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McCain to visit Wait New university logo released

By Elliot Engstrom | News editor

Rumors abounded for weeks that presidential hopeful Senator John McCain would visit the university May 6.

The rumors were recently confirmed as fact by both the McCain campaign and the university news service. The event is expected to begin at 10 a.m. on May 6 in Wait Chapel, but the chapel’s doors will open at 8 a.m.

Students noticed near the end of April that a speech at the university had been added to the list of upcoming events on the senator’s Web site. Campaign officials have said that guests at the event will include former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina and U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olsen.

Thompson and Brownback, both former rivals of McCain in the race for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, will not visit the university supporting the Arizona senator.

McCain will be the second presidential candidate to accept the invitation that President Nathan O. Hatch extended in 2007 to all Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls to speak at the university. The first was Sen. Hillary Clinton, who spoke with Reynolds Professor of American Studies Maya Angelou in Wait Chapel April 18.

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Sen. John McCain will speak at 10 a.m.

May 6 in Wait Chapel.

See McCain, Page A5

In an e-mail sent to the university community the morning of April 24, President Nathan O. Hatch wrote of a new university logo which would be announced April 30.

However, a week before the planned date of unveiling, posters on the www.scout.com message boards were able to apprehend – legally – the university’s new logo.

The new logo was found in the online version of the 2008-2009 undergraduate bulletin, which has recently been put online.

However, the publishers of the online bulletin originally neglected to take out the then-unreleased logo.

The mistake was corrected, but not before the bulletin was downloaded and published in an Old Gold & Black blog post, which has received 35 comments over the last week.

Responses to the blog (www.oldgoldandblack.com/campus/entry/ new_wfu_logo_leaked/) have been spirited to say the least.

“Dr. Hatch will be joining the ranks of Dr. Scales on the list of Wake Forest presidents who left embarrassing blemishes on the campus,” one poster said April 25.

Another poster agreed.

Graphic courtesy of the Office of Creative Services

“Every person on the ‘visual identity committee’ should be fired,” the post said.

“What a waste of time and money.

I am losing my confidence in Dr. Hatch and his administration.”

Other responses included “Looks like a waffle” and “It looks like the Volkswagen symbol. Nice, Wake Forest.”

However, not all feedback on the new logo has been negative.

“I know that change is always opposed at first, so maybe we should give it a chance,” one poster said.

“We should also give Hatch’s strategic plans an opportunity to pan

out. I think that he’s looking at the big picture in trying to make the school better; of course there’s going to be change involved in doing that.

Wake Forest is a great university now, but don’t people want Wake to be better all around?”

All readers are invited to visit the blog and voice their opinions.

Many students have expressed concern that the logo does not look marketable for an ACC team. However, this is a faulty complaint. The visual identity committee has told the Old Gold & Black that all university athletic teams will continue using the traditional “WF” logo.

2007-2008 academic year brings substantial changes Reynolda campus graduate students.

On-campus parking fees will jump to $500, up from the previous $325.

Housing costs will rise 2.9 to 10 percent, depending on the type of room.

The Old Gold & Black estimates total cost per average student will exceed $47,000 per year.

To defray rising costs, the university pledges more financial aid, promising that any family with an income of less than $40,000 will not have to take out more than $4,000 in loans.

The university suffered a ter-

By Caitlin Brooks | Staff writer From renovation plans to new staff and administrators to controversies that got students talking, the 2007-2008 academic year was one of change for the university.

Tuition and fees will rise on a number of levels.

Undergraduate tuition will go up 6.8 percent to $36,560, an increase of more than $2,300 over this year.

There will also be increases for law, graduate, summer school and study abroad fees. A new student health fee of $315 will be charged to all undergraduates and most

rible loss over the summer with the death of Head Basketball Coach Skip Prosser and faced the 2007-2008 season with the appointment of Dino Gaudio’s as new head coach of basketball.

Gaudio had long been the behind-the-scenes support for Prosser’s coaching staff as the former associate head coach for the last six years.

Prosser and Gaudio had worked together for a total of 17 years, so their styles are most certainly intertwined.

Prosser will always represent an era of Wake basketball and his memory will go with this team

and many squads to follow. Wake Forest University and BB&T Corporation reached an agreement to change the name of Groves Stadium to BB&T Field.

The 10-year deal was announced Sept. 5 and was honored between the first and second quarters of the Nebraska game Sept. 8.

The deal is just another in a long line of steps to increase the profile of the Demon Deacon football team.

The stadium will be known as BB&T Field in all publications and announcements but will not See Changes, Page A4

Sept. 5, 2007: Stadium renamed BB&T Field, Deacon Tower in progress (right).

Aug. 8, 2007: Dino Gaudio (right) named men’s basketball head coach

April 22, 2008: Former PepsiCo CEO Steve Reinemund (right) named new dean of business

April 9, 2008: President Hatch (below) announces enrollment increases to university senate March 18,2008: Benson University Center Pizza Hut closes.

Feb. 12, 2008: Multiple changes announced including costs increases and facilities renovations.

Graphic by Ryan Caldwell/Old Gold & Black

Students paint desks on Manchester Plaza for local children

By Maya Yette | Staff writer

After being rescheduled due to bad weather, the fifth-annual Discovering Education through Student Knowledge (D.E.S.K.) event was held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. April 24 on Manchester Plaza.

Sixty underprivileged children from Old Town Elementary and Speas Elementary schools came to the university and were matched with one of over 40 campus groups participating in this service project.

Volunteer teams ranged from fraternities and sororities to sports teams and graduate student associations.

Each team worked with a student to design and decorate a desk especially for them. This year seniors Erin Tanner and Brent Sarver cochaired the event. D.E.S.K. was started in 2000 by two university

students who recognized that the children they were tutoring did not have a good place to study and learn at home.

“Every Wake student is given the opportunity to receive a rewarding and empowering education,” Sarver said.

“This is a wonderful way for our community to give back a small portion of what has been given to us and to promote the importance of working hard to attain knowledge.”

Tanner said the event is “about so much more than just painting a desk. Rather, it is about giving these children hope for a brighter future, with a personalized desk as a daily reminder of this message.”

For the first time in D.E.S.K. history, all of the children received gold tie-dye shirts with the D.E.S.K. Charlie Brown logo. “Seeing the

kids run around while taking part in a Wake Forest tradition with smiles on their faces was undoubtedly the most rewarding part of the day,” Sarver said. There were games and music throughout the event, and awards were given for the most creative desks. The first place design award went to a desk with an achievement theme. This desk featured four levels of achievement represented by a landscape.

The first level, elementary school – was depicted by the grass, the second level, middle school was the water, the third level, high school were the mountains, and the fourth and ultimate goal, college, was represented by the sun.

“I really hope that we can reach out to more local schools in the future. This is the first year that we have adopted a new school and I would like to see that continue,”

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Sarver said. Tanner agreed with Sarver’s sentiment.

“I hope D.E.S.K. will continue to grow because there are so many student groups who want to be involved with this project, and I know there are plenty of children in the local community who can benefit from this project,” he said.

Other desk themes included Sonic the Hedgehog, Sponge Bob, The Simpsons, Dora the Explorer, race cars, soccer, basketball and much more. Prizes were awarded throughout the event to all children as well.

“The most fulfilling part of D.E.S.K. is being able to provide a workspace for underprivileged children and to see there face when they get such a wonderful gift to Alison Cox/Old Gold & Black take back with them,” national panhellenic treasurer Bridjette Brown Students decorated desks and donated school supplies for underprivileged children April 24. said.

Sports | B1 The Frisbee nation The women’s Ultimate Frisbee team will compete at Nationals May 16-18 in Boulder, Co. against 15 other squads

Opinion | A9 Merski magic Graduating senior contemplates the university’s strengths and weaknesses

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2008 student art exhibition closes Hanes Gallery season The university’s Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery will close the season with its annual Wake Forest Student Art Exhibition April 17 through May 19.

The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

The student exhibition will include 80-100 works in various media including digital art, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, photography, sculpture and other mediums that combine these approaches.

The university senior honor exhibitions are currently featured in the Mezzanine Gallery beginning April 7.

The exhibitions will open with works by Billy Brown April 7-11.

Other seniors whose works will be featured include: Betsy Rives, April 14-18; Jessie Vogel, April 21-25; and Emily Brooks, April 28-May 2. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

E.J. Dionne Jr., Reverend Vashti McKenzie to address graduates E.J. Dionne Jr., a columnist for the Washington Post, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and professor at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute, will deliver the 2008 commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree May 19.

The Right Rev. Vashti M. McKenzie, presiding prelate of the 13th Episcopal District and president of the Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, will deliver the baccalaureate address at 11 a.m. May 18 in Wait Chapel.

McKenzie will receive an honorary doctor of divinity degree during commencement.

The commencement and baccalaureate ceremonies are not open to the general public. Tickets are reserved for graduates and their guests.

3 to 4 Ounces literary magazine released 3 to 4 Ounces, the university’s student literary magazine, recently published its spring issue featuring student writing, photography, drawings and other forms of art. Students can pick up a copy on the table near the Manchester Plaza entrance to the Benson Food Court or can contact 3 to 4 Ounces directly to receive a copy.

Secrest Artists Series announces 2008-2009 concert schedule Featuring concerts ranging from classical to edgy, Wake Forest University’s 2008-2009 season of the Secrest Artists Series will include performances by Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO); the Warsaw Philharmonic with pianist Valentina Lisitsa; trumpeter Alison Balsom; singer/composer/ choreographer Meredith Monk; and the Takacs String Quartet with pianist Marc André Hamelin. The series will open in late September with Mayfield and the NOJO. A special fundraising activity for post-Katrina New Orleans will be held in conjunction with the concert.

Details will be announced in the fall.

Correction The jump headline for the April 24 article “Ethics professor receives grant to study morality” incorrectly states that professor Kevin Jung will use a grant to study absolute morality.

However, the article correctly reports that Jung will use the grant for his project “Moral Limits to Social Practice: Historicism and the Problem of Common Morality.”

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Beating Duke in Basketball The eighth story on the Old Gold & Black’s list certainly was not expected, but everyone knows an upset is better than winning a game that was supposed to be won. When the unranked Demon Deacons stepped onto the court to face the No. 2 Duke Blue Devils Feb. 17, everyone in the media expected a score differential of at least 10 points or more. They all just chose the wrong team. At the end of the night, the Deacons had defeated their undefeated ACC rival 86-73 in front of a roaring crowd in WinstonSalem. Even though the Deacs did not make post-season play, the win certainly was a glimpse into what our young team is becoming.

has since been made official, with a planned increase of 500 students Influenza Virus over the next five years. Facility renoWhen students returned vations will include the updating of to campus for Spring Shorty’s, the moving of a coffee shop semester, they brought Clinton’s visit to campus into the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, with them hopes for a new semester Presidential hopeful Hillary and the development of what are curand a new chance at that glorious letter Clinton and Reynolds Professor rently faculty apartments into student which begins our alphabet and lightof American Studies Maya Angelou housing. ens our hearts – an “A”. Unfortunately, held a conversation in front of a packed a few students also brought with them Wait Chapel April 18. The day leadFaculty Apartments the influenza virus, which quickly ing up to the evening’s event featured Upon learning of the expulsion spread to include approximately 260 community members waiting in line of faculty from Faculty Apartdiagnosed cases in the span of a week for hours on end, numerous campus ments, many campus organizations and a half. These “reported” cases only security checks, and even sightings were abuzz. The university’s chapter include those students who chose to of Secret Service agents eating in the of the American Association of Univisit Student Health. At the virus’ Benson Food Court and working versity Professors held an emergency peak, Student out in the Miller meeting Feb. 18 in Health was seeing Center. The two which they quesapproximately 50 women talked tioned the decinew cases a day. about everything sion. Numerous Rumors circufrom haircuts to opinion articles lated about a Meineke American depenwere submitted mass class canCarCare dence on foreign to the Old Gold cellations, but Bowl oil. The event & Black on the these were disThe Demon drew the nation’s topic during missed by the Deacon football eyes to the unithe next weeks. administration as team’s trip to versity and was Several meetings untrue. “Because Charlotte for the a prime example between faculty influenza spreads Meineke Car Care of our universiand staff occurred readily by direct was certainly one ty’s relevance to and action taken contact of nasal of the highlights of the surrounding by organizations Old Gold & Black file photo this year. This sea Andrew Imboden/Old Gold & Black such as Student mucus or by inha- community. lation of infected son’s game capped Pro Humanitate particles in the air, the best preven- off with a 24-10 victory over the UniSoccer National Championship also got involved. Additionally, an tion is the vaccine,” staff writer Molly versity of Connecticut Huskies. Star Many students made the drive anonymous letter was drafted by apartNevola wrote. Despite the phase of receiver and redshirt senior Kenneth from their homes to Cary, N.C. ment residents directed towards the barely populated classes and teach- Moore’s performance brought his Dec. 16, where the men’s soccer team administration in which they voiced ers actually asking students to sit in career total of catches up to 98, sur- defeated Ohio State University to many complaints. the back of the room, we live to fight passing the ACC record set by former become the first soccer team in unianother day.

N.C. State star Torry Holt.“The Wake versity history to be named national Skip Prosser Forest Demon Deacons have had the champions and receive the College “The university’s Hearn Plaza Grobe’s suspected leaving memory of the stellar 2006 season and Cup. The Deacons were ranked No. 1 was ceremoniously rolled at Jim Grobe gave the university the high expectations it brought hang- throughout much of the 2007 season, midnight July 26,” Outgoing News a scare when rumors abounded ing over their heads throughout the and they did not fail to live up to Editor Liza Greenspun wrote July 27. that he would be leaving the univer- 2007 season,” Outgoing Sports Editor expectations in the championship. “However, this time students were not sity to take the Ryan Durham The Buckeyes were rolling the Quad head football wrote.

14-0-2 when after an imporcoach position “During the scoring first so far tant conference at Arkansas.

Meineke Car in the season, but sports win, but “Sources close Care Bowl Dec. the Deacons were to honor the to the team said 29, they have still able to come life and career that players a c c o m p l i s h e d from behind for of Skip Prosser, expressed shock something last the win and the men’s basketball and confusion year’s team could championship. head coach, who after hearing the not – winning a passed earlier in news from outbowl game.”

University the day.” side sources,” staff Changes Prosser was writer Connor Coffee A Feb. 12 found unresponSwarbrick wrote. h o u s e press release sive in his office “Many of the debate detailed a list of by coordinator of Photo courtesy of Media Relations basketball operaKelly Makepeace/Old Gold & Black At the end of the new initiatives players were in communication 2006-2007 year, approved by the tions Mike Muse with each other in order to try and sort failed attempts had already been made trustees. The changes included signifi- at 12:45 p.m. and was pronounced out the issue at hand.” The following to replace Shorty’s with a Starbucks. cant increases in cost of attendance, dead at 1:41 p.m. at Wake Forest Uniday Outgoing Editor in Chief Cait- However, the idea of Starbucks a raised enrollment, several major versity Baptist Medical Center. lin Kenney reported that the football reappeared when the university facility renovations and the redevel“Coach Prosser was one of the finest coach would in fact not be leaving. announced that Rhoda’s Cafe would opment of Deacon Boulevard. Tuition individuals I have known in my life, Atheltic director Ron Wellman and actually be turned into something will increase from the current figure of and he has left a lasting impression Grobe stayed up in the early hours that could legitimately be called a $34,230 to approximately $36,560, on the lives of many throughout the of the morning discussing Grobe’s cafe. While no official decision has yet an increase of 6.8 percent. However, Wake Forest community,” athletics future with the university – the con- been made, the controversy has caused other costs including housing and director Ron Wellman said. versation certainly must have been a rift on campus. Outgoing Student parking will also increase.

Once the time of mourning had intense. When Wellman left Grobe Body President Whitney Marshall “The Old Gold & Black estimates passed the search for a new coach had that morning, he still did not have has been clear that she completely total cost per average student will to be considered. In lieu of bringing a definite answer. However, the next supports Campus Grounds in taking exceed $47,000,” contributing editor in an outside coach, Associate Head morning it was reported that Grobe over the new library coffee facility. Kevin Koehler wrote in the Feb. Coach Dino Gaudio was promoted would be staying.

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POLICE BEAT Drug and Alcohol Violations • University Police charged a student with underage alcohol possession April 25 after seeing him walking with a beverage on the circular sidewalk between Martin and Polo residence halls. Information about the incident was provided to Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services.

•During a security check April 26, University Police discovered two students in possession of beer at Scales Fine Arts Center. The students poured out the remaining beer, and information about the incident was provided to the dean of student services.

Miscellaneous •Two students were charged with failure to comply after lying to a security officer April 20, when they entered campus at the Reynolda Road entrance in an unregistered vehicle. Information about the incident was provided to the dean of student services.

•University Police found a lost purse and dis-

covered inside it a fraudulent identification card, which the owner of the purse said had been given to her. Information about the incident was provided to the dean of student services.

Thefts • Personal items were reported stolen from two vehicles parked at the Indoor Tennis Center, near Bridger Field House at BB&T Field between 9:15 a.m. and 11:24 a.m. April 21. Each vehicle’s rear window had been smashed to gain entry. A purse, cell phone, sunglasses and cosmetics valued together at $190 were reported stolen from one vehicle.

A purse, wallet, prescription medicine and credit cards valued together at $80 was reported stolen from the other vehicle.

•A leather book bag and textbook were reported stolen from a vehicle parked at Reynolda House Museum of American Art between 8:55 a.m. and 10:35 a.m. April 23. The vehicle’s passenger window had been smashed to gain entry. Damage to the window and value of the stolen contents were estimated together at $520.

•Two leaf blowers belonging to a landscaper

were reported stolen April 24 from the back of an open pickup truck parked at Reynolda Business Center.• •A wristwatch valued at $2,000 was reported stolen April 24 from a locked room in Collins Residence Hall. The theft is believed to have occurred since Feb. 25.

•A university cell phone was reported stolen April 25. It had been used to make a large number of unauthorized calls.

Property Damage

•An unidentified vandal(s) caused an estimated $2,000 in damage to a Wake Forest emergency response vehicle by using an object to scratch the paint while it was parked in Lot A April 27.

•An unidentified vandal(s) discharged a fire extinguisher in Kitchin Residence Hall April 27.

University Police responded to 55 calls from April 21 - 27, including 14 incidents and investigations and 41 service calls.

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Chelsea Clinton unexpectedly visits campus

By Alex Osteen | Opinion editor

At 6:30 p.m. on April 27, Chelsea Clinton made an unannounced visit to a faculty member’s house on Faculty Drive as a campaign stop for her mother, only a week and a half after Hillary’s appearance. Clinton supporters and undecided voters from campus, Salem College and from the community at large showed up to listen to Chelsea speak and answer questions. Only about a dozen students were able to attend the event having received a last-minute invitation from sophomore Zahir Rahman, president of College Democrats.

Rahman, a political science major, explained, “I was first contacted by the family, and was asked if College Democrats could find some undecided Democratic voters on campus to attend.”

“Since we had some difficulty finding undecided voters, we decided to go ahead and invite the Hillary supporters on campus in addition to those who had yet to choose their candidate,” he said.

Chelsea spent about an hour taking people’s questions and the next half hour meeting people one on one, shaking hands and taking pictures. Some of the topics she covered in the Q&A session included the senator’s platforms on health care, the general economy and foreign policy. The discussion remained mostly serious and matter-of-fact, although on occasion, laughter or applause interrupted.

Two local news stations, including the NBC affiliate, covered the event and took quotes from community members and students, but overall it was left private.

Nonetheless, the estimated 80-90 people in attendance literally filled the house.

In fact, those who showed up last filled in the little remaining space on the front porch and had to strain to hear what Chelsea had to say; the lack of public address system and number of bodies made Chelsea’s voice particularly hard to hear.

Despite that and the rainy weather, it is unlikely that anybody in attendance could deny the unique experience the event proved to be.

Will Geiger, sophomore history major, found the Clinton house party especially worthwhile.

“I went because I was still undecided and am registered to vote in the North Carolina primary,” Geiger said.

“I was really impressed how Chelsea explained how Senator Clinton will implement her domestic policy – particularly her health care policy which she is able to put specific dollar values on the various components. I will be voting for Hillary Clinton in the North Carolina Primary.”

Rahman echoed this positive impression of the occasion.

“The event was cool … both the host family and the campaign were very hospitable to the us, and it is great to have such loyal Democrats be so close to the university and its students,” he said.

As is the nature of political campaigns, Chelsea is constantly on the move.

She was scheduled to continue touring the Triad on April 28 with a planned stop at the Greensboro Children’s Museum.

With Barack Obama’s visit to the Joel Colisseum on April 29 and a visit to the university by John McCain on May 6, it must be getting close to North Carolina’s primary.

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History professor receives fellowship

By Katie Phillips | Staff writer

Sarah Watts, professor of history at the university, received a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for her research in fine arts. The Foundation was established in 1925 by Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife.

It was created as a memorial for their son who died April 26, 1922 and since then the foundation has granted more than $265 million in fellowships to over 16,500 individuals. With over 2,600 applicants only 190 scholars, scientists and artists were selected from the United States and Canada. “Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for hopeful and continued accomplishment,” according to a university press release earlier this week.

Watts has been a university faculty member since 1987. She received a bachelor’s degree in history from Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts, a master’s degree in German history from the University of Oklahoma and a doctorate in United States history from the University of Oklahoma.

Watts is currently working on a book manuscript based on the research she has collected, titled “Figuring the Empire: Lyonel Feininger’s Lustige Blätter Years.”

The collection includes 257 previously unstudied satirical political cartoons that were written by German Expressionist Lyonel Feininger between 1897 and 1910.

Watts says that through her research she hopes to “reorient scholarship on

Photo courtesy of Julian Burroughs

History professor Sarah Watts received a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for her fine arts research.

Feininger, as well as establish views about the development of satirical humor, literature and art in Germany.”

She found a rare book collection that held a series of Feininger’s political cartoons in an East Berlin Branch of the Berlin State Library.

Feininger’s cartoons were commonly published in the Lustige Blätter, one of the more famous and widely read magazines in Germany.

Watts was one of the first scholars to run across this material because access has been difficult since World

War II. Watts believes that Feininger is an important figure in art history and has yet to be a main concern in all but one renowned art history text book. Sixty-seven of the 257 political cartoons by Feininger were on the cover of the Lustige Blätter.

“Lyonel Feininger figures prominently among German expressionists, yet his career as one of Germany’s most prominent political satirists has been overlooked, leaving him a sleeping giant in the cultural history of Bismarck’s Reich,” Watts said. “My study of Feininger’s cartoons will

present for the first time works that have never been seen together or collected in one place. It will analyze Feininger’s satires within their milieu, delineating the possibilities and limits of political protest in Imperial Germany at a time when mass media was superseding art as a primary vehicle of visual culture.”

Watts is the author of two books: Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire and Order Against Chaos: Business culture and Labor Ideology in America, 1880-1920.

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University students donated blood during Kappa Alpha’s annual blood drive, “Crimson Gift,” April 29 in Reynolds Gym.

Law alum Hagan talks of her run for U.S. Senate

By Kevin Koehler | Contributing editor

The heated and much-discussed primary contest for the Democratic presidential nomination between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama won’t be the only national office on the ballot in North Carolina’s May 6 primary.

The state Democrats will also be selecting a candidate to take on Elizabeth Dole in November for her seat in the United States Senate.

Kay Hagan, an alumna of the School of Law, JD ‘78, is running for that chance.

She has served in the North Carolina Senate since 1998. Her main challenger is Jim Neal, a Chapel Hill investment banker.

If Hagan wins the nomination and defeats Sen. Dole, both of North Carolina’s senators will be Demon Deacons.

Sen. Richard Burr, ‘78, won John Edwards’ former seat in the 2004.

Hagan is a native of Shelby, but she Photo courtesy of kayhagan.com spent most of her childhood in Florida and graduated from Florida State Univer- Kay Hagan, second from left, poses with family on graduation day at Wake Forest in 1978. She is currently sity. She now lives in Greensboro and has running for a North Carolina seat in the United States Senate. three grown children with her husband clear record of advocating on behalf of What did your time here mean to top priorities would be as a senator, she Chip, whom she met at Wake Forest. you? responded without hesitation.

For a decade she worked at Nations our interests.

You haven’t been a politician all your You know, the first year of law school “Obviously, the war,” Hagan said.

Bank, which has now become Bank of is pretty hard, very hard ... But, first of “The second is making sure our econAmerica, and was a stay-at-home mother life...

No, definitely not ... I’m actually a all, I love it, because in the first two or omy grows stronger and getting back before entering politics. three weeks of classes when I met a a on a more pay-as-you go track.” On the Hagan talked with the Old Gold & public servant, is what I am.

Why did you decide to get into public man named Chip Hagan. I immediately subject of national security, Hagan supBlack by phone April 29. The following service? knew that I was going to marry him. ports a “responsible withdrawal” from are excerpts from that interview.

When I was growing up, my father was And as my brother and I said, it took Iraq, refocusing on Al-Qaueda, and Why are you running for the mayor of Lakeland , Fla. I was born in him a little bit longer to figure that out. improving the United States’ internaShelby, but then we moved to Florida ... So I met my husband there; I also have tional reputation. “We need to be cauSenate?

I’m running because I think we need My uncle, [Lawton Chiles] was a United great friends that I’m still close to and tious and ... we will not have what could be called a precipitous withdrawal,” she better leadership in Washington. Wash- States Senator for 18 years and then the great memories.

So do you still pull for the Demon said, adding that she has confidence in ington, D.C, is broken. And I am a governor of Florida. So I grew up in a the military generals to develop and proven leader. Working families of North family that was dedicated to community Deacons?

Oh yes. Boy, do they have a good foot- carry out good exit strategy.

Carolina need someone in the Senate and public service ... I feel like I’m a very blessed individual and I want to ball team ... I definitely like my alma “I fundamentally disagree with Sen. that really looks out for them. mater.

McCain on this,” she said, that an openAt a time when there’s hundred of give back.

You are a Wake Forest law ended military commitment in Iraq is thousands without medical insurance Hagan went on to discuss the big issues the best plan. Hagan continued, “I think ... so many not able to afford college ... alumni...

And I’m proud of it! in this year’s election. Asked what her we need a new G.I. bill to care so that We need to elect someone who’s got a

our military men and women when they get home, they can go to community or on to four-year college to complete an education.” She said that as her husband served in Vietnam and went to law school on the G.I. bill, she knows personally how important that can be.

Hagan also favors increased funding for veterans’ health care, especially in the area of mental health. Asked about the economy and the tough job market many students now face, Hagan said, “I think this economy is definitely hurting ... we’ve got to get our state and federal government more responsive.”

She noted that the massive amounts of spending in Iraq – $11 billion a month – dwarf state budgets – like North Carolina’s $22 billion – that provide education, health care and infrastructure for their citizens. Withdrawing from Iraq, she said, could mean more investment at home. She said she has worked hard to get the state government to do what it could to assist working North Carolina families in need, “but for a lot of people, it’s just not enough.”

She also favors better student loan programs, such as increasing Pell grants.

Hagan strongly emphasized her energy plan, investing in renewable sources of energy. Her proposals, she said, would not only help the environment but make a vital difference to national security and create jobs and decrease the burden of rising oil prices. “I’m a strong believer in energy independence,” she said.

In February, Hagan told a meeting of Rowan County Democrats, “I want to go to Washington. I want to hand Mrs. Liddy Dole a pair of ruby-red slippers, let her click her heels together and go back to Kansas.”

In the latest available poll numbers from Public Policy Polling, released April 21, Hagan leads Jim Neal with 35 percent to his eight percent.

Forty-seven percent of those surveyed are undecided.

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Obama makes campaign stop in Winston-Salem

By Caitlin Kenney | Senior writer

Senator Barack Obama made his first appearance in Winston-Salem a week before the North Carolina primary, which will be held May 6.

Speaking in the Joel Coliseum Annex on April 29, Obama addressed major talking points of his campaign as well as recent developments. For example, he discussed the proposed gas holiday that he opposes in a speech that lasted about an hour followed by a 30 minute town hall-style question session.

Of the proposed gas holiday that would lower gas prices for the summer months, Obama said: “The two ‘Washington’ candidates in this race have proposed a gas tax holiday.

“John McCain made the proposal and then Hillary Clinton said ‘me too.’

“It would last for three months and it would save you on average half a tank of gas, or $25-30.”

“Obama said that some economists think the gas holiday might actually raise gas prices.

He opposed taking money from the highway trust fund, which he said might also temporarily eliminate jobs in highway construction.

“This isn’t an idea designed to get you through the summer, it’s an idea designed to get them through an election,” Obama said.

“I want to solve the problem, not just patch things up to get through an election.”

Solving problems was a major theme of Obama’s speech, as well as the idea of transparency and accountability in government.

“We have to change how politics is done in Washington so that it’s responsive to you, not the lobbyists and special interest groups,” he said.

Obama made very few comparisons between himself and his Democratic opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton.

The only two issues on which he discussed Clinton were the gas holiday and accepting funds from lobbyists and special interest groups.

“This is an area where Senator Clinton and I differ,” Obama said.

“I don’t want to be answerable to them. I don’t believe we can bring about change if we’re taking money from the folks who are responsible for the current problems. They will not drown out the voices of the American people.”

Obama went on to address a full range of issues, including the Iraq War, health care, education and energy. In regards to the war in Iraq, Obama said “We are

Haowei Tong/Old Gold & Black

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke April 29 in the Joel Coliseum Annex. He addressed many different points of his campaign and also allowed questions from the audience during his speech. in a war in Iraq that I believe should have never been authorized.”

Obama said he sympathized with the 47 million Americans without health insurance and the millions of children across the country who, “despite the slogans are not being prepared for this global economy, are being left behind.”

He pledged to provide health care to every American by the end of his first term.

“We are spending $10 billion a month in Iraq and if we can spend $10 billion there, we can spend $10 billion right

here in North Carolina,” he said. “In these circumstances we can’t afford to wait,” Obama said.

“We cannot wait any longer and what I was betting on when I decided to run was that the American people were ready for change.”

Though harsh on Clinton on one or two aspects, Obama did speak about unity in the Democratic Party.

“I know that people are concerned,” he said.

“What are you going to do to bring the party together? How is the party going to be unified?”an audience member asked.

“The one thing that we know is that come November the name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot. But John McCain is running for George Bush’s third term. We cannot afford John McCain in the White House. That will unify the Democratic Party.”

In differentiating himself from the competition, Obama cited his planned tax cuts for the middle class.

“I’m still the only candidate to propose a tax cut for working class families, people making $30,000, so that the average family is saving $1,000 a year,” he said.

Following his one hour prepared speech, Obama fielded six questions from the audience.

Topics ranged from African foreign aid to winning the white working class vote.

One young man identified himself as a college senior and said that he had skipped a couple classes to attend the rally.

“I think it was a good decision,” he said.

He questioned Obama about the situation in Darfur.

The final two questions came from audience member who appeared to be between the ages of 10-14.

The first, a young girl, said simply “How are you planning to stop the Iraq War?” The second, a young man asked “What can truly be done to make sure no child is left behind?”

Obama responded to both questions, supporting phased withdrawal over 16 months from Iraq and early education and teacher training to improve education.

He also complimented the young audience members.

“That’s the next generation talking,” he said.

“These young people are making me optimistic.”

The event was at capacity, with a line stretching around the building and into the parking lot. One crowd member seated in the front row admitted to lining up as early as 5:30 a.m.

At 12 p.m., Barack Obama hit the stage with a standing ovation from the crowd.

About a third of the crowd stood up when asked if they had participated in Obama’s campaign – going door to door, making phone calls or providing meals to the campaign team.

His wife, Michelle, campaigned at Winston-Salem State University April 8.

The 115 North Carolina delegates represent the largest group of undecided Democratic delegates and will play an important role in the final push towards the Democratic nomination.

Most polls show Obama leading, such as an American Research Group, Inc. poll indicating that Obama leads with 52 percent, Clinton trailing with 42 percent.

The North Carolina primary occurs May 6, and early voting has already begun.

For more information, go to www. sboe.state.nc.us.

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officially be changed over until the beginning of the 2008 season, which coincides with the new Deacon Tower, slated to be completed in July.

Deacon Tower, which began construction in late 2006, will be seven stories tall and will give the stadium a new press box and club section, as well as box seats.

It is reported to cost around $45 million.

On Sep. 26, the administration announced the realignment of the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy and the Babcock Graduate School of Management under a single dean.

“It will be the new dean’s responsibility to think and plan strategically for business and management education – to capitalize on our strengths, promote collaboration in teaching and scholarship and create innovative opportunities to ensure that our students have the most comprehensive and forward-looking experience possible,” Tiefenthaler said in a press release.

Steve Reinemund, former PepsiCo chief executive officer and chairman, was announced as the university’s new dean of business April 22.

University President Nathan O. Hatch gave the first annual state of the university address on April 8 in Wait Chapel where he assured faculty, staff and administrators of all the university’s campuses that, “we propose to continue the university’s practice of moderate growth.”

This will include increasing enrollment by 80 students in the fall and increasing the total size of the university by a maximum of 500 students over the next five years.

This increase set the campus abuzz with concerns about its implications for ease of class registration and the university’s reputation as a small, intimate

community. Feb. 11 brought the news of impending eviction to the residents of Faculty Apartments in the form of a letter slipped under their doors.

Residents of all 10 apartments would have to vacate their homes

by May 25.

Each apartment would be given a one-time $500 stipend to help allay moving costs.

The move stemmed from a demand of the Strategic Plan that outlined the need for increased student housing on campus.

“Campus housing is at capacity, leaving the university with no options when, for various reasons, more students want to live on campus ... Second, a recent study by the Arts and Sciences research group indicated that our aging residence halls need significant improvements and renovations. If we are to make these changes, we must have alternate on-campus student housing while construction is underway.

Finally, if at any time in the future the trustees approve an enrollment increase – even a very small one – we must be prepared to accommodate it,” the letter by Vice President of Student Life Kenneth Zick read.

Many residents felt that the move was steeped in secrecy and demonstrated a lack of professional respect.

“I feel that I have been lied to.

I have not been respected as a professional,” one resident said.

“I’ve been going over the whole situation in my head; who do I blame for all the lies?”

The ensuing controversy and subsequent debate shook the campus as many faculty, staff and students rallied behind the residents of Faculty Apartments.

In a March 4 letter to the university, Hatch announced the administration’s final verdict on the apartments. Residents of buildings six, seven and eight must move out by May 25, either to another of the buildings or off campus.

If they choose to leave, the university will compensate them a total of $3,000, in addition to local moving expenses.

The majority of residents, those living in buildings 1-5 and 9-10, have the option to move out by June 30 and receive $2,500 plus moving costs, or they can choose to stay through the end of May 2009 at the latest.

At that point, all the apartment buildings will be made into student housing.

“We were never asking for money. We want respect and openness in decision making and real commitment to fostering community,” wrote a group of apartment residents in a statement given to the Old Gold & Black March 5.

“Dr. Hatch, please publicly admit that you and your administration were wrong to carry out discussions whose implications were so far-reaching, without consulting those to be affected.”

The Benson University Center Food Court will see major renovations, as announced in a Feb. 12 statement from the board of trustees.

Shorty’s will remain a restaurant, but the proposed plan aims to update and expand the eating place in order to incorporate a fully-functional kitchen and offer more food options.

The university is hoping that this will increase the popularity of Shorty’s around campus.

The university is also considering keeping the restaurant open for later hours if the demand goes up as they expect.

Shorty’s neighbor, Bodega, a store that currently offers a variety of snacks and beverages, will be converted into a deli.

During these renovations, Shorty’s and Bodega will be closed.

Benson will re-open to students in spring of 2009 when the first phase of the Benson renovations is projected to have finished.

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University President Nathan O. Hatch addressed the university senate in April to discuss the many changes the university will undergo in upcoming years.

Phase two of the renovations will begin during the summer of 2009.

Phase two plans propose redoing the rest of the Benson Food Court, including the seating area.

The plans suggest bringing in a wider variety of food options.

It is projected to include both international foods (which would rotate from day to day with options like Thai, Mexican and Greek) and local cuisine.

Chick-fil-a will remain in the food court.

The university’s Pizza Hut, located on the building’s second

floor, closed on March 18.

The copy center, which is currently located across from Pizza Hut, will be moved into the space.

Meanwhile, the current copy center space will become extra seating for patrons of the Benson Center’s food court.

Though the closing is being incorporated into renovation plans for the Benson Food Court, Pizza Hut closed of its own volition.

Construction will begin over the summer to remodel ZSR’s two 24-hour study rooms – one to be converted into a coffee shop

and the other into an updated study space. They plan to complete work by fall.

Some within the administration are exploring bringing a Starbucks to that location.

“There has been discussion, but there has not been a decision made as far as what coffee shop it will be,” said Kevin Cox, assistant vice president for public affairs. The campus is torn over which coffee shop should be put into ZSR. The advisory board of Campus Grounds, the student-run coffeehouse, believes a starbucks in the library would put them out of business.

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Students promote environmental awareness

By Haowei Tong | Staff writer

Last week marked Wake Forest’s first “Sustainability Week.”

It was a series of events organized to highlight the need for environmental consciousness on campus.

Distribution of painted recycling bins, re-usable water bottles and biodegradable take-out containers were just a few examples of last week’s efforts.

Coordinators were students currently enrolled in Social Values, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship, a class taught by Dilip Kondepudi, Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of Chemistry, and Herman Rapaport, Reynolds Professor of English.

Volunteer art majors painted the university’s standard blue recycling bins with eco-friendly paints.

Students also had the option to paint their own on April 22, Earth Day, or April 23.

Thirty-two ounce water bottles featuring a “Drink Sustainably” logo were on sale on Manchester Plaza. All proceeds benefited Campus Kitchen.

On April 21, Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines presented a proclamation in the Fresh Food Company.

Jim Alty, assistant vice president for facilities management was the master of ceremonies.

Executive Chef Anthony Jones presented a special menu at the Pit on April 22. An ARAMARK nutritionist, Kate Ruley, held informational sessions on sustainable diets on April 23 and 24.

Additionally, computers were set up for students to fill out surveys about the importance of sustainability. Students could also have filled out pledge cards, promising to make small lifestyle adjustments to better the environment.

Facilities Management also participated in the sustainability week. Gas-powered golf carts are used around campus now; electric ones were put on display. Environmentally-friendly cleaning supplies were showcased as well.

For students looking to live “sustainably” beyond last week, there are several outlets on campus in addition to hundreds of big and small lifestyle changes.

SEAC, Student Environmental Action Coalition, is a growing group on campus.

In the fall, it sent several students to Power Shift, the nation’s first youth climate

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Members of the class Social Values, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship coordinated the university’s first Sustainability Week April 21-25. A special sustainability display helped to promote the event in the Pit. summit. More recently, SEAC hosted Vivian Fulk, a speaker trained to give Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” presentation.

SEAC also sponsored the Progressive Job Forum, spotlighting representatives from environmental non-profit organizations. This past weekend, SEAC sent volunteers to the Piedmont Environmental Alliance (PEA) Earth Day Fair in Winston-Salem.

SEAC maintains a blog with five contributors and meets weekly in Campus Grounds.

WFU Biofuels is another quickly expanding group. This student initiative seeks to construct a biodiesel reactor facility on the Reynolda Campus.

The group has met extensively this year and has already worked with numerous university biology and chemistry professors in King. Grease from ARAMARK facilities, the annual Forsyth County fair and local restaurants can be converted to satisfy the demand for fuel on campus.

A group of students, faculty and staff began meeting at the beginning of the school year in order to discuss campus sustainability.

This group has played an active role in the Master Planning Sessions, coordinating with the administration, stu-

dents, facilities management and other further,” freshman Kristen Livengood groups. said.

The group’s primary focuses include: “The recent addition of the biodegradLEED certified buildings, pedestrian- able boxes is a great idea. Changing from friendly roads and other environmen- Styrofoam may not seem like a big deal, tally sound practices in further campus but you’d be surprised at how much these construction. boxes that go out daily add up.”

Other goals involve recycling facilities “Although I think we’ve got a ways to at BB&T stadium, the hiring of a campus go, I think Wake Forest is on the right sustainability coordinator and participa- track.” tion in the American College and UniLivengood’s sentiments are shared by versity President’s Climate Commitment, many. of which signatories include presidents of “Being a top-ranked school in academDuke University, Davidson College and ics and athletics, it is embarrassing to UNC-Chapel Hill. have received a ‘D’ sustainability grade.

In addition to participating in one of We shouldn't be having a sustainability these groups, students can join or contact week at the Pit, we need to be sustainStudent Government’s Executive Com- able throughout the year,” sophomore mittee on Sustainability and Energy.

Saket Munshaw, Student Government Students can also opt to take a number treasurer, said. of classes to learn more about sustainWake Forest’s Habitat for Humanity PCorps_K4x10_SER_Give.pdf ability. group contributed to a Green Build this The department of philosophy offers year.

Environmental Ethics, while the departForsyth County’s first Green Build ment of biology offers Community Ecol- house was built over the course of the ogy. Chemistry, physics, anthropology and school year and includes a wealth of innoeconomics provide other courses that may vative, sustainable elements. shed light on the reasons for and path to “We were incredibly excited to be a sustainable campus or lifestyle. involved in this project that both furthered “I think the efforts to make Wake Forest Habitat’s mission and was a positive step a more sustainable campus have gotten toward lowering our impact on the envibetter, but they could definitely go a lot ronment,” senior Nick Embrey said.

However, while Clinton visited a state that will be extremely important in the upcoming primary, McCain does not come to the university under the same circumstances.

Having already clinched the nomination to be the Republican candidate for President of the United States, McCain does not have to worry about winning the upcoming North Carolina primary.

Despite the upcoming election, the university has been very careful to say that its hosting of political candidates in no means equals an endorsement of these candidates.

The university may not engage in any political campaign activity due to its status as a tax-exempt organization.

“As an educational institution, Wake Forest is committed to promoting the free exchange of ideas, which includes providing a forum for speakers who express a wide variety of political views,” the news service said in a press release.

“The university’s tax-exempt status … requires that it not engage in any political campaign activity, which means the university is prohibited from endorsing or opposing any candidate for public office. Wake Forest takes its obligation in this regard very seriously.”

The event adds to an impressive list of speakers who have visited the university over the past this year including Hillary Clinton, Kenneth Star, Bob Schieffer and Daniel Ellsberg.

More information may be released by McCain’s campaign and the university on specifics regarding the senator’s visit in the coming week.

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s yet another school year comes to a close, we, members of the Editorial Board, are left reflecting on the Old Gold & Black’s purpose and meaning, taking the chance to ask ourselves why it is that we do what we do.

In this very issue, hours of work and cooperation from dozens of writers, photographers, cartoonists and editors have combined to put into fruition four sections covering a week’s worth of campus news, students’ opinions on a variety of issues, sports events and pop culture living.

Multiply that by every week we are in school and you get a large pile of newspapers that stacks up to hopefully at least a glimpse of what it’s like to be a student at Wake Forest University.

Working to put out a newspaper every week requires a good deal of effort on the part of many people.

And just like undoubtedly is the case for many student organizations, not to mention simply being a student at the university, it’s not without a pretty formidable list of obstacles in striving to do things right.

Included in this list is the struggle against typos, passive voice and fuzzy pictures; the risk of being biased; the always present and nagging distraction of school work; the headaches from staring at the screen for too long, from the pressure of deadlines and from never-ending stories to write. There are the difficulties of trying to stay relevant and developing new techniques and layouts. Then there’s the neat opportunity of being criticized by students, teachers, student organizations and administrators; trying to get to the bottom of things when people don’t want to talk; and working with businesses that want to advertise. The list can go on for a while. We’ve got all of this to put up with,

and all the while we hold the suspicion in the backs of our minds that maybe none of it really matters because students nowadays just don’t read the newspaper. So really, why do we do it?

To be quite honest, we do it because we sort of like it.

We do it for ourselves, yes.

Working for the newspaper gives us the chance to develop journalism skills, management skills, writing skills, people skills, team work skills etc., all of which are undergoing constant scrutiny and ultimately (hopefully) development. Also, being up in the office means that we can fairly easily stay ‘in the know’ on developments happening on campus.

The OGB is also an extracurricular activity that has truly tangible results. Plus, there’s the paycheck too, we’ll admit.

But, you know what, there’s something else too. We work for the newspaper because we like to think that we are giving something back to the school. The OGB is just one of the many sources of information for people who are related to the university in some way.

Also, there’s the fact that the Old Gold & Black dates back to 1916 and subsequently is one of, if not the, oldest university traditions. Finally, student newspapers are a small piece of the university that prospective students and visitors can take with them; so we sort of play a role in public relations too.

During this Age of Information when newspapers are on the way out and the Internet is very in, we believe and hope that combining tradition and constant adaptation will keep us alive.

Our Web site has turned a corner in modernity and our newspaper continues to earn national recognition in annual Associated Collegiate Press conferences.

We’ll keep working, so keep reading Wake Forest!

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Life: CeCe Brooks and Kara Peruccio, editors.

Photography: Kelly Makepeace, editor. Alison Cox, assistant editor.

Graphics: Ryan Caldwell, editor.

Production: Caitlin Brooks, Caroline Edgeton and Andrew LeRay, production assistants.

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Senior worries about direction of WFU

Students and staff last week were notified of their invitation to attend a public unveiling of the new university logo, an embarrassing piece of art that forgot the “F” in the WF and looks like a cross between the West Virginia Mountaineers and a Volkswagon hood ornament. A fellow student of mine took one look at it and twitched. This invite was not to offer input on the logo Bryan Davis Keith or what should go into it, but to bask in Old Gold & Black columnist its glory. If the response of OGB readers , like all of my fellow seniors, have to the new logo was any indication, the been deluged in the past weeks Visual Identity Project was completely with requests from the student class out of touch with the university campaign, asking for donations to the community in doing its work. school. We’ve all seen the flyers for free Students and staff were surprised to see beer at Freddie B’s and for tours of the the flyer posting column suddenly pop infamous tunnels. We’ve all been told up on the Mag Quad. Why did this trial that we need to do our part and give program come to be? back to the university that has given us There certainly wasn’t a student so much. outcry about it. And why is it there?

Has Wake Forest given me a lot? It Is the school concerned that flyers are certainly has, and I am thankful for it. making the campus look trashy? Has But the university I find myself standing the school identified a need for more in today is not the university I chose to student posting space? Does the school attend even four years ago. For all of its want to look like UNC? Truth is, the academic merits and wonderful staff, university community at large hasn’t this university has exhibited a direction been told why it’s there. Once again, no and a mentality during my time here, communication. and especially recently, that genuinely Students and staff were utterly shocked concerns me. And for when confronted with that reason, they’re not the news regarding getting a donation out the eviction of faculty Expanding the size of a of me anytime soon. and staff from Faculty school such as this univerI find the direction Apartments. It took this school is exhibiting, sity that recruits based on residents and staff tremendous pride in its or perhaps the lack screaming foul for the thereof, to be extremely community environment officials responsible distressing. The to make public the is a major issue ... and is university maintains rationale for the decision, unacceptable. itself as a liberal arts and even then it was institution, yet the conveniently omitted divisional system that the residents of the has been largely apartments were notified undercut in the last few years. While not in person, but by having notices many may celebrate not having to shoved under their doors while they take a religion course under the new were all gone at required staff meetings. divisional structure, I for one having Perhaps most distressing of the undergone the rigorous curriculum can university’s refusal to communicate or speak volumes for its educational and discuss with its community members developmental value. came to my attention today. While at Our dining facilities, our dorms and my work-study job, a fellow student our classrooms are all overcrowded as it of mine expressed disappointment is, yet continued expansion of incoming that he couldn’t pick up his classes is the plan. The scope of this commencement tickets the Sunday prior expansion is not clear. The student to commencement and decided to call trustee reported before the SG legislature the Commencement Office to ask why that expansion would take place at 80 such wasn’t allowed. The student, when students per year over the next four presented with no explanation for the years and then be capped. Two weeks lack of a Sunday pick-up, offered to later the OGB reported that President assist in finding the staff and resources Hatch’s state of the university address necessary to allow students to pick up planned for growth of 500 students tickets on Sunday. The office’s response? over five years. Confused? So am I. The They got huffy and hung up on the continued plan and focus on expansion student. of the student body concerns me on two This mentality of hanging up fronts. First, the unique community the phone when questioned has feel that the university prides itself on unfortunately been the seeming norm can not and will not remain if growth rather than the exception during continues. More concerning to me is my four years here. It’s a distressing, the lack of communication exhibited disappointing and most importantly by the administration regarding this disrespectful emerging theme at matter. Expanding the size of a school the university. There are a lot of such as this university that recruits based administrators that don’t seem to give a on tremendous pride in its community damn what its community members are environment is a major issue, and saying. having two stories being floated in two And until they start giving a damn, weeks as to the nature of expansion is they’re not getting a dime out of me. unacceptable. And this isn’t the only recent example of the university leaving Bryan Davis Keith is a senior political its community members in the dark. science major from Southern Shores, N.C.

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Paper will miss its senior contributors Kell Wilson

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Editor in chief

s the 2007-2008 school year comes to a close, we here at the Old Gold & Black have to say farewell to all of our senior staff members who have spent the last four years dedicating their time and effort toward shaping the paper into what it is today.

Outgoing Editor in Chief Caitlin Kenney started working at the OGB as a production assistant during her first semester of her freshman year. She quickly rose in the ranks and was appointed the Life editor the second semester of her freshman year, a position she kept for a year and a half.

A dedicated journalist and creative genius, Kenney not only improved the writing of her reporters but also designed numerous innovative layouts that drew more people to the often neglected back pages of the newspaper. After

taking a break to study abroad, she returned from London as the newly-appointed editor in chief. Kenney did not hesitate at all before stepping into this position, designing and publishing a football tabloid to honor the team’s success mere weeks after she took over.

During her tenure, she also made several stylistic changes to the newspaper as a whole.

Kenney is also responsible for recruiting several enthusiastic freshman staff members due to her training program at the beginning of the this school year. We will miss her words of wisdom and pep talks when things get overwhelming.

Jae Haley is another senior who will be sorely missed after graduation. Also having been involved with the paper since freshman year, Haley held a different position each semester before settling into the managing editor spot the second half of her junior year. With a passion for feature stories that emerged during her time as news editor, she took charge of the OGB’s features board from the get go. Always looking for an intriguing story idea, Haley made sure all sections had a feature article every week.

She is also responsible for a new tradition within the newspaper: the Graduation Issue.

Haley took the initiative to brainstorm and organize the tabloid that highlights seniors from different majors. It is a project we hope to carry on long after she has left.

Retired opinion editor Jeff Merski stepped up to the plate and took on the position in the middle of his freshman year. He has written countless articles during his university career ranging in topic from Hannah Montana to the economy. In the office he is most well known for his unfathomable obsession with flying and Las Vegas. Yet his advice and experience will be greatly missed.

Sports editor emeritus Ryan Durham faithfully covered university athletics for two years at the OGB, writing football and basketball articles himself. He helped put together several basketball preview tabloids as well as the football tabloid. Durham’s trademark phrases and congenial personality kept several editors laughing in the wee hours of the morning during production nights. Bid it.

Also leaving us is Liza Greenspun, who held the position of news editor for a semester and a half. One of our most trusted reporters, Greenspun was always willing to write a lastminute article on breaking news or Wednesday night events. She also did countless feature stories and the occasional restaurant or concert review. Her passion and journalistic ability will undoubtedly take her far after graduation.

Former Life editor Mary Beth Ballard will leave for Colorado just a short time after graduating. In spring 2007 she left the OGB to

become ehe editor in chief of The Student, but she still wrote a bi-weekly column for us during her senior year Our most reliable and controversial cartoonist, Will Warren, is also graduating. Having drawn political cartoons for the OGB all four of his college years, it’s been an honor for all of us at the paper to see how much he has grown as an artist. During his junior year Warren started submitting his comic strip, Lummox, to the Life section. This strip eventually went on to win the prestigious Charles M. Schulz award. We wish him luck in his future endeavors as a cartoonist.

Seniors Molly Nevola and Blake Brittain both deserve to be recognized for their dedication and commitment to the newspaper. They were two of our most reliable reporters and it will be incredibly hard to find others just as capable.

It’s difficult to imagine the Old Gold & Black without these eight outstanding members.

We wish we could keep them around forever for knowledge and entertainment, but unfortunately we have to let them go. The whole staff of the OGB wishes you congratulations on your upcoming commencement and offers its wholehearted thanks for making the newspaper what it is today.

Kell Wilson is a junior English major from Colleyville, Texas.

Seeking Middle Ground | Right Says

Democrats have good intentions

weak earth that has sustained human life for at least two thousand years, or some may argue billions?

The Democratic Party’s concern for the environment is a kudos-worthy attempt to keep our happy, perfect world clean — again let’s pretend like we live in utopia. I want to applaud Democrats for their farsighted perspective in placing greater value on the environment than human babies.

The earth must be protected Dayna Garland from the pillage and plunder of Guest columnist those evil, superior beings — n preparing to write this humans. article I put a lot of brainThank you, Democrats, storming into finding for keeping those inferior positive attributes of the ecosystems thriving, at the small Democratic Party. cost of my own essential right to Unfortunately, the the pursuit of happiness. characteristics I arrived at more Who needs economic closely reflect the qualities of development or new a charitable organization than infrastructure when you can save those of a political party. a brine shrimp?

To start with, the Democratic I want to express my Party’s concern for the wellappreciation to leading being of the poor is admirable.

Democratic presidential If we lived in a utopia where nominee Barack Obama for everyone was being so considerate entitled to and towards illegal possessed an aliens, who have Rather than providing equal share, broken our laws by avenues for self-emDemocrats entering our nation ployment and opporwould have illegally. the system Obama goes tunities, Democrats perfected; they out of his way provide fully-furnished would also to court these apartments where the have perfected felons, wanting the system of poor can rest from their to offer them communism. the conveniences unbearable work load.

Forgive me of American if I have a citizenship: driver’s difficult time licenses, access to understanding how it is welfare and of course “free” “progressive” to provide health care. (Health care is never temporary financial support going to be free; it will just be rather than job training and paid for by imposing higher opportunities for the poor. That taxes on American citizens, and makes perfect sense. don’t we all feel like we don’t pay Rather than providing enough in taxes?) Shouldn’t we avenues for self-improvement all treat criminals with the same and opportunities, Democrats thoughtfulness that Obama provide fully furnished intends to? What a man! apartments where the poor can Obama himself is a man of rest from their unbearable work great honesty who will bring load. “real change” to these United The result of extensive States. welfare handouts is not a new We can see the promise of a independent, productive class, better America by looking at the but rather a class of human outstanding accomplishments leeches, dependent on sucking he has already made in money from the government in Congress. He has done a fine order to survive. job representing the issues of the Why not take money from men and women of his state — hard-working Americans to by being the first black man to support others? run for president.

After all, those selfish haves Democrats’ concerns for the that hoard all of their money, general good of people to live what are they going to do with happy, fulfilling lives in a clean, it? natural environment is not to They don’t actually need to be overlooked by the opposing have all of that which they have party. earned or have the right to spend Republicans are not opposed themselves. to these concerns, but feel that I don’t know what I would there are more vital issues to be do without an elite class of addressed in our government ruling erudite super-intellectuals institutions created FOR the coercively taking the money that people, BY the people.

I have earned from my wallet to spend it better than I could on Dayna Garland is a freshman bridges to nowhere, Woodstock from Atlantic Beach, N.C. museums in New York and massively inefficient social Seeking Middle Ground programs. What would I do is a weekly faceoff between without the Democrats leading College Democrats and College the way to preserve our fragile, Republicans on a given topic.

The party’s focus on the poor is positive, misplaced

I Word on the Quad | Your voice on what’s going on What are your plans for the summer?

“Accounting internship and then Business 261 at summer school.”

“Going to Vienna with a counseling class, then to New York.”

“Taking classes at Georgia College and Mercer.”

“I’ll be at school all summer at a (cheaper) school in Oregon.”

Steve Nellis Junior Statesville, N.C.

Karen Kegel Graduate student New York City

Ben McMichael Junior Macon, Ga.

Mallory Bouton Senior Portland, Ore.

Removing letters is false advertising Cory Benedetti

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Guest columnist

hange is good. We all know that. But it becomes increasingly difficult to accept these changes when they don’t exactly make sense.

Most of us sat back when the Mag Quad was renamed, football tickets became impossible to get and our lunch trays disappeared. So, maybe not all of these are part of the wooing “Strategic Plan,” but most of the changes occurring on campus are.

In addition to giving faculty members the boot from their homes on a minute’s notice and increasing class size, our current administration has brought in a marketing team that gave the university the following prognosis: take down the Greek letters. WHAT? Exactly what I said. As the prospectives and their families walk down the Quad on campus days (if you don’t know when these are, just go into the Pit and see all of your favorite foods there at the same time) they see these human-sized letters stuck to the sides of every dorm and think if they don’t become Greek, they

won’t be “cool.” So in order to make them feel better and get them here, it’s been decided that these letters will be removed. But let’s not yell just yet, we will get plaques to put in front of our lounges. You know, like the ones for being in the National Honor Society in high school. Sweet.

So after these letters are stripped from our brick and those prospectives we want so badly are here, what happens next? What are they going to think when they finally arrive to Wake, and then realize that we are heavily influenced by the Greek community? Have we just tricked them into coming here?

From Greek Week, PKA’s Pump Up for Piccolo, Wake ‘n Shake, Sigma Chi’s Derby Days, Theta Chi’s Annual Charity Golf Tournament and Pumpkin Carve, Delta Zeta’s Turtle Tug and Dunk a DZ, Kappa Delta’s Mr. Wake Forest, Phi Mu’s Charity Denim, Kappa Alpha’s blood drive, to general campus clean-ups, this campus is overrun with Greek events.

So, to put on the façade that the university does not emphasize these is, in my view, completely erroneous and deceptive. Not only does the Greek

community give considerably in the realm of charity, but we’re on the social calendar nearly every weekend. From formals to theme parties, fraternities and sororities both show their might when it comes to the weekend. And yes, even independents come.

And who knows? Maybe they will become Greek. Forty-three out of the nation’s 50 largest corporations are headed by men and women who were Greek. And every U.S. president and vice president, except two from each office, were in fraternities. That must be good for something.

By no means am I bashing our current administration (of Wake Forest, that is), I simply don’t think taking down giant letters on the side of a building is going to change the way our Greek community is involved. So, let’s be honest with the kids who want to come here: we are heavily influenced by the Greek community. And even if you aren’t in a fraternity or sorority, you can still watch Viking Fest.

Cory Benedetti is a junior business major from Morehead City, N.C.

Old Gold & Black Opinion

A8 Thursday, May 1, 2008

Facebook creates generation of slackers Hannah Werthan Asst. opinion editor

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ere at Wake Forest we have to struggle with a multitude of distractions. On any given weekday afternoon, I cannot help but feel bombarded by what I would deem as superior alternatives to studying and doing homework. I can play 20 games of solitaire, rent a movie from the library or, since the weather has been nice, lay on Bostwick’s sundeck with a trashy chick lit book and pretend it’s summer.

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However, the worst distraction that absorbs roughly 90 percent of my time is none other than Facebook.

I think this obsession stems from the fact that Facebook was banned at my high school, which made me spend 90 percent of my time dreaming of Facebook or trying to hack onto the site.

I’m like a kid who has been denied chocolate for all her life and suddenly it’s available all the time. Clearly, my school trained me to be an addict.

The first problem is that you can view pictures on this glorious Web site. What is the best way to get to know someone? According to Facebook, the answer is to view his/ her 1,031 drunken pictures from every single frat party attended at this school. Curious what happened last night while you were stuck studying for that damn economics test?

With the help of the photos button face-to-face or talk over the phone? on the left sidebar, you can easily view No problem. Just write a quick the latest photo albums. message on his/her wall.

With some creativity, you can decide More appropriately, if you need that last night wasn’t that fun anyway, math notes or want to know when the and, although next test is, you can you ended up send a wall post to What is the best way to get to with a C- on that classmate in the the test, at know someone? According to Face- front row you may least you didn’t have said “hi� to once book, the answer is to view his/her have to witness or twice. Since many 1,031 drunken pictures from every the awkward people seem to have hookups that the same Facebook frat party attended at this school. were instantly obsession that I do, detagged. you’re likely to get a Next on the fast response. list of benefits is the Facebook wall.

Now Facebook has even taken it This wall is a huge triumph for me, as up a notch and added the Facebook I try to avoid unnecessarily awkward chat. Personally, I’ve found this to human interaction at all costs. Almost be borderline creepy, but I’m sure anything can be conveyed over the I’ll get used to it. If Facebook has wall. Want to break up with someone it, it must be acceptable. I can’t say but don’t feel the need to see him/her that Facebook has been entirely

detrimental to my intelligence. My favorite application is Scrabulous, which is online Scrabble with a much cooler name. This is the main reason why I check Facebook as frequently as possible.

I must say that I have learned about a ton of new words that I did not know existed, especially the two-letter words. I may not know what the heck “qi� means, but I now know that it is a word and that has to count for something, right?

Okay, Facebook has little value on this earth other than to promote stalking and provide distraction. But, at least when my GPA turns out to be lower than expected, I can always place the blame on the creators of Facebook. Thanks a lot, guys.

Hannah Werthan is a freshman from Nashville, Tenn.

When tolerance trumps all, there is truth for none Anthony Hall Guest columnist

f the society we live in today could be summarized in one word, I would choose “tolerance.� This concept of tolerance that pervades American society today is an interesting one and has undoubtedly developed in reaction to radical instances of intolerance: the Crusades, the Holocaust and radical Islam will suffice as examples.

Quite simply, tolerance is the belief that there is no wrong path; rather, there are many paths that all lead to the same destination. Though we may disagree and though our beliefs may contradict one another, we are all right in the end.

Using this logic, I suppose it would be alright to choose either I-40 East or I-40 West to get to Greensboro from Winston-Salem. Yes, I know these roads are going in opposite directions, but in the spirit of tolerance I cannot say that one direction is wrong and the other is right. Both must lead to the same place ‌ right?

It is this misguided logic and political correctness that permeates our culture today.

It also threatens to destroy the core values and morals that hold our nation together. We have

sacrificed truth in an effort to offend no one and of tolerance. In this new definition, we admit achieve “world peace.� Perhaps the most obvious that there is a definite right and wrong path. and the most detrimental example can be seen However, we also pledge to respect those who in the religious sphere. Christianity claims that choose the wrong path. The only hindrance to Jesus Christ is the son of God and the only way this definition is its foundation upon absolute to Heaven. Both Judaism and Islam reject this truth. claim.

Many people today reject absolute truth, However, according to our previous definition because it is uncomfortable. Too many people of tolerance, all three want to create their own way religions are equally correct. to God, because the true way Let us ignore the fact that requires sacrificing their lives Too many people want to create they blatantly contradict for God. They will use any one another. Let us sacrifice their own way to God, because the excuse, develop every new true way requires sacrificing their logical thought in order to kind of philosophy and cast appease the masses. Let us aside logic and truth so that lives for God. reject even the possibility they may live as they please. that only one of these Just read a few passages religions may be the truth. from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Based on the above example, I think it would Earth for a prime example of this fraudulent be fair to say that our current definition of philosophy. tolerance is illogical. Moreover, this definition So, throwing aside all political correctness, I is an insult to all who wholeheartedly believe in want to make a proposal. You may have seen it God. It says that what I believe is really arbitrary, spray painted on the sides of bridges and brick because no matter what I believe, it is going to walls. It is not just an idea or a superstition, it is be right. Hence, there is no certainty, there is no absolute truth – it is the certainty for which so absolute and there is no true relationship with many people crave.

God, because God is only what I make Him. It has changed countless lives, including mine.

Therefore, I propose a more logical philosophy It is the message that there is a true God who

truly does love this world. It says, “Try Jesus� – He can change your life.

Lastly, for those who already claim to be Christians, I must warn you that the illogical definition of tolerance has succeeded in watering down the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many so called “Christians� continue living immoral lifestyles characterized by partying, drunkenness, sexual immorality, gossip and greed, to name a few.

They have been deceived into believing that morality is relative and salvation consists of rites and rituals, instead of a true relationship with God. However, the Apostle Paul would be quick to point out “that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God� (Galatians 5:21).

As I end this article, I hope my point is clear.

I am only trying to speak the truth in love, in order to point out the danger behind the seemingly innocent tolerance so popular in America today. We must not close our hearts to those things that challenge and make us uncomfortable. We must respond. Thanks for reading, God bless.

Anthony Hall is a senior social studies education major from King, N.C.

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Opinion Old Gold & Black

Thursday, May 1, 2008 A9

Student reflects on university Jeff Merski

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ow. My last column to ever appear in the hallowed pages of the Old Gold & Black. I’ll admit that I didn’t think this day would come (although I knew when it did, I would procrastinate in writing this column, which is exactly what I did).

So, I figured it’s only fitting that my last column is my own personal reflection of Wake Forest. I’ve seen a lot of this school – both the good and the bad. So, let’s get the bad out of the way first.

There have been some disappointing changes to the university during my tenure here. The first issue is the whole ARAMARK debacle that started my freshman year. I’ve written too many times on this wonderful topic, so if you want the full depth of my thoughts, go to our Web site and type in my name under the search function.

Nonetheless, the fact remains that the meal service has remained quite poor and this is a situation that I’d like to see improved. We’re a major university – let’s get a few more quality dining options in place and let’s up the quality of the food.

A facility as nice as the Pit should have its food quality match the decor of the cafeteria.

Another disappointing issue – increasing class sizes. When I applied to college, only one school out of the eight or nine that I applied to had an undergraduate enrollment of more than 10,000 students. Needless to say, I was attracted to the idea of a smaller campus.

Due to the small size of this university, I’ve been able to get to know my professors as well as get to know my classmates.

In many entry-level classes at many large universities, the professor will not get to know his students, due to the sheer amount of students.

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At this university, most of my entrylevel professors knew my name. I never had a teaching assistant lead any of my classes at this university (only labs). For my upper-level classes, I got to know my professors even better.

However, with increasing class sizes, I fear that this will become less common in the future.

I’ve already noticed a sizeable increase in class sizes over the past four years. If the administration is going to continue increasing incoming classes, then this special part of the university could be in jeopardy.

If the university is going to increase enrollment, then two things must be done.

New classrooms will need to be built – there are very few classrooms open during the day, and the classrooms that are occupied are packed. In order to simply accommodate new students, then physical space is needed.

In addition to that, more professors are needed to accommodate this growth.

The student-teacher relationship is something that a lot of students at this university value, and to adversely affect this relationship would most likely (and rightfully should be) met with howls of protests by students, faculty and alumni.

Additionally, in regards to faculty, let’s get their pay up to a level they deserve.

If we want to truly be a prestigious national institution, then we need to pay our faculty in order to recruit the best teachers and subsequently retain them.

Quality instruction comes from quality teachers – if the professors are not getting the pay from this university that other top universities are offering, then this university loses in the long run.

And this doesn’t even include other ideas such as trying to bring a Starbucks on campus against the concerns of several students losing Campus Grounds, increasing costs such as tuition and parking, the archway debacle and the Interfaith Arch, which just simply looks out of place. Plus, there’s the new university logo that looks like we’re a bank, not a place of higher learning (plus, where’s the letter “F” in the logo?).

But, let’s look at some of the positives that this university offers. I briefly mentioned relationships earlier in this

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column. And that is a great thing about this university.

While incoming freshmen might complain about the roommate selection process for their first year at the university, this process is really beneficial.

I was out of my comfort zone at first, but I was able to meet a group of guys that I am still friends with to this day (so much so that over half of us live on the third floor of Polo Residence Hall together and a good number of those that don’t live there are in our apartments very frequently). Without this experience from freshman year, I can safely say that my entire college career would be dramatically different.

Let me talk about athletics briefly too.

From what I’ve heard from friends at larger schools, athletes are sheltered away from the regular student body. However, at this school, athletes are part of the student body. They’re in your classes, live in the dorms with everyone and are part of the campus community – not a separate entity.

This helps bring the whole community together. When a team has a big win and the Quad is rolled (and no, it’s not the Hearn Plaza), the entire team shows up and they celebrate with the students. And it must mean a bit more to the athletes since it’s not just the students they are celebrating with, but these students are the classmates, hallmates and friends of the players.

And of course there’s the great academics at this school. I think it’s fair to say that everyone at this school is stimulated in the classroom and that any accomplishments are earned and welldeserved.

So, is Wake the perfect school? No, but I think it’s safe to say that no school is the perfect school.

There are plenty of flaws that can be fixed at this school (and I’ve only scratched the surface of them). However, there is plenty at this school that does have its benefits, and while we might complain about the day-to-day life of tests, papers and homework, the big picture is much brighter and where this university really shines.

Word on the Blog | Quotes from online What are your thoughts on the new logo?

“Remember how furious everyone (read: I) was about the arch? And how now it’s absolutely fine? Also the logo’s definitely designed to look like that wrought-iron logo always on the student banner ... know the one? It’s definitely one of the most evocative images of Wake I can think of.

Bigger fish to fry, my friends.”

Posted by: bert on April 27, 2008 10:08 p.m.

“I hate this logo. I looks like a WV. Are we West Virginia (not to be taken as a slam on West Virginia)? It’s a confusing message to put out there. From a marketing standpoint, I think the shield fails miserably.”

Posted by: Leslie on April 25, 2008 4:52 p.m.

“This logo is in poor taste. I agree that the current Wake Forest logo looks more like a brand than a University’s symbol, but this is not a suitable replacement. It echoes the same contrived, false sense of history that the new Arch does. On a less valid note, it’s too Gothic. Let’s try not to mirror Duke too much Hatch.”

Posted by: Arthur on April 27, 2008 10:57 p.m.

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Old Gold & Black Opinion

A10 Thursday, May 1, 2008

New logo epitomizes ugliness of change Alex Osteen

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verybody transfer immediately, please!

The new university logo will destroy everything we know and love about Wake Forest. It embodies the very evil that our university president represents for trying to change something that had become a tradition for this university for maybe 10 years, or at least since the last time it was changed.

This new logo definitely has a “W” and a (perhaps more hidden) “F,” but it simply reeks of the stench of new plans and a bold step into the future — in fact, it sort of reminds me of when the United States had to add new stars to its flag

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I cannot believe that a new president would That makes sense, doesn’t it? But now that we have the gall, the very nerve, to want to come have had a new logo shoved down our throats, I in, spend time and attention investigating suppose I can kiss those hopes goodbye. all facets of the university, ask for input from What’s more is that ideas like building students and faculty, then start making changes, a parking deck, adding more space for especially to that logo that students to live, making was so lovingly printed on library renovations and I mean, personally I was really the T-shirt I bought three improvements to Benson years ago. It’s just like an hoping that everything would stay food court etc. etc. are architect showing up to an being tossed around completely the same since when I old cathedral and telling ridiculously. How dare the was a freshman ... then I was hopparishioners that they have administration. to put in some reinforced In all seriousness, I hope ing that we would become a better beams to hold up the that my sarcasm has made school ... on our own. steeple. Change, pff. some point here. For some I mean, personally I reason, change is always was really hoping that rejected at first and I think everything would stay completely the same that we should give it and President Hatch a since when I was a freshman, from the low chance. environmental scores we received to the belowI’m not arguing that new things are inherently average faculty salaries. Then I was hoping that good; instead I’m arguing that it’s not healthy to we would become a better school (which is a close your mind completely to something just good thing, right?) on our own and that our because it’s new. It is my honest opinion that

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Hatch holds the university’s best interest in his heart and mind. Although I personally don’t agree with some details of the Strategic Plan, I think that it’s a waste of time to argue about the details – about the arch on the Quad, about the new column on the Mag Quad, about the new logo. There seems to be a sort of superficial theme developing here; all of these things are changes to h ow the campus looks and aren’t part of actual major changes to the university.

In my mind, 500 new students actually won’t make a huge difference in terms of the university’s small, close-knit feel. Of course the university will have to change some in its quest to improve itself.

Just about the worst thing that we can do as the changes start to come to fruition, is simply say that they are “bad” and that Hatch is “bad.”

Rather we need to look at the big picture, form clear and convincing opinions and express them.

I’m sure that the administration is and has been ready to listen. Let’s speak up constructively.

Alex Osteen is a junior economics and Spanish major from Highlands, N.C.

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Strength coach spreads philosophies around globe

By Connor Swarbrick | Asst. sports editor

He is not just a strength and conditioning coach and the athletes he works with don’t spend hours slaving in the weight room. No, Ethan Reeve has a different training philosophy.

Reeve is the head strength and conditioning coach, and he is an important component of the astounding success Wake Forest athletics is experiencing.

Weight training and conditioning is something Reeve has always been interested in. He ran six miles a day in the sixth grade and for years did 500 push-ups a day.

“I just love training and working out,” Reeve said. “I saw the value of

it, how it helped me in sport and life.”

Coach Reeve and his staff have a philosophy of making the athletes more athletic. While that may sound confusing, it has been incredibly successful.

“We have a unique thing. We work as a team and we get the general stuff done, but we don’t kill them during those workouts so they’ll have time and energy to hopefully do some of those things on their own that they specifically need to do,” Reeve said.

“I was mainly a wrestler and I trained this way with my wrestlers and it worked well with them and since it has worked with every sport.”

However, this philosophy has not always been widely accepted; he had to prove it worked.

When he was working at a prep school in Chattanooga, Tenn., he got a phone call from Hartmut Buschbacher, the U.S. National Team Rowing Coach.

Reeve began to implement his strength and conditioning philosophy after the U.S. won only one bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships.

He began having the rowers play basketball, run bleachers and do tumbling and all sorts of athletic things. In the weight room he focused on exercises such as clean See Trainer, Page B5

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Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Ethan Reeve traveled to China with his son and worked with Olympic rowers. This is his eighth year at Wake

Ultimate Domination

Fantasy sports impact America

By Forrest Kobayashi | Contributing writer

In today’s world, there is no denying the fact that the professional sports leagues of America are extremely popular.

The National Football League and Major League Baseball are two leagues that garner a great deal of attention on a national level. One of the reasons for a wide and diverse fan following is due to the presence of fantasy sports.

What are fantasy sports exactly, you ask? Fantasy sports are games where several individuals (owners) build teams that compete against other members teams, based on the real-life statistical performance of those players.

For instance, a fantasy baseball league would use the statistical production of real players in Major League Baseball. Points or category totals are totaled, and a winner of the “league,” or group of owners, is determined.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to own your own professional sports team?

One of the big draws for fantasy sports is that each owner has complete control over his/her team.

Trading, cutting and signing players are just three of the abilities an owner has. If one of your players isn’t playing to your liking, feel free to cut him for another player.

Be warned: that player you cut can then be picked up by another owner and placed on their roster.

This active adding-dropping idea keeps the league exciting all year long.

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RUCKUS, the women’s ultimate Frisbee team, poses after the win at Easterns. The team travels to nationals in Colorado May 16-18.

Women’s ultimate Frisbee team, No. 5 in the nation, prepares for nationals

By Susie Manship | Staff writer Usually when Frisbees are seen on campus students are playing Frisbee golf or leisurely tossing a disc on the Quad, but not these girls.

The women’s Ultimate Frisbee club team can be found on Poteat field three days a week practising intensely.

But these women are no longer practising for any normal tournament. They have achieved a milestone in the program’s history – qualifying for Nationals.

The women’s team consists of 26 ladies that participate in 4-5 tournaments each semester, with 8-16 teams in each tournament.

Coming off of a 23-16 season last year, the team has made enormous strides this season.

They are currently ranked No.5 in the nation out of 222 women’s teams and improved their record this season to 33-6.

They have won four out of five tournaments they have competed in this semester including Queen City Tune-up, Easterns, Sectionals and Regionals. The Deacs, in fact, haven’t lost a game since the Centex Tournament in Austin, Texas. Centex is an ultra-competitive tournaments and teams can only participate if they are invited.

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Wake will send Deacs drop to ninth in ACC three to NFL

By Jeff Merski | Senior writer

By Matt Six | Staff writer

They may not have been in the green room, but that doesn’t mean the three Deacons taken in the 2008 NFL Draft won’t have a major impact on the professional level.

Jeremy Thompson, the first Wake player off the board, went in the fourth round to the Green Bay Packers. He went as the 102nd pick overall and the Packers traded up in order to draft Thompson.

The Lions took wide receiver Kenny Moore with the first pick in the fifth round. Like Green Bay, they traded up to draft Moore.

Center Steve Justice rounded out the Deacon draft picks as the Indianapolis Colts took him in the sixth round.

In addition to the three Wake draft picks, tight end John Tereshinski signed a free agent contract with the San Diego Chargers. He joins former Wake teammate Jyles Tucker, who saw a significant amount of playing time at the linebacker position after signing as a free agent last year.

Other Wake graduating seniors hope to take a similar route to Tereshinski in becoming undrafted free agents.

Long snapper Nick Jarvis will likely make an NFL roster.

Micah Andrews, Zac Selmon, Matt Brim and Kevin Marion, among others, may also work their way into

the professional ranks. The new roster limit of 80 for NFL teams does not help their chances. The players will hope to get the opportunity to practice in the upcoming summer camps and play in the preseason games, showing their talents and work ethics with hopes of earning a spot on a team’s roster.

Defensive end Jeremy Thompson addresses a need for the Packers. Currently Green Bay starts Pro Bowler Aaron Kampman at one end and veteran Cullen Jenkins at the other end.

However, they are not deep at the position and Thompson hopes to see some playing time behind these two veterans. “(He) has a similar attitude and motor to current Packer Aaron Kampman,” ESPN NFL Draft guru Mel Kiper, Jr. said regarding Thompson.

Moore, the 136th overall pick, was selected by the Lions to become their kick returner and to compete for a receiver position. Moore set an ACC record for receptions in a season at 98 receptions and he is known for his ability to catch anything thrown near him.

The wide receiver position in Detroit features Calvin Johnson and

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The baseball team traveled to Atlanta for a pivotal weekend series at Georgia Tech; however, the Deacons were only able to take one game of the series as they slid back in the ACC standings to ninth-place.

The Deacons fell to the Yellow Jackets by a score of 12-1 on April 25, their seventh consecutive Friday loss. Senior outfielder Ben Terry provided the bright spot for the Deacons on offense, as he reached base every time he stepped up to the plate, finishing 2-for-2 while also working two walks.

Junior second baseman Dustin Hood provided the lone run for the Demon Deacons, sending a pitch over the left field wall in the fourth inning for a solo home run.

The home run was Hood’s second home run in the past three games and his second on the season.

Junior starting pitcher Garrett Bullock struggled for the Deacons, allowing seven hits, five walks and seven runs over six innings to take the loss.

Wake Forest fell again on April 26, losing to the Ramblin’ Wreck by a score of 14-6 to drop their sixth consecutive ACC series.

The Deacons had an opportunity in the first inning to strike first as Terry led off with a double to right center and moved over to third base on a grounder by senior outfielder Willy Fox. However, the Deacons were unable to drive him in and Georgia Tech took advantage, striking for three runs in their half of the first inning.

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Redshirt senior Charlie Mellies throws a pitch in the series April 26 at Georgia Tech. The Deacs went 1-2 in the series.

“We had some scoring opportunities that we did not capitalize on,” Head Coach Rick Rembielak said.

The Deacons came back in the third inning to make it a 3-2 game as Terry led off with a single and was able to work his way to third base after another Fox grounder and stealing a base. Junior first baseman Allan Dykstra had an RBI

grounder to bring Terry home. Sophomore catcher Mike Murray singled and Hood walked and junior outfielder Evan Ocheltree doubled to right-center to bring Murray home.

However, the Yellow Jackets stung again with another three runs in the See Baseball, Page B4

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ophomore catcher Mike Murray has become one of the leading hitters on the baseball team over the past several weeks as the Deacons have played much better baseball. He is currently hitting .298 with 37 hits, 19 runs, four home runs and 25 RBIs in 40 games (of which he started 27).

Murray had a 13 game hitting streak that

Jeff Merski caught up with Murray after the Davidson game to discuss his recent success at the plate, the toughest pitch to catch and the Bruce Springsteen concert that occurred on April 28 in Greensboro.

On his recent success hitting: I’ve had the opportunity to get some consistent at-bats and Coach Palmeiri and I have been working on some things in my swing.

With the consistent at-bats I’ve been able to get

tough lefties out there with left-handed sliders coming in.

You have to bear down and stay on the pitch and do your best with it.

On the team’s improved play over the past several games: We went through a rough stretch when we weren’t playing that well; we had to get back to basics and get back to pitching well and taking good at-bats and we’ve been doing a much better job at that.

We’re trying to peak at the right time and we’ve got some big ACC series coming up and we’re trying to

" We’re trying to peak at the right time." ended on April 23 at Coastal Carolina, but he picked up right where he left off, starting a five game hitting streak the next game at Georgia Tech that he has carried through the April 30 contest against Davidson. Over the stretch in which Murray safely hit in 18 out of 19 games, his batting average was .338.

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DEAC OF THE WEEK Senior Michelle Loyd placed first among female collegiate competitors in the 400m hurdles April 24 at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pa., with a time of 58.95.

It was the first individual win for the Deacons at the event since the late 1980s.

During the 2007 outdoor season Loyd, from Durham, N.C., placed Loyd second at the Wake Forest Open with 1:00.39 finish in 400m hurdles. She then had a personal best 1:00.21 time at the NCAA East Regionals in 400m hurdles and placed fifth at ACC Championships with a 1:00.56. She also set a personal best with a 3:41.97 in the 4x400 relay at the ACC Championships.

She opened the 2007 indoor season with a seventh place finish at the Virginia Tech Invitational with a 1:15.61 performance in the 500m dash. Loyd placed second at the Virginia Tech Challenge in the 300m dash with a 40.30 mark. She also placed third in the 200m dash with a 26.11 finish at the On Track Open.

After exams Loyd and her teammates will return to action May 9 at the North Carolina Fast Times in Chapel Hill, N.C. The NCAA East Regional Championsips is May 30-31 in Tallahassee, Fla.

into a rhythm and when you know you’re going to be in the lineup everyday it gives you a little bit of comfort and you’re able to take some good at-bats and that’s what I’ve been doing.

On the hardest pitch for him to catch: I’m going to say (senior) Ben Hunter’s slider. He’ll like that. It’s his self-proclaimed best pitch in college baseball.

On the toughest pitch for him to take: For me being a left-handed hitter, there are some

play well, make our way to Jacksonville, Fla., and try to make a run in the tournament.

On his favorite class at the university: History with Professor Kent McConnell. He’s really great professor with great insight and a very interesting class.

On the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert on April 28 in Greensboro: It was fantastic.

They still have it. They’re nearing 60 but the E Street Band still has it.

DEACON NOTES Former field hockey players to compete in Olympics Former Wake Forest field hockey athletes Kelly Doton and Lauren Crandall helped the U.S. Field Hockey team earn its first bid to the Olympics since 1988 with a 3-1 win over Belgium April 27.

Kelly Doton, who finished her career at Wake Forest in 2003, had the first assist of the game. Lauren Crandall, a 2007 graduate, provided support from the midfield during the victory.

Field Hockey competition in the Olympic Games will begin on August 8 and run through August 24.

Basketball and track team receive academic recognition The Wake Forest men’s basketball team and men’s track team received recognition from the NCAA. They received the recognition for achieving academic marks that ranked in the top 10

percent of Division I teams across the entire nation.

The teams recognized this year represent 11.4 percent of the 6,272 Division I teams. A total of 192 Division I institutions had at least one team on the top APR list.

Simpson ranked No. 1 amateur in the world Wake Forest senior golfer Webb Simpson is the No. 1-ranked amateur golfer in the world, according to Golfweek’s amateur top 200.

He won the ACC Championship April 20 and set a new championship record with a 14-under 202. The previous record was a 203 by Clemson’s John Engler in 2001.

Simpson qualified for the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Bay Hill after winning last summer’s 101st Southern Amateur in Southern Pines, N.C. At Bay Hill, Simpson made the cut and fired a two-under 68 in the final round to finish tied for 31st place in the PGA event.

A win at the Western Refining All-America Classic with his most recent victory at the ACC Championship gives the Raleigh-native five

tournament victories since the summer of 2007.

Simpson, a second team All-America selection and four-time All-America honorable mention, shot a 62-72-64 to finish 15 under par at the Western Refining All-America Classic in El Paso, Texas.

Simpson currently holds 23 wins over the top 25 collegiate golfers in the U.S. and has been named a semifinalist for the Ben Hogan Award and a watch list member of the Jack Nicklaus Award.

Women’s basketball adds top recruit to 2008 class Patrice Johnson, a 5-foot, 10-inch guard from Howard D. Woodson High School in Washington, D.C., has signed a national letter of intent to join the Wake Forest women’s basketball team in the fall of 2008.

During her final year with the Woodson High Warriors, Johnson helped lead her team to its first city title since 2004, averaging 13.7 points per game, eight rebounds and four steals. She was named Washington D.C.’s Gatorade Player of the Year and a McDonald’s All-American Nominee for 2008 in addition to picking up The Washington Post’s All-Extra Player of the Year award.

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NCAA Championships up next for tennis

By LK Davey | Staff writer

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Junior Sierra Poske returns the ball during a home match this season. Both men’s and women’s teams were invited to the NCAA’s and will begin play May 9 for the women’s team and May 10 for the men.

Game of the Week Baseball vs.

Duke May 9-11 Hooks Stadium

Winston-Salem, N.C. The Wake Forest baseball team hosts the Duke Blue Devils May 9-11 in the last home series of the season.

Wake is coming off a home win against Davidson on April 30. They will not play again until the weekend series with Duke.

The Deacs will have just one more ACC series remaining after the three-game set with Duke. Wake will travel to Chestnut Hill, Mass., May 15-17 to take on the Boston College Eagles.

In the few games that remain for the Deacs, they will try to improve their record in hopes of gaining a better matchup in the conference tournament.

The ACC tournament will be held on May 21-25 in Jacksonville, Fla. Duke is led by junior infielder and catcher, Nate Freiman. Freiman leads the Blue Devils in batting with a .383 average, eight home runs and 40 RBIs. For the Deacs, the series will be the last at Hooks Stadium. They will move to Ernie Shore Field next season.

ACC, and defeated Virginia Tech in the ACC Tournament before losing to No. 1-ranked Virginia in the semifinals.

The No. 46 ranked women’s tennis team was placed in the group of teams seeded 33-48 and will travel to Chapel Hill, N.C., on May 9 to take on No. 17 Arkansas in the first round.

The winner of this match will play the winner of the match between No. 15 Parr UNC-Chapel Hill and South Carolina State.

The Razorbacks will be a difficult test for the Deacs as they boast the No.1-ranked singles player in Aurelija Miseviciute as well as No. 73 Ela Kaluder.

The doubles team of Miseviciute and Kaluder is ranked No. 29.

The Deacons’ lineup will feature No. 67 sophomore Sasha Kulikova.

Kulikova was named to the AllACC team.

Wake finished the regular season with a record of 8-13 overall and 4-8 in the ACC. The Deacs lost in the first round of the ACC Tournament to N.C. State.

They have struggled with injuries towards the end of the year and, as a consequence, have had to drop points before matches even start.

The women’s team is currently in the midst of an eight match losing streak.

Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams received at-large bids in a 64 team field for the NCAA Division I Tennis Championships.

Junior Cory Parr and sophomore Steve Forman were selected from the men’s team to compete in the individual tournaments.

The No. 28 ranked men’s team was placed in the group of teams seeded 17-32 and will travel May 10 to Athens, Ga., for their first round match against No. 35 Auburn.

The winner of this match will play the winner of the match between No. 4 Georgia and Radford.

The Tigers enter the tournament with a record of 10-12, but they will prove to be a tough opponent as they feature the No. 27 player in the country in Alexey Tsyrenov as well as No. 87 Tim Puetz.

The Deacons lineup will include No. 46 ranked junior Cory Parr and No. 68 sophomore Steve Forman.

The doubles team of Parr and Forman is ranked No. 7 overall in the country. Both Parr and Forman earned All-ACC honors.

Parr was also selected to be in the draw of 64 players for the NCAA Singles Championship.

The doubles team of Parr and Forman were one of 32 teams selected to take part in the NCAA Doubles championship. They are in the group of teams that is seeded 5-8.

The Deacons ended regular season play with a record of 17-10 (8-5). They finished fourth in the

Scoreboard Wake in the Ranks Women’s tennis standings

Men’s tennis standings 1. Virginia 2. North Carolina 3. Florida State 4. Miami 5. Wake Forest 6. Virginia Tech 7. Duke 8. N.C. State 9. Georgia Tech 10. Maryland 11. Boston College 12. Clemson

ACC 14-0 9-2 10-3 9-5 8-5 7-6 7-6 5-8 3-9 2-10 1-11 1-11

All 28-0 19-5 19-6 16-7 17-10 15-8 10-13 12-14 13-12 10-11 11-18 15-20

1. Georgia Tech 2. Clemson 3. Duke 4. Miami 5. North Carolina 6. Florida State 7. N.C. State 8. Virginia 9. Wake Forest 10. Virginia Tech 11. Boston College 12. Maryland

ACC 11-2 11-3 11-3 8-3 8-4 8-6 6-7 6-7 4-8 2-10 1-11 0-12

Baseball standings All 19-5 15-9 18-4 15-5 17-8 18-7 13-10 10-13 8-13 14-13 9-13 3-18

Atlantic 1. Florida State 2. N.C. State 3. Clemson 4. Wake Forest 5. Maryland 6. Boston College Coastal 1. Miami 2. North Carolina 3. Virginia 4. Georgia Tech 5. Duke 6. Virginia Tech

ACC 19-5-0 15-8-0 10-13-1 8-15-0 8-16-0 5-19-0

All 36-7-0 30-13-0 24-20-1 18-27-0 26-21-0 20-23-0

20-2-0 18-5-0 13-11-0 12-12-0 8-14-1 4-20-0

36-5-0 38-8-0 33-15-0 31-13-0 31-14-1 18-26-0

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-Fayateville) 2. Ani Mijacika (Clemson) 3. Hilary Barte (Stanford) 4. Marina Cossou (California) 5. Maria Mosolova (Northwestern)

Misevicitue

Mijacika

Baseball 1. Greg Miclat (Virginia) 2. Blake Tekotte (Miami) 3. Jeff Rowland (Georgia Tech) 4. Charlie Blackmon (Georgia Tech) 5. Ben Terry (Wake Forest)

Miclat

Steals 26 19 18 17 16

Tekotte

FOR THE AMATEUR With the intramural season finally at a close as students prepare for finals, the Intramural department would like to thank all of its participants and also make a few announcements:

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The Intramural season will come to an end on May 1 with softball championship games at Water Tower.

Congratulations to Golf Tournament Champions!

1st Place Team — 57: Will Cooper, Brad Barnes, Tom Knott, Sam Smart 2nd Place Team — 59: Jason Oneal, Nathan Haines, John Ray, Adam Aubuchon 3rd Place Team — 59: Dan Pogoda, Witt Nicholson, Brian Paturzo, Matt Van Ostenbridge Closest to the Pin — #17: Brad Perry Longest Drive — #18: Robbie Cohenour The tournament was held at Meadowlands Golf Course on Sunday, April 27.

Softball Championship Game Schedule: Corec 6 p.m.

Women’s 6 p.m.

Men’s B 7 p.m.

G/F Corec 8 p.m.

G/F Men’s 9 p.m.

Men’s A 10 p.m.

Games will be held May 1 at Water Tower Field.

Congratulations New Intramural Supervisors for 2008-2009: Jay Ciotola Ryan Campbell Zane Greason Chris Sabolcik Cassie Freund Mike Gilmore Dian Yu Matt Socha Neil Conklin

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Track and field competes at Penn Relays

By Nick Oliphant | Staff writer

The Wake Forest track and field team finished up competition May 24-26 at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Penn.

Several members of the women’s team recorded high finishes.

In the 4x200m relay the Deacons took a 16th place with a 1:37.63 mark.

Seniors Molly Kennedy and Michelle Loyd teamed up with sophomores Alex Gove and Nicole Castronuova.

In the Sprint Medley championships, freshman Anna Nosenko replaced Gove and the Deacs finished sixth in the trials with a time of 4:00.15.

Loyd, a Durham, N.C., native, finished first in the 400m hurdles with a time of 58.95 seconds. It was the first individual win for the Deacons at the event since the late 1980s. Gove ran her season best time of 1:01.08 in the event taking 11th place overall.

Also performing well were senior Jill Ahrens and junior Carly Mauch. Ahrens finished second in the pole vault with a mark of 12’ 5.25”, while Mauch finished second in the javelin, with a throw over 140’ 1”.

Nosenko finished out competition with a 4:51.88 mile run for a seventh place overall finish.

On the men’s side, the Deacs finished 13th in the 4x200m trials with a time of 1:25.57. Senior Kerry Major, sophomore Jon Reid, freshman Allen Lunkenheimer and junior Phillip Warsaw were the competitors.

Sophomore Sensing Thomas Sensing, who represented Wake Forest in several field events, recorded a season best shot put of 54’

11.5”. The throw was good for fourth place in the event.

“Our team is looking great going into the post season. We expect to turn heads at the regional meet,” Director of Track and Field Annie Bennett said of the team’s performance.

After exams the team will compete at the North Carolina Fast Times May 9 in Chapel Hill, N.C. Prior to the Penn Relays, the men’s track team received academic recognition from the NCAA. The honor was for receiving academic marks that placed the team in the top 10 percent of Division I teams nationwide.

“Academic excellence is something we in the athletic department take extreme pride in,” Bennett said. “We will continue to excel both in the classroom and in competition.”

There are six events remaining of the schedule that various athletes will compete in, including when Wake Forest hosts the Deacon Combined events May 14-15.

The Deacons will then begin the post season May 30 at the NCAA East Regional Championship in Tallahassee, Fla. If successful there, they would move on to the National Championship June 12 in Des Moines, Iowa.

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bottom of the inning to make it a 6-2 game. The Deacons answered back with another three run inning in the fourth inning, with freshman outfielder Steven Brooks and redshirt junior third baseman Nathan Frazier starting the inning off with singles. Terry had a sacrifice fly to bring home Brooks, with Fox earning a single to put two men on with one out. Dykstra advanced the runners on a fly ball with Murray being able to knock a pitch into right field to make it a 6-5 game.

Georgia Tech quickly responded again, with the Yellow Jackets being able to work the bases loaded and second baseman Thomas Nichols drove a pitch by junior Brad Kledzik over the right field wall to score four runs on one swing.

After the Georgia Tech grand slam, the Deacons were not able to respond, with Murray picking up an RBI single in the eighth inning to make it a 14-6 game.

The Deacons broke through for their eighth ACC win of the season on April 27 by defeating the Yellow Jackets by a score of 7-5.

Senior Ben Hunter picked up his second win of the season, going 8 1/3 innings while scattering seven hits, five runs (three earned) and five strikeouts to get the win.

Sophomore relievers Alex Wiesner and Phil Negus each pitched 1/3 of an inning to protect the lead to ensure the Deacon victory.

“What Hunter did was outstanding,” Rembielak said.

“He came out, kept the ball down in the zone and they had a tough time with him.”

Wake Forest jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning, as shortstop senior Andy Goff picked up an RBI after Murray reached on an error and Ocheltree doubled to right field.

Brooks then drove in Ocheltree with a single up the middle to give the Deacons the lead. However, the Deacons gave the runs back in the second inning on a two-run home run to tie the game up at two.

Yet, the Deacons retook the lead in the top of the third inning with an RBI single by Dykstra to drive in Terry to make it a 3-2 game.

Georgia Tech tied it at 3-3 in the fifth inning following a pair of wild pitches by Hunter to allow for an RBI ground out by the Jackets.

However, the Deacons responded right away with a run in the top of the sixth inning, as redshirt junior pinch hitter Weldon Woodall was able to

drive in Brooks, who had walked and advanced to second base on a stolen base.

The Deacons expanded their lead in the seventh inning, as Fox led off the inning with a single and Dykstra followed up with a two-run home run to right field.

Murray followed up the home run by working a walk and moved to second after a sacrifice bunt

by Hood. Ocheltree then singled to left field to drive home Murray and give the Deacons a 7-3 advantage.

The Yellow Jackets struck for two runs in their half of the seventh inning to make it a 7-5 game and despite the Jackets threatening in the ninth inning by getting their first two batters on base, Hunter, Wiesner and Negus were able to combine to finish the game.

The Deacons traveled to UNC-Greensboro on April 29, where they swept the season series against the Spartans by winning 11-6.

The Deacons found themselves down 1-0 after the first inning; however, they quickly responded with six runs in the second inning, capped off by a Dykstra grand slam to right-center field that was preceded by a Goff RBI single.

Goff later came around to score on a wild pitch.

Brooks wreaked havoc on the basepaths for the Deacons, stealing four bases in the game to contribute to the Deacon offense. Additionally, every Deacon starter scored at least one run in the victory.

Freshman pitcher Brandon Johnson came out of the bullpen to earn his second victory of the season by throwing three innings of scoreless, onehit baseball.

On April 30, the Deacons returned home for the first time in two weeks to play Davidson.

The Deacs managed to earn a split of the season series by posting a 10-0 shutout of the Wildcats behind strong performances by Mellies, redshirt junior Matt Hammond and Kledzik. Mellies went 5 innings allowing only two hits to pick up his second win of the season.

The Deacons took the lead in the second inning on an RBI single by Brooks, who drove in Ocheltree who had reached on a single and had worked his way around the bases.

The Deacons added another run in the third inning behind a sacrifice fly by Ocheltree to bring home Dykstra.

The Deacons managed to score in their final four frames, with Ocheltree delivering a two run home

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Senior second baseman Andy Goff throws to first base in the April 26 game at Georgia Tech. The team looks to play Duke May 9-11. run in the fifth inning, Murray with a two run double in the sixth inning, Hood adding an RBI single in the seventh inning and Brooks driving in another run on a fielder’s choice in the eighth inning.

For the second straight game, every Deacon in the starting lineup reached base.The shutout was the Deacons second on the season and extended the Deacons’ winning streak to three games.

The Deacons are off this weekend due to exams

and will return to action on May 9 for the last three games to be played at Gene Hooks Stadium.

The Deacons will face the Duke Blue Devils, who are currently a game up on the Deacs for the last slot to qualify for the ACC Tournament in Jacksonville, Fla. Wake Forest also travels to Elon for a midweek game on May 13 and to Chestnut Hill, Mass. for their final ACC series of the season against Boston College following the Duke series.

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Roy Williams, so playing time will be limited barring injuries to these two starters.

Wide receivers are plentiful on their roster, with Brandon Middleton and Ron Bellamy waiting in the wings along with Moore. However, Moore brings dependability and consistency to a team lacking such characteristics in the receiving corps.

Look for Moore to see most of his time returning kicks.

Steve Justice went to the Colts in the sixth round.

Scouts love his ability to snap the ball and get into position very quickly. He earned consensus All-American honors last season, being named to the first team

by Associated Press, American Football Coaches Association, CBS Sports and ESPN.com.

He was a second team All-American on the Walter Camp and Sports Illustrated teams.

He learned a lot about his position from former linemen Steve Vallos, who currently plays in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks. Vallos went in the seventh round in last year’s draft. “(Vallos) was a four year starter so I went under his wing and learned from him how to be a leader on the offensive line,” Justice said at an NFL Combine interview in Indianapolis, Ind. “Then once he left I had to take that role. I wasn’t a vocal leader like he was, so I showed the guys what to do (so that they) trusted me since I’ve been here and I know what to do.”

With regards to playing time, Justice will be behind one of the best centers in the league, veteran Jeff Saturday. However, he could be taking snaps from Peyton Manning sooner rather than later as Saturday only has one year remain-

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ing on his contract. Colts President Bill Polian’s multiple visits to watch Justice play would suggest he is looking for Saturday’s successor.

The Colts selected Mike Pollak of Arizona State with their first pick in the draft. Pollak also played center in college. He is expected to start at guard this season replacing guard Jake Scott, but he could compete with Justice for the starting center position if Saturday elects to leave via free agency.

In his Combine interview, Justice talked about the ascent of the Wake Forest football program and how it helped him as a pro prospect: “I’m sure it helped out a lot. We got a little bit of coverage but it was more of

(scouts) watching other guys play us in the past,” Justice said.

“But after we had our ACC run and then this last year, we drew a lot of attention from a lot of people.”

From last year’s class, Josh Gattis, Steve Vallos and Jyles Tucker all currently play on NFL rosters. This year three players were drafted, with Tereshinski also signing as an undrafted free agent, and several others hope to follow in Tereshinski’s footsteps.

These two classes – as well as next year’s graduating class – are primarily responsible for the turnaround of the Wake Forest football program and their excellent level of play is evidenced in the NFL Draft.

Fantasy sports certainly have made a massive impact on America.

A recent study by the Fantasy Sports Trade Commission estimates that 19.4 million people over the age of 12 in the U.S. and Canada alone play fantasy sports, which is a staggering number.

So what is the appeal to playing fantasy sports? Some people play with the intent to win prizes or money.

Some people play for something to cheer for on game days. Others look to bring families or groups of old friends closer together.

Whatever the case, fantasy sports provide a great way for a fan of any sport to become more connected to the sport of their choice.

Another benefit of fantasy sports is that you can find a game for nearly any sport you can imagine.

There are leagues for football, basketball, golf, NASCAR — heck, you name it, they probably have it.

Fantasy sports don’t just offer America addicting games, they are covered quite extensively in blogs, Web sites and other forms of media.

Fantasy sports have created an entire industry. ESPN brought in several fantasy sports experts to make predictions and recommendation to viewers.

Magazines and books are produced prior to the start of every fantasy season with the intent of helping fantasy owners prepare for their draft.

Personally, fantasy baseball and football have had a large impact on the way I view sports. Through participat-

ing in multiple leagues each season, I have found that I have strayed away from the idea of rooting for a specific team in any given sport. Instead, I find myself cheering for players on my fantasy squads.

“Rooting for laundry,” or rooting for a specific team, is becoming less and less of a norm as fantasy games continue to make a massive impact across the country. The great debate over whether one should root for their real-life team over a fantasy team has become quite an issue in sports fanatic world.

My obsession with fantasy games began around age 10, when I signed up for my first fantasy football league with Yahoo. I was instantly hooked.

One of the fondest memories of my childhood is loading my fantasy football team up with Rams players (to this day, my favorite NFL team) and rooting for them on Sundays.

Though I struggled my first year, I began to appreciate the uniqueness and thrill of such an awesome game.

Going into my 11th season playing fantasy sports, I have found myself more involved then ever. I read fantasy sports related magazines, books and blogs daily. I attended a live fantasy baseball forum to get a head start on the season.

I’ve invested nearly $300-$400 dollars in fantasy baseball and football leagues, materials and guides in the past year.

Are fantasy games the greatest games on earth?

Try your favorite sport out, you won’t be disappointed.

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and one-legged squats. In 1994 the team won only one silver medal.

However, in 1995 Reeve saw his program pay off. In the 1995 World Championships they won four gold medals and a silver out of six possible medals.

“It takes time to develop to get that system and the philosophy going,” Reeve said.

“You can’t guarantee wins, everyday you try to make the kids better. You take what you’ve been given and try to inspire them and hopefully what you do improves them.”

Shortly thereafter, Reeve joined Head Football Coach Jim Grobe at Ohio University as the head strength and conditioning coach where they worked together for six seasons.

When Grobe was hired at Wake Forest in Reeve 2000 the head strength and conditioning position opened up and Reeve was hired.

This will be their 14th season together.

Earlier this year Reeve’s phone rang and it was the Buschbacher again with another opportunity.

Buschbacher was asked to be the Chinese national rowing coach for the 2012 Olympics in Beijing. Buschbacher once again wanted Reeve to

implement his strength and conditioning program.

Reeve agreed to go to China under one condition: that he could bring his 14-year-old son Keaton.

Father and son made the long trek to China.

Their first stay was in a rural area where the rowing team was training.

They stayed in a hotel without a toilet and the weight room was merely a cement slab with a tent over it. But Reeve and his son had a blast.

The two then traveled to Jenin, the training hub for Chinese athletes, where Reeve spoke about his philosophy.

Eating unique Chinese food everyday wasn’t the only thing that took some getting used to.

Reeve, who is 53, has never taken a drink in his life, but at each meal in China he had to sit as the guest of honor and everyone toasted him three times.

They caught on when he put it up to his mouth without drinking.

The two had such a great time that Keaton wants to go back already, which may happen if Buschbacher accepts the position. While Reeve spent most of the time teaching his philosophies, he learned something too.

“Over there nobody gets upset; we were there for all those days and I never saw one person get upset,” Reeve said.

“Those are the nicest, most beautiful people you’ll ever meet.”

Now that he is back at work the weight room is undergoing a major renovation.

They are selling much of the old

equipment and having new racks custom built.

A pull-up bar has been installed that runs the length of the weight room.

There will be brand new bumper weights that have Wake Forest on them and the floor will be replaced with a Sport Impact floor. All these changes, which are slated to be finished in June, are for one purpose, setting up an environment that is conducive to Reeve’s style of teaching.

“It will be a Mecca for this type of strength training and great for recruiting,” Reeve said.

Reeve has been fundamental in the success of Wake Forest sports, but he is not in it for the glory.

“I like to be behind the scenes, it makes me feel good,” Reeve said.

“What we are trying to do is affect a kid’s life, still deep down I’m a teacher; I’m an educator. The difference is I use weight training.”

Wake Forest teams have consistently been at the top of the national rankings and several athletes have gone on to star professionally and that success is due to the attitude that resonates throughout the athletic department.

“No one kid is better than another kid in this room and not one sport is more important than another,” Reeve said.

“We are here just for kids and hopefully we are here to educate and make them better citizens, better husbands, wives and parents. We want them to be better when they leave here.”

Like the NCAA commercial suggests, this program produces men and women who will be successful no matter what they go pro in.

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At the Centex, RUCKUS went 3-3 against some of the most competitive teams in the country.

At Regionals, the Demon Deacons won their pool by beating Emory, N.C. State and Charleston with scores in the double digits while holding their opponents to single digits.

In the championship bracket, the women were victorious against Georgia 15-11 before beating UNC-Chapel Hill in the finals, 17-7.

From Regionals, both Wake and the Tar Heels automatically advanced to the 2008 Ultimate Players Association (UPA) College Ultimate Championships.

With a relatively large roster, the team has good depth with competitive talent in each grade level. They will rely on this for Nationals.

The team is led by co-captains senior Lucia Derks, who is competing for Atlantic Coast All-Region Player of the Year and junior Laura Caccavale.

Freshmen Kennedy Wolf, who is nominated for Atlantic Coast All-Region Freshman of the Year, has also contributed significantly to the squad.

Both members have helped lead the team through tournament games and practices all year.

“Most people think of Ultimate Frisbee as a laid back sport. Our practices are intense and our coach (Tammy Moose) pushes us to be in great physical shape in order to win,” freshman Lauren Dayton said.

The team’s attitude has changed drastically this year.

“This year we stepped it up and decided to show people that we actually deserve a lot of recognition,” Derks said. “A lot also has to do with Tammy, our coach.

She’s helped us a lot. Sometimes it takes a while for things to get together, and it finally did this year. Our team has gelled really well.”

Nationals will be held May 16-18 in Boulder, Co. Wake will be joined by 15 teams in the women’s division of the UPA Nationals.

There are eight regions, all sending the top two finishers from their tournaments, except the Northwest, which is sending three teams and the South, which is only being represented by one team.

Last year’s champions, the Stanford Cardinals, did not even advance to the College Championships this year.

The Deacons will be joined at Nationals with 13 of the top 15 women’s teams in the country.

While specific team schedules have not yet been released, the team is guaranteed to play May 16 in pool play. May 17 begins the women’s division semi-finals, followed by the women’s division finals May 18.

“It would be incredible. For us to go from never having made it to Nationals to (making it) to the game to win it all, it would probably make my life,” Derks said.

To raise money for their trip to Boulder, the team held a fund raiser at Rose’s Deli on University Parkway. The team recieved a percentage of the profits from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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By CeCe Brooks and Kara Peruccio | Life editors When the beach gets too crowded or you want to do something fun, go with your friends and see a movie. Most summer movies, though blockbusters, are not Oscar quality. We’ve sifted through the junk to find some of the best this year has to offer. Buy a popcorn and enjoy the show!

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s | The Dark Knight If there is one movie you have to see this summer, it’s this highly anticipated sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins. In addition to returning Christian Bale as the title hero, it is also Heath Ledger’s final completed film. As the Joker, the beloved actor described his character as “a mass murdering schizophrenic clown.” The film will be chilling and is one you cannot miss. – K. P. IN THEATERS JULY 18

(Not Another) Date Movie | Made of Honor Grey’s Anatomy’s Patrick Dempsey is hitting the chick flick genre this summer as a womanizer named Tom, who realizes his true feelings for his best friend, Hannah, right after she gets engaged.

Hannah asks him to be her maid of honor and he decides it’s the perfect opportunity to win her heart. Only time will tell if it becomes this summer’s chosen romantic comedy. – C. B. IN THEATERS MAY 2

Hello Lover | Sex and the City Everyone’s beloved quartet of Manhattan fashionistas are finally hitting the big screen. After a four year wait, fans have lots of questions: Will Carrie and Big tie the knot? Does Miranda’s marriage survive? Is Charlotte pregnant? Will Samantha ever find true love? Sex and the City is sure to be filled with cosmos, Manolos and sex! – K. P. IN THEATERS MAY 30

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Journey Back to Narnia | Prince Caspian The next movie from C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series has arrived. The Pevensie’s have spent a year away from Narnia but they return only to find that hundreds of years have passed. Now an evil dictator, Miraz, rules over the land and the children fight, along with the help of Aslan the lion to restore Prince Caspian, Miraz’s nephew, to the throne. – C. B. IN THEATERS MAY 16

A Night Out with the Girls | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera was reportedly not happy she had to make this sequel to the 2005 film, which skips over the second and third books and focuses on the fourth. The first movie was the first time we saw Gossip Girl Blake Lively and everyone’s favorite Gilmore, Alexis Bledel is back.

Amber Tamblyn rounds out the cast. – K. P. IN THEATERS AUGUST 8

Everybody was... | Kung Fu Panda

Like so many animated movies, Kung Fu Panda follows a strikingly human-esque animal world.

Po is a slacker panda who dreads working daily in his family’s noodle shop but gets the chance to fulfill his kung fu dreams. In typical kiddie movie fashion, there is a lesson to be learnt, as Po must believe in himself to save his valley from a treacherous snow leopord. – C. B. IN THEATERS JUNE 6

Lamest Title Ever? | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull The original trilogy found our hero battling the Nazis. Now Indy (Harrison Ford, still hot at 65) fights against USSR agents (one of whom is played

by Cate Blanchett) for a crystal skull. Joining his entourage is Shia LaBeouf. The movie promises action and the usual Indy theatrics. – K. P. IN THEATERS MAY 22

Song and Dancing Queen | Mamma Mia! Who’s your daddy? Meryl Streep stars in the film adaptation of the successful musical based on ABBA songs. It tells the story of Sophie (Amand Seyfried), whose mother refuses to reveal the identity of her father. So, she invites three men who could possibly be her father to her own wedding on the very island that they knew her mother decades ago. Mamma mia! – C. B. IN THEATERS JULY 18

He’s not James Bond | Wanted Summer moviegoers are never short on action films. Wanted is the story of an average guy who becomes recruited into a fraternity of assassins.

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Everybody Must Get Stoned | Pineapple Express Adding to the Judd Apatow pantheon of films is Pineapple Express. Seth Rogen stars as stoner Dale Denton who becomes the sole witness to a murder. While fleeing the scene, Denton drops his weed – the rare Pineapple Express. Denton and his dealer (James Franco) run for their lives after learning the weed is traceable. The film is sure to appeal to all of Apatow’s fans. – K. P. IN THEATERS JUNE 27

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Fair takes on a whole new meaning Hard Candy

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As the school year comes to an end, let’s all take a moment to reflect upon the days passed, turbulent and shining all in the same.

Actually, I guess this week is the perfect time finally to hold true to my official title. “He Said: Advice on sex and the fairer sex.” I’m going to take fair quite ambiguously, so here are a few options of different routes I could have taken this past year.

Sex should be much fairer: the rulebook between men and women is never reviewed and, for that matter, the sex referees get paid a little much for having a completely absent track record, except for that one freaky

couple who likes sports-themed festivities.

Sex should be much fairer: too many dark-haired couples are dominating the scene these days. It’s simply not fair to many unfortunate people, like those poor, poor blondes. They just need a bone thrown to them; they can’t help the inherent unfairness in sex. Blondes may have more fun, but not more sex, apparently.

Sex should be much fairer: the Federation for American Immigration Reform (F.A.I.R) has its priorities all wrong. They need to start worrying about real issues affecting millions.

So, please, leave that big wall out of the picture and let’s see some real reform for once.

Now, as Kelly Curran mentioned last week, I’ve also been avoiding the whole Carrie Bradshaw thing all year, too. Before I go on, Kelly, you are my Carrie Bradshaw; just thought you should know that.

Going back to the real Carrie, though, maybe if I had looked more closely to her genius I could have dug

up more from that field of sexualinspired writing. Let’s see what gems she has produced: “As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can’t help but whine. ‘Are we there yet?”

Nope, definitely wrong there.

But seriously, I’m facing a little bit of a dilemma here. I want my last article for the year to leave something that all of you can take around in your front pockets all summer, comfortable with the delicious closure with a growling appetite for more. Because I feel like we’ve had a good year. I’ve been inspired by your antics, and hopefully you’ve gotten something for me. And I’m just not okay with parasitic relationships. By scientific terms, I would have caused so much harm at this point you would all be on your deathbeds. So if this is not true, don’t do anything, and I’ll know everything is O.K. I don’t know what the future holds, but I will say I’m hopeful. Maybe I’ll come back inspired with the most

luscious of lusciousness ready to be thrown into text. We will see, but I’m happy with what has happened thus far, no matter what happens next.

Like many, though, I can’t say I’m not excited for the summer. Getting an extended period of time with family and past friends is always a plus, and the break from the work will give us time to recuperate, recharge, and then restart. Have an enjoyable summer out there, be safe and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do. Whatever that is, from the obscure to the mundane, of course.

Just make sure in some way you incorporate the development and progression fairness in there somewhere. I’ll be off at the local fair, hanging out with the Christian alt-rock band Fair reading my Vanity Fair. So, fair well.

“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.

Lummox | By Will Warren

Top 10 Greatest Movies Entertainment Weekly saw all the movies so you don’t have to. If you’re bored over the summer, head over to Blockbuster to rent one of these classic films.

1. The Godfather 2. Citizen Kane 3. Casablanca 4. Chinatown 5. Raging Bull 6. La Dolce Vita 7. The Godfather, Part II 8. Gone with the Wind 9. Some Like It Hot 10. Singin’ in the Rain

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Movie Review | Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Apatow delivers in latest raunchy film

By CeCe Brooks | Life editor

If you’ve liked any of the Judd Apatow’s previous films (Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin), I’m fairly certain you will like this movie. It’s got that mix of romance that the girls want and raunchiness the guys love.

Be warned though, similar to Knocked Up there is that one scene, or in this case two scenes, you might want to be prepared for. Everyone knows what I’m talking about; you know you were warned about the birthing scene in Knocked Up. Well, let’s just say that if you don’t want to see “all” of star Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), I would advise some caution during the beginning and ending scenes.

Peter (Jason Segel) is a composer who makes his living by creating the “dark, ominous tones” for the hit TV show Crime Forgetting Sarah Lab, the star of which just Marshall happens to be his girlfriend, Starring | Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Sarah MarMIla Kunis and Russell Brand shall (Kristen Director | Nicholas Stoller Bell).

Who’s it for? | Those who As a passion enjoy their sweetness with a project, Peter little raunchiness has been composing a rock Running Time | 1 hr 52 min musical about Rating | (out of 5) Dracula. Oh yeah, and he wants there to be puppets.

After we see Peter lounging around his apartment, he gets a call from Sarah. He quickly cleans up and as he gets out of the shower, he realizes she’s arrived.

His excitement quickly turns to dread when she says, “we need to talk.”

After Peter refuses to get clothed and begs her to stay, Sarah reveals that there’s another man and runs away.

After weeks of awkward one-night stands and a mental breakdown on the job, Peter decides to go away to Hawaii.

When he arrives, he gets the nasty surprise that Sarah is there with her new boyfriend, hip British pop star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), who we later find out she was sleeping with a year before she broke up with Peter. Aldous, with his mellow attitude, never seems to grasp the awkwardness of the situation.

With encouragement from his stepbrother Brian (Bill Hader), Peter begins to make friends around the resort and begins spending time with the cute concierge, Rachel (Mila Kunis).

Rachel pushes him to not only get over Sarah Marshall but to realize that he can do things to make himself happy.

Predictably, Sarah realizes that she made a mistake with Aldous and wants Peter back. However, by that point Peter realizes that he was actually so in love with Sarah because of the many things he ignored about her and their relationship.

I won’t divulge the ending, but I will say it is easy enough to see coming. However the movie avoids

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Peter (Jason Segel) struggles to adjust to life without his girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), but a trip to Hawaii blesses him with more than just a suntan. having the love part represent the complete happily ever after, which is so common in romantic comedies. I will talk about the acting later, but I believe the writing, ironically written by star Jason Segel, was the best part of this movie.

Some funny quips include, “She’s complicated, like The Da Vinci Code, except harder to crack,” “He’s like Gandhi! But better – he likes puppets” and some others not fit for print.

Regarding the acting, most of the stars were very entertaining, especially some of those with minor roles such as Jack McBrayer (30 Rock) as Darald, yet some of the leads felt like odd choices to me.

Maybe that’s the genius of Judd Apatow though.

I am still torn whether or not I think Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars and Heroes) was an appropriate choice for Sarah Marshall. I can’t tell if it was the character or the acting I didn’t like. Yes she’s gorgeous and believable as a television star, but she just seemed misplaced. Maybe I just don’t want to let go of Veronica Mars. Mila Kunis (That ‘70s

Show), apart from an overkill tan, was very good as Rachel.

On the opposite end, I feel that Russell Brand was perfect for the role of Aldous Snow with the mellow attitude that no one can seem to decide is cool or just annoying. (P.S. – If you think he’s a bit too into the make-up in the movie take a look at some pictures of him in real life.) Some amusing cameos were made by Billy Baldwin and Jason Bateman as TV detectives alongside Sarah Marshall.

Even if you don’t enjoy it, there’s a fun game you can play. It’s like “Where’s Waldo.” Similar to how Adam Sandler always has the same couple of guys in all the movies he produces, Judd Apatow is showing a similar trend in his movies. Jonah Hill, Bill Hader and Paul Rudd all had at least small roles. I half expected Seth Rogen to pop up in a corner.

I cannot guarantee universal approval of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but it made me laugh and since that is a rare thing for me, I at least enjoyed it.

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Event Review | UMOJA

Ensemble presents thought-provoking works

By Katie Breidenbach | Contributing writer

Lo and behold, finals are here. Most of us are flinching every time we pass by the library and wondering how on earth we are going to get it all together in the next week.

And to the seniors – I’ll bet some of you are really wondering how you’re going to get it all together now that you’re heading for the “real” world.

On April 29, the UMOJA Multicultural Theatre Ensemble directed by Jaymi Thomas performed a series of works by black playwrights that could help us all figure out how we’re going to make it through.

The works included plays by Aishah Rahman, Danitra Vance and Richard Wesley and delivered on the theme of what it means to get it together and find a little mojo in your life – or that little spark that helps you get it together.

The first piece, The Mojo and the Sayso

by Rahman, portrayed a family who has lost a son in a senseless murder.

The mother, Awilda (sophomore Aleisha Price), and her husband Acts (alumna Terryl Dozier) and Awilda’s son by another man, Blood, (senior Donte McGuire) mourn the loss of Lioness, who is the son of both Awilda and Acts.

Each member of the family grieves in a different way. Awilda finds solace and her mojo at church and listening

to the word of God. Acts thinks this is ridiculous and finds energy to move on by immersing himself in junkyards and collecting parts to build a car to drive around town.

Blood wants revenge, thinking that killing Lioness’ murderer will calm his conscience.

However, Acts reminds Blood that even though he is an adopted son, he carries the family name and that that means something about who he is.

Throughout the play, viewers are forced to think about who they are, how they handle adversity, how they relate to people in their lives and how they cope in order to go to get it together.

The second piece, a monologue from Live and In Color, by Vance showed a young ambitious actress, Flotilda Williams (senior Lauren Smith), in her role as Juliet from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Flotilda offers a lighthearted and humorous take on the play and what Shakespeare is really having Juliet say in her role.

These “capsulets” and “montagues” highlight the excitement and charm of the rising young actress and her personal view of what Romeo and Juliet would be in a modern world.

Provoking a lot of laughs and some thought, Smith gave a great performance and made the viewer think about what mojo is and what sparks excitement and

happiness in our lives that keep us going every day.

The last piece, a one act play titled Getting It Together by Richard Wesley, was set in New Jersey in the 1970s.

A couple, Nate (senior Troy Pellom, and Coretta (alumna Tiffany Waddell), are struggling with their relationship.

Nate is abusive, seeing another woman and unwilling to settle down and marry Coretta. Coretta, portrayed as a strong woman and the mother to their son, becomes powerless each time Nate hurts her.

The play focuses on how Coretta finds the strength to stand up to Nate and challenge him to change his behavior and get his life together or leave.

Nate, in turn, must find his mojo to work on the relationship, become a real father and be the partner that Coretta needs.

Overall, the evening provided a great break from a hectic start to the week and prompted each of us in the audience to think about what really gets us through each day.

Perhaps your mojo does come from dreaming about the car you want to own some day, being active in your church and faith or even thinking and dreaming about being a famous actor or actress one day.

Maybe it’s as simple as taking a little break from the chaos known as F.I.N.A.L.S. and going to see the new

Q&A | Gideon Yago

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The UMOJA Multicultural Theatre Ensemble presented three plays dealing with discovery and overcoming obstacles on April 29.

Harold and Kumar movie, daydreaming about posties or munching on those cookies you stole from the Pit.

Whatever it is, find your mojo, and get it together this week, and the next, and the next.

Event Review | Spring Dance Concert

Popular journalist sits down to chat Annual spring concert supports a green cause

By Walker Kalan | Staff writer

Unless you were a total dweeb in high school, you watched MTV (and continue to do so), and your only source of news was the two minute slots at the :50 mark each hour. Gideon Yago was one of MTV’s feature correspondents from 2000-2006 who helped introduce our generation to difficult concepts like “voting” and “contraception.” He has had the privilege of interviewing Presidents Bush and Clinton, Al Gore, John McCain, Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela and many more influential figures. I had the privilege of interviewing him after he spoke to a crowd in Carswell Hall about youth voting trends.

WK: So, I did some research on you … you got 33,000 Google hits. I think I got about 52 hits myself, and only about 9 of those were actually me— Gideon Yago: Is that good? Is 33,000 Google hits good?

WK: I think it’s pretty good. I mean, I only got nine … I searched your name in quotes, so I’m sure if I took the quotes off, you would’ve gotten more hits …

So my question is, what are the pros and cons of being in the public eye?

GY: Uh, well the pros are kind of obvious. It makes things a lot easier…

WK: Getting into restaurants…?

GY: Yeah, but not just that. Also, when you pitch an idea to a magazine, to a newspaper, you know, the fact that you’re someone in the public eye, there’s an assumption that there’s gonna be an audience that comes up to follow you … it certainly helped my dating life, which is to say there were women that would not have peed on me if I was on fire in college (At this point I interrupted Yago to ask him about a rumor that he had dated one of my friend’s sisters a while back.

This was followed by about two minutes of off-the-record awkwardness) WK: So, you’re 30 now … In the latter days of your time at MTV, did you ever get the feeling, like when you go home and you’re at a party, and you look around, and everyone is younger than you?

GY: Things didn’t change that much.

The executives just stayed. There were a lot of new staffers that came in that I didn’t really get a chance to know, but the turnover rate…

WK: I mean, the whole youth slant of their programming…

GY: I felt like after 2004 I stayed there a little bit too long. I stayed there two more years because I tried to launch a show in 2005, and people told us it was going to potentially be real, but it didn’t turn out, and I was locked into a two year contract … In 2005 I covered all this very intense stuff. Coming off the election I was burnt out. Then I covered the tsunami in 2005 and spent about a month and a half in Colombia and then Katrina happened. Then I covered the earthquake in Pakistan. My whole year was really defined by devastation and human suffering.

WK: You talked about MTV’s evolution, how they shifted from music videos to The Real World and all the reality shows. Now, you’ve got The Hills, Laguna Beach, My Super Sweet Sixteen, all the Paris Hilton coverage.

It seems like they’re pushing the rich white kid thing pretty hard. What are your thoughts on that?

GY: It’s kind of indicative of the tabloidization of everything in America.

You know, the most successful magazines in the last few years have been Star, US Weekly, OK! and People … The iconography and those appetites reflect us as a society … I can’t pass condemnation on marketplace dynamics, and I also can’t say its totally bad, because if the person who cures cancer is also a huge American Idol fan, what does one have to do with the other?

WK: What’s the craziest situation you’ve been put in as a journalist?

Like, cracked-out Whitney Houston, or anything like that?

GY: There’s been a lot. Everything was just so nuts in Iraq. When we were driving back between Fallujah and Baghdad there was a major tank battle that was going on in front of us. The highway in front of us was barricaded because we thought people were trying to rob us, so we were like, “f*** it, let’s drive down the highway anyway!” And so these tanks are firing over our heads, and we’re like, “OH MY GOD! What if they think we’re a target? What do we do? Do we drive back through to Fallujah in the dark, or do we just wait for this tank battle to blow over and drive back to Baghdad?”

WK: Having spent a good amount of time in Iraq, what would you say is the most under-reported aspect of the whole thing?

GY: The experience of the Iraqis is something we don’t really talk about because the dialogue in this country

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is very much framed around “Good thing/Bad thing? Right or wrong for America?” … We don’t talk about the fact that there are five million refugees from the Iraq War, that’s double the number of the people that are in the Darfur crisis, and yet Darfur seems to command the national attention—

WK: Darfur still doesn’t get that much attention— GY: Yeah, it still doesn’t get that much attention … This is going to fall on your generation, how you guys handle it.

WK: How do you feel about Obama?

GY: I think it’s fabulous that you’ve got a candidate that’s found a way to enfranchise so many young voters and who young voters feel is their own. We always felt that was the missing piece in 2004 in terms of making that the election of young voters.

WK: What would you say is the worst piece of advice college age kids are given as they are about to enter the workforce, and what is a helpful piece of advice that is often overlooked?

GY: I’d say it’s not the piece of advice that’s given but the subtle social enforcement around the needs to do certain things. There’s such a value around achievement and conformity in this country.

We’re taught from a very young age that if we take a certain class, it will prepare us for a certain curriculum, to apply to a certain tier of college, and that will set you up to get a certain kind of job, like all of life is a strategic f*****g game.

And what that completely does, is that political/strategic thinking bleeds out the capacity for any randomness, weirdness, joy, pursuit, self-discovery … And I’m not saying the answer is to go do dope on a beach in Indonesia and touch God and come back wearing flip-flops and dreadlocks.

I have a lot of friends who are Israelis, and in Israel, its considered par for the course to spend a year of two traveling the world. And its not like these guys are Uncle Moneybags. They figure it out!

You work some s*** job at some surf town somewhere. Or you ride the cheap train; you don’t get the Prada bag.

The $600 you were going to use to buy the new iPod, you use to buy a Eurail pass instead.

And you live off your own wits, and challenge yourself, and I think that’s the right way to do it.

Spring performance is a show of creativity but lacks passion

By Ae’Jay Mitchell | Staff writer

Modern dance instructor and performer Martha Graham once described dance to be the hidden language of the soul.

Well, between April 24-27 the souls of 12 student choreographers brilliantly permeated Scales Fine Arts Center’s Mainstage during the 2008 Spring Dance Concert.

With a theme of “Going Green,” the concert was publicized on 100 percent recycled postcards and posters, was costumed with pieces from existing stock or from personal closets and was layered with “choreographic motifs” following going green ideas.

Although the dance company was full of passion for its theme of sustainability, many dancers lacked the fervor necessary to fully convey their choreographer’s message.

Many pieces became a static reproduction of movement, failing to break the stage’s proscenium.

Sophomore Janelle Summerville’s piece “Transform” effectively used the entire theatre, giving an exciting beginning to the concert.

Full of repetition and dancer connectivity, the piece moved with extreme fluidity. Sophomore soloist Jennifer Hayden danced beautifully.

However, Summerville’s choreography left the piece difficult to follow.

“Lost/Found in Translation,” choreographed by senior Anna Banerjea, was bland. Even though her exploration of dance linguistics was terrific, the piece fell short of its potential.

Many points of the dance appeared to be unrehearsed improvisation performed by uncertain dancers.

Senior Morgan Partin’s “Some Things Never Change,” affectionately called the “Couch Dance,” was an exquisite journey through time’s effect on friendship and love.

The intimacy and emotion of the dancers invited the audience into their quintet. The transitions were unpleasantly jerky, but the piece, as a whole, worked extremely well.

Senior Sarah Klyap’s piece was new and different. The modern dancers moved with breath taking agility.

The mix of implicit and explicit footprints captured the show’s theme perfectly.

Senior Caitlin Patrick’s “SeafoamLimeOliveGrassForest” featured superb movement dressed in green garbs. The transitions were seamless.

However, again, the dancers failed to show passion; they appeared to be merely going through the motions.

Hip-hop on a concert stage is a rare commodity, but senior India Diaz brought it, and brought it well.

With 16 dancers, Diaz brought modern, jazz and ballet dancers into the

world of banging bass lines and syncopated dance movements. It was a nice splash of energy to the concert.

And then, there is ballet. Senior Adriana Dew’s “Fiddles, Flowers, and Floating” was an impressively choreographed ballet. The dancers’ technique was great, but most faces were dead.

Not only are they dancers – they are performers, and I did not see the performance quality. Congratulations to sophomores Sarah Brown and Jennifer Hayden, senior Elizabeth Cain and freshman Laura Underwood for consistently performing.

“Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary” was a wonderful exploration of movement. Senior Brooke Vogel, choreographer, tested the rote definition of dance and created an innovative piece.

However, like Banerjea, the piece did not reach its full potential, causing points of faulty technique and incoherent transitions.

Senior Dorian Cowan’ choreography grooved through the “Century.”

Dedicated to her parents, Cowan paired decades according to parent/ child relationships (‘20s –‘40s, ‘30s ‘50s, etc.). Although the piece was enjoyable, it had a slightly rudimentary air. This piece seemed a mere patchwork of dance movements of the various decades. The addition of soft shoe tap dance moves was very distracting and did not work.

Senior Kelly Mullen’s translation of visual art in terms of dance was phenomenal.

The dancers movements showed individual reactions to visual art, but remained cohesive.

This piece, “The Lost Art of the Idle Movement,” was a necessary and pleasing addition to the concert.

Sophomore Allison Fuster’s piece, “Solstice,” exhibited extremely mature work and was a delightful surprise.

The dancers’ moved as one force, with one message.

However, some of Fuster’s message was lost due to a lack of connectivity with the audience. All in all, a beautiful piece from a growing dancer.

Senior Jamie Patterson’s “Welcome to the Sixties” was an explosion of passion, musicality and energy.

With 16 dancers, Patterson’s choreography presented a great understanding of fifties’ dance moves. Throughout their excitement and grandiose performance, the dancers did not lose their technique and training.

The piece was a perfect ending to the concert.

Under costumer Lisa Weller’s supervision, the costumes were appropriate and lively. Rob Eastman-Mullins’ light design was sometimes over-the-top and distracting, adding a high school talent show feeling to the concert.

The stage management and board crews were terrific in keeping the show at a reasonable pace and technically sound.

All in all, the Spring Dance Concert was a beautiful exploration of movement for an amazing Pro Humanitate cause that would have been a joy for any audience member.

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Music Review | Flight of the Conchords

New Zealand duo means business with first full album

By Will Burke | Staff writer

New Zealand’s third most popular folk rock duo has finally released their first full album, Flight of the Conchords.

The album features Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement singing 14 tracks off of their hugely popular television series on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.

The band goes on a musical journey across themes from love at first sight to the robotic uprising of the late ‘90s to David Bowie (Yeah that’s right, I said late ‘90s).

Flight of the Conchords, like Tenacious D before them, relies heavily on its creative and humorous lyrics to entertain the listener, “You’re so beautiful, like a tree, or a high-class prostitute” being one example off of the track, “The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room).”

The tracks often lampoon various styles and common themes used in music. “Business Time” is probably the funniest and saddest love-making song I’ve ever heard, and “Think About It” raises some very important issues facing

society today “Why are we still paying so much for sneakers when you got little kid slaves making them?”

Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie formed the band in 1998 while living together in college.

Since then, they have received international recognition for their act and released an EP titled The Distant Future in 2007.

McKenzie also played an elf extra in two of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies (I’m not even kidding, go Google Figwit).

The two split the musical loads evenly, taking turns singing lead on every track except for “Leggy Blonde,” which features Rhys Darby, their co-star from the television show who plays Murray the band manager.

Because these songs are all featured in the Flight of the Conchords episodes, a lot of the visual humor is lost when the songs are turned into tracks.

One of the tracks is sung entirely in French, and, while it is one of their catchiest songs, the campy performances in the music video make it even better.

Puritanical fans of the TV series will also probably complain at some of the changes made on several of the tracks.

“Robots” sounds much more polished than the live version on The Distant Future, and the over-stylization actually seems to detract from the song.

One of my favorite songs from the show, “Bowie,” is unnecessarily rushed at the intro to the song as well.

There are also several really good songs (“Frodo” and “Cheer up Murray” being two examples) missing from both The Distant Future and Flight of the Conchords that could disappoint some fans.

Don’t think that these complaints make this a bad purchase.

Any fan of the show will be able to appreciate the quirky and often selfdeprecating humor of Flight of the Conchords.

There are 14 tracks plus a track of Clement and McKenzie saying goodbye at the end.

All in all, you get plenty of bang for your buck.

This is a good album because it’s a great mother flippin’ show.

Photo courtesy of kevchino.com

Comic duo Flight of the Conchords uses humorous lyrics and material from its HBO series to make an entertaining album.

Event Review | Spring Choral Concert

Book Review | After Dark

Concert welcomes springtime

Murakami creates mystical world

The Spring Choral Concert featured the concert choir, Collegium Musicum Vocal Ensemble and the Wake Forest Chorale performing choral music from France.The performance, directed by Brian Gorelick was an overriding success.

Collegium was up first and they sung all their pieces in French.

Their first song was “Revecy venire du printans” by Claude Le Jeune. It was a very upbeat and happy work about the return of spring, “the beautiful season of love.” It began with everyone together, followed by a section with just the sopranos and altos.

Long syllables were equated with quarter notes and short syllables with eighth notes. There was a five-part refrain alternating with verses of gradually increasing number of voices before finishing high with everyone singing “even those who don’t realize they are in love melt with pleasure.”

Their second piece was “Au joli bois” by Claudin de Sermisy. This was a very lyrical and sentimental song. The third work, “La, la, la, je ned l’ose dire,” composed

by Pierre Certon, who is known for his chansons, was short and humorous. It is syllabic and homorhythmic reflecting the style in vogue in the middle of the 16th century.

“Dieu, qui’il la fait bon regarder” by Claude Debussy was up next. This had a Renaissancelike texture and is an extraordinary example of word painting.

These qualities combined effectively with the harmonic palette of the French impressionist era.

The song is a poem praising the Lord for a beautiful woman, in the sense it is certainly romantic.

Their final piece, “Verger,” by Paul Hindemith is based off of a poem by Ranier Maria Rilke.

This piece featured phrasing and lightness of the Renaissance along with a harmonic language that, according to the program, is unique to Hindemith. The altos and sopranos singing very fluid beamed notes while the

Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, After Dark, seeks to capture atmospherically the amorphous, alien and dislocating quality of night in the modern city.

In this goal, the internationally known Japanese author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has more in common with the painter Edward Hopper or the jazz artist Curtis Fuller – both of whom his book mentions – than many of his fellow writers.

This artistic affinity means you should either abandon your readerly expectations of answers ultimately being dispensed or opt not to venture past the first page. Murakami is unconcerned with your need for a tight, ordered narrative in which every disparate element ultimately connects.

In After Dark’s nebulous reality — a mixture of surrealist fancy and realism — a sleeping girl is sucked through a television screen, an anonymous man wears a transluscent, “plastic wrap” mask as tightly as “a second skin” and an apparently well-adjusted family and salary-man brutally beats and robs a prostitute simply because “he had to” before he goes back to complete his night’s work in his office.

The novel takes place between the hours of midnight and 7a.m., in a Tokyo with few recognizable features.

The plot centers around Mari Asai, a plain, prickly 19-year old college student who’s decided to pass the night reading in the Denny’s of one of Tokyo’s entertainment districts.

She’s fleeing her family home, where her modelbeautiful older sister, Eri, has been voluntarily and inexplicably sleeping for two months.

As the night progresses, Mari encounters a young jazz trombonist named Takahashi with whom she once went on an awkward double date, a female ex-pro-wrestler who now manages a seedy “love” motel and her maid staff and a Chinese prostitute who’s been pummeled and robbed by a dissatisfied client.

All of these unconventional figures draw Mari into conversations that contain rare frankness and real human connection, transcending the stilted, almost scripted conversations strangers and acquaintances usually have.

Besides their names and a few other details, Murakami’s characters could be from anywhere — they reference the Boston Red Sox, Western movies such as Love Story and Alphaville, and patronize such chains as Denny’s and 7-Eleven.

By Conner Swarbrick | Asst. Sports editor

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Three different choral groups came to together on April 24 to make an ecclectic choral program. tenors and bases sang staccato.

The Wake Forest Chorale then came on to sing “Cantique de Jean Racine” by Gabriel Faure.

This piece, which was sung in English, is a religious hymn. The piece began with a piano accompaniment and was intense and diverse. The second piece, which was sung in French, was “Sa Nuit d’ Ete” by Morten Lauridsen written to a poem by Ranier Maria Rilke. The poem is clear and has a deep passion. Morten Lauridsen presents both of these with his melodic and harmonic richness.

“Gloria” by Francis Poulenc was performed by the concert choir, Wake Forest Chorale and university orchestra. It is divided into six short movements which have strong musical contrasts.

The first part, “Gloria,” forms the basis of the movement. The chorus enters with a dotted figure to the word “Gloria.”

The second movement “Laudamus Te” is more playful. The

chorus is divided into pairs of voices exchanging a series of short phrases.

The third section, “Dominus Deus,” is very expressive and a soprano soloist performs a yearning melody while the chorus supports.

The playful mood returns with “Domine Fili Unigenite,” which is an example of the stark contrast.

Another soprano soloist performs in the next part ,“Dominus Deus, Agnus Dei.” Here the soloist and chorus combine and exchange lyrical phrases.

The sixth movement begins with a short majestic opening before moving on to a very peaceful section. However, Poulenc has to close with a loud interjection recalling the dotted “Gloria” from the opening.

The performance saw a good crowd and featured the premier choral talent at the university.

When all three groups came together to perform the Mass, it was a beautiful display.

By Meg Smith | Staff writer

They possess globally modern nameless anxieties, too. Midway through the book, Takahashi introduces a metaphor for the awful, mysterious sense of oppression all of the characters seem to feel.

He tells Mari that he has a vision of “a giant octopus living deep at the bottom of the ocean” in whose tentacles every person is caught up in and is “getting sucked into the darkness.”

Each character seems to feel himself or herself in the grip of such an abstract creature as the octopus, although no one else ever expresses it so specifically.

Murakami has his characters each struggle to articulate a feeling of helpless entrapment all the more menacing in its vagueness, giving his novel the dreamlike quality of a world beyond logic.

As Mari goes about her insomniac night, her slumbering sister Eri is pulled through her TV into a frightening and bizarre otherworld that seems representative of whatever it was that drove her to take refuge in sleep in the first place.

Neither the reader nor Eri ever gain any insight into what has happened, but her perplexed horror resonates hauntingly when she rejects her new surroundings as a type of life after death reflexively because, “If dying meant being shut up alone inside a vacant room in an isolated office building, it was too utterly lacking any hope of salvation.”

Murakami’s refusal to explain much of his novel to the reader can be very frustrating. The way in which he strings together seemingly unrelated and impenetrable story elements without allowing them to cohere often feels more clumsy and confusing than artfully postmodern. The novel is flawed in other ways, too. The dialogue of his characters sometimes feels contrived and their insights obvious and trite.

For example, Mari laments that she and her sister are not closer in weirdly precise and uncharacteristic terms, complaining that “when I needed her the most, she had the least freedom to respond to my need.”

A passage in which Mari has a conversation with a maid with a shadowy past at the love hotel is bumbling and awkward, full of painfully banal revelations the two share.

It’s difficult to not feel a derision Hurakami does not intend when the maid earnestly and importantly reveals that she feels as if she’s “racing with (her) own shadow” that she can never shake off and that “people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”

Despite these provocations in content, After Dark succeeds, mainly due to the sweetness of the budding romance between Mari and Takahashi and the mystical, tenuous impressions Murakami is able to create of his characters’ estrangement and loneliness. Nothing is resolved, but Murakami humanely leaves his reader with the possibility of deliverance through profound human connections as he leads his characters into morning.

Nuclear Cooooookie Crisp | Not for the faint of heart

Repetition skills make reading the paper a bit more comprehensive Austin H. Jones Staff columnist

This year in my column, I haven’t really talked about all that much.

And the things that I have written about and that you, the reader, have read, amount to very little as a whole.

All in all, I haven’t really managed to say much; especially if you take each article alone, there’s very little substance – mainly a lot of dashes, commas, abbreviations, etc. – but just a bunch of semicomplex sentences and a wide variety of overly-hyphenated descriptive language.

Ninja! Late August of 2007 marked the beginning of my published career.

– That is, if you don’t count my third grade award-winning poem “Red Bird,” which went something like this: “Red Bird/I see you fall/my eyes.”

It was the beginning of something even bigger – a time when I was still hot with the fervor of summer.

I wasn’t sure if I would be able to develop the necessary ability to fit parenthetical statements into other parenthetical statements.

I think I’ve got it down pat, though.

Let’s see … what was I saying? Oh, that’s right: nothing.

I hope I at least provide a tiny break from the reader’s banal paper-reading life.

A chuckle here and there doesn’t hurt when reading a newspaper that thinks so much of itself (especially compared to how much it should think of itself ) as

the Old Gold & Black. Then again, I’ve read some pretty bad campus newspapers from colleges around the nation. Don’t ask me what I was doing reading the University of Wyoming’s Branding Iron online earlier tonight.

I guess I could pass it off as research.

Let me explain: when I’m feeling really, really bad about myself and my lack of accomplishment, I like to look at other people who are doing more horribly than me and point and laugh and laugh and laugh at them.

It’s like going to a debate competition if you feel like your social skills are lack-

ing. Or like reading this newspaper if you feel like you’ve been having trouble thinking of things to put in your last article of the year.

T h a t ’s right, ladies; this is my last article of the year.

Did you see how I repeated myself just now in two consecutive lines?

It’s a process I use for lengthening my articles when I don’t have enough words. I call it doubling.

It’s called doubling.

It’s where I just repeat what I just said as if you, the reader (this is a tool that I call an extraneous appositive (and

this a superfluous parenthetical statement)), don’t have the paper right in front of you that you can re-read at any moment.

In case you missed that last paragraph: It’s where I just repeat what I just said as if you, the reader (this is a tool that I call an extraneous appositive (and this a superfluous parenthetical statement)), don’t have the paper right in front of you that you can re-read at any moment.

In case you were curious, I was actually planning on turning in just a list of names of people I had promised to write into one of my articles but never got around to actually doing it.

But I say to those of you who would hold me to that promise instead of letting my spilled glass of literary water flow freely, you are all ninjas in my heart ... whether or not I care about you enough to actually get your name printed.

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Surrender to Sudoku

Z UMBACIZE

Solution from 4/24 Check back next semester for the solution to this week’s problem. If you hadn’t noticed, we like to keep people waiting in suspense.

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Student Union sponsored a short course on April 22 in Benson University Center to learn Zumba, a combination of Latin music and cardio exerecise.

Concert Review | Bruce Springsteen

The “Boss” proves that age is just a number in concert

By Jeff Merski | Senior writer

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band made a stop at the Greensboro Coliseum on April 28, and the legendary rockers did not disappoint the crowd, giving the audience a rocking 2 hour 40 minute set of hard rocking music.

The show started with a video tribute to former E Street Band keyboard player Danny Federici, who died earlier this month after battling skin cancer. After the moving tribute, set to Springsteen’s “Blood Brothers” the band came out with two songs from his tracks compilation, “Roulette” and “Don’t Look Back.”

The band started out a little slow on these two songs, but quickly built up the energy and delivered a strong performance on “Radio Nowhere” before bringing out a pair of classics with “Out in the Street” and “The Promised Land” which really fired the crowd up.

Springsteen then brought out a pair of songs from his latest album with the title track “Magic” and “Gypsy Biker.”

“Gypsy Biker” featured an intense guitar solo between Springsteen and guitarist Steven Van Zandt that had the two going

back and forth in a series of furious fretwork that delighted the crowd.

Springsteen then talked to the crowd about Federici, giving anecdotes from their times growing up together in New Jersey before dedicating “It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City” to him. Shortly after “Saint” Springsteen went into audible mode, which is when he calls out songs to perform instead of simply following the setlist. Springsteen came out with “Mary’s Place” and delivered a rousing performance Springsteen then went down by the crowd where he took a fan’s poster that had a song request and played that song, “Waiting on a Sunny Day” which had the crowd singing along to its chorus. After the song, Springsteen took the poster, signed it and returned it to the lucky fan.

Springsteen finished up the first round with “Badlands” which had the crowd singing along to accompany a solo by saxophonist Clarence Clemons. The Big Man was showing some signs of age on stage by walking around gingerly, but he hasn’t lost his ability to deliver stirring sax solos. Springsteen delivered five songs for his encore, and any Springsteen fan

will tell you that this is the most exciting part of the night, as Springsteen brings his biggest songs out during this time.

The crowd roared with approval when “Professor” Roy Bittan’s piano solo was played at at the beginning of “Backstreets” which was followed up by “Bobby Jean.” No Springsteen concert is complete without “Born to Run” which saw the houselights turned up and the entire crowd singing along to this staple.

“Ramrod” came next with an entertaining back-and-forth between Springsteen and Van Zandt, with Springsteen asking “What time is it?” and Van Zandt finally answering “Boss Time.” The last song was “American Land” which featured two accordions and had a distinct Irish flavor to it.

From last night’s concert, you wouldn’t have been able to guess that the vast majority of the members were in their late 50s. Springsteen played as if he were at least 30 years younger than he actually was, delivering a high energy performance that including sliding on his knees during a guitar solo and swinging around on the microphone stand. As one poster on DeaconSports.com said

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band prove they’re still the best in rock and roll and continue to wow fans at every show. so succinctly on a thread reviewing this concert, “For those that feel that Bruce has ‘lost it’ or is no longer ‘relevant,’ let’s see Fall Out Boy or Flo Rida still preach

rock ‘n roll at 59 years of age.” For this group to be delivering hit after hit with so much energy after so many years, it truly is an amazing experience.

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