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Provost Kersh’s address focuses on faculty achievements In his annual address, Rogan Kersh discussed the tradition of excellence at Wake Forest BY HEATHER HARTEL Online Managing Editor harthf15@wfu.edu
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Project Night Light is a new initative launched by the Office of Sustainability and Department of Physics. It hopes to make the university energy efficient and to reduce light pollution to keep stars visible at night.
Stars can’t shine in lightness Project Night Light aims to limit light polution and bring stars back to Wake Forest’s campus BY RAFAEL LIMA Staff Writer limara17@wfu.edu The Reynolda Campus has many reasons that make a walk at night a wonderful experience. It is filled with magnificent magnolias, flowers spread around open grass areas and a Georgian architecture which bridges the buildings across time. Yet, one major element is now missing: stars. Stars vanishing from night skies is a recurring event often thought of as a price that comes alongside development and ever-expanding civilizations. With recent high rates of light pollution, it has also become a problem at Wake Forest. In an effort to solve this problem while lowering energy costs on campus, the Of-
fice of Sustainability, in partnership with the Department of Physics, launched Project Night Light. “The idea is using measurements of outdoor lighting on campus to limit light pollution,” said Nathan Peifer, program coordinator for the Office of Sustainability. “We [also] hope that [those] measurements can guide our campus broadly in providing enough illumination for student safety but also reducing the amount of energy that we are using.” On June 5, 2017, after President Trump declared that the U.S. would not pursue the carbon-reduction pledges of the Paris Climate Accord anymore, a U.S. coalition of private businesses, cities, colleges and states signed the “We Are Still In” commitment to cut carbon pollution and deliver on the promises of the agreement by themselves. According to the International DarkSky Association (IDA), about 35 percent of outdoor lighting in the U.S. is wasted towards the sky due to lack of shielding measures and poor placing and aiming.
This wasted energy alone is responsible for the release of around 21 million tons of carbon dioxide per year in the U.S. alone. Wake Forest, as a member of the “We Are Still In” movement, designed project Night Light as the latest in a series of structural changes including building renewals and retrofits towards a more sustainable and energy-efficient campus. “If you have lights that only project down, then you [can] save half of your light, at least, because you don’t need the light to go up,” said Professor Jed Macosko, who teaches the class physics and chemistry of the environment. “It doesn’t help anybody to be safe.” Project Night Light is still in the dataanalysis stage, but possible solutions involve the use of reflectors that limit the amount of light projected towards the sky, improvements on the focus of the spotlights at Wait Chapel and a redesign of the acorn-shaped lamp posts to enhance illumination efficiency.
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On the evening of Monday, April 2, Pugh Auditorium was filled almost to capacity with anticipatory chatter. The excited noise, however, was not from students talking with their peers; instead the room was filled with professors, faculty and staff all catching up and sharing news among various departments. The occasion was Provost Rogan Kersh’s Annual Address, where he updates the faculty and staff about the accomplishments of the past year while also providing guidance for the future. Stewart Carter, professor in the department of music and the interim president of the faculty senate, offered the opening remarks. He introduced Kersh, sharing Kersh’s various accomplishments as a Wake Forest student, his later publications, various awards at other universities and briefly profiling his tenure thus far at Wake Forest. Following the introduction, Provost Kersh began his address with a question, asking: “When did Wake Forest go from a small, liberal arts school to a major, recognized university?” The proceeding answer came with a brief lesson in history, as Kersh explained that in the 1980s the first major fundraising campaign had a goal of raising $17.5 million. Later, during the tenure of President Emeritus Thomas Hearn, the Heritage and Promise Campaign set out to raise $150 million, and achieved its goal. Kersh’s address, similarly titled “Promise and Heritage,” was centered around these two ideas: the promise inherently embedded in the faculty and their accomplishments, combined with the heritage of excellence and celebration at Wake Forest. Focused solely on the academic enterprise, specifically the faculty, Kersh began his address by highlighting specific achievements.
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Recreation aren’t really open to the Winston-Salem community. But swim lessons or instructional programs — anybody can come take a lifeguarding or AED certification course and programs such as scuba will all be offered to anyone. Anyone can come and see what Wake Forest is all about and that could be a springboard for them in some ways. If you’re coming in and you’re doing this instructional program, you could see some other part of Wake Forest that you may be able to plug in with and get involved. I see it as a way to bring the greater community to engage in some of these activities and possibly engage in other aspects of Wake Forest.
When the new pool opened in the Reynolds Gymnasium in late March, Matthew Dantism joined the Campus Recreation staff to direct and schedule use of the pool and aquatics classes and activities. In the days since the opening of the pool, Dantism said that it has already had high traffic. He added that he plans to build on this momentum by offering varied aquatics programming for swimmers at all levels as well as lifeguarding and other safety courses. Besides the brand-new pool, what drew you to Wake Forest? I was born and bred in North Carolina. I’m from Concord, NC right down the road. I’ve lived away from North Carolina since 2011 after I finished my undergraduate so I saw this as an opportunity to continue what I love doing back in my home state and be able to operate in a beautiful new facility, specifically the new pool. What was your previous occupation? My previous work before here was at LSU. I was the aquatics coordinator there, and previous to that, I was in graduate school at Texas A&M. I was their graduate assistant of aquatics in their version of Campus Recreation. Previous to that, I was in the Peace Corps. I lived and worked in Cambodia for two years as a community health educator. What importance have aquatics and swimming had in your life? Were you a swimmer growing up? It’s always interesting. People kind of assume that I was a swimmer growing up; I wasn’t a competitive swimmer growing up. I grew up around water; my parents had a place at the beach and I definitely swam but I never had formal swim lessons. My brother and sister, who were older than me, swam and if I wanted to swim I kind of had to learn and teach myself to move forward so that I could enjoy the water space. I got into aquatics when I was an undergraduate at UNC Charlotte (UNCC). I took lifeguarding there, I took a scuba class there, I took water safety instruction — that’s kind of what got me into aquatics and working in aquatics professionally. What are your first impressions of the Wake Forest campus and community? Physically, the campus is very beautiful. I come from very large universities — Texas A&M, UNCC and LSU — student population-wise and geographically, as their campuses take up acres. Coming to a smaller university I kind of didn’t know what to expect but when I got here it was beautiful. Also, the buildings are all a cohesive look and the campus is very walkable, so there was that.
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Before I even got to Wake Forest, the campus announcement went out that I had been offered this position and that I would be coming here in this capacity as the aquatics director. I had an outpouring of emails from people just reaching out to me before I even got here. My first impression was “Wow, these people really care.” They were reaching out to me with well-wishes and wanting to meet me and that kind of thing, and when I got here, I noticed the number of emails and people stopping by. I think it was partly just a genuine care of people wanting to say, “Hey, welcome to Wake Forest, if there’s anything we can do for you, let us know.” What kinds of programs and activities are you most excited to start with the new pool? I tell people first and foremost that we have our lifeguard program up and running, so we have the people to run and manage the facility on a daily basis. The next program that has historically been offered is the Masters swim program, so they’ll be swimming most mornings and we’re looking at having additional offerings for the Masters swim program possibly around noon several times a week. We already have some of our instructional programs up and running, so teaching members of the community, students, staff and faculty lifeguarding courses and other instructional programming like CPR, first aid and automated external defibrillator (AED) courses. Coming this summer, we’ll be offering swim lessons, and we’ll be offering those year-round. People might think that’s just for children, but there’s adult learn-to-swim too. People generally think on a college campus, “Oh, everyone’s an adult, people know how to swim,” but that’s not the case. Usually there’s a large population of students that have never had access to something like this, but when they get on a college campus and have a beautiful facility like this, they want to have access. Part of that is being able to teach them. I think people will be very excited that we will be having a scuba program. It’s been a very small offering that we’ve had in the past, most re-
cently right before the pool closed, but we’re hoping to expand the scuba offerings to students every semester and over the summer. In general, we have partnerships internally within Campus Recreation. For example, Canoe Battleship is happening in the pool. Intramural inner tube water polo is another sport they’ll offer and we’re looking to have a club swim meet and intramural swim events. Outdoor Pursuits is already coming over and doing kayak roll sessions and stand-up paddleboarding in the pool. We’re just opening and we have all these things in the works and others that will be coming down the pipeline. What challenges do you foresee? One, I think first and foremost, is getting the facility up and running smoothly on a daily basis. We went from nothing — you know, the pool shut down for about a year and half — so there are normal challenges having everything running. People usually see a beautiful pool but don’t know all of the mechanical things that go on behind the scenes. Historically things have been offered or policies have been one way and changing some of those policies to align with other policies that exist now in the facility is another challenge. How are a good pool and aquatics program important for a college student’s overall wellbeing? Wake Forest puts a big emphasis on on wellbeing — that became very apparent when I got here. I see aquatics as a life skill that people can learn. It is a classic way of exercise and it is also a leisure activity that people can do as well. There are other things built into the pool — there’s volleyball, there’s basketball and people can come down and say, “Hey, let’s meet in the hot tub.” People can learn lifetime life-saving skills in this facility, having access to some of these things such as lifeguarding, first aid and AED classes. How do you plan to include the Winston-Salem community in the new pool and aquatics programming? One of the big things is that a lot of the programs we offer within Campus
How do you plan to draw in students and faculty who don’t typically swim or like swimming? I think some of the programming that we’re doing lends itself towards that. You don’t have to know how to swim to participate in Canoe Battleship or inner tube water polo like I mentioned. Yes, we have the pool and most people typically think of lap swimming, but people can come in and use the whirlpool just as a relaxation kind of thing. I’m hoping that in the future we can offer dive-in movies here. It’s a big thing on college campuses all over the country to have a projection screen in a facility space and let people use tubes or just lounge in the pool while a movie is playing, and we could do this once a quarter or something like that. People might think, “Oh, it’s just a pool,” but no, there are actually a lot of different things you can do with it. Those are some of the exciting, new bits of ideas that I’m trying to bring into the space. What do you anticipate accomplishing in your first 100 days, through the end of the semester and into the summer? Within the first 100 days one of the first things has been getting our staff. We went from zero lifeguards and we’re already up to 22 working in the facility, so that’s here for spring semester. Going into the end of spring semester and summer, we’ll be getting the swim lesson program up and running. We’ll be having a sports camp offered here through Campus Recreation that will be using our space, so we’ll be ramping up for that. We’ll be working on having a smooth transition from the spring semester to the summer. A lot of Wake Forest students are transient — they don’t live in North Carolina — but our need for lifeguards doesn’t decrease and we’ll need to have a smooth transition staffing-wise. In the long-term, we want to run successful programs. We don’t want to run a program just to say that we have a program on offer, but to truly engage people to come and take part in the programs that we’re offering.
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Provost: Faculty continue to succeed Continued from Page 1
“We’ll start with the promise of pathbreaking scholarship and creative work,” Kersh said. “I’d like to begin by taking us not just to Wake Forest origin, but going back 13 million years. Thirteen million years ago, a small creature meandered across what is now known as Africa, and many years later was discovered by a team including our own Ellen Miller.” Miller’s groundbreaking, news-worthy discoveries were shared around the world, and in this situation served as just one of Kersh’s examples of Wake Forest faculty’s dedication to success. Another example he shed light on was the work of a Wake Forest-sponsored research center called the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA). Their research trip to Peruvian forests to discover the dangers of artisanal gold mining drew the attention of Pope Francis, eventually leading him to travel to the South American country. Later, Kersh discussed the tradition of producing published work and research that Wake Forest faculty consistently achieve. He noted that faculty publish anywhere from 60 to 90 works each academic year, and that over 70 pieces of literature across divisions have already been published this year. Further, faculty have
received 67 research grants this academic year alone, including some in chemistry, sociology, mathemtatics and politics. “I love that we have the creative work and research that takes place in these dramatic ways,” Kersh said to the audience. “This kind of sponsored research and publication activity must continue to grow, and we will enhance the visibility of the work you do and the impact it has in the Pro Humanitate way.” As he was over his time limit, Kersh briefly touched upon the idea of heritage by focusing on the three ideas of conversation, community and collaboration, which he deems “terms and themes that come across repeatedly throughout [Wake Forest’s] history.” “Conversation has been central to what we do, and indeed this year as ever we have had conversations across all kinds of themes and events and practices,” Kersh shared. “I love that every day of every week we have opportunities to talk to, engage and learn from others in extraordinary ways.” He continued his portion on heritage by sharing the nationwide “Calls to Conversation” held by students and alumni around the country that have themes and guided dialogues. Moving to his theme of community, Kersh shared his idea of Wake Forest as a family by touching on the Rethinking Community initiative announced this
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In his presentation, Provost Kersh noted that over 70 works have been published by faculty across departments so far this year. time last year. The community portion also included a call to strengthen partnerships in Winston-Salem whether through Wake Downtown, work at local schools, volunteer organizations or others.
The talk closed with a call for continued success among faculty and staff, as well as intentional reflection upon the role of being a part of the Wake Forest community in the spirit of promise and heritage.
Immigration reform threatens to change students’ life The student-run organization UndocuDeacs recently held events to raise awareness about the experiences of undocumented students BY RAFAEL LIMA Staff Writer limara17@wfu.edu Two flags, one American and one Mexican, both sit on her bedroom wall as equal parts of a prideful identity — an identity now put at risk. Maria Cortez-Perez is a Wake Forest sophomore and recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program. Her permanence in the U.S., where she has lived since she was two years old, is at-risk due to the imminent discontinuation of DACA. “[DACA] is like a stepping stool, somewhere to start,” Cortez-Perez said. “We have been through a lot, and to finally have some kind of relief and have it taken away from you … that is just not right.” Last September, the Trump administration announced the discontinuation of the DACA program that covered nearly 800,000 recipients, also referred to as “DREAMers,” who were granted a license to work, in-state tuition at public schools, access to a social security number and many other benefits. The deadline for phasing out the program was set for March 5. On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court declined the White House’s petition to shut down the program at the original deadline, temporarily shielding Dreamers, many of whom, like Cortez-Perez, know the U.S. as their only home. So far, Congress has not provided any concrete replacement for
DACA, as the discussions between Democrats and Republicans seems to have hit a stalemate. Wake Forest students held two rallies in the fall semester about DACA and the situation of DREAMers living on campus. The first one was a “Speak Out for DACA” after the discontinuation announcement and the second one supported a clean DREAM act to provide a path to citizenship to those immigrants. However, since those events, the conversation on campus seems to have stagnated and only a small portion of the student community is still engaged in talks about immigration reform. When asked about the subject, some students showed sympathy to the DREAMers’ cause but admitted to lacking knowledge about it. In some cases, students were even unsure whether Wake Forest has DACA-sponsored students. “I believe this campus needs to open this conversation,” said sophomore Alexander Holt, an Intercultural Center Ambassador. “At the moment, what’s happening is that we got [a minority of ] people who are always willing to talk about these issues (DACA and immigration reform) and the people who are just not engaged at all.” This past week, UndocuDeacs, a student-run activism group that advocates for DACA and fair immigration policies, has been holding events to help spread their message and make known the experience of undocumented students. Events have included talks entitled, “Know Your Rights” and “Dreamer Narrative Dialogue” and a screening and discussion of the documentary Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America. Holt believes that the rhetoric and the way the university has been approaching the immigration issue are reasons why the discussion did not reach more students. The official stance taken by Wake Forest so far is to assure that the needs of affected students are still being met, as
the financial funding given is private and free from federal influence. “Their financial aid scholarships are structured so they are independent; it’s not connected to anything federal,” said Nathaniel French, director of the Wake Forest Magnolia Scholars program and the person responsible for scholarships awarded to DACA students. “They are not in any jeopardy as long as they are at Wake Forest.” However, there are concerns about the safety of DACA students at Wake Forest. Recently, students questioned what Wake Forest’s position would be if ICE officials were to attempt to deport a student in the event of the discontinuation of the DACA program. There is no official stance taken by the university so far that assured Dreamers the school would not prevent ICE from taking them. Professor Betina Wilkinson, an immigrant policy expert who works closely with the Wake Forest Latino community, added that despite discussions on campus, this lack of public support from the community and the administration makes some DACA students question Wake Forest’s commitment to be a diverse and inclusive community. “We know that [the university] supports us, but the fact that [Wake Forest] is not publicly stating its support makes me feel like they are not fully acknowledging me,” CortezPerez said. Cortez-Perez recognizes there is still work to be done by everyone involved to ensure that Wake Forest fulfills its Pro Humanitate promise with DACA students and provide a more inclusive environment. “When I leave Wake Forest, I want other undocumented students who are coming into Wake Forest to feel welcomed,” Cortez-Perez said. “I am doing things right now so that those students after me can feel at home, so they can feel included.”
“What is a Liberal Arts Education, and What is its Value?” Time: Tuesday, April 10 at 7:00 p.m. Location: ZSR Auditorium The Dean of Wake Forest University College, Michele Gillespie, will speak on the value of a liberal arts education.
Wake Forest Baseball vs. Duke Time: Saturday, April 7 at 4:00 p.m. Location: David F. Couch Ballpark Come cheer on the Wake Forest baseball team as they face off against the Duke Devils. Admission is free with a Wake Forest ID. They also will play Duke on Friday at 6:00 p.m. and Monday at 7:00 p.m.
WAKE IN A WEEK The Radical & Forgotten Martin Luther King, Jr. Time: Thursday, April 5 at 5:00 p.m. Location: ZSR Auditorium A lecture by historian Harvard Sitkoff will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The subject of Sitkoff’s talk is how white Americans grew to love Dr. King.
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Campus reduces its beef consumption Dining services has increased the availability of plant-based options and increased the quality of meat BY KRISTIN KNIGHT Contributing Writer knigkc16@wfu.edu Students might not think about it, but the choices they make in the Pit can have a huge impact on the environment. According to the Office of Admissions, “Our motto, Pro Humanitate, is a calling to use our knowledge, talents and compassion to better the lives of others.” Part of this, many on campus believe, includes making sustainable and environmentallyfriendly choices. “How could we create a different strategy that is impactful?” asked Dedee Johnston, the chief sustainability officer, in response to sustainable choices being made in the Pit. The New York Times reported that Americans ate 19 percent less beef between the years of 2005 and 2014. Those overall diet changes have reduced carbon emissions as much as if 57 million cars were removed from the road. Small changes in American’s personal choices can have a huge environmental impact. On a smaller scale, the changes made by the Office of Sustainability can prompt Wake Forest students to make environmentally-friendly choices as well. With all of the changes happening to eating options on campus, the Office of Sustainability focused on where it’s spending its money. One of its current initiatives is “less meat, better meat.” This means increasing the quantity of plant-based options and increasing the quality of meat products. “We’re creating demand for what we do want, which is different than trying to
shame someone for doing the thing we don’t want,” Johnston said. Students are eating more sustainable food whether they know it or not. Skipping one eight-ounce steak is the equivalent of skipping 54 showers, in terms of how much water cattle farming and beef production use. Most people don’t think about that while they’re eating, but their food choices can have a significant impact on the evnvironment. When asked if he would consider changing his eating habits, sophomore Gus Capatides wasn’t so affected by the environmental impact of beef. “I like protein. And steak,” Capatides said. However, there are students who have followed the national trend and decreased their beef consumption in recent years. “I used to eat a lot of beef but have found substitutes for beef products that are healthier and better for the environment, for example, turkey burgers instead of beef burgers,” said Blair Huntley, a sophomore and event assistant in the Office of Sustainability. “The only way for mass production to stop and focus more on sustainable cow farming is to lower demand.” For a lot of students, what they choose to eat is based first on what tastes good and then on what’s healthy for them. “I eat less beef than before because as a society we are learning red meat isn’t as beneficial to our health as we thought,” sophomore Sam Lubell said. Johnston said that eating options on campus are taking a similar approach to food as students do. They want students to have delicious options that make them feel good but are also sustainable. “Your food should be delicious, but it should also fuel your body,” Johnston said. In recent years, students and families have become more interested in nutrition
and performance dining — food that prepares them for taking a test or even just for high energy levels throughout the day. Through the Pro Humanitate spirit, the Office of Sustainability strives to provide the best possible food for the Wake Forest community, food which meets the demands of their customers yet minimizes the campus’ carbon footprint. They focus on animal welfare when sourcing animal proteins. All of the chicken and almost all of the turkey is humanely-raised and handled. The beef comes from Brasstown Beef which is Global Animal Partnership (GAP)certified distributor. GAP level three or higher guarantees animals are raised cageor crate-free with no crowding, in an en-
riched environment, and with enhanced outdoor accesses. Similarly, all of the seafood is Monterey Bay Aquarium Green-lighted, which certifies sustainable fisheries and sourcing. Pork is the only meat that isn’t sourced from a sustainably-certified distributor. Whether or not students consider the environment when making food choices, the Office of Sustainability does. Recently, they’ve changed their focus from getting what’s available to getting the best quality of what students demand the most of. Students seem to be liking the changes, even if they don’t know the reasoning behind them. “They’re talking about it in a way that makes me feel great about the direction we’re taking,” Johnston said.
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In the Pit, students have more sustainable and environmentallyfriendly dining options, including meals with less meat products.
Literary salon promotes culture of creative writing The Wake Up to Poetry Contest celebrated winners Maddie Baxter, Peter Schlachte and Nicholas DeMayo BY CARLY EAST Contributing Writer eastcm14@wfu.edu National Poetry Month started out with a bang in Tribble Hall, where the monthly literary salon was held in Ammons Lounge on Tuesday, April 3, to celebrate student poets and the winners of the Wake Up to Poetry Contest. The literary salon, which takes place this semester on the first Tuesday of every month, is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Department and the English Student Alliance. The salon is a place for writers on campus to share their works in every stage of development and across all creative genres. This is a place where storytellers, poets, essayists, stenographers and scribblers of all persuasions come to offer their declarations to their peers. “The Creative Writing minor and the English Student Alliance founded the literary salon to give students the opportunity to share their creative writing with an audience, build
confidence, learn from what other students share, and be part of the larger literary community at Wake Forest, which is thriving,” said Dr. Amy Catanzano, one of the three faculty members that run the salon. “The salons are lively, supportive environments. I want to encourage all of our students at Wake Forest, whether they are in creative writing classes or not, to participate by reading their own poems, stories and creative essays and supporting those who do.” This particular salon celebrated the winners of the Wake Up to Poetry Contest — an annual contest co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center, Wake Forest University Press and the Creative Writing department. This year, three winners were selected out of almost one hundred student submissions. This year’s winners were junior Maddie Baxter, junior Peter Schlachte, and senior Nicholas DeMayo, in first, second and third place, respectively. The Wake Up to Poetry Contest had the privilege to invite Dr. Charmaine Cadeau to review the submissions, who teaches creative writing and poetry classes at High Point University. In addition to serving as Editorin-Chief of High Point’s creative literary magazine, Apogee, she is co-director of the Com-
munity Writing Center. Cadeau has released two collections of her own poetry: “What You Used to Wear” (2004), and “Placeholder” (2013), the latter of which won the ReLit Award for poetry. Cadeau commenced the salon with an appreciative nod towards Baxter’s winning poem, called “Two Black Holes Ate Each Other & Rippled the Fabric of Space-time.” She began by complimenting the ease with which Baxter navigates the intricacies of her formidable subject matter, black holes. Cadeau said that her selection of the winning poem was due to the poem’s ability to “slide between double-entendres, levels of diction and allusions.” Baxter’s poem is one that ponders the human condition, and our position as observers of the universe. The poem follows the after-effects of the massive galactic calamity of cannibalistic black holes, and the minute reflections of such explosions that are situated here on earth. Baxter said that she wishes to convey the remarkable beauty that lies in chaos, both nebulous and human. “Black holes are endless and destructive forces, but they are the most hypnotic to think about,” said Baxter. “I find peace in thinking about space and our subsequent smallness.”
This sentiment is carried in the final lines of Baxter’s poem: “Look the corridor of / your lover in the eye / and know that this is what a star looks like / when it’s exploding.” Following the reading of Baxter’s poem, Schlachte and DeMayo captivated the audience with renditions of their own winning poems. Schlachte’s “Metaphysics in the mood of a flower” treated the audience to a contemplation on the interconnectedness between humanity and the natural world, in a poem he says was inspired by Dr. Andreas Weber’s lecture on “erotic ecology.” DeMayo’s poem, “All change please” invites the audience on a symphonic journey to London, England, where DeMayo studied abroad. DeMayo’s poem brings a wry, humbling humor to the seemingly mundane topic of intercity travel. The poem’s title brings to mind the mechanical voice that echoes overhead on the Tube, London’s subway system. At the conclusion of the three winners’ recitations, the salon was opened up to student readers on a volunteer basis. The supportive, community environment of the salon fostered a space for experimental creation, confessional poetry, and odes to family members from new and veteran readers alike. Each was met with encouragement and applause.
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Besides the energy implications, light pollution is also presenting a serious threat to the activities of the astronomy lab located at the Olin Physics Laboratory. Among the stars in danger of vanishing from Wake Forest’s sky is Polaris — known as the “North Star” because it is used to calculate latitude. “We have a lab which teaches students about navigation. If we can’t see [the North Star], we can’t do that lab,” said Professor Paul Anderson, who teaches Introduction
to Astronomy. “It is getting hard with some constellations to even determine what the shape of the constellation is.” If the light pollution continues, students who would like to take the class would likely have to move to an observatory offcampus. According to Macosko’s latest estimate, around one fourth of the undergraduate population takes introduction to astronomy at some point. “It’s a great class,” said junior Raymond Clark, a teaching assistant in the Department of Physics. “It’s not so advanced that non-science majors [have difficulty] un-
derstanding it and really teaches you a lot about the universe.” Part of Project Night Light’s initiative is with the participation of students from Macosko’s class, who will divide into teams to measure the light pollution across campus. The idea is to raise students’ awareness of the issue while engaging them as part of the solution. “The mission of [the Office of Sustainability] is to empower others to lead the transformation to a sustainable campus,” Chief Sustainability Officer Dedee Johnston said. “Anytime we can facilitate a
project like Night Light, we are fulfilling that mission of creating a living and learning laboratory.” Students are going to start measuring light pollution levels very soon. After the data collection, the board of the project will decide the best approach to cut down light pollution on campus. “It will be neat to be one of the people actually initiating the project as opposed to just reading [about] it,” junior Olivia Street said. “Doing these hands-on experiences and, if we have good results, changing Wake Forest’s campus would be really impactful for me.”
Wake Forest transportation eyes a future of sustainibility As the shuttle system continues to expand, the university evaluates ways to limit carbon emissions BY LILLIAN JOHNSON News Editor johnlg16@wfu.edu Make a slight right onto University Parkway. Your estimated arrival time is in 12 minutes. Left onto Eighth Street. Right onto Patterson Avenue. Left onto Fourth Street. Left onto Vine Street. You have arrived at your destination. Starting at 7:25 a.m. until 11:10 p.m. on weekdays, shuttles run about every 15 minutes between the Benson University Center and Wake Downtown. In the morning, there are four buses on this route, and, in the afternoon, there are three. As the university increases its presence downtown, more students and staff will need the means to get there. Currently there are 11 shuttles in the university’s fleet — 10 of which are running at any given time during the day on various routes — and they are fueled by regular, unleaded gas. The balancing act between needing to transport large amounts of students and wanting to have a sustainable transportation system has proven difficult. “We want the university to grow, but we have to understand that when the university grows, other services grow as well,” said Transportation Manager Arian Bryant. Transportation accounted for 27 percent of the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Most of these emissions are carbon dioxide (CO2), resulting from the burning of petroleum-based products, such
as the gasoline used in the engines of cars and trucks. Most gasoline in the U.S. is E10, which contains 10 percent fuel ethanol by volume. The burning of one gallon of E10 produces about 18.9 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere contributes to an increase of the earth’s greenhouse effects, leading to a warming planet and a host of other environmental problems such as erratic weather and sea-level rise. In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide, many people and transit agencies have transitioned to hybrid-electric or electric vehicles. Wake Forest’s own home city has even made the transition. In 2009, the WinstonSalem Transit Authority Board decided to only purchase hybrid-electrics, which use battery power for low speeds and fuel for high speed. Now, these large green buses drive throughout the city, telling residents to “Breathe easy … I’m hybrid-electric” in big, white letters. While it would have positive effects for the environment, converting the university’s shuttle system to hybrid buses might not be feasible. The ride to get off campus is not a smooth one — even with a smooth R&B song playing on the shuttle’s sound system — due to the university’s infrastructure. Wake Forest’s roads are riddled with speed bumps, which complicates the possibility of hybrid buses. Hybrid buses are often what Bryant described as “low boys,” meaning they are low to the ground and would not be able to get over the speed bumps.
Bigger issues also lie within costs and other infrastructure. “Say we buy all electric shuttles next year, one thing you have to factor in is the cost of the shuttle, the cost to fix the shuttle, and the cost to charge the buses,” Bryant said. “Now you’re talking about infrastructure.” On the outside, the use of gas-burning shuttles may not seem to be efficient. During a driver’s shift, their shuttle’s engine is almost always running. “We keep [the engine] running because we’re sitting here in this seat,” said Shanyce Frith, a shuttle driver. “Our run is every 15 minutes. There’s no need to be cutting it off — not unless we get off the bus [to run to the bathroom]. Then we cut it off.” Even though these shuttles are always running, they are actually fuel-efficient. According to Frith and Bryant, the shuttles usually only fill up once per shift or in the evening. “We work it out during the day where we know we’re going to have our lower rider-
ship numbers. We’ll let buses drop off so we’re not burning fuel and we’re not running empty,” Bryant said. “That’s one way we try to limit our greenhouse gas emissions.” According to Bryant, the shuttles contain 50-gallon tanks and have an average mileage of 15 miles per gallon. One tank can last about 750 miles. A shuttle will complete the 8.6-mile roundtrip about every 30 minutes, depending on ridership numbers. In a regular eight-hour shift, that’s 137.6 miles total, only burning roughly one-fifth of a tank. “Emissions from the university’s fleet are a small portion of the carbon inventory,” said Chief Sustainability Officer Dedee Johnston. Freshman Allyson Deak rides the shuttle to Wake Downtown an average of four times per week and recognizes the benefit of carpooling. “[The shuttle system] consolidates all the pollution going out into one vehicle rather than hundreds,” Deak said.
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Currently, there are 11 shuttles in the university’s fleet, with 10 running at any given time. However, they do not burn a lot of fuel.
POLICE BEAT Miscellaneous • Offender was arrested for second-degree trespassing at Tribble after previous trespass complaints. The report was filed on March 29 at 1:15 a.m. • Offender was involved in a single-vehicle accident and was transported to WFUBMC. They will be charged with a DWI. The report was filed on March 29 at 4:31 a.m. • Offender damaged property by spray-painting coolers in the kitchen and in the outisde area of Angelou. The report was filed on March 30 at 11:53 p.m.
• Offender consumed a brownie with an unknown drug inside of it and was transported to WFUBMC from NCA. The report was filed on March 31 at 7:43 p.m. Larceny/Fraud • Unknown subject(s) used victim’s food dollars to order $100 worth of pizza. The report was filed on March 26 at 3:10 p.m. • Offender removed victim’s clothing from laundry room in Magnolia. The report was filed was on March 26 at 4:59 p.m.
• Unknown subject(s) took clothing items from the living room closet in NCA during spring break. The report was filed on March 27 at 1:37 a.m. • Unknown subject(s) removed victim’s skateboard from the Green Room in Reynolda. The report was filed on March 27 at 5:12 p.m. • Unknown subject(s) entered victim’s room in Angelou and removed a set of keys. The report was filed on March 28 at 10:47 p.m. • Unknown subject(s) entered victim’s room in Efird and removed a wallet from a book bag. The report was filed on March 29 at 2:42 p.m.
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Students desire to learn how to be sustainable A future class requirement in environmental studies could help educate students and campus BY CLARA SCHINZEL Contributing Writer schicl16@wfu.edu Wake Forest students work hard to live by the school’s motto, “Pro Humanitate.” Still, more education on the environment might be the push needed to help them live up to the motto on a sustainable level. “Pro Humanitate means leaving the world a better place than you found it,” said President Nathan O. Hatch in an interview. “It definitely relates to the environment.” With events such as Project Pumpkin, Hit the Bricks and Wake ‘N Shake, it is evident that many students are committed to the school’s motto of helping the community. When it comes to the environment, some believe a required class to provide everyone with the basic knowledge on how to live environmentally-friendly is a proposed idea that could help guide students in the right direction. “I think it’s a great idea,” said Jordan Mullens, junior resident of the Sustainability House at Wake Forest. “It would at least make people aware of how their choices have an impact on the environment.” Extreme weather has been seen all over the world this spring, and Winston-Salem has not been an outlier. February started off with temperatures reaching 80 degrees, just to be followed by an abnormally cold March with weeks of temperatures below freezing. It even snowed as late as March 24, giving the normally pink cherry blossom flowers in the Benson courtyard no chance to survive.
“I have never seen snow this late in North Carolina before,” said sophomore Celia Zhou, who has lived in Raleigh, NC, her whole life. With a changing climate and disasters like Hurricane Harvey hitting close to Wake Forest students’ homes, the demand for classes on the environment is increasing. Wake Forest offers minors in environmental science and environmental studies, and the classes are open for everyone to take as an elective. Yet, some students do not think this is enough. “The environmental program is a bubble in itself; everyone just agrees with each other,” said sophomore Carly Liebech, an environmental studies minor. “I think everyone should be required to know at least the basics.” Freshman Paige Harriss likes the idea of taking a class on the environment. “I would enjoy that much more than [Health and Exercise Science],” Harriss said. “I want to live environmentally friendly, but sometimes I don’t know how to.” Caroline Bosch, a sophomore intern at the Office of Sustainability, says that there are a lot of ways in which Wake Forest is making it easy for students to live environmentally friendly. With water stations available in many places on campus, students can now choose reusable waterbottles instead of buying plastic, disposable ones. And with the increasing number of composting and recycling stations, students have the tools to make a smaller impact on the planet. “It’s not hard to live environmentally friendly if you know how to,” Bosch said. “I’m just pretty sure a lot of people don’t even know what is recyclable or not.” Dedee Johnston, chief sustainability officer, is convinced that Wake Forest students would do a lot more for the environment if they had the right knowledge.
“The problem is not that they do not care, but that they are not aware of how their actions are affecting the environment,” she said. The Committee on Curriculum Review is in the process of making changes to the requirements of the liberal arts curriculum, and adding a class on sustainability and the environment is one idea that has gained support. Student Government President and member of the committee Spencer Schiller thinks that adding an environmental class as a requirement is not impossible. “I believe that the curriculum review’s path will take Wake Forest in a direction of holistic academia — training Wake Foresters to be actively aware of the world, its
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Wake Forest’s campus has seen erratic weather so far this year, with high-temperature days in February and snow in late March.
SG GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY WILLIAM MORGAN Student Government Beat Reporter morgwb15@wfu.edu I. Executive Reports Student Government President Spencer Schiller reported that Dean Clifford wants to partner with SG to discuss the finalized changes to the Code of Conduct and publicize them to students. Speaker of the House Kiya Khalil reported that cabinet applications are due on Saturday, April 7. Speaker Pro Tempore and Parliamentarian positions are going to be available soon. There will be an active shooter training/Wake Alert system meeting on Monday, April 9. Treasurer Sydney Packard reported that SBAC finished reviewing appeals and she will present a budget bill next week. She is benchmarking peer institutions to clean up guidelines for student organizations. Secretary Shelby Devine advised senators to attend upcoming extracurricular events. Chief of Staff Parth Vaidya is inquiring into campus-wide emails and who can send them to all students.
II. Committee Reports Academic Committee reported that Faculty Appreciation Week is next week; there will be Pit-sits until Friday, April 13 to write thank-you cards. Academic is creating an SG team to hold a booth at the Kid’s Fest carnival event on Sunday, April 22 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Campus Life met with Chizoba Ukairo to implement a restorative justice and leadership curriculum at Cook Elementary. Diversity and Inclusion met with the Muslim Student Association concerning the difficulty for Muslim students to celebrate holidays on the lunar calendar. It is working with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Chaplain’s Office to hold professors accountable with a reverse honor code. Judiciary Committee is conducting HEC and BIA interviews next week and looking into Deacon Patrol. Physical Planning finalized plans for an outdoor classroom behind the library. It is speaking with Brian Cohen in the Office of Sustainability to introduce reusable cups and a discount for using them.
cultures and the impact humans have on it,” Schiller said. “I hope that the school takes concrete steps to make it happen.” “It would make people understand how, as humans, the earth shouldn’t revolve around us,” Liebech said. “We should act in a way that lets us help the environment, and not in a way where the environment has to help us.” Adding classes to the core curriculum takes time, and Hatch said he is not against the idea. “It is important to provide the classes that are attractive to students, but there are many competitive ideas that are being discussed,” Hatch said. “If the demand is high enough, I don’t see a reason for why it couldn’t happen in the future.”
APRIL 3 Public Relations reported that t-shirts have been ordered. It asked Senators to archive their reports from the Listening Campaign and to continue to visit clubs. The Student Organizations Council reported that it met with WFU Style and Friends of History. III. Constituent Concerns • Hall fine for “too heavy” trashcan. • “Plethora of fruit flies” in Babcock bathroom on the second floor. • Unclean plates in the Pit. • Flies in the North Pit and Pit. • Wake renegotiating contract with Aramark. • Myth of four-year living requirement. • No word on commencement speaker. • Jewish students interested in resolution. IV. Announcements • Taste of Asia this week. • Photography event at Wake Downtown from 5:00-7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5 – opportunity to give back to help with HIV/AIDS testing.
• Maya Angelou Garden Party on Sunday, April 8 at Bailey Park. • Cabinet applications due this Saturday, April 7. • Next week is Delta Sigma Theta week — African-style Zumba, moderated gun violence talk and Africasa night on Tuesday, April 10. • Pie a Pi this Thursday, April 5 from 4:30-7:00 p.m. on Davis Field — Zumba class. • Argumentation conference this weekend at Wake Downtown on Friday and in Annenberg Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday – workshops, panels, and speeches. • Campus Days on Friday, April 13 and Friday, April 20 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. on the Quad. • College Republicans are hosting lasertag on this Friday afternoon. • Flagship leadership program — mentor and director applications. • Arnold Palmer Day is Thursday, April 12. • Taste of Reynolda starts at 2:00 p.m. this Friday. • Spring football game this Saturday, April 7 at 3:00 p.m. at Groves Stadium.
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“ Writing brightens the darkness of the world Writing
Writing is intensely personal and difficult, but it comes with a fleeting and sharp reward
Kyle Ferrer
Staff Columnist ferrka16@wfu.edu Why write? Why spend hours thinking of the perfect sentence, unsuccessfully chasing an absolute that doesn’t exist? I often question why I write, why, even during days when I have read carnivorously or aced tests or scrutinized a film, writing remains my only salve. Maybe it is because writing makes the banality of the world tolerable in comparison. It takes situations and grinds from them the rare incense of life. Literature, film — others’ creations — are to be consumed with passion and precision. The old dictum that if one wishes to be a good writer, one also must be a good reader is certainly true. But writing itself maintains a deeper, selfgratifying aspect that even reading the
But writing itself maintains a deeper, self-gratifying aspect that even reading the best liteature doesn't." best literature doesn’t. Ultimately, perusing any worthwhile art is an act of great admiration. Although I am not able to write every day (whereas reading is a perpetual commonplace in my life), writing vitalizes me like nothing else I know. But it can be a miserable activity, writing. I frequently end up berating myself and my incompetence. My slow-paced, usually overheated prose, makes up, to me, not a beautiful superstructure of language, but embarrassing idiolalia. I think, and then I think harder, and find myself clenched, angrily gripping my mind, trying to shake out a coherent thought, a half-tuned sentence. Much of my machinations while writing are cajolements of the self: trying to talk myself down off the linguistic ledge, cheering myself to go on after putting together a sentence of halfdecent affect. But then I let go. To call up the cliché, I just write. I do less thinking, but also more. I write without looking at the
screen, without pestering every word I lay down on the page. It becomes a flow that sometimes develops into a fruitful fugue, a deluge of letters and punctuations to be sharpened at a later date. And when this occurs, it is less a struggle with the conditioned self (a struggle that can never be held at adequate length), and more a channeling of a sort of madness into language. Occasionally, such an unleashing produces a sentence not destined for the trash heap. And although there are degrees to this artistic fugue, paces that both quicken and slow with my own ability to relinquish crushing self-awareness, the exercise itself engenders a certain happiness. It is, I think, a proximity to creation that is not the rich but ultimately maudlin exercise of reading or watching, but is the honest compilation of myself. It doesn’t make the objective world better, but it makes my world better. “Catharsis,” I believe is the hackneyed term. The point, I think, is the nearness to creation. Writing, unlike any other art, or any other act of creation, is the mind’s attempt to organize reality, to perspectivally interpret experience and place it coherently onto a page. It is the hardest thing I have ever done, but it is also the most
rewarding. To go too much time without writing is to alienate myself from a compelling world filled with my self-reflexive interpretations of it. Through interpreting reality I interpret myself. I am struggling to write this very piece, precisely because of the self-conscious babble in my head about impressions, ability, credence. I know my “point,” but to write it well is an intricate, intimate process. Writing connects the mind to the self and presents its findings through language. As Nietzsche says, “language speaks man.” Writing reveals a momentary condition of the self. Internalities beautifully, rhythmically, and with a sense of clarity, are excreted onto the page, hammered into some sort of shape. It all may seem very nebulous, but writing is the most intimate of projects, it is the mind’s leap to try to concretize being. Of course, such a task is not easy. It is intensely personal and difficult. But most great people do things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. The difficulty of writing comes with a fleeting but sharp reward. It’s a jolt, a whack on the head, a pulsation of energy. Quite frankly, it is a click of something special. It’s that other thing.
That confirmation battle took place during the early years of the Iraq War, a conflagration that Bolton defends to this day. He was a key advocate of the Bush administration’s main justification for the invasion: that the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed a threat to the U.S. This claim was later shown to be false and based on defective intelligence. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee also had copious testimony that, as undersecretary of state, Bolton pressured intelligence analysts into cooking up evidence that Cuba had a biological weapons program. Confirmation hearings revealed that his penchant to subvert the facts in pursuit of his and his allies’ agendas isn’t limited to the aforementioned. “Thousands of pages of documents revealed Bolton, an ally of Vice President Dick Cheney, to be a volatile, aggressive infighter,” wrote The New York Times. “[He] seemed willing to cherry-pick intelligence, steamroll analysts he did not agree with and end-run his State Department bosses in pursuit of an agenda considered bellicose even among Bush administration hawks.” All signs suggest that Bolton hasn’t changed. In firing Tillerson and McMaster, Trump silenced some of the voices that had tried to mute his more perilous foreign policy impulses, particularly in regards to the Iran nuclear deal. But what he will hear from
Bolton will most likely be closer to what Trump himself has advocated. The result? North Korea is probably first on the list of countries with which he is eager to tangle. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, he made the case for a pre-emptive strike: “Pre-emption opponents argue that action is not justified because Pyongyang does not constitute an ‘imminent threat.’ They are wrong.” With Tillerson and McMaster out of the equation, any theoretical talks with Kim Jong Un are much more likely to go badly wrong and result in a bloody-nose strike or worse. Bolton is also agitating for airstrikes on Iran. He has urged Trump to scrap Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, which blocked Tehran’s path to a nuclear weapon and prevented an arms race in the Middle East. But more generally, it’s likely the mercurial Trump will befuddle and frustrate allies and adversaries even more with contradictory stances on important issues within hours of each other. Instead of Tillerson and McMaster as somewhat stabilizing influences, he will have Bolton as an encourager-enabler. Bolton and his unilateralist nationalism are almost certain to accelerate isolation from our allies and the rest of the world. Congress can’t stop his appointment, but must speak out unequivocally against it and reassert its Constitutional responsibility to authorize whether the country goes to war.
“ hard-line views are dangerous John Bolton's Foreign Policy
Appointed National Security Adviser has an uncompromising and undiplomatic history Amanda Wilcox Staff Columist wilcaf16@wfu.edu
There’s a clock-like regularity to which members of Donald Trump’s administration undermine exactly the institutions they have been chosen to lead. Lately, Trump is also jettisoning anyone willing to try to restrain the president’s worst and most impulsive instincts. It’s little surprise, therefore, that he would nominate John Bolton, the most antidiplomacy diplomat to ever see the light of day, to be his new national security adviser. The firing of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster was only the latest in a long string of departures by those I used to consider to be the adults in the room, their far-right views notwithstanding. To be sure, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn resigned in protest after Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum; now, tariffs on China are in the works as well.
Bolton and his unilateralist nationalism are almost certain to accelerate isolation from our allies and the world." Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was ousted thanks to a fraught relationship with the president further marred by disagreements on foreign policy issues involving Iran, North Korea, climate and trade. Suspiciously, his firing immediately followed Tillerson’s tough words on Russia about the nerve agent attack in Britain. But Bolton, Trump’s third national security adviser in just 14 months and a hawk among hawks, is the one who has me the most concerned. There are few people more likely to lead the country into war. Grave concerns about his diplomatic ability are longstanding, as he couldn’t win confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Bush administration, even from a Republican-controlled Senate. He got the job anyway through a recess appointment, and because national security advisers don't require Senate confirmation, the five months the Senate took to decide whether he should go the the U.N. in 2005 remain the only extensive examination of his record.
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Rolling the“quad should remain a tradition Letter to the Editor
Rolling the quad is one of Wake Forest's most important and visible traditions. Since the 1950s, students have been rolling the quad to celebrate marquee wins, ACC and National Championships, and beating some of our most fierce rivals like UNC, Duke and NC State. The tradition is very unique and brings the students on our diverse campus together. It is a simple celebration that any Wake Forest fan can perform by snagging a roll of toilet paper and arriving on the quad. It connects alumni and current students and has turned into one of the most pleasant and positive sights to see for anyone connected to Wake Forest University. Seeing the quad rolled elicits a sense of pride for Wake Forest students and alumni. We think that environmental impacts should have a bearing on continuing campus traditions, but we do not feel that there is a significant environ-
[Rolling the quad] will always There are many practices on campus hold a special place in the that are far more wasteful and harmful hearts of past, present, and to the environment, such as the amount future Wake Forest students." of food waste generated in the Pit, the mental impact caused by this tradition for two reasons: the toilet paper used across campus is biodegradable and rolling the quad does not happen after every win. Thus, rolling the quad only occurs about two or three times each semester. Compare this statistic to Auburn’s “Rolling the Corner” to see a larger area of land being rolled after almost every Auburn football, basketball, baseball, and soccer win, which tolls to about thirty times each semester. We have given some thought to the potential environmental impacts of this tradition, in addition to researching an article on this topic written by the university's Office of Sustainability. This article shows how low the environmental impact is of this beloved tradition.
amount of printed materials required for the average class and the University's shuttle system, which is not green transportation and is very harmful to our carbon footprint. The toilet paper blows in the wind in pride for a few days, and then is often cleaned up by facilities. Because most of the toilet paper is biodegradable, this environmental issue is not nearly as damaging as other campuswide practices that are listed above. We believe that this tradition should never end. It will always hold a special place in the hearts of past, present, and future Wake Forest students. It is many students’ favorite campus tradition and will never truly be replaced, even if someone were to come up with another idea. Rolling the quad is simply that special. While we do not want to see this tradi-
tion replaced, there could be some helpful implementations which would make it an environmentally-better tradition. To take you back to our Auburn example, the following morning students and facilities help remove the toilet paper from the limbs of the trees. Instead of allowing the toilet paper to stay on the trees for many following days or just have facilities clean it all up, perhaps we could enact a system where students, faculty, fans and facility team members take the toilet paper off the following day as they walk by the quad. Perhaps this would instill feelings of respect and significance towards both our environment and this beloved tradition. Go Deacs! Ben Weekley (18’), Forest Richardson (18’), Andrew Kennedy (18’), and Ellie Caldwell (19’) Traditions Council Co-Chairs
Gun bans “are misguided and ineffective Gun Policy
Assault rifles are already illegal and banning other firearms would not impact violence Henry Koontz
Guest Columnist koonhc14@wfu.edu
This past weekend, thousands participated in the “March for Our Lives” to advocate for gun control. One policy being proposed is a ban on “assault weapons.” There are a number of reasons why such a ban doesn’t make sense and why any ban on a broad category of firearms would have a negative effect. First of all, if advocates of an “assault weapons” ban were aware of gun crime statistics, they would be focusing on banning pistols instead of rifles. Pistols are used in 65 percent of all homicides, while rifles of all kinds are used in only 3 percent. Pistols are also used more in mass shootings than rifles are. Pistols were used in 59 percent of mass shootings and rifles were used in 24 percent of mass shootings between 1982 and 2012. Since pistols are “deadlier,” why aren’t gun control advocates focusing on banning pistols instead of rifles? Probably because the shootings that have gotten the most media attention lately have involved rifles, not pistols. Proposing a ban based on media coverage and not based on firearm statistics is illogical.
So for a gun ban to even have the startThat number is much higher than the There is not a country that 15,549 gun murders and accidental gun ing potential to have any impact, it would has banned semi-automatic deaths in 2017. Since gun bans disarm the firearms and had a reduction have to include all semi-automatic rifles and/or pistols. That would mean authori- people who use guns for self defense, the in murders." Secondly, as a previous OGB author pointed out, real assault rifles are already illegal for average civilians. The AR-15 (the gun used in the Parkland, Las Vegas, and Sutherland Springs shootings) is not an assault rifle. The definition of an assault rifle is a rifle that can be fully automatic. That means more than one bullet comes out for every pull of the trigger (like a machine gun). The AR-15 is semi-automatic, which means only one bullet comes out with a pull of the trigger. This is why civilians can buy an AR-15 but generally cannot buy a fully automatic M-4 (the rifle the U.S. military uses). Even though the AR-15 looks similar to the M-4, it functions differently. Many semi-automatic rifles do the exact same thing as an AR-15 even though they look different. The proposal to just ban AR-15s is pointless since other semi-automatic rifles would still be legal. This is the mistake lawmakers made when they passed the 1994 assault weapons ban, which only banned certain semiautomatic rifles. This law did nothing to stop the Columbine shooters from using a Hi-Point 995, a semi-automatic rifle not included in the assault weapons ban of 1994. When the ban expired in 2004, studies by the Institute of Justice and University of Pennsylvania found that it had no measurable effect on violent crime.
ties forcibly confiscating roughly half of all firearms in the U.S. Aside from the obvious legal and Constitutional hurdles to doing this, this undertaking would be completely impractical. Since there is no gun registry of everyone who owns a firearm, authorities would have to rely on people voluntarily turning in their guns. Those who respect the law enough to do this are not the ones who would be committing gun crimes. People who commit gun crimes already disregard the law so there is no reason they would voluntarily turn in their guns. For the most part, the only people who would be disarmed by this ban are those who would be using their guns for self defense and not crime. This is why guns bans can lead to more deaths. Guns save more lives through self defense every year than there are murders or accidental deaths from guns. According to the Center for Disease Control, the number of defensive gun uses per year is anywhere from 500,000 to more than a 1,000,000 per year. Surveys show that 17 percent of people who have used a firearm in self defense believe someone would have died had they not had a firearm for self defense. If you apply that percentage to even the low-end defensive gun use estimate of 500,000 per year, you get the estimate that at least 83,333 lives are saved per year through defensive use of firearms.
number of lives saved by guns goes down. The number of gun murders, however, stays about the same since criminals don’t comply with the ban. So the net effect of a broad gun ban is more deaths. Countries, such as the U.K., Ireland and Jamaica that tried some type of broad ban, experienced higher murder rates after the ban. Australia experienced no effect on their murder rate as a result of banning most semi-automatic firearms. There is not a single example of a country that has banned semi-automatic or single action firearms and had a reduction in murders as a result of the ban. The facts show that gun bans don’t work. It’s understandable that people want to do something after a tragedy to prevent it from happening again. But facts are very important. It’s troubling when people at “March for our Lives” who want to ban assault rifles don’t know what an assault rifle is or that assault rifles are already illegal. While gun bans won’t make anything better, there are reasonable things that can be done to decrease deaths. Laws we already have can be strengthened and the type of places where people can concealed carry can be widened. Ownership of guns is important not just because it’s our Second Amendment right, but also because the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
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Old Gold & Black | Opinion
“ Professors reaffirm stance on rolling the quad Letter to the Editor
In a larger sense, it isn’t about rolling the quad with toilet paper, is it? In response to an OGB editorial taking us to task for raising the issue, we would like to offer several observations. As we can see on the national level, we get farther in solving problems when we engage them on the merits rather than ad hominem. We are here in a community — some for four years, some for a professional lifetime; there is a sacred, even transcendent, quality to our time together. We owe it to each other to take our concerns seriously and to engage them (and one
Let us end the tradition of ‘rolling the quad’ with toilet paper. But let’s not end our celebrations.” another) with candor and good will. The process is always more important than the product because it is in the process that we define and enact our values. Back to the quad briefly. The notion that the toilet paper deteriorates quickly stands in stark contrast to the
material still to be found in branches or wrapped around limbs. Surely there are issues of forestry and ecology here but aesthetics is in play as well. What do visitors and prospective students make of our quaint customs? Where does litter — intentional or otherwise — fit into a campus so shaped around natural beauty and humane values? At the very least, until full-scale change comes, shouldn’t we be offsetting the harm here with some sort of philanthropic effort? Wake Forest has a laudable history of adapting to (and sometimes even
leading) cultural progress: women in the student body, racial integration, dancing on campus. At some point, perhaps very soon, Wake Forest students will decide that rolling the quad no longer represents their environmental ethic or their aspirations for their university. We would welcome a student-led effort to craft another, more satisfying celebratory ritual. In the meantime, let’s keep talking in the spirit of Pro Humanitate. Sincerely, Professors Randall Rogan and John Llewellyn, Department of Communication
could to make Callie feel safe. I trusted Callie just as she trusted me to take care of her. She brought me so much joy, and I hope with all my heart I did the same for her. Every morning, I was awoken by Callie busting into my room to make sure I was there. Every morning Callie came up to my bed to check on me, to make sure I had slept, to make sure I was safe and to make sure her brother was there with her. When I moved to Wake Forest, she continued to come into my chldhood room every morning. No matter if I wasn’t there, she had to check. March 28 was the first day in a long time that Callie wouldn’t be coming into my room in Winston to see if I was there. It was the first day my parents didn’t have her following them around begging for food. The 28th was the first day her chair that she sits in and sleeps will sit empty. And the 28th was the first day without Callie. We knew this day was coming; we knew that we would lose her. Other than being a little chubby from my parents feeding her scraps, Callie was a very strong and healthy dog most of her life. Until her last day she was strong, but her health deteriorated substantially. She started having some growths form on her chest in the past year and the doctors knew she had developed some form of cancer. Since then, she had two surgeries to slow down the cancer to keep
her out of pain or risk of it. However, in the last week of March the cancer had spread, and she had gotten very weak. Callie was my parents’ third child, and the 28th was the first day that it was only my parents in the home. As I walked to work, I called my mom to check in. Both she and my dad are truly heartbroken. My mom told me that waking up without her for the first time was beyond painful. As I write this, I know the next time I come home I won’t see my full family. I won’t see Callie waiting at the door shaking her butt in excitement. It’s something I don’t want to think about because losing family is something that hurts beyond words.
“ Man’s best friend: a tribute to the life of Callie Loving Pets
The loss of a beloved pet is as painful as the loss of a human family member
David Ajamy
Staff Writer ajamdj15@wfu.edu
When people ask me if I have siblings, I usually respond by saying either “one” or “two.” Sometimes I just mention Mecaria, my sixyear-older sister who lives in Asheville, but most times I mention both Mecaria and Callie. Callie was part of the family for eleven or so years. She was a chubby pit-bull mutt we adopted when I was in fifth grade. Callie’s fur was a golden orangish hue and matches her hazel eyes. Callie was our home’s protector, often scaring away anyone and everyone. But she also was the most lovable dog I have ever met; she just enjoys fronting when she was behind the front door of our home. Callie was also my best friend and my sister. She always has been and always be. Callie said goodbye to us all on March 27, and I lost one of my best friends and one of my sisters. For me, “family” means something different
I think it is vital we rethink what family means; must it only be blood? Is it not the family of your best friend from childhood?” than just blood relatives. My parents, sister and I have a somewhat odd relationship with our extended family and it’s because of this I see family beyond blood. Rather, I see family in those I trust and love. That’s why, to me, Callie was not just my family, but she is also my sister. This is in the same way Juliet, our Doberman from my young childhood, was family. The same way Crunchy, my dwarf rabbit, was family. I say “was” because both of them have passed, yet they always will be family. They will always be part of my pack. While some find this view of “pets” or nonhuman animals as family odd or wrong, I want to refute those beliefs. I think it is vital we rethink what family means; must it only be blood? Is it not the family of your best friend from childhood? Just because I am related to a cousin by blood doesn’t mean they are family to me. My family consists of the people I love and the people who love me. My family consists of the people who I trust and those that make me feel safe and happy. I love Callie and I believe she loved me. Callie made me feel safe and I did everything I
Word on the Quad
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Villanova is crowned 2018 champion The Villanova Wildcats earned their second NCAA Championship in three years BY DANIEL PACHINO News Editor pachdb15@wfu.edu
There was hardly a shortage of dramatic storylines entering the Final Four in San Antonio this past weekend. Primarily, would LoyolaChicago’s remarkable Cinderella run continue or meet its fateful end against Michigan? Could Michigan become the first Big 10 team to win a national championship since its bitter rival Michigan State in 2000. Would Bill Self finally cement himself as the greatest coach in the country by bringing a trophy back to Lawrence, KS with his least-talented team in over a decade? And could Villanova cap off the most dominant three-year run in recent college basketball memory by earning its second championship in a three-year span? Those were questions that could only be answered on the hardwood. The first game of the weekend was between 11-seed Loyola and threeseed Michigan. However, for Sister Jean and the Ramblers, LoyolaChicago sadly met its match in
Michigan and its remarkable tournament run came to an end. Loyola took a seven-point lead into the locker room at halftime, which at one point became a 10-point lead in the second half. It was at that moment, though, that Michigan buckled down on defense to get itself back into the game, forcing the highly-efficient Loyola offense into 17 turnovers. Offensively, the 6’11” Moritz Wagner took over for the Wolverines, scoring 25 points to go along with 15 rebounds, which helped lead Michigan to a 69-57 win over the Ramblers. The other Final Four matchup featured two of the tournament’s one-seeds, Villanova and Kansas. From the game’s onset, Villanova was simply too much for Kansas. The Wildcats came out firing and it felt as if they could not miss the entire first half. By halftime, Villanova was already up 47-32 and it seemed Kansas never stood a chance. The second half was much of the same, as Villanova continued its offensive onslaught to a tune of 18-40, shooting (45 percemt) on three-pointers as a team. Their offensive attack was extremely balanced all game — all five starters scored in double figures as did
Donte DiVincenzo, who had 15 off the bench — and Villanova defeated the Jayhawks 95-79. The national title game between Villanova and Michigan was much of the same for Villanova Head Coach Jay Wright’s team. About midway through the first half, Michigan had jumped out to
a 21-14 lead and seemed to be in command thanks to its stout defense. That’s when cats. DiVincenzo scored 18 first-half points and helped Villanova to close out the half on a 23-7 run. See NCAA Championship, Page 15
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The Villanova Wildcats celebrate their NCAA Championship victory over the Michan Wolverines on Monday evening at the Alamodome in San Antonio. The score was 79-62.
Wake Forest Football prepares for spring game Spring play stirs excitement for the Demon Deacons' football season next fall BY KYLE TATICH Senior Writer tatika14@wfu.edu On Thursday, March 29 I had the opportunity to attend the second football scrimmage of the spring — and in the two hours spent sitting in the sun I had some time to observe and anticipate what the post-John Wolford era could look like for the Deacon offense. What would be an offseason for the Wake Forest football program without a little bit of a quarterback competition? Fans may not recall, but junior Kendall Hinton was named the starter heading into the summer a year ago and it was Wolford who had to win the job over the then-sophomore, en route to a second-team All-ACC season. So while Hinton is currently the starter, and appears as though it is only his job to lose, taking note of his competition was one of the highlights of the afternoon.
The scrimmage began with Hinton taking the first team snaps, splitting time on the field with quarterbacks Jamie Newman and freshman Sam Hartman. Hinton struggled on his first possession, throwing the ball in the dirt on his first attempt and reverting to his legs before most of his receivers were halfway through their routes. But after a few reps, the junior finally settled in and looked comfortable, finding sophomore Greg Dortch on a few occasions, notably on long third downs, while also connecting with redshirt sophomore Brandon Chapman for a four-yard touchdown pass on a throw on the run out of the pocket. In two scrimmages Hinton has been impressive on the ground, to the surprise of no one in attendance, rushing for approximately six yards per carry, and totaling 154 yards. Through the air the junior has demonstrated some improvement in his accuracy, completing 66 percent of his throws in his second scrimmage as opposed to just 38 percent in his first official outing of the spring. Backups Newman and Hartman
proved that the depth at quarterback will be a strength in 2018 as the pair both brings their own unique style to the offense. Newman and Hartman both showed off the strength of their arms, throwing for touchdowns of 51 and 48 yards, respectively. Newman’s came on a throw approximately 20 yards down the field to redshirt junior Steven Claude, who caught the ball in traffic, broke a tackle and broke free to the end zone. Hartman’s came from an absolute dime of a throw, connecting with junior Alex Bachman down the sideline, 48 yards in the air and right on the numbers for the score. “Right now, I’d say it’s Kendall No. 1 and probably Jamie [Newman] and Sam [Hartman] are competing for No. 2. Like every quarterback battle, it’ll play out,” said Clawson when asked about the status of his quarterback room. “No doors are closed. It’s spring. Those are the three quarterbacks who are getting the majority of the reps, and none of those guys have played snaps in a game other than Kendall.”
It will certainly be interesting to see how the summer plays out, as well as the spring game, which will be played at BB&T Field at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 7.
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Head Football Coach Dave Clawson holds the 2018 Belk Bowl trophy.
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Touching moments give fans a chance to smile Recent comical and touching moments in sports puts fans in an optimistic mood BY SAMANTHA WEXLER Staff Writer wexlsn17@wfu.edu
When times are tense and politics have the country divided, it seems as though the only consistent source of joy in the world is sports. The rivalries in sports and unique stories never fail to provide a light-hearted spirit amidst the darkest of times. Let’s take a look at some of the best stories in sports as of late that put a smile on the faces of many. On March 29th, an accountant had the night of his life. Scott Foster, a beerleague goalie at Johnny’s Icehouse, an ice rink in Chicago where the Blackhawks practice, is one of the team’s emergency goalies. Per NHL practice, the team carries a few people with recreational league experience watching in the press box in case every goalie on the roster gets injured. When one goalie was injured before the game against the Winnipeg Jets, the Blackhawks tweeted that they had signed Foster to an amateur tryout contract to be the team’s emergency backup goaltender. The contracts are normally unpaid, but they provide a unique op-
portunity to watch the game with free food in the press box. In this case, Foster wound up in goal as Collin Delia the acting goalie, had to leave the game in the third period. Foster walked away with seven saves on seven shots faced, which gave him a career NHL save percentage of 1.000, a game-worn customized jersey with his name on it and a pretty cool story. Another unlikely story comes from the potential for a “Gronkowski” to win the Kentucky Derby in addition to the Super Bowl. A Kentucky-bred horse named “Gronkowski” is competing in the Kentucky Derby after winning the Burradon Stakes in England to earn a spot in the Derby on May 5th. Shaun White’s historic run in the Olympic halfpipe finals was enough to send a chill down the spine of Americans and Olympic fans worldwide.. White was the last rider to make a run, and he had his work cut out for him after historic performances were posted by every rider in front of him. He hit his entire run perfectly, scoring a 97.75, and conducting his post-performance interview sobbing due to sheer excitement and emotion. The run gave him his third gold medal in four Olympics and redemption after heartbreak at the last Olympics. Of course, sports tales that invoke a smile wouldn’t be complete without
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Loyola guard Marques Towns leans down to hug Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt after Loyola won the second round of the NCAA Tournament against Kansas.
the “Cinderella” story of the 11-seed Loyola-Chicago basketball team in the March Madness Tournament. After beating Miami, a six-seed, in the first round they put together an unprecedented run that essentially no one saw
coming. Their number one fan, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, a 98-year-old nun and chaplain for Loyola-Chicago, warmed the hearts of fans across America, as she passionately supported her team’s historic run.
Wake Forest Mens’ Tennis accrues ACC awards and wins The Demon Decons had a 7-0 sweep against the Fighting Irish at home last weekend BY WILL HARGROVE Staff Writer hargjw15@wfu.edu
Everyone has heard the phrase, “records were meant to be broken,” and here at Wake Forest there are a number of athletes ready to show that that is true. Titles are passed down from the best to the better. Names are inscribed in record books, awaiting the next champion to beat the number. This past Sunday, senior Skander Mansouri became one of those people. The Demon Deacons took on the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame at home this past weekend for another incredible day of match play. With a strong 16-2 overall record, they were more than eager to get back on the court. Mansouri became Wake Forest’s leader for all-time career doubles victories at 109 wins as he and his partner, graduate student Ian Dempster, began the day with doubles matches. They had a strong 6-4 win over the strong doubles team of Brendon Kempin and Tristan McCormick, ranked 80th in the country. With the title previously held by tennis legend Cory Parr at 108, Mansouri
has nowhere to go but up with his doubles victories. Dempster and his victory at No. 1 doubles, along with the successful performance from the No. 2 doubles team of Petros Chrysochos and Bar Botzer clinched the doubles point for the Demon Deacons. From there, the Demon Deacons took that momentum to the six singles court. Without hesitation, the guys domi-
nated all six singles positions, with only two of the six continuing into a third set. Borna Gojo (No. 1), Chrysochos, Mansouri and Botzer all controlled their singles matches in straight sets, while Alan Gadjiev (No. 5) and Eduardo Nava (No. 6) fought valiantly through their third sets for 6-1 and 6-2 victories, respectively. Chrysochos extended his singles winning streak to 12 consecutive matches,
with all victories coming in straight sets. The Demon Deacons thus finished with a 7-0 sweep against the Fighting Irish, and are ready to continue fighting their way all the way to the ACC Championship. Wake Forest will remain at home for their next competition against the Clemson Tigers on Friday, April 6. First serves will be tossed at the Wake Forest Complex at 4 p.m.
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Wake Forest Tennis players (left to right) Petros Chrysochos, Ian Dempster and Skander Mansouri all recieved awards from the ACC this week. All three players had standout performances against Notre Dame last week.
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Spotlight: Tanner Owen BY ABBY MCMULLEN Staff Writer mcmuaj17@wfu.edu
Tanner Kenneth Owen is a senior at Wake Forest University originally from High Point, NC, where he attended Bishop McGuinness High School. Before he came to Wake Forest, Owen was a four-year letter winner for high school coach Scott Savage and the 2013 and 2014 North Carolina State Champion and Player of the Year, leading his team to conference, regional, and state championships every year in high school. Owen’s track record brought a strong start to his collegiate career, as he performed well in the Marshall Invitational, Primland College Invitational, Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate tournament and the Davidson College Invitational before helping the Deacons to an eighth-place finish in the ACC Championship of Wake Forest’s 2014-2015 season. In his preceding season, Owen competed once again in the Primland College Invitational before suffering from a season-ending injury. Owen’s best finish in his junior season was at the Heel/Pack Invitational Tournament. Tanner is a Finance Major and will be working in investment banking at Barclays in New York City after graduating in May.
playing college golf, so I started researching opportunities and sending out letters/resumes to college coaches. I figured it was a great way to get a solid education and improve in my sport.
your favorite memory as part of the Men’s Golf Team? TO: My freshman year we took a trip to the Hamptons and played some world-class golf courses.
Hometown: High Point, NC
AM: What is the most important lesson or biggest takeaway you’ve learned over the past four years?
AM: What has been your favorite memory as a Wake Forest Student?
High School:
TO: I have learned the importance of character and respect through watching my older teammates, as well as my coaches, in how they interact with their peers and adults. AM:. How do you feel like Coach Haas has helped you develop as a player and a person over the past four years? TO: Coach Haas teaches his players to respect each other and everyone they run into and this is the most important thing he has done for us.
Abby McMullen: What was your main motivation in choosing to become a DI athlete? Tanner Owen: I started in golf at a young age and devoted myself solely to it by the time I was in middle school. At this point, my competitors were discussing
TO: LR with the boys. AM: What has been your biggest challenge, either as a student or an athlete, over the past four years? How have you grown from it? TO: Probably time-management across golf, academics and my extracurricular activities. It is imperative to be organized and this is something that will continue with me into the workplace. Responsibility and promptness are necessary when dealing with a host of tasks and this is what we will face in the working world post-grad. AM: How do you define “success”?
AM: How do you feel like your experience on the golf team has prepared you for your next step?
TO: Being happy with where you are in life while doing what you want to be doing.
TO: Working in investment banking at Barclays will be a teamoriented experience, which is why I feel college golf has prepared me for it.
TO: Yes — while I wish I were playing better golf, I’m enjoying every bit of my last semester at Wake Forest and I will be moving into a solid job afterward. I unfortunately won’t be able to play much but that will intensify my passion for it. I’ll do my best to play as much as I can.
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Personal Profile
Bishop McGuinness Class: Senior Accolades: -2013 and 2014 North Carolina State Champion - Finished T-34th in the Primland Invitational in 2015 - Finished 23rd in the Marshall Invitational during his freshman season - Finished T-25 in the Heel/ Pack Individual Tournament last season
AM: Do you think you are in a successful place in your life right now? How will golf be a part of your life in the future?
AM: What will you miss most about the environment of being on the team? TO: I’ll miss my friends on the team the most- we spend a ton of time together and we have grown very close.
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Deac Notes Wake Forest men’s golf team finishes second place at 3M Augusta Invitational
Wake Forest baseball drops a sloppy game to the Liberty University Flames
The Demon Deacons finished the 3M Augusta Invitational tied with Houston for second place. Illinois won the tournament at 25-under; Kennesaw State and USC Aiken tied for fourth. Junior Cameron Young shot a final round 67, finishing in fourth place at 7-under. Freshman Parker Gillam shot a final round 70. The Deacs will finish their season April 13-15 with the Stitch Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs.
Last Wednesday night Wake Forest suffered an 8-4 loss against Liberty University in Liberty’s own stadium. The Deacs allowed eight walks, and totalled three errors, three wild pitches and two passed balls. The Flames took the lead in the bottom of the fifth and never gave it back to Wake Forest. Pitcher Antonio Menendez took the loss. The Deacs will be back this weekend when they face-off in three home games against Duke.
Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications
Photo courtesy of Wake Forest Athletic Communications
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Wake Forest powers past Davidson The Demon Deacons’ offense came to life against the Wildcats BY REN SCHMITT Sports Editor schmwm16@wfu.edu After being swept over the weekend by the North Carolina Tarheels, the Demon Deacons baseball rebounded on Tuesday, April 4 against the Davidson Wildcats, scoring 15 runs and collecting 19 hits en route to a 15-5 win. The Wildcats came to town on the back of an impressive series sweep of University of Rhode Island, during which the Davidson pitching staff allowed just five runs across three games. Wake Forest came into the game looking to avenge an early-season 3-1 loss they suffered at the hands of Davidson on Feb. 20. After three and a half innings, Davidson led Wake Forest 5-2, and it appeared as though the Demon Deacons could be in for a tight ballgame. The Wake Forest pitching staff buckled down, however, and the offense responded in a big way, scoring 13 unanswered runs in an offensive onslaught that proved insurmountable for the Wildcats.
Each of Wake Forest’s nine starting position players recorded at least one hit and six of the nine managed multi-hit games. The largest sources of production came in the fourth and seventh innings, in which the Demon Deacons plated four and eight runs, respectively. In the fourth, freshman designated hitter Shane Muntz began the offensive production with a walk, and freshman left fielder Chris Lanzilli, sophomore right fielder Christian Long and sophomore shortstop Patrick Frick each doubled afterwards to drive in three runs. The Demon Deacons eventually took a 6-5 lead when Frick crossed home plate after a passed ball. The Demon Deacons managed to hang another crooked number in the seventh inning, as the team scored eight runs on seven hits, which put the game out of reach for the Wildcats. Impressively, this offensive barrage did not require a four-bagger, instead, the Demon Deacons kept the line moving with singles and doubles. On the pitching side, left-handed freshman pitcher Jared Shuster struggled in his start, completing just 3.1 innings and allowing four earned runs before being pulled. Once the game was handed over to
the bullpen, though, the Demon Deacons limited the damage, allowing just one run and three hits across the remaining 5.2 innings. Junior Tyler Witt and freshman William Fleming each turned in a scoreless inning of relief, combining for three strikeouts and just one baserunner, who reached via a walk. Though the Demon Deacons have floundered in the ACC in tough series
against Notre Dame and North Carolina, games like these suggest that, despite their inconsistencies, this young roster has tremendous upside and can improve its 12-18 record. Wake Forest, losers of five of their last six conference games, will attempt to turn around their conference play when their ACC rivals, the Duke Blue Devils, come to town over the coming weekend.
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Junior Jake Mueller’s production at the top of the lineup has set the table for the Demon Deacon offense. Mueller has a .328 average a .438 OBP this season.
International players may go early in NBA Draft Luka Doncic from Slovenia and Dzanan Musa from Bosnia seek future in NBA BY JONATHAN BELL Staff Writer belljh15@wfu.edu Scouting and breaking down international players poses a unique challenge because the game they play is entirely different. Layne Vashro of nyloncalculus.com wrote a great series of articles on this topic, but the thing that stood out the most was the part of his linear regression model where he used data from the Olympics and the World Cup, the only times that these prospects play against real NBA players. That got me thinking about how difficult it is to project these players simply because of the different competition that they face. International players simply don’t face the same levels of players that day-in and day-out players in the American college game do. Taking in these limitations, let’s do a brief breakdown of a couple of the most high-profile international prospects in the draft. Luka Doncic, Real Madrid, Slovenia Already heralded by many as the greatest international prospect of the 21st
century, Doncic is a real possibility to go number one overall in the draft depending on the team that holds the selection. He plays on one of the best teams in all of Europe (slightly alleviating the aforementioned problem) and not only starts, but dominates. Doncic averages 15.7 points, 9.0 rebounds, 8.5 assists and 1.7 steals a game on 43.4 percent shooting per 40 minutes. His PER (a statistic that describes a player’s value, similar to WAR in baseball created by John Hollinger) was 20.1 over 19.9 minutes. For comparison, last year’s lottery picks, from last year Frank Ntilikina and Dragan Bender, came in at 11.87 and 6.03 respectively. Doncic is also only 18, the youngest possible age allowed to enter the draft, and he is already competing with grown men at the highest level in Europe. Look for Doncic to be selected with the top three picks in June, and although the statistics look good, only time will tell if he will live up to the hype.
made in the mold of a Carmelo Anthony or Kevin Durant. Draftexpress has called him “perhaps the best scorer of his generation in Europe” and Musa can score everywhere on the floor. He is also sneaky athletic, usually a knock on many international prospects. He made strides on his jump shot, shooting 36 percent over the 16 games this EuroCup. However, unlike Doncic, he does not play in the best league and the
games that scouts have been able to observe have not been against high-caliber competition. Musa needs to get a bit stronger; he’s undersized at 6’8” in the modern game and will need an improved jump shot along with greater strength to make up for it. Much more of a wild card than Doncic, it’ll be interesting to see who takes a shot in the dark with Musa.
Dzanan Musa, Cedevita, Bosnia Musa is somewhat of an urban legend among NBA draft scouts. He scored over 50 points in the 2016 FIBA U17 world cup, which is currently the highest scoring total in any FIBA event. Remember, this is the U17 event. Musa was 16. A pure scorer, he is a wing who is
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Commissioner Adam Silver will announce each pick the NBA draft on June 21. Slovenia’s Luka Doncic and Dzanan Musa may be top international prospects.
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In the second half, Nova picked up right where they left off and were in complete command of the game for every moment. Their lead never dipped below 14 points. Much like in the first half, DiVincenzo lead the way for the Wildcats, totaling 31 points on 10-15 shooting, including 5-7 on three-pointers. Mikal Bridges also added 19 points for Villanova, but no other Wildcat scored in double figures as Jalen Brunson and company continually deferred to DiVincenzo’s hot hand. After dominating the entire game, Villanova became national champion for the second time in three years by defeating Michigan 79-62. This national championship game was very representative of both Villanova’s entire tournament run and its regular season. Throughout the tournament, Villanova’s smallest margin of victory was 12 points in its Sweet 16 matchup with West Virginia. It was truly one of the most dominant tournament runs
in recent memory and it is difficult to think of another college basketball team that cruised through the tournament the way these Wildcats did. In a tournament that seemed to embody the term “March Madness,” it was the most complete and most consistent team that came out on top. Since the beginning of the season, Villanova had clearly been the class of the country and they proved that with this statement run. This championship cements Jay Wright’s status in college basketball’s upper echelon of coaches. Few coaches have achieved dynasties quite like Wright has at Villanova. Winning two championships in a three-year span in the one-and-done era is nothing short of amazing. Wright has turned his program into an unstoppable force that is now viewed in the same light as schools like Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky and Kansas. DiVincenzo’s championship coming out party is the perfect testament Junfu Han/Detroit Free Press/TNS to the player-development machine Wright has built in his tenure at Vil- Sophomore guard Donte DiVincenzo scored 31 points off the bench for the Wildcats and earned the Most Outstanding Player award. lanova.
March saw an eventful period for men’s basketball Wake Forest men’s basketball players have stayed busy thus far
the Demon Deacons have made a number of headlines, which are addressed chronologically below.
BY KYLE TATICH Staff Writer tatika14@wfu.edu
On March 4, the ACC announced its postseason awards, featuring three different Demon Deacons. Junior forward Doral Moore was the runner-up for the conference’s Most Improved Player — the award John Collins received last season — falling behind North Carolina’s Luke Maye in the voting. Junior Keyshawn Woods came in fourth place in the voting for Sixth Man of the Year. Woods was the second-leading scorer for the Deacons, averaging 11.9 points per game. Junior Bryant Crawford also received ACC honors, getting named as an honorable mention to one of the All-ACC teams.
Friday, April 6 will mark exactly one month since the Wake Forest basketball team took the floor, ending the 2017-18 campaign that featured a record of 11-20. In the weeks following the 73-64 loss in the first round of the ACC Tournament
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March 8 Wake Forest recruit Jaylen Hoard was named to the Jordan Brand Classic, a game that has featured individuals such as Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony, Blake Griffin, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. This was a tremendous honor for Hoard, who will play in the high school all-star game on Sunday, April 8. March 13
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Junior Bryant Crawford dunks in the first round of the ACC Tournament.
The Wake Forest basketball program announced that Coach Danny Manning will serve as an assistant coach for the 2018 USA Men’s U18 National Team at this summer’s International Basketball Federation Americas U18 competition. This opportunity will become Manning’s third coaching assignment with USA Basketball, as he previously helped USA Bas-
ketball to a bronze medal at the 2017 FIBA U19 World Cup and served as a coach at the 2014 USA Men’s U18 National Team training camp. “I feel very fortunate and blessed to be a part of USA Basketball and have this opportunity to be a part of this staff,” Manning said. March 14 Sophomore forward Donovan Mitchell announced on Twitter his intentions to transfer from the Wake Forest basketball program. “Nothing but love for Wake and this program.” Mitchell said, “Thank you for the opportunity, it’s just time for the next chapter.” Mitchell averaged 2.9 points per game in 2017-18. The Deacs will certainly miss Mitchell and his versatility as a stretch four, especially as he showcased tremendous growth throughout his sophomore season. March 21 The program announced that junior guard Keyshawn Woods will graduate in May and will seek an opportunity to play elsewhere as a graduate student. “I appreciate the opportunity that Coach Manning gave me to be a part of this program and to graduate from this great university,” Woods said. “I am proud that I was able to help the coaches change the culture of the program and build a foundation for the future.” Woods was a leader for the Demon Deacons in his two seasons in old gold and black both on and off the court. His shooting ability and honesty in postgame press conferences will certainly be missed.
March 21 Wake Forest recruit Isaiah Mucius was named to the Iverson Classic, one of the most prestigious high school all-star games in the country. Mucius will compete in the Classic on April 19. March 26 The Demon Deacons officially concluded the season with their annual banquet and award ceremony. Woods was the recipient of the Chris Paul Community Involvement Award. Crawford was the recipient of the Charlie Davis Best Free Throw Percentage Award and the Rodney Rogers Offensive Talent Award. Moore was the recipient of both the Chappell-Hemric Best Rebounder Award and the Smith-Teague Most Improved Award. Chaundee Brown and Brandon Childress were co-recipients of the Josh Howard Best Defender Award. Troy Rike was the winner of the Randolph Childress Leadership Award and Mitchell Wilbekin was the recipient of the Tim Duncan Deacon Award. March 30 Perhaps the most notable and potentially impactful news came on March 30 when the program announced that Moore and Crawford will enter the NBA draft process without agents. The pair will have until the May 30 deadline to decide whether to stay in the draft or return to Wake Forest for their senior season. Losing even one of them would be a tremendous loss for the Deacs, but the next two months should be a great opportunity for them to get evaluated by officials in the NBA.
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A 50 year flashback to memorable music Taking a look back to 1968, these three albums epitomize the style of music and attitude of artists exactly half a century ago
BY HARRISON MCCAMY Staff Writer mccajh14@wfu.edu Electric Ladyland- Jimi Hendrix
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Electric Ladyland is a double LP, and the last to be released with The Experience. It features many of Jimi Hendrix’s most famous songs, and with Hendrix increasingly getting involved with production on this album, his perfectionism and studio abilities show through. Hendrix is thought of as one of the greatest innovators in rock music and is widely regarded as the one of, if not the best, rock guitarist ever. In person, he was remarkably shy, quiet, self-conscious and humble. In a rare television interview, Dick Cavett stated, “you are considered one of the best guitarists in the world,” to which Hendrix responded, softly, “oh no… How about the best guitarists sitting in this chair?” Hendrix was known to speak more through his music, which is especially apparent in his rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock. Electric Ladyland features aspects of traditional rock, psychedelic rock and blues, all combined in a unique way that only Hendrix could pull off. Hendrix was a big fan and admirer of Bob Dylan, and in perhaps the most famous cover ever, Electric Ladyland features Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.” This rendition is full of beautiful solos with magnificent use of the wah pedal, and outstanding fills between lines, with a climactic ending. Dylan, who is notoriously blunt, misanthropic, and difficult to interview, has even stated that Hendrix’s version “overwhelmed” him, and that Hendrix “had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them ... he found things other people wouldn’t think of finding in there.” There are words of high praise coming from the first musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Hendrix also displays his mastery of the wah pedal, and some guitar swells, in “Burning of the Midnight Lamp”, which is accompanied by a smooth drum beat. In “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” his playing is physically palpable. “Rainy Day, Dream Away,” is the perfect rainyday anthem, featuring a conversation at the beginning, groovy music and a relaxing melody sung by Hendrix. The increased studio experimentation is most apparent in “ … And the Gods Made Love” as well as “1983 … (A Merman I Should Turn to be).”
The Beatles (The White Album) - The Beatles
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The White Album, officially titled The Beatles was a sober follow up to The Beatles’ previous Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The White Album came after a trip to study Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. The fairly self-explanatory reason why this album is usually referred to as The White Album was because of a purposeful decision to not include any art to provide a direct contrast to their previous album covers. The White Album contains many hits, including the McCartney driven “Back in the U.S.S.R.” — a parody on Chuck Berry’s “In the U.S.A,” and features influences from the early Beach Boys vocal harmonies, apparently at the urging of The Beach Boy’s Mike Love, who had travelled with the Beatles to India. The Beatles had a reputation for a fun sense of humor and were well aware of people trying to find hidden meaning in their lyrics, so on “Glass Onion” Lennon sings “The walrus was Paul,” even though Lennon had written “I am the walrus.” McCartney’s “Blackbird” will forever remain a classic, and is a song with profound symbolism reflecting the socio-political climate at the time. It also features recordings from a real bird’s natural song. Lennon’s future political statements and protests can be seen in their stages in his melodic “Revolution 1,” which also features a bluesy intro and a beautiful brass arrangement provided by producer George Martin. George Harrison, whose songwriting ability was often and unfortunately overshadowed by the McCartneyLennon dominated early ages, shines on a personal favorite song, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” which was inspired by Eastern concepts, especially from the Book of Changes, I Ching. The lyrics are remarkably poetic and give listeners a taste of Harrison’s songwriting ability — which would shine in just a couple years — especially with his solo album All Things Must Pass. The most outstanding feature on this track is the guitar playing — Harrison had asked his friend and collaborator Eric Clapton to play on the track — and between Harrison’s gentle rhythm playing and Clapton’s wailing lead riffs, one can actually conjure up the aura of guitars weeping.
White Light/White Heat- The Velvet Underground
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The Velvet Underground’s second album, White Light/White Heat, a departure from the milder songs from their debut album, aside from the soft and sweet “Here She Comes Now.” The tracks on White Light/ White Heat are raw, experimental, and avant-garde. John Cale has even stated that in comparison to their debut album, White Light/White Heat “was consciously anti-beauty.” Lou Reed did not like mainstream pop and was quite vocal about his disapproval of many bands, especially the Beatles. Reed wrote about the grittiness of life with poignant, powerful and often controversial lyrics, touching subjects ranging from drug abuse, prostitution, death, lobotomies, nontraditional romantic relations and transvestites with The Velvets often trying to emulate these topics through the music as well as the lyrics. White Light/White Heat was the last Velvet album to feature John Cale. The main reason their first two albums are so unique and wonderful stems from the differences between Cale and Reed — Cale was very experimental, worked with drones and played a lot of electric viola on their debut, while Reed leaned more toward traditional rock and roll. On White Light/White Heat, the title track features more traditional rock-and-roll, coming more from Lou Reed’s throughout most of the song, but towards the end the song gets more experimental, ending with a bass solo over a drone to try and get the listeners to feel a throbbing “rush” to simulate amphetamine use. “The Gift,” spoken by Cale over a noisy jam is about a boyfriend trying to mail himself to his girlfriend. But upon arriving at his girlfriend’s house, a reckless opening of the package with a kitchen knife leads to a tragic end for the boyfriend. “Lady Godiva’s Operation” features singing by Cale in the beginning, and then an interplay between Cale and Reed about a botched lobotomy with dark humor-laden lyrics follows. After a number of distortion-heavy songs, “Here She Comes Now,” a title most believe to be a double entendre, is a soft and sweet song featuring lighter guitar. The softness of “Here She Comes Now” creates a stark dichotomy with the following track, “I Heard Her Call My Name,” which is brash, overwhelming and purposefully atonal at times.
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Travel Column | Northern Minnesota
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Minnesota is an overlooked gem A trip to northern Minnesota is a perfect vacation for those who enjoy the outdoors BY KATHERINE GRABOWSKY Staff Writer grabkw16@wfu.edu Many travel column summer suggestions might include a New York City getaway, a beach vacation on the shores of New Jersey or a road trip through Southern California. While these destinations are bound to be written in numerous travel articles because of their outstanding restaurants, activities and photo-ops, they do not compare to the beauty and serenity of northern Minnesota. Possible destinations could include Ely and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, located just miles south of Canada. Mark your calendar for a trip in July, because northern Minnesota is the ideal summer escape. Northern Minnesota is for the lake lover. From canoeing to fishing, most days are spent outside. Often called the “land of 10,000 lakes,” a vacation in Minnesota can include time on the water everyday. For the experienced fisherman, Walleye, Northern Pike and Smallmouth Bass are all common catches in the lakes of Minnesota. A perfect day could be spent out on the water, with the sun beating down and a fishing pole in hand. Adrenaline junkies
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Pictured above is one of the lakes in the “land of 10,000 lakes.” might find more enjoyment in the highspeed rush of tubing or water skiing. The Minnesota lakes are the perfect spot for water activities, because unlike more highly-populated lakes in tourist trap destinations, boats are few and far between in the northern woods. Finally, saunas are a common water activity in Minnesota. Heat up in a 150-degree room with friends and family, then jump into the crystal clear lake water for an instant blood rush. Northern Minnesota lakes have a beauty unknown to any other part of the world. Northern Minnesota is for the outdoorsman. While half of it seems to be covered in lakes, the other half is blanketed with luscious, evergreen trees. There are a countless numbers of trails to hike, wheth-
er an intense trek through the depths of the woods, or more of a leisurely stroll. The woods are teeming with animals, flowers and evergreens waiting to be discovered, studied and photographed. For those tourists who don’t love the idea of exercising while on vacation, Minnesota has plenty of other activities for the outdoorsman. Whether zip lining through the trees or heading to a wildlife center and viewing animals through the comfort of a glass window or gate, northern Minnesota is perfect for anybody who appreciates the beauty of the outdoors. Northern Minnesota is for the free spirit. While water sports or outdoor hikes are both draws for Minnesota tourism, the appeal can also lie in the simplicity. Northern Minnesota vacations reject the hustle of daily life and allow tourists to embrace the peacefulness of nature. Fancy hotels are replaced by log cabins, screeching of traffic is substituted by the soft humming of boats, and nightly news shoes are traded in for star gazing. Northern Minnesota reminds the busy city-goers of the stunning world around them, without distractions from technology or urban atmospheres. Take a trip outside your comfort zone and head to the north woods for an outdoor experience unmatched by any other state. From crystal clear lakes and thrilling hiking trails to the undisturbed peace of nature, northern Minnesota has it all. Up north, water is clearer, trees are greener, and life is simpler.
Movie Review | Death of Stalin
Death of Stalin highlights horrors of period Death of Stalin is a chilling yet hilarious take on the Soviet Union in the era post-Stalin BY SARAH CREWSE Contributing Writer crewsh17@wfu.edu Jump back to the year 1953 in the chill of the Soviet Union to experience Armando Iannucci’s theatrical account of Joseph Stalin’s death and the backstage fiasco of appointing a successor in Death of Stalin. Originally written as a French graphic novel, La mort de Staline, Iannucci develops a rather trivial and comical plot within a historical tragedy. Released in the U.S. this March, Death of Stalin has caught the eye of multiple film critics due to its blazingly-irreverent comedy and ingenious cast with the likes of Steve Buscemi (Nikita Khrushchev), Jeffrey Tambor (Georgy Malenkov), Michael Palin (Vyacheslav Molotov), Simon Russell Beale (Lavrenti Beria) and more. These comrades maneuver through the political landscape of communist Soviet Union, attempting to outrun the other to the top. Full of backstabbing and manipulations, the plot becomes entangled with skepticism and pandemonium. Only the history buffs know how this plot line turns out. Although Iannucci sprinkles truth here and there, Death of Stalin is by no means a historically accurate documentary.
Many aspects of Beria’s character and the NKVD have been deemed false by historians of Stalinism. In my opinion, the most innovative part of the film was the concept of taking a horrific period of world history and warping it to be laughable, even as dissidents of Stalin’s regime are arrested and murdered on screen. If you are looking to pay your respects to the victims, I suggest you run very far the other way. Yet, through Iannucci’s uncomfortable neglect of the victims, he really highlights the horrors Stalin initiated and often gets away with in the shadow of the infamous Hitler. The excessive gore and heinous violence is presented in a Tarantino-esque way, adding to the blasphemous humor. The comrades’ personalities are caricatured by the actors in a manner that is almost too absurd to be true — the conniving Khrushchev, the shaky Malenkov, the monstrous Beria and the relentlessly dutiful Molotov. While watching this blustering crew, the overwhelming sense that there are no good guys to root for becomes evident quite early on. Perhaps, that is a political statement in itself. Dark comedy is an odd animal, both uncomfortable and absurdly flippant. The jokes are more subtly rooted in satirical social commentary. They are meant to prod at the mind long after the joke has concluded. Death of Stalin does this in two ways — it exhibits the dangerously finicky nature of the Soviet Union during this time period and the outright atrocity of
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tyranny. These themes are so ludicrous in reality that it is almost funny how humans could possibly act this way. Perhaps Iannucci resonated with this concept and simply ran with it. In total, Death of Stalin is not a Hollywood film. It tells a story that harps the themes and the feelings associated with those themes, rather than capitalizing on a climatic and flashy production. Iannucci painted this film with a balanced hand of restraint that told a dark, twisty story in a striking way.
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The Party invites us to listen, but doesn’t say Director Sally Potter’s new film, while occasionally profound, dithers with its thoughts and eludes its premise
BY KYLE FERRER Opinion Editor ferrka16@wfu.edu
The Party, a slender, 111-minute indie, written and directed by Sally Potter (Ginger and Rosa, Orlando), teases its audience’s expectations of a feature-film, and distills them into a Samuel Beckett skit. The film is a party, but a precis of such a party’s progressions, whose cast of characters talk (quickly) through life and its paces. It is ultimately a film about the circle of life, and the space in between — what matters, and what doesn’t at the end. It is a darkly-comedic story about no particular character, and seems to proffer a vague philosophy of intellectual nihilism. The film is not a wandering, enveloping diatribe as much as it is a zippy, semi-funny plate-spin, with most of the humor stemming from Tom (Cillian Murphy) the Irish version of a cokehead Wall-Streeter. Janet, England’s recently-elected Minister of Health, is hosting a dinner party with her husband Bill. Invited are her various hypereducated friends, whose insufferable volubility supposes humor, but more often than not makes one cringe at its haughtiness. Attendees include April, a longtime friend of Janet’s, with her husband Gottfried, a “life coach” and spiritual healer, Martha, a Women Studies professor (specializing in “domestic labour gender differentiation in American Utopianism”), and her partner Ginny, a renowned chef, and finally Janet’s colleague and subordinate, Marianne and her husband Tom, a banker. There ensues a web of deceit, terminal illness and spousal chafe, to detail any of which would take away from the speedy, connect-thedots whipishness of the entire film. It is, in effect, a shortened, highbrow version of Perfetto Conoscuiti’s Perfect Strangers, the Italian film in which a friendly dinner party turns into a disastrous affair of affairs (and in which the drama takes place
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around the kitchen table, not in the drawingroom). But Paolo Genovese’s acknowledged commerciality makes his film more scrutable, a highlyenjoyable and emotional game of moral realism; The Party ends as verbal pitter-patter, a million philosophical droplets that ultimately pool into nothing. The film seems to proffer something like intellectual nihilism, that the convolutions and suffocations of the hypertrophied intellect are ultimately life-stifling. The character’s professorial quips parody institutional stratification but come off as pointing out the archaism of a profession that leaves one stuck in an ivory tower. Rarified air is so many degrees removed from reality that life becomes hard to see. Their honesty about life and experience is concealed by professorial decorum and jargon, only to be realized when death is imminent. The best part about The Party is Murphy, although the rest of the cast is worth cheering. His unpretending realism and instability, amplified by his unquenchable addiction to cocaine, shocks the dour intellectualism to occasional comedic life. The Party, if there is a thread of a message within the intellectual nihilism, seems to also issue some sort of declaration about death. Not that we try to avoid it (although we do), but that it is a tool to help us think of the things we prioritize in our lives. The battle between ideas and money takes center stage for a portion of the film (again, it is but a pittance of time), when Tom, a rich banker, chastises Bill for his professorial declaration that ideas are better than money, that the only money he uses is “real” and life-sustaining. Tom shouts, “No money is clean. It all comes through the system and into your pockets!” I think the point is that to judge either money-makers or ideas as sole solutions to anything becomes a game of self-delusion. Ideas are great, but you need some money; money is great, too, but you need to have ideas. It’s all a bit too hard to parse because everything in the movie exists as a fleeting aphorism. If the point
is to think about things, the film does not inspire you to do as much. It is so ephemeral that the impressions fade like the pain of a ripped Band-Aid, and it only induces frustrated freneticism in trying to put something coherent together. When I went in to the theater, I thought I was in for a meandering disquisition on life, ala Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy, or Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn’s My Dinner with Andre, but instead I was whipped through a 111-minute skit that left me breathless until the last second (probably because I wasn’t expecting that second to come so soon). It was the drag-raced intellectualism of The Party that left me not pondering pleasantly, but as if I’d sweatily, greedily, dipped my toes in 100 deep pools, never to dive in. The film is too short to say anything meaningful, but also doesn’t use its time wisely — and that is its downfall. It is essentially an exercise in un-pinnable chatter. It would have done better if it had tried to follow Linklater’s formula in the Before trilogy; instead, it shortens its lifespan through its own schizophrenia. I wish to briefly point out the cast, if only to draw attention to the great potentiality of film. Kristen Scott Thomas, most recently the wife of Churchill in Darkest Hour, plays Janet. Timothy Spall (a bit of a jarring sight, especially since I hadn’t seen him since was Peter Pettigrew, as I a small, frightened boy), plays Bill. Patricia Clarkson (Easy A, The Green Mile) plays April, and Emily Mortimer (The Newsroom, Shutter Island) plays Ginny. The always brilliant Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders, Inception, Dunkirk) plays Tom. The film is shot in black and white, too, which issues a tone of retrograde seriousness and fatuousness, both of which are only half-realized. The Party is a film of latent potential, but as Jinny says to her partner Martha, “I don’t think. It might ruin everything! It usually does.” In the case of The Party, although a charming, boutique film probably still worth seeing, somebody should’ve thought a little more.
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Italian restaurant dishes up nuanced flavors Mozzarella Fellas, located on the outskirts of Winston-Salem, offers traditional Italian dishes alongside inventive vegan meals
BY OLIVIA FIELD Life Editor fielor17@wfu.edu
Discreetly located within Summit Square shopping center, Mozzarella Fellas is serving up Italian comfort food with a modern, plant-forward twist. With a warm interior and inviting staff, this joint has established itself as a popular lunch and dinner spot within Winston-Salem. With the restaurant’s two-year anniversary approaching on April 7, owner Brian Ricciardi discussed how, although the food business is a “rollercoaster,” it is an extremely rewarding profession. Ricciardi, who has been working in the industry for over 10 years, was born in New York and was raised surrounded by his Italian family. There, he learned to cook from his grandmother and grew to appreciate gathering for meals with his loved ones. “Food has always been huge for me. Growing up in an Italian family, you know, everything is so concentrated around food.” Ricciardi said. “So, I just wanted to bring a little bit of my experience growing up to this area. Also, I’m vegan so it’s huge for me to introduce people to a unique way of being vegan and see what you can eat without sacrificing delicious comfort food.” One of the most unique elements of the menu is the large incorporation of vegan options that evoke both traditional Italian and American dishes. For instance, appetizers include garlic knots, $6, and “Buffalo Cauliflower Wings,” $9, that both vegans and omnivores indulge in. Al- Take the “Pulled BBQ Jackfruit” pie, $14 for a though many perceive vegan food as being ex- small, which includes fresh jalapeños, red onions, tremely healthy and thus tasteless, all of the dish- mozzarella, bbq sauce and a ranch drizzle. es at Mozzarella Fellas are bursting with flavor. “It’s always hard to do something unique and different while still doing what people want. In the end, you see 18,000 burger places because as l l e F people want to eat burgers, Ricciardi said. rella z za “So, it’s all about finding that balance o of M y between introducing some new s rt e things that are still tying into ou c to o what people are accustomed Ph to eating on a weekly basis. With the buffalo cauliflower, everyone loves chicken wings so it’s just a little spin with the fact that it’s a vegetable,” Although the vegan options are a trademark aspect of the spot, e ve r y t h i n g else on the menu continues to incorporate familiar flavors with new ingredient combinations. Dishes like the “Lobster Ravioli,” filled with succulent lobster and cheese for
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$17, and the “Fellas Philly,” which includes sliced steak, mushrooms, bell peppers and pickled red onions for $11 are some highlights of the menu. Other menu items include strombolis, calzones and salads. With all the makings of an antipasta platter, the “All Chopped Up” salad includes genoa salami, roasted red peppers, black olives and fresh mozzarella for $12. The restaurant also offers the ability to create your own pizza, with each additional topping costing a small price. During lunch hours, it is also possible to get pizza by the slice for only a few dollars. “If I were to speak to omnivores, our bolognese recipe is really great. It’s a very old recipe that comes from my family and I’ve eaten a ton of this dish in so many different restaurants, and I think our bolognese recipe definitely stands out,” Ricciardi said. The dining experience at Mozzarella Fellas is only enhanced by the wonderful service and staff. When a customer gets their receipt, for instance, the waiter will sign their name and put a heart in the corner. Although it is a small gesture, it definitely adds to the warm environment Ricciardi is trying to echo from his family memories. “There are so many days and weeks where I’m like ‘why the hell do I do this?’ and then people come in and, on their way out, just stop by and peek their head behind that wall in the kitchen and say ‘that was one of the best meals I’ve had in a long time’,” Ricciardi said. “When you are working here for 16 hours a day, things like that just remind you why you do it.” Ultimately, the quaint establishment is an affordable, delicious dinner spot that is only 10 minutes away from campus. If grabbing a bite on the weekend, it is recommended to call ahead for a reservation, as it can get packed around dinner time.
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Old Gold & Black | Life
On campus sustainability is simple In light of Earth Day approaching, here are tips to live more sustainably at Wake Forest. With easy changes to everyday activities, such as transportation and eating, students can begin to make an ecological difference. BY OLIVIA FIELD Life Editor fielor17@wfu.edu
As April is now coined Earth Month, it is time for students to reevaluate the lifestyle that they pursue both on and off campus. By recycling, choosing alternative transportation methods and changing study methods, they can easily become much “greener” individuals. Beginning with the most obvious way to increase sustainable practices, recycling is something all students can do with ease both on and off campus. In virtually every building, students have the option to recycle bottles and cans, as well as paper and cardboard, when they are throwing out trash. The abundance of opportunities to easily separate your trash allows for all students to create the habit of recycling. Beyond campus, the state of North Carolina offers many ways for individuals to recycle even more products. For instance, one can recycle electronic devices, metals, batteries and even cars at certain drop-off locations throughout the state. When it comes to food consumption, there are many ways that Wake Forest students can live more sustainably with a little bit more effort. First off, always bring reusable bags when shopping to reduce your use of plastic and paper bags. Another easy switch is to start buying snacks and other dorm staples in bulk. To do so, go to Publix or Whole Foods with a few mason jars and fill up with nuts, dried fruits, trail mix and more. Not only are these snacks healthier, but buying in bulk completely reduces the waste that comes along with extra packaging. Although it requires a bit more willpower, reducing one’s meat consumption is another option for reducing waste. The production of meat contributes to the existence of greenhouse gases, destroys fertile land and uses an extremely large quantity of water, so simply participating in “meatless Mondays” could immensely reduce one's carbon footprint. This is particularly easy at Wake Forest, as there are many vegetarian options, including the omelette, pasta and vegan stations at the Fresh Food Company. Another obvious way to live a more sustainable life is to purchase a reusable water bottle. With an abundance of water fountains on campus, there is no need to purchase a plastic water bottle every time you are thirsty. To further reduce waste, students should also invest in a plastic or metal reusable straw, which can be easily cleaned with a rinse or wipe. By carrying this around in your backpack or purse, there is no need to use the wasteful, flimsy plastic straws that most restaurants distribute.
While most college students are already avid computer users, many still take handwritten notes. By transitioning to an electronic note-taking system, students can reduce their paper waste immensely, while also consolidating their academic materials. Especially with the high storage capacity of programs like Google Drive, the switch to electronic notes is easy for all. Lastly, students should invest in bikes to always have on campus. Even though it is convenient to jump in a car to get across campus, bikes are a much cleaner transportation option. While promoting your physical wellbeing, you will also be working to help reduce air pollution. Another way to pursue this idea is to utilize Wake Forest’s shuttles that run everywhere from Downtown to Hanes Mall. Instead of using your individual car, this form of “carpooling” is a combined effort to reduce emissions. To become even more cognizant of how your actions affect the environment, the Office of Sustainability provides many different routes of learning. For instance, they offer workshops and lectures to learn more about recycling, among other topics. The office also offers volunteer opportunities for those interested in actively working to increase "green" practices on campus. Living sustainably at Wake Forest is not, and should not, be difficult. By adopting these simple tips and tricks, all students can easily transform into environmentallyaware citizens.