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“Covers the campus like the magnolias”

Despite increase, faculty salaries still behind

Immigration debate to tackle issues

Salary freeze in 2003’04 created obstacles for leveling pay gap

By Blake Brittain | Staff writer

By Wasif Huda | Contributing writer

The university will be hosting a three-day conference Oct. 3-5 on one of the most controversial issues confronting America today – immigration.

As part of the “Voices of Our Time” series, this summit, called “Immigration: Recasting the Debate,” aims to create debates and dialogues about an issue that plays a vital role for the upcoming presidential campaign.

Both the opening ceremony, to be held at 7 p.m. Oct. 3, and the closing ceremony, to be held at 4 p.m. Oct. 5, will take place in Wait Chapel, while the various sessions tackling specific aspects of immigration will take place in Brendle Recital Hall.

The keynote speakers will be Ray Marshall, U.S. Secretary of Labor during the Carter Administration and Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida.

Marshall has held positions in the New Commission on the Skills of the American Economy, the Industrial Relations Research Association Martinez and the American Economic Association and Council on Foreign Relations, among others.

He has also contributed to over 30 books and monographs, and approximately 200 articles and chapters, including “Getting Immigration Reform Right,” recently published in Challenge.

Martinez is a Cuban-American and the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George W. Bush. Martinez came to the United States at age 15, earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Florida State University and then practiced law for 25 years.

In the Senate, Martinez sits on the Armed Services committee, the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee and the Energy and Natural Resources committee.

According to Peter Siavelis, associate professor of political science and co-organizer of the event, the goal of the conference is to bring to the surface challenges and obstacles, while explaining necessary solutions encompassing U.S. immigration.

Siavelis and the other co-organizer David Coates, Worrell professor of political science, said that they generated the idea for the conference after having an informal discussion about the ugly tone of the debate on immigration in the United States.

Concerns about teacher salaries have always been a sensitive issue at the university.

Under the budget initiative that was introduced in the 2003-’04 school year, faculty salaries were frozen, causing a great deal of tension between teachers and the administration.

While University President Nathan O. Hatch’s administration has made it a priority to increase teacher salaries, some faculty members fear that it might be too little, too late.

From 2002 to 2005, the average salary of a full-time professor increased by only $471, from $102,408 to $102,879, with professor salaries

actually decreasing between 2002 and 2004.

“Under the previous administration, there was actually salary slippage,” said David Coates, faculty senate president and Worrell professor of political science. “This particularly affected junior faculty.”

Instructor salaries decreased by over $1,500 between 2002 and 2004, from $40,816 to $39,342. The teacher salary hierarchy, from highest to lowest pay, is professor, associate, assistant and instructor.

The budget initiative, which included the faculty pay freeze, was introduced in 2003-’04, focused on attempting to recover lost endowment money.

“Some of the endowment was lost in 2001,” said Charles Kennedy, professor of political science and chair of the University Senate’s standing committee on university oversight,

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By Jacob Bathanti | Staff writer University President Nathan O. Hatch’s inauguration three years ago ushered in a strategic planning process, an evaluation and reevaluation of the university’s long-term vision and missions.

Now strategic planning has begun to intersect with the campus master planning process, creating an intersection of two major operations, which in turn opens the door to a major re-imagination and renovation of the university.

The campus master plan is a routine process in which, ideally, the university engages every five years.

It is meant to address the future needs of the campus, as much as a decade in advance, and deals with all conceivable physical aspects thereof – from building space to traffic and green spaces.

According to the campus master plan Web site, this is the first comprehensive master plan since the See Forum, page A3

Photo courtesy of Wake Forest University

Former mobster illuminates life shaped by crime

By Caitlin Brooks | Contributing writer

Halloween night, 1975, before a table amidst some of the most dangerous men in New York City, Michael Franzese made a blood oath to the Colombo mob family and began his rise to infamy.

Blood drips from a cut while in his cupped hands the image of a saint turns to ash, flames licking the dark air.

“Tonight, you are born again; you are born into this family. If you violate this oath, you will burn in hell like this saint burns in your hands,” the mob boss said warningly.

One of the primary money earners in the Colombo family, mob captain Franzese, dealt primarily in the “enormously lucrative edges of the legitimate business world,” according to his Web site www.MichaelFranzese.com.

However, despite the promise of large amounts of money involved, Franzese said that he had never intended on

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Michael Franzese, former mob captain in New York City, speaks Sept. 18 in Pugh, brought to the university by Student Union. Franzese spoke of his life in crime, as well as life since leaving the mob. entering the mob in the first place.

Colombo family) was sent to prison put away for 50 years.

“It was essentially a life term,” As a matter of fact, the infamous for a crime that, “honest to God, he Franzese was pursuing a pre-med as innocent of,” Franzese said. degree when his father (also of the His father, already in his 50s, was See Mafia, page A4

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Sports | B1 Deacs Do It Football earns its first win over Army 21-10 in celebration of Homecoming.

A heated revenge match brews for the Deacs Sept.

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‘Flirt’ Bible series to focus on dating Campus Ministry advocates new approach to relationships

By Chantel O’Neal | Contributing writer

As a young campus ministry with a pending charter, Every Nation Campus Ministry is taking a new approach to campus outreach.

Beginning Sept. 27, Campus Ministry will be sponsoring a new 10-week teaching series called Flirt.

The meetings will be held every Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the basement lounge of Johnson Residence Hall.

The series will be taught by senior Ernest Lewis and junior Will Johnson. Renee Gutiérrez, lecturer of romance languages, will act as a facilitator.

Unlike typical Bible studies, Flirt “We are just trying to uses a more give people the ability common and to walk with God and familiar issue to relate to to walk into a dating the students. relationship, if that is Flirt will attempt to what they want.” explore the Ernest Lewis concept of Senior dating from a Biblical perspective.

It will not only teach students how to build a healthy romantic relationship, but will also address the issues that make it difficult to build healthy relationships.

“What we really want to do is to encourage people to pursue dating in a way that they feel led and to help them have some healthy guidelines on how to do that,” Johnson said.

Dating is an uncomfortable topic to discuss, and this lack of communication helps create misunderstandings.

Flirt is aiming to stop the problems before they even begin by giving students the opportunity to have open discussions about dating.

“Dating is on the unmentionables list.

It is an expectation in college, but it is very rarely something that you talk about.

You’re rarely given guidelines or rules,” Lewis said.

“We are just trying to give people the ability to walk with God and to walk in a dating relationship, if that is what they want.”

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Opinion | A7 Deacon Pride Wright says that she now understands that following graduation, one can’t help but stay connected to the school.

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Brieflies 88.5 WFDD undergoes management changes Michele Gillespie, associate provost for academic initiatives at the university, announced the promotion of Denise Franklin, associate general manager of WFDD to general manager. Jay Banks, the station’s current general manager, will become director of major giving for the station.

Day-long relay race “Hit the Bricks” occuring this week “Hit the Bricks,” the official benefit for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Drive, will take place Sept.

20 on the Hearn Plaza.

WAKE Invasion to Navy fall break package announced Tickets to the university game against Navy Oct. 20 are now on sale at the Benson Ticket Office for $99 roundtrip. The trip includes motor coach transportation to Annapolis, two nights lodging in Annapolis and a game ticket.

The trip departs Oct. 19 and returns Oct. 21.

For more information contact the Benson Ticket Office at ext. 4265.

Music department to hold two more concerts this month The university’s department of music will hold two remaining concerts for the month of September. Both concerts will be held in Brendle Recital Hall and are free and open to the public.

The first occurs at 3 p.m. Sept. 23 and features three department faculty members who will play chamber music selections.The next is scheduled at 8 p.m. Sept. 25 and will be a faculty recital with Louis Goldstein.

South African novelist kicks off fall Writers Reading Series South African novelist Sheila Kohler will initiate the fall 2007 Dillion Johnston Writers Reading Series with a reading and book discussion at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in DeTamble Auditorium.

Reynolds Library commences fall lecture series with banned books Z. Smith Reynolds Library will kick off its fall 2007 lecture series by observing “Banned Books Week,” a nationwide, annual event to promote free expression. Passages from books that have been banned will be read at 4 p.m. Sept. 27 in the atrium at the library.

“Real World for Creative Types” session to be held Sept. 27 The theatre department and Office of Career Services will co-sponsor a career information session at 11 a.m. Sept. 27 in Benson 407. Speakers at the event will include actor/writer Michael Huie, actor Matt Gutschick, producer/host Bradley Kime George and illustration director Keith Hobgood. Sign up in Reynolda 8 or on ECHO.

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Teach for America tackles education

By Molly Nevola | Staff writer

access to a recruiter to apply yearly.

Last year, Davis said about 80 people It started as a senior thesis proposal applied, 19 were accepted and 16 for one student at Princeton University enrolled in the program. in 1989 and now has grown to an She noted that the applications at organization with more than 5,000 the university generally attract more members in 26 regions across the of those candidates who will be comcountry, reaching almost 3 million petitive in the process. students nationwide.

“Recruiting wise, we hope that Today, Teach for America is one of Teach for America will get to the point the most widely known post-under- where consulting firms that come to graduate non-profit programs that campus are,” Davis said. recruits graduates to teach for two In recent years, Teach for America years in low-income communities has become an increasingly visacross the United States. ible presence on college campuses, Its mission is to afford all children thanks to college students who work the opportunity to attain excellent as recruiters, identifying students with education, while encouraging its strong backgrounds in leadership, acaleaders to continue pursuing educa- demics and service. tional equality in Recruiters America. Since search for stuthe program first dents of all majors launched in 1990, “My students live in a reality that to apply, offering is unfathomable to me, and it is them a full year’s 17,000 individuals have particiteaching salary humbling to try to teach them pated, impacting and benefits, as grammar when they have so the lives of 2.5 well as transitional many more serious concerns.” million children grants and loans if nationwide. needed.

Anna Edgerton As the proThe schools in Alumna and Teach for America gram’s many colthese low-income Corp Member lege recruiters communities need report, today in more help than America educathose in other tional inequity is areas to live up to a reality along both socioeconomic the standard of education. and racial lines.

Part of Teach for America’s mission is Children growing up in low-income to find those teachers who are willing families are behind their peers in to overcome challenges to ensure the high-income communities, and half success of their students. of them will not even graduate from “We need people to see how they high school. can impact this national injustice,” The other half, statistics show, will Davis said. read and do math at the level of an The benefits to working for the orgaeighth grader. nization, both personal and academic, Caroline Davis, the head recruiter at are numerous. the university and an alum of Teach for This year, Teach for America jumped America in Washington, D.C., said the from No. 43 last year to No. 10 on program aims to get 10 percent of the BusinessWeek’s Best Places to Launch senior class from each university with a Career list, which annually ranks the

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Students interested in Teach for America watch a presentation at an information session Sept. 18. Eighty seniors applied last year. top U.S. employers for young professionals entering the workforce.

Teach for America has made partnerships with companies, graduate schools, medical schools and law schools that allow students who participate to follow their long-term plans after teaching for two years.

Many of these offers, listed on the Web site, www.teachforamerica.org, include companies such as JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, KPMG and Wachovia among others, as well as over 100 graduate schools that allow a candidate to defer his or her offer while at Teach for America and then resume schooling.

Anna Edgerton, ’07, recounted her experience in her first year teaching in the Bay Area in California. Edgerton

teaches English as Second Language in Richmond, Calif., a city known for its high murder rate.

“My students live in a reality that is unfathomable to me, and it is humbling to try to teach them grammar when they have so many more serious concerns,” Edgerton said, adding that while most prospective candidates of Teach for America hear abstract terms such as “educational inequity” and “low income,” the problems are extremely real.

“The gangs are serious, the police are all but powerless and school is far below secondary in this community.

But there are moments that both break my heart and keep me going at the same time … and I’ve only been here a month,” she said.

Flirt: Ministry supports educational dating series Continued from Page A1

There will also be times that the groups will be divided according to gender so that the discussions Teaching students how to build stable romantic can be more specific to the problems that men and relationships is only the first women deal with. step.

The idea for Flirt began this Flirt will also confront past summer as a personal “The principles that we are going some of the issues that make experience for Johnson. to be talking about can be applied having healthy relationships However, it quickly challenging. expanded into something to more things than just dating and These issues, ranging from that could be offered to the relationships.” the concept of boundaries entire campus.

Will Johnson to interracial dating, put “Our hope is that people Junior an additional strain on will be able to draw closer relationships. together as a spiritual family The weekly meetings will in addition to possibly growbe based on discussion and interaction between ing closer to someone in a romantic relationship,” the students, in hopes that they can learn from Johnson said. one another.

Because Campus Ministry is still growing, the To begin each session, there will be a short predicted number of students that will attend Flirt 12-minute video. ranges from 10 to 15 students.

“Numbers are important, but we feel called to go an inch wide and a mile deep,” Johnson said.

The predictions are based on the attendance of past Bible studies.

Because Flirt is new and different from anything this ministry has done, there is a possibility that more students will attend.

“I expect those who want it to come,” Lewis said.

Although Flirt focuses primarily on romantic relationships, all students are welcome to come to the meetings.

Flirt plans to help those that are currently in a relationship as well as those who are not.

“The principles that we are going to be talking about can be applied to more things than just dating relationships,” Johnson said.

According to Gutierréz, the important thing is to let students know there is a healthier way to start a relationship.

POLICE BEAT

Greek Week promotes unity among organizations Sororities and fraternities will participate in various activities and competitions on campus Oct. 8-12.

There are days until the

Alcohol and Drug Violations • During a routine security check Sept. 10 at Davis House, University Police observed an underage student in possession of alcohol. Information about the incident was provided to Harold Holmes, associate vice president and dean of student services.

• University Police observed Sept. 12 an underage student in possession of alcohol on the Reynolda Hall patio Sept. 11. Information about the incident was provided to the dean’s office.

• University Police observed an underage student in possession of alcohol in parking lot N. Information about the incident was provided to the dean’s office.

• University Police responded to a call Sept. 13 from the University Parkway entrance, where a cab had arrived with an underage student who had been consuming alcohol and was ill. The student was transported to the Student Health Service.

Information about the incident was provided to the dean’s office.

• University Police found an underage student Sept. 13 who had been consuming alcohol passed out at the entrance to the Student Health Service, and she was unresponsive. The student was trans-

ported to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, where she was treated and later released.

Information about the incident was provided to the dean’s office.

• During a routine security check Sept. 15, University Police observed an underage student in possession of alcohol in parking lot B. Information about the incident was provided to the dean’s office.

• A Winston-Salem man failed to stop his vehicle at the University Parkway entrance Sept 16. When University Police stopped him, they found that he possessed marijuana and had outstanding warrants for his arrest. Winston-Salem police were called to take custody of the man.

• A Collins Residence Hall advisor called University Police to assist him during an ID check of a student from Poteat House Sept. 16. The underage student was determined to have consumed alcohol.

Information about the incident was provided to the dean’s office.

• University Police responded to a call Sept. 16 that a man was passed out in Bostwick Residence Hall. The visitor was a guest of a student, who police determined had been consuming alcohol under the age of 21. Information about the incident was provided to the dean’s office.

Thefts • A laptop computer, battery charger and case valued together at $3,105 were reported stolen from an unsecured room in Palmer Residence Hall between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. Sept. 13.

• A license plate was reported stolen Sept. 14 from a student’s vehicle in parking lot R1.

Miscellaneous • University Police responded to three requests for assistance from the Winston-Salem Police Department about noise complaints late Sept. 14 and early Sept. 15 at addresses adjacent to the campus on Brookwood Drive, Polo Road and Long Drive.

No charges were filed, but warnings were issued and information about the incidents was provided to the dean’s office.

University Police responded to 53 calls from Sept. 10 to Sept. 16, including 15 incidents and investigations and 38 service calls.

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Chemistry professor joins radiation dectector project

By Liza Greenspun | News editor

In response to a call by the Department of Homeland Security for proposals for radiation detectors, Brad Jones, professor of chemistry, is working to develop the first handheld field instrument that can be used to detect and identify radioactive particles at the site of potential contamination.

The device, called the “Tungsten Coil Atomic Emission Spectrometer,” can be used to quickly test water, dust, soil, etc. in the case of a terrorist attack such as a “dirty bomb,” or a Radioactive Dispersion Device.

The Approaches for Combating Terrorism grant states, “The radioactive substances most likely to be employed by terrorists are not those enriched isotopes capable of sustaining nuclear chain reactions.” Rather, the report suggests that terrorists will use simpler, more readily accessible substances.

“Such materials could be intentionally released into public water or food supplies, or they could be distributed over a small geographical area by the deployment of a Radioactive Dispersion Device or ‘dirty bomb.’”Jones said that terrorists would be more likely to use materials in a bomb that are much more accessible, such as substances used as tracers in cancer research and more.

“What would happen would not be that a lot of people would die, but that a lot of people would panic,” Jones said of what would happen in the event of a dirty bomb.

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Brad Jones, professor of chemistry, stands with the atomic emissions detector device.

Jones is leading the three-year project to help detect bomb emissions.

The advantage that Jones’ device, which will take three years to complete, would provide in this case is that the portable instrument will measure the levels

of the metal and give results at the site, instead of having to take samples, send them to a lab and wait several days for results.

The device, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security, will have the ability to detect and identify the materials, as well as to tell where they came from and thus who had access to them.

Jones explained that it will also have forensic uses in that it will help to trace the material back to who had it and will be able to follow the contamination back to the site of detonation.

The elements that the instrument can identify omit bright light that can be easily detected by the portable device. In order to perform tests at the sites, the device will need a car battery, whether plugged into the cigarette lighter with a cord, or by carrying along a portable car battery.

A laptop will also be needed at the site to record all the data.

Jones, who specializes in creating spectroscopic instruments, said that when he saw the call for proposals from the Department of Homeland Security he realized that he could adapt a device he designed in 1990 that allowed quick field testing for lead in blood samples.

That particular device quickly became obsolete, Jones said, because lead poisoning was no longer an issue when unleaded gasoline-use became widespread. Jones is leading the team of researchers working on the project, who represent four different institutes including Winthrop University, Western Carolina University and the Federal University of Sao Carlos in Brazil, in addition to Wake Forest, the host institution.

Forum: Architectural firm helps campus planning process spring semester.

The hope is that the full set of recommendations will be submitted by next university’s construction. The three October, to fall within the 12-month other campus master plans, in 1989, target period.

1991 and 2000 address specific aspects ASG will be working with three other of campus planning. consulting firms: Affiliated Engineers, Now the university hopes to consider Inc., which deals with utilities; Biohaball facets of the campus as a whole, in a its, Inc., which deals with environmental holistic fashion. planning; and Martin/Alexiou/Bryson, This time around, the incidence of which deals with issues of transportation the strategic planand traffic. ning process at the The balancing of “We don’t crunch a lot of numpoint of the campus interests inherent in master plan means such an arrangement bers and expect to get the that the goals of may prove useful, answers at the end of that.” strategic planning as a multiplicity of Luanne Greene (essentially, raising interests will have to Ayers Saint Gross the bar across the be accommodated in board at the univerthe process of setting sity and continuing long-term goals. to maneuver it into Two preliminary prime position as a national-caliber forums held Sept. 18 and Sept. 19 school) can be embedded in any long- demonstrated the wide range of issues range facilities planning. and concerns that will have to be balA major focus of the plan, for example, anced. The meeting Sept. 18, held in will be how facilities planning affects Annenberg Forum, addressed faculty the way that faculty, students and staff and staff concerns. interact with each other.

These covered a broad spectrum of With such lofty goals in mind, the issues, ranging from discontent with the university has contracted Ayers Saint physical plant to concerns about the uniGoss, an architectural and planning versity’s interaction with its neighbors. firm based in Baltimore, to help in the Many concerns overlapped with those planning process. at the second meeting held Sept. 19 in Ayers Saint Goss works largely with Benson 409, particularly those having to campuses, having dealt in the past with do with social and recreational spaces. schools from Notre Dame to UNCThat forum was composed of a student Chapel Hill. focus group, with several members of “For us it’s the nuances,” said Luanne Student Government and the student Greene, of Ayers Saint Goss. She went on trustee, senior Carolyn Harbaugh, in to explain that ASG thrives on the unique attendance. particularities of specific campuses.

From the many shortcomings of Trib“We don’t crunch a lot of numbers ble Hall (which according to some of the and expect to get the answers at the faculty members in attendance include end of that,” Greene said, describing too much window space and a paucity of ASG’s approach to campus planning as desks) to the lack of adequate audiovisual qualitative and design-based rather than media space in many classroom buildstatistics-based. ings, professors evinced serious concerns To that expressed end of accommodat- that the university’s classroom buildings ing the wishes of the university commu- are showing their age. nity in the process of moving forward, Stephen Whittington, director of the the committees that run the campus Museum of Anthropology, pointed out master plan – the steering committee that his own building is cut off from the and the advisory committee – together rest of the campus, difficult for visitors with ASG, have begun to run a series of to access and too small to hold all of forums designed to give the full spectrum its collections. of university stakeholders a voice in the He and his colleagues at the museum planning process. also connected this to what was termed Forums have been held from Sept. the unfriendliness of the university’s 18-20, and a preliminary progress report outer perimeter; everywhere one looks, is due to be delivered Oct. 11-12. they said, one finds high hedges, walls ASG will begin to hold precinct study and gates. workshops – essentially smaller forums Similar concerns were taken up as well focusing on specific areas of the univer- by faculty in the department of theater sity – in the early part of the upcoming and dance, who pointed out that its Continued from Page A1

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Kevin King, the Senior Associate for Ayers Saint Gross and the architectural and planning firm working with the university introduced the firm at the faculty forum Sept 18.

14 members are crammed into office dents, faculty and staff and a concomispaces originally intended for a faculty tant strengthening of community. of three.

“We’re so far from being competitive Scales Fine Arts that it’s laughable,” Center, faculty senior Alec Lovett went on to say, is said, in reference to “Lucky because this is at the cut off from the recreational facilisame time as the strategic plan- ties, and the current rest of campus by ning process. It’s wanting to see rec-room arms race being situated in a field, and oriented the university be the best it can that is gaining curtoward a road which rency among instibe.” no longer exists. tutions of higher Whitney Marshall Attendants at both learning.

Student Government president meetings expressed Environmental their hope that issues emerged as long-term planning another important would incorporate a concern, thanks to true recreational facility. the presence at the meeting of a small The Student Government Speaker contingent of students at the faculty and of the House, junior Ross Williford, staff forum. pointed to Davidson College as a model Supported by some professors, they for such a building. “It could really just argued for increased sustainability, a be a box with TVs and couches,” Wil- more bike-friendly campus scheme and liford said. an increased reliance on biodiesel.

Some faculty members also floated the At the student forum, the idea was even idea of a comprehensive exercise and raised of a bike swapping system, where recreational facility, or even a one-stop students in need of speedy transportation wellness center that would incorpo- could take a bike from a communal rack rate university counseling and Student and return it when done using it.

Health facilities into one building.

Student concerns focused around The creation of such a space, these safety issues as well. Lighting appeared to advocates argued, would create a single be a strong concern, as did the travails of large gathering place, with the potential crossing Lot Q after dark. Students also for increased interactions between stu- raised issues of wider social spaces.

The idea of opening Reynolda Village to a more collegiate set of shops and restaurants was broached, although legal covenants place considerable restrictions on such a venture.

However, it appeared that the hope of somehow creating a space analogous to Franklin Street somewhere adjacent to campus holds some currency – Harbaugh even mentioned the possibility of converting Campus Gas on Polo Road into a bar.

All in all, the representatives of ASG should have a tidy bit of planning and accommodating to do. A keen interest is apparent, at least among those members of the university community in attendance at the two recent events, in shaping future university planning.

“We’re at a good point,” SG president senior Whitney Marshall said. “Lucky because this is at the same time as the strategic planning process.”

Marshall and Harbaugh also emphasized the student body’s good fortune in having a set of administrators and consultants who appear willing to listen to student input.

With such conditions in place, Marshall said, students should be raring at the chance to chip in with words of wisdom.

“It’s wanting to see the university be the best it can be,” Marshall said.

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“but no other major school has frozen salaries in the entire United States. We are the only school in the United States that did this.”

“We lost approximately 3.5 to 4 times as much ground as other schools during this (freeze),” Kennedy said.

“It was an insane, totally indefensible idea with no justification.”

The Hatch administration has attempted to close the gap caused by the freeze since the time Hatch was inaugurated as university president in 2005.

The administration has also been especially focused on increasing junior faculty salaries during its tenure.

“For the last two years, President Hatch has made compensation a priority, with a faculty salary pool that permitted an average 6 percent increase in 2007 and a pool that permitted an average increase of 10 percent in 2008,” Jill Tiefenthaler, Provost and professor of economics, said.

“In addition, there have been recent significant improvements in the costs and coverage for health benefits for faculty and staff,” Tiefenthaler said.

Hatch sent a statement out to the university community earlier this year.

“With regard to faculty increases, we must consider carefully those in the assistant professor ranks, where the greatest salary disparity exists between Wake Forest and a group of peer institutions,” he said

of the often-discussed subject.

However, in the 2006-’07 school year, the average mean assistant professor salary at the university, including graduate schools, still lagged behind 14 other schools in North Carolina.

“It was a generous increase, maybe better than any other North Carolina school,” Kennedy said.

“However, assuming that everyone else is increasing (salaries) by 5 percent, we’re only making up about 5 percent of ground.”

The past few years have also yielded marked raises in full professor salaries. Since 2005, the average professor salary has risen by nearly $8,000, to $110,417 in 2007.

“The (Hatch) administration very quickly realized that the

situation could not continue without affecting Wake Forest,” Coates said.

“If you don’t pay the faculty at the market rate, it makes it difficult to attract – or sometimes even to retain – the kind of teachers and researchers that the university needs to implement its mission.”

“Competitive faculty salaries are a top priority for this administration because attracting and retaining the best teacher-scholars is essential to our mission,” Tiefenthaler said.

The university still lags behind similar institutions in paying their full-time professors.

Full-time professors make nearly $16,000 less on average than UNC-Chapel Hill professors, $25,000 less than Vanderbilt

professors and $32,000 less than Duke professors.

“Despite heroic efforts, the gap is so wide that it’s hard to contemplate closing it without raises of 20 percent, which isn’t likely,” Kennedy said.

“We still have more work to do,” Tiefenthaler said.

“The administration started to play catch-up by increasing the salary pool by 10 percent,” Coates said.

“They have good intentions, and may have made some impact, but other institutions are improving too.”

“This is a problem that won’t be solved with one improvement,” Coates added.

Tiefenthaler said that the administration will remain committed to addressing the issue of

faculty salaries in the future.

“Faculty compensation will remain a high budget priority in coming years,” Tiefenthaler said of future goals at the university.

“Nancy Suttenfield, senior vice president and chief financial officer, and I will be establishing faculty compensation goals to assure that we attract and retain the very best faculty.”

While professors generally applaud the work of the Hatch administration on the faculty salary issue, many believe that it will be very difficult to undo the damage caused by the previous administration’s budget initiative.

“The current administration is doing what it can to address this problem,” Kennedy said, “but it inherited a mess.”

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Mafia: Former mob captain advocates change

“Why did they have to do this to Camille? They told me I wouldn’t have believed them without her.”

Franzese commented. He knew he had to act.

“We knew we had to get out,” Franzese said. He, “The only way to get my dad out of jail was the his wife and children were able to get out in time, mob. I went in with two goals, but it was a narrow escape. to make money and get my dad How has he survived all these out of jail,” Franzese said. years? “I don’t go to clubs anyHe was successful in both “I think the most important mes- more, I don’t walk my dog at sage people should walk away aims. the same time everyday, I don’t He dealt daily with millions of have patterns. And basically, with is that it’s not too late to dollars in cold cash and he sucI’ve outlasted everyone. All the make a change. I don’t believe ceeded, through useful contacts guys after me are either dead or in New York City, in obtaining you can be whatever you want to in jail now,” Franzese said. parole for his father years before Now, Franzese spends his be, and I won’t tell you that, but it was due. time as a public speaker, delivdon’t ever think you are stuck He was living the high life, rollering anti-gambling messages and cannot change.” ing in and out of clubs at four in to student athletes as well as the morning, making millions Michael Franzese rookies and referees for all the and flying around in a private major sports leagues.

Former mob captain helicopter and jet.

“Last year, Franzese came to He even dappled in legitimate speak to the athletes about the movie producing. It was there dangers of gambling. But this that he met the woman who changed his entire year, I wanted him to focus more on the mob story. world.

I think it’s more interesting,” sophomore Sarah Camille Garcia, a Mexican dancer from California Chase, member of Student Union, said. stood up the mob captain five times before they “Our Executive Committee heard him speak at began dating. The two fell in love. a conference and they just had to have him for “Camille never asked me to give up the life, but I Wake,” she said. knew I had to do it. I couldn’t live like that; she is The Student Union coordinated Franzese’s a woman of faith,” Franzese said. visit.

He began the long, deadly process of leaving “I think the most important message people the mob by marrying Garcia, then pleading guilty should walk away with is that it’s not too late to to racketeering and serving the next four years in make a change,” Franzese said. prison. “ I don’t believe you can be whatever you want Franzese has come a long way since that night of to be, and I won’t tell you that, but don’t ever his initiation in New York. think you are stuck and cannot He is now the most senior change,” member of the American mob This message is one of the “The presentation was fascinat- reasons Franzese is so widely to leave the family and tell the ing. He really connects with list- requested as a speaker. tale, without entering the Witness Protection Program.

“Mr. Franzese, I just wanted erners, like someone who lived a “It wasn’t easy, but I had to to tell you, you have been such good honest life wouldn’t. They do it,” Franzese said of leaving a blessing,” Miller Allen of the wouldn’t have the same impact.” Winston-Salem Gospel-onthe mob.

Once his intention to leave the Wheels Outreach Program Trey Godwin mob was made public, Franzese said.

Senior was a marked man.

“Your conversion from mob One attempt on his life life is really a helpful example remains particularly clear to to young people who are strughim. gling.” Allen attended the lecture after his wife In 1990, Franzese came home one day to find saw information about it in the Winston-Salem several unmarked cars surrounding his house.

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Upon entering his kitchen, he found his wife with “The presentation was fascinating. He (Franzese) FBI agents, in a state of hysterics. “They told me really connects with listeners, like someone who people were coming to kill me. They knew where lived a good honest life wouldn’t. They wouldn’t I was and they were coming. I was so angry.” have the same impact,” senior Trey Godwin said.

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“Our goal for this conference is to recast the debate toward realistic solutions that balance U.S. national interests with the fundamental rights charged by all human beings by virtue of their humanity,” he said in the Wake Forest Magazine about the “Voices of Our Time” series.

The main focus is on the Latino populace because the largest portion of incoming immigrants is from Mexico, Siavelis said.

“We hope the conference will begin to build bridges with the emerging Latino communities in North Carolina,” Coates said.

In the same interview, Siavelis said that he hopes students will learn from the debate.

“Students increasingly tell us that they want to hear intellectual debates,” he said.

“As voters, students will want to make informed decisions among the

candidates, and this conference, we hope, will help shape the way they think about immigration as a national issue.”

The conference will feature “Crossing Arizona,” which is an awardwinning documentary about illegal immigration and border security on the US/Mexico border, followed by a question-and-answer session with Director Dan DeVivo.

Policy makers on the national level, such as Sen. Chuck Hagel, will be debating solutions to the immigration issue while exploring the effects of immigration with local activists, Siavelis said.

Sessions Oct. 4 will feature discussions on migration and its consequences, addressing topics that look into the history of migration in the United States.

The sessions will range from the broader scope, the experience of migrating north, and narrow down to more local issues such as immigra-

tion in North Carolina. Sessions Oct. 5 will center on the politics of immigration, presenting the points of view of both Republicans and Democrats on the issue.

Furthermore, the discussion will carry out debates about the policy choices that should be in play and the effects of the current ones in place.

There will also be interactive workshops with panelists and university faculty on contemporary immigration issues, where any question will be answered.

“This event will help to consolidate Wake Forest’s role as a national center for intellectual debate on the most pressing issues facing the country,” Siavelis told the magazine.

Lunch and a book signing will be available from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Oct. 4-5.

Panelists will be available for signing books at the lobby of Brendle Recital Hall, where books will be available for purchase.

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s the university formulates the campus master plan, the time has come for all members of the university to weigh in on ideas for the future of our campus. We hope that students in particular will take the opportunity to join in the discussion and offer their insight into ideas for development.

The students are the heart of this campus and the majority of its permanent residents.

We know the ins and outs, what works and what doesn’t better than most. We think that the university has thus far identified many of the areas most in need of attention.

New structures like a parking deck, a rec center and new, modern dorms rank high on our list.

We encourage the university to consider creating a plan to remodel some of the older dorms. The difference

between Bostwick Residence Hall and Collins Residence Hall, the most recently constructed dorm, is marked and we think that many of the older dorms could benefit from a facelift that would improve students’ quality of life.

We are also encouraged by attention to increased environmentalism in future projects at the university.

Environmentalism is an investment in our future and we hope that the university can use these practices as a guide for some decision making.

The campus master plan is a huge endeavor, one that we know will not surface completed overnight. We are confident that the university is taking steps to involve the entire community and we hope to see an equal response from students, faculty and staff.

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highlight of the Homecoming weekend was seeing many familiar faces back on the Reynolda campus, one of whom has developed a special place in the hearts of students, alumni and supporters nationwide – Chris Paul. Paul has proven that though his basketball career at the university was cut short, his heart will always be in Winston-Salem. At the Sept. 15 football game against Army, Chris Paul presented the university with a check for $110,000, part of his Nathaniel Jones Scholarship Fund, which was established in memory of his grandfather.

Paul’s scholarship fund is not limited to future university athletes. The fund provides

one scholarship to a university athlete and one to a local student from Forsyth County.

Paul hasn’t taken his roots for granted and the university community has responded with open arms. Three years ago, talk of Paul leaving the university divided the community into those who supported Paul’s decision and those who didn’t. But at the Homecoming game, Paul’s entrance onto the field was met with applause from an audience of local fans. Paul continues to give back, and the university community respects and cherishes this gesture. We only wish that every alumnus stayed as loyal to the school as the 6-foot point guard who calls Wake Forest his alma mater.

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L E T T ER S Students exhibited class, enthusiasm at game

On Sept. 15, our football team had an important victory over Army. It was a great win and we are determined to use this victory as a springboard to another great season.

Of equal importance is the manner that we treated our guests and the football players from the U.S. Military Academy. We could not have been prouder of the classy way students welcomed our opponents to the stadium and for your outstanding sportsmanship throughout the game.

The way students welcomed the Army team prior to the game and treated them during the game was an example of tremendous sportsmanship. Fans created the type of wholesome, yet intense atmosphere that is critical to the overall success of our program.

As we have said many, many times before, students’ enthusiasm at our games inspires our team to play their very best. We hope that fans will continue to come out and support their team and make BB&T Field the toughest place to play in college football while treating our opponents with the respect that they deserve. If we work together, the only thing our opponents will have to feel bad about as they leave our stadium is the outcome of the game.

Thanks again to the fans for the tremendous environment that was created at BB&T Field last Saturday!

Our fans are the best!

Ron Wellman and Jim Grobe Director of Athletics and Football Head Coach

Career Services provides more than the Career Fair I welcome the opportunity to respond to the editorial appearing in the Old Gold & Black last week, “Career Services Needs to Reach out to Liberal Arts,” (Sept. 13) and to clarify the role of the career fair in the overall career development process.

For liberal arts majors interested in business-oriented jobs, the Career Fest provides excellent and early exposure to many opportunities. It is the kickoff for a long process influenced by market conditions and varied recruiting patterns that are seasonal and individual in nature. Only a few of the several hundred organizations that recruit students from the university opt to use the career fair as a recruiting vehicle. Career Services recognizes that many students may not be interested in opportunities provided by these employers. However, the career fair and, in some cases, on-campus recruitment represent only one dimension of the overall job search process.

The Career Services staff helps students to identify their interests, acquaint them with a wide variety of professions and assist in identifying opportunities that match their career aspirations. Many strategies, processes and resources are employed to accomplish these objectives. Each year our staff works with over 1,000 students pursuing over 40 discrete career paths ranging from advertising to public service. The career fair is only one of a myriad of resources available to aid students in the search process.

For example, students who did not find opportunities matching their interests and skills at the recent Career Fest might consider attending upcoming programs on careers in journalism, writing, media and the world of creative arts. Many other opportunities to explore various career options are offered throughout the year.

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The Career Services staff stands ready to provide counsel to all students in the utilization of our many resources as they navigate the extremely important and difficult transition from college to the world of work.

William Currin Director, Office of Career Services

Student worries about lack of school spirit I love football and I love this university. There’s not a single home game I’ve missed in my entire time as a student here, and I’ve never come late or left a game early. I’ve traveled to many away games through the years too. I make signs, cheer my tail off, pray for victories and still sing the alma mater after losses. I am so proud of our team and so proud of our fans as well.

However, I am getting concerned about the spirit (and often lack of spirit) demonstrated by many students – including Screamin’ Demons. True spirit is not an abiding by certain specific rules. It is something that comes about when one is passionate about his or her team and demonstrates that from within. It is not about wearing a certain shirt. It is not about simply attending a game. Truthfully, I am a little disappointed when I see my fellow classmates dressed up for games in attire that does not represent our school colors, and I am especially disappointed when they only show up for the first half of the game or even worse – just for the tailgate. In fact, I’m not sure why this is such an issue now, because from what I can tell, the attire has become much more spirited over the last three years without the help from Screamin’ Demons.

However, I don’t think it is fair for to punish students for wearing sundresses or ties that are gold and black. That would be stealing something from a tradition that goes back much farther than the Screamin’ Demons. Can you believe that at the game at Ole’ Miss last year, one of the most spirited students I know actually rolled his eyes when he noticed me in a black polkadotted shirt and black skirt?

I lost a lot of respect that day for the boy who was nominated as one of the so-called most-spirited college football fans in the country. I do respect Screamin’ Demons’ attempt to build a strong student spirit group, but I personally believe its effort might be better spent regulating the actual spirit of the Screamin’ Demons. My freshman year, I had a fellow Screamin’ Demon standing in front of me tell me that I was shouting too loud. What?!

Although it is not as easy for Screamin’ Demon leadership to pinpoint people like that as it is for them to pinpoint girls wearing dresses, I think they can still make improvements in the area of true spirit. What about providing signs similar to those at basketball games?

Maybe handing out noisemakers of some kind? As long as it isn’t the Demon Deacon shooting T-shirts up in the middle of an important play (which is something I have always found to decrease spirit by distracting us from the actual game), I am going to fullspiritedly encourage it.

Christine Hunt Frackelton Senior

SG doesn’t deserve complaints of inefficieny It became clear to me, after a reading of your most recent issue, that at least one of the columnists has a bone to pick with Student Government over something. The column, “Communication on football tickets

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poor” (Sept. 13) by graduate student Sarah Evans, provided no factual information of anything she would like to see, other than perhaps her wish to have received a ticket to the game. If Evans wishes to get involved with SG, then there is no doubt in my mind that she could, however she chooses to wait until something is “wrong” to express those sentiments.

SG, in particular senior president Whitney Marshall, works very hard to ensure that things run as smoothly as possible in tough situations (for example, the distribution of limited tickets to a large student body). On a recent Sunday night, I ran into Marshall, leaving near midnight to go help with the online ticket distribution.

Marshall, it should be noted, also serves in a variety of leadership capacities on campus, including being a resident adviser. The fact that Marshall may have failed to respond to one person’s complaint seems of little consequence.

Could the communication been better? Perhaps, though I certainly learned of the process and had no problem understanding how it worked.

Is this perceived lack of communication indicative of conspiracy or sheer laziness on the behalf of SG as Evans seems to suggest? I doubt it. If Evans is so interested in going to football games, perhaps she should become a Screamin’ Demon. Or better yet, volunteer to help SG implement better mass communication– anything to keep uninformed opinions out of such an otherwise outstanding publication.

Quinn Morris Sophomore

Student organizations thanked for banner making We want to take this opportunity to thank the various organizations who participated in the Homecoming banner contest last week sponsored by the Traditions Council and Student Union. Our job to select the three winners was a difficult one, and we congratulate the winning organizations on their creativity. It was gratifying to see many student organizations take part in the contest, and we appreciate your commitment to preserving and promoting the traditions of Wake Forest.

Minta McNally on behalf of the Homecoming Banner Judging Committee Associate Vice President of University Advancement

Reviewer with lack of interest shouldn’t write This is in response to Lukia Kliossis’s review of “Shoot ’Em Up” (Sept. 15).

It is a waste of a reader’s time and page space for a movie reviewer to review a movie they didn’t want to see in the first place.

In the future, reviewers should see movies that interest them. This gives readers who were also interested in that movie a fair assessment of whether it is worth seeing or not.

One excuse for not doing this is when a reviewer hates a movie it turns into a fun read. Kliossis did not have the talent or movie expertise to write such an article.

Even if she did, the article would be far more valuable to students if it was written by someone with sincere interest in this type of film. Instead, we were left with a masturbatory piece meant to glorify the writer’s own opinion.

Wade Hampton Junior

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SG gives explanation, apology Graduates stay Matthew Williams

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or the past week Student Government’s inbox has been flooded with e-mails concerning the newly implemented ticket distribution system. The content of the e-mails range from angry sentiments about SG’s lack of communication to sighs of relief after obtaining a ticket for the week’s upcoming football game; nonetheless, the new experiences students are facing have raised serious concerns.

As members of SG we represent the voice of the students. To ease the tensions brought on by the aggravating and timeconsuming online reservation system, we want to offer you a better understanding of the new system and extend an apology for our lack of communication.

In previous years, every student has received an athletic pass that allowed students the privilege to enter any football game. The athletic passes were distributed to students, but the athletic department never reserved enough seats to accommodate every student.

Furthermore, student attendance in the past never exceeded the amount of seats available.

Due to the influx of patrons and students at games last season and a sell-out of season tickets well in advance of the first game, the athletic department proposed a ticket policy

the Nebraska game there were 50 tickets still remaining. Last Friday, 15 tickets went unclaimed and were returned to the athletic department. As of Monday at 2 p.m., students who signed up online could still receive a ticket.

We also understand the issues students have with the 12 a.m. reservation time as well as the complications with the system while trying to acquire tickets. As a result, SG is taking the necessary measures to alleviate the annoyance and is seeking alternative solutions to address those grievances.

The members of Student Government would also like to apologize for the lack of communication to the student body once this online system was implemented.

We want all of the students here to be informed not only about academic affairs on campus, but also changes in campus organization and culture.

We have a responsibility to you all to be your voice and lack of communication regarding ticket distribution was due to a variety of unforeseen, however inexcusable factors.

We would like to thank you all for your suggestions and concerns and we encourage you to continue to submit those to us throughout the year.

Matthew Williams is a junior communication major and is the communication coordinator for Student Government.

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After graduating, alums flaunt their Deacon pride

about 33,000 different Wake Forest screen savers on WIN. And boy do we start those kids young.

On Sept. 15, I saw some poor child making a beeline for the cotton candy on the Lauren Wright Quad, only she was unwillingly Guest columnist suspended by a black-andgold-colored kiddy leash.

In the opposite corner, I saw They all go to Wake and a mom holding a newborn, meet cute husbands and no joke, in a Demon Deacon have cute kids. Then the cute kids go to Wake and meet cheerleading suit in one arm while she handed the other cute kids and then those kids have cute kids and then they go kid a toilet paper roll and scrutinized his throwing to Wake. And then it starts all technique. over again. It’s a sick process; I hung out with former totally sick.” That’s what my Deacs all day at the tailgate, mom told me while we sat watching them put sunscreen behind a group of alumni on their bald spots and couples at the Orange Bowl in sling down wings with their January. “brothers.” They were out in Though obviously trying to full force again that night, exacerbate our already less“scaring away all the girls,” than-convenient situation (it was pouring and the nosebleed as my friend described it, dominating their frats and section was so steep I could wallowing in their (former) have taken a swan dive into the person’s diet Coke a couple glory.

But as I slid my way through rows in front of me), she was the BO, beer guts and describing something that discontented wives in those frat happens at every school, but lounges, I realized that I was that is particularly intense at not at an AARP benefit, I was ours. not just the only People don’t one without want to leave a respirator this school, and I know why the past and it was not neither do I. important On graduation Homecoming weekthat the mean day, someone is end, I had to shove my cholesterol level going to have way through a pack of in that room had to drag me by rocketed from my nails, wildly 70-year-olds in the Pit 150 to around screaming and to get my “WF” waffle, 300 in the last convulsing, and I understand why half-hour. grabbing chunks These alums of grass and toilet you can find about are proof that paper on my way 33,000 different Wake love for this out of the Quad Forest screen savers on university is, and away from WIN. And boy do we literally, eternal this place.

Last year, I start those kids young. and that there’s no fighting the stayed in my cult-like bond freshmen dorm or the J. Crew for four days after addiction that goes along with I finished my first semester it. finals, sitting around doing You and I both know there’s nothing for close to a week nothing like walking past Wait after my summer had started Chapel at dusk, and that the until it was just me and the excited twist you get in your cleaning staff, at which point stomach when you watch I was threatened to get out of football re-runs on YouTube is the building. never going to go away.

I’m not a complete pariah; I wouldn’t trade the next I’m just saying I get it. I get three years for the world why people waste hundreds of dollars in the Deacon Shop on and nobody can understand what I feel but those crusty “Wake2O,” “Wakeopoly” and alums coming back to relive bottle openers that play our it and the students who will fight song. eventually face the inexorable I know why the past nostalgia that preoccupies Homecoming weekend, I had graduates. to shove my way through a pack of 70-year-olds in the Pit Lauren Wright is a sophomore to get my “WF” waffle, and I from Rancho Sante Fe, Calif. understand why you can find

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Sept. 11 memorial did not do justice to the day

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for non-Screamin’ Demons’ that was very similar to the one already used for men’s basketball games. This policy has students picking up their tickets during the week prior at the Benson Ticket Office instead of on game day at the stadium.

As an alternative, SG proposed the online reservation to reduce the long waits outside the office or multiple trips to the office. The athletic department approached Student Government with a new system with the objectives in mind to meet the needs of the student body at each game and not having rows of empty seats.

More importantly, Student Government was not given the choice of keeping the old system or implementing the new system.

The new system has the number of tickets broken down in the following manner: 2,200 tickets for Screamin’ Demons; 200 for the marching band; 750 for the professional schools (law, medical, business); and 525 for the non-Screamin’ Demons, the graduate programs and the Divinity School. Although this number may seem unreasonable, the number of tickets for this season was based off a 20 percent increase from previously well-attended games and also means that roughly 72 percent of all students can receive a ticket. The number has proven to be very accurate based on how signups have gone. On the Friday before

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all me old fashioned, but I believe in certain things.

Always place your hand over your heart during the Pledge of Allegiance. Remove your hats in the presence of someone you respect.

Don’t speak during a moment of silence.

I learned this Sept. 11 that these views are not universally held. I was actually on the Quad during the “moment of silence” at 8:45 a.m. If one had forgotten, the chapel bells seemed to be a pretty good reminder. What I saw appalled me. Granted, the Quad wasn’t extremely busy, given that most students were enjoying the last few minutes before their 9:30 class. However, those up and about did not so much as acknowledge the bells. Where I expected heads bowed, I heard people laughing. My own reflections were interrupted by the sounds of lawnmowers and the maintenance workers shouting over them.

I understand that not everyone was affected by the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001. It would be entirely unrealistic for me to expect the kind of reaction and reflection found back in New York when the terrible

anniversary comes around. However, a moment of silence is a moment of silence. Regardless of if you are personally affected or not, it is a time for you to cease speaking. I’m not saying you must say a prayer; you don’t even have to think about what the moment is being held for. But respect it, because those who were affected deserve, if nothing else, that moment.

I found my experience on the Quad extremely troubling, but put it off as forgetfulness. Everyone must have forgotten why the chapel bells are ringing, I told myself. The university had advertised this moment of silence; they must have had classes participate, and I just wasn’t in class at the time.

Then I spoke with people who were in class. To my astonishment, professors had not even acknowledged the moment and continued class as usual while the bells rang and hearts mourned.

To hold a moment of silence and not enforce it is, in my opinion, more offensive than leaving it unacknowledged. To advertise such a moment and have the entire campus speak right over it is disrespectful; it sends the message that your Tuesday morning routine is more important and worthy of your time. That the tragedy is in the past. That the hurt and pain victims might be suffering is insignificant.

Willing to excuse the whole moment of silence ordeal, I consoled myself with the fact that I would have an opportunity to grieve at the Reflections Service held in Wait Chapel. I attended last year’s

ceremony and found it extremely respect. The fact of the matter is there moving. As a freshman a long way are victims all around. from home, it was heartwarming to Sept. 11 is not a thing of the past, see the community gathered together it is a reality that thousands struggle for a beautiful ceremony followed by with every morning. Yes, America a candlelit vigil. Despite being so far lost the lives of many that day. Even from home, the sense of community more, however, have to wake up and helped me grieve, continue living their reassuring me that lives every single day. even if they weren’t They are just as much personally affected by As someone who suffered a victim as those a grave loss on that tragic the tragedies, Wake who died. And they Forest supported deserve this day to day, I could not be more those who were. grieve, mourn and disappointed in the Wake I could hardly say reflect.

Forest administration than I the same about this Respect is a year’s service. fundamental part of am right now. I understand The lack of adulthood. It’s the that it would be unrealistic attendance was the cornerstone of any to expect an anniversary first thing that struck relationship. It is me upon entering the like is held back in New what I expected from ceremony. There were York. However, I did expect the university. maybe three people There are no words the people of the university for how appalled to a row, if that.

Granted, it was held I am at how the to have respect. The fact in the middle of the anniversary of Sept. of the matter is there are academic day. Many 11 was handled. of my fellow students victims all around.

Students, faculty had either classes or and the general only that hour to grab community alike lunch. Additionally, should be given many meetings were scheduled for an opportunity to reflect and that time slot, further preventing mourn. Perhaps just a 20-minute attendance. service. A slideshow. A prayer As someone who suffered a grave circle. Something, anything. Sept. loss on that tragic day, I could 11 received just as much a mention not be more disappointed in the as Hurricane Katrina and the Wake Forest administration than mining disasters in Utah during I am right now. I understand that today’s service – merely a line in a it would be unrealistic to expect responsorial psalm. The majority an anniversary like is held back in of the ceremony was completely New York. However, I did expect unrelated. It went beyond disrespect; the people of the university to have it became insulting. There is an

appropriate time and place to discuss the Civil Rights Movement and the plight of those silenced. The one day a year that Americans mourn one of the most disastrous tragedies of our time is not it.

Remembering Sept. 11 invokes a myriad of different emotions from everyone. One of the most prominent memories, however, is that sense of unity. At that moment it didn’t matter if you were white, black, Hispanic, young, old, male, female, homosexual, heterosexual ... you were American. To clutter a memorial service with sentiments and rhetoric reinforcing anything but that sense of unity is entirely inappropriate.

Administration of this university, shame on you. I have never been more disappointed, nor insulted. As for the community? I’m sorry I ever questioned you. At 9 p.m. that evening, I received an e-mail. A group of students, upset with how the university had handled the situation, took it upon themselves to conduct a vigil complete with candles, tissues and prayers on red, white and blue paper.

An hour later I stood outside Wait Chapel surrounded by some of the most honorable people on campus. And I remembered why I love this university – the people. People who take initiative, people who take a stance. As I cried among absolute strangers, I remembered the good that came out of that awful day – that sense of unity.

Lexie Calistri is a sophomore from Danbury, Conn.

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Old Gold & Black Opinion

Flat education, classes compel students to read books

Evoking emotion, rather than thought, highest goal of novels

Matt Brumit

Old Gold & Black columnist

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ave you ever read a book that made you feel things you couldn’t explain? What I mean is, have you ever noticed while reading a book, that you were thinking and feeling emotions that can’t really be put into words? It’s as if the words in the book have somehow changed into non-words and become something better than words.

It’s kind of like when you go to an English class or a book club and

people want to talk about two things: plot and theme. It’s easy to talk about the plot of the book because everyone can see that the man stole the apple or the girl ran away with the pony.

There’s no arguing about that. It’s there in front of you. That’s all there is to it.

But then you have to talk about theme. What did it mean when the man stole the apple? Why did the girl run away with the pony? Of course, we intellectuals and academics are not to be undone, so we come up with some sort of philosophical trash that we know has nothing to do with the book.

Somewhere deep inside we know the theme of the book had nothing to do with friendship or brotherly love, but it would be unreasonable to try to explain how we felt about the book. English classes have long since forgotten feelings.

Maybe in high school it was okay to talk about how you felt about a book, but haven’t you learned that college is about thinking? You can’t feel anything from a textbook, so it must be true that you also cannot

feel anything from any book. For of have words for the feelings that course, the textbook is the zenith of great compositions of words embed. the modern intellect. Everything must Indeed, the moment I tried to explain be cut and dry. There is no room for the theme of this great book, I would passion in the modern university. painfully end the life that springs We don’t quibble with irrelevant, from it. uneducated romanticism. We’re The result would be that both you enlightened. and I would find it So what is one who utterly dull and useless. likes books that make It would become a Not only are real books him feel instead of textbook. The only alive, but they also posthink supposed to do? thing that separates sess a secret and magical The only obvious a real book from a choice is to read books existence that is unbetextbook is that real that your professors books are mysteriously have not assigned you, knownst to us. When you alive. books that your friends close the cover of a real Not only are real aren’t reading. books alive, but they book, things inside of I am in the midst of also possess a secret it wake up and change reading one such book, and magical existence and though I could tell while you are away. that is unbeknownst to you numerous things us. When you close the the author discusses, I cover of a real book, would only succeed in things inside of it wake boring you with an ugly synopsis of a up and change while you are away. beautiful work of literature.

Not unlike the liveliest characters of The ultimate problem is, though the Toy Story movies, the characters in I could explain the plot, I could real books don’t stop living when you not explain the theme, for a theme stop reading. If anything, it may be cannot be explained. We do not the opposite. It may be more accurate

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to say that your reading inhibits the life of the characters. That’s why the greatest pleasure comes from reading and rereading a favorite book. The characters are changing, but you will only see how if you regularly interrupt their world.

The book that I am currently reading that reminded me of my love for fairy tales is not a fairy tale itself, but it does speak of them extensively.

The title, Orthodoxy, might cause G.K. Chesterton’s book to strike fear in the faint of mind, but rest assured that it is a great read. And though it will make you think, it will primarily make you feel. And feeling is never a bad thing, or a difficult thing. It may not always be enjoyable, but it is always effortless.

So if you want to be reminded of real books and real stories and real literature, if you want to forget about your dreaded textbooks even if only for a moment, delve into Chesterton’s Orthodoxy. Then follow his advice and go read a fairy tale.

Matt Brumit is a sophomore from Denison, Texas.

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Army’s weak attack hands Deacs first win

By Ryan Durham | Sports editor

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Greg Oden still the right decision

By James Burnett | Staff writer

Imagine you are the GM of the Portland Trailblazers on June 28 of 2007 (Kevin Pritchard, if you are reading this, look in the mirror).

You have in your possession the No. 1 overall pick in arguably one of the deepest drafts ever. Greg Oden or Kevin Durant? You decide.

Either way, you are on the hook for millions of dollars with nothing but the hope that you can turn your enterprise around. For Portland, the No. 1 pick could potentially be franchise-defining.

The potential here is not analogous to the chance that you may actually enjoy one of the many terrible shows that CBS will be premiering this season (Moonlight, Kid Nation, CSI: Insert Random Location here).

Instead, you have the very real opportunity to draft a superstar who may guide your team to an NBA title, shed the “Jailblazers” title and make your fan base feel safe coming to the Rose Garden.

You are not Kevin Pritchard, who decided to take the risks involved with drafting Greg Oden.

The Trailblazers bet against history in selecting Oden with their No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 draft.

Remember in 1984 when the Blazers selected Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan (whoops)? I’m sure Pritchard was well aware of the historical implications of this summer’s gamble when Oden took to the court for the first time.

I am also certain he suffered a minor heart attack when it was announced that big Greg needed micro-fracture surgery (a procedure that younger players usually recover from i.e. Amare Stoudamire).

However, if I were in Pritchard’s position, I would have seen less risk in making the decision he made as opposed to the alternative.

Why not pick a potentially dominant center, a position that most will agree plays an incredibly pivotal role in winning NBA titles, perhaps even more so than the prolific scorers such as Kobe or Dwayne Wade (both needed Shaq to win those championships).

Who is to say whether Durant has the Jordan-esque capability to carry a professional team to a title?

Oden will not be asked to bear such a burden when he makes his debut a year from now. As a defensive center with offensive skills, he will be asked to alter games, not to personally win them.

People also tend to overlook that in the 1984 draft, Jordan was the third overall pick.

These same people do not chastise the Houston Rockets for selecting Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon, a two-time NBA champion and finals MVP. Jordan may have carried a Bulls team to six titles, but Olajuwon was a testament to the efficiency of the “big man” in the NBA.

PRESS BOX

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Playing for their first win of the season, the Demon Deacons played host to the Black Knights of the United States Military Academy Sept. 15.

Wake Forest put plenty of pressure on themselves as they played for all the returning Deacon alumni who made the trek back to Wake Forest for the yearly Homecoming festivities.

The Deacon faithful would only have to wait seven minutes and 38 seconds to see their Deacons take the lead off a punt return.

Redshirt senior Kenneth Moore received a punt at the Wake Forest 45-yard line and then preceded to pick apart the coverage team, with the help of Deacon blockers.

Moore ran the ball 55-yards to pick up the Deacs’ first touchdown and prove, yet again, the versatility of his abilities.

“It parted open,” Moore said. “The blockers did a great job.”

“I was just trying to set up my block a little bit, read it and make a big play.”

The Black Knights failed to produce on their next drive, going four and out and giving the Deacons another crack at the endzone.

Redshirt sophomore Brett Hodges and his offense took over at the Wake Forest 45-yard line.

It would not be Hodge’s arm that drove the Deacs down the field. Redshirt freshman Josh Adams proved to be the real work horse of the drive.

Adams’ first big play was a 19-yard run to the Army 20 yard line and a personal foul on the Black Knights moved the ball up to the 10.

Adams’ number was called once more and the running back took the ball up the middle for a 10-yard gain and six points.

This touchdown put the Deacs up 14-0 with over six minutes left in the first quarter. .

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Redshirt junior Chip Vaughn and a hoard of his teammates take down an Army rusher during the 21-10 Homecoming win Sept. 15.

F ield hockey dominates over weekend

By Hailey Robbins | Contributing writer

The No. 5 field hockey team took down two powerhouses this weekend, No. 12 Ohio and unranked Indiana. The Deacons advanced to five wins and two losses after the weekend, both 2-1 victories.

Sophomore Kim Romansky helped lead the team to victory in the first matchup of the weekend against 12th-ranked Ohio, scoring both of the Wake Forest goals. The first goal scored off a pass from freshman Liza Castella gave the Deacons a 1-0 lead within the first 11 minutes.

A mere 28 seconds later, Ohio’s Marcy Dull tied the game 1-1, with Ohio’s lone shot of the game.

Romansky quickly cemented the Deacon victory by scoring again, expanding the lead to 2-1 by the 25:45 mark. The Wake defense proved too much for Ohio to recover the lead, holding Ohio to a second period shutout.

“Overall, we played a really good game,” s Romansky said. “It was definitely a team effort. We always have skills that we try and focus on each game and we were really able to show what we had accomplished as a team.”

Junior Minou Gimbrere led the Deacons in shots on goal, putting up six of the total 20 for the game. Senior

Chelsea Cipriani added four shots, with juniors Liz Fries and Michelle Kasold offering two shots each.

In the Sept. 16 game against Indiana, the Deacons increased their record from 4-2 to 5-2.

The first 35 minutes of the game proved tough for the Deacons, being held scoreless with four shots taken on cage. Indiana put forth two shots as well, but solid defense protected either shot from hitting the net.

After being held scoreless for the first 10 minutes of the second half, Cipriani scored off a pass from Kasold, giving Romansky Wake Forest a one-goal lead.

Cipriani leads the field hockey team with most goals scored this season, scoring four goals in the past seven games. Two minutes later, Indiana’s Danitra Castro tied up the score on a penalty corner, putting the pressure on the Deacons to regain the lead.

Gimbrere offered another shot on the Indiana cage, which was saved by Haley Exner, before sophomore Regina Shannon hit the back of the cage, giving the Deacons the lead once more after 48:17 of play.

Continuing on the path of domination, the Wake Forest defense only allowed two lone Indiana shots on goal, while Gimbrere placed two more shots on the board. Sophomore Melissa Martin added one more shot as the clock ran out in the second half.

Junior goalkeeper Crystal Duffield had two saves over the weekend, with a weekend save percentage of .50 and career save percentage of .571. “I say to myself, ‘just breathe’ and sometimes we sing that song ‘Breathe, Stretch, Shake (Let it Go)’ to relax back there on corners and during the game,” Duffield said.

Dominating both games over the weekend, the Deacons outshot their opponents 30-4.

Wake takes on second-ranked University of Maryland, the defending national champion, Sept.22 at College Park. “It’s always a well-fought match,” said sophomore Kim Romansky.

Goalie Crystal Duffield echoed her teammate’s sentiments. “We are there to send them home and put them away. Everyone is always up for that game.

I do not want to say it’s a grudge match . . . but it kind of is,” she said. “Coach always tells us before a game, you have the skills, just use the heart.” The Deacons are currently 3-1 in road games and undefeated at home.

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Deacs give Cardinals Men’s soccer maintains perfect record first loss of season

By Matt Six | Staff writer

By Susie Manship | Staff writer

a team,” Hutchinson said. Four days later, the Deacs participated in a battle The women’s soccer team handed of the Triad.

With a record of 3-3-1, Wake faced Louisville its first loss of the season Sept. 12, beating the Cardinals 2-0 UNC-Greensboro, the reigning at Spry Stadium. Sophomore Jill Southern Conference Champions.

Hutchinson scored the team’s first Hutchinson scored the Deacons’ only goal in the 30th minute off a cornergoal in the 12th minute of play. kick from junior Countering in Amanda Lebo. the 20th minute, “We came out in full force and UNC-G’s Kelly the Cardinals Attayek replied almost converted tried to capitalize on all of our with a goal in a goal. However, opportunities.” the 35th minute, sophomore CaitJill Hutchinson tying the match lin Farrell deflected Sophomore at 1-1. Wake outthe ball after freshshot the Spartans man goalkeeper 25-8, marking Amanda Barasha the fourth time in was lured out of the box.

Wake increased its offensive pressure seven matches that the Deacs outshot opponents by 10 or more. Barasha in the second half.

In the 46th minute, sophomore had three saves on the night.Wake’s Sarah Winslow scored the team’s next game is at 7 p.m. Sept. 21. The second goal. The Deacons had 10 team looks to defend its undefeated shots in the second half and held the record at home against Brown. “We Cardinals to only three during the are going to work extremely hard this entire game. “We came out in full week to make sure we’re prepared. force and tried to capitalize on all of We’re taking it game one at a time,” our opportunities. We played well as Hutchinson said.

The No. 1 Wake Forest men’s soccer team finished strong in a 1-0 victory over Louisville Sept. 15.

The only goal of the cool evening came from Marcus Tracy, a junior forward from Sandyhook, Conn.

The goal came off a well-placed cornerkick from sophomore Austin da Luz. The win improves the Demon Deacons to 5-0-0 for the season. The Cardinals drop to 3-2-0.

Both teams got off to slow starts in the first half, with many offside calls halting potential drives. Wake controlled the time of possession throughout the duration of the match.

The Deacon’s defense, led by freshman Ike Opara and redshirt sophomore Justin Lichfuss made key stops to deter the Cardinals.

Louisville’s defense clogged the middle of the field and held Wake to only two shots in the first half.

Wake was off to a fast start in the second half with two quick shot attempts. Junior Mike Lahoud nearly capped off his birthday with a goal in the 68th minute, but his shot went just wide of the net.

Fans banged their feet on the bleachers as freshman Corben Bone prepared for a corner kick. His kick was on goal, but was headed out by a Louisville player.

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Junior Cline Beam attempts to steal the ball during a recent game on Sept.15.

The subsequent corner-kick was taken on the near right corner by da Luz. Da Luz curved the ball on goal, and Tracy leaped up to head the ball into the

net. Tracy can give Wake basketball’s sophmore L.D. Williams a run for his See Soccer, Page B10

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Faulkner, D. Sophomore; AUSTIN, TX.

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hen sophomore setter Dylan Faulkner came to Wake Forest last year, she had to immediately take on the role of the only setter on the court, responsible for running the Deacon offense. After growing into her role as a leader last year, Faulkner is ready to help the team in multiple ways this season,

On representing the US in Italy: It was really fun to go overseas and hang out with people from all different schools around the US. Just to be able to have this experience was unbelievable and to represent the US was something that we took a lot of pride in.

On running the offense on the court: Practice and the coaches really help out during tough matches.

We talk about the plays that the setters can run, what blockers are up and things like that.

On changing since freshman year: Being the only setter last year I kind of had to step in and if I was playing bad I had to step it up no matter what, but being a sophomore this year and having that first year of experience will help me be able to help the freshmen and encourage them.

It’s a new year and having had the coaches for a year has really helped.

On her goals for the year: We definitely want to try to win the ACC and make it to the NCAAs.

"Whatever it takes to win, that's what we need." and representing the US in the Sibillini Tournament in Italy this summer only adds to her experience. The Old Gold & Black’s assistant sports editor Allison Lange sat down with Faulkner to talk about traveling to Italy, the new freshmen on the team, and her favorite aspect of volleyball.

DEAC OF THE WEEK

Vaughn

Redshirt junior free safety Chip Vaughn helped the Deacons to a 21-10 victory over the Army Black Knights Sept. 15.

In the second matchup of the season, Vaughn, who leads the team with 13 solo tackles and nine assist tackles, had a career-high 11 solo tackles.

Vaughn, a native of Fairfax, Va., has played all three games this season, and saw action in all 14

games last year.

In 2006, he started the Florida State game for the injured Josh Gattis, and, in the Duke game, was responsible for blocking the last-second field goal to preserve a 14-13 win.

Tallying 41 tackles last season and 25 tackles in his freshman year, Vaughn is already well on his way to having a record year.

Vaughn’s efforts helped move the Demon Deacons to 1-2 on the season.

The Demon Deacons will host the Maryland Terrapins Sept. 22 at BB&T Field with kickoff slated for 3:30 p.m.

This will be the Deacon’s second conference matchup of the season.

On her favorite class at Wake: Military Leadership was definitely my favorite class so far at Wake.

A personal goal is to better myself and help the team get better, even if that includes sitting a few games on the bench. That’s part of it. Whatever it takes to win, that’s what we need.

On the new freshmen: The freshmen have added a lot of competitiveness this year. They came in really strong and that helped the team a lot.

The attitude of the team changed and we all came in really excited about playing.

On her favorite part of volleyball: My favorite part of volleyball would definitely have to be the competitiveness. I’m a very competitive person, so being able to have competition, not only on our team but also on the other side of the court is something that I think most of us thrive off of.

DEACON NOTES Kick-off set for football game against Maryland The Deacons’ Sept. 22 showdown with the Maryland Terrapins is set for 3:30 p.m. at BB&T field.

The game will be telecast on ESPNU. Last week, the Deacons hosted Army Sept.

16 for Homecoming and the Terrapins played West Virginia Sept. 13.

The Terrapins won their first two games of the season against Villanova and Florida International, but dropped their most recent game against West Virginia.

The Deacons dropped their first two to Boston College and Nebraska and are coming off their first win against Army.

Dykstra and Semeniuk named summer league prospects Junior Allan Dykstra and redshirt freshman Ryan Semeniuk were each named to their respective summer league’s top prospects lists

by Baseball America.

Dykstra was listed as the 16th-best prospect in the Cape Cod League, while Semeniuk was rated as the sixth-best prospect in this summer’s Valley League.

Dykstra was name to Cape Cod’s All-League team as designated hitter.

The San Diego native earned the start at DH for the East Division All-Stars, helping his squad to a 3-2 win over the West.

Last season Dykstra hit .310 with 18 homeruns.

Semeniuk hit .303 with three home runs and 29 RBIs for the Winchester Royals of the Valley League.

The Charlotte native helped the Royals to a fourth-place finish and a playoff berth.

Winchester was defeated in three games by the Staunton Braves in the opening round of the playoffs.

Shooting guard leaves Wake Forest, returns to Massachusetts Sophomore guard, Anthony Gurley, is leaving the Wake Forest men’s basketball team. Gurley informed head coach Dino Gaudio this week.

“We wish Anthony nothing but the best as he deals with this difficult period in his life,” said Gaudio.

“I told Anthony that if we can ever do anything to help him, we will be there for him. We wish him the best in all of his future endeavors.”

Gurley is a 6’3” shooting guard from Boston, Mass. As a freshman last year, he averaged 6.4 points and 1.6 rebounds per game. Gurley played in 31 games last season.

Hutchinson named to Soccer Buzz team of the week Wake Forest sophomore women’s soccer player, Jill Hutchinson, was named to the Soccer Buzz elite team of the week.

Hutchinson scored a goal in both the Louisville and UNC-Greensboro games, Sept. 12 and Sept.

15, respectively.

Hutchinson’s goal against the Cardinals was the game winning goal, which helped the Deacons defeat the previously undefeated Louisville.

Her goal against UNC-Greensboro was the team’s only goal, leading the Deacs to a 1-1 tie.

Hutchinson scored two goals last season.

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Volleyball struggles in Houston,drops first ACC game

By L.K. Davey | Staff writer

The women’s volleyball team had an exciting weekend in Texas at the University of Houston tournament.

This was the team’s last non-conference tournament of the season.

With a win and two losses, the Lady Deacons ended the weekend with their season record currently at 5-6. The first game was a win against Rice.

The Deacons made a clean sweep, winning in three games.

Spotlight players included sophomore Dylan Faulkner who posted a double-double of 35 assists and 10 digs; this was her first double-double of the season and the 13th of her career.

Other highlights of the game came from redshirt junior Jessica Furlong, who was the only Lady Deacon to hit double figure kills with 10; she also recorded nine digs in the match.

Two freshmen, Megan Thornberry and Lauren McIntyre, also did very well.

Thornberry led Wake Forest with 18 digs, the fourth straight match she has posted double-digit dig totals.

McIntyre was solid at the net, finishing with eight kills and just one error in 17 attempts. She hit .412 on the night and posted four total blocks, including a pair of block solos.

The next match did not produce the same stats on the offense; the Deacons’ at-net game struggled during the match against Stephen F. Austin, as the team lost three consecutive games to end the match.

As a team, the Deacons hit a low .025 with 33 kills and 30 errors on 119 attempts.

Again, only one player hit double-digit kills; Junior Natalie Mullikin finished with 10. Mullikin also added four block assists.

Faulkner and freshman Kelsey Jones split time as setters. Jones dished out 16 assists, and Faulkner had 10. In its final non-conference match of the season, Wake Forest suffered a second loss, fall-

Game of the Week Soccer vs. Clemson 5 p.m. Sept. 21 Riggs Field Clemson, S.C.

The No.1 Deacon soccer team will try for its eighth win of the season Sept. 21, after beating Lousiville 1-0 Sept. 15. The match will be the team’s first conference game of the season.

Clemson comes into the game with a 3-3 record, having lost the team’s first conference game at Virgina Tech.

The Deacons were the ACC Champions last year and are setting their sights on yet another championship season.

The Tigers lost 2-0 to Wake last year, and finished the season after losing to UCLA in the round of 16.

The Deacs have been averaging about two goals per game so far this season, with opponents averaging .067 goals per game.

Freshman Corben Bone and sophomore Cody Arnoux are leading the team with four and three goals respectively.

Before downing Louisville, the Deacs took on Furman, Cincinnati, Old Dominion, Monmouth and Akron, beating each to remain undefeated.

Following Clemson, the Deacons will play Maryland Sept. 29 and Elon Oct. 2 at 7 p.m.

Both games will be at home.

Kickoff for the Clemson match is set for 5 p.m.

ing in four games to Houston. The match lasted four games, with scores of 30-27, 24-30, 24-30 and 28-30.

The team did, however, manage to pull itself out of its earlier rut against Stephen F. Austin.

Highlighted players included Thornberry who turned in a season-best 23 digs.

Two other players turned in double-digit digs.

Sophomore Abby Miller added 17, while Furlong had 16.

Furlong also posted her fifth double-double of the season, adding 15 kills on the night.

Mullikin joined in doublefigure kills with a team-high 17.

McIntyre almost made the cut by chipping in nine kills and a team-best eight block Furlong assists.

The Deacs wrapped up the week with the ACC opener on the road at defending conference champion Duke.

The 14th-ranked Blue Devils proved to be more than Wake Forest could handle as the Deacs dropped three straight games to fall to 3-7.

Duke started off the first game with an impressive 13-3 run.

This coupled with several other scoring droughts for the Deacs led to a 30-13 win for the Blue Devils in game one.

Wake Forest started off game two with a 5-0 run, but they could not hold off the Blue Devils, who tied the game at 8-8.

This destroyed any momentum the Deacs had, causing them to lose the game 30-23.

Wake Forest held the Blue Devils close throughout the third game, but could not seem to gain control, losing 30-27.

The Deacons will play Boston College Sept. 21 Kelly Makepeace/Old Gold & Black and then Maryland Sept. 22.

Both games are at home and are scheduled for Senior Michael Faulkner prepares to serve the ball during the Black and Gold Tournament.

7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., respectively.

Faulkner had three kills and four digs in the Deacs’ win over Rice Sept. 14.

Scoreboard Wake in the Ranks Men’s soccer standings

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

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Men’s football standings All 5-1-0 3-1-0 2-1-2 5-0-0 4-1-0 3-2-0 3-2-0 3-2-1 2-2-1

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

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ACC Leaderboard Men’s soccer

1. Corben Bone (Wake Forest) 2. Chris Tierney (Virginia) 2. Mike Grella (Duke) 4. Cody Arnoux (Wake Forest) 4. Bill Dworsky (UNC)

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Players in the women’s division compete in a flag football game Sept. 19. The first round of Intramural sports started Sept. 17 with flag football, water polo and several individual sports.

With the flag football season underway, Water Tower Field has undergone a population explosion of superstar athletes. And as referees continue to build confidence in their play-calling abilities and the quality of play steadily reaches mid-season form, it won’t be long before the helter-skelter cacophony of the first week is well under everyone’s belts.

Teams participating in all sports are reminded that sportsmanship is more important than a regular season win-loss record. That is to say that if your team loses every game but maintains a great sportsmanship grade, you will make the playoffs, whereas if your sportsmanship grade is sub-par and you are undefeated you will not qualify.

Going along with sportsmanship, it is encouraged by the Intramural department that you and your teammates take the time to learn the rules of flag football. Especially in the first week, several players got caught

arguing with referees over what they deemed to be rule discrepancies when in actuality the players simply do not know the rule. If you are one of those people who feel like arguing with a referee over the clock stopping in the first half on a play run out of bounds, please take a look at the rulebook or contact T.J. Peele in the Intramural office for an official NIRSA flag football rulebook.

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Football: Deacons hold off Knights in second half Continued from Page B1

The game appeared to be going downhill very very quickly for West Point, but they would respond early in the second quarter.

The Black Knights took over after the Deacon touchdown on their own 25.

Army then preceded to pick apart the Wake Forest pass defense with a number of quick passes and out routes.

Quarterback Carson Williams completed four passes for a total of 51 yards. This helped put the Black Knights within seven yards of the Deacon endzone.

Runningback Mike Viti made quick work of the Wake Forest run defense, covering the seven yards in two plays to put the score at 14-7.

The Deacs came close to increasing their lead on the next possession, as they drove 28-yards to the Army 33, but a strong wind kept Head Coach Jim Grobe from using redshirt junior kicker Sam Swank for a field goal.

He instead opted to punt the ball back to the Black Knights.

The two teams then traded possession back and forth, as neither team could convert more than a four-and-out.

With just over four minutes left in the half, Army recovered a Deacon fumble and prepared to start another drive from deep in Wake Forest territory.

The Demon Deacon defense had another idea though.

Redshirt junior linebacker Aaron Curry jumped a Black Knight route and intercepted a pass by Williams.

Curry then proceeded to take the ball 84 yards down the field to put the Deacs up 21-7.

“I just looked up and saw the ball,” Curry said. “I caught it and the first thing on my mind was just run. We made some great blocks and just ran straight to the endzone.”

Curry’s touchdown sent the Deacons into the locker room with a 21-7 lead.

In the second half, neither team could seem to get a complete drive going.

The Black Knights got into field goal range with 7:26 left in the third quarter and converted an attempt to move the score to 21-10, but these would prove to be the last points of the game.

Both teams were plagued by missteps and could not put together a drive of more than 36-yards.

This made for a very uneventful second half, but still got the Deacons their first win of the season.

“It feels good,” Grobe said. “It was tough for us to get a win today, but it feels good.”

“We felt like we dodged more than a couple of bullets.”

The win moves the Deacs to 1-2 on the season as they prepare for the Terrapins to come to town Sept. 22.

The Deacons’ passing game could be problematic for the Maryland game.

Hodges only threw two passes in the entire first half and 12 all together.

This could be a problem against Maryland’s run defense.

Though Grobe was hopeful that redshirt sophomore Riley Skinner might be back to play, the Deacons must be able to find a way to pass the ball.

The Deacons play Maryland Sept. 22 at BB&T Field. Maryland is 2-1 on the season

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A Wake Forest player weaves through Army defenders at the game Sept. 15. The Deacs beat Army in the Homecoming game, 21-10, putting the Deacons at 1-2.

Women’s tennis has strong showing Lady Deacs finish

11th out of 17 teams

By Alisha Talbot | Staff writer

Wake Forest women’s tennis had a strong showing in the season opener Sept. 14-16 at the St. Mary’s classic in Knoxville, Ten. In the Flight 1 doubles, senior captain Alex Hirsch paired up with freshman Emilee Malvehy to defeat Purdue’s Brooke Beier and Cigdem Duru in a close 8-6 match.

They fell in the second round to Tennessee’s Caitlin Whoriskey and Zsofia Zubor, 8-4.

Juniors Sierra Poske and Christian Tara paired up for the Flight 2 doubles bracket.

After losing their first round to N.C. State, 8-3, Poske and Tara defeated North Carolina’s Laura Reichert and Jelena Duricik, 9-7.

In their last doubles match of the tournament, Poske and Tara fell in a close match to the Lady Vols, 8-6.

In the Flight 3 doubles bracket, junior Jenna Loeb and freshman Sasha Kulikova defeated Purdue 8-5 but lost in their second round match to North Carolina’s Meg Fanjoy and Alexandra Jurewitz, 8-4.

In the singles draw, redshirted Hirsch played in the Flight 1 bracket, where she took a three-set win off of Purdue’s Brooke Beier 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. Hirsch fell to Daria Petrovic of N.C. State in a tough three setter, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. She finished her match play in the consolation round with a loss to Notre Dame’s Brook Buck, 6-1, 6-1.

Senior Jenna Loeb took a decisive victory over Middle Tennessee State’s Shannon Hartman, 6-2, 6-1.

However, she fell in the semifinals of her draw to Kali Krisik of Notre Dame, 6-1,

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Senior Alexandra Hirsch prepares to return the ball in a match last year.

Hirsch and partner freshman Emilee Malvehy won their match, 8-6.

6-3. Poske took her first round win over ETSU’s Tara Sheets, 6-1, 6-2. However, after her second-round loss to N.C. State’s Lenka Hojckova, 7-5, 7-6 (8), Poske came back to defeat Tennessee’s Ghizela Schutte in the consolation draw, 6-1, 6-3.

Sophomore Sasha Kulikova represented the Deacs in the Flight 2 Bracket of singles.

In her first round match she defeated MTSU’s Stephanie Parkison, 6-0, 6-2.

However, Kulikova fell to Notre Dame’s Colleen Rielley in the semifinals.

Kulikova had a tough loss with two tie-breaker sets in her consolation match

to Caitlin Whorisky of Tennessee, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3).

Freshmen Katarina Reveche and Emilee Malvehy had their first collegiate match experiences and proved to have promising futures with the Deacs.

Reveche had two victories over the weekend, including her first ACC win over N.C. State’s Julia Roach, 6-4, 6-4.

Malvehy played for the Deacons in the Flight 6 draw and also received her first ACC victory of North Carolina’s 6-3, 6-1.

The Lady Deacons will host the Deacon Classic, beginning match play Sept. 21.

The women’s golf team, ranked 11th nationally in preseason, opened its season Sept. 14-16 with the Mason Rudolph Championship.

The team placed 11th in the competition hosted by Vanderbilt University.

Wake competed against 13 other nationally ranked teams, including ACC rival and preseason No. 1 Duke.

The Blue Devils were upset by consistent powerhouse UCLA, who captured the championship with the only score under par.

Among the teams that placed ahead of the Demon Deacons were Arizona State, the second place team, and Duke, which held on for third.

Other teams placing ahead of Wake were regional rivals Georgia, Auburn and Florida.

Duke and Wake, who last year were the first and second place finishers in the ACC championship, were the only two teams from that conference to compete in last weekends tourney.

The team fell slightly this year. Last September they were able to place 7th at Mason Rudolph.

The Deacons competed well individually, with sophomore Dolores White tying for 16th place individually.

That was the same place she tied for last year at Mason Rudolph.

Senior Laura Crawford also shot well, tying for 28th place.

White was 4 over par and Crawford shot 5 over.

Freshman Natalie Sheary struggled initially.

She shot a combined 14 over par on the first two days of competition.

However, she ended the tournament with the team’s best single individual score: a 72, good for par.

Senior Jordan Craig, a 2005 transfer from the University of Texas, completed Wake’s squad at the tournament.

She shot 19 over par, struggling particularly on the second day of Chua competition when she went 10 over par.

The team will start its competition with the NCAA Fall Preview in Albuquerque, N.M. The fall preview will allow the Deacons a rematch with practically every team that placed ahead of them at the Mason Rudolph Championship.

The tournament will begin Sept.

24.

The Deacs will then travel to to the Lady Tar Heel tournament Oct. 5-7 to face ACC rival UNC-Chapel Hill and other opponents.

Cross country teams perform well in weekend events

By Ryan Durham | Sports editor

The Wake Forest men’s and women’s cross country teams faired well in the different events held Sept. 14.

The men’s team finished second in the Raleigh Invitational and the women’s team came in fourth place at the Boston College Inviational.

The men’s team was spearheaded by freshman Keaton Morgan.

Morgan finished sixth overall in the event with a time of 16:00 and was the first non-N.C. State runner to cross the finish.

Morgan was only 42 seconds behind the first place finisher John Martinez.

The freshman was not the only Deacon to finish the race well. The other four Wake Forest runners all finished in the Top 20.

Senior John Compton finished with a time of 16:13, good enough for eighth place.

Rounding out the Top 20 were junior Jeremy Fisico, redshirt freshman Patrick Russell and senior Chris Catton.The three runners placed 13th, 17th and 19th, respectively.This allowed the Deacs to be one of two teams with under 100 points and put them second out of 11 teams. The men’s cross country was not the only one to be successful.

The women’s team also managed a fourth place finish in the Boston College Invitational.

Junior Caitlin Chrisman led the Deacs with a time of 17:31 in the event, good enough to take fifth place honors individually.

Two other Deacons also finished in the Top 20 runners. Freshman Marley Burns finished with a time

of 17:56, good for 17th place, and junior Nicole Schappert finished with a time of 18:03, which was good for 20th at the meet.

Also scoring for the Deacons were freshman Chelsea Bolton and junior Merry Placer.

Bolton finished with a time of 18:18, placing here in 27th place.

Placer was not far behind timewise, with a final of 18:42, but was only able to manage 40th in the event.

The performance gave the Deacs 106 points on the day, good for fourth place.

Syracuse University won the event with a score of 62.

Both teams will return to action Sept. 29. The men will run at the Greater Louisville Classic and the women at the Bill Dellinger Cross Country Invitational in Eugene, Ore.

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The men’s cross country team finished second at the Raleigh Invitational Sept. 14, while the women’s team placed fourth at the Boston College Invitational.

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By Mary Beth Ballard | Senior writer Wind whipping his body at roughly 50 mph and lowering the immediate temperature to -80 to -100 degrees Fahrenheit, senior Reid Larson stands alone, with duct tape on his nose to prevent sunburn, looking out over the Alaskan landscape from a 20,000+ foot perch. Fifteen minutes pass, and some Norwegian climbing companions reach the summit as well. They snap a few photos of the 5’11,” 170pound undergrad from Pennsylvania, and then he begins a deceptive descent back to base camp.

Larson had one thing on his mind for almost 10 years – summiting Alaska’s Mount McKinley. During two weeks this past May, Larson obtained that long-term goal as he solo-climbed North America’s tallest peak. At 20,320 feet, Mount McKinley (referred to as Denali by most mountain climbers) stands as the third most prominent mountain on the planet. For Larson, reaching the summit proved a true test in relentless self-determination resulting in satisfaction of a dream finally realized.

I sat down with Larson last March and conversed about his mountain climbing passion, and The Old Gold & Black covered Larson’s past adventures and future plans of conquering Denali. Now, with his senior year just getting underway, Larson was eager to relay the details of his most recent elevated experience.

After many weeks of endurance and weight training four to five days per week, in late May Larson set out to tackle Denali.

A warm-up trip included day hiking in Mount Shasta, Calif. with his brother-in-law immediately before departing for Alaska. Larson knew he’d be summiting via the West Buttress of Denali, a route that 80 percent of the

climbers use to reach the top. If he’d had a climbing partner, Larson said, he would have attempted the more difficult route.

Larson was well-versed on the dangers of Denali long before he stepped off the plane with his 165 pounds of gear into the frozen Alaskan landscape.

Weather is a major factor in determining when a climber can continue onward from the high altitude base camp to the coveted summit.

When the weather is milder, climbers tend to bottleneck up the mountain, he said. Fortunately for Larson, a window of opportunity opened up (after a three-week period of dangerous winds and temperatures) when he chose to summit.

“There was bad weather below 15,000 feet, but once I climbed past 18,000 feet, the conditions cleared,” Larson said. “I felt very lucky to have a summit day like that.”

Going into the climb, Larson knew that the success rate for summiting earlier in the season was only 33 percent.

However, his determination wasn’t going to slow him down. From the base camp at17,000 feet, he reached the peak in four hours – the average for most climbers is six to eight. How did he do it so fast? “You’ve got something on your mind for 10 years and just can’t wait to do it,” he said.

For Larson, the words to describe just what he experienced reaching the summit of Denali come down to feeling “purely and simply happy.”

“There are a lot of things in our lives, and especially my life lately that has made it complicated and made happiness more of a grey area than in the past,” he said. “However after spending two-plus weeks pursuing one singular and well-defined goal with all your energy, you can feel a level of happiness that is all but unattainable in day-to-day life.”

However, after feeling high on accomplishment subsided, the reality of the situation grounded Larson as he approached the most dangerous part of his climb.

“The descent from Denali pass to the 17,000 feet camp was harrowing, especially traveling solo, since there would be no one to catch a fall but me,” Larson said.

“You are very fatigued from your day, and it’s more dangerous than it looks.

I was stumbling at times.”

When all was said and done, Larson made it safely down the mountain, though 25 pounds lighter from the intense physical exertion, of carrying his 75-pound pack in combination with pulling a sled of extra gear at points on the trail.

In addition, loss of sleep was a factor in his body’s fatigue. It’s light most of the day, Larson said, and combined with more difficult breathing due to high elevation sleeping at “night” proves incredibly hard.

But when asked if he’d do it again, Larson enthusiastically said, “Absolutely. I have plans to return in 2010 with my mother and stepfather as their ‘guide.’”

Next on Larson’s mountain climbing agenda: Mount Elbrus. This Russian dormant volcanic peak hails as Europe’s highest summit at around 18,500 feet, and once Larson has tackled it (possibly next summer), he’ll have mastered four of the Seven Summits (the seven highest mountains on each of the continents).

While most of us will never literally reach the top of a mountain, we can certainly apply Larson’s successful journey to our own personal dreams.

If we focus on self-motivation to persist beyond obstacles, we’ll eventually find that once thought “unattainable” happiness at the summits of our lives.

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To build up inspiration for the difficult parts of the climb, Larson thought of a passage from Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild: “Early on a difficult climb, especially a difficult solo climb, you constantly feel the abyss pulling at your back. To resist takes a tremendous conscious effort; you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant.

The siren song of the void puts you on edge; it makes your movements tentative, clumsy, herky-jerky.

But as the climb goes on, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your selfcontrol. By and by your attention becomes so intensely focused that you no longer notice the raw knuckles, the cramping thighs, the strain of maintaining nonstop concentration. A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream.

Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

At such moments something resembling happiness actually stirs in your chest, but it isn’t the sort of emotion you want to lean on very hard. In solo climbing the whole enterprise is held together with little more than chutzpah, not the most reliable adhesive.”

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Meet “the Bro”: the most intriguing of college stereotypes Ryan Coons Staff columnist

College is a breeding ground for fertile young minds to grow into the men and women they will live out the rest of their lives. Even though most of us will go on to lead special, unique lives, it is impossible not to notice the similarities between your fellow undergraduates.

The majority of people fit into certain stereotypes and play out their role in perfect form. From the elitist sorostitute, to the walking J. Crew catalogue, to the weekly shower-taking art student (who coincidentally is the Web master of the Decemberists

online fan club), college students are easily placed into generalized (and hilarious) groups. But all of these cannot hold a candle to the most intriguing of stereotypes, the Bro. What is a Bro? Bros are a growing breed among college students.

What is a Bro you might ask? Well, Bros are very easy to spot and identify – simply take a look around the classroom.

The majority of Bros wear apparel from FOX and Hurley (although none of them race dirt bikes or know how to skateboard). If it’s laundry day, it isn’t below them to wear a 4-year-old American Eagle “quote tee” (you know, the ones that say “welcome to the gun show” and “keep drinking ‘till she’s cute”).

Is his New York Yankees hat on backwards? He might be a Bro. Even though he has been inside for 45 minutes, he still keeps his Spy sunglasses atop his clean-cut, pomade-laden hairdo (just in case there’s a solar flare-up in the middle of Topics in Philosophy).

Great Bros In History Before Abercrombie was famous for its cargo shorts, Bros were roaming the Earth followed by a trail of Adidas Cool Sport scent (but they had to do so with fewer pockets). One of the earliest Bros was the ruthless Mongol warlord Genghis Kahn.

Of course everyone knows his famous conquests of the orient, but lesser known was his love for Keystone Ice and Linkin Park.

He was once quoted saying “Meteora is one of, if not, the quintessential album of my dynasty.” Unfortunately, he subsequently beheaded anyone who claimed Hybrid Theory was a stronger effort.

In more recent times, Bros have been known to rule the free world. Most notably is a man (nay, the man), Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Starting off as supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe he realized that tanks could reach the Nazi forces much more effectively if they put lift kits on them (a tactic he later employed when he launched the space race and drew up plans for the moon car).

Old Ike knew the importance of being able to bench press 200 pounds and showed off his ability to do so whenever it served his self interests.

Curiously enough it was this talent that won him a second term as President.

Bros on Campus Were you aware? These future reality television stars study alongside you here at the university.

Although, it is hard to get a good idea of what a Bro is really like in a classroom setting.

When they aren’t checking the stats for their fantasy football league in the fourth row (far enough away to have your laptop out in class, but close enough to fool your teacher into thinking you are still paying attention), they are making ill-informed opinions on current events at volume levels higher than necessary when indoors.

No, Bros can only really let loose when they are in the company of other Bros. If you wish to join me in observing the Bro in their natural habitat, word on the street is that plenty of frats are having a lounge parties this weekend.

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Avoid ex-sex and move on instead Kelly Curran Staff columnist

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Can’t get enough country music?

Love the soothing sounds of the Rascal Flatts? If so, then get ready to hit the music store because as of Sept. 25, Rascal Flatts’ new album, Still Feels Good, will be available.

Featuring their hit single “Take Me There,” this CD is sure to top the charts. All country lovers should get their hands on this album before stores run out.

EX-SEX – Breaking up but still hooking up.

It’s always challenging when a relationship ends – but the sex does not.

There are no movies (unless as a cover for imminent sex), dates for formal weekend or anniversaries. When you think about it, you basically have a shitty relationship that is all sex and no romance.

I make it sound terrible, but who hasn’t been there before? With a partner in the past and no prospects on the horizon, it’s not hard to see why people might slip and move backwards. It is all too tempting to fall back into “ex-sex”– breaking up but still hooking up.

Although ex-sex does have its perks – namely, an easy and consistent source of sex – I don’t think it’s the healthiest

practice. If we can always go running back to an ex when things aren’t going right, then we’re limiting ourselves and our future relationships.

When your life as a newly single guy or girl isn’t how you planned, it’s easy to call your ex.

But are you ever going to move on if your ex is still such a part of your life?

We put ourselves in this position for a number of reasons, but that doesn’t make them good ones. People have an amazing way of rationalizing their behavior, and ex-sex is no exception.

An ex is convenient. You know you don’t have to work too hard to get into his pants; you’ve been there before. It’s simply too easy to pick up the phone for a post-relationship rendezvous.

There’s a strange comfort in being in that person’s arms again. You may know deep down that it will never work, but for that moment, for that night, it doesn’t matter. You get the validation that a part of him still wants you, even if just in a physical sense.

With an ex, you also know what you’re getting yourself into. If you broke up because he was inattentive, then the second (or third, or fourth)

time around, you’re going to know not to expect that from him. In a way, it’s easy to have ex-sex because you have a good idea of what is going to happen.

That doesn’t mean the old problems will cease to be issues. I’ve seen many friends go through this – hooking up with the same guy, expecting to get different results. Why, after so many experiences together, do we still think that we can change our ex? If anything, the more time that passes, the more set their actions his or her will be.

Of course, hooking up with the ex is not a purely sexual drive. It can be a relief to know that your ex has not completely moved on either. Knowing that he or she is still somewhat interested can be gratifying during those times when you are in need of a little reassurance.

It can be nice to know that part of your ex still wants you – just keep in mind what that part is. Many people attempt ex-sex to try and rekindle the relationship and end up getting hurt all over again. Sometimes you have to call it like it is – and sex is not a relationship.

Why are we so keen to forget that the break up happened for a reason?

Your ex is not a completely different person, and if they are not dateable, why are they acceptable to sleep with? We like to forget the things that ended the relationship, but it is hard to deny that these factors aren’t still bothersome.

Just like quitting a bad habit, at some point ex-sex needs to stop.

You’re not being progressive about your love life if you remain in some stagnant semblance of a relationship. It is much easier to move on to better things, and letting go of your past will allow that to happen.

Ex-sex is not a “no strings attached” deal. We might trick ourselves into thinking that we can have sex with a former flame and not feel anything, but it’s hard to get rid of the emotion once it’s there.

Just because the strings have been cut doesn’t mean you can’t still get tangled in them.

“She Said” is a bi-weekly column that presents one girl’s perspective on the college sex scene. You may contact her with your feedback or ideas at currkm4@ wfu.edu.

What You Didn’t Know | By Caldwell Tanner

Tap into new iPod If your iPod is outdated, now is a good time to upgrade: the new iPod touch is set to ship Sept.

28. Like the iPhone, this iPod will allow users to control the device with only their fingers. The 3.5-inch widescreen display features an accelerometer, which switches it from portrait to widescreen view automatically when rotated. Available in 8G and 16G for $299 and $399, respectively, the newest iPod model will feature built-in Wi-Fi access, allowing users to purchase iTunes music directly from their iPod.

If he did it . . .

Fallen football star O.J. Simpson just can’t seem to stay out of the limelight – or jail. On Sept. 18, Simpson was officially charged with ten felonies, including kidnapping and armed robbery for his alleged participation in an armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room. Simpson is pleading not guilty, claiming that the items he “stole” were actually taken from him and that he was trying get them back. If convicted, Simpson could be sentenced to life imprisonment, an ironic ending to an infamous life.

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Movie Review | 3:10 to Yuma

Movie revives original with top-notch acting

By Caroline Edgeton | Contributing writer Let’s just go ahead and say, if you like Christian Bale (especially the idea of him as a cowboy) and Russell Crowe (him, too), then 3:10 to Yuma is the film for you.

The opening of the film initially made me think that it was going to be a bit of a downer. Though a little slow in the plot department, it eventually reaches an interesting turn of events toward the middle, followed by a suitable conclusion that not only makes you think but also makes you happy you stayed.

3:10 to Yuma is actually based on the original by the same name made in 1957. Based on a short story by Elmore Leonard, it tells the story of Dan Evans (Christian Bale), a poor rancher with a wife and two sons to take care 3:10 to Yuma of. Due to missed bill Starring | Russell Crowe and payments Christian Bale and a fairly Director | James Mangold unhappy Who’s it for? | Fans of Christian household, Evans is Bale, Russell Crowe and westsimply lookern movies ing for a Running Time | 1 hrs. 57 min. break. Ben Rating | (out of 5) Wade (Russell Crowe) is an infamous outlaw with a questionably heartless attitude toward life and honesty.

The two characters become involved with one another in the aftermath of a gruesome stage coach robbery, led by Wade and his brutal gang, containing the payroll of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.

Wade shoots the Pinkerton guard Byron McElroy (Peter Fonda) in the stomach in hopes of him bleeding to death in a slow and dreadful manner.

Instead, McElroy survives and is taken into town

by Evans who witnessed the entire fiasco. There, Evans is able to save McElroy with the help of the town’s closest doctor, a veterinarian by the name of Doc Potter (Alan Tudyk) and join a group of officials ready to capture the outlaw on the loose.

Due to Wade’s notorious past, Evans agrees for $200 to join the group of men planning to capture Wade in order to walk him to the town of Contention and place him on the 3:10 train to Yuma.

There Wade would be tried and hanged immediately for his outrageous list of felonies no man with a soul could come to grips with.

Wade, with his loyal gang and his own interests, puts up a strong fight in order to get him out of the mess he had been asking for all along, making the walk to Contention to seek justice a very intense and exhausting haul for those involved.

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Russell Crowe delivers a stellar performance as an outlaw, Ben Wade. Co-star Christian Bale plays rancher Dan Evans in 3:10 to Yuma, a movie with a classic western feel.

Wade’s main henchman Charlie Prince (Ben Foster) is quite possibly one of the most annoying characters I have ever seen in a film.

Not only is his actual character irritating, but his appearance on-screen is as irritating as his personality.

Because of his dedication to Wade, Prince leads the Wade gang against the “good guys.” Despite his loyalty, by the end of the film, you want to strangle him yourself (or have Russell Crowe gladiate him).

Of course this western movie would not be worth seeing without the requisite action-packed gun slinging, suspense, humor and heartbreak .3:10 to Yuma brilliantly provides all of the above and more.

Directed by James Mangold (previous works include Walk the Line, Identity and Girl, Interrupted), he masterfully brings the feeling of watching a classic western film with a psychological twist.

The movie intertwines the feeling of watching a favorite old western while also questioning human morales and the individual’s ability to comprehend them.

Overall, this film definitely made me feel like I was watching a typical Christian Bale flick. Russell Crowe delivers an always awesome performance in addition to the top-notch cast appropriately included in this traditional, yet modern western film.

If you enjoy horse galloping, shotguns and awesome acting, 3:10 to Yuma is a must-see.

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Restaurant Review | Nawab Indian Cuisine

Wide cuisine variety matched by high quality

By Ellen Hart | Contributing writer

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Conveniently located on Stratford Road, Nawab offers a rich and spicy variety of authentic Indian cuisine.

Book Review | Not that You Asked: Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions

Author tackles topics from sex to Vonnegut

self-regard in himself and tempers such weighty writings with humor.

“I have never actually owned a TV, a fact that I mention whenever possible, in the hopes that it will make me seem noble and possibly lead to oral sex” he writes

By Meg Smith | Staff writer in one section.

In a section entitled “About My Steve Almond, author of the New York Times bestseller Candy- Sexual Failure,” Almond recounts freak and several other collections his first awkward sexual experiof short stories, opens his new ences, such as getting caught collection of essays Not That You shoplifting some “Sta-Hard” gel, Asked: Rants, Exploits, and Obses- and offers a very racy “12-Step sions with an ardent exposition Program for Writing Incredibly on the “failed prophecy” of the Hot Sex Scenes.”

Almond continues provoklate Kurt Vonnegut.

Almond states in his book that ing with his politically themed he owes his view of writing as “an section, sarcastically entitled elegant and “In Tribute to My Republican h i l a r i o u s Homeys.”

In “Where’d You Hide the manner of rescue” to Body,” definitely the most creVonnegut, ative essay in the book, Almond who “per- convincingly connects the popuf o r m e d larity of such TV shows as CSI, the greatest 24 and Survivor to a need for ... alchemy “a deep expression of national known to neurosis.”

He argues that many of the curman: the conversion rent television programs function of grief into laughter by means “as a way of reinventing the world in a manner that absolves us of of courageous imagination.”

The following essays, by turns the violence carried out in our hilarious and thought-provok- names” and “are generated by the ing, cover a range of topics, from growing burden of our imperial heavy metal music to baseball to guilt.”

Almond tells of how he ignited Judaism.

Almond gamely exposes his the “Right Wing Hateocracy” own neuroses, pettiness and against him by quitting his proself-absorption for our amuse- fessorial job at Boston College ment, employing plenty of the after Condoleezza Rice accepted same self-deprecating humor and its invitation to speak at comblithe confessional style used by mencement.

The Boston Globe published his writers like David Sedaris and resignation letter calling SecreChuck Klosterman.

Yet he also infuses his book with tary Rice a liar and Almond sudan element of ideality, morality denly finds himself a guest on the and righteous indignation that Hannity & Colmes show.

His time in the spotlight, getblazes through the cynicism and irony. He’s almost uncomfortably ting yelled at by Sean Hannity, abruptly ends when he alludes to earnest.

Of Vonnegut, Almond writes: Bill O’Reilly’s sexual harassment “Right before his eyes, Americans scandal.

At that point, Fox network had regressed to a state of infantile turned off his microphone. omnipotence.”

Almond scathingly critiques “They drove SUVs and cheered for wars on TV and worshipped the modern political climate, and we who the beauallow it. tiful and In a statethe ignoAlmond gamely exposes his ment parrant and own neuroses, pettiness ticularly despised the indicting to poor and and self-absorption for us as college brushed our amusement. students, aside the he says of science of a young their own doom. They had lost interest reporter, “Politics was really just in their own consciences, and a second-rate reality TV show to declined to make the sacrifices her, with ugly actors who never that might spare their very own kiss.”

Perhaps the strongest section grandchildren.” “(Vonnegut) understood that of Not That You Asked is “How I our essential crisis was not one Became a Baby Daddy.”

Here Almond relates with comof policy, but morality, individual greed, inconsideration, suicidal plete candor, humor and tenderness his experience preparing for self-regard.”

Never self-righteous, Almond indicts himself as well as his reader, identifying that suicidal See Book, page B9

Compilation of essays examines society with humor

chicken, Boti kebab (lamb), lamb or chicken curry, vegetable korma, basmati Nestled in an easy-to-overlook shop- rice and naan bread. Save some space ping center on Stratford Road, Nawab in your fridge for a take-out box if you Indian Cuisine Restaurant professes on decide to go this route.

If you are new to Indian food, you its Web site to follow the “Three Golden Principles of Culinary Art:” consistency might want to go with the chicken tikka in cooking, excellent service and appeal- masala ($13.95) or the lamb Rogan Josh ($13.95). ing presentation.

Both are cooked in the rich curry sauce So how does Nawab fare in fulfilling on which Nawab prides itself. However, these essential standards?

Nawab specializes in curries and tan- both entrees are made more mildly with doori. In contrast to the general belief, a bit of cream and fresh tomatoes.

Not many restaucurry simply is the Indian word for sauce Nawab Indian Cuisine rants can boast of their variety of foods and is not necessarily Location | 129 S. Stratford Rd. like Nawab can. spicy.

They serve seafood, At Nawab, it is more Hours | 12 p.m. - 11 p.m. Sat.-Sun. chicken, lamb, filet likely to be a rich har11:30 a.m. - 11 p.m. Mon.-Fri. mignon and even mony of mild spices Serving | Traditional Indian dishes goat. that evoke a depth of But if meat isn’t flavor that saturates Dress | Casual your thing, they have the meat or veg- Price Range | $10 - $18 as many vegetarian etables in the entrée. (out of 5) and vegan options as Tandoori is essentially Rating | the lamb and chicken meat, marinated overnight and broiled in a tandoor, or oven, menus put together. Although the vegetables could be fresher, the sauce in the usually served with grilled vegetables.

A great way to sample Nawab’s variety vegetable masala ($10.95) more than is to order the Nawab special ($16.95). makes up for it.

Another thing that many customers Your stomach is filled to the brim with a choice of soup (lentil is delicious, but will doubtless find helpful is the option it is heavy on the cilantro), tandoori to choose the level of spiciness.

The four options are mild, medium, hot or Indian hot. I love spiciniess, but I too often sacrifice the skin on my tongue for fiery foods, so I ordered my meal medium. Honestly, I would have liked it a little spicier, so if you want a substantial kick, try your meal “hot.”

I regret having to mar this review with a small criticism of the second Principle of Culinary Art: the service. More than once our orders were mixed up, and the bread basket only came near the end of the meal.

However, they apologized profusely and corrected it quickly. Apart from this small mistake, understandable in a party of seven, the service was distinctly warm, friendly and welcoming.

Lastly, the third Principle is carried out very well: the ambiance is wonderful.

One cannot help but be in awe of the ornate Indian artwork on the walls, and the dim lighting and white tablecloths make this a perfect place for a date or an outing with a group of friends if you feel like something a little more elegant.

Consequently, you may want to wear something nicer than jeans and a T-shirt.

And a suggestion, if I may: it is definitely a great Parents Weekend option if you don’t feel like splurging half your week’s budget on one dinner.

Event Preview | Rock the Block

Downtown rocks in yearly festival

Town collaborates to make music event memorable

By Brittany Wyche | Staff writer

It’s true. I have been at Wake Forest for almost four years, and I still have no earthly idea what is in “downtown” WinstonSalem.

I’ve heard terms casually tossed about, like “Foothills” and “Mellow Mushroom,” and once even heard rumors of a hookah bar, but I personally have little experience with these entertainment prospects.

Consequently, I became intrigued when I heard about this year’s “Rock the Block.”

From 6-11 p.m. on Sept. 21, I will finally be able to discover what magical, entertaining places there are in WinstonSalem.

The celebration has been held annually downtown since 2002.

It was first thrown in honor of the renovation of Fourth Street and has since become the city’s premier annual outdoor music event.

This year, the festival should prove to be even larger and more spirited than before.

The city has recruited a record number of food vendors, and there will be countless varieties of cuisine.

Favorite downtown restaurants, including Downtown Deli and Ben & Jerry’s, will also be open.

The street festival will also showcase four styles of music, including rock, beach, country/ bluegrass and jazz/R&B. Free live music will be played at these four stages, including music from Even Keel, Caleb Caudle, Autopassion, Double Take and Freeport Jazz.

Additionally, there will also be a fifth stage showcasing a live disc jockey playing some popular music.

And if dancing isn’t enough, don’t discount the other attractions.

A mechanical bull will also be available to ride.

You can get three rides for $5.

For more artistic souls, there will be a painting wall.

Or, if you’re looking to indulge your inner-child this weekend, you could also visit the children’s area.

It will be filled with tons of Block, the event’s still looking fun activities like laser tag and for volunteers. a Velcro wall.

The city is looking for individEven if you don’t plan on uals to help set up and tear down going, it might be helpful to before and after the event. know the effect this event will Also, people will be needed to have on the traffic in downtown staff all the different venues, as Winston. well as to On the sell Rock Rock the Block Concert Stages Friday of the Block the festimerchan• Country & Bluegrass Stage val, Fourth dise.

Winston Square Park Street, Plus,you between receive a • Foothills Brewery Rock & Roll Stage Poplar free Rock 4th and Main and Main, the Block • Beach Stage will close Vo l u n 3rd and Cherry at 2 p.m. teer shirt.

• Jazz and R&B Stage C h e r r y, For more 4th and Poplar Marshall, informaand Libtion call Source: http://www.rocktheblockws.com erty will all (336) 727merge into 2317. one lane at this time and will Whatever level of involvement close permanently at 5 p.m. you decide on, make sure you If you’re planning on coming, at least stop by Rock the Block there will be free parking at all this Friday. city meters.

It’s a once-a-year opportunity You will also be able to find to see all that the home of the paid parking at the 6th/Cherry- university has to offer.

Trade parking deck, the Cherry/ This community celebration Marshall parking deck and at promises to be lively and fun.

Centenary United Methodist Food, music, bars, a mechaniChurch. cal bull and free parking – what If you think you’d like to take more could you ask for on a a more active role in Rock the Friday night?

Music Review | Kanye West

West’s artistic growth evident in latest album

By Kara Peruccio | Contributing writer

Poor Kanye West. This summer, he had to deal with 50 Cent’s fighting words and getting snubbed at MTV’s Video Music Awards five times. “That’s two years in a row, man … give a black man a chance.

I’m trying hard man, I have the … No. 1 record, man,” West said following the show held Sept. 9.

West has a valid point as his latest CD fully deserves its No. 1 spot. However, he should look forward to the Grammys and next year’s VMAs. His third album, Graduation, shows West’s evolution as a singer, writer and producer.

His first single, “Stronger,” has been on my iPod for the past two and half weeks, and what first attracted me was the awesome beat. The lyrics catch your attention, and while West raps about a girl who’s not interested, he also stokes his well-known ego.

“Does anybody make real shit anymore? ...You should be honored by my lateness,” West raps.

The second single, “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” is interesting as West covers the divide between a moral life and the “secular,” rap lifestyle. He raps about materialism in our culture, makes allusions to AIDS treatment (“And you can live through anything if Magic made it”) and finding the way to God. There are many recurring elements from Late Registration that West continues on the album. Like “Wake-Up Mr. West,” he begins the album with a “Good Morning,”

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West collaborates with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, samples from Daft Punk and releases another solid record, Graduation, his third album so far. and listeners are welcomed to “graduation” and asked to listen to the “the valedictorian” and his “dissertation.”

Another continuance on Graduation is home. On Late Registration’s “My Way Home,” West is unsure about going back to a city where he is surrounded by hatred.

But on Graduation, he has changed his mind and finally makes his “Homecoming.”

As a “New York, New York” for Chicago, West pays homage to his hometown by describing his feelings for the city as a

relationship with a girl named Windy. Many listeners will be able to relate to the earnest line, “I told her, in my heart is where she’ll always be.”

The best part of “Homecoming” is the backup vocals by Coldplay’s Chris Martin.

As a huge Coldplay fan, I appreciate West working with musicians beyond the rap scene. It shows his appreciation for good music and creativity, and also how he is See Kanye, page B8

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Event Preview | 365 Days/365 Plays

Zany plays for every day produced nationwide

By Julia Dimaio | Staff writer

to watch,” junior Ainsley Johnston, a costume designer for the plays, said.

Johnston is in the Contemporary Drama class, which is working with the Intermediate Modern Dance class to put on the production.

The Contemporary Drama class read all 365 plays and is now directing and designing this week’s shows.

The Intermediate Modern Dance class is helping out on one of the three constants that occur in every week of Parks’ plays.

The dance class is performing in the third constant, which is called “Action in Inaction.”

In this constant the actors and dancers must perform 365 tasks as fast as they can.

The distinctive characteristic of these constants is that even though they are performed every week, each director has a different take on them.

Drew Jack, senior in the Contemporary Drama class and PR director for the plays, said the one-of-a kindness is what these plays are all about.

“I would call this unique theatre,” he said. “It’s open to the actor’s own interpretation as well as the audience’s interpretation.

Recently, you might have seen a girl furiously licking a guy in the Pit or a girl dressed as a giant cookie sitting on a bench and thought that the heavy workload had finally driven people to madness.

However, these short acts that have been popping up all over campus are part of the year-long world premiere of Suzan Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays presented, in part, by the department of theatre and dance.

Parks sat down on Nov. 13, 2002, and wrote a play a day until exactly one year later. This year, her plays are being performed on the day that they were written in theatres throughout the world.

The department of theatre and dance applied for a week of these plays to premiere on the Reynolda campus. Over 600 theatres are participating in the 365 National Festival, and only 60 are universities.

The university was successful in capturing one of the coveted weeks and is performing the Sept. 17 to Sept. 21 plays.

“These plays are completely random, but that’s what makes them so much fun

It’s completely different than anything you’ve ever seen before, and it’ll be a completely different experience every time you watch.”

Jack couldn’t be more right. Not only are the plays about ridiculous things like licking someone for three minutes straight, but the actors also put their own spin on the plays every time they are performed.

Junior Dan Applegate exemplifies this in his short scene in which he is being watched by a stranger while performing an action of his choosing.

Apparently, Applegate has sometimes acted out mundane tasks like brushing his teeth and other times has acted out outrageous actions such as shooting up heroin.

“He (Applegate) is a fantastic actor,” Johnston said. “You really never know what he is going to come out with Bryce Stallings/Old Gold & Black next.”

This is all the more reason to go see Theatre students rehearse for the upcoming plays that are the univerthese zany plays more than once. The sity’s contribution to the 365 Days/365 Plays project. plays will be performed in various places throughout campus this week including chronological succession on Sept.21 and designers. All performances are free and the Pit, Hearn Plaza, Manchester Plaza Sept. 22 in the Ring Theatre. open to the public. and the Benson University Center.

These completed shows will showcase For more information about In case you miss any or all of these 23 actors and dancers, as well as several the 365 National Festival, go to performances, they will be presented in different student directors and artistic www.365days365plays.com.

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Lummox | By William Warren

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unafraid to take risks. I was most looking forward to this song on the album, and “Homecoming” does not disappoint.

The best song on Graduation is “Flashing Lights.” “Lights,” a collaboration with Dwele, has a fantastic string-opening that is unique for a rap song.

West wonders why life can’t be as easy as sitting around, reading a book, but instead must involve relationship issues.

He equates his feelings of sorrow to “feeling like Katrina with no FEMA.” While I appreciate and admire West’s outspokenness and concern for Katrina victims, I think it’s hard to equate a difficult relationship with the destruction and heartbreak of a hurricane. Despite his choice of words, “Lights” has a great sound and is a song you will want to listen to over and over again.

Graduation does contain some mediocre songs. “Barry Bonds,” “Drunk and Hot Girls,” “The Glory” and especially “Good Life” could be featured on any rap album.

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West, because he is one of the few rappers who continually tries to use fresh, new ideas.

Fewer of the songs on Graduation send messages about social issues than on his two other albums. One song that does is “Everything I Am.” While West raps about what makes him Kanye, he also throws in statistics about the hate and violence in Chicago: “I know people wouldn’t usually rap this/ But I got the facts to back this/ Just last year Chicago had over 600 caskets,” he raps.

This is the West I like, and “Everything I Am” is another song that you should definitely download.

The rest of the songs cover a plethora of topics: his relationship with Jay-Z (“Big Brother”), becoming successful (“Champion”), pursuing dreams (“I Wonder”) and carpe diem (“Good Night”). The hidden track is “Bittersweet” featuring John Mayer which is a great song, especially if you like Kanye West and John Mayer.

Overall, Graduation contains some good tracks and some bad ones. West’s rapping continues to get better, and his beats sound as good as ever. While it’s not his best album thus far, it is one of the best rap albums to come out this year. I look forward to hearing his next album, because Kanye West is a prime candidate for his Ph.D.

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an unplanned daughter with his wife.

He describes their metamorphosis “from your typical-selfabsorbed-young-couple-eatingat-swank-restaurants-drinkingtoo-much-wine ... mucking about in that postadolescent haze known as the Indecisive Thirties ... pondering paper or plastic, which facial cleanser to purchase, whether to splurge on dessert ... to parents-in-waiting.�

Tenderly Almond recounts the joys and anxieties of waiting to become a father, his ambivalence about having to “bid adieu to our lives as nervous singles, to the flashy armor of our narcissism� and his fear of being displaced in his wife’s affections, of being relegated to a lesser role.

The narrative never missteps into saccharinity, however, and Almond achieves his funniest essay yet with “10 Ways I Killed My Daughter Within Her First 72 Hours of Life.�

Some of Almond’s essays ramble on too long, and sometimes the jokes are a bit strained. Mostly, however, Not That You Asked’s intelligent humor is wickedly dead-on.

Almond’s essays are honest, provocative snapshots of modern American culture, written by a sardonic yet almost absurdly optimistic author.

Almond’s Web site, www.

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In his new collection of essays, Steve Almond talks about everything from the pompousness of Oprah’s Book Club to his thoughts on his newborn child. stevealmond.com, offers some excerpts from Not That You Asked. “As for the rest of us, we play our part. We worship the same false gods of convenience, gulp the same burgers and happy pills, enjoy the same lives of plenty, slap

bumper stickers on our slightly smaller cars, and thereby manage to convince ourselves we’re the good guys.� “In some sense, though, the left has come to depend on the Hateocracy as much as the right.� “They have become convenient

scapegoats for our own moral laxity. Maybe this is why the great and decent people of our country continue to allow cruel children to lead them: because if we insisted on adult leaders, we would have to grow the f*** up.�

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B10 Thursday, September 20, 2007

Old Gold & Black Sports

Forman’s stock keeps rising Men’s golf team ties

for seventh in tourney

By Connor Swarbrick | Contributing writer

No. 4 sophomore Steve Forman, ranked the number three player in California, number four in the southwest and the 19th-ranked player nationally by tennisrecruting.net, joined the Deacons last spring after graduating early from high school. Now he is focused on being an integral part of a winning team.

The team traveled to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Sept. 14-16 and Forman won his first match before dropping his second to a higher-ranked player.

Forman, however, is looking forward to the 2007 Polo Ralph Lauren AllAmerican Tennis Championships in Tulsa, Okla.

It was recently announced that he, along with senior Mariusz Adamski and junior Cory Parr, would compete in the event. Head Coach Jeff Zinn saw this as a good opportunity for Forman.

“He is a very important part of the success of our team this year, so we need to give him this opportunity, especially because he missed the fall last year and came to school early,” Zinn said.

“We owe him this to try to get his ranking up. He is the highest-ranked junior we have ever had. He deserves this shot.”

While, Forman says his forte is his serve and his forehand, Zinn thinks it is much more than his physical stature or on-court skills. Zinn has high expecta-

By James Burnett | Staff writer

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Senior Charles Sartor hits the ball during a match last year. The team traveled to UVA Sept. 14-16. tions for Forman and the team.

He said the team’s philosophy is to simply keep improving every year, and while the team did very well last year, he thinks they are poised to make a tournament run again.

“This team is scary good. Last year we were expected to win with the team we had, but this team is going to surprise a lot of people,” Zinn said.

The team has improved drastically in Zinn’s tenure. Entering his 11th season,

Zinn has turned the men’s tennis team into a perennial Top 25 team. They have appeared in six consecutive NCAA tournaments and the Deacons’ top five career leaders in singles wins and the top six career leaders in doubles victories all played under Zinn.

While Forman has aspirations of playing professional tennis someday, he is currently focused on the Southern Intercollegiates, which will be held Sept. 12-24 in Athens, Ga.

The 23rd-ranked Demon Deacon men’s golf team traveled to Rocky Face, Ga., Sept. 14-16 to compete in the Carpet Capital Collegiate on The Farm golf course.

The competition kicked off the team’s season and saw them finish tied for seventh despite the absence of standout senior Webb Simpson. Sophomore Brendan Gielow led the Deacons, shooting an even par 216 and finishing 10th overall.

Sophomore Dustin Groves shot the low round of the tournament for the Deacons, firing a two under 70 to close the tournament and finish 18th.

The Deacons’ top five was rounded out by senior Chris McCartin placing 28th, sophomore Travis Wadkins placing 56th and freshman Preston Yates placing 89th.

“The expectations this year are high,” said men’s assistant coach Chris Yoder.

“We are more talented depth-wise, and were really excited going into this tournament. We are still looking for guys to step up, but know we as coaches can help with the decision making out on the golf course.”

Gielow echoed Coach Yoder’s enthusiasm.

“I expected to play well,”Gielow said.

“This is my favorite course all year, although it did play a lot harder (than last year).”

“We did miss Webb (Simpson) and the chemistry he brings to the team, but we all expected to play well and are starting to get into the swing of things,” he said.

The tournament also saw the practice of a new NCAA rule for golf.

The “500” rule states that no team with a record below .500 can compete in the NCAA Championships.

The Deacons did not seem phased by the new rule.

“You just have to relax and continue to play well,” said Yoder.

“There can only be a few teams above .500, so we have to be at our best every tournament.”

“The .500 rule helps teams that are consistently good and forces us to save all of our shots this year,” Gielow said.

The Deacons travel next to the VCU shootout at the Hermitage Golf Course, where they were victorious last year.

“I haven’t played this course before, but the team won there last year,” said Gielow.

“I expect the team to finish well, if not win.”

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Certainly anomalies such as Jordan (maybe Durant?) come along from time to time, but a dominant low post player is almost a sure bet to win a title. Championship teams were built around the likes of Olajuwon, Shaq, Kareem AbdulJabbar, David Robinson and Tim Duncan. Kevin Pritchard had the choice to either risk the chance of Oden becoming a great center (not necessarily common) or risk the chance that Durant could become a Michael Jordan-type player (one

in a million). The odds are better that Oden will fit into a niche that is more easily filled, than that Durant will effectively provoke a new NBA dynasty.

I applaud Pritchard’s choice, which although not the most attractive, was definitely the less risky of the two. The point is that this surgery should not be viewed as the defining moment of Oden’s, or Pritchard’s career.

Hindsight is 20/20, and although this is not the best possible situation, it is certainly not the worst.

money in a leaping contest.

“On corners we really just have to get the ball in the mix especially when we have guys like Marcus who can jump through the roof,” da Luz said.

“You just have to give the guys in the box a chance and Marcus finished it well.”

Redshirt senior goalkeeper Brian Edwards kept Wake’s 1-0 lead intact with a key save with two minutes remaining. Wake Forest ended the game with nine shots to Louisville’s six.

Wake’s defense, led by Edwards and Opara, has held its seven opponents to a total of only three goals.

Mary Kate Wagner/Old Gold & Black The men’s soccer team heads to Clemson Sept. 21. They return home to take on No. Junior Marcus Tracy goes after the ball in a home game. The Deacs head to Clemson Sept. 21 for their first ACC conference game of the season.

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