Forest Fridays initiative, aimed at improving interactions between students and student-athletes outside of the classroom, with its next event planned for Oct. 25 at Poteat. Bryant looks back at initiatives like Forest Fridays as part of the legacy he wants to leave behind after he graduates next semester.
You know, it’s one of those things where you want to be able to make this place as great as possible for everybody and make actual change that can last. Forest Fridays, you and I talked about this a few weeks ago, is something that’s not going to go away anytime soon. That’s something that can transcend for decades into the future. RL: Moving to your personal experience here at Wake Forest, what were some of your best memories on campus over the past three years? KB: That’s a loaded question! Laughs. Oh, when I got my independent study cleared. That was cool. My independent study right now is in the film studies department with Professor [Woodrow] Hood. So, I go through Disney animated classics on a weekly basis. Right now, I’m in the Disney renaissance. I started with classics like Snow White, Pinocchio and I worked my way up to The
Rafael Lima: How did you get involved with SAAC? Kaleb Bryant: A lot of my close friends were on SAAC. I always wanted to do something where I could make a bigger impact, not only on studentathletes, but on people on campus in general; and make [Wake Forest] as great as it has been for me, to everybody else as well. So, I’m one of the co-vice presidents with Nick [Dominic Peters]. RL: On top of being a co-vice president, you’re also responsible for the outreach sub-committee. What motivated you to get involved with outreach? KB: I wanted to make change and that happened to do with the outreach group and whatnot.
Lion King and Aladdin this week. [Disney animated classics are] a big passion of mine. My favorite Disney movie is Peter Pan because it teaches you about maturity and how to view life from a different perspective. That’s what I love about Wake [Forest]. It’s small enough that it allows you to go through ... and do something about your passions. The Peter Brunette Film Studies Scholarship was awarded [to me]. I was only one of two students on campus to receive that scholarship. It was a blessing. Another big moment of mine was ... I actually went to the ACC Championships two weeks after having pneumonia my freshman year. It was a challenge at first, but it was one of those things that once you lock in [you can do it]. We were at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Since I’m from Georgia, it was one of those things where I got to go home, see my family for the first time in a while and compete with my teammates. And we did it. RL: Wow, you had a lot of different experiences during your time here. What do you think will be the main legacy you will leave from your four years at Wake Forest? KB: I want to leave the idea that it’s okay to care. It’s okay to be who you are on campus, it’s okay to branch out and get out of your comfort zone. Some of my favorite times [in college] have been with people that aren’t even on sports teams. A lot of people that are student-athletes don’t ever get that [experience], just because, and I understand, we have these really busy schedules. But, when you’re able to get out of that, open your mind and be part of the greater Wake Forest community, it’s just awesome. You can just create a better community overall for everybody and the whole stigmatization of groups on campus goes away. That’s the type of legacy I want to make.
Personal Profile Hometown: Lake Oconee, Ga. Class: Senior Accomplishments: -Ran personal best 49.51s time in the 400m at the 2018 Music City Challenge -Holds Athens Academy re-
cords in Long Jump, 400m, Sprint Medley Relay, 4x100 and 4x400 -Awarded Peter Brunette Film Studies Scholarship to fund his independent study -Co-founder of Forest Fridays initiative
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Deac Notes Sage Surratt wins ACC Receiver of the Week for the fourth time in 2019
Women’s tennis performs well at Battle in the Bay and Debbie Southern Fall Classic
Through seven games, redshirt sophomore receiver Sage Surratt continues to impress, winning his fourth ACC Receiver of the Week award. Surratt had another impressive stat line against Florida State, catching seven passes for 170 yards to help the Deacs to a 22-20 win at home. Surratt is second nationally in receiving yards with 881 yards. He’s also in the top five in touchdowns (9) and receptions (53) in 2019.
The Wake Forest women’s tennis team split into two delegations to compete in the Battle in the Bay tournament in San Francisco and the Debbie Southern Fall Classic in Furman, S.C. Carolyn Campana and No. 47 Chandler Carter won the main doubles category in San Francisco. At the Southern Fall Classic, Senior MC Meredith (pictured left) reached the singles final with wins against Mississipi State and Duke.
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CFB roundup: Badgers stunned in Champaign With time running out, James McCourt’s 39-yard field goal gave the underdogs a hard-fought victory over No. 6 Wisconsin BY BEN CONROY Contributing Writer conrbd19@wfu.edu Wisconsin 23, Illinois 24 The No. 6 Wisconsin Badgers (6-1) traveled to Illinois (3-4) to take on the Fighting Illini Saturday afternoon in what should have been a simple tune-up before their marquee matchup with Ohio State next Saturday. Illinois had something else in mind. The Badgers rocketed out of the starting gates, opening up a 10-0 lead before the Fighting Illini began to throw some punches of their own. After falling behind 20-7 early in the third quarter, Illinois running back Reggie Corbin ripped off a 43-yard touchdown scamper that turned the tide once and for all. The Badger offense sputtered the rest of the way, scoring only three points during the last 25 minutes of gameplay. Illinois clawed their way back to just a two-point deficit late in the fourth, setting the stage for kicker James McCourt on the game’s final drive. He delivered, nailing a 39-yarder as the clock struck zero. Illini quarterback Brandon Peters threw for a pair of touchdowns in the victory, while Corbin churned out 83 yards and a crucial touchdown on the ground. With this loss, Wisconsin’s hopes of a perfect regular season campaign are dashed, and their place among college football’s serious playoff contenders is jeopardized. Oregon 35, Washington 31 The No. 12 Oregon Ducks (6-1) made a quick voyage up the coast on Saturday to face their divisional contenders, the No. 25 Washington Huskies (5-3). In a contest that seesawed back and forth throughout all four quarters, Oregon mounted an impressive come-from-behind
effort to steal a crucial road victory. Oregon fell behind 28-14 early in the second half before the Ducks offense began lighting up the scoreboard, overwhelming the Husky defense with a 21-3 scoring run to end the game. NFL prospect Justin Herbert lived up to the hype for the Ducks, airing it out for four touchdowns and 280 yards through the air. Receiver Jaylon Redd impressed as well, hauling in two crucial touchdown grabs in the victory. In the wake of this defeat, Washington falls to the middle of the pack in the Pac-12 North, while Oregon cements its place atop the division. Arizona State 3, Utah 21 No. 13 Utah Utes (6-1) welcomed No. 17 Arizona State (5-2) Saturday in a crucial Pac-12 South battle. The Utah defense stifled the Sun Devils from the get-go, maintaining a shutout until midway through the third quarter and surrendering only three points in a pivotal performance. Arizona quarterback Jayden Daniels performed underwhelmingly, completing only four passes for 25 yards and an interception. Meanwhile, the Ute offense gashed the Sun Devils on the ground, with senior running back Zack Moss breaking off 99 yards and a pair of touchdowns, a performance that etched his name in the history books as Utah’s all-time leading rusher. With the win, Utah continues its strong start to conference play, while Arizona State drops seven spots to No. 24 in this week’s AP poll. Michigan 21, Penn State 28 No. 7 Penn State (7-0) hosted a struggling Michigan (5-2) squad in Happy Valley on Saturday evening. This contest marked the Nittany Lions’ annual white-out game, in which Penn State enthusiasts show up to the stadium clad from head-to-toe in white apparel, creating one of the most hostile environments college football has to offer. The moment proved too big for the visiting Wolverines, as they fell short on the road in an impactful Big Ten matchup. Wolverine quarterback Shea Patterson was held without a touchdown in the loss, while Nittany Lion
signal-caller Sean Clifford stuffed the stat sheet, finding the end zone thrice through the air and once on the ground. Penn State continues their systematic dominance in the Big Ten, while Jim Harbaugh’s crew is once again sent back to the drawing board, searching for answers. Week 9 Preview No. 13 Wisconsin @ No. 3 Ohio State The red-hot Buckeyes welcome the Badgers to the Horseshoe, providing a potential preview of the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis later this year. Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields looks to continue his electric start to the season, while Wisconsin will surely be out for blood after suffering a devastating loss to Illinois the previous week. No. 9 Auburn @ No. 2 LSU LSU is faced with another talented SEC opponent at home, marking their second top-10 matchup in the past three weeks. All eyes will be on Death Valley this weekend as dynamic quarterbacks Joe Burrow and Bo Nix face off in a battle for SEC bragging rights.
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Fighting Illini defense stepped up in crucial moments against the Badgers, forcing three pivotal turnovers.
Cover three: Cowboys are back in NFC playoff hunt After losing three straight games, Cowboys remain atop the NFC East with resounding win against the Eagles BY LUKE MARTIN Staff Writer martl19@wfu.edu Whether it was the clear skies of Buffalo or the downpours in D.C., weather conditions were fairly representative of playoff races in Week 7. The slate of games provided clarity to some divisional races and muddled up some others. Quarterback situations were volatile this week as well, with Patrick Mahomes going down for multiple weeks with an injury and the Titans pulling the plug on Marcus Mariota. Week 8 may see some more stability as Drew Brees could return from the thumb injury he suffered earlier this year. Week 7 Recap Bills 31, Dolphins 21 For a team that is allegedly tanking this season, anyone who watched this game knows that the Dolphins put up a significant fight in this one. If they’re tanking, they better be careful because they are bound to win a game if they keep playing like they did Sunday. On the other sideline, the Bills were able to play through a lackluster first half performance on offense to win. Josh Allen showed that he is a more than capable runner but still has lots of room to improve passing the ball. The rare onside kick return for a touchdown finished this one off, but the Dolphins were able to hang around until late in the game. The Dolphins will build from this, and I strongly believe they will secure a divisional win this season. Ravens 30, Seahawks 16 If we had known prior to this week that Lamar Jackson would only score one touchdown on the day, it is likely that more bets would have been placed on the Seahawks. The Ravens defense played outstandingly well against Seattle, with their two touchdowns being the difference in
the game. Jackson was able to make enough plays with his legs to move the ball, while MVP candidate Russel Wilson did not keep pace with the high expectations he’s set for himself. Even with that, both of these teams look like competitors for deep playoff runs. Cowboys 37, Eagles 10 Turnovers, third-down conversions, special teams. The box score difference was not enough for a 27-point win by the Cowboys. The Cowboys clinched the winning moments in this game, creating a further separation. Both looking for separation in the division, this game was a critical win for the Cowboys. They were able to keep the Eagles at arm’s length, and landed the knockout punch when it was needed. Whether or not either of these teams are legitimate threats is yet to be known, but if Dak and Zeke play consistently and Brett Maher keeps hitting 60+ yard field goals, they can play with anybody.
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Although they rank at the bottom of the AFC East, the Dolphins showed fight against the Bills.
Week 8 Preview Redskins at Vikings, Thursday 8:20 p.m. Since only scoring 6 against the Bears in September, the Vikings offense has hit full stride. Kirk Cousins has shown what the Vikings administration thought they saw when they offered him a guaranteed $84 million. Dalvin Cook just keeps putting the ball in the end zone, and the more he can run the ball, the better rested the talented defense can be. The Redskins lost again in Week 7, bringing their record to 1-6 with the lone win over the lowly Dolphins. The Redskins have hung in there with multiple good teams this year, putting up 20+ twice and 15 against the incredible Bears defense. The Redskins are hungry. I expect the ‘Skins defensive line to hurry Cousins, Adrian Peterson to outrush Dalvin Cook, and Minnesota to give Washington their second win of the year in a close game. Buccaneers at Titans, Sunday 1 p.m. The Titans are feeling energized after Ryan Tannehill was able to lead the team to a win in his first start of the year against the Chargers. Corey Davis made big catches that have seemed to evade him this year, and the defensive line greatly benefited from Jeffery Simmons’s debut. Surprisingly, the Titans find themselves squarely in the middle of a tight playoff race in the AFC South. The Bucs have stumbled through two losses since their surprising 55-40 win over the Rams. With added pressure from the Simmonsfortified front seven of the Titans, Jameis Winston will have to avoid turnovers that have been a constant through his career. Malcolm Butler and co. will be ready to win the game for the Titans if he can’t. Packers at Chiefs, Sunday 8:20 p.m. Many theories surfaced when Patrick Mahomes went down last week, from the Chiefs trading for new backup Marcus Mariota, to signing free agent Colin Kaepernick. In the end, Andy Reid decided to stick with the safe backup who already knows the KC offense, Matt Moore. Moore has quite the task ahead, trying to keep up with a refreshed-looking Aaron Rodgers. The Packers defense has not looked exceptional, but they haven’t had to with the offense performing as well as they have. The Chiefs defensive front will have to pressure Rodgers for the Chiefs to have a chance in this battle of division leaders.
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Nats head home with 2-0 World Series lead Nationals stunned the Astros, stealing the first two games of the World Series on the road in Houston BY REN SCHMITT Print Managing Editor schmwm16@wfu.edu Despite the Astros’ supposed superiority and home-field advantage, the underdog Nationals marched into Houston and won a Game 1 nail-biter and cruised to a Game 2 blowout. Now, both teams head to D.C. for three games and the Astros face an uphill battle in pursuit of their second title in three years. The Astros sent their ace Gerrit Cole to the mound in Game 1, and they had reason for supreme confidence, as Cole had not suffered a loss since May 22 — until Tuesday. Washington challenged Cole from the outset and scored five runs against the recently untouchable pitcher. Washington’s offensive success in Game 1 was a story of harmony between their youngest and oldest players. Thirty five-year-old Ryan Zimmerman, the Nationals’ franchise-first draft pick in 2005, finally got his moment on the big stage when he hit the franchise’s first home run in the second inning. Twenty-year-old Juan Soto added another series of moments to his postseason highlight tape, recording three hits, including a double and a mammoth opposite field shot off Cole. The Astros mounted a comeback against the Washington bullpen in the late innings thanks to a homer and double from George Springer, but they eventually came up just short, falling 5-4. Game 2 was a close affair for most of the evening. The Nationals opened their scoring in the first inning with a two-run Anthony Rendon double off Justin Verlander, but the Astros responded with a two-run Alex Bregman bomb that cleared
the Crawford Boxes in left field. After that, both offenses went quiet, and both starting pitchers hung zeroes for five innings. The top of the seventh inning proved to be the game’s defining frame. It started with a Kurt Suzuki solo home run off Verlander’s 100th pitch and continued when Houston went to its bullpen. The Astros walked the bases loaded to face Howie Kendrick, and a bobble by Bregman allowed another run to cross the plate. A couple hits and a Bregman throwing error later, the Nats had batted around and secured an 8-2 lead. Washington continued to pile on with a pair of homers in the eighth and ninth innings, and eventually earned a decisive 12-3 victory. On Friday in Washington, the Astros will turn to starting pitcher Zack Greinke — who has struggled in October — in desperate need of a Game 3 win. The Nationals will send crafty
veteran Anibal Sanchez to the mound in front of what will be a sold-out, energized Washington crowd. In World Series history, 10 of the 13 road teams to seize a 2-0 lead have gone on to win the World Series. For Washington, it would be the title first in franchise history. For Houston, the 2017 World Series champion, a World Series loss would damage their hopes of etching their names among historic MLB dynasties. More than any team in baseball, Houston is capable of overcoming a 2-0 deficit, but their success will rely on the formula that got them to the Fall Classic in the first place: dominant starting pitching. Cole, Greinke and Verlander must step up in the coming games, as even Houston’s MLB-best offense cannot guarantee prolific run creation against Washington’s star-studded rotation.
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Washington Nationals Ryan Zimmerman and Juan Soto were instrumental in the team’s 5-4 victory over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night. Zimmerman opened the scoring with a solo home run.
NBA opening night: Clippers, Raptors start off strong Raptors dominate in overtime against the Pelicans, while the Clippers win the battle of Los Angeles BY RENTING CAI Staff Writer cair17@wfu.edu
Defending champion Raptors defeat Pelicans 130122 The defending NBA champion Toronto Raptors opened their season with an overtime victory, a morale boost that set the tone for the season, even though they lost their core player Kawhi Leonard. As for the New Orleans Pelicans, they started the rebuilding journey by drafting forward Zion Williams as the first overall pick, who suffered a knee injury recently, and by acquiring young core players from the Lakers through the Anthony Davis trade. The game was loaded with offensive talent and the Pelicans took control quickly with multiple 3-pointers in the first quarter. Pelicans’ forward Brandon Ingram scored 12 points efficiently in the first half, while Raptors’ forward Pascal Siakam, who just re-signed a max contract with the team, responded with 16 points. The defending champions improved on the offensive end in the second half, utilizing Siakam’s physical advantages over Ingram to score multiple times. Meanwhile, the Raptors’ x-factor of last season, Fred VanVleet, drove into the paint consistently and scored 11 points to help add to the team’s lead in the third quarter. Neither of the teams seized their chances to win the game, and they were tied 117-117 at the end of regulation. The Raptors, however, showed that they were the more experienced side, as VanVleet made another clutch 3-pointer in overtime to seal the win. VanVleet eventually scored 34 points, which was his career high and the night’s team high, tied with Siakam’s
34 points. Ingram scored the Pelicans’ team high with 22 points along with five boards and five assists. Clippers win Los Angeles Derby 112-102 The Los Angeles Derby was more competitive than ever after both Los Angeles teams made major changes in the past summer. The Lakers acquired 26-year-old All-Star forward Anthony Davis, pairing him with three-time champion LeBron James; the Clippers assembled a dynamic forward duo with defending Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard and All-Star forward Paul George, who was sidelined in the game due to shoulder surgery. The game started with a mix of cheers and boos at the Staples Center, with the Lakers taking control in the beginning. The new Lakers coach, Frank Vogel, designed plays that centered around James and Davis, along with two shooters Danny Green and Avery Bradley. With Davis’ and James’ isolation play and the shooters’ 3-pointers, the Lakers were up by 10 points in the first few minutes. After Leonard’s quiet first quarter with only four points on three attempts, he took over in the second quarter by making six straight jump shots. The Lakers failed to respond, as Vogel decided to rest Davis for almost half of the second quarter, while Lou Williams scored seven points off the Clippers’ bench to extend the lead to eight points going into the second half. Leonard kept his hot hand going in the second half,and the Lakers struggled to contain him. The Lakers were down by more than 10 points for most of the third quarter, but Danny Green made five 3-pointers to help the Lakers suddenly tie the game. However, the Lakers’ bench was not deep enough to handle the Clippers. Whenever either James or Davis was not playing, the Clippers outplayed the Lakers with their smooth ball movement. The derby eventually ended with a Clippers victory, a reward for their hustle on the boards and on the defensive end. The Lakers, on the other hand, needed to
work on the designing and executing non-isolation plays, as well as the team chemistry among the shooters and the forwards. Leonard contributed a solid debut performance with 30 points, six rebounds and five assists, and Williams scored 21 points off the Clippers’ bench. As for the Lakers, Green scored a team-high 28 points with seven 3-pointers, while Davis scored 25 points on only eight made out of 21 attempts on his opening night.
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Los Angeles’ newest stars, Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard, faced off for the first time Tuesday night
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Dough Joe's opens in Reynolda Village Dough Joe's offers tasty food, good coffee and a comfortable atmosphere — perfect for studying and hanging out with friends
BY EMILY BEAUCHAMP Life Editor beauea17@wfu.edu For those who don’t know me, I love coffee (especially espresso), and so when I heard a coffee shop was opening up in Reynolda Village, I was ecstatic. I saw the “Dough Joe’s Doughnuts & Coffee coming soon” sign at the end of last semester and started counting down the days until it opened. Dough Joe’s opened in Reynolda Village on Sept. 18; however, the doughnut shop originated as a food truck. The founders of the food truck, Eric Disch and Anna Margaret Roth, are both Wake Forest alumni with a love for food. In 2017, they opened Dough Joe’s Doughnuts & Coffee to fill Winston-Salem’s need for a local doughnut shop. The Reynolda Village location was the shop’s first major expansion. The shop is open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 12 a.m. on Fridays, and over the weekend, they open at 8 a.m. However, there’s one catch: the kitchen closes at 5 p.m. every day. This means fresh doughnuts are no longer made after this time, and the only food available is what is in the bakery display and ice cream. There are two main rooms and an outside patio area. The first main room houses several seating options, the coffee bar and a huge mirror by the cream and sugar station. The back room features a dining room table, a line of bar stools and a couple of smaller round tables. Dough Joe’s offers a wide variety of coffee, doughnuts, ice cream and baked goods. In terms of coffee, they offer a range of both seasonal beverages and typical coffee shop drinks. Their seasonal beverages include the Sleepy Hollow drink, which is chamomile tea, vanilla and steamed milk, and Poison Apple Cider, which consists of spiced cider and cinnamon. Like many coffee shops, Dough Joe’s offers several flavor add-ins and milk alternatives. However, to my surprise, the shop does not offer almond milk as an alternative. They do offer oat milk, which I’ve found to be quite tasty, but I was taken aback when I didn’t see the popular almond milk on the menu. Most menu items are priced a little bit on the higher side, and they offer three sizes for both hot and cold drinks. However, there are a few exceptions. A medium (16 oz.) hot latte is $4.50, adding a flavor syrup costs an addi-
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tional $0.75 and oat milk adds yet another $0.75. Coffee and a food item can definitely start to get pricey, but the overall location, atmosphere and quality make it worth it. When I first entered Dough Joe’s, the ambiance really hit me. It felt homey and warm; there were tons of seats despite the small space and sunlight filtered through the windows. The environment really sticks with me; every inch of the shop is decorated in some way, and comfort seemed to be a huge priority. The first time I went to Dough Joe’s, the kitchen was already closed, so I tried their coffee. I purchased an iced vanilla latte, which I know is fairly basic, but I like it. I thought the quality was pretty good; however, I prefer my coffee to be on the sweeter side, and it definitely was leaning more toward the bitter side of the spectrum. All in all, it was a little pricey for what I ordered, but I feel like it was worth it. When I went back for the second time, I bought another iced vanilla latte, but this time with oat milk. The
oat milk added a bit of sweetness to the drink, so I preferred this pairing over the regular milk I had purchased before. I also ordered a cinnamon sugar doughnut; however, it wasn’t made fresh, rather, it was just a leftover item in the bakery stand. Even though the doughnut had been sitting out, it still tasted amazing and fresh. The sweetness of the cinnamon sugar coating paired well with the cakey fried dough. I believe the cinnamon sugar is a fan favorite for most customers who visit the shop. I have been back several times since this, but I haven’t branched out very much. I have tried the traditional glazed doughnut and the iced dirty chai latte with oat milk. The glazed doughnut was amazing. I finally made it to Dough Joe’s before the kitchen closed, so it was incredibly fresh. I have always described Krispy Kreme doughnuts as a food that melts in your mouth, but the Dough Joe’s traditional glazed doughnut was so fresh and fluffy that it fell apart in my hands. It was on par with a Krispy Kreme doughnut. The dirty chai left me feeling a little unsatisfied, however. Like I said earlier, I like my drinks to lean towards the sweeter side, but the chai flavor was too subtle, and the cinnamon that was powdered on top of my drink left my mouth feeling dry. I won’t totally write off their chai, though. I need to do some more research before I make a final decision, but I currently prefer the vanilla. I’m planning to return to study, and I really want to try their ice cream. All of the ice cream is made by another small local business in Winston-Salem called Dream Kreams. Dough Joe’s offers a large variety of flavors, ranging from the traditional vanilla all the way to blueberry butter pecan. The only thing I wish is that they would add almond milk to the menu. For those who are lactose intolerant, almond milk is a go-to alternative. I know they offer oat milk, but there are people who are unable to have grains like those used to make oat milk. I like that oat milk is an option, but I wish they would also offer almond milk. Overall, Dough Joe’s Doughnuts & Coffee is a place everyone should try while they’re here in Winston-Salem. The food is delicious, and the ambiance is reminiscent of the old Campus Grounds.
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Health Column | Self Care
Three tips for Discover mindful ways to focus on loving yourself this cuffing season BY LUCY NELSON Asst. Sports Editor nelsld16@wfu.edu It’s that time of year: cuffing season. Cold weather is creeping in, as is the desperation of finding someone to cuddle with and show off to your nosy grandmother during the holidays. It’s also a time where long-distance freshman year relationships begin to fizzle out and anxiety peaks for seniors that still haven’t found that college soulmate that we’ve all been told is inevitable. No matter where you are on the relationship spectrum right now in this brisk fall season, the long months and holiday breaks provide the perfect opportunity for you to explore the most complicated relationship of all: the one with yourself. Yeah, we’ve all heard the cheesy phrase “self-love,” but it is not as easy as you might think, and is way underrated. As love guru Carrie Bradshaw once said, “The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself.” Self-care is a concept that is emphasized frequently and seems easy enough, but actually takes some time and devotion to truly discover. It’s a trade-off: sacrificing time and energy is necessary to obtain happy
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and healthy relationships. We do this with friends and significant others more easily and more often because they are constantly there to remind us if we are failing to check in, but we forget to check in with ourselves. That’s why I challenge you to take a month, or even just a week, to actually commit time to actively focus on yourself, and see what you learn. And who knows, maybe then you’ll find that perfect companion to go to pumpkin patches with and share hot chocolate with. In the words of Carrie: “And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that’s just fabulous.” Without further ado, here are three tips for how you can embark on your committed journey: Meditate Yeah, yeah … you’re not a hipster or a yogi so you immediately dismiss this one. But what if I told you it is sort of like working
out? Similar to the way that we train our bodies at the gym, meditation is a way of training the mind in its awareness. It’s not a way of drowning everything out. Rather, it’s a method of observing our thoughts and feelings without judgment and giving them perspective and a greater understanding. Not to mention, it has literally been scientifically proven to reduce stress, anxiety and depression. If you are unsure how to meditate, Headspace is an awesome (free) app that guides you through 1-10 minute meditation sessions. Take time to get to know your own body That’s right — I’m talking about the intimate art of self-pleasure. Orgasms release the endorphins dopamine and oxytocin, which can improve your mood, relieve stress and help you sleep better. Furthermore, knowing your own body and what you like goes a long way in intimate relationships and understanding your own sexuality. So, take the time to treat yourself and indulge in a little ménage à moi. Find an engaging solo activity Whether it’s baking, reading a book, gardening or doing a sudoku puzzle, find an activity that you enjoy and that is both calming and mindful. It’s easy to switch on the TV and zone out, and it’s also completely acceptable to do so. But it’s also important to find an activity that feeds your brain and mind with the rejuvenating and calming Photo courtesy of TimTai/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS qualities it has to offer. This way, you can Meditation promotes self aware- walk away feeling proud, re-energized and ness and can help reduce stress. self-aware.
Album Review | Pang
Album showcases artist’s vocals Caroline Polachek takes her fans on an emotional journey in her new album Pang BY NIKO KOLEV Staff Writer kolens18@wfu.edu Pang is the first full length solo project from indie pop singer Caroline Polachek. This 14-track project takes you on an emotional journey through Polachek’s psyche and her thoughts. Perhaps the strongest part of this project is the range and flexibility that Polachek’s operaticlike voice exudes. Every track on this album has a very tangible sense of rawness, like Polachek’s very soul is on display for all to hear. On tracks like “Caroline Shut Up” and “Parachute,” Polachek’s voice cracks and goes somewhat off key at times. But this is not a negative at all, at least for these tracks. Those mistakes add more personality and emotion to the track when they are pulled off successfully. Polachek has mastered the art of floaty and airy vocals over more lowkey background tracks. The hooks to the songs are all extremely catchy, not only because of the vocals but because of the great electronic music underneath them. Both the vocals, and lyrics of this project are excellent. On tracks like “Pang,” Polachek masterfully crafts the emotional core of
the song. She has developed a sing-songy multiple listens. Polachek sets herself speech that she uses to articulate the po- apart from the pack of Indie Pop singetry of the song. You can see this pattern ers that dominate the charts. Pang gets in tracks like “Go As a Dream” where a strong 7/10, with the best tracks being Polachek is addressing the emptiness that “Pang,” “New Normal,” “Hit Me Where she feels, the “joke without a punchline.” It Hurts,” “Go As a Dream,” “Caroline Though many of the hooks on this Shut Up,” “Parachute” and “So Hot project are quite catchy, there are some You’re Hurting My Feelings.” factors that may be a turn-off from Pang. First, listening to the album all in one sitting can be quite draining. The pace of the music is very slow, agonized and emotional. For those looking to get a boost of energy, this is not the one for you. Another issue is that Polachek will sing much higher than her vocal chords seem to allow, and this can be excruciatingly painful to sit through. The same vocal mistakes that add personality to tracks like “Hey Big Eyes” really detract from tracks like “Insomnia,” which is easily the worst track on the whole album. Despite these misgivings, Polachek has crafted a master class in music that showcases her fantastic vocals. Her voice has the unique talent of having the subtlety and grace of a whispering lullaby, but also of being commanding like an operatic soloist. This is a great start to what is a quickly blooming solo career. Polachek leaves the listener with high hopes for future projects to come. With more time and experience, hopefully she will be able Photo courtesy of amazon.com to completely overcome any limitations that she currently has. In stark contrast Polachek crafted an album that demto last week’s review, this album deserves onstrates her limitations and talents.
Top 10 Finger Foods By Will May
Snack time is the best time of the day; as such, here are 10 of the best finger foods to eat when hungry.
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Dino Nuggets Chick-Fil-A Waffle Fries
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Chicken Fingers McDonalds’ Filet-O-Fish
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Celery
Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Panda Puffs Guacamole New England Clam Chowder Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dippin’ Dots
DRINK OF THE WEEK Chai Hot Chocolate
Is this a rip-off of a juice shop smootie? Maybe...
• 1 1/2 cups chai concentrate • 1/2 cup milk • 2 tbsp. cocoa powder Combine the chai concentrate and milk and heat until steaming. Add the cocoa powder and top with whipped cream.
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Travel Column | Martha’s Vineyard
Destination is more than stereotype Martha’s Vineyard offers many opportunities for exploring new cultures
BY AMANDA GAGE Staff Writer gageak19@wfu.edu
Ever since I can remember, I have spent my summers in Martha’s Vineyard. My fondest memories have been made during my time on the small island, and in many ways, my time on the Vineyard has shaped the person I am today. After spending almost 18 summers on the Vineyard, it has become my happy place. Due to my emotional connection to my summer home, I was unaware of the stereotypes associated with Martha’s Vineyard and the people who vacation there. When people hear Martha’s Vineyard, an image of privilege pops into their mind. People associate the island with an elite society and atmosphere, which I can’t blame them for. There are definitely wealthy vacationers who come to Edgartown and drop thousands of dollars on clothes, go to the nicest golf clubs and flaunt their money. But, this is not why I fell in love with this place. I fell in with the Chilmark Flea Market, where I got to interact with several
small, local business owners. I formed a friendship with the woman who owns a clothing store that makes clothes completely from deadstock materials. I also became friends with the motherdaughter duo that designs and sews all of their clothing on island. I fell in love with hidden trails and hikes that appear as you escape the vicinity of downtown Edgartown. Every 10 minutes up the road, little signs pop out to signal a new adventure awaiting. Even after 18 years, I still have not seen them all. I fell in love with Martha’s Vineyard because of its passion for agriculture. Not many people know how many farms there are throughout the island, and all of the islanders have made it their mission to make sure these farms continue to thrive and offer fresh produce. Multiple farm stands are scattered throughout Chilmark and West Tisbury with an honor system: take what you want and leave the money in the basket. One of my favorite traditions is going to the quaint farmers market before work, the islanders rushing in to support their local farmers, who are also their friends. Lastly, I fell in love with the people. Look beyond the summer vacationers who may taint the image of Martha’s Vineyard, and you will find a close-knit community of locals who support one
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Martha’s Vineyard has scenic views, friendly locals, farms and new adventures around every corner. The island is worth a trip. another. I have been lucky enough to have been welcomed by this island family over the years. By working at Morning Glory Farm, I have gotten to talk and work with some of Martha’s Vineyard’s finest, humble and honest people who have shown me so much love. The flea market introduced me to hardworking entrepreneurs who care so deeply about their praoducts. The farm-
ers market allowed to me to talk with locals and foster new relationships. By spontaneously stopping on the side of the road to explore a new trail, I grew a love for the island’s beauty and environment. Martha’s Vineyard is truly a place like no other, and after years of spending time with its amazing community, every summer, it’s like I am going home.
TV Show Review | Dead to Me
Dead to Me is both comical, emotional Netflix Original Dead to Me effectively utilizes flashbacks to develop characters
BY FRANK GALLAGI Contributing Writer gallfa18@wfu.edu
Earlier this year Netflix released a new Netflix Original titled Dead to Me, starring both Christina Applegate, playing the character of Jen Harding, and Linda Cardellini, playing the character of Judy Hale. The show is a comedic drama that shows the life of two women who are currently struggling with the loss of a loved one. Both Jen and Judy form a unique relationship between each other as a form of support and friendship in order to overcome their loss. However, there are many twists and turns that come out from the show that leaves the audience on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens next. I personally would rate this show with an 8.8 out of 10 for the themes, character development and use of flashbacks that were incorporated within the show. Dead to Me is both incredibly comical and yet emotional, which provokes a great amount of feelings. At times
you can find yourself laughing to the point of exhaustion or positively affected by the compassion and love that comes from their friendship. The unity between Jen and Judy is both inspiring and leads one to emulate the
bond they have between each other of both support and genuine love. The character development of the whole cast is exceptional. Throughout the show, the audience is able to see each of the characters change in a way
to help advance the plot. The most unique form of character development was the way the creators of the show presented the character Ted Harding. Ted is the deceased husband of Jen. The show incorporates several elements that allows for the audience’s opinion of Ted to change frequently. You are able to see the true person Ted was even though he was not in the show at all, rather, just a person the cast constantly brought up. The third element that I thought was very creative was the way that the creators of the show used flashbacks in order to not only help show what has occurred in the past, but also to explain crucial details that were not previously explained or shown on screen. The creators decided to not show everything that occurred in the flashback, leaving the audience to guess on what they just saw or assume something that may have not happened. Their use of flashbacks elevates the show from an average comedic drama to a masterpiece that incorporates several themes to help progress the show in an artistic masterpiece. Dead to Me is both fun and interesting to watch. You will definitely never be bored while watching the show. In Photo courtesy of imdb.com fact, you will see the passion of the Jen and Judy’s relationship is formed under a unique situation making characters and the creativity from the it extremely interesting to see how it develops as time passes. creators of the show.
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Lifestyle Column | TV Blows
Television recently loses its edge
While TV may have replaced film, the media has been in slow decline as of late BY KYLE FERRER Opinion Editor ferrka16@wfu.edu I’ve boycotted television. Why? Because I don’t want my (relatively unmalleable) taste unwittingly caged by the Netflixian ethos of limitation by inundation. What does that florid nonsense mean? It means Netflix’s algorithmic taste-making, a process that tracks viewing time, categorical habits and even lingering gazes through a flood of un-sifted nonsense, eventually causes the mind to acquiesce to mediocrity. As you pick through Netflix’s product, you commit, unwittingly, to their inferior catalogue, curated just for you. But my effete paranoia is only part of the reason I am boycotting television. The added repellent comes from social alienation. The amount of times I have been told to watch a new show, some of which I have heard of, most of which are completely unknown, has reached a tipping point. Since, in my feeble effort to keep up, I failed to even graze the zeitgeist, my choice has be-
excellence. In terms of cultural discourse, these shows replaced, to an extent, the talked-about film, which replaced the talkedabout novel some years before that. Although one could argue this progression portended the end of difficult art, at least in the sense that it could coincide with commercial and popular attention, my point is that, ever since these shows captivated the nation, the medium has been in a slow decline. Not in visual texture (every television show looks like a feature-film now), but in genuine aesthetic investment and vision. The present deluge has led to desensitization and passive acceptance. Critical thought (or aesthetic appreciation) has no time to develop, no time to take root Photo courtesy of imdb.com and grow into a subconscious force, because As television continues to develop, viewers can become numb to the the next show in line has 10 decapitations, aesthetic excellence of the art form and film has become obsolete. or a numbing amount of neon, or nudity, in the first seven seconds. come to forgo all televisual experience. tural noise, continued to push the medium This is all a convoluted way of saying I There is simply no way everyone’s differ- to its limit, creating the now-debunked can no longer make friends through culent, favorite TV show is “great, amazing, so notion that television could usurp film as tural commonalities. I am adrift in a sea of the dominant artistic medium. Note: the referents. Once frustrated, then truculent, good.” There existed a time, briefly after The So- operative word is artistic, not dominant. now benumbed, I take solace in the motion pranos and The Wire, a “New Wave,” one It has absolutely become the latter. But the picture theater, the (considered-to-be) retcould almost say, where a few great shows catalogue I’m referring to includes Breaking rograde refuge of film. I find a home there animated the cultural conversation. The bar Bad, Dexter, Mad Men, and a few others, and will dwell in isolation forever. The empwas high for great TV, and these few shows, all dense, heady, dare I say borderline cine- ty plaudits can’t find me there, in the dark, guided by their consummate predecessors matic works of art that not only entertained alone, as I watch some flinging thing save and undiluted by the din of gratuitous cul- the populous, but did so through aesthetic the world from destruction … oh, wait.
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DEACON DATES BY AMANDA WILCOX Online Managing Editor wilcaf16@wfu.edu This fall, the Editorial Board of the Old Gold & Black has once again put down our editing pens and picked up Cupid bows. Our reprise of Deacon Dates promised to sponsor a special date in downtown Winston-Salem for two lucky Demon Deacons selected by our staff, who moonlight as expert romantic consultants. Almost thirty students submitted applications, answering questions about their ideal romantic partners, dream first dates and favorite memes. We chose to set up freshmen Collin Cheung and Zariyah Cope, sending them to the Old Fourth Street Filling Station on Oct. 15. Amanda Wilcox: What are you looking for in a romantic partner? What were you looking for signing up for Deacon Dates? Collin Cheung: Well, for a romantic partner, I guess I’m looking for someone who’s sweet and fun to be around without being overwhelming. With Deacon Dates I was just looking for a good time and to enjoy the experience. Zariyah Cope: I was mainly looking for someone who is kind of goofy, because I’m goofy, and someone who doesn’t mind being lazy as well, because I like being lazy. Just overall, I guess, someone funny and humorous. I mainly [signed up for Deacon Dates] because my friends were pushing me to do it, because they all knew I had never been on a date before, and they said, “You should do it!” and I said, “Okay!” I was a little nervous, but I did it anyway. AW: How did you feel leading up to the date? Were you nervous or excited? CC: I was excited, but not overwhelmingly excited. ZC: I was definitely nervous just because I had no idea who the person could be. My mind was just thinking about so many scenarios as to what could happen. I expected it to be a bit awkward, mainly because I can be awkward, but when I
did get there, it wasn’t that awkward because we just talked the entire time, so it wasn’t that bad. AW: What were your first impressions? CC: We had met at Playfair actually [during first-year orientation], but we didn’t know each other. I don’t really know what my first impressions were, but it was nice; it was a “that makes sense” kind of thing. We were like, “Oh, I recognize you,” because we had met before. ZC: I met him at orientation during Playfair, so I remembered him from there. I originally had a brief conversation with him there because we found out we had the same birthday month [in an activity at Playfair], so that’s how I did talk to him at that time. He was also at a karaoke night. I don’t know if he remembers, but I was at a karaoke night and he performed. I remember that pretty well. AW: Do you feel like you connected and had a good conversation? CC: Yeah, we had good conversations about regular school year stuff and Halloween coming up and movies and interests and things like that. ZC: I felt comfortable because he seemed like a really nice person and was willing to listen to whatever I had to say, so that was nice. We definitely had a good conversation — it was funny, though, because there were a lot of things that we were sort of opposite on. He loves scary movies and I can’t do it. Music choices, I like to nap, he likes hiking, so that was funny to me, but we did have a good conversation. One interesting fact that I did find out about him is that he knows how to perform magic, and he did perform a magic trick while we were there. He already knew my birthday, so he put that in, and he asked me for my favorite number and then divided by something and then he took his phone case off and there was an index card in there and I opened it and it had the exact number. I don’t know how that works, but that was cool.
AW: How were the other elements of the date — the food, the restaurant, the atmosphere? CC: The food was good, the atmosphere was good. The restaurant was very nice — the decorations of the restaurant were nice to look at … Dessert was great. I got the fudge brownie, and she had the strawberry cake. The cake was massive. It was a giant cake. ZC: It was definitely nice. The menu was very fancy and it took me like 20 minutes to decide what I wanted to eat. I had grilled chicken with pico de gallo, cheese, candied bacon and some type of special sauce and then mashed red potatoes and seasonal vegetables, and that was good. He had some type of salmon salad and then filet mignon, I believe, for his main dish, and we both got dessert as well, and that was good. AW: What did you do after you came back from dinner, at the end of the date? CC: We dropped her off at her dorm and I went to the football game. ZC: At the end of the date, we agreed to Lyft back together and we continued to talk about a bunch of random things. He invited me to an event that he’s hosting on campus, the “Why Do We Poet” thing or something at Shorty’s, where people perform different poems from different backgrounds. AW: Does this give you more of an idea of what you might be looking for in a dating partner? CC: More comfortability in talking … someone it’s easy to flow a conversation with and in general have shared interests. ZC: It made me feel more easy about dating because I literally did just go out to eat and have a conversation with someone. I’m glad that I had that experience.
COLLIN CHEUNG Intended Major: Biology Hometown: New Hyde Park, N.Y. Interests: Nature, animals, superheros Favorite underrated spot on campus: Campus Gardens If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you be and why? A really cool-looking steak knife
ZARIYAH COPE Intended Major: Psychology Hometown: Alexandria, Va. Interests: Dancing, watching movies, reading Favorite underrated spot on campus: There’s a student lounge in Kirby and it’s the perfect study spot for me If you were a kitchen utensil, which one would you be and why? I would be a spoon because you can do a lot with it Photo courtesy of Collin Cheung