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Are you being watched?

University policy states that student and faculty Internet use can be monitored, if deemed necessary

BY JULIE HUGGINS News Editor huggin0@wfu.edu Across the Atlantic, Internet giant Google is coming under fire by European privacy regulators concerning how the company collects and uses personal data. Many times in the past, Facebook users have been warned to watch what they post to the site as the company takes private user data to tailor ad services. And, of course, no discussion of Internet privacy would be complete without mentioning the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill by the United States Congress to censor what goes online. Privacy is a problem on the Internet and with 59 percent of adults aged 18-29 saying that they spend too much time online, according to one Gallup poll, the question arises as to about what information is being monitored and, more importantly, who is watching.

The university distributes ThinkPads to every student at the university and, chances are, everyone has used it at least once. Furthermore, the university also provides a safe and secure wireless Internet system for the entire campus, requiring students to log in to the network to gain access.

Does this mean, though, that the university is watching what students do online?

After all, the university’s privacy policy in the Policy for Responsible and Ethical Use of Computing Resources, found on the IS website, states that “regular monitoring of system activities may occur” and that when “there is clear evidence of a violation deemed serious by the appropriate authorities, they may view users’ files, monitor keystrokes, and otherwise observe users’ activities. In cases deemed especially serious by the appropriate authorities, Information Systems staff may read users’ email, but only after obtaining permission from the appropriate authority.”

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Provost seeks to improve campus Rogan Kersh aims to reform with innovative education and student health initiatives

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Rogan Kersh (‘86), the recently named university provost, has entered into his new role this year with many ideas for the future development and improvement of Wake Forest University.

In July, Rogan Kersh assumed the role of provost following the departure of Jill Tiefenthaler. Kersh came from New York University, where he served as associate dean and professor of public policy in the Wagner School of Public Service.

As provost of the university, Kersh serves as the chief academic officer of the university as

Rogan Kersh (‘86) began his tenure as provost in July 2012 and See Provost, Page 4 plans to undertake endeavours that focus on student well-being.

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“ Seize the Quad proves to be resounding success This column represents the views of the Old Gold & Black Editorial Board.

After a notable two-year absence, Seize the Quad made a much-welcomed return Oct. 13. Hundreds of students intermingled on the Quad, enjoying each other’s company at the iconic campus location.

Though this event has experienced many false starts in the two years since its last occurrence, we were impressed by the manner in which it successfully came to fruition this semester. Seize the Quad was well-marketed prior to Saturday night, with hype building towards the event weeks in advance (no doubt helped by STQ’s long absence).

In the lead-up to the event, students wondered whether it would actually happen, given last semester’s aborted STQ. But those that turned out (as students did in droves) were not disappointed. Attendance at this semester’s STQ was markedly higher than that of Fall 2010.

We are proud of the student body for handling this responsibility and showing the administration that this kind of event can be a success.

The best part of STQ, though, was the fellowship and sense of community it created.

Students did not remain in their group’s designated tents. Students made the rounds around the Quad, hanging out with people they had not seen in a while, reconnecting with freshman hallmates, classmates and others. Greeks hung out with non-Greeks, athletes with non-athletes, upperclassmen with lowerclassmen Though some were not pleased with the rule that the fraternity lounges had to be closed from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., having everyone out on the Quad truly created a

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sense of unity and camaraderie on campus.

And that is at the heart of Seize the Quad’s intention: to bridge the often-quoted Greek/non-Greek divide.

Though these divisions are exaggerated to a certain degree, events like STQ help remind us that we are ultimately all part of one community: the Wake Forest community.

STQ also represents a pragmatic approach on the administration’s part to college drinking culture. While not condoning under age drinking, the administration provided a safe atmosphere for of-age students to partake in one of the most beloved parts of campus.

In doing so, the administration not only invested a great deal of responsibility in the student body, but also recognized the need for innovative approaches to handling college drinking.

We are proud of the student body for handling this responsibility and showing the administration that this kind of event can be a success.

Finally, we want to acknowledge Student Government’s efforts in successfully executing this event. It was well-organized both before and during the event. Student check-ins at Davis and Poteat circles were efficient, and the event ran smoothly. Hats off to the SG executive board and all the volunteers that helped orchestrate the event.

We hope Seize the Quad will become a regular tradition at Wake Forest, much like other beloved events such as Hit the Bricks and Project Pumpkin. The event, as was demonstrated Saturday night, has the potential to show the fellowship of the campus, allowing individuals from diverse groups to intermingle and socialize on the Quad.

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Deacon Profile: Michele Gillespie

BY JOSH GARRETT Staff Writer garrjs9@wfu.edu Michele Gillespie, Kahle Family Professor of History, joined the history department in 1999. Between 2007-2010, Gillespie served in the provost’s office. She recently published Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South.

Did you teach during those three years in the provost’s office?

I didn’t teach at all and desperately missed it, especially after the first year. It was strange not to be connected to my students and working with them. I missed the faculty-student experience that goes on here.

What are your research interests?

I would define myself as an historian of the American South, of the United States.

Much of my work has been on the history of labor, working people and women in the South, really from the late 18th century into the early 20th. The latest project took me out of my comfort zone, because it really took me right into the 20th century.

How does Partners of Fortune fit into these larger interests? And how did you first become interested in the Reynolds family?

When I came to Winston-Salem, I was bowled over by this story of Katharine Reynolds, and I was surprised as someone who did Southern women’s history that I didn’t know anything about her.

She struck against the Southern ladyhood ideal that was expressed in much of the literature of that period, so I had wondered why nobody had done her story, except an article by Margaret Smith, in the art history department here. When I got into the archives at Reynolda House, I realized there was a book there.

How did you expand the tale to a dual biography of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds?

To tell her life story, I also came to realize more and more that I had to tell the story of her husband, R.J. Reynolds, because she would have never had the opportunities that she did, both in terms of the economic resources and in terms of the personal support that he gave her. The fact that she had the freedom that she could build the estate and be the kind of leader in reform movements and to in essence be his business con-

fidant, led me to go back and research his life.

The book kept mushrooming, just with their own lives, but I think the other part of the book that is just as important as the biography of those two people is the kind of impact they had on the city of Winston — the kind of growth that the city experienced.

So it’s kind of a biography of place?

Exactly, it’s a biography of this place, and I look at how one community goes through the transformation from being a little market town in a rural countryside to being an industrial city in two short generations.

Doing this book was almost a labor of love for this place where I made my new home, because it complicates the ways we tell stories about who we are now in Winston-Salem.

We like to celebrate the success of the R.J. Reynolds company and the success of the other early industries in this place, but we don’t like to tell the more complex parts of the story.

What do you feel is the role of the historian? Do you feel that Partners in Fortune does “work in the world?”

One of my favorite quotes is by Henry David Thoreau. He says, “It is the province of the historian to find out not what was, but what is.” And in some ways this project let me explore all the popular conceptions we have about ourselves as Winston-Salemites and to rethink the ways that we tell about our past.

In the act of writing the book, I came to understand that we may have certain needs to tell the story the way we do that tell us more about who we are right now than who we were in the past.

Can you speak about working in administration versus teaching?

My time in administration was really helpful to me in writing this project, because I did a lot of work in the entrepreneurship program at that time, and it led me to think a lot more about the history of business and what an entrepreneur is. Just administration in general allowed me to have a better understanding of what RJR was doing as a businessman over the course of his life and to see how unusual it was for him, who really was an entrepreneur.

Teaching is helpful to me all the time, because I really like to work with students using the newest scholarship. I find the teach-

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er-scholar to be ideal because there is such cross-fertilization going on all the time. It is really just a privilege and joy to have that kind of interaction between the two main parts of my professional life.

Elaborate on your writing style. How do you distract yourself? Guilty pleasures?

I don’t time myself, but I always start with a cup of coffee. I’ll turn my email off, so I don’t get distracted, and I will tell myself you must write for an hour. I also love really hot showers, and I think about what I’m going to write about in the morning. I love to take long walks, and I’m always thinking about what I’m going to be working on.

A guilty pleasure is getting lost in the archives. You never know what you’re going to find. That experience of being in the archives and being with these materials — it is a very deep, focused time, where you are paying attention to your work. I miss closing up ship here and going down into the

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archives in the basement of Reynolda, and I miss having that walk to the archive where I close the door to one part of my professional life and go into the other.

Do you pleasure read while you write ?

Yes. I try and be disciplined about that.

I want to write better for my audience, so before bed I will read something that I think is beautifully written or that I find to be powerful. And I hope through osmosis I will pick up their style.

In this book, I tried to write in a way that not only my fellow historians would respect, but that a well-educated public would like as well.

In trying to write for both, I was trying to write in a way that was more accessible so I did really try to think about ways of really good writing.

I wrote this book absolutely in my study, at home. That’s where I write. I rarely write in my office at Wake.

Armstrong resigns from chairmanship of Livestrong charity

Man arrested after attempted terrorist attack in NewYork City

Iranian president Ahmadinejad backs Syria ceasefire proposal

Renown cyclist Lance Armstrong stepped down from his position as chairman of the cancer support charity he founded, Livestrong, Oct. 17. The foundation is best known for the more than 70 million yellow wrist bans that have been distributed worldwide. So far, donations have increased for the charity despite the scandal.

Armstrong, now retired, is set to lose his record seven Tour de France titles after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency published a report that accused Armstrong of organizing and taking part in an elaborate doping scheme.

A suspected terrorist parked a van packed with what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb next to the Federal Reserve building in Lower Manhattan and tried to detonate it Oct. 17 before being arrested in a sting operation.

The suspect was 21-year-old Mohommad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a Bangladeshi national who came to the U.S. in January.

In a statement claiming responsibility for the attempted attack, Nafis said he wanted to “destroy America” by going after its economy.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president, said Oct. 17 that he supported the idea of a ceasefire in Syria during an Islamic holiday next week. He also said he believes that free elections are the right way to help resolved the 19-monthold conflict Lakhdar Brahimi, the international mediator on Syria, has proposed that both Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s forces and rebel fightes seeking his overthrow stop fighting during the Eid al Adha festival. Brahimi appealed to leaders in Iran, Assad’s strongest regional ally, for support.

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Powering the future with nothing but fabric Nanotech Center pushes the boundaries of power tech with new Power Felt product

BY DANIEL SCHWINDT News Editor schwd11@wfu.edu Imagine wearing a shirt that could charge your cell phone using only the heat of your body. If that sounds like science fiction, it should not. The Wake Forest Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials has recently created a fabric that converts heat into electricity called “Power Felt”. The device, which was developed by graduate student Corey Hewitt, is a 50 millimetersby-70 millimeters piece of fabric that uses nanotechnology to produce small amounts of electrical power from body heat.

“In general, your body generates about 150 watts of power and thermoelectrics are about five percent efficient so out of that you can get five to ten watts,” Hewitt said.

“It is a small amount of power, but if you apply it to large areas it can capture a lot of power.” Hewitt first developed the fabric design, which is built using individual layers of films when he joined the project.

“At that time they were just looking at individual films, and I knew that there was no way that you could get enough power out of an individual film,” Hewitt said. “I wanted look at more practical applications of the technology and that’s when I thought of the multi-layered structure.”

The Nanotech Center is the only one in the nation that has been developing the fabric design, but don’t expect to see Power Felt powering your cell phone within the next year.

“I’d say it needs maybe three to five more years of serious scientific research to get the efficiency numbers a little higher,” Hewitt said. “If we can improve them by a factor of two I think they’d be ready to use in low-power devices like charging your cell phone.”

But Power Felt is not the only product of research at the center, which actually focuses on three areas: power technology, organic devices and nano-medicine. Many businesses have also emerged from the center’s research efforts, including Orthovative Technologies, founded by two university students and which sells a sensor which can detect changes in posture so patients with back pain can correct their poor posture.

Hewitt’s efforts on Power Felt are not the only extraordinary student work coming

out of the Center. “We have an awful lot of really top undergraduate students and the amazing thing is that they come in and do their project and you realize they are at the level of grad students,” David Carroll, director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, said. “We try to integrate all the groups together, graduate, post-doctoral and undergrad, and they are all treated equally.”

Sophomore Derek Fogel, a physics major, testified to the opportunities the Center provides for undergrads. “I was actually really surprised at the level of involvement I was able to have at the Nano center,” Fogel said. “I was able to start out as a freshman and that was just such a great opportunity for me.”

Carroll expressed his hope that the center would be able to move its location to the new medical facilities at Biotech Place, though such a move is still in the discussion stage. “One of the things we thought would be nice was if the nanotechnology center could serve as a bridge to the medical center and Reynolda,” Carroll said. “It is the idea that if we were to move to Biotech Place we could provide space for undergraduates who want to do research at the intersection of medicine and physics or chemistry and physics.”

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Graduate student Corey Hewitt designed the “Power Felt” device.

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Continued from Page 1 well as the supervisor of the deans of the undergraduate College, the Schools of Business, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, the School of Divinity and the Library. Kersh entered into his role as provost without many plans for what initiatives he would undertake in his

new role. Instead he entered with the mentality that he needed to better understand the state of the university by first becoming a greater part of it.

“There is a model for a senior administrators and senior officials that they come in with a pretty well-organized template for how things should look,” Kersh said.

“That’s not my model. I have re-entered 30 years since I first began here as a learn-

er and listener again.” However, now that Kersh has had the opportunity to spend more time at the university, he has a much better sense of which endeavours his time and effort would be best spent focusing on.

The initiative that has seen the most public attention is his focus on improving the health and wellness of the student body.

This undertaking has seen the most attention due to the recent announcement of the construction of a new health wellness center that will include the renovation and expansion of Reynolds Gymnasium “This particular building feels like, yes state-of-the-art, the best kind of recreational facilities you can find on a college campus,” Kersh said.

“But also it’s much more so that the entire holistic notion of well-being is located in this building but expands over the Quad, across the campus, over to the med school, across Winston-Salem and of course around the Triad and beyond.”

Another major initiative that Kersh is considering is the idea of setting up a residential college system, which he assisted in implementing during his time at the Wag-

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University to host a conference Project Pumpkin provides safe environment for local children analyzing diasporas and race At 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in the ZSR Library Auditorium, the department of Romance languages will be hosting a debut of Rahmin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo, which tells the story of a Senegalese taxi driver and his relationship with an elderly white man who wants to take his own life. The screening is the first in a series of events that are a part of the International Conference on Diasporas and Race, which will be held at the university Oct. 25-27. For more information contact Sally Barbour at barbour@wfu.edu.

On Oct. 23 the university will be hosting its 24th Project Pumpkin event on Hearn Plaza. Sponsored by the Volunteer Service Corps, Project Pumpkin provides a safe environment for children from Winston-Salem to trick-ortreat with student escorts.

Volunteer opportunities include helping with carnival activities, distributing candy from booths, and providing environment. For more information, visit projectpumpkin. groups.edu.

ner Graduate school for Public Service at New York University.

The major idea behind these residential colleges is having faculty either living in a dormitory or closely connected to a specific residence hall.

“The mere fact of having faculty more closely connected to residential life has proven to be very useful in enhancing responsible behavior, student connections to faculty and so on,” Kersh said.

“We’re looking at a program like that here and I think we’re going to be able to roll out a program in the next semester or two.”

Students have mixed reactions to the idea of a residential college system.

“I think that the implementation of a residential college system would be a very unique experience for Wake Forest students,” freshman Allison Pennington said.

“At the same time, I don’t think that this is something for everyone. I don’t think it should be mandatory.”

Sophomore Casey Kobilka said, “I would feel I would constantly have to act more professional like I do in class compared to a dorm which is a social center and home.”

Hanes Art Gallery presents the brand new Geometries exhibit From 5-7 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Charlotte and Phillip Hanes Art Gallery, there will be a reception for the opening of a new exhibit, titled Anne Kesler Shields: Geometries 1960s & 1970s, featuring the geometry-inspired works of Anne Kesler Shields.

The exhibit has been open from Oct. 22 and will close Dec. 7.

For more information contact Marcus Keely, assistant director at the Hanes Gallery at hanesgallery@wfu.edu.

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Students divided on living up to Pro Humanitate With the school’s motto centering on volunteerism, is the student body actually following this ideal?

BY JULIE HUGGINS News Editor huggin0@wfu.edu By proclaiming to be “For humanity,” students, faculty and staff promise to strive for the continual improvement of the community, both in terms of the campus and the Winston-Salem area. Through events such as Wake ‘n’ Shake, Hit the Bricks and the upcoming Project Pumpkin, the university strives to live up to the broad Pro Humanitate motto.

“I think when you have a motto like Pro Humanitate, it sets a standard that is incredibly high,” Shelley Graves, associate director of campus life, said. “However, with that said, I do feel our students are absolutely committed to service.”

Some students embrace the motto by actively participating in service organizations, such as Alpha Phi Omega, Habitat for Humanity and the Volunteer Service Corps (VSC). In fact, eight chartered organizations exist on campus exclusively dedicated to student volunteering, and many of them boast memberships numbers into the hundreds.

However, not all of those members actively participate in these organizations.

For example, Habitat for Humanity, whose listserv boasts about 300 names, only has around 80 active members.

Keeping members active and passionate about service is hard but, for some, doable.

“Once students start getting involved in the

community, it grows into a passion,” senior Lindsay Schneider, co-chair of VSC, said. “I think it’s just about being willing to make that effort and take the first step.”

The VSC promotes the campus’ motto by naming especially active students, those who have completed and recorded 50 or more hours of community service, to the Pro Humanitate Honor Roll.

This semester, there are just over 600 students registered for the Honor Roll and about half regularly log hours, according to Graves.

Last semester, 133 students met the criteria for selection while 546 students regularly logged hours. Over the last academic year, 16,113 hours were logged in the Pro Humanitate Honor Roll. Some, however, question whether awarding students for volunteerism is antithetical to its purpose.

“I think there are definitely students out there who would use the honor roll as a way to help themselves rather than actually doing community service because it’s the right thing to do,” freshman Ben Helms said.

Senior Teddy Landsman, head of Habitat for Humanity, highlighted that volunteerism often becomes another resume line for students.

“The student body is definitely dedicated to service, but they like for it to fit with their schedules,” Landsman said. “They want something for a couple of hours a couple times a week.”

Still others, especially professors, feel that living up to Pro Humanitate lies not in volunteerism but rather in the university’s dedication, first and foremost, to its academics.

“Certainly Wake’s motto Pro Humanitate is noble and should inspire us all from students to faculty to staff and to administra-

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Student members of Campus Kitchen cook and deliver meals made from food collected from businesses and even ARAMARK. tors,” David Weinstein, professor of political science, said.

“But as important as such volunteering in the community is, I would hope that none of us loses sight of the fact that university’s primary mission is scholarship, research and learning and that dedication to this mission serves our community and nation and embodies the spirit of Pro Humanitate as well.”

At the Sept. 28 “Hang with Hatch,” President Hatch said that while service is certainly important, “the first job of the student is to be a student.”

So to answer the question of whether students are living up to Pro Humanitate, it becomes necessary to ask what exactly this motto entails. And with 4,800 students enrolled in the university, it is unlikely that every person is living up to the Pro Humani-

tate motto, however one defines it. Some students, for example, believe that the university as a whole is not truly for humanity.

“I don’t think we live up to Pro Humanitate,” freshman Brandon Miller said. “There are better ways to serve humanity than to simply educate ourselves. We can say it, but some students and administrators certainly don’t act like we are ‘for humanity.’”

Others disagree, saying that volunteering adds to the campus vibrancy.

“I think we have a lot of school wide projects that, even if you don’t individually participate in, the community as a whole does, and that is how we embody Pro Humanitate,” senior Margaret Tartala said.

Brooke Metz contributed reporting to this article.

Privacy: Students feel university violates rights

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Under the university’s Use of Technology policy, Information Systems may monitor students’ online activity if necessary.

Continued from Page 1 “It bothers me that the university could check my history or read my emails if they deemed it necessary,” junior Di Chung said.

“It’s a violation of my rights not just as a student but as an American citizen. I think the school watching over us kind of makes

them look paranoid and makes us look like we can’t be trusted.”

Despite this policy, Matthews affirms that surveillance is not a common practice.

“We do not routinely monitor what people do on the internet or what sites they access,” Rick Matthews, associate provost for Technology and Information Systems, said.

“However, we do monitor the health and

security of the network, our systems and services.”

If the automated security tools the university uses to monitor the system happen to report active threats like viruses or repeated attempts to access user information, then the appropriate staff members will review activity logs to see who may be affected by these attacks.

But in terms of activities like video streaming and illegal downloading, the university doesn’t keep track of who is doing what on the system. It is usually outside sources that contact Information Systems that bring things like illegal music or movie downloading to the attention of the university.

“We sometimes receive ‘take down’ notices from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) or the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),” Matthews said.

“These organizations have sophisticated technology to detect illegal sharing of music, movies and TV shows. When we receive such notices, we notify the person with the offending content and work with them to see that the content is removed,” he added.

“If we receive no response to our request, we report the offense to judicial affairs. On a second occurrence, we report the offense to the appropriate dean’s office.”

The MPAA and RIAA have won cases with substantial settlements against college students in the past but, so far, they have

not brought a case against one of students at Wake Forest.

If this does happen, IS may be legally required to report the identity of the student to the appropriate authorities.

“I don’t care if the university only looks at our data if it’s necessary,” sophomore Hayley Fischer said.

“We’re adults. We should be able to decide what we can look at and what we do online without worrying that the university is watching. We’re not high school students who are required to be here, we choose to be here.”

The university doesn’t attempt to block students from accessing certain sites, either.

In fact, the most the university does to keep students protected from malicious websites is an email subscription list which blocks known malicious email addresses and antivirus software for computers. Other than that, the university leaves technology protection to the students.

“Visiting risky websites and clicking on risky links in emails will almost certainly mean your laptop becomes infected with a virus, your identity is compromised or both,” Matthews said.

“We issue the same laptop with the same software to every student in a class, yet many students never get a virus, while other students get viruses repeatedly. In the virtual world, just as in the physical world, you need to be careful what streets you walk down.”

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Romney energizes college volunteers Mitt Romney’s son addresses crowd of university students at the Mag Quad Oct. 17

BY DANIEL SCHWINDT News Editor schwd11@wfu.edu

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Tagg Romney spoke to students about his father’s campaign and the youth vote.

As the presidential election approaches, both campaigns are focusing on getting out the vote efforts, especially among college students.

To help boost the efforts of campus volunteers, Tagg Romney, the eldest son of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, came to speak to members of the College Republicans.

Senior Matt Whitmill, head of the Students for Romney chapter at the university, told the crowd of between 80 and 100 students that there was a lot at stake in this presidential election cycle as he introduced Romney.

“It is not just a choice between two candidates,” Whitmill said. “You guys get that it is a choice between two futures.”

Romney began his short address with a description of his family life and how he has been stumping the country for his father’s campaign.

“When I first saw the schedule of trips and speeches six to seven days a week, I thought my wife wouldn’t let

me because of the kids,” Romney said, “but my wife said that there is nothing better for our kids than helping my father win.”

Romney attempted to boost his father’s image as a business man, citing his father’s career at Bain Capital and his managament of the Salt Lake City Olympics.

He also criticized Obama for what he sees as the president’s comparative lack of business experience.

In conjunction with the Romney campaign’s recent attempts to portray Romney as a candidate who can reach across the aisle, Tagg Romney highlighted his father’s time as governor of Massachusetts, a Democratic leaning state.

“My father had to work with Democrats to get things done,” Romney said. “They made up 87 percent of the state legislature in Massachusetts.”

Romney also attempted to confront the image of his father as an unlikeable and out-of-touch candidate. “The other side is doing their best to paint a picture of him that is not true,” Romney said.

At the close of his speech, Romney tried to energize the young crowd with calls for more volunteers and encouraging young Republicans to increase their door-to-door efforts. Romney decided to visit the university partly

POLICE BEAT Underage Consumption

• An offender in Luter had consumed alcohol while under the age of 21. The report was filed at 12:56 a.m.

Oct. 13.

• University Police responded to a call in reference to an incoherent student in Luter. It was determined that the offender had consumed several shots of vodka and was transported by EMS to Baptist Medical Center. The report was filed at 12:29 a.m. Oct. 14.

• University Police responded to a call in reference to an intoxicated student in North Campus Apartments. The report was filed at 1:29 a.m. Oct. 14.

Assault • A student had left a fraternity and was walking home

when several unknown subjects started yelling at him, and then two of them assaulted him.

The student was able to get away and a roommate took the student to Student Health. The report was filed at 3:47 a.m. Oct. 14.

• An offender assaulted a victim in Worrell Hall by forcibly rubbing the victims thigh while under a table. The report was filed at 4:02 p.m. Oct. 10.

• Two males robbed a university student on Waycross Drive One held the student while the other took money and a phone from the victim. WSPD made arrests. The report was filed at 5:16 a.m. Oct. 14.

Miscellaneous • An intoxicated student punched a window in the door to a lounge in Davis. The student went to Student Health to seek treatment, where they were located by Univer-

because of the efforts of Republican student volunteers. “One of the reasons Romney came to campus actually had to do with our volunteer successes,” Whitmill said. “At the last ‘Super Saturday,’ which is a coordinated nationwide door-to-door effort, we had more volunteer shifts than any other university in North Carolina. The passion that wake students had is what drew [Romney].”

Romney pointed to the passion and efforts of college-aged Republicans across the country as an important part of the campaign.

“The reaction has been fantastic,” Romney said. “I think more young people are getting involved in the Republican campaign and getting excited.”

Danny Suarez, treasurer for the College Republicans, felt that part of the success of the College Republicans’ volunteer efforts was what he felt was the Romney campaign’s emphasis on college issues.

“I think what he was talking about was really important to the college campus: college debt, jobs and the future,” Suarez said. “As the election approaches, you will more likely see greater involvement from Wake students and from college students in general, and hopefully that will help Romney.”

sity Police. The student was transported to a hospital by friends. The report was filed at 12:59 a.m. Oct. 14.

• An unknown white male was seen looking into a bathroom window in North Campus Apts. by the victim. The report was filed at 10:57 p.m. Oct. 10.

• Unknown subject(s) removed a TV from an unsecured lounge in Taylor. The report was filed at 11:26 a.m. Oct. 14.

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Campus Life | Dining

Old Gold Swipes,“still a way to go New meal plan option fails to offer necessary diversity Mary Somerville Guest Columnist somemd11@wfu.edu

Last spring, signs appeared throughout on-campus dining locations bearing news about Old Gold Swipes, a new part of the Wake Forest dining experience.

They seemed useable, in fact, maybe even advantageous over the system at the time.

As I recall, an Old Gold Swipe was simply a swipe said to entitle the retriever to a meal with a main course, side and drink — and it was redeemable outside the Pit. No. Way.

A way to swipe outside the Pit? At Subway (which has finally reopened, but with lines still out the door) or Moe’s (oh, wait, it’s just Zoca with different shirts and a friendly greeting) or Freshens (never mind, that’s become an overpriced salad bar)? Oh, man.

This is gonna be great, I told myself. As I signed up for my meal plan late last semester, I awaited the arrival of Old Gold Swipes with some nervous anticipation.

I usually avoided both sides and sodas like the plague, except when I went to Boar’s Head, where you could actually get (gasp) fruit or vegetables with your sandwich and have a meal without fried food, but still, the prospect of just swiping instead of counting food dollars seemed appealing. The end of August came, and I returned to campus, ready to revert back from scrounging constantly for cheap food sources to using my ID as some sort of weird food redemption card. Soon, though, I discovered that there were some details of Old Gold Swipes (OGS) of which I was previously unaware.

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I would also like to suggest that despite all my blessings, I can and should feel slightly annoyed with a system that I find to be unfair.

First, the swipes do not roll over at the end of the semester. Fine. Neither do Pit swipes, and I didn’t have that many OGSs, so what was there to worry about?

Oh, plenty, since, second, there were preset meals you could order with your OGSs. These include: a salad with a soda at Forest Greens (won’t constitute a whole meal for me), a Chick-fil-A crispy chicken sandwich with waffle fries and a drink (which is greasier than I would want to eat every day, but a decent option), or a sandwich, chips and a drink from Boar’s Head (because for some reason they discontinued all the healthy sides there). Now, there are other similarly limiting options at Moe’s, Take Two and Starbuck’s, but you can see

my point without my elaborating on them as well. Third, by buying a meal plan, you received OGSs regardless of whether you wanted them. They are not redeemable at the Pit. They cannot be redeemed for exactly what you want, and really only work for lunch or dinner — a pastry and coffee at Starbuck’s would be more useful if it weren’t surely going to make me late to my morning classes. I will admit that yes, my complaints are first-world complaints. I would also like to suggest that despite all my blessings, I can and should feel slightly annoyed with a system that I find to be unfair. No, Old Gold Swipes are not ruining my life.

In fact, they aren’t so bad once you figure out which of the three options works best.

In writing this article, I’m hoping that my voice may be heard.

I’m stretching my democratic muscles, if you will, because I would really like to see some change, whether it be better options or the dropping of Old Gold Swipes entirely.

Athletic Events | Fan Etiquette

IV tackles drinking issues Sports require maturity David Inczauskis

Staff Columnist inczdj0@wfu.edu The college years are perfect for exploring big questions concerning faith and philosophy. Religious students, in particular, may have concerns about the interaction between faith and the hot issues of our time. According to members of InterVarsity (IV), the Bible can provide some answers. Whether queries involve drinking, sexual behavior, social justice, marital relationships, science, evolution or immigration, Christian students can look to the Bible and IV for guidance.

InterVarsity arranges weekly meetings built to touch on the issues about which students really care. In a series of interviews with IV participants, I asked them questions about Christianity’s role in reckoning responses to problems of both moral and practical nature. Time after time, IV members cited the Bible as an authoritative source. Of the organization InterVarsity in general, one leader told me, “[IV] has a long history of thoughtful engagement of scripture.” He went on to say, “We value God’s word a lot and make a point of studying it together in community.”

To find out more about how IV deals with the Wake Forest drinking culture, I attended one of their meetings on alcohol

and drug usage. Leaders of the group referenced biblical passages and came to the conclusion that alcohol in and of itself is not bad, but God certainly does not advocate regular drunkenness.

Jesus did turn water to wine, but he did not turn water to wine every Friday and Saturday night so that his disciples could get plastered. Aside from IV’s emphasis on the Bible, the group stresses another aspect crucial to Christianity: evangelization. Jesus told his followers to spread the good news to all nations at the end of Matthew’s gospel, and IV participants intend to do just that.

A different leader of the organization explained, “At the core of everything that we do is this desire to obey and glorify Jesus and see more and more people come into a life-giving relationship with him.” They aim to gain converts to Christianity, effectively spreading Jesus’s light to those who live in the darkness of sin.

Part of IV’s plan for the future is to come up with innovative ways to reach out to Wake students who have never heard about Jesus.

Although InterVarsity is interested in increasing membership, it is interested in developing a sense of community among already-existing participants, too.

Almost every day of the week IV has some sort of social activity scheduled. The Christians of InterVarsity strive to come together as one body united in Christ Jesus — a fountain of eternal peace and the fulfillment of the Old Testament’s prophetic scriptures.

Drew Loveless

Staff Columnist lovede9@wfu.edu Two weeks ago, I went with some friends up to Maryland to cheer on our Deacs against the Terps. We got some cheap tickets front-row behind our bench, within earshot of the team, but not exactly in the visitors’ section. It wasn’t nearly a sellout, but everyone around us was rooting for Maryland. This may go without saying, but Maryland fans are not the most cordial around. I don’t have a problem with that; I appreciate fierce fans.

At one point in the game, one of our players went down with an injury and was coming off the field. Some of the Terp fans around us had some words to say to the injured player. Including a bit of a chant taunting him. At this point, I turned around and had some choice words for them in response to their chant at our injured player. My only words not directed toward cheering on our team the entire game.

The topic of cheering and taunting injured players has come up recently on ESPN with Kansas City Chiefs fans cheering as their quarterback left with a concussion. While I don’t agree with doing it — I understand the idea behind it; you want to give your team the best chance of winning,

no matter where the advantage may come from. It may not be ethical for people to do it, but I respect their right or choice to do so, but this was not my issue at the game.

There was a young couple sitting behind us at the game.

After my rebuttal to the chant of the other Maryland fans, the husband, gesturing at his young daughter who could not have been older than two years old and could not have been paying less attention to anything other than her little toy, chided me for using a couple choice words, so I apologized.

Could things have been done differently?

Maybe. Do I regret my interaction with the other yelling fans? Not really. My problem comes from parents taking very small children to sporting events and expecting every other person to conduct themselves in a way that is appropriate for the company of toddlers. Without emotion sporting events aren’t much fun, and without emotional attachment I wouldn’t consider someone a fan. Thus, it is easy to see that sometimes emotion creates some PG-13 situations.

My advice for taking a small kid to a sporting event: know the environment you’re going in to. As a fan of the home team, you should probably have an idea of the fans’ general nature. If that is not something you want your kid to witness then don’t go. It may be insensitive to the youth, but I probably have greater emotional involvement than your 20-something month old child. I am not going to sacrifice my emotional interest for a little child who shouldn’t be there in the first place.

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Election 2012 | Ideological Differences

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Democrats must counter stereotype of passivity Presidential candidates should intelligently follow in footsteps of Bill Clinton Jordan Lee

Guest Columnist leejc11@wfu.edu

There is only one explanation for seven excruciatingly repetitive seasons of Dexter: the American audience craves blood.

Any decent politician is attuned to this fact, and until members of the Democratic Party collectively begin showing their teeth, they will forever be the liberal losers in Washington, D.C. The DNC ought to require all Democratic candidates to study and effectively imitate Bill Clinton.

He played hardball and he won despite the public’s skepticism regarding his charac-

ter. How does that happen? How does a guy get elected twice for the highest office in the world if people don’t trust him?

The answer is simple: the former president absolutely shellacked anyone who stood in his way.

For example, in 1992, during a campaign event in Manhattan, an angry heckler, Rob Rafsky, interrupted Clinton in the middle of his speech.

Rafsky cried out that Mr. Clinton was “dying of ambition to be president.”

Clinton proceeded to shout the man down with the following: “You do not have the right to treat any human being including me with no respect because of what you’re worried about… I did not cause the [problem] and I’m trying to do something about it.”

Here’s the beautiful part about this story: Clinton did do something about it. Rafsky’s outspoken and disrespectful rant was about AIDS policy. Specifically, Rafsky shouted, “What are you going to do about AIDS? We’re dying!”

Once Clinton became president, he spearheaded the National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development and allocated more funding to AIDS research than either

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If Democratic candidates want to continue winning elections, they ought to take a lesson from Bill Clinton and stand up for themselves.

Reagan or Bush had during their time in office.

For a more recent example, in 2010, Clinton shut down hecklers in Binghamton, N.Y., saying, “I don’t know what you’re shouting, but compared to all those Republicans… there’s only one person in America that’s balanced four budgets, run four surpluses… when I left office, we had the smallest federal government since 1960… so, I don’t need any lectures or shouting.

You need to listen to me.”

And of course, how can we forget Clinton’s complete evisceration of Chris Wallace on Fox News?

The point is that the Democrats’ policies “play nice.” Thus, Democratic politicians don’t need to.

And there should be no doubt that the Dems fight for the greater good, given that their platform attempts to protect the sick, the poor, the middle class and the underrepresented. Meanwhile, the GOP’s presi-

dential candidate has candidly stated that he doesn’t care about 47 percent of this country.

So why is Obama afraid to rip into Congressman Joe Wilson [R-SC] for interrupting his speech to a joint session of Congress with “You lie!”?

Probably for the same reason he let Mitt Romney interrupt and get away with flipflopping during the first debate: he wanted to appear presidential.

Unfortunately, appearing presidential doesn’t win elections, especially in the face of a singularly nasty GOP. For four years the Republicans have called our president a socialist, a communist and a terrorist.

They have claimed he’s un-American and even questioned his citizenship.

The Tea Party has spit on black Congressmen and shouted racial slurs on the steps of the Capitol.

Playing nice will never be effective in a contest highlighted with such disgusting bigotry.

If Democratic candidates want to continue winning elections, they ought to take a lesson from Bill Clinton and stand up for themselves.

Word on the Quad Do you believe Seize the Quad was successful in bringing the campus together?

“It is all about drinking, so I decided not to attend.”

Natalie McKinney (‘16)

“It was a lot of fun and showed the campus culture.”

Barron Jeter (‘15)

“It was memorable to recreate a school tradition.”

Matt Chaffin (‘15)

“It was great to see the school population in one place.”

Rachel Williams (‘15)

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2012 Election HQ Vice Presidential Debate

From the Left | College Democrats Joe Biden articulates confidence in his party’s presidential candidate College Democrats

Staff Columnists diamjm0@wfu.edu Joe Biden accomplished several important goals in the Vice Presidential Debate Oct. 11. First, he was able to build on President Obama’s foreign policy achievements in promoting Russian relations, Iran’s nuclear program, Afghanistan stability, international proliferation of nuclear weapons and counterterrorism.

Second, he provided President Obama with substantial momentum moving forward into the last stages of the election.

The most noticeable difference between the two candidates was their visible presence in the debate. Vice President Biden had an authoritative presence that reflected the large experience advantage that both Obama and Biden have on foreign policy. On the other side, Paul Ryan appeared out of his element, largely sticking to simplistic policy taglines and deferring to Biden on several key issues.

On the issue of Iran’s nuclear program, Vice President Biden honed in on the recent success of “the most crippling sanctions in the history of sanctions” under President Obama. As a result, Iran’s economy is steeply declining, the Iranian currency has recently crumbled, and the regime is becoming increasingly isolated.

Ryan responded to these points by criticizing President Obama’s credibility, but had no response to Biden’s comment that this was just political blustering. Biden finished this segment off by confirming the president’s position: “[W]e will not let them acquire a nuclear weapon, period, unless he’s talking about going to war.”

The topic of Afghanistan followed a similar story. Biden reminded the audience that President Obama’s 2014 deadline for U.S. withdrawal is necessary to end a stagnant and long-overdue occupation. More importantly, he pointed out that only such a deadline can incentiv-

ize the Afghanistan government to adequately prepare. When pressed by both the moderator and Vice President Biden to identify his own withdrawal timeline, Ryan appeared defensive and unable to answer in concrete terms.

The Obama-Biden solution to the national debt issue remains a balanced combination of spending cuts and additional tax revenue to cut the deficit by four trillion dollars.

In comparison, it is still largely suspect how Mitt Romney plans to pay for 20 percent across the board tax cuts and an increase in military spending by two trillion dollars without increasing the deficit.

Vice President Biden hit home when he pointed out that achieving Paul Ryan’s proposal remains “impossible” and disproven by history.

After the Bush tax cuts came into effect in 2001, tax revenue has strongly fallen each year since its peak during the Clinton Administration. Even Paul Ryan’s example of President Reagan is slightly flawed, given that Reagan implemented one of the largest tax increases in U.S. history in 1982.

On the economy, jobs, and healthcare the debate remained largely the same.

Biden remained confident that President Obama’s economic policies are working after unemployment dipped below 8 percent in September. Ryan continued to criticize the administration for wasted spending, both managed to agree on supporting lower corporate and small business tax rates. However, Ryan’s healthcare position was largely undermined after a quick fact checking of the numbers.

The argument that Obamacare made 700 million dollars’ worth of spending cuts to Medicare beneficiaries refers to closed loopholes and scaled back payments for hospitals and insurance companies, not actual Medicare recipients.

The comment that the Affordable Care Act will cut insurance for over 20 million Americans is also false. The Congressional Budget Office listed this number as a potential worst case scenario, while concluding that the actual number was a net reduction of around 30 million uninsured Americans by 2016.

This column was written by junior Joel Diamond, who is an officer of College Democrats and a Political Science major.

From the Right | College Republicans Paul Ryan represents his party’s views in respectful and professional manner College Republicans Staff Columnists rexjb9@wfu.edu

Respect, honor, professionalism and dignity.

These are the qualities that we expect from our leaders. We demand our leaders respect their opponents and play by the same rules.

We demand our leaders display sportsmanship and provide dignity for each other. We demand our leaders treat the American people with respect and give them insight on those looking to enter the highest office — the purpose of these debates is to show the American people what leadership, character, and being Presidential look like.

It is safe to say, following the Vice Presidential Debate, that Vice President Joe Biden does not respect the office the American people gave him four years ago.

He does not recognize the necessity of diplomacy, especially in an increasing globalized era.

He does not listen to those that disagree with him. He feels his opinions, while important, are so necessary to discuss that he must disrespect his opponent to make these ideas known.

The vice presidential debate focused on foreign policy and whether the individual on this stage will represent the American people and interests in the best possible manner.

Imagine in the General Assembly of the United Nations, Vladimir Putin stands up and states something in disagreement with Vice President Biden. Does Vice President Biden cackle during his speech? Does Vice President Biden throw his arms up in disdain when Putin discusses Russian superiority?

Will Vice President Biden interrupt his speech to point out incongruences, when Putin took the time to listen to his speech?

If the debate serves as an example of the vice president’s leadership style, this may

be the “new normal” of American diplomacy. Moreover, while not necessary to harp on, the role of a moderator in these debates is to serve as a time keeper and a referee, not a third debater.

As much as sitting at a table at eye level encourages discussion, it is not the responsibility of the moderator to only follow-up with one candidate. It is the responsibility of the moderator to facilitate the questions of the audience and the American people, not to interrupt the candidates without cause.

Overall, Representative Paul Ryan displayed a level of professionalism and dignity that served as a sharp contrast to a childish Vice President Biden.

His responses were to the point, his mannerisms were appropriate, and he, above all else, respected Vice President Biden’s opportunity to share his policies with the American people. In a more polarized political landscape, does the child who complains and repeatedly laughs at his opponent or the man who takes the time to listen, to think before he speaks, going to be the one to bring together the partisan sides?

Vice President Biden displayed the immaturity of this administration. He displayed President Obama’s lack of experience.

He displayed the attitude of his campaign — do whatever it takes, regardless of common decency, to get what you want.

At the end of the day, the question is not one of policy — it is one of respect and maturity.

Do you want children or men leading and representing your country in Congress and on the world stage?

This column was written by senior James Rex, who is chairman of College Republicans and a Finance and Economics double major.

The College Democrats and College Republicans have been participating in a series of debates leading up to the 2012 presidential election.

Series Schedule: 10/25 - National Debt 11/01 - Party Platform Overview

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Kicking it at the next level Wake Forest men’s soccer continues to pump Deacs into Major League Soccer

BY NICK WELDON Staff Writer weldnr11@wfu.edu When Brian Carroll faces off against Stephen Keel (‘04) Oct. 27 in Philadelphia as part of an MLS matchup with playoff implications, it will not be the first time they share the soccer pitch.

Carroll, a 31-year-old defensive midfielder for the Philadelphia Union, fondly recalls his time spent with the younger Keel, of the New York Red Bulls, during their two seasons playing soccer together at Wake Forest.

“I lived in the original soccer house while Keel and some other guys lived in the new one,” Carroll said. “I remember us TP-ing each other’s houses a bunch of times. It was pretty funny actually.”

After a three year career at Wake Forest, Carroll was 11th overall pick in the 2003 MLS SuperDraft. In his final season with the Demon Deacons, Carroll was team captain, a first-team All-ACC selection,

an All-American and a finalist for the Hermann Trophy, annually given to the nation’s top collegiate soccer player.

“It was very difficult to leave Wake,” Carroll said, when asked about his decision to go pro after his junior season. “I had just met the girl who would eventually become my wife, and it was a little scary to not know how everything would play out in my life after leaving school.”

Luckily for Carroll, things worked out pretty well.

The Springfield, Va., native, now in his 10th MLS campaign, has been part of two championship squads and currently anchors one of the league’s stingiest defenses. As of Oct. 16, the Union had allowed the second least goals in the Eastern Conference.

Now, a decade removed from his playing days at Wake Forest, Carroll still credits his time spent there as having a major influence on his development as a professional footballer.

“Coach Vidovich always got the most out of his players, both individually and as a team. He taught us to play physically, yet skillfully, and that ultimately, the game comes down to results.”

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WOMEN’S GOLF

{ BY THE NUMBERS} of top-10 finishes for the team 1 Number so far in the 2012-13 season score of the season for Wake, shot 71 Lowest by junior Olafia Kristinsdottir number of Deacons who have 2 Total scored rounds of par or better in the most recent GCAA coaches ranking poll 17 Votes

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Deac wins WFU Invite

Senior from Bangalore, India clinches his first ever singles tournament victory at home

BY MIKE MCLAUGHLIN Staff Writer mclamj12@wfu.edu

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Keel (‘04) played in 63 games for Wake Forest, scoring 21 points.

{ DEAC OF THE WEEK}

Beck

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After carding four straight under-par rounds, senior Evan Beck grabbed a second-place finish in the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate.

With a score of 69 in his final two rounds, Beck came up just two shots short of Memphis’ Grant Miller.

“He’s learning that he doesn’t have to be perfect with every shot to score well,” head coach Jerry Haas said. “Overall, it was a good week for him.”

Players from all over the south came to the Wake Forest Tennis Complex Oct. 12-14 for the WFU Fall Invitational. In total, 14 schools were represented. The competing schools were Wake Forest, Davidson, Duke, Elon, Furman, Liberty, Longwood, N.C. State, Norfolk State, North Carolina, Old Dominion, Richmond, UNC-Greensboro and UNC-Wilmington. In total, Wake Forest was represented by nine players: redshirt senior Conner Sherwood, senior David Hopkins, senior Amogh Prabhakar, senior Danny Kreyman, junior Adam Lee, freshman Sam Bloom, freshman Jon Ho and freshman Anthony Delcore.

The Deacons began the tournament well, going 12-3 on Friday.

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{SPORTS WORDS} “There is new energy and new focus this year with this new group of guys. The energy is back.”

- Walt Corbean

Men’ s basketball assistant coach on the 2012-13 team

Fresh talent at Black & Gold Madness

BY TY KRANIAK & MATT POPPE Sports Editor & Online Managing Editor krantr11@wfu.edu poppmw9@wfu.edu

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Freshman Aaron Roundtree demonstrated his strong dunking ability at the Oct. 13 showcase.

The Demon Deacons came out with a new attitude and excitement in their annual Black & Gold Madness Oct. 13. The men’s and women’s basketball teams showcased their fresh talent and uniforms in an assortment of events including scrimmages, threepoint contests and an electrifying slam dunk contest.

The men’s team boasts seven freshmen, who all look to bring the Deacs back to the top of the ACC. However, the team will also bring back veterans in senior C.J. Harris and junior Travis McKie, who will be the backbones of this fresh squad.

“There is new energy and new focus this year with this new group of guys,” assistant coach Walt Corbean said.

“The energy is absolutely back. It’s not going to be November or December. It’s now. Coach Bzdelik has done an unbelievable job of rallying the troops up, keeping this team together and making sure the players are ready for this season.”

The women’s team was also represented led by their brand new head coach Jen Hoover.

The team, like the men, divided themselves into black and gold teams and competed in a pick-up game for 10 minutes.

By in large, the Deacs’ defense looked strong. Even better, the energy was there, and Hoover was proud of her Deacs.

“There’s so much energy and excitement this time of year,” Hoover said.

“It gives our players the idea that the season is here, but I thought our players came out and had a lot of fun at the event. They love the support from

the community, and we are hoping to put a product on the floor that our school and players can be proud of.”

Hoover comes to Wake this season after being head coach at High Point.

The raucous crowd was brought to its feet many times, particularly during the slam dunk contest.

The dunk contest featured a few players from the men’s team and was voted upon by judges. Overall, the team and the nearly 1,500 fans seemed to think the event was a great success.

“It was a great effort by our marketing department in making sure that the place was full,” Corbean said.

“They came in and initially said that they were going to do everything they could to make sure that the students and the community are behind us. They lived up to what they talked about. This place was exciting tonight.”

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Andrea Beck

BY MAX WOHLMUTH Sports Editor wohlmj11@wfu.edu You were recruited by other big schools like as UNC-Chapel Hill and you are also from North Carolina. So what brought you to Wake rather than going elsewhere?

It’s an interesting story because I definitely never thought I would go to Wake since I’m from WinstonSalem. My family is all from the Northeast, and I always thought I would get away for college.

I’m not really the stay-at-home type of girl. I always thought I was going to go to Virginia when they gave me an offer, but by the time that offer came around, I had already fallen in love with Wake mostly because of the coaches, the players and the people on campus. I loved it here because of the small atmosphere and the combination of great athletics and academics.

Who has helped you most with your development as a volleyball player?

Coaches have been a huge part in that.

I had a high school coach, Robyn Wesselman at Mount Tabor [High School], who is definitely the reason why I was able to play in college because she challenged me, made me a better player, and a better person.

I think that has continued on with Heather [Kahl Holmes]. She’s challenged me a lot and pushed me to be a leader. My teammates here have also helped me a lot too.

Besides volleyball in high school, you swam and ran track. Did you ever consider doing those in college or was volleyball your goal?

Not at all. I fell in love with volleyball when I first started playing. I think because it is a team sport. I did do swimming for three years and track for the last three years of high school. I loved both of those too, but my favorite part of track was the relay because you’re on a team. I think that’s a reason why I love volleyball so much because it’s a team sport, so it wasn’t really a question for me.

You are one of two seniors on the squad this year. Do you see yourself as one of the leaders and how has it been stepping into that role?

I definitely don’t see myself as a natural leader.

I do see myself as a leader on the team now, but I don’t see myself as a natural leader by any means. I think that comes from my personal development the past four years and Heather challenging me to step into that role.

I was elected co-captain last year with Cambrey [Oehler] who was a

Senior

senior at the time. That really prepared me for this year in terms of leadership. I was able to share that spot with her and learn from her. So now I feel a lot more comfortable in that role.

What are your plans for after graduation and how does volleyball fit into the grand scheme of things?

It’s going to be really hard when I stop playing just because it’s been such a great experience for me. I’m actually hoping to play overseas for a year next year if I get the opportunity. That’s my first plan. I’m also applying to medical school right now and I would like to go to medical school eventually.

What are you going to miss most about playing here and being at Wake Forest?

My teammates, for sure. I love all of my teammates and they’ve been my family since I’ve been here. Just being a college athlete has been an amazing experience. You get to see the benefits of your hard work. I hope to apply that to other areas of my life. It’ll be hard because I’m going to miss volleyball so much.

Photo courtesy of Adrian Martino Graphic by Matt Poppe/Old Gold & Black

Deac Notes Wake Forest athletic department responds to football suspensions

Wake Forest track and field announces schedule for 2012-13

After a slew of suspensions regarding violations of team policies, head coach Jim Grobe and athletic director Ron Wellman felt the Wake fans deserved answers. They released a letter that, despite dancing around the reasons for the suspensions of the eight football players, did offer some insight into the matter.

Above all, the letter stressed that Wake Forest will not sacrifice its integrity for the sake of winning football games. More info on the controversy can be found at oldgoldandblack.com.

On Sept. 18 John Millar, the director of the university’s track and field program, released the team’s 2012-13 schedule.

The Deacons will begin their indoor season with the JDL College Kickoff Classic Dec. 1 and then conclude it with the ACC Championships Feb. 21. Wake Forest will start off the outdoor season March 8 with the CCU Invitational in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Finally, the season will come to an end April 20 after the conclusion of the Outdoor ACC Championships.

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Men’s soccer puts up big win against ACC rival Deacons down UVa 4-1 in Charlottesville, Va., to gain key road win in ACC play

BY MATT POPPE Online Managing Editor poppmw9@wfu.edu In recent history, Wake Forest and Virginia have been bitter conference rivals, as both teams often find themselves atop the ACC standings. The Cavaliers and No. 18 Deacons faced off again Oct. 11 in Wake Forest’s final road conference game, as it was the Deacs who got the upper hand in a 4-1 victory. The win improves Wake’s overall record to 8-2-4 on the year as they head into the final four games of the season.

“I think if you look back at the last several years, we’ve had a lot of success against those guys, particularly at their place,” head coach Jay Vidovich said. “To get a result against them is always big.”

The Deacs traveled to Charlottesville, Va., looking to avenge a heartbreaking 4-3 double overtime loss to the Cavaliers last season in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tourna-

ment. The Deacons wasted no time as sophomore Sean Okoli tallied the game’s first goal in just the sixth minute of play. Okoli scored in his second consecutive game as he received a pass from junior Jared Watts and connected from 12 yards out.

The score would remain 1-0 through halftime despite the Deacs being outshot 8-5 by the Cavaliers.

Wake Forest would break open the game, however, as they were able to score backto-back goals in just over a minute and a half. The first came in the 64th minute as senior Luciano Delbono scored his first goal of the season from 25 yards. Freshman Michael Gamble then followed up the score with his own in a Delbono one-on-one situation with the goalkeeper.

Virginia would respond, however, as senior Will Bates scored his ACC-leading eighth goal of the season with just over 10 minutes remaining in the contest.

This would be all the Cavaliers could muster as the Deacs would keep them at bay, even scoring once more in the 89th minute

off the foot of junior Ross Tomaselli, on the way to a 4-1 victory.

Redshirt junior Michael Lisch earned the win in goal for the Deacons making three saves in 90 minutes of play.

“We had some questions asked of us,” Vidovich said. “Coming into the game, the question was: what are we going to do with this season and can we find a way out of this hole? Our guys did a tremendous job with that said. Now to have teams coming at home, the question is if we can sustain what we did against Virginia and make it better?”

The win against Virginia will look to be a boost for the Deacons heading into the final stage of the regular season.

“I think it’s a huge confidence booster for us, just finally being able to take it to a team and score a lot of goals on one of the better teams in the country,” Delbono said.

“It really helps us set the tone for games like N.C. State and Maryland, which will be two huge games for us.”

Wake’s next opponent will be the N.C. State Wolfpack Oct. 19 at Spry Stadium.

The Deacs will then travel to Elon for their Clare Stanton/Old Gold & Black last road game of the regular season. Elon will serve as a tough out-of-conference op- Freshman Collin Martin boots a corner kick for Wake Forest. ponent as they remain in the Top 25.

All-American senior Evan Beck grabs second place finish Wake Forest finishes in a tie for sixth place at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate

BY TY KRANIAK Sports Editor krantr11@wfu.edu

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Senior Charlie Harrison finished the event 5-over par.

When the Wake Forest men’s golf team departed for the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate in Johnson City, Tenn., head coach Jerry Haas was looking for senior Evan Beck to lead the team. Beck did just that.

The All-American who hails from Virginia Beach, Va,. shot his way to a runner-up individual finish at the tournament and was a mere two shots back of the champion of the tournament, redshirt junior Grant Milner from Memphis University.

Beck capped off a very successful weekend by carding a 3-under par on his last two rounds.

His opening round was not much worse with an impressive 2-under par, which, as a whole,

put him at 8-under par and in second place when the tournament came to a close Oct. 14.

“Evan did a fantastic job,” Haas said.

“I am so happy for the young man, and he deserves it. He has done a lot in golf, and my hat goes off to him.”

Beck has been a leader all year for the Deacs.

He averages 70.5 per round, which rounded down, is a solid two strokes under par. Four other players on Wake’s squad average a minute 1-over per round of golf. It is clear these athletes are developing into talented golfers at Wake Forest.

Collectively, the Deacons squandered an early lead to slip to a final resting place of tied for sixth place on the leaderboard. Haas, although optimistic, knows his players could have done better.

“The reality is we should have won the tournament,” Haas said.

“If each guy saves one shot per round, there is a lot than can change. Yet at the same time, there are a lot of positives to take away from the tournament. We will only get better from here.”

Freshman phenom Grayson Murray was the only other Deacon to finish with an under par score, yet he was an individual player on Haas’ lineup, so his score did not count for the team’s total.

Murray’s score was strong enough to secure an eighth place tie amongst the field.

Wake Forest began the tournament on a high note with a 3-under par score heading into the clubhouse after the first round of play.

The Deacs were tied for fourth place at this point.

However, a slip on the second day with a 2-over par put Wake Forest’s hopes of a first place finish a stretch. Wake dropped to seventh place even though they had been as high as second place.

On the final day, the Deacs were able to scrap together a 1-under par performance to salvage a tie for sixth place.

Wake Forest will be competing in their last event of the fall season when the Demon Deacons travel to the U.S. Collegiate Championship that will begin Oct. 19 at the Golf Club of Georgia.

M. Tennis: Kreyman and Bloom take wins in singles play Continued from Page 11

One reason for the success: home court advantage. “We practice on those courts every day, we know the surroundings, we know what to expect” Prabhakar said.

As the top seed and No. 17 nationally ranked doubles team, Hopkins and Prabhakar led the team’s onslaught of victories in their play in the A Doubles Draw. The duo picked up some wins to adavnce to the championship.

Their run would come to an end in the finals though as Elon’s pair won a closely contested match 9-7.

Hopkins and Prabhakar were joined in A Doubles by Kreyman and Lee who defeated

Longwood’s Edward Becker and Harry Kelleher 8-3 as well as Nelson Vick and Conner Daly of North Carolina 8-3. To claim third place in A Singles, the duo defeated Duke’s Fre Saba and Dan McCall 8-4.

The success on the doubles court carried over to single matches in which the Demon Deacons were led by Prabhakar who would win the A Singles championship in the invitational.

Prabhakar started his championship run against Elon’s Robert Lindgren with a 7-6 (2), 6-1 win. It continued against Nicky Kunz of Davidson with a 6-2, 6-3 victory.

Then Prabhakar defeated Rafael Aita of UNC-Wilmington, the highest ranked player he has ever beaten, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

In the championship match, Prabhakar won both sets 6-4 versus the No. 111 Fred Saba of Duke.

“We played a good match, and we both fought pretty hard,” Prabhakar said abut the championship match of the Invitational.

“I was lucky to get some breaks at the end and come through.”

Prabhakar was not the Prabhakar only Deacon who experienced success in singles, as No. 94 Kreyman his won first match. He continued his pursuit of a championship against Kaue Pereira of UNC-Wlmingon, scoring a 2-6, 6-2, 6-1

victory. His next victory came against Carlos Lopez of Old Dominion in the form of a 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 semifinals win.

Kreyman would lose in the A2 final versus No. 68 Nelson Vick of UNC-Chapel Hill.

Representing Wake Forest in B Singles, Bloom scored a 6-2, 7-6 (4) win against Dzmitry Zyhmantovich of Norfolk State.

Bloom added to this win with 3-6, 6-3, 6-1victory over Trey Carter as well as a 6-3, 6-1win against Andrew Gores of UNCChapel Hill.

In the final, however, Bloom lost to Kosta Blank of UNCW 6-2, 6-2.

Up next for the Deacons Oct. 18 is the ITA Carolina Regional at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.

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With the start of ACC postseason play quickly approaching, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons women’s soccer team, currently ranked No. 15 in the country, is making a late push for a top-four seed for the ACC Tournament and home field advantage in the quarterfinal round.

The Deacs (10-3-3, 4-2-1) continued that effort by earning a crucial point on the road at No. 6 Duke (11-3-2, 5-2-2) Oct. 14, tying the Blue Devils 1-1.

The tie brought Wake Forest into a threeway deadlock for fourth place in the ACC with Virginia and North Carolina.

The Deacons only have three games remaining on their regular season slate before postseason play commences Oct. 28.

“We have three games to go and we feel like if we perform well in those three games, we have a good chance of finishing top four [in the ACC],” head coach Tony da Luz said.

The contest remained scoreless until the 43rd minute when junior forward Katie Stengel made a strong run into the box and was pulled down from behind by Duke defender Libby Jandi, earning a penalty kick.

Stengel took the shot herself, rifling it past Blue Devil goalkeeper Tara Campbell to give the Deacons a 1-0 lead at halftime.

It was Stengel’s team-leading fifth goal of the season. The Melbourne, Fla. native, who missed the first eight games of the season

while playing for the gold-medalist USA U-20 Women’s National Team in Japan, also leads the team in points on the campaign.

Wake Forest was, however, unable to hold onto the lead for the duration of the tough match.

In the 75th minute, Duke evened the score when forward Kim DeCesare’s header off a Laura Weinberg cross tickled the twine behind goalkeeper Aubrey Bledsoe.

The Demon Deacons kept the pressure on the Blue Devils during the two overtime periods, outshooting Duke 7-2 in the 20 minutes of play, but were unable to drive home the winning ball.

At the start of the second overtime period, Wake Forest stormed off the restart, moving the ball downfield at a furious pace. Just 41 seconds from the re-opening of play, junior forward Rachel Nuzzolese found herself with space and fired a shot on net from 30 yards.

Campbell dove to stop the attempt, but the ball hummed just wide of the left post and out of bounds.

With the tie, Wake Forest moved to 2-1-1 against teams ranked in the top 10 of the NSCAA poll on Stengel the season.

“We are satisfied with the tie in this game,” da Luz said. “Duke is a very good team so to come in here and get a tie, we are ok with it.”

The Demon Deacons finish the season with three consecutive conference games, including a pivotal matchup at North Carolina Oct. 21, in hopes of retaining the fourth seed and home field advantage for the playoffs. Wake Forest is back in action at 7:00 p.m. Oct. 18 at Spry Stadium when the N.C. State Wolfpack comes to town.

“ at getting players to next level MLS: Wake strong

Redshirt junior Annick McBryar transferred to Wake Forest after her sophomore year playing with the University of Florida.

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Carroll seems to be on to something with regards to Coach Vidovich.

Currently taking part in his 19th season with the Demon Deacons, Vidovich has captured the ACC Coach of the Year award five times and the National Coach of the Year Award twice.

During his tenure at Wake Forest, he has won five regular season ACC Championships, and he even secured a national title in 2007.

His players have succeeded on the professional level as well as the collegiate one. Since the inception of the MLS SuperDraft in 2000, 25 Demon Deacons have been drafted by MLS teams.

However, Vidovich’s players have not lost Vidovich touch with each other since entering the major leagues.

“Every time I play against a Wake Forest grad, I make sure to at least grab a high five,” Carroll said.

“Sometimes, if our schedules allow it, we’ll go out for a drink after the game.”

For four years, Carroll had the opportunity to play with former Demon Deacon

Every time I play against a Wake Forest grad, I make sure to at least grab a high five. Sometimes, if our schedules allow it, we’ll go out for a drink after the game.

Brian Carroll Philadelphia Union defensive midfielder

teammate Will Hesmer on the Columbus Crew.

The pair of former college roommates proved crucial in the Crew’s championship run, with Carroll manning the midfield and Hesmer, the goalkeeper, recording 10 shutouts on the year.

Even though Carroll is no longer a member of the Crew, he still has a Demon Deacon playing by his side.

Last May, Michael Lahoud, a member of the class of 2008 at the university, was traded to the Union after a 3-year stint with Chivas USA. Lahoud, who won the NCAA title in 2007 with the Demon Deacons, will now join Carroll in his quest for another MLS Cup. “There is no better feeling than holding up a trophy at the end of the season,” Carroll said.

“Winning it once was amazing and then a second time, with a Wake teammate, was nothing short of incredible.”

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Former Demon Deacon Brian Carroll (left) now plays for the Philadelphia Union, who are competing for the playoffs this year.

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Press Box | Major League Baseball

Chipper Jones ends a legendary career After 19 MLB seasons, Atlanta’s legendary switch-hitter retires

BY MATT POPPE Online Managing Editor poppmw9@wfu.edu

America’s pastime has showcased some of the best athletes in the world over the past century, but it has occasionally spotlighted an elite group of men that have been the face of a major league franchise, in addition to a hero in the fans’ perspective. Larry “Chipper” Jones was undoubtedly one of those players.

The Atlanta Braves third baseman ended his Hall of Fame, 19-year career earlier this month, but will forever leave his mark on not just the Braves franchise, but arguably the city of Atlanta and the Major League Baseball community.

The statistics to confirm his talent on the baseball diamond are staggering.

An eight-time All-Star and National League MVP in 1999, Jones finished his career as one of the best

switch hitters of all time, as well as one of the best third baseman to ever take the field.

Highly touted from the start, Jones was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1990 MLB draft, and made it to the majors in 1993 as the youngest player in the league.

In 1995, as a rookie in his first full season, Jones helped the Braves win the World Series. Over the next two decades, he would step into the leadership role of an Atlanta franchise that consistently performed at the top of the league, and his clutch performances set the standard for greatness. The slugger had nine walk-off homeruns in his career, two of which came in this past season at age 40.

But Jones’ legacy will go far beyond his statistics and awards. Unlike many players of the modern era, Jones played his entire career for the same team. That’s right. He played 2,499 major league games with the same team name stitched on the front of his jersey.

Never did Jones demand a trade, play the free agent market or yearn to play for the team that had a better chance of winning it all. Not only this, but Jones was all about

the team. His focus was never on his stats, or his ability to do well, but rather what he could do to help the Braves win.

Beginning in 2002, Jones even changed positions for two seasons, from third base to left field, after Atlanta signed third baseman Vinny Castilla.

This characteristic is what brought on so much endearment from fans in Atlanta and around the league. This season represented a farewell tour for Jones. In nearly every city he went, he was presented gifts and standing ovations in admiration of not only his ability, but the passion and commendable effort that he put forth for nearly 20 years.

Players likeT:11.5” Jones come around maybe once or twice in a decade, and it appears that many around the league have recognized it.

No longer will the spark be felt

by Braves’ fans as Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train booms from the Turner Field speakers as Jones walked up to the plate, but despite his train pulling into the station for the last time, he will forever be remember for the memorable ride that he gave the fans.

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Jones finished his career with an overall batting average of .303, 468 home runs and 2,727 hits.

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The Forest Folk: A New Breed of Student Style

BY JULIA GABURO Contributing Writer gabujl12@wfu.edu Maybe you’re a sweatshirt-wearing skateboarder with a flat-bill baseball cap and a cool backpack. Or maybe you’re a Pit worker who has an uncanny ability to own that classic black apron. You can rock bright red suspenders without looking like an old man. Effortlessly stylish, your statement watch does not wear you, and your straight leg brown pants are cuffed just right. If you are any of these things while walking around campus on a regular day, sophomore Sean Wilkinson and junior Kovi Konowiecki are looking for you.

Wilkinson and Konowiecki are the creative minds behind The Forest Folk, a Tumblr that provides a look into street-style fashion at Wake Forest through an interesting new lens.

“If you look around, everyone dresses the same here, so we really want to highlight people who do something different” Wilkinson said, explaining the impetus for the project.

And highlighting it they are: The Forest Folk is a collection of photographs taken by Wilkinson and Konowiecki of stylishly students, professors and campus employees in everyday backgrounds, walking casually out of the Pit or riding bicycles on the Upper Quad.

“It’s very spur of the moment, we kind of just see people and if they catch our attention in a certain way, either what they’re wearing or just something about them we usually approach them and tell them what we’re doing and ask if they’d like to be photographed” Konowiecki said. “We have had a variety of ways to approach people, from sprinting after them

when they catch our eye to catching them on our bikes.”

“We’re talking full-campus sprints,” Wilkinson added. Subjects pose in the middle of all the surrounding action, resulting in photographs that seem to capture single moments in time.

“Our common shot is underneath the Pit,” Wilkinson said. “We sit there some days when we have an hour between classes, and we try and take the pictures in the middle of all the people walking.”

Konowiecki added, “We like to take a shot to make it seem like it’s the middle of the sidewalk to give it a sense of student life instead of more a sense of a modeling type look. It’s made us a lot more observant because we’re always looking at people.”

This newfound observant quality becomes apparent when a passerby in reindeer-print leggings sidetracks both Wilkinson and Konowiecki in the middle of our interview.

Konowiecki and Wilkinson are both members of Wake’s men’s varsity soccer team, and The Forest Folk originated when they were at Wake for summer training.

“This summer Kovi and I were pretty bored and invested in a camera, and so we decided that we wanted to do something different with the semester,” Wilkinson said.

“We met last year from both being on the team, and quickly discovered we were both into different things as far as art and stuff like that,” Konowiecki said. “We’re both into fashion and photography—Sean photography and myself fashion.”

He points out that both draw a lot of inspiration from the wildly popular street-style blog, The Sartorialist, created by photographer Scott

Schuman. “I’m a big fan of the street style scene amongst other things. I think there’s something today about that. Blogs I follow photograph people on the street and I just think it’s a really cool thing,” Konowiecki said.

The subjects of their photos seem to agree.

“I think it’s nice to see people taking notice of different and unique outfits and styles because everyone dresses nice here, but we all look like mini clones from the J. Crew factory,” sophomore Jordan Albritton said. “It’s definitely a good way to display a different side of Wake.”

Junior Spurge Carter, also featured on the Tumblr, agreed, pointing out that the Tumblr addresses the potential underlying issue of lack of diversity at Wake.

“If we need to put focus and spotlight on diverse students with unique style and individualism, then it’s pretty obvious that there isn’t enough at Wake,” Carter says. He hopes the Tumblr continues to inspire people to be sure of themselves and not always follow the social norm. Wilkinson and Konowiecki are also interested in encouraging people to push boundaries with how they dress.

“We look for people whose outfits embody who they are. We’re trying to promote people to take risks and explore themselves in different ways through fashion,” Konowiecki said.

In addition, they simply want to expose people to a side of fashion they may not otherwise pay attention to. “For people who check [the Tumblr] everyday and are on it, we just want to expose them to it. We’d like to influence people, even if it’s in a small way like even if you just look at the photos and say that’s a good picture,” Wilkinson said.

Konowiecki summed it all up by saying, “Just to expose them, that is our goal.”

Photo courtesy of Sean Wilkinson and Kovi Konowiecki

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Campus Dining | MAG Dinners

Mag Room steps up dining

BY MOLLY DUTMERS Life Editor dutmmk11@wfu.edu With the addition of enhanced dining options like Subway and Moe’s, students at Wake are finally becoming satisfied with their meal plans and food choices.

However, with all the hubbub surrounding the reopening of Subway, many students seem to have missed the memo that every Thursday, there are premium dinners in the Magnolia Room.

Last week, I attended one of these dinners and for one Old Gold Swipe per person, my friends and I were treated to the best dining experience that the university has to offer.

Forget the semi-dirty plastic plates of the Pit and embrace the white-tablecloth surroundings that the Mag Room offers.

The place settings were elegant, the service was attentive and the food was as decadent as the atmosphere.

Unlike lunch in the Mag Room, where choices are limited, diners could chose from a variety of options. Prime rib with mushroom pan jus and parmesan crusted chicken were the proteins, but the accompaniments were equally as impressive.

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If you are looking for something fun to do for dinner on Thursday nights, enjoy a delicious gourmet meal in the Magnolia Room.

Also, diners can choose tortellini in an alfredo sauce, herb roasted potatoes or freshly steamed vegetables.

Unlike the food in the Pit, this meal did not feel like it was mass-produced. All of the ingredients seemed fresh and crisp, and the flavors were on point.

Executive Chef Marc Tolson and Catering Director Jessica Wallace create the menus for the dinners with input from students. Tolson is a Certified Executive Chef through the American Culinary Federation and he leads the Posh Plate culinary team to prepare the meals.

The Posh Plate is the group in charge of catering for Wake Forest Dining and

organizes several different events, from breakfasts to cocktail parties, throughout the year.

The Oct. 18 Fall Harvest MAG Dinner will be the fourth of the semester.

“Following the Harvest Dinner, we will host a Spanish Tapas Night, a very festive Winter-fest and a Comfort Soul Food Night,” Andrew Lee, the marketing coordinator for ARAMARK, said. “All of these themes emanate from students, and we welcome suggestions yet to come.”

Reservations for the premium dinners in the Mag Room can be made with the cashier in the room on Mondays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

5. President Hatch once made me a burrito at Moe’s.

4. I’ve never had a parking ticket at Wake Forest.

3. I once met Chingy in a hotel, but it wasn’t a Holiday Inn. 2. During finals weeks, I often set up my hammock on the sixth floor of ZSR. 1. My dream job would be to write the jokes that end up on popsicle sticks.

Humor Column | How to deal with FOMO

New phobia plagues student Do you hate missing out?

Unfortunately, you may be suffering from a severe case of FOMO

BY SHAHANI SAMARASEKERA Staff Writer samasn11@wfu.edu It’s kind of unbelievable the things I will do to keep from missing out.

While my extensive searches on Dr. Phil’s website — I trust anyone with a degree from Midwestern State University — have lead me to believe fear of missing out “FOMO” is not an actual psychological phobia or disorder, my experiences in college have led me to think otherwise.

You show me a college freshman who hasn’t stayed up until 4 a.m. working on a made up essay, just so she can hang with her new best friend she met at one of the university-sponsored orientation events and not in the trunk of a dank SUV, and I will show you a liar.

But in all honesty, that eight page paper I wrote on Beyoncé was by far the best assignment I have had at Wake so far.

Eventually, most kids will figure out a way to deal with their FOMO, but for me at has been a never ending struggle.

Whether it is eating dinner with three different groups in one night (and not because I really just love me a good Pit sweet potato) or running to my door to look through the peephole every time I hear a noise just to see if it is a group I can join walking down my hall, I have

FOMO to the max. Naturally, because I was already on D. Philly’s website, I decided to find a cure for my problem.

I looked up how to overcome fears, which was labeled under health confirming my fears that I am a sick, sick girl.

The first step I decided to take was to “Change My Internal Dialogue.”

According to the website, “When you experience these intense and irrational fears, you aren’t responding to the world, you’re responding to what you say to yourself internally about the world. For example: ‘If I board a plane, it will crash

and I will die.’” Yes. Yes, Dr. Phil! If I don’t hang out with people, I will die. I have that emotion throughout the day, especially when I board a plane. It’s like he has a window into my soul.

So as I lay here in bed, waiting for someone to ask me to hang out so I can ditch writing this, I am contemplating how I can rationally respond to the world without responding to what I say to myself internally about the world — hold up. Someone just said if I pay for their sub at Subway they will go with me.

Shahani out.

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Texts From your Wake Weekend (828): I am sooooo cold from heat.

(513): Yoooooo I need to borrow ur id to get on the quad.

(561): You have got to come to subway and check out this really drunk girl.

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FOMO: Fear of Missing Out, a crippling but semi-made up psychological ailment that countless college students suffer from.

(773): Dude, someone stole our couch from seize the quad (973): Poop in my shoe?

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Finance Column | Where my money at?

Financial responsibility never felt so good Student explains the importance of understanding your personal finance before the “real world” hits

BY CAROLINE MURRAY Staff Columnists murrck9@wfu.edu Growing up in a medium-sized Irish household in the Pittsburgh suburbs with eight siblings, you learn a few things.

First, you learn how to take a cold shower in three-and-a-half minutes. (So disadvantageous to be number eight of nine in the hygiene hierarchy.)

Second, you learn how to wrestle your way out of a headlock and position a punch correctly with enough power to break a man’s jaw. (And yes, that’s happened before.

Try messing with me.)

Most importantly, and something I will be grateful every day to my parents for teaching us, you learn responsibility, particularly financial responsibility.

Ever since I got my first job waiting tables at a local pizza and ale house when I was 15, I’ve come to understand how imperative it is to know how to manage your money and finance your own lifestyle.

By the time I had left for college, I had been buying my own clothes and personal belongings for three years.

I had financed my brother’s white Ford Explorer named “Jake” that he let me use my senior year while he was deployed overseas (gas, oil changes, the works). Coming full circle on the brink of graduation, I’ve never been so grateful to have been taught to be

financially responsible for myself since the beginning of high school.

At this point, I have endured many crucial financial experiences of the adult world and am ready to take on postgraduation with the skills and knowledge to live the life I want, and you should have that knowledge as well.

Over the next few months, I will be outlining some of the basics of personal finance so that those who have either not taken a course or been properly prepped by their parents will at least have some sort of exposure to what they can expect once the big bad world swallows them upon receiving their diploma.

A few things to understand in order to get the most out of all this information.

First, you must be realistic.

Unless you’re a second-year MBA or have connections that rival having Donald Trump as your father-in-law, don’t expect to earn a salary higher than $50,000, and that’s if you’re lucky.

Secondly, read the freakin’ Wall Street Journal. Understanding the country’s economic situation is half the battle when you are doing anything from making investments, purchasing notable assets like a car or house, getting a credit card, paying off your student loans and negotiating your benefits package.

Thank you, Dr. Nash, for hammering that into me two summers ago.

Finally, make smart decisions and accept responsibility for yourself.

Guaranteed, the information I will provide over the coming months will help you to do that, but a day will come very

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When it comes to becoming financially educated before you enter the real world, it is important to plan ahead for the possible future. soon during which time you can no longer enjoy the plethora of benefits available in college.

No more linked bank accounts so parents can transfer emergency funds. No more free credit cards in your parents’ name. And no more warnings.

When you screw up in the real world, you suffer the consequences, which can be more severe than college has communicated to you.

Be prepared, people, and know what’s coming. No, I cannot always afford Banana

Republic when I’d like new clothes twice a year. Yes, my net worth of about $90,000 will slowly dwindle but still hang over me well into my 30s.

And yes, I’m beyond proud to have paid for my own college education (love you, Mom and Pops, especially for helping little by little when you could).

With the right tools, you will reach graduation and profess, with the utmost certainty and confidence, “Bring it on, real world. I can handle anything you throw at me.”

Advice Column | Dear Mark...

From midterms to mountain weekend, ask Mark campus is beautiful and full of scenery to take in.

If you have the means to go off campus try going downtown to El Camino, or driving down Stratford Road.

Trust me, I do this a lot and sometimes going away and seeing different sights alone will turn your focus away from your problems. Get lots of rest as well! Good luck on midterms.

BY MARK COVINGTON Advice Columnist covimc9@wfu.edu

I want to go to mountain weekend with another brother from the same fraternity that my ex-boyfriend is in, what should I do?

It’s midterm time and I definitely feel overwhelmed, what do you recommend to destress?

Dear Reader, This is a tricky situation here. I would first make sure that you and your ex are on good terms and that there are no hard feelings.

We may be young but we can be civil adults here and as long as there are ground rules established and people know where things lie there will be no confusion.

Also, make sure that between the brother that is taking you to mountain weekend

Dear Reader, There are plenty of things you can do to relax around campus! Reynolda Gardens is an excellent place to relax and take a walk and soak up the environment. The best way to relax is to get physically active and this

knows where things are between you and your ex as well and that putting the moves on you in front of him will make things uncomfortable.

is what she probably feels like. I would also recommend not hooking up with her and making those boundaries clear with her.

Just tread lightly but be forward.

I met this girl around the beginning of school and we have been hanging out around each other. She shares a lot of her personal issues with me and I try to help her as much as I can. We have hooked up before, but I do really not want to get into a relationship right now because of some personal things.

So I am trying to give her that hint, but she isn’t really taking it. Sometimes I almost feel like she is overbearing and stalking me almost.

How do I break it to her that I don’t want to be any more than friends and how do I deal with her?

I took this girl out for a date last weekend and she responded well to things and seemed like she had a good time. How do I know when it is time to make the next move and what should I do next?

Dear Reader, I would just break it to her plainly that you don’t want anything more than to be friends.

Girls really do appreciate honesty and not being led on most of the time, which

Dear Reader, I would definitely not get too forward with her, but make a concerted effort to leave a really good impression.

With fall break approaching, you’re pretty limited to what you can do but do something special for her that will keep you on her mind.

Let her know that she’s a priority, and maybe she will make the next move.

If you have a question that you would like Mark to answer, please email him at covimc9@wfu.edu.

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Art Exhibit | Romare Bearden’s “A Black Odyssey”

Famous artist debuts at Reynolda House

BY MEGHAN HARRINGTON Contributing Writer harrme11@wfu.edu On friday afternoon I had the privilege of getting a sneak peek of Romare Bearden’s art exhibit, “A Black Odyssey,” at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Believe it or not, Winston-Salem was chosen as the national debut location for this captivating art exhibit that hails from the Smithsonian. The exhibit will reside in the Reynolda House until January 13.

Romare Bearden was a famous and talented artist, involved in the Harlem Renaissance.

Created in the 1970s, “A Black Odyssey” is composed of three different, yet very much connected, series of art types.

It begins with a series of collages and then moves to water colors. The exhibit ends in black and white drawings. Beginning with the collages was genius in my opinion.

These bold colored collages are filled with blues, oranges, and greens and can be easily interpreted by the viewer. As you travel through the exhibit, the level of abstraction escalates.

From the simpler collages, Bearden shifts to water colors. The watercolor paintings focus on the element of water and are predominantly blue and green. Bearden’s style and focus shift yet again when the drawings are reached. The drawings are done with a charcoal color on a white background. His drawings are much more abstract and therefore difficult to depict.

Bearden’s ability to mesh several different

styles of art into one exhibit emphasizes are on an academic journey or on a journey universal message was received by everyone his true artistic talent. The subject of to becoming a better person or a more fit no matter their gender, race, age or religion.

“A Black Odyssey” is a beautiful and the exhibit is just as you were probably person.

No matter the journey, there will be inspiring art exhibit that I highly recommend thinking: The Odyssey by Homer. You more than likely read (or pretended to read) it in obstacles, small victories, and eventually visiting. Wake Forest is the main sponsor in you will hopefully achieve your goal — or getting the exhibit to Winston-Salem. Just a high school.

For those of you that never read it or have in Odysseus’ case, you will make it home. reminder: all students get in free and it will forgotten the story of The Odyssey, I will give Bearden wanted to make sure that this be here until Jan. 13. you the one sentence synopsis. This Greek epic poem is about a guy named Odysseus who is on a 10 year journey home after the Trojan War. So here’s a question. Why would Romare Bearden depict scenes from a Greek epic poem from thousands and thousands of years ago? Bearden felt that something was missing from this tale of Odysseus on his journey home.

He lived during a time of racial discrimination and segregation. Therefore, he decided to depict scenes from The Odyssey in a new way so that his art would be felt and understood by all. He made the characters in the art black.

By doing this, the viewer of the art feels a sense of universality that it could be anyone on this journey. This provided a sense of inclusion and strength for those being discriminated against at the time.

Bearden picked The Odyssey as the subject of his art to relay these cultural messages because it is truly the first story that contemporary society is still able to Photo courtesy of Ann and Sheldon Vogel relate to. We are all on our own personal journeys. Though Odysseys’ journey is At the exhibit, students will be able to see works like Cattle of the home, a journey is a journey. Perhaps you Sun God (1977) collage, all inspired by the epic tale of The Odyssey.

Winston-Salem Event | PRIDE 2012

Student organizations unite for PRIDE 2012

BY ELLIE BALDINI Staff Writer baldgl9@wfu.edu It is rare to see multiple student organizations at the university join together for a common cause, especially one tied to controversial issues. But this Saturday, the seemingly impossible occurred: the LGBTQ Center, OUTLaw, ZSR and the Gay-Straight Alliance joined WinstonSalem Equality at PRIDE 2012.

Last year, Equality formed in Fall 2010, after a series of local, regional and national incidents prompted concerned citizens of the LGBTQ community in the area.

Equality hosted the first pride event held in Winston-Salem in over 15 years, calling it PRIDE 2011. It was a run away success.

This year, Equality joined multiple community sponsors, and, more notably, supporters from Wake Forest University, to top last year’s endeavor with a sequel: PRIDE 2012, a day of entertainment, music, DJs, dancing and of course, a parade through downtown Winston-Salem.

“Winston-Salem PRIDE 2011 attracted a crowd of over 5,000 of our LGBTQ friends and straight allies,” Mary Jamis, an Equality coordinator, said. “The great story we were able tell last year was of the incredible support we received from the youth of our community. This year PRIDE 2012 is bigger and better.” Jamis’s acknowledgement of youth support is particularly relevant this year, given the

multiple student organizations again collaborating for the event.

Just five months after the passing of Amendment One in North Carolina, which defined marriage in the state constitution as between one man and one woman, and in the wake of an impending Presidential election in which same-sex marriage is an inflammatory issue, students’ rallying for a cause linked to controversy certainly gestures to one viewpoint present on campus.

Senior Kristen McGahan agreed, noting that student organizations joining together show one unified opinion relevant to the country’s current political atmosphere.

“It’s cool because multiple student organizations combining for something

doesn’t happen all that often,” she said.

“Especially because [it is] for a cause linked to an issue in the upcoming election.”

Nathan Kupka, Vice President of OUTLaw, the organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and allied law students at Wake Forest University School of Law, also acknowledges Saturday’s over-arching significance. He believes recent events beyond the Winston-Salem scope are only serving to heighten student organizations’ desire for involvement in the cause.

“The LGBTQ community has always faced high levels of discrimination, but therecent passage of Amendment One shows that this is especially true in North Carolina,” he said. “If anything, Amendment One

Photo courtesy of ZSR Library

ZSR, the LGBTQ center, OUTLaw, the Gay-Straight Alliance and individual students joined forces to take part in the PRIDE 2012 Parade.

has reinvigorated our organization and others like it throughout the community.

OUTLaw will continue its advocacy for LGBTQ equality, on and off campus.”

Both OUTLaw and the LGBTQ Center shared a booth at the Winston-Salem Pride festival.

In addition, a Wake Forest University float, sponsored by the LGBTQ Center and the ZSR Library, was featured in the evening parade.

Of course, organizations on campus were not the only Wake Forest representation in attendance Saturday. In fact, most groups encouraged individual participation, too.

“We think that community engagement is a great learning opportunity for individual students who want to be allies,” Angela Mazaris, director of the LGBTQ Center said. “[Participation] is a wonderful source of affirmation and support for LGBTQidentified students.”

Clearly, the collaboration of student organizations at PRIDE 2012 is born of a common goal: advancing the LGBTQ cause — on campus, in the community, and beyond. “We can accomplish a lot on Saturday, but the most important thing is raising awareness,” Kupka said. “Many members of the community are simply unaware of the additional burden placed on LGBTQ individuals by discriminatory state and federal laws. Anything we can do to raise community awareness will help further our overall goal: advocating for full equality.”

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Old Gold & Black | Life

WANDERLUST

While many students study abroad, few break the mold of going outside of Europe

BY ALLISON CACICH Staff Writer caciae9@wfu.edu Wake Forest has no shortage of eager young minds looking to participate in a study abroad experience. Though certain destinations seem to draw crowds of students, there are plenty of places that are often overlooked for being too “unconventional.”

But these diamonds in the rough happen to offer a cultural experience that you’re likely never going to forget — one that will have people asking, “What?! You’ve been there?!”

If you’re looking to go against the norm, the university’s Center for International Studies boasts a number of different programs (mostly during the summer months) which offer students the opportunity to live with host families, learn the language and take classes with a university professor who is an expert in their field. Some of the most unique locations include Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco and Nepal. The university also offers a semester program in Japan which partners with a university in Hirakata.

For junior Sammie Herrick, who

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is currently with the Hirakata program, her experience has been an eye-opening one.

Despite being there for only a month and a half, Herrick has already been to four World Heritage Sites and countless historical temples and shrines.

We don’t care if it’s traditional or nontraditional. We just want students to go abroad.

Jessica Francis Senior Study Abroad Advisor

Herrick’s decision to study in Japan came down to the fact that she wanted to travel somewhere out of the ordinary, and she found the Japanese culture to be fascinating and rich in history.

“I feel like in Western Europe, the culture shock isn’t quite so great, because the countries aren’t that different from the United States,” Herrick said. “I came to Japan alone, and the culture is so different.”

“Japanese people are very quiet, they do not eat or drink liquids in public, their work ethic is incredible and there are a lot of cultural norms that we don’t have in the United States,” Herrick added.

While Herrick is making friends across the Pacific,

“We don’t care if it’s traditional or nontraditional. We just want students to go abroad. We want to help them have that opportunity.”

Along with the benefits that come from studying in another country, there are limitations to studying in some of the more unusual locales.

For both Herrick and Hull, traveling around to other countries was not an option for them. “Everyone in Europe got to see each other for Oktoberfest, and if they study in Italy, they are going to Spain for fall break,” Herrick said.

“I definitely do not have the luxury of doing anything like that.”

But often the biggest concern, and the number one consideration for the CIS, is safety. Parents are typically not fans of these “unconventional” locations for that reason. The CIS consistently checks travel alerts and works with program providers and on-site staff to anticipate or prepare for any dangers. They also have Crisis Management Plans set up in case of an emergency overseas.

Hull wasn’t too worried about safety while she was in Cameroon. “My program, SIT, took great care of us as students and taught us how to take care of ourselves,” she said.

“Everyone in this office strongly feels that no matter where you go or how long you go, leaving and going abroad provides you with something that is almost indescribable and you just need to do it,” Francis said.

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senior Lauren Hull had another unique, yet very different, experience when she studied in Cameroon during the fall of her junior year. For those in need of a geography lesson, Cameroon is located in Central Africa on the western coast.

Hull went with SIT (the School for International Training), which is a part of the organization World Learning.

After speaking with her, it is clear that there was never a dull moment in Cameroon.

“I lived with four different host families all over the country, personally interviewed women entrepreneurs in the marketplace… danced at a traditional Bamiléké funeral, interned at a microfinance institution, improved my French, learned basic Fulfulde, and received daily marriage proposals,” Hull shared. “I can’t really pick a favorite part, but that’s probably what I loved most about studying in Cameroon.

Every day was an adventure.”

For the 60 percent of university students that go abroad during their four years on campus, the Center for International Studies (CIS) is available to help. Senior Study Abroad Advisor Jessica Francis, who has helped many Wake students prepare for their trips, is always eager to talk to students who may be ready to take on a new country.

“We would never pressure students to go anywhere that they’re not ready to go,” Francis said.

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While currently studying in Japan, junior Sammie Herrick has seen extraordinary sites like this traditional Japanese temple.