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University announces percentage increase in tuition

By R. Hunter Bratton | Asst. opinion editor

The university announced Feb. 6 that the trustees approved raising the undergraduate tuition by 4.5 percent in 20092010. This number is 2.3 percent less than the 6.8 percent increase from the last academic year.

When percentage signs are translated to dollar amounts, university students should anticipate the $36,560 price tag of last year’s tuition to be replaced by a new amount of $38,206.

“Universities are feeling the impact of these difficult economic times,” University President Nathan O. Hatch, said.

“We also recognize that these times present significant challenges for the families of our students at Wake Forest.”

Tuition alone is the source of income for the university, going to such expenses as research, faculty and staff salaries, utilities and financial aid.

University students should also expect to see the price of on-campus housing vary in increase from 3 to 10 percent depending on multiple factors, including the residence hall.

The average increase in price for an oncampus residence will be 4.5 percent.

Although many rates will increase, students should not expect to pay more than last year on fees for vehicle registration, heath services or student activities.

Universities around the nation are once again summoning their trustees and raising rates for undergraduate tuition and housing. Our own university, although seemingly variant only in the degree to

which the rates will increase, says that this year’s increase is the product of a determined effort to slow the swelling rate of tuition increase for college students.

According to the College Board, the average price tag on a private college in the United States grew by 5.9 percent this past year.

Even more, the national average for listed price on a four-year public college increased 6.4 percent.

Such rates come at hard times for the 80 percent of college students who attend public universities in the United States.

The Delta Project, a non-profit group studying college tuition prices, said

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On Feb. 6, Indra Nooyi, chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, spoke to a diverse crowd in Wait Chapel as part of the university’s 2009 MBA Marketing Summit. The event was hosted by Maria Bartiromo, business news anchor from CNBC, and Nooyi, who has been ranked by Fortune magazine as the “#1 Most Powerful Woman in American Business.” Topics discussed ranged across a variety of disciplines, intriguing all members of the audience from planners of the Marketing Summit, to undergraduate collegiate students participating in a marketing competition, to staunch feminists.

Among the topics discussed were the recent success of PepNooyi siCo commercials televised during the Super Bowl (particularly those for Doritos), the changing images of snack products in the marketplace, PepsiCo’s international humanitarian efforts, gender differences regarding leadership in the workplace and the necessity of marketing all products, not just PepsiCo’s, to women.

Nooyi’s pleasant demeanor made the discussion accessible to all those in attendance. While realistic in her expectations and the deployment of her work-related goals, she’s not afraid to inject a

would lead to deep political divides for decades to come. He said that World War II united the country, while the Vietnam War “divided us forever.”

He cited examples of the Vietnam War affecting national politics as recently as the 2004 campaign where John Kerry’s swift boat duty and George Bush’s service in the national guard were both called into question. rs “This group only lasted ive n fU 16 years, and American was sy o e t r u ready to turn a page,” Gergen Graphic co said. According to Gergen, Obama is offering Americans a fresh start in an era when they are growing more and more pessimistic about their country.

Gergen went on to describe Obama as a person, highlighting his personality, skills and special abilities.

“He ran one of the best campaigns we have seen in modern politics,” he said. “You have to go back to Lyndon Johnson to see a Democrat who did as well as Obama.”

Gergen said that Obama has the potential to build a new, formidable Democratic Party.

He cited several reasons, including the fact that Obama did very well with Hispanics, who are projected to outnumber Whites in the United States by 2042, and also that he did well with the millennial generation, which consists of voters born since 1982.

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Students start original online business

By Katie Phillips | Staff writer

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Brett Apten and Ben Comer started MySavu to aid students in the poor economy.

In these harsh economic times, everyone is looking for a break. The college students in our nation who were already on a “college-kid budget” before the economic downturn are no exception.

Thanks to two entrepreneurial students, students at the university are now being given the opportunity to save at a number of local businesses in Winston-Salem.

Ben Comer, a sophomore communications major and Brett Apten, a junior psychology major, have started a business that connects university students with the Winston-Salem community.

Both are entrepreneurship minors who had their own separate ideas about a business of this sort. A mutual professor suggested that the two students combine their plans. Comer and Apten are now part of an independent study for their entrepreneurship minors.

Called MySavu, the Web site (mysavu.com) advertises local businesses as well as offering

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Chinese hotel fire kills 1, injures 7 Flames engulfed the 40-story Mandarin Oriental hotel Feb. 9th, killing one fireman and injuring seven others.

The fire was started by firecrackers set off next door outside of the neighboring complex for Central China Television.

The station has since apologized and explained that the firecrackers were set off without permission.

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By Hannah Rothman | Contributing writer

David Gergen, a man University President Nathan O. Hatch referred to as one of our wisest and most trusted observers of public life, addressed a packed Wait Chapel Feb. 10 about both the shortterm and long-term challenges that President Barack Obama’s new administration will have to face.

After opening with light remarks about his fondness for his home state of North Carolina, Gergen got right to his main point of the night.

“The next few years are going to be terribly important to the remainder of the 21st century,” he said. Gergen attempted to show the importance and uniqueness of this moment in time by breaking it down in terms of generational transitions of power.

He said that for his age group, this is the third generation to come to the White House, the first being the World War II generation containing Presidents Kennedy-Bush Sr. and the second being the generation born between 1940 and 1950, containing Presidents Clinton and Bush.

Gergen said that the World War II generation was very optimistic about what our country could achieve, because they had personally saved that country during the largest war in history.

However, he said that the generation of Clinton and Bush was different.

“That generation did not come of age during a victorious war,” he said.

“It was a time of enormous social turmoil.” Gergen described the 1960s as a time from which arose many wonderful things, but also many things that

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unprecedented discounts for students at a variety of locations. “The site includes discounts, business information and will have student reviews in the future. It is somewhat similar to The Student, but it is much more comprehensive and user friendly,” Comer said.

The name contains a variety of different meanings, the first being that in French, savoir means “to know.” Also, this online business has been designed to save students money, hence the double meaning for Savu, possibly “save you.”

Eventually, the two said, they hope to expand this idea to other universities, helping college students all over the country. Comer also said that there are so many quality restaurants in Winston-Salem of which students are unaware, and together they hope to inform the student population of a wider variety of dining options.

Before getting started, Comer and Apten randomly selected 225 students to complete

During Barack Obama’s first primetime news conference he remarked that the United States was looking for opportunities for “face-to-face” dialogue with Iran.

It has been nearly three decades without diplomatic ties and the new president believes that it will not happen overnight.

His administration is reviewing existing U.S. policy toward Iran.

Former Wisconsin mayor to be arraigned Gary Becker, the former mayor of Racine, Wisc., will be arraigned on charges of possessing child pornography, soliciting minors and four other counts.

He could face a sentence of up to 114 years if convicted.

Becker was arrested in his office last month after trying to meet a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl. The girl was actually an undercover officer.

Second peanut factory closes after health threat Products at the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Plainview, Texas are suspected of being tainted with salmonella.

The plant closed voluntarily on Feb 9.

The state health agency is unaware of any illness linked to the Plainview plant; however, the current salmonella outbreak has killed eight and sickened about 600 people nationwide.

U.S. Senate passes stimulus plan The U.S. Senate approved an economic stimulus plan that will cost an expected $838 billion.

The Democratic-controlled Senate voted for the plan 61-37.

Negotiations are needed to reconcile this bill with the House of Representatives’ version.

The U.S. Treasury Secretary has also come up with a bank bail-out plan that will be worth $1.5 trillion.

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Sports | B1 Diamond Deac Days A preview of the 2009 Diamond Deacs baseball season looks at the team, their schedule and their hopes for the postseason.

Opinion | A6 No stimulus, please Libertarian argues against stimulus package and one party rule in Washington.

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Brieflies Sophomores to declare majors during week of Feb. 16 The annual major declaration process is scheduled for Feb. 16-20. All sophomores should declare a major by setting up an advising appointment in the desired department during this period.

Students who do not declare by Feb. 20 risk being unable to register for their major courses during major registration. Questions concerning the process should be directed to Susan Carlton in the Office of the Registrar.

Speakers to cover alternative job opportunities On Feb. 24, seniors are invited to learn about some one and two year nontraditional, yet resume-building, opportunities available after graduation. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Benson 409.

Speakers include Julie McElmurry, Campus Minister, Melissa Duquette, coordinator for Volunteer Service Corps at Campus Kitchen and Kent Greer, assistant director at the Center for International Studies.

For additional information concerning the event, contact Laurie Cronin at ext. 4484.

Trumpeter to perform in Secrest Artist Series As part of the Secrest Artist Series, trumpeter Alison Balsom will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 19. in Brendle Recital Hall.

In her early twenties, Balsom already holds a record contract on EMI, was awarded the Best Young British Performer in the 2006 Classical Brit Awards and made her debut with the L.A. Philharmonic in January.

Kevin Bowen, director of bands and instructor of trumpet, will be giving the preperformance talk at 6:40 p.m. in Room 208, adjacent to the Brendle Hall lobby. For more information, visit www.alisonbalsom.com.

Students to address Internet ethics at symposium Four undergraduate students will present their perspectives on Internet ethics, online discourse and gossip sites such as Juicy Campus at a symposium titled “Juicy Ethics” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Feb. 23.

The event will take place in Annenberg Forum in Carswell Hall, Room 111, and will be free and open to the public.

The symposium will feature student presentations followed by panel discussion with faculty experts, an open discussion with the audience and a reception.

BB&T sponsors campus-wide essay contest All students are invited to enter an essay contest sponsored by the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism. The best essays will be provided with both honorary distinction and a monetary award of up to $1,500 at the end of this semester.

This year’s topic is “Markets and Freedom,” and it asks students, in the context of the world’s financial markets crisis, to consider the scope of government action to ensure freedom.

For more information and to view contest guidelines, visit www.wfu.edu/~westgp/Essay. pdf.

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TACKLING HEALTH TABOOS

How to cope with suicidal thoughts Suicide discussion continues, offering possible solutions

By Kim Paschall | Contributing writer Help Yourself If you think you are struggling with depression or have had suicidal ideations, the good news is there is help.

The Counseling Center in Reynolda Hall is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Seven counselors have six one-hour sessions available every day, plus two half-hour emergency slots, and services are free. The receptionist at the Counseling Center will assess whether you have an emergency and schedule an appointment. Intake is about one week for non-emergency patients. Student Health also has 24 hour crisis availability.

Beth Brumbaugh, a senior political science major, was diagnosed with depression on campus her freshman year. She has seen a counselor at the Counseling Center as well as Cecil Price, director of student health services, and Theresa Burgess, Student Health psychiatrist, as a part of her treatment.

“The first person I saw at the Counseling Center I’ve been seeing since December of freshman year,” Brumbaugh said. “My experience has been great so far. I don’t know if I’ve just had an abnormal experience, but everyone has been really helpful.”

Though Brumbaugh has faced some challenges, including having to drop a class during a particularly rough semester, a combination of medication and talk therapy have helped her succeed at Wake. She will graduate in May 2009.

The Learning Assistance Center, also in Reynolda Hall, can be an important tool to help depressed students continue to do well in their studies. The 2006 American College Health Association survey results indicate that 15% of students thought depression had affected their academic performance in some way. That included having to drop a class, take an incomplete or receive a lower grade in a class.

Another resource for students is the campus ministers. With offices in Kitchen Residence Hall, these faculty members are available to all students, regardless of faith, to talk through any issues.

“When folks are in the midst of some serious strains of depression,

it takes as many avenues as possible and concerted effort to help,” Larry Jones, Wesley Foundation campus minister, said. “If faith matters to the student in any kind of way, having a minister be available to listen is important.”

Advances in the medications to treat depression are also a great help to depressed students. Senior psychology major Ann, who wished to remain anonymous, has been on medication for her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and depression for six years.

“I am okay with it because I saw such a marked change,” Ann said.

“It was hard to accept being on medication and admit it to people.

But I think if you see it for what it is, it’s all right. And it really helps. I wouldn’t change.”

The stigma that surrounds medication can be hard to overcome. Lolly Hemphill, a master’s student at the university’s counseling department, believes education about the benefits of medication is crucial.

“When you are sick, you take Advil or Nyquil. It’s the same thing for depression meds,” Hemphill said.

“People think they will snap out of it. That’s crazy. You can’t cure the flu by telling yourself to feel better.”

When considering medication, campus experts recommend that students talk to a counselor and a doctor. They also encourage students to realize that not every medicine is the perfect fit for every patient, and medication may not start to work right away.

Psychologists say other ways to help yourself include getting physical exercise, letting natural light into your environment, reaching out to loved ones and taking time for healthy fun. They also recommend getting enough sleep, eating a balanced diet and allowing yourself to make a mistake.

“I’d tell a person to do what they need to do and they are not the only person dealing with this,” Greg, a senior who wished to remain anonymous, said. “The professional but also the personal route is important.

It’s not a hopeless cause.”

Help a Friend Learning depression symptoms and simply being attentive can be the difference in a friend’s life.

Brumbaugh recalls how her boyfriend freshman year helped her finally seek counseling.

“He sat me down and said he was worried about me and wanted me to see someone,” Brumbaugh said. “I was worried about it because I’d never really done it before, and I’m not

great a b o u t opening up and talking to people about things. It probably would have taken me a while longer if he hadn’t pushed me.”

James Raper, who works at the Counseling Center, said there are relatively “simple” things for people to look for that could be important.

He urges students to look for over or under eating, unusual sleep patterns, increased substance abuse or other behaviors that seem out of character.

“I tell people the things I look for: significant changes in mood, behavior, sleep, appetite, hygiene, class attendance or attending to school work,” Raper said. “That can be in either direction. They are all the sudden throwing themselves in to work, or I haven’t seen them take a shower in three days.”

Depression symptoms in men can be different and more “normal,” like irritability, anger and increased drinking. These differences may be crucial because although women deal with depression at a higher rate and attempt suicide more often, on the order of 4-to-1, men are four times more likely to complete a suicide attempt than women, Raper said.

Some students who want to help may fear that approaching a friend will backfire. But asking a friend if they are feeling depressed or considering suicide will not necessarily plant ideations or cause feelings of anger, experts say, if the student or friend is approached with compassion and concern.

“Notice the small things and don’t wait until they haven’t gone out with you for three weeks and no one has seen them,” Natascha Romeo, health educator at the university, said. “You can’t solve all your friends’ problems, but sometimes just someone noticing can really help.”

Help for our Community?

The stigma attached to depression and suicide has left many members of the community feeling isolated and unwilling to seek help. Though the issue is statistically widespread on college campuses, it may be going under the radar on a daily basis at the university.

“I think people really want to know more about it,” Romeo said.

“Mental health issues are something that a student’s roommate,

family member, friend, loved one may be dealing with, and I don’t think we’ve done a good job as a society of how to help a friend about mental health issues. There may be lots of misperceptions.”

The most important thing stressed by counselors and health professionals is that feelings of sadness and anxiety are normal and there is no shame in seeking help.

“These are problems a large percentage of the population has to deal with,” Greg said. “But the way it’s approached can further isolate people, makes them feel somehow stigmatized. People seem to think (depression) is self-inflicted and that makes it tough for people to be willing to accept it and work through it.”

Open discussion about suicide when a member of the community is lost may help to remove the stigma.

Fear and shame perpetuates fear and shame, according to Raper, and if the community does not address the issue openly in the aftermath of a suicide, then adequate solutions may not be offered.

“People are affected by the loss if a person leaves for whatever reason,” Raper said. “We should interrupt this cycle. If and when we do lose students, we need to acknowledge that openly. “Culture change is hard though. So I am patient.”

POLICE BEAT • University Police responded to 86 calls from Feb. 2-8, including 20 incidents and investigations and 66 service calls. The following is a summary of the incidents and investigations.

Drug and Alcohol Violations • University Police saw a passenger get out of a car and fall down on Gulley Drive Feb. 7. When they checked on him, they determined that he was intoxicated and was an underage student.

He was taken to the Student Health Service for evaluation. Information about the incident was provided to Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services.

Thefts • A registered bicycle valued at $900 was reported stolen Feb. 4, but the student could not recall where he left the bike or whether it had been secured.

• Two identification cards were reported stolen from separate unsecured lockers at the Miller Center between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Feb. 4.

• A book bag and its contents valued together at $43 were reported stolen from a locked vehicle parked at Reynolda House Museum of American Art between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Feb. 5. There were no signs of forced entry.

Property Damage • University Police responded Feb. 7 to a call about two students dragging a tree through the parking lot at Student Drive. The students admitted cutting several trees from a nearby wooded area. Information about the incident was provided to the dean of student services.

• An unidentified man entered an unlocked occupied room at Babcock Residence Hall Feb. 8 and threw an egg into the residence. Damage from eggs and spray paint was discovered the same night at several other locations in the building.

Miscellaneous • University Police found a lost wallet Feb. 2 at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library and discovered it contained a fraudulent identification, which the

wallet’s owner admitted possessing. Information about the incident was provided to the dean of student services.

• University Police responded Feb. 3 to a call from Student Apartments about a Salisbury man who was bothering a student who knew him. Police stopped the man at the Reynolda Road entrance and issued a trespass warning to prevent him from returning to campus.

• University Police responded to the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Feb. 3 to assist a student who had fallen on the ice. She was transported to the Student Health Service for treatment.

• University Police responded Feb. 6 to the Pit to assist a student who had a seizure and cut his chin when he fell to the floor. Forsyth County Emergency Medical Services transported the student to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center for treatment.

• University Police responded Feb. 6 to the Reynolda Village gazebo, where a visitor had slipped and fallen. A friend of the woman transported her to the Comprehensive Rehab Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

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Speaker series OGB undergoes staff transitions will address sexual abuse

By Kell Wilson | Senior writer

By Samantha Hoback | Staff writer

The women’s and gender studies program will host a Symposium on Women Militarism featuring Catherine A. MacKinnon, a feminist jurist who specializes in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law.

MacKinnon, who is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, has devoted her work and activism to the militaristic violence toward women, notably during the Bosnian Wars in the 1980s and ‘90s.

In August 2000, she represented Bosnian female survivors in Kadic vs. Karadzic, the lawsuit that first recognized rape as a civil rights violation.

MacKinnon has also been consulted nationally and internationally for her knowledge on sexual harassment, pornography, international law and sex equality, as well as social and political theory and methodology.

Patricia Willis, a professor in the women’s and gender studies program, and her students helped organize the speaker series this semester.

“The idea for the speaker series grew out of the Feminism Activism class last semester,” Willis said.

“It will highlight how the militarization of our culture affects everybody’s ethos and mentalities, how we deal with each other and how violence impacts women.”

Violence against women can be found in many militaristic situations around the world. MacKinnon worked with Bosnian victims of rape camps that were established by Serbians in an effort to demoralize and ostracize women and undermine the cultural norms. Similarly, female victims of the civil war and genocide in Rwanda suffered militaristic violence during the 1990s.

Freshman Grant Livesay, one of Willis’ students, said that there were 50,000 proven accounts of rape in Rwanda, however there were up to 250,000 alleged accounts during the conflict.

The militaristic violence toward women is a result of a common military ethic: to create and subdue the enemy.

Often, women are the enemies: a direct consequence of patriarchal societies around the world and the idea that women are somehow less valuable than men.

Unfortunately, instances of violence against women are not confined to conflicts in thirdworld countries.

Colonel Ann Wright, who will be featured in a later installment of the series, specializes in rape and sexual assault by the U.S. military, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Willis and her students described situations in which U.S. military women are the victims of rape by their fellow military men, but these accounts often go unreported because the perpetrators are usually of higher rank than the women.

Pornography is usually involved as well.

“We don’t mean to imply that all military men rape,” Willis said. “It’s the military mentality about creating violence that teaches men to create violence and authorizes them to commit these crimes.”

Willis and her students hope that the discussion with MacKinnon and future discussions in the series will educate students on the reality of militaristic violence against women in a broad range of military situations, not just declared wars and military zones.

The women’s and gender studies program has also sponsored other events in an effort to educate the campus and the community about violence in society.

The Human Rights Film Festival featured the film Special Circumstances on Feb. 4 and will present No: The Rape Documentary on March 5.

“Once people are educated to the violence, they can help to change the reality,” Willis said.

On a campus whose motto is Pro Humanitate, the question of the military ethic and its impact on humanity is very pertinent.

The Symposium on Women Militarism will be held at 7 p.m. on Feb.17 in Worrell Room 1312.

The event is free and open to the public.

The Old Gold & Black completed its annual spring semester transition period recently, opening the doors to new leadership and ideas at the student newspaper.

Junior Mariclaire Hicks, a hard-working and experienced editor, is taking over the position of editor in chief from senior Hicks Kell Wilson.

D u r i n g 2008, Hicks served as managing editor for the OGB and was awarded with the organization’s Sophomore of the Year award.

“I worked closely with Mariclaire from her first day in the office three years ago to my last day as editor in chief just a few weeks ago,” Wilson said of the OGB’s new head.

“I have complete faith in her ability to improve the newspaper to the best of her ability.

“She has an enthusiastic and creative staff to help her accomplish this goal.”

Working alongside Hicks in the editor’s office is junior Elliot Engstrom, who takes over Hicks’ old position as managing editor.

“I’m really happy with the team we’ve assembled,” Engstrom said.

Engstrom’s past experience as news editor and his current work as a resident advisor provides him with the necessary skills required for his position.

“I think our strengths compliment each other,” Hicks said of her co-worker.

“My organization and his people skills work to make a functioning office environment.”

Sophomore CeCe Brooks returns as news editor, this time with coeditor sophomore Caitlin Brooks by her side.

Rounding out the news section as assistant news editors are freshmen Ashton Astbury and Elizabeth Forrest, both of whom showed great dedication to the paper during their first semester at the university.

CeCe Brooks is also taking on the co-editorship of the life section along with sophomore Caroline Edgeton.

Both are highly capable and share a passion for entertainment and campus events.

“I am so excited to be Life editor, and I am very fortunate to be a part of this organization,” Edgeton said of her new position.

Freshman Olivia Boyce and sophomore Chantel O’Neal finish the section off as assistant life editors.

The opinion section made a smooth transition into the talented young hands of sophomore Hannah Werthan, who previously worked under former opinion editors senior Alex Osteen and Jeff Merski, ‘08. She has already started putting her ideas into action, adding a Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance column to the section.

“I’m really excited to have more bi-weekly columns that get students more involved Engstrom in the opinion section,” Werthan said.

With assistants sophomore Hunter Bratton and freshman Nilam Patel acting as Werthan’s wingmen, this section is primed for excellence.

Stepping up to the plate to tackle the sports section solo is sophomore Connor Swarbrick.

He became co-editor of the section in fall 2008 with junior Allison Lange.

His past experience as editor in chief of his high school newspaper and his passion for university athletics makes him a perfect fit for the section.

Sophomore Samantha Cernuto and freshman Tori Stewart finish off this great team as assistant sports editors.

With senior Sophie Mullinax’s retirement and junior Kelly Makepeace abroad for the semester, the photo section has been handed over to sophomores Rachel Cameron and Haowei Tong.

After almost four years as the graphics editor, senior Ryan Caldwell gives the reins to freshman Bobby O’Connor. O’Connor has already become an integral part of the newspaper after just one semester.

“I’m excited to be moving into a full-time position,” O’Connor said.

“The office is fun to hang around and there are some great people here.”

Professor to speak at convocation

By Caitlin Brooks | News editor

Professor of history, Anthony Parent, has always had something of an aversion to addressing and investigating the intimate and the familiar.

A native of Los Angeles, Calif., Parent chose to specialize in African American history, more specifically the history of slavery in early Virginia – about as far away from Los Angeles as he could get without leaving the continental United States.

When asked why, he simply replied, “Because Virginia is not California. It’s very hard to do something close to home.”

But that is exactly what Provost Jill Tiefenthaler is requiring Parent to do at 4 p.m. on Feb. 26 in Wait Chapel in front of thousands of people.

Parent will deliver the 2009 Founders’ Day Convocation address as part of the celebration of the university’s 175th anniversary.

The address, titled “Weathering Wake, The African-American Experience,” requires Parent to examine both the wider university community and the specific, smaller community of which he counts himself a member – the vibrant African American community of the university.

“It’s a greater responsibility to give a history of a community, especially a community you’re part of. It’s daunting to think about,” Parent said of the pending address.

Parent is a long-standing member of the history department. He joined in 1989, two decades ago.

He teaches courses on African-American history, world civilizations, colonial America and the civil rights movement and was recently able to begin teaching a course he long thought should be taught at the university – Africa in World History.

His work on the slave history of Virginia has enabled him to author Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740 and to co-author Old Dominion, New Commonwealth, A History of Virginia, 1607-2007. Both of these texts have been adopted as texts in universities and colleges in Virginia and across the nation.

Foul Means notes his discovery of the largest slave rebellion in American history that occurred 100 years before the Nat Turner rebellion.

In that 1730 rebellion, also known as the Chesapeake Rebellion, more than 300 Africans escaped from Virginia into the Great Dismal Swamp, located between Norfolk, Va., and Elizabeth City, N.C.

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History professor Anthony Parent will deliver the 2009 Founders’ Day Convocation on the African-American experience at the university.

“Weathering Wake, The African American Experience” will attempt to cover the history of the African-American community at the university from the May 1962 Board of Trustees meeting that officially integrated the school to the role of African-American students on the campus of the 21st century “What I would contend, with merely telling the history of the black community at the university, is that the history of the African-American student is woven into the fabric of the university,” Parent said. “I cannot recount the whole history of these students; it is too expansive.”

What he will try to do is look at the turning points – the crucial moments in race relations on campus – and to highlight individuals and events that contributed to full integration of the university.

Parent will also address numerous social trends that surfaced through the history of the last four and a half decades at the university.

He will also discuss the success of black students and graduates and their contributions to

the university.“A backdrop to all of this is that the African-Americans saw themselves as a community and had a common experience,” Parent said.

“I hope the wider student body is able to recognize the experience of African-Americans, that is to say, a different experience than those outside the African American community.”

When confronted with the idea that the university still lacks diversity, after all these years, Parent reiterated a former point, that AfricanAmericans and other minority students contribute to every part of campus life.

Since integration, these students “have continued to participate in every facet of the university.

I’ve always found African-American presence and participation within the school,” Parent said.

“The numbers may be more problematic,” Parent said.

“We could have more diversity, more multicultural students, but I feel that those that are currently enrolled are fully able to, and do, participate in the life of the university.”

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such yearly increases have become an acknowledged trend in academia.

From 2002 to 2006 the average public research university tuition increased an unprecedented 30 percent, while the general spending per student rose a paltry 8.4 percent.

In anticipation of difficult times to come, Provost Jill Tiefenthaler noted that students will still receive monetary aid.

“The university will remain committed to financial aid for qualified students,” she said.

Within the 2008-2009 academic year, more than $64 million is being distributed to undergraduate

students, with $41 million of this coming directly from institutional grants. Increases in tuition are not limited to the undergraduate college.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will experience a 4 percent increase in tuition, the Law School tuition will be raised 4.4 percent and the School of Divinity and Business School will both have their tuition raised by 4.5 and 5 percent, respectively.

“We have worked very hard to set tuition at a level where we can continue to deliver the outstanding higher education experience our students deserve and that we are committed to delivering as the nation’s leading collegiate university,” Hatch said.

President Nathan O. Hatch, along with 14 others, was recently elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).

He has been appointed for a threeyear term and will serve as an at-large board member.

Hatch has a positive outlook about his involvement with the NAICU “These are challenging times for higher education, and it always helps to take time to step back and gain perspective from others who are facing similar challenges,” he said.

“Additionally, I would not participate if I didn’t feel that I can contribute to the discussion.”

Recognized as a national organization since 1976, the NAICU is headquartered in Washington, D.C. The organization represents more than 1,000 private colleges and universities.

According to its website, the NAICU is also active on the political scene. It represents “private colleges and universities on policy issues with the federal government, such as those affecting student aid, taxation and government regulation.”

Currently, the organization is focusing on the benefits and flaws that could come with the new stimulus bill.

Hatch, along with other board members, will participate in setting the association’s agenda on federal higher education policy, actively encouraging support of NAICU priorities and initiatives and overseeing the association’s financial administration.

Hatch will also help with issues such as the affordability of higher education, the current economic downturn, government initiatives and sustainability.

“Dr. Hatch was selected by his peers because of his expertise in the field, proven leadership and commitment to America’s college students,” said NA-

ICU President David L. Warren. “He assumes his responsibilities at a time of great challenge and transformation for American higher education.”

This is an important step for the university, according to Mary Pugel, senior executive assistant to the president.

She sees the positive contacts Hatch will be able to make and new ideas that he will be able to glean from similar colleges and universities.

“Organizations such as the NAICU foster professional relationships, sharing of best practices and provide a forum for honest, open conversations among college and university leaders which I find extremely valuable,” Hatch said. “While there are many worthy organizations to which I could belong and contribute, I look for those opportunities that will help me continue to grow as a university administrator and also allow me to bring back to Wake Forest some of the best thinking and practices from the field.”

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War veteran uses Iraq experiences for poems

By CeCe Brooks | Contributing editor

As part of the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading series, poet and Iraq war veteran Brian Turner will read from his collection, Here, Bullet, at 7 p.m. on Feb. 16 in Reynolda H o u s e Museum of American Art. Tu r n e r was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division and was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq, beginning November 2003. He says his foray into poetry began in high school when he was attempting to write song lyrics for a band he was in.

Turner went on to study poetry at the University of Oregon, where he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree.

The complexity of poetry is what Turner enjoys about the art so much.

“It seems like the language has a lot of pressure on it so it creates layers of meaning that are kind of intriguing,” he said.

Here, Bullet, which was published by Alice James Books in 2005, is Turner’s first published collection, but he says he wrote several books before his tour in Iraq that were not published.

“I wrote seven other books before this one, none of them published. They were never noticed so I didn’t think that this one necessarily would get any attention and be published, much less get prizes,” Turner said.

The prizes he refers to include the Beatrice Hawley Award in 2005 and the 2007 Poets’ Prize.

A review in The New Yorker said, “As a war poet, (Brian Turner) sidesteps the classic distinction between romance and irony, opting instead for the surreal.”

As the book cover and title would imply, Here, Bullet contains many poems Turner wrote

both while in Iraq and soon after he returned.

Turner says he would probably still be writing poetry if he hadn’t joined the military, but his subjects would most likely be different. “(Being in Iraq) definitely had a major impact on my writing and me as a person,” he said.

Many have complimented Turner not only on his talent as a poet, but his ability to describe the war in Iraq with a sense of reality, tempered with sensitivity.

“Soldiers have long been the custodians of the real war inside the war of the politicians,” fellow “war poet” Doug Anderson said. “Unfortunately, most of the voices get lost when they come home. Not so with Iraq war veteran Brian Turner, with his uncommon eloquence, and his sensitivity to the land in which the war is being fought.

“His poems reveal his own internal landscape, and they celebrate the other — even as they deplore the violence.” Turner notes that the current politi-

cal climate makes every writer seem like a “war poet” or a “war writer,” but that there’s a lack of real-life experience hindering some writers.

“There’s a difficult dynamic because a lot of people here sometimes don’t feel like they have the sort of authority to write about the war unless they were there and experienced it,” he said. “It’s one of the remnants of the confessional age.”

While he continues to tour and have readings for Here, Bullet, Turner has completed a second collection titled Talk the Guns that will be published around this time next year. “(‘Talk the guns’ is) kind of an odd phrase, but ‘talk the guns’ is a fire chain command that soldiers give to their teams when they’re in a fight,” he said. “It’s to conserve ammo, but I was thinking of it more in the sense of it seems very provocative, trying to allow the weapons of war to speak. That’s how that phrase rings for me.”

A book-signing and reception will follow the reading.

Photo courtesy of University News Service

Dillon Johnston illuminates the experience of an American soldier in Iraq in his book, Here, Bullet.

Divinity professor appointed to Obama’s council Melissa Rogers is one of 25 members picked by the new president for faith-based group

By Katie Phillips | Staff writer Melissa Rogers, director of the Center for Religious and Public Affairs at the university’s school of Divinity, has been appointed to President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Obama has already named 15 of the 25 total council members.

WakeForestRevised.qxp 1/16/09 12:09 PM Rogers said that the appointment “is a great honor and a wonderful opportunity to work toward the reconciliation of two core American values: serving people in need and safeguarding religious freedom for all.”

She also is very pleased that “this body will work with the National Security Council to advance interfaith dialogue around the world, promote responsible fatherhood and reduce abortions.”

Rogers has concentrated many of her studies on constitutional issues involved with the separation of church and state, a topic that comes up often in politics. She has been very active in the political side of this issue concerning religion’s role in policy making, the policies themselves and public life for American society.

Page 1 For example, Rogers states Rogers that “the government should not subsidize or promote religious activities, but it should subsidize and promote programs that feed the hungry and help people move from welfare to

work.” Involved in many aspects that tie religion and politics, Rogers has also served as the executive director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, D.C. The forum is a project supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

It serves as a clearinghouse and town hall for the discussion of the ways in which religion shapes ideas and institutions.

Rogers has served as general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty.

She is currently the co-chair of the Religion Clauses issue group of the American Constitution Society on Law and Public Policy.

She is also currently serving as a member of the Religion, Public Values, and Public Policy Task Force of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. She has also testified before the Judiciary Committee to the U.S. Senate about religious expression in public areas including parks

and squares. In 2004, the National Journal named Rogers as one of twelve church-state experts that “politicians will call on when they get serious about addressing an important public policy issue.”

In December of 2008, Rogers, along with E.J. Dionne, a senior Brookings fellow, issued a report that called on the new president to welcome partnerships with religious as well as secular organizations.

This report also called for an increase in funding for programs that are now functional, while it also listed many recommendations for reforming the organizations that are not viable at the current time in our economy.

Rogers co-authored a casebook that coupled religion and law.

The book was published in 2008 by Baylor University Press and is titled Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court.

Rogers is currently based in Washington, D.C.

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little humor into any situation. She said she is a firm believer in “Performance with Purpose,” and as PepsiCo propels its products into impoverished countries worldwide, its largest current research initiative is to create a nutritious snack containing a sufficient amount of nutrients to meet one’s daily nutritional requirements.

Nooyi also encourages members of PepsiCo to carry out their motto, “Performance with Purpose,” on their own time as well.

Nooyi adopted a child from a third world nation with whom Pepsi’s top executives could correspond. She has emphasized that they could give up their child at any time they choose, yet none have.

While the evening’s topics were varied, Nooyi spoke most passionately about the necessity to market to women and include more women in the corporate world. She highlighted the fact that women comprise 80 percent of shoppers, and PepsiCo needs to work hard to make their product appeal to them.

She joked that she encourages her male counterparts to bring their wives when testing the marketability of a new product. She

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Nooyi, PepsiCo CEO and chairman, spoke on Feb. 6 in Wait Chapel at the end of the university’s marketing summit. said that they always respond with laughter, but that laughter is probably a means of hiding fear of their wives’ criticisms.

While her approach with most subject matter was light-hearted, she did highlight the fact that the job market is tough, and she encouraged students to use their talents

to give back for a couple of years through organizations like AmeriCorps and Teach for America.

Throughout the evening, Nooyi stressed corporate responsibility and made clear that she acted on it in her everyday dealings, passing it on to those who work for her.

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a survey about their interest in having this kind of Web site available.

The results were overwhelmingly positive. One question asked Would you use a Web site that offers information, student reviews, and discounts for businesses in all of the categories listed above? The categories included restaurants, bars, cell phone companies, grocery stores, dentists, storage units, sporting goods and a plethora of other business types. The possible answers were definitely, there is a good chance, I might, there is a small chance and never. Not a single student responded that they would never make use of a

Web site like this, while 47.3 percent (106 students) responded that there is a good chance that they would make use of this Web site, and 41.5 percent (93) students responded definitely.

The Web site is currently in its beginning stages, but it is ever expanding; a revamped Web site will be arriving within the next few weeks, they said. Right now the featured businesses include, but are not limited to, 10 percent discounts at Big Shotz Tavern and Camel Café, as well as a10 percent student discount on Thursday nights at 4th Street Filling Station. 4th Street is also offering a $3 martini or cosmopolitan special on Tuesday nights for students. At Cues N’ Spirits, you can receive a 25 percent student discount

on any pool table any night and an additional 25 percent off on Wednesday nights. This is only a sample of a number of discounts available to students on www. mysavu.com.

Businesses have been very willing to partake in this advertising opportunity. A manager at 4th Street Filling Station said that they received three calls from students who had said they used mysavu.com that day, which was the first day it was available to students online.

“Brett and I are essentially bridging the gap between businesses and students,” Comer said. Designed for the students, the owners have created a website facilitated by categories of businesses and their respective discounts, and it will soon

include up-to-date reviews from students themselves. Comer and Apten say that the Web site will continue to expand, with more and more discounts to be offered as well. One edge they say that MySavu has over The Student is the wide variety of local discounts being offered to the students, and the range of businesses offering discounts is not limited to restaurants. The personal connections and familiarity with the community is key, they said.

They want students to feel comfortable using the Web site while also taking advantage of everything it has to offer.

To request a business to be added to the Web site or any related inquiries, e-mail brett@mysavu. com or ben@mysavu.com.

Everybody likes music. You see people jamming out with their friends or in the gym.

Music is a way for us to express ourselves.

We are all aware of the sites where you can get all the music you want with just the click of a mouse – and all for free. Illegal downloading occurs everywhere: in the home, workplace and at the university.

If you are caught with illegal downloads on this campus, the Information System will receive a “take down” notice from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

This notice contains the IP address where the downloads were made, the date and time, size of the file, site and the document’s name or song title.

Before IS notifies the students, they double check to insure that the address was accessed from a university computer and not somebody else’s.

Then the notification is sent to the student who is asked to contact the IS personnel to verify if they did download the file.

In a majority of cases, the student admits to the wrong-doing and they have to delete the file and the application that allowed him or her to download the music.

However, there are cases where the student continues to download illegally.

When this occurs, the student is brought before the dean of Judicial Affairs where the evidence is presented against him or her and then the dean makes his final decision. This process can also occur for first time of-

fenders who have an abundance of illegal files.

“We have seen a dramatic increase in the number of cases from previous years,” said Rick Matthews, the associate provost for Information Systems. “I do not believe that this is because more students are illegally downloading but more because the RIAA have more sophisticated tools to catch people.”

What many students are unaware of is the legal ramifications of their illegal download.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was signed into law in October of 1998.

It limits Internet service providers from copyright infringement liability for simply transmitting information over the Internet, and service providers are expected to remove material from users’ web sites that appears to constitute copyright infringement.

If convicted, you must state that you were charged with a federal offense on every job application you fill out. One poor decision can lead to a lifetime of challenges.

Many students wonder where they are supposed to get their music if they can no longer use sites like LimeWire. Unfortunately, Ruckus is no longer available online. However, Pandora. com is another site that enables students to listen to their music without spending any money.

One sure-fire way to get your music is through iTunes, although you have to pay $0.99 for each song.

However $0.99 is not so bad when you consider the high price of courtroom fees if convicted of illegal downloading?

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uckus is officially deceased. Gone are the days when we could hear something on the radio and then, moments later, download the song onto our computers and listen to it over and over again as many times as we wanted. This was the good life.

There were a few problems with Ruckus, we will admit.

The main one was that we couldn’t take our new favorite songs and put them onto our iPods or on CDs so we could listen to them at the gym or in the car.

Still, Ruckus was a way we could get free music, and so we mourn its loss, especially since the average college budget is being stretched to the limit as it is. Therefore, a new free service from the

university would be awesome, especially considering the 4.5 percent tuition increase for next year.

Also, we think it’s only fair that the university provides us with free music, since IS is always warning us not to illegally download music.

In the mean time, we offer a few solutions. One, students can support Wake Radio and listen to their podcasts. They offer great music on any given night. Another solution is to use other free sources like last.FM and Pandora. These, too, have annoying quirks, but they are generally good sources of commercial-free, online music for studying, partying and all of our other needs. We are waiting, Wake Forest. Put our tuition money to good use.

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n Feb. 6, the university’s Board of Trustees approve a 4.5 percent increase in tuition for the 2009-2010 school year. We would like to know why the university needs to have an increase in tuition.

Where is the money going?

This remains behind closed doors. We appreciate Student Government’s efforts to be more open with the student body about where our activity fees are going.

Now it’s time for the Board of Trustees and the administration of the university to let us know where the extra money we are paying next year is going.

We recognize that last year, the situation was even worse. The 2007-2008 school year saw a tuition raise of 6.8 percent, while housing

costs soared anywhere from an extra 3 to 10 percent.

We are definitely relieved that the same increase is not happening again. However, we must ask how in touch the Board of Trustees is with the current economic situation.

They say that they kept that in mind, but they are asking for $36,560 for one year of undergraduate education.

How many families can afford to spend that right now?

The press release remarks that there are plans to further aid families who have an income of $40,000 or less.

But what about the many other families who are making less than $100,000 who still have a hard time spending that much money?

We all want to know why our pockets are being emptied even more.

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market – as so many in our government are chanting – is absolutely false. The

Cato Institute recently published a document signed by literally hundreds of economists – three of which are Wake Forest economics and finance professors – which stated that Obama’s plan for increased government intervention is not what our economy needs right now.

Additionally, one needs only to look Elliot Engstrom at the current actions of Republicans Managing editor to realize that the party which has had enormous power until very recently is s we all know very well by now, the anything but a party which promotes debate over the stimulus package laissez-faire economics. The reality is seems never-ending. Now, if only that both parties are pushing us toward a the Republicans were actually arguing system of economic socialism where the on behalf of the principles they claim government is intrinsically part of the to stand for and the Democrats weren’t economy, and this is by definition a form drooling over the prospect of giving the of totalitarianism. government this much power, this debate We’ve already had one leader this decade might actually matter. However, when the convince us to give up essential liberties only thing you’re debating is how to spend in the interest of security, now we have the money in the stimulus package that another one who is simply asking us to you’re presupposing is a necessary thing trade different essential liberties in the (even though government manipulation face of a different crisis. Seriously, is that of the marketplace got us supposed to be a change into this mess in the first in policy? place … go figure), you Have I sufficiently The reality is that both parneed to look at yourself shown my disdain for ties are pushing us towards a in the mirror and the Republican and realize what a pathetic Democratic parties? I system of economic socialrepresentative for hope so, because I am ism where the government is about to show you the conservative economics intrinsically part of the econyou have become. alternative, one that But don’t take my word omy, and this is by definition mainstream political for it. Listen to Senate culture will fight tooth a form of totalitarianism.

Minority Leader Mitch and nail to keep you McConnell. “Nobody from discovering, and that I know of is trying that is libertarianism. to keep a package from passing … We’re For libertarians, the battle ahead is not an trying to reform it.” easy one, but it is one that must be won.

And that’s exactly your problem, The status quo in Washington argues Senator McConnell. It’s the problem that our ideals are not realistic. They of your entire party, and it’s the reason only argue this because they fear that we that Republicans and Democrats are threaten the stranglehold that they have now about as different as rabbits and on the District of Columbia, and the hares. Senator McConnell makes the immense power that they therefore wield. presupposition that the stimulus package They argue that something which they is inherently a good thing and should have never given a chance does not work, be passed in some form. So where is the whereas their philosophy of government debate on whether the stimulus package intervention has been tried and tried should exist in the first place? again, and has failed and failed again.

Answer – it’s non-existent.

Does that make sense to you? It sure However, if the only news source you doesn’t to me. pay attention to is network news, you are Please keep this in mind: it is from our being spoon-fed the idea that there is a ideals that we must derive our convictions, large conflict on this issue in Washington, not a political party. The biggest problem when really they’re just debating how to in American today is Republicans and spend the money they unconstitutionally Democrats who are loyal to their political stole from you, not if they should spend it party simply because it is their political in the first place. party, not because the party supports their Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the ideals. It is high time for an end to this new American one-party system, where irrationality, and libertarians are coming as long as they can keep up the image of out of the woodwork to take up the fight. debating trivial issues, they actually tell Won’t you join us? themselves that they are different from one another. To say that this financial Elliot Engstrom is a junior French major crisis is the result of the failure of the free from Matthews, N.C.

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Treat every day like it’s Valentine’s Day Be sure that you show appreciation year-round for your significant other

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alentine’s Day is a popular discussion topic this time of year. Usually I hear the typical argument against what Valentine’s Day has become today — you know, something like, “Oh, it’s way too commercialized and all the pink fluff has killed whatever true loving spirit it once embodied etc.” Sometimes I have trouble hearing anything but, “I hate being single,” from these people. Just kidding. I used to be a complete V-Day hater too.

In a similar vein, I often hear pleas from girlfriends to their man-lovers begging them to be thoughtful and caring on the big day, not to be too cliché.

Finally, there are those people who are so romantically infatuated with their significant other that they simply can’t buy enough chocolate, flowers and jewelry to express their explosive love; Valentine’s Day just couldn’t arrive sooner for them.

I can see where all of the different thoughts on the same tradition come from.

Personally, this is the first time I’ll really be dating somebody on Valentine’s Day and that changes things for me. Like I said, I used to be one of those people who bemoaned the artificiality (and the expensiveness) of the whole thing.

These days, however, I think I more accurately fit in the camp that thinks it’s actually okay to spend at least one day of the year indulging in all the gushiness that surrounds what’s at the heart of a relationship.

I say go out and do something romantic. I mean be sensible; don’t go overboard and buy a room full of roses for your special somebody because that’s just wasteful. Really though, what’s wrong with a country that has a yearly

rate, a lot of the time I’m around my girlfriend tradition that emphasizes love? I can think of these days I’m trying to avoid huge slipups worse things to celebrate.

National Arm Pit Appreciation Day and saying stupid things because I know I’ll be anybody? feeding her material for her next column.

Now, if you aren’t dating somebody, I’d say yes, And I feel that Valentine’s Day may just be my you’re allowed to still think Valentine’s Day is a ultimate test. sham.

You can read her next column to see how I But if you’re single and are did. Maybe all of this has had feeling the love vibes (which an impact on my thinking on ... I think I more accurately admittedly often come in the the matter. form of pains in the stomach Perhaps what I’ve really been fit in the camp that thinks and head), you probably have trying to get at here is we it’s actually okay to spend a big crush on somebody should all treat every day like a at least one day of the year really cute. mini-Valentine’s Day. I recommend just going Every day we’re with indulging in all the gushiness for it and expressing your somebody we like (dating or that surrounds what’s at the interest. Valentine’s Day is a not) should be one we treat great excuse to get all silly with heart of a relationship. specially and gratefully. To sweet pink and red fluff for my fellow guy daters, the girl somebody you like. You can you’re dating deserves daily be less fluffy about it, though, appreciation and displays of if you want. love for dating you.

If you are one of the few people reading Don’t get all cocky and defensive right now; this who actually knows me in real life, you’re you know she does a lot for you and that you’re probably aware that I may or may not be in the lucky to have her. That’s the case for me at least. interesting position of dating the OGB’s female sex columnist, the She Said. The sex columnists Alex Osteen is a senior Spanish and economics were once anonymous. Now they’re not. At any major from Highlands, N.C.

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Stimulus needed for our economy

any stimulus whatsoever.

Some of these obstinate objectors are motivated by a fear the size of the proposed stimulus: nearly a trillion dollars.

While this amount is undeniably enormous, we must not forget that our current economic crisis is also enormous in scope and scale, and, according to mainstream economists, it will require action of this magnitude if we hope to stem the bleeding.

In fact, as Gergen pointed out tonight, a large number of economists believe that a trillion is not even enough.

Ryan Taggett While many of these objectors Old Gold & Black columnist might point out that such spending will only increase our already began writing this article just a troublingly large deficit, I would point couple hours after seeing David out (as economist Paul Krugman Gergen speak in Wait Chapel. does) that there are situations in From the feel of things, nearly which deficit spending is a good and everyone there was impressed. necessary thing.

Drawing on his years of experience Reagan and Bush did it during the in multiple administrations, Gergen wrong times, but now is the right discussed many important issues time if we hope to stimulate the facing the Obama Administration and economy.

Congress, chief among them being the Another type of Republican current economic crisis. opposition comes from those like As Gergen pointed out and, as Seth Rush Limbaugh who just want to see Williford admitted in the Feb. 5 issue the Democrats fail. of the OGB (“Bailout requires more Such characters as these have put than money”), it is almost universally their partisanship and hatred of the accepted by economists that we now Left above their love of America and require a sizeable stimulus package to desire to see our nation recover. help spur economic recovery.

When Limbaugh said on his In fact, radio show that he sizeable is an hopes Obama fails, While many of these objecunderstatement; it crystallized for tors might point out that massive is a better me the fact that so word when you’re many actions on such spending will only describing nearly a Capitol Hill are still increase our already troutrillion dollars. motivated primarily by bling large deficit, I would Naturally, when partisanship. such a sum is point out ... that there are Being the party up for debate, of opposition does situations in which deficit problems will not mean opposing spending is a good and necarise; as Gergen everything regardless essary thing. aptly explained, of whether or not this spending bill it will benefit the is free from the country. normal “pay-go” Seth Williford correctly explained rules that usually govern spending. the role that the opposition party Pay-Go means that if a member (Republicans) should take. wants to put his or her pet project If, somehow, President Obama (read, pork) into a bill, they must proposes something good or either slash that amount of spending agreeable, the minority party should from elsewhere in the budget or find work to make sure that these policies new revenue to pay for it. are implemented to help our nation Given the urgent atmosphere during these rough economic times. surrounding the current stimulus However, they should not back away plan, the pay-go rule is not in effect; from being critical of policies they see unsurprisingly, this means that as harmful to the nation. I could not the (mostly Democratic) members agree more with this interpretation who shaped the bill went all out by and I sincerely hope that many of the including enormous amounts of pork- obstructionist far-right Republicans barrel spending. will forsake the divisive partisanship As Williford and many Republicans of the past and embrace the role that point out, many of these projects Williford describes. would not even begin for several years, Both parties then need to put making them quite useless for the America first; Democrats should do purposes of an immediate economic this by giving up on some of the pork stimulus. projects that won’t be directly helpful This much I concede. to the goals of the stimulus, but just Many Republicans, however, as importantly, Republicans need to have gone beyond the role of loyal get on board and accept the fact that opposition. a large stimulus is needed. Hiding In simply fulfilling that duty, a behind complaints about pork or Republican would be expected to deficit spending or using tied partisan provide oversight and to eliminate attacks will not do if we are to escape wasteful spending from the package this crisis. (as some have done).

Unfortunately, many seem Ryan Taggett is a senior political science determined to fight against the idea of major from Kissimmee, Fla.

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re you interested in issues such as the gender or racial pay gap? Putting a stop to violence against women in the United States or abroad?

Engaging in thoughtful discussion about socio-political issues like gender and/or racial equality?

Then the WFU Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (WFU FMLA) is the place for you!

The FMLA is the college campus arm of the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), a national research and activist organization which has gained a great deal of prominence and exposure after being recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts working toward women’s equality in Afghanistan.

A group of students on campus is currently working to bring a chapter of the FMLA to the university, and we would like to provide some information about the group.

The name, “Feminist Majority,” was inspired by a 1986 Gallup/ Newsweek poll, which determined that 56 percent of all women consider themselves feminists.

When feminism is defined as “the policy, practice or advocacy of political, economic and social equality for women,” these numbers grew, and 77 percent of women and 70 percent of men self-identify as “feminists.”

The FMLA’s name, therefore, reminds us that feminism and the goal of gender equality is a principle supported by the majority of citizens in our society. One of the primary

marketing campaigns of the FMLA and the FMF is the “This is What a Feminist Looks Like” campaign.

The organization produces stickers, buttons and t-shirts, that bear that emblem as a way of saying that feminists come in all shapes and sizes, debunking the stereotypical image that many have when they think of “feminists.”

This campaign provides visual support for the notion that most Americans identify as feminists when feminism is defined as the advocacy of gender equality which is, of course, the primary tenet of feminism.

Aside from its awareness campaigns, the FMF and the FMLA engage in numerous forms of activism, including investigating and reporting on important issues, publishing Ms. Magazine, a publication which informs and inspires many budding and seasoned feminists, working to keep legitimate women’s health clinics open, working to maintain availability of the early abortion pill, providing funding for research of women’s health pharmaceuticals, spearheading one of the nation’s leading internship programs (Princeton Review rates it in the top 100) and increasing voting registration of young women.

As a new addition to the Wake Forest community, the WFU FMLA will work to bring awareness and feminist activism to campus and to the broader Winston-Salem/Forsyth County community.

One of the first actions that the group will take, though, will be to work toward the goal of getting chartered by the WFU Student Life Committee.

This is a very interesting and exciting process, and any volunteer work would be greatly appreciated!

After submitting a charter application and constitution/ bylaws to the Student Government Appropriations and Charter Committee, the WFU FMLA, if approved, will go before the SG General Assembly. If approved, the group’s charter request would then

go before the WFU Student Life Committee for approval.

If you are planning to go to law school or just have an interest in helping to write a constitution for a new group, your volunteer work might be needed!

In addition to the chartering process, the WFU FMLA is hard at work planning awareness events for the spring semester.

The group has already co-sponsored one event, a viewing of the documentary Special Circumstances followed by a discussion with filmmaker Hector Salgado about his experiences being tortured by the Pinochet Regime in Chile.

Five other such events are being planned in the coming months and weeks, and volunteers are needed for those programs as well. Finally, the WFU FMLA is planning several activist-oriented activities such as a Wage Gap Bake Sale.

Joining the WFU FMLA would be a great way to get involved on campus for a worthy cause.

Aside from meeting new people, membership in the FMLA has many perks such as the opportunity to attend an annual conference in Washington, D.C., network with alumni and campus organizers, participate in workshops and having an open door to many internship opportunities.

If you’re interested in having fun and making a difference, contact Lacey Robinson at robill5@wfu.edu, or be on the lookout for our posters advertising upcoming meetings, which are usually held at 7:30 p.m. every other Thursday in DeTamble Auditorium, located in Tribble Hall.

Matt Triplett is a senior political science major from Wilkesboro, N.C. Sanjay Talluri is a senior physics major from Mount Airy, N.C. Lacey Robinson is a senior politcal science major from New Bern, N.C. FLMA Today is a biweekly column dedicated to promoting gender equality on campus through educating the university community.

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“They are streaming heavily into the Democratic camp,” Gergen said of the biggest generation in American history.

He cited the fact that whereas Al Gore and John Kerry won the youth vote by four points and six points, respectively, Obama won the same group by 34 points – a dramatic difference.

Gergen said that if this generation likes what they see in Obama’s administration, they are highly likely to support the Democratic Party for most elections for the rest of their lives.

“He is a strikingly talented individual,” Gergen said of Obama. He went on to compare and contrast Obama with Clinton.

Whereas Clinton was an extrovert, Gergen described Obama as an introvert and someone who highly values his time alone. While Clinton may have had a larger knowledge base than Obama did when he took office, Gergen believes that Obama is much more focused.

“He’s more disciplined. I would say he’s more strategic,” Gergen said.

Whereas Clinton had both huge strengths and huge weaknesses, Gergen views Obama as someone who seems to have more of a complete package.

Gergen compared Obama’s ability to focus during difficult times to Tiger

Woods’ ability to focus during a difficult golf match.

“This is a very disciplined individual,” he said.

Gergen also praised the team that Obama has brought together under his administration.

“I think he’s brought in a very talented group of people,” he said. Even so, Gergen made it clear that this group of people has an immense task in front of them, and he said that this may be why certain nominees for cabinet posts, such as Tom Daschle, slipped through with unnoticed problems. Gergen called Daschle’s failure to be appointed “a big, big loss on healthcare.”

However, Gergen did have some critique to give Obama’s administration.

“I am surprised and disappointed that they don’t have more people from the business community in this administration,” he said.

He went on to say that someone who had served as CEO for a major corporation would be good at managing large financial issues like the economic stimulus package.

Regardless, Gergen made it clear that Obama faces the most difficult challenges of any president in his lifetime.

“I can’t remember a time and agenda as complex and important as it is now,” he said.

“This president will be made or broken on the economy.”

For these reasons he said it was important to save partisan politics for later.

Gergen’s final major topic was the economy, on which he spoke with a sense of urgency. “(Obama) is going to get a stimulus package,” he said. “Economists of all stripes agree that a stimulus package is necessary.”

However, in response to the rhetorical question of whether or not a stimulus package would work, Gergen simply said, “I don’t know the answer to that question.”

He went on to ask the question of whether or not the proposed stimulus package was big enough.

He said that if the package is too small, it might just make the hole in the economy bigger.

He then referred to the Japanese government of the 1990s, which was forced to pass eight stimulus packages over time.

Gergen believes that had they made the first package bigger, this would not have occurred.

Gergen finished the night by reminding those in attendance that this is not a problem for Democrats or Republicans, but a problem for Americans.

“We are putting all our chips on Barack Obama, and that is unfair to him,” he said.

“He cannot do this alone. It is our responsibility to remember that we have a stake in this too.”

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As sun begins to shine and thaw the ground, a new season is imminent. Despite football being over and basketball still in the grind of the regular season, there is something for a Wake Forest sports fan to be excited about: baseball.

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2009 means a fresh start Beginning Feb. 20, the Demon Deacons will take the diamond with hopes of rebounding from a mediocre 2008 season. After finishing with a disappointing record of 25-31, the Deacons have high expectations for the 2009 season.

“Going into every season we always have the goal of making postseason play,” senior infielder Dustin Hood said. “We want to win the ACC championship, get a regional birth, superregional, (and make it to the) college world series.”

After losing two major offensive players, Allan Dykstra and Willy Fox, other players are going to have to step up.

Dykstra was a first round pick by the San Diego Padres whose power will be missed by the Deacons. Dykstra led Wake Forest with 16 home runs and 50 RBIs.

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seasons the Deacons have played Men’s Basketball points per game for Lady Deacs team leader Corinne Groves

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“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

– Tiger Woods

The year 2008 marked one of the best baseball seasons in a very long time. The fans were consumed by the incredible races in the American League East, as well as the Wild Card races in both leagues. The amazing run made by the Tampa Bay Rays showed the baseball world that money doesn’t buy championships.

The great run by the Rays and the incredible World Series led people to yearn for the 2009 season.

Then the offseason came. Baseball fans, players and owners alike all became aware that the hurting economy has affected baseball.

The “economy-proof ” baseball was seeing great players remain unsigned and teams cutting down on the amount of free agents being signed.

By the end of January, baseball was focused on where Manny Ramirez, who turned down a one year $25 million offer from the Dodgers, would sign. Where will Orlando Hudson and Adam Dunn sign? How about Bobby Abreu?

Along with the “Hot Stove” news, baseball began to prepare for the second ever World Baseball Classic. Teams were cautious to allow their players to play in the WBC and countries were eagerly waiting the beginning of the classic.

But then the focus shifted. After having a season with very little to no steroid talk, the latest news shocked the baseball world.

A Sports Illustrated reporter stated that Alex Rodriguez had tested positive for anabolic steroids in 2003.

With rumors swirling about this allegation, Rodriguez had an exclusive interview with Peter Gammons of ESPN. In this interview he admitted to using a banned substance while a Texas Ranger from 2001-2003.

This confession has yet again created a black cloud over baseball.

Just when we thought that the Steroid Era was over, our savior, the one player who could pass Barry Bonds on the all time home run list and again legitimize the record, reveals that he used steroids.

Before Rodriguez’s confession to Peter Gammons, I was infuriated.

I could not believe that avid baseball fans like me had to endure another heart wrenching blow. I thought “Wow. Was there anybody in baseball that didn’t use steroids?” I actually thought about joining the masses and not caring about steroids.

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Junior forward earns the Deac of the Week honor as he was named ACC Men’s Soccer-Athlete of the Year, as announced by the ACC league office Feb. 11.

Schilawski was the first Wake Forest men’s soccer player to earn the award.

A native of Cary, N.C., Schilawski has a 3.579 cumulative grade point Schilawski average with a major in biology.

He was also named a 2008 first team ESPN The Magazine Academic AllAmerican.

He finished the season with 11 goals, which was the third most on the team, and 27 points.

In the third round of the NCAA touranment Schilawski scored a career-high points.

While Fox and Dykstra are big losses to the Deacs, Head Coach Rick Rembielak has confidence that the team will be able to replace them.

“It was a good combination of those two guys in the middle of the order. So we’ve got to replace that, which I think we will with a couple of guys that we have, like (Mike) Murray, (Evan) Ocheltree and Austin Stadler,” Rembielak said.

Murray and Ocheltree, a junior and senior, respectively, will have to take control and lead this Demon Deacon offense. Both players had good seasons at the plate last year, but they need to continue to progress to ensure a better season for the Deacs in 2009.

Stadler is just one of the many young players that the team will rely on to have a successful season. Other freshmen infielders that might also be starting this year are shortstop Shane Kroker and third baseman Carlos Lopez.

“We’re probably going to be starting two or three freshmen. They’re not going to be able to play like freshmen. They’re going to have to step in from day one and we’re expecting a lot out of them,” Hood said.

This young offense will also be accompanied by a young pitching staff. The pitching staff was definitely the weak point of the team last year, but, with some incoming freshmen and some upperclassmen with more experience, this year’s pitching staff is much improved.

“We have a handful of freshmen that came in and they’ll be expected to throw right away and be major contributors to the pitching staff,” senior pitcher Brad Kledzik said.

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Joe Johnson, Kevin Durant and O.J. Mayo will compete in a game of H.O.R.S.E. The contest will take place outdoors at the NBA’s All-Star Block Party in Phoenix.

Durant (25.5 ppg, 6.6 rpg), Mayo (19.4 ppg) and Johnson (21.4 ppg, 6.1 apg) are some of the league’s flashiest, most proficient scorers.

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Freshman Al-Farouq Aminu rises against the Boston College defense for a rebound.

He had a season-high 26 points in the Deacons 93-76 win.

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by giving teams extra possessions. Offensive rebounding has hurt the Demon Deacons this season.

“I’m incredibly disappointed in the loss in that we gave the ball to them 34 times that they shouldn’t have had,” Head Coach Dino Gaudio said. “They had 17 second-chance shots and we had 17 turnovers. That’s 34 extra possessions where we don’t box out or we turn it over.”

In games like Boston College where they tie or best teams in rebounding, they win.

Against BC on Sunday, Feb. 8, the rebounding allowed the Deacs to get out in transition and get easy buckets, and they won 93-76.

When teams get second-chance opportunities though, the tempo of the game slows down, and Wake does not get the chance to get out and run.

Not only that, but in one instance Wolfpack forward Tracy Smith missed two free throws, then collected his own miss and finished a layup. “Box the shooter; you learn that in third grade,” Gaudio said.

It didn’t help that freshman Al-Farouq Aminu fouled out with 12 minutes left in the second half. Aminu, who had 9 points on 4-7 shooting, never got going because of foul trouble.

N.C. State was led by Brandon Costner, who seemed to have an answer to every Wake Forest run. He finished with 23 points on 8-13 shooting and hit two of his three three-pointers on the night. Costner also had nine rebounds.

The Demon Deacons, once ranked No. 1 in the country, have now lost four of their last six games and

The Demon Deacons came into their Wednesday, Feb. 11 game against N.C. State not having won in the RBC Center since 2005. They’ll have to wait at least one more year before they break that streak.

Despite a late rally that saw a Wolfpack lead as big as 20 cut to two, Wake Forest fell by a final score of 82-76.

Sophomore Gary Clark provided a spark off the bench with seven points when it seemed like the Deacs were dead and buried. N.C. State, 13-9 (3-6), came into the game losing 3 of its last 5 games. On a night when the rivalry was literally overshadowed by Duke-UNC (the Wake Forest game was not broadcast on television), the Wolfpack made Wake Forest pay for their mistakes.

The Deacons have made a habit of letting teams get offensive rebounds and second-chance opportunities.

Despite a second half against BC that saw the Deacs out-rebound the Eagles by 10, Wake Forest has continually allowed teams to crash the offensive glass, leading to a lot of points.

Against N.C. State, the Deacs were hurt by the combination of those second-chance points, 17 turnovers and an effective box-and-one on sophomore Jeff Teague that held him to just 2 of 3 shooting for 11 points, with six of those coming on free throws.

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But then I thought about the situation. Yes, many great players lessened the magic of baseball with their steroid use, but that doesn’t mean that everyone was taking steroids and that doesn’t meant that players are still using performance enhancing drugs.

When A-Rod confessed, I was relieved. We are not going to have another congressional hearing, another perjury trial and another hated player.

While I think that A-Rod does deserve all of the disdain that he will endure, I think that he is telling the truth about no longer using drugs.

I am still cautious about A-Rod’s career, but as an avid fan I want to believe that he quit using performance enhancing substances.

If the best player in baseball can realize that steroids are stupid, then maybe, just maybe, other players can follow suit and stop using performance enhancing drugs.

Maybe we actually have left the Steroid Era and maybe we won’t have any more Mark McGuires, any more Sammy Sosas, any more Rafael Palmeros, and most of all no more Barry Bonds type players.

Maybe this revelation by A-Rod will mark the true beginning of the end of the Steroid Era. Hopefully this confession will bring other players who have used banned substances to also confess.

There is of course the other 103 players on the list with A-Rod that tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003. Maybe those players will own up to what they did and admit their mistakes.

This would allow everybody to put the Steroid Era in the rearview mirror.

The last thing we need is months of the media contemplating who is on the infamous list or Congress demanding to see more players.

With the confessions of athletes who use performance enhancing drugs maybe the baseball world can move on from steroids. Maybe baseball can once again enjoy amazing seasons like that of 2008.

Personally, I am optimistic. I think that the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball has greatly diminished with the increase in testing.

Call me naĂŻve, but for the sake of the baseball world, I truly hope that my optimism is actually realism.

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A few freshmen that are expected to be major parts of the staff are Stadler, Daniel Marrs and Michael Dimock. “Those three are going to be looked at as freshmen who are going to come in right away and be on par with everybody else,� Kledzik said.

This is a team without much experience, but also a team that has a lot of young talent. “Everyone is going to look at experience, but at this point you can throw that out the window, because last year we had all the experience, as much as a team could ask for, and it didn’t win any games for us. It’s just a matter of playing,� Hood said.

In order for the young guys on the team to not make mistakes, the upperclassmen are going to have to show them the way. “Our job mostly is just to make sure they understand the system, they understand the expectations that are placed upon them and to help them with the pressure of the situations,�

Kledzik said.

In order to get the young players off to a good start and to improve the overall team, the coaching staff motivated the players to work harder during the offseason. “There’s no question that we’ve certainly worked harder this year. Just in the weight room, as an example, we’ve gone from three lifts a week

for the past three years that I’ve been here, to four 7 a.m. lifts every week,�

Kledzik said. “I think having the group of seniors that we do, we’ve set a pretty good example of how to work hard for the younger guys,� Hood said.

The Demon Deacons are looking for that hard work to pay off as they battle through their tough ACC schedule.

Possibly the most important factor in determining whether this year will be successful is the ability of the Deacs to play consistent baseball. “We just got to be consistent game in and game out,� Hood said. “I think we’re going to be better, have a more consistent lineup one through nine even though we’re younger.� “What I want is consistency,�

Rembielak said. “My expectations for them, my goals for them, are to come out here and play on a consistent basis every day, every game.�

If the team is able to play consistent ball, 2009 should be a very fun and successful season.

Tackling a tough schedule The Wake Forest Demon Deacon baseball team will begin its season on Friday, Feb. 20 at home against the University of Akron, but the much anticipated opening day is just the start of a long and tough season within the consistently deep ACC. The annual preseason coaches’ poll predicted Wake Forest finishing

fourth on the Atlantic side of the conference behind Florida State, Clemson and N.C. State.

Wake finished third in the Atlantic Division in 2008 and despite the prediction, the Deacs will look to battle through their tough schedule and earn their way back into the ACC tournament.

Wake will prepare for their ACC schedule with non-conference games against Akron, Old Dominion, Marshall and Appalachian State, and the team will also host the Wake Forest Invitational from Feb. 27 to March 1, consisting of four more non-conference games at the brand new Wake Forest Baseball Park.

Finally, on Mar. 6th, the Deacons will host the Virginia Cavaliers for their opening series in ACC play. The Deacs split the season series 2-2 with the Cavaliers last year, including a 7-4 victory in the last game of the 2008 season.

Only a week later on Mar. 13, the Deacs will travel to Clemson University for a three game series with a much improved Clemson Tigers team. The Tigers just squeaked in to earn an eight seed in last years’ ACC tournament, but this year Clemson is projected to finish second in the Atlantic Division, arguably making them one of the four best teams in the conference.

On Mar. 20, Wake will begin a very important three game series with Atlantic Division rival N.C. State.

The Deacs were dominated by the Wolfpack last year, losing all three of the games played between the two teams.

Despite playing less talented teams in the second half of the season, such as Virginia Tech, Boston College and Maryland, Wake will need to battle just as hard in order to finish strong in a very competitive conference.

The Deacs will head down to Tallahassee, Fla., on April 24 to face off against the extremely dangerous Florida State Seminoles. The team will then close out the season at home on May 14 against the Miami Hurricanes.

Both Florida State and Miami were a part of the final eight teams in the 2008 College World Series, while combining to lose fewer games than Wake Forest through the entirety of last season.

On the upside, the Deacs do not have a regular season series against the UNC-Chapel Hill Tarheels, who have been predicted to win the entire ACC. However, the Demon Deacs could meet the Tarheels in the ACC tournament, scheduled to begin at the conclusion of the regular season on May 20.

No matter the outcome, the 2009 Wake Forest Demon Deacon baseball season will consist of many competitive series in a conference full of promising young players and traditionally gifted teams.

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find themselves at a crossroads. The team looked great in wins against Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and Clemson — the top three teams in the conference — but have had a really hard time getting motivated in their losses against Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Miami and N.C. State, who have a combined 14-24 conference record. “We get up for the big ranked teams like Carolina and Duke and teams that would have really done something to us and blew us out,� Teague said. “But I think some games we come out lackadaisical just because we are Wake Forest and we made a rep for ourselves. We think teams are going to come out

and lay down for us but we haven’t realized that everyone is gunning for us. When we realize that we’ll get back to winning.�

The Demon Deacons have to have a short memory since they have a real test on Saturday, Feb. 14 against Florida State, who finds themselves ranked in the top 25 for the first time in over 11 years.

The Seminoles are a tough match-up, as their size and length rivals Wake Forest’s. They are a gifted rebounding and defensive team and make teams pay if they don’t crash the boards. “I think because we’re so big that we don’t think we have to block out,� Teague said. “Guys are just bullying to the rim. We’re so used to teams letting us get the rebounds early in the season and we just grabbed all the rebounds.�

“We need to go back to doing our block out drills and things like that — we were a really good defensive rebounding team early in the season. Now guys are getting all types of offensive rebounds.�

The Deacs still are arguably the most talented team in the ACC, but they have had a problem staying focused and locked in for the whole 40 minutes all season long. In some games, they have been able to get away with it, but in their four losses, less talented league teams have made them pay.

This league doesn’t let anyone get away with playing lackadaisical, but if the Deacs can regroup and channel their frustration into staying hungry, they will still have a shot to finish near the top of the ACC. The Deacs are set to tip-off against the Florida State Seminoles 4 p.m. on Feb. 14 at the Joel.

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Freshman Secily Ray is having a breakout season, snagging eight rebounds against Clemson and contributing crucial plays in other match-ups.

Secily Ray

By Lizzie Rosen | Senior writer How did you decide to come to wake?

It was close to home and when I came on my official visit I loved the campus, and the team and coaches made me feel at home.

How did you get involved in basketball?

My whole family played basketball; it’s like a tradition in my family. My dad got me started at a young age playing recreation ball, and ever since then I’ve loved playing.

If you weren’t playing basketball right now, what do you think you would be doing?

I don’t know. Maybe I would be helping out at my old high school. I know I would be very bored because I eat, drink, sleep basketball.

What has been your favorite moment of the season thus far?

I’ve had a lot, but I would have to say when I got my first ACC rookie of the week honor.

What are your personal and team goals for this season?

I want to be one of the best freshmen in the ACC and help my team continue our winning season. Team goals, I want us to end as one of the top in the ACC and to go to the NCAA tournament.

Who, if anyone, do you model your game after?

I would say Lamar Odom, he’s like a role player. He will dish out a couple of assists as well as contribute by scoring. He’s more like a driver but will shoot the 3 when he’s open and also can handle the ball to be so tall.

What do you think about when taking freethrows?

Most of the time I don’t think about anything except I’m going to make it. I don’t even pay attention to the people behind the backboard trying to distract me, in the end I find it amusing.

If you could play a pick up game with anyone who would it be and why?

Cynthia Cooper or Vince Carter, they are my favorite players of all time.

If you could play another sport what would it be and why?

I wouldn’t mind being on the swimming team, because I love swimming.

What is the one thing from home you miss most while at school?

My grandma’s Sunday dinners.

Do you have any personal rituals before a game?

No, I try to change it up. I don’t do anything in the same order, I just do what I have to do.

What is your favorite Cookout milkshake?

Cookies and cream.

Assistant coach to leave the men’s soccer program After two successful seasons with the men’s soccer program, former assistant coach Jon Lowery leaves the Deacs to take on a head coaching job at Hamline University, a Division III school in St. Paul, Minn.

Lowery’s work with the goalkeepers contributed a great deal to the team’s success. Over two seasons, the Deacs allowed just 31 goals in 50 games, and they posted 29 shut-outs.

During Lowery’s two years with the program, the team won a national championship in 2007, advanced to two College Cups and won the ACC title in 2008. He leaves Wake with a compiled 43-4-3 record.

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Women’s basketball playoff tickets now available

Three Lady Deacs soccer players earn All-ACC academic honors

After one of the most successful seasons in the program’s history, the women’s basketball team heads into the ACC Tournament.

Tickets are now available through the Wake Forest Ticket Office. Supporters of the women’s team will be able to sit together in section 128 to cheer on the Lady Deacs as they build off their success from the regular season. The tournament runs from March 5-8. Full book tickets are only $99. The games will be held at the Greensboro Coliseum. Tickets can be ordered through the Online Ticket Office or by calling 1-888758-DEAC.

Senior Camelyn Dillon, junior Caitlin Farrell and junior Allie Sadow are named to the All-ACC Academic Women’s Soccer Team for the 2008 season.

Dillon, a senior and a native of Greensboro, is a double major in health and exercise science and Spanish, and she currently boasts a 3.86 grade point average. Farrell carries a 3.091 GPA with a communications major. The Fort Myers, Fla., native started 21 games in the 2008 season and helped contribute to ten shutouts.

Charlotte native Sadow holds a 3.524 GPA as she pursues a health and exercise science degree.

In the 2008 season, she scored six goals.

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Deacs get balance and talent on signing day

By Martin Rickman| Staff writer

For years, recruiting services have overlooked the job that Head Coach Jim Grobe and his staff have done in bringing in players that fit the system — guys that are willing to red-shirt, have strong academics and have terrific character.

Although the 21 players who have signed letters of intent to play for Wake Forest University in the fall of 2009 are not the players who made teams sweat by announcing their decision well into the afternoon on signing day, Grobe wouldn’t have it any other way.

“We don’t really want the hat flippers,” Grobe said. “If you’re more into Broadway than getting an education, you aren’t our guy.”

The Deacs have done a terrific job of recruiting outside of North Carolina area. While still willing to nab players from their own backyard that fall into their sights, they have really continued their pipeline in Florida (with six commits this year), as well as continuing to work in states like Virginia, Maryland, Texas and Georgia.

Four players this year hail from North Carolina.

Whit Barnes, a 6-foot-4-inch, 270 lb offensive lineman from Rocky Mount, was first team all-state

by NCPreps.com and is considered the 16th best center prospect by Scout.com. Justin Jackson, a 6-foot-1-inch, 205 lb linebacker from Richmond County was also named to the NCPreps all-state team and the Shrine Bowl and is the 16th best weakside linebacker prospect by Scout.

The Deacs also inked 6-foot athlete Quan Rucker from Statesville, who played both wide receiver and quarterback in high school as well as playing safety in the Shrine Bowl. Finishing out the recruits from North Carolina will be Dominique Tate, a speedy defensive back from local Carver High School who had 20 career interceptions in high school, seven of which went for scores.

“I feel a little bad for kids who don’t have a lot of stars by their name,” Grobe said, “but I think we have a few four star guys in terms of character.

Aaron Curry probably has a few stars by his name now.”

Wake Forest continued to hit Florida hard, with six players hailing from the Sunshine State. Tommy

Bohanon, a fullback who enrolled at the school in January, played on both sides of the ball at N. Fort Myers High School and lettered in baseball. He is the 11th best fullback prospect in the country according to ESPN. The Deacs also snagged two more players from Nease High School, a hotbed for Wake Forest players. John Gallagher and Frank Souza both played on the defensive line and are stud prospects — with both as all-state players — and have played alongside Demon Deacons Ramon Booi and Hunter and Riley Haynes.

“We could end up with five Nease guys in the middle of the defense,” Grobe said. “That would not disappoint me at all.”

Also from Florida are defensive backs D.J. Jones and Duran Lowe. Jones was a quarterback in high school but runs a 4.5 40-yard dash and will be playing cornerback. Lowe is a three-star recruit according to Scout who could end up being the next Chip Vaughn.

“We’re not bringing bad football players to Wake Forest,” Grobe said. “We’re bringing great kids to Wake Forest. I wouldn’t trade my class with any in the ACC.” The Deacs picked up four players from Virginia, including Mike Olson, a 6-foot-3-inch linebacker from Stone Bridge who had 112 tackles his senior season. Other commits from Virginia included Richlands High School tight end Matt Muncy, defensive end Zach Thompson, also from Stone Bridge, and offensive lineman Devin Bolling from Brookville.

The Deacs are bringing in one heck of an athlete from Clarksville, Maryland in Michael Campanaro. The 5-foot-10-inch widereciever/running back runs a 4.37 40 yard dash and had 2,360 total receiving and rushing yards with 38 total touchdowns. He also had nine interceptions on defense.

He played in the Under Armour All-America game and is the kind of player that could turn every touch into a score.

Also from Maryland is Steven Chase, an offensive or defensive lineman who grey-shirted, a policy that is becoming a habit for the Deacs. “The thing we like about grey-shirting kids is those guys can come in and play right away,” Grobe said. “The

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Head Coach Jim Grobe’s recruiting efforts are often overlooked because he does not bring in star players, but he gets kids that fit his system. difference between a guy like Steven Chase last fall and now is incredible. The grey-shirt deal for some kids is as good as it gets.”

Wake Forest snagged two players from Texas — Josh Harris, a game-breaking running back from Duncanville who was hindered by injuries but has run a 4.34 40-yard dash, and Nikita Whitlock, one of the last signees for the Deacs.

Whitlock, from Wylie, was the Texas 5A Defensive Player of the Year and is an absolute physical beast. He is only 5-foot-10-inch, but had 165 tackles his senior season and 15 sacks. He is a motor guy and brings the kind of work ethic and sleeper potential that has become a staple of Wake Forest recruiting.

The Deacs nabbed a solid quarterback prospect in Brendan Cross. Cross, from Alpharetta, Ga., has both size and speed for his position and is ranked as the 35th best pro-style quarterback by Rivals.com. Kris Redding, also from Georgia, is 6-foot-4-inch, 235 lbs and is an incredible athlete.

He played in the post on the Whitefield Academy basketball team.

Filling out the class is Jimmy Newman, a punter/ kicker from Oxford, Ala. He has a very strong leg at both punter and kicker and had 37 touchbacks on kickoff. He could potentially step in right away to kickoff for the Deacs next season.

“We’ve developed a program — good kids with good character,” Grobe said. “We develop them in the classroom and on the football field.”

Grobe’s development has paid dividends as the Deacs have had bowl games in three straight seasons and an ACC Championship. If there isn’t proof that his staff scouts good players, look no further than this year’s senior class. Aaron Curry is a potential top-five pick, Alphonso Smith could go in the first round and Chip Vaughn is rated very highly as well.

The Deacs can recruit talent, but they are more importantly the kinds of players who fit Grobe’s program and the school as a whole.

Deacons W. basketball nabs fourth straight win set records at VT Elite

By Matt Powers | Contributing writer

The Wake Forest Track & Field team had success in one of their many trips to Rector Field House in Blacksburg, Va., Feb. 6-7 where they competed in the Virginia Tech Elite Meet. NCAA provisional marks, season records, personal bests, and even a school record were passed

by Demon Deacons over the two day event.

Senior Michael Bingham had victories in the 400m dash and men’s 4x400m relay.

His 46.68 time overcame the NCAA provisional mark, while his relay team, which included fellow senior Brent LaRue and juniors Tyler Dodds and Jon Reid, were only .27 off the provisional qualifying time in their two second victory.

LaRue wasn’t done there, improving his personal best time in the 60m hurdles in 8.06 seconds while claiming the sixth spot in the race.

Bingham wasn’t the only one who qualified provisionally over the weekend. Sophomore Anna Nosenko ran 3,000m in 9:32.56 to beat the mark, while also winning the second spot in the women’s long-distance race.

The track team’s success was only beginning there as junior Caroline Vaughn burst into the Wake Forest record books at the beginning of the first day. By finishing the women’s 60m hurdles final with a time of 8.53, she became the new Wake champion and also received fifth place for her run. But setting school records is something Vaughn is getting used to. In the spring of her freshman year, the sprinter’s time for the 100m hurdles took a spot in the record books as well.

“She’s a smart hurdler and is the kind of person who knows what to do in order to get the results that she wants. Then she goes out and does it,” teammate and long-distance runner junior Kelly Laffey said of Vaughn.

“The positive mentality is really important in track and field when so much of what you do relies on your mental strength.”

Vaughn’s influence also carried over to the women’s 4x400m relay team, as she, juniors Alex Gove and Nicole Castronuova and sophomore Kim Vos were less than a second away from setting another school record in their 3:46.44, third place effort. This improved upon the previous season best by a whole seven seconds.

To round out the relay success for the Deacs, the women’s distance medley relay cut nearly a minute and a half off of their previous time at Rector Field House. Vasenko, Gove, Vos and Placer sped to finish the race in 11:51.44, taking home second place for the group event.

All three relay teams performed at a high level in the meet, taking home first, second and third medals for the events.

Even the freshman class was well-represented in Blacksburg. On the second day, Tom Morrison finished the mile run competition in 4:10.72. His performance was good for second place.

Other notable Deacon performances from the weekend: junior Jon Reid won his heat and got fourth in the men’s 200m run and in the men’s open 400m race, sophomore Allen Lunkenheimer got second and Alex Hill ninth.

This weekend the Deacs will travel to the New York Armory Duals in New York, N.Y., Feb. 14.

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Sophomore forward Brittany Waters rises over the N.C. Central defense. Waters was the high scorer for the Deacs in the win over the Eagles with 19 points. She added two points in 10 minutes versus Clemson.

By Joe Maugeri | Staff writer

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Following two important wins over Miami and Georgia Tech, the women’s basketball team has pushed their current winning streak to four games with victories over North Carolina Central and Clemson.

The victory over the Clemson Tigers pushes the Deacons to 4-4 in the ultra-competitive ACC. The women’s basketball team took on the North Carolina Central Eagles on Feb. 5 at the LJVM Coliseum and soundly defeated the Eagles 63-48. The win over the Eagles improved the Deacons to 16-5 on the season.

After taking a firm hold of the lead three minutes into the game, the Deacons would not look back.

The women’s basketball team held a 21 point lead with just over ten minutes left in the second half of play. Despite the large Deacon

lead, the North Carolina Central squad would not go down quietly. The Eagles staged a 15-2 run that put them within eight points of the Deacs. The run was ended when freshman guard Secily Ray made a layup and completed the three-point play after being fouled

by North Carolina Central guard LaVonna Hailey.

The Deacons would go on to expand their lead to 15 points when the clock expired and finalized the 63-48 victory for the women’s basketball team.

Sophomore forward Brittany Waters led the Deacons, coming off of the bench to post a doubledouble in 23 minutes of playing time. Waters scored 19 points for the Deacons and hauled in 11 boards.

She went 3-5 from beyond the threepoint arc.

Senior forward Corrine Groves added 16 points and seven rebounds of her own, while Ray contributed to the victory with 11 points. Junior Courteney Morris had six steals.

With North Carolina Central behind them, the Deacons now

had to travel to Clemson, S.C., to face the Clemson Tigers at the hostile Littlejohn Coliseum on Feb. 8.

The Deacons were able to continue their winning streak by beating the Tigers 71-66.

The Deacons built an early advantage in the competition, leading Clemson 9-2 about five minutes into the first half of play. Led by Lele Hardy, the Tigers went on a 7-1 run and the score went back and forth for the rest of the half.

Right before halftime, The Tigers went on a 10-2 run that pushed the score to 37-28 in their favor. The Deacons went into the locker room down by nine points at the half.

The women’s basketball team did not let the deficit get to them. They came out of the locker room to erase the deficit within five minutes of play, taking a 42-41 lead over the Tigers.

With 7:20 left to play in regulation, the Deacons had increased their lead to ten points. The Tigers would not give up, as they cut the Deacon lead to three points with less than one minute left on the clock.

The Tigers were put in a fouling situation and were forced to foul Morris with 0:25 left in the game.

Morris netted both shots from the charity stripe to ice the game and secure the 71-66 victory.

The Deacons were led by Groves, who scored a career career-high 32 points. Groves was also named the Fox Sports Player of the Game.

Groves pulled in five rebounds for the Deacons.

Morris contributed to the win with 13 points and Ray added nine points and eight rebounds of her own.

The win over the Tigers improved the women’s basketball team’s record to 17-5 on the season and 4-4 in the ACC. This win marks the first time since 2005 that the Deacons won 17 games in a season.

The women’s basketball team will be back in action on Feb. 12 when they travel to Raleigh, N.C. to square-off with the N.C. State Wolfpack.

The Wolfpack is 9-14 overall and 1-7 in the ACC.

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Men’s tennis falls to No.1 Ohio State

By Alex Botoman | Staff writer

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Some Wake Forest fans like to pretend that the school’s “WF” athletics logo is an acronym that stands for “We Finish,” referring to the Deacs’ abilities to close out games.

Nothing could have been further from the truth for the men’s tennis team when they took on No. 1-ranked Ohio State on Feb. 8.

Wake won the first set in five of the six singles matches against an OSU lineup that featured three of the top six players in the nation, but the No. 21-ranked Deacons failed to close out a single match, falling 4-0 to the Buckeyes.

“They were better conditioned. They lasted longer than we could,” said Head Coach Jeff Zinn.

“We seemed to get tired both mentally and physically, and that was the difference.”

Both teams changed up their usual doubles lineups in an attempt to gain a strategic advantage.

Ohio State struck first by picking up an easy 8-1 win at No. 3 doubles over Wake’s duo of junior Andrew Brasseaux and freshman Joost Vogel.

The Deacons’ tandem of senior Cory Parr and junior Steve Forman, ranked No. 6 in the nation, got an 8-4 win at the No. 1 spot over OSU’s Matt Allare and Mike O’Connell.

At No. 2 doubles, Wake Forest junior Jason Morgenstern and sophomore Jon Wolff were unlucky to drop three very tight games at the beginning of their match against Justin Kronauge and Steven Moneke. They were never able to recover, losing 8-4 to give Ohio State the doubles point.

“We’re always going to win, or most of the time win at No. 1, and we just have to get our No. 2 and 3 doubles teams better,” Zinn said.

The Buckeyes boasted an impressive singles lineup that included five players ranked in the top 80 in the nation, but the Deacons were able to feed off of the raucous home crowd

and grab the early momentum in almost all of the matches.

No. 34 Parr scored a 6-3 first set win over Byran Koniecko, the No. 1 player in the country at No. 1 singles. Forman broke No. 3 ranked Moneke early at the No. 2 spot and held on to take the set 6-4.

At No. 5 singles, Wolff jumped out to a 5-2 lead over No. 38 Balazs Novak and eventually took the set 6-4.

Morgenstern took the first five games against No. 77 Shuhei Izawa at No. 6 singles and won the set 6-2. Freshman David Hopkins recovered from being broken by Allare to break back and eventually take the set 7-6 at the No. 4 spot.

Despite Brasseaux losing 6-2, 6-2 to No. 6 ranked Kronauge at No. 3 singles to give the Buckeyes a 2-0 lead, the Deacons were on the brink of one of the biggest wins in program history and needed to close out only four of the five other matches to get the victory.

However, Wake seemed to run out of gas, and Ohio State showed why they are the top team in the country as they regained the momentum and didn’t let the Deacs win a single match.

Koniecko won a hard fought second set against Parr and dominated the final set to win 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.

Uzawa clinched the match for the Buckeyes, defeating Morgenstern 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.

The rest of the matches went unfinished.

“We didn’t close it out,” Zinn said.

“Cory (Parr) is a good enough player to win that match, even against the number one player in the country. Cory is one of the best players in the country, so I’m not too happy.”

In the first match, Wake Forest defeated William & Mary 6-1 on Feb. 7.

“I thought we played pretty well,” Zinn said. “William & Mary is good. They always play us well, and we don’t take them lightly.”

The Deacs will be back in action on Feb. 14 when they take on No. 33 VCU at the Indoor Tennis Center.

The Deacs will then travel to Minnesota Feb. 20 and followed by a trip to Wisconsin Feb. 22.

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Freshman Joost Vogel waits at the net as his doubles partner junior Andrew Brasseaux serves. The duo lost thier match against Ohio State 1-8.

W. tennis W. golf finishes second in first tourney knocks off Furman 6-1

By Connor Swarbrick | Sports editor

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By Alex Leopold | Staff writer

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The 32nd ranked Demon Deacon women’s tennis team created some excellent momentum by dominating the hapless Furman Paladins in Greenville, S.C. The 6-1 victory moved the Deacons to 6-1 on the year while Furman remained winless at 0-4.

The Paladins did have two notably strong players at the top of their line with the No. 9 and No. 37 players in the nation with Laura Gioia and Monica Arguello, respectively.

Gioia was able to knock off the No. 1 singles player for the Deacons, 59th ranked Junior Sasha Kulikova, 6-2, 6-4; however, Senior Sierra Poske was able to continue the success built from her clutch victory last week against Denver.

The senior knocked off Arguello 6-4, 6-2 to take her first ranked victory of the season.

Poske had also upset Arguello last fall. Coach Chad Skorupka said that the matchup is a “pretty good matchup for her tennis-wise … She is a little bit stronger and quicker.”

Skorupka said that Poske’s success this year is due to the fact she is “in the best physical fitness level since she’s been here (and) that she is determined to get Wake back in the top 20 before she graduates. The hard work she put in is paying off.”

Kulikova dropped her third match in a row, but Skorupka is not discouraged.

He said that “every match, Sasha is playing the best of the best.” On paper, it says she has lost three in a row, but she is still nationally ranked.

Skorupka also believes that her recent run of unfortunate results are not due to her actual tennis abilities.

“She is not necessarily playing bad. She just needs another win to get some confidence and believe she belongs among the top players,” he said.

Kulikova and Poske kept their doubles winning streak by defeating the star Furman duo 8-4. The pair improved to 7-0 on the season.

Freshman Ryann Cutillo also remained perfect for the year by winning her matchup at the No. 5 singles position 6-3, 6-1.

“She played a lot over winter break (and) it has translated to her record,” he said. “She is going to be a really strong four, five, six player for us this year.”

The Deacons swept the other doubles and singles matches to complete the 6-1 team victory.

The Deacs will host No. 24 ranked William & Mary and No. 21 Texas A&M. Skorupka said that it will be a “big weekend.

Two (teams) that obviously we had some tough losses to last year. We want to work hard these next two weeks … so we can get a little payback this February.”

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The No. 7 Wake Forest women’s golf team carded the lowest round of the day on the third and final day of the Northrop Grumman Regional in Palos Verdes, Calif., Wednesday Feb. 11, to finish second overall.

The Deacs efforts on the final day helped them pull ahead of top-ranked UCLA and secondranked Southern Califorinia.

On the first day of the three day event the teams faced off-and-on rain, wind gusts up to 30 mph and wind chills that dipped into the low 40s.

Only one player, Juliana Murcia of Arizona State, was able to break par while no team was able to break 305. Day two brought somewhat better conditions, but still only three players were able to post rounds under par.

On the third and final day the Lady Deacons made their move up the leaderboard. Starting the day the Lady Deacons were in fourth place.

With steady play throughout the lineup they posted a combined score of 295. This mark was just one stroke off the lowest round of the tournament.

The Deacons proved to themselves that they could play with the best in the country seeing as

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13 of the 16 teams in the field were ranked in the top-30 in the latest Golfweek poll.

The second-place finish was also the best finish for the Deacs in their three trips to the Northrop Grumman, which perennially attracts one of the top fields each year.

Leading the Deacs was senior Nannette Hill who finished tied for fourth in the individual competition that boasted 84 of the top players in the country. Hill opened the tournament with a 76 followed by a 74. After starting her final round with four bogies in her first six holes, Hill turned it around paring the final 12 holes to post a four over 75.

Freshman Cheyenne Woods showed steady improvement over the three day event after.

She began the event with a 79 and shaved three strokes each off her score the remaining two days to post a 228. Her two over 73 in the final day of the event placed her in a tie for ninth. The ninth place finish is Woods’ second consecutive top-10 finish.

Sophomore Natalie Sheary, who won the Northrop Grumman in 2008, also finished the final day with her best score of the tournament, a 3-over 74. She was 1-under through her first nine holes after birding holes 7, 10 and 12.

Sheary wound up with a total of four birdies on the day and finished the tournament tied for 20th with rounds of 80, 79 and 74 for a total of 233 (+20).

Junior Dolores White also contributed to the Deacs late surge posting her own best round of the tournament on Feb. 11 with a 2-over 73. She went on to card one birdie and just three bogies in her final round and finished the tournament in a tie for 34th place after rounds of 81, 82 and 73 for a total of 236, 23 over par.

Sophomore Allie Bodemann rounded out the competition for the Lady Deacs. She posted an 84 in the final rounds after rounds of 80 and 77 in the first two days, tying her for 41st.

No. 3 Arizona State swept both the team and individual titles, winning the team competition by 18-shots. The Sun Devils’ Juliana Murcia used a 1-under 70 in the first round to give her a lead that she never relinquished, winning medalist honors by eight shots after rounds of 70, 71 and 73 for a total of a one over 214.

Head Coach Dianne Dailey was extremely pleased with her team’s performance over the three day event, their first of the spring season.

She came in with one goal for the team: get better each round and that is exactly what they did.

The Lady Deacs rose to the top with an especially strong closing day. In Dailey’s mind this bodes well for the season as she hopes her players will gain confidence from the performance.

The Deacons will now have almost a month to capitalize on that confidence and momentum as they prepare for the LSU/Cleveland Golf Classic in Baton Rouge, La., March 13-15.

For the Amateur

By Zachary Halpern | Contributing writer Currently, Wake Forest’s club ice hockey team is not well known in the world of intercollegiate hockey, but this year’s ambitious co-captains Junior Alex Terzian and Sophomore Jordan Jacobson are on a mission to change that.

The team plays in the Piedmont Hockey Association, a local 18 and up league that allows the team to play two to three times a week in the LJVM Coliseum. Because the team does not hold formal practices, these games are crucial to the team’s conditioning and serve as practice for intercollegiate competition.

This year Wake has started off with an impressive record of 13-02. The team is in the hunt for the PHA Championship, something that Wake Forest has never been able to accomplish since joining the league only six years ago.

Jacobson argues that this is an extremely important year for the program.

“This season is acting as a stepping stone for the future of Wake Forest club ice hockey,” he said.

The team hopes to piece together an impressive resume so that next

Photo Courtesy of Wake Forest Fencing Club

The Wake Forest club ice hockey team faces off against Duke in a recent match. The team will be hosting “College Night” with the Twin City Cyclones to raise money. year they can join the Blue Ridge Hockey Conference, a member of the American Collegiate Hockey Association. Because the team currently plays in the PHA, the number of intercollegiate games they play are limited.

The team has been fortunate enough to schedule games against UNC-Charlotte, N.C. State and Appalachian State. Their next game is Feb. 21 when the team will take

on Johnson and Wales in Charlotte in one of their intercollegiate matchups.

In an effort to raise money, they have partnered up with the local professional team, the Twin City Cyclones, to host “College Night.”

The fundraiser will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 19 at the Coliseum.

Tickets for the fundraiser will be on sale for $10.50 and the proceeds will benefit the team. The event will

feature a broom ball game between the second and third periods. Broom ball is a game with the same objective as hockey except it is played with brooms instead of sticks and a ball instead of a puck.

It will be an exciting night, and the hockey team hopes to get their fellow students’ support.

If you are interested in getting involved with the club ice hockey team, visit their Web site at http://

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A Valentine’s Day without Hallmark

By Olivia Boyce | Asst. life editor February 14. Valentine’s Day. A commercialized holiday popularized and blown out of proportion by greeting cards, candy and floral industrial giants looking to force innocent consumers into dropping exorbitant amounts of cash on crappy, over-priced goods. A holiday created for the sole purpose of torturing singles into thinking that they need to be in a relationship in order to be happy. A day men are forced to dote on their girls by creating over the top, elaborate dates whose complexity directly correlates to the amount of love they feel. When you look at it from those negative perspectives, Valentine’s Day sucks.

But what if you were to think of it from another angle?

The idea of a single day each year devoted to celebrating the people you love isn’t so bad in theory now is it? What’s wrong with an occasion that reminds us to be thoughtful and caring toward the important people in our lives?

I propose that this year everyone boycotts the traditional Valentine’s Day tokens and instead just takes the time to do something thoughtful. Seriously, don’t just order a dozen roses and give your sweetie one of those horrendous heartshaped boxes of chocolate – do something that Hallmark won’t profit from.

Do something with meaning. It can be a creative date, a homemade gift or just a fun way to say I love you, the point is that the gift comes from you and holds some sort of meaning for that person. And if you are like the 95% of other students at this university who aren’t in a real relationship right now, do something for a friend you love. We all deserve to be appreciated, right? Need some ideas?

Instant-self esteem: Decorate some sort of cute container. Fold up small sheets of paper with various reasons why you love a person, qualities you admire in them, funny memories, etc., written on them. Whenever that person feels down or upset, they can reach for your gift and be reminded of not only how wonderful they are but also how incredibly thoughtful the gift-giver is!

Baked goodness: Nothing says I love you quite like a warm batch of brownies.

Hit up the Betty Crocker aisle and find your beau’s favorite dessert.

Don’t forget the icing so you can personalize.

Massive homemade cookie cake with frosted inside joke? Delish.

Snail mail: Who doesn’t get excited when that “You’ve Got a Package” e-mail appears in your inbox? Even if your significant other lives right down the hall, sending him a care package full of his favorite non-Valentine’s day snacks is sure to put a smile on his face.

A cactus: You know that one random item in your room that people walk in and ask, “Why the heck do you have that?” You can’t explain it, it’s just one of those you-had-to-be-there, meaningful-but-silly

gifts that m a k e you smile and remember a positive memory every time you look at it, right? Give them that.

Or if you are really good, give them something that seems random upon first glance and then attach a deep, symbolic meaning to it.

That’s the story behind my favorite Valentine’s Day gift – a symbolic love cactus that I somehow managed to kill in a matter of months (surprisingly, the relationship survived).

Elementary School crafts: Show you care while sticking it to the man by putting time and effort into making your own card. And no, I did not mean on the computer – I’m talking an old-school, cut and paste, big construction paper heart that may even incorporate some sort of check yes or no box. Even if your college-self can muster together no better a product than you could have made in kindergarten, the time it took you to make a homemade card will win you major points. Include your own poem, no matter how poorly constructed or corny, and you’ll be golden.

The Breakfast at Tiffany’s Adventure Date: Remember the part of the movie where Holly and Fred spend the day doing their favorite things

that the other person had never done? Well since Valentine’s Day is a Saturday this year, start early and spend the whole day on an adventurous date by taking turns picking the activities. Take your date to your secret breakfast spot, play in the dollar store, go get a pedicure, go for a hike, browse an expensive jewelry store, go to the whatever.

Your date will enjoy sharing your favorite activities with you, whatever they are. Don’t forget to bring a camera!

creeping, go for it. See how many ways you can send a personal message throughout the day. Text, phone call, Facebook, e-mail, real mail, notes on their doors, notes in their pockets, notes given by friends, notes on their car, notes on the mirror, sidewalk chalk, posters – get creative. The most successful stalkers make each message lead up to a surprise.

The Mix Tape: One of the simplest homemade gifts is also one of the most effective in my experience. Create a playlist of songs that you think your Valentine will enjoy. Burn the CD, and then write out an explanation of why you chose each song. Does it remind you of the person? Was it the first song you danced to? Or is it just a significant song to you personally that you wanted to share? The more significant the meaning of each song is to you, the better. Once my boyfriend even printed out the lyrics to all the songs on a CD and highlighted the parts that reminded him of me.

It was very sweet!

Tempt Fate: Even if you are just having a chill Valentine’s Day evening on the couch with a movie, Chinese takeout and your sweetie, you can make your night more romantic with this sweet, easy way to say I love you. Put a fortune cookie in the microwave for ten seconds with a damp washcloth wrapped around it. The cookie will open up when heated and you can take the old fortune out and replace it with a new, thoughtful one of your own.

Make sure to have your new fortune ready though, the cookie will close up quickly!

The Valentine’s Day Stalker: Consider your relationship with your object of affection before you take on this project. If you are sure the person has a good sense of humor and will enjoy your

Nuclear Cooooookie Crisp | Not for the faint of heart

Behavior at the salad bar brings plenty to rant about Austin H. Jones Staff columnist

Seeing as the rest of my article will be about something pertaining to cafeteria tendencies, I could bring up the one or two times I noticed the vegan station in the Pit consisted of pretzels and potato chips.

But I’m not going to try to have an interesting introduction.

Here I go: Salad bar etiquette in the Pit is just weird.

I have recently taken to increasing how awkward my interactions there can be, and I really don’t have to work too hard to do so.

One of my favorites is boxing out the Pretentious Workout Girl who is trying to bypass the salad bar line and is letting her little soup bowl, which she got from beside the “Cheesy Soup” crockpot, dangle by her Sofes.

There are always tons of those little soup bowls because of the following three reasons: 1) Due to the cooling process which directly follows dish-washing, if you try to pick up just one of the little soup bowls you get three, two of which clatter to the floor, bouncing in different directions and drawing even more attention when Pompous To o l b a g kicks

one of them and subsequently begins even want, like, a whoooooole salad…

I just… it’s just… I just want like a coua slow clap. ple of pieces… yeah, those two. Mm. I You want to stab him.

2) Even if the bowl comes off clean don’t even need to wait in line… Look, I don’t need, like, without any straga big bowl ‘cause glers, the wonderful I saved time and sneezeguard action Salad bar etiquette in the Pit is grabbed a little they’ve got going on just weird. I have recently taken soup bowl.” acts secondarily as a She thinks she’s ladleguard, blockto increasing how awkward my doing us a service ing all potentially interactions there can be, and by eye-screwing effective efforts to I really don’t have to work too the cantaloupe maneuver the cheesy from a safe dissolution which hard to do so. tance while waitoozes like snot over ing for a hole to the side of the ladle open up in the with just the tiniest line so that she of movements into a bowl which is smaller than the ladle can sneak in and try to collect her fruity booty. itself.

But, luckily, we go to a school where 3) It’s labeled “Cheesey Soup.”

Anyway, the way this box-out devel- smart people are just as, if not more, ops is you see out of your peripheral abundant as dumb people like Miss vision that Pretentious Workout Girl PWG; by this time, everyone at the is peering on her tip-toes at an appar- salad bar, Pit ladies included, have noently incredibly enticing specimen of ticed.

And now begins the box-out. The fruit.

Meanwhile, her eyes are whispering queue expands a fraction, and PWG earnestly to themselves, “Um, I don’t tries to wedge her way in, doing a ten-

tative half-point with the little soup bowl and walking forward a little bit while falteringly.

Beaming with a mouthful of perfect, braces-straightened teeth through her frazzled, sweat-stiff head of hair, she is prepared.

But, soft! Like a ninja the next member in line steps up his game and successfully blocks her access to the cantaloupe.

He doesn’t even like cantaloupe, yet he lingers directly in front of her as if considering it carefully.

What he’s really doing is stalling so that the next salad-suitor can move in after awkwardly trying to spoon slippery grapes onto the wet plate.

This continues for a while until some D-Bag makes a huge deal of letting her in as if he’s some benevolent type of an undergraduate Nathan Hatch.

Really, he’s just giving her the space she needs so he can check her out as she leans pitifully underneath the sneeze guard.

Thus ends another epic tale from the depths of the life section of the prestigious Old Gold & Black.

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He Said | Sex for the opposite sex, same sex and every sex in-between

Asking someone out is only the beginning Jay Lowrey Staff columnist

Well thawed out

Verona, Italy receives 1,000 letters for Juliet Capulet every February.

Frozen River is now available on DVD. With Oscar nominations for best original screenplay, best actress and various other awards, writer and director Courtney Hunt has created quite the success. The movie tells the story of two single mothers, one white (Melissa Leo) and one Mohawk (Misty Upham) who, under desperate circumstances, get involved with smuggling illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River between New York and Quebec.

Top 10 Strangest How-To Books Have you ever wandered through the do-it-yourself section of a bookstore and just asked why? Well, the following are titles of actual books that will have you wondering who thought it was a good idea to write, put these on the shelves.

10. How to Steal a Dog 9. How to Make a Porno 8. How to be a Pope 7. How to Break the Cycle of Life and Death 6. How to Raise a Dragon 5. How to Start Your Own Country 4. How to Pee Standing Up 3. How to Speak Cat 2. How to Survive a Robot Uprising 1. How to Become a Schizophrenic

Student Union Spotlight

Check back each week to see what events Student Union is hosting at the university.

Open Mic Night Friday, Feb. 13 7 p.m.

Benson Food Court Come out to the first Open Mic Night of the new year and hear some of the awesome musical talent we have here at the university. To sign up, contact Nancy Spurkeland (spurnk7@wfu.edu).

Drink of the Week The Valentine

Whether or not you have an actual valentine this year, you can enjoy this sweet drink on February 14 no matter what your relationship status.

Ingredients: 1/2 oz. Vodka 1/2 oz. Raspberry liqueur 1/3 oz. Godiva liqueur 1/3 oz. Kahlua Pour all ingredients together and stir.

Enjoy!

It’s time for something completely different. Starting this week and continuing until the end of the semester, I will be writing a series of columns more focused on dating and relationships than the sex that comes along with it.

But, of course, this is “He Said” so the sexual aspects of dating will be explored to the limits you have come to expect from this quality publication.

I realize this is an abrupt change from my standard fare, but it hit me recently that a large portion of the university community go about having sex in the “traditional” way.

This means meeting someone, going on a date, seeing where it goes and seeing if sex is going to be a good or bad thing for the relationship.

So, how can people possibly enjoy all this sex that I am praising if they can’t get a date? Well, they can’t, but I aim to change that.

This week’s column is all about meeting someone to go on a date with, but finding that special someone is no easy task.

I think the trick to finding dates is treating it like your homework.

In other words, treat it just like a class. Your social life is just as important as your grades, right? Why not treat it as such?

First things first. Where do you go to pick up dates? Well, it isn’t as obvious as you think.

While parties and mixers are often all you can eat buffets of vivacious college sorority girls and hat backward, un-showered frat bros, sometimes this isn’t quite what you are looking for.

The key is to go somewhere you enjoy. If you like being at a house party, then great!

But if beer-soaked shoes aren’t your thing, then maybe you can try a coffee shop.

There are several downtown that have very cool vibes and consequently very cool guys or girls to meet.

A few come to mind quickly, such

as Krankies Coffee on Third Street or Chelsea’s on Trade Street, but I am sure there are plenty of other places if these don’t fit the bill.

Not so much into the hipster scene? Just walking around campus and being friendly can be a great way to meet people. After all, you never know who you may bump (or fall head first, in my case) into on these cold icy days.

So, figure out a spot you like and just start hanging out there a lot. Eventually you are going to see someone super cute, but how do you know if you really want to go on a date with them?

Well, most importantly, start talking to him or her. Figure out someway to start some kind of conversation.

Even if its awkward at first, at least you have the ball rolling.

Talk about the weather as you are waiting in line, or comment on their snazzy slip ons or just tell them they look cute (if you are super bold/ slightly crazy).

If the conversation flows, then great! But if not, it might be time to move on.

Exceedingly awkward conversations usually mean exceedingly awkward

dates, so unless you are into this kind of thing (water boarding, anyone?)

I would avoid these creeps like the plague. What’s a cute smile if they have nothing to back it up with?

So, you have the person you want to ask out, now what?

Well, just try to figure out common interests and see if any dates naturally flow from what you two are talking about.

If you really have the hots but can’t think of a reason then there is no harm in just straight forwardly asking for a date.

Most people will appreciate it. More than likely they have been dying to ask you the same thing.

Now you have a date! But that means you actually have to be charming and presentable for a whole evening. Crap. Now what? Stay tuned for the next “He Said.”

“He Said” is a bi-weekly column that presents one guy’s perspective on the college sex scene. You may contact him with your feedback or ideas at lowrjs7@ wfu.edu.

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Movie Review | Revolutionary Road

Titanic stars reunite in Oscar-nominated drama

By Samantha Hoback | Staff writer

Reunited on screen for the first time in 12 years, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio portray a distressed 1950s couple in their new film, Revolutionary Road.

Based on the novel by Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road is the story of April and Frank Wheeler, a young couple living in suburban Connecticut that dreams of getting more out of life.

While Frank suffers through his middling job at the Knox Building, April carries out her feminine duties at home with their two children.

Although to their friends and neighbors the Wheelers seem to have the perfect life, the reality of their unhapiness Revolutionary Road pbegins to Starring | Kate Winslet, Leonardo take a toll on their DiCaprio and Kathy Bates m a r Director | Sam Mendes riage.

Who’s it for? | Those who enjoy T o Kate and Leo on screen together escape Running Time | 1 hr. 59 min. the conRating | (out of 5) formity of life on Revolutionary Road, April and Frank come up with a plan to leave Connecticut in search of a new, exciting, spontaneous life in Paris.

Despite criticism from their neighbors and coworkers, the Wheelers start preparing for their European adventure, and they discover that their shared annoyance with life in the States brings them closer than ever before.

But when Frank is offered a substantial promotion at work and April gets an unexpected reality check, the couple must fight to save their marriage, their relationships and themselves.

Joined by an award-winning cast including Kathy Bates, Michael Shannon and Jay O. Sanders, Winslet and DiCaprio deliver an alarmingly realistic portrayal of a couple fighting against the traditional 1950s lifestyle.

Their determination to get the most out of life is a very relevant theme that is emphasized by Shannon’s character, John Givings, a troubled psychiatric patient whose seemingly rude outbursts mirror the Wheelers’ desperate need for freedom.

Directed by Sam Mendes, Winslet’s husband, whose film credits include American Beauty and Road to Perdition, the film has been nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actress

Photo courtesy of Paramount Vantage

April (Kate Winslet) and Frank Wheeler (Leondardo DiCaprio) play a couple trying to break free from the conventions of the 1950s.

(Winslet), Achievement in Art Design and Best Supporting Actor.

Winslet’s portrayal of April Wheeler earned her the Golden Globe for Best Actress, and DiCaprio’s performance earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor (Michael Shannon).

Other accolades include a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination (Winslet), several Satellite Award nominations and several Alliance of Women Film Journalists awards (Winslet).

Revolutionary Road is a unique film in that it makes you think.

The renowned cast attracts you to the theater, but after you see the film, you realize the depth and pertinence that the film has in today’s society.

In fact, the film’s theme and dialogue is so important and deep, I think it may have been more effective as a Broadway play instead of a film. Regard-

less, it is still beautifully told and wonderful to watch.

It was very hard not to become enveloped by the story and the characters, but I was continually distracted by popcorn, cell phones and people walking around, which affected the overall experience.

Although Revolutionary Road is not my idea of a great first, second or even third date movie, it is absolutely a must-see.

It is a film with a purpose, a film with a message, a film with depth and relevance that makes you think about your relationships, true happiness and what you really want out of life.

Overall, this is a movie that applies to almost anyone who watches it.

Revolutionary Road is a psychologically satisfying film that will make you laugh, cry and remember that you only live once.

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Restaurant Review | Pancho Villas

Mexican restaurant offers tasty, reasonable fare

By Grace Beehler | Staff writer

party or whether I wanted smoking or non-smoking.

There are certain types of food no However, a few minutes later, the college student should go without: sociable manager came to the front of the Mexican, Italian and Chinese are the restaurant and asked if anyone wanted to usual options for either take-out or sit- sit in the smoking section, ignoring the down meals. And, with a multitude of hostess’ bizarre number system. restaurants catering to I jumped at the ravenous, cheap college opportunity to cut Pancho Villas kids hungry for somedozens of people and thing besides the Pit’s Location | 799 S. Stratford Rd sit in the smoking “ethnic” options, we Hours | 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Mon. -Thurs. section, assuming theoretically should be that it would not be 11 a.m. - 10 :30 p.m. Fri. able to find a unique and too disgusting.

12 p.m. - 11 p.m. Sat. authentic restaurant.

The amicable Pancho Villa’s Restau12 p.m.- 10 p.m. Sun. manager led us to rant is just another one Serving | Mexican dishes the right and sat us at of the many Mexican a table near the bar.

Dress | Casual options that is a step We were given chips, above Chipotle, Qdoba Price Range | $10 - $20 salsa and menus. and Moe’s. Located off The décor of the ((out of 5) Stratford, Pancho Villas Rating | restaurant was neiis tucked in between ther Mexican nor gas stations, mini-strip unique. malls and a Japanese restaurant. The The first page of the menu would have parking lot was packed, and I hoped been more than sufficient for any resthe crowded lot was due to overflow taurant: appetizers, dinners, salads and from the Japanese restaurant next door children’s plates. because I was eager to sit down and eat.

The four additional pages of specials, But I was wrong: the parking lot was full burritos, enchiladas, lunch specials, fajiof Pancho Villa’s customers. tas, pollo, seafood specials, fajitas mexiBut if the chaos of the parking lot canas (yes, there are two sections on fajiseemed daunting, Pancho Villa’s man- tas), side orders, vegetarian combos and agement failed to assuage stress and beverages made the decision infinately hunger levels. more overwhelming.

About fifteen people hovered near the I settled on a house favorite, the door, grouped in small packs of families “quesadilla fajita style.” My friend, a and middle-aged locals, evidently irri- quasi-vegetarian, chose the enchiladas tated and hungry. racheras. The waiter brought our dinner The hostess handed me a laminated to us in record time and we dug in. number and turned away, not botherMy quesadilla fajita was huge and ing to ask how many people were in my delectable. It had mounds of grilled

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Pancho Villas is a good place for students to go if they want to grab a quick and inexpensive Mexican meal. It also offers reasonable margaritas and beers. chicken, bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms and cheese in a flour tortilla. Both meals came with sides of rice, beans and guacamole salad.

The rice and beans were perfectly ordinary. The “guacamole” salad, on the other hand, is something I have only experienced in North Carolina.

Pancho Villa’s guacamole salad tasted like sour cream, olive oil and green peppers had been put in a food processor and blended until it reached the consistency of toothpaste.

There may have been a single, overripe avocado in the guacamole salad.

While I finished off my quesadilla fajita, I realized that my hasty decision to sit in the smoking section and cut numerous groups in line was about to take its toll.

The group sitting adjacent to us finished their meal and began smoking.

The smoking section at Pancho Villa’s is almost entirely closed off and is like sitting in a hot-boxed car full of cigarette smoke. So, unless you can deal with the sickening combination of cigarette smoke and Mexican food, do not sit in the smoking section.

Even though I mistakenly chose to sit there, the meal was quite good, aside

from the “guacamole.” The total for both meals, including tip, was under $18. The drink menu is also relatively inexpensive and features a handful of Mexican beers and margaritas.

Pancho Villas is nowhere near the best Mexican food I have eaten, but for Winston-Salem, it is pretty good and quick.

It is not unique: if the wait at Tequila’s is unbearable, head on over to Pancho Villa’s for an almost identical experience.

But if you want real guacamole and a simple menu, I would happily settle for Chipotle.

A Heart to a Heart | Your guide to healthy college living

Book Review | The Time Traveler’s Wife

Keeping it smart with sex

Author weaves complex romance

By Jen Reppucci | Staff columnist

For many of us, sexual education has been rammed down our throats since middle school.

By the time we have fully functioning reproductive systems we are fluent in male and female anatomy, STDs and contraceptives. Fast forward to college and we are still being enrolled in courses teaching us how to be smart when it comes to sex. Yet, college students still seem to be naïve and inconsistent when it comes to birth control.

We “know” so much about this subject; yet knowing and doing are two completely different things. More than 35 percent of students sometimes forgo all birth control methods and this percentage increases when alcohol is involved.

Also, we can recite various forms of birth control and consequences from having unprotected sex, but we are less educated on how to properly use the options that are available to us. This inexperienced confusion can create more problems than we intend.

There are certain myths and misconceptions about various forms of contraceptives that can either deter an individual from using them or cause the individual to use them improperly. For example, a common myth among weight conscious women is that taking the pill will cause weight gain.

Most birth control pills contain a hormone called estrogen which can cause minimal weight gain due to water and salt retention in the body.

However, this slight weight gain can be unnoticeable and comparable to premenstrual bloating.

Some women are also under the impression that the pill is effective immediately upon taking it.

This method of contraception will likely fail if you start birth control midway through a cycle

because ovulation may have already occurred. Even when birth control is started at the correct time, it is important to consider that ovulation could occur during the first pill-taking cycle and extra precautions should be made. A major problem that corresponds to this misconception is that 41% of women don’t know when their most fertile time of the month is. With all the information out there regarding women’s health, women should know how their bodies work. If you are going to be sexually active, know your risky days of the month. Ovulation-Calendar.net can give you a good approximation of these days.

For the gentlemen out there, no matter how fast you think you are, pulling out is not an effective form of birth control. It isn’t called “pull and pray” for nothing. Pre-ejaculation, which contains sperm, can be deposited long before you pull out.

Those little buggers can swim one inch in eight minutes and can reach the egg in 60 to 90 minutes.

Also, many guys don’t consider the possibility of pregnancy occurring when ejaculation occurs outside of the female but still close to the vagina. If there is enough moisture present, i.e. sweat, they can still find their way inside. And for those of you who think having intercourse with a woman in an upright position will lessen your chances of getting her pregnant, you are sadly misinformed. Sperm are living organisms and they will start to swim up the cervical canal as soon as they can.

Today, there are an abundance of options available to men and women to protect themselves and their partners from getting unwanted pregnancies and/ or STDs. It is even more effective to use more than one method at the same time, i.e. oral contraceptives and a condom. So during this month of love, take your proper precautions. You will have more fun and less stress.

By Aubrey Sitler | Staff writer

I have a friend who has exquisite taste in books.

So over winter break when I was looking for a good way to occupy my painfully extended downtime at work, she offered me Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife.

The book begins seemingly simply with 20year-old Clare meeting 28-year-old Henry in the Newberry Library in Chicago.

But there is a twist to this first encounter: although Henry has never seen Clare before in his life, she has known him for almost all of hers.

Henry, the reader comes to learn, has a rare genetic disorder which causes him to involuntarily time travel.

So although he first appeared in Clare’s life over a decade before, it is not until after he first encounters her in the Newberry that he begins traveling back to her childhood to encounter what she has already seen.

Henry’s issue in time traveling, aside from his inability to control it, is that he cannot bring anything with him, including clothing and money.

Every time he travels he is forced to find resourceful and usually slightly unlawful ways to make accommodations for himself.

Out of order, but still coherent, the story follows the entirety of Henry and Clare’s relationship.

Obviously, hence the title of the book, Henry and Clare are eventually married. The main emphasis of the plot lies in Henry’s chronic displacement, his experiencing Clare’s childhood while knowing her at the same time as both adult and wife, and Clare’s incessant state of waiting for Henry to return to her.

The story is told from the perspective of both Henry and Clare, with indications of both the date as well as the ages of the characters at particular encounters in order to provide some sense of clarity as well as a comprehensible timeline of events.

In spite of the fact that it could be considered a love story, the book is neither typical nor sappy.

The author manages to make it more about human interactions and relationships which are complicated by external conflicts and forces that are beyond the control of the characters.

I found the work to be completely original, and although the ending is foreshadowed and therefore anticipated, Niffenegger still manages to unfold its events in an incredibly powerful and moving manner.

Her ability to create what could be called a perfect tragedy is truly stirring, especially considering her fresh spin on it.

The plotline is absolutely captivating, exploring every facet of life from religion to fate, friendship to family, suffering to sacrificing, love to loneliness, life to death.

But I will warn that it may take some patience in the beginning.

For any first-time reader of this book it may take anywhere from twenty to fifty pages of its entire 541 to fully comprehend the way the world it describes functions.

Nevertheless, Niffenegger’s enthralling and compelling writing style as well as her inventive and thought-provoking story make The Time Traveler’s Wife a worthwhile read.

College Couture | Looking Good Without Breaking the Bank

Political style sets new standard for fashion forward Caroline Hallemann Staff columnist

We heard the similarities throughout the campaign this past fall; Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy Jr. seem to have had taken the same road to the White House.

These two young, Harvard educated Democrats overcame discrimination due to race and religion, respectively, to seal the youth vote and move their young families into 1800 Pennsylvania Ave. But the Obama and Kennedy clans are alike in more ways than one.

Never, since Jackie, has so much focus been put on the first lady’s fashion sense.

I personally am excited – it’s about time we had a first lady with a little pizzazz back in the White House.

Both Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush are remarkable women. However, they were not exactly what I would call style mavens. Contrastingly, Michelle has begun her term as first lady making an impact in the fashion world.

Not only do the clothes she wears in public merely fly off the shelves, they cause Web sites to crash due to traffic.

For instance, when it went public that the sage-colored gloves Michelle wore during the inauguration were from J. Crew, the site could not handle the influx of visitors and had to be shut down for two days. White House Black Market experienced a similar problem when she wore a black and white floral print sundress on the daytime talk show The View.

My personal favorite outfit Michelle wore during her husband’s campaign was the vibrant purple Maria Pinto sheath dress she wore in June 2008 at a stop in Minnesota.

Unafraid of bright colors and bold prints, she has tossed out the drab pantsuits of the past for a younger, more vibrant feel, perhaps inspiring some of the trend colors for this upcoming spring season.

However, there are a few distinct differences between these two political fashion icons.

While signature pearls have been frequently seen around both their necks, Mrs. Obama more often than not opts to jazz up the staple with a brooch or two.

She is even rumored to have inspired the high end jewelry designers Erickson and Beamon to design a line of brooches for Target available both in stores and online starting Feb. 15.

Also, Michelle’s personal style is a bit more approachable than Jackie’s.

Jackie Kennedy was at the height of fashion, wearing designer everything and always looking fantastic and put together.

The current first lady is showing American how to look great without breaking the bank.

It is refreshing that the first lady is dressing appropriately for the economic situation. Understandably, she donned a gorgeous designer gown for the inaugural ball, but it is not uncommon for her to be seen strutting her stuff in ensembles from H&M, Gap, J. Crew and White House Black Market.

That is not to say that we won’t see her looking fancy in designer duds every once in a while, just that she is being smart with her pocketbook as well.

I encourage all of you to take a page out of Mrs. Obama’s book and mix high and low end pieces in your everyday outfits.

Pair a nice pair of boots with a Forever 21 dress. Or maybe throw on some

chunky cheap bangles with your designer jeans.

Being a college student, especially in today’s market, requires a bit of ingenuity as to how to make an old favorite look new again.

All you have to do is copy Michelle by mixing and matching old favorites with new inexpensive pieces.

Something else I find interesting is what impact Obama’s presidency is already having on the modeling world: an increase in African, African-American and mixed race models.

With Obama’s inauguration came a change in what people accept as being beautiful.

The Fall/Winter 2009 Paris show for designer Lanvin even included a Barack look-a-like strutting down the runway.

Regardless of the politics and all the things it entails with that, it looks like we’re in for a fashion forward four years here in the states, especially with Michelle by Barack’s side.

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Event Preview | The Underpants

Funny, risqué play will surely bring plenty of viewers

By Lauren O’Keefe | Staff writer

cludes senior Ainsley Johnston ences of all ages. “If you come, I as Louise Maske, freshman Wes guarantee that you will laugh,” While walking around cam- Hughes as Theo Maske, senior Mullins said.

It is not all humor though; pus recently, you have probably Erin Bickley as Gertrude Deuseen a number of posters for the ter, graduate student Dan Li as the play also depicts the heroic upcoming MainStage produc- The Mysterious Man, sopho- life of the middle-class citizen. more Hunter Lostan as Klingle- Throughout, the characters tion of The Underpants.

When reading the title of this hoff and freshman Jake Meyer struggle to make sense of their play one can correctly assume as Frank Versati. Junior Kate own identities and the events of that this will surely be one of Dydak is the production’s stage their everyday lives.

Sternheim wrote the play in manager and the more f r e s h m a n 1908 and it is set in Dusseldorf, comedic M i c h e l l e Germany, yet it seems that the plays of this “If you come, I guarantee Murray and production will surely still be season. that you will laugh.” senior Anna applicable to contemporary auThis play, Zuevskaya diences. The cast seems to have directed by Danny Mullins are the as- a great dynamic among them, J.E.R. FrieJunior sistant stage which should surely lead to an denberg, m a n a g e r s . even better performance. lecturer in “We have such a great, fun, University the theatre department, was written origi- students are under a great deal intelligent cast that has brought nally by Carl Sternheim in 1908 of stress and this play is sure to a lot to their roles,” Johnston said. but has since been adapted by help us relax.

With its funny nature, im“It’s fun! It only runs an hour Steve Martin.

“With a title of The Under- and a half so it’s not a huge time pressive actors and short duration (the play only lasts 90 minpants, there is a lot of humor commitment,” Johnston said.

Steve Martin’s unique influ- utes) The Underpants is sure to that people of our age would find very hysterical,” junior ence is detectable in the play, be a crowd pleaser and serve as Danny Mullins, who plays so the audience will see a lot a nice study break The dates Benjamin Cohen, said. “It was of his clasfor the peradapted by Steve Martin, and sic humor formances that guy knows something that we have are Feb. 13all come to about comedy.”

“We have such a great, fun, 14 and Feb. In the play, two newlyweds, know and intelligent cast that has brought 18-22 at Louise Maske and her husband love. a lot to their roles.”

7:30 p.m.

“It is an Theo Maske, live in an apartexcept for ment with an annoying upstairs upbeat comAinsley Johnston the matineighbor and a room that they edy with a Senior nee perforrent out to some hilarious char- lot of sexual mance on innuendos acters.

Feb. 22 at When Louise’s underpants are and intel2p.m. The accidentally shown in front of ligent hutickets are $5 for students and the king one day, a number of mor,” Lostan said.

The play’s characters come they can be purchased at the box ridiculous consequences ensue.

Just like every other university together to create, according office. Tickets can be purchased production, there is an impres- to Friedenberg, a style of hu- in advance or at the door. For sive cast that portraying these mor remiscient of I Love Lucy more information, contact the “stereotypes,” as Friedenberg and the Marx brothers that will Scales Fine Arts Center box ofcalls the characters. The cast in- surely be appreciated by audi- fice at ext. 5295.

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Album Review | We Started Nothing

Fun Brit pop band releases new album with upbeat tunes

By Katherine Perfetto Contributing writer

After coming off of a rough exit from the music industry, British pop artist Katie White and drummer Jules De Martino thought that they had reached their end in the European music business.

But in 2004, after the two met at Leeds University, they joined to create a band known as The Ting Tings and together they produced, well … absolutely nothing.

Of course, as the name of their newest CD, We Started Nothing, implies,

this album was meant to be a stab at every record producer and teen idol that has ever claimed to have produced fresh, original music people have never heard before.

White and De Martino basically threw together all of the 1990s-British-indie-rock songs of the past and put it on one CD, joking that there is utterly nothing new on this album. But, to be honest, “nothing” kind of works!

If you’re wondering where the name Ting Tings came from and are thinking that Katie’s Dad must own some kind of Asian restaurant, you’re on the right track.

A friend and colleague of White told her that “Ting” is a Chinese character meaning “to listen.” This then evolved

to “Ting Ting,” which she said sounded like the Chinese pronunciation of the word “bandstand.” Unfortunately, in Japanese, the name actually means “small, cute penis”… they probably should have thought that one out beforehand. Luckily (and surprisingly) that hasn’t hindered their success in Japan.

Their hit song, “Shut Up and Let Me Go,” has been featured in movies such as The House Bunny in 2008, and on television, playing in Ugly Betty, Gossip Girl, and the ever popular iPod commercials that notoriously skyrocket songs to number one.

If you were watching the New Year’s Eve Celebration in New York this year, you may also have heard her perform this song live (while looking pained in a short sleeve dress in -10 degree weather, might I add).

Yet, while this song is generally referred to as their most popular, in

my opinion “That’s Not My Name” is equally as good, if not much better than the general consensus. She sang this one on New Year’s Eve too after a quick break to grab a jacket.

For all of you who went abroad last semester, you may recognize this song from its popularity in bars and clubs in England and, its edgy, rebellious beat has it catching on here in the states as well. This song is a heartfelt cry against every stupid guy that can’t remember a girl’s name as well as a reference to all of the music producers that have tried to turn her into someone else in the past.

Another one of my favorites on the album is “Great DJ.” As a whole, there’s really nothing special about this song other than the catchy repetitive lyrics that make it so easy to memorize.

And let’s face it, there’s nothing better than having a song come on the radio and being able to sing along.

The only song that I can say I would skip on this album is “Traffic Light,” in which Katie makes an attempt at singing.

She probably shouldn’t have. This song completely breaks the vibe of the album and sounds somewhat out of place with the other upbeat indie songs. Understandably, this album has been met with a definite “love it or hate it” attitude.

Katie has been criticized for having weak vocals, but she owns it, in my opinion.

Other critics have said that every song on this album sounds exactly the same. I say, why change a good thing?

Bottom line is that this album takes some getting used to, and it’s certainly not in the typical style that we hear in the U.S. But after listening to it a few times, you’ll find it nearly impossible to get these songs out of your head!

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