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By Molly Nevola | Staff writer
For visiting assistant professor of history Michael Bennett, teaching at the university since his arrival in August 2006 has been the “best two years of his life.” All this may change, however, as Bennett’s contract to teach has not been renewed for next year, despite widespread student sentiment to keep him onboard. Bennett, who was originally hired for one year and was then extended to two, said that he did not know what exactly was happening until the matter was full blown. “This past January, students began asking me what I was teaching next year; they kept asking about my schedule … and they knew it (from WIN) before I saw it,” he said. Bennett said his students inquired as to why he was not included in the list of courses. “‘I guess my contract’s not going to be extended,’ I told them,” Bennett said. Bennett, a family man with two young children, was originally a corporate lawyer before he decided to pursue a PhD. and become a university professor. His expertise is the Civil War military, but he was invited to join the university faculty to teach the Vietnam War. But now, after two years of teaching various introductory history courses on top of his specialties, Bennett will be looking for B ennett something new. And the students have taken note. Students are seeing an opportunity, Bennett said, and in a new form of activism are asking that the department consider keeping him. “The students here … they want to establish relationships with professors; they don’t just want an A on the test, they want life guidance … they are hungry for it and they expect it,” Bennett said, praising the quality and intelligence of his students. According to Trustee bylaws and the College Handbook, a visiting professor may not stay in a visiting position for more than three years. The American Association of University See Bennett, Page A5
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President-elect Jermyn Davis, accompanied by speaker-elect Matt Triplett, talks by phone with WAKE TV See SG, Page A6 after learning of his landslide victory in this year’s election for Student Government president.
Students for Obama make community impact By Haowei Tong | Staff writer The Wake Forest Students for Barack Obama group is in full force with a jam-packed agenda. Senior Kyle Haney and sophomore Randy Paris pilot the organization, which currently has 140 members. Last week, several attended a packed organizational meeting for Forsyth County. They held a kickoff meeting in Annenburg Forum in Carswell Hall on April 2. They were joined by official Obama campaign staff and Professor Jennifer Collins, who attended law school with Obama. “The abundance of Obama-related events is very encouraging. This group’s proximity to official Obama campaign staff allows us to participate fully,” freshman Aaron Williams-Simmons said. Haney is particularly enthused about the potential of Forsyth County, asserting that Obama’s campaign here is
completely grassroots and meticulously organized. His enthusiasm about the growth of Students for Barack Obama matched his excitement about the general campaign. “Obama’s campaign methods are revolutionary in Winston-Salem and nationwide. His solid platform, nonpartisanship and hope are so promising. Not just people in power are approached by the staff. Literally everyone has the opportunity to make a change,” Haney said. Other students expressed similar sentiments. “At the Forsyth County rally, the energy was epidemic. I was impressed by the turnout, and I’m definitely motivated about the events to come,” freshman Jessica Dupont said. Paris created the campus’ Students for Barack Obama group and also conveyed immense enthusiasm about its growth. See Obama, Page A4
Firm donates $500,000 By Katie Phillips | Staff writer
Representatives from the international accounting firm Ernst & Young, along with the university’s Calloway School of Business and Accountancy students and faculty, gathered for a special ceremony regarding future plans of a development center in Kirby Hall. A major gift to the university was contributed along with the announcement of the construction of a new student professional development and advising center. The new center will be managed by the first director of student professional development in the Calloway School. It will open in the fall of this year. The director will offer professional development skills and advising services to all Calloway School majors. A donation of $500,000 from Ernst & Young will be used towards the development of the professional and advising center. Named the Ernst & Young Development Center, it will be housed in an area of 900 square feet of newly remodeled space on the ground floor of Kirby
Hall. “For Ernst & Young, this gift underscored our commitment to Wake Forest and the future business leaders that are graduating from the Calloway School,” Tom Hough, vice chair of the firm, said of the donation. President Hatch also spoke at the ceremony. He noted the importance of the Calloway School’s relationship with Ernst & Young, thanking both parties for their commitment. Hatch said that the new development center exemplifies the “signature of Wake Forest University’s quality and personal attention given to students at our first rate school.” Dean Jack Wilkerson of the Calloway School noted the importance of the firm’s “longstanding support for academic programs.” “The center will help students add business savvy and a more polished professional demeanor to the technical skills they have acquired through the school,” he said. “The thing that has been most impressive to me about the friendship and support of this firm is
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The tension was palpable outside of the Student Government office April 1 as candidates, media and onlookers awaited the results of the day’s Student Government elections. “I’m so scared right now,” said Saket Munshaw, candidate for the position of treasurer. “I love Wake Forest so much,and I’m concerned for its future.” Many candidates shared Munchaw’s sentiment, and as the results slowly trickled from the Student Government office, the tension slowly grew. Jermyn Davis won a landslide victory for the office of president, with 77.7 percent of the vote. Presidential candidate Sarah Walker was disqualified from the race for reasons that Student Government declined to give out following the election. However, the Old Gold & Black discovered e-mails and text messages sent out by Walker on the day of elections
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University senior VP resigns By Elliot Engstrom | News editor
James R. Bullock, vice president for university advancement, has resigned due to personal reasons. His resignation will be effective April 1. Bullock has been a staff member at the university since 1985. President Nathan O. Hatch commented on Bullock’s resignation in a recent university press release. “We appreciate James’ many years of service to Wake Forest,” Hatch said in the release. “With remarkable enthusiasm, he has been instrumental in developing significant financial support for the university’s educational mission.” Bullock was himself a graduate of the university’s Babcock
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Graduate School of Management. As vice president for university advancement, Bullock directed the university’s capital campaign, known as “Honoring the Promise: The Campaign for Wake Forest.” Bullock is also a member of the university senate, where he is on the Standing Committee on Senior University Appointments, which is chaired by Derrick Boone of the Babcock School of Management. “It has been my privilege to serve Wake Forest for the past 23 years,” Bullock said. “I am grateful for the many friendships made with alumni, students, faculty and staff. I know that our school will continue to have a bright future under Dr. Hatch’s inspirational leadership.”
Bullock stressed the fact that the university should strive to accommodate those who do not have the resources to attend without aid. “Having attended Wake Forest on scholarships made possible through others’ generosity, I hope Wake Forest will continue to be a place of opportunity for promising students of limited means,” Bullock said. “While I am looking forward to the next chapter of my career, Wake Forest is and always will be the home of my heart.” No specific reason has been given for Bullock’s resignation. Upon searching Bullock’s name on the Wake Information Network, one finds a link to www.bullockconsult.com, the See Bullock, Page A4
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Comedy troupe to give spring performance The Lilting Banshees will present “Pants Down Comedy Festival II” at 8 p.m. April 5 in Brendle Recital Hall. Admission is $3. For more information contact Mike Baireuther at bairmj4@wfu.edu
Presidential scholars to perform in music recital Christine Eckhardt, flute and Thomas Turnbull, piano will perform at the Presidential Scholar Recital at 3 p.m. on April 5 in Brendle Recital Hall. For more information contact Carol Brehm at ext. 5364.
Annual Deacon Discount Days Tent sale approaches From April 7-11 the university stores on campus will have their 2nd Annual Deacon Discount Days Tent sale. For more information please contact Cheri Moore at moorecb@wfu.edu.
Concert to feature 16th century French and Flemish music The Collegium Musicum Vocal Ensemble and Collegium Musicum Instrumentalists will perform a combined concert featuring sacred works, chansons and other light genres written by leading French and Flemish composers of the 16th century April 8 at 8 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall. For more information contact Carol Brehm at brehmcj@wfu.edu
Lifeguarding course to be offered A weekend lifeguarding course will be offered April 11-13 at Reynolda Gym Pool. After completion of the course, participants will be Red Cross certified in Lifeguarding, First Aid, CPR Pro and AE. This course has a three-day requirement. Pre-registration is required. For more information contact the Professional Development Center at pcd@wfu.edu
Students to participate in poetry performance A student poetry performance will be held April 18 at 3 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall. The performance will be directed by Maya Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American Studies. For more information contact Alice Goodman at goodman@wfu.edu.
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By Caitlin Brooks | Staff writer
April 14 marks the 20th anniversary of the Pi Omicron Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, a historically black service sorority and the first sorority to be established on campus. In recognition of the occasion, the chapter has organized a celebration for past and present members for the weekend of April 4-6. The celebration is member exclusive and will begin with a mixer on April 4 for current members and alumni to get to know each other. Chapter president Brigette Proctor, a junior at the university, referred to the event as a See Sorority, Page A4
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The Pi Omicron Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, a historically black service sorority, will celebrate its 20th anniversary April 14. Delta Sigma Theta was the first sorority established on campus.
Cheer, dance teams go national Craig speaks on God and existence By Jacob Bathanti | Staff writer
When students think of intercollegiate competitions, a few specific things usually spring to mind – the Bowl Championship Series, March Madness, the College World Series. But fierce competition is the norm in all athletic areas at the university, even in the less-wellknown worlds of the dance and cheerleading teams. Both these groups are headed to Daytona, Fla., April 9-12 to compete for national honors from the National Dance Association and the National Cheerleaders Association. They had to pass through an initial screening by sending in tapes of their competition routines.
Both teams were selected to advance to Daytona. The dance team will compete in a field of 22 schools, including some ACC rivals; the cheerleading team will compete in a field of 18 at the intermediate level. “It’s pretty significant that we’re able to go,” said senior dance team co-captain Kelly Mullen. “For Athletics to put that amount of trust in us is a really big deal.” Senior cheerleading co-captain Drew Jack agreed. “We just hope we can represent the school well,” he said. Each team will perform a twominute, 15-second routine. The dance team’s piece must incorporate three different styles of dance – jazz, hip-hop and pom
– so as to reward a well-balanced troupe. The cheerleaders will present a representative medley of their best game-day feats, starting with a mock-up of their gamestarting cheers. They will then move on to a selection of pyramid stunts, tumbling and other acrobatics. In both cases, the pressure is intense to deliver a solid routine in a short space of time. “It’s everything we do (at a game) compacted into two minutes and 15 seconds,” Jack said. “It’s like ‘Ready, go – and smile the entire time!’” added senior co-captain Laura Waggoner. See National, Page A4
BSA celebrates “Black Hollywood” By Elliot Engstrom | News editor
The Black Student Alliance hosted this year’s Celebration of Black Arts under the name of “Black Hollywood” in the Magnolia Room March 29. The event aimed to celebrate African-American celebrities of the past and showcased the talent of BSA members. Students congregated outside of the Magnolia Room prior to the event’s beginning at 7 p.m. The night included music from a jazz band, student performances, raffle prizes and dinner. “On behalf of BSA, we want to tell everybody welcome to the Celebration of Black Arts,” BSA president See Black Arts, Page A5
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The Black Student Alliance celebrated the black arts of the past and present March 29 in the Magnolia Room.
By Haowei Tong | Staff writer
Dr. William Lane Craig delivered a lecture titled "Why Does Anything At All Exist?" to a large audience on March 28 in Pugh Auditorium. The lecture was coordinated by the philosophy department. Craig was raised in a non-religious family and declared himself an evangelical Christian at age 16. He holds degrees from Wheaton College, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, University of Birmingham and the University of Munich. Craig is a New Testament scholar and has published several books. He frequently engages in public and academic defenses of Christianity. Currently Craig is a Research Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology of Biola University in La Mirada, Calif., where he has worked since 1994. The topic of Craig’s address was Gottfried Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason, also known as the Causal Doctrine. Craig first summarized the three premises: first, for every entity x, if x exists, then there is a sufficient explanation for x’s existence. Second, for ever event e, if e occurs, then there is a sufficient explanation for e’s occurrence. Finally, for every proposition p, if p is true, then there is a sufficient explanation as to why p is true. Craig applied these premises to the Christian tradition, supporting the existence and omnipotence of one God. He also systematically described examples. Additionally, Craig provided counterattacks to atheist arguments. See Craig, Page A7
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• University Police responded March 27 to a call about public display of alcohol in front of Taylor Residence Hall. Officers questioned two students, who were of legal drinking age. Information about the incident was provided to Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services. •University Police responded to a call March 30 from an employee, who smelled marijuana smoke in Bostwick Residence Hall, and found a student to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana. Charges are pending further investigation. Information about the incident was provided to the dean of student services.
Thefts • An unattended backpack containing a university laptop computer was reported stolen from a lounge in Bostwick Residence Hall between 12:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. March 21.
• An unattended cell phone valued at $100 was reported stolen March 29 from a table in Greene Hall. • A student was charged with larceny of a motor vehicle March 25 after University Police saw him driving a university golf cart erratically on North Circle. Information about the incident was provided to the dean of student services. • An unattended backpack containing a university laptop computer was reported stolen from Scales Fine Arts Center between noon and 12:50 p.m. March 26.
Property Damage • A glass entry door to Polo Residence Hall was broken and caused damage estimated at $2,500, between 6 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. March 25.
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• An employee of a university contractor was issued a trespass warning March 27 after University
Police stopped his vehicle on Wake Forest Road and found in the trunk a woman’s bicycle, which he admitted taking from campus. The bicycle had not been reported stolen, and the owner has not yet been identified. • An unidentified person in a moving vehicle yelled at and threw a plastic bottle filled with liquid at a pedestrian as he was walking along Wake Forest Road toward Worrell Professional Center March 27. • An intruder, on two separate occasions, entered a student’s room while he was sleeping but left when the student awakened. The student identified the intruder, and University Police are investigating the incidents.
University Police responded to 51 calls from March 24-30, including 13 incidents and investigations and 38 service calls. The above is a summary of the incidents and investigations.
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Students can do more than just study in the library beginning April 11 with the first performance in “Friday Night Live at ZSR,” a free monthly performance series held in Rhoda’s Cafe in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Library Specialist Peter Romanov conceptualized and organized this event, the first of its kind. It will be held between 6-7 p.m., featuring singing, dancing, stand-up comedy and short film presentations by student participants. “I want people to look at the library as a place to looking forward to come to rather than dreading coming here because you know you have to finish a big paper or have to watch a film for class that you have absolutely no personal interest in,” Romanov said. “I’m hoping that students will look at this free event as a stepping stone to having a little fun over the weekend,” Romanov said. “You know, put them in a good mood and help them forget about academics for a little bit.” Junior Thomas Kozak will perform at the inaugural event, singing original indie folk songs and playing the acoustic guitar. Kozak will also be selling CDs of his work at the performance. In the past Kozak has been the lead vocalist in bands from his home in Alabama. These bands include indie band runingtopersia as well as folk rock
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The ZSR Library will begin hosting a concert series April 11. Depending on student reactions to the event, the concert series may continue next year. band Red Dog Alley. His biggest influences are Iron & Wine and Josh Ritter. “The ZSR concert series was (Romanov’s) idea for helping to get student music heard on campus,” Kozak said.
“There are so many talented student musicians and songwriters that simply don’t have a place to play. This gives them a needed leg up.” “Thomas’ music is full of nostalgia and the characters in them have a pretty sensitive soul and seem to be
yearning for something. His guitar playing ranges from quiet to energetic depending on the mood of the song,” Romanov said. “His performance style is very laid See ZSR, Page A7
University to host first annual film festival By Kristen Guth | Staff writer
Organized by students, the inaugural Reynolda Film Festival will feature student films from all over the world and draw entertainment industry experts to speak from April 11-13. The event will be hosted by the university on the Reynolda campus and is free to university students, faculty and staff. The festival is sponsored by WAKE TV, the student-run campus television station and has been in planning since October 2007. Junior Alex Saks, director of the festival and president and chief executive officer of WAKE TV, hopes that the festival will pique student body interest in film culture and become an annual event. “In the 1960s and ‘70s Wake Forest had a nationally recognized, incomparable extra-curricular film program,” Saks said. “As the leader of the only film- and televisionrelated group here, I felt our organization had an obligation to bring this presence back to campus. The idea of a small, independent student film festival has since developed into a larger, international one.” The festival committee received more than 75 submissions from students representing more than 15 countries, including Canada, Australia, Italy, Brazil, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Thailand, Spain, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. Filmmakers were able to submit their films through an international film submission Website, allowing people from any country to enter the festival. The festival program highlights 28 films by filmmakers from 10 different countries. Filmmaking genres include narrative, documentary, animation, experimental and international. Although only 15 of the films were chosen as finalists in the student competition, several other films were selected by the festival committee for screening. “The student body needs to understand that
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David Park, production coordinator at Pixar, will talk about making animated features, such as 2007’s Ratatouille, on April 12 in Annenberg Forum for the Reynolda Film fest. this is something that they may never experience again,” freshman Brent Lindley, program coordinator, said. “Our special guests create what people pay to see in theaters. They are some of the most creative minds in the entertainment industry. “Some representatives who will be at the festival give identical presentations for over $700, so it’s important to realize that this is an incredible opportunity, and, further, it’s completely for free.” The films in festival competition are in the categories of narrative, documentary and combined animation/experimentation and were selected by a panel of university student judges. Two of the finalist films were produced by former and current students of the university. The narrative film Negotiations by university alumnus Ethan Cushing follows a Los Angeles Police Department hostage negotiator into an emotional and violent standoff at a convenience store. The film has received numerous festival awards throughout the country and is a finalist in the
Reynolda festival. In film category two, Negotiations focuses on portraying human nature and the balance between good and evil. Other finalists in the narrative film category include Red Autumn (category two), Blue Corner (category three), Rabia (category four) and Cody (category five). The documentary finalist category features In Perfect Synch (category three), a film produced jointly by junior Kristin Eberman, senior Kyle Heitman and senior Carrie Stephens. The film captures the journey of rower Jamie Dean, a university undergraduate, from humble beginnings to a world competition in England with the U.S. National Adaptive Team. In category three, this film centers on the passion of the human spirit amidst day to day living. “Producing a documentary takes a lot of work,” Eberman said. “But if students here can be exposed to films See Film, Page A5
It is definitely not uncommon to see groups of prospective students trying to find their way around campus, peeking in dorm rooms and eating at the Pit, but on April 10 a different group of prospective students will be touring campus. Project Launch, an organization that provides a service learning opportunity for university students, will be bringing their seventh grade student advisees from 8:30 a.m. -1:15 p.m. on April 10 to the university for a little taste of college life. Project Launch was started in 1999 and is a year-long mentoring program for seventh graders at Paisley IB Magnet Middle School. The program emphasizes character education and provides insight into the college experience. The group currently consists of 12 university student-volunteers who go twice a month to the school to talk about different topics with the seventh graders. Some of these topics have included inter- and intra-sexual interactions, the importance of volunteering and good grades, and tips on how to get into college. The program gives the children positive role models. “They can associate more with us because we’re closer to their age,” sophomore Fatu Bangura, the university’s student coordinator of the program, said. The mentoring takes place during one of the seventh graders’ elective classes, and the volunteers begin a discussion-based lecture on a certain topic, in which they pose questions and get the students’ feedback. “We talk about issues that affect seventh graders and share our experiences with them so they can see there are alternate ways of dealing with their problems,” Bangura said. The volunteers also get to know their students on a personal level. “Each mentor has their own group of about five students that they meet with each time they go. That way the children get to know the mentor and the mentor gets to know the children, which makes a greater impact on both parties,” Bangura said. Though this program doesn’t cost anything, in order to be involved the seventh graders must complete an application and then have an interview with Judy Noll, the head of the initiative. This means that the seventh graders come from different backgrounds, which increases diversity within the program. “It’s made me more aware of different economic groups,” Bangura said. “Project Launch isn’t just minority-based. Children from all socio-economic classes apply to get into the program. It’s kind of like a microcosm of our world and their interactions show that.” On April 10, however, these students will come to the university and participate in various activities in order to help them better understand college life. They will take a tour of the library and then of the campus, followed by a talk by Lewis Frazier (‘07), a student-athlete who will discuss the importance of balancing school and sports. Campus Kitchen will also get involved by leading a discussion on eating healthy and staying active. The gospel choir and theater ensemble will perform and the volunteer service corps will talk about different ways they can get involved now and once they get into college. Also, admissions will talk about what they can do to improve their chances of getting into college. The program is beneficial to the students because it provides them with information and insight into their future, but it also makes an impact on the volunteers who work with them. “They really do brighten your day, because they are so excited to see you … you feel like you really do make difference,” Bangura said. For information on how to get involved, contact Fatu Bangura at bangf6@wfu.edu.
Student awarded in anthropology Mock trial heads to nationals By Hunter Bratton | Staff writer
Senior Christina Chauvenet was awarded first prize in the Peter K. New Student Research Competition in Memphis, Tenn. March 28. Sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology, the nationwide competition was open to all undergraduate and graduate students. The competition also featured numerous papers that documented student research pertaining to the applied social and behavioral sciences. The award-winning paper, titled “First Line of Defense: Health Care Agents and Childhood Cancer in Recife, Brazil,” was the culmination of an arduous process conducted by Chauvenet over the past summer. When asked why she decided to do research in Recife, Chauvenet, the daughter of a Cuban-American, said “Brazilian culture has always been interesting to me.” As a high school student, Chauvenet spent time in Argentina, building on her adoration of the Latin American
people and their way of life. Wishing to pursue her interest in Latin American culture, Chauvenet eventually discovered an opportunity through Saint Jude’s International Research Program that would allow her to conduct her own research in Brazil. For seven weeks, Christina Chauvenet collected data in Recife that objectively judged the successfulness of the community workers in combating basic diseases of the indigenous children. Chauvenet’s study was an observation of the effectiveness of the Brazilian health care agents in aiding infants who were afflicted with cancer. Chauvenet said she has always held an affinity for human rights and public healthcare and wanted to experience the management of illnesses firsthand. Combining her interest in public healthcare with her passion for Latin American culture created an opportunity to learn more about the two subjects that she has always found gratifying. After her research in Recife,
Chauvenet, a native of WinstonSalem, returned to the United States where she spent two months tabulating data and writing the paper. This phase of the exploratory process was equally challenging compared to field studies. At some points during the compilation of her data, Chauvenet was required to spend as many as 60-70 hours a week working on her paper. The research presentations were evaluated with regard to originality of the study, research methods, overall contribution to the sciences and “clarity of analysis and presentation.” Chauvenet was awarded $1,000 from the Society for Applied Anthropology for her research, along with a trophy. Chauvenet has a major in political science and a minor in Latin American Studies. She would like to continue her studies in political science by earning a PhD. She would also like to continue by further examining public health care policies.
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The university’s mock trial team will take its third consecutive trip to the national competition in Minneapolis, Minn., this weekend. The team has been preparing for this final tournament since August and is ready to face the challenges that await them. “I expect us to do better than we have done in previous years at nationals,” Don Donelson, a third year law student and coach of the university’s mock trial team, said. “This is the first year that we can do really well at the championship.” The university’s mock trial team received a bid to nationals at the regional competition, which took place Feb. 14-16 in Orlando. Out of over 500 teams, the university’s was one of only five teams to have a perfect 8-0 record at the tournament. Since receiving their bid to nationals, the team has worked several hours a day to prepare for the coming tournament. “We have been working six to seven days a week for the past three weeks,” Donelson said. Teams are given one case to work on for the entire season.
The seven-person team is divided into attorneys and witnesses. Much of the case is prepared speeches, but some of it involves impromptu speaking. A typical tournament consists of eight rounds, four rounds as the prosecution and four rounds as the defense in a fictional court hearing. This year’s national tournament will be held at Hennepin County Government Center. “There’s never enough time to make it perfect,” Donelson said, referring to the case. “But we’re trying to make it as close to perfect as possible.” The university’s team recently had a scrimmage with Furman University, the frontrunner for the national title. Despite losing to Furman on a 3-2 vote, Donelson notes how far the team has come. “If this had been three years ago, Furman would have crushed us,” Donelson said. “We’ve come a long way.” Colin Crawford, a junior on the mock trial team, shares the team’s strategy for See Mock Trial, Page A7
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“sisterhood healing and bonding experience,” in keeping with one of the three pillars upon which Delta Sigma Theta is based; sisterhood, scholarship and service. April 5 will focus on another pillar of the sorority, service. The girls will travel to Kernersville to volunteer at Next Step Ministries, a domestic violence shelter, where they will work in the organization’s thrift store and help raise money for the ministry. The service trip will be followed by a cookout and banquet where past and present chapter advisers will be recognized and there will be a lesson about the chapter’s history as well as a presentation of awards and special recognitions. April 6 will conclude the weekend-long celebration with a worship service at Union Baptist Church immediately followed by a rededication ceremony. Delta Sigma Theta has a very small presence on campus. There are currently only six members, but it has a major impact in several ways. Every year in February, the chapter sponsors two $500 scholarships for a non-Greek minority female. This year, they hosted two voter registration drives, participated in Greek Week and walked on the Alzheimer’s Awareness walk on campus. They are also very active in Black History month activities. This year, they showed a film on the Greensboro sit-ins and hosted Delta Deep Talks, forum discussions on key race issues like the conflict in Darfur, Sudan. “I think what we really give Wake Forest is a positive image of a minority woman as a leader and someone who is really involved in community service and scholarship,” Proctor said.“I decided to join because I wanted to make an impact on campus and just grow in my skills as a leader and someone who could really make an impact on Wake Forest and the community, especially the minority community because we are so small here at Wake.” The university has a very small minority population, and the chapter serves as a place that driven minority women can go to make a difference, find unity and stand out.
Bullock: VP resigns for personal reasons Continued from Page A1 Web site of Bullock Development Consulting. The Web site is currently under construction. President Hatch has appointed Sandra C. Boyette as interim vice president for university advancement. She has been a senior advisor to the president since 2006. She has also served as an administrator at the university since 1997. Since the start of her career at the university in 1981, she has held several positions, including vice president for public affairs. Boyette holds degrees from Wake Forest, Converse College, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, according to a university press release. Boyette previously held the position of vice president of university advancement, but gave it up in 2006 when Bullock took the job, and she moved to be a senior advisor to Hatch.
Ernst & Young’s sustained efforts to enhance our school and especially to enhance our learning environment and the development of our students. This generous gift, this Center, will assure that our graduates are exceedingly ready on day one.” Wilkerson At the announcement of the proposed center, an artist’s rendering of what the center will look like was also revealed.
Business Week magazine ranks the Calloway School 21st among the nation’s top undergraduate business schools. The school began offering a Master of Science in Accounting degree in 1997, and since then graduates have received top national ranking on six different occasions. It has also placed second in the nation three times for the highest percentage of candidates passing all four sections of the accounting test on during their first time taking the exam. Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transactions and advisory services with over 130,000 employees in 140 countries. It was founded in 1937 to provide “philanthropic support to institutions of higher education.”
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Jack Wilkerson, Dean of the Calloway School, welcomed Ernst & Young officials April 1.
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is the campaign’s top priority, alongside educating voters. As Initially, approximately thirty most university students will be members convened weekly to occupied with exams on May 6, discuss the election. Students for Barack Obama is They twice sent 10 students to promoting early voting. It begins South Carolina for its primary. on April 17 and ends on May 3. All deemed this experience Forsyth County will open nine intensely gratifying. locations, including the Board of W h e n Elections on attention April 17 and “Young people are getting inshifted to the Polo Park the North volved in an unprecedented way, Recreation Carolina and they’ve been a key part of the Center, the p r i m a r y, location broad coalition of support that students closest to b e g a n campus, on Senator Obama has attracted.” signing up in April 28. Craig Chirmer much higher “On April Obama campaign N.C. State Director numbers. 17, Obama St u d e n t s supporters for Barack across the Obama are now registering county will march from Winstonvoters. Salem State to Salem College,” An out-of-state student can Haney said. register in N.C. and vote in the “We’ll continue to register May 6 primary if he/she did voters, appeal for votes and not vote in his/her home state have activities. We’re showing primary. The group, fueled by its Obama that this local campaign campaign, is driven to spread such is completely fired up.” information. Haney reported “Young people are getting that the voter registration drive involved in an unprecedented
way, and they’ve been a key part of the broad coalition of support that Senator Obama has attracted,” said State Director Craig Schirmer. There’s a plethora of volunteer opportunities and events throughout the rest of the school year, according to Haney and Paris. In coordinating activities, they have formed alliances with other Obama campaigners, including NCSA senior Will French. “An Autopassion concert will be at the Werehouse on April 10,” French said. “It’s a last push for registration and will be a spark of our push for early voting. “I hope to see the Werehouse at maximum capacity.” The concert will begin at 7 p.m. and last until midnight. The Werehouse, at 211 East Third, is a popular indie venue and hosts Krankie’s Coffee. Rumors of a techno dance party for Barack Obama at the Millenium Center have been circulating. Wake Students for Barack Obama is a charged group.
The university’s teams usually attend championships under the auspices of a different collegiate organization, but this year there was a scheduling conflict with the Universal Cheerleaders Association. This means a clean slate for university teams at these competitions. “We’re the wild card,” Mullen said. “We have the potential to come in and make a splash.” That splash would be particularly impressive because of the youth of the two teams, who will be competing against teams with older, more experienced members. Mullen and Waggoner are the only seniors on the dance Mullen team, but they bring all of their experience to the table to help teach and train their younger counterparts. The cheerleading team is more experienced but still fairly young overall. “It’s a good thing,” Waggoner said. “It means we’ll keep talented dancers for a few more years.” The three seniors confessed to a degree of anxiety, as this will be their last chance to compete in a competition of this nature. However, they also expressed a readiness to compete, as the fact that this is their final competition increases their drive to win. As dedicated athletes, they seem to relish the opportunity to prove themselves formidable contenders. After all, they said, there’s still the motivation of having their sports considered second-tier athletic endeavors when compared with such university sports as football and basketball. “After they see us, they think again,” Jack said. “It’s pretty cool, once they see what we do.” The dance and cheerleading teams will be performing in the Varsity Gym from 7-9 p.m. on April 6 as a pre-competition preview. The event is free and open to the public.
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Student enjoyed the warm weather and budding leaves April 2 as spring weather finally arrived at the university. The weather was a welcome change to the low 40 temperatures of the previous weekend, a stark contrast which is typical of the Carolinas.
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Black Arts: Celebration showcases BSA talent Continued from Page A2
Chloe Mexile said as the attendees seated themselves. To begin the evening, students were served a buffet dinner. After a few minutes of dining, conversation and table mingling, the evening’s events began. Senior Troy Pellom, a member of the Umoja Theatre Ensemble, kicked off the celebration with a monologue, followed by a performance by members of the university Gospel Choir. During the interludes, raffle prizes were given out to members of the audience. Dozens of prizes were won, including DVDs and paintings. Senior Lauren Smith sang a rendition of “I Can’t Help Loving That Man of Mine.” The song was originally supposed to be sung by Lena Horn, a black actress, in a film about an interracial couple. However, a black lead woman with a white lead man in a film was against the law at the time, so Horn had to teach the song to the white actress who sang in the movie. Smith dedicated her rendition of the song to Lena Horn. The night continued with a variety of performances, including interpretive dance, more singing and rap. The night was capped off by Terryl Dozier and Roman Irving’s performance, at the end of which they had a rose given to every girl in the audience. “It was unexpected to say the least,” Mexile said. “It was a nice surprise though.” The night meant a lot to Mexile, who had been planning the event
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since last semester. “We saw a void and saw that something had to be done, so we wanted to put together this arts celebration,” Mexile said. “Cassandra Young, who was president last year, brought it to us and we started it.” The Office of Multicultural Affairs also helped in the planning of the event. This year’s celebration marked the second annual Celebration of Black Arts. Last year’s theme was “Journey to Harlem.” Mexile is thankful for BSA’s influence on campus life. “BSA on this campus is needed,” Mexile said. “We don’t have a very diverse campus, but we do have a strong group of African-American students that go here. However, their numbers are so small that they’re not heard. I think BSA gives them a way to get their voice out there and raise issues that people dodge on a day to day basis. You just don’t talk about race here unless you’re in a race class, but we deal with it every day.” BSA has been growing ever since Mexile’s arrival at the university. “When I was a freshman, they (BSA) really weren’t as prominent as they are now,” Mexile said. She became a member of the exec board her sophomore year. “I’ve been on exec board ever since, and we’ve grown every year.” Like all members of BSA, Mexile plans to use her race positively in life. “It’s not something that I’m going to let hold me back,” she said. “I’m going to let it propel me forward.”
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Students enjoyed dinner, music and theatrical performances at this year’s Black Student Alliance Celebration of Black Arts entitled “Black Hollywood.”
Film: Festival a university first Continued from Page A3
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The Pat McGee band performed a free outdoor concert on Manchester Plaza April 2. The concert was a part of Student Union’s Springfest.
made by their peers, and see what is currently being done in the film world, they may be inspired by our motivation and passion to produce something themselves.” Documentary finalists also include Remo Usai–Um Musico para o cinema (category one), The Escape Clause (category one), The Sheriff (category two) and Martorana (category three). The categories are numbered chronologically by the block in which they will be shown and each have specific themes. Category one films are made by foreign filmmakers or filmed in international locations and will be shown the evening of April 4. Categories two and three will be screened on the following day. Sunday showings include films in category four, which juxtapose tangible realities with truth gained from reflection and beauty within, and category five, which investigate life’s unexpected obstacles and
their resolutions over the course of time. In the animation/experimentation finalist category, Travelogues (category one), Sumulacra (category three), When the World Goes Dark (category four), Cycle (category four) and Dinner Table (category five) will be competing for the winning title. “I am hopeful that students will take advantage of the opportunity to see a slate of wonderful films that are not widely available in other venues,” Mary Dalton, university professor of communication and festival speaker and judge, said. Some of the featured speakers include David Parks, production coordinator of Pixar Animation Studios, and film producer Jordan Kerner. Jordan Kerner has worked with movies such as Charlotte’s Web, Inspector Gadget, The Mighty Ducks films, Fried Green Tomatoes and The Three Musketeers. Award-winning director Aner Preminger, who is also a visiting faculty member and Senior Lecturer at Hebrew University in Jeru-
salem, Israel will be speaking about independent filmmaking. “I think that the WAKE TV students who conceived, planned, organized and executed this event should be very proud of what they have accomplished in pulling together this film festival,” festival advisor Steve Jarett said. “They have worked tirelessly and uncompromisingly to make the festival a success and I am confident that the event will reflect the effort that they have invested.” WAKETV organizers have started setting their sights on planning the event for upcoming year. “In organizing the schedule this year, we have come across some amazing speaker opportunities for the future,” Lindley said. “It looks like we’re planning next April’s festival already.” The festival is open to the public. Admission is free for university students, faculty and staff with student identification. Advance tickets are $12, available at www.brownpapertickets.com. Tickets are $15 at the door.
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Professors (AAUP) sets the national standards for faculty. “WFU and practically every university I know of follow these guidelines,” Dean Deborah Best said. Best said that the reasons for limiting the visiting term is to protect the faculty members due to the fact that they have lower salaries than tenure-track faculty, do not participate in departmental and university governance and have a high teaching load that decrease time for scholarly activities. “It really is not good for someone’s long-term career to be in visiting positions for very long,” Best said. Bennett said he received a notice from the history department saying that based on their needs, they would not reappoint him at the expiration of this specified term. “I knew unless something opened up or there was a change, at the end of the term I’d have to find something else,” he said. On March 5, Bennett received word that Student Government was proposing (and eventually passed) a bill recommending that he remain with the university. Student Government Chief of Staff Alex Vaccaro knew that passing a bill in the General Assembly was a common method of communicating student sentiment and decided to compose a bill to demonstrate the wide support for Bennett across campus. Sophomore Tyler Kruse, fellow member of SG and student of Bennett, joined in on the effort and told Vaccaro he believed the bill would help spread the word. Kruse was initially prompted to introduce the bill to SG upon receipt of mass emails that contained anecdotes detailing just how influential Bennett has been as a student advocate, teacher and mentor. “I had doubts that many students shared to same level of connection with
Dr. Bennett that I have formed.” Kruse said. “However, I was proven dead wrong by the support that was voiced to me through emails and face-to-face interactions.” Bennett continued to receive letters and emails from students, parents and even alumni and discovered that these people were contacting the president’s office and provost as well. “I didn’t expect this, but I did know that I had made a connection with the students; I didn’t realize how strongly they felt,” he said. Bennett said he was humbled by the reaction of the students and the level of organized effort that they put forth on their own volition. Bennett said he came here for the emphasis on the student, and though he is an accomplished scholar with an award-winning book currently on the market, he puts teaching first. “I think that I was brought here for the students,” he said. “If I would tell anyone about Wake Forest, it would be about how important the students are and how great they are for the university. It gets lost in all of it.” Bennett said he could not come into a job like this and put students third behind his job search and his scholarship. “I’m not wired that way — I have to help students. I didn’t limit myself, I gave it everything I had, taught as if I’d been here ten years,” he said. Bennett said he does not know if the bill will have an effect, but he thinks that the students acting collectively for a positive purpose is a positive sign for their interest in the university and the subject of history. “I think that maybe what’s good has already been done.” Students respond to Bennett, and his radically unique teaching style may be part of his appeal. Bennett’s teaching is direct, relevant and heavily conceptual, he said. “I don’t downplay the role that Christianity has played because there is a rel-
evance of faith in the modern world,” he said. According to Bennett, some students agree and some disagree, and while Christianity in his classroom is an option, he believes that it should be in the classroom to show its significance in history, culture, politics, war, healing and other facets of life. Bennett doesn’t use PowerPoint. His lectures are discussion-based: students are heavily involved and opinions are solicited. “I try to make it interesting, joke and kid, talk about my mother-in-law, personalize it,” he said. “I’m not teaching off an outline — it’s alive in my head.” For Bennett, this has been a perfect place to try out his teaching ideas — and it’s worked, he said. “My approach in the classroom seems to uniquely work here with students. It’s like we’re both on the same page.” Sophomore Thomas Loughran said that Bennett transformed his view of history entirely and encouraged his love of the subject. “I learned some of the most valuable lessons I’ve ever been taught throughout my academic career in his intro class,” Loughran said. Loughran described Bennett as a personable and approachable professor who is in love with the topic he teaches. “His admiration of history is obvious in the classroom, and he teaches his students to understand that the world we live in is a complex place that we can only hope to understand through thorough examinations of every side of the story,” he said. Loughran attributed the department’s decision not to renew Bennett’s contract to a lack of funds but he asserted a firm opinion on the topic. “When a teacher comes along who evokes this much response from students, we need to realize that people like this should not be left behind simply because of department limitations,” he said. Kruse is currently taking his fourth
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Michael Bennett is currently a visiting assistant professor of history. Many students are upset that his contract has not been renewed. class with Bennett, a teacher he describes as captivating and entertaining. “Many of my peers compare a Bennett lecture to a story, and each class is a chapter they can’t wait to read,” he said. Kruse said that Bennett does not simply repeat dates, explain events or highlight trends, but rather he frames history into a novel intellectual framework. “Dr. Bennett’s courses offer more than an alternative to reading the assigned materials — they offer a brilliant encapsulation of how historical events play out,” Kruse said. According to Kruse, Bennett challenges students immeasurably while balancing the class with discussion of politics, religion, social life and personal issues. Kruse, who will be accompanied by Bennett at the Duke History Symposium to present a research paper in American legal history, said that Bennett is the main reason he is a his-
tory major. Kruse said that he thinks Bennett’s contract expiration will poorly affect the history department. “I might add this is a very mediocre direction for a department suffering in recent years from a dearth of majors,” he said. History is in trouble on this campus because it lacks an edge and an appeal, Kruse said. But Bennett’s courses are unique, he said, and their success can be attributed to their specificity and use of material that enthrall students. “Learning tedious dates, terms, and people is meaningless unless the analytical skills are sharpened in the process, but Dr. Bennett’s courses manage to cover massive amounts of material while isolating specific methods of understanding that broaden the student’s intellectual horizon,” he said. The department needs professors like Bennett, Kruse said.
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and during the previous week, both of which are campaign violations. The e-mail contained a photo of Walker and a link to instructions on how to vote for her. It also encouraged recipients to make announcements for Walker during class, and to remind friends to vote for her. The following day, Student Body President Whitney Marshall confirmed that text messages were involved in the violations, but declined to comment on the e-mails. “She had multiple campaign violation,” Marshall said. While these were certainly campaign violations, it is still unclear on exactly what grounds the elections committee disqualified her from the race. The committee can decide to either fine or disqualify a candidate based on their opinion of the severity of the violations. However, the sanctions do not affect vote totals. Sarah Walker could not be reached for comment. “We don’t really think it is pertinent to release exactly what she did,” judicial committee co-chair Joe Welker said of Student Government’s decision not to tell the public the specifics of Walker’s disqualification. “There were multiple campaign violations that were apparent and conclusive.” As for other executive positions, Matt Triplett took the office of speaker of the house, with 54.9 percent of the vote. “The speaker is in charge of the organization of Student Government,” Triplett said. “I want to make us a more student friendly organization.” Saket Munshaw won the office of treasurer, with 62.5% of the vote. “You voted the right way, I love Wake Forest,” Munshaw said. “I have exciting new plans in mind, and I can’t wait to implement them.” Mary Kat Keith won the office of secretary in a tight contest, with 55.2% of the vote. “I’m speechless, thank you,” Keith said. “This is a very exciting time,” student body president Whitney Marshall said. “We have a completely new group of people, and we’re very excited to see what this group will do.” The Old Gold & Black sat down with next year’s Student Government executive board to discuss both their thoughts on the election and their plans for the university. “I have never been so excited in my life to work with such an outstanding group of people,” Davis said. “It’s a great balance. I’ve worked with most of them before in some form. One thing Matt and I bring together is our vision for openness in
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The 2008-2009 Student Government Executive Board from left to right: Speaker of the House Matt Triplett (junior), President Jermyn Davis (sophomore), Secretary Mary Kat Keith (freshman) and Treasurer Saket Munshaw (sophomore). Student Government. We want students to know what’s going on.” Speaker-elect Matt Triplett agreed with Davis. “The speaker is in charge of the organization of Student Government,” Triplett said. “I want to make us a more student-friendly organization.” Triplett’s ideas included a weekly Student Government report to the Old Gold & Black and an executive advisory committee to concentrate on finding issues that students are passionate about. Mary Kat Keith, Student government secretaryelect, pulled off an impressive victory as a rising sophomore. “I’m involved with a good many groups on campus,” Keith said. “My friends spoke well of
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me to people who didn’t know who I was. Also, I had a huge amount of freshman support. Without the people I know in other organizations, I would not have been albe to win.” Triplett believes that Keith will be able to perform her job quite capably. “Mary Kat is very well spoken,” he said. “Any lack of experience did not come through when she spoke.” Davis believes that next year’s Student Government will be able to bring about real changes. “I think students will feel they’re not being left in the dark,” he said. “We’re not here to be interpreters; we’re here to represent students.” Triplett agreed.“ Hopefully you will see real policy
changes, especially in the areas of registration and having majors printed on diplomas,” he said. Keith contains a great deal of excitement about her new job. “We’re really excited to work with the students,” she said. “We encourage people to arrange meetings with us.” One of Munshaw’s primary goals is to work towards Deacon Dollars being accepted at nonuniversity institutions. He also hopes to reform the current system that determines how much money SBAC receives to allocate to student groups each year. “All of us talk a lot,” Davis said. “We’re bringing so many issues to the forefront. This is the change that this school needed.”
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Mock trial: Team prepares
on his example of the expanding translucent ball. They also disputed his explanation “Atheists have not been so bold as to of quarks, a generic type of physical deny premise two,” Craig said. particle forming matter. “If the universe exists, the explanation “I really enjoyed the lecture; he strongly for its existence is God.” built the argument in preparation for Sophomore Paige Daniel found Craig’s criticism,” freshman Gary Porter said. perspective interesting.“I thought he “When he got down to the details, like made some broad arguments, but I the quarks and black holes, it started to agreed with the premises. It’s always go over my head,” he said. interesting to hear “Judging by the the cosmological reaction of the “If the universe exists, the perspective on the physics graduate explanation for its existence students and others, Christian faith,” she said. however, Craig knew is God.” The question the material well.” Dr. William Lane Craig and answer While controversy Research professor of session following was certainly sparked, philosophy at Biola Universy Craig’s lecture was most who attended remarkably lengthy agreed that Craig and heated. was knowledgeable A variety of students and adults posed and engaging. questions, that reflected atheist, agnostic, Those students who had backgrounds Christian and other perspectives. in philosophy conveyed particular One student asked if the three appreciation for the lecture. premises supported multi-deism and “Craig’s knowledge in mathematics, Craig responded affirmatively. biology, chemistry and cosmology Another expressed skepticism on the strengthen his understanding of same issue, and Craig answered, “Yes, I, philosophical issues, namely his firm too, believe there is only one God.” position on the dependence of the Craig asked the audience to imagine universe upon a necessary being,” senior an encounter with a translucent ball in Jon Wright said. the middle of a forest. “I read his book, Reasonable Faith, “If you increase the size of the ball, the and it had a huge impact on my need for an explanation is not affected,” understanding of philosophy and my he said. Christian faith and their relationship. I Several students challenged Craig really enjoyed hearing him speak.” Continued from Page A2
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a win this weekend. “Throughout the year, we’ve been at our best when we face top competition. We’re arriving a day early to scrimmage some of the heavy favorites and gauge how other teams react to our case,” Crawford said. “This tournament consists of the premier mock trial programs in the country and I expect our team to compete even more fiercely as the tournament progresses.” Genevieve Markey, a third year law student and coach of the mock trial team, looks forward to this weekend’s competition. “I get so excited about seeing these guys succeed,” Markey said. Juniors Tara Tedrow and Drew Grindrond have received several accolades for their roles as trial attorneys, including recognition at The Revolution, a tournament that was held at Arizona State University in December. The university placed first at this tournament and several others throughout the season. In only its third year of existence, the university’s mock trial team has accomplished many things. “The team did well right from the beginning,” Donelson said. “We made it to the (national) championship all three years, which is fairly unheard of for such a young team.” Donelson, who participated in mock trial as an undergraduate at the University of Miami, wanted to bring this activity to the university. Through Facebook advertisements, fliers and word of mouth the team has seen tremendous growth since its inception. “We are looking for someone who is a good public speaker, self-confident, a good actor and a quick thinker,” Donelson said. “We’ve put in an enormous amount of effort getting ready for this weekend, so I suppose we’ll just try to settle into a groove and do what we’ve been doing all along,” Crawford said.
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Dr. William Lane Craig, a research professor of philosophy at Biola University, delivered a speech concerning existence March 28.
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back and welcoming. He likes to talk to the audience, but he is also very focused on his performance.” “Attendance is crucial to the success of this event and whether or not students who are studying in the library consider it a welcome break or an annoyance,” Romanov said. “Basically, if the students want this to be a monthly event then
the library is more than willing is a consistent opportunity for library at least once a month. to host the entertainment.” student bands or songwriters “Hopefully folks will look at Kozak believes that this event to perform,” Kozak said. the library as not only a place could be the beginning of a “For many musicians and to read about the arts, but also great monthly tradition at the songwriters, their music is their a place to experience the arts,” university. strongest and most important Romanov said. “This is the start of an incred- PCorps_K4x10_BUS_Invest.pdf form of expression, and they “I would love this kind of ibly good opportunity for stu- need a chance to share it with event because it would prodent bands at Wake Forest. We their peers, hone their abili- vide an outlet from a hectic have a beautiful school here, ties, test their boundaries and work week and also promote with numerous and tremendous practice performing in front of the arts which doesn’t get as opportunities in business and others.” much attention on campus the arts and sciences, but one “Friday Night Live at ZSR” as it should,” junior Brittney thing that other schools have promises to bring some change Bogues said. that we are completely missing to the serious atmosphere of the Although Romanov works
with various students on a day to day basis, he doesn’t always get the opportunity to know them on a personal level. “I’m looking forward to seeing some folks who I might not have suspected to have an artistic talent,” Romanov said. “I’m also a big fan of any kind of live arts.” Any students interested in performing at “Friday Night Live at ZSR” are asked to contact Romanov.
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week after Student Government candidates announced their bids for executive and general assembly positions and two days after elections, we are left reflecting on SG as a whole. It is our opinion that the new leaders of Student Government should make communication with the general student body and openness within their organization their top priority for this new year of leadership. Why should communicating with students be the main goal of SG? Well, perhaps it cuts to the core fundamentals of the existence of the organization itself. What is Student Government if it is not at the very least a way for students to voice their opinions and ideas to the administration and fellow students? In our interviews of the executive candidates, we asked each of them how they thought they could improve communication between SG and the general student body. It was apparent that the majority of the candidates had thought carefully and cared a lot about that very issue. We hope that they carry through with their positive ideas for change. We would like to see every student feeling as if he or she can go to SG with any ideas for change. In fact, SG should actively seek opinions. On the flip side of this, once opinions and ideas are heard by Student Government leaders, there should be a simple and reliable way for them to pass information on to students. One example in particular is the faculty apartments controversy. Perhaps SG members heard what was going on before many of the other students. If they did or didn’t, they perhaps should have at least embraced student movements happening outside SG in a better way. We will admit
that Student Government is presented with a constant obstacle of general student apathy. It is a given that students should not simply complain about something that bothers them without following up on it. That said, this is where SG can truly shine in hopping over this hurdle through active leaders’ reaching out and by their providing easily presented/accessible ways of communicating. How can such a broad priority be achieved? A few possibilities, as noted by some candidates, include a more reliable constituent e-mail system, a real and consistent attempt by the Secretary to help in facilitation, more readable and welcoming presentation of the GA minutes or even dorm storming. Reaching out to not just individuals on campus, but also to student groups outside of SG would also work positively towards this goal. There is undoubtedly an uncountable number of ways that SG can go about getting this done. In fact, if it’s done right, even SG members’ ideas will be heard easier. In conclusion, does all of this mean that we think that Student Government cannot or should not do anything other than communicate and listen and reach out? Absolutely not. Many members of Student Government have great ideas and abilities and are fully capable of getting great things done, provided small and easy tasks are handled simply and complex things are handled with detail and precision. However, we are arguing that if members of SG successfully hear their fellow students and then let them know what the big developing issues on campus are (and what SG is doing to address them), then everything else will fall in line.
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TV quality keeps spiraling downhill
I look forward to the commercials in the hope that the Gatorade one with Sidney Crosby will air. For those precious minutes, I don’t have to listen to incessant obnoxious “drama” that displays itself all the time at Wake anyway. At least here, we know everyone and can join in (Juicy Campus, anyone?). On Christmas, when there is nothing Hannah Werthan else for a Jew like myself to do, I actually watched a show highlighting the year’s Asst. opinions editor best commercials because that was the iven that I am a college student, best thing on TV. I find it difficult to make time Think about that. I watched for the importance that is TV commercials while waiting to see … watching. Therefore, when I do settle commercials, most of which I had down for some quality time with my already seen 100 times anyway. TV, I expect to be thoroughly captured. Was this just something that they During the writers’ strike, I lived put on TV because no one was going — quite understandably — a life of to watch it on Christmas anyway? This emptiness and sadness. was my initial reasoning; however, when Well, the writers’ strike is over now. flipping through the channels, I have So where are the shows worth watching? actually recognized this very show on My once-treasured One Tree Hill has several occasions since the infamous become dramatic nonsense. initial viewing. I mean, the writers might as well have Also, not that this worries many a crazed killer murder them all and start college students, but kids’ TV has also all over again. gone massively Over Easter break, I downhill. I mean, It’s gotten to the point where was really burnt after have you seen a day by the pool, and Nickelodeon I look forward to the commertherefore I needed to lie recently? I came cials in the hope that the Gahelplessly and watch TV. home Spring Break torade on with Sidney Crosby Scarily enough, I found to find my 11-yearmyself glued to none old brother playing will air. other than America’s Best some “rated M for Dance Crew. Granted, mature” video game, the dancers were in all likeliness good, but how can you be motivated because my family can no longer to watch that kind of show for hours stand the sight of shows such as Ned’s on end? Even if I could have lifted Declassified High School Survival Guide. my burned body far enough to reach Yes, blow up those men, as long as we do the remote, there would have been no not have to hear another ridiculous tip other shows on for me to watch. Look from that show. at the “quality” TV we are becoming Honestly, if you can’t figure out those accustomed to watching. “helpful hints” on your own, you need For goodness sake, I have a countdown to get your butt off the couch and start until Gossip Girl comes back on-air and experiencing reality. one of the male characters comes out of The only positive effect from this case the closet. As if that hasn’t been done a of abysmal TV is that I don’t feel like million times before. The creativity on I’m missing anything when I don’t get most if not all shows is seriously sub-par to watch TV. Maybe it is all a conspiracy at best. to make sure I pass all of my classes this Did we really kick off amazingly semester. written shows like Arrested Development to make room for a ton of reality Hannah Werthan is a freshman from crap? It’s gotten to the point where Nashville, TN.
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L E T T ER S Editor defends opinion on ACC tourney elitism
Alex Botomon wrote in his letter “ACC editorial lacks sufficient research to back its claims” (March 27) that the editorial board’s March 20 column decrying the ACC tournament’s elitism was factually untrue. I dispute that. He said, in part, “For alumni to secure the rights to purchase similar seats they would have to give thousands of dollars to the Deacon Club, yet we have the right to purchase them simply because we are students ...” First of all, tickets for non-students should not be restricted to people who donate untold thousands
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for the chance, especially since many of them will not even bother to show up to all the games. That is the very definition of elitism. Second, tickets prices are simply unreasonable for full-time students, since one must buy the entire 11-game schedule. If you consider $935 an affordable sum to pay, I congratulate you on your parents’ wealth but ask you to consider it from the perspective of classmates who receive fewer dynastic blessings. Do you really think only 5 out of 4,000 plus students were interested in seeing the Deacons? Botomon also points out that scalpers sold tickets outside the arena legally. This is indeed true, but
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the legality gets murkier if you live in another state and try to secure tickets before leaving home. Furthermore, it is impractical to schedule vacation days at work mid-week or change Spring Break trip plans, then drive or fly to another city with only the hope of maybe finding a guy in the parking lot holding up tickets. ACC basketball fans are not known to be a passionless, disinterested lot. Call me crazy, but I think the tournament ought to look, feel and excite entire communities like big regular season match-ups do.
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Poli sci registration process proves frustrating Walker Kalan
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’ve had my share of miserable experiences at Wake. I can remember sitting crammed between two guys in the trunk of a Jeep the second weekend of freshman year. My stomach growled like a dying animal. Without a window from which to spew, I searched frantically for any sort of receptacle and eventually unleashed a night’s worth of punch in our poor driver’s ski helmet, splashing a bit on a terrified hallmate. Last year during finals I endured a sleepless, foodless four-day salt amphetamine-induced study bender with lasting physical and psychological effects. I even pledged a fraternity. None of these experiences measure up to the fiasco that was political science pre-registration. To the feint of heart: read no further — things are about to get ugly. It all began last Tuesday night. We’re celebrating a friend’s 21st birthday. I debate staying out late, knowing pre-registration for rising senior political science majors will open up at 8 a.m. A few friends and fellow poli sci majors suggest we stay up all night, grab some breakfast and head to Tribble at 7 a.m. You know, a bonding experience. Around 3 a.m. I determine the stay-up-allnight plan is not in the cards for me. I go home,
set my alarm for 6 a.m. (the early bird gets the good senior seminar) and crash hard. Alarm goes off as planned, I snooze twice, wrestle my roommate (also a poli sci) out of bed, and depart for campus at approximately 6:45 a.m. I arrive in rare form, emitting stronger fumes than an Exxon station, looking like a dog who’d not been bathed in a long time. We hike up to the third floor of Tribble to the political science office. I open the door to the C-wing hall and bear witness to one of the most devastating scenes imaginable. Worse than the aftermath of a natural disaster. Sadder than a third-world refugee camp. The hall is lined with students in their pajamas, students with pillows — there are even sleeping bags! “What … what the Hell is this?” my roommate mutters. Posted on the door of the political science office is a handmade list, numbered through 56. So you’re telling me I show up to registration at 6:45 a.m. and I’m 57th on the list?! Confusion gives way to rage. I myself have some nerdy tendencies but never have I felt so disdainful of front-row hand-raisers. We consider tearing the sign-up sheet off the door, but this could trigger a poindexter uprising. My roommate, a former high school jock and nerd
bashing extraordinaire, evaluates the crowd. “I think I can take about 20 of ‘em. Look, that one’s wearing a scarf. You got my back?” It turns out some of the kids have been camping out in the hallway since 3 p.m. the day before. Read that sentence again. A few friends and I settle in the stairwell to discuss our options. “Well, I can kiss the Elections seminar goodbye. That’ll be the first one to go.” I make a list of my top three senior seminar choices: the 2008 Elections with Dinan; Comparative Labour movements with Coates; and Democratic Institutional Design: Latin America in Comparative Perspective with Siavelis. I can’t believe I might have to settle for my backup’s backup. Around 7:30 a.m. I hear a commotion in the hallway; something big’s happening out there. A bright-eyed student busts through the stairwell door. “Elide’s here!” He is referring, of course, to Elide Vargas, the department secretary in charge of registration, the woman with the power. She’s greeted with celebrity fanfare. You’d think Britney Spears or Angelina Jolie was walking the halls of Tribble. The poli sci paparazzi hound her. “Elide! Elide! Are the rumors true? Is Weinstein teaching political philosophy?” Surreal would be an understatement. We retreat to our stairwell. The mood is somber. It feels like we’re in the waiting room of a hospital,
anticipating a loved one’s prognosis. A friend checks on the registration status at 8:45 a.m. and returns through the double-doors, shaking her head slowly. “What is it?” I ask. “Give it to me straight, dammit!” “Coates is full.” “No.” “Yes. And we’re only up to number 23.” She checks again 20 minutes later and returns with more bad news: the Elections class is full as well. Up to number 37 on the list. At 9:30 a.m. I peer into Elide’s office and ask if any other classes are full. Siavelis’s seminar, she apologizes, has just reached capacity. No! In a matter of two hours, my top three seminar choices have been reduced to castles in the sky. My number is finally called at about 10 a.m. I enter Vargas’ office and register rather unceremoniously for a political methods class and my fourth choice senior seminar, The Logic of Military Conflicts. I step out of Tribble, blinded by the sun. It’s a beautiful, cloudless spring day and the birds are singing. Maybe things aren’t so bad after all. I stroll back to my car and find a piece of paper tucked neatly into the windshield — a parking ticket. Walker Kalan is a junior political science major from Winter Park, Fla.
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Free market: only way out Seth Williford Guest columnist
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Students should cherish the university’s family feel, realize their true fortune
Greek letters and have different twangs for law school, calling Mom and Dad in our accents. about the eighth parking ticket and, of At the stadiums, in our black and course, surviving another meal at the gold, our hearts beat as one, cheering on Pit. These are the everyday challenges we our players, an emotional extension of stare in the eye, but when we constantly ourselves and we win and lose together focus internally, there is a tendency to be with them in our hearts. From our bad overly self-absorbed. days to our best, during our four years On the cusp of our graduation, you at Wake Forest, we went through the deserve to bask in the sunshine of your journey of life as a success. I just hope that shared experience, all of us have maintained never alone. This a sense of public service, On the cusp of graduais the home I have presenting the care we fortunately come to show each other beyond tion, you deserve to bask know and love. our Wake Forest sphere. Hall Wang in the sunshine of your Under the burning It is ironic that when Old Gold & Black columnist success. I just hope that sun of Fort Benning, America calls upon all of us have maintained Ga., my junior its people to go to the t slips by our everyday consciousness frontlines of the nation’s how truly lucky we are to be at Wake summer, I came to a sense of public service, appreciate my fortune. troubles, few of the Forest. presenting the care we There, at the Army’s nation’s privileged step We get so wrapped up in our show each other beyond Airborne Paratrooper forward. pressurized lives, worrying about the school, I mingled with I know many of my essay due on Thursday or that Fridayour Wake Forest sphere. people from every senior class shall indeed night date function, when we should station in life, the move forward to public really take time to sit on a bench and “DNA of America.” service, be that with a smile. chalkboard in Charlotte or in uniform What is there to smile about? Lots! You Many of my classmates never went to college. They chose to answer the call across the world, and for that I applaud have engaged the challenge of college at and joined the military out of high you. America’s premier institution, and don’t school or were brought by financial To all in my class, I ask you to enjoy you dare take that lightly. circumstances to immediately enter the your individual successes, but don’t Your diploma inked with Wake workplace. Even those who did attend cocoon yourselves in them. Forest, earned by countless caffeinated college envied my going Follow in their spirit and do find time drinks mixed with sleep to Wake Forest because to serve, for your talents will be called deprivation at ZSR, will I don’t know if it is the they saw how I would on as America moves forward in the 21st lift you to your dreams talk about it so fondly century. today, and be a source of morning whiffs of cured as that special home. Now take one last look at each other respect forever. However tobacco, the psychologiSince the first day before your college years become nothing many different ways we cal effects of grade deflaof Airborne school, more than a cherished memory. experienced our four everybody, from the More than anything, you need to know years, we can smile that tion or just because we all countless Privates to the that from this day to the end of our we did it together, and I have at least two degrees Colonel, came up to me lives, we in it shall be remembered – we like to think no one was of separation, but at Wake to tell me how lucky I few, we lucky few, we family of Demon left behind. was, wishing they were Deacons. I don’t know if it is the Forest, I see us wrapped in my boots. morning whiffs of cured up in a mutual affection If we spend a little bit I submitted this for the Senior Oration tobacco, the psychological for each other. more time on the bench competition and made finalist. Sadly, I effects of grade deflation and start thinking, was disqualified from presenting this to or just because we all we would probably President Hatch, due to my obligations have at least two degrees come to realize how we are all a little with the Naval Academy that force me to of separation, but at Wake Forest I see guilty for taking our fortune for granted. be absent on presentation day. us wrapped up in a mutual affection for Safely living our Wake Forest existence, I now publish this to the OGB as a each other. message for all seniors and those seniors to We openly help each other get through centered upon our pristine campus, we tend to lose sight of the struggles facing follow. our classes and everyday life. the nation we live in. In the front of our There are simply no strangers among minds are our very own troubles with Hall Wang is a senior political science us, even if we sometimes aren’t exactly major from Short Hills, N.J. sure of each other’s names, wear different Wake Forest: getting that perfect grade
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ur health care system is broken. Ryan Taggett, in his article “Healthcare needs reform” (March 27), did a very good job of chronicling this fact. While I disagree with some of Taggett’s conclusions, I think it is safe to say that all of us are able to acknowledge the inadequacies of our current system. Our system is a monstrous hybrid that combines the profit motive mentality of the private sector and the bureaucracy of the public sector. This combination invariably leads to actual patients being lost in the process and turned simply into statistics instead of human beings. However, the only solution to our health care crisis is freedom, not government mandates, not universal health care, not more bureaucracy, but more freedom. Our current system was designed in the most desperate moments of World War II. The government implemented price and wage controls during the war, but it created a loophole in health care. Businesses received a tax credit if they supplied their employees with health coverage. As a result, businesses offered free health care to their employees in order to attract workers because of the scarce labor brought on by the max exodus of labor into the military. This tax credit is not applicable to individuals or families who buy health insurance themselves. If you are a middle-class worker and your company does not offer coverage, and you are too wealthy to receive federal assistance, then you are left to pay the full cost of health care coverage. Also, because of our insurance system, people often ignore the actual costs of care. California recently passed a law requiring hospitals to list their prices online. This law revealed that the cost of a single pill of Tylenol ranged from $1-$9. How is this so? Many hospitals instantly mark up procedures and medicines when billing. Yet, because people often only pay a co-pay, many rarely see the price they are actually paying for care. In fact, the only ones who are actually paying the list price are those who can least afford, the working poor and middle class who do not classify for federal aid. Insurance mandates also force up the price of health care in this nation, preventing individuals from being able to purchase insurance. Each state has the power to require an insurance firm to offer certain coverage for a basic plan. For example, if you were to purchase
an insurance plan in North Carolina, your basic insurance would include 46 mandates from the state government that eventually forces up the price of premiums by 41 percent. Imagine that you are a single, 22 year-old male just graduating from college. You’re out on your own, and your parents are no longer taking care of your basic expenses. Are you more or less likely to purchase health insurance if you are required to pay for breast reconstruction, midwives, cleft palate surgery, mammograms, maternity stay or marriage therapists? Of course not. When one needs to buy health insurance for their family, maybe, but none of these procedures are necessary for a young male. Because of the resulting premium price increase brought on by all of these mandates, more and more people would rather take the gamble of having no health insurance than paying for this multitude of procedures. We must demand transparency in prices, and the internet has proven to be a valuable tool in creating transparency which leads to lower prices. With that in place, we must be allowed to buy across state lines. By allowing individuals to circumvent their state’s burdensome mandates, more people will be able to, and more willing to, purchase a plan tailored to their health needs. This will bring prices down as young people unlikely to need services are now contributing to an insurance pool that increasingly is being used by the elderly and baby boomers. The other major reform needed is to reevaluate how Medicare and Medicaid dole out payments. As of right now, doctors are only paid based on curing diseases. Instead, it should be reformed to offer incentives to doctors to focus on diagnosis, prevention and care coordination so that patients don’t develop diseases that cost exponentially more than preventative measures. Finally, the federal government should give a tax credit to individuals who buy their own health insurance. This way, they are able to afford care that they were unable to before. It also takes away one more layer from the health care bureaucracy by allowing people to buy insurance themselves instead of from their employer. The more we cut out the middle men and get straight to the point, the more successful we will be in lowering health care prices, improving our health care options and insuring freedom for our generation and the generations to follow. Seth Williford is a freshman from Wilson, N.C. Seeking Middle Ground is a weekly face off between College Democrats and College Republicans on a given topic.
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All Four 1 The historical clash will not disappoint By Connor Swarbrick | Asst. sports editor Cinderella may not be making an appearance at this year’s ball, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be special. For the first time in history, all four number one seeds have made it to the Final Four. While some may dismiss this year’s tournament as boring and predictable, a more appropriate response would be to sit back and enjoy this rare alignment of the stars. In San Antonio, home of the Alamo, somebody is about to play Davey Crockett to somebody else’s Santa Anna. While the tournament did not have the usual barrage of upsets, Davidson and their 20-yearold superstar Stephen Curry put together a magical run. Curry, deserving of the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player award, became only the fourth player to score 30 points in his first four tournament games. He hit big shot after big shot helping his team knock of Gonzaga, Georgetown and Wisconsin. Memphis, North Carolina, Kansas and UCLA were the top four in the preseason AP and ESPN/ USA Today polls, and they did not disappoint. All of them have been dominant throughout the year, going a combined 143-9. That record equals a winning percentage of .941, the highest ever by Final Four teams. They all won their respective regular season conference titles and their conference tournaments. Simply put – this group is impressive. If there’s a reason to call this season and tournament boring it is because these four teams have
been so impressive. They have blown nearly everybody out. Of the 16 tourney games they’ve played so far, only three have been decided by fewer than 10 points – Memphis’ 77-74 secondround win over Mississippi State, UCLA’s 51-49 second-round win over Texas A&M and Kansas’ 59-57 Elite Eight win over Davidson. Granted the tournaments that included the likes of Bird, Magic and Jordan were special, but relative to the last decade college basketball has improved drastically in the last four years. Before the NBA instituted their minimum age requirement in 2006 players like Lebron James, Eddie Curry and Dwight Howard never got the chance to experience the madness of March. Now kids that decide to go to school sometimes even end up staying. Florida’s backto-back national championships (the first in 15 years), Geroge Mason’s cinderalla run to the Final Four and the success of mid-majors like Butler exemplify the improved quality of college basketball. This year is no different. Players like Derrick Rose, Kevin Love and Michael Beasley have not only become part of a team, but they’ve stood out as superstars. College basketball fans have had the privilege of seeing these guys and players like Greg Oden and Kevin Durant have historic freshman seasons. But it isn’t about these players individually; it is about what they have been able to accomplish with their teams. Semifinal Saturday is often gone from people’s minds by the time the national championship game roles around on Monday night, but this
Davidson knows how to take care of its students By Jeff Merski | Senior writer
For many prognosticators, Davidson’s appearance in the NCAA Tournament would be nothing more than a brief break from classes. They figured at best, the Wildcats would play against Gonzaga in the first round and then drive back home from Raleigh that evening. At best, they’d make it to the weekend and then be eliminated by Georgetown in the round of 32. However, a man named Stephen Curry thought otherwise. Curry, a shooting guard that was not heavily recruited out of high school (especially among ACC teams), made the Dance his coming out party. He might have stayed quiet in the first half of some of the early tournament games; however, that would not deter him from going crazy in the second half, consistently scoring 20 or more points in the second half to lead the Wildcats to yet another upset. So, with Curry leading the charge, the Wildcats shocked the nation on March 23 by upsetting No. 2-seed Georgetown, a team that many thought had a legitimate chance to make it to the Final Four in San Antonio, Texas. After this upset, the Wildcats were heading to Detroit for the Sweet Sixteen. But they would not go alone. At 2:24 p.m. March 25, Davidson President Tom Ross sent out a campus-wide e-mail. The message, to put it succinctly, was simple – respond to this e-mail by 4 p.m. and you would FROM THE
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get a free trip to Detroit for the Sweet Sixteen. Free. As in, “one does not pay any more for this trip.” And Ross wasn’t just giving out free game tickets – that would be too easy. Included in the package was a seat on a coach bus from North Carolina to Michigan, two nights at a hotel in Detroit and of course, a seat at the game. The cost of the trip, which easily surpassed $500 per student, was picked up in its entirety by the Board of Trustees at Davidson. It should be no surprise to anyone that this trip was immensely popular with students. Davidson was able to procure six coach buses holding roughly 60 people apiece for a total of roughly 300 seats. That wasn’t enough to appease the Davidson student body, as some students had to be turned away since the university was not able to obtain extra buses to bring students to Michigan. To say that this was a generous offer by the Davidson Board of Trustees would be like saying that Curry is just a solid player – it understates the reality of the situation by a gap larger than the Grand Canyon. The cost to Davidson for this trip is a conservative $150,000 – and that number doesn’t even figure in any potential additional expenses that occurred from the Wildcats winning their March 28 contest against the University of Wisconsin; giving the Wildcats another two days before their next game in the Elite Eight against Kansas. This offer would be the equivalent of Wake See Pressbox, Page B6
year has the potential to be different. For just the sixth time in NCAA history a No. 1 seed will take on another No. 1 seed in the championship. The previous six were decided by an average margin of 4.8 points. These four teams spent the season dominating their competition, but it’s unrealistic to think they will do the same to each other. There is only one guarantee − this will not be boring.
UNC-Chapel Hill The spotlight leading up to the Tar Heels match-up with the Kansas Jay Hawks will be on their head coach Roy Williams. After 19 years as the head coach at Kansas, Williams left to coach his Alma matter UNC. He has restored the school to glory. The Tar Heels won the 2005 national championship with the likes of Raymond Felton and Sean May. The current Tar Heel team deserves some attention too. They ran through the East region, which some analysts picked to be the most challenging, and had double digit margins of victory in each game. The Tar Heels, lead by unanimous All-American selection and national player of the year Tyler Hansborough, had a school high 36 wins in route to their 17th Final Four. Their offense is the best in the country and they have showed it in the tournament scoring over the century mark in the first two contests. Hansbrough averaged 23.0 points and 10.4 rebounds for the Heels, with free throw shooting being a big component to his game.
The injury that landed guard Ty Lawson on the bench from Feb. 3 to March 1 may have been a blessing in disguise. The Heels developed backup point guard Quentin Thomas and improved their half court sets. Hansborough excelled while Lawson was away, but now that he is back healthy and rested the Heels are even more dynamic. UNC advanced to the Final Four with an 83-73 victory over Louisville. In their match up against Kansas guard play will be the key to victory. Lawson along with Wayne Ellignton and Danny Green will be difficult for Kansas guards Russell Robinson, Mario Chalmers and Brandon Rush to handle. The No. 1 overall seed will have to leave the state of North Carolina for the first time in the tournament and will look to extend their 15 game winning streak and advance to the national championship.
Kansas Head coach Bill Self knelt to the floor and then gave a sigh of relief and two thumbs up when Davidson’s Jason Richards missed a three at the buzzer that would have sent his team home, again. But they are not headed home, they are headed to San Antonio. Self has finally shed the “best coach never to make a Final Four” tag and now believes his team can play with more ease. See Final Four, Page B6
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“Kansas over UCLA, 87-77, because Memphis’ free throw shooting will catch them versus an athletic UCLA team.”
“Carolina over Memphis, 89-80, because then it will allow me to win my bracket.” “Kansas over Memphis, 83-78, because I can’t stand to see Carolina win, I don’t have a bracket and I’m pulling for the upset.” “UCLA will win over the Kansas Jayhawks, 78-68, because then I will win my bracket.”
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Tara, C.
Junior; Lake Forest, Ill.
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omen’s tennis player Christian Tara, junior, has experienced two previously successful years on the women’s tennis team, however this year looks a little bit different. The team, ranked No. 37 nationally, has high hopes for the post-season. Tara contributes to the team at the No. 3 spot with a 9-8 personal record. Her freshmen year,
On her personal goals: It would be great if the team could have some big wins here. We’re playing some big rivals this weekend against Duke, UNC and N.C. State. Last year we were successful against all of them, so it’d be great if we could do that again. As far as personal goals, I just want to contribute to the team and do whatever I can to help us do well. It’d be nice to pull some upsets at ACCs and do well at Regionals. On being a nationally ranked team: I think that we’ve always set our goals pretty high.
love watching them play and they always have such great energy. On her pre-match rituals: I don’t really have any rituals or superstitions. I just try to get a good warm-up in and then go out and play. On her favorite sports team: Well I try to go to as many Wake Forest sporting events that I can, because I love watching all our teams play. I’m also from Chicago and therefore a huge Cubs fan.
" I think we've always set our goals pretty high." she had the highest winning rate, at .714, with a record of 18-5 in singles play, however last season Tara had to miss most of the season. The Old Gold & Black’s Sports editor Allison Lange sat down with Tara to talk about playing a doubles match with anybody, being a nationally ranked team and her favorite class at Wake Forest.
DEAC OF THE WEEK Senior Molly Kennedy took top 10 finishes in four events at the Western Carolina Invitational. She took first place overall in the 100m hurdles with a 14.72 sprint. In the high jump, Kennedy tied the first place mark with a 5-03.00 performance. Despite difficult weather conditions Kennedy also earned high Kennedy marks in the javelin throw and a first place triple jump mark. During the 2007 outdoor season Kennedy finished in second place in the heptathlon at the Wake Forest Open with 4,761 points. She was also a member of the third place 4x100m hurdle relay team at the Sea Ray Relays in Knoxville, Tenn. She rounded out the season finishing seventh in the heptathlon at the ACC Outdoor Championships. During the 2007 indoor season the Nashville, Tenn., native set a school record in pentathlon at the ACC Indoor Championships. In high school her team won the state championship her senior year. She was individual state champion in high jump, long jump, triple jump, shot put and pentathlon. She was also state runner-up in 100m hurdles and 300m hurdles.
Since my freshmen year we’ve done very well, both in the ACC and nationally. This year the team dynamic is a little different. We have two new freshmen this year who are doing really well in their first year. I think we just come to practice and try to do our best every day and then when the competition happens, just do the best we can and hopefully get those wins. On playing a doubles match with anyone: I’d have to play with one of the Brian brothers. I
I was disappointed with opening day but I also watch the Bears all the time. On her favorite class at Wake: Last year I took Classical Ethics, which is taught by Dr. Powell in the Classics department. Normally you would think that listening to a man lecture for 50 minutes every day would be boring, but its not. He’s just such a great story teller that he just brought the books to life and I highly recommend it to anyone at Wake.
DEACON NOTES Wake Forest recruit jailed in BB gun incident Al-Farouq Aminu, a Wake Forest basketball signee and one of the top basketball recruits in the country, was arrested on felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor criminal trespassing charges. Aminu, a 6-foot, 9-inch forward from Norcross, Ga., is a Parade and McDonald’s AllAmerican and is ranked as the No. 11 recruit in the 2008 class by Rivals.com. The charges stem from an incident on March 14 where police say Aminu, 17, and two Norcross basketball teammates, Prince Kent and Quintin Square, used a BB gun to shoot Rebecca Baltich, 34, of Norcross in the stomach and to shatter the back window of her truck. Aminu, who was scoreless in the McDonald’s All-American game in Milwaukee, Wis., turned himself in to police and was later released on $3,500 bond. Aminu, Georgia’s Mr. Basketball, is scheduled to play in two more national high school games, the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Ore., on April 12 and the Jordan Brand Classic,
an All-American game in New York on April 19. Wake Forest Head Coach Dino Gaudio is taking a wait-and-see approach. Aminu averaged 23.1 points and 11.2 rebounds this season, leading Norcross to its third consecutive Georgia 5A title.
Johnson receives freshman AllAmerican recognition Wake Forest forward James Johnson has been named a Freshman All-American by CollegeInsider.com and CollegeHoops.net. Johnson was one of 16 rookies across the country to be listed on CollegeInsider.com’s Freshman All-American team. He was the only freshman from the ACC honored. Ishmael Smith received the same honor last year. Johnson was also named to CollegeHoops. net’s honorable mention All-Freshman team. Johnson was a third team All-ACC honoree and a unanimous selection to the ACC AllFreshman team this past season. He also finished runner-up to Singler in ACC Rookie of the Year balloting.
He led the Deacons in both scoring (14.6 ppg) and rebounding (8.1 rpg). He is the first freshman to lead the Deacons in both categories since Rodney Rogers in 1991.
Deacs in full pads as they prepare for spring scrimmage The Wake Forest football team saw its first full-padded action of the spring April 1 at the Doc Martin Football Practice Complex. They were in shoulder pads April 2. Grobe said the practice was sloppy but nonetheless spirited. Working on fundamentals with individual position coaches filled about half of the session along with some 11 on 11 and passing scrimmage situations. Coaches were adamant about players staying on their feet and no one being tackled to the ground. Grobe said defensive tackle redshirt sophomore Ted Randolph has been performing well, as well as redshirt junior Demir Boldin. The Deacs are preparing for the 10:30 a.m. scrimmage April 5 at BB&T Field.
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Struggles continue to befall baseball team By Jeff Merski | Senior writer
The baseball team was able to snap a six-game losing streak against No. 2-ranked Florida State on March 29, but the Deacons continued to struggle the rest of the week, dropping their series against the Seminoles as well as falling against UNCWilmington and Coastal Carolina in a midweek contest. The Deacons opened up their series against FSU on March 28, dropping the contest by a score of 21-2. The loss was also the sixth straight game in which the pitching staff allowed at least 12 runs to be scored. The Seminoles jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning, with Jason Stidham and Buster Posey hitting back-to-back home runs off of starter senior Ben Hunter. Junior first baseman Allen Dykstra responded in the second inning, hitting a towering shot to right field for his eighth home run of the season. However, Florida State quickly answered Dykstra’s blast by putting up an additional three runs in the third inning, and then broke the game open in the fifth, where they plated nine baserunners while sending nine men to the plate. The Deacons rebounded quite well on March 30, defeating the Seminoles 4-2. Junior pitcher Garrett Bullock was the stopper that the Deacons desperately needed, as he went for six scoreless innings, scattering six hits while walking five and striking out five. “We had just been in a rut and needed to get out of it,” he said. The Deacs jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the third innings on a single by junior second baseman Dustin Hood, which plated senior catcher Austin Jones and junior third baseman Tyler Smith. The Deacons later added some insurance later in the game to help protect their lead. Jones scored on a wild pitch in the sixth inning, while Smith had an RBI double in the eighth inning to bring home senior shortstop Andy Goff.
The Deacon bullpen, led by sophomore Phil Negus’ 2 1/3 innings of no-hit relief, helped protect the win. Florida State made a comeback in the ninth inning, with the Seminoles scoring two runs, one each off of sophomore Alex Wiesner and junior Brad Kledzik; however, Kledzik was able to strike out Mike McGee to ensure victory. “(Winning) against an undefeated team in the conference, it was huge,” Head Coach Rick Rembielak said. The Deacons looked to continue their winning ways on March 31; however, the team fell 3-2 to Florida State in an 11-inning contest. Senior Charlie Mellies was sharp in his outing, going nine innings while allowing only three hits and a run in the first inning, while striking out six batters. “It was one of the best (performances) of my career,” Mellies said. “I wanted to give us a chance to help us turn this around.” Florida State jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a Posey double, but that was all the offense FSU could muster against Mellies. The Deacons quickly responded to Florida State, with senior outfielder Ben Terry opening up the Deacons’ first inning with a double and Hood responding with an RBI single immediately afterwards. However, the Deacons missed several chances offensively, leaving the bases loaded in the first inning with one out without scoring any additional runs, as well as leaving two men in scoring position in the fourth inning, leaving two runners on base in the eighth inning and two men on in the 10th inning with a chance to win the game. “We had a great chance in Game 3 and couldn’t squeeze it out,” Rembielak said. “It would have been even bigger to take a series against Florida State and they’re one of the hottest teams in the conference.” Florida State jumped first in extra innings, taking a 2-1 lead before the Deacons responded
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April 4-6 Raleigh, N.C. The Deacons baseball team will travel to N.C. State April 4-6 for an important mid-season conference matchup. The series will have major postseason implications as both teams sit at 5-6 in the ACC. In their last conference series, the Deacs dropped two of three games against the ACC Atlantic leaders Florida State. Wake Forest pitching has struggled this season, posting an ACC-worse team ERA of 8.34. Fortunately for the Deacs, N.C. State has the worst team batting average in the conference as they are hitting only .272 on the season. Wake Forest is coming off back-to-back non-conference games against ranked opponents. They ost against UNC-Wilmington on April 1, and lost against Coastal Carolina on April 2. After their weekend series in Raleigh, the Deacs return home to host High Point for one game on April 9, and then Virginia Tech for a three game series April 11-13.
Senior catcher Austin Jones swings at the ball March 30 against Florida State at home. Jones scored two runs in the weekend series against the Seminoles. in the bottom half of the inning, with sophomore catcher Mike Murray bringing home Terry. However, the Deacons gave up the lead again in the 11th inning and could not answer for a 3-2 Seminole victory. The Deacons’ struggles continued in the midweek games as well. On April 1, the Deacons traveled to UNCWilmington, where they lost 5-1 to the No. 20 Seahawks. UNC-W struck Deacon starter sophomore Phil Negus early, tagging him for four runs over three innings. Senior Willy Fox lead the Deacon offense with two of the team’s five hits, as well as a solo home run to provide the only run. The Deacons fell again on April 2, this time losing to Coastal Carolina 9-4 at Hooks Stadium. Hunter, who has now shifted to being a week-
day starter, gave up six runs, three of which were earned and nine hits in five innings of work to take the loss. The Deacons fell behind early, trailing 3-0 in the first inning before coming back with runs in their half of the first inning as well as in the third inning to tie the game up at 3-3. However, the Chanticleers responded in the top of the fourth inning with an extra two runs and never looked back. The Deacons only scored again on a solo home run by Murray in the seventh inning. The Wolfpack are 15-9 on the season and 5-6 in the ACC. The Deacons return to action with a three game series at N.C. State April 4-6. Bullock will start the first game, Mellies the second game and the third game’s starter is still to be determined.
Scoreboard Wake in the Ranks
Record 281-8 277-12 274-15 271-18 268-21 261-28 260-29 251-38 215-74 203-86 95-194
1. Georgia Tech 2. Florida State 3. Clemson 4. Duke 5. Wake Forest 6. Virginia Tech 7. North Carolina 8. N.C. State 9. Virginia 10. Maryland 11. Boston College
Baseball standings
Women’s tennis standings
Men’s golf standings
Baseball at N.C. State
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1. Georgia Tech 2. Duke 3. Virginia 4. Wake Forest 5. Clemson 6. Miami 7. North Carolina 8. Florida State 9. N.C. State 10. Virginia Tech 11. Boston College 12. Maryland
ACC 5-1 5-2 5-2 4-2 4-3 4-2 3-2 3-3 3-4 2-5 1-6 0-7
All 13-4 12-3 9-8 8-7 8-9 11-4 12-6 13-4 10-7 14-7 9-7 3-13
Atlantic 1. Florida State 2. Clemson 3. N.C. State 4. Wake Forest 5. Maryland 6. Boston College Coastal 1. Miami 2. North Carolina
ACC 11-1 6-6 5-6 5-6 3-9 2-10
All 23-3 18-8 15-9 12-13 14-13 11-14
9-1 8-3 8-4 8-4 4-7 0-12
21-2 21-5 23-5 22-5 21-7 8-18
ACC Leaderboard Men’s golf National Rank
1. Rickie Fowler (Oklahoma State) 2. Michael Thompson (Alabama) 3. Jamie Lovemark (USC) 4. Joel Sjoholm (Georgia State) 5. Kevin Chappell (UCLA)
Fowler
Thompson
Women’s tennis National Rank
1. Aurelija Miseviciute (Arkansas-Fayetteville) 2. Ani Mijacika (Clemson) 3. Maria Mosolova (Northwestern) 4. Amanda McDowell (Georgia Tech) 5. Georgia Rose (Northwestern)
Miseviciute
Baseball On base percentage
1. Allan Dykstra (Wake Forest) 2. Yonder Alonso (Miami) 3. Buster Posey (Florida State) 4. Blake Tekotte (Miami) 5. Dennis Guinn (Florida State)
Dykstra
Mijacika
.557 .549 .548 .515 .513
Alonso
FOR THE AMATEUR
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The final intramural season is underway as softball, tennis, racquetball and bowling all started play March 26.
It’s official: softball season has started on Watertower field and students once again have a reason to live. With over 120 teams registered to play and six games taking place on both fields each day, the field itself is taking a beating. As a result, games were cancelled on March 31 because of the rain, as playing in the mud would ruin the field invariably. Games that were originally scheduled for March 31 will now be played this Sunday, April 6 at their regularly scheduled time. In addition to the grand success of softball, the tennis and racquetball leagues are also enjoying immense popularity as students are finding Intramural sports to be a great outlet from rigorous coursework, especially since the weather is improving. All participants in Intramural sports are additionally reminded
that sportsmanship is critical to advancing into the playoffs. In fact, it is the only thing that matters as far as qualification for the postseason. Keep in mind that softball is not a life or death situation, and officials are doing their best to make the right call every time. It is not worth anybody’s time to argue with the officials. Softball Official of the Week: Brian Bernsdorf
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Tennis stumbles versus top ACC foes Crew has success at regatta
By Alex Botoman | Staff writer
The women’s tennis team’s perfect 4-0 ACC record was foiled on the road as they lost lopsided matches to Clemson and No. 3 Georgia Tech. The Deacons fell to 8-7 (4-2) on the season. The Deacs’ road trip started with a 1-6 loss to the Clemson Tigers March 29. Wake fell into an early 1-0 hole after losing the doubles point. At No. 1 doubles, Clemson’s No. 20 ranked tandem of Carol Salge and Ani Mijacika cruised past Deacon junior Sierra Poske and sophomore Sasha Kulikova 8-3. The Tigers clinched the doubles point with an 8-5 win at No. 3 by Alexandra Luc and Ina Hadziselimovic over senior Alex Hirsch and sophomore Aileen Davis. Junior Christian Tara and junior Ana Jerman picked up a doubles win for the Deacs at No. 2 with an 8-6 win against Federica Adrichem and Estefania Balda. “We definitely had our chances to win the doubles point which could have changed the whole match,” said Hirsch. “That could have given us the momentum going into singles, where there were a couple very close matches that could have gone either way.” Unfortunately for Wake, Clemson came out of the doubles with the momentum and proceeded to storm through the singles matches. At No. 1 singles, the Tigers’ Mijacika, who is ranked No. 2 overall in the nation, defeated Hirsch 6-4, 6-1. Salge put Clemson up 3-0 with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Tara at No. 3 singles. Freshman Emilee Malvehy kept the Deacons alive for at least a little longer with a 7-5, 6-4 upset win over No. 124 ranked Adrichem at the No. 4 singles spot. However, Balda rallied to clinch the match for the Tigers at No. 2 singles with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 win over Kulikova At No. 5 singles, Clemson’s Hadziselimovic cruised past freshman Katarina Reveche 6-1, 6-2. After getting off to a rough start in the No. 6 singles match against the Tigers’ Luc, Davis fought back to make the
By Allison Lange | Sports editor
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Junior Ana Jerman prepares to return the ball during a home game against TCU. The women’s tennis team will take on Duke, UNC and N.C. State April 3, 5 and 6 respectively. second set competitive, but it wasn’t enough as she fell 6-1, 7-6. The road trip did not get any easier for the Deacons as they traveled to Atlanta, Ga. to take on the defending national champion Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The Jackets used a lineup that contained four singles players ranked in the top 40 in the nation. Georgia Tech swept the doubles matches to go up 1-0. At No. 2 doubles Tech’s Whitney McCray and Noelle Hickey took down Hirsch and Malvehy 8-2. The Jackets clinched the doubles point with an 8-4 win at No. 3 by Amanda McDowell and Kristen Flower over Tara and Davis. Georgia Tech rounded out the sweep with an 8-5 win by Sasha Krupina and Kristi Miller over Kulik-
ova and Jerman at No. 1 doubles. Tech didn’t let up in the singles matches as they went a perfect 6-0. At No. 3 singles Wake’s Tara played a tough second set but still fell to No. 39 McCray 6-1, 7-5. No. 29 ranked Maya Johansson put the Jackets up 3-0 with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Davis at No. 6 singles. In what was likely her last college match in her hometown of Atlanta, the Deacons’ Hirsch fell 6-3, 6-1 to No. 6 ranked Kristi Miller at No. 1 singles to clinch the match for Georgia Tech. “It’s always nice to play at home where you have family and friends who come out and support you,” said Hirsch. “It’s definitely a little strange knowing I won’t play at home (Atlanta) anymore, but Wake has opened the door to so many
new opportunities and I have a lot to look forward to in the future.” At No. 2 singles, Wake’s unranked Kulikova took No. 4 ranked McDowell to the brink, but ended up losing the match tiebreak to fall 4-6, 7-5, 1-0. The Jackets also picked up victories by Hickey over Reveche at No. 5 and Christy Striplin over Malvehy at No. 4 to round out the sweep. The Deacons will look for an upset as face road matches against rivals No. 6 Duke April 3 and No. 12 UNC-Chapel Hill April 5, as well as a match at NC State April 6. “At Wake, we never want to lose to UNC or Duke,” said Hirsch. “We need to put the past two matches in the past and look ahead at the opportunities we have to upset two good teams.”
Dreary weather doesn’t slow Deacs Several athletes placed in two invitationals March 29 and 30. By Danny Mullins | Staff writer Despite the rainy conditions that ended up cancelling some of the events at the Yellow Jacket Invitational at Georgia Tech March 29 as well as the Western Carolina Invitational March 30, some members of the track team were still able to place at the top of several events. The most significant performance for women’s track and field team in Atlanta came from senior Merry Placer who placed fifth in the 1500m run with a time of 4:40.45. This was a career-best while attending Wake Forest beating her previous
best in the 1500m which came at the 2007 ACC Championship, by over half a second. Some of the other notable performers for the Lady Deacons came from sophomore Curry who finished seventh in the 1500m run and freshmen Marley Burns who finished eighth in the same event at the Yellow Jacket Invitation. The women’s team had their best overall performance in the 1500m run with three girls finishing in the top 10. At the Western Carolina the women were led by senior Molly Kennedy who had top 10 finishes in four of her events, including first place in the 100m hurdles, triple jump and high jump. Other strong performers included junior Carly Mauch who placed first in the javelin throw with a mark of 132-09. Senior Jill Ahrens won the poll vaulting competition by six inches.
As for the men’s track team, the standout performer had to come from sophomore Jonathan Reid. In the 400m dash at the Yellow Jacket Invitational, he recorded a time of 47.22 seconds which was good for first place. He missed qualifying for the regional competition by a mere .02 seconds and with Lepley the time of 47.22, ran the sixth fastest time for the 400m in school history. Sophomores Nicholas Lepley and Patrick Russell turned in impressive performances. Lepley placed sixth in the 800m dash with a time of 1:55.41.
Russell finished in 10th in the 1500m run with a time of 3:55.93 which was the best time of the year at that distance for Wake Forest. At the Western Carolina, sophomore Thomas Sensing won both the shot put and the discus throw. He set his own personal best with his mark of 51-11.25 in the shot put. Several others placed well at the Western Carolina Invitational including junior Oderah Nwazee who placed tied for third in the long jump with a mark of 20-10.75 and freshman Nick Deuschle who finished fifth in the 1500m dash 4:17.80. The Deacons return to action April 4 when they participate in the Duke Invitational. April 5 qualifying members of the team head to the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif, while others will compete in the Clemson Invitational.
The Wake Forest rowing team traveled to Clemson March 22 to participate in the Clemson Sprints Regatta. The field was composed of junior and college clubs, which included 31 different races, all which competed on Lake Hatfield. The Wake Forest team entered five four-person boats – the lightweight varsity men’s, women’s varsity A & B boats, men’s novice and women’s novice. Wake also entered a boat in the single scull race. In the single scull race, sophomore Carl Jablonski came in third place in the preliminary round with a time of 8:01.25. The women’s varsity A boat came in second in prelims and finished fourth in the finals with a time of 8:28.53. The women’s varsity B boat placed fifth in prelims with a time of 8:45.53. The women’s novice boat placed first in the preliminary round and finished third in the final round with a time of 9:54.30. The men’s novice boat, which had the highest finish of all Wake Forest boats in the regatta, placed third in prelims and second in the final heat at Almeida 8:20.26. Last, the men’s varsity lightweight boat finished second in the final round with a time of 7:47.72. “The team did really well. Five entries brought in one fourth, one bronze and two silver finishes. The men’s freshmen four was the best finishing club boat in its event,” sophomore Adam Fernbach said. As the competition and the day went on, water conditions worsened as the water became choppier, making it difficult for the crews to row. “These conditions posed a problem to our boat,” freshman Gabriella Almeida said. “But I think as the season goes on we will become more familiar with various conditions and be able to row better in those types of conditions.” Even though the team was challenged with the rough water conditions, they pulled through with a successful meet, which can hopefully translate to the rest of the season. “Not winning any golds was certainly a disappointment but not enough to weigh down the team’s good feelings after such an all-around successful regatta,” Fernbach said. “Wake Crew has medaled at every regatta except the 2007 Dad Vail since Fall 2006 and it doesn’t look like there is an end in sight.” The crew team looks to its second regatta in Oak Ridge, Tenn., April 5-6.
Women’s soccer goes undefeated in Georgia, 1-1-0
Soccer team takes on Georgia and Tennessee in exhibition games. By Susie Manship | Staff writer
The women’s soccer team headed to Athens, Ga., March 29 to play a double header against SEC opponents, the Georgia Bulldogs and the Tennessee Volunteers. The Deacons finished 1-1-0 on the weekend. “Coach da Luz was very proud and we completely dominated both teams, but just a few seconds of not playing our best allowed Tennessee to score a goal, when we definitely deserved the win against them,” sophomore Sarah Winslow said. Wake Forest first took on Georgia, who finished with an Winslow over all record of 18-4-2 in the fall and is 0-2 in spring play. Wake added another loss to Georgia’s record as they beat the Bulldogs 2-0. The first goal came in the 16th minute when sophomore Allie Sadow capitalized off a long ball from senior Christina Hanely. Dominating the entire game, sophomore Sarah Win-
slow increased the Deacs’ lead in the second half. Senior Maggie Horne received the ball on the left side, played it back to the middle across the top of Georgia’s penalty box and found Winslow, who blasted it into the upper left corner. Wake out shot the Bulldogs 7-1 in the 2-0 win. Four hours later, the team faced Tennessee, who finished last season 15-5-2. Dealing with inclement weather, both teams remained scoreless in the first half. However, six minutes into the second, freshman Victoria Delbono put Wake up by one. Though out-shooting their opponent 7-5, the Deacs could not hold off the Lady Vols. Tennesee junior Kylee Rossi evened up the game in the 51st minute and the game ended in a 1-1 draw. “Every game counts, these are not just easy or ‘practice’ spring games, but all of these games are preparing us for our fall season and will better prepare us for our soon to come victories in the fall,” sophomore Kaley Fountain said. On another note, the coaching staff announced the signing class of 2008. This year’s group features nine student-athletes who have earned top honors on the high school level and in the Olympic Development Program ranks. They will begin play for the Deacons in the fall. The women’s soccer team will host the Davidson Wildcats at 5 p.m. on April 4.
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A women’s soccer captain tries to beat a defender in a past game. The lady Deacs defeated the Gerogia Bulldogs and tied the Tennessee Volunteers in spring competition March 29 in Athens, Ga.
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Tennis ends regular season with wins No. 14
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The No. 30 men’s tennis team defeats Clemson, 7-0 and Georgia Tech, 5-2 By Andrew LeRay | Staff writer
The No. 30 Deacon men’s tennis team wrapped up their regular season home schedule with two victories over conference opponents on March 28 and 30. The Deacons handled the Clemson Tigers 7-0, and defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 5-2. With the victory over Clemson, the Deacons improved their record to 14-6 overall and 5-1 in the ACC. The Tigers fell to 13-13 overall and 1-5 in the conference. “I think that before the ACC season our team had underachieved,” junior Cory Parr said. “So far in the ACC season we have done what we expected, although we have done nothing great. If we can pull off two wins this weekend we will be in great shape,” Parr said. Parr and sophomore Jason Morgenstern both earned 6-0, 6-0 singles wins in the Wake Forest shutout victory over the Tigers. Sophomore Steve Forman notched his fifth win of the Adamski season in No. 1 singles, defeating Clemson sophomore Carlos Alvarez. Freshman Jonathan Wolff, senior Mariusz Adamski and sophomore Andrew Brasseaux all added singles victories to set the final score at 7-0 in favor of the Deacons. In doubles competition, Forman and Parr recorded a victory at No. 1 doubles. The No. 2 doubles team of junior Carlos Salmon and Brasseaux were the only Deacon competitors to drop a match to the Tigers, falling 8-6. Morgenstern and Adamski added another win for Wake in a No. 3 doubles match. The Deacs continued their winning against Georgia Tech on March 30. The matches were moved indoors to the WFU Indoor Tennis Center due to inclement weather. With the victory, the Deacons now stand at 15-6 overall and 6-1 in the ACC. The Yellow Jackets fell to 11-9 overall and 1-6 in the conference. In his final regular season home matches, Adamski posted wins in both singles and doubles, including the clinching doubles match with Morgenstern in the No. 3 position. In No. 3 singles,
By Chris Tumminello | Contributing writer
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Senior Charles Sartor looks to return a volley in a recent match. The Deacons will begin April with two difficult matches against Florida State and Miami. Adamski defeated senior Scott Blackmon 6-3, 7-5 marking his 73rd career singles victory. The No. 1 doubles team of Forman and Parr improved to 9-3 on the season with an 8-3 victory over the doubles team of Blackmon and senior David North. Parr also recorded the first singles win of the afternoon after being credited with a victory over North in No. 2 singles when North retired in the first set down 3-1. Parr is now 7-0 at No. 2 singles this season. “I want to try and work even harder in practice and focus more on each individual match to help
the team reach the highest seed possible in the ACC tournament, and host again for the NCAA tournament,” Parr said. Morgenstern continued his inspired play by earning a straight set victory at No. 5 singles. The win extends Morgenstern’s unbeaten streak to seven. The Wake Forest victory was clinched with a straight set win by Brasseaux, who is now 4-0 in singles matches this season. The Deacons will next travel to Florida to battle No. 10 Florida State April 4 and No. 26 Miami April 6.
The No. 14 Wake Forest women’s golf team carded a 311 in their final round March 30 to finish tied for sixth at the Bryan Park National Collegiate in Brown Summit, N.C. After beginning the weekend tied for tenth, the Deacs finished strong and recorded a three-day total of 919 (+55). Cold weather and damp course conditions proved to be a challenge for all the teams in the tournament field. Precipitation postponed play for one hour March 29 and temperatures were only in the upper 30s March 30. “The ball didn’t go as far as it has been and the wind wasn’t blowing the same direction,” Wake Forest Head Coach Dianne Dailey said. “The cold definitely affected play.” Despite the cold conditions, the Deacs were led by junior Nannette Hill, who shot a five-over 77 in the final round of the tournament to finish tied for fifth place individually. Freshman Natalie Sheary finished tied for 25th place after shooting five-over in the final round to collect a 15-over 231 for the weekend. Playing as an individual, senior Jordan Craig carded a 10-over 82 in the final round to land in a tie for 37th. Junior Jean Chua collected a 19-over 235 for the tournament to finish in a tie for 45th. Senior Laura Crawford shot a seven-over 79, her best round Hill of the tournament, to end the weekend in a tie for 64th. The Florida Gators, who finished in second place in last year’s tournament, grabbed the Bryan Park title by two strokes after carding a 906 (+42) for the tournament. Last year’s champion Duke finished second with Auburn taking third place. Individual honors went to Arkansas’ Stacy Lewis, who shot an even par for the tournament and outlasted Duke’s Amanda Blumenherst by one stroke. The Deacons will return to action April 18-20 at the ACC Championship in Daytona Beach, Fla. AAOS06EngNewsBW20625x5
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Volleyball team hosts Spring Invitational By Lindsey Binder | Staff writer
The Wake Forest women’s volleyball team opened the spring season at their home Spring Invitational. In a thrilling match the girls came out on top with a 5-3 win. Their invitational hosted eight different teams. In the Spring Invitational, each match consists of two games that are played with rally scoring 25. Every team played four matches. The Demon Deacons swept Gardener-Webb and N.C. Mullikin State. Against Winthrop, Wake Forest split the games and then they lost two games to Get Low, which is a team that has four former collegiate players, includ-
ing former Deacon Trina Maso de Moya. The team turned in strong individual performances. Megan Thornberry averaged 4.87 digs for the day and Abby Miller had 4.25 digs each game. Natalie Mullikin had 1.25 blocks per game and Lauren McIntyre averaged 1.19 blocks in each game. Kristen White finished the day with an average of 2.75 kills per game and Mullikin, showing her ability to play both offense and defense, averaged 2.38 kills per game. Wake Forest as a team averaged 19.5 digs per game and 4.25 blocks in each game. Next up for the Deacs is another home invitational against Duke, Furman and Virginia Tech. Then on April 9, Wake Forest hosts Appalachian State for a combined training session that culminates in an exhibition match. The Deacs will play their third home spring invitational on April 12.
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Freshman middle blocker Carlin Salmon prepares to spike the ball during the Spring Invitational hosted by Wake Forest. The Deacs went 5-3 in the Invitational, playing each team twice.
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Forest giving a free trip to all students that wanted to go the ACC Championship Game in football in Jacksonville, Fla., in December 2006. (For the sake of journalistic fairness, I will say that various organizations at the university did a very nice job in coordinating buses and using various funds to discount the trip for students that were interested in heading down to Florida). That would have been the closest that a revenue-generating university team has done in recent memory. And while Wake did a great job of getting people to Jacksonville (even getting one student from the Flow House in Austria), it still pales to this move.
Still, this story is just another great one coming from Davidson this year. Not only did Curry and company keep hitting shot after shot (to the point where one of my friends kept shouting “Teardrops!” and “The Weatherman!” after each Curry shot in honor of the AT&T commercial that’s been on every TV timeout that shows the guy shooting hoops since he didn’t have cell phone service) but a large percentage of the 1700-member student body gets a free trip to see their team compete. For a school that’s experiencing the major athletics limelight for the first time in their current student body’s lifetime is not too bad. Not too bad at all.
Self admitted he was rooting for Texas to beat Memphis because he knew that the Memphis win meant his team would have to make history. They did just that by knocking off Stephen Curry and the Cinderella Davidson Wildcats. The Jay Hawks will be making their 13th trip to the final four after falling short the last several years including last years’ Elite Eight loss to UCLA. This year Self has an experienced team lead by the backcourt of Rush and Chalmers. They play a stifling defense and it will be interesting to see how that defense handles the best offense in UNC.
Memphis Head coach John Calipari has used what critics have said to fuel his Tigers. Memphis was the No. 1 seed that analysts picked to lose first. They dominated an uncompetitive Conference USA and struggled all season long from the free throw line. The Tigers lost only one game all season, but stumbled in a second-round win over
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UCLA UCLA is in their third straight Final Four. They lacked a true low-post threat in losing to Florida in consecutive appearances. Now they have freshman Kevin Love,
who has helped transform the Bruins from a predictable offensive team into one that could rely on an anchor in the post. Love also gave UCLA the most talented big-man passer in the post, from midcourt and from an inbounds underneath the opponent’s basket. UCLA had a number of close games at the end of the regular season against Stanford and California. They also struggled in the Pac-10 tourney against USC and Stanford and had close games in the NCAA tournament against Texas A&M, Western Kentucky and early on against Xavier. However, they won them all and perhaps more importantly they never expected they wouldn’t. Howland also has a team with a lot of experience but that also means a small window of opportunity considering that Love is likely gone to the draft and could easily be followed by point guard Darren Collison, backup Russell Westbrook and even forward Luc Richard Mbah a Moute. The Bruins don’t want to make it a fourth straight trip to the Final Four without a national championship so they will feed their big man and play tough perimeter defense in an effort to win their first title since 1995.
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As the blackboard chalked with drink options says, “If you can dream it, we can make it.” The baristas are friendly and willing to make suggestions, so if your own imagination is on the slow side, ask for a recommendation. Chelsee’s serves Distant Lands coffee and offers at least one fair trade drip option a day. My server, Matt, also claimed that Chelsee’s is the only shop in town to stock Kona and Jamacian Blue Mountain coffees, which run a little pricier than some of the other blends. Matt also said that he’s interested in finding new uses for Chelsee’s after hours; namely DJing an 18 and up dance club and displaying student art in the cozy living room section of the shop.
In a Starbucks society, the independent coffee shop could certainly have become a dying breed. But evidence right in our own backyard would speak otherwise. Winston-Salem boasts its own crop of unique coffee shops, some roasting their own beans on site or sourcing only local ingredients. From fair-trade to organic brews, here’s the best of Winston-Salem’s independent java joints. Best Local Flavor Newcomer Caffe Prada opened its doors to downtown Winston-Salem three weeks ago with a goal of sourcing as many products locally as possible, even down to the milk in the creamy homemade gelato. Owner Alex Prada makes the gelato himself ($2.99) and it’s probably the best I’ve had outside the creamy dessert’s homeland of Italy. He’s serving Caffe Prada Krankie’s coffee 390 North Broad Street to support local Hours: brewers and Larry’s Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Beans to support Sat. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. fair-trade. Phone: 336-793-2468 The shop is neat Small latte $2.95 and fun, with a friendly vibe and bright color scheme that creates an inviting atmosphere. Prada has also made a strong commitment to creating an environmentally conscious space. All his coffee is served in “ecotainers” made from corn and his desserts are served on old American Airlines trays. Why airline trays? Prada said that with airlines cutting down on inflight meal services, he realized that someone somewhere must have hundreds of airline serving trays lying around. So he found that person and bought those trays so no new plastics would have to be manufactured for his business. Caffe Prada’s only drawback is that it’s fairly small and not open late, a must for the typical college student. Stop for lunch and the free Wi-fi or chill on the patio on a nice spring day.
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it would be the limited indoor seating, but when the weather improves the spacious outdoor seating area would be perfect for enjoying an icy cold Swirly.
Brew Nerds claims to sell coffee for smart people. So what gives? “We take all our coffee really seriously and just don’t take ourselves too seriously,” said owner DJ McKie, who brews all that nerdy coffee right in the back of the ultra mod, glass building off Hanes Mall Boulevard. The nerdiness even seeps into the baristas decked out in suspenders and bowties, but they’re endearing nerds who really seem to love coffee. The Brew Nerds opened in late February and
McKie hopes to expand the concept to downtown Winston-Salem and beyond. Though Brew Nerds is fairly young, McKie is an old pro in the coffee industry. He and his wife worked to create Krispy Kreme coffee before eventually starting their own brand at Brew Nerds. The store is Brew Nerds decorated with illustrations 1620 Fox Trot Court reminiscent Hours: of Napoleon Mon.-Thurs. 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Dynamite and Fri.-Sat. 7 a.m.-11 p.m. includes limited Sun. 7 a.m.-9 p.m. but varied types Phone: 336-499-3391 of indoor seatSmall latte $2.75 ing, from retro club chairs to sleek bar stools. Today, McKie sources coffee from 11 different countries and offers several fair-trade and organic options. Try the official “Brew Nerd,” a blended iced coffee with bits of espresso bean topped with delicious espresso whipped cream ($2.95). Order from the two-way video drive-thru, stop in to play Ms. Pac Man and enjoy two free hours of Wi-fi or chill out in the heated outdoor seating areas. If I had any complaint about Brew Nerds,
Coffee and scholastic achievement have long gone together like peas and carrots. Many collegiate types stake out a favorite coffee shop and remain dedicated for four long years (or more) of long nights and large Chelsee’s espressos. 533 North Trade Street If you haven’t found your own Hours: late-night niche Mon.-Thurs. 7 a.m.-10 p.m. yet, consider Fri. 7 a.m.-11 p.m. Chelsee’s downSat. 8 a.m.-11 p.m. town coffee shop Phone: 336-703-1503 on Trade Street Small latte $2.99 (next door to southern eatery Sweet Potatoes). As a study spot, Chelsee’s is perfect with some comfy leather couches, high tabletops and free Wi-fi. It’s usually pretty quiet, making it ideal for concentrating students and their mocha java creations.
If roasting your own coffee is a hip, new trend, Krankie’s Coffee has been trendy since 1972. A Winston-Salem original, Krankie’s is headquartered in The Wherehouse, a downtown artist space with an earthy, eclectic feel. I knew Krankie’s was an authentic independent shop when the store’s black cat begged to be petted in the parking lot, a group of students camped out on the patio asked me if I Krankie’s Coffee was registered 211 East Third Street to vote and I saw my favorHours: ite Mary’s Of Mon.-Wed. 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Course waiter Thurs.-Fri. 7 a.m.-12 a.m. chatting with Sat. 9 a.m.-12 a.m. the server. Sun. 9a.m.-10 p.m. K r a n k i e ’s Phone: 336-722-3016 is everything Small latte $2.50 you’d wish for in an independent coffee shop: colorful murals, free Wi-fi, freshly roasted coffee, garagelike performance space and 25 cents off if you bring your own mug. There’s plenty of space since the venue is converted into a concert spot at night. Interesting concoctions include the Red Eye espresso for the extreme caffeine fiend and the Electric Yoo-Hoo ($2), your favorite childhood drink with a little shot of espresso to bring it upto-date. Krankie’s offers a few fair trade coffees, available by the pound, and on some days on tap. The server said they rotate brews, but all of the Krankie varieties are on sale to take home. Need Krankie’s on the go? Pull up to “The Silver Bullet” on Reynolda Road, Krankie’s second location in a surprising vehicle that lives up to the nickname.
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Nuclear Cooooookie Crisp | Not for the faint of heart
Bachelorette cereals are too bland to tempt this bachelor Austin H. Jones Staff columnist
In a recent conversation with one of my friends (yes, I have eight of them), he mentioned the apparently increasingly popular term “cereal dating.” Like any person out of the loop, I pretended as if I had heard of it and didn’t stop to ask what it meant. But now, as I look back on the complete absurdity of the concept, I can’t help but doubt any cereal lover’s motivation for finally defining the relationship and moving to the next level.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m a lover of many different cereals, myself. There’s just so much to consider: initial crispiness, shelf-life, personality, absorbance of milk, taste in music, bite-sizeness, net weight, beliefs, fiber content, wholesome, eye color, how well it mixes with others, artificial coloring and especially – does it have nuts? The closest I get to dating cereal is walking past box upon box at the grocery store, and even then, it’s more like speed-dating than anything. I could probably come up with multiple reasons not to date almost every major brand – ladies (and gentlemen, I guess, please don’t be offended if you have often seen yourself as resembling one of these cereals; it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t date you – I might even try you with milk sometime). Corn Flakes: The blandest of the bland. Even if they were sweetened, maybe even frosted, they still wouldn’t be as GR-
R-REAT as Frosted Flakes. Also, the rooster is a lame mascot compared to a ferocious tiger. Mini-Wheats: Seriously? I mean, I want a dependable relationship with a lot of substance, not this flaky, short-lived crunchiness that tastes like cardboard. Corn Pops: Speaking of cardboard … The thing is, they wouldn’t be half as bad if they weren’t so dadgum arrogant. Nobody’s “Gotta have Pops.” Pebbles (Fruity and Cocoa): Wow! What a lame excuse for incorporating Flintstones characters into a breakfast staple! It’s almost as bad as the whole Push-Up Pop ordeal. Cinnamon Toast Crunch: Shoot, girl, you know I don’t want to see all that – it just needs to get up out my grill. Lucky Charms: Even if I had the reflexes and endurance of a ninja, I don’t think I could constantly fend off that extremely persistent leprechaun. Cocoa Puffs: If that stupid bird fol-
lowed us around on every date, I’d probably end up just leaving them for good and never once looking back. Reese’s Puffs: Do you honestly think that indulging myself by eating candy every meal is healthy? It’s just not practical if you ask me. Life: This is just your generic, semisweet, semi-crunchy, run-o-the-mill cereal that doesn’t really deserve any special attention. I just don’t get why Mikey likes it. Anything and Everything Quaker Oats: That guy just creeps me out. Cap’n Crunch: If “crunch-a-tize me, cap’n,” is some sort of masochistic roleplay you can count me out. Apple Jacks: They be frontin – ain’t no way you gonna get me to believe those things taste like apple. Rice Krispies: These things are unrelentingly noisy. I can never seem to get a word in edgewise, let alone get around to asking them out.
Kix: As fun as they seem on the outside, once you get to their core, they’re just another puffed-up grain, no matter how kid-tested and mother-approved their fans say they are. Trix: These gals are too young, silly; they’re for kids. Cookie Crisp: The closest I would ever come to dating cereal is with these delightful bits of sugary death. Yet, they still lack something dually protonic and neutronic. Even when there are benefits to dating some types of cereal, there are definitely more sacrifices I would have to make on my part. I’m just not willing to make those sacrifices. I don’t care what you say; cereal dating just can’t be as good as everyone is making it out to be. So I’m going to sit out this trend and stick to random hook-ups with granola and yogurt for now.
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He Said | Advice on sex and the fairer sex
Don’t let the season pass you by Teddy Aronson
Panic At The Disco loses the exclamation point for their sophomore effort and try to create a ‘70s style rock epic (a common trend in music these days – see My Chemical Romance and the Killers). The album contains Beatles-esque rifts which isn’t surprising as they recorded some tracks at the Fab Four’s former haunt, the Abbey Road Studio. Entertainment Weekly called Pretty. Good. “an admirably ambitious musical bonanza” and awarded it a B+ grade. Rolling Stone said the album is over the top but cheerful. Fans should feel pretty good about PATD’s second CD.
Spring has sprung, everyone. Among global warming instabilities and the traditional “in like a lion out like a lamb” attitude, spring has come and is here to stay. Well, what does this awakened sense of atmosphere provide for campus life? An entirely new venue for those displays and charades of you and yours. Around this time of year, the weather’s inviting temperament asks us to take a step outside of the confines of our four-walled robotic routines and to take a deep breath of that which is all around us. From the budding of the magnolia ambiance to the sound of crashing soft-tops clanking against metal
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chassis in parking lots everywhere, a wave of springtime has swept the campus. Take it in, my friends. It’ll add that extra “umph” we all need from time to time. Now I know the recent rainy streak has put a damper on all our days, but you’ll be as happy as a street magician who gets more than two viewers on any given day – one being the senile truck driver who thinks he’s watching a giant cigarette play five card stud with Bert and Ernie, and the other being that old lonely woman whose main interests are colored blindfolds, percentages and freshly paved roads. During this climate upturning, we can all benefit mentally and physically from taking a moment and enjoying the outdoors. I suggest a number of activities from which you may choose based upon your own interests. Just recognize that each has potential for a bit of creative rehashing. A nice game of Frisbee, for instance, brightens anyone’s day. Or perhaps try an intimate picnic feast away from the hustle and bustle of classroom customs.
Who wouldn’t give a finger or two to bask in the glory of an epic afternoon lounge session out on a traditionally grassy hill? There are also the activities which require a rich mixture of athleticism, focus and a pinch of childish indifference. The old egg and the spoon race can add some flavor to any relationship’s ways. The list goes on and on: threelegged race, burlap sack race, freeze tag, capture the flag. Basically anything that you would find at a mediocre little kid’s birthday party will do, because who didn’t feel like they could conquer the world after owning in a match of freeze tag? In so many ways does this good weather benefit the common couple. A little competition makes everything better; I don’t care what Marx says. You can even make a friendly gentleman’s bet, or go for the gold and put some real money on the line. And you can put any twist on money you like. A bet is a promise as strong as the strongest demonstration of creed you
can find in this world, so make things interesting. I once had a friend whose girlfriend lost a bet to him, so he made her shave her head and dress like him for two whole weeks. I don’t know why but she stayed with him. Now that is a true display of commitment. In the spirit of April Fool’s Day, I’ll admit that story was completely untrue. However, mini golf is another activity to add to the list of great spring time activities with your significant other. Although, in my opinion, cheating in mini golf is as bad as or worse than cheating on your boy or girlfriend, so don’t spoil all the fun. So get out there, stop reading. You’re wasting valuable time you could be spending in the midst of nature and the one you care for – an unstoppable combination towards the route to happiness. “He Said” is a bi-weekly column that presents one guy’s perspective on the college sex scene. You may contact him with your feedback or ideas at arontt7@ wfu.edu.
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Drink of the Week Ball of Fun After you’ve played your April Fool’s pranks, make it up to your friends by pouring them a Ball of Fun. Ingredients: 1 L Bacardi Limon 1 L Triple sec 1 L Absolut Citron 2 L fruit punch 5 lb ice cubes Directions: Pour all ingredients in bowl and stir.
Movie Review | 21
Action and intelligence mix to make a hit By Jillian King | Staff writer
We all work to make the big bucks. We take endless entrepreneurship classes, do five years of school instead of four, intern for free just to build a resume. So if a get rich quick scheme came along, chances are we’d take it. Ben Campbell did. 21, which opened this week to an expected $24 million, masterfully tells the story of Ben and his group of MIT card counters. Ben (Jim Sturgess, Across the Universe) is a “genius” MIT student — 1590 SAT, 4.0 MIT GPA, 44 on his MCAT. He’s been accepted to Harvard Medical School, but one giant problem presents itself. This is where the rest 21 of us lowly mortals of Starring | Jim Sturgess, Kate normal intelBosworth and Kevin Spacey ligence can Director | Robert Luketic relate — Ben Who’s it for? | People who like can’t pay. thinking and action films. His job, Running Time | 2 hrs. 3 min. college loans, family money Rating | (out of 5) — none of it is enough. Ben needs $300,000. Good news? There is a full ride scholarship offered. Bad news? Ben needs to “dazzle” them since last year’s recipient was a Korean immigrant with one leg. Ben continues to work through his classes at MIT until one fateful night he’s approached by a random classmate. He’s led to a room where his professor, Mickey Rosa (Kevin Spacey), and four students invite him into their card counting ring. Despite promises of money that Ben could really use, Ben continues to turn them down. His love interest and ring member Jill Taylor (Kate Bosworth) sways him and Ben enters the ring. What follows is intense orientation — learning how to count the cards (face cards are -1, low cards are +1, others are 0), learning what each number correlates with (9 is cat, 17 is magazine), and a complicated system of spotters and big players. Flown out to Las Vegas the day after his first test at an underground gambling club, Ben more than excels at his task. Over the next few months, Ben earns $315,000 and is caught up in the scheme, to the detriment of his home life. After a false move one night, the operation goes under. Without giving details about how this part pays out, suffice it to say there’s blood, tears and a whole bunch of drama. Predictably enough, Ben’s gallivanting in Vegas does “dazzle” the scholarship board, and everyone lives happily ever after – mostly.
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Across the Universe’s Jim Sturgess proves he is a star in the making in the intelligent and exciting gambling drama, 21. As for the movie itself, its cinematography was unbeatable. The beginning starts with artistic close-ups of the cards and the chips, and these continue throughout the movie. They are simply stunning. Certain verbal threads give the movie a certain cohesion as well. The saying “winner, winner, chicken dinner” is oft repeated as is “variable change” and the idea that it helps to be on the inside. As Ben and his comrades sit at the table, you excitedly watch and count with them. I do wish the process of how they won so often and so successfully was explained more. Guess I’ll just have to buy the book (Bringing Down the House, available on Amazon.com for $9). The film’s self-deprecating humor entertains — typical math dork jokes, Geico commercial jokes, Google comments. When two MIT students are rating a girl they see in a bar, they give her a 7.68 because they “agreed not to round up anymore.” Most of the comedy is offered by Ben’s friend Miles (Josh Gad), who seems to be a poor man’s Seth Rogan. Alas, there are some drawbacks; film clichés are frequent.
When Ben goes to his first underground gambling night, he has to go through an alleyway while the streets are wet and there is ominous smoke rising. Similarly, Mickey tells Ben that counting is “safe” and the movie immediately cuts to an overzealous security guard Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne) beating an already bloodied “counter” in Las Vegas. Jim Sturgess’ accent leaves a lot to be desired. The English-born actor cannot always mask his accent. On the flipside, when he does uphold his neutral American accent, he sometimes peppers his speech with an overdone Boston accent (read: HAH-vad). There seems to be a bit of plot missing as well. Mickey and Cole have this decade-old beef which is mildly explained by Cole, but I sure didn’t get it. It ends up directing most of the final scenes so a bit more explanation would have been nice. Overall, the movie is a winner — and it seems the rest of America is agreeing as well. Little mishaps ignored, 21 will leave you feeling like I did — itching to fly out to Vegas this weekend to try your own hand at counting. Alas, facial recognition software may get in your way, but it sure beats studying for that accounting test, huh?
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Restaurant Review | T. J.’s Deli
Deli’s portions and quality are worth the drive
and fried and cooked to the point that they are still extremely juicy and tasty. As I walked into T.J.’s Deli with a friend The meal comes with a choice of pretty for dinner, Mitch, the owner, was at the standard options like French fries and counter welcoming patrons and taking chips. A nice part about the side orders is the our orders for dinner. T.J.’s is similar to many deli-style res- ability to substitute an appetizer for the taurants – there are plenty of menus avail- side item and have $0.50 taken off the able for people to look at, and when you price of the side item. If you’re looking get up to the counter, for a great choice, you order by the item’s T.J.’s Deli I would recomnumber. Location | 5017 Country Club Rd. mend going with It’s a pretty simple the home-cooked formula that is hard to Hours | Sun.-Sat. 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. potato chips as a mess up. Serving | Sandwiches side item – they The fare is similar to cook these up in many other deli-style Dress | Casual the kitchen for you restaurants, in that Price Range | $7 - $10 and have a taste there are a variety of (out of 5) that is much better sandwiches, hamburg- Rating | than a regular bag ers, chicken and other of chips. grilled items. My companion had the buffalo cham Prices are relatively inexpensive too, which is of utmost important to the for his dinner, and he was equally impressed by the tastiness of the food. college student on a budget. Now, I’m sure you’re asking what a Entrees range in price from $5-$8. In addition, diners can add a moder- cham is. A cham is T.J.’s specialty dish, ately inexpensive soda or sweet tea to and it stands for a chicken and ham sandwich. In essence, it’s very comparable to their order and receive free refills. For my dinner, I had the chicken ten- a chicken cordon bleu, in that it takes ders. As an avid fan of chicken tenders, the chicken, ham and cheese and comI have tried them at pretty much every bines it with a variety of vegetables to make a sandwich that is quite legendary restaurant in Winston-Salem. And let me say that these are the best and above all, delicious. In regards to the size of the dinners, both me and chicken tenders that I have ever had. Not just in Winston, but in my entire my friend walked away from dinner life. T.J.’s serves a hearty five tenders per completely stuffed – always a positive. platter, all of which are lightly breaded Between the generous portions given for By Jeff Merski | Senior writer
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T.J.’s offers a local alternative to chains with with a personal feel, delicious chicken tenders and their own creations like the Buffalo Cham. the entrees and the heaping portions of your chosen side item, it’s tough not to leave the restaurant completely full.In fact, there’s only one downside to T.J.’s that I can come up with – the unfortunate fact that it is a decent drive from campus. It’s located at the intersection of Peace Haven Boulevard and Country
Club Road across the street from Calvary Baptist Church – meaning that it is approximately 15 minutes away from campus. It’s not that long of a drive, but it can seem like a haul compared to the other restaurant options that are much closer to campus. Still, as one of my friends once said, “There is nothing
Event Review | Little Red Riding Hood and An Evening with Dead Essex
bad about T.J.’s,” and minus the distance away from campus, this is certainly a true statement. The next time you’re thinking about heading out to someplace closer to campus for dinner, I urge you to venture a little bit further away and try out T.J.’s. You won’t be disappointed.
Alum Profile | Ethan Cushing
Two shows present two perspectives Alum to show film By Elizabeth Martin | Staff writer
The Ring Theatre had a packed house on March 24 and 25 for the most recent set of Studio Series plays. The program featured the hard work of two theater majors: junior Lauren Gaston and senior Micah Andrews. The evening began with a delightfully witty depiction of the beloved Little Red Riding Hood, a comedy with a unique twist showing how things are not necessarily always how they appear. As the show began, the lights came up to reveal the mother (played excellently by junior Stephany Rayburn) dramatically bent over with her head stuck in the oven. A slightly eccentric nature was revealed immediately as she straightened to reveal a stubborn waft of hair that never wavered from its position 90 degrees out from her forehead for the entire show, only increasing laughter as it accented every indignant toss of her head and never failed to respond wildly to her sighs of frustration. The peculiarity of the mother only became more apparent as the show progressed. Instructions given to her daughter Red (freshman Hannah Newman) concerning the delivery of goodies to grandmother vacillated in a bipolar manner between the sweet “take her this basket” and the menacing “then choke and smash her.” The mother also exhibited a bit of amnesia, as she told Red to leave and, then scolded her for leaving. As a puzzled Red re-took her seat, she got yelled at for not going and as she then got up to leave again, was scolded for abandoning her mother – a comic representation of the common experience with people
who are impossible to please. Red finally left and immediately came across the wolf (graduate student Adam Humenansky), a dashing but sleezy character who seduced Red into letting him scratch her mosquito bite and telling him all the information concerning her grandmother’s location. The next scene returned to the home, where the audience was introduced to Red’s father (senior Eric Pearce), a clumsy hunter with the uncanny ability to turn every mistake he makes into a lesson concerning his latest life epiphany. When his wife called his attention to both the arm he had failed to put through his sleeve and his incomplete buttoning job, he took the opportunity for a passionate discourse on the problem of those who “focus on the unsleeved arm and the unbuttoned button.” The perfect illustration for family values was found when he placed his fork behind his ear. The incredulous response of his wife resulted in a speech highlighting the merits of a father who would “put a fork behind his ear for his family.” The grandmother (alumna Bethany Novak) was the epitome of the feeble, cranky and amnesic grandmother made each next breath come as a surprise with her violent coughing gestures. The wolf “eats” both the grandmother (at her insistence) and Red, but that was no problem as the mother arrived and simply pulled them back out of his stomach as he slept. The father finally got up enough courage to shoot the wolf, despite Red’s pleas. However, she comes across the wolf again, but much to her disappointment he informs her that
I’d Kill a Man for Arby’s | By Ryan Coons
at inaugural festival
Filmmaker vows that a liberal arts education is valuable
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Senior Lauren Gaston presented a quirky version of Little Red Ridding Hood in her one act play. he is unable to eat her because he is dead. The act ends with a simple “oh” by Red, who then continues on her merry way. The second show took a more serious turn, featuring An Evening with Dead Essex by Adrienne Kennedy. A group of students (senior director Micah Andrews, senior projectionist Dan Li, senior actress Chloe Mexile, senior actor Troy Pellom and sophomore assistant director Aleshia Price) prepared for the dramatic presentation by considering the shooting in 1972 that killed Mark Essex. Essex was supposedly “searching for peace,” and his several murderous undertakings against white people were portrayed as mere desperation for the freedom America had promised. Various quotes from news clippings were shared, along with two dramatic monologues and some songs, presenting overall the less-familiar case that worked
to redeem Essex. Resentment toward America was evident in the writing of this play, but this perhaps was justified by the resentment and racism that lead to this horrific event. A truth not often considered was laid forth by the director who commented on the African Americans (including Essex) who had to “fight in Vietnam for a country who hated them more than the enemy did.” The police and Essex exchanged several rounds on that fatal day, and finally a Marine Corps helicopter was used to aid in the attack. Essex was found with evidence that over 200 bullets hit his body. This play centered around a quote by Essex: “If the quest for freedom is death, then by death I shall escape to freedom.” This play was an effective representation of views often overlooked by those who forget that America did not always have the freedom it claimed.
you question, ‘What am I doing with my life?’” Cushing says. He hopes to make films that are more than a distraction, ones that foster thought and conversation. Negotiations, his 19-minute short By Carie McElveen | Contributing writer being shown at the Reynolda Film Festival, is about a hostage The university’s first Reynolda negotiator whose wife dies, and Film Festival is being held April the grief leads him to shut out 11-13, and one of the films being every part of their life together, shown is Ethan Cushing’s Nego- even their small son. tiations. Years later, the grown son realCushing, 26, is a univer- izes that there is only one way sity alumnus from the class of to regain his father’s attention, 2004. and stages a hostage situation that After graduating, he went on forces the first face-to-face meetto Chapman University’s Dodge ing since his mother’s death. College of Film and Media Arts, Cushing used this plot to create one of America’s top up-and- a dynamic that leads people to coming film schools. think about their own families. Cushing is Cushing’s now the vicedirectorial president of “Wake gives you the tools, but influences development include at the produc- you have to use them. People R o b e r t can get a lot out of Wake tion company Zemeckis, Avatar Enterwhose sucwhen they out their tainment. cess with minds to it.” Cushing the Back to
Ethan Cushing graduated the Future Filmmaker from high trilogy school in Cushing Boston in attributes 2000, and he originally planned to a multi-layered plot and broad to attend Syracuse University in appeal for fans of all ages. New York until he toured the Cushing also greatly admires university at the last minute. Ron Howard, who directed The friendly culture, the liberal Apollo Thirteen and A Beautiful arts focus and the Southern loca- Mind, because his films are solid tion drew him, and he enrolled and can appeal to audiences unihere instead. Cushing thought versally, something Cushing tries he would be a communications to achieve in his own work. major with a minor in art, and He considers it fitting that go into advertising. Negotiations is to be shown at the As time went on, he discovered university’s first film festival. that his real passion was film. “This sounds cheesy, but it’s He got involved in WAKETV great to see the culmination of and became its president during your educational career at the his senior year. place where you discovered what He did one show called Kicking you wanted to do with your life,” Ash, shot on the roof of Taylor, he said. which consisted of him and his About his experience at the friends smoking cigars and goof- university, Cushing says that ing off. he considered transferring to “The great thing about North Carolina School of the WAKETV is that it gives you Arts his sophomore year but freedom to mess up and try new he decided that the university’s things,” Cushing says. liberal arts approach to learning Cushing met Professor Mary allows itsstudents to have varied Dalton, who encouraged him to knowledge as a foundation to do take more film and writing classes whatever they choose. during his junior year. “A liberal arts education gives “I got to make a documentary you a better understanding of the on Krispy Kreme for her docu- world … Take crazy classes! mentary filmmaking class—I “You’re not wasting time — you even saw their secret recipe,” have two years before you need to Cushing says. declare a major,” Cushing said. He also interned with David “I have friends who went to Letterman the summer after his Wake, took their divisionals, junior year. got a degree, that’s it. Other kids Cushing refers to what he does did service projects, went abroad, as “entertainment,” but his intent that sort of thing — they got an clearly goes deeper than amusing experience. an audience. “Wake gives you the tools, but “People go to the theater and you have to use them. People can see movies like Mystic River, Flags get a lot out of Wake when they of Our Fathers — films that make put their minds to it.”
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Event Review | Concert Choir
Choir delivers talent and beauty By Nicole Russo | Contributing writer
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Event Preview | Stand Up! Stand Out!
Event promotes positive image By Ellen Hart | Staff writer
On April 10, Kappa Delta Sorority will be hosting the annual Stand Up! Stand Out! event at Wait Chapel from 8-9:30 p.m. Stand Up! Stand Out!, according to its chairperson and organizer Jenny Kneezel, is a forum geared toward the empowerment of young women at the university. “It’s kind of a chance for the women of Wake Forest to hear about how they can develop as leaders and how to achieve the best that they can in the career world,” she said. The target audience in Stand Up! Stand Out! is primarily young women, but organizers hope that young men at the university will be able to glean something from it as well. “I just hope that it will instill a sense of confidence in young women’s abilities to achieve success in the future and give them an opportunity just to see a really fantastic woman who has done a lot,” Kneezel said. The guest speaker for this year’s Stand Up! Stand Out! event is Stephanie A. Streeter. Streeter is
the former chairwoman, president and chief executive officer of Banta Corporation, a prominent global marketing organization that focuses on printing and supply chain management. Her accomplishments have earned her renown in her field. Streeter graduated in 1979 from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in political science. At Stanford, she excelled on the women’s varsity basketball team for four years, and she was elected captain her junior and senior year. Streeter will also be the independent director on the United States Olympic Committee until 2010. This is not the first time Kappa Delta has hosted Stand Up! Stand Out! “It’s an important aspect of Kappa Delta to promote a certain aspect of self confidence and leadership among its members and other women,” Kneezel said. “We just really value strong leaders and women who can succeed in the professional world.” Stand Up! Stand Out! is a national event hosted by many sororities coun-
trywide and provides a forum for young people, primarily women, to discuss the negative effects of peer pressure and social attitudes towards their future. This may include, according to the organization’s website, “alcohol abuse, hazing, low self-esteem, sexual promiscuity, pressure to overachieve.” “When Kappa Delta joined with Zeta Tau Alpha to create Stand Up! Stand Out!, we hoped that it would become a women’s movement, a nationwide opportunity for college women to become empowered and stand up against negative peer pressure,” Melanie Schild, executive director of Kappa Delta Sorority said. “Now with 24 national sororities banding together, with a combined collegiate membership of over a quarter of a million women, the campus culture can be changed.” Stand Up! Stand Out! aspires to create optimism and confidence among the university’s entire community, and also to offer solutions to combat the things that work against success. “I hope that people are inspired to become their best and look for opportunities that are unique,” Kneezel said.
Those who could not make it to the Concert Choir’s performance on March 26 surely missed out on one of the best concerts on campus. The night was an uplifting and emotionally charged display of student talent and effort. Opening with a gentle and melodious song entitled “I Have Had Singing,” Director of Choral Ensembles Brian Gorelick, the choir’s conductor, explained the piece’s touching significance. “It originated from a northern English village and was sung by people who had very little in their lives. Music was something which helped them celebrate the beauties of life which they did have,” Gorelick said. It seemed to embody the sensitivity of the night’s performance to how deeply song could bring joy into life. The performance was divided into four sections. The first two were the sacred and secular and the last two were different American musical genres. Overall, the final product was dynamic, beautifully sung and well-rehearsed. Covering various styles and artists of the 20th century, the choir showed its breadth by singing everything from moving spirituals to complicated French folk songs to sacred Latin psalms. The performance vehemently exemplified the great talents and energies of all of its performers. Certain pieces stood out from others such as Morten Lauridsen’s “Sure on This Shining Night,” which was part of the secular themed portion of the concert. The song, as Gorelick explained, was part of the “Seven Nocturnes” poems, which tell stories about the night. In this particular piece, a major line from the poem is sung in the song: “all is healed/all is health.” Full of such rich and tender harmonies, the song reverberated with romantic and touching tones, and one almost felt as if all was, in fact, healed. Gorelick explained that the choir would be adding “new colors, singing more unusual chords and adding richer harmonies” to otherwise well-known songs. They did just that
with new and dynamic versions of songs like “We Gather Together” and certain selected Shaker songs. The choir also highlighted some extremely talented soloist singers. Sopranos sophomore Kate Miners, freshman Suzannne Spicer, sophomore Delia Hinman, tenor junior Alex Blake and baritone senior Roman Irvin struck chords and melodies which shook the auditorium and sent chills throughout the audience. With stunning, clear voices, it was obvious these students possessed incredible talent and skill. Another highlighted member was senior choir singer Ernest Lewis. After taking over as conductor during the second half of the performance, Lewis led the choir with an energy and excitement which proved to be contagious. “It’s just such an honor to be up here,” Lewis said. He added excitement to the performance by incorporating the participation of the audience. “This first song is a battle between the men and the women,” he said. “I’ll let you decide who wins.” The choir also did a piece in memory of Coach Skip Prosser. The piece, entitled “Balm in Gilead” as Lewis explained, refers to Jeremiah mourning the fate of Israel. Lewis explained that the song’s question “Is there not a physician?” related to many who asked the same question upon the passing of Skip Prosser. “This song is dedicated to a lost icon, one who will never be forgotten in the hearts of those who knew him,” Lewis said. The piece had a soft and somber quality that was unmatched by any of the other pieces throughout the night. Soloist Spicer sang out with an angelic and gentle vibrato visibly plucking at the heartstrings of many audience members. The choir finished with the song “Ride on King Jesus,” which included conquering, upbeat composition filled with lively soloists and powerful harmonies. Within the first moment of silence the audience exploded with powerful applause. The performance of the Concert Choir was an undeniable success.
Book Review | Unaccustomed Earth
Lahiri’s latest work proves to be another literary triumph By Meg Smith | Staff writer
Jhumpa Lahiri’s praise of her favorite author, William Trevor, in a 2005 New York Times article easily encapsulates the quietly stunning quality of her own work. “His words are a balm, unadorned, precise, yet infused with melancholy,” she wrote. “I struggle to absorb the measured grace of his sentences, the quietly devastating emotional content of his work.” The hotly anticipated Unaccustomed Earth, Lahiri’s first work in five years, hit stores April 1. The pressure and reader expectations are great for the author of The Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake. Each of her earlier works garnered great acclaim and numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Interpreter of Maladies. The writer’s loyal fans will be pleased to know Unaccustomed Earth solidly bears up to its hype. Lahiri’s signature lucid, meticulous prose dazzles
again in this collection of eight stories. As in earlier works, these stories explore the fraught attempts of first-generation Indian-Americans to negotiate human relationships, issues of identity, exile and death. Somewhat more somber in tone than her earlier short stories, Lahiri’s characters feel an obscure but pervasive dislocation that transcends the immigration experience. In the title story, “Unaccustomed Earth,” a recently widowed father visits his married daughter, Ruma, and young grandson in her new home in Seattle, tentatively building a new and closer relationship with them that is challenged by his need for independence. The tale introduces the collection’s preoccupation with the tenuous nature of human relationships. The father contemplates his own relationship with his daughter. “He wanted to shield her from the deterioration that inevitably took place in the course of a marriage, and from the conclusion he sometimes feared was true: that the entire enterprise of having a family, of putting children on this earth, as gratifying as it sometimes felt, was flawed from the start,” Lahiri said. It is a question at the heart of Lahiri’s collection.
The next selection, “Hell-Heaven,” in which a daughter witnesses her mother’s infatuation with a family friend following her dissatisfaction with a loveless marriage, pursues this theme, weighing the compensations life can provide with its failure to fulfill all of its promises. As immigrants in Boston in the ‘70s, Usha and her family adopt a lonely Bengali college student as an unofficial relative. Her mother’s unreturned love for him becomes “the one totally unanticipated pleasure in her life.” The story delineates the family’s changing relations with great profundity and power. “A Choice of Accommodations” follows a married couple’s vacation to a weekend wedding, their first trip in years without their two daughters, with the same depth of insight. It poignantly examines the shifting dynamics of their marriage, the way the responsibilities of work and parenthood and disparate interests erode love, and the small, daily ways human beings fail each other. “Only Goodness,” the story of an older sister’s struggles to deal with her brother’s alcoholism, is the only piece that feels less than perfect. Despite a melodramatic tinge slightly reminiscent of a public service announcement, an anomaly for
Lahiri, the story offers compelling relationships and mostly finely sketched characters. Ultimately, it succeeds in limning the writer’s favorite topic: the charged possibilities and dangers of relationships “as typical and as terrifying as any other(s).” The trio of linked stories at the collection’s end are the collection’s best. The family of a 16-year-old boy, Kaushik, come to stay with long-time family friends and their 13-year-old daughter, Hema, while they look for a house after moving back to Massachusetts from India. Through her interactions with Kaushik and his family Hema is inducted into adulthood. In the third story, Hema and Kaushik meet by chance in Rome 24 years later and begin an affair, drawn together by their shared history and sense of isolation from life’s significant moorings. The austerely devastating conclusion elegantly demonstrates the necessity of venturing into the mess and disappointments of intimacy, the only potential for true substance in life. Hauntingly resonant, Unaccustomed Earth reaffirms Jhumpa Lahiri’s status as one of the best writers today. Objective yet tender, her work sensitively renders the full, rich complexities of existence with rare incandescence.
Music Review | Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Counting Crows return with disjointed, but enjoyable new album By Aubrey Sitler | Staff writer
It has been over five years since the Counting Crows last released a studio album, and after such an extended break t h e i r latest addition to the collection can be described as nothing less than a success. As the title of the band’s newest album suggests, the CD itself is divided into two parts: Saturday nights and Sunday mornings.
The first six songs (denoting the Saturday nights aspect of the album) lean more toward the pensive rock side of the Counting Crows’ sound. Several of the songs have sounds reminiscent of their classics like “Mr. Jones” and “Round Here.” They do, however, bring new and interesting twists. The latter eight songs focus on a sound which is much more country than the one with which the band is usually associated. Although this section of the album is complete with notable lyrics and memorable music, I found myself wishing that the songs had been more equally
spread out throughout the album. I got a little bored with the slow pieces, often forgetting that I was, in fact, listening to the Counting Crows. Overall, despite the quality of music on both sections, the dividing line between the Saturday nights section and Sunday mornings parts happens too abruptly with very little transition between the two. As usual, the lyrics mainly consist of Duritz’s own sullen observations about life. Occasionally, his tortured perspective on his eccentric lifestyle which comes through in his lyrics seems to be a genre bordering on
emo, but the style of the music itself helps to steer clear of achieving any such classification. “Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is the story of what happens when all the bright lights start to burn instead of glitter and you become more of a part of the shadow they cast behind you than the person you are in front,” explains lead singer/ lyricist Adam Duritz about his group’s fifth studio album. “It’s about a flood of sin and liquor and dissolution and insanity and it’s about trying to rebuild the life you wrecked in the wake of that flood. “It’s about the way it feels. It’s about me.”
Although Duritz’s own explanation of what the album is supposed to provide help in stringing together the attempted central theme, it almost would have been better to just let the music exist without a rationalization present in the title of the CD. Anyone who appreciates the Counting Crows for what they are know to expect reflective music intertwined with rock melodies motivated by Van Morrison and Bob Dylan. It also may be a bit difficult for Duritz’s target audience to really relate to some of his sentiments unless they, too, often find themselves waking up in Amsterdam or meandering around Dublin on
the average morning. But really, what is to be expected from a guy who spends his time jetting and partying around the world? His insights are perfectly perceptive and thought provoking, extravagant though they may be. Overall, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is both a musical and lyrical success on the part of Duritz and his band mates. Already, it has been well received by the public, earning its place as the number one downloaded album on iTunes. If nothing else, this latest release is proof that the Counting Crows are officially back and are, as always, a band of progress and revolution.