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Despite the recession, Wake’s endowment remains one of the smallest among peer schools Graphic by Ian Rutledge/Old Gold & Black

By Sylvia Shank | Contributing writer Jim Dunn, the vice president and chief investment officer at the university, safeguards the university’s roughly one billion dollar endowment. The precise amount as of 2010 is 935.2 million.

While that may seem like a significant amount of money to most of us, it ranks as only the 68th largest endowment among institutions of higher learning nationwide as reported by the January 2011 Chronicle of Higher Education.

This figure, while far from shameful, hardly

New Title IX requirements implemented

University increases awareness of misconduct

By Julie Huggins & Daniel Schwindt | Asst. news editors Forty years after the passage and implementation of the controversial gender-equality law known as Title IX, the university has begun to change and expand its policies on sexual misconduct and harassment.

Not only did President Nathan O. Hatch send a school-wide email detailing the expansions, plus the announcement of a new Title IX coordinator with multiple deputy coordinators, but students, faculty and staff are also now being asked to read about and take a training test on these policies before March 9.

This email comes as a response to the “Dear Colleague” Letter sent out by the Assistant Secretary of Education in April 2011.

“We have created a website that includes educational materials for faculty, staff and students.”

Angela Culler

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“One of the emphases of the Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) issued by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is that schools must implement preventive education programs regarding sexual violence and misconduct, including information about available resources and the school’s policies and procedures for responding to complaints,” Angela Culler, assistant vice president for Employee Relations and Compliance and the new Title IX coordinator, said.

“We have created a website that includes educational materials for faculty, staff and students,” Culler added.

The email includes links to powerpoints, which give information on the definition of sexual misconduct, scenarios describing types of harassment and what to do in the case of sexual harassment.

The website provides information on the history of Title IX throughout the United States and what the policies mean for our campus.

Another element of the announcement was the redevelopment of the roles of the Title IX coordinator and Deputy Coordinators. “Although the Title IX Coordinator is not a new role on campus, the role has been realigned to ensure compliance with the DCL,” Culler said.

See Title IX, Page A7

By Ann Bauer | Staff writer

corresponds to the the school’s 2012 U.S. News & World Report rank as the 25th best school in the country. The disparity between reputation and endowment will decrease if Dunn and others in Office of University Development have their way. At the same time, they acknowledge the limitations imposed by the small Wake Forest alumni base.

An endowment is a donation of money to an institution like a university or a charity. Often, donors have some control over how their money

See Endowment, Page A8

On Thursday, Feb. 23, over 200 diverse members of the university community gathered for the first “Imagining a Different Campus Culture” deliberation.

Organized by Katy Harriger, chair of the political science department, and Jill McMillan, professor emeritus of communications, the deliberation set out to discuss campus life in light of the school’s motto, Pro Humanitate.

“Our goals were to get people to listen to each other about the different ways they experience campus culture and to look for common ground for action,” Harriger said.

Participants were asked to consider three different ways of interpreting the motto and of improving campus life.

Some, Harriger said, think that the university should focus on diversity and creating a more

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Pan-Hel approves new sorority Kappa Alpha Theta joins eight existing sororities on campus

By Emily Burniston | Staff writer Hold on to your chucks and jerseys, ladies, a new sorority is coming to campus.

The university will soon be adding letters to its Greek alphabet as the Pan-Hellenic Council voted Feb. 27 to bring Kappa Alpha Theta (also known as simply “Theta”) to join the eight other sororities already on the Wake Forest campus.

For those outside of Greek life, this may appear as a step towards further Greek domination at a school where sororities and fraternities are already highly prevalent.

Both Greek leaders and student life officials, however, are confident that the sorority will be a positive addition to the eight other sorority chapters on campus.

According to Ken Zick, vice president and Dean of Student Life, sororities in particular have reached historic numbers in membership, thus creating the need for more sorority options for interested students.

“The greater size tends to diminish the friendship, collaboration and sisterhood that exists within the sororities,” Zick said.

Zick added that the expansion of sororities needs to be understood in context with the density of all organizations and reflects a general expansion of many organizations on campus as overall enrollment continues to rise.

Student life has had to similarly respond to growing needs from all of these organizations with solutions like the Barn, which was completed this past year as a social space for use by student organizations.

Though the university will certainly give the new group a warm welcome to campus, Zick said spatial limitations will not allow the group to have a lounge in the immediate future, however sorority representatives will have the option of working with Residence Life & Housing to secure affiliated residence halls.

“Options” is apparently the operative word in this decision, with Pan-Hellenic leaders pointing to record numbers in students interested in Greek life to justify the need for a new sorority “option” to present to women going through recruitment.

Just this past year, only 338 students were matched with a sorority chapter out of the 473 women who registered for formal recruitment.

Julie Foote, who served as a Greek Recruitment Counselor (GRC) this past year, noticed a particular need for the new sorority as she guided freshman through the week-long process.

“I saw the need for another sorority on campus more clearly than ever,” Foote said. “Girls were open to all groups, yet there are simply not enough

spots. It was disappointing to see girls soured by the process and Greek life based on a logistical flaw in the system.”

Overall, the Greek community appears to be excited about the prospect of a newcomer. Stacey Wilson, president of Alpha Delta Pi, the last sorority chapter to join university Greek life, also noted that the addition should have a positive effect on Greek organizations as a whole.

“We’re really excited,” Wilson said. “The addition will allow us to focus on what we need as a Panhellenic community.”

Wilson did, however, point to certain challenges the new chapter might face in its beginnings on campus based on ADPi’s own experience.

“It’s a challenge on such a small campus to be known for anything other than being new,” Wilson said.

But besides perhaps facing a difficult start, it seems like Theta’s arrival will provide the answers for a lot of problems.

“We think it will help with recruitment, more girls will have the opportunity to be placed,” Hailey Rowan, president of Pan-Hellenic Council, said. “We see it as a really positive growth experience for the Wake community. We think Theta will thrive here.”

Major parking changes sweep campus

By James McCabe | Staff writer

On Tuesday the Wake Forest community received an email from the Associate Vice President & Chief Facilities Officer James Alty, warning of the permanent reduction of 350 parking spaces from the northern end of Lot Q. Cash incentives have been offered for those students to relocate their on-campus vehicle to a designated satellite lot. This relocation of parked vehicles is just the beginning of further notions to remove parking on campus completely.

“Parking at the core of campus, over time, will go away,” said Alty.

Alty, who has been workAlty ing on the 50-year Master Plan, understands the desire for parking on campus. However, as the university begins to grow the student population, the academic and residence experiences are more important matters.

“Where you see parking lots and spaces that are not currently used, those are potential places for new buildings,” Alty said. “The idea is to make the core of the campus more pedestrian friendly.”

Pedestrian safety is a primary concern on the campus. After the Dec. 8 hit-and-run incident

“By taking out the parking lots in the core of campus, there really isn’t a need for students to drive through the middle of campus.”

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involving ARAMARK catering employee Colleen Brehm, the university has been taking additional measures to limit on-campus traffic.

By limiting on campus parking, traffic is anticipated to decrease.

“By taking out the parking lots in the core of campus, there really isn’t a need for students to

drive through the middle of campus,” said Alty.

“This will make it safer for students and faculty to walk across campus.”

The construction of the new Schools of Business, north campus residence halls and a new dining hall are just the start of a complex system of new roads and traffic flow. “[We are] starting to move the roads to the outside of campus,” said Alty. “The idea is where Allen Easley St. and Carroll Weather Dr. meet will eventually be the beginning of a loop on the outside of the campus.”

Alty’s 50-year vision of the campus will be implemented step-by-step. This reduction of parking spaces for new buildings will be a common trend for further progress in the Master Plan.

Wake Forest is not alone in cutting parking spots for students.

“This is a pretty common trend across all universities,” said Alty.

Justin Catanoso, a professor of journalism, is already frustrated with the current parking situation for faculty members.

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Brieflies Parking refund offered to students for remainder of semester In order to make space for construction on two new north campus residence halls, parts of Lot Q and the entirety of Lot R-2 will be closed to vehicles.

To clear the space, students are being reimbursed for parking permits.

The first 100 students who volunteer to turn in their on-campus permits and agree to park in the Polo Road lots will be given 150 dollars, and the first 250 students who turn in their on-campus permits and agree to park in the University Corporate Center near BB&T field will be given 300 dollars.

The deadline for this offer is March 9.

Date changed for Morgan Judd memorial service in Wait Chapel The memorial service for Morgan Judd will be held March 22 at 5 p.m. in Wait Chapel. Judd was a Wake Forest student who died unexpectedly in December.

Originally, the service was to be held in early March.

Senior beer and wine tasting hosted for all eligible seniors in Benson From 1 – 4 p.m. on March 3 in Room 401 in Benson University Center the 3rd Annual Senior Beer and Wine tasting will be held for all eligible seniors. The Class of 2012 is invited to enjoy food, spirits and fellowship. The event is free and open to all seniorstatus students who are 21 and older. For questions, email Elizabeth Garrett at garretee@wfu.edu.

“Fundrager” to be held by Volunteer Service Corps and Wake Radio The Fundrager will be held at 10 p.m. on March 2 at the Wake Forest University Barn. Volunteer Service Corps and Wake Radio (with support from APO and Campus Kitchen) are raising money for Wine to Water, an organization that focuses on providing clean water to people around the world. The event will feature rap artist Miss Eaves.

Admission to the event is 7 dollars for the public, and there is a 5 dollar suggested donation for Wake Forest students.

Theater department presents new musical entitled City of Angels The Wake Forest Theater department will be presenting the play City of Angels from Feb. 29 until March 4. The production will continue until Saturday, March 3, on the Main Stage in Scales Fines Arts Center.

Admission is 12 dollars for adults, 10 dollars for seniors and children and 5 dollars for students.

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Symposium to focus on gender and sexuality in multiple disciplines The first annual interdisciplinary Symposium on Gender and Sexuality will be held from 12:15 to 6 p.m. on March 7 in Room 302 in Wingate Hall. The event will feature 15 scholarly and creative presentations by undergraduate and graduate students, which will showcase the work those students are doing on gender-related issues across disciplines.

For questions, contact Linda Mecum at mecumlg@ wfu.edu or (336) 758-3758.

Corrections In the Feb. 27 issue, senior golfer Lee Bedford was incorrectly identified as a junior on the front page of the paper.

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By Blake Bomier | Contributing writer Cynthia Gendrich’s student production of City of Angels opened last Friday night, Feb 24, in Main Stage Theater and performances will go on until March 3.

Gendrich received a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the Illinois Wesleyan University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

She annually directs for the university’s theater and teaches acting, directing and First Year Seminars.

Why did the theater department (or you) decide to do the musical City of Angels?

We loved the music. It was a smart, fun, witty show, and I thought it suited our students.

Have you directed musicals or other shows at Wake in the past?

I direct every year. Into the Woods was the last musical I directed.

What do you teach at Wake Forest?

I teach acting, directing, First Year Seminars (my last was “Why do people laugh?”), Intro to Theater and the occasional dramatic literature class.

If you had to guess, how many students are involved with this production?

I’d guess about 50, including cast, crew, designers, assistant designers and front of house.

How many hours a week was rehearsal? Is this time difficult for students to balance rehearsal and their academics?

Rehearsals are six days a week. I’m there for four hours a night, but most of the cast didn’t have to be there that quite that much for the full six weeks.

Some people find that hard, but others find that it gives them structure.

I know a number of students who actually do better when they’re in rehearsal, but some have trouble with the balance.

Are the majority of students in the theaterminors and members of the Anthony Ashton Players? Do you give priority to these students in terms of casting?

Many of the students are theater or music majors or minors, but not all. And no one gets priority in casting. I’m concerned with who is best for the role.

Annual performance centered on women to benefit local charity The Women and Gender Studies department will be presenting The Vagina Monologues at 7:30 p.m. from March 4 to 6 in the Ring Theatre in Scales Fine Arts Center.

Admission is 5 dollars cash or 7 dollars Deacon Dollars for students, and 10 dollars general admission.

The proceeds will benefit a local charity

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How long have you been working on the show?

I’ve been working on it since last May, in terms of research and analysis. We casted it in November and learned the music during November and early December. On-stage rehearsals started right before classes began in January.

What is your favorite number in the show and why?

That would be like picking a favorite child. I like them all, and have different favorites each night, depending on how deeply committed the actors are to each.

What is the moral of the show? What is its main message?

I don’t think of plays that way. Thematically, it’s about integrity. Every character in the play reflects that theme in some way.

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POLICE BEAT Underage Consumption • An offender was found intoxicated in Collins by the individual’s roommate. EMS arrived and transported the victim to WFUBMC.The report was filed at 12:28 a.m. on Feb. 25.

• WSPD responded to a report of loud music.

When WSPD arrived, they issued 41 state citations for underage consumption. WSPD sent University Police the report with the names of students issued citations. The report was filed at 12:15 a.m. on Feb. 26.

Larceny/Breaking & Entering • An intoxicated subject went to the wrong house and attempted to gain entry through the rear door. Neighbor called WSPD. The subject was confused and thought he was at his brother’s home. The report was filed at 4:25 a.m. on Feb. 26.

• A laptop was left unattended in the Luter lobby while the owner went back to the room. When the owner returned, the laptop had been taken.

The report was filed at 10:53 a.m. on Feb. 25.

• Unknown subject(s) removed victim’s laptop from a room in Bostwick. A friend of the victim had picked up the laptop by mistake, and it was returned to the owner. The report was filed at 2:07 p.m. on Feb. 21.

• An unknown subject removed an unsecured laptop from a desk in the basement of the library.

The report was filed at 12:06 a.m. on Feb. 24.

• An unknown subject(s) removed a laptop from the victim’s unsecured backpack in a classroom in Scales. The report was filed at 2:20 p.m. on Feb. 23.

• Unknown subject(s) removed an unsecured laptop from the hallway in South Hall. The report was filed at 3:47 p.m. on Feb. 21.

• Unknown subject(s) forcibly removed a victim’s bike near Lot M by cutting the cable lock. The report was filed at 3:36 p.m. on Feb. 20.

Property Damage • University Police responded to a call about an intoxicated student in Poteat who broke an overhead light, trashed the hallway, and set off

a sprinkler head causing water damage in the suite hallway. The report was filed at 2:00 a.m. on Feb. 26.

• An unknown subject kicked and broke door panels and glass panes in exterior doors in Kitchin.

The report was filed at 10:25 p.m. on Feb. 26.

Miscellaneous • WSPD responded to an off-campus call in reference to a student being in possession of a BB gun.

It was determined that the offender had discharged the gun into the ground. The report was filed at 11:42 p.m. on Feb. 23.

• WSPD received a tip of drug traffic and underage drinking occurring on Polo Road.

WSPD requested University Police assist them.

Officers talked with the residents, walked through the interior of the house and strongly warned the residents.

Nothing was located. The report was filed at 10:00 p.m. on Feb. 25.

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Dr. Seuss-themed Wake N’ Shake supports the local fight against cancer

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In a few short weeks, Wake Forest will be hosting its largest student-run philanthropy event known by students, faculty and staff as Wake ‘N Shake.

The annual dance marathon will be held on March 24 in Reynolds Gymnasium. All proceeds raised will be donated to the Brain Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive to directly benefit the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

Wake ‘N Shake 2012 is co-chaired by seniors Gaby Borray and Austin Ferguson and is under the faculty advisement of Mike Ford, associate dean of Campus Life, and Steve Hirst, director of Student Leadership.

During the “Dr. Seuss: Oh the Places We’ll Go!” themed event, groups of students, faculty, staff and community members will have the opportunity to participate in various competitions and enjoy various entertainment groups including the Bouncing Bulldogs jump rope team and Wake Forest’s own band, Carolina Blend.

Beginning at noon, registered groups will begin flooding the gymnasium to partake in the festivities during either

six-hour or 12-hour shifts. Though no sitting will be allowed during the event, participants are guaranteed to be kept busy with relay races, coached dances and numerous games, all the while being fueled by refreshments from popular eateries like Cook Out and Chipotle.

Though part of the lure may lie in the renowned snacks or the inflatable bounce slides, the event’s success stems from the cause all participants can relate to: the fight against cancer.

While last year’s event raised 72,000 dollars for the Comprehensive Cancer Center, this year’s committee has set the goal to raise 100,000 dollars.

“We intend to reach it with ease as long as we have the participation of the Wake Forest community, students, faculty and administrators alike,” junior Laura Trollinger, executive board member, said.

And with the buzz already starting around campus, that goal doesn’t seem like such a stretch.

“I’ve attended Wake ‘N Shake all three years and am ecstatic to attend again this year. It’s one of my favorite events at Wake — so fun, but also so incredibly touching,” senior Tara Seymour said. “A lot of highs and lows throughout the day — you can literally go from laughing to crying in a matter of minutes, and then right back to laughing again.”

Though Wake ‘N Shake has its fair share of veterans, this year’s executive

board is looking to attract over 1,000 participants — more than any other year in the past.

With a new marketing plan unveiled during exam week, Wake ‘N Shake has begun attracting new participants through T-shirt deliveries, button sales, and a benefit concert.

The first of these initiatives occurred during exam week of last semester when students were surprised with a t-shirt delivery in the Z. Smith Reynolds library during studying.

Promotion continued on February 16 at 8:30pm in Benson 401B when the University’s a cappella groups, Chi Rho, Innuendo, Plead the Fifth, and Demon Divas performed for supporters.

Finally, for the past two weeks buttons have been sold for $3 cash or Deacon Dollars in various locations throughout the Reynolda campus including Benson and the Pit. They are worn in honor of cancer victims, patients, and survivors.

“There’s definitely a new hype about it this year,” senior Sydney Bailey said.

“Even though I’m a senior, I’ve never actually been but I really want to get involved this time.

“I’ve heard amazing things about the event and can’t wait to be a part of it.”

With the countdown beginning, the university community looks forward to helping find an end to cancer.

“It’s just about being a part of something that’s bigger than yourself,”

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Dr. Seuss’ “Cat in the Hat” and “Oh the Places We’ll Go!” senior Gaby Borray, Wake ‘N Shake co-chair, said.

“It may not seem like much but when you get out there and you see cancer survivors and cancer patients speaking, you realize that we really do make a difference and we have fun doing it too.”

Institute tackles Supreme Court cases Student-run organization enhances campaign finance discussion with showing of documentaries

By Elaheh Ziglari | Contributing writer On Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium, the Wake Forest University Roosevelt Institute hosted a screening of two documentaries, The story of Citizen United v. FEC and Free Speech v. The Federal Election Commission, providing multiple views concerning the verdict for the recently resolved Supreme Court decision in the Citizen United V. Federal Election Committee (FEC) case.

The case revolves around an injunction sought by Citizens United against the Federal Election Commission to hinder the application of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) to the film it created titled Hillary: The Movie.

The film revolved around Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s possible position as a president.

The BCRA regulates “big money” campaign contributions by adding restrictions to a variety of communications concerning elections. The main sections of the BCRA prevent such

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funding from taking place and also require donors to disclose a disclaimer when the candidate has not supported the communication.

Citizens United stated that Section 203 of the act was a violation of the First Amendment in application to “I believe in it. I really believe what we are doing will inspire change. ”

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Hillary: The Movie as well as related advertisements.

They also argued that Sections 201 and 203, which require the disclaimer, were also unconstitutional in these circumstances. After a 5-4 ruling, the United States Supreme Court found in favor of Citizens United.

The Court majority held that under the First Amendment, the corporate funding of independent political communications for candidate elections cannot be limited. It was further stated that the basis of democracy is the freedom of political speech and cannot be seen as any less true because the speech comes from a corporation.

The Court also chose to uphold the portion that questioned the constitutionality of both Sections 201 and 203.

In the end, the disclosure requirements for political advertising sponsors as well as the ban on direct contributions from corporations and unions were considered constitutional.

The university’s Roosevelt Institute defines themselves as a national student-run policy think-tank that is completely dedicated to creating sustainable and innovative solutions.

“There are a lot of students who haven’t had the opportunity to establish their political ideology and Roosevelt works as an outlet for those opinions.

We are all about solutions,” Joe Swanson, vice president of the Roosevelt Institute, said.

With the viewing of documentaries, the Institute is driven by a hope to raise awareness of the issue by providing multiple and opposing responses to the case.

Prior to the screening of the documentaries, the Institute prefaced the movies by offering an insight behind the thought processes of the justices.

A thoroughly researched unbiased account of their findings gave the audience a background on each formulated opinion. By providing an open platform for students to gain knowledge

on the subject at hand, students were able to form their own individual stance on the issue.

“We wanted to show students how decisions in the political process affect them,” Victoria White, president of the Institute, said.

“They are the future backbone of political society, if they are not able to voice their opinions they won’t be accurately represented in White Congress.”

The Institute consists of three policy centers which are respectively devoted to healthcare, equal justice and defense and diplomacy.

The group aims for close communication and creating an open space for students with specific interests to research.

White added, “We are multi-faceted and hope to increase to a full capacity with policy centers on economic development, education, energy and environment.”

“I believe in it. I really believe what we are doing will inspire change,” Swanson said.

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weren’t next week’s town halls held before the new parking policy was announced? And lastly, why were Patel and Simari the only student leaders to be notified of the “original plan?”

In our rush to expand and attract future students, has the administration forgotten the needs of its currently enrolled students?

While we realize that construction of the new residence halls had not been confirmed in August, we still believe it extremely unfair that the administration issued parking permits for the entire year, only to backpedal on this decision mid-semester.

The new solution, further, has not solved the central problems.

Does the administration have plans to meet the needs of commuters who rely on open parking spaces to come to class every day? Does the faculty and know that they will be asked to accept the refund if the students fail to do so? Is there a plan in place should the administration fail to find 350 people who will accept the refund?

The administration and SG have left more questions than answers.

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n Feb. 23, faculty, students, staff and administration gathered together to discuss some of the most critical issues facing our campus.

200 participants came to Benson with a simple goal in mind: to imagine what a different campus culture would look like — grappling with issues like social life, diversity and inclusion, engagement and intellectual climate at Wake Forest.

Representatives of multiple cross-sections of the university, from Greek life to athletics, from the administration to minorities, started a conversation that night.

In the aftermath of incidents like Pledge Night and the discriminatory graffiti of last semester, it has become very obvious that our campus culture needs to be reassessed.

What does it mean to be a member of the Wake Forest community? Has Pro Humanitate become an empty motto, and how can Wake Forest become more engaged with the greater WinstonSalem community? What role

does Greek life, an undeniably powerful entity on campus, play at the university? And do efforts at expanding diversity translate into inclusion once these students are enrolled?

These questions, and many more, were tackled by the attendees at the deliberation. A fly on the wall in Benson would have heard vigorous debate and healthy disagreement.

But throughout the often divergent perspectives emerged a common thread: a love for Wake Forest and a desire for the campus to be the best place it can be.

It is clear that these problems won’t be fixed overnight. These are long-term issues that demand visionary solutions.

Yet, participants left the deliberation invigorated by the discussion. A common purpose united all those who attended, and we can only hope that this is the first of many conversations.

This kind of discourse is quintessentially Wake Forest, the university we all strive to be. Let’s continue to have these discussions.

This is only the beginning.

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Parking changes ignore central problems, frustrate all central controversy this week has been the drastic parking changes that have already begun to frustrate students.

Yes, we realize that as the university embarks on its ambitious expansion plans, construction and parking inconveniences are inevitable.

And yes, we acknowledge that the administration is hosting two townhalls next week and has made efforts to reach out to student leaders by allowing SG President Nilam Patel and Student Trustee Matthew Simari to offer feedback on the original proposal. And we recognize their considerable financial investment in the compromise reached.

All that being said, we seriously question the administration’s tendency toward retroactive policymaking regarding campus expansion.

Why raise the three-year residency requirement before constructing adequate facilities to house the influx of students? Why make radical parking changes to an already congested campus before constructing new paved lots? Why

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Breaking the Wake Forest Bubble | Hamlin’s Ramblins

Focus on business school aids whole university Campus changes will help Wake progress

Hamlin Wade

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’ll be the first to admit that I am biased towards a liberal arts education.

At times, I can be quite adamant about it — my father has on multiple occasions needed to remind me that Wake Forest also has a rather impressive business program.

Up until now, I have been a strong opponent of the new business school building and the seemingly blind eye that has been turned towards repairing and maintaining Tribble.

More than once, I have made the argument that it doesn’t seem to make sense to ignore the needs and wants of the majority of the student body.

Our school is always struggling to be better, to become one of the most prestigious and important schools for tertiary education in the nation.

After all, the business school only makes up a minority of the overall undergraduate population.

Why should they be the ones to get new buildings when Kirby is already the best academic building on campus?

For too long we have held the notion that the administration was biased towards our business schools.

It took me until my senior year to realize that everything that our university does happens for a reason.

Take for example the biggest issue on campus — parking. Some students will be up in arms about the changes.

Many upperclassmen will not understand why they must be inconvenienced for a dorm that they will not live in.

For the next two years our campus will take a very different shape, as the two new dorms and dining facility disrupt parking spaces in Lot Q and pedestrian pathways between North Campus and the Upper Quad.

However, if we are to advance and if we are to continue to meet all the needs of the students on campus, we must make

changes. The administration recently passed a three year living requirement on campus which will increase campus vibrancy and allow students the opportunity to get the most out of their college experiences.

Dining on campus is always an issue, as students and faculty members struggle to find a place to enjoy their meals without being overwhelmed by the crowds.

If we are to accommodate these needs, we must build new dorms and we must build them now.

Therefore, we must take away parking.

Even my personal vendetta against the business school cannot stand the test of logic.

Our school is always struggling to be better, to become one of the most prestigious and important schools for tertiary education in the nation.

If we are to be consistently ranked in the top tier of colleges in the country, we need a stable and strong business school.

Whether we like it or not, business drives our world.

By no means does this suggest that a liberal arts education is unimportant or insignificant, rather it just reinforces an already known rule of society — business makes money and money moves our economy.

Therefore, if the Wake Forest for which I care so deeply is going to exist in the future, a new business school must be constructed.

The new business school will allow our professors to engage and prepare leaders of tomorrow.

The classrooms will open up new locations for conversation and learning.

And, when our new business school is up and running, more money will come to our university, which in turn will go towards renovations to Tribble, Carswell and the trio of science buildings.

Wake Forest seems to be changing every day.

Each time you pull onto campus, a new blockade has been set up and a new construction site is underway.

However, at the core of all the change that our campus is seeing stands the traditions of excellence that have made our school what it is.

No matter how many new buildings are erected in the future, Wake Forest will remain Wake Forest.

A new parking catastrophe, business school or dining facility will not be able to take that away.

So, as new temporary fences pop up across campus, remember that only good can come from it.

Wake Forest’s past excellence depends on its willingness to move into the future.

Let us stand together and step proudly into the next great chapter of our history.

Hamlin Wade is a senior political science major from Charlotte, N.C.

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Searching for Equality | A Citizen’s Public Duty

Israel Apartheid Week sends confusing message

by Arab governments — without the creation of a Palestinian state — for 19 years.

In 1967, Egyptian military forces began massing on the Israeli border following Soviet intelligence, which prompted a preemptive Israeli military strike.

In six days, Israel defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, as well as expeditionary forces sent by Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, the PLO, Kuwait and Tunisia.

The Arab defeat ended with Israeli control of Matt Moran Golan Heights, the Sinai, West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.

So is the comparison to South Africa justified?

Senior columnist The manner in which Israel gained control over the territories certainly does not match here it is again: Israel and Palestine.

Afrikaaner domination in South Africa.

It is the perpetual issue, the issue that Israel’s declaration of independence was reappears consistently after a lull. The greeted with an invasion, three years after the so-called “Israeli Apartheid Week” is right end of the Holocaust. around the corner, and our own university is Israel’s acquisition of the territories came after featuring a panel discussion on the issue.

Though the panel is not officially part of any Israel preempted an impending attack from the Arab states, following troop maneuvers and Israeli Apartheid Week events, its timing is statements such as “the battle will be a general conspicuous ­— as are its posters. one and our basic goal will be to destroy Israel,” The issue of Palestinian sovereignty is made by Egyptian President Nasser on May 26, serious, both as a human rights concern and 1967. for its regional implications.

The Afrikaaners, on the other hand, openly However, Israel is not running an apartheid regime and the relationship between Israel and stole land from the black African ethnic the Palestinians is unlikely to improve if Israel groups in the region following no major act of aggression either internally or from a foreign feels isolated intentionally. state. The economic situation differs greatly as well.

The term “apartheid” obviously grabs Whereas the black South African majority was sequestered on 13 percent of the country’s one’s attention, but it’s factually inap(worst) land, the Palestinian economy grew propriate to describe the issue. at a healthy 8 percent last year even though unemployment and inflation are fairly high.

Nor is the defining characteristic of the apartheid system, a legal racial hierarchy, at play Incendiary rhetoric, as is generally the case, in Israel or the OPT. will only make an already toxic situation Israeli citizens come from a variety of ethnic worse. groups that includes people of European, Latin First to the comparison with apartheid in American, African and Asian descent, all with South Africa. equal political and social rights.

The apartheid state was implemented in Arab citizens of Israel are legally equal to 1948, when the National Party won the Jewish citizens and have more rights to freedom (whites only) South African elections. of speech, conscious and political participation Apartheid was characterized by policies of than in any Arab country. extreme racial segregation with the goal of Palestinians in the territories obviously white supremacy and social domination by the lack these rights, but not because of a racial Afrikaaner minority. distinction.

During the 1970s, black South Africans This columnist sees no reason to equate the were stripped of what few political rights they situation between Israel and the Palestinians with still had and saw their citizenship revoked. the apartheid system.

Ten tribally administered “homelands,” So why is the week called “Israeli Apartheid or Bantustans, were established for black Week?” The term “apartheid” obviously grabs residency, and some became officially one’s attention, but its factually inappropriate to independent countries, although they describe the issue. remained unrecognized internationally.

So the result is a polarizing of opinion that From the early 1950s, black anti-apartheid activists protested their increasing political and prevents real conversation or solutions. I deeply sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians, social marginalization with methods ranging from peaceful demonstrations to campaigns of but I also deeply admire the state that exiles from Eastern Europe, refugees from genocide and a terrorism.

The government security forces responded to motley collection of the world’s Jews managed to these actions with violent crackdowns, torture, build.

When confronted with language about extrajudicial killing and disappearances. “apartheid” or boycotting Israel, good When F.W. de Klerk and the African progressives like myself respond with National Congress negotiated the end of hawkishness. the apartheid system in the early 1990s.

Nearly all Israelis want peace, but the The country’s economy was wrecked by international sanctions and socially fragmented perception of international isolation (which did not end well for the Jewish people the last time after decades of violence and protest.

The West Bank and Gaza Strip follow a very around) prevents the Israelis from feeling secure enough to surrender the territories. different story.

After the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, Jordan occupied and controlled the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while Egypt controlled Matt Moran is a senior history major from the Gaza Strip. What are now the Occupied Pittsburgh, Penn.

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Oscar for Best Actress belongs to Viola Davis Dean Guerra Guest columnist

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s I was watching the 84th Academy Awards last Sunday, I was excited to see who the winners would be, but for the most part I only cared about one category: Best Actress.

Very rarely has a portrayal of a character touched me like Viola Davis as Abilene in this year’s The Help. Davis’s portrayal of a maid in 1960’s Jackson, Miss., touched me and audiences nationwide.

Viola has this ability to let herself be vulnerable with the screen in a way that most actors can only dream of.

As I sat there and watched The Help, I didn’t see Viola, I saw a tired, over-worked, committed mother who was trying her hardest to make it in a world in which she was a second-class citizen.

After the laughter and the tears subsided, I knew this was her year. This was Viola’s year to win her Oscar.

So as I sat down to watch the Oscars, I was pretty sure that Viola would win, marking only the second time in history an African-American woman won the Oscar for Best Actress.

As awards season started, I was disheartened to see Meryl Streep win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the lukewarm film The Iron Lady. Even on her way to the podium Streep seemed in shock.

She thanked Viola twice, seemingly knowing that it was Viola’s year. Then came the Screen Actors Guild Awards in which Davis and Streep were pitted against one another again.

Then the surprise of the night came when Davis, not Streep, took home the SAG Award.

For many of us, this gave us hope that the award for Best Actress could go to a newcomer in film, that you could win the old

fashioned way: based off of pure talent and hard work.

So as I sat down to watch the Oscars I was pretty sure that Viola would win, marking only the second time in history an AfricanAmerican woman won the Oscar for Best Actress, Halle Berry being the first.

Finally at the end of the ceremony, Streep won. She stopped to hug Viola on the way to her podium, and then had this to say at the beginning of her acceptance speech: “When they called my name I had this feeling I could hear half of America going “Oh no, oh come on why her again?’ You know? But whatever!”

I was livid.

However after further thoughts here is what I have realized: Meryl Streep is an amazing actress. She is arguably the best actress of our time. She has a record of 17 Academy Award nominations, and anything she does has an aspect of brilliance infused in it. However, over the past 29 years (the last time she won an Oscar), she has had so many more brilliant performances.

She has had Sandra Bullock syndrome. This is to say that in 2009, Sandra Bullock won for a mediocre performance in The Blind Side.

While The Blind Side was a heart-warming movie, it was not the most incredible of performances for that year.

Instead, Bullock was awarded Best Actress for her overall body of work. This year, Streep had the same thing done to her.

While I love Meryl Streep as much as the next person, I just wanted it to go to someone who may never be nominated again and had an amazing and, in my opinion, the best overall performance.

Besides how many Oscar worthy roles are even written for African-American women in Hollywood? That’s probably another article.

However, here is 20 dollars saying Meryl Streep will be nominated again next year and Davis won’t.

So all I have to say is, “REALLY ACADEMY? AGAIN!?”

Dean Guerra is a junior theater major from Hockley, Texas.

Vegetarianism definition has become more vague Different types obscure true meaning of dietary choice Annabel Lang

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also need to grow plants to feed those animals.

Second, there is animal cruelty.

This is probably the most familiar argument; it is certainly the one most often employed to mock vegetarians.

Laugh all you want, eating animals is mean.

Guest columnist

situational vegetarian is someone who is a vegetarian most of the time, but eats meat under some circumstances.

I am not a situational vegetarian.

I am a vegetarian vegetarian, and I have been for about three years.

However, over the past six months I have started to see inconsistency in the logic that justifies my dietary choices.

This inconsistency doesn’t undermine being a vegetarian in general, but it does seem to undermine dogmatic vegetarianism.

I don’t want to spend too much time arguing for vegetarianism because I think most people are roughly familiar with the usual justifications.

However, I mostly hang out with other vegetarians or people who feel guilty about not being vegetarians, so in case I’m overestimating the average person’s knowledge base, I’ll run through some common reasons behind a plantbased diet.

First, there is the environment. Agriculture (or, more accurately, most agriculture today) is very bad for the environment.

As Frances Moore Lappe originally pointed out in Diet for A Small Planet, growing animals (as we grow them today) requires more agriculture than growing plants, because you

But when I am visiting my friend’s parent’s house, a place where my long term influence is limited and people have tried their best to accommodate me, who cares?

Most animals available for consumption have short lives filled with suffering.

Then they are killed in a manner that is shocking and horrible. If you want to know more, read Eating Animals by J.D. Salinger.

There are many more justifications, but that’s enough for now.

I intentionally left something out of the above arguments because the same element is usually missing in casual conversations about vegetarianism.

This is the actual connection between vegetarianism and the environmental and ethical concerns it aims to address.

In other words, to what extent is does it matter that I am personally a vegetarian?

The stock answer is economics. If I refuse to buy meat I do not contribute to demand, therefore I do not impact supply; I do not

encourage an industry that I do not support.

This doesn’t make a significant impact at the individual level, but makes one when many people choose to be vegetarians.

But what about meat that I don’t buy, meat that is served to me when I visit someone’s home or meat that is left over from someone else?

Eating such meat does not contribute to demand, the purchase is already made and the damage is done. This is where the crack in my logic opens up.

When I started to have these doubts, I convinced myself that dogmatic vegetarianism was necessary in order to maximize my influence on others.

This rationalization can’t be applied to left overs though and I can see no way in which my throwing left over meat into the trash and buying a salad is ethical. Eating meat served at someone else’s home is more complicated.

If my hosts know before I visit, my vegetarianism does have an impact. However, this isn’t always the case.

Recently I visited a friend of mine at his parent’s house. When he greeted me at the door he proudly said, we know you are a vegetarian so my mom made salmon. This happens all the time. As vegetarians we like to get together and rant about it.

To accommodate our eccentric dietary demands, our families make vegetable casseroles with chicken stock, cut the meat chunks large so we can pick them out, make lasagna with meat only on the bottom layer … or serve fish. For the record, fish is meat. But when I am visiting

my friend’s parent’s house, a place where my long term influence is limited and people have tried their best to accommodate me, who cares?

I started out by stating my hardcore vegetarian credentials, but I may no longer have a right to them. I ate the fish. I don’t regret it and I would do it again, so I guess I am now a situational vegetarian.

In addition to the flexibility of case by case analysis, there is one more benefit of situational vegetarianism I want to mention. In general, dogmatic approaches are problematic because they make us uncritical. For instance, if we are dead certain that vegetarianism is the answer to environmental concerns, we might not examine the environmental consequences of processed faux-meat.

In other words, to what extent does it matter that I am personally a vegetarian?

Also, I can say from experience that rigidity is hard to compartmentalize. When we adopt dogmatic ideology in one area of our lives, it can make us more inflexible overall.

Plants are the best food, but insisting on dogmatic vegetarianism doesn’t necessarily make us the best people.

Annabel Lang is a senior anthropology major from Columbia, S.C.

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Old Gold & Black Opinion

L E T T ER T O THE E DITOR

Increasing enrollment not the most ideal option for Wake

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ear President Hatch,

I write to you today to request that you amend the plans of the construction project on the two new residence halls on North Campus.

The simplest reason is that, as you well know, it will prove to be an impediment for all students living in the current North Campus residence halls as well as those offcampus students in the area who walk or bike to class.

In addition, the reduction of parking on campus by 350 spaces will only serve to cramp the campus even more, despite the refund offered to those willing to give up their on-campus parking.

Our most recent constructions have been the new admissions building and a freshman dormitory, clearly aimed at enticing prospective students.

While these are not the gravest of obstructions they beg certain questions.

Primarily, why is this project being started in the middle of the semester?

The university is literally at its maximum capacity right now, and all this will succeed in doing is to present yet another irritation on top of that provided by the construction of Farrell Hall.

Could this project not wait until summer to begin?

Would that drastically affect the deadline considering it is not slated to be finished until August 2013?

Is it so important to disrupt the daily lives of current enrolled students to provide

for people who are not yet even students?

Certainly, this highlights a larger and more important question.

Is this university devoted to serving its enrolled students or to simply procuring more students?

Our most recent constructions have been the new admissions building and a freshman dormitory, clearly aimed at enticing prospective students.

On the other hand, other essential improvements, namely increased dining facilities and upper classman housing, seem to have been an afterthought.

What does all of this expansion truly mean for the university? What will we truly gain from this expansion?

Wake Forest has something special in that it sits among the top 25 schools in America, provides the resources of a much larger university such as our internationally renowned medical facilities and Division I athletics, while all the while still providing an intimate environment for us all.

Should we sacrifice such a special mix all so that we can mimic Duke or Penn or Georgetown?

Will a grander reputation be gained by simply increasing our enrollment or rather by providing the best education possible?

This letter isn’t meant to be a personal complaint about the inconvenience of a necessary construction project, but instead to call to your attention whether or not increased enrollment is in the best interest of Wake Forest students.

Wake Forest’s enrollment size is a fundamental feature of its identity and the principal reason I came to this university.

Sincerely, R. Nicholas Conte Class of 2012

Student Trustee sheds light on parking problems

Involved student hopes to provide more transparency Matthew Simari Guest columnist

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f the many comments made in response to the recent parking changes, all had one word in common – trans-

parency.

As a student that was present throughout each step of the process, let me help illuminate the series of events that led to our current situation.

You may like or dislike the changes, you may agree or disagree with their implementation, but for now, you should at least understand why they are happening.

Last year, the university approved a threeyear housing requirement for students.

Studies consistently indicate that the length of time students live on campus directly correlates to greater learning-outcomes, increased community engagement and higher overall satisfaction with their collegiate experience.

On Feb. 3, the Board of Trustees approved the construction of two new residence halls, opening August 2013 to address the immediate housing needs for the increased number of residence students.

The construction will take place on the northern end of Lot Q and the entirety of Lot R-2, permanently eliminating 350 parking spaces.

By mid-February, Facilities organized a “Parking Think Tank” to address the impending elimination of spaces.

Representatives from every realm of campus participated, including Student Government executives, to brainstorm various short-term and long-term solutions.

On Feb. 21, Nilam Patel and I were notified of the “original plan” that was to be implemented.

The “original plan” called for the entire firstyear class to move their vehicles to the UCC Lot (outside BB&T Field).

In addition, 350 commuter or residence students would need to agree to park off-campus for the remainder of the year and receive a rebate to their DEAC account.

In all, roughly 650 students would be displaced from their current location. Believing the plan to be untenable, the SG executives and I met with the administration to discuss alternatives.

Through concessions on both sides, we agreed to the current plan. One hundred students will receive a check for 150 dollars to voluntarily move to an off-campus lot north of Polo Road, and 250 students will receive a check for 300 dollars to voluntarily move to UCC. Starting March 9, the remaining spots will be made available for faculty and staff.Three hundred and fifty spaces are being eliminated, that we cannot help.

The compromise-plan decreases the number of displaced students by 300, as well as offers monetary reimbursement to every one of those students in the form of a check, not a DEAC account credit.

Please note that the sidewalk at the northernend of the Lot Q leading up to Polo Residence Hall will be eliminated as well. However, a temporary, well-lit path will be created outside the construction zone to take the place of the sidewalk.

The next 16 months will be inconvenient for students. There are some things we cannot change. Two new buildings will be erected; 350 spaces will not be coming back, and parking will be even harder than it was.

But, the administration demonstrated through this process that they will listen to students.

You have all the facts now. If you seek to influence what will happen next semester or long-term talk to SG, talk to faculty and talk to the administration. Let your voices be heard.

Note: The university will host a Town Hall Meeting in Pugh Auditorium from 2-3 p.m. on Monday, March 5 and from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 8. Join the conversation.

Matthew Simari is the Student Trustee from the Class of 2012.

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Parking: Lot changes on campus concern students Continued from Page A1

“Every time I arrive on campus, it’s an adventure to find a place to park,” said Catanoso. “It takes me 20-30 minutes to find a parking space.”

The new parking incentives, which entails 150 dollars to park in freshman parking or 300 dollars to park at the University Corporate Center near BB&T Field, was not offered to faculty members.

But for professors who spend time each morning hunting for a parking spot, there could be a benefit to parking at the University Corporate Center.

“If you park at BB&T Field, you know there will be a bus running every half an hour,” Catanoso said.

“I can work around that.”Student response to the parking changes has been lopsided.

Junior Andrew Ellis paid 300 dollars to park at First Assembly Church back in August.

While he was not eligible to relocate his vehicle for cash, he does not think many students

will park at BB&T Field. “It’s too far for 300 dollars,” said Ellis. “I think they’ll take the 150 dollars offer, though.”

Junior Carrie Jaquett, who paid 500 dollars to park on campus, has concerns over parking at BB&T Field.

“Although it is a good amount of money, there are just too many consequences,” Jaquett said.

“That, and the email was not made very clear.”

A majority of students were unaware that there is a shuttle which runs from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. between the Reynolda Campus and BB&T Field.

This missing fact from the email has left many students opting to keep their car on campus.

“I think a good number will take the 150 dollars,” Jaquett said. “A good number of students in North Campus will likely do that. “ As the fences are going up in Lot Q, Jim Alty is working feverishly to accommodate the shortterm needs of the university.

“The million dollar question is: how are we going to compensate for the lack of parking at the core of campus?”

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Wake Forest has announced there will be changes to the number of spaces available for student parking on campus. The new policy will impact Lots R-2 and Q.

Culture: Groups start Title IX: University conversations on key issues hopes to end harassment Continued from Page A1

The deputy coordinators are also integral to the University’s goal of compliance.

“Deputy coordinators have been selected from departments across our campus and established to assist with the university’s compliance efforts and to ensure that students, faculty and staff have resources if they become a victim of sexual assault or need to make a referral,” Culler said.

“By reporting information to these individuals, available resources will also be communicated to those in need of such services.”

The administration is not the only group focusing on sexual misconduct and Title IX. A plethora of student organizations also work with the Title IX coordinator.

“The Counseling Center is identified in the Title IX training as one of the important campus resources available to students,” Culler said.

“We also work closely with Student Health SerClaire Stanton/Old Gold & Black vices, Rape Crisis and Campus Support Services Professors Harriger and McMillan organized the deliberation on diversity, and University Police depending on the nature of which was designed to start a meaningful conversation on campus Feb. 23. the complaint and the preferences of the student.”

Culler also emphasized that communications did not come up with any concrete solutions. “I between the Counseling Center counselors or Rape Continued from Page A1 thought it was successful in bringing together a Crisis counselors and students seeking counseling diverse group of people to talk about a common will be strictly confidential. inclusive campus. For others, the emphasis should issue and concern,” O’Brien said.

The administration has repeatedly stated that the be on “building a vibrant intellectual community,” university will continue to work towards buildJunior Simone Barbato agreed as well. “The while the third perspective stresses the importance people in my group were not diverse as far as ing a more welcoming campus environment for of community service and citizen engagement. students — both male and female and that part ethnicity goes, but we all expressed a great concern Participants in the deliberation represented a wide for the future direction of Wake including the of that atmosphere is the ability to feel safe. cross-section of campus life. Faculty representa- implementation of more diversity,” Barbato said.

“What the campus is focusing on is something tives included professors from various academic that hasn’t been fully met, which is the issue of Barbato said her group discussed each of the departments such as English and Religion and three aspects outlined by Harriger and McMillan, sexual violence for college women,” Dr. Michaelle administrators from offices in Personal and Career and that the discourse was fruitful.

Browers, associate professor of political science, Development, the LGBTQ Center and the Office said.

“I walked out of there with hope that this campus of Admissions.

“Unless women have a welcoming atmosphere will see some very positive changes,” Barbato said.

Members of Greek organizations, student athon campus, they cannot fully recognize and achieve Boyle concluded that the event left her with letes, Campus Kitchen volunteers and students their academic success.” hope for Wake Forest’s future, especially given the from groups like the Anthony Aston players and the “Sexual harassment and abuse have not diminGSSA (Gay Straight Student Alliance) presented impetus for the event. ished on college campuses, not even on our “Planning for this event began as a result of wora variety of student viewpoints as well. campus,” Browers said. ries that the campus culture has not improved but Since the type of discussion Harriger and McMilBut the question remains as to what the univerlan planned would be too difficult with a big room has become more dangerous for students,” Boyle sity has changed in regards to the Title IX policies. full of 200 people, they decided to split participants said.Harriger says that the inspiration for this event “The only policy that seemed to change was the came after she and McMillan published a book appointment of a new coordinator, but I think into smaller groups.

Angela will be a resource for both men and women “This format allowed for dialogue to be mean- on the need for more deliberation on campuses who are dealing with these issues,” Browers said. ingful and for people to listen carefully to others,” in 2007.

“Several things have happened…that caused After the Title IX training, the students, faculty Harriger said. and staff will be more educated on what policies These groups were composed of representatives Dr. McMillan and I to start talking again about the university has in place to protect victims of from various groups as well as two moderators the need to bring the deliberative model back to sexual harassment. trained by Harriger and McMillan to facilitate campus,” Harriger said.

She references the Pledge Night event in 2010, The required training test ensures that those on the discussion.Moderator Anne Boyle, professor campus understand the information given to them. of English, considered the event to be a success. the alleged rape committed by student athletes However, not all of those on campus believe “I think our group learned from one another,” reported on the Today show in the summer of 2011 and the homophobic and racist graffiti sprayed that the email was enough to tackle the issue of Boyle said. sexual harassment on campus.

“Barriers between groups were diminished and across campus in the fall of 2011.

Harriger says that as a result of these negative, Sophomore Amy Shackelford, PR manager for quite a few participants expressed satisfaction, even the Gender Equality Allies, a new organization inspiration, as stereotypes were challenged and highly-publicized events, the campus community honest ideas were exchanged regarding academics, was clamoring for an opportunity to engage with T:11.5” on campus, is one such student who feels that not enough is being done to counter sexual misthese issues.“There was a critical mass of people service and inclusiveness.” conduct. who wanted to discuss — or as we ended up saying, Students from various groups agreed with Boyle’s “While I believe in and respect the University’s optimism. Junior Annie O’Brien acknowledged imagine — a different campus culture,” Harriger acknowledgement that sexual misconduct is an the value of the discussion even though her group said.

issue that needs to be addressed on this campus, I was a bit disappointed by how it was addressed.

Providing a link to a powerpoint that most students will not click will not help address these issues,” Shackelford said.

“Attitudes towards sexual misconduct must change. In order to change attitudes, discussions need to happen and fine lines need to be drawn.,” Shackelford added.

“Too many organizations and people on this campus get away with sexual misconduct on a weekly basis and a powerpoint is hardly a start to changing that.”

“I think the university has an obligation, especially in light of some of those high profile cases on drinking and sexual misconduct on campus, to think about the role sexual misconduct plays for students, faculty and staff,” Browers said.

Title IX Official Name “The Mink Equal Opportunity Education Act “ Passed in 1972 Declares sex-based discrimination in education to be illegal

“No one should be surprised to find out that we have policies on sexual misconduct. I think the appointment of the title IX coordinator is a big improvement for our university.”

Mary DeShazer, professor of English and Women and Gender Studies, gave some insight into how the university could improve its treatment of the issue of sexual misconduct.

“It is my suggestion that they offer workshops for new students, Greek organizations, or any organizations that need or want to learn more about these important policies,” DeShazer said.

“What we all want is a community based on trust and free of incidents of sexual misconduct,” DeShazer added. “That’s an ideal more than a reality at present but it’s something we can all work together towards building.”

“In Women and Gender Studies, one of our goals is to educate students about issues of sexual violence and sexual accountability as a means of furthering the prevention of such incidents, because knowledge is empowering.”

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Outside the Bubble...

Nine left dead in storm’s aftermath as weather moves A storm system, which spawned numerous powerful tornadoes, left destruction and death in its wake as it pushed through the Midwest on Feb. 29, leaving at least nine dead and more than 100 injured, according to local authorities. Other possible tornadoes are expected as the storm moves toward the Mid-Atlantic region.

Among the hardest hit cities was Harrisburg, Ill., where at least six were killed following a tornado with winds estimated at 170 mph.

North Korea finally agreed to curb nuclear work for US aid North Korea announced on Wednesday, Feb. 29 that it would suspend nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment as well as allow international inspectors to monitor activities at its main nuclear complex. The announcement comes on the heels of talks between the United States and North Korea regarding reinstating US food aid to the impoverished nation. The administration has called the steps important, if limited, and stated that the country’s new leader, Kim Jong Un, is at least willing to engage the United States.

Egypt lifts travel ban on seven US democracy activists Egypt is set to lift a travel ban on seven U.S. democracy activists accused of trying to start political unrest in the country.

They are among 16 Americans who have been detained, the other nine have already left the country. Forty-three activists face charges of inciting protests against the nation’s military. The case has caused a major rift between the United States and Egypt, putting as much as $1.3 billion in aid to Egypt at risk, and sparked intense behindthe-scenes negotiations.

Russian President Putin warns against post-election violence Vladmir Putin cautioned against postelection violence in one of this final preelection campaign events. During a speech to members of the All-Russian People’s Front, the president acknowledged citizens’ rights to express their opinion, but took a harsh stance against his opponents whom he said would try to create the impression of electoral fraud, and stop at nothing to ruin his victory. The prime minister’s comments immediately triggered a reaction from leaders of Russia’s nascent protest movement who took Putin’s words as a warning signal.

Syrian troops reportedly moving into central city Homs Despite diplomatic pressure for a ceasefire, the Syrian military continued its bombardment of opposition strongholds on Wednesday, Feb. 29. A ground offensive by government forces may be under way, with forces loyal to Assad seeking to push into the beleaguered neighborhood of Baba Amr in the central city of Homs, which has been under near-constant attack for almost four weeks.

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Society still grapples with legacy of Civil War

By Hilary Burns | Life editor

Although the battles may be over, the Civil War is still upon us. Issues of racial inequality and civil rights are still prominent problems in America today, 150 years after the Civil War ended.

David Blight, an American History professor from Yale University, spoke in DeTamble Auditorium on Feb. 28 about how the aftermath of the Civil War is still impacting American culture and politics today.

“Do we want history to let us sleep at night or to give us nightmares?”

Blight said.

Blight noted that in the 1960s, a Civil Rights Movement was occurring at the same time that the country was celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. He argued that the Civil War was so integrally tied to civil rights but despite this, the centennial anniversary focused on “cleaning up and sanitizing” the bloody and damaging war.

No one acknowledged that America’s history of racism was influencing the revolutionary culture of the 1960s.

“The two events, the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil War, they didn’t fit together very well,” Blight said. “It was as though they were separate planets orbiting separate suns.”

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150 years after the Civil War, the U.S still faces racial strife, as David Blight acknowledged in his lecture on Feb. 28. to drive an ongoing North versus South divide, according to Blight.

“There is a way in which a big time defeat for a society, culture or nation that is destroyed grows great mythical stories about themselves,” Blight said.

Carlton said that the older southern generation holds a powerful memory of the war. Since most of the war was fought in the South, it is nearly impossible to escape memories of the war.

The battlefields, monuments and 72 national cemeteries created after the war are constant reminders of the

defeat and tragedy caused nearly 150 years ago.

Blight acknowledgeed that it is important for college students to know and understand the social inequalities of the country because “we can change political rights — we have done it before with women, AfricanAmericans and even today with gay and bisexual rights.”

He said that as the future leaders of society, college students should promote social equality of all kinds.

“It is a never ending struggle to try to forge a society of racial equality,” Blight said.

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their funds can be used. Some might require their donation be invested for a decade or longer for a greater impact over a long period time.

“A large endowment pays forever,” Dunn said. He hopes to enable more financial aid which he received as an undergraduate at Villanova. Endowment funds could go towards nearly anything including the university’s new initiative to prevent student debt.

Associate Vice President of University Development Robert Baker said, “We want enough financial aid to be competitive Dunn with [...] UVA, UNC, Duke, Davidson and Vanderbilt.” Moving beyond a one billion dollar endowment seems to be everyone’s goal.

It’s not that a billion isn’t a substantial figure. But Farrell Hall, currently under construction, costs 50 million dollars. Factor in another 50 million for each new residence hall for 2013 and then add the as yet undetermined cost for the new Wellness Center and renovation in Reynolds Gym. That’s potentially 20 percent of the endowment.

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Blight said that 45 years later, the election of Obama represented “extraordinary change” because of the large percentage of white Americans who voted for him.

He said that despite the progress we have made as a society, the U.S. still has a long way to go before civil rights are no longer an underlying problem.

According to a New York Times article that was printed just as President Obama was accepting the Democratic nomination for president in August 2008, “[Black scholars] fear that growing numbers of white voters and policy makers will decide that eradicating racial discrimination and ensuring equal opportunity have largely been done.”

According to the article, Obama’s election was a historical moment, but the battle for racial equality is not over.

“In 1968, we had one AfricanAmerican on the football team here at Wake and very few in the student body,” Wake Forest alumnus and Winston-Salem native, Don Carlton said.

Forty-two years later in 2010, 354 (or 7.6 percent) of all incoming first years were African-American according to the university’s Factbook for 2010-11. The racial tensions still prevalent in society today continue

Harvard with a whopping 31 billion.

Senior Ann Bauer reacted with surprise upon learning how the university is endowed compared to some of its peer schools like Vanderbilt, University of Virginia and Duke.

“I have heard from the university that it is smaller than other schools,” Bauer said. “I suppose it should be a matter of school pride to have a higher endowment but students just have such little context for what that even means.

It doesn’t mean anything to us. For instance, I don’t understand why we would need 30 billion or six billion dollars.”

Most of the endowment money doesn’t get spent. Irrespective of size, endowments generally cap off at around five percent for annual use. The rest remains invested to produce capital gains, with portions spread among a diversity of investment firms.

While the university’s Board of Trustees agreed to a slightly higher maximum withdrawal rate, 5.3 percent per year which comes out to be about 49 million, it was not quite enough to construct Farrell Hall.

Buildings, however, aren’t the only priority. Collegiate endowments also aim to cover scholarships and fellowships, allocate special funds towards faculty salaries and professorships, contribute to certain programs and reinvest so as to augment the endowment in case of future inflation or recession.

This year, the university put more into the endowment than it gave out.

“As long as we make more than 5.3 percent,” Dunn said, “then I get more money to pay for student aid.”

“We can’t afford to lose money at this point. Not 23 percent, nor any amount.”

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With its history of a relatively small endowment, five billion sounds like a pipe dream. However, recent statistics suggest hope. In the past year, University Development reports that both the amount and the number of donations have increased. “[The size of the endowment] is changing,” Dunn said. “It’s a cultural change. A lot of our alumni have been really successful and you’re starting to see a lot giving back.”

More graduates from the Schools of Business should contribute to the upward trend.

Compared to undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts or sciences, Schools of Business graduates earn 41 percent more in their first jobs according to a 2010 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) survey.

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“If we had 4000 donors of a million dollars,” Dunn said, “theoretically we’d be tuition-free.”

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“I gained a lot from my education at Wake Forest,” Walker said, describing the way professors invested in him and shaped his career path. “I still have personal relationships with some of my professors today like Dr. Tom Taylor who taught Intro to Accounting.”

Walker, however, put giving on hold when his daughter started attending the university in 2007. Her four years, each requiring a 50,000 dollar check, felt like a reasonable sum given his family’s budget.

When Dunn came to the university in 2009, the endowment had shrunk 23 percent in 12 months. It hit institutions across the board.

A 2010 Businessweek headline proclaimed “University Endowments: Worst Year Since Depression.”

Recent history has taught Dunn that relying solely on volatile markets leads to vulnerability.

Accordingly, when he began his new job he implemented a new strategy called “Protect, Perform, Provide,” which emphasizes cautious, low-risk investing in just, sustainable causes.

Dunn still keeps one eye on investment returns that increase the endowment, but he also scours portfolio performance and — most importantly — risk. The endowment’s growth depends on smart investing.

“We can’t afford to lose money at this point,” Dunn said.

“Not 23 percent, nor any amount.”

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Head Coach Jim Grobe looks to spring practices and the future. See page B10.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT Tim Cooney The junior left-hander talks about his pregame ritual, the hitter he would most like to face and his favorite major league player.

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{ UPCOMING EVENTS } MEN’S BASKETBALL 03/03 @ Georgia Tech 03/08 ACC Tournament 03/09 ACC Tournament TRACK AND FIELD 03/10 NCAA Indoors 03/11 NCAA Indoors 03/16 Wake Forest Open MEN’S TENNIS: 03/10 v. Michigan 03/10 v. Mercer 03/16 @ North Carolina WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: 03/01 ACC Tournament 03/02 ACC Tournament 03/03 ACC Tournament WOMEN’S TENNIS 03/01 @ North Carolina 03/03 @ William & Mary 03/04 @ VCU BASEBALL 03/02 v. Eastern Mich.

03/03 v. Marshall 03/04 v. Eastern Mich.

{ NATIONAL STAGE } Wild Weekend at Daytona The 29 hour 45 minute rain delay was not the craziest event to occur at the Daytona International Speedway earlier this week.

The 2012 Daytona 500, which finally got underway on Monday night, got off to an interesting start. A multi-car crash on Lap 2 knocked five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson from the race. Later, with 40 laps to go, Juan Pablo Montoya’s car, driving under caution, spun into a safety truck, causing an instantaneous and massive fireball which engulfed the car and part of the track.

As a result of the explosion, the race was red flagged for 125 minutes as drivers exited their vehicles, even chatting with each other on the track.

Matt Kenseth, who was the 2009 Daytona 500 champion, eventually won the wild race.

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Innings pitched without giving up a run by Brian Holmes Hits on the season so far by SS Pat Blair, tops on the team.

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Senior Secily Ray had an impressive week becoming the latest member of the 1,000-point club for the women’s basketball team. Ray, a native of Thomasville, N.C., recorded her 1,000th point during a road game against the Virginia Cavaliers. In addition to her impressive ability to score, Ray also had a great week crashing the glass en route to 11 rebounds against the Cavaliers and then 16 rebounds two days later against the Virginia Tech Hokies.

The 16 rebounds Ray was a career high for the senior. Ray is one of the leaders of the women’s team which currently stands at 17-12 on the year entering the ACC tournament.

This is one of the women’s best seasons in program history as the team remains on the NCAA tournament bubble. The women will return to action tonight at 6 p.m. in the Greensboro Coliseum against the Hokies in a rematch of the season finale game.

{ SPORTS WORDS } “(If) you’ve sweated and lost a bunch of pounds and you want to sit down and have a beer, I see nothing wrong with that.”

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Deacs win four straight at home

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The Wake Forest Demon Deacons baseball team enjoyed a successful weekend at home in the Hilton Garden Inn Wake Forest Invitational. The Demon Deacons faced off against the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Cincinnati, and Georgetown, and they ended up with a 3-0 weekend record.

The weekend started off well with junior Justin Van Grouw getting the start against Maryland-Baltimore County on Friday, Feb. 24.

Van Grouw Van Grouw went seven innings and struck out a career-high five players in a 10-2 Demon Deacon victory.

Junior Mac Williamson went 3-4 on the day with four RBI’s and two runs and recorded a grand slam in the third inning of the game to put the Deacs up 5-0.

That was more than enough for the Deacon pitching staff which only allowed two runs on

five hits. Van Grouw improved his record to 1-1 on the season with a 2.92 ERA. He has struck out nine batters in two appearances on the mound this year.

Junior starter Tim Cooney continued the strong pitching from the Wake staff on Saturday against Cincinnati when he went seven innings, allowing only three hits while striking out 10 en route to a 7-0 shutout for the Deacs.

It was the first Wake Forest shutout since May 11, 2011 against Maryland, a contest the Deacons won 4-0 in College Park.

Junior Pat Blair went 4-5 on the day with two RBI’s and a run.

Wake jumped out to an early 4-0 lead through two innings after junior Brett Armour doubled in two runs in the second inning, followed by singles by freshman Kevin Jordan and Blair to increase the lead to four runs.

Sophomore Nate Jones pitched two hitless innings in relief to secure the win for the Deacons, retiring all six batters he faced.

With the win, Wake improved their record to 3-4 on the year heading into the weekend finale against the Georgetown Hoyas the Cincinnati Bearcats remained winless on the year before capturing a much-needed victory on Sunday’s finale over UMBC. Following solid starts by Van Grouw and Cooney in the first two games of the weekend, the pressure was on junior Brian Holmes to complete the trifecta with another good outing

See Baseball, Page B3

Junior shortstop Pat Blair leads in batting average and second in RBIs this season.

DEACS MEAN BUSINESS An in-depth look into Wake athletes enrolled in the Schools of Business

By Mike Zavagno | Staff writer

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sports, as well as in the classroom, the athletes stressed the importance of time management.

“The heavy workload of the business school, on top of 40-plus hours a week of volleyball-related activities, has allowed me to sharpen my time management and organizational skills,” said senior volleyball player Cambrey Oehler said.

Junior men’s soccer goalie Michael Lisch agreed with Oehler, also stressing time management as imperative while competing at a high level in sports and academics.

“It has really taken a lot of time management to be able to do homework, play soccer, practice, and travel to different universities,” Lisch said.

“There are times when you might have to sacrifice

The Wake Forest School of Business and Accountancy was rated the 19th Best Undergraduate Business School in the country by businessweek.com.

The two-year program, which commences after the completion of a student’s sophomore year, is comprised of just fewer than 500 students, around 10 percent of the Wake Forest undergraduate student body. The students competing for admission to this prestigious program come from many different cross-sections of Wake Forest’s population.

One of the key components of the business school is the presence of athletes, who balance the heavy workload with their respective sports.

As Austin Stadler, a starting pitcher on the Wake Forest baseball team describes, “The business school was [recently] rated the toughest workload in the country with over 20 hours of work a week,” Stadler said. “[This makes it] very difficult to manage sleep, school, eating, and athletics, while doing well in every aspect.” In See Business Deacs, order to achieve success in their respective Page B10

Sports media decides relevance of athletes Recent fascination with Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow demonstrates outlets’ biases

By Gary Pasqualicchio | Senior writer Who are the two biggest rising stars in professional sports? If you ask the media, the answers are Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin. What was the biggest sports story of the summer? If you ask the media, it was the NFL lockout. A few years ago, the subjects of interest would have been Brett Favre’s (umpteenth) comeback to the game or Terrell Owens’ next suitor.

In the big picture, I argue that none of these stories were anywhere near as relevant as ESPN and other media outlets portrayed them to be.

Tebow, a man and player who I have a newfound respect for, led his team to a 9-9 overall record and Divisional Round playoff exit. Lin’s team, for all of the hype surrounding the rookie point guard, is hovering near the .500 mark and fighting to hang on to one of the last two playoff spots in the historically top-heavy Eastern Conference.

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Deacons crush Hokies on Senior Day

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The Wake Forest women’s basketball team bounced back from a disappointing loss to the Virginia Cavaliers on Feb. 24 to defeat the Virginia Tech Hokies on Feb. 26 in dominating fashion, 68-39 on Senior Night.

With another one win-one loss week, the Deacs finish the regular season with a 17-12 record, including a 7-9 final record in the ACC. Including the win on Feb. 26, Wake Forest claims the No.7 seed and faces a rematch with the No. 10 seed Virginia Tech in the first round of the ACC Tournament.

The Deacs travelled to Charlottesville, Va., to take on the Virginia Cavaliers on Feb. 24 in a game that they really needed to bolster their resume for the NCAA Tournament.

Virginia got out to an early lead, but then allowed Wake Forest to go on a huge run to take a 23-10 lead on a 3-pointer from sophomore Erin Hall.

The burst of Deacon points was led by outstanding defense and the three-ball from junior Lakevia Boykin and sophomore Chelsea Douglas.

The Deacs would keep the lead throughout the first half and take a 33-25 into the break after a shot

by Douglas pushed it to eight as time expired.

As well as Wake Forest played in the first half to take an impressive lead, they could not maintain their play.

The Cavaliers mounted a furious comeback to take the lead at the 9:06 mark when senior Secily Ray committed her fifth foul on a 3-point attempt by Ariana Moorer.

Moorer would hit all three free throws and put the Cavaliers ahead to stay by a score of 42-40.

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by Virginia, and especially the three-headed monster of Ataira Franklin, Ariana Moorer and Lexie Gerson.

Virginia would not relinquish the lead after taking it and would eventually stress their lead to 11 points before Wake Forest cut it to the final of 61-55.

Wake was led in scoring by Douglas, who tallied 19 points on 7-16 shooting.

Her hot play as of late has been a big part of the Deacs’ success in February.

Ray would chip in with a gamehigh 11 rebounds.

She also became the fifth Demon Deacon player ever to accumulate 1,000 points and grab 700 rebounds in her career.

Virginia was led by Franklin with 15 points and Moorer and Gerson who had 15 apiece.

With the win, Virginia moved to 20-9 overall and also locked up the No. 6 seed in the ACC Tournament with an 8-7 conference record.

A quick two day turnaround brought the Virginia Tech Hokies to Winston-Salem for the ACC regular season finale for both teams. The Hokies have struggled mightily this year and came into

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Freshman Millesa Calicott and the Deacs’ bench had 29 points on Feb. 26.

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Tim Cooney Junior

By Jenn Leser | Opinion editor Fresh off earning the ACC Pitcher of the Week award, the second such honor of his career, junior lefthanded pitcher Tim Cooney led the Deacons to their first shut-out victory this season against Cincinnati.

When he’s not striking out opponents — 21 so far this season to earn him a second place standing in the ACC, along with an 18th-best 1.42 ERA—the finance major from Philadelphia, Penn., can be found closely following his favorite baseball team, the Phillies, as well as keeping up with current news in the financial world.

Whether he’s grinding away to improve his pitching or working hard in the business school, Cooney finds a way to get everything done while still dominating on the field and in the classroom.

How does it feel to be named the ACC Pitcher of the Week?

It was a big honor. I’m definitely happy about it. I feel like I threw well last week. It was good for our team to take the whole week and get three wins, so I was just really happy about the whole week, and getting the award was pretty cool on top of that.

You’ve had a remarkable season so far with 21 strikeouts — how has this season changed from last season?

I’m definitely a little bit of a better pitcher than I was last year. I’ve been working on the same things I always do: throw strikes, get ahead of hitters and attack guys and go after them. I feel like I’ve improved a little over the past year so that’s helped a lot to get a good start.

What is your favorite baseball memory?

My favorite baseball memory is probably, last March when we beat Florida State (March 26, 2011). I threw eight innings of shutout ball and it was in front of 5,000 to 6,000 fans, so it was just a really fun experience.

I felt like I helped our team win. It was probably the first time that I pitched well in front of a crowd that big and it was just kind of exhilarating. That was probably my best baseball memory.

When did you first start playing baseball?

I started playing when I was really little, probably when I was four or five. My dad would take me out back and we would throw the ball around. I would play tee ball and all the way through little league.

It’s kind of been something that I’ve done my whole life and it’s always been my main sport since it’s been my best sport. I’ve always dedicated a lot of time to it. I’ve played basically my whole life.

Why did you choose Wake?

I chose Wake for a bunch of reasons. It’s in the ACC and ACC baseball is really good. The school is really academically challenging, and it’s held in high regards, so that was a big factor in coming here. Being down South, it was nice. It was just kind of a combination of the location, the academics, the athletics and my chance to play right away when I got here. I think the whole combination of things led up to that.

I’ve gotten a lot better at as I’ve gotten older, helps.

My GPA has been going up each year, so I think I’m just learning to manage my time better and be a little more dedicated to school.

Who’s your favorite player?

Roy Halladay from the Phillies is my favorite player. I’m a big Phillies fan being from Philadelphia, so he’s kind of a role model for me.

I’d say he’s the best pitcher in baseball, and I get to see him pitch whenever I’m home and watch the Phillies. He’s someone really good that I can watch and learn a lot from and his approach to the game and how hard he works is pretty admirable. I definitely follow him and he’s my favorite player.

If you could pitch to any player in the Major Leagues right now, who would it be?

I would probably pitch to Chase Utley, from the Phillies. He’s another Phillies guy, and I’ve watched him play since I was little, since he’s been with the Phillies since probably 2004-05.

He’s another really good hitter, and I think it would be a fun challenge to see myself pitch to a guy I watch all the time.

What’s your pregame ritual?

I really don’t have a ritual. I think I’m kind of boring in that aspect. I get here about an hour and a half before the game, I get a hot tub and I stretch out but there’s nothing really, no weird ritual like I know a lot of the guys do. I listen to music. I’m pretty simple, not a whole lot.

What are your goals for the season?

More team goals. Individually, obviously, I just want to have a good year and I think that I’m in a position to do that since I’ve definitely improved since last year.

The main goals are for our team to do better than we did last year, hopefully making a NCAA tournament appearance.

Hopefully, Super Regional and maybe even Omaha [College World Series]. Individually, I don’t really have any concrete statistical goals, just go out there and give our team a chance to win, keep runs off the scoreboard and improve from last year.

How do you balance being a finance major with baseball?

It’s definitely not easy. I’m pretty interested in finance, I stay up to date with it, so it’s a lot easier because it’s something that I’m actually interested in, so it’s not that hard to be honest. I think time management, which

Deac Notes Demon Deacons to play four of first five games at home in 2012 football schedule For the fourth time in five seasons, the Wake Forest football schedule features seven home games.

Wake Forest found this out when the ACC released the 2012 football schedules for each team on Feb. 27.

The Deacons will play host to a number of teams including Liberty, North Carolina, Army, Duke, Boston College, Clemson (on Thursday) and Vanderbilt.

Wake will hit the road to take on Florida State, Maryland, Virginia and N.C. State before traveling to South Bend, Ind. to be the first Wake football squad to take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on the road.

Former Deac L.D Williams puts on show to win 2012 NBDL Slam Dunk contest For the second year in a row, L.D. Williams (‘10) of the Springfield Armor (a farm team of the New Jersey Nets) won the NBA Development League Slam Dunk Contest by defeating Chris Roberts of the Texas Legends on Feb. 26.

As a Demon Deacon, Williams was known for his defensive prowess. After establishing himself as one of the best defenders in the nation, he won multiple awards, including being named to the ACC-All Defensive Team.

Williams is fifth among all Wake basketball players for career starts as a Demon Deacon which totalled 118 games by the end of Williams’ senior year.

Junior guard Lakevia Boykin earns All-ACC honorable mention distinction As the leading scorer of the Demon Deacons, junior standout guard Lakevia Boykin was named to the All-ACC Honorable Mention by the conference on Feb. 27.

Boykin was the only Deac to receive the award and was the first Demon Deacon to take home the honors since Brittany Waters in 2010.

This year, Boykin leads her team in a number of category including points per game, minutes played, field goals made, thee pointers made, free throw percentage and total scoring with 343 points this year. Boykin has scored double digits in 18 games this year.

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Press Box: Lin serves as another case of excessive hype Continued from Page B1

The NFL only lost one preseason game (sorry, Canton) in all of the hoopla and fear mongering concerning a fall without football.

Brett Favre appeared in zero Super Bowls in his two comebacks with the Jets and Vikings, apparently enjoying the limelight more than training camp. Terrell Owens’ career will end with many records but no rings and a general legacy of antics rather than spectacular play.

The 38-year old has only changed “his me”first attitude now that he is broke and unwanted, mounting a comeback in a minor arena football league.

In the world of sports, ESPN’s rise in the 1990s and 2000s has led to a media monopoly where the industry giant controls the importance and unimportance of stories, often to further their own interests. Despite what ESPN wants you to believe, there are relevant sports cities, teams and fans that aren’t on the East or West coasts.

Does the fact that ESPN has headquarters in Connecticut and Los Angeles have anything to do with this “bi-coastal bias?” Probably. ESPN is a business and has the right to broadcast whatever they want, but the sad outcome is the number of sports fans they influence.

Those who aren’t turned off by the excessive coverage of one or two storylines are brainwashed into believing the excess hype.

The Jeremy Lin phenomenon is the most recent of many examples. Lin, a player who set records in his first true go-round in the NBA, deserves a lot of credit and publicity.

What he has done individually and for his team (until Carmelo came back) is commendable and worthy of praise and coverage.

But what has followed is an excess of nauseating “Linsanity” puns, nightly “breaking news” on Lin’s stats and the Knicks’ performance, and ridiculous All-Star and even MVP discussion. All for a guy who has started 11 games in his professional career!

Lin was invited to the All-Star Weekend’s Rising Stars Game (whose rosters consisted of players who had played in the majority of their team’s games this season) and conducted an unheard of individual press conference while in Orlando.

I reject the premise that Lin deserves this much hype and attribute it to two interlinked factors: ESPN and his presence in the Big Apple.

New York and the national media desperately want the Knicks to become relevant again for a number of reasons, most involving the almighty dollar. The early results from the Melo/Amare pairing have been mediocre at best, so Lin has taken the mantle as savior of the Knicks.

Let me give you a “compariLin.” (That one didn’t work, did it?)

Name the player who averaged 23.9 points per game and 4.4 assists per game in first 11 career starts (the same as Lin). Did you answer Flip Murray? I didn’t think so.

The second round pick in the 2002 NBA Draft from Shaw University filled in for an injured superstar, Ray Allen, at the start of the Murray Seattle Supersonics’ 2003-04 season and put up phenomenal numbers.

However, when Allen returned, Murray got less shots and his season stats reverted to an average 12.4 points and 2.5 assists per game.

Whether or not Lin keeps up his torrent pace or becomes a Flip Murray (career 9.9 points per game with eight teams) is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that you have never heard of Flip Murray because he played in Seattle and the media didn’t care. If they had, maybe we would have memories of “Flipsanity” from eight years ago.

I trust the majority of those reading this to be able to tell the difference between a transcendent sports story and a media large-market hype-machine but for those who can’t, be warned: in one Linstant the script can be Flipped.

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Deacs’ rally not enough against No. 3 Duke

Deacons erase 23-point deficit but miss chance at Senior Night upset No. 3 Duke 79 Wake Forest 71

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By Matt Poppe | Executive sports editor It was quite a pair of games for the men’s basketball team this past week as the Demon Deacons returned to WinstonSalem to take on two ACC opponents in the Boston College Eagles and the Duke Blue Devils.

The Deacs had arguably their best win of the year on Feb. 25 as they shot down the Eagles by an 85-56 final. Wake then nearly upset the No. 3 Blue Devils on Feb. 28 at the Joel Coliseum, but their efforts fell just short as Duke escaped with a 79-71 victory.

The Deacons crushed Boston College as junior C.J. Harris and sophomore Travis McKie both scored over 20 points.

The 29 points margin was the largest win for the Deacs under Head Coach Jeff Bzdelik and the largest ever over Boston College.

The contest against No. 3 Duke not only marked another chapter in the ACC’s oldest and most frequent matchup, but it was also Senior Day for five Wake players. The seniors were honored in a pre-game ceremony in the last home game of the 2011-12 season.

The Deacons looked to send their seniors out on a positive note and came out strong early against the Blue Devils. Harris hit a three-pointer at the 13-minute mark to give the Deacs a 12-11 lead, but Duke would go on a

12-0 run over the next two minutes to gain a 23-12 advantage.

The Blue Devils would hold their lead, but Wake fought back.

Harris ignited the crowd when he hit a clutch jumper as the shot clock expired to put the score at 37-26 with just over two minutes left in the first half.

The Deacs couldn’t get closer, however, in the half as the Blue Devils took a 39-28 lead into halftime.

Duke looked to finish off the Deacons in the second half as they hit four of their first five shots after the break, and would even push the lead to as much as 23 in the middle of the second half.

Wake would not go down easily, however, and put together one of their best runs of the season over the next five minutes.

Led by sophomore Tony Chennault, the Deacs went on a spirited 19-2 run, using both good defense and strong drives to the basket to cut the Duke lead to just six at 67-61.

The Joel Coliseum was undoubtedly at its loudest point of the year as the run was highlighted by redshirt senior Chennault Nikita Mescheriakov’s 3-pointer from the corner with five minutes to play that cut the Duke lead to eight points.

The teams would go back and forth in the game’s waning minutes, but the Blue Devils continued to maintain a lead.

The Deacs last chance came with 35 seconds left as Duke junior Seth Curry missed the front end of a 1-and-1 at the free-throw line with the score at 74-68.

Harris drove the ball down the lane and was tripped up, but managed to find Chennault in the right corner for an open 3-pointer. The Philadelphia native’s shot, however, came up short and ended the

Deacon’s chances of upsetting the Blue Devils. Duke would eventually win the game by a 79-71 score.

“I am extremely proud of my basketball team, and the young men that we have on the basketball team in terms of their character, effort, desire and passion to do well,” Bzdelik said.

“They’re getting better, they’re competing individually and collectively. They fought hard, like I said. Yes, we need to play better. We’re working on that.

There’s a lot of fight in them.”

The Deacs made much of their comeback on the defensive end where they were able to force 13 turnovers in the game and scored 22 points off of those turnovers.

“We just fought,” McKie said. “The crowd got into it, and I think we just really started fighting. If we lock down defensively and rebound then we can compete with anybody, and that’s what we showed here tonight.”

Seniors Brooks Godwin, Ryan Keenan and Aaron Ingle were able to see action in the final eight seconds of regulation in their last home game as Deacons.

“I can’t say enough about our seniors,” Bzdelik said.

“Not only Nikita and Ty, but also Brooks, Ryan and Aaron. Every day they work hard to make our players who play better. They work hard to prepare our team for our opponents and they do so without any fanfare whatsoever.”

Mescheriakov, who had a career-high 18 points, received a standing ovation as he exited the floor for the last time at the Joel. The forward from Belarus was clearly emotional as he hugged Bzdelik and the rest of the coaching staff.

“It was a tough moment,” Mescheriakov said.

“I really appreciate this program and all the fans that came to watch us play and supported the program. That’s why it was so emotional.”

The moment even had an impact on Duke Head Coach Mike Kryzewski.

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Redshirt senior Nikita Mescheriakov had a career-high 18 points in the Deacons’ 79-71 loss to No. 3 Duke on Feb. 28.

“The last guy I’m shaking hands with is Mescheriakov,” Kryzewski said.

“I know it’s his last game and he’s got tears in his eyes. It just made me feel good and I spent a moment with him. Here is a kid, his team has got a losing record, and they are in a rebuilding program.

Their staff must be doing something right for that kid to feel that way, in his last game. I just think it’s one of the really beautiful things. I am so glad that

kid could feel that way. I hope our guys feel that way.”

Wake will look to regroup for their last regular season matchup on March 3 when they will travel to Atlanta to take on Georgia Tech.

The two teams met on Feb. 15 in Winston-Salem with the Deacons getting the better of the Yellow Jackets with a 59-50 victory. Tipoff for Saturday’s game is set for 12 p.m. at Phillips Arena.

Deacons drop first ACC match of year to N.C. State

By Maggie Cancelosi | Staff writer

With the kick-off of conference play underway this past weekend, the Atlantic Coast Conference can continue to have pride for its competitive play in women’s tennis.

According to ITA Rankings posted on Feb. 22, all 12 of the women’s tennis programs in the ACC have been posted in a list of the Top-75 Best Division I teams thus far in the season.

The Wake Forest women’s tennis team traveled down Tobacco Road on Sunday, Feb. 26 to debut in its first ACC match-up of the season against N.C. State.

The Wolfpack walked away with the win after a victory at the No. 5 singles spot, beating the Deacons 4-3.

The No. 67 Demon Deacons clinched the doubles point, starting off with an 8-1 victory by No. 44 ranked senior Kayla Duncan and junior Kathryn Talbert.

The senior-junior duo currently holds a 4-1 record.

Ranked No. 34, the doubles pair of Tatiana Illova and Nichole Martinez defeated senior Ryann Cutillo and freshman Rebecca Siegler at the No. 2 spot 8-2. Calm

under pressure in the final doubles match, freshman Karen Forman and sophomore Brigita Bercyte sealed the point with a close 8-5 win. The Deacs have yet to drop the doubles point this season.

Advancing into singles play, Talbert earned the first singles point for the Deacs with an effortless win over her Wolfpack opponent 6-1, 6-3 to advance her overall singles record this season to 5-3.

N.C. State answered back to earn its first singles point of the day when Christy S i p e s defeated Bercyte 6-3, 6-1, and then tied the match 2-2 when each team’s nationallyTalbert ranked players matched off at the No. 1 spot.

N.C. State’s Joelle Kissell tallied her second ranked win of the season by defeating No. 81 Duncan 6-4, 6-3.

At the No. 4 spot, Siegler won the first set 6-1, but then fell 4-6

in both the second and third sets allowing N.C. State to secure the point.

The Demon Deacons retaliated when Cutillo defeated Tatiana Illova 6-4 in the first set, fell 1-6 in the second, and rallied with a 6-3 win for a 3-all score. Cutillo has totaled four victories at the No. 2 spot this season.

The win at the No. 5 spot by N.C. State’s Chloe Smith clinched match for the Wolfpack when she defeated Forman in three sets.

N.C. State advances to a 4-6 record, while the Deacs are 1-4.

“We played very well-- it was our first road match and first outdoor match of the season,” Head Coach Jeff Wyshner said.

“We played some good tennis, but we can play better. Going into UNC will present a challenge.

They’re one of the top teams in the conference and in the country.

“We have a big stretch of three matches coming up against UNC, VCU and William & Mary. Every week we’re trying to get a bit better.”

The Deacons will hit the road to face off against ACC rival North Carolina on Thursday, March 1 at 2:30 p.m.

Photo courtesy of Michael Crouse

Freshman Karen Forman along with her partner, sophomore Brigita Bercyte, won their doubles match at the No. 3 spot on Feb. 26.

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from the rotation. Holmes did not disappoint his teammates, with several scouts in attendance, going six innings while allowing “I told the team afterwards, hopefully today is the last day they are ever under .500, so obviously the goal is to get back to .500 quickly when you get under it.”

Tom Walter Head Coach

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Sophomore Evan Stephens is hitting an impressive .364 on the year. The outfielder from Lexington, Ky. also has five RBIs this season.

only four hits and no runs to go along with six strikeouts and two walks.

Through 11 innings so far this season, Holmes has allowed no runs and is second on the team in strikeouts with 11 behind only Tim Cooney. Cooney takes responsibility for 21 strikeouts on the year.

“We had great pitching performances by Van Grouw, Cooney and Holmes which really got us rolling this weekend,” Blair said.

“The bats started coming out more this weekend than they had in the first four games.”

The Deacon bats continued to stay hot as Blair and senior Carlos Lopez both pitched in multi-hit games to build on the great start

by Holmes and boost Wake to a 5-2 victory over the Hoyas.

With the loss the Hoyas fell to 6-2 on the year and were denied a four-game winning streak at home. With the victory, Wake improved their record to .500 at 4-4.

“I told the team afterwards, hopefully today is the last day they are ever under .500, so obviously the goal is to get back to .500 quickly when you get under it,” Walter said.

“It starts with pitching and we got good efforts this weekend from Van Grouw, Cooney and Holmes.”

The Deacons will continue their current home-stand with four more games at home this week-

end against Marshall and Eastern Michigan.

“I think being at home helped, I think we play well here and we’re looking forward to the upcoming home-stand,” Blair said.

“I think we’re really going to get the ball rolling forward.”

After falling behind one run in the first inning against UNCAsheville, the Deacs rebounded and piled on six runs with Lopez driving in two runs and sophomore Charlie Morgan scoring one more. The third inning saw sophomore Evan Stephens score two, bringing the Deacons up to 8-3, with the Bulldogs tying the game up in the fourth.

The game remained 8-8 until Williamson hit a solo home run in the sixth. Strong relief innings from freshman Matt Pirro prevented UNC-Asheville from coming back, earning the Deacs their fourth consecutive victory.

The Deacons now stand at 5-4 through the season.

The Deacon will be back in action March 2 when they take on Eastern Michigan at Gene Hooks Field.

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Stewart leads Deacs at Seahawk Intercollegiate

By Ty Kraniak | Asst. sports editor

For Wake Forest, the Seahawk Intercollegiate held at Landfall Country Club in Wilmington, N.C., on Feb. 26 to 27 was a story of second place finishes.

As a team, the Demon Deacons recorded a 9-over par performance that qualified Wake for second place and put the Deacs nine strokes behind an even East Carolina team that took home first place over the remaining 11 teams that competed in the tournament.

“Hats off to East Carolina,” Head Coach Jerry Hass said. “They played really well.”

In addition, freshman Cyrus Stewart from Raleigh N.C. landed a second place finish at the event, even though he was competing only in the individual portion of the competition.

Stewart was second only to South Carolina’s Wesley Bryan who outpaced the freshman by two strokes. As a team, however, the Gamecocks finished in third place.

This performance gives Stewart the first top-5 finish of his collegiate career as the freshman turned into the clubhouse with a 5-under par score for the tournament.

Coming out of Broughton High School in Raleigh, Stewart earned All-State distinctions in three separate years.

Stewart’s teammates followed his lead with successful finishes as All-American senior Lee Bedford, who won the Mobile

Bay Intercollegiate on Feb. 21, posted a 2-under par score that gave him sixth place at the Seahawk Invitational. Bedford closed out day one in second place with two rounds of under par golf, but he would slip slightly with a final round of 1-over par.

“In 15 years of taking an individual to a tournament, I normally hear from them that they don’t feel like a part of the team,” Haas said.

“But here we had a young many in Stewart that took advantage of his opportunity, and he went out and finished second in the tournament, so that is going to get him a plane ticket to Austin for our next competition.”

To add to the cause for the Deacons, sophomore Thomas Birdsey soared to a 3-under par performance due to consecutive 2-under par rounds.

This merited BirdStewart sey a coveted position on the leader board tied for fourth place at the conclusion of the Intercollegiate. Birdsey’s 2-under par rounds to close out the Intercollegiate were his two lowest rounds of the season. Further down the list were juniors Charlie Harrison and Evan Beck who recorded 6-over par and 8-over par performances that launched the two

to be tied for 18th place and tied for 24th place, respectively. Both Beck and Harrison finished with scores of 73 (only 1-over par) in their final round that helped the Deacs clinch their second place finish.

“Everything is starting to line up for us, and I am real pleased for where we are heading,” Haas said.

Sophomore John Varol finished with a final round of 78 to place a 17-over par performance in 45th place. Varol’s last appearance in Mobile, Ala. also rewarded the Waxhaw, N.C. native with a finish that was also good enough to be tied for 45th place.

“It was a nice couple rounds of golf – a little chilly on the practice rounds and on the first round of the tournament,” Haas said.

“I think the guys felt that they had a chance to win the tournament. You have to have that mentality, especially in college golf where there is a lot that can happen,” Haas added.

The Demon Deacons will return to the links on March 16, where they will compete in the Morris Williams Intercollegiate hosted by the University of Texas Gold Club in Austin, Texas.

“I hear it’s a pretty tight course in Austin, but it will be a good test,” Haas said.

“I think that we will have a good showing.

This is a hard working group, and I’m really impressed with their work ethic.”

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Senior Lee Bedford finished in sixth place in the Seahawk Intercollegiate, shooting 2-under par.

Deacons suffer narrow defeat at No. 34 Louisville

By Scott Siegler | Staff writer

The Wake Forest men’s tennis team fought hard in Feb. 25’s match but ultimately came up short against the No. 34 Louisville Cardinals.

While the singles matches were split, it was Louisville that took the decisive doubles point and came away with a hard fought 4-3 victory.

After being honored as the King Fisher Society Student Athlete of the Week, junior Amogh Prabhakar added to his winning streak on Feb. 25 and continued his strong play by defeating Michael Lippens 6-4, 6-2 in the number three singles match.

The India native has now won seven straight singles matches and has improved his dual match singles record to an impressive 11-1 on the spring season.

Freshman Alex Tsai held off Luis Elizondo of Louisville in the No. 6 slot and managed a strong 6-3, 6-4 victory that contributed another important singles match to the Demon Deacon cause.

Junior Danny Kreyman also managed to come back from being a set down and won his match with a score of 5-7, 6-0, Kreyman 1-0 (10-8).

However, senior David Hopkins fell in the number one singles match to Sebastian Stiefelmeyer by a score of 6-3, 6-1.

Redshirt junior Conner Sherwood took the loss in the No. 5 singles match against Chris Simich by a score of 6-3, 6-1.

Despite a strong effort in the second set, sophomore Adam Lee also fell to Louisville’s Albert Wagner by a score of 6-0, 6-4 in the No. 4 singles match.

a solid 8-2 victory over Amaury Derognat and Michael Lippens.

However, Louisville clinched the doubles point and the match as Steifelmeyer and Robert Hall defeated Sherwood and redshirt sophomore Sam Wells 8-5 in the number two doubles match.

“Personally, I didn’t play a great doubles match and I think that is ultimately what cost us the match,” Prabhakar said.

“That is something we can do better and is something I see us doing better heading into the second half of the season.”

Besides determination to improve at doubles, Prabhakar feels there is a lot that the team can take from a hard fought loss like this.

“There are always a few positives to come out of a match,” Prabhakar said.

“We were playing in a really tough environment with the fans crazy and right on top of you, so the “We were playing in a really tough environment with the fans crazy and right on top of you.”

Amogh Prabhakar Junior

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Freshman Alex Tsai and the men’s tennis team will return home on March 10 for a non-conference doubleheader against Michigan and Mercer.

Despite these losses, Prabhakar believes they lost the match in the doubles arena.

“We have been practicing a lot of doubles, but I don’t think we played as well in doubles as we could have,” Prabhakar said.

Prabhakar and Hopkins couldn’t figure out the nationally ranked duo of Andrew Carter and Albert Wagner and took a tough 8-5 loss in the No. 1 doubles match. The pairing of Kreyman and Lee won handily in the No. 3 doubles position with

experience of being able to just play and focus on your game is one thing.

“At the same time with every match, whether you win or lose, you have things to work on. So we just have to focus on those things moving forward to our upcoming matches.”

With a record of 8-5, the Demon Deacons have a couple of non-conference matches coming up on March 10 against Michigan and Mercer before heading into the ACC portion of their schedule.

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The Demon Deacons finished the regular season at 17-12 and 7-9 in conference play, earning a No. 7 seed in the ACC Tournament.

the game with a 7-21 record (3-13 in the ACC).

Before the game, Wake Forest recognized the three seniors on the roster this year in graduate student Camille Collier, Brooke Thomas and Secily Ray. Emotions were high at the beginning of the game, and it was not lost on Coach Mike Petersen what this group of seniors have meant and done for the women’s basketball program at Wake Forest overall.

“The most important part is they will have four degrees between the three of them,” Petersen said.

“The second most important part is that, if my math is correct, they have won more games in the ACC than any other senior class in school history.”

With the pregame festivities out of the way both teams got out to a poor start overall and the game was tied at 2-2 at the under-16 timeout.

From there, Wake Forest would go on a huge 20-2 run to take a 22-4 lead at the under eight timeout.

“It’s pretty special sending these players out with a win.”

Mike Petersen Head Coach

The Deacons shot 52 percent in the first half en route to a 41-17 at the break.

In the second half, there were a couple of lapses by both teams, but

with the game well in hand for Wake Forest, it was not a problem as they cruised to a 68-39 victory.

Ray tied a career-high with 16 rebounds on the day.

Sophomore Lindsy Wright got her first career double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds.

“It’s pretty special sending these players out with a win,” Petersen said.

“Especially in the case of (Camille), who has battled injuries throughout her career here.”

Wake Forest will now travel to Greensboro for the 2012 ACC Tournament.

Their first round rematch against Virginia Tech will be on March 1 at 6 p.m.

If they win that game, they will take on the No. 2 seed Miami Hurricanes on Friday, March 2 at the same time.

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Hollywood’s biggest celebrities gathered at the Kodak Theater to celebrate a year of famed films

By Emily Burniston | Staff writer Something old, nothing new, the night was borrowed, and, well Penelope Cruz’s dress was blue.

As James Earle Jones said, “the night belonged to Oscar” when Hollywood’s flashiest and finest gathered to celebrate the year’s greatest in cinema at the 84th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26.

This year, the Academy looked back as the nine films nominated for Best Motion Picture played a sort of historical hopscotch, taking audiences through time from England during World War I with Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, to Mississippi in the days of Jim Crow The Help, all the way to present day and back again in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.

Celebrities and billions of civilians escaped presentday problems and tuned in to watch the three hour long awards show.

“Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with gold statues,” host Billy Crystal said in his opening monologue.

In the end, silence proved golden when, not surprisingly, the screamingly successful French silent film The Artist took home five trophies, including the coveted Best Motion Picture and the awards for Best Director and Best Actor in a Leading Role.

The Artist, set in 1927, tells the story of silent movie star George Valentin, bringing this year’s Academy Awards full circle as it is the second silent film in the ceremony’s history to receive the award for best picture, since the awards began in 1927.

But the focus on the past was not just found in the award-winning movies that night.

It seemed as though nostalgia was the theme for the evening as repeat-offenders took the stage to accept, another award and Oscar-all-star Billy Crystal hosted the show for his ninth time.

“Just call me ‘War Horse’,” Crystal said. And so began a series of relatively predictable veteran victory laps with seasoned actors picking up trophies to add to their collections.

Christopher Plummer, age 82, won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Beginners and became the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award.

“You’re only two years older than me darling where have you been all my life?” he said to his new award.

While his speech was a bit lengthy, he was one of the few winners who was not forced off stage by the “please-endyour-speech-now” music.

No newcomer to the Oscar scene, actress Meryl Streep put it best in her acceptance speech, joking about how frequently she wins these awards.

She said she imagined the country was shaking their heads, “Oh, come on. Not her. Again?” Streep said.

Though she has not won since 1983, she gratefully accepted the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for playing the great English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

Woody Allen, who won best original screenplay for his most recent film, Midnight in Paris, was not even present to accept his award, a testament to his longtime awarded presence in the film world as well.

While he surely had a good excuse, his absence was rather notable when compared to how other awards were received.

Octavia Spencer, who played sassy housemaid Minnie in The Help received a memorable standing ovation when she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

“That moment for Octavia is what the Oscars are all about,” Crystal said.

Spencer was visibly flabbergasted and thanked, in addition to her loved ones, the state of Alabama in her tearful acceptance speech. It was Spencer and her female colleagues who went above and beyond this year as female nominees included those who transcended time, age, nationality and even gender for their roles, while their male counterparts were nominated for convincing depictions of more real-life characters.

Natalie Portman described the challenge George Clooney faced for his role in The Descendants, where he had to convince us he was “just a regular guy.”

Meanwhile Glenn Close was nominated for her complicated, cross-gender role in Albert Nobbs, and Rooney Mara shaved her head to play dark, brooding heroine Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The Academy even gave a rare nod to women in comedy with Megan McCarthy’s nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her stellar performance in Bridesmaids and the cast’s presentation of awards for films in the short category.

Between awards, the program continued to take us back through time with interviews from actors describing their first or favorite movie experience.

Morgan Freeman looked down memory lane to when he was six and a half years old and saw the original King Kong, and even Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy made an appearance to tell us about their favorite movie memories.

It was a night for the ages, as the stars showed us that “no matter which language they are in, movies are a shared experience that unites us all,” Sandra Bullock said, in a comical monologue she gave in Chinese. “They speak to the common humanity in all of us.”

Best Picture The Artist

Best Actress Meryl Streep

Best Actor

Jean Dujardin

Best Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer

Best Screenplay The Descendants

Best Animated Rango

Best Director

Michael Hazanavicius

Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer

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Movie Theater Releases for March 1 Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax Project X Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie Black Butterflies Last Days Here Snowtown Boy

Shit WF students say “I pay $50,000 a year and Wake can’t get a proper bagel slicer.”

“Why is there confetti in the showers?”

“So my date for the date function is hooking up with my roommate in my room.”

“Why does the Pit always have sweet potatoes?”

“Eww... my pants have frat all over them!”

“Why isn’t Sakai coming up?!”

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Celeb Juice: Your weekly gossip update

Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others, whenever they go.

• J. Lo. just can’t keep her cleavage to herself. Lopez wore yet another one of her signature low cut dresses at the Oscars recently. The plunging neckline was no surprise, but the slip in coverage was unexpected. The star is denying that she had a wardrobe malfunction while presenting an award at the Oscars, but to each their own opinion.

• Blue Ivy Carter was spotted out on the town with her parents, Beyonce and Jay-Z. The couple toted their seven week old baby along on a trip to lunch in New York City. One is never too young to begin making public appearances.

• Angelina Jolie is facing critics for her appearance at the 2012 Oscars, where her already lean frame looked skinnier than usual.

Her stick thin arms were hard to go unnoticed in her sleeveless black evening gown. Is her new look healthy?

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Abroad Column | Ballin’ On a Budget

Finding serenity and beauty in solitude

By Aaron Colston | Staff writer

Being a complete extrovert, I get my energy from being around people and lots of them. I love crowds, as they give me life. After being in London for a little over a month now, I find that my way of living may not be the best for truly capturing the essence of what it means to be a “Londoner.”

Although it is fun to be with all of your American friends, the problem is you can hang out with them in the United States.

I must admit there is a certain level of comfort with hanging with people from your specific abroad program, but where is the challenge in that?

They have to be nice to you because they live with you.

Being abroad is about complete immersion into another culture, and to completely allow yourself to do that takes a certain level of discomfort.

Don’t worry, I would not advise such measures without doing a little bit of field work myself.

About a week ago, I decided to go out to a club that is less than a mile away.

This club has been a favorite of mine since I have been in London, but I decided to attempt to tackle it alone.

I know what you are thinking: I could have gotten robbed, mugged or killed, but I didn’t so let me continue.

Going out alone was rather awkward at first. I didn’t have a wingman, and there were a couple of instances where I felt like the archetypal creep in the corner with no friends. However, despite these internal conflicts, I had the best time of my life that night.

I met so many awesome people, and I can now say that I made a couple of new friends. It was awesome to just have to be responsible for myself, not having to worry about the well-being of those accompanying you (don’t get the wrong idea, I love my friends, but you know what I mean).

Everyone I met that night was so intrigued that I was from America, which was surprising to me, though I had no problem giving them a little taste of the old red, white and blue.

Going out on my own could have been a recipe for disaster, but surprisingly, it made me feel more comfortable in my surroundings and eager to go out and have similar experiences again.

With my night out in mind, I challenge anyone who is thinking about going abroad or currently is abroad to go out and explore alone.

You may not meet tons of friends every time but it will certainly allow for much needed reflection,

Photo courtesy of Aaron Colston

Colston has no qualms about exploring foreign territory on his own. He has traveled to Italy and all around London, allowing his bold personality to shine. allowing for some things to be put in a different perspective.

Personally, after going out alone I felt revitalized.

Meeting people from the area in which you are studying reminds you why you are there.

Most people go abroad hoping to make some type of connection — whether it be internal or external.

However, it’s hard to do that without pushing yourself. Not to mention that one American is far less intimidating than a group of seven of us.

My experiences abroad are becoming more and more like I originally expected them to be, primarily because of my constant need to push the envelope.

Cheers to cultural immersion!

Theatre Review | City of Angels

Film noir-inspired musical offers escape from reality

By Mike Dempsey | Contributing writer

It has been two years since the Wake Forest Theatre Department has produced a musical. The last one was Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, which was under the direction of John E. R. Friedenberg.

This time around, theatre professor and director Cindy Gendrich has assembled a cast of 25 men and women to bring the 1940s back to life and redefine the genre of “film noir” in Larry Gelbart’s “City of Angels.”

In choosing the musical, director Cindy Gendrich wanted to select a play that shed light on issues such as“integrity and personal responsibil-

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ity, which are very important messages for our time.”

With a backdrop of dime novel projections, a “Greek chorus” replaced with jazz singers, music by Cy Coleman, over 100 costumes and a full orchestra, one is immediately enraptured in the triumphs and struggles of the hero Stine, played by Jake Meyer, and the parallel character of Stone, played by Charl Coetzee.

As mentioned above, this musical revolves around two parallel stories with a twin cast of actors playing roles in both real life and fantasy.

Stine is a screenwriter who dreams of a better life and literary career; Stone is a private investigator in the stories Stine creates for the silver screen.

As Stine’s personal life changes due to his struggling marriage and war with the censorship of his new screenplay, so does Stone’s.

For private investigator Stone, what begins as a routine missing person’s case turns into a revelation about his haunting past.

The worlds of Stine and Stone are not entirely different, and this is where the true joy and triumph in this production comes from. These are worlds of lavish vice, sex, violence, blackmail and corruption. All in all, it is a true graphic feast that unfolds in front of

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The main characters of City of Angels, Stine and Stone, have a very complex relationship, living parallel lives in the Hollywood world of vice, corruption and sex. our eyes. This show has breathtaking moments from Meyer and Coetzee.

However, many of the complexities in their characters are brought out due to the standout performances from their foils.

With so many outstanding performances, it is difficult to list them all.

Having said that, Re Brophy as Bobbi and Gabby, Wes Hughes as Buddy Fidler and Irwin S. Irving, Chris Gonzalez as Munoz, and Mara McCaffray as Mallory and Avril steal

every scene they are in and masterfully capture the gritty and artfully dysfunctional era of Los Angeles in the 1940’s.

Freshman standouts include Taylor Hagely, Natalie Michaels and Emily Nedvidek.

City of Angels is a show that, although it provides an excellent escape from reality after one visit to the Mainstage, requires multiple viewings in order to fully understand and appreciate the depth and intricate relationships

between the Hollywood world of Stine and the movie world of Stone.

Towards the end of the play, the lines of reality and fantasy are so blurred that we are left in wonder and bewilderment at what our eyes behold.

While watching the show, it becomes apparent that Stine’s words ring true: we are all strangers “in the strangest of lands.”

For five dollars a ticket for university students, this is a land truly worth visiting.

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Fashion Column | Spring wear

Florals and lace provide hints of femininity this spring

By Jasmine Harris | Contributing writer

Spring is right around the corner, and I couldn’t be happier.

I can’t wait to trade big, bulky coats for soft, flowing sweaters and restrictive blue jeans for comfortable shorts.

Of course, most exciting of all, feminine touches are making a comeback this spring.

Floral print is always a great choice for the emerging spring season.

There are two ways to revamp this recurring theme.

To begin with, consider the size of the floral print.

Often times, large floral prints can come across as loud and distracting, maybe even juvenile.

Instead, consider a more subtle floral print with designs so small they are only distinguishable from up close.

By choosing smaller floral prints, you can exude a more mature style.

In addition, you look more put together because of the attention to detail.

If you are a die-hard fan of bolder prints, make the look more sophisticated by choosing that print as the focus piece of the ensemble.

For example, if the piece is a pair of floral shorts, make certain that all other aspects of the outfit such as accessories and the accompanying top and shoes are complimentary to the shorts.

Pair the shorts with a basic top, and be sure to avoid too much texture or additional patterns that may clash with the interest piece. Perhaps choose more subdued colored shoes in order to avoid drawing attention away from the shorts.

By drawing focus to one major part of an ensemble, the outfit doesn’t come across as looking too busy.

Second, one of the most visible new trends of spring is the ultra-feminine touch of lace.

Whereas lace used to be worn for only special occasions such as weddings or dinner dates, it is now widely acceptable to wear lace pieces — no matter what the occasion.

By incorporating lace into one’s fashion, the wearer can quickly and easily add that feminine touch.

When it comes to wearing lace for spring, it is important to keep a few things in mind.

First, consider the color of the lace. White lace is perfect for spring, as is any other light colored fabric.

Consider pastels such as mint, peach and rose hues. A nude colored lace can also be considered.

Darker lace fabrics such as black, navy and red are better suited for the fall or winter season.

Brighter hues such a hot pink and yellow are more suited for the summer.

The second aspect of wearing lace would be to consider its role in your overall ensemble.

Whether it is a skirt, dress or cardigan, lace by its nature is automatically a textured piece.

As a result, one should be careful to ensure that all Photo courtesy of fashionmefabulous.com other parts of that outfit compliment that interest piece so as not to look too busy.

Lace and floral patterns can be seen across runways this spring. Pick one bold For example, if you choose a lace top, do not wear item paired with more subtle pieces for a sophisticated but fun look. a pleated skirt. It will look strange because the wearer has incorporated two types of texture in one outfit.

For example, when wearing a lace dress, try dress- femininity I would suggest dainty pieces of jewelry.

The last thing to consider when wearing lace is ing it down with flats or a cardigan.

Think light, airy and delicate for spring such as how to wear it casually.

Finally, for spring accessories there has always necklaces with slimmer chains.

In order to wear lace casually it is important to been a lot of leeway.

If one is a fan of bigger jewelry, choose that as the look at other accessories such as shoes.

However, in order to stick to the overall theme of interest piece of the accessories.

Restaurant Review | Milner’s

Restaurant proves sophistication of down-home cooking

By Molly Dutmers | Asst. life editor

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Milner’s American Southern offers a pricey but delicious alternative to on-campus food choices.

Situated along Stratford Road is Milner’s American Southern, a culinary gem in Winston-Salem. Upon pulling into the parking lot last Friday night, Feb. 24, I immediately noticed that the restaurant was packed and when I walked into the restaurant I saw that every table was taken.

Despite Milner’s being such a large space, the setting remains intimate. Sitting in Milner’s is reminiscent of sitting in the dining room of your house.

This restaurant serves elegant Southeastern cuisine and proves that down-home cooking can be sophisticated.

Start the meal with one of Milner’s fried appetizers. The fried green tomatoes are served in a stack with layers of basil cream cheese and country ham, and tomato chutney on the side. The fried pickles are served with a tomato dip. I am not a big fan of pickles, but even I would highly recommend this dish.

The entrees are equally delicious. The portions are perfectly sized, large enough but not overly huge. Each dish that came out of the kitchen was presented beautifully. The

pot roast served with carrots, little potatoes, pearl onions, green beans and golded beets was very enjoyable.

The meat was tender but the vegetables were still crisp. The only aspects of this dish that I did not particularly like were the golden beets. They had an odd texture and sweet flavor that really did not go with the rest of the dish.

Milner’s Price Range | 7-18 dollars Favorite Dish | Flounder with parmesan grit cake Serving | Elegant Southern cuisine Rating | A

Another entrée that I would recommend is the flounder served with a parmesan grit cake, asparagus, crabmeat, grape tomatoes and a lemon cream sauce. This fish was perfectly cooked, and the grit cake was excellent.

My only complaint would be that the fish was slightly too salty.

For the vegetarian diner, I would recommend the basil pecan pesto gnocchi with spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, and baby corn. I did not expect to like this dish as much as I did. The gnocchi was well prepared, light and not too dense. The oil and balsamic vinegar sauce was the perfect complement.

To end the meal, I would recommend Milner’s signature dessert: their bourbon pecan pie with salted caramel ice cream.

Our waiter persuaded us to try this dessert and I was not disappointed. The pie was a great way to finish the meal.

Milner’s is a great place to go when your parents are visiting, for a date, or when you want to have an upscale night out. Entrees range from 11 to 28 dollars. However one can dine at Milner’s on a college budget, as Milner’s does offer a small plate section of their menu. The price range for small plates is seven to 18 dollars.

Milner’s is one of the best restaurants that I have eaten at in Winston-Salem. I encourage everyone to try it and enjoy their wonderful Southern cuisine.

Sex Column | To fake or not to fake?

In the end, what does “faking it” really accomplish?

By Caroline Murray | Staff writer

I seldom back down from a dare.

Maybe it’s my inherent Irish tendency to be self-deprecating in most walks of life. My closest friends have heard me speak of this, but very few actually know that I was dared once to do it.

Well, now they’ll know.

[Insert anonymous, heavily-intoxicated friend’s name here]: “Caroline, I’ll pay you 100 dollars in cash right here if you pull a Meg Ryan.”

Considering it was about 1:00 a.m. in the morning down in the south side of Pittsburgh, I figured, “What the hell? That’s a hundred bucks closer towards paying off my 230,000-plus dollar overpriced education.” Thanks a heap, Wake.

A full minute and a half later, I had cash in my pocket and had aroused applause from half the diner — no pun intended.

For those of you who shamefully remain unexposed to the late ‘80s classic When Harry Met Sally, I had just faked an orgasm in public. And if you lop off the public part, it happens a hell of a lot more than men think.

Given the average size of the male ego, most men think that they have given their partner an orgasm significantly more times than not. While contradictorily, according to the Journal of Sexual Medicine, over two-thirds of women reported faking orgasms regularly. As Meg Ryan would say, “You do the math.”

Yes, faking that orgasm over half a year ago was fantastic, easily executed and even exciting. But should women be faking orgasm with their partner during intercourse? Before answering this question, it is important to understand how an orgasm works.

Most construe an orgasm as being the peak of sexual and emotional excitement (a few impetuously profuse “ohs” and “ahs” and “ohmigods!”), but to reach such a point boils down to basic physiology. The Big O is merely a series of involuntary muscle contractions of the pubococcygeus muscle, usually due to manual stimulation of the clitoris and often accompanied by other bodily spasms.

It’s no wonder most women fake it during sex: since the clitoris is indirectly stimulated, an orgasm is far more difficult to achieve.

Although the G-spot inside a woman’s vagina is extremely erogenous and can lead to strong arousal and ejaculation, it is not necessarily responsible for orgasm. There are more nerve endings in the clitoris than anywhere on a woman’s body.

Most men will not make the effort to simultaneously stimulate that area while he is inside his partner, hence why an orgasm is not always possible through thrusting penetration alone.

There are many other reasons why women fake their orgasms with their partner some of which, despite having merit, may be surprising.

These include: fatigue from the day, getting unenjoyable sex over and done with, and being under pressure to perform sexually or enthusiastically.

Some women do it because they do not know how to naturally achieve an orgasm, and pretending itself can actually be aphrodisiacal. Others will do so to inflate and boost their partner’s ego. And perhaps the most surprising, many women use faking as a strategic means of keeping their man faithful, according to an issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior. Ladies, if you think that sex is the way to keep your man

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In the 80s classic When Harry Met Sally, Meg Ryan demonstrated how convincing women can be when faking an orgasm. But faking it can lead to more personal problems in a relationship. faithful instead of relying on who you are as a person, is he really worth the effort to keep? Just a thought.

The truth is, under most circumstances, we women should not fake an orgasm. Sure, the uncontrollable vocality of the act is fun, but it is much more satisfying when it’s the real thing.

The more you fake it, the more you fall into the trap of making it habitual, lessening your chances of ever truly achieving that kind of carnal, impassioned release.

Instruct your man, work together and don’t be afraid to tell him what you want.

He wants to please you just as much as you want to please him; it’s a twoway street.

Let him know what he’s doing right and what he’s doing wrong so that you can reach orgasm.

Trust me, he’ll be far more pleased and satisfied knowing that he has done something commendable to satisfy your lustful libido.

You will never reach orgasm if you fake it, making your guy think he’s doing everything right when he’s doing everything wrong.

Have you ever truly experienced those short, raspy breaths, the concurrent hot-and-cold sensation, the spasming, the shuddering, the full-body urge and dire need to explode from pleasure?

Those guilty of faking, you’re missing out. Even Meg Ryan would shake a finger at you.

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Concert Review | Dark Star Orchestra

Grateful Dead rises again with talented tribute band

Dark Star Orchestra attracts a diverse crowd of all ages for its Winston-Salem concert

By Elle Czura | Contributing writer

If you found yourself in downtown Winston-Salem last Thursday, Feb. 23, chances are you heard some Grateful Dead songs floating throughout the streets coming from Ziggys. Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band, took the stage around 9 p.m. and kicked the crowd into a couple of hours worth of feel-good music and dancing. With such a talented band on stage, the venue was filled with a colorful crowd of people of all ages tuning into the music.

“This is chill and very sensual,” one dark Star enthusiast said of the Ziggy’s scene.

Dark Star Orchestra performed with two drummers, a keyboardist, a bassist and two guitarists.

The band’s set list consisted of wonderfully classic Grateful Dead hits that Dark Star performed with seamless ease, capturing the soul of the 70s.

Rob Eaton led the band with his guitar and vocals, but it was Lisa Mackey who stole the show when she stepped up to the microphone. Mackey belted out Grateful Dead songs, mesmerizing the audience with her incredible range and funky, entertaining dancing.

Other members of the band each stepped into the spotlight, performing long and complex instrumental solos with an upbeat and rhythmic flow, making it impossible for the audience not to jump into the groove and dance along.

A personal favorite was the keyboardist, Rob Barraco, who reminded the audience what real musical talent was every time his hands flew over the keyboard during one of his intricate solos.

Also, the two drummers entered into a lengthy and crowd-pleasing drum battle during the sec-

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Dark Star Orchestra brought forth a chill performance at their recent concert at Ziggys’ on Feb. 23, which showcased Grateful Dead songs. The talented musicians each had a chance to wow the audience with memorable solos. ond set, with no one else on stage but the two of them.

But of course, what is a concert without a few mishaps? During the first music break awaiting the band’s return, an already-anxious crowd faced an even longer wait when the Ziggy’s fire alarm began sounding off.

As everyone retreated to the sidebars or outside, a chaotic but typical scene emerged as two bouncers forcibly carried a very large man right out the front door.

Laughing in shock and amusement, everyone looked around in wonderment. Rob Eaton summarized it best when he took the stage shortly after and said something along the lines of, “So, we leave for 20 minutes and all hell breaks loose?”

I got the chance to catch up with one of the dancing fans next to me, who heartily gushed about Dark Star.

“They transport you into a different space. It’s not a different area code, it’s a different era….”

With a crowd brimming with men’s grey pony-

tails, ladies’ twirling skirts, and tie-dye all around, it can be hard to disagree. The older generation’s presence added a special and authentic element to Dark Star’s performance at Ziggy’s — it’s not every day you get to hang out in a late-night environment, dancing and enjoying music with avid fans of all ages. And Dark Star Orchestra does precisely just that, creating a show where musical talent and love for the Grateful Dead collide, delivering a sensational concert for an appreciative and enthusiastic crowd.

Humor Column | Roommates

The realities of living in close quarters with someone else

By Nia Lesesne | Contributing writer

Summertime is fast approaching and people are about to start freaking out.

You know why people are about to start freaking out?

Because room selections are coming up.

Having had my fair share of roommates throughout the years, I feel that it is my duty to talk about the various types of roommates you might encounter.

These types are: the ideal, the missing person, the mole and the diva. A roommate can change from type to type or be a combination of all the types, but for the most part, they are pretty standard.

Warning signs: You typically won’t notice any because they’re perfect.

The Missing Person

You meet them when you first move in, and then never see them in the room again.

Maybe you have opposite class schedules or maybe their parents live close by. Nevertheless, at the end of the day you’re left wondering “does she even go here?” Although you may be lacking in daily roommate interactions, this roommate is ideal because you essentially have a single.

Warning signs: None because you’ve only seen them once on campus and that was during a fire drill.

The Mole

The Ideal This is the roommate of your dreams.

They respect your stuff and your space, and if you’re lucky they’ll share their food and/or clothes with you and even clean.

If you are extremely lucky, then they might even be and/or become your best friend.

This is the rarest breed of roommate and is more likely to occur within the male population.

This is one of the worst types you will encounter. They have too much stuff, and it’s all over the room. They let food sit out in the open or go bad in the refrigerator.

Additionally, their personal hygiene can be questionable as you have rarely seen them take a shower or do a load of laundry. Because of this, your room has begun to develop a strange odor.

Do not expect this type to clean or

put any type of effort into making the room look presentable.

Warning signs: A cloud of dust follows them wherever they go.

The Diva

This type thinks that the world revolves around them and that you as their roommate were put on Earth to serve them. They expect you to show them courtesy in the room, but do not expect the same treatment in return.

This type basically thinks they have a single and you’re a squatter.

Expect a temper tantrum at bed time when you want to keep a small light on to study but they need complete silence and darkness for them to sleep.

Furthermore, because they think they own the room, expect their friends to come in and use your stuff as if it’s theirs.

Warning signs: Constantly wears name brands and goes shopping, you might even see a tiara somewhere.

These types are very contagious and any person has the ability to turn into any of them. With this in mind, look for the warning signs of these types in your current friends and when in doubt choose a single. Your sanity is worth the extra money.

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Unfortunately, ideal roommates are exceedingly rare, so most of us end up in situations like the movie Step Brothers.

Movie Review | This Means War

Witherspoon juggles two dates in new comedy

By Morgan Schutte | Staff writer

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Viewers laugh as they watch Reese Witherspoon play two CIA agents in her new film This Means War, but the plot leaves much to be desired.

Reese Witherspoon is one lucky girl in her new romantic comedy, This Means War. In the movie Witherspoon plays Lauren Scott, a girl who has everything she could want in life except the perfect man.

Luckily, Lauren has her crazy BFF Trish (Chelsea Handler), who is determined to find Scott someone to cuddle with.

Like any good friend, Trish decides to sign Lauren up on an online dating site.

Of course, it only takes one day for Scott to get a date with Tuck (Tom Hardy), a sexy travel agent with a tantalizing British accent and a surprising soft side. Yum. After her successful date with Tuck, she heads around the corner to her favorite movie rental store.

While there she magically bumps into super smooth FDR Foster (Chris Pine), who she is immediately attracted to.

So, like any smart girl she plays hard to get, but Foster is hooked and proceeds to show up at work and convinces her to let him take her on a date.

Before the audience can finish their popcorn, Scott has gone from zero men to two.

Must be nice.

The only problem is that the two just happen to be partners in the CIA.

Trish encourages her best friend to date both men and, needless to say, things get interesting as Scott tries to decide which man to keep.

However, Scott isn’t the only one playing a game.

Once the Tuck and Foster realize they are dating the same woman, they decide to keep their friendship a secret from her so that they can both date her.

Sadly their friendly feud becomes a deceptive battle as both agents start to fall in love with her.

This movie definitely is not Academy Award winning quality, but what it lacks in substance, it makes up for in eye candy, quirky lines and star power.

Comedian Chelsea Handler also adds some dimension with her witty and often dirty jokes.

It is a good movie to see with your girlfriends but don’t bother to drag your boyfriend.

He’ll be miserable and you won’t be able to fully enjoy the half-naked Chris Pine.

I really enjoyed it but I also went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised.

This Means War is fun and for the most part pretty entertaining.

However, it may not be worth the time and money to go to the theater to see. Save a dollar and watch it on Netflix with your girlfriends.

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Track competes at ACC Indoor Championships

By Nick Weldon | Staff writer

Traveling to Boston, the Wake Forest men’s and women’s track and field teams concluded their indoor season this past weekend at the 2012 ACC Indoor Track and Field Championship.

The competition started Thursday, Feb. 23, and took place through the evening of Saturday, Feb. 25.

Senior Alex Hill and sophomore Erika Martin, both multi-event athletes, led the Deacons on the first day of events.

Hill earned a top 10 finish in all four of his Thursday events, including a victory in the shot put with a careerbest mark of 43-7.25.

In addition, Hill earned fifth in the 60 meters, ninth in the high jump, and 10th in the long jump.

Representing the women’s side, Martin also pulled out four top-10 finishes. She opened the day by claiming 10th place overall in the 60-meter hurdles and in her second event, the high jump, set a new personal-best mark of 5-2.25.

The Pacific Palisades, Calif., native then claimed 10th place in the long jump and ended her day on a positive note by shaving over 10 seconds off her previous personalbest time in the 800 meters, good enough for seventh place.

Friday proved less successful for the Deacons, as they captured only Martin three top-10 finishes.

The first came from senior Tom Morrison, who qualified for the finals of the one mile run with a time of 4:07.67 in the preliminary heats.

Continuing her strong late season run, senior Molly Binder placed sixth in the qualifiers in the 800 meter run with her time of 7.71.

Perhaps the most impressive performance was that of the distance medley team of sophomore Alexander Rose, freshman Thomas Bojanowski, junior Nate Guthals and senior Paul Loeser.

With a time of 9:56.27, the squad sprinted to a fifth place finish, by far the best overall for a Deacon relay team this season.

Leading the way on Saturday, Morrison crossed the finish line of the one mile finals in 4:10.42, putting him in fifth place. He fell short of All-ACC honors, but this performance marked his second consecutive fifth place finish at the ACC Indoor Championships, as he placed in the same position last year in Blacksburg, Va. “Overall, I am disappointed with my own performance this weekend,” Morrison said. “But I take it for what it is, a lesson that will hopefully wake me up a little as I move towards the outdoor season.”

“For the veterans on the team, the return to high stress and high intensity competition is a reminder of the incredible focus and competition it takes to get to the top,” Morrison added.

The other top-10 finish on the day came from the 4x400 meter relay team of Bojanowski, sophomores Brandon Terry and Malcolm Nunley and freshman Daniel Harrison.

Posting an eighth place finish and time of 3:19.06, the group ran almost two seconds faster than any other Deacon 4x400 relay team this season.

Thanks to the continued success of Brooks and Binder, the women’s team grabbed two top-10 finishes on the final day of competition. Binder concluded her indoor career with a time of 2:13.53 in the 800 meter dash, securing her eighth place overall. Fellow senior Brooks, the school record holder of the triple jump, claimed ninth place with a leap of 40-9.5.

“There were a lot of lifetime bests and steps taken forward this weekend as a program,” Morrison said.

“However, there is still room for all of us to improve even more. For those who just experienced their first ACCs, they realize just how difficult it is to reach the top of the conference.”

Overall, the Wake Forest men’s team finished in 11th place, while the women’s finished in 12th.

Florida State won the men’s side for the ninth time in the last 10 years, with Clemson clinching its third straight women’s title.

“Our team is not as deep as it has been in previous years, which was reflected in terms of team scoring,” Hill said.

“However, with strong showings from many of our athletes, I am looking forward to a significantly better outdoor season.”

Photo courtesy of Brian Westerholt

Senior Alex Hill vaulted 3.49 meters in the first day of the ACC Indoor Championships at the Reggie Lewis Track Center in Boston.

Grobe and team begin gearing up for the season

By Evan Quinn | Staff writer

It’s time to start thinking football.

Spring practices are underway at the Doc Martin Practice Complex, and Head Coach Jim Grobe is ready to build off last year’s six-win season.

“I’m looking forward to [spring practice],” Grobe said at a recent press conference.

“We’ve got a good group of guys coming back, and it’s always good to get your quarterback back.”

Grobe is referring to Tanner Price, who threw for over 3,000 yards, 20 touchdowns and just six interceptions in 2011, and was named to the All-Academic ACC Team.

Price is one of just three returning starters on offense, along with redshirt sophomore wide receiver Michael Campanaro and redshirt junior center Garrick Williams.

“Our offensive line is a little bit of a concern,” Grobe said, in regards to the lack of returning starters on the line.

One of the four graduating offensive lineman is Joe Looney.

Looney, a four-year starter who led the team in knockdown blocks and was named second team All-ACC, is hoping to now be drafted into the NFL. “We’ve got some unproven guys, but also some very athletic guys,” Grobe said.

“I’m excited about the talent level there.”

Possibly the largest shoes that will need to be filled are those of wide receiver Chris Givens, who declared for the 2012 NFL Draft after his redshirt junior season.

Givens was a four-time ACC Player of the Week, had 83 receptions for a school-record 1,330 yards and nine touchdowns.

He was also named to the All-ACC first team.

“I don’t know that Chris [Givens] is replaceable from the standpoint of his footspeed,” Grobe said.

“But we’ve got some guys who are very capable. Matt James and Brandon Terry need to come on, and Sherman Ragland, who redshirted last year, is a guy who I think has a lot of ability. We

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Redshirt sophomore Michael Campanaro is looking to have another breakout year. Campanaro hauled in 833 yards for the Deacs and possesses explosive speed that can be a dangerous weapon. expect guys like Michael Campanaro and Terence Davis to be really, really good players for us.”

“Overall, we lose a real play-maker in Chris Givens, but I think we might have a little bit more depth than we’ve had in a while,” Grobe added.

In spite of losing third team AllAmerican, first team All-ACC safety Josh Bush and captain Kyle Wilber, the Deacs return seven starters on defense, including ACC Defensive Freshman of the Year Merrill Noel, who led the nation in passes defended, and second

team All-ACC redshirt sophomore nose tackle Nikita Whitlock, who led the team in tackles for a loss.

There will be some new faces on the coaching staff as well. With Steed Lobotzke moving to coach the tight ends and fullbacks, Jonathan Himebauch,

who most recently was an offensive coordinator in the Canadian Football League, will now coach the offensive line at Wake. Derrick Jackson, who coached the defensive line for Rice University in 2011, will take over the outside linebackers.

Currently, Wake is without a defensive backs coach, as Steve Russ took an assistant coaching job at his alma mater, the U.S. Air Force Academy.

“I really like having changes in the coaching staff,” Grobe said. “I think it’s always good to get some new ideas.”

Grobe and the rest of the coaching staff are poised for a more successful season in 2012 with a similar-looking schedule.

“I really, really like [the schedule],” Grobe said.

“Again, it’s a really challenging schedule with so many good football teams on it, but I like the way it breaks out. We’ve got an open date right in the middle of the year, which I think is good for us, we get to play on Thursday night, which is cool for our players and fans.

We’ll have to really play every week to have a chance.”

Wake will open their season at home on Saturday, Sept. 1 against Liberty, and they begin conference play the following weekend against the North Carolina Tar Heels at BB&T Field.

Next, they will play Florida State on the road then Army and Duke at home, followed by an away game at the University of Maryland.

After their bye week, they face the Virginia Cavaliers on the road, then Clemson at home, which will be aired on ESPN. The final four games for the Demon Deacons are as follows: vs.

Boston College, at NC State, at Notre Dame and vs. Vanderbilt.

It will be hard to overcome the graduation of senior captains Joe Looney and Kyle Wilber along with the early departure of play-maker Givens.

But if Jim Grobe is correct about the depth of this 2012 team, then the Deacs should be just fine this spring as well as when the season begins in early September.

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[different things], so you can get enough sleep to perform at the 7 a.m. practices.”

For many of these athletes, including Cristen Atchison, a senior field hockey player, the work does not stop when they travel to other universities to compete in athletics.

“When I was away on trips for [field] hockey, I had to make sure I balanced my time getting work done and getting mentally prepared to play matches,” Atchison said.

Along with the importance of time management, athletes also credited the business school faculty for understanding their schedules and their ability to

raise the achievement level of all students.

“The level of teaching is so high and every professor is a professional who brings years of experience to the [classroom],” senior field hockey player Faith Adams said.

Lisch echoed Adams’ praise of the professors and their work to cultivate relationships with their students.

“I have made some great relationships with many of my professors,” Lisch said.

Oehler also stressed the professors’ willingness to work around her volleyball schedule to ensure she can complete all assignments in a timely fashion. “[The professors] really go above and beyond to make sure I can catch up on what I miss while gone,” Oehler said.

Even though all these athletes have taken

slightly different paths through the business school, they are all ultimately thankful for the lessons they have learned and the opportunities presented to them after graduation.

The combination of athletics and an education from the business school at Wake Forest has these athletes prepared for whatever life Oehler throws at them in the future.

“I know whatever job I end up having, I will be perfectly fine grinding out any amount of work given to me and still

manage my time to be able to relax,” Lisch said.

For some, like Atchinson, occupational opportunities after graduation are already available because of her invaluable experience as a BEM major and field hockey athlete.

“I honestly believe I was offered my job after college because of [Wake Forest],” Atchison said.

“Three things that a lot of companies look for are being able to work on a team, problem solving and time management.”

If Atchison were to have taken a different route at Wake, she may have not been afforded the same opportunities in her career after field hockey.

“Baseball will end for me at some point in my life,” Stadler said.

“I am honored and thankful for the opportunity to attend such a prestigious school. It has been a truly humbling experience and I have enjoyed every minute of it.”

Ultimately, these student-athletes will be unable to play their specific sport at some point in their lives for a multitude of reasons.

However, because of their time at the Wake Forest Schools of Business and Accounting, they will have a strong foundation that will allow them to expand their opportunities in the work force.

“I feel like after college I will be able to conquer anything because of the lessons I have learned in my classes, on the court, and the balancing of the two,” Oehler said.