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“Oh AIDS! Oh AIDS! Why are you doing this to us?/I was forced to move from door to door/Begging for something to fill my empty stomach and some to carry home/I was so dirty, stinging and with tattered clothes,/Something which made me inferior and lonely always,” reads a poem by Caroline Auma of the Kibera Slums in Nairobi.

Auma is an AIDS orphan.

Over 50 percent of these orphans are cared for by their grandmothers. “We are the roots, and the grandchildren will be the light … grandmothers must make sure the younger ones learn to stand on their own,” the grandmothers say of this matter.

These women, the Nyanya as they are called in Swahili, compelled journalism professor Mary Niepold to found the Nyanya Project, a non-profit dedicated specifically to empowering African grandmothers who care for their grandchildren orphaned by AIDS. There are over 2.5 million orphans in

When I was in Kenya, I kept asking who was helping the grandmothers and people would reply ‘nobody.’ I came home and realized this was my calling.

-Mary Niepold

Photo courtesy of the Nyanya Project

SG holds forum University announces on various changes changes to meal plan

By Katie Phillips | Staff writer

The last of three student government forums took place on Oct. 1 in Benson 401. Hosted

by Student Government and Jermyn Davis, student body president, the purpose was to discuss upcoming changes and issues within the university.

Topic discussion centered on the recently announced Strategic Plan, the optional SAT for admission, the increase of requirement to make Dean’s List and the additional 80 students of the 20082009 freshman class.

President Nathan O. Hatch, along with Provost Jill Tiefenthaler, Interim Dean Paul Ribisl and Director of Admissions Martha Allman answered students’ questions regarding the recent university changes.

Tiefenthaler began by explaining the three steps of implementation of the Strategic Plan.

First, the university’s character and atmosphere, were examinied, personal and productive studentteacher relationships to be one of the university’s most important components.

Secondly, the planning committee identified the university’s characters of distinction: paying real attention to inclusive learning and the emphasis on community.

Lastly, the characteristics and ideals of the university were synthesized into a vision of the future of the campus.

Tiefenthaler also mentioned the three characteristics that the committee decided were of utmost importance to preserve and build upon: the teacher/scholar dynamic and the experience available to work one-on-one with students and faculty, the size of the university accompanied with the graduate opportunities and big time sciences available, and the Pro Humanitate culture.

She noted that the university is the smallest school in the top 30 tier of universities, attributing to the characteristic of a personal atmosphere tied with nationally acclaimed resources.

There are a few things in development as a result of the Strategic Plan, paving the way for an improved university. These include a new undergraduate research center, a new mentoring program for more student/ teacher interaction, more endowment fundraising for financial aid given to motivated students and world-class career services.

Hatch followed up by saying that the university is aiming to become more student focused and does not necessarily need

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Prompted by interests in safety, security and sustainability, the university began locking Reynolda Hall each night 11 p.m.

Reynolda Hall has been a popular study place for decades, particularly for undergraduate students.

The building will remain available for that purpose, but students will not be able to enter the building between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Students in the building at the time it is locked each night will be permitted to remain inside.

All exterior doors to Reynolda Hall are equipped with exit hardware that will allow a person to leave the building, so they may leave at any time during those hours. However, when the door shuts, it will be locked, so the person will not be able to reenter the building. The building will be open to the general public from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, including weekends and holidays.

“It has been an interest to the campus for many years to secure the safety of the building,” said Jim Alty, associate vice president for Facilities and

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Students buying food at Benson. Recent changes will now allow students to use regular meals at the Food Court.

By Alex Osteen | Opinion editor Over the past two weeks ARAMARK, the company chartered to cater the dining services on campus, has made several changes to the details of students’ meal plans.

Now, as a result of these changes, students can use their regular meals at locations other than the Pit (or the Fresh Food Company, as it’s officially known) and the Magnolia Room.

This includes using meals at Subway, the Benson Food Court, Starbucks and the food court in the Information Sys-

Campus Services. While the building is secured nightly, automated temperature controls can be set to consume less energy, up to a 10 percent reduction in energy costs, according to Alty. The two largest sources of energy consumption are the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system and building lighting. The building, which is one of the largest on campus, will be cooler in the winter and warmer in the summer during the late evenings in order to reduce power use. Also, during these late night periods, maintenance can turn off unnecessary building lights to save energy.

The building’s automated energy system can then be set to cycle up the HVAC to comfortable levels before students, staff or faculty arrive early in the morning. In general, a building can be expected to reduce energy use between 10 to 15 percent from these kinds of late night conservation programs.

Safety for those in the building is another reason for the change, Alty said. Currently, anyone can enter Reynolda late at night, which has created unease among university staff members who are in the building nightly, such as custodians and

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Dow Jones starts to recover after recent huge losses The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 485 points on Sept. 30 as stocks rallied.

This allowed it to recover some of the record 777 points that were lost the day before.

If this gain continues then it will be the third-biggest one-day point advance in the indicator’s history.

Stock gains were accelerated after the FDIC chairwoman announced that she would boost limit on protected bank deposits. This would give individuals more protection during the financial crisis.

Pakistani Taliban leader dies leaving power vaccum

tems building (which is now formally known as The Woods at I.S.).

Roy Biggers, ARAMARK’s recently installed university resident district manager, said that this new policy was brought on through a joint effort by the university administration, Student Government and ARAMARK. He explained that the changes were in reaction to the perceived, at times negative, opinions of students regarding dining on campus. “(We) understood the students’ frustrations from the long

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Reynolda Hall will now be locked at night

By Blaze Cain | Contributing writer

Kenya alone. Of this number, 900,000 are orphaned by AIDS. The United Nations’ Children’s Fund, UNICEF, predicts that as soon as 2010, two-thirds of that 2.5 million will be AIDS orphans. By that time, over 25 million children worldwide will have been orphaned by the disease.

The inspiration for the Nyanya Project came to Niepold after her first visit to Kenya during the summer of 2006 with the Amani Children’s Foundation, a non-profit that cares for orphaned infants and other children in Africa.

“When I was in Kenya, I kept asking who was helping the grandmothers and people would reply ‘nobody,’” Niepold said. “I came home and realized this was my calling.”

A grandmother of five, Niepold could not comprehend that these women were bearing the responsibility of raising their orphaned grandchildren on an income of less than $1 a day. “They are really the neglected population of the AIDS crisis,” she said.

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other service employees. Locking the building at night will provide a more secure environment for everyone in the building, including those studying in it, Alty explained.

In a broader sense, security for the building’s occupants and contents will be bolstered by locking the building, he said. Reynolda Hall provides space for many administrative offices, including the Registrar, Financial and Accounting Services, Financial Aid and Human Resources. Securing the building will limit opportunities for intruders to gain access to those areas.

“Reynolda Hall contains many high value items, along with a bunch of legal, financial and student information,” Alty said.

As of now, there are no plans to change the security levels for any other academic buildings. Tribble will continue to be open for students 24 hours a day.

“We also tried to time the locking of Reynolda with the availability of the new options in the library,” Alty said. The newly renovated study rooms in the ZSR Library are open 24 hours during the weekdays.

Sports | B10 Gameday Thursday Sports weighs the advantages and disadvantages for Clemson and the Deacs and offers predictions for the Oct. 9 game.

Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, died at 1 a.m. Oct. 1 from kidney failure. His death was announced by an unnamed Islamabad-based source and confirmed by military officials.

Mehsud had been blamed for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto by the Pakistan government. Mehsud’s death leaves a power vacuum and an expected power struggle within the Mehsud tribe and the Pakistani Taliban.

Whoever replaces Mehsud as leader of the Taliban is not expected to have as much control or influence in the region.

Pirates hijack weapon ship and demand ransom On Sept. 29 pirates off the coast of Somalia hijacked a cargo ship carrying heavy weapons.

There was a shootout amongst rival pirate factions that left three dead, and gunfire broke out on Sept. 30. It is not known whether the gunfire was from among the pirates or between the pirates and authorities near the vessel.

The pirates have lowered the ransom demand of the vessel from $35 million to $20 million. U.S. officials are worried about who the pirates could sell the weapons to, as they could end up in the hands of terrorists.

Woman in cow suit charged with disorderly conduct A woman from Cincinnati was charged with disorderly conduct after chasing children in her neighborhood in a cow suit on Sept. 29.

She also was causing traffic problems on North Verity Parkway when an officer charged her.

The woman was verbally abusive to the officer and smelled of alcohol. It is not known why she was wearing the cow suit.

Opinion | A7 Ec-O-pinions Senior analyzes environmental grades received by university.

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Brieflies Student Health to hold flu clinics Flu vaccinations will be available for all students from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Oct. 7 and from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. on Oct. 8 in Benson 401. Cost is $27.

Cash or check will be accepted or students may go to the ticket office and purchase a voucher with a credit card. Visit http://pdc.wfu.edu to make an appointment.

Peter Gomes to preach in Wait Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at the Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, will deliver a sermon at 7 p.m. Oct. 5 during “Worship in Wait” at Wait Chapel. The goal of “Worship in Wait” is to respond to contemporary issues within the context of ecumenical worship.

Gomes revealed in 1991 that he is gay and has since acted as an advocate for the wider acceptance of homosexuality. Fore more information, please call ext. 5121.

University to host lecture on housing and mortgage crisis The university will host a free, public lecture titled “Making Sense of the Housing and Mortgage Crisis” at 4 p.m. Oct. 15 in Annenberg Forum located in Carswell Hall, Room 111. The lecture, presented by John Duca, vice president and senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, will address the current developments in the housing markets including factors behind the boom and bust in the housing market and the role of non-prime mortgage products.

For more information, call ext. 5334.

Music Department announces guest visiting artist, Carlos Perez At 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 9, the university will host guest visiting artist Carlos Perez in Brendle Recital Hall. The virtuoso guitarist of international fame will perform a solo recital, teach a master class and present two lectures. The event will feature the music of guitar masters and teachers Ferdinando Carulli and Julio Sagreras and the work of Paraguayan composer and performer Agustin Barrios.

Perez’s master class will be held 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 14 in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room M208. It is open to all interested classical guitar students. The two lectures are titled “Two New Old Masters Rediscovered: Ferdinando Carulli and Julio Sagreras” and “Chilean Music Arranged,” and they will be held at 5 p.m. on Oct. 14 in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room M306 and at 5 p.m. on Oct. 15 in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room M208, respectively.

Admission to each of the Perez events is $10 for the general public; free with a student ID.

Business Symposium to be held about current financial crisis Banking executives and members from the university community will be discussing the current national financial woes. The event, Exploiring Today’s Financial Crisis: Business, Politics, Ethics and You., will be at 4 p.m. on Oct. 3 in Brendle Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public.

Corrections

The festival mentioned in the 9/25 article “Author/comedian coming to campus” was misnamed. The festival is actually called the BOOKMARKS festival.

On 9/25 the article “Student directors and actors take to the stage” the reporters name was misspelled. The story was written by Samantha Hoback.

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Ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrates new developments

By Claire O’Brien | Staff writer

You probably remember last year’s campus-wide drama over the introduction of Starbucks to the ZSR Library.

But in the flurry of debate over how Starbucks would affect the studentrun coffee shop Campus Grounds, little was said about the other renovations taking place within the library.

Both the 24-hour study room and the fourth floor study room were remodeled.

They were transformed from unadorned rooms filled with clusters of desks into well-decorated study areas based on comfort as well as utility.

A graduate student lounge and several conference rooms were also added to the downstairs area.

On Sept. 30, administrators held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in honor of these newly opened library locations.

President Nathan O. Hatch, Provost

Jill Teifenthaler, Library Director Lynn Sutton and Student Government President Jermyn Davis were all present, as were Associate Dean of the Graduate School Randall Rogan and Chuck Hoover of Starbucks.

Speakers at the ribbon-cutting ceremony were effusive in their praise for the energy and hard work of the many individuals who worked together to make the improvements possible.

The admini s t r a t i o n’s enthusiasm for the renovations enabled the project to go from idea to completion in only six months; no small feat when you consider that the usual building process takes at least a year.

Jim Alty, the associate vice president of Facilities and Campus Services, praised Tiefenthaler and Sutton as “visionary leaders” who made the

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lines and the need for more flexibility with the meal plans. So in an effort to reduce the long lines and give the students more flexibility with their meal plans, we’ve made the meal plans easier and more functional to fit students’ schedules and lifestyles,” Biggers said. Since meal plans have been required for on-campus residents since the fall of the 2005-2006 school year, ARAMARK has tweaked the details of the plan.

Among these include take-out boxes from the Pit and Magnolia Room and guest passes.

Although the majority of these changes have occurred before a semester starts, it is safe to say that changes of the current magnitude taking place mid-semester are unprecedented in recent university history.

According to Biggers, they decided to make the changes to the meal plan now, in the middle of the semester, in order to “respond sooner rather than next semester to make the meal plans work better for the students.”

Previously, starting at the beginning of last school year, students needed to purchase the All-inOne meal plan to use their meals at places other than the Pit and the Magnolia Room.

This plan, according to the “Meal Plans Brochure” found on ARAMARK’s university Web site (campusdish.com/en-US/CSSE/ WakeForest), costs $1,845 for 14 meals a week and $2,020 for 17.

When asked what would be done to compensate the students who have already paid for the Allin-One plan for this semester, Biggers said that “all students will benefit from the changes.”

Student Government President Jermyn Davis had been in contact with Biggers over the summer with regard to a change in the dining options for students.

“Among some of things we discussed was the ability to have more options with the meal plan, and if there was a way we could help relieve some of the stress on the dining facilities because lines in the Pit and Mag Room were sometimes unbearable,” Davis said.

He went on to say that he had a more recent meeting with Biggers, on Sept. 26, to discuss “ways the people who purchased both the All-in-One plan and the unlimited plans to feel like they were gaining something as well.

Those plans are not finalized yet, but I can honestly say I think people will be happy,” he said.

While the exact details of what constitutes a meal equivalency at places other than the all-you-caneat destinations have been fluid in the past days, Davis says that SG will work with ARAMARK to make sure this change stays.

“This is definitely a good time for dining at Wake Forest. Most times, people like to criticize ARAMARK–and sometimes it is necessary–but this shows that ARAMARK, under the new leadership of Roy Biggers, is trying to make us happy,” Davis said.

library renovation possible. They in turn thanked architect Mark Williard and contractor Mike Lancaster for their cooperation and efficiency.

All parties made use of Lancaster’s maxim that “overcommunication is the secret to success” in order to guide the project smoothly from the beginning of construction in May to its completion last month.

Alty served as the master of ceremonies and explained that the goal of the renovations was to make the library the center of campus.

They wanted to offer spaces for students, staff and faculty to “converse and mingle.”

He noted that the new rooms embrace the idea of a library as a social environment as well as a study

location on campus for students.

Davis said the renovation will be an important contribution to “campus vibrancy,” especially with Starbucks “still buzzing at one in the morning.”

Starbucks’ popularity (if the long lines are any indication) will help fulfill the administration’s stated goal of attracting more people into the library.

The renovations were also inspired by a desire to offer prospective students and their parents a warm and welcoming space to sit and relax while touring campus.

Administrators had also noticed that there were few places on campus for graduate students to call their own, and they provided the new graduate student lounge to fill the void.

The formal portion of the event was held in the new 24-hour quiet study room.

It was complete with refreshments and a display of before-and-after posters. After the speakers had finished, the ceremonial cutting of the ribbon took place in Starbucks.

Now that the facilities have been officially initiated into campus, those involved hope that the campus family will take advantage of this outlet for coffee and community at the university.

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Hit the Bricks participants run around the perimeter of Hearn Plaza to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund.

POLICE BEAT • University Police responded to 60 calls from Sept. 22-28, including nine incidents and investigations and 51 service calls. The following is a summary of the incidents and investigations.

Drug and Alcohol Violations • During a security check Sept. 25, University Police observed two students walking on Hearn Plaza who appeared to be intoxicated and determined that both were underage.

They were taken to the Student Health Service for observation and released. Information about the

incident was provided to Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services.

Thefts • An unattended wallet and keys were reported stolen from a table in the Pit between 11 a.m. and 11:40 a.m. Sept. 23.

• A wallet and contents valued at $165 were reported stolen from an unattended book bag in the Writing Center at Reynolda Hall between 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23.

• A credit card was removed from an unattended

wallet in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library between 11 a.m. and noon Sept. 24 and used to make purchases off campus.

• An unattended iPhone valued at $600 was reported stolen from Starbucks in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Sept. 22.

Miscellaneous • A counterfeit $20 bill was found at the North Sundry Shop Sept. 22.

University Police and the Secret Service are investigating the incident.

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Health panel Niepold: Professor helps AIDS victims discusses policy reform Continued from Page A1

By Wasif Huda | Contributing writer

The university held a panel discussion on Sept.

25 on health policy reform, which is currently one of the top concerns of voters and will surely have an effect on the elections in November.

Health polic scholar Jonathon B. Oberlander of UNC-Chapel Hill opened the event, in Annenberg Forum in Carswell Hall.

The opening was followed by presentations regarding the complexity of this issue by three panelists: Professor of Law Mark Hall, Allison Snow-Jones and Professor of Economics Michael Lawlor.

“The panel discussion was put on to help understand this extremely important issue and will also help (understanding) for this election year,” Nancy King, professor for the department of social science and health policy from Wake Forest School of Medicine, said.

She added, “It’s one that keeps coming back around, and we try to progress on it, but somehow we still end up in the same place … Its time to think carefully about why we have the system we do.” King was one of the organizers of this event.

Oberlander opened the dialogue with the following statistic: 46 million Americans are without health insurance, and some people who are insured are actually underinsured.

Medical costs are the biggest cause for bankruptcy in America. With exposure to such data, an individual is bound to ask how this is possible in America.

“Health care service is not the only factors influencing America’s health, there are a lot of complicated things that are not being addressed.”

Chris Coughlin, professor from Wake Forest Law School, said.

Coughlin also helped organize the event .

“However, this does highlight the point on the lack of preventive health care, because people are only paying attention when they are sick.”

“And part of why there is little preventive

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next year researching. With the intention to empower the grandmothers and teach them important, employable skills, she returned to Kenya the following summer.

Using her own funds and donations from friends, within three weeks, her newly-formed organization had established three programs for grandmothers in Kenya and another three in Tanzania.

All of the programs try to address the low incomes of the women involved through education and microfinance of entrepreneurial efforts.

Projects include sheep farming, crafts, shelter construction and well projects, all of which are initiated by training from the organization and then taken over by the grandmothers themselves.

The eventual goal of the organization is to train women so that they can take the initiative and train further generations of women.

The Nyanya Project managed to attract powerful allies in Kenya and Tanzania.

The former prime minister of Tanzania, Frederick Sumaye, joined the Board of Directors in June 2007 because of his commitment to alleviating the suffering caused by HIV/ AIDS in Africa.

His political connections are instrumental in the success of the organization and the refocus in Tanzania after election turmoil riots broke out in Kenya last winter.

Samuel Gichere, chief economist for the Planning Ministry for Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya, met Niepold in Kisumu, Kenya in May 2007.

Here he confirmed that there were in fact no organizations in the country dedicated to helping the demographic Niepold was interested in.

He became an integral part of the Nyanya Project as a member of the Board of Directors shortly after.

“All of this is just one big coincidence; I’ve never been in the middle

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Organization members went with Niepold to Tanzania this summer to teach the grandmothers of AIDS victims skills to help raise their grandchildren. of anything like this,” Niepold said of the attention and success the Nyanya Program garnered.

“I never intended to organize a non-profit, but once everything got started, I realized there was a lot of stuff I didn’t know. For one, you have to become a nonprofit if you want grants,” she said. The Nyanya Project was incorporated and became a registered 501(c)(3) organization last spring.

The organization works within the university with the help of the DVELO fund, Provost Emeritus Ed Wilson and economics professor Sylain Boko.

In June, Niepold, six university students, and others from North Carolina School of the Arts traveled as a group of 20 to Tanzania where they constructed a house for three grandmothers and their families.

They also coordinated the training of 66 other grandmothers in crafts,

bead making, and candle-making.

Some of the children learned the trades as well, which bodes well for the future and is a manifestation of one of the key goals of the organization: to set an example of leadership for younger women in their villages and neighborhoods.

By becoming crafts-women, these grandmothers can generate income from home while leading and caring for their families.

Inspired by the triumph of these endeavors, Niepold sought a simple project that could be replicated widescale all over Africa. The solution presented itself in an unlikely form: mushrooms.

Mushrooms are easily grown and can be sold commercially for financial benefit or consumed by the families that grow them for enormous health benefits. In particular, they build up the immune system because they contain plenty of antioxidants. This

is crucial for HIV positive individuals. The program is currently underway and involves nine grandmothers that care for their 39 grandchildren.

They will undergo three-month training sessions, paid for by the Nyanya Project and then be ready to start their farms.

The Nyanya Project is hosting an awareness event and film screening from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at Main Theatre, ACE Cinema Complex at the NC School of the Arts’ campus.

Participants from the 2008 trip to Tanzania will share their experiences, and there will be a showing of a documentary of the trip, made by School of the Arts students.

Donations are appreciated for admission, and crafts from the Nyanya will be sold at the event.

For more information about the event or to become involved in the Nyanya Project, contact Niepold at niepolmm@wfu.edu.

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Student Union to bring well-known rock group

By Ashton Astbury | Contributing writer

American rock band O.A.R is set to perform at 7:30 p.m on Nov. 12 in Wait Chapel. The presale for the concert will begin Oct. 2 at 6:30 p.m., where 2,200 tickets will be released to students. Tickets can be purchased at the Benson Ticket Office (Room 344) for $15. Each student can purchase a maximum of four tickets.

Sophomore Student Union leader Katie Cooper and Student Union advisor Kathy Arnett were instrumental in organizing the event. Both Cooper and Arnett spoke to the band’s agent throughout the summer to coordinate the availability of Wait Chapel to dates that O.A.R was going to be on tour.

According to Cooper, the booking process was fairly difficult. “We had to wait to negotiate a date that worked for both parties and then wait until they did their routing plan to see when it would be convenient for them to perform in North Carolina,” she said. “We also had to begin working very early because they received many offers.”

Cooper noted that O.A.R was chosen to perform because it is a gifted band with huge college appeal. “Their music is universally enjoyed, and they do not conform to any set stereotype or genre,” she said. Marc Roberge and Chris Culos formed O.A.R back in 1996, playing their first gigs at the fraternities and sororities of Ohio State University. Without any formal marketing or advertising plans, news of their earlier songs such as “That Was a Crazy Game of Poker” and “City on Down” spread by word of mouth alone.

Since its days at Ohio State, O.A.R has recorded six studio albums, including its most recent, All Sides, in addition to three live albums.

The fall concert is a new event organized by the Student Union. It will not replace the spring concert which has included past acts such as Ben Folds, Jurassic 5, Lewis Black, Dave Matthews, Adam Sandler, Jason Mraz and many more. Cooper stated that the concerts have garnered much support from the student body in past years, and that students “seem to thoroughly enjoy on-

campus concerts.” She anticipates a large turn-out for this fall’s concert. “O.A.R is an amazing and famous band with huge appeal to people with all types of music taste,” Cooper said. “It’s an event that happens only once or twice a year, and I think that the Wake Forest campus will embrace the opportunity.”

In terms of publicizing the event, the Student Union is utilizing techniques such as attempting to get the O.A.R concert on The Student home page, sending e-mails to listservs, posting fliers, making sandwich boards and easels, potentially working with Wake Radio and trying to stimulate word-of-mouth hype on the campus.

O.A.R is currently partaking in a Campus Consciousness Tour that is an environmentally-friendly tour. According to Cooper, the band will be promoting the preservation of the environment and will be using recyclable items, bio-diesel fuel and will bring volunteers from environmental groups to educate students about being eco-friendly.

Tickets will also be available to the public for $29.50.

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The O.A.R. performance in November is part of Student Union’s effort to have an annual fall concert.

Author speaks on campus to promote new novel

By CeCe Brooks | News editor

Photo courtesy of Megan Mulder

Keillor signs books after meeting with fans from the university and the Winston-Salem community.

As part of a promotion tour for his latest book, Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor spoke on Sept.

29 in Brendle Recital Hall at the university.

Liberty is about an elderly man whose role as the chairman of the Fourth of July committee is revoked.

The event was sponsored by BOOKMARKS, the university and on-campus NPR station 88.55 WFDD. The humorist, wearing what appeared to be the same red tennis shoes he wore in Prairie Home Companion, first attended a breakfast in the Magnolia Room where people

had the opportunity to meet him and get a signed copy of his new novel after eating dishes like prairie potato strata and Wobegon waffles.

A two-person folk band called Polecat Creek performed before Keillor came on stage. After Keillor was introduced, he commented on the interesting name of the group.

“Somehow when you hear the name Polecat Creek you don’t think you’re going to come and see two tall, lovely graceful women,” he said. “Polecat means something kind of different where I come from.”

Keillor spoke about his upbringing in Minnesota, particularly his membership in the Plymouth Brethren, a

fundamental Christian group that he has since left. He also talked about becoming a writer.

Keillor noted his association with Winston-Salem from his early writing days.

“I associate Winston-Salem with books because many, many years ago I was a writer who smoked. I used both of the brands,” Keillor said.

He also sang a series of sonnets he had written recently.

After his performance, Keillor answered a number of questions from the audience ranging from his political opinions to the state of the small bookstore he owns in St. Paul, Minn.

When asked if he would publish a joke book anytime soon he said he’d only heard

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one joke worthy of being put in a joke book: “If the Republican ticket wins, they will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call.

Sarah Palin will be feeding the baby and John McCain will be getting up to pee.”

D.G. Martin, host of UNCTV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, emceed. After he spoke he signed copies of his books.

Keillor is best known for his radio variety show, A Prairie Home Companion, which airs on NPR every Saturday night and the film he wrote and appeared in by the same name.

He often talks about religion, politics and a fictional town named Lake Wobegon that is based on his hometown of Anoka, Minn.

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to be known as a top research institution but a top educator for the whole person in all fields.

The next topic discussed was the recent change of the Dean’s List requirement from a 3.0 to a 3.4 GPA. One student asked why this change could not be grandfathered in, suggesting that freshmen must make a 3.4 but leaving everyone else with a 3.0 requirement as previous Academic Bulletins stated.

Intermediate Dean Ribisl responded with a few concrete reasons. The faculty has voted on this and almost unanimously agreed on the change, mostly because it would not be fair for one class to be required to make a 3.4 and the others only a 3.0.

Also, 60% of students have made Dean’s List in the previous year. The average GPA at graduation is a 3.21, and faculty, staff and high committees deemed it necessary to make the Dean’s List, an academic honor, higher than the average GPA. Finally, the SAT requirement was the last major topic of discussion. As of the 2008-2009 admissions year, the SAT is no longer required for submission to apply. Many argue, with results from psychological testing and research data, that the SAT no longer predicts college success.

The admissions staff does not know who could afford a private SAT tutor to bump scores up 200 points or who simply took the required class in high school. Director of Admissions Martha Allman also noted that it is not fair to choose between

all-else-equal applicants, one who has a score of 1370 and another who has a 1350. Our applicants, she says, are all strong students with strong SAT scores, and the differences in the scores, excluding some extreme cases, are not a big enough factor to determine acceptance between two students.

The interview is now strongly recommended, and she informed the audience that every single early acceptance applicant has preformed an interview.

According to Allman, the admissions process is becoming more personal and individualized, much like the intimate atmosphere of the university itself.

One interesting fact that Allman pointed out is that applications for the academic year 2009-2010 have increased by 41% already.

The university is also heightening its focus on sustainability, one issue that was brought up by a student who noted that the university recently received a C-minus grade. 2008 is the first year the university has stopped printing the Academic Bulletin along with an array of other housing and dining papers.

A student who has two older brothers who also attend the university brought up the topic of tuition.

The student noted that tuition has increased from $32,640 in 2002 to $47,551 in 2008. Tiefenthaler and Hatch commented that tuition increase is a problem for all higher education institutions: tuition cannot be frozen. They informed the audience on what direct developments students have seen and will continue to see from recent tuition

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A myriad of topics were discussed at the forum hosted by Student Government on Sept. 30 including reasons for dropping the SAT and tuition increases. increases. These include increased competitive pay for faculty, new library and classroom renovations, new academic buildings and resident halls, new

instruments for the band and a new recreation center that equates to the level of sports that are played at the university

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health care is because it’s hard to identify the cost and saving for the prevention,” King said.

“The foresight required in the process is enormous; therefore, economic alone will not solve this problem.”

Half of Oberlander’s presentation focused on politics: how McCain’s and Obama’s parties tackled this health insurance problem. Oberlander explicated the necessary details that made

the approaches of the two parties different toward the same problem and the possible consequential effect each could have on America.

Furthermore, Oberlander made a comparison of this issue to the movie Groundhog Day. He explains it’s because he keeps waking up thinking it’s 1992, when America was also facing a health insurance crisis, and the Democratic and Republican parties advocated solutions that are very similar to what the respective parties are suggesting

today. While Oberlander’s presentation focused on the health insurance problem with relations to the political parties. The three panelists respectfully attempted to explain the problems with the current system in place, the preexisting problems and the barriers at hand if there is a fundamental change.

“Economists are shocked how insurance market doesn’t work in a competitive market,” said Michael Lawlor, professor of economics at the university. In a world where free competitive

capital market has brought so much success for the rapidly globalizing world, the problems surfacing with health insurance companies are perplexing economists with strong faith in the free market everywhere.

To further understand this dilemma, the dialogue not only attempted to look into the structural problems of the system but also at who it is affecting – more specifically, the characteristics of the 46 million Americans without health insurance. The data showed 80% are employed, 33%

can’t afford it and 10% are young and low-risk.

However, the take home point from this presentation is that most who can’t afford insurance are below the poverty line, immediately indicating that a good portion of the 37 million Americans living below the poverty line are equated in the percentage.

This also leads to questions surrounding the remaining eight million uninsured, some of whom may be young and risk free, and most of whom are in the middle class.

In addition, those who are insured may be under-insured.

“The private market has shown a consistent and long tem inability to cover these groups,” Lawlor said.

“I don’t think you can have one without the other. Both are necessary, and the other isn’t sufficient by itself,” King said.

And in terms of the election Oberlander said, “Well, we have failed at health reforms before.

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even more appreciative of the good things they’ve done at the library since we know that they have had to deal with the constraints of tight budgets over the years. This is all the more impressive since we aren’t a large research university that requires a skyscraper of a library.

Are students more satisfied with the new things going on at the library than they are about the plans in place for the university as a whole?

If you think the answer is yes, then perhaps the other university administrators could learn a thing or two about how to handle implementing new policies and unveiling new plans.

Our only real concern is that now the library might just be too awesome. We can’t help but wonder if all of these developments will lead to overcrowding. But then again, if the library’s biggest problem is its popularity, then we guess we don’t have too much to complain about.

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Family weekend proves entertaining dropped all the way down to 25th. If my parents come back next year, I don’t know if I want to take them to the football game. Just kidding.

I must say that the food aspect of the weekend was much better, though. I enjoyed eating out at nice places two nights in a row.

The first night, my parents and I ate Hannah Werthan that the Village Tavern — the classic place Asst. opinion editor to take your parents. t’s the event that puts freshmen Even though my mom complained parents at ease as they wave goodbye about the décor, she agreed that the main to their nervous sons and daughters course was yummy and the dessert was after move-in day. It’s also the time when even better. the little freshmen realize that, hey, they After Wake’s miserable defeat, a group are not all that independent. Just when of us went to Firebirds. While the food you thought you could have endless wasn’t all that amazing, it was amusing weekends coming back to Bostwick or to watch the parents interact with each Piccolo (I’m sorry) at 4 a.m., reality other. strikes.

Even brunch in Benson proved me Yes, I am referring to Family Weekend; wrong and was worth getting up at the when, after a month’s separation from dreaded hour of 10 a.m. their child, parents run back to the Unlike at the Pit, I got a huge egg white glorious Wake Forest for a weekend omelette that was loaded with spinach, glimpse of what it’s like to be a college tomato, mushroom and cheese goodness. student these days. At least, we lead them It was almost overwhelming. to believe that we usually I also had Starbucks spend our weekends coffee to add on to the waking up at decent two cups I had earlier to The next day, we watched hours. prepare myself for this the disaster that was the My parents didn’t come early morning feast.

Wake vs. Navy football to my freshman Family It actually wasn’t too Weekend. Perhaps they difficult to get up that game. I spent five-sixths were still burnt out after morning. of the game cringing and nearly 18 years of having The weather wasn’t to deal with me. However, one-sixth of the game great Friday and this year they made the Saturday, but Sunday’s sending text messages on seven-hour journey to weather was perfect. my phone.

Winston-Salem.

The sun showed just On Friday, my mom and how beautiful this I went to the mall where campus is for most of the we saw approximately one-fifth of the year.

Wake student population explaining to I sometimes forget its beauty while their parents that this is all we have here running to class or locking myself up to in Winston-Salem. After a few hours, my cram for a test. mom relented that she guessed it wasn’t Having my parents come for Family “that bad” before suggesting that we leave. Weekend made me realize just how much I think she was secretly pleased that, I love it here. compared to the Hanes Mall, Nashville’s Sure, the work is overwhelming almost Green Hills Mall looks like a shopping all of the time. I toss the word “failure” palace. out approximately once every five The next day, we watched the disaster sentences. Nevertheless, I can’t lie; I just that was the Wake vs. Navy football game. love being here.

I spent five-sixths of the game cringing I can’t defend the “city” of Winstonand one-sixth of the game sending text Salem, a place that I still can’t seem to messages. navigate and don’t really have any desire Though impossible, it was a solid to learn. attempt on my part to distract myself Thank goodness for my GPS. from Wake’s failure.

I guess I’m just elitist after growing up The worst part of the weekend was in the San Francisco Bay Area. when my mom said that Wake football Even so, it doesn’t matter all that much had better “watch out” when Vanderbilt, to me. I’m perfectly content residing in her alma mater, comes to town over the Wake bubble.

Thanksgiving break.

So, thanks Family Weekend, for making To me, Vanderbilt is the biggest me realize just how attached I am to dear Division I college football joke. However, old Wake Forest. apparently, they are somehow good this Of course, it was also nice to see my year. parents, and it offers an excuse as to why Though I won’t criticize Wake entirely, I’m not coming home for fall break.

I can’t help but wonder if Vanderbilt stole All and all, I’d say that Family Weekend some of Wake’s predicted success. I mean, was a success, though I’m glad it only it’s pretty bad when you are ranked 16th happens once a year. and an un-ranked team beat you.

Sure enough, the next day, Vanderbilt Hannah Werthan is a sophomore from placed 19th in the rankings and Wake Nashville, Tenn.

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ven though the weather wetted people’s athletic jerseys, it couldn’t dampen the spirits of those involved with Hit the Bricks. There were a lot of serious hardcore runners out there, some even could be described as “crazy.”

Nonetheless, skewed facial expressions aside, way to go!

We are happy that this year’s event was such a success, continuing the positive university tradition that Hit the Bricks has become.

It was cool that we could sort of show off to all the parents who came early for Family Weekend.

Hopefully all of those parents

of freshmen thought to themselves, “Wow, students do more than just study (or party) here.”

It’s wonderful that students can come together for such a good cause, exercising in a friendly competitive atmosphere.

What could be a better example of Wake Forest community building than an event that brings out students from all sorts of different circles on campus and truly embodies a sense of Pro Humanitate?

Our sympathies go out to those groups that place in the top four of their divisions, but really, didn’t everybody win?

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e’d like to express our gratitude to Lynn Sutton and all of the people at the library who have made it a much more student-friendly place over the past year.

From the most visible physical changes of the new study room renovations to concerts, game nights, book series and the upcoming 5K event, the list of things that make us happy about our library is extensive. In fact, most likely the majority of students don’t even know all of the services offered at the library, especially all of the ITC resources at their fingertips.

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Democrats’ tax plan will hurt the economy Maggie Van Norden

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inston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst system except all the others. I believe the same can also be said with capitalism. If you have seen anything in the news lately, then you know that life on Wall Street just completely tanked.

To lead us out of this awful mess, we have to have a bail package of over a trillion dollars.

Six months ago, there were five large U.S. investment banks. Last week there were five,

and, by the afternoon of Sept. 24, there were two. And these two are looking for cover. And let’s not forget about the world’s largest insurer teetering on bankruptcy.

To return to this whole idea of coming up with a trillion dollars, where do you think that the government is going to get this money? If you are a Democrat, you would say that we should continue to tax the rich.

As college students, do we want to graduate, get a job and have the government take our money? If Obama becomes president, that is exactly what will happen.

The government will then require people to keep on giving them money in order to be patriotic. This reminds me of what happened in the 1930s that later became Nazi Germany. Are we going to let this happen to one of the greatest capitalistic democracies in the world?

To look at some percentages, the latest IRS data shows that the top one percent of income

earners now pay 40 percent of federal income tax. The top five percent pays 60 percent of income taxes. In contrast, the bottom 50 percent of income earners pays three percent of federal income taxes.

This is not my opinion here; these are the facts.

If Obama gets into office, he will continue to raise those taxes on the rich. McCain wants to decrease the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent down to 25 percent. If he accomplishes this goal, then our economy will pick up, and we can create more jobs, and thus be more competitive with other companies around the world. Obama has said that he will do what needs to be done with regard to the capital gains tax. He says that he won’t let it go higher than 40 percent, and it is currently at 15 percent. Not only will the rich be affected by this plan but also small business owners, as well. If both big and small businesses stop earning money, then they will hire fewer people.

For us college students, look what that means.

Basically, if we do manage to get a job, then the money we earn will be taken from us by the government. Is that what you want?

Who exactly is considered the rich? In whatever field we choose to study, we all want to be successful, and that usually involves earning lots of money. What incentive do we have to work hard and earn money if the government will take it from us? Really, why would I want to push myself in school and beyond if the result is always going to be the same? My hard-earned money will not really be mine, because it is going directly into the hands of the government.

To me, this seems a lot like socialism. Do we really want to become just like the Europeans?

Maggie Van Norden is a sophomore from Atlanta, Ga. Seeking Middle Ground is a weekly faceoff between College Democrats and College Republicans on a given topic.

Administration isn’t listening

this university (along with a host of decisions students have no control over).

Look at the situation. There is not enough money in the endowment to pay for the Master Plan that would create the infrastructure to sustain Seth Williford 500 more students.

Guest columnist How does the administration solve this problem? rogress, progress, U.S. They solve it by raising News and World Report enrollment to gain the rankings, progress. additional tuition dollars from Any official statement from more students, followed by President Hatch and the continued tuition increases. administration here at Wake This is not a sustainable Forest will inevitably boil growth model. There is no down to the above equation. logic in raising the number The statement will start with of students to pay for the the progress the university has renovations and constructions made, followed by the plans needed to house and educate for future progress and then all of these new students. augmented by our college The result will be severe ranking. Well, let’s look at this overcrowding over the next progress. few years and a loss of the In the first week where all of educational value for those of the students were back (not us stuck in the middle of this forgetting the 80 additional policy. students in the freshman It is a consistent problem class), the Pit with the forums was deadlocked on Student Life when everyone concerning descended upon What is the solution to the changes its mediocre associated with all of this? Sadly, there stockpiles of the Master Plan is little we as students ARAMARK and Strategic food substitutes. can do. The Board of Plan that not I heard tales enough students Trustees is a closed of 30 minute show up to voice organization that rarely lines for food, their opinions. disagrees with what and another 20 One can claim minutes for a President Hatch wants. apathy and other table. culprits as the I have Allproblem, but in-One and let me present was able to avoid this farce. a more convincing reason.

Now comes the news that all Why bother showing up? The students can now use their adults have already decided meal plans in Benson and what they want to do, and the Subway. Those of us who only purpose of these forums bought All-in-One were is to give the appearance that shafted by this. If this is the student input is genuinely first time you are hearing being taken into account. I about this, it is because am personally always over the administration has not involved, and for myself, while officially announced this I would like to attend these change for fear that the Pit forums, I know that they have will be abandoned in favor of already put out preliminary Benson and Subway, and that plans that are already being the same crowding issues will acted on. plague them that initially hit What is the point in taking the Pit. time from studying to listen to So far, progress has meant the decisions that have already severe overcrowding, breaking been made? of dining contracts and benefits Why should I go to a forum that are only known by word of to have my opinion “accepted” mouth. What is going on here? but basically be told the plan is The lust for the U.S. News immovable? rankings has reached a fever What is the solution to all pitch. of this? Sadly, there is little The Campus Master Plan we as students can do. The and the Strategic Plan — both Board of Trustees is a closed of which are being acted upon organization that rarely without their completion or disagrees with what President approval by the Trustees — Hatch wants. have laid the foundation of The best we can do is what will happen to this school demand accountability and to in the next few years. President demand emphatically to see an Hatch has publicly announced itemized budget of how our his plans to increase enrollment tuition dollars are allocated. by 500 students over five years, Why shouldn’t we be allowed starting with this freshman to see where our tuition money class. is being spent, especially when Why so many so quickly? we are supplying the capital The administration is engaged for these changes? I’d love in a cruel game of chicken to hear Hatch’s equivalent with the population and to railroad baron William infrastructure that consists of a Vanderbilt’s quote, “The public cynical Catch-22. be damned.”

First, we have to consciously ignore whether adding another Seth Williford is a sophomore 500 students is good or bad for from Wilson, N.C.

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n Sept. 25, the Sustainable Endowments Institute released their 2009 College Sustainability Report Card.

For the past three years, the institute has graded leading schools on their commitment to ecological and financial sustainability.

While the financial aspect is ultimately important, we’ll put it aside for now as too large a tangent.

So how did we do? The good news is, we improved — a C-, up from a D — two grade increments! Never mind that Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill have a B+, Davidson, Vanderbilt and N.C. State have a C+, and UVA has a B. Or that we may have actually fallen in overall rankings because two-thirds of the schools improved their scores from last year. Still, a C- is better than a D. Without further ado, I’d like to present short reactions to the institute’s rankings by category.

Administration — our 2009 grade: C, our 2008 grade: D. Accurate. The administration has shown commitment to these issues but an inability to devote the needed time. We’ll get no more improvement until we get a full-time sustainability coordinator on the ground.

Luckily, we’re bringing three qualified candidates to campus in the next few weeks for interviews.

The sooner one can start, the quicker we’ll improve.

Climate Change & Energy — our 2009 grade: D, our 2008 grade: D. The report references a “campuswide awareness program to encourage behavioral changes and reduce energy consumption.”

I haven’t seen any evidence of this other than the posters justifying the closing of Reynolda at night.

Food & Recycling — our 2009 grade: B, our 2008 grade: C. We get points for “green” containers at the pit, but on the ground these are spottily available. Recycling may divert 22 percent of our waste, but much of that is contaminated because students have only a vague knowledge of what they can recycle.

Green Building — our 2009 grade: C, our 2008 grade: D. Our commitment to LEED certified buildings is good — let’s keep it that way after getting the cost estimates.

Student Involvement — our 2009 grade: C, our 2008 grade: N/A They don’t mention biodiesel here — an outstanding student effort. We might deserve a C for interest here, but for effective framework for involving and exciting students in their areas of expertise and interest, we deserve worse.

Transportation — our 2009 grade: C, our 2008 grade: C. “Free shuttle buses for students” is an exaggeration, considering at most colleges this means shuttles to stores, downtown and area apartments. We won’t improve in this area as long as our most creative means of reducing cars on campus is increasing the decal fee $175.

You might reasonably be thinking, “Who cares what this ‘institute’ says? Not being on the ground, they can’t fairly grade our commitment to sustainability anyway.” Indeed, that they take our spin at face value proves this. Even so, if we don’t define our own commitment to sustainability, others will. In 2008, we can’t expect sustainable-minded students to just wind up here — more and more, they are doing their research before matriculating. And, when we still don’t have our own sustainability Web site, this is a troubling reality.

Ross Williford is a senior mathematical economics major from Winston-Salem, N.C. Ec-O-pinions is a bi-weekly column expressing all things environmental.

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10/14 Duke Individual 10/24 Tenn. Inter.

VOLLEYBALL: 10/3 v. N.C. State 10/4 v. UNC-Chapel Hill 10/10 @ Clemson

{ NATIONAL STAGE } Heart transplant golfer allowed to use cart Just four months after his second heart transplant, golfer Erik Compton learned that officials have granted his request to use a cart during qualifying school to earn his tour card.

Compton, 28, will play the first stage of qualifying from Oct. 21-24 at Crandon Golf at Key Biscayne, Fla. He is a former No. 1 junior golfer who won on the Canadian and Hooters Tours and played on the Nationwide Tour.

The Compton case stands in sharp contrast to that of Casey Martin. A birth defect in his leg prevented him from walking the course, but he had to sue the tour to use a cart.

In 2001, he won his suit that went to the Supreme Court, which allowed him to use a cart under the Americans With Disabilities Act. He’s now the golf coach at the University of Oregon.

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the Duke volleyball team hitting percentage in their five set loss to the Deacons

16 118 4 8

the number of strokes by which the men’s golf team won wins for the men’s soccer team in the last 8 season.

the number of passes Navy threw against Wake.

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Senior Michael Lahoud battles a UCLA player during a game Sept. 5. The No. 1 Deacs defeated the No. 2 Maryland Terrapins to move to 2-0 in the ACC and Elon to extend their streak to 35 non-conference games without a loss.

By Connor Swarbrick | Sports editor

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In a showdown of the best two teams in men’s college soccer the top-ranked, defending National Champion Deacons disposed of the No. 2 Maryland Terrapins with a 4-2 victory.

The Terrapins (6-2-0) hosted the game, which was broadcast on the Fox Soccer Channel, in front of a record crowd of 6,500 at Ludwig Field. Few teams are able to prevail at Ludwig Field, but the Deacons out-

shot the Terrapins 18-11. Nine of the Deacons shots were on goal compared to seven for Maryland.

The Terrapins sent the record crowd into a frenzy when they scored just 50 seconds into the match.

Rodney Wallace of Maryland crossed a ball from the left side of the box and found teammate Jason Herrick who headed the ball past junior Deacon Keeper Akira Fitzgerald 10 yards out from the net.

Senior Marcus Tracy was able to even the match at one a piece just minutes later at the 6:19 mark when he scored his seventh goal of the season.

Tracy received a pass on the right side of the box from sophomore Corben Bone and he beat the Terrapin keeper driving the ball into the top of the net.

The Terrapins had no intention of rolling over. They

By Phillip Brame | Staff writer

Dear Lance Armstrong,

Their dominant 16-shot victory over second-place teams Augusta State and VCU erased memories of lackluster performances in their previous two tournaments, as the Deacs finally lived up to their top 20 ranking in the Golf World/Nike Coaches poll.

Junior Brendan Gielow was co-medalist, tying with Witchita State’s Dustin Garza for his first collegiate victory.

He was solid throughout the event, making 15 birdies, one eagle and only five bogies for a 12-under total over the 54 holes.

Senior Dustin Groves was nearly as impressive, firing a 65 in the second round and finishing all three rounds under par for a -11 and third place finish.

Freshman Lee Bedford was also impressive playing as the No. 3 for the Demon Deacons, shooting steady rounds of 67-70-72 to finish in eighth place. It was the

Why after a four year hiatus do you feel the need to enter the public eye and cycling again?

Certainly the sport of cycling could use your help.

Since you have left, we’ve seen Floyd Landis take an injection of something and then turn from a rider on the verge of collapse to a yellow jersey wearing copy of you in a matter of about 24 hours.

On top of that, the tour has seen an annual parade of superstars caught for various doping and steroid violations.

Despite the lack of honesty in your profession over the past few years, you have remained remarkably clean.

Sure you were associated with a less than reputable Italian doctor known for advocating the practice of doping, but you’re an American and an inspiring one at that.

You get the benefit of the doubt; innocent until proven guilty.

You survived cancer to come back and win one of the biggest endurance tests in sports seven times.

I’ll say that again, SEVEN times!

That’s one more title than Jordan, another athlete who came back for a cameo.

Care to take a look at clips from MJ’s run with the Wizards?

I couldn’t care less if that entire memory were to be erased from our collective consciences forever.

It’s not just “His Airness.”

Virtually every sport has a rugged but aged champion who feels the need to come back

See Golf, Page B6

See Pressbox, Page B5

{ DEAC OF THE WEEK }

{ SPORTS WORDS } “He must know God’s phone number, ‘cause he is superhuman. Like, Brett Farve? Come on. He’s like 3900 years old and he threw for six touchdowns? He’s never even done that in his whole career.”

– Lil Wayne

See Soccer, Page B6

Men’s golf shoots lights out Lance, spare in VCU Shootout tourney us and stay retired

consecutive national semifinal appearances for field hockey

PRESS BOX

FROM THE

Junior Brendan Gielow fired 15 birdies and one eagle in the VCU Shootout for his first collegiate win.

After carding a career-low 64, Gielow followed up with a 2-under 69 on the final day to earn co-medalist honors.

Gielow helped the Deacs to thier first win since the NCAA Central Regional last Gielow May. The Deacons fired a three-round total of 825 which is tied for the lowest 54-hole score in school history.

Gielow carded three birdies and just one bogie on the final day for medalist honors with Wichita State’s Dustin Garza at 12-under par.

retook the lead with 16:44 remaining in the first half.

Casey Townsend scored an unassisted goal when he fired a shot from just outside the six-yard box that found the back of the net.

The Deacons knotted the scored at 2-2 in the 41st minute when freshman Danny Wenzel sent a ball from the near midfield in Ike sophomore Opara’s direction. The six-foot, two-inch Opara used his head to beat the Terrapin goalkeeper, Will Swaim, who led the ACC in goals against average (0.25), and square the match.

The second half began just as the first did, tied, but not for long. This time it was the Deacons who

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The men’s golf team tied the school record for lowest 54-hole score in route to its 16 stroke win in the VCU Shootout. Junior Brendan Gielow led the way.

By Jordan Griesbeck | Contributing writer

Wake Forest Augusta State

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Over 70 former Wake Forest golfers, including legends Curtis Strange, Lanny Wadkins, Scott Hoch and Len Mattiace, were in Winston-Salem Sept. 29 for the first ever Alumni Legacy Challenge Golf Tournament.

Meanwhile in Manakin Sabot, Va., the men’s golf team was making a little history of its own.

The Deacons fired a three-round total of 825 in the VCU Shootout at Manakin Golf Course on Sept.

29-30, earning their first victory of the season and posting the lowest 54-hole total in the school’s rich history.

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WFU vs. CLEMSON

Football Preview

Coming into the season, Clemson and Wake were ranked one and two in the Atlantic division in the ACC. Although that isn’t the case anymore, this game could still decide who gets to travel to Tampa Bay for the ACC Championship come December.

Wake Forest: 3

By Matt Six | Staff writer

Clemson: 3

Skinner endured one of the worst games in his career against Navy last week, throwing a career-high four interceptions and fumbling the ball once. Skinner’s first two games of the season were spectacular, as he won ACC Offensive Player of the Week awards after Wake’s first two wins. Good quarterbacks have short memories, and Wake fans should not expect a hangover game from Skinner after his poor performance against Navy.

Quarterback Edge: Wake Forest (Skinner’s last game against Navy was an anomaly in a successful career.)

Cullen Harper has not lived up to the preseason hype surrounding him. This is not to say that he is a bad quarterback; any quarterback who has thrown for over 4,000 yards over his career deserves respect.

As the season progresses, Harper’s numbers have regressed. Harper had a mediocre game against Maryland, throwing for 151 yards and no touchdowns.

Furthermore, Clemson’s young offensive line is not helping Harper’s cause.

Junior center Trey Bailey, junior offensive guard Barrett McMillin, junior offensive tackle Jeff Griffin, junior offensive tackle Joe Birdsong and sophomore offensive guard Russell Nenon head the unit. Redshirt freshman Mike Hoag filled in nicely for the suspended Birdsong against Navy. The unit does a good job with pass protection, only allowing five sacks in the last two games. There is room to improve with the run blocking, however. The line also needs to lessen the amount of holding penalties, as they have negated touchdowns and scoring drives in the last two games.

Offensive Line Edge: Push (Clemson improves every week. Wake does well with pass blocking but needs to improve with run blocking.)

The Clemson offensive line is young and hampered with injuries. Center Thomas Austin is the only returning starter. Other than Austin, the line is filled with question marks due to injuries. Right guard Barry Humphries suffered a knee injury during a season-opening loss to Alabama. Left tackle Chris Hairston injured his left knee during a motorized scooter accident. (No, that is not a misprint.)

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The Deacons only rushed for 43 yards on 31 carries against Navy, a stark contrast to the 196 yards gained on 44 carries against Navy last season. Making things worse, the low rush numbers came against drop-eight coverage, meaning that Navy only used three defensive linemen to stuff the run. The ineffective run game is the largest question mark for the Deacs heading into the Clemson match-up. Last year, Wake only accumulated 83 yards against a stout Clemson defensive line.

Running Backs Edge: Clemson (Talented backs Davis and Spiller show improvements as the CU offensive line begins to gel.)

Humidity is a large factor in creating a strong thunderstorm. Similarly, the offensive line is a large factor in creating a strong running game, and the duo of James Davis and C.J. Spiller has underperformed this season. However, Clemson’s running game has improved.

Davis and Spiller both rushed for over 100 yards against Maryland. Wake’s defense will have their hands full with talented backs of Davis and Spiller.

Senior DJ Boldin leads the unit in receptions. He reeled in eight catches for 116 yards against Navy.

Senior Chip Brinkman posted two touchdowns against Baylor and is a good possession receiver. Sophomore Marshall Williams scored his first touchdown of his career against Ole Miss and showed great concentration on a 52-yard catch off his helmet against FSU. Sophomore Jordan Williams is a big-play threat who saw limited time against Navy on a six-yard designed run play. Junior tight end Ben Wooster provides another receiving option. Freshman Devon “Y’Lou” Brown continues to impress with his touches this season.

Wide Receivers Edge: Clemson (Kelly and Ford are playmakers, and Grisham is an experienced possession receiver.)

Clemson has a very good receiving corps led by senior Aaron Kelly, a tall and lanky receiver with good speed.

Junior Jacoby Ford has exceptional speed, running a 4.13 in the 40-yard dash. Ford led the team last year with an average of 18.2 yards-per-catch. Tight end Michael Palmer is a viable option for Harper. Another receiver is senior Tyler Grisham, who caught 60 passes in 13 games last year. A possession receiver, Grisham amassed 653 receiving yards during the 2007 season.

Last week, Wake’s defensive line recorded two sacks and struggled containing the Midshipmen running attack. However, the line showed improvements in the second half after getting acclimated to the unique triple option offense. The unit is led by junior Boo Robinson, who accrued 23 tackles and six tackles for a lost last season. Grad student 24 year-old Matt “Grandpa” Robinson persevered through two major injuries and is happy to be back on the field. Seniors Antonio Wilson and Anthony Davis are veteran contributors for the Deacs. freshman Kyle Wilber provides a spark to the line with his pass-rushing abilities.

Defensive Line Edge: Clemson (Excellent pass rush of Bowers and Sapp will give Wake offensive linemen a stiff challenge.)

Clemson loses little from a defensive line unit that sacked Skinner five times last year. Star defensive end Phillip Merling left to the NFL, but his departure cleared the path for freshman Da’Quan Bowers who was rated the nation’s top incoming freshman by ESPN. com. On the other end is junior Ricky Sapp. Sapp had a team-high 22 quarterback pressures last season.

Fifth-year seniors Dorell Scott and Rashaad Jackson are huge run-stuffers on the interior of the line. Wake did a good job containing FSU’s formidable pass rush led

by Everette Brown, but containing Bowers and Sapp will be a huge test for the offensive line.

Senior Aaron Curry heads the linebackers, which features three veteran seniors. Curry had 13.5 tackles for loss and three interceptions returned for a touchdown last year. After FSU, he was named the winner of the Lott Trophy IMPACT Player of the Week for his interception, fumble recovery and eight tackles. Seniors Stanley Arnoux and Chantz McClinic bring loads of experience and talent to the unit. Sophomore Matt Woodlief looked impressive in back-up duty against Navy.

Linebackers Edge: Wake Forest (Curry, Arnoux and McClinic have a plethora of game experience.)

Clemson’s linebacker corps lacks experience and depth. The Tigers lose three starters from last year. The current starters – junior Kavell Conner, sophomore Scotty Cooper and senior Josh Miller – had a combined four starts between the three of them entering this season. De’Andre McDaniel moves to linebacker to fill the void. Clemson has talent, but they lack game experience.

Wake’s secondary saw limited action against Navy, as the Midshipmen only threw the ball four times in their victory. No one can blame Navy for avoiding the veteran corps led by senior Alphonso Smith. The Florida native suffered a sprained neck against Baylor and looks to be back at full strength. Junior Brandon Ghee is a hard-hitting cornerback who is an excellent cover corner. Seniors Chip Vaughn and Kevin Patterson add more experience. Patterson excelled in the FSU victory with two interceptions and a forced fumble.

Defensive Backs Edge: Push (Two of the top defensive back units square off. Wake has more depth and more turnovers.)

Senior Sam Swank converted four field goals to propel Wake to a 12-3 victory against FSU. He also kicked the game-winning field goal against Ole Miss. Against Navy, he pinned the Midshipmen inside the five on three separate occasions. Senior Alphonso Smith returns punts, while freshmen C.J. Washington and Devon Brown take kickoffs. See if return man Smith can take advantage of Clemson’s poor punt coverage.

Jim Grobe built the program from the bottom up, implementing a strict redshirt system that allows players to get in better shape and gain experience, all of which pays dividends once the players become fifth-year seniors. Grobe’s recruits do not boast many stars; rather, they boast good attitudes and good work ethics. Offensive coordinator Steed Lobotzke is known for orchestrating a rushing attack that led the ACC in four of his seven seasons as coordinator. Defensive coordinator Brad Lambert was promoted from linebackers coach for this season. His defense looked very impressive in forcing seven turnovers against FSU.

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 Coaching Edge: Wake Forest (Grobe > Bowden.

Enough said.)

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Fifth-year senior safety Michael Hamlin is the star of the unit. Chris Clemons, another fifth-year senior anchors, the other safety position. Speedy junior cornerbacks Chris Chancellor and Crezdon Butler combined for seven interceptions last season. Clemson lacks quality depth at safety with De’Andre McDaniel moving to linebacker.

Kicker Mark Buchholz and punter Jimmy Maners are above average at their respective positions. Buchholz led the ACC in scoring last year with 114 points. Maners ranked No. 20 in the nation with a 42.8-yard average last year. Spiller and Ford are two of the league’s most dangerous return men.

Tommy Bowden continues to put himself on the hot seat.

His talented teams seem to fall short of preseason predictions.

Offensive coordinator Rob Spence also faces many critics for his inability to utilize Clemson’s weapons. Many Clemson fans criticized Spence for abandoning the successful running game in the second half of the Maryland game.

Hilary

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Moore

To say that junior Hilary Moore has made an important impact on the field hockey team this year would be an understatment. Ten games into the season, Moore leads the team in points, with 21, consisting of nine goals and three assists. In all of last year, Moore scored five goals and had two assists. With Moore’s continued leadership on the field, the Deacons have the ability to make it far in NCAA play.

By Allison Lange | Sports editor On her favorite class at Wake: I have enjoyed all my communication classes with Dr. John Llewellyn. He is probably the most intelligent man I have ever met, and is pretty funny – a nice bonus. I also enjoyed an English class I took with Dr. Dean Franco last semester.

On the team goals this season: Initially we had a team goal of playing on Sundays, which includes the ACC and NCAA championship. We tweaked this goal recently because we realized we want to win on Sundays, not merely play. During the season our team tries not to focus on statistics or rankings. The only ranking that matters to us is being No. 1 after November.

On her favorite pro sports team: I enjoy following the MLS team Toronto FC because I know some members of the team; however, I usually prefer to follow college sports – specifically women’s and men’s soccer here at Wake.

On the game she looks forward to the most: I love playing in the ACC tournament. The quality of teams in the ACC is really high and the rivalries are always fun. Last year we barely lost in the championship, and I think we are all looking for redemption. I am also looking forward to another opportunity to play against Maryland.

On why she decided to play at Wake: I wanted to come to Wake to play field hockey because they were the best in the country. I wanted to challenge myself with and against the best in the ACC. I also wanted to come to Wake because of the head coach – Jen Averill. I came to field hockey camp here for what seemed like 15 years, and each year she inspired me a little more to go for my dreams.

When Wake began recruiting me, I knew I didn’t want that feeling of having someone believe in you to stop, so it was an easy decision. Most importantly though, the girls on the team are amazing and will be my sisters long after field hockey.

After meeting them, I knew this was the only school for me.

On when she started playing field hockey: I started playing in seventh grade solely because my mom played in college at the University of Richmond and was the coach at our school. I wanted to be Mia Hamm. My mom’s passion for the sport was contagious, and I grew to love it.

Three Deacon teams participating Susan G. Komen for the Cure events This fall, three Wake Forest athletic teams will be participating in the Susan G. Komen for the Cure fundraising events. The Foundation was established in 1982 by Nancy Brinker.

The women’s volleyball team will be hosting Maryland Oct. 25 in the third annual Dig for the Cure match. The team has raised around $24,000 over the past two years.

The field hockey team will also be participating in the Susan. G. Komen fundraising for breast cancer when they host California Oct. 19 for Sticks for the Cure.

Lastly, the women’s soccer team will be taking part when the team hosts N.C. State Oct. 23 in Kicks for the Cure.

Deac Notes

Photo courtesy of Brian Westerholt Graphic by Bobby O’Connor/Old Gold & Black

Kick Aids 3v3 Tournament hosted by Wake Forest

Wake Forest inducts six into the Hall of Fame

Wake Forest will host a 3v3 tournament to benefit Grassroots Soccer and Kick AIDS Oct. 4. Registration begins at 1 p.m. and the tournament starts at 2 p.m. It is open to all university students and costs $10 per participant.

A minimum of four games are guaranteed and each participant will receive a T-shirt.

The final championship game will be held during halftime of the Virginia Tech game on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.

For more information or to sign up, call ext. 3874.

Five Wake Forest graduates and one former coach were inducted into the Wake Forest Hall of Fame Sept. 26-27.

The inductees included ex-Giants general manager Ernie Accosi (‘63), former golfer Len Mattiace (‘90), former Deacon basketball players Randolph Childress (‘95) and Tim Duncan (‘97), Olympic triathlete Hunter Kemper (‘98) and former Wake Forest basketball coach Dave Odom.

These new members increase the Wake Forest Hall of Fame to 112 members. This was the highest number of inductees in the 38 year history.

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Football drowned by Midshipmen Volleyball wins two ACC games Deacons take down Duke and Miami at home over the weekend, go 2-1 in ACC play

By Allison Lange | Sports editor

Wake Forest Duke

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A Navy running back takes the ball against Wake Forest Sept. 27. The Midshipmen beat the Deacons at home 24-17, handing Wake Forest the first loss of the season.

By Connor Swarbrick | Sports editor

Wake Forest Navy

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Navy fullback Eric Kettani marched for a careerhigh 175 yards in an upset victory over No. 16 Wake Forest 24-17 at BB&T Field.

“This is definitely an eye-opener,” junior Wake Forest quarterback Riley Skinner said in the postgame press conference.

“We have a lot of tough games coming up, and it’s going to test our character to see how we respond as a team.”

Entering the game with a nation-leading plus-10 turnover margin, the Demon Deacons (3-1) committed six turnovers in the loss. The six turnovers resulted in 17 points for Navy (3-2).

Five of the six turnovers came in the first half, including an interception on Wake’s first offensive drive that led to an early Navy touchdown. The early turnovers allowed Navy to build a 17-0 lead at halftime.

“I told our kids that we can’t beat anybody turning the ball over like that, that I know of, especially against a good Navy offense,” Head Coach Jim Grobe said.

The early lead came at a price for the Midshipmen, however, as their starting quarterback Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada left the game with a hamstring injury.

Wake fans remembering last year’s match-up between the two teams felt optimistic about the entrance of reserve Navy quarterback Jarod Bryant.

In last year’s match-up, Bryant replaced KaheakuEnhada and fumbled on his first play.

The fumble resulted in touchdown by then fifthyear senior Matt Robinson, and Robinson’s score propelled Wake to a 44-24 victory.

Unlike his performance last year, Bryant looked poised in orchestrating the Navy triple-option offense.

Women’s Club Soccer

By Chris Tumminello | Staff writer Four years ago the Women’s Club Soccer team was almost nonexistent. Constant scheduling conflicts and the absence of a full roster on a weekly basis held the team back from competing.

At the time, current co-presidents Cassie Coggeshall and Katie Krick were only freshman, but they were determined to improve the program.

To assure competition, the team became a member of the North Carolina Women’s Club Soccer League (NCWCSL), which consists of opponents like UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, N.C. State and Elon.

Since becoming a part Coggeshall of the NCWCSL, players have embraced the responsibility that comes along with participating at such a high level of competition, and, as a result, the turnout has increased tremendously.

The current roster of 28 players was cut down from 55 players through tryouts and consists

Bryant rushed 15 times for 47 yards, including a touchdown that sealed the victory for the Midshipmen.

Bryant and Kaheaku-Enhada combined for a total of only four pass attempts. Navy’s triple option offense featured heavy doses of the No. 1-ranked running game in the country, allowing them to effectively melt the clock in the second half.

Navy’s 292 yards on the ground dwarfed Wake’s number of 43 rushing yards.

The Deacons’ defense, previously ranked 33rd nationally, allowed 191 more yards than they had been averaging.

Navy committed a total of two turnovers, both coming in the second half.

The first came on the opening kickoff in the second half, as junior Alex Frye hit Navy returner John Angelo and forced a fumble at the Navy 16-yard line.

Six plays later, Wake capitalized to cut the Navy lead to 17-7.

Grobe was impressed with Frye’s play.

“When (Alex) gets opportunities, whether it be on special teams or a few snaps on defense, he’s taking advantage of them,” Grobe said. “He’s playing fast and full speed, and that’s what you like to see out of the young guys.”

Another young Deacon who looked good was sophomore offensive tackle Michael Hoag. Hoag saw meaningful minutes after senior offensive tackle Joe Birdsong was ejected for an illegal blow to the head.

“I thought Mike Hoag did some good things,” Grobe said. “I thought he hung in there pretty well for a first game for a young guy.”

The Wake defense did a good job bottling up the Navy offense in the second half, forcing four straight punts after the Navy fumble on the kickoff.

Trailing by seven points, Wake forced a second Navy turnover with 5:59 remaining in the game, as senior Brandon Ghee recovered a fumble by Jarod Bryant.

“The hardest thing to do in stopping option football is to get used to the pace of the game as quickly as possible,” Grobe said. “They got on us pretty early, but then I thought our kids settled down and played better.”

Wake started the subsequent drive well, as Skinner completed a 14-yard pass to senior Ben Wooster at the Navy 40.

Just as the Wake offense gained some momentum, Skinner threw an errant pass over the middle that was intercepted by Navy safety Emmet Merchant.

“They had a lot of drop-eight coverage and you need to be patient with that,” Skinner said. “At times, I wasn’t patient enough. I should have checked the ball down or ran with the ball. There’s not many holes in drop-eight coverage.”

On the next play, Navy’s Kettani rushed up the middle for 57 yards, leading to a first-and-goal situation for the Midshipmen.

Navy scored a touchdown with Bryant to take a commanding 24-10 lead with 3:45 remaining.

Wake scored a late touchdown on an 8-yard catch by senior Mike Rinfrette to cut the deficit to seven with 1:14 remaining.

Swank’s onside kick attempt was unsuccessful, and Navy ran out the clock to end the game.

“I think our players realize that we have some work to do to be a good football team,” Grobe said.

“We’re not a bad football team. We didn’t play well today, and I don’t want to take anything away from Navy. The reality of the situation is that we have no one easy on our schedule. With every team that we play, if we don’t play well, we will lose to them. Navy was no exception.”

The Gridiron Deacs have a bye week leading up to their match-up with the Clemson Tigers onThursday, Oct. 9.

Like Wake, Clemson has a bye week leading up to the nationally televised game on ESPN. Both teams look to rebound after losses, with the Terrapins upending the Tigers 20-17 in Death Valley.

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of 13 players from last year’s squad. All members of the team practice two times a week and participate in an optional endurance workout during the middle of the week.

Not surprisingly, the strong level of commitment creates high expectations, but it also provides an opportunity to just have a good time.

“We have so many talented freshman this year, and so it is our goal to do really well in our league this season as well as in the tournaments,” Coggeshall said.

The team is preparing hard for their upcoming tournament at Virginia Tech, which is expected to be highly competitive.

But beyond competition, the girls have learned to bond often through volunteer activities.

The team finished fourth in the Open Division of the Hit the Bricks fundraiser on Sept. 25 and plan on helping out during the 3-on-3 tournaments next weekend and working at Campus Kitchen.

“We always just have a lot of fun,” Coggeshall said.

The increase in the validity, popularity and camaraderie of the program is an absolute delight for Co-President Coggeshall.

“I am just glad that the girls can have a program where they can still play soccer at the quality level they are used to from their high school club teams without having to play at the Varsity level,” Coggeshall said.

Intramurals

With regular season flag football in full swing now, teams are finding their stride (or still trying to figure out what’s going wrong) as they weigh themselves against the competition.

Plenty of freshman teams are discovering that experience indeed does make a lot of difference with regard to success on the gridiron, and with each passing game find themselves in a better position to compete come playoff time.

Playoffs begin Oct. 6!

That said, players are reminded this week that sportsmanship is the most important quality to a team, as that is the only statistic that determines playoff eligibility.

All teams who have not had to forfeit a game are automatically included in the playoff brackets, regardless of their record.

There has still been controversy this late into the season about what players can and cannot wear, so this week’s win a free championship T-shirt contest will be centered around that.

Second quarter sign-ups begin Oct. 6 and go through Oct. 15.

The sports available to sign up for are volleyball, soccer and the ever-popular dodgeball.

If you’re not sure which one to sign up for, then sign up for all three! You can bring your checks or cash down to Reynolds Gym 203A and register beginning the morning of Oct. 5.

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The Wake Forest women’s volleyball team had a good start to the ACC season this past week, losing one game to Florida State and winning two against Miami and Duke.

The women hosted the Florida State Seminoles Sept. 25 and were led by sophomores Kelsey Jones and Kristen White, both of whom posted doubledoubles.

Florida State beat the Deacs in a close set of five matches, winning the final game by only three points, 15-12.

Offensively, Wake Forest dominated in both the first and third sets, with 14 and 17 kills, respectively.

White led the Deacons in attacking against Florida State, with 16 kills.

Wake setter Jones had a total of 52 assists in the five game match.

Sophomore Megan Thornberry led Wake Forest defensively, tallying 19 digs.

The next day, the volleyball team hosted another ACC opponent in the Miami Hurricanes. Coming into the match against the Deacons, Miami was unbeaten, 13-0 and 2-0 in ACC play.

Jones A rebounded team from the night before, the Deacons swept the Hurricanes in three sets, 25-19, 25-22 and 25-21.

For her second night in a row, Jones led the team and had an outstanding game, recording her eighth double-double of the season.

Jones dished out 36 assists as setter against the Hurricanes. She also added 10 digs and three blocks, including the first solo block this year.

She connected with senior Natalie Mullikin for 15 kills, White for 11 and freshman Kadija Fornah for 10.

On the defensive end, Thornberry and junior Abby Miller both contributed a lot of digs, with 19 and 12, respectively.

The Deacon’s impressive victory dropped Miami to 13-1 this season and 2-1 in the ACC. Next, the women hosted ACC rival Duke Sept.

30. The Blue Devils were 10-4 overall and 1-1 in the ACC coming into the match.

The game against Duke went to a tense five games, with Duke on top of the ACC in hitting percentage (.288).

However, the Deacon’s game was dominated mostly by defensive play, as the women held the Blue Devils to hitting .108.

Five Wake Forest players tallied digs in the double digits, with Thornberry leading the team with 26.

Mullikin and White led the Deacs offensively, with 17 and 16 kills, respectively.

They connected with Jones, who contributed 45 assists to the team.

The fifth game and tiebreaker was a thriller, ending 17-15 in favor of the Deacs.

Wake Forest ended the first week of ACC action 11-4 overall and 2-1 in the ACC, leaving the Deacons in fourth in the ACC standings.

Next, the Deacons look to more ACC opponents in state.

The team will host N.C. State Oct.3 at 7 p.m. and UNC-Chapel Hill Oct. 4 at 6 p.m.

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Terrapins hand Deacons first defeat Kulikova drops first match in L.A.

By Hailey Robbins | Staff writer

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The Demon Deacons tout a 9-1 overall record, with a 1-1 record in ACC play.

In the highly anticipated match between the No. 1- and No. 3-ranked teams, junior Hilary Moore opened the game with an unassisted goal within the first minute of play, giving the Deacons the immediate lead.

“We went into the game having worked on our shape. We have the skill, players and talent, but sometimes get off balance,” head coach Jenn Averill said.

Shortly before the close of the half, the Terrapins tied the score 1-1 when Susie Rowe popped up the ball into the Wake cage.

The goal was Rowe’s 10th of the season.

After six minutes of play in the second half, Nicole Moracco put Maryland Gimbrere ahead with her seventh goal of the season.

With 25 minutes left on the clock, junior Aileen Davis scored on a penalty corner pass from senior Minou Gimbrere tying the game once more.

A controversial penalty corner call gave the Terrapins an opportunity to take the lead and Meghan Dean put what would be the game winning goal in the cage.

After the controversy the Terrapins seized the momentum.

Katie O’Donnell sealed Wake Forest’s fate when she was able to convert on a breakaway play, helped out by Nicole Muracco.

Maryland out shot the Deacs 15 to 9 overall and 9 to 4 in the second half.

“I was very pleased with the first twenty minutes, but at the half we needed to make some key changes and definitely didn’t when Maryland did,” Averill said. “ It was like we were playing against ourselves.

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Junior Raisa Schiller dribbles the ball during a home game. The Deacons will travel to Chapel Hill to play Tar Heels Oct. 4. season came back to hurt us. A good opponent will capitalize on that and win.”

The Lady Deacons bounced back by defeating Longwood University 4-1 on Sept. 29.

Less than two minutes into the game, Gimbrere scored off a penalty corner pass from junior Melissa Martin and senior Michelle Kasold.

Shortly thereafter, Longwood converted a penalty corner into a point on the board and freshman Goalkeeper Julia Young made her first ever college appearance, replacing senior Crystal Duffield.

Young, from Washington, D.C., participated in the Junior Olympics in 2004 and 2006, winning gold in 2006. Unable to stand a tie, Gimbrere scored again as the half drew to a close, beginning the edge to the Deacon victory.

Junior Regina Shannon increased the Deacon lead with her goal just shy of the 60 minute mark off a penalty stroke.

Eight minutes later, Kasold sealed the Deacon victory with a hard shot from the top of the circle, sailing past the defense and keeper for an unassisted goal.

“Before the game, I told the girls to enjoy the game and enjoy playing field hockey.After the game I told them simply, ‘well done,[‘“ assistant coach Dan Polders said.

The Lady Deacs next look to topple the Tar Heels and pick up an ACC victory when they travel to UNC-Chapel Hill on Oct. 4.

The Tar Heels have won seven straight games and are now 8-2 on the year and 1-0 in the ACC.

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It was a disappointing trip to California for junior Sasha Kulikova as she lost in the first round of the qualifying draw while representing the women’s tennis team at the Riviera/ITA Women’s AllAmerican Championships in Los Angeles.

The No. 50-ranked Moscow, Russia native fell to No. 109 Bianca Eichkorn of the University of Miami, 6-4, 6-2 Sept. 29.

The All-American Championships brings Kulikova together the top collegiate players from around the country for a single elimination tournament.

Players are selected for the tournament by regional selection committees and are placed into either the pre-qualifying, qualifying or directly into the main draw based upon their rankings.

Eichkorn won three matches in the prequalifying draw in order to win acceptance into the qualifying draw, while Kulikova was placed directly into the qualifying draw.

The All-American Championships is one of three opportunities for players to win an individual national title, the others being the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships in November and the NCAA Championships in May. Prior to arriving at Wake Forest, Kulikova was a member of the Russian Junior National Team from 2002-2006 and ranked as high as 526th by the WTA when she was 16 years old and 618th in doubles.

The next action for the women’s tennis team will come on Oct. 11 when they begin play in the USTA Team Invitational held at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, home of the US Open. The Deacons will then host the ITA Regionals Oct. 22-27.

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Junior Kaley Fountain battles with a Cal State Fulterton defender Sept. 14 in a Deacon victory. The Deacons won their first ACC game 2-0 over Maryland, but they dropped their second to Boston College 1-0.

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The women’s soccer team opened ACC play with a 2-0 win against Maryland on Sept. 26 at Spry Stadium, but they could not meet the same success on Sept. 28 when they fell to the Eagles of Boston College 1-0, also at home.

The first weekend of ACC play for the Deacons started strong as they dominated the Terrapins on both offense and defense.

The Deacon offense took 14 shots while the defense was able to hold the Terrapins to only five shots. Only one of Maryland’s shots was on target while the Deacons put six of their shots on target.

The women’s soccer team opened the scoring in the 32nd minute when junior forward Sarah Winslow got the ball in the center of the field and drove her shot into the net from just outside of the penalty area.

The Deacons extended their lead in the 87th minute of play when junior

forward Allie Sadow took a pass from junior Jill Hutchinson six yards out from the goal and beat the Terrapin keeper to make the score 2-0.

Sadow’s goal extended her season total to six goals, which leads the team.

Junior keeper Laura Morse contributed one save while notching her fourth shutout of the year in the win over the Terrapins. This win improved the women’s soccer team’s record to 8-1-0 (1-0-0 ACC).

In the same weekend, the Deacon women’s soccer team hosted the No. 14-ranked Boston College Eagles and the No. 12-ranked Deacons fell by a score of 1-0.

The loss to Boston College drops the women’s soccer team to a record of 8-2-0 on the year and 1-1-0 in ACC play.

The game’s lone score came on a 49th minute strike from Boston College forward Amy Caldwell.

A costly turnover in the penalty area created the shot for Caldwell, who hammered her strike into the right side of the net as a heavy rain fell over Spry Soccer Stadium.

The Boston College goal, allowed

by Morse, was the first goal conceded by the junior keeper this season and snapped her 491:56 goaless streak.

Morse also made a season high six saves in the loss.

The Deacons, though, had several scoring opportunities. Four minutes after the Boston College goal, Sadow took a shot from 16 yards out, but her shot was blocked by a diving save from Boston College keeper Jillian Mastroianni.

Both the Deacons and the Eagles had their chances to score in the first half of play.

Early in the game, Morse blocked a hard hit strike from deep in the penalty area.

With a little over 10 minutes left in the first half, Sadow sent a cross into the penalty box and the ball was deflected by the Eagles keeper. The ball was free, but no Deacon was able to get to it before it was cleared out of the box by the Boston College defense.

A few minutes later, the Deacons were presented with another scoring opportunity when a cross from Hutchinson found sophomore midfielder Bianca D’Agostino deep

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However, D’Agostino was unable to get a shot on goal off in time as Boston College defenders flocked to the scene.

The women’s soccer team continued to strike at goal throughout the match, but the Boston College defense was able to preserve their shutout and turn it into a victory.

The Deacons were out shot by the Eagles 10-8 in the loss.

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The Deacons also trailed the Eagles in corner kicks 7-3.

The women’s soccer team will look to rebound against the No. 3-ranked Tar Heels of UNC-Chapel Hill Oct. 5 at Spry Stadium.

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Soccer: Deacs beat Elon, move to 9-0 Golf: Men place first by 16 at VCU Continued from Page B1

struck first. Senior Mike Lahoud played a cross to junior Austin da Luz from the far right side of the field. Da Luz found a streaking junior Zack Schilawski down the middle of the field.

Schilawski fired from 10 yards out giving the Deacons a 3-2 advantage, their first lead of the contest.

The Deacons were able to extend their lead to two when Tracy found da Luz on the left side of the box with 31:49 remaining in the contest. Da Luz fired a shot from 16 yards out that found the back of the net for his second goal of the season.

Da Luz nearly added another goal with 23 minutes remaining when he sent a ball of the near post. The deflection was headed for the net when Omar Schilawski Gonzalez cleared the ball.

Da Luz’s goal and assist in the highly anticipated match earned him ACC Men’s Soccer Player of the Week and Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week.

Tracy and senior Lyle Adams have also earned the ACC honors this season.

With the win the Deacons moved to 8-0-0, their best start to a season in school history.

Last year it was Elon who first blemished the team’s perfect 7-0 record and they would again try to play the role of spoiler this year. The Deacons traveled to Elon (2-6-1) Oct. 1.

The Phoenix were coming off three straight losses, two of which were to No. 15 UNC-Chapel Hill and No. 27 Charlotte and, they were looking to rebound with a big victory.

Head Coach Jay Vidovich told his players not to be fooled by Elon’s record that they were a dangerous team.

It was an especially interesting game for senior midfielder Jamie Franks who lined up against his brother Brad Franks who plays for the Phoenix.

The Deacons’ offense came out firing. They outshot the Phoenix 21 to five.

Ten of the Deacons’ 21 shots were on goal.

Junior Zack Schilawski scored the first goal for the Deacs with 30 minutes remaining in the first half.

Schilawski scored his third goal of the season when he headed the ball from just outside the six-yard box to give the Deacs the 1-0 advantage. Bone and Franks were credited with assists.

Junior Cody Arnoux was one-on-one with the Phoenix keeper with 4:30 remaining in the first half but he was unable to convert.

Despite a distinct lead in shots, the Elon defense was stout and held the Deacons to only the one goal in the first half.

But, in the 59th minute Schilawski struck again to put the Deacs up 2-0.

The goal was Schilawski’s fourth of the season and gave him his fourth multi-goal game of this career.

Senior forward Marcus Tracy played a pass to Schilawski who fired from just outside the six-yard box and beat the keeper on the right side to make the match 2-0.

Last year’s leading scorer junior Cody Arnoux padded the Deacons’ lead when he made it 3-0 in the 65th minute scoring his second goal of the season.

Tracy got his second assist of the evening when he played a pass to Arnoux who stuck the ball inside the left post.

Arnoux and Schilawski both had six shots whereas no one on the Elon team had more than one.

Junior keeper Akira Fitzgerald had seven saves en route to recording his sixth shutout of the season.

Fitzgerald also picked up a yellow card in the 35th minute.

The Deacons return home and look to maintain their flawless record Oct. 4 when they play host to the Virginia Tech Hookies at 7 p.m. at Spry Stadium.

The Hookies are 3-5-1 will face the 9-0-0 Deacons for the first time since the semifinals of the 2007 College Cup. The game will be aired live on the web by ACC Select.

For the second straight year, the Deacons will host the youth 3v3 Grassroot Soccer Tournament to benefit AIDS awareness in Africa.

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best performance of the year for the promising North Carolina native, who has scored for the team in all three tournaments he has played in thus far.

Rounding out the top-5 for Wake were junior Travis Wadkins and sophomore Justin Bryant.

Though struggling, both showed promise at times.

Wadkins shot 2-under par 70s in his first two rounds, and Bryant closed with a 73 on Tuesday in his first tournament of the year.

It was a memorable showing for Wake Forest University, as their 273-269-283 performance was also the third-lowest Wake score ever in relation to par.

It also provides the team with some positive momentum heading into a break in which the Deacons will not compete again until Oct. 11-12 at the Brickyard Collegiate in Mason, Ga.

Women’s golf team finishes 14th in Tenn. tournament

By Steven Johns | Contributing writer

205, 11 strokes under par. She made five birdies and “We’re all hitting it well and we’re all learning sick and some of us have been working on things, no bogies in the final round to claim the title. to read the greens well, but it’s just going to take but I think we will do really really well this year,” The top Demon Deacon was sophomore Natalie some time,” Sheary said.

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Wake Forest +39 Sheary who was able to shoot the first under-par The warm Tennessee weather made the greens very The next tournament for the women comes the round of the year for the Deacons. firm, making it difficult to weekend of Oct. 4 in Chapel Hill, N.C. UCLA -14 Her one-under 71 in the first round put her in a stop the ball on the green.

“I think we’ll do well; we all really like the course great position to place well, but rounds of 76 and “We had to learn to hit it and we played well last year so I think we will do to the front and let it roll to really well this year,” Sheary said.

The women’s golf team was at it again as they 75 netted Sheary a score six strokes over par for the the hole. We had some long Last year Sheary’s two over par helped the women traveled to Franklin, Tenn., to take part in the tournament, leaving her in a tie for 31st.

Seniors Jean Chua and Nannette Hill posted putts, and the chips wouldn’t finished in fifth place at the Tar Heel Invitation.

Mason Rudolf Championship. spin well so we didn’t chip that Sheary’s enthusiasm about the progression of This trip, however, did not have a perfect ending scores of seven over par and 11 over par, respecwell,” Sheary said. the team extends to more than just the upcoming as the women battled the Vanderbilt Legends Club tively. Chua finished the tournament tied for 35th and Hill finished tied for 50th.

Regardless of a ninth place tournament. to finish 14th in the tournament.

Freshman Cheyenne Woods and sophomore Allie finish and a 14th place finish “We’ll be doing a lot better, it might take us Team scores of 300, 301 and 302 gave the Deacons Bodeman finished the tournament 19 over par and Sheary the Deacons still have posi- another tournament or two until we get to where a total score of 903, 39 strokes over par. tive outlooks on the young we should be playing, but I think we’ll be good in The top team in the tournament was UCLA, with 21 over part to round out the Wake Forest squad. season. the long run,” she said. a score of 850, 14 strokes under par. USC came in Woods finished in 76th place and Bodeman ended Imagine2_3Pbw PM Page up 1tied for 78th.

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By Jermyn Davis | Staff writer Religion. Sex. Cheating Spouses. It sounds like a week’s worth of Oprah; however, those were only some of the topics explored in the university theatre department’s production of Intimate Apparel, written by Lynn Nottage. A better title might be intimate issues.

Nottage is known for writing plays that discuss the lives and stories of African Americans and women.

A graduate from Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 and a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2007.

Nottage is a well respected Brooklyn native and has been able to hit the off-Broadway scene in New York City with several of her plays. Her most well known and acclaimed play is definitely Intimate Apparel, though.

Chronicling the life and love story of an African American woman, Notttage creatively and metaphorically uses characters in their undergarments as she highlights the importance of some of life’s most intimate issues.

Set in 1905 in Lower Manhattan, the play opens with Esther Mills, played by junior Aleisha Price, a very talented seamstress, sitting at her sewing machine creating a garment.

Interestingly, Esther makes her living by sewing very detailed corsets for brides. Unfortunately, she is not married, but she yearns to know if her time will ever come.

Discussing Mills problems and their problems as well are; her landlord and friend, Ms. Dickinson, performed by freshman Fannezha Price; one of her clients, Ms. Van Buren, played by sophomore Lizzy Thomas; the fabric merchant who Esther purchases material from, Mr. Marks, performed by sophomore Michael Whatley; and Mayme, conveyed by freshman Latisha Di Venutuo, her talented friend who plays the piano and sings. Each character struggles with common, yet often very private issues.

Ms. Van Buren is trying to be accepting among her elitist class, yet she can not become pregnant.

Ms. Dickinson is still coping with being a widow.

Mr. Marks is trying to fit in as a Jewish member of society; (he also has a thing for Esther).

Finally, Mayme cheats with one of the characters’ spouses, but can not find the moral aptitude to see why that is wrong. As for Esther’s love life, she begins corresponding, by letter, with a gentleman overseas named George, played by freshman Olen Black. While working on the Panama Canal, George Armstrong describes himself and shows his affection to Esther through his letters. Eventually, George expresses a desire to come to New York and meet her. Because Esther is illiterate, she relies on the help from Ms. Van Buren to read her letters and help reply back to George. Once she does, he writes back only to come back to New York and marry Esther.

Highlighting another issue, after George and Esther are married it is shown that Esther has somewhat of a self image problem. Coming from two different styles of life, as George is coming from Panama and desires to be treated more equitably in New York and Esther understands the social structure, the two fail to ever see eye to eye. Eventually, because of many issues, their marriage becomes irreconcilable and dissipates.

Finally, the play ends with Esther sitting back at her sewing, the place she sat when the play began. Overall, there was never a dull moment while watching this production.

The changing in scenes was quite effortless and fluid. With such a small cast it is very important that there is chemistry within the actors. The actors really fed off of each other. Two actors in particular stood out.

Price definitely showed why she played the lead role of Esther. Also, look out for the talented freshman Olen Black who, to me, was the anchor of the production.

Ultimately this production highlights how society’s issues and differences, and how those differences can be a force of unity.

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Aleisha Price (left) and Lizzy Thomas (right) both delivered passionate, leading performances.

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Playing Ms. Van Buren, Thomas (left) is one of Esther’s main clients who struggles with getting pregnant.

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Michal Whatley (left) plays Mr. Marks, the merchant who sells Esther the fabric she needs for her garments.

Event review | Benefit concert for China earthquake victims

Concert raises funds and awareness for earthquake vicitms

By Katie Breidenbach | Staff writer

We all remember the images on world news at the end of spring semester and the incredible death toll that grew each day after an earthquake hit Eastern Sichuan, China on May 12.

Registering an 8.0 on the Richter Scale and affecting an area almost three times the size of Taiwan, the earthquake killed nearly 69,000 people and left 18,000 missing.

China rushed to recover and at the same time, finish its preparation for the Summer Olympics. World governments offered aid and China accepted in order to deal with the sheer size of this natural disaster.

University Student Government stepped up to help by sponsoring a benefit concert for the Chinese victims on Sept. 30 in Brendle Recital Hall.

For $5, students were able to enjoy a variety of performances from wellknown campus groups including Chi Rho, Minor Variation and Demon Divas. All proceeds went to the relief effort in the Sichuan province.

Chi Rho, the men’s Christian a cappella group opened the evening with five songs including “Down by the Riverside” and “Wade in the Water.”

The group also sang their rendition of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” accompanied by various animal sounds, providing a more upbeat atmosphere

for the audience. Minor Variation, the women’s Christian a cappella group, performed next with five songs including “Great is Thy Faithfulness.”

Finally, the Demon Divas, the women’s contemporary a cappella group, performed three songs to close out the evening, the last being a beautiful and moving performance of “And So it Goes” by Billy Joel.

The music was woven wonderfully with a slideshow backdrop showing photographs of the earthquake’s destruction.

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days after the 8.0 earthquake occurred and was present for the 6.0 “after shock” quake that followed.

The feelings became more real as she recounted the events in China.

Three stories from Shing truly moved the audience. First, we heard about two young students who were saved by their teacher during the quake.

The teacher had wrapped the students so tightly in her arms that the students were protected from the impact and were found alive.

The teacher’s arms had to be sawed off to release the students. In a second miracle, rescue crews found a dead mother in the destruction, clutching her living baby.

Buried in the baby’s clothing was a cell phone with a text message from the mother telling her child that she loved him.

The third story was that of the young boy who we all saw walking with Yao Ming in the Olympic opening ceremonies who had saved two of his classmates.

Overall, the concert was entertaining and also reflective, causing the audience to appreciate the depth of need by others even in the midst of a busy week for many of us.

The university community was able to take the time to collect itself, let go of current stressors and remember those outside of our brick buildings.

B8 Thursday, October 2, 2008

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She Said | A girl’s guide to getting it on

Being together without being together Hannah Werthan

Fuggedaboutit

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was released on DVD Sep. 30. The movie comedically details one man’s quest to heal his heartbreak after a breakup.

After his six-year relationship with his girlfriend Sarah Marshall, Peter Bretter feels as if his world has ended.

In an effort to clear his mind, Bretter travels to Hawaii, where he finds his ex-girlfriend with a new man. Follow Bretter in his hilarious escapades as he tries to win back his ex. This movie, by the producers of Knocked Up, is sure to be a hit.

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Staff columnist

Last week’s He Said article (“Long distance challenges all,” Sept. 25) inspired me to look back a few months to when I decided to try out the whole long-distance relationship thing.

I would like to point out that I’m not exactly sure how I got drawn into being in a real-life college relationship.

Prior to this, I had spent the majority of my life being indecisive and basically cowering in fear over anything than smelled of commitment.

I don’t know. Maybe it was the wine – oh wait, I’m only 18 and they card at restaurants here.

Maybe it was the magic of my boyfriend’s squeaking Daewoo. Whatever it was, I decided to take the plunge and start dating someone for three

weeks before we would be separated for the majority of three and a half months.

The initial separation was somewhat of a shock. I was accustomed to seeing him all the time, especially because we both work at the newspaper.

I resorted to storming his phone inbox with assorted text messages, which I’m sure ranged from “I just watched a movie that you wouldn’t like” to the even more exciting “I went to Walgreens today and bought toothpaste.”

I decided to invest in a Web cam for the amazingly free Skype. I would definitely recommend this to anyone attempting relationship separation.

Often on the phone, it is difficult to voice one’s true feelings such as disgust, envy and, my favorite, that “stare of death” feeling. Oh yeah, the good feelings are hard to convey over the phone, too.

My only problem with the Web cam is that I always felt inclined to look presentable because it was the only time my boyfriend could see me.

We did visit each other a few times.

A week into the whole thing, my boy-

We had spent most of our relationship apart and then suddenly could see each other whenever we wanted.

Or so we thought.

For those of you in a long-distance relationship, you can be pleased to know that sometimes I still feel like I’m in one.

Between schoolwork and my sorority, not to mention the not-so-relationship-friendly atmosphere of the newspaper, it’s difficult to make dates with my boyfriend.

Still, it does feel good that he’s just a 30-second drive to Polo away. (Yes, I drive from the Townhouses to Polo — get over it).

Take it from me. Long-distance relationships can work, but you have to be willing to work at it. I completely agree with the He Said.

Make an effort and you will be rewarded with a solid, committed relationship, even if your significant other is thousands of miles away.

“She Said” is a bi-weekly column that presents one girl’s perspective on the college sex scene. You may contact her with your feedback or ideas at werthr7@ wfu.edu.

Surrender to Sudoku

If you are curious as to where you will not be able to afford living for at least 10 years after college, look no further than this list of the most expensive cities in the United States.

1. New York, N.Y. 2. Boston, Mass.

3. Juneau, Ala. 4. Anchorage, Ala. 5. San Diego, Ca. 6. Philadelphia, Pa. 7. Los Angeles, Ca. 8. Fairbanks, Ala. 9. Ann Arbor, Mich.

10. Seattle, Wash.

friend spent a night in my house in Nashville for a meet-and-greet with my parents. I found the whole thing rather amusing, because I think he feared my dad would take out a gun and shoot his liberal butt right next to my dad’s Harley Davidson edition Ford truck.

About a month later, I came down here to the university for the oh-sothrilling experience of spending even more time in a dorm.

My boyfriend also came up to Boston to make sure I wasn’t planning on running off with a lover to Spain, as the Augustana song entitled “Boston” suggests would be acceptable. We spent the fourth of July watching the famous Boston fireworks and damaging our backs from hours of sitting on his towel.

Visiting is good, but when your significant other leaves, it almost makes things worse.

It’s no fun to ride the T with severe back pains and the realization that you won’t see your boyfriend again for a month and a half.

When we both made it back onto campus to start fall semester, it was so bizarre.

Check back next week for the solution to this week’s problem.

If you hadn’t noticed, we like to keep people waiting in suspense.

Solution from 9/25

Movie Review | Choke

Palahniuck novel-turned-film makes dark comedy

By Caroline Edgeton | Asst. life editor

Student Union Spotlight

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

Wine Tasting Short Course Wednesday, Oct. 8 7-9 p.m.

Autumn Room in Reynolda Coffee House Open Mic Night Tuesday, Oct. 14 Shorty’s Homecoming T-shirt/Poster Design Contest Monday, Nov. 3-Saturday, Nov. 8

Drink of the Week Smashing Pumpkin

It is officially fall. The leaves are turning colors and the air is getting cooler. Though Halloween is not here yet, you can get your pumpkin fix with this tasty, fall beverage.

Move over Starbucks, we have a pumpkin spice drink with a kick! .3 oz coffee liqueur .3 oz Irish cream .3 oz cinnamon schnapps Add ingredients to a small shaker with ice.

Stir ingredients together.

Strain the mixture into a shot glass.

Drink up! It almost tastes like a liquid piece of pumpkin pie!

When one reads the plot line for Choke, more than likely one will either expect the worst or have absolutely no idea what to think. It is as follows: “A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother’s hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.”

Due to this peculiar yet blunt description, I surely thought there had to be more depth entailed than simply a man choking on food who also enjoys having his way with women on a regular basis. I was indeed proven correctly. For those of you who are fans of the popular 1999 Brad Pitt and Edward Norton smash hit Fight Club, you may be fully aware of who Chuck Palahniuk is.

A cult favorite author since the early ‘90’s, Palahniuk is generally known for releasing graphically detailed books that focus on the development of an individual’s character while also conveying the dark, vulgar side of humanity (this is debatable, though).

In my case, I’ve only read Fight Club and Invisible Monsters. Both are social commentaries on how people are when they allow the murky, more sinister sides of themselves take over while also trying to be what society calls a “normal” human being.

The novel Choke was Palahniuk’s first popular bestseller, though, and thrust him into the Choke world of cult Starring | Sam Rockwell, Angelica icons. Fans Houston and Kelly Macdonald of his books Director | Clark Gregg have been Who’s it for? | Fans of Chuck waiting for Palahniuck novels this film for a while. The Running Time | 1 hr. 29 min. film opens Rating | (out of 5) with the main character Victor Mancini, wonderfully played by Sam Rockwell (The Green Mile and Charlie’s Angels), a sex-addicted, troubled man who is forced to financially take care of his mother who never gave him the love he truly desired. Sound Freudian to you?

Through the description of his character it makes the film sound somewhat crudely serious; however, the story manages to be both a comedy and a drama.

It makes light of his sex addiction through humorous scenes with whomever he is casually “courting” (emphasis on casual) at the time.

If you are easily bothered by sex scenes in films, this one has many to choose from. Some are more graphic than others, but definitely don’t make a point to see this if that type of thing makes you feel uncomfortable.

Though Rockwell’s character is dealing with his sex addition, he is also trying to figure out his father’s past. Through series of flashbacks, we are

Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures

Chuck Palahniuck’s first best-selling novel Choke has recently hit the screen as a short but interestingly funny film staring Sam Rockwell. able to see that in his childhood, he was forced to stay in multiple foster homes due to his mother’s inability to be a good parent.

Though he was supposed to stay away from her, he ended up spending more time with her due to her need to kidnap him from every home.

Victor’s mother, played by Angelica Houston (The Royal Tenenbaums and The Adams Family), ages in a way that causes her to mistake her son with people from her past; therefore, he never is able to actually have the discussion of his real father’s history.

In addition to that, he is also faced with the burden of paying bundles of money to the mental institution his mother resides in.

As a ploy to obtain the adequate amount of money, he only dines at fancy, upscale restaurants with the intention of choking on his food.

Instead of simply choking on his food, though, he picks out one person in particular to help him that looks like they are able to pay the bills and then some.

In his head, he has made someone with a lot of money feel like a good Samaritan; therefore, he keeps track of those who help him and send them fake letters describing how hard his life is and how he cannot pay his bills. In return, because Victor made these individuals feel better about themselves

by “saving” him, they send him money to aide the financial support he desperately needs.

This, too, adds a psychological detail to the story due to his reliance on the kindness of strangers. A Streetcar Named Desire, anybody?

Through facing his stacks of problems, he meets the first girl he actually has feelings for. Paige Marshall, well-played by Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men), adds the sweetness that the film surprisingly has.

Overall, this entire film is very well done that I definitely enjoyed it. The ideas presented are very interesting and psychologically appealing. I definitely think this is a film for Palahniuck fans all over.

The common complaint I’ve heard about it from those who have read the book is that the film is too short to fit all the deep themes and vulgarity the novel entails.

Even so, I honestly don’t think it would have been able to maintain the same type of twisted charm if it had been any longer or more graphic; however, I have not read the book.

It is a psychological comedy and drama that only will entertain those whom enjoy darker, more perverse humor. If you fit this category, be prepared to enjoy this one.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 B9

Restaurant Review | Putters

Local favorite may cause spontaneous, poetic outburst

By Alex Osteen | Opinion editor

at least once and have already made up your own opinion of Putters is my favorite restaurant it. And if you wouldn’t give it six in Winston-Salem. I’m giving it stars out of five, you’re plain old an easy five stars, no question. wrong. (Letters to the editor may In fact, I tried be sent to to convince them ogboped@ Putters to let me give it wfu.edu.) six, but it would Location | 3005 Bonhurst Dr. The fact of have “broken the Hours | 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Mon. - Fri. the matter system.”

11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Sat.-Sun. is, Putters When you often Serving | American steakhouse has become daydream about a university a restaurant then Dress | Casual s t a p l e suddenly snap Price Range | $5 - $15 basically out of it and because (out of 5) realize that you’ve Rating | it is the just drooled all epitome of over your chin everything and notebook, one of two things that a college student could want is true. from a restaurant.

Either A; it’s got to be the best If I had to write a brief poem restaurant in Winston-Salem on why that’s true, i.e. on why I (perhaps the world over) or B, love Putters, I guess I’d probably you have problems. The correct come up with something like the answer is A, Putters is the best following: restaurant in town. For those of Oh Putters, how you woo my you who guessed B and think soul, that I have problems, I’ve got My mouth drools, munching two words for you: soft chips. If on your food its goal. you don’t understand “soft chips,” Buffalo chicken sandwiches, just keep reading, I’ll come back I want to shove them in my face to them. with my handwiches.

Funny business aside, Putters is Make the choice: eat outside, good. Let’s be completely honest inside or beside … here. Chances are, if you go to this Those sweet widescreens and university, you’ve been to Putters watch some teams collide.

The local staff won’t give you gaff, Probably they’ll crack a joke, make you laugh.

Cheap menu, fast service and close to school, Did I mention thinking of those chips makes me drool?

Red Oak and others on tap at their bar, Eating those soft chips and ranch may one day give me a car-diac arrest.

I’m an econ major, give me a break — besides, I’m of the mentality that if a poem doesn’t (try to) rhyme, it’s not telling the reader enough about Putters.

I know you’re thinking at this point (yes, I’m actually talking directly to you now, still), that I’ve just completely wasted your time.

I could have, and should have in your opinion, explained in clear and eloquent Wake Foreststyle diction the positives and negatives of the restaurant of which I’m supposed to be the critic. But what’s the fun in that? Putters just happens to be that one restaurant in town that makes me jubilant.

It’s got a few thousand good things on its menu, it’s cheap, not fancy and a quick drive from campus, and I feel comfortable

What You Didn’t Know | By Caldwell Tanner

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This near-by staple is definitely a place one shouldn’t miss. Serving American items such as buffalo chicken sandwiches are a definitely college favorite. going there to get a — and I’m quoting Mr. Farrell here — scrumtrulescent meal any time.

It’s got beer and sweet tea, great sandwiches and hamburgers, steaks, plus sports on all the TVs. Oh, and please, please,

please don’t forget those heartclamp-up, addictive, irresistible and possibly sexually desirable soft chips and ranch — an absolute M.U.S.T. Putters is comfortable and reliable. It’s that well-worn

university sweatshirt that you’ve worn and will continue to wear.

Moral of the story my fellow food junkies, my comida compadres: go to Putters and like it!

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

Healthy eating can be easy

By Jen Reppucci | Staff columnist

Maintaining a healthy diet on college campuses can be a tricky endeavor.

Without the availability of personal kitchens, or more importantly, parents to plan out and prepare nutritious and delicious meals, it becomes difficult for many students to know what is best to eat.

It is also easy to be swayed towards the always satisfying French fries, pizza or macaroni and cheese options. While these foods are tasty, students cannot live on them alone.

Many of you may be realizing two months into the semester that while the variety of fried foods and delicious desserts make your eyes bulge and stomachs rumble, a healthier diet routine is imperative to your health.

The university is an accommodating campus for those who want to maintain or start a healthy diet plan. For example, the Fresh Food Company, or more commonly known as the Pit, has gone through many changes in their appearance and the foods they provide.

This year, with the help of newly employed district manager, Roy Biggers, they are making a greater effort to give students the best food possible. Biggers says this year they are using more natural

and organic foods such as free range beef and local produce. He states that all the ground beef they use is 80/20 which means that it is 80 percent lean, 20 percent fat.

They have also stopped cooking with trans-fat oils and have switched to olive oils.

At every meal, you can find freshly baked white, wheat and multigrain breads as well as fresh fruits and vegetables. A common situation is the lack of time to sit down and eat a meal.

According to Kate Ruley, the campus nutritionist, almost every location on campus has to-go options.

She devised a quick and healthy meal plan that can work for anyone on a tight schedule.

Breakfast options: veggie omelet fresh fruit, and yogurt; Lunch: to-go boxed lunch from the Magnolia Room, including salad, soup, vegetables and perhaps a lean protein choice; Dinner: Subway sandwich on a whole grain bread with lots of veggies, light mayonnaise, baked chips and a cookie.

Another option is stocking up on whole grain cereals for a quick meal with nutrients.

Cereal is an excellent source of thiamin and riboflavin, vitamins that help you use energy efficiently.

Kashi and Fiber One brands are

great selections. Microwavable soups and dinners can be quick and healthy if they are low on sodium and contain veggies and protein. Healthy Choice, Progresso, Lean Cuisine and Kashi are usually tasty options.

Late night snacking is something many of us do when we are studying, stressed or just bored. There is a healthy way to go about this if you just pick the right things to snack on.

Keep easy fruits like grapes in your fridge or snatch a bunch of apples from the Pit and dip them in peanut butter to get protein and fiber.

Mixed nuts and dried fruits are great options as well. Nuts provide your body with magnesium which is important in metabolism, nerve function and muscle function. Sweets like Sweedish Fish, Raisinettes dark chocolate, and frozen yogurt can satisfy your sweet tooth, but not set you back.

It is completely feasible to eat healthy while living on your own; however, one must be open minded.

People such as Roy Biggers and Kate Ruley are also available to discuss options that will meet your needs.

I recommend checking out the book Eat This, Not That, by David Zinczenko, to read about everyday foods that are great for you. It is a personal favorite of mine. Good luck and happy eating!

Event Review | Secrest Series

Famous jazz musician spices up the beginning of Secrest Series

By Poojah Patel | Contributing writer

On Sept. 25, people of Winston-Salem and students of Wake Forest University joined together to find the classical soul of New Orleans through the rhythms and styles of Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s concert, “New Orleans Live!”.

The NOJO’s main mission is “inspire freedom and culture in the individual and the global community by creating authentic, engaging Jazz experiences while celebrating the origins and transforming the future of jazz.”

I think it’s safe to say that their mission was accomplished last Thursday.

Mayfield and the band had the crowd thoroughly engaged throughout the concert. From the upbeat jazz songs to the jokes Mayfield made in between the songs, the audience was kept tapping their feet, snapping their fingers and laughing. Everyone in the crowd looked like they were having a good time.

The night started off with a historical Power Point presentation being shown giving historical facts of Mayfield and the NOJO. Mayfield, the lead trumpeter, bandleader, compose arranger and recording artist, is extremely passionate about spreading the rich history and culture of jazz and to preserving New Orleans’ culture.

Some of his many accomplishments include being appointed the Cultural Ambassador of the City of New Orleans

in 2003 by the United States Senate, Congress and other governmental agencies.

He received his Elysian Trumpet that was hand-crafted for him by David Monette, in honor of his father who was found dead on Elysian Fields Avenue after Katrina.

He was also nominated for a Grammy for his Volume Three: New Congo Square (2001) album, being appointed Chariman of the Board of the New Orleans Public Library in 2006, and he is the founder of NOJO. That’s just to name a few, though.The list of Mayfield’s accomplishments goes on and on.

The power point also delved deeper into many of the historical icons of Jazz that have inspired Mayfield and NOJO, idols including Billie Holiday, “Jelly Roll” Morton, Sidney Bechet and Kid Ory. The power point was good for people like me who knew nothing about jazz and it just made for a nice transition into the performance.

After the power point slide had gone up and Mayfield and the orchestra began to play, the vibe and energy in all of the Wait Chapel changed drastically.

People who didn’t even seem like they wanted to be there, aka students in Jazz classes, seemed like they enjoyed the music as much as the some of the older folks in the room, who seemed like they wanted to get up and start dancing right then and there.

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Renowned New Orleans jazz artist Irvin Mayfield with his band NOJO delivered a dance worthy performance Sept. 25 in Wait Chapel.

It was an overall party, that’s for sure.

Everyone was clapping their hands, snapping their fingers, swaying to the jazz music; it was like a classier version of what kids would classify as a concert.

Mayfield was a very enthusiastic entertainer and knew how to please the crowd.

He played songs like “Somebody Forgot to Turn the Faucet Off” and “Such Sweet Thunder.” In between songs, they gave short anecdotes about the songs or made the audience laugh joking about the image of teachers who had seen him perform earlier “shake their thang.”

Needless to say, the audience left satisfied, happy and a little more knowledgeable about jazz and one of its most popular icons today.

Mayfield and the NOJO did a great job of bringing the culture and spirit of true jazz and the city it originated in, New Orleans, to our town Winston-Salem.

Personally, I’m not a conventional jazz fan, but have a lot of respect for it.

I was definitely pleasantly surprised at my enjoyment of the event.

Mayfield’s intense passion for jazz and the historical culture of New Orleans was very clear and it showed in his music.

ONLINE VIDEO: Watch an interview with trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and see clips of his orchestra’s performance.